sharkseye replied to your post “First Magne and now Twice. Why does the League of Villains keep losing...”
“Their ‘likely’ loss? Sorry, can you clarify? Do you think the heroes will lose at the end of this, or the villains? (Oh I hope it’s not the villains, they’ve lost too much already)
imho it makes no sense for the heroes to win this battle. For one, because they did nothing to receive narrative praise: if anything, the fact that Hawks - arguably the very symbol of hero society’s military state oppression - kickstarted this should be an indicator that things won’t go the smooth way he predicted. Giving him a win right now would just reinforce the idea that what he did to Twice and to the League was legit. And before anyone jumps on my throat for defending villains who want the annihilation of the status quo: neither side is in the right here. The villains for wanting to destroy everything, and the heroes for killing in cold blood, arbitrarily deciding who gets to be “saved” and who is sacrificeable for a faceless “greater good”. Hawks did not only kill Twice, a villain who was begging and crying his eyes out. He also executed Jeanist, a hero no longer useful to the system because of his disability susteined in the line of duty, ironically enough. In the end, both sides are just relishing in violence for violence’s sake, something that early Shigaraki already called out hero society for - and for which he was then promptly dismissed.
Secondly, a victory for the heroes means the lov gets out of this in tatters, and that’s simply not possible because the lov needs to exist until the end of the story. Because thematically, fighting Shigaraki and “winning” is Deku’s role.
Thirdly, the raid began with a clear advantage of the heroes. Right now, they’re the ones with the upper hand. Miruko destroyed Ujiko’s only escape route, Redestro and the plf are trapped inside the building, and Hawks killed the guy who could turn the numbers in their favour. Right now, things are way too imbalanced. I fully expect things to be turned upside down once Shigaraki wakes up and Gigantomachia and him start fighting for real.
And then lastly, and perhaps most importantly, it’s a matter of framing.
The heroes fully expect to win this battle like All Might won against Afo at Kamino. When the power of good morals and hope helped him defeat the biggest evil of their time. The zooming in on All Might’s victorious fist serves as a visual indicator of that. Hope is a big theme of this arc. People believed in All Might. They had faith that he would always come out victorious from any fight. And he did.
This arc, and this raid, however, are captained by Endeavor.
Endeavor, who has been foreshadowed as the root of darkness himself:
Endeavor, who harvested children for his own evil purposes, and who is not that different from Ujiko, but still refuses to own responsibility for it and instead projects his own culpability on villains instead of addressing his own rot:
This is supposed to be the arc where Enji “proves” to the world that he can be a good pillar of peace like All Might, and that he can give them hope. But the thing is, he cannot give hope and an example of good morals, when he is rotten to begin with.
This arc, that started with him and Hawks in cahoots to apply their very twisted morals to obtain a flawless victory for the heroes, will likely result in something else entirely.
This is not to say that I think the Plf will successfully annihilate all heroes. But I think they’re definitely not getting the clean win they expect. There will be losses on both sides, and they won’t just be in human lives imho.
