The thing about people going "But the one time Metal had freedom he tried killing people" is that Sonic doesn't care about that. That's not what he's criticizing Metal for, he's criticizing him for going back to Eggman, Aka the one action Metal had no choice in
@CitrusPress The franchise where most villains, unless they're Earth eating gods, are shown as at least a little sympathetic, even EGGMAN himself. But NOOOO, implying that the robot has nuance and thoughts is too unrealistic
Why is it that every time one tries to analyze Metal’s character as even slightly tragic someone comes with that “but he’s a killing machine!”
SA1 made you sympathize with a god of destruction and genocider but giving feelings to a machine is too unrealistic now?
@HannibalBeerus@PeppezzrZer0@SneakEasyArt Or at least remove the part that Eggman added to make Metal obedient to him so that way any bad action Metal takes is actually his and if he gets punished for it then it'll be for something he chose to do instead of being forced to do Eggman dirty work
@7656y The concept of Sonic fucking up Silver's perfect future because he'd rather blame Metal for not ditching Eggman than accepting that maybe the guy literally can't do that
This convo is also interesting, because eggman never says that metal went back to him because he programmed metal to specifically do so, but because that was the only option metal felt he had left. Sonic took everything from metal, and metals only option was to crawl back home.
@2pmeister@PeppezzrZer0@SneakEasyArt Good point. I'm not saying that would've been the right decision. I'm saying that out of all bad decisions he could've taken he chose what benefited the least amount of people