>>52274772Lysandre got shat on because of bad writing, not that the darkness of the story line was intrinsically bad. He’s a misanthrope who wants to the world to be reborn into a beautiful one. So what does he do? Create a team of gaudily dressed, shitty rich people who paid their way into being saved from the apocalypse. Why would he want those people around him? And he was so obviously evil, and yet nobody noticed? Of course, Gamefreak is fucking terrible at correcting mistakes, so they didn’t learn the right lessons from Team Flare.