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the_dengle on 20 April 2014
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KHlover said:
the_dengle said:

Mewtwo is a sympathetic character. Team Rocket is the villain of the Mewtwo arc of both the games and the anime, and I don't mean Jesse and James.

Mewtwo didn't turn Ash to stone alone, he ran into both Mewtwo and Mew's attacks. The result was an accident, no more intentional on Mewtwo's part than it was on Mew's.

Mewtwo slamming Ash around with its psychic powers earlier in the movie was completely intentional and stealing the trainers' Pokemon and cloning them to take over the world also was intentional. Ash's sacrifice may have made Mewtwo rethink its plans, but it still was the villain for the majority of the movie.

Funny story, the whole "take over the world" thing was added by 4Kids because they didn't think American kids could follow a story without an obviously evil antagonist. In the original, Mewtwo just wants to prove that clones can be just as strong or even stronger than the original beings they were cloned from. He's trying to justify his own existence. MEW of all characters eggs him on, telling Mewtwo that, as a clone, he is a naturally inferior life form to Mew. That's why they fight. Mewtwo beats Ash up a little bit, but he didn't mean to kill the kid, and Ash was probably asking for it.

I don't think Mewtwo had any outright villainous intentions in the Japanese version. I think he was just confused, angsty, and heavily drugged by Team Rocket.