What Makes The Contrast That Johnny And Valentine Have Interesting Is That Both, Because Of Their Character

What makes the contrast that Johnny and Valentine have interesting is that both, because of their character development, do the opposite of what they think they are, Johnny becomes kinder and Valentine becomes more selfish.

Johnny sees himself as inferior to his brother Nicholas and as a selfish monster to the point that when he confronts Valentine, Johnny says that he is facing true justice and even genuinely believes that Valentine is a better person than him but for as Johnny matures, the manga shows us that Johnny always had goodness inside him:

- When he decides to leave the saint corpse to save Gyro.

- Johnny is drastic and obsessive when it comes to those who get in his way of getting the saint corpse but he will show surprising kindness to those who have nothing to do with the conflict.

- When he offers to take the girl from Sugar Mountain when he didn't know who she was.

- Johnny chooses to help Lucy Steel.

- When Valentine offers to bring him an alternate version of Gyro, Johnny tells him that if he could he would bring back all the other participants who died during the race.

Valentine sees himself as the chosen patriotic hero who will save America from disgrace, he believes his actions are just and right only for the manga to show us how cruel, selfish and cowardly Valentine really is:

- His plan to redirect America's misfortune to other countries would cause the world to be in ruin and chaos with the United States being the only safe place.

- He does nothing to improve the lives of the socially marginalized because during his mandate native americans are still being exterminated while their territories are illegally taken over (which is why Sandman participates in the race) and African-American people continue to be highly discriminated in society, they receive a lot of mistreatment at work and are paid a pittance so they live in poverty (which is why Pocoloco doesn't want to work and participates in the race).

- He tried to abuse Lucy Steel (a 14-old girl) even after discovering that she was not his wife Scarlet but was disguised as her.

- Valentine doesn't care about the lives of the citizens he claims to protect: he killed a train driver for no apparent reason, doesn't seem concerned when the Love Train ability kills american citizens, and tried to kill Johnny (a american citizen) after pleading with Johnny to free him from the infinity spin and swear to him that he wouldn't hurt him.

I don't know about you but the Barbie and Oppenheimer crossover because they were released on the same day reminds me of what happened with Doom Eternal and Animal Crossing: New Horizons that because both were released on the same day, everyone did crossover where Doom Slayer and Isabelle are friends.

It would be great if his second Volund, besides to being a spear, was like the spear used by Kyoko Sakura from Madoka Magica. Just imagine that Leonidas' second Volund be a spear and he can divide it in chains and control it telekinetically just Iike Kyoko does with hers.

Did anyone else think that King Leonidas was going to have Two Volunds?

Shield and Spear?

During the scene in Watching and Dreaming where Belos begs Luz to help him I couldn't help but remember the scene in King's Tide where Belos tries to petrify Luz as an act of mercy only for Luz to beg him to let her live and he agrees. That happens because she called him by his name and also because she is a human like him, and this from the point of view of Belos is like solidarity between humans.

That is why when he pleads with Luz by reminding him that they are both human, it is because Belos expects Luz to help him in an act of solidarity between humans due to the fact that he is human like her just as he did with her in King's Tide.

With AFO's past we understand why he is obsessed with family, it is because he sees family as people who are his who will always love him and be by his side.

That's why AFO hates Kudo for "causing" the death of Yoichi, his only family.

That's why he hates Nana and Endeavor because they have what he always wanted but they choose to put it aside in favor of their work as heroes (although Nana did it because AFO didn't give her another option).

And if DFO theory is true, AFO hates All Might for taking Izuku away from him and for passing on his dream to his son, and by extension, encouraging him to live (what AFO believes) a life full of loneliness and suffering because for AFO the heroes always suffer and are alone, hence why he tells Izuku that he chose a thorny path, while for AFO, the villains have carte blanche to do whatever they want and have followers (they aren't alone).

AFO and the quirk counselor offer their "help" in making Himiko and Yuuga be what the Hero Society says is normal and they even smile and dress alike. AFO really represents the worst of the Hero Society and Japanese society in general.

Thinking about Toga and Aoyama similarities

Thinking about the wording of these panels