It just seems stupid. He obviously can remotely control it, so why be putting himself in danger when he can’t even handle himself in the battlefield?
He did it in the comics, too. Just to be out and about, feel more like part of the team, be near Monster Girl. He didn’t do it always, just whenever he felt like it or the plot required.
To feel like a hero. Plus what the other poster anove me said.
In the comics, >!he continues to pilot his drones remotely until a space mission forces him to pilot from within the suit due to his transmitter being out of range.!< For the show, they seem to be >!using his new body’s learning curve as a catalyst for the failed leadership arc that happens much earlier in the comics (before he receives the clone body).!<
I kinda like the timing better in the show
I like it too. It gives more meaning to his leadership arc and, I think, a better reason for why Cecil put Immortal in charge in the first place.
They are doing a good job of weaving the plot together from the comic format to the television format.
“Experience everything we never could.”
Rudy didn’t take Rex’s body to be a better hero. He did it so that he could live a real life. Part of that is being present for battles. You have to remember he was willing to kill himself to avoid being stuck in that tube and living life behind a screen any longer. It wouldn’t make any sense for him to NOT be in the suit.
Dude really killed himself so a copy of himself could experience something he never would be able too.
Not really, he could have been saved, he just chose to die as he knew that his clone would live on and could finally die at peace.
It’s really sad when you think about it. Bro really sacrificed himself like that, and his Clone has to live with that.
Again, he didn’t sacrifice anyyhing.
- Lag
- Wanting to have a more active role in combat.
- Wanting to be near monster girl.
I believe the Watsonian explanation is input delay making him less effective than in person (though I think he used remote control at this point in the comics?).
The Doyalist explanation is it allows tension around whether he will live or die rather than having him be perfectly safe in 99% of scenes he is in.
It would be…distasteful for him to be safe while his teammates are risking their lives.
But it’s OK for >!Dupli-Kate 0? Is that what she’s called? That’s a thing, right!
Wait, WHAT?
They don’t know that yet.
FOMO
If he just sits back in a control room, letting a drone do all the heroing for him, then he’s not living a full life. His original body intended him to experience everything that the world had to offer, including danger, failure, and heartbreak.
Probably to go be more respected too. Others risk their lives, if he doesn’t…
Before he upgraded his meat suit the team believed he was simply a Sentient Robot. Upon his upgrade he decided to reveal the truth about himself to the team. The only way he can try to rebuild that trust is to put himself on the field with his teammates. If he continued to just sit at HQ and send drones into every conflict it would have affected his status with the team. Why should they go out there and risk their lives while Rudy basically plays video games?
Rex and Sampson especially wouldn’t be okay with that.
My idea is the neural link has more limitations then the computer his old body was hooked up to, More delay, less stability, etc. being in the robot would be required for him to stay an active and effective member of the team.
You mean, like, why didn’t Rudy downlod his consciousness into Robot, create an anti-viltrumite metal skeleton, cover it with a psuedo-skin which looks like a human body, and go wherever, whenever, with a giant robot army in tow?
No clue.
I like the iron man thing. I hope he grows some balls and then later when he regresses, he starts the remote control thing
From his talk with monster girl, as part of his whole new lease on life and being “human” as opposed to “robot”, she’s encouraging him to engage more directly in life and be in the shit, so he can get the experience they all get, in person. So that he gets full context and understanding of them. Is it more dangerous than remotely piloting? Yes, but his suit has protections, and they all risk their lives through direct engagement and look out for one another. So they likely don’t see it as too much of an issue.