So one of the things that I really want to talk about coming out of season 2 is Entrapta. Mainly that I’m very tired of this fandom portrayal and vision of Entrapta as this innocent character. I’ve been tired of it and s2 just made it stronger.
I’ve seen plenty of posts about how Entrapta was manipulated by Catra into joining the Horde, people suggesting that as soon as she realized they didn’t knowingly abandon her she’d leave the Horde, and that’s simply not true. Entrapta knows exactly what she’s doing. She knows the Horde is hurting Etheria and its people. She knows they’re “bad,” but she doesn’t care. Entrapta’s priority has never been doing what was right, or fighting for justice. She’s doing everything she does for 1 simple reason:
She’s motivated by the search for knowledge, the interests of what she views as progress. It doesn’t matter who or what is harmed as long as she gets to research and work with the First Ones tech. And she’s not even doing it as a lowly researcher in the Fright Zone. She’s gotten very buddy buddy with Hordak himself.
And Entrapta admits all this to Bow. Yes, she’s working with the Horde. No, she doesn’t want to be rescued. She doesn’t NEED to be rescued, because we’ve known since s1 that she can come and go as she pleases.
So this fandom idea that she’s innocent, or helpless, or anything like that is just blatantly wrong. Fandom acts like she’s a child that doesn’t know any better, but it’s not true. And in the light of her obvious autistic coding, which the vast majority of fans readily accept as canon, is actively harmful. She’s not a kid- while we don’t have canon ages for most of the characters, we do know that the crew headcanons her as mid to late 20s. And while that age range isn’t canon in the strictest sense, if the creators are seeing her that way, we know that she’s not being portrayed as a child, or a victim. She’s a grown, intelligent woman making her own choices, for her own reasons, with her own goal in mind. It’s time for fans to stop portraying her as an innocent, defenseless kid, and start accepting that she’s chaotic neutral at best.
And on the topic of Entrapta’s motivations and actions, let’s talk redemption arc. Of the Super Pal Trio, Entrapta seems, at this point, the least likely to get a true redemption. Scorpia and Catra grew up in the Horde and were manipulated all throughout their lives (I don’t have to rehash the Catra manipulation stuff, y’all remember s1, but here’s a link for reference to Scorpia’s). But Entrapta? She didn’t grow up with the Horde, she knows all about the rebellion, the other princesses, what the Horde does to innocent civilians, and she still made her choices. I’m not saying Entrapta can’t get a redemption or something less morally upstanding but functionally the same, I can see potential routes to it, if the crew wants to go that direction. But she’s just as likely to go down with Hordak. It could go either way, a lot can happen in a few episodes, but only time will tell where Entrapta ends up.
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