>>55694186>>55694192Mew being designed by the fucking programmer and put at the last minute in the game because there was some octets left in the cardridge memory sounds like fanfiction... but it happened.
Basically, Mew is based on Mewtwo and not the opposite
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/how-mew-saved-pokemon/1100-6490812/Gen 1 was crazy like that.
Imho, what happened is that they switched the designs by mistake in the game's code, and once they realized it, it was too late too change and the game was already being sold