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Incompetent Hero or Ironic Villain

posted 8 years ago by thelordtantalus
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Is it me or did Jesse in his attempts to help actually make things considerably worse unintentionally?

He attempted to intervene a kinkster's marriage under the honest assumption it was domestic abuse.

Attempted to "save" Odin's soul caused the death of numerous people.

And in trying to literally introduce people to God he caused widespread despair. The results were worse than the most savage of characters seen so far topping Tullip, Cassidy, and Odin combined.

[–] Katachthonios 7 years ago

If he got everything perfect right out the gate, there wouldn't be much to the story, would there?

[–] Jack_LesCamela 7 years ago

Is it me or did Jesse in his attempts to help actually make things considerably worse unintentionally?

He attempted to intervene a kinkster's marriage under the honest assumption it was domestic abuse.

Attempted to "save" Odin's soul caused the death of numerous people.

And in trying to literally introduce people to God he caused widespread despair. The results were worse than the most savage of characters seen so far topping Tullip, Cassidy, and Odin combined.

In the comic, Jesse loses his faith before issue number one and before Genesis gets to him. That robbed the story of some of its dramatic opportunities though.

It makes sense than any preacher who suddenly got this power might initially see it as a gift from God and try to use it in his ministry. However, things are not as Jesse thought they were, and so they go wrong or not as he planned.

"I speak Spanish to God, French to women, English to men, and Japanese to my horse."