People didn't know who that was supposed to be in the poster, but it wasn't Flounder.
When the posters for the live-action Little Mermaid were released last month, people were shocked to see what Disney did to Flounder.
Many expected him to look sort of like this, with the same vibrant blue and yellow hue and big, googly eyes from the animated movie:
But instead, he turned out all scraggly and discolored, like this:
It was an outrage, immediately.
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I’m not sorry to say that flounder looks very depressed and dehydrated. A v sad example of the plenty of fish your bestie warned you of. https://t.co/9TsqHBR6Vs
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