The walking dead Kenny
My some thoughts abot Kenny from The Walking Dead Videogame. He is my third favorite character and I see he is getting hated left and right for shallow and petty reasons.
Just read please; Kenny deserves better than the hate he is receiving.
I know that Kenny can be off his rocker but he has lost Katjaa, Duck and Starita already. He's like lost two families in such a short time. Many fathers/husbands loose their minds when these things happen. Kenny may act tough but inside he is really compassionate and he has a deep bond with his family and when they're gone he looses it. His family and friends are his life line and if he doesn't have them he starts to give up and act crazy.
He just doesn't want to loose anymore people. He proved that enough in the resort ski when Carver picked Clem up and held her at gun point. He didn't want to loose her because she was like family to him.
The only reason he snapped at her is because he couldn't handle Starita's death and Kenny finds coping easier with blaming someone or ignoring what happened. Like with Duck he ignored he was bitten and when Katjaa and Duck died he blamed Ben.
He was also being an ass to Lee, but if you keep a good enough relationship with Kenny then he isn't so unbearable in the first season. Kenny is just losing hope and like Jane said, Clem needs to keep him out of the darkness.
Kenny was right about almost everything!
Arvo becoming a danger to the group
Wellington
Jane
In the end he was willing to give Clem and AJ up, the two he fought so hard to protect.
I cannot believe how many people over look all the sacrifices Kenny has made and all the good choices he has made. Sure his sanity is a problem
But---
In season 1
- He gave Lee and Clem a ride with them
2.He helped Lee up when Larry punched him in the face
- He made it so that Larry didn't turn in the meat locker. Larry was dead we all knew it. He had a heart attack.
4.He got rv running and he invited everyone in it for their safety
- He kept going even after Katjaa and Duck died
6.If you had a good relationship with Kenny in Season 1 he would always have Lee's back
He was just as concerned about Clem when she was kidnapped by the guy who owned the station wagon.
If you didn't let Ben fall, Kenny tries to save him EVEN after it was Ben's fault that Katjaa and Duck ended up dead.
Kenny hated Ben and yet he tried to save him! What does that tell you about Kenny's character?
Season 2.
1.If you choose to help Sarah's dad, Carver would hold you at gun point, Kenny would stop shooting because he didn't want to loose Clem.
Even after Starita died in the end he forgave Clem
He helped Rebecca deliver her baby
He went out of his way to keep AJ and Clem safe.
Arvo was trouble and he kept insisting and no one listened. Arvo and his crew got Luke killed.
Kenny got the truck working and take everyone towards Wellington for everyone's safety and then Arvo, Bonnie and Mike tried to steal it and Arvo shot Clem!
He went out by himself on his own, to get gas. So he wouldn't put Jane -even though he disliked her- AJ or Clem in danger.
8.He killed Jane because he thought she killed AJ. Jane is a stranger to Kenny, they didn't get to know each other. How could Kenny trust her?
Kenny loves Aj and Clem like family more than anything and then Jane made him mad by saying she got killed Aj. He was only doing what he thought needed to be done.
He's already lost so much family and it would have killed him to have lost Aj or Clem. He only killed Jane to protect the only family he had left.
Kenny was willing to give up Clem and Aj at Wellington just so they could be safe.
Kenny was willing to give up Aj and Clem, the last of his family. Just so they could be safe, just so they wouldn't end up dead. He was willing to sacrifice it all. And I'll be damned if I let people sit back and try to write Kenny off as a bad character because he isn't! He was only doing what he thought needed to be done.
People would kill to keep family safe, be it walker or a person. Kenny wasn't out of line, Jane was the one that provoked him. The one that lied, the one that made Kenny think he lost Aj, Aj who was like a son to him. He did what any father protecting his family would have done. I know if I ever had a kid, I would kill the person who killed my child.
Aj may not have been Kenny's biological son, but Kenny adopted him as his son. He loved Aj just as much as he loved Duck.....and as much as he loves Clem.
I bet if this ever happened and if you were a parent and someone threatened your child, or your family that you would do just what Kenny did. I have been sitting back loathing as people bash on Kenny and for what? Just because he lost his temper a few times? even Lee lost his temper!
1.Lee killed the guy sleeping with his wife
He lost his temper with the St John's brothers.
He lost his temper with Lily and depending on the choices you make, left her on the road.
Depending on the choices you make, Lee could loose his temper with Ben. If you say "I could just kill you" Lee threatens to push Ben off of the train
After Lee gets bit he looses his temper with Kenny depends on choice
You kill the guy who stole Clem.
Lee may not have lost his temper as much as Kenny did, but he did loose his temper! I hate it when people trash talk Kenny when they adore Lee. Kenny may have a lot of issues with his temper and his emotions but in the end he always tries to do what he thinks will keep his family safe.
Just like Lee did. I adore Lee as much as the next person but even he had some flaws to him, just like Kenny. Sure Kenny may have a ton more, but that doesn't make him a bad guy.
I hear a lot of people comparing Kenny to Larry and that is wrong.
Larry was an ass****. He left Lee for dead, when he punched him in the face at the pharmacy even after Lee busted his ass to get those damn pills for him. Where as Kenny helps him up. Larry is still an ungrateful ass to you even if you tell him you think Lily is great and even if you give him food and even if you give him the axe to build up the wall. Larry still threatens Lee that he will tell everyone that he murdered before The Walkers.
Larry never once gave a damn about anyone but himself and Lily. Sure he was just looking out for Lily, but Larry never gave anyone the time of day. He was a ticking time bomb waiting to happen. He could have easily killed Lee if he had wanted to, even though Lee never did that to him. He didn't care who the hell he hurt so long as his precious little Lily wasn't hurt! Larry didn't do squat to help anyone but his damn self and lily.
Kenny on the other hand is totally the opposite of Larry. He'd give up everything. Kenny sacrifice everything to help his friends and family and always looked out for them. Always wanted the best for them
. Even if it means letting them go. Even if it meant he had to play the bad guy sometimes. Just like Pete had to play bad uncle Pete for Nick. Sometimes Kenny knew tough love was the best way to get through to people.
Even if Kenny ended up hurting someone he loved, he apologized for it. He made amends with them. He even wished Lee was still with them, proving he still cared about Lee and missed him. Even if they had their arguments. Lee was family, a good friend, and like a brother to Kenny.
All Kenny wanted was to protect his family and left and right he looses people he cares about. Kenny did his best to protect the group and then when it fell apart and Bonnie, Mike and Arvo tried to leave, Kenny felt as though his family betrayed them and he made sure they didn't come with them. Because he felt like he couldn't trust them.
Betrayal runs deep within family. He may have forgiven them later if Arvo, the new shitbird Ben, hadn't of shot Clem. He felt like they put Clem in danger, he thought they had killed her. So he did what any family member would do. He made certain that Bonnie, Mike and Arvo would never be a danger to his family again. Just like he made sure Jane wouldn't either.
People say that Kenny will hurt Clem, but I don't think he will. Kenny never hurt Lee, except on the train, but that was only if you as the player picked the fight as Lee.
Kenny has never once laid a hand on Clem intentionally. He has pushed her out of the way sometimes and he pushed her away during the fight with Jane but that was only because he didn't want her to accidentally get hurt in the fight. He didn't say it in words, but through his actions.
He even apologizes to Clem after he kills Jane and say he shouldn't have killed her and it was wrong and that he is trying so hard to pick up the pieces.
This is why I'll always choose Kenny. I love Jane and all but she left the group, she may have came back but that doesn't change the fact that she seemed to be only looking out for herself. She provoked Kenny, egged him on. She was the cause of the groups fall out. She argue with Kenny in the car, she was the one that lied to Kenny and told him Aj was dead, She was the one trying to manipulate Clem to go with her.
In the end I will choose Kenny over Jane any day.
So before you go off on Kenny and start bad mouthing him, remember what I said please.
I'm not trying to change anyone's viewpoint on him. I'm just simply stating he doesn't deserve all the hate he gets.
Comments
Sorry for spelling mistakes
Kenny is one of the most hated characters in the TWD video game, sure, but the amount of people who hate him is nothing compared to the legion of people who love him. Go to the youtube comment section in a No Going Back playthrough and you'll see that basically every comment is talking about how Kenny was right and how glad/sad the person is because the youtuber chose to kill/not kill Kenny.
May be many of them played two s2 before twd s1 or may be they didn't tried to play that game with alternate choices
I think supposing that people who dislike Kenny are simply ignorant is ignorant in itself.
Kenny is like that crazy uncle whose mouth spouts nothing but wisdom every time he opens it but then you're young and angsty and get angry at him but a few years later down the line you realize how right he was every single damn time.
Kenny is perfection.
Kenny: The greatest character of all time
He always makes the most logical decisions. Thats why he hastened to kill Larry, but stalled us for half episode and was even willing to fight us when his own family needed to be put down.
He always sided with Lee no matter how bad the circumstances were. I didn't help kill Larry and in episode 3 he stood by my side WATCHING me QTE my ass off while walkers pinned me down under a door.
He cares about everyone in his group. When bandits attacked the motel, Lily sneaked out, got on the balcony and sniped the bandit leader, which in turn saved Kenny and his family. And Kenny expressed his affection: "Screw her. Let her stay." when the group was escaping.
He deeply loves and cares for Clementine in his heart. He proved it by NOT coming with me to look for Clementine because I wasn't there for him when he wanted to smash the head of a girl's father (the only person she had left), when he wanted me to drop a kid to death just because he INDIRECTLY caused his family's death.
Of course it was Ben's fault. If only he hadn't made that deal with the bandits, they would'd attacked the group earlier when the RV was not fixed and more people would'd died.
Kenny's anger towards Ben is totally justified. Ben was the one who bribed the walker to come at the motor inn and bite Duck. Thats why Kenny was so furious at him.
It is also Ben's fault that Katjaa couldn't shoot her own son (after she volunteered HERSELF to do it in the first place) and she commited suicide.
Kenny is not a bad guy. Its just that he lost so much. He lost Duck, Katjaa and Sarita. Thats why he is like that. People think he is crazy but he is not. They can't understand the trauma he went through. How can
Lee (who lost his parents and had to kill his walker brother)
Clem (who lost her parents and her second father figure at the age of 9)
Luke (who lost his family AND almost all of his friends)
Bonnie (who lost her family, her old group and her new group)
Jane (who also lost her parents and was forced to leave her younger sister to get eaten)
Lily (whose dad he killed in front of her)
and Ben (who has no clue about what happened to his parents and his little sister)
understand what that man is going through? (Don't forget Arvo)
All this pain he went through was undeserved. People seem to forget how bravely he left a boy to get eaten (whose leg was stuck under a tractor).
In fact, he is the most sane person on the planet.
Scratch that, The most sane person in The Walking Dead universe.
All he wanted was to get to Wellington even if it wasn't real. The whole group died to tell him the plan was suicide but he knew what he was doing.
Imagine if the whole group arrived at Wellington in his lead, they wouldn't had been allowed to enter but Kenny don't care. He just wanted to shine as a hero once again so he directly or indirectly got everyone killed and murdered the last remaining member on a mere assumption so that he could make a heroic exit from the game, AGAIN.
Jane was the one started the fight with Kenny. She wanted to kill him in cold blood. Her lines prove that.
Jane: I didn't kill him it was an accident Kenny.
Kenny: BULLSHIT !!!
Jane: (sheaths weapon) Don't come near me you sonovabitch.
Kenny: (charges at the moment she is defenceless, revealing his bravery)
Jane: (thereatening him with her knife) Just go.
Kenny: I ain't goin' nowhere.
Even after Kenny accidentally kills Jane, he shows great remorse when Clementine protests.
Clem: You didn't have to kill her!
Kenny: Sorry darlin' but I did.
Hence we can confidently say that no one can match Kenny's greatness.
Kenny's my favourite character but he does have his faults. Though I'll admit the hate he gets is quite overdramatic.
This.
So much of your evidence that 'Kenny is great' is determinant.
It's completely up to interpretation, and people who dislike Kenny aren't blind, nor ignorant.
Most of us realize that Kenny has gone downhill since the death of Katjaa and their son. It is easy to understand why he has lashed out at others. Deep down he might be insecure and compassionate toward those he cares about—that is very plausible.
However, this doesn't change the fact that he behaved like that in "A New Day" and "Long Road Ahead" too. We can't forget that in the first or second day of the outbreak he threatened to punch Larry in the face, and he even went through it if incited by Lee. His behavior has only been amplified by the death of his loved ones. Even if we didn't take this into account, we have to keep in mind that every single person has lost family members after or as the outbreak began.
No matter whether they witnessed it or not, or whether it has been mentioned, but every single person in The Walking Dead universe has lost a family member. This doesn't make Kenny special or justify his immoral actions.
Thank you so much for this post.
kenny Deserve to suffer
your my man man
KENNY HIS AN ASSHOLE
For his spelling mistakes
The best kind of asshole
I agree that but I mentioned those reasons because I just want you to know that. That's it. Next part depends on your choices.
yep
maybe but still i hate him
Lmao we all know where these type of threads normally go...
Now instead of saying that Kenny was flat out right about everything, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that there was logic to his actions in most or all of the situations he was in. Let's take the Larry situation for instance. Even though there is no way we can possibly really know if the guy was dead or not, i've seen people insist he wasn't, probably just because they want Kenny to be wrong just so they can hate him for it.
Is Kenny underrated?
Even today, very few people side with him and a lot of people choose Jane over him.
Well I don't know if that is accurate. From the stats, a lot of people chose to kill him and save Jane. Youtube comments aren't going to tell you the whole story. The WD community is much bigger than that.
Kenny wants to do the logical thing without giving a second thought when it is someone else's family but wants to stall us for half episode and even willing to fight us when it is his own family that needs to be put down.
cough DUCK cough
Or maybe because they can name facts that can indicate that Larry was alive.
Larry will react if you push on his chest 4 and only 4 times. Some people respond with the fact that chest compressions may speed up reanimation which should be considered if we didn't know so much about the virus, but we do know a lot about how it acts by watching the TV Show Season 1 Finale that gives us crucial info about the virus. It's already located on the brain and only takes over the brain when the porter dies. Since it's already on the brain, blood circulation won't affect how fast it gets there (since it's already there) and even if it did, the reanimation would only be sped up by half a second or less.
Anyways, proving that Larry is alive doesn't make Kenny's act better or worse since he was unaware of all of this.
This has been discussed over and over... Let Kenny fans love him, let Kenny haters dislike him. Everyone happy. No matter how much we discuss this, no one's gonna change their mind about him by this point. Me, personally? He's my favorite character of the whole TWD franchise.
But giving valid facts about his character instead of saying I like/hate him no matter what might make people reconsider their opinion.
Well, there might be different Kennys for each person depending on how they played their story, so maybe some of those facts aren't "canon" for them. I don't think people would reconsider their opinion just because someone'd go like: "Oh, he did that for the group's sake and he cares for Clem". "Oh... Yeah, it's true. Yeah, he's amazing indeed, I love Kenny." Or the other way around: "He was crazy, he murdered Jane in a fit of rage". "Oh... Yeah, fuck him, psycho." XD I think everyone's opinion is already set in stone.
P.S: I'm the only one not recieving notifications whenever someone replies to my comments? O_o
I've seen this theory before and honsetly it's pretty flimsy evidence that he was alive. I have a feeling the people pushing it are doing so through hatred of Kenny more than actually believing Larry was alive. I've watched the scene numerous times and there is just no credible way of knowing either way.
I am a fan of Kenny, he is a better leader than Lilly AND Luke AND Christa. I had my diferences with him and I know he made a lot of mistakes, he was wrong in killing Larry as I see it, so I didn't help him and he went all asshole on me, but the man was learning, he was concerned, and I can understand why he killed Larry even though I still think it was a mistake from his part. My attitude towards him for that only made him feel guilty, but I was honest: "you are no hero" because in my opinion he wasn't, not in that situation, but then, Kenny evolves, his whole Family died and he sticks to the group, leading us, helping us the better he can while going mad! I mean, it is so easy to judge, people judge Rick all the time, when you are a natural leader, you are being judged, how many mistakes Rick had? I mean, he is trying, he isn't crazy, he's as sane as anyone in that shithole. Kenny certainly doesn't look like it but he is someone you can look up to, he slowly became a hero to me, a friend indeed, and even though I stayed by Wellington, I hope that I see him again, someday.
Kenny explaining his master plan to deal with ten armed people, alone.
Real wisdom right there pal.
Can you please just accept people's opinions?
Yeah, that was a time where Kenny wasn't thinking logically at all and needed some sense knocked in him.
This coming from you?
Well, that stinks.
HAHAHHAHBYE
Very few people? Where'd you get that from?
Even "killing" Larry was questionable on whether he was right or wrong. What if Larry comes back as a walker and bites/kills Lilly? Kenny and Lee would then have to ask themeselves the question on whether they could have saved her by making sure Larry didn't come back. I'm not a fan of Rick not really because of his morals but just because I find him a bland, boring character. But yeah there are also morally questionable things that he has done.
Exactly, even though taking it as a mistake parting from Kenny, I still completely understand why he did it.
Maybe not very few, but last time I the checked stats at the end of the game, considerably more people had chosen Jane.
I second that.
The same can be said for Lily, and Jane, and EVERYBODY else.
K then.
Lools like we're in the same boat (no pun intended)