Lusamine is adorable when she’s not suffering from psychosis. 💗 I’ve always defended her even back when Sun/Moon the games were released. She screwed up. But I knew she wasn’t evil. She snapped and had a bout with insanity. I knew she could be redeemed. So I was very happy when Ultra Sun/Moon did show that. And I love how the anime as handled her character. I’m interested to know though if the anime is going to focus on the subject of Mohn, her missing husband that triggered her descent into insanity in the first place. Or are we just not gonna know who Lillie and Gladion’s father is in the anime? 😅
“But I knew she wasn’t evil. She snapped and had a bout with insanity.”
Oh no, anyone who does the stuff Lusamine did even without having been driven totally mad by Nihilego’s toxin (which USUM confirmed was the case with abusing her kids, creating and experimenting on Type Null, freezing all those Pokemon, giving financing to Team Skull, and almost killing Nebby in order to open a wormhole – none of that had anything to do with Nihilego and all to do with Lusamine) is evil to some degree. Lusamine probably outdoes the likes of Guzma, Archie, Maxie, Colress, most people in Team Rocket, and even Cyrus in terms of evilness, and she was certainly not a good person by any stretch in the games. At most, she used to be decent, but not really truly good. Seeing her realize she needs to get better and doing just that in USUM is powerful because of how bad she’d been. It shows it’s never too late to start on self-improvement and making the right life choices, even for someone like her.
Anime Lusamine, though? Nah, not really evil at all.
Seriously the only villain worse than Lusamine is Ghetsis.