I don't want to see this. I am not looking. Hawks is going to fall out of the rankings harder than a sack of potatoes. I DON'T WANT TO SEE IT, FUCKKKK 😰 I cannot with this manga right now. This is so wrong to expose Hawks like this too. Endeavor I get, but Hawks???? No no, you did NOT just do that Dabi. What did BBQ say about him needing a tribe because of society turning against him???? It's actually happening. To think villain stans thought he'd be praised for it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ press f for doubt.
??? I don’t get this take, or maybe I’m just being too naive.
Hawks isn’t the first hero to kill, or go for the kill, in fact we’ve seen All Might try to kill All for One (sure he knocked him out but you can’t tell me the intent wasn’t there), the heroes fight with Shigaraki is also being recorded and they certainly went for the kill multiple times there too (Midoriya using 100% strength, Endeavor burning him alive, Shouto impaling him). It just seems strange to have Hawks condemned for actions that other heroes have committed.
Also, while I know vigilantes isn’t written by Horikoshi himself, it is still a part of canon and we had a similar circumstance with Endeavor. Endeavor went for the kill against Pop Step (a vigilante who was brainwashed into a villain) when he deemed her too dangerous of a threat and afterwards the nation was divided on whether he did the right thing or not, many of their feelings being affected by the fact that she was a vigilante who had helped people. However we saw that it didn’t affect his rank.
I can’t see Hawks being condemned for killing Twice when the truth of why he had to kill him comes out. Now whether people believe him is another story because faith of the heroes has been rocked but I still think we’d more likely get people being divided then outright condeming him.
Maybe I’m just too optimistic but I’ve never seen hero society as a place where heroes weren’t allowed to kill even if it protected others, but more of a place where they were expected to protect civilians, no matter the cost to themselves.
