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And who knows? Mirio likely saw—or at least heard about—Dabi’s video, the same way everyone else did. So maybe it got him thinking a little about villain motivations himself.
I wouldn’t give this much credit to Horikoshi. I don’t think Dabi’s video would get Mirio thinking after Best Jeanist proved to be alive. It really looks like Horikoshi gave this line to Mirio for reasons not related to the villains :\ Like it looks like a straight up accident.
I have a hard time seeing complete accident in the text, anon, but I would believe, "Mirio doesn't actually care what answer he gets as long as it's something he can spin a conversation out of that will keep Shigaraki distracted long enough to buy Suneater more time." The kid did prove entirely willing and able to put up false fronts in that first encounter with Overhaul, after all.
Still, though, if he was asking the question to buy time, I have to assume he would go with a question he had a reasonable expectation of getting an answer to—which itself suggests that, in his experience, villains will respond to questions about their motivations. I feel like that mostly begs the question of who he learned that from, and that can really only be Nighteye or Mirio's own learned field tactics.
Nighteye absolutely carries on a conversation with Overhaul mid-battle, and not just battle banter, either: he doesn't ask about motivations, but he does ask about plans and outcomes, what Overhaul has done, where his minions are, about the effect of the bullets and Overhaul's reason for using one on Mirio.
It's not exactly the dedicated attempts to defuse fights with villains that I'm always going on about heroes' failure to make, but it's a far cry from, oh, just to pick something from the same scene, the example Aizawa was setting the chapter prior:
(Just my opinion, but probably law enforcement officials should not be openly advocating for vengeance against offenders right in the middle of carrying out their duties. They should especially not do this in front of impressionable trainees)
Anyway, yeah, I'm perfectly prepared to admit that I could have been giving Mirio more credit for sincerity than Horikoshi intended, but I do think Mirio asked the question he did intentionally, not at random.
Call it a bare minimum, but the bar is truly on the floor.
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Who’s to say he will still be number 1 even if he lives(which he will live)? Or that the number system will still be a thing? I could honestly see him not being number 1 anymore because he doesn’t want it anymore personally, but who knows I can’t say how this story will go
yeah i cant tell how this story will end either. if the hero system still existes (and it probably will because it's not that this war can change the villains who actually habor evil intents, it only changes the heroes and the civilians) then the ranking thing will be there. there's nothing wrong with having a chart to show who has done more good deed in this season. you can't say it's a bad thing just because it "created" someone like endeavor, which it actually didn't. endeavor turned that way is all on himself. but maybe the importance of those rankings will be lessened, and the support public ranking can off bc heroes should be counted as government workers (like police, doctor), not your super-idol even if the civilians take them as idol.
it's not that that i can't see endeavor retires, but more like i can't see who can and will replace him as the contemporary figure after this war. like i mentioned, this war will not change the minds of villains (like, actual, actual selfish, ill-intend people, not people who are cornered), it only changes the concept of hero to civilians and (villain to) heroes. it's like law, not just to punish and to be abided, but also to be feared of. there still needs to be an active (contemporary) figure to browbeat those ill intents to not carry off. there’re so many other problems to solve beside "hero and villain" too, like, discrimination against mutant, the matter of public using of quirk and its repression etc. shit surely will raise again, just not to this pinnacle of disaster.
and who would befit in that role better than the one who defeated the demon lord?
and personally, i think endeavor won't retire. his entire arc and character is about to find the balance between being a father and being a hero. and he just found that in 356. dropping his career after this is an utter waste, story-wise.
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