Mewtwo seems to have an incredibly restless philosophical mind, and seems to want to understand where it's worldview came from and if it is right to have. So, it probably tries to search and recreate anything it can from those fundamental memories of it's youth, the Pokemon friends it had, the control and care it had, but Amber is just this big gap that it can't remember, and exactly the answer to the knowledge it wants to understand. The Pokemon friends are probably the closest it can get to recalling those memories with the gaping hole left in them. I do love that Mewtwo got to leave with an entire community of similar friends at the end of the movie though, that it never has to be alone with these questions, and with that powerful outlook about not fussing over circumstances and appreciating the gift of life.
@@TheHelios767so Pokedex entries about Hypno, Trevenant, Yamask and Spiritomb aren't too dark for Pokemon? What about Lampents who live in HOSPITALS waiting for someone to die to take their souls? Not to mention Palossand who drags people under his sand and sucks out their soul Hell, even Aegislash sucks out life energy, which led to the death of the king and the fall of the whole kingdom
Don’t forget the fact that Fuji erased the memories of his daughter from mewtwo because he didn’t want to mentally scar it, but this just resulted in Mewtwo feeling rage and sadness for reasons it could not understand and so lashed out at everything around it
I like the psychological idea behind this, that our psyche still needs even the painful memories to be whole, and that it may not be ethical to ever fully erase anything, as it will leave a contexual gap in the other memories inevitably linked to it. Mewtwo had some of it's fundamental knowledge of life imparted by Amber, so having that knowledge, but having a gap there in where it came from that can't be filled would be incredibly distressing.
He woke up confused. He was filled with so much rage and pain that he lashed out against the world. He filled that rage with the idea that his life didn't matter. Poor Mewtwo.
Originally Fuji's daughter dies in a car crush. Fuji was the one driving so not only he struggles for the loss but blames everything on himself. This is said in the Radio version that was available only in Japan
Also the early pokemon cd dramas are CRAZY, like the one from Jessie's mom actually being dead after she found mew in a mountain and died from freezing
@@rejuno1991 they also name drop Madame Boss in those I believe, who is Giovanni's mother and is apparently more cruel and evil then he is. I really wished she made an appearance in the actual anime.
@@luck2626 Im sad pokemon stopped doing cd-dramas, cd dramas are still popular in japan so idk why they don't i guess they dont really want to do darker themes anymore
@@rejuno1991 it's because the original author died unfortunately. Takeshi Shudō, who worked on the tales of the first and second gen films if I remember correctly died in an hospital because in overdose of Alcohol due to the too much work and the frustration of a man that wanted to give another face at the brand of Pokémon but couldn't, because children give more profit..
It is even more sad: Do you remember the whole plot about Pokémon tears having a healing effect? In the final cut it comes out of nowhere when Ash is revived. But in this version it is speculated that Mewtwo was the only Pokémon that survived the initial cloning process because he cried about Amber's death! So he healed himself inside the tank!
It's weirdly genius that they made Mew and Mewtwo look somewhere between a foetus and a hairless cat. It seems to play on human's adoration and uplifting of cat companionship, while also being a very "root of all life" form to have. Baby Mewtwo kind of looks like some sort of alien kitten, and just has such innocence and wonder in it's face
@@luigihorror6455so in the original release of the movie they completely cut the scene, but a shortened version would be added later on (I believe it was added on the DVD version but don't quote me on that)
It’s made worse when you realize they erased his memories of her but couldn’t erase the emotions. Which is why he wakes up so full of anger and rage. “Who am I? This, this is not the same! Was everything before just a dream? Why?…”
It was cut because they thought it was too dark for the young audience in the U.S. 🙁 Honestly, they should have kept it. Yes it was very sad but it made perfect sense why Mewtwo had a distaste for Humans
Technically 4kids still dubbed the backstory it was just cut out of most theatrical releases. It was restored as a bonus feature for Mewtwo Returns so it's not like they completely destroyed it like they did with One Piece
Mewtwo is just like Shadow. Created at lab, befriended the daughter of a scientist, they are powerful beings and both the scientists daughters are no longer living
They were added in home releases of the first movie as a short. I remember owning a VHS and it was "never before seen footage of Mewtwo's orgins". They did translate it in English a bit differently then in the Japanese. I remember Mewtwo questioning about God directly in the Japanese version.
I grew up with the English version in Mewtwo strikes back, so getting to see the Japanese version with this first scene of Mewtwo as an adult was really surprising and probably would've gone over my head as a kid.
Mewtwo's story here wasn't cut from the English release, but jsut wasn't in the theatrical release. When it came to vhs and dvds there was a "never before seen short of Mewtwo's orgins" that was added in before the movie started. They had to make some edits to it but its mostly intact.
Also neat fact I have a dvd of mewtwo returns moive with this bounes episode ngl I wonder why this moive isn’t available to buy digitally or can’t stream it or re buy new on dvd it’s like are they trying to get rid of this moive because they don’t want it to be cannon? Or some company issues in America or something like does anyone have info on this moive plz?
You forgot the most important part, which is that Dr. Fuji read a fairytale to Amber that Pokémon tears are full of life. This is why at the end of the first movie the Pokémon’s tears bring Ash back to life after he’s accidentally killed by Mewtwo
Mewtwo being memory wiped was tragic too. Honestly shows you how good Pokémon writing used to be. Feels like the original series peaked with a lot of great movies and fairly good episodes, minus Ash being stuckup for practically the whole thing. Advanced definitely had moments, but I would say not as many and the last season blew since the showrunner left before it was finished. And I stopped keeping up after Diamond and Pearl. Though I do know XY was considered a return to form, with the least liked series being BW and SM. ourney falling off the spectrum altogether. I get it, though. The continuity got whacky and it is tough to know what the identity of the anime is anymore, especially when your showrunners start leaving regularly. But yeah. This Mewtwo scene is great. Tragic in the right way. Written about as well as it could have been. It is even more harsh when considering the doctor probably went straight to hell for attempting to manipulate existence, so he will truly never get to meet his daughter in the afterlife.
Waitwaitwait THIS WAS CUT?! I remember watching it, one of the very first movies I got my mitts on after I learned English and immediately looked for every movie that wasn’t available where I live
Also fuji cloned for years his daughter but clones has a short life spam, the reason he did it is that fuji caused the car crash, and he propably keep his daugther body to use it
Things like this is why generation 1 always felt off. It was much more grounded despite it's fantasy elements, while subsequent gens are so saccharine with their whimsical 'oooh we are Pokémon gods who created everything in the world oooh' backstories.
What's more gut wrenching is the performances by the actors in the Japanese version. Little Mewtwo is so confused and sad, while Amber reassures him, and tells him to live. Many of us just want to live with those we care about, the people who give us purpose.
Fun fact: Amber’s clone is Ambertwo, yes, that’s the canon name! In my story on Wattpad, in a different dimension Ambertwo actually survived it but no one could tell, and ends up with an adoptive family. Then Legendary Pokémon are genocidal against humans even when some haven’t done ANYTHING wrong, and Ambertwo goes by the name MissingNo, goes back and time, and commits attempted Genocide.
How come the supposedly futuristic Paradox pokemon dont look like Mewtwo though? Shouldnt they be morw science fiction cybertronics instead of of juat being literal robots
Car accident?? I wasn’t entirely sure cars existed in Pokémon till black and white. Half the roads kanto are just tall grass, where the heck are people driving?!
This wasn't really "cut" this back story was originally a radio drama in Japan leading up to the movies release, it wasn't till later that it got adapted into an animation and then added to the mewtwo strikes back movie as a whole
Its sad how Mewtwo just wanted to save Amber but in the proccess lost her and instead became too enraged to stay as a controlled being. They shouldnt have cut this.
I remember watching this dubbed as a kid but I can't remember how I found it. I know it was on a DVD but that's it. I checked my copy of the first Pokemon movie and it has Mewtwo's Origin as a bonus feature but it's been cut. So I have no idea how I even watched the full version.
It's enraging that it was cut from the US version because it was 'too much for thw kids to handle'. It would've added SO much context and detail to Mewtwo if it wasn’t cut!!😤😤😤
I wish they stuck to this I mean they stuck to a guy murdering a kids parents who gets adopted by zerude Though the actual dad being the cause may be the too dark type and his wife leaving him It kinda feels like it gives mewtwo more emotion
Amber is actually Green from Pokemon Lets Go Pikachu and Eevee I think Green not from Eevee,Game Theory made a vid bout this.Heres the link to it. "th-cam.com/video/rsApCFiokS0/w-d-xo.html" BUT I think you wont agree with the theory,its just a theory anyway..
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How was this a CUT backstory? You literally just pulled it from the first movie
Technically he did try to get some of his friends back by cloning a venasaur,blastoise,and a charizard
Mewtwo seems to have an incredibly restless philosophical mind, and seems to want to understand where it's worldview came from and if it is right to have. So, it probably tries to search and recreate anything it can from those fundamental memories of it's youth, the Pokemon friends it had, the control and care it had, but Amber is just this big gap that it can't remember, and exactly the answer to the knowledge it wants to understand.
The Pokemon friends are probably the closest it can get to recalling those memories with the gaping hole left in them. I do love that Mewtwo got to leave with an entire community of similar friends at the end of the movie though, that it never has to be alone with these questions, and with that powerful outlook about not fussing over circumstances and appreciating the gift of life.
The Pokemon used during the clone battles were the same Bulbasaur Charmander and Squirtle he meets here. I'm sure of it.
It’s such a shame that this was cut. It far better than the one that they used.
Which one did they use idk
It was too dark for pokemon
Thats right!
A wonderful, emotional and tragic story is way to dark but a story about a genocide is ok.
Since it was made, it’s safe to say that it’s canon.
@@TheHelios767so Pokedex entries about Hypno, Trevenant, Yamask and Spiritomb aren't too dark for Pokemon?
What about Lampents who live in HOSPITALS waiting for someone to die to take their souls?
Not to mention Palossand who drags people under his sand and sucks out their soul
Hell, even Aegislash sucks out life energy, which led to the death of the king and the fall of the whole kingdom
Don’t forget the fact that Fuji erased the memories of his daughter from mewtwo because he didn’t want to mentally scar it, but this just resulted in Mewtwo feeling rage and sadness for reasons it could not understand and so lashed out at everything around it
Oh.
This seems like a very important detail left out for such an Potent Outrage!
Also Mewtwo’s servant lady is based on Amber
I like the psychological idea behind this, that our psyche still needs even the painful memories to be whole, and that it may not be ethical to ever fully erase anything, as it will leave a contexual gap in the other memories inevitably linked to it. Mewtwo had some of it's fundamental knowledge of life imparted by Amber, so having that knowledge, but having a gap there in where it came from that can't be filled would be incredibly distressing.
Omg thankyou for this information 😢 poor mewtwo
He woke up confused. He was filled with so much rage and pain that he lashed out against the world. He filled that rage with the idea that his life didn't matter.
Poor Mewtwo.
Maybe he can finally reunite with his daughter in death.
yea atleast he's gonna be happy now
I was gonna say that, thank you 🤭
Anime mewtwo died? When?
@@Tostowyyyno both the professor and his daughter died
@@Mega-cy8rr I’m not going to lie. It made me tear up.
Originally Fuji's daughter dies in a car crush. Fuji was the one driving so not only he struggles for the loss but blames everything on himself. This is said in the Radio version that was available only in Japan
So Fuji is Dr. Tenma and his daughter is Tobio/Astro Boy, then?
Also the early pokemon cd dramas are CRAZY, like the one from Jessie's mom actually being dead after she found mew in a mountain and died from freezing
@@rejuno1991 they also name drop Madame Boss in those I believe, who is Giovanni's mother and is apparently more cruel and evil then he is. I really wished she made an appearance in the actual anime.
@@luck2626 Im sad pokemon stopped doing cd-dramas, cd dramas are still popular in japan so idk why they don't i guess they dont really want to do darker themes anymore
@@rejuno1991 it's because the original author died unfortunately. Takeshi Shudō, who worked on the tales of the first and second gen films if I remember correctly died in an hospital because in overdose of Alcohol due to the too much work and the frustration of a man that wanted to give another face at the brand of Pokémon but couldn't, because children give more profit..
It is even more sad: Do you remember the whole plot about Pokémon tears having a healing effect? In the final cut it comes out of nowhere when Ash is revived. But in this version it is speculated that Mewtwo was the only Pokémon that survived the initial cloning process because he cried about Amber's death! So he healed himself inside the tank!
@@Toldoris 🤌🏻Mind blown away
I cried so hard at Mewtwo's backstory as a kid 💀
Tiny mewtwo is adorable
It's weirdly genius that they made Mew and Mewtwo look somewhere between a foetus and a hairless cat. It seems to play on human's adoration and uplifting of cat companionship, while also being a very "root of all life" form to have. Baby Mewtwo kind of looks like some sort of alien kitten, and just has such innocence and wonder in it's face
@@lilpetz500And mews personality in the first movie was, protective, pranking and bubbly.
Hmmm... No, look at what mew says in japanese
Amber is literally the Pokemon version of Maria from Sonic.
He rlly is 😂
Well since Amber existed first it’s more accurate to say Maria is the Sonic version of Amber from Pokémon
And Mewtwo is the pokemon version of Shadow.
Where was this cut? I'm from India and they showed Mewtwo's backstory
The american version
@@ElementalArcherwhat did they show in America?
@@ElementalArcherreally? I'm from America and I could've sworn i seen this "cut" scene
@@luigihorror6455so in the original release of the movie they completely cut the scene, but a shortened version would be added later on (I believe it was added on the DVD version but don't quote me on that)
This is the first time I'm hearing about this. I don't remember seeing this scene.
The backstory that they cut is the canon one. We can all agree.
Ahh yes the original shadow and maria.
It’s made worse when you realize they erased his memories of her but couldn’t erase the emotions. Which is why he wakes up so full of anger and rage.
“Who am I? This, this is not the same! Was everything before just a dream? Why?…”
Didn't they erased Mewtwo's memories of Amber and the other clones? I could have sworn that happen which is why Mewtwo emerges confused and lost.
Look on the bright side! They'll both see each other in heaven!
It was cut because they thought it was too dark for the young audience in the U.S. 🙁
Honestly, they should have kept it. Yes it was very sad but it made perfect sense why Mewtwo had a distaste for Humans
Mewtwos backstory is surprisingly very meaningful to me. I might not wish to share why now but I can say I'm glad it exists 💙
Oh my God baby Mewtwo just want to hug him and tell him everything's going to be okay precious child deserved better
Thanks 4kids...
First this, then they ruin the first time One Piece was dubed.
Technically 4kids still dubbed the backstory it was just cut out of most theatrical releases. It was restored as a bonus feature for Mewtwo Returns so it's not like they completely destroyed it like they did with One Piece
Bro is gonna reunite with his daughter
IN HEAVEN-
oh hell nah🗿🔥👌
@@MaxNCheeseyi hope they have a good time there
Mewtwo is just like Shadow. Created at lab, befriended the daughter of a scientist, they are powerful beings and both the scientists daughters are no longer living
@@James.Oakleaf I know
This story goes DEEP man
Damn i guess I wrote this a year ago and got 84 likes 🫠
I really feel like I'm being gaslit all these years. I've seen these scenes. There's no way they were cut.
They were added in home releases of the first movie as a short. I remember owning a VHS and it was "never before seen footage of Mewtwo's orgins". They did translate it in English a bit differently then in the Japanese. I remember Mewtwo questioning about God directly in the Japanese version.
I was already dehydrated but I am now a crying prune
"We were told to make the strongest Pokemon... And we *succeeded."*
Yeah this was heartbreaking seeing this for the first time
This strongly reminds me of shadows backstory in the sonic series about him and Maria
I think they made a Sonic game about this
I was about to say that this is very similar to Sonic Adventure 2.
And then he used their bones to make the robot arms that try taking the ball from Ash in the one scene.
Fun fact: a lampent had become the first chandelure on the day mewtwo awoke. However, there was no dusk stone.
I grew up with the English version in Mewtwo strikes back, so getting to see the Japanese version with this first scene of Mewtwo as an adult was really surprising and probably would've gone over my head as a kid.
If I remember correctly, this wasn't cut in the Hindi dub
baby mewtwo is so cute
This is why mewtwo is my second favorite legendary
I saw this! I wanted to watch some old movies I saw as a kid, and this was one of em. I got to watch it online, and it had this in it
Mewtwo's story here wasn't cut from the English release, but jsut wasn't in the theatrical release. When it came to vhs and dvds there was a "never before seen short of Mewtwo's orgins" that was added in before the movie started. They had to make some edits to it but its mostly intact.
Bro wtf, why was this cut? This is an amazing backstory that should've been there, damn over 20 years and I never knew this
I know this I love this short story so much but it’s also makes me tear up every time baby mewtwo is adorable ngl wish he was in games
Also neat fact I have a dvd of mewtwo returns moive with this bounes episode ngl I wonder why this moive isn’t available to buy digitally or can’t stream it or re buy new on dvd it’s like are they trying to get rid of this moive because they don’t want it to be cannon? Or some company issues in America or something like does anyone have info on this moive plz?
I miss these days of Pokémon. It was far darker than the modern day pokemon is
You forgot the most important part, which is that Dr. Fuji read a fairytale to Amber that Pokémon tears are full of life. This is why at the end of the first movie the Pokémon’s tears bring Ash back to life after he’s accidentally killed by Mewtwo
Mewtwo being memory wiped was tragic too. Honestly shows you how good Pokémon writing used to be. Feels like the original series peaked with a lot of great movies and fairly good episodes, minus Ash being stuckup for practically the whole thing. Advanced definitely had moments, but I would say not as many and the last season blew since the showrunner left before it was finished. And I stopped keeping up after Diamond and Pearl.
Though I do know XY was considered a return to form, with the least liked series being BW and SM. ourney falling off the spectrum altogether. I get it, though. The continuity got whacky and it is tough to know what the identity of the anime is anymore, especially when your showrunners start leaving regularly.
But yeah. This Mewtwo scene is great. Tragic in the right way. Written about as well as it could have been. It is even more harsh when considering the doctor probably went straight to hell for attempting to manipulate existence, so he will truly never get to meet his daughter in the afterlife.
Waitwaitwait THIS WAS CUT?!
I remember watching it, one of the very first movies I got my mitts on after I learned English and immediately looked for every movie that wasn’t available where I live
It was added to some VHS copies
I did not know about this wow. But that backstory got me crying nooo😭😭
Oh I literally see this part every time this movie airs on tv I didn't know it was cut because we have this scene
I remember watching this as a kid and just bawling my eyes out. Things haven’t changed much…
Fuiji wanted a daughter
Everyone wanted a hero
Mewtwo wanted a friend
Also fuji cloned for years his daughter but clones has a short life spam, the reason he did it is that fuji caused the car crash, and he propably keep his daugther body to use it
I remember watching a VHS 📼 tape of the movie that had the backstory on it
Things like this is why generation 1 always felt off. It was much more grounded despite it's fantasy elements, while subsequent gens are so saccharine with their whimsical 'oooh we are Pokémon gods who created everything in the world oooh' backstories.
What's more gut wrenching is the performances by the actors in the Japanese version.
Little Mewtwo is so confused and sad, while Amber reassures him, and tells him to live.
Many of us just want to live with those we care about, the people who give us purpose.
Fun fact:
Amber’s clone is Ambertwo, yes, that’s the canon name!
In my story on Wattpad, in a different dimension Ambertwo actually survived it but no one could tell, and ends up with an adoptive family.
Then Legendary Pokémon are genocidal against humans even when some haven’t done ANYTHING wrong, and Ambertwo goes by the name MissingNo, goes back and time, and commits attempted Genocide.
How come the supposedly futuristic Paradox pokemon dont look like Mewtwo though? Shouldnt they be morw science fiction cybertronics instead of of juat being literal robots
Car accident?? I wasn’t entirely sure cars existed in Pokémon till black and white. Half the roads kanto are just tall grass, where the heck are people driving?!
Mewtwo's back story is similar to shadow and his best friend Maria Robotnik.😢😭
This wasn't really "cut" this back story was originally a radio drama in Japan leading up to the movies release, it wasn't till later that it got adapted into an animation and then added to the mewtwo strikes back movie as a whole
Omg, I didn‘t know this. I wish the current Pokemon games had such great storys.
This is why I prefer uncut pokemon. It is more deep and complex than the water down dub version
I just watched that movie today wasny that literally the backstory shown? Nothing was cut lol
Dude I feel bad for Mewtwo because he lost his only friend and now he doesn't have any friends that's why I feel bad for him
Mad scientist fuji turned old geezer not surprised rocket tried to recruit him and in cinnibar lab there portrait of… dr fuji?
Well I guess Mewtwo helped him meet his daughter again🤣🤣🤣😂
Cut but basically canon.
Dam, I remember watching this on one of them special release on VHS as a kid
It’s giving shadow the hedgehog vibes😅
Good riddance to Fuji, he should’ve just accepted her death.
Its sad how Mewtwo just wanted to save Amber but in the proccess lost her and instead became too enraged to stay as a controlled being.
They shouldnt have cut this.
I actually remember watching this
See Shadow This Is A Better Storie Than Maria!
Guess Dr Fuji see hos daughter again in the end
Just not in the living
Baby Mewtwo is SOOOOOO CUTE 😫😫😫
Now he can see her forever
I thought Mewtwo was made as a full adult but nope.
Mewtwo literally has the same backstory as Shadow
I remember watching this dubbed as a kid but I can't remember how I found it. I know it was on a DVD but that's it. I checked my copy of the first Pokemon movie and it has Mewtwo's Origin as a bonus feature but it's been cut. So I have no idea how I even watched the full version.
Cool your the chosen one
I cant watch dis original.
Still sad and sorrow
fugi looks like the dude from astro boy
Wait this was cut?? But I’ve seen it in the movie
hey atleast he can see his daughter
Hopefully hegot hes wish in the after life
Kinda sounds like shadow the Hedgehog
It wasn't cut. I saw this scene whole on TV
I am on your modded 3DS lol
Shadow the hedge hog before Shadow the hedge hog
Dang that made me wanna cry💀💀💀💀💀
Isn’t mewtwo genderless in the games?
Well yes
But is mewtwo genderless in the anime? Im curious
I would imagine... If they ever have the film
Pls..😢
Baby mewtwo is so cute!
I found out about the mewtwo and Amber scene yesterday and I was struggling to find information on it. Thanks for making this
It's enraging that it was cut from the US version because it was 'too much for thw kids to handle'. It would've added SO much context and detail to Mewtwo if it wasn’t cut!!😤😤😤
Damn. That's grim.
Wait this was cut??? I explicitly remember seeing this scene when I watched the movie a few years ago!
Mewtwo has also in the past been thought to have actually been made from mews offspring
At least dude got his wish 💀
Basically astro boy's dad has a daughter instead in the pokemon world and Mewtoo is Shadow the hedgehog
As a kid I never realized he actually killed the scinetists at the lab
I wish they stuck to this
I mean they stuck to a guy murdering a kids parents who gets adopted by zerude
Though the actual dad being the cause may be the too dark type and his wife leaving him
It kinda feels like it gives mewtwo more emotion
Baby Mewtwo is so adorable that it should be a different Mewtwo form
This story remind me Shadow story from Sonic and his Friendship with Maria
Amber is actually Green from Pokemon Lets Go Pikachu and Eevee I think Green not from Eevee,Game Theory made a vid bout this.Heres the link to it. "th-cam.com/video/rsApCFiokS0/w-d-xo.html" BUT I think you wont agree with the theory,its just a theory anyway..