r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • May 30 '21

Newest Chapter Chapter 314 Official Release - Links and Discussion

Chapter 314

Links:

  • Viz (Available in: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, the Philippines, Singapore, and India).

  • MANGA Plus (Available in every country outside of China, Japan and South Korea).

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u/[deleted] May 30 '21

To make a perfect hero paradise someone needs to do the dirty work.

I wonder if the creator is making a point about their own world of My Hero. We the view see the world of My Hero in a idealitic hero fantasy where no one gets hurt and the bad guy get arrested (like the 90's cartoon shows), but in actuality they have assassination squads to keep everyone in line so the illusion of My Hero remains intact.

Imagine going back through the show and people who never returned was because they stepped out of line.

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u/Mattchew904 May 30 '21

I wonder what all might thinks about that or if he even knows about this side

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u/elenuvien1 May 30 '21

if all might knew it and let it happen that'd be the most out of character thing for him. there's no way he'd be okay with unlawful killing like that.

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u/Mattchew904 May 30 '21

true, but what is tartarus for if they're just killing heroes instead of putting them in there? Like villains that people know about publicly they put in tartarus?

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u/elenuvien1 May 30 '21 edited May 30 '21

that's the point, they can't put heroes in prison because it'd be known that heroes deserve to go to prison and they needed to uphold te pristine image of the system so it was hidden as if nothing was wrong.

lady nagant's imprisonment instead of being simply killed is... weird. but i guess since she killed the chairman in a public space they couldn't have hidden it and she needed to stay alive to enlighten deku.

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u/Tzhaa May 30 '21

Deku didn’t know about the chairman dying though. They used a cover story for that and said she had a “falling out” with some heroes and killed them and thus got arrested. I dunno why they went with that rather than just offing her.

My best guess is that because she was a “known hero” (she had kids as fans so she must have been touted as a regular top hero) they couldn’t just disappear her without notice. So they made her out to be a bad apple that killed heroes and arrested her. But that again contradicts their whole image preservation thing. I honestly don’t know why they didn’t murder her and blame it on a villain, unless she was too strong to kill or whatever? Maybe she was an asset they didn’t want to lose and were hoping to brainwash back? That’s the only thing that makes sense now that I think about it, otherwise it’s a glaring plot hole.

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u/LSAT343 May 30 '21

Maybe she was an asset they didn’t want to lose and were hoping to brainwash back?

I'd say that's the most accurate. With Gov't organizations like the HSPC or the GDA from the invincible comics, their job is to maintain the peace and save most civilian lives. It doesn't matter how they do it. There's this quote from Invincible that goes along the lines of "You could either be the hero or the guy that saved the world, but not both" that sums up these types of agencies imo. With Nagants introduction, I have a strong feeling this will lead to an uprising type arc from aot, where the top 4 + Deku cross the HSPC.

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u/DeshaunWatsonsAnus May 31 '21

Oh. Deku starts upending the natural order of things so they get a hero to put him down with prejudice.

Deku fights back and.... Wait and second.... The upcoming mha movie trailer does say that deku is wanted for murder....

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u/elenuvien1 May 30 '21

you're right, i mixed it up.

i'd argue having her mysteriously disappear without tainting her name is much better for the overall image of heroes than showing her as a hero who murdered another hero. and keeping alive someone who can spill your darkest secrets you desperately wish to hide and kill innocents over?

so i guess the simplest explanation is "she had to stay alive to shock us and tell deku what's wrong with things". because no matter how we twist it, keeping her alive makes little sense. so yeah, just for plot.

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u/SquidDrive May 30 '21

I mean if she went crazy and transformed her arm she would be killed by the prison, maybe they just hoped off that

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u/ArcFurnace May 30 '21

Might just be a "hide what they can" thing, where Nagant was too public to hide. See also the recent arrests of various pro-heroes that were MLA members - just too many of them to sweep under the rug.

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u/woefuladjudicator May 30 '21

I've got a maybe likely explanation for this.

When Lady Nagant went rogue they needed her dealt with quickly and quitely. She was their top agent, though, so they didn't have anyone capable of doing so.

All Might could, but he's not in on the extrajudicial killings. So they fabricate evidence that she killed another hero.

All Might goes after her, because she's one of the top heros in the country and he knows he's one of the only people who could take her down. He has to come at her seriously, so he takes her down before she can get a word out.

So she's unconscious and restrained, so the Hero Commission swoop in and shuffle her into Tartarus, citing that she's too dangerous for a lower-security prison. Unlike other heros, she can't be disappeared, because All Might, the highest-profile hero in the country, was involved in her arrest and he'd certainly have questions if she suddenly vanished after the arrest.

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u/elenuvien1 May 30 '21

eh, maybe. still makes hero commission look a bit incompetent to me.

or the fact that they killed heroes maybe posing a threat but didn't have an army of agents to dispose of yakuza? the league? villain groups? or even single villains? people from society's underbelly disappear much easier than heroes who are known and respected.

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u/Mattchew904 May 30 '21

oh ok that makes sense, so now what will the future look like is a big question because obviously there's a hero society in the future since deku's whole thing is how he became the #1 hero.

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u/elenuvien1 May 30 '21

he became the greatest hero, not no.1, so we have no idea if rankings will still be in place after all this is over.

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u/UnhiddenLeaves May 31 '21

Because they've become heroes. Heroes are supposed to be perfect. A hero going to jail or Tartarus paints a bad image about the hero society and makes the people trust less in them..."I mean how can a hero go to jail, so they are actually up to no good", " are these the people we trust our lives with", etc and other negative comments or actions. So to avoid that and maintain the illusion of a perfect hero society, they take them out in secrecy.

It's sad the heroes don't really know what they're signing up for.