After he successfully defeats Pikachu, the boys send out Lucario and Cinderace against him, but none of their attack do a scratch on him. After listening to Goh's dream of collecting all Pokémon and catching up with Mew, Mewtwo is moved by their determination and accepts their challenge for a battle. Through telepathy, Mewtwo questions their intentions, and Ash thanks him for rescuing them. He encounters them when they fall into the mysterious island he is guarding and protecting some Pokémon. Mewtwo reappears in Getting More Than You Battled For!, where he meets Goh for the first time and reunites with Ash, who are both searching for Mew. He is then seen in a unknown city at night. In the end, he departs from the other cloned Pokémon so they can live peacefully as wild Pokémon. They could live there in peace, but Giovanni finds them, having not had his memories of Mewtwo erased like everyone on New Island. In Mewtwo Returns, the clones have found a lovely place to live, on top of Johto's largest mountain, Mount Quena. Dissipating its storm, he then departs with his clones and returns the humans and their Pokémon to their proper places, erasing their memories of encountering it.
This sight enables Mewtwo to realize that it is one's choices, not the circumstances of their birth, that determines their identity. Their blasts render Ash inert in a stone-like state, from which it is revived by the tears of natural and cloned Pokémon alike. Blind to the suffering of both sides, the two continue to clash until Ash rushes between them in a desperate attempt to stop the fighting. Using their psychic abilities, the pair suppress the abilities of the Pokémon under their leadership and engage in battle. Mewtwo challenges Mew to a battle, determined to prove that it is the superior Pokémon, which leads to a battle between the two and their respective groups of Pokémon. However, Ash then arrives with the freed natural Pokémon to challenge him, only for a far more startling opponent to appear: a living Mew. Upon achieving victory, Mewtwo captures all the trainers' Pokémon and clones them to create his army of clones, and informs the humans that it will spare them, but that they will be consumed by the storm like the rest of the planet. It then accepts a challenge from Ash to prove the superiority of its cloned Pokémon, and unleashes cloned versions of Charizard, Blastoise, and Venusaur to challenge natural versions partnered with Ash and two of the other trainers. Once the trainers arrive, Mewtwo reveals himself, claiming to be both the world's strongest Pokémon trainer and the world's most powerful Pokémon.Īfter proving itself more than a match for several of the Pokémon assembled on the island, Mewtwo releases Nurse Joy from its control. The Trainers go through a storm that Mewtwo used to test them, with the storm's true purpose being to wipe out all humans and those Pokémon not created through cloning as Mewtwo and his army were, as he considers natural Pokémon weak due to their willingness to serve or befriend humans.
After gaining her help in preparing for its plan to create an army of Cloned Pokémon, it has her send invitations to some strong Trainers. It kidnaps the Nurse Joy of the nearest Pokémon Center, and takes control of her mind. Mewtwo subsequently returns to its birthplace, New Island, and rebuilds the lab he destroyed into a massive castle. It levels Giovanni's mansion and destroys his armor in the process, and is seen briefly by Jessie and James in " It's Mr. Mewtwo escapes from Giovanni after finding out that they aren't partners, but that Giovanni regards it as a weapon. Gary describes it as an "evil" Pokémon to Ash Ketchum, who doesn't get the chance to see it.
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With some sort of armor on, Mewtwo is used in " The Battle of the Badge" against Gary Oak in a gym battle after aiding Giovanni in a series of other victories. It destroys the laboratory, and is approached by the arriving Giovanni with an offer to learn to control its powers. After learning that the scientists regarded it a merely an experiment and not as a living creature of worth, it becomes filled with rage. Its companion in these early days was Ambertwo, a clone of Fuji's deceased daughter Amber, who sadly perished much like the girl she was cloned from, though he doesn't have any memories of these events except Amber's last words which was "life was wonderful", but he doesn't know why. Biography Pokémon the Series: The BeginningĪs shown at the beginning of Mewtwo Strikes Back, Mewtwo has been created by a group of scientists led by Dr.