Team Rocket
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This article deals with Team Rocket in Pokémon as a whole. For the article about the Team Rocket from the anime, see Team Rocket (anime).
| Type | Crime syndicate |
|---|---|
| Founded | Unknown |
| Location | Kanto, Johto, Sevii Islands, Orange Islands
<tr><th style="text-align:right;">Key people</th><td>Giovanni (leader)</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right;">Purpose</th><td>To steal Pokémon all over the world and exploit them for profit and use them for world domination</td></tr> |
Team Rocket (ロケット団 Roketto Dan?, Rocket Gang/Brigade) is a fictional syndicate in the metaseries Pokémon. In each of its various incarnations, Team Rocket desires to steal Pokémon to further its goal of global domination. They are led by the criminal mastermind, Giovanni. Team Rocket first debuted in the original games, Pokémon Red and Blue, then made a move into the animated series and the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
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[edit] In the video games
In Pokémon Red, Blue, Yellow, FireRed, and LeafGreen Team Rocket Grunts often use Pokémon who are fierce-looking, or a poison or fighting type, like Golbat, Muk, Machop and Weezing.
The player must foil several schemes by Team Rocket, in the following locations before the player shuts them down, which are:
- Mt. Moon, where Team Rocket seeks rare Pokémon and fossils.
- Lavender Tower, where Team Rocket is holding the kindly Mr. Fuji hostage.
- Celadon City, where Team Rocket secretly runs and offices beneath the Game Corner.
- Saffron City, where Team Rocket took hostage/control of the Silph Co. HQ.
- After defeating its leader at the Viridian Gym.
- The Sevii Islands, specifically the fifth island. (FireRed and LeafGreen only)
In Pokémon Gold, Silver and Crystal, set three years later, it returns to wreak havoc in Johto, at
- The Slowpoke Well in Azalea Town, making illegal business with Slowpoketails.
- Mahogany Town/Lake of Rage, where Team Rocket makes a experiment with a radio broadcast which will be used to control Pokémon, as well as forcing the Lake of Rage's Magikarp to evolve into Gyarados.
- The Radio Tower in Goldenrod City, which TR takes over and uses their Pokémon to control, making references to Giovanni in the broadcast, trying to encourage him to get back to business.
- A Rocket Grunt steals a machine part from Kanto's power plant, creating chaos in the electricity-related business (such as Kanto's Radio Tower and Saffron City's Magnet Train).
[edit] The Fate of Team Rocket
Team Rocket as an organization has not yet been abolished in the anime, but it met its demise in the video games. In Red, Blue,Yellow, FireRed, and LeafGreen, the player temporarily disbands the organization by defeating Giovanni in his Viridian Gym. Three years later, in Gold, Silver, and Crystal, Team Rocket continues to survive through its Executives, who control the organization but seek to bring back Giovanni, who is supposedly in solo training. When the Executives are beaten by the player, however, it permanently disbands.
In other games and regions, the crime syndicates are not related to Team Rocket.
[edit] In the anime
The most frequently appearing members of the organization in the anime, which is based loosely on the video games, are a team, Jessie, James, and Meowth. They are the main antagonists of the anime series, known for their incompetence in their evil doings as well as acting in their positions as the comic relief of the series. Other frequently-seen members of Team Rocket include Butch, Cassidy and Giovanni, Team Rocket's Leader.
[edit] In the manga
- This section is about Team Rocket in manga which directly adapted the video games, particularly Pokémon Adventures. For information on Team Rocket in The Electric Tale of Pikachu and its sequels, which were an adaptation of the anime, see Team Rocket (anime).
In the Pokémon manga series, Pokémon Adventures, Red encounters and battles Team Rocket in many locations, including:
- Mt. Moon where they were searching for the Moon Stone and had experimented on Misty’s Gyarados
- Vermillion port, where they were kidnapping Pokémon for transport by sea
- Lavender Tower where they had taken over and kidnapped Blue
- The siege of Saffron City, when the Rockets had closed off the city and taken the people of Pallet Town captive.
In the manga, Blaine is a former Team Rocket Scientist who had combined the DNA of Mew with his own DNA, creating Mewtwo. However, he gained the DNA of Mewtwo as well, giving him the ability to track Mewtwo. The manga also shows Koga, Lt. Surge, and Sabrina as high-ranking members of Team Rocket, directly below Giovanni in the chain of command.
- A major difference between the manga and other versions of Team Rocket is that several Gym Leaders are Rocket members in the manga, while they are not in other media.
- In this continuity, Team Rocket is apparently an acronym for
"Raid On City, Knock-out Evil Tasks." (Pokémon Adventures, volume 14)
[edit] Showdown at Cerise
In the Yellow Caballero arc, the Gym Leaders who had been Rocket admins showed up to help the heroes fight the Elite Four.
[edit] Neo Team Rocket
After being defeated by the protagonists in the R/B/Y arc, Team Rocket was reformed as Neo Team Rocket. The leader of Neo Team Rocket is the Mask of Ice, a stranger being able to shoot ice at his enemies in various ways, including Icicle Spears and the ability to freeze anything he touches instantly.
The Mask of Ice kidnapped Green, Silver, Shum, Cart, Will and Karen as children, and raised them as his servants. Green and Silver escaped soon after, but the rest of them remained as his servants. After Giovanni disbanded Team Rocket, the Mask of Ice recruited the Rocket Grunts that were left behind, forcing those who are not interested by controlling them with masks. However, former Team Rocket Executives Lt. Surge, Sabrina, and Koga were not recruited by Mask of Ice.
The Mask of Ice’s true identity is that of Pryce, the Gym Leader of Mahogany Town.
[edit] Sevii Islands
Giovanni later re-formed Team Rocket in the Sevii Islands, where he created and/or caught Deoxys.
[edit] In the Card Game
Team Rocket received two expansion sets of cards in the Pokémon Trading Card Game: "Team Rocket" and "EX: Team Rocket Returns." These expansions feature Dark Pokémon, which are Pokémon that have been turned evil by Team Rocket. Dark Pokémon are actually dual type, regular type, and Dark-type in the second Team Rocket expansion.
[edit] See also
| Pokémon series villains |
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| Team Rocket | Team Aqua | Team Magma | Cipher | Team Snagem | Phobos Battalion | Team Galaxy |
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