Horikoshi is quick to excuse and forgive abusers. Wonder why?
Summary:
In MHA, quirkless people (like Midoriya for the first 14 years of his life) are essentially disabled.
Bakugo bullied a disabled person for a decade, and suffered no consequences for it.
Endeavour abused his entire family, but it’s okay since he was sorry.
In the world of My Hero Academia (Boku no Hero Academia), quirks are almost universally present, and determine a person’s success in society. Those with more mundane quirks get more regular jobs as office workers, engineers, or if they really want to, policemen and firemen.
Those with more impressive quirks can become heroes, while people whose quirks give you heebie jeebies are generally forced into the school-to-villain pipeline. And then, there is a statistical minority of quirkless people. And in a society where everything is built on what quirk you have, being quirkless is basically a disability.
Bakugo is a bully, not a hero
Midoriya Izuku is the story’s protagonist, and up until his childhood hero All Might gave him the second most powerful quirk in the world, he was quirkless. And for a literal decade, he was mercilessly bullied by his entire school — and worst of all, by his former childhood friend and a wielder of a totally-not-villainous nitroglycerin-secreting quirk , Bakugo Katsuki.
For ten years, Bakugo essentially bullied a disabled kid (including verbal harassment, destruction of property AND physical assault), and at one point even told him, and we quote, “Just pray that you’ll be born with a quirk in your next life, and take a swan dive off the roof of a building.” Oh, and for the kicker — Bakugo is on his way to enroll in UA, the topmost hero school in the world, the same school Izuku wants to join (and eventually does).
So, this is where the story makes a 180, and teaches Bakugo a much deserved lesson, right? Wrong. Katsuki is one of this story’s three most important characters — which means he’s above consequences! He just gives Midoriya a tepid and weak apology a hundred or two chapters later. And as for the third most important character…
Endeavour doesn’t deserve a second chance
The third most important character in MHA alongside Izuku and Bakugo is Todoroki Shoto, son of the Number 2 hero Endeavour and the wielder of a powerful “legally distinct prince Zuko” look.
And just like Izuku, Shoto is a victim of abuse — except, he (along with his entire family) was abused by his “heroic” father, Todoroki Enji. To name just some of Enji’s misgivings — he essentially bought Shoto’s mother for eugenics purposes, was responsible for Shoto’s older brother’s death (he got better), and then physically abused Shoto for years (calling it training) to the point where Shoto refused to use half of his power he inherited from Enji — all while being negligent with the rest of the family at best.
But! He! Was! Sorry! Once All Might retired and Enji became the new Number 1 hero, he got really sad about all the abuse he put his family through — and so, instead of CPS knocking on his door, he was given a second chance by people he abused. And did the story show this as a messy, morally gray life moment? Of course not, it was a good thing!
And those are just two of the most prominent examples. We swear, if Horikoshi decides to redeem the crusty League player Shigaraki…
Horikoshi is quick to excuse and forgive abusers. Wonder why?
Summary:
In MHA, quirkless people (like Midoriya for the first 14 years of his life) are essentially disabled.
Bakugo bullied a disabled person for a decade, and suffered no consequences for it.
Endeavour abused his entire family, but it’s okay since he was sorry.
In the world of My Hero Academia (Boku no Hero Academia), quirks are almost universally present, and determine a person’s success in society. Those with more mundane quirks get more regular jobs as office workers, engineers, or if they really want to, policemen and firemen.
Those with more impressive quirks can become heroes, while people whose quirks give you heebie jeebies are generally forced into the school-to-villain pipeline. And then, there is a statistical minority of quirkless people. And in a society where everything is built on what quirk you have, being quirkless is basically a disability.
Bakugo is a bully, not a hero
Midoriya Izuku is the story’s protagonist, and up until his childhood hero All Might gave him the second most powerful quirk in the world, he was quirkless. And for a literal decade, he was mercilessly bullied by his entire school — and worst of all, by his former childhood friend and a wielder of a totally-not-villainous nitroglycerin-secreting quirk , Bakugo Katsuki.
For ten years, Bakugo essentially bullied a disabled kid (including verbal harassment, destruction of property AND physical assault), and at one point even told him, and we quote, “Just pray that you’ll be born with a quirk in your next life, and take a swan dive off the roof of a building.” Oh, and for the kicker — Bakugo is on his way to enroll in UA, the topmost hero school in the world, the same school Izuku wants to join (and eventually does).
So, this is where the story makes a 180, and teaches Bakugo a much deserved lesson, right? Wrong. Katsuki is one of this story’s three most important characters — which means he’s above consequences! He just gives Midoriya a tepid and weak apology a hundred or two chapters later. And as for the third most important character…
Endeavour doesn’t deserve a second chance
The third most important character in MHA alongside Izuku and Bakugo is Todoroki Shoto, son of the Number 2 hero Endeavour and the wielder of a powerful “legally distinct prince Zuko” look.
And just like Izuku, Shoto is a victim of abuse — except, he (along with his entire family) was abused by his “heroic” father, Todoroki Enji. To name just some of Enji’s misgivings — he essentially bought Shoto’s mother for eugenics purposes, was responsible for Shoto’s older brother’s death (he got better), and then physically abused Shoto for years (calling it training) to the point where Shoto refused to use half of his power he inherited from Enji — all while being negligent with the rest of the family at best.
But! He! Was! Sorry! Once All Might retired and Enji became the new Number 1 hero, he got really sad about all the abuse he put his family through — and so, instead of CPS knocking on his door, he was given a second chance by people he abused. And did the story show this as a messy, morally gray life moment? Of course not, it was a good thing!
And those are just two of the most prominent examples. We swear, if Horikoshi decides to redeem the crusty League player Shigaraki…
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