Team Star

Team Star was a group of rebellious students at the Naranja/Uva Academies led by Cassiopeia that appears in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet as the main antagonists in the Starfall Street storyline.
==Overview==
Founded and led by the mysterious big boss Cassiopeia and their friends and squad bosses Giacomo, Mela, Atticus, Ortega and Eri, Team Star consists of the most rebellious students from the game's academy. Defying norms, their grunts wear a modified school uniform. The helmets contain the team's signature star logo, a yellow star with a white thunderbolt streaking through it. They also wear star-shaped glasses. Their signature phrase is "Hasta la vistar", which is a combination of "Hasta la vista" (meaning “Goodbye” in Spanish) and "star".
In Pokémon Scarlet, grunts wear orange and white, while in Violet, they wear purple and white.
Male grunts wear a tie with a white star imprinted on it along with a white shirt with the signature star logo on their left shoulder. Female members wear a sleeveless shirt that lacks the star logo, but have a tie with the white star on it.
The grunts serve one of five different squads, each led by a single boss. The boss has their own badge signifying their strength and being the leader of the squad. They in turn are led by a "Big Boss", although the big boss lets them do as they please as long as it respects the code, which was drafted by Giacomo.
The team code states that the big boss is unable to force the others to comply with their requests. However, to serve as a power balance, the bosses can be challenged by outsiders, during which their squad attempts to defend them in a tactic known as a "Star Barrage" - challengers have to defeat 30 of their Pokémon within a 10 minute time frame to force the boss to confront the outsider themselves. If the boss fails to defeat the challenger, they are forced to give up their badge to them and disband their squad.
==Plot==
==Squads==
Team Star is divided into five squads each focused on a specific type of Pokémon and led by a boss.
Squad 	Alternate Name	Boss 	Type	Base Location
Segin Squad 	Dark Crew 	Giacomo	 	West Province (Area One)
Schedar Squad	Fire Crew 	Mela 	 	East Province (Area One)
Navi Squad 	Poison Crew 	Atticus	 	Tagtree Thicket
Ruchbah Squad	Fairy Crew 	Ortega 	 	North Province (Area Three)
Caph Squad 	Fighting Crew 	Eri 	 	North Province (Area Two)
==Members==
=== Leaders ===
Name 	Position 	Pokémon (Rematch)	Base Location
Cassiopeia	Big Boss of Team Star 	Umbreon
Vaporeon
Jolteon
Flareon
Leafeon
Sylveon	N/A
Giacomo 	Boss of the Segin Squad 	Cacturne
Honchkrow
Mabosstiff
Krookodile
Kingambit	West Province (Area One)
Mela 	Boss of the Schedar Squad	Torkoal
Coalossal
Houndoom
Arcanine
Armarouge	East Province (Area One)
Atticus 	Boss of the Navi Squad 	Skuntank
Muk
Dragalge
Toxapex
Revavroom	Tagtree Thicket
Ortega 	Boss of the Ruchbah Squad	Klefki
Azumarill
Wigglytuff
Hatterene
Dachsbun	North Province (Area Three)
Eri 	Boss of the Caph Squad 	Primeape
Toxicroak
Passimian
Lucario
Annihilape	North Province (Area Two)
==Trivia==
*This marks the first time an antagonistic group would have version exclusive outfits.
*Each of the 5 Bosses keeps their Pokémon in different non-standard Poké Balls: Giacomo uses Timer Balls, Mela uses Quick Balls, Atticus uses Repeat Balls, Ortega uses Luxury Balls, and Eri uses Heal Balls.
**They are also the only Pokémon Trainers other than the two professors (who use Master Balls) to keep their Pokémon in non-standard Poké Balls in Scarlet and Violet outside of the DLC.
*The bosses of Team Star are the only major battles against a human trainer (excluding the DLC), where they don't Terastallize any of their Pokémon in at least one of their battles against you. This is likely because the Pokémon League in Paldea wouldn't grant Tera Orbs to members of Team Star.
**The only exception is Cassiopeia (Penny), who has good grades, and ceased her Team Star activity long before the events of the game.
*Team Star continues the trend of the "evil teams" being redeemed by the end of the story, by ultimately being sympathetic (not evil at all, just misunderstood), and not being responsible for the major threat of the story.
**Though Team Magma/Aqua and N's half of Team Plasma and a Rocket Grunt ultimately turned good after the story concluded, they were still the main threats of their respective games.
*The Starmobiles may be based on dekotora, a kind of decorated truck from Japan.
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Category:Reformed characters