Team Rocket

**Team Rocket** is the main antagonistic force in Pokémon Red (Animation Series) and Pokémon Gold (Animation Series).

## Members

* Leadership
* Executives
* Scientists
* Affiliates

Giovanni (Founder/Formerly)Archer.pngArcher (Current)

Ariana.pngArianaProton.pngProtonPetrel.pngPetrelSilver.pngSilver

Blaine (Formerly)Mr. fuji.pngMr. Fuji (Formerly)

Leaf (Formerly)Eusine.pngEusine
## History

### Formation

In his adult life, Giovanni faced rejection and humiliation from fellow peers regarding his theories regarding Mew's existence and other Pokémon connections. Only a few would believe Giovanni, such as Ariana and Archer, and they would help him try and prove those theories. Eventually, the stress of having a family with Ariana, and the humiliation of being mocked for his theories, caused Giovanni to push to the breaking point. Seeing that he was getting no where in life, Giovanni started Team Rocket and began hiring people to serve as his grunts. Alongside Ariana and Archer, two others would join Giovanni's close circle: Petrel and Proton.

Team Rocket began capturing Pokémon for their own experiments and even killed Marowaks for their skulls in order to gain a profit. Giovanni approached two scientists, Mr. Fuji and Blaine, to help with the research and create a Pokémon using the DNA of Mew he stole a long time ago. The scientists helped create this Pokémon at the Pokémon Mansion, named Mewtwo, but Mr. Fuji left after seeing the criminal activities Team Rocket committed to get the funding.

Eventually, Mewtwo was finished, but the former broke out of its capsule and ran off, destroying the Pokémon Mansion in the process. Giovanni and his family escaped the wreckage, but his oldest daughter Mars was separated by the disaster and brought to the Global Police for her safety.

### Sevii Island Takeover

Sometime after the events of the Pokémon Mansion incident, Team Rocket began setting up a base at the Sevii Islands. Archer led the movement, even having his Grunts invade an orphanage and draft the children into the criminal organization. One of these kids was Leaf, who despised her time in the organization and hoped one day to escape.

### Searching Mt. Moon

By the time Red began his journey, Team Rocket was well known by Kanto and reports of their criminal activities were reported. Red's first encounter with Team Rocket was at Mt. Moon, seeing Grunts force their Pokémon to carry rocks and search for Fossils. Red defeated the Grunts and saved a Super Nerd who found two Pokémon Fossils deep in the caves. With the operation ruined, Team Rocket left Mt. Moon.

### Trouble at Cerulean City

Sometime later, Red walked through the Nugget Bridge north of Cerulean City and defeated the five Trainers guarding the bridge. Once Red defeated the five Trainers, the leader gave Red a Nugget and revealed to be a member of Team Rocket. The Grunt offered Red a chance to join the criminal organization with promises of rising through the ranks, but he refused and readies himself to fight the Grunt. However, Red saw that the five Trainers he fought earlier were members of Team Rocket as well and he is surrounded. Fortunately, Misty arrived with Golduck and prepares to help Red fight off Team Rocket.

Misty and Red defeated the group, and the former interrogated the leader for information. The leader revealed that Team Rocket planned on getting fossils and a mysterious Pokémon in the Cerulean Caves. With the information given to her, Misty tied up the Grunts and called the police. However, Misty was denied access into the Cerulean Caves.

Days later, Red confronted a Grunt who stole TM - 28 Dig from a civilian and won the disc back. The Grunt returned to Celadon City and entered the Hideout located underneath the Game Corner. The Grunt admitted to losing TM - 28 to Red, meaning Team Rocket could not use Dig to gather Pokémon Fossils or find a way into the Cerulean Cave. Disappointed by the Grunt's failures, Giovanni had Ariana take the former into a room where her Arbok eats him alive.

### Trying to Catch Mewtwo

Eventually, Giovanni led a mission to capture Mewtwo at the Cerulean Caves, having tracked the Genetic Pokémon there. Mewtwo proved too much for Team Rocket's Pokémon, even tossing aside Giovanni's Nidoqueen when she tried to attack. Then, Mewtwo used its abilities to force Giovanni recall all the painful memories he lived through. Enraged that Mewtwo forced him to relive those moments, Giovanni ordered his henchmen to capture Mewtwo. It failed, and Giovanni ordered Nidoking to use Strength on Mewtwo. However, Mewtwo took the shattered pieces of boulder Nidoking threw at it, and sent it back to the latter, resulting in Nidoking losing an eye. In desperation, Giovanni tried to punch Mewtwo in the face, only to get sent flying across the room.

With the mission failure, Giovanni and his group return to the Team Rocket Hideout to recover. There, Giovanni read about Silph Co. developing a Master Ball.

### Rocket Game Corner Battle

When Red first entered Celadon City, he saw Team Rocket Grunts outside the city, hinting to him that they were around. Simultaneously, Leaf escaped from Team Rocket and made her way to Pallet Town. After telling Red and Professor Oak her story, along with the former revealing what he saw, Oak suggested that Red and Leaf go to the police and report the criminals there.

There, Red and Leaf see Team Rocket discussing the Game Corner and how it was making them a profit, along with the secret switch in the building to enter the Hideout. With that knowledge, Red and Leaf tried to warn the authorities, but they fail as Team Rocket has bribed them into looking the other way. With some encouragement from Erika, Red and Leaf trained for their attack on the Team Rocket Hideout the following night. The two discretely pushed the button and enter the Hideout. Immediately, two Grunts attacked, but Red and Leaf quickly defeated them. Then, Leaf took the Grunts clothes and had herself and Red disguise themselves so they can sneak around the place. The two remained incognito and received packages to take, but Red heard a Marowak cry and saw a Grunt ripping off the latter's skull. Enraged to see that, along with realizing that the package he got was Marowak skulls, Red walked up to the Grunt and sucker punched him in the face as Charmeleon burns the money his partner was counting.

With their cover blown, Red and Leaf went on the offensive and begin attacking the Grunts. Giovanni witnessed the action on his camera and ordered Petrel to deal with them. Suddenly, two more Grunts appeared and Red was restrained by one of the Grunts before getting beaten by the other, while Charmeleon is restrained by the Grunts' Pokémon. Leaf tried to call the police, but she and Ninetales are knocked out and Petrel tells the officer to stand down. Both Red and Charmeleon get pummeled by the Grunt and their Pokémon, but the latter evolved into Charizard and knocked out all the Grunts and their Pokémon in the process. Afterwards, Red confronted Giovanni, managing the defeat the latter with his team. Giovanni accepted defeat, giving Red the Silph Scope and tossed him the keys to unlock the prize Pokémon at the Game Corner.

After Giovanni and Petrel left, Red and Leaf gave the keys to the prize Pokémon over to the International Police, freeing them. Red and Leaf told the International Police and the news everything they learned from their adventures under the Game Corner, all while getting medical treatment for themselves and their Pokémon. The news made it all the way across Kanto as the bribed police officer was arrested, and Red's Mother and Professor Oak watch in delight. However, Giovanni was less than happy that Red foiled his plans and was left fuming while reading the paper.

## Trivia

* Most of the actions seen are expansions for this animation series.