I just realized that the MHA world's social stance is extremely black and white when it comes to hero and villain. Aside from the main conflict of AFO and OFA, the hero society's biggest problem is its own worldview, which is the reason for many of the characters, both on the villains' and heroes' sides.
The view of black is bad, and white is good, no matter the severity and circumstantial difference of the individual.
Each crime committed is villainous, and all purposes behind such acts become irrelevant/is negated since what they did in the end is considered a villainous deed. Even someone who steals for survival can be branded as on the same level as a murderer, and branded with the shiny title of 'Villain'. Even if punishments varied for each crime, the one who commits the crime will still suffer the stigma of being the 'villain', especially with the press always live reporting whenever a pursuit between 'hero' and 'villain' happened.
While heroes are meant to save the day, and do the 'good' thing. That they are heroic, selfless, devoted to their role as saviour. The idea that heroes will save everyone and the needy will be rescued is the primary reason why Tomura(dry lip guy- I don't remember his name) became a villain in the original story because the people that saw him help him since either way the heroes would 'save' the day.
Not only that, but they pushed this agenda of one or the other on children as well, going so far as to equate a quirk(that mostly relies on genetics) with 'villain' and 'hero'. Calling children who have just received their quirk (which, strictly speaking, is like a generational heirloom passed down that changes through every owner yet still carry a semblance of the prior generation's quirk traits no matter how small) a villain for having a quirk that could do bad things or need obscure means to activate it(like in Himeko's situation) and going so far as to abandon them for that sole reason. Not to mention the double standards for heroic quirk and villainous quirk that people have as well.
The only major problem that was addressed in the story is that the hero and villain are still human in the end, and that bad can change.
The side issues become completely irrelevant once the greater good stop the greater evil.
Even with the case of OFA, which is known to be this villain that opposes peace, experiments on people, and kills people. They didn't choose the 'right' thing to do, which is to kill him and stop his decade-old reign from possibly continuing, but the 'good' thing to do, which is just to throw him in prison and take away his senses and mobility. Only perished later on in the story by his own means after failing to overtake Crusty's body.
Maybe that is why when the prisons broke out, the city was utterly destroyed and instantly became the villain's entire playing ground because the government chose to show 'good' by imprisoning criminals instead of outright sentencing major crimes for death. Which leads to the prisons holding too many criminals, and more villains = more destructive power = the entire city/ country going into panic mode the instant prisons broke out.
While Teyvat is like a fairy tale story book that slowly unravels its darkness the deeper you go in and the more you uncover. MHA is a world adhering to one line only, that is good and evil, with an extreme moral spiral in between that flung people within it on each polar side with no exception.
Wow, that's a lot, I love that) ❤❤❤
Honestly, I sometimes have doubts, is everything really that bad and exaggerated in the world of Heroes? Even in the late seasons??
I watched MHA, but it was a long time ago and a lot of my understanding and preferred headcounts were based on fanfiction.
Yes, I need to review the anime, I really need to. Did I do it in a year? No. And I'm really mad at myself.
However, no matter what I end up seeing in the anime, it's my AU and I can use and point to anything. Poking Heroes in their black and white morality is a lot of fun)
Teyvat is a garden that the deeper you dig, the more bodies you find.
And MHA is a glass house that looks beautiful and reliable, exactly until you start wondering how it all works.
Damn, there's so much room for topics that can be raised and discussed, my hands itch, my eyes run away.
