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:''If you were looking for the group consisting of [[Jessie]], [[James]], and {{MTR}}, see [[Team Rocket trio]].''
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{{Team Infobox
|teamname=Team Rocket
|jpteamname=ロケット団
|tmteamname=Rocket-dan
|logo=Rocket-logo.png
|image=Domino and Giovanni.png
|caption=[[Domino]] and Giovanni alongside with Team Rocket Grunts
|leader=[[Giovanni]]
|region=[[Kanto]], [[Johto]], [[Sinnoh]], [[Unova]] and [[Alola]]
|targets=[[Lake of Rage]], [[Dreamyard]], [[Battle Subway]], [[Milos Island]], [[Twist Mountain]], [[Abyssal Ruins]]
|hideout={{an|Team Rocket HQ}}
|epnum=EP002
|epname=Pokémon Emergency!
}}

'''Team Rocket''' (Japanese: '''{{j|ロケット{{tt|団|だん}}}}''' ''Rocket-dan'', literally ''Rocket Gang'') is a recurring [[villainous team]] in pursuit of evil and the exploitation of {{OBP|Pokémon|species}}. They are based in the [[Kanto]] and [[Johto]] regions.

==In the anime==
[[File:Team Rocket BW.png|thumb|250px|Team Rocket as seen in ''[[Pokémon the Series: Black & White]]'']]
[[File:Team Rocket new logo SM.png|thumb|left|250px|The new Team Rocket logo in the anime]]
===Infrastructure===
In the {{pkmn|anime}}, Team Rocket is based in Kanto, much like the {{pkmn|games}}, with many smaller branches across Kanto and Johto. Like in the games, {{an|Giovanni}} was the Gym Leader of [[Viridian City]]'s Pokémon Gym during {{Ash}}'s journey through the region; however, he was later revealed to have abandoned his duties.

An underground school for aspiring Team Rocket operatives is present somewhere in the region, while the organization's headquarters were formerly near [[Pallet Town]]. The headquarters was relocated sometime during Ash's journey in Johto or [[Hoenn]] to a large building in a canyon following damages it sustained due to {{OBP|Mewtwo|M01}}'s anger at being controlled.

For the [[original series]], ''[[Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire]]'', and ''[[Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl]]'', the Team Rocket insignia from the games was used. However, in ''[[Pokémon the Series: Black & White]]'', a new, anime-exclusive 3D logo was introduced, being retained for most Team Rocket material well into ''[[Pokémon the Series: XY]]''. A variation of this logo with a circular symbol behind the insignia was introduced in ''[[XY107|An Explosive Operation!]]'', subsequently being utilized in Giovanni's office. Since ''[[Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon]]'', the logo is flat. It has two variations, one with a circle behind it for Giovanni's office, and a red one that is used on the trio's balloon. The older logo is also used. This continues into ''[[Pokémon Journeys: The Series]]'', where multiple variants of the logo are used at different times.

===Members===
====Team Rocket trio====
{{main|Team Rocket trio}}
[[File:Team Rocket anime.png|thumb|left|250px|Jessie, James and Meowth]]
A trio of Team Rocket field agents, [[Jessie]], [[James]], and a talking {{MTR}}, were defeated on an assignment to steal Pokémon from Viridian City's [[Pokémon Center]] by rookie Trainer [[Ash Ketchum]] and his {{AP|Pikachu}}, and since then have followed him everywhere on his journey in order to steal the Pikachu that humiliated them. After following him through Kanto, the [[Orange Islands]], and Johto, coming in contact with many other Team Rocket members along the way and being shown as incompetent compared to said members, the trio followed Ash to the [[Hoenn]] region under directions from Giovanni to establish a branch of Team Rocket there (though this was really only a ploy to get them out of his hair). When Ash returned from Hoenn after competing in its [[Ever Grande Conference|regional League Conference]], the trio returned to Kanto as well, empty-handed. After following him through Kanto once again, Giovanni assigned the trio to the [[Sinnoh]] region, again with the directive to establish a Team Rocket branch there.
[[File:Team Rocket BW 1.png|thumb|250px|Team Rocket in their black uniforms as seen from ''[[BW001|In The Shadow of Zekrom!]]'' through ''[[BW022|A Venipede Stampede!]]'']]

Giovanni claimed before to not even recognize the three agents. Meowth often [[Boss fantasy|fantasizes]] about pleasing Giovanni with Pokémon captured using one of the trio's many harebrained schemes and mechas, at which point he would then replace [[Giovanni's Persian]] as "top cat", however this is hindered by both the fact that Ash and {{Ashfr}} defeat the trio each time, and formerly Giovanni's low opinion of the three as well, who have managed to eat up much of Team Rocket's funding with their failures.

While Giovanni viewed the trio as "bumbling idiots who can't do anything right", they have occasionally shown that they can do things right, if only by working on the side of Ash and his friends. It should be noted that when other Team Rocket members have come into contact with Ash or any of his friends they've been often just as easily foiled as these three.

The trio has often been shown as poor or having little money. This may be due to the amount of machinery and costumes they use in their attempts to capture Ash's Pikachu. They often take on side-jobs like selling food at stadiums or creating fake items and selling them to the public. Several episodes after the series began, they notably started speaking in rhymes from time to time.
[[File:Team Rocket HQ anime.png|thumb|250px|Team Rocket's Headquarters as seen in ''[[Pokémon the Series: Black & White]]'']]

In ''[[Pokémon the Series: Black & White]]'', the trio stopped being the anime's comedic relief, accomplishing several missions assigned to them and also receiving new uniforms. They have also become more of a threat to Ash and his friends. Multiple agents were also situated in [[Unova]], who passed on information and orders to Jessie, James, and Meowth. Giovanni himself has also been featured much more prominently, regularly assigning the trio missions and passing on information. Eventually returning to their old costumes, but retaining their serious tone and weaponry, they acted under [[Dr. Zager]] to accomplish further missions.

Giovanni later returned to lead the trio in one last mission, Operation Tempest, in ''[[BW096|Meloetta and the Undersea Temple!]]'' and ''[[BW097|Unova's Survival Crisis!]]''. Following its failure, Giovanni retreated with the trio to Kanto, but the trio later returned in ''[[BW109|New Places, Familiar Faces!]]''. At first returning to their original goal of capturing Pikachu, they later came into conflict with [[Team Plasma]] and eventually aided Ash and [[Looker]] in defeating [[Ghetsis]].

The trio returned fully to their previous role as comic relief in the ''Decolora Adventure!'' arc, roles they continued to retain during ''[[Pokémon the Series: XY]]'' and ''[[Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon]]'', but they still had advanced technology until the end of ''XY''. [[Jessie's Wobbuffet]] rejoined them in ''[[BW142|The Dream Continues!]]'', at the end of the ''Decolora Adventure!'' arc, and accompanied them to [[Kalos]] in ''XY'' and [[Alola]] in ''Sun & Moon'' as an effective fourth member of the group to steal rare Pokémon from those regions. Despite once again being comic relief, Jessie and James seem to have become much better at battling, immediately posing a challenge to Ash and his friends several times. Giovanni also continued to support them; he no longer admonished them for their failures and relied on them to accomplish Team Rocket's work in Kalos and Alola. However, Team Rocket had no presence in Kalos and Alola other than Jessie, James, Meowth, and Wobbuffet. Starting in ''[[SM004|First Catch in Alola, Ketchum-Style!]]'', they have lived in a {{an|Bewear}}'s den on Alola's [[Melemele Island]]. In ''[[SM018|A Seasoned Search!]]'', they finished building a secret Team Rocket base inside the den.

In ''[[Pokémon Journeys: The Series]]'', the trio operate out of a base hidden underground in [[Vermilion City]] and travel to different parts of the world searching for new Pokémon to steal. They are now equipped with new tools, most notably a [[Rotom Phone]] and the [[Rocket Prize Master]], a capsule toy machine that provides them with Pokémon from Team Rocket's stock. As a result of this, they no longer use Pokémon of their own, although they have forged interactions with some of the Pokémon contained in the Rocket Prize Master.

====Other members====
Many other members of Team Rocket have appeared besides the aforementioned boss and the trio, most of them are field agents as well. In addition, at least in the dub, one of these members, [[Domino]], implies that Team Rocket had agents in even the most innoculous places such as a university. A recurring duo who are rivals with Jessie and James, [[Cassidy]] and [[Butch]], show up from time to time. This pair reports to [[Dr. Namba]], rather than Giovanni directly. As revealed in [[JN095]], however, Cassidy and Butch have since left Team Rocket and gone their separate ways.

[[Attila]] and [[Hun]], operatives from Team Rocket's [[Johto]] branch, were featured as antagonists in ''[[The Legend of Thunder!]]'', where they played the same role as Jessie and James do to {{jo|Jimmy}}, {{jo|Marina}}, and [[Vincent]]. Other Johto operatives include {{OBP|Tyson|Team Rocket}}, who was in charge of the [[Lake of Rage]] experimentation; Domino, an elite Team Rocket member that was part of [[Mewtwo Returns|a mission]] to recapture {{OBP|Mewtwo|M01}}; the [[Iron-Masked Marauder]], a high-ranking agent who managed to [[M04|capture a Celebi in one of his Dark Balls]]; and [[Professor Sebastian]], a high-ranking Team Rocket scientist involved in both Attila and Hun's and Tyson's plots.

Jessie's mother, [[Miyamoto]], was at one time a Team Rocket member under [[Madame Boss|Giovanni's mother]]. However, she disappeared without a trace on an expedition to find and capture {{p|Mew}}.

[[Matori]], Giovanni's secretary, first appeared in the [[DP191|final episode]] of ''[[Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl]]''. She appeared on occasion throughout ''[[Pokémon the Series: Black & White]]'' and ''[[Pokémon the Series: XY]]'' to debrief Jessie, James, and Meowth. Her role was expanded in ''[[Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon]]'', becoming a sort of rival figure to Jessie, recruiting an {{rf|Alolan}} {{p|Meowth}} to her cause, and leading a special unit of Team Rocket known as the Matori Matrix, which consists of other grunts such as [[Gozu]]. In ''[[Pokémon Journeys: The Series]]''', the Matori Matrix has been shown operating and targeting areas in [[Sinnoh]]. In ''[[JN024|A Little Rocket R & R!]]'', the [[Resort Area]] was targeted to steal Pokémon from trainers on vacation. Later on in ''[[JN074|Nightfall? Nightmares!]]'', the Matori Matrix attacked {{p|Cresselia}} on [[Fullmoon Island]].

[[Pierce]] and [[Dr. Zager]] are two high-ranking members of the organization introduced to assist Jessie and James with their missions in [[Unova]]. Dr. Zager currently has a relationship to Jessie and James similar to that of Dr. Namba in relation to Butch and Cassidy, directly coordinating their missions and providing machinery. Among his creations were an energy cannon using the power of {{p|Roggenrola}} and the "[[BW047|Ghost Train]]".

Team Rocket has attempted to do many major and potentially globally-altering operations, including cloning DNA of Mew and altering it to create {{OBP|Mewtwo|M01}}. This stemmed out of a desire of Giovanni to appease his mother's obsession with Mew, although he ultimately desired Mewtwo for use as a weapon. When Mewtwo finally finished developing, he deceived Mewtwo into working for him, using him in Gym Battles against such Trainers as [[Gary Oak]] (who suffered his first of only four losses in the anime to date). Team Rocket also attempted to capture and control a {{p|Lugia}} and {{p|Celebi}}, and it also created a device that could force Pokémon to evolve. It also [[M09|successfully managed]] to capture a {{p|Rayquaza}}, although it is never revealed whether they maintained control of it or if it managed to escape.

They have various means of [[Transportation in the Pokémon world|transportation]], such as boats, submarines, and helicopters.

==In the manga==
===Pokémon Pocket Monsters===
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{{OBP|Giovanni|Pocket Monsters}} is the leader of Team Rocket.

==In the TCG==

==Trivia==
* In the anime Team Rocket has operatives in the Orange Islands and Unova. It is also implied that they had operatives in Hoenn and Sinnoh after their [[Team Magma|respective]] [[Team Aqua|villainous]] [[Team Galactic|teams]] were disbanded.
* In the anime, Team Rocket has tried to obtain the most Legendary Pokémon for their own uses (by Jessie and James) out of any other villainous team.
* Both Jessie and James have befriended or owned a Pokémon whose species are known to frequently work for the good of common people, a [[Nurse Joy's Blissey|Chansey]] and a [[Growlie|Growlithe]] respectively, with Chansey being known to work as nurses and Growlithe (along with Arcanine) being often used as police dogs. This is unusual, considering Team Rocket's association with crime and illegal activities.
* Team Rocket's uniforms vaguely resemble {{wp|bōsōzoku}} uniforms.

==Names==
{| class="roundy" style="background: #666; border: 3px solid #C00"
|-
! Language
! Name
! Origin
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Japanese
| ロケット団 ''Rocket-dan''
| From ''{{wp|rocket}}''
|- style="background:#FFF"
| English, Danish, Dutch<br>French, German, Italian<br>European Spanish, Swedish
| Team Rocket
| Same as Japanese name
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Korean
| 로켓단 ''Rocket-dan''
| Same as Japanese name
|- style="background:#FFF"
|rowspan="2"| Chinese ({{tt|Mandarin|Taiwan and Mainland China}})
| 火箭隊 / 火箭队 ''Huǒjiàn Duì'' {{tt|*|Games, Anime, Adventures}}
|rowspan="2"| From 火箭 ''huǒjiàn'', rocket
|- style="background:#FFF"
| 火箭團 / 火箭团 ''Huǒjiàn Tuán'' {{tt|*|Pokémon Pocket Monsters}}
|- style="background:#FFF"
|rowspan="2"| Chinese ({{tt|Cantonese|Hong Kong}})
| 火箭隊 ''Fójin Déui'' {{tt|*|Games}}
|rowspan="2"| From 火箭 ''fójin'', rocket
|- style="background:#FFF"
| 火箭兵團 ''Fójin Bīngtyùhn'' {{tt|*|Pre-Gen VII Media}}
|- style="background:#FFF"
|Arabic
|عصابة الرداء الأبيض ''isabat Ar-Redda Al-Abiadh''
|Literally "The white robe gang"
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Bulgarian
| Тим Ракета ''Tim Raketa''{{tt|*|Diamond and Pearl series}}<br>Екип Ракета ''Ekip Raketa''{{tt|*|Original series}}<br>Отряда Рокет ''Otryada Roket''{{tt|*|M01}}
| From English name
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Croatian
| Tim Raketa
| From English name
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Czech
| Rakeťáci<br>Tým Raket
| From English name
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Finnish
| Rakettiryhmä
| From English name
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Greek
| Ομάδα Πύραυλος ''Omáda Píravlos''
| From English name
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Hebrew
| צוות רוקט ''Tsevet Rocket''
| From English name
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Hungarian
| Rakéta Csapat
| From English name
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Icelandic
| Eldflaugarliðið
| Literally "The fire flying forces"
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Indonesian
| Tim Roket
| From English name
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Norwegian
| Team Rocket<br>Team Rockets{{tt|*|Double Trouble}}
| Same as English name<br>Similar to English name
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Polish
| Zespół R<br>Drużyna R{{tt|*|DP010}}<br>Brygada R{{tt|*|EP007}}<br>Grupa Rakietowców{{tt|*|Manga}}
| Literally "Team R"<br>Literally "Group Rocket"
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Brazilian Portuguese
| Equipe Rocket
| From English name
|- style="background:#FFF"
| European Portuguese
| Equipa Rocket{{tt|*|Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon website}}<br>Team Rocket{{tt|*|anime}}
| From English name<br>Same as English name
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Romanian
| Echipa Rachetă
| From English name
|- style="background:#FFF"
|Russian
| Команда Ракета ''Komanda Raketa''{{tt|*|Original seies, season 11}}<br>Команда Р ''Komanda R''{{tt|*|Exclusively for trio in Original series, for whole organization in Advanced Generation, season 12-present}}<br>Команда Рокета ''Komanda Roketa''{{tt|*|Season 10}}
| From English name<br>From Polish name<br>From English name (misspelled)
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Serbian
| Tim Raketa
| From English name
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Latin American Spanish
| Equipo Rocket
| From English name
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Thai
| แก๊งค์ร็อกเก็ต ''Gang Rocket''
| Same as Japanese name
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Turkish
| Roket Takımı
| From English name
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Ukrainian
| Команда Р ''Komanda R''
| Same as Russian name
|- style="background:#FFF"
| Vietnamese
| Nhóm Rocket{{tt|*|Before 2019}}<br>Băng Hỏa Tiễn{{tt|*|Since 2019}}
| Same as Japanese name<br>Transliteration of Japanese name
|}

==Related articles==
* [[Team Rocket (Adventures)]]
* {{cat|Episodes focusing on Team Rocket}}
* [[a:Category:Team Rocket|Images on the Bulbagarden Archives]]
* [[Team Rocket motto]]
* [[Team Rocket]]

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