𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕜 𝕥𝕠𝕔𝕜.

I should clarify that I......enjoy Adachi. I don't necessarily like him as a character because I think his main-game persona's a little too annoying, but I do like his deeper motives and appreciate that he's absolutely unhinged for a stupid ass reason (if any reason at all). It's refreshing in a medium that gets sympathetic villains all the time, even if I do prefer sympathetic - or at least understandable - villains.

What I don't like is that every time another JRPG pulls off a good twist villain (or just a twist villain in general), they get compared to Adachi, regardless of how different their character arcs are. And it's not just Adachi vs Volo, it's really the fact that a lot of people boil down evil/villainous characters to their surface-level characterization. You see the same thing with Adachi vs Akechi- or rather saw, when Akechi came out, basically boiling him down to "oh he's a softboi who's secretly evil and wants to kill your team, he must be an Adachi clone" which! Totally! Undermines! His whole character arc which is about being a victim and perpetrator at the same time!!! And you see it here too, undermining Volo's entire obsession with mythology and his self-absorbed birthright as the last follower of Arceus/true Sinnohite!! And it's even weirder in this context too, since at least Adachi and Akechi were from the same franchise, where the heck y'all bringing a Pokemon character into this dumb circlejerk??