I know it isn’t AMA month anymore, but since you guys already answered which villain team you would join if you had to, would you both be willing to answer which of those teams you most disagree with?

BILL
Without a doubt, Team Rocket. While many of the other organizations at least feign having benevolent intentions (except Team Skull, I suppose, but I question whether or not they count), Team Rocket is very explicit in its goals. Those goals, of course, are the usage of pokémon as tools to further their attempts at power and money. I suppose at the very least, they’re honest about what they want, but that still doesn’t change the fact that they only see living, breathing, thinking creatures as objects to be used for their own selfish wants. It’s quite disgusting, honestly.

On that note, I’d also like to mention Team Plasma as well, which did more or less the same, except it disguised it as a bid for pokémon rights and welfare. The only reason why I don’t think Team Plasma is as disgusting as Team Rocket is because at the very least, some of their followers genuinely do care passionately about the well-being of the pokémon they actually are trying to rescue. It’s just that their reasoning is a bit misguided.

LH
While Bill has a point concerning both Rocket and Plasma, my vote would be with Teams Aqua and Magma. Rocket is simply corrupt, and Plasma is either corrupt or misguided in a comparatively benign way, depending on whom you ask. Aqua and Magma, meanwhile, take their stupidity to a whole new level. Honestly, both of their leaders are fantastic minds, yet neither of them thought for an iota of a second that maybe their plans to “expand the earth” or “increase the oceans” by raising one of the Ancient Ones was, perhaps, a bad idea? Why is it that the younger and more academically brilliant a man is, the more inclined he is to break the world for “the betterment of humanity and all pokémon”?

…I’ll just be over here. —Bill