I keep thinking about the Hero Public Safety Commission (HPSC) in my hero academia, alongside overall society in MHA and i have thought of multiple things regarding it.
One major thing I note is the way the HPSC carries out tasks.
Like with Lady Nagant, they had her assassinating those who went against the status quo, being criminals or villains even if they havenât done anything yet.
This tells me that the HPSC follows a very black white state of morality. There can only be good and bad people, and that people who have bad/evil thoughts and ideas need to be put down immediately.
This also suggests the HPSC has an entire âwe prevent the bad thing before it happens, this erasing the bad thingâ, and hence allows me to link to the idea of the HPSC greatly benefiting off of a society that dehumanises both âvillainsâ and heroes.
By dehumanising both villains and heroes, the HPSC is able to effectively turn them into full black and white state of morals, where villains or only bad and heroes are only good. Dehumanising both heroes and villains allows the HPSC is carry out the tasks of removing what they believe is evil without the rejection of the public. This is why Twiceâs death was so impactful, because it completely shatters the dehumanising appearances that the HPSC has built for both heroes and villains, resulting in a break and an obscene amount of backlash towards the heroes.
This is also why the HPSC benefits from dehumanising heroes. Because by doing so, the public further wonât question how questionable the tasks the heroes are doing are, as the heroes become a blank state of what is good, so surely everything a hero does is good as well.
This could explain why many heroes obsess over public image or avoid it entirely. Because they are in a sense trained to conform to a base of what is considered âgoodâ and âheroicâ. (Also could explain why Aizawa sticks to being an underground hero because it ultimately gives him more freedom on how he acts as both a hero and a person).
The act of dehumanising both the heroes and villains makes it easy for the HPSC to both force on a more simple way of morality onto the people, but also makes it easier to gain the peopleâs favour.
They provide a simple, clear goal and objective, alongside a clear stance of how the world should be. Only good and heroic people exist, not bad people or villains or even criminals.
It is also why All Might was so important as the symbol of peace. Because he was the ultimate definition of being âpure goodâ. He is the upholder of what good and peace is. He is everything the HPSC is advocating for. Peace, and good. When he fell, a major part of what the HPSC advocated for collapsed as well, hence the increase in crime since the very cornerstone of what the black and white society was built on collapsed.
The HPSC also thrived off the idea of good always being greater than evil, that good will always win. This is part of attracting people to support heroes and to convince people to become heroes. Because most people do want to be on the winning side. This is also where All Might plays a strong role because he himself was proof that good always won. Since he never seemed to have lost a fight against the villains, he was living proof of it.
I also believe the HPSC deemed those that were potentially dangerous to society as âevilâ and âbadâ, which Iâll touch in a later part.
This idea that the HPSC perpetuates of there only being good and bad, also perpetuates the idea of worth being given to people.
This is where quirkless people come in. Now I highly believe the reason quirkless people receive the hate they do isnât because they are viewed as weak or vulnerable, but because they are viewed as worth less than those with quirks.
seeing Bakugoâs interactions with Midoriya, we see that he views Midoriya as worthless, which we can assume is thought of the same for other quirkless people. This is also seen in Tenko Shimura and how his dad treats him, saying that quirkless people need to know their place and all.
This could be caused both by the HPSC and also overall society. As society adjusts to those with quirks, and them becoming the norm, they idea of who can contribute the most to the new system are those with quirks. This also pushes quirkless people down some more, as they are no longer the ideal âworking class citizenâ that is required for the world to function. Especially people with quirks that could potentially benefit them in the workplace, quirkless people are less sought for. The HPSCâs idea of there only good and bad may also come to people as being worth a lot of being worth very little, as this subconsciously pushes the idea of quirkless people being worth less in their society, alongside the idea that they are deadweight.
This can also be influenced by the importance of heroes in the later years, as since quirkless people canât even become heroes, it means there is a sense very little they can do to contribute to society (which is not true at all, but likely perpetuated in mha).
I also believe this is where SOME of the hatred for those with mutant quirks comes from. Given the HPSC likely labels anyone who poses a mild threat to the safety and peace of society as a villain, people with mutant quirks are also automatically associated with that. Look at Shoji. He has the strength to crush a human skull.
Assuming many mutant quirk users have enhanced strength and abilities, this may result in hatred towards them because they would be more detrimental to society if they were villains. And since the citizens only really know the idea of good pushing down evil, their only solution is to react violently and push down what they believe is evil too. This is not just about discrimination or putting down those who go against the system, this is about them believing this is the only way to keep the peace and safety of society because the HPSC does it like that. Also could be why strong quirk users have much hate towards them or are treated so greatly, because they are seen as being worth more and more capable.
Iâm very sure I had more to say but I lowkey forgotâŚso if anyone actually reads this comment something or your thoughts i just got bored bye bue
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