

Eraser noticed pretty quickly that someone was warping in so why didn't he
cancel out Kurogiri's quirk as soon as he saw him and take him out when there
was only one or maybe two of them? He and Thirteen shouldn't have had much of
a problem fighting two villains when only one has a power, and he noticed
almost immediately that something was wrong.


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Why didn't Eraser Head just cancel out Kurogiri's quirk when he attacked the USJ?


From the scene (the ending of episode 9), Aizawa noticed the warping of
villains immediately, **however, his main priority were the students who he
was responsible for.** [![Aizawa taking
charge](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1jHdc.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1jHdc.jpg)

He firstly had to alert everyone because, apparently, no one else noticed
until the first batch of villains started to came out. He was also smart
enough to call for backup and instruct N0 13 to protect the students right
before the decided to engage the enemy.

I'm pretty sure that the element of surprise worked against them, and since he
was with a bunch of newbie students, his thought process was much more
conservative.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uP6aA.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uP6aA.jpg)

A lot of times, while under pressure with little time to react, the best
options might not come to our minds until way after such event has occurred.
Nevertheless, his call was still very good since his students were his number
1 priority.

> An example that compliments this; imagine a Samurai fighting while
> protecting his students compared to that same samurai fighting without any
> clear distractions. The exact same setting, moreover, you can expect his
> thought process to be very different in those 2 situationns.


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Because he want actually visible yet for Eraserhead to actually see in order
to use his quirk on him. When the villains started warping in, it was just a
portal, not actually Kurogiri himself. He didn't show himself to the students
and 13 until Eraserhead had already jumped down the stairs to take on the mob
in the plaza. So Eraserhead probably wasn't even aware of his presence until
after Iida had escaped, had dealt with 13 and joined Shigaraki and the Nomu in
the plaza. Eraserhead would not have been able to lay eyes on him until at
least this moment anyway.


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