#critisism

My biggest comparison is hero killer stain. When we find out about Akaguro's backstory, we see that he was inspired by all might and decided to work hard to get into a hero school (just like izuku), but after joining, he had the realization that almost everyone there desired fame,reward and riches.

Not the heroic desires and self-sacrificing nature that inspired him to become a hero,but pure greed and selfishness. Seeing the title "hero" being given and sought out by celebrity wannabes who were there for their own personal gains and building their public image must've been a sickening site for Akaguro. So he drops out and started trying to make others see that the title hero was being killed by money and power hunger imposters and called for the "revival of the hero" but no one listened so he decided to make it his mission to be the one do it. Even if it ment killing and dying for the cause.

Okay, I won't lie. There's a lot of issues with stains, story and character, but in my personal opinion, this was one of the best arcs in mha because it let us see what kinda society we were dealing with. Stains ideology (tho being flawed) and backstory gave us a new prospective ..... or did it?

What If I said we've already experienced something similar to Akaguro's back story in CHAPER 1.

When we get the introduction to the first scene, we see a child protecting another kid who's hurt really badly from bullies who are mocking him for playing the role of a hero despite being powerless. Now, what's interesting is that ALL these children want to become heroes. The child protecting another even if he's scared,outnumbered, and will get hurt (izuku) and the bullies who are hurting,mocking and jumping people weaker than them (bakugo and his lackies)."THAT CAN'T BE RIGHT!?ALL THESE KIDS WANT THE TITLE HERO THAT DOESN'T MAKS SENSE!? " right? There's only one person displaying the traits of a true hero which is izuku but but bakugo and his friends believe they're the ones destined for heroics as a career path.

Right here is where we (or at least i did)start questioning what it means to be a hero in this society. We already start seeing stain's point about people killing heroics and the title hero losing meaning by being associated with phonies who just wanna cash grab at best and horrible and disgusting people who love to have power over others ( Bakugo,HPSC and Endeavor being big examples).

*note:there are exceptions like ochako cuz she wanted to help her parents and the way to do that was make money but she's still more hero than a "phony" so I'll let her slide*

Now my issue is that izuku doesn't have the same revelations as stain or even something remotely close to it despite being exposed to the same situation at an early age and longer than Akaguro/stain (Other than the "all humans are not created equal" line, but that has more to do with quirk discrimination rather than the question of what does being a hero mean.) Izuku, who also admired and was inspired by All might to help and save people, had to witness people who physically and/or verbally abused and tormented him on a daily basis for OVER A DECADE claim they were going to be amazing,rich and powerful heroes. This is MUCH worse than what stain went through before he dropped out and started his clean up mission. Izuku never criticises how these people who find it fun to hurt him and others dream of being heroes. No. Instead HE ENCOURAGES,PRAISES AND ACTIVELY CHEERS ON BAKUGO. THE WORST OF THEM ALL. HAH!

I find it so disheartening that izuku associates being a hero with having a "good" quirk and it doesn't matter how you treat others or if you display qualities of a good person who wants to help and save others to be a hero in his eyes. It makes izuku's character so flat and one dimensional instead of complex which an mc should be. He's not aware or is unfazed by the society around him. He doesn't seek to change the horrible hero society. he just tries "fix" the victims of said society. His worship of heros isn't shaken or questioned when he finds out about the number 2 hero of Japan doing eugenics,trafficking & buying a human being, and abusing his family. Neither is it shaken when he finds out about the HPSC grooming children to use as industry plants and assassins, but that's another whole rant for another day.

UNPOPULAR OPINION ALERT: I didn't like Trouble in Tokyo.

Don't get me wrong, I think it was a cute movie for RobStar, but I hated how the writers neglected the others. ESPECIALLY Raven. Because wft do you mean she hit Beast Boy twice for no reason and made a purposefully hurtful comment about his looks?

All of these moments

Are completely ooc for her, and I feel like this is where SO much BBRae hate comes from. When has she ever hit him or acted rude towards him outside the movie without a reason when it wasn't teasing? I genuinely can't connect her movie version to her series version.

Also since we're talking about the movie, girl, wtf is this?

That can't be comfortable to fly on, and also again, being needlessly rude to BB??

So, while this isn't the end of the world and there were Raven moments I liked, it's just extremely annoying how mistreated her character was and how much hate it brought for Raven and BBRae, it makes the movie hard to watch for me so let's just pretend it doesn't exist, okay guys?

Anyone else think that the inclusion of silver low-key made Red a bit (a lot) dumber in the second movie?

Like yeah, that girl is a genius and she’s obviously much much more methodical than Red, who in the first movie, really made shit up on the fly to go and save his eggs because of the plot.

But uhhh.. you’re telling me that homeboy’s ENTIRE plan to break into a frigid technology EMPIRE… that can both create and launch ICE BALLS about the size of Mars’ moons…. Was to just go in, beat the weapon, and get out..?? (Word by word btw. Nothing more than that I swear to god)

Like.. I can make up a lot of excuses for him: maybe he really did just make it up on the fly in a rush just to have something to say and pretend he’s leading, which led to him not relying on his teammates for more information (I’m hinting at Leonard here, who’s technology can fly back and forth from eagle island, but then again, beef, I get it). It makes a looootta sense that way if I just make up stuff to cope with the second hand embarrassment..

BUT THEN SILVER COMES IN, and states all these really pretty freaking important questions that literally anyone else on the team could’ve come up with.

Mind you, this is a mission to save not one, but TWO islands worth of civilians. I actually made a blurb in some poor soul’s YouTube comment section, but one of the things I state is:

I get it, he's (Red’s) under pressure with the survival of his island and his own insecurity that if he doesn't prove that he can be their hero, he'll be kicked to the curb and be alone again (WHICH THE ISLAND CONSTANTLY AGREES WITH) but wow. Every morsel of common sense had genuinely feathered out of his noggin compared to Silver.

TO be fair, she is a methodological super genius and Red does many things on the fly in the first movie, but if you were to take first-movie Red into the team's place with someone else like Leonard stating a very simple plan (get inside, destroy weapon, escape), he would ALSO be calling bullshit and tell him that EVERYONE'S in DANGER and they needed something that'd have a better success rate!

In the first movie, Red can also state some really basic yet insightful questions like how he did in the scene where the management group is out painting while the pigs are touring and Red points out how suspicious their ongoing actions are compared to their words.

Yeah, his suspensions were heavily biased because of the fact the pigs destroyed his house, but he does make a points that aren’t just ‘if you good, why no fix my house’. He doesn’t just take face value information and synthesis any plans or problems with that basic information, he’s capable of expanding and thinking of other facets of a situation!

Like Silver!

In order to make plans, you need to solve step by step questions: mode of transportation? what do we know already? what do we have available? And Red in the second movie can’t even do THAT.

This is just one out of a handful of examples Silver really makes Red look and feel stupid, but it’s my best example. Love Silver, but the connection between her character and the sudden drop of intelligence stats left in Red was distracting, actually.

Not this guy, though. He's awesome.