#bnha 91

[delawaredetroit]

This is not the last time Shigaraki Tomura falls into the void...

Also, this moment parallels Nana's death in a heartbreaking way. All for One was pretending to entrust his will to Shigaraki by pushing him out of the fray a la Shimura Nana's final fight when she left the future to All Might. Except All for One knew he was only using Shigaraki and he was unlikely to be killed while this fight was on national television.

For both scenes, Gran Torino was present. Gran Torino was the one who grabbed All Might so that he would survive his first battle with All for One. But Gran Torino failed to reach Shigaraki. (Yes, unlike with All Might, Gran Torino wasn't trying to save him...but in retrospect things would have turned out better for Shigaraki if he had been caught here)

And of course, this scene further establishes Izuku and Shigaraki as narrative foils. At this point in the manga, both characters were driven to fulfill the role set out for them by a benefactor/savior that they admired and wished to emulate.

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Chapter 91 cover

[delawaredetroit]

They were all insane for this. Izuku for coming up with it and the rest of them for going along with it

And it's the basis for most of Class 1A's later big combos

[delawaredetroit]

Guys, I think the takeaway might be that he hates All Might

In case anyone thought otherwise, All for One never had the impulse control to resist a fist fight with All Might when the opportunity was right in front of him. His later de-aging didn't change that, it just made it more pronounced.

Because based on what All for One said here about only showing up to bail out Shigaraki and what his later goals were, he clearly wasn't originally planning to have his "final battle" with All Might in Kamino at this point. Getting caught and sent to Tartarus wasn't a deal breaker for his schemes, but he's too selfish for that to have been his first option.