random, but this panel caught my eye the other day
“Without the advent of the extraordinary, humanity would be enjoying intersteller travel right now.”
i always kind of wondered why the MHA world still looks very modern instead of futeristic, even tho it’s supposed to be set in a version of our world where people gained superpowers. i knew that there were issues people of the early days had with superpowers, ala the X-men, but i still kind of wondered why it’s been around…. 200-300 years, and yet society still hasn’t advanced all that much, technologically speaking?
and this panel kind of explains that. it’s because of the introduction of superpowers that it hasn’t advanced. it’s like a reverse Library of Alexandria, it’s the introduction of new information that caused chaos in the world that halted advancement, instead of the burning of knowledge. people often say that if the Library had survived, we’d have spacetravel by now, after all.
i mean… sure. the MHA world is still far more advanced than our world… but not by much. it still feels like modern day. and it seems like quirks are why; its because of quirks that the world has halted technologically for the past few centuries.
it’s because people had to get used to powers, and re-write laws to include them, and integrate them into society. that took up so much time, and it still does–laws about quirks are constantly being re-written, and even at the beginning of the series, Izuku mentioned how UA recently took away their “quirless students aren’t allowed” rule.
the world spends so much time trying to regulate quirks and control the chaos that they create, that society and technology are barely advancing. just look at All for One and Overhaul. AFO caused so much trouble because of the powers he stole, and Overhaul wanted to get rid of quirks entirely.
that’s why All Might had to become the Symbol of Peace, to put the chaos that superpowered villains caused to an end… for a time, at least.
idk i just thought that was interesting and wanted to make a post about it LOL
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