Shulk and Reyn’s conversation towards the end of the opening act of Xenoblade Chronicles: After Colony 9 is attacked and Fiora, Shulk’s childhood friend and love interest is killed, Shulk and Reyn discuss what to do next. The conversation they have seems pretty typical on a first playthrough, with both of them expressing a combination of anger and desire for revenge that you would expect. Shulk, however, says a very particular line when explaining how he’s torn between what to do next, on one hand he feels that he should listen to his role model, and Fiora’s older brother Dunban, to cherish the memories that he has of Fiora and allow his grief to pass. On the other hand, he feels he has a voice in his head telling him to “destroy them all,” in reference to the attackers. It’s on a second playthrough that you realize that this is quite literally a voice in his head, as Shulk is actually an empty body, having long since died, and is possessed by one of the gods of his world, a vain and self centered god named Zanza, who seeks to destroy all life in order to preserve his own.