| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' [[Characters/MyHeroAcademia Main Character Index]]\ |
| 2 | [-''U.A. High School Students'': [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaClass1A Class 1-A]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaClass1A1To10 1-10]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaClass1A11To20 11-20]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaIzukuMidoriya Izuku Midoriya]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaKatsukiBakugo Katsuki Bakugo]]) | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaClass1B Class 1-B]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaStudentsFromOtherClasses Students From Other Classes]]\ |
| 3 | ''Pro Heroes'': [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaSchoolFacultyAndStaff School Faculty and Staff]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaAllMight All Might]]) | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaOtherHeroes Other Heroes]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaTopHeroes Top Heroes]]) | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaOneForAll One For All and Its Torch Bearers]]\ |
| 4 | ''Villains'': [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVillains Known Villains]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaLeagueOfVillains League of Villains]] [[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaAllForOne All For One]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaTomuraShigaraki Tomura Shigaraki]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaDabi Dabi]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVanguardActionSquad Vanguard Action Squad]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaArtificialHumans Artificial Humans]]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaShieHassaikai Shie Hassaikai]], '''Meta Liberation Army''', [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaParanormalLiberationFront Paranormal Liberation Front]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVillainArmy Villain Army]])\ |
| 5 | ''Others'': [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaPoliceAndGovernmentWorkers Police and Government Workers]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaCivilians Civilians]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaOtherHighSchools Other High Schools]]\ |
| 6 | ''Characters From Other My Hero Academia Media'': [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVideoGameCharacters Video Game Characters]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaMovieCharacters Movie Characters]]\ |
| 7 | ''[[Manga/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantes Vigilantes]]'': [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantesMainCharacters Main Characters]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantesVillainFactory Villain Factory]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantesSupportingCharacters Supporting Characters]]\ |
| 8 | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaTeamUpMission Team Up Mission]]]]-]]] |
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| 11 | !Meta Liberation Army |
| 12 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mha_op9_mla_memberspng_1.png]] |
| 13 | %%[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]] |
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| 15 | ->''"Liberation over suppression. Wielding one's abilities freely seemed like it should be a basic human right."'' |
| 16 | -->'''--Re-Destro''', Chapter 218 |
| 17 | Originally created and led by the notorious villain Destro years ago, the Meta Liberation Army was a large, powerful organization who believed using their Quirks should be a fundamental human right and that society is wrong in attempting to regulate Quirk usage, resorting to terrorism to make their point. Eventually, they were defeated and Destro was arrested, causing the group to disband. While in prison, Destro released his manifesto to the world before killing himself in his jail cell. Unbeknownst to the police and even Destro himself, Destro had a child. After generations of hiding, one of Destro's descendants Rikiya Yotsubashi, a.k.a. "Re-Destro", leads a modern incarnation of the Meta Liberation Army and intends to carry out his ancestor's ideology. Under his new leadership, the Army has expanded to currently hold allegedly more than 116,000 soldiers. |
| 18 | ---- |
| 19 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 20 | |
| 21 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 22 | * AnimalMotifs: The Meta Liberation Army has one in the form of mice, which can be seen on Destro's arm patch. This also seems to be a reference to the InUniverse theory that [[spoiler:Quirks came from rodents.]] |
| 23 | * BombThrowingAnarchists: When you get past all of the funding and political strings they have snagged, the Meta Liberation Army can be boiled down to a collective of heavily-armed anti-government radicals. The only real difference is that the "bombs" they are armed with are their SuperpowerfulGenetics and they are willing to practice their right to bear arms [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized with extreme prejudice]]. |
| 24 | * DevilInPlainSight: They're able to operate under the collective noses of society by virtue of being comprised of seemingly respectable citizens. |
| 25 | * EvilVersusEvil: The group declares themselves as enemies to the League of Villains, deciding to go after them. |
| 26 | * FantasticTerrorists: They're a terrorist group that seeks to overturn the laws restricting Quirk usage by any means necessary, often resorting to Quirk-powered acts of terror to get their point across. |
| 27 | * {{Foil}}: To the League of Villains: like the Shie Hassaikai, they're a larger, better-funded, and -armed villain organization with its own claim to the rulership of the criminal underworld. While the [=LoV=] is broke and dealing with having no resources to the point of stealing from other villains just to get by, while being clearly lost in the matter of goals and how to achieve them, the MLA has the head of a giant company as their leader and have little worries about money while having a clear goal set by their predecessor and knowing their next target. Their leaders are even shown having a fine dine together in a fancy room (which isn't even their house, just their HQ) and discussing their plans while the next chapter shows the [=LoV=] scrapping for food in a lousy, abandoned place in the middle of the woods and has Shigaraki deflecting the question of what they're going to do now, as they have no clue of where to find The Doctor. Furthermore, they count well over a hundred thousand competent foot soldiers, while the League hasn't yet brought in a single new recruit. |
| 28 | * InsistentTerminology: Unlike the rest of the world, they use the term Meta Ability instead of Quirk. This is a holdover from the group's original formation during the early period after superpowers first appeared. During that chaotic era, superpowers were originally given the name Meta abilities. Later on, the Government started using the term Quirk as they began establishing the various laws regulating the usage of powers and it stuck as the main name for superpowers since, much to the dismay of the group's original founder Destro. |
| 29 | * OrderVersusChaos: Represents Chaos[[note]]seeking unfettered freedom to use Quirks, but willing to commit terrible violence to further their cause[[/note]] to the government's Order.[[note]]created a system designed to preserve the status quo through strict regulation of Quirks.[[/note]] |
| 30 | * TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Destro defended the use of terrorism to get their point across in order to make the free use of Quirks a reality. |
| 31 | * SdrawkcabName: "Detnerat" is backwards Engrish for "Talented." |
| 32 | * SecretHandshake: People associated with them seem to have a hand signal that indicates their alignment: pointing their right hand upward as a FingerGun with the thumb extended to their forehead. |
| 33 | * YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: They, along with the people who agree with Destro's autobiography, consider themselves freedom fighters for Quirks. Most people consider them terrorists who just hurt innocent people. |
| 34 | [[/folder]] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | !Leaders |
| 37 | !!New Top Brass |
| 38 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 39 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mla_new_leaders_4.jpg]] |
| 40 | |
| 41 | A new generation of villains who founded and currently lead the modern incarnation of the Meta Liberation Army. They are led by Destro's descendant, Rikiya Yotsubashi, a.k.a. "Re-Destro". They are all successful entrepreneurs with innumerable resources and wealth. |
| 42 | ---- |
| 43 | * {{Blackmail}}: Essentially how they come into conflict with the League of Villains. Managing to get the information from Giran's computer, despite his attempts to erase their names, they pinpoint the group with their satellites and threaten to give away their position to the Heroes if they don't come to fight them. |
| 44 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: Three are high ranking members of big companies and one is a leader of a political party, all of whom are actively using their positions to further the organization goals. Curious's company is printing Destro's book and spreading his ideology, Re-Destro's company is creating support items and leaking them into the black market to collect data on them and Skeptic uses his IT company to track down and recover data for the organization. |
| 45 | * DemotedToDragon: [[spoiler:The surviving members of the MLA's top brass are absorbed and integrated with the members of the Vanguard Action Squad after Re-Destro's surrender to become the Lieutenants of the Paranormal Liberation Front. While they still have a lot of power and are allowed to form their own squads from the lower ranks, it's made pretty clear that they are subservient to Shigaraki.]] |
| 46 | * {{Foil}}: They act as these to each individual member of the League of Villains: |
| 47 | ** [[TheLeader Shigaraki - Re-Destro]] |
| 48 | ** Toga - Curious |
| 49 | ** [[BewareTheSillyOnes Twice - Skeptic]] |
| 50 | ** [[ElementalPowers Dabi - Geten]] |
| 51 | ** [[SupportPartyMember Spinner - Trumpet]] |
| 52 | * MenAreTheExpendableGender: [[spoiler:{{Inverted|Trope}}. All of the male members of the top brass make it through the Meta Liberation Army Arc alive, while the one explicitly female member ends up getting violently killed.]] |
| 53 | * ThisMeansWar: They view the [=LoV=] as a nuisance in their plans and set their sights on taking them out. They declare war on the League by [[spoiler:cutting off Giran's fingers and planting them around areas where they were last seen.]] [[spoiler:Ironically, the MLA surrender to the League after a great battle and form a coalition.]] |
| 54 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: They think they have the [=LoV=] pegged due to getting the information from Giran's computer despite his attempts to erase their data and figured their overwhelming numbers will be more than enough to take them out. However, due to the League spending almost two months fighting Gigantomachia and the MLA's [[NiceJobFixingItVillain attempts to break them only making them stronger]], they've managed to take on the MLA's forces quite efficiently. The Meta Liberation Army was trying to put them into a corner to beat them, but they really just forced them to get stronger. |
| 55 | [[/folder]] |
| 56 | |
| 57 | [[folder:Rikiya Yotsubashi -- Re-Destro]] |
| 58 | !!Rikiya Yotsubashi -- Re-Destro |
| 59 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiroakiHirata (Japanese), Creator/SonnyStrait (English) |
| 60 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 218 (Manga), Episode 103 (Anime) |
| 61 | !!!'''Quirk/Meta Ability:''' [[HulkingOut Stress]] |
| 62 | !!!'''Rank:''' A |
| 63 | |
| 64 | [[quoteright:221:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rikiya_yotsubashi_anime.png]] |
| 65 | [[caption-width-right:200:[[labelnote:Click here to see his Quirk in action.]]\ |
| 66 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/latest_1_70.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 67 | [[caption-width-right:200:[[labelnote:Click here to see him in the "Claustro" armor.]]\ |
| 68 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/detnerat_patented_burden_amplifying_steel_pressure_mechanism_claustro.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 69 | |
| 70 | ->''"Do you see now why we published Destro's memoirs?! To incite rebellion against the state! To pursue true freedom! I take on those burdens to see Destro's dream fulfilled! '''Yes, his blood runs through these veins! I am Re-Destro!'''"'' |
| 71 | |
| 72 | The Grand Commander and founder of the current Meta Liberation Army and the descendant of infamous villain Destro. His public persona is the president and CEO of the Detnerat Company, which is dedicated to creating individual items fitting people with Quirks that make them unable to buy anything standardized. His Quirk -- or Meta Ability as he calls it -- "Stress" can use the everyday tension he accumulates to increase his strength and size. |
| 73 | ---- |
| 74 | * AchillesHeel: Almost literally. [[spoiler:His Stress can't affect his mechanical legs, making them a weak point. This comes out when he tries to match a ramped up Dark Shadow, because while he has enough power to stall the beast, the strain of such a full-power clash shears apart his legs at the ankle]]. |
| 75 | * AffablyEvil: A charming, charismatic NiceGuy, who [[AFatherToHisMen cares for his followers]] and is [[UndyingLoyalty loved and respected by them in return]]. He also kills his secretary for unintentionally disagreeing with his ideals, supplies test equipment to the black market and has no qualms about sending his aforementioned supporters into deadly combat with the League of Villains - [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans all for the purpose of helping to create what he believes will be a better world]]. |
| 76 | * AmputationStopsSpread: [[spoiler:Re-Destro is forced to hack his feet off with a ruined piece of his armored mech to prevent Shigaraki's Decay from spreading further.]] |
| 77 | * ArcVillain: The main antagonist of the Meta Liberation Army Arc and supreme leader of the Meta Liberation Army. |
| 78 | * AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:He ends up having to amputate his own feet in order to survive Shigaraki's Decay.]] |
| 79 | * ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler:Eventually gets some to replace the feet he lost in his battle with Shigaraki.]] |
| 80 | * BadassInANiceSuit: Wears a black pin-striped suit even when fighting. His suit is customized to accommodate his [[HulkingOut Quirk]] to a certain extent. |
| 81 | * BastardBastard: He is secretly the descendant of Destro, who died without even knowing he had heirs. In public, he maintains an image of an eccentric but affable CEO, [[DevilInPlainSight but in actuality]], he's determined to take on his terrorist ancestor's legacy, no matter who has to die in the process. |
| 82 | * BerserkButton: Don't insult the name of Destro, or his philosophies, if you value your life. |
| 83 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: You can mock him and his hairline all you want, and he'll take them all in stride. But he will do whatever it takes to defend and further the ideals of the Liberation Army and does not take kindly to slights against Destro's legacy. Just ask his former secretary, Miyashita. |
| 84 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Between his odd appearance and eccentric mannerisms one could easily be forgiven for underestimating Re-Destro [[spoiler: before he suddenly begins HulkingOut]]. |
| 85 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: A whimsical, [[ManlyTears openly sentimental]] man who is both a highly successful businessman and the dangerous competent terrorist leader. Between this and his DissonantSerenity it makes Re-Destro come off as a little unhinged. |
| 86 | * CastingAShadow: His Quirk causes stress to manifest as black pigment on his skin. Re-Destro's stress bombs manifest as spheres of darkness. |
| 87 | * TheChainsOfCommanding: Because of the constant pressure to live up to [[CultOfPersonality Destro's legacy]] since childhood, Re-Destro has found himself perpetually stressed and smothered by the role. [[spoiler: This plays a large factor into his decision to hand leadership of the MLA to Shigaraki.]] |
| 88 | * ClarkKentOutfit: His suit, and later on his [[OneWingedAngel Quirk]] hides the fact that he is surprisingly toned and muscular underneath as can be shown in Chapter 239. Considering that his Quirk is one that enhances his physique, and he was already shown to be fairly strong without it, this does make sense. |
| 89 | * DemotedToDragon: [[spoiler:While this applies to all of the MLA's top brass to a certain extent this is especially true for Re-Destro who goes from being the Grand Commander of the Liberation Army to a lieutenant of the Paranormal Liberation Front under Shigaraki. Ironically though, this was an intentional case as Re-Destro willingly stepped down from his position after seeing Shigaraki's power and resolve and actually seems quite pleased with his new position as Shigaraki's mouthpiece.]] |
| 90 | * DevilInPlainSight: When not moonlighting a terrorist leader, Re-Destro acts as the CEO of a respectable company. |
| 91 | * DirtyBusiness: Sheds TearsOfRemorse after killing Miyashita and is seen looking morose afterward on his way to a meeting with other members of the Liberation Army. He also cries over the many Deika City citizens that die during their fight with the [=LoV=], though he believes that the MLA's goals outweigh the lives of any individual member. |
| 92 | * DissonantSerenity: Maintains a pleasant, easy-going demeanor... even when threatening to kill the man he is holding hostage. This is justified in that [[HulkingOut his Quirk]] is fueled using pent-up anger and stress as strength. |
| 93 | * DisproportionateRetribution: His assistant thought Destro's book wasn't very good and believed the Liberation Army to be nothing but terrorists. Re-Destro kills him for this. |
| 94 | * EmotionSuppression: Weaponized. Re-Destro bottles up his stress and all related emotions such as fear or anger so as to use them to power his Quirk when he wants to. |
| 95 | * EnergyBall: His ''Burden'' attack collects a sphere of his manifested stress that he can throw to create massive shock waves. |
| 96 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: He first appears as a very lovable person who even accepts his secretary, Miyashita, making fun of him, but when the latter makes a foul comment about the Liberation Army, Re-Destro [[NeckSnap snaps his neck]], and cries TearsOfRemorse over having killed someone who he trusted enough to consider introducing to the Liberation Army. |
| 97 | * EvilCripple: [[spoiler:Initially, he uses a wheelchair after losing his legs to Shigaraki, though he later gets some ArtificialLimbs]]. |
| 98 | * ExactWords: He boldly claims early on in the Meta Liberation Army Arc that the MLA "Will end the League of Villains," going so far to as even swear on Destro's name that they will do it. [[spoiler:By willingly joining forces with the League and forming the Paranormal Liberation Front, he technically does just that.]] |
| 99 | * FacialMarkings: He has some that shift across his face. Normally, they take the form of two dots on his forehead, but they blend together when he's using his Quirk. The marks shift into a DominoMask-like shape similar to Destro's when he gets serious. |
| 100 | * AFatherToHisMen: Despite believing their [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans sacrifice to be necessary]], he openly mourns for his fallen supporters and even [[{{Fingore}} mutilates Shigaraki's hand]] for his part in their deaths. |
| 101 | * {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler:A mild example, but during his fight with Shigaraki in Chapter 234, his finger ends up getting partially decayed when Shigaraki gets away from him. This sticks, as seen in Chapter 239, where the tip of his pointer finger (the one that got decayed) is missing (and bleeding).]] |
| 102 | * FiveSecondForeshadowing: In the fourth panel he appears in, the way he holds up his arms casts a shadow across his face that looks exactly like a traditional villain bandanna mask while he bemoans the suffering of those with Quirks. Not five pages later, he reveals himself to be a villain and a part of the Meta Liberation Army. |
| 103 | * ForeheadOfDoom: He's self-conscious about his widow's peak, asking his assistant to edit his commercial to hide his forehead. He does seem to take it in stride, though. Later, Re-Destro reveals that this is a side effect of using his Meta Ability. |
| 104 | * FunPersonified: Downplayed initially. While not as energetic or boisterous as most examples, Re-Destro whimsical mannerisms frequently creates his impression. This is often played for disturbing effect whenever his DissonantSerenity comes into play. This is later played straight [[spoiler:as he embraces his role as the MouthOfSauron for the [[BigBadTeamUp Paranormal Liberation Front]].]] |
| 105 | * GagNose: He has an exceptionally long, hawkish nose in contrast to the more realistic features of his followers. |
| 106 | * GeniusBruiser: The methodical leader of both a major corporation and a political movement, as well as one of the most physically imposing and powerful characters in the series when his Quirk is at its full potential. |
| 107 | * GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:After Shigaraki defeats him, he calls Trumpet and the rest of the MLA off, deciding that it's fruitless to continue fighting when the League has more than proven themselves superior. Re-Destro then bows down before Shigaraki, putting his life in his hands, and asks him to lead the MLA.]] |
| 108 | * HandicappedBadass: Deconstructed. [[spoiler:The prosthetic legs he gets to replace the ones he lost in his battle with Shigaraki don't inherently make his meta ability any less powerful, but they do make using it difficult. When he and Dark Shadow come to blows during the Paranormal Liberation War Arc, Dark Shadow quickly gains the upper hand and is able to overpower him once Re-Destro's prosthetic legs snap under the weight of his own power.]] |
| 109 | * HulkingOut: Re-Destro's Quirk, "Stress", is effectively this. His Quirk bottles up all of the rage and stress he feels into his body which he then uses to bulk himself up to gigantic proportions in order to release his stress on whoever has incurred his wrath. |
| 110 | * HulkMashUp: His Quirk "Stress" is basically the Hulk's power of weaponizing UnstoppableRage for HulkingOut and immense SuperStrength. When he's not fighting, he shows he has both charisma and intelligence similar to the Hulk's alter ego Bruce Banner, and even shares Banner's ability (in his better moments) to keep the rage bottled up to be unleashed at the moment of his choosing. The biggest difference would likely be how he doesn't treat his Quirk like a SuperPoweredEvilSide. |
| 111 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Re-Destro claims to be following the will of Destro and trying to make a world with no Quirk suppression, but spends most of his effort fighting the League of Villains, who ''are'' using their Quirks freely and do not care about controlling others. [[spoiler:After his defeat to Shigaraki, he realizes the irony and willingly gives up, seeing the League's use of anarchy as true freedom.]] |
| 112 | * {{Irony}}: Re-Destro wishes to carry on his ancestor Destro's legacy and promote a sense of freedom for those with Quirks. However, he has been groomed since childhood to bear the mantle of Destro and suffers from the burden of living up to those ideals; thus he's not very free himself. [[spoiler:This ends up being one of the reasons that he turns over the MLA to Shigaraki, as he recognizes that him laughing off the weight of their history makes him the incarnation of freedom that the army strives for and therefore the army's perfect leader.]] |
| 113 | * KickTheDog: Well, kick the LittleBitBeastly person, but he immediately kills his secretary because the guy said that Destro was just a terrorist. |
| 114 | * KnightOfCerebus: [[BewareTheNiceOnes Brutally demonstrates]] from his first appearance not only how [[DevilInPlainSight dangerous a villain can become]] [[VillainWithGoodPublicity when properly operating below radar]] but also [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized just]] [[NeckSnap how]] [[ColdBloodedTorture far]] [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans they are willing to go]] [[VisionaryVillain in pursuit of a higher goal.]] |
| 115 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:After witnessing the sheer power at Shigaraki's disposal, Re-Destro calls off Trumpet from trying to engage knowing that his men would be killed effortlessly.]] |
| 116 | * LanternJawOfJustice: {{Inverted|Trope}}. He may sport a very pronounced chin, but he's the leader of the Meta Liberation Army. |
| 117 | * LackOfEmpathy: Downplayed. He truly cares for his fellow liberation members and mourns them for their deaths. However, he is completely devoid of the damage his group would have on the world or the chaos they will cause, which would result in countless lives lost for their so-called desire of liberation. |
| 118 | * TheLeader: Deconstructed. At first, Re-Destro appears to be the ideal embodiment of the various qualities that go into making a good leader, especially when compared to the seemingly slipshod way that Shigaraki runs his operation. However, because the way Meta Liberation Army rigidly revolves around the CultOfPersonality built around its leaders, Re-Destro's subordinates are so [[BlindObedience lacking in initiative]] that when they come up against the much smaller organised but infinitely more resourceful [[BadassCrew League of Villains]], what should be an overwhelming victory slowly gets dragged out into a war of attrition. Similarly, because of the constant pressure to try and live up to the image of the perfect leader since childhood, Re-Destro has come to find the role suffocating and stressful to the point that [[spoiler: it contributes heavily to his decision to hand over leadership of the MLA to Shigaraki]]. |
| 119 | * LifeOrLimbDecision: [[spoiler:While he almost escapes Shigaraki's [[AreaOfEffect AoE]] Decay, his feet end up touching the ground before the effect stops. In order to prevent full-on disintegration, he uses a piece of the Claustro to cut his feet off.]] |
| 120 | * MadeOfIron: Shigaraki uses his Quirk to practically drop Re-Destro's headquarters right on top of him. He pulls himself out of the rubble none worse for wear. |
| 121 | * MagicPants: His suit manages to stretch to fit his hulked-out frame while using his Meta Ability. Given that his company deals in products designed to accommodate Quirks, this is justified. His top layers do rip apart when he starts going OneWingedAngel, but his pants remain undamaged. |
| 122 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[spoiler:When his fingers start to slowly rot where Shigaraki's [[MakeThemRot Decay]] Quirk kicks in, Re-Destro is more surprised by the fact it occurred from Shigaraki's [[{{Fingore}} crippled hand]] and wondering if his intel about Shigaraki's limit was wrong than the fact his own fingertips have crumbled into dust.]] |
| 123 | * ManlyTears: Prone to shedding these frequently, particularly when he is moved by the actions of his subordinates. |
| 124 | * MeaningfulName: Re-Destro; [[VillainousLegacy the second Destro]] and also a [[PersonOfMassDestruction Destroyer]]. |
| 125 | * MouthOfSauron: [[spoiler:After stepping down from his leadership position within the former MLA in favor of Shigaraki, he becomes the mouthpiece for the rest of the army in order to rally them up and accept their new change of leadership without many grumbles about it. He's all too [[ProfessionalButtKisser pleased]] about this development and new role himself to complain either.]] |
| 126 | * OneWingedAngel: Once he starts increasing his stress output, starting at around 80%, his body shifts more towards this than his previous hulked out form. The black markings on his body go into overdrive and go from just marks to seemingly coating his body in a black substance, with increased power and a more monstrous appearance. |
| 127 | * TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He wants to see the League of Villains destroyed himself, rather than letting heroes or other villains do it for him. In a similar vein, he targets the [=LoV=] in the first place because he wants the MLA to be the ones that change society, not them. |
| 128 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: Not only is he capable of demolishing several blocks' worth of structures with just the ''wind'' from swinging his arm, but he also easily tanks a whole high-rise building collapsed onto him. If there's a silver lining, it's that his Quirk [[GatheringSteam takes time to reach its full potential.]] |
| 129 | * PoweredArmor: [[spoiler:The '''Burden-Amplifying Steel Pressure Mechanism:''' '''''Claustro''''' is the Detnerat product he is in possession of and his last-ditch effort to defeat his enemies. The armor wraps around Re-Destro's bulked up form and amplifies his Stress output ''to 150%'' via forcibly constricting and impaling his body to provide the necessary stimulus. To bad for him it does nothing against Shigaraki, who effortlessly destroys the armor once he unleashes a blast of Decay strong enough to disintegrate most of Deika City.]] |
| 130 | * ProfessionalButtKisser: [[spoiler:After giving over control of the MLA to Shigaraki, he becomes a near maniacal suck-up towards him]]. |
| 131 | * SinisterSchnoz: He has a large nose that noticeably changes depiction depending on what 'mode' he's in -- when he's being a normal, somewhat ditzy CEO, it's drawn to look rather cartoony, while as a villain, it's more realistic and hooked. When he goes OneWingedAngel, it looks like a horn which fits well with his demonic appearance. |
| 132 | * ShoutOut: |
| 133 | ** His design appears to be a combination between that of [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin]] and [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The '90s animated version of]] ComicBook/TheJoker. |
| 134 | *** He also kinda looks a bit like an anime [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Dr. Doofenshmirtz]]. |
| 135 | ** His [[InsistentTerminology Meta Ability]] is similar to [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk the Hulk]], only he doesn't have a split personality and it's fueled by stress instead of anger. |
| 136 | * ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: Averted. His suit somehow doesn't rip apart when he bulks up with his Quirk. Given his company specializes in Quirk support gear, that actually makes sense. However, Re-Destro's clothes, sans his [[MagicPants pants]], start shredding as he increases his power output. |
| 137 | * {{Sizeshifter}}: His Quirk lets him grow his body depending on how stressed he is. |
| 138 | * SlasherSmile: Wears one of these while interacting with the rest of the Liberation Army leadership. |
| 139 | * SmugSuper: Averted. While Re-Destro sneers at his opponents, he did bother to research them and their abilities before launching a carefully planned assault on them. He becomes wary of Shigaraki when fighting him when he starts showing off abilities that his research didn't hint at and resolves to crush him even faster. And as for [[StealthyColossus Gigantomachia]], Re-Destro can be forgiven simply by virtue of the fact he didn't even know Gigantomachia existed and was the Leagues last-resort trump card, and the giant's appearance on the field just makes Re-Destro all the more determined to kill Shigaraki immediately. |
| 140 | * SuperStrength: Twice's clones may be weak, but that doesn't mean Re-Destro should be able to kill one with a single ''finger flick''. |
| 141 | * TearsOfRemorse: He sheds these after killing Miyashita. |
| 142 | * TranquilFury: As he is throttling Miyashita, the expression on his face appears to be one of barely contained rage. Even when he is unleashing his Meta Ability he never breaks out of this state. Later, during his fight with Shigaraki, he claims to be furious and yet sports a rather subdued look on his face. Justified, as his Quirk relies on pent up stress. |
| 143 | * UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Despite placing great value on his supporters, Re-Destro very much takes this view. |
| 144 | * VillainDecay: While he held his own against Shigaraki before he relented, he was later defeated with even less effort by Tsukuyomi and Edgeshot individually. |
| 145 | * VillainousLegacy: He has taken the mission his ancestor started, creating a new generation of the Liberation Army. |
| 146 | * VillainRespect: |
| 147 | ** He gives praise to Giran for his loyalty to the League and refusing to back down on his promise to not tell them anything. He also acknowledges that Twice's Quirk is powerful. |
| 148 | ** After seeing Shigaraki's Quirk evolve during the course of their fight and realizing the life-or-death training he must have undergone to enhance his speed and reflexes, Re-Destro apologizes for assuming that Shigaraki was beneath him and decides to get serious by going OneWingedAngel. [[spoiler:Eventually this respect leads him to turn over control of the army to Shigaraki as he recognises that the young villain is closer to the ideal image of a free Quirk user than he is.]] |
| 149 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: His company, and him by extension, are known to the public as strong supporters of those whose Quirks make day to day life difficult and have recently branched into developing hero support items. |
| 150 | * VisionaryVillain: [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans Dogmatically]] committed to creating a new world in which Quirks can be used freely. Also, a large source of his contention with [[StrawNihilist Shigaraki]] and the League of Villains, as he believes their lack of vision makes them unworthy of their wide-scale notoriety. |
| 151 | * TheWorfBarrage: Re-Destro's ultimate attack, Stress output: Burden, which he describes as taking his Stress, corporealizing it, and firing it out over a wide area, becomes this [[spoiler:during his fight with Shigaraki. Despite demolishing Deika City easily with the attack Shigaraki is able to destroy it and mitigate the damage. Even when Re-Destro fires it at 100% Shigaraki gets in close and destroys the attack before it fully leaves his hands. It certainly helps to show how overwhelmingly powerful Shigaraki is now that he has been "liberated" from his past.]] |
| 152 | * TheWorfEffect: Crushing [[BigBad Shigaraki's]] [[{{Fingore}} hands]] with contemptuous ease shows that this guy's not all talk and theatrics. [[spoiler:He's later on the receiving end during the Paranormal Liberation War Arc, in which he takes Dark Shadow's powered-up form head-on and has his prosthetic legs snap under the pressure.]] |
| 153 | [[/folder]] |
| 154 | |
| 155 | [[folder:Chitose Kizuki -- Curious]] |
| 156 | !!Chitose Kizuki -- Curious |
| 157 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakakoHonda (Japanese), Creator/TaraSands (English) |
| 158 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 218 (Manga), Episode 108 (Anime) |
| 159 | !!!'''Quirk/Meta Ability:''' [[DelayedExplosion Landmine]] |
| 160 | !!!'''Rank:''' C |
| 161 | [[quoteright:206:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chitose_kizuki_anime.png]] |
| 162 | |
| 163 | ->''"Are you not keen on being interviewed, Himiko Toga? I'm afraid that's too bad. I haven't backed down from a good story ever since my first year in this biz. So I hope you understand, Himiko Toga, that I will strip you bare."'' |
| 164 | |
| 165 | A leader of the current Meta Liberation Army and publicly the executive director of Shoowaysha Publishing. Her Quirk, "Landmine", lets her turn anything she touches into a bomb. |
| 166 | ---- |
| 167 | * AdmiringTheAbomination: She's quite amazed to watch Toga get more and more deranged as their fight goes on. |
| 168 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: She has blue skin and grey-purple hair. |
| 169 | * AmbiguouslyGay: At one point she can be seen stroking one of her female subordinate's head in an intimate fashion. |
| 170 | * BatmanGambit: Knowing that she would fight the bloodsucking Toga, she used her Quirk on the blood of her own men so that when Toga started ingesting it, she'd be exploded from the inside with the blood. |
| 171 | * BitingTheHandHumor: Shoowaysha Publishing is a clear parody of Shueisha Inc., ''the company that owns Shonen Jump and publishes this very manga'', and is used for the Meta Liberation Army's terrorist activities. The names are, however, spelled with different kanji in Japanese and different letters in English, but are still pronounced the same way in both. |
| 172 | * BlackEyesOfCrazy: Her eyes have black sclera, and she's a member of a rather large terrorist organization. She is also obsessed with getting the next big scoop. [[spoiler: She attempts to "interview" Toga during their fight, which eventually leads to her death.]] |
| 173 | * CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:By the end of the Meta Liberation Army Arc, she is the only member of the top brass to be killed.]] |
| 174 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Toga uses Uraraka's Quirk to reduce her to a smear of blood and mangled, dismembered body parts.]] |
| 175 | * DidntSeeThatComing: She's defeated when [[spoiler:Toga discovers she can use Uraraka's Quirk, which she uses to drop Curious and all of her minions from a lethal height.]] |
| 176 | * FingerFraming: She makes this pose with Toga in focus as she discusses interviewing her. |
| 177 | * GoingForTheBigScoop: When the chance of getting an interview with a mysterious, infamous, serial killer comes along, no price is too high to pay nor any danger too perilous to approach, in her eyes. [[spoiler:Even moments before said serial killer is about to drop her into the asphalt, all she can think about is how ''amazing'' the article she'll write is going to be, smiling in pure euphoria while doing so.]] |
| 178 | * GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: She isn't from space, but she is a beautiful woman with pale blue skin. |
| 179 | * GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:In the anime, her death is toned down to only show her and some cronies falling and then several splashes of blood as they perish, with the bodies not shown.]] |
| 180 | * HavingABlast: Her Quirk lets her turn anything she touches into a bomb. While an individual bomb isn't that powerful, she can make up for it by making multiple at a time. |
| 181 | * IntrepidReporter: One that's downright obsessive with getting her scoop. She hints that she started her career as this. When fighting Toga, she turns it into an interview where she wants to know how she became a killer and says she has already interviewed her parents and friends. |
| 182 | * KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:She's still going on about what an incredible headline she was given as if she was not about to die at all.]] |
| 183 | * MadBomber: Her Quirk lets her turn anything she touches into a bomb, and her fight with Toga shows she's not really all there in the head. |
| 184 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: Inverted in the anime regarding her company Shoowaysha Publishing, which goes unnamed there likely due to the presence of voice acting would've made the BitingTheHandHumor joke ''too'' obvious. |
| 185 | * NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:She damn near kills Toga by overwhelming her with numbers and hitting her with her Quirk repeatedly. If Toga hadn't discovered her ability to mimic the Quirks of people she transformed into right then and there, Curious would've won.]] |
| 186 | * NotTheFallThatKillsYou: [[spoiler:The way Curious dies after Toga releases her from Uraraka's [[GravityMaster copied Quirk.]]]] |
| 187 | * PowerFist: When up close and personal, she equips a support-item called the "Curious Flattener". It's shaped like a gauntlet and compressed into a wristband, and when combined with her Quirk, it becomes an exploding boxing glove. It's as lethal as it sounds. |
| 188 | * PropagandaMachine: She uses her publishing company to spread the MLA's ideals to the greater public in order to convert them to their cause. As it stands, Destro's manifesto has sold ''over 100,000'' copies. She reveals she intends to do it again, by using her influence to turn Toga into a martyr that was shunned and repressed by the hero society, which led to her becoming a villain, furthering the agenda of the Army. |
| 189 | * ShoutOut: Her power is the same as that of [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Yoshikage Kira's Stand, Killer Queen]]. |
| 190 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: She is the only female member of the leaders of the current Meta Liberation Army. |
| 191 | * TechnicolorEyes: Like Ashido, her eyes have black sclera, but her eye color is green. |
| 192 | * TooPowerfulToLive: A rare minion example. Curious' Quirk allows her to turn anything and anyone into a bomb, making her deadliest member of the MLA top brass behind Re-Destro. [[spoiler:That is the reason she is the only of his liutenants to be KilledOfForReal by the end of the Meta Liberation Army Arc.]] |
| 193 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:She's killed only a few chapters after she's introduced. In fact, she's the ''only'' leader of the MLA who doesn't survive to the end of the group's introduction arc.]] |
| 194 | [[/folder]] |
| 195 | |
| 196 | [[folder:Koku Hanabata -- Trumpet]] |
| 197 | !!Koku Hanabata -- Trumpet |
| 198 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunjiMajima (Japanese), Creator/AdamMcArthur (English) |
| 199 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 218 (Manga), Episode 108 (Anime) |
| 200 | !!!'''Quirk/Meta Ability:''' [[CompellingVoice Incite]] |
| 201 | !!!'''Rank:''' B |
| 202 | |
| 203 | [[quoteright:261:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/koku_hanabata_anime_6.png]] |
| 204 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see him in the "Sevens Loud" Helmet.]]\ |
| 205 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sevens_loud_3.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 206 | |
| 207 | ->''"Now, my fine people, liberate them!! Combine your powers and open a path to the coming era!! Show the world that, yes, everyone is a hero! And that at the same time... no one is!"'' |
| 208 | |
| 209 | A leader of the current Meta Liberation Army and publicly the leader of the Hearts and Mind Party. His Quirk "Incite", can boost the morale and physical state of the people who trust in him. |
| 210 | ---- |
| 211 | * AchillesHeel: His Quirk requires that the people he's trying using it on already trust him. If they don't or said trust is diminished in any way, it won't work. |
| 212 | * AffablyEvil: He is very polite to the League once he meets them, and greets them kindly before sending his minions to attack them. |
| 213 | * AmplifierArtifact: He uses a Detnerat product called "Sevens Loud" to amplify his voice/sound waves in order to increase the power of his Quirk and affect as many of his followers as possible. |
| 214 | * CompellingVoice: His Quirk allows him to strengthen others by simply talking to them. However, it only works on those who already trust him. |
| 215 | * CorruptPolitician: A terrorist who is publicly the leader of a political party. |
| 216 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Despite working for an organization which is all about uplifting people with Quirks and allowing them to use their powers to its fullest potential, Trumpet dismisses Spinner during their fight, bluntly referring to his Quirk as weak and the latter himself as seeming incapable of changing for the better in any way. |
| 217 | * IdiotHair: Has single strand of hair that sticks out even when in the "Sevens Loud" helmet. |
| 218 | * LogicalWeakness: While it may seem as such, his Quirk isn't anything resembling {{Brainwash}}ing, being effectively a power up given to people willing to follow his orders. In short, while his charisma certainly benefits him in this regard, his Quirk is practically useless if a command or order he gives goes against the wishes of those he's commanding, [[spoiler:as shown when Shigaraki prevents the Army members from attacking to save Re-Destro with his Quirk's empowerment by flashing a SlasherSmile that scares them out of attacking.]] |
| 219 | * MeaningfulName: His party's name, Hearts and Mind, makes a lot of sense when one considers how his Quirk works. Once people open their '''hearts''' to him, he can enhance their bodies and '''minds'''. |
| 220 | * MidBoss: Shigaraki describes him as such during the League's raid on Deika City to retrieve Giran. Hanabata stands midway between the League's entry point and the location where their Supreme Leader is keeping Giran locked up, which gives more credit to Shigaraki's description. |
| 221 | * OnlySaneMan: Between Re-Destro's [[BunnyEarsLawyer eccentric tendencies]], Curious' obsession with GoingForTheBigScoop, Skeptic's [[InsufferableGenius overbearing nature]] and Geten's [[TheSocialDarwinist intense social darwinism]], Trumpet stands out as the most level-headed member of the MLA's top brass. [[spoiler:He later shares this role with Mr. Compress after Shigaraki is given command over the organisation.]] |
| 222 | * RousingSpeech: As befits a politician, this is Meta Ability in a nutshell: he projects his voice to his loyal subjects which in turn increases their power and mental fortitude by the strength of the vibrations caused by his voice. He delivers these throughout the battle with the League of Villains to the Deika City citizens with great effect. |
| 223 | * SinisterShades: He often wears sunglasses and is a terrorist. |
| 224 | * StatusBuff: His Quirk essentially acts like this to those who have trust in him. |
| 225 | * SupportPartyMember: Ge acts as this to the MLA by virtue of his Meta Ability. |
| 226 | * TomTheDarkLord: His party name, Hearts and Mind, isn't exactly intimidating, even when considering it's run by a terrorist. Not to mention his choice of codename, Trumpet. |
| 227 | [[/folder]] |
| 228 | |
| 229 | [[folder:Tomoyasu Chikazoku -- Skeptic]] |
| 230 | !!Tomoyasu Chikazoku -- Skeptic |
| 231 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomokazuSugita (Japanese), Creator/BenDiskin (Season 5), Creator/AnthonyBowling (Season 6 onwards) (English) |
| 232 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 218 (Manga), Episode 102 (Anime) |
| 233 | !!!'''Quirk/Meta Ability:''' [[PerversePuppet Anthropomorph]] |
| 234 | !!!'''Rank:''' B |
| 235 | |
| 236 | [[quoteright:226:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tomoyasu_chikazoku_anime.png]] |
| 237 | |
| 238 | ->''"Is something confusing you? Is this even a question you want answered? What's keeping you from answering properly like "What do you mean by footage?", do you have too much pride? If someone says "One!", do you go "One?" like a parrot? Can you think critically? Use your imagination? Are your neurons taking a vacation? You need us to spell everything out and tell you that two plus two is four? Why should we?"'' |
| 239 | |
| 240 | A leader of the current Meta Liberation Army and publicly a board member from leading IT company Feel Good, Inc. His Quirk, "Anthropomorph", allows him to transform any human-sized object into a puppet he can control. |
| 241 | ---- |
| 242 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: [[spoiler:La Brava proves to be this to him. The 'one failure' he mentioned before is implied to be her hacking Feel Good, Inc. and replacing all its ads with a kitty optic mascot as ''practice''. During the FinalBattle, she hacks his entire system in a matter of seconds to the point there's nothing he can do about it but try and flee.]] |
| 243 | * AvengingTheVillain: [[spoiler:He wants to kill Toga to avenge Curious' death.]] |
| 244 | * BigBrotherIsWatching: He's a board member for an IT firm, and he uses his status for all it's worth. He can restore data and trace phone calls to know the location of his enemies, which the MLA uses to challenge the League directly, by threatening to tip off the heroes to their location by using his satellite cameras. |
| 245 | * BerserkButton: |
| 246 | ** As evidenced by his page quote, Skeptic does ''not'' care for ParrotExposition in the slightest. |
| 247 | ** Failure. When Re-Destro implied that he failed in recruiting Twice, Skeptic [[TranquilFury calmly]] closes his laptop and leaves the room. As he leaves with a scary look in his eyes, he claims that he's only failed once in his life, and then he sets out to capture Twice. |
| 248 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: He goes on a rather humorous, over-the-top rant about ParrotExposition in his first major appearance and then later uses brutal psychological warfare against a man with severe mental illness. |
| 249 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: A neurotic tech genius with a HairTriggerTemper and a tendency to nag at anyone who even slightly annoys him. |
| 250 | * CreepyMonotone: As portrayed by Creator/BenDiskin, Skeptic’s voice rarely exceeds a precise, meticulous drawl, unless he’s particularly stressed. |
| 251 | * DeadpanSnarker: Especially once [[spoiler:he has to regularly interact with the League members on a more friendly basis. ]] |
| 252 | * DragonAscendant: Of a sort. [[spoiler: In the aftermath of the Paranormal Liberation Front’s war with the heroes, Skeptic is the only remaining high-ranking MLA veteran among the lieutenants still at large. As such, Skeptic takes to the forefront of organizing the group’s slow reconstruction, dispatching the remaining advisers to recruit new members, and utilizing his formidable skills in editing to spin enticing propaganda featuring the former League members. He’s notably at the forefront of the PLF remnants when Chapter 335 depicts them as an obstacle for the heroes to face, and none of the other lieutenants seem particularly interested in the continued activities of the group (opting to hide out and guard All For One and Shigaraki while the latter nears completion instead). ]] |
| 253 | * EvilGenius: His role in villainy, by focusing on using his IT firm as a spying ground and hacking critical systems. [[spoiler:He even edits Dabi's pre-recorded message against Endeavor mid-broadcast by putting in footage of Hawks' murder of Twice.]] |
| 254 | * EvilPuppeteer: A high-ranking villain whose Quirk allows him to control things as puppets to commit misdeeds. |
| 255 | * EvilSoundsDeep: As portrayed by Creator/TomokazuSugita, Skeptic speaks with a menacing baritone that befits his sinister disposition. |
| 256 | * EyesOutOfSight: His bowl cut has bangs that always cover his eyes. |
| 257 | * FatalFlaw: Skeptic [[BerserkButton absolutely cannot tolerate]] even the ''thought'' of failing at anything- and thus, neglects to actually ''learn'' from failure in favor of [[NeverMyFault attempting to rationalize away setbacks as someone else's responsibility or out of his hands]]. [[spoiler: Even though he still seethes about the time Feel Good Inc. was hacked as [[MyGreatestFailure the "only failure in his life,"]] he still [[SmugSnake gleefully boasts about his genius during the final battle]] and puts ''all'' his efforts into bringing down U.A. and exposing the evacuation centers. When La Brava hacks him ''[[HistoryRepeats again]]'' while he's distracted, she [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech outright mocks]] the fact that his coding habits haven't changed in the past few ''years''- even though the last hack had caused a ''huge'' financial hit to his company!]] |
| 258 | * GeekPhysiques: He looks cartoonishly lanky and almost emaciated, with no muscle definition to his form. He also doesn't fight physically, instead treating battle as a puzzle to be solved through the power of intellect, taking the time to research potential adversaries in advance so that he knows all their strengths and - especially - weaknesses, then sending his puppets out to fight in his stead. |
| 259 | * GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Has a tendency to do this when ranting at people. |
| 260 | * GotVolunteered: [[spoiler:When a chunk of the PLF lieutenants are scooped onto Gigantomachia’s back to go assist Shigaraki, Skeptic is notably the only former MLA member among them, and he clearly does not want to be there. Regardless, he and his laptop fulfill a useful function in helping the villains keep track of events as they travel, as well as in editing and initiating Dabi’s hijacking of Japan’s airwaves. A deleted scene from one of the collected volumes, depicting the League members climbing onto ‘Machia, drives this home by having Dabi purposefully grab Skeptic in the process, citing his impending need for the man’s skills. ]] |
| 261 | * HairTriggerTemper: He gets worked up fairly frequently and over things that most people would find insignificant, sometimes to the point of having veins popping up around the corners of his eyes. |
| 262 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:His attempt to hack the heroes' systems and turn the tables on them exposes his own systems to La Brava, who instantly hacks him back. He's [[OhCrap understandably shocked by this.]]]] |
| 263 | * InsufferableGenius: He's a pretty intelligent guy who berates others for using ParrotExposition and not catching on to things fast enough for his taste. |
| 264 | * {{Jerkass}}: |
| 265 | ** Trying to kill Toga in order to [[spoiler:avenge Curious]]? Understandable. Creating puppet Twices in order to take advantage of the real Twice's [[CloneAngst tramua]], forcing the real Twice to watch his puppet variants try and snap Toga's neck, and then breaking the real Twice's arms when he tries to fight back? All done with the ultimate goal of forcing Twice to join the Meta Liberation Army against his will? Not so much. |
| 266 | ** Being an arrogant, condescending InsufferableGenius who treats everyone around him like an idiot and seems incapable of having a single interaction without nagging and/or insulting the other person certainly doesn't help his case either. |
| 267 | * KillerGorilla: His preferred type of puppet to assist him are mindless gorilla-like men. |
| 268 | * LargeHam: When annoyed at what he sees as other people lacking common sense. |
| 269 | * LeanAndMean: A tall, lanky individual who just happens to also be a terrorist. |
| 270 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Some of his angry diatribes include elements of this, especially the one against ParrotExposition. |
| 271 | * MadEye: When we finally see one of his eyes, it's clear by its strained and unhinged look that the idea of failing any task easily causes him to snap. |
| 272 | * MadnessMantra: Spouts one off while attempting to capture Twice in person: |
| 273 | -->''I didn't fail! You hear me, Bubaigawara, you scum? I didn't fail! I didn't fail! I didn't fail! I didn't fail! I didn't fail!"'' |
| 274 | * ManipulativeEditing: Quite skilled in this, both managing to [[spoiler:spin footage from the confrontation in Deika City so that the League’s presence is covered up, and to re-frame footage of Hawks’ killing of Twice to paint the Pro-Hero in an even more negative light. ]] |
| 275 | * MeaningfulName: Tomoyasu (友保) is "friend" + "preserve/guarantee" while Chikazoku (近属) is "nearby" + "under control of". His Quirk allows him to create nearby guaranteed friends under his control. |
| 276 | * MissionControl: He serves this function within the MLA [[spoiler:and PLF, especially once the latter has been decimated by the heroes. ]] |
| 277 | * MyGreatestFailure: He's apparently only failed ''once'' in his life, and he ''refuses'' to fail again. The incident? [[spoiler:La Brava hacked his company's website for a laugh and cost him tons in revenue. He freaks out during the Final War arc when La Brava hacks into his hideout and she reveals herself as the perpetrator years ago.]] |
| 278 | * NeverMyFault: He insists he's never failed and will twist all sorts of logic to support that: |
| 279 | ** When his miscalculation [[spoiler:unwittingly allows Twice to unleash his full power and turn the tide against the MLA]], he insists that it's not ''really'' a failure on his part, just [[BlatantLies him moving to the next stage of his plan]]. |
| 280 | ** He blames Twice for [[spoiler:not suspecting anything about Hawks and ultimately leading the heroes to discover and raid the PLF's headquarters]], but Skeptic had previously [[spoiler:dismissed Slidin' Go's complaints about Hawks, saying that Hawks was more useful than Slidin' Go despite being newer]]. |
| 281 | * NewMediaAreEvil: As one of the players in the Big Tech industry, he uses the IT firm he's part of to gather information on the League's whereabouts and threaten a direct confirmation with the MLA, with the implication that he can do this to anyone. |
| 282 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: He tries to use his puppets to kill the unconscious Toga as to [[spoiler:avenge Curious]] and capture a psychologically broken Twice so that he can be inducted into the Meta Liberation Army. [[spoiler:Because he had his puppets break Twice’s arms, he gave Twice the revelation he needs to confirm that he’s the ''real'' Twice and not just a clone (as his clones tend to disappear after taking damage roughly equal to a broken bone). That uncertainty was the only thing holding Twice back from unleashing his true strength, and without it, there's nothing stopping him from going all out.]] |
| 283 | * OhCrap: |
| 284 | ** He understandably has this reaction when he learns [[spoiler:La Brava was waiting for him to explose himself by hacking the heroes' systems in order to hack him ''back''.]] |
| 285 | ** He has another one [[spoiler:when he tries to flee only to find a group of heroes waiting for him at the door.]] |
| 286 | * OneLetterName: His puppets have single letter names. |
| 287 | * PerversePuppet: The puppets he creates are seemingly mindless, but he can use them to carry out his evil deeds. |
| 288 | * PsychologicalCombat: Has no qualms about taking advantage of Twice's [[SplitPersonality severe trauma]]. |
| 289 | * SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:The only member of the Paranormal Liberation Front’s top brass to have any foreknowledge of Dabi’s true identity before his big broadcast, by simple dint of having been the one to edit together said broadcast. ]] |
| 290 | * ScarilyCompetentTracker: A modern version. Thanks to being a part of an IT firm, he is able to restore all of Giran's ''deleted client data'' and track down the League's location thanks to ''tracing their phone call'', with satellite cameras ready to tip the heroes of their whereabouts. |
| 291 | * ShoutOut: To [[Music/{{Gorillaz}} Gorillaz]] and the Japanese comedian Kinzoku Bat. His family name Chikazoku is an alternate reading on Kinzoku. His company is named after one of Gorillaz's most well-known songs, and he himself looks like Bat, who, amusingly enough, looks like a combination of Noodle, Murdoc, and 2D. His ape-like bodyguards further the Gorillaz reference. |
| 292 | * SinisterSurveillance: Once he finds someone's information, he will know where they are thanks the use of satellites to track down their location. The League finds out the hard way. |
| 293 | * SmallNameBigEgo: He thinks highly of himself and his hacking skills, viewing himself as superior to most around him. While he is a leginement threat, as shown in the final arc [[spoiler:La Brava is far better than him, a young adult showing he's actually not as skilled as he thought.]] |
| 294 | * SmugSnake: During the Final War arc, [[spoiler:he relishes in being a major threat to the heroes by hacking into their systems and doing dangerous acts such as uncovering the civilians hidden away in strongholds and threatening to drop the floating UA island out of the sky, but [[OhCrap freaks out]] in Chapter 377 when he finds out that La Brava is also hacking into his hideout. This culminates in him learning that La Brava is the same one who tormented him years ago from a successful hack attack and gets arrested by the heroes on top of that.]] |
| 295 | * SoreLoser: [[spoiler:Since he failed a single time, he takes losing so poor he makes ''Bakugo'' look humble in comparison.]] |
| 296 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: [[spoiler:Skeptic takes the MLA’s merger with the League of Villains the hardest out of anyone, and is noticeably more unhinged in the merger’s immediate aftermath. He eventually settles into a mix of more mild annoyance and snark, and doesn’t hesitate much in assisting the former League members in their endeavors. ]] |
| 297 | * TombstoneTeeth: He sports a very prominent set of pearlies. |
| 298 | * UndyingLoyalty: To Re-Destro and his fellow Meta Liberation Army lieutenants. [[spoiler:This is the primary reason Skeptic vocally objects to being pulled up onto Gigantomachia during the raid on the Villa- he views his place as assisting his former colleagues.]] |
| 299 | * VillainousBreakdown: |
| 300 | ** Skeptic loses his mind in Chapter 233 once Twice [[spoiler:overcomes his trauma and rescues Toga from his puppets causing Skeptic to suffer his second-ever loss. He promptly chases down the real Twice and Toga in order to kill them while ranting Jin's name and denying that he has failed.]] |
| 301 | --->'''Skeptic:''' [[spoiler:I haven't failed! [[LastNameBasis Bubaigawaraaa]]! Bubaigawara, you bastard…! [[IRejectYourReality This is not a failure!]] [[MadnessMantra Not a failure! Not a failure!]]]] |
| 302 | ** It happens again when [[spoiler:Skeptic learns that the heroes are raiding the Paranormal Liberation Front's headquarters.]] |
| 303 | ** His biggest one comes when [[spoiler:La Brava hacks his systems and reveals she was the one to hack Feel Good Inc.'s systems years ago. He has a complete FreakOut when she trolls him with dancing cats, reminding him of how she replaced all of Feel Good Inc.'s ads with the same thing. He tries to run, once more refusing and ranting that they've not won yet...only to run smack dab into a group of heroes arriving at his front door.]] |
| 304 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: It's revealed Skeptic has Trypophobia. [[spoiler:It gets triggered when La Brava puts a dancing cats mascot with large enough eyes close enough together to set it off...twice.]] |
| 305 | [[/folder]] |
| 306 | |
| 307 | [[folder:Geten]] |
| 308 | !!??? -- Geten |
| 309 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SeiichiroYamashita (Japanese), Creator/KhoiDao (English) |
| 310 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 218 (Manga), Episode 109 (Anime) |
| 311 | !!!'''Quirk/Meta Ability:''' [[AnIcePerson Ice Ply]] |
| 312 | !!!'''Rank:''' B |
| 313 | %% |
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| 317 | [[quoteright:254:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/geten_anime.png]] |
| 318 | [[caption-width-right:254:[[labelnote:Click here to see him unmasked.]]\ |
| 319 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/geten_unhooded_anime_3.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 320 | |
| 321 | ->''"In the future that our liberation army foresees... one's rank in society will be directly tied to the strength of one's Meta Ability. Elevating one's ability will be the only way to really '''live'''!"'' |
| 322 | |
| 323 | A mysterious elite soldier in the Liberation Army that wears a thick parka. His Quirk allows him to control already existing ice around him. |
| 324 | ---- |
| 325 | * AmbiguousGender: His thick parka makes it impossible to tell his gender, and even with it down, his androgynous design makes it hard to pinpoint. The ''ULTRA ANALYSIS Character Book'' confirms him to be male. |
| 326 | * AnIceSuit: He wears a thick parka that covers his entire upper-body. |
| 327 | * AnIcePerson: He has an ice-based Quirk. Unlike Todoroki's Quirk, he can only control already existing ice, but he can get around this weakness by manipulating the temperature of his ice to freeze nearby bodies of water to create more ice for him to work with. |
| 328 | * AwesomeByAnalysis: During his fight, Geten was able to determine the strengths and weaknesses of Dabi's Quirk and figured out his weak constitution from the burning smell emanating from Dabi's body. |
| 329 | * TheBrute: Geten is the only member of the MLA's top brass who doesn't have some high-profile and useful occupation. Instead, he serves as their big gun, being the one who's the most practiced with their Quirk for raw power and combat potential. He also serves this in the Paranormal Liberation Front, where he's the heaviest hitter of the nine Lieutenants. |
| 330 | * DeadpanSnarker: He briefly engages in some SnarkToSnarkCombat with Dabi during their fight. |
| 331 | * DeathFromAbove: He first attacks Dabi from above by trying to crush him with some giant ice hands. |
| 332 | * ElementalRockPaperScissors: As Dabi reminds him, fire melts ice. However, his ability to control the temperature of the ice he controls, along with the sophisticated structures he can construct with said ice, help alleviate this weakness. |
| 333 | * FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: He has a gentle and ethereal face behind his parka's hood. He's also a villain with the philosophy of TheSocialDarwinist. |
| 334 | * GiantHandsOfDoom: He uses his Quirk to form giant ''ice'' hands of doom when he first attacks Dabi. |
| 335 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: His bright eyes are the only part of his face that is visible with his parka's hood up. |
| 336 | * InTheHood: The hood of his parka completely conceals his face. |
| 337 | * JabbaTableManners: During the MLA's meeting/dinner in Chapter 219, Geten is seen scarfing down food, with bits and pieces flying everywhere, while the other members are eating normally. |
| 338 | * LongLostRelative: [[spoiler:As it turns out, he's from a branch family of the Himura clan, making him a distant relative of Rei Todoroki and, by extension, her children.]] |
| 339 | * MeaningfulName: Geten (外典) means Apocrypha. Apocrypha is Biblical writing that, due to their dubious/unknown origin, is not considered "canon" to the Scripture. This reflects the MLA's desire to rewrite the sacred rules of society with their own. |
| 340 | * PowerStereotypeFlip: Despite having power over ice, he is very HotBlooded and emotional, as shown during the Paranormal Liberation Raid. This contrasts nicely with Dabi, a [[FieryStoic fire type user who is calm deadpan most of the time]]. |
| 341 | * TheReveal: [[spoiler: He is a distant cousin of the Todoroki children on their mother's side.]] |
| 342 | * SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: According to Geten, he deliberately dropped out of school to focus entirely on training his Meta Ability to its absolute limits. Considering the sophisticated ice constructs he can build, it seems to have paid off. |
| 343 | * ShoutOut: His powers and outfit alike have a great resemblance to ''Franchise/TheFlash'' villain Captain Cold, which, considering the author's superhero comic appeal, is unlikely to be an accident. |
| 344 | * SingleSubstanceManipulation: His power is to manipulate vast quantities of ice. Although he can't produce it by himself, he can simply dump large amounts of ice into a nearby source of water to create more ice for him to use. |
| 345 | * TheSocialDarwinist: He believes that the Meta Liberation Army will create a society where Quirks determine one's place in society: the more powerful one's Quirk, the higher their standing. |
| 346 | * VillainousRescue: Unintentional on his end, [[spoiler:but as he's rallying the Paranormal Liberation Front, the massive ice structure he creates to blast Mt. Lady away and create some breathing room between the army and the heroes inadvertently distracts Dabi from torching Hawks and Tokoyami to death.]] |
| 347 | [[/folder]] |
| 348 | |
| 349 | !!Former |
| 350 | [[folder:Chikara Yotsubashi -- Destro]] |
| 351 | !!Chikara Yotsubashi -- Destro |
| 352 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 171 (Manga), Episode 82 (Anime) |
| 353 | !!!'''Quirk/Meta Ability:''' Unknown |
| 354 | |
| 355 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chikara_yotsubashi_anime.png]] |
| 356 | [[caption-width-right:330:]] |
| 357 | |
| 358 | ->''"He called himself Destro -- the one who would destroy the status quo."'' |
| 359 | -->'''--Re-Destro''', Chapter 218 |
| 360 | |
| 361 | The Grand Commander and founder of the original Meta Liberation Army and an infamous villain who carved his way into history along with Oji Harima and All for One. He was eventually captured and authored an autobiography in prison before committing suicide. The principles expressed in said autobiography continue to influence people in the present, much like Stain's beliefs. |
| 362 | ---- |
| 363 | * ChekhovsGunman: He was originally mentioned in Chapter 171 by Gentle as an infamous villain in the same vein as All For One, but his legacy becomes important from Chapter 218 onward as some people sharing his ideals begin to rise up. |
| 364 | * ClassyCravat: Wore one as seen on pictorial depictions of him. |
| 365 | * CoolMask: Destro wears one that looks like a black blotch. The mask even appears on the cover of Destro's autobiography. It may actually be FacialMarkings, as Re-Destro has something similar on his face. |
| 366 | * DrivenToSuicide: Destro eventually killed himself after publishing his autobiography in jail. |
| 367 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: His mother's murder was the reason why he was fighting against society as he felt they stole her words when she tried to fight for his rights as a human being. |
| 368 | * FreudianExcuse: Started his crusade because his mother was killed during the days when Quirks were manifesting and speaking out against those who bullied him just because he apparently had a Quirk not fit to live in society. |
| 369 | * GreaterScopeVillain: His descendant, Re-Destro, worships him and is currently running covert operations in his name. |
| 370 | * MeaningfulName: 'Chikara' means 'Power' or 'Influence'. Despite Destro having died years ago, his autobiography and ideals still influence people like Teruo and he still wields power through his descendants. Also, his name contains the kanji for 4, an unlucky number in China and Japan due to it sounding like 'shi', which means "death". |
| 371 | * PosthumousCharacter: He committed suicide while imprisoned before the main story began after releasing his manifesto to the world. |
| 372 | * ShoutOut: |
| 373 | ** The "Meta Liberation Army" is one to ComicBook/{{Magneto}} and [[Characters/XMenBrotherhoodOfMutants his Brotherhood of Mutants]]. Their goal is to liberate Quirks from government regulation and let people use their powers freely, which is similar to Magneto's motivation in most comic continuities. |
| 374 | ** His Villain name is the same as the [[Franchise/GIJoe G.I. Joe]] villain Destro. |
| 375 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Destro believed that using Quirks should be a fundamental human right and raised an army of insurgents against the Government. However, he was criticized for promoting terrorism. |
| 376 | [[/folder]] |
| 377 | |
| 378 | !Warriors |
| 379 | [[folder:Tatsuyuki Tokoname -- Slidin' Go]] |
| 380 | !!Tatsuyuki Tokoname -- Slidin' Go |
| 381 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Takumu Miyazono (Japanese), Creator/BillButts (English) |
| 382 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 219 (Manga), Episode 100 (Anime) |
| 383 | !!!'''Quirk/Meta Ability:''' Unknown Sliding Quirk |
| 384 | |
| 385 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/volume_23_sleeve_slidin_go.png]] |
| 386 | %% [[caption-width-right:200:some caption text]] |
| 387 | |
| 388 | ->''"You can leave the rest to me, Slidin' Go!!"'' |
| 389 | |
| 390 | A chipper pro hero that arrives just after Bakugo and Todoroki defeat the Seltzer Villain. He's also a member of the MLA in secret. |
| 391 | ---- |
| 392 | * AffablyEvil: He's still just as nice after he's revealed to be a MLA member. |
| 393 | * AlliterativeName: '''T'''atsuyuki '''T'''okoname. |
| 394 | * BadassCape: {{Inverted|Trope}}. His cape is comically short and offers very little protection. |
| 395 | * BearHug: He gives one to Bakugo and Todoroki as congratulations for beating their first villain. Bakugo is not pleased. |
| 396 | * DumbassHasAPoint: Sure, [[spoiler:Hawks, as the #2 hero, is more useful to the PLF than he is by a longshot, and him acting otherwise is foolish]], but Slidin' Go has still been a part of the organization longer, so it's not stupid to assume that he'd outrank [[spoiler:Hawks]], who's only been a member for a couple of weeks at that point. |
| 397 | * EvilAllAlong: Despite being introduced as a perfectly nice guy, he is part of the Meta Liberation Army. |
| 398 | * HiddenDepths: He likes reading despite his silly appearance. Since he would have had to read Destro's autobiography to join the MLA in the first place, this makes sense. |
| 399 | * LanternJawOfJustice: Subverted. He has a prominent jaw, which initially fits his "upright hero" image. However, he turns out to be a member of the villainous MLA. |
| 400 | * NiceGuy: In his first appearance, he praises Todoroki and Bakugo for their strategy, before offering to clean up the rather substantial amount of debris left behind. |
| 401 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: His design is reminiscent of western cartoons like ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', and really anything Creator/SethMacFarlane has made. |
| 402 | * OhCrap: [[spoiler:One day, he notices the lack of heroes in patrol, unaware that the other heroes are already aware that he is a Meta Liberation Army member. When it finally dawns on him that something might be going on, Death Arms has subtly taken ahold of him and called him out, prompting this reaction.]] |
| 403 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: On the receiving from Skeptic [[spoiler:after he tries to boss around Hawks by bluntly reminding him that Hawks is vastly more resourceful and useful to the PLF than he is.]] |
| 404 | * SmallNameBigEgo: [[spoiler:He tries convincing Hawks that he outranks him in the Paranormal Liberation Front, having been there longer and also being older than him. Skeptic is quick to remind him that Hawks' status as the number two hero is much more valuable to the PLF than Slidin' Go is.]] |
| 405 | * SuperSpeed: Played with. His Quirk allows him to move very quickly because he slides over any surface, rather than actual super-speed in the typical sense. |
| 406 | [[/folder]] |
| 407 | |
| 408 | [[folder:Deika City Inhabitants]] |
| 409 | !!Deika City Inhabitants |
| 410 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 224 (Manga), Episode 109 (Anime) |
| 411 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deika_city_citizens.png]] |
| 412 | |
| 413 | The citizens of Deika City, a "liberated district" where 90% of the population -- heroes included -- are members of the MLA. |
| 414 | ---- |
| 415 | * CannonFodder: Dozens of them are massacred in the fight against the League of Villains. |
| 416 | * ConservationOfNinjutsu: They're pitted up against the League of Villains, who are fatigued and numbering in the single digits, and yet the League is still able to take them out in droves. It is slightly downplayed, however, due to the fact that 1) the League still take plenty of damage while fighting them, and 2) [[spoiler:their numbers shoot straight up into the '''quadruple''' digits when Twice starts cloning himself.]] |
| 417 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: They're mooks going up against the League of Villains, so the ones that die don't die pretty. Shigaraki dusts two as soon as the fighting starts [[spoiler:and later does the same to about thirty of them in one touch]], while Toga knifes one in the throat [[spoiler:and uses Uraraka's Quirk to drop an entire group of them from a lethal height]]. |
| 418 | * {{Cult}}: A lot of their behavior rings of a militant cult. They're fanatically devoted to their cause, violent towards outsiders and threats, and their leadership prop up fallen leaders as martyrs to encourage them to fight ''harder''. Mr. Compress even says that they’re more of a religion then an army. |
| 419 | * LetsGetDangerous: Whereas most civilians aren't well-trained with their Quirks due to laws restricting their usage in public, Deika City disregards said laws and fastidiously trains their citizens' Quirks and each other on how to use them. This means nearly every Deika City resident can handle themselves in a fight, as the League of Villains discover when they visit the city. |
| 420 | * RedShirtArmy: Yes, they are a highly-trained personal militia for the Meta Liberation Army, and put up one challenging fight against the League through the sheer numbers and diversity of Quirks they possessed alone, while fully expendable. But the ''moment'' [[spoiler:Gigantomachia enters the battlefield]], they might as well have been ''ants'' instead. |
| 421 | * UndyingLoyalty: They're completely loyal to the Liberation's leaders, and are willing to severely injure themselves in their honor. |
| 422 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:After the events of the MLA's battle with the League, Skeptic is able to twist the truth of what happened and turn it into a story of how a group of twenty villains were able to sneak into Deika City and the citizens there banded together with the heroes to push them back. While there are some critics who say that the citizens using their Quirks unregistered did more harm than good, the general public sees the people of Deika City as brave and heroic.]] |
| 423 | * ZergRush: The liberated members of the city all rush the League of Villains when they arrive. |
| 424 | [[/folder]] |
| 425 | |
| 426 | [[folder:Gorilla Grunts]] |
| 427 | !!Gorilla Grunts |
| 428 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 223 (Manga), Episode 112 (Anime) |
| 429 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/skeptic_gorrila_puppets.png]] |
| 430 | Skeptic's bodyguards, gorilla-like men in suits who are really just puppets created by his Quirk. |
| 431 | ---- |
| 432 | * PerversePuppet: They're all products of Skeptic's Quirk, making them this. |
| 433 | * InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: They all look exactly the same. Justified, as they're just puppets created by Skeptic. |
| 434 | * ShoutOut: To [[Music/{{Gorillaz}} Gorillaz]]. They're ape-like in design and the man they work for is a board member at Feel Good, Inc. |
| 435 | [[/folder]] |
| 436 | |
| 437 | !Destro's Followers |
| 438 | ->''"This country is full of those who lie in wait, hoping for liberation."'' |
| 439 | -->'''--Re-Destro''', Chapter 218 |
| 440 | Those who aren't part of the organization, but still follow Destro's philosophy. |
| 441 | ---- |
| 442 | [[folder:Teruo Hazukashi]] |
| 443 | !!Teruo Hazukashi |
| 444 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Soichi Abe (Japanese), Creator/BenBalmaceda (English) |
| 445 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 186 (Manga), Episode 87 (Anime) |
| 446 | !!!'''Quirk/Meta Ability:''' [[EmbarrassingSuperpower Shame]] |
| 447 | |
| 448 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/teruo_hazukashi_anime.png]] |
| 449 | %% [[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]] |
| 450 | |
| 451 | ->''"Worthless company... once you're good and gone... liberation. Liberation. Long live meta-human liberation!"'' |
| 452 | |
| 453 | A disgruntled office worker inspired by Destro's autobiography. He plans to get revenge on his company by using his Quirk, "Shame". |
| 454 | ---- |
| 455 | * AdaptationExpansion: A minor case. The manga makes it seem like he's just tired of working for his company and snapped under the pressure. The anime, meanwhile, goes a bit deeper into his motivation, showing that he's always felt suffocated by society, ever since he was young. |
| 456 | * BlessedWithSuck: His Quirk allows him to grow stronger, but only when he's embarrassed. |
| 457 | * ButtMonkey: He'd apparently been treated badly at work, decided to humiliate himself to use his Quirk for revenge, and then gets casually stomped by a hero who just happened to be passing by. It is not good to be Teruo... |
| 458 | * CurbStompBattle: Hawks gets him while walking down the other side of the street and holding a conversation with Endeavor. He doesn't even stop or look in his direction, let alone pause his sentence. |
| 459 | * EmbarrassingSuperpower: Literally. His Quirk grants him SuperStrength when he feels shame. |
| 460 | * EmotionalPowers: He's a bit like the Hulk, but with shame instead of anger fueling his powers. |
| 461 | * NakedPeopleAreFunny: Tried to invoke this by stripping and letting people see/mock him so he'd become embarrassed enough to fight. Hawks knocks him out before he can. |
| 462 | * OffhandBackhand: On the receiving end; Hawks was barely paying attention when he took this guy down. |
| 463 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: He ''tries'', but Hawks beats him before he can even get started. |
| 464 | * SuperStrength: But only when he's feeling particularly humiliated. |
| 465 | [[/folder]] |
| 466 | |
| 467 | [[folder:Cider House]] |
| 468 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Koji Okino (Japanese), Kiba Walker (English) |
| 469 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 218 (Manga), Episode 100 (Anime) |
| 470 | !!!'''Quirk/Meta Ability:''' [[MakingASplash Seltzer Control]] |
| 471 | |
| 472 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soda_boy.png]] |
| 473 | %% [[caption-width-right:350:Leader of Cider House]] |
| 474 | |
| 475 | ->''"I control carbonation! Getting all shook up... makes me feel really alive!"'' |
| 476 | |
| 477 | A group of purse-snatchers and thieves, who are unknowingly field-testing some of the MLA's black market equipment. The leader's Quirk allows him to control seltzer, a.k.a. carbonized water. |
| 478 | ---- |
| 479 | * AllThereInTheManual: The ''ULTRA ANALYSIS Character Book'' was where the name of the group was first mentioned. |
| 480 | * TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:While the gang is apprehended in Chapter 219, they make a re-appearance in Chapter 300 after escaping during All For One's various jail breaks... only to promptly end up getting defeated during a brawl with civilians.]] |
| 481 | * HornsOfVillainy: Not the leader, but the criminals in his gang wear masks featuring short curved horns. |
| 482 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: The team spent months scoping out a target street to determine the best time for a crime spree without the interference of heroes, and as soon as a wrench is thrown into that plan, they try to book it. They almost succeed in escaping, but Bakugo and Todoroki promptly decimate them while they try to flee. |
| 483 | * LaserGuidedKarma: They planned out their theft spree for months, nearly got away with it...only to run into two of the top first years of U.A. who had ''just'' gotten their hero licenses a few minutes ago. [[BornUnlucky Bad luck doesn't even describe it]]. [[spoiler:Such karma goes into their reappearance which had them robbing a nearby cafe... only to immediately wind up getting intercepted by a group of civilians with support items. However, in that case, they didn't go down without a fight.]] |
| 484 | * MakingASplash: The leader can control water, but only if it's carbonized. Despite this weakness, he manages to accumulate enough of the stuff to create a street-sized tidal wave and wears pressurized gauntlets full of seltzer for more direct confrontations. |
| 485 | * MookLieutenant: The leader, in any case, who orders around a small group of minor criminals and goes down with appropriate ease. |
| 486 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: While it's easy to dismiss them, given that they were all promptly defeated without much effort by Bakugo and Todoroki, they were capable and had the intelligence to carry out a theft spree that would have worked if they didn't have poor luck. [[spoiler:In their second appearance, even without their support items, they were still strong enough to fight back against support wielding vigilantes to a bloody draw that caused massive property damage. Showcasing that even low ranking villains are a force to be reckoned with.]] |
| 487 | * ShoutOut: His name is likely a reference to the book ''Literature/TheCiderHouseRules''. |
| 488 | * ThrillSeeker: The boss describes himself as a man who lives for the thrill and backs it up by being the only one of his group to try and fight [[BloodKnight Bakugo]] and [[BewareTheQuietOnes Todoroki]] rather than flee. |
| 489 | * TrickedOutGloves: The boss wears a pair of bracers that can pressurize the carbonized water he uses and fire it out in concentrated jets powerful enough to shear through light poles. They also collect combat data to feedback to their creator and are rigged to self-destruct if their user is defeated, not that he knows about these bits. |
| 490 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: The boss makes the mistake of considering Bakugo and Todoroki to be mere schoolchildren, despite the fact that they have their provisional hero licenses. Cue a beatdown that doesn't even take a chapter. |
| 491 | * UnwittingPawn: They had no idea that Detnerat was using them as a beta tester for their gadgetry. |
| 492 | [[/folder]] |
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