Tag: Honerva

Twice now we saw Haggar chasing after her family right before she lost them for good. When Zarkon was revived he was an empty shell, and with Lotor we know now that he planned on killing Zarkon that day to gain the trust of the paladins so he was already lost to her, determined to kill both his parents by then. She lost them mentally and emotionally before their ultimate demise when they walked past her/away from her.

There is something poetic about the fact that for months, fandom has insisted that Lotor will kill Haggar personally and horrifically, and then “find out” she’s Honerva and angst about personally fridging his mom, leading to his development, only to turn out that he is killed for her development. Same thing with Zarkon, for months people insisted that Haggar was nothing to him, and that he had a fridged Altean wife in the past that motivated his actions, or that Haggar will die and he’ll go even more insane, but in the end, he dies for her development. I talked before how in spite of the show moving forward, fandoms insist on being static, but this is by far one of the best examples that shows what a great show Voltron is. They fridged the husband and son so that Haggar can have a personal grudge against the team during the final arc, not the other way around. The mother and wife survives, the husband and son do not. That is so pathetically rare.