#Except to give the granny a redemption arc. Is saved. Like... the hell?

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I have been thinking about it lately, and I think at some point (maybe from the beginning) he saw this as the war between ideals. Instead of being human beings, they are representatives of an ideal, and the villains must be unequivocally destroyed in order to achieve victory.

It... honestly does not work with all of the previous arcs (and even during the final arc) deconstructing the idea that heroes and villains are actors on a stage. That these are all people. But honestly that is niether the first or the last thing that doesn't work about the ending.

I feel like kurogiri is the most egregious example of this. He was used as a tool by the heroes but it's cool because... it's the heroes doing it. The Narrative simultaneously wants to make him human in his death (begging to save tomura's life, that kindness being his origin/humanity) only to get unceremoniously killed by bakugou and deku. The narrative is simultaneously asking you to see him as a human whike he is, quite literally, treated as an object for the heroes to overcome. It creates this incredibly bizarre dissonance, and a message that is far more cruel than I think was intended.

And even then! It doesn't fucking work because the epilogue cannot decide if it wants to be idealistic (villain rates going down because of deku and ochako but it's also a circular story so nothing can change in a meaningful way, tenko's death being treated as a triumph) and realistic (deku recognizes that he failed, doesn't want to be a hero anymore and opts to be a hero by being a teacher).

It's all really bizarre because hori clearly loves these characters and this story, only to end it as an incomprehensible and dissonant mess that ONLY works if you paid no attention to what the story had to say up until that point! Unfortunately, I doubt the fan book will give us any satisfying answers.

Mha simultaneously having some of the best and some of the fucking worst abuse representation drives me insane. The way each member of the LoV's trauma and the ways they processed it was (in my opinion) so well made and tragic, just for Horikoshi to not redeem a single one and have all of them either die or go to jail in the bleakest fucking way possible.