#asktrsilvers

[trsilvers]

If Tyson is Gary's father in headcanon, then one thing crosses my mind...How do you think Daisy Oak fits in if she existed in the anime? 🤔

What a difficult question, huh?

Well, ACTUALLY….maybe Daisy does exist in the animeverse.

She’s a bit older than Gary, but she also joined Team Rocket so we didn’t get to see her that much.

The plot thickens… the Oak family has two family delinquents 🤣

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What Hogwarts houses do you think each member of Team Rocket would belong in? I did a quiz for Butch and Cassidy a while back; Butch got Ravenclaw, while Cassidy got Slytherin.

I think Ravenclaw and Slytherin are pretty accurate for Butch and Cassidy actually.

Jessie - Slytherin

James - Hufflepuff

Meowth: ….that’s tough. Maybe also Hufflepuff?

Domino - Slytherin

Wendy - Gryffindor

Matori - Ravenclaw for sure

Tyson - Gryffindor

Hun - Slytherin

Attila - Hufflepuff

Pierce - Ravenclaw

Sebastian - Slytherin

Zager - Ravenclaw

Namba - expelled before being sorted

Giovanni - belongs to no house, he just purchased Hogwarts so all the houses belong to him

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What is your favourite quote for each Team Rocket character?

Good question. This took me a hot minute but was really fun to think about.

Jessie - “Thank badness we’re alive!!!” I actually don’t remember which episode this is from, I tried to google it, but I specifically remember it because I used to quote it all the time. I just thought the idea that villains would actually say “thank badness” was hilarious.

James - Zero is a gross exaggeration, we are at least two to three percent worthwhile! (Talkin’ Bout an Evolution) James has like a million great quotes but I always loved this one. You have to appreciate his candid self-awareness 😂 A lot of my favorite Jessie and James moments are where they happily admit they are failures but remain totally undeterred. Also - literally ANYTHING he says in the Flaming Moltres episode 😂

Meowth - “Maybe if we started lookin at what’s the same instead of what’s different…well, who knows?” This is part of his little monologue in the first movie when he’s talking to the clone Meowth, I always loved this quote. I mean, what a great sentiment, delivered in a touching way that only Meowth could do.

Cassidy - “Oh I’m still shaking like a leaf officer thank goodness you were here to stop them before they hurt the Pokémon ~ oh!” (The Breeding Center Secret) Butch and Cassidy have a lot of great quotes, especially from chronicles where they started getting played for laughs, but I really love this one because it highlights Cassidy’s ability to turn on and off this fake persona she’s created totally effortlessly. The delivery of this line is just 10/10. No other episode has really showcased her ability to do that as well as their first appearance, but I always loved that about her. She deserves an award for that performance lmao 😂😂

Butch - “I am, but I like dry socks.” (Showdown at the Oak Corral) I’m sorry, there are also a lot of better Butch quotes than this but I have to pick this one because it made me laugh like no other. The man likes dry socks, ok? 😂 Also I think I just like it because it’s a little glimpse into Butch as a person, he seems like he can be a little particular about stuff.

Domino - “I’m like a totally off the hook fan of yours! I wanna be just like you when I get old!” (Mewtwo Returns) Domino, like Cassidy, has the ability to adopt a fake persona and do a REALLY good job at pretending she’s somebody she’s not. I love her ditzy voice she uses when she’s undercover, but this quote in particular because even when she’s trying to be cute and sweet, this was a pretty backhanded compliment to throw at that doctor. (I forget her name, but she wasn’t even old 😂) It was pretty funny.

Wendy - “Revenge is sweet, my dear Jessie.” (Dues and Don’ts) I mean, you have to love a good long grudge. The fact that Team Rocket even has an HR department is hilarious on its own, but the fact that it seems to be led by a woman who held onto a personal vendetta against a fellow employee for YEARS, all because of a fruit smoothie, is even better.

Attila - “I used to collect them, they’re very sweet creatures.” (Legend of Thunder) I’m pretty sure this is a dub only fact about Attila, but I absolutely love the way they dubbed Attila and the idea of someone like him with a soft spot for Caterpie is just…I love it 😂 Seriously though Attila has a whole score of cheesy dialogue, and I love almost every single thing he says. Yippie Yi Yay 😂

Hun- “You don’t get to run the world by being fair; you get to run the world by being nasty!” (Legend of Thunder) Hun…who hurt you? 😂😂😂 Do you need a hug? This was tough because there are multiple times in LoT that Hun has to try and keep Attila on task, which I love, but I picked this quote as my fav because I like that little glimpse into Hun’s sinister personal ideals.

Tyson - “You look a little…tied up! BAHAHAHAHAJSJFGSHKJAFLSNWSA” (Talkin Bout an Evolution) I’m sorry, I love bad puns, and that exaggerated laugh he does at the end, I love it so much 😂😂😂 There are lots of bad puns in the Pokémon anime, but this one…it’s the laughing at his own joke for me 🤣 And the fact that none of the grunts with him are laughing at all, dub or original. You can tell this is a frequent occurrence and they’re just over it. 😂😂😂

Pierce - “Then we’ll just have to see how good you are. *laugh*” - this might seem like a weird quote, but I picked it solely because of that little laugh he does at the end. Pierce unfortunately didn’t get that much screen time, so he’s not super quotable :( Which is a shame because he really, REALLY has a nice voice. It might actually be my second or third favorite, behind Sebastian and *maybe* Attila (only because I think it suits him so well)

Professor Namba - (singing) “Rage, rage, bring out your raaaaage!” (One of the Lugia episodes, I forget which one) 11/10 beautiful vocals, clearly should have been a singer and not a scientist. Seriously though the fact that Namba can be in the midst of such a cruel experiment and stand there and sing a song about it really highlights his insanity and I love it.

Dr Zager - “CURSES!!” (I forget the episode title, I’m so sorry) Again, someone who sadly didn’t get that much screen time, BUT we do at least have this quote. He’s overall a pretty serious character and doesn’t have any especially memorable lines…except this one. 😂 I love it. Very old-fashioned villain, Old Man Yells At Cloud energy here 😂😂😂

Professor Sebastian - “If you’ll kindly follow me, I believe you’ll find this…electrifying.” (Legend of Thunder) this is REALLY hard because I love everything he says, but once again my appreciation for bad puns wins out in the end. Also the confirmation that Sebastian does have a sense of humor, however bad, makes me very happy. 😂 Would watch an entire episode of Sebastian and Tyson making terrible puns. No, actually, an entire feature length film.

Giovanni - “I haven’t had any repairs done to those old blimps for decades. They’re completely unfit to fly. About the only thing I have maintained on those blimps are their insurance policies.” (A Scare in the Air) this is not only my favorite Gio quote but one of my favorite moments in the entire anime because it’s so dark. I even posted about it recently. Giovanni actually tries to have three of his employees killed and profit off of their deaths via insurance fraud. AND HE DOES IT IN SUCH A CAVALIER WAY YOU KNOW IT’S NOT HIS FIRST TIME DOING IT. Also you really have to just appreciate the confirmation that insurance - an evil greater than Team Rocket- exists in the Pokémon world.

(I’m sorry if some of these quotes are not exact word for word, I tried to google to confirm I’m remembering it correctly, but it’s not as easy to find some of these as you might think 😂)

[trsilvers]

Merry Christmas if you celebrate it!

Which TR members are Santa believers and which are Santa deniers?

I do!! Same to you, and merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone 😁😁

The only member of Team Rocket who is an active Santa believer is Namba, and the reason for that is…because Santa is actually his cousin. 😂

It’s especially frustrating because, like they confirmed in the anime, once people stop believing in Santa he can’t appear to them anymore. Namba knows without a doubt that he is correct, but he has absolutely no way to prove everyone wrong unless they choose to start believing in Santa on their own. Such is (part of) the reason for his madness 🤣

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I know it's October, but any Christmas headcanons for Team Rocket? How would they celebrate? (Okay, I'll come clean; I'm working on a oneshot of Venus' first good Christmas, with the pairing of her and Butch, and need ideas. 😂)

Personally, I’ve always imagined there is this big cheesy end of year party (Giovanni does stuff like this under the guise of “employee appreciation” - it’s an evil organization, but he does need their loyalty so stuff like this is necessary). There’s lots of food and everybody gets a company holiday gift (but it’s usually something generic like an umbrella and it always has the TR logo on it, and everybody gets the same thing). It’s kind of like The Event of the year and most people get excited about it and look forward to it. Maybe it’s kind of like prom, idk 😂 But it’s a big deal, and everyone dresses up. I also think there are decorations around HQ, and some of the different factions/departments might have their own celebrations, like smaller parties or gift exchanges, etc.

In addition to that, since TR is based in Kanto/Johto which is based on Japan, I also think that Christmas as a holiday has more of a fun and romantic meaning - it’s a commercial holiday instead of a religious one. It’s a holiday for couples, no one wants to be alone on Christmas Eve which is like a big, special, romantic night, and Christmas Day is the one day of the year that Giovanni doesn’t make anybody work. (He learned long ago that a consequence of the holiday party is that after partying all night, most of them are utterly useless the following morning)

Those are my headcanons on it anyway. I hope that helped, can’t wait to read it when you’re finished 😁😁💯

[trsilvers]

In Training Daze, it's shown that most TR duos have an "animal sidekick", like Jessie and James have Meowth, Butch and Cassidy have Raticate and there have been other teams shown to have Gengar and Magnemite, for example. Despite this, Attilia and Hun don't seem to have a mascot like that. Do you have a headcanons that explains this?

Actually yes! My theory is that Grimer (which later evolved into Muk) was their mascot, but Hun despises it so it became exclusively Attila’s pokemon. It’s also very messy so it’s not prudent to have it out of it’s pokeball all the time. Also I think Attila and Hun don’t really make an effort to get emotionally involved with their pokemon, because they believe it allows them to do their jobs better if they don’t.

[trsilvers]

What if Namba and Sebastian were to switch field agents temporarily?

Well my first thought is that Namba and Attila both seem to have anger issues, so the results could be explosive 🤣 I think that Attila needs people like Hun and Sebastian around him to level him out, and Namba probably works better with people like Butch and Cassidy who are unrattled by his eccentricities. Attila seems like he can be at times easily distracted and a little impulsive (like how he was still trying to poach pokemon even though that wasn’t their objective, Hun had to keep him on task) and I don’t think that would mix very well with Namba’s…style.

Other than that, for the most part I think everyone would be able to get along. Hun and Tyson might not be totally sure how to handle Namba’s short temper and peculiarities, being used to how calm Sebastian is, but they could probably manage.

Butch and Cassidy would probably be fine under Sebastian. He seems not to care about much other than success (and even then he apparently forgave Attila and Hun), and Butch and Cassidy actually seem to be kind of similar to him in that respect. It’s been implied that they’ve had many off screen wins, and it seems like outside of the times we saw them foiled by ash/ritchie, (and/or Jessie and James 😂), they can be very good at their jobs. They seem to have remained in pretty good standing despite these failures, and they’ve also shown they have a really strong desire TO succeed and advance in their careers. I imagine that a duo as ambitious as Butch and Cassidy paired with someone as calculating as Sebastian would be very likely to achieve their goals. In fact, if this was only temporary, they may not want to go back 😂

I’m not sure if Pierce counts because, while I can assume, we have never actually seen him work with Sebastian, so I don’t know if he’d be part of the switch.

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Where do you think Madame Boss is in the present timeline? Is she dead or in retirement, leaving her heir to lead her evil organisation like King Cold from Dragon Ball Z?

Sadly, I think in the current timeline she is deceased. She’s a really cool character and I like her a lot. It’s just that, even in old age, I don’t see her stepping aside and letting her brat boy run the show 😂

Besides, I don’t like to think of her just getting old and fading into obscurity. I like to imagine she went out in some big, epic crime boss blaze of glory.