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Bunnydoll Week 2024 Day 1 - Jealousy

MHA 399 - Things we need to talk about more

The whole chapter, All Might is biding time while Anima fetches a massive external power source to fuel the laser beam. Meanwhile, AFO monologues smugly about conserving his power. Unlike Kamino, where All Might was the one trying desperately to conserve (quirk) power, All Might now has MANY options for power sources and it’s AFO who is scrambling to hold on.

AFO. IS. CRACKING?!?!?!? Look at his face!!!

The Spanish version references All Might’s “light” less as a “guiding light” for citizens that will be “snuffed out,” and instead says, “his divine light will disappear.” AFO isn’t making a mere death threat, he’s talking about legacy and telling All Might that his will not be remembered as a Symbol of Peace, but a Symbol of Impotence. The accomplishments that made “All Might” god-like will disappear in light of (haha) his poor showing.

The Spanish version also has All Might being more direct, saying “So I will illuminate the darkness so I can twinkle again” vs the more passive “Let there be light in the darkness so that I might twinkle as well.”

The ending panel LOOKS like All Might intentionally shot AFO and himself with the high powered laser beam. It LOOKS like he used himself as bait and sacrificed himself to “burn” AFO (which is funny because AFO has already been burnt to a crisp by Endeavor in this arc. I mean, just when Enji gets to surpass All Might by nearly killing AFO, Toshi’s comin’ in hot with his own navel laser-powered prominence burn). IMO Hagakure’s refraction is the key here (also the way she says, “took you long enough, hero!” and she’s talking to Aoyama but also Toshi). I’m certain Toshi has some kind of shield to refract the blast away from himself, so his actions will reflect the dream he’s pursuing. (Or he could have a safety blanket like the one Momo made at USJ to protect the heroes from Kaminari’s blast.

Remember in the provisional exam, Aoyama was going to sacrifice himself to help Iida pass. But too many others from 1A showed up too quickly to help fend off attackers, and in the end Aoyama and Iida secured the last 2 passing spots.

Easter egg 1: I think this tiny image in the final panel I s Hercules (or what’s left of Hercules?) You can’t see this car at all in the English version but you can in others.

Easter egg 2: The building sign here sure looks like it says “gusoku hero,” which is hilarious because gusoku means “armor!”

alternate ending

“I know what it’s like to feel different”

I will be forever salty about how they played it safe with Belos.

So afraid to follow through with what they put in place because that meant he was sympathetic and complicated so they just went "Oh, no he's just evil, nothing else."

It's like telling kids they can never be this way if they aren't already. Belos' mindset can literally affect anyone at any age and turn them into monsters. You can fall into the pit of doing bad things because you think you're in the right. A lot of people already do that by taking activism in the wrong direction and harassing others they disagree with. It's people who try to use violence and threats "for the sake of good" against anyone they perceive as their enemy when they're anything but the good guys. You'll often find them trying to speak for others who don't want to be spoken for because they have their own voice and miss the mark entirely.

God forbid he has a sympathetic backstory. God forbid what happened to him makes people think. People are so afraid to have sympathy for the bad guy that it makes them look like freakin' robots who can't think for themselves. It makes me think back to my grandmother's time when people were so fucking afraid of what others thought of them that they didn't do what they thought was right or wanted to do. My life would have been a bit different if my Catholic grandmother didn't worry about what other idiots in the neighborhood thought.

Sympathizing with a bad guy DOESN'T MAKE YOU A BAD PERSON. It says more about you than the bad guy in general. Showing sympathy to someone like Belos shows you have compassion. You realize that nothing in this world is black and white and something drove him to what he currently is today. You're not excusing anything. You're not wishing he had redemption, but that he took different routes in his life and there's nothing you can do about it. You PITY him. Belos can't be redeemed because he's too far gone.

I don't feel bad for saying Belos deserved worse because he did, but I do sympathize with him for his early years considering the only person he cared about up and left. He was a fucking orphan for Christ's sake, he had no one but Caleb, had been taught to be a certain way, and Caleb just does a 180 on him and disappears? You feel nothing for someone who goes through that? You can't tell me to look at it from Caleb's perspective because we didn't GET Caleb's perspective. If we did, MAYBE we wouldn't be at this point, would we?

I wish they had just gone the "he's just evil" route instead of dropping all of that complex crap they put into motion for him knowing they were cut. Why the hell was he a witch hunter with religious undertones if they just going to make him evil and discard everything up until that point when it would have just saved time and effort to just drop it?! I would have believed it more if he was a corrupt member of a church than someone thinking they were actually doing good BY THE CHURCH and the society he was raised in.

Belos was too good of a villain to be wasted like this. The sympathetic background made it angsty and showed that anyone can cross a line if they think they're in the right instead of "Oh, you don't have to worry about that, you aren't that way". Luz was right about feeling complex about the situation because it is complex. She noted that Belos is doing something that would be considered a good thing. The Titan just brushed it off and pulled the whole "Well, it's okay if we do it, but not when he does it, he's not sincere" which is the same message a religious establishment would give you.

You want a non-sympathetic "evil for the sake of evil" villain? Go watch Puss and Boots and observe Jack Horner. Jack Horner embraces his selfishness and knows he's doing bad things. Belos is not it. Just because the writers flubbed his character at the end, doesn't mean he's not a sympathetic villain.

((Sorry, I feel ranty))

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