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Villains

League of Villains

General

The main antagonists of the story. Founded by Mugen Shigaraki/All for One and led by Tenko Shimura/Tomura Shigaraki, the villainous organization was founded with the goals of killing All Might and destroying society.

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• Adaptational Wimp: Played with, as while the League of Villains has fewer members after All for One's defeat than in canon, and don't end up gaining the MLA as additional members, they are no less dangerous than before.
• Breaking the Fellowship: By the time of the Forest Training arc, the League's membership (aside from All for One and Dr. Garaki) consisted of Tomura, Kurogiri, Dabi, Himiko Toga, Inquisitor, Chronostasis, The Rapper, Canopy, Larceny, Gluttony, Zirconium, Mimic, Punch Drunk, Gigantomachia, Muscular and Moonfish. In the aftermath of that arc and the Hideout Raid arc, the members were either arrested (All for One, Kurogiri, The Rapper, Larceny, Gluttony, Zirconium, Punch Drunk, Mimic, Muscular, Moonfish), dead (Chronostasis), or on the run/still at large (Tomura, Dabi, Canopy, Dr. Garaki, and Gigantomachia; Himiko ultimately split from the group after a harsh reality check).
• Dwindling Party: Over the course of the story, the League's membership has been slowly declining. In the aftermath of the Kamino Ward raid, nearly all of its membership has been either killed, captured, or cut and run; the only members left by that point are Tomura, Dabi, Canopy, Dr. Garaki, and Gigantomachia, along with a bunch of High-End Nomus. By Chapter 74, Tomura, after gaining the All for One Quirk, essentially says there is no League anymore, and allows Dabi and Canopy to leave while turning Garaki into an Eldritch Abomination that obeys him.
• The Fellowship Has Ended: Tomura does this in Chapter 74, stating that the League of Villains pretty much no longer exists. After delivering some Laser-Guided Karma onto Dr. Garaki, the only ones left are himself, Dabi, Canopy, Gigantomachia, and a bunch of High-End Nomus loyal to him. He allows Dabi and Canopy to leave if they want, with Dabi deciding to go after his father directly, while Canopy decides the best course of action for him is to leave the country, thus leaving Tomura with only Gigantomachia and the Nomus.

Tomura

Tomura Shigaraki/"Tomura" (AKA Tenko Shimura)

Quirk: Decay ^*formerly Quirkless, All for One (Original)^*Stolen Quirks: Blade-Tooth, Stress (formerly), Landmine, Cryokinesis (formerly), Antropomorph, Gas, Ampivolt, Unnamed Sliding Quirk, Body Slider (formerly), Double, Radio Waves, Chronostasis, Unnamed Telekinetic Quirk, Rivet Stab, Warp, Old and Golden (formerly), Body Bulk (formerly), Stoneskin (formerly), Hardflame Fan, Lightning Breath, Heavy Payload, Infrared Vision, Unnamed Animal Mutation Quirks (several)

All For One's student and theoretically leader of the League of Villains. Groomed by All For One to be his successor, Tomura seeks to destroy All Might and the Hero-obsessed society he helps to protect. His Quirk, "Decay", allows him to destroy anything he touches provided all five of his fingers are in contact with the object. As of chapter 73, he now possesses the original All for One Quirk, minus the man's personality trying to steal his body.

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• Achievements in Ignorance: By shedding his identity as Tenko Shimura, as well as his surname Shigaraki, Tomura ended up exploiting the Loophole Abuse of Star and Stripe's Quirk, without even knowing about it. Even the heroes, under the wrong assumption that Mugen is the one controlling his body, point out since they don't know how Tomura identifies himself as, decide that it is for the best to keep Star away from him until they have further information.
• Actually a Doombot: What appears to be the start of the final battle turns out to be a clone made with Double after Toru kills it.
• Adaptational Badass: Here, Tomura gets rid of the All for One vestige and All for One himself in the course of an afternoon, rather than nearly being subsumed by All for One and spending weeks crawling his way out.
• Adaptational Wimp: Slightly. During USJ, Tomura ends up losing his right pinky. While it is restored, there is now a chance for Decay to not work with that hand.
• Affably Evil: Becoming the Dragon Ascendant has done wonders in how he interacts with others and he seems to have evolved into this. In Chapter 74, while he's mainly doing it in order to see their quirks in action so he can understand them better, he allows all the Vestiges that were formerly inside All For One to take their brutal vengeance against him and he's surprisingly patient and cordial with all of them. Later on, he allows both Dabi and Canopy to leave and do whatever they want, figuring that there was no more League of Villains anyway. He even gives both of them an additional Quirk (Geten's Cryokinesis for Dabi, and Body Slider--a Quirk that allows one to change their appearance within reason--for Canopy) so they can take the fight to Endeavor and get the hell out of Japan, respectively. He even gives them a 48-hour window to leave before he destroys their hideout.
• Arch-Enemy: To Izuku, something that the hero only realized after noticing that Danger Sense acts louder when the villain is around.
• Ascended Fanboy: An extremely dark and twisted take on this trope. Tomura is a gamer, and his favorite gaming style is to pull an Eviler than Thou during a mission against an enemy, only to crush the NPCs hopes by becoming the new Big Bad. With all major villain threats either dead by his hands or on the run, Tomura has become the Final Boss of the story.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: With the League disbanded, and armed with All for One's Quirks, Tomura takes matter in his own hands in order bring havoc against Hero society.
• Best Served Cold: After learning the truth of how Mugen Shigaraki/All for One had implanted Decay into him when he was Tenko Shimura (resulting in the deaths of all his family), all to use him as the means of gaining One for All by banking on his natural hatred overcoming the willpower of the Torchbearers, Tomura secretly began to plan his revenge. He had to wait months to do so, waiting until Garaki implanted the original All for One Quirk into him, before he could enact his vengeance on Mugen by killing him in the vestige world.
• Big Bad: After gaining the All For One Quirk, and using it to kill Mugen's mind in revenge for all he's done to him, Tomura takes his teacher's place as the main threat for the heroes to face.
• Boring, but Practical: His method of finding out what his hundreds of Quirks do is to simply ask their vestiges in exchange for letting them beat the tar out of Mugen's vestige.
• Break Them by Talking: How Tomura manages to gain Machia's loyalty after a whole month of fighting the behemoth and failing: He points out that Machia can either join him and work together to avenge All for One, or Tomura can kill the giant and try his luck with what is left of the league. Machia complies.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Tends to frame everything in terms of video games.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Just before killing Mugen, Tomura points out that had he told the boy that he was given Decay to defend himself against his father and that his family was an unfortunate accident, Tomura would have accepted his fate with a smile.
• Dragon Ascendant: Originally serving as a loyal follower of his teacher, he ends up overtaking and surpassing him (and killing his mind for good measure), becoming the main antagonist of the story.
• Evil Counterpart: Just like Izuku is All Might's successor, he is All for One's successor, and is even set to receive the original Quirk, much like Izuku received One for All. He even was a Quirkless boy with dreams to be a hero, and repeatedly abused because of it before receiving Decay.
• Evil Is Petty: The first place he orders Machia to destroy on his rampage is his hometown, Ouen-Beru, as revenge for their Bystander Symdrome leaving him at All for One's mercy.
• Eviler than Thou:
  • Pulls this against Mugen by seizing control of his Quirk and destroying his conciousness before the older villain can take over his body.
  • Does it again in the following chapter by stealing the Quirks of the MLA lieutenants and leaving them and Mugen's braindead body to die in a explosion.
• Evil vs. Evil: Versus The Meta Liberation Army in chapter 74. Paradoxically, despite being far more dangerous, far more powerful and overall a considerably more eminent threat to the heroes that the Meta Liberation Army ever ended being, Tomura comes off as being morally less repugnant than the fallen members of the Meta Liberation Army and his act of both utterly stripping them of their quirks and later killing them actually comes more as Pay Evil unto Evil than anything else.
• Exact Words: After the transfer in chapter 74, Tomura pretends to be AFO and explains what happened to Giraki. And while he's entirely truthful, Tomura doesn't mention who was who in the scenario:
  Turns out the little bastard planned on betraying me, so I had to let him know who’s in charge around here. Left his consciousness in the old body and rigged it to self-destruct. It got rid of his annoying whines, and will provide a wonderful distraction for the Heroes.
• Fat Slob: Inverted, he's a skinny slob. In chapter 43, the Diagnosis Quirk that Izuku stole from All For One reveals that Tomura has a poor diet, that Decay is the source of his constant itching, and that his poor hygiene only makes the itching worse.
• Final Boss: Fitting, but with Mugen and the rest of MLA lieutenants dead and the organization decapitated, not to mention his own version All for One, Tomura has become the last major threat left in the story for Izuku and the Ennead to face.
• Fingore: He loses his right pinky during the USJ incident when Snipe shoots him. Kurogiri brings it back with them and the Doctor restores it, but it now has a chance (between ten and twenty-five percent) of not working with Decay.
• Genre Savvy: After Izuku reminds him of his real identity, Tomura realizes that the only possible endgame is that All for One will betray him.
• I Resemble That Remark!: His reaction to Izuku mentioning how he fled crying and throwing a tantrum like a toddler… is to throw a tantrum and destroy half of Kurogiri's bar.
• Jive Turkey: He only speaks in gamer language.
• Locked Out of the Loop: When he recruits the Shie Hassaikai, he states he doesn't know who killed Overhaul because All for One did not inform him about it.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Tomura's endgame is to destroy everything, starting with what he hates most. He orders Gigantomachia to rampage in his hometown for all the misery he associates with it, then orders the High-End Nomus to go out and destroy, giving priority to a hero if there is one present. Tomura himself decides to go after the Ennead.
• One-Man Army: Granted, he was already this after gaining the All for One Quirk, but becomes literal one after stealing Twice's Double.
• Pet the Dog: In Chapter 74, after gaining the All for One Quirk, he allows both Dabi and Canopy to leave and do whatever they want, figuring that there was no more League of Villains anyway. He even gives both of them an additional Quirk (Geten's Cryokinesis for Dabi, and Body Slider—a Quirk that allows one to change their appearance within reason—for Canopy) so they can have take the fight to Endeavor and get the hell out of Japan, respectively. He even gives them a 48-hour window to leave before he destroys their hideout.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Twice during the end of the Uprising arc. First against Mugen, by foiling his body snatching plan and seizing control of his Quirk, then by stealing the Quirks of the surviving members of the MLA Top Brass and leaving them and Mugen's broken body to die in an explosion.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Already this thanks to All for One's original Quirk, Tomura becomes even worse when steals Twice's Quirk, allowing him to cause havoc across multiple locations.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • Rather than trying to steal One for All, Tomura views it as a "cursed item", citing how badly even brief contact messed up Mugen, and intends to simply kill Izuku instead.
  • In contrast to Mugen's greedy personality, after gaining All for One, he doesn't feel the need to steal other Quirks. Not like he needs to, after stealing Double, he has become one of the most power characters in the story.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He gives a massive one to Mugen in Chapter 73.
  Tomura: You know, Mugen, there was one thing I didn’t get about your plan. See, you’ve tried for decades to get that damn Quirk you’re obsessed with, and you didn’t have the willpower to do it yourself. But you thought my rage and hatred would be enough to do the trick. So why do you think that you of all people can take over my body? Isn’t my rage and hatred supposed to be strong enough to beat Player Two and his harem and his ghost-summons where you can’t?
  Mugen: How? How can you resist?
  Tomura: Guess you just thought I’d never turn on you. That I’d always be your good little boy and go ‘yes, Sensei,’ whenever you told me to do shit. That the hatred you told me to grow would never be pointed at you, no matter what you did. (laughs) I mean, fuck, if you told me from the beginning you gave me Decay so that I could defend myself from my father and never intended me to kill Mon-chan and my shitty family, I’d have probably walked into your mind prison with a smile. But you had to lie to me, so I clued into your whole plot! And fooling you was so easy! Now, I’m the one truly calling the shots!
• Redemption Rejection:
  • In their second meeting, Izuku tries to offer Tomura the chance to leave All for One behind and quit being a villain, only for Tomura to reject him out of hand, stating Izuku only bothered because he's such a threat.
  • It happens again when Izuku runs into a copy of him in Chapter 76. Tomura makes very clear that just because he hates All for One and ruined his plans, that doesn't mean his hatred for Izuku and hero society goes away, in fact, now that he has All for One's Quirk, he is more hellbent than ever to destroy everything and everyone.
• Required Secondary Powers: According to Garaki, his Quirklessness is the required factor that will help All for One's consciousness to take over his once Tomura gets the Quirk. Unfortunately for Garaki, Tomura wasn't interested in that.
• Revenge: In Chapter 73, he reveals to Mugen that he's been planning to kill him ever since Izuku helped him remember his past as Tenko Shimura, and after realizing that his beloved teacher was the one who forced Decay into him (resulting in the deaths of all his family) in order to use him for his own plans. He succeeds, killing the villain's mind to gain full control of the All for One Quirk.
• The Starscream: According to him, ever since he found out how All for One was manipulating him from the moment the villain gave him Decay, he has been plotting to get revenge on his former master, pretending still being his loyal pupil, only waiting for the right opportunity to strike back, and said opportunity presents itself when he receives Mugen's Quirk, throwing a wrench on his Grand Theft Me plot and stealing his Quirks before killing him.
• That Man Is Dead: By Chapter 74, he has rejected both his old name of Tenko Shimura and his adoptive father's surname of Shigaraki. He is now simply "Tomura."
• Unwitting Pawn: Tomura was born Quirkless, but All for One forcefully gave him Decay to manipulate him into using it on his family as part of a long-term plan to forcibly steal One For All back.
• Villain Killer: To cement himself as the Final Boss of the story, he kills Mugen, Re-Destro, Curious, Geten, Skeptic, Mustard, Amplivolt and countless other villains during his attack on Tartarus.
• You Remind Me of X:
  • Nana Shimura mentions his tantrums remind her of someone — her son. This leads to the discovery that Tomura is Nana's grandson.
  • All for One is reminded of his brother Yoichi when Tomura frames things in video game terms.

Kurogiri

Kurogiri (Oboro Shirakumo)

Quirk: Warp^*Technically a combination of Cloud and five other Quirks

Tomura Shigaraki's caretaker, as well as the League of Villains' main method of transportation, thanks to his Quirk, Warp, which can create a gateway between any two points, as long as he knows where to go. His main role is to follow Tomura and All for One's orders in bringing down the current society and heroes. After his capture in the Kamino Raid, he's discovered to be the reanimated body of Oboro Shirakumo, Eraserhead and Present Mic's friend when they studied at U.A., but thanks to Izuku and Neito, he's restored to normality.

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• Abled in the Adaptation: Thanks to Izuku's use of Overhaul, he is reverted back into Oboro, even if his recovery will take a while.
• Affably Evil: He's very polite all the time, even when speaking about killing you.
• Came Back Wrong: Through Garaki's experiments, Oboro Shirakumo's body was turned into a brainwashed Nomu, and his Quirk was modified to turn from Cloud to Warp.
• Convenient Coma: While he was successfully reverted back into his human form, Oboro's recovery will take a while, so for the time being, he has to be on a coma.
• Heel–Face Turn: After being restored, he freely gives the heroes all the information he remembers on All for One's organization.
• Thinking Up Portals: His Quirk, Warp, lets him create a gateway between any two coordinates he can think of.

All for One

Mugen Shigaraki

Quirk: All for One (duplicate)^*Stolen Quirks: Life Force (original), Imposing Theme, Super Regeneration (4 copies) (2 destroyed, 1 lost), Shock Absorption (lost), Springlike Limbs (lost), Eidetic Memory (destroyed), Air Cannon(lost), Spearlike Bones, Rivet Stab, Forced Quirk Activation, Impact Recoil(lost), Hypertrophy, unnamed Kinetic Boosters, unnamed Strength Enhancers, Paralyzing Glare (useless), Lightning Breath (useless), Search (lost), Quirk Understanding (lost), Blood Bank (lost), Survivor (lost), Diagnosis (lost), Multitasking (lost), Smoke Manipulation (lost), Overhaul (lost), Chronostasis, unnamed Energy Manipulation Quirk, Taser, Enhanced Nerve Impulse, Muscle Augmentation (Artificial Duplicate) (lost), Gigantification, Quadruple-Jointed, Extendable Fingers, Lactic Acid Elimination (destroyed), Mute, Megaphone, Neural Rewrite, Darkvision (lost), Photosynthethic Hair (lost), Lightning Rod (lost), Trajectory (lost); 482 Quirks lost/destroyed, 1169 Quirks left

Japan's first supervillain, he was born when the Era of Quirks began, with a Quirk that allowed him to take Quirks from other people and either use them himself or give them to others. He was able to use this to become Japan's shadow dictator, but as time passed the Heroes slowly managed to turn it around, with All Might ending his rule with a brutal fight that greatly injured the Hero and almost killed the villain.

Having managed to survive the fight, All for One is now in hiding, waiting for the right time to return to the world, and is using Tomura Shigaraki — the grandson of his former enemy Nana Shimura — as his tool to destroy All Might and bring down the Hero system, while he attempts to take One for All back.

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He's left begging for his life at the end of Chapter 73, once he realizes Tomura intends to kill him out of revenge for what he did to him, by saying that he needs him to learn how to properly use the All for One Quirk. It does nothing to save his life.
• Arch-Enemy: To One for All's Torchbearers. He's killed six of them (the first being his own brother) and gravely injured All Might during their battle, to the point where he was forced to go search for his successor.
• All for Nothing: His machinations to steal Overhaul, Search, and One for All end up backfiring horrendously in one fell swoop when the latter's latest bearer steals the other two.
  • His plots to use Tenko Shimura/Tomura Shigaraki as his new body get ripped apart when Tomura enacts his own plan that kills Mugen's mind, allowing Tomura to have full control of the All for One Quirk.
• Angrish: What he devolves into as he realizes All Might achieved the means to restore his health, while he's still a disfigured mess.
• Asshole Victim: After a lifetime of misdeeds and treating people's lives as tools to his amusement, no one will feel sorry over the death of a Psychopathic Manchild like Mugen. Maybe Garaki would, but he has his own set of issues now.
• Big Bad: He was Japan's (and possibly the world's) first supervillain, and even in his current diminished capacity he remains so.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: Ultimately, however, he is left as this in the grand scheme of things. After his defeat at Kamino, he was left completely paralyzed and unable to heal, and thrown in Tartarus to rot. Pinning his hopes of escape on Tomura gaining the original All for One Quirk, his hopes are ultimately brought to ruin when his protegé is revealed to have been planning revenge on his mentor for manipulating and ruining his life; as a result, he is killed within the vestige world, while Tomura is left to become the true Big Bad of the story.
• Cain and Abel: He's the Cain to Yoichi's Abel. He even killed him with his own hands.
• Create Your Own Hero: He decided to give a Quirk to his justice-loving Quirkless younger brother in an attempt to make him fold (in fairness, Yoichi remarked that it worked up till then). He certainly didn't expect it would merge with the Quirk his brother actually had, much less that it would begin a legacy of heroes that would oppose him and his plans.
• Dark Lord on Life Support: The injuries he sustained during the fight with All Might 5 years ago forces him to use a life support system 24/7.
• Death of Personality: After failling to steal Tomura's body, the younger villain kills Mugen's consciousness in the Vestige realm, leaving him braindead in the real world.
• Didn't See That Coming:
  • He clearly didn't expect that his brother had a Quirk, or that the Stockpile Quirk he gave him would merge with it, creating One for All.
  • Izuku knowing his real name throws him off hard. The Hoist by His Own Petard from his attempt to steal One for All leaves him terrified.
  • All Might throwing off all of his attempts at psychological warfare, then finding out that All Might isn't severely wounded anymore, ends up sending the sociopath into an apoplectic fury.
  • And ultimately, he never anticipated that Tomura would turn on him in revenge for ruining his life as a child to turn him into his tool. This last mistake proved to be fatal for the Symbol of Evil.
• Didn't Think This Through: Tomura gleefully points out that Mugen didn't have the willpower to steal One for All for himself yet planned for Tomura to be able to do so, without considering that would mean he wouldn't have the willpower to overcome Tomura either.
• Disabled in the Adaptation:
  • While trying to take Overhaul's Quirk, Overhaul uses his Quirk one last time to genetically mutilate Mugen's hands, ensuring his Super Regeneration Quirk is not capable of restoring his hands. He claims it's only a setback, though.
  • Due to All Might being able to harness Izuku's One For All, he changes up his United States of Smash enough to critically damage All For One's spine to the point that Super Regeneration can't properly heal it and leave him a quadriplegic.^*Via a fully charged Laser Disc severing his spine and cauterizing the wound, preventing Super Regeneration from being capable of doing anything
  • Finally, he is left braindead after Tomura destroys his consciousness at the Vestige realm.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: According to Yoichi, he liked how "One for all and all for one" sounded, but he clearly never understood the point of the sentence.
• Entitled to Have You: He believes that One for All belongs with him, and plots to steal it from Izuku.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When All for One stole Bond, he derided it as giving its user the ability to become someone's soulmate, ignoring how it boosted the power of both Hitoshi and Shizuku.
• Evil Is Petty: The various holders of One for All agree that he is absolutely petty enough to get all forms of superhero media banned for the sole purpose of destroying his brother's favorite heroes.
• Evil Mentor: Acts as this to Tomura.
• Failed a Spot Check: All For One makes a comment that he doesn't even remember what most of his stolen Quirks do. This should be a major red flag to him due to him having an eidetic memory Quirk. He doesn't notice.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • His laziness. Mugen simply refuses to put any effort in anything he does: Yoichi mentions his brother never finished a book in his life. He prefers to steal Quirks that are easy to use, no matter how powerful they sound. He even mentions an Energy Manipulation Quirk that would've made him unstoppable but would've required several years of studying particle physics to properly use, but instead just stole more Quirks. This comes back to bite him hard when he faces an opponent that is both Strong and Skilled.
  • To a lesser extent, his greed and pettiness. Mugen has stolen well over a thousand Quirks, most of which he either doesn't or can't use, simply so he could have them. If he was willing to just accept that One For All was a lost cause, he could've killed one of the earlier users before they passed it on, and he'd have been the undisputed ruler of Japan. His pettiness shows in how he goes out of his way to screw people over for no other reason than his own amusement, which alienates several potential allies/underlings. This especially screws him over when Tomura refuses to let him take over his body.
• Fate Worse than Death: In the aftermath of Tomura turning against him, All for One is trapped alone in his own consciousness, completely paralysed and blind. And then Tomura turns his body into a bomb and blows him to smithereens.
• Flat "What": All Might revealing that he already knows Tomura is Tenko Shimura results in this reaction.
• Gone Horribly Right: He spent years grooming Tomura's hatred and resentment towards heroes so he would be able to overpower One for All's power and steal the Quirk. This backfires immensely against him when the same hatred and resentment is aimed at him and becomes too strong for Mugen to steal Tomura's body, resulting in his former apprentice taking control of all his Quirks and destroying his consciousness.
• Greater-Scope Villain: He was Japan's Shadow Dictator until All Might put an end to his empire. He's currently Tomura's backer.
• Greed: While Mugen wants to become immortal and rule the world forever, he explicitly only wants to do so in order to keep finding/creating new Quirks and steal them forever.
  • According to Quirk Understanding, he currently possesses 1648 different Quirks. Of course, that number was reduced when the Torchbearers got into the back door the AFO Quirk put into OFA and began to delete a few Quirks from AFO, starting with Eidetic Memory to make sure he didn't catch on he was bleeding Quirks. By the time he catches on, he's lost a third of the number.
• Head Crushing: How he killed Yoichi.
• Hero Killer: Being so long lived, likely hundreds of heroes and heroic vigilantes are dead by his hands, the ones we know about are most of the Torchbearers of OFA sans the Fourth and En's sidekick Kagami.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Oh, let us count the ways…
  • The first instance is his role in the creation of One for All, the Quirk whose Bearers have been opposing him for decades.
  • He stole Bond from Marubashi just to be a dick. Bond merged with Power Stockpile, causing the future One for All to reach singularity sooner and allowing Izuku to forge the Ennead.
  • His theft of Overhaul leaves him unable to actually use it, since Chisaki fought back and mangled AFO's hands to the point Super Regeneration couldn't return them to normal.
  • His attempt to steal One for All from Izuku ends up causing him to lose thirty-four Quirks, eleven of which are outright stolen by Izuku — including Search and Overhaul.
    • Losing Diagnosis also causes him plenty of trouble, because, while he can use Neural Rewrite to heal the injury that left him quadriplegic, he doesn't know how to do it without Diagnosis.
  • During his rematch with All Might, most of his Quirks are impossible to use due to his disabilities, and out of the few that could actually help him, several are useless because he did not take the time to train them and chose to go for easier-to-use Quirks — which are now useless because of the aforementioned disabilities.
  • All For One tries to exploit the connection he has to One for All to spy on the current wielder. When Izuku takes Quirk Understanding, it allows him to learn information about all of All for One's stolen Quirks, and he finds out later that he can use the connection to destroy more Quirk vestiges.
  • He often kills people to take their Quirks. As a result, the vestiges of said Quirks HATE him and very happily do anything they can to hamper him, even if this means Cessation of Existence. Eidetic Memory chooses Suicide by Cop so All For One can’t remember every Quirk he has and the moment she can safely get away with it, Air Cannon leaps into One for All.
  • One for All has a connection to All for One, which is how Mugen tries to steal One for All in the first place. The Torchbearers managed exploit it by getting into AFO from their end of this and began a long-term campaign of deleting Quirks to deprive Mugen of his tools, mostly the Quirks he hardly used outside of Eidetic Memory to make sure he doesn't remember his stock. Eventually he caught on that he was losing Quirks and finally severed the connection, but by this time, he's in solitary confinement, so he can't replace lost Quirks. Worse, he lost even more Quirks in his haste to sever the connection, including his beloved Air Cannon Quirk.
  • He had implanted Decay into the Quirkless Tenko Shimura to not only turn him into the villainous Tomura Shigaraki, but also mold him into the vessel for him to implant his mind into while also using his hatred to finally steal One for All. This ends up being his final, fatal mistake, as Tomura not only intends to kill Izuku due to seeing him as too much of a danger to be allowed to live, but his strong hatred (which he points directly at Mugen when they finally meet in the vestige world once Tomura has acclimated to the original All for One Quirk) allows him to overpower his mentor when he tries to take over and ultimately kill him for good.
• Horrifying the Horror: Izuku, the Ennead and the Torchbearers outright stealing eleven Quirks from him — including several very powerful ones, such as Overhaul — in addition to deleting twenty-three Quirks they couldn't steal, leaves him completely terrified and afraid for his life, stopping the attempted Quirk theft before either Life Force or the Quirk All For One were deleted.
• Humiliation Conga: Things hardly if ever go his way since the Sports Festival. First, Izuku publicly calls out his apprentice as a tantrum-throwing brat. Then, his attempt to steal Overhaul results in the villain Overhaul mangling his arms to prevent him from using the Quirk at all, much less fix himself. After that, though the League succeeds in kidnapping Izuku, they lose more than half of their members in the process, and then his attempt to steal One for All results in him losing over thirty Quirks, with nearly half of them (including Search and Overhaul) being absorbed into One for All, causing it to become even more powerful. To cap it all off, the rescue mission results in all but three members of the League being captured or defecting and All Might paralyzing him while All for One is unable to break him due to Eri healing him. All for One is only able to seethe at his circumstances by the end of it.
  • Oh, and for extra salt in the wound, when Izuku visited Tartarus to meet the Winged Nomu, Yoichi shows up in his cell just to BM him with Fortnite dances, as En said he would.
  • Then there was the slow raid campaign the Torchbearers were pulling off where they exploited the connection between the OFA and AFO Quirks (the very thing Mugen needed to he can steal One for All) and began deleting Quirks out of Mugen's vast stock. While he eventually found out he was losing Quirks, Mugen lost a few more when he severed the connection between OFA and AFO, including Air Cannon.
  • And, to finish it off, Tomura Shigaraki used the AFO Quirk he was implanted with to turn the tables and render Mugen a vegetable.
• Irony: His plan was to do a Grand Theft Me on Tomura and escape from Tartarus. Tomura briefly does a Grand Theft Me on All for One's original body to self-destruct it and bring Tartarus down.
• It's All About Me: He's this all the way down to his Quirk.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Mugen spent over a century and a half causing death and misery with his villainous plots, but he finally starts to face to consequences by the time the story comes around, with all of his carefully planned schemes systematically failing. First he gets maimed trying to steal the only Quirk that can heal him back to health, then he is left paraplegic during his rematch against All Might, and finally, his apprentice betrays him, steals his Quirk and leaves him to be killed in an explosion.
• Killed Off for Real: In Chapter 73, the vengeful Tomura kills him in the vestige world, leaving him brain dead in the real world. In Chapter 74, Tomura uses Curious' Quirk to explode his body, destroying Mugen for good.
• Lazy Bum: Big time. Yoichi mentions that Mugen never finished a book in his life. This also applies the Quirks he steals: Mugen prefers to take Quirks that take little to no time training to effectively use, neglecting ones that are harder to learn but could actually help him on the long run.
• Long-Lived: He stole a Quirk that makes him this. He's been alive for over two centuries already.
• The Man Behind the Man: As it turns out, he was the main funder of the MLA terrorist campaigns when they debuted, no doubt in order to create chaos enough for his criminal empire to rise from the shadows.
• Meaningful Name:
  • His birth name, Mugen, means "infinity", reflecting both his Long-Lived status and the fact that he can take and use every Quirk in the world.
  • His chosen villain (and Quirk) name, All For One, reflects his It's All About Me attitude: he sees people as things that should serve him, and all Quirks as things only to be used by him.
• Mundane Utility: He uses one of the Quirks he stole to watch television even though he's blind.
• Named by the Adaptation: As of the most recent chapters in canon, his real name is unknown. Here, his given name is Mugen Shigaraki.
• No Body Left Behind: His body is completely destroyed with an explosion during the Tartarus breakout.
• Not So Above It All: He uses one of the Quirks he's stolen, Imposing Theme, to give himself a Leitmotif.
• Near-Villain Victory: In Isamu's chapter of Kyuseishu's Heroic Analysis, he had OFA in the palm of his hands but Isamu was able to have OFA stay out of Mugen's grasp thanks to the timely rescue from Hikage, the would-be Fourth Torchbearer.
• Out-Gambitted: Tomura manages to turn the tables on him when he attempts to take over the former's body.
• Pyrrhic Victory: His sole "victory", stealing Overhaul, in the story ends up costing him far more than he gained^note Chisaki mutilated his hands so badly that Mugen can't use Overhaul himself nor any other Quirk that requires his hands. To make matters worse, he loses even that much the very next arc.
• Rasputinian Death: While All for One couldn't be officially executed due to it posing as a PR problem, that didn't stopd the guards at Tartarus from trying subtle (and sometimes not at all subtle) ways to dispose of him, which include but are not limited to: "accidentally" turning off his life support equipment, being poisoned with pretty much every conceivable poison, being shot, burned, electrocuted, etc. Nothing worked. It took Tomura invading his mind, killing his consciousness and setting his body to self-destruct to put Mugen down for good.
• Sadist: He's a self-admitted sadist who enjoys tormenting others. This includes intentionally giving Aoyama Navel Laser, knowing that he wouldn't be able to completely control it and that it's potentially fatal to the holder if they're not careful.
• Sunk Cost Fallacy: Mugen wants One For All so badly that, even after attempting to steal it from Izuku leads to him losing 34 Quirks and Izuku gaining Search and Overhaul, he still keeps Izuku alive to get One For All. Mugen hopes Tomura's hatred will be able to retake One for All anyway, even though he has to work against 17 strong wills, but if that doesn't work, he will deem it too much trouble and have One for All die with its current user.
• Underestimating Badassery: He makes this mistake when dealing with Bonding and Izuku.
  • He derides the former as a weak Quirk that lets one find their soulmate — ignoring its true power of making the bearer and their mate stronger. One for All made Izuku powerful, but Bonding not only granted him even more power, it ensured his girlfriends would become strong enough to stand next to him.
  • He thinks stealing One for All from Izuku will be easy. See Hoist by His Own Petard above for how that worked out.
  • He only regarded One for All as a stray Quirk, and keepsake of his brother's memory. It wasn't until Banjo foiled one of his villainous schemes that he realized that the Quirk had evolved into a genuine threat that needed to be taken back or destroyed entirely.
• Villainous Breakdown: Oh, boy. Where to begin? Not only he fails to steal One for All during the Kamino arc, but he also loses 34 Quirks in the process (23 destroyed, 11 stolen). His two master moves, to reveal that Nana Shimura's grandson is his apprentice and break All Might's spirit, and expose his weakened state to the world fall flat on his face because first, All Might found out about Tenko's fate after the USJ, and second, because Eri rewound All Might over a decade, meaning even after deflating in front the cameras, he still looks very healthy, which causes Mugen to throw a tantrum that would put Tomura's to shame. And finally, by the end of the fight, he is quadriplegic and has to rely on Tomura and his last two League members to rescue him eventually. Good luck with that.
  • He goes through another one at the end of Chapter 73, after he is overpowered by Tomura in the vestige world of All for One. Realizing that his protege has been plotting to kill him ever since learning the truth of how he gained Decay, in addition to learning of how he was intended to be nothing more than a vessel of his mentor's mind, the young villain makes it clear that he intends to kill Mugen for all he's done. He's left begging for his life, but ultimately it is for naught as Tomura kills him (leaving him brain dead in the real world).
• Worthy Opponent: It's revealed that, beyond Izuku and All Might, he refers to anyone he meets as their quirks within his mind, and he only viewed them as 'holders' of One for All like he did the ones before them, but later on it's revealed that due to the climactic battle that left them crippled, he started mentally calling Toshinori, All Might afterwards and again does the same with Izuku after their battle at Kamino, showing that he only calls people who are truly dangerous to him by either their chosen title or name.

Kyudai Garaki

Kyudai Garaki

Quirk: Life Force (Artificial Duplicate), Life Force (Original, formerly), Old and Golden, Several Mutation Quirks

All for One's second in command and Mad Scientist.

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• Body Horror: His appearance after being turned into a "homemade Nomu" is his height doubles in size, horns grow from his head, spines grow along his back, and his skin turns gray.
• Composite Character: Like in many fics, he is both All for One's doctor and Dr. Tsubasa, Izuku's former pediatrician.
• Dragon-in-Chief: With All for One and Kurogiri in jail, he is technically the person in charge of the League until Tomura matures further.
• Ironic Hell: For a man who condemned countless people (including his own family members) into becoming Nomu, it is ironic that he himself is turned into a "do-it-yourself Nomu" by Tomura once he gains the All for One Quirk.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: After subjecting innocents to his inhuman experiments for countless decades, he finally faces consequences for his actions when Tomura turns him into an Eldritch Abomination.
• Lack of Empathy: He feels no remorse over using children as subjects of his experiments.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After all the shit he did to innumerable people, his final fate is to be turned into a Nomu by Tomura.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Not even he knew that All for One's name is Mugen Shigaraki.
• Mad Scientist: He is the manufacturer of the Nomus.
• Oh, Crap!: Goes through this upon realizing that Tomura has full control of his body and the All for One Quirk, with Mugen's consciousness not in control.
• Pragmatic Villainy: He tried to bargain with the CRC cell from their current hideout, but when they refuse to listen because of the Nomus' presence, he just killed them and used their bodies for Nomu material.
• Stronger with Age: One of the Quirks used to turn him into a Nomu is Old and Golden, which improves the holder's physical ability scaling with their age at the cost of reducing their intelligence (also scaling with age). Given how he's now the oldest man alive, this likely means he'll be a physical juggernaut, at the expense of being reduced to a near-mindless beast.
• Would Hurt a Child: He used his own grandchildren as test subjects for the Nomu project. One of which was Izuku's former bully, Tsubasa, the Winged Nomu.

Himiko Toga

Himiko Toga

Quirk: Transform

A demented 17-year-old girl that has a large body count behind herself, she ends up stalking Izuku after starting to crush on him from seeing him bleed during the Sports Festival. She ends up bonding with Izuku after he expresses his opinion that Quirks are not villainous — only for him to quickly sever the bond when he realizes her true personality.

Her Quirk, "Transform", allows her to create a layer of goop around herself that lets her disguise herself as another person, but this requires her to ingest blood from that person, and it only lasts for a time that depends on how much blood she drank. If she concentrates, she can also replicate the person's Quirk.

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• Adaptational Badass: During her time off-page since Kamino, she figured out how to combine the Quirks of the people she killed, making herself even more dangerous than she already was.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Himiko makes her debut during the spring internships instead of after their completion.
• Adaptational Heroism: Subverted. Himiko's Insane Troll Logic makes believe that she is not that different from Izuku and the heroes simply because now she targets villains instead of random people.
• Alas, Poor Villain: After she gets a very thorough reality check due to her accidentally connecting to the Ennead's bonding where she is not only forced to see things from other people's point of view, but she also realizes that Izuku and the girls want to help her but also want to keep her away from them, Toga runs away from the Kamino fight and hides away to cry.
  • Her reappearance has her still shaken from the reality check, but still wanting to be with the Ennead, though this time out of a more sincere desire to feel like she belongs.
• Bad Powers, Bad People: Izuku calls her out on how her actions, not her Quirk, make her a monster.
• Bait-and-Switch: Himiko protests the idea of Izuku being turned into her limbless blood bag/body pillow... but only because he couldn't hug her if he had no arms.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Himiko wanted to connect with Izuku with Bonding even after he snapped the link. Transforming into Izuku allows her to fool Bonding into thinking she was Izuku, reconnecting her to the network... and suddenly forcing her to experience and understand the Ennead's emotions, giving her a hard reality check on the scope of her actions.
• Blood Lust: She crushes on Izuku when she sees him bleeding in the aftermath of the Sports Festival fight with Shoto.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Prior to her attempt to reintegrate into the Ennead in the Kamino Raid, the best way to show her love for someone was killing them and attempt to become them.
  • Following the Kamino Raid, she now kills villains mostly because she believes that's what Heroes do.
• Body Horror: While combining Transform with the other Quirks within her, her body evolves into a massive blob creature.
• Broken Tears: During her reunion with Izuku in the middle of the MLA Uprising, she sheds these as she begs him and the Ennead to take her back after showing she had "changed" by only targeting villains. This shows Izuku that she genuinely has no idea how horrible her actions are, and only wants a place to belong and be loved.
• Desperately Craves Affection: Having spent her entire life being scorned because of her Quirk, Himiko is a tragic example of someone who only wants to feel loved and will go extremes to achieve that, as Izuku painfully figures it out.
• Disproportionate Retribution: She will kill people for the flimsiest reasons (if any). The girl she disguises herself as to approach Izuku? She killed her because she was (according to her) a bitch.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Izuku makes it clear while talking to her, and Sir Nighteye later, that while what Himiko went through was terrible, it still doesn't remotely justify her becoming a Serial Killer. Later when Himiko briefly reconnects with the Ennead, she learns that all of them pity her for what she went through, including being starved of the blood she needs, but none of them think it justifies her "knifing random people in an alley".
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Using her Quirk to turn into Izuku ends up causing her to connect to the Ennead's mental link — which overwhelms her as she realizes the depths of everyone's feelings, causing her to break down mentally and run away.
• Insane Troll Logic: Toga believes that Izuku and the girls will be more willing to accept her for who she is if she behaves like a hero. How does she choose to do that? By brutally killing any villain that crosses her path. In her eyes, this makes her no different from a hero.
• I Reject Your Reality: No matter what other people tell her, she remains convinced that Izuku loves her and wants her to show her love (by killing him). Her using her Quirk to change into Izuku and "reconnecting" to the Bonding Quirk, the Ennead hits her with enough of a proper reality check that she retreats and breaks down into a sobbing wreck.
• Kill and Replace: She initially thinks this is the ultimate expression of her love — drinking so much blood out of someone that she will actually become that person. She wants to do that to Izuku.
• Loophole Abuse: An accidental variation. Turning into Izuku after having previously formed a temporary bond with him, briefly tricks Bonding into thinking she is Izuku and lets her connect with the Ennead.
• Mindlink Mates: She was this with Izuku for all of forty-five seconds before he realized she was a psychopathic Serial Killer and snapped the bond. Unfortunately, this was enough to let her know that he's bonded with other girls. When she uses her Quirk to change into him during Chapter 44, she "reconnects" at level 1. The sudden sensation of feeling multiple foreign emotions overwhelms her.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Her temporary bond with the Ennead allows her to find out all of them have a Dark and Troubled Past in some level. While not as bad as hers, is enough for Toga to point out that much like her, they all have something Beneath the Mask.
• Obliviously Evil: As Izuku comes to realize, Himiko is desperate to have a place to belong. She genuinely doesn't understand how wrong her actions are, making the whole situation even more tragic.
• Serial Killer: She's got a long string of bodies behind her, and she doesn't even care about it.
• Stalker with a Crush: She becomes this to Izuku — much to his disgust.
• Stealth Expert: She's good enough that it doesn't trigger Danger Sense even though she wants to kill Izuku.
• Sympathy for the Devil: The entirety of the Ennead pities Himiko for her Dark and Troubled Past and wants her to receive psychiatric help, even if they don't want her anywhere near them given that she's still a Serial Killer who's fixated on Izuku.
• Terms of Endangerment: She calls Izuku "Izu-kun" and "Izuku-chan" after their bond forms and snaps. Izuku tells her she doesn't get to call him like the other girls do, but she doesn't care.
• This Cannot Be!: The above Loophole Abuse causes Himiko to learn how the Ennead view her. The result shocks her so badly that she flees the battle to find a place where she can curl up and cry.
  Toga's world was torn to shreds and rebuilt when she finally gave into her urges and drank from Saito. Now, it started reeling once again as she clearly saw into the lives of other people, how their actions changed because of her, the fear and caution they felt. They were real people. They thought she was a real person. They wanted what was best for her. And they didn't want her in their lives.
• Vampiric Draining: From his temporary bond with her, Izuku learns that Himiko genuinely needs to drink blood for sustenance. After the Kamino incident, Himiko changed from random targets for their blood to criminals.
• Villain Killer: She begins to target villains to steal their blood after abandoning the League in Kamino. In Toga's twisted mindset, that actually makes her a hero. She is the one to off Trumpet during the MLA Uprising.
• Villainous Breakdown: Has one in the middle of the fight in Kamino, where she finds out that the Ennead is not shunning her away because of her Quirk, but because she killed a lot of people in the name of her twisted version of love. This prompts her to run from the fight, shapeshift into somebody else and cry all by herself.
• Voice of the Legion: While speaking on her transformed mode, her voice sounds like is followed by fifty others too.
• Yandere: Her idea of showing her love is to kill them and attempt to become them.

Dabi

Touya Todoroki

Quirk: Blueflame + Cryokinesis

Endeavor's oldest child that has a grudge against his father after believing that the man cast him aside after his younger brother, who had the best Quirk of his siblings, was born.

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• Adaptational Badass: In Chapter 74, Tomura gives him Geten's stolen Quirk as a gift, which will prove to be an advantage to him after seeing it be used against Endeavor during the MLA Uprising.
• All for Nothing: His plans to ruin his father and brother go down the drain after Endeavor admits to his past mistakes publicly.
• Cain and Abel: Dabi is this to not only Shoto, but Fuyumi and Natsuo, his other younger siblings, though he wants to kill specifically Shoto, because he thinks the latter had the life that was denied to him.
  • It also would not be his first attempt at Shoto's life, having nearly attacked him with full intent to maim his littlest brother when Shoto was a baby.
• Combo Platter Powers: Thanks his Required Secondary Powers, he can coat himself with ice from Cryokinesis and create an armor that negate the damage from Blueflame.
• Devious Daggers: He can create ice blades with Cryokinesis, which he uses to kill Endeavor's former sidekicks.
• Dramatic Irony: While not properly clarified by the author to be the case like in canon, Dabi's new Cryokinesis Quirk originally belonged to his Long-Lost Relative from his mother's side, Geten.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He doesn't understand why Shoto bothers to help Endeavor during his fight against Geten and Starservant because of the abuse he also suffered.
• First Person Snarker: He somehow is snarkier on his inner monologue than out loud:
  Dabi: Dabi looked around at his group, the “Vanguard Action Squad”, as their raisin-skinned leader called them. Honestly, he wouldn’t trust most of them with a ball of string, but if this succeeded, they would serve their purpose. And if they didn’t, fuck it, he’d burnt a forest down and survived once, he could do it again.
• Glass Cannon: Blueflame gives him incredible offensive power, but not only does he not have particularly good defense, he's also weak to his own Quirk, having inherited his mother's cold resistance and frail constitution, and overuse of his Quirk has only made this problem worse. Izuku, via Diagnosis, describes his current state perfectly:
  Dabi in particular, was held together with chewing gum and a wish.
• Hypocrisy Nod: He internally comments that he probably shouldn't make remarks about Tomura's crusty looks, given his own appearance.
• Instant Expert: Subverted. He doesn't immediately gets the gist of Cryokinesis simply by watching Geten on TV. It takes him figuring out that the Quirk needs ice in the water for it to be properly manipulated.
• I Reject Your Reality: After hearing what happened to his mother and Shoto, he quickly denies what happened to them was that bad and still believes that he is justified in his crimes and quest for vengeance.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: Only joined the League of Villains to further his quest to destroy his father.
• Shadow Archetype: He is this to Shoto, being a son of Endeavor who was raised to try and become a hero stronger than All Might, only for Dabi to crack and become a villain due to a series of personal tragedies. It becomes even more obvious when Dabi is given Geten's Cryokinesis Quirk by Tomura after the latter steals it from the former; now the elder Todoroki child has an Ice-themed Quirk of his own to work in conjunction with his Fire-themed Quirk.
• Villainous Breakdown: Dabi throws a screaming fit when his plans to ruin his father's reputation are destroyed by the man owning up to his actions in a press conference, especially because a number of people praised Endeavor for coming clean and seeking to atone.

Canopy

Hekiji Tengai

Quirk: Barrier + Body Slider

One half of Overhaul's Spear and Shield combo, and extremely loyal to the man, he joined the League of Villains to avenge his captured, later killed, leader.

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• Adaptational Name Change: Played With. While he still has the same name as his canon counterpart, here he goes by the codename Canopy rather than his given name like in canon.
• Ascended Extra: In canon he was a member of a Quirky Miniboss Squad that was defeated in their first appearance. Here he is the last man standing of the organization and one of the key members of the League of Villains.
• Barrier Warrior: His Quirk lets him create solid barriers that are difficult to break through.
• Character Customization: In Chapter 74, Tomura grants him the secondary Quirk "Body Slider", which allows him to alter his appearance (within reason). He decides to use this to allow him to more easily flee Japan entirely.
• Dramatic Irony: He joined the League to avenge Overhaul, not knowing that the true leader of the League, All for One, was the man that killed Overhaul.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: He joined to avenge Overhaul and cares nothing for Tomura Shigaraki and his goals. He makes this clear in Chapter 74 when after the MLA Uprising and Tomura gaining All for One, he wants no further part in the conflict (rationalizing it that his targets of revenge are out of his reach one way or another, in addition to being way out of his depth) and just wants to get the hell out of the country. Chapter 75 reveals he went to Paraguay.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He decides to leave Japan after Tomura takes All for One, figuring that his revenge targets are either dead or too strong to deal with himself.
• Sole Survivor: By the end of the Hideout Raid Arc, he is the only member of the Shie Hassaikai that wasn't killed, captured by heroes, or defected.
• Stopped Caring: After Overhaul's death he no longer cares about keeping his partner Rappa in line.
• Stone Wall: His barriers are powerful, but he doesn't have much offensive ability himself.

The Rapper

Kendo Rappa

Quirk: Strongarm

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The other half of Overhaul's Spear and Shield combo, and not loyal to the man at all. Joined the League of Villains after the fall of the Shie Hassaikai solely to find someone who could give him a good fight.

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• Anti-Villain: Rappa only cares about fighting. He only joined Overhaul in hopes to defeat him one day, and only joined the League in hopes to fight Izuku, who defeated Overhaul. After his fight against Izuku, and later his defeat at the hands of Kirishima, Tetsutetsu and Akira at the Summer Training camp, not only he willingly surrenders, he also gives up all information he has about the League and what is left of the Yakuza. The three students and later Miruko (whose life he saved during the Underground Masquerade event in the Vigilantes spin-off) all agreed to testify and help him get leniency.
• The Atoner: Helped protect the remaining U.A. students after being robbed of his fight against Izuku, and surrendered and joined a villain rehabilitation program after the battle was over.
• Blood Knight: His main drive in life is trying to find someone willing to give him a good fight.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Tells Izuku to send Eri and Kota away before their fight, because, unlike Muscular, he does not hurt children. He also gets angry with Chronostasis when he shoots Izuku in the back in the middle of the fight.
• Evil Counterpart: Daigoro compares him to a villainous version of Kirishima and Tetsutetsu.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: Joined the Shie Hassaikai for a chance to take on Chisaki, and joined the League of Villains solely to find a good fight.
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: Strongarm allows Rappa to rotate his shoulders so fast he can fire rapid volleys of bullet punches.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: He is disgusted by Overhaul and Muscular's willingness to do so.

Chronostasis

Hari Kurono

Quirk: Chronostasis (formerly)

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Overhaul's former first lieutenant.

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• Chekhov's Gun: His namesake Quirk was stolen by All for One in Kamino back in Chapter 44, but it wasn't mentioned nor used until Chapter 74, when Tomura uses it to paralyze Garaki and turn him into a Nomu.
• Death by Adaptation: He is killed by All for One during Kamino raid to prevent him from turning against Tomura, once he realizes that the mastermind stole Chisaki's Quirk.
• The Dragon: He was Overhaul's right-hand man before his death.

Inquisitor

Shin Nemoto

Quirk: Confession

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Overhaul's former interrogator.

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• Avenging the Villain: The main reason he joined the League is to avenge Overhaul.
• Irony: He sought to avenge Overhaul - not knowing that All for One, the guy he was working for, was the one that killed him.
• Logical Weakness: He can force people to say the truth, but if his target doesn't know the answer to his questions, they won't be able to tell - for example, Shigaraki can say he doesn't know who killed Overhaul because he really didn't know, as All for One kept him Locked Out of the Loop.

Gigantomachia

Gigantomachia

Quirks: Endurance, Gigantification, Pain Blocker, Fierce Gains, Dog, Mole, Energy Saver, Stress

A behemoth villain, loyal only towards All for One and later Tomura

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• Adaptational Badass: In addition to all his canon Quirks, he also has Re-Destro's Stress, which not only allows him to become bigger and stronger, but allows him to shoot energy blasts.
• Break Them by Talking: How Mei ultimately defeats him. By pointing how much of a disposable pawn Machia is towards both Mugen and Tomura, this ends up weakening his Endurance Quirk, and with his morale in low, it allows Yui's atracks to actually cause damage.
• Combo Platter Powers: One of his few weakenesses was how his Endurance Quirk could lose energy whenever he loses the will to fight, but by adding Stress to his arsenal, he can balance it out.
• Heartbroken Badass: He is broken upon finding out that All for One died back in Tartarus, completely unware his new master Tomura, was the one to kill him.
• Hulking Out: He gains Re-Destro's Quirk from Tomura in Chapter 75, which allows him balance out whenever his Endurance Quirk is weakening, and since he found out about All for One's demise, he is very stressed.
• Kaiju: There is a reason he is called Gigantomachia.
• Logical Weakness: His Endurance Quirk can keep him up as long as he feels motivated to keep fighting, take that out and everything falls apart for him, and the best of doing so is pointing how irrelavant he is towards his beloved masters.
• Manchild: He behaves like one, always complaining that Tomura is not a worthy successor to All for One until he gives up and accepts him.
• Person of Mass Destruction: He completely destroys Tomura's hometown, Ouen-Beru.
• Selective Obliviousness: Completely ignores that for someone who is supposedly the most powerful weapon in All for One's arsenal, he had been left out of any relevant fights involving the League until the last possible moment.
• Sycophantic Servant: He spends all of his time while fighting Yui and Mt. Lady yelling about how All for One and Tomura are the greatest things in the universe.
• This Cannot Be!: His reaction when he finds out that All for One was destroyed during his last fight against All Might.
• What the Hell Are You?: Yells this to Yui when her sword actually pierces his nearly invincible skin.
• You Talk Too Much!: Besides being a walking calamity, the worst part of fighting him is how Machia doesn't know when to shut up during his rants about his masters, as Mt. Lady can attest.

Meta Liberation Army

General

The modern incarnation of Destro's terrorist organization, they intend to make sure they can impose their idea of a society where people can make use of their Quirks without any restrictions. While their predecessor resorted to terrorism to achieve that objective, the current incarnation is trying to use politics and the media to make Japan accept the idea.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: They appear much earlier in canon, taking an active part in the story during the timeframe of the first act of the series.
• Adaptational Villainy: The MLA was a very nasty organization in canon as it was, but here? Oh boy.
  • Their first incarnation was hell-bent on killing Quirkless people, acting no better than the government sanctioned death squads that hunted down Meta-Humans.
  • The current incarnation is more subtle but just as evil. They are ready to go to extreme lengths to destroy Izuku out of sheer pettiness.
  • If the modern incarnation wasn't bad enough, they also use members with weak and seemingly useless Quirks as Cannon Fodder for their attacks. Literally. Curious turns them into bombs without their knowledge or consent and they don't figure it out until they are about to die.
• Asshole Victim: Nobody will shed tears over a bunch of Quirkist terrorists being killed by Tomura after he steals their Quirks.
• De-power: The surviving members of the MLA Top Brass all have their Quirks stolen by Tomura after he steals All for One's body.
• Devil in Plain Sight: By the exception of Geten all of them are this. Re-Destro is the CEO of one of the biggest support item companies in Japan, Curious is a board member of a major magazine, Trumpet is the head of the Hearts and Minds Party, and Skeptic is one of the leaders of an IT firm.
• Evil Is Petty: They have Izuku in their eyesight after he essentially gave them a bad review in front of prospective investors.
• Eviler than Thou: They pull this against the HPSC, killing their President as well as most of their officers during Valentine's Day Attack.
• Fantastic Ableism: They hate Quirkless people, openly rejecting any requests that would benefit one of them and deriding them as a remnant of the past that would do best to go extinct. It's also revealed that they discriminate against heteromorphs as well, using them as Cannon Fodder and limiting their roles as footsoldiers.
• History Repeats: The current incarnation of the MLA and Destro will clash with a One For All user. Isamu, the Third Torchbearer, had fought the MLA in life, and was the (initially uncredited) reason why Destro was jailed. Re-Destro goes after Izuku, who is the Ninth, and ends up getting defeated by All Might, who is the Eighth.
• Hypocrite: The MLA claims they seek liberation and freedom to use Meta Abilities, but it is clear from Re-Destro's speech during the MLA Uprising in Chapter 70 that what they want is control and to oppress those around them.
• Insistent Terminology: They use the term "Meta Ability" instead of "Quirk".
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Karma finally catches up with the MLA's modern incarnation after so long over their atrocious treatment towards all those they deem inferior. Their "glorious revolution" barely lasts a day before being stomped out by heroes, their leader will be forever be remembered as a Big Bad Wannabe that got owned by a housewife, their lieutenants got easily defeated and then had their Quirks stolen and then got unceremoniously killed in an explosion. A fitting end by a nasty organization founded by a hypocritical jackass.
• Might Makes Right: One of the core principles the MLA is built around is that those with strong quirks deserve to lead, while the Quirkless should be nothing more than slaves to be used and discarded (left unsaid is that once all the Quirkless are gone it is those with weak Quirks on the chopping block as scapegoats to be used and discarded as needed).
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: The MLA has straight up fascist rulling structure, purposedly targeting for extermination minority groups they deem inferior while preaching ideals about their superiority as a species.
• Original Position Fallacy: Many people with "weak" Quirks join the MLA because they agree with its Quirk supremacist position - not knowing that Re-Destro's plans will lead to them being put in the same position Quirkless people would be until their extinction.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: In addition to their Quirkism towards both heteromorphs, people with weak Quirks and Quirkless, they also refer to the girls of the Ennead by demeaning nicknames like "hang-ons" and "harlots".
• Subpar Supremacist: Every single member of the Meta Liberation Army believes a person's worth is tied directly to the strength of their Quirk, but many of their soldiers have weaker Quirks who'd end up at the bottom of the social ladder should they succeed in their goals.
• Super Supremacist: Their ideology is based on this — the stronger one's Quirk is, the higher their position in society will be.
• Would Hurt a Child: They have no problem with the idea of having children killed if it furthers their own agenda.

Destro

Chikara Yotsubashi

Quirk: Stress

The founder of the Meta Liberation Army. A former freedom fighter who once crossed paths with Isamu, Destro became a Quirkist terrorist bent on "liberating" the use of Meta Abilities and killing as many Quirkless people as possible as part of his revenge plot for his mother's death.

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• Dirty Coward: According to Isamu, Chikara killed himself after he was captured to avoid becoming someone's prison bitch.
• Evil Counterpart: To Isamu. Both were freedom fighters that fought against the government that hunted metas down, and both had Charged Attack Quirks. However, Destro became a terrorist bent on destroying society while Isamu stayed true to his virtues, even if society hated him and his kind.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: He attempts to use his mother's death as justification for his terrorist campaign, only for Isamu to call him out, and say that because of said campaign, hundreds of Meta children lost their non-Meta parents and beloved ones, and Destro's own kind agrees with the government that he is a monster and that Quirks should be regulated.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Chikara went from a resistance fighter against government sanctioned death squads to a Super Supremacist terrorist just as bad, if not worse, than said death squads.
• Hypocrite: He killed the non-Meta parents of Meta children even though his entire thing is about getting revenge for the death of his non-Meta mother.
• Noodle Incident: At the time of his death, he owed Isamu 1500 yen.
• Posthumous Character: Died decades ago.
• Self-Serving Memory: If Isamu is to be believed, his memories are a self-serving pack of lies.

Re-Destro

Rikiya Yotsubashi

Quirk: Stress (formerly)

In his public life, he's the president and CEO of Detnerat, a company dedicated to the creation of items for people who can't buy standardized things. Behind the scenes, he's Re-Destro, the descendant of infamous terrorist Destro and Grand Commander of the Meta Liberation Army, and he's using his contacts and power to achieve his objectives.

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• Be Careful What You Wish For: He expected one of the images of his fight with All Might to be etched in history. One will, alright - the one where Inko punches him in the kidney.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Despite being built up as a major threat after his first appearance, he is quickly shown to be this by Chapter 71. Going after Inko and All Might to demoralize Izuku and break the public's morale, respectively, he ends up getting his ass kicked by the two of them to the point where he loses all his teeth and he will forever be remembered as a joke that ended up losing by getting his kidney punched by a civilian.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: He manages to give All Might a bit of trouble, but he's quickly defeated, especially when Inko Midoriya enters the fray and starts ripping out his teeth.
• Death by Adaptation: Dies when Tomura remotely controls All for One's body to escape his cell, steal the MLA members' Quirks, and then self-destruct to bring Tartarus down.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He believes that the only reason heroes are protecting Quirkless people is because the latter have some hold on the former, instead of the former being decent people that do not share his Fantastic Racism.
• Evil Is Petty: He starts to target Izuku and the Ennead after they humiliated him and cost him a few business deals, going as far as to support someone making conspiracy videos in an attempt to discredit him.
• Generation Xerox: Zigzagged. Much like his grandfather, he is a bigoted Psychopathic Manchild that hates Quirkless people and wants to get rid of them and people with weak Quirks for good. However, Destro had his mother's death as an excuse (although a very poor one) for his hatred towards society. Re-Destro cares simply about power for himself, no matter who gets hurt in the process.
• Humiliation Conga:
  • The image associated in the future with the war he started will be the moment Inko Midoriya put him down with a punch to the kidneys.
  • He then later dies ignonimiously after Tomura takes control of All for One's body and steals his Quirk.
• Jerkass: Unbelievably so. Re-Destro's is nothing more than a self-centered jerk that wants society to bend to his will.
• Lack of Empathy: When he hears how Bakugo had his villain rank increased due to how he used his Quirk to brutally bully Izuku (who was Quirkless at the time), he is disgusted that the law restricts someone's ability to use their Quirk and orders their political ally to repeal the clause that was invoked to punish Bakugo.
• Sinister Schnoz: And what a schnoz Rikiya has!
• Super Supremacist: Re-Destro straight up believes strong Quirk users should be in charge of everything by virtue of having strong Quirks and is extremely bigoted against the Quirkless as well as those with weak Quirks (which includes a lot of his own soldiers, not that the soldiers realise that).
• Power Incontinence: "Stress" expresses itself in the form of liver spots on his face.
• The Tooth Hurts: Like you wouldn’t believe! During Re-Destro's fight with All Might, Inko uses her Quirk to yank out every tooth in his mouth.
• Underestimating Badassery: Unaware of All Might and Inko's recent power-ups, he believes his fight against the retired hero is already won, and that Inko presents no threat to him. Curb-Stomp Battle doesn't begin to describe how wrong he was.
• Viler New Villain: For all that Destro was bad, Re-Destro is even worse. Destro at least was nominally retaliating against society for the death of his mother. He went about it in the worst possible way, but he still had a reason. Re-Destro on the other hand does not even have a flimsy excuse for being evil, being an outright Quirk Supremacist.
• Villain with Good Publicity: His company produces high quality products. This goes away in Chapter 70, after he reveals his true nature and heritage to Japan by launching an attack to overthrow the government.
• Villainous Breakdown: After Inko starts using her Quirk to rip out his teeth, he is left enraged and desperate as he starts to lose in his fight against All Might, and is further shaken and enraged as the vestige of Isamu appears before him (while making himself visible to only him) and verbally tears him down, especially when he reveals the real reason why Destro killed himself. The fact that his defeat ultimately came at the hands of Izuku's mother likely didn't help his situation either.
• Villainous Legacy: He's the descendant of Destro, a former terrorist, whose ideals he now intends to impose.

Curious

Chitose Kizuki

Quirk: Landmine (formerly)

A high-ranked member of the MLA, Curious is also the executive director and public face of Shoowaysha Publishing, which she uses to subtly spread the MLA's message.

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• Ascended Extra: She was killed in her introductory arc in canon. Here, she has much more screen time, and she has a much bigger impact on the story in a number of ways than she did in canon. And then there's the fact that whatever it was that Sir Nighteye saw when he used his Quirk on her, she's going to be involved in something terrible set to happen in the near future. Later revealed to be Tomura stealing the Quirks of the MLA then killing them and destroying Tartarus.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: She has blue skin, grey-purple hair and black eyes with blue irises. Her skin loses its blue tone after Tomura steals her Quirk.
• Bait the Dog: Her "encouraging pat" towards Spinner and his squadmates was simply a way to use her Quirk and turn them into bombs, showing that much like the other lieutenants, she only saw him as a disposable tool.
• Beauty Is Bad: She is described as having the owner of an inhuman beauty. Inhuman also describes her personality very accurately.
• Break the Haughty: If there's one character trait Curious is all about is arrogance, always wearing a smug smile on her face and acting like she can get away with anything. This falls apart by the end of the Uprising arc, after Ochako curb stomps her, Curious is sent to Tartarus, only for Tomura steal her Quirk and call it worthless to her face, before killing her with it.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Rather than being floated into a height and then dropped by Himiko imitating Ochako, she's killed when Tomura destroys Tartarus.
• Evil Is Petty: She turns several buildings surrounding U.A into landmines to explode later on just because the school is protecting Izuku and his girlfriends.
• Face Death with Despair: Right before she is killed by Tomura blowing up All for One's body, she is robbed of her Quirk and left a sobbing wreck afterwards, especially when he declares it to be weak right to her face. She's then shown just how weak it is compared to the explosion he makes that kills her and the other MLA members with her.
• Hate Sink: While all MLA members are a nasty bunch, Curious arguably takes the cake as the most vile one. A sociopathic, petty, condescending and arrogant Smug Snake that revels in the chaos she helps bring around her (and that's not even getting into how she's willing to turn her own foot soldiers into involuntary suicide bombs without a hint of remorse); no wonder seeing Ochako kicking her ass once they finally clash feels so catarthic.
• Immoral Journalist: She has no problem in using her position to attempt to cast Izuku in a bad light — the only reason she has failed so far is that she can't find anything that will actually stick.
• It's Personal: A one-sided variation of this occurs between her and Ochako due to the former's smear campaign against Izuku. It has likely become more mutual after Ochako kicks her ass in the MLA's routed attack on Valentine's Day. Not that she'll ever have the chance to act on that newfound animosity, thanks to being dead.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Dies after Tomura uses All for One's body to steal her Quirk and deride it as a weak power.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: As it turns out, most of the members of the press that broke into U.A. back in the first week worked for Curious. Thanks to their actions, the press is not allowed in a twenty meters radius of the school, which prevents Kizuki and her minions to infiltrate the building and leave bombs behind.
• Propaganda Machine: Her company, Shoowaysha Publishing, spreads the MLA's message through their newspapers and books.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: After being prevented of getting into U.A. and plant some bombs on it thanks to Danger Sense, she believes Nighteye somehow foresaw her intentions and warned the staff. Nighteye himself comments this idea is a bad joke.
• Smug Snake: Going along with all the rest of the MLA, Curious always believes herself to be the best there is no matter how bad things look to her. And then Ochako shows up and lets her know she is nowhere as good as she loves to pretend she is.
• The Sociopath: She sees nothing wrong with killing people using her Quirk, either by destroying entire buildings or turning them into suicide bombers.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her attempts to make Izuku look bad have instead made her the target of Ochako's anger — who brings her company to the attention of the Yaoyorozu Group's crack Forensic Accounting team, formed, among others, by Hisashi Midoriya, the man who cracked Nezu's finances and Izuku's biological father.
• Weak, but Skilled: She's nothing special in a straight fight, but her Quirk can easily last for over a year, letting her setup countless bombs ahead of time without any indication she did anything at all. She uses this and her press pass gaining her access to almost anywhere to place thousands of bombs around the country and detonates them as part the MLA's declaration of war. Ultimately subverted during her fight against Nighteye. Being a more skilled fighter, Nighteye easily predicts her moves and overpowers her, since her strategy boiled down to aimlessly shoot explosives with her support item and hope to hit him. And when she gets her ass handed to her by Ochako, the young hero mentions that Bakugo was better at using explosions than Curious, as he actually trained to use them in a fight, so someone like her never stood a chance against actually trained heroes.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • Goes through one in Chapter 73, after Ochako manages to leave her dangling in the air for her life and turns her last ditch attack (exploding a building) against the MLA by directing the debris toward the foot soldiers.
  • Gets another one in Chapter 74, right before dying. She is left a weeping mess after Tomura steals her Quirk and calls it worthless to her face.

Trumpet

Koku Hanabata

Quirk: Incite

The Head of the Hearts and Minds Party.

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• Cool Mask: The support item that amplifies his Quirk is a mask with several microphones on it.
• Corrupt Politician: He uses his political party as a recruitment front for the Meta Liberation Army.
• Death by Adaptation: Gets exsanguinated and broken into pieces by Toga.
• Demoted to Extra: In comparison to Skeptic and Curious, he has very little screen time or lines.
• Evil Counterpart: To Akira, both being the Support Party Member with speech Quirks that empower those around them for their respective teams.
• No Body Left Behind: After Himiko exsanguinates him, she injects his body with liquid nitrogen and breaks him into pieces.

Skeptic

Tomoyasu Chikazoku

Quirk: Antropomorph (formerly)

A tech genius and a shareholder of Feel Good Inc.

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• Death by Adaptation: Dies when Tomura remotely controls All for One's body to escape his cell, steal the MLA members' Quirks, and then self-destruct to bring Tartarus down.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He doesn't understand why Hawks is bothering with to fight against the MLA since they "liberated" him from the Commission's shackles.
• Evil Genius: He is an expert of technology working for a Super Supremacist organization.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: During the opening of the MLA War, Skeptic slams communications and online networks and servers into inoperable service. One of the lost servers belongs to a videogame company that was going to publish an Otome game that same day, which La Brava was looking forward to play. Within an hour, La Brava traces the attack back to Skeptic and proceeds to ruthlessly counterattack him into submission.
• Smug Snake: He thought he had everything in the bag during his digital attack, taking the MLA victory for granted. And then La Brava shows up and proves him dead wrong. In Chapter 74, he is shown to be a shivering wreck by how thoroughly he was owned by La Brava.

Geten

Geten

Quirk: Cryokinesis (formerly)

A recruiter for the Meta Liberation Army.

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg / Be Careful What You Wish For: He begs Tomura to not steal his Quirk, because he would never be able to live as someone Quirkless. He gets his wish right away, when Tomura stabs him in the guts after stealing it anyway.
• Death by Adaptation: Dies when Tomura remotely controls All for One's body to escape his cell, steal the MLA members' Quirks, and then self-destruct to bring Tartarus down.
• Demoted to Extra: Only marginally better than Trumpet, but he still has little screen time.
• Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: Ends up fighting against Endeavor and later Shoto during the MLA Uprising.
• Pet the Dog: Exploited. As a recruitment officer for the MLA, he showers any possible recruit with praise.
  • Ironically, Spinner notes that Geten did NOT have good things to say about him.
• Villainous Breakdown: He goes through one in Chapter 74 when Tomura (piloting Mugen's body) starts stealing the Quirks of the surviving MLA leadership, begging him to not do so as it is all that makes him "special." His pleas are ignored, and he's left crying in despair before being unceremoniously killed.

Finger

Nobukazu "Yubi" Sashikuchi

Quirk: Fingers

One of Izuku's former bullies, and member of the Meta Liberation Army leading a slander campaign against him.

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• Ascended Extra: Only appeared in early parts of the anime and manga, but is one of the antagonists here. Before passing out from his injuries Itsuka Kendou visited him, he mentally laments that Bakugou was right in him being an extra.
• Conspiracy Theorist: He leads a media channel about conspiracies surrounding Izuku called "The Finger of Truth".
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Gets a Smash Cut beatdown from Itsuka.
• Fantastic Racism: Much like everybody else in the MLA, he has a huge hatred towards Quirkless people.
• Hate Sink: Not only he is a massive Quirkist asshole, he is all but confirmed to be jealous of Izuku's newfound popularity, and is leading an online hate campaign against him with completely false slander and conspiracy theories.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: He believes Izuku has a connection to the rumored Quirk thief All For One, which is true. However, he insists said connection is that, like All For One, Izuku must have stolen his Quirk, which is patently false.
• Small Name, Big Ego: He certainly thinks that he's a dangerous combatant with his brand new support gear, especially with several of his former classmates backing him up. They're all completely thrashed by Itsuka with ease.

Mustard

Shinichi Hena

Quirk: Gas (formerly)

A new recruit for the Meta Liberation Army.

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• Adaptational Badass: Downplayed. Unlike his canon counterpart, he is immune to his Quirk, and his gas mask serves to fool his enemies into thinking he is not.
• Adaptational Late Appearance: Mustard is introduced during the Training Camp attack. Here he debuts during the Work Studies arc.
• All the Other Reindeer: He used to be bullied because his Quirk seemed useless. This led to him become a resentful Super Supremacist.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Ends up on the receiving end of this in Chapter 71 at the hands of Monoma, Inasa and Best Jeanist teaming up against him, with the former two using their Quirks to dispel his gas and allowing Best Jeanist to easily subdue him.
• Death by Adaptation: Dies when Tomura remotely controls All for One's body to escape his cell, steal the MLA members' Quirks, and then self-destruct to bring Tartarus down.
• Hero Killer: According to Nezu, he killed Japan's Prime Minister during the Uprising.
• Meaningful Name: His first name in kanji means "spicy, bitter" a reference to the plant used on mustard gas. And it also ties in with his resentful personality. Shinichi was also teased due to the fact that the first Kanji in 'Hena' is a homophone with the Kanji for fart/passing gas.
• Named by the Adaptation: Mustard's real name was never revealed in canon. Here is Shinichi Hena.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He appears in only two chapters, being swiftly defeated in the second one, but off-page he manages to successfully kill the Prime Minister and several other high-ranking officials during the Diet attack, throwing Japan into further chaos during and after the MLA Uprising.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: He is a member of the Meta Liberation Army here, instead of the League of Villains.

Spinner

Shuichi Iguchi

Quirk: Gecko

One of the new recruits for the Meta Liberation Army.

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• Adaptational Late Appearance: Spinner is introduced during the aftermath of the Hero Killer arc. Here he debuts during the Work Studies arc.
• Adaptational Villainy: Zigzagged. In canon, Spinner was initially a Noble Demon that followed Stain's principles about true heroes until later chapters have him fly completely off the moral rail and straight into Moral Myopia. Here, since Stain's broadcast never happened, he is a member of the Meta Liberation Army and a fan of The Finger of Truth channel.
• Alas, Poor Villain: As he is seconds away from exploding from a Involuntary Suicide Mechanism, he can't help but realize that, in the end, no one in the MLA ever believed that he would be worth anything.
• Death by Adaptation: He's killed while leading an attack on the HPSC headquarters, unaware it was meant to be a Suicide Attack.
• Involuntary Suicide Mechanism: He was completely unaware that Curious turned him and his squadmates into bombs until they were seconds away from exploding.
• Oh, Crap!: Has a brief moment of this in his last moments before Curious' Quirk blows him up in his attack on the HPSC headquarters.
• Unwitting Pawn: It's not until his last moments that he realizes his attack was intended to be a Suicide Attack by Curious's Quirk.
• Walking Spoiler: Everything outside his introductory scene is a spoiler for both the MLA attack and the organization's ruthlessness.

Slidin' Go

Tatsuyuki Tokoname

Quirk: Unnamed Slding Quirk (formerly)

A corrupt Pro working as an MLA double agent.

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• Death by Adaptation: Dies when Tomura remotely controls All for One's body to escape his cell, steal the MLA members' Quirks, and then self-destruct to bring Tartarus down.
• Dirty Cop: He is a Meta Liberation Army soldier that works as a Pro Hero.
• Hero Killer: He is the one to kill Nighteye, by crushing his skull against a wall.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After killing Nighteye, Centipeder poisons him, which leaves him in painful agony for hours.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Despite his silly looks and seemingly weak Quirk, Izuku poins out that with it, he could essentially move as fast as a bullet train with his method of sliding, which he proves, when he kills Nighteye.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears for over three paragraphs in chapter 72, but with this short appearance he kills Nighteye and ends up preventing him from warning Izuku and the heroes about Shigaraki's incoming threat.
• Super-Speed: An unusual example, since he doesn't run, but slides super fast.

Aranea

Aranea

Quirk: Unnamed Spider Quirk

An heteromorph soldier trying to recruit people in Mosai Ward.

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• All for Nothing: His efforts to try recruiting the inhabitants of Mosai Ward to the MLA fall apart when Shoji and Gang Orca (heteromorph hero student and Pro Hero, respectively) show up to save the civillians from a mob of racist heroes.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He fails to understand why Shoji cares about fighting against racist heroes and protect innocent people.
• Moral Myopia: He ignores the fact the MLA is clearly biased against heteromorphs with the exception of Curious.
• Named by Adaptation: Unnamed during his appearance throughout the Final War arc, his name here means "Spider" in latin.

Independent Villains

Overhaul

Kai Chisaki

Quirk: Overhaul (formerly)

The leader of the rising Yakuza faction Shie Hassaikai.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: He is introduced during the Internship Arc instead of during the Shie Hassaikai arc.
• Asshole Victim: The only people who feel sorry for his death are his fanatical followers from the Yakuza, which boils down to Kurono, Nemoto and Mimic.
• Big Bad Wannabe: He was bent of bringing the Yakuza back to its former glory, only to be arrested by a first-year hero student on his first patrol.
• Death by Adaptation: He is killed by All for One during the Internship Arc.
• Dying Curse: He manages to use his Quirk one last time before it gets stolen to mangle All for One's hands. Since Overhaul relies on contact for it to work, it becomes useless on the villain's hands.
• Good Powers, Bad People: Lampshaded by Izuku. Overhaul's healing capacities make it one of the most powerful healing Quirks in the world, but he uses it for unhinged experiments. Ironic enough, after stealing it from All for One, the first person Izuku heals is one of Chisaki's minions.
• Hypocrite: Says that wants to get the world rid of Quirks, but refuses to start with his own.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He shows up in two scenes total, the last one being his death, but his role as Eri's Abusive Parent shapes up a lot of her personal story, his minions joining the League of Villains to avenge him has a direct impact in the Hideout Raid Arc, and his Quirk, after passing to Izuku's hands, becomes one of his best tools in helping his fellow heroes and students.
• Undignified Death: A Neat Freak who dies drowning on dirty toilet water and has his body washed over by the sewers.

"Hero Killer" Stain

Chizome Akaguro

Quirk: Bloodcurdle

A villain obssessed with All Might that kills or maims heroes he deems fake.

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• Hero Killer: Like is said on his name. Stain had killed or crippled dozens of heroes during his infamous campaign.
• Idiot Ball: He gets momentarily stunned by the revelation of Endeavor's domestic abuse, which allows Shoto to freeze him until Endeavor arrives and knocks him out.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Inverted. He says that the only person who can defeat him is a true hero like All Might or Izuku.
• Villain Respect: For heroes of The Cape variety like All Might. He also has it for Tenya for surviving their fight, which disgusts the hero student.

Menagerie

Dawson Jamrach

Quirk: Animorph

Marcus Cuvier VII's cousin. He was found to be selling some of Kuraudo Island's animals to rich people around the world, and promptly kicked out of the island. His Quirk allows him to transform into any animal he has touched.

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• Arc Villain: Of the Kuraudo Island Arc.
• Antagonistic Offspring: To his mother, Cassie Cuvier.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: While he doesn't hurt them directly, he has zero problems with selling endangered animals to nefarious buyers, which makes him worse than his clients.
• Didn't See That Coming: He certainly didn't expect that Koji's Quirk Awakening would allow him to telepathically communicate with the island's animals so they could help capture him.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He doesn't seem to understand why the students would want to stop him, as he claims that what he does is a "victimless crime".
• Evil Poacher: He sold animals to private collectors without a care for their health or future, and doesn't care what happens to them after causing them to frenzy.
• Lack of Empathy: He has no regards about the lives of the animals he sells or the humans he puts at risk with his actions.
• Meaningful Name: He's named after Charles Dawson, the crafter of the Piltdown Man forgery, and Charles Jamrach, the owner of an exotic pet shop in Victorian England plagued by escapees.
• Power Copying: If he acquires the DNA of an animal that has a Quirk, he can use that Quirk himself while assuming the original holder's form. His primary use of this aspect of his Quirk on-screen has been turning into a mantled howler monkey with Stampede, which terrifies all animals that hear it and compels them to attack until calmed (which frequently requires some degree of physical injury to distract them from the compulsion).
• Shapeshifting Heals Wounds: Much like his Quirk's namesake, changing forms heals him of whatever injuries he's sustained.

Neanderthal

Dawson's associate-slash-minion in the business of poaching.

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• The Dragon: To Menagerie.
• Stupid Evil: Of the Genius Ditz variety. According to Dawson, unless the subject is related to genetics, he is a complete idiot.

Nine

Teruhiko Arashikura

Quirk: Weather Manipulation, All for One (Artificial Duplicate)

Stolen Quirks: Air Wall, Bullet Laser, Hydra, Scanning, Cell Activation (A)

A mysterious ally of All for One that carries a copy of his Quirk.

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• Achilles' Heel: If his suit is damaged, he will have trouble to heal from Quirk's backlash.
• A God Am I: He sees himself as such, with a god-like power to cause natural disasters.
• Arc Villain: Of the Nabu Island arc.
• A Taste of Their Own Medicine: He gets hit by lightning repeatedly during his fight against Monoma and Izuku - after his attempt to steal Izuku's Quirk leads to Monoma copying All for One and starting to steal his Quirks.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: Upon hearing that Izuku plans to seal away his Quirks before sending him to prison, Nine decides to overload his Quirk and completely destroy his body via necrosis then suffer such fate.
• Blessed with Suck: His Weather Manipulation Quirk would make him one of the most powerful men in the world, on par with All Might and All for One... if it didn't cause his cells to degenerate every time he uses it.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Instead of getting killed by Shigaraki, he dies from purposefully using Weather Manipulation so that the cellular degeneration backlash would plummet into necrosis to kill him.
• Generic Doomsday Villain: Lampshaded by Word of God. Like in canon, Nine is a generic villain with generic goals. Given how much more badass Izuku is in comparison to his canon counterpart here, he is hardly a threat as well.
• Groin Attack: He gets hit in the groin twice (a punch by Toru and a kick by Nejire) during his fight against the Ennead.
• Irony: He and his crew were the ones to steal Super Regeneration from Logan Waldsworth. That same Quirk would eventually fall into the hands of Izuku, who faces him during the attack on Nabu Island.
• Laser-Guided Karma: His attempt to steal One For All from Izuku backfires because not only does this results in Monoma's Diving Save, but Teruhiko's AFO forced Copy into a stealing loop that forced it to evolve and permanently hold onto AFO. To add insult to injury, Monoma is able to use Cell Activation where Teruhiko couldn't, as he has type A blood.
• Meaningful Name: His first name, Teruhiko, contains kanji for "sky/heaven", "inlay" and "boy". His second name, Arashikura, means "storm/tempest" and "warehouse".
• Named by the Adaptation: His real name was never revealed in canon. Here is Teruhiko Arashikura.
• Underestimating Badassery: He thought that the U.A. students wouldn't be much of an obstacle.
• Villainous Breakdown: Being outmatched over and over again by Izuku and Neito during their fight causes him to lose his stoic and emotionless attitude and becomes enraged at the hero students.
• Would Hurt a Child: He went to Nabu Island with full intention to steal Katsuma Shimano's Quirk, and wasn't planning on doing it painlessly. He held his sister Mahoro on a chokehold and was ready to take both the boy and Eri's Quirks by force before Izuku arrived.

Slice, Chimera, and Mummy

Kiruka Hasaki, Chojuro Kon, Hoyo Makihara

Quirk: Slice, Chimera, Mummification

Nine's crew of loyal followers.

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• Boomerang Bigot: Chimera makes a lot of disparaging comments against the heteromorphic hero students he is fighting even though he himself is a heteromorph. They retort he should not be throwing stones from a glass house.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: They get this from the Ennead, the hero students and the teachers protecting Nabu Island.
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: They serve as this to distract the heroes and students at the Island while Nine steals Cell Activation. They are all swiftly defeated before he can do so.
• The Worf Effect: At first, they are presented as a dangerous and Badass Crew, set to cause a lot of trouble in Nabu Island. When they arrive, they are defeated, off-page, by the Ennead and other students and teachers stationed on the Island, showcasing how much the good guys grew in power at this point of the story, with the events of their defeat shown a chapter later.
  • Mummy was taken out of the fight by Ochako throwing a massive object at him at speed, putting him in a crater, then before he got his wits together, Juzo softened the ground underneath him to make him sink into the ground until he was neck deep, then got knocked out by Midnight's Quirk.
  • Slice was walled out by Kirishima and Tetsutetsu, sniped at by Pony, then got her Quirk disabled by Aizawa. While floundering without her Quirk she was distracted by Shinso tricking her into answering to him and swiftly knocked out. When she came to, Mina had used her Quirk to make thioglycolic acid to make Slice bald, making Slice effectively Quirkless.
  • Chimera was jumped on by everyone else, but was subdued by Vlad King and his vitality drained by Kinoko's mushrooms.

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