>>44568128>Team Plasma, Rocket, Cipher etc.Horrible people and horrible pokemon exist. If a pokemon wants powers, domination, and to rule everything, they'll join up with humans and do it with them. Some like it, some pokemon hate it and fight against it.
>Silver and Ghetsis Logically, yeah they should be! You abuse a pokemon it'll just run away or attack you, but if it can't escape or believes in you it'll stay. Pokemon is a wildly inconsistent franchise where pokemon are shown to very powerful creatures and intelligent one moment and the next moment weak and defenseless. It doesn't make a great deal of sense, but my best guess, they want their trainer to be better or hope for a better future so they push past the abuse.
>Pokemon are not as smart as you think.If you want to be technical, once again: Team Rockets Meowth exists. This is a regular meowth, that just learned through hard work and dedication how to read, write, talk, work and understand advanced technology. He's also wildly independent, and has shown how mature he is in comparison to every other character in the show. I'm not sure why you're ignoring that this pokemon has had conversations with other non-speaking pokemon and has shown that they have complex thoughts as well, they just can't verbalize them to humans. Good time to mention, Meowth's Pokedex entries do not imply that they instantly upon evolution will have human level intelligence like Dragonite or Alakazam, or most psychic types, so the only logical explanation is that it has the CAPABILITY to reach human level intelligence and speak. This random meowth can do that, a Lucario did that as well, it was also shown to be of higher level thinking. There is a Slowking that learned how to talk, and is of higher level thinking showing its great philosophical knowledge.
All pokemon have the capability to thrive its their choice to do it.
