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Pokemon Black and White. It's basically just a "what if people trying to do good are the bad guys" plot targeted at animal rights activists. It hits all the classic plot points like "members of the team caught hurting Pokemon" and "the leader didn't actually believe in their stated ideals and was using it for power". It's even more shallow than an average plot of this type because "being captured and made to battle makes Pokemon happy" is emphasized in every other part of the game (and every other game in the series) and I don't think that an abused Pokemon is shown on screen even once.
Like obviously they're not going to allow the premise of the world's biggest cash cow to be criticized, but nobody forced the writers to bring up the topic in the first place. It's an incredible shame that there's a fair portion of the adult fanbase that considers it the best written Pokemon game (not that any of the others are particularly well written, but at least they're not slandering activists).