Yaomomo has a history of jobbing when it counts, even when it's usually softened up with a sentiment of "wow she sure showed a lot of potential/did something that helped".
A consolation prize ain't gonna cut it this time and I fear she might develop lifetime PTSD if she screws up now. If only for that reason alone, I legitimately think they might incapacitate Giga here.
Yeah, if Momo fails here again it's going to be a KO to her already faltering self-esteem,
especially if Midnight actually died. Even though it really shouldn't be because, y'know, Gigantomachia is a walking nuke and they're a bunch of sixteen-year olds in their first year of high school. Unfortunately for her, I don't see this plan working for a couple of reasons.
What a fuckin' chapter, goddamn. I don't think they're going to kill Midnight here, but they sold me on the possibility, which IMO is all you really need. Mt. Lady put in a strong showing, and so did Cementoss.
MOMO TAKE MY ENERGY. I think she's going to do it, y'all. The rest of the League will make their way onward, or at least Dabi will, but I think they knock out Giga here. Or at least slow him down enough that the League separates from him. TBH Mudman can probably screw him up solo, when you get that big you need stable footing pretty badly. But I'm super hyped to see Momo finally bring it home - and she will. I got FAITH.
(But even if she doesn't, it's not like losing to Gigantomachia is jobbing, c'mon y'all).
(Still a very cool name).
Based on the final few pages here it seems like Juzo's Softening is going to be key to their plan here. Take Gigantomachia's feet from under him and trap him by effectively putting him in quicksand and then swarm him considering Momo is presumably handing containers of anaesthesia to anyone with a pulse.
On paper a good plan. However, what they don't know and the audience does is, as seen in 220 when he first fully appears and in 223 when he's fighting the league, Gigantomachia can burrow underground like a mole. A gigantic 82 foot tall mole who can zoom around underground at frankly ridiculous speeds. Giga is going to shrug Juzo's trap right off.
And that's assuming that Giga doesn't have additional quirks hiding within that haven't been displayed yet that would be perfect counters to whatever else 1-A & 1-B will throw at them considering that we have yet to be clued into what Giga's quirks actually are and how many he actually has.
Additionally, and this is a bit meta, but it was revealed this chapter that Dabi is specifically the one that grabbed Skeptic, meaning that he wasn't intended to come along for the ride. Gigantomachia appears to have been under orders to only grab the original league which is further reinforced by the fact he didn't grab Trumpet in the meeting hall when he could've, only grabbing Spinner. In 271 after Hawks and Tokoyami escape with the knowledge of
Touya Todoroki's Dabi's real name, he says "Should we get started early?". I think him nabbing Skeptic confirms that he has a plan of his own he's putting into action. Therefore, he has to make it to Jaku and Endeavor for purposes of the plot and the only way Dabi is covering that distance in a timely fashion is on Gigantomachia's back. Ergo, the kids must fail. Meta but it is what it is.
Good to see Redestro back in action, I'm guessing Horikoshi is saving Trumpet for later which is not a good sign for the Heroes, I'm kind of 50/50 on whether Midnight is ok or not since that did sound like goodbye speech
I don't see Momo's plan working which sucks because she hasn't had a legit win in like ever but also here's the thing, we now have the majority of Class A and B working on a plan where if the slightest thing goes wrong it would lead to the Villains victory, all the traitor suspects(except Ochako) are in that group so if none of them do anything out of the ordinary then I'll be 100% on the traitor being Ochako because it's now or never
And as an aside, and I sound like a broken record with how many times I've said "Maybe this'll be the time we delve into the traitor stuff!", if Momo's plan is actually working then sabotaging it and clearing the way for Giga would be a hell of a way to reveal themselves.
It's not going to happen, it never does.
But if it does it's going to be Hagakure and it's going to fall flat because we know nothing about her.
:^)
