General & Others The Ruination of a character #2 - Zoro: the Edgelord, the One Trick Pony and the Soulless one
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The antidote thing.
Wasnt Chopper who told Zoro to get the antidote? Chopper already considered the possibility of Queen having it, and if he could get it, he could mass produce it.
Why are people here saying it was Zoro's initiative?
Zoro's introduction post TS is getting lost into a random pirate ship, then cutting it for ZERO reasons and going all "you should blame faith for bringing destruction to you" or something like that. Can't get any more edgelord than that. LMAO.
The "Have you ever seen a wild animal that would never bite?" line was also cringe af.
But yeah. I agree with most of what was said. Doesn't make me dislike the character, just don't really care anymore.
Wasnt Chopper who told Zoro to get the antidote? Chopper already considered the possibility of Queen having it, and if he could get it, he could mass produce it.
Why are people here saying it was Zoro's initiative?
Zoro's introduction post TS is getting lost into a random pirate ship, then cutting it for ZERO reasons and going all "you should blame faith for bringing destruction to you" or something like that. Can't get any more edgelord than that. LMAO.
The "Have you ever seen a wild animal that would never bite?" line was also cringe af.
But yeah. I agree with most of what was said. Doesn't make me dislike the character, just don't really care anymore.
I will say it again. Pre-timeskip Zoro is probably the greatest character that Oda has created. But now current Zoro is nothing but an angry edgy guard dog. Which is the main reason why I don't enjoy him as much as many people here.
He is a manly punisher that doesn't care about dirting his own hands for a good cause and is even portrayed to save his own captain's butt on the rooftop. He is a top chad badass machine.
I'd write an extensive rebuttal of this with panels, but I'm supposed to be on hiatus now, so I'll be very brief.
In brief, Zoro had some more depth to him preskip, but he hasn't been a one dimensional edge lord postskip:
- Zoro smiled at various points in Punk Hazard.
- He had funny and heartwarming moments with Tashigi and spent a while carrying her around.
- He was laughing/smiling when he saved Luffy from Mama's Heavenly Fire just recently.
- He was smiling when he gave Chopper the antidote and entrusted things to him.
- In Wano Zoro bonded with Yasuie, Tama and Hiyori and had several emotional moments with them.
This post is based on very selective attention/memory and outright falsehoods:
- Zoro only smiles when he cuts things: False
- He smiled after seeing Kinemon cut an explosion, after reuniting with Luffy on Wano, laughed after saving Luffy from Mama's Heavenly Fire, etc.
- Zoro only cuts things: False
- He advises and chastises Luffy
- He provides emotional support for Luffy
- Zoro is not the Vice Captain: False
- See above
- After retrieving the antidote from Apoo, Zoro delegated handling the treatment to Chopper and reassured him.
- Zoro doesn't express emotions and is always angry: False
- He's been cocky, happy, sad, surprised, distressed, grateful and several other emotions.
- The claim that Zoro is emotionally constipated is a flat out lie.
- He's only really been angry at specific moments (e.g. when he swore to avenge Yasuie, when he saw Okiku's arm fall through the roof).
- He's been cocky, happy, sad, surprised, distressed, grateful and several other emotions.
Most of Zoro's emotions are expressed in regards to Luffy. If you were criticising Zoro, then a criticism about his role as an accessory to Luffy's would make sense, but the current criticism is based on falsehoods.
The only thing true about what you said is Zoro having been more expressive and having more depth preskip, but the extent to which that's true has been greatly overstated.
Don't bother replying, I'm not going to see it/respond.
