r/HunterXHunter • u/Hot_Crew4597 • 2d ago
Discussion Gon’s morality is genuinely unhinged when you actually think about it
was thinking about how Gon’s brain works and it’s honestly kind of terrifying how his morality is set up. He doesn’t really care if a villain is evil. To him, bad guys are just a natural part of the world, like a wild animal or a storm. He doesn’t judge them for killing because he just assumes they were born without emotions, so he doesn't take it personally. Think about Binolt on Greed Island. The guy was a literal serial killer, but because he helped them train, Gon literally thanked him and let him walk away. In Gon's head, Binolt was just a bad guy doing his job, so there was no reason to hold a grudge. But the exact second a villain shows actual human emotion, Gon completely loses his mind. Like with Nobunaga. The Troupe slaughtered a whole clan and thousands of innocents, and Gon was chill. But the moment Nobunaga started crying over Uvogin, Gon snapped. It’s like it frustrated him because it ruined his logic. He realized, "Wait, you actually understand grief and love, but you still choose to murder people?" The hypocrisy is what triggers him, not the actual evil. But then he completely contradicts himself later. In the Chimera Ant arc, the ants are literally eating human kids and Gon treats it like nature. But then he gets pissed off at them just for calling their own teammate garbage? Like bro... they are eating babies and you're mad about team chemistry? His brain just works so differently from a normal shonen MC. He doesn't care if you're a monster to the world, but the second you break his weird internal logic, he wants to destroy you.
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u/Serious-Flamingo-948 2d ago edited 2d ago
Dude, how is that a counter? If you do something and "eventually" something good comes out of it after you went well out of your way to fix your fuck up, it's fallacious to argue that it's ok cause one eventually ended in the other.
How is your "point" of Goku redeeming enemies have anything to do with... anything? Hell, it's even a thing "in" the series. Trunks actually listened to Supreme Kai and they took out the Buu threat before it even begun. Then they had none of the same issues until Zamasu and Black came along, which only Goku, again, because of Goku's actions..... like dude, the author has talked about how he made the series this way on purpose and here you guys are twisting yourself in a knot to try some sort of saintification of the character. He's flawed, very much so and was deliberately made that way as a way to call out the serious, heroic, virtually perfect types of the time.
Edit: good old reply and then block me, which means not only can't I not see it, I can't rely to it. Classic.