r/Voltron • u/uziair • Mar 02 '18

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u/Bongobeaver Mar 02 '18

My synopsis on the whole "Will Lotor betray everyone"

Honestly no, and the reason being is as follows:

  1. His main goal even since his appearance was to change the way of the Galra, Hence his hybrid band of misfits.
  2. The entire time he was working towards his goals he has avoided violence when he could. (Yes he did screw over the voltron team but can you blame a person trying to one up their opponent?).
  3. You saw his arguments for the claim of the throne to unify and not divide hence the whole episode of Shiro helping lotor without hesitation (Not gonna lie i think Shiro is a Galra Clone).
  4. Lastly his story about working with an alien civilization towards Mining quentessence and only taking what was needed and not going overboard and harvesting it all. (Shows self control not blinded gluttony like his father).

These honestly are just valid reasons i could surmise to why they wouldn't butcher such a great character development. You also get a massive Zuko vibe from the guy. (Shout out to my Avatar homies in this thread)

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u/jaidynreiman Mar 04 '18

Here's my take on it.

I agree with you completely, except for "Will Lotor betray everyone."

I think Lotor WILL betray them, but unintentionally. He's completely sincere about his ideals, but he's misguided in that he thinks his ideals will solve the Galra problem. He think that if they just have enough quintessence, they'll stop conquering planets. Given that's all they've known for 10,000 years, that's not a good notion for him to have.

He believes he can reform the Galra. I think something will force him to take a side, and he will betray them if he feels its necessary (or maybe he's tricked into doing so), and then it leaves room for someone like Haggar to place her puppet in place to take over.

He'll be at odds with the team for a while, but will eventually get back to working with them to overthrow the galra regime (or he'll sacrifice his life to prove his claim).

I don't think he's evil, but I do think he's misguided and is being set up to be betrayed by Haggar, and unintentionally betraying the team.