Many fans of the Pokemon Anime has longed to see its characters really get a chance to grow up, but as it turns out, at least one character has had the honor of being shown as an adult in official media – or so it seemed. However, this appearance really only raises more questions than answers, as the scene it comes from remains an absolute mystery.
In one of the first ads for Pokemon The Movie: Mewtwo Strikes BackThe trailer begins with a scene of two adults and a child watching clouds in the sky, which happen to look like Pokemon. One of the adults happens to strongly resemble an adult version of Misty, which has prompted mountains of speculation about exactly what the context of this scene might have been. No such scene appeared in the final version of the movie, and there is even a moment that resembles this scene.
The truth of the scene only became more complicated with time, as the director of the film weighed in over 20 years later.
Did Mewtwo strike back originally with adult versions of Misty and Ash?
The director of the film says no, but there is reason to doubt it
In 2019, while promoting the remake of Mewtwo strikes backKnown as Mewtwo strikes back evolutionThe director of both films, Kunihiko Yuyama, was Cited by comicbook.com Like saying, “Honestly, that’s a great question. Thank you so much. But That actually isn’t an adult version of Misty. It was a picture of an adult with a child. But I think a lot of people have misinterpreted that. It really wasn’t a grown-up version of Misty.”
Needless to say, many fans found this statement hard to believe. This character not only resembles Misty in terms of face and hair color, but more specifically has the style of hair she is seen with in Pokemon Gold And SilverWhere she is older than she is in the anime or Red And Blue. Another part of the fan theory says that the girl with her is Ash and Misty’s daughter, but the quote would seem to go against that idea as well, indicating that it’s just a generic pair of adult and child. This scene was probably never intended for inclusion in the movie, and was rather an unrelated promotional scene since there wasn’t much of the movie left to show yet. It wouldn’t be surprising if Yuyama didn’t remember this at all, since it was a relatively unimportant piece of animation from 20 years ago.
While the idea of seeing Ash and Misty’s daughter in the first Pokemon movie seems wild, seeing an older Misty isn’t as ridiculous as it sounds. The original head writer of the anime, Takeshi Shudo, is on record As said he planned an ending in which an older Ash would look back on his life and adventures. Although the idea was obviously never used, it is possible that it may have inspired the cloud watching scene. Since it was always meant to be promotional anyway, it didn’t necessarily need to stick to the canon of the series. The truth of this situation remains one of Pokemons greatest mystery, and even a direct refutation did not do much to put it to rest.