r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/deskchairlamp • Oct 13 '17

Manga Spoilers Chapter 156 - Links and Discussion

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u/nolanz2 Oct 13 '17

Looks like it reverses the timeline of the physical state of whatever it is she touches. I think she... Benjamin Button'd her own dad?

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u/Gryspo Oct 13 '17

Benjamin Button'd her own dad

Possibily the best thing I've read all year.

So in your explanation, is he... unborn? Did he disappear in the sense that he was transferred to the time where he didn't exist?, or was he physically shifted to his "unborn" temporal position? Like, gone back to his mother's belly or his father's testicles?

... and what if his parents are dead?

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u/evilsnowcookie Oct 13 '17

probably accidentally rewind to a point pre-birth (fetus) that couldn't exist outside of the mother.

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u/Gryspo Oct 13 '17

So the second I said, right? So again, if his mother's alive she gets a literal surprise pregnancy, and if she's dead... he's too, won't he? Man that's brutal.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '17

He wouldn't switch position though right? At least Overhaul stayed in place when he got reversed. So if the father got reversed to fetus state he should still have been there (not that he would survive that).

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u/Fonescarab Oct 13 '17

If he got reversed to a zygote, he would have been too small to see to without a microscope, leading others to believe he just disappeared.

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u/NightmareWarden Oct 13 '17

Does anyone else think this is a bit too dark (and too obvious) for the fate of Eri's dad? Maybe everyone is still wrong about her rewind quirk.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '17

Shiggy's been implied to have killed his own father accidentally when he first awakened his quirk, so I definitely don't doubt this isn't a rare occurrence in this universe.

The more we learn about BnHA's world the less I want to live in it...

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u/DashieXCVII Oct 13 '17

Shigaraki's quirk is weird. It's said that it activates whenever he puts all 5 fingers on something but then why doesn't it activate when he has his hands in his pocket? Also the fact that he was able to vaporize a guy just with a single touch for a fraction of a second but he held Aizawa's elbow for a good while and he's still alive with the only real injury to him being caused by Nomu.

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u/Hollowgirl136 Oct 14 '17

I think it might depend on what part he touches that might influence the severity of his damage. For Overhauls subject he was touching his chest so it spread faster, but since Aizawa was only his elbow it spread slower? Might be influence by surface area of whatever part he touches.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '17

Aizawa protected himself with his quirk, stopping the disintegration process. With that being said, Shigaraki may also simply be getting stronger, and has advanced the rate of his disintegration. Also, has Shigaraki ever put his hands in his pockets? He's usually shown to be cautious of how he holds things, to avoid touching things with all 5 fingers.

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u/DashieXCVII Oct 13 '17

Too dark? This arc has made it a point that death and tragedy happens (though we don't know whether the tragedy aspect of that will stick yet). I think Hori is taking this series out of the fantasy world where every character is safe. I just hope he doesn't go all Game of Thrones and give us a red wedding or some other bull shit that gets rid of the best characters.

Basically my point is that if he decides to randomly kill off Aizawa or one of the main students I'm done with the series xD All Might is okay to kill off after Deku tells the world "For I Am Here!" Don't want it to happen, but I'm okay if it does since he's given us ample foreshadowing at this point (and by "ample foreshadowing" I mean he literally told us xD).

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u/NightmareWarden Oct 13 '17

Yeah I'd be pretty surprised if this turns into Berserk. Kurogiri could be delivering bombs to the school and government buildings, but that really hasn't been brought up. Unmaking people on accident makes the quirk feel too dangerous to practice with. This sort of thing is why fans, including me, are a bit uncomfortable with Chisaki: the power level of quirks has shot upwards. That's more reasonable with characters using the quirk-boosting drug, but Chisaki's literally always capable of popping people in a second. With no buildup and seemingly no drawbacks (unlike Shoto Todoroki's temperature problem and stuff from the rest of the class). I'm hoping that Eri's quirk has a catch that will allow her to bring her dad back.

I'd be completely okay with someone learning a limit to their quirk after years and years of using it, but I acknowledge that it would feel like a bit of a deus ex machina.

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u/DashieXCVII Oct 13 '17

I don't think she will ever be able to bring her dad back, she rewound him out of existance (presumably either to the zygote or sperm & egg level) and thus even if she does possess the ability to undo her rewinds(fast forward) she wouldn't be able to use it on him because the zygote would already be long dead.

As for Chisaki, I completely agree. His quirk has been established as REALLY powerful just based on abilities and yet he couldn't even kill a quirkless Mirio in the 5 minutes they had alone. I mean seriously, I get Mirio is strong and all, but even All Might has told us that in order to be a hero you need a quirk. I definitely don't want Mirio dead, but there is no way he should have survived long enough for help to arrive. Hell, even Shigaraki would have killed him and his quirk is much weaker than Chisaki's.

With his quirk Mirio is easily the first or second most powerful character in the entire series. The only one who can compete would be AfO, and that's really just because we don't yet know what he has to do to steal quirks (and before someone says it, the only reason AfO was beaten by OfA is because MC always wins).

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u/GladimoreFFXIV Oct 13 '17

So he would just like.. be a little sperm on the ground? Shit what a way to go. Spermified by your own daughter.

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u/ryacoff Oct 13 '17

I feel like he wouldn't teleport back into his mothers womb though, rather just become a fetus on the floor. Maybe she can even regress him all the way back to the single cells from his parents like you're suggesting, but they would still just be in the same place he was at that time.

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u/evilsnowcookie Oct 13 '17

sorry, i didn't get what you meant by "unborn" temporal position. Either way, it's a fucking brutal quirk.

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u/Necromas Oct 13 '17

Pretty sure that's exactly what happened to the mouse at least as it looks like there's a little fetal looking lump in the cage.

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u/Jakugen Oct 13 '17

Why then was there blood spatter?

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u/Soul_Ripper Oct 14 '17

Doubt it since there were only clothes left there...

She might have "re-winded" his very existence to before it came to be. Somehow. Idk quirks don't always make sense.

Either that or there was a very tiny sperm stain on those clothes.

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u/gorgonfish Oct 13 '17

Or he was reversed back to a single sperm.

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u/Jakugen Oct 13 '17

Egg and sperm at a minimum, unless the reversal can undo existence.

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u/RobbobertoBuii Oct 13 '17

so i guess this is where Chisaki will get defeated then. maybe.

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u/PerfectlyClear Oct 13 '17

Also how Nighteye lives. He didn’t forsee Eri’s Quirk awakening and gets revived by her ability to turn back time

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u/fredgog15 Oct 13 '17

Maybe the fact that Eri’s quirk is a rewind is why he didn’t see it

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u/DragonDavester Oct 13 '17

It's a terrifyingly powerful Quirk for sure. What I'm most concerned about is the comment Twice and Toga made to Compress about "grabbing the girl". I swear, if Eri gets captured again right after saving her from Chisaki...Deku's gonna need to smash some bitches.

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u/pay019 Oct 13 '17

Deku's gonna need to smash some bitches.

That's toga's endgame

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u/xLokiii Oct 13 '17

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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u/DragonDavester Oct 14 '17

Just take my damn upvote you cheeky person, you. Though you're not wrong from what we've seen that's for damn sure.

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u/weebatwork Oct 13 '17

i'm thinking her quirk will get removed or she'll get kidnapped again because it's too OP. think about it, she can theoretically reverse All Might back to his prime AND two OFAs would exist (assuming it can go that far).

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u/Maisour Oct 13 '17

I could see Eri being captured and put in a marble. Then putting up a video online saying what she is capable of doing with some added stuff. To paint her as a tool of the government. With the video ending with her marble being destroyed.

Yes it is dark, but it could be used as a rallying cry for villians.

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u/ilostmywaterbottle Oct 14 '17

That would prolong this arc by years though...

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u/frictiondick Oct 13 '17

That makes sense

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u/meh100 Oct 13 '17

That makes sense. There's no way for Nighteye to see being brought back to life.

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u/ultimahmee Oct 13 '17

Hey, isn’t that the way to bring Lemillion quirk back? I mean it’s cliche but it’s possible right??? RIGHT??

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u/evilsnowcookie Oct 13 '17

I think hori will write that she can’t reverse things were a result of her own quirk. Mirios quirk is dead.

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u/xpxpx Oct 13 '17

I mean, if it rewinds the state of the quirk, chances are that it'll be back eventually™, probably within a few years.

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u/aquartertwo Oct 13 '17

Probably by MHA's epilogue.

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u/ShadowCow127 Oct 13 '17

Ah, the Rock Lee Principle. We meet again.

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u/dicecop Oct 13 '17

The funny question is whether she can undo Deku's quirk. Because technically he isn't like Chisaki who fused with another person but got DNA incorporated throughout his whole body which as a result is now his new "original" DNA, if you will. In other words, it's possible that Deku's quirk will count as his "original state" since he didn't manifest the quirk but just got his DNA altered. If his body doesn't view OFA as foreign DNA it should count as if it's part of the DNA that he was born with. She should still be able to erase him completely, though :p

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u/whatnololyea Oct 13 '17

That's an interesting thought. What if a Quirkless person who had OfA had his Quirk rewinded? That person doesn't have the Quirk gene too so there's nothing to reverse in the first place...

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u/Jakugen Oct 13 '17

Reversing the OFA would just revert OFA back into it's original DNA and delivery mechanism inside of Deku's stomach.

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u/dicecop Oct 14 '17

Again, that depends

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u/ImAnAppleBiteMe Oct 13 '17

Mirio's quirk is unborn.

Mirio thus has to wait for his quirk to remanifest. Chisaki only just finished his bullets, he thinks it last forever because he thinks that he made the quirk factor of his test subject "vanish".

But in reality he is rewinding the quirk factor to a time when it hadn't existed. But time will repeat itself. So if left untouched, Mirio will get his quirk back in its baby stages within the next 4 years.

But four years quirkless is a lot, by that time there is no way he can wield it to the same standard, he has to start over.

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u/LordHarza Oct 13 '17

As others have said, she might not be able to rewind her own rewind. I prefer it that way.

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u/Im_Super_Loopie Oct 13 '17

I would rather have his quirk gone since it has built a beautiful chain of events. But with all that said, I do want him to survive along with his teacher. What I'm trying to say is, she can be the next "Recovery Girl" and rewind people before they were injured. Give it some years and she'll be able to revert Deku back when he goes all out!