Singles: Team Rocket Returns

EX Team Rocket Returns is the twenty-third set in the Pokémon Trading Card Game. It comes after EX FireRed & LeafGreen and before EX Deoxys. Its symbol is an emblem of Team Rocket, a shield-like shape with a black bold R in the center. more...

This emblem for Team Rocket is unusual as it appears nowhere else; the purpose of this emblem is probably to distinguish this set from the former Team Rocket set. The EX part of this set's title comes from the presence of Pokémon-ex in the set. The Team Rocket part is the set's theme, Team Rocket as a criminal organization--its members, the Pokémon it controls, and the techniques it uses for world domination. The Returns part is an indication that it's a sequel set to the Team Rocket set released four years earlier.

In the Pokémon games and the TV show, Team Rocket is a secret but widespread group of thieves led by Giovanni. Instead of capturing a Pokémon by traditional and legal means, members of Team Rocket can and normally steal Pokémon from other people. In addition, they specialize in gambling operations and blackmailing. These traits are reflected in this set: A vast majority (but not all) of the fully-evolved Pokémon are Dark Pokémon, which means they have been corrupted by evil and have thus gained the Darkness type to reflect their behavior. As an example, Meowth (see above) would normally be a Normal type, but its "Rocket's" status has displaced it entirely with the Darkness type.

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