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7/7/2025, 8:28:27 PM
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Complaining little BITCHES such as yourself, who simply whine and moan about the current state of the Halls, while not even TRYING to initiate intellectual exchange or exposition of humorous imagery.
To surmise, shut the FUCK, contribute, or FLAIL your motor appendages as fast as you can muster, you emaciated rapscallion, before I unleash my full WRATH upon thine scrawny figure.
Complaining little BITCHES such as yourself, who simply whine and moan about the current state of the Halls, while not even TRYING to initiate intellectual exchange or exposition of humorous imagery.
To surmise, shut the FUCK, contribute, or FLAIL your motor appendages as fast as you can muster, you emaciated rapscallion, before I unleash my full WRATH upon thine scrawny figure.
6/26/2025, 8:39:19 PM
Jiren
Everything is there to make him an interesting foil for Goku and even a suitable final antagonist. In just about every way imaginable, he and Goku represent contradictions--not only to each other, but between different aspects of their own motivations as well--and those contradictions are ones relevant to the core of the series.
Jiren is all selfless justice, compared to all-avarice Goku, but the pursuit of that idea of justice manifests in a wish that would have, for its selfishness, left all the universes destroyed. Meanwhile, Goku is so narrow-mindedly focused on his own pursuits that any personal gains not related to them are to be put to use for others without a second thought. Goku doesn't claim to fight for others, while Jiren very much does, yet Goku continuously draws others toward them and morally betters them while Jiren pushes them away. Goku relies on finding and utilizing those stronger than him while Jiren's past experiences leave him denying the same thought. That Goku's motivation is growth for its own sake rather than growth for a separate purpose is inconceivable to Jiren. On the other hand, Goku has friends and a living master, but he doesn't have what he desires most- Jiren's GoD-surpassing power.
They're good foils, and the ways in which they're foils tie into everything the series does with its themes of selfishness and forging interpersonal bonds. And that comes into play in the outcome of this arc as a stand-alone story, too, with both Freeza and Android #17's changes due to their interactions with Goku factoring centrally into its end.
But all of that comes across terribly. More so in the anime, where any hints of the elements I brought up are saved for the final moments of the arc. The manga did better, but not by that much. He's okay there, but still well below potential.
Everything is there to make him an interesting foil for Goku and even a suitable final antagonist. In just about every way imaginable, he and Goku represent contradictions--not only to each other, but between different aspects of their own motivations as well--and those contradictions are ones relevant to the core of the series.
Jiren is all selfless justice, compared to all-avarice Goku, but the pursuit of that idea of justice manifests in a wish that would have, for its selfishness, left all the universes destroyed. Meanwhile, Goku is so narrow-mindedly focused on his own pursuits that any personal gains not related to them are to be put to use for others without a second thought. Goku doesn't claim to fight for others, while Jiren very much does, yet Goku continuously draws others toward them and morally betters them while Jiren pushes them away. Goku relies on finding and utilizing those stronger than him while Jiren's past experiences leave him denying the same thought. That Goku's motivation is growth for its own sake rather than growth for a separate purpose is inconceivable to Jiren. On the other hand, Goku has friends and a living master, but he doesn't have what he desires most- Jiren's GoD-surpassing power.
They're good foils, and the ways in which they're foils tie into everything the series does with its themes of selfishness and forging interpersonal bonds. And that comes into play in the outcome of this arc as a stand-alone story, too, with both Freeza and Android #17's changes due to their interactions with Goku factoring centrally into its end.
But all of that comes across terribly. More so in the anime, where any hints of the elements I brought up are saved for the final moments of the arc. The manga did better, but not by that much. He's okay there, but still well below potential.
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