--- title: The Rock Dressed as Pikachu to Surprise His Baby Daughter description: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's Halloween costume was all for his baby daughter Jasmine, whose favorite character is Pikachu canonical: https://time.com/4552638/the-rock-dwayne-johnson-pikachu-costume-halloween/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-31T23:23:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:14.603Z og:title: The Rock Dressed as Pikachu to Surprise His Baby Daughter og:description: Best dad ever og:url: https://time.com/4552638/the-rock-dwayne-johnson-pikachu-costume-halloween/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Rock Dressed as Pikachu to Surprise His Baby Daughter twitter:description: Best dad ever twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # You Should Watch This Video of The Rock Dressed as Pikachu to Surprise His Baby Daughter by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Oct 31, 2016 11:23 PM UTC by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Oct 31, 2016 11:23 PM UTC Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s Halloween costume was all for his baby daughter Jasmine, whose favorite character is Pikachu. The actor, former wrestler and very dedicated father donned a Pikachu costume and danced for his daughter, who will turn one this year, and was all smiles and giggles—until the dancing stopped. “What Pikachu didn’t know was that Jazzy would start crying when he stopped dancing and demanded he continue to shake his tail with a loud ‘EH!'” Johnson wrote on Instagram. “So Pikachu danced over.. and over.. and over..” At the end of the video, Johnson backed away from his daughter and removed the Pikachu head once out of her sight to reveal his sweaty face. “That’s what daddies do,” he said, before putting the head back and continuing to dance. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4552638/the-rock-dwayne-johnson-pikachu-costume-halloween/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4552638/the-rock-dwayne-johnson-pikachu-costume-halloween/"},"headline":"You Should Watch This Video of The Rock Dressed as Pikachu to Surprise His Baby Daughter","datePublished":"2016-10-31T23:23:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:14.603Z","description":"Best dad ever","url":"https://time.com/4552638/the-rock-dwayne-johnson-pikachu-costume-halloween/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4552638/the-rock-dwayne-johnson-pikachu-costume-halloween/","name":"You Should Watch This Video of The Rock Dressed as Pikachu to Surprise His Baby Daughter"}}]}] ```