I can imagine early on in AFO’s linage some were less picky about their successor.
Maybe they prioritized moral integrity less than absolute determination in some cases.
After all people can have their own version of what justice is.
Edited by slimcoder on Mar 11th 2019 at 10:01:50 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."I've compared Destro's picture to the two silhouettes and they look nothing alike, unless he had a very different hairstyle at one point but that sounds like an Ass Pull to me.
Edited by Kaiseror on Mar 11th 2019 at 12:07:33 PM
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That's not what an Ass Pull is.
Anyway, we've only seen one picture of Destro, there's nothing saying he couldn't have worn his hair differently at some point. Which might feel kind of cheap, but I could also see it being done just to not give away the reveal before the actual time.
One silhouette has a build and hairstyle somewhat similar to Kirishima and the other has a body type that could match match Destro's but has a weird...hair sprout (I really don't know what it's called).
I theorize that one of the silhouetted users was a Stain-esque vigilante and is greatly disliked by the other users.
See, that's the thing about silhouettes, they're intentionally vague. I wouldn't say either of them has hair like Kirishima's (Bakugo's I see), and I don't see how you can say anything about their builds. Not that it matters, because we don't really know Destro's either.
Which isn't to say that he definitely is one of them, just that if he were it wouldn't be an ass pull just because the hair is different.
Edited by LSBK on Mar 11th 2019 at 12:19:21 PM
I also think the other one is hidden because either they are Famed in Story or are related to someone Midoriya personally knows.
I mean, I've been taking it as a given that both of them are well-known in story.
And what would be the point in hiding them just because they're related to someone that Izuku knows? It's not like we would know the connection.
But really, as we were already discussing something like "Oh, hey this important person happens to be related to [X character]." has to be done sparingly.
Edited by LSBK on Mar 11th 2019 at 12:25:51 PM
Eh, Kuruk wasn't really a Black Sheep. He was just a decent but flawed person. Like all of the Avatars, really. Kuruk was a go-with-the-flow kind of guy. Fortunately, the peace and prosperity his Avatar predecessor brought about meant that Kuruk didn't need to be particularly active as an Avatar — the Four Nations were able to handle themselves.
Edited by M84 on Mar 13th 2019 at 3:37:31 AM
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You're conflating the meta reasoning with the in-story reasoning. I don't think the in-story reason will be that they were villains, I think Horikoshi wanted to single those two out, specifically, and making them silhouettes was an easy way to do it. Them being villains happens to be a fairly plausible reason for why they would be singled out, but the in-story reason will probably amount to something different.
Although even if that were directly the in-story reason it's not like you could claim that doesn't make sense - it's not like we have any idea how this whole inner world thing works in the first place. Horikoshi could say almost anything and we'd just have to go with it at this point because nothing has been established to the contrary.
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With all the Avatars over the centuries I wonder if some gained infamy for being less benign than usual. After all maintaining balance has no direct interpretation.
Also another funny thing that’s not directly related to MHA. Studio Bones has announced they are adapting for Netflix the American superhero comic Super Crooks written by Mark “The Goat-Licker” Millar & drawn by Leinil Yu according to here.
According to the synopsis it’s about a bunch of super-villains planning for the ultimate last score by robbing the biggest bad super-villain around in Spain.
First Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou, then MHA, now this. Man Bones is really getting into the superhero genre.
Edited by slimcoder on Mar 12th 2019 at 1:15:27 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Keep in mind that "balance" in the Avatar-verse seems to be short-hand for maintaining world peace. The Avatar cycle began in the first place because the first Avatar Wan was unable to end the chaos he unleashed even after a lifetime of fighting battle after battle. The Avatar Cycle is a never-ending attempt to fix Wan's mistake.
Also keep in mind that the source of the Avatar's power is a spiritual fusion with Raava, a literal spirit of Harmony and Light.
Edited by M84 on Mar 12th 2019 at 4:18:26 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedWan opened the floodgates when he released Vaatu. Vaatu may not have directly caused all of the chaos that followed, but the very act of freeing Vaatu was enough to jolt the world out of the somewhat balanced state it was originally. The metaphysical spiritual imbalance threw the world into turmoil. This turmoil is what the Avatar Cycle is meant to confront.
Disgusted, but not surprisedEarlier I speculated that Nana had a decay quirk similar to her grandson, would a supercharged version of that turn Midoriya into an outright Walking Wasteland?

I like that idea.
Edited by LSBK on Mar 11th 2019 at 11:55:50 AM