What were the villianous teams inspired from?

[Midnight Blue]

Just wondering b/c I was reading about the Kantō-kai, and it made me think of Team Rocket. B/c they only last for about a year, and it was an organized crime. Like, where they inspired from real crime organizations?

 

[Falconwing]

Re: Did the villainous teams just come from nowhere?

well, TR obviously was inspired by the Yakuza, and Aqua/Magma sound like environmentalist radicals, and Galactic is a cult.

 

[Aladar]

Re: Did the villainous teams just come from nowhere?

When I first saw this thread I thought it concerned the creation of the Teams. Like how Gio's mother created the Rockets, how Maxie and Archie and Cyrus found the needed money and the like.

 

[Sith Droideka]

Team Rocket is based on the Yakuza.
Team Aqua and Team Magma are environmentalist cults.
Team Galactic (Cyrus) is based on the Mayans and their aspirations to godhood.

 

[Battaman]

They are all based on small groups of the USA(rmy).

 

[Sith Droideka]

Proof?

 

[Falconwing]

Why would they be based on the US army? When Pokemon was initially created they had no plans to export to America and even then we were good friends.

 

[Eredar Warlock]

Team Rocket is Yakuza, sort of, there's a few elements of SPECTRE as well (particularly the superscience bit in Johto).

Team Aqua and Magma are environmental cults.

Galactic didn't strike me so much as a cult as they did more of a "Cosmoc Rule" sort of organization.

Giovanni has elements of Yakuza bosses, Al Capone, and Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

 

[Reign]

Magma an Aqua I always saw as environmental terrorists more than a cult. Although I'll give you Magma's uniform...

If anything, Galactic is a cult.