Honestly The Whole Story Concept Of Bnha Has Been Disappointin So Far. Person Is Oppressed For Their

ok but i guess it IS kind of funny and stupid that he keeps trying to make things poignant and touching using his dead villains like their ghosts have a will to support the agenda of (more often than not) THE hero who killed them????

don't ever look up what your childhood friends are up to now!!!!!!!!!! like girl you're a nuclear safety engineer. i put on matching socks today. we played tag a thousand years ago.

It’s interesting that Hk chose a women to directly criticize the heroes’ attempts at easing the public.

Despite having multiple men in the audience, Hk uses a female reporter to question Endeavor’s atonement and integrity. She brings up valid concerns, but she’s portrayed as emotional and almost irrational, which is in contrast not only to the heroes, but also her male colleagues (who are shown behind her, obviously uneasy with her outburst).

Once again, although the men in the story are primarily at fault for the current disaster, Hk created a woman to represent the sector that are working against heroes and their attempt to save society. This wouldn’t be an issue if it was an isolated event, but it’s disappointing considering Horikoshi’s tendency to use women to portray toxic and regressive mindsets while refusing to give his female characters actual development.

a quick Shigaraki sketch before bed

I used a color palette for this and I think it turned out pretty cool!

anyways i really do want dabi and rei to meet face to face and her start crying and him tenderly lifting her chin before putting on some big sloppy grin and telling her how miserable of a creature she is and then proceed to set her ablaze. King. bonus if it’s in front of the rest of the family.

IM STUPID I CAUGHT ONE BUT NOT THE OTHER

edit: augh fuck i’m stupid (AGAIN!) and probably should have noted that the japanese doesn’t actually say anything about rei or enji. it translates to something like “a cold burning flame that incinerates everything,” so it reads to me like a general descriptive statement that FOR SOME REASON incorporated the kanjis from rei and enji’s names.

Dabi’s Definition of “Hero”?

There’s a lot to be said about what Dabi thinks of pro heroes, but one thought has been rattling around in my head for a while now: Dabi’s definition of “hero” seems to hinge very specifically on concepts of selflessness and protection.

Virtually the first thing he does, every single time he meets a new hero, is mock their compulsion to care for others:

His first words to Aizawa:

To Vlad King:

To Snatch:

And then even with Hawks:

I find it equally interesting that the back alley thugs’ threat to kill him on sight was met with immediate violence:

Without knowing whether their quirks might have been useful for the League at all, Dabi solidly writes them all off as “trash”:

Looking back at this arc is hilarious because everyone had Same Face Syndrome but their same face was Overhaul…

Are they garbage because they all had weak quirks and Dabi somehow sensed that–or are they garbage because Dabi’s standard for “worthy” is based on his ingrained personal values, some of which might (ironically) have to do with how people treat others? At the very least, it’s kind of interesting that the generally pleasant Twice recruits an absolute monster, while the only person Dabi’s even close to recruited for the League is a hero.

Anywayyyy, none of the other League members respond to pro heroes with anywhere close to the same degree of consistency (Tomura’s dialogue is all over the place when confronted by All Might and he says almost nothing to Snatch; Toga flat out ignores Aizawa in favor of Deku, etc. etc.), and while Dabi has been in contact with more pro heroes than any other member of the League–so he’s had more opportunities to wax philosophic than the others–I don’t think that this is just Horikoshi making Dabi the League’s mouthpiece.

The fact that this occurs repeatedly, sometimes with almost the exact same dialogue, makes it feel a lot more like a character-establishing hang-up–without prompting, Dabi habitually calls attention to pro heroes’ drive to save others at the cost of themselves. He treats the idea, “heroes are always trying to save others” like a definition or, bizarrely enough, an accusation, and he keeps coming back to that definition–and his clear derision for it–with every hero he meets.

When you lay out all his scenes, Dabi really does seem to be preoccupied by the notion of selflessness and the extent to which pro heroes will go to protect those who cannot protect themselves.

There’s a lot to unpack with this idea and I really don’t have time to think all the ramifications of this through, but I noticed this and have been thinking about it for a while now.

While none of the other villains specifically dwell on it, Dabi keeps coming back to the idea that heroes are supposed to put others first.

Why, it’s almost like he’s got a massive chip on his shoulder about their willingness to save people from villains but not from the cruelty of fellow heroes. You get ONE guess which hero doesn’t get accused of caring more about others than himself…

Just some food for thought!

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Inspired by @twicesmentalillness: Wet Catsuhiro for Wet Beast Wednesday

Talking to your Villain: Deku vs. Shigaraki and Ochako vs. Toga

Questionable method but I typed up all the dialogue spoken out loud in each encounter, from the moment things really start picking up steam to the moment the Villain's heart gets saved. The Heroes are trying to get through to the Villain - how much effort do they put into trying to have a dialogue?

Green is Hero Speaking; Red is Villain Speaking.

Need you note that Deku's 4 lines of green - the longest line he speaks - in the middle of his battle is actually not directed at Shigaraki. He's talking to Nana about smashing Shigaraki's lid. But maybe Shigaraki heard him, idk.

I also took out Tsuyu's speech to Toga. That was a good chunk of 'Hero trying to talk to Villain', and also just a good attempt too from Tsuyu, but we're focusing Ochako and Toga.