>>48744214It's literally a Curse of the Jobmon.
Original Meowth was kind-of a thief, but he didn't need a comical gangster hat or a goodie bag to carry around to sell the message - the coin on his head was a clever tie-in to money. Galarian Meowth is literally "lmao berserker viking".
No coincidence that the worst of Gen 1 is also jobmons.