She’s not boring, she’s annoying. People don’t “think” Jerko is boring, she IS a contrivance that’s as limited as her relevance to both the fandom and the story itself.
(Not the events, clearly her fight scenes are relevant to parts of the events. But in the scale of the STORY, she is irrelevant and I pitched a minor story change at the end of this rant that could’ve given her more importance, and yes it involves Deku.)
She’s not authentic, she’s a forced gimmick with lines, a genderbent Bakugou but 10x more mind-numbing because this one is actively sexualized which puts her in a box & easy digestible meat for the fandom monkeys to sink their teeth into, so not a character. A fetish at best. A wanton projection.
Mirko is a scrapped deleted-scene that the writer chose to put in the final cut anyway.
I WISH she was boring & well written, people really underestimate and overestimate “boring” for the wrong reasons. I wish Mirko was boring and a better character. INKO is boring, but I’d watch 2 hours of Inko cleaning the house & shopping or something, than 5 min of Mirko talking or doing anything really.
insufferable, plot armor out the ass and she gets more/better action sequences than the girls we actually know. She didn’t mentor anyone in Season 2, we don’t see her being a decent human being in civies or something or working at a soup kitchen where she demonstrates she has other modes beside “Crazy face autist with a cottontail”, she just shows up & runs her mouth.
She’s not boring, she’s awkward, smothering. No one knows who tf this chic is, where she came from, why she keeps surviving everything thrown at her when her power is jumping good & bunny kicks. I don’t think i’ve seen her throw a punch chain combo yet. The entire point is to emphasize her legs, that’s her characterization.
Her character arcs is being handicapped and still objectified. #Progressive
- If she had a regenerative healing factor? Still bullshit but at least it’s an explanation
- or her estrogen levels are so insane her pain tolerance just outclasses every other woman’s on the planet.
Zero explanation, she’s just a bunny. If it was explained she was a former villain that actually killed people, and trained to eat pain like a box of cheezits, FINE that’s lore. But no, we get nothing
Because the author wanted his 3am brainchild at the forefront for no other reason than boner. Hence why she has nothing relevant to do with anything else that happens in-between arcs.
- So Kohei wants me to believe there’s discrimination against muties but this class clown is in the top 5 of Japan’s hero roster, successful, and is so comfortable she’s a jackass everywhere she goes without challenge. This Mutie seems to be the poster child of progress for mutants.
So she’s got the ego of Tony Stark but minus any close friends to put her in her place from time to time so she resembles an actual person. Which was THE #1 reason why Tony Stark of the MCU wasn’t an insufferable pos the audience had to tolerate for 10 years.
- That and he actually had charisma, unlike Mirko who’s written by someone who thinks nauseating arrogance & big thighs is hot and “hot” is having a character.
- Vs the west that thinks snarky smart mouth women that never shut up or apologize is empowering or some shit.
Two sides of the coin that think an unlikable woman is a confident woman, but the japanese sexualize theirs to the point where they’re not even people vs being human shaped pets. So the manchildren don’t have a problem with that vs the wokeness that don’t pander to their arrested sensibilities.. or lack of any to speak of.
#NarrativeDissonance
All imma say is: Live more.
Hang out with more confident women, phone call, or watch better written content (Avatar The Last Airbender, Teen Titans 2003, Codename Kids Next Door, Justice League Unlimited, PRIMAL, Psycho Pass, Chicken Run, DUNE PART TWO, or Turn A Gundam— **recommended**) whatever you gotta do and take notes this time before writing your fetishized presumptions of confidence or reading a fetishized presumption and think that’s good enough. Which is Mirko in a nutshell.
God I wish All for One ripped her in half or something, but MHA is not a story to be taken seriously despite what the hype tells you, it’s on the same level as a Nick Jr. Program.
Hence why Jiro of all people survived All For One, It’s a joke.
Mirko is so coddled it’s unnatural, this author insists on breast feeding every single extra like they all carry the same weight as the actual main character.
And with Mirko it’s even worse, because clearly Horikoshi has this chic printed on a bodypillow in his own head. Which is fine, but he doesn’t even try to give her a stake in what’s going on regarding the students, she’s just there to spread dem legs via kicking
If I had to put respect on her at all: she has resilience (aka plot armor), but that’s the one thing i’ll give this clown in any context of positivity. she’s tough (WHEN her enemies have their hands tied behind their backs).
Even if she gotta crawl she’ll fight, I’ll give er that and yet-
I am SO CONFUSED as to where this drive is coming from though on her part, what is she fighting for (hence the point of a backstory and not just close ups of her ass cheeks & spread open legs before a Chun-Li esque attack)
- If you told me she has a sick Grammy, low income mom, dad, & 50 kid siblings that she supports (because they’re rabbits), and she rose in ranks facing discrimination and she got that good in skill to prove everyone & every bias against muties “being inferior” wrong after growing up being told her animal traits were disgusting.
- THAT’S A CHARACTER. That’s motivation, but did we get that? No I’m here doing the work for Horikoshi post-mortem, as usual.
because My Hero’s “breaking the mold” with female characters by in fact reminding you/assuring you she’s just a piece of meat that exists to stimulate your dopamine glands with either a fight scene, a money shot or both in-between because that’s all she’s good for.
Or running her fat mouth, some people are so dog whipped, women just being jerks is a fetish. (NICE ONE parents.)
And ofc the dark skinned chic has the biggest mouth, nice one Horikoshi.
Just like with Kayama & Mt.Idiot, the only stake she has in the fandom is she’s a piece of ass that flagships a fetish, that’s why she’s relevant, that’s all she’s good for to the monkeys that make up the fandom. Because look at where their energy & effort goes regarding them, look at why they give a damn—-
That’s Mirko x50, it’s not boring. When you see her in action, she isn’t boring, it’s just forced as all hell. She’s ANNOYING.
(And the anime didn’t help with it’s unsubtle obsession with her thighs & ass in S6 and the creepy fixation with her crotch & ass in S7- like Horikoshi needed to just make their own OVA Hentai of her and get it out his system and THEN write the story)
All these crazy faces she makes & retorts like she’s a threat when she only gets as far as she does because everyone she faces isn’t allowed to fight back seriously or put her ass down or even resemble what their actual capabilities are. So it’s not a fight, her opponents get their hands tied while she talks shit & does what she wants.
- Let me remind you, all this chic can do, is whatever a bunny can. Hops & Kicks, that’s it. Not even a clairvoyance quirk which would explain everything, nope just jump good & kicks. Lame as fuck.
- She’s not Wonder Woman, she wasn’t a genetically engineered weapon from a lost city of MARS to be the Ultimate Lifeform or something, she’s just a RABBIT-Waifu that can kickbox. THAT’S IT.
- I shit you not.
Even when the enemy can bend space with the wave of their hand, somehow she’s competing (I’m NOT JOKING, in the Jaku Raid, a nomu could bend space and she beat them anyway)
HOW ? Author protection, thats how, not organic events, pure contrivance
She’s trailer trash & reads like a hormone fueled self-insert written by a 13 yr old mind. I repeat, Kohei should’ve just made a hentai or doujinshi & got it out his system instead of projecting his muscle mommy moron on the actual story. That’s all that was.
Horikoshi put more effort protecting her than making a competent final arc or uplifting any of the 1A girls with an actual stake in whats going on, in a way that didn’t involve their arc revolving around someone or validation, someone else reinforcing their worth or them ( being teens) also getting sexploited & bent over the couch (because Japan was never the same since that damn bomb).
It’s ridiculous.
But everything’s fine guys, question nothing, consume and 10/10 every title and then wonder why these new talents never evolve the game when the fandom always settles for less, every single time.
My thing is, if you want to push her that badly, do something with her outside the bare minimum which is nothing, a fight scene is nothing, it’s filler. Imagine The Guardians of The Galaxy showing up in Infinity War but they did NOT get the two movies prior to IW.
You’d ask the reasonable question: “Who tf are these people?”, yeah they’re doing cool stuff, but you don’t care and you’re confused as to why they’re involved in the situation. Welcome to Mirko 101.
Kohei could’ve even had Mirko be the one to teach Deku the shoot-style in the first place (or she be the Gym teacher *referencing her school photo*), or retcon that she was the one to mentor him in that fightstyle if you don’t have time to show it; And instead of shoehorning another character “Nagant” or Negant or whatever her damn name was, have Deku’s dynamic with Mirko be similar ,with Mirko being a former assassin which would explain her tenacity and skill level. Or have her be the mole and her opening up to Deku causes her to defect.
I SHIT YOU NOT I consistently write a slightly patched MHA while complaining about it.
But the only way I come up with this is by not eating up everything served to me like Authors don’t do dumb shit from time to time.
One character isn’t enough to get an essay like this, so all of THIS? Is from years/months of silence watching people make excuses after excuses, saying dumb shit after dumb shit and eventually patience runs out.
Fact is, Horikoshi is a better artist than he is a writer. Fact.
- The fandom pisses me off more than the authors sometimes, Mirko herself while obnoxious & visually cancerous is just a slab of nothing, by herself she’s a non-offense, at the very least at least she does cool shit but she makes no sense, she didn’t earn any of this, if this was MIDNIGHT kicking ass ok at least she was there since Season 1, and it’d be nice to her doing something other than be a child predator.
- But people’s collective stupidity in fandoms and how she’s written and why, is what really agitates me more than Mirko herself.
- Logically, Mirko can only do what she’s programmed to do in canon. She’s not the problem. She's just another cultivation of the problem.
- Horikoshi specifically is emotional, reactive, if the fandom doesn’t like something he’d actually throw passive jabs in the manga itself in meta, or make a change to please the audience (aka CHP 431), so imagine if people weren’t a bunch doughnut brained Amoebas and called for Mirko to actually be a character with an actual stake in whats going on?
- Imagine the Mirko we could’ve gotten.
- But it starts with saying “No, this is shit.”
All the man did was have her fight a few times, make an ass of herself on stage, get her limbs torn off and be emotionally relevant to no one. But protected as if she was there since Season 1—-
- But midnight (also a garbage character) but actually WAS THERE since Season 1 is instead the one that gets killed off. Make that make sense (rhetorical)
And I essentially just pitched an idea where she immediately becomes relevant by teaching the main character, that’s giving her a stake way before Jaku Raid, humanizing, a purpose, characterization, EVEN an arc. Without sexploitation. And we can get to know her through Deku, the character who matters.
Basically introduce the extra, then let them stand their own two feet after a decent debut & give them varying levels of intrigue and relevance to what’s going on beyond the bare minimum. Like this guy from the same exact story:
But that’s only IF you insist on pushing them.
That’s giving a shit, and Mirko is a character I can NOT stand, even the design (so the sight of her) annoys me but I’m the one that’s pitching this, NOT THE PEOPLE who love her.
Let that sink in.
That’s giving a shit, and Mirko is a character I can NOT stand, even the design (so the sight of her) annoys me, I’ve voiced this MANY times to peeps I know IRL but still I’m the one that’s pitching this on the character’s behalf, NOT THE PEOPLE who actually like or love her.
Let that sink in.
But you see my agenda isn’t bending her over so we can see muscle-y bunny ass & cameltoe, both my complaint & pitch is “narrative relevance” & better execution or more grossly “Who the fuck is this bitch? And why should I care beyond the obvious bare minimum as with ANY female character?”
I’ve never seen a character this shielded since Bella from Twilight, Rey, Kira Yamato, an average Little Nightmares protagonist (& even despite their plot armors EVEN most of them get kicked in the ass anyway), or Christ himself. But the difference is BELLA, Rey, Kira, the Little Nightmares kids and Jesus (Unlike Mirko) were in-fact, actually the main characters of the respective story lmfao.
