Aga M'badi

[BeastSoulEyes]

Just wanted to start a little discussion on one of the most interesting character in GLO in my opinion, Aga M'badi is badass (or he was until Gally nuked him like a child...) and his past as one of the Solar System's greatest hero really give him an interesting background.

However as I start comparing the Aga M'badi pictured in the vol 3 (before the Zott) and the one we got now (after the supersonic beating lol) I feel like something has been lost about this character.

It feels like Kishiro is trying to change him from the complex political man he was to a kind of psychopat ala Desty Nova (and guess who is working for him now... Super Nova ).

I'm the only to think that Kishiro is wasting a great character just to make sure that the "Zott people" have a common enemy.

[Twitchywrote]

I think that his definition of control and the perfect world he's aiming for are, for the first time in 200 years, threatened in his eyes, in a manner he couldn't have prepared for.

I don't think he's turning into a stock villain at all, or a psychopath...I think we will see his heart again at some point, as we did in volume 3.

But as the tournament and all of his careful plans slowly begin to unravel, the last vestiges of his control fading, he's becoming desperate. He's lost the Fata Morgana, the Seeded Teams are losing to unknown variables, and the Tiphares Redevelopment Act has been eradicated. His usual patient and calculating manner is long gone, and he needs solutions to these unknown threats to his very definition of universal peace.

So yes, I believe we'll see his heart again, we'll see other bits of his past...as will we Queen Limeria, who I believe will play another part in Mbadi's eventual transformation.

[MrFaber]

[quote]Aga Mbadi is a merry fellow.
Bright blue his jacket is and his boots are yellow.[/quote]

I think his furious reaction and his lost of focus are coherent with the character, which is basically strict and intolerant.

[Noizepug73]

He actually strikes me as an extreme anti-hero. Afterall, his machiavellian schemes seem to exist solely to maintain order in the entire solar system. To play arch-nemesis to Alita is purely situational to maintain that order. Afterall, Alita is still a sort of terrorist in his eyes, not just due to her past but in how she keeps cutting through her opponents like a hot knife through warm butter. This "power" he sees in her he is taking as a threat to the order he seems desperate to maintain at any cost. In this regard, he is a karmic heir to the "founder" of this "new world order"..."peace at ANY cost".

[Noizepug73]

Also wanted to add I find it fascinating that Kishiro has created a world that has moved onto a Type-2 designation in technology. I've never encountered a space opera where the technology was THIS advanced, yet maintains a very close believability to it's creation and sophistication.

[Sergio Nova]

It seems to me that Mbadi is a scoundrel since the moment he met Desty Nova and his retinue when the crazy scientist arrived in Ketheres. He simply threw everyone in space. They survived thanks to Ping Wu, simply. He is a politician, and the only thing that minds is power.

Obviously, he has some abilities. In Guilty Angel (Last Order volume 7) Goudin runs a lunatic project to create a saint. The only things he succeeds is to open the gates of hell in the person of his son and guinea-pig Jetan-G. Surprisingly, Aga Mbadi is completely immune to such obscenities and eliminates the source, closing the fiendish passage. What sort of man is Aga Mbadi, after all?

[Akumeno]

so many things has to be revealed of this guy also we could expect a flashback how he learned yoga from Dhalsim XD

[BeastSoulEyes]

Let's start the M'badi fan service:

-Best Battle Scene: Aga M'badi versus Etan-G, the saint (he is named like this in the french version), Sech think he defeated the Space Cult, WRONG, M'badi defeated them, crossing the darkness unafraid and killing the anomaly with an elegant gesture that would even impress Jean-Claude Van Damme (yea I know, very bad reference ).

[Sergio Nova]

Let's start the M'badi fan service:

-Best Battle Scene: Aga M'badi versus Etan-G, the saint (he is named like this in the french version), Sech think he defeated the Space Cult, WRONG, M'badi defeated them, crossing the darkness unafraid and killing the anomaly with an elegant gesture that would even impress Jean-Claude Van Damme (yea I know, very bad reference ).

1) Yes, very bad reference. I'd say not elegant at all. Even Mbadi deserves respect.
2) You are simply repeating what I had said two columns before.

[BeastSoulEyes]

Yes I'm pretty much repeating what you just said, it reminded me of this scene actually, but I do consider this scene as one of the best one of the character yet. So to be different:

-Worst Appearance: Vol.10, the cybernetic avatar of M'badi fighting against the Camelot network's intruders. Where Gally gain a pretty cool new form as an avatar and Ping a very weird one, we just have a giant representation of himself for M'badi, kinda disappointing...

I guess the manga could have benefited from some small true hacking battles between Ping and M'badi during the Zott (Ping, and even M'badi, would get some more primetime, instead of the very strange battle they got themselves in.

[Sergio Nova]

I do consider this scene as one of the best one of the character yet.

I agree entirely.