Team Rocket

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Team Rocket is an evil organization from the Pokémon video games. Led by Giovanni, they are a powerful crime syndicate who... sell Pokémon illegally? Isn't that like buying a puppy instead of hunting it? This Pokémon stuff is serious business. Anyway, the most famous members of Team Rocket are Jessie, James (lol jesse james, geddit?) and Meowth, and this article will be primarily discussing them. They mainly spend their time chasing after ten-year-old kids and their pet mouse.

Other Members of Team Rocket

• Biff Bitch Butch & Cassidy - Basically (more) evil versions of Jessie and James.
• Atilla & Hun - They want to capture a Raikou.
• Giovanni - The leader of Team Rocket.
• Iron Masked Marauder - Voiced by Dan Green, he wants to capture Celebi, destroy all the forests and create a monster... so he can get promoted. What?
• A whole bunch of random Rocket Grunts you'll find all over the place.
• Dr. Robotnik - A fat scientist who chases hedgehogs.
• Robert & Ford - Two guys who want to kill Jessie and James.

Their Pokémon

James

• Weezing (was released)
• Cacnea (given away)
• Victreebell (fell in love with another Victreebell and ran away)
• Chimecho (got sick for no reason and was given away)
• Mime Jr.
• Carnivine
• Growly (Growlithe, at James' mansion)
• Magikarp (bought it thinking that is was worth something, released by anger; evolved into a Gyrados that sent them into a deserted island)

Jessie

• Arbok (was released)
• Dustox (was released)
• Wobbuffet
• Seviper
• Yanmega
• Lickitung (was traded for Wobbuffet)

Meowth

• Erm... Meowth IS a Pokémon... who can talk!!!

Team Rocket with their latest recruit.

Quotes

James

• COOL!!
• Leo Burnett and 4Kids are the Devil! Leo Burnett!
• Weezing, Go!
• It's a Pokémon perched precariously on a precipice!
• YES!!
• It's times like these that make me wish I'd gone straight.

Jessie

• Arbok, Go!
• James, you ignoramus!
• Do whatever you have to do to get that Pikachu!

Meowth

• Meowth, dat's right!
• Then, the boss will say, "Meowth and his friends are very sexy.. but mostly Meowth!"

Trivia

• They've actually been played as sympathetic people in the past.
• In Pokemon Firered/Leafgreen, you fight Team Rocket. However, in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, instead of fighting Team Rocket, you fight Team Aqua or Team Magma or both in Emerald. In Diamond and Pearl, you'll fight Team Galactic.
• Some people believe that they're rip-offs of the Doronjo team from the Yatterman anime.
• Meowth is the only member of Team Rocket who made it in the Super Smash Bros. series. He appeared in the original game and Super Smash Bros. Brawl as an assist Pokémon, but he only appeared as a trophy in Super Smash Bros. Melee.
• Despite the fact that James is openly gay, it's rumored that he and Jessie had a child together. Jessie probably raped James.
• Meowth is from Hollywood, California, USA.
• They believe that both some guy named Leo Burnett and 4Kids are the devil! It's half-ironic because Pokemon was once owned by 4Kids themselves.