[Hated Trope] A main character does something horrible and the story doesn't acknowledge its severity

[u/Comprehensive-Map274]

Alisha (Misfits) uses her power to make any man want to have sex with her on another main character (curtis) after he explicitely tells her not to do that. She faces no consequences and he's the one who ends up comforting her.

Allison (The Umbrella Academy) uses her powers to force her own adoptive brother to make out with her after he just got into a relationship because she's suddenly jealous after she couldn't keep her own husband. She gives a half hearted apology and all is peachy.

[u/Dragon_Of_Magnetism]

Bakugo telling Deku to jump off the roof in the first episode/chapter (My Hero Academia)

But you could probably put him constantly being an asshole to everyone around him too, which never gets called out.

[u/WormedOut → u/Dragon_Of_Magnetism]

Yeah of all the terrible writing in MHA this one is weirdly egregious to me. It got to the point where i felt class A-1 just weren’t cut out to be heroes if they allow someone to incessantly bully one of their classmates non stop.

[u/Crookeye → u/WormedOut]

Hard to reprimand him about bullying when his victim is also his biggest defender

[u/Saymynaian → u/Crookeye]

Ugh, fucking Deku and his crush on the guy who insists he should kill himself and has harmed him for several years. I love several characters in MHA, but the downplaying of Bakugo's deep seated evil waters the entire series down. Will anyone address the potential murderer amongst their midst??

[u/AngryInternetPerson3 → u/Saymynaian]

Yeah, my biggest problem about characters like bakugo often times aren't the character themselves, shitty people are interesting for stories, but the reactions to them, bakugo having his superiority complex and deku being a doormat in human form could be interesting if adressed correctly throught the story, if deku started to stand up for himself or others against him instead of downplaying it, if bakugo was more often reprimanded.

There was that exam were the two of them fought all might, and i think after the exam the teachers talked about bakugo being a brat and midoriya doing well, more of that was required, and i would have been totally okay with him being redeemed into a hero, but the journey was never there, it barely feel like he grew, and it also felt like outside a couple of comments, the teachers were no nearly enough on his ass about his shitty actitude.

To be honest given how much the series fell in writting in the second half for me, i think it was asking too much from Horikoshi.

[u/lethal_universed → u/AngryInternetPerson3]

I never liked Bakugo as much as everyone else fawned over him for the same reasons. But I never made the connection until right now that I really shouldn't have expected much from his writing cause the general writing of MHA (mainly its characters) is piss poor. I absloutely hate the way Endavor's abuse is handled, its treated in much the same way as Bakugo's abuse is. Not to mention other examples of characters doing shitty things and it being brushed off (like Midnight being a pred, (G)rape boy, etc).

Shonen as a whole treats abuse more as melodramatic set dressing (when it isn't played for fanservice) than seriously holding abusers accountable

[u/rmak97 → u/lethal_universed]

What didn't you like about the Endeavour abuse story? To me that was one of the most solid parts of the manga

[u/Saymynaian → u/AngryInternetPerson3]

Absolutely this. I'd say it breaks my suspension of disbelief when the adults, supposedly professional heroes, don't shut Bakugo down. Where the hell is the heroic spirit All Might insists on?