Chapter 2697 The Protagonists of Tragedy
Duran said goodbye to the reincarnated and left them to the care of the goddess. The goddess used love as the basis to allow everyone in the new world to negotiate under the framework of love and avoid fighting.
And Duran returned home, made a brief adjustment, and began to choose a new world.
"How is this world? A branch of the Rei world. Although there are also EVAs and apostles, the development is completely different. The final result seems to be that Shinji Ikari reconciled with his father, instead of Shinji Ikari completing the completion alone." Denise pointed to a world and said.
Duran saw that the plot of this world spanned fifteen years, which was longer than the TV version, and the struggle was more cruel. The TV version is mainly the game between Gendo Ikari and Seele. Although both sides are carrying out the human completion plan, Gendo Ikari's goal is to use the plan to see his wife. Seele hopes that after they lead the completion, humans will complete the evolution as a whole and become an existence like an apostle.
In the theater version, Seele's existence was weakened to a background board, and the main confrontation was between Gendo Ikari and the rebels. Ikari Gendō wants to see his wife, but the price is to destroy humanity. The rebels don't want humans to change, and hope that humans can still live in their current form, so the two sides fight.
The overall story has a huge difference after the awakening of Unit-01. In the TV version, Unit-01 did not trigger the Near Third Impact after eating the Apostle of Power, but passed it normally. But in the theatrical version, the Near Third Impact killed many people, and Unit-01 also fell asleep for fourteen years. During this period, Shinji Ikari knew nothing. When he woke up, he found that everyone was so strange. Everyone ignored him and regarded him as the culprit.
Shinji Ikari really didn't know anything, and was completely confused. It was so pitiful. It was even more pitiful than when he was sent to Unit-01 by his father at the beginning.
"I have to say that no matter which universe, Shinji Ikari is confused and has no idea what he is fighting for." Duran said, and then his eyes fell on the other two worlds.
The protagonists of the two worlds of "Flame Fist" and "Chainsaw Man" actually don't know why they are fighting. Although the protagonist of Flame Fist wants revenge, the enemy has collapsed when he finds him. When he sees the enemy for the second time, the enemy looks like he has reformed, which makes it difficult for the protagonist to kill him. If it weren't for the sister saying in her mind "Use Flame Fist on him", I'm afraid the protagonist would have let the enemy go. However, although revenge was taken, the protagonist also killed many innocent children.
The world of Flame Fist takes place in a doomsday world without any civilization inheritance. In the ice and snow, people eat each other everywhere, and the protagonist is a person with self-healing ability. His task is to cut off his hands and feet as fuel and food. He has not received any education and was born in the ice and snow. Only his sister is his spiritual harbor, but his sister was also killed. He wants revenge, but in the process he met people who master knowledge and teach him, which makes the protagonist's original simple thoughts undergo complex changes.
The protagonist of "Chainsaw Man" is also an uneducated person. He doesn't know why he fights. If the protagonist of "Flame Fist" has a goal of revenge, then Chainsaw Man is even more confused. In the end, he can only fight for the favor of the bad woman. In the process, he meets brothers, best friends, and comrades-in-arms, but he gains and loses. He grows up after ups and downs and bravely lives.
The characters of the protagonists in the three worlds are completely different, but they are obviously confused. They are all very young, have no complete worldview and values, and don't know why they fight. Is it for the recognition of their father, for the revenge of their sister, or for the favor of the bad woman?
Even they themselves don't know, and even many times they just want to survive, but don't know why they want to survive.
After all, for the recognition of their father, they have to participate in a battle without knowing the reason and have to sacrifice their lives. This is obviously not a normal master-slave relationship.
And revenge for the sister, if in the normal world, there is naturally no problem, but in the doomsday, why should people live? The temperature is getting lower and lower, and the space for human survival is getting smaller and smaller. Sooner or later, humans will perish. Revenge is just an excuse to survive, not a goal to survive.
The boy who wanted the favor of the bad woman, had poor academic performance since childhood and finally dropped out of school was confused in the face of the colorful world. After killing the creditor, he didn't know what to do. At this time, the bad woman appeared in front of him, and the boy accepted her invitation, left his comfort zone, and started his own journey.
"The traditional stories of brave men are all arranged in this way: 'ordinary world, adventure call, refuse the call, meet the teacher, cross the boundaries, test, friends and enemies, approach the goal, decisive battle, harvest, return, nirvana, return with a full load'. The confused boy in Eva's world has no teacher, and there is no room for refusal. Everything happens very suddenly. Enemies, friends and tests all come at the same time, making it difficult for them to distinguish. In the end, the small amount of harvest is not necessarily what they need." Duran analyzed.
Denisa nodded and said, "That's true. They are heroes, but not heroes in the traditional sense. Their growth process does not follow the twelve stages at all. They can't refuse, they don't have a teacher, and even if they do, it's the mysterious teacher Riddler. Even the teacher himself doesn't understand life, and the more he teaches, the more confused he gets. And he can't tell enemies from friends. He's surrounded by people who are both enemies and friends, and he doesn't know what to do. In the end, he either gets nothing or very little. This is a tragic hero."
In general stories, the enemy and us are clear, the enemy is the enemy, the friend is the friend, and the teacher is also a wise person who can teach the hero the direction and then sacrifice decisively, allowing the hero to stand on his own. In the end, the hero will also gain a lot, such as love, family, status, power, etc., but Shinji Ikari finally gained a devastated world, and the protagonist of Flame Fist finally forgot everything and lived forever in the void universe with another woman who forgot everything. The protagonist of Chainsaw Man finally lost his friends and comrades, and the woman who wanted to kill him and the woman he wanted to kill were all gone, leaving only a group of dogs.
The teachers they met were also unreliable. Misato Katsuragi and Ryoji Kaji could barely be considered half of Shinji Ikari's teachers. One was a problematic woman and the other was a riddle man.
The teacher of the protagonist of Flame Fist was a few hundred years old immortal who claimed to be a director. Although she seemed lively and cheerful, she was actually a negative defeatist who wasted her time on movies. When she taught the protagonist, she was full of messy content, which was even more unreliable than Duran.
The protagonist of Chainsaw Man did not have a specific teacher, or it could be said that everyone around him was his teacher. They taught him a lot of things, but they didn't teach him what he wanted to learn the most.
Then there was the friend item. Shinji Ikari had very few friends, but the only one who really walked into his heart was Kaworu Nagisa, who died in the end when Shinji Ikari was confused. Either he was killed by Shinji Ikari or he was killed by a self-destructing necklace. The protagonist of Flame Fist had a friend, Yang, but Yang wanted to kill the woman protected by the protagonist of Flame Fist. Chainsaw Man had quite a few friends, but they all died in the end. They died completely, and the white was very clean.
“They are all protagonists in the grand world, but at the same time they are small characters. Their subjective wishes and wisdom can hardly change the trend of the world, and they can only be crushed by the wheels of history.” Duran suggested that why not call the protagonists of the three worlds together to educate them, and then play all three worlds at once?