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** Whether the demotion of several important/popular characters not named after the games (such as Wally, Cheren and Bianca) was a good move or not.
** Whether the [[Adaptational Villainy]] of some of the characters is necessary for the plot or off-putting for those who liked their original characterizations. Many people at least agree that the original in-game characters (especially in the first chapter) didn't have much to begin with.
* [[Complete Monster]]: [[Sinister Minister|Ghetsis Harmonia Gropius]], [[Big Bad]] of the Unova saga, keeps his original monster credentials and takes them [[Up to Eleven]], making him [[Adaptational Villainy|come off even worse than his gameverse counterpart.]] As in the games, he is the true leader of [[Animal Wrongs Group|Team Plasma]] and is thus responsible for all the evil committed by Team Plasma. [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|Posing as a kindly and benevolent individual]] who seeks Pokemon liberation from trainers, he is in truth a habitually [[Soft-Spoken Sadist|sadistic]], [[It's All About Me|self serving]], [[Narcissist|narcissistic]] [[The Sociopath|sociopath]] who seeks to disarm all trainers and exploit the power Pokemon possess so that he can become ruler of the Unova region and from there [[Take Over the World]]. To accomplish this, he [[Abusive Parents|raised his son N in an isolated environment]] and groomed him to be [[The Hero]] of legend by giving him a false view of the reality of humans and Pokemon, making him believe his Pokemon friends needed to be freed from the captivity of trainers, but Ghetsis [[I Lied|actually planned to enslave all Pokemon for himself]], and had no love for N as his son, viewing him only as a usable and ultimately disposable "decoration" for his [[Evil Plan]]. He also used [[Mind Control]] to [[Mind Rape|violate other humans' minds]] and make them release their beloved Pokémon companions, and it's heavily suggested that he's used this on N too in order to obscure conflicting ideas from his mind. On his orders, Team Plasma steals Pokemon from trainers under the ruse of liberation, with his loyal servants, the Shadow Triad, also nearly killing three Legendary Pokemon and abducting three other Legendary Pokemon to be used as test subjects. Ghetsis reveals his [[
** Sird of Team Galactic most likely qualifies as this. She's first seen working undercover as a member of Team Rocket's Beast Trio in the FireRed and LeafGreen arc, and unlike her comrades she is shown to commit atrocities [[For the Evulz]], culminating in her attempting to petrify Deoxys with an attack from her Darkrai only for it to end up hitting the five young dexholders Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, and Silver, turning them to stone. Sird showed no remorse for this and even took satisfaction in it. We later find out that she ended up saving Archie and Maxie from certain doom only to make the two men duel to the death for a special armor that grants eternal life to whoever wears it. Archie ended up murdering Maxie for the armor, an act of evil that Sird flat out commended. However, it turned out that if the armor was to be removed, it would drain the life from the one wearing it and kill them, which ended up happening to Archie at the end of the Emerald arc. In the Diamond and Pearl arc, Sird reveals her fixation on the Poke'Dex, which is so great that she hijacked Charon's [[Mind Control]] program to override one Galactic grunt's mind with her own, effectively brainwashing him into doing her bidding and trying to steal a Poke'Dex from Dia, Pearl, or Platinum - an end to which he'd attempt anything, even risking the three kids' lives in the process. If her latter appearances are any indication, Sird is a [[Hidden Agenda Villain]] with probable [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]. According to Riley, her aura is one of pure malevolence and evil.
** The Masked Man from the G/S/C Chapter ''seems'' to qualify, what with him abducting six different children and raising them to be molded into his followers, brainwashing many members of Team Rocket with [[Mind Control]] masks, having no compunction with threatening to kill anyone in his way (even threatening the life of a small child in order to get something from her grandfather), risking bringing about the death of the entire planet through a [[Time Crash]], and being an emotionless madman who claims that Pokemon are only useful as tools and weapons. {{spoiler|It's [[Anti-Villain|majorly averted]] in the end, with both the characters and the reader realizing he's just an insane but miserable and lonely old man who does love Pokemon and is motivated by a desire to make things right for his Lapras, but has become a [[Misanthrope Supreme]] due to holding his pain and grief in for years.}}
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