#nice little way to touch on how superhero isn’t copgenda despite them fighting for justices

[no1ryomafan]

I’m gonna have so many thoughts when I’m done with Big O tbh but one other aspect I really like that I gotta point out is how Roger being clearly based off of Bruce Wayne/Batman tie’s interestingly into the story, more specifically Roger living a “double life”. Nobody besides people close to Roger-and where I got to, one villain-know he’s in Big O. It’s actually really interesting to have this concept in a mecha given they are arguably inspired by a bit of superhero stuff-I mean, where you think the super in super robot comes from?-and I don’t know how many shows actually touch on the pilots identities in the robot being known, if people know them at all. (Stuff like SRW is the only closest thing I can think of that touches on it with people like Koji n Ryoma having legendary status but that’s more so crossover/meta shenanigans) Big O generally has a lot of elements that surprise me to see in a mecha yet work so well and definitely makes it all the more standout from others.

#meg text #the big o #It’s also interesting how like- rogers decision to pilot O where I am rn seems stemmed from the fact he was a former cop #but realized the system wasn’t helping people and was just killing them especially with big robots around no one could deal with #Roger has the moral like Bruce to not kill his enemies but machines are the exception despite them being sentient #every person or even human like robot he’s spared thus far (and one person committed crimes but he wanted him back with his family) #nice little way to touch on how superhero isn’t copgenda despite them fighting for justices #because the difference between them is heroes actually do whats right and aren’t held back by a system #also makes rogers dynamic with Dan even more interesting #will say though ep 7 was a bit of a weak spot showing this plot point #bc Roger really let himself almost fucking starve when he could’ve called Big O at any point but Angel was there #I get why he did that but it could’ve been handled way better