#team meanies

[084392]

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[teeterarting]

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon AU: Purple Rescue Team

[rainbow-squirrels-7]

Thank you @totallycorrectpmdquotes

Happy PMD day everybody

[decayinghogz]

Im literally him you guys dont understand 💔

Also i'm the only team meanies fan in existance

[magmacavern]

Hero and Partner Week, Day 3: Villains

“Gengar pulls the shadow from beneath each blade of grass and behind the leaves of every tree. Darkness crackles and swells from his fingertips as he prepares his devastating attack.”

@heropartnerweek

AKA the piece in which I realized much too late that there’s no reason Gengar would use shadow ball against two normal types. 🙃

I wasn’t sure which prompt to draw for today, but after I realized that I had never drawn any of the Team Meanies trio before, the choice became obvious! This is the scene where the hero and partner fight Team Meanies after racing them to the end of Sinister Woods to rescue Metapod. I’m pretty pleased with how Gengar and Medicham turned out, and I’m especially happy with Ekans’ posing. If I ever redid this piece, I’d try to give the rest of the characters more dynamic posing like I did for Ekans. My favorite part of this process was drawing the shadow ball effect, and I think it looks fantastic!

[pmdbitches]

I will let Gengar say fuck in my pdm AU, he deserves it 

[asocketwrench]

What if they were normal . . .

[justmeinabigolworld]

You know, I’ve been thinking about Gengar from Rescue Team a lot, and I’ve arrived at a disturbing theory:

Gengar may very well be a child.

He was old enough to have a Pokémon, but look at the main series games — age is clearly of little concern there, and in most Pokémon ‘verses, for that matter. He pulled on the tails of a Ninetails, a dangerous Pokémon, without thinking. He then ran away, refusing to take responsibility for his actions (although I must say that what Ninetails did wasn’t exactly fair). Sounds pretty childish, right? Then again, adults can act childishly. Then he died some time later and was presumably reborn as a Gastly. He’s evolved into a Gengar by the time the games start, but he still acts extremely childishly. His “rescue team” is called Team Meanies, for crying out loud! He calls it “the rescue team of evil” and tries to do evil/mean things whenever possible, even if they make absolutely no sense or he has nothing to gain from his actions. He’s also extremely petty, and he seems to hate you for no real reason. He also claims that he and his teammates are after world domination, even though there’s absolutely no way three random Pokémon could take over the world. What I get from his actions, and overall demeanor, is that he thinks of himself as evil and wants to be a villain, but he doesn’t really understand how real-life evil people work. He seems to think that being evil just means being an asshole whenever possible, no matter what. Again, that’s rather childish, right?

And then there’s just the way he talks. He either sounds like he’s trying way too hard to be evil, or he sounds like an obnoxious kid. Many of his taunts come off as childish bullying.

That brings me to my idea: what if Gengar never grew up? What if he died when he was a kid, and then when he came back as a ghost, he didn’t age (mentally, at least)?

That’s honestly chilling to think about.

There’s probably a lot of stuff that I missed, but thank you for coming to my TED Talk anyway.

[hisuian-history-makers]

Team Meanies—The “Rival” Team we only fight once.

There are nice rivals who act as endless wells of support. Annoying ones that goad us at every corner making us want to beat them. Mean ones we feel the need to prove wrong and that the world is a nicer place than they thought... The common thread between the different types is they motivate us to do better. Team Meanies were pretty upfront about the whole ruling the world thing. Don’t know how exactly they would rule a world with living gods? Though the human hero probably from the trainer-verse knows how far motivation can go.

Despite being a leader, Gengar is known to be a coward when his plans fall through. I argue he has only gotten more fearful since psychics can do serious damage to him. He could have spent the thousand years since the myth or only a few years being reborn as a ghost. We have no idea whether he can use his current species’ full abilities. Can he even float like Ash’s Gengar does so freely? His sprite in-game never does. How old was he when he got cursed anyway? The name “Meanies” could just be him being immature by nature. Which was a missed opportunity to call themselves Team Toxic. (All three can learn the move and it fits them well.)

I don’t get how Medicham is supposed to be at level fifteen strength when she evolves at level thirty. Guess she let her skills decay doing things the easy way for so long. She got much stronger once she joined Team Charm. Ekans seems to just be along for the ride while on their team, he stuck with Medicham when Gengar started contemplating himself. Most of us assumed before Super that he became the Arbok in Team AWD from Explorers. What are the requirements to form rescue teams anyway.

The first game has our partner send in a notice to I assume the headquarters that makes the teleporting badges. We join an official guild in Explorers and Wigglytuff certified us explorers to gain experience under apprenticeships. Gates has us simply assign a team name, I bet knowing Quagsire helps speed up the process. We did need four teams members at minimum to become official so there is that… Ampharos gives us Expedition badges from the get-go as well access to the Pokémon Nexus’ map in limited function devices. We need permission seems to be the connecting thread of all four.

I would imagine to apply you need an address they can regularly contact you at, what your personal name (non-species name) is, and not have a known criminal history. Happen to like the headcanon most Pokémon have personal names which they tell only those close to them. Next comes a trial week where you start on the Normal/Rookie provisional rank. You have to physically escort Pokemon outside mystery dungeons, no teleports at the start. Complete enough jobs the old-fashioned to get the official rank then you get teleporting badges. It discourages those who won’t be serious from joining the ranks is my thought process here.

Not without its exploitable kinks… Patient criminals to be can simply wait through the week. Ones like Gengar’s Team probably do enough good their actions are overlooked. They still rescue lost Pokémon which the officials will want them focused on doing. It keeps ne'er-do-wells from slacking off too much when anyone actually needs a rescue team to help.

(I’m surprised my first PMD post got so many likes. Glad people were interested in my ideas.)

[chancherpancher]

Made this from yesterday because I was bored.

Made this in FlipaClip

Edit:

Based on this MEME:

[tuxedokit]

Norma in Team Meanies?

*stylizes your norma*

[dogiechik]

Mudkip my baby im so proud of youu!

[sincerely-sofie]

Litten Hero doing something reckless that is genuinely getting on necrozma's nerves. So to get him to stop, Necrozma very gently pinches the scruff on his neck. Rendering the litten hero incapable of doing anything besides voicing his irritation.

[084392]

when i say "rescue team gengar shouldve been worse" what i mean is that he shouldve had a guilt over what happened to gardevoir bc of his own selfishness and cowardice all those years ago. that hes been pushing down for all this time. that he takes it upon himself to take down rt hero bc hes 100% projecting. instead of sending the entire town after them. that hes convinced himself that every human is just as bad as he was. that he tries messing with partner that theyre "just gonna get hurt hanging around a human." that he becomes obsessed with trying to get rid of hero bc of this. to the point that the rest of his team is concerned. that it shouldve been made more clear through subtle cues, until he just outright says that he was the human from the ninetales legend, at some point during the main story.

now when i say "after some events, he realizes that hero isnt the same as him at all and....that theyre more similar to gardevoir if anything. so out of guilt towards gard And hero now. he tries to help hero's team to succeed in whatever way he can...."

[windydrawallday]

I'd absolutely love to see your take on ES Optimus in any sort of capacity! He's my special guy :] But if you want something more familiar, maybe TFA Prowl chillin in some nature? If I could throw something more specific at you, interacting with some wolves? (Not sure how comfortable you are with animals but figured it's worth a shot 🐺)

AT LAST!!! I managed to draw your request after busy days and playing around with your last idea because GOSH: Prowl + Animals always win me over x'D

Tho... I took a... not very "chill" route that ended... in me drawing another thing that I know many despite about the canon of the character--

Yeah IM SO SORRY but I couldn't find a way to make it work without it orz (and I dont have currently the brain to design an alternative human design hxgcxhgvcgv) and welp :')

Hope is nice enough to the eyes anyways haha I wanted to try something different and challenge myself because-- Because AAA

[front-facing-pokemon]