Did he ever consider NOT betraying someone?

>>92782452
He was on the level with the Imakandi, they crossed him.

Old habits die hard.

>>92782452
Aku is usually level with anyone who

1.) Wins
2.) Does not act like Aku has any obligation to give them anything

Aku WILL reward you if you don't remind him you're owed, or if you manage to couch it in sufficiently slavish and grovelling terms. Unless he's in a bad or sadistic mood.

>>92782505
He turns the Ultra Robots on Extor's village (leaving him alive, presumably on purpose) with literally no provocation whatsoever. If he hadn't done that, he would have won.

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>Aku split personality disorder
>Jack split personality disorder.

>>92782452
It's by his very nature to betray that is his undoing.

Aku is an archetype/old-fashioned sort of god. He, in fact, can't not be evil, precisely BECAUSE he is evil incarnate. This leaves him susceptible to losing, not because he's not powerful but because he can be tricked and because his own nature gets in the way of his greater goals. It's very much a fairy tale kind of thing.

>>92782656
Aku was able to suppress his urge to do evil long enough to literally save Jack's life (from quicksand, as Ikra) so as to eliminate another threat.

>>92782477
Well I mean, he didn't get the opportunity to betray them. Once he got a hold of Jack he could have told em to fuck off

>>92782585
>Unless he's in a bad or sadistic mood.

>>92782750
>he didn't get the opportunity to betray them.
There's no point stretching things into the hypothetical to make this case absolute. The absolute fact of the matter is they reneged, he did not.

Aku has an established rule at all because there are people like the engineers who he works with through a stable relation. He doesn't betray everyone, just people who over stretch their reach into what is rightfully his or not rightfully their place to demand of him.

Aku sunk the Triseraquins city, their expecting him to undo the act is defiance against his will.
>>92782585
Exdor told Aku to never touch his city, given Aku is the equivalent of god in their world this is the equivalent of Noah telling him to undo the flood, the people of Babel telling him to undo the destruction, the Egyptians telling him to undo the plagues.

By what right?
I'm not remotely saying Aku or any deity is good or right, but I don't understand why people expect any of them to behave in a way subservient to mortals. Aku has existed and ruled long since before any of these people were even born, their very existence at all is through his will. As he sees it they owe him everything, including their unquestioning service, and he owes them nothing.

>>92782935
All we're told is that Aku promised to spare Extor's village, then reneged for no reason beyond sadistic whimsy. He never made any claim to feeling offending by Extor, he even complimented his work immediately prior.

And, powerful as Aku is, these aren't comparable to any kind of classical judgement by some god. Aku is by his own proclamations evil and completely in opposition to morality. More to the point, his betrayals actively cause his defeat on more than one occasion. Yet he never stops to consider not doing them.

>>92782716
Yeah, what is up with that?

>>92783118
>He never made any claim to feeling offending by Extor
"FOOL" is usually a pretty clear sign Aku is not pleased with someone's behavior.
>Yet he never stops to consider not doing them.
Why should he? Consider the case with the Ultra robots, all Jack had to do was pray and he got out of the bind. The little arm enhancement was useful but not necessary.
Hell he got his sword back recently again through similar means.
There is no moral lesson to be learned for Aku, he exists in a world where, even if the plot holds it back to build tension, divine intervention is against him.
Under no circumstances would the gods allow his victory to remain permanent no matter how indefinite it appears.

In fact if we're going to talk of learning anything from anything, the very first person Aku gave the benefit of the doubt was the Emperor, who immediately threatened, shot arrows and cut him.

>>92782452

Alt ending with Aku, Jack, and the girl sitcom when?

>>92783363
>Why should he?

...Because if he didn't, he could have killed Jack and destroyed the sword several times over. That's the point of this thread.

>>92783483
>he could have killed Jack and destroyed the sword several times over.
I just pointed out that several times over Jack is spared that fate anyway.
The only thing Aku would learn is the futility of bothering.

>>92783580
Aku clearly doesn't believe that, whether or not it's true.