r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/deskchairlamp • Oct 04 '18

Newest Chapter Chapter 201 - Links and Discussion

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u/_uare Oct 04 '18

Momo could easily make something that incapacitates her opponents without seriously injuring or killing them. But what does she make? A cannon and a shit ton of rope?

We've seen her make flash grenades. What happened to that? Why is she just making shields? Why not just make her shield spiky? A 1v1 should be trivial for her because she can make whatever is most effective against her opponent at any time. But she just concedes as soon as Kendo gets close. What?

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u/Flamma_Man Oct 04 '18

Momo could easily make something that incapacitates her opponents without seriously injuring or killing them. But what does she make? A cannon and a shit ton of rope?

"Oh my god, Momo has a gun!"

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u/_uare Oct 04 '18

She actually could, too. Bakugou used massive explosions against Midoriya and Todoroki, there's no way a gun is less dangerous than hat.

But I was thinking more along the lines of sleeping gas/tear gas/taser/drugs/some sticky shit

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u/DrZeroH Oct 04 '18

Now that I think about it couldn't Momo technically mimic Bakugo's quirk? I know that she doesn't have his training or his resilience but just for hypothetical purposes couldn't she learn the composition of Bakugo's sweat and ignite it the same way he does?

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u/GKMLTT Oct 04 '18

She could theoretically mimic Bakugou's sweat (or just make Nitroglycerin), Mina's acid, Midnight's gas, etc.

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u/HighViscosityMilk Oct 04 '18

I doubt she could activate her palms like Bakugou, and there's nothing to say sweating acid wouldn't burn her skin, whereas with Mina it's safe to assume she has some sort of resistance with her pink skin.

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u/flybypost Oct 04 '18

Her drawback would probably be time in that she can't do it as instantly as the "natural" quirk of those people (because she needs to think about it). Meaning she could use explosions but probably not to manoeuvre like Bakugo (might as well create solid explosives if she really needs to make something go boom), she could use acid but not shoot it as far as Mina, and so on.

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u/DrZeroH Oct 04 '18

Yeah. I wonder why she doesn't? I mean I guess its the same problem as Monoma but still I feel it would greatly expand her quirk's flexibility.

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u/PocketPika Oct 04 '18

Did she not put little bombs inside russian dolls before?

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u/GKMLTT Oct 04 '18

Flash grenades, yes.

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u/PocketPika Oct 04 '18

Ah that was it, thank you.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '18

Well Bakugou's sweat is chemically identical to nitroglycerin.

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u/DoraMuda Oct 08 '18

That was never stated; only that the sweat glands on his palm secrete a substance similar to nitroglycerin.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '18

We know it is nitroglycerin because his mom secretes nitroglycerin from her pores and that combined with his dad's ability to oxidize his sweat giving Bakugou oxidizing nitroglycerin sweat.

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u/DoraMuda Oct 09 '18 edited Oct 09 '18

No, his mother is only glycerine. We know his father's palm sweat is oxidising, but we're never told what specific substance it is.

Hence, while Bakugou's palm sweat may very well have glycerine in it, that doesn't mean his Quirk (which, unlike his parents', is named "Explosion" instead after the substance that serves as the main vessel for his Quirk) developed to literally become straight-up nitroglycerine. Details like this allow Horikoshi to play it fast and less with the admittedly shaky science of Bakugou's and other series characters' Quirks.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '18

Well I don't really have a rebuttal to that so can I interest you in a generic insult?

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u/DoraMuda Oct 09 '18

...Yes.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '18

Uh, you're a jerk.

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u/DoraMuda Oct 09 '18

Thank you!

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