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Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
There's a natural stopping place within that timeframe, so it's not as bad as it could be.

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Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Even just from the anime (or even the latest episode), we can see that Bakugo wasn't really angry at Deku as a kid. In fact, he seemed quite happy to be hanging out with him. He probably considered Deku a friend back then. What changed is that Deku moved from "wow, you're so cool, Kacchan!" to "I wanna be like you, Kacchan!" which threatened his view of the world. He wants weaker people to look up to him, and to praise him, and Deku is doing the opposite of that. From his perspective anyway.

Clarste fucked around with this message at 02:55 on May 10, 2016

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Bakugo is the antagonist here so I'm not sure why you'd expect him to be sympathetic anyway. He's the lifelong bully that Deku dramatically overcomes. Even the other kids don't like Bakugo very much, saying he's not hero-like, etc.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

LightningKimba posted:

It isn't very fair to claim Bakugo is an antagonist, is the thing. While he may be... Incredibly abusive towards Izuku and others, he's a product of society. As a child, he as a prodigy at everything, while he had Izuku who was good at nothing, and was never called out on this. When Bakugo got his quirk, he was praised. He kept being praised and called a natural hero. No one challenged his world-view, except for Izuku. Because in this episode, it shows why he has a dislike for Izuku - The fact that someone as strong as Bakugo, is being helped by someone as pathetic as Izuku, which must mean Bakugo is pathetic too, right?

He's a teen full of ridiculous pride, because of his worldview being that the strong will always be strong, and the weak will always be weak. The fact that Izuku got a quirk, when as kids, Izuku never shown himself with a quirk, THEN that quirk potentially being stronger than his explosions? It's messed up in his head. It doesn't make sense. His viewpoint is being challenged, and he can't seem to understand why, especially if you consider the fact that, while Bakugo is incredibly talented, he's also quite brash.

I feel Bakugo's fairly complex, and a good character to watch grow, just like the other heroes in this show.

He's the antagonist of this episode. That doesn't make him a villain (although I think its clear that he might have been if his motivation wasn't to be worshiped in a hero-worshiping society), it's just a fact about his position in the narrative. He is the obstacle to be overcome by the protagonist.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Ultimately, he lives in a world where heroes like All Might are seen as winners, and villains like what's-his-face slime guy are seen as losers. Byakugo wants to be seen as a winner, so even if he doesn't have a single altruistic bone in his body, he would never intentionally do anything villainous. I guess his problem would be not necessarily realizing when his actions cross that line.

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Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Blaze Dragon posted:

Actually, that isn't the case. She isn't asking people to call her Tsuyu, she's asking people to call her Tsuyu-chan. There's a big difference there, which I feel "Tsu" portrays well enough: she doesn't just want people to call her by name, she wants people to call her in a very familiar way that'd be considered outright rude seeing as how they barely know each other.

-chan is probably the least awkward way to use a girl's first name. It does imply some familiarity, but -san would just make you wonder why he's not just using her surname, and no honorific at all is even closer, almost intimate.

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