About Shooting Kenny
When I played through this game I was definitely emotionally tortured at the choice of shooting Kenny to stop the fight or let him kill Jane and I'm doubly surprised at how so many people chose to shoot Kenny (isn't he like a fan favorite or something?).
In this discussion I'd like to see people give constructive opinions on why or why not they chose to shoot Kenny and how the felt after that.
Note: I would really appreciate if there wasn't any snide or "sadistic" comments like, "it was fun" or "I didn't like him anyway"
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Kenny was out of control. He needed to rest.
It was a tough choice , I was gonna shoot him but then I remembered all the things he's gone through and how I would react in that situation. So I let him kill jane. Then I heard the baby and I knew I made the right choice.
Long story short, I killed Kenny because I am an evil Kenny hater and Jane lover.
Am I right? :P
I'll start by saying that I did not choose to shoot Kenny. I could have, I was scared that Kenny might really lose it after the fight, but the reason I didn't was because of Jane. My thoughts for Jane were mixed throughout the series, appearing really loving and caring towards Clem but also being cold and selfish when it came to survival of the group. But the real reason I couldn't stand Jane was that she supposedly left AJ to die. I might understand another group member, but a little baby? If i had the option I would have shot Jane myself.
i saved kenny because Clem and Kenny have been through too much together for her to kill him. Im glad i didnt because in my ending scene he is alot happier and you can see they are sharing a bond. Hope my ending carries into series 3 ( Clem, AJ and Kenny with no Wellington) Jane i never really warmed too, she was too much of an individual and i know Kenny would sacrifice himself for Clem and AJ.
I let Kenny kill her because I considered him to be the only family I had left. We also had the same objective in mind of finding Wellington and keeping AJ safe. He was definitely in a dark place after the Carver incident/Sarita's death, but I figured he'd bounce back eventually. I mean, that whole incident only happened like two days ago, didn't it? It was still a fresh wound and I knew a person like Kenny would take longer to heal from something like that. He may have been causing a lot of trouble with all the other characters throughout episode five, but whenever me and Kenny were talking alone, he was still the good ol' Kenny that I came to love. So I figured he'd be able to cool down as soon as we got away from the others.
Seems like I was right about that. After that 9 day time skip, he seemed to be back to normal again. I mean, he could have easily flipped out about the whole Wellington being over capacity situation, but he was acting very reasonable the whole time. Plus there was that playful race up the hill before hand.
Never really felt anything towards Jane anyway. Didn't find her very interesting, didn't like how she kept putting down the group in ep4 and she really didn't seem to like the idea of keeping a baby around. Like when I told her that I was close with AJ, she responded with "that's what I'm worried about." I didn't really feel like she could be trusted with AJ and she pretty much confirmed that with what she did in the end.
I also wasn't a fan of how Jane kept deliberately trying to trigger Kenny towards the end. The immaturity during the car ride, saying awful things about his dead loved ones, and then putting AJ in danger just to make a stupid point that I already knew. She was quite literally asking for a battle to the death, so I let her have it. As Kenny pointed out afterwards, she could have stopped it at any point by saying that AJ was fine.
So that's why I stuck with Kenny. Really glad I did. I found his endings to be much more satisfying and emotional.
Was I wrong to leave with the baby alone after the fight?
He was about to commit a murder so I stopped him.
I looked away, because throughout the whole of season 1 and 2 Kenny has (in my gameplay at least) been very close and caring towards Clem. If you choose to let him live and go to Wellington with him, you really see how much he cares about Clem/AJ's safety and survival. He was willing to give anything to get them into Wellington where he thinks they'll be safest.
Jane TELLS Clem to not get involved in "whatever happens," deliberately provoked a broken man and could've easily backed down at any point by saying that AJ was alive. She wanted a fight and got one. She lost, but that was her fault for provoking Kenny and retaliating in the first place. I am in no way a "Jane hater," I really did warm to her character, and found her interesting, but her actions at the end of the episode were just plain stupid.
I shot him. His emotions were getting out of control and was becoming a danger to everyone, even before the fight before him and Jane.
Even after he calms down on the playthrough where you don't shoot him and end up sticking with him in the end, there's only a matter of time before his temper gets the better of him and reverts into murder-mode again. His constant refusal to control his emotions and his insistence means that he'll continue to be a ticking time bomb if anyone is unfortunate enough to do something that set him off again, even if it is Clementine.
I shot him because I strongly suspected the baby wasn't dead and Kenny was willing going to kill Jane on an assumption of guilt. I saw Kenny as a destabilizing force in the group.
Kenny was always too impulsive and I couldn't rely on him to not overreact.
It was a horrible choice, but I felt I had to do it.
Kenny was always a pain in groups as he always wanted to do things his way and was quick to raise to being aggressive about it which helped no one. After all the loss he suffered he was becoming twisted and he was struggling to see the reality of his actions. People were scared of him and were desperate enough to go to extreme lengths to leave.
Even if I saved him, it would of been the same thing over and over with different groups till he finally snapped. I couldn't put AJ and Clem in that sort environment. He was the last connection to season 1 and it was horrible, but I just couldn't but Clem in a situation though.
I shot Kenny because he's the one that made it a life or death situation. No matter what Jane might have said or done, attacking her served no purpose. He was going to hurt someone simply because he was upset. It doesn't matter that Jane may have manipulated him (which, at the time, you couldn't know). One is responsible for one's actions. We can't help how we feel, but we can control how we act based on those feelings.
Jane put the knife away, which was an invitation to talk and understand what had happened. Kenny charged, and she defended herself. The fight then went in one or the other's direction at different times. Kenny doesn't back off until he's hurt, and if you pull Jane away he goes right back on the attack when he sees an opening. Jane could have backed off at some point, perhaps, but Kenny had already shown that he would attack given the chance. Once the fight is on neither one is willing to stop, and Kenny is the one that made it a fight.
As such, once he reached the point where he was about to kill her (for no clear reason, and to no purpose), I had to stop him. The only means available was a gun, so I shot him. Had it been Jane that had started the fight and that was about to kill him for no reason, I'd have shot her instead.