He’s an amoral man motivated first by selfish and sometimes base desires and he almost seems like the kind of cool killer a disaffected nerdy teenager might want to be, but while he’s clearly perverted and a bit dense, he has a certain devil-may-care approach to life that makes him an appealing lead. He gets into the assassination business in the first place because he ends up low on cash, although when you view his motel room turned apartment with shelves stacked with an impressive anime figure collection and get constant funny voice mails about the overdue video tapes he has rented out, it’s easy to see this isn’t a guy who ended up killing for cash out of desperation. Travis Touchdown is perhaps more of an every man than even characters usually described in that way. Travis Touchdown may be slicing apart assassins in bloody battles, but he’s not exactly the heroic type, motivated more by his desire to be the number one assassin and spurred on by the vague hint that the woman who introduced him to this world of wanton death might sleep with him if he does. A selfless hero who does what’s right is an appealing ideal, but No More Heroes’s protagonist isn’t like that. In many stories, even if the protagonist is reluctant to be a hero at the beginning, their sense of right wins out and they will keep fighting for a moral cause even if some other incentive ends up unattainable.
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