Everything about it is fucking cringe. Lo and behold, they took inspo from the MCU
"...Noting that Vash the Stampede was one of his favorite heroes, Takei – despite claiming that retconning Nightow’s original manga didn’t quite sit right with him – told attendees that
Trigun Stampede was inspired by the way “Marvel reworks and reinterpret the storylines of comics for the MCU.”
“Since the majority of anime adaptations aren’t like that wondered if that kind of experimentation was possible in Japan,” he asserted..."