Civilians in a world of superheroes
My point might not make any sense and I'm pretty much just rambling but as I've seen the recent BNHA chapters I must say, I'm disappointed. Aside from my personal feelings for Uraraka, just gonna point out she's one of my least favorite characters, but her speech was clearly meant to be an emotional, moving moment but here's the truth:
It doesn't work.
Remember Captain America: Civil War? Where Tony meets an angry grieving mother whose son died in what ended up being a warzone between the Avengers and Ultron? And then Zemo later mentions that after Ultron was defeated the Avengers just went home?
Here's the thing, it truly is messed up that the very young teenagers are being forced to fight in a war that they didn't start, and the civilians shouldn't be blaming them in particular and should be mad more so at the adult pro-heroes and the entire hero organization but the truth is, I don't blame them for being wary.
Deku is a victim in these circumstances for certain, but bringing him back to UA wasn't a very bright idea? Someplace might have been better instead of where there's a bunch angry civilians.
Yet these angry civilians are being portrayed as irrational and like the worst bunch of human beings, and while they DID want to hurt Deku as his Danger Sense went off, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth that they're portrayed so badly. Think about it. One of those civilians could be just like that mother in Civil War. Who knows what these people went through during all of the damage? And yet the overall point is that they're the bad guys for being understandably wary of heroes who haven't really done much to better the situation?
It didn't look like they cleaned up any damage they did, or what the villains did either. This is why Civil War began, because civilians were justifiably upset with how much the heroes didn't do their part to patch up the damage caused. Sure I get the point in BNHA is that being a bystander IS bad because it really is and it drives in the idea that it only breeds the ugliness that creates villains but I honest to god can't fault the civilians for being upset. Especially since overall the blame still lies within the heroes, just like the blame lies within the Avengers.
The young heroes such as Deku as well as Spider-Man himself now that I think about it, are pretty blameless in this, but the sad part is that they're still indoctrinated, they still can't comprehend why maybe the heroes are responsible for most of everything that's occurred and why they're so wary. Everything has a very black and white view in BNHA, because the MCU actually does it's part to explore the grey aspects of everything, including the way civilians view these 'heroes'. I don't see BNHA taking the time to do such a thing since we get little to no real insight from civilians, and then Uraraka appealed to the good graces of the civilians and it's why they even agreed to help Deku get into UA. I get that it was ultimately for his sake but that's arguably even worse.
Before you burn me to the stake, here's the thing. Deku isn't at fault here, I know that, and he's been through enough and needs to rest but when he's the literal target of the baddest man on the planet, would you feel safe with him? And when you dial it down, Uraraka might be a nice person who cares about other people, but she pretty much asked a group of traumatized people to put aside their anger just to let a boy she likes in, that's it. Even if she does care about how they feel, I didn't get much of that.
In the end she wanted the civilians to allow Deku to 'just go home' much like the Avengers did after Ultron was defeated. To just go home and ultimately not do anything about the damage left behind. Deku maybe gets that privilege, but let's not forget that she also asked for the civlians to also extend that same privilege to the pro-heroes to 'just go home' and deal with the damage later.
That's not empathetic. Think about it, she asked a group of traumatized and angry civilians that could very much be just like Civil War's Angry mother to put aside their justified dubiousness to put some very shaky faith in a group of literal children and pro-heroes who have repeatedly failed them.
How many of those civilians lost people? How many of them are possibly grieving like that mother from Civil War?
I'm sorry but I wouldn't put my faith into them? I love those children, I love maybe 3 pro-heroes but after the repeated failures combined with the fact that Deku is the exact target of the most dangerous villain in the world, I just can't put my faith in them. Not only is it ethically wrong, but it'd be asking to just ignore any trauma suffered as an innocent civilian and help out the people responsible for the entire mess.
