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"Make some friends and forget about being a hero."
Aw, Touya took his dad's advice after all.
given that a satisfactory ending is 100 miles in the rear view here's how I think the ending of my hero should go
half of the League is dead so go ahead and kill of the rest of them, Bakugou kills TomuAfO and Enji kills his son, etc cause fuck victims of abuse
then enji should hit the victory pose and gather the heroes on the bombed out desolate field of victory I want tears in eyes as they talk about the horrible toll the villains took on them but they prevailed and police brutality is fine if its justified
suddenly a blinding light, a meteor takes them all out, Deku jolts up in bed, its his first day at UA, huh eating hair gives you weird dreams
REAL BNHA FINAL PAGES LEAK:
bakugo: deku you quirkless nerd… hawks is calling, he wants your help designing the new plush pajamas to give to prisoners…
deku: oh right! i guess i better get going. have fun in combat training, remember to learn how to kill villains in one shot!
*behind bakugo we see ochako and iida sharing a kiss*
deku: ha, i guess we all saw that coming.
*deku runs into all might*
all might: young midoriya… i told you real heroes moved without thinking… and i stand by that. continue not thinking and you will be a hero no matter what
deku: wow all might… thank you!
*deku walks away holding a notebook that says “IDEAS FOR NEW VILLAIN BURIAL GROUNDS #12”*
*THE END*
The Bakugou Experence(TM)
Bakugou: *punches Izuku*
Izuku, starry eyed: "Woow, Bakugou, that was so cool!"
Kirashima: "What a manly punch!"
Eraserhead: *grumbles, but is secretly impressed by how good a punch it was, even though he wants to improve his form a bit*
Shigaraki: *nods* "I can see why you're the one closest to Deku."
All Might: "What good friends they are!"
Anyway, on the issue of how Bakugou never gets consequences, and that generally the bad things that happen to him have no connection with his misdeeds...Aoyama's involvement in his kidnapping could have complicated that a bit
Why is Aoyama the traitor? Because his parents arranged for him to receive a quirk from All for One. Why did they do that? So that Aoyama could be "normal" so that he could be spared from the ostracization of being quirkless - i.e. to protect him from the childhood Izuku had. So more or less Aoyama is the traitor because his parents wanted to protect him from people like Bakugou.
The set up is there for this, but there isn't really any follow through with it
Dabi's first interaction with Spinner really was to call him a slur
It's probably to be expected for the product of a multigenerational eugenics project though...
I have a lot of thoughts about why Dabi pretended not to see Aoyama here. It's implied he knows Aoyama is the traitor, but even so Dabi chooses not to mention Aoyama's interference to All for One. And to some extent, it's likely because Touya doesn't trust All for One and he knows they have different end goals in mind. He might have some embers of sympathy considering that like Aoyama, All for One attempted to use Touya because of the downstream effects of his parents' bad life decisions. But then there's also this
The terrified position Aoyama is taking here is something Touya would be more than familiar with as well...
People who don't want the villians to get saved because "it's not realistic because you can't save everyone" like sir people can shoot flames out of their buthole here. You can excuse frog people, rabbit people, and washing machine people but you draw the line at saving people?
The concept of dabis birthday being like, right between Betty White's and Dolly Parton's is so wild to me. The energies converging during these three days is something I'd like to snort up my nose just to feel something again.
"Toya there are other things besides being a hero!"
"Are you gonna do them with me dad so I can still feel worthy of your love and attention?"
"Haha, don't speak bullshit I have Shoto to train now."
Some instances that I feel show how some messages MHA are detrimental, especially on how victims react to their abuser, can be gauged by responses that tend to be highly prevalent in the fandom.
(Definitely not every fan, but a great majority).
Endeavor is a great example. Whenever you post criticizing his approach to atonement (and ultimately criticizing Horikoshi’s writing), you get BOMBARDED by people either belittling you for not liking his character or essentially forcing you to like his character by frantically writing “at least he tried” arguments.
If I have the CHOICE whether to forgive his character or not, especially given he goes through an atonement arc and not a redemption arc, why is any form of criticism about his abusive behavior and essentially his abuse of power practically ignored by the story unacceptable?
The message was detrimental because people operate on the notion that for victims to be good people, they must forgive and even help their abusers. MHA presents people who choose not to forgive him as either a monster (Toya) or inconvenient (Natsuo). And if they are still unforgiving, they must admire the abuser for doing the bare minimum (taking responsibility; this is also about Natsuo).
Essentially, they are considered "imperfect victims" because they weren't merciful in their approach to their abuser.
The majority of the fandom tends to ignore the lack of actual consequences for Endeavor's actions because he vows to talk to Toya every day. Insisting that doing the bare minimum, which is recognizing his son's existence and suffering, became his "hell" is a wildly fucked up message, in my opinion.
It harps on the issue mentioned above that if a victim isn't receptive to forgiveness or doesn't act "demure," they are seen as an inconvenience—which is how the Todoroki family ultimately views Toya.
On a less critical note, I'll vent, so if you don't like this, just ignore it.
I'm so fucking tired of stories depicting imperfect victims as people who deserve death and torture. Plus, having to be on the brunt of so many people acting like you're morally fucked because you're not impressed with how a writer handled abuse. Horikoshi is not the first writer to try to atone a character who is an abuser (and he isn't the first to fail at that, either).
I'm not about to dick-ride every decision every author makes. Especially if the message convinces some audience members that victims are inherently broken if they can't bring themselves to forgive and/or admire someone who hurt 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.
izuku seeing the “nosey bitch who forces himself into everyone’s business,” allegations: alright then. i will barely speak with my plot assigned villain and refuse to even initiate any conversation, and destroy the entire themes of the manga and also my own character in the process. happy now
LOV-centric Text memes, part 7 (6) (5) (4) (3) (2) (1)
(source on the first image for context that no one asked for) Anyway, AFO giving a bullied child an IBS quirk is still one of the most back-handed, black hearted acts of pure fucking evil I have ever seen in a manga. Greatest shonen villain of all time, of the year, of the century, of the week even, etc etc etc.
yes yes touya is experiencing a ‘slow death’ if by slow death you mean being 32 years old and unemployed and living in his successful happily married younger brothers spare bedroom
AFO is so deeply funny to me.
He’ll just be looking at people’s pain and trauma and go "that’s free real estate" he will look at your quirk and go "my quirk now :)" he will find an orphan in the streets and be like "hmmm I’m just gonna take it I think"
I look at him and see this
People joked about Spinner being written like a pink-haired female love interest for Shigaraki and now here he is having a magical girl transformation sequence.
All horikoshi knows is shitty dads, killing women, eat hot chip and lie