@the-mew-crew

Trick or Trick

Look! Look! It's the site that had the Mew trick in 2002, the one I saw and rolled my eyes really hard at and dismissed as obviously fake! It's so obviously fake and even has a disgruntled commenter saying it's bogus. Ridiculous arbitrary instructions about how you must not have battled these particular random trainers (so conveniently you can't test it without restarting your save file), overly complex confusing instructions, supposedly the menu will just pop up out of nowhere and then if you press B a wild Mew appears. Urgent allcaps insistence that it DEFINITELY WORKS and if it didn't work you must have DONE IT WRONG. So, so fake except for the bit where it was actually real, I cannot.

I am delighted that this has been found. The link seems to have been quietly added by Damian001 to the Bulbapedia page for the glitch this October 31st and I'd heard nothing about it. God damn.

Fun non-canon thing I forgot to post

"And that isn't even the half of it! I haven't gotten into the digital mews or the glitch mews or the shadow ones... But, uh. That last part. Yeah. Trust me. Once a bunch of mews tried to team up on me to eat my bones. They can be just as destructive as they are cute."

Tags for mews I featured here!

Alpha belongs to @mewtwoevolution

Meau belongs to @phlurrii

Origin belongs to @pokemon-ash-aus

Janus belongs to @ask-mirage-mews

Akoya belongs to @loupy-mongoose

(deeply haunted little guy voice) nya

anyways uwu happy halloween!~♡ 🍓🎃♡

mew didn’t choose to not send the video bc he’s actually a good person btw he did it so he can continue feeling above everyone else

4 Years 6 Days! Did someone order a bundle of anxiety???

Trick of Treat!!!! :DD

Ye're a CHARMANDER!!!

And– wait what? Why do ye have such a strong magical presence?? Huh??? WAIT

YE'RE SECRETLY A MEW

It's time for anonymous magic...

Hey Sandy and Topaz, look at this quarter ⚪🤏

WOW where did it go? ✋

Sandy: Hhh!! Magic tricks?! Is it real magic?? Or did you do it the magician way? Oh wait, you probably won't tell me... But you're really good at it!!

Topaz: WHAT??? Where'd it go??

Atticus: It's probably behind your ear. That's usually where Roxie finds 'em when she does it to me.

Happy Halloween!! Have a costume swap <3

An awkward meet-up

Trick belongs to @the-mew-crew

Speaking of R/B/Y-era rumours, @johtotimes just published a very fun issue going over some of the wild stuff that was getting spread around back then!

I'm particularly tickled by the Pikablu rumour screenshotted in the article:

It's similar to but not quite the same as the one that was on Mew's Hangout that I genuinely believed for a time (in that one, stated to be confirmed by Nintendo, you needed seventeen Pokémon at level 100, and I just never got there). It's very illustrative of the sort of thing that was going around, and the commonalities with the actual genuine Mew trick are uncanny:

There's a high barrier to entry: you probably can't just go try this right now. Maybe you've used a GameShark ever and then too bad, it's not going to work for you. Or you haven't completed your Pokédex. Or, while your team of six may be high-leveled, probably you don't have seventeen Pokémon that you've trained up. Similarly, for the Mew trick, you need to have not fought these two random trainers that you had no reason to avoid on your playthrough, and if you have - oops, too bad, you can't try it. So you can't prove it doesn't work, right?

You need to perform a secret arbitrary sequence of steps involving interacting with these particular random NPCs in very particular ways, ones that have no sensible connection to "Pikablu". They're just the key that unlocks it, for some reason. Similarly, the Mew trick, again, involves an encounter with Mew being unlocked by interacting in very particular ways with these two particular random trainers, for some reason.

You need to stand in this one very specific spot and then immediately use Fly to go to a specific place. In the Mew trick you also need to stand in a very specific spot, then move down and very quickly press Start to Fly to a specific place.

It describes some funky vaguely glitch-sounding behaviour, where you get this mystery item where trying to use it just acts like you selected Cancel, and when you talk to Oak it gives you recycled dialogue about a different item - juuust enough to sound kind of weird and spooky, but not like any kind of full-on memory corruption is happening. Similarly, the Mew trick involves little mildly weird spooky bits like that: an exclamation mark appearing above a trainer's head while you're flying away, your Start button not working for a bit, the Start menu popping up by itself. But there's no obvious apparent full-on corruption going on. All the visibly glitchy behaviour is subtle and temporary.

It was truly such a perfect coincidental storm of circumstances that happened to make it fall so neatly in line with all the rumours. In hindsight, there are of course also some noteworthy differences we can identify: most prominently, in the Pikablu rumour there's an NPC with supposed dialogue specific to this sequence, which would mean this would have to be an intentionally programmed easter egg with the prior random interactions as a very obtuse but presumably intentional trigger, whereas the Mew trick features no new NPC dialogue because it's simply a legitimate glitch that these NPC interactions happen to trigger. But not every rumour involved new dialogue, and legitimate glitches in games can also sometimes trigger unused dialogue; even with hindsight, nothing about the instructions themselves should have been a giveaway that the Mew trick was the genuine article in a sea of urban legends.

(I got some help for this update! Here's all the wonderful people who helped work on this!)

Panel 1 - @mewtales Panel 2 - @ask-lu-two-and-mew Panel 3 & 4 - @pokemon-ash-aus Panel 5 - @mewtwoevolution Panel 6 - Me! Panel 7 & 8 - @blues-sues

◇ Last one for a while, promise. If you know you know ; )

Alguien hace Mewing? Siento que ayuda bastante con la papada

trick or treat

treat! you get this cute skykid i saw recently!