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My Hero Academia |OT3| All my homies hate Illegal Denim
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I think most of the liberation army is pretty lame to be honest. Even if Curious didn't die, I don't think she would've been really mattered much.
One thing that I think was a bit of a missed opportunity is when Sliding Go showed up, I think it was kinda fair to assume other heroes, potentially big named heroes, were members of the army, and nah, not really.
One thing that I think was a bit of a missed opportunity is when Sliding Go showed up, I think it was kinda fair to assume other heroes, potentially big named heroes, were members of the army, and nah, not really.
Oh we're throwing shots at the Liberation Army?
They're another reason why MVA still sucks. Curious gets merc'd because oops she's cramping Toga's style, Geten gets hyped up because Dabi does jack and shit this arc, Skeptic and Trumpet are in the background, and ReDestro... well he kind of kicks ass at first actually but then he gets emasculated in record time after the battle, and by the time the war arc rolls around you realize how what was meant to be the League's big crowning arc was basically a story about how they almost choked to a bunch of jobbers.
They're another reason why MVA still sucks. Curious gets merc'd because oops she's cramping Toga's style, Geten gets hyped up because Dabi does jack and shit this arc, Skeptic and Trumpet are in the background, and ReDestro... well he kind of kicks ass at first actually but then he gets emasculated in record time after the battle, and by the time the war arc rolls around you realize how what was meant to be the League's big crowning arc was basically a story about how they almost choked to a bunch of jobbers.
At least he killed off the Hero commission
Which you would think would be a bigger deal
The army had tons of potential but sometimes it feels like Hori is allergic to allow the villains to be too competent
They're supposed to be an army of trained soldiers in an organization who believed in might makes right i don't expect the top or fan favorites to job but give the army something
???? How it was fine when she was literally the only one that died, made worse because she was the only female villain since Hori killed Magne (there is La Brava but she basically follows Gentle to anything he does being his fangirl/manager/camerawoman and her power is literally just a power-up for him)
The amount of female villains can be counted in one hand and even if you include all the spin-offs you only need two hands with fingers to spare to count them
Is just another thing showing how Hori sucks at writing female characters
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Curious had the most potential out of all the villains in that arc. What could have been, even if she had still died
Geten was like the ultimate fanbase projection.
"Oh man, I bet the reason we're not seeing his face is because he's crazy important!"
No, he's just a dude with impressive ice powers.
That's kinda it.
"Oh man, I bet the reason we're not seeing his face is because he's crazy important!"
No, he's just a dude with impressive ice powers.
That's kinda it.
But I'd take all these fools jobbing any day just to give Midnight like a single chapter before dying off screen
i dunno why a character dying means they are badly written lol
Curious was the best used liberation army, maybe only losing to skeptic. She had cool powers, had a cool fight and had a purpose. And left the story when she needed to. Skeptic is weird because he does the same for twice and then serves to reveal the touya thing to the world, but I think i like curious better because she has a power that i enjoyed more.
About midnight, I dunno why it is needed to show she being killed, the implications were very big she would die. She was last shown moments before being attacked by a villain, she lost connection to momo and mineta asking if she would be ok was a clear death flag. I know shonen loves to do the trope where a death only happens when it is on screen but Horikoshi doesnt need to do that.
Curious was the best used liberation army, maybe only losing to skeptic. She had cool powers, had a cool fight and had a purpose. And left the story when she needed to. Skeptic is weird because he does the same for twice and then serves to reveal the touya thing to the world, but I think i like curious better because she has a power that i enjoyed more.
About midnight, I dunno why it is needed to show she being killed, the implications were very big she would die. She was last shown moments before being attacked by a villain, she lost connection to momo and mineta asking if she would be ok was a clear death flag. I know shonen loves to do the trope where a death only happens when it is on screen but Horikoshi doesnt need to do that.
I agree but I still think he was worse than curious because he never got a full fight, if he just had an on screen fight I wouldnt feel so bad.
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I agree
I guess the same counts for geten, but like I said, curious at least had a full fight
I'd still dispute the jobbing thing. Going up against one of the top heroes in the country and losing isn't really jobbing, Cementoss is a powerhouse.
I'm serious, lol. Every time anybody loses it's "oh they jobbed." But the heroes had, until recently, an enormous edge in organization, training, and resources. The villains got hyped but they still went in as colossal underdogs. Things have changed now, but at the time? Losing was what was expected. Shiggy absolutely flattening part multiple top heroes was totally unprecedented in-universe.
That would be justified if the army didn't control a whole town and backed by several high profile, successful companies and politicians plus devoted followers who are able to train in secret
They're not the league before it got streamlined that were bunch of random thugs of the street
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The only potential I saw in Geten was maybe in giving Dabi someone to actually interact with. He has no foil in the series, not even within the League; even Spinner and Shiggy have an actual dynamic, meanwhile Dabi basically sits around as a bit of a plot device waiting to blow up. I would've cared more about his character if there was anything resembling an emotional connection to anything he does or someone he can confide in, but he's done nothing of the sort.
No amount of face value acceptance for whatever Hori writes is enough to deter from the notion that Curious would've been perfectly placed in a post-collapse society as a PLF propaganda machine. Especially being an outcast in the journalistic field, you'd think her running an exposé on Hero society would be her comeback story into society at large. They could've even turned it into a palpable and very real commentary on skewed media narratives and scummy news reporting, someone on the "villain" side who people might begin admiring. Not that the story really needs her character anymore because the series decided to dummy out most of the important PLF goons sans Skeptic.
No amount of face value acceptance for whatever Hori writes is enough to deter from the notion that Curious would've been perfectly placed in a post-collapse society as a PLF propaganda machine. Especially being an outcast in the journalistic field, you'd think her running an exposé on Hero society would be her comeback story into society at large. They could've even turned it into a palpable and very real commentary on skewed media narratives and scummy news reporting, someone on the "villain" side who people might begin admiring. Not that the story really needs her character anymore because the series decided to dummy out most of the important PLF goons sans Skeptic.
It seems like whatever roled Curious should have had has been rolled into skeptic now
Remember when everyone thought he might be Natsuo? What a time to be alive.
Number 3 in the all might fan club
He used to be no 1 but got usurped by Night eye and deku
Used to be 4 before stain got arrested
Now 2 with night eye death
Nah, people are just fed up with Toga being the only female villain that sticks around (RIP Magne)
Idk why y'all don't get by now why it really rubbed people the wrong way that the sole death in the arc happened to the only female villain of the group
(One with useful role in cultish organization seeking to spread its philosophy)
if someone dont want to discuss i wont bother
Like I dunno why some mha fans just can't accept when horikoshi dont write what they want, it is tiresome
Because it is pure projection. Yeah you want another female villain to be as prominent as Toga, i would like it too, but doesnt mean the author should be forced to write this. The author had another plans for the character that wasnt what you and other parts of the fanbase liked, simple as that
Like I dunno why some mha fans just can't accept when horikoshi dont write what they want, it is tiresome
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Nah, the arc is lame because of a lot more reasons than just the decision to kill her.
Also I'd appreciate it if you got off your "you're just annoyed because it didn't turn out how you wanted it to" shtick that you keep doing whenever someone has problems with where the immutable God Master Hori is taking the story.
I don't feel that strongly about Curious, but it is pretty silly that she was the only one the named MLA members to die, the same organization that has someone as pathetically irrelevant as Trumpet.
It'll never not feel like she got killed off because there must only be one token female in the League and/or Horikoshi is really bad at writing female characters.
It's okay for people to not like things you like.
It'll never not feel like she got killed off because there must only be one token female in the League and/or Horikoshi is really bad at writing female characters.
It's okay for people to not like things you like.
ok if you dont want to discuss i will just erase my point
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I feel like he favors female characters by giving them very powerful quirks so they have to go one way or another.
I will just say this regarding Curious: I never ever thought "this is a character I want to see more". She didn't give me Lady Nagant feel, for example.
Killing a character that wont serve another purpose in the story isnt a bad thing.
It is much worse to be a villain that survives and then is arrested and does nothing after, because they are essentially is dead for the story but has an incloclusive ending that is many times worse than dying,
I think there is plenty of discussion if curious is a bad character or not. But just listing her death for that isnt enough imo to say horikoshi is bad at writing female characters just base on that. Imo the way she died and how she participated in the story is more relevant for the discussion.
And there are very good written female characters imo. Momo, Fuyumi, Rei, Toga, Mt Lady. Other that I like too or have potential like Ochako, Mina, Tsuyu, Nagant, Mirko
I dont particularly like how he wrote midnight, but her death isnt the reason for my dislike either
It is much worse to be a villain that survives and then is arrested and does nothing after, because they are essentially is dead for the story but has an incloclusive ending that is many times worse than dying,
I think there is plenty of discussion if curious is a bad character or not. But just listing her death for that isnt enough imo to say horikoshi is bad at writing female characters just base on that. Imo the way she died and how she participated in the story is more relevant for the discussion.
And there are very good written female characters imo. Momo, Fuyumi, Rei, Toga, Mt Lady. Other that I like too or have potential like Ochako, Mina, Tsuyu, Nagant, Mirko
I dont particularly like how he wrote midnight, but her death isnt the reason for my dislike either
I get the desire of wanting more female villains but to me Curious death actually felt cathartic since I had literally no reason to like her besides her design and she hadn't anything besides almost kill a character I actually like, and a villain killing another villain seemed like the best way to start a villain, I get complaints but it was just never a issue for me
Because there's a difference between how Horikoshi was writing Curious and Nagant
I didn't think Curious had a Quirk that was all that powerful though, at least not to the point where it needed to be written out of the story.
Never forget that Nejire was introduced as one of the top three students in the country's most prestigious hero school, only for her crowning moment in her debut arc to be winning a beauty pageant.
Who can forget when Ochako saved the day by doing GUNHEAD MARTIAL ARTS on a unconcious body
I think that was supposed to make up for her lack of screentime too lol
I do know that the girl squad was Hori being sick at the time
Also Dragon lady being the highest ranked hero in the arc and did less than rock lock
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