Lysandre in Masters is the only boss with a KNOWN personal body count btw, he is strongly implied to have boiled two Rocket grunts alive, which is a pretty graphic mental image for Pokemon. Obviously, we never see the aftermath, but given the problems they caused him, I doubt he would have let them live. Flare also has numerous secret police traits: control over the news media thanks to Malva, who also likely keeps info from reaching Diantha too thanks to her E4 position, they eavesdrop on Holocaster conversations, and are implied to have some plainclothes agents. They could have been WAY scarier if they built on those aspects, considering they're willing to kill EVERYONE.
@@CovenantQuarter Anime and manga both address my complaint that he was way too obviously evil in different ways. In the anime, his misanthropy is dialed way down and he's more manipulative when dealing with Alain. In the manga, he's still an obvious villain, but unlike the games that play him off, absolutely nobody trusts him aside from Sycamore. (Tho he starts actively assisting the heroes when he finds out Lys is evil.) The anime also builds more on his motive, he was a philanthropist but people had abused his generosity and started demanding more and more from him even tho he had been trying to help them. And Masters has built on his friendship with Sycamore, even showing that Sycamore was the one person who could at least get Lys to back down and wait a bit, tho not fully give up on his ideals. Also, the aforementioned boiling, like, that's brutal and it's fun when Pokemon gets dark in its implications like that. Even in the games, I do feel he had a point tho, with how greedy people are and how it will likely cause major problems as populations grow. Tho it tends to not really be so much regular people engaging in greedy behavior so much as the system we've designed will try and squeeze every last red penny out of a person. There's some definite hypocrisy, but he's part of the elite caste of people.
@@igorlopes8463 Yea, they had potential with what I had listed, but they play the grunts too goofy/fashion-obsessed. (I will say the manga is probably the best Flare. They go into the media control and plainclothes thing. They don't really touch on the Holocaster thing, but due Lysandre threatening them as he's repairing their Holocaster, they decide not too use it early on.)
I have to be honest here. I saw the video thumbnail and title, and was so ready, SO READY to comment that you forgot to mention the evil team in pokemon Trozei, because why would anyone think of that? I tip my hat to you, good sir. A magnificent being, you are
Lysandre is the best villain in the history of Pokémon, when you care to read his lore and dialogues, and I will die on that hill It doesn't help that the ingame dialogues fail to show that "beauty" is supposed to be a metaphore about kindness, selflessness and peace, so it's looks like they are talking about literal beauty. Turns an understandable goal into a joke
@@antoniopriego5660 He had potential. Like, Flare in general had a terrifying concept they never properly built on with their secret police traits, and Lysandre had some interesting character dynamics with being besties with Sycamore and related to AZ that also never really received any spotlight. I feel they also potentially could have fleshed out his motive a bit better, like the anime implies tho he tried to help people, people would start to abuse his generosity.
Also, dunno if it was mentioned in the comments, but, Team Skull (Alola) was only formed because Guzma was angry he wasn't seen as worthy by one of the Island Guardians to be crowned as a Trial Captain. The literal pettiest reason to create an Evil Organization and be a public nuisance.
12:36 just because we never see them do it on screen, I don't beleive detonating massive bombs are without consequence. At least the the surrounding wildlife lol
I think that Ghetsis and team plasma are the most evil. My reason is as listed: 1. Ghetsis planned to seperate pokemon from their trainers. That alone is horrible, as many trainers consider their Pokémon almost as family. That’s like a dear sibling being taken from you, 2. Team plasmas grunts are not very good. While it is known that there were many members of team plasma that were part of the team cause they honestly believed in the cause, and that they thought what they were doing was right, most of the grunts mostly used team Plasma’s “righteous cause” as an excuse to steal, bully, and harass others for their own personal enjoyment and satisfaction. This is even more true in Neo Team Plasma, as basically all the grunts who believed in N and in the cause left team plasma, while everyone else joined Neo Team Plasma.
i would like to include that while its explicitly pointed out that the leader of a team isnt the entire team in and of themselves, im pretty sure ghetsis deliberately abused/had his grunts abuse pokemon to use as "proof" that training pokemon is inherently evil and abusive[*], and didnt he adopt (kidnap?) n and isolate him from the entire outside world to "prepare" him to aid in taking over the region? ghetsis, more like gehn... gehnsis... what im trying to say is that ghetsis and gehn (antagonist, evil motherfucker bitchass of riven {sequel to myst} {incredible game. please play it}) would get along swell but also would be tearing each other the fuck apart. theyd be sharing notes and beating the shit out of each other. gehn would be an ivy league graduate holding that over ghetsis's state-school-graduating head [*]: i do feel bad for taking pokemon out of their natural habitats to battle with, but also hehe damage calculation go zoop funly
I agree team flare are probably the most evil, at least as a group. I think I'd argue Cyrus is the most dangerous, but that's not what the video is about.
I think the most evil leaders are Cyrus, Lysander, and Ghetsis. Not ranked, they're all horrible in different ways. The least evil villain is probably Rose although I don't enjoy saying that because he is NOT innocent at all, and he's the most realistic villain other than Lusamine who abused her kids along with all the fuckery she does with freezing pokemon and storing them. Which definitly puts her above Rose, despite rose nearly destroying the whole region due to his machinations.
I think Team Galactic slightly goes over Flare due to the fact that Cyrus wanted to rewrite all of reality with some of the most powerful pokemon in existance, that's a bit larger scale than simply nuking the world with a super weapon and only sparing a chosen few. But they are definitely the most evil teams.
According to what we know of his backstory from Platinum, Cyrus is basically an abused kid who came to the conclusion that all emotions are bad because he's largely familiar with feeling worthless and depressed, any positive emotions are fleeting, and it'd probably be better if they were gone. (His grandfather says that he could never live up to his parents extremely high expectations, and that things were so bad between him and his parents that he wanted to take Cyrus and raise him himself, but never did, and regrets it to this day.) In short, dude needs therapy, like, majorly. Also, of note with Cyrus is that he's been redeemed in two manga, seems to be shifting gears to completing spirit in Masters out of understanding his admins don't want him to purge their loyalty to them, and in Ultra, expresses some ambiguous regret. Lysandre, comparatively, tends to double down on his ideals, and even in Masters where they try to act more hopeful with him, it's undercut when he actually legit commits two murders, making Sycamore and the kids seem like they're being naive.
@@13CrystalHeart Indeed. Cyrus has a lot of depth to his story and his redemption arcs make sense with what we know of him. Also in BDSP he ends up working at the Battle Tower and I feel like Palmer wouldn't employ anyone who's actively omnicidal so he must have cooled off (and is probably finally on some meds). Another matter in Masters is that Sophocles is making an active effort to be Cyrus's friend, and that's what's worked in the past, since Dia and Hareta reached out to him on an emotional level and that's what prompted him to start changing. Sycamore is always woefully naive about Lysandre. He kept from trying to confront his friend for so long that things literally blew up on them.
The Societea straight up say their goal was to conquer the world, as well as achieving immortality. Edward describes those two as the only things the Societea could never steal when they were still active thieves. Hence the giant superweapon.
Team Plasma was so good at manipulating they somehow managed to manipulate the fanbase into thinking they actually had a point in-game and weren't just all evil
Yet Ghetsis ruined it all, for all his planning and belief that intelligence is what matters, factors occur that he can't predict or count on which causes him to break down, not to mention he lets it slip several times in the first games that he's got his own agenda and that the organization is just a means to his own end, essentially killing the message they are trying to spread. He deserved his ultimate fate, going into a vegetative state due to breaking down mentally from his perfect plans being foiled twice.
If you want to avoid WW2 references, look to the Reason of Yosuga in SMT3 and the Angels in SMT4/A. Their focus on "beauty" at least gave them an idea on who would be saved if they won, but Lysandre was unpredictable. The money gate probably even makes Lysandre less predictable than _Kefka,_ which is a scary thought.
I feel like nobunaga's army in pokemon conquest should be considered an evil team, dude's trying to take over all of rensei with kingdoms worth of military force. His intentions one could argue were good cause he wanted to summon the power of arceus to end the system of pokemon battling entirely, but colonialism is not good still. Plus he's mean to the sweetest character in the game oichi >:(
I would have added Volo somewhere. Volo is not an evil team, since he's alone, but he's similar to many Team Leaders. And he goes further than Team Leaders because he actually helps you the entire game.
I think it’s imperative to know that more evil doesn’t mean a better team. Flare sucks because the plot is constant dumped on you and makes no sense when put up to scrutiny.
Yeah, honestly Cipher and Rocket are the better evil teams because: - Team Rocket has a canonical body count and - Cipher literally had world domination in the palm of their hands, the only thing that bent them over was a slight miscalculation on Shadow Lugia.
The most evil villain in all of Pokemon is rainbow rocket Giovanni. Just look at what he did in masters ex. He was the main villain in a game with every other evil team (from the mainline games) and literally used his own Pokémon as an ultimatum. It took all of the protagonists and villains working together to clear a path for the player and rivals to get to him.
You could’ve just called team skull, yell and star delinquents. Unlike the other teams most of them are still minors and depending on Pokémon laws can’t be tried for crimes like adults. I’m pretty sure team star in game are referred to as delinquents due to skipping class and trying to coerce others into joining them
You forgot the most (non) evil team of all: Team Crunch, from Pokemon Cafe ReMix: They just arrive at your cafe, which you build with your own efforts, saying they'll take over your cafe, with an already well stablished client base and employees (some of them being legendary pokémons).
Societea wants two things : the immortality and rule the world with their giant flying weapon. Societea isn't actually the main antagonist (and final antagonist) of the game, it's Purple Eye. Purple Eye tried to rule the world like Societea, but when his initial plan failed, he tried to convince Arceus to destroy the world and rebuild it, thankfully, it failed (but enraged Arceus in the process).
Tbh, "Team Break", from Pokemon Masters EX, has committed some serious stuff, like actually stealing pokemon by force and attempting to hurt people with them, they are like a washed down version of Team Rocket.
To me, I always found the Team Break grunts to merely be corrupted trainers because of the masks. That, and Lysandre’s death in both Pokémon Y and the anime is the most fitting defeat.
The man has failed to take into consideration a few things with this list. How Giovanni acts in other games, like Masters for starters, man goes back to being Insanely evil. Theres also team Rainbow Rocket where he is called evil itself, and he wants domination of Everything.
I honestly like teams like Team Skull and Star but i'm hoping for Gen 10 we get a truly evil team again with writing similar or better than both Black and White games and SV.
For me the most evil is neo team plasma and while lysander wanted genocide on most of humanity he did shed tears at the thought of all the pokemon dying.
Main Evil Teams ranking: 1- Team Galactic 2- Team Plasma 3- Aether Foundation 4- Team Rocket 5- Team Flare 6- Machro Cosmos 7- Team Magma 8- Team Aqua 9- Team Skull 10- Team Star
Also the fact that Team Flare charged an exhorbitant entrance fee for any members who werent specially scouted by higher-ups shows grewt hypocrisy. Oh, so you only want people who "embody beauty and kindness" to survive your genocide but a majority of your forces come from nepotism or extreme wealth (there are no ethical billionaires, even in pokemon im afraid😬).... yeah bestie the math isnt mathing for me
9:31 Uh.. what if they are in team rocket because they need money? People joined the mob all the time because they couldn't rise from poverty on their own or needed money to live or something. I feel like you're thinking tok shallow on this part.
Stealing is stealing, no matter how sympathetic the reason. If they’re joining Team Rocket, it’s very likely they’re aware what they’re doing, or will be at SOME point. The team is very transparent with its goals, so even if one is driven to desperation to the point they’d join team Rocket, they are still actively choosing to commit crimes and hurt other people.
Yeah dawg, that's not exactly how greenpeace works, as they irl have well-founded principles for preserving the environment. Aqua and Magma might wanted to preserve whatever environment they say best-fitting, but the solutions were moronic beyond belief
Lysandre in Masters is the only boss with a KNOWN personal body count btw, he is strongly implied to have boiled two Rocket grunts alive, which is a pretty graphic mental image for Pokemon. Obviously, we never see the aftermath, but given the problems they caused him, I doubt he would have let them live.
Flare also has numerous secret police traits: control over the news media thanks to Malva, who also likely keeps info from reaching Diantha too thanks to her E4 position, they eavesdrop on Holocaster conversations, and are implied to have some plainclothes agents. They could have been WAY scarier if they built on those aspects, considering they're willing to kill EVERYONE.
He kind of sucks
@@CovenantQuarter Only in the games he's from, but XY just felt unfinished.
The anime, Masters, and manga all improve on him.
@@CovenantQuarter Anime and manga both address my complaint that he was way too obviously evil in different ways. In the anime, his misanthropy is dialed way down and he's more manipulative when dealing with Alain. In the manga, he's still an obvious villain, but unlike the games that play him off, absolutely nobody trusts him aside from Sycamore. (Tho he starts actively assisting the heroes when he finds out Lys is evil.)
The anime also builds more on his motive, he was a philanthropist but people had abused his generosity and started demanding more and more from him even tho he had been trying to help them.
And Masters has built on his friendship with Sycamore, even showing that Sycamore was the one person who could at least get Lys to back down and wait a bit, tho not fully give up on his ideals. Also, the aforementioned boiling, like, that's brutal and it's fun when Pokemon gets dark in its implications like that.
Even in the games, I do feel he had a point tho, with how greedy people are and how it will likely cause major problems as populations grow. Tho it tends to not really be so much regular people engaging in greedy behavior so much as the system we've designed will try and squeeze every last red penny out of a person. There's some definite hypocrisy, but he's part of the elite caste of people.
If only the grunts didn't go round talking about fashion
@@igorlopes8463 Yea, they had potential with what I had listed, but they play the grunts too goofy/fashion-obsessed. (I will say the manga is probably the best Flare. They go into the media control and plainclothes thing. They don't really touch on the Holocaster thing, but due Lysandre threatening them as he's repairing their Holocaster, they decide not too use it early on.)
I have to be honest here.
I saw the video thumbnail and title, and was so ready, SO READY to comment that you forgot to mention the evil team in pokemon Trozei, because why would anyone think of that?
I tip my hat to you, good sir.
A magnificent being, you are
I was going to make a snarky comment about how Cipher is looking at the other evil teams and laughing, but he actually did talk about them.
Lysandre is the best villain in the history of Pokémon, when you care to read his lore and dialogues, and I will die on that hill
It doesn't help that the ingame dialogues fail to show that "beauty" is supposed to be a metaphore about kindness, selflessness and peace, so it's looks like they are talking about literal beauty. Turns an understandable goal into a joke
Not really. He kind of sucks and has no big impact
@@antoniopriego5660 He had potential. Like, Flare in general had a terrifying concept they never properly built on with their secret police traits, and Lysandre had some interesting character dynamics with being besties with Sycamore and related to AZ that also never really received any spotlight. I feel they also potentially could have fleshed out his motive a bit better, like the anime implies tho he tried to help people, people would start to abuse his generosity.
Also, dunno if it was mentioned in the comments, but, Team Skull (Alola) was only formed because Guzma was angry he wasn't seen as worthy by one of the Island Guardians to be crowned as a Trial Captain. The literal pettiest reason to create an Evil Organization and be a public nuisance.
The most evil team are the parents in every game for not letting us ride our bikes anywhere we want.
You mean Prof. Oak 😂
Norman is the only parent that denies you to fish indoors and ride bikes in water, the rest are professers.
I feel like you ignore the fact that team rocket have also been known to abuse pokemon both their own and others
12:36 just because we never see them do it on screen, I don't beleive detonating massive bombs are without consequence. At least the the surrounding wildlife lol
Yeah Team Flare is a fair shout, can't argue with that.
I think that Ghetsis and team plasma are the most evil. My reason is as listed:
1. Ghetsis planned to seperate pokemon from their trainers. That alone is horrible, as many trainers consider their Pokémon almost as family. That’s like a dear sibling being taken from you,
2. Team plasmas grunts are not very good. While it is known that there were many members of team plasma that were part of the team cause they honestly believed in the cause, and that they thought what they were doing was right, most of the grunts mostly used team Plasma’s “righteous cause” as an excuse to steal, bully, and harass others for their own personal enjoyment and satisfaction. This is even more true in Neo Team Plasma, as basically all the grunts who believed in N and in the cause left team plasma, while everyone else joined Neo Team Plasma.
i would like to include that while its explicitly pointed out that the leader of a team isnt the entire team in and of themselves, im pretty sure ghetsis deliberately abused/had his grunts abuse pokemon to use as "proof" that training pokemon is inherently evil and abusive[*], and didnt he adopt (kidnap?) n and isolate him from the entire outside world to "prepare" him to aid in taking over the region? ghetsis, more like gehn... gehnsis... what im trying to say is that ghetsis and gehn (antagonist, evil motherfucker bitchass of riven {sequel to myst} {incredible game. please play it}) would get along swell but also would be tearing each other the fuck apart. theyd be sharing notes and beating the shit out of each other. gehn would be an ivy league graduate holding that over ghetsis's state-school-graduating head
[*]: i do feel bad for taking pokemon out of their natural habitats to battle with, but also hehe damage calculation go zoop funly
That’s ironic how one of the most critiqued villain organizations in Pokémon is actually the most evil
Glad to see Cipher got a mention. Creating Shadow Pokémon is super evil, which Team Rocket Go are now doing too
Team Plasma being in the middle section is the most fitting ranking with the way the game handles just about everything
I agree team flare are probably the most evil, at least as a group. I think I'd argue Cyrus is the most dangerous, but that's not what the video is about.
I think the most evil leaders are Cyrus, Lysander, and Ghetsis. Not ranked, they're all horrible in different ways.
The least evil villain is probably Rose although I don't enjoy saying that because he is NOT innocent at all, and he's the most realistic villain other than Lusamine who abused her kids along with all the fuckery she does with freezing pokemon and storing them. Which definitly puts her above Rose, despite rose nearly destroying the whole region due to his machinations.
I think Team Galactic slightly goes over Flare due to the fact that Cyrus wanted to rewrite all of reality with some of the most powerful pokemon in existance, that's a bit larger scale than simply nuking the world with a super weapon and only sparing a chosen few.
But they are definitely the most evil teams.
More destructive doesn't necessarily mean more EVIL.
According to what we know of his backstory from Platinum, Cyrus is basically an abused kid who came to the conclusion that all emotions are bad because he's largely familiar with feeling worthless and depressed, any positive emotions are fleeting, and it'd probably be better if they were gone. (His grandfather says that he could never live up to his parents extremely high expectations, and that things were so bad between him and his parents that he wanted to take Cyrus and raise him himself, but never did, and regrets it to this day.)
In short, dude needs therapy, like, majorly.
Also, of note with Cyrus is that he's been redeemed in two manga, seems to be shifting gears to completing spirit in Masters out of understanding his admins don't want him to purge their loyalty to them, and in Ultra, expresses some ambiguous regret. Lysandre, comparatively, tends to double down on his ideals, and even in Masters where they try to act more hopeful with him, it's undercut when he actually legit commits two murders, making Sycamore and the kids seem like they're being naive.
@@13CrystalHeart Indeed. Cyrus has a lot of depth to his story and his redemption arcs make sense with what we know of him. Also in BDSP he ends up working at the Battle Tower and I feel like Palmer wouldn't employ anyone who's actively omnicidal so he must have cooled off (and is probably finally on some meds).
Another matter in Masters is that Sophocles is making an active effort to be Cyrus's friend, and that's what's worked in the past, since Dia and Hareta reached out to him on an emotional level and that's what prompted him to start changing.
Sycamore is always woefully naive about Lysandre. He kept from trying to confront his friend for so long that things literally blew up on them.
The Societea straight up say their goal was to conquer the world, as well as achieving immortality. Edward describes those two as the only things the Societea could never steal when they were still active thieves. Hence the giant superweapon.
Team Plasma was so good at manipulating they somehow managed to manipulate the fanbase into thinking they actually had a point in-game and weren't just all evil
Yet Ghetsis ruined it all, for all his planning and belief that intelligence is what matters, factors occur that he can't predict or count on which causes him to break down, not to mention he lets it slip several times in the first games that he's got his own agenda and that the organization is just a means to his own end, essentially killing the message they are trying to spread.
He deserved his ultimate fate, going into a vegetative state due to breaking down mentally from his perfect plans being foiled twice.
If you want to avoid WW2 references, look to the Reason of Yosuga in SMT3 and the Angels in SMT4/A. Their focus on "beauty" at least gave them an idea on who would be saved if they won, but Lysandre was unpredictable.
The money gate probably even makes Lysandre less predictable than _Kefka,_ which is a scary thought.
I feel like nobunaga's army in pokemon conquest should be considered an evil team, dude's trying to take over all of rensei with kingdoms worth of military force. His intentions one could argue were good cause he wanted to summon the power of arceus to end the system of pokemon battling entirely, but colonialism is not good still. Plus he's mean to the sweetest character in the game oichi >:(
I would have added Volo somewhere. Volo is not an evil team, since he's alone, but he's similar to many Team Leaders.
And he goes further than Team Leaders because he actually helps you the entire game.
She’s not in the games but Hunter J from the anime has to be one of the most evil characters in Pokémon history.
I think it’s imperative to know that more evil doesn’t mean a better team. Flare sucks because the plot is constant dumped on you and makes no sense when put up to scrutiny.
Yeah, honestly Cipher and Rocket are the better evil teams because:
- Team Rocket has a canonical body count
and
- Cipher literally had world domination in the palm of their hands, the only thing that bent them over was a slight miscalculation on Shadow Lugia.
The most evil villain in all of Pokemon is rainbow rocket Giovanni. Just look at what he did in masters ex. He was the main villain in a game with every other evil team (from the mainline games) and literally used his own Pokémon as an ultimatum. It took all of the protagonists and villains working together to clear a path for the player and rivals to get to him.
I’m surprised to see no team Rainbow Rocket from the Ultra games
You could’ve just called team skull, yell and star delinquents. Unlike the other teams most of them are still minors and depending on Pokémon laws can’t be tried for crimes like adults. I’m pretty sure team star in game are referred to as delinquents due to skipping class and trying to coerce others into joining them
Team Skull is basically a less successful Team Rocket. They pretty much do everything Team Rocket does, but not nearly as well
You forgot the most (non) evil team of all: Team Crunch, from Pokemon Cafe ReMix: They just arrive at your cafe, which you build with your own efforts, saying they'll take over your cafe, with an already well stablished client base and employees (some of them being legendary pokémons).
Probably the one who wanted to remake the entire universe.
Did we forget about Lusamine's frozen collection though? That counts as killing Pokemon
I think they’re still alive if they’re frozen. They just have to be defrosted. So, at least they’re not dead. More like temporary statues lol
@Gilbert_Dice_Gottfried I know some animals can survive being frozen, but Pikachu and Slowpoke?
Is there a reason, why you skipped Team Rainbow Rocket?
Societea wants two things : the immortality and rule the world with their giant flying weapon.
Societea isn't actually the main antagonist (and final antagonist) of the game, it's Purple Eye. Purple Eye tried to rule the world like Societea, but when his initial plan failed, he tried to convince Arceus to destroy the world and rebuild it, thankfully, it failed (but enraged Arceus in the process).
Tbh, "Team Break", from Pokemon Masters EX, has committed some serious stuff, like actually stealing pokemon by force and attempting to hurt people with them, they are like a washed down version of Team Rocket.
Team Rocket the least evil? My guy, they're the only team to have a canon body count.
To me, I always found the Team Break grunts to merely be corrupted trainers because of the masks. That, and Lysandre’s death in both Pokémon Y and the anime is the most fitting defeat.
The man has failed to take into consideration a few things with this list. How Giovanni acts in other games, like Masters for starters, man goes back to being Insanely evil. Theres also team Rainbow Rocket where he is called evil itself, and he wants domination of Everything.
I honestly like teams like Team Skull and Star but i'm hoping for Gen 10 we get a truly evil team again with writing similar or better than both Black and White games and SV.
For me the most evil is neo team plasma and while lysander wanted genocide on most of humanity he did shed tears at the thought of all the pokemon dying.
What about Team Rainbow Rocket? What are your thoughts on them?
Team Rainbow Rocket is a dumb idea. It's just team rocket but with other villains.
@Sam-lf3hn I was actually wanting Pichupedia's opinion on the matter, but thanks for the opinion.
@@Sam-lf3hnTheir goals differ quite a bit from OG Team Rocket though
Hey do we know if colosseum and gale of darkness are canon to the mainline games timeline?
Main Evil Teams ranking:
1- Team Galactic
2- Team Plasma
3- Aether Foundation
4- Team Rocket
5- Team Flare
6- Machro Cosmos
7- Team Magma
8- Team Aqua
9- Team Skull
10- Team Star
No wonder France was one of the first countries to he defeated in WW2, it's because of Lysandre and Team Flare.
10:37 you can also actually die in the third ranger game
What about Team Great Rocket in TCGGB2? They steal a ton of Pokémon cards.
Also the fact that Team Flare charged an exhorbitant entrance fee for any members who werent specially scouted by higher-ups shows grewt hypocrisy. Oh, so you only want people who "embody beauty and kindness" to survive your genocide but a majority of your forces come from nepotism or extreme wealth (there are no ethical billionaires, even in pokemon im afraid😬).... yeah bestie the math isnt mathing for me
9:31 Uh.. what if they are in team rocket because they need money? People joined the mob all the time because they couldn't rise from poverty on their own or needed money to live or something. I feel like you're thinking tok shallow on this part.
Stealing is stealing, no matter how sympathetic the reason. If they’re joining Team Rocket, it’s very likely they’re aware what they’re doing, or will be at SOME point. The team is very transparent with its goals, so even if one is driven to desperation to the point they’d join team Rocket, they are still actively choosing to commit crimes and hurt other people.
Aether Foundation is not evil team technically
Lusamine isn't evil, the Ultra Beasts are evil.
Aqua and Magma seemed like a greenpeace cult at worst
Yeah dawg, that's not exactly how greenpeace works, as they irl have well-founded principles for preserving the environment. Aqua and Magma might wanted to preserve whatever environment they say best-fitting, but the solutions were moronic beyond belief
Bronze Medal of Evil : Team Plasma
Silver Medal of Evil: Team Galactic
Gold Medal of Evil: Team Flare
Not a clear evil person in Pokémon in reality
Except Mindy
Cyrus wanted every creature to not exist and was only content in a lifeless realm
Volo, Purple Eye and Ghetsis are the closest to the most evil characters in the Pokémon Franchise.