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I liked Team Skull because they weren't too flash, people in-game would just say "oh team skulls a bunch of thugs trying too hard, don't mind them" and they were mainly there just to fuck shit up because they reveled in that with each other.
It was minimal like Team Rocket, but there was touch more personality to it which made up for the lack of successful crime they did in contrast to Rocket, in a way I think of it as a pre-evo to Rocket where they're not big time but they just do what they do to get up there and be feared/respected.
It was a breath of fresh air from shit like pirates wanting to flood the earth for fish, bowlcut 'astronauts' who were fine with wanting to destroy the universe because Cyrus was like "emotions and this earth sucks, lets just get rid of them", and until Lysandre whipped out some death cannon in X/Y, people who wanted to genocide the globe so only a world of 'better' people existed, etc.
Which in terms of Flare was disappointing because they were just about cash money at first but I guess when your legendaries are about life and death, it needed to be thrown in somewhere.
I know pokemon is all about super powerful creatures who can do shit like destroy moving trains just with one arm, but not everything needed to be about one kid saving the whole planet because the villains went to cartoony levels of insane that they wanted to fuck all of life up, just because.
