Poll of the Day > Do you ever hate characters for being too perfect?

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Naruto_fan_42 posted...

Youre contradicting yourself. What do you think he should have done? You say its impossible for him not to join the heroes and then you say that he cant be a hero.

He's not *the* hero. He can't be, because Shulk's the only one that can use the Monado. He can still be *a* hero by joining the party, but it's no secret that the whole adventure is Shulk & Friends, not a matter of everyone contributing equally. There's nothing contradictory if you recognize that there are different tiers of protagonist in the game (and in most stories, really).

Naruto_fan_42 posted...

The prologue was out of desperation. If he hadnt almost got himself killed Bionis would be swarmed with Mechon. Same thing with the raid, he went and got the Monado even though he wasnt strong enough to use it because he was desperate to defend the colony.

And? They're still examples of his self-destructive compulsion to be the hero, and examples where that flaw did have a clear negative effect on him. He became the hero in those situations because he felt that he had to, which is the same reason he worked himself up to the point of being able to use the Monado in the first place.

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