History Characters / PokemonTheSeriesTeamRocketOrganization

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[[folder:Jessie, James, and Meowth (Musashi, Kojirou, and Nyarth)]]

[[folder:Cassidy and Butch (Yamato and Kosaburo)]]

* DrillSergeantNasty: He's the drill instructor training villains and his name is certainly nasty but in a surprising subversion, he's merely stern at the worst and is far more reasonable than even Giovanni. He even allows Cassidy, Butch, Jessie and James graduate despite ''not'' capturing the Red Snorlax in their final test.

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The drill sergeant of the Team Rocket Academy. He was Jessie, James, Butch and Cassidy's mentor before they graduated to Rocket agents.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Although Jessie has a HighTurnoverRate regarding her partners, Viper doesn't expel Jessie from Team Rocket as Giovanni demanded, insisting that his cadet still has strong potential that needs the right partner. He ends up proving by partnering Jessie with James and Meowth.

[[folder:Christopher (Yūsaku)]]
-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Jun Konno\\
'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/SeanSchemmel

A fellow underclassman from Jessie and James' training days at the Team Rocket Academy. Unable to perform well in the academy but treated with kindness from Jessie and James, Christopher quits Team Rocket to become a famous noodle chef in Sinnoh, creating a noodle shop restaurant chain in honor of his friends.

See [[Characters/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearl here]] for more about the Christopher.

-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Jun Konno

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* CanonForeigner: Not the organization itself, but rather its members. Nearly all the members are anime originals rather than characters based off the games, with the exceptions being Giovanni and Dr. Fuji (though Fuji in the game is not member of Team Rocket). This makes sense back in early days since Giovanni was the only named member of the team in Gen I and Gen II (not counting Jessie and James in ''Yellow''). Archer, Ariana, Proton, and Petrel, the Rocket Executives of ''Gold and Silver'' wouldn't be named until the remakes ''[=HeartGold and SoulSilver=]'' in 2009, long after the anime establishes the hierarchy of Team Rocket.

* CanonForeigner: Not Team Rocket the organization, but rather almost all the named Rocket members are anime originals rather than characters based off the games, the sole exception being Giovanni himself. This makes sense back in early days since Giovanni was the only named member of the team in Gen I and Gen II (not counting Jessie and James in ''Yellow''). Archer, Ariana, Proton, and Petrel, the Rocket Executives of ''Gold and Silver'' wouldn't be named until the remakes ''[=HeartGold and SoulSilver=]'' in 2009, long after the anime establishes the hierarchy of Team Rocket.

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->'''Voiced by:''' Shirō Sano (Japanese), Creator/DanGreen (English), Héctor Cantolla (European Spanish), Creator/LoukasFragkoulis (Greek), Creator/PietroUbaldi (Italian)

A dangerous and ruthless elite operative of Team Rocket and the main antagonist of the fourth film.

* AGodAmI: "I control the most powerful Pokémon in the world!"
* AxCrazy: The fact that almost every scene he appears in has him [[EvilLaugh laughing maniacally]] definitely paints him as this.
* BeardOfEvil: Has a beard and is a nasty piece of work. He also gets the dubious honor of being the first CardCarryingVillain of the movies.
* BigBad: Of the fourth movie. He callously wrecks a good portion of Ilex Forest with Celebi under his control and nearly destroys the Lake of Life.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: His Scizor.
* BlingBlingBang: He's wearing golden helmet, belt, [[SpikesOfVillainy shoulder spikes]], boots and bracelets.
* CardCarryingVillain: He openly boasts that the Pokémon he catches with the Dark Ball become evil Pokémon, with their power instantly increasing to the highest level.
* CoolMask: We finally get to see him without it at the end of the movie, after his defeat.
* DarkIsEvil: Two of his known Pokémon, Sneasel and Tyranitar, are Dark-type. And that's not getting into the whole business with the Dark Balls.
* DoppelgangerSpin: Scizor's Double Team.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: After barely a minute of screentime, he captures and corrupts the hunter's Tyranitar and has it lay waste to the poor man's ranch to get Celebi's whereabouts.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: His moniker in the dub is "Iron-Masked Marauder", and he is not known by any proper name besides that.
* EvilerThanThou:
** He's introduced interrogating the movie's StarterVillain and his establishing character moment has him terrify the guy into submission.
** While a Team Rocket member that is more evil and effective than Jessie, James and Meowth is hardly rare, this guy leaves the trio completely horrified by his sociopathic methods, and trumps even other factions by even planning to back stab Giovanni himself.
* EvilIsHammy: He has a loud voice that he uses to boast of his evilness. That's what happens when a villain is voiced by '''Creator/DanGreen'''.
* FlatCharacter: There's ultimately not much to him apart from being a power-hungry, merciless brute whose main goal is to TakeOverTheWorld.
* HateSink: He has no positive traits whatsoever; being pure evil and is certainly proud of it.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:The main characters nearly died because of him, and he even causes Celebi's DisneyDeath.]]
* JetPack: Equipped with one in case things go south. It didn't help him in the end, obviously.
* KnightOfCerebus: He's one of the first truly vile villains to appear in the movies. In addition to being completely devoid of redeeming qualities, he also tries several times to have [[WouldHurtAChild Ash and his friends killed]], and his actions nearly resulted in [[spoiler:Celebi's death]].
* LackOfEmpathy: He doesn't care about anything other than raising Pokémon to their highest level and capturing Celebi to do the same in order to TakeOverTheWorld.
* MadeOfIron: He falls from hundreds of feet in the air, crashes through several tree branches and lands hard on the ground, and somehow survives this without even losing consciousness.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: Masked and the first nefarious movie villain introduced.
* MilesGloriosus: For all his truly depraved and malicious actions throughout the movie, after his whole plan is finally taken part, he grovels pathetically against Towa and some {{Com Mon}}s.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: His original Japanese name, Vicious, is taken from late Music/SexPistols bassist Music/SidVicious.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Iron-Masked Marauder does ''not'' sound like someone you'd want to come face to face with. His Japanese name, Vicious, is no slouch on this either.
* ObviouslyEvil: MalevolentMaskedMan? Check. BeardOfEvil? Check. SlasherSmile? Check. His entire demeanor just reeks evil.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: The majority of his outfit is black, but he wears a red vest over it. His Scizor and Sneasel also count.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: More glowing red eyes on his mask device, but it still counts.
* {{Sadist}}: He gleefully proves to be one when he succeeds in capturing Celebi with his Spider-Machine's claw, brutally electrocuting it, before capturing it in a Dark Ball. [[spoiler:Then, he reveals his true plans to use its power to overthrow [[BadBoss Giovanni]] and rule Team Rocket and the entire world himself.]]
* TheSociopath: He takes appalling delight in destroying the forest and crushing the minds of innocent Pokémon.
* SpiderTank: Has one where he got around in during the movie.
* TheStarscream: He planned on using Celebi to take over Team Rocket and eventually the world. Fairly small goal with the power of a time traveling legendary.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Downplayed but still noticeable. The Team Rocket members shown at that point are ''definitely'' far from saints, but they at least [[EvenEvilHasStandards have standards]].
* VillainRespect: Upon finding his Sneasel and Scizor tied to some rocks after fighting Ash and co., he just laughs and says, "Those kids are tougher than they look."
* VillainsWantMercy: Without the rest of his Dark Balls, he's at the mercy of the angry forest Pokémon before being tied up with a web shot.
* WouldHurtAChild: He not only has Celebi try to kill Ash and Sam multiple times, but he tries to kick Ash off of him when jet-packing several miles high up in the air.
* WrongContextMagic: It is an established fact that Poké Balls can't capture Pokémon that already belong to a Trainer, but the Marauder's Dark Balls have no such limitation. The only other Poké Balls able to do this are the "Mewtwo Balls" from ''Mewtwo Strikes Back'' and the Snag Machine-enhanced balls in ''Videogame/PokemonColosseum'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonXD''.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Marauder's attitude when seeing Scizor and Sneasel tied up. He just leaves them there without a care and continues to pursue Ash and Celebi. His decision comes back to bite him back after he loses all his weapons and left at the mercy of the forest Pokémon.

[[folder:Pierce (Flint)]]
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-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/JinYamanoi
-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/DanGreen
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Creator/EduardoGarza
-->'''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Alejandro Peyo García

A high-ranked Team Rocket operative, he is first revealed as the [=TRio's=] contact in Unova, assigned to assist them in the Meteonite mission.
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* OneSteveLimit: He gets a DubNameChange to Pierce because, although Flint is a credible English name, ''two'' characters (Brock's father and the Sinnoh Elite Four member) also have it.
* SatelliteCharacter: Seemed to only exist to give Jessie and James information.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He disappears from the story following the postponed/cancelled "Team Rocket vs. Team Plasma" two-parter. Said episodes would have justified his already-intended departure as due to most of the Team Rocket organization getting forced out of Unova when Team Plasma's interference leaves them vulnerable.
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* TheSyndicate: Out of the all the villainous teams introduced in the anime, Team Rocket is the biggest of them all. And they only got more influential when their major rivals get disbanded or arrested by the authorities, leaving them free to expand and rule.

* PutOnAPrisonBus: Unlike other Rocket members, who either escape or [[ATwinkleInSky get blasted off into the sky]], Cassidy and Butch are arrested by Officer Jenny, who then puts them in a paddy wagon that drives the Rocket duo off to prison. [[CardboardPrison They get out in the next episode they appear in]], usually explained as Giovanni bailing them out. This RunningGag ended in Lugia arc in the "Master Quest" season, where they were given the traditional blasting off to the sky defeat, and this became the new norm for the Rocket duo.

* NebulousEvilOrganisation: Team Rocket's criminal network is entrenched in both the Kanto and Johto regions, with plans to expand into regions such Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, Alola, and Galar once their rivals are dealt with. They finance many schemes ranging from stealing Pokémon to using powerful artifacts that control Pokémon to creating the most powerful Pokémon in existence. All of this is to prepare Team Rocket for world domination.

* WhatHappendToTheMouse: Miyamoto simply disappears after her encounter with Mew and is never brought up in the anime series itself. She is implied to be still alive, but this plot thread is never properly resolved.

* NebulousEvilOrganisation: Team Rocket's criminal network is entrenched in both the Kanto and Johto regions, with plans to expand into regions such Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, Alola, and Galar once their rivals are dealt with. They finance many schemes ranging from stealing Pokémon to using powerful artifacts that control Pokémon to creating the most powerful Pokémon in existence. All of this is to prepare for Team Rocket to take over the world.

** He returned to the role during Team Rocket's ''Black and White'' arcs, taking up the role more directly in early Season 14 and the end of Season 15.
* AscendedExtra: Giovanni was for the large part a GreaterScopeVillain until ''Best Wishes'', where he takes the role of ArcVillain, directly assigning the trio most of their missions and fronting Operation Tempest personally. He retires back to headquarters afterwards however, back to his usual role.

** Ash and co very seldom fight Giovanni directly, but being the leader of the Team Rocket organisation, he is responsible for the TerribleTrio Jessie, James and Meowth and any other Team Rocket member they face in their journeys. Especially such during the Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh arcs, when he grew so tired of the Trio's incompetence that he pretty much allowed them to do their own thing. Was also this for Mewtwo's character in the first movie.

* MightMakesRight: Giovanni only values powerful Pokémon. Even when Jessie, James, and Meowth gives him a rare (and certainly valuable) Pokémon that is Togepi, Giovanni dismisses them when they fail to explain what the baby Pokémon can do, never once considering how much money he could make by selling it in the BlackMarket.

* EvilDebtCollector: Debuted in the Johto arc this way, though not particularly evil acting, it constantly {{Troll}}ed the main trio for their unpaid debts to the organisation.

* SupervillainLair: They have many bases in Kanto, most infamously the Viridian Gym which acts a public front for Team Rocket to test out Mewtwo and other powerful Pokémon. But after the Viridian Gym got destroyed, the Rocket headquarters got relocated to a conspicuous military building in the middle of nowhere (usually a desert canyon or forest) with a big R in the middle.

* AdaptationalVillainy: The anime emphasizes a lot more on Team Rocket's goal for world domination than other adaptations of Team Rocket. While it is mentioned in the games that Team Rocket's eventual goal is to rule the world, more emphasis was placed on them trying to make a profit out of their schemes rather doing something world-threatening. This depiction of Team Rocket would [[RetCanon eventually be integrated back into the games]] in the form of [[VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon Team Rainbow Rocket]], which heavily emphasized on Giovanni's bid for world domination.

* NGOSuperpower: Despite being a crime syndicate, Team Rocket has enough for resources to build hi-tech vehicles and bases across the globe that would fill any real world superpower with envy.

* MrExposition: Had a [[Film/AustinPowers Basil Exposition]] role towards Jessie, James, and Meowth early into ''Best Wishes.''