My Hero Academia Made Its Most Hated Hero Suffer In An Ingenious Way
Warning! Spoilers ahead for My Hero Academia chapter 353!
While My Hero Academia fans have not gotten a chance to see Dabi face off against his father Endeavor, the fight between Dabi and Shoto still makes Endeavor suffer in an indirect way. The decision to have Shoto Todoroki face his villainous brother Dabi before their father Endeavor may have made sense from the perspective of building tension, but the pacing suffered as a result. Shoto winning the fight just exacerbated the situation since it only promised to prolong Endeavor's confrontation with Dabi. However, mangaka Kohei Horikoshi just found an ingenious way to make do.
The moment Horikoshi revealed Dabi's origin story, he made it abundantly clear that the real conflict was between him and Endeavor, not Shoto. Endeavor was the one who originally placed all of his hopes and dreams on Dabi, making Dabi dependent on the extra attention he was receiving from his father as a result. So when Endeavor later dropped Dabi once Shoto was born, it left Dabi completely alone, forcing him to resort to extreme measures by burning himself alive in an effort to gain back his father's attention. Although Endeavor dropped Dabi because of Shoto, Dabi never expressed anger or resentment towards his younger brother upon their meeting at the tail end of the Paranormal Liberation War. All Dabi could express was his desire to tear Endeavor down.
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So, when Shoto paired off with Dabi instead of Endeavor during My Hero Academia's final war, readers viewed this as an annoying but necessary steppingstone to building up to the real battle between Endeavor and Dabi. But in chapter 353, Shoto has clearly won. The
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