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EP. REVIEW: My Hero Academia

How does Izuku think he and Ka-chan still qualify as friends when all the dude ever does is insult him???

Animechic420 wrote:

How does Izuku think he and Ka-chan still qualify as friends when all the dude ever does is insult him???

Kacchan's problem is a massive inferiority complex. When he is in thrall to it there is no amount of power he can possess that will be enough for him. Praise and worship from Midioriya means nothing to him. Maybe he will get over it eventualy.

To Midoriya, Kacchan was the closest thing to a hero he was close to.

Bakugo does have a huge, totally unexplained inferiority complex. He's actually so worried about being inferior that he's convinced himself he is the superior.

There's a scene in Fairy Tail where Laxus get's knocked on his ass by Jura and Jura says "In this world there's always someone higher than you."

Laxus then jumps to his feet and punches him saying "Sometimes you need to look down too. Cause that guy might be at your feet."

It's as if Kacchan has taken that line to heart and now lives in a constant state of total fear that there's someone stronger at his feet.

Also yeah Deku has serious "Shonen Protagonist Friend Syndrome.", you know where the protagonists insist he/she is friends with someone who clearly wants nothing to do with them, or in some cases just outright assaults them all the time.

There was Naruto and Sasuke, a little bit with Natsu and Gray, even Luffy forces friendship on people who don't like him (Buggy).

This is one of the cases where MHA takes too much influence from Naruto, having the MC think he's friends with someone who anyone else would say to stay away from that guy hates everyone.

Bakugo does have a huge, totally unexplained inferiority complex. He's actually so worried about being inferior that he's convinced himself he is the superior.

This boy's personality gives my headaches. Bakugo should stop thinking he has to be better then everyone else. Or that other heroes will surpass him. That's not what being a hero is about.

The thing with Kachan is somewhat simple. From a very young age people have been telling him how amazing he is. So he started believing he was amazing, and in fact, he is. But here's the catch: since everyone though he was amazing, they thought he could do anything. So that left Kachan surrounded by people who though he never needed any help with anything ever. That left him all alone, while surrounded by people. So he forced himself to believe he didn't need any help, even though he wanted help. When he fell off that bridge, everyone just said he'd be fine, but Deku came to help him anyway. Even though Kachan wanted help at the same time he didn't, because he woulnd't be "amazing" anymore. And that's why he's always angry. He's always in conflict with himself. He doesn't technically have an inferiority complex, but he's so afraid of being inferior that he's always on the attack.

He should stop thinking like that...but I've met people who are actually like that, so Bakugo's a very believable character to me. (None of them ever claimed they wanted to be a hero though. Most were pretty upfront about wanting to be at the top of the hill.)

We're in the "nothing's super impressive but at least everything's on-model so far" phase of the series.

That Kacchan dude wins my award for Character Who Most Needs Several Swift Kicks to the Face. Jesus, I hate that dick. Total one note character and that note is really, really irritating.