>>27187358Gen 1: Team Rocket want to steal Pokémon and resell them for money
Gen 2: Team Rocket want the above and also to get their beloved boss back
Gen 3: Team Aqua want to flood the world for nature's good, Team Magma want to dry up the seas for nature's good
Gen 4: Cyrus wants to harness the power of legendary Pokémon to become god or something
Gen 5: Ghetsis wants to use N's power to communicate with Pokémon in order to make himself and Team Plasma more powerful and take over the world, N wants to use Team Plasma to help free all of the Pokémon in the world, Ghetsis pretends to go along with this plan... or something along those lines?
Gen 6: There's some bad guys, they talk about beauty, then the boss gains robot tentacles and brings back a machine that killed millions of people a long time ago because ???
They could have had it so Lysandre wanted to bring back his dead wife and needed the machine Az used for his Floette or something like that, but instead they just seemed to have a fundamental desire to destroy the world.
