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The parallels between Shigaraki and Deku make me SICK to my stomach. Tomura is the personification of that quote,

“You robbed me of my life. I could have been human—I could have been alive.”

They so easily could have had their roles switched. Two vulnerable children who wanted to change the world for the better, but were denied because of society placing expectations and limits upon them. Both of them deemed worthless by someone they look up to (Bakugou and Shigaraki’s family), when all they needed was someone to give them that external validation they craved.

You could have been alive, Tomura. But you fought to the end, in the hopes that you could be a hero for the outcasts who needed it. A stopped heart once beat just as furiously as a live one. Even when you refused to be saved Tenko, your body simply moved on its own, didn’t it?

...And They Were Narrative Foils

Shigaraki Tomura and Izuku Midoriya are characters who have far more in common than they have differences. They even have the exact same origin point as a kid who wanted to become a hero more than anything else, but was told by everyone around them they couldn’t be on. The difference between them represents the inherent unfairness of the world, Midoriya was saved and Shigarki wasn’t. However, rather than working together to try to fix the flaws in the unfair world that hurt both of them Shigaraki and Midoriya are forced to fight each other due to the mistakes of their predecessors forcing them into conflict. This is a meta on their extremely unique relationship and why they need to come to an understanding in order to fight the real enemy. 

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How has this NEVER occurred to me oh my god. And the way her hand is on top of his head is SO symbolic of multiple things.

1. Her quirk. The fact that so many of the panels where we see her, she’s using her quirk to soar above. THAT could be the symbolism. But there’s also other possibilities.

2. Her hero status. Could her hand being atop his head, almost as if all of the hands are forming a temple, with her being on top, suggest some symbolism of “enlightenment/opposition”, considering the total opposites of hero and villain grandson? It feels like a purposeful mockery by AFO (and likely is) to her character and everything she stood for, to fight AFO until her last breath, just for a piece of her to be forever witnessing the atrocities that her grandson commits against hero society.

Idk, I’m not a poet, and I’m certainly not good with words, so maybe someone else could put my thoughts into words. Just some quick analysis/thinking I was doing! :3

Okay, I just saw the leaks of 270 and I'M REELING.

But you know what freaks me out even more? This panel.

Notice where their hands are located? It's the exact locations where Shigaraki had their hands over him.

But that's not what truly shocked me...

Shigaraki was said to have given an 'extra hand' (no pun intended) by All For One

Now whose hand was on Shigaraki's head?

Nana Shimura's.

This confirms a theory that some people had for a while.

The extra hand that All For One gave to Shigaraki was Nana Shimura's hand. The hand Shigaraki destroyed by accident earlier must've been her other hand...

What is a Hero’s Cape for?

This meta is in response to a comment by @k-isecchis​

I’d also like to point out the parallels between Eri and Shigaraki. Eri was left to suffer longer due to strategy. Something that always rubbed me the wrong way about that arc is that besides Mirio and Deku, everyone’s so desperately trying to save her because they knew that was Chisaki’s trump card. Eri’s power is as potentially as destructive as Shigaraki, but she was “lucky” Chisaki was making enough waves for the heroes to notice. 

Thank you for pointing out this excellent parallel. This opened my mind to the parallels between the war arc, and the overhaul arc. How both arcs are really about showcasing how massive the divide is between the ideals of hero society “saving people” and hero society’s pragmatic realization “defeating villains”. Once again let’s talk more about hero society underneath the cut.

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