[MarsHottentot]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

My money's on Parad. He's been the most consistently present villain in the show, and despite not taking center stage most of the time, he has massive relevance to Emu's character (including a showdown they've been building up to forever now), and is more or less the leader of the Bugsters, who, despite the show's love of focusing on literally anything but saving people from monsters, ARE the main bad guys.

Maybe I'm biased because he's basically my favorite character in Ex-Aid, but I've always gotten the impression that he (and by extension the show) deliberately downplays his importance to get everyone's guard down. He basically let Genm be the main bad guy because it was convenient for him, and he's already plotting to take down Chronus.

EDIT: Oh, and also he's the only bad guy in the entire show with a coherent motivation beyond "crazy/is a jerk", which I feel also helps his odds.

Agreed. I have a suspicion he'll "save the day" only to remind our heroes that, in fact, he is the real threat and it'll be a race to the finish.

I'm still ambivalent as to whether or not revived people as Bugster data is really "saving" them. I mean - they're imitations of life, not truly living. I could ramble about the problems with Bugster resurrections but, I'm sure if you take a moment, a flood will come to you.

This leads me to hoping that Kiriya or Saki will point out the inherent problems of being Bugsters, not alive and force our heroes / society to accept tis loss.

I doubt this will happen - which is fine because it's totally weird.