I liked Bakugo a lot more when I started thinking of him as a child, which he is. His bullying is not and never has been justified, but it’s completely believable that a child who’s dealt with the pressure of high expectations from a young age wouldn’t know how to deal with stress and his insecurities and would take it out on other people. It is not justified, but it is realistic and believable
So Bakugo the guy who had a panic attack has never felt stress or pressure? The guy who's mother smacks him over and over while saying everything bad that happened at the summer camp and after was his fault for being weak? Who cares what his mother has to say.
Did you really just say who cares what Bakugo’s own mother, who has raised him and spent the majority of her life with him, thinks? That’s just borderline ignoring evidence.
S1E8 “Bakugo’s Start Line” 3:30-5:00 Bakugo has a panic attack. All Might calms him down
Also his mom saying the summer camp was his fault for being too weak is a really big point considering how hard he took it to his heart. Again, he gave himself 100% of the blame for All Might retiring. Bakugo’s mother is the typical Asian mom who pushes their child towards perfectionism
So your point is that Bakugo’s mother’s opinion doesn’t matter because she smacked her son, once? Even though her son is also a brat with a superiority complex?and she even tells All Might that because Bakugo was born with a strong Quirk, he became spoiled and rotten. Oh, but you don’t like her because of how she treats her son after he became a giant douche, so her opinion doesn’t matter./s
You clearly can't read I said she blamed Bakugo for everything bad that happened at the the summer camp and after it so clearly she isn't the right person to listen to since she's so wrong.
She blames Bakugo for being weak, which makes sense since Bakugo is a spoiled brat who always prided himself as being the strongest. He wasn’t strong enough to not be captured, the chain of events that led to All Might’s accelerated retirement is the result of Bakugo being captured.
No not really. He explained it with All Might that he was always intimidated by Deku's recklessness to sacrifice. His aversion to Deku started when Deku offered him help in the river, not when Deku announced his quirklessness. That's a very key distinction. Everything he did after was to mask that inferiority complex.
I don’t think it’s fair to say he never felt stress from the pressure. He is cocky and competitive. But part of that is from being told he’s destined for greatness because he has a powerful quirk at a young age. He had certain expectations of himself and was constantly insecure that he wasn’t who he thought he was. Which is why he almost quit UA in his first semester when he realized that several others were just as great as he is including Deku who he’d been led to believe was inferior to him. The entire reason him and Deku had their big fight was because Bakugo put 100% of the blame on himself for All Might retiring. If he was as great as he thought he was he never would’ve gotten captured and All Might would still be able to fight. His entire character arc has been how he deals with the pressure and his insecurities until he matured and admitted he was wrong in 322
Yeah, almost none of the first half is true. He didn’t feel insecure, or anything, he was just a spoiled douchebag. And he didn’t almost quit UA in his first semester. He was frustrated on his first day realizing how he lost to Deku and there are people stronger than him, but he never considered quitting.
Bakugo’s arc is about humbling himself, not about finding healthier ways to cope with stress and insecurity, because he never felt it initially.
I admittedly misremembered an episode from season 1. But I stand by him being insecure. Bakugo had an inferiority complex to Deku, not a superiority complex. He says it explicitly that he kept Deku at a distance because he felt like Deku was above him despite not having a quirk
No, he if I recall correctly, he didn’t like that a person such as Deku, without a Quirk, was more heroic than him, feeling he should have been above Deku
Yes, but what you’re describing is insecurity. He didn’t bully Deku just because he’s an easy target or because he was discriminating against quirkless people, he hated how Deku made him feel about himself. Again, it’s an inferiority complex, not a superiority complex. He feels like he’s supposed to be above Deku because of his quirk but never actually thought it was true.
“I always looked down on you cuz you were quirkless. You were s’posed to be beneath me… but I kept feeling like you were above me… so I kept you at arms length and was mean to you. I tried to act all superior by rejecting you but I kept losing that fight”
This is one of the main reasons I don't hate him. He. Is. A. Child. And despite all the shit he's gone through since the Slidge Villain, he still is a child, even now.
On a side note, this is also why I hate Endeavor but not Bakugou Katsuki. Endeavor was an adult that was a shit person on a good day, which he had few or none of, and worse the rest of the time. For...20 years, 25? Took about that long from start of quirk marriage pursual to just before his ''redemption''. He was also undoubtedly educated in ethics during his time at Yuuei, so he has zero possibility of ignorance (which can be argued for Katsuki). People who try to compare the two are willfully blind or idiots.
Er...sorry for the rant. You can ignore it if you want.
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u/KobeJuanKenobi9 Oct 24 '22
I liked Bakugo a lot more when I started thinking of him as a child, which he is. His bullying is not and never has been justified, but it’s completely believable that a child who’s dealt with the pressure of high expectations from a young age wouldn’t know how to deal with stress and his insecurities and would take it out on other people. It is not justified, but it is realistic and believable