You know what's a threat to public safety? A shadowy conspiracy in the guise of a government agency killing people for the sake of their own power and to hide evidence that heroism isn't what they want people to believe it is.
Of course, this backfired immensely on them because they cultivated an atmosphere in Japan where the populace will turn on a Hero at the
slightest thing.
To paraphrase a post I saw a while back.
"Heroes trained to fight common crooks, some villains, rescue people from disasters
not see countless of their comrades die while the country begs them for help they honestly can't give because there already trying their best.
And after fighting for their life, seeing friends and allies die. The populace then goes your best wasn't good enough and is
angry."
Angry to the point that even heroes who didn't retire post society collapsing are being verbally abused and attacked for the great crime of…trying and succeeding in saving a life.
Fact of the matter is that Heroes with side jobs aren't doing anything wrong, everyone needs to live and running agencies is hardly
cheap. If say people like Jiro want to pursue a career in music or be a Quirk Counselor or anything else while being a Hero? Then their's nothing wrong with it.
However, it is telling that even when society collapsed, while some retired, many others still kept up on the job for no gain other than helping people, and yet their still attacked by the public.
HSPC has cultivated a profoundly unhealthy view of Heroes, which is really the only reason Stain managed to be popular to any degree.
