History Characters / MyHeroAcademiaLeagueOfVillains

* SpannerInTheWorks: Twice over. The fact that the heroes weren't aware of All For one's partner in crime allowed his machinations to proceed unhindered even when All Might defeated him and he was locked within Tartarus. [[spoiler:Before that, he was the one to revive All For One after his fateful loss agaisnt All Might, stealing his corpse from the morgue and flat-out bringing his body BackFromTheDead, meaning he's the reason he was able to continue menacing the present generation of heroes despite All Might's best efforts]]. Tellingly, [[spoiler:once the heroes ''do'' figure him out, it marks the point that the chaotic situation begins to steadily go OffTheRails from the DiabolicalMastermind's plans]].

** [[spoiler: Ends up on the receiving end of this after ganging up on All For One alongside Mt. Lady and Tokoyami. It seemed as if AFO was locked down by ther combined might, only for him to suddenly hit Mt.Lady with a blast of lightning through her side and then hitting Gigantomachia with a similar attack that puts him down instantly.]]

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''Villains'': [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVillains Known Villains]] [[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaStain Stain]]] ('''League of Villains''' [[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaAllForOne All For One]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaTomuraShigaraki Tomura Shigaraki]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaDabi Dabi]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaHimikoToga Himiko Toga]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaArtificialHumans Artificial Humans]]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaShieHassaikai Shie Hassaikai]] [[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaOverhaul Overhaul]]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaMetaLiberationArmy Meta Liberation Army]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaParanormalLiberationFront Paranormal Liberation Front]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVillainArmy Villain Army]])\\

* '''[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVanguardActionSquad Vanguard Action Squad]]'''

* '''Vanguard Action Squad:'''

!Vanguard Action Squad
[[folder:In General]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Muscular, Dabi, Spinner, Toga, Moonfish, Mustard, Magne. Missing: Twice, Mr. Compress and Chainsaw Nomu]]

->''"Doesn't matter how many punks with ambition you bring along. That only increases the risks. It's far better to have a small number of experienced elites."''

A group of nine villains, ranging from experienced criminals to strong upstarts, who joined the rebranded League of Villains, originally under the belief that the League was affiliated with the incarcerated Hero Killer: Stain. They serve as the League's main taskforce and is lead by Dabi, with a Mid-Tier Nomu that rounds out their numbers to ten.

[[spoiler: As of the Meta Liberation Army arc, the remnants of the Vanguard Action Squad were absorbed into the remnants of the Meta Liberation Army's top brass, forming the Lieutenants of the Paranormal Liberation Front]].

* ArcVillain: They serve as the main antagonists of the Training Camp Arc. The ones that remained serve as this in the Paranormal Liberation War Arc and Final War Arc.
* TheBadGuyWins: While they lost a few during their invasion, the Vanguard Action Squad still managed to kidnap Bakugo and injure the majority of the Hero trainees as well, dealing a major blow against Hero society.
* CannonFodder: Subverted. When Kurogiri asks if Shigaraki considers them this, as a display of his character development, he explains that he really does want them to return back to him safely...but notes, whether they succeeded or failed, was another matter entirely.
* DwindlingParty: Their invasion of the Hero training camp and the Heroes subsequent raid on their hideouts, resulted in the loss of Muscular, Moonfish, Mustard and their Nomu, leaving only six mainstays of the League. [[spoiler: As the series progresses, the remaining Vanguard has either been killed (Magne and Twice) or arrested (Compress) leaving only Toga, Dabi and Spinner still around. All For One's Tartarus jailbreak also brought Moonfish back into the fold. Muscular briefly was released as well, but ended up getting re-captured by Midoriya.]].
* EarlyBirdCameo: Dabi, Toga, Spinner and Mustard appeared during the spread of Stain's viral video, all four clearly influenced by the Hero Killer.
* EliteMooks: Compared to the USJ mooks, the Vanguard is a sharp increase in both competence and efficiency, with each member being strong enough to contend with Pro Heroes far better than their predecessors. It's worth noting that it's only after they join does the League scores their first major victory against the Heroes, with few casualties. Lampshaded in the quote by Dabi.
* InspirationalMartyr: On a personal level, Stain was that to a few in the Vanguard, inspiring them to join the League of Villains to change society. On whole, it was the erroneous belief that Stain was a member of the League that got the entirety of the Vanguard to the organization. However, as the story continues, its made clear that they none of the Vanguard, never truly cared about his ideals beyond their own goals. Even Spinner and Dabi, the ones who emobdied them the most, merely latched on to it due to jumping on the bandwagon (Spinner) or it takes a backseat to their revenge (Dabi).
* StandardEvilOrganizationSquad: Serves as such to the League of Villains.
* PsychoForHire: Muscular, and likely Moonfish is as well. The former just joined the League for an excuse to kill people how he liked. Interestingly while Moonfish cannibalistic and obviously derange, he at least tries to hold himself back to try to do his job.
* QualityOverQuantity: An enforced trope in-universe. Given the fiasco concerning the USJ incident, Dabi notes that the Vanguard was made of only a few villains that were of a higher caliber than the League's first interaction, being mostly made of villains that had more experience in crime.
* WakeUpCallBoss: An in-universe example. While the League's prior attacks were quite troublesome, admittedly much of that prior danger was really because of the Nomu's they produced. Their reputation was deemed to be on the level of just hooligans causing trouble due to the combination of Shigaraki's immaturity and the League being made up of low-level thugs at the time. It was the Vanguard's successful kidnapping of Bakugo and attack on UA's training camp that was enough to quickly get society to really see the League of Villains as a threat.

[[folder:Shuichi Iguchi -- Spinner]]
!!Shuichi Iguchi -- Spinner

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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Ryo Iwazaki (Japanese), Larry Brantley (English)

!!!'''Quirk:''' [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing Gecko]], [[MakeMyMonsterGrow Body Bulk]], [[SpikesOfVillainy Scalemail]]

->''"I've got nothing to love, like Toga does. Nothing I really wanna do. But back then, I just know... Something lit a fire in my heart. All I could think was how I wanted a glimpse of the future he was imagining! Sure... I'm just a nobody who jumped on a bandwagon but what's wrong with that!? Nothing, right!? And you people ain't much better!!! Ain't that right, politician?"''

A newer recruit of the League, a young man who was treated poorly back in his hometown due to his reptilian features. After being inspired by Stain's desire to change society, he joined in hopes of seeing Stain's will accomplished.

His Quirk is "Gecko", which allows him to cling to walls and other vertical surfaces, much like a gecko.

* AdaptationDyeJob: He has pink eyes and hair in the manga. In the anime, his hair is violet and his eyes are brown.
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:He [[DealWithTheDevil accepts All For One's offer of power]] which slowly drives him insane to be more useful to Tomura...but Tomura was already hijacked by All For One's vestige, and if All For One has his way, will effectively cease to exist. As a result, Spinner's actions would never get the result he thinks they would. Gets subverted when the Tomura personality breaks free of All for One's vestige, and takes back control; creating the opportunity to achieve their shared goal. In fact, Kurogiri's shakeup to Tomura's end of the battle played a part in his ability to regain control, so he helped save Tomura in more ways than anticipated.]]
* AllThereInTheManual: According to his profile in the Volume 24 Extras, the giant makeshift sword he used during the School Trip Arc is called the "Super Knife Knife Sword". His profile also reveals that his family had reptilian-based Quirks as well.
* AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp: [[spoiler:Throughout the series, Spinner struggles with his feelings of uselessness to the League thanks to his weak quirk, but gradually amasses a large cult following from other Heteromorph Quirk-users ''because'' he's a weak mutant-type fighting against powerful heroes, and is additionally a charismatic speech-maker in his own right. When the FinalBattle kicks off, he dramatically increases his combat utility as a front-line fighter by accepting multiple quirks from All For One, which makes him a dangerous force in a fight, but gradually starts eroding his mind from the strain of having more powers than he was born with, devolving him into DumbMuscle that can only march forward relentlessly thanks to his [[{{Determinator}} willpower]] to be [[UndyingLoyalty useful to Tomura]], and actively struggles to string sentences together. Despite reaching the hospital, his lowered mentality isn't capable of processing what a bad idea it is to smash straight through the unarmed doctors and nurses barring his way right in front of his followers, [[BrokenPedestal destroying his good image in their eyes]] and halting their ZergRush on the understaffed heroes dead]].
* AmbiguouslyHuman: He has a reptilian appearance due to his Quirk, which earned him all sorts of abuse back in his hometown.
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: While Spinner may have joined the League primarily because of his admiration of Stain and his desire to follow his creed, others such as Dabi and Trumpet call him out for being a shallow FanBoy and following another's creed rather than his own. Spinner however, openly acknowledges such statements and does not try to hide or justify his actions but rather accepts himself for who he is.
* {{BFS}}: He had one, referred to as the "Super Knife Knife Sword" in the Volume 24 extras, that was made up of a bunch of smaller blades tied together. He only uses it during his fight with Mandalay, as it was destroyed by Midoriya during said fight. Spinner swaps it out for a regular sword later, [[BoringButPractical which proves to be more effective]]. [[spoiler:In the final battle, he goes back to using a sword made out of "smaller" blades, but because he has already grown giant, his sword is now made out of hundreds of regular-sized swords.]]
* BlessedWithSuck: Spinner definitely seems to have gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to Quirks. The only power that "Gecko" gives him is the ability to stick to walls, which, by itself, isn't exactly a bad power to have. However, the Quirk also gave him his reptilian appearance, which made him a constant victim of discrimination in his hometown. Making matters worse, the Volume 24 extras note that his Quirk was considered particularly weak even amongst his family's less than impressive reptilian-based Quirks. It's a small wonder he became such a bitter shut-in.
* BoisterousWeakling: Early on, a lot of Spinner's attitude seems to stem from his insecurities regarding his weak Quirk. Horikoshi himself notes in the Volume 24 Extras that Spinner's [[{{BFS}} massive sword made of knifes]] is the ultimate representation of his desire to look bigger and stronger than he really is. He grows out of this during the Meta Liberation Army Arc, in which he dedicates himself to lighten his teammate's load, particularly Shigaraki.
* TheBrute: [[spoiler:He becomes this for the villains in the final battle, after accepting All For One's power-bolstering Quirks that transform him into a towering kaiju-like beast. Unfortunately, the strain of the power begins eroding his mind and he's reduced into a lumbering mass of a muscle who can barely string coherent sentences]].
* CarFu: Pulls some off in the opening scene of ''Anime/MyHeroAcademiaHeroesRising'', in which he manages to bump two cars full of pros down the mountainside, ram a third into the sky, and nearly succeeds in turning Endeavor to roadkill.
* CharacterDevelopment: Spinner enters the series as a blind Stain FanBoy who spouted off Stain's gospel without really understanding it himself. As it became more and more clear that most of the League weren't interested in promoting Stain's ideology, Spinner struggled with his role in the group, and openly questioned what the point of their existence was. During the Meta Liberation Army Arc, he realizes that he and Shigaraki are a lot more alike than he initially thought and comes to terms with his role as a follower, deciding that he wants to see the world that Shigaraki, a man as hollow as he is, will create.
* CharacterNarrator: Of Chapter 220 and the end of Chapter 222, where he explains to the readers the condition of the League of Villains post-Overhaul, and Chapter 239, where he BookEnds the arc by talking about where the League's tale is going.
* TheCorruptible: [[spoiler:Accepting an offer of power from All For One to help the remnants of the league eventually starts [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity eroding his mind from housing more power than he's naturally equipped to contain]], leaving him little more than DumbMuscle who's barely aware of what he's saying or doing. This leads to him calling a fellow sufferer of FantasticRacism in Shoji 'gross' when seeing his BodyHorror quirk in action against him, no longer capable of voicing anything but his basest thoughts and emotions, in a [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis twisted parody]] of his original noble intentions for joining the League. He even tears straight through a group of unarmed nurses and doctors [[HoldTheLine standing in his way]] of Kurogiri in full view of his followers because his mind is too far gone to realise what he's doing, which [[BrokenPedestal shatters their wavering faith]] in him]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Due to his appearance, Spinner was a constant victim of discrimination when he was young, to the point where he thought it was just a normal part of life. He became a hollow shut-in as a result, and even after being inspired by Stain to stand up and change society, he still feels like nothing more than a hollow cosplayer.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The Meta Liberation Army Arc, which is one for the League of Villains as a whole, serves as a big one for Spinner in particular. Not only does he serve as the CharacterNarrator for the arc, but he also acts as the {{deuteragonist}} of it, with one of the major subplots being him coming to terms with his role within the League and developing a powerful loyalty towards Shigaraki.
* DeadlyUpgrade: [[spoiler:He accepts All For One's offer of more Quirks to be a more effective fighter for Shigaraki's sake. However, said Quirks slowly drive him insane until he's become DumbMuscle, only able to blindly follow orders and unable to comprehend the situation around him, approaching a DeathOfPersonality]].
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:He takes All For One's offer of more Quirks so he can become a more effective member and help Shigaraki more out of loyalty. He's burned on the deal as the Quirks drive Spinner insane, but he still accomplishes his goal of reviving Kurogiri, triggering a chain of events that lead to Shigaraki overcoming All For One merging with his consciousness.]]
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: The discrimination he suffered from in his early life made him bitter and caused him to withdraw from society. After seeing Stain's message to the world, however, he became inspired and decided to follow in Stain's footsteps by joining the League of Villains in an effort to spread Stain's words. By the time of the Meta Liberation Army Arc, it becomes clear that there is barely any of Stain's influence left in the League (assuming there ever ''was'' any in the first place), and Spinner is left wondering why he's still with the League and what his purpose going forward will be. [[spoiler:He eventually decides that he wants to see the world Shigaraki will create after he destroys everything he hates and dedicates himself to serving his boss.]]
* {{Determinator}}: What Spinner lacks in special ability he makes up for in sheer willpower, [[OneManArmy managing to hold off a small militia of trained Quirk users]] during the Meta Liberation Army Arc using only his physical prowess, sword skills, and his ability to cling to vertical surfaces. [[spoiler:By the time of the FinalBattle, thanks to All For One he's given a [[HulkingOut power boost]] necessary to become an imposing combatant in the battlefield, but the same strength is devoting his mind from the strain of having more power than he's naturally equipped to bear, akin to the Nomu. However, Spinner is still holding out and resisting his mental degradation out of a desire to help Tomura. Even after Shoji shatters both his CoolSword and badly hurts him through his Scalemail, he manages to pull enough of his wavering consciousness together to make one last speech to convince his followers to follow him into the hospital despite all the mental strain his powers are putting on him to keep himself fighting]].
* DetrimentalDetermination: His willpower to keep fighting for his friend's sakes is arguably the greatest asset he possesses, owing to his weak showing on a combat front, but by the time of the FinalBattle, this same aspect comes back to impede his efforts. [[spoiler:Accepting multiple Quirks from All For One to preform better as a front-line fighter starts to [[PowersAtAPrice erode his mind from the strain]], and whilst he's able to keep pushing forward nigh-mindlessly no matter how much he gets hurt, this same mental degradation prevents him from being able to recognise when he ''needs'' to stop, resulting in him uncomprehendingly tearing his way through a group of unarmed doctors and nurses trying to [[HoldTheLine bar his way]] to Kurogiri right in front of his followers, after they'd already had their faith in their cause shaken by Shoji's efforts before. This action [[BrokenPedestal destroys his good image and their faith in him]], and Spinner doesn't even realise it until several minutes afterwards when enough of his mind returns to realise he's now running alone]].
** His iron willpower enables him to [[spoiler:reach Kurogiri despite his mental and physical damage and place Tomura's blacked hand on his face in a desperate plea to save his friend, recalling how this was enough to rouse Tomura to action before and having lost the recording device he was meant to play instead...only for the next chapter to reveal that All For One was [[BatmanGambit counting on this as a backup plan]], having [[CrazyPrepared implanted a microdevice inside the hand]] that transmitted his orders to Kurogiri and making him bring aid to his original body, rather than Tomura's, still getting pummelled by Izuku, in the complete opposite of what Spinner wanted]].
* DidntThinkThisThrough: A tragic example, and its more like '''isn't capable'' of thinking this through'. [[spoiler:His [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity lowered mental functions]] as a result of accepting a DealWithTheDevil with All For One turns him into an almost-mindless DumbMuscle brute who powers through every obstacle that stands between him and Kurogiri. This includes the unarmed and defenceless doctors and nurses who HoldTheLine in an effort to prevent further bloodshed, and because his mind is so far gone, Spinner doesn't even process that he's ripped his way through them right in front of his [[BrokenPedestal horrified follower's eyes]] until several minutes have passed and he realises that he's been running alone for some time now]].
* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler:His loyalty and desire to help Tomura drives him to accept Quirks from All For One that might drive him insane...but he's unaware that All For One has already taken over Tomura via his vestige and he's not following Shigaraki's actual will anymore. The audience is aware of this from the start.]]
* TheDriver: Since his Quirk isn't really suited for combat and his combat skills are not really on par with professional heroes, he normally functions as this for the League. Interestingly despite his amateur driving skills, he can pull off some serious CarFu when the situation calls for it (see above).
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Dabi gripes at him for weaving all over the road while driving a stolen prison van because he gets carsick easily. The fact that he learned to drive from video games might have something to do with his less-than-stellar skills.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Since he joined the League of Villains because he idolized Stain and wants to improve society, he obviously isn't happy about attacking police officers to get at the arrested Overhaul.
** He also tries to avoid fighting heroes who abide by Stain's principles, seeing them as worthy to live.
** He also protests when [[spoiler:All For One, who's controlling Shigaraki]] orders him to leave Mr. Compress and Gigantomachia behind, merely [[spoiler:as a punishment for Tomura]].
* {{Fanboy}}: Of Stain's, so much so that he models his entire career as a supervillain around him.
* FantasticRacism: He was a victim of this growing up due to his appearance, even being sprayed with pesticide for his troubles.
* FightsLikeANormal: His Quirk isn't combat-oriented, so he fights more like his idol, Stain, instead. [[spoiler:This gets {{downplayed|Trope}} by the FinalBattle, as he accepts All For One's [[DealWithTheDevil offer of power]] necessary to increase his combat potential to bolster their forces, turning him into a towering musclebound figure, but in exchange, his mind starts deteriorating from the strain of his new ability. This results in his fighting style turning into simply smashing anything in front of him with pure brute force, leading to Shoji blindsiding him when he focuses on attacking two police officers]].
* HotBlooded: Full of bluster and bombast [[BoisterousWeakling despite initially having very little to back it up]]. This is later zig-zagged when it is revealed to partially be a front to mask his insecurities.
* HiddenDepths: As revealed in the Meta Liberation Army Arc, beneath all of Spinner's HotBlooded bluster is a vulnerable, alienated and surprisingly introspective young man DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife.
* HonorBeforeReason: Even though Midoriya is on Shigaraki's hit list, he steps in personally to prevent Magne from attacking him, because Stain had personally spared him before. This is while he's in the middle of his own fight with Mandalay, giving her an opening to attack.
* HulkSpeak: [[spoiler:When the FinalBattle commences, his new power boost from All For One starts to erode at his mind, resulting in his inner thoughts devolving into this. However, he's still able to vocalise commands that sound like he's lucid and in control, resulting in a case of DramaticIrony as the various supporters joining the fighting against the heroes earnestly believe that he 'speaks for them' when his ability to speak at all is starting to fray]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: A tragic example. Despite genuinely caring for the cause of resisting the FantasticRacism still present in society and wanting to make a difference to it after being inspired by Stain, when the FinalBattle comes around, [[spoiler:the multiple Quirks granted to him by All For One start eroding his mind and higher reasoning processes, leaving him little more than DumbMuscle that blindly attacks the heroes whilst his [[MouthOfSauron advisors]] direct the heteromorph supports who believe in him, leaving him little more than a PuppetKing. This means that when he fights Shoji, he unironically calls his BodyHorror quirk, 'gross', despite that exact same attitude being [[HeWhoFightsMonsters what he started out trying to change]], unable to realise his own hypocrisy with his mind so far gone beyond his [[UndyingLoyalty desire to help Tomura]]]].
* IKnowMortalKombat: Notes he got a lot of his driving skills from playing video games and he even yells ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' as a BattleCry. This scene was unfortunately cut in the anime adaptation.
* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: His "Super Knife Knife Sword" is a giant blade made out of a bunch of ''smaller'' blades. It's just as childishly awesome as it sounds. [[spoiler:He gets a new one by the FinalBattle, but thanks to his [[HulkingOut size increase]], it's now made out of regular-sized blades]].
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: What ultimately causes him to earnestly follow Shigaraki; his strange desire to see the future Shigaraki envisions, one of pure destruction, come to fruition.
* InsultBackfire: Happens twice during the Meta Liberation Army Arc, with both times being less a case of the insult failing because he took it as a compliment, and more a case of the insult failing because he ''agreed'' with it instead.
** First, after Spinner rants to Shigaraki about how he only joined the League because of Stain, Dabi calls him out as an "empty cosplayer" only for Spinner himself to agree with that assessment as he sees himself as an empty person.
** Later on, during his battle with Trumpet, the politician tries to break his resolve by claiming that Spinner is someone who can't accomplish anything by himself. Again, Spinner agrees with him, and this time he turns the argument around by pointing out that [[NotSoDifferentRemark Trumpet and the other members of the MLA are the same, as their all people who can't achieve anything without latching on to someone else's ideology first]].
* {{Irony}}:
** Over the course of the series Spinner comes to earnestly admire both Stain and Shigaraki and wishes to follow their ideals. This in spite of the fact that, during the brief time they worked together, Stain and Shigaraki hated each other and their ideals run counter to each other.
** Much in the same way that Stain's rampage inspired a new crop of villains to rise up against the inherit flaws in Hero Society, despite the fact that Stain never intended to inspire anyone, Spinner unintentionally ends up following in his idol's footsteps as his presence within the League serves as an inspiration for Heteromorphic people to rise up against the prejudice they've suffered in Hero Society.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: After Midoriya busts his "Super Knife Knife Sword," he takes to carrying a more regular katana as his main weapon.
* LizardFolk: His overall character design is this due to his Quirk, which he was ostracized for in his backwater hometown.
* LoonyFan: While he is a true Stain FanBoy, to the point where he crafted his whole villain persona to emulate him, Spinner doesn't quite get the entirety of Stain's philosophy. Stain only wanted to purge "fake" heroes who were in it for fame and money, while Spinner seems to think that ''every'' hero is "fake" with the exception of those who Stain personally advocated for. This misunderstanding of Stain's ideology is likely due to the fact that Spinner's inspiration from Stain came less from his ideals and more from his desire to change society. He grows out of this as he spends more time with the League, as he becomes less motivated by his misunderstanding of Stain's ideology and more by his desire to see the world Shigaraki will make with his own two hands.
* MakeMyMonsterGrow: [[spoiler:In the final battle, Spinner is granted a Quirk by All For One that bulks him up to become several stories tall.]]
* NobleDemon: He subscribes to Stain's philosophy, so he tries to follow a code similar to Stain's. For example, when Magne tries to kill Midoriya, Spinner stops her since he believes Midoriya is worthy of being called a real hero after Stain previously saved Midoriya's life. [[spoiler:The FinalBattle emphasises the 'noble' traits he still possesses gradually being eclipsed by the 'demon' aspect, as he [[DealWithTheDevil accepts an offer of power from All For One]] to better help his remaining allies as a front-line fighter, but the same power boost results in his outward appearance becoming more and more monstrous, and his mind starts degrading from containing more Quirks than he's naturally equipped to handle. When he uncomprehendingly tears his way through defenceless doctors and nurses barring his way to Kurogiri, his remaining mental faculties devoted to helping Tomura however he can, the action [[BrokenPedestal destroys his follower's faith in him]], leading to him being alone as he rushes into the Hospital's depths]].
* {{Notzilla}}: [[spoiler:During the FinalBattle, the Quirk All For One gave him to make him grow to gigantic proportions makes him reminisce of Franchise/{{Godzilla}}; which becomes even more obvious when he activates [[SpikesOfVillainy Scalemail]], and starts growing larger spiked scales all over his body, effectively turning from a Lizard to a Komodo dragon in appearance]].
* NotSoAboveItAll: For all his posturing and grandiose behavior, he gets rather easily distracted while fighting Mandalay when she uses her Quirk to psychically flirt with him, freezing up entirely with a blush and leaving himself wide open to an attack.
* PainfulTransformation: [[spoiler:Scalemail has him growing jagged-looking spiked scales all over his body accompanied by spurts of blood as they push through his skin from within, but by that point Spinner's [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity mental faculties are so overwhelmed]] he doesn't react to the obvious pain he's feeling]].
* PersonalityPowers: His Quirk, "Gecko", only allows him to clings to walls, a fitting power for someone who clings to other people's desires in order to give himself purpose. Also, geckos are one of the few lizards that can vocalize, and Spinner is a loudmouth himself.
* ShoutOut: If Stain ''resembled'' a DarkerAndEdgier [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Ninja Turtle]], then Spinner ''is'' a darker and edgier Ninja Turtle with Bebop's haircut.
* SpikesOfVillainy: [[spoiler: In addition to a [[MakeMyMonsterGrow Quirk that bulks up his size by several stories]], All For One granted him another Quirk that lets him grow bigger, sharper scales for extra power and defense]].
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Finds out that this is not the case when he stops to gush about Stain, getting dropkicked by Mandalay for his trouble.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Out of the entire League of Villains, Spinner has the highest set of morals due to following Stain's ideology. He notably spares Midoriya's life because that's what Stain would have wanted, and is shown to be uncomfortable when his allies start attacking police officers. He grows out of this, at least somewhat, in the Meta Liberation Army Arc, where he abandons Stain's teachings and instead begins to follow Shigaraki out of a strange desire to see the future Shigaraki's destruction will bring.
** [[spoiler:His higher morals serve to illustrate how [[BreakingTheFellowship warped]] the current League has become in the aftermath of the Paranormal Liberation War after falling under [[TheCorruptor All For One's]] leadership, in contrast to the TrueCompanions they were before. Spinner accepts an offer of greater power to aid Tomura, only for said increased combat strength to start eroding his mind, leaving him little more than [[DumbMuscle a rambling brute]] who is taken advantage of by his clearer-minded subordinates to rally blind followers to attack the Heroes with. He even calls Shoji's BodyHorror abilities 'gross' when fighting him, the very term the Hooded Advisor stated moments prior was historically used to justify the FantasticRacism against heteromorph-type quirk users, which Spinner himself joined the League in part to fight against, unable to realise his hypocrisy in his current state. Furthermore, with Tomura's mind becoming [[DeathOfPersonality subsumed]] by All For One's, Spinner's efforts are [[AllForNothing in vain]] anyway, despite the depths he's sunk to for the sake of his remaining friends. Him tearing his way through a bunch of civilian doctors and nurses [[HoldTheLine barring his way to Kurogiri]] completely removes him as this in his [[{{BrokenPedestal}} horrified follower's eyes]]]].
* TookALevelInBadass: While the League were all able to collectively improve thanks to their relentless training at the hands of Gigantomachia, Spinner definitely gets hit with this pretty hard. Whereas before he was mostly just a BoisterousWeakling ButtMonkey, by the time of the League's battle with the Meta Liberation Army he is able to [[OneManArmy hold his own]] against a ZergRush of opponents with just his physical prowess, sword skills, and the ability to WallCrawl.
** [[spoiler:He self-invokes this before the FinalBattle, accepting All For One's offer of more power to ensure he can hold his own in a fight and not be a burden to his remaining allies, transforming into a musclebound hulking figure that towers over others. However, this new form eventually starts to eat away at his mind, akin to the Nomu, as he's using more power than he was naturally born to handle]].
* TooManyBelts: He wears several belts on his body and even a few on his sword.
* UndyingLoyalty: After coming to respect Shigaraki over the course of the battle with the Meta Liberation Army, Spinner becomes completely loyal to him and his ideals, wanting to see what kind of world his boss will create. During the Paranormal Liberation War Mr. Compress entrusts Spinner with protecting Shigaraki noting that there is no one in the League more loyal to his will. In Chapter 341 Spinner even privately admits to himself that the only reason he is still with the League at this point is for Shigaraki's sake. [[spoiler:When his newly-granted multiple quirks are [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity eroding his mind]], he stops caring/processing what everybody is saying to him or any greater causes that he fought for before, but still keeps pushing forward and attacking the heroes out of his desire to help Tomura and be useful to him. This [[DetrimentalDetermination tragically backfires on him]], as he's left unable to realise what he's doing when he tears his way through a group of unarmed civilian doctors and nurses blocking his way to Kurgiri, his nearly-mindless state consumed with thoughts of helping his friend, and failing to realise that [[BrokenPedestal he's now alone]] in charging into the hospital until several minutes have passed]].
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:All For One gives him two Quirks to 'be more useful to Tomura'...with Spinner completely unaware Tomura's been subsumed by All For One's vestige for awhile now and thus this translates to 'be more useful to All For One.' This even shows in how his final action at the hospital was to take the discarded hand of Nana Shimura that he had in his possession and place it on Kurogiri's face, begging him to save Tomura, which apparently rouses him to action...only for the next chapter to reveal that All For one had been [[BatmanGambit counting on him doing that as a backup measure]], having [[CrazyPrepared implanted a microdevice into the hand]] that transmitted his orders to Kurogiri and making him serve All for One's benefit rather than Tomura, still getting thrashed by Izuku. It works out in Tomura's favor in spite of that, though.]]
* WallCrawl: This is, supposedly, the only real power his Quirk, "Gecko", gives him; the ability to cling to any surface he wants.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: His original motive to join the League of Villains is to change Hero Society and get rid of false Heroes as per his inspiration 'Stain'. However, by the time of the Meta Liberation Army arc, he has since switched gears to seeing the world Shigaraki wants to live.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Hanabata from the Meta Liberation Army considers Spinner's Quirk to be weak and useless since the only power it seems to have given him is the ability to cling to walls. Likewise, this factors into his decision to [[spoiler: accept more Quirks from All For One, which effectively turned him into a monster]].
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[spoiler:To be more useful to Shigaraki during the FinalBattle, he took All For One's offer for more power and received two Quirks that makes him grow to {{Kaiju}}-like size and grow sharper scales. Unfortunately, due to his body not being used to so much power, it causes his mind to slowly start eroding]].
* YouTalkTooMuch: Spinner's fight against Mandalay and Tiger didn't last long because Mandalay nailed him while he was running his mouth, and then Tiger assisted in restraining him.

[[folder:Jin Bubaigawara -- Twice]]
!!Jin Bubaigawara -- Twice

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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Dachi Endo (Japanese), Creator/NewtonPittman (English)
!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 77 (Manga), Episode 43 (Anime)
!!!'''Playable in:''' ''My Hero One's Justice 2''
!!!'''Quirk:''' [[DopplegangerAttack Double]]
!!!'''Rank:''' S

->''"Hey, Dabi, you hear that message?! Pretty exciting. Mr. Compress sure got the job done quickly, huh? He took his sweet time, though!! I'm getting sleepy over here."''

A newer recruit of the League, a fully-costumed man with an odd way of speaking. A rather affable but seriously damaged person, his past is an unpleasant affair: he overindulged in his own Quirk and suffered ''severe'' mental trauma as a consequence. Now, he's unable to control his own Quirk outside of his suit and he cannot afford to have his face exposed for too long otherwise he'll begin to split.

The Quirk that caused him such hardships is called "Double", and it allows him to make duplicates of other people and things so long as he has accurate measurements of them.
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* AffablyEvil: Twice is one of the more friendly and whimsical members of the League, often taking (hopeless) passes at Toga and trying to make sure his allies are well-cared for. He's particularly distraught if he feels he's done something to harm them.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:A given, considering Twice's status as a sympathetic TragicVillain. His death is cast in a bittersweet light, as Twice's sendoff is presented to be both heartwarming, in that he dies happy, and tearjerking, in that his death was caused by Hawks' betrayal.]]
* AmbiguousCloneEnding:
** Due to abusing his Quirk in the past, the Twice currently seen is not sure if he is the original one or a clone that survived the massacre. [[spoiler:He's snapped out of this mindset in Chapter 229 after undergoing serious pain that a clone would not be able to handle without dissolving. With the confirmation that he is indeed the original, he finally starts using his Quirk at its fullest potential.]]
** Heartbreakingly averted for [[spoiler: his death. Twice creates a clone of himself seconds before being killed by Hawks, and because of the damage he's already sustained, the clone knows he's not the original and has only moments to live. He still pushes himself to save his friends in the League Of Villains, and dies with a smile on his face after being thanked for his actions.]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: His UndyingLoyalty to the League stems from this. He felt he was unworthy of help from heroes due to his mental instability and criminal past, so he greatly values his comrades amongst the League for treating him well and giving him a place to belong in spite of his issues. He was among the most outwardly furious at Overhaul when he [[spoiler:killed Magne]], and when Giran gets taken by the Meta Liberation Army, Twice is ''hellbent'' on rescuing him since Giran was the one to introduce Twice to the League in the first place. Later on, when Hawks [[spoiler:offers him a chance of redemption, he declines immediately because he doesn't care about his own future as much he does about his friend's happiness]].
-->''"I'd trade my soul... for the League's happiness!"''
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Sure, he's definitely loco, but Twice has one of the most potentially dangerous Quirks in the entire League, if not the series. Not to mention he's pretty good at using measuring tape as a lethal weapon. Twice is later officially ranked an ''S-Class'' villain, higher than [[PlayingWithFire Dabi]] or [[SerialKiller Toga]]. Even Hawks considers him the League's most dangerous member.
* BirdsOfAFeather: The member of the league he's closest to is Toga, who, like him, was driven to villainy due to mental illness.
* BlessedWithSuck: Twice's Quirk is one of the more useful out there, with several villains, like Skeptic of the Meta Liberation Army, considering it a valuable asset. However, while the Quirk itself has no innate downside, Twice is terrified of using it on himself due to past trauma caused by abusing the ability, and he now suffers from some major mental issues. [[spoiler:And when he ''does'' become capable of unleashing his Quirk's full potential once more, it instantly elevates him to a threat level that makes certain the heroes have no choice but to [[TooPowerfulToLive eliminate him]] once he refuses to surrender or stop fighting for the League's sake, as he'd be capable of turning the tides against them in a second if given the chance]].
* BornUnlucky: Twice sure had it rough for most of his life, although he plays with this trope a bit. He lost his parents to a villain attack when he was in middle school and had to support himself, only to lose his job because he got into an accident with an important client. It wasn't even his fault but due to his FaceOfAThug he got a criminal record. He then turned to a life of crime for real. He eventually started to use his Quirk to clone himself just to have someone to talk. His clones didn't like being bossed around and then started killing each other, the trauma of which turned him insane and further into a villain. However, Twice doesn't see himself as such because he got to join the League, who he sees as his TrueCompanions. For the first time in his life, he found people who accept him and was happy just to be there. He would take offense for his life being called unlucky.
* BrokenTears: [[spoiler:He spends all of his final encounter with Hawks crying and distraught, deeply hurt by the betrayal and the subsequent raid putting the League in danger yet again.]]
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:During the Paranormal Liberation War Arc, after an intense battle with Hawks, Twice tries desperately to escape the winged hero and help his fellow League members. Unfortunately, even with Dabi's help, Twice is unable to escape and is ultimately killed when Hawks impales him with a feather blade. Before he dies, Twice is able to send off one last clone of himself to save Toga and Mr. Compress from a hero, but, due to taking too much damage, the clone is barely able to hold itself together after doing so. Before melting away, the clone Twice apologizes for letting Hawks fool him into leaking valuable information, cleans off Toga's cheek with the handkerchief she gave him all the way back in the Shie Hassakai Arc, and then breaks down into goo in Toga's arms. He dies with a smile, happy that he could help his friends one last time before disappearing forever.]]
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Often seen smoking when not on duty, especially when he reflects on the fact that a madman like him will mostly remain an outcast in the Hero Society due to his Quirk-related mental instability.
* CloneArmy: His Quirk can -- theoretically -- allow him to do this, even if his mental issues stop him from using this technique. [[spoiler:It isn't until after the Meta Liberation Army accidentally confirm that Twice is not a clone that he does ''exactly'' this -- creating an army of himself large enough to overrun several city streets in seconds.]]
* CloneAngst: He once created an entire team of clones to do his bidding. However, each of the clones thought of themselves as the real one and they all disliked being ordered around, which led them to attack each other until only one remained. The remaining Twice may or may not be the original, and the entire experience has permanently traumatized him. [[spoiler:When he eventually realizes that he ''is'' the real Jin Bubaigawara, he starts getting better, though his mental issues aren't completely solved after that.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He's a major oddball in no small part due to his SplitPersonality. [[ADayInTheLimelight Chapter 115]] [[PlayedForDrama paints his oddball habits in a much darker, and way more depressing, light]].
* CommanderContrarian: Zigzagged. When given orders, he replies negatively, but happily follows them anyway (or vice-versa). This is a result of his SplitPersonality.
* ADayInTheLimelight: He gets a couple, actually. First, there's Chapter 115, or the first half of Episode 62 in the anime, in which he is the narrator and the audience is made aware of his motivations and past. Second, he, naturally, gets some focus during the League-centered Meta Liberation Army Arc, in which he battles Skeptic's puppets and [[spoiler:finally realizes that he is the real Twice]]. Third, he gets some major focus in the Paranormal Liberation War Arc, in which he battles Hawks, grapples with his failure to protect the League's happiness, [[spoiler:and dies.]]
* DeclarationOfProtection: He declares one regarding the League of Villains, [[spoiler: shortly before his death.]]
* {{Determinator}}: No matter what happens, he is always going to do what he thinks is for the best for the League, no matter how dangerous or outmatched he may be. [[spoiler: It's due to Jin's unwavering loyalty that Hawks is forced to put him down, as he could have easily changed the entire outcome of the raid on the League.]]
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:The final Twice clone melts away in Toga's arms, as the young villain hugs her dying friend and thanks him for saving her.]]
* DoppelgangerAttack:
** Uses his clones mostly to provide distractions so the other villains can act without being interrupted. They can even mimic the Quirks of the original templates.
** After he [[spoiler:realizes that he's the real Twice, he gains a new super move called "Sad Man's Parade", in which he makes two clones of himself, then those clones create two clones of themselves each, and then those clones create two clones of themselves each, until there are thousands of Twices running around causing havoc.]]
* DramaPreservingHandicap: He has the ability to produce an ''endless'' number of clones of himself and others, with each clone retaining the powers of the original, but he himself can only produce two clones at any given time; to produce more clones, he needs to make clones of himself and have them make clones. However, he refuses to clone himself because of his AmbiguousCloneEnding situation. [[spoiler:When he eventually discovers that he is indeed the original, this handicap is removed, which elevates Twice from mid-level fodder villain to one of the most dangerous members of the League of Villains]].
* EpiphanyTherapy: While the events of the Meta Liberation Army Arc do lead to him overcoming one of his major fears and gaining greater mastery of his power, it's ultimately zigzagged in that other aspects of his mental issues seem to have gotten ''worse'' as a result.
* EtTuBrute: He does ''not'' take it well when he finds out that [[spoiler:Hawks, whom Twice made friends with, is a mole on the heroes' side, and that he used the information Twice gave him to plan a full-on raid against the PLF]]. Especially since, during the Shie Hassakai Arc, him introducing Overhaul to the League resulted in Magne getting killed and Mr. Compress losing his arm.
* EurekaMoment: [[spoiler:When Skeptic has two of his puppets break Twice's arms, he realizes that, considering the duplicates he makes tend to disappear after having damage equivalent to a broken bone, he is truly the original, leading him to stop being as careful as he was, and making him much more dangerous.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He'll happily work with and defend a crazed serial killer like Toga but misgendering Magne genuinely pissed him off.
* EvilSoundsDeep: In Japanese, Bubaigawara speaks with a pretty deep voice.
* ExpendableClone: His clones are much less durable than the original, taking roughly a broken arm to dematerialize them. Destroying them doesn't have a negative impact on Twice either. [[spoiler:Once he starts replicating himself again, his clones have taken this to heart to avoid another crisis.]]
* {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}. Both have severe neuroses that get played for humor, but while Deadpool only occasionally explores the dramatic side of it, Twice rather quickly stops being "quirky" and goes full on "tragic." Both end up with a second personality (Yellow Text Box for Deadpool, Twice literally having two opinions on everything) as a coping mechanism. Both ended up that way at least in part by unethical experimentation. Both also end up with their mental illnesses in part due to uncontrolled duplication -- himself for Twice, and cancer[[note]]caused by uncontrolled cell division[[/note]] for Deadpool. Both have used the DeconReconSwitch to explore the actual implications of Deadpool's situation, though in different ways. The only major differences are that Twice never breaks the fourth wall while Deadpool uses his MediumAwareness frequently, and that Deadpool is often portrayed or at least implied to not be as sick as he seems and is exaggerating for sympathy, as a coping mechanism, or to throw off his opponents.[[note]]Prior to the "Secret Invasion" storyline, Deadpool was merely ''aware'' of his thoughts being in a yellow text box, and it wasn't treated as a second personality.[[/note]]
* FaceOfAThug: Deconstructed. Even as a regular, law-abiding teenager, his face was said to be scary, which made it hard for people to sympathize with him in legal processes, contributing to his downfall into criminal life.
* FinalSpeech: [[spoiler:The audience is treated to his dying inner monologue throughout Chapter 266.]]
-->[[spoiler:''"I gotta... protect everyone! Protect them Twice! They accepted me. And how'd I pay them back? '''By causing them more pain! I can't let it end this way!'''"''\\
''"Sure, my whole life, it seems like... I've been a man falling... lower and lower... getting duped. To you, my life looks pathetic. Meaningless."''\\
''"I wandered around, searching for myself. And I found myself... blessed with friends better than I ever could be. Could a guy ask for a better life? Die, Hawks. But you don't get to tell me that I was "unlucky." Being here with them...''\\
''I was happy!"]]''
* FragileSpeedster: His basic fighting style revolves around avoiding any big hits because if he ''is'' a clone such a hit would destroy him completely. Played tragically, since because of his uncertainty, he's ''absolutely terrified'' of the prospect of ever-enduring serious damage. [[spoiler:Ironically, finally taking some serious damage is what brought him out of this, since it showed him that he was the real Twice the whole time.]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has an ugly stitched scar in the center of his forehead, given to him by one of his own clones in the past.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:The final Twice clone dies smiling, satisfied that he could help his friends one last time.]]
* HesBack: A darker take on it since he's a villain, but Twice has been holding himself back because he's afraid that he's actually a doppelgänger and he'll just disappear after taking damage. [[spoiler:After he survives two broken bones, he laughs in the realization that he's the real deal and unleashes his true power.]]
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Played with. As he puts his trust and faith in the League, and considers them a case of TrueCompanions despite the fact a lot of them are unstable, unrepentant murderers and fairly selfish, but they do genuinely accept him and his help. On the other hand, he also has a habit of trusting people who don't carry the same sentiment of friendship (Overhaul, Hawks, and Dabi).
* HopeSpot: A villainous example, [[spoiler:but when Twice shows up to save Toga and Mr. Compress during the Paranormal Liberation War, the audience is led to believe that Jin managed to evade or at least survive Hawks' attack. It's only after "Twice" mentions that "he" fell on the solid concrete floor from a pretty high balcony fall that the reader is able to piece together that the one talking is just a clone, with the real one having died already.]]
* HopelessSuitor: He frequently takes passes at Toga, but it's PlayedForLaughs and isn't ever taken seriously. She sees him as a close friend, which is probably a good thing for Twice since her "love" always ends in bloodshed (and the fact that she's still just a teenager and he's in his 30s).
* IdentityBreakdown: Part of his backstory and the reason why he's a bit...off now, since he used to be a fairly normal (if lonely) man who fell on hard times. He used his Quirk to duplicate himself many times over, but then each clone [[CloneAngst became convinced they were the real one and started attacking each other]]. The Twice we see isn't sure if [[AmbiguousCloneEnding he's the original one or just a clone]]; the experience deeply traumatized him and gave him [[SplitPersonality multiple voices in his head]] and prone to SuddenlyShouting.[[spoiler:Until he learns he's the real one.]]
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Due to his loneliness, and because he felt that his mental illness meant he wouldn't be accepted by society, Twice was in desperate need for someone to accept him. After Giran introduced him to the League, he readily accepted them as his friends and family and now desperately wants to prove his worth to them. This also means that when he sets out to recruit more people for the League, he tries to find fellow misfits like him to surround himself with.
* ImmediateSelfContradiction: Usually PlayedForLaughs; due to his SplitPersonality, whenever he says something, he claims the exact opposite immediately afterward. PlayedForDrama during the Meta Liberation Army Arc when [[spoiler:Toga is seemingly dying. He tries to reassure himself that she'll pull through, but his other personality immediately points out how unlikely that is.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: His weapon is a roll of ''measuring tape'', which he mostly uses to take precise measurements of the people he has to copy. The measuring tape is capable of slicing through Todoroki's ice though, so it's clear they were made with combat usage in mind.
* InTheBack: [[spoiler: He's killed when Hawks delivers a fatal strike with his blade from behind, and soon plummeted to his death.]]
* IntergenerationalFriendship: He's 31 and particularly close with 17-year-old Toga, who greatly appreciates him and [[spoiler:is noticeably affected by his death]].
* ItsAllMyFault:
** Twice blames himself for bringing Overhaul to the League as it leads to [[spoiler:Magne dying and Compress losing his arm]].
** Later, during the Paranormal Liberation War, he thinks back to above instance once he realizes that he unintentionally [[spoiler:led the heroes right to the PLF's hideout by befriending Hawks.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Thanks to Hawks being so swift to cull his Sad Man's Parade, there's not even a clone of him left to carry on in the original's place]].
* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler:Zigzagged. The audience is only shown a small glimpse of the killing blow Hawks gives to Twice before the chapter shifts focus to the final clone of himself he made. Instead, we watch the clone rescue Toga and Mr. Compress one last time before melting away, symbolically showcasing Twice's death to the viewer. It's later full-on {{averted|Trope}} pointedly by Dabi, who made sure to stash some of the discarded spy cameras that were being used to monitor Hawks on him before he entered the room, allowing him to catch Twice's death on film and later incorporate it into his preprepared public broadcast revealing the truth of his heritage, acting as a WhamShot to the public seeing Twice's demise at the hands of the number 2 hero as further proof that all heroes, beyond Endevour's own mistakes, are not [[BrokenPedestal the beacons of morality they claim to be.]]]]
* LaughablyEvil: He's a funny guy despite being a villain. [[AvertedTrope As more about his life becomes clear, however, this has begun to disappear]].
* LetsGetDangerous: [[spoiler:After finally realizing he was the real Twice all along, he's able to start copying himself again, swearing to show the Meta Liberation Army just how powerful he can really be.]]
* LogicalWeakness:
** ClothingDamage, of all things. Ripping up his suit, especially his mask, will cause him to start dividing unwillingly, and he will need some kind of fabric and/or wrappings to bind up the badly exposed places to force his body to remain whole. [[spoiler:He gets over this when he realizes that he is the real Twice.]]
** Sure, Twice probably has the most broken Quirk in the series, but it ain't nothing much if he faces against an opponent who can SpeedBlitz him before he can fully form his clones, as Hawks demonstrates.
** [[spoiler:While his cloning ability ''is'' extremely dangerous, especially if he gets off Sad Man's Parade, the fact his clones are also ''extremely'' fragile means his powers can be negated by enemies with large, area of effect attacks who can wipe out large numbers of his clones at once.]]
* LonelyBachelorPad: His own flat looks very much like this, being minimally furnitured and disorderly, if not exactly dirty.
* MatterReplicator: His Quirk allows him to duplicate anything as long as he has enough physical data on it, whether human or object. The only difference between the original and the copies is that the copies are less durable and dissolve after taking a certain threshold of damage. During the fight with the Meta Liberation army, he reveals this can also extend to making clones of a badly-injured person to create a blood donor to help them recover, such as with Toga.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: Chapter 115 plays up his SplitPersonality for drama, showing his inner turmoil over having constantly opposing personalities wrestling for control in his head, outright telling the other side to shut up even while in a conversation on the phone with someone else. He mentions in his narration that he became a villain partly because [[ThereAreNoTherapists hero society has no place for the "crazy."]]
* MesACrowd: Deconstructed. All of his clones share his personality, so they don't like being ordered around. All of them also have the same memories and thus each believes themselves to be the original; because of this, when he created a bunch of clones of himself in the past, they all claimed to be -- and tried to take over as -- the original. The current Twice is the one that survived the big fight between clones, but he isn't sure if he is even the original. Also, Twice has to have a strong and precise mental image of how to approximate clones right down to one's measurements (requiring him to carry retractable tape measures stored inside his wristbands) and it takes a while to master duplicating unfamiliar people. The clones also have limitations in stamina and durability based on how much effort was used to make them, the number created in a single sitting, and how taxing it is to maintain them all.
* TheNarrator: Of [[ADayInTheLimelight Chapter 115]].
* OddFriendship: The calm, serious, greedy Giran ends up forming a VillainousFriendship with the loud, traumatized and sensitive Twice, even fronting the cost for his costume despite Twice not having the money to pay him back immediately (something Mr. Compress later implies Giran isn't known for).
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When he learns that Giran has been captured by the Meta Liberation Army, he immediately drops his usual schtick of contradicting himself as he demands that the League go and save him, showing how much he cares about the situation.
* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: He's quick to call Overhaul on using the wrong pronouns in reference to Magne.
* PowerIncontinence: Twice can ''never'' afford to leave his face uncovered for long, or else his body starts trying to clone itself and his personality splinters as the cloning process leave him struggling to stay whole. As of Chapter 229, this is no longer the case.
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers one to [[spoiler:[[TheMole Hawks]] after the hero reveals his true allegiance:]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Twice:''' ''You people ain't heroes. Never are. Never were. None of ya. You throw us to the wolves. All of us downtrodden folks.'']]
* RedShirtArmy: As a rather tragic and unintended [[spoiler:posthumous]] insult, Toga unleashes her version of Sad Man's Parade during the final arc around the same time most of the protagonists are experiencing a HeroicSecondWind, resulting in hundreds of Twice clones getting beaten up by the reinvigorated heroes or dying in needless ways.
* RedemptionRejection: [[spoiler:Hawks claims that after the raid on the PLF has concluded, Twice will have the opportunity to make a fresh start, which Hawks will assist him with since "[Twice] is good person". Twice rejects his offer two times, deciding that he doesn't care what happens to him, only about the League's happiness.]]
* SanityStrengthening: He's a psychological wreck due to suffering an AmbiguousCloneEnding and is unsure on whether he's the original Twice or just a clone. In Chapter 229, after Skeptic has his puppets break Twice's arms, [[spoiler:Twice realizes that he didn't disappear into goop like his clones typically do, thus establishing he was the original after all. This realization puts Twice back in control of himself, ready to unleash a can of whoop-ass on the Meta Liberation Army.]]
* ShooOutTheClowns: While Twice isn't a hero, his presence does give the series some levity even when its on the Villain's perspective. [[spoiler: Once he's killed the series goes in a much darker path, with some major supporting heroes killed and All For One poised to take back his throne as the top villain with Midoriya being unconscious and Endeavour put in a HeroicBSOD.]]
* ShoutOut:
** He's a loving homage to Deadpool with shades of [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]]. His English voice actor even gave him a similar speaking style to most portrayals of the Regenerating Degenerate.
** His powers are similar to that of the Marvel character Multiple Man and he too has had issues with his dupes rebelling on him.
** His overall costume, Quirk and insanity due to his powers, makes him a dead ringer to the obscure Superman villain Riot, who wears a nearly identical costume, can duplicate himself and both of them became insane due to their powers. However, Riot's insanity came from sleep deprivation as he cannot sleep as long as he has clones around. In a possible coincidence, Riot's mask in the New 52 has stitching resembling Twice's scar.
* ShutUpKirk: During the Paranormal Liberation Raid Arc, Hawks makes several attempts to avoid fighting Twice, even offering him a chance at redemption if he surrenders peacefully. Unfortunately, [[FireForgedFriends because the League were the only ones to accept him]] [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe in spite of his psychological issues]] [[CondescendingCompassion all this does is to enrage Twice]], and Hawks is forced to fight Twice, [[spoiler:leading to the villain's death]].
-->'''Hawks:''' I don't want to fight you... Bubaigawara!\\
'''Twice:''' ''WELL GOOD FOR FREAKIN' YOU!''
* SpannerInTheWorks: Together with Toga during the Shie Hassaikai raid. Sir Nighteye's operation had predicted that the relationship between the League of Villains and the Hassaikai wasn't good, but they show up anyway to help Overhaul's escape. Then it's spun around while still being played straight in that he and Toga are there to sabotage the Hassaikai, indirectly helping the heroes take down Mimic.
* SplashOfColor: His costume is mostly greyscale aside from a pair of red bracelets.
* SplitPersonality: Twice frequently argues with himself, the "himself" implied to be a clone that's trying to split apart from the main body.
* StoryBreakerPower: According to the databook's villain rankings, Twice is considered as much of a threat as Shigaraki himself, potentially being the most dangerous member of the League of Villains due to his Quirk. While it's true that Shigaraki, Gigantomachia or even a regular Nomu are in a whole other league in terms of power, nothing prevents him from making copies of said characters if he only so much obtains access to their measurements, which gets pointed out by others every now and then. Additionally, although he has not been seen attempting this yet, the Meta Liberation Army believe that he is capable of "reviving" dead people by cloning them, so even if the enemy ends up dying, there is no guarantee that Twice won't just bring them back through a weakened, yet still Quirk-capable replica. [[spoiler:We later see him use his Quirk to such an extent during the fight with the Meta Liberation Army that makes it clear both in and out of universe how seriously powerful his Quirk is when he uses it right. Hawks himself makes a note that he's the most dangerous member of the group, and is ultimately forced to kill him in order to stop him from overpowering the heroes]].
* TalkingToThemself: Does this when alone, in a manner similar to Deadpool, albeit without BreakingTheFourthWall.
* TooPowerfulToLive: Hawks is fully aware about Twice's potential to completely destroy society thanks to his ability to duplicate anything as much he wants, including the monstrous Nomus. [[spoiler:Hawks even attempts to convince Twice into pulling a HeelFaceTurn, but the latter proves to be just too loyal to the League and hateful of society to do so, thus Hawks is left with no choice but to kill him.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: While most of the League of Villains have seen their villain ranking increase over the course of the story, he's the only one who bounced from "C" to "S" in the span of a few months.
* TragicVillain: Make no mistake, as funny Twice may be, he has not had an easy life. Firstly, his parents died when he was in middle school, leaving him to fend for himself at a young age. Then, as a teen, he was arrested for hitting someone with his motorcycle, even though it was entirely the victim's fault in that instance for not paying attention, which gave him a criminal record. To make matters worse, due to a sheer unfortunate coincidence, the victim worked for one of Jin's boss's top clients. In a fit of rage, his boss fired him and told him to never show his face again. Left unemployed and unable to find work, he slowly fell into a life of crime through the use of his clones, which ultimately lead to the AmbiguousCloneEnding that horrifically traumatized him. This unfortunate series of events made him so desperate for companionship that he willingly joined up with a group of actual villains just so he could find ''anyone'' who would consider him a friend.
* UndyingLoyalty: To the League as a whole, because they all accepted him in spite of his mental issues. He considers them all family and will do anything he can to make them happy.
* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler: Hawks saves Twice from being burnt to a crisp by Dabi's flames and ends up getting severely burned after going through the effort of making sure both would survive the attack, while Dabi wasn't concerned about such a thing. Twice repays this favor by immediately attempting to grapple Hawks with a clone so Dabi can roast him alive. This is a more justified example than most, however, as Twice's mental instability and UndyingLoyalty meant that he didn't want anything to do with Hawks after his true allegiance was revealed.]]
* UnwittingPawn: He's used twice by others as a tool to help them deal significant blows to the League of Villains, first by Overhaul, and then by Hawks. Dabi later reveals that he would have also used Twice for his own end goals.
* VillainousFriendship:
** He forms a deep one with Toga in the Internship Arc. When he gets his mask torn up and starts freaking out, she quickly comes to his aid and covers the broken part of it with a handkerchief of hers to stop his breakdown. She then consoles him over the guilt he has about having inadvertently caused [[spoiler:Magne's death]], and the two spend the rest of the arc making fun of the yakuza together.
** Seems to have one of sorts with Giran, who he sees as "a wonderful guy" and a friend. It's mentioned that Giran paid for his costume because Twice was broke, that the two regularly keep in touch, and Twice was the only League member Giran showed genuine concern for during the Meta Liberation Army Arc. Twice is also the only person Giran addresses with ''[[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns "omae"]]'' instead of his usual ''"anta"''.
* VillainousLegacy: [[spoiler:With Toga in possession of a sample of his blood, she is able to continue his "Sad Man's Parade"]].
* WeaksauceWeakness: Twice will undergo SanitySlippage if he spends too much time with his body uncovered by his costume because it is threatening to split into clones and his personality starts to fragment. This makes posing as a civilian ''incredibly'' stressful, as seen when he is hunched over and losing his mind while Toga is having a conversation on the phone with Mr. Compress in Chapter 160. However, he does get over this during the Meta Liberation Army Arc.
* ZergRush: [[spoiler:After he regains his sanity when he discovers that he's the original and not a clone, he immediately goes absolutely ham with his cloning, literally flooding the streets with his clones and overwhelming the Meta Liberation Army with his sheer numbers, making up for the fact one good blow can take each clone down.]]

[[folder:Atsuhiro Sako -- Mr. Compress]]
!!Atsuhiro Sako -- Mr. Compress

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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TsuguoMogami (Japanese), Creator/KentWilliams (English)
!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 80 (Manga), Episode 44 (Anime)
!!!'''Playable in:''' ''My Hero One's Justice 2''
!!!'''Quirk:''' [[{{Hammerspace}} Compress]]
!!!'''Rank:''' B

->''"We're just a bit fanatical when it comes to our values. All we wish is to show him that there are other ways. Because you kids today... you have your values chosen for you."''

A newer recruit of the League, a villain with a double mask and a StageMagician theme and a stylish way about himself.

His Quirk, "Compress", lets him shrink people and objects which he then stores in marble-like spheres.
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* AffablyEvil: Almost constantly even-tempered and debonair, even in the midst of battle.
* AnArmAndALeg:
** Overhaul destroys his left arm. Thankfully, the League's ties to Giran made it easy to procure the necessary mechanical substitute.
** It turns out his Quirk is actually capable of doing this to others. We mainly see him use it to compress entire people into balls to be carried away, but then [[spoiler:he uses it on a bound Overhaul to compress Overhaul's left arm, effectively tearing it away from the rest of his body. He later does this to himself by ''compressing a chunk of his butt'' to loosen the steel wires Best Jeanist bound him in]]
* ArtificialLimbs: Mr. Compress is outfitted with a prosthetic robot arm to replace the one he no longer has, though he doesn't seem to be able to use his Quirk with it. After [[spoiler:joining forces with the MLA]], he gets an upgraded one that lets him fire his compressed spheres from the fingertips.
* BadassLongcoat: He's a powerful villain who sometimes wears a dark-yellow overcoat that reaches just below his knees.
* BestServedCold: [[spoiler:While Overhaul is totally helpless, Mr. Compress uses his Quirk to destroy the former's left arm much in the manner Overhaul had destroyed his, causing it to rupture and shrink into one of his spheres. Shigaraki then takes away his ''other'' arm, making it impossible for Overhaul to activate his Quirk anymore.]]
* CaptureBalls: Mr. Compress has this as a superpower, being able to seal anyone he touches into tiny portable marbles that he can release at will.
* ClassyCane: To go with his flashy, dapper aesthetic, Mr. Compress carries a silver cane with a gold handle, despite having no trouble walking whatsoever.
* CombatPragmatist: By his own admission, "tricks and running away" are all he's good at.
* CoolMask: He wears two sleek-looking masks at once; the WhiteMaskOfDoom mentioned below often accompanies a black balaclava without which he's never seen.
* CrazyPrepared: He correctly anticipated that Shoji would be smart enough to search his pockets for the compressed Bakugo and Tokoyami, in case he was caught by him, so he took measures in advance.
* TheDandy: Befitting a magician, Mr. Compress is easily the most dapper member of the League wearing a variety of hats, coats, suits, vests and masks. He's also one of the hammiest members and can't resist announcing himself.
* {{Determinator}}: During the Paranormal Liberation War Arc, when the League gets cornered and restrained by Best Jeanist, he starts using his Quirk to remove whole chunks of his body, which are noted to be potentially fatal, to allow him enough room to free himself, and give the rest of the League a chance to escape.
* EnigmaticMinion: Shares this position with [[TheSpook Dabi]] for the League. While the other members are confirmed to have joined the group out of loyalty to [[CardCarryingVillain All for One]][[note]]Shigaraki, Kurogiri, Dr. Garaki, Gigantomachia[[/note]]; support for [[WellIntentionedExtremist Stain's]] ideals[[note]]Mustard, Dabi, Spinner, Toga[[/note]]; general [[AxeCrazy psychopathy]][[note]]Muscular, Moonfish, Toga again[[/note]]; or a desire to belong[[note]]Twice, Magne, [[RuleOfThree Toga a third time]][[/note]], Compress's goal in joining the League remains ambiguous. Moreover, his past remains totally unexplored (save for dialogue implying a previous career in showbiz), even during the Meta Liberation Army Arc, where the backstories of Shigaraki, Toga, Spinner, and Twice all received focus. The fact that Compress wears [[MultilayerFacade multiple masks]] at all times suggests this air of secrecy is partially intentional. Chapter 294 reveals that [[spoiler: he is the great-great grandson of the peerless thief Oji Harima.]]
* EvilGenius: Smart enough to outwit the U.A. students and pretty much capture Bakugo all by himself.
* EvilGloating: Mr. Compress is a showman at heart, and couldn't help but introduce himself to the U.A. students and brag that he'd captured Tokoyami and Bakugo. Had he not, the League could've gotten away with two powerful students without having to engage the others at all.
* ExpandingThrownWeapon: Has a Quirk which lets him shrink objects into a tiny marble, then later restore it to full size. On one occasion, he threw a compressed boulder under a police car during a chase, causing it to be flipped over when the rock was uncompressed.
* GivingThemTheStrip: [[spoiler:After Best Jeanist begins manipulating his stage costume to try and restrain him, Mr. Compress begins compressing off his clothes.]]
* {{Hammerspace}}: Through cunning use of his Quirk, Mr. Compress essentially does a variant of this trope, compressing objects and people into marbles and then storing them in his pockets, hat, and mouth. In many scenes, he cunningly stores traps and obstacles in his pockets, only to fling them out and release them in order to impede pursuers.
* HandicappedBadass: Mr. Compress losses an arm thanks to Overhaul and later on, his robotic replacement is destroyed during the League's battle with the Creature Rejection Clan. That still doesn't stop him from fighting Gigantomachia for a month and a half and then battling the Meta Liberation Army immediately afterwards.
* HiddenSupplies: He frequently arms himself with various objects in preparation for confrontations, allowing him to deploy them in a moment's notice. On two highway chase scenes, he's already tossed road barricades to impede a convoy of pros and a boulder to flip over emergency vehicles.
* IdenticalGrandson: His appearance under his mask bears a resemblance to his great-great-grandfather Oji Harima with curly dark hair and similar eye shape.
* LargeHam: He revealed himself to the group escorting Bakugo before trying to escape with the other villains ([[NiceJobFixingItVillain and thus gave them a chance to chase after him]], [[HoistByHisOwnPetard which allowed them to recover Tokoyami]]). He himself even notes it as a weakness of his that he just can't help.
* LethalHarmlessPowers: He can use his Quirk combatively by compressing opponent's body parts off their body, like when he compressed [[spoiler:Overhaul's left arm into a sphere, forcibly dismembering him.]]
* LightIsNotGood: He has a very bright color scheme of conspicuous yellows, reds, whites, and oranges, and he's quite evil.
* LogicalWeakness: Mr. Compress' ability to compress people and objects is one of the most versatile and useful powers the League has at its disposal. However, he has to actually touch the object he wants to compress for his powers to work, meaning as long as his opponent is quick enough, or if they specialize in long-range attacks, they can avoid his power.
* MoralMyopia: His great-great-grandfather was a Robin Hood figure who stole from the rich and gave to the poor and claims that it is his family's duty to fight against injustice. He says this after riding on Gigantomachia's deadly rampage through at least one densely populated city. The fact that he has no issue at all with the destruction the League has caused and that he wishes to pass on that legacy to Shigaraki of all people makes him this.
* OnlySaneMan: Considering the League of Villains' roster consists of an {{omnicidal|Maniac}} [[StrawNihilist nihilist]], a [[SycophanticServant mindless yes man]], a {{Pyromaniac}} with daddy issues, a {{Yandere}} SerialKiller, a LoonyFan, and a man suffering from SplitPersonality, Mr. Compress is definitely this. This is reinforced during the Meta Liberation Army Arc where he's the only one actively trying to keep tabs on the rest of his comrades during their battle with the titular army.
* OutOfFocus:
** While the Meta Liberation Army Arc was ADayInTheLimelight for the League of Villains as a whole, Mr. Compress wasn't given much focus. While the rest of the League were given fights against top members of the MLA and received some CharacterDevelopment, Mr. Compress was only shown fighting mooks and reaffirmed his status as an OnlySaneMan. Even Giran, who isn't a full member, was given some more characterization and depth in the arc. This is even lampshaded at the end of the arc; while Mr. Compress is enjoying some sushi with the rest of the League as a reward for a job well done, Dabi [[DeadpanSnarker points out that he actually didn't do anything]].
** It's seemingly invoked when it's revealed during the Paranormal Liberation War Arc [[spoiler:that Sako is the great-great-grandson of legendary criminal Oji Harima]] implying that Mr. Compress deliberately kept himself out of the limelight so that people would underestimate him. It's even lampshaded by the man himself [[spoiler:when revealing his identity as the Peerless thief's great, great grandson]], musing how everyone wrote him off as a background character.
-->'''Mr. Compress:''' [[LampshadeHanging What's that, you say? You barely noticed me?!]] All part of the act! It's all for that ta-da moment that the true trick is saved till the end.
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: He freaks out upon seeing Himiko fresh out of transformation (and clothes) during the Paranormal Liberation War arc, so he uncompresses a capsule of a spare set of clothes for her.
* PutOnABus: He lets himself get captured at the end of the Paranormal Liberation War Arc to allow his comrades to escape.
* TheReliableOne: Whenever the League is forced to split up, he is usually the person keeping tabs on everyone.
* SealedBadassInACan: His Quirk lets him capture people in marbles. SealedGoodInACan and SealedEvilInACan in a can also apply to him.
* SharpDressedMan: Being the resident [[TheDandy dandy]], he's always very GQ, even when fighting.
* SizeShifter: His Quirk allows him to shrink others and/or himself into a small marble. The contents of the marbles are typically restored to their original size via a snap of Compress' fingers, although since his colleagues are capable of restoring them if he's not present [[spoiler:as when Dabi and Skeptic are un-shrunk off-panel after their escape from the heroes in Chapter 295)]], this is likely just a bit of dramatic flair.
* SmugSnake: Given the versatility and the danger of his powers, he has a tendency to show off a lot. But he also uses it as a way to distract his opponents, except it often exposes him to long-range attacks.
* SquishyWizard: As he says himself, he's not a very good hand-to-hand fighter and if targeted directly, he tends to go down quick. Thus he relies mostly on stealth and evasion.
* StageMagician: His costume and theatricality fit this, and some of his dialogue suggests that he had in fact been one, before turning to villainy.
* StealthExpert: Mr. Compress was able to get in-between the Bakugo protection squad and steal the latter and Tokoyami from right under the group's collective noses. This is pretty significant since one of the people guarding him was Shoji who was chosen precisely because of his ability to keep watch from multiple directions and Mr. Compress has to physically touch people for his Quirk to be active. The only thing that tripped him up was his need to gloat.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: His face reveal in Chapter 294 confirms him to be dark-haired and dashingly attractive under his mask and hat.
* TeamDad: As the oldest of Shigaraki's core team (although just barely- he's 32, just one year older than Twice), Compress takes the time to keep track of his colleagues when the League is separated, as well as offer them advice and help them understand concepts they're unfamiliar with (such as when he explained the Yakuza to Toga when the group first met Overhaul). He even counts among his HiddenSupplies extra copies of some of his teammates' clothing and gear, ensuring, for example, that Toga isn't stuck in the nude following one of her transformations.
* VillainousValor: He's willing to ''maim himself'' just to give the rest of his comrades a chance at escaping in the Paranormal Liberation War arc, knowing full well he might die in the process:
-->'''Mr. Compress:''' Don't believe for a single moment that you're [heroes] the only ones giving your lives for a cause.
* WeakButSkilled: His Quirk allows him to shrink and store people or things in objects, meaning in terms of combat, he's one of the weaker members of the League of Villains, especially compared to members like Muscular, Dabi, or Shigaraki. However, while he is certainly weak, his knowledge and skill of when to use his Quirk and how to exploit its use allow him to trick stronger foes and often capture people who can easily defeat him with ease and is physically skilled enough to be able to dodge someone like Todoroki. [[spoiler:As shown when he does it to Overhaul, his Quirk is flexible enough to inflict lethal damage if he uses it so, meaning while he might not be as outright dangerous as others, he is still no slouch.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: His quote suggests so. But to what extent this is true remains to be seen. It's revealed in Chapter 294 that [[spoiler:he is the great, great grandson of the Peerless Thief Oji Harima and shares his ancestor's wish to expose injustice within hero society and reform the world into something better.]]
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: Actually wears two masks, [[ExpressiveMask a smiling white mask or expressive variations thereof]] over a regular black ski mask. Usually, the mask he wears reflects the general mood he's in or the current demeanor of the League. It's very telling when he switched to a sad mask after the crew met Overhaul. [[spoiler:Magne's death and the loss of his arm hit Mr. Compress pretty badly.]]

[[folder:Kenji Hikishi -- Magne]]
!!Kenji Hikishi -- Magne

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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Satoru Inoue (Japanese), Creator/JeremyInman (English)
!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 73 (Manga), Episode 41 (Anime)
!!!'''Quirk:''' [[MagnetismManipulation Magnetism]]
!!!'''Rank:''' B

->''"I'm here because I wanna live free! We get to decide where we belong!!"''

A newer recruit of the League, a long-haired, sunglasses-wearing transgender woman with some murders and armed robberies under her belt. Her Quirk is "Magnetism".
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* AffectionateNickname: While "Magne" is her villain name, the League occasionally refers to her as "Magu-nee" in Japanese[[note]]the longer "nee" meaning "big sister"[[/note]] and "Big Sis Mag" in English. Her non-villain friend referred to her as "Kennie".
* AwesomenessByAnalysis:
** She knocks Pixie-Bob out at the beginning of the camp raid, recognizing her Earth Flow as the most dangerous Quirk the heroes had on their side.
** She quickly deduces that Midoriya is dangerous just by seeing his severe injuries. Since she knows only two members of the Vanguard Action Squad are capable of doing that type of damage, and neither would let Midoriya escape with his life, she realizes that he must have beaten them on his own. She resolves to take Midoriya down right then and there, and she would have succeeded had Spinner not intervened.
* TheBrute: She's strong enough to keep up with the physically-intimidating Tiger without even using her Quirk. Given her rather typical criminal record, she appears to be there to provide the Vanguard Action Squad some more muscle. Course, her perceptiveness and being rather sane proved to be a nice bonus.
* CarryABigStick: In battle, she carries a cloth-wrapped, log-like club that's later revealed to be a [[ImprobableWeaponUser huge magnet]].
* ADeathInTheLimelight: [[spoiler:Chapter 125, the chapter that delves into her IJustWantToBeFree motivations and gives her the most focus, is the one where her death takes place]].
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: As soon as the camp raid began, she used her Quirk to yank Pixie-Bob away from the other Pussycats and then smashed her over the head with her giant magnet, knocking Pixie-Bob out while also breaking the helmet and visor she used to monitor her Quirk. This showcases Magne's intelligence, as she took out the most powerful of the Pussycats first, while also showing her powerful strength.
* EvilCounterpart:
** Magne is a transgender woman who dresses masculinely, while Tiger is a transgender man who wears a skirt and cat ears. Both maintain UndyingLoyalty to their comrades for accepting them and have [[MusclesAreMeaningful significant physical strength]] that is totally unrelated to their Quirks. However, while Tiger has fully transitioned, Magne had yet to do so (most likely as a result of being a Villain). Personality wise, Magne isn't above blaming her comrades for her defeat, while it's clear Tiger wouldn't do the same to his friends.
** Student-wise, she could also be considered Kendo's counterpart, both being the redheaded OnlySaneWoman of their group, excelling at quick thinking, brawling, and using their Quirks in a rather creative manner. However, Magne has also proven to be rather reckless and overconfident [[spoiler:which had lead to her death]], whilst Kendo throughout her fights tries to keep a level head throughout it all.
* EvilRedhead: Her hair is of a deep red color, and she's a member of the League of Villains.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:She dies by having the upper half of her body blown to bits by Overhaul. When an explanation of Overhaul's titular Quirk is given later, it's clarified that he ''dismantled'' Magne at the molecular level]].
* FastballSpecial: Her "Breakup Repulsion: Night Flight Cannon" technique, which is done by magnetizing two people of the same gender, resulting in one of them being quickly shot into the air.
* GagLips: She has cartoonishly thick lips (though she could just be wearing lipstick).
* IJustWantToBeFree: She wants to live life "without shackles" where she can choose "where she belongs". [[spoiler:Unfortunately, this is revealed mere panels before Overhaul reduces her upper body to LudicrousGibs]].
* InformedAbility: Her criminal record states that she has killed three people, but Magne is never shown fatally wounding anyone. She does brain Pixie-Bob pretty badly when she first appears, though, and the number of ''attempted'' murders on her record drastically dwarfs her number of successes.
* InformedFlaw: The databooks give her a D- in terms of Wits... which contrasts against Magne's appearances showing her to be one of the more perceptive and smarter members of the League. Course, this could just be in terms of being street-wise.
* LadyLooksLikeADude: Magne dresses in masculine clothing, is tall and muscular, and has some chin stubble. Overhaul mistakenly calls her a "him" at one point, which [[EvenEvilHasStandards infuriates Twice]]. This is {{Justified|Trope}} in that she's transgender and a wanted criminal, which would make it difficult for her to undergo a medical transition.
* MagnetismManipulation: Has a unique variation that takes gender into account in order to work. She can magnetize men into "south poles" and women in "north poles", with the subjects attracting or repelling themselves from each other depending on their gender. She can't use it on herself, however.
* MauveShirt: Magne is one of several new members to the League of Villains, introduced as a member of the "Vanguard Action Squad" during the attack on the training camp. She's given an established personality and receives some backstory highlighting her character motivations, but said backstory comes from [[spoiler:her having ADeathInTheLimelight, she is their first real casualty, and she ultimately has the shortest tenure among the League outside of the members arrested during the raid on the training camp]].
* NeverMyFault: Blames Spinner for her defeat at the hands of Tiger, who is quick to remind her it was her fault for going down her criminal path.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:A villainous example, but a significant one nonetheless. ''Nobody'' had died outright outside of flashbacks in the series yet, and Overhaul killing her early on in the arc sets [[KnightOfCerebus the tone]] very firmly, an example that would be followed by heroes at the tail end of the arc]].
* SinisterShades: Wears a pair of triangular aviator sunglasses that obscure her eyes.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Averted. When she listens to Spinner's rant about Stain in the middle of combat, they both get decked hard by Tiger and Mandalay.
* TransTribulations: Her own backstory, which is briefly explained right before [[spoiler: Overhaul kills her]], reveals that being recognized as a transgender person was part of the reasons why she wants to dismantle hero society.
* TriangleShades: She wears triangular sunglasses, which helped add to her tough, rebellious image.
* TheWorfEffect: She's established in the Forest Training Camp Arc to be pretty strong physically for someone without a strength Quirk. [[spoiler:So when she's effortlessly killed by Overhaul, it emphasizes how dangerous and uncaring he is]].

[[folder:Goto Imasuji -- Muscular]]
!!Goto Imasuji -- Muscular/Jailbreaker
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Kosuke Takaguchi (Japanese), Jim Foronda (English)
!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 72 (Manga), Episode 40 (Anime)
!!!'''Playable in:''' ''VideoGame/MyHeroOnesJustice'', ''My Hero One's Justice 2''
!!!'''Quirk:''' [[GrowingMusclesSequence Muscle Augmentation]]
!!!'''Rank:''' A

->''"Brats like you sure know how to pass the blame. It's no good. I don't really hold a grudge against 'em about my eye. I killed 'em, just like I wanted to. And they tried to stop me. We all did our best and had to deal with the results. What's bad is when you can't put your money where your mouth is...like your dear mommy and daddy!"''

A newer recruit of the League, a bloodthirsty veteran villain who is responsible for killing Kota's parents. He and Midoriya end up facing off during the Forest Training Camp Arc, resulting in his defeat and capture.

His Quirk is "Muscle Augmentation", which allows him to produce muscle fibers to greatly increase his strength and durability.
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* ArcVillain: Of Kota's subplot in the Forest Camp Training arc. While TheBrute in the overall context of the arc, his murder of Kota's parents are why he has a bitter resentment toward heroes.
* AttackAttackAttack: What happens when a DumbMuscle villain with no subtlety and a monstrously powerful Quirk wants to shed some blood. His power puts Midoriya so far on the defensive that he doesn't even need to worry about defending himself. This backfires on him in their rematch, as Deku is now strong enough to negate his power edge and Muscular fails to even land a hit on him.
* AxCrazy: If his brutal bloodlust wasn't proof enough, his damaged eye makes him look even crazier. He's so incredibly homicidal that he would even be willing to murder children just for fun. Also, he only joined the League because it gave him an excuse to kill people. When freed from jail, he quickly kills all guards in sight and begins attacking cities to massacre innocent people.
* BattleCry: "SHOW ME YOUR BLOOD!!!"
* TheBerserker: Muscular rushes into combat full force without any regard for his own safety. Considering the sheer power he has on his side, he's likely never ''had'' to. His recklessness in his fight with Midoriya shows that he rarely had any sort of skill behind his attacks and was moreso focused on charging in like a rampaging bull hoping to deal as much damage as possible. In their rematch, Midoriya now has the experience and [[spoiler:additional Quirks]] to negate his power edge, and Muscular's lack of skill and defense lets Midoriya defeat him without him being able to meaningfully counterattack.
* BeyondRedemption: As Midoriya tries to understand his drive for fighting, Muscular declares he just loves killing people and his only regret would be not to beat someone to death. For this, the hero [[BewareTheNiceOnes quickly shuts him down]].
* BloodKnight: He absolutely ''loves'' fighting and killing -- and he's absolutely ''delighted'' when Midoriya starts putting up a better fight. He claims that the only reason that he joined the League is because they would finally let him off his leash. This gets highlighted even further during his rematch, where Midoriya tries to understand if he has any deeper motivations. Muscular [[ShutUpKirk dismisses Midoriya's attempt at reasoning]], declaring that spilling blood and the thrill of battle, are all he wants without any remorse or regret.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: He's a rather gleeful murderous psychopath who kills solely ForTheEvulz -- but at the same time, he accepts his own SocialDarwinist views, to the point that he doesn't hold a grudge against Kota's parents for costing him his left eye. He wanted to kill people, they wanted to stop him, and he accepts all the results as they played out.
* BodyHorror: His Quirk buffs him up so hard that his muscle fibers ''actually cannot be contained by his skin''.
* BoringButPractical: His Quirk is acknowledged as this in-universe by Midoriya, who notes that it is simple but powerful, powerful enough to even rival the (then) current limits of [[StoryBreakerPower One For All]].
* TheBrute: A literal muscleman who is only interested in killing people.
* TheBusCameBack: After his capture at the training camp and absence for over 200 chapters, he returns in Chapter 297 during the Tartarus break out.
* CardCarryingVillain: While the entire League is this, Muscular is one of the biggest examples in the series. Unlike the rest of the League, he doesn't even ''try'' to come up with an excuse or reason why he's a villain. He's just a psychopath who loves killing people, and he's completely open and honest about that fact.
* ClothingDamage: Tapping into the full extent of his Quirk shreds his clothes in much the same way that One For All sometimes does. He quickly graduates from fully-dressed to a ShirtlessScene while fighting Midoriya.
* ContrivedCoincidence: He comes across Kota during the attack on the training camp, and also just happens to be the villain who killed Kota's parents. When Muscular realizes their connection, he [[LampshadeHanging jokingly claims that it must have been fate]].
* CurbStompCushion: He may have slain both members of Water Hose, but they [[DoNotGoGentle managed to take out his eye before being defeated]].
* CurbStompBattle: As Midoriya said in Chapter 308, any rematch would be pointless. The power of OFA had grown to insane levels within him, and Shindo had earlier pulled Muscular's tendons with his Quake Quirk, making the villain go down in one blow.
* DidntSeeThatComing: He had no idea that Midoriya could push himself to get as strong as he did, especially after thoroughly overwhelming him mere seconds before.
* DumbMuscle: He pretty much gives away the League's plan to capture Bakugo within seconds of meeting Midoriya, which gave Midoriya and the others a chance to stop it from happening. The databook gives him a meager 1 out of 5 in Wits, which shows in his utter lack of tactics besides [[AttackAttackAttack keep attacking]].
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: He's a guy who can grow extra muscle mass. He calls himself Muscular. It's an appropriately simple name for a very simple man.
* ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy: He explains his Quirk to Midoriya right before attacking, implicitly because it's such a simple, powerful ability that it's an effective, cost-free way to intimidate his foes without putting himself at a significant tactical disadvantage. He even lampshades it, saying that it's a way for him to [[EvilGloating brag and prove]] that Midoriya's Quirk is a blatantly inferior version of his Quirk. [[DramaticIrony If only he knew]].
* {{Expy}}: Of Eddie Brock/Venom from ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''. Like Venom, both are muscular and blond in their normal form before getting organic armor that increases their size while having similar powers to the main hero. Notably, one of the few things outside pure physical strength that manages to give him trouble is [[MakeSomeNoise powerful sonic vibrations]], which is one of the symbiotes AchillesHeel, yet he's also able to fight through it much like how Venom developed a resistance to sonic attacks. To further this comparison, the [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/bokunoheroacademia/images/7/79/Volume_9.png/revision/latest?cb=20180827092328 cover for Volume 9]] of the manga is a reference to the [[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71SmHx5-m4L._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg cover]] of the ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan: Venom'' comic collection, with Muscular in Venom's position opposed to Midoriya's Spider-Man.
* EvilCounterpart:
** His AxCrazy, BloodKnight personality makes him stand out as being the closest member of the League of Villains to Bakugo. Like Bakugo, Muscular is one of the most powerful members of his group, loves fighting, and is extremely self-confident, to the point of being often too stupid to realize the situation. Interestingly enough, his overall appearance seems to invoke this, as he looks like an older Bakugo with a case of EyeScream.
** To Endeavor. Both a spike-haired, musclebound prone to anger and are some of the strongest characters of their respective groups. Later chapters show Endeavor bears an uncanny resemblance to a two-eyed, redhaired Muscular. But while Endeavor is [[GoodIsNotNice not the most likable of people]] he is still a hero. Endeavor also gains a nasty scar under his left eye (altough he doesn't loses it completely), which drives the uncanny resemblance further.
** He's one to Midoriya. Both of them have Quirks that grant them SuperStrength and on a whole empower them, but while Muscular is a violent, bloodthirsty sadist who delights in using his powers to hurt and kill others, Midoriya is a kind, heroic, and altruistic person who strives to use his powers to help others. Essentially, Muscular is what Midoriya would be if he lacked any morality or humanity.
* EyeScream: Water Hose managed to cost him his left eye before he killed them, leaving a pretty nasty scar behind. He uses some type of stylized prosthetic cover that he can swap out; he notably changes it out for a specific one when he decides to take his fight with Midoriya seriously instead of playing around. He does it again in his second fight with Midoriya during the Tartarus breakout, but this time with a random piece of rubble that looks in no way comfortable.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He puts on an air of friendliness when he first meets Kota, even complimenting the child on his hat and offering to trade it for his mask, but it's nothing more than him playing with his food. He's a heartless murderer to his very core.
* FlatCharacter: Deliberately invoked (and discussed in-universe) as an actual lifestyle choice. He's a big strong guy who kills people, because that's all he wants to be and all he wants to do. There's an almost spiritual simplicity to it.
* ForTheEvulz: He fights, kills, and enjoys without regrets. That's it. He doesn't care about the League of Villains or even revenge. Just battle and blood.
* ForWantOfANail: As Midoriya himself noted, if he hadn't badly hurt himself defeating Muscular, then he could've prevented the League of Villains from abducting Bakugo, which would've prevented the Kamino incident in which All Might fought All For One, which, while leading to the arrest of All For One, also [[spoiler:forced All Might to use up the remainder of One For All, forcing him to retire]].
* GrowingMusclesSequence: His Quirk allows him to enlarge and enhance his muscles to give him SuperStrength and SuperToughness.
* HateSink: He joins the League of Villains and helps them attack the training camp, endangering the lives of teenage heroes in training. As if this wasn't bad enough, he also murdered the Water Hose heroes (Kota's parents) while trying to kill the population of an entire village ForTheEvulz, and [[WouldHurtAChild tries to kill Kota]] before Midoriya intervenes, taunting the child about his parent's deaths to his face. While some of the other League of Villains members have sympathetic (or at least entertaining) traits, Muscular is nothing more than a psychotic murderer. To his credit, at least he's honest about it and doesn't hold grudges against people who harmed him, and even shows admiration towards {{worthy opponent}}s. This even gets invoked InUniverse when Midoriya runs into him again. When he attempts to get through to him to understand his motivations for becoming a villain, Muscular basically tells him there isn't; he did it because he wanted to. Midoriya decides to beat him right then and there as a result.
* TheHeavy: Of the Forest Training Camp Arc. He's not the leader of the attacking villains and is the first to be defeated, but he's the most important to Kota's story.
* HeroKiller:
** He has killed at least two pro heroes in his career, with the flashback news bulletin implying there were more.
** His fight with Midoriya caused a ForWantOfANail effect [[spoiler:that ultimately led to All Might using up the last of his Quirk, and ending his career as a hero.]]
* HeroicBuild: Inverted. He may have a rock-hard physique, but he's as far from a hero as you can possibly get.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: Everything he did when fighting Midoriya prior to getting hit with One For All at 100% was him just playing with his food. When Midoriya finally puts up enough of a fight to interest him, he decides to go all-out.
* ImmuneToBullets: As shown when he's slaughtering the Tartarus prison guards during the break out in Chapter 297, his muscle fibers are thick and tough enough to absorb bullet fire.
* IShallTauntYou: He mocks Midoriya throughout their fight, to the point that his opponent flat-out yells at him to shut up.
* {{Jerkass}}: Easily the biggest one in the series before Overhaul dethroned him, though even Overhaul had people he cared about. Muscular is more than happy to tell a 5-year-old boy that his parents (whom he killed) died because they were weaklings before trying to kill said boy on the spot. He continually mocks Midoriya throughout their fight, treating it like a game while Midoriya is fighting for his and Kota's life.
* LightningBruiser: His Quirk allows him to wrap his body in muscle fibers to increase his strength and speed, which gives him a massive advantage over Midoriya's 5% Full Cowl. The muscles also effectively increase his durability by physically shielding his head and vital organs from harm, though he's not immune from pain when said muscles are attacked.
* MeaningfulName:
** His first name, Goto, is homophonous with the Japanese word for "criminal".
** His second alias "Jailbreaker", came from the fact that he led the prison breaks after the PLF war.
* MightMakesRight: In his [[BlueAndOrangeMorality weird morality]], the victor of the battle is always right, no matter what their goals are.
* MoreHateableMinorVillain: This guy only lasted a couple of chapters during the Training Camp arc, and even less during the Tartarus Escapees arc, and yet, he is by far the most hateable member of the League. Even All for One has an AffablyEvil persona that makes him endearing to some.
* MusclesAreMeaningful: His Quirk and name are based on this. The guy already has a muscular body, but when he activates his Quirk, his muscles augment and it greatly increases his strength and durability.
* NearVillainVictory: He comes dangerously close to overpowering and killing Midoriya during their battle, before Kota sprays him with his water quirk, causing him to let his guard down and giving Midoriya a window to rally his strength and defeat him.
* NothingPersonal: He admits this about killing Water Hose, saying it wasn't because they took his eye, but because he just likes killing and both he and they were doing their best at what they do.
* NoSell: His main defensive strategy is to wrap himself in muscle fiber armor so he can't be stopped while he tears the enemy apart. If they do hurt him? That clearly means he hasn't used enough muscle fibers in his armor. Notably, he takes Yo Shindo's [[MakeSomeNoise strongest sonic attack]] point-blank and actually takes damage, but he powers through while wrapping more muscle fibers around himself to continue and try to beat him to death, which would have succeeded if not for Midoriya's BigDamnHeroes.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: When he was initially introduced during the Forest Training Camp Arc, he is only ever referred to by his villain name Muscular and then he is taken out by Midoriya, so for the longest time the audience never finds out his real name. His actual name is revealed in Chapter 308 to be Goto Imasuji [[TheBusCameBack after his return to the series]].
* PersonOfMassDestruction: His return following the prison break demonstrates that he can casually wreck buildings just by roof-hooping.
* PsychoForHire: He states outright to Midoriya that he doesn't care one iota about the League's goals, and just joined up with them so he could kill people without anything holding him back.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: He's finally taken down when Midoriya uses One For All far past its limits and slugs the big musclehead in his face and straight into the side of a mountain.
* {{Revenge}}: Surprisingly averted. He doesn't want to kill Kota because his parents mutilated his eye in self-defense, as he doesn't really mind. He wants to kill him because ''he can''. And when Midoriya shows up to confront him after the time skip following his breakout, he's excited more for the chance to have another life-or-death battle with him rather than actually avenging his first defeat.
* {{Sadist}}: He could rival Shigaraki in this department. He killed the Water Hose duo, but he made sure to torture them before he did. He shows himself ready to do the same to Midoriya and Kota during their fight despite them being basically children.
* SlasherSmile: His default look whenever he's fighting or just looking to terrify someone. But he especially has this when he's killing people and causing pain.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Midoriya's fight with him started a ForWantOfANail effect that resulted in [[spoiler:All Might using up the last of his Quirk and being forced to retire, as Midoriya himself notes]].
* TheSociopath: People's lives are just throwaway entertainment for him. He himself admits he shares no loyalty or camaraderie with the League, and only signed up so he could go on his random killing sprees again. This is even highlighted during his rematch with Midoriya when he defies Midoriya's attempt to try and understand if his path to villianhood was the only way for him and says flat out that he only cares about bloodshed.
* SoLastSeason: Downplayed during his rematch with Midoriya since the young hero notes that Muscular was able to absorb One For All punches at 100% power so he is not to be underestimated, but thanks to the addition of [[spoiler:four of the previous users' Quirks]] and Yo Shindo's vibration powers weakening his muscles fibers, Muscular ends up being defeated over the course of a single chapter without being able to even land a hit on Midoriya.
* SuperStrength: His Quirk wraps his body in muscle fibers to increase his strength. He is strong enough to smash through cliff walls and shatter the ground beneath him, and can create a giant mass of muscle fibers to thoroughly crush a person to death.
* SuperToughness: 5% Full Cowl doesn't even phase him. He can even shrug off One For All at 100%. One For All at "1,000,000%" (actually just Midoriya pushing himself to way beyond his limits), however, not so much.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Muscular is the only member of the League that lacks a compelling backstory, a charismatic personality or a good reason to have become a villain whatsoever. He is a remorseless killer that loves to spill blood of innocents and as Midoriya points out, a monster BeyondRedemption.
* UnskilledButStrong: What he lacks in skill and technique he more than makes up for in raw power. This can be seen when he decides to go full out and attack Midoriya as he's able to blitz him with ease but he also continuously misses him, and his strategy more or less involves throwing himself at his opponent until he hits him. By the time of their rematch, Midoriya has grown strong enough that the raw power doesn't really matter anymore, and Muscular doesn't stand much of a chance against the now StrongAndSkilled Midoriya.
* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: Somewhat justified, since Muscular was in prison since the events of the Forest Training Camp Arc and generally just relies purely on sheer power with little to no skill or strategy. But whereas in the last encounter, Midoriya was still figuring out the power of One For All and had to push beyond his limits to beat Muscular, when they meet again, Midoriya not only has better control over his power, but [[spoiler:has been granted more abilities thanks to communicating with the forebearers of One For All]], as well as being far more experienced in general. Add on that Shindo had already softened him up with his Quake Quirk, and Midoriya manages to take Muscular out easily before Muscular has a chance to do anything.
* VillainRespect: Muscular loudly declares his admiration for Midoriya, for being able to ''survive'', let alone ''stand'' against the crushing force of his titanic blows. Also, he does ''not'' hate Kota's parents for blinding him; in fact, he ''admires'' the fact they fought to the bitter end and feels they ''earned'' the right to take his eye.
* VillainousBreakdown: He loses his calm demeanor when he realizes Midoriya is still getting stronger and is pushing back at him despite seeming to be crushed under the weight of his arm:
-->'''Muscular:''' Damnit! How are you getting stronger?!
* WakeUpCallBoss: He serves as something of this to Midoriya, being the first major villain he had to defeat alone and the first he faces powerful enough to withstand even a full power One For All attack. The damage Midoriya did to himself to win is so severe it forces him to realize he has to abandon his reckless habit of using self-injuring levels of power in a pinch and to create an entirely new fighting style to have a hope of continuing his hero career.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Muscular's Quirk has no applications aside from adding more and more muscle fibers to his body. Yet, this makes him monstrously powerful because these muscle fibers make him so strong, durable, and fast that he can easily contend with and overwhelm Midoriya while he was using One For All: Full Cowl at 5%. It even lets him shrug off Midoriya's use of One For All at 100% of his power. This backfires on him in their rematch, as Midoriya has grown so powerful and skilled that Muscular's power edge is no longer enough. As Muscular has zero actual combat skill or any strategy other than 'beat it until it stops moving', Midoriya makes quick work of him.
* TheWorfEffect: When introduced, he was the villain who got the closest to outright killing Midoriya. When he returns, Midoriya dispatches him in one chapter, showing how much Midoriya has grown.
* WorthyOpponent: He seems to regard Midoriya as this for giving him the most entertaining fight of his life. He also candidly admits his respect for the bravery of Kota's parents, who fought to the bitter end and "earned" the right to take his eye at the cost of their own lives. When they meet again, Muscular is overjoyed to see Midoriya, claiming that nobody gave him such satisfaction in fighting as much as Midoriya did. He is disappointed when Midoriya uses tactics instead of fighting him with brute strength.
* WouldHitAGirl: Killed both of Kota's parents, including his mother.
* WouldHurtAChild: He is very casual about trying to kill Kota, and tries to do so with no hesitation or provocation.
* YouTalkTooMuch: He loves to talk, constantly mocking Midoriya and the ideal of heroes in general. By the climax of their fight, Midoriya starts yelling at him to shut up.
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[[folder:Moonfish]]
!!??? -- Moonfish
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Shuuhei Matsuda (Japanese), Creator/DamanMills (English)
!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 73 (Manga), Episode 41 (Anime)
!!!'''Quirk:''' [[NowThatsUsingYourTeeth Blade-Tooth]]
!!!'''Rank:''' B

->''"Pretty. So pretty. No. This is work. So alluring. But no. Can't... Pretty flesh. Gah! So enticing though... Gotta do the job."''

A newer recruit to the League, an escaped death row inmate with a taste for human flesh. He was defeated by an out-of-control Tokoyami and recaptured during the Forest Training Camp Arc. By the time of the Second War, he was freed during All For One's break out of Tartarus, fighting alongside his cohorts once more.

His Quirk is "Blade-Tooth", which allows him to grow and transform his teeth into long, sharp blades.
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* AxCrazy: Even by the low standards of the League of Villains, he stands out as a particularly extravagant example - a psychotic {{Cloudcuckoolander}} cannibal who exists to kill people in horrible ways and can barely string together a sentence. Even a brutish BloodKnight like Muscular looks almost human next to him.
* BaldOfEvil: His head is completely smooth-shaven under his mask, including his eyebrows and eyelashes.
* BerserkButton: Denying him his chosen "prizes" (targets that he presumably wants to eat) will make him go all out on the offender. However, even all of his bladed teeth turn out to be incapable of harming a berserking Dark Shadow.
-->'''Moonfish:''' Flesh... slabs of meat... No good... Can't allow it... ''Don't steal from me!''
* BondageIsBad: His whole ensemble looks like a nightmarish parody of a gimp suit; a full-body leather outfit covered in spikes and harnesses, complete with eye covering, straitjacket, and contraptions to keep his lips peeled back from his teeth.
* TheBrute: Like Muscular, he's recruited by the League to fight heroes. His fighting style is a little more skilled than the average brute, though.
* TheBusCameBack: After his capture at the training camp and absence for over 200 chapters, he returns in Chapter 297 during the Tartarus break out.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: An example that's very much PlayedForHorror. Moonfish is ''nuts'', spending his entire fight against Todoroki and Bakugo showing zero concern for his own safety while babbling endlessly about blood and meat. He goes even further off the deep end when an out-of-control Tokoyami arrives and threatens to deny him his "prizes".
* CombatTentacles: Uses his Quirk in the fashion that other examples typically do under this trope. However, ultimately averted as Moonfish is using his teeth to suspend himself and attack enemies.
* ConsummateProfessional: Funnily enough, the most coherent things he says relate to his "work" as a villain. The very first thing we hear him say is a chant of "Get to Work!" and his creepy fawning over Shoji's severed hand reeks of him [[ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere holding back his hunger for flesh to get the job done]].
* DemotedToExtra: Despite his return in the Second War, the Heroes focused on Toga and the Near High Ends warped to Okuto Island with Moonfish as the key threats to defeat - instead of him also being a factor. Heck, in regards to Moonfish, he was even treated as just a regular Tartarus escapee, with his League ties not being brought up. [[spoiler: He's eventually defeated at Okuto Island off-screen alongside the High Ends, which is a far cry from the other main League members, even Muscular, being defeated or dying in a significant fashion]].
* EvilCounterpart: To Shoji as another tall, lean, creepy-looking individual who fights by multiplying and extending body parts. While Shoji is calm, kindhearted, lives a humble life, and attempts to hide his more horrifying traits, Moonfish is a totally insane and greedy cannibal who relishes in the fear of his opponents.
* FluffyTheTerrible: You probably wouldn't expect an AxCrazy SerialKiller with blades for teeth to be nicknamed "Moonfish". Real moonfish look like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opah this]].
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Depicted as this in the SMASH spin-off, with not even Shigaraki and Kurogiri seeming too keen on having him around at first as a result of his blatant insanity, with only Toga liking him due to both of their struggles with their 'desires'. This seems to carry some merit in the main storyline, where his defeat is witnessed by ally Mr. Compress...who instead leaves him for dead to try and recruit the Hero trainee who bested the cutthroat, heavily implying they (or, at the very least, just Compress) only tolerated him as long as he had some use for them.
** [[spoiler: During the Second War, despite still being uncaptured and fighting with Toga and the Near High Ends, Moonfish is again left behind on Okuto Island while Kurogiri focuses only on warping Toga out. However, compared to last time, its implied to simply be a heat of the moment move than actual dislike towards their teammate. Still, it does result in Moonfish's capture, again]].
* HiddenDepths: He's complete nutcase obsessed with flesh, but he still managed to escape from death row which is not an easy feat and prior to his second arrest was skilled enough to be classified as an A-ranked Villain. The SMASH spinoff goes further in implying that the League had no involvement in this, leaning to case he might have engineered his own way out himself. Furthermore, his initial databook entry listed him as 3/5 out for Wits, making him smarter than Muscular (who is pretty unintelligent) as well as Magne and Spinner (both, while not as smart as the others, aren't idiots either), and on par with people like Compress and Dabi. However, the second databook dropped it so he now as smart as Muscular, though that could mean his insanity rotted even that quality away.
* HellBentForLeather: His outfit is a creepy full-body leather outfit, which doesn't hinder him much. Spinoffs implied it's just what he wears ever since his escape.
* ImAHumanitarian: Based on his proclaimed desire for "meat" when attacking Bakugo and Todoroki, and his fawning over Shoji's severed hand, he seems to be a cannibal.
* IronicName: "Moonfish", or Opahs, are colorful fish that have very small teeth that live in shoals around freshwater environments. Moonfish here is a crazy cannibalistic PsychoForHire that can manipulate his teeth to suspend himself in the air.
* LaserGuidedKarma: During the assault on the training camp, Moonfish cut off one of Shoji's spare hands, which caused Tokoyami's Dark Shadow to go on a rampage. He ends up being defeated by Dark Shadow after Shoji and Midoriya lead it back to him. Bonus points for Dark Shadow shattering all of his teeth for good measure.
* MundaneUtility: Moonfish's teeth are also capable of being used to prop himself back up, though this is mostly because his arms are pinned down from his straight jacket.
* NowThatsUsingYourTeeth: His growing teeth can be used both for offense, defense, and even mobility.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His first and last name are all but unknown.
* PsychoForHire: Like Muscular, he's a murderous criminal who seems to have joined on with the League purely so he could have the opportunity to kill more people. Though, unlike Muscular, Moonfish actually holds himself back in order to do his designated job.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: When Dark Shadow defeats him, he does so via smashing him through an entire swath of trees, the impact shattering pretty much every tooth in his head. When he returns during the Tartarus breakout, his teeth have regrown, showing that shattering his teeth isn't enough to nullify his Quirk, and if any of them are broken, he can presumably grow them back after a period of time.
* ScaryImpracticalArmor: As scary as he looks, his outfit looks very impractical. He's wearing a straightjacket, his eyes are covered, and his lips are stretched as far back as they can. However, the stretched back lips are done to prevent Moonfish from hurting himself with his Quirk.
* ScaryTeeth: His teeth already look scary enough with his lips constantly peeled back to expose them, but using his Quirk, he can make each individual tooth grow into a sort of horrifying, sharp, angular, multi-pronged branch to attack his enemies.
* TalkativeLoon: One of the most outright psychotic villains in the series, and his constant nonsensical babbling about flesh, meat, and blood is only one of the more obvious signs.
* UncertainDoom: Played with. He was alive when he was recaptured, but as he's a death row inmate, and the story has gone on for several months after he was recaptured, it's not clear if he's still alive by the present or if his original sentence has been carried out. The ''[[AllThereInTheManual ULTRA ANALYSIS Character Book]]'' confirms that he's still alive and imprisoned in Tartarus awaiting the death penalty. Though it takes until Chapter 297 for his survival to be confirmed in canon, where it quickly becomes relevant as he's one of the inmates to take advantage of Shigaraki's attack on the prison.
* WeakButSkilled: His Quirk isn't particularly powerful, but he's extremely skilled at using it to attack and evade. So skilled he's even able to be one of the few early Villains to dodge Todoroki's ice with ease, but also use it to put both Todoroki and Bakugo on the ropes up until Dark Shadow arrives. This holds true even during the Second War, where, despite the Villains numbers thinning, he's still among the few Villains still fighting with the Near High End's and Toga herself.
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[[folder:Mustard]]
!!??? -- Mustard
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KiyotakaFurushima (Japanese), Creator/DamanMills (English)
!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 57 (Manga), Episode 31 (Anime)
!!!'''Quirk:''' [[DeadlyGas Gas]]
!!!'''Rank:''' B

->''"You're getting a top-notch education at a famous school. At least use some strategy. If not... you're barely worth killing."''

A newer recruit of the League, a gas mask-wearing boy in a school uniform who was rallied to the League by Stain's association. He was taken down by Tetsutetsu and captured by the police during the Forest Training Camp Arc.

His Quirk, "Gas", allows him to create and manipulate toxic purple gas. Notably, he isn't immune to the gas he creates.
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* AchillesHeel: His gas can be almost entirely nullified with a gas mask, which is why he carries a revolver to compensate since, as Kendo point out, it's clear that he has no experience in hand-to-hand combat.
* AllThereInTheManual: His Quirk's name was first confirmed in the ''ULTRA ANALYSIS Character Book''.
* AmbiguousSituation: Even though we see him getting arrested at the end of the Training Camp Arc, unlike Muscular and Moonfish who are now [[AllThereInTheManual stated to be jailed in Tartarus]], his eventual fate is unclear. While it's implied he won't get away unscathed, the fact that he's a minor, perhaps even ''younger'' than the main cast, makes his case much more complicated to handle.
* BadPowersBadPeople: Resentful towards heroes, a member of the League of Villains, and has no issue turning his firearm on unarmed students who are around the same age as him. Fittingly, his Quirk is creating toxic and vision impairing gas.
* BizarreAlienSenses: He's able to feel things with the gas he produces. This allows him to detect any movement that disturbs the gas and effectively lets him sense the locations and movements of anyone in his cloud.
* BoringButPractical: He wields a revolver to dispatch people he can't take out with his gas. It's not particularly flashy or dramatic compared to a Quirk, but it is deadly.
* BottomlessMagazines: He fires more rounds than a revolver can hold without reloading. Averted in the anime, where it depicts him pausing to reload before continuing to fire against Tetsutetsu. He eventually runs out, leaving him defenseless.
* BrokenPedestal: Shows an apparent disillusionment towards heroes and the institutions that form them, which he seemed to look up to at one point, especially hating how they look up to heroes with one-note Quirks while his is ignored. It's hinted that Stain's philosophy helped motivate him to join the League of Villains.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: His helmet in the manga was depicted with three stars and black lines underneath, helping with the war theme his character was designed around. The anime removes the stars, but leaves the black lines for some reason.
* CombatPragmatist:
** In one conversation with Toga, he makes it clear that he doesn't value the look of the equipment he's provided as long as its functional.
** He carries a revolver. Kendo calls him a coward for it, but one can't deny that it's an effective tactic to have people think nullifying his Quirk has left him defenseless, only for him to whip out a gun and shoot them with it.
* TheCorruptible: See EnfantTerrible below. While he may have started unscrupulous, there's no question that acquainting with a crime syndicate has pushed him over the edge into full-blown villainy.
* DeadlyGas: His gas leaves its victims in a critical condition, so it's definitely lethal. Even he's not immune to it.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Gets hit by this three times, culminating in his defeat:
** While he knew there were two people coming to get him, Mustard didn't account for one of them being immune to bullets, rendering his surprise factor for having a gun null.
** He didn't know Kendo's Quirk, and so despite effortlessly sidestepping her initial grab, Mustard was still conked on the head by a giant hand after it expanded.
** Kendo blowing Mustard's gas away by using her seemingly useless Quirk was enough to surprise him to direct his attention away from the half-dead Tetsutestu, which results in Tetsutetsu getting up behind him and knocking him out in one punch shortly after.
* DirtyCoward: Kendo calls him out as one during their fight, pointing out that the fact that Mustard feels the need to use a gun shows he doesn't have any confidence in being able to win a fight by himself. He gets noticeably angry at this accusation.
* EnfantTerrible: Implied. Mustard is clearly a teenager but still way too young to be joining a crime syndicate like the League of Villains. The fact that he wears a grade school uniform means that he's either the same age as the main cast or actually ''even younger'' than them. His inexperience and short frame suggest the latter.
* EvilCounterpart: Both he and Shinso are physically frail teens with a significant amount of resentment towards hero students, major {{trash talk}}ing tendencies, and powerful yet villainous Quirks. Shinso moves past his jealousy and overcomes his physical deficiencies by training his ass off. Mustard decides that sticking with bitterness and [[SupervillainPackingHeat guns]] is a better idea. His attitude is also reminiscent of Monoma in how they mock and taunt others who they deem as inferior, as well as having Quirks that can't be used properly without the right requirements (Monoma needs people to touch to acquire Quirks, Mustard requires his equipment so he doesn't knock himself out). However, while Monoma ultimately decides to pursue heroism despite this, Mustard gave in to villainy.
* EvilGloating: This is his default trait, as he never shuts up about he's better than his opponents, which only leaves him open to his gas Quirk being countered by Kendo.
* ExplainingYourPowersToTheEnemy: Gleefully brags to Tetsutetsu and Kendo how he can sense their movement in his poison gas. This proves to be instrumental in his defeat as Kendo realizes she can push the gas away temporarily, long enough to give Tetsutetsu an opening.
* FatalFlaw: His arrogance and inexperience. He thinks he's smarter than everybody else, [[AllThereInTheManual but as his mediocre 3/6 intelligence stat proves]], he really doesn't have a good handle on tactical situations. He gets a little too comfortable toying with his opponents, and once his "sense the fluctuations in the gas" trick is beaten by Kendo, he has no tricks left up his sleeve to stop Tetsutetsu from decking him.
* FlatCharacter: As a result of [[PutOnABus never reapearing in the story]] after his first appearance, and not having much characterization in the first place, he ends up being the least developed of the Vanguard.
* GlassCannon: Mustard's gas is deadly, but he can't really fight, which his use of a revolver for defense underlines. All Tetsutetsu needs to take him out is a punch to the face.
* HerdHittingAttack: The gas typhoon generated by Mustard was the complimenting form of area denial that was meant to box in the U.A. students along with Dabi's forest fire. In the end, Dabi's inferno resulted in nobody getting directly injured. Mustard's gas on the other hand knocked out more than 15 students for weeks.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: By being able to sense fluctuations in his gas, Mustard is able to line up perfect shots with his gun despite the purple miasma causing a severe decrease in visibility even without a gas mask. He demonstrates this by head-shotting Tetsutetsu immediately with one hand on his gun, and later firing a well-aimed shot at a flanking Kendo beneath his right arm without even turning his head.
* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: In his panic, he tries firing his emptied revolver at Kendo, realizing too late that he is all but defenseless.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Even after he breaks Tetsutestu's mask and the latter is struggling to just stay conscious, he continues to take potshots at him with his revolver. Mustard gets bonus points in this for actually kicking Tetsutetsu in the middle of his gunshots.
* KnockoutGas: His Quirk's gas causes unconsciousness seconds after inhalation in a vein similar to Midnight, though it's implied to cause far worse damage if the victim continues to breathe it in, considering that many of its victims were unconscious for days after.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: He derides Kendo and Tetsutetsu as being "simple" and laughs at them for what he believes are their pathetic quirks and not living up to U.A.'s reputation, declaring their education has done nothing to make them any better than himself. [[UnderestimatingBadassery He's quickly proven wrong when they devise a strategy that ends with him laid out in the dirt]].
* LogicalWeakness: As Tetsutetsu points out: he wouldn't be wearing a gas mask if he was immune to his own gas.
* MeaningfulName: He is named after the infamous mustard gas used in the trenches of World War I.
* MoreThanMeetsTheEye: Despite being a young student still wearing his school uniform, and having to use his illegal firearm to win fights for him, Mustard is a B rank villain. This means that he was both more wanted than serial killer Toga, most of the yakuza from the Shie Hassaikai faction, and on par with world-class thief Mr. Compress, at least when they were initially ranked. His arrest has decreased his ranking to C, but even so it is still higher than dangerous criminals such as the Sludge and Seltzer Villains.
* MundaneSolution: Although his power is very dangerous, it has no stopping power. Anyone with a gas mask or can at least temporarily remove the gas from around him can get close enough to take him out. To get over that, he has a .38 revolver, which while unimpressive is soundly lethal to people who aren't immune to bullets.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Prior to fighting with Class B, he briefly took the role of one of the few sensible people in the Vanguard Action Squad, chiding others for being so gung-ho and childish. His fight, however, makes it clear that this maturity is a thin facade as he heavily mocks Class B and toys with them in a childish manner.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His full name is a complete mystery.
* PoisonousPerson: His gas causes unconsciousness immediately upon inhalation, and presumably death after extended exposure.
* PutOnAPrisonBus: He's the only member of the League captured at the training camp to not return during the Tartarus break out. Presumably this is because he got imprisoned somewhere else on account of being a minor.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Zigzagged. Unlike typical characters with [[PoisonousPerson toxic powers]], he is apparently ''not'' immune to his own toxins, if his gas mask is any indication. He does, however, have the power to sense movements ''in'' the gas, allowing him to freely navigate in the opaque toxic mist he creates while others stumble blindly through it. It also allows him to get clear shots with his revolver.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: Wields a .38 revolver for self-defense against people that can avoid breathing his gas.
* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: His young age is emphasized by him wearing a ''gakuran,'' or male school uniform. This is to contrast his support gear of a helmet and gas mask that is obviously designed for military personnel.
* ShootingSuperman: His revolver can't kill Tetsutetsu while his skin is iron, but they still hurt him and keep him suppressed until the poison gas knocks him out or his Quirk eventually fails (in theory).
* SoftSpokenSadist: He's eerily calm when fighting the U.A. students, treating it almost as if it were a game as they desperately tried to avoid both his gunshots and the noxious gas. Especially apparent as he's giving Tetsutetsu a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech rant]] while he's reloading his revolver.
* SquishyWizard: Out of the villains that attack the training camp, he manages to cause the most damage to the students through his gas cloud and does a decent job of keeping Tetsutetsu at bay with his revolver... but the moment an opening shows up, he goes down with a single blow.
* SupervillainPackingHeat: He carries a .38 revolver to deal with people he can't incapacitate using his gas.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Justified as while he's giving his two opponents a speech, they're desperately trying to avoid his attacks while he's calmly in control thanks to his gun and gas.
* TeensAreMonsters: Tetsutetsu notes that Mustard seems to be around the same age as him (15), possibly even younger. This is especially disturbing considering he could have, and would have, killed Tetsutetsu with his revolver if the latter's Quirk didn't make him bulletproof.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: When Kendo charges in to attack him, he thinks her Quirk is useless against his gas. That is, until she uses her big hands as fans to blow away his wind, allowing Tetsutetsu to recover and punch him out while he's distracted.
* VictoryByEndurance: He's aware that he can't beat Tetsutetsu in a hand-to-hand fight, but he also knows he doesn't have to. He just needs to keep Tetsutetsu at bay until he stops holding his breath, which is pretty easy to do when you have a [[RevolversAreJustBetter gun]]. Unfortunately for Mustard, Kendo is able to give Tetsutetsu an opening.
* VillainousBreakdown: Panics when he realizes Kendo can overcome his ability to predict her movements by way of her Quirk letting her wave away his gas, which is made worse by how his revolver is out of bullets.
-->'''Mustard:''' You little--!
* WouldHitAGirl: Judging by how he did fire shots at Kendo, and how he seriously took aim at her towards the end of their fight, it appears that Mustard would have no qualms with shooting an unarmed girl who was around his age.
[[/folder]]

!Other Forces
[[folder:Shigaraki's Underlings]]
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A large group of villains that attacked U.A. with Shigaraki, Kurogiri, and the USJ Nomu during the USJ Arc, with the goal of killing the Symbol of Peace: All Might.

At the end of the arc, they are all arrested and total 72 in number, with most being small-time crooks who are the type to hang out in back alleys.
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* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Some of them are this, most notably Sharkyonara[[note]]Bottom Right in the image[[/note]] that attacks Midoriya, and Invisible Wall[[note]]Top Center in the image[[/note]] that attacks Katsuki.
* TheBusCameBack: Hanzo Suiden, one of the water villains from USJ, makes a return as apart of Toga's squad in the final battle.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Dozens of thugs vs. one hero who's fighting out of his comfort zone. They don't stand a chance. In general, very few of them are a threat to anyone, even the students. Justified, as it's mentioned the majority of them are small-time crooks with only a couple actually being truly dangerous to anyone who knows how to fight.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Jiro asks Tesla why he turned to a life of crime since people with electric-type Quirks were considered valuable in the job market. He never answers, as he realized that she was attempting to distract him for a sneak attack.
* EliteMook: Tesla, the electricity villain, that Yaoyorozu, Jiro and Kaminari face. His Quirk is what allows the League to cut off communication with the USJ, he's valuable enough to stay off the front lines and smart enough to avoid Kaminari's indiscriminate attack and see through Jiro's attempted subterfuge. However, he isn't important enough to warrant being named (until the games) and as soon as the teachers show up, he is taken down and arrested with the rest of the thugs.
* GunsAreWorthless: A trio of villains, the Firing Squad,[[note]]All of the Center Row in the image[[/note]] all have bullet shooting Quirks, and are the first villains taken down.
* MakingASplash: One villain, Hanzo Suiden[[note]]Bottom Left in the image[[/note]] can manipulate water, and uses his power to sink a ship that Midoriya, Tsuyu, and Mineta are on.
* {{Mooks}}: For Shigaraki during the USJ Arc. While they do have distinctive designs, they have no names, little individual personality, and are noted to be second-rate thugs who are absolutely no threat to the pros. Aizawa can take them down en masse despite his skillset being best at 1-on-1 confrontations, and when the other teachers show up, they're done for. Even the students prove able to take out a large number of them by themselves. The games rank most of these guys in the 'E' to 'F' rank, making them weaker than even the likes of the Sludge Villain.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Steel Bulwark[[note]]Bottom Center in the image[[/note]] has four arms.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The mobile game, ''My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero'', gives a few (but not all) of these villains' names.[[note]]Tesla (top left, skull helmet villain) Needle Hair (center middle, female Firing Squad Member), Victor (center left, Finger Gun Firing Squad Member), Stitched Giant (center right, Stitched Man, Firing Squad Member) Hanzo Suiden (bottom left, aqua villain), Invisible Wall (top middle, Chameleon Villain), Martial Hair (top right, Pigtail Female Villain), Steel Bulwark (bottom middle, Four-Armed/Black Mask Villain), Sharkyonara (bottom right, Shark Villain) Four-Armed Zealot (Black Shirt Four-Armed Villain, unshown) Thousand Eyes (Paper Villain, unshown), Muscle Man (Green Shirt & Visor Villain, unshown), Sickle Claw (Faceless Claw Villain, unshown), Hard Head (Black Shirt Helmet Villain, unshown), Chomper (Venus Flytrap Villain), Mummy (Bandaged Head Villain, unshown) Minotaurus (Blue Bullhead Villain, unshown), Gravitational Spring (Yellow suited villain, unshown), Dragon (Purple Shirt Sharkesque Vilain, frozen by Todoroki during USJ, unshown),One-Eyed Green Dragon (Stitched Villain with one bad eye, Taken out by All Might, unshown), Sharp Blade (Knives wielding Villain in black, beaten by Ojiro, unshown), Green Gaping Jaw (Obese Mouthed-Headed Villain, taking out by Aizawa, unshown) Berserker (Gladiator Villain, taken out by Kirishima, unshown) Yoshamaru (Horned Villain, taken out by Ectoplasm, unshown) are among the ones known for now.[[/note]]
** The mobile games ''My Hero Academia: Entry Season'' and ''My Hero Academia: Smash Rising'', as well as the ''ULTRA ANALYSIS Character Book '' also gives names for several more of them [[note]]Gorilla (Woman with gorilla arms, fought Aizawa, unshown), Varanus (Lizard-like Villain in Green Pants, taken out after Martial Hair, unshown), Axer (Dark-skinned Ax-wielding villain, failed ambush on Jiro before taken out, unshown), Oxy-Man (Scuba Diver Villain, unshown).[[/note]]
* NoNameGiven: None of them are given individual names. [[NominalImportance None of them are particularly significant enough to merit it]]. The mobile game, ''My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero'', rectifies this for some, but not all.
* PrehensileHair: Martial Hair[[note]]Top Right in the image[[/note]] has a Quirk that lets her use her pigtails like drills.
* ShockAndAwe: Tesla,[[note]]Top Left in the image[[/note]] the most notable among them all, has electric based power similar to Kaminari, with the added bonus of blocking out communication.
* StarterVillain: They're the first villains that Class 1-A takes down on their own, and they're ''only'' a threat to kids on their first week of school. Other than that, they're entirely irrelevant.
* ZergRush: They try to do this, but even as a group they're easily defeated by the heroes. It works better with the students, but even then they don't score a single kill.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Artificial Humans -- Nomus]]
--> See [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaArtificialHumans here]] for the Nomus' entries.
[[/folder]]

!Other Contacts

[[folder:Kagero Okuta -- Giran]]
!!Kagero Okuta -- Giran
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Seiro Ogino (Japanese), Ben Phillips (English)
!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 57 (Manga), Episode 31 (Anime)
!!!'''Quirk:''' [[LaserGuidedAmnesia Muddied]]
!!!'''Rank:''' C

->''"Business dealings... are something y'do face-to-face. And I only make deals with people I respect. Not guys who kick the crap outta me first. Sure, I might know the League. Might not. Either way, you ain't getting a thing outta me. Cuz what kinda merchant sells out his customers?! Thanks, but come again when you got the guts to do this right!"''

A broker and affiliate of the League who brings in new recruits and equipment for the organization. His Quirk, "Muddied", allows him to make someone's memories of the next five minutes and the last five minutes fuzzy by touching them.
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* TheAce: A superb underground broker who has managed to evade authorities for several decades.
* AdaptationDyeJob: He has pink eyes in the manga. In the anime, they're grey.
* AffablyEvil: Giran is an easygoing and good-natured individual who rarely ever gets upset and is capable of showing sympathy to the less fortunate souls who come to him for guidance. He's also a hardened criminal.
* AllThereInTheManual: His real name and Quirk were first revealed in the ''ULTRA ANALYSIS Character Book''.
* ArmsDealer: He is a household name in the BlackMarket for costumes and equipment.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Giran displays some impressive analytical skills when he correctly manages to deduce the incoming societal consequences of Stain's arrest, in particular the League of Villains' popularity boost. This allows him to become their business partner ahead of time and profit from being a known ally later on.
* BadassInDistress: He spent most of the Meta Liberation Army Arc as this, having been captured by the MLA in an effort to steal the information he has on the League.
* TheBarnum: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. He's based on the Japanese equivalent of this trope, but is actually a perfectly honest (though morally ambiguous at best) businessman.
* BeardOfEvil: He has a small beard and mustache.
* BeingPersonalIsntProfessional: Giran never once talks about his private life, and even the character book lists his personal information as "Unknown". [[NotSoStoic It's also hinted at that he isn't completely unflappable or uncaring of others outside of work.]]
* BerserkButton: Downplayed. He doesn't explode in the usual manner of this trope, but trying to get him to sell out his clients or force him into doing business with you (especially using violence) will ensure that he has a serious bone to pick with you.
* BrutalHonesty: He has a tendency to say things as they are and bring up the elephant in the room, though there's no ill intent behind it. Most notably, he told Kurogiri that he didn't care what he did with Toga and Dabi so long as he gave Giran his fee for having brought them to the League, expressed doubts over Shigaraki's abilities as a leader due to his youth, and summed up Twice's TragicBackstory as "You witnessed your other selves killing each other, and it drove you a little batty" before pointing out the [[BrownBagMask bag over Twice's head]] and asking if it was because he had [[HyperventilationBag hyperventilation issues]].
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Giran comes off as a sleazy, eccentric, two-bit merchant, but he's actually a sleazy, eccentric, surprisingly competent one. He's both connected and savvy, and prides himself on the quality of the products and services he offers. The simple fact that All For One trusted him to do business with his protege speaks volumes.
* ChallengeSeeker: When told by Shigaraki that he would soon "be so busy he wouldn't be able to keep up" thanks to the League's growing reputation, Giran replies that he's looking forward to it.
* CharacterTics: Always smokes his cigarettes with his right hand, as commented on by Twice.
* CheshireCatGrin: Almost always seen sporting one of those, even when he's pissed.
* ColdBloodedTorture: The MLA interrogates him by cutting off his fingers one by one.
* ConsummateProfessional: The ''[[AllThereInTheManual ULTRA ANALYSIS Character Book]]'' gives him 5/5 in "Professionalism", and it's well deserved. Giran is remarkably diligent and dedicated to those who request his services, from giving them advice to only selling top quality products, all the while remaining completely loyal to them. Not even severe torture will put a dent in his work code.
* CoolShades: Wears a light grey set of these at all times.
* CouldntFindALighter: His revolver doubles as a lighter.
* CrazyPrepared:
** One of his appearances in ''Vigilantes'' shows he has at least half a dozen phones, presumably to use as burners or ensure more long-term clients don't get the same numbers.
** He also found a way to erase all data of his dealings with the League of Villains should he be captured, preventing anyone from stealing that information and making himself [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou invaluable]] to anyone who desperately wants it... unless they have a tech genius who is part of a major IT firm and can restore it.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Even after being captured and beaten bloody, and despite knowing that no one would come to his rescue, he makes his disdain for Re-Destro exceedingly clear and uses an amazing PrecisionFStrike against him. This behavior [[DefiantCaptive extends into the rest of the arc]], ''after'' losing a hand's worth of fingers and being held hostage for about a week.
* DefrostingIceKing: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. He's pretty aloof and blunt about his monetary intentions, but hardly outright ''cold''. That said, he certainly warms up to the League (particularly Twice) as the story goes on.
* DestroyTheEvidence: Right on the brink of being captured by the Meta Liberation Army, he immediately wipes all of his client data so no one can find the League, except that Skeptic simply managed to recover the deleted data.
* DidntSeeThatComing: The [[OhCrap look of sheer horror on his face]] when he hears that the MLA managed to retrieve his erased client data speaks for itself.
* DissonantSerenity: As a MexicanStandOff breaks out between Shigaraki, Dabi and Toga and is only settled by Kurogiri's last-minute intervention, Giran just stands in a corner of the bar, smoking, having likely watched such occurrences too many times to count.
* DrearyHalfLiddedEyes: His eyes are nearly always in this position due to his SmugSmiler nature.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Giran is an ArmsDealer who rejoiced at the idea of a rise in criminal activities because it meant more profit for him, but he's no snitch and believes that no merchant worth their salt would ever turn on their clients, no matter what they're offered for it.
* EvilVirtues: He has a strong sense of professionalism despite his shadier tendencies, and his pride in his work translates into intense diligence and loyalty towards those who require his services. He takes it ''very'' badly if he fails to uphold his self-imposed standards.
* EyeScream: Downplayed. His eye is hurt and swollen shut for most of the Meta Liberation Army arc, but he gets better.
* FamedInStory: He has quite the reputation in the underworld, according to Kurogiri and both databooks.
* FanOfUnderdog: Takes an immediate liking to Twice, stating that it's a shame someone with his potential got reduced to such a state, telling him he needs comrades to get back on his feet, and assuring him that [[YouAreNotAlone he's not alone]].
* {{Fingore}}: He was tortured for information by the Meta Liberation Army and had all the fingers of one hand removed one by one. The fingers were then spread around town in areas where the League publicly committed crimes in order to send a message to the League.
* FriendInTheBlackMarket:
** As an ArmsDealer and UtilityPartyMember, this is his role in regards to the League.
** ''Vigilantes'' shows that he's also this to [[NinetiesAntiHero Knuckle Duster]], who apparently frequently orders painkillers from him but doesn't hesitate to ask for more questionable things when the situation calls for it.
* FriendlessBackground: Despite having his contacts to many criminals and black market, he doesn't really have any friendships, hence why he says to Re-Destro nobody will care if he's kidnapped or killed. Subverted however, since someone actually showed up to save him - Twice, being his [[OnlyFriend perhaps only true friend.]]
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: Has very narrow, shifty-looking eyes that make him seem shady and untrustworthy.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: He's often seen with a cigarette in his mouth, which he lights with a fire-emitting revolver.
* {{Greed}}: One of his defining characteristics.
* HiddenDepths: Initially comes off as just a self-interested, greedy, sleazy criminal. Turns out he's both entirely warranted to be described as a ConsummateProfessional, and much more sympathetic as a character.
* HonorAmongThieves: Giran follows a strict set of rules for his business conduct, making sure he stays true to his word and trustworthy towards his clients even when there is something to be gained from doing otherwise.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: His fashion sense (which among other things includes an intestine-like scarf that he seems to especially cherish) is bad enough that Twice immediately recognized the clothes and accessories that the MLA disseminated around various locations along with his cut fingers as Giran's because "no one else in the world's got gross taste like that!"
* ItsAllMyFault: Giran blames himself for the MLA getting ahold of his client data (despite him erasing it entirely at the time of his capture), even calling himself [[MyGreatestFailure "a failure as a broker"]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Not as much of an obvious "jerk" as most cases, but he's a greedy bastard for sure and can come off as rather smug and callous. Despite that, he's also shown to be genuinely loyal and trustworthy when it comes to those he does business with, and he's capable of acts of kindness; see PetTheDog below.
* KnowledgeBroker: Implied. He seems to be aware of anything that goes on in the underworld at all times and to be the go-to person for those who need advice or want to meet with other villains.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Downplayed. He can do this to other people with his Quirk, making their memories of the past and next five minutes fuzzy.
* LonelyTogether: With Twice.
* MeaningfulName:
** His villain name is split in two kanji: "right conduct, righteousness, justice, morality" (義 ''gi'') and "be sore, inflamed, bleary, fester" (爛 ''ran'').
*** The first we see of him, he's recruiting people using Stain's twisted form of morality.
*** It's also likely a hint at [[EvilVirtues Giran's own strong sense of loyalty and honor despite his occupation]], as well as [[HonorAmongThieves his expectations for how people in his line of work should act]].
** Like other characters in the series, his real name says a lot about him as well. His first name is composed of the kanji for "shadow, silhouette, phantom" (影 ''kage'') and "haziness, dreaminess, gloom" (朧 ''rō'') while his last name contains "recollection, think, remember" (憶 ''oku''), all of which are clear references to both his [[LaserGuidedAmnesia Quirk]] and his secretive nature.
* MellowFellow: Giran is laid-back and never raises his voice nor loses his cool under stress.
* MetaGuy: During the MLA arc. As an InUniverse spectator, he provides commentary much like the readers would, questioning the Liberation Army's actions and motives and even managing a few humorous commentaries.
-->'''Giran:''' "Making an [[SelfDeprecation old man like me]] the DamselInDistress [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall isn't fun for anyone]]."
* MoreThanMeetsTheEye:
** Never actually seen committing any crimes himself and doesn't even have a combat Quirk, but he was once a B-rank villain, ranking him higher than Twice or Toga.
** The only villain whose affiliation is listed as "Unknown" in the [[AllThereInTheManual second character book]].[[note]]The Viz release changed that part to "League of Villains"; whether this is an oversight or not is unknown[[/note]]
* MysteriousPast: All that is known about his past is that someone he affectionately refers to as "the old man" took him under his wing when he was an upstart.
* NervesOfSteel:
** He's quite stoic and very little seems to faze him, not even nearly getting caught in a MexicanStandoff between Shigaraki, Dabi and Toga.
** Refuses to rat out his clients to his captors, and even when they [[{{Fingore}} cut off his fingers]], he doesn't even make ''a sound'' let alone speak out. [[OhCrap His face, on the other hand]]...
* NonActionGuy: He works as a sort of UtilityPartyMember for the League, giving them items that come in handy, but never actually taking part in fights. The ''[[AllThereInTheManual ULTRA ANALYSIS Character Book]]'' actually gives him a pitiful 1/5 in both "Power" and "Speed", and he himself admits that he hasn't run anywhere in years.
* NonActionSnarker: He has his moments.
-->'''Giran:''' "Did he overcome his trauma?! Your man's one hell of a shrink!"[[note]]To Re-Destro, after Skeptic accidentally triggered Twice's SanityStrengthening[[/note]]
* NotSoStoic: He's at his most emotional and expressive in the Meta Liberation Army arc.
* ObviouslyEvil: Played with. Giran's appearance just screams treachery and seedy schemes, but he is surprisingly honest and trustworthy as long as you're in a business relationship with him.
* OddFriendship: The calm, serious, greedy Giran ends up forming a VillainousFriendship with the loud, traumatized and sensitive Twice, even fronting the cost for his costume despite Twice not having the money to pay him back immediately (something Mr. Compress later implies Giran isn't known for).
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: After he rejects Re-Destro's attempt to bribe him and insults him, we're treated to an ominous shot of Re-Destro's face saying that the two of them will spend a lot of time together. The next time we see Giran, he's already been put through ColdBloodedTorture and we're only told that he still refused to talk and didn't even make a single sound as his fingers were cut off one by one.
* OhCrap: When the MLA reveals that ''they restored all the data from his erased client list'', Giran, for the first time, is [[NotSoStoic outright scared]].
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: He doesn't seem to care about the League's ideals so much as he does about getting big paychecks. He also managed to guess that they would eventually become a big name in the villain world, and that he'd be able to gain a lot by having them and their fans as clients.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: If that CheshireCatGrin leaves his face for any reason or length of time, it's a ''really'' big deal.
* OutOfFocus: Unlike the rest of the League and other prior villains, Giran ends up playing a very minimal part in the story following his rescue, having only a few cameos prior to and during the War arc. He pretty much vanishes after the raid of the heroes on the PLF mansion.
* PerpetualSmiler: Nearly always sports a smug smirk, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness unless it's an exceptionally serious situation]].
* PetTheDog: He appears to have a genuine soft spot for Twice, who he's always been exceptionally kind to since their first encounter and apparently still frequently keeps in touch with to make sure he's doing okay. Twice's character page even states that because he was barely getting by at the time and had no money to afford a quality suit, Giran ordered it for him and told Twice he could pay him back later - something we don't see him do for anyone else, and he never brings up Twice's debt onscreen either.
* PrecisionFStrike: When Re-Destro asks him to sell out the League, Giran goes into a monologue about why he won't, and concludes by telling the man to "start over from the testicles" (also translated as "crawl back into your dad's ballsack"). [[{{Bowdlerise}} It was censored in the English release.]]
* RealMenWearPink: A notorious ArmsDealer who [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking chain-smokes]], is [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules utterly ruthless in business]], whose outfit usually involves a pink gut-like scarf and whose bunny phone case gets proudly displayed whenever the occasion presents itself.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He delivers a rather spectacular one to Re-Destro.
-->'''Giran:''' "Business dealings... are something y'do face-to-face. And I only make deals with people I respect. Not guys who kick the crap outta me first. Sure, I might know the League. Might not. Either way, you ain't getting a thing outta me. Cuz what kinda merchant sells out his customers?! Thanks, but come again when you got the guts to do this right!"[[note]]In the original Japanese, that last sentence was [[PrecisionFStrike much more vulgar]][[/note]]
* RejectedApology: Downplayed. He mournfully apologizes to Twice, as he genuinely feels guilty due to the MLA managing to retrieve his client data despite his best efforts and using it against the League, to which Twice tells him not to apologize [[YouDidEverythingYouCould because he did nothing wrong]].
* RevolversAreJustBetter: And his seems to fire flames, as well. Whether it truly is a revolver or just an eccentric lighter remains to be seen.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Briefly gets these at the end of his [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduction scene]] in the anime, as he's excitedly talking about all the villains that the League is inspiring.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: A variant. He refuses to sell out his clients or to have dealings with anyone he doesn't like, and anyone who tries to threaten or extort him automatically becomes one of those people. Basically, his rules are "Never be a snitch" and "Never take part in TeethClenchedTeamwork", and no amount of money or threats will make him break them.
* SecondaryColorNemesis: Wears a gaudy lavender tuxedo, which is typical of pimps in Japan.
* SenselessSacrifice: Because the MLA can easily restore ''all his erased client data'', he loses one hand's worth of fingers for nothing.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Never seen without his CoolShades, and he's smart enough to have realized the League's potential before anyone else and to have kept his notorious underground business running since ''the pre-All Might era'' without ever getting caught, an accomplishment even Re-Destro praises. It's no surprise the ''[[AllThereInTheManual ULTRA ANALYSIS Character Book]]'' gives him a 5/5 in "Wits".
* SmugSmiler: His [[PerpetualSmiler default expression]] is a cocky CheshireCatGrin.
* StandardBleedingSpots: From his forehead during the MLA arc, likely from being struck at some point during either his capture or his [[EnhancedInterrogationTechniques first]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown interrogation]].
* StealthPun: "Kagero" is also the Japanese word for "mayfly" or "heat haze", depending on the characters used. Giran's Quirk leaves the mind hazy for a short-lived period of time.
* ToothyIssue: He's conspicuously missing a tooth, as seen when he talks or smirks, which makes him look shady.
* TortureIsIneffective: He was ''not'' kidding when he said that Re-Destro wouldn't get a single thing out of him.
* TranquilFury: Even at his angriest, he never drops his veil of calculated indifference and snark.
* UncertainDoom: Not a fatal example, but Giran was present during the fight against the Paranormal Liberation Front, though it is unknown if he escaped or was apprehended with the majority.
* UndyingLoyalty: To his clients. He's willing to endure torture, lose body parts and risk his life to ensure the data they entrusted to him remain confidential.
* VillainousFriendship: Seems to have one of sorts with Twice. It's mentioned that Giran paid for his costume because Twice was broke, that the two regularly keep in touch, and Twice was the only League member Giran showed genuine concern for during the Meta Liberation Army arc. Twice is also the only person Giran addresses with ''[[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns "omae"]]'' instead of his usual ''"anta"''.
* VillainousValor: When he's taken hostage by the Meta Liberation Army, he refuses to sell out the League, saying that no merchant worth their salt would ever betray their customers. He follows up by emphasizing that he'd refuse to do any business at all with Re-Destro anyway because he doesn't like him. Even losing half of his fingers doesn't get him to talk.
* TheWorkaholic: He's very dedicated to his job, rejoicing at the idea of increasing his workload and being seen working or discussing work-related matters every time he appears (except during the MLA arc [[BadassInDistress for obvious reasons]]).
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[[folder:The U.A. Traitor (Spoilers)]]
!!Yuga Aoyama - Can't Stop Twinkling
A vain, flamboyant, and extremely eccentric young man. His Quirk, "Navel Laser", allows him to fire powerful laser beams from his stomach. However, continuous use of this Quirk is liable to give him a stomach ache, and he also needs to wear a special support belt at all times to prevent the laser from "leaking out". Later revealed in chapter 336 to be the TheMole responsible for leaking the location of the training camp to the League of Villains, as well as informing the League about Class 1-A's trip to the USJ.
-> His tropes can be found [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaClass1A1To10 here]].
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[[folder:The Hero Traitor (Spoilers)]]
!!Hawks
The #2 hero, who was secretly converted into the League of Villains by Dabi... except not really. He's actually a DoubleAgent trying to infiltrate the League and gain information on them.
-> His tropes can be found [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaOtherHeroes here]].
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[[folder:Villain Organization (Spoilers)]]
!!Meta Liberation Army
The modern-day incarnation of the infamous Meta Liberation Army formerly led by Rikiya Yotsubashi, a.k.a. Re-Destro. The army initially served as the antagonists of their titular arc and tried to destroy the League to sublimate their prestige. However, after his defeat, Yotsubashi willingly surrendered control of the army and its resources to Shigaraki recognizing that his strength and freedom make him the ideal leader to represent Destro's will.
-> The army's collective tropes can be found [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaMetaLiberationArmy here]].
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* VindicatedByHistory: Though [[TheyCalledMeMad They Called Him Mad]] in the past, it's been stated that his Quirk Singularity Theory has been found to hold weight in the present day, not that this would motivate him toward a HeelFaceTurn any time soon.