Pokémon Live!: Difference between revisions

At Giovanni's [[Gym]], Delia and Professor Oak are locked in a cage by his battle arena. After a failed attempt to break free, the Professor asks Delia why Giovanni recognized her. She explains that, when she was a teenager, she used to hang out with a gang of troublemakers (who later became Team Rocket, which conflicts with their backstory given on Japanese-only audio dramas) led by Giovanni; she eventually left them when she met Ash's father, and she has never told this to her son, because she fears he wouldn't understand. After the story, Giovanni enters to boast to them about his MechaMew2, during which he sings his dark reprise of "[[You & Me & Pokémon]]". Immediately following this, Jessie, James and Meowth show up with the captured Pikachu (while singing "[[Double Trouble]]"). Giovanni is pleased with this, as Pikachu possesses the only attacks MechaMew2 has not yet learned, and he orders Jessie and James have it attack MechaMew2. Pikachu instead responds to Jessie and James's orders by shocking them, during which they flip a switch that causes Delia and the Professor’s cage to open and allow them to escape. Giovanni realizes he'll need Pikachu's Trainer for it to listen to, and tells Jessie and James to bring him the Trainer.

After Team Rocket brings Ash to him, Giovanni, annoyed with their presence orders them to leave the arena, and they do so, crashing their scooters offstage. Giovanni releases Pikachu and then introduces MechaMew2 to him. He allows Ash to have the Diamond Badge for the duration of the fight, saying he'll retrieve it afterwards. Ash orders Pikachu to use {{m|Thunder Shock}}, followed by {{m|Thunderbolt}}, but to his surprise, MechaMew2 suffers no damage, and Giovanni proclaims that he has won, as those were the last attacks MechaMew2 needed to learn.

Ash valiantly stands up to Giovanni and refuses to let him get away with his victory ("You Just Can't Win"), but Giovanni orders MechaMew2 to attack the both of them with a {{m|Hyper Beam}}. But when it does, a force-field appears around Ash and Pikachu, protecting them, as an off-screen voice proclaims that "the boy will not be harmed." The bearer of the voice then steps in - it is the original Mewtwo. Ash doesn't recognize him, but Giovanni does and brags about the superiority of his mechanical replica. Mewtwo is unimpressed and accepts Giovanni's offer to battle MechaMew2. Ash begs Mewtwo not to do so, fearing MechaMew2 will just copy the {{t|Psychic}} attacks, but Mewtwo tells Ash that "the true power is within you," and then sends visions of Ash's happy memories (shown as rapidly-displayed clips on the screens) to MechaMew2. Nothing seems to happen, but to Giovanni's surprise, MechaMew2 begins speaking and rebels against him, saying Mewtwo has taught it the value of love and goodness from Ash's memories, and therefore can no longer let Giovanni's evil scheme to go forth. Grabbing Team Rocket's leader by the neck, it prepares to perform a {{m|Self-Destruct}}, despite Giovanni's attempts to offer a compromise, and tells Mewtwo to get Ash and Pikachu out while he still can. Giovanni, managing to escape MechaMew2's grasp just before it explodes, curses Mewtwo for defeating him again, but as Mewtwo takes Ash and Pikachu out of the building, he remarks that "this time it was not me, it was the boy."

* {{wp|Dee Roscioli}} and Patrick Frankfort, who portrayed Delia and Professor Oak in the U.S. tour, were in a romantic relationship at the time. This is referenced by Ash telling Professor Oak, "Don't bring my mom home too late!"

* According to the show's program, [[Ikue Ohtani]], [[Maddie Blaustein]] and [[List of English voice actors|Jay Goede]] reprised their roles of {{AP|Pikachu}}, {{MTR}} and Mewtwo respectively. Goede is credited by his real name in Pokémon Live! instead of his stage name, Philip Bartlett, which was used in ''[[M01|Mewtwo Strikes Back]]''. Jigglypuff and Psyduck's voices are uncredited but are possibly archive recordings of [[Rachael Lillis]] and [[Michael Haigney]], respectively. No other voice actors are known to have reprised their roles from the anime in this production.

* Dennis Kenney, the actor who played Brock, appeared as a host in the [[Pokémon Insider: The Video|Pokémon Insider promotional video]]. The video includes a clip of himself (in character as Brock) performing the song [[Two Perfect Girls]].

* Michael Slade stated in a 2016 interview with GameInformer that alongside MechaMew2, there was supposed to be one more Pokémon that Ash Ketchum would face off against that would attack using bubbles. It was scrapped late into production and forgotten about.