What Happened To Every Pokemon Villain?

In the games, Pokemon's villain usually just vanish into the void, but what else can we find out about their final fates?

(0:00): Giovanni
(3:03): Maxie & Archie
(4:17): Cyrus
(6:12): Colress
(7:15): Ghetsis
(8:39): Lysandre
(9:49): Guzma
(10:24): Lusamine
(11:04): Rose

[JPRPokeTrainer]

Who is your favorite Pokemon villain??

[RagingBrachy]

I love how Archie and Maxie just become chill after almost dooming the entire world

[sagent]

I really do love how Volo said “it’s just a prank” and got away with trying to dethrone God

[a_cup_of_joe]

Cyrus died after 3 weeks in the distortion world due to a lack of food

[anthonysteer]

I'm fairly sure that Ghetsis was also the only villan to actually straight up attack the player with intent to kill in Pokemon B2/B2

[VestedUTuber]

So, just a bit of an interesting thing, Pokemon X and Y actually are the only time a villain actually has a different fate in different versions. In Y, the Ultimate Weapon is powered by the energy of Yveltal, the Legendary Pokemon of Death, which means that when Lysander turns the weapon against himself it kills him. In X, Lysander's fate is actually _worse than death, _ as the weapon was powered by the energy of Xerneas, the Legendary Pokemon of Life - which means that X's Lysander is now immortal and buried alive under tons of rock.

[EpicNerdsWithCameras]

Of the many ways a villain can go out, getting nuked to death at the command of a toddler has got to be one of the most disrespectful.

[kusasithebe]

Imagine getting defeated by a kid who got their starter Pokémon a week ago

[badatchoosingnames]

If we ignore the part where they wanted to destroy the world's entire biosystem, Archie and Maxie's situationship is lowkey funny. Also, poor Cyrus is so much of an introvert, he actually love the distortion world more than the actual owner of the place does.

[Alec_]

Yeah, team plasma was disappointingly quite nerfed in the anime. I know a lot of that had to do with factors outside the anime’s control, but still.

[kartiksaraf]

The closest to a villain role in SV is the professors. They mistreat Arven, cause dangerous pokemon to appear in their world through their reckless research.

[ParaternalSkies]

11:00 Lillie the Nihelego also got adopted, making Lusamine’s original goal of befriending nihelego completed in a much more non-damaging way.

[Ikcatcher]

I still find it funny how Giovanni went from mob boss to Kang the Conqueror in the spam of 20 years

[alphaareus]

Gotta love how *Bonnie* technically killed Lysandre. Truly amazing.

[sylviojacyrparolinmelzerpa]

The truth is that Cyrus needed an anti-depressant. A strong one. I don't know how the health system works in sinnoh, but i guess nurse joy needs to try something to help this guy

[dekumidoriya]

In Paldea, the main villain was already gone, and you're fighting what remains of their will, kinda makes me think of who will be the antagonist of the DLC since as of now there are no clear bad guy in Paldea

[CrystalHeart]

While Masters' canonicity can be debated, I like Masters bringing back the original Lysandre after he was presumed dead for about seven years, and developing on his friendship with Sycamore. I feel that was something interesting about both of them in XY was them being friends, but they never developed on it any.

Also, you didn't mention this, but the total unhingedness of him getting to boil two people alive with Volcanion, like I'm still in awe that was greenlit. And then it's heavily implied he was going to do the same to a third. I always made serial killer jokes about him, but it seems they made it official.

[c-handle]

I feel like there's not enough talk about how a version of Colress got into the RR headquarters, likely from the same universe that Ghetsis came from, and just punked the Plasma Big Bad. He really was USING Plasma all the way through.

[Alec_]

I hope they someday conclude the story of Giovanni and Team Rocket in the anime. They’re(so far) no longer the longtime marketable villains, so it’s possible.

[demi-femme]

Volo leaves declaring that he will achieve his goals, no matter how many centuries it takes him.
There's already implications that Volo is of a previous time, so it's entirely possible that Volo has been quietly manipulating things.