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I don't think I agree with that. Sho is absolutely average. That's almost a point of the character. There was nothing special about him at all before 'greatness was foisted upon him'. He got the armor because of a fluke. But the implication is that it could have been anyone. All humans have the potential to become Zoanoids, but a G-unit removes that potential. You could well say that the Guyver represents the rejection of military authority by the common man. Chronos is the very embodiment of a military drafting young men as cannon fodder. ...Takaya-San was born in 1960, so his parents would have lived through the war. It's entirely possible his father was drafted as a young man, or even teenager, by a regime not all Japanese necessarily agreed with. Zoanoids are genetically compelled to obey authority, to go fight and die in battle without questioning. The Japanese culturally were. They fought in the name of the Emperor, an exalted being who was said to have been descended from the gods themselves, but who, himself, played little part in the proceedings. His most aggressive and deadly ally was Nazi Germany, who idolized the Aryan ideal, and wanted to rule the world using a super-weapon. Although it may be going a bit far to equalize the Guyver with the atomic bomb. Anyway, Sho is definitely the ordinary boy who says 'Hell no, I won't go'. Usually such an effort is punished, but he has the power to resist... it is stated repeatedly that the aspect of the Guyver the Creators feared most was the power to refuse orders. "Out of control". If Sho is some kind of chosen one, if he is innately special, that weakens that message. But compare him to some of the others in the story. Murakami was a daring journalist who travelled to the ends of the Earth to pursue a story. Makishima had a tragic and bizarre back story which forged him into a sort of Ãœbermensch who would do anything to reach his goal. The Zoalords are by definition exceptional individuals, otherwise they would never have been chosen. Waferdenos isn't even human, he's a frickin' forest. And Archanfel himself is completely unique. Set against this collection of super-people, the most normal and average person conceivable: a school boy. Not the head of the class, not even the gifted and quirky nerd... no. He even looks average. Sho represents the teeming masses who do not want to rule the world, but who simply want to live a life (with his female equivalent: Mizuki). It would seem all of the others would have wanted the Guyver for themselves... and he never would. But he did, through blind chance: another act of defiance, a test type Zoanoid who disobeyed orders and chose death by his own hand over becoming cannon fodder. I wonder if Takaya considered having Malmud/ Melmoth/ Guinea Pig use the G-unit on himself. That would have been a different story... And Mizuki, too. She was in the area, wasn't she? A mere changing of the angle of the blast could have landed the G-Unit in her lap, so to speak. That would have been a really different story... Of course, there is a higher power that directed events: Takaya himself. But I don't think we should be looking to actual gods in the story. The only gods are the Creators.

That's probably for the best, especially if you're a Sonic fan...

No option for both? For shame! Fortunately for you, I will fix that for two reasons: 1. Because I have THE POWER, and I am going to horribly abuse it because... 2. I own both Though, you did not specify as to which system that is owned, only that they own one or the other. I play my Xbox One much more than my PS4 simply because I prefer the controller. I only one one PS4 game currently, and that is Bloodborne. And it is awesome. I mean, even with the PS3, I only ever got exclusives for it. I must have something like 50-60 X-Box 360 games... But maybe 10-15 PS3 games.

oops.... I accidentally misread that and thought it said "a hundred anuses"

what I usually do is if the code gets put in my post, I click quick edit and I keep cancelling and pressing it again until all the buttons (toolbar) disappear from the edit window. then I click full edit and it cleans it up automatically. it is a pain. it seems like very time they brought out an update they broke the forum more. so I stopped updating. I have been thinking about trying an update on a clone of the forum to see if more recent versions are bug free, but it takes a massive amount of work. also, if something goes a little wrong, it will result in hte forum being completely unavailable until I can figure out what the issue is. so I'm pretty cautious. it does currently work so I'm afraid to do anything to make it worse.

A hundred Unuses? Holy cow. That's a lot of possible combinations. And with power increasing geometrically... and new options, like bio-lasers, added as the numbers go up, too... Unus, Dimer, Trima, Quadriga... Quintus?

they know there is a good chance they will die in combat and figure if they die they will see sho in hell because of all the death he caused and around him

Maybe the person wearing unit 0 was a total nutter!