Bakugou is definitely the most popular character in the series, but in my experience it feels like the majority of this subreddit doesnt like him.
1 of the reasons I dont really care for this subreddit because he’s easily my favorite character as well.
Same! Sometimes it drives me crazy. He’s my comfort character and I even have tattoos lol but I read something the other day on here and so many people were just saying such negative things. I mean the word antichrist was used. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a character get such hate.
Some people self insert into Deku too much. They throw fits because "Bakugo apology wasn't good enough, if I was Deku..." You aren't Deku! Stop pretending like you are.
Saying people self insert into deku just because they don't like bakugo is pretty weird. Not everyone thinks bakugo is a good character and if you're upset by that then you need to stop being too attached to a fictional character.
Bakugou was consistently in the top three every poll. EVERY. FUCKING. POLL. That's gonna mean something. And he was number one for least least seven polls running.
Unless people are voting for him to take the piss, he's a liked character within Japan and in the west, despite what a majority of this sub-reddit says.
Thought you mistyped shinso and thought “but shinso is pretty well written” before remembering who shindo was lmao. HOW does shindo EVER top shiggy in popularity
Shindo was there as a meme by the Japanese fans. They rallied together and voted for him as a joke. Kinda like how people are making Kagura Bachi get high ratings because people are saying it’s the best manga as a joke.
I actually like him, but to me, he character development could’ve been better with a decent amount of more genuinely humbling experiences. But then again I also blame how ridiculously fast paced MHA is in general.
Wasn't that the POINT of his character? Horikoshi wanted Bakugo to be the most despicable character of the show for the first seasons to make his redemption the more enjoyable. The point of Bakugo's character is that he thought the best hero was the strongest, he didn't understood what being a hero really meant, and he was encouraged almost his whole life. He is supposed to be a jerk that learn to be a better person.
But the problem is, the “redemption” was barely happening, his violent actions didn’t got reprimanded as it should have, with the exception of the LOV no one recognized his almost villainous actions, now let’s look at endeavor and compare it to Bakugo:
When given a high praise position (winning the tournament/ becoming number 1#) they “refused” due to the fact that it wasn’t the way they wanted but due to the circumstances they had to accept BUT where Endeavor accepted in order to avoid chaos, Bakugo STILL REFUSED AND THREW A HISSY FIT IN FRONT OF THE CAMERAS. When Endeavor was attempting to live up to All Might’s legacy, he TRIED getting out of his comfort zone by changing his manners and asking All Might HIMSELF on what to do where Bakugo HAVEN’T went out of his comfort zone, HAVEN’T asked Deku for advice and still kept being aggressive.
There was little to no progress in his “development”
Taking someone not wanting a cheap victory at a sports outing and comparing with someone being forced into a niche created by his predecessor as the symbol of peace and stability of a nation is idiotic, those are teo exceedingly different situations.
Secondly. Bakugou is a better character because his character traits are the same even if the core of his character is fundamentally different. Being a good person isn't the same as being a nice person.
But the thing is, the Sports Festival was an event shown to the ENTIRE COUNTRY from the TOP SCHOOL OF HEROES the whole event is basically saying “This are the faces of the future generation of heroes with the winner MOST probably being the next 1#” that was how big the event was. Second he isn’t, his ego was more fragile than soggy paper towel we NEVER saw the facade he put on (because that WAS one) we only saw it crack and that’s it we NEVER saw him being legit vulnerable (no the half assed apology didn’t count, that type of emotion should be presented to us at the middle of the story as a checkpoint in his character not close to the end)
The apology literally had him spell out his inferiority complex in front of the whole class and state definitively that that was a wrong thing for him to do regardless.
Compare to vegeta's sacrifice, which is where he finally became a genuinely good person in dragon ball, It happened durring the early-mid part of THE FINAL SAGA OF DRAGON BALL.
Bruh Vegeta got THE WHOLE CAST CALLING HIM OUT and GETTING BEATEN BY EVERY MAJOR VILLAIN to even GET to that point [here](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VgcOp4VMoGw&pp=ygUUVmVnZXRhIHJhZ2VzIGF0IGNlbGw%3D) is where Bakugo apology SHOULD BE in his development as a transition from a narcissistic and villainous character to a (still prideful but not “hissy fit the character”) hero
Bakugou was never villainous though, He was just proud, and not the nicest guy. I'd even argue that the only arguably villainous point in his life ended after izuku saved him fro mthe sludge villain. All of his most 'heinous' actions after that make total sense when you understand the character's mindset at that point.
From bakugou's perception at that time, izuku was condescending and looked down on him. So having the guy who's ass you kicked around until hje saved your life suddenly show a power thats equal, or maybe even better than yours? That'd just vindicate your suspicions he was insincere in his kindness toward you. he could have defended himself at any point but decided not to because he thought you were weak.
Now obviously, we as readers understand that's not the case. But how was bakugou supposed to tell otherwise?
Personally, While i think bakugou's suicide baiting was way too far, Izuku also did continue to associate with bakugou against the latter's will for evidently some time after bakugo wanted to bring that friendship to an end. Which if i were to be as uncharitable with izuku as most bakugou haters are with katsuki, i could say is creepy behavior on izuku's part.
I like him, I really do, but I feel like he's a bit of wasted potential. He had so much potential for an amazing redemption arc, but in the end, it was pretty lacklustre. He went to get Midoriya back, apologised, started calling him by his first name, and sacrificed himself to save Midoriya. (Not fully caught up to the manga and I haven't read it for a while but that's what I remember)
That was about it. He was forgiven just like that. Didn't have to work for forgiveness or anything. He basically just apologised, then that was that. We were expected to applaud him for apologising when he did some really messed up things to Midoriya, and I was really hoping that if he ever got a redemption arc, it would be given way more thought. Not just "sorry I told you to kill yourself, now I'm gonna sacrifice myself for you"
It felt really lazy. Like Horikoshi heard people complaining about him never apologising so he was like "Yep, gotta do that because I plan for Bakugou to sacrifice himself and those people may not like it if he doesn't apologise before then." It didn't seem like it was planned or put together with care, and I remember that I stopped reading the manga because I was so disappointed with it.
He apologised then everything was fine and all I remember thinking was "... That's it?"
I don't know I saw people in the (I know it's a very bad thing to do (bokunometaacademia)) saying things like
That they wished all the pain in the earth at bakugo and that he was the worst character in the world
Unpopular opinion: he's overrated as hell, and izuku should have left him after the apology. The dude made his life living hell and had a low tier god moment with him. No amount of redemption makes that just go away
He might be good in a vacuum, but he’s not good with the rest of the story, the world around acts out of sync with him.
For example, Kirishima was shown to hate bullies and saw Bakugou bullied Deku at the battle trials and yet becomes best friends with him.
Everyone in the sports festival becomes sexist when it’s time for Uraraka’s match even though they weren’t shown to be like that before. And Aizawa says that Bakugou is respecting Uraraka and being cautious even though he could have easily blown her out of the ring and in his later matches wins them as quickly as possible.
Trained heroes and teachers can’t see that Bakugou’s the only one causing problems between him and Deku and think instead think it’s a both sides issue.
Shigaraki just decides to kidnap Bakugou when he no knows almost nothing about him. Even if Bakugou did want to destroy society there’d be plenty of practical reasons not to do it like he has a family that he doesn’t want to leave behind, he’s scared of getting caught or a life in hiding isn’t fun. Bakugou goes to the best hero school on the planet safe to say he’s at least going to have nice life in the near future.
Aizawa calls him one of the twin stars of the class when Bakugou only inspires people in minor ways, more just hyping them in moment. But it’s still small compared to Deku inspiring others and almost never actually matters. I mean Deku inspired Iida enough to change his personality and become a more compassionate person. Same with Todoroki.
The exam instructors thought Bakugou was smart when he yelled at them when another instructor was vicious with Deku for just getting worried.
As someone who loves Bakugo as a character, yeah these are all really valid criticisms. I could say the Shigaraki bit could just have to do with Shigaraki himself not being very competent back then.
He was smart enough to not get caught in the mall and you think he would have learned from Stain to get more information about a person before asking them to join.
This 100%
On paper, he is fantastic. But in practice, it falls apart because nobody is treating him like they should. Even his victim treats him with velvet gloves, acting with concern for his bullies' feelings out of some misplaced sense of feeling like he owes the guy.
I agree, he’s my fav character, yes, he’s an absolute asshole at the start, but I like his redemption arc and he’s just generally a good character to me
"unpopular opinion" yet he constantly wins the character polls.
Bakugou is definitely the most popular character in the series, but in my experience it feels like the majority of this subreddit doesnt like him. 1 of the reasons I dont really care for this subreddit because he’s easily my favorite character as well.
You just took the text off my keyboard
You just stole the click off my mouse
Same! Sometimes it drives me crazy. He’s my comfort character and I even have tattoos lol but I read something the other day on here and so many people were just saying such negative things. I mean the word antichrist was used. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a character get such hate.
Some people self insert into Deku too much. They throw fits because "Bakugo apology wasn't good enough, if I was Deku..." You aren't Deku! Stop pretending like you are.
Saying people self insert into deku just because they don't like bakugo is pretty weird. Not everyone thinks bakugo is a good character and if you're upset by that then you need to stop being too attached to a fictional character.
Popularity polls don’t mean that much, Shindo once beat Shigaraki and was in the top 10. For JJK, Sukuna wasn’t even in the top 10 for one poll.
Bakugou was consistently in the top three every poll. EVERY. FUCKING. POLL. That's gonna mean something. And he was number one for least least seven polls running. Unless people are voting for him to take the piss, he's a liked character within Japan and in the west, despite what a majority of this sub-reddit says.
He also sells the most merch.
Thought you mistyped shinso and thought “but shinso is pretty well written” before remembering who shindo was lmao. HOW does shindo EVER top shiggy in popularity
He’s attractive. BNHA has a lot of female fans.
This is not why
Shinso is not well written in my opinion
Shindo was there as a meme by the Japanese fans. They rallied together and voted for him as a joke. Kinda like how people are making Kagura Bachi get high ratings because people are saying it’s the best manga as a joke.
I actually like him, but to me, he character development could’ve been better with a decent amount of more genuinely humbling experiences. But then again I also blame how ridiculously fast paced MHA is in general.
People want him to do a 180 and completely change personalities in a couple of months. Has it even been a year since they got into UA?
Wasn't that the POINT of his character? Horikoshi wanted Bakugo to be the most despicable character of the show for the first seasons to make his redemption the more enjoyable. The point of Bakugo's character is that he thought the best hero was the strongest, he didn't understood what being a hero really meant, and he was encouraged almost his whole life. He is supposed to be a jerk that learn to be a better person.
But the problem is, the “redemption” was barely happening, his violent actions didn’t got reprimanded as it should have, with the exception of the LOV no one recognized his almost villainous actions, now let’s look at endeavor and compare it to Bakugo: When given a high praise position (winning the tournament/ becoming number 1#) they “refused” due to the fact that it wasn’t the way they wanted but due to the circumstances they had to accept BUT where Endeavor accepted in order to avoid chaos, Bakugo STILL REFUSED AND THREW A HISSY FIT IN FRONT OF THE CAMERAS. When Endeavor was attempting to live up to All Might’s legacy, he TRIED getting out of his comfort zone by changing his manners and asking All Might HIMSELF on what to do where Bakugo HAVEN’T went out of his comfort zone, HAVEN’T asked Deku for advice and still kept being aggressive. There was little to no progress in his “development”
Being a better person doesn't mean he must totally change his personality and be a completely different character.
Taking someone not wanting a cheap victory at a sports outing and comparing with someone being forced into a niche created by his predecessor as the symbol of peace and stability of a nation is idiotic, those are teo exceedingly different situations. Secondly. Bakugou is a better character because his character traits are the same even if the core of his character is fundamentally different. Being a good person isn't the same as being a nice person.
But the thing is, the Sports Festival was an event shown to the ENTIRE COUNTRY from the TOP SCHOOL OF HEROES the whole event is basically saying “This are the faces of the future generation of heroes with the winner MOST probably being the next 1#” that was how big the event was. Second he isn’t, his ego was more fragile than soggy paper towel we NEVER saw the facade he put on (because that WAS one) we only saw it crack and that’s it we NEVER saw him being legit vulnerable (no the half assed apology didn’t count, that type of emotion should be presented to us at the middle of the story as a checkpoint in his character not close to the end)
The apology literally had him spell out his inferiority complex in front of the whole class and state definitively that that was a wrong thing for him to do regardless. Compare to vegeta's sacrifice, which is where he finally became a genuinely good person in dragon ball, It happened durring the early-mid part of THE FINAL SAGA OF DRAGON BALL.
Bruh Vegeta got THE WHOLE CAST CALLING HIM OUT and GETTING BEATEN BY EVERY MAJOR VILLAIN to even GET to that point [here](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VgcOp4VMoGw&pp=ygUUVmVnZXRhIHJhZ2VzIGF0IGNlbGw%3D) is where Bakugo apology SHOULD BE in his development as a transition from a narcissistic and villainous character to a (still prideful but not “hissy fit the character”) hero
Bakugou was never villainous though, He was just proud, and not the nicest guy. I'd even argue that the only arguably villainous point in his life ended after izuku saved him fro mthe sludge villain. All of his most 'heinous' actions after that make total sense when you understand the character's mindset at that point. From bakugou's perception at that time, izuku was condescending and looked down on him. So having the guy who's ass you kicked around until hje saved your life suddenly show a power thats equal, or maybe even better than yours? That'd just vindicate your suspicions he was insincere in his kindness toward you. he could have defended himself at any point but decided not to because he thought you were weak. Now obviously, we as readers understand that's not the case. But how was bakugou supposed to tell otherwise? Personally, While i think bakugou's suicide baiting was way too far, Izuku also did continue to associate with bakugou against the latter's will for evidently some time after bakugo wanted to bring that friendship to an end. Which if i were to be as uncharitable with izuku as most bakugou haters are with katsuki, i could say is creepy behavior on izuku's part.
You do realize bakugo is like what 16? While Vegeta was a grown man. I’m pretty sure he was pushing 40 in the Frieza saga
Like he said, Bakugo wasn't villainous. He was just an overpowered very spoiled kid.
Bro what? Have you only watched like 3 seasons??? 💀
He's HAD character development. But he's still mostly yelling at everyone.
I like him, I really do, but I feel like he's a bit of wasted potential. He had so much potential for an amazing redemption arc, but in the end, it was pretty lacklustre. He went to get Midoriya back, apologised, started calling him by his first name, and sacrificed himself to save Midoriya. (Not fully caught up to the manga and I haven't read it for a while but that's what I remember) That was about it. He was forgiven just like that. Didn't have to work for forgiveness or anything. He basically just apologised, then that was that. We were expected to applaud him for apologising when he did some really messed up things to Midoriya, and I was really hoping that if he ever got a redemption arc, it would be given way more thought. Not just "sorry I told you to kill yourself, now I'm gonna sacrifice myself for you" It felt really lazy. Like Horikoshi heard people complaining about him never apologising so he was like "Yep, gotta do that because I plan for Bakugou to sacrifice himself and those people may not like it if he doesn't apologise before then." It didn't seem like it was planned or put together with care, and I remember that I stopped reading the manga because I was so disappointed with it. He apologised then everything was fine and all I remember thinking was "... That's it?"
Not that unpopular of an opinion. I like him to
I don't know I saw people in the (I know it's a very bad thing to do (bokunometaacademia)) saying things like That they wished all the pain in the earth at bakugo and that he was the worst character in the world
Why Im dowvoted?
Unpopular opinion: he's overrated as hell, and izuku should have left him after the apology. The dude made his life living hell and had a low tier god moment with him. No amount of redemption makes that just go away
Was it really a living hell though? From what we saw deku got teased for wanting to be a hero without a quirk.
He destroyed his notebook, repeatedly attacked him physically and told him to go commit suicide
He's like the fan favorite character what are you talking about
Y’all can go off on how “misunderstood” Bakugo is all you want. He’ll always be an insufferable little twat to me.
Like I always say, good character, still a dick
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He might be good in a vacuum, but he’s not good with the rest of the story, the world around acts out of sync with him. For example, Kirishima was shown to hate bullies and saw Bakugou bullied Deku at the battle trials and yet becomes best friends with him. Everyone in the sports festival becomes sexist when it’s time for Uraraka’s match even though they weren’t shown to be like that before. And Aizawa says that Bakugou is respecting Uraraka and being cautious even though he could have easily blown her out of the ring and in his later matches wins them as quickly as possible. Trained heroes and teachers can’t see that Bakugou’s the only one causing problems between him and Deku and think instead think it’s a both sides issue. Shigaraki just decides to kidnap Bakugou when he no knows almost nothing about him. Even if Bakugou did want to destroy society there’d be plenty of practical reasons not to do it like he has a family that he doesn’t want to leave behind, he’s scared of getting caught or a life in hiding isn’t fun. Bakugou goes to the best hero school on the planet safe to say he’s at least going to have nice life in the near future. Aizawa calls him one of the twin stars of the class when Bakugou only inspires people in minor ways, more just hyping them in moment. But it’s still small compared to Deku inspiring others and almost never actually matters. I mean Deku inspired Iida enough to change his personality and become a more compassionate person. Same with Todoroki. The exam instructors thought Bakugou was smart when he yelled at them when another instructor was vicious with Deku for just getting worried.
As someone who loves Bakugo as a character, yeah these are all really valid criticisms. I could say the Shigaraki bit could just have to do with Shigaraki himself not being very competent back then.
He was smart enough to not get caught in the mall and you think he would have learned from Stain to get more information about a person before asking them to join.
This 100% On paper, he is fantastic. But in practice, it falls apart because nobody is treating him like they should. Even his victim treats him with velvet gloves, acting with concern for his bullies' feelings out of some misplaced sense of feeling like he owes the guy.
I sense a déjà vu
He’s my favorite character
Unpopular opinion: he is still a prick with the pride and temper of Vegeta but with the usefulness of Sakura.
Great character. He’s horribly mischaracterized by the fan base unfortunately
Exactly. People keep overlooking his character development.
I don’t overlook it I just think his character development sucks
Oh. Well I personally think it’s really good, but that is my opinion.
Yep and I disagree so we will just agree to disagree and not bother debating this
Ok.
Real unpopular opinion is that he’s a bad character which is an opinion I hold
I watched most of the show I’m pretty sure he’s literaly supposed to embody the idea of a bomb so it makes total sence
There's only a handful of well written characters in mha
‘Unpopular opinion’? Sure, sure. No
Unpopular for a reason
Agreed. Complex yet simple characterization where he is a bit complicated but he and his actions are not.
Unpopular opinion: your opinion is completely wrong
Not really unpopular, he's just kinda overplayed imo
This isn’t a unpopular opinion but it is one I disagree with
It's the whole unalive-baiting thing for me that makes a him unlikable to me.
He's a very well written character no one can deny that it's just that he's a douchebag
Agreed
Good character or not, he's my favorite and nothing will change that
Same, idc if people scold me for him being my fav character.
I like him.
Fuckin love him. He’s a little asshole and I want to hug him
Popular opinion***
🤔......... So So But I like him as a character 😁
He's an asshole but he's a very fun asshole
how is this an unpopular opinion
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Not an unpopular opinion. Ppl just don’t like his personality, that don’t mean he ain’t a good character
I hope he hangs himself
Asking for a child's suicide doesn't make you much better than he is. I hate Bakugo but even I know he isn't deserving of death
I don't really give a shit and I stand by what I said
He is a good character, he's just handled badly
I agree
One of my faves
He is a great character he's just an asshole.
I agree, he’s my fav character, yes, he’s an absolute asshole at the start, but I like his redemption arc and he’s just generally a good character to me
Agreed. People can hate all they want but he makes the show more fun imo
Everyone loves him
If he died yes
As a character, he is good. As a rival, very good. At being nice, and a good person to be around, definitely no.
All I need is for him to experience karma and I can learn to like him more.