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Aiden Pearce is Trash


Watch Dogs 2 is the best Watch Dogs game. Legion at least tried, but Watch Dogs is terrible. Not because of the gameplay, visuals or soundtrack. It's terrible because Aiden Pearce is an irremediable, sociopathic, demented, twisted and undeniable piece of trash. Usually when I write these lists, I'm joking about a character I like but Aiden goes in a special category. He gets to sit next to Batman, Iron Man and The Punisher because they're all special special trash.

1. Worst Watch Dogs Protagonist, hands down. 

2. Some guys killed his niece so he shot up apartment buildings full of Black guys.

3. He has no swagger.

4. He's a drug addict. I know we don't see him do drugs during cutscenes but he's addicted to "focus boost."

5. Ubisoft sold out of the Marcus Holloway figures, they sold out of The Wrench figures. It's 2021 and you can still buy a Aiden Pearce figure brand new. Come get you boy, literally he's taking up warehouse space.

6. I'm just tired of people complaining about the crew of Watch Dogs 2 being unrelatable, unlike Aiden. When in reality they only relate to Aiden because he's a straight white man.

7. Marcus owns a gun, but never actually uses it in Watch Dogs 2. I beat the whole game with a tazer, paintball gun and stun grenade launcher. Aiden was running around Chicago like he was Rambo.

8. Man got cut off by his whole family then moved to London to stalk his nephew.

9. Terrible brother, I'm not even blaming his niece's death on hm. He's just a terrible family man. He set up cameras to watch them.

10. People say that he's more relatable to them than Marcus; what's really relatable is they are inspired by a white man with a victim complex who feels he was wronged, after he did a greater wrong to others. He doesn't really care about his niece, he cares about revenge. If he cared about his family, he would have just moved them somewhere else and gave up on all the BS heroics. He's not a real character, he's just a white male revenge fantasy. You don't even have to go as far as to compare him to Marcus and the crew from Watch Dogs 2. T-Bone is another white guy and when you played as him in the DLC he had this thing called a personality.

11. Aiden's best appearance was in Watch Dogs 2 when he didn't speak.

12. This man really running around like he's Batman. See a crime like robbery and shoot the guy in the head. You're just making more crime, why does he think he's above the law like that?

13. Got his niece killed, further traumatized his nephew.

14. If he wasn't so stuck on being an edgelord, his family might be okay.

15. Honestly, he's just an asshole who doesn't think about anyone else.

16. We're supposed to believe he's this super spy who breaks into prisons but his first solution to everything else is "Jordi, get the guns."

17. In the first mission, we watch him cause a blackout, at a sold out baseball game, so he could get away. He could have just taken off that stupid school shooter jacket combo and blended in with everyone else. He's a non-distinct white male, wouldn't be hard to blend in.

18. His sister told him exactly how to avoid all the trouble that came to him, and he did the opposite only to be angry when the trouble came to him. I thought he was supposed to be smart.

19. At the end of Watch Dogs we're supposed to believe that Aiden has turned over a new leaf and is no longer a trigger happy maniac. We're given the option to spare the person that hurt his family and we're supposed to take it because Aiden has grown. In reality, Aiden doesn't grow at all during this story. He's a piece of shit still. When you meat him in Watch Dogs: Legion, he's still a piece of shit  up to his old antics.

20. Aiden be like "I mask my emotions from people so I don't show weakness," well it looks like it didn't matter because they was playing pin the tail on your friends and family.

21. Honestly, he's just an asshole.

22. We have to talk about the spy cams in his sister's house.

23. We're supposed to see that Aiden is warped by PTSD but everything tells us he was like this before his Niece's death and he doesn't hesitate to do more and more messed up things as the story progresses. He's not a "vigilante," he's a terrorist.

24. He constantly calls out Damien on his greed, but is Aiden any better?

25. He's just generic. I had trouble finishing this list because he's just so bland, and we hardly know anything about him. 

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19 Comments

  1. splish splash your opinion is trash

    roses are red,
    violets are blue.
    aiden's great,
    yet this article is straight up poo.

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  2. Goofy ass takes

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  3. When they try and make a character that's more realistic he's trash... Last I checked killing people required some kind of coping mechanism. Unlike the children in WD2...

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  4. so instead you prefer the sunday morning cartoon protagonists of watchdogs

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    1. I’d choose anything over Aidan “merc anyone” Pearce

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    2. I would choose learning to spell...

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  5. cool your opinion but you know the word I don't care?

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  6. W Take though, most the Aiden Pearce meat riders clearly don’t understand a complex protagonist

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    1. This is all opinions, and these kinds of ones, who think they are right on everything, are false.

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  7. I haven't cringed this hard in a while.

    "2. Some guys killed his niece so he shot up apartment buildings full of Black guys."
    - you mean an apartment building of a human trafficking enterprise, after he saved both Bedbug and the informant?

    "3. He has no swagger."
    - you played the game? I chaged out his dirty looking default look almost immediately for better drip

    "4. He's a drug addict. […]"
    - first of all, wouldn't make him a worse character, and secondly, you never have to use FB, I never did.

    "6. I'm just tired of people complaining about the crew of Watch Dogs 2 being unrelatable, unlike Aiden. […]"
    - I think people relate to Aiden or at least find him interesting because he is not a round, unmistakingly good character.

    "7. Marcus owns a gun, but never actually uses it in Watch Dogs 2. I beat the whole game with a tazer, paintball gun and stun grenade launcher. Aiden was running around Chicago like he was Rambo."
    - I'm convinced you never played WD1! Herd of the baton takedown?!

    "9. Terrible brother, I'm not even blaming his niece's death on hm. He's just a terrible family man. He set up cameras to watch them."
    - yet you blame his niece's death on him literally four points later!

    "10. People say that he's more relatable to them than Marcus; what's really relatable is they are inspired by a white man with a victim complex who feels he was wronged, after he did a greater wrong to others. He doesn't really care about his niece, he cares about revenge. If he cared about his family, he would have just moved them somewhere else and gave up on all the BS heroics. He's not a real character, he's just a white male revenge fantasy. […]."
    - what a red herring; you don't seem to understand WD1's story. Aiden feels responsible for Lena's death, not wronged, and wants to correct the system. Nicole simply doesn't want to move out of Chicago for the most time.

    "12. […] See a crime like robbery and shoot the guy in the head. You're just making more crime, why does he think he's above the law like that?"
    - did you know you don't have to kill the suspects and just do a baton takedown?! You get more points for that!

    "14. If he wasn't so stuck on being an edgelord, his family might be okay."
    - In all fairness, the English dub gives Aiden a way to deep and raspy voice, the German and other dubs do a better job.

    "15. Honestly, he's just an asshole who doesn't think about anyone else." and "16. We're supposed to believe he's this super spy who breaks into prisons but his first solution to everything else is "Jordi, get the guns.""
    - Pearce literally goes out his way NUMEROUS times to NOT kill people. Jordi wanted to shot Maurice right away, Pearce goes out his way to protect the stadion survivor, help Poppy escape, killing Iraq was self-defence, clearly, etc.

    "17. In the first mission, we watch him cause a blackout, at a sold out baseball game, so he could get away. He could have just taken off that stupid school shooter jacket combo and blended in with everyone else. He's a non-distinct white male, wouldn't be hard to blend in."
    - they explain it like a minute in: JORDI CALLED THE POLICE

    "18. His sister told him exactly how to avoid all the trouble that came to him, and he did the opposite only to be angry when the trouble came to him. I thought he was supposed to be smart"
    - that is the rift that made the story interesting!

    "23. We're supposed to see that Aiden is warped by PTSD but everything tells us he was like this before his Niece's death and he doesn't hesitate to do more and more messed up things as the story progresses. […]"
    - what messed up things?!

    "24. He constantly calls out Damien on his greed, but is Aiden any better?"
    - yes, he is.

    "25. He's just generic. […]."
    - HOW?! I liked Marcus, but that guy is way more generic than Aiden.

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  8. I would like to add that what negates some of Aidan's edgyness, even if I didn't mind, is the fact that WD1's story actually had stakes. What are WD2's villians? A cult, Dusan Nemec, a corrupt Blume executive, some other companies? What are WD1's villians: two despicable, powerful gangs, the corrupt Chicaco political machine, literal cannibals etc.

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  9. He may be white yes, he may be a man, yes, but he’s anything BUT straight. Raymond Kenney insults his chest hair, punches him in the face, then smashes him through a window, tased his pp (knocking him out), and when he woke up, Ray was also going to blow torch his pp. and also Ray said he liked Aiden and also I had a dream about them where Ray really wanted to kiss Aiden and he kept asking really weird gay and awkward questions. So Aiden is anything BUTT gay.

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  10. Bro, what is with the "White male" shit? That has nothing to do with WD

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  11. Aiden pearce is the best and you should think 10000000 times before putting that ass comment generic blah blachhh don't care never will

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  12. Cry about it. Aiden is a legend.

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