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All For One
All For One
Quirk: All For One
Debut: Issue #4: Deku's Homecoming!
All Might's Arch-Enemy and the most powerful Villain in all of Japan. After his last battle with All Might, All For One retreated into the shadows to recuperate and rebuild his empire, He has established a partnership with Mysterio in the last few months, lending him the Prowler's services in the meantime.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: He doesn't appear in person until after Izuku completes his one-week work study with Gran Torino in the original series. In this story, he pops up as early as Issue 3 to discuss business dealings with Mysterio.
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: It's revealed that Prowler's service to him is one of these: either she does as she's told, or he reveals her identity to the world to destroy her family's reputation.
- Arch-Enemy: Of All Might.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Wears a well-fitting suit while going into battle and is the most powerful Villain in the story.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: Has formed one with Mysterio, providing him with manpower and supplies and receiving Mysterio's equipment in return. In truth, he's only using Mysterio to aid Shigaraki's ascension and doesn't see him as an equal at all.
- Dissonant Serenity: His voice is almost always perfectly calm, casually talking about the League's plans to dominate Japan to his underlings with the same tone he uses to talk about the weather.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: His identity and position as the true leader of the League of Villains is a huge surprise in the original My Hero Academia, but it's revealed much earlier in this story.
- Parental Substitute: Acts as one for Shigaraki and heavily encourages him to become an even greater supervillain.
- Powers as Programs: His Quirk allows him to take away people's Quirks and give them to others. The reason why he's so powerful and feared is that he's spent a century stockpiling Quirks for himself.
- Really 700 Years Old: He's been around for more than a century, allowing him to stockpile Quirks for his own usage to make him the most dangerous Villain in all of Japan.
- Superpower Lottery: In a world that revolves around Quirks, the ability to steal them and use them at will is among the most powerful of them all, not to mention the grievous wound he dealt to All Might, the World's Strongest Man.
The Prowler
The Prowler - Mitsuki Bakugou
Quirk: Personal Gravity Quirk, Glycerin
Debut: Issue #1: What If?
A master thief who has just resurfaced after years of absence. A ruthless criminal who does not leave witnesses, she mysteriously spares Izuku after her attempted heist of a genetically-altered spider goes awry. She continues to evade capture even with the police force and Japan's greatest Hero on her tail. Her motives, identity, and clientele are all unknown.
- Adaptational Badass: In the comics, the Prowler is a Badass Normal who uses a variety of gadgets ala Batman. Here, she has the ability to manipulate her own gravity, enough Super-Strength to hurt Peter, and the gadgets and training of her comics counterpart.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: In the comics, the Prowler is a Badass Normal. Here, she has some degree of Super-Strength and the ability to manipulate her own gravity.
- The Alcoholic: She's almost always seen throwing back several cans or mugs of beer in one sitting in her downtime. It doesn't seem to affect her performance much, as she usually goes out for a ride on her motorcycle soon afterward.
- Badass Biker: The Prowler is badass enough to be a match for Peter and has a customized motorcycle that she hops on to turn him into roadkill when they take the fight outside. In combination with her gravity Quirk and gadgetry, she's able to ride along walls and perform death-defying stunts that would make Ghost Rider jealous.
- Big "SHUT UP!": Says this to Peter after he webbed her up and won't stop quipping throughout their fight. Of course, it falls on deaf ears because he can't understand a lick of Japanese.Prowler: DAMARE!note
- Combat Pragmatist: She overturns a truck to force Peter to stop it, which ends up injuring him even more badly and making him easy pickings even after other Heroes began to arrive. She then attaches a bomb to Mount Lady's neck and threatens to kill her if the other Heroes intervene.
- Combo Platter Powers: She has the ability to manipulate her personal gravity on top of enough Super-Strength to easily Neck Lift Izuku and beat the crap out of Peter, who both have the proportionate strength of a spider.
- Cool Bike: The Prowler's motorcycle can drive itself and hop along nearby vehicles so she could meet it in midair before driving it back down to the ground in preparation to fight.
- Create Your Own Hero: Her failed raid on the research facility allowed the spider to bite Izuku, giving him powers. After that, her bungled attempt to assassinate Peter led Izuku to rush into the fray to help him. This inspires All Might and gets him to encourage Izuku to become a Hero. In short, if it weren't for Prowler, Izuku would not have become Spider-Man.
- Dark Action Girl: The Prowler is Hell-Bent for Leather, badass enough to take on Spider-Man one-on-one, and has escaped capture from all of Japan's greatest Heroes.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: All For One implies that Prowler spared Izuku because she knows him personally in her civilian identity. As Mitsuki Bakugou, she remembers him as Katsuki's Childhood Friend.
- Foreshadowing: Her Secret Identity as Mitsuki Bakugou is hinted at in nearly every one of her appearances leading up to the reveal.
- She wears purple in her civilian identity and admits to running with gangs in the past. The Prowler is styled like a Japanese Delinquent and makes use of a motorcycle.
- She's unusually tight-lipped about her past to her family and friends.
- Her language is terribly coarse in a manner unlike almost every character in the story sans her son, Katsuki.
- She's an excellent hand-to-hand combatant in and out of costume and can be oddly stealthy even around her loved ones.
- She reacts with alarm and surprise after learning that Izuku is styling himself after Spider-Man.
- Flipping the Bird: Gives the middle finger to Mysterio while he's busy chastising her for failing to kill Peter.
- Gender Flip: In the comics, the Prowler was the male Hobie Brown or Aaron Davis. Here, she's a woman.
- Gravity Master: Her Quirk lets her control her own gravity, allowing her and her bike to run along walls and ceilings.
- The Heavy: She's All For One's liaison to Mysterio and most frequent agent in the early parts of the story. Her actions drive the events that lead to Izuku's empowerment and her highly dangerous and destructive equipment gets the police to start looking into Mysterio.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: The Prowler is decked out in a purple leather top with a matching purple vest and a purple mask to conceal her identity.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: Inverted. She utilizes a shinai while most of the Pro Heroes she fights don't.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Shigaraki's conversations with All For One imply that she just wants to settle down and live a normal life, but she was called back into service by her boss to work for Mysterio.
- Implacable Woman: She's so determined to get her mark that it takes the likes of All Might to get her to think twice about chasing after Peter. Being kicked through a wall, weaving through oncoming traffic, and getting punched down the street do little to stop her prior to this.
- Japanese Delinquents: Prowler’s costume, which includes a long coat with kanji on the back and semi-baggy pants, makes Izuku note she looks like a Villain version of a Sukeban delinquent. Prowler also has a tendency to use rude language and curse on top of using a metal shinai akin to the bats and other Improvised Weapons used by delinquents.
- Kick Chick: While she has a mean hook, she seems to prefer kicks when she isn't using claws, dropkicking Peter down the street and stomping on him with her boots.
- Kick Them While They're Down: She happily stomps on Peter's face while he's groaning and on the floor from his back, shoulder, and foot injuries.
- Last-Second Word Swap: She's tempted to call Mysterio... colorful things, but switches what she had in mind out for the neutral "man" since All For One could be listening.
- Leave No Witnesses: Her M.O., leading to Izuku's confusion when she clearly knew he was there but didn't decide to kill him.
- Leitmotif: The Prowler is given Overhaul's theme
for her introduction, emphasizing just how intimidating she is to Izuku as well as her Japanese Delinquent aesthetic. - Locked Out of the Loop: It's later revealed that the terms of her contract with All For One state that she's left out of the "big picture" to keep people from drawing connections between them. It comes back to bite her when she learns that she's uploaded the Living Brain into U.A. and doesn't know All For One's plans for it and how it could affect her son.
- Neck Lift: She picks up Izuku by the scruff of his collar when he gets in the way of her fight with Peter.
- Oh, Crap!: Has this reaction when All Might reveals that he swiped the detonation switch she was using to hold Mount Lady hostage and threw it into another prefecture, as it's the only thing keeping him from kicking her ass.
- Power Glows: She and whatever her gravity Quirk is affecting glows purple. Her claws glow green when activated.
- Purple Is Powerful: The Prowler is decked out in purple and is a world-class thief skilled enough to evade even All Might under certain conditions. She goes toe-to-toe with Peter after ambushing him at the abandoned building he's living in. When they take the fight to the streets, she takes Mount Lady hostage while she whaled on Peter. By the end, only All Might can save everyone from this predicament.
- Retired Badass: She apparently was this, retiring to a normal life with All For One's permission. She's called back into service by the events of the story with the implication that she's not happy about it.
- Rocket Boots: The Prowler uses these to great effect against Peter, accelerating herself to slam him into the ground, performing mid-air acrobatics, and generally outmaneuvering Peter on most occasions.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: The Prowler's purple costume with green flame designs contrasts Peter's Primary-Color Champion.
- Shock and Awe: The Prowler's shinai can produce electricity, paralyzing those struck by it.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: She cusses up a storm while arguing with her client over the missing spider. When she's fighting Peter, he assumes that she's spitting a flurry of Japanese curses at him given the tone of her voice. This is a major hint to her civilian identity, as only she and her son Katsuki swear that much in the story.
- Strong and Skilled: She's strong and fast enough to be Peter's equal or superior in a fight, and she mentions that she's repeatedly kicked Shigaraki's ass while training him in hand-to-hand combat. Even as the gap in their abilities begins to close from her inactivity and his own training, he admits that she's still far more experienced than him.
- Super-Strength: She's strong enough to stagger the superhumanly strong and tough Peter with her blows and breaks his nose with a dropkick. She can also easily pick up Izuku, who recently gained a significant amount of muscle from the spider bite, by the scruff of his collar without a problem.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: She makes it clear to Mysterio that she doesn't like him and that she's only helping him because All For One told her to. She's constantly flippant towards him and refuses to reveal any information about herself to him.Prowler: [about Mysterio] Fucking hate that guy.
- Thrill Seeker: She seems to be an adrenaline junkie, swan diving out of an open window to get into her bike while spreading her arms wide as if to savor the feeling off falling through the air. She also pulls off an intentionally dangerous stunt that nearly sandwiches her between her bike and a brick wall while chasing Peter through Musutafu. It's further emphasized by her outfit, which is decorated with green fire with giant kanji on the back of her jacket that read "danger" and "risk".
- Trapped in Villainy: There's numerous indications throughout the story that the Prowler wants to give up the life of a thief, but she's being strong-armed by All For One into working for him. To be precise, All For One is blackmailing Mitsuki with the fact that he could expose her identity at any time, destroying her reputation and her family's.
- Wall Run: The Prowler is able to run straight up a wall as if gravity didn't affect her. She can also apply this power to her motorcycle, allowing her to ride along walls.
- Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: Prowler got most of her new equipment from Mysterio, which explains why it's so much more advanced than anything available to the Japanese government.
- Wolverine Claws: The Prowler's gloves elongate into these, easily slicing through an unfinished wall as if it were made of paper. They glow green when activated.
- Wooden Katanas Are Even Better: Played with. The Prowler doesn't leave witnesses and carries a collapsible metal shinai, which are traditionally made of bamboo, as one of her primary armaments, implying that she's able to bludgeon people to death with it. It's later revealed that it can also emit electricity to shock others and paralyze them.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child:
- Despite Izuku stumbling onto her and getting in her way when she is close to killing Peter, the Prowler is hesitant to physically attack Izuku. Instead, she tells him to mind his own business and threatens Izuku to back off. When they meet again, she chooses to fire a netgun at him rather than shoot him. Then it's subverted when she lifts Izuku into the air by the collar with her Wolverine Claws ready until Peter webs her in the face. Mysterio presses her on her hesitation, but she refuses to explain herself.
- She's livid when she realizes that she installed a killer A.I. into U.A.'s computer systems and sticks around until the alarms stop blaring out of fear for the children.
Tomura Shigaraki
Tomura Shigaraki
Quirk: Decay
Debut: Issue #13: Echoes of Silence
All For One’s student and technical 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, but the arrival of Mysterio leaves him wondering whether he’s really running things anymore. His Quirk, "Decay", allows him to destroy anything he touches provided all five of his fingers are in contact with the object.
- Ax-Crazy: He’s very eager to kill All Might and other Heroes, which is why he’s such a fan of musou games since he likes to imagine he’s slaughtering legions of Heroes.
- Bad Powers, Bad People: Disintegration by touch? Definitely a villain.
- Big Bad Wannabe: He has no real agenda for the League of Villains and Mysterio outright mocks him for his half-baked plan of invading U.A.
- Body Motifs: Hands. His Quirk only works if he has all five fingers on one object and his costume covers him in disembodied hands.
- Civvie Spandex: Compared to All For One and Kurogiri, who both utilize Badass in a Nice Suit, Shigaraki prefers to simply wear a long-sleeved t-shirt, sweatpants, and his disembodied hands.
- The Dog Bites Back: He tries to kill Mysterio for his insults at their first meeting, but is stopped by Kurogiri. He tries a second time, but he only ends up attacking one of Mysterio’s illusions.
- The Dragon: To All For One.
- Genius Bruiser: Despite looking completely insane and his Psychopathic Manchild demeanor, Tomura can be clever when he actually puts his mind to it. He comes up with a plan to have Kangaroo and Frog-Man killed on the fly once Kurogiri leaves and has it fashioned in a way where he can have reasonable plausible deniability by saying the two were caught up in Nomu's rampage.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He's not happy about having to work with Mysterio and is itching for an excuse to have Kangaroo and Frog-Man killed in the USJ. He looks for any opportunity where he can get one over Mysterio out of sheer spite, targeting Izuku specifically so he can rub in how he killed a Spider-Man in Mysterio's face.
- Touch of Death: His Quirk allows him to disintegrate anything he gets all five of his fingers on, reducing a robot the size of a human body to dust in a few seconds.
- Underestimating Badassery: He underestimates just how strong and fast Izuku is when he tries to ambush him from behind. As a result, Shigaraki fails to grapple him the way Prowler taught him to and gets a broken arm for his trouble.
Nomu
Nomu
Quirk: Shock Absorption, Super Regeneration
Debut: Issue #16: The Coming of the League of Villains!
A hulking, artificial being created to take down All Might. He has "Super Regeneration" and "Shock Absorption" Quirks on top of its monstrous size, strength and speed.
- An Arm and a Leg: He loses limbs multiple times during his fight with Izuku, Bakugou, and Todoroki. It doesn't last long.
- Body Horror: His brain is exposed, his beak-like mouth permanently has teeth showing, and the heroes gape in horror as they watch his bones and muscles grow back after they were frozen off by Todoroki. Then his arm is horribly mutilated when Izuku is forced to phase through it to avoid getting reduced to chunks, putting Nomu's fingers near his elbow and fusing the lower arm and forearm into a stump.
- The Brute: The Nomu only has barely enough self-awareness to notice his own injuries and the people around him. Otherwise he just overwhelms his foes with sheer brute force and his inability to stay down.
- Covered in Scars: He has numerous scars despite his Super Regeneration, likely the result of the human experimentation used to create him.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: He dishes one out to Aizawa and Midnight, breaking their bones with a single punch and completely incapacitating them in a few seconds. The Nomu is on the receiving end of one after All Might arrives, as Nomu's Quirks were already stressed to the limit after taking constant bouts of damage from Todoroki, Bakugou, Present Mic, and Snipe.
- Dumb Muscle: He's essentially braindead when he's not being given orders. In exchange, he has the strength, speed, and durability to trade blows with All Might. Unfortunately for Nomu, he's so weakened by being forced to constantly regenerate that All Might defeats him in two punches.
- Expy: His strength, speed, durability, and Healing Factor remind everyone of the Hulk, and the Nomu is even referred to as the "Living Hulk" by the press. His seemingly unstoppable nature also brought The Juggernaut to mind.
- Evil Is Bigger: He's enormous. Izuku only comes up to Nomu's waist, Nomu's arms alone are as long and thick as Izuku's entire body, and he's three times as wide as the young Hero.
- Good Thing You Can Heal: Because of his Healing Factor, Todoroki and Bakugou resort to lethal force to have any chance of keeping Nomu back, freezing off limbs, scorching his face and eyes, and impaling him on ice spears. These only barely manage to slow him down.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: While Shigaraki refers to Nomu as "him", the heroes call the Nomu "It" to emphasize just how monstrous and dangerous he is to them.
- Lightning Bruiser: Once it begins to recover from being frozen and blasted by Todoroki and Bakugou, its speed is enough to move faster than even Izuku can react on top of being strong enough to reduce any of them to chunks with a single punch. Its Quirks also ensure that it can No-Sell nearly anything the heroes throw at him. Izuku's punches fail to even tickle him and all the Spider-Man can do is distract him by using his bulk against him.
- No-Sell: His "Shock Absorption" Quirk makes him more or less immune to blunt impacts so long as its doesn't breach a certain threshold. Because of this, Bakugou and Todoroki were able to repeatedly damage the Nomu with their heat and cold-producing Quirks, but Izuku wasn't able to even tickle it even while going all out, only managing to stall him by keeping his attention and grappling him. Even then, its Healing Factor ensured that it wouldn't stay down for long.
- Not So Invincible After All: After shrugging off all of the heroes' attempts to stop him, Nomu is ultimately worn down after getting his arm mutilated by Izuku's Quirk, getting blasted and frozen repeatedly, and being forced to dig his way out of concrete courtesy of Cementoss. As a result, All Might ends up defeating Nomu in two blows after his Healing Factor fails to keep up with all of this additional damage.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: Compared to the Mooks that Aizawa and Midnight easily handle on their own, Nomu is the real threat of USJ. He incapacitates both heroes in seconds with his raw strength and speed and comes within a hairs-breadth of killing Izuku, Bakugou, and Todoroki on several occasions. The boys only made it out unscathed due to teamwork and a willingness to resort to lethal force.
- Worf Had the Flu: Todoroki and Bakugou freezing and scorching Nomu at the beginning stunned and weakened him enough to bring Nomu's speed down to a relatively manageable level. This is the reason why Nomu didn't simply Speed Blitz all of them until it had finished healing off enough of the damage.
