Mewtwo (M01)

Mewtwo ミュウツー Mewtwo

File:Capture14.png Mewtwo

Debuts in The Battle of the Badge Caught at New Island Gender Unknown Ability Unknown Released in Showdown at the Poké Corral Current location Johto

This Pokémon has not evolved.

Voice actor Japanese English As Mewtwo Masachika Ichimura (adult) Fujiko Takimoto (child) Phillip Bartlett (MSB) Dan Green (MR)

Mewtwo (Japanese: ミュウツー) is a Template:Type2 legendary Pokémon cloned from a Mew. His Japanese voice actors are 市村正親 Masachika Ichimura (adult) and 瀧本富士子 Fujiko Takimoto (child). His 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 it 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 his creation and powers, Mewtwo attacked the scientists on New Island. A computer attacked and attempted to kill him to protect the scientists, but Mewtwo quickly recovered and destroyed the island and everyone 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 in a robotic suit of armor, preforming tasks such as battling within the Viridian Gym. 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. There it issued a challenge to several strong Pokémon Trainers, including Ash Ketchum. Only a handful of Trainers made the hard trip to the island, and Mewtwo challenged them with a Venusaur, Blastoise, and Charizard (all cloned) to prove its superiority to human Trainers and the superiority of cloned Pokémon to trained Pokémon. However, before it 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 killed. Mew convinced Mewtwo to stop its destructive rampage. Mewtwo, wanting to find itself, erased the memories of those present and 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 once 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.

Moves used

Pokémon

Created

File:Pikatwo.png Pikachu	File:MewtwosOriginVenusaurClone.PNG Venusaur	File:MewtwosOriginCharizardClone.PNG Charizard	File:MewtwosOriginBlastoiseClone.PNG Blastoise	Bulbasaur
Squirtle	Sandslash	Nidoqueen	Vulpix	Ninetales
Vileplume	Meowth	Gyarados	Golduck	Tentacruel
Dewgong	Hitmonlee	Seadra	Rhyhorn	Scyther
Vaporeon	Wigglytuff	Psyduck	Pidgeot	Rapidash

Befriended

Used

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).

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For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Mewtwo.

Team Rocket's Pokémon
Travel with:	Meowth	Rotom Phone
	Jessie			James
On hand:	Wobbuffet	Seviper	Yanmega	Mime Jr.	Carnivine	Yamask
	Woobat	Frillish	Gourgeist	Amoonguss	Inkay	Morpeko
In training:				Cacnea
At home:				Growlie	Chimecho
Released:	Arbok	Dustox	Mimikyu	Weezing	Gyarados	Mareanie
Traded away:	Lickitung			Victreebel
Lived with (all three):	Bewear	Stufful
Worked with (all three):	Delibird	Pelipper
Temporarily owned:	Porygon Zero	Shellder	Magikarp	Hoppip	Second Victreebel
	Mawile
Befriended:	Blissey
Status unknown:	Starmie			Pidgey	Numel
For a list of other Pokémon Team Rocket has commanded, see here and here