Yeah, but you know, danger in the pokémon world is relative.
The worst thing that can happen when you face mafia/terrorists/wannabe dictators is they will make your rat fight theirs. I guess they’ll take your lunch money every time you lose, so that’s a thing.
There was a joke a bit like that in the Order of the Stick webcomic.
The hydra they were facing was supposed to be a test of wit. Fighting it mindlessly was supposed to be a bad idea, since it would just grow more and more heads in response.
Except one of them noticed there didn’t seem to be any limit to the number of heads and had an idea, so he let the violent bastard in the team go cut heads like crazy anyway.
After a while the hydra just fainted because it couldn’t supply oxygen to so many brains.
Funny thing, originally Dry Bowser is actually just Bowser, but dead (undead?).
He became like that when thrown into lava in New Super Mario Bros world 1, came back fighting as a skeleton in the last world, then Bowser Jr threw his bones into black magic soup or something and that revived him as good old meat Bowser.
But after that Dry Bowser became a separate character, probably because Nintendo loves having dozens of slightly different variations for every character.
Some even closer than most think. The Sword in the Stone is based on a 1938 book, it’s not an original adaptation of Arthurian legend.
Though really, there never has been so many new takes on Arthur than today.
Many consider that the real golden age of these stories as popular tales is right now, kickstarted “only” 150 years ago by Mark Twain and his Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.