Entertainer Uri Geller is suing Nintendo, claiming the company has used his image on a Pokémon card.

Geller says he is outraged at the alleged use of his image, claiming it debases him.



Nintendo turned me into an evil, occult Pokémon character

Uri Geller

He has begun legal action in a Los Angeles federal court against Nintendo for unauthorised use of his name on Pokémon cards and related materials. Geller is demanding that the Japanese company cease using Geller as a character on its phenomenally successful Pokémon cards. He also wants Nintendo to pay him substantial general and punitive damages. Geller stated: "Nintendo turned me into an evil, occult Pokémon character. Nintendo stole my identity by using my name and my signature image." Uri Geller became famous as a "psychic entertainer", known for his "ability" to bend spoons and read people's minds. He was born in 1946 and claims that when four years old he had a mysterious encounter with a sphere of light while in a garden near his house, in Israel.