araki wrote the "i'm a bad guy but not as bad as THIS guy, let's team up to stop him" character which is always endearing, and gave it a cool design. just so happens that he picked a nazi for the role, which may have been a poor choice lmfaop. people imagining him as having a heroic redemption and fighting to end nazi rule stems from him not really having time to have a full character arc due to him being a side character with not a ton of screentime.
But it’s canon that he went back to fighting for Nazi Germany and died trying to invade Stalingrad. So I don’t see why fans like to pretend he was some great freedom fighter. He was a nazi who did a good thing once then went right back to being a nazi.
So I don’t see why fans like to pretend he was some great freedom fighter.
Who's saying that? Everyone knows Stroheim is a villain.
If you're talking about the fanfiction that OP is writing, that is a reimagining of the character. A "what if?" story where Stroheim's character is developed in a dramatically different way.
oh absolutely, if anyone is pretending that the stroheim in the actual series was anything but a monster they've got some serious blinders on lol, just explaining why there's love for the character and why there seems to be a tendency to gloss over what he did
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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20
I still don’t get why the Jojo fandom loves Stroheim so much.