Dr. Fuji, a scientist, is hired by Giovanni, the head of Team Rocket, to use his skill in cloning to develop a living weapon based on an eyelash from the legendary Pokémon Mew. Soon after its creation, the weapon achieves sentience and is given the name Mewtwo. Several years later, Mewtwo has completely awoken from a long hibernation in a laboratory on New Island, and Dr. Fuji informs him of his origin as Mew's clone. Infuriated that Fuji and his colleagues regard him as nothing more than a test subject, he unleashes his psychic talents and destroys the laboratory, killing Fuji and the other scientists. Giovanni meets Mewtwo and persuades him to work with him to refine his abilities after watching the devastation from afar. However, once Mewtwo discovers