Whelp, I’ll come right to the point and say that it feels like the evil teams within the Pokémon franchise have begun to decline to a certain degree.
I mean, in the past, we have had villainous organizations that have had plans for world conquest and were involved in activities like illegal trafficking and inhumane scientific experimentations (Team Rocket), had goals of awakening and controlling titanic Pokémon that were actually capable of expanding either the land or sea (Teams Aqua and Magma, respectively), were actually planning to remake the entire world to their liking by controlling nearly godlike Pokémon that were capable of manipulating both Time and Space (Team Galactic), were attempting to almost completely divide all humans from Pokémon and even turn the most powerful of the latter into living weapons (Team Plasma), and were even making plans to destroy all of that exists in our world for the sake of making it fit into what they consider to be both “beautiful and better”.
But now, from the Alola region onwards, it has become as though that the evil regional teams have become somewhat of thin far cries of what they had once been. I mean, Team Skull was essentially nothing more than just a bunch of fancily dressed street punks who were all simply looking for trouble. And then Team Yell is nothing more than a group of incredibly overzealous fanboys.
What happened
I mean, in the past, we have had villainous organizations that have had plans for world conquest and were involved in activities like illegal trafficking and inhumane scientific experimentations (Team Rocket), had goals of awakening and controlling titanic Pokémon that were actually capable of expanding either the land or sea (Teams Aqua and Magma, respectively), were actually planning to remake the entire world to their liking by controlling nearly godlike Pokémon that were capable of manipulating both Time and Space (Team Galactic), were attempting to almost completely divide all humans from Pokémon and even turn the most powerful of the latter into living weapons (Team Plasma), and were even making plans to destroy all of that exists in our world for the sake of making it fit into what they consider to be both “beautiful and better”.
But now, from the Alola region onwards, it has become as though that the evil regional teams have become somewhat of thin far cries of what they had once been. I mean, Team Skull was essentially nothing more than just a bunch of fancily dressed street punks who were all simply looking for trouble. And then Team Yell is nothing more than a group of incredibly overzealous fanboys.
What happened