#now mha has a HUUGE problem witn introducing concepts way too late into the story thus detracting all the weight from them but. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

dimensionhoppr · 4 months ago

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Had a galaxy brain moment the other day ab how mha tries to tackle cycles of abuse n I haven't gotten my thoughts about it together yet but Something about shigaraki and todoroki mirroring each other. hawks and nagant too. The unnamed person at the end and how they mirror shigaraki also and how that whole thing could have hit harder if you know. shigaraki had actually been saved in a meaningful way....idk I'm just making connections....

#i havent gathered my full thoughts on it yet...hmm.#''shigaraki was technically saved'' Not In Any Meaningful Way. the tail end of his whole arc removes all of his character agency #in a really gross and badly written way. 'it was all orchestrated from the start' takes away literally all the weight from his character #and makes everything about him feel obsolete. imo.#so if he had actually been meaningfully saved at the end it would have been a better story about how you can break out from cycles of abuse #n something about how he was molded into the ''perfect villain'' and coming from a father who hates heroes...#todoroki being molded into the ''perfect hero''...idk there's something there i havent found it yet #i KNOW his relationship with afo is meant to mirror all might and midoriya of course but i wish they had done more there #bc tbh? the narrative foil relationship between the two doesn't show up until way too late in the story.#that's the sort of thing you need to establish earlier on in order for it to feel like. real ig #now mha has a HUUGE problem witn introducing concepts way too late into the story thus detracting all the weight from them but.#i cant get into all that rn.#(coughs and sideyes star and stripe the heteromorph riots)#anyway. idk. i feel like there was the groundwork there but the end result falls flat #<- THE ENTIRETY OF MHA.#.txt #mha

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