- For fighter info, see Mewtwo (SSBM).
Mewtwo (ミュウツー, Myūtsū) is one a fictional creature from the phenomenally popular and expansive Pokémon media empire. It was introduced as the "final Pokémon" in the very first game in the franchise. Mewtwo enjoys a good degree of fame and popularity in the Pokémon fan community for being far more of a human-like character than most of the other species, and it was included in Super Smash Bros. Melee as a playable character.
Creature description
Among the 151 Pokémon introduced in this First Generation period were the likes of Pikachu and Jigglypuff, and the final Pokémon in the game were Mewtwo as Pokémon #150 and Mew as #151. Mewtwo was made to be far away the most powerful Pokémon of all during the First Generation, enough that its presence in the RPGs made the games unbalanced, giving it infamy until the playing field in the RPGs of subsequent generations were made far better balanced and Mewtwo was made less overpowered. Even today in the Fourth Generation of RPGs Pokémon Diamond & Pearl, however, Mewtwo remains one of the most powerful of all Pokémon species in battle.
It is likely that this impressive track record among Pokémon species is what influenced HAL laboratory to include Mewtwo as a new playable character in Super Smash Bros. Melee along with mascots Pikachu and Jigglypuff, and this fighting game was developed and released while the Pokémon franchise was in its second generation in 2001. Mewtwo is physically modeled off its appearance in the Pokémon RPGs, rather than its larger-sized appearance in the anime continuity, and in the game's Japanese display in all versions Mewtwo is given spoken Japanese-language deep-voice samples as its victory taunts (compare with Marth and Roy). Unfortunately, Mewtwo's design as a fighter makes it one of the least able fighters in Melee, ironic considering its immense power and battling prowess in the normal Pokémon games. In spite of that, Mewtwo remains forever popular and famous in the Pokémon fan community, and considered by many fans to be the most missed from Melee.
In Super Smash Bros. Melee
As a playable character
- Main article: Mewtwo (SSBM)
Mewtwo makes its Smash-series debut as an unlockable character in Melee; it is interesting to note that it could have appeared in the previous game in some form but didn't. It is much more difficult to unlock than most other secret characters in Melee, however; it can be battled to be unlocked after either playing 20 man-hours worth of Vs. Mode matches (meaning if four players at a time always play, it will take five hours), or playing 700 Vs. mode matches.
Mewtwo uses its trademark psychic powers as its special B moves: its B move is Shadow Ball, a chargeable sphere of Ghost-element energy that can be unleashed anytime as a powerful projectile, similar to Samus's Charge Shot, but Shadow Ball follows a much more jagged path in the direction it is shot out, and characters in the vicinity of Mewtwo's charging Shadow Ball can be damaged; its Smash B is Confusion, a minor Psychic-type trick that spins and trips up an opponent; its Up & B is Teleport, which is a non-attacking Psychic-type third jump that is long and safe; and its Down & B move is Disable, a Normal-type move which affects an opponent in front of it and leaves the opponent in the dazed state that normally occurs when a shield is broken. When an opponent is disabled, hit them with disable again to send them flying. This is useful when fighting on the edge of the stage. Shadow Ball aside, these moves bear little resemblance to their appearances in Pokémon RPGs.
Mewtwo's fighting style is modeled around its psychic power. It never walks, instead hovering across the ground (and as such makes no sound while moving in the Flat Zone) and it never holds anything, instead making things float near it and nearly all of its attacks are either made of or enhanced by psychic energy, with only a few attacks being purely physical.
Mewtwo, at the highest meta-game, holds the dubious honor of being one of the worst fighters in Melee, holding bottom place in the current Tier list. This is attributable to its being easy to hit and its tendancy to be knocked out at lower percentages. Mewtwo has a large collection of interesting tricks: its throws can kill, its projectile is powerful, it features a superbly long and safe recovery that allows it to edge-guard by jumping off the stage after the opponent and being able to recover afterward, it has a long wavedash, its air dodge turns it invisible so opponents can't tell which direction it's going in, it can moonwalk,its Dair is a meteor smash and his standard B Can Blast himself to a ledge to K.O any opponent attempting to recover and can perform "Mewtwocide" By Using his down air above an opponent attempting to recover.
In the Pokémon RPGs, every Pokémon species has an extremely rare alternatively-colored version, and such individuals are called "Shiny Pokémon". The shiny Mewtwo's coloration is green instead of purplish pink, and this is one of Mewtwo's alternate costumes in the game.
In Single-player
Mewtwo does not appear specifically in the game's single-player Adventure mode. it is only featured in three of the Event Matches:
- Event 40: All-Star Match 4: Mewtwo is the fourth of five opponents you must fight in this series of staged battles. Your character battles it on the Final Destination stage, and your character has 2 stock while Mewtwo has 1. With a timer of four minutes, you must defeat it and the other five characters one-by-one with the overall time and life you have: Marth, Luigi, and Jigglypuff beforehand, and Mr. Game and Watch afterwards.
- Event 44: Mewtwo Strikes!: In this unique match, your character is pit against Zelda in an untimed match on the Battlefield stage, where each character has one stock, but she must be kept alive. Fifteen seconds into the match, the real opponent, Mewtwo, will appear and join Zelda, and you must KO Mewtwo without KO'ing Zelda.
- Event 51: The Showdown: The final Event Match pits your character against a team of Giga Bowser, Mewtwo, and Ganondorf on the Final Destination stage (friendly fire turned off), with all four characters having 3 stock each.
Trophies
By tradition, Mewtwo as a playable character is featured on its personal 3 trophies. Its normal trophy is acquired by beating the Classic mode with Mewtwo on any difficulty, and its Smash Red and Smash Blue trophies are acquired the same way by beating the Adventure and All-Star modes, respectively. Its Classic mode trophy reads:
- A genetically created Pokémon, Mewtwo is the result of many long years of research by a solitary scientist. Although Mewtwo was cloned from the genes of the legendary Pokémon Mew, its size and character are far different than its ancestor. Its battle abilities have been radically heightened, making it ruthless.
- Pokémon Red & Pokémon Blue, 9/98
In Super Smash Bros. Brawl
As a Trophy
Mewtwo appears in Brawl as a collectible trophy. This trophy can be obtained by completing All-Star mode on Intense difficulty. The trophy describes Mewtwo's appearance in the Pokémon games, and makes no reference whatsoever to its appearance in Melee:
- A Genetic Pokémon. This legendary Pokémon was based on a recombination of Mew's DNA, created by a scientist after years of research. However, Mewtwo greatly differs from Mew in both size and personality and is said to be the most twisted and savage Pokémon ever. Mewtwo has incredibly high combat abilities and uses Psychic- type attacks.
- Pokémon Red/Blue
- Pokémon Diamond/Pearl
As a Removed Character
Mewtwo has found to have been partially programmed, possessing its own character model and victory tune as did Roy, suggesting they were both further along production than other removed characters. It is also possible that this data simply existed for referential purposes by the programmers, or that data was imported from Melee for some reason. Further hacking has revealed that Mewtwo's sound when selected on the character selection screen is also intact, supporting the theory it was planned for Brawl but scrapped in development.
Trivia
- Mewtwo along with Roy, Dr. Mario, Pichu, and, to a lesser extent, Young Link, does not return in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It's replaced by Lucario, a Pokémon that also has starred in a movie and is capable of communicating via telepathy. Lucario's Aura Sphere is even seen to operate very similarly to Mewtwo's Shadow Ball. Lucario's moves are also very bulky and focus on its "Aura" abilities. However, with the exception of their forward Smash and the aforementioned Aura Sphere/Shadow Ball, all of their attacks are considerably different from each other. Mewtwo is the only character who was not a clone in Super Smash Bros. Melee to be excluded from its sequel.
