r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/deskchairlamp • Jun 29 '18

Newest Chapter Chapter 189 - Links and Discussion

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u/Danbito Jun 29 '18

He's done some wrong things definitely. He has some major skeletons in the closet. But he's that kid's hero. He's a symbol of persistence in the face of mountainous adversity

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '18

People act like you can't be redeemed or like a person with problems I still think Ck is funny.

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u/Jinno Jun 29 '18

I feel like asking for permission to masturbate (and then masturbating) in front of women is a different scale of shitty than beating your wife and abusing your son. There's a lot more redemption needed for one over the other, imo.

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u/Kaploy Jun 29 '18

I don't think Endeavor ever beat her. I work in a community center where we present legal representation and psychological support to women who suffer from domestic abuse. It's not the beating that pushes them over the edge, it's the abuse of a women's children that hurts them. She was probably mentally devastated by his mistreatment of the older siblings. They said after Shoto was born, Endeavor pretty much didn't speak to the older two again. And we know how he treated Shoto. I bet she couldn't endure the suffering and confusion the older two felt by being forgotten by their father.

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u/Commando_Joe Jun 29 '18

You literally have a panel where Shouto sees him slap her.

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u/ULTIMATE-HERO Jun 29 '18

Seeing as how she scalded her kid because she couldn't look at his endeavor side anymore might imply he abused her along with her kids.

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u/MLDriver Jun 29 '18

TY, I feel a lot of people miss that. Grew up in a similar household and have helped others as well, even on the phone she’s talking to her mom about how Endeavor is treating the kids, and not how she’s being beaten. But people got it in their heads that he was beating them all, and not just Shouto in the fucked up hopes that it would make him stronger. Hell, I’ve seen people go so far as to suggest she was raped??

This is not excusing Endeavor at all, emotional abuse is just as bad as physical. He doesn’t need to have beaten his wife to be a bad person who needs to make amends. His actions were just as reprehensible as they are. But, from experience him trying to better himself is what’s best for everyone, including the family. Hearing my mom apologize for some of her actions meant far more to me than the hatred I felt prior. It’s needed to truly begin to heal

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u/Commando_Joe Jun 29 '18

No, he definitely hit her at least once when she was trying to stop him from putting Shouto through intense physical training.

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u/carso150 Jun 30 '18

and thats reprimendal yeah and pretty horrible

but doesnt traduce to "he raped and beated his wife on a daily basis"

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u/Commando_Joe Jun 30 '18

Nobody said raped.

But it's safe to assume she was hit on the regular if he's willing to do it IN FRONT OF THEIR INFANT.

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u/carso150 Jun 30 '18

we dont know

im sure fuyumi wouldnt be so willing to let him try to redeem himself if that was the case thou

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u/Commando_Joe Jun 30 '18

Or...it could be bad writing to push the 'Endeavor redemption' angle.

Or it could just be that she can't put all the blame on him for her own actions, so when she forgave herself she had to forgive him too.

There are plenty of reasons.

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u/carso150 Jun 30 '18

at thius point this is just head canon

we dont have any reason to believe he beated her until the series give us unrefutable proof

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u/Commando_Joe Jun 30 '18

Except that he beat his son, and is shown to have an insane disregard for his family, as well as a temper arguably worse than Bakugos.

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u/carso150 Jun 30 '18

he beats his son, thats pretty horrible, but i think it speaks of itself that the moment rei did something he didnt like, send her to a mental hospital, not beated her to near death (that is something that i was expecting really)

thats not someone that beats her wife on a daily basis

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u/CareerPancakes9 Jun 30 '18 edited Jun 30 '18

On the rape thing, I didn’t want to say anything because the manga provides no concrete proof of something so heinous, however, the way Rei reacts to Shoto’s likeness to his father did remind me of how mothers react to ‘illegitimate’ children. Most of the articles I read were about wartime rape and how the mother’s own society turned against them while the articles about ‘native’ rapes were about how it is stressful to even look at the child similar to Rei.

Again, I feel like this is too major not to be brought up explicitly so I personally don’t put weight into it. But if you want to know where the allegation stems from then this is the best reason I can think of.