Vicious

Vicious (better known as the Iron-Masked Marauder) is one of the members of Team Rocket and the main antagonist of MS004: Pokémon 4Ever, he's an Elite Officer of Team Rocket, but he attempted to take over the world and Team Rocket with Celebi.
==Appearance ==
 
The Iron-Masked Marauder appears to be a tall and muscular man with tan skin, brown hair on his head (with a spike hair that pr-trues from the top of his head) and chin, and black eyes, he wears a yellow/golden colored helmet with red crossed eyes with black spears behind him, like previous Team Rocket members, the Marauder cious wears a black shirt with the letter "R" that is colored light red, but he also wears a red colored vase with three black spears that the Marauder's Dark Balls and yellow spikes that pr-trues on his shoulders, black shorts with a yellow belt around his waist, and also wears light gray cleans that covers his arms, hands and the Iron-Masked Marauder cious also has yellow bands on his wrists and ankles, and wears yellow colored metal boots with red colored middle and black soles.
==Personality==
Vicious is one of the first example of a most villain wholly without redeeming qualities within the Pokémon franchise- he was downright cruel, ruthless, cunning, menacing, treacherous, selfish, reckless, controlling and generally uncaring of whomever he hurt. He was a depraved and cold-hearted psychopath by nature, gleefully tortured and willingly abused both humans and Pokémon in his scheme to take over the world, even planning to betray and overthrow his boss Giovanni. Even Jessie, James and Meowth were horrified by his sadistic and sociopathic methods.
==Biography==
He first appeared interrogating an old Pokémon hunter for info about a Celebi he had pursued years ago. But when he refused, he decided to show him his Dark Balls by using one to capture a Tyranitar. When the Tyranitar became evil by the Dark Ball's power it began destroying the hunter's camp, In fear, he showed Vicious where to find the Celebi.
Vicious then set out for the forest in a large mecha. He eventually came upon Ash, Misty, Brock, Sam and the hurt Celebi, he then had Tyranitar attack the group, also costing Misty to twist her knee, but failed to capture it when the Team Rocket trio got in the way thanks to James' Weezing, but they quickly offered to join him after they recognized him.
Vicious then sent out his Sneasel and Scizor to pursue the heroes while he followed in his mecha. Eventually, he discovered his Pokémon tied to a rock. After that, Vicious and the Team Rocket trio carried on, leaving his Pokémon behind.
Despite his searching, Vicious failed to find Celebi. However, he quickly abused the group with his as they attempted to return to run, with Jessie, James and Meowth blocking their escape route. Destroying a few trees, Vicious finally managed to grab Celebi with his mecha, then captured it in a Dark Ball horrifying everyone. Ash attempted to save Celebi with the help of a flock of wild Pidgey and they started to have a very rough punch-ons with each other. After the resulting struggle, he quickly reclaimed the Dark Ball by stepping on Ash's hands until he passes out.
Surrounded by mad wild Pokémon, Vicious decided to send evil Celebi's power on them, sending it to attack the wild Pokémon and destroying the forest. After that, Celebi absorbed the surrounding debris, creating a spiked sphere and proceeded to ride deeper into the forest. Along the way, Jessie had been accidentally sucked into the construct, but Vicious welcomed her, as he needed her to witness Celebi's power and relay the information the their boss. With that, Vicious had Celebi transform its construct into a huge wooden monster that began to attack the forest and the Lake of Life, revealing his intentions to usurp Giovanni as leader of Team Rocket and rule the whole world. As the power of Celebi had driven him mad.
When Ash and his friends arrived to try and save Celebi, Vicious sent the Pokémon's attacks to destroy them for good. Ash, Pikachu, and Sam were then saved by the arrival of Suicune, Prompting Vicious to send out his Tyranitar to try and defeat it and catch it. Although it was beaten, Vicious remained confidant as he sent Celebi to destroy Ash and Sam. He watched Celebi trap and torture Suicune, but consequently missed Ash, Pikachu and Sam's infiltration of the construct. When the torture paused when Celebi tried fighting the Dark Ball's power, Vicious attempted to keep Celebi under his control, claiming that the heroes were its enemies. He angrily demanded Celebi to destroy Ash and Sam right now, out of fury. Ultimately, Ash and Sam's pleas won out and Celebi snapped out of its control, Destroying Vicious' Dark Ball and losing balance on Celebi's collapsing monster, causing both him and Jessie to fall into the lake.
Vicious made a last effort to capture Celebi after its recovery, bursting out of the Lake of Life when the Pokémon flew over. He attempted to escape with his jetpack, but Ash and Pikachu manage to grab onto his leg. Vicious was then electrocuted by Pikachu's Thunderbolt after trying to warn Ash about it, destroying his jetpack causing them to fall. Celebi saved Ash and Pikachu, but Vicious was left to fall. Although he survived his fall, his mask was knocked off and his remaining Dark Balls were destroyed.
He was last seen being berated by Towa and then being tied up by String Shot from the other wild Pokémon. He was arrested afterwards shortly before Sam returns back to his time.
==Pokémon==
===Escaped===
===Temporary===
==Trivia==
* The Iron-Masked Marauder is the first Team Rocket member in the anime to serve as the main antagonist of a film.
* His voice is similar to Bowser from "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" (2023). Although, they're the main antagonist of their own movies and the Iron-Masked Marauder is voiced by Dan Green, while Bowser was voiced by Jack Black.
==Gallery==
p vicious.jpg|Vicious's conceptual art
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