Kuron is actually Zarkon.
I’m going to disclaim this with - I’m not sure how much I actually believe this is happening, but I feel I would be remiss if I didn’t do a theory post on it. Essentially, there is a possibility that the “soul”/quintessence inside Kuron - or a brainwashed Shiro - could actually be Zarkon.
Exhibit A: The Rift Entities
From Season ¾, we can assume two things - one, that Honevra and Haggar are two separate people, whereas Haggar/the rift entities are possessing Honevra’s body.
Or two - Haggar and Honevra are the same person, with the same feelings, and thus - Honevra just…forgot who she was for 10,000 years.
Though I’m not a fan of the latter idea, it makes more sense, now that Haggar is all about protecting her son in Season 5.
Let’s go for the former idea for the moment - that Haggar/rift entities are separate from Honerva. Then there is a good chance we have two separate Zarkons - the pre-rift Zarkon (Black Paladin) and post rift-Zarkon (with rift entity included). If that’s the case, who did Honerva get here?
Post-rift Zarkon. And pre-rift Zarkon might have been placed into Kuron’s body.
(I know I’m asking you to take a lot for granted, but hold on. I promise. Some pay-off is coming.)
Exhibit B: You Trusted Me Once.
This scene has bothered me for a while because a) if Shiro believed Black teleported into the hands of the Galra, why would he trust Black again? and b) if the Shiro in the screenshot above is a clone, then Black never trusted him to begin with. But if pre-rift Zarkon’s spirit is in Black, then Black has certainly trusted Zarkon before.
(Disregard this part if you believe in the brainwashed!Shiro theory. Black is hesitant because Shiro is compromised or because he lacks the necessary quintessence to jumpstart Black.)
Exhibit C: Paladins vs. Team
In S1 and S2, Shiro exclusively referred to the Paladins of Voltron as “team,” “everyone,” and “guys.”
Yet, when he returns after being held captive a second time by the Galra:
You know who else addressed the team as “paladins?”
Exhibit D: The Time is Right
All right. When is the time right, Shiro?
Wait. Hold on a tick. Shiro was waiting for Zarkon’s cue?
Sure - the cue could be Lotor’s attack on Axca, but those two lines fit very well together in the sense of one person manipulating the whole fight.
Which - y’know, someone is.
After all, what’s the whole purpose of Haggar rushing to start Operation Kuron Stage 4? If it’s just to allow her to see through Shiro, then she got a front row seat to Sam Holt’s rescue, which didn’t help her with Lotor in any way. So Stage 4, IMHO, needs to be something else.
Plus - the team didn’t attack while Axca was down and Lotor led Zarkon away. They waited for Zarkon to speak.
Here’s the kicker, IMHO. Throughout S1 and S2, Zarkon had one goal. It wasn’t to get Voltron, actually. According to Season 1, Voltron had the key to unimaginable power.
We know this “key” to be the Black Lion, to the point where Zarkon was obsessed with getting the Black Lion back.
(Speculation - while Voltron can pass through into other realities, Black can reopen the rift and get Zarkon the purest quintessence.)
So here’s the issue - after Haggar brings back Voltron, Zarkon just…stops caring about Black? Sure, in “Blood Duel,” he demands the lions in exchange for Sam, but prior to that, he was all up in Lotor’s grill. Why wouldn’t he be trying to get Black again from the get-go? So what if Lotor had/has another comet - if Zarkon was able to get Voltron, he could still get into the rift. And even if Lotor could, too, Voltron/Zarkon could stop him. Unless…
Lotor didn’t return the Black Lion to the Galra. Haggar and Zarkon did by putting pre-rift Zarkon into Kuron’s body.
Again, there are a lot of conflicting factors in this -
Why wouldn’t Kuron have Zarkon’s memories then?
Why does Haggar just watch the team? Why doesn’t she have Kuron take out the team or at least take Black to the rift?
Why search for Oriande your entire life, Haggar, if you want the purest quintessence from the rift? And you have the power to get it? (And unless you have someone chosen - you can’t get into Oriande anyway.)
Why do you need any of that - if you already have supercharged quintessence? There’s still that supply line that hasn’t been stopped.
Who is Kuron talking to here? It can’t be Lotor. (He’s not talking - we can see him just beyond Kuron above.) Haggar? Could be, but we haven’t seen her talking to Kuron yet. Could Shiro/Kuron and Zarkon be talking?
Who knows, really? I guess we’ll find out eventually.
Exhibit F: “A Bit Too Late”
Jeremy: Obviously that’s spoiler territory. But it’s interesting that he kind of gives that warning to Lance and that obviously at the time we don’t really know what that’s about. But that will definitely come up in the next season, I think. Either the next season or the one after that, but that… will come back fairly soon, and there’s some pretty big ramifications there. People can probably theorize on what that actually means, but I guess I can’t really state what that is, but it will be something that sits with Lance for a while and then he might realize what it actually means a little bit too late. So we’ll see.
Exhibit G: Zarkon yells at Alfor; Shiro yells at Lance.
Death by stick? I think not.
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