Dr. Yung

**Dr. Mitchell Yung**, usually referred to as **Dr. Yung**, is a major antagonist in *The Angel of Reckoning*. Under the alias **Jeunes**, he is the Eighth Chromosome of Polaris's Sacred Helix.

## History

Dr. Yung was born to a wealthy family of prominent scientists and grew up in luxury at his parents' mansion in Kanto. His childhood took a dark turn when his parents, working as part of a research team with their associate Dr. Fuji, were killed on New Island by their creation, Mewtwo. Yung learned of their deaths when Ariana Lalume, representing Fuji's sponsors in Team Rocket, came to the Mirage Mansion to inform their family. Distraught over the news, Yung hid away all records of his parents' work from Team Rocket and began nursing a bitter grudge against Team Rocket, swearing that he would one day complete his parents' work and use it to get revenge.

Years later, Yung enrolled in the Pokémon Institute to continue his pursuit of vengeance. He studied under the respected Professor Oak and developed the Mirage System; although he claimed that it was meant to be used in training applications, Oak found that his theories and creation would inherently involve cruelty to Pokémon and expelled him. Yung grew even more bitter as a result, but Team Rocket's infiltrators at the Institute caught wind of him and recruited him to continue his work for them. He believed he was infiltrating the organization he despised and thus planned to complete the Mirage System before using it to overthrow Giovanni. However, Team Rocket knew who he was all along and confiscated his research before he could execute his plan, then threw him out. He returned to the Mirage Mansion and turned it into a base of operations for his crusades against the Pokémon Institute and Team Rocket, but was defeated and faked his death to go into hiding.

At some point, he was approached by Polaris, who offered him the resources he needed to resume his pursuit of revenge. He joined the cult and quickly grew in rank, eventually being nominated to its leadership board, the Sacred Helix. Upon being confirmed as the Eighth Chromosome, he adopted the alias "Jeunes" and a mask modeled on Mewtwo. He was sent to infiltrate the Cipher division Enigma Shadow in the Orre and Lapidaria regions, and although he ultimately managed to destroy it by manipulating Rich Mistbloom to aid him, he again faked his death in an incident that left him with a scar across his face. After returning to Polaris, he at some point replaced Dr. Zager in the cult's research department, although Zager's old subordinates disliked him.

## Pokémon

Dr. Yung is notable in that he does not use actual Pokémon. He only uses Mirage Pokémon, solid projections of data created by his Mirage System.

The second Mirage Mewtwo was seen using Hydro Pump, Sacred Sword, Secret Sword, Metal Claw, Mega Kick, Wild Charge, Throat Chop, Water Shuriken, Iron Defense, Focus Punch and Self-Destruct.

## Relation to Canon

Dr. Yung appears in *The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon*, a 2006 special episode of the Pokémon anime, as its main antagonist. This appearance serves as a base for his backstory in the *Operation GEAR* series; namely, how he knows about Mewtwo's existence, which is never explained in the special, is revealed to be due to his parents working as part of Dr. Fuji's team developing Mewtwo. His home, the Mirage Mansion, is featured as the main setting of the special.

In the special, he uses the masked alter ego "Mirage Master" until this persona is revealed to be one and the same with him. The clothing he wore as the Mirage Master is the same clothing he wears as a member of Polaris, aside from a Mewtwo-themed mask instead of the plainer one he wore as the Mirage Master.

## Trivia

* After his mask modeled on Mewtwo is destroyed, Yung begins using the mask he wore as the Mirage Master in *The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon.*
* The second Mirage Mewtwo's use of Sacred Sword, Secret Sword and Metal Claw by morphing its arms and hands are references to multiple antagonistic Terminators in the franchise of the same name, specifically the T-1000 (from *Terminator 2: Judgment Day* and *Terminator Genisys*), the T-X (from *Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines*), the T-3000 (from *Genisys*), and the Rev-9 (from *Terminator: Dark Fate*.) The way Nekou fights it also specifically references the character Grace's first direct fight against the Rev-9 in the latter film.