#katsuki analysis

"Bakugou's biggest trauma is the river hahaha"

Meanwhile: 1. The kid got assaulted and choked to death while everyone was laughing/filming and pro heros were just watching, 2. he got humiliated on national TV and was treated like an animal, 3. he was kidnapped by the most dangerous villain group of the country where adults were trying to brainwash him into joining them, 4. After he was saved, he got zero emotional comfort and instead got victim blamed by literally everyone SPECIALLY his own mother, 5. Blamed himself for ending his idol's career, 5. Got impaled and almost died, 6. Was mentally and physically tortured by the most vicious man alive, 7. LITERALLY DIED while he was alone and none of his friends were there, 8. The moment he woke up he was immediately sent back to fight like he's a weapon and was faced with what? His idol getting ripped in half, 9. He was told it's better to sever his arm because he may never be able to move it again, 10. Couldn't even use his arm or quirk for years

All might used to get treated like a god and was worshipped by everyone, but that's not how Katsuki saw him. While he admired all might, he didn't want to be him, he wanted to win like him and SURPASS HIM.

His whole life, Katsuki was put on a pedestal by ppl around him and was worshipped by them. Which was shown that it wasn't good for him. So now as an adult, he doesn't want those type who see him as a god (and because of that, are intimidated by him) to follow him around, he wants sidekicks who see him as human, so they yearn to surpass him. Just like how younger Katsuki wanted to do that with all might. In addition, he wants to train ppl who are serious about heroism and worth his time (if they're gonna pee themselves out of fear when they meet dynamight, how are they going to be heros?).

Ppl do realize Katsuki getting praised wasn't a good thing, right? SPECIALLY after the sludge villain incident. It was so dehumanizing. This kid, a civilian, was getting choked to death by a grown adult while his body was getting swallowed by him too, and all these useless pro heros were just watching because they were scared of Katsuki's explosive quirk, civilians were happily filming it like it's a festival, and it was so bad that a quirkless kid who knew him had to intervene.

Now imagine after all this, the same useless pros who were just watching, instead of asking him how he is or even treating him like a human and scolding him (for roaming around carelessly), they were praising him and his quirk. Even a bum had the audacity to ask him to be his sidekick in future. Why? Because he has a good quirk, he's expected to be strong and tough it out, he's expected to be a future hero, one of the top ones. This is what the society and adults around him has been telling him since he was 4.

you see the exact same treatment after each trauma he goes through. Remember after he got kidnapped, teachers and his parents neglected his mental state to the point he ended up picking a fight with izk and having a breakdown? All might admitted to neglecting him back then too. In addition, we literally have a call back to the praises in sludge incident and the heavy weight of expectations on Katsuki's back. all might starts praising Katsuki for his strength in the sludge incident, Katsuki finally in response says "no, I'm weak too" in a very tired voice. And for the first time in Katsuki's life, an adult understands "I was distracted by your strength, I burdened you with it. you too are just a kid"

And all these expectations were put on his back since he was a 4 yo in addition to the fact that he was a child prodigy. He gets a flashy quirk (that even isn't the strongest) and first thing his kindergarten teacher does is praising him with "you will be a hero". In addition to these expectations, it also added to his ego and made him think he was the god of universe. So yeah, the praises were definitely not a good thing. Mitsuki says it later too.

So in the aftermath of the sludge incident, Hori was trying to make a point here and portray how fucked up their society was (and remained like that till the end imo) for even a person that is supposed to be on top of the chain. A corrupted system is harmful to everyone who grows up in it, even the privileged ones. Also it was the start of showing what environmental and sociological factors could have affected Katsuki's characterization, beliefs, and insecurities. No, mha fans, he wasn't born like that and he wasn't behaving like that for "love of the game".

Sport festival in the first place, shouldn't be live for everyone to watch. It practically puts the students weak points and how their quirk works on blast, making them fragile to possible villains attacks. But in this case, it's even worse: UA teachers saw a kid refusing to get the medal because in his head, he didn't really earn it, and said "hmmm 🤔 we are gonna chain him on the podium like a feral animal and not only humiliate him and ruin his reputation for his future career, but also would expose him to villains who might take benefit of the situation"

They should have sent him home. Or kept him in a room with a teacher. They shouldn't have forced him to go on the podium when he didn't want to. They did it for their own ego and reputation and didn't care about the bad image this kid would be viewed later by media and society.

There's a brainless take his antis who can't form their own opinions repeat like a parrot: "he wanted to kill shoto and everyone else, they had to protect them🤡". No he didn't want to kill anyone, do you even know anything about the story? At least if you're gonna mischaracterize and dehumanize him and think he's a psycho who just kill anyone, consider this: he wants to be a hero, do you really think he'd commit a literal crime on cameras? Also there were so many pro heros and teachers there, are you implying this kid (hero in training) is going to solo all of them? Who do you think he is? Prime all might? These ppl are just dumb and can't think for themselves.

he just didn't want to get the medal, he didn't want to accept #1 because he didn't think he actually won since shoto didn't use his whole quirk on him. He was mad at him and didn't see himself as the winner. But UA instead of sending him home or keeping him away from the podium somewhere safe with a teacher, FORCED HIM to stand on the podium and FORCED the medal on him and filmed it live and showed it to the whole world😐😐😐 UA is seriously such a trashy place lol

And no it was NOT a gag scene when it had a crucial effect on the plot and literally started a whole arc later. Shigaraki saw that scene and thought the society is restraining Katsuki and he's oppressed. by kidnapping him he seriously thought he's doing a favor to him and saving him.(well part of it was for helping him, but the other parts of his plan also stemmed from UA putting Katsuki on blast like that on TV). I hate when we talk about it ppl bring up the "hey UA girl" to mock us, when there's actually someone in canon who thought that was a wrong thing to do to a child, yes the main villain of the story, Shigaraki.

This fandom dehumanize Katsuki to the point thinking a child getting humiliated and restrained by literal chains on a podium in front of the whole world is sth to gloss over.

In conclusion, UA has a responsibility to protect its students from these type of threats but instead they exposed Katsuki to them. That school has so many problems and they were never solved lol

Katsuki just came back and quickly saw that izuku was getting swallowed to be transferred somewhere else. All of them would've been DOOMED if that happened. Katsuki had to quickly explode him and not letting that happen. He once again saved everyone. The part that doesn't make sense is kurogiri dying from it. since when ONE Katsuki explosion kills someone?

Also ppl are like "why bkg did not sympathize with kurogiri?" you should read this in Katsuki's pov. For him, kurogiri is just another nomu that very much was assisting in his horrifying kidnapping and USJ attack (which was very close to lead to the death of his teachers and classmates.) we as the audience, saw oboro's smile and humanization last episode and are aware of his backstory, but does Katsuki know it as well? (another flaw in writing imo). He didn't even know kurogiri was the one who helped heros and transferred everyone there. He woke up in hospital/paramedics' helicopter and flied MILES to reach the battlefield HIMSELF. he didn't use the portals like the rest of class 1A. Last time he remembers kurogiri is from when the LOV wanted to FORCE him to go with THEM, while his idol was fighting against AFO for him (in which, all that led to retirement of his idol and him having the most fucked up mental health. please don't take the kidnapping incident and aftermath lightly). He literally REMEMBERS him as a nomu that was controlled by AFO.

Also yall hating on Katsuki for "killing mic's and aizawa's childhood friend" but did mic or aizawa even show any reaction? Mic's reaction was just "wait what are you doing here? You should go to the hospital". So this is not a Bakugo problem, this is hori forgetting about certain plot lines/characters or just abandoning them. Also shoto was the one who created a ramp for Katsuki and the rest of 1A supported him exploding kurogiri as well. Why none of them get any hate if it's about sympathy? In fact, if they could, they would have done it themselves, kurogiri was literally about to make an irreversible big mess.

There are others who are like "he died for Bakugo hype" and I have to laugh so hard. First of all, why do you act like this fictional character has his own will and decisions? Acting like if hori didn't bring Katsuki back kurogiri would have been alive. No, he would have killed him off anyway. Also what hype? What glaze exactly? This literally was a still frame and izuku didn't even react to it. In addition, THE bakugou Katsuki does not need kurogiri to get hype. He IS the HYPE himself. And finally, thinking horikoshi after episode 4 would glaze or hype Katsuki or even give him any positive aspects or personal conclusion is funny when this is how he treats him in time skip. He just wanted to kill off another villain and used Katsuki and a season one parallel for it.

I mean the majority of Bakugo hate comes from ppl dehumanizing him and forgetting about his pov and all the horrifying shit he has gone through by villains. So I'm not even surprised. Also the majority of ppl who hate now, don't even care about kurogiri and has never talked about him before. They are just jumping at another opportunity to hate on Katsuki or are mad their own favs with less injuries didn't show up to the battlefield, lol.

For Katsuki, the fight was about winning to save everyone, as he claimed in his post-apology monologs. It was about how much he has grown and accepted everyone else's help "I couldn't have won on my own". It's about what he had reformed in his heroism. What he had defined as his perfect victory. And there is a great symbolism in defeating AFO, who have strong parallels with Katsuki's past self and worldview. And that's why Katsuki was smiling the entire time.