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Cross (Don’t ask)
#21901: Jan 29th 2022 at 6:18:51 AM

We don’t know, don’t think the anime bothered to show any of them.

Blueace Surrounded by weirdoes from The End Of the World Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Surrounded by weirdoes
#21902: Jan 29th 2022 at 6:37:48 AM

We only got to know that they had a lead on Ash, but they gave up on the League some time before Ash got all the badges.

Edited by Blueace on Jan 29th 2022 at 12:41:42 PM

Wake me up at your own risk.
HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#21903: Jan 29th 2022 at 7:27:44 AM

Yeah. Outside of Gary, who kept chugging on until Johto, those other two trainers (who had Charmander and Bulbasaur since Gary had Squirtle) just completely disappeared. We never even saw their faces.

One Strip! One Strip!
TitanJump Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
#21904: Jan 29th 2022 at 7:33:32 AM

Casualties along the journey.

Perhaps they didn't make it due to trying to attempt that journey on their own.

(Ash had Brock and Misty. Gary had his cheerleaders.)

Being a pokemon-trainer in this world, might even serve as a harsh wake-up call to many who thought they could take it "easy" through it and instead, make them pick other career-paths instead.

Blueace Surrounded by weirdoes from The End Of the World Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Surrounded by weirdoes
#21905: Jan 29th 2022 at 7:44:16 AM

Some of the Gyms were mean too. Perhaps Sabrina or Blaine's volcano made them call it quits or something.

Wake me up at your own risk.
TitanJump Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
#21906: Jan 29th 2022 at 7:48:11 AM

Even wild pokemon attacks are a danger at any time to be considered as well.

The anime doesn't have the "luxury" that is the "White-out screen" when all of one's pokemon have been defeated after all...

Heck, even getting poisoned by a wild pokemon might be a real danger for newbie-trainers, especially in a thick forest shock-full of beedrills that goes off on the slightest disturbance...

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#21907: Jan 29th 2022 at 7:55:25 AM

So you're saying these two guys DIED and no one cared?

I know the anime was pretty ruthless back in the day (Ash was a moron, but literally everyone got on his case for not being good enough right away), but I think even that is a bit much.

One Strip! One Strip!
TitanJump Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
#21908: Jan 29th 2022 at 7:56:59 AM

No, I am just listing the number of dangers that can effectively persuade little kids from becoming pokemon-trainers for real.

The list is still ongoing...

Cross (Don’t ask)
#21909: Jan 29th 2022 at 8:11:58 AM

They could have found something else they wanted to do during their journeys, like how Gary decided to become a Pokémon Researcher.

Edit: Think there were speculation that Serena was going to one of them, but that obviously wasn’t the case.

Edited by Cross on Jan 29th 2022 at 11:16:42 AM

OmegaRadiance Since: Jun, 2011
#21910: Jan 29th 2022 at 12:05:40 PM

wild mass guessTrace is one of the missing twowild mass guess

Since Goh is obviously Go.

Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.
Joshbones Since: May, 2015
#21911: Jan 29th 2022 at 12:26:47 PM

They brought this up in the original series, they just weren't cut out for being trainers and gave up after a while.

lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#21912: Jan 29th 2022 at 12:51:28 PM

I wonder what happened to their Pokemon.

The Protomen enhanced my life.
Blueace Surrounded by weirdoes from The End Of the World Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Surrounded by weirdoes
#21913: Jan 29th 2022 at 12:59:46 PM

Probably kept one or two around (probably their starter), whatever they decided to do, and the rest are running around at Oak's.

Edited by Blueace on Jan 29th 2022 at 6:00:58 AM

Wake me up at your own risk.
MetalMichelangelo Since: Nov, 2012
#21914: Jan 30th 2022 at 6:01:46 PM

Ironic how Cassidy and Butch are Jessie and James without their redeeming qualities yet quit Team Rocket to live honest lives.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#21916: Jan 30th 2022 at 7:56:13 PM

Indeed.

Butch and Cassidy were always better. Now there's little doubt of it.

One Strip! One Strip!
lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#21917: Jan 30th 2022 at 8:15:46 PM

Not according to Training Daze/later episodes where their rivalry was much more even.

The Protomen enhanced my life.
mythbuster Since: Jan, 2010
#21918: Jan 31st 2022 at 3:25:31 AM

Winding up in the hospital could also be a wake-up call to call it quits.

BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
CHADhan Player.
#21919: Jan 31st 2022 at 5:12:23 AM

Gary, Butch and Cassidy aren't bound by the status quo, they're able to live fulfilling lives while Ash, Jesse and James are stuck in an endless cycle.

Ash at least won a championship eventually, but Team Rocket still have nothing to show after all of these years.

Then again, they haven't really been harassing Ash and co at all in recent years. They're more or less just doing their own thing separate from the main group.

Edited by BlackYakuzu94 on Jan 31st 2022 at 8:13:23 AM

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.
Cross (Don’t ask)
#21920: Jan 31st 2022 at 5:52:51 AM

They managed to get respect from Giovanni, for however much that’s worth.

DevilSketch36 Since: May, 2020
#21921: Jan 31st 2022 at 6:37:45 AM

And a Z Move, and made sure the other evil teams were taken out so Team Rocket could still reign supreme, and basically succeeded in Operation Tempest until they couldn't control the Legendaries.

Yeah, they could lowkey quit. Meowth could be a chef, Jessie a coordinator, and James a mechanic expert.

TitanJump Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
#21922: Jan 31st 2022 at 7:58:45 AM

Except:

James can't settle down anywhere without the overwhelming threat of his family pinpointing his position and drag him back into their household by force.

Jessie has zero education to speak off and no survival skills of her own and is completely dependent on James and Meowth for her own well-being and survival.

Meowth is still a wild pokemon and if he didn't had the other two, how many would try and capture him for science in order to figure out how on earth a meowth managed to learn human speech and walking by itself.

Really, living like nomads while working for Team Rocket might be the best thing the T Rio have going for them in life.

Weirdguy149 Former King from Lumiose City Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
Former King
#21923: Jan 31st 2022 at 8:38:55 AM

Fair enough for James and Meowth, but Jessie can definitely handle herself. A common Running Gag for her is that she beats the shit out of the Pokemon she catches single-handedly.

The legend has returned.
TitanJump Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
#21924: Jan 31st 2022 at 8:41:23 AM

[up] I meant "in society".

How far do you get without even the most "basic" level of education, I might ask?

(In the wilderness though, she is more fit to adapt and survive, since she can just beat up whatever predator and prey she wants to have for dinner by herself... even if she probably can't cook it beyond roasting it over an open flame or something similar...)

OmegaRadiance Since: Jun, 2011
#21925: Jan 31st 2022 at 9:29:03 AM

The three have shown to be great as business when they operate it correctly. In fact their businesses tend to flop because they don’t keep track of WHY they’re going to be broke until it happens after spending a lot.

Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.

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