Detective Pikachu writers originally had bigger plans for Graveler

Graveler does appear in Detective Pikachu, but only for a split-second. Turns out the writers on the movie actually had bigger plans for the Pokemon, but those were scrapped for the final cut. In an interview with Comicbook.com, co-writers Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit talk about their original desire to include Graveler in a bigger role.

“In earlier drafts of the movie, Graveler actually played a slightly bigger role in some of the things that were going on." - Benji Samit

“Some of the character designs that you see of smaller roles in the movie that maybe you just see for a second, some of them ... [those] characters were designed because they had bigger roles to play in different versions of the script. We would like to see more Graveler, [so] we put him in early on.” - Dan Hernandez