[ ESCAPE WILL MAKE ME GOD ]

Most of the movie he's finding his way out, trying to negotiate for his own survival and more often than not crying and pleading for it rather than fighting aggressively. He has a temper, he blows up, but he doesn't stay that way for long and apologizes after, he even apologizes to the little desk in the sub after he hits it.

That is not a violent character, to me. That's a scared character, sure. But not somebody who defaults to violence.

Many things make it clear he's the sort of character who has had to learn violence, has had to fight many times for survival. But not that he is somebody for whom it's the first thought, or even instinct. Maybe if he thinks he's being attacked. But if, say, he were to wake up in a new environment, I don't think he'd default to attacking everything. He'd be confused, he'd be scared, but he wouldn't be violent.

Hell, if he realized he had no real power (whether due to injuries or due to thinking he's hallucinating) there's a solid chance he would turn back to crying and begging to be free.

Idk. I don't think he's a violent dog. And I don't think he bites as much as other fans think. His track record isn't clean, and he's not the gentlest, but he's not violent, either. Sort of an awkward in-between.

I think that's part of the tragedy of his story. He's a convict, sure. He's responsible for a lot of death. But from what the movie gives us, it was unintentional. And that doesn't negate its impact, but it does change what that means about the kind of person he is.

He apologizes to the desk, for fuck's sake. He admits when he was scared. Asks how Jack is doing, and repeatedly apologizes for what he'd done even though he'd had no idea the impact it would have.