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5 months ago

[MHA / MLP] The similarities between Izuku Midoriya and Twilight Sparkle...

I NEED YOU GUYS TO STICK WITH ME, OKAY? OKAY.

So, besides being some of my favorite main characters in animated television, they both have weirdly similar stories (it might be some trope I'm unaware of? I don't know). One of the BIGGEST similarities is their mentors, who are (or were) seen by society as THE symbol. Celestia is THE princess of Equestria. All Might is THE symbol of hope-- they're untouchable.

Obviously, as the show moves on, those things are proven to be false (Celestia needs Twilight to save her a bunch and All Might reveals to Deku that he's lowkey dying).

However, that doesn't stop Twilight or Deku from looking up to their mentors and being huge nerds about them T-T (they're so cute)

Plus, towards the end of the show, it's the mentors who end up looking towards the mentees.

The characters who thought that they couldn't do anything (Twilight knew nothing about friendship and Deku didn't even have a quirk) turn into masters in their fields AND they inspire the next generations.

And Deku and Twilight both end up being teachers, at least for a bit.