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Nope. Doesn’t line up age wise (Harry has a son in his 20’s. The man is not in his 30’s) and there are a few problems...
I mean. We are talking a split-second assumption before Mewtwo would realize, “Oh shit, wait, that’s not him.” So I think the theory works just fine (especially because, as an around 20-year-old himself, Mewtwo would probably have trouble distinguishing between a 30- and 40-year-old human man. And let’s be real--Ash lives a hard life. Kid would go prematurely gray anyway).
As for him repeating the sentiment of the father-son duo teaching him that not all humans are bad--yes, that is odd, but given that he just got recaptured, experimented on, and had someone hijack his body, I could see him being like, “Well maybe Ash was an exception to the rule.”
Plus, the Mewtwo in the videogames--with the exception of the game this movie was based on--can’t talk, as far as I know. You could headcanon that he learned how to speak over twenty years, but I feel like that’s stretching things farther than Mewtwo just having a lapse in faith in humanity when he was, again, captured and abused by them.
