Characters / My Hero Academia Vanguard Action Squad

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Team Up Mission

Post-Forest Invasion Vanguard Action Squad (with Shigaraki and their captive)

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

—Dabi

A group of nine villains, ranging from experienced criminals to strong upstarts, who joined the rebranded League of Villains, originally under the belief that the League was affiliated with the incarcerated Hero Killer: Stain. They serve as the League's main taskforce, being entrusted by their leader, Tomura Shigaraki, to go about various missions that require them to operate together or solo. Officially, Dabi is their leader, with a Middle Tier Nomu that rounds out their numbers to ten.

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

Vanguard Action Squad

In General

Invading Vanguard Action Squad (missing: Twice, Mr. Compress & Chainsaw Nomu)

With aid from the villain broker, Giran, all nine members of the Vanguard Action Squad were recruited into the League of Villains. Entrusted by Shigaraki to carry out their missions, they have a wide range of freedom to carry out their roles as they see fit so long as they are able to get their job done. They were first dispatched to invade the U.A. training camp in order to capture Katsuki Bakugo, and those that weren't captured would go on to become persistent threats throughout the series.

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• Arc Villain: They serve as the main antagonists of the Training Camp Arc. The ones that remained serve as this in the Paranormal Liberation War Arc and Final War Arc.
• The Bad Guy Wins: While they lost a few during their invasion, the Vanguard Action Squad still managed to kidnap Bakugo and injure the majority of the Hero trainees as well, dealing a major blow against Hero society.
• Cannon Fodder: Subverted. When Kurogiri asks if Shigaraki considers them this, as a display of his character development, he explains that he really does want them to return back to him safely...but notes, whether they succeeded or failed, was another matter entirely.
• The Dreaded: Following their successful invasion of the training camp, assault against most of the Hero Trainees and Heroes, and kidnapping of Bakugo & Ragdoll, most of the remainder of the Vanguard earned such a reputation for good reason amongst the Heroes. Something that becomes even more justified as the League's continuous clashes with Heroes shows off more of the Vanguard operatives skill, unpredictability, deadliness and increased power as the story marches on. For the Second War against the Villains, the Heroes divide and conquer plan was made with seperating Toga and Dabi from the proceedings as much as possible given how much of a wild card and powerhouse, they were respectively. Subverted, with Spinner whose typically overshadowed by his stronger comrades due to their destructive capabilities and not really factored in much in the Heroes plan...something that winds up screwing them over at times.
• Dwindling Party: Their invasion of the Hero training camp and the Heroes subsequent raid on their hideouts, resulted in the loss of Muscular, Moonfish, Mustard and their Nomu, leaving only six mainstays of the League. As the series progresses, the remaining Vanguard has either been killed (Magne and Twice) or arrested (Compress) leaving only Toga, Dabi and Spinner still around. All For One's Tartarus jailbreak also brought Moonfish back into the fold. Muscular briefly was released as well, but ended up getting re-captured by Midoriya.
  • During the Second War, the Vanguard Action Squad has been completely disbanded with Moonfish, Dabi, Toga and Spinner all falling in battle and in Hero custody.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Dabi, Toga, Spinner and Mustard appeared during the spread of Stain's viral video, all four clearly influenced by the Hero Killer.
• Elite Mooks: Invoked and Lampshaded by Dabi. The Vanguard Action Squad was comprised of infamous career criminals that usually had more experience in crime and/or had better powers/skills than the back-alley thugs that made up the USJ attack (a fiasco that the League wanted to avoid again). Compared to the thugs that struggled to keep up in the USJ assault, each Vanguard member is skilled enough to hold their own against the Heroes and Villains they come across, if not defeat them. Even the weakest, Spinner, can still handle himself against decently trained Quirk Users well.
  • Following the Meta Liberation Army arc, most of the remnants that became the Lieutenants of the Paranormal Liberation Front became stronger in their fight against Gigantomachia or the MLA. Combined with their new PLF connections giving them better gear, most have become a threat capapble of going against squads of Heroes by themselves (and likely decimating a good chunk) compared to just several when they first started out.
• Inspirational Martyr: On a personal level, Stain was that to a few in the Vanguard, inspiring them to join the League of Villains to change society. On whole, it was the erroneous belief that Stain was a member of the League that got the entirety of the Vanguard to the organization. However, as the story continues, its made clear that they none of the Vanguard, never truly cared about his ideals beyond their own goals. Even Spinner and Dabi, the ones who emobdied them the most, merely latched on to it due to jumping on the bandwagon (Spinner) or it takes a backseat to their revenge (Dabi).
• Standard Evil Organization Squad: Serves as such to the League of Villains.
• True Companions: Just like with their boss Shigaraki, those in the Vanguard do hold an affable to downright familial nature towards each other. Even the most selfish or cruel amongst them, like Dabi or Muscular, do at least seem to respect their teammates enough to get along with them and cooperate with their plans if needed. Post-Kamino, their bond has increased to the point that hurting one of them to downright killing one of them is the fastest way to earn the remainder's ire and see either your plans ruined or a steep body count rise in retaliation.
• Psycho for Hire: Muscular, and likely Moonfish is as well. The former just joined the League for an excuse to kill people how he liked. Interestingly while Moonfish cannibalistic and obviously crazy, he at least tries to hold himself back to try to do his job.
• Quality over Quantity: An enforced trope in-universe. Given the fiasco concerning the USJ incident, Dabi notes that the Vanguard was made of only a few villains that were of a higher caliber than the League's first interaction, being mostly made of villains that had more experience in crime.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: An in-universe example. While the League's prior attacks were quite troublesome, admittedly much of that prior danger was really because of the Nomu's they produced. Their reputation was deemed to be on the level of just hooligans causing trouble due to the combination of Shigaraki's immaturity and the League being made up of low-level thugs at the time. It was the Vanguard's successful kidnapping of Bakugo and attack on UA's training camp that was enough to quickly get society to really see the League of Villains as a threat.

Dabi

Dabi

The coolheaded, scheming, leader of the Vanguard Action Squad. He joined the rebranded League of Villains to fulfill Stain's will, though, as the story progress, it seems his motivations are based a lot more on vengeance seeking.

His tropes can be found here.

Himiko Toga

Himiko Toga

A spunky, blood craving, girl that joined the rebranded League of Villains the same time as Dabi. She joined the League of Villains because she admired Stain, wanting to become him, and seeks a world easier for her to live in.

Her tropes can be found here.

Shuichi Iguchi — Spinner

Shuichi Iguchi — Spinner

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

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

Quirk: Gecko, Body Bulk, Scalemail

Rank: C

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

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

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

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: He has pink eyes and hair in the manga. In the anime, his hair is violet and his eyes are brown.
• All for Nothing: He accepts All For One's offer of power which slowly drives him insane to be more useful to Tomura...but Tomura was already hijacked by All For One's vestige, and if All For One has his way, will effectively cease to exist. As a result, Spinner's actions would never get the result he thinks they would. Gets subverted when the Tomura personality breaks free of All for One’s vestige, and takes back control; creating the opportunity to achieve their shared goal. In fact, Kurogiri’s shakeup to Tomura’s end of the battle played a part in his ability to regain control, so he helped save Tomura in more ways than anticipated.
• All There in the Manual: According to his profile in the Volume 24 Extras, the giant makeshift sword he used during the School Trip Arc is called the "Super Knife Knife Sword". His profile also reveals that his family had reptilian-based Quirks as well.
• Always Need What You Gave Up: Throughout the series, Spinner struggles with his feelings of uselessness to the League thanks to his weak quirk, but gradually amasses a large cult following from other Heteromorph Quirk-users because he's a weak mutant-type fighting against powerful heroes, and is additionally a charismatic speech-maker in his own right. When the Final Battle kicks off, he dramatically increases his combat utility as a front-line fighter by accepting multiple quirks from All For One, which makes him a dangerous force in a fight, but gradually starts eroding his mind from the strain of having more powers than he was born with, devolving him into Dumb Muscle that can only march forward relentlessly thanks to his willpower to be useful to Tomura, and actively struggles to string sentences together.
• Ambiguously Human: He has a reptilian appearance due to his Quirk, which earned him all sorts of abuse back in his hometown.
• At Least I Admit It: While Spinner may have joined the League primarily because of his admiration of Stain and his desire to follow his creed, others such as Dabi and Trumpet call him out for being a shallow Fan Boy and following another's creed rather than his own. Spinner however, openly acknowledges such statements and does not try to hide or justify his actions but rather accepts himself for who he is.
• BFS: He had one, referred to as the "Super Knife Knife Sword" in the Volume 24 extras, that was made up of a bunch of smaller blades tied together. He only uses it during his fight with Mandalay, as it was destroyed by Midoriya during said fight. Spinner swaps it out for a regular sword later, which proves to be more effective. In the final battle, he goes back to using a sword made out of "smaller" blades, but because he has already grown giant, his sword is now made out of hundreds of regular-sized swords.
• Blessed with Suck: Spinner definitely seems to have gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to Quirks. The only power that "Gecko" gives him is the ability to stick to walls, which, by itself, isn't exactly a bad power to have. However, the Quirk also gave him his reptilian appearance, which made him a constant victim of discrimination in his hometown. Making matters worse, the Volume 24 extras note that his Quirk was considered particularly weak even amongst his family's less than impressive reptilian-based Quirks. It's a small wonder he became such a bitter shut-in.
• Boisterous Weakling: Early on, a lot of Spinner's attitude seems to stem from his insecurities regarding his weak Quirk. Horikoshi himself notes in the Volume 24 Extras that Spinner's massive sword made of knifes is the ultimate representation of his desire to look bigger and stronger than he really is. He grows out of this during the Meta Liberation Army Arc, in which he dedicates himself to lighten his teammate's load, particularly Shigaraki.
• The Brute: He becomes this for the villains in the final battle, after accepting All For One's power-bolstering Quirks that transform him into a towering kaiju-like beast. Unfortunately, the strain of the power begins eroding his mind and he's reduced into a lumbering mass of a muscle who can barely string coherent sentences.
• Car Fu: Pulls some off in the opening scene of My Hero Academia: Heroes: Rising, in which he manages to bump two cars full of pros down the mountainside, ram a third into the sky, and nearly succeeds in turning Endeavor to roadkill.
• Character Development: Spinner enters the series as a blind Stain Fan Boy who spouted off Stain's gospel without really understanding it himself. As it became more and more clear that most of the League weren't interested in promoting Stain's ideology, Spinner struggled with his role in the group, and openly questioned what the point of their existence was. During the Meta Liberation Army Arc, he realizes that he and Shigaraki are a lot more alike than he initially thought and comes to terms with his role as a follower, deciding that he wants to see the world that Shigaraki, a man as hollow as he is, will create.
• Character Narrator: Of Chapter 220 and the end of Chapter 222, where he explains to the readers the condition of the League of Villains post-Overhaul, and Chapter 239, where he Book Ends the arc by talking about where the League's tale is going.
• The Corruptible: [[spoiler:Accepting an offer of power from All For One to help the remnants of the league eventually starts eroding his mind from housing more power than he's naturally equipped to contain, leaving him little more than Dumb Muscle who's barely aware of what he's saying or doing. This leads to him calling a fellow sufferer of Fantastic Racism in Shoji 'gross' when seeing his Body Horror quirk in action against him, no longer capable of voicing anything but his basest thoughts and emotions, in a twisted parody of his original noble intentions for joining the League.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Due to his appearance, Spinner was a constant victim of discrimination when he was young, to the point where he thought it was just a normal part of life. He became a hollow shut-in as a result, and even after being inspired by Stain to stand up and change society, he still feels like nothing more than a hollow cosplayer.
• A Day in the Limelight: The Meta Liberation Army Arc, which is one for the League of Villains as a whole, serves as a big one for Spinner in particular. Not only does he serve as the Character Narrator for the arc, but he also acts as the deuteragonist of it, with one of the major subplots being him coming to terms with his role within the League and developing a powerful loyalty towards Shigaraki.
• Deadly Upgrade: He accepts All For One's offer of more Quirks to be a more effective fighter for Shigaraki's sake. However, said Quirks slowly drive him insane until he's become Dumb Muscle, only able to blindly follow orders and unable to comprehend the situation around him, approaching a Death of Personality.
• Deal with the Devil: He takes All For One's offer of more Quirks so he can become a more effective member and help Shigaraki more out of loyalty. He's burned on the deal as the Quirks drive Spinner insane, but he still accomplishes his goal of reviving Kurogiri, triggering a chain of events that lead to Shigaraki overcoming All For One merging with his consciousness.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: The discrimination he suffered from in his early life made him bitter and caused him to withdraw from society. After seeing Stain's message to the world, however, he became inspired and decided to follow in Stain's footsteps by joining the League of Villains in an effort to spread Stain's words. By the time of the Meta Liberation Army Arc, it becomes clear that there is barely any of Stain's influence left in the League (assuming there ever was any in the first place), and Spinner is left wondering why he's still with the League and what his purpose going forward will be. He eventually decides that he wants to see the world Shigaraki will create after he destroys everything he hates and dedicates himself to serving his boss.
• Determinator: What Spinner lacks in special ability he makes up for in sheer willpower, managing to hold off a small militia of trained Quirk users during the Meta Liberation Army Arc using only his physical prowess, sword skills, and his ability to cling to vertical surfaces. By the time of the Final Battle, thanks to All For One he's given a power boost necessary to become an imposing combatant in the battlefield, but the same strength is devoting his mind from the strain of having more power than he's naturally equipped to bear, akin to the Nomu. However, Spinner is still holding out and resisting his mental degradation out of a desire to help Tomura. Even after Shoji shatters both his Cool Sword and badly hurts him through his Scalemail, he manages to pull enough of his wavering consciousness together to make one last speech to convince his followers to follow him into the hospital despite all the mental strain his powers are putting on him to keep himself fighting.
• Detrimental Determination: His willpower to keep fighting for his friend's sakes is arguably the greatest asset he possesses, owing to his weak showing on a combat front, but by the time of the Final Battle, this same aspect comes back to impede his efforts. Accepting multiple Quirks from All For One to preform better as a front-line fighter starts to erode his mind from the strain, and whilst he's able to keep pushing forward nigh-mindlessly no matter how much he gets hurt, this same mental degradation prevents him from realizing how his followers have pretty much given up rioting after seeing the doctors doing their best to hold out against them. Not realizing he's alone until he reaches Kurogiri.
  • His iron willpower enables him to reach Kurogiri despite his mental and physical damage and place Tomura's blacked hand on his face in a desperate plea to save his friend, recalling how this was enough to rouse Tomura to action before and having lost the recording device he was meant to play instead...only for the next chapter to reveal that All For One was counting on this as a backup plan, having implanted a microdevice inside the hand that transmitted his orders to Kurogiri and making him bring aid to his original body, rather than Tomura's, still getting pummelled by Izuku, in the complete opposite of what Spinner wanted.
• Didn't Think This Through: A tragic example, and its more like 'isn't capable of thinking this through'. His lowered mental functions as a result of accepting a Deal with the Devil with All For One turns him into an almost-mindless Dumb Muscle brute who powers through every obstacle that stands between him and Kurogiri..
• Dramatic Irony: His loyalty and desire to help Tomura drives him to accept Quirks from All For One that might drive him insane...but he's unaware that All For One has already taken over Tomura via his vestige and he's not following Shigaraki's actual will anymore. The audience is aware of this from the start. Gradually, he does realize who he's working for isn't Shigaraki, but is still convinced by AFO and Skeptic to go along with things since he can no longer back out
• The Driver: Since his Quirk isn't really suited for combat and his combat skills are not really on par with professional heroes, he normally functions as this for the League. Interestingly despite his amateur driving skills, he can pull off some serious Car Fu when the situation calls for it (see above).
• Drives Like Crazy: Dabi gripes at him for weaving all over the road while driving a stolen prison van because he gets carsick easily. The fact that he learned to drive from video games might have something to do with his less-than-stellar skills.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Since he joined the League of Villains because he idolized Stain and wants to improve society, he obviously isn't happy about attacking police officers to get at the arrested Overhaul.
  • He also tries to avoid fighting heroes who abide by Stain's principles, seeing them as worthy to live.
  • He also protests when All For One, who's controlling Shigaraki orders him to leave Mr. Compress and Gigantomachia behind, merely as a punishment for Tomura.
• Fanboy: Of Stain's, so much so that he models his entire career as a supervillain around him.
• Fantastic Racism: He was a victim of this growing up due to his appearance, even being sprayed with pesticide for his troubles.
• Fights Like a Normal: His Quirk isn't combat-oriented, so he fights more like his idol, Stain, instead. This gets downplayed by the Final Battle, as he accepts All For One's offer of power necessary to increase his combat potential to bolster their forces, turning him into a towering musclebound figure, but in exchange, his mind starts deteriorating from the strain of his new ability. This results in his fighting style turning into simply smashing anything in front of him with pure brute force, leading to Shoji blindsiding him when he focuses on attacking two police officers.
• Hot-Blooded: Full of bluster and bombast despite initially having very little to back it up. This is later zig-zagged when it is revealed to partially be a front to mask his insecurities.
• Hidden Depths: As revealed in the Meta Liberation Army Arc, beneath all of Spinner's Hot-Blooded bluster is a vulnerable, alienated and surprisingly introspective young man Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life.
• Honor Before Reason: Even though Midoriya is on Shigaraki's hit list, he steps in personally to prevent Magne from attacking him, because Stain had personally spared him before. This is while he's in the middle of his own fight with Mandalay, giving her an opening to attack.
• Hulk Speak: When the Final Battle commences, his new power boost from All For One starts to erode at his mind, resulting in his inner thoughts devolving into this. However, he's still able to vocalise commands that sound like he's lucid and in control, resulting in a case of Dramatic Irony as the various supporters joining the fighting against the heroes earnestly believe that he 'speaks for them' when his ability to speak at all is starting to fray.
• Hypocrite: A tragic example. Despite genuinely caring for the cause of resisting the Fantastic Racism still present in society and wanting to make a difference to it after being inspired by Stain, when the Final Battle comes around, the multiple Quirks granted to him by All For One start eroding his mind and higher reasoning processes, leaving him little more than Dumb Muscle that blindly attacks the heroes whilst his advisors direct the heteromorph supports who believe in him, leaving him little more than a Puppet King. This means that when he fights Shoji, he unironically calls his Body Horror quirk, 'gross', despite that exact same attitude being what he started out trying to change, unable to realise his own hypocrisy with his mind so far gone beyond his desire to help Tomura.
• I Know Mortal Kombat: Notes he got a lot of his driving skills from playing video games and he even yells Grand Theft Auto as a Battle Cry. This scene was unfortunately cut in the anime adaptation.
• Impossibly Cool Weapon: His "Super Knife Knife Sword" is a giant blade made out of a bunch of smaller blades. It's just as childishly awesome as it sounds. He gets a new one by the Final Battle, but thanks to his size increase, it's now made out of regular-sized blades.
• In Love with Your Carnage: What ultimately causes him to earnestly follow Shigaraki; his strange desire to see the future Shigaraki envisions, one of pure destruction, come to fruition.
• Insult Backfire: Happens twice during the Meta Liberation Army Arc, with both times being less a case of the insult failing because he took it as a compliment, and more a case of the insult failing because he agreed with it instead.
  • First, after Spinner rants to Shigaraki about how he only joined the League because of Stain, Dabi calls him out as an "empty cosplayer" only for Spinner himself to agree with that assessment as he sees himself as an empty person.
  • Later on, during his battle with Trumpet, the politician tries to break his resolve by claiming that Spinner is someone who can't accomplish anything by himself. Again, Spinner agrees with him, and this time he turns the argument around by pointing out that Trumpet and the other members of the MLA are the same, as their all people who can't achieve anything without latching on to someone else's ideology first.
• Irony:
  • Over the course of the series Spinner comes to earnestly admire both Stain and Shigaraki and wishes to follow their ideals. This in spite of the fact that, during the brief time they worked together, Stain and Shigaraki hated each other and their ideals run counter to each other.
  • Much in the same way that Stain's rampage inspired a new crop of villains to rise up against the inherit flaws in Hero Society, despite the fact that Stain never intended to inspire anyone, Spinner unintentionally ends up following in his idol's footsteps as his presence within the League serves as an inspiration for Heteromorphic people to rise up against the prejudice they've suffered in Hero Society.
• Katanas Are Just Better: After Midoriya busts his "Super Knife Knife Sword," he takes to carrying a more regular katana as his main weapon.
• Lizard Folk: His overall character design is this due to his Quirk, which he was ostracized for in his backwater hometown.
• Loony Fan: While he is a true Stain Fan Boy, to the point where he crafted his whole villain persona to emulate him, Spinner doesn't quite get the entirety of Stain's philosophy. Stain only wanted to purge "fake" heroes who were in it for fame and money, while Spinner seems to think that every hero is "fake" with the exception of those who Stain personally advocated for. This misunderstanding of Stain's ideology is likely due to the fact that Spinner's inspiration from Stain came less from his ideals and more from his desire to change society. He grows out of this as he spends more time with the League, as he becomes less motivated by his misunderstanding of Stain's ideology and more by his desire to see the world Shigaraki will make with his own two hands.
• Make My Monster Grow: In the final battle, Spinner is granted a Quirk by All For One that bulks him up to become several stories tall.
• Noble Demon: He subscribes to Stain's philosophy, so he tries to follow a code similar to Stain's. For example, when Magne tries to kill Midoriya, Spinner stops her since he believes Midoriya is worthy of being called a real hero after Stain previously saved Midoriya's life. The Final Battle emphasises the 'noble' traits he still possesses gradually being eclipsed by the 'demon' aspect, as he accepts an offer of power from All For One to better help his remaining allies as a front-line fighter, but the same power boost results in his outward appearance becoming more and more monstrous, and his mind starts degrading from containing more Quirks than he's naturally equipped to handle..
• Notzilla: During the Final Battle, the Quirk All For One gave him to make him grow to gigantic proportions makes him reminisce of Godzilla; which becomes even more obvious when he activates Scalemail, and starts growing larger spiked scales all over his body, effectively turning from a Lizard to a Komodo dragon in appearance.
• Not So Above It All: For all his posturing and grandiose behavior, he gets rather easily distracted while fighting Mandalay when she uses her Quirk to psychically flirt with him, freezing up entirely with a blush and leaving himself wide open to an attack.
• Painful Transformation: Scalemail has him growing jagged-looking spiked scales all over his body accompanied by spurts of blood as they push through his skin from within, but by that point Spinner's mental faculties are so overwhelmed he doesn't react to the obvious pain he's feeling.
• Personality Powers: His Quirk, "Gecko", only allows him to clings to walls, a fitting power for someone who clings to other people's desires in order to give himself purpose. Also, geckos are one of the few lizards that can vocalize, and Spinner is a loudmouth himself.
• Shout-Out: If Stain resembled a Darker and Edgier Ninja Turtle, then Spinner is a darker and edgier Ninja Turtle with Bebop's haircut.
• Spanner in the Works: Has a tendency to be this for both his allies and enemies alike. Given how unimpressive his Quirk is in comparison to the rest of the League, he's not really taken into consideration compared to his team. Something that winds up being more of a problem than it should, especially during the Second War where the Heroes not accounting for Spinner in their divide and conquer plan, has them be ill-prepped for the kaiju sized Villain and his 15,000 strong army marching over to Central Hospital to take back Kurogiri. He succeeds in his endeavor and Kurogiri being freed quickly causes things to go south for the Heroes as Villains that they wanted to remain seperate end up rejoining with AFO in Gunga...though its also because Spinner freed Kurogiri did Tomura eventually manage to take back control of his body as well, if for a time.
• Spikes of Villainy: In addition to a Quirk that bulks up his size by several stories, All For One granted him another Quirk that lets him grow bigger, sharper scales for extra power and defense.
• Talking Is a Free Action: Finds out that this is not the case when he stops to gush about Stain, getting dropkicked by Mandalay for his trouble.
• Token Good Teammate: Out of the entire League of Villains, Spinner has the highest set of morals due to following Stain's ideology. He notably spares Midoriya's life because that's what Stain would have wanted, and is shown to be uncomfortable when his allies start attacking police officers. He grows out of this, at least somewhat, in the Meta Liberation Army Arc, where he abandons Stain's teachings and instead begins to follow Shigaraki out of a strange desire to see the future Shigaraki's destruction will bring.
  • His higher morals serve to illustrate how warped the current League has become in the aftermath of the Paranormal Liberation War after falling under All For One's leadership, in contrast to the True Companions they were before. Spinner accepts an offer of greater power to aid Tomura, only for said increased combat strength to start eroding his mind, leaving him little more than a rambling brute who is taken advantage of by his clearer-minded subordinates to rally blind followers to attack the Heroes with. He even calls Shoji's Body Horror abilities 'gross' when fighting him, the very term the Hooded Advisor stated moments prior was historically used to justify the Fantastic Racism against heteromorph-type quirk users, which Spinner himself joined the League in part to fight against, unable to realise his hypocrisy in his current state. Furthermore, with Tomura's mind becoming subsumed by All For One's, Spinner's efforts are in vain anyway, despite the depths he's sunk to for the sake of his remaining friends..
• Took a Level in Badass: While the League were all able to collectively improve thanks to their relentless training at the hands of Gigantomachia, Spinner definitely gets hit with this pretty hard. Whereas before he was mostly just a Boisterous Weakling Butt-Monkey, by the time of the League's battle with the Meta Liberation Army he is able to hold his own against a Zerg Rush of opponents with just his physical prowess, sword skills, and the ability to Wall Crawl.
  • He self-invokes this before the Final Battle, accepting All For One's offer of more power to ensure he can hold his own in a fight and not be a burden to his remaining allies, transforming into a musclebound hulking figure that towers over others. However, this new form eventually starts to eat away at his mind, akin to the Nomu, as he's using more power than he was naturally born to handle.
• Too Many Belts: He wears several belts on his body and even a few on his sword.
• Undying Loyalty: After coming to respect Shigaraki over the course of the battle with the Meta Liberation Army, Spinner becomes completely loyal to him and his ideals, wanting to see what kind of world his boss will create. During the Paranormal Liberation War Mr. Compress entrusts Spinner with protecting Shigaraki noting that there is no one in the League more loyal to his will. In Chapter 341 Spinner even privately admits to himself that the only reason he is still with the League at this point is for Shigaraki's sake. When his newly-granted multiple quirks are eroding his mind, he stops caring/processing what everybody is saying to him or any greater causes that he fought for before, but still keeps pushing forward and attacking the heroes out of his desire to help Tomura and be useful to him..
• Unwitting Pawn: All For One gives him two Quirks to 'be more useful to Tomura'...with Spinner completely unaware Tomura's been subsumed by All For One's vestige for awhile now and thus this translates to 'be more useful to All For One.' This even shows in how his final action at the hospital was to take the discarded hand of Nana Shimura that he had in his possession and place it on Kurogiri's face, begging him to save Tomura, which apparently rouses him to action...only for the next chapter to reveal that All For one had been counting on him doing that as a backup measure, having implanted a microdevice into the hand that transmitted his orders to Kurogiri and making him serve All for One's benefit rather than Tomura, still getting thrashed by Izuku. It works out in Tomura’s favor in spite of that, though.
• Wall Crawl: This is, supposedly, the only real power his Quirk, "Gecko", gives him; the ability to cling to any surface he wants.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: His original motive to join the League of Villains is to change Hero Society and get rid of false Heroes as per his inspiration 'Stain'. However, by the time of the Meta Liberation Army arc, he has since switched gears to seeing the world Shigaraki wants to live.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Hanabata from the Meta Liberation Army considers Spinner's Quirk to be weak and useless since the only power it seems to have given him is the ability to cling to walls. Likewise, this factors into his decision to accept more Quirks from All For One, which effectively turned him into a monster.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: To be more useful to Shigaraki during the Final Battle, he took All For One's offer for more power and received two Quirks that makes him grow to Kaiju-like size and grow sharper scales. Unfortunately, due to his body not being used to so much power, it causes his mind to slowly start eroding.
• You Talk Too Much!: Spinner's fight against Mandalay and Tiger didn't last long because Mandalay nailed him while he was running his mouth, and then Tiger assisted in restraining him.

Jin Bubaigawara — Twice

Jin Bubaigawara — Twice

^{Click here to see his face.}

Voiced by: Dachi Endo (Japanese), Newton Pittman (English)

Debut: Chapter 77 (Manga), Episode 43 (Anime)

Playable in: My Hero One's Justice 2

Quirk: Double

Rank: S

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

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

The Quirk that caused him such hardships is called "Double", and it allows him to make duplicates of other people and things so long as he has accurate measurements of them.

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

Atsuhiro Sako — Mr. Compress

Atsuhiro Sako — Mr. Compress

^{Click here to see what he looks like beneath his mask.}

Voiced by: Tsuguo Mogami (Japanese), Kent Williams (English)

Debut: Chapter 80 (Manga), Episode 44 (Anime)

Playable in: My Hero One's Justice 2

Quirk: Compress

Rank: B

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

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

His Quirk, "Compress", lets him shrink people and objects which he then stores in marble-like spheres.

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

Kenji Hikishi — Magne

Kenji Hikishi — Magne

Voiced by: Satoru Inoue (Japanese), Jeremy Inman (English)

Debut: Chapter 73 (Manga), Episode 41 (Anime)

Quirk: Magnetism

Rank: B

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

A newer recruit of the League, a long-haired, sunglasses-wearing transgender woman with some murders and armed robberies under her belt. Her Quirk is "Magnetism".

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

Goto Imasuji — Muscular

Goto Imasuji — Muscular/Jailbreaker

Voiced by: Kosuke Takaguchi (Japanese), Jim Foronda (English)

Debut: Chapter 72 (Manga), Episode 40 (Anime)

Playable in: My Hero One's Justice, My Hero One's Justice 2

Quirk: Muscle Augmentation

Rank: A

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

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

His Quirk is "Muscle Augmentation", which allows him to produce muscle fibers to greatly increase his strength and durability.

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• Arc Villain: Of Kota's subplot in the Forest Camp Training arc. While The Brute in the overall context of the arc, his murder of Kota's parents are why he has a bitter resentment toward heroes.
• Attack! Attack! Attack!: What happens when a Dumb Muscle villain with no subtlety and a monstrously powerful Quirk wants to shed some blood. His power puts Midoriya so far on the defensive that he doesn't even need to worry about defending himself. This backfires on him in their rematch, as Deku is now strong enough to negate his power edge and Muscular fails to even land a hit on him.
• Ax-Crazy: If his brutal bloodlust wasn't proof enough, his damaged eye makes him look even crazier. He's so incredibly homicidal that he would even be willing to murder children just for fun. Also, he only joined the League because it gave him an excuse to kill people. When freed from jail, he quickly kills all guards in sight and begins attacking cities to massacre innocent people.
• Battle Cry: "SHOW ME YOUR BLOOD!!!"
• The Berserker: Muscular rushes into combat full force without any regard for his own safety. Considering the sheer power he has on his side, he's likely never had to. His recklessness in his fight with Midoriya shows that he rarely had any sort of skill behind his attacks and was moreso focused on charging in like a rampaging bull hoping to deal as much damage as possible. In their rematch, Midoriya now has the experience and additional Quirks to negate his power edge, and Muscular's lack of skill and defense lets Midoriya defeat him without him being able to meaningfully counterattack.
• Beyond Redemption: As Midoriya tries to understand his drive for fighting, Muscular declares he just loves killing people and his only regret would be not to beat someone to death. For this, the hero quickly shuts him down.
• Blood Knight: He absolutely loves fighting and killing — and he's absolutely delighted when Midoriya starts putting up a better fight. He claims that the only reason that he joined the League is because they would finally let him off his leash. This gets highlighted even further during his rematch, where Midoriya tries to understand if he has any deeper motivations. Muscular dismisses Midoriya’s attempt at reasoning, declaring that spilling blood and the thrill of battle, are all he wants without any remorse or regret.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: He's a rather gleeful murderous psychopath who kills solely For the Evulz — but at the same time, he accepts his own Social Darwinist views, to the point that he doesn't hold a grudge against Kota's parents for costing him his left eye. He wanted to kill people, they wanted to stop him, and he accepts all the results as they played out.
• Body Horror: His Quirk buffs him up so hard that his muscle fibers actually cannot be contained by his skin.
• Boring, but Practical: His Quirk is acknowledged as this in-universe by Midoriya, who notes that it is simple but powerful, powerful enough to even rival the (then) current limits of One For All.
• The Brute: A literal muscleman who is only interested in killing people.
• The Bus Came Back: After his capture at the training camp and absence for over 200 chapters, he returns in Chapter 297 during the Tartarus break out.
• Card-Carrying Villain: While the entire League is this, Muscular is one of the biggest examples in the series. Unlike the rest of the League, he doesn't even try to come up with an excuse or reason why he's a villain. He's just a psychopath who loves killing people, and he's completely open and honest about that fact.
• Clothing Damage: Tapping into the full extent of his Quirk shreds his clothes in much the same way that One For All sometimes does. He quickly graduates from fully-dressed to a Shirtless Scene while fighting Midoriya.
• Contrived Coincidence: He comes across Kota during the attack on the training camp, and also just happens to be the villain who killed Kota's parents. When Muscular realizes their connection, he jokingly claims that it must have been fate.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: He may have slain both members of Water Hose, but they managed to take out his eye before being defeated.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: As Midoriya said in Chapter 308, any rematch would be pointless. The power of OFA had grown to insane levels within him, and Shindo had earlier pulled Muscular's tendons with his Quake Quirk, making the villain go down in one blow.
• Didn't See That Coming: He had no idea that Midoriya could push himself to get as strong as he did, especially after thoroughly overwhelming him mere seconds before.
• Dumb Muscle: He pretty much gives away the League's plan to capture Bakugo within seconds of meeting Midoriya, which gave Midoriya and the others a chance to stop it from happening. The databook gives him a meager 1 out of 5 in Wits, which shows in his utter lack of tactics besides keep attacking.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: He's a guy who can grow extra muscle mass. He calls himself Muscular. It's an appropriately simple name for a very simple man.
• Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: He explains his Quirk to Midoriya right before attacking, implicitly because it's such a simple, powerful ability that it's an effective, cost-free way to intimidate his foes without putting himself at a significant tactical disadvantage. He even lampshades it, saying that it's a way for him to brag and prove that Midoriya's Quirk is a blatantly inferior version of his Quirk. If only he knew.
• Expy: Of Eddie Brock/Venom from Spider-Man. Like Venom, both are muscular and blond in their normal form before getting organic armor that increases their size while having similar powers to the main hero. Notably, one of the few things outside pure physical strength that manages to give him trouble is powerful sonic vibrations, which is one of the symbiotes Achilles' Heel, yet he's also able to fight through it much like how Venom developed a resistance to sonic attacks. To further this comparison, the cover for Volume 9 of the manga is a reference to the cover◊ of the Ultimate Spider-Man: Venom comic collection, with Muscular in Venom's position opposed to Midoriya's Spider-Man.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • His Ax-Crazy, Blood Knight personality makes him stand out as being the closest member of the League of Villains to Bakugo. Like Bakugo, Muscular is one of the most powerful members of his group, loves fighting, and is extremely self-confident, to the point of being often too stupid to realize the situation. Interestingly enough, his overall appearance seems to invoke this, as he looks like an older Bakugo with a case of Eye Scream.
  • To Endeavor. Both a spike-haired, musclebound prone to anger and are some of the strongest characters of their respective groups. Later chapters show Endeavor bears an uncanny resemblance to a two-eyed, redhaired Muscular. But while Endeavor is not the most likable of people he is still a hero. Endeavor also gains a nasty scar under his left eye (altough he doesn't loses it completely), which drives the uncanny resemblance further.
  • He's one to Midoriya. Both of them have Quirks that grant them Super-Strength and on a whole empower them, but while Muscular is a violent, bloodthirsty sadist who delights in using his powers to hurt and kill others, Midoriya is a kind, heroic, and altruistic person who strives to use his powers to help others. Essentially, Muscular is what Midoriya would be if he lacked any morality or humanity.
• Eye Scream: Water Hose managed to cost him his left eye before he killed them, leaving a pretty nasty scar behind. He uses some type of stylized prosthetic cover that he can swap out; he notably changes it out for a specific one when he decides to take his fight with Midoriya seriously instead of playing around. He does it again in his second fight with Midoriya during the Tartarus breakout, but this time with a random piece of rubble that looks in no way comfortable.
• Faux Affably Evil: He puts on an air of friendliness when he first meets Kota, even complimenting the child on his hat and offering to trade it for his mask, but it's nothing more than him playing with his food. He's a heartless murderer to his very core.
• Flat Character: Deliberately invoked (and discussed in-universe) as an actual lifestyle choice. He's a big strong guy who kills people, because that's all he wants to be and all he wants to do. There's an almost spiritual simplicity to it.
• For the Evulz: He fights, kills, and enjoys without regrets. That's it. He doesn't care about the League of Villains or even revenge. Just battle and blood.
• For Want Of A Nail: As Midoriya himself noted, if he hadn't badly hurt himself defeating Muscular, then he could've prevented the League of Villains from abducting Bakugo, which would've prevented the Kamino incident in which All Might fought All For One, which, while leading to the arrest of All For One, also forced All Might to use up the remainder of One For All, forcing him to retire.
• Growing Muscles Sequence: His Quirk allows him to enlarge and enhance his muscles to give him Super-Strength and Super-Toughness.
• Hate Sink: He joins the League of Villains and helps them attack the training camp, endangering the lives of teenage heroes in training. As if this wasn't bad enough, he also murdered the Water Hose heroes (Kota's parents) while trying to kill the population of an entire village For the Evulz, and tries to kill Kota before Midoriya intervenes, taunting the child about his parent's deaths to his face. While some of the other League of Villains members have sympathetic (or at least entertaining) traits, Muscular is nothing more than a psychotic murderer. To his credit, at least he's honest about it and doesn't hold grudges against people who harmed him, and even shows admiration towards worthy opponents. This even gets invoked In-Universe when Midoriya runs into him again. When he attempts to get through to him to understand his motivations for becoming a villain, Muscular basically tells him there isn't; he did it because he wanted to. Midoriya decides to beat him right then and there as a result.
• The Heavy: Of the Forest Training Camp Arc. He's not the leader of the attacking villains and is the first to be defeated, but he's the most important to Kota's story.
• Hero Killer:
  • He has killed at least two pro heroes in his career, with the flashback news bulletin implying there were more.
  • His fight with Midoriya caused a For Want Of A Nail effect that ultimately led to All Might using up the last of his Quirk, and ending his career as a hero.
• Heroic Build: Inverted. He may have a rock-hard physique, but he's as far from a hero as you can possibly get.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Everything he did when fighting Midoriya prior to getting hit with One For All at 100% was him just playing with his food. When Midoriya finally puts up enough of a fight to interest him, he decides to go all-out.
• Immune to Bullets: As shown when he's slaughtering the Tartarus prison guards during the break out in Chapter 297, his muscle fibers are thick and tough enough to absorb bullet fire.
• I Shall Taunt You: He mocks Midoriya throughout their fight, to the point that his opponent flat-out yells at him to shut up.
• Jerkass: Easily the biggest one in the series before Overhaul dethroned him, though even Overhaul had people he cared about. Muscular is more than happy to tell a 5-year-old boy that his parents (whom he killed) died because they were weaklings before trying to kill said boy on the spot. He continually mocks Midoriya throughout their fight, treating it like a game while Midoriya is fighting for his and Kota's life.
• Lightning Bruiser: His Quirk allows him to wrap his body in muscle fibers to increase his strength and speed, which gives him a massive advantage over Midoriya's 5% Full Cowl. The muscles also effectively increase his durability by physically shielding his head and vital organs from harm, though he's not immune from pain when said muscles are attacked.
• Meaningful Name:
  • His first name, Goto, is homophonous with the Japanese word for "criminal".
  • His second alias "Jailbreaker", came from the fact that he led the prison breaks after the PLF war.
• Might Makes Right: In his weird morality, the victor of the battle is always right, no matter what their goals are.
• More Hateable Minor Villain: This guy only lasted a couple of chapters during the Training Camp arc, and even less during the Tartarus Escapees arc, and yet, he is by far the most hateable member of the League. Even All for One has an Affably Evil persona that makes him endearing to some.
• Muscles Are Meaningful: His Quirk and name are based on this. The guy already has a muscular body, but when he activates his Quirk, his muscles augment and it greatly increases his strength and durability.
• Near-Villain Victory: He comes dangerously close to overpowering and killing Midoriya during their battle, before Kota sprays him with his water quirk, causing him to let his guard down and giving Midoriya a window to rally his strength and defeat him.
• Nothing Personal: He admits this about killing Water Hose, saying it wasn't because they took his eye, but because he just likes killing and both he and they were doing their best at what they do.
• No-Sell: His main defensive strategy is to wrap himself in muscle fiber armor so he can't be stopped while he tears the enemy apart. If they do hurt him? That clearly means he hasn't used enough muscle fibers in his armor. Notably, he takes Yo Shindo's strongest sonic attack point-blank and actually takes damage, but he powers through while wrapping more muscle fibers around himself to continue and try to beat him to death, which would have succeeded if not for Midoriya's Big Damn Heroes.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: When he was initially introduced during the Forest Training Camp Arc, he is only ever referred to by his villain name Muscular and then he is taken out by Midoriya, so for the longest time the audience never finds out his real name. His actual name is revealed in Chapter 308 to be Goto Imasuji after his return to the series.
• Person of Mass Destruction: His return following the prison break demonstrates that he can casually wreck buildings just by roof-hooping.
• Psycho for Hire: He states outright to Midoriya that he doesn't care one iota about the League's goals, and just joined up with them so he could kill people without anything holding him back.
• Punched Across the Room: He's finally taken down when Midoriya uses One For All far past its limits and slugs the big musclehead in his face and straight into the side of a mountain.
• Revenge: Surprisingly averted. He doesn't want to kill Kota because his parents mutilated his eye in self-defense, as he doesn't really mind. He wants to kill him because he can. And when Midoriya shows up to confront him after the time skip following his breakout, he's excited more for the chance to have another life-or-death battle with him rather than actually avenging his first defeat.
• Sadist: He could rival Shigaraki in this department. He killed the Water Hose duo, but he made sure to torture them before he did. He shows himself ready to do the same to Midoriya and Kota during their fight despite them being basically children.
• Slasher Smile: His default look whenever he's fighting or just looking to terrify someone. But he especially has this when he's killing people and causing pain.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Midoriya's fight with him started a For Want Of A Nail effect that resulted in All Might using up the last of his Quirk and being forced to retire, as Midoriya himself notes.
• The Sociopath: People's lives are just throwaway entertainment for him. He himself admits he shares no loyalty or camaraderie with the League, and only signed up so he could go on his random killing sprees again. This is even highlighted during his rematch with Midoriya when he defies Midoriya's attempt to try and understand if his path to villianhood was the only way for him and says flat out that he only cares about bloodshed.
• So Last Season: Downplayed during his rematch with Midoriya since the young hero notes that Muscular was able to absorb One For All punches at 100% power so he is not to be underestimated, but thanks to the addition of four of the previous users' Quirks and Yo Shindo's vibration powers weakening his muscles fibers, Muscular ends up being defeated over the course of a single chapter without being able to even land a hit on Midoriya.
• Super-Strength: His Quirk wraps his body in muscle fibers to increase his strength. He is strong enough to smash through cliff walls and shatter the ground beneath him, and can create a giant mass of muscle fibers to thoroughly crush a person to death.
• Super-Toughness: 5% Full Cowl doesn't even phase him. He can even shrug off One For All at 100%. One For All at "1,000,000%" (actually just Midoriya pushing himself to way beyond his limits), however, not so much.
• Token Evil Teammate: Muscular is the only member of the League that lacks a compelling backstory, a charismatic personality or a good reason to have become a villain whatsoever. He is a remorseless killer that loves to spill blood of innocents and as Midoriya points out, a monster Beyond Redemption.
• Unskilled, but Strong: What he lacks in skill and technique he more than makes up for in raw power. This can be seen when he decides to go full out and attack Midoriya as he's able to blitz him with ease but he also continuously misses him, and his strategy more or less involves throwing himself at his opponent until he hits him. By the time of their rematch, Midoriya has grown strong enough that the raw power doesn't really matter anymore, and Muscular doesn't stand much of a chance against the now Strong and Skilled Midoriya.
• Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Somewhat justified, since Muscular was in prison since the events of the Forest Training Camp Arc and generally just relies purely on sheer power with little to no skill or strategy. But whereas in the last encounter, Midoriya was still figuring out the power of One For All and had to push beyond his limits to beat Muscular, when they meet again, Midoriya not only has better control over his power, but has been granted more abilities thanks to communicating with the forebearers of One For All, as well as being far more experienced in general. Add on that Shindo had already softened him up with his Quake Quirk, and Midoriya manages to take Muscular out easily before Muscular has a chance to do anything.
• Villain Respect: Muscular loudly declares his admiration for Midoriya, for being able to survive, let alone stand against the crushing force of his titanic blows. Also, he does not hate Kota's parents for blinding him; in fact, he admires the fact they fought to the bitter end and feels they earned the right to take his eye.
• Villainous Breakdown: He loses his calm demeanor when he realizes Midoriya is still getting stronger and is pushing back at him despite seeming to be crushed under the weight of his arm:
  Muscular: Damnit! How are you getting stronger?!
• Wake-Up Call Boss: He serves as something of this to Midoriya, being the first major villain he had to defeat alone and the first he faces powerful enough to withstand even a full power One For All attack. The damage Midoriya did to himself to win is so severe it forces him to realize he has to abandon his reckless habit of using self-injuring levels of power in a pinch and to create an entirely new fighting style to have a hope of continuing his hero career.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Muscular's Quirk has no applications aside from adding more and more muscle fibers to his body. Yet, this makes him monstrously powerful because these muscle fibers make him so strong, durable, and fast that he can easily contend with and overwhelm Midoriya while he was using One For All: Full Cowl at 5%. It even lets him shrug off Midoriya's use of One For All at 100% of his power. This backfires on him in their rematch, as Midoriya has grown so powerful and skilled that Muscular's power edge is no longer enough. As Muscular has zero actual combat skill or any strategy other than 'beat it until it stops moving', Midoriya makes quick work of him.
• The Worf Effect: When introduced, he was the villain who got the closest to outright killing Midoriya. When he returns, Midoriya dispatches him in one chapter, showing how much Midoriya has grown.
• Worthy Opponent: He seems to regard Midoriya as this for giving him the most entertaining fight of his life. He also candidly admits his respect for the bravery of Kota's parents, who fought to the bitter end and "earned" the right to take his eye at the cost of their own lives. When they meet again, Muscular is overjoyed to see Midoriya, claiming that nobody gave him such satisfaction in fighting as much as Midoriya did. He is disappointed when Midoriya uses tactics instead of fighting him with brute strength.
• Would Hit a Girl: Killed both of Kota's parents, including his mother.
• Would Hurt a Child: He is very casual about trying to kill Kota, and tries to do so with no hesitation or provocation.
• You Talk Too Much!: He loves to talk, constantly mocking Midoriya and the ideal of heroes in general. By the climax of their fight, Midoriya starts yelling at him to shut up.

Moonfish

??? — Moonfish

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Voiced by: Shuuhei Matsuda (Japanese), Daman Mills (English)

Debut: Chapter 73 (Manga), Episode 41 (Anime)

Quirk: Blade-Tooth

Rank: B

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

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

His Quirk is "Blade-Tooth", which allows him to grow and transform his teeth into long, sharp blades.

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• Ax-Crazy: Even by the low standards of the League of Villains, he stands out as a particularly extravagant example - a psychotic Cloudcuckoolander cannibal who exists to kill people in horrible ways and can barely string together a sentence. Even a brutish Blood Knight like Muscular looks almost human next to him.
• Bald of Evil: His head is completely smooth-shaven under his mask, including his eyebrows and eyelashes.
• Berserk Button: Denying him his chosen "prizes" (targets that he presumably wants to eat) will make him go all out on the offender. However, even all of his bladed teeth turn out to be incapable of harming a berserking Dark Shadow.
  Moonfish: Flesh... slabs of meat... No good... Can't allow it... Don't steal from me!
• Bondage Is Bad: His whole ensemble looks like a nightmarish parody of a gimp suit; a full-body leather outfit covered in spikes and harnesses, complete with eye covering, straitjacket, and contraptions to keep his lips peeled back from his teeth.
• The Brute: Like Muscular, he's recruited by the League to fight heroes. His fighting style is a little more skilled than the average brute, though.
• The Bus Came Back: After his capture at the training camp and absence for over 200 chapters, he returns in Chapter 297 during the Tartarus break out.
• Cloudcuckoolander: An example that's very much Played for Horror. Moonfish is nuts, spending his entire fight against Todoroki and Bakugo showing zero concern for his own safety while babbling endlessly about blood and meat. He goes even further off the deep end when an out-of-control Tokoyami arrives and threatens to deny him his "prizes".
• Combat Tentacles: Uses his Quirk in the fashion that other examples typically do under this trope. However, ultimately averted as Moonfish is using his teeth to suspend himself and attack enemies.
• Consummate Professional: Funnily enough, the most coherent things he says relate to his "work" as a villain. The very first thing we hear him say is a chant of "Get to Work!" and his creepy fawning over Shoji's severed hand reeks of him holding back his hunger for flesh to get the job done.
• Demoted to Extra: Despite his return in the Second War, the Heroes focused on Toga and the Near High Ends warped to Okuto Island with Moonfish as the key threats to defeat - instead of him also being a factor. Heck, in regards to Moonfish, he was even treated as just a regular Tartarus escapee, with his League ties not being brought up. He's eventually defeated at Okuto Island off-screen alongside the High Ends, which is a far cry from the other main League members, even Muscular, being defeated or dying in a significant fashion.
• Evil Counterpart: To Shoji as another tall, lean, creepy-looking individual who fights by multiplying and extending body parts. While Shoji is calm, kindhearted, lives a humble life, and attempts to hide his more horrifying traits, Moonfish is a totally insane and greedy cannibal who relishes in the fear of his opponents.
• Fluffy the Terrible: You probably wouldn't expect an Ax-Crazy Serial Killer with blades for teeth to be nicknamed "Moonfish". Real moonfish look like this.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Depicted as this in the SMASH spin-off, with not even Shigaraki and Kurogiri seeming too keen on having him around at first as a result of his blatant insanity, with only Toga liking him due to both of their struggles with their 'desires'. This seems to carry some merit in the main storyline, where his defeat is witnessed by ally Mr. Compress...who instead leaves him for dead to try and recruit the Hero trainee who bested the cutthroat, heavily implying they (or, at the very least, just Compress) only tolerated him as long as he had some use for them.
  • During the Second War, despite still being uncaptured and fighting with Toga and the Near High Ends, Moonfish is again left behind on Okuto Island while Kurogiri focuses only on warping Toga out. However, compared to last time, its implied to simply be a heat of the moment move than actual dislike towards their teammate. Still, it does result in Moonfish's capture, again.
• Hidden Depths: He's complete nutcase obsessed with flesh, but he still managed to escape from death row which is not an easy feat and prior to his second arrest was skilled enough to be classified as an A-ranked Villain. The SMASH spinoff goes further in implying that the League had no involvement in this, leaning to case he might have engineered his own way out himself. Furthermore, his initial databook entry listed him as 3/5 out for Wits, making him smarter than Muscular (who is pretty unintelligent) as well as Magne and Spinner (both, while not as smart as the others, aren't idiots either), and on par with people like Compress and Dabi. However, the second databook dropped it so he now as smart as Muscular, though that could mean his insanity rotted even that quality away.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: His outfit is a creepy full-body leather outfit, which doesn't hinder him much. Spinoffs implied it's just what he wears ever since his escape.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Based on his proclaimed desire for "meat" when attacking Bakugo and Todoroki, and his fawning over Shoji's severed hand, he seems to be a cannibal.
• Ironic Name: "Moonfish", or Opahs, are colorful fish that have very small teeth that live in shoals around freshwater environments. Moonfish here is a crazy cannibalistic Psycho for Hire that can manipulate his teeth to suspend himself in the air.
• Laser-Guided Karma: During the assault on the training camp, Moonfish cut off one of Shoji's spare hands, which caused Tokoyami's Dark Shadow to go on a rampage. He ends up being defeated by Dark Shadow after Shoji and Midoriya lead it back to him. Bonus points for Dark Shadow shattering all of his teeth for good measure.
• Mundane Utility: Moonfish's teeth are also capable of being used to prop himself back up, though this is mostly because his arms are pinned down from his straight jacket.
• Now That's Using Your Teeth!: His growing teeth can be used both for offense, defense, and even mobility.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: His first and last name are all but unknown.
• Psycho for Hire: Like Muscular, he's a murderous criminal who seems to have joined on with the League purely so he could have the opportunity to kill more people. Though, unlike Muscular, Moonfish actually holds himself back in order to do his designated job.
• Required Secondary Powers: When Dark Shadow defeats him, he does so via smashing him through an entire swath of trees, the impact shattering pretty much every tooth in his head. When he returns during the Tartarus breakout, his teeth have regrown, showing that shattering his teeth isn't enough to nullify his Quirk, and if any of them are broken, he can presumably grow them back after a period of time.
• Scary Impractical Armor: As scary as he looks, his outfit looks very impractical. He's wearing a straightjacket, his eyes are covered, and his lips are stretched as far back as they can. However, the stretched back lips are done to prevent Moonfish from hurting himself with his Quirk.
• Scary Teeth: His teeth already look scary enough with his lips constantly peeled back to expose them, but using his Quirk, he can make each individual tooth grow into a sort of horrifying, sharp, angular, multi-pronged branch to attack his enemies.
• Talkative Loon: One of the most outright psychotic villains in the series, and his constant nonsensical babbling about flesh, meat, and blood is only one of the more obvious signs.
• Uncertain Doom: Played with. He was alive when he was recaptured, but as he's a death row inmate, and the story has gone on for several months after he was recaptured, it's not clear if he's still alive by the present or if his original sentence has been carried out. The ULTRA ANALYSIS Character Book confirms that he's still alive and imprisoned in Tartarus awaiting the death penalty. Though it takes until Chapter 297 for his survival to be confirmed in canon, where it quickly becomes relevant as he's one of the inmates to take advantage of Shigaraki's attack on the prison.
• Weak, but Skilled: His Quirk isn't particularly powerful, but he's extremely skilled at using it to attack and evade. So skilled he's even able to be one of the few early Villains to dodge Todoroki's ice with ease, but also use it to put both Todoroki and Bakugo on the ropes up until Dark Shadow arrives. This holds true even during the Second War, where, despite the Villains numbers thinning, he's still among the few Villains still fighting with the Near High End's and Toga herself.

Mustard

??? — Mustard

Voiced by: Kiyotaka Furushima (Japanese), Daman Mills (English)

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

Quirk: Gas

Rank: B

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

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

His Quirk, "Gas", allows him to create and manipulate toxic purple gas. Notably, he isn't immune to the gas he creates.

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

Chainsaw Nomu

Chainsaw Nomu

A Middle Tier Nomu that is a member of the Vanguard Action Squad that attacked U.A. during the School Trip Arc. It was made specifically for Dabi and listens to only his orders.

His tropes can be found here.

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