@zeltrax225:
The problem then, is real world marginalized people don't actively commit terrorism, spread hate and kill people off.
It's a rather extreme… stance to take, to want us to empathize with marginalized groups when that very group kills off innocent people.
Except historically, they do. From IRA and ETA, to the kurdish militia fighting ISIS.
For the main villain and end game, Shiragaki never did come off as complex or deeper than what he is.
You would think after so much screen time and development, there would be something significant there.
It's one thing if he truly wishes to create a fairer world and another when he is pulling the entire world into his tantrum which basically amounts to terrorism.
Which is funny because as a direct foil to him, Deku is hardly a complex or multi facet character either.
He's a good guy and superman and that's the story.
Yes, that's a narrative problem. Shigi has always been around plain revenge against the society that abandoned him after being groomed by a narcissistic phycopath to think that's the only answer. But instead of filling his ranks with Musculars, Rappas and Moonfish's of life Hori decided to choose to make the LoV charcthers society's outcast that have been wronged by a system that refuses to see it's flaws. And in that regard he comes poorly because we the readers can see there's problems in the society, but outside the villains, no one in story acknowledges the structure as flawed. I don't think either me o Julie are arguing that murder is ok if you are opressed, but rather that a society with heroes fails to see the whys a person turns in to villain and mend those in the first place.
Because this series was more towards black and white than it was ever about grey areas.
Hori is bad going out of black and white, but I think that's a particular problem of japanese culture when writing about society, very few instances pop up to mind immediately when we think of the authority it's painted as corrupt, inefficient, evil, etc.
Now to something completely different: Deku needs therapy before his messianic complex gets himself killed.