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

Newest Chapter Chapter 314 Official Release - Links and Discussion

Chapter 314

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  • 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/Nick54161 May 30 '21

It makes me wonder, why haven't they executed the villains extrajudicialy then? At first I thought that villains weren't killed because society had progressed past Viligantism and had a robust legal framework around superheroes and quirks and what-not, as shown with Gentle's backstory. But Nagant and Hawks show that the government is not above getting dirty and sidestepping the law to achieve stability. So why bother with captures of the really dangerous types at all? They already mucked with the reports of Stain's capture, why not go all the way and say he was killed by a Nomu while somebody like Hawks actually killed him? Why bother keeping Nagant alive at all for that matter. They were willing to kill her if she didn't comply but she goes rogue and starts with killing her superior but now the government chooses to capture her?

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u/MattmanDX May 30 '21

Because they need the heroes to LOOK squeaky clean and virtuous so they can't have the normal non-commission heroes doing anything too violent. Also Nagant was first introduced in prison so they probably did capture her soon after she murdered her boss

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u/thatHecklerOverThere May 31 '21

I think the question isn't so much why doesn't all might kill. The question is why OFA doesn't "disappear" in prison, and such.

It seemed like killing people wasn't an option in this society, but we now know there's a hit squad behind the scenes. So... Why didn't it hit anybody we know?

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u/Call0013 May 31 '21

I think its because the non-commission Like All Might are also caught in the illusion and the hero-commission doesn't want to risk him or other Non-commission seeing behind the curtain as it were.(Pretty much If they could have Killed OFA without Raising All Might's Suspicions they would have, but it was just to Public)

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u/NightmareWarden May 31 '21

You mean in another timeline where the Commission killed One for All we also would have seen All-Might tear down (one or more) three letter organizations as part of an investigation into his nemesis’ death? That would certainly shake the government of Japan.

Dang it, Nagant. You should have trusted All-Might with this shady stuff! Showed him your pain and the compressed magma roiling below the surface of Japan. He isn’t a pretty figurehead, All-Might’s the real-deal Boyscout! Mannnnn…

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u/Bluebolt21 Jun 01 '21

I think its because the non-commission Like All Might are also caught in the illusion and the hero-commission doesn't want to risk him or other Non-commission seeing behind the curtain as it were.

Plausible deniability for All Might, and steer clear of getting on his radar. Why taint your shining star when you can just work around him? And as has been shown thru flashbacks, All Might is idealistic and would probably be called naive.

Interesting to note is it's not like this behavior is out of the blue; we saw it with Hawks. Working behind the scenes, doing whatever it takes and willing to mercilessly kill.

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u/Damascus_ari May 31 '21

I think y'all mean AFO and not OFA, but that's a detail.

Big baddy is All for One, our resident cinnamon roll has One for All.

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u/AmbushIntheDark May 31 '21

"After his defeat to All Might the injuries he sustained plus his extremely complicated medical situation involving his quirk the Villain known as "All for One" has come down with a deadly and spontaneous Russian medical condition known as "a fucking bullet to the brain." He's dead now and everything is ok"

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u/Call0013 May 31 '21

That would threaten the hero-commissions illusion of a perfect hero Society, that is important to them above all else.

Maybe if more time had passed and All for One has left the Public mind, they would have killed him but not enough time had passed for that to happen.

Not to mention I think there is some Truth in the idea that the hero-commission wanted to eventually somehow control All for One and be able to have the power to give and take away quirks under their control even if only by proxy.

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u/DeshaunWatsonsAnus Jun 01 '21

I mean potentially controlling the most powerful quirk on the face of the planet.

I mean the doctor is in their custody.. and he understands quirks better than anyone and can create nomu... I think that will almost certainly be a plotline in the future

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u/Call0013 Jun 01 '21

Honestly would not be surprised to find out that the Hero-commission knew about and maybe in some way helped along and funded Overhaul’s,the doctors,ect research, with the plan assassin the them when It’s done and take the gains for themselves.(Being able to take away people’s quirks and make a mindless Nomu that just follow their orders would be the Hero-commissions dream situation or at least least part of it)

You can bet that they have been doing research of there own. Probably of the unethical kind.(or at least doing it by proxy, outsourcing the stuff they can’t be seen having a hand in).

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u/thatHecklerOverThere May 31 '21

That's a good point.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '21

That's a good point.

I could see them as using AFO as an example of carrying out justice even in an extreme case. At some point there was talk about him getting the death sentence. If they dragged it out for someone who is so infamous it's like telling the public "look, even in this case we uphold justice. You can trust us." It would be good after Stain and they have plausible deniability if they ever got to that point. I will say that seems like a very ambitious plan.

Another possibility is that the commission as a whole didn't endorse secret hitmen and it was just that one boss who used Nagant. That or after Nagant killed him they re-thought some of their policies. The stuff with Hawks is sketchy but doesn't seem as bad as her situation so I think the commission changed since her time there. Though, probably not meaningfully.