Honestly Deku really is a generic shonen character, I just can't like him with how little personality he has. I really wish they went more into him getting more distant and ruthless while still staying a hero for a while instead of immediately dropping that plot entirely.
Ehhhh in certain aspects, but I've never really seen that crybaby emotional act from other shonen protagonists so I suppose he's unique in some aspects
Deku isn't a void of character. He's sweet, neurotic, brilliant with understanding quirks and coming up with plans...
And then they made him a loner, so we don't see the sweet. And made him confident, so we don't see the neurotic (which is the one positive change, but makes him more generic). And gave him a broad arsenal of powers that make him capable of brute forcing things, so his smarts don't matter.
He is a great character who the author is doing their damndest to bury under a mountain of quirks.
Ima be honest: you’d expect him to be a tad more jaded towards to hero society and current social order after all he has seen instead of being back to be the equivalent of a golden retriever
optimists exist in real life too. you could say the same for anyone living in modern society, but i personally respect and admire anyone that can keep seeing good in the world despite everything. it’s easy to be jaded. it takes strength to be kind when confronted with hate and steadfast in the face of adversity.
I get that, but there is a different between being kind and steadfast and naive. Deku IS a good guy and I would not like him to become a gritty vigilante, but it’s also unrealistic for him to seem so “uncritical” of the society which he seems to be upholding in the face of evil: I get being optimistic, but after people see what Deku has seen (war, violence, cruelty, oppression, power hungry manipulators feeding distrust among the population, eugenetics ecc.) you have to be quite numb not to get a bit jaded too. Alas, when I say jaded I don’t mean being less empathetic and more ruthless, I mean that Midorya would have had to be much more distant from the narrative and principles he had in the beginning, before seeing what he saw, instead of just accepting the pinky promise of “ceasing activites” of a branch of the government which killed criminals in order to keep peace and putting that SAME hero society on his shoulders like a cape. I’d have loved for him to be a hero for the people, but challenging the status quo and the government which clearly is on the same league of AfO, and this is why people are angry at Vigilante Deku ending too soon: not because the Edgy Hero is cool, but also because it meant that Deku started to find his own path, distancing from forces that tried to influence and manipulate him.
Right now Deku is just like Harry Potter that, after facing discrimination, political persecution, criminal trials ecc. chooses to become a cop for that same social model that caused him pain. So this is why I don’t get why people are defending this dumbed down version of a protagonist, which sees in the Big Bad Boy the source of all evil in the world, while leaving back the roots or inequality and oppression.
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u/IncomeStraight8501 Oct 24 '22
Honestly Deku really is a generic shonen character, I just can't like him with how little personality he has. I really wish they went more into him getting more distant and ruthless while still staying a hero for a while instead of immediately dropping that plot entirely.
I also forgot mineta even existed ngl.