#redestro

[spare-tomu-pics]

[UR Memory] Paranormal Liberation Front

[snaggz]

ten hour flight, villains edition. where we sittin?

[itsnothingofinterest]

Man, I still miss these guys so friggin' much.

Y'all carried your series and did not deserve the trash endings you got.

[cherrycloy]

The pro heroes' bright, comforting costumes cover up child soldiers and other human rights abuses. It's like. an entire thing. The very laws of bnha's Japan encourage people to give up their civic responsibility for the spectacle of "heroes vs villains." This, too, is An Entire Thing.

I'm probably not the first to compare bnha's Bread and Circuses to The Hunger Games and other dystopian death game stories. The bread grants relative stability and the circuses, funnily enough, distract people with the very thing they try to distract them from. Both Bnha and THG frame the circuses as necessary to subjugate an "other" and keep it from taking the bread.

Bnha differs from similar dystopian media in an interesting way: The spectators watch from inside the arena. They're part of the game, they can die too. Their perceived safety being at risk makes the circus interesting. And even if they wanted to, they could not leave.

Transitioning spectators to participants makes up an entire industry. The civilian education system encourages children as young as three to lay their life on the line. Of course, they all want to. Every flashy hero fight is an advertisement and threat in one.

The villains look like voluntary participants too. People don't see the poverty, discrimination, abuse and loneliness that forces them into the spotlight.

This set-up gives plausible deniability that anything is "set-up" at all. Bnha's circuses are entirely manufactured and authentic at the same time.

Stain's or the MLA's popularity and the widespread criticism of heroes during the final war show the fragile balance of entertainment, complacency and fear. But the realness of it keeps most people from turning off the TV and asking themselves what the Fuck they just saw.

[delawaredetroit]

This scene isn't a setup for potential conflict within the League; it's intended to contrast how Shigaraki handles ideological conflict with his allies compared to ReDestro.

Shigaraki allows for fundamental ideological conflict within his group while ReDestro kills those who don't get behind Destro's ideology. Shigaraki keeps Spinner around despite knowing he was a Stain acolyte. He doesn't scold Toga for finding value/love in parts of the world around her that Shigaraki hates to his core.

Though to some extent, it's a bit of an apples and oranges comparison because Shigaraki never had a coherent ideology. Even the destroy everything goal is more of a reactionary emotional impulse to the what exists around him. ReDestro is an ideologue who purges nonbelievers while Shigaraki is a villain leader acting mostly on impulse but trusts in his comrades even if they have different motivations and end goals.

[nickfoo]

I haven’t tormented the man in awhile

[kharmii]

Art credit: My Hero Academia, looks official, My Hero Academia 1000+ bookmarks / 【どうやら出番のようだ！21】告知イラスト - pixiv

Have I posted about everything featuring MLA people yet?

[moodyvoid]

Dabi, sitting in the PLF conference room.

Dabi: “I don’t even know what I did wrong.”

ReDestro: “You started a mosh pit at the PLF community meeting.”

Dabi, smirking: “Yeah, and I ended it too.”

Shigaraki: “It’s not that big of a deal.”

ReDestro: “He knocked out Skeptic.”

Shigaraki, shrugging: “He shouldn’t have been in the pit.”

Dabi, nodding in agreement.