Anime girls holding signs calling weebs out on their bs

(Pokemon swsh spoilers)

the series opens by establishing that most people in this world have superpowers called “quirks.” izuku the protagonist does not have a quirk. there is a flashback where theres a doctor who like, diagnoses him with Quirkless like its a medical condition, and izuku and his mom are devastated. so even though he’d probably be abled by our standards, he’s disabled in the world he exists in.

izuku spends his childhood getting relentlessly abused by bakugou who has a powerful quirk and the only reason he bullies izuku is because he’s “useless” and “weak” because he doesn’t have a quirk. which mirrors what a lot of ableists think of disabled people in the real world. also bakugou is a terrible character and i could go on a long tangent about why but i want to keep this relatively short.

izuku wants to be a hero but he feels like he can’t because he doesn’t have a quirk. the best hero in the world tells him he cant possibly be a hero if he can’t have a quirk. izuku demonstrates incredible bravery and selflessness by running forward to save his terrible friend from a villain. the best hero says ok i think you can be a hero but only if i give you a quirk!

so izuku’s disability gets cured, a well known ableist trope, because you can’t achieve your dreams if youre disabled, obviously. this is a massive gut punch to any disabled reader or watcher. fuck you if youre disabled, you’ll never be able to achieve your dreams. bakugou stops abusing izuku because he’s not disabled anymore and can fight back. what great character development! /s

(also later its revealed that all might was also quirkless before he got one for all and its played as inspirational or something but its actually yet another gut punch to disabled viewers because it happened AGAIN.)

do you see the problem here? the ableist trope that the entire plot hinges upon? the contempt for disabled people who might have started watching and were naively hoping for a story about a disabled hero? and how ive seen very, very few people actually acknowledge it?

me:

my dad’s first meme