MajinMan wrote:Before the special, I thought that Jiren was a boring, uniteresting character. He exists to be cool and stoic. People thought Hit was like that, but my god Jiren took it to another level and multiplied that by 100. He never talked, had no special quirks, and didn't do anything for long periods of time.
After the special, well, he pretty much is and does most of the things I said, but I finally learned his true purpose. And because I learned why he is the way he is, I like his character a lot more now.
Let me explain. Jiren is a monster. "He is strong. Plain and simple." Jiren isn't supposed to be anything else. He's a giant wall. He's a wall that is so high and strong that nobody could ever dream of knocking it down. He's a being that exists to knock everything else down. That is his purpose. He is, to sum it up, Goku's wish. Someone so strong that even he is overwhelmed. People might not like that, and understandably so. You can call him boring or whatever, but he's something we haven't gotten in Dragon Ball. There has never been a character like Jiren, and that unironically makes him completely original, despite his typical stoic nature.
When Hit started to fight Goku, we saw more nuanced sides of him, like how he actually enjoys martial arts despite being a hitman. He improved as the fight went on. He was basically in Goku's same position, being used by the God's in a game. Now he has a sort of "friendship" with Goku.
Jiren, on the other hand, is different. Not once did he show the slightest bit of intimidation when he saw Goku's new form. His only goal was to destroy him. He wanted to take Goku's strongest power and obliterate it with his own. That was his only goal. He showed no interest in him as a person, only that he was a Saiyan. Jiren is simply someone who is defined by his strength, and that's the entire point. Everything said about him is about his strength. About how unstoppable he is. How amazing he is. That is what Jiren is supposed to be. An unstoppable, impossible obstacle.
With all that being said, I still don't think Jiren is one of the best characters to come from this series, but he is far from the worst. The special really changed the way I look at him as a character. His presence felt justified.
I can also be completely wrong and they could give him some sad backstory in the future or whatever, but I doubt it.
The irony of this post as a Broly fan is tremendous hate Broly has gotten for having "no personality" or a terrible character. Despite having a far far more interesting form, power, backstory, connection to the main cast, fighting style, etc etc etc.
Anyway the idea that this series needs yet another wall is pretty absurd. We have the highest and most number of walls we have ever had sitting in front of the characters. We have Beerus, Whis, 11 other universes and their gods and angels, the grand priests, zen'os bodyguards, and TWO ZENOS! How many more walls do you need. Plus to introduce yet another wall which is literally nothing but a wall when we already have several much more well established and interested walls to deal with seems unnecessary.
The worst part of this wall business is that Goku is tackling this wall the same way he has every other wall he's come up against. He's increased his power to go over the wall. I really really hope Goku bets Jiren in a way that Goku is still less powerful. I'm hoping the manga makes that a reality but we will see.
