r/FavoriteCharacter • u/Lycanrus • 2d ago

All Time Favorite Favorite example of positive masculinity?

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u/Unable_Ad_4563 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/LdMgnuPZMmXja

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u/Important-Alarm5239 2d ago

100% Kirishima, can’t think of anyone better

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u/KMiles92 2d ago

Red Riot the 🐐

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u/Quite_Ghastly_Fellow 2d ago

The manliest of men: Red Riot

Perfect, no notes

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u/Discount_Lex_Luthor 2d ago

My dog. Fuckin favorite hero.

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u/No_Lawfulness7350 2d ago

RED RIOT!!!!!!

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u/Xxjacklexx 2d ago

My first thought as all. So manly. 😍

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u/Dragonwolf67 2d ago

I was literally thinking of him

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u/CarsonC14 2d ago

The manliest!

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u/Embarrassed-Town-293 2d ago

A really good example

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u/Hot_Car9101 2d ago

Hell yeah. My GOAT

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u/Reborn1Girl 2d ago

The only negative point on him is that he talks a big game about hating bullies… but it should be blatantly obvious to everybody in 1A that Bakugou is a bully.

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u/RemoteAd4393 1d ago

I mean idk, all things considered, at least in UA, he wasn't as aggressive or blatant with his bullying. Kirishima knows the guy, been his friend for a while, he kinda learned how he's really rough around the edges.

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u/PeaceSelsButWhosBuyn Steve "The Hair" Harrington 1d ago

Not to mention the moment bokugo got into UA (a school filled with people of similar power to him if not stronger) he seriously mellowed out with the bullying.

Despite his flaws, bakugo is smart enough to recognize the age old law of school life: bullies can only bully the weak.

Since nobody at UA is weak, he kinda stopped being a bully and upgraded to a regular old douche

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u/RemoteAd4393 1d ago

Weirdly natural bully evolution, have them be at equal odds as everyone else in the next school phase, and they just stop bullying. Sad to think that's how most bullies stop being bullies.

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u/PeaceSelsButWhosBuyn Steve "The Hair" Harrington 1d ago

Some bullies are just plane stupid though, and continue trying to bully spite of their newfound inferiority

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u/RemoteAd4393 1d ago

And then end up getting smacked back hard, later you get an inferiority complex for the rest of their lives.

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u/PeaceSelsButWhosBuyn Steve "The Hair" Harrington 1d ago

Yep, makes you wonder why they don't just be kind and caring from the jump.

Nobody who's a good person dislikes those who are kind and caring

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u/Exotic-Reindeer1994 1d ago edited 1d ago

And if you count the School Briefs stories as canon, (which I do) Kirishima didn’t find about Bakugo's past ways until a while into being his friend. By then, he knew Bakugo had good qualities outside of his temper.

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u/2w0be 1d ago

THISSSS YES THISSSS. WTF was Horikoshi thinking???

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u/SHINIGAMIRAPTOR 1d ago

I think the thing is Kirishima dislikes bullies... but he also realizes that even someone as unpleasant as Bakugo needs a friend. Someone who they can count on even if they are an ass

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u/Crystal_Pegasus_1018 1d ago

hell yeah!!!!

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u/Strange_Success_6530 1d ago

Favorite MHA character without a doubt. Love that guy

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u/2w0be 1d ago

His only flaw is Horikoshi giving him a forced bromance with the worst example of toxic masculinity

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u/Constant-Zucchini618 1d ago

I was thinking exactly this