[Fish Sandwich]

I HATED Zero for the longest time from a distance. Everything about him as a character reeked of trying too hard to me, like a financially desperate Tsuburaya just piling on traits they figured would make him mathematically successful. He's the son of arguably the most popular Ultra ever! He's super tough and can beat anyone! He's brooding and cool! To be fair, I mean, it worked, and he played a massive part in reviving the franchise (his defacto mentor role to the New Generation Ultras is well earned), but he also sounded like a stereotypical fan fiction character. Mind you, this was only having actually seen him in X, where he weirdly seemed desperate to do anything except hang out with X, which is hardly going to win me over when I was basically worshipping X at the time.

I pulled a total 180 on the guy watching Geed, and now I can't get enough of him. I went back and watched all the stuff he was in, and found that, aside from his unflatteringly shallow debut in Mega Monster Word Salad, he was a pretty cool character. I think he works best the more he's part of an ensemble. Elements like his camaraderie with the Ultimate Force Zero and his relationships with his human hosts do a lot to make him a more endearing character. He's ended up doing a lot of growing over the course of all his appearances. The more recent you get, the more refined his personality is. He's wonderful in the Z Voice Dramas right now.