My Hero Academia continues to be one of the best new superhero stories, with its fourth season successfully ramping up the stakes and showing many characters’ impressive growths as people. But that said, the recently concluded season isn’t as airtight as some would think.
Season Four planted new questions but didn’t answer them all, leaving anime-only viewers scratching their heads and manga-readers cheerily keeping things a secret. For anime fans only, these are some gaping My Hero Academia Season Four plot holes and burning questions that the next set of episodes need to answer.
10 What Was Up With That Streaker?
Near the season’s finale, Hawks offhandedly stops a streaker while hanging out with Endeavor. The narration mentions that the streaker, Teruro Hazukashi (who gets stronger when he’s humiliated), was radicalized by the writings of Destro and was stopped from attacking his former place of employment, but that’s about it.
From what little is given, Destro is an extremist who believed in Quirk users’ supremacy. His manifesto, Meta Liberation War, is still being published even after his death. Interesting as this may be in terms of world-building, the biography and Hazukashi are forgotten as abruptly as they’re introduced.
9 What Was Up With That Giant?
Following the raid on Overhaul’s stronghold, Gran Torino and some cops are shown apprehending Kurogiri in the mountains. The warp user reveals that he’s there to contact a literal giant known as Gigantomachia, one All For One’s disciples.
Described as a “walking disaster,” the most that’s revealed about Gigantomachia is that he’s fiercely loyal to All For One and was asking directions to the Springer Hero Agency during Eijiro Kirishima’s flashback. He disappears after he blows up half a mountainside, with Gran Torino saying he somehow went into hiding despite being the size of a literal mountain. What was he doing in the anime again?
8 What Happened To The Quirk-Destroying Bullets?
Most of Season Four focused on the villains’ infighting, specifically the League of Villains and the Yakuza organization, Shie Hassaikai. Though led by the powerful Overhaul (aka Kai Chisaki), the gangsters created the Quirk-Destroying Drug that’s put into bullets to give themselves an advantage over heroes.
Tomura Shigaraki and the League presumably take these bullets after defeating the Yakuza, but to what end? Shigaraki’s plans are a work in progress, so he’s really just getting as many pieces in place. What Shigaraki – who’s more interested in toppling hero society than stopping Quirks – will do with these bullets will be most likely revealed in succeeding episodes.
7 Is This The End For Overhaul & Organized Crime?
With the retirement of All Might, organized crime reemerged from the shadows to retake their place in society. Problem is, their methods were outdated and they were quickly usurped by supervillains (i.e. The League of Villains). Now that the Shie Hassaikai was wiped out, is this the end for traditional crime and the rise of supervillainy?
On a smaller but still important note, is this the end for Overhaul? Following his loss to Deku (aka Izuku Midorya), Shigaraki and a pissed off Mr. Compress sever his hands but leave him alive. The last that’s seen of the Yakuza leader is him screaming in agony, left on the highway to be arrested.
6 What Exactly Was Gentle Criminal Hoping To Accomplish?
The bumbling and dapper Gentle Criminal’s masterplan was for him and La Brava to break into UA during the school festival and… do something. Besides making a vlog about his daring break-in, what exactly was Gentle Criminal planning to do?
His motivations were made clear, with Gentle claiming his infiltration would encourage passively reactive heroes to be more proactive, even if this literally goes against heroes’ training and occupation as first responders. Gentle Criminal is no mastermind, but even this scheme (both in actions and reasoning) seemed dull.
5 What’s Next For Gentle Criminal & La Brava?
Following their failure to do… something to the school festival, Gentle Criminal and La Brava are arrested. But since they didn’t do anything too severe, they may not be facing harsh punishment. The police are willing to listen to the two and even offer them a second chance at life and the superhero career, though what this entails isn’t detailed.
This has left fans wondering if Gentle Criminal and La Brava will ever return. Not only are the two sympathetic antagonists (and even anti-heroes to some) rather than merciless villains, but they’re just that lovable and fun to watch. Whatever’s next for the two, it’s definitely going to be better than what awaits Overhaul.
4 Did Some UA Students Just Let Go Of Their Grudge Against Class 1-A?
Though it’s not their fault, Class 1-A’s involvement in multiple League of Villains attacks brought chaos and intrusive security measures to UA, interrupting what should’ve been a normal school year. Worse, Class 1-A’s mere existence reinforces the hero society’s inherent elitism, inspiring the envy and disdain of those unfairly outcast (ex. Hitoshi Shinso, Gentle Criminal, etc.). To fix this, Class 1-A sings a sweet song at the school festival.
Aside from being sappy, the sillier thing is that it works. This is best shown through two students from General Studies who are spiteful of Class 1-A, resenting the top class’ ego for thinking it’s their obligation to lift up campus spirits through a musical number. Their hate is put to rest when they’re won over by Kyoka Jiro’s rocking vocals, though. Why does it seem like My Hero Academia dismisses those with legitimate grievances as petty haters or even villains?
3 Can Eri Rewind Lemillion?
Eri has a one-in-a-million mutation that allows her to “rewind” a person. But given her age and inexperience, all this means is disintegrating fully grown people into atoms. Despite this, she helps Deku during his clash with Overhaul, healing his injuries before he could even feel the pain.
Theoretically, Eri can rewind Lemillion (aka Mirio Togata) so that he can regain his Quirk. The issue is that this is only an educated guess; none of the resident Quirk experts are sure if Eri will ever gain control her mutation or if it’ll be around forever. Worse is how no one’s knows if the Quirk-Destroying Drugs’ effects are permanent or not, leaving Lemillion’s return in indefinite flux. There are no clear answers right now, but at least Lemillion’s fate isn’t final just yet.
2 How Did Deku Defy Sir Nighteye’s Foresight?
One of the most awesome moments of Season Four was Deku’s win against Overhaul, not just because the fight itself was amazingly animated, but because Deku also defeated fate. With his Foresight Quirk, Sir Nighteye can see the future. His visions have always been accurate, with Deku’s supposed death at the hands of Overhaul being the first exception.
As great as this was, how did Deku do it? This isn’t meant to downplay Deku’s continually growing heroism; what’s more important are the implications and methodology. If Deku could rewrite his future despite Sir Nighteye’s prior accuracy, can All Might (also doomed to die, according to the Foresight) do the same? Now that Deku paved his own path, what other visions could be proven wrong? Can Deku repeat this feat it if need be?
1 Who Is The Traitor?
One of the biggest mysteries in all of My Hero Academia is the identity of the traitor. Back in Season Three, Present Mic makes this disturbing conclusion after deducing that the League of Villains somehow knew the location of the covert summer camp. The thing is, this has been mostly forgotten.
Season Four occasionally mentions that there may or may not be a traitor or, according to Hawks, a villainous conspiracy already in motion but never does anything with it. This led to fan theories getting more detailed and crazier like saying Deku is a sleeper agent, but all these are just guesses at best. Will Season Five finally reveal the payoff, or will the waiting game continue? That, and what’s the traitor waiting for? The Symbol of Peace is out of the equation and Japanese society is beyond vulnerable; there’s no better time than now to strike.
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