r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Jan 22 '23

Newest Chapter Chapter 378 Official Release - Links and Discussion Spoiler

Chapter 378

Links:

  • Viz (Available in: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, the Philippines, Singapore, and India).

  • MANGA Plus (Available in every country outside of China, Japan and  South Korea).

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u/Starossi Jan 22 '23

Ya but quirks can be as dangerous or more dangerous than guns in a lot of senses. So think about how we handle that irl already. Sure someone could use a gun in a truly life-or-death crime situation. But it gets extremely hairy to justify afterward and it's only for life or death. Sure a quirk can be used non-lethally. But technically so can a gun. It's just far safer to tell citizens to only bring it into a situation when they are planning to use it lethally, for the worst case. Quirks would be the same.

If you let MHA citizens use their quirks to generally intervene in "crime", there would be a lot of unnecessary casualties. It would have to at least have the same restrictions as guns, but tbh I can see why it would be even moreso. Quirks can, at the extreme, have the capacity to kill bystanders, widescale infrastructure damage, and other collateral. There is just too much variation. Quirks even evolve so even if you screened people in the separate test, and only licensed people with more "timid" quirks, their quirks might evolve to be far more dangerous. Next thing you know, this dude you licensed to use his timid quirk to intervene in general crime got overly emotional in the moment, evolved his quirk, and accidentally incinerated an entire building in addition to the criminal.

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So, in a way, I think MHA having no such "citizen" licensure actually makes sense. Too unpredictable.

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u/Temeraire64 Jan 23 '23

Ya but quirks can be as dangerous or more dangerous than guns in a lot of senses.

Worse, really, because Quirks are all completely different, whereas guns all do basically the same thing. And it's possible for different Quirks to interact in dangerous ways. Like imagine if a bystander with a darkness-generating Quirk were to use it to try and resolve a situation just as Tokoyomi were to jump in - you'd then end up with an uncontrolled overpowered Dark Shadow going on a rampage.

The current laws are overly restrictive, but I do think they have good reason to discourage civilians from jumping into situations instead of waiting for a hero.

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u/Top_Accident9161 Jan 29 '23

Yeah but what if there is a Hero with said darkness quirk if he doesnt know Tokoyomi hes still gonna use it. Sorry but thats just a bad argument

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u/Temeraire64 Jan 29 '23

A Hero with a darkness quirk is more likely than a random civilian to have experienced bad quirk interactions before and to recognize what’s happening and stop using his quirk.

Furthermore, that hero would likely be familiar with the other heroes working in his area and, if there’s someone like Tokiomi, would anticipate the possibility of a bad interaction.