My Hero Academia fans are misunderstanding one villain\u2019s \u201cabsolutely flawless\u201d arc CrunchyrollAs we near the conclusion of My Hero Academia, fans are reflecting on the various storylines, and there\u2019s one baddie who\u2019s getting unfairly framed. The My Hero Academia ending looms, with only a couple of chapters to go. We don\u2019t know exactly how the overall story will finish, but some character arcs are already tied up. Shigaraki\u2018s story is finished, as well as All Might\u2019s and several other side characters. One whose narrative is on the verge of finishing is Endeavor, whose embattled anti-villain son Dabi remains in intensive care after suffering extensive burns from exploding himself to stop All For One. Their last scenes together have Endeavour and the rest of the Todoroki family visiting Dabi, refusing to let him suffer alone. It\u2019s touching, and the moments have been interpreted by some as a form of redemption for the Todoroki patriarch, when really, as a Reddit thread points out, it\u2019s really about atonement. \u201cI don\u2019t know how many times Endeavor says he\u2019ll never be able to fix what he did to his family or make up for it, all he can do now is respect their wishes and try his hardest to be better,\u201d the thread starts. \u201cThe writing of this entire character arc is absolutely flawless and I feel like people often discredit it because of the misconception of what it actually is.\u201d This does feel truer to the complexity of what\u2019s happening. Just because Endeavour is being seen in a slightly more positive light, as a father who\u2019s being present and accountable, doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s redeemed. He still helped influence and create one of the worst villains in the entire manga and superhero anime. But he understands that and knows he needs to do better. \u201cI think something really important in Endeavor\u2019s atonement is that ever since he committed himself to the path, all he has done is suffer the consequences of earlier actions,\u201d reads a comment. \u201cBoth atonement and redemption are things he should strive for and anyone else who wants to do better, regardless of what they have done,\u201d adds another. In line with the latter comment, some believe Endeavor will be somewhat redeemed, but that\u2019s part of the nuance. \u201cPeople really misinterpret Enji so much. It\u2019s OK if you don\u2019t like him and most Endeavor fans who understand his arc meaningfully understand that,\u201d says another user. \u201cBut it\u2019s a whole other ballgame when you say something like \u2018abusers don\u2019t deserve mercy\u2019 and you\u2019re a Dabi or League of Villains stan and they\u2019ve committed worse crimes than what Enji did.\u201d Well-written heroes and villains ask us to hold complex, perhaps even contradictory views. That is the joy of following something like My Hero Academia for over a decade. To see what\u2019s going down right now, check out our guide on Chapter 429.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My Hero Academia fans are misunderstanding one villain\u2019s \u201cabsolutely flawless\u201d arc CrunchyrollAs we near the conclusion of My Hero Academia, fans are reflecting on the various storylines, and there\u2019s one baddie who\u2019s getting unfairly framed. The My Hero Academia ending looms, with only a couple of chapters to go. We don\u2019t know exactly how the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}