Warning! Spoilers ahead for My Hero Academia chapter 350!
Dabi just revealed to his younger brother Shoto Todoroki how he plans to seek vengeance against their father Endeavor in My Hero Academia. Although his plan is wonderfully brutal, it accidentally exposes how much better the anticipation for the fight between Dabi and Shoto could have been. Up until now mangaka Kohei Horikoshi has created a wholly different impression of the context of the brothers' fight.
Although Dabi's troubles first began when Endeavor cast him aside for Shoto, Horikoshi made it abundantly clear that Dabi's desperation was always directed at Endeavor. Dabi might have resented Shoto for stealing Endeavor away, but everything Dabi did as a child was to catch Endeavor's attention. He accidentally burned himself alive, not to one-up Shoto, but to prove to Endeavor that his flames were strong enough and that he could control them. As a result, fans have always looked more forward to Dabi's inevitable confrontation with Endeavor more than with Shoto. This isn't to say that fans never cared because the altercation did promise to be quite the emotional rollercoaster. But the brotherly battle always felt like something that just had to happen first because it was the natural precursor to the big fight between father and son.
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It was therefore quite exhilarating when My Hero Academia created the false impression that Endeavor, Shoto and Dabi would go all-out ina two-on-one Todoroki family brawl. So, when Dabi was later paired off with Shoto alone while Endeavor faced off against All For One, it was disappointing but understandable. But chapter 350 reveals that defeating Shoto is a major
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