I guess the idea is that the Royal Knights are supposed to be full of themselves, under the false pretense that they're working for a just cause when they're really carrying out someone's horrible intentions. Still, you are right that they're used too much in an antagonistic context, and it's not like there aren't about a dozen other alliances in the Digimon franchise (like the four Holy Beasts, or five now that Huanglongmon's in the picture; the four great dragons; the Olympian Twelve; the Ten Ancient Warriors could probably work again outside of Frontier, 'specially since Frontier gave absolutely no focus on the originals, only putting spotlight on the Hybrid forms derived from them, etc.). Also, I find it sad that they were whoring out the Royal Knights to no end for a while, and yet during that whole time, they couldn't be arsed to make some new ones (besides Duftmon in Savers, and he didn't last long unfortunately). To this day, we're still waiting for the last couple members or so to be established (on a similar note, they established the Olympian Twelve only to reveal a couple at first, and we're still barely halfway through them.... at least with the Royal Knights, they created a group with a set number already composed of several pre-existing Digimon, making me wonder what they were hoping to accomplish with the Olympians, which would apparently end up consisting almost completely of all new Digimon. Also, are the 'evil' Hybrids ever gonna get Advanced forms?). Unfortunately, Digimon news seems to have been fairly static since Savers ended, so it seems these incomplete alliances aren't gonna be addressed any time soon, though I heard rumors about another revival attempt coming up (was this already mentioned here?).
