Villainous Team Speculation?

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

In the recent "third version" we pretty much got a whole new game with new characters and a new villainous team and with the trailer for Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon and how it's a new take on Alola, do you think there will be a whole new villainous team? Or do you think it will be Team Skull/Aether Foundation, again? Do you have any speculation or hopes for the possible new villainous team and their Pokémon?

I have two speculated ideas for the possible new villainous team, my first idea could be a hybrid of Team Skull and Aether Foundation (I don't have much ideas for this one yet).

My other idea is a group of conservative religious fundamentalists, who want to make Alola moral again and right with their God (Arceus?). I have an idea of how it could work too, it could be run by a crazed preacher who took Punks, Punk Girls and Ex-Team Skull members in (like how some religious groups have refuges for people who are in bad situations), the preacher then indoctrinates the ruffians into believing what he believes and they stage various protests around Alola and rebuke people in red-hot Hellfire and Brimstone sermons.

Or maybe radical Atheists who seek to destroy the worship of the Tapus...

In all seriousness, I think that the villains will remain the same since this will likely be a third version.

 

[pkmin3033]

Religion is a very messy topic, and Pokemon has already gotten into enough trouble in the past with certain groups for animal cruelty themes...I can't see GF ever wanting to crack open that particular egg, as its liable to blow up in their faces. It'd be interesting, but whatever they did would be minimalistic anyway - like all of their writing - so it probably wouldn't even be worth it, either.

I'd quite like to see Plumeria leading Team Skull instead of Guzma as well, but that was mostly because Guzma got on my nerves, and I'd like to see an evil team led by a competent female boss who isn't completely psychotic or overshadowed by her male counterpart. We've had three female Champions now, why not female lead antagonists, too?

 

[Alexander18]

They managed to pulled Lusamine as the villain quite nicely. Don't mind another female lead villain.

 

[pkmin3033]

If nothing else, one thing I would like - from either Team Skull or the Aether Foundation - is a sense of presence and threat. Neither of them were particularly prominent or even important in SM, and they both felt like tacked-on complementary additions: the Aether Foundation provided a threat because Team Skull were laughably bad, and Team Skull provided random battles because it wouldn't have been appropriate to battl Aether Foundation representatives constantly. Segregation of duties made them both substantially weaker and less interesting as organisations, and I wonder if USUM will do anything to fix one or both of them in this regard...