What is Lysandre's motivation in the anime?

I get that he wants to use the power of zygarde to wreck kalos, and if his crystal monstrosity reaches the anistar city sundial, the world will end, but WHY does he want that? in the games it’s all about creating the perfect world, and that makes sense. and I get that he wants everything to be perfect and beautiful. but he jumps from Thanos to Calamity Ganon when he apparenly wants to just erase this entire world. And team flare still seems to back him.

I haven’t seen all of the episodes in XYZ (Not even close) so there’s probably an episode I missed explaining it.

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

Galarian Ponyta is right, Lysandre’s motives in the anime are pretty much just like his in X and Y.

Like in the games, he’s psychologically disgraced at the world around him and is determined to achieve his ideological image of a perfect world. He vows to create a beautiful world, which is a good intention, but it’s his nihilism that has corrupted his methods. Now he believes, with delusional levels of certitude, that the only way to achieve a beautiful world is to first destroy the one that already exists.

He’s a crazy***, basically. Can’t help but feel sort of sorry for him, though.

For a more detailed synopsis on Lysandre’s actions in the anime, I’d suggest referring toBulbapedia’s pageon him. Hopefully this helped.