Replacing Team Rocket?

[Palamon]

Do you feel like Team Rocket could be replaced? Please justify your answer.

 

[Midnight shadow]

Definitely yes. They have served their purpose long enough as a convenient way for the writers to resolve the plots. Every single time a member of Ash's group needs to overcome some obstacle they nearly always bring in team Rocket to make a scene and force them to overcome said obstacle by beating them. It's boring and lazy. Either develop team Rocket more to give them some viable presence in the franchise or get rid of them.

 

[PokeXGames5]

I don't think so, they're too nice! :)

 

[Pinkie-Dawn]

It was explained by one of the former producers of the anime that Team Rocket were far too important to be removed. Anyone who's watched the Yatterman anime should know that sometimes the sillier villains are just as lovable, if not more, than the main protagonists, and you can't help but root for them to succeed despite the failure of their plans.

Either develop team Rocket more to give them some viable presence in the franchise or get rid of them.

They tried to make them more serious in the beginning of the Unova saga, but it wasn't well-received, so they back to their lovable goofy selves.

 

[Hikamaru]

As Pinkie said, Team Rocket's comedic personality is what makes them loved by most who watch the anime, and the attempt at making them serious heavily backfired. They have also been around as long as Ash so it'll be hard to even consider them leaving the series.

 

[Midnight shadow]

It was explained by one of the former producers of the anime that Team Rocket were far too important to be removed. Anyone who's watched the Yatterman anime should know that sometimes the sillier villains are just as lovable, if not more, than the main protagonists, and you can't help but root for them to succeed despite the failure of their plans.


They tried to make them more serious in the beginning of the Unova saga, but it wasn't well-received, so they back to their lovable goofy selves.

You can develop their characters without making them all serious. And Team Rocket are only important because the writers rely on them so much to resolve plot points. I wouldn't mind them so much if they were pure comic relief but they have become the crutches to support the writer's laziness.

 

[Pinkie-Dawn]

You can develop their characters without making them all serious. And Team Rocket are only important because the writers rely on them so much to resolve plot points. I wouldn't mind them so much if they were pure comic relief but they have become the crutches to support the writer's laziness.

There have been episodes of giving Team Rocket character development via flashbacks to their childhood (the Blissey episode) or temporarily giving up as villains (the episode where Jessie fell in love with a Pokémon doctor).

 

[Midnight shadow]

There have been episodes of giving Team Rocket character development via flashbacks to their childhood (the Blissey episode) or temporarily giving up as villains (the episode where Jessie fell in love with a Pokémon doctor).

There's a difference between developing a character and filling in their backstory, although in this case both are lacking for Team Rocket given how often they appear. I mean, how much do we know about them really? All we really know is Jessie wanted to be a nurse and now wants to be a famous actress, James was raised by rich folks and loves collecting bottlecaps, and Meowth at some point learned the human language. 800+ episodes and that's all we know. He'll, there are gym leaders we know more about than those 3.