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I love this idea. I was talking to a friend about this.

Viltrumite William Au

Inspired by a artist on X I made this little drawing but only William changed

I kinda want to work with the fact they never met each other

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SHIGARAKI BEING AWESOME AT POKER CANON!! I NEED SOME FICS NOW

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I made an edit about the driver being the star of the Todofam climax since in the fanbook, he gets his own section while Rei, Fuyumi and Natsuo don't.

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It's bizarre that Endeavor didn't think anything of this confrontation because it clearly came across as personal.

Dabi was saying he wanted Enji to live so he could kill him himself. If this was a normal dispute with a villain, he would hate Endeavor but not really care who killed him as long as he was dead to no longer be able to get in his way. Not to mention, Dabi started with mocking Endeavor for his pursuit of the number one hero position and then called Endeavor by his real name. The conclusion should have been that Dabi has some type of personal grudge against him.

This scene also parallels the Bakugou kidnapping scene between Dabi and Shouto. Dabi dropped their full names right after getting a win against Shouto and Endeavor. In Shouto case, Dabi called out to Shouto after he won the ballgame by grabbing the baku-marble. Shouto lost because he failed to save Bakugou. Dabi called Enji by name as he was succeeding at escaping the heroes. As previously explained, a villain escaping is a win for the villains due to the heroes' narrow definition of victory. As Dabi was the orchestrator of this incident with the Hood Noumu and he escaped, this moment was Dabi's first victory over Endeavor.

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I don't get why people are so die or ride for endy. Shig? I get it (even if I think he was poorly written but I get it) but endy? The abuse abused his wife got years, canon. It's not the case "we are taking fanon as canon" that is canon.

it's crazy how endeavor apologists act like his critics are bitter and unable to let go and then turn around to talk about rei as if she pushed their grandma down a flight of stairs.

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i really appreciate ryoko kui’s subversion of tired anime tropes, mostly a lot of sexual/sexualized ones

the main guy is a freak but not a pervert. just genuinely inflicted with the tism cranked to 100

none of the women are gratuitously sexualized (including the underage ones!!!) and all the panty shots are relegated to senshi, as they should be

the catgirl in the group isn’t some cute ditzy fan service character, but actually acts like a cat in addition to having her own arc and development

any level-headed male in the series respects and listens to the female characters and treats them as people and equals

also despite laios being a kinda blonde white everyman character, he’s easily the weirdest one in the group (and i love him)

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Breakfast with Mr and Mrs Summers-Grey

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Saw the ultra bs? She got a smidge of page, less than that just to say she is mentally ill. Wow Hori we know you are incompetent and unprofessional.

it's crazy how endeavor apologists act like his critics are bitter and unable to let go and then turn around to talk about rei as if she pushed their grandma down a flight of stairs.

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BNHA IS NOT A WORK OF SOCIETAL CRITICISM AND ITS MESSAGE IS NOT REALLY ‘OUT OF JAPAN’ FRIENDLY

When I got into BNHA, the general impression was that it was a manga doing societal criticism. When this seemed to clash with the ending people assumed BNHA lost his themes/messages. However, after long research to me it seems BNHA has more or less kept up coherent messages/themes, but, WAY TO OFTEN, they do clash with the idea other countries have of how things should be handled.

Examples (in an extremely short, overly simple and vaguely ironic way):

BULLYING

General expectation: bullying is bad/evil and should be blamed and punished, not enabled as it’s extremely damaging for the victim who will/might need support to overcome it so society should stand tall against bullying.

BNHA: bullying is due to a character flaw/weakness the bully must overcome and it’s an overall private business between him and his victim who has to overcome their trauma by (getting a Quirk) and standing up to the bully, showing they’re as good as them and don’t deserve bullying.

SCHOOL

General expectation: School is the place where we teach and help you to overcome your problems

BNHA: School is the place where we point out your problems, overcoming them is your additional problem. (All Might didn’t tell Midoriya his Quirk would break his bones when used but let him ‘figure out’ how to deal with it, U.A. keeps on setting up challenges the students have to overcome without telling them how, be it Aizawa telling Midoriya to figure out how to use his Quirk without hurting himself, All Might having the students play Heroes and Villains without telling them how FIRST or asking Midoriya to shine at the sport festival without working out a strategy and so on…)

ARRANGED MARRIAGE

General expectation: bad, people should marry for love or, at least, affinity, not because a family wants money and the other wants a baby machine with specific characteristics. That marriage shouldn’t have taken place.

BNHA: not great but since she agreed to it there's not a real problem… *shrug* and since the marriage exists, it will continue. Why should she want divorce anyway? Enji is better now.

EXPECTATIONS ON CHILDREN

General expectation: very bad, a child should be born out of love and let free to pursue his own interests, not forced into a career path to satisfy his parents’ ambitions.

BNHA: absolutely fair and society will pressure/expect you to fulfill your parents’ ambitions, follow in their footsteps, but good parents normally don’t force their child if he has other wishes for himself.

DEALING WITH GRIEF, ABUSE, NEGLECT, WHATEVER

General expectation: a victim needs support because they’re in a bad mental space and this can lead them to also do wrong things for themselves or the others. They should seek support and people around them (society) should offer it to them.

BNHA: suffer in silence without bothering anyone and man it up so as to be a Hero. If you lash out you’re a Villain and you need to be punished. Society doesn’t own you a damn thing.

PARENTS PRIORITIZE WORK OVER CHILDREN

General expectation: they shouldn’t their obligations to their children comes first.

BNHA: totally fair but this shouldn’t lead to neglect children. They should be strong enough to also take care of them so as to insure they’ll become productive and well adjusted members of society. Neglecting works though is a BIG NO, works comes first.

ANGER

General expectation: it’s fair to be angry if you get hurt or mistreated and act in response to it even though you shouldn’t break law.

BNHA: you can only get angry on the behalf of OTHERS and, in this case, you can stand up to the person who did the hurting. Otherwise you’ve to work a way to handle it.

ABUSIVE TRAINING

General expectation: abusive training is still abuse and therefore bad and needs to be stopped and the abuser to be punished.

BNHA: abusive training is not recommended but it’ll surely make you stronger. Yes, it might give you psychological problems but overcoming them is your problem. Besides, come on, you want to be a Hero, don't you? How do you think you can become one if you can't put up with it? Just say you agree to it and we won't call it abuse anymore.

PRISON, ESPECIALLY WHEN VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHT IS INVOLVED

General expectation: a bad place which needs reform otherwise it can’t help prisoners to become better people.

BNHA: do we want to talk of the heroic jailers that inspire their sons not to get angry (by telling them people in jail is animals)? People of course gets reformed otherwise they’re just bad people and no one will care about their human rights being violated except for the political party tied to Villains. Also, good people, given the possibility to get out of prison (by means of escaping or by legal means) would still choose to stay in prison.

SAVING

General expectation: saving means saving someone’s life and soul.

BNHA: just the soul is enough. Killing can save the person killed after all. If you’re so against killing, there’s jail and legal sentencing to death.

MURDERING ESCAPING PEOPLE

General expectation: it’s wrong and who did it needs to be punished.

BNHA: it’s right so no punishment but not nice.

CHILD NEGLECT

General expectation: you neglected your child so he has problems and he’s taking them out on society. You’re a horrible person and you need to be punished/jailed and your poor child needs help.

BNHA: you didn’t teach your child not to make troubles for us? You’re as much of a horrible person as your child. We hate you and we’ll jail/kill your child.

ABUSIVE HUSBAND/PARENT

General expectation: divorce, taking away kids and jail are recommended.

BNHA: put up with it until he changes his mind, then stay with him. Forgiving him is expected.

ARRASMENT OF GIRLS

General expectation: kick him out of the Hero school

BNHA: how fun, how hilarious, how getting girls can totally be a heroic motive!

RACISM

General expectation: it’s wrong and something should be done against it, it should be openly despised especially by whose who have public relevance. People have a right to speak up against it if they’re victims of it.

BNHA: there’s racism? We didn’t know, and you shouldn’t let us know or make us uncomfortable so wear a mask and don’t get angry about being a victim of it because if you do you’ll make us upset and we’ll handle you worse. Pretend nothing is wrong, put up with it and it’ll go away. Eventually.

SOCIETY IS DEEPLY FLAWED

General expectation: society needs reform.

BNHA: society is fine, IT DOESN’T HAVE TO CHANGE or feel bad, however if you show us you try your hardest at killing the bad guy we’ll be inspired to act nice too. Maybe also make a counseling so as to help who society would mistreat to better fit in society.

ORGANIZATION IN POWER COMMIT EXTRAJUDICIAL MURDERS TO COVER UP CRIMES

General expectation: this is very bad, it requires arrests and internal investigation, possibly closing the organization

BNHA: it’s fine, we’ll just change the president.

HAVING CHILDREN WITH YOUR WIFE WHEN SHE DISAGREES TO IT

General expectation: it’s spousal rape! It’s a crime! It needs to be punished.

BNHA: it’s fine even though it might affect negatively your wife and your other children.

RANKING PRESSURE PEOPLE IN NOT ACCEPTING TO COME SECOND OR IN GIVING UP TO TRY TO COME FIRST

General expectation: ranking is bad, not everyone can be the best but if they tried their harder this doesn’t make them less.

BNHA: let’s keep the ranking and expand it to other jobs!

WE USE THE WORD HERO NO MORE FOR A PERSON WHO IS ADMIRED FOR THEIR COURAGE, OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS, OR NOBLE QUALITIES BUT FOR WHO HE’S ADMIRED FOR THEIR AMAZING PAY, STRENGTH AND SOCIAL POPULARITY

General expectation: either let’s just change the job’s name to ‘special cops’/’Quirk cops’ or demand people who use it will go back on having noble values.

BNHA: let’s do nothing as deep down who become a Hero for status and money or chasing strength and girls is deep down deeply heroic and will rise to show it, eventually.

I could go on and on but, I think, you get the idea.

The problem it’s not that many of those are horrible messages… it’s that many of those are based on beliefs/laws Japanese people have/had and so the story doesn’t even bother to counter them.

BNHA isn’t a work of social criticism. It doesn’t aim to have its characters to actively CHANGE society, not in the way they just tackle society’s problems and try to change things. Bad things in society exist the same way as earthquakes. The story isn’t trying to find a way to stop earthquakes, it’s telling people they’ve to accept they exist and how they’ve to behave when they strike.

It’s a work that sees that society is the way it is and this causes people problems and fundamentally tells them they should man up and deal with them without getting angry but overcoming them and be better people. If society is inspired or not��� well, that’s just up to it.

In fact in the story there’s extremely little done by the characters to drastically improve things on a general level, actually there’s just Quirk counseling (which works not on society but on the kids who might grow up mistreated by society for their Quirk and lash out at it), a general attempt at inspiring kids at being focused on other works which aren’t the Hero ones, a Hero (Shouji) getting a ‘peace prize’ for deciding to peacefully solve conflicts involving Quirk discrimination and a spreading of niceness because seeing Midoriya ‘do his best’ at murdering Tomura somehow inspired (some) people to do their best at being good (= nice) citizens… and, if I’ve to be honest, things like Quirk counseling and Shouji’s efforts, while likely ALWAYS planned, were overall poorly set up.

We can see that while Quirk counseling and Quirk discrimination were mentioned through the story, Uraraka was never involved in Quirk counseling before chap 430 and Shouji never let us know what he had in mind before chap 371. There’s not a real effort in involving the readers in those topics, they just lie in the background.

BNHA takes society problems as obstacles Heroes has to endure and overcome, not as things they’ve to solve or at least improve so as to create a new society. If you come from an abusive family, if you’re bullied, if you’re discriminate, you just endure and then go on with life trying to be a better person. Because things are hard Midoriya extends a helping hand but that’s it. He didn’t mean to produce a spread in niceness that’s not really niceness but more civil responsibility, he just happened to inspire people. Midoriya becomes the greatest Hero because he did his best to defeat a Villain, not bullying, racism or whatever of the above and the fact that he DID HIS BEST, inspired others to DO HIS BEST at being citizens of their own country. That’s it. That’s all there is.

Yes, the kids will be better people than their predecessors which will help things but that’s different from trying to go and change society actively, society just changes because it’s ‘inspired’ (and, apparently, because kids are taught how to deal with their problematic Quirks without going on a rampage).

And, that’s probably not a message that sits well with people from many different countries because we have a different take on many societal problems BNHA raises… as in we would jail many people who were committing such things, not accept sometimes people do those things for... reasons. To us they're just criminals, Villains same as the ones the kids fight... but in Japan they didn't break any law.

Credits when it’s due, BNHA is also in a way an outdated work. Laws in Japan are changing so they too aren’t accepting some things anymore but BNHA does little effort to keep up with time… if anything in some cases it changes things for worse.

I guess it should have been up to the editors to help Horikoshi stay in line with the changing times so that problems would be tackled differently compared to how they could be tackled 10 years ago… though, credits when it’s due, I saw works dated 1990/93 which tackled some of BNHA societal problems in a way that was more critical and modern than what BNHA does… but that’s because discussing societal problems was their main goal. In BNHA they’re just the setting, not the topic so, I guess, no one saw the point of tackling them which is a pity.

I think the story could have been a lot more cooler if it has tackled the issues it mentioned instead than using them just to set up the characters… but, of course, that’s just me.

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The Todoroki family in Ultra age and other disappointments.

Just in case someone doesn't get it from the title, this isn't a phraise-filled post so if you don't like to hear criticism just skip it. Now...

After litterally jumping in an inferno and managing to rank among the 100 most voted characters worldwide this is all the space Rei, Fuyumi and Natsuo get in the Ultra age book.

No, of course they don't get a full page for them, this is just a tiny box in the Enji section, to point out how they're his victims.

It's vaguely more than the Shimura, as they didn't even get a sentence but the sentences are so meaningless since they don't absolutely say anything new since they're basically OUTDATED to the point they would fit more the second fanbook than this one.

I just can't believe they had a FULL ARC with an HEROIC MOMENT and they get less space than these guys.

Rei never got a profile in the manga, contrary to minor characters or to other characters who got 2! The fanbook was a chance to get info about her and it's wasted.

Should I also go on how the fanbook in the profiles doesn't reveal Geten's true name, Tomura's original Quirk, Touya, Himiko, Jin and all the Villains' bloodtype, birthplace and their likes. or other things that now there's no point in hiding?

They didn't even bother giving us Ectoplasm's real name or Kido and Onima but we need a box for Astro!

Even the timelinse is a mess, we jump from October to March!

It's a FANBOOK PRINTED AFTER THE MANGA ENDED AND ALL THE VOLUMES WERE PRINTED! Give me extra material don't just parrot what the manga said! Instead the fanbook ignores the last chapter printed in the volume only and focuses on summarizing what the other chapters said/showed for pages and pages.

Yes, there are some new info here and there but there's so many wasted chances that really had no reason to be.

Which difference would have made to give to nameless characters a name, to give the Villains their bloodtypes and likes and so on in their profiles? Was it such a big deal?

Okay, I'm ranting but really, this feels SO MUCH like a wasted chance. It could have been information filled and instead it's mostly summary filled of things we already knew. Honestly it's a shame.

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As a writer he cements himself as incompetent and unprofessional

I’ve never liked Horikoshi and I never will.

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POV - You asked them about their boyfriends

Emma : "Oh Brucie~ His heart is unlike anything I've ever seen."

Sue : "Reed's the most wonderful husband I could have ever hoped for."

Tandy : "Ty and me, we've experienced so much...It's hard to imagine going through life with anyone else."

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So marvel made Logan and kitty learn language not by their work but magic? Ok it's wierd.

Not on the post but day in and day out, I always think about how Doug has the coolest power ever and he could have been a great asset for diplomacy by the writers say no to that.

For God's sake, there does not need to be a magical reason for why someone is multilingual. People who speak more than one language happen to actually exist, in real life! It doesn't need to be justified! It can simply be!

What is with Marvel and always having to over elaborate on everything? Are they that afraid of getting fact checked by obsessive fans? And I don't even know if it's fair to blame it on Marvel editorial at all, when Chris Claremont himself has always been one of the worst offenders (and always over such weird things), or if this is a case where they actually make each other worse. Is it really that hard to just present new information to readers in a normal way?

So, in Wolverine & Kitty Pryde, Claremont is writing a story that--circuitous and bizarre as the path he is taking there has been--is clearly meant to reflect Kitty's third culture kid angst. I think there's some room for that! He's written her that way for 40 years anyway, he might as well explore how she feels more directly. There's some potential in the idea that she feels awkward over her strongest language not being her first language. That's something a lot of kids deal with, you could make a version of that the B or C plot of your superhero caper, have her reckon with that in parallel to whatever the themes of the A plot turn out to be. But it's not something that needs to be supported by detailed explanations of multiple different instances of evil magic spells, ghost possession, and psychic brainwashing. If he was going to go to all of the trouble of retconning going to school with Amiko Kabayashi into Kitty's backstory anyway, as a backdrop to this story, would it not be ten thousand times easier to simply begin with that as new backstory, and move on without trying to explain his away out of every possible coincidence?

And the same thing with the father's backstory! So, according to Claremont, Carmen Pryde knew Charles Xavier from many years ago, before his daughter was born. They were old friends, from when Xavier was doing search and rescue. Sure, fine. I guess that may as well be true? There's nothing to say it couldn't be. We don't know anything about his life before (and why would we?) If anything, I would think Xavier showing up all the way from New York to recruit a random 13 year old to be the only student at his school actually sounds a little more plausible if you insert a prior relationship. It makes it a lot more understandable that Charles thought his recruitment pitch would work, doesn't it? So why add a brand new and totally insane memory erasure mind control twist on top of it? There doesn't need to be a reason why a past friendship just hasn't come up before. Carmen has maybe a dozen speaking scenes since 1980--no one would have asked him. And why would Charles even do that?

Hey, we got Amiko back though. After all of these years, there's finally a story featuring Logan spending some time with his actual daughter. And it's got some very nice art, and I think the writing is moving a lot more purposefully than in many of Claremont's other continuity implant stories. But he just had to remix his bad habits greatest hits collection right at the start

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Back with Madelyne and Jean from x-men 97, still obsessed with these two

{Hastags}

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The best Twink!

William doodles

I had someone ask me on my strawpage if Mark was my fav Invincible character bc I draw him so much. Hopefully this is a decent clarification

(Altho I do love our boy Markus Sebastian Grayson)

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É a marca do "não bronzeado" que me pega.

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