Then that's the thing. I didn't realize how long you've had a problem with these happenings, so forgive me for not taking your complaints in the context of the latest irritation in a long line of irritations.
I figure Midoria turns full cowling off for the same reason we don't walk around with training weights on all the time. The constant strain could damage muscles, and be a detriment to his efforts to gradually increase what he can handle.
Vibration dude did use a potentially dangerous move that did not appear to have much margin for control. Someone getting hurt in that seems like it would reflect different on the perpetrator than someone turning on their strength quirk and point blank wounding or worse a single target, assuming that is what you meant when you said "why didn't he just smash her face into a wall or something?" One could be an accident as there was no single target (though harm was likely intended), while the other looks more premeditated, though I admit that's splitting hairs. I'm not saying that everyone should be above violence. I was challenging your assertion that "but hurting them is necessary if they are your enemies." from the establishment's perspective. the goal is touching a rubber nerf ball to a set of Velcro targets. Yes, if they are injured/crippled it is easier, but is that what the examiners envisioned when they set this test up?
Perhaps not if these were hunters, or ninjas, or pirates, or kids on a playground, but MhA portrays, at least so far, the story of a boy aspiring to become a professional hero who reports to a governing body in a somewhat realistic way. In the context of being judged for a provisional license to essentially use their powers in public to project force on other people if necessary, I don't think it is too silly to show some restraint when granted an opportunity or excuse to attack. The closest IRL approximation I can think of is a concealed carry license. It grants you immense power; but, in theory, you are first trained, tested, and found worthy of brandishing that power before it is signed off on and granted. I think an immediate assault on that girl, especially when she looked like Ururaka, would betray the judgment a pro hero could be expected to have. They are not simply government muscle, but keepers of the peace.Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
As far as confidential info is concerned, they already stated, and I believe that Deku might have mentioned last episode, that pro heroes could expect to have their quirks known by adversaries in the first place, so I don't put much value in their confidentiality. That doesn't mean there is no value, though, so I concede that it was largely to catch the audience up and, as I suggested, give the fake a chance to explain herself or drop the act.
It is a blurry line. Since the powers themselves have to be somewhat abstracted, I figured it was a given other parts of human physiology would be likewise... flexible. Stain's "training" shouldn't have made him as fast as Deku, who is enhanced, but Todoroki's repeated exposure/contact to sub frozen temperatures and searing heat hasn't eaten away at his nerves, or given him frostbite or something? I'll point again to Nomu slamming Eraserhead's head into the concrete in season 1, making visible cracks and indentation into the floor. That goes beyond mere damage to his eyes, and his quirk isn't "hard face", so him not dying then and there was likely problematic for you, I suppose. I suspect then, that you find other things about this show to be enjoyable if you are still watching it, because those low-key superhuman characteristics are all over MhA, and shounen anime in general, not that you needed me telling you.
Inconsistencies can be found in almost any fiction if you look deep enough. I guess it's up to the author's skill as to how deep you have to dig before they bother you.
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