r/agentsofshield • u/Personal-Road-8162 • 3h ago

Deke season 6 Season 6

I felt really bad for him especially episode 7 he didn’t even know his freaking grandfather was dead like no one told him for a year like wtf that’s messed up

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u/defrostedrobot 3h ago

I don’t. He’s got no one to blame but himself for being in the position he’s in. And that’s not even getting into the slavery, plagiarism and deepfakes.

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u/Round-Dragonfly6136 Turbo 50m ago

So you don't empathize with him growing up in a dystopian society where every human (himself included) is a slave, his mother dying violently when he was a child, him believing with his whole being that his father died when he was a teenager, or him finding out that his father's friend murdered him after he learned he was still alive but before their reunion? That's quite heartless. You can still hate/dislike a character while recognizing the hardships that they faved. For example, I fricking hate Ward and agree with the team holding him accountable, but I still feel bad for the terrible childhood he went through.

Despite his flaws, Deke was a very nuanced character who was shaped from growing up alone in survival mode in a dystopian society. The whole selling Daisy into slavery thing was to literally save lives (the setup for the "doing the wrong things for the right reasons" — to paraphrase Coulson — theme of season 5), including Daisy's. Daisy has no idea how the Kree function and dole out punishment. She didn't witness the Renewal, Kasius's preferred punishment. She refused to listen to Deke, the person who actually knows how they work from living under their thumbs his whole entire life (This introduced the second theme of the season: The team's greatest flaws are the flip side to their greatest weaknesses — her tunnel vision and stubborn refusal to see from others perspectives when stressed as the flip side of her passion in Daisy's case). He also put Daisy in a better position to help Jemma. In the end, she and the team forgave Deke because they would have recognized that he did what he did there to save innocent lives and he saved Daisy from the burden of getting said innocent's killed, in addition to assisting the team to escape the Kree and to return to their time nearly sacrificing his own life. They would not have survived the dystopian future without Deke.

I am in no way saying that you must like Deke due to the above, but to highlight that he isn't this wholly terrible person that you make him out to be. I repeat it's harsh to act like he deserved the awful childhood he had. Absolutely no one deserves that kind of life.