Rant about how Kaminari's handled in MHA
(A little on Momo criticism and M*neta hate)
This was an old post but I edited it a little. I've been wanting to repost it so I'm doing it now lol. I am in no way justifying Kaminari's actions. His perverted actions are disgusting and I hate that about him. I'm not trying to change anyone's mind on this. This is purely my frustration to the abandoned potential of Kaminari's character. ^^
I genuinely do not understand why they decided that every situation this guy is put in— except the post war arc scene—he would either be incredibly stupid or perverted.
In the USJ attack, it pissed me off so badly that Momo wouldn't give anything to Kaminari. She's supposed to be smart, why not give him conductive material like a pole??
You can argue it was the beginning of the year, but she was watching every match and managed to dissect the Uraraka and Izuku vs Bakugo and lida fight quite well. How did she not conclude that giving a conductive material to Kaminari would help him and them?
Maybe she didn't know how to make one? From what I remember, she already had a book if she ever wanted to create things she didn't know how.
For some reason the best solution was to protect them and let Kaminari do his shit and now his short circuited. How did they not assume he'd have a setback for overuse? Better safe than sorry. And wasn't Momo criticizing the Uraraka and Izuku vs Bakugo and lida for placing people out of service? Why did she allow Kaminari if she knew it wasn't a good idea? It literally left them hostage by villains till the teachers came.
It's so stupid and was basically out of character for her. All to make Kaminari look like a damsel in distress. She's supposed to be good at leading and coming up with ideas, but couldn't even calm down Kaminari. Yes, they're kids. But it's still so out of character for Momo.
Then there's the sports festival. How the fuck did Ibara protect herself from electricity??? No one can argue that Pokemon logic here. Electricity burns??
Lightnings literally cause forest fires and you're telling me a bunch of vines stopped it??? With that high voltage?? This part genuinely pissed me off. I cannot think of any other reasoning to do this aside from wanting to make him stupid and for people to laugh at him. Vines??? Is Ibara's hair more than vines???
Another moment where Kaminari was just dumbed down was in the first movie, he short circuited placing him the damsel in distress again and wow, someone's getting the spotlight again and being the cool one, these were lida, Izuku, and Mineta for what I remember.
Speaking of Mineta. Kaminari is literally only friends with him to make Mineta cooler and Kaminari to be bunched up into that pervert group. He is slightly perverted, but mostly flirty. What's annoying is that they never made it consistent. The only times Kaminari came off as perverted is when he's with Mineta. That thing is a bad freaking influence.
In the hot springs, he was literally having fun while that piece of shit was trying to peek at girls. Kaminari didn't even try to join him. He just stayed in the water.
So what? Is he perverted or not? Or is he just easly influenced by Mineta? Consistency Horikoshi!
Most of Mineta's stand out moments were nerfing a powerful or good character-Kaminari, Sero, and Tokoyami.
Putting that thing away. Kaminari is always also put as a comedic relief character. But almost all the times people will laugh at him, is when he's short circuiting. How is no one concerned for him? His brain literally is fried or turned off. That's terrifying. How are they laughing at that. Then there's him just being mocked all the time for his intelligence. That's literally bullying.
The scene where Bakugo purposely short circuits him to make everyone laugh. Why did they just laugh and not question Bakugo? His short circuiting only happens when he releases a ton of electricity.
That shit is not funny. It genuinely proves that 1-A doesn't give a shit about someone in their class.
Kaminari's basically mocked all the time and it pisses me off. None of the moments his brain is fried and embarrassed are funny. Hori genuinely will not acknowledge that he's actually a good character and his Quirk is actually powerful.
Kaminari deserves better than to be friends with a harasser, a big ass bully, and a bully tolerator.
