Questionable Questing

Andy333

Technically Robin is considered one.

Bob is bob

Technically? She's from the prior era

Andy333

While she did serve in one of those units, and its a part of her backstory, she spent most of that era as an assassin working for the criminals rather than the government. Although on occasions she has worked with them.

Andy333

So her official classification would be a villain.

Bob is bob

She was a merc even back than, so she can have a arc kf becoming convinced by All Might's ideals to make a safe world for her family and students

Andy333

And I mention classification because its an important distinction for the government. A lot of people, even a lot of villains were given pardons for their crimes for cooperating with the government in the closing era, and Miss Robinson despite having blackmail and a work history as leverage was never actually given a pardon and so her file is still somewhere in the system.

Andy333

Her issue is that she's too infamous to be given a pardon or for it to be completely swept away.

Bob is bob

That bad?

Bob is bob

There'd be films and books on the Warlord Era kids would talk about

Andy333

Kind of. A lot of the books and films are heavily propagandized or sanitized, and the stuff that isn't is really heavy and kind of depressing, so it would make sense that most kids would be drawn towards All Might and age of heroes.

Andy333

Think of it like reading about the Vietnam war as a kid. Sure there's some cool stuff there, but a lot of it's kind of confusing and pretty horrible and hard for a kid to wrap their brain around unless they had family members that were directly affected by it and were willing to talk about it.

Bob is bob

How do the kids parents understand it?

Andy333

The younger parents were kids when it was going on, so they probably remember seeing their parents worried and seeing newspapers with some pretty horrific stuff. But they were pretty sheltered from it all to an extent.

Andy333

The older parents, I'm thinking around forty and above, for them the time period was basically like the troubles in Ireland or the years of lead in Italy. lots of violence and destruction on the streets. A lot of paranoia as secret police groups and villains and corrupt government officials fought in the dark.

Andy333

The actual violence against civilians was limited to a certain extent, All for one was very careful to keep a lid on the violence, but it was still a very bleak and scary time. And everyone knew at least one person who got hurt or killed.

Bob is bob

I'm liking how this adds to the settings history

Andy333

You actually get hints of it in the manga. I think there was a panel at the big tournament arc where there was an add for superman vs batman vs ironman 11 and I'm not sure if it was a commentary on how commercialized superheroes had become or the fact MHA society is so desperate to pretend everything's normal that its regressed culturally trying to imitate the past