History Characters / PokemonVillainTeamFlare

* RightHandAttackDog: They often use Houndoom, Manectric, and Mightyena.

** He insists that Pokémon must all die as well so humans can't misuse them, but ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' reveals that ''his'' Pokémon (And likely the rest of Team Flare's) were spared from being killed by the weapon.

* AlliterativeName: His battle theme is called "Leader Lysandre" in the music selection menu for the Battle Tree in ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'', in contrast to how other leaders' battle themes (including Giovanni's) only contain their names.

** He insists the Pokemon must all die as well so humans can't misuse them, but ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' reveals that ''His'' Pokemon (And likely the rest of Team Flare's) were spared from being killed by the weapon.

** He in the Pokemon must all die as well so humans can't misuse them, but ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'' reveals that ''His'' Pokemon (And likely the rest of Team Flare's) were spared from being killed by the weapon.

* TookALevelInJerkass: In ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon''. See KickTheDog above.

* AdaptationalVillainy: He was never a very good person, but ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'' [[spoiler: makes him provide you with a rigged SadisticChoice in the same way Xerosic does in ''X and Y'', whereas in ''X and Y'' Lysandre will regretfully ''apologize'' to you for Xerosic rigging the outcome if you choose the right button.]]

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: In ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', Lysandre makes you choose between the buttons of the Ultimate Weapon like Xerosic did in ''X and Y''...except that the blue button has ''already been pushed'', leaving you with ''no other choice'' but to push the red button, activating the weapon. And then he battles you specifically to stop you from shutting the weapon down again.]]

* RedemptionRejection: Any attempt the characters try to make to get through to him falls on deaf ears. [[spoiler: Even in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon'', the moment he starts to second-guess himself, he immediately snaps out of it and doubles down on his view that omnicide is the only solution.]]

* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler: He's the one who provides you with it, as opposed to Xerosic, in ''Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon''.]]

* SelfDeprecation: Her defining characteristic is how she laughably calls herself and her teammates lame after every loss.

* AndIMustScream: What he tries to invoke on the protagonist in ''X'': after being defeated, he fires the ultimate weapon in one last attempt to force immortality on them out of spite. However, they manage to escape while he doesn't. However, it's unclear whether ''he'' gained that immortality in the blast or was simply destroyed in the collapse and explosion, and the characters speak of him in the past tense, so he may have simply died like in ''Y''.

* VillainousBreakdown: After defeating/capturing the Legendary and defeating him a second time, he flies into a rage, claiming you've "condemned the world to a future of misery and death".

* AnimalMotifs: The lion. His hair looks like a lion's mane, and he leads off with a male Pyroar. The lion fits Lysandre in a number of ways: lions are often associated with heraldry and nobility, and Lysandre is the descendant of an ancient king; male lions also lord over their packs of lionesses, which mirrors how he believes only Team Flare deserves to be on top.

* TheBeautifulElite: [[SmallNameBigEgo They certainly THINK they're this]], giving them carte blanche in their eyes to [[OmnicidalManiac kill others]] [[KillThePoor just because they're filthy, low-minded, incompetent, ugly,]] [[{{Hypocrite}} inherently greedy and short-sighted]] [[OmnicidalManiac commoners]]. Never mind that a good chunk of the Kalosian populace thinks "The Tacky Pseudo-Elite" would fit them better.

* [[SharpDressedMan Sharp Dressed People]]: The grunts dress like this. In fact, they're the first villainous team to have ties in their dress code. Fitting, since Gen VI is based on GayParee which is ''very'' much associated with high fashion. Many characters note that Team Flare's uniform are [[FashionVictimVillain rather tacky and excessive]], noting that they turned down offers to join simply because of it.

* GoldfishPoopGang: It's difficult to tell because the grunts remain nameless, but later in the game, many of them state to remember previously battling you--and losing.

* KnightTemplar: Lysandre basically wants to bring back the world to its former natural state by destroying everything not part of Team Flare.

* MeaningfulName: It was initially ambiguous whether their name was translated as Flare or Flair but, judging by grunt uniforms, both are apt appelations. The backdrop for the final battle with Lysandre [[AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield looks like the surface of the sun,]] meanwhile, complete with prominences--a.k.a. solar ''flares''. Combined with [[TheBeautifulElite the Beautiful Elite]] conceit, Team Flare's name may thus signify that they are the foremost (the surging flares) of the most glorious (the sun).

* ModestyShorts: If the female admin is wearing a [[MiniDressOfPower dress]] or a [[DangerouslyShortSkirt skirt]], you may see this in her throwing pokeball animation.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Want to wipe out an undesirable group via genocide and believe themselves to be [[TheChosenOne The Chosen Ones]]. Surprisingly they are a rather accurate portrayal of the Nazi's.

** Also noted that unlike most Villainous Teams, the grunts actually evolve their mons instead of using the same unevolved cannon fodder.

* PoorPredictableRock: DoubleSubverted. With their name, one would expect the group to mostly use fire-types. Turns out they use not only Houndoom, but [[ShockAndAwe Manetric]], [[PoisonousPerson Swalot]], [[BareFistedMonk Scrafty]], [[BlowYouAway Golbat]], and a few other oddities... and nothing else. A team with Fairy, Ground and Psychic moves is their utter bane.

* [[SharpDressedMan Sharp Dressed People]]: The grunts dressed like this. In fact, they're the first Villainous team to have ties in their dress code. Fitting, since Gen VI is based on GayParee which is ''very'' much associated with high fashion. Many characters note that Team Flare's uniform are [[FashionVictimVillain rather tacky and excessive]], noting that they turned down offers to join simply because of it.

** Also one of their quotes written above is part of a song from the Music/TheBeeGees

* AndIMustScream: What he tries to invoke on the protagonist in ''X'': after being defeated, he fires the immortal weapon in one last attempt to force immortality on them out of spite. However, they manage to escape while he doesn't. However, it's unclear whether ''he'' gained that immortality in the blast or was simply destroyed in the collapse and explosion, and the characters speak of him in the past tense, so he may have simply died like in ''Y''.

* BaitAndSwitch: First-time Kalos players wouldn't be blamed for assuming Lysandre's weapon of choice is Pyroar, given Team Flare's fire-like motif and name, as well as Lysandre's hairdo resembling Pyroar's mane. Then comes his Mega Gyarados...

* BigBadFriend: Right from when you first meet him you'll know that he's the leader of Team Flare and the cause of the main problems in the game; but he's the friend and disciple of Professor Sycamore, inventor of the Holo Caster, well regarded by many people throughout Kalos even after he reveals his true nature, and is generally pretty friendly toward the player.

* KilledOffForReal: Most likely, but it's possible he became immortal from the machine like AZ did (In ''X'' anyway). If not, this makes him the first character in the games to canonically '''die'''.

* MeaningfulName: His Japanese name, "Fleur-de-lis", refers to the symbol of French royalty. He's part of a cadet branch. While his English name really just stems from the "lis" phoneme (it's Greek/French for "freeing a man"), there's an unplanned meaningful name in there. "Andre" signifies "man", while "lys" can look like it comes from "lysis" -- Greek for "destroying" -- or "lyss" -- Greek for "madness", "fury" and "rage". It thus looks sort of like it can mean "destroyer of humans". "Lysander" also means "Liberator".
* MisanthropeSupreme: His earlier attempts to fix the world legitimately, through the inventions and profits of Lysandre Labs, didn't have the effect he was looking for--where he expected the needy to be sated, they instead yearned for still more. [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy His two main conclusions:]] (1) World aggregate happiness is effectively finite; after a certain amount of beings, happiness and survival can only be attained by taking it from/denying it to another. (2) The vast majority of humans (and maybe even Pokémon, if his musings about Mega Evolution are anything to go by) are irredeemable, incapable of anything beyond the most narrow selfishness. Therefore, the only way the world will ''ever'' know beauty and hope everlasting is to expunge all those imperfect creatures who ought never have existed, who can only ever ''be'' plagues on existence. As his report in Lysandre Labs puts it, "[e]ither everything is lost, or only a handful are saved".

* OmnicidalManiac: He seeks the utter destruction of all humans and Pokémon not loyal to him. At least Cyrus intended to recreate the world and every person/Pokémon in it, albeit his own image. This man is set on clearing living space for his group via ''genocide''.

* SmugSnake: His self-importance, fixation on beauty, and his petty reasoning for going so far as stated in his journal--namely, the fact that the amount of aid he thought was enough to give out wasn't enough to stop requests for aid, which he proceeded to impute not to insufficiency on his part, but solely greed and heedlessness on the have-nots' part, gives him this vibe. Of course, this could all be [[JerkassFacade a mask]] for [[SanitySlippage his madness.]]

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Like Diantha for the Champions, Lysandre also breaks the villain team bosses' streak of having the WeaponOfChoice Pokémon being from the same generation as the game they're featured in, by having Gyarados as his WeaponOfChoice. Again, that is unless you count Mega-Gyarados as a Kalos Pokémon.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: This man wants to commit genocide against most of humanity, and, most shockingly, ALL POKEMON. Kalos being the brightest and most beautiful region yet makes this particularly stand out.

* WeaponOfChoice: Gyarados. Or, rather Mega-Gyarados.

** Interestingly, the report in Lysandre Labs has him effectively deeming the ultimate cause as the world's ''stability''--because of it, nothing is likely to quell the population growth of (selfish, over-needy) humans and Pokemon, short of his planned burst of extremely intense "instability".

* ButNotTooEvil: He does a lot of harsh things over the course of the game, but they were less for personal gain and more in his own [[ForScience pursuit of science]]; he even pulls the plug on his MindControl project when he realizes it's no longer working, even informing the protagonists that the test subject was in no real danger. He's at least okay enough to be forgiven by Emma (the test subject in question).

* LaughablyEvil: He's one of the more...''oddball'' scientists in this franchise.

* RecurringBoss: You battle her twice. The first time is at the Frost Cavern, and the second time is at Team Flare's hideout Lysandre Labs.

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* PoorPredictableRock: Subverted. With their name, one would expect the group to mostly use fire-types. Turns out they use not only Houndoom, but [[ShockAndAwe Manetric]], [[PoisonousPerson Swalot]], [[BareFistedMonk Scrafty]], [[BlowYouAway Golbat]], and a few other oddities.
** Double Subversion, as most of Team Flare use the above Pokemon, and little else.

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-->''"I want to be the kind of person who gives... But in this world, some foolish humans exist who would show their strength by taking what isn't theirs."''
-->'''''"They're filth!"'''''

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her unusual hair color is never acknowledged.