{"id":157,"date":"2013-04-14T13:48:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T13:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbs.studio-revolution.net\/magazine\/?p=157"},"modified":"2013-09-30T00:11:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T00:11:37","slug":"the-truth-behind-team-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbs.thecoldstorage.uk\/magazine\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"The Truth Behind Team Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jessie, James, and Meowth are widely viewed as completely evil people with no good in them in the black and white elitist society of the Pokemon world. However, this is not the case. Need an explanation? Read on!
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\nJessie grew up as a poor child, in a family with extremely little money. Like, seriously, she used to eat snow. So, her passion in life was to help Pokemon, and she hoped to become a Pokemon Nurse. She applied to a school, but they rejected her. Why? Well, we’re never really given a reason. However, based on the fact that EVERY Pokemon Center has a Nurse Joy and no other human employees, it’s because Jessie was born into the wrong family. She then sees an ad for another Pokemon Nurse school. She eagerly goes there. She’s accepted, but it turns out that all of the other students are Chansey! Jessie decides that she will persevere and become a nurse. She does EXTREMELY well, even helping and befriending one of the less skilled Chansey. Then, she is expelled for making ONE mistake, which is falling asleep when there is a lesson on the Chansey using their Sing attack, which she can’t even help! She’s a human, not a Chansey! Jessie leaves the school, and enrols in Pokemon Tech, where she meets James, and they eventually both fail. So, they join a motorcycle gang and eventually turn to a life of crime in Team Rocket.<\/p>\n

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\nJessie in the school for Chansey. One of these things is not like the other…<\/em><\/p>\n

James was born into a rich family, where it seemed that he had anything a boy could want, and some things a boy would not want. You see, his parents had chosen a woman for him to marry. The woman, Jessiebelle, was a sadist who found flaw with EVERYTHING James did.\u00a0 James is widely believed to be homosexual, as evidenced in many situations, like in the picture below where James is shouting that he is the FLAMING Moltres. It sure didn’t help when Jessie questioned where it came from and Meowth replied that it ‘came out of the closet with James’. He’s also crossed dressed on multiple occasions. But even if he was, well, “interested” in women, there still would be\u00a0 no way he would want a romantic relationship with this woman. As before mentioned, James detested Jessiebelle for many reasons, but the most prevalent being that she wanted to make James a “proper gentleman”. This entailed questioning everything he did, whipping him, and paralyzing him with her Oddish’s Stun Spore attack. What a sadist! James told his parents he didn’t want to marry Jessiebelle. However, his parents would not accept his homosexuality (though that is speculation on my part), and still wanted to force him to marry Jessiebelle. James’ only friend was his Growlithe (Growly; creative nickname, right?). He decided to run\u00a0 away from his unsatisfying and unhappy life.<\/p>\n

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\nI’m the flaming Moltres, indeed…<\/em><\/p>\n

Meowth was a starving alley cat whose entire life revolved around getting food, just to survive. At some point in his scrounging, he joined a gang lead by a Persian. Meowth then met Meowzie, a Meowth that he fell in love with. Meowth attempted to speak to her, with the hopes of kindling a romantic relationship, but she rejected him, as he was a mere street cat who had no humans and no money. Meowth then decided that he would learn to become more like a human. He struggled to learn to talk and to walk on his hind legs. After much, much valiant hard work, he confronted Meowzie. She then rejected him, calling him a freak, something worse than an alley cat. He then vowed to someday win Meowzie’s love, and decided to join Team Rocket to gain prestige and money, which he hoped would help to win Meowzie’s love.<\/p>\n

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\nMeowth being rejected by Meowzie. Little did she know he would go on to become one of the most beloved characters in Pokemon.<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s not just their history though! Multiple times\u00a0the three members have shown their better side.<\/p>\n

A Poached Ego:<\/span><\/p>\n

The episode A Poached Ego<\/em> has Ash and his friends advancing to Rustboro City, and Team Rocket seem to be up to their usual schemes, trying to steal Pikachu and the like. However, they stumble upon a cage crammed full of Ekans and Koffing who had been abused. Jessie attempts to free them by melting the cage with her Arbok’s Acid attack, but they’re confronted by the poacher who is nabbing and abusing these Pokemon. Jessie and James battle him, defeat his Tyranitar and Fearow, and free the Ekans and Koffing. Unfortunately, Jessie and James have to leave their Pokemon (Arbok and Weezing) to protect the Ekans and Koffing from being further menaced.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd our hearts were broken as Arbok was permanently replaced with Seviper, his less cool counterpart… oh, well, at least Weezing left too.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wobbu-Palooza:<\/span><\/p>\n

The twerps (Ash and his friends) are walking along, and, as usual, Team Rocket isn’t far behind. They walk into a town where everyone is wearing a T-Shirt with a Wobbuffet logo, and all of the trainers have Wobbuffet. This is my kind of town! So, Team Rocket are sneaking around, when Wobbuffet pops out of his Pokeball like he so enjoys doing. Then, a woman named Lulu sees Jessie’s Wobbuffet, congratulates her, and befriends Team Rocket. While the twerps are wandering about, they see a severely beaten Wobbuffet. The trainer who owns the Wobbuffet says there were three attackers. Ash and company instantly think “three people + crime = Team Rocket”. They then run into Team Rocket hanging out with Lulu. El Twerpo accuses them of attacking the Wobbuffet. They are, of course, innocent, and Lulu inquires if the twerps have any proof, which they don’t. The real perpetrators then show up, and Jessie and James battle and defeat them.<\/p>\n

One thing I’d like to point out is that the corrupt Officer Jenny does NOTHING to stop these violent criminals and vandals who attempt to destroy the huge Wobbuffet statue in the middle of town and severely injure two Wobbuffet under the bogus claims of “battles being forbidden during the Wobbuffet festival”. So, Team Rocket stop the perpetrators, and are about to fly off in their balloon. The twerps then see that they stole a bag of food. Oh, my, what a crime. The twerps and Jenny then chase them a short distance, and confront them. Jessie informs them that they can’t battle, so they might as well just go away. Well, Jenny then realizes they are about twenty feet outside of the town limits, so she decides it’s OK, even though Team Rocket just committed theft under a thousand and she just did nothing against three violent criminals. Ash unjustly sends the innocent Team Rocket blasting off again.<\/p>\n

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\nOne wonders what kind of insurance they have…<\/em><\/p>\n

The Poke Spokesman:<\/span><\/p>\n

In this episode, our heroes (Team Rocket) are sitting in a man’s rest stop, disguised as old men. They do this because, well, if anyone recognizes them, they instantly judge and condemn them. So, the dude running the rest stop tries to talk to the twerps’ Pikachu when they show up. Corrupt Officer Jenny comes and says that there is a con artist swindling people by pretending to be able to talk to Pokemon. So, she attempts to arrest him, and at some point our heroes reveal themselves as Team Rocket, and then all of a sudden, BOOM! SMOKE MISSILES! BLAM! Out of nowhere, smoke missiles. Whoops.<\/p>\n

Throughout the episode, the actual con artists try to recruit the Poke Spokesman, and all of that stuff. The most important thing in this episode is that Team Rocket do absolutely nothing negative. At the end, Meowth feels bad for the guy who talks to Pokemon, as he thinks he has been imagining his ability. Meowth, kind spirit he is, talks to the man, and pretends that they are speaking Pokemon. Warms your heart, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

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\nPikachu looks pretty spooked… and Meowth wants to help this dude? Wow… maybe his motives aren’t kind after all…<\/em><\/p>\n

So, there you have it!\u00a0 If you weren’t already aware of the truth, then you’ve spent so much time living in a blind haze, a black and white world where Team Rocket are purely evil and Ash and his friends are noble, good people. A world with no shades of gray, an elitist society where everything is decided on which family you were born into and how well you conform. If the world was a more fair place, Jessie would be a Pokemon Nurse, James would have a husband and would have a productive and enjoyable job, and Meowth would live happily with Meowzie. Maybe one day…<\/p>\n


\nWritten by Richard Fightmaster
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