Boku no Hero Academia

[Kraco]

From Bakugo's pov it undoubtly looks like that, which is why he's so angry, but it's also because Bakugo can't understand someone might have something more important in their sights than winning this tournament and proving they are the strongest. It was a different thing when Todoroki was fighting Izuku as back then he was still confused and hadn't figured out what to do, so the only thing he could do was to push forward on the same old path. Between these fights and still during this fight he had enough time to realise what he wants to do, and winning that contest had nothing to do with it. He doesn't care about being recognized as the strongest hero candidate, he only cares about saving his mom for the time being. Yeah, if he can't even save his own mom, how could he be a hero who would save numerous other people?

You can say he's shitting on the determination of most of the students there, but so what? It's up to him to decide what he wants to do. If the others have something to complain about, they can start by getting strong enough to face him in the first place.

[DarthEnderX]

You can say he's shitting on the determination of most of the students there, but so what?

Because it's not something a real hero would do. And he still wants to be a hero. At least, that's what he told Midoriya.

[Buffalobiian]

From Bakugo's pov it undoubtly looks like that, which is why he's so angry, but it's also because Bakugo can't understand someone might have something more important in their sights than winning this tournament and proving they are the strongest.

It's not even about whether Bakugo understands or not. Even if he does, he doesn't care. The fact that he wasn't able to beat Todoroki at full power alone pisses him off.

Well...If you were planning of creating and raising the ultimate hero the most promising one got attacked by their mother....How would you react? What do you think Endeavor did to her?

I assumed he physically assaulted her, and also reasoned that no injuries would make you unstable enough to stay in hospital for 10 years.

Now her setting didn't look like a mental health ward, but that idea actually makes sense in a way. (It actually doesn't when you think about current trends in healthcare towards community based cares, but it makes more sense than having ongoing medical instability by far).

[Kraco]

Because it's not something a real hero would do. And he still wants to be a hero. At least, that's what he told Midoriya.

It's a profession. If you took a hundred police officers or firemen and asked why they chose that job, do you reckon every single one gives the same answer? Aside from the fact self-sacrifice is also something a hero would do. He realised this competition doesn't matter to him, so he handed over the victory to a guy for whom it seemed to be of utmost importance. From the audiences point of view I'm sure Todoroki looked far more heroic than the guy one was in chains on the podium. Bakugo looked like a fricking villain.

[DarthEnderX]

Now her setting didn't look like a mental health ward, but that idea actually makes sense in a way.

You mean it doesn't look like an Arkham Asylum? No. Nor should it. The series takes place in modern/near future Japan, where they deal with such things in a more modern way, and mental institutions basically just look like hospitals.

It's a profession. If you took a hundred police officers or firemen and asked why they chose that job, do you reckon every single one gives the same answer?

They made it clear though why he wants to be a hero. Like Midoriya, he wants to be like All Might. Which leads us back to "That's not something All Might would do."

Bakugo looked like a fricking villain.

Bakugo ALWAYS looks like a villain. It's SUPER unclear(but also super humorous) why he wants to be a hero instead.

[Buffalobiian]

You mean it doesn't look like an Arkham Asylum?

No. I mean it doesn't look like the 3 mental health wards I've seen over the past 4 years working in Australian hospitals. For one, acute mental health wards are designed to be low risk and low stimulus.

Her room looks like any other cookie cutter anime hospital room. If she's well enough to be in such an environment she's well enough for discharge and community cares.

[DarthEnderX]

No. I mean it doesn't look like the 3 mental health wards I've seen over the past 4 years working in Australian hospitals. For one, acute mental health wards are designed to be low risk and low stimulus.

If you say so. The only one I've been to here in the US looked exactly like a hospital.

[Buffalobiian]

Episode 26

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Acid Queen (2) is a totally good and valid name. Pinky is so bleh.

Bakugo probably just settled with his own name as well.

[Ryllharu]

Acid Queen (2) is a totally good and valid name. Pinky is so bleh.

Yeah, "Alien Queen" was very fitting for Ashido. Midnight was wrong to dissuade her from it, so she ended up with a dull name.

[neflight86]

Midnight has a track record at this point of considering things almost exclusively by her personal taste.

[DarthEnderX]

Whelp, I'm officially forgetting all their Japanese names and using the hero names from now on.

I'm not sure why I didn't know Midoriya was going to go with Deku, but it should have been obvious...

Gran Torino? Uh oh, Deku's going to intern with racist Clint Eastwood!

If I have a complaint about this series, it's the way Deku's narration sometimes gives away future plot elements. Things like "I'll always regret what happened that day." I don't need to spoiling the story for me, show character.

Acid Queen (2) is a totally good and valid name. Pinky is so bleh.

Froppy sucks too...

Bakugo probably just settled with his own name as well.

NO! IT'S LORD EXPLOSION MURDER!!

[MFauli]

Froppy is great. Just makes her so much cuter, if that was even possible :>

[Kraco]

Yeah, Midnight was out of line and misusing her authority as a teacher by rejecting Alien Queen. Although I'm not terribly surprised considering the general manga/anime principle is that girls/women need to be cute/beautiful, everything else being of secondary importance. Lord Explosion Murder was more understandable to deny as it's clearly a villain name. Lord Explosion would have been just fine, though, so once again Midnight failed. She fixed other students' names before, but suddenly couldn't do such a simple thing for Bakugo. She's an incompetent failure.

[MFauli]

Is it Acid Queen or Alien Queen? You guys keep changing between the 2 :>

[DarthEnderX]

I remember it being Alien Queen.

[Munsu]

Both were mentioned I think.

[Buffalobiian]

Alien Queen is what was mentioned in the anime.

[Munsu]

Alien Queen is what was mentioned in the anime.

Yep, just the teacher afterwards made a comment about the "acid thing". But it's indeed Alien Queen.

[shinta|hikari]

So that references the Alien Queen in the Alien movies, right? Because of the acid.

[Munsu]

So that references the Alien Queen in the Alien movies, right? Because of the acid.

Yep, that seemed to be the case and the image as well.