Great point. He IS an outright douche. That's why he's not very well fleshed-out : Deku learned to stand up to him, he has relations with every other characters developped, a power for the story's drive, a lore directly in line with his motives... I don't know, Bakugo might be very far off the grid compared to the slimey, gooey and innocent fags that infest protagonists, but at least he depends on a universe as well as a narrative structure that has been developped FOR him. If you took Bakugo for the MC, you'd have to scratch everything off and start again, from absolute 0, to make a new, fully potential-wise rich story. In order to do that, the author of MHA would most likely not scrap his current manga and instead hire some spinoff mildlings that wouldn't get the original philosophy of the author. What could be possible would be pulling off a JoJo move and killing Deku/completely flip the narrative in order to make stuff interesting. Maybe if Deku went on a training to hype the fuck up the audience and finally master his fucking power, we'd have time to actually pan out and then zoom on someone less "bland" indeed.
That's what I think, at least.
I normally would never take the "Bakugo would be a better MC" posts seriously...
The problem with bakugo is that his struggle should be about him growing from being humbled or at least acknowledging he has problems but everyone just sucks his dick
There is no drama. There is nowhere to go for him
There are no repercussions.
As bad as Deku is written bakugo is even worse.
Deku is the biggest problem of people sucking his dick who shouldn't.
>Deku learned to stand up to him
Kek. Deku sucks him off more than anyone.
>The difference in their arrogance is they were not bullies of the weak.
Lmao, Joe beats up Danpei, an old man who uses a cane to walk multiple times over the series.
Deku realizes this, even though it is a slow process, since he is the MC.
That's the whole point. There is a dynamic between Deku's problems. Whilst Bakugo is a "rival pawn".
Iron Wok Jan did something like this. Cooking manga with a talented Chef who is also a raging asshole. Honestly the guy was insufferable most of the time. Didn't really change much by the time the series ended.
Honestly, following a character whose bad behavior is enabled by society due to a misguided fixation on meritocracy would be compelling. That is why Bakugou got to be the way he is now.
>bad behavior
It simply isn't
The only people who think it is are expressively shown to be wrong.
Monoma and Shishikura.
Really I think the way to go to making these raging asshole types of characters work is to have more heroic or optimistic characters to bounce off of. Gives them a chance for introspection and ability to take actions more Heroic characters wouldn't. This is one of the reasons I think characters like Johnny and Gyro from Jojo part 7 work so well. For those familiar with Batman comics I personally hated Damian Wayne until he was bouncing off characters like Nightwing and Jonathan Kent (Superboy).
THEY KINDA LOOK ALIKE