KH2 Anyone think DiZ is a jerk?

[Robbie the Wise 5,050]

I think the set-up of DiZ as a jerk is something of a trick. The opening of KH2 presents Roxas as your average, everyday protaganist, and DiZ's attempts to screw with him, of course, seem to make him look like a villain. The story wants you to think of this as a classic narrative (good guys vs. bad guys) in order to set up for the bait-and-switch when it turns out Roxas isn't the hero of the game at all. DiZ is more of a tool to make the player feel extra sorry for Roxas and relate to him more in the short time you have with him. This idea of DiZ's "jerk" nature being present solely to put Roxas over is made more clear the next time we see him with King Mickey, in which all of his more negatvie mannerisms are dropped altogether. He's not a jerk anymore because the story doesn't need him to be one.

 

Also, the rest of the game doesn't do him a lot of favors. He's clearly undergone a personal tragedy and loss greater than most of the characters, but we not only don't get to see this events unfold, we also don't get to see DiZ again until the end of the game, and thus don't get to have the same level of understanding and emotional attachment as we did with Roxas. Had more effort gone in to developing his character on screen, I think his motivations and mental standing would have beenput across much better.

 

I think the idea of DiZ being a jerk is more because of our sympathies being with Roxas and his tragedy, rather than Diz actually doing anything wrong.

 

Good analysis

[Lexa Infinite 141]

In my opinion, he's not a jerk, he's a jacka$$. He was mean to Roxas, totally messing up his mind, he wanted to kill Namine, he convinced Riku to go after Roxas and Xion, and it's HIS fault the worlds are in the sh!t they're in.

 

Sorry for swearing. I just really don't like DiZ.

[axel91 161]

At least he apologized. I still think the the biggest jerk is Saix.

[A mystery 346]

He's racist towards Nobodies. (He's a jerk.)

 

This is what I think of when I see Diz. http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=kingdom+hearts+diz#/d1avryi

[Gambler'sApprentice 131]

He is a disgusting piece of filth. I totally respect his right to vengeance, and if he wanted to go all Edmund Dantes I would be totally approving, it may not be a moral choice but I wouldn't complain. In this case he kidnaps a young boy, imprisons him, deprives him of time to spend with his friends, tells him he doesn't have a right to exist, tells Riku to kill Namine once he has no further use for her, all the while calling her a witch, using Sora to enact revenge on three people who were still arrived that had wronged him, leading to the deaths of 5 others who had done nothing to him, and when he claims to have changed he continues to make the same stupid mistakes, and blows up Kingdom Hearts rather than let Xemnas have the one thing he wanted, memories he had lost as Xehanort. And he claims to have made his peace by hiding some data that might help inside Sora. In Days we find out that it was he who led to Xion's death and subsequent TOTAL ERASURE FROM EXISTENCE, not even a memory of her in her closest friends, and he caused the possession of ASoD of Riku rather than allow Roxas a right to make his own choices. So in other words he works to the sytematic genocide of all nobodies because there were two people alive that had done him wrong. The man needs to be shot.