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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

Edit: replaced the original blurry tweet with a more legible version, remade by @gofsckyourself@lemmy.world!

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[-] Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 years ago

Why Mew got them little T-Rex arms?

[-] subtext@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago

I mean if you can do literally fuckin’ everything with just psychic powers why would you need anything more than T-Rex arms

[-] Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 2 years ago

Why T-Rex got them little Mew arms?

[-] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

T-rex unfortunately ain't a psychic type as far as I know

[-] Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 years ago

Alakazam has those nice long arms so he can eat his cereal

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I don't think we have a way of measuring whether any dinosaur was psychic or not.

[-] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Fair point, they could have all had psychic moves and we'll never know

[-] SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Because normal armed T-Rexes just sat around jacking off all day and refused to go get a girlfriend. Thus they were bred out of existence.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

Because, as the first Pokemon and basis of all others, it's a Pokemon baby/embryo/2001: A Space Odyssey reference.

[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

I remade this meme to make it more legible

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So much better!

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

[-] Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 years 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@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] doctortran@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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/

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 2 years 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.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

that's me with Mimi

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