r/BokuNoHeroAcademia

Note 1: I originally wrote prototype of this post at r/hatethissmug ,but I am writing it here because a lot of people who saw my post did not seemed to understand what I am talking about.

Note 2: If you want to leave comment at this post, please do it AFTER reading everything I wrote.

Note 3: I did NOT created this post to blame people for simply disliking, or having opinions against Bakugou. I only want to blame ones who try to label Bakugou as a "100% terrible character" without any valid canonical evidences.

I'm writing this because I had saw a rant about Bakugou. Yes. It is oviously true that what Bakugou did to Izuku (protagonist) during middle school years was obviously terrible. (He literally told Izuku to go kill himself because he is a looser without superpowers.) If someone justifies behavior like this, (Both IRL and Fictional.) that person do have problems. However, the another thing about Bakugou is that, he start to change himself when he entered U.A academy with Izuku. (I will reference heavy spoilers so if you are still watching the series, be careful!!)

>!Before All Might’s fall, Bakugou believed that he was perfect. However, when All Might had lost all of his powers in exchange of defeating All for one, , he started to question his strength, and capability as a hero. If he did not got captured by LOV, All might’s end may had not came that quickly. His guilt is shown very well what he tells Deku right before he duels him at manga chapter 118. He shouts like this: "Why I had became the reason of the fall of the All Might?" This scene shows that Bakugou was feeling extreme guilt about the fact that All Might had used up all power because he had got kidnapped by Villains. Also, after the duel, Bakugou and Izuku managed to have a calm conversation about how Izuku had used his fighting techniques during the duel. (If Katsuki still saw Izuku as an ignorable dweeb like he did during middle school years, he may just told him to shut up.) These scenes shows that entering U.A academy, and competing with Deku had started to change Bakugou's mindset about how he should behave. Also, as the series continues, Bakugou shows more and more kind and heroic behaviors. When Deku got almost got pierced by Shigaraki Tomura's attack, Bakugou literally threw his body at the attack, saving Deku. When Deku left U.A Academy during the war, he had participated at Uraraka's plan to bring Izuku back to the school, and SINCERELY apologized about every bad deeds he had done to Deku. During Final war, with help of Izuku, Bakugou had saved All Might, who had almost got killed by All for One. He had paid his debt for All-Might, who had saved him and sacrificed himself during the Kamino Arc. Finally, when the Manga had entered the epilogue, Bakugou had tried to provide Izuku a support, so he can return to hero work. Among all people who donated their money at the production of Deku's powered suit, Bakugou had donated most money. Also, it is also implied that Bakugou had tried to suggest him to work with him at his hero agency. !<

(To add on I am saying this whole thing as a person who prefers Deku x Ochaco over Bakugou x Izuku, and loathes some zealous Bakugou stans who misuse him to bash other characters, such as Ochaco."

Like this, I believe that there are plenty of canonical evidences, which shows that Bakugou had managed to grow up as a decent person, through lessons he learned from various events he experienced. Yes, I can get that some people can still don't prefer him, or think he needed better writing. However, I get baffled when some folks try to label him as a "Trash" even though he do have good qualities and showed heroic behaviors. (I honestly feel like it is pretty similar to clueless character slanders Deku and Ochaco had went trough during 2024, which gave them total baloney labels, such as "Macdonald worker looser" or "Greedy gold digger.")

It was an long rant... thank you for reading.>!​!<

I guess ill start Vigilantes.

But after that? Idk what else to do, i dont know how to read so the light novels are definitely a no.

The series had already pointed out that All Might had so much natural talent with using One For All that while he proved a good mentor on heroism for Izuku, he was poor at teaching how to use his own Quirk because he found it easy he wasn't able to explain how to use it himself.

Endeavor on the other hand shows when Izuku comes to him with questions that he can instruct on how to use Quirks, even if they are very different from his own, alluding to how he has had to work really hard to become as good as he is and relating to Izuku having a dangerous Quirk causes him to imply he injured himself practicing with his fire Quirk.

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