Is nonexistence preferable to living in the Future That Is Aku?

Is nonexistence preferable to living in the Future That Is Aku?

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The Aku future seemed pretty sweet DESU
a world of STR

>2017
>wanting to exist

Yes, because its not nonexistence.

The gods are real in Samurai Jack. Souls are real.

That means that, even if the timeline changes and the same people are not born because circumstances, all of those souls still get incarnated eventually. Because its the same supply in both timelines.

So people like the Scotsman and Ashi might be born as someone else this time around, but they will be born rather than facing total nonexistence. And odds are good life will be less shitty this time.

WHERE THE STRONGEST WILL THRIVE, FREE TO LIVE AS THEY SEE FIT

Preferable or not, there is no undoing things now.

So in the end can we agree that Jack was worse than Aku?

t. Aku

Is this gonna be the new easy bait? Because it's already getting annoying to see everywhere.

Not on purpose. Yep

>Thinking the butterfly effect applies in samurai jack of all fucking things

They are all living nice lives in an aku free future

>Is nonexistence preferable to living in the Future That Is Aku?
To the person that doesn't exist, they don't mind.
To a person who thinks about it, they might wonder what will happen once they can no longer think.

Aku was truly the hero we needed

This but unironically.

The future wasnt wiped out, it just changed
everyone who existed will continue to exist, just under different circumstances

> t. My headcanon

>str
what?

literally any speculation of the world after the finale is headcanon, you fucking retard

It is for people from the past

AND MISSAPPEAR
NOW YOU SEE HER
NOW YOU DON'T

Thanks for the chuckle

Fuck off chaosfag

>Waahh I got emotionally attached to to characters in a future made very clear he wanted no part of since day 1 becuase of the demon running it

>Other races from other dimensions and planets enslaved and straight killed off by Aku in this future? Landscapes, homes, and wildlife, polluted and destroyed by Aku? Fuck them and those, mah suffering, likable characters and 1 season ship.

Man, the selfish, big baby crying will just not stop.

The thing is Jack could have made the future bright again.
Rebuilt the world into a world that is Jack.
Could have pull a gurren lagann and found out AKU evil was the only thing keeping a greater evil at bay.

Aku's influence is felt throughout the whole galaxy, Jack wiped out trillions of lives.

>"everything else I don't agree with is SPECULATION RETARD!"

>Rebuilt the world

Man, you cannot be serious

>2017
>Having low WIS

Grade C Comprehension skills

That depends what "erased from existence" means. If nothing can truly be destroyed, then "erased" means simply relocated elsewhere.

>>Could have pull a gurren lagann and found out AKU evil was the only thing keeping a greater evil at bay.

Aku was the Prime Evil. There is literally nothing eviler than him in the entire dimension.

Well yes they could be relocated elsewhere as a mass of atoms that never combined into beings.

Git gud kid

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Did somebody say A WORLD OF STRENGTH?
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In a nihilistic world, yes.

However, souls are canon.

Is Japanese rule preferable to Aku's?

How can you have a soul, if you never existed?

Soul existed from the beginning of time, BEFORE birth.

>t. Tom Cruise

why didn't they pull a deus ex machina like avatar and take aku's powers away

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>one timeline out of an infinite amount might cease to exist
>this is somehow unfair even though it means that another timeline gets to exist, including people who never had a taste at life

Stop being selfish Sup Forums. Every timeline deserves a chance.

Go to sleep Aku.

yeah, there's like a 90% chance of death or worse with Aku. There are much worse things than death shown often

Why do you think he couldn't rebuild it?

It's hard to judge anything against a non state

>>one timeline out of an infinite amount might cease to exist
Ashi's disappearance means there is only one timeline, and they played god with horrific existential consequences implied

That future hadn't happened yet, it's why Jack did not age, because in the eyes of the universe, he was still in the moment he was sent to the future.

An interesting point, preferable to him just being special.

Would have been better with DBZ time rules; Jack can go back, but that just makes a brand new timeline. The Future That is Aku is still there.

There are literally no victims of the timeline adjustment besides jack.
nobody exists to suffer or feel a sense of loss besides jack.

knife ears need not apply dexfag

bump

This. Ultimately, Jack did nothing wrong.

Well robots certainly ceased to exist so nothing of value was lost. We don't know what happened with the rest it's your headcanon that they disappeared.

He's a warrior, not a leader. And definitely not an economist. Besides, I doubt he would even want that.

He's an emperor's son. He damn well better learn or japan is fucked.

>and they played god with horrific existential consequences implied
What consequences. That timeline didn't exist to begin with because of the nature of a time loop.
It's like thinking the flashpoint timeline was sustainable on its own.

If that timeline never existed where did Jack go and how did he get back?

Into a plane of existence neither here nor there. Basically a possibility.
>how did he get back?
Same way he got in.

A possibility that shouldn't be*

This.

Otherwise this.

If the series had given some sort of closure on it (like an epilogue where Scotsman & co are alive and in a happier future), you could argue that. But we didn't get any sort of confirmation of the side characters' fates in the series, so we're stuck with these fan theories.

I'd love to see Sam and Dean deal with Aku. It would be funny.

>I know how souls and Gods work in Samurai Jack

Nice one. Can you tell me what's the color of Ashi's butthole too?

Pink in human form, black in Akushi form.

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Is Jack Nier of animation?

Yes.

It was all fucking Ashi

Jack was always worse than Aku.

>live a shitty life on this Aku-infested earth
>die young and miserable after beetle bots rip you to pieces
>well that sucked
>go to afterlife of your spiritual denomination
>Aku can't hurt you
>you get to see all your friends and family
>spend eternity in peace
>oh wait the samurai just retconned your souls from existence because a bunch of people thousands of years ago could have lived slightly better lives

>Aku is forced to live life imprisoned as a powerless mortal as Jack slowly but surely undoes all of his UNSPEAKABLE EVIL
Honestly I'd take anything over what we got at this point.

This is just basic metaphysical biology 101, user.

SJ would have to be doing something really weird with souls for it to be otherwise.

The only real exception might be stuff like the daughters of Aku. Since they were made from Aku, they might not have souls of their own. Everyone else is fine, though.

The time he could've spent becoming a great leader was instead spent learning to be Japan's savior from Aku. And in the end, he still hasn't ran a country. And you want him to run the entire fucking world (and any other planets Aku may have had)?

don't fuck with THIS Senator!

They do, since Aku is such an unnatural part of Ashi that she survives him leaving her.

Was Aku's world even that bad towards the end?

Guy just stayed in his lair. You had evil people all around but its not like everything was bad

holy shit that's exactly what i was thinking of, I loved this game

He only stayed in his lair because of Jack. And Jack had no plans of traveling the world forever to keep Aku there. And Aku had no plans to let himself be killed by Jack.

It wasn't ironic.

Souls operate differently in every mythology. Some don't even have souls. There is no metaphysical biology 101

Yeah because that totally wouldn't have ended the same way only with Aku laughing in Jack's face.

Would you willingly revert your life and the life of everyone else you know to non-existence if it meant the world would have a much higher standard of living?

I think most mythology with souls have them come into existence when you are born.
After all, you don't have any memories from before that do you?

The ones with reincarnation say otherwise

There are plenty of happy people as well as people being oppressed/killed. Imperial Japan wasn't exactly a free and peaceful place.

>basic metaphysical biology 101

Gonna need pictures

I wish they'd shave 2 minutes off the gratuitous fanservice scene at the beginning of the episode, and put on a gratuitous 2 minute fanservice scene at the end of the episode, showing all the characters being happy and changed for the better with their new aku-less lives. They don't even need to change anything substantial, I'm not throwing out my own headcanon ending, just shift what they've got around slightly.

Even putting aside that it'd put butterfly effect fags and alternate timeline fags and all these fucking fag theories to rest (it's samurai jack, not a goddamn hard sci-fi), you can't just introduce all the past characters from the show and slaughter them indiscriminately without follow-up. Not in a cartoon like Samurai Jack. It's really tonally dissonant.

Maybe Genndy assumed everyone watched Back to the Future

>you can't just introduce all the past characters from the show and slaughter them indiscriminately without follow-up

Back to the Future doesn't have a contradiction-free version of time travel.

But it's a very successful movie and normies eat it without fanwanking about the horrible implications. Maybe the problem is that SJ isn't for kids anymore, it's for autists watching cartoons at saturday nights.

>normies eat it without fanwanking about the horrible implications
Mostly because it's a comedy. Samurai Jack used to be a comedy/action show, but the last episode veered hard towards drama, so, I dunno. If they kept up the jokiness all the way through people would probably not care.

Marty's time-traveling affected his loved ones as well as him personally. He didn't have a reason to worry about long-term implications for the world when he had much more immediate concerns, like the danger of vanishing out of existence. Even though he did erase alternate timelines, it's forgiven because it ended up improving the lives of everyone we saw (except Biff).

Samurai Jack's scale was wider. It was about trying to save the entire world, and most of the series took place very long after Jack's original era. When Jack went back in time to defeat Aku, it was unknown how it would've affected the future or all the characters he had befriended in that era.

Back to the Future has its own time-travel problems. Since Marty messed with the way his parents met, it should've altered the relationship of his parents enough to cause a butterfly effect that would very likely replace Marty and his siblings with some totally other kids. However, the movie confirmed that Marty and his siblings still continued to exist, so people just tend to accept that. But Samurai Jack didn't show on-screen that Scotsman and the others are still alright in the altered future, and that's why we're arguing about whether that's the case or not.

>But Samurai Jack didn't show on-screen that Scotsman and the others are still alright in the altered future, and that's why we're arguing about whether that's the case or not.

Considering thst the show is the most idealistic show that CN ever did, where good and evil are dermaked with fire and stone, and that MOST shows follow the "everybody still exist" aproach and even Genndy wrotte things on this way in previous cartoons....it is likely.

While you are right, people would have been able to just assume that if it wasn't brought up, however, the ending CHOSE to bring up the consequence for a cheap gut punch, and opened up a can of worms

Non-existence is preferable to existence in all circumstances. Existence exposes a person to suffering whilst non-existence prevents a potential person from suffering. Any pleasure in life is outweighed by suffering, and the non-existent have no need or want for the pleasures of life.

Jack did a good thing by erasing those billions from existence. Better to have never lived than suffer under Aku.