YMMV / Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Domino, a girl with a little over seven minutes of screentime, and around a quarter million words of fanfiction. The opera gloves, thigh-high boots and a cute hairstyle lend her one of the most stylistic designs in the anime, while her performance as a badass Rocket operative makes her one of the most effective antagonists in the franchise.
• Foe Yay Shipping: Quite a lot of the dialogue between Mewtwo and Giovanni is bizarrely sexual, including Giovanni telling Mewtwo he is a 'good boy' and that now Mewtwo won't be able to 'run away from him again'. Mewtwo also asserts that he 'will NOT submit!' when he is being tortured by Team Rocket's machines.
• Fridge Brilliance: Everyone loves the taste of the water from Purity River, except Ash. Little wonder it's bland to him when you consider the tears of Pokémon are also filled with life and it resurrected him previously.
• Paranoia Fuel: When Domino is questioned by Calix after revealing her true colors, she confirms that she indeed was in the Pokémon Institute... and also outright confirms that Team Rocket has agents everywhere.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: This marks the first time Ash and co. have actually met with Giovanni, but nothing is made of the issue. Misty, Brock and the clones' battle against the Rocket leader also happens entirely off-screen.
• Woolseyism: In the original dub, Ash comments that he doesn't find the taste of Purity River's water to be anything special. The Brazilian dub changes his line, having him sardonically compare it to water from a dirty aquarium, thus making Misty and Brock's outburst towards his opinion a little more understandable.