>>57552637> I literally addressed the remakes.All you said was "Game Boy Advance and the Switch aren't the original Game Boy.", implying that they do not count.
>Team Rocket is praised for being about money and not a cult like the other teams, but its also praised for acting like a fucking cult.Because most of the other teams are based around a specific, high concept goal (Team Magma/Aqua, creating more sea/land, Team Galactic, rewriting the universe, etc.) Team Rocket is a relatively straightforward group in that they want money and power and not much else. Even in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon where Giovanni has his sights set on the multiverse, you can argue that their actual M.O. is unchanged: They took over the Aether Foundation and their using Ultra Beasts as weapons can be considered an extension of their "Pokemon are just tools" M.O. Saying that they're strictly money is an oversimplification, but Giovanni doesn't have a grand ideal aside from maybe backing up his claims of being the world's strongest trainer, and he doesn't really need one. They're the classic bad guy group: Crime is profitable, it grants power and Pokemon aren't friends, but a means to an end.
As for Giovanni's charisma, if you REALLY want to limit it to gen 1, then it would be the same type that Bowser has in the Mario games: He's confident and powerful and therefore attracts followers. He calls himself the greatest trainer (which led to his title later in gen 5: The self-proclaimed world's strongest trainer) as well as his creed that all Pokemon exist for Team Rocket to use.
