From this line forth, I knew Team Skull was something special: This is best showcased with a scene where they are trying to steal berries from a berry farmer early on in the game. They try to act threatening, but they ultimately can’t do anything, and shrivel up when they are even slightly challenged. Just like Team Rocket, Team Skull grunts are travelling around Alola trying to steal people’s Pokémon – but to no avail.
#POKEMON MOON TEAM SKULL MANSION SERIES#
Team Skull’s non-serious nature is a breath of fresh air in this series that usually features tired villain tropes. We have seen so many completely irredeemable evil teams in the Pokémon series that they have started to blend together, with Lysandre from Pokémon X and Y feeling especially underwhelming and unoriginal.
While Team Skull is quite pathetic…that’s the point. They don’t have any world-changing goals, they are just “cool dudes” who want to act “bad” and intimidate people: this poses the team in an antithetical position to the other teams. Even the Aether Foundation, who end up being the main villains of Pokémon Sun & Moon, have a similar plan using Ultra Beasts. This can be applied to pretty much every team. From Cyrus of Team Galactic’s world-merging to Lysandre and Team Flare’s attempted extinction event, most villainous teams of the Pokémon series end up with the same boring goal: destroy or take over the world and replace it with a “better one”.
0 kommentar(er)
