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Why are they called Team """ROCKET"""?

Anonymous Thu 24 Mar 2022 21:59:21 No.50015378 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>50015398 >>50016051 >>50017533 >>50017633 >>50020432

There's no rocket theme, the only thing is that there's a rocket sign in FRLG game corner and that executeives who were fully indtroduced in gen 4 have rocket themed names.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 24 Mar 2022 22:01:29 No.50015391 Report

Quoted By: >>50015408 >>50015455 >>50018724

>'Raid On the City, Knock out, Evil Tusks'.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Mar 2022 22:03:08 No.50015398 Report

Quoted By: >>50015405

>>50015378
>Trying to find flaws in Kanto stuff
Go back, Kanto was perfect, nobody cares about your problems with it

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Mar 2022 22:03:22 No.50015400 Report

Quoted By: >>50015976 >>50016400

Because in the super rare book ching chong no densetsu no bouken no pokketo monstah daisuki it is revealed giovanni used to be an astronauts but after his friends betrayed him and his rocket failed he decided to make team rocket so he could fund all his future space projects

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Anonymous Thu 24 Mar 2022 22:03:53 No.50015405 Report

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>>50015398
I mean, there had to be something. I'm just wondering what was it.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 24 Mar 2022 22:04:17 No.50015408 Report

Quoted By: >>50015412 >>50015424 >>50017635

>>50015391
>Evil Tusks
Ok but what the fuck does that mean?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Mar 2022 22:05:12 No.50015412 Report

Quoted By: >>50015424

>>50015408
Im guessing its a typo, evil task makes more sense

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Mar 2022 22:07:57 No.50015424 Report

Quoted By: >>50017698

>>50015408
>>50015412
Think more like fangs instead of tusks (but fangs didn't fit the acronym). They're likening themselves to a monster with fangs to grab the city by the throat/tear it out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Mar 2022 22:14:16 No.50015455 Report

Quoted By: >>50015756 >>50015758

>>50015391
>Manga
>English
ok, and the real answer?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Mar 2022 23:00:23 No.50015756 Report

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>>50015455
That's about as close to an actual answer that wasn't "'Cause calling them Rocket made them sound cool" from Tajiri or something.
Tey were just called that because Tajiri wanted to call them that, the manga writers put some thought into turning it into a motto.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Mar 2022 23:00:36 No.50015758 Report

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>>50015455
One rocket to end the war

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Mar 2022 23:35:47 No.50015976 Report

Quoted By: >>50016280 >>50017627

>>50015400
kys

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Mar 2022 23:49:15 No.50016051 Report

Quoted By: >>50017791

>>50015378
Considering that Pokemon used to be set an alternate version of the real world, it's possible Team Rocket in-universe got its name through inspiration from the Space Race following WW2, Giovanni seeing it both as a reason to continue rising and surpassing contemporaries and foes alike, and as a "radical" moniker based on foreign affairs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 00:25:50 No.50016280 Report

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>>50015976
If a shitty reporter made the world believe satoshi is autistic and a twitter tranny can make people believe ivy was a lesbian then i can shitpost bullshit into mainstream too

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 00:54:11 No.50016400 Report

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>>50015400
I thought that was because he lost his charmanderino

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 04:10:24 No.50017533 Report

Quoted By: >>50017791 >>50018724

>>50015378
Giovanni's team is made of Kaiju, which are powerful monsters
In Japanese the translated "Team" is actually closer to "Gang"
Giovanni founded the Rocket Gang
He chose the symbol rocket because it represents power
Pokemon is a Japanese game so you ough'n't forget the significance of missiles in their culture

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 04:24:44 No.50017627 Report

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>>50015976
you first

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 04:25:52 No.50017633 Report

Quoted By: >>50017745

>>50015378
Why are they standing on the counter

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 04:26:09 No.50017635 Report

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>>50015408
They're the "tusks", or the "fangs" of giovanni. This is unironically it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 04:34:51 No.50017698 Report

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>>50015424
Uhh how about fucking TEETH?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 04:43:02 No.50017745 Report

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>>50017633
Not an interesting answer, but because this picture was taken using a map editor, and sprites are layered on top of everything so they can be seen clearly.

Not OP btw

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 04:52:12 No.50017791 Report

Quoted By: >>50017806 >>50020712 >>50020742

>>50016051
>>50017533
This is probably the least retarded answer. Remember Kanto had a war? Just say Giovanni was a war profiteer and call it a day.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 04:54:27 No.50017806 Report

Quoted By: >>50017860

>>50017791
>Remember Kanto had a war? Just say Giovanni was a war profiteer and call it a day.
that gets more into fan speculation territory but it would be very fascinating if there was evidence for his involvement

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 05:03:23 No.50017860 Report

Quoted By: >>50020712 >>50020742

>>50017806
Yeah, I grant I've got nothing concrete and GameFreak has mostly retconned Lt. Surge's war into oblivion.
I'm just saying Team Rocket being composed of war profiteers and disaffected young men with nowhere to go after the war ended is more believable than "evil tusks."

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 05:19:21 No.50017955 Report

Quoted By: >>50017963 >>50018950

Team Magma and Team Aqua are the only names that make sense, and even then they're simplistic to the point of retardation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 05:20:11 No.50017963 Report

Quoted By: >>50018950 >>50019449

>>50017955
Flare may be a play on words, 'Flair'

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 07:15:53 No.50018583 Report

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i always thought it was bc they reach for the stars or something

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 07:19:27 No.50018597 Report

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"TEAM ROCKET BLASTS OFF AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT"
It means theyre quick to get the job done.

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Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 08:01:42 No.50018724 Report

Quoted By: >>50018918

Because of Rocket Science, retards.

>>50017533
>the translated "Team" is actually closer to "Gang"
Yes, that's intentional censorship. In DPPt, Team Galactic are supposed to reference the Galaxy Gang from Pulseman but that is lost in translation.
>>50015391
Special/Adventures Manga is licensed fanfiction, dumbass.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 09:11:04 No.50018918 Report

Quoted By: >>50018941

>>50018724
There's no clear confirmation TR was invoved with creating Mewtwo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 09:17:05 No.50018941 Report

Quoted By: >>50020712

>>50018918
every piece of media involves them. Mewtwo is giovanni's in rainbow rocket. come on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 09:19:47 No.50018950 Report

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>>50017955
Magma = land
Aqua = sea
Galactic = they pretending to be organization related to space exploration
Plasma = fire/electicity = Reshiram/Zekrom = two ideas
Flare = >>50017963 maybe
Skull = skull themed
Yell = they yell

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 09:36:25 No.50018981 Report

Quoted By: >>50020500

https://books.google.pl/books?id=rNNhhuURbLIC&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122&dq=yakuza+rocket+-dragon&source=bl&ots=SGhTDHeG2L&sig=ACfU3U0G9r6Mduqse7SY7j3P5eOzibY1Dg&hl=pl&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiEt_jG-uD2AhURvYsKHeChD_MQ6AF6BAgVEAM#v=onepage&q=yakuza%20rocket%20-dragon&f=false
I might be on to something

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 11:44:45 No.50019449 Report

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>>50017963
There's a lot of symbolism with Flare, actually.
>Xerneas and Yveltal represent Life/Death
>Life energy is often represented as a flame that can burn or flicker out
>Lysandre has burning ambitions to create a beautiful world but, like a flame, it consumes him and brings him to extremism.
>The admins are named after Solar Flares, which is further extended when you consider the beta apparently had them as aliens and Xerosic is the spitting image of an Ultra Recon Squad member (they even used his model in a SM beta)

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 12:07:41 No.50019558 Report

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If they were introduced now they'd be called Team Steal

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 15:04:06 No.50020432 Report

Quoted By: >>50020440 >>50020471

>>50015378
I'm too damn lazy to search exact source but tl;dr version is that "rockets" was name of biker gang that was bullying Tajiri when he was a kid and their leader was named Sakaki.

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Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 15:05:21 No.50020440 Report

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>>50020432

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Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 15:11:48 No.50020471 Report

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>>50020432
Did they wear turbans?

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Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 15:18:05 No.50020500 Report

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>>50018981
>tfw team rocket actually used rocket launchers in the show

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 15:48:45 No.50020712 Report

Quoted By:

>>50017791
>>50017860
I could see that with Pokemon Masters' "jaded businessman' take on Giovanni.
>>50018941
It's possible they went after Mewtwo specifically because it's strong. LGPE retconned Giovanni's reasons for wanting the Master Ball to be related to catching Mewtwo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Mar 2022 15:51:22 No.50020742 Report

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>>50017791
>>50017860
That would plausible with Pokemon Masters' "jaded businessman" take on Giovanni.

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