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In the Pokémon franchise, each set of video games and anime show has featured a crime syndicate seeking to take over the world.
Team Aqua and Team Magma are rival organizations in the Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald. They both originate from the Hoenn region. Both attempt to take over the world.
In the Pokémon world, Team Aqua is a group of thieves/peacemakers in the Hoenn Region. They specialize in water and dark Pokémon.
Team Aqua is based in a giant nuclear submarine out at sea, with a helicopter for land-to-sea travel. The team members all wear striped black and white shirts with jeans. Their do-rags bear a white skull-and-crossbone in the shape of the letter "A". Like Team Magma, Team Aqua is run by a ruthless Commander. Shelly (Izumi in the Japanese version) is referred to as Team Aqua Leader, though the actual leader is Archie (Aogiri in the Japanese version).
Team Aqua are likened to a band of pirates and are experts in the field of Oceanography as well as water Pokémon. They only exist in the Hoenn region and do not recognize Team Rocket, unlike Team Magma. Team Aqua are the bitter antagonists of Team Magma and are currently in a brief war with each other. Team Aqua's main goal is to [partially] flood the world as a giant ocean for their water Pokémon, believing that by doing this they will be making the world a better place. To that end, they will awaken Kyogre from its slumber.
Team Aqua is slightly less vicious than Team Magma (and vice versa in the manga), and has more females in its group. The Team Aqua Commander is a female herself, and their main thoughts about Ash Ketchum are not made clear, though she and the Team Magma Commander (who seemed to have a relationship of sorts with her once) do see him as a pest. Team Aqua is well-known in the Hoenn region, and they often blackmail local fishermen into telling lies.
Archie is the boss of Team Aqua.
In the anime, he is a ruthless villain who was once a friend of Maxie. However, as he became more advanced in Pokémon grew, he became more greedy, and organized Team Aqua and battled Team Magma for world control. In episode 806 ("The Scuffle of Legends"), Archie absorbed the Red Orb into his body, gaining the power to control Kyogre, but the orb was expelled from his body because it could not take the power strain of the orb. Archie had no memory of the event.
In the games, he is a misguided individual who believes he is doing the right thing.
Team Aqua appears in Pokémon Advanced Battle, where they try to take over the world. Shelly, disguised as a Magma, let Kyogre into the sea, which was then used to destroy the island the crew were on. Archie used the Red Orb to control Kyogre, and commanded it to destroy the island, but once again, the crew managed to save the world. When Ash's Pikachu bonded with the blue orb, Groudon attacked Kyogre, but at the end, Ash had to defeat it himself.
In the Pokémon world, Team Magma is another group of thieves/peacemakers in the Hoenn Region. They are a group of experts in the fields of geology and plate tectonics. Like Team Rocket, some rebels are Pokémon thieves, but Team Magma specializes in the field of Fire and Ground-type Pokémon.
The Group all wear dark-red uniforms with a black stylized "M" made of either mountains or volcanoes on their shirts. The head of Team Magma is Maxie (Matsuba in the Japanese version), but his second in command is The Commander, named Tabitha (Homura in the Japanese version). Another notable member of Team Magma is Brody (Ban'nai in the Japanese version), who owns a Ditto and is able to imitate the voice and appearance of anyone he wishes, earning him the name of 'The Man of a Thousand Faces.' Team Magma often use equipment that is normally used for experiments with high temperatures. They have no vehicles except the Commander's helicopter.
Team Magma are bitter rivals of Team Aqua. Though Team Magma does not exist outside the Hoenn region, they do know the work of Team Rocket, who have no Hoenn branch. Team Magma's main purpose is to expand the land mass, believing that by creating more room for life on land that they will be making the world a better place. To that end, they'll awaken Groudon from its slumber.
Team Magma frequently make appearances in Pokémon Advanced, and are seen merely as "big brothers" rather than a proper archrival. They eventually disappear after a battle between Groudon and Kyogre. It has been verified that neither Team Aqua nor Team Magma will be appearing in any future Pokémon episodes. Brody, however, makes one final appearance after the disappearance of Team Magma.
Maxie is the leader of Team Magma. In the anime and games, Maxie wants to wipe out most of the sea for more land by using (in Ruby and Emerald) a volcano or Groudon. He is more misguided then truly evil, as he believes that his actions will benefit others.
Maxie met Ash in the episode "Gaining Groudon," and told him of his dreams. He also told Ash about the Blue Orb, which could control Groudon, and with it in his hands, he could make life better for him. Suddenly, Pikachu got possessed by the Blue Orb. It controlled Groudon, and a cataclysmic battle began.
After the battle, Maxie thanks Ash, relizing that the land of Hoenn was perfect the way it is. He led Team Magma away and has not been seen since.
In Ruby, Team Aqua befriends the protagonist and attempts to stop Team Magma from taking over the world. Magma has several plots, all of which involve expanding the land mass so that more Pokémon can live on the land. The leader, Maxie, takes the Red Orb from Mt. Pyre. The Red Orb is said to hold great power and Maxie believes that he can control the legendary Pokémon Groudon with this Red Orb. They steal a submarine and enter the Seafloor Cavern, where he successfully awakens Groudon. However, Groudon disobeys and flees. When Maxie surfaces, he is stunned to discover that Hoenn is baking under a withering sun. The player enters the Cave of Origin and either catches or subdues Groudon, reverting Hoenn back to normal.
In Sapphire, the sitautions is reversed. Team Magma befriends the protagaonist and attempts to stop Team Aqua. Team Aqua steals the Blue Orb to awaken the legendary Pokémon Kyogre. Instead of expanding the land mass, they seek to expand the sea so that more Pokémon can live in the sea. Like Groudon, Kyogre flees after being freed, and brings eternal rainstorms instead of eternal, withering sunshine. Like Ruby, the player enters the Cave of Origin to revert Hoenn back to normal.
In Emerald, both teams are now the enemy. In Ruby and Sapphire, both teams had their secret hideout over the water. In Emerald, Team Magma has set up camp in a place called Jagged Pass, where Maxie awakens Groudon. Like in Sapphire, Archie steals the submarine and goes down to Seafloor Cavern to awake Kyogre. In a cut scene, Groudon and Kyogre begin fighting at Sootopolis. The player races off to Sky Pillar and awakens the legendary Pokémon Rayquaza. Rayquaza then sweeps down and forces the two legendaries to back off.
are the crime syndicate in the Sinnoh region, which is the setting of the video games Pokémon Diamond and Pearl.[1] The team’s commanders (Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) are named after planets.[2]
In Diamond and Pearl, Team Galactic state their intention to destroy the current world to create a world of their own that they can control. They kidnap the legendary Pokémon Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf, and extract crystals from them to create an item known as the Red Chain, which shackles and controls a Pokémon, yet keeps their full power (according to Cyrus' files, they do not plan to keep their target in a Poké Ball, in which they claim that it will restrain its full power). The player infiltrates Galactic's headquarters. After Cyrus battles and fails to beat the player, he allows the player to release the legendary Pokémon. At the Spear Pillar, Cyrus uses the Red Chain to bring the legendary Pokémon Dialga (in Diamond) or Palkia (in Pearl) out. However, those legendary Pokémon come back and break the Red Chain, interrupting the ritual.
<div class="references-small"> The following games and their instruction manuals: ''Pokémon Ruby'' and ''Sapphire'' </div>