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* During [[EP063]]-[[EP065]], scenes of Mewtwo breaking out of the lab and battling at the Viridian Gym can be seen. Furthermore, the film used footage of [[Gary Oak]] battling Mewtwo. The director's commentary jokes that they had to get a "stand-in" for Gary because his agent was asking for too much.

* Several [[moves]] were used by Pokémon in this movie that were not yet available in the games. {{an|Mewtwo}} used {{m|Shadow Ball}}, {{p|Blastoise}}two used {{m|Rapid Spin}}, and Raymond's {{p|Donphan}}, itself a Pokémon not available yet, used {{m|Rollout}}.

[[File:Corey Fearow.png|thumb|150px|The female Trainer leaving for New Island on a Fearow]]

* Other than Corey, Fergus, and Neesha, a female fourth Trainer takes off from the pier on the back of a Fearow. She is seen flying Fearow while Fergus and Neesha ride their Gyarados and Dewgong. She likely never made it to New Island, unlike the others.

** This female Trainer and her Fearow are often mistaken as a continuity error involving Corey and his Pidgeot.

** She is the only character who leaves for New Island but never appears again. Mewtwo wipes the memories of everyone on New Island and transports them back to the mainland (except for Team Rocket), but this female Trainer completely disappears.

* Despite numerous mentions and hints that Charizard and its pre-evolved forms will die if the flame on their tail goes out, both the Charizard clone and Charizardtwo were submerged in liquid with no visible flame while in their incubation chambers.

* Early in the film, Ash defeats Raymond's Golem, a {{2t|Rock|Ground}}-type Pokémon, with an {{type|Electric}} attack from Pikachu. In the games, Ground types are immune to Electric attacks.

* Mewtwo is colored pink as it begins creating the storm. In a later shot of Mewtwo growing the storm, its color is corrected.

* When Jenny's hat flies off, the loops of Miranda's earrings are completely colored in.

* While Ash is looking at Fergus's Pokémon, his Japanese voice can be heard over the voice of the Pokémon.

* Right before Ash charges at Mewtwo, one frame shows {{p|Rapidash}} without flames. This was fixed in later releases.

* In the shot after Corey shows his Pokémon to Ash and his friends, Ash's pupils are entirely brown instead of mostly black with very little brown.

* Pikachutwo's cheek pouches surge with electricity even though Mewtwo blocked the Pokémon's special abilities.

** However, the Japanese dialogue says nothing about the Pokémon's abilities being blocked, and they simply clash physically out of pure hatred.

* On the DVD scene selection, {{p|Togepi}} is listed as Pokémon {{p|Chikorita|#152}}.

* Some scenes detailing the history of Mewtwo's creation, a full twelve-minute sequence, were added to later Japanese home releases of the movie, which also included the CGI edits made for the American release. The first scene (the only one that was included on the American VHS/DVD release of the movie) centered around a group of explorers who found an ancient engraving of Mew and a fossil of its eyelash. The second detailed [[Dr. Fuji]]'s attempts to clone {{an|Amber|his daughter}}, who had died as a child, and later Mew for [[Giovanni]]. The final scene detailed a young Mewtwo's telepathic interaction with clones of the [[Kanto]] starters and Amber Fuji. Certain later international releases of the movie include these new scenes, and they were also made into a short known as ''[[The Uncut Story of Mewtwo's Origin]]'', included on the international DVD releases of ''[[Mewtwo Returns]]''. These scenes were adapted from the radio drama ''[[The Birth of Mewtwo]]''.

* Raymond's Machamp is shown coming out of its Poké Ball twice. It is unknown whether this was mistakenly repeated or intentionally done for dynamic effect.

* In the English version, when Meowth complains about his hunger, Jessie takes out a frying pan and states that she could cook something, to which Meowth replies "Thanks, but the last time you cooked, you took out eight of my nine lives." In the Japanese version of this scene, Jessie simply points out that she's got a frying pan, to which Meowth replies that without meat and vegetables, it is nothing more than an iron pan.

* When Team Rocket are disguised as Vikings, Brock comments that he wasn't aware that they existed anymore. Ash replies that they mostly live in {{wp|Minnesota}}, an obvious reference to the {{wp|Minnesota Vikings}} {{wp|National Football League|NFL}} team.

* In the {{pmin|France|French}} dub of the movie, Misty's Staryu does not make a sound when it is released from its Poké Ball. In all other versions of the film, Staryu's voice can be heard twice.

* In the Latin American dub, Corey was referred to as [[Gary Oak]].

* While the original and clone Pokémon battle, the background music is different in both versions: the Japanese version plays instrumental music very softly while the English version plays ''[[Brother My Brother]]''.

* When Pikachu is repeatedly shocking Ash to try to bring him back to life, Misty says "Pikachu…" in the Japanese version, and "Please, no…" in the English version. A commentary revealed that the dubbers had many alternatives for this piece of dialogue, one of them being "My [[Bicycle#Trivia|bike]]…"

* Miranda's story about the power of Pokémon tears to revive people exists in the English version only.

* When Mewtwo is being suited up with armor, Giovanni is covered in shadow (much like his first appearances in the anime). In the newer version the scene was changed so he could be seen better, probably because his identity in the anime had already been revealed in ''[[EP063|Battle of the Badge]]''.

* A CGI panning effect was added to the Gym floor when Mewtwo battles a Trainer's {{p|Onix}}.

* Another CGI panning effect was added for the shot of Rhyhorn charging toward Mewtwo.

* The big reveal of Mewtwo's stadium was rendered with CGI.

* The scene of Ash walking forward with all the rescued Pokémon was altered to have them fade into sight. In the original, they were drawn as black silhouettes slowly walking outward through the smoke and their bodies interacted with it more. This was also seen in the US trailer of ''Pokémon the First Movie''.