#im currently trying to rewatch most of the first series (ive never seen danger force) so i can rlly rememer what henry is supposed 2 b like

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Jasper deserved better! You’re so right!!

I loved seeing Ray at the end but there’s also a lot of psychology around it I kinda dove head first into. Like the way Henry acted like Ray for most of the movie and then just up and left??

Like “you want a gold star or something” at the beginning for Henry to literally give him a gold star at the end, where I assume real world Jasper didn’t know that anything had changed, had to have felt entirely too condescending, right??

I have extremely mixed feelings about the whole movie now that I’ve watched it three times and the initial shock and excitement has worn off, but I think what happened with Henry in the movie is essentially:

he leaned into his lessons from Ray (the subconscious personality building ones) in order to stay ahead of Jasper because if he treated Jasper as an equal then it would’ve given him an opportunity to surpass him and he would’ve been stuck in someone else’s shadow again, and that insecurity presented as this standoffish jerk as a way of keeping Jasper in his place.

And when Missy made him realize how helpful Jasper really was to him, he felt so bad that his insecurities kinda took over and he was like “you have the spotlight here, I’m off to Newtown because they need a hero and I don’t have to compete for the spotlight.” Because unfortunately he does seem to view it as a competition. Even though he and Jasper have been friends for so many years. That never changed. We saw it in Henry’s Jelly. And it was more subtle and adult here because it seems like they avoid confrontation and let it build up.

And then taking on Missy as a sidekick and returning to the person who started it all just feels like the beginning of a generation trauma spiral imo.

In terms of the ending with Jasper I agree with you a hundred percent. I’m still a little confused on the implication of Ray maybe kickstarting a whole new thing but I guess we’ll see if it goes anywhere.

oh yeah I can totally see that. unfortunately I dont think the writers intended for it to be purposefully negative from a writing standpoint and be a generational trauma kinda thing but you could totally see it in this context

honestly I think Henry danger has just gotten the franchise syndrome where the OS starts off with the best arcs of the characters first developing and still being written good but as soon as it goes on for long enough/OS ends the characters get a soft reboot where they either get their character development regressed so they can have it again in the new series or they just. get changed completely and the show plays it off as growing and changing

most of the time they try and at least break down each character into archetypes and traits and just slap them onto a new mannequin to be them in the new series but I dont even think this movie did that tbh. henry felt so ooc and it feels like they really just want him to be a gritty badass hero and also be attractive for all of the people that thirst for him. I've seen so many comment sections in Nickelodeon posts of people saying Jace norman is attractive. it feels like hes just not gonna be like Henry again. hes too gritty and serious to contrast missy's silliness even tho Henry has always been a silly billy