#this is also purely found family in angle though I don't think brothers more just that nebulous they are each other's home

[suneatar]

I've always had issues with villain Izuku, not the concept as I do feel it could be interesting if done correctly, but the set up.

A lot of it seems to come down to Izuku either being wholly forgotten, disregarded because he is quirkless, which there is a conversation there that does get into the heart of the story being how lifting anyone atop a pedestal is simply replacing one extreme with another, or the actions of Bakugou are made so much worse to justify revenge, which I do agree his actions were atrocious but, like other things, they're made so much worse because I do not believe there was a physical aspect as many portray. And, in both cases, it tends to strip away the fact Izuku is a caring person, he is who he is because he sees the good in those around him even if they actively harmed him, focus on something that just isn't there.

And that brought me to Chirin's Bell.

It has been a while since I last saw it but it does feel like the proper framework for a revenge based look at Izuku, the path he could go down. The very fact it was love that pushed Chirin towards revenge in the first place, the very fact it was love that turned him away from it in the end but also concluded the story with him, in some way, truly achieving that revenge that now feels so wrong. In every way it feels very much like the path Izuku, if he went down that road, might have gone, the base of his desire being his love and compassion, the same thing that made him want to be a hero, that made him turn to being a vigilante, everything with Izuku is love and, if he ever became a villain, I do believe love should be the reason.