Anime on Yik Yak | Endeavor is an example of someone who is a good hero, but a terrible person. You basically can’t discuss his character arc at all without pissing someone off, and that’s why I can’t take people seriously when they say MHA has 0 complex characters.

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Endeavor is an example of someone who is a good hero, but a terrible person. You basically can’t discuss his character arc at all without pissing someone off, and that’s why I can’t take people seriously when they say MHA has 0 complex characters.

Anonymous 16w

YESSSS ENDEAVOR IS SO COMPLEX BRO. I also really like how the contrast is highlighted by Horikoshi’s presentation of Hawks’s and Dabi’s childhoods looking up to him (where Hawks saw only the hero, and Dabi saw only the bad father)

Anonymous

#1 16w

Yes exactly. And I wish people weren’t so reductive about Endeavor’s arc. Horikoshi’s point with writing him wasn’t “abusers = good,” it’s that society can applaud and accept someone as an “objectively good person,” but that same person can be a monster behind closed doors. Because yes, it’s a fact that he saved lives and did good, but what about his own family’s lives who he made a living hell?

Anonymous

OP 16w

MHM!!!

Anonymous

OP 16w

The level and deapth the series goes into shoto’s relationship with endeavor where it barely touches on his mom is kinda heartbreaking. I still don’t understand how he has such a good relationship with her, when she basically tried to hurt him, and how he has such a piss poor relationship with endeavor. After we’ve come full circle on the story, not sure it 100% makes sense.

Anonymous

#2 16w

It’s because Shoto knows his mom only hurt him because of the trauma Endeavor put her through. Of course Rei loves Shoto and Shoto loves her, but after being physically and mentally abused by her husband for years, she had a moment of weakness and lashed out at Shoto. This was definitely wrong of her, but we see that she immediately regretted it as soon as she did it. The entire family’s dynamic is messy and nuanced, and that’s why Shoto still has a relationship with her despite hating Endeavor.