Pokémon and Theo Von agree on one thing: they shouldn’t be in DHS videos

Podcaster Theo Von and The Pokémon Company astir apt don’t person a batch successful common. But 1 happening they tin seemingly hold connected is that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should astir apt halt utilizing them to beforehand deportation campaigns. 

The DHS posted a montage of ICE raids to X connected Monday accompanied by the archetypal Pokémon taxable opus and the caption “Gotta Catch ‘Em All.” The clip besides features images from the anime and substance overlays utilizing a benignant of Temu mentation of the Pokémon font. A time later, the bureau posted a video featuring a viral clip of Theo Von wherever helium stares into the camera and says “heard you got deported, dude… bye,” past tacked connected stats astir however galore radical had been deported truthful acold nether President Donald Trump.

Both The Pokémon Company and Theo Von objected to DHS utilizing them to beforehand ICE raids. Von rapidly took to X, saying, “Yooo DHS one didnt o.k. to beryllium utilized successful this. I cognize you cognize my code truthful nonstop a check. And delight instrumentality this down and delight support maine retired of your ‘banger’ deportation videos.” 

The connection from The Pokémon Company was, unsurprisingly, a small much diplomatic. “Our institution was not progressive successful the instauration oregon organisation of this content, and support was not granted for the usage of our intelligence property,” the institution told the Daily Beast. Fans person taken to societal media to urge The Pokémon Company and Nintendo to sue, but astatine slightest 1 ineligible adept sees that arsenic unlikely — contempt the companies’ notoriously litigious nature. The Pokémon Company’s ex-legal main Don McGowan told IGN that “This volition stroke implicit successful a mates of days and they’ll beryllium blessed to fto it.”

The station featuring Theo Von has since been removed, suggesting that DHS is possibly a small wary of angering the podcaster’s instrumentality base. The Pokémon clip remains, however, and the Customs and Border Patrol X relationship adjacent replied with a GIF of Detective Pikachu nether the caption “Border Patrol’s newest recruit.”