4th Gen Team Galactic

[Palamon]

Team Galactic was the evil team of D/P/PT. What did you think of them?

 

[Sydian]

i think they're really stupid, a lot of shit they do doesn't align with their goals ie. holding up the damn honey guy. you could also make the argument that they don't know what they're standing for or trying to accomplish - and they don't, a few grunts allude to not knowing cyrus' grand plans. but that adds to the cult leader thing cyrus has going on i suppose which is. i guess the only interesting point about them. also i recently saw someone point out cyrus doesn't actually introduce himself to you until like your third or fourth encounter but you already know his name bc the dialog tag puts "cyrus:" in front of his text lmfaoo. kind of funny.

um yeah anyway idc about them. i just finished pearl recently but tbh i was not interested and didn't pay attention to them. i'm a bit Bored ig. i will give them credit though, cyrus doesn't fuck around he is like actually difficult to beat lol.

 

[Roni]

The most unrealistic thing to me was being able to hire that many people willing to put on those uniforms. The pay must've been stratospheric if it meant having to look like that 24/7.

 

[PageEmp]

Personally, I'm more interested in their origins. Like, what are the real names of the commanders? What are their true identities and backstories, and what gave the whole team the ambition to recreate the universe?

If anyone has any ideas, feel free to share it. I'm personally really hoping the remakes explain all this.

 

[SawkTheWarrior]

Well, I Was Very Surprised When Cyrus Just Gave Me The Master Ball...

 

[BlakeKellyQRo]

i am also interested mostly in their origins

 

[Zeostar]

For some reason I had higher expectations. But they were a downgrade and one of the worst teams for me.

Team Rocket was a mafia type organization. Team Aqua and Magma were unintentionally doing an evil thing. Then Galactic was just destroy the world without much explanation. There were even a couple of grunts that joked about this in the pre battle dialogue.

 

[Setsuna]

Even though I love Platinum I kinda have to admit Galactic wasn't one of the best teams the series has had, but I think they're really interesting and I've always still liked them. I think Galactic was the point where they started to give more interesting aspects to the villain characters, even if they didn't flesh things out fully. I think the commanders are at least somewhat interesting, because they've become real characters rather than just showing up once or twice to battle you by being area bosses. (I think HGSS really shows how that's kinda all Team Rocket was)

Spoilers for Platinum:

Spoiler:

Cyrus was an interesting character to me because he seemed really determined in his goal that seemed to always make no sense. We got lines of dialogue in Sunyshore from his grandparents about how he never really connected with people and spent his time with machines, and those were some good crumbs to be able to develop into an interesting villain, however it was never... actually developed. ;;

Platinum shows even more that Galactic isn't just a group of empty zubats to battle, they allow for character development for your rival especially (losing to Jupiter in Lake Acuity before he joins you at Spear Pillar to finally take them down) but also for themselves. After Cyrus is gone, Mars goes to Stark Mountain to look for answers, and Charon attempts to take over the team and become its new leader. This all seems like a foundation for what happens with characters like Gorm and Ghetsis of Team Plasma, as well as the several different flavours of rival development and growth we've had throughout the series.

I think more than anything Team Galactic was a good idea that was never fully developed, offering the foundation of ideas for character growth in the rest of the series. I'd love to see things about them fully fleshed out now that the series proves they know how to do things like this and the characters aren't just... whatever.

Honestly, it's not common for the grunts of the team to know the whole master plan the leader of the team has, and Cyrus is totally the kind of character to just keep it to himself. I think the only time the grunts have known the big plan is when it's so simple and/or insignificant.

i guess the only interesting point about them. also i recently saw someone point out cyrus doesn't actually introduce himself to you until like your third or fourth encounter but you already know his name bc the dialog tag puts "cyrus:" in front of his text lmfaoo. kind of funny.

This is totally a thing that only happens in Platinum, but you do overhear him say his name when you first meet him in Lake Verity, but since he's not aware you heard him at that point, it makes sense for him to introduce himself properly later.

But in DP? Yeah that's pretty funny.~

 

[TheClassyHerddIer]

This might be nostalgia talking. But I absolutely loved them. Even Cyrus has resin for what he does unlike what some people say. He's not evil just for evil. And I admit I am a sucker for syfi so there designs apile to me

 

[Sheep]

Team Galactic are on the more boring side to me. I love their space concept and the battle backgrounds are pretty cool, especially in BDSP, but I never cared much for them when playing DPPt. What I mostly got out of them as a kid was that Cyrus had a really creepy/zombie-looking face lol. Probably my least favorite villainous team, sadly. :<

 

[colours]

the space motif is cool, but i gotta agree with Sheep here in that they aren't very interesting. would've liked more depth to them tbh

 

[_confused_piplup_]

I think they are interesting and are my fav. I think that if u carefully read some lines u understand way more about them

 

[ReKoil]

Kinda bland imo
Never paid much attention to them.