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Mew ミュウ Mew #151
Artwork from FR/LG
Type Psychic ' Unknown Unknown Blue-Striped Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown	Category New Species Pokémon
Ability Synchronize Blue-Striped -----	Exp. at Lv. 100 1,059,860
Regional Pokédex numbers Kanto #151 Johto #250 Hoenn #306 Sinnoh Expression error: Unexpected > operator. Unova Not in any regional Pokédex
Regional Browser numbers Fiore R— Almia R— Oblivia
Height 1'4" Imperial 0.4 m Metric 1'4"/0.4 m Red-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m Blue-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m
Weight 8.8 lbs. Imperial 4 kg Metric 8.8 lbs./4 kg Red-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
Dex color Pink	Catch rate 45 (5.9%)
Body style Blue-Striped	Footprint      Blue-Striped
Gender ratio Gender unknown Unknown Gender unknown
Breeding No eggs group 1 cycles (255 minimum steps)
EV yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 Base Exp.: 64 Battle Exp.: 641*
External links On Smogon Pokédex: Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Mew (Japanese: ミュウ Mew) is a Psychic type Pokémon. It is usually obtainable only by having it transferred to a player's cartridge at special Nintendo-sponsored events. In Pokémon Emerald, Faraway Island exists, allowing players to actually capture Mew, but access to this island requires an Old Sea Chart which is also only available through special events.

Mew's ability is Synchronize, which copies any status ailments the Pokémon might have over to its opponent.

Mew has been notorious since its discovery for its ability to learn every machine and tutor move, unique amongst all known Pokémon.

Mew does not evolve from or into any other Pokémon, and is the last Pokémon in the Kanto Pokédex.

Biology

Physiology

Mew is normally described a pink cat-like creature. Mew's hair is so fine, it can only be seen under a microscope. It has a long, skinny tail. Mew has big hind legs, like a rabbit and short arms with three-fingered paws. Mew has triangle-shaped ears and baby-blue eyes. Mew is said to have the DNA of every single Pokémon.

Gender differences

Mew is a genderless Pokémon.

Special abilities

Mew's main abilities include turning invisible at will, creating force-fields of psychic energy and being able to transform into any one of the other nearly 500 species of Pokémon. Mew is capable of wielding nearly every type of attack possible, with the only exception of Draco Meteor (although it is able to use this via Transforming into a Pokémon that already has this move).

Behavior

Mew is an intelligent Pokémon and will only appear to someone with a pure heart. It also acts very childish, wanting everybody to play with it and laughing most of the time.

Habitat

Reports found on Burned Mansion found in Cinnabar Island in the Kanto region speak of expeditions of scientists, either independent or Team Rocket-run which have had sights of Mew in Guyana, South America, the place where its first sighting was reported. However, since Mew can either make itself invisible or transform itself into any other Pokémon, very few people have seen it, and it is considered a "mirage".

Diet

Main article: Pokémon food Considering Mew's unique lifestyle as a floating psychic Pokémon, and that no terrestrial animal resembles it, there is not a known diet for Mew.

In the anime

Mew appeared in two Pokémon movies. In the first, Mewtwo Strikes Back, it engaged in a battle with its clone, Mewtwo. In the eighth movie, Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, Mew kidnapped Ash's Pikachu and Meowth. In the first movie, it was voiced by 山寺宏一 Kōichi Yamadera, while in the eighth, it was voiced by こおろぎさとみ Satomi Kōrogi.

Jirarudan's actions in The Power of One were apparently set in motion due to an Ancient Mew card; the card itself was actually shown in the movie.

A Mirage Mew appears in The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon, and helps to frustrate the plans of Mirage Master.

In the manga

Mew has its own round in the Pokémon Special manga, VS. Mew. Here, Red and Green see one in Pallet Town and try to catch it, the phantom Pokémon was chased by Team Rocket.

In the TCG

The first set that Mew appeared in was the Japanese Fossil set. This card was removed from the English set and was released as a black star promo card instead, this promo has a foil and a non-foil version, with each a different number (foil: 9, non-foil: 8). Mew has also made several more recent occurrences in trading card sets. It has been in Expedition Base Set, EX Legend Maker (1 normal, 1 Pokémon-ex), EX Holon Phantoms (1 normal, 1 Pokémon-ex), EX Dragon Frontiers (as a Pokémon*), POP4 (foil and non-foil) and POP5.

Mew has had many promo cards. In English, there are the 2 above-mentioned black star promo Mew, lilypad Mew (black star promo #47) and Southern Islands. There are several promo Mew cards in Japanese which never got translated, like shiny Mew (a CoroCoro promo), the Japanese players' promo Mew ex and a Pokéball promo Mew.

Mew also appears on some trainer cards, like the Japanese Lucky Stadium, the very rare Mew trophy card given to the winners of the summer challenge in Japan. But also on some regular Trainer cards a Mew can be seen, like Pokémon Fan Club (POP4) and Fieldworker. Mew is also present in some current decks, for example, Mewtrick, the deck which won Worlds 2006, and also Destiny, a new but very popular deck.

Other appearances

Super Smash Brothers Melee

After unlocking every character, there is a 1 in 251 chance of Mew appearing from a Poké Ball. The thrower of the Poke Ball recieves 10,000 bonus points for the Mew Catcher bonus.

Game data

Pokédex entries

Game locations

Mew can easily be obtained in the Pokémon Red and Blue versions by using the Mew glitch. The Mew glitch also enable countless other normal and rarely-seen glitched Pokémon to be seen and captured, although some of them have been known to cause trouble to people's games.

Other then the Mew glitch, there are only 3 other ways to obtain it:

• At a Nintendo promotional event
• Having it traded by someone else
• Using Gameshark or some other cheating device

In side games

Also, in Pokémon Stadium, Mew is available as a rental Pokémon for the Master Ball level of the Prime Cup.

Base stats

Type effectiveness

RBY

Later versions

Learnset

By leveling up

By TM/HM

By breeding

Mew cannot be bred.

By tutoring

Special moves

Side game data

Template:Side game

Evolution

Trivia

• Mew (then spelt ミュー, not ミュウ) is the first Pokémon trademark ever registered; it was granted on March 31, 1994, registration number 2636685 part 12; before even Pocket Monsters (ポケットモンスター), which was granted on December 26, 1997.
  • ミュウ was registered on August 6, 1999, registration number 4302090.
• Mew is also the first Pokémon trademark ever applied for; the application was submitted on May 9, 1990, application number 平2-51989; before even Pocket Monsters, which was submitted September 11, 1995.
  • ミュウ was submitted on June 17, 1997, application number 平9-128909.
• Mew was the only Pokémon of the first 151 to be left out of the original Pokérap.
• Mew was a little known secret when Pokémon Red and Green were first released in Japan. Even Nintendo were not initially aware that Satoshi Tajiri had programmed it into the game.
• The user-designed Neopet species known as the Shoyru was based on Mew with draconic aspects added.
• Lost scientific reports found in the burned mansion of Cinnabar Island explains that Mew gave birth. The scientists named the newborn "Mewtwo". This breaks up the basic reproduction method of Pokémon; Eggs. However, Legendary Pokémon cannot reproduce, namely in-game Legendary Pokémon, for they are genderless. This may explain why Mew gave birth to Mewtwo: Possibly Mew was fertilized in vitro, and thus it could gave birth a fully-developed Pokémon, since it cannot produce Eggs.
• In Generation III, Mew was the only Kanto Pokémon not catchable in either FireRed or LeafGreen, the only legendary Kanto Pokémon catchable in Emerald and the only non FR/LG catchable to get a artwork for FR/LG.

Origin

Mew shares some traits with felines. It is also similar to an animal embryo. It is purported to be the first Pokémon from which all others are descended, in the same way that all animal embryos look identical at an early stage of development.

Name origin

Mew's name may refer to its cat-like appearance, with mew being the sound a kitten makes, the Japanese word unique (myō), or the English word mutant (myūtanto).

In other languages

• German: Mew
• French: Mew
• Korean: 뮤 Myu

External links

• Article on Wikipedia
• Mirage, the fanlisting for Mew at The Anime Fanlistings Network

Legendary Pokémon

Generation I

Generation II

Generation III

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Generation V

Generation VI

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Generation VIII

Generation IX

See also: Mythical Pokémon

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