About Me

About me... Well, in case you missed it, I'm Denise, and I run this website. I live in the United States and I'm older than your average Pokemon fan. Though I guess that's not quite true. Now that Pokemon's not the latest fad, a lot of the people who are still clinging to the fandom are more likely on this older side of the spectrum. Or else really young. Um... *stops babbling*

To name a few things that randomly pop into my head, I'm a Capricorn, I love roller coasters, I'm also a big fan of Harry Potter, my hobbies include reading, drawing, and fiddling with my websites, and my favorite color is green (also a probably fairly noticable fact).

I wanted to post all the me heads I've made in one spot. Here seems good. (Note: they are my heads, no touchie.)

And yeah, that's enough about me. I'm too boring. And now, on to the hopefully-slightly-less-boring-but-probably-not...*drum roll*

About This Site

It was actually BEFORE Pokemon was the hottest thing that I liked it.

Well, first, before I knew what it was, I thought Pokemon was something entirely different than what it is. I don't remember what exactly I thought it was, but I remember seeing a commercial for Pokemon Red and Blue, and I thought, "Oh, it's that stupid thing..." So, actually, originally, I was biased against Pokemon. But I thought it was something else, so bear with me.

Then Pokemon Blue was a Christmas gift, I gave it a try, and was immediately hooked.

My first game was really bad. I only trained my Squirtle, so I ended up going against the Elite Four with a level 70 Blastoise and 5 weaklings, including, I remember, a level 15 Clefable. *slaps head* Also, in that game, I ran away from all the Legendaries, thinking I could go back to them after I healed in a PokeCenter. Heh. And I don't think I even knew about the Unknown Dungeon at that time.

My next game was much better, now that I had a clue about what was going on. I'd also like to note that nowadays I train every single Pokemon that I catch so that they are all the same level. Yup, the ones in the computer too. Quite a switch, eh?

I'm not sure if it was my second game or my third, but eventually I completed my Pokedex.

The first time I caught Mewtwo (which was with a Masterball, by the way), I had no idea what it was. I was looking at the picture wrong. You know those black and white pictures and if you look at it one way it is a white vase on a black background and if you look the other way, it's two shadows of faces on a white background? Well, anyway, I had looked at the Mewtwo picture the wrong way, and had no idea what the strange blob was supposed to look like. I figured the scientist mentioned in the PokeDex really messed him up... Sorry Mewtwo.

Now enter the mass fandom pandemonium.

People were talking about the TV show left and right, so I figured I had better watch it, to see what it was like. By this time I must have figured out what Mewtwo looked like and learned about Mew, because I remember being excited about seeing them in the beginning sequence. But my first real fanatical love was for Team Rocket.

Jessie, James, and Meowth were my immediate favorites on the show. It is so great how they are the bad guys, but they aren't really bad. And I love all their punny jokes. So anyway, I started looking on the web for Team Rocket fansites.

This was during the time when just about everyone and their brother was putting up a Pokemon website. So there were a lot of websites. But what really annoyed me was the fact that none of them were very good. Most were copies of the same information, had crummy layouts, and gave me very little reason to visit again. And those sites that actually were good were never updated.

I really wanted to be able to make my own Team Rocket website, but I had absolutely no idea how one went about making a website. I assumed it was difficult and cost money.

About a year later, I found out otherwise. I had an opportunity to learn HTML and I found out about Yahoo! Geocities free website hosting (which this site was on for a long time... and my personal and Harry Potter sites are still on Geocities. I highly recommend using them, at least until your site gets too mega-huge). The first website I ever made was actually a Team Rocket fansite. It was called Team Rocket's Jail Break and was quite popular, as far as I could tell. I updated at least once a week and it had all sorts of crazy features, including Butch and Cassidy's Pokemon Horoscopes (I changed existing signs to those of fitting Pokemon, like from the episode where the two run a horoscope book scam and James thinks he's a Moltres), excessive biographies of every Team Rocket member ever shown anywhere, Rants, News, Rumors, and a heck of a lot more. The problem was, the site was based entirely on my continual updates. There was nothing on the site that could just sit there for awhile without the cobwebs being apparent.

The TV show reached an all time low during the Orange Island League episodes. Brock left, the incredibly annoying Tracy came, Team Rocket was practically shoved off the show and abused worse than ever before. At that time, I stopped watching. (I think it was about then that the fad started fading, but don't quote me on that) Without watching the show, there was no Jessie, James, and Meowth in my life, and gradually, my interest waned. The site stayed alive for a few years more, but with my lack of time and of finally lack of caring, I just could not maintain Team Rocket's Jail Break anymore. So, unfortuantely, that website was deleted because I was too ashamed to look at the neglected state it was in, because I knew I probably would never seriously update again (and if I did, it would be out of guilt, not enjoyment), and because I was running out of space on my Geocities account and wanted room for my other websites.

Because, actually, quite a bit before Team Rocket's Jail Break disintegrated, I had started working on what would become this website. However, it began quite differently than the state it is today.

Copy Cat started not as Copy Cat, but actually as Mew Caverns. It was a site to be dedicated to the Legendary Pokemon. By that time, Mew had become one of my favorite Pokemon. As such a elusive Pokemon, I figured she spent most of her time hiding, so I imagined a cave in which Mew and the other Legendaries could hide out in and relax. Mew was to be the main star of the website.

However, as I started working on the Mew Caverns, Mewtwo came into more and more prominance. The simple fact was, Mewtwo was just a much more versitile character than Mew was. What does Mew do actually? Flies around? Looks cute? Possesses mighty powers that she normally decides not to use? Plus, right at that time, I started learning all sorts of things I had never known before about Mewtwo. Finding out about The Birth of Mewtwo CD Drama was probably what pushed it all over the edge. More than half of my little site was devoted to Mewtwo already, and here was a vast new quantity of information that showed Mewtwo was an even more interesting character than the English First Movie had led me to believe. With such an imbalance, I decided it would be better to devote the website to Mewtwo (and Mew and maybe some other legendaries) rather than to Mew (and Mewtwo and some other legendaries).

I don't remember when this was exactly, but it wasn't far into the life of Mew Caverns when I completely revamped it, and Copy Cat emerged.

As you can see, Mew is still very prominant in the site, more so than most other Mewtwo fansites. This is not only because of how much I like her, but also from Copy Cat's beginnings as Mew Caverns.

During the summer of 2004, the site was revamped with a pretty layout involving frames and an image map that took a way long time to make. Oh, and there were hover-over images of Mewtwo's black Pokeballs.

During the summer of 2005, the site was moved to Fateback free webhosting because they advertised free unlimited bandwidth. Geocities was shutting me down all the time for having too many visitors, and I couldn't have that. I want as many visitors as possible! The site also got a more simplified layout without frames because even though the other one was pretty, I had gotten complaints that it was hard to find stuff with, and actually, it's easier to work with the simple one.

The great thing about Copy Cat is I can invest as much time as I want into it. Unlike Team Rocket's Jail Break, I'm not stuck having to kill myself so that the site is worth looking at. The site is not dependent on me watching the show or keeping absolutely 100% on top of the Pokemon news. It really is based on The Birth of Mewtwo, The First Movie, Mewtwo Returns, and Mew and Mewtwo living in my closet. That's not going to change, so I don't need to worry so much. The information Copy Cat contains will still be valid if I happen to be unable to update for a few months. The Ask section and other fan areas that require frequent updating can temporarily fall by the wayside if necessary, and my site will still be worth looking at. And without the pressure, I'm much less likely to have a freak out. Good, eh?

Credits & Disclaimer

Mewtwo, Mew, and other Pokemon characters belong to Satoshi Tajiri, Nintendo, Creatures, Game Freak, 4Kids Entertainment, Warner Brothers, Miramax, Wizards of the Coast, and probably a lot of other companies and people. Copy Cat is a fan site and means no copyright infringement. I do not own Pokemon. But they do live in my closet.

All writing, artwork, ideas, etc, that are not mine belong to their respective creators and owners. I have tried to give credit where credit is due. If I missed something, please contact me and I will either properly credit or remove the offending item.

I personally believe that no one can "own" screenshots or scans except for the original animators and artists and corporate owners of Pokemon. Therefore, I will not waste time trying to keep track of sites I swiped screenshots or scans from. Also, although a link is nice, screenshots can be swiped from this site without any obligation to me.

However, I do own my own writing, artwork, ideas, etc. that I specifically created. For these, there is no stealing without permission. Also, there is to be no stealing of writing, artwork, ideas, etc. that were specifically created by random other people without their permission. We clear?

In the making of this website, I must thank all those who submitted information, humor, drawings, questions, ideas, suggestions, motivations, constructive critisim, support, fanfiction, poetry, discovered errors, links, guestbook entries, graphics, say whats, whoopsies, news, odd scenes, general praise, etc. Without fans, this site would stink. The end. I would want to thank you all by name, but my memory is lousy concerning such stuff. Thank you all anyway.

People that I really do need to thank are:

Peanutbuttermewtwo, for inspiring me to create this website in the first place, introducing me to The Birth of Mewtwo CD Drama, alerting me to the existance of a dubbed version, being willing to do an art trade with me even though my drawing was compelely awful, and being a cool person. Peanutbuttermewtwo and I also think a heck of a lot alike. When she was building her website, often we would both make practically the same page at the same time WITHOUT knowing or copying each other. Downright freaky, eh?

Lumina Sumnor, for killing her fingers on our behalf as unofficial transcriber extrordinare! Plus, for keeping me updated on all sorts of stuff and being funny. =P

Gemma, for all her high quality and panoramic screenshots, and for making me a character in her awesome fanfiction, Rebirth.

Serebii.net for always being on the ball with Pokemon info and news. I've swiped a lot of icons and screenshots from them, and even though I don't feel a need to credit such things, I'd still like to thank them for being such a wonderful site and posting so much. Visit them, will ya?

And like I just said, probably tons of other people who I fear are angry at not being mentioned... *runs and hides*

Sorry for boring the heck out of you. Thanks for reading this far!