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MHA Hot Take #17

For a series where the final hurdle and challenge to the main characters is to save the villains too, to prove that heroes will reach out a hand to everyone going forward from now on MHA is very unchill about it's villain redemption.

Heroes constantly advocate for straight up killing villains. This is a world where heroes aren't supposed to kill villains by the way. Many of the kids are shown to be unsympathetic to any of the villains legitimate issues. I get that redemption is supposed to be a challenge but like... every hero sounds like the punisher.

Great characters in X-Men we wouldn't have if X-men wasn't chill about redemption or giving second chances to characters with second chances.

Rogue

Magneto

Wolverine

Gambit

Emma Scott

Jean Grey / Phoenix

Daken

Callisto

These are all I can remember off the top of my head.

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MHA Hot Take #16

Nana Shimura is a terrible mother. There's the bad decision she made to abandon Kotaro, but it's okay for characters to make bad decisions. The real problem is that she advocates for killing Shigaraki at every single opportunity, someone who is her last living family member, kotaros son who she loved, someone who was kidnapped and abused by her worst enemy for most of his life.

I don't buy that Nana loves her family and regrets what she did to Kotaro when she advocates for killing Shigaraki. Every. Single. Time. It honestly feels like she wants to victim blame Shigaraki so she doesn't have to own up to her mistake.

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MHA Hot Takes #15

On that topic AFO having like hundreds of quirks stockpiled is entirely pointless in story because he never uses any of them in any creative ways.bThe only time he uses his supposed infinite supply of quirks is when he spams all of them at once.

He should at least use his abilities the way that Ajimu Najimi uses hers. It's hard to believe Shigaraki has that many quirks either when Deku is able to go toe to toe with him with the power of punching.

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MHA Hot Take #14

What does Black Whip even do?

I understand it's just supposed to like shoot out and grab stuff like Spiderman's webs but if that's the case then why could Deku wrap it around his body to reinforce himself in the fight against Shigaraki.

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MHA Hot Take #13

I think Deku needs an underlying philosophy his character represents.

Shirou Emiya represents the unrealistic idea of saving everyone. Not only does Shirou gruesomely injure his body frequently so saving becomes an act of self harm, he also only saves others because it gives his life purpose and he's unable to feel happiness to himself.

Yuma Tsukumo represents the idea that all duelist in Zexal should be friends. Yuma is often too naive to grasp the hurt and pain others are feeling to communicate them and get them to stop in any way, he fails a lot more than he succeeds and it's only because he persistently sticks to ideals no matter what the situation that he does succeed. There are also characters like Vector who exist to challenge yumas idea by refusing to be redeemed something yuma too never gives up on. He's also betrayed by his best friend shark despite all the time they've spent bonding as friends and fails utterly to talk him down.

I don't know what Dekus ideals are or what he believes. He wants to be a hero that's definitely a goal. It's hard to make his ideal saving people though because he doesn't care about it as passionately as Shirou or Yuma. I don't think Deku believes in anything really.

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MHA Hot Take #12

Toga and Uraraka's final fight is fine for the most part but not mention Twice's murder is a bigger missed opportunity.

Toga should have been able to say that the heroes killed her friend in cold blood, the heroes who Uraraka uncritically supports who aren't supposed to kill did that. Uraraka should have had to prove to Toga why she should trust her after that happened and Hawks faced no systemic consequences and most heroes still support him. Uraraka should have had to provide a satisfactory answer to Togas question before she could even begin saving her.

X-men a comic from the 80s had a scene like this in regards to rogue:

"I see we pick and choose who to help? Some are worthy others are not?"

The scene would have been stronger with a statement of values that the heroes shouldn't get to pick and choose who to save.

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MHA Hot Take #11

The worst part of all the recent AFO retcons is actually that it's making AFO a character I like boring. AFO having simple motivations is fine. AFO not being redeemed in spite of his tragic backstory is fine. One of my favorite characters Vector is both of these things and he just lives to be a troll.

The major problem of AFO popping up in everyone's backstory is that seemingly omniscient villains aren't compelling. Villains are best when they seem organic to the story when they adapt and change with the protagonist too. When they are characters not just obstacles or plot movers.

It's the same problem with Aizen he started by using cleverness and guile and it was interesting to see his schemes unfold but then he started making bullshit claims that he plotted ichigos life from the moment of his birth that made him seem omniscient and it almost ruined his character.

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MHA Hot Take #10

Here's one of my favorite Spiderman moments. I call it Spiderman bench presses a building.

I'm going to disect it to show why exactly this moment is cool.

There are emotional stakes at play. The question isn't Am I Strong Enough to lift this building? The question is will be be able to get this cure to Aunt May in time.

Both the audience and Spiderman are afraid of the fact Spiderman may fail. He even brings up his past failure with Uncle Ben.

Spiderman is the one who got himself in this fight spot and he has to get himself out without any outside help.

There's some degree of struggle involved. Spiderman is not a super strength hero.

Spiderman almost gives into despair before overcoming it, because Spiderman is a human being who doubts and constantly second guesses himself.

There are moments like this in MHA, but it's moments where the manga remembers the emotional stakes are more important than a character being strong or having a power up.

My go to example is the Mirio and Overhaul fight. Mirio already failed once. He carries the guilt for leaving Eri in that alley. He's all alone against multiple opponents. He makes the sacrifice of his quirk because protecting a small child is more important than his career as a hero. When he fends overhaul off without his quirk, it's because he still has three years of physical training to support him.

The most important part is it's a challenge, because being a hero isn't supposed to be easy.

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MHA Hot Take #9

MHA is not meant to be a dark deconstruction of superheroes like The Boys. It's meant to be a fairly standard optimistic hero story about heroes saving people.

On other hand there's a difference between writing optimistic super heroes and just paying lip service to it. A lot of the optimistic moments come off as flat because they break the rules of show don't tell. I'm going to complain about this again but Class 1A holding off Afo all together would have been way more meaningful than the All Might Mech. They even built up to that in the class vs deku fight at the end of the dark deku arc with them asking deku to trust them. Only to go back on that by just letting All Might handle it all alone.

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MHA Hot Take #8

Put down whatever you're doing right now and go read My Hero Academia: Vigilantes.

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MHA Hot Take #7

The setting of MHA is a cool aversion of the x men fallacy because it's Magnetos ideal future a society entirely built around mutant, but instead of being the Utopia that Magneto imagined it has just as many problems as our own society.

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MHA Hot Take #6

Times where Horikoshi clearly changed the original plans:

Endeavor was supposed to die.

Hawks plotline was given to Lady Nagant

All Might was supposed to die, probably by trying to talk shigaraki down as an apology for not trying to save him earlier.

There's nothing wrong with an author changing their mind or even retconning things I read comic books retcons are everywhere but it's clear in at least some of these places Hori didn't think through his Plan B well enough.

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MHA Hot Take #5

Literally who cares if the League of Villains is a toxic codependent friend group.

It doesn't actually matter that if the League had that kind of friendship in real life they'd likely not improve each other because not everything that happens in a story is a 1:1 parallel in real life.

The league isnt real theyre lines on paper. They don't behave like real people either the league behaves however Hori wants him to behave. The league are supposed to be friends because the villains developing genuine friendships with each other makes them more redeemable in the eyes of the reader. That's about it.

Go watch X-Men 97. Scott is having an emotional affair on Jean, because Jean was replaced with a clone who he had a baby with that he had to send said baby to the future and he feels like he can't confide any of this in Jean because she won't understand. Jean got mad at this but literally five minutes ago she tried to kiss logan because scott is edging her out, using logan as well to make herself feel better. Rogue was in a love triangle with a guy who's twice her age and gambit and was like deliberately making them compete against each other. If all this soap opera bullshit wasn't happening what would they do for 30 minute episodes?

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MHA Hot Take #4

People are way too harsh to Spinner just because he's cringe, like some people were just dedicated to demonizing everything Spinner did.

Spinner: says he admires Dabi for being strong and determined and that he won't go down so easily.

Everyone: He's encouraging Dabis suicidal ideation somehow because he didn't purposefully book Dabi a therapy appointment.

Dabi: gets back up because he's strong and determined.

Spinner: Idealizes shigaraki a little too much gets tricked by afo into doing his bidding thinking he is helping shigaraki, gets his mind violated, and in the last moments realizes he liked shigarakis one on one time getting to know each other more than his big moment destroying deika city as a part of a character arc.

Everyone: Spinner is a terrible enabler to Shigaraki.

Spinner: puts a hand on shigarakis face to wake him up in a crisis situation where the heroes are about to kill them and afo takes over shigas body.

Everyone: This is spinners fault somehow and not you know AFOs.

Like damn you can be a serial killer but goddamn you if you're kind of codependent and needy.

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MHA Hot Take #3

People overlook the clear psychiatric abuse angle in togas quirk counseling to focus in only on the lgbt allegory. Like it can be both.

The psychiatric abuse has wider reach though because the problematic quirk counselling is supposed to affect lots of children not just Toga who's character revolves around her unique expression of love. There's the ableism of like the emotion abuse Toga endures from adults who are supposed to be responsible for her care including a therapist who holds a unique power when they just bludgeon her for not masking properly or needing small accommodations for her quirk. There's the fact that Toga doesn't get any help after 1 violent outburst. The fact that Toga is dismissed as crazy multiple times but she's also a young girl that full growth adults have no problem beating the shit out of. Toga shows like clear signs of emotional instability. She's dismissed as beyond redemption and rehabilitation when she's like 16-17 like many kids her age who share similar problematic and even dangerous behaviors. Togas afraid that the institution will violently harm her or confine her for the rest of her life and that makes her extremely reluctant to accept any help.

Like it can be both.

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