Solid side-plot introducing the extensive trauma after what Rogue did to Carol, an alternate Carol that sunk into depression, failed her world, lost it and went on a warpath killing Rogues.
The 616 Carol does questionable things as well, a lot of conflict and baggage here. Good stuff. This encompassed the Civil War era.
Even back then Carol ain't no girl next door prop in a skirt, she will fuck yo ass up. She'll be nice, once, then she won't.
I saw this on another answer somewhere (Quora)
“Since MHA has very few flaws when compared to other shows, this minor thing can be easily ignored by many fans.”
Easily ignored they say, if it has to be ignored at all. That in itself asserts that there's a problem to be ignored, thus its a problem.
“Since MHA has very few flaws", (someone else says)
incorrect, so painfully incorrect.
The real question isn’t “is Momo herself kind of oversexulized” than it is the context of her costume design being an issue and her treatment overall tbh. The writing is just bad.
Because the rules of her quirk were designed specifically by the author so her suit would be that revealing, not for some practical reason. The critera itself was a vehicle to deliver fanservice and the excuse is being practical OR “necessity”.
Basically, LIKE Midnight, he set up their quirks to be a contrived reason why the audience gets to see some casual fanservice, some 17yr old, Big sister/Ojou-Sama skin.
And this extends to all of the girls. You have cats like Mirio who is buck naked because of his quirk, but not really sexualized if you notice, oddly enough the context is waaaay different. Its fast paced, during action scenes, still cringe, still sus cause he a kid, yet Mirio pulls it off ( Again, pun not intended.), because the point isn’t to bend him over with the anime “WoooOOOOWW” sound effect, no the point is he’s kicking ass.
So when i first saw this on google I thought it was a deviantart man-child post, I refused to believe this was actually in the show. I laughed at how stupid this was.
My immediate reaction was “wtf was the point of that”, and this was after Momo had a solid moment of her asserting her positive qualities as a senior presence, maturity. And then they immediately undermine her with a still shot of her bent over.
Pure disrespect.
Cause at the end of the day, Horikoshi is gonna (as of 2025) HE DID what he fucking wanted, no matter what we say here. Good on him.
Teen Titans has one chick in a onepiece swimsuit & a cape and the other in a mini & midriff:
So Starfire and Raven technically get better treatment and more respect from their 5 season 71 episode run than MHA girls get in 100+ep +movies lol
Again its Momos treatment than the costume itself at this point, it’s the overtone, the agenda as to why he set it up that way in the first place vs her suit design being a problem.
Because those OVA I watched? Seinen, 80s-90s hardcore Sci-fi, Seinen, DARK Fantasy shit.
This is a shonen, completely different, so there’s no reason to show these kiddos buck ass naked in a spa bath, the hell’s wrong with you Author.
A female character by herself/existing at all, is not sexualized, a female human avatar in isolation is not sexualized. Like Katara:
But if you, as the Director and Writer went the EXTRA MILE to intentionally frame shots like this: (while a character is talking, no respect)
Instead of this down here [“Southern Raiders” Episode from Book 3]: (Showing an equal frame of the faces of both characters, respect displayed by production crew, writers)
The presentation alone shows you everything, the attitude, the agenda, the fucks to give and lack thereof.
Tangent: You clearly do not respect or take your characters seriously, when the most they have to offer a scene is a close up still frame of their body, the same gag over & over again, and little to no highlights when the action starts. But they’re center frame when it’s time to excite some boners, not when it matters.
I can’t do that with many modern western writers OR Mangaka, unfortunately. It’s just that the japanese get more excuses because it ain’t woke. So no trans characters, yaaaaay said the dude bros, but sexualized 11yr-16 olds getting panty shots, being useless, half naked, horribly characterized: “”B b b but thats their culture”
Enough. Excuses.
[End of tangent]
So back to Momo, it’s not just the oversexualization, she’s just sexualized (someone made that point and I agree).
She’s just sexualized as a character, but for a Highschooler? She is oversexualized. Yes.
And no, her wearing a sweater or casuals during off hours is irrelevant, why? Because her iconography in the franchise (which is visible to the entire planet btw) isn’t her wearing a sweater or something proper, genius- It’s her wearing her stripper uniform that somehow a school & her parents approved.
It's the context of why than it is the “uniform” if you want to call it that.
That is the point. Why why why. Again, it’s NOT JUST Momo.
Midnight is hilariously goofy when she tries to be sexy, her fanservice its 100% cringe but she's a grown ass woman, so shes fine when she herself isnt being a borderline pedophile.
But a bunch of 14–17 year olds tryna to be superheroes? You lost me, because now im wondering why doing any of that was necessary. In that context.
Midnight/horikoshi wants to argue necessity, but arguing necessity to the author directly derails whatever point he thought he was making.
Midnight/Horikoshi arguing “necessity” is not the mic-drop she/he thinks it was; That same word, that same stance works against the author.
Because Momo’s quirk execution is not even the same in the anime vs the manga
Her quirk in the anime functions like a quantum or dimensional threshold, like she’s generating matter from another sub-dimensional space or a bio-generated pocket dimension that only she can tamper with.
Which could’ve been an anime exclusive opportunity for lore if BONES cared to expand on that as much as they did her ass & cameltoe.
Or turn her arms into that pink energy & expand portals on the floor just generate whatever at a cost of stamina, anything- Then this kid won’t have to dress like a stripper.
Wonder Woman is a grownass adult, 2nd strongest in the League, the last person you’d want to square up with even WITHOUT her powers: she’d annihilate you in a fight.
Momo is a child. Big ass difference.
Say what you want about her costume, but why is she wearing heels? Where’s the necessity in that. And no leggings when she RARELY & I mean RARELY ever creates with her thighs.
It’s a sad, sorry, slimy excuse to exploit the likeness of an underage kid.
A 19 yr old (at minimum) to me is still a child, idgaf, so why tf is this dude treating these 14–16 yr olds like he’s writing hentai and not a love letter to everything he loves about what the west made awesome?
All she needs is her arms, her back/ or midriff (since she “needs” a big area of skin for bigger objects *nice one Kohei*).
She does not need her chest out, she does not need to open her top like she’s flashing because (Hahaha so funny) or be in high heels, or her thighs all out or as we find out in OVA 1 the suit is riding up her ass. As she’s bent over, and the director giving the “kids” in the audience full view of her crotch and ass.
Momo was another case of wasted potential, sexploited & left behind, even that forced as hell character development he crammed in the Final Exams.
“Season 2’s Fail of Momo”
She survives a real time encounter with villains that could’ve killed them, in the OVA’s she displays her competence to lead the class and they (including Iida, the class prez) acknowledge her leadership quality.
But she loses one blasted match in a meaningless festival, after the fact EraserFace ADMITS the event was pointless, but she in her feelings because she lost a match vs surviving REAL villains.
That was worth her moping for almost the whole season. Not her losing that episode and it getting resolved the next episode after speaking with her parents (People with actual impact & stake in her life) but no, she loses, Horikoshi forgets she exists until just before the Exams, and then now of all times (AFTER Stain) we get her stupid moping anxiety attack because she lost a glorified Sumo match.
And she doesn’t come to her own conclusions or recover on her own ability, her getting her shit together depended on Todoroki of all people rushing out this half-assed validation session, pandering to her ego like she’s 5 years old, like she completely forgot everything she accomplished.
Which opens up another can of worms:
If she was recommended to U.A. on nepotism and not merit & she discovered that and it crushed her, fine. But Horikoshi didn’t think (as usual) to give her a legitimate reason to cave in like she did as if USJ never happened.
That’s what passes for “character development”, the bar’s so low Satan himself can do pull-ups on it.
Momo being an idiot, more melodrama for a character that barely gets anything to work with and when she does, this is it.
And then after the fight with Eraserhead, she starts doubting herself again because she missed the mark on the trap (but the trap worked) but she didn’t deploy it as fast as she wanted so now she’s getting in her feelings over that & then EraserBrains himself has to reinforce her fragility.
You want to fix this?
You don’t have her doubt herself because of a goddamn festival, you have her possess an ego within the safe confines of the school, smart mouth & pompous like she’s hot shit and then when faced with the real deal, then she’s useless because she realizes for the first time in her sheltered little life, she’s afraid.
And mommy & daddy nor their money can save her this time.
And she doesn’t perform, she freezes, that’s what plants her doubt, real world failure, real stakes, real consequence after thinking she was the catch of the school.
She panics, she caves, she doesn’t perform, & someone gets hurt because of her, hell have a 1A student die (say it’s Koda, and she was extra hard on him for not keeping up with everyone else), then he gets hurt or dies on her watch because SHE wasn’t locked in.
So she realizes that her recommendation to the school was on nepotism, not her ability and that doubt ontop of someone getting hurt/killed on her watch after she thought she was S-Tier, is why she’s panicking like this.
Have her doubt herself because she failed in the real world after she thought she was better than everyone else; Have her doubt herself because SHE ACTUALLY FAILED, not lose some safe, sheltered Stupid ass festival game. Are you frigging serious!?
(Someone dying via natural consequences in My Hero, which leads to monumental changes in other characters via development and raises the stakes, in which the deceased becomes the motivation of the entire class? I know, perish the thought, that actually sounds like an interesting Anime.)
In retrospect, compared to that shit? Her costume is the least of the issues with Momo Yaoyorozu, as creepy as it is, it’s the LEAST. I promise you. And the only reason I even caught this is because my homie tried defending it and during the conversation, I realized just how bad Momo was handled, BEYOND her silly costume.
I’m not going to even get into how underpowered she is despite having one of the most broken powers in the class, same with Ochako & Jiro.
The author was too immature, too many characters (which I understand, character design is fun but keeping up with everything you set up is a bitch. I’ll give K.H some slack, writing is not easy but damn he insisted multiple times that EVERYONE was the main character, this was the story of how EVERYONE became the greatest hero, just beyond idiotic. Made more work for himself)
Too little restraint when it came to his sus/ questionable/concerning thoughts whenever the ladies were in the context; The man was literary incompetent but damn he could draw his ass off when he wanted to.
Momo was another casualty, no more, no less. No amount of epilogues from Horikoshi or excuses from the usual suspects is going to fix that.
But no, course not, silly me. MHA girls belong in a box like pet waifu’s (ie. their actual stake in the fandom), and the scraps & rushed emotional beats aka “character development” & the obligatory sexploitation——- yep that’s good enough.
Pure waste of potential. Squandered.
Thoughts on James Gunn's Superman Trailer...SUPER MEH
(It smells like Age of Ultron all over again, franchise setup over story)
Everything this guy Shawn voiced I pretty much agree with.
Even down to The Man of Steel Byrne run (which tells me Shawn is definitely a comics man), to Gunn likely just using this movie as another Batman v Superman: DAWN of Future Movies or The Avengers: Age of Future Movies
Everything James Gunn is going to attempt (good or halfway decent) is going to be a bad attempt at Timm's DCAU, I'm calling it now just how I tapped out of the MCU 2019 after watching Endgame 3 three times in a week and (despite my enjoying the Endgame theater experiences & I got something different each time) I could clearly & THOROUGHLY smell it's inferiority to Infinity War & Avengers 2012 (& I don't even like that movie) and prioritized fanservice over story.
This movie smelling like something funky in a similar vein to BvS & AOU, but we'll see. Theater's ain't getting my money but I'll eventually spot check it here and there after everyone calms the fuck down & the hype fizzles out and THEN we’ll see who the fans are and what the product is actually worth.
Just like I did with that laughably bad (or a generous: Mediocre Tumblr Fanfic) My Adventures with Lois-Chan Season 1 and somehow a Season 2, a show everyone forgot about yet again after the second season overstayed it’s welcome and kindly fucked off. Finally.
Agreed for the most part here on the video, and yes, Superman Returns suit was pretty solid (Tho I wanted the chest shield a bit bigger, it was a beautiful fusion of modern & classic)
Setup & Story work better when it’s a smaller ecosystem, a smaller playing field, it’s less overstimulation for the audience, the writers aren’t stretching the script thin, Cramming 50 elements into .a 10 Capacity box and it’s not overcompensating because at the end of the day, they’ll likely just sell a 2 hour trailer for future movies aka Age of Ultron and Dawn of Justice.
Focus. Is the word. Coherence and focus. Very rarely can you prioritize setup of a UNIVERSE, the movie is about one guy and still get a coherent story.
That’s why The Batman worked in 2022, that’s why Ironman 2008 is STILL the best Ironman movie and that’s why Spider-Man worked in 2002, and nobody gives a shit about Homecoming despite all it had that the Raimi’s film didn’t.
Focus. (We’ll see what Gunn & Co. can do, we’ll see if they can write a competent Superman story or yet another Guardians of the Galaxy Lite with a Superman in it)
the native american power fantasy episode
What IF? we just beat the faction with the better technology with GodHax Cheat codes we didn’t earn and everyone became friends after we wiped the floor with the enemy. Because they wouldn’t try to find out how we got so powerful and get it for themselves which would lead to a more interesting conflict.
We won not because we adapted, or out smarted them or rose to the occasion but because we got lucky and fell in some magic water a hundred times & became invincible insta-win No Scopers, because despite our own tribes having turf wars & disputes involving violence (because Y Chromosome does what it does), we won’t EVER misuse our power, because we’re the more righteous class of humans unlike those other guys
Get outta here Marvel, lol.
This fallacious narrative that Natives never EVER EVEEEER threw hands with each other for any reason or every fight they ever been in or the only one’s we ever see on screen is with foreign colonizers is incorrect, this popular colonizer is Satan propaganda is blowing up one facet of history (That DID happen) and yet ignoring the rest ie. the other 90% BEFORE the Europeans showed up.
Tribes had treaties as well as their own bloodshed WITHOUT the white mans help, But we never get that part though, nowhere near as often anyway.
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Tribes are distinct for a reason, they didn’t just happen spontaneously one day & decided upon territory via meet n greet over brunch, sometimes they fought too just like everyone else.
Attacking another tribe for turf, women, resources, animals, a lake for a water source is colonizing. If they had any balls this episode would’ve been a tribe dispute and not yet another “Fair skinned devil from overseas” drama because that’s the only conquest e want people to believe ever happened.
It’s so manipulative, because Europeans did indeed do this, yet they bombard you with only ONE facet of the same exact situation (same with Africans) because never any other way or fashion that didn’t involve Europeans, these villages & natives were always friends, all the times, and never disagreed..
This is how you control information. Raising up generations of geniuses that think whites were the only one’s that possessed ethnic ambitions.
