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Quentin Beck - Mysterio
Quentin Beck - Mysterio
Quirk: Quirkless
Debut: Issue #2: Along Came a Spider-Man
Click here to see his robot avatar
A former special effects artist whose revolutionary but expensive work went unappreciated after the development of CGI. Rather than adapt to the times, he turned to petty crime to get the money he felt he deserved. He has since become one of Peter's most recurring foes, battling and getting defeated time and time again. Tired of being the punchline, Mysterio upped his game, using AIM technology to open a portal to another world where superpowers are an everyday aspect of life. He then began to traffic Quirk users, mutants, weapons, and drugs between his universe and Izuku's to prove himself worthy of being feared.
- Actually a Doombot: His public persona is a robot avatar designed to be as intimidating as possible while reinventing himself in Izuku's world. While battling Sir Nighteye, Mysterio sends dozens of these at him rather than reveal himself until the end, where it's revealed that these robot avatars are designed to disguise the fact that he's old and dying of cancer.
- Arms Dealer: Mysterio has been providing advanced technology to the criminals and Villains of Izuku’s world. He also deals exclusively with All For One and provided Prowler with her gear. Much of this gear is based on supervillains from his home universe, producing equivalents of Stilt-Man
, the Grasshopper, and an entire gang of Rocket Racers. - Attention Whore: Mysterio's crimes began as petty theft. He sank lower and lower as he became more and more obsessed with fame and defeating Spider-Man. Eventually, he became tired of being the punchline and turned to much darker and sinister crimes to get the attention and respect he craved.Mysterio: [to Spider-Man] You can't do this to me! Not when I've come so far!
Peter: Yeah, and at what cost Quentin? [glanced at the portal] Selling lives and drugs? Were you really that desperate to be a big shot?
Mysterio: [gritting his teeth] Better than being a joke… better than being your punchline. Over there I'm something more. I've got respect… hell, soon I'll be bigger than any movie star! - Berserk Button: Spider-Man. Always being the butt of his jokes has left Quinten obsessed with being the one to finally end the webswinger once and for all. Anything dealing with Spider-Man will set him off, something Shigaraki exploits by telling him one of the U.A. students has taken up the mantle as a new Spider-Man.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: Mysterio is the more active villain with All For One directing from the shadows, but the two work are working together and appear to have a healthy working relationship. Except, All For One doesn't see Mysterio as an equal at all, but a pawn to aid in Shigaraki's ascension and nothing more.
- Big Damn Heroes: Inverted. He arrives to bail Prowler out after she's cornered by All Might and the other Pro Heroes.
- Bond Villain Stupidity: He realized a while ago that he could just leave Peter in Izuku's universe to rot without giving him a chance to return home. But Mysterio is too obsessed with reinventing himself and the terror he's able to produce to simply leave Izuku's universe for good.
- Brains Evil, Brawn Good: He fashions himself as All Might's foil: a Villain who dominates through his use of trickery and illusions versus All Might's raw power and brute force. He also has this relationship with Peter, being a non-powered old man versus Peter's superhuman abilities, albeit the gap has narrowed thanks to Mysterio's robot avatar.
- Clothes Make the Superman: He specializes in dealing out entire wardrobes of superpowered equipment that imitate the tech used by supervillains from his universe.
- Create Your Own Hero: Prowler's dialogue implied that Mysterio was trying to recreate the spider that bit Peter and gave him powers. If not for this little science project, Izuku may not have ever become Spider-Man.
- Entitled Bastard: Mysterio was once a special effects artist but was fired during the rise of CGI because his effects were just too expensive. Rather than adapt to the times or look for cheaper ways to do his specialty, Mysterio became a supervillain just to get the money he "deserved".
- Even Evil Has Standards: Even he thinks the Sins Past ploy was absurd and his role on it was for money. Once Harry died, he took the money and left without doing his part.
- Evil Genius: A former special effects artist who can build androids that help to sell his illusions and who can create serums for any occasion.
- Evil Is Hammy: Mysterio's talent for grandiose speeches hasn't faded.Mysterio: I am tired of this. Tired of this narrative, tired of Heroes beating Villains through brawn alone and basking in the praise of the sheep-like masses. [smoke gathers into a tall, lean figure] It is time for a new Villain to rise! A Villain who is the master of the mind and the senses! The perfect foil to the likes of your so-called 'Symbol of Peace'! [smoke compresses, tightens and shoots out to reveal him] Behold, All Might! Heroes of Japan! BEHOLD MYSTERIO! THE MASTER OF ILLUSION!
- Evil Is Petty: He orders his enforcers to find all information on Izuku's family, friends and potential crushes to murder them... just because Izuku claimed to be Spider-Man.
- Evil Old Folks: One of Peter Parker’s oldest foes, Mysterio is still a dangerous villain even in his later years. Old age along with his terminal cancer has made him even more desperate to get revenge on his old foe.
- Faux Affably Evil: To Clash and Boomerang, he plays the role of their savior, someone who will acknowledge their talents and worth in exchange for their loyalty. But aside comments from his perspective indicate that he sees them as expendable tools at best.
- Flaming Skulls: Played with. His robot avatar's head seems to be on fire, but it still shows his facial expressions. Cue Peter lampshading how he's ripping off Ghost Rider.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Mysterio began as frustrated special effects artist who turned to petty theft to get the money he "deserved" and used his illusions to cover his getaways. As he grew older, he became obsessed with becoming more than Spider-Man's punchline. When he used AIM technology to open a portal to another universe, he began trafficking Quirk users and mutants between worlds for experimentation and vivisection, dealing drugs and weapons, and working with people like All For One and Mister Sinister.
- Kick the Dog: Mysterio toys with Nighteye after his Enforcers kill his entire team by using an illusion to make him believe All Might has come to save him and the survivors and then stabs him using All Might's appearance.
- Man Behind the Man: He's the one giving orders to Prowler, albeit because All For One lent her to him.
- Master of Illusion:
- Mysterio is this and has it for a title, but his "illusions" are based around his revolutionary albeit expensive special effect skills. He shows off his know-how by terrorizing the streets with robotic replicas of Spider-Man's greatest foes, including Kraven, Venom, and Doctor Octopus. He even manages to fool Sir Nighteye's Foresight by conjuring a "cell" Rei would be trapped in to convince him that his raid on one of Mysterio's warehouses went without a hitch.
- He also stops Tamaki from interfering with his operations by making him see the police officers as Villains, provoking him into attacking them.
- Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: In Peter's world, Quentin Beck is an aging, bitter man who routinely gets his butt handed to him by the web head, but in Izuku's world, his technology gives him an edge over the Heroes and he has the added benefit of experience from decades of battling Spider-Man. His robot avatar also allows him to carve a fearsome new reputation and personally take part in battles without risking himself.
- Only in It for the Money: According to the side-story Sins Maybe?, he only tried to participate in the equivalent of Sins Past storyline due to the money Harry was paying. Once Harry died and Stromm confirmed Norman won't come back, he took the money and left without doing the job.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Mysterio never used guns before because it went against his aesthetic, but when Peter captures him he pulls out a revolver to try and shoot Peter. It's only because Peter is shocked that he gets a few words out before Peter makes Mysterio miss. This highlights how low Mysterio has sunk and how desperate he is to retain his new fame within both worlds. Mysterio himself notes that he would have never used the coarse language he addressed Prowler with back in his home universe.
- Outside-Context Problem: He's this for the Heroes of Izuku's universe, appearing out of thin air to distribute highly-advanced weaponry beyond anything the Heroes have and threatening to kill the likes of All Might.
- Punctuated Pounding: He dishes this out to Sir Nighteye for declaring that he'll be beaten by a Spider-Man.Mysterio: HE'LL NEVER BEAT ME AGAIN! DO YOU HEAR ME!? NEVER! MYSTERIO WILL BE VICTORIOUS! I AM NOT. GOING. TO BE BEATEN. AGAIN!
- Pyrrhic Victory: Implied. Mysterio completely decimates Nighteye's raid on his trafficking base, but Nighteye gets the last laugh by revealing to Mysterio he saw him being defeated by a Spider-Man who ISN'T Peter Parker. Mysterio is so rattled by this reveal that he's consumed by paranoia and anger after learning that a student at UA is actively taking up Spider-Man's mantle.
- Sadist: It's blatantly clear that he enjoys inflicting pain on those he considers beneath him, particularly Peter and Heroes like Sir Nighteye who are adamantly opposed to him.
- Sanity Slippage: Years of constant defeats turned the already self-centered Mysterio into an individual obsessed with being seen as something more than the guy who Spider-Man beats, resulting in him committing much darker crimes on both worlds.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The moment he learned of Harry's death and that Norman wouldn't come back from the dead, he just took the money and left wanting nothing to do with the "Sins Past" ploy.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: Mysterio's original costume is a green bodysuit along with a purple cape and yellow accessories.
- Secretly Dying: Mysterio is desperate to defeat Peter not only because of old age, but he's come down with a malignant form of cancer that has spread throughout his body.
- Shock and Awe: His robot avatar shoots bolts of lightning at Izuku and Peter, but All Might uses his own body as a shield to protect them. Against someone like Sir Nighteye, the bolts are hot enough to evaporate the blood in his body at full power.
- Significant Wardrobe Shift: His robot avatar wears a dark purple skintight, long-sleeved shirt, dark green gloves, and black leather pants. He also wears a dark purple belt with a golden eye as the buckle. This change in costume from his previous, sillier design is meant to emphasize just how much more of a threat he is in Izuku's world when compared to Peter's.
- Super-Strength: His robot avatar is strong enough to easily wrestle with and toss Peter to the ground.
- The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: He's obsessed with being responsible for killing Spider-Man directly or indirectly, which leads him to terrorize Izuku's world when he could just leave Peter in it to rot. His rant to Prowler consists of him demanding that they "squash the bug" and chastising her for being unable to accomplish such a "simple task".
- Third-Person Person: He often refers to himself as "Mysterio" rather than using "I" or "me."
- Took a Level in Badass: Quentin went from a regular (if relatively minor) Spider-Man villain who only had his (fairly impressive) illusions to a much more dangerous and sinister Villain in Izuku's world with Super-Strength, the ability to shoot out lightning, and mixing his illusions with robotics to make them more deadly.
- Translator Microbes: His robot avatar is equipped with a sound modulation device that translates his voice into Japanese. The result is noticeably scratchy and clearly artificial. His dialogue is bolded and italicized in the text to reflect this.
- Unwitting Pawn: Unbeknownst to him, All For One doesn't see him as an equal at all, and just wants to use him to aid in Shigaraki's ascension.
- Villainous Breakdown: He flies into a berserk rage when Sir Nighteye tells him that he'll be beaten by a Spider-Man, and not even Peter Parker. The narration goes so far as to describe him as more beast than man while giving Nighteye a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
- Villainous Friendship: He seems to have a mutual camaraderie with All For One, who refers to him as a friend. If not for this friendship, Mysterio would have tried to humiliate and beat down Prowler for talking back to him. The friendship is ultimately one-sided, however. All For One doesn't view Mysterio as an equal, but as a pawn to be used for Shigaraki's ascension.
- We Will Meet Again: He declares his debut to be a mere "test run" and that All Might would die at his hands soon enough.All Might: You are the master of nothing, Mysterio, save for cowardice! No different than any other Villain!
Mysterio: Oh, you shall see Symbol of Peace. Consider this a test run. After all... I had to see if his stories were true. - Wham Line: He reveals that he knows Peter's identity just before he leaves the scene.Mysterio: I told you before, bug… Here, I am something else. I am going to make sure you die here. You will never see your home again, and you will die knowing that I was the one to finally beat you. Not Osborn, not Octavius, not Kraven, not Fisk or even Li. It's just going to be me… Parker.
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Justified, as Peter's Spider-Sense would let him dodge most bullets anyways. He is surprised when Mysterio pulls a gun on him, as it went against his aesthetic.
- Wicked Cultured: He's a movie and film buff due to his interest in special effects, to the point that the password for his computer is "JC'STheThing".
- You Have Failed Me: He wants to do this to Prowler for talking back to him, but he refrains from doing so to preserve his working relationship with All For One.
- Your Days Are Numbered: Recites this word-for-word to threaten All Might.Mysterio: Beware All Might, for your days are numbered! So says… MYSTERIO!
The Enforcers
In General
The Enforcers
Mysterio's personal hit squad. He sends them out to deal with anyone foolish enough to not pay their cut of the profits from using his Power Broker app. But they have their sights set on a bigger prize: destroying Hero society.
- Clothes Make the Superman: Downplayed. Their equipment greatly enhances their lethality to the point of being hired as Mysterio's personal hitmen, but they all have Quirks of their own. The sole exception is Clash, who is Quirkless and thus plays this trope completely straight.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble:
- Vulture is Sanguine. He's the most energetic, straightforward, and extroverted person of the group. Aside from his occasional insensitivity, he treats the team as a close-knit family despite their differences.
- Clash is Choleric. She's task-oriented, introverted, honest, but self-righteous. She also tends to see the worst in those she regards her enemies and stubborn to a fault.
- Boomerang is Melancholic. He's withdrawn and quiet until his buttons are pushed. He's also unhealthily loyal to the Enforcers.
- Shocker is Phlegmatic. Unemotional outside of the highs he gets from killings, he's the most obviously mature of the group and keeps the others in line.
- Hero Killer: They cement themselves as this in "The Enforcers!" They battle Sir Night Eye's time and slaughter them almost to the last. Vulture guts Rock Lock, Clash liquefies Snatch and murders a wounded Fat Gum, and Shocker brutally crushes Centipeder's head with his bare hands.
- Kick the Dog: During his battle with Sir Nighteye, after his enforcers kill both Snatch and Fat Gum, Mysterio takes it up a notch with his illusions against the grieving and desperate Hero. The worst is when he creates an illusion of All Might showing up out of nowhere to save the day, only for Mysterio to take his place and stab Nighteye in the guise of his estranged mentor.
- Knight of Cerebus: They collectively serve as this to the plot thanks to their role as Hero Killers. Their fight against Sir Night Eye's task force is one of the darkest moments in the series, resulting in most of the heroes being horribly murdered. Only Bubble Girl and Tamaki survive, but are traumatized by the incident, with the former taking medical leave to attend therapy and the latter's future as a hero being put into doubt after Mysterio's illusions cause him to attack the police force accompanying the heroes.
- Legacy Character: They're unofficial adopters of the names and costumes of the supervillains they're imitating.
- Original Character: All of them were created for the express purposes of this fic.
- Professional Killer: The Enforcers are dispatched to dispose of anyone who fails to give Mysterio a cut of the profits they make from his equipment. They get a sizable cut of the profits from every kill.
- Superior Successor: Their ability to use their Quirks in tandem with their equipment makes them even more deadly than the originals. Even Clash, the only Quirkless member of the group, tears up Snatch and Fat Gum while her predecessor Clayton Cole can barely hold off against Spider-Man.
- Villainous Friendship: While they may quarrel, the Enforcers share strong camaraderie and consider each other family. Clash and Vulture, especially, treat Boomerang like a younger brother.
Koha Fujimoto - Clash
Koha Fujimoto - Clash
Quirk: Quirkless
Debut: Issue #8: Super Hero School
Click here to see her unmasked
The young leader of the Enforcers. She answers directly to Mysterio and utilizes the sound-based weaponry of Clayton Cole to strike down her foes. Although caring and almost sisterly to Boomerang, she's prone to childish outbursts, particularly when her bust size is brought up.
- A-Cup Angst: She's self-conscious about her bust size to point of attacking Vulture with a Groin Attack when he brings it up.
- All for Nothing: She doesn't realize it yet, but Mysterio has no intention of letting her into his world. Even if she managed it, she'd be arrested quickly by SHIELD for having no identity, and no place to call home. All her kills and hopes fed by as what Mysterio calls it, 'bullcrap'.
- Arm Cannon: Built in her costume's palms are sound cannons powerful enough to blow back tough heroes like Fat Gum.
- Bag of Holding: Her belt contains numerous compartments that keep things as large as entire first aid kits in miniaturized form.
- Berserk Button: Vulture is on the receiving end of a Groin Attack from her when he brings up her "nonexistent tits". She's embarrassed by this, as she thought she put such petty insults behind her.
- Big Sister Instinct: She frets over her Boomerang and constantly tries to bring his self-esteem up. She also rushes to patch him up with a first aid kit after she learns he's been hiding his injuries. After he's beaten unconscious by Bubble Girl, Clash appears on the scene almost immediately and incapacitates all of the Heroes present with a powerful blast of sound. She then gently picks up Rei and flies him to safety before turning back to fight the Heroes.
- Broken Pedestal: She once looked up to Endeavor as an idol, but his cruel dismissal of her and rejection of the very idea she could become a Hero during an emotional low point caused her to reject and hate him as well as other Heroes.
- Brown Note: Her sonic weaponry allows her to unleash painful sound waves that can make people bleed from their eyes, ears, and nose before killing them.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Her mother left Clash behind after learning she was Quirkless. She was subsequently bullied and constantly told to give up on her dream of becoming a Hero. After her father was murdered, she looked to her idol, Endeavor, for any kind of acknowledgement and encouragement, only to get flatly turned down. Clash then decided that if this world wanted to trample her so badly, she's tear it down with the help of Mysterio.
- Down the Rabbit Hole: It's implied that she wants to escape to Peter's universe, but not before shattering the status quo with the Enforcers first.
- The Dragon: As the leader of the Enforcers, Clash is this to Mysterio by default.
- Expy: Her personality and appearance were styled after Maka Albarn, as well as her sisterly relationship with a dangerously unstable but sympathetic young boy.
- Fiery Redhead: Downplayed. She's usually level-headed and is almost sisterly to Boomerang, but piss her off and she reacts violently. According to the author, her hair color was explicitly chosen to contrast her against Izuku.
- Foil: She's being built up as one for Izuku, particularly she was born Quirkless just like him, but without any of the familial or moral support he did. Plus, her idol, #2 Endeavor, dismissed and brushed her off when she clamored for his approval, while Izuku got All Might's clear thanks and approval. She's what Izuku could have been without a support system. See Shadow Archetype for more.
- Groin Attack: Gives one to Vulture for bringing up her bust size.
- Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: She wears a helmet and is a Professional Killer.
- Idol Singer: Her costume is styled after one and her sound blasts are modified versions of song music.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Deconstructed. Says she's just following orders and wishes to destroy the status-quo of the world as they rejected her. Even if it means killing. However it's clear she has hesitation in doing the deed and even when she does she does anything to distract herself from what she's done or simply trying to justify her deeds.
- Ironic Name: Her most powerful attack, MK Ultra, is named after a song by Muse that references the U.S. government's secret project to control and torture people through mind-altering drugs. But rather than a subtle, hypnotic sound wave, MK Ultra traps whoever is unfortunate enough to be caught between her ground-anchored speakers and utterly pulverizes them into a bloody paste.
- Irony: She's the Enforcer with the most apparent scruples and misgivings about what the group is doing. This makes it even more surprising when she racks up two of the most significant kills for the group in Snatch and Fatgum.
- Just Following Orders: She seems troubled by her murders, but justifies it to herself by saying that her victims just should have paid up like they were supposed to.
- The Leader: Of the Enforcers.
- Make Some Noise: Clash is supplied with the equipment of the original Clash by Mysterio. She uses it to perform hits on those who fail to pay Mysterio back for using his equipment, silencing the area to prevent outside interference before making her foes bleed from their eyes, ears, and nose with painful sound waves.
- One-Way Visor: Her face is concealed by her Daft Punk-like helmet.
- Perception Filter: One of her equipment's other uses is generating a zone of silence in a certain area that completely prevents sounds from escaping outside, allowing the Enforcers to work discreetly.
- Revenge: For some reason, she wants to lash out at the world for "rejecting" her. It turns out, she resents the world for sidelining her no matter what she did because she's Quirkless.
- Shadow Archetype:
- She's one for Izuku. They're both Quirkless people mocked for their dreams of becoming heroes without a Quirk. But while Izuku mostly dreamed while knowing it as an impossibility, Clash is a mechanical genius who had both the smarts to construct a suit of Powered Armor and the athleticism to keep up with the best of them. But while Izuku's life turned around after getting powers through a stroke of luck, Clash lashed out at the world after being told to give up no matter how much effort she put in.
- She’s also one to Bakugou. Both of them admire a Hero for his strength and winning all that they face. But while Bakugou admired All Might for being the Number One, Clash admired Endeavor for his constant struggle to reach the top and not being bothered with what other people said about him. While Bakugou is The Ace with an incredibly powerful Quirk, Clash is Quirkless with skills born from her natural intelligence and athleticism. While both wanted to be Heroes, Bakugou was able to easily get into U.A’s Hero Course with his Quirk to make his dreams a reality while Clash was barred from even trying due to her Quirklessness in spite of being a Teen Genius.
- Shout-Out: Her physique, pigtails, and personality were all inspired by Maka Albarn while her blazing red hair and golden eyes are derived from Yoko.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Her murder of Snatch involved pulverizing him with powerful soundwaves that snapped his limbs and squashed his eyes like grapes. Even she is horrified at what it actually does to a person and has to fight the urge to hurl afterward.
- Teen Genius: While it's Mysterio who gave her access to the original Clash's weapon-grade tech, it's heavily implied that she customized and improved upon its design to grant it functions the original never had, like creating barriers that trap sound to prevent it from reaching outside. There's also the implication that she provided similar upgrades to the rest of the Enforcers.
- The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female member of the Enforcers and their leader.
- Token Good Teammate: Despite her role as the leader of an elite hit squad, it's blatantly clear that she's the most moral and sane of the Enforcers, having second thoughts about killing people compared to her ambivalent teammates.
- Warrior Therapist: Due to her being the most approachable and stable member of the team and her role with Boomerang, she is deemed as the "therapist" for both the League of Villains and Mysterio's Faction, which annoys her.
Rei Narukami - Boomerang
Rei Narukami - Boomerang
Quirk: Teleport
Debut: Issue #8: Super Hero School
A timid member of the Enforcers who utilizes the boomerangs once thrown by Frederick Myers. His loyalty to the Enforcers is second-to-none, but he constantly doubts himself and his value to the team. His Quirk, "Teleport", lets him transport himself and anything on his person anywhere in his line of sight so long as he doesn't exceed his 50 kg weight limit.
- Abusive Parents: Rei's father Gendou blames him for the complications that led to Rei's mother's death. As a result, Gendou ground into Rei that he brings misery to everyone around him and that he should stay out of everyone's way, regardless if they're actually friendly to him or not.
- Battle Boomerang: As the newest incarnation of Boomerang, he throws a variety of these.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: He's endlessly loyal to Mysterio and Clash for denouncing his father's treatment of him and offering him kindness and a purpose.
- Berserk Button: Implying that Mysterio and Clash are anything but his saviors sends him in a murderous rage. He goes from being subdued relatively easily to coming within a hairsbreadth of murdering Rock Lock in cold blood.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: He's timid and rarely speaks his mind, but according to Vulture, he went apeshit when someone insulted Clash and brutally murdered the one who did it. There's also the fact that he's a hitman for Mysterio trained to take down those with powerful equipment from Peter's universe.
- Cat Boy: He inherited catlike ears atop his head from his deceased mother.
- Dem Bones: His costume invokes this motif, with boomerangs arranged like ribs running down his jacket.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: His eyes are noted to always be dull and lifeless because of his pessimism.
- The Dog Bites Back: After Nighteye's team is wiped out, Rei later murders his father in his apartment with a hammer.
- Expy: The author describes him as one to Crona, given their similar personalities, admiration for a strong-willed girl, and extremely unstable mental health.
- Extreme Doormat: He's terrified of being The Load and does his best not to be troublesome to the rest of the Enforcers, doing whatever Clash tells him to and not bringing up the gash running down his arm until Vulture spots it. This was later revealed to be a result of his father's abuse.
- Fragile Speedster: His Teleport Spam and arsenal of boomerangs makes him a deadly assassin when threatened, but his small frame and build lets Bubble Girl take him to pound town with a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown once she gets her hands on him. It doesn't help that his past trauma makes him freeze up when he's struck, allowing his assailants to whale on him.
- Freudian Excuse: Rei been terribly abused by his father ever since he could walk and talk and treated as though he's a Doom Magnet who brings nothing but misery. His father's treatment has also conditioned Rei to not seek out help or friends until Clash brings him to Mysterio, who offers him a purpose and a new goal in life.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Despite his troubled past, Sir Nighteye explicitly says that it was Rei's choice to become a Villain and thus should be treated like any other. But Rock Lock, a prospective father, doesn't agree and tries to reason with Rei before he goes berserk.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: His costume decks him out in biker gear, concealing his face behind a helmet while covering from head to toe in dark leather.
- Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: His head is concealed by his motorcycle helmet and he's a Professional Killer.
- It's Personal: He takes any slight against Clash or Mysterio personally and flies into a berserk rage when someone tries to tell him Mysterio is manipulating him. But while this makes him ferocious and dangerous, he also gets sloppy, as he's so Blinded by Rage that he decides to plunge a razorang through Rock Lock's face with his own two hands rather than simply throwing it at the Hero's heart. As a result, Rock Lock is able to throw up a piece of wood to shield himself from the blow and lock it down to deprive Rei of a weapon.
- Hyperspace Arsenal: The "ribs" on his costume are actually special storage units that can produce a wide variety of boomerangs for him to use while providing next to no bulk on Rei's form.
- Locked Out of the Loop: He's not let in on the plan to lure the Heroes to the warehouse he's guarding to keep Nighteye and co. in the dark about Mysterio's true intentions.
- Loose Lips: He has a bad habit of forgetting to use his teammates' Code Names, referring to Clash as "Koha-" before stopping himself and Vulture as "Cho-".
- Meaningful Name: His first name is homophonous to the Japanese word for "zero", reflecting his negative opinion of himself and how he had nothing prior to joining the Enforcers.
- One-Way Visor: His identity is hidden behind his motorcycle helmet.
- Precision-Guided Boomerang: His preferred weapons.
- Pretty Boy: Nighteye's profile on him describes him as a thin, pale-skinned boy who could be easily mistaken for a girl. His classmates side comments indicate that they find him good-looking, but he's too stuck in his own head to notice.
- Scarf of Asskicking: Has one as part of his costume.
- Self-Made Orphan: He kills his abusive father by caving his head in with a hammer.
- Shout-Out: His costume is one to Showa-era Toku heroes like Kamen Rider between his helmet, his pseudo-biker look, and Scarf of Asskicking. The catch here is that he's a Villain.
- Teleportation: His Quirk, "Teleport", lets him teleport himself and up to 50 kg on his person anywhere in his line of sight. This means he can't teleport most other people, but unlike other teleporters in the series, he can Teleport Spam in the middle of a fight to gain an advantage.
- Teleport Spam: His Quirk allows him to teleport himself and anything on his person anywhere in his line of sight. As a result, he's able to throw a boomerang, teleport behind his victim, and catch the boomerang to stab the target should the boomerang miss. It's also difficult to restrain him, as he can easily teleport out of a hold unless you beat him senseless first.
- Trick Arrow: He has multiple types of boomerangs with different purposes:
- Shatterangs explode with intense concussive force that can send people flying or bring down the roof of a building.
- Razorangs are razor sharp, making lethal throwing weapons as well as dangerous melee weapons.
- Binderangs explode to release sticky putty that can bind people to the floor.
- Undying Loyalty: He's the single most loyal member of the Enforcers and places more value in their lives than his own, to Clash's discomfort.
Vulture
Vulture
Quirk: Bushwacker
Debut: Issue #8: Super Hero School
A rowdy and crude member of the Enforcers who uses the flight suit of Adrian Toomes. A proud former gangbanger before joining the Enforcers, his loud, preening behavior tends to get on Clash's nerves. His Quirk, "Bushwacker", lets him turn his arm into an air gun that shoots marbles at speeds comparable to bullets. He can create pistols, rifles, and other firearms, but the power of the weapon is proportional to the amount of time he takes to suck in air.
- Arm Cannon: He can convert his arm into a working gun that shoots marbles as bullets. Because they run on his own lung capacity, the force of the bullets is proportional to how much time he spends sucking in air.
- Armed Legs: He armor comes with giant bladed talons on his feet that he uses to drag people into the air and eviscerate them.
- Big Brother Instinct: He, along with Clash, act like older siblings toward the young Boomerang and he's livid with Bubble Girl after she beats him unconscious.
- Blood Knight: He enjoys getting into a fight and jumps at the opportunity to get to kill a Pro Hero. Right after killing Rock Lock, the narration says he's eager to do it again.
- Blow You Away: Vulture's Arm Cannon works by sucking in air through his lungs, then expelling it through his arm to launch a projectile out. Depending on what style of "gun" he's mutated his arm into, it can take more air to fire a shot.
- The Brute: He shares this role with Shocker, but leans more toward the Dumb Muscle side.
- Composite Character: He's got the equipment and code-name of Adrian Toomes, but his quirk is similar to the powers of and named for the Daredevil villain Bushwacker.
- Death from Above: As standard for the Vulture. He kills a bribed police chief by dropping him from a height over a hundred feet.
- Dumb Muscle: This Vulture knows how to use his equipment well enough, but his gangbanger pride often causes him to make short-sighted decisions, which allowed Centipeder and Bubble Girl to give him trouble until Shocker intervened.
- Dynamic Entry: He introduces himself to the Heroes by smashing through a wall to impale Rock Lock on his talons.
- Flight: His Powered Armor grants this.
- Fragile Speedster: His flight suit makes him insanely fast and his Flight makes him nearly impossible to catch while in motion. However, it provides little armor and his own Quirk makes him more vulnerable to damage. As a result, Centipeder would have beaten the crap out of him once he got close if not for Shocker swooping in at the last second.
- Giver of Lame Names: According to the author, Vulture originally named his Quirk, "Shoot" because it turns his arm into a gun that shoots things.
- Hero Killer: He's the first among the Enforcers to kill a Pro Hero on screen by gutting Rock Lock with his talons.
- Honor Before Reason: He decides to battle Centipeder and Bubble Girl on foot to give them a fair fight. Both Heroes immediately point out the hypocrisy in this, as he killed Rock Lock by sneak attack. Vulture brushes off these accusations and continues as usual.
- It's Personal: He considers a slight against the Enforcers to be a slight against him. He develops a grudge against Bubble Girl for giving Boomerang a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
- Japanese Delinquent: Seems to embody this, going on and on about his old gang in Tokyo and telling Boomerang to be proud of the gash he received as a "badge of honor".
- Koreans in Japan: He has the South Korean flag stitched into the back of his costume and uses the occasional Korean term, implying that he's of Korean descent.
- Powered Armor: He wears a version of the original Vulture's flight suit that's visually similar to the MCU version, granting him flight and increased strength. Unfortunately, it seems to provide minimal protection, as Clash could easily Groin Attack him.
- Razor Wings: Vulture's wings are sharp enough to impale people on.
- Shapeshifter Baggage: Unlike many other shapeshifting Quirks, Bushwacker takes resources from Vulture's own body to make the cannon. This leaves the rest of him more fragile and vulnerable should someone manage to close the distance.
- Smug Super: He proudly declares that the skies belong to him after dumping the mutilated body of his latest victim on the ground.
- Villainous Virtues: He's loyal and friendly to his allies, treating Boomerang like a younger sibling and becoming fiercely protective of him after learning that Bubble Girl beat him unconscious. He also has a somewhat shaky sense of honor, invoking Honor Before Reason at times but is otherwise willing to be a Combat Pragmatist.
- Wearing a Flag on Your Head: He has a South Korean flag stitched into the jacket of his costume.
Shocker
Shocker
Quirk: Miracleshield
Debut: Issue #8: Super Hero School
The most physically imposing member of the Enforcers and its muscle. He uses the equipment of Herman Schultz. He's a professional who keeps the others on task and seems to be Clash's right-hand. His Quirk, "Miracleshield", produces a powerful force field wheenver he takes a certain amount of damage, as indicated by a meter floating above his heart.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Wears a suit over his insulating costume.
- Blood Knight: While he plays the role of a Consummate Professional, he takes perverse pleasure in watching the "flame" of his opponents burn before he gets to snuff it out, all while daring his foes to come at him with everything they have.
- Blow You Away: The Shocker gauntlets suck in air before vibrating it until it releases powerful blasts of concussive force.
- The Brute: Less ambiguous than Vulture in this regard. He's the biggest, most physically imposing member of the Enforcers.
- Cold Ham: His voice is low and subdued, but he goes on at length about how much he enjoys watching the "flame" of others and the pleasure he gets from killing them.
- Combat Sadomasochist: His Quirk, "Miracleshield", requires him to take heavy damage before he can activate a brief, but powerful Deflector Shield that can heavily damage foes with a Shield Bash and take a tank shell, but he doesn't seem to mind the pain.
- Consummate Professional: Played with. While he's the most outwardly professional of the Enforcers, keeping his teammates on task and reprimanding them when they get distracted, he's also revealed to he a sadistic Blood Knight who delights in murdering people, especially heroes.
- Deflector Shield: His Quirk allows him to project a shield that's strong enough to take a tank round at point-blank range, but he has to receive a lot of damage in order to activate it, and he can only do so every thirty minutes.
- Embarrassing but Empowering Outfit: The Shocker costume is said to look extremely stupid even among Villain costumes, but it's what gives him the insulation to handle his gauntlets on top of protecting him from attacks. He also covers most of it with a fine suit.
- Genius Bruiser: He does extensive research on his foes before fighting them and is especially interested in fighting Fatgum, as their Quirks are similar yet diametrically opposed.
- Large and in Charge: Downplayed. He defers to Clash even though he towers over her, but he seems to be her right-hand and ensures that everyone remains on task.
- Number Two: While they all ultimately defer to Mysterio, Shocker is the second-in-command of the Enforcers behind Clash.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: Downplayed, but he manages to speak in very even tones, even as he describes how eager he is to kill someone. It's heavily implied he's getting off as he crushes Centipeder's head.
- The Stoic: He's consistently even-toned and cold while keeping the others in-line, and even when he's pleasuring himself in causing pain, he doesn't raise his voice beyond the same even tone.
