Team Rocket Wins: Difference between revisions

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That's right. Somehow, the [[Goldfish Poop Gang]] won.

 

See also [[The Bad Guy Wins]] (which is an Ending Trope). Contrast [[Big Bad Wannabe]], which may at times overlap.

 

 

* Team Rocket, the [[Trope Namer]] from ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'', beat the crap out of Ash's Pokémon when they were allowed to run Viridian City's Gym using Giovanni's Pokémon, at least until Ash managed to regain momentum and beat them at their own game. There have been a few other instances where Team Rocket has been successful in battle, but it was because they were [[Redemption Promotion|trying to do something good for a change]]. Their victories never lasted too long, and they were often sent flying at the end of the episode anyway.

* In ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' story "Smart And Smarter" (Cartoon Network Block Party #59), Mojo Jojo outwits Blossom, with her sisters' blessings! Blossom (who let her ego swell after being admitted to a special school) blows her ice breath which Mojo counters with a heat shield. The trail of melted ice reaches Blossom's foot (which she doesn't see) and she emits static electricity from her hands which in turn fries her to a frazzle. The ending panel has Buttercup shaking hands with Mojo.

 

 

* ''Magical Troubleshoting Fighting Federation'', a tournament with a crossover cast of various anime series, actually has Team Rocket win at least once, much to their own shock.

** We get a twofer when a time travel episode had her future self come back and bust them, causing a bad future where Dr. Doofenshmirtz rules. [[Reset Button|Of course, it gets fixed.]]

* ''[[Transformers Cybertron]]'' episode 25, "Retreat": [[The Starscream|Starscream]] pulls a [[Determinator]] on the Autobots, managing to steal the Omega Lock and the three Cyber Planet Keys found thus far. This after ''successfully'' betraying Megatron. He goes on to [[Make My Monster Grow|supersize himself]] and become a major threat on his own until towards the end, and his showdown with Galvatron.

* In the [[Mega Man (animation)|Ruby-Spears Megaman cartoon]], while his primary goal wasn't achieved, Wily made off with the money from robbing the citizens in "Crime of the Century" and the money from selling a shrunken Washington D.C. in "The Incredible Shrinking Megaman". If you want to get technical, he also got all the money from selling Fun World tickets.

* In ''[[The Dreamstone]]'' episode "Argorrible Attack", the Urpneys actually succeed in giving the majority of the Land of Dreams nightmares ([[Poke the Poodle|a small time victory]], but exactly what Zordrak wanted). The heroes try to give Viltheed good dreams in revenge, and it actually proves somewhat ineffective. Though granted after that they decide to just [[Curb Stomp Battle|beat the crap out of all of them]] instead.