Why I hate All Might

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Note: I copied the following text from a comment I made on a fanfic that at the time of this being published, I am still reading. Also, it's really long and when I first wrote it, it was very emotionally driven. I was able to correct a few spelling mistakes and added a few details, but there might still be a few in there.

      All Might is a bigot, and resploding. He exploits his imposing presence by letting everyone's bias/positive view point of him overshadow the fact that he is a stupid and selfish child.

     In the original series, he exploits Midoriya into taking his quirk, which results in him nearly destroying himself multiple times. It takes someone from the outside to interfere before he finally gets control over his quirk: Gran Torino. He helps Midoriya to start weilding roughly 8% of OFA. Then, later on when Sir Nighteye enters the scene, he tries to have Midoriya give his quirk to someone else, which initially seems like a bad idea, but later on Midoriya becomes a target and turns to working alone in order to "protect" everyone, and it makes a lot more sense as to why Sir Nighteye wanted him to give his quirk to Mirio.
Mirio is more mature and trusts his allies more, so if Mirio were to become a target, he would be more open to working with Nejire and Tamaki (or is it Amajiki?), because he trusts them. Sit Nighteye was trying to protect Midoriya from nearly destroyong himself.

     Right before the first teaining arc begins, Midoriya gets rejected by his idol due to his quirklessness, that immediately set off red flags by a lot of the fandom, but in the end he still did something heroic and got OFA, right? WRONG! All Might told Midoriya that he was heroic by saving Bakugou without thinking and that he 'passed a test' and is 'destined for greatness'.
Being told that you were chosen by someone higher than you is a common tactic cults use to make the people think that they're doing the right thing. All Might tells Midoriya to do something, he does is. Barely any questions or no questions asked. He takes over Midoriya's schedule, he's fine with it. Anything to earn his quirk and get into the most prestigious hero course!

     During the first training arc, Midoriya overexerts himself, All Might only briefly scolds him, before praising him for trying to go beyond.

     There were also multiple times where All Might tells Midoriya not to tell anyone about OFA, because information getting out about it is dangerous. Not even his teacher. So, let me get this straight, you don't want HIS TEACHER, the person that's suppose to help him improve himself to know that he only recently got his quirk, because it's 'dangerous' for people to know. How is it dangerous? You're the #1 hero. No one is going to care that you weren't born with your quirk, if anything, they'll think it's impressive that you were able to get so strong with a given quirk.
Not allowing Midoriya to ask for help from Aizawa causes him to be dependent on the only other person that could guide him and teach him, which is All Might. Making someone dependent on you makes it easy for them to manipulate you, which is exactly what All Might did.

    Now, before someone gives the argument that giving OFA to a quirkless person would ensure that they would have a longer lifespan than a quirked person, I would also like to add that the purpose of OFA was to be used to defeat AFO. All Might did that.
While it did get transferred to Shigaraki, the first goal was fulfillied. AFO was defeated by All Might. Yes, it happened after OFA was given to Midoriya, but it still happened. I know this argument is a lot weaker, by why do you need the anti AFO quirk when there's no AFO to defy?

     This is why I believe MHA/BNHA is a tragedy about a boy getting manipulated by his idol.

Word count: 695. Sources: My brain and my mosly unreliable memory.

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⏰ Last updated: Jun 30, 2022 ⏰

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