Talk:Samantha Nishimura/@comment-99.53.208.63-20160902215350/@comment-2038153-20160928044404

That makes total sense, Jonah has had, oddly enough, the least amount of development in the series despite appearing in the both games and every arc of the comics. Honestly Reyes, who has only appeared in 6 issues and one game has been given more development then Jonah and Sam absolutely crushes both Jonah and Reyes when it comes to development.

Like I said before with the exception of Lara Sam has the most appearance out of all the characters in the 3 three arcs, appearing in a total of 14 issues and this time is used to explore her relationship with Lara, her own character and dealing with what happened on Yamatai. Pratchett and Simone clearly wanted to get Sam out of the small hatedom she had gotten associated with in the first game, along with Jonah and Reyes. The highlight of which was in the final arc where Sam helps Lara save Grim by coming up with a plan to get them to Mexico undetected and it works.

I think what really helped Sam and Reyes is that they we're given arcs during the comics. Sam's arc, as I've already mentioned, was her dealing with the after effects of Yamatai and her relationship with Lara, both in being her support and calling Lara out on how controlling she is by not letting anyone else be the hero. Reyes arc was about her getting over her anger at Lara for Roth's death and becoming a true friend, which is why I think we haven't seen much of her in the comics. Her arc came to a natural ending there's not much else to do with her.

Hell even Kaz, who wasn't even in the games, got a complete character arc which was her dealing with the loss of her brother and wife while trying to escape Trinity.

Jonah doesn't really have a arc, he has nothing to over come and nothing to prove. Which is fine his a good enough character that he doesn't really need one but as a result it seems that no one really knows what to do with him. One of my few issues with Rise of the Tomb Raider was that Jonah was kinda out of character. He was more aggressive, more rude and seemed to have developed a drinking problem. He acted nothing like he did in the first game, the comics or the current comics. Jonah is, when you get down to it, a teddy bear. He is someone who just loves the world and loves all his friends and is a big brother to all his friends. And Rise really moved him away from that role.

And as you said, the resent arc really seemed to be making a big deal about how important Jonah is to Lara and that how his really come through in saving Lara. And if that is Tamaki and Sevy setting him up to die then I'll give them this, they did a really good job of it as I didn't start thinking about it until the previews for the resent arcs where released and I know many haven't really noticed these points either, even though they seem to be there.

It is possible that we are over analyzing this due to how much we love Sam that we are looking for ANYTHING to see how she could make it out of this. For now we've done everything we can and there's noting left to do but wait.

On a side note, I don't really agree about the whole "guy + girl" dynamic is always a popular combo given how much popular culture has changed. Today you are just as likely to see a series that has a predominantly female cast, have two women end up in a romantic relationship as times have changed and people have grown up and matured, at least a little bit.

So I don't think that should be a factor or at least not a major factor like it used to be. I will however say that if Jonah does die then we need to get another male character to fill his shoes as the good male character who doesn't die. Seriously name one male character besides Jonah in this series that has lived for more then one story.