>>38538707Why have a cameo that is clearly supposed to be recognizable as Red, only for fans to say "yeah but we know that's not REALLY Red, right?"
That's silly.
Unless they actually go ahead with a Red movie with a different actor and for creative reasons the Red movie can not correspond in a way for the dude in Detective Pikachu to actually be Red in the past/future/whatever.
>>38538738Ehh, while you're right about Blue, I actually think Red is implied to know. The player is very likely to stumble upon Mewtwo's diary entries, and even Origins has Red go look for it once he knows of its existence.
Red knows Mewtwo exists, and he knows there's a super powerful unknown Pokémon in Cerulean Cave. He's a silent protagonist, but it's not difficult to use that info to figure that he probably went in there at least curious about Mewtwo possibly being in there.
Green however is the only one who is dedicated to it, that seems to be her main character arc and goal above actually being a trainer and beating the League.
Oh and speaking of Red, Chase/Elaine from LGPE also stumble on the lab and such, even with further info from Blaine about Green looking in the Mansion.
So technically that's Red, Chase, Elaine, and Green, all 4 kids knew about Mewtwo and went looking for it.