I fucking love the different relationship Bakugou and Todoroki have with anger. On the one hand we have Todoroki who at the start of the story was closed off and the only emotion he clearly showed was anger. But having been a victim of his father's anger all his life he views the emotion negatively, so his bursts of anger are impulsive and fade quickly because of how much he associates it with the hurt his family has been through. And with his anger inevitably comes out all his frustration and hurt. It’s no coincidence that Midoriya first saw Todoroki’s hurt at the Sports Festival after he froze the whole stadium in a burst of anger directed at his father. But at the same time he uses the emotion as a weapon against his father, when the anger is projected towards and against Endeavor it becomes the only emotion Shouto allows himself to feel, canceling in a way the guilt he feels for being angry.
And then we have Bakugou who in a way uses his anger to show all his range of emotions. Every time he cries, he’s frustrated, there’s always a layer of anger under the surface, because feeling anger comforts him. For Bakugou anger is an overall positive emotion that helps him to understand and release all his other feelings. It's the emotion he processes best and the one that helps him process all his other emotions. His anger can be grounding, it can be the brust of energy he needs to keep going whether it's a fight or something else, it can be a force to fight against to discover his true feelings. It guides him, if he manages to control and own it. When he shows anger or is aggressive if we pay close enough attention we can see that it's protecting himself from letting others see what he's really feeling.
Bakugou uses anger to hide his true feelings from others. Todoroki uses anger to hide his true feelings from himself.
