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izkaya · 3 years

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on deku vs kacchan 3 and the way mha uses fight scenes

I think that a really distinct reason of why every “Deku VS Kacchan” match feels far heavier and different than most other fights in MHA is because it doesn’t matter who wins.

Rewatching both fights so far recently had me thinking. I opened up the clip on youtube and watched it, feet kicked back on my sofa. The video started and hummed and hawed as per usual on the remarkable development and comparison of this to their current relationship in canon. Hey, I thought to myself then. I don’t remember Deku winning in their first fight.

But I rewinded it. I watched it. I opened the wiki and I reread it. And he did.

I was obviously taken aback. I remembered most of the MHA plot, having read and watched both the anime and manga and being up to date. I could remember a vast majority of the fight scenes simply because they were my favorite parts about the anime. So why didn’t I remember the outcome of DvK1?

I eventually understood.

The thing about every fight Katsuki and Izuku have is that who wins or loses never really meant to matter.

You see, with every single fight in MHA, it was almost always a matter of who wins or loses. Villains, obviously, were meant to lose each time--and in any situation where they won, the intention was to strike fear into viewers and make them doubt the hero. The narrative of these fights were always about winning or losing because of the stakes behind them.

Eri. Kouta. Bakugou.

There was always a higher stake. Something to be won or someone to be saved.

Even with students, there was always a reason behind every win or loss. Even narratively. Deku VS. Shinsou, for example, had a stake on either end. Shinsou needed to prove himself to the hero course. He needed the validation that he could be a hero and eventually work his way into the hero course. He lost in the end anyway, because he needed that little kick to encourage him to work harder to make it in with guidance from Aizawa. Deku VS. Shinsou had Deku win because through this, he was able to realize the weight of One for All’s true nature (the vestiges breaking Shinsou’s mind control) as well as prove himself worthy in front of everyone’s eyes.

This same structure is applicable everywhere else. In Todoroki VS Bakugou 1, it was to push Bakugou into creating a rivalry and becoming invested in Todoroki’s improvement because he won ‘unfairly’ and to highlight Todoroki’s remaining inhibitions due to his past in an impactful way that eventually encouraged him to finally speak with his mom. Even in minor fights like Tokoyami vs. Yaomomo, Momo’s quick loss was needed in order to introduce and plant the beginnings of what would become her major self-doubt issues at the beginning of her character arc.

To put it simply, winning and losing was always a huge part of how MHA developed fight scenes.

So why are DvKs different?

The main reason why DvKs always feel different in comparison to every other fight scene is because, in my opinion, they aren’t actually fight scenes. At least, not in the sense that MHA uses them as.

DvKs are always built up, always lead through and hinted at through entire seasons. It was never just an arc between them, never just a Sports Festival or Final Exams or anything. Whenever a DvK battle happened, it was always something that had been festering for episodes.

In example, the first Deku VS. Kacchan. The fight happened in episode 7, and was naturally introduced because it was part of a school exercise. The tension was most obvious in the episode beforehand, viewers bracing themselves as soon as we saw that Midoriya and Bakugou would be going against each other in the first round.

But like, okay.

The tension and traces of this battle were actually lined up since the very first episode. Hear me out. In the infamous “Take a swan dive off a roof and pray you’ll have a quirk in your next life!” scene, we hear Katsuki already placing loads of doubt on Izuku’s capabilities. His respect for Deku was rooted in what he knew. And that was, Deku is quirkless and therefore cannot be his equal. Any idea that contradicted to this would mean two things:

A shift in their relationship

A shift in Bakugou’s world views

From the first episode, we are already laden with hints that Katsuki would not take lightly to knowing at all that Deku had any power. He’s stubborn and also incredibly flawed in his values, believing his assumptions about Deku’s character were correct and that he was superior to Deku in every way that ‘mattered’. When we finally get to the parts where Deku is given OfA, it snowballs more and more until by episode six, literally everyone is aware that a battle between these two is inevitable.

The subtlety of these hints meant that we as the viewers were expecting this fight, whether we consciously realized it or not.

No other fight is set up like this--excluding villain fights like the Overhaul arc, which is excusable because the set-up used in these battles were always about its stakes. In DvKs on the other hand, the stakes were practically nonexistent unless you had a huge bias for either character (obviously, in most of our cases, Deku because Bakugou wasn’t exactly winning anyone’s hearts in the first season).

Each DvK fight is less of an actual fight and more of a conversation. They’re utilized to dispel the growing tension between Midoriya and Bakugou and repair their relationship regardless of who wins or loses. Deku didn’t have to win DvK1. Either way, Katsuki still would have gone on with the knowledge that Deku had a quirk he never told him about. Either way, Katsuki would have walked away with the ultimatum that he now had to acknowledge Deku properly. Regardless of winning or losing, both Deku and Katsuki were able to leave these fights knowing something new about the other and having a conversation to dispel tension caused by misunderstandings.

DvK 2. We’ve all seen plenty of analysis posts on this episode. Did it matter that Katsuki won? Did it matter that Deku lost? Aside from that really tense final scene where they pinned each other that I’m sure all of us remember, the result of DvK 2 had no significant change on the outcome.

The fight was a conversation. It was where Izuku and Katsuki were able to see each other eye-to-eye. The tension that had been boiling--had been continuously hinted at by Kamino Ward and then the Licensing Exam Arc just like how DvK 1 was prepared for since the first episode. There was always a catalyst behind these fights that had nothing to do with the actual need to win or lose--that aspect simply inherent to both Katsuki and Deku’s wins.

Don’t get me wrong; the win or lose aspect is something that still has an effect on either of their characters, but the difference is that they aren’t the main point of each battle. This is something even Bakugou admits in DvK 2 when he tells Deku to stop overthinking their fight.

It was never about winning or losing or strategy. It was about the intentions behind it.

Both Deku VS Kacchan fights so far have always occurred when there was a needed turning point in their relationship. Each time unsaid secrets or opinions between Izuku and Katsuki pile up, the metaphorical straw that breaks the camel’s back is another fight. They’re less of interjected conflicts and more of milestones for their relationship.

(For sure, if DvK 3 does happen in the manga, we’ll definitely be in for a surprise on how Deku and Kacchan develop next.)

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Hyperallergic: Curatorial Activism and the Politics of Shock

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Curatorial Activism and the Politics of Shock

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The MA Curatorial Practice program at the School of Visual Arts presents an international summit on curatorial activism in light of the global rise of nationalism and radical conservatism.

Organized by Steven Henry Madoff, the summit features more than 20 curators and thinkers about exhibitions, including Defne Ayas, Witte de With, Rotterdam; Ute Meta Bauer, NTU CCA Singapore; Nicolas Bourriaud, La Panacée, Montpellier; Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Castello di Rivoli and GAM, Turin; Sofía Hernandez Chong Cuy, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York; Joshua Decter, independent curator and writer, New York; Clémentine Deliss, independent curator, Berlin; Elena Filipovic, Kunsthalle Basel; Boris Groys, New York University; Hou Hanru, MAXXI, Rome; María Belén Sáez de Ibarra, Museum of Art, National University of Colombia; Maria Lind, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; Antonia Majaca, IZK Institute for Contemporary Art, Graz University of Technology; Chus Martinez, Institute of Art, FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel; Gabi Ngcobo, NGO (Nothing Gets Organised), Johannesburg, and 10th Berlin Biennale; Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Gallery, London; Jack Persekian, independent curator, Jerusalem; Pi Li, M+, Hong Kong; Terry Smith, University of Pittsburgh; Mick Wilson, Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg; and Tirdad Zolghadr, Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern, and KW Institute, Berlin. Moderators: Adrienne Edwards, Performa, New York; Brian Kuan Wood, e-flux, New York.

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