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Regarding the edit war on Cerebus Syndrome:

• Cerebus Syndrome:
  • In terms of the evil organizations you battle in the game. The first two generations had the at least somewhat Affably Evil Team Rocket (with quotes like "It feels so good to be evil!"), barring a couple disturbing instances (killing Pokémon and chopping off Slowpoke tails). But by RSE, you had a group trying to force climate change. By the fourth generation, Team Galactic wants to reset all of existence.
  • Team Plasma, along with their leader, N, from Pokémon Black and White, want to separate Pokémon from humans to probably prevent incidents like with the previous teams from happening again. It turns out that the true villain, Ghetsis, the true mastermind behind Team Plasma, is such a despicable, vile, and evil person that he manages to outstrip all the previous teams combined! (Including Cipher!)
  • Team Flare in Pokémon X and Y, who at first seem to be a call-back to the villain teams in early games who are Only in It for the Money, with a few hints of something about "making a beautiful world". By the time you reach Lysandre Labs, you learn that their leader's plans for "a beautiful world" involves killing everyone and everything except those who are loyal to him, which not even most of the grunts are aware of; i.e. committing genocide. Though Lysandre does this because he is sick of how corrupt the world has become, filled with greed, racing for power, polluting until the world is destroyed, he thinks what he is doing is the right thing even if it means killing everybody
  • Team Skull in Pokémon Sun and Moon avert this, being a more humorous team of thugs who mostly steal pokemon for petty reasons, with not as much threat as any of the previous teams in terms of goals. However, The Aether Foundation, Lusamine in particular, fit this trope much more then any previous team. Horrific pokemon experiments, coupled with an even more blatant and horrifically abusive parent then even Ghetsis, and Lusamine's main room having Frozen solid pokemon encased in glass, and doesn't care if an innocent creature from another world dies for her to accomplish her main goal, which while not on high a scale as even Team Galactic, has a much more personal effect on the people of Alola then any previous evil team ever did, The Aether foundation have single handedly made Sun and Moon the Darkest games in the mainline franchise (If not the franchise as a whole) yet, and that's not even getting into the Ultra Beasts...
  • In the first couple of generations, the villains didn't seem to do anything besides wreak havoc on random Pokémon and locations. In the third generation, the villains had a coherent theme and goal, but they still didn't make much sense. By the fourth generation, though, defeating the villain had become just about as important as the stated goal of To Be a Master, a trend which continued into the fifth generation, owing to the nastier villains on the one hand, and greater plot streamlining on the other. In fact, Black and White are the first games of the series where you don't even battle the League Champion to beat the game; you have to face N and then Ghetsis instead.
    • Worth mentioning is that the battle with N is very similar to the circumstances of the battle against your rival in the original games. Your rival has barely conquered the Pokemon League, previous Champion and all, before losing his position as Champion to the player. N defeated the Pokemon League and had just finished his battle with Unova's Champion, Alder, before being defeated by the player. N was the Champion for all of a few minutes before losing the title.

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I think we need to rework the Artificial Stupidity entry on this page somehow. Only the first entry is actually an example, and the rest are "aversions" which should be put under Artificial Brilliance or left out.