Honestly kind of crazy that Z-A just casually introduced the idea of having your own Team Rocket style gang AND having to fight other teams in like a turf war, and just didn't actually do anything with it...
Like, the name "Team MZ" is very specifically written the same way they right all the other villain teams in Pokemon, -dan[団]. (Rocket-dan, Aqua-dan/Magma-dan, Ginga-dan, Plasma-dan, Flare-dan, Skull-dan, Yell-dan, Star-dan) And even the other teams in Z-A that don't use the name format get their own team logos that fit the classic villain team letter criteria:
- Obviously MZ is just an M and a Z
- Quasar's is a Q and a quasar,
- the Sabi-gumi has a S as a yamaguchi-gumi style yakuza crest
- Flare Nouveau has an FN using the old Flare F logo
- DG4 has a D that is also a G, although I dunno about the 4 being in there or not...
- The Club of Justice has a J and a fist, but also the 正 in seigi[正義]: "justice"
- and the Social Battle Club has an S and C cut out with a B in the space between them.
Do this again but give me a proper capture the flag territory control mechanic! I mean heck that's basically just pokemon go already, just let us play it in an actual in-game world instead of googlemaps