Mewtwo (M01)
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Mewtwo (Japanese: ミュウツー) is a Template:Type2 legendary Pokémon cloned from a Mew. Its Japanese voice actors are 市村正親 Masachika Ichimura (adult), 森久保祥太郎 Showtaro Morikubo (child, Mewtwo Strikes Back), and 瀧本富士子 Fujiko Takimoto (child, Birth of Mewtwo). Its English voice actors are Phillip Bartlett (Mewtwo Strikes Back) and Dan Green (Mewtwo Returns).
The story of Mewtwo is chronicled in The Birth of Mewtwo (CD drama), Mewtwo Strikes Back (movie), and Mewtwo Returns (TV special). It made a brief appearance in the anime in The Battle of the Badge when Giovanni used him to defeat Gary Oak, and in Showdown at the Po-ké Corral where it escapes from Team Rocket headquarters (a scene also chronicled in Mewtwo Strikes Back).
History
Approximately twenty years before the present, Team Rocket discovered that a Mew was living in the Andes Mountains. Many years later, under the orders of its new leader, Giovanni, Rocket members went back to the area to search for fossils. They succeeded in finding an eyelash belonging to Mew. Giovanni asked Dr. Fuji to clone Mew for him. Fuji agreed because he wanted to use Team Rocket's research funds to attempt to clone his deceased daughter, Amber.
One month after the discovery of the eyelash, Mewtwo was successfully created and was stored at New Island. At this point, it was still not fully grown and lived in a large test tube alongside a tube containing Ambertwo. Fuji and Giovanni thought Mewtwo was sleeping inside his tube, but it was able to communicate telepathically with Ambertwo. However, because the lifeforce of a human is not as strong as a Pokémon's, the Amber clone died. It also grew alongside three other clones, a Bulbasaurtwo, Squirtletwo, and Charmandertwo. However, these clones died shortly before the Amber clone, suggesting that Mewtwo's lifeforce is even stronger than a normal Pokémon's.
Eventually, Mewtwo fully matured and broke out of its test tube. Those responsible for its creation were happy that they succeeded in their goal of creating the world's most powerful Pokémon. Enraged and confused about the circumstances that led to its creation and powers, Mewtwo attacked the scientists on New Island. Despite the efforts of security systems that attempted to control it, Mewtwo destroyed the island and all the scientists on it.
Immediately thereafter, Giovanni found Mewtwo and convinced it to help with Team Rocket's goal of controlling the world. Mewtwo's power was focused, as well as weakened and controlled, by a robotic suit of armor as Mewtwo preformed tasks such as battling under Giovanni within the Viridian Gym and helping Team Rocket capture Pokémon. Eventually Mewtwo became tired of being used by Giovanni. It developed a strong hatred for humans, and thought that they were weak beings only interested in power and greed; it also despised the Pokémon who served humans. It escaped from Giovanni, destroying Team Rocket headquarters in the process, and relocated to its birthplace on New Island, where it built its own headquarters. It then issued a challenge to several strong Pokémon Trainers, including Ash Ketchum. Mewtwo then used its powers to create a storm a test to see who could make it to the island. Only a handful of Trainers managed to brave the storm and arrive, including Ash and his friends. Upon revealing itself, Mewtwo challenged the trainers with a Venusaur, Blastoise, and Charizard (all cloned) to prove its superiority to human Trainers and the superiority of cloned Pokémon to trained Pokémon. To do this, it used a variation of the Poké Balls used by Trainers. Once caught in the Balls, the Pokémon that had been brought to the island were cloned in an upstairs laboratory. However, before Mewtwo could defeat the Trainers and move out into the world, Mew appeared. The two Pokémon fought and ceased battle when Ash was caught in their crossfire and turned to stone. After Ash is revived by the tears of the nearby Pokémon, clone and original alike, Mewtwo experiences a change of heart and stops its destructive rampage. Wanting to find itself, Mewtwo erased the memories of those present and it and its clones left New Island for Johto.
A few years later, Giovanni found Mewtwo's hiding place and began a plan to capture it once again. However, this plan was foiled when Mewtwo again met with Ash, who did not remember their previous encounter. Giovanni restrained Mewtwo, but Ash and friends helped it to escape and defeat Giovanni. At the end of the ordeal, Mewtwo erased Giovanni and his soldiers' memories of him, and decided to move throughout the world searching for the meaning of its life.
In the epilogue to Mewtwo Returns and in some TV series opening sequences and movie previews, Mewtwo has been seen wearing a plain brown cape and moving across rooftops at night.
He also had a passing mention in the special The Mastermind of The Mirage Pokémon when the mirage Mewtwo was created, Mirage Master claimed "This is not the Mewtwo you are familiar with", possibly meaning he saw Pikachu's memory of Mewtwo.
Moves used
| Using Shadow Ball | Move | First Used In |
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| Psychic | The Battle of the Badge | |
| Barrier | Mewtwo Strikes Back | |
| Shadow Ball | Mewtwo Strikes Back | |
| Disable | Mewtwo Strikes Back | |
| Psybeam x | Mewtwo Strikes Back | |
| An x shows that the move cannot be legitimately known by this Pokémon in the games. | ||
| Moves used recently are in bold unless all moves all fit this case. | ||
Pokémon
Created
| Debut | Mewtwo Strikes Back |
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Pikachu was cloned from Ash's Pikachu, and battled against it. Dubbed "Pikachutwo" or "Pikatwo" by the fandom, this clone was also central to the plot of Mewtwo Returns.
| Debut | Mewtwo Strikes Back |
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Mewtwo's cloned Charizard battled against Ash's Charizard, winning the match with Seismic Toss.
| Debut | Mewtwo Strikes Back |
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The cloned Blastoise battled against Neesha's own Blastoise, Shellshocker. It easily defeated Shellshocker with a Rapid Spin attack.
| Debut | Mewtwo Strikes Back |
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Mewtwo cloned all the Pokémon owned by the Trainers that came to New Island. Other than the Pokémon already mentioned above, Mewtwo's army included Pokémon cloned from Ash's Bulbasaur and Squirtle; Misty's Psyduck; Brock's Vulpix; Corey's Pidgeot, Scyther, Hitmonlee, Rhyhorn, and Sandslash; Neesha's Wigglytuff, Rapidash, Dewgong, Vileplume, and Ninetales; Fergus's Gyarados, Nidoqueen, Seadra, Vaporeon, Golduck, and Tentacruel; and Team Rocket's Meowth.
Befriended
| Debut | The Birth of Mewtwo |
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Bulbasaurtwo, Charmandertwo, and Squirtletwo are three of the original cloning attempts made by Dr. Fuji, along with Ambertwo and Mewtwo itself.
Used
| Debut | Mewtwo Strikes Back |
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Mewtwo used this Fearow to find Trainers worthy of coming to New Island.
| Debut | Mewtwo Strikes Back |
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Mewtwo used this Dragonite as a messenger to deliver invitations for Trainers to come to New Island.
Trivia
- In the first movie, Mewtwo used Shadow Ball despite this move not being released at the time.
- The cloned Squirtle, Charmander, and Bulbasaur look extremely similar to their cloned evolved forms. Mewtwo also mentions when it introduces them to Ash, Misty, Brock, Fergus, Corey, Neesha, and Nurse Joy that it also had a Squirtle, Charmander, and Bulbasaur, and that they evolved, which hints that it may have cloned them from its childhood friends.
- It's implied in Gary's battle with Mewtwo that Mewtwo's armor scrambles the Pokédex's scanning ability, as the Pokédex's screen has static on it when it states that it was unknown and had unavailable data. All undocumented Pokémon both before and after it either were blank on the screen (e.g. Ho-Oh's, Blaziken's and Electivire's first appearances), or were shown, but the Pokédex didn't have any other data (e.g. Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar).
Related articles
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Mewtwo.
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