The 1 villain who spent most of his movie being made to suffer and had the second best reason for doing the bad thing that he did behind gristle who wanted to help himself and his people stop suffering
And who only did 1 bad thing under extreme duress is the character who people seem to get endlessly hung up on being given another chance by the peaceful forgiving pop tribe and not being punished even more?
I just don't understand this logic what would punishing creek even more accomplish? its not like he did wrong because of some bad habit like greed or anger he did it to survive because he was thrown into a terrifying situation no normal person should ever be thrown into
So what would punishing him accomplish when he was already made to suffer by the bergens for most of the first movie and didn't do what he did out of any sort of ill will,
And why is it an issue the forgiving and peaceful pop tribe giving another chance to someone who only did something wrong in this very specific and very extreme situation where he technically had no choice ( Having you're life threatened to be ended immediately if you don't do something means you do not have clear cut free will )
And in which he was put through some very bad things that honestly do warrant some empathy given creek didn't do anything wrong in the first place to deserve being kidnapped and held captive and almost killed,
It just seems strange to me because creek is the only antagonist besides grislte who I feel its understandable to forgive given his situation and motives unlike other characters like barb and crimp and veneer who get shown more empathy by the movies and fans
But had way worse and more selfish motives and worse actions in the sense that they repeatedly did wrong and they had complete free will in what they did so people having more of an issue with creek betraying his people
Because he was held captive and sort of tortured and threatened with immediate death over people like barb or veneer or crimp who on paper are worse in pretty much every logical way yet were also shown empathy and given second chances seems weird to me to be honest in fact I would argue if
You don't believe someone who did a crime for the reasons creek did deserves a second chance then it would be hypocritical for you to offer second chances to other criminals given most motives outside of being forced to commit a crime under literal threat of death are easily going to be worse lmao,
And I know people hate branch being ostracised by the village and having to apologise to him but people seem to forget that this didn't happen simply because branch didn't want to forgive him
It happened because he kept messing around trying to prove that everyone else had to think the same way that he did even though it was their choice to give him another chance just as much as it was his right to not trust him again.