I understand that it's a standard thing for cartoon villains to announce their plans to the heroes, but this entire sequence makes no sense at all. He has literally no motivation to tell them any of this, he doesn't even know they want to foil his plans, and the first thing he did upon showing up was tell one of his goons to lock the heroes away because they didn't have time for them.
Aside from the part where he locked them away first, isn't this the most accurate anime portrayal of the games' evil team members ever?
All he needed to add was that Ash and his friends are children and therefore have no chance to stop him.
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