Panel redraw! I felt obligated to offer some sort of contribution to the most recent update. I'm glad we got to see so much of Legend and Hyrule. I'm excited to see what the rest are up to, but I know i'll miss the sillies. Especially this silly 😢

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Why yes, I do see a certain number of similarities between end-game Groose and Sidon, why do you ask?

Here she is!!

He likes to hang out with them and participate in chao races and other activities! Knuckles and Sonic trust the chao to keep Zip occupied as long as they stay where they can see them <3

Zippy doing a BIIIIG STRETCH

Thank you!!

A nice reunion between flying type Pokémon <3

This is mainly for me to use later since I have a lot of Fox haters in my TikTok comments sometimes, but I know there are still some Fox haters on here too. Leave my boy alone, y’all. Here’s why you should leave him alone. 

1. The Fives Incident 

Most of the hate directed at Fox is because he killed Fives. No, I don’t think Fives deserved to die, I love Fives a lot, but Fox shouldn’t be blamed for what happened. I’ll get into my personal theories in a minute, but here’s the reason Fox shouldn’t be hated, even if we’re going strictly on what we’re shown in canon. Even if Fox knew his blaster was on kill, he had no evidence to point to the fact that Fives wasn’t insane. He didn’t know Fives, so all he had to go on were reports and what Palpatine told him. From his perspective, Fives was a dangerous traitor. Palpatine told Fox to kill Fives, it’s unlikely he didn’t after that little clip of Palpatine and Fox before Fox goes to that warehouse. When Fox entered that warehouse, he could have just shot Fives from the shadows, killing him without the confrontation, but he didn’t. He gave Fives a chance to surrender instead, so he may have been trying to take Fives alive. But when Fives picked up the blaster and pointed it at Fox, after Fox told him not to pick it up, Fox didn’t have much of a choice. It was Fives or Fox and his men, especially because any motion Fox made to switch his blaster to stun may have been interpreted by Fives as a threat since Fives wasn’t in his right mind. Fox was stuck in a bad situation, and neither Fives nor Fox deserved that. 

Now, I have a couple personal theories that make Fox even less in control of the situation, so I’ll get into the one I accept as the most plausible of my theories first. I believe Palpatine was in control of Fox when Fox’s squad entered the warehouse. It was likely through the inhibitor chip somehow, but Palpatine was in control of Fox and made him kill Fives. Fox doesn’t seem to be heartless toward his brothers, based on his reactions to his brothers’ deaths during the Wrong Jedi arc, so him willingly pulling the trigger on Fives seems unlikely in most circumstances. We know Palpatine would have wanted Fives dead anyway, so using Fox to do it just makes sense. The longer Fives was alive, the more likely it was that Fives would tell someone about Order 66, so Palpatine had to kill him to shut him up. 

Another theory is that Palpatine simply tampered with Fox’s blaster and switched it from stun to kill before Fox left to go to the warehouse or even while Fox was on the way there, but this seems a little more unlikely. Not impossible, just unlikely. 

2. The Wrong Jedi Arc 

I’ve also seen people hate on Fox for what he did during the Wrong Jedi arc, and I’ll admit that younger me was mad at Fox for some of that too, but I can’t blame him for any of it now. When he refused to let Anakin in to see Ahsoka, Fox had been given an order, and disobeying that order would get him punished. 

When he said to shoot to kill Ahsoka after she escaped, he gave that order as he knelt over bodies of his brothers that it looked like Ahsoka had killed. He didn’t know Ahsoka, so he wouldn’t know that Ahsoka cared about the clones too much to kill them like that. From what he knew, Ahsoka was a murderer, and had just killed some of his brothers, so of course he’s going to be upset and not want more of his brothers to be killed by her. And when Anakin gave him the order to use stun only, he obeyed, probably against his instincts. He was in a bad situation and going on what he knew, he wasn’t being heartless. He just wanted to protect his brothers and anyone else who might get hurt. 

3. “He Had An Easy Job” 

OKAY, LISTEN- This reason is honestly really weak, both based on canon and on my personal headcanons. First of all, Fox didn’t choose to work on Coruscant, he was assigned there, so even if his job was easy, that wasn’t his choice. Second, just because he wasn’t on the front lines doesn’t mean he had it easy. Safer, maybe in some regards, but not easy. Fox had to deal with all the chaos that went down on Coruscant daily, which was a lot. Riots, protests, the Zillo Beast, the Senate hostage debacle with Bane, and the power grid bombing are a few things that come to mind. That can’t have been easy to deal with. And we know many senators viewed the clones as little more than animals, so Fox and his men were likely verbally abused by both senators and civilians alike. That’s enough to damage anyone’s mental health and self-worth. And many of the Guards, Fox included, flinch at violent or sudden movements from non-clones. We don’t see any clones do this except for the Guard, so this leads me to believe they are physically abused as well.

I headcanon that Palpatine was cruel to the clones behind closed doors. Not just verbally, but also physically. Being a Sith, it wouldn’t surprise me if he punished clones who “failed” at something by torturing them with the Force. It wouldn’t be hard to make the clones never speak of it because they’d be afraid anyway, but Palpatine could likely just order them to forget the incident and they would have no choice but to obey because of the inhibitor chips. 

The Guards’ job as a whole may have been safer, but it was certainly not easy on their mental health and self-worth. 

Fox: *looks around frantically*

Fox: ...what did you do?

Thorn: Nothing. I'm the joke.

Fox: Ooookay...

*loud crash from the other room, followed by cursing*

Thire, from the other room: WHO BOOBY-TRAPPED MY OFFICE DOOR?!

Fox:

These boys need more attention and I love them. 

Thire: He’s the baby of the Guard Commanders. He’s the youngest and also the quiet, sweet, and gentle one. He rarely gets angry, and he’s very approachable, so the shinies tend to go to him when they need help. Just because he’s the sweet younger Commander doesn’t mean he’s incompetent though. He’s very good at his job, although he hates riot patrol because he’s the most likely to take insults to heart instead of shrugging them off. He’s much better at escorts and likes seeing other planets. 

Stone: He’s more gruff than Thire, and can seem pretty intimidating, but he’s a softie and is actually the most likely to see the best in someone instead of assuming the worst. He isn’t a huge fan of hugs, but he’ll happily listen if one of his brothers needs to vent. He’s better at riot patrol than Thire is because insults don’t bother him much at all, and he’s not easily intimidated. He doesn’t really enjoy escort duty, but he does like getting away from Coruscant for a bit. 

Thorn: He’s generally pretty gruff on duty, but off duty, he’s an absolute goofball. He’s only slightly less approachable than Thire, but that’s because he tends to be loud and excitable, he’s really a sweetheart. He’s fiercely protective of his younger brothers, and he’s scary if you’re unlucky enough to make him mad. He also gives the best hugs, so once shinies are comfortable around him, they usually go to him for hugs and cuddle piles. He’s also the closest to Fox, so he’s generally the only one who might argue Fox’s orders if he doesn’t like them, not that it happens often. Also, Fox and Thorn might be twins??? No one knows for sure, but they certainly act like it sometimes. 

For some context, this was on a joking video about Fox's reaction to Palpatine dying, there was no mention of anything else, just Fox reacting to Palpatine dying. Fox haters on TikTok don't care, they just see positive Fox content and flood the comments with "I hate Fox"

Also, I will preface this by saying that I am not asking to start drama over this on here or on TikTok. Do not seek the guy out to harass him or whatever. It's not worth it, I just need to get my thoughts out on this because it's gonna drive me nuts all day and I have other stuff to do.

Anyway, I had been having a perfectly polite discussion with someone who disliked Fox for killing Fives, but still believed Fox was hated too much within the fandom (which is a perfectly valid opinion, you don't have to like Fox as long as you're polite to people who do). Then this other guy decides to butt in with a snarky comment saying Fox should have used stun when I had already pointed out why he couldn't easily have done that.

Setting aside my own headcanons here, I pointed out that since it's extremely likely that Fox was ordered to shoot to kill, using stun instead could have easily ended in a court martial for Fox, and court martial for clones almost certainly means death because the clones have no legal rights as people.

Reason behind that which I couldn't fit into the comment because of character limits: You can only legally disobey a direct order if it is unlawful or you have a good argument for why it is otherwise immoral or invalid. The clones are not legally people, so Fox doesn't have a voice to defend himself, and if Fives isn't legally a person, then there's no argument on morality there either. (Obviously the clones are people, but the Senate doesn't see it that way).

I pointed out how Palpatine is the reason the situation even got to that confrontation in the first place because even if Fox wasn't ordered to shoot to kill, it's Palpatine's fault the confrontation even happened.

This guy in the comments proceeds to say that he can't hate on Palpatine because he's a cool villain and interesting character.

*inhale*

B O I

Following orders is not a moral justification. You can’t do horrible things and then just say you were just following orders (people tried in the past). He still chose to follow orders.

We don’t know what orders Fox got. But let’s just assume he was ordered to kill Fives. Why did he give him the chance to surrender? If Fives had surrendered and Fox brought him in alive he would have disobeys orders. Or would he have still shot Fives? That just makes him look worse

We know 2 things: Fives was framed and was innocent and Fox and the Coruscant guard are a security/law enforcement unit. Fox shot an innocent man. Fives should have been put on trial like any other suspect. Yes he would have never gotten a fair one but that’s besides the point. Fox is not in the position to decide whether someone is guilty or not, nor is he in the position to just kill people he believes are guilty. Because there’s always a chance that they might be innocent. So by not setting his blaster to stun he’s willing risking the life of an innocent person. A small risk, but not one anyway should take if it can be avoided.

The whole orders thing? Slaves are given orders that they literally cannot disobey without risking getting themselves severely punished. The clones are slaves, they aren't doing a paid, voluntary service. So there's that.

And again, putting aside my own headcanons here, Fox may have been trying to give Fives a chance to surrender, despite his orders, in the hopes that if Fives came quietly, he could avoid needing to shoot Fives by going "He came quietly, so why should I have to shoot him?" Doing that is still a big risk to Fox because he would have disobeyed orders had he brought Fives in alive, but he might have figured he could try to talk his way out of it, saving himself and Fives.

And as for Fives being innocent. Yes, technically speaking, he was. But no one was aware he was drugged, so to everyone aside from the audience and the few characters who knew what was going on, it really did look like Fives had snapped. He attacked the Chancellor, and he was holding a Jedi General and a Captain hostage. That's not exactly innocent, if he's not drugged, and only the audience is aware of what's really going on with Fives in that scene, so everyone there thought Fives had gone crazy. I don't blame Fives either since he wasn't thinking straight. It's absolutely not his fault, he was scared and agitated from the drug. But from everyone else's perspective, including Fox's, Fives was simply insane and a danger to others. Picking up the blaster and pointing it at Fox was the wrong move when Fox was already on edge due to knowing he was dealing with a brother who had gone insane (based on the information Fox had). No, it's not Fives' fault, but you don't aim a gun at someone unless you believe you need to use it, so even if Fives only did it as a threat because he was scared, Fox isn't a mind reader and had no way of knowing whether Fives intended to use the blaster or not.

Overall, it was just a bad situation for both clones, and the situation wouldn't have even happened in the first place had Palpatine not been orchestrating the whole thing anyway. It shouldn't have happened, but neither clone is at fault here because one was drugged and scared, and the other was just as clueless about what was actually happening as Anakin and Rex who both knew Fives.

Fives' death was Palpatine's fault, as I stated in the original post.

I love Fives too; I have a fic in the works where he lives, and Order 66 doesn't happen, etc., so I certainly don't think he should have died, it was just another case of Palpatine eliminating a threat to his plans without putting any of the suspicion on himself.