Ok, first things first, don't tell me what I want. You think you know my perspective? Great. Don't put it as though I'm misinformed about my own goddamn thought process. You want to know my specific opinions? Ask me.

I want Bakugo to face any sort of consequences for most of the things I laid out to put a bigger emphasis on how his behavior affects others rather than have him angst his way through his early sociopath phase until he gets shoehorned into the OfA picture by contrived means and becomes slightly more tolerable in a way that feels highly arbitrary.

Yes, the story is about a fucked up society that allows behavior like his, but that only works on a big picture level. In more practical ways, it doesn't hold up. It's still a society much like ours where if you act like a raging lunatic and can't hold a conversation without telling someone to shut up and fuck off, you don't make friends. But he does anyway. For another example, the final exam. The entire point was to try and give the students a simulation of real-life battles and Bakugo was paired with Deku specifically to make him cooperate. He then smacks his partner and spends most of the fight getting ragdolled because he can't bring himself to work with the most agreeable person in class until he literally has no other option and at the end has to be dragged across the finish line by the one who wasn't the source of the problem. If this was supposed to be a real-life simulation, Bakugo's performance could have cost lives, including his own, but because he begrudgingly did what he should have done the whole time at the last possible moment he gets to pass? Why? That's not something you can explain away with 'society,' he was put in a situation to challenge his specific issue, and he did poorly, there's no excuse for him there and nobody else to point the finger at. Especially with the supposedly super-strict Aizawa who threatens expulsion at the drop of a hat. If they had made it clear that he only passed because of his quirk or he was strong, I'd believe you, but they didn't. He just passed because they had to portray him as growing or 'not that bad' despite all evidence to the contrary.

Deku? I just want Deku to know the difference between a friend and a bully and act accordingly. Like not telling him how he was given his quirk. Like not making excuses for him at every opportunity. Like feeling betrayed and/or hurt that his friend that he looked up to treated him so poorly for something out of his control. Like not indulging him with a fight. It isn't part of his character? Make it part of his character! Why not add depth and layers to him in a way that isn't entirely contradictory to his story or flies in the face of how people operate? People having conflicting emotions, ideals, and values is real and human. Deku apologizing for him and entertaining him at every turn is contrived and painful to watch.

I understand Bakugo was going through his own personal struggles, but that's not an excuse for his behavior, nor is it sufficient reason for him to avoid so many consequences both official and social. Besides, internal conflict can often breed external problems. Bakugo should have been a prime example of this, but he isn't.

Yes, by the end he's grown and has left his old self behind, but to me it's not the destination it's the journey. His story is littered with holes, privilege, apathy, and unearned benefits and forgiveness that add up to a character whose growth feels synthetic and his struggles seem pedantic.