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We know Palpatine would have wanted Fives dead anyway, so using Fox to do it just makes sense.

Fox doesn’t seem to be heartless toward his brothers, based on his reactions to his brothers’ deaths during the Wrong Jedi arc, so him willingly pulling the trigger on Fives seems unlikely in most circumstances. It was likely through the inhibitor chip somehow, but Palpatine was in control of Fox and made him kill Fives. I believe Palpatine was in control of Fox when Fox’s squad entered the warehouse. Now, I have a couple personal theories that make Fox even less in control of the situation, so I’ll get into the one I accept as the most plausible of my theories first. Fox was stuck in a bad situation, and neither Fives nor Fox deserved that. It was Fives or Fox and his men, especially because any motion Fox made to switch his blaster to stun may have been interpreted by Fives as a threat since Fives wasn’t in his right mind. But when Fives picked up the blaster and pointed it at Fox, after Fox told him not to pick it up, Fox didn’t have much of a choice.

He gave Fives a chance to surrender instead, so he may have been trying to take Fives alive. When Fox entered that warehouse, he could have just shot Fives from the shadows, killing him without the confrontation, but he didn’t. Palpatine told Fox to kill Fives, it’s unlikely he didn’t after that little clip of Palpatine and Fox before Fox goes to that warehouse. From his perspective, Fives was a dangerous traitor. He didn’t know Fives, so all he had to go on were reports and what Palpatine told him. Even if Fox knew his blaster was on kill, he had no evidence to point to the fact that Fives wasn’t insane.

I’ll get into my personal theories in a minute, but here’s the reason Fox shouldn’t be hated, even if we’re going strictly on what we’re shown in canon. No, I don’t think Fives deserved to die, I love Fives a lot, but Fox shouldn’t be blamed for what happened. Most of the hate directed at Fox is because he killed Fives. This is mainly for me to use later since I have a lot of Fox haters in my TikTok comments sometimes, but I know there are still some Fox haters on here too.