While it seemed fairly obvious that Edward and Bella were the endgame couple, many fans rooted hard for Bella and Jacob. The ship war even spawned the Team Edward and Team Jacob phenomenon. But, the real question is which of these two was the better character overall.
Jacob Black is introduced in the series as a young teen who is overall pretty gentle and kind. Edward has many of his own flaws, and one of the worst is that he can be prone to self-loathing. While he probably should have stepped back and let her make her own choices, he did want to keep her safe. The mythology of the shapeshifters is really rather interesting, and many of the Quileute tribe deserve more focus in the books than they got.
Seeing as how Twilight is a romance series at its core, the romantic lead needs to be intriguing and alluring. Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Saga has recently been put on Netflix, and with that, has renewed discussion on the most important question surrounding that series - Team Edward or Team Jacob? Even though it's been almost a decade since the last movie came out, this question still burns in the minds of devout fans of the series and its characters.
At one time, this question was so heavily debated that it sparked online fights, put friendships on the line and led middle-aged women to cut in line at Comic-Con International.
Though the series clearly picks Edward as the favorite, Jacob certainly has his merit in the competition. Now that it's been almost a decade since the first wave of the Twilight fandom, the intensity has died down quite a bit. Because of that, perhaps we can approach this question more objectively and have a better perspective on the subject. Even though Edward Cullen ends up with Isabella Swan, many fans thought that he wasn't the best match. His demeanor throughout the series is very overbearing, overprotective and altogether very intense.
This intensity is what attracted Bella to him in the first place though, so it actually works in his favor. While he seems controlling and a tad bit manipulative, it all comes from a place of absolute care for Bella. As a vampire, he knows just how fragile a human life is, and he wants to protect Bella's at any cost. When Bella and Edward return from their honeymoon, Jacob becomes the narrator of the story for the next several chapters as he learns that she is pregnant with her and Edward's half-vampire, half-human child and that she has become desperately weak.
Edward tries to coerce her into having an abortion in order to save her own life. However, Bella feels a bond with her unborn child and insists on giving birth.
Edward comes to feel love for the baby as well, after he hears its thoughts and learns that the baby loves Bella in return. Bella nearly dies giving birth in an emergency c-section, but Edward successfully delivers his daughter and then injects Bella's heart with his venom, healing her wounds by turning her into an immortal vampire.
When Jacob informs the pack of Bella's pregnancy, their leader Sam plans an attack on the Cullens, the point of which is to kill Bella and the baby because of the threat he believes the child presents. Jacob, who feels that the Cullens are innocent, disobeys Sam's command and separates himself from the pack, fulfilling his birthright as an Alpha wolf. During Bella's painful transformation into a vampire, Jacob imprints on Renesmee, Bella and Edward's daughter. The enmity between Jacob and the Cullens is dispelled, and he and Edward come to view each other as brothers.
Since the release of the Twilight series, the character of Edward has developed somewhat of a cult following, with millions of devoted, mostly female, fans worldwide.
However, while the character has been overwhelmingly well-received by readers and has been called the "obsession of teen girls", several criticisms of his character, in particular accusations of sexism, have emerged. Gina R. Dalfonzo of the National Review Online described Edward's character as mentally unstable and a "predator", using behavioural examples such as spying on Bella while she sleeps, eavesdropping on her conversations, dictating her choice of friends, and encouraging her to deceive her father as reasons why she believes he is "one of modern fiction's best candidates for a restraining order.
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