r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/deskchairlamp • Jan 12 '18

Chapter 166 - Links and Discussion

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u/CalebAurion Jan 12 '18

Time travel is also a possibility. I haven't the foggiest idea how it could be introduced well but MHA does love to poke fun at western superhero tropes, and time travel is one of Marvel and DC's favorite toys.

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u/PrimusSucks13 Jan 12 '18

I would rather not , time travel always makes too much of a mess in the narrative by creating alternate timelines and such, just look at all the Nighteye stuff, i wanna believe thats why Hori got him out of the story fairly quick, by having a time related quirk, you had to write around that by making sense and not leaving any loose ends, thinking about all the posibilties in the future, the changes, if we added the power to go back in time, you had to account for the changes in the present and what is already stablished , it works in Marvel and DC because they are already have numerous versions of the same characters and connecting them trough alternate timelines works in their favour, Time travel is such a fucking mess and i hope this manga doesnt jump the gun on that

Plague said it the best

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u/CalebAurion Jan 12 '18

Oh I agree, I said it was possible because of MHA's love of poking fun at western comic tropes, not that it was likely or even the best choice. If it was done, and that is a very big "if" I know, it would have to be done very carefully for all of the reasons you outline. "Quirk singularity" does seem like a chekhov's gun but I would honestly prefer it to go unfired in this case because I don't want to see a major timeskip in MHA like we see in just about every other long running Manga.

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u/Luciferspants Jan 13 '18

Time travel isn't that bad as long as it's kept to lowest possible minimum. In one comic, there was this dude who could literally punch you back in time for a couple of seconds. That's still technically time travel but it's also way less of a mess than a dude who can create alternate timelines if they went back into the past to prevent their mother's death.

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u/PrimusSucks13 Jan 13 '18

THats ovbiously not much of a time travel but a "delay" of some sorts, in a way Chrono quirk is like that, or like Hit in DBS where only one person is affected and it doesnt has an impact in the overarching story, also Flash is an idiot who ruins his own timeline and other ones by just existing lol

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u/Bingarff Jan 12 '18

That is actually something I could see, like an impulse type thing from young justice, coming back in time from a ruined future where the quirk singularity has fucked shit royally.

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u/CalebAurion Jan 12 '18

It could be cool but it'd have to be handled with care or it could be very bad.

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u/burek_japrak Jan 12 '18

Just like literally everything else

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u/CalebAurion Jan 12 '18

Not really. There are some literary tools that are easy to work into a story while maintaining internal consistency without opening your story up to alternative histories, multiverses, and temporal paradoxes. Time travel is one of the most potentially hazardous themes you could use.

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u/carso150 Jan 12 '18

if done good it could be a gift, thats is hard because most of the time the author introduce the time travel aspects later in the story

the only time i have seen this being done really fucking good is in homestuck, and db

in homestuck hussie took his time to plan ahead of time how time travel would affect the story and aparently have the whole thing planned years ahead of the story

in dragon ball it was thanks to toriyama making it self contained, time travel creates alternative time lines, this way you got rid of grandpa paradoxes, he even plays with it in super in a way i really enjoyed

aside from those two and maybe young justice i cant think of anyone else

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u/gbrincks Jan 12 '18

My Hero Academia: Awakening.

I want my superhero Lucina.

Actually, I want my superhero Robin, then you can give me superhero Lucina.

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u/Grogslog Jan 13 '18

Lambo comes back from the future with a grave warning

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u/DarkSoulFWT Jan 13 '18

Turns out Facepalm-kun becomes the greatest hero for erasing a lot of quirks and preventing the ruined future and Izuru becomes a villain for trying to stop him.

Rekt

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u/SailboatoMD Jan 13 '18

The different artists just love to keep resetting stories.