History Characters / PokemonVillainTeams

* TheTease

** BiggerBad: In ''Heartgold and Soulsilver, every crime Archer, Ariana, and the rest of Team Rocket commit is done in his name and to facilitate his return--but he remains unseen in the main story, and is only available to battle long after the main conflict has ended. As an optional event battle, at that.

* BiggerBad: In Heartgold and Soulsilver, every crime Archer, Ariana, and the rest of Team Rocket commit is done in his name and to facilitate his return--but he remains unseen in the main story, and is only available to battle long after the main conflict has ended. As an optional event battle, at that.

* [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn: Fakes one after being beaten by Red, but seemingly has had a real one by the time of ''Black 2 and White 2'', as he's back as a legal member of the Pokemon League.]]

** MyGreatestFailure: To the point that he abandoned his own son to train to beat Red. [[spoiler: Losing to Ethan/Lyra pushes him over the DespairEventHorizon and he seemingly attempts suicide. Fortunately, ''Black 2 And White 2'' has confirmed that he wasn't successful]].

* AesopAmnesia[=/=]IgnoredEpiphany: Remember how Red beat him and he decided to disband Team Rocket and dedicate his life to studying Pokémon? Well, apparently he got over that, because when you battle him he's preparing to head out to the Radio Tower to take the reigns of Team Rocket again.

** Note that the remakes of Gen I retcon the line to say that he will now dedicate his life to becoming stronger, keeping in line with this (now nonexistent) epiphany.

** MyGreatestFailure: To the point that he abandoned his own son to train to beat Red. [[spoiler: Losing to Ethan/Lyra pushes him over the DespairEventHorizon and he seemingly attempts suicide. Fortunately, Black2AndWhite2 has confirmed that he wasn't successful]].

** MyGreatestFailure: To the point that he abandoned his own son to train to beat Red. [[spoiler: Losing to Ethan/Lyra pushes him over the DespairEventHorizon and he seemingly attempts suicide]].
*** Though if his presence in the World Tournament in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 Black and White 2]]'' is anything to go by, [[spoiler: the suicide theory]] may not be true.

* AscendedExtra: In Gold and Silver, the Rocket Executives looked alike and weren't even named, not unlike the Grunts. It wasn't uncommon to believe that there were only two of them, one male and one female. The remakes made them into their own characters with individual looks and personalities.

* AscendedExtra: In Gold and Silver the Rocket Executives looked alike and weren't even named, not unlike the Grunts. It wasn't uncommon to believe that there were only two of them, one male and one female. The remakes made them into their own characters with individual looks and personalities.

* AxCrazy

* SmugSnake: In terms of planning, he's a brilliant ChessMaster. But in terms of attitude, he's totally this, especially when his plans fall apart.

* [[spoiler: PowerOfTheStorm[=/=]WeatherOfWar: As the TrueFinalBoss, N cycles through four different weather teams that are used on the four different seasons. His lead Pokémon will always have an ability that automatically initiates the weather he needs.]]

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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: [[spoiler:Averted for the first time in the series. Thankfully, N saves you in the nick of time.]]

* DemotedToExtra: In ''Ruby'' especially, where he only appears with his leader twice - at Meteor Falls, and at the Seafloor Cavern. He only appears once in ''Emerald'' - at the Aqua Headquarters - but is more significant in that he battles you, providing a distraction while his boss escapes.

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* AesopAmnesia[=/=]IgnoredEpiphany: Remember how Red beat him and he decided to disband Team Rocket and dedicate his life to studying Pokemon? Well, apparently he got over that, because when you battle him he's preparing to head out to the Radio Tower to take the reigns of Team Rocket again.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: The eighth and final Gym Leader is also the leader of Team Rocket. Wow, Kanto, good job; your Pokemon League sure has great background checks.
* MeaningfulName: His name is pronounced GEO-vanni. The name indicates both his occupations: a Mafia Boss and a Gym Leader of Ground-type Pokemon.

* SatelliteCharacter: She's just there to provide a battle (in ''Ruby'').

* BadBoss: Made explicitely clear in ''Platinum''. Granted, it only really kicks in as part of his ''overall plan'', since everyone but him would die anyway; before then, his primary form of punishing his agents was to take away their Pokémon.

* BlowYouAway: He does seem to have a predilection for Flying-type Pokemon, and his mascot is a Honchkrow...

* MisanthropeSupreme: Prefers the company of machines to humans or even Pokemon.

** LightIsNotGood: And there is the fact that Team Plasma is rather strongly based on Christianity, with their Templar-like uniforms, talk about "saving" Pokemon, and use of the Chi Rho, an ancient symbol used to represent Jesus, as a symbol. They're also a deranged hypocritical terrorist cult being manipulated by a fraudulent leader in his attempt to gain power.

* {{Hypocrite}}s: One of the grunts explicity ''says'' that while it's bad for regular trainers to keep Pokémon, it's fine for Team Plasma to have them. This only applies to some of them though, other grunts keep using Pokemon because they've grown attached to them.

* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: N was raised to believe humans are, to a one, needlessly cruel to Pokemon [[spoiler:in an attempt by Ghetsis to mould the boy into a PuppetKing]]. Then he meets the player character, whose starter suggests otherwise. The more the two interact, the more N starts wondering whether his worldview is right, and the more [[SpannerInTheWorks Ghetsis' plot starts to collapse in on itself]]. By the end, N realizes the player character's ideal is correct and forfeits his operations, [[VillainousBreakdown and the resulting proverbial black hole takes the Plasma scheme and what remains of Ghetsis' sanity with it]].

** N also has some similarities to Yellow from that series: he can communicate with Pokemon and heal the injured, and he hates making Pokemon fight, but [[MartialPacifist is really good at it if he has to]].

* TheMessiah: Thinks himself as this for Pokemon.

* SpoiledSweet: Lives in a castle with what pretty much amounts to a cult around him, and he fights for Pokemon justice.

* WrongGenreSavvy: By design. To make him a TykeBomb, Ghetsis convinced him he had to summon the legendary dragon and recreate the story of the hero who founded Unova, which will give him the power needed to ban Pokemon husbandry.

* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Parent]]: The sheer callousness he displays towards his son would disgust even [[PokemonColosseum Cipher]], and that really says something.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: He knows how the Pokemon world works, and will exploit it.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: What allows TheHero to be the SpannerInTheWorks for his plan was Ghetsis never believing that they might be pure of heart enough to awaken the other Legendary Pokemon. He also didn't take the PowerOfFriendship into account, whether it be between humans and Pokemon or between TheHero and N, both of which factored into his downfall. He even outright says that he thinks everyone considers Pokemon tools to use as they see fit, which he himself believed. Because of this, he allowed N to interact with other people, gaining friendships and seeing the friendships between trainers and their Pokemon, which got him questioning Team Plasma's beliefs in the first place, directly leading to Ghetsis' downfall.
** Because of this trope, his plan may have been doomed from the beginning, as the Team Plasma Grunts encountered in N's Castle and the people encountered in the post game show that the bond between humans and Pokemon was far stronger than Ghetsis believed and just N's victory may not have been enough to break it. Gorm of the Seven Stages points this out when he is arrested in the post game.

** Also his rants about how trainers abuse Pokemon, when he himself only views them as tools. This was all part of his plan to take everyone's Pokemon except his own, though.

** If he has any Pokemon out in fanart, it's probably his Hydreigon.

* TakeOverTheCity: His entire motive is to use Pokemon to take over an [[BigApplesauce Unova]] [[FantasyGunControl devoid of any means of defending themselves]].

** [[spoiler:When he is confronted and summons Kyurem, he challenges us to a battle right? '''WRONG'''. Instead he makes Kyurem try to ''[[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impale the player from all directions with giant icicles.]]'' Thankfully N and Zekrom/Reshiram were able to pull a BigDamnHeroes just in time.]]
*** [[spoiler:Not thankfully, he was savvy enough to anticipate that N's love for Pokémon would lead him and his Dragon to Kyurem, and he then forces N's Dragon and Kyurem to merge, creating Black/White Kyurem!]]

*** G-Cis huh? Sounds like [[Literature/TheBible Jesus.]]

*** Does that make this the "named for the Devil" variant of NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast?
*** The Goetis assumption is still pretty well-resounding, though. Do we have a trope for unintentional brilliance?
** This troper initially misread it as "Ghestis", referring to [[TheUndead geists or ghosts]]. Sheesh, this guy's name alone causes nightmares.

* DishingOutDirt

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!!The Shadow Triad (The Dark Trinity)

-->One is voiced by: AkiraIshida (JP), JasonGriffith (EN) (promo)

* AmbiguousGender: Though they are briefly referred to as male at one point and one point only. The sequel makes it clear they're male.
* [[spoiler: [[BonusBoss Bonus Bosses]]: You can challenge them after beating the Elite 4. They will battle you in Single, Double, Triple, and Rotation battles once every season.]]
* CoDragons: To Ghetsis
* CombatPragmatist: They all have two Pawniards, and one of them also has an Absol, a Pokémon which is often regarded as a bad omen.
* EliteMooks
* FetishFuelStationAttendant: Let's see... Ninja's? Check. [[BadassLonghair Badass]] [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy White-Haired Pretty Boys]]? Check. [[SensualSpandex Skin tight ninja garb]]? Check.
* HelpfulMook: When you go into N's castle, one of them tells you that you can heal your Pokémon and even access your PC.
* {{Ninja}}s
* PsychoSupporter: They are the only ones who still support Ghetsis in the end, apparently because he had saved their lives in the past.
* [[RecurringBoss Recurring Bosses]]
* [[SignatureMove Signature Mon]]: Accelgor, Absol, and Banette, one for each. Their other Pokémon are all Pawniard and Bisharp.
* TerribleTrio
* TheUnfought: In the original games. Averted for the sequel.
* UrbanLegendOfZelda: Rumors abounded even in this very wiki that they are all females. A remaining theory is that they are the Striaton triplets.
** [[spoiler: Both are Jossed in ''Black 2 and White 2''.]] %% Based on both the Memory Link scene where they're both seen at the same time and the Post-Game, where they would have to appear in two places at once, the theory can be said to be Jossed. Obviously there are still ways to argue it could work, but that is EpilepticTree territory.
* VillainTeleportation
* [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy White Haired Pretty People]]

!!Concordia and Anthea (The Goddesses of Harmony and Love)

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* AdvertisedExtra: Both appear in the intro despite not appearing until much later on. This misled some fans into thinking they'd have much bigger roles.
* [[spoiler:[[ConvenientlyAnOrphan Conveniently Orphans]]: They were taken in by Ghetsis in order to help look after N.]]
* HairAntennae: Concordia.
* HairOfGold[=/=]RoseHairedGirl[=/=][[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Pink Hair]]
* HealingHands: Anthea heals your Pokémon.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[HelpfulMook Though they weren't ever evil to start with]], especially now seeing as they reveal they follow N and not Team Plasma, since they were [[spoiler: orphans adopted by Ghetsis to serve as N's surrogate older sisters.]]
* HelpfulMook: They heal your Pokémon, give information on N, express pity for the poor guy, and generally aren't really evil at all.
* MeaningfulName: Concordia means "harmony" in Latin.
** Concordia is the Roman Goddess of Harmony; Anthea is an epithet for the Greek goddess Hera.
* [[MrExposition Ms. Exposition]]: Concordia, who reveals N's backstory after many hints have been dropped throughout the game.
* TheUnfought

!! Plasma Boss Colress (Achroma)

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-->Voiced by: JunichiSuwabe (JP), SeanSchemmel (EN) (promo)

* AffablyEvil
* [[spoiler: TheAtoner: He appears at the P2 Laboratory after the League, regretting his actions, stripped of his Plasma affiliations and looking to make amends. He gives the player another Master Ball after he is beaten.]]
* {{Badass}}
** BadassBookworm
** BadassLabcoat
* BlondGuysAreEvil: [[spoiler:At first.]]
* [[spoiler: BonusBoss]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Black, white and blue are Team Plasma's colors.
** [[ObviouslyEvil Not that it implied anything]].
* TheDragon: He's a ''Team Plasma'' researcher, as well as the acting Boss, serving under Ghetsis.
* TheEvilGenius
* {{Expy}}: Combined with HeyItsThatVoice, he gives off vibes of [[DeadmanWonderland Tsunenaga Tamaki]], who in turn gives off vibes of [[BlazBlue Relius Clover]].
* ExtraOreDinary: Mostly uses Steel types, save for Beeheeyem and Rotom.
** ShockAndAwe: His Magneton, Magnezone, and Rotom.
* EyesOfGold
* ForScience: The reason he joins Team Plasma, even if their plan risks destroying the Unova region. His concern for studying the strength of Pokémon is greater than his concern for the fate of the region. [[spoiler:He realizes this mistake at the end and atones for it during the postgame.]]
* FourEyesZeroSoul: [[spoiler: Subverted at the end.]]
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: He can be found and battled at the P2 Lab, where he says he is attempting to make up for his mistakes, and is no longer affiliated with Team Plasma.]]
* HotScientist
* IdiotHair: Only this one is dyed blue and loops back over his head.
** AnimeHair: It's really strange.
* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini: He may be TheAtoner post-game, but it's still odd he gets off with no legal consequences after nearly destroying Unova.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHZY3R5j12o This theme]]. According to WordOfGod, it is meant to sound all over the place, much like Colress himself.
* MeaningfulName: Colress can mean "cheery, benevolent" (the latter of which he certainly appears to be), but also sounds awfully like "colorless". Meanwhile, chroma is Greek for Color, and is used in English to define the intensity of a color or colorfulness, while A is a prefix commonly used to denote a negative. Achroma then could mean either "colorless" or "against colorfulness/intensity".
* MulticoloredHair: Blond, but with an IdiotHair that's blue and loops around his head.
* ObviouslyEvil: [[spoiler: Averted at the end]].
* PsychicPowers: His Elgyem and Beeheeyem.
* RecurringBoss: Fought at least three times.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: His battle sprite animation.
* [[SignatureMove Signature Mon]]: The Klink line is always his strongest Pokémon, though he also makes heavy use of Magneton and Magnezone.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: For a long time, fans referred to him by the name "Achroma," which is the logical romanization of his Japanese name, "Akuroma." When rumor broke out that his English name was really "Corless," fans naturally switched to using this name instead, until an official trailer for Black and White 2 revealed that his English name is actually spelled "Colress."
* StoicSpectacles
* [[spoiler: TrueFinalBoss: Defeating him on the Plasma Frigate after beating Iris brings a final closure to Team Plasma's arc. Afterwards he is a BonusBoss that can be challenged there. However, N's levels remain higher.]]

!! Sage Rood (Rot)

* ChekhovsGun: You remember that Zorua you see with N in the intro of the first game? Well, Rood gives you that Zorua and informs you about Memory Link, which is used for various features, particularly [[spoiler: a flashback of N releasing the Pokémon he used against the previous protagonist.]]
* EyesAlwaysShut
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the previous games, he outright stated that he wanted to see N confront Ghetsis.
** He also stated that if N learned to understand people better, he'd like for him and those who are still loyal to him to gather together again, which is exactly what happens in these games.
* HeelFaceTurn: In Black 2 and White 2, he's against New Team Plasma.
* MeaningfulName: His name in every language means "red."
* TheUnfought: In Black and White.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in Black 2 and White 2 despite his HeelFaceTurn, although you only battle him once.

!! Sage Zinzolin (Vio)

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* AnIcePerson: Uses Ice-type Pokémon in battle.
** EvilIsDeathlyCold
** {{Irony}}: Zinzolin in the post-game in ''Black and White'' hid in the Cold Storage south of Driftveil, and complained constantly of the cold.
* TheBrute: He's not stupid or weak, but nonetheless he ''is'' the most frequent antagonistic individual in the game, and is less important than either the Shadow Triad or Colress.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: The first battle against him has him using a Sneasel. If you battle him during the day and managed to beat in for the fourth time while it is still daytime in the same date, how in the world did he manage to evolve it into a Weavile? After all, you need to let Sneasel hold a Razor Claw and level it up at night.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler: He switches again when you meet him at Undella Town during the post-game.]]
* EvilOldFolks
* EyesAlwaysShut
* FaceHeelTurn: It was indicated in the first game(s) that he'd gone straight, like the other five "lesser" sages, so if he'd ever been a "Face", it didn't last long.
** [[spoiler:He seems to make another HeelFaceTurn after the end though, perhaps for good.]]
* FakeBoss: He's the face of evil for most of the game, but is working for Colress, who in turn works for Ghetsis.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Some of his lines from the previous games make more sense in the context of his role in this game, such as his fascination with Ghetsis.
* RecurringBoss: He's battled a total of ''four'' times during the game - of all antagonists, only N in the first B&W games is fought more, at five times.
* [[SignatureMove Signature Mon]]: Weavile.
* TagTeam: Half of the battles against him involve him teaming up with a Team Plasma Grunt and the player teaming up with Hugh.
* TheUnfought: Present in the first game. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in the second.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: All grunts, Cyrus, and Saturn.

* [[spoiler:After you beat White/Black Kyurem, he gets so frustrated that his battle animation shows him stamping his cane several times until he slams it so hard, it [[SwordPlant plants into the ground]]. Afterwards he starts absolutely raving at you and N, panting from loss of breath and possible heart failure once he's done.]]

* AntiVillain: Like Archie, he thinks he is doing justice to the world, since draining the sea would allow humans to travel more easily and would make more room to live. [[spoiler:He also pulls a quicker HeelFaceTurn than Archie in ''Emerald''.]]

** There's some implication that in ''Emerald'' at least, the plan was ''actually'' to empty out the volcano's contents in order to search for Groudon inside it (hence why their base is later built at the Jagged Pass near Mt Chimney, and why Team Magma is absent for a while). The "jettison a load of rocket fuel" was likely the start of a VillainousBreakdown since [[spoiler: Maxie's plans were failing, and he was clutching at straws before finally realising he was wrong.]]

** LightIsNotGood: And there is the fact that Team Plasma is rather strongly based on Christianity, with their Templar-like uniforms, talk about "saving" Pokemon, and use of the Chi Rho, an ancient symbol used to represent Jesus, as a symbol. They're also a deranged hypocritical terrorist cult [[spoiler:being manipulated by a fraudulent leader in his attempt to gain power.]]

** [[spoiler:The Seven Sages (minus Ghetsis) all willingly turn themselves in to Looker for questioning when you catch them in the post game, having realized the error of their ways.]]
*** Of course, in the sequel it turns out that [[spoiler:Zinzolin has since dedicated himself to Ghetsis' cause, making him a subversion compared to his five peers.]]

* TheUnfought: The Seven Sages. [[spoiler:Except [[BigBad Ghetsis]].]]

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