#naivity

Dont get me wrong, I wish it would, but to me it didnt seem like he failed something in universe but more that out universe it was decided that keeping Shigaraki alive would be too much of a hassle.

My fear is, that things like the scar on the freckles aren't signs that Hori will commit to this bitter sweet moment that will lead to some larger point, but that it is just a way to pacify people who found it weird: "See, Deku lost his innocence, he failed! Anyways, now look at all the cute and wacky next gen babys!"

Just spitballing and curious for a second opinion

Ultimately, Izuku's final lesson from his fight against All For One, was that he could not save everyone.

However, from a thematic point, it's just the other coin of one of the very first messages he learned in this series, and one which All Might tried to teach him through the series.

In the very first chapter of the series, Izuku comes to terms with the brutal reality that at the end of the day, he did not directly save Bakugo's life.

Despite his best intentions, Izuku could not save Bakugo.

The overall message of that first chapter, is not that Izuku was a failure because he could not do it, but that what made him different than anyone else there, is that he tried to save a person in need, in spite of all odds or dangers.

It's something that's hammered in again during the entrance exam, and highlighted again and again through the series, of it's characters "Bodies moving withouth them thinking" to save someone.

The other side of the coin however, is that MHA is not One Piece, where characters will survive, and damn every single thematic point or character moment that is wrecked because of it.

People die in this series, because MHA is a story about Heroes trying, succeding, and failing to save people.

When Questioned about it, All Might bluntly tells Izuku that he is not omnipotent. He cant save everyone, and the only thing he can do is keep on smiling and continuing his duty.

The obvious implication here, and the one that All Might is telling Izuku(with Shigaraki in the background no less) is that He too, cannot save everyone. He is not omnipotent. He will fail at some point, and in the end, the only thing he can do is keep on smiling and continuing onwards.

He is not a moral failure because he could not do, no more than All Might is. He is a good person because he tried, regardless of outcome.

Izuku sorta learned this lesson during his internship with Nighteye's death, but unlike that time, during the final battle, he was at the height of his power, maybe not as strong as he could possibly have become, but in the end as strong as he ever got.

And yet he failed to save Shigaraki, just as he failed to save Nighteye. just as he failed to save Bakugo.

Only now, at the very end, does Izuku finally have to come to the terms with All Might's words, that no matter what, he will fail to save people. it doesnt matter how strong or experienced he became. People will die.

That doesnt make him a failure, as the important point is that he tries, and gives it all he has, but it is a harsh lesson he has to learn if he wishes to continue on this road of his.

Basically this moment from One Piece chapter 166.

It's kinda hilarious how well Oda understood and nailed this point in early one piece, given how One Piece itself would go on to mangle it beyond belief, but The great thesis of MHA is basically this, only instead of chickening out of the ultimate point, it went through with it by killing off almost all of it's villains during the final battle, rather going for a sappy, everybody lives and people were redeemed ending.

That's not how war works.

when people fight, People die. in battle, people will always die, regardless of how good you do or how much you wish otherwise.

Thinking you can avoid this truth is naive.

Ultimately, Izuku saved the world. However long his powers remain afterwards, or how short his actual professional hero career lasts, he is the world's greatest hero. He saved millions of lives. The fact that he could not save Tomura as well does not change that.

He cant save everyone. No matter how hard he tries.

Félek.

Hogy mitől?

Attól, hogy bántani fogsz.

Hisz már oly sokszor fájtál,

Oly sokat szenvedtem,

Olyan hosszú ideig hittem, hogy megváltozhatsz.

Hát nem változtál,

Bántottál,

Végül pedig:

Elhagytál.

Most újra itt vagy,

És el fogod nyerni a bizalmam,

Amit amúgy nem nehéz tekintve gyermeteg naívitásom.

Most pedig újra félek,

Hogy újra bántasz,

Majd újra elhagysz.

Mi lenne ha inkább nem jönnél vissza,

Ha hagynád hogy elfelejtselek,

Hogyha tovább lépnénk mindketten?

Hát az lenne,

Hogy már nem félnék,

Viszont szenvednék.

Bizony szenvednék,

Mert akkor már inkább szeretném,

Hogy inkább bánts még,

Inkább féljek,

Csak sose tűnj el az életemből végleg,

[seen @ MOSTRA ITAÚ CULTURAL 30 ANOS DE CINEMA BRASILEIRO, Curitiba - PR, Brasil]

Sometimes I catch myself thinking that all this is just a cover. Not a mask, this sense of hiding, but like a gray, furry, heavy cover. A warm and cozy blanket, but as cruel as can be. Technology, modern life, rush. I don't believe it is bad, as I love being surrounded with aid, and thank God that I was born in an age where I can carry an encyclopedia in a tiny memory card and I won't die if I get a cold. But sometimes... oh sometimes it all seems so unconnected, so unliked to the eternal. I believe we are not able to say humankind is in harmony with Nature, for quite a long time actually. And so to watch a brazilian native be removed froom the root, from the very bosom of ignorance, and be put as a funny souvenir in the "civilized white world (and I thoroughly despize this pejorative sense in "civilized" and "white") is actually painful. He seemed to the curious like a child, and then bored like the rest of us. Was it the right thing to do? And then, to bring him back to his tribe, was it the right thing to do? I don't know. I don't think any of us should have the answer. And maybe that's ok, for now.

Serras da Desordem

Dir.: Andrea Tonacci

Brazil, 2016