Pokemon Fan Art Shows Disney's Mulan as a Pokemon Trainer

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The world of Pokemon occasionally mashes with other universes through Pokemon fan art, which has become a staple of the franchise since its inception in the 90s. One Pokemon player with artistic ability has decided to create fan art that imagines Disney's Mulan as a Pokemon trainer with an emphasis on Water-type Pokemon that resemble characters from Mulan.

Reddit user Micahrem recently posted their Pokemon fan art, which shows Mulan standing alongside a Pokemon that draws heavy inspiration from the small dragon in the original Mulan film, Mushu. The drawing also features an image of the animated Mulan next to her small sidekick in the top-left corner to show that Micahrem is basing their fan art on the first Mulan released in 1998 rather than the live-action counterpart that came out in 2020. Like most other Pokemon trainers the anime and videogames are based around, Mulan as a Pokemon trainer looks like a youngster compared to her movie adaptation.

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Micahrem's Pokemon fan art shows Mulan standing atop a rock in deep water, with two larger rocks behind her and a shiny red Gyarados emerging from the water in the middle. Mulan has swapped out her traditional Chinese garb to better resemble a Pokemon trainer in Micahrem's fan art, as she is wearing rolled-up jeans, a sporty jacket, and what appears to be red Converse All Stars. The Mulan Pokemon trainer holds a Poke Ball likely meant for the Gyarados in one hand, while her other hand holds a sword as she often does in the Disney movie.

Shiny Gyarados was first introduced through Pokemon Gold and Silver, where it was inhabiting the Lake of Rage. Unlike Gyarados in the Pokemon franchise, which is Water