They absolutely did. There's just no way that they weren't.
Zamasu's the uke.
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They absolutely did. There's just no way that they weren't.
That would be masterbation.
Are they the same person still, having different experiences?
Its a negative character arc, he started out reluctant to carry out his deepest ideals and he most certainly only wanted select civilizations exterminated like the barbari. But by meeting Goku he was convinced that ALL mortals needed extermination.MasenkoHA wrote: Tue Oct 03, 2023 6:32 pm Saying Zamasu has an arc is being extremely generous.
He started out as a narcissistic asshole and ended the story a narcissistic asshole but with more power and insanity
Yes. Some people here seem to think that a villain has a character arc only if it is a "positive" one, where the villain changes for the better (like Piccolo, Vegeta, Majin Buu). But this is false, a villain can have a "negative" character arc too, and Zamasu had one. He goes from someone who thinks mortals are useless but doesn't really care to act, to a villain who actively despises mortals and decides to kill all of them by his own hand.Zekken wrote: Wed Oct 04, 2023 8:24 amIts a negative character arc, he started out reluctant to carry out his deepest ideals and he most certainly only wanted select civilizations exterminated like the barbari. But by meeting Goku he was convinced that ALL mortals needed extermination.MasenkoHA wrote: Tue Oct 03, 2023 6:32 pm Saying Zamasu has an arc is being extremely generous.
He started out as a narcissistic asshole and ended the story a narcissistic asshole but with more power and insanity
You may think that those start and end points are the same, but if you look at it from the viewpoint of dragon ball hierarchy they are in fact different.
For what Zamasu wanted to be done to the barbari is not unlike what a destroyer would do, and we`re not calling them narcissistic are we? Zamasu honestly was just assigned the wrong position.
Akira Toriyama, DBS vol.4 joint interview with ToyotaroAt his core Zamasu is good like Shin, though I guess you could say he was so fastidious that it backfired. But you know, for this "Future Trunks Arc" you had to depict Zamasu and Trunks' inner conflict, right? If this was back when I was drawing the manga myself then I doubt if I could have done it. I mean, I'm not very good at depicting the characters' psychology on the page. So this all came together because now I only have to think up the story. [...] On my own, I doubt I would have been able to express Zamasu's fall to the dark side.