>>56630082Not really.
By catching Mewtwo we avoid the BS that Ash had to deal with in the first Pokemon movie and the possibility of it getting out of hand real quick + stopping Giovanni from ever acquiring Mewtwo with a Master Ball.
Gold catching Lugia leads him to the Celebi events and to the actual true defeat of Giovanni. He also catches Mewtwo which left released. Again denying an asset to an enemy he doesn't even know he's fighting.
He also stops Silver from going into the dark path that his father went into. Just by being a good sport. Avoiding a potential Volo/Team Whatever situation later in the future.
If Giovanni isn't beaten twice over in the past and in the future and also the Admins have to be silenced too to stop the return of his boss, if we fail to beat Team Rocket in the past and the future, both across the Sevii Islands and then the remnants of Rocket in the time-skipped Kanto at the same time, if we fail, Team Rainbow Rocket happens.
Red and Gold's destiny was to stop a problem so complex that it had to be dealt with in both past and future, a multi-generational effort to avoid a multi-universe threat from emerging in their own universe not long after.
The only time it wasn't dealt with in another universe or several even, the Mega-Evo/Gimmick universe got struck in Gen 7, and it's clear said universe or destiny was fighting back because if we weren't there by pure chance to stop Team Rainbow Rocket, Red and Blue had already arrived to Alola for the Battle Tree gig so they would have jumped into action late but they would have clapped the invaders in the end.
They didn't get the chance to because we did so first by noticing and acting immediately.
Honestly pretty cool, they had to work together across time without knowing they were actually doing so. And in the end, when they finally mean, they battle. Not knowing they are bidding farewell to a collaboration across time and space.
This was Gen IV, blame Arceus for fixing an issue in a weird way.
