Edit: replaced the original blurry tweet with a more legible version, remade by @[email protected]!

  • Biskii
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    232 months ago

    Why Mew got them little T-Rex arms?

    • The Picard ManeuverOP
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      2 months ago

      So much better!

      (I replaced the post image and credited you. Thanks!)

      • Biskii
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        212 months ago

        I just sat here going back and forth between the images looking for the difference. This would explain why I didn’t find one

  • @Maultasche
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    52 months ago

    Interesting, that the translators decided to switch the argument roles for Mew and Mewtwo.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 months ago

      Explain yourself. There are versions where Mew isn’t just a vibing space cat and/or cosmic embryo?

      • @[email protected]
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        2 months ago

        Oh yes.

        In the original Japanese version of the movie, Mewtwo is less of a “destroy the world” villain and Mew is less of of an innocent that shows up to save the day.

        It’s not quite as big a flip as the person above is suggesting, but it is absolutely more gray.

        Basically, Mewtwo is depicted as deeply confused and trying to justify its existence by proving that it and the other clones are superior. It’s not out to destroy anything, he just wants to prove he deserves to exist.

        Meanwhile, Mew is actually kind of a purist, claiming the clones are just fakes and don’t deserve to exist. It definitely starts the movie as a vibing space cat, but once it encounters the clones, it instigates the battle as much as Mewtwo does.

        I could get into it but this article does a good job summarizing it.

        https://www.denofgeek.com/culture/how-the-us-version-of-pokemon-the-first-movie-changed-its-meaning/

        • Justin
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          2 months ago

          I would argue the chauvinism that they both display makes them both solidly in the wrong.

          Very much a commentary on war and an argument for anti-imperalism I’d say.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 months ago

          Oh, that’s actually a pretty great plot. And, just like how in that story no side is necessarily the “good” guys, he says it got changed because the “multiethnic audience” of America wouldn’t have liked it, because I very, very much doubt the American marketing team that simplified it would say that.

  • @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    Brother my brother
    tell me what are we fighting for
    Isn’t life just so much more?