My Hero Academia 2x18

That's literally what Stain stands for: Breaking the rules to create a just society. Of course, it's turned to 11 in this case but from his perspective to change society as a whole, drastic measures are necessary. If you ask me, there is a reason why we have courts and judges who apply the law to specific cases. If the police could interpret the law as they see fit, we would have big problems which is shown in this anime.

coolcat_77

In Midoriya and Shoto's defense. Stain's quirk, skill and tenacity made it impossible to pull back or buy time, especially with 2 immobile people. It's a good thing the chief understood those circumstances and kept it under wraps. In Manual's defense, how could anyone expect him to hold back a motivated Sonic with glasses? I'm gonna throw my hat in the ring and say laws and government organizations are supposed to be there to bring prosperity and prevent the wrongdoings. Things are easy or easier, and there's a levity to life that we should appreciate like a light summer breeze. The law and justice won't always overlap, however. Whenever rules are chosen over justice in situations where it will hurt the victim or the ones who are right, it sucks big time. When it shits, it smells.

JackPrice

Everyone talking about the Dog and laws, and here I am wondering why Iida made a potentially life changing decision seemingly without talking to his Mother/Brother/Any Pro hero mentor/Teacher.

Okoga

Old video but sure what the heck - the law they broke is to deter vigilante justice and for good reason in a society where almost everyone has some sort of power. The kids broke the law. Iida did the equivalent of grabbing an unlicensed shotgun and deciding to hunt down a criminal himself with no legal authority to do so. Deku and Todoroki then knew about their buddy being emotionally unbalanced so they grabbed their unlicensed guns and went to help him take down the criminal. They shot the criminal but he didn't die. That doesn't justify their breaking the law in the first place because things happened to work out this time. Love your reactions but just my view on that take. Laws aren't to be obeyed when they're convenient - if that was the case they wouldn't work. Now obviously there was some mitigating circumstances with them being in training at a prestigious instituation to one day become heroes but the law is still relevant and the Chief of Police was being extremely lenient and generous with his decision - arguably unethical but it worked out for our heroes so t'is all good.

Depressed Duck Daddy

I think the best way to understand the legality of quirk use in the show is to think of them like guns. You've gotta get a special license in order to simply carry a gun around for self-defense, then you need even further training and a special badge to be allowed to use that gun to injure criminals in the name of justice and helping others. Now let's say hypothetically almost everyone had a gun and the law simply couldn't enforce what you have in your possession for some reason, even in that case, it would still be illegal to use that unregistered gun to injure someone, even if that person was committing a crime and you were trying to save someone else. After all, you've never registered it, right? You've never had the years of training to use it properly and minimize risks. Now, once you've been taken to court, they can decide you took the best action you could and acquit you for the crime, meaning you don't have to serve a sentence, but that doesn't make it not a crime and they don't just let you off scott-free because of that. That's kinda what happened with the students here. Sure they saved the day, but that doesn't remove the risks and dangers they created by acting out of line. It's a weird moral grey area for the show because if they made an exception here, there are a lot of exceptions they'd have to make, most of which would do more harm than good.

Justin Payne

Thought experiment: A drunk driver makes it home safely without hurting anyone. Is it fine because it turned out okay? Even though they endangered lives?

Princess Paladin

Odd, on my phone I see it now. When sorting for my hero on desktop earlier though for some reason it wasn't showing 17. Maybe it was a weird bug on the sort feature or something. Nvm then lol. Thanks for the response 👍

Eviltwin01

huh? episode 17 is on here o.o

aliciaxlife

Im a bit confused is there a episode mislabeled or was Ep 17 skipped, at least here on the episode order listed here on patreon its skips from 16 to 18 at least ep number wise

Eviltwin01

i was never homophobic or an asshole. its called being factual and having your own opinion.

donald johnson

for those curious, there was a homophobic weirdo being an asshole in here but they got nuked.

Harper

She said the staply ass looks depressed as shit lol, just wait until you get to the later seasons

The Sigil Chronicles

@dj It's not a sexuality it's a gender identity, and it's certainly not weird.. Thirteen (space suit teacher) is also theorised to be NB, and I for one subscribe to it

cyberspacecat

Killer villain girl is one of my favourite characters in MHA, she's so much fun to watch

cyberspacecat

Are you fucking serious bruh?! You literally pay money to see her reactions, why would you want to ruined them?!🤬🤦

KATACOREY

My brother in Christ. Regardless of how others see her is not dependent on how they view herself. If they don’t feel like either fits then then that could mean a multitude of things. They can go by only they/them. Or they might be comfortable with she/they. Hell, they could use he/she/them for all we know. And finally, regardless of how they dress does not define their gender. Non binary folks do not owe you androgyny.

I get the idea it's going for, and why it was such a big deal, but the mutt just explained it in just the worst way. Biggest issue for me is him just totally dodging the legitimate question from Shoto "So we should just stand around with our thumbs up our butts doing nothing while people are dieing?" With some stupid and very easy to counter "Well, should you ever break rules?" BS that misses the whole point.

Seraphem

The hero-killer arc has never been my favorite to watch, but i do like it because of the long term consequences it has on the story

ArionC

In the novel release of volume 4 theres a talk Kendou does on stage about gender roles and how they dont feel like they fit in eighter

VJ Sins

I think chief of police shares a voice with Ainz in sub. I know its true for dub.

Razgar_dar

:3 I explained this in a YouTube reply too. It’s in regards to bending the narrative for the public that makes it sketchy. Doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing but it’s like real life when biases and “the betterment” / distribution of info is skeeeeetchy haha

aliciaxlife

Ty for letting me know!

aliciaxlife

"we should break/bend rules to help people!" - chief of police proposes not making incident public to avoid punishment... "Ooooh, we bein' sketchy" lmao

Dude shut up and delete this. Your not cool for commenting this.

Mortis

Thanks for the episode

TrinitytheApostle

The point, I would argue, that the police chief is making is that "okay, you did what you felt you had to do, but just because it turned out alright doesn't mean you should be allowed to get off for it Scott free." Especially in this case where if one thing had gone differently they would have ended up with a dead hero and three dead children instead of just one dead hero. Actions being penalized with consequences isn't meant to punish the outcome, it's meant to discourage the action being taken again or by others.

DRedd

There's something called Jury equity that I don't think enough people know about. It's when a jury decides that a the defendant did indeed break the law as it's written, but because of the circumstances they should not be punished for it. I'm not a legal expert but I believe (In the UK at least) it's a 3rd thing between guilty and not guilty, kind of like "Technically guilty, but this shouldn't be illegal in the first place".

Swan Ronson

I like what you said about bending the rules when people are in danger, I've always believed that rules serve the function of protecting people and that when they strop protecting people they should be either bent or reconsidered altogether

delete that sh*t

Fenronin (Dorian Dubourg)

Now that I think about it couldn't the dude that has decay if he gets strong enough destroy the whole city just by touching the ground.

Tomika Axerail

Staples Man looks like how I feel most of the time lmao Also, yes. Deku's maturity is something I really like about this series.

Bob

Stain is cool and all, but I can’t stand him as a villain. He’s so ridiculous and hypocritical. Murders heroes indiscriminately just for existing despite many of them being good people and constantly being a melodramatic edgelord.

Lukundra

Kendou, the ginger haired person who was with Momo is actually non binary btw!

VJ Sins

I think in all fairness to the police chief, these kids are basically unregulated nuclear bombs, the destruction they could wrought without regulations could cause serious problems.

All Might seriously has his own voice doing a pun on his catchphrase as his ringtone. Also spooky villians.

Chanfyr

i feel like rather than swerving into a different lane they drove through a crowd to ram a bank thieves car.

Vincent Samuel Price

Wooooot! I have to say my favorite students have always been pinky and red riot.

ryucloud