What do you think of Team Rocket?

Started by Sheep February 5th, 2023 8:16 PM
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Team Rocket's been around since the beginning and are constantly on the prowl to steal Pikachu (and any other rare Pokémon). What do you think of them? Have they served their time, or do you like them sticking around? Which saga/season do you think they were best in?

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You want full honesty?

Nothing but a joke. Sorry but that's just how I feel. The show needs a better and a more serious 'evil team' that's actually a real threat instead of a comedic relief.

That's why I honestly hope that they too are gone for good with the upcoming confirmed 'hard reboot'

Though honestly I doubt Team Star can be portrayed as a 'real threat' either.
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Team Rocket are the most pitiful main villains in all of fiction. Much like Ash constantly losing every Pokémon League, Team Rocket quickly lost their threat factor when they kept getting blasted off by 10-year-old children in every single episode. Pokémon would have been better if they put them to the side and featured the other villainous teams that existed in the games. In fact, I could literally write several articles based on how the anime could have been improved. As for Team Rocket's best season, they were at their best in the Unova series because they were actually kind of competent then.

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Don't care anything about them to be completely honest. They were overused and useless before Unova. They had to make an appearance just to be included. BW was a great way to change it up and actually make them better, but in the end, they reverted back to their old selves.

In Kalos, they were slightly better, but they were still annoying, but had a couple of good episodes with them. Alola, they finally took a backseat to everyone else, but they still weren't needed at all. And Journeys they've barely made an appearance which is much appreciated. I'll be happy to accept that they will no longer be in the anime if they are retired as well. Especially if nothing happens meaningful to them in the last 4 episodes.
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I really dislike how Team Rocket is represented in the anime. I always thought, since I was little, about these three characters being lame as hell and plot ruiners.
I remember when I was little and happened to watch the Pokémon anime on TV, hoping and praying all the time for them not to show up and wondering to myself: "why should I be happy to see the same thing over and over every day? Please, remove these characters from the freaking cast!".
If you ask me the reason why I like the Digimon anime much more than the Pokémon anime my answer will always be: "simply put, the Digimon anime does not have Team Rocket!".
I'd rather have more episodes focusing on characters like gym leaders, elite four and/or region champions instead than the same, overused, obnoxious Team Rocket trio formula.

It's better if I stop, really, because my hatred for them is pretty much endless and could get me easily banned from Pokécommunity. Guess that explains what I think about Team Rocket or better: about what Team Rocket is in the anime.

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Sweet Serenity

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I really dislike how Team Rocket is represented in the anime. I always thought, since I was little, about these three characters being lame as hell and plot ruiners.
I remember when I was little and happened to watch the Pokémon anime on TV, hoping and praying all the time for them not to show up and wondering to myself: "why should I be happy to see the same thing over and over every day? Please, remove these characters from the freaking cast!".
If you ask me the reason why I like the Digimon anime much more than the Pokémon anime my answer will always be: "simply put, the Digimon anime does not have Team Rocket!".
I'd rather have more episodes focusing on characters like gym leaders, elite four and/or region champions instead than the same, overused, obnoxious Team Rocket trio formula.

It's better if I stop, really, because my hatred for them is pretty much endless and could get me easily banned from Pokécommunity. Guess that explains what I think about Team Rocket or better: about what Team Rocket is in the anime.
The worst part about Team Rocket is that they are not bad characters themselves. James is hilarious, Jessie has a temperamental and vain personality that translates well for an organization like Team Rocket, and their Meowth talks when most Pokémon can't say more than their names, which is interesting. Instead, the way they are written in the show makes them horrible. I always believed that Ash should have won the Indigo League and the protagonists from the later games should have took his place the following seasons. They still could have kept Ash relevant by having him make occasional appearances and by having the other characters look up to him as a living legend, similar to Red in the games. In the process, they should have done Team Rocket the exact same way and focused on the villainous teams from the other regions as well. I also believe they should have made Team Rocket more competent. At least end some episodes with them winning and actually stealing Pokémon successfully. This would have really hyped up some anticipation about how the gang would fix this problem in the next episode instead of literally "blasting them off" every single episode.

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They peaked in Sun & Moon when they stopped being the source of conflict for most episodes, and they turned into fun and interesting characters just living in the Pokemon world; shouldn't have entered the league, and instead done a sell-off against Mallow to make the league more interesting though

PM19 literally threw them aside for 90% of its run and did nothing aside from horrifically abuse them
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I thought that Team Rocket was charming at first during the Indigo League (liked Jessie's Arbok) but they became annoying during Johto. I liked Growlie, Jame's growlithe as well!
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