Pokémon/Groups/Team Rocket

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Team Rocket (ロケット団, Roketto Dan) is a fictional syndicate in the metaseries Pokémon. In each of its various incarnations, Team Rocket desires to steal Pokémon to further its goal of global domination. They are led by the criminal mastermind, Giovanni. Team Rocket first debuted in the original games, Pokémon Red and Blue, then made a move into the animated series and the Pokémon Trading Card Game. They also appear in the Yellow, FireRed, LeafGreen, Gold, Silver and Crystal versions.

In the video games

Team Rocket made their debut in the video game series of Pokémon, in which they are a portrayed as a crime syndicate with the goal of world domination. In reality most of their crimes are far more trivial such as theft (of TMs and fossils), though the games focus on particular, organised attempts by the organisation to monopolise gambling, perform mob take-overs of cities and generally terrorize the inhabitants of Kanto and Johto.

Pokémon

In Pokémon Red, Blue, Yellow, FireRed, and LeafGreen Team Rocket Grunts most often use fierce-looking Pokémon. Their chosen Pokémon tend to be of the Poison type. Their leader, Giovanni, uses mainly ground-type Pokémon and has a loyal Persian. In Red, Blue, Yellow, FireRed and LeafGreen, Giovanni is the final Pokémon Gym Leader of the Viridian City Gym.

Encounters

In Pokémon Red, Blue, Yellow, Fire Red and Leaf Green, the player must foil several schemes by Team Rocket, including those in Celadon City, Saffron City, and, in FireRed and LeafGreen, the Sevii Islands, specifically the fifth island.The team is disbanded by Giovanni after his gym battle defeat. However, in FireRed and LeafGreen, a handful of Team Rocket operatives continue to operate in the Sevii Islands until they are defeated.

In Pokémon Gold, Silver and Crystal, Team Rocket returns to Johto, at

  • The Slowpoke Well
  • Mahogany Town/Lake of Rage
  • Radio Tower in Goldenrod City.

(In Kanto, only accessible after the player has beaten the Elite Four, one member appears in the empty Cerulean City Gym and on Nugget Bridge after having stolen a machine part at the newly redesigned Kanto Power Plant.)

The fate of Team Rocket

Team Rocket as an organization has not yet been abolished in the anime, but it met its demise in the video games. In Red, Blue,Yellow, FireRed, and LeafGreen, the player temporarily disbands the organization by defeating Giovanni in his Viridian Gym. Three years later, in Gold, Silver, and Crystal, Team Rocket continues to survive through its Executives, who control the organization but seek to bring back Giovanni, who is supposedly in solo training. When the Executives are defeated by the player, however, it permanently disbands.

In other games and regions, the crime syndicates are not related to Team Rocket.

In the anime

The most frequently appearing members of the organization in the anime, which is based loosely on the video games, are a team, Jessie, James, and Meowth. They are the main antagonists of the anime series, known for their incompetence in their evil doings as well as acting in their positions as the comic relief of the series. Other frequently-seen members of Team Rocket include Butch, Cassidy and Giovanni, Team Rocket’s Leader.

In the manga

This section is about Team Rocket in manga which directly adapted the video games, particularly Pokémon Adventures. For information on Team Rocket in The Electric Tale of Pikachu and its sequels, which were an adaptation of the anime, see Team Rocket (anime).

In the Pokémon manga series, Pokémon Adventures, Red encounters and battles Team Rocket in many locations, including Mt. Moon, the Vermillion port, where they were kidnapping Pokémon for transport by sea, Lavender Tower and during their siege of Saffron City.

In the manga, Blaine is a former Team Rocket Scientist who had combined the DNA of Mew with his own DNA, creating Mewtwo. However, he gained the DNA of Mewtwo as well, giving him the ability to track Mewtwo. The manga also shows Koga, Lt. Surge, and Sabrina as high-ranking operatives of Team Rocket. A major difference between the manga and other versions of Team Rocket is that several Gym Leaders are antagonists in the manga.

In this continuity, Team Rocket is apparently an acronym for “Raid On the City, Knock-out, Evil Tasks.”[1]

Showdown at Cerise

In the Yellow Caballero arc, the Gym Leaders who had been Rocket admins showed up to help the heroes fight the Elite Four.

Neo Team Rocket

After being defeated by the protagonists in the R/B/Y arc, Team Rocket was reformed as Neo Team Rocket. The leader of Neo Team Rocket is the Mask of Ice, a stranger being able to shoot ice at his enemies in various ways, including Icicle Spears and the ability to freeze anything he touches instantly.

The Mask of Ice kidnapped Green, Silver, Shum, Cart, Will and Karen as children, and raised them as his servants. Green and Silver escaped soon after, but the rest of them remained in his clutches. After Giovanni disbanded Team Rocket, the Mask of Ice recruited the Rocket Grunts that were left behind, forcing those who are not interested by controlling them with masks. However, former Team Rocket Executives Lt. Surge, Sabrina, and Koga were not recruited by Mask of Ice.

The Mask of Ice’s true identity is that of Pryce, the Gym Leader of Mahogany Town.

Sevii Islands

Giovanni later re-formed Team Rocket in the Sevii Islands, where he created and captured Deoxys.

In the Card Game

Team Rocket received two expansion sets of cards in the Pokémon Trading Card Game: “Team Rocket” and “EX: Team Rocket Returns.” These expansions feature Dark Pokémon, which are Pokémon that have been turned evil by Team Rocket. Dark Pokémon are actually dual type, regular type, and Dark-type in the second Team Rocket expansion. There are also “Rocket’s” Pokémon, most of which are EXs, apart from Wobbuffet and Meowth. All of them are Dark-type, though most require their normal elemental energies.

References

Notes
  1. ↑ Kusaka, Hidenori, & Satoshi Yamamoto. Pokémon Adventures, Volume 14. Chuang Yi Publishing Pte Ltd., July 2004. ISBN 981-260-014-0
Publications
  • Nintendo Power. Official Nintendo Pokémon Player’s Guide. Nintendo of America Inc., 1998. ASIN B000CQP8FE
  • Nintendo Power. Official Nintendo Pokémon Player’s Guide Special Edition for Yellow, Red and Blue. Nintendo of America Inc., 1999. ASIN B000CQT878
  • Loe, Casey, ed. Pokémon Special Pikachu Edition Official Perfect Guide. Sunnydale, CA: Empire 21 Publishing, 1999. ISBN 1930206151
  • Nintendo Power. Official Nintendo Pokémon Gold Version & Silver Version Player’s Guide. Nintendo of America Inc., October 2000. ISBN 1-930206-04-6
  • Nintendo Power. Official Nintendo Pokémon Gold Version & Silver Version Complete Pokédex. Nintendo of America Inc., 2001. ISBN 1-930206-06-2
  • Loe, Casey, ed. Versus Books Official Pokémon Gold & Silver Perfect Guide. Sunnydale, CA: Empire 21 Publishing, January 15, 2001. ISBN 0970646801
  • Nintendo Power. Official Nintendo Pokémon Crystal Version Player’s Guide. Nintendo of America Inc., 2001. ISBN 1-930206-12-7
  • Loe, Casey, ed. Versus Books Official Pokémon Crystal Perfect Guide. Sunnydale, CA: Empire 21 Publishing, August 1, 2001. ISBN 0970646852
  • Nintendo Power. Official Nintendo Pokémon FireRed & Pokémon LeafGreen Player’s Guide. Nintendo of America Inc., August 2004. ISBN 193020650X
Manga volumes
  • Kusaka, Hidenori, & Mato. Pokémon Adventures, Volume 1: Desperado Pikachu. VIZ Media LLC, July 6 2000. ISBN 1569315078
  • Kusaka, Hidenori, & Mato. Pokémon Adventures, Volume 2: Legendary Pokémon. VIZ Media LLC, December 6 2000. ISBN 1569315086
  • Kusaka, Hidenori, & Mato. Pokémon Adventures, Volume 3: Saffron City Siege. VIZ Media LLC, August 5 2001. ISBN 1569315604
  • Kusaka, Hidenori, & Mato. Pokémon Adventures, Volume 5: The Yellow Caballero: Making Waves. VIZ Media LLC, April 2002. ISBN 1591160278
  • Kusaka, Hidenori, & Mato. Pokémon Adventures, Volume 6: The Yellow Caballero: The Cave Campaign. VIZ Media LLC, September 5 2002. ISBN 1591160286
  • Kusaka, Hidenori, & Mato. Pokémon Adventures, Volume 7: The Yellow Caballero: The Pokémon Elite. VIZ Media LLC, January 2003. ISBN 1569318514
  • Kusaka, Hidenori, & Mato. Pokémon Adventures, Volume 8. Chuang Yi Publishing Pte Ltd., July 2003. ISBN 981-241-300-6
  • Kusaka, Hidenori, & Mato. Pokémon Adventures, Volume 9. Chuang Yi Publishing Pte Ltd., September 2003. ISBN 981-241-511-4
  • Kusaka, Hidenori, & Satoshi Yamamoto. Pokémon Adventures, Volume 10. Chuang Yi Publishing Pte Ltd., November 2003. ISBN 981-241-546-7
  • Kusaka, Hidenori, & Satoshi Yamamoto. Pokémon Adventures, Volume 11. Chuang Yi Publishing Pte Ltd., January 2004. ISBN 981-241-600-5
  • Kusaka, Hidenori, & Satoshi Yamamoto. Pokémon Adventures, Volume 12. Chuang Yi Publishing Pte Ltd., March 2004. ISBN 981-241-723-0
  • Kusaka, Hidenori, & Satoshi Yamamoto. Pokémon Adventures, Volume 13. Chuang Yi Publishing Pte Ltd., April 2004. ISBN 981-241-760-5
  • Kusaka, Hidenori, & Satoshi Yamamoto. Pokémon Adventures, Volume 14. Chuang Yi Publishing Pte Ltd., July 2004. ISBN 981-260-014-0
  • Kusaka, Hidenori, & Satoshi Yamamoto. Pokémon Adventures, Volume 15. Chuang Yi Publishing Pte Ltd., September 2004. ISBN 981-260-098-1
  • Kusaka, Hidenori, & Satoshi Yamamoto. Pokémon Adventures, Volume 21. Chuang Yi Publishing Pte Ltd., February 2006. ISBN 981-4204-44-7
  • Kusaka, Hidenori, & Satoshi Yamamoto. Pokémon Adventures, Volume 22. Chuang Yi Publishing Pte Ltd., October 2006. ISBN 981-269-437-4
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