>>53481984Of the Pokemon teams, Rocket and Neo Plasma were the only two outright malevolent types. All the others tend to be some form of Well-intentioned extremist or, as mentioned, a smokescreen for the actual antagonists.
And of the aforementioned two, your enjoyment of Rocket depends heavily on how much you mind the SPECTRE/Criminal organization direction the games went all-in on with Rainbow Rocket, and had existed to a lesser extent in the anime/manga.