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Rent-a-Bot posted:The most important thing here is that Dekumom's birthday is Fourth of July.  Also, her name is adorable.
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TriffTshngo posted:The reason it's totally believable for a society where everyone has superpowers to still be terrorized by criminals and villains is because the vast majority of their powers are totally useless. im pretty sure it was mentioned that most quirks are actually getting weaker generation by generation
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Feb 14, 2017 10:02
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JosephWongKS posted:New omake chapter featuring character profiles of Dekumom, Bakumom/dad, and Jiroumom/dad - http://bato.to/reader#40d8f60e160f19c7 (the profiles start from the 8th page onwards) Oh huh. I guessed right about Dekumon and her weight gain.
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Feb 14, 2017 11:47
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Elfgames posted:im pretty sure it was mentioned that most quirks are actually getting weaker generation by generation it's the other way around, they're getting stronger
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Feb 14, 2017 23:09
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Yeah, it's not a particualry happy story, that of Young Deku's life.
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Feb 14, 2017 23:20
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I don't remember anyone saying anything about Quirks getting stronger or weaker each generation, only that more people are being born with them.
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Feb 14, 2017 23:25
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They're getting stronger as they are refined through selection and combination. If you look like The Fly, you're probably not doing a lot of gene passing on. On the other hand if you look like an Alien Queen your quirk is more likely to get passed on. Plus if you have compatible quirks you're probably more likely to stick around someone, increasing the odds of your kids being born with more powerful versions of your quirk due to the combined effects. Additionally people with really strong quirks or those who are really popular heroes or whatever probably pass their quirks on to more people, resulting in more combinations that are likely stronger.
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Feb 15, 2017 02:35
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Gyges posted:They're getting stronger as they are refined through selection and combination. If you look like The Fly, you're probably not doing a lot of gene passing on. On the other hand if you look like an Alien Queen your quirk is more likely to get passed on.  
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Feb 15, 2017 02:37
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i forget that it's not ordinary to be surrounded by monsterfuckers i was confused for a sec
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Feb 15, 2017 02:59
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Tollymain posted:i forget that it's not ordinary to be surrounded by monsterfuckers
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Feb 15, 2017 03:06
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More like 
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Gyges posted:They're getting stronger as they are refined through selection and combination. If you look like The Fly, you're probably not doing a lot of gene passing on. On the other hand if you look like an Alien Queen your quirk is more likely to get passed on. Plus if you have compatible quirks you're probably more likely to stick around someone, increasing the odds of your kids being born with more powerful versions of your quirk due to the combined effects. Not sure it's that simple. Remember than even most of Endeavor's kids were failures, Quirkwise. Some people will get a Quirk that's a weaker variation of one parent's Quirk, and there may even be some people who get a combination of both their parents' Quirks that's worse than either due to an unpredictable interaction (maybe one of Todoroki's siblings emits small amounts of lukewarm water). Plus I don't think Quirks that make you look ugly necessarily tend to be strong or weak (if anything, they tend to be in-between, stronger than the average civilian but too weak to compete with pro heroes). Plus most people (at least in Japan) don't even use their Quirks very often, so most people probably won't take Quirk power levels into account in their mating decisions.
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Gyges posted:More like The final battle with the loader suit and all that on the Sulaco was basically porn. Basically.
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Silver2195 posted:Not sure it's that simple. Remember than even most of Endeavor's kids were failures, Quirkwise. Some people will get a Quirk that's a weaker variation of one parent's Quirk, and there may even be some people who get a combination of both their parents' Quirks that's worse than either due to an unpredictable interaction (maybe one of Todoroki's siblings emits small amounts of lukewarm water). Plus I don't think Quirks that make you look ugly necessarily tend to be strong or weak (if anything, they tend to be in-between, stronger than the average civilian but too weak to compete with pro heroes). Plus most people (at least in Japan) don't even use their Quirks very often, so most people probably won't take Quirk power levels into account in their mating decisions. there will be a cadre of elite quirk users engaging in quirk eugenics to create a new class of unstoppable ubermensch that gain a stranglehold on society. their tyranny will only be broken after a series of long and bloody wars, after which they will be frozen and shot into space
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Silver2195 posted:Not sure it's that simple. Remember than even most of Endeavor's kids were failures, Quirkwise. Some people will get a Quirk that's a weaker variation of one parent's Quirk, and there may even be some people who get a combination of both their parents' Quirks that's worse than either due to an unpredictable interaction (maybe one of Todoroki's siblings emits small amounts of lukewarm water). Plus I don't think Quirks that make you look ugly necessarily tend to be strong or weak (if anything, they tend to be in-between, stronger than the average civilian but too weak to compete with pro heroes). Plus most people (at least in Japan) don't even use their Quirks very often, so most people probably won't take Quirk power levels into account in their mating decisions. Failures by Endeavor's standards is the thing to keep in mind there. That doesn't tell us anything except that the evil rapist didn't think that he could make them into heroes that could surpass All Might, which would apply to... Basically any quirk short of something like Shouto's, really. Heck, he may have decided they weren't enough for other reasons than their quirks, too.
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Silver2195 posted:Not sure it's that simple. Remember than even most of Endeavor's kids were failures, Quirkwise. Some people will get a Quirk that's a weaker variation of one parent's Quirk, and there may even be some people who get a combination of both their parents' Quirks that's worse than either due to an unpredictable interaction (maybe one of Todoroki's siblings emits small amounts of lukewarm water). Plus I don't think Quirks that make you look ugly necessarily tend to be strong or weak (if anything, they tend to be in-between, stronger than the average civilian but too weak to compete with pro heroes). Plus most people (at least in Japan) don't even use their Quirks very often, so most people probably won't take Quirk power levels into account in their mating decisions. Whether you use it or not, having a powerful or cool quirk is going to give you a leg up in society. Since we're already deep into the Quirk Age, the compounding effects of that reproductive popularity are building. Of course there's also the training and technique advantage that each generation gains. For instance nobody had ever run a 4 minute mile before 1954. Now having a sub 4 minute mile is a requirement for competition. Athletes in professional sports are getting bigger and faster(or smaller and stronger as the sport may require) as well. Interaction builds skill and ability, and every time people learn something and pass it on, that increases the base level.
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I'm wondering if Season 2 will softshoe Todoroki's origins a bit- like cutting out part where he beat up Shouto and slapped his mom, etc. Apparently Orihime having somewhat abusive parents was a bit much for Bleach so they were retconned into being absentee or having abandoned them or something. I dunno if that was rewritten for content considerations or just because. Like, everything about Todoroki's origins is pretty intense and I think unintentionally gross as hell at points. I highly doubt Horikoshi necessarily wanted to imply Endeavor is a marital rapist but the way all of the quirk-marriage stuff is worded, how he had her pop out kids in rapid fashion until Shouto, how she was so neurotic at the end as to permanently scar Shouto, etc. really doesn't do much to imply the conception of Shouto or maybe the kids before as being consensual. That...comes off as a bit much to do for the anime. Which is kind of a problem as that's all extremely essential poo poo to Shouto's character- Endeavor being such an unbelievable piece of poo poo is a big part of his motivations. Him being a eugenicist is pretty much required.
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Hopeford posted:Deku's dad will turn out to literally be the United States of America. Or the Number One Hero of America, who is also the President. "WADDA YA MEAN MY CHECKS DIDN'T REACH YA?! MY WIFE DESERVES ONLY THE BEST!" And to bounce off of All Might, even though he's American, he's the sum total of 70s-80s anime. He looks like he stepped out of Fist of the North Star, Jojo, Berserk and Dragon Ball all at once. Crabtree fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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Fabricated posted:Like, everything about Todoroki's origins is pretty intense and I think unintentionally gross as hell at points. I highly doubt Horikoshi necessarily wanted to imply Endeavor is a marital rapist but the way all of the quirk-marriage stuff is worded, how he had her pop out kids in rapid fashion until Shouto, how she was so neurotic at the end as to permanently scar Shouto, etc. really doesn't do much to imply the conception of Shouto or maybe the kids before as being consensual. I think portraying him as a marital rapist and wife-beater was pretty explicit. People only thought it might have been unintentional because the tone up to that chapter had been pretty laid-back shonen stuff, but there's been a lot of nasty poo poo since. The arc of the manga so far has been tracing the evolution of American comic books. We started in the Bronze Age, which was still pretty glittery and heroic but had occasional foreys into dark poo poo like spousal abuse (Hank Pym) every now and then. The Silver Age symbolized by All Might had already passed due to his injury, although most people in-universe hadn't realized it yet. Then we started moving into the '80s and '90s with Stain (killing that Noumu with a shank to the head?). Then the Death of e: Twice (and his entire chapter) is also a reference to the Watchmen, another catalyst to the Dark Age of Comics. Its placement in the story felt really significant to me. Vengarr fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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At the moment Bubble Girl feels like she belongs in a completely different comic to me. There's nothing about her that feels particularly believable to me, which stands out in a comic that strives to make a bunch of shonen tropes into believable characters and situations.
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Feb 15, 2017 16:56
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I still think she's a dumb joke character and I don't like her 
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It's a contest winner design that probably won't ever show up again past like this week, I wouldn't worry about it too much.
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Feb 15, 2017 17:07
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She's gonna be a major character from now on just to defy expectations.
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Feb 15, 2017 17:38
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MHA tends to introduce too many new characters who aren't followed up on and fleshed out well in general, so she'll be gone sooner rather than later if history tells us anything.
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Josuke Higashikata posted:MHA tends to introduce too many new characters who aren't followed up on and fleshed out well in general, so she'll be gone sooner rather than later if history tells us anything. Background characters get fleshed out in the volume omakes because they're not important. I enjoy TetsuTetsu TetsuTetsu and Present Mic, but their life and times are super irrelevant to the story of "How I Became the Top Hero" that the narrator is telling us.
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Also, it's a world of interesting characters. You can't follow everyone.
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Vengarr posted:I think portraying him as a marital rapist and wife-beater was pretty explicit. People only thought it might have been unintentional because the tone up to that chapter had been pretty laid-back shonen stuff, but there's been a lot of nasty poo poo since. So you're saying it's only a matter of time before Deku sells his relationship with Uravity to the devil in order to save his old mom?
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Gyges posted:They're getting stronger as they are refined through selection and combination. If you look like The Fly, you're probably not doing a lot of gene passing on. On the other hand if you look like an Alien Queen your quirk is more likely to get passed on. Plus if you have compatible quirks you're probably more likely to stick around someone, increasing the odds of your kids being born with more powerful versions of your quirk due to the combined effects. Given that people who actually use their quirks seem to be a very small percent of society, I don't imagine they play a big role in "natural selection" (other than people with quirks that make them look really terrible possibly not getting laid). Gyges posted:Whether you use it or not, having a powerful or cool quirk is going to give you a leg up in society. Since we're already deep into the Quirk Age, the compounding effects of that reproductive popularity are building. As we can see in the real world, being good looking or rich does not lead to having more children. If anything it might be the opposite. Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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http://mangastream.com/r/my_hero_academia/127/4035/1
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Welp, that sure seems like the strongest Quirk.
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Mystic Mongol posted:Welp, that sure seems like the strongest Quirk. That being said, Sir...is no joke.
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Also like Midoriya implied, it doesn't really matter if he can see what you're doing if he can't realistically react to it. Speed may or may not work, but someone with an explosive-style power or something hard to dodge could mess him up, the quirk doesn't seem to be any help against pre-laid traps or mindless autonomous attacks (homing blasts, robots, whatever), and obviously it has the pretty severe limits he isn't mentioning openly. It's a really good quirk but hardly unbeatable, which is probably why he's using it as a test.
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Feb 16, 2017 12:12
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This is likely how Mirio learned how to predict attacks/movements so well. Sir's powers really good at training people.
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Asimo posted:Also like Midoriya implied, it doesn't really if he can see what you're doing if he can't realistically react to it. Speed may or may not work, but someone with an explosive-style power or something hard to dodge could mess him up, the quirk doesn't seem to be any help against pre-laid traps or mindless autonomous attacks (homing blasts, robots, whatever), and obviously it has the pretty severe limits he isn't mentioning openly. It's a really good quirk but hardly unbeatable, which is probably why he's using it as a test. Yeah, I wanted to say this. Also, it's quite possible, maybe even likely, that Sir knows if he's going to lose when he uses his power, depending on how far his foresight extends. Which is interesting because it means he's still putting on this act for Midoriya's benefit, and also perhaps a bit frightening to think about in the case of an actual fight.
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I don't think this is quite the kind of test he's implying it is. Being able to grab a stamp says nothing about who Midoriya actually is. Calling it now, this is going to be a "you are going to fail sometimes no matter how hard you try, and I need to know how you'll react to it" test.
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It'll be a willy wonka moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSQNl4V_R88&hd=1 If midoriya handles his failure or victory properly, he will be accepted, otherwise gets the boot
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So if Nighteye's power works by maintaining eye contact (if the translation is to be believed), then Deku should close his eyes while he bounces around the room. Take a page out of Mirio's book and move without seeing.
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It's neat that Deku is copying Gran Torino's movements at the end. Really hammers it in that he implements other people's styles into his personal fighting style.
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