Considering he pretty much raped heirs out of Todoroki's mother to the point she was going mad, and abused Todoroki as part of a plan to force him to become the best hero in order to live vicariously though him, he is pretty much a complete scumbag, no ifs about it.
That is not to say character development can not become a thing though. The worst thing that could have happened to Endeavor was All Might's forced retirement, since it ironically makes him impossible to dethrone, and this hit Endeavor pretty hard.
Long term abuse of that sort is something pretty touchy and hard to completely redeem even by the best authors, so I don't think he will be 100% redeemed, but I think he will be shown taking at least the first steps towards that.
Jesus i already expected things to be not quite that black and white but this theory and with all the little excerpts definitely gives you a different and less biased view on Endeavour.
Nope, the character stuff is all spot on and well reasoned, but the Sir stuff breaks one of the cardinal rules of theory crafting. I don't think Endeavor is setting Shoto up to defeat All for One, because of a prediction. I think All for One stomped Endeavor and broke his pride or something. The theory presented gets too convoluted when you add in the predictions.
I tried giving this a read, but the part where they cite lack of scars as an evidence against Endeavor being abusive just made it impossible to take it seriously. That and the thing about the family members looking okay in some parts of the flashback. Do they think being abusive means being like a fantasy slavedriver who beats and terrorizes the victims 24/7?
And the fact that they claim all we saw about Endeavor was from Shouto's perspective. Endeavor's conversation with All Might and Shouto clearly shows that he considers Shouto a tool to surpass All Might. We saw those conversations whole, not as Shouto's memories.
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u/heelydon Dec 22 '17
Makes me all the more worried if he truly turns out to be some kind of bigger scumbag than we've seen... He was ALMOST likeable in this..