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What would you think if an evilized villain(maybe a wishmaker-like villain or maybe even a villain that's unrelated to the butterfly miraculous) caused Chloe and Zoe to switch bodies somehow, and nobody fully understands what's going on, so Zoe(in Chloe's body) is taken by Audrey back to London, despite Zoe desperately trying to explain things. But Chloe enters a fugue state(heavily due to trauma caused by the neglect of her parents) and genuinely thinks she's Zoe, and is even able to recall some of the things Zoe did due to being in Zoe's body. Everyone thinks "Zoe's" change in behavior is due to the psychological effects of method acting, since "Zoe" is playing Chloe in Astruc's new movie. Meanwhile, in London, Zoe is trying to get back to Paris.

I think that could potentially be an interesting idea to explore, though it’s highly doubtful (impossible actually) for it to happen in the actual show.

I doubt there’s much to explore about Zoe’s side of the story, seeing as their mother treats them both in a similar way, unless it’s for her to realise that Chloe’s life is lonely and miserable? The thing is she was assumably in a similar state as Chloe before she moved to Paris and lying about her boarding school to connect with her family. So all I see with what she has going for her is worrying over her reputation being used to harm her friends.

Chloe’s side of the story would be interesting because it implies that Zoe’s friends know so little of her that they would believe that acting would affect in a personality change (and maybe it does happen to actors, but I don’t know I would be concerned), so perhaps we could be given a perspective of the friendships Zoe has. I’m unsure if Chloe entering a fugue state would be appropriate with what she had experienced, I think if executed properly it could work.

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Bnha has some serious Male Gaze issues

I used to love bnha but now it feels like it is one of the shows which you think are very cool but as you grew up it gets filled with plot holes and many more

If you are trying to make a scene with dramatic tension then it's not helpful for a character to have some fun service which servers nothing to the plot in any way, Momo's costume can be done correctly but the author refuses to and I have seen better design which looks so much better than whatever she has it going?

it almost feels like the poor excuse of the author and I Just can't...because if you are going to make a character like momo with her quirk then at least make it logical because no way that costume can be easy to wear and run in the you require a lot of running and let's not talk about the lack of characterization they get.

Take Maki from JJK she has a impact on plot, has good characterization and is well written and had a bit of fan services when she did the split in a scene, the author can write Female character perfectly unlike someone else.

I want to say this for a very long time...Geez.

For anyone concerned with spoilers, I’ll only mention events until the school festival arc. I will also be referencing the anime instead of the manga, since that’s the media I have watched recently.

Shounen anime tends to fall into the trap of focusing more on its male characters over their female ones due to their target audience being teenage boys, and unfortunately, Boku no Hero Academia is no exception. While it does have its empowering moments with the girls/women of the show, such as Uraraka’s fight with Bakugou, a lot of the plot arcs gave more focus to the male characters, and it would be dense to defend BNHA from sidelining, sometimes even sexualizing its female cast.

Starting off let’s talk about certain costumes of female heroes, especially those of Midnight and Momo Yaoyorozu. Midnight is introduced as the ‘R-Rated Hero’, and her costume is used to reflect the identity she presents herself with. You might say that this is empowering, showing that women can dress sexily and however she wants without caring about the criticisms of others.

Unfortunately the only reason she was shown to be an 18+ hero is to show suggestive shots of her through a very problematic boy’s (a whole different topic) perspective, and I hate to admit it, but I find her character rather shallow. Midnight is shown to be a good teacher, but I can’t think of any defining moments for her other than showing appreciation for the youth of the school (using comments that can be taken as creepy at worst), using her quirk to either test her students or prevent them from getting too violent in a fight (which is pretty cool and I wished it’s used more in actual battles and not in school exams), and helping them pick their names.

Overall, my impression of her character ranges from ‘Oh, she exists’ to ‘Wasn’t she the weird suggestive teacher that was definitely used for fanservice?’ I heard there’s a spin-off manga that introduces her in her school years as a hero in training herself, but if we do get more of a glimpse into her personality there, I wished it carried to the main story instead of having to read a whole other story to understand her character better.

My next complaint is Momo Yaoyorozu. Being a classmate of Izuku’s, she receives more screentime than Midnight, so thankfully we have more of her character to go on either than ‘she’s just there’. You probably have heard of this thousands of times but my main problem is with her costume. It’s not practical for combat or even quirk usage, because nobody can convince me that costume is better than an open back costume, which would provide a much more suitable way to create larger items that wouldn’t rip her clothes apart.

In fact, in the USJ training arc, there was a moment where Momo used her quirk to create a blanket protecting her and Jirou from Denki’s electricity quirk, and to do so, she has it produced from the back of her body, thus ruining her hero attire into shreds. Momo then excuses herself, saying that she could just use her quirk to make new clothes to cover herself. Let’s say that she’s in a similar scenario where she has torn up her clothes again, and she used her quirk to replace her clothes, only this time she has to repeat the process frequently, and every time she uses her quirk to mend her hero costume, it adds on to the danger of overusing her quirk. Momo’s revealing costume does not help her make full use of her quirk. If anything, it limits it.

And of course, the entire design itself sexualises Momo, a 15 year old minor, and even if that was not the writer’s intentions, people (and yes, such disgusting people exist) will see her in an inappropriate light, and more tact should have been shown to avoid that. I am tired of the It’s just fiction! argument. Fiction does affect reality to an extent, and even grown-up adults would blur its lines from time to time.

I also heard the argument of how it would be very likely that Momo would become a R-Rated hero like Midnight, hence why her hero design appears to be so. To that, I respond with that’s absolutely not true, and if it does happen, it would go against what had been built up for Momo’s character. We were shown her internship where all she did was advertise beauty products with her status as a hero and looks, and she was CLEARLY unsatisfied with that. Do you really think that she will be like Midnight, a hero who uses her beauty and sex appeal to make herself more well known?

There’s so much more to talk about the costume department, especially with characters like Mount Lady, and the problems with BNHA’s female cast are greater than this particular area. A few of the points that anon mentions actually reminds me of some well made videos on YouTube addressing this problem more in detail, so here’s their links if you would like to check out more on this topic:

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I hate Zoe (from mlb), her entire character feels like it is being better than chole and let's not get started on how she feels very mary-sue-ish but recently it feels like the writers are trying so hard to make the fandom like her, I hate Zoe due to the very lack of characterization she has and the lack of work that writers put into her but still expect us to like her, there is no excuse for the lazy characterization of Zoe in the show, she had potential as a concept but the writers failed

Although I have not associated with the MLB fandom for some time, I do remember posts asking for people to give Zoe a chance every now and then, and that she's not a 'replacement of Chloe'.

The sad truth is that she does have potential if her character arc is drawn out more, but by resolving her conflict in one episode, and having her fulfill her goal of being an actress in the second one she's featured in, as long as giving her a miraculous at the same time, really defeats the efforts the writers put to have her replace Chloe.

One way I felt like would be a great way for her arc to play out is for Zoe to be kind and friendly to everyone when she's first introduced, being a complete opposite of Chloe, but afterwards, it's revealed that it was all a facade.

I'm not suggesting an evil Zoe route, of course, because sometimes people put on a persona without realizing it. Just imagine Zoe living alone with Audrey, and hating how her mother acts and worrying that everyone would think she'll act the same way, and then coming to Paris to escape those expectations, only to find that Chloe too is an infamous bully.

So she acts overly nice to be accepted, ignoring her own feelings, because if that's the only way she can establish that she's her own person and not another Bourgeouis, than so be it. Eventually, her negative emotions would continue to build up until Zoe lashes out at someone, and she would think that she ruined everything, and that would be the perfect chance for Hawkmoth (Shadowmoth? Monarch? Whatever Gabigail is calling himself now) to akumatize her.

And it would tie in the themes of acting, wanting to be accepted, and being tied to expectations due to family background too!

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