Disclaimer: This is not a post about the ethics of being a Pokémon trainer, Team Plasma, etc.
But there is an interesting group, specifically in S/V: Team Star. From what I’ve seen, Star does appear to be somewhat left-wing, although it is kinda hard to place real-world political labels on a cartoon game made for U13s. I’d like to hear comrades’ opinions on these things
I made a post like this not too long ago lol
The issue is trying to figure out how exactly things work in the Pokémon world, most of it is speculative based on how little information we’re given. It obviously exists in a capitalist world since they have monopolies like Silph or Devon in their respective regions. There has to be a government making laws cause there are police there to enforce them.
For S/V specifically, I’m not sure since it takes place in a school and doesn’t have a lot of room for any explicit political undertones. There was a bullying problem and there was an attempt to stop it even though the issue seems to be more of a failure on the faculty’s part than anything else.
P.S. Team Plasma was definitely wrong and was lame for trying to rehash an old philosophical argument that most likely had been gone over countless times. I mean really…there might have been some people who held views akin to Team Plasma but they were probably in the minority.
Team star are a group of high-school dropouts who left their school due to a rampant bullying problem the administration did nothing about.
Like any interesting idea in pokemon, the game they feature in does absolutely nothing with this idea, trying to use them as plot twist villains because on of the directors of the games read somewhere that people really like that and so every pokemon game since X and Y needs one, no matter how little sense it makes or how much it ruins the overall story. And while I’m complaining, why the hell do they keep giving the teams the most banging battle themes, but have the battles end after like 20 seconds? Give these guys some decent pokemon for a change!
