>>103207394What I prefer is when a cast has characters with diverse beliefs.
I'll give you an example. I'm a big fan of Mortal Kombat, where most of the cast is guys like Scorpion and Sonya, who are all about killing someone who's wronged them in revenge, and it usually happens that the person who they want dead is legitimately a blight on the world or the universe and their death would probably save other people...
And then you ALSO in the same series have the original Liu Kang, a pacifist who stood out from this crowd specifically because in the first game even his fatality was a lame nonlethal move.
His refusal to kill Shang Tsung in the first game directly led to Shang killing everyone in his monastery in MK2
And Liu is interesting because his personal storyline in MK2 is the moral struggle with whether or not to abandon his beliefs based on knowing for a fact that more people suffered because of his choice. And he STILL doesn't kill him 'cause he's like "well it's too late, it's not like it's gonna bring them back and the last thing I'm gonna do is let him taint my fuckin' soul in a universe where I have physical evidence people actually do go to Hell based on how much blood is on their hands." And Shang would eventually kill Liu in MK5, but Liu didn't go to Hell like almost every fucking character does in this series. He came back as a ghost and saved some of his friends.
And then they rebooted the series and reimagined Liu, the pacifist arc is completely gone (he even makes this weird sneering face for some reason when Johnny Cage is shocked that the tournament is a deathmatch and doesn't want to kill anyone) and instead he's a dumb religious zealot who, when his faith is shattered by Raiden screwing everything up, he dies, goes to Hell, and becomes an "I want to kill the gods" edgelord. And he's a WAY less interesting fucking character because he's no different from anybody else in the god damned cast now.
