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| SMH one little punch, one little set back and Stain is off the deep end like it's a high dive competition and he is going for gold. I am honestly disappointed. At the very least I expected him to keep it together until the season climax. On the other hand I am liking Souga's character development. He has had enough of Huin peddling her drugs and lies and turns his back on the offer of easy power, good for him! |
Reply to KingBaller06
@otakuweek It's not a copy of Stain, but the real deal. More specifically though, this will be showcasing the journey from Stendhal to Stain.
| @KingBaller06 yeap yeap, i saw later that it was him because it was too similar... but in the main serie, we talked of his past so i'm a bit surprised to learn another past... |
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Reply to Olvyi
StallionXD said:
This episode was dark as fuck, I love it 😭
Knuckleduster, quirkless and alone, did what Deku, with 20% OFA and 2 partners, couldn't 😂
I don't get it tho, why did Stain let that bitch give them drugs? He knows she is a villain, and knows that by using that drug normal people turn into villains by force... does he want to create fake villains just so he can kill them? As crazy as a motive that is, I could understand it, but at the same time that's the absolute opposite of his character, this was weird.
This episode was dark as fuck, I love it 😭
Knuckleduster, quirkless and alone, did what Deku, with 20% OFA and 2 partners, couldn't 😂
I don't get it tho, why did Stain let that bitch give them drugs? He knows she is a villain, and knows that by using that drug normal people turn into villains by force... does he want to create fake villains just so he can kill them? As crazy as a motive that is, I could understand it, but at the same time that's the absolute opposite of his character, this was weird.
Deku was using 5% of ofa when he fought Stain.
| @Olvyi Ok, my mistake, so, your point is? OFA is OFA, Knuckleduster might be strong as fuck, but he is quirkless. And like I said, Deku wasn't alone, he, Ida and Todoroki almost fkng died, but Knuckleduster knocked him out with 1 single punch to the face, he gave Stain time to recover but if he had wanted to he would've capture him on the spot. |
Sorry if my english is bad (っ˘▽˘)っ~~~ Btw, cry about it.  |
| So that was Stain, and his nose became like that was actually because of Knuckleduster. Interesting. |
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| Knuckledude stepping over the line was funny, sword dude was pretty insane though. Looks like we'll get another female character next episode, hope she's more useful in combat. |
| The origin of STAIN was so lit ❤️🔥❤️🔥 It's interesting that knuckleduster played a role in that |
| GREAT episode!!!! Stendhal is so dope to watch, and KNUCKLEDUSTER MY GOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAT he is one and truly my goat what a great fight. Nice set up for Stain in MHA, and the bee girl is getting more creepy by the minute. Love! |
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| I forgot how crazy Stain is. His beliefs are generally pointless. This is the talk of a psychopath. I'm a bit surprised that Koichi and Pop were quite nice to this guy who attacked them once. Knuckleduster is really strong |
| So we finally get the backstory on Stain and why he's missing his nose. Who knew it was all because of Knuckleduster that he not only cut off his nose, but also change his outlook to the absolute extreme? And it seems like Soga isn't such a bad guy afterall, just misunderstood. Great episode. |
| Knuckleduster is goated.... I love him |
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Reply to Jollyne7
I forgot how crazy Stain is. His beliefs are generally pointless. This is the talk of a psychopath. I'm a bit surprised that Koichi and Pop were quite nice to this guy who attacked them once. Knuckleduster is really strong
| @Jollyne7 I think STain being a psychopath is well established at this point. |
| That blood will leave a Stain...badum tss! |
| "The future is always blank. Only your willpower can leave footsteps there." "Ruling over death means ruling over life. Death is the climax of life. To have the best death, you must honor life." |
| Oh shit so he really was Stain! That's a cool backstory. |
| Somehow, I HATE this Stendhal more than ALL of the BNHA villains we've seen till now. |
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| Stendhal remember me to Stain (Boku no hero academia). |
| THat's Stain! no way |
| I thought this was just who Stain modeled himself after but NOPE ITS ACTUALLY STAIN!!! And lol that knuckleduster was the one to mess up his nose.......until the end when he CUT OFF HIS OWN NOSE!!! Damn that was brutal to watch. |
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| There's the classic blood lick power, Stendhal taking down yakuza like lunch. That's the rep for vigilantes killing for justice the Stain way. Don't know what spike was going to do against the swarm of bees, but I guess he had some guts somewhere. He was willing to fight on his own terms. Just the quirk couldn't help him. W Knuckleduster, saving the day the Vigilante way. Screw the line if it means taking down the not-good guys. It's something that I think this helped give birth to the Stain ideology. Makes sense for the bee arrangement to not be long term |
Twintail_DaemonMay 18, 2:29 PM
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| No way Knuckleduster indirectly made Stain adopt his hero-killing mindset lol. The things a punch to the face can do to a man... Honestly, Stain carried this episode in such a way. I can say his scenes totally made up for those lame moments with Kouichi defending the scumbag who was about to kill him and assault Pop☆Step in Ep.1. |
| Huh. So that's how Stain was born |
| "We brawlers are sustained by willpower! Even when mocked as reckless and crazy!" |
| Of course Knuckleduster created one of the best villains |
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| I think this episode fell into the old pitfall of prequels by overexplaining details from the main series, and with how little buildup Stendhal/Stain changed his ideals retroactively made him worse as a villain. It was still nice to see more of him, I suppose. |
| "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34 |
| Stendhal/Stein (by this point it's crystal clear they're the same person, right?) is a deeply disturbed and confused man. At first he was killing villains (even minor delinquents..), but after getting... "enlightened" by Knuckleduster and his resolve he will switch to killing "sham heroes", as we all know, which in his mind means... all heroes except All Might. In the next episodes I assume he'll attack and maim Tenya's big brother, as we know from the original series. The fact that he arbitrarily labeled Kouichi a villain too, just for trying to save Spike, means that everyone can be a villain in his book. He's a hypocrite who sees hypocrites everywhere except the mirror. "Justice" my a*se... As for the super obnoxious bee brat, I wonder why she needs to carry multiple vials of Trigger (and risk getting caught by the police if searched) if all of her bees carry a small dose of Trigger in their butts/vials. She has a crapload of them (hundreds or more), which she hosts somewhere in her head, suggesting she might be missing plenty of brain matter. But does she make Trigger herself (via her bees, instead of honey) or does AFO make it and somehow her bees carry it? Last but not least, how can the police be so incompetent that they haven't found her yet? She is the single Trigger supplier in the city or even country. Not a single Trigger user talked when questioned, despite everything they went through due to that drug? Is the police incompetent or they just don't care? |
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| Another great episode. |
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| So... old dude was the one that turned "villain killer" into "hero killer"... lol . Also... just realized... all the "best heroes" are all Qurikless huh... (or started out as). This seems like a Batman effect, where the "powerless" ends up as the "strongest". (also, ppls are now saying MHA and Vigilante are not canon due to some controversies, but we still have this here, that directly connects the 2 series together, lol) |
| Nothing Written Here But Us Anime Bunnies *boing boing boing* |
| The Abegawa Tenchu yakuza gang, thinking they're all righteous villains, gets notoriously slain down by Stendhal, though Kuin having to convince him will take time. Soga and his gang remain intact, especially the lizard of Rapt who recovers from the near-mishap of letting Ideo Trigger take over his entire self. But if there's one difference now, Soga wants to deal with Stendhal personally, even if it means standing up for who he really is as a bona fide villain. And sure, Koichi felt the ground crumblings of Soga's scream, but to see him and Stendhal face off against each other, the risk to save the Legendary Alum in spite from the latter's Bloodcurdle Quirk for Koichi, almost gets subdued when Knuckleduster comes for their aid. There's a clear difference between heroism and one's sense of justice, and Stendhal choosing to cross that very line, only for Knuckleduster to interfere on his own count, turns the hero defender into quite the hero killer. Thankfully, Soga is saved, and one part of him even knows how Pop Step feels about the Crawler, though subtle. But as for Stendhal, his proclamations of heroes lacking resolve, and by his very blood of creating his very own path where no one has ever gone, he's clearly stained. From Stendhal to Hero Killer Stain, how messed up is that? |
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| Stain was pretty much the only villain I ever found to be a bit interesting in the main series. Guy had a meaningful purpose.. it's another thing he gets wasted as well in the end. Though yeah, was cool to see how the guy who called himself Stendhal eventually became Stain. |
| Great episode... |
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| My dumb ass didn't put 2 and 2 together when 'Stendhal' licked blood and froze those 4 yakuza lol.. When he started cutting off his nose though? I immediately made the connections, yeah I know I'm sharp 😭 |
| I knew that sword man seemed familiar! He's Stain! He was never right in the head. |
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