Warning: Spoilers for My Hero Academia Chapter #402My Hero Academia followers have just lately criticized the truth that All for One appears to have top-of-the-line plot armors in manga, at all times pulling up an answer for any predicament, however the sequence has lastly give you an effective way to defeat its unbeatable villain. All for One’s want to trigger struggling in the end hindered his personal plans, giving All Would possibly the proper alternative to take him down for good.
Chapter #402 of My Hero Academia noticed All for One lastly drawing shut sufficient to Shigaraki to activate his “Gloop Warp” Quirk, however Shigaraki shut him down, refusing the interference in his battle, even when it was meant to assist him. Regardless of having inflicted probably deadly accidents on All Would possibly, All for One wasn’t content material to let the previous #1 hero die like that. As an alternative, All for One opted to tug the crushed physique of All Would possibly with him, with the total intention of killing All Would possibly in entrance of Midoriya, to attempt to destroy his resolve. This gave All Would possibly the chance to drag off one final, seemingly suicidal assault, detonating a Bakugo-inspired gauntlet on his arm to take the villain out with him.
Had he merely left All Would possibly for useless, or not engaged with him within the first place, All for One might’ve simply made it to Shigaraki and executed his plan to provide him a duplicate of his Quirk, which might probably go away Shigaraki nearly unstoppable. As an alternative, as a result of his want to inflict ache and vengeance on those that’ve stood in opposition to him, he underestimated All Would possibly’s resolve and left himself open for this explosive assault. All Would possibly even warned All for One in earlier chapters that he was “not right here to lose,” and but in his conceitedness, All for One couldn’t even imagine that All Would possibly was nonetheless a menace.
It’s poetic, in a way, {that a} villain is taken down by his personal cruelty and hubris, particularly somebody like All for One who has for thus lengthy acted as if he’s above something his foes can deploy in opposition to him. By giving in to his wishes for vengeance, he proved that he’s not the grasp strategist and manipulator that he claims to be, however simply one other felony with some distinctive energy. Irrespective of how a lot All for One may speak about grandiose visions of a future the place he guidelines all, he proved that his actual motivation is to harm those that’ve refused to kneel to him. This additionally addresses followers’ criticism concerning All for One at all times escaping defeat as a result of some sudden plan or countermeasure, which many outlined for instance of “plot armor”.
The end result of this battle was left as a cliffhanger, so whether or not All Would possibly really took out All for One stays up within the air for now. No matter whether or not this was All for One’s last defeat, although, it was the definitive proof that the villain’s conceitedness and cruelty are his greatest weaknesses and that they’re simply exploitable. Even when All for One does survive, the Rewind drug he took could effectively have turned him right into a defenseless child by this level. Both approach, My Hero Academia has discovered the proper technique to take down its seemingly undefeatable villain.