Mewtwo: the creation

We finished the novel Frankenstein in English class recently, and to be honest it wasn't at all what I expected. Granted, I was forewarned that it wasn't like the horror films and Halloween themes that so many people associate it with. I wasn't knowing what I was really expecting. I just wasn't expiring to be that much focus on the relationship between the creature and its creator.

The making of Mewtwo

There isn't too much I can connect to with the book relating to Pokemon. I might have wanted to pick a broader topic. But off the top of my head, I feel like Frankenstein has some similarities to one of the most famous Pokemon in the very original Pokemon games. As you can probably read the title, you probably already know what I'm talking about. The legendary Pokemon Mewtwo.


To start off, both are them are living creations. Frankenstein's creation as we all know, was created by, well, Frankenstein. Mewtwo was created by the nefarious Team Rocket. Both creators had an ulterior motive for the project, Frankenstein's being an experiment for science, and the Rocket gang wished to use it to take over the world.

The most striking similarity is how these two act. Both the creature and Mewtwo are already self-aware, meaning they already know a lot about the world. Both go through a strenuous internal conflict, Mewtwo's being that he didn't know his purpose and right from wrong. Mewtwo, like the creature, also feels a tinge of angst when he realizes that he does not have a past to look back on, and that he was merely a creation. He tries to fit in with the evil environment he was thrown in, but he is looked as a freak.

Mewtow trying to get along with a human

Mewtwo and his clones

The creature goes on a murderous rampage. Pokemon is (at the time) rated G, so of course they didn't have that. What they did have, though, was as similar as a G rated show can get to a murderous rampage. Mewtwo gets fed up with his life and blows up the Rocket HQ which he is being held in, and then seeks solitary confinement. However, like the creature, Mewtwo gets too lonely and decides that he must lure a bunch of trainers (who he hates because they are of the same species as the Rockets) to clone their Pokemon so he can share his pain (much like how the creature desired a female creation).

The major difference between the two is that Mewtwo learns the error of his ways when he realizes that people can be nice to anyone, even a creation like him. The creature was not so lucky. The ending was sad in both stories, much different from what you would expect going in to watch them. If you want to watch an episode of Pokemon that is most like the novel Frankenstein, then I would recommend the very first movie, Mewtwo's story.