Pokémon crime organizations

In every Pokémon video game, anime, and manga series, there has been an organization that opposes the main characters, tries to steal Pokémon and rob people of their money, and sometimes even attempt to take over the world. This is a list of all those organizations.

## Team Rocket

Team Rocket are the crime syndicate of the Kanto region and in the games _Pokémon Red_, _Blue_, and _Green_ as well as their remakes _FireRed_ and _LeafGreen_ and _Let's Go Pikachu_ and _Let's Go Eevee_. They are also the crime syndicate in the Johto region and in the games _Pokémon Gold_, _Silver_, and _Crystal_ as well as their remakes _HeartGold_ and _SoulSilver_.

### In the anime

Team Rocket do not show up much in the anime except for the duo that works for Team Rocket: Jessie and James. They are in almost every episode in the Pokémon anime. They usually come up with a plan to capture Ash Ketchum's Pikachu by using a big machine or setting a trap. Team Rocket have worn a lot of costumes as part of their plans. When they show themselves, they usually repeat their motto. Along with that duo, there are other members of Team Rocket such as the other duo, Butch and Cassidy, who are the rivals of Jessie and James. All of their attempts have failed, the only exception being in the _Pokémon Sun and Moon_ anime in which they defeated both Ash's Pikachu and Rowlet by using their own Mimikyu and Mareanie.

Other members of Team Rocket are also seen in the anime such as Doctor Zager, Matori, other less notable members of Team Rocket, and Giovanni himself.

### Games (Generations 1, and 2)

Team Rocket can be found in the games that take place in Kanto or Johto such as _Pokémon Red_, _Blue_, and _Yellow_, and _Pokémon Gold_, _Silver_, and _Crystal_. In _Pokémon Yellow_, Jessie and James can be found in fourlocations during the game. The leader of Team Rocket, Giovanni, can be found in Rocket Hideout in which players must beat him to get the Silph Scope for Pokémon Tower. There players beat him to save Mr. Fuji and get the Poké Flute, on the top floor of the Silph Co., wherehere players beat him and get the Master Ball as a prize.

### Other media

In the Pokémon manga series, _Pokémon Adventures_, Red finds and battles Team Rocket in many places, including Mt. Moon, the Vermilion port (where they were taking Pokémon for sea travel), Lavender Tower, and during their takeover of Saffron City. In the manga, Blaine was a Team Rocket scientist who had combined the DNA of Mew with his own DNA top create Mewtwo. However, he gained the DNA of Mewtwo as well, which gave them a close relationship. The manga also shows Koga, Lt. Surge, and Sabrina as high-ranked members of Team Rocket. A major difference between the manga and other versions of Team Rocket is that several Gym Leaders are villains in the manga.

In the manga, Team Rocket is an acronym for
“**R**aid
**O**n the
**C**ity,
**K**nock-out,
**E**vil
**T**asks.”

## Team Aqua and Team Magma

**Team Aqua** and **Team Magma** are the two feuding crime syndicates in the Hoenn region and in the games _Pokémon Ruby_, _Sapphire_, and _Emerald_, as well as their remakes _Omega Ruby_ and _Alpha Sapphire_.

### Anime

Teams Aqua and Magma do not play a part in the anime very much. They are not Pokémon thieves, but they fight against each other. Team Magma's goal is to evaporate oceans and create more usable land for people and Pokémon by using Groudon to carry out their plans. Team Aqua's goal is to flood the earth and create more water habitats for Pokémon, using Kyogre to do so. When the two teams clash and try to use their legendary Pokémon to defeat each other, the resulting natural disaster almost caused an incident of. The teams disbanded soon afterward.

### Games

Aqua and Magma agents and the leaders Archie of Aqua, and Maxie of Magma play a part in Pokémon R/S/E. The agents must be fought to get to their leaders. Archie and Maxie may help in a double battle against other trainers, but players also have to battle them as the leader of their teams.

## Team Galactic

Team Galactic are the crime syndicate in the Sinnoh region, which is the setting of the video games _Pokémon Diamond_ and _Pearl_. The team is led by a man named Cyrus, who grew up in Sunyshore City and hated the company of both people and Pokémon, and prefers the company of machines. The team has three commanders: Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Their goal is to create a new universe, which they can control. Many of the grunts have no idea of the real goal of Team Galactic.

### Anime

Team Galactic has made several appearances in the anime. All of the commanders and Cyrus have appeared. Their goal is similar to the games. Their hunter, J, plays a part in the _Diamond and Pearl_ series. She tries to freeze Pokémon in a stone-like state and then to steal them while they are powerless. She steals Ash's Pikachu, Team Rocket's Meowth, and a trainer's Gardevoir, but they are rescued later in the episode. Gary and Ash team up to save four Shieldon that J was taking.

### Games

In _Diamond and Pearl_, they kidnap the legendary Lake Trio (Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf) and take crystals from them to create an item known as the Red Chain, which chains and controls a Pokémon but keeps their full power. The player goes in Galactic's headquarters and defeats Cyrus and so he lets the player release the three after beating Saturn. At the Spear Pillar, Cyrus uses the Red Chain to bring the legendary Pokémon Dialga (in Diamond) or Palkia (in Pearl) out and plans to use their power to create the new universe in which he will be the new leader. However, the Lake Trio come back to suppress the legendary's power and break the Red Chain, which stops Cyrus. After that and Cyrus's failure to defeat the player, most of Team Galactic leaves, including Cyrus himself. Only a handful remain in Veilstone City, led by Saturn, who has decided to found a new, better Team Galactic.

In _Platinum_, however, Team Galactic plans to get both legendaries of time and space, causing an enraged Giratina, the third Sinnoh deity that represents dimensions, chaos, and death. The player will have to chase down Cyrus, who now wants the power of the previously-unknown Giratina, to an eerie dimension known as the Distortion World in which Giratina has lived for many ages. Later in the game, it is revealed that Mars and Jupiter quit Team Galactic. It also features a new Team Galactic member named Charon, who is arrested shortly after Mars and Jupiter quit.

## Team Plasma

Team Plasma are the villainous team in the Unova region. They first appear in Black and White but also make an apperance in the subseqent sequel, Black 2 and White 2. Team Plasma's original goal was to "liberate" all Pokémon from their Trainers by either convincing the Trainer to release their Pokémon,or by taking rgw Pokémon by force. Ghetsis, one of Team Plasma's leaders, exploited the group in an attempt to rule Unova as the only one with Pokémon and formed Neo Team Plasma.

Two years after Neo Team Plasma's defeat, the good Team Plasma returned with a new goal to rule Unova. A small group from the original Team Plasma was still loyal to N and took it upon themselves to take care of the weakened Pokémon in the wild.

## Team Flare

Team Flare are the main villians of X/Y. They want to remake the world in their own image using the power of a legendary Pokémon. They were defeated by the main protagonists.

## Team Skull

Team Skull was a gang of thugs in the Alola region. They were by Guzma. They steal Pokémon, and Bug-type Z-Crystals.

### Game

The Aether Foundation are the true antagonists of Sun/Moon. They are led by Lusamine and want to steal and freeze Pokemon.

### Anime

The Aether Foundation turn out to be good

## Team Yell

Team Yello are another gang of thugs and follow Marnie around.

## Team Macro Cosmos

Team Marco Copsmos is Galar, an energy company that is run by Chairmen Rose, whose goal is to use the unstable pink galar particles in Dynamaxing as the only energy source for galar and has a secret plan to imprison a Pokémon forever, known as The Darkest Day. It is made up of Galar Particles to use for energy, and the unstable galar particles cause Pokémon to rampage.

## The Explorers

Pokemon trainers in Pokemon Horizons but go about their cause like Pokemon hunters. They want to steal Liko's pendant for unknown reasons.