By that logic everything bakugo is doing is already worthless though. What actually are bakugos chances of surpassing allmight? Allmight is a god damned monster. And the series has made the point that he was such a monster from the get go. As in, consider what the series has told us about allmight:
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Good catch on the color pages. My thoughts mirror @ShenGao. But, knowing Horikoshi, I do think something like this is possible.I’m going to have to disagree with the people above me, and say that I would like Bakugo we have OFA permanently, but only under certain conditions.
Firstly, I wouldn’t want Bakugo to have all of OFA. They would have to split it.
I’m not sure how Horikoshi could write this into the Manga, but as the OP says, Horikoshi has definitely been thinking about this for a while.
Look at these two color pages for example.
In the first we see All Might with a large sword which I believe represents his power. In the second, Deku and Katsuki both split the sword. Which I think represent splitting All Might’s power.
I know that some will probably say that the sword doesn’t represent All Might’s power and is more metaphorical. However, in the first Deku does not have is gloves, and it the second - which came out right after Deku learned Air Force - does. So, I think the clothing in the cover represents power. Even more evidence. In the first image Deku has no weapon, but you can see the hilt of Bakugo’s dagger. In the second Deku has his inherited sword and nothing else, while Bakugo has the inherited sword and his dagger. This represents his explosion quirk, and Inherited OFA.
If they do split OFA, I can imagine Bakugo getting the two quirks of the two shadowed predecessors, and maybe 40% of the stockpiled power. While Deku would keep maybe 60% of the stockpiled power and quirks of the four clear predecessors.
This way I can see Deku surpassing AM and being number 1 with 4 quirks, Katsuki surpassing AM and being number 2 with 3 quirks, and Todoroki surpassing AM and being number 3 with 2 quirks.
To be honest, with 6 quirks and 100% OFA Deku would easily surpass AM with no challenge, and neither Todoroki nor Bakugo would be real rivals.
I feel like something like this would make things more interesting.
Don’t bet me wrong. I’m not saying that this will happen by any stretch of the imagination. I just saying if Bakugo were to get OFA permanently he would have to do it kind of like this in order for it to make sense.
I definitely get what you’re saying, and do think your theory is legitimate. Even without the additional quirks, 100% ofa Deku would still be way above Bakugo. Bakugo will need some type outside boost to get on the same level as Deku and even Todoroki if he realizes his full potential.
This whole theory is standing solely on the fact that Bakugo and the shadowy OFA user have spiky hair. If same hair = same character would be true, then Deku, Mina Ashido and Yo Shindo would be the same character.
But now it's been pointed out in the movie that the user has red eyes and plus he has some type of gear on his arms. The design is really to close to home.
If spiky hair, red eyes and some type of gear on the arms are reason enough that people believe in a wacky time travel theory then here is my counter theory:
Having a kanji that can be seen as a number is something all OFA users so far shared:
It's more believable that the original Destro was the 4th OFA user (Chikara’s first name is composed of the kanji for "lord, chief, master" (主 chika?) and "tax" (税 ra?), and his last name is "four" (四ツ yotsu?) and "bridge" (橋 bashi?).) than that Bakugo will be invovled with time travel and become a OFA user from the past.
I actually think this theory is fairly plausible and I like parts of it. The only thing that doesn’t make sense about it to me is why are their two shadowed figures and not one?
It was pointed out that the other shadowy figure has yellow eyes in the movie so sadly not Kirishima. As for Bakugo, I think the time travel and being stuck in the past would be the only possible way he would get OFA. But let's say that the past user isn't Bakugo the design and gear style on his arms makes it look like he would have a similar fighting style to Bakugo, so another future role for Bakugo would be to train Deku on to how to fight like him.
I agree, I was trying to point out the for the time travel theory to be true Kiri would have to come along, so the theory is unlikely.
I mean for it to work, GO meaning 5 would mean the 4th user would have to give it to Bakugo, and Bakugo would then pass it on to the 6th user. Yea it's a silly thoery with paradoxes but that's never stop authors from writing them. But I do agree with every how dumb the thoery is, but I just thought I bring it up after seeing it in reddit so much.
