#me maniacally trying to explain this to my roommate: he's visually distinct from the rest of his family except for his fucking mom!

[myhyperfixationisiforgot]

It would have been so easy to make Wolfgang Bogdanow into this unfeeling ruthless monster who ~learns to love~ through the cluster. Sense8 could have tried to play Wolfgang off as a sins of thy father man, could have made a story out of dangling power in his face and running with the temptation to take it.

And then they don't.

He's violent and ruthless and angry and the show still goes out of its way to say that he looks like his mom! When bad things happen he thinks about his fucking mom!

He doesn't think of Felix as the sidekick because Wolfgang sees himself as another underdog and views Felix accordingly. His issues are rooted in his status as the eternal victim who can never get far enough away and it's all because he loves people so so so much.

Everyone keeps trying to see him as the up-and-comer and it never works because Wolfgang absolutely does not think of himself like that. He couldn't care less about building his own empire so long as the people who hurt his family are dead.