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In fact, A-san saw Shinichi and Migi as clearly beneath him and just wanted to kill them because "he could."

ChibiKangaroo wrote:

In fact, A-san saw Shinichi and Migi as clearly beneath him and just wanted to kill them because "he could."

Actually I thought his motivation is that he thought they were "dangerous" (his word). At first he was restrained by Ryoko and he acted on his own later. What I found interesting is that he must have realized that Shinichi could expose the aliens in a way that hosts who had their brains destroyed could not.

HaruhiToy wrote:

ChibiKangaroo wrote: In fact, A-san saw Shinichi and Migi as clearly beneath him and just wanted to kill them because "he could." Actually I thought his motivation is that he thought they were "dangerous" (his word). At first he was restrained by Ryoko and he acted on his own later. What I found interesting is that he must have realized that Shinichi could expose the aliens in a way that hosts who had their brains destroyed could not.

Obviously he didn't think they were dangerous enough to feel that he could actually be harmed by them. He probably saw them more as an abomination. But clearly he was not required to kill them for his own survival.

I think what it was for A-san was he realized that Shinichi's human sentiment combined with Migi's survival instinct would eventually because a threat. While he may not have seen them as capable of killing him A-san did say that anyone who got in the way of his basic survival would be eliminated. He probably reasoned that eventually Shinichi would try to go after him if out of some sense of justice and that even if they likely won't kill him Migi even injuring his host through a lucky shot is enough to greatly hinder his ability to feed at best requiring time to rest and recover as well as avoiding unwanted attention, at worst injuring him enough to require relocation which as mom-parasite has proven is very difficult because you require a similar match to your previous host.

That all seems highly speculative to me. It seemed to me that A-san was mainly miffed by Ryoko's interest in Shinichi and just didn't like him. Obviously Ryoko did not see Shinichi as a threat. A-san was at most jealous, but most likely I think he just was disgusted by Shinichi and Migi in some way and his homicidal tendencies naturally took over.

From Mr A's own words "I see Izumi Shinichi as a threat, and I eat anything that I perceive as a threat." He doesn't explicitly say WHY Izumi is a threat, but threats are to be eaten according to Mr. A.

Well if that's what he said then so be it, but he was clearly deranged. Like I said, Ryoko did not see him as a threat. Her whole conversation later with him was that she saw him as a human and would kill him because that is her homicidal programming. Then she stops at the last second because she notices something alien about him. If he was perceived as a real threat, she would have killed him instantly as well.

Likewise, the dog parasyte did not attack him because he was a threat. It tried to consume him because he was human.

Same thing with the parasyte that cornered him in the alley. It wanted to eat him. It didn't see him as a threat. In fact, it wanted Migi to join with it.

The point is, they don't just kill things that are a threat. They mainly kill because their very nature is to be homicidal killing machines. Migi and the other new one have averted this trend and that makes them different.

There's a contradiction in your claim regarding the dog parasite, Migi clearly states in the first episode that the dog parasite judges Izumi's still extant human brain as a threat because of the parasitic right hand. Migi also states that dog parasytes would eat other dogs, hence the first encounter of the dog parasyte making a meal of its own kind.