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He saw the Pokemon world's arrangement from its darkest corner and told himself he had to right those wrongs rather than simply taking his new life and going on with it. Too forward thinking for both his own movie (well, until the rest of the clones show up) and his own good. Making Mewtwo's being a clone be the entire crux of the movie, rather than this sparsely-narrated backstory, was a good idea.