(Grendaiper came out a few days ago but I have to rely on the review Smarty Pants made to understand what happened because I can't find the full episode anywhere online❤️)
I've been seeing people praising Zoe as Fury for "entering her Batman era" and "standing up to people who deserve it" but I can't get on board with the show begging me to find Zoe interesting in the way it wants me to nor can I agree with how a lot of the fandom is praising and hyping up Zoe's "justice".
With all the overblown punishments she doled out, not once did she bother to even attempt to explain why her victims were being punished in the first place, she just abandoned them without giving a shit about their wellbeing or mental states after the fact. How the fuck are they supposed to "improve" if they don't know what the fuck they did wrong? For all they know, they were attacked and kidnapped by a supervillain who torments those who can't fight back for shits and giggles.
Bob Roth was in a studio dressing room talking to someone when he was abandoned to cling to the top of the Eiffel Tower to avoid falling to his death. The bus driver was doing his fucking job when he was locked in a panther cage and genuinely feared for his life. A child was in what should've been the safety of his home when he was abandoned at the base of the Eiffel Tower in a humiliating situation in front of a giant crowd of strangers while being who knows how far away from home - oh, and he was being recorded to be further humiliated for online strangers too. No one can convince me Zoe gives a shit about "justice" after she pulled shitty stunts like this against people who don't have a chance to defend themselves against her.
Did Zoe wonder, for even a fragment of a second, how the public would respond to her humiliation rituals once they became widespread knowledge? To the public, Fury is a supervillain who's incredibly dangerous since no one knows their motive, thus won't know who the next target for their cruel humiliation will be; no one is safe since they targeted a child!
Zoe is an incredibly biased judge of character who doesn't stop to think why someone may act the way they do in the brief moment of time she just so happens to be watching them. She doesn't stop to think about what they could be going through or that they're human with limits to what they can put up with in a single day, all she sees is what she wants to see if it means enacting her bias excuse of justice.
I've seen a few arguments stating that Marinette shouldn't be allowed to revoke the Bee Miraculous from Zoe if she discovered that she's Fury because it would be hypocritical since she kept Felix. 1. Marinette is already a massive hypocrite so revoking Zoe from her status as Vesperia would be in line with what canon has already presented. 2. It's implied in canon that Felix has already apologised for his past actions and he isn't going to pull the same stunts that he did in the past. Felix's acts have been forgiven, are in the past and are no longer happening. Zoe's acts are threatening to do more harm since they're still ongoing in the present and she's showing no signs of remorse since she's still acting as Fury. (The Felix point isn't one I completely agree with canon on but it's still a point that exists and is worth mentioning)
Overall, Zoe has gone from a character I couldn't find myself caring to like due to Doylist reasons regarding the show's writing to a character I despise for Watsonian reasons alongside the previously stated issues.
Zoe is not a vigilante, she's a super powered bully who cowers behind the veneer of moral superiority over those she deems as lesser than her who she can freely torment without the risk of her victims fighting back
