>>7252953Kind of the point right? It's a transformation for the express purpose of giving the character a dated upgrade.
Which he turns around and uses to try and fight his "rival" who has always been pretty soundly ahead of him.
So after doing this and fucking up the whole plan to stop the genocidal monster of myth that a new tier of god came to warn about, he has to get in a cheap shot to try and defend his ragged sense of pride.
The edginess adds to all this because of how self defeating the whole process is, and how that works to build the character.
