Why did Kenny not try to save Shaun?
I know it's not the most interesting topic discussion but I just had this on my mind.
Back at Hershel's farm if you choose to save Duck, Shaun will beg Lee and Kenny to save him but Kenny just stands there for a few seconds before running away.
The same goes for saving Shaun, Kenny will save Duck and run away without helping Shaun.
Now I know there will be those that say Kenny was just trying to protect Duck from danger but it just seems so unlike his character to me, to do something like abandoning those who helped you and your family, he easily could have called for help at the least but didn't.
It just seemed too cowardly for a character like Kenny to do, atleast in my opinion.
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At that point Kenny wasn't the man he'd later become. He made a mistake and you could argue that making that mistake made him become a better man.
No, this is pretty interesting! I think it speaks a lot about how Kenny changed during the z-apocalypse. I believe he was cowardly at first, he wasn't exactly a tough guy as it was proven with his little punch to Larry's beautiful face that did nothing. He was weak and he was afraid.
Duck is also another big reason for leaving Shaun, we all know how much Kenny cares for his family so the Mr. moustache wanted to get Duck away from the danger ASAP.
Yeah that's a great way of looking at things, we all assumed Kenny was the same badass guy he always was, but maybe before everything happened he was less so. He did talk about how he cried at the death of his dog even though Duck liked it more than he did. The man brought a sick octopus to a vet for chrissakes.
Maybe he was a much quieter, emotional person than we all anticipated before he lost everything.
Yeah, at the drugstore, he shows a lot of guilt and sorrow for what happened, he blames himself for it and you can tell him to try and let it go. I think that was the turning point that really hardened him up. His main concern was saving his son, his actions was the same as Ben ditching Clementine at the start of around every corner, it's a moment of weakness but you don't have time to think, you either help the person or run away. Kenny wasn't nearly as close to the man he would become back then, it was all new to everyone.
He panicked, and prioritized his own son over someone else's. In the moment, all he cared about was making sure both him and Duck were safe. He was more or less just acting on instinct.
Would it have been easy for him to simply put Duck down, tell him to go with his mom, and then go help Shawn? Yes. But he wasn't thinking in that moment-- he was acting, which when you think of it, actually is quite in character for Kenny: he acts before he thinks. He's an impulsive guy.
Beyond that, he's probably never dealt with a life or death situation like that before. It's not like someone can immediately be prepared for a situation like that happening. If you were suddenly confronted with a situation like that, the average person would be scared. They'd freeze up. They wouldn't be thinking straight. They'd just be acting on instinct; doing what makes the most sense to them personally in the moment. And that's what Kenny did; he saw his son in danger, he wrestled his son away from that danger, and then he looked back at Shawn, but he was too scared and panicked to go back and help him. So he did what instinct told him to-- to run away from the threat.
It might seem cowardly, and maybe it is, but it's instinct; when you're faced with something you're scared of, something you aren't in a position to fight (or something you don't think you can fight), your brain basically tells you to flee.
He panicked and put running away with Duck ahead of helping Lee save Shawn. Simply put, Kenny in Episode 1 is a noticeably different character from Kenny in the rest of the games. Same with Larry and maybe Carley, to an extent.
"The world will never let me have my son, when I helped put someone else's in the ground." A very powerful sentence coming from Kenny; the desperation he was in.
Shaun didn't have the proper respect for boats.
Because Shaun was supposed to die for the sake of the comics.
Pretty much. Tying into Kenny's (and by extension Lee) character development was a bonus and an example of how that scenario should be done.
Because Telltale needed to have a reason for Shaun to die and for Hershel to kick them out, even if it made no sense.
Because "Shaun of the Dead" was on tv.
In his eyes, it was either his own son or some random dude. His decision was subconscious, its simply parents' instincts to save their child from danger.
Larry was always the same. He was an ass from day 1
They won't write anyone else like this because Telltale have shit writers these days and can't use character development effectively anymore
Kenny said at the drugstore why he did it. He panicked and wasn't proud of it and admits they/he could have saved him.
Eh, true, but that's not what I meant. I was actually kinda shocked when I replayed A New Day on my postponed third playthrough because I had forgotten just how dead serious Larry was played in that episode, doing things like teasing Duck about potentially eating Katjaa and threatening to expose/hurt Lee if anything happens to Lilly or Clementine, with little in the way of comedic/humorous traits and somewhat dreadful music playing in his scenes. This is in stark comparison to Starved for Help, which not only has him making these weird(and often laughable) phrases to drive his points home, often finding himself second guessing and grumbling in response to being proven wrong, and being called out on his BS by everyone(including Lilly two or three times), but also having some sympathetic sentiments aimed at him through Clementine, Lilly, Mark, and Brenda.