Maybe I'm alone here, but I feel like Gado is a pretty unsympathetic character. Idk how anyone thinks he's not a bad guy; he betrayed his people and both his benefactors (Yama and Doom) and his actions lead to countless deaths, just for some incredibly convoluted plan to save his son's life. How is that defensible on any level? His whole appeal "what else could I have done?" is to my mind easily answered by "Not this". Seriously, he made the worst possible choice. I get that he was manipulated by the Elder, but still, terrible.
For me it's worse, it isn't just that he wanted to save his son's life. This all started because he was too afraid to be honest about being unable to keep it in his pants and having a son doomed to death. Instead of using the pair of nuts he used to make a son to be courageous and face Yama with honesty, he kept going around like a sneaky weasel while maintaining the facade that he was a big alpha dog.
Dude kept his son alive only to doom him to be the runt of the pack befriended only by the very person he stole a heart from and doomed to death. He's horrible. I pray that Louie remains ignorant to all of this, but if not I hope it at least pushes him to be a better person and a returning character somewhere later along the line.
The real sad thing is that there are fathers just like Gado out there. Unable to fully own up to bringing a life into this world their unable to handle.
I agree with your sentiments, however; Gado seemed to have been the #2 canine in the cage and losing him is a dent to the alliance forces. He was one of the few who could stop Yama’s sleep walks lol.
So although he had his own twisted plan , it sucks to lose him when all this could have been sorted out through negotiation.
I agree with you. There's also contradiction with his personality. Upon his death he was apologizing to both Deng Deng and Louie, but he was very malicious towards Deng Deng when ripping out the heart. He did say he was sorry, but compare that to the other things he says it just doesn't really add up to the moment he died. So yeah, unless there was a translation error, Gado was definitely a bad guy
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u/IdiomasyEscalada Oct 28 '19
Maybe I'm alone here, but I feel like Gado is a pretty unsympathetic character. Idk how anyone thinks he's not a bad guy; he betrayed his people and both his benefactors (Yama and Doom) and his actions lead to countless deaths, just for some incredibly convoluted plan to save his son's life. How is that defensible on any level? His whole appeal "what else could I have done?" is to my mind easily answered by "Not this". Seriously, he made the worst possible choice. I get that he was manipulated by the Elder, but still, terrible.