Characters / My Hero Academia - Dabi

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U.A. High School Students: Class 1-A (1-10, 11-20, Izuku Midoriya, Katsuki Bakugo, Shoto Todoroki, Ochaco Uraraka) | Class 1-B | Students From Other Classes
Pro Heroes: School Faculty and Staff (Shota Aizawa | All Might) | Other Heroes (Endeavor) | One For All and Its Torch Bearers
Villains: Known Villains [Stain] (League of Villains [All For One, Tomura Shigaraki, Dabi, Himiko Toga, Vanguard Action Squad, Artificial Humans], Shie Hassaikai [Overhaul], Meta Liberation Army, Paranormal Liberation Front, Villain Army)
Others: Police and Government Workers | Civilians (Main Characters' Families) | Other High Schools
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Toya Todoroki — Dabi

^{Click here to see Dabi before revealing his true identity}

Voiced by: Hiro Shimono, Ryōko Shiraishi (young) (Japanese), Jason Liebrecht, Sara Ragsdale (young) (English)

Debut: Chapter 57 (Manga), Episode 31 (Anime)

Playable in: My Hero One's Justice, My Hero One's Justice 2, My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero, My Hero Academia: Ultra Impact

Quirk: Blueflame

Rank: A

"I wondered, "how do I make you suffer? How do I ruin your life?!" Ever since I burned up, IT'S ALL I THOUGHT ABOUT!'"

A recruit of the League who joined to push Stain's ideals. Black-haired, tall, and lanky, Dabi has patchwork features; his face and body are covered in burnt purplish skin, staples, and skin grafts. His past is initially a mystery, and he goes by his villain name.

Dabi's Quirk, "Blueflame", allows him to produce incredibly hot blue flames. Unlike other fire users in the series, however, he is unable to withstand the heat of his own flames for long periods of time as he actually has the ability to weather extreme cold.

In truth, Dabi is Toya Todoroki, the eldest son of the Todoroki family who was previously presumed dead. He revealed himself to his father and youngest brother as part of his quest to ruin Endeavor's life and destabilize society.

Toya's early childhood was happy, and as he inherited his father's powerful Quirk, he grew to emulate his relentless ambition and dreams. But the flaws of Quirk marriage soon quashed his hopes: as his body had not inherited Endeavor's fire resistance, he started suffering distressing burns. Endeavor, having grown worried, tried to dissuade his son from his dreams, ceased training him, and decided to grow his family further. Toya perceived this as abandonment; by the time Shoto was born, he was desperate for the attention his youngest sibling received and lashed out, which started straining his relationship with his family.

A growth spurt enhanced Toya’s Quirk at puberty, and he became convinced that he could win over his father by showing him his progress, so he arranged an encounter with him in the mountains. Horrified that Toya had been training on his own, Endeavor chose not to meet him. Toya was devastated, and his heartbreak gave way to calamity. His Quirk set him on fire, and with incomplete training, he was unable to regain control as a massive conflagration swept the forest. Only a fragment of his jawbone was recovered; the loss utterly broke the Todoroki family.

Unbeknownst to the world, however, he managed to survive. Having been in a coma and cared for in an orphanage for three years, Toya escaped and returned home only to find his family having moved on, and an unchanged Endeavor abusing Shoto instead. His sanity gone, he discarded his ties and became Dabi, a murdering fiend out to ruin his father and the hero society he once strove to become a part of.

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A - D

• Accuser of the Brethren: He spits at Endeavor that he will pay for the suffering he put him through as a child, proclaiming his father's attempts to atone for the harm he has inflicted on his family have been for naught and insisting "the past never dies".
• Achilles' Heel: Though Downplayed, it's showcased that it’s his head. His damaged nervous system means he can keep moving and fighting despite the excessive Self-Harm he does to himself with his own flames and becomes almost unstoppable when he reaches his Point of No Return by the Final Battle. However, this is dependent on his mind and willpower being able to generate his fire, meaning attacks that rattle his consciousness stop him from being able to fight back despite his physical durability. Gran Torino is able to knock him unconscious with a single blow to the head during the Kamino Ward raid, leaving him unconscious for the entirely of the league's subsequent rescue by All For One. When he pushes his firepower to its maximum level when having his final fight with Shoto, despite his evident disregard of his own health, resulting in his flames steadily burning away his skin and exposing his muscles underneath, he takes care to regulate the damage done to his upper head, allowing him to keep track of his targets even as his body steadily self-destructs, leaving him a danger even when he's reduced to a physical wreak that can barely even stand upright. This informs the symbolism of Dabi as a Revenant Zombie, and how the head is their classical weak point. He even metaphorically comes Back from the Dead after losing initially to Shoto's Phosphor move because Shoto hit him in the chest rather than the head with it, akin to how Zombies can endure injuries fatal to living beings. This allowed him to retain his consciousness, understand the move's principle and adapt it for his own use. His brain and mentality finally getting damaged by his fires marks the point where Dabi is finally at the end of his durability and his body starts breaking down for good.
• Action Bomb: During the Final Battle, he self-invokes a Superpower Meltdown by compressing thermal energy into his body to an absurd degree. His intention is to keep doing this until his body can't contain it any more and he explodes, wiping out everything in 5 kilometers, becoming a living Fantastic Nuke.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: It's rather low-key, but Dabi's burn scars around the neck are more symmetrical in the anime. He's also shown with a much more toned build in his Shirtless Scene preceding the Todoroki family flashback.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: In his first depictions, Toya is drawn with pure white hair (like Natsuo and his mother Rei), while in the anime, he has his father's red hair. This particular scene (where he played ball with Fuyumi and Natsuo) creates some issues, as it's established in the plot to have happened after his hair had turned mostly white.
• All for Nothing: His life's mission was to destroy Endeavor and everything he tried to protect, particularly Shoto before dying to his own Quirk. By the end of the Final Battle though, after nearly succeeding with his Superpower Meltdown, all of his efforts went up in smoke thanks to Shoto and the Todoroki family's Ice Quirks. He wasn't even able to die (at least not initially), leaving Toya with nothing for his efforts but to weakly curse his family, just about the only thing he can do anymore, forcing them to continue to pay attention to him and listen to his hatful ravings as the only expression of familial love and attention that he so craved that's left to Toya.
• Alliterative Name: His real name, Toya Todoroki.
• Almighty Idiot: His invoked Superpower Meltdown begins to erode his mind, causing him to mentally regress to a child. While more powerful than he's ever been, it's clear his mind has nearly entirely burned away, and he seems to not even able to consciously think anymore.
• Aloof Ally: While everyone else in the League eventually forms a sense of camaraderie towards each other, Dabi deliberately keeps a wall between them and treats its various members with indifference or disdain. Dabi even opts out of the collective rematch with Gigantomachia, leaving his comrades for a month and a half. Come the Paranormal Liberation War, he outright admits he doesn't care about the League at all. This attitude undercuts his attempt to preserve the Sad Man's Parade. Since Toga can only copy the Quirks of those she truly loves, Dabi's standoff attitude means that despite his surface-level manipulation of her towards achieving that goal, Toga cannot replicate any league member's Quirk against the heroes, including his own.
• An Arm and a Leg: As he's on the verge of his Superpower Meltdown and his body is finally reaching it's physical limits, his refusal to stop fighting eventually exceeds what his shell can endure. Unleashing a massive Elemental Punch from his right arm in this state blows it to pieces of crumbled charcoal, mirroring his father's own injury from All For One, and a symbolic image of Dabi and Endeavor grappling together even shows the two of them 'holding hands', with trails of fire from their stumps reaching out to the other's remaining hand, almost looking like they're dancing together, calling back to Dabi's desire to 'dance in hell' with his father. By that point, the self-damage has reached the point where Dabi doesn't even react to the injury at all and is losing himself in his childhood memories as the fires erode his mind.
• And Your Little Dog, Too!: He plans to make Endeavor suffer by killing the Hero's loved ones, i.e., his wife and other children, who are also Dabi's mother and younger siblings. And just when Endeavor is actually starting to care about them, too, for the first time in a very long time.
• Antagonistic Offspring: Dabi's entire motivation is breaking his father Endeavor and absolutely ruining his reputation. As a child Toya knew he was only born to satisfy his father’s goals and now insanely wishes to pay back Endeavor for the pain and neglect he felt once he couldn’t fulfill them.
• Arch-Enemy: Fancies himself Endeavor's as he's gleefully dedicated to ruining his father and eventually killing him. His animosity also extends to his little brother Shoto, whom he sees only as Endeavor's "puppet" — and moreover one whose personality is too weak-willed to achieve their father's dream of surpassing All Might, even with the 'perfect' natural body for their powers and a learning environment to actively cultivate them in, things Toya himself never truly had and which drives his animosity towards the 'masterpiece' for wasting all his potential despite being the one Endeavor hoped would 'replace' Toya in his perception. When his mentality is degrading as the result of his Self-Harm starting to damage his brain Toya has a vision of his family being happy with himself minus his distinctive burn scars but said vision pointedly doesn't include Shoto amongst his loving family surrounding him, showing he’s never considered Shoto family but still just a Replacement Goldfish.
  Dabi: (After Shoto tells him he'll stop him instead of Endeavor) ...Hey now...don't get the wrong idea. I've got some legit thoughts about you too.
• Arc Villain: Of the Forest Camp Training arc as the leader of the Vanguard Action Squad. He's also the Man Behind the Man for Hood, Starservant and Ending in the Pro Hero and Endeavor Agency arcs and the de facto main antagonist for the overall story arc focusing on the Todoroki family.
• Armor-Piercing Response: He gives one to Hawks when the hero asks who he really is. His response is censored as a black speech bubble but it’s hinted that he revealed his true identity as Toya Todoroki and it leaves Hawks in a state of shock.
• Artistic License – Medicine: No, it isn't possible to wake up from a three-year coma and just start walking around, as he is shown doing in chapter 350. It's rare to wake up from a three-year coma at all, and anyone who does in real life must undergo extensive physical therapy and may never regain full function at all. Presumably the advanced medical science Garaki was using to replace some of his missing body parts, based on the same science that would create the Nomu eventually, kept Toya's body in enough physical condition that he could still move around. He is still capable of fine motor control even with his nerves and body burning away, so clearly his physical enhancements left him somewhat more sturdy than he should have been, even if that is counterbalanced by his own powers destroying his physical health.
• At Least I Admit It: For all his horrific actions and manipulations, Dabi never denies his malevolence, in contrast to someone like Toga, and is mostly honest and upfront with the League. He eventually confesses his actions as a villain on live television. Muddying this, however, is his insistence on Endeavor's role in his creation, and desire to use himself an an example of how flawed the concept of heroics is, in effect trying to justify his own negative personality as a means of spiting everybody around him out of malice for the entire world.
• Attention Whore:
  • A warped and tragic example. Toya's initial motivation for training himself even to the point of Self-Harm was to force Endeavor to spend time with him instead of focusing on his hero duties or looking for another "masterpiece" in his sibs, and in so doing, validate to Toya that he wasn't a "failure" thanks to his genetic issues with his own firepower. As Dabi, this has grown into an all-consuming desire to make himself the only thing that Endeavor can pay attention to, willing to burn the entire world down and destroy everything Enji loves to force his father to focus only on him, with his animosity towards his sibling Shoto stemming from the fact that as Endevour's "masterpiece" he distracted their father from looking at him with Shoto's mere existence. Once he reveals his true identity in a public broadcast, he exults in getting recognised as an irredeemable villainous member of the Todoroki family, as it forces Endeavor to face him due to public reproach, and actually calls off his attempt to kill Shoto once Enji falls unconscious from his injuries at Jaku city, wanting his father to be paying attention when he immolates Shoto to torment him and further refocus his attention on everything Dabi does.
  • This trait is so all-consuming, Dabi expresses nothing but satisfaction when he's on the verge of burning away painfully to ashes as he pushes himself into a Superpower Meltdown, as the situation has brought the entire Todoroki family together, civilian and hero alike, to try and cool him down and stop his self-destruction, revealing in the fact they're all looking at him. He only expresses regret at the fact that it took pushing himself to certain death to force his family to focus all their attention on him like he wanted, and his inner thoughts imply he's decided against dying at the last second purely because of the fact his death will prevent him from receiving the attention he so craved from his family. When Shoto finally manages to avert his explosion, Toya continues to weakly curse his family with hate-filled words, still forcing them to listen to his tirade and pay attention to him as the only form of twisted familial connection he has left with them.
  Dabi: (Whilst on the verge of a self-detonation) Ah hah...Ah haah... (thinking) everyone's watching me. So this...is what it's like? If it was...so simple a thing, then why? Why not...sooner?
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: His character is themed after Death, and what's left of the skin on his face looks like the upper half of a skull. His powers also resemble Hellfire and cremation, per his name. When he executes what he believes to be his final attack on Shoto, the Body Horror that results leaves him looking like a demon wreathed in Hellfire, showing how he fully believes and accepts that he's dammed to hell for his sins and is determined to drag everybody around him down with him into his fiery resting place.
• Avenging the Villain: While hardly merciful before, after Hawks' killing of Twice, Dabi's attacks on the winged hero become ruthless. Granted, he admits he's mostly pissed that Twice died before he could make use of his powers, and is later revealed to have a back-up plan in mind using Toga to unleash the Sad Man's Parade anyway. Combined with the Slasher Smile he can't keep off his face during the beatdown, it makes it unclear if he genuinely was upset, or sadistically twisting the knife in Hawks, who did feel bad about having to put Twice down. Either way, Hawks ends up brutalized in retaliation for the life he claimed regardless.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: He's good at seeing through people, and attacking when they can't retaliate. Dr. Garaki notes how he has a sharp eye.
• Ax-Crazy:
  • Dabi is much more subdued than most of his teammates, but whenever he gets excited, he will put on a chilling Slasher Smile, and gleefully roast his enemies alive. It becomes increasingly apparent in the course of the Paranormal War arc, as his actions are accompanied by looks of absolute sadistic ecstasy. By the time he reveals his identity to Shoto and Endeavor, he's discarded any appearance of stability, literally dancing with joy as he prepares to kill them.
  • When he first woke up after being rescued from his self-immolation by All For One, mentally still a 13-year old child due to his three year coma, Toya showed no compunctions or regret for burning down the Orphanage of Love Garaki and All For One were brainwashing abandoned children in to escape, endangering or possibly killing several innocent children who had done nothing to him and were actively looking forward to him joining their 'family' after he woke up. When he returned years later, Garaki was taken aback and impressed with his sheer insanity, realising that he was actively seeking to die from his own firepower and his survival over the years was simply so he could die doing the maximum amount of damage to Endeavor and the concept of heroes with him, so as to 'prove his existence'.
• Badass Boast: He gives one to Hawks after revealing his true identity to him.
  "More than Twice... More than anyone... You should've been keeping both eyes on me."
• Badass Longcoat: Acquires one between joining the League and the attack on the training camp.
• The Bad Guy Wins: His actions successfully forever ruin Endeavor's hero career and helps destabilize Japan to the point hundreds of heroes quit in the response of their failure to stop Shigaraki.
• Bait the Dog: During the Paranormal Liberation War, Dabi shows sympathy for Twice. He absolves him for Hawks' leak of their information, rescues him from the Winged Hero, and encourages him with a high five, implying that Dabi is starting to reciprocate the camaraderie the League has shown. He seems genuinely distraught when Twice dies... but only as it will make achieving his own goals harder.
• The Berserker: During his final battle with Shoto, he drops all restraint and begins spamming massive fire attacks with little in the means of actual long term strategy. Deconstructed, as Shoto being calm and having a new technique that effectively renders Dabi's power edge meaningless results in Dabi being unable to land a truly effective hit while Shoto's counters hit him significantly harder.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Dabi is notably quieter than other members of the League, but also has one of the League's strongest Quirks and highest body counts. Hawks, the #2 hero, barely manages to kill Twice before Dabi subjects him to a very harsh No-Holds-Barred Beatdown; only Tokoyami's sudden arrival saves him.
• Beyond Redemption: A Zigzagged case.
  • Once his true identity is revealed to the public and the Todoroki family learn of his survival, all of them avert this despite seeing how monstrous and insane Toya has become, with all of them bar Shoto accepting some measure of responsibility in not helping Toya more with his struggles growing up, and desiring to save him from his madness, even if they're not official heroes. Shoto himself refutes Dabi's claims of them being "a warped rail and a straight and narrow one" running in parallel that are forever incapable of intermingling, claiming that he'll stop his brother regardless before temporarily putting out his self-damaging fires with his new freezing abilities, as much to save Toya from his Self-Harm as to stop him hurting others.
  • However, it's made clear that Dabi is self-invoking this against himself, emphasising that he's a remorseless Spree Killer in his public broadcast, going out of his way to target unrelated heroes with his fires and claiming that said flames are Endeavor's own Quirk cutting their hopeful futures short, and happily self-destructing himself with his maximum firepower just to hurt or kill as many people as he can before the fires consume him. He does this in order to continue inflicting as much disgrace as possible against his father with his actions, and makes it clear that he has no intention of regretting his selfish crusade against him. When Shoto temporarily stops him, he just re-purposes his Phosphor move's principles to self-invoke a Superpower Meltdown and deliberately aims to self-detonate in the vicinity of the evacuation shelters, making it clear he will not accept any other outcome to the fighting that doesn't end with him dying an unrepentant and monstrous villain that hurt others to his final breath.
• Big Damn Heroes: An inverted villainous example, when Dabi saves Twice from Hawks... temporarily.
• Body Horror: His most prominent feature, and the result of his self-destructive Quirk. At least 80% of his body appears to be charred or skinless. The rest looks like it's been stapled onto the burned bits. As he thinks back to the Last Words said by Snatch, the patches start bleeding, evoking a Tears of Blood effect. This is pushed further during his confrontation with Endeavor, as the stapled-together parts of his face start coming apart. He's also Unable to Cry, as his tear ducts have been burned away (truly, his tear ducts were the first parts of his body to burn). In fact, this is why none of his family recognize him until his reveal, with him sarcastically admitting he can understand their surprise. In later chapters, one can see that some of his burns are slowly travelling past the staples. During his fight with Shoto, his face has straight up started to melt away, revealing the muscles on his cheek and his teeth down to the root. When he pushes his firepower to the limit in preparation to kill Shoto once and for all, the flames become so hot that he melts the statue of All Might he's standing upon and his appearance is nothing less than a flaming demon from hell, showing Throat Light from his flames broiling his interior as much as his exterior. When Shoto seems to have stopped his rampage with his 'Phosphor' move, he reveals he copied the principle of the technique with his own quirk to avoid defeat and stands back up again, his outer layer of skin below his head all burned away and looking like a burned zombie from his almost-lethal injuries that he resolutely ignores for the sake of his obsession. By the time he finally reaches Endeavor, the damage is so bad that his own Elemental Punch explodes his own arm, and the stump shows that his interior is almost entirely molten flame and heat held inside his crumbling physical 'shell', making it clear that he's more dead than alive now, and still fighting despite that.
• Break Them by Talking:
  • After Tokoyami arrives to help Hawks, Dabi cruelly points out the Hero he wants to save just murdered Twice in cold blood, and calls him dirtier than the villains. Tokoyami is a bit shaken, but quickly rallies, countering that he just wants to protect his teacher.
  • Once he reveals himself to be Toya Todoroki, Dabi gleefully informs Endeavor that he has spent a long time waiting for the right moment to destroy his reputation with the public, and warns his father that the past never truly dies.
• Broken Tears: Toya was prone to this as a child due to feeling neglected by both his parents, and would sob reflecting on his purpose and the idea of being a failed creation. The worst came in Sekoto Hill when his father didn't show up for Toya's reveal of his new blue flames: he was so upset and angry that his tears became flames, resulting in a forest fire that burned him alive and left him with an inability to cry.
• Burn Scars, Burning Powers: Dabi has horrible scars to the point where staples are used to keep his face together. His scars came about due to overexerting his Fire Quirk. Pushing it to his maximum achievable heat by the time of the Final Battle to destroy his enemies steadily erodes his body, eventually leaving him looking like a burned corpse who can barely physically move anymore, and the fires start eating into his remaining facial features by the time he finally confronts his father.
• Burning with Anger: While Dabi rarely gets upset, attempts to restrain him result in him lighting himself partially on fire in an attempt to escape his captor. Each time, he's knocked out before he could seriously harm anyone or himself. When Hawks manages to kill Twice, Dabi's face turns to a furious Slasher Smile as he pours flamethrower attacks onto the hero. Once his full backstory is revealed it becomes clear that he's always, on some level, been this. His flames are implicitly tied to his emotional state, with his blue, hotter fire manifesting from his emotional anguish and frustration towards Endeavor and his refusal to 'accept' him. Upon seeing that, in his eyes, Endeavor had effectively replaced him with Shoto after his 'death' and deciding to become Dabi, he's always shown with blue flames when using his quirk, indicating his restrained rage and insanity underneath his stoic exterior. Upon reaching the Final Battle, Dabi's unhinged madness is fully unleashed along with the full extent of his firepower, scorching the skin off his body and melting his surroundings even as he announces his intent to kill Shoto to spite Endeavor no matter what harm befalls him.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Dabi has stopped keeping track of all the murders he has committed, as was shown when Endeavor first recognized him as Snatch's killer; Dabi only responded by asking who that was. It is implied even he is not sure of how many people he has killed, as he mentions killing more than 30 innocent people.
• Cain and Abel:
  • His original plan was to kill Shoto after he went Pro, though he refocused his murderous efforts on Endeavor due to the latter unexpectedly becoming Number One. There's also the condescending tone he takes when addressing Shoto about his failure to save Bakugo, which further shows how Dabi bears enmity towards his youngest brother. He expresses glee at the thought of finally killing him.
  • He feels less extreme about Natsuo and Fuyumi, as he was close to them as a child and somewhat sympathizes with them more as fellow "failures." That won't stop him from putting them in harm's way, however, considering he boasted about sending Ending after Endeavor, wholly indifferent (welcoming, in fact) to the threat on Natsuo's life.
• Cast from Hit Points: As Geten points out, Dabi can't continuously use his Quirk without hurting himself. If he isn't careful, the excess heat can actually start burning the skin off his body.
• Calling Parents by Their Name: Calls his father by his full name, Enji Todoroki, to show how much he personally knows about him. It's also a petty jab at Endeavor by disrespecting his title as a Hero and disowning him as his parent. He still refers to Rei as "Mom", however.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Dabi's broadcast on the truth of his relationship to Endeavor is largely a recollection of all of his father's failures as a parent and a hero and also points out all of the flaws of heroes.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: He saves Skeptic from capture and loads him onboard Gigantomachia since he needs his tech skills to broadcast his incriminating video on Endeavor. He refuses to kill his father or brother until he feels he has fully succeeded in breaking them.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Dabi admits he is a villain and never once denies the crimes he commits; if anything, he seems to revel in the notoriety it gives him. This is part of his plan to discredit Endeavor.
• Caught Monologuing: He falls victim to this a couple of times during the Paranormal Liberation Raid Arc, but this is actually justified: Dabi isn't just being cocky, but trying to rattle his foe and buy time for himself to cool down since his Quirk is too hot for him to use powerful attacks consecutively. This actually gets turned against him at last during his climatic fight with Shoto, as the latter's new 'Phosphor' move also needs some time to charge up before he can use it, meaning Dabi's normal attempts to throw his opponent off-guard with his words just buy him the time he needs to activate his ultimate move and start counter-attacking Dabi even after the latter unleashes his maximum firepower.
• Chessmaster Sidekick: Dabi may be only a lieutenant in the League, but he's undeniably been playing the long game, being an expert at Xanatos Speed Chess and a Manipulative Bastard par excellence, who organizes all the pieces into place for his revenge. Part of this is his mistrust of anybody else, planning his own schemes and goals independent of his supposed allies, or even to their detriment, apparently out of contempt for the idea of fully trusting another person.
• Co-Dragons: With Kurogiri to Shigaraki, before Kurogiri’s arrest. Kurogiri acted as second-in-command, while Dabi served as the leader of the Vanguard Action Squad.
• Combat Pragmatist: Dabi has zero qualms blasting someone with fire from the get-go. His clone fires a volley straight at Eraser's head when he runs out upon hearing a commotion; the attack only failed due to the latter's reflexes. Later, while getting rid of Overhaul's escort, he combines his Quirk with Mr. Compress' to trap Snatch inside a confined space with his fire, killing the hero. Later again, he prepares to finish off Endeavor and Hawks when they are exhausted from killing the High-End Nomu, only retreating when Mirko jumps in. And finally, during the raid on their headquarters, Dabi goes straight for Hawks, who's busy making sure Twice can't jump into the fight, blindsiding him with a torrent of flame. Whatever this guy gives a crap about, it definitely isn't a fair fight.
• Covered with Scars: Dabi's skin looks like it's almost entirely burn scars. His face is so bad that it seems to need staples along his cheeks and jaw just to hold it together. His pushing his firepower to the maximum during the final battle correspondingly damages his body the longer he remaining in that state, and his refusal to turn his fires off or stop fighting eventually leaves his body as one massive burn scar beneath the neck, with the fires steadily starting to erode his head as well.
• Crazy-Prepared:
  • He had a recording of his backstory shown publicly in case Endeavor and the heroes won the fight against Shigaraki and the Paranormal Liberation Front and had a bottle of hair dye remover in his pouch since his introduction in case the opportunity ever arose to reveal his identity to his family especially his beloved father.
  • He tracked down Hawks' mom and sent goons to get information on him in case he betrayed the Paranormal Liberation Army; when it happens, he releases Hawks' personal background and his murder of Twice as retribution.
  • In Chapter 341 its revealed that, just before Machia took them to Shigaraki, Dabi swiped some blood from the original Twice's corpse so that Toga could transform into him and unleash the Sad Man's Parade once more.
• Cruel Mercy : He seems to be fond of this as he spares Endeavor's and Shoto's lives when he has not completed in breaking their heroic spirits, this is first shown at the end of the Paranormal Liberation War because he was not finished in truly breaking Endeavor so he spared Shoto's life.
• Cryptic Background Reference: Before The Reveal, he was long thought dead with numerous members of his family mentioning him in passing, but no explanation on what exactly happened to him.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Can use Endeavor's Flashfire Fist techniques, but with even worse repercussions towards his body.
• Dark and Troubled Past: He came from a wealthy heroic family with his father being the Number Two hero, Endeavor. His father, wanting to surpass All Might at any cost, sired a son with Rei Todoroki who he planned to train as his successor and achieve his ultimate goal. However, Toya was born with a body that didn’t suit his Quirk, meaning that he would severely hurt himself if he continued to use it. Endeavor tried to dissuade Toya from becoming a hero, by having another successor as well as running away from his responsibilties as a parent. But instead of these efforts helping, Endeavor’s decisions made Toya feel abandoned and left him with deep existential issues and long-term injuries from wanting to prove his worth to his father throughout his early childhood. Not long after, he caused a forest fire while training his Quirk in the mountains which may have resulted in nearly all of his body becoming disfigured with horrific burn scars while the majority of his family believed him to be dead. It is safe to say Toya didn't have an easy life.
• Dark Secret: Rather than have a secret, Dabi is the secret: he's Toya Todoroki, Endeavor's lost eldest son and original heir. He continued training after his parents stopped paying attention to him when his Quirk turned out to hurt him, which led to his apparent death. The ordeal fractured their family, especially on Natsuo's side as he completely blames Endeavor for it.
• Deadpan Snarker: Dabi has a penchant for making snide comments about people and situations that he finds pointless or foolish.
• Deadly Upgrade: When Dabi turns his firepower to his maximum limit, he's able to use his flames as propulsion to enhance his speed and augment his physical attacks to transform into a Lightning Bruiser, allow him him to pummel Shoto one-sidedly in hand-to-hand combat despite his normal physical frailty, even through it's clear that doing so will destroy his body before long. Every time Dabi reaches this heat limit beforehand, his body gets visibly blackened and decayed in parts, which sticks around afterwards, showcasing how unviable it is as a long-term combat option — which suits Toya just fine.
• Deal with the Devil: Defied as shown in his villain origin story in Chapter 350. All For One saved Toya from dying in his fire accident on Sekoto Peak and had Garaki reconstruct him due to being a perfect candidate as a backup vessel for him in case his bet on Shigaraki didn't work out. Toya was in a 3 year coma and upon waking up was offered a chance to be trained by All For One and have his body upgraded. Toya wanting to still be acknowledged by Endeavor refused All For One's offer and burned down the orphanage to escape and go back home.
• Death of a Child: The Todoroki family assumed he died in a mountain fire, which was pretty much the colossal breaking point for the family. It's subverted, however, as he turns up very much alive as an adult.
• Death Seeker:
  • Made explicit by the final confrontation with him. Despite his sheer hatred towards Endeavor being more than sufficient for All For One's plans for a vessel, Garaki notes that he ultimately had to pass Toya over as a potential body because the boy's self-destructive firepower and desire to kill himself to spite Endeavor made him unsuitable for his long-term goals.
  Garaki: The demon lord himself had to abandon that frenzied flame of death.
  • His final moments as he's self-detonating have him finally expressing some reservations about killing himself, but only because he's presently getting exactly what he wanted in his entire family's undivided attention as they all work together to cool him down, and dying would rob him of that. When Shoto averts his explosion, what convinces Dabi to cease using the scant remaining life in his body to fight is Endeavor tearfully telling him he'll listen to everything he wants to say to him, using his remaining energy to ceaselessly curse at his family and continue to force them to pay attention to him, effectively choosing not to kill himself just for a purely selfish motivation, rather than any genuine remorse or regret.
• Deranged Dance: His dance when he reveals his identity to his dad and little brother conveys that his mask of sanity is finally slipping away. He even asks Endeavor to dance with him on the battlefield.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: He suffered this in combination with Existential Horror after Endeavor stopped training him in favor of Shoto. He had no idea what to do with his life after his dream to become a hero was crushed, so he kept training with his Quirk in hopes of fulfilling his original purpose despite being expressly forbidden to. After his supposed death, he finally found a purpose to latch on to: making Endeavor suffer for abandoning him and destroying everything his father tried to build.
• Despair Event Horizon: Nearly dying at Sekoto Peak wasn't what transformed Toya into Dabi. Even after waking from a three-year-long coma and being told by his caretakers that he is physically incapable of achieving his full power again, Toya still believed his family, and especially Endeavor, was missing him and that he would go back home to a family that would welcome him with open arms. However, when he came back home, what he instead saw was Endeavor training young Shoto which, to Toya, only confirmed two things: that he was indeed "replaced" by his youngest brother, and that his family left him behind. From that point on, Toya died and Dabi was born to ruin and destroy everything Endeavor has built, especially if he has to die in the process.
• Determinator: As Toya, his determination to be Endeavor's heir and surpass All Might slowly deteriorated his sanity, as he kept using his Quirk despite it harming his body. He doesn't even listen to Endeavor's pleas to stop hurting himself on the basis that he was his son. As Dabi, nothing will make him give up his quest for vengeance on his father Endeavor. Not even Best Jeanist's arrival and subduing of him and Gigantomachia make him surrender. Dabi just responds by burning the fiber cables restraining him and unleashing the full extent of his flames on Shoto. He even went as far as to have his family members attacked by Ending if it meant Endeavor could suffer another emotional loss. Not even the possibility of harming his brother Natsuo, whom he supposedly cared for, makes Dabi give up his quest to make Endeavor suffer at all costs. Garaki reveals that the surgery done to him to help him survive his self-immolation was only supposed to allow him to survive for a month without further medical aid from him. Seeing Toya still alive a full seven years afterwards made him curious as to how he'd achieved such an impossible feat, even arranging a private chat with him to find out despite the risk from the unstable child. Garaki is impressed that Dabi survived that long through his sheer hatred towards Endeavor and all that he stood for, hatred that was perfect for their plans for All For One's 'next me.' Unfortunately for them, Dabi proved too self-destructive to serve their needs.
  • After Shoto apparently defeats him with his 'Phosphor' move, he stands back up again, revealing he managed to understand and replicate the technique's principle with his own quirk to counter Shoto's extreme cold and avoid getting completely frozen, manifesting flames hotter than before and his body's outer layer of skin completely burned away beneath his neck, exposing his muscles. His dialogue makes it clear he plans to head straight to Endeavor's battlefield to confront him next, even with such grievous injuries, the vast distance and the heroes all standing in between him and his father, making it clear he absolutely will not quit until he succeeds in his mad vengeance or dies in the attempt.
• Dissonant Serenity: In-Universe. After Hawks kills Twice he's apparently enraged by the act, his voice becoming emotionally distraught and his attacks on Hawks becoming sadistically drawn-out and painful in 'revenge', until Hawks points out that his expression is nothing like that of somebody who's upset over the loss of a friend, with a Wham Shot of Dabi having a gleeful Slasher Smile on his face. The paneling and framing of the prior scene completely hiding his expression drive home how Dabi 'sounds' and how he 'looks' are completely at odds with each other, which he insincerely claims is because his injuries prevent him being able to express sadness properly, implying that Dabi is simply putting on a performance that cannot hide his utter glee at Hawks having just given him the perfect ammunition to use in his anti-hero public agenda. This further emphasises the ambiguity behind whether Dabi genuinely feels any camaraderie towards the League that is eclipsed by his grudge with Endeavor and desire to use them, or if he simply considers himself too far gone to ever actually care for them.
• Does Not Like Spam: Detests dead fish, and so he ends up being the only one not eating after the League finally gets their sushi banquet.
• The Dog Bites Back: Dabi revealing himself as Toya Todoroki to Endeavor and broadcasting the truth about the way Endeavor treated his family could be seen as this.
• The Dragon: He was initially Co-Dragons with Kurogiri, serving as the leader of the League's Vanguard Action Squad and the main antagonist of the School Trip arc. When Kurogiri was arrested, Dabi became the sole Dragon to Shigaraki. He consistently served as one of the League's more active members afterwards, sending Hood and various other villains after Endeavor before exposing his abusive past during the Paranormal Liberation War.
• Dragon with an Agenda: He outright tells Shigaraki that he's only out for himself, though Shigaraki is fine with this since Dabi is one the most well-performing recruits. He reaffirms this to Hawks, stating that he doesn't care about the League's goals as long as they coincide with his own.
• The Dreaded:
  • Gradually becomes this as the series progresses. Initially largely unknown, Dabi manages to corral bloodthirsty A-rank villains like Moonfish and Muscular, and his Quirk is potent enough for Re-Destro to mark him as a high priority target, and direct Geten, the MLA's elite fighter, to focus on Dabi. He eventually becomes an A-rank villain.
  • He’s also this to the Todorokis after he reveals his true identity to them. Not because of any fear of his power, but because of the emotional pain of seeing their much-mourned Toya as a monster.
• Dream-Crushing Handicap: Toya was born with a quirk incompatible with his body, inheriting the ability to withstand freezing temperatures but not scorching heat, ruining his dream to become a Hero like his father.
• Driven to Madness: Any warmth, reason, empathy, or love that Toya had inside him died a long time ago, replaced with insanity and an all-consuming hatred for his father and heroes. When his brother Shoto asks him if he has gone insane, Dabi boasts that he has.
• Driven to Villainy: Dabi tells his backstory to the public through a recorded video and frames his story of how he became a villain because of the abuse he suffered from his father, who also happens to be the Number One hero.
• Driven by Envy: If his words are taken at face value, Dabi believes his brother was "raised with love," which opens up a new reading of his desire to kill him. This is confirmed during their second battle where he calls his brother a half baked puppet born with everything.
• Dying as Yourself: A twisted version: after intentionally triggering a Superpower Meltdown by compressing thermal energy into his body, the heat begins burning away at his brain and mind. This results in him beginning to mentally regress back into a young Toya the closer he gets to exploding.
• Dynamic Entry: Introduces himself to the U.A. students during the forest attack by blasting his way through the door, and almost catching Ashido and Kirishima in the blast radius.

E - L

• Emotional Powers:
  • His flames are directly connected to his emotions. The more passionate or enraged he gets, the stronger his flames become. This is how he accidentally started the mountain fire in the first place, with his rage over Enji not coming causing his flames to burst out and intensifying them to the point of burning down the forest.
  • Ironically, his masterstroke to overthrow the heroes is waylaid by another example of these. He planned to preserve the threat of the Sad Man's Parade through Toga's Power Copying, and pushed her towards that end, but since her own Quirk's true potential is fuelled by The Power of Love, as opposed to Toya's own spite-driven firepower, it meant that only Jin's Quirk could be replicated, handicapping the threat Toga could unleash.
• Emotional Regression: During the fight against his father near Gunga in Chapter 387, Dabi's mind has deteriorated due to his quirk being overexerted that which is not just burning his body alive but burning his mind as well. The result is his mind deteriorating and emotionally regressing to when he was a young child training and trying to get his father's attention or calling out to his younger brother Natsuo to play together.
• Even Evil Can Be Loved: While Dabi has since killed any lingering affection for his family, they are shown to be unable to move past their love for Toya. This is best shown when Endeavor tearfully acknowledges that he can't face his own son, despite him being a murderous madman. Even Shoto, who barely got the chance to know his older brother before he seemingly died, is torn about fighting him and only resolves to do so because he knows their father can't. It takes the rest of the family to help them to regain their confidence in facing him, and in the end, they all temporarily put aside their issues with each other in order to save Toya, not stop him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Subverted overall.
  • While the rest of the League grows to actually care about each other over the course of the story, he's the only one who still regards them as allies of convenience.
  • When Shoto angrily confronts him about sending Ending after Endeavor and how the villain threatened Natsuo's life, Toya only expresses disappointment he was only "almost killed" since the death would have hurt Endeavor more, and he makes clear he only cares about his family in the sense they can be used to torture Endeavor further.

• Even Evil Has Standards: He seems surprised and disgusted that the heroes would bring children into the Paranormal Liberation War when Tokoyami saves Hawks. Albeit, he mainly seems to be saying this as another dig about the flaws behind the idea of real-life heroism and getting underneath his opponent's skin, and has no problem trying to kill Tokoyami himself whilst blaming it on the heroes for 'brainwashing' him when he's trying to save his mentor's life.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
  • Upon outing himself as the once-presumed dead Toya, he wonders why Izuku is defending his father after he'd just revealed what he had done to him in the past. Izuku already knew about that, but he's also aware that Endeavor is The Atoner at that point and respects his drive to be better than his past, while Dabi is nothing but a rage-fueled, revenge-obsessed monster.
  • He planned for a back-up plan to preserve the Sad Man's Parade through Toga's newly-created Quirk evolution and a sample of Jin's blood. However, whilst he was correct that Toga could replicate Twice and his duplication powers, and motivated her to do so in order to avenge her fallen companion and spite the world, he failed to realise that Toga can only copy powers if she truly loves the target, which also applies to any clones she creates as 'Jin', meaning she could only unleash an endless horde of physical attackers.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • Set up as one to his brother Shoto; he is also a result of Endeavor's bad parenting but he represents what would have happened if Shoto let his hatred for his father go too far and if he didn't have friends to steer him down the right path or help him control his powers. Shoto himself recognizes this while recovering from their first real fight.
  • He's an even bigger one to his own father Endeavor, as shown through their pure ambition and conviction to achieve their goals at any cost no matter who they hurt. However, Endeavor only realizes the harm he has caused others, especially his family, later on and seeks to atone for it, while Toya knows what he is doing is wrong, but is too consumed by hatred for his father to care. He will gladly help destroy cities and murder innocents, as shown in the Paranormal Liberation War, if it means making Endeavor suffer in any way.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Exaggeratedly laughs at the pain he causes Endeavor and Shoto.
• Evil Is Burning Hot: Whenever Dabi decides to use his Quirk, it's going to be large scale, cause large collateral damage, and involve someone getting scorched alive.
• Evil Is Petty:
  • Dabi didn't have to reveal Hawks' lineage, it was mostly an act of spite.
  • When Shoto tries to stop him with Flashfire Fist: Jet Burn, Dabi responds by knocking out his brother with a larger version of the same attack.
  • It's basically hinted that Toya is extending his crusade against Endeavor to throwing mud on the idealized image of heroes in the public's eye is less to do with him genuinely believing all heroes are fakes who don't deserve the title and more to do with Toya wanting to remove the entire profession of being a hero from the public consciousness, because his Dream-Crushing Handicap denied him the chance to become one in Endeavor's footsteps despite his relentless efforts to do so. So, he wants to take away the same opportunity from others that his personal circumstances prevented him from having, spiting hundreds of people for the sake of jealousy and ego.
• Evil Redhead: Subverted. He's a twisted, sadistic man hellbent on destroying his father's legacy, but Dabi's red hair turned white from his developing quirk long before his Face–Heel Turn.
• Elemental Eye Colors: Inverted. He has Icy Blue Eyes but his Quirk is fire-based.
• Exact Words: When he is introduced to the League of Villains and Shigaraki requests his real name he says he will reveal it when the moment is right. Come Chapter 290, that moment arrives.
• Existential Horror: After he was deemed unfit to succeed his father as a pro hero due to the drawback of his quirk, Enji stopped training him altogether despite grooming him to believe that his entire purpose for existing was to fulfill his father's dream. This left Toya with crippling self-esteem issues and an existential crisis at the age of eight years old.
• Eyes Out of Sight: In a flashback in Chapter 188, Toya had a hairstyle that always covered his eyes. The picture of him in Chapter 249 shows him without it, though.
• Face–Heel Turn: From aspiring hero to a mass murderer and a member of the Paranormal Liberation Front, Toya has undergone a whopper of a turn rather early in his life.
• Facial Horror: His face is badly burned, making it look more like a skull with skin stapled on. He sarcastically jokes about it when revealing his true identity to Endeavor and Shoto. By the time he finally manages to confront his father during the Final Battle, the self-damage he's done to himself with his destructive firepower makes his face look like a burnt ghoulish halloween mask. See also Body Horror above.
• Family Eye Resemblance: The earliest hint of his relation to Endeavor; he has the same Icy Blue Eyes as his father, also matching one of his little brother Shoto's eyes.
• Fantastic Nuke: During the Final Battle, he starts compressing thermal energy inside his body to cause an intentional Superpower Meltdown. This will eventually cause him to explode with enough force to obliterate a five kilometer radius of himself.
• Fate Worse than Death: Not only did his revenge Murder-Suicide against Endeavor fail, his final attack horribly crippled him, leaving him a charred husk that can barely talk and move.
• Faux Affably Evil: For instance, he gives his brother a hug and some kind words of appreciation when Shoto shows some form of pity for him...right before starting to burn him alive.
• Feel No Pain: According to Chapter 301, which sees him inspecting his extended burns and claiming to feel nothing from them. Expanded further in Chapter 350, where All for One reveals to him he took severe damage to his nervous and immune systems, permanently damaging his nerves and ability to feel anything.
• Fiery Stoic: He can unleash flames hot enough to incinerate most people in seconds, but in contrast to Toga, he is more quiet, reserved, and mature. It contrasts well with Geten, who is an ice-user yet acts very emotional and Hot-Blooded. Dabi becomes much more Hot-Blooded when Endeavor's around, though.
• Fighting Fingerprint: In Chapter 291 Dabi tries to end his father with one of his signature moves, "Prominence Burn", and the look on Endeavor's face implies he now realizes Dabi is telling the truth.
• Flaw Exploitation: Dabi knows Heroes are trained to save lives first, so he's not above putting bystanders at risk while fighting them. When stopping Hawks from murdering Twice, at the time he burned the entire room and didn't worry about Twice getting burned, knowing Hawks' hero saving instincts would kick in.
• Flawed Prototype: He's the first-born of Endeavor and Rei and basically got the short end of the stick when it came to inheriting a Quirk and (lack of) Required Secondary Powers. On one hand, he got an even more powerful version of Endeavor's fire Quirk, but not only did he receive the same, if not worse, risk of overheating, he also got his mother's ice-based constitution that pretty much meant he could never use his full power without most likely killing himself (and everyone did assume he killed himself with it).
• Foreshadowing: His identity was hinted at for a very long time:
  • His first appearance was in a public square staring at a news broadcast of how the Hero Killer Stain was defeated by the Pro Hero Endeavor, and that Stain was affiliated with the League of Villains. Soon after he would join up with the League, assuming they too had the same mission of overturning hero society, and expressed dismay at the idea of a lunatic like Toga joining in their band as well.
  • He was the only member who insisted on using an alias rather than his true name, and said he would reveal it with time.
  • He shares the fire Quirk and Icy Blue Eyes of his father.
  • During the Forest Training Camp Arc, he gives Shoto a lengthened look and says "how sad... Shoto... Todoroki" after the teen fails to save Bakugo. He has a similar encounter with Endeavor during the Pro Hero Arc, ending with a promise that they'd meet again.
  • His family thought he was long dead as a result of an accident caused by his Quirk, which was said to be stronger than Endeavor's, but his body couldn't handle it and it's later revealed that Dabi's Quirk burns his own flesh from repeated use.
  • In the anime, when Endeavor intensifies his flames, they turn the same shade of blue as Dabi's own flames.
  • He repeatedly kept on claiming that he was the will of Stain, which is something not even the most devoted Stain fanboys (such as Spinner) would do. It makes a lot more sense following the reveal: given how he thinks that he was brought into the world only to be a tool to a Pro Hero, that his family suffered because of hero society, and how Stain was reportedly taken into custody by Endeavor.
• Frankenstein's Monster: A failed creation rejected by their creator and the world? Check. Associated with fire and has a scarred appearance? Check. Is vengeful because of his creator's abandonment and rejection of him and seeks to kill and destroy any remaining loved ones his creator holds dear? Check. Dabi is a living corpse that lives only to make his creator Endeavor suffer for his mistreatment of him.
• Freudian Excuse: Dabi exploits this during his broadcast video explaining his backstory, claiming that Endeavor's abuse "drove him to such despicable acts". Izuku and Shoto each call him out of this, noting that he's deliberately invoking this to justify smearing mud on the image of heroes through his father and push forward a country-wide loss of faith in heroes at a time they're most needed for his own personal satisfaction, and his murders of both civilians and heroes who are unrelated to his backstory was all his own choice, and unjustifiable no matter what his past was like.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: He genuinely believes that he has the moral high ground over his abusive father Endeavor (granted, he also admits that he is messed up beyond belief) due to the physical and emotional abuse he was put through, and that utterly broke him. This "moral high ground" has motivated him to go so far as to not only willingly murder innocent people who have nothing to do with said grudge, but even put the other members of his family at risk simply because their deaths would tear at Endeavor even more (not even mentioning how Toya's own apparent death already haunted Endeavor), plus there's his desire to destabilize and destroy public hope in heroes for his own satisfaction and to destroy Endeavor's reputation. However, Midoriya rescues Shoto from him and states that Endeavor acknowledges his mistakes and is trying to make up for them rather than ignoring them, making it clear he gives no sympathy to someone who still lives in the past like Toya (at the very least not if they go as far as Toya considering his particular situations). This is further shown when Garaki flat out says that while he and All For One put Dabi back together, All For One couldn't control Dabi and everything he's become and done since was from Dabi's own will. In the end, Toya's descent into villainy was from his own agency and choice. Even Shoto gets a jab at him with this exact point in their final battle in Chapter 351, insisting that his anger be properly channeled into his family instead, rather than indiscriminately targeting random civilians that had nothing to do with their childhoods.
  Shoto: I may be your half-baked little brother, but let me say this! Dad was a madman! Our family was screwed up! But when you burned all those people to death, that was your choice! You're not taking anymore innocent lives! JUST AIM ALL YOUR RAGE AT US!
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Inverted. While the rest of the League has grown to form some kind of companionship with each other, Dabi makes no attempt at all to grow close with them, often insults them, and in general never seems to enjoy their company. At one point he says he is only looking out for himself. After Twice is killed by Hawks, Dabi out rights says he never cared for them from the start. This attitude backfires on him, both through Shoto confronting and beating him temporarily with aid from his allies whilst Dabi insists on fighting alone, and also through Toga failing to replicate his flames through the Sad Man's Parade because her Quirk needs her to truly love a copied target to copy their powers as well, and Dabi's attitude means that Toga subconsciously does not care for him as much as Jin.
• Full-Frontal Assault: By the time he copies Shoto's phosphor attack in the final battle, all his clothes have apparently burned off. Strategically placed fire prevents anything from being seen, although considering the state of his body, there's probably nothing left to see.
• Generation Xerox: Despite being a villain, Toya grew up to be exactly like his father as both are selfish men driven by hatred with a need to prove themselves and leave a powerful legacy behind at the expense of everyone around them. Unlike Shoto, who rejected his father's heroism and teachings to forge his own path, Toya had his father's teachings ingrained into him until he was tossed aside when he was no longer useful for his father's dream. He's also one to his mother Rei, as both of them lost their sanity under Endeavor's domestic abuse.
• Glasgow Grin: Piercings and burn marks visually separate his lower jaw from the rest of his face.
• Glass Cannon: While his Quirk is incredibly powerful, allowing him to casually blast emergency vehicles off roads and burn down an entire forest without much effort, Dabi himself is very frail. His Twice clone is destroyed in only a few hits, and Gran Torino was able to completely knock him out in a single kick. As Endeavor once detailed, though Toya's fire is even hotter than his own, he was cursed with his mother's weakness to heat and couldn't handle his own powers growing up.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: His face, neck, and arms are covered in dark purplish burn scars, hooked on by surgical staples. Later on, it's shown that these extend to his torso, lower back, and legs. By chapter 381, every inch of visible skin on his body is a massive burn scar.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Dabi reveals that he sent Starservant and Ending to Endeavor and his Hero agency in the Endeavor Agency arc, making him The Man Behind the Man.
• Green-Eyed Monster: It's heavily implied that part of the reason Shoto doesn't escape his wrath despite being a fellow victim of their father is that Dabi was jealous of him when Endeavor favored Shoto over him as a potential Hero.
• Handicapped Badass: Chapter 350 reveals that he suffered damage to all his organs in the Skeoto Peak fire, all his senses were dulled, and he was in a coma during the most crucial years of adolescent development. None of which seems to inhibit his ability to cause massive chaos. In fact, he abuses his damaged physical state to reach a level of firepower that can overcome anything, even if said flames are equally as damaging to his physical shell as they are his targets. His low stamina and massive deformity are commented on several times, however.
• Happy Dance: Toya dances with glee upon revealing his identity to Endeavor and Shoto... He's so happy about ruining his father's legacy that he sarcastically asks Endeavor to dance with him on the battlefield and to their graves.
• Hates Their Parent: And how...
• Hidden Depths: Snatch's Last Words apparently resonated with him on some level as he "thought so hard about it he went crazy". Dabi is also far from impressed with Geten Himura’s Social Darwinist speech during their battle. Both these points make sense; Dabi has been thinking about the family of one of his potential victims: his family, if only in how killing them can hurt his father. Likewise, Geten’s personality probably hit too close to home and reminded him of Endeavor.
• Hiding in Plain Sight: In chapter 291 Dabi claims he was never suspected of being Toya Todoroki by Endeavor or any of the public because Endeavor had many sidekicks in his agency who had fire or heat-based quirks and Endeavor by then had accepted the fact his son was dead. This is what allowed him to stay under the radar for so long.
• Hoist by His Own Petard:
  • One of Dabi's go-to tactics in a fight is to stave off his need for a cool down from over-using his powers too much by deliberately Monologuing to his opponents by either criticising their actions as heroes or dramatically explaining his views on heroism and how pointless it all is to demoralise them. This buys him time to either cool off or build up heat for an extra-powerful attack. However, when it comes to his climatic fight with Shoto, thanks to their similar power sets, this also buys Shoto more time to charge up his 'Phosphor' move and counter Dabi wit it, even after he unleashes his maximum firepower.
  • In general, Dabi going full fiery berserker during his final battle with Shoto blows up in his face. Shoto came with a plan and remained calm, using his new technique to negate Dabi's power edge. All he needed to do was weather the storm and take advantage of the openings Dabi created to take Dabi down.
• Hope Crusher: Dabi likes to crush any "delusions" of hope or faith people have in heroes and considering he is a follower of Stain with the belief that there is no such thing as true heroes, along with his backstory it makes sense.
• Humble Pie: Effectively delivers a massive one to his father Endeavor by broadcasting a prerecorded message explaining his family’s Dark and Troubled Past with the former No. 2 hero as well as even exposing a few other choice secrets he was aware of. Not that Endeavor exactly needed it, though…
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: On the rare occasion Dabi isn't chasing the next opportunity to advance his own agenda he's one of the most competent and efficient members of the League, enough that Shigaraki appointed him specifically to lead the Vanguard Action Squad during the School Trip arc. He's also achieved enough standing within the League to be granted command over at least one High-End Nomu and conduct missions on his own initiative.
• Hypocrisy Nod: Dabi is aware of his hypocrisy of criticizing heroes while hurting people — but he doesn't give a damn about it because he just wants to get under their skins and mock their ideas of heroism.
• Hypocrite: He calls Hawks a monster for killing Twice, "a man just protecting his friends," and then immediately attacks Tokoyami who is just trying to protect his mentor while also calling the teen selfish for attempting to do so. Minutes earlier he called out the heroes for using students in a major assault but has no problem attacking a student himself. Not to mention the whole "working with an Omnicidal Maniac because he disagrees with the hero system" thing. It's made pretty clear he honestly doesn't care about having a higher moral standard than others around him and will gladly call them out on their failings whilst glossing over his own hand in events just to get under their skin and throw them off their games.
• Hypocritical Humor:
  • When he first sees Shigaraki, Dabi mentions how gross he looks even though Dabi himself is visibly burnt to a crisp.
  • Later on Dabi criticizes the rest of the League for holing up in the ruins of a building instead of trying to recruit more members. Toga responds that he hasn't been successful with a single recruit yet and Twice protests that all of his "attempts" to recruit new members result in them being flash-fried to death after they fail to live up to his ridiculously high standards.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Dabi's fighting style shows little finesse in his initial appearances, basically unleashing large bursts of flame at his targets and repeating the process if it doesn't work. It's only during the Paramount Liberation War where he displays a little more creativity such as hovering via flame jets. Once Dabi's identity as Toya is known he reveals familiarity with Endeavor's Flashfire Fist techniques to such an extent that Shoto can barely defend himself in their first battle. Dabi had been intentionally downplaying control over his flames up to then, both to slow down his body's deterioration and to maintain his anonymity.
• An Ice Person: For the entirely of his life, the fact that Toya wasn't one of these, and lacked the ability to cool down his flames were what defined his existential crisis and Enji's attempts to provide a Superior Successor who could achieve his ambitions so Toya would stop hurting himself trying to prove he wasn't a 'failure', even to the point of recklessly hurting himself in defiance of his parent's wishes. However, during the Final Battle, after getting hit with Shoto's Phosphor move, he manages to replicate the technique to turn up his flames, which as Enji discovers as he's grappling with him is because the stress of his Self-Harm and his impending death upon his body has finally unlocked his dormant ice abilities, allowing him to freeze his heart and keep moving despite outputting fires hot enough to torch Enji through his own heat resistance. By that point, it's little more than a cruel irony for Enji, as Toya's self-inflicted damage has left him little more than a barely-moving flaming corpse, and his freezing ability is now being used solely to sustain and enhance his firepower, rather than negate it as Enji aimed for.
• Implacable Man: Somewhat Downplayed. Dabi will do anything to continue his quest of vengeance against Endeavor, and as Shoto and Iida learned the hard way in Chapter 363 Dabi cannot be easily be defeated and even responded by stealing Shoto's Phosphor move and used it to torch the Flaming sidekickers alive. However, his mental fortitude allowing him to ignore his physical deterioration does not negate the damage he's doing to himself, and he remains a threat mainly because he's outputting his fires to the level where he's more an environmental hazard than a physical foe. When he actually manages to attack Endeavor in this damaged state, the blowback of his own Elemental Punch explodes his arm, and the main threat he brings is that he's self-invoking a Superpower Meltdown to commit a massive Spiteful Suicide, rather than beating his father with his new firepower.
• Ineffectual Loner:
  • Dabi might be a highly-dangerous and intelligent villain, not to mention willing to stoop to any low to achieve his goals, but it's also made clear repeatedly through the series that as much as his efficiency was a boon to the League, he's also a terrible team player. He burns multiple potential recruits to the League after he judges they don't measure up to his high standards, keeping their numbers low, repeatedly goes off to pursue his own agenda over the League's, and staunchly refuses to consider them true allies despite it being clear that the League is as capable of using efficient teamwork to remain a credible threat despite their losses. During the fight against the MLA, his battle with Geten was ultimately the only fight the League didn't score a clear victory in, and he repeatedly rebuffed Compress's efforts to help him despite the fact that he was taking increased damage from using his Quirk so much. All For One, himself a veritable Sociopath who cannot relate emotionally to others, calls Dabi out on this, pointing out that despite the similarities between them, Toya's refusal to get along with others makes him a much less efficient threat than the former, because All For One's allies give him options to deal with any situation the heroes try to engineer to upset his long-term plans.
  All For One: My dear Toya. We have much in common, you and I... But what I have that you lack, Toya, are friends to spare.
  • Whilst he appeared to take the advice to heart, convincing Toga to embrace her bloodthirsty nature even if the world disapproves of it in order to have her fighting together with him by the Final Battle, his bout with Shoto afterwards has him scorning the 'masterpiece' for continuing to rely on others when fighting him, mocking him for being a 'half-baked puppet' who can't make anything of himself on his own merits, showing that he looks down upon the concept of needing to rely on others to win a fight period, and believes he needs nobody else to win his own fights. This ultimately costs him the fight, as his last full-powered attack, hot enough to burn even Shoto through his natural heat resistance, is intercepted and blunted by Endeavor's sidekicks before it can reach him, even at the cost of themselves getting badly burned instead, allowing his little brother to weather the attack and retaliate with his own Finishing Move to extinguish Dabi's firepower.
  • His lone-wolf attitude also undercut his plans to preserve the Sad Man's Parade through Toga and a sample of Jin's blood. Toga needs to truly love her copied target to copy their Quirk well. Despite apparently consoling her and pushing her towards this end, Dabi's lack of true care for her meant that Toga is incapable of replicating his Quirk's firepower the she makes a duplicate of him, halving the threat she unleashes.
• I Know Your True Name: He calls out Hawks' real name, Keigo Takami, in the middle of their fight. Seeing as it isn't common knowledge, the veteran hero actually freezes up for a moment. Justified when it was later revealed that Dabi sent goons to force the information from Hawks' mother.
• I Shall Taunt You: Dabi tends to mock his opponents, pointing out flaws in their beliefs and rattling them. Hawks eventually realizes this isn't just Dabi being cruel, but it's most likely meant to give himself time to cool down from his attacks, seeing as his body isn't immune from the heat.
• Irony:
  • Dabi, the son of the Number 1 hero Endeavor, is a serial killer and one of Shigaraki's valuable lieutenants.
  • Endeavor sought to create a child who could surpass him and cement his legacy. Instead, he created one who grew to hate him and tarnished his heroic legacy.
  • Endeavor married his wife in the hopes of having a child who could overcome his weakness of overheating. His first child does even worse with heat, despite having stronger flames, thanks to inheriting the wrong Required Secondary Powers.
  • Toya Todoroki despises his father. However, he grew up to be rather worse than him.
  • Dabi inadvertently caused his father's ascension as the Number 1 hero: by successfully directing Bakugo's capture, he partially caused All Might's confrontation with AFO and subsequent retirement.
• It's All About Me:
  • The only thing Dabi truly cares about is his own vengeance against his father Endeavor.
  • His sadness over Twice's death is because it makes it harder to achieve his goals rather than any actual emotional connection. He even went as far as to secretly film his tragic death— even acting overly familiar and supportive of Twice when rescuing him despite his lack of camaraderie the league, so as to hammer home Twice's status as a Tragic Villain for his future viewers— and use it to push forward his own anti-hero agenda, in much a similar way as lady Curious planned to kill Toga during the Clash with the meta Liberation Army and edit the details of her Dark and Troubled Past to fit the army's message of liberation and make her into a Martyr. Doubling down on the Irony, shortly before Dabi's broadcast, Toga herself wondered aloud about how unfair Twice's death was, and whether the official public protectors even saw him as a human being worth saving. Dabi's callous manipulation of his 'ally's' demise shows that he clearly didn't see Twice, or any of the league, as anything more than a convenient tool to further his own plans.
  • There's also his complete disregard for the rest of his family's well-being when publicly airing Endeavor's abusive upbringing, not at all caring about the adverse effects it could have on the rest of them who haven't done anything to him, including his own mother's mental health. Then there's the fact he cheerfully admits he sent Ending after Endeavor, which allowed the villain to threaten Natsuo in order to get his death wish granted by Endeavor. His cheerful happiness at Shoto getting enraged over his Lack of Empathy towards their shared family implies that he's intentionally flaunting this attitude, so as to drive home how much of a despicable and twisted human being he is, so he can further use this to further tarnish his father's reputation with how far his eldest son has fallen from his own actions.
  • This is ultimately the reason that All For One couldn't control him as a child. Despite rescuing him from his self-immolation on the mountaintop, keeping him alive for three years whilst he was in a coma, and rebuilding his body through reconstructive surgery, when he awakened, Toya cared nothing for their efforts, only that they were trying to keep him away from his father and preventing him from getting the recognition from him he so craved, and unhesitatingly burned down the Orphanage of Love they'd made to brainwash several similarly abandoned children, possibly killing them in the process, which didn't even register with Toya beyond his own wants and desires. When All For One notes how similar they are years later, he's implicitly referring to how the pair of them prioritise their own goals above any goodwill or trust they're shown.
  • Shoto calls him out on this during their climatic fight, pointing out that despite their Dark and Troubled Past, Toya still chose to become a killer and harm others to sate his own misery with the world around him, going out of his way to involve unrelated parties to sate his own grudge without regard for the long-term consequences due to his desire to kill himself as a final act of spite against Endeavor. Shoto points out that if he really hates heroes that much, he needs to aim his ire at heroes and not defenceless civilians who have done nothing to him.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: The way Dabi speaks about Shoto clearly shows he doesn't consider him a human being, calling him a "little puppet" and "that creation". In chapter 350, he refers to Endeavor as "That thing".
• If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: Initially not at all trusting of Hawks, the supposed hero traitor, Dabi assigns him a test to prove his loyalty by having him kill a pro hero. When Hawks comes back with what he claims is Best Jeanist's dead body, even Dabi is surprised, claiming that even if Hawks didn't actually kill Best Jeanist, he still killed someone to pass off as Best Jeanist's corpse, which is good enough in Dabi's book. Of course, it turns out even that wasn't enough to fully buy Dabi's trust, as once the Pro Heroes launch their assault on the Liberation Front, Dabi doesn't take long to figure out Hawks was The Mole and makes a beeline right to his location.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: His brother Shoto tries to invoke this trope with him, with very poor results.
• Jerkass:
  • He's condescending and downright rude to practically everyone he interacts with. He makes no bones about the fact that he doesn't care about Shigaraki or his plans for the League, and his interactions with the other members, Spinner primarily, leave a lot to be desired. After Twice dies, he admits that he is angry but not because he just lost a friend, but rather that a valuable pawn for his scheme is now gone. He later tells Hawks that he doesn't care one bit about Shigaraki or the League.
  • His stand-off attitude with the league undercuts his attempt to use Toga as a backup method of unleashing the Sad Man's Parade. Because Toga can only replicate the Quirks of those she truly loves, she doesn't care enough for Dabi to replicate his dangerous firepower, unlike with Jin.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: When Shoto and Dabi battle, Dabi flat out admits he doesn't have any feelings towards anything or anyone anymore. He even laments that it is a shame that Natsuo didn't get killed so Endeavor could suffer even more.
• Kinslaying Is a Special Kind of Evil: He reveals that he planned on killing Shoto just to spite his father, as well as sending a villain after Natsuo for the same reason. By the tail end of his conflict with his father, he self-invokes a Superpower Meltdown to blow them both up, as well as additionally aiming to catch the evacuation shelters nearby in a blast equivalent to a Fantastic Nuke. Though the heroes have managed to regain control of said shelters by the time he's enacting this and moving them away from the fighting, the actions of one of All For One's moles results in the shelter the Todoroki family are in breaking down whilst still within the danger zone, putting Dabi on track to kill his entire family.
• Knight Templar: Dabi knows he's a villain, but he claims he embodies Stain's will and wishes to destroy the pillars that hold up society to expose the rotten underbelly of hypocrisy that lies beneath. Considering his father is Endeavor, he isn't wrong when it comes to claiming that society worships people without truly knowing who they actually are. Ultimately downplayed as Dabi himself admits that he doesn't care about fixing any of the problems he brings to light. He wants to spite his father and the society that exalts someone like him to just to avenge himself rather than for any high-minded ideal.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: When he realizes he has to fight Mirko just to get a shot at an injured Endeavor and Hawks, he flees knowing he can't take her on.
• Lack of Empathy:
  • Considering he's a serial killer bent on dismantling his father's heroic legacy without any regard for how his mother, or his siblings, would feel about it, this is a given. He stands out even among the villains. Most of Shigaraki's crew are twisted murderers, but they care deeply about their comrades. Dabi, however, only sees them as a means to an end. He can barely convincingly pretend to be upset when one of them is killed.
  • His lack of emotional attachment to others ironically backfires on him when he tries to manipulate Toga as a fall-back plan to unleash the Sad Man's Parade after Jin's Death. He correctly predicts that Toga will be capable of replicating Jin's power, and goads her towards that end, but he fails to understand that this Rule of Empathy would affect any duplicates that Toga creates through Jin as well. Accordingly, Toga can only create a massive horde of clones, without being capable of replicating their powers as well, including poignantly Dabi himself, due to not truly treating Toga as an ally like Jin did.
  • His final gambit, to trigger a Superpower Meltdown that will level everything in 5 kilometers of himself, will take out his entire family as he desires, but as it's perfectly placed to hit both UA and the evacuation shelters while dead center in the battle in Gunga, doing so would also kill the majority of his surviving allies along with them. Dabi intentionally planned it showing how little he cares for the League.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Dabi tried to take as much as he could from whatever Endeavor tried to protect, but his efforts were all for nothing, and he becomes the skeletal state.
• The Last Dance: He treats his final battle with his little brother as this. The experimental surgery that rebuilt him and the self-inflicted damage caused by him overusing his Quirk have shortened his projected lifespan so much that he was expected to have died years ago. Since he knows his life can't last much longer, Dabi decides to throw all caution to the wind and use everything he has facing Shoto, knowing that he'd almost certainly kill himself in the process no matter what Shoto did. All so he can go to his grave with the satisfaction of knowing that he showed up the brother that "replaced" him and hurt Endeavor as deeply as possible by killing his "perfect child". This actually backfires on Dabi, as going all out as a fiery berserker while Shoto remained calm and had a counter to Dabi's power edge was a major part of his undoing.
• Laughing Mad: Starts engaging in this when fighting Endeavor and Shoto, after he reveals who he is, and no longer has to maintain his stoic demeanor.
• Lean and Mean: Tall and lanky and a consummate sociopath.
• Light Is Not Good: For the Final Battle against the heroes Dabi comes decked out in a new white ensemble and keeps his hair its natural white shade. Suffice it to say Dabi is still as Ax-Crazy as ever and arguably more so now that he no longer has his Mask of Sanity.
• Like Father, Like Son: As little as he'd like to admit it, he takes after Endeavor even more so than Shoto. Dabi sets the goal to dismantle his father's heroic legacy at all costs, even if it means slaughtering innocents or joining the League of Villains simply as a means to an end. Even the League members he values, like Twice, were only meaningful by how useful they are to his achieving his dream; not unlike Endeavor's unscrupulous pursuit of surpassing All Might. Like Endeavor from before, he also sees Shoto as a tool, calling him a puppet and a creation.
• Logical Weakness:
  • His Quirk is a more powerful version of Endeavor's, so overheating when overusing his powers is as much a risk to him as it is to his father, if not more so. In fact, Endeavor noted to Shoto how Toya inherited his mother's weakness to heat, making his own fire inherently harmful to him. He is unable to engage in prolonged fights as he quickly surpasses his limits and hurts himself when using his Qurik. Ironically, this also makes him most vulnerable to other fire-using opponents. Which his two main targets happen to be the most powerful users outside of himself.
  • Dabi disgarding any care for his own body allows him to spam his attacks with abandon...but also comes at the cost of him now being far more reckless than he was when he did. As a result, the calm, cool, and collected Shoto is able to use his new technique to tank Dabi's attacks and then counterattack him when an opening presents itself.
• Loony Fan: Averted. Like Toga, he appears to be a fan of Stain, vowing to finish what he started. Unlike Toga, he actually values Stain's views, which only makes him more dangerous. This is later revealed to be a cover story he gave to let him join the League of Villains. He had his own reasons to see society burn that run counter Stain's ideology.
• Long-Lost Relative: He is the eldest son of Enji Todoroki, Toya Todoroki, who was formerly presumed dead operating under an alias.

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• Made of Iron: A Zigzagged example. In combat, Dabi is a Glass Cannon, getting taken out in a single blow by Gran Torino and tending to fight at a distance, using his flames to make approaching him at all an impossible task without getting burned. But in actuality, this is a side-effect of his own firepower eating away at his body every time he uses it, rending him frailer and more unstable with every fight. Since Toya's body was rebuilt using a variant of the same procedure that would create the Nomu, with parts of his body being outright replaced in certain places, he's actually a lot tougher than his showing in combat would suggest. The surgery done to him was only supposed to let him live a month without further aid from Dr. Garaki, and he survived a full seven years all on his own. He continued training his flames the whole time despite the physical toll and even stapled his body together in order to keep himself in once piece long enough to achieve his revenge. By the time of the Final Battle, he pushes his firepower to the point that his body is visibly crumbling to ashes inside and out, but he's still a credible threat through the sheer heat he's generating around him, enough to melt All Might's statue just by standing atop it, even as the skin burns off him.
• The Mad Hatter: A subdued version. When Shoto questions if he is insane, Dabi nonchalantly agrees with the assessment, claiming he has no feelings anymore. Whilst his behaviour makes it clear that he's not a mentally stable person at all, it's also shown that at least part of this is him intentionally embracing the characterisation of a demented killer, all to shame his father Endeavor with his own conduct by proxy, deflecting all the blame for his actions onto Endeavor's poor parenting skills.
• The Man Behind the Man: It's revealed near the end of the Pro Hero arc that he was the one who sent the High-End Nomu Hood after Endeavor and Hawks. In Chapter 290, he says that he also sent Starservant and Ending after Endeavor.
• Manipulative Bastard: He has a knack for framing events in a different light than what's true and getting away with it, as shown with his broadcast. He knows that people are malleable enough to buy his story, because he appeals to emotions to twist peoples' view of Heroes. All For One and Shigaraki himself would be impressed.
• Mask of Sanity: Compared to the other members of the League of Villains like the manchild Shigaraki or the literal blood lust of Toga, he comes across as much more level-headed and rational. But by the time of the Paranormal Liberation War arc, his mask starts to crack and he shows off a much more openly violent and psychotic side of himself, complete with plenty of nightmare faces. In Chapter 283, he looks absolutely ecstatic about the massive death and destruction caused by Gigantomachia. It is especially noticeable that the rest of the League look either solemn or are just trying to hang on. By this point, even Shigaraki has toned down his manchild tendencies and become calmer and more collected. Even Twice before his death was much more serious than when he first debuted. By the time Toya finally encounters Shoto and Endeavor and reveals his true identity, the mask has completely fallen apart, showing just how insane he really is.
• Meaningful Name: Twofold. His Villain name directly translates into "Cremation". His true name contains the kanji "燈矢", the first of which means "lamp" and the second of which means "arrow". The first character also contains the kanji for "fire" while the second refers to an object that is sent away and doesn't return, referencing his disappearance and Quirk.
• Mirror Character:
  • Dabi is similar to All For One, even more than Shigaraki. Both are disfigured, both go by an alias, both have the tendency to manipulate people to eliminate problems, and view their comrades as means to an end. Both despise a Number One pro-hero (Endeavor in Dabi's case) and have staged incidents to break their morale and smear their public image. Like All For One, Dabi is Unskilled, but Strong, and shares sadistic traits. All For One himself even goes so far as to acknowledge this at one point, though he goes on to note that he's a much better planner, and actually knows how to use people.
  • He's also one to Hawks as both have a personal connection to Endeavor, both want to change hero society and both follow an ideology despite having to commit morally ambiguous to despicable acts to reach that goal.
• Misaimed Fandom: An Invoked Trope in that Dabi is one to Stain the Hero Killer. Upon introduction, Dabi promotes himself as being a disciple of Stain's philosophy, having a disdain for heroes. As the reader learns more about Dabi though, it becomes apparent that his views are even more extreme than Stain's. While Stain wants heroes to live up to the standards of All Might and never actually gets the regular public involved in his crusade, Dabi is a complete misanthrope and serial killer who revels in all the chaos he creates and thinks all heroes are equally unworthy.
• Misery Poker: One of the things that keeps his motivations from being wholly sympathetic. The guy seems to legitimately believe that he's far more miserable than the rest of his family as a result of Endeavor's poor parenting and that it completely justifies him going after all of them and heroes as a concept. His desire to kill Shoto is this myopia at its peak, as he seems to be under the delusion that, as Endeavor's apparent favored son, Shoto had a happier childhood than him, when in reality, Shoto suffered from the consequences of Endeavor's abuse as much as Toya did.
• Misplaced Retribution:
  • While his hatred and quest for vengeance on Endeavor are understandable, Toya sought to kill his little brother Shoto just because Endeavor had placed his hopes on him after Toya's apparent death. As Shoto was forced into that situation, and went through the same abuse as Toya himself, this comes across as completely unjustified. This is only further supported when every other member of the family except Shoto owns up to their part in Toya becoming Dabi, as Shoto was too young at the time for any of the blame to fall on him.
  • This extends to his overall goal of wiping out the very concept of heroics and real-life superheroes through using his family's Dark and Troubled Past with Endeavor's abuse as a focal point to undermine the public's faith and idealization of heroes. Even if Endeavor was one bad example, it's shown that there was more to the story than the Black-and-White viewpoint Toya gave it during his public broadcast, and there are multiple people who are genuinely heroic and willing to put their lives on the line to help others who slowly crumble under the mounting public pressure brought about by Toya's machinations, which just makes the increasingly dire situation worse for everybody. Toya really doesn't have any justifiable reason to try and extend his efforts towards removing the idea of being a hero from the minds of the public based on his own suffering under Parental Neglect, and it's actually hinted that he merely wants to do so because he was incapable of becoming a hero with his incompatible quirk, and he wants to spite everybody with his own pain by taking away the opportunity to become heroes from those who still believe in them.
• Moment of Weakness: When he was eight years old and having a mental breakdown due to his father's emotional neglect and Enji telling to give up his dream, Toya in a fit of rage tried to attack his infant brother Shoto.
• Motive Rant: When revealing his real name and motives, Toya finally drops the Mask of Sanity he's been holding together. He wants vengeance against Endeavor and blames him for all his suffering.
• Moral Myopia: He uses his younger brother, Natsuo, to scapegoat Endeavor and Shoto during his Motive Rant, but sees no issue in that same Natsuo nearly being killed by villains that he sent, under the excuse that he's "not that big on feelings anymore". Shoto calls him out for his hypocrisy.
• Mugging the Monster: At one point, Dabi wanders into a dark alley to recruit the villains lurking around there. The gang ridicules him as disgusting, then threatens to kill him. Dabi retorts by calling them all ambitionless trash, and incinerates the whole gang in seconds.
• My Greatest Failure: Dabi himself is this to Endeavor, as Toya's seeming death spiraled Endeavor's problems out of control. Dabi is the embodiment of all of Endeavor's past mistakes and regrets as a hero and as a person.
• Mysterious Past: His real name is unknown at first, and so is the reason his body is so badly burnt. Hawks even outright states that he was the only other person aside from Shigaraki he couldn't find any information on. After the reveal of his identity and past, how his survival happened is still up in the air.
• Neutrality Backlash: Not long before his vanishing, Toya got fed up with his mother Rei's passivity in the whole ordeal with his father. As Rei was gently trying to convince him to stop training since it's clear it only causes him harm, Toya lashes out angrily at his mother, telling her that she's no innocent victim but rather an Accomplice by Inaction who chose to look the other way because it was more comfortable at the time.
• Never Found the Body: During his attempt to learn Endeavor's signature move, he created a fire nova of over 2000 degrees, leaving only a fractured jaw bone behind. Endeavor immediately thought that he died, so much so he thought Dabi was an imposter and lying about his identity at first. Toya only survived the explosion thanks to All for One retrieving his charred but still alive body. He was then brought to a special orphanage and restored to some measure of health but remained in a coma there for three years.
• Never My Fault: Played with. Dabi will happily admit to his crimes and how horrible he is. Even feeling a hint of guilt because he knows his victims have families. But he never admits "fault" for any of it. As far as he's concerned, the reason he's so terrible is his father's fault. All of his victims are ALSO Endeavor's victims. Spelled out perfectly when he burns Nejire, and then mocks Endeavor for hurting the aspiring youth "with your own flames".
  • It's implied that Dabi is aware that he's made his own bed and that he knows he's being unfair in how he blames the rest of his family for his own descent into villainy but he's so hellbent on revenge against Endeavor that he doesn't care about anything else.
  • He also has a bad habit of calling his teammates bums and being the reason they don't get a lot of recruits when he himself hasn't been much help in that regard either, since he kills most of the people who would be interested. When called out about it, he says it was their (the potential recruits) fault for not being worthy.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
  • Unbeknownst to him, Dabi's undying hatred for his father and his brother Shoto, as well as his lunatic drive to end both of them no matter what it takes, has caused the rest of his family to close ranks for the time being. Even the usually resentful Natsuo has agreed to call it a truce between himself and Endeavor while they deal with their wayward family members.
  • He was correct that Toga's powers would allow her to replicate Twice's Quirk and unleash the Sad Man's Parade, but he failed to realise that the same Rule of Empathy would apply to any doubles she created as well. Accordingly, his own stand-off nature and Lack of Empathy towards Toga meant that she couldn't replicate his own destructive firepower, alongside the rest of the league, even after creating physical copies of them all. Given that Twice himself surmised that a small army of Dabis would potentially destroy a city, this underscores the flaws in Toya's attitude.
• Nightmare Face: Not as much as Toga, but during the hero raid on the PLF headquarters he sports some positively ghoulish expressions, particularly after Twice's death. As it turns out, this was because, despite the loss, Hawks had unintentionally provided Dabi with exactly the kind of ammunition he could utilize alongside the Dark Secret of his birth to damage public faith in heroics, exactly as he planned. Not to mention his bloodcurdling Slasher Smile when he spills the beans to his father and little brother. In addition, he's also revealed to have planned out a way to still access Twice's Quirk even after his death, meaning that Hawks' actions, despite him believing them necessary to saving lives, were ultimately All for Nothing, no matter what choice he made.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Dabi can't normally engage in prolonged combat because his Quirk damages his body too badly. However, he is enraged enough by Hawks not only betraying them, but having the gall to try to convert Twice into betraying his friends before killing him in cold blood for his mission, that he repeatedly blasts Hawks with fire. Hawks is unable to retaliate and can only curl on the floor while Dabi pummels him with flames until he is left a barely-conscious, scorched heap. Hawks only survived the assault by being rescued before Dabi could finish the job.
• No Name Given: When first introduced, Dabi kept his true identity a secret but planned to reveal it when the time was right. By the end of the Paranormal Liberation War arc, he finally does it in spectacular fashion. Not even his fellow villains present expected him to be a son of Endeavor.
• Not Afraid to Die: Even as his body is rotting away to nothing from repeated use of his quirk and constantly fighting strong opponents, Toya pays no heed to his health and only stays focused on causing as much mayhem as possible.
• Not Brainwashed: Garaki reveals that his survival on the mountaintop years ago was due to All For One himself rescuing Toya. Having kept an eye out for children who could be groomed into serving as his "next me," All For One would wait to find children with powerful Quirks and enough trauma to make them easily manipulated. He would then "miraculously" appear in child's hour of need and "rescue" them. Taking them in to his prepared locations where the child's issues, impressionable nature, and sense of gratitude towards their "savior" would make them easy for All For One to groom into developing tools for his own purposes, as he did with those like Tenko Shimura. However, Garaki makes it clear that Dabi is not a brainwashed follower of All For One—in fact, he burned down the building they kept him alive in for three years shortly after awakening and rejecting his offer to help him, and wasn't supposed to live longer than a month afterwards without aid from Garaki. Everything Toya has done since becoming a villain is under his own willpower, and in fact, his ultimate goal is the complete opposite of All For One's.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: Dabi has his own agenda and only joined the League of Villains to further it. He'll cooperate with them as needed in the short term, but he couldn't care less about the goals or well-being of his so-called "teammates" beyond what use they can be in his quest to tear down Endeavor's legacy. He'll outright refuse to aid the League in an objective if he doesn't think it will help him in his long-term goal, as shown when didn't bother lifting a finger to help tame Gigantomachia.
• Not Quite Flight: Dabi can release fire from his legs to hover in midair similar to Endeavor, as Tokoyami and a severely-burned Hawks find out. Judging by his wording and the fact he lacks fire resistance, however, he can't maintain it long without potentially cooking his legs.
• Not So Stoic: Usually, he's calm to the point of seeming apathetic, but he can get a lot more lively when pushed, to the point the stitching on his cheeks begins to be pulled apart and come undone as he yells. In the Paranormal Liberation War arc, his stoic nature goes completely out the window as he shows a sadistic, cruel, and vicious side he's never shown before. By the time he publicly reveals his identity to his father and brother, he's literally dancing with joy as he rubs it in their faces.
• Not So Similar: Much after Shoto points out that they both had the same traumatic childhood and their father was terrible to both of them, Dabi claims that even if they are blood-related they are still nothing alike.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Despite looking down on Spinner and Toga's shallow admiration for Stain's goals, Dabi is shown to share very little of his idol's Well-Intentioned Extremism. He's shown being outright overjoyed at the deaths of innocents, while brushing off condemnations over the League's frequent cruelty. For all his talk of a "bright new future," his actions end up being far more reminiscent of Shigaraki than Stain.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Downplayed, but this is his and the League's reaction to when Dabi's dreaded fire Quirk is casually shrugged off by Gigantomachia.
  • A bigger one happens when Shoto uses his new ability to combine his two halves' powers together to completely shrug off Dabi's attack, much to his disbelief.
• Older Than They Look: As seen in a flashback in Chapter 188, he looked younger than both Fuyumi and Natsuo as a child. However, he's actually older than them according to the databook◊. He was born early and thus significantly smaller than both of them until finally hitting a growth spurt at 13, which would explain the discrepancy.
  • There is a mistranslation, hayaumare (早生まれ) actually means born between January 1st to April 1st, and not born early.^note For those interested, osoumare (遅生まれ) referes to those born outside of the time range. And for premature birth, it's sozan (早産). In fact, Shoto is also a hayaumare. Dabi is simply a late bloomer.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: The story kept his real name a mystery for a long time. When he first meets Shigaraki, he flat out refuses to reveal his real name. He's notably the only League member whose true identity isn't revealed by Gran Torino during the heroes' raid on the bar, and it's ambiguous if that's because Dabi was knocked out at the time,^note Gran Torino read out the League's real names to scare them by showing them that their civilian identities were compromised or because the police actually don't know what Dabi's name is. Later chapters support the latter theory as Hawks mentions that despite his extensive research into the League Dabi was the only member other than Shigaraki he couldn't find any information on. Chapter 290 reveals his true identity: Toya Todoroki, the lost Todoroki sibling.
• Out of the Inferno: A given due to his powers but also downplayed since Dabi isn't immune to fire and thus can't actually walk into his own flames but he still uses the effect.
• Outside-Context Problem: Dabi's real identity and personal knowledge of the heroes make him this as no one in-universe had expected the son of the number one hero Endeavor to be a dangerous villain.
  • This is shown when he catches Hawks by surprise by saying his real name.
  • Dabi is aware of this and exploits it to make his father look awful and plant seeds of doubt within society on whether they can truly trust the heroes that protect them.
• Oxymoronic Being: Like his siblings, Toya is the child of a father with a fire Quirk and a mother with an ice Qurik. Unlike his brother, Shoto, who was born with a combination of both powers in a way that compensates for their weaknesses, Toya inherited his father's ability to summon intense flames, but also gained his mother's adaptation to cold and the accompanying sensitivity to heat. This contradictory mix of abilities made him into a fire-user vulnerable to flames. He hurts himself every time he uses his Quirk, as shown by the burn scars covering almost all of his body.
• Parental Neglect: When it became all too apparent that his Quirk is self-destructive, Endeavor abandoned any hopes of grooming Toya into a hero; unfortunately, both Enji and Rei ended up being emotionally distant to him, and oblivious to the resentment, bitterness and anger that was awakening within him, and what would eventually lead to his turn to evil.
• Patricide: Dabi's ultimate goal is to end his father in the most agonizing and humiliating way possible.
• Person of Mass Destruction:
  • His Quirk is equally dangerous to everyone in the environment as it is to Dabi himself. During the battle with the Meta Liberation Army, Twice actually briefly considers cloning a small army of Dabi's, but then realizes that the result of that would be everyone dying before Gigantomachia even arrives. When Toga does try to do exactly that during the Final Battle, thankfully, Dabi's attitude meant that she couldn't replicate his flames along with the physical copies, because she needs to truly love a target to copy their Quirks as well.
  • Dabi Invoked his own Superpower Meltdown in the final battle, which results in him not only turning into a living inferno, but turning him into a Fantastic Nuke that will threaten to destroy everything in a 5 kilometer radius of himself.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Subverted. When Twice is about to be killed by Hawks, Dabi arrives in the nick of time to rescue him. After doing so, he reassures Twice that his loyalty is known and he doesn't blame Twice for the situation they're in. However, Dabi later admits he never cared about the League from the start and Hawks points out he doesn't have the face of someone whose friend just got killed. Dabi remarks that he is sad because with Twice around, his dreams had a better chance of becoming true.
  • In Chapter 341 Dabi gives an encouraging speech to Toga, telling her that they should smile no matter what happens tomorrow, before burning her miserable childhood house to the ground. Toga herself even notes that it was a surprisingly kind gesture from him, especially since they could easily get caught, though Dabi denies this and says that he just did it to screw with Endeavor.
• Physical Scars, Psychological Scars: Dabi's charred, patchwork body matches his scarred, unstable psyche.
• Playing with Fire: His Quirk is fire-based, although his flames are blue, making them hotter than Shoto's or even Endeavor's. It is in fact stronger than his father's Hellfire Quirk, but with much greater consequences on his body. Either way, he's able to turn groups of people into charred corpses within seconds.
• Poor Communication Kills: He comes to the conclusion that Endeavor decided he was worthless as he forbid him from training to be a hero when his lack of fire resistance became apparent. In truth, Endeavor did it out of fear for his safety, not wanting to risk losing his eldest son. Unfortunately, rather than explaining it to Toya, he chose to yell at him any time he caught him trying to train his Quirk and work with his younger children instead. This resulted to Toya nearly burning himself to death in a misguided attempt at self-training to prove himself, falling into the hands of All For One, and growing up to be the murderous villain, Dabi.
• Power Incontinence: As a child, Toya had little control over his fire Quirk due to his growing mental instability from his family life and estranged relationship with his parents. When he hit puberty his flames became hotter and he discovered they were linked to his emotions, the worst of it came when Toya cried after his father didn't come to Sekoto Hill so he could show him his blue fire. His unstable emotional state turned his tears into flames and since he didn't know how to turn down the flames Toya was burnt alive.
• The Power of Hate: Dabi has dedicated his life to destroying Endeavor's heroic legacy out of pure hatred for the hero, and considering his backstory it's not hard to see why. Garaki reveals Dabi should've died years ago, but his undying hatred is so intense that it's actively keeping Dabi alive. This comes up during the Final Battle, where despite being reduced to little more than a burning husk, Dabi simply keeps going out of pure hatred. It's to the point where multiple characters are utterly dumbfounded that he's still alive, let alone capable of moving.
• Practically Joker: He is an insane nihilistic man who has a personal relationship with a prominent hero and has a perpetual smile on his face due to the disfigurement of his skin. He revels in the chaos he creates and strives to crush the hopes of people. He especially wants to make his archenemy suffer at all costs and break his heroic spirit. The threat he poses to society is a psychological one and likes watching the world around him burn. Horikoshi even drew Dabi a sketch of him in a suit much like The Joker on the very same day "Dabi's Dance" episode premiered. His maniacal laughter on episode 125, courtesy of his voice actors Hiro Shimono and Jason Liebrecht, drives the comparison between the arsonist and the Clown Prince of Crime even further. Fans also point out that his Deranged Dance upon revealing his true identity to Shoto and Endeavor is exactly like the one Joker does in the climax of his film.
• Pragmatic Villainy: He refuses to continue fighting Shoto, not out of mercy for his sibling, but because Endeavor has passed out and he wanted Endeavor to witness and emotionally suffer his two sons fighting each other to death. When Dabi and Shoto have their rematch, despite pushing his firepower to its highest level, now that he's finally at the point of being able to incinerate himself and his family members with his own hellfire, Dabi controls and regulates the excessive heat he generates enough to avoid burning his upper head too badly. This enables him to keep fighting and burning everything around him even as his extremities steadily disintegrate from the heat, as he needs to avoid excessively damaging himself before facing Endeavor in a final blaze of glory. He eventually calls off his assault on Shoto when he calculates that the Self-Harm he's doing to himself will destroy his body before he could reach Endeavor's battlefield, not out of mercy towards his sibling.
• Prone to Tears: Was this as a child- in fact, he got his horrific burns when he started crying and lost control of his powers.
• Properly Paranoid: Dabi never really trusted Hawks from the beginning, hence he quickly figures out who leaked their location.
• Puberty Superpower: Played With, as with all Quirk users his Quirk developed around age 5. However, as he grew up, his mother's genes kicked in, revealing that his body is not naturally acclimated to his own Quirk, and his previously red hair was gradually turning white. A straighter example is how his flames did not develop into its hotter, blue color until he was 13 and shortly before the incident at Sekoto Peak, which explains why Endeavor and Shoto couldn't recognize him as Toya through his Quirk alone.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Dabi is stoic, calm and barely ever engages in bloodshed for his own amusement. However, if he's provoked and given the chance, he will murder people just because they made him mad. He also seems to enjoy when his plans come to fruition at the cost of others, such as when he widely smiles at the destruction of the city during the Paranormal Liberation War. Chapter 350 reveals that he was in a coma from 13 to 16-17, and he doesn't seem to have mentally developed much past age 13. His increasingly manic behavior after revealing his true identity isn't unlike of a child throwing a tantrum for his father's attention. By the time he finally confronts him, compressing his flames within himself to self-invoke a Superpower Meltdown results in his fires rising to a level wherein they start to even burn Endeavor through his heat resistance, and the self-same heat starts eating into Dabi's brain at last, resulting in him falling back into a child-like mentality, seeing his attacks on his father as him demonstrating what he can do with his Quirk even as it blows his decaying body to pieces and calling out to Natsuo to come play with him.
• Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter": When Gigantomachia finally makes it to the city and starts tearing it apart on his way to Shigaraki, the panel noticeably shows Dabi smiling and looking exuberant at the destruction while everyone else is either holding on for dear life or have a much more solemn and subdued expression.
• Pyromaniac: His quirk allows him to generate hot blue flames that incinerate anything they come into contact with and it suits his personality as he uses any excuse to simply burn things even when it is a detriment to his safety or any allies around him. This is best shown when he burns down Toga's old home without caring if they are caught.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: He leads the Vanguard Action Squad when they attack the training camp, being able to effectively rally the dangerous group, and is the only person outside of All For One's inner circle (All For One himself, the Doctor, and Shigaraki) to be given control of a Nomu. This is in part because of his shared history with Garaki and All For One, and by the time of the Final Battle, his plan to use Toga along with a sample of Jin's blood to activate the Sad Man's Parade on the heroes makes him part of the Big Bad Ensemble of the villains, rather than Tomura, pairing with his wide-range destructive ability now that he's reached the point of killing himself to destroy Endeavor's legacy, and potentially taking both his family and everything in a 5 kilometer radius with him.
• Required Secondary Powers: Played with; he has some of these, but they're for his mother's ice Quirk, not for the fire Quirk that he actually got. As seen by his extensive burn scars, he barely has any resistance to fire, and a point is made he can't even use his powers for too long without his body rapidly overheating. He's well aware of this and compensates by frequently handing out Hannibal Lectures mid-fight in order to stall for time so he doesn't overuse his Quirk.
• Revenant Zombie: While Dabi is technically still alive, he's described as a 'living corpse' and it's noted by all accounts he should have been dead years ago. The only thing holding his body together at all is his hatred for his father. During the final confrontation with him, the imagery even focuses on him in such a way as to make him look practically undead.
• Revenge by Proxy: This was Dabi's original plan for revenge on Endeavor. Specifically, his original plan was to kill Shoto, who Endeavor had been grooming as a successor. He changed his plans following All Might's retirement, dropping the "proxy" and focusing on Endeavor specifically by siccing the villains Starservant and Ending on him in succession, culminating in Dabi revealing his true identity across the internet while simultaneously doing so to Endeavor and Shoto in person.

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• Sadist: While his entire motive for being a villain is primarily to gain his vengeance on Endeavor, this does not mean Dabi didn't revel in roasting his victims alive with a deadly grin or psychologically tormenting others by disrupting the society into turning against heroes into despair. This is ultimately the reason why so many of those subjected to his Breaking Speeches eventually turn them back on him: for all Dabi may have some legitimate points, he's simply too gleeful at watching others suffering and willing to cause excessive collateral damage in enacting his cause to be the moral superior, even with his Dark and Troubled Past.
• Safety in Indifference: He seems detached from the League and any ally he makes due to his abandonment issues stemming from his family life. It's unclear if Dabi's refusal to engage with them as friends is due to him being more focused on achieving his goals over forming any personal relationships, especially since his ultimate aim is to kill himself as a final act of spite against Endeavor, or if he considers himself too far gone to be capable of that kind of empathy anymore.
• Sanity Slippage:
  • As shown in the Todoroki family flashback Toya's sanity started to fracture once it became clear that he couldn't become Endeavor's desired successor and his father decided to have more children to try and find one with a greater Quirk with no setbacks, despite already ingraining his own dream and ambitions onto Toya. This led to Toya almost attacking a baby Shoto in a fit of jealous rage and, once Endeavor started to train Shoto away from the others, Toya tried to continue his training by himself in the vain hope that it would impress his father and convince him that he could still be his successor. The final straw came when Endeavor didn't show up to watch him train on top of Sekoto Peak which caused him such emotional turmoil that his flames went out of control and burned him alive. It was at that point that Toya Todoroki died and the psychotic Dabi was born.
  • While Dabi had stopped being sane a long time ago, his self-invoked Superpower Meltdown begins to burn away at his own brain and mind. As a result, he soon regresses back to a child mentally and loses what sanity he had left.
• Sanity Has Advantages: While Dabi is cunning and has planning and chessmaster skills on par with All For One, his own insanity and obsession with revenge against his father gets in the way and make him hinder his own plans at times. This is best shown when he tried attacking Endeavor and Hawks after the High End Attack and not caring if he gets captured or killed.
• Satanic Archetype: Once an aspiring hopeful hero, Toya became an Antagonistic Offspring that seeks to destroy his father and all his siblings out of envy for being seemingly forgotten by them much like Lucifer grew to hate humanity for being seemingly replaced as his Father's new favorite "creation" (a derrogatory term Dabi also likes to use to dehumanize Shoto). His survival after being nearly killed by own flames is credit to his sheer hatred, resentment and desire for revenge against those he believed have betrayed him. His scars give him an appearance reminiscent of death, which he gained from his Start of Darkness, akin to how Satan became deformed upon falling from grace. Finally, his flames are extremely powerful and while they burn brightly, they only bring death and destruction along the way. Best shown during his final battle against Shoto, where he reduces Hosu to a scorched hellscape, and his appearance becomes straight up demonic in the process.
• Savage Piercings: Aside from his stitched-up skin, Dabi has a set of piercings on his ears and triple piercings on his nose that can all be seen here.
• Scary Stitches: His skin grafts are attached by them, and they seem only semi-effective at doing the job. Dabi isn't someone you want to meet in person either, and definitely someone you don't want to annoy.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When he realizes that he'll have to fight Mirko, one of the strongest heroes in the country, at full health in order to get a shot at the injured and exhausted Endeavor and Hawks, Dabi wisely flees.
• Self-Harm: Due to wanting to please his father Toya would continue to train by himself despite the harmful burns it caused his body. He continues to do this well into adulthood, and ultimately aims to take this to it's logical conclusion: burning himself away to nothingness via achieving a level of firepower Endeavor never could, whilst using it to destroy everything his father values.
• Self-Immolation: Invoked. Dabi wants to end his father's career and end his life even if it means he will have to die too, considering he isn't immune to his own flames. When he knows his father is at his limit after fighting Gigantomachia and Shigaraki, he tried to use Endeavor's ultimate moves to kill him in a twist of cruel irony but was interrupted by Best Jeanist.
• Shut Up, Kirk!: Every criticism he receives from the Heroes is brushed off. Midoriya's defiant cry that Dabi isn't Endeavor is essentially waved off as obvious, and Shoto's attempts to make Dabi realize he's taking revenge on everyone who didn't personally contribute to his neglect fall on deaf ears since hurting the people Endeavor valued the most was the whole point.
• Shadow Archetype: To Shoto. Dabi is a dark embodiment of Shoto's worst personality traits before his Character Development. He is aloof, anti-social, obsessed with getting revenge against Endeavor to the point he is willing injure himself to do so. That is the main reason why Shoto was chosen to fight him during the final battle.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: To all of his siblings:
  • Shoto: Both were chosen by Endeavor to be his successor and underwent his extremely harsh training regime. But Shoto won the Superpower Lottery, and was born with both of his parent's powers, but with almost none of the drawbacks. Toya had a stronger fire Quirk than Shoto or Endeavor, but inherited his mother's weak and frail body that couldn't handle his own flames. Shoto became The Ace of his class, while Toya because The Dreaded under the League of Villains.
  • Natsuo: Both of them hate Endeavor for neglecting them, but Natsuo limits his hatred to simply not associating with the man as much as possible while Toya outright plots his father's downfall and is extremely homicidal towards him. They were the closest of the four siblings growing up, likely due to their shared enmity towards their father.
  • Fuyumi: She is the only Todoroki sibling even remotely willing to forgive their father and try to reconcile with him, while Toya does everything he can to ruin his father's reputation, even if it means further fracturing their already broken family. They both knew Endeavor as a halfway-decent father at first before his obsession consumed him, whereas Natsuo and Shoto never got that chance. They're also the closest in age among the siblings, having been born in the same year as each other.
• A Sinister Clue: He happens to be conspicuously left-handed, which connects to his villain status as left-handedness is be likewise frowned upon in Japanese culture.
• Slasher Smile: His most common expression, aside from his default deadpan, is some variety of a manic grin. In total fairness, the Glasgow Grin effect of his face stitches would make outright frowning difficult, if not impossible, so this may be the easiest face for him to pull.
• Smarter Than You Look: Like Shigaraki, he looks like a crazed thug with only a strong Quirk backing him. Yet he was the one who kept the heroes on their toes and distracted them from the League's true objective. In battle, this translates him to identifying the strengths and weaknesses of his opponents and striking at their soft spot. And when Shigaraki is on the brink of defeat, he turns the still active heroes' eyes on him by using this moment to reveal his identity and the fact he's broadcasting his life story across the internet.
• Smash the Symbol: His goal of dismantlingsociety is by revealing his connection and past with Endeavor, the current no. 1 hero and thus the current symbol of Japan people have faith in. By revealing his blood ties as Endeavor's eldest son along with his father's domestic abuse he successfully crushes the faith the public had in heroes and he did it during a war to add salt in the wound.
• The Social Expert: Played with. Dabi isn't social or amicable by any means, but he has a good eye for reading people, quickly deciphering their motives, and accurately predicting their actions. Hence how he knew Hawks was the traitor and how he knew Hawks would instinctively save Twice out of a reflex.
• The Sociopath: Shoto asks Dabi if he ever cared that Ending, one of the villains he sent after Endeavor, almost killed Natsuo, who he always cried to as a child. Dabi only focuses on the fact that it would have hurt Endeavor had Natsuo actually died and explains he "isn't big on feelings".
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: He has a rather quiet voice and rarely raises it, but is still a Serial Killer all the same. The one time he actually does end up yelling at someone (Endeavor), Shigaraki mentions in surprise that he "never knew Dabi could shout that loudly".
• Spanner in the Works: Dabi's entire existence is this as no one, not even the League of Villains, saw him successfully dismantling the public's trust in heroes by simply revealing his past as Toya Todoroki to the masses. The heroes were too focused on the larger physical threats such as Tomura or Twice that they never realized something like Dabi's broadcast would happen.
• Spiteful Suicide:
  • His ultimate goal is basically to achieve this, not just killing himself, but using all of his remaining time before then to make himself the most remorseless, deranged and unforgivable villain he can to the public to throw mud on his Endeavor's reputation by association, and then aiming to kill them both in a Murder-Suicide attack, a process he directly equates to dragging his father to hell with him. His spite goes even beyond his ultimate target however, as he makes it clear he also wants to kill his 'replacement' Shoto before that to further break his father and show how he's better than his 'masterpiece', and furthermore goes the additional mile of trying to use his family drama to break the public's faith in the concept of heroes, even targeting Hawks, an otherwise-unrelated hero, as another example of how flawed the concept of a real-life superhero is. He has no true reason to do this beyond apparently wanting the idea of heroes to die alongside him, as he was unable to achieve it as a child because of his Dream-Crushing Handicap, and so seeks to deny that same dream to countless others.
  • Once he understands and replicates Shoto's Phosphor move with his own flames, he begins using it to steadily build up thermal energy within himself, self-invoking a Superpower Meltdown as his final move to kill his father alongside him even with his body burnt to a barely-movable charcoal husk. However the sheer size of the blast also threatens to catch the evacuation shelters housing citizens who put their faith in heroes once more in it, as the escape route from UA passes nearby Gunga. Tsukauchi theories that rather than a coincidence, Dabi is intentionally trying to kill them as well as his final act, if Skeptic made him aware of the Shelter's locations, using his last moment of life to spitefully hurt those who still believe in heroes along with his main targets.
• Spree Killer: We see him roast several thugs to death in an alley and the pro hero Snatch mentions a string of crimes involving burnt corpses. Shortly after, Snatch himself is added to the body count. He eventually confirms he has killed over 30 people. He is described as a mass-murderer in universe and all of these murderers have occurred after joining the League as all of it is simply putting his plan of vengeance against Endeavor into action.
• The Spook: To the heroes and the villains alike, Dabi just shows up out of nowhere with a powerful Quirk and a relentless desire to burn down the heroes. Nobody actually knows what his Quirk is called, what his vision of a "brighter future" is, or even where he comes from. Hawks even tried to look into him specifically and came up with nothing.
• Squishy Wizard: His Quirk makes him one of the most dangerous members of the League of Villains, but he's held back by a very weak constitution. A single kick is enough to knock him out, and due to the aforementioned aversion to Required Secondary Powers, he can't even use his own powers too much at once without a severe toll on his body.
• Start of Darkness: Feeling like he was being replaced by Shoto as his father's successor, combined with his parents' emotional neglect of him, slowly turned Toya emotionally unstable. Coupled along with his intent on proving himself to his father to gain his respect Toya tried hard to control his Quirk. The breaking point came when he lost control of his emotions and his Quirk when Endeavor didn't show up to watch him train, causing Toya to become engulfed in flames and burnt alive. While he survived, his sanity didn't and thus Toya took the path that led him to become Dabi.
• Straw Nihilist: Dabi is a staunch Stain supporter who believes society is full of nothing but fake heroes. But unlike Stain, he believes that true heroes don't exist and that everyone who is a pro-hero is only a selfish person looking out for themselves and their reputation. His personal ideology is much more extremist than Stain, and unlike Stain, Dabi has no problem aligning himself with the League to dismantle Japan and kill plenty of innocents in the process.
• Strong and Skilled: Played for Horror example. Revealed to be this during his battle in Kamino against his youngest brother Shoto in Chapters 351 and 352, and while Shoto was able to defeat him temporarily at least because by chapter 363 he was able to copy Shoto's Phosphor move in only a short amount of time. This is shown visually in how he's able to control his extreme heat enough to avoid excessive damage to his upper head immediately, even as all the skin and muscles beneath that steadily burn to ashes.
• Strong Family Resemblance: It's hard to tell with his disfigurement and dyed hair, but without the skin grafts and hair dye Dabi takes after both his parents with his mother's facial features but his father's eye color and spiky hair.
  • He seems to also resemble his youngest brother Shoto in looks if it wasn't for his skin grafts.
• Super-Power Meltdown:
  • He was seemingly killed in a mountain fire started by his quirk. He burst into flames due to his extreme emotions at that time and was unable to put out his flames because Endeavor only ever taught him how to increase them.
  • After losing to his brother, he manages to get back up, but starts compressing fire inside his body to power up and keep going. It's soon discovered that it will eventually cause Dabi to explode and take everything in five kilometers with him.
• Superior Successor: Subverted. A flashback of Shoto's reveals that Toya was Endeavor's first choice as his successor because his fire powers were much stronger than his father's, but he had inherited his mother's weak constitution toward heat. His desire to prove that this was the case despite the Self-Harm his fires caused him lead him to become increasingly obsessed with 'proving his worth' to his father and that he wasn't a 'mistake'. Unable to dissuade Toya from training even in secret, in part because he still hadn't given up on his desire for a child strong enough to beat All Might, Endeavor and Rei had more children in the hopes this would stop Toya's self-destructive obsession. Instead, it only drove him into an existential breakdown when Shoto was born. By the present, this is the root of his hatred towards his youngest sibling alongside their father, despite Shoto having down nothing to him personally.
• Taking You with Me: During the Final Battle, Dabi starts compressing thermal energy inside of him with intent to cause an intentional Superpower Meltdown. The result would be Dabi exploding, taking everything in a 5 kilometer radius.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Between his dark hair and outfit and his sometimes derisive attitude.
• Tareme Eyes: He had droopy oval eyes as a child as indicated by the photo the Todoroki family have of him in their shrine. They are shown to highlight his innocence as a child before Endeavor's neglect and abuse caused him to become the mass murdering terrorist Dabi.
• Tears of Blood: The scabs under his eyes bleed to create this effect.
• Technicolor Fire: In contrast to other fire-users in the series, Dabi's fire is always bright blue to denote how much hotter his flames burn by default. His flames were once orange/red in color before turning blue when he turned 13. The fact that no one in his family ever knew about that change before his "death" might have contributed to their inability to recognize him as Toya.
• Terms of Endangerment: He refers to Natsuo as "Natsuo-kun", while admitting he was the one who sent the villain that threatened his younger brother's life. He also sarcastically addresses Endeavor as "Dad" whenever he meets him in person after revealing his true identity as Toya Todoroki just to remind his father that he has a dangerous villain as a son.
• That Man Is Dead: Stated outright in Chapter 350, Toya died in the fire at Sekoto Peaks and upon returning home and seeing his death didn't change his father's ways, he swore vengeance and thus, Dabi was born.
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Chapter 350 reveals that even All for One was forced to abandon his plans for Toya due to his Death Seeker wish and his incredibly self-destructive fire quirk. Garaki finds Toya's case notable because it’s the one time where they failed to manipulate a target.
• Tragic Villain: Dabi himself lampshades this during the broadcasted video where he reveals his true identity as Toya Todoroki. His whole existence and purpose were to simply serve his father's selfish dream and then he was cast aside and forgotten when he was deemed a failure. Dabi was abused and neglected by his own father and had to see Endeavor relish his hero status while knowing he was a domestic abuser who hurt his entire family. Chapter 350 expands on this and showed that when Dabi saw his "death" didn't force Endeavor to change his ways, moving on towards his youngest child Shoto, and how his life is going to be cut short as a result of his damaged body, Dabi decided that he would use what's left of his life to make Endeavor miserable for how he was treated.
• Unable to Cry: Thanks to the burns around his eyes, he has no tear ducts and is unable to cry. Though the wounds from the staples around his eye areas have been shown leaking symbolic Tears of Blood on occasion, usually when Toya's feeling particularly emotional.
• Underestimating Badassery:
  • Invoked by Hawks when he shows the PLF's lieutenants video of Midoriya, Bakugo, and Todoroki failing to catch some villains because he beat them to it, causing Dabi to condescendingly say that they don't look like they've improved that much. What Dabi doesn't know is that Hawks purposely interrupted the students' battle in order to make the PLF underestimate them.
  • Played straight ironically enough with Hawks himself who spent most of his energy observing Twice due to his insane Quirk and didn't pay as much attention to Dabi. Then Dabi reveals Hawks' true name, reveals his own, and makes clear his own ambitions to change the world. Dabi himself warns that the hero should have kept a close eye on him.
  • Dabi underestimates Shoto during their final battle, assuming it will be a Curbstomp Battle in his favor. Shoto has developed a new technique that allows him to cancel out most of Dabi's power edge and defeats him by counterattacking at the right moments.
• Unexplained Recovery: Initially, it was a complete mystery as to how he even managed to survive the massive arson that got him to vanish and leaving everyone believe he simply consumed himself to ashes in the fire, especially when he was a barely pubescent boy with an inherent weakness to his own flames. It turns out that it was due to All For One rescuing him and Garaki giving him reconstructive surgery, as the two had been on the lookout for 'warped seeds' who might be able to serve as his next vessel. However, not only did Toya refuse to cooperate with them, his insane goals run completely counter to All For One's grand ambitions, so he ran the first chance he got. He eventually returned years later, but only cooperates with All For One's plans out of mutual short-term interest. Even Doctor Garaki admits that he has no idea how Dabi managed to survive on his own in the intervening years.
• The Unfavorite: What he believed himself to be in his family, as he describes his father Endeavor as tossing him away when he found a more suitable successor in his youngest brother, Shoto. The truth is a bit more complex; after Toya's parents discovered that his body is vulnerable to his quirk, Endeavor decided to stop training him out of concern for his health, but Toya refused to listen and kept practicing in secret, all while burning himself more and more. Endeavor, being mostly driven by his envy of All Might, decided to have more children in hopes that finding a suitable successor would discourage Toya. After his brothers were born, Toya came to the realization that his father was seeking out a new heir, and he promptly snapped and tried to attack his infant brother.
• The Unfettered: Dabi will do anything to achieve his goal of breaking his father's spirit and heroic legacy. He doesn't even care about his own family anymore; not even Natsuo, whom he relied on for emotional comfort as a child, is spared from his quest for revenge against Endeavor, as shown when he lamented how it's a shame Natsuo didn't die so Endeavor could suffer another emotional loss. This is even visually shown in Chpater 351 by the way he uses Endeavor's Hell Spider Super Move. When Endeavor uses the move, he fires thin, precise beams of flame to limit collateral damage and avoid casualties. But as noted by Idia, Dabi's use of the move has him release thicker beams of fire in a more haphazard way, showing how little Dabi cares about collateral damage. Even his own allies aren't safe, as his final gambit, compressing so much thermal energy inside him that he'll explode and take everything in 5 kilometers with him, would have all of them in the blast radius.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Played With. When All For One and Garaki saved him from burning alive, kept him hooked up to medical equipment for three years whilst he was in a coma, and gave him reconstructive surgery to replace his missing body parts, Toya outright refused their offers to regain his full firepower and escaped, burning down the Orphanage they had accumulated several similarly-abandoned children in as he did so, and showed no regret for spitting on all the efforts they'd made to keep him alive out of his own petty motivations of being trained and recognized only by Endeavor.
• The Un-Reveal: Played for drama. When Hawks directly asks who he is, Dabi honestly answers but the actual reply is represented as a solid black speech bubble with no text. Based on Hawks' reaction and later revelations, it's clear he told him he was Endeavor's presumed dead son.
• Unfulfilled Purpose Misery: As a kid, Toya happily trained with Enji in order to fulfill his father's wishes to become a hero who can surpass All Might. When it became clear that his body wasn't suitable for the goal they tried to reach, Enji post haste told him to stop trying for it, and further distancing due to work and his own hangups did not sit well for Toya's psyche. He was constantly frustrated with Enji's discouragement, often training in secret to show that he can become a hero after all—or more importantly, to show that he still deserved Enji's attention. The birth of his youngest brother Shoto made him snap precisely because Toya saw him as a physical reminder of what he could not accomplish.
• Unskilled, but Strong: His Quirk can do some major damage, but Dabi seems to prefer spamming it all over the place. In the ULTRA ANALYSIS Character Book, he has a D in technique. By the time of the raid, however, Dabi does start holding back a bit, allowing him to do things like fly by shooting fire from his feet. He then promptly throws aside any and all restraint in his final battle, even more so than he originally did, due to no longer caring if he kills himself doing so. This backfires, as Shoto's new technique neutralizes the 'strong' aspect of the trope and Shoto outplays Dabi in the skilled department.
• Unwitting Pawn: Notably Averted: he's the only member of the League and PLF to not be All For One's pawn in any way. All For One did put him back together, but Garaki flat out says he's never been able to control Dabi. If anything, Dabi is the one using the League and All For One to get his revenge on his father, and that just happens to line up with Tomura and All For One's own plans. And they're all perfectly okay with that, seeing as Dabi wreaks more than his fair share of havoc and keeps prominent heroes like Shoto and Endeavor busy.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Toya was a curious and talented child that wanted to be a hero like his father, and both loved each other very much. However, that they loved each other doesn't mean they understood each other. Enji imparting his desire onto Toya caused him to gain the same obsession for himself, slowly letting it eat at him as he tried to gain Enji's acknowledgement, constantly damaging himself in the process. By time Shoto was born, Toya was now filled with hate and resentment, taking his frustrations out on anyone who denied him his desire, before nearly killing himself after Enji ignored him one too many times. In the present, Dabi has taken his obsessive behavior and ran with it, and now seeks nothing more than to torture Enji before killing him, and is willing to drag the rest of Japan down with him to do so.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: Invoked. Dabi will do anything to destroy his father and the heroes but he has no plan for anything better to replace them, all he wants is for everything to disappear completely, preferably in the most gruesome and painful way possible, and then... nothing. Even after ruining his father and Hawks's reputation, the simple fact that Endeavor still tries to get back on his feet just further motivates him to go even harder in his quest to destroy his father, hinting that nothing will ever be enough to quench his thirst for revenge.
• Villain of Another Story: Despite his status as a lieutenant to Shigaraki he is the main villain in any story involving the Todoroki family due to being his father and youngest brother's archenemy.
• Villainous Valor: It's eventually revealed that Dabi should by all means be dead— instead, he manifested The Power of Hate to such an extent that it kept him nightmarishly alive, constantly on the brink of death but always pulling himself back. No matter how much damage he does to himself, Dabi keeps himself alive in the name of achieving his goals.
• Villains Never Lie: Dabi may have withheld his identity from the League since he met them, yet he's always been honest and never told a lie to them. Granted, his statement about Hawks killing Best Jeanist was false but Dabi had believed Hawks truly had killed him.
• Visionary Villain: Dabi plans to make Stain's will a reality and destroy his father's legacies, he has a clear conviction and goal and even tells Hawks that all it takes is one man with one strong conviction to change the world. However, he seeks to only destroy the status quo and doesn't believe that true heroes even exist.
• Walking Spoiler: His true identity marks a huge Wham Episode for the entire series.
• Walking Wasteland:
  • His immense flames and willingness to cause widespread destruction with them make him a force to be reckoned with, though due to the same fires also eating away at his body every time he reaches that level of incineration, he doesn't really get to show it off that much in the early chapters, limiting himself to singular but powerful attacks that catch his targets off-guard and using monologues to conserve his stamina for another attack. Nonetheless, Twice notes that if he created a small army of Dabis against the MLA, they'd set the city ablaze killing their numerically-superior enemies and potentially catch the league in the crossfire.
  • Once he outs himself as Toya Todoroki however, he fully discards any sense of self-preservation along with his Mask of Sanity, spewing his high-intensity flames from all over his body constantly in battle, making him as much an environmental Hazard as a physical opponent, to the point that he can only be fought by the Final Battle by those who have some means of resisting heat, and everybody else is repelled away from him. Once he manages to mimic and replicate Shoto's Phosphor move with his own flames to reach an even higher level of flames, this becomes the sole reason he remains a threat, as the fires he unleashes eats away at his disintegrating body more rapidly, leaving him looking like a shuffling corpse that can barely manage to stand upright and has to move by propelling himself by his flames. Nonetheless, the sheer heat he emits means that he becomes a moving hazard constantly setting everything around him ablaze that everybody can only keep their distance from until the same fires finally destroy him.
• We Can Rebuild Him: After he nearly burned himself to death as a child, All For One took his barely-alive body to Doctor Garaki who saved his life by replacing most of his ruined body with parts collected from corpses and Nomus.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Toya was one in the past as a result of Endeavor's abuse towards him. His apparent death and burn marks were the result of Toya overexerting himself in trying to control his flames to impress his father. Toya was excited to learn from his father and fulfill his dream of surpassing All Might, but when Endeavor realized that Toya's quirk was harming his own body, he forced him to give up on his dreams. Toya took his genuine concern for his safety as a rejection, which only made him more desperate to prove himself. The breaking point was Endeavor completely neglecting him in favor of Shoto's higher potential, which also may explain Dabi's hostility towards his youngest brother, since he feels that Shoto has his father's acknowledgment and considers him Endeavor's "little puppet".
• Wham Line: Chapter 290:
  Dabi: I have a great name. Call me Toya.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Unlike the other characters who have fire Quirks, Dabi initially doesn't display any sophisticated techniques that differ from "turning his target into a blue fireball". Of course, Dabi's rarely been in a situation where that hasn't worked out for him, those exceptions being against Gigantomachia and Geten. He does start utilizing more techniques in the Paranormal Liberation War arc, such as hovering using his flames, probably as a direct response to the above. Of course, given how he demonstrates a wider arsenal of abilities once his identity is revealed, this could very well have been Dabi merely ending fights quickly to avoid damage to his own body, and even that goes out the window once the cat is out of the bag.
• White Hair, Black Heart: Toya was born with red hair, but it turned white as he grew older. When he reveals he is Toya, he removes the black dye he was using, showing the white hair. He's also a Serial Killer that is willing to kill members of his own family if it means hurting his father and is by far one of the most ruthless villains in the series.
• Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: Dabi proclaims that he, the son of Endeavor, turned out to be a cruel villain due to the abuse he suffered. He proceeds to effectively blame all of his actions on Endeavor, even while he burns Nejire at that very moment.
  Dabi: Ha Ha Ha! Check it out, Endeavor! History's repeating itself! Another kid with a bright future all burned up! By your flames!!
• Why Won't You Die?: By the Final Battle, Dabi's willingness to push his firepower to an unbeatable level in order to kill both Shoto and Endeavor eats away at his body, by the end of his clash with Shoto resembling nothing more than a roasted corpse that can barely move anymore, and having to propel his disintegrating shell around by the force of his flames. Burnin outright says that regardless of his mad tenacity, his physical body should have long ago succumbed to the sheer heat he's generating and crumbled into charcoal. This furthers the symbolism of Dabi as a Revenant Zombie, sustaining his existence through sheer hatred and staving off death until he achieves his vengeance.
  Burnin: This goes way beyond powering through with that sheer will he's inherited! It doesn't make sense! I thought his body wasn't made for heat?! How the hell is he not falling to pieces?!
• Wild Card: Villainous example. While Dabi is considered reliable enough within the League to be given command over missions and several high-end Nomus, he admittedly focuses more on his own goals (read: disgracing and killing Endeavor), making his actions less-than-predictable to other characters. He’s just as likely to go off on his own outside of missions, seeking new recruits for the League (and burning them all alive instead) rather than hanging with the others at base; Toga accuses him of just wanting to burn people. He confronts Endeavor and Hawks straight after the Hood incident and catches both off guard, despite having a meeting planned with Hawks already. During the Paranormal Liberation War, Dabi abandons his lieutenant role early on, citing the general chaos when Mr. Compress asks. When he ultimately confronts Endeavor and Shoto as Toya, his fellow villains watch and are almost as shocked as the Todorokis, implying they were also largely unaware of Dabi's plan that day.
• Worf Had the Flu: Despite having great firepower that is greater than Endeavor's, Dabi rarely got the chance to finish many of his fights. Due to the fact that he is being burned by his own flames every time he uses his Quirk, he can never go all out or risk destroying himself before he can get his revenge against Endeavor. Sure enough, by the Paranormal Liberation arc when Dabi finally goes all out, he easily breaks out of Best Jeanist's carbon fibers that can hold back Gigantomachia and overwhelms some of UA's finest students.
• Worth It: This basically sums up Toya's personality to a tee. Anything, no matter how despicable or manipulative, is worth it to him if he can destroy both his Father, Enji Todoroki, and the very image of Heroes along with him. His own fire powers basically destroy him from the inside out, especially if he goes all-out in a fight, but he doesn't care if it means he can hurt or kill his current targets, and it's all but stated that his lifespan is getting cut down from the damage he's doing to himself in his quest for vengeance, but he's perfectly content with that. In fact, it's hinted that he ''wants'' to die in order to further spite his father with his failure to save him, but not before causing as much damage as possible to Enji's legacy. This is ultimately the reason All For One had to pass him over as a potential vessel despite Toya's hatred being perfect for his plans— Dabi is willing to sacrifice his own body and health to achieve his goals, which runs counter to All For One's grander designs.
• Would Hurt a Child: When he woke up from his coma after his self-immolation in an Orphanage of Love that gathered similarly abandoned children for All For One's plans, many of whom were shown to be looking forward to him waking up and joining their 'family', Toya showed no hesitation or regret over setting the building on fire in order to escape. This could endangered or possibly killed innocent children who had never harmed him. However as 35th Volume Extra reveal, it didn't caused much damage, nobody was hurt and the fire was quickly extinguished.
• Wreathed in Flames: Dabi leaps straight off Gigantomachia's back, allowing flames to practically cover his entire body as he falls towards Endeavor. This is preparation for his own twisted form of his father's Signature Move, Prominence Burn.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: Originally, Dabi's plan to humiliate Endeavor was to wait until Shoto became a famous Pro Hero and kill him. When All Might's unexpected retirement finally allowed Endeavor to achieve his dream of becoming the #1 hero, Dabi decided to focus on tearing down and destroying Endeavor directly.
• You Are What You Hate: A stoic and selfish Todoroki man with a goal to change society and leave a powerful legacy behind, backed by a powerful fire quirk, and is willing to achieve that goal at all costs. However, their personal endeavors cause pain to those around them especially their family. The description can fit either Endeavor or Dabi and out of all the Todoroki siblings, Toya takes after Enji the most in both power and personality.
• Your Days Are Numbered: Implied and outright confirmed in Chapter 350. After accidentally immolating himself, his body was heavily debilitated, to the point where he needed foreign body parts to survive. Even then, his body would require regular medical procedures that only Garaki should have been able to provide. Toya ran and cut off all constact with All For One and Garaki despite the risk. Garaki confirmed he shouldn't have lasted a month after AFO retrieved him. He comes back to the League knowing full well he's going to die sooner rather than later and decided to dedicate what's left of his life towards making his father as miserable as possible. During his battle with Shoto in Chapter 351, both Shoto and Burnin note that Dabi is raising his body heat to dangerous levels and at the rate he's going, he's surely going to die.
• Your Size May Vary: Both Dabi and Shoto's official height is 176cm (5'9¼"). Yet, Dabi appears to be a lot taller. Bakugo, at 172cm (5'7½") should be only slightly shorter than both, and his spiky Shonen Hair generally makes him look almost as tall as Shoto, yet, when Dabi kidnaps him, he appears to be One Head Taller than Bakugo.

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