Tord ISN'T Evil??

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Honestly, I've always known Tord was "evil", but in a different way. he isn't heartless, he clearly cares about his friends. I believe in the finale of The End Part 2, where he looks at Edd, Tom, and Matt, sadly, he realizes maybe power wasn't worth it to him if it meant he had to betray in his friends. in the end (pun not intended), he made a choice and he had to pick between power and friends. I really do hope his character returns some day.

Fun fact: the hair tord have was suppose to be cat ears for him, but everyone mistakes him as the “Devil”. Edit: lol this was misinformation pls stop liking and commenting

I love how in depth you go with Tord and his personality. It’s nice to finally see him all fleshed out, and not just one-dimensional. There’s so many small details that I never noticed!

9:59 that was the perfect opportunity to put a “BUT HEY THATS JUST A THEORY”

A popular theory I’ve seen is that the real Tord died in spares and a clone took his place. But this totally makes sense, too!

It is kinda sad that many people don't know the actual backstory of why Tord left, and it is quite unfortunate when it comes to thinking how great development his character could've had.

honestly, tord is a really fun character to dive into when you really pay attention. i just got back into rewatching eddsworld videos and i hopped back into the end. it's so obvious that tord does care about his friends but power took over the best of him. in the end part 2, you can see he most likely regrets or holds guilt for what he has done and kind of sat there and let it sink in for awhile.

such a good video, well done! especially like how you acknowledge that he DOES have a personality despite being quiet

I wouldn’t say Tord is evil by any means! Despite the whole ‘violent/red leader/take over the world’ thing being labeled as ‘evil’, I think that he’s a pretty well developed character. He’s got those best friend rivalries, Edd and Tom participate freely in them too, and even though he does occasionally push Matt aside, he doesn’t normally intentionally hurt him in any way? Because Matt never really did anything to him in return? I love redemption arcs, and I do hope that the current series will stop trying to erase the end, because that was a super interesting character development between all four of them! In the last scene on top of the hill in the end, he stayed there for presumably a long time as he got patched up, perhaps reminiscing? He’s just super cool and there could be so many clever ways to work up more story for him 💕

2:42 Okay that’s cool I never realised there was tords shadow- I only noticed Paul and Patryck (obviously) lol great video btw!

I've heard that the reason that Tom brought back Tord in The End, was to portray him as a communistic warlord so that the fans would leave him alone. Like, having him be portrayed as "evil" can stop all of the fangirling, which backfired horribly. As far as I'm aware. Tord didn't consent to having his character come back.

I hope we get a continuation of the end honestly. A tord redemption arc would be great.

my personal theory is that legacy tord is an escaped spares clone that went bonkers crazy when real tord left and started the red army himself, and real tord joined the army and achieved a pretty high rank but he never actually found out red leader was his clone. additionally, real tord did intend to come back for his hat and giant robot, but only wanted to come back when the crew naturally moved out. clone tord didn't get the memo.

Its as if, Tord was on a time limit or something. He spent tons of time with his friends, even recreating past acts and even going on adventures and watching the same old movies. But when he went shopping with his friends, he suddenly makes up a excuse and runs back home. Its as if, he wanted to spend as much time as possible before the inevitable attack on his friends. But why? Why would he end up spending so much time, then deciding to finally do the act that changes our perspective to him only to be interrupted by Edd. Which causes him to get mad and hurt Matt? Its as if, he got mad because he got stressed out over realizing what he was about to do. Would change their perspective towards him. Not because he wanted to do the act with pure evil intent, we could defend this point of view if we don't count how he laughed demonically. But, him deciding to spend time going shopping with Edd & Matt when it could take around 10-20 minutes for a shopping trip?He definitely either actually got forced to proceed with the act. Or he just thought that he should just get it over with. It also seems as if, he wanted to replace Tom with himself. He sounded annoyed whenever Edd mentions Tom. These are all my speculations, as we have no idea what Tord's true goals or intent is.

THAT SOUNDS SO ACCURATE WHAT? I ACTUALLY NEVER REALIZED-

I feel like having Tord back in Eddsworld Beyond as a character could be really interesting. The first real episode in beyond has a lot of references to past episodes and seems to be setting up some kind of story with arcs and stuff, so having Tord possibly involved in the story as a antagonist could develop his character more. Who knows maybe he'll get a redemption like you said.

Now Tord has always been a bit confusing to me, as much as I love the character it's difficult to really tell if Tord was a bad dude or not. We are all aware of the end and blowing the house up and even killing Jon. But like you mentioned he did seem to feel bad about it after. Now even with real life Tord he was mistreated by the fans causing him to leave in 25 FT under the seat. As much as people like to talk badly about The End personally, I thought it was a satisfying finale. But I really don't think Tord is evil.

Fun fact: Tord is the ONLY Eddsworld character from all the series that called Edd by his full name, that means Tord cares about his friends, he may cause war crimes but he has feelings for his friends

INCREDIBLE work. I may be extremely late to this, but I'm still fantastically baffled at how in-depth and dimensionally you inspected his character and personality. I have a bias, seeing as he's a favorite character of mine since FOREVER, but I must say that people don't give him as much of a chance as they should. I'm 100% directing people towards this video. Phenomenal work!