
Officer Jenny informs the Trainers gathered that the ferry to New Island has been canceled. Later, as a storm brews, the gang arrives at the Pokémon Center, whose Nurse Joy has been missing for quite a while. It projects a hologram of a mysterious woman who tells the Trainers to head to Old Shore Wharf to get to an island fortress called New Island. Suddenly, a Dragonite flies in with a letter for Ash and his friends. Jessie, James, and Meowth, who were also watching the battle, don't have any food and watch hungrily as the gang eats Brock's cooking. What he doesn't know is that he's being watched, not only by Team Rocket but by a mysterious third party. With his Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Pikachu, Ash easily beats Raymond. Meanwhile, Ash, Misty, and Brock are preparing for lunch until a Trainer named Raymond shows up and challenges Ash, who is happy to oblige. When Giovanni tells Mewtwo his own twisted way of controlling Pokémon, Mewtwo angrily blasts away, destroying its armor, and vows from atop the island it was created on to begin its reign on Earth.Ī Dragonite shows up to deliver an invitation Over the next few weeks, Mewtwo does most of Team Rocket's dirty work, capturing wild Pokémon and beating any Trainer that challenges the Viridian Gym, including Gary Oak. Mewtwo takes up the offer and is put in a suit of armor. Then, Giovanni arrives in his private helicopter and offers to help Mewtwo focus its powers. Fuji says to himself that he succeeded in creating the world's most powerful Pokémon before dying at the hands of Mewtwo. Mewtwo is angry that the scientists see it more as a result of their project and less of a sentient being, so it destroys the lab and kills all of the scientists. Fuji tells Mewtwo that it was made by humans and is a clone of, but much more powerful than Mew.

Just then, Mewtwo fully wakes up in a stasis tube in one of Fuji's laboratories, where the scientists study it. Upon gaining consciousness, a confused Mewtwo asks itself who it is, what it is, and where it came from. Finding a fossil of Mew, Fuji and his team create Mewtwo.

Giovanni, the leader of Team Rocket, funds Fuji's research in return for an enhanced, living replica of Mew. Fuji, wanting to find a way to restore life by cloning, leads an expedition to Guyana after finding evidence of a shrine dedicated to Mew, the world's most powerful-but now said to be extinct-Pokémon. But faced with the determination of a young Trainer and the love of his Pokémon, Mewtwo just might have to reconsider, especially when pitted against the power of the mysterious Mew! Plotĭr. Despite Ash's protests, Mewtwo refuses to believe that Pokémon and people can be friends. Of course, if it's an event for talented Trainers, Ash Ketchum will be right in the front row!Īsh's excitement turns to fear and anger when Mewtwo reveals its plan for domination, creating powerful clones of all of the kids' Pokémon so it can even the "imbalance" between Pokémon and their Trainers. It escaped from the lab, and now Mewtwo begins to concoct its own scheme, clandestinely inviting a number of Pokémon Trainers to the ultimate test. Mewtwo is very powerful, and also very smart-smart enough to not want to be controlled by Giovanni. Giovanni, the leader of Team Rocket, had ambitious plans to take over the world, involving his latest experiment, a powerful clone of Mew-Mewtwo. The first anime special, Mewtwo Returns, is a sequel to this movie.Ī 3D-animated remake, Mewtwo Strikes Back-Evolution, was released in 2019. Mewtwo Strikes Back was shown with the Pikachu short Pikachu's Vacation. It debuted in Japanese theaters on July 18, 1998, and then made its way to North American theaters on November 12, 1999.

Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back (Japanese: 劇場版ポケットモンスター ミュウツーの 逆襲 Pocket Monsters the Movie: Mewtwo's Counterattack, officially known as Pocket Monsters the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back! in Japan), and also known in English simply as Pokémon: The First Movie, is the first Pokémon movie. For the prop in Pokéstar Studios, see Pokéstar Studios opponents → MT. For the movie's score, see Pokémon the First Movie (score). For the movie's soundtrack, see Pokémon the First Movie (soundtrack).

For the Topps trading cards, see Pokémon the First Movie Trading Cards. For the Ani-Manga, see Pokémon the First Movie (graphic novel). For the book, see Pokémon the First Movie (picture book). For the TCG card, see Mewtwo Strikes Back (CoroCoro promo). For the manga, see Mewtwo Strikes Back! (manga). For the novel, see Mewtwo Strikes Back (book). Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.
