The Squirtle Squad Is The Coolest Pokemon Gang Of All Time

thegamer.com:

Never has a gang of roving wild Pokemon captured as much attention as the Squirtle Squad, a ragtag crew of five sunglasses-wearing Squirtles from the first season of the Pokemon anime, and who generally wreak havoc on townsfolk and lived dangerously on the wrong side of the law. These Pokemon ruffians are a menacing sight, of course, and are mostly indistinguishable from one another aside from their leader, a Squirtle with a particularly angular pair of sunglasses. Abandoned by their trainers, they had since banded together to pull off a bunch of silly pranks on humans, which is how they met Ash and his friends: by trapping them in a pit they’ve dugged, their five, blue, orbular heads peeking out from the side to sneer at them. It’s their tough-guy, devil-may-care reputation, a stark contrast to the doe-eyed look that most Squirtles have, that makes them so endlessly endearing; later in the episode, we see the Squirtle Squad doing truly awful stuff like doodling graffiti and stealing fruit.

But we don’t always think about the origins of the coolest Pokemon gang in town, however, and how far their mistrust against the human trainers who have betrayed them extends. Abandoned Pokemon aren’t simply released into the wild; instead, many of them simply wait for their owners to come back, to the point of their health deteriorating rapidly. One example is Ash’s Charmander, who once belonged to another trainer who abandoned him, with Charmander waiting for his first owner till the rain pelted him and almost caused the fire at the tip of his tail to be extinguished—thus nearly losing his life. And in Pokemon Sun & Moon, there’s Stufful who has been abandoned at a motel, or the two Skiddo in Pokemon X that have been sleeping for