My Hero Academia - Plus Ultra

[Kurohige]

There were theories about Deku's father that got thrown out the window, with one popular theory being that he was OfA and stole Deku's real quirk. (There were also theories that his father might've been All Might all along). In other works, especially multiple-seasons TV shows, a missing dad (or mom) is merely a placeholder to be developed later. Hell, if you didn't want the awkward mechanics of putting his father in, just introduce some villain who killed his father.

Digging into my fanfiction bag, but Deku's father could've worked as a Nomu. Not as hellbent like a Nemesis figure, but still persistent, nevertheless.

It's so bittersweet; we can mess around with and "change" things to what could've been, but despite the critiques, it's all because of this enchantment towards something we invested a portion of our time into.

 

[ShitLurker]

It would have made a lot more moments have more impact (like Deku beating Bakugo) and would have been more logical since the bulk of 1-A have powers that really suck, while you'd think 1-A would just be primarily beatsticks.

Are you suggesting tail guy and sex pest scandal waiting to happen with glue hair were not on the same level as minupulating gravity, fire, ice or doing explosions on a whim?!

Character creep is the sin of many shonen but good god MHA speedruns it far more than most. Bleach and Naruto had a pretty small core and it took to Chuunin exam/Rukia resucee arc to get the creep going (and even then most of the characters were obviously minor), MHA has like 30 character by the end of episode 10 with the whole class competing for airtime.

The shitty powers of class A should have been in class B as well as the voice manipulator guy. Have some criss cross between both but stick to like 5 core characters and it could have been decent. Also, cut MBison guy, was cool as hell but very irrelevant.

If Hori really wanted to subvert, he’d have had it be revealed that Uraraka had died and Touga had perfect copied. But this time not out of a selfish desire but a selfless one.

I was honestly expecting that for a while. When she started crying I thought that twist was coming.

Class 1-A's B-team only worked before Class 1-B was introduced. Like it was fine when you had losers like "Tail Guy", the guy who could talk to animals and looked like a flesh-colored rock, Sero ("Tape Guy"), Invisible Girl, Sugarman, and Pinky.

Then when Class 1-B shows up with their own powers, which is stated to be not as good as Class 1-A in some way that I forgot, half of those guys were more powerful/more interesting than a good third of Class 1-A.

If that was a problem, then just export 1-B to a rival school.

Pretty much. Or just stick with 5-8 in class A and bump up the powers. Mineta being the sexpest midget BUT also a badass would have been so much more entertaing.

But one of my favorite moments in the whole series was Gran Torino revealing he ain't senile



Something like that with Mineta were if instead of fucking sticky hair he had the equivalent of Gundam Funnels on his hair balls. So he still looks goofy as fuck but is actually stupidly dangerous could have been a hype reveal.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

@ShitLurker
I honestly think Touga becoming Uraraka would have honestly been great. Completely unironically.

There’s actually a lot of setup for that to happen.

I thought that was where we would go the second Touga showed up all those years ago. Especially considering how into American comics Hori is and how big the dupe Mary Jane plot is.

And people were, before the second to last chapter came out, speculating that maybe it was Touga.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Pretty much. Or just stick with 5-8 in class A and bump up the powers. Mineta being the sexpest midget BUT also a badass would have been so much more entertaing.

I'm not sure about Japanese schools but in the United States, 20 students per classroom, even high school, is on the high end. There's enough dead weight in Class 1-A that it could be slashed down to 15-16 easily.

In the case of Mineta, one reason he got in was because he really was good in the brains department...but his powers as-is is kind of useless, and still needed to be buffed, especially as a lot of his classmates got better control of their powers. I stopped in Season 5 but I remember that a lot of his classmates got better control with their abilities but Mineta didn't.

Digging into my fanfiction bag, but Deku's father could've worked as a Nomu. Not as hellbent like a Nemesis figure, but still persistent, nevertheless.

That's awfully pessimistic for the MHA world. It might work if he had his quirk stolen from OfA and ran away in shame...or, potentially, have him be the half-brother of Bakugo.

This seems advantageous because it would've done the following:
- explains the platonic love Deku had with Bakugo
- solidifies the idea of Deku and Bakugo as sort-of friendly rivals by giving them something in common
- torpedoes Deku/Bakugo shipping

 

[6MillionCoofs]

That's awfully pessimistic for the MHA world.

Only in the later arcs. The first several seasons would have absolutely been ok with that.

 

[JamusActimus]

A concept I always found cool on my head would have been someone that became a hero just so he could use his quirk freely or/and stop being spied by the government.

Someone with a deadly and dangerous quik like poison or explosions. The government found it early and after an accident forbidden him from using his quirk and treat him like a future villian.

The only way he's allowed to use his quirk and stop being under surveillance is if he becomes a hero.

Quirks are about self expression and individuality and having someone that can only be his true self by being a hero would have been cool.

Honestly there's so many interesting things that were never explored.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

A concept I always found cool on my head would have been someone that became a hero just so he could use his quirk freely or/and stop being spied by the government.

Someone with a deadly and dangerous quik like poison or explosions. The government found it early and after an accident forbidden him from using his quirk and treat him like a future villian.

The only way he's allowed to use his quirk and stop being under surveillance is if he becomes a hero.

Quirks are about self expression and individuality and having someone that can only be his true self by being a hero would have been cool.

Honestly there's so many interesting things that were never explored.

You know what something better? A hero which can't be being reowned because of being pursuited by the powers that be.

 

[JamusActimus]

You know what something better? A hero which can't be being reowned because of being pursuited by the powers that be.

Could you elaborate pls? I did not get what you wanted to say.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Honestly there's so many interesting things that were never explored.

That’s what’s funny about the 20 members of 1-A with rubbish powers. Given thought those powers can be deadly as hell. And there were enough of them where you can give them many reasons for wanting to be a Hero.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

A concept I always found cool on my head would have been someone that became a hero just so he could use his quirk freely or/and stop being spied by the government.

Someone with a deadly and dangerous quik like poison or explosions. The government found it early and after an accident forbidden him from using his quirk and treat him like a future villian.

The only way he's allowed to use his quirk and stop being under surveillance is if he becomes a hero.

Quirks are about self expression and individuality and having someone that can only be his true self by being a hero would have been cool.

Honestly there's so many interesting things that were never explored.

When the majority of the population has some sort of Quirk, even if it's entirely useless, the whole heroes and villains dichotomy annoyed me, there wasn't a lot of ambiguity in morality.

Marvel, as it was a long-runner in this, went all over the map with this, with a whole cast of characters that ranged from always good, always evil, and everything in between, including a long arc (Civil War, the comics version) that stemmed over the debate if supers should register with the government or not, and there, supers were a tiny minority of the population.

In a world with so many Quirks, the idea of "all heroes are fully registered and licensed by the government" and "all villains are common criminals and ruthless sociopaths" didn't sit right with me. The closet we got to someone breaking that was Gentle and maybe Stain, and even then they still fit solidly into the villains category.

From what I've learned Deku does briefly drop out and become a vigilante for a hot minute toward the later arcs, but I don't think it really explored the concept of "hero does heroics but because he's not licensed he's automatically a villain". Hell, I think that Gentle started out that way--tried to use his Quirk to help even though he wasn't licensed, ended up making things worse, and got his life fucked over because of it.

That’s what’s funny about the 20 members of 1-A with rubbish powers. Given thought those powers can be deadly as hell. And there were enough of them where you can give them many reasons for wanting to be a Hero.

That was the problem with Class 1-B showing up, since already a third of 1-A had boring quirks, useless quirks, or one-dimensional gimmick characters. Tailman, Sugarman, Invisible Girl, and a few others were destined to be background characters from day one.

 

[Quiet Guy]

Is there any reason Eri couldn't rewind Midoriya to regain OfA, or All Might for that matter?

 

[BiggestKai]

Viggy bros keep winning, Knuckleduster>>>All Shite, Koichi>>>Dekuck, Pop Step>>>UraFATa.
We even have the bunny girl intact instead of an amputee because Hori gets off to that shit or something.

I will now accept my Dumb reactions, I will wear them as a badge of honor.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Is there any reason Eri couldn't rewind Midoriya to regain OfA, or All Might for that matter?

As far as anyone knows, no. She absolutely could do that. We know this because she straight up got Mirio’s Quirk back for him.

Viggy bros keep winning, Knuckleduster>>>All Shite, Koichi>>>Dekuck, Pop Step>>>UraFATa.
We even have the bunny girl intact instead of an amputee because Hori gets off to that shit or something.

Considering Hori has to sign off on that you can’t convince me it wasn’t what he actually wanted to write from the start.

 

[Rykel22]

Is there any reason Eri couldn't rewind Midoriya to regain OfA, or All Might for that matter?

Because themes or something. Or, the dark version, because Eri ripped off her horn so it could be used to Rewind Izuku's arms from being decayed means her Quirk is all but dead. So yes, the heroes won because a child mutilated herself.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Because themes or something. Or, the dark version, because Eri ripped off her horn so it could be used to Rewind Izuku's arms from being decayed means her Quirk is all but dead. So yes, the heroes won because a child mutilated herself.

Pretty sure you see her in the final chapter and it shows her horn back.

Why did a horn give her time travel anyways? We ever learn?

 

[Rykel22]

Pretty sure you see her in the final chapter and it shows her horn back.

Why did a horn give her time travel anyways? We ever learn?

Oh, I know her horn grew back. I still have issues with child mutilation thing. As for why the horn? it's the storage for whatever time substance she builds up.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Is there any reason Eri couldn't rewind Midoriya to regain OfA, or All Might for that matter?

Because a teacher encouraged her to mutilate herself (just like Overhaul mutilated her but it’s okay because it’s heroes doing it), and it was used to heal Deku’s arms a chapter after they were cut off.

This series has a strange trend of saying that committing crimes is A-Okay if you’re a government official or work for them.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

This series has a strange trend of saying that committing crimes is A-Okay if you’re a government official or work for them.

Before the final war and such there there was a whole story element that the heroes aren’t as good as they claim or sometimes have to do real horrible stuff.

But there is a clear difference, In that Eri wants to help Deku.

Out of universe reason is Hori needed to get rid of unicorn time travel.

Really he should have chosen any other power that could get the same results of killing quirks.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Before the final war and such there there was a whole story element that the heroes aren’t as good as they claim or sometimes have to do real horrible stuff.

But there is a clear difference, In that Eri wants to help Deku.

Out of universe reason is Hori needed to get rid of unicorn time travel.

Really he should have chosen any other power that could get the same results of killing quirks.

Like the issue is that Eri didn’t know Deku lost his arms and just wanted to help and a teacher encouraged a 7 year old to mutilate themselves.

Doesnt help that any nuances of heroes being terrible is thrown out the window especially with how Hori justifies and doesn’t give punishment to two major heroes who have done terrible shit.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Invisible Girl, and a few others were destined to be background characters from day one.

Invisible Girl is a literal background character.

Another thing the show is inconsistent on is power levels. You have characters who still have insane power and stamina that's entirely disconnected from their actual power set. Makes you wonder what's even the point of Deku not being a vigilante if he wants to larp as a hero.