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'''Pokémon: The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back''' (Japanese: '''ミュウツーの{{tt|逆襲|ぎゃくしゅう}}''' ''Mewtwo's Counterattack'', officially known as '''Mewtwo Strikes Back!''' in Japan), originally released as '''Pocket Monsters the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back!''' and also known in English simply as '''Pokémon: The First Movie''', is the first [[Pokémon movie]]. It debuted in Japanese theaters on July 18, 1998, and then made its way to North American theaters on November 10, 1999.

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File:M01Mewtwo Mew.png|Poster featuring Mewtwo and Mew

Later, as a storm brews, the gang arrive at the [[Pokémon Center]], whose [[Nurse Joy]] has been missing for quite a while. [[Officer Jenny]] informs the Trainers gathered that the ferry to New Island has been cancelled. {{mov|Miranda}}, the pier master tells them that she has lived on the pier all her life and that the current storm is the fiercest she's ever seen. She then tells a story to everyone present about how some people died in a storm many years ago, however legend has it that the tears of a Pokémon restored the people to life.

Meanwhile, as Team Rocket try to get inside the fortress, the {{pkmn2|Legendary|Mythical Pokémon}} {{OBP|Mew|M01}} senses something troubling and arrives at New Island, and follows closely behind Team Rocket.

[[File:Mewtwo and Mew.png|thumb|Mewtwo and Mew]]

[[File:Fergus.png|thumb|Fergus]]

* {{mov|Miranda}}

[[File:Corey Pidgeot.png|thumb|Corey rode his Pidgeot to New Island]]

* {{p|Fearow}} ({{OBP|Mewtwo|original series}}'s)

* {{p|Dragonite}} ({{OBP|Mewtwo|original series}}'s)

[[File:Mewtwo Clones.png|thumb|Mewtwo standing with Pokémon he cloned]]

{{cast|Kanto|Mewtwo (original series)|disp=Mewtwo|Philip Bartlett|Mewtwo|Masachika Ichimura|ミュウツー|市村正親}}

{{cast|Kanto|Miranda (movie)|disp=Miranda|Kayzie Rogers|Voyager|Sachiko Kobayashi|ボイジャー|小林幸子}}

{{cast|Kanto|Dr. Fuji (anime)|disp=Dr. Fuji|Philip Bartlett|Dr. Fuji|Yōsuke Akimoto|フジ博士|秋元羊介}}

[[File:Mewtwo in armor.png|thumb|200px|Giovanni controlled Mewtwo with a special suit of armor]]

In Japan the theatrical version had only two home video releases (VHS, February 12, 1999; LaserDisc, July 17, 1999) and was never shown on TV. A new version of the movie, know as the ''kanzenban'' (Japanese: 完全版 ''full version''), has been shown in all television airings in Japan (the first one being on July 8, 1999) and in the Japanese home video releases from the third one (VHS, November 12, 1999) onward: this version contains additional scenes and CGI edits.

Similar to ''[[EP001|Pokémon - I Choose You!]]'' and ''[[Holiday Hi-Jynx]]'', the ''Kanzenban'' version of this movie was digitally remastered to HD, complete with slight color correction. An error is also corrected where [[Raymond]]'s {{p|Machamp}} now comes out of its [[Poké Ball]] only once. It was released on Blu-Ray in Japan November 28, 2012 with a boxset containing all the movies up to [[M13]], and aired on May 3, 2013 on [[TV Tokyo]]. The dub (which retains the [[4Kids Entertainment|4Kids]] audio) aired on Cartoon Network January 4, 2014, and was re-released on [[Pokémon TV]] June 6, 2015. In addition to all of the changes in the Japanese version, [[The Uncut Story of Mewtwo's Origin]] is once again cut out, along with the Alakazam error in the Cartoon Network version. The opening{{tt|*|Cartoon Network version only, they are removed from the Pokémon TV version}} and ending{{tt|*|Pokémon TV re-release only}} credits are retyped in a [[The Pokémon Company International|TPCi]] font instead of {{wp|Comic Sans}}, and the copyright year 2014 (2015 for the re-release) was added to the end of the credits.

* In {{pmin|South Asia|India}}, Hungama TV used the original Japanese version of this movie as a source for the Hindi dub, instead of using the English dub as a source, resulting in several dubbing errors:  

** In an another scene, Neesha calls her {{p|Blastoise}} by it's Japanese name, ''Kamex''.

** In the cloning scene, {{MTR}} says "{{p|Chikorita}}" when speaking of {{p|Vaporeon}}.

** When Meowth talks with the clone Meowth, one line in Human language was said by the clone Meowth despite the fact that the clone Meowth can't speak the Human language.

* The retyped ending credits for the dub of the remastered version misspell [[Don't Say You Love Me]] as Don't Say '''Your''' Love Me.

* Mewtwo's personality and goal are different between the original and dub. In the dub, Mewtwo is more boastful about its powers and certain about superiority to Mew and wants to destroy the world with a hurricane it created to get revenge on humanity. In the original, Mewtwo is instead portrayed as a confused being and, while its motive is still to get revenge on humanity, it is not the destruction of the world by means of the storm, but the actual confrontation between Mewtwo and the trainers that is its goal, with the storm used as a test that the trainers had to get through.

**Contrary to popular belief, however, Mew never says in any version that the clones needed to be exterminated.

* The English plot also contains anti-racism material. Meowth, agreeing with his clone, says, "Maybe if we started looking at what's the same instead of always looking at what's different, well, who knows?" In the original, Meowthtwo refuses to fight because it is pointless and harmful, opting instead to marvel at the full moon, which Meowth calls poetic.

* 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]]…"

* In the English version, after being returned back to the port, Brock admires how beautiful [[Nurse Joy]] and [[Officer Jenny]] are. In the original version of the film, Brock is admiring Miranda instead.

* {{pmin|South Asia|Hungama TV}}'s Hindi dub used the original Japanese version of the movie. As such, characters that were not seen in the anime, such as {{an|Amber}}, kept their Japanese names.

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* [[The Birth of Mewtwo]] - Radio drama

* [[The Uncut Story of Mewtwo's Origin]] - Anime adaptation of the radio drama

* [[Mewtwo Returns]] - Feature-length special

* [[Sound Picture Box - The Birth of Mewtwo]] - CD release featuring the Japanese score and the Birth of Mewtwo radio drama

* [[Together With the Wind (single)]] - CD release of the movie's Japanese ending theme

* [[Pokémon the First Movie (soundtrack)]] - English soundtrack

* [[Pokémon the First Movie (score)]] - English score

* [[Mewtwo Strikes Back! (manga)]] - Manga adaptation

* [[Pokémon the First Movie (graphic novel)]] - Ani-Manga adaptation

* [[The Art of Pokémon the First Movie]]

* [[Pokémon the First Movie (book)]] - Chapter book adaptation

* [[Pokémon the First Movie (picture book)]] - Picture book

 

*''[http://www.amazon.com/Pokémon-First-Movie-Kunihiko-Yuyama/dp/B01AQM460G Pokémon: The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back]'' on {{wp|Amazon}} <small>(English)</small>

*''[https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Pok%C3%A9mon_The_First_Movie?id=kOf9inXy4zU Pokémon: The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back]'' on {{wp|Google Play}} <small>(English)</small>

*''[https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/pokemon-first-movie-dubbed/id1069567899 Pokémon: The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back]'' on {{wp|iTunes}} <small>(English)</small>

*[http://webspace.webring.com/people/ds/spookymeggie/vidi.html An article about the Japanese edits to ''Pokémon: the First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back'']