[Questions] What are these cards?

I found some oddball cards amongst my old TCG collection and was wondering what they are.

First there's this weird Mew or Mewtwo full holo card:

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I also found this set of 'cards'. The dugtrio has the same effect as if it were a holo:

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They're probably not TCG, but idk what they are =P
For all the above I'm just interested in knowing wth these even are, as I don't remember them at all or how I even got them.
Hopefully the pics are okay enough. If not I'll have to charge up my camera. I took these with my phone's camera and it's not that good =P

And lastly, for some reason, there was a single Japanese card amongst my collection... with a completely different backside from every other TCG card. It and the cards mentioned above were all in a separate little plastic box inside the big storage bin my old Pokemon stuff was in. I kept them all apart from the rest of my TCG collection for some reason.
For this one I'm wondering if it's a fake? I literally have no other card with that backside.

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Any help would be appreciated 😊

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Re-uploaded the attachments... dunno what happened... they were still loading for me, but when I clicked edit post they were gone?

Also just in case, an imgur album with these images:
https://imgur.com/a/ts8JLkQ
 
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Your attachments aren't loading in either of my browsers. The cards sound fake based on your descriptions, but could you try uploading them again?

EDIT: Read "Mew or Mewtwo" as "Mew and Mewtwo." Ancient Mew vaguely resembles Mewtwo and is full holo, but I'm not sure if that's what you're talking about.
 
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Your pictures aren't loading, it might be best to use Imgur. But going by what you have said, they remind me of a type of fake card that used to be used significantly with rare Yu-Gi-Oh cards. You buy them in bulk. As a child with parents that know little, you think you get some rare cards. I know me and my cousins got a lot of them, but later found out they were fake. Since they are Kanto Pokemon, it seems like they would have come out when that fake card effect was popular with bootlegs that were sold at Flea Markets.

As for the Japanese card, I have a few random Japanese cards as well, but as far as I know, they are real. I'd have to see it though. Japanese cards had a back change in 2001. So the older Japanese cards may look different.

If they are thicker than a normal tcg, they are most definitely fakes. My question is, do they have a diamond like pattern across the card? Usually if you think they are fake, in most cases, they are fake.

Edit: Is it the rainbow mew card from Pokemon 2000 movie? That may look fake to someone who doesn't remember getting it. If it has a different back and is Mew and looks like weird writing, it my be from the 2000 movie. But again, I have to see it to know. But I am not sure of that given the fact you have a dugtrio with the same pattern.
 
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Took new photo's and I re-uploaded them as attachments... dunno what happened... the old attachments were still loading for me, but when I clicked edit post they were gone from the attachment list?

Also just in case, added an imgur album link with these images as well to the end of the first post.
 
I found some oddball cards amongst my old TCG collection and was wondering what they are.

First there's this weird Mew or Mewtwo full holo card:

Spoiler:


I also found this set of 'cards'. The dugtrio has the same effect as it were a holo:

Spoiler:


For all the above I'm just interested in knowing wth these even are, as I don't remember them at all or how I even got them.
Hopefully the pics are okay enough. If not I'll have to charge up my camera. I took these with my phone's camera and it's not that good =P

And lastly, for some reason, there was a single Japanese card amongst my collection... with a completely different backside from every other TCG card. It and the cards mentioned above were all in a separate little plastic box inside the big storage bin my old Pokemon stuff was in. I kept them all apart from the rest of my TCG collection for some reason.
For this one I'm wondering if it's a fake? I literally have no other card with that backside.

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Any help would be appreciated ??????

The first card is the Ancient Mew card. They gave them away at the movie theaters when they showed Pokemon 2000. So it is probably legit. It was a special release.

The second set was like a side set from 1999 or so. I think they were a special set that Burger King gave away during their toy run back then. There was also a special First Movie side set with similar cards. So those are also likely real.

And lastly Japanese card, it looks very similar to mine and I used to have a lot more of these. I am honestly not sure where they originally came from. But it looks real. A pokemon card expert would probably be able to aid you more in where they came from. But I know me and my cousins also had a handful. So it is possible that they could have released a Japanese Promo set in America back when pokemon was getting started. As I said, the Japanese cards had a back art change around 2001. But had released Kanto and Johto cards before the change.
 
Not Burger King. TOPPS. And the Japanese card is the Sprout Tower Stadium card from Gold, Silver, to a New World... (the Japanese equivalent of Neo Genesis).

They all look legit to me!
 
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