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Boku no Hero Should Just Use Guns

Seriously, logically it makes sense to use guns, while not all characters are susceptible to them, a large part of the cast are.

Many of the most deadly villains wouldn’t stand a change against a wave of bullets or a long range snipe out of sight. And if the villains had them too, then a large part of the main cast shouldn’t even be heroes. And yes, I am aware of Japan’s gun laws, which I will go over later in the blog. However, guns are still seen in the show, so why don’t they use them more. 

And to put it simply, it makes the show boring. If guns were accessible and acted as effectively as they did the real world, there wouldn’t be a show. The concept of heroes and villains wouldn’t really exist. Its why in military movies, the military are presented as being extremely powerful, while in super hero movies, the military is weak in comparison, as to shine more light onto the main focus, the heroes. Same thing applies to Boku no Hero. If the heroes had them, then like I said, most of the main threats of the show could be taken out by guns. Stain wouldn’t have a chance against a swarm of heavily armed police, let alone heroes with guns, Shigaraki and his goons would lose to a similar swarm, and while Overhauls group might bring more trouble. A large swarm with a trained professionals, armed with military-type weapons, would easily take them out especially if maybe few of the strongest heroes tagged along. Especially if the heroes that accompanied them in the raid, were also armed. Imagine instead of sending a bunch of heroes, a navy seal like team just pulls up, its literally over. 

Not to mention snipers as well. Seriously, what are any of the character gonna do against a snipe from out of sight, they can’t, its literally just gg. There’s a reason Deadshot was mentioned by Talia al Ghul to be someone that scared the Injustice League even if he's technically cannon fodder because even in DC one good sniper shot can take out 60% of the cast. 95% of these characters aren’t fast enough or are durable enough to live waves of bullets or a snipe to the head. If the villains were to attack UA, like they did multiple times with guns, especially assault rifles, the villains would be done for. 

Most of these characters are honestly kind of weak, they can only be considered decently strong when you compare them to other people fighting with only their quirks. There would be no 1 million percent Deku if roid rage over had a Glock, it’d be just dead Deku. 

And no, this doesn’t make the show bad, I’m just pointing out something I think might have crossed people’s minds. I can feel your salt from here, so dw, I’m going to be addressing some of the main counter arguments towards the end of the blog.

However, I want to at least address the most common counter argument here, being Japan’s gun laws being too strict to even acquire guns. And if you live in America like me, you may or may not be aware that other countries have very strict gun laws in comparison. Attempting to acquire a gun in Japan is significantly more difficult when compared to the US. In 2017 the estimate of civilian firearms was .3 for every 100 people in Japan, while in the US it was 120.5 for every 100 people. So it’s unrealistic that every hero and villain will own a gun. However, it isn’t unrealistic that many of the villains would have these guns

Having these weapons, as I mentioned previously, makes many of the heroes obsolete. I see no reason for why these murderous villains would shy away from illegally owning guns to use to commit crimes. Overhaul and his men can be considered the anime equivalent to the real life Yakuza... who use guns. Anything from hand guns to full automatic weapons, have been used as seen in relatively recent Japanese news reports surrounding gang violence.

Now in terms of the good guys having them, the police are equipped with hand guns, as seen in the show. However, knowing the threats that Japan deals with because of these villains, it isn’t out of the question to equip the police with more powerful weapons. I understand that Japan in the real world doesn’t have a need for such fire power, but in a world like Boku no Hero's, I think that's reasonable. *interview*. Which is why I think I have a solution to adding guns in their world. And surprisingly enough, I agree with stain. 

Let me explain, there are too many fodder heroes who can call themselves heroes, there's a huge power gap from I can make rock float in air to I can punch down a building. So knowing which heroes are qualified to give guns out to would be a real mess. The concept of heroes, should no longer exist. Instead, I think that the more reasonable option is to bulk up the Japanese military and police force. Arm the local police better so that they can deal with threats without the need of heroes. And for more serious threats send a SWAT or even Navy Seal like specialist team of well trained and efficient soldiers armed all the needed weaponry to take down the enemy.

Now, this is where “heroes” can come it. Those with quirks that can support and are just as useful as powerful weaponry can be part of a squad as well. Imagine Aizawa with a gun against someone who relies on their quirk, basically bringing fists to a gun fight. There won’t be any big fun battle, its in, and out, get the job done. And its mainly for that reason why guns aren’t as prevalent, cuz that's boring

Now, for the counter arguments, I’m not gonna spend too much time on each one because there’s a lot.

Lets start

Characters can out speed or are too durable to be hurt by bullets.

No, that isn’t true, I don’t think the majority of you have seen a live bullet fire, they are faster than sound and do crazy damage, especially if we’re talking about fully or semi automatic rifles.

People brought up power feats by some of the heroes and villains, however, 95% of the villains would go down to our previously mentioned specialist teams by a snipe to the head or rounds of bullets.

There’s armor that can block bullets and Momo can make them.

Unless your Tony Stark, I don’t know what type of armor is going to survive a wave of bullets that is also able to move swiftly in and you can use your quirk with.

What about Nomu?

I’m certain if Japan equipped its special forces as strong as the US, like they should if they live in a world like this, Nomu would struggle. And even if he did beat them, the special forces I mentioned earlier still include heroes, just the strongest ones like all might and endeavor, and its shown that they can solo Nomus.

Toya has the ability to take any equipment the enemy has so guns could be used against them.

When raiding overhaul, police switched to shields and batons instead of guns because of Toya,  but against a large amount of people with assault rifles, they don’t have much chance. Also it was shown that other members had guns.

Mustard used a gun, and he still lost. 

He used a revolver in combination with his quirk, which can be effective, but if he was just carrying around an smg type gun, then he would have for sure won

How come pro hero snipe isn’t just destroying everyone?

I don’t know, if I'm going to be honest, that just feels like an oversight by the writer

And that’s about it. I’m not saying that guns are the key to everything, since a solid amounts of characters will be able to counter the usage of guns

However, I still feel like the points I made stand. The police and certain villains should realistically have guns, guns of varying levels can eliminate most of the cast, the Japanese police force and military should be reworked, and if they did this it would be more effective, but definitely significantly less interesting to watch

And also no, not having guns does not lower the quality of the show

Hope you enjoyed.