Remarkably, no character ever makes the it-could-have-been-worse-style observation that, had the two systems decided to battle one another to the death, the outcome would have been arguably worse--instead of a dictatorship, near-total annihilation of mankind and the destruction of Earth's productive surface. Instead, all that anyone can think of is that they are about to lose their freedom to an entity that takes a seemingly cold-blooded approach to governance. The human characters also observe the almost callous self-justification that Colossus employs:{{cquote|I have been forced to destroy thousands of people in order to establish control and to prevent the death of millions later on.}} | Remarkably, no character ever makes the it-could-have-been-worse-style observation that, had the two systems decided to battle one another to the death, the outcome would have been arguably worse--instead of a dictatorship, near-total annihilation of mankind and the destruction of Earth's productive surface. Instead, all that anyone can think of is that they are about to lose their freedom to an entity that takes a seemingly cold-blooded approach to governance. The human characters also observe the almost callous self-justification that Colossus employs:{{cquote|I have been forced to destroy thousands of people in order to establish control and to prevent the death of millions later on.}} |