>>33668015>They had designed and trademarked Mew before the games release.No, they just trademarked the name, and only the name, "Mew" in 1994. Also note that the trademarked name was spelt differently in Japanese (it was "Myu-" instead of "Myuu"). We have no idea if whatever they were going to use the name for had anything to do with the Mew we know. It could have been a completely different character from a scrapped game, but the developers thought the name was cute enough to reuse.
Or maybe the Mew we know was originally going to star in some shitty platformer that never got off the ground. It's possible that Mewtwo was either an enemy idea from that game that they liked enough to reuse or someone on the staff drew a mutated version of Mew as a joke that the development team thought would make a cool Pokemon. Maybe the reason Mew ended up getting thrown in the game is because the developers still had a softspot for it.
We have no idea what the hell the story is with that Mew trademark, but it almost certainly had nothing to do with Pokemon when it was filed, since the fire Pokemon trademarks were filed until a year later.
