The Perfection of Tomura Shigaraki

(This is the last thumbnail change I SWEAR) Timestamps for mobile users! 00:01 - Monsters 01:45 - Introduction 03:56 - Part 1: Shigaraki, the Character 18:55 - Part 2: Shigaraki, the Narrative Device 24:40 - Part 3: Shigaraki, the Thematic Element 38:07 - Conclusion Thanks for watching! EDIT: Since people keep asking, the song that plays during Part 3's start is Rayquazas Appearance Theme from Pokemon Emerald!

The fact Horikoshi also gave a whole arc to the league of villains with the exclusion of Deku while placing Shigaraki as the protagonist of that arc could mean that Shigaraki is equally as important as the main character.

The child who is rejected by his village will find warmth in its embers

Ok but you forget to mention how he’s an epic gamer

Midoriya was created out of the idealism of a superhero society and must constantly face the reality of what a superhuman society brings about. Shigaraki was created out of the reality of a superhuman society and must constantly face the ideals imposed on said society.

Shigaraki is no longer an egg. He is a magnificent Rooster. And his morning caw will awaken the hero society.

Shigaraki was abused by his father:- like Todoroki His father's disdain for heroes started due to his mother choosing to be a hero basically abandoning him:- Similar to Kota He was in a way cursed by a highly strong power in a very young age he accidentally at first used to kill his parent:- Like Eri What do these 3 characters have in common? Their POV changed, In a sense they were saved because of a certain green haired OFA user.

"Because he is free. The world is his playground"... This line gave me CHILLS.

I think one of shiggy’s best traits is how realistic his development is. His motivations have never really changed but his approach has. Which is a very realistic way of showing character growth. The utter simplicity of his goal but the willingness he wants to have to achieve it so interesting that I low key want to see him develop more even if he will he eventually stopped. After all he did something that I feel like a lot people in a post all might society hasn’t done yet: accept reality and get stronger for himself instead of waiting for a savior.

One thing that I noticed on my reread of the series is that Tensei tells Iida that people who save a scared child are the most heroic people in the world. Shigaraki was that scared child that nobody saved. Horikoshi was already subtly weaving in Shigaraki’s origin and how it ties into the core of the series.

Can we take a moment to to admire horikoshi's Art style

The league of villains caring about each other is super threatening, because they always have each others backs. The ones who gel the best with their fellow members always cause the most damage. Dabi, who is apathetic to the others usually ends up doing nothing, while twice becomes a force of destruction.

Another parallel I'd like to bring up is: Both Shigaraki and Deku's masters bestowed their quirks to the successor and fought each other with the inferior version of said quirk: The remaining embers of One for All and (as revealed way later in the manga) The Copied version of All for One.

What's amazing is that All for One could have taken Shigaraki's quirk, erase All Might, erase whoever he wants, and win. However, that assumes All For One just wants to win. But that's not his game plan, he truly just likes stirring the pot in every way he can. All for One never cared about losing, nor does he care about Shigaraki surpassing him or even destroying him. All For One just loves the idea of hell on earth, and letting loose Shigaraki on the world fits his plan much better than it would if he himself had those powers.

Most People: Waiting for any form of conformation that Dabi is a Todoroki Me: Waiting for the day that All For One tells Tomura "I'm proud of you."

Tomura didn't choose this life, he was BORN into it. He is a true force of the nature that is a hero society and I love it.

I finally get it. How his simple wish to destroy is only simple at face value: it derives from Shigaraki's own circumstances, his family, his birth, the entire influence of society weighing on him and ignoring him. "All it takes is one bad day" to create the very destroyer of all that you know.

I love how writers are beginning to realize that the power of friendship can be used by the bad guys too. I think the phantom troupe started that, but I love seeing how all of the league of villains genuinely care about each other. Despite being weaker than all of them, they are respect spinner, and the only one who ever puts him down for his lack of power is himself. Twice risked his sanity to save his friend Toga, and Toga and the others were elated to see that he had grown so much and they were all happy for him. It makes the villains so much scarier and so much more fun to watch if they actually give a crap about the people around them, because then there’s stakes for them as well.

A lot people seem to think that “just because he’s powerful that doesn’t make him a good villain”. But that’s completely missing the point, he isn’t “just powerful”, he’s developed as he has accumulated it. His growth in power reflects his growth as a person in both his actions and his ideology. He is ridiculously powerful, but that is only a small part of why he is an amazing villain.

Shigaraki went from traditional flavorless shonen protagonist to one of my favorite vilain within 1 Arc. If you had told me 3 years ago that I would end up liking him more than the Hero Killer Stain I would have said no way, but here we are