Voltron and the Fight to Make Shiro Queer

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When asked why Adam was killed off, Dos Santos focuses on how it was meant to help further the story. “We needed to set the stakes up for why the Galra were such a threat to Earth.”

Montgomery adds that the decision was obviously not made specifically to kill Adam, “it just happened because that’s what this story is. There’s an invasion and people have to fight back. If (the Paladins) had come back to Earth and everything was hunky dory and Adam just happened to die off screen I would definitely be more pissed but this is a show where lives have routinely been given for this cause. Admiral Sanda, Ulaz, plenty of the Blade of Marmora, and the rebels. So it’s not uncommon for characters to give their lives fighting against the Galra.”

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