Personality & Development: Meowth: Difference between revisions

Perhaps the only Pokémon character in the anime that is truly as memorable as {{bp|Ash's Pikachu|Pikachu}} or maybe even more memorable is {{bp|Meowth (Team Rocket)|Meowth}}. He is a monumental figure in the minds of countless children across the world. When it is considered; whether or not the writers purposely created a thick personality for Meowth, anyone who has watched the anime will conclude that he, indeed, had a great deal of character, clear to the audience. Obviously, everyone can recognize the work put into his character because he is human-like; in his ability to talk, to think like a human and walk on his hind legs. In past instalments of Personality & Development, human psychology has always been applied to the characters; however, the relevance of human psychology to characters based on {{wp|Turtles}}, {{wp|Ducks}} and {{wp|seahorses}} can be considered a hindering criticism to the column. Despite Meowth being based on a {{wp|cat}}, his feline traits do not extend much further than physical appearance, other than his fear of water and love of yarn. So, seen as Meowth’s personality traits are more than familiar to the audience of the Pokémon anime, the psychological and sociological explanations are necessary to further the understanding of his character to the Pokémon community.

Although Meowth is a famous villain, he is not at all a good criminal. However Meowth is talented majorly, besides his already stated super Pokémon; human-like capabilities, Meowth is a talented {{wp|ramen}} maker and actor, dressing as various other Pokémon and convincing the cast he is of the species. Like {{bp|Jessie}}, who is a talented coordinator, and {{bp|James}}, who has various talents, such as Poké Ringer; Meowth stays loyal to Team Rocket, despite it not being any kind of achieved fulfilment in his life. This is where attachment theory can be tied in. Meowth, although he must of had a mother, was alone and unloved for a long time before he joined team rocket, suggesting he suffered deprivation, which means he had no attachment figure. For human children, recovering from deprivation is exceptionally hard, but many Pokémon have been showed to recover from the loneliness they felt after their abandonment, whether it be by a trainer or a family. When Meowth first felt love and/or respect from {{bp|Giovanni (anime)|Giovanni}}, although it was probably neither, Meowth quickly regained self confidence and, although he did wrongly, became an attachment type B-Secure attached. Still to this day, Meowth has always believed Giovanni values him and strives to please him, apparently accomplishing such before the Best Wishes series.  

His relationship with his team mates is more adult, and at the same time more childish. The sense that Meowth’s relationship with Jessie and James is more adult is that, he does not treat them as superior and they all acknowledge they are on the same level in society. The reason their relationship is more childish is the {{bp|AG176|bickering}} and the fall outs between them. However as Meowth grows older and in turn becomes more wise, eventually getting to the point where he feels he can {{bp|DP117|leave}} Team Rocket, his friendship with Jessie and James always prevails. It appeared as if Meowth had out grown his blind allegiance to Team rocket and began staying with his friends for their company and love, until Best Wishes where the trio all begin to feel fulfilment in their jobs.