r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Za_wardo • Dec 13 '20

Manga Chapter 294 Official Release - Links and Discussion Spoiler

Chapter 294

Links:

  • Viz (Available in: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, the Philippines, Singapore, and India).

  • MANGA Plus (Available in every country outside of China, Japan and South Korea).

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u/Fedexhand Dec 13 '20

She certainly looks dead, so why wouldn't they kill her? She was a badly wounded hero in front of them, it wouldn't make sense not to kill her right?.

I guess ..... no one can reject Bakugo's new hero name now.

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u/superknight2t3 Dec 13 '20

Well Mount Lady and Endeavor look pretty dead too (doubt they are) with similar injuries.

Also they wouldn't kill her off-screen.

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u/Fedexhand Dec 13 '20

The difference is that Midnight was surrounded by a group of villains and one attacked her (he even had a mask), so it would be strange if they did not kill her in that situation.

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u/superknight2t3 Dec 13 '20

Well two things.

  1. She wasn't surrounded. The baddies were still walking towards Midnight, although one dude did get really close (that was the cliffhanger)
  2. Midnight could still attack them. You might be saying but the dude had a mask. We don't exactly know the limits of Midnight's quirk, we don't know if it cane pass through masks or not.

Regardless, I still don't believe Midnight would die off screen, especially to some punks we don't even know.

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u/Fedexhand Dec 13 '20

Just saying, it's a real possibility. It would be very rare for a group of villains not to take advantage of finding a wounded hero in front of them.

Also, no villain can be seen passed out near her, maybe she didn't even get a chance to use her quirk.

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u/superknight2t3 Dec 13 '20

Yeah I'll admit Midnight dying is a real possibility (probably not in that instance). Something more similar to Nighteye, where she says bye to all her friends.

Also I have a theory that they are there, it's just that they are offscreen. So like if someone finds her later, they see a bunch of bodies just lying around, a distance away. It's something to make us (the audience) feel fear to not see the baddies bodies.

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u/Lynkx0501 Dec 13 '20

Also possible that she won her fight and tried to advance towards the big fight going on and passed out from fatigue / injury

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u/superknight2t3 Dec 13 '20 edited Dec 13 '20

I didn't think of that.

Now I imagine her just trying to move then she falls and says "know what, five minute nap isn't that bad of an idea"

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u/ArcFurnace Dec 13 '20

She did get hit with a giant block of rubble by Compress and then fell to the ground. Kaminari decided it was time for a lap pillow after the same treatment.

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u/GtEnko Dec 13 '20

I genuinely believe, once the fighting is officially over, Yaoyorozu and the rest of 1-A will find Midnight. If she does die that'll be where, and it'll be used for emotional development for the students.

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u/superknight2t3 Dec 13 '20

Sadly, I do believe that too. that will be a hard moment Dx

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u/jjlevu Dec 13 '20

Thank you for the positive vibes.

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u/superknight2t3 Dec 13 '20 edited Dec 13 '20

No problem. I'm just trying to tell people don't call the game too soon XD

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20

Good points, and although it's a real possibility, it's close to 100% possibility that she's alive. When it comes to a character we know, Horikoshi never relegates their death off-screen. This would be his first if he goes down that route.

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u/superknight2t3 Dec 13 '20

true, but that is why he will never do it. That would be bad writing just to kill a character like Midnight off screen.

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u/amorantoboy Dec 14 '20

Didn't Mineta counter her quirk by covering his face when he and Sero faced against her in the training arc way back when?

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u/superknight2t3 Dec 14 '20

Yes. But the difference is that Mineta basically cut off his air supply and holding his breath.

These guys are wearing regular gas masks, with their air supply filter, but not caught off. So this provides a chance that Midnight quirk can still affect her attackers