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Just how dumb IS Deon?

posted 9 years ago by trigun_78
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So let me get this straight. Deon anticipated that Hugh Jackman was going to use the big bad robot to go kill Chappie? Fine, I get that. But heres my question: Why did he sneak into the armory to steal a huge grenade... launcher... thing, then drive it all the way to Chappie to give it to him to help him fight off the big bad robot?

He was INSIDE the building where Hugh Jackman had his brain helmet that controlled the big bad robot! Why not just go smash up his helmet and all of his computers? Or even go mess around with the robot itself? He knows robots, its his life, so he could surely find a way to disable it.

[–] tom-1674 9 years ago

Excellent point.

[–] mikeandersmike 9 years ago

Really, no need to ask such questions. This movie is full of so much stupidity, you could ask a million questions like that.

[–] inter_tayne012 9 years ago

How dumb is EVERY character in this film?

[–] reaseltbim 9 years ago

this movie is pretty irrational but I could try and guess

Deon didn't want to get arrested and fired for destroying that other robot... no one would know he stole the grenade launcher.

or, he was too much of a coward to do anything and just expected Crappie to do the dirty work, he cared for Crappie but he was too scared to actually destroy the helmet

or, he was too scared of Hugh Jackman.

either way, it made no sense.

[–] cosmic_surveyor 9 years ago

Why not just go smash up his helmet and all of his computers? Or even go mess around with the robot itself? He knows robots, its his life, so he could surely find a way to disable it.

Deon is/was a creator, not a destroyer. The grenade-launcher was a last resort defense.

The big bad robot was Vincent Moore's (Hugh Jackman) personal pet project. Deon would not know what to mess with that wouldn't end up harming his fellow employees; just as Vincent didn't know how to mess with Deon's personal project.

So, Deon wasn't dumb. He approached life with a different perspective than a shoot-first-ask-questions-later.

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[–] trigun_78 9 years ago

How could sabotaging the Moose possibly harm his fellow employees? It was ONE robot. ONE thing to sabotage. Hugh Jackman would have to sabotage hundreds(?) of Scouts on the inverse. Much more difficult. And this is talking sabotage of the robot itself.

The much simpler plan would be to go destroy his helmet that lets him control the Moose. Or just steal it. Boom. Problem solved. No one gets hurt. The moose never leaves the building and it never claims a single life.

But because Deon did his asinine plan, many people died. Sure, most of them, if not all, were technically "bad people". But still, they didnt have to die.

[–] reaseltbim 9 years ago

maybe there were cameras and he didn't want to get caught

[–] cosmic_surveyor 9 years ago

By his actions, Vincent did harm his fellow employees. Such unsanctioned malfeasance doomed his boss' government contract. Her firm will no longer be a viable presence in the industry. It will fold and its employees dismissed. They will have to start anew.

Deon did not think Vincent would go to such lengths. He therefore would not sink so low to preemptively attack and destroy someone else's project. In hindsight, a preemptive attack seems good. But not to Deon who sees good in people, even someone like Ninja and Yolandi who pointed guns at him.

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Est modus in rebus sunt certi denique fines quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum Goldilocks

[–] watergaia 9 years ago

Well, they were already preparing the launch of the big robot when he went for the grenade launcher, so he couldn't have gone there running around with a grenade launcher without serious consequences.

[–] blakblu 9 years ago

Deon was an idiot, why didn't he take the USB key in the first place, or the second place, or the third place... Inserted here left it with Chappie for no reason at all.