Lol, nobody expected Vegapunk to be cool. What a shitty ass strawman y'all got there. The fact is that the Devil Fruit revelation had the explanation of simply saying "magic," which is to say that it was severely lacking in terms of depth and was basically treated as a throwaway info dump that honestly would have been better kept as a mystery. Some of us expected him to be a gray character who would sacrifice anything for the sake of scientific progression, like the typical mad scientist at least, because how in the hell can you experiment on little kids, work with evil ass motherfuckers like Queen and especially Caesar, aid a government that supports the slave trade, have a class system where the upper class believes they have the right to treat every other human as less than pets, and create inventions that have the only purpose of creating utter destruction, and yet be portrayed by Oda as a guy who only wanted to do good for the world and cared for people? Fuck outta here. Vegapunk never even showed an ounce of regret for his creations causing harm to so many societies in One Piece, as if Oda purposely avoided writing in some self-reflection for Vegapunk. I'm supposed to like some character whose writing is all over the place. Is he supposed to be morally gray or a good guy who was just used? Beats me.
But one thing is for certain: this dude is a fucking retard! He rarely had any countermeasures when something went against his "moral fiber." He was able to put in a self-destruct that didn't explode, which was against Saturn's wishes, yet he never even tried to think of a way to keep Kuma's consciousness alive but hidden. Also, his stupid ass created shit like the Pacifistas and Seraphim for the world government, both of which were only possible through morally reprehensible means, yet he never expected them to use his inventions in such malicious ways despite seeing the World Government's cruelty. This guy is a waste of thought.
Oh, and the fact that Egghead squandered the potential dynamic between Franky and Vegapunk makes Vegapunk even more useless of a character than he already was.
But one thing is for certain: this dude is a fucking retard! He rarely had any countermeasures when something went against his "moral fiber." He was able to put in a self-destruct that didn't explode, which was against Saturn's wishes, yet he never even tried to think of a way to keep Kuma's consciousness alive but hidden. Also, his stupid ass created shit like the Pacifistas and Seraphim for the world government, both of which were only possible through morally reprehensible means, yet he never expected them to use his inventions in such malicious ways despite seeing the World Government's cruelty. This guy is a waste of thought.
Oh, and the fact that Egghead squandered the potential dynamic between Franky and Vegapunk makes Vegapunk even more useless of a character than he already was.
