Let Me Play As Team Rocket Already
Team Rocket are one of the most iconic images across the Pokemon fandom. You ask any casual Pokemon fan to name a human character from the series, and rice cakes to donuts Jessie and James would be mentioned in the first five. After Ash himself, they're probably the most important humans in the story, surviving usurpers Butch and Cassidy, as well as seeing off Misty, Brock, and every companion Ash has had since. In the games though, it's a different story.
Team Rocket are the principal antagonists of Pokemon Red & Blue, and are heavily involved in the story, although Jessie and James are nowhere to be seen. Giovanni, Jessie and James' boss and leader of Team Rocket, is instead the main Rocket character away from the faceless grunts. In Pokemon Yellow, Jessie and James enter the arena, though the story is still built around Giovanni's master plan. Gold & Silver plays out much like Red & Blue, with Rocket involved as generic baddies but without the spice of the anime.
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From there on out, Team Rocket was swapped for different villainous teams. That's not without its merits; Team Magma & Team Aqua are generally agreed to be the two most complex rivals working as antagonists in opposition to each other, while Skull and Yell both inject a sense of comedy to revitalise what it means to be a villain team. Still, it's only the Miss Fortune Sisters of the recent Pokemon Legends: Arceus who may actually eclipse Team Rocket. Why then, if Team Rocket are so great and so important, has the game done them dirty for so long? There's only one solution - we need to play as Team Rocket in the next game.
I already cosplay as Team Rocket in any game that may allow you to. My trainers
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