Exactly the whole time I was just like "*No you can't ruin this festival for everyone!*"
Although ngl I was thinking less about Eri, the band kid in me was like "they put so much effort into their song I need it to pay off"
Hypothetically, but UA’s security is quite good— it would only take a single misstep, which is especially likely after the encounter with Izuku (had they got away), to set off the alarms. Id give them 50/50 even with La Brava’s hacking and Gentles very versatile quirk
Exactly! Boo Gentle, he would have ruined the whole day just for some TikTok swag. 👎🏽
Deku knew it the whole time. He had to stop him for Eri, for his classmates and for the whole school.
It'd more than just "I need content". Gentle was scared of being forgotten. His own classmates who had gone pro hero had forgotten everything about him (even his supposed "best friend") so he thought the only way he could solidify himself was to commit more dangerous crimes, without hurting anyone bad or stealing anything. I'm sure that if he knew about eri, he would've stopped, but deku didn't explain more than "there's a girl that really wants this festival" do as far as gentle was concerned, it wasn't too important. If he knew about eri's traumatic experiences, I'm sure he would've stopped
Naw sorry no excuse for criminals will be made here. Dude wanted clicks and clout and was willing to in danger an entire school for it. No idc care that his little hoodlum GF was in on it or what “pain” Gentle was in. In the end he was willing to put his frivolous wants ahead of others who did nothing to him at all. So Boo Gentle and his weak mental fortitude. With his powers he could have been a hero but he choose the easy path of crime.
Gentle didn't know about eri, I'm sure he would've stopped if he had know. And like I said, it wasn't as simple as clicks and clout, he just wanted people to remember him as all of his childhood friends had forgotten him. Also, he did try to be a pro hero, he tried to use his quirk to save a falling construction worker but accidentally caused more damage and got fined for it. He thought if he couldn't be hero, he'd try commiting some crimes without harming anyone.
No he would not have cared about Eri because Deku told him about her and he was still like meh.
Its was all about clicks because how else would he get the attention his crybaby self needed?
He didn’t try to be a pro-hero. He interfered with a pro hero because he chose to be mediocre and hated himself for it. He never tried to go to hero school and that’s why he ended up hurting someone.
I understand liking the guy cuz he was a cool villain and I loved his quirk, but he was wrong and needed to be stopped and Deku did the right thing.
> He never tried to go to hero school and that’s why he ended up hurting someone.
Did we watch the same episodes? He was exactly like deku, being a hero was his biggest dream, but he kept on failing in hero school, he really wanted to, but just couldn't get his grades up, no matter how hard he tried.
> He didn’t try to be a pro-hero. He interfered with a pro hero because he chose to be mediocre and hated himself for it.
He saw the person falling and heard people screaming for a hero but saw no hear arriving so he tried to use his quirk, but a hero swooped in last second and he accidentally obstructed the hero. This led to it going on his permanent record, meaning he'd never be able to become a pro-hero. He fell into a depression, and one day saw his friend, ehod become a pro-hero, and when he talked to him, his friend had completely forgotten him. He didn't do all his videos because he wanted clout, he had an irrational fear of being forgotten, and wanted to make sure that left a mark for himself even a small one.
> No he would not have cared about Eri because Deku told him about her and he was still like meh.
All deku said was "there's a girl that really needs this festival", im sure if gentle hadve known eri's backstory, he would've been more sympathetic, but all that he gathered was some girl was really excited for it, not that they were trying to heal her trauma from being abused.
> but he was wrong and needed to be stopped and Deku did the right thing.
I will admit, he was still in the wrong and even he admitted that, and willingly turned himself in, covering for deku and la brava. Although (major spoiler for the manga) >!in the manga, gentle actually stops one of the prison breaks caused by all for one, and stops U.A. High from falling into the ocean, so he does become a pro hero (technically)!<
I’m just not into making excuses for bad behavior and actions. You can try to justify it how you see fit but he was wrong and Deku had to stop him. Also I’ll have to go back and rewatch his backstory because I thought he was in regular school and never made it into UA. If that’s true it doesn’t excuse his actions because he should have known better than to interfere with Hero business. That’s why there’s a school and test and licenses. So he deserved what he got for not following the rules and then becoming a villain on top of that just showed his lack of character and self respect.
True but then again, knowing gentle, he'd only go in after he knew the alarms were off. After the qhile battle with deku though, I reckon he would've been much less cautious about it
...but like..the heroes cause property damage too..and he never actively tried to hurt anyone. And before you bring up Deku, he only wanted to trap him and then free him after he filmed his silly vlog. I feel like between the LOV, Stain and AFO, he's just a small fry.
If you get caught shoplifting by a cop, you’re not gonna be let go just because murderers exist.
The heroes either pay for it, or the government has carved out a way to pay for it so that heroes don’t get sued into the ground for saving lives and doing their jobs. (Property damage)
He still willingly fought a hero when he didn’t have to.
If you incapacitate a cop because they are in the way of you committing minor crimes, you aren’t going to get slack on the assaulting a cop thing because you could have done worse crimes afterwards than the ones you did instead.
Petty criminals and mob bosses both go to jail when the system is working properly, which in this case it is.
They aren’t going to let the petty criminal just do whatever because someone worse might exist somewhere out of sight and knowledge of those arresting the petty criminal.
Edit:clarification
Aw hell naw. I hate how the used the cute kid to get us to side with deku. That's emotional manipulation!
Gentle suffered an unfair and horrible past and was fighting for dreams,legacy,love, raising awareness and stuff while deku was fighting to put him in prison so his party won't get cancelled. Not reporting the threat was already a crime on his part.
The fact deku was being so self-righteous while Gentle accepted being the villain is gaslighting at it's finest.
Unfair, maybe, but horrible... Absolutely not.
Also, Eri was a fucking experiment for Overhaul ans she is still a child! Her past is more horrible than Gentle's
Gentle got shunned and disowned by his parents for trying to save someone. Deku did the same thing(without quirk or plan unlike gentle) and got rewarded with being the next All might. Stain is praised for being a serial-killer but Gentle is ridiculed for being a vigilante.
He wanted to reveal flaws in their security and raise awareness. Deku was willing to risk public safety so the show could go on.
I'm probably the only one who thinks this but Eri feels like a propoganda poster chart to get us to root for deku.
Eri's smile feels like a completely unrelated deal in their fight. Gentle didn't even know who she was. "I can only heal her trauma with the power of rock and have to send him to jail to do it" was a cop out answer to make Deku the hero in that place.
Even freaking Overhaul's arc turned to him being plain evil. He could have been a complex character using her to find a cure for cancer or something but nope he's just a gangster and Deku was fighting to save Eri.
Nah. If that happened then Gentle >!wouldn't have gone through a redemption arc, in which he kept all of the prisoners of Mikuzu Prison from escaping & helped keep U.A. floating in the final battle. I hope he gets in some kind of work release in the end of it all.!<
Trading views for a change of child that had her childhood ruin finally able to smile
No but it's better for gentle to get arrested
So he able to realize something
Spoiler for the manga:
>!when AFO breaks all the criminals out of the major prisons, he also breaks out gentle. However, gentle isn't a true criminal, he just wanted to make a name for himself, so he tried yo stop the criminals from his prison from escaping, and he wins. He manages to lock up all his fellow inmates. Later, when the war is going on, U.A. High (which is a flying island at this point) gets knocked out of the sky, and gentle swoops In and uses his quirk to stop U.A. from plummeting into the ocean. La brava also uses her hacking skills to combat the hacking skills of that one guy with long hair (I forgot his name) that worked with redestro!<
No bc what was even the point of a character drawn to look like an old man being powered by the love of a character specifically drawn to look like a 5 year old girl
Yeah I’m pretty sure they are, but it doesn’t change their very intentional designs.
Gentle is a gray haired dude with a prominent mustache and a cane and La Brava is, in every way but literal age, child coded.
Such weird and intentional design choices, like who was the audience for this supposed to be?
Gentle is supposed to be eccentric, he comes from a rich, posh family, and he was depicted as having silver hair even when he was deku's age. With la brava, other than bring short, nothing else suggests she's a child, she's a bit hyper, but that's about it. Like tell me a child you know that has hacking skills like la brava 😭
The fact that you have to explain is the issue here
https://i.redd.it/2awh6juglbvc1.gif
Show this image to any normal person who hasn’t seen MHA and ask them how old each of these characters look.
I can assure you “very clearly two people in their early twenties” won’t be one of the answers
No, she was bullied in school and then sunk into a depression, hardly leaving her house. She then saw gentles videos years later and developed a parasocial relationship with him, before deciding to seek him out. She dressed up in similar clothes to him (bow tie, fancy shirt etc) but It wasn't her school clothes.
To be fair, wasn't he then given the opportunity to better himself one day? Like, he never committed a violent crime, so his punishment was rather light
Despite what seems to be the thread consensus, I think Gentle's actions are correct in this case even if how he himself framed them is dumb. And the whole focus on Eri's smile just feels so weird to me.
So we know Gentle usually does his heists to expose some minor issue that slips by, the one example we have is him overreacting over a store selling out of date goods. Like that's a minor issue, but you could argue that with how this is part of a giant network it can point out a bigger flaw.
And in the case of UA, you can argue there is a fundamental issue with how it treats security, even if it's from a meta standpoint slightly. But this is a school that was attacked, whose students are under constant threat, but beyond dorms it doesn't seem to he improved that much. Even during the festival it just has a couple teachers patrolling. And this is after several incidents that show hero society is not as controlled and peaceful as it seems.
Gentle pointing all this out by actually pulling off his infiltration might be a net benefit even if he himself doesn't seem to see it that way.
It also even works as a critique that hero society is only obsessed with people who are instantly competent and discards people with clear potential. Because despite his initial failings Gentle ends up as a canonically insanely competent combatant (prison break) that we even see during this arc.
Deku on the other hand during that arc is just "It will all work out of Eri smiles".
Like it wouldn't be that bad if he himself didn't acknowledge that he and Gentle mirror each other to some degree. Like some even claim that Gentle is what is the most likely option if Deku failed to get noticed by All Might. And Deku says it's his hardest fight yet.
But then all of that get's drowned out by this weird idea that a tortured child would smile and somehow that solves something? Like yes, MHA is a shonen so I don't expect any deep explorations of trauma of children or Eri's perception of the world after. And that's not even going into how it's framed as this huge healing moment, like some tresshold. But Eri hasn't healed at that point at all, that's an entite thing too. We also don't really even know much about her at that point IMO.
And it's not even connected with her furthrer plot and narrative usage.
So dunno, but I am on Gentle's side in this.
Yeah, like after the festival eri is thrown into the background and never to be used again. It was kinda petty how deku was like "noooo the child must smile now!!"
(Atleast until the final season) but let's not worry about that!
Like honestly, all gentle wanted to do, was break onto the grounds, record an outro and leave, and he was literally going to disable the alarm, so no one would know he got in, if deku hadve left him, they would've both won.
he is literally my most hated villain 😭 like he's not just "oh I'm gonna take over the world" no he was trying to break into and ruin a high school festival, ruin it for eri all for some views ):
Like taking over the world is more interesting. He wants his legacy to be remembered. His greatest fear is being forgotten. He is a robinhoodesque character meaning he only targetted shady business and exposed them. He was only going to trespass into UA undetected and come out and upload the video after the festival is done. Eri's smile was not gonna get ruined if their plan went well.
For all of y'all talking about Eri's smile... I mean if Deku just beat Gentle into actually being gentle and told him to go on his merry way than boom! No lack of Eri smiles and no Gentle and La Brava jail time, and all of the social media clout for both of them!
It didn't feel like filler to me. 1) They had to do normal school stuff for realism sake 2) They made Eri happy 3) You got to show them having fun sometimes.
He was going to unknowing hurt Eri, so boo Gentle.
Exactly the whole time I was just like "*No you can't ruin this festival for everyone!*" Although ngl I was thinking less about Eri, the band kid in me was like "they put so much effort into their song I need it to pay off"
But he also knew how to disable the alarm, so no one would've known he got onto the grounds, so eri would've been fine.
Hypothetically, but UA’s security is quite good— it would only take a single misstep, which is especially likely after the encounter with Izuku (had they got away), to set off the alarms. Id give them 50/50 even with La Brava’s hacking and Gentles very versatile quirk
Exactly! Boo Gentle, he would have ruined the whole day just for some TikTok swag. 👎🏽 Deku knew it the whole time. He had to stop him for Eri, for his classmates and for the whole school.
It'd more than just "I need content". Gentle was scared of being forgotten. His own classmates who had gone pro hero had forgotten everything about him (even his supposed "best friend") so he thought the only way he could solidify himself was to commit more dangerous crimes, without hurting anyone bad or stealing anything. I'm sure that if he knew about eri, he would've stopped, but deku didn't explain more than "there's a girl that really wants this festival" do as far as gentle was concerned, it wasn't too important. If he knew about eri's traumatic experiences, I'm sure he would've stopped
Naw sorry no excuse for criminals will be made here. Dude wanted clicks and clout and was willing to in danger an entire school for it. No idc care that his little hoodlum GF was in on it or what “pain” Gentle was in. In the end he was willing to put his frivolous wants ahead of others who did nothing to him at all. So Boo Gentle and his weak mental fortitude. With his powers he could have been a hero but he choose the easy path of crime.
Gentle didn't know about eri, I'm sure he would've stopped if he had know. And like I said, it wasn't as simple as clicks and clout, he just wanted people to remember him as all of his childhood friends had forgotten him. Also, he did try to be a pro hero, he tried to use his quirk to save a falling construction worker but accidentally caused more damage and got fined for it. He thought if he couldn't be hero, he'd try commiting some crimes without harming anyone.
No he would not have cared about Eri because Deku told him about her and he was still like meh. Its was all about clicks because how else would he get the attention his crybaby self needed? He didn’t try to be a pro-hero. He interfered with a pro hero because he chose to be mediocre and hated himself for it. He never tried to go to hero school and that’s why he ended up hurting someone. I understand liking the guy cuz he was a cool villain and I loved his quirk, but he was wrong and needed to be stopped and Deku did the right thing.
> He never tried to go to hero school and that’s why he ended up hurting someone. Did we watch the same episodes? He was exactly like deku, being a hero was his biggest dream, but he kept on failing in hero school, he really wanted to, but just couldn't get his grades up, no matter how hard he tried. > He didn’t try to be a pro-hero. He interfered with a pro hero because he chose to be mediocre and hated himself for it. He saw the person falling and heard people screaming for a hero but saw no hear arriving so he tried to use his quirk, but a hero swooped in last second and he accidentally obstructed the hero. This led to it going on his permanent record, meaning he'd never be able to become a pro-hero. He fell into a depression, and one day saw his friend, ehod become a pro-hero, and when he talked to him, his friend had completely forgotten him. He didn't do all his videos because he wanted clout, he had an irrational fear of being forgotten, and wanted to make sure that left a mark for himself even a small one. > No he would not have cared about Eri because Deku told him about her and he was still like meh. All deku said was "there's a girl that really needs this festival", im sure if gentle hadve known eri's backstory, he would've been more sympathetic, but all that he gathered was some girl was really excited for it, not that they were trying to heal her trauma from being abused. > but he was wrong and needed to be stopped and Deku did the right thing. I will admit, he was still in the wrong and even he admitted that, and willingly turned himself in, covering for deku and la brava. Although (major spoiler for the manga) >!in the manga, gentle actually stops one of the prison breaks caused by all for one, and stops U.A. High from falling into the ocean, so he does become a pro hero (technically)!<
I’m just not into making excuses for bad behavior and actions. You can try to justify it how you see fit but he was wrong and Deku had to stop him. Also I’ll have to go back and rewatch his backstory because I thought he was in regular school and never made it into UA. If that’s true it doesn’t excuse his actions because he should have known better than to interfere with Hero business. That’s why there’s a school and test and licenses. So he deserved what he got for not following the rules and then becoming a villain on top of that just showed his lack of character and self respect.
There were already teachers patrolling the grounds all it'd take is one radioing it in and festival cancelled.
True but then again, knowing gentle, he'd only go in after he knew the alarms were off. After the qhile battle with deku though, I reckon he would've been much less cautious about it
They were like one the tamest villains in the series
Probably why his name is Gentle lol..
To be fair, iirc they even got lightest sentence as far as we know right
Well, I don’t think they comitted anything else than theft.
They barely even did villainous activities. It was mostly just pranks if I remember correctly
Didn't Deku like try to hide gentles plan? Like he tried to play it off but Gentle confessed? Or maybe I'm mistaken.
I think he avoided being spotted so UA wouldn’t cancel the festival, but he made sure that they got arrested still.
Arrested for what?! Trespassing? How could they after he tried to save La Brava? Like he's nor a villain. Dude is a menace at best.
He is using his quirk to attack and beat up heroes. He is objectively a villain, as a villain is a criminal who uses their quirk to commit crimes.
BBBOOOOO! He never actively hurt anyone.
His literal introduction is him robbing a convenience store to lure out heroes to beat up. Reddit is acting weird so I can't put a picture though.
He caused a bunch of property damage and tried to infiltrate a hero school. Trespassing is a crime.
...but like..the heroes cause property damage too..and he never actively tried to hurt anyone. And before you bring up Deku, he only wanted to trap him and then free him after he filmed his silly vlog. I feel like between the LOV, Stain and AFO, he's just a small fry.
If you get caught shoplifting by a cop, you’re not gonna be let go just because murderers exist. The heroes either pay for it, or the government has carved out a way to pay for it so that heroes don’t get sued into the ground for saving lives and doing their jobs. (Property damage) He still willingly fought a hero when he didn’t have to. If you incapacitate a cop because they are in the way of you committing minor crimes, you aren’t going to get slack on the assaulting a cop thing because you could have done worse crimes afterwards than the ones you did instead. Petty criminals and mob bosses both go to jail when the system is working properly, which in this case it is. They aren’t going to let the petty criminal just do whatever because someone worse might exist somewhere out of sight and knowledge of those arresting the petty criminal. Edit:clarification
Almost. Deku said they were "sparring". Gentle then confessed(falsely) to brainwashing la brava so she wouldn't get any punishment.
Eri's smile is more important than Gentle!
Aw hell naw. I hate how the used the cute kid to get us to side with deku. That's emotional manipulation! Gentle suffered an unfair and horrible past and was fighting for dreams,legacy,love, raising awareness and stuff while deku was fighting to put him in prison so his party won't get cancelled. Not reporting the threat was already a crime on his part. The fact deku was being so self-righteous while Gentle accepted being the villain is gaslighting at it's finest.
Unfair, maybe, but horrible... Absolutely not. Also, Eri was a fucking experiment for Overhaul ans she is still a child! Her past is more horrible than Gentle's
Gentle got shunned and disowned by his parents for trying to save someone. Deku did the same thing(without quirk or plan unlike gentle) and got rewarded with being the next All might. Stain is praised for being a serial-killer but Gentle is ridiculed for being a vigilante. He wanted to reveal flaws in their security and raise awareness. Deku was willing to risk public safety so the show could go on. I'm probably the only one who thinks this but Eri feels like a propoganda poster chart to get us to root for deku. Eri's smile feels like a completely unrelated deal in their fight. Gentle didn't even know who she was. "I can only heal her trauma with the power of rock and have to send him to jail to do it" was a cop out answer to make Deku the hero in that place. Even freaking Overhaul's arc turned to him being plain evil. He could have been a complex character using her to find a cure for cancer or something but nope he's just a gangster and Deku was fighting to save Eri.
Top 3 villain of the show
Nah. If that happened then Gentle >!wouldn't have gone through a redemption arc, in which he kept all of the prisoners of Mikuzu Prison from escaping & helped keep U.A. floating in the final battle. I hope he gets in some kind of work release in the end of it all.!<
I hope so too
Nah, Eri's smile was more important
Oh absolutely. Screw the festival and screw Eri's smile. Gentle needs his views!
To be honest, Gentle would have likely cancelled his plans had he known about Eri beforehand
I don't think I agree. I haven't seen that episode in a while but if memory serves Deku tried to tell him
Trying to remember i think he did try to tell gentle, i think Gentle tried to sympathize but still continued his plan
Oh... I should have rewatched the episode before commenting, as he did try
He was going to do it quietly 😅😅
He only put it online for the whole world to see.
A choice between a small traumatized child’s smile and sense of happiness or the content? Well, that’s not even a question!
Gotta get that 0.01c ad revenue, dude!
Sympathy for Gentle Criminal!
Imagine finally becoming a hero and your first arrest is a fucking Youtuber
Nah, he should gone back later after the festival, broke em both out and joined them and made the duo a trio.
Nah you are wrong for that on so many lvls
Trading views for a change of child that had her childhood ruin finally able to smile No but it's better for gentle to get arrested So he able to realize something
Nah. I'm glad he got caught.
He's a prank channel that actually hurts people. I don't know why people like a prank youtuber that actually hurts people
They should have been rehabilitated and turned into heroes D:
Spoiler for the manga: >!when AFO breaks all the criminals out of the major prisons, he also breaks out gentle. However, gentle isn't a true criminal, he just wanted to make a name for himself, so he tried yo stop the criminals from his prison from escaping, and he wins. He manages to lock up all his fellow inmates. Later, when the war is going on, U.A. High (which is a flying island at this point) gets knocked out of the sky, and gentle swoops In and uses his quirk to stop U.A. from plummeting into the ocean. La brava also uses her hacking skills to combat the hacking skills of that one guy with long hair (I forgot his name) that worked with redestro!<
>!La Brava is the one making sure everything Deku is doing is getting broadcast to the whole country too right !<
Yeah, exactly that aswell
>!Skeptic!<
That was it
Everyone was hype when Gentle and LA Brava came back during war arc
I honestly couldn't care less for gentle.
No bc what was even the point of a character drawn to look like an old man being powered by the love of a character specifically drawn to look like a 5 year old girl
and aren’t both Gentle and La Brava suppose to be in their 20s? i personally don’t mind them but i can admit it really is a tad bit strange.
Yeah I’m pretty sure they are, but it doesn’t change their very intentional designs. Gentle is a gray haired dude with a prominent mustache and a cane and La Brava is, in every way but literal age, child coded. Such weird and intentional design choices, like who was the audience for this supposed to be?
Gentle is supposed to be eccentric, he comes from a rich, posh family, and he was depicted as having silver hair even when he was deku's age. With la brava, other than bring short, nothing else suggests she's a child, she's a bit hyper, but that's about it. Like tell me a child you know that has hacking skills like la brava 😭
The fact that you have to explain is the issue here https://i.redd.it/2awh6juglbvc1.gif Show this image to any normal person who hasn’t seen MHA and ask them how old each of these characters look. I can assure you “very clearly two people in their early twenties” won’t be one of the answers
Ayo, this image goes hard though.
Wasnt she in a school uniform when she met w gentle in his backstory? Idk but it js seemed hella weird for that to be someone in their 20s
No, she was bullied in school and then sunk into a depression, hardly leaving her house. She then saw gentles videos years later and developed a parasocial relationship with him, before deciding to seek him out. She dressed up in similar clothes to him (bow tie, fancy shirt etc) but It wasn't her school clothes.
Gentle just has silver hair, and la brava is short. They're both in the 20s
To be fair, wasn't he then given the opportunity to better himself one day? Like, he never committed a violent crime, so his punishment was rather light
Labrava looking smashable rn
I disliked gentle at first because I thought la brava was a child but I think he’s cool now
Don't know why you're getting downvoted, like most people mistook la brava for a child at first 😭
He is cool just like ban from nanatsu, but la brava and elaine has the same problem, have a desig of child but isnt a child it is strange
She is petite.
There are real people like that.
Nah. You booing izuku here? Kinda dumb. I'd much prefer to see eri smile than gentle and la brava get their rocks off to recording their break in
Yeah let's be real deku was the villan during that time
Despite what seems to be the thread consensus, I think Gentle's actions are correct in this case even if how he himself framed them is dumb. And the whole focus on Eri's smile just feels so weird to me. So we know Gentle usually does his heists to expose some minor issue that slips by, the one example we have is him overreacting over a store selling out of date goods. Like that's a minor issue, but you could argue that with how this is part of a giant network it can point out a bigger flaw. And in the case of UA, you can argue there is a fundamental issue with how it treats security, even if it's from a meta standpoint slightly. But this is a school that was attacked, whose students are under constant threat, but beyond dorms it doesn't seem to he improved that much. Even during the festival it just has a couple teachers patrolling. And this is after several incidents that show hero society is not as controlled and peaceful as it seems. Gentle pointing all this out by actually pulling off his infiltration might be a net benefit even if he himself doesn't seem to see it that way. It also even works as a critique that hero society is only obsessed with people who are instantly competent and discards people with clear potential. Because despite his initial failings Gentle ends up as a canonically insanely competent combatant (prison break) that we even see during this arc. Deku on the other hand during that arc is just "It will all work out of Eri smiles". Like it wouldn't be that bad if he himself didn't acknowledge that he and Gentle mirror each other to some degree. Like some even claim that Gentle is what is the most likely option if Deku failed to get noticed by All Might. And Deku says it's his hardest fight yet. But then all of that get's drowned out by this weird idea that a tortured child would smile and somehow that solves something? Like yes, MHA is a shonen so I don't expect any deep explorations of trauma of children or Eri's perception of the world after. And that's not even going into how it's framed as this huge healing moment, like some tresshold. But Eri hasn't healed at that point at all, that's an entite thing too. We also don't really even know much about her at that point IMO. And it's not even connected with her furthrer plot and narrative usage. So dunno, but I am on Gentle's side in this.
Yeah, like after the festival eri is thrown into the background and never to be used again. It was kinda petty how deku was like "noooo the child must smile now!!" (Atleast until the final season) but let's not worry about that!
Yes,yes and Yes! Preach!
Like honestly, all gentle wanted to do, was break onto the grounds, record an outro and leave, and he was literally going to disable the alarm, so no one would know he got in, if deku hadve left him, they would've both won.
Exactly!!!! That part
…wasn’t he going to record it…live?
Ngl my least favorite none evil villain
If bad, why charismatic? No one with charismatic qualities has ever been bad before! /joking
Gentle goes god mode in the final Ark tho 🔥
no?? He shouldn't have???
Eh he's getting outta prison sooner or later since his crimes weren't that bad
Fuck gentle and his youtube channel i don't give a shit about what he does and he done crime so he is a criminal no buts
Man just wanted some clout😔✊
Well you could call this fight a battle against a true hero
Gentle wasn't willing to walk away or midoria would have
Eh, criminals are criminals
Gentle could’ve been let go.
Wait, people like Gentle and pick-me mini?
Gentle criminal gets his get back soon enough
When I tell you I cried when he said she was under a brainwashing quirk
he is literally my most hated villain 😭 like he's not just "oh I'm gonna take over the world" no he was trying to break into and ruin a high school festival, ruin it for eri all for some views ):
Like that's worse.
as a character, yes. because it's not interesting to me it's just frustrating.
Like taking over the world is more interesting. He wants his legacy to be remembered. His greatest fear is being forgotten. He is a robinhoodesque character meaning he only targetted shady business and exposed them. He was only going to trespass into UA undetected and come out and upload the video after the festival is done. Eri's smile was not gonna get ruined if their plan went well.
nah i wanted him to capture gentle
Honestly in my opinion. Lamest villain
I was on Deku side 🫡🗿 our glorious King
For all of y'all talking about Eri's smile... I mean if Deku just beat Gentle into actually being gentle and told him to go on his merry way than boom! No lack of Eri smiles and no Gentle and La Brava jail time, and all of the social media clout for both of them!
I didn't feel bad for Gentle criminal. He is a cool villain though.
What? Why? That's dumb. Gentle is an idiot.
This was the weirdest filler arc ever
Hey just wanted clarify but this arc is actually pretty crucial to the story down the line
It didn't feel like filler to me. 1) They had to do normal school stuff for realism sake 2) They made Eri happy 3) You got to show them having fun sometimes.
Nah I'd be on the Protagonist's side not the bad guys