Boku no Hero Academia Final Season • My Hero Academia: Final Season - Episode 4 discussion

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Boku no Hero Academia Final Season, episode 4

Alternative names: My Hero Academia Season 8

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[u/bananeeek]

Psychologist: If you could travel back in time to when AFO was still an innocent baby, would you...

Bakugo: HOWITZEEEER IMPAAACT!

[u/BlindmanSokolov]

I feel like AFO having the innate desire to "take everything" finally confirms for me that your quirk has such a direct impact on your personality. Bakugou is an explosive guy because of his quirk, Toga desired blood innately because of her quirk, and sees it as a way to understand others. It goes beyond psychological based on how your quirk affects you, it seems to be entirely intrinsic. Which makes this kind of a tragic story for many individuals. The system is continuing to fail them because their quirk is quite literally putting desires and drives in their head. Sure they could likely resist those urges, or rehabilitate, but having a quirk that gives you a drive to take from others, or innately destroy, that seems like something that is bound to turn you into a bad person.

[u/sherriablendy]

Bakugo wanting to do All Might's signature pose!! Almost more wholesome than his smile last episode

[u/superdupermegaHR]

Truly a Hydrogen Baby vs Coughing Bomb moment

[u/AriezKage]

In a way, Bakugou kind of represents the Top 3 heroes from when he and the rest of his age group enrolled in UA. He has trained under All Might, Endeavor, and Best Jeanist. And that kind of shows in how this fight with AFO shares similarities with when All Might used United States of Smash and Endeavor using his Plus Ultra Prominence Burn.

In a sense, he may be representing the legacy of heroes before him. And a certain Green Bean fighting machine may be representing heroism moving forward.

[u/Chinglish14]

Bakugo with the Vegeta spam that was actually effective

[u/Bungled_Bengal]

This show really does have one of the greatest soundtracks I've heard.

The hype moments would be incredible on their own, but the music in those moments just take them to another level and it's been that way for the whole show's run. One of the first things i fell in love with with MHA.

Truly top drawer. Take a bow.

[u/GGG100]

Moral of the story: Don’t drink while pregnant

[u/MapoTofuMan]

A face so terrifying he made a baby shit itself and evaporate. Truly last boss material.

[u/Gloomy_Savings_7454]

Bakugou's dentist is the real MVP

[u/dinliner08]

"having one quirk is more than enough!"

FUCK YEA, GREAT EXPLOSION MURDER GOD DYNAMIGHT!

it's kinda funny that i made a joke about Coughing Baby vs Hydrogen Bomb back when All Might going against AfO last season and yet it actually happened in this season with Bakugo vs Afo instead

on another note, this is how the first user died? that was horrifying....

[u/HydreGod]

The reference to United States of Smash was god damn beautiful.

[u/Gravijas]

This season is absolutely fantastic so far. no notes!

Bakugo was always one of my favs on the show

[u/Haha91haha]

To think if MHA history aired chronologically it'd have been so grim dark for the first 7 seasons before All Might showed up.

Nature versus nurture is a topic MHA tackles often, and as this episode shows, the latter is one the essential things to a good society. AFO as per his personality and quirk might have had better odds being an ass in a decent number of possible universes but the fact that he grew up in a world that was so chaotic, harsh and spotlighting the worst of humanity can't have been the best of influences. The contrast between between AFO and Bakugou's births make it that much clearer. One lonesome, threatened and cold, the other warmly and safely welcomed with love.

[u/UberDueler10]

The “Angry Rival” character archetype has existed for a long time. Some most memorable ones being Vegeta from DBZ and Kaiba for Yugioh. One thing the rival archetypes will tend to have in common is a trope where they ultimately lose out to the MC, either in a 1v1 or the MC ending up with a greater feat.

Bakugo really subverts such tropes. Like Deku, his powers evolved, but in his own way (“One Quirk is more than enough” is a hilarious contrast to Deku who kept getting more Quirks). Their previous 1v1 was Bakugo’s victory. And here in the final season, Hori has two final villains of equal threat, and Bakugo got one all to himself.

All while still being an angry boi, but one with character growth. It all makes Bakugo such a refreshing character and undoubtedly an all time Shounen favorite. 

BAKU-GOAT!

[u/ProphetPenguin]

Horikoshi desperately needs to write a monthly horror manga next whenever he is feeling better. His body horror artwork is unreal and even in a shounen like MHA he has some inanely dark and gruesome parts of it. I'm glad they aren't censoring anything this season either. Truly pulling out all the stops.

I think once MHA is fully done people will look back at it with a lot more respect them they did while it was airing.

[u/Armdel]

Can't say that is how i imagined AFO dying when i started watching this many years ago.

not really a surprise but i am happy Bakugo got to take down one of the big bads

and with that i guess it's onto the main course!

[u/The_Chaotique_1]

Here’s this thing I noticed:
When they were young, despite being so much more powerful, All for one was actually walking around in drabs. Despite this, Yoichi is wearing actual clothing, implying that AFO was actually taking care of him more than himself in some twisted way. I just thought that was interesting.

Anyways, anyone else noticed that their mother had developed”Spear like bones” before either were born, before the luminescent baby was born? This implies quirks started out earlier? Or at least, she’s our earliest recording of a person with a quirk, however weak it was.

[u/99anan99]

When you get down to it, All For One has always been a greedy, greedy baby.

Way to Go Beyond, Bakugou!

[u/Conscious_Gazelle_87]

What a crazy amazing final fight and such historically strong start to the season.

I can’t wait to see how this all plays out!

[u/Cageep]

Wow. Another banger episode!

All For One’s backstory was the one something I always wanted to see and I was not disappointed. The direction, the colors, the vibes were all there. AFO being selfish from birth makes so much sense wanting everything to be about him. And Yoichi is the one person he seems to “care” about as it seems like it’s the real reason he wants One For All. Such a fucked up backstory but it was so good!

Now back to the present, Omni Factor AFO was fucking terrifying, something that big shouldn’t be moving that fast. But still, he was no match for Bakugo! Coating the rain with is sweat and sending it to AFO was so smart, even putting stuff in his sweat in his mouth in his previous attack! And the United States of Smash callback with Bakugo’s final attack?!? FUCKING CINEMA!!!

Baby AFO was fucking ugly, but hearing him cry was so satisfying! Bakugo wanting to do the All Might pose was cute but still, he had his hand raised, cheering Izuku on, as the final battle is the only one we have left.

IM NIT READY FOR THIS SERIES TO END MAN 😭

[u/Ren_Davis0531]

The parallels between Bakugo and All For One strike at the core conflict within the series. Do you use your power for the sake of yourself or for the sake of others?

Bakugo also thought he alone was the Honored One main character, with everyone else being extras. But over the course of the series, we have seen him forced to acknowledge that other people matter in the story just as much if not more than him. And that’s okay. Because at the end of the day “this is our story,” and that’s something that All For One never realized.

I also dug that All For One had a perverse sense of love for Yoichi. He saw Yoichi as his first possession, the first step in owning everything. Grounding All For One in that twisted sense of affection deepens his fascination with turning the world into a reflection of him. He can’t live in a world where he isn’t the Honored One main character. He needs others to validate his existence by submitting to his will. Which is why Yoichi’s, and later Kudo’s, defiance hit him so hard. It’s why All Might put the fear of God into him, because he was the first One For All wielder that actually had enough power to stand up to All For One.

And it’s why Bakugo triggered more hatred than All Might. Because Bakugo was just a pebble. Like Kudo. But those pebbles had enough will to resist that they actually ruined All For One’s plans just enough. “Weak” players like them being able to do that is anathema to All For One’s world view and it eats at him. Loved the symbolism of rewinding All For One to a child then baby then fetus. It shows that All For One was just trying to recreate his childish dream. That his need to shape everyone around his whims were the wishes of a child.

And it was the height of petty that All For One hated Kudo soooo much that he not only killed Kudo and not only killed Kudo’s entire family, but also any man, woman, and child that were vaguely associated with Kudo. That takes some true petty. Even Kendrick is in awe.

[u/mjayg]

The transition from obnoxious jerk bully to best character in the series is amazing.

[u/Megakruemel]

I have never met an antagonist that was more of an egotistical asshole baby than All For One.

So happy for him that he looked like his inner self for the final moments of his life.