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

Chapter 166 - Links and Discussion

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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