The Little Mermaid fans have been left unimpressed after seeing what Flounder is set to look like in the upcoming live-action movie.
Disney’s forthcoming remake is set to be released next month so to celebrate its imminent arrival, the studio revealed one-sheet posters offering an exclusive look at the beloved characters.
This included the red-haired beauty Ariel, who will be played by Halle Bailey, the villain of the movie Ursula, who will be portrayed by Melissa McCarthy, and the crab Sebastian, voiced by Daveed Diggs.
Check out the posters below:The poster of the mermaid's other fish companion, Flounder - who will be voiced by Jacob Tremblay - displays him taking on a more realistic appearance of a blue fish instead of a royal angelfish.
The posters generated a substantial amount of ridicule online, with many fans saying that Disney has basically put a picture of a crustacean and a fish that look nothing like the animated film’s versions of the characters on blue backdrops.
Fans are now demanding "justice" for the character, with one person writing: "Not the yellow highlights and white washing flounder. Justice for my yellow and blue homie this is terrifying."
Another user echoed a similar statement and said: "Justice for flounder please cause geezus."
A third remarked: "The look on my husband’s face when I showed him the live-action Flounder poster. Just completely befuddled."
A fourth user commented: "I'm genuinely unsettled whenever I see that poster of the Jacob Tremblay Flounder. It's not right, it awakens some primal instinct in me to freeze so it can't sense my movement."
Disney also released another trailer for the flick, showing Ariel and Flounder visiting a shipwreck to discover misplaced treasure and instead seeing Ursula - which kicks off the consequences of the mermaid's choices.
Speaking of the villain, McCarthy revealed in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly that drag queens were the inspiration behind her portrayal.
"I'm a huge, huge fan of drag shows and the whole art of it and the entertainment of it," the 52-year-old comedian told the outlet. "I've been going to shows since I was not supposed to be going to shows. There's a drag queen that lives in me. I'm always right on the verge of going full-time with her."
McCarthy also admitted to tapping into her inner drag queen Miss Y - a persona that she used to perform under in the New York club scene.
"There’s a drag queen that lives in me. I’m always right on the verge of going full-time with her," she told the show's director Rob Marshall. "To keep the humor and the sadness and the edginess to Ursula is everything I want in a character – and frankly, everything I want in a drag queen."
The Little Mermaid premieres in theaters on May 26.
