I may have to change my vote to Ash now. Because I have had nothing really against Team Rocket except for a few petty actions and I know as a whole Team Rocket is evil but after hearing that the Team rocket trio looks a whole lot better now.
Well, that really wasn't my intention XD That Ash is evil haha. But that JJM really aren't that bad. They've just been lead astray.
At the beginning of the series during the Indigo League, I felt that Team Rocket was a pretty good set of bad guys (kind of oxymoron-ish, no?). They were sinister enough for a kid's television program, at the very least. But as the seasons passed, they fell into more of a "comic relief" sort of category. They came, they threatened to steal some pokémon, and they blasted off. That's just their niche. They're not so much villains anymore as they are main characters.
Episode 3: A dying Caterpie pwns JJM. That's comic relief. They were comic relief from the moment Pikachu first shocked them. Its even drawn in a funny way...
As for the whole Ash and co thing.
1. most of those incidents were out of self defense.
and
2. they were from a mistaken impression. I mean, since they encountered Team Rocket for quite a while, I can't say that they should have struck first and ask questions later, but they would have every right to be initially suspicious of their actions, since, for all they know, they COULD be up to something.
Well, yeah. But as far as I can remember Team Rocket don't often attack the
twerps, they just battle with Pokemon. Y'know, it kind of makes me think how bad the police force is in Pokemon. That the twerps have to defend themselves all the time. They haven't even
reported them to the police XD Actually, I think Ash has been in jail more times than JJM XD He's been in twice as far as I can remember. But yeah, I suppose if someone was trying to steal my Pokemon I would attack them. But I couldn't send 10,000 volts through them and blast them into the air everyday.
Because it's in TR nature NOT to do that?
There have been a few episodes where they help out for no real reason. In The
Elektrike Company James and Meowth help the twerps for no real reason and Ash doesn't mind them coming along. But I do agree that they like the twerps...in some kind of odd way of their own. For no real reason, they cheered when Ash won. I thought it was funny, but it shows that they like him in some kind of way.
Kind of random, but at the end of Ash's journey I want there to be a big battle between Ash and Giovanni...Ash and co. try to infiltrate the TR base to put a stop to the organisation because they've done something particuarly bad this time. So Gio tells JJM to stop them however they can (and other TR members) but JJM, not being evil, see that what TR are doing at the moment is wrong...but of course, if they don't obey they'll be fired (hey, its the end of the series) and so are torn between helping the twerps and doing what Gio says. And then somehow Gio and Ash battle.
The idea is kind of hazy at the moment, but the point is that at the end of Ash's journey JJM have to choose to help either Ash or Giovanni. I think it would be really cool to see that.
