Pokemon.
You’ve gotta catch them all, haven’t you.
Well, since its creation in 1995 - these little Pocket Monsters have captured the hearts and
minds of children and adults alike across the globe, giving rise to the passionate collection
of hundreds upon hundreds of these little spritely guys - from the legendary lightning
detective, Pikachu - to - well, Klefki - which, is essentially a ring of car and house keys.
Yeah…
I guess they were running out of ideas after a while.
But what we’re concerned with, is perhaps the most savage Pokemon in poke-creation.
Mewtwo.
And if he was real, oh boy - we’d be in a lot of trouble.
Hello internet - and welcome back to the most inquisitive channel on YouTube - Life’s
Biggest Questions.
As per usual, I’ll be your disembodied floating voice Jack Finch - as today, we curiously
ask the question, What If Mewtwo Was Real?
Roll the clip.
Ah, Silly Ash.
You can’t punch a Mewtwo in the face.
Everyone knows that.
And if Mewtwo was real, we better get to engineering a much more robust tactic than a fist to the
face.
Or - let’s just not try and hurt it at all.
Let’s just be friends.
Right?
That’s the spirit of Pokemon, isn’t it?
Ah.
If only it was that simple.
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As the events of the Pokemon franchise have gradually revealed, Mewtwo - the Legendary
Psychic-type Bipedal Feline - who for many of us, was our first brush with the notion
that there was something much more revealing to the Pokemon mythos than first met the eye
- is a creature created after years and years of horrific gene splicing and DNA engineering
on his singular, cute little counterpart - or, Mother, I guess - Mew.
Now, although this is a MewTWO question based video, we can’t begin to answer it without
first acknowledging the Number ONE O.G Pokemon, Mew.
According to a series of scientific logs found at the Pokemon Mansion of Cinnabar Island,
Mewtwo was actually born of a pregnant Mew - an ancient, ancestral origin of all Pokemon
found deep in the jungles of Guyana - that was captured and whose embryo was experimented
on by the otherwise kindly scientist, Mr. Fuji.
I guess you can’t judge a book by it’s cover, eh?
Or, well - you can’t expect a scientist to always adhere to an ethical code.
Either way, it’s a pretty complex theme that otherwise goes unnoticed throughout the
canon of the Pokemon franchise - but when we really hold a lens to the origin and function
of Mewtwo - it highlights an ethical dilemma.
In fact - the scientific creation of this psychic anomaly is perhaps the most realistic
and likely depiction of how humanity would interact with the Pokemon species if they
were real.
Because in essence - the encompassing theme of Pokemon, is the evolution of the species
- and Mewtwo is the cautionary tale of humanity meddling with the natural order - albeit,
a bright coloured, animated fantasy order.
That’s the thing though, isn’t it - Mewtwo is THE MOST dangerous Pokemon that was created
by the interference of human science.
He’s a weapon.
There are others, though - although none of them are as potentially destructive as Mewtwo
- in actual fact, they’re just kind of - sad.
Voltorb and Electrode - who are just seething little, angry Pokeballs that shoot lightning.
Porygon - a life form made of computer data that, well - look at those cold, dead eyes.
Banette, a terrifying abandoned kids toy.
Trubbish and Garbodor - literal industrial garbage that sprang to life after human carelessness.
There are many more - but none of them capture that hopeful, powerful joy of Human/Pokemon
symbiosis - like we see with Bulbasaur, or Squirtle - or even Snorlax.
My guy.
With Mewtwo, the warning signs were instant.
Mainly because, well - it blew up the lab that created it in a hellfire of psychic energy
- and broke out of its prison like an adamantium riddled Wolverine.
Mewtwo is time and time again, said to have the most savage heart amongst all Pokemon.
Initially, especially in the events of the first Pokemon movie - it lacked any form of
compassion, and would strike fear into its enemies with cold, glowing eyes.
The thing is, because Mewtwo, after the design of his painful, violent existence - knew only
one thing - combat.
It was bred to be the greatest Pokemon combatant of all time - and prove its proficiency in
battle by defeating anything that it deemed weaker than itself.
Which turned out to be - pretty much everything and everyone.
And - well - if Mewtwo was real - it would deem us ALL weaker than itself, and it would
be pretty pissed at everyone and everything on Earth.
As the events of Pokemon: The First Movie ALSO explain - it takes a cute little Mew,
as well as an entire boatload of Pokemon clones and Pokemon originals battling with each other,
before realising that mindless combat is futile - and a petrified Ash Ketchum exemplifies
that fact with an ocean of Pokemon tears crying over him and washing away the need for Mewtwo’s
hatred of humanity.
But - uh oh - guys.
Because this video is What If Mewtwo Was Real.
Not What If All Pokemon Were Real.
Because, it takes the rest of Mewtwo’s species to prove to him that he IS loved and that
he doesn’t need to fight just because humanity created him to fight.
But, yeah - without the possibility for that moment of redemption?
Mewtwo would be the cold hard psychic killer that he was created to be.
The end of the world wouldn’t be climate change or nuclear mutually assured destruction
- it would probably be Mewtwo.
I hope I can make this point clear enough.
We would be no match for this guy.
Mewtwo would swat us away like flies.
Nothing in our combined global arsenal could even come close to matching Mewtwo’s psychic
proficiency.
All of our missiles and cutting edge-rail-gun technology would disintegrate before it even
reached him.
Guys - Mewtwo can control time.
We’d be staring at the face of a cosmic god, and we could only hope and beg for his
mercy.
If Mewtwo WAS real - we better hope that he’s bringing some of his more reasonable friends
along for the ride, because if not - EH EH.
Game Over buds.
The only thing we COULD do - is try and befriend Mewtwo.
Although it would take some time, perhaps Mewtwo would eventually realise that he doesn’t
have to be the vicious psychic overlord killer that he was meant to be.
Throughout the franchise, he often realises that he doesn’t need to be judged by the
origins of his creations, but by the altruistic choices that he can build upon.
As he himself says in the closing moments of Pokemon: The First Movie -
Let’s hope it’s that guy.
Well, unfortunately folks - that’s all we’ve got time for in today’s video - why don’t
you let us know your thoughts in the comment section down below.
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from over the past few days.
Saul Cervantes - which is a fantastic name, may I add - says -- I got a question.
Unlike other you tubers did u guys quit school to do YouTube?
-- Well Saul Cervantes, that is a fantastic question - and actually, no - I’m a fully
certified Master of Librarianship, and I also have tenure as a Fellow of the Royal Society
of London - I just do this on the weekends as a hobby.
I’m just kidding Saul, of course I’m not - but to answer your question, I didn’t
quit school.
Don’t quit school.
Stay in school, kids.
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