Context: Wrote this after watching this video:
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Humans create emotions. Emotions is what makes us humans… When I saw this video, I couldn’t stop crying with the heart-warmingness and the wholesomeness that was on the stage…
“A band of misfits”, each human is so different, they made me think that.
The struggles they face, and despite that, they smile… I had a very strong opinion regarding the LGBTQ community… When we want to tease someone we link them to these groups, but what if they really are facing immense problems.
I used “if” because I don’t know… We see the FAKE ones on the social media and make a base opinion about everything and everyone…. We put a label on things as a whole.
Seeing the smile on those kids’ faces and the people with disabilities, mental conditions…. How much they are going through…… I can’t seem to understand, comprehend……
I want to experience everything and be everything because God has given me everything that a person could ask for and that’s WHY I never feel low because of this gratefulness feeling engraved in my heart….
Just imagine, these people, humans, would also have dreams, they also want to experience everything, they also have the right to enjoy every piece of this beautiful world……. But its so so so hard and inaccessible for them…… There’s this kid’s image looping in my head…… HOW PURE OF SMILE AND GRATEFUL AND EXCITED AND VALDATED HE MUST’VE FELT…..
This brings me to the point of My Hero Academia of how there’s TWO PARALLELS of the same story but both of them ended parallelly opposite of each other…. Now I can understand how deep of the theme My Hero Academia author is playing….
Nobody is born a “EVIL MONSTER”, we are just humans… But the society shapes us who we become…
Villains born not from evil—but systemic cracks.
The scariest villains aren’t born evil—they’re made by pain no one saw.
Why Shigaraki, Twice, and Toga Aren’t Evil—They’re Broken
The Lie of “Good vs Evil” in Society
My Hero Academia showcases this face of the society perfectly.
The villains aren’t just bad guys in cool outfits. They’re wounded kids who were never saved.
They don’t hate society because they’re monsters…
They became the monsters because the society hated them.
Shigaraki – Rotting from the Inside Out
- Quirk: Decay. But the real decay was emotional.
- Rejected by his family. Abandoned by heroes. Hands of the dead clinging to him—literal symbols of trauma he never got to drop.
- His destruction isn’t mindless—it’s a cry:
“If the world won’t save me, then I’ll erase it.”
Shigaraki is what happens when a child full of potential is met with fear instead of empathy.
Twice – The Identity That Cracked
- Real Name: Jin Bubaigawara.
- Cloned himself so much, he didn’t know if he was the original.
- Mental breakdown turned existential horror.
- What he really wanted?
“Someone to tell me I’m real.”
He’s not driven by malice—he’s clinging to connection, to certainty.
And the League? It gave him what no one else did: a family.
Toga – Bloodlust or Misunderstood Love?
- Her quirk twisted a basic human desire: to connect by becoming someone else.
- Society called her a freak. Her parents called her disgusting.
- All she wanted was to love—and be loved—fully, violently, without shame.
She’s not evil.
She just wants to be seen without being labeled.
The Psychology: How Trauma Warps Perception
When kids grow up with:
- Rejection
- Isolation
- Unprocessed grief
- Lack of emotional support
They don’t become evil overnight.
They lose their ability to trust.
Their pain mutates into rage, and rage becomes identity.
“If no one will love me as I am, maybe they’ll fear me.”
The Hero Society failed them before they ever broke the law.
It labeled them unstable, dangerous, “other.”
But what if someone had reached out before the fall?
What if they had their own UA, their own Class 1-A?
Would they still be villains?
Maybe Shigaraki could’ve been Deku.
Maybe Twice could’ve been a support hero.
Maybe Toga could’ve been just a weird, passionate girl with a quirk for cosplay.“They’re not evil because of their quirks.
They became villains because no one loved them when it mattered most.”“In another world, these villains are the most human characters we’ve got.”
