[quote=@GalaxyRaider]
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It’d be a lot easier of a question to answer if we knew what it was really like. It was enough to make Bass hate humanity, at least for a while, but it wasn’t enough to make him hate his own existence, it would seem. Maybe that says something.
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Maybe. In his case, he sought to gain ultimate power, and thinking about it, maybe it was really so nothing like that could ever happen to him again. But then he was humbled by Serenade, went through an adventure with Dark Power, and eventually saved the Earth. Maybe who you are inside can't really change.