shoz999
Back when Tigers used to smoke.
So if your a long time reader of Kusaka's Pokemon Adventures, you may have noticed a consistent trend of hope, change or last minute redemption moments for villains. That anyone, even villains, can change over time or at least have their own redemption moments. We saw the power hungry Maxie and Archie, after years of betrayal and madness, put aside their own goals for the sake of saving the world from a meteor. We saw Giovanni, Pryce and Lance teaming together to stop the end of the world by the creation trio. We even saw Cyrus have a believe change-of-heart. I honestly think Kusaka is a pretty good writer. He managed to write a believable hard-line sociopath, Cyrus, and later unexpectedly expand on the idea that Cyrus hasn't completely threw away his humanity in one of the most beautiful redemption scenes I have ever seen in not just Pokemon but just in manga in general. That being said, if Kusaka can give a believable redemption moment and a change of heart to these power-hungry sociopaths, do you think he can do the same for Ghetsis?
This is my opinion but personally I think it is possible that Ghetsis can get redemption albeit it will be incredibly difficult to make it believable. One of the reasons why previous villains that got believable redemption turning points is that it suited their interests and it didn't always turned them away from villainy. Giovanni, Maxie and Archie can't control a world if it doesn't exist, so they have to save it. Cyrus's change of heart, his gratitude for life happened because of his ideological obsession of what is complete and incomplete. His failures made him realize he's an incomplete being and that human beings in general are incomplete as individuals but together they can be complete, never giving up even after the mistake they've made. Even someone like Lysandre can be redeemed because his original motives were based on the fact that he tried to send humanitarian needs to those who needed it most but it just wasn't enough.
And then there is Ghetsis. Oh man. He is arguably, in my opinion, the best villain in the Pokemon series. Some of you admire a lot of qualities in other villains but for Ghetsis, you absolutely hate this guy not because he's annoying or a poorly written villain but because he was written intentionally and believably as this backstabbing murdering manipulative scum with almost no, if any, redeemable qualities. He's the kind of villain that you'd want to punch in his face rather than listen to what his motives are. That is why I think he is the hardest to redeemed because he is believable scum. Now why do I think he can be redeemed at all? Well it's because of something I've noticed in the Pokemon Generations anime adaptation. Apparently there is a little glimpse of hope for Ghetsis after all and that is a small part of Ghetsis does think of N as a son. Basically I'm saying he can be redeemed, for a short time anyway, from his father-son relationship with N. In the generations anime, N says it's hard to call Ghetsis this one word, father. Ghetsis for a short glimpse of a second, actually hesitates and looks afraid at what N called him, father. I was surprised at all that Ghetsis had this kind of reaction. Ghetsis getting even one glimpse of a redemption moment is by far a long shot still. In fact in the manga Ghetsis coldly with a smile, without hesitation, says to Colress that N means nothing to him. However who knows? Ghetsis hasn't actually been confronted with this father-son relationship by N himself in the manga. Considering how the BW2 arc is going, N could confront Ghetsis about this father-son relationship and Ghetsis could be caught in an unexpected moment. Kusaka is a clever writer too, able to adapt to the limitations of the game's basis and do more with it. Even if Ghetsis gets his little redemption moment, that doesn't mean he will stop being a manipulative jackass and in the end, that is what I'm asking.
Do you think it's possible for the writer of Pokemon Adventures to give Ghetsis a redemption moment? Even for a glimpse of a second? If you do, how difficult do you think it would be to pull this off to make it believable? Or do you think it's impossible even for Kusaka?
This is my opinion but personally I think it is possible that Ghetsis can get redemption albeit it will be incredibly difficult to make it believable. One of the reasons why previous villains that got believable redemption turning points is that it suited their interests and it didn't always turned them away from villainy. Giovanni, Maxie and Archie can't control a world if it doesn't exist, so they have to save it. Cyrus's change of heart, his gratitude for life happened because of his ideological obsession of what is complete and incomplete. His failures made him realize he's an incomplete being and that human beings in general are incomplete as individuals but together they can be complete, never giving up even after the mistake they've made. Even someone like Lysandre can be redeemed because his original motives were based on the fact that he tried to send humanitarian needs to those who needed it most but it just wasn't enough.
And then there is Ghetsis. Oh man. He is arguably, in my opinion, the best villain in the Pokemon series. Some of you admire a lot of qualities in other villains but for Ghetsis, you absolutely hate this guy not because he's annoying or a poorly written villain but because he was written intentionally and believably as this backstabbing murdering manipulative scum with almost no, if any, redeemable qualities. He's the kind of villain that you'd want to punch in his face rather than listen to what his motives are. That is why I think he is the hardest to redeemed because he is believable scum. Now why do I think he can be redeemed at all? Well it's because of something I've noticed in the Pokemon Generations anime adaptation. Apparently there is a little glimpse of hope for Ghetsis after all and that is a small part of Ghetsis does think of N as a son. Basically I'm saying he can be redeemed, for a short time anyway, from his father-son relationship with N. In the generations anime, N says it's hard to call Ghetsis this one word, father. Ghetsis for a short glimpse of a second, actually hesitates and looks afraid at what N called him, father. I was surprised at all that Ghetsis had this kind of reaction. Ghetsis getting even one glimpse of a redemption moment is by far a long shot still. In fact in the manga Ghetsis coldly with a smile, without hesitation, says to Colress that N means nothing to him. However who knows? Ghetsis hasn't actually been confronted with this father-son relationship by N himself in the manga. Considering how the BW2 arc is going, N could confront Ghetsis about this father-son relationship and Ghetsis could be caught in an unexpected moment. Kusaka is a clever writer too, able to adapt to the limitations of the game's basis and do more with it. Even if Ghetsis gets his little redemption moment, that doesn't mean he will stop being a manipulative jackass and in the end, that is what I'm asking.
Do you think it's possible for the writer of Pokemon Adventures to give Ghetsis a redemption moment? Even for a glimpse of a second? If you do, how difficult do you think it would be to pull this off to make it believable? Or do you think it's impossible even for Kusaka?
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