>>28829803It's not the same thing.
They don't act, evil, yes. But you can tell there's something wrong with them, either from the way they look or the way they talk.
Aether, from the trailers, seems to be composed of happy, kind, non-evil looking executives with a noble, acceptable goal (instead of an inherently shady, extremist one like Plasma's). The most "evil" I can see them doing is growing slightly zealous due to the UB threat and attempting some sort of extreme measure that forces the player to fight through them to stop it and bring them to their senses.
Compare Guzma, who looks shady, acts shady and runs an obviously shady team whose goal is simply to steal and sell Pokémon and possibly attempt some sort of revenge coup on Guzma's part. It's obvious where good and evil lies.
What I find funniest is that this whole debacle was born from people thinking Team Skull isn't a "proper" evil team.
And the thing is, I would actually like it if this twist happened. But I really don't expect a Pokémon story to attempt this sort of storytelling of presenting blatantly positive characters and having it turn out that they're evil psychos bent on ruling/destroying the world.
