History WMG / HunterXHunter

We already know that Togashi uses Gon as a {{Deconstruction}} of typical "live by their own code", super energetic, "win them over by talking" shounen main characters like Naruto. The manga shows in great depth how actually being that kind of character is far stranger than most shounen like to make it seem and ultimately suggests that someone like that is a person to be afraid of because of their high unpredictable. However, the Chimera Ant arc made it brutally clear that a character like this is destined to be their own demise. Gon, like many shounen leads, has a lot of potential and gets stronger by fighting people that are stronger than him. Typically this leads to a [[NextTierPowerUp power]] [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands upgrade]] of some sort in battle which allows the main character to defeat their adversary. However, in the Hunter X Hunter universe, that does not work. Gon wins his major "fight" with Hanzo only because Hanzo forfeits. When it actually comes to fighting people who are significantly stronger than him, in an actual fight Gon would most likely lose due to his lack of experience and training. The one time Gon wins, Ging later explains, is because he in a rage unknowingly makes a Nen conditional that allows him to fully tap into his potential [[DeadlyUpgrade at the cost of almost his life and all of his Nen capabilities.]] Gon's rage and blind desire to get stronger regardless of the consequences is just that: blind and uninformed.

We already know that Togashi uses Gon as a {{Deconstruction}} of typical "live by their own code", super energetic, "win them over by talking" shounen main characters like Naruto. The manga shows in great depth how actually being that kind of character is far stranger than most shounen like to make it seem and ultimately suggests that someone like that is a person to be afraid of because of their high unpredictable. However, the Chimera Ant arc made it brutally clear that a character like this is destined to be their own demise. Gon, like many shounen leads, has a lot of potential and gets stronger by fighting people that are stronger than him. Typically this leads to a [[NextTierPowerUp power]] [[PowersAsThePlotDemands upgrade]] of some sort in battle which allows the main character to defeat their adversary. However, in the Hunter X Hunter universe, that does not work. Gon wins his major "fight" with Hanzo only because Hanzo forfeits. When it actually comes to fighting people who are significantly stronger than him, in an actual fight Gon would most likely lose due to his lack of experience and training. The one time Gon wins, Ging later explains, is because he in a rage unknowingly makes a Nen conditional that allows him to fully tap into his potential [[DeadlyUpgrade at the cost of almost his life and all of his Nen capabilities.]] Gon's rage and blind desire to get stronger regardless of the consequences is just that: blind and uninformed.

We already know that Gon himself is more or less a {{Deconstruction}} of typical "live by their own code", super energetic, "win them over by talking" shounen main characters like Naruto. The manga shows in great depth how actually being that kind of character is far stranger than most shounen like to make it seem and ultimately suggests that someone like that is a person to be afraid of because of their high unpredictable. However, the Chimera Ant arc made it brutally clear that a character like this is destined to be their own demise. Gon, like many shounen leads, has a lot of potential and gets stronger by fighting people that are stronger than him. Typically this leads to a PowerUpgrade of some sort in battle which allows the main character to defeat their adversary. However, in the Hunter X Hunter universe, that does not work. Gon wins his major "fight" with Hanzo only because Hanzo forfeits. When it actually comes to fighting people who are significantly stronger than him, in an actual fight Gon would most likely lose due to his lack of experience and training. The one time Gon wins is because he in a rage unknowingly makes a Nen conditional that allows him to fully tap into his potential at the cost of almost his life and all of his Nen capabilities. Gon's rage and blind desire to get stronger regardless of the consequences is just that: blind and uninformed.

Kurapika, on the other hand, is far more shrewd than Gon and while he does have a sense of justice, he does not have the same BlueandOrangeMorality that Gon does, which allows him to better assess situations and make less decisions that are purely based off of emotion. And it is Kurapika who has actually taken down two of the Phantom Troupe members: one by outright killing him and the other by making him incapable of using Nen. It has been noted that Kurapika's story is almost a waste since it could stand alone as its own manga and be equally as compelling. But that's the FridgeBrilliance of it. Togashi intentionally [[PutOnABus put Killua on a bus]] and depowered Gon because Gon's story is finished as he was never truly the main protagonist. Kurapika will now take up the mantle as being the true protagonist and the story will focus more on him.

Kurapika, on the other hand, is far more shrewd than Gon and while he does have a sense of justice, he does not have the same BlueandOrangeMorality that Gon does, which allows him to better assess situations and make less decisions that are purely based off of emotion. And it is Kurapika who has actually taken down two of the Phantom Troupe members: one by outright killing him and the other by making him incapable of using Nen. It has been noted that Kurapika's story is almost a waste since it could stand alone as its own manga and be equally as compelling. But that's the FridgeBrilliance of it. Togashi intentionally {(PutOnABus put Killua on a bus}} and depowered Gon because Gon's story is finished as he was never truly the main protagonist. Kurapika will now take up the mantle as being the true protagonist and the story will focus more on him.

We already know that Gon himself is more or less a {Deconstruction} of typical "live by their own code", super energetic, "win them over by talking" shounen main characters like Naruto. The manga shows in great depth how actually being that kind of character is far stranger than most shounen like to make it seem and ultimately suggests that someone like that is a person to be afraid of because of their high unpredictable. However, the Chimera Ant arc made it brutally clear that a character like this is destined to be their own demise. Gon, like many shounen leads, has a lot of potential and gets stronger by fighting people that are stronger than him. Typically this leads to a PowerUpgrade of some sort in battle which allows the main character to defeat their adversary. However, in the Hunter X Hunter universe, that does not work. Gon wins his major "fight" with Hanzo only because Hanzo forfeits. When it actually comes to fighting people who are significantly stronger than him, in an actual fight Gon would most likely lose due to his lack of experience and training. The one time Gon wins is because he in a rage unknowingly makes a Nen conditional that allows him to fully tap into his potential at the cost of almost his life and all of his Nen capabilities. Gon's rage and blind desire to get stronger regardless of the consequences is just that: blind and uninformed.

Kurapika, on the other hand, is far more shrewd than Gon and while he does have a sense of justice, he does not have the same BlueandOrangeMorality that Gon does, which allows him to better assess situations and make less decisions that are purely based off of emotion. And it is Kurapika who has actually taken down two of the Phantom Troupe members: one by outright killing him and the other by making him incapable of using Nen. It has been noted that Kurapika's story is almost a waste since it could stand alone as its own manga and be equally as compelling. But that's the FridgeBrilliance of it. Togashi intentionally {(PutOnABusNow put Killua on a bus}} and depowered Gon because Gon's story is finished as he was never truly the main protagonist. Kurapika will now take up the mantle as being the true protagonist and the story will focus more on him.

** Practically {{Confirmed}} with the statement that most members of the Zodiac got body modification to more closely resemble the animals Netero assigned them.

*** They absolutely ''do'' go about murdering innocents by the hundreds, and they steal and kill ''on principle'' (see Feitan chiding Shizuku for trying to win that diamond legitmately). That's ''why'' they're TheDreaded in the first place. They didn't need to kill everyone at the auction, but they did it because that's what Ubo most likely would have wanted. If Machi's going rates and Shalnark's easy throwing cash at the Hunter website are ''anything'' to go by, they are filthy rich from their exploits and could just, for example, ''buy'' all of that beer, or even just steal it without killing the person tending the store (they're bulletproof; what could he or the cops he could have called have done to stop them?), but they didn't. They killed the guy and stole the beer, because killing and stealing is ''what they do''. A one-off character whose thoughts we only were briefly made privy to in order to exposit about the Ryodan mindset (so, while he ''could'', in theory, be an UnreliableExpositor, he has the LawOfConservationOfDetail on his side) described at least Chrollo as being ''addicted'' to murder, and the characterisation of the majority of the ones we've seen is consistent with them being BloodKnights looking for a fix. They have their PetTheDog moments, but their level of MoralMyopia is explicitly lampshaded. Even Shalnark, who is one of the most superficially normal-seeming of the lot, is more upset about ''not remembering'' all the violence he inflicts in his Autopilot mode than he is about the pain that mode leaves him in for days afterward. And due to how nen works? Not remembering how he brutally murdered whatever it was has to actually be a significant downside from his point of view in order to be useful. They're ChaoticNeutral ''around each other'' and other folks from Meteor City, but if you're not in either of those groups, you're nothing to them beyond maybe being their next murder fix.

[[WMG:Cheadle Yorkshire of Zodiacs is Gon's mother]]
When together she and Ging argue like an old married couple. Also Ging has purely black hair while Gon has green highlights in his.

This ''definitely'' comes off as HesJustHiding, but it's not ''impossible'' (though this is mainly to get this theory out of the way). Whether Pairo was used to find the village or not (in which case they could have also used the female hunter who taught them the language), Pairo ''could'' have been outside of the village (either in his test or having met the female hunter) while the Phantom Troupe attacked. Maybe that's how the hunter found the massacred village despite not actually being there before; Pairo found the village destroyed, called her, and she spread the news while hiding his Kurta descent from the world to protect him, but with no means to contact Kurapika or know where he was.

[[WMG:Killua's grandmother is a [[PettingZooPeople nekomimi]], a bakeneko, or some combination of the two. By extension, Zeno Zaoldyeck is a [[FurryFandom furry]].]]

Throwing this here after seeing it suggested by the Mangahere community (the Pairo part, that is). Going by pure resemblance, the head, while blurred, looks similar to both him and Kurapika himself (who looks a lot like his mother). After all, it's stated during the Yorkshin arc that the Scarlet Eyes have more value with the head attached.
The Genei Ryodan could have managed to preserve one head, which seems to be harder to do than just the eyes. They managed this possibly by taking one of the Kuruta as a prisoner (maybe one who wasn't as able to fight back as the others) to behead them later in better conditions. Pairo could have remained hidden or wandering obliviously somewhere in the forest during the massacre, only to return and get caught during or right after that by the Ryodan. So, taking in account Pairo's condition...

Throwing this here after seeing it suggested by the Mangahere community (the Pairo part, that is). While blurred, the head looks similar to both him and Kurapika (and his mother). After all, it's stated during the Yorkshin arc that the Scarlet Eyes have more value with the head attached; the Genei Ryodan could have managed to preserve one head, possibly by taking one of the Kuruta as a prisoner (maybe one who wasn't as able to fight back as the others) to behead them later in better conditions. So, taking in account Pairo's condition...

* Kurapika having a [[HeroicBSOD ''massive'' breakdown]], leaving him unable to go on during or after his mission and possibly leaving him vulnerable to the Fourth Prince or other enemies, or

[[WMG: The head shown in Chapter 349 behind Tserriednich is [[spoiler:Pairo's]].

Throwing this here after seeing it suggested by the Mangahere community. While blurred, the head looks similar to him (after all, it's stated during the Yorkshin arc that the Scarlet Eyes have more value with the head attached).
This could lead to:
* Kurapika having a ''massive'' [[HeroicBSOD breakdown]], leaving him unable to go on and vulnerable to Tserriednich, or
* Kurapika completely [[UnstoppableRage losing it]] causing him to become extremely reckless and murderous, possibly endangering himself and others, as well as the mission.

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Tserriednich's EstablishingCharacterMoment showed him having attractive women sent to his apartment, then (after killing them) complaining about how ignorant and superficial they were. In his quest to make an "inspiring piece of art", he's looking for women who are highly cultured and knowledgeable, traits that Kurapika (the "walking encyclopedia", as he has been called in this very wiki) clearly has. [[DudeLooksLikeALady Kurapika]] could easily get advantage of this; it's not the first or second time he has used crossdressing as a tactic, after all. The tricky part would be surviving the ordeal.

* Or, what if he gave birth to Gon ''himself''? After all, you can be a guy and have a vagina at the same time.

Ging accidently (or was pranked into) carried a pregnancy stone from Greed Island around and got pregnant with Gon.