>team rocket
rockets are firearms and refer to the Italian mafia who use these weapons
>team aqua/magma
self explanatory
>team galactic
a reference to how cyrus wanted to create a new galaxy
>team plasma
Plasma is superheated matter so hot that the electrons are ripped away from the atoms forming an ionized gas just like how team plasma wants to separate pokemon and humans
>team flare
this doesn't have shit to do with beauty an i'll go with that one alien plot flares are already well know things associated with aliens like the phoenix's UFO
>team skull
nothing really besides wanting to sound "badass"
>team aether
aether means a shit oad of things but i guess it's a reference to the fifth element and USUM had a lot of alchemy theories going on already
>team yell
pedophiles obsessed with the worst pokegirl
>team star
all star team members have star names which create a cassiopeia constellation
