So when Iida was interning under the hero Manual and was planning to go after the hero killer Stain. In this Manual confronts Iida on his plan, and he says something that I think is kind of dumb. Manual says that they as heroes don't arrest people, and this doesn't make sense. So while they literally don't arrest villains, they essentially arrest them. The reason I say this is because after a hero defeats a villain they detain them, and from there they hand them over to the police. So in the end of the day they do arrest villains.

So, I wanted to ramble about Stain a bit. Stain is a villain who became a villain because he saw corruption in the heroes and the education system that made new heroes. He believed heroes shouldn't seek fame, fortune, and should be read for self sacrifice. He calls for a return to the old ways of heroes. Only one character he views as a true hero is All Might. But of course like any other character that is a villain who is meant to have a point, he is still meant to be in the wrong and his ideas barely valid. While I am going through the series currently, I do have knowledge of what is to come. From what I know no actual change is made or thought is put into what Stain says. At most it seems to only influence Iida when Stain says he's not a real hero because he wants to avenge his brother, oddness on his standards. Outside of that the heroes call him a fanatic and treat his ideas as not valid, and all they will do is rally more villains which we see happen. But the main thing I wanted to mention is how ineffective Stain's methods are, like big purple raisin levels of ineffective but are only effective because the story says it is. As in how would said Hero Killer you know killing heroes actually lead to the change he wants. No really, aside from being seen as a fanatic his methods just involve killing heroes. Not really actively trying to change heroes to not be greedy or vain. He doesn't target the things that cause it in the first place either. We do hear Shigiraki, Kurogiri, and Stain discuss that his actions apparently make heroes watch themselves and be better heroes. But does it really? Are they doing it because they agree with Stain's beliefs? Or are they doing it so Stain doesn't come after them. Not to mention heroes in MHA have to be registered, and being a hero is a job and thus results in money as well. Said heroes would still be getting money and since hero work is a job they have to seek money in order to exist as a hero or in hero society. If what Stain wants to actually happen he should have been trying to completely overturn MHA's society in order to create an environment to produce what he seeks, instead of wasting his time killing random heroes.

An idea I had that I wonder if other people would also think would be something cool. A Spiderman show that centers around Miles instead of Peter. With similar writing to both Spectacular Spiderman and Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.

Power scaling...... I think it's kind of dumb. Okay time for an explanation, power scaling is something I find annoying. To me it's like saying "I choose rock, well I choose tornado, well I choose black hole" in a rock paper scissors game. Basically pitting fictional characters not only from one series but even across franchises against each other, all as a way of saying "my favorite fictional character is stronger than your fictional character." It's made even worse when the fictional character goes up against their universe's equivalent to a god. And while I do find it entertaining to see people lose it when I say something like "Bowser can survive what Omniman can't," messing with power scalers can be funny. Overall I think power scaling is kind of asinine, and even obnoxious at times. This is why I find things like One Punch Man and Mashle so entertaining, or Squirrel Girl beating Thanos hilarious. In a way characters like Saitama just break power scaling by having the maintain character by default be the strongest there is. All while basically subverting typical shonen and superhero tropes, and throwing things like power scaling out the window. Now for power scaling, how did I see within regards to fictional characters and their universes, or more particularly superheroes. Well, I prefer Stan Lee's take on it which is "the person who'd win in a fight, is the person the script writer wants to win." I also kind of love how that quote annoys the heck out of so many power scalers. I also power scaling this ignores basic stuff such as the characters themselves such as motives, beliefs, etc. Basically why would say Wolverine be fighting the Hulk, there needs to be a reason rather than the equivalent of smashing 2 action figures together. Anyways my ramble on power scaling is over. But before you leave I have one question for ya. "Does going Super to become a Super Saiyan require prep time?"

So continuing on from my previous post about self inserts, when bringing up characters like the TMNT are self inserts. People who complain about self inserts move the goal post and will say they don't like preestablished characters being changed and turned into self inserts. But I can assure you they do like it, and don't even realize it. Now time for example of a preestablished character that became a self insert, Rocket Raccoon. James Gunn has had history of unintentionally and intentionally inserting himself into characters in films he creates, and Guardians of The Galaxy is no different. Gunn on a few a occasions has talked about how he based Rocket on himself and Groot on his dog, and apparently has said he relates to Rocket.

So in recent discourse certain people will try to call certain media bad because one or some characters are self inserts, even if they actually aren't. So I wanted to throw my 2 cents in on this by talking about the Heroes in Half Shells, the TMNT. So a cosplayer who was cosplaying Mutant Mayhem's depiction of April O'Neil was used by certain people online to say that depiction of April was actually based on her, that Mutant Mayhem's April is an self insert, and that depiction was bad and the movie was bad. Which aside from it not being the case and the movie is a good movie, and said depiction of April is actually a good depiction. There's this idea that is spread around that self inserts are almost inherently bad. But this ignores how many fictional characters are not only based on real people, but the authors themselves. We need not look further than the Heroes in Half Shells themselves to actually get a prime example. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are self inserts, they are apparently based on the creators and their friends. Not only that but April is actually based on Eastman's at the time girlfriend April Fisher. With her design in many comics making this fact obvious.

Oh look another X-Men related post, yes I know I've been making a lot of posts about the X-Men recently. Anyways I wanted to throw my thoughts out about the character of Magneto and the dynamic he and Charles Xavier have. So Magneto is often depicted as a sympathetic villain who has good points, but at the same time falls into the whole oh but they do bad things like kill. Many sympathetic villains bug me in how they are depicted, and how they create unsympathetic heroes in turn. But That's not what this post is about, just remember Nimona is a great movie fight me! Okay back on track, Magneto and Xavier are often said to represent or be depicted like 2 individuals from the Civil Rights Movement. I don't like this because it basically plays into this old pitting of 2 individuals against each other post one of their deaths by a certain garbage nation leader. But also the person Magneto is often used to represent never tried to wipe all of the opposing side or rule over them. Something we see in the movies, comics, and tv shows. Like how in X2 Magneto basically tries to wipe out all non mutants. Which also ties into my previous post about the lack of mutant supporters and groups of people who have suffered in very similar ways mutants, and would definitely exist in such a world. That basically Magneto would wipe out those people as well, and the group that he shares an identity with as well. Speaking of that identity, does anyone else find it odd that Magneto adopts the ideology of the people who did that to him and others because of that identity? You have him referring to non mutants as bugs, lesser, etc. While referring to mutants as superior, gods, and goddesses with other characters adopting such language as well. With Magneto either trying to wipe out all non mutants all out like in X2, or like in rule over them like he plans to do in X-Men: First Class. Speaking of first class you have Magneto literally saying he agrees with everything that Sebastian Shaw says. It almost a bit worse given Magneto and other mutants associated with him like the Brotherhood of Mutants are an allegory for specific groups, and someone like Magneto adopting the ideology of the oppressors of said groups is just too similar to fear of said oppressors that said groups will do back to the oppressors what was done to them. It also falls into that same issue I made a post about where characters in the X-Men world act like mutants aren't humans. In the end I just find it weird an oppressed character would adopt the views of their oppressor, I don't think many would do something like that. The whole thing seems like there's almost an intent to make him a hypocrite. Small spoiler for X-Men 97 here.

Side note, while I get in X-Men 97 is having Magneto be better, and he is much better than many of his other depictions. But he still spits out some nonsense. Not saying everything he says in nonsense, he has some pretty good lines like the one in Episode 5.

Okay so something that's always kind of bothered me in a similar way to how evolution is treated in X-Men stories is the lack of non mutant characters that are pro mutant. With the X-Men media I have seen such as X-Men 97, the movies, and some comic stuff I've notice such characters are noticably absent. Only few characters who do "support" mutants show up, but they really aren't supportive. Usually these characters are government officials, someone like Valerie Cooper. The only time I've seen something that is like what I would expect to be more common is the family that helps Wolverine in Wolverine and the X-Men. While I get the government and a decent portion of the population would be against mutants, I don't get why seemingly almost all non mutants are against mutants. Spoilers for X-Men 97 from here.

So in Episode 2 of X-Men 97 we see "protesters" who end up kind of eerily mimicking a real event. With it mimicking said event I can understand why it, and anti mutant protests as seen in things like the movies would be a thing in such a world. I don't get why there seems to be a lack of pro mutant protests done on the part of non mutants in these worlds. Especially from groups that the X-Men are meant to be an allegory for, and actually go through what the mutants. Said groups exist in their world since their world is just our world but with mutants, aliens, and androids. Many of the real world events that happened in our world happened in their world too. So you would think at least the groups the mutants represent in universe would actually be sympathetic to mutants. Also, I find it kind of hard for so many non mutants to be so okay with things like the Sentinels or the Mutant Response Division. I get there are people that would defend such things, I find it hard to believe that basically no one would take issue with it. Especially since in the real world said groups do create such protests not just for themselves but for others.

So a little while ago I saw a video where someone was critiquing MHA's depictions of female characters. When speaking on Uraraka they mention how she is allowed to outshine certain characters or rescue said characters like they would her. This tied into something I have thought about before and I felt like making a post about. Basically that Uraraka's quirk is a nerfed gravity power. As far as I've seen so far she only has the ability to decrease gravity and not increase it. Also, when I asked others who have seen the whole series they confirmed this is how her power works. The reason I say Uraraka is nerfed is because if she had a full gravity quirk she would not only be able to outshine many of the other characters, but even possibly be one of the strongest characters in the whole series. For example look at EMH's depiction of Graviton, a character with gravity powers that aren't nerfed. He is shown to be extremely strong and is only taken down by all the Avengers which includes Thor and Hulk. Or even the effects of the gravity ray Superman uses on Lex Luthor in AllStar Superman, basically having control over the flow of time to an extent.

Apparently the creator of My Hero Academia Kohei Horikoshi wrote this in Mineta's bio which is very questionable.

So recently I've been watching X-Men 97 with some friends, and something I keep hearing is people in the series constantly refer to each other as either human or mutant. While some non mutants making such a differentiation would make sense, I don't think it makes sense for mutants especially the smart ones, or even scientists to say mutants are different from humans. Also, it's not just X-Men 97, it's the movies and the comics as well. There's even a line from the movies where someone says humans evolved from Neanderthals and wiped out Neanderthals. All this misunderstands how evolution works. There is an evolutionary rule that I can't remember what it was called for the life of me. So if anyone can let me know what it was leave a comment, or if I remember what it was I'll put it here in an edit. Regardless the rule goes that you will always be part of the group you evolved from. It's why humans are still apes and will always be apes no matter how much we evolve. So mutants are humans and will always be humans. As for the Neanderthal thing, Neanderthals are a sister species to Homo Sapiens but are still part of genus homo making them humans too. Homo Sapiens did not evolve from Neanderthals either. So while I get maybe someone who doesn't know who evolution works or simply hates mutants would say mutants aren't humans. I don't get how scientists or someone like Charles Xavier would make such a blunder. I think the only character I've seen that didn't make this mistake and basically corrected everyone else, was the evil robot Master Mold. In his words, "That is not logical, mutants are human. Therefore humans must be protected from themselves."

So, we've all made jokes about Spider-verse's canon events, the whole "I can't let you do that it's a canon event" joke. However, these jokes alongside what people think a canon is, is not actually what a canon event is. Miguel tells us precisely what canon events are in the movie, while showing some examples. "They are the canon, chapters that are a part of every Spider's story every time." In other words it's not just any event that happens in a Spider's story or history of a world, it has to be very specific events that are shared by all Spiders. The examples Miguel gives includes the spider bite, the upside down kiss, Venom, the death of a close loved one, and the death of a captain. Now here's where I start speculating based on things that don't add up. What canon event did Miguel break to destroy the universe he went into? Miguel makes it seem like just being in another universe breaks a canon event, but that doesn't actually add up with what he said. As he said, a canon event is something that happens in every Spider's story and that it can't be disrupted. Simply being in another universe wouldn't do that unless he was actively breaking canon himself in that world. Continuing on, we don't actually see what happens when someone breaks canon, at least that's what it seems like to me. You may be saying, but Miles breaks a canon event or there's Mumbattan. But here's the thing, what happened in Mumbattan does not look similar to what happened in Miguel's footage it's different. What we see in Mumbattan is the work of the Spot, and is not caused by Miles saving the Captain. Even Miles points it out to Miguel that it was caused by the Spot. Now if we take a look at Miguel's footage, there is something interesting that we see. The universe glitches as it is destroyed, the same kind of glitching we see in the first movie that was caused by specifically Kingpin's collider. Now we know Miguel is using similar but more advanced technology to what Kingpin was using. So what if Miguel didn't break a canon event but rather did something with his technology that destroyed the universe. From there Miguel either misinterpreted what happened, or is lying about what actually happened. Also, canon events have been broken already in this movie without a world being destroyed. If we take Miguel's claim that what happened in Mumbattan was Miles breaking a canon event and not the Spot as a fact. Then shouldn't the breaking of what could be argued the most major and important canon event there is, result in the immediate destruction of that world. Or at least Mumbattan but sped up? What am I talking about? The spider bite of course, even Miguel has it labeled as a canon event. So tell me why does Earth-42 still exist? It has no Spiderman, the spider bite canon event never happened, yet it is still intact with Prowler Miles running around. We also can't make the suggestion that Miguel saved Earth-42, because he didn't get the ability to travel across the Spider-verse until after the events of the first movie. Speaking of Miguel, he was never bitten by a spider. Instead he injects himself as we see him do in the movie. Isn't that breaking away from the canon? Also, at the end of the movie Gwen realizes that Miguel is wrong when her father quits, that these canon events aren't set in stone. Btw, can we stop the Gwen hate? She is meant to be a flawed character who while in a bad place made some bad decisions, and is now correcting herself. Seriously you guys are spiteful. Sorry, time to get back on track. There is also the meta text of the movie, the idea that the story has to go one way. That the canon must be abided by, the Spider Society's authority, or you could say the Comics Code Authority. With Miguel representing it, as he tells Miles that he is the original anomaly and that he's not supposed to be Spiderman. The rest of this post info is in a reply because I keep getting an error.

Spoiler for X-Men 97 below.

So I was watching X-Men 97 with some friends and we got to Episode 5. During this episode I noticed something, the Watcher. So with that being said, I feel like him showing up was forewarning what was about to happen.