So I was thinking about how Abby's rant is still one of the worst things I've ever read earlier... · 4:34pm Dec 31st, 2018
...When I realised that the only characters who say that Pokémon can never be bad in A New World, A New Way used to be human. Umm...
Even though I'm not the biggest fan of Swarm, I can at least give it credit for not falling into the same black-and-white morality trap that other canon stories fall into in shallow attempts to be dark. Pokémon as villains of their own free will? Yes please.
It's not just the Newverse, either. In Super Mystery Dungeon, all of the Pokémon villains were mind controlled, which completely contradicts the theme of "everyone has negativity" they copied from Gates to Infinity without understanding why it worked in that game. I have to wonder if corporate mandates got stricter.