Pokémon Legends: Z-A’s Mega Dimension DLC is full of references to previous video games. It’s a pseudo sequel to Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, with dashes of Diamond and Pearl carryover sprinkled in, and loads of references to characters from X and Y. Nevertheless, one small reference to the unique Crimson and Blue is stunning longtime followers as a result of it proves an previous villain may need realized a number of classes for the reason that unique Recreation Boy video games.
In Legends: Z-A’s most important story, Corbeau, the hotheaded however kindhearted chief of the mob-like Rust Syndicate group, reveals that Lysandre, the boss of the genocidal Staff Flare from X and Y and an enigmatic determine in Legends: Z-A, helped increase him from an early age. In Mega Dimension, he reveals that Lysandre wasn’t the one antagonist who taken care of him at one level. It seems Giovanni, the chief of Staff Rocket in Technology I, additionally took Corbeau underneath his wing.
Corbeau reveals this throughout Mega Dimension’s post-game because the participant is beginning to hunt for the Legendary Pokémon Rayquaza, and he remembers a “boss of a corporation from Kanto” who knew concerning the myths and legends from the Johto and Hoenn areas from Gold and Silver and Ruby and Sapphire. Giovanni disappears after the participant defeats him in Crimson and Blue, and whereas he makes appearances right here and there in future video games, he solely returns to his crime boss methods within the Rainbow Rocket storyline in Extremely Solar and Extremely Moon, however that’s an alternate universe model of him. So it appears like, in some unspecified time in the future, he handed by means of the Kalos area and met Corbeau.
This would possibly simply seem to be a easy nod to earlier video games, however Giovanni’s historical past makes it bittersweet. In Gold and Silver, the participant’s rival is revealed to be the Staff Rocket Boss’ deserted son. So maybe Giovanni considered his mentoring of Corbeau as an opportunity at redemption for being a deadbeat dad. That mentioned, some followers are turning on Corbeau for this reveal, as it may be learn because the character getting a variety of pandering fanservice woven into his backstory.
SPOILER FOR THE DLC
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I’M SORRY.
BUT WHY WAS THIS HIDDEN FROM ME FOR SO LONG AND NOT TALKED ABOUT?!???GIOVANNI RAISED CORBEAU TOO
HE GAVE HIM FOOD AND SHELTER AND LYSANDRE GAVE HIM AN EDUCATIONFUCK YOU: GIOVANNI KEEPS PROVING HE REDEEMED I WIN pic.twitter.com/U2FaLlriRG
— TrueUmbral (@4eyeswhitedrake) December 16, 2025
this dlc has made me genuinely dislike Corbeau. he appears like somebody’s OC snuck into the sport. wdym Giovanni, well-known for not elevating his youngster, helped increase him. He appears like he was made in a lab to be preferred.
— hazel ☕️ (@flyoctofly) December 17, 2025
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CORBEAU YOU CAN’T JUST FUCKING SHADOWDROP THAT GIOVANNI WAS YOUR BABYSITTER YOU SLIMY FUCKER pic.twitter.com/g6rCeLSTQX
— ☠️||𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮||🟣 (@RusticBoss) December 11, 2025
the idea of giovanni elevating corbeau whereas neglecting & abandoning his blood son silver https://t.co/B0D6TCnGiy pic.twitter.com/9pLr4M5Vej
— jalenciaga | DOLLZ HEROES (@jalenciagasart) December 12, 2025
I feel Silver ought to be allowed to beat Giovanni to demise like a piñata after the lore drop from the DLC I HATE YOU GIOVANNI I HATEYOUU pic.twitter.com/0lWBp2tkjv
— ☆ , Kel ° ☆ // ETHAN NATION WON pt.2 🏆 (@BurnedFragments) December 16, 2025
Personally, I like the concept that a number of the greatest bastards in all of Pokémon may increase a man and as a substitute of additionally turning into a terrorist, he turns into a mob boss who makes use of his affect to higher Lumiose Metropolis. Corbeau was one in all my favourite characters in Legends: Z-A, but when the anime finally ends up tying him to a different staff chief, I may be on board with the argument that his hyperlinks to numerous prison organizations are getting out of hand. Subsequent you’re gonna inform me he loves Piers from Staff Yell’s music? Wait, that truly sounds fairly possible.
