My Hero Academia Main Character Index
U.A. High School Students: Class 1-A (1-10, 11-20, Izuku Midoriya, Katsuki Bakugo, Shoto Todoroki, Ochaco Uraraka) | Class 1-B | Students From Other Classes
Pro Heroes: School Faculty and Staff (Shota Aizawa | All Might) | Other Heroes (Endeavor) | One For All and Its Torch Bearers
Villains: Known Villains [Stain] (League of Villains [All For One, Tomura Shigaraki, Dabi, Himiko Toga, Vanguard Action Squad, Artificial Humans], Shie Hassaikai [Overhaul], Meta Liberation Army, Paranormal Liberation Front, Villain Army)
Others: Police and Government Workers | Civilians (Main Characters' Families) | Other High Schools
Characters From Other My Hero Academia Media: Video Game Characters | Movie Characters
Vigilantes: Main Characters | Villain Factory | Supporting Characters
Team Up Mission

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Villain Army

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The Villain Army is a faction of Villains lead by All For One. They serve as the final antagonists against the Heroes in the Second War. They are an army created from the remnants of Villains who got away during the Paranormal War, escaped prisoners, new recruits acquired during the time between the Paranormal and Second War or were from All For One's contacts. All For One gathered them together in order in order to capture Izuku Midoriya and steal One For All, as well as to destroy Hero Society once and for all.

In General

Arc Villain: They're the main antagonists of the Dark Hero and Final War arcs.
Big Bad Duumvirate: It's an army comprised of various types of Villains and factions that faced off against the Heroes throughout the series.
Divide and Conquer: Inverted. The Heroes plan to split up with the Villains with Kurogiri's Warp Gate has the army scattered across many battlefields to go against the various Hero Squads there.
Great Escape: Many of the Villains of the army are escaped prisoners from Tartarus and six of the seven prisons that the Tartarus convicts managed to destroy.
Not in This for Your Revolution: Aside from some of the escaped convicts, loads of Villains in the army are not working with All For One due to actually being loyal to him. Many have their own goals, such as Dabi wanting vengeance against Endeavor or the PLF wanting to fulfil their goals of liberation. It's just that All For One has the resources, connections, and power that making achieving said goals actually viable, which is why they work under him. This inherently fractured union is exploited by the heroes, resulting in All For One's plans successively blowing up in his face and each portion of the army essentially splitting off to do their own thing. Tomura Shigaraki even secures his status as the series' main antagonist again and puts All For One in the backseat despite the man's efforts to stay in the spotlight.
The Remnant: Many in the army are dregs from villainous organizations that were either dismantled by the Heroes in prior arcs, or reduced to a few during the Paranormal War. The survivors of these organizations would join under All For One for the Second War, either getting the chance due to the mass jailbreaks in the first war's aftermath or because they managed to escape the battlefields during the war itself.
Run the Gauntlet: This was Izuku's original plan to deal with them, taking on too much responsibility by himself and effectively embarking on a solo Suicide Mission. After 1-A's intervention, a modified trope plays out where the Heroes choose to Divide and Conquer instead, and they're shown systematically picking away at the army step by step in one massive battle spanning all of Japan.

Leader

The Demon Lord

The one leading the Villains is the Demon Lord himself, who escaped Tartarus and amased an army of convicts to do his bidding. In addition, he took control of the remainders of the League of Villains and Paranormal Liberation Front after Tomura Shigaraki, their old leader, was being possesed by the vestige of the All For One quirk. All For One had then mobilized his new forces to go about a Second War - with the goal of acquiring One For All from Izuku Midoriya. Despite technically being the leader of the assembled forces, the "Demon Lord" title gets split equally between his original crippled body and Tomura, with the latter being referred to as the "Perfected Demon Lord" and the one whom, upon the completion of the merging between their psyches, will be in control of the world after this final war.

For the entry pertaining to the mind and body of the original Demon Lord, see here: All For One.

For tropes pertaining to the Perfected Demon Lord/successor, see here: Tomura Shigaraki.

Major Forces

Remnant Faction Villains

League of Villains

Following the Paranormal War, the members of the League of Villains that weren't captured/killed in the event or managed to escape from prison were absorbed into All For One's army. These are: Dabi, Himiko Toga, Spinner, Muscular, and Moonfish. In addition, seven Near-High End Nomus remained uncaptured to use.

Their entries can be found here: Dabi, Himiko Toga, League of Villains, & Artificial Humans.

Paranormal Liberation Front

Following the Paranormal War, Skeptic and 132 members of the Paranormal Liberation Front managed to escape the battle. Of that number including many Advisers. They were absored into All For One's army, with the goal of seeing their organization's ideals of a 'liberated' world with free-reign Quirk usage come true.

Their entries can be found here: Skeptic & PLF dregs

Shie Hassaikai

Following Tartarus being destroyed, Overhaul was freed from prison. From there, the mind broken leader of the yakuza would roped into joining in the hunt for Izuku Midoriya by Lady Nagant (the one who freed him from his cell).

His entry can be found here: Overhaul

Tartarus Escapees

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When All For One destroyed Tartarus, numerous prisoners escaped from their cells to wreak havoc across Japan once more. They pledged their loyalty to All For One, letting him be their leader in exchange for freeing them to rampage throughout Japan again. During this escape, All For One recruited a small number of escapees for the goal of capturing Izuku Midoriya.

By the Second War, the remainder of such escapees joined All For One's Villain Army.

Curb-Stomp Battle: On the receiving end. Hawks notes that because of Midoriya's extra Quirks, most of the goons that were sent by All For One (with the exception of Lady Nagant), shouldn't really give Midoriya trouble. This assessment proves correct when both the attackers after Nagant are swiftly defeated, with the third being off-screen. Nagant and Dictator mostly avoid this due to their Quirks allowing them to come at Midorya from a safe distance and (for Dictator's case), Midoriya's own exhaustion reaching his limit.
The Dreaded: During the Second War, to the point that the seemingly victorious Kamino Hero Squad noted that they were lucky since none of the Tartarus Escapees, like Kunieda or Gashly, got sent to their location. Both aformentioned Villains live up to such fears as their Quirks allow them to single handledly either dominate their respective battlefields or be able to go ahead against numerous Heroes without much issue.
Elite Mooks: Being escapees that were locked up in Tartarus, all are Villains who have likely committed heinous crimes and be stronger than most others locked up anywhere else. Granted, while such power proves not to really work out against Midoriya (due to One For All being too much for them to handle) the remainder of these Villains prove to still be strong enough to be a roadblock to the Heroes during the Second War as they're able to contend with or even defeat numerous Heroes with ease.
Hired Guns: All of them are essentially this, having been paid off, either with an extra Quirk or the promise of safety, in exchange for bringing Midoriya back to All For One.
Undying Loyalty: All of them pledged loyalty to All For One for freeing them from Tartarus, though meeting Midoriya for Nagant does rekindle her heroic spirit enough to switch sides.
The Unfought: They were originally hired by All For One to capture Midoriya, but Kunieda points out that the remaining hired guns never got such a chance after Dictator lost and Midoriya was saved by Class 1-A.

Kaina Tsutsumi — Lady Nagant (Spoilers)

Kaina Tsutsumi — Lady Nagant

Voiced by: Atsumi Tanezaki (Japanese), Erica Lindbeck (English)

Debut Chapter 297 (Manga), Episode 128 (Anime)

Quirk: Rifle, Air Walk, Unnamed Self-Destruction Quirk

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Lady Nagant's pro hero appearance

"This superpowered society is a gilded daydream seen through rose-colored glasses. But it's paper-thin. A fragile illusion. Say you bring back the status quo, then what? History will just repeat itself. The public gets to stargaze at the bright and shiny side while the dark truth gnaws away at someone else. At least a future ruled over by All For One would be a helluva lot more transparent."

A former member of the Hero Public Safety Commission who allegedly became a villain, and joined All For One after being set free from Tartarus. Her Quirk, "Rifle", allows her to produce a sniper rifle from her right arm and create ammunition from her hair. She receives the Air Walk Quirk from All For One.

Abnormal Ammo: As part of her Quirk, she can use strands of her own hair to create bullets in any shape she likes. She can also implant things like microphones inside her bullets.
Achilles' Heel: Lady Nagant's Quirk is powerful, and she's well-trained in using its combat abilities to the fullest. However, the scope of its abilities is limited to transforming her right arm into a weapon for her to fight with. Shattering her right arm effectively renders Lady Nagant powerless before Midoriya. As such, she's unable to use her Quirk, despite still being capable of moving on her own.
Adaptational Modesty: In the anime, she wears leggings or pants under her dress, while in the manga her legs were bare.
All There in the Manual: Her true name is only revealed in Volume 32.
Always Someone Better: Snipe (whose Quirk gives his bullets homing capabilities) flat out admits that she's much better than he is at sniping, as not only does she have a superior range (3 km to his 600 m), but her skill is at another level entirely:
Snipe: If she wasn't in the picture, I'd be Japan's best long distance sniper! My "Homing" allows me to lock on to anyone I can see within a 600m range. […] When it comes to her, she can do that with pure skill alone. And her range is 3KM! It really ruins my business! […] The human sniper rifle. Everyone with a long range Quirk is jealous of her right hand rifle.
Anime Hair: Similarly to Yaoyorozu, while tied up in a ponytail, her hair has a very wave-like shape.
Anti-Villain: She was Hawks' predecessor in the HPSC and forced to be their wetworks agent and partake in Dirty Business to sell the illusion that society is in a time of peace. When she couldn't take it anymore though and voiced her issues to the president, he threatened to have her killed, requiring she kill him first, and resulting in her being framed and locked away in Tartarus so she wouldn't expose the truth. Now she's left a cynical Broken Ace, and is working with All For One not because she supports him, but because she hates the society she helped make so much, that even a world under All For One is more preferable to her. Midoriya himself even admits after learning about her past that it's his job to extend a helping hand to people like her. It turns out she isn't even as evil as she acted. Midoriya tells her that she could've incapacitated him with one shot if she wanted to, and that she had no intention to kill Overhaul. Lady Nagant's expression confirms it.
Arc Villain: Of the Dark Hero Arc. Out of all the named fugitives, Lady Nagant is the only one who presents herself as a genuine threat to Midoriya, has a chapter covering up her backstory and whose fight lasts the longest.
Arm Cannon: A rather unique version achieved using her Quirk. She bends back her arm so her hand touches her shoulder, at which point the cannon emerges from her elbow.
Beauty Equals Goodness: Nagant is arguably one of the most gorgeous characters on the story and when she was a Pro, she always presented herself with a kind and reassuring smile. This is subverted following her fall from grace, but eventually reverted by the time of the Final War arc, when she returns to help the heroes during the fight against Shigaraki.
Beauty Is Bad: She's drawn as a quite conventionally attractive woman, but is also a traitor to the Hero Public Safety Commission who ends up siding with All For One. This is downplayed after the truth behind her imprisonment is revealed. She's still working with All For One, but her circumstances leave her closer to an Anti-Villain rather than flat-out evil, while making her no less beautiful:
All For One: The traitor hero, the beautiful Lady Nagant.
Because You Were Nice to Me: Strictly platonic example. Even after being blown up by All For One, she still eventually sides with Midoriya for trying to help her and manages to spit out that there are other assassins after him instructed to bring him to the Creature Rejection Clan's old headquarters. She also comes back for a Big Damn Heroes moment to adequately repay him.
BFG: Can grow a sniper rifle from her right arm, which is as long as she is tall. It possesses massive range and stopping power, allowing her to accurately snipe targets up to 3 km away with bullets hitting hard and fast enough to damage Midoriya's Mid Gauntlet, which is tough enough to withstand his 45% blows. It's all but stated that he would have lost his hand if he hadn't been wearing it, and he says a howitzer cannon has nothing on her shots.
Big Damn Heroes: Just as Shigaraki is about to use Decay to destroy U.A., a sniper bullet made of hair tears his hand off. Cut to Lady Nagant on a faraway rooftop, still covered in bandages but back to repay Midoriya for his kindness towards her.
Blood-Splattered Warrior: Warrior may be an exaggeration, but amongst the scenes at her flashback as a Commission assassin, one of them decipts Nagant covered in the blood of a group that was attemtpting to commit a terrorist attack. Unlike most examples, this is explicitely Played for Drama, as it shows how much being used as weapon of a corrupt system damaged Nagant's psyche.
Body Horror: If the rifle emerging from her elbow wasn't horrific enough, several familiar components for it such as a bipod are formed out of twisted and melted parts of her own skin and muscle. To reload it, she shoves each bullet into a hole opening in her palm.
Broken Ace: She was a prospective star in the hero community, who was praised for her abilities. Snipe admitted she's his better and Hawks warned Midoriya that if All For One convinces her to go after him, his only chance is to run. However, she was basically used as a wetworks agent for the Dirty Business and killed quite a few people, not all whom likely deserved it and all without trial, and eventually snapped under the guilt and pressure deciding she was fighting for a lie before she murdered the President of the Hero Commission who put her on these missions.
Broken Bird: Lady Nagant was recruited by the HSPC when she was a teenager. She was given classified missions to kill anyone that threatened the HSPC's interests, which caused her PTSD and made her question her employers. She was sentenced to life imprisonment in Tartarus when she killed the HSPC president out of self-defence. After being freed, she is contracted by All For One to capture Midoriya. However, she was impressed by Midoriya's abilities and resolve. After Midoriya defeats her, she is about to acknowledge him as the real deal, when she is blown up by All For One for breaching the contract. All For One's quote best summarizes her:
All For One: To the very end, you were just a tool to be used. Curse your blessing of a Quirk, if you must. Alas the hapless, woeful Lady Nagant...
Casting Gag: Lady Nagant used to be an assassin for the Hero Commission. Atsumi Tanezaki is mostly known for voicing Anya Forger from SPY×FAMILY, and her mother Yor is assassin. Fans often joke that Lady Nagant is what Anya would be like if she decided to follow her mother's footsteps.
Charles Atlas Superpower: Like Snipe, she can give her bullets homing capabilities. Unlike Snipe, who uses his Quirk to do this, she can do it through sheer skill alone.
Cold Sniper: Her attitude when she targets Midoriya, shooting out his phone that he used to communicate with All Might, before threatening to blow off his limbs through a microphone embedded in the bullet.
Combat Pragmatist: As a long-range specialist, Lady Nagant prefers to take down her targets from a distance where they can't possibly hit back. Her Abnormal Ammo and Improbable Aiming Skills let her curve her bullets over and around buildings to strike at unexpected angles. When Midoriya closes the distance on her to deprive her of this advantage, she instead turns her gun on Overhaul, using him as a hostage to force Midoriya to choose between taking her down and saving a villain.
Cool Shades: She wore a single sunglass over her right eye when she was still a working hero, which added nicely to her already impressive skillset.
The Cynic: To the extreme. Lady Nagant believes that hero work is built upon a false image of glamour and likens bringing peace of mind to civilians to brainwashing. She also denounces Midoriya's fight to bring things back to normal as ignorant.
Dark Action Girl: After being freed from Tartarus she is tasked by All For One in retrieving Midoriya alive, and is shown to be very dangerous.
Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Hitman with a Heart trope. Lady Nagant was used by the Commission as a hitman to assassinate potential threats to society even before they commit any crimes, depriving them of due process or even a right to a trial. At first, she complied with her orders for the sake of protecting society, but soon the guilt and pressure began to eat away at her to the point of her suffering PTSD and she soon became disillusioned with hero society. It all boiled to a head when she confronted the president of the Commission, who not so subtly threatened to have her killed if she attempted to quit, prompting Lady Nagant to shoot him dead and leading to her being the cold and cynical individual she is today. It's further deconstructed in that All For One only sent her after Midoriya specifically because of this trait - not to defeat his new Arch-Enemy before he better masters his powers, but solely just so that he'd attempt to reach out to Lady Nagant once he realizes what kind of person she was. All For One seemingly renders these attempts of his as fruitless, detonating Lady Nagant and leaving her hospitalized before she can have a proper redemption... or so he thought.
The Dog Bites Back: After employing her simply to get to Midoriya by blowing her up, Lady Nagant's timely intervention during the Final Battle is what finally derails All For One's century-long scheme to steal One For All. His petulant fury at her shooting off Shigaraki's hands, preventing him from destroying U.A., makes him emotionally susceptible to Shigaraki's own spiteful wrath and lets the young man reclaim control of his body. This boots him from Big Bad to Big Bad Wannabe, his dreams of becoming an immortal Demon Lord now impossible.
The Dreaded: Hawks makes it his top priority to hunt her down, and fears for Midoriya's safety, advising him that if he sees her or becomes aware of her presence, the only chance he has of surviving is running away.
Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: When she first joined the Hero Commission, she had bright eyes. However, as she faced the grim reality of hero work, her eyes became duller and devoid of light, complete with Exhausted Eye Bags to symbolize her growing disillusionment with Hero Society.
Even Evil Has Standards: When she notices Overhaul frantically banging on his cell door during the Tartarus prison break, unable to open it himself on account of his lack of hands, she pauses in her escape and lets him out. This is notable as she's the only shown escaping villain who reacted to it. Given that she's just bitter, not actually evil makes this more understandable.
Evil Costume Switch: Played With. She is not evil per se, but after escaping Tartarus she needed to switch clothes, so she stole a long purple dress from an abandoned store, with a belt equiped with any items that could help her. As a pro hero, she wore a black sleeveless bodysuit and a sunglass over her right eye to help her aim.
Expository Hairstyle Change: During her time as a pro hero, she wore her hair long and tied in a ponytail. After being arrested for killing the HSPC President, her hair is cut short above her shoulders, adding more detail to her saddened and despaired look.
Facial Horror: After the explosive failsafe within Lady Nagant is activated, several cracks appear on her face before she detonates. The next chapter shows that they've left scars running across the middle of her face. She still retains them in her surprise reappearance in Chapter 378.
Fallen Hero: She used to be a member of the Hero Public Safety Commission, having even hunted All For One at one point, before allegedly committing a crime that led her into Tartarus. From her perspective, however, she just woke up to the truth of what she was fighting for and felt disgusted by it. The truth is more complicated though. She didn't kill a hero, she killed the former head of the HPSC, only after he threatened to have her killed for no longer wanting to do the commission's Dirty Business. She was then framed for killing a hero so the truth wouldn't come to light, and locked away in Tartarus so she couldn't reveal the truth.
Flying Firepower: Her Rifle Quirk combined with the Air Walk Quirk given by All For One makes her effectively this. Both the title of Chapter 313 and even En outright call her a flying artillery battery.
Friendly Sniper: Off-duty, she's friendly towards children asking for her autograph. To the point that she's unable to follow through, as she thinks of herself as dirty for having such bloodstained hands.
Graceful Ladies Like Purple: In tandem with her purple hair, she chose a purple dress to complement it, and it suits her attractive figure very well.
The Gunslinger: Lady Nagant falls into the Trick Shot subcategory, having the ability to shoot accurately up to 3 km and even curve her bullets Wanted-style. She also has some traits of The Woo, incorporating her Air Walk Quirk to maximize her mobility, while also using her Arm Cannon as an impromptu Pile Bunker when forced into close-range combat.
Handicapped Badass: She survived her detonation by All For One, though heavily injured and scarred. This doesn't stop her from wobbling along and providing heavy-duty sniper support to Midoriya against Shigaraki.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: Betrayed the Hero Public Safety Commission by killing their leader, but years later finding herself once again facing against All For One and his villains in the Final War.
Hidden Buxom: She's introduced in a plain, somewhat loose-fitting prisoner jumpsuit. When she appears as a combatant against Midoriya, she's switched to form-fitting attire that bares her shoulders, arms and legs. But even with her breasts covered up the outfit makes it obvious she has an impressively large chest, which was also apparent in her hero costume despite being equally covered up back then.
Hidden Heart of Gold: This is ultimately how Midoriya reaches her; Lady Nagant truly wants to be a hero who helps people. Her entire disillusionment came from realizing that what she was doing for the Commission wasn't that.
Hired Guns: Midoriya correctly guesses she is sent by All For One to capture him, and is proven right. The "payment" was another Quirk.
Horrible Judge of Character: Takes on All For One's request to capture Midoriya since he wishes to tear down the society that was built up. While she has a good Freudian Excuse, she thinks his rule would be preferable since he's truthful about his plans. Of course she should know All For One works by manipulation and is glib towards anyone who will suit his needs which she ends up falling for. She pays for this after Midoriya defeats her in battle, and she is engulfed in a fiery explosion that All For One had secretly implanted in her because he didn't expect her to win. In fact, as the next chapter shows, All For One was never even at the hideout he said she should send Midoriya to after beating him and instead left a message to demoralize the young hero before setting off an explosion with him and various other pros inside.
- Another example being with Overhaul, Lady Nagant automatically assumes that his presence in Tartarus means he was another person screwed over by the hero system, and never even considering that he might have been in a super-max prison for a very good reason (i.e. using little Eri as a lab rat for human experimentation).
Homing Projectile: She can form bullets specifically designed to better pull this off, but it says something that she's relying mainly on her own natural Improbable Aiming Skills to pull this off rather than a Quirk like Snipe does, which is one of the reasons he calls her his superior.
If I Wanted You Dead...: One of those rare occasions where the victim is the one who says it. Midoriya feels that if Lady Nagant truly meant to incapacitate or kill him with her skills and power, she could have easily done so with just her first shot. He even noticed that the shot aimed at Overhaul wasn't going to be fatal. With this evidence, Midoriya is sure Lady Nagant still has the heart of a hero.
Improbable Aiming Skills: If you'd look closely, she aims her sniper rifle, hitting Midoriya's phone not only from far away, but through an oddly-shaped iron sight built into a sniper rifle, bipod and all, manifested from her right arm. Most snipers require a magnified scope and both hands on the gun to stabilize it. Even more impressively, this isn't tied to her Quirk at all but simply her natural skill. She can likewise curve her bullets which Midoriya finds out while trying to run from her only for a bullet to come flying at him over a building. She manages to even snipe off Shigaraki's hand from a massive distance away from the completely unstable flying U.A. in rainy weather.
Inexplicably Awesome: Lady Nagant had a second Quirk given to her and showed no negative side effects because of this. It has been shown repeatedly that being able to control multiple Quirks needs very special conditions like having All For One, otherwise mental deterioration occurs, as Spinner demonstrated. Not only was Lady Nagant completely fine despite having multiple Quirks, she picked up Air Walk exceptionally fast.
Involuntary Suicide Mechanism: After Nagant's defeat, All for One reveals that he secretly gave her a self-destruction Quirk and activates it to prevent her from switching sides. Miraculously, she survives.
Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: Basically her job when working for the HPSC. She was tasked with killing corrupt heroes and potential villains before they could do anything, for the sake of preserving the idea that society was in a time of peace. Doing this Dirty Business eventually got to her though, and when she tried objecting to another mission when speaking with the Commission President, he threatened to have this done to her too, requiring she kill him before he can. She was then framed for killing another hero so the commission could lock her away in Tartarus rather than let her reveal the truth.
Lady of War: She handles her Rifle Quirk with deadly and precise accuracy, and the Air Walk Quirk gifted by All For One gives her an air of elegance.
Locked Out of the Loop: All For One hired Lady Nagant to capture Midoriya and gave her a second Quirk to help her, but seemingly neglected to tell her that her target also has multiple Quirks. So when Midoriya uses smokescreen to give himself some cover, she's naturally caught off guard. Which is an early hint that All For One never believed she would defeat Midoriya and set up her entire battle with him just to screw with the young hero.
Logical Weakness: Subverted. Midoriya attempts to capture Lady Nagant by using an entire office building as cover to close the distance, reasoning that a sniper like her would be vulnerable in close quarters. Unfortunately for him, she's been trained to deal with close-range fighters, worming her way out of his grip before assailing him with a barrage of bullets from all directions.
Lovecraftian Superpower: Her Quirk allows her to spawn a sniper rifle from her elbow. Unlike Yaoyorozu, who can just create objects from her body, her rifle seems to be an actual extension of her body as it has organic parts that she can manipulate such as creating a stand to help stabilize her rifle, or creating a scope out of the muscle tissue to snipe long-range targets.
Long Hair Is Feminine: Justified. Since Nagant's Quirk relies on the bullets made from it, her hair used to long enough to reach her waist and she also was a very girly (even if a bit tomboy) look.
Major Injury Underreaction: Aside from a momentary shift in her facial expression, she doesn't really react when Midoriya breaks her rifle arm with a Faux 100% Manchester Smash. This extends into the moment where he catches her midair by grasping onto her now bloodied and bruised up arm. Her inner monologue simply focuses on her newfound respect for Midoriya without any indication of pain or discomfort with her current position.
Meaningful Name: She's named after the Mosin-Nagant, which has commonly seen use as a sniper rifle.
Moral Myopia: Her professed disgruntlement with the Commission was due to feeling like she was made to do unglamorous work (assassination) to uphold the glamorous image of heroism. On the other hand, she doesn't hold All For One to the same standards, despite them having brought much more misery to innocent people, and is very easily swayed to his side. She justifies her own myopia by stating that at least All For One is transparent and doesn't lie about his own evil intentions. Unfortunately for her, she was wrong about All For One, as, despite being clear about his evil, is still very much willing to lie and obfuscate the truth to Nagant for his own ends.
Most Common Superpower: Nagant's drawn with a noticeably large bust and is one of the most dangerous female villains seen in the series.
Ms. Fanservice: Both her bodysuit(when she worked as a hero) and purple dress are skin tight around her chest that her breasts are very pronounced, but also both are sleeveless that show off her bare shoulders. When she uses her quirk both the anime and manga gives attention to her armpits shown rather detailed.
My Greatest Second Chance: After being turned into a Broken Bird by the Commission and used by All For One into a tool to torture Midoriya with, Midoriya manages to reignite her faith in true heroism. Come the Final Battle, she brings out her rifle to provide support to the heroes by shooting Shigaraki's hands off before he can release a Decay Wave.
Not Quite Dead: She survives All For One's booby trap that renders her a literal body bomb, and it's noted that this should have killed an ordinary person, but she manages to fight to stay alive despite gruesome bodily damage.
Not Quite Flight: She has been given the Air Walk Quirk by All For One, allowing a greater vantage point to aid her in capturing Midoriya.
Organic Technology: Both her rifle and her ammunition are created from her own bodily tissues. The rifle in particular is very in-depth, complete with a scope, and an insertion point for ammunition in her palm. She can divert even more of her organic matter into it to make the bullets much more powerful or faster. All this together means that Nagant's entire right arm, at least, appears to be biotech. It's extremely unclear if she can materialize a gun or bullets from any other part of her biomass than her hair though.
Pragmatic Villainy: She frees Overhaul from his cell in Tartarus(incorrectly thinking he's a victim of hero society), but also drags him along with her not out of compassion, but because she deems him useful due to his broken mental state.
Purple Is Powerful: Not only her eyes are purple and her hair has a tone purplish-blue, she uses a purple body suit and skirt during her time hunting down Midoriya. In the anime, her bullets leave a purple trail behind them, akin to a laser.
Recoil Boost: She propels herself while using Air Walk by firing her rifle behind her, allowing her to quickly reposition herself to take more potshots.
Resignations Not Accepted: When she grew tired of doing the commission's Dirty Business and voiced her objections to the President, he threatened to have her killed, requiring she kill him instead. She was then thrown in Tartarus under the false allegations of killing another hero so as to stop her from saying anything.
Required Secondary Powers: Averted. Her Quirk manifests both her rifle and her bullets, but what makes her exceptional are her natural and finely-honed sharpshooting skills.
Scars Are Forever: She still bears the scars from All For One's bomb Quirk across her face.
Shadow Archetype: To Hawks. Both were recruited to serve the HSPC from a young age and immediately became very popular heroes, at the same time both were both used by the Commission to conduct secret and off-the-books missions. While Hawks still managed to endure the pressure and keep a cheery and upbeat persona, at least until the HSPC fell apart, Lady Nagant broke and lost herself, becoming sad and apathetic.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: The dirty work she had to do back in the past has disillusioned her very severely to the point she considered the current society as corrupted despite the fact that if All For One had his way, it'll cause more discord and death. She cites his rule can't be any better than who she initially worked for since he's at least open about his objectives, even if it's obviously evil.
Shout-Out: Horikoshi states in the chapter comments that her skill in curving bullets was directly inspired from Angelina Jolie's role as Fox in Wanted.
Smug Smiler: At one point during her fight with Midoriya, she skips through the air using Air Walk while wearing a rather cheeky smirk on her face to show just how confident she is.
Spanner in the Works: If All For One had never betrayed her, then there's a strong chance Shigaraki would've decayed the floating U.A. high school and made things even worse for the heroes, or potentially even allow All For One reassert control over him. Her intervention at a key moment in Izuku's fight against him not only prevents Shigaraki from using his Quirk, but also makes All For One's vestige emotionally distressed enough for Shigaraki to then overcome his attempt at possession, ruining his plan to steal back One For All.
Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Her Quirk makes her a living sniper rifle, able to generate a rifle from her right arm and even turn her hair into bullets.
Technicolor Eyes: Her eyes are bright purple, like amethysts.
They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Compared to the bloodthirsty Moonfish and Muscular, mob boss Overhaul, the relentless Stain and the Big Bad that is All For One, she is pretty much the one that looks and acts the most normal. However, the fact she was lumped in with such a crowd (complete with voice over from a prison guard muttering about how none of them were "human"), and the fact she's in Tartarus of all places, suggests she's more dangerous than meets the eye. Something proven right when it's learned she's an ex-hero said to have killed another hero.
Tomboyish Ponytail: During her days as a hero, she wore her hair in this style and was a bonafide Action Girl, though it seems it was cut during her stay in Tartarus.
Tomboyish Voice: As portrayed in the Japanese version of the anime, she not only has a gruff voice, but also uses suffixes and particles that are usually heard coming from male characters, similar to Mirko.
Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Not only her Quirk is an actual gun, as a hero she wore a sleeveless dark-blue bodysuit with her hair tied on a ponytail, but she often had a very upbeat persona, and her merch color scheme was mostly pink and bright purple. Her bio in an omake also mentions she loves cute things.
Trick Bullet: Part of why she is so successful. She can make a wide variety of bullets with her Quirk:
Snipe: The secret lies in her bullets. She can form her bullets into any shape she wants. She mixes and moulds her two-toned hair, like epoxy putty, before hardening it into a bullet. She can make anything from hollow-point bullets to bullets that curve.
Unexplained Recovery: After her defeat by Midoriya, All For One triggers something, implied to have been attached to the Air Walk Quirk he lent her, that causes her to blow up; a "contingency" in case she failed in her "contract". Surprisingly, it wasn't lethal enough to kill her and, sometime later, she is somehow back on her feet in time to aid in the final battle, though badly scarred and barely standing.
Unwitting Pawn: Lady Nagant served this purpose to All For One in his scheme against Midoriya. All For One guessed that Midoriya's compassion would get through to Lady Nagant and kept an explosive failsafe in her body that would detonate if she changed her mind. The explosion was powerful enough to wound her but not enough to kill her, as he wanted her to tell Midoriya about the location she was supposed to send him. Said location was a trap left by All For One for Midoriya and the heroes he brought with him to catch them in an explosion.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: She was once a smiling, optimistic girl when she was in school who had hopes of being a hero. Once she got her dream, her optimism was short-lived.
Villain Has a Point: Midoriya legitimately can't find a fault in her logic regarding Hero society, as Kaina believes that even if AFO is defeated and everything returns to normal, the government will inevitably return to killing potential threats to preserve the lie of a just world.
Worthy Opponent: She is impressed with Midoriya's abilities and deems him to be a true hero for sticking to his optimistic beliefs, even after explaining how hero society isn't as cut-and-dry as they were previously taught.
Wrecked Weapon: Midoriya defeats Lady Nagant by shattering her rifle with one kick.
You Are Number 6: She's introduced with her prisoner code, C-46 and 656698, but her hero name is given during her encounter with Midoriya.

Fanged Escapee

Debut: Chapter 317 (Manga), Episode 135 (Anime)

Quirk: Unknown

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An escapee from Tartarus that All For One recruited to capture Midoriya. He is the second hired gun to encounter Midoriya, but is promptly defeated without effort and captured.

Bald of Evil: The panel that shows his defeat, also shows that he is bald.
Domino Mask: He wears one of these.
Hired Guns: He's recruited by All For One to hunt down Midoriya. However, compared to Lady Nagant and Dictator, goes down with a deal of ease. What All For One used to get him on his side, be it an extra Quirk or safety, is unknown.
No Name Given: His name is never revealed.
Scary Teeth: He's a dangerous escaped prisoner and has the pointed teeth to go for it.
Tattooed Crook: His chest and arms are covered with tattoos of women in religious attire.
The Worf Effect: Being an escaped prisoner from Tartarus, he likely has committed heinous crimes that warranted being incarcerated there and is likely incredibly stronger than the average villain. However, the call with Hawks and his only on-screen appearance outright confirms he was defeated without much effort, showcasing that Midoriya's skills outclass most of those imprisoned even in Tartarus.

Shark Escapee

Debut: Chapter 318 (Manga), Episode 135 (Anime)

Quirk: Unnamed Gigantification Quirk

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An escapee from Tartarus that All For One had recruited in order to capture Midoriya. He is the third hired gun that the hero meets, and he attacks in the ocean next to a bridge. His defeat is never shown, but a report from Hawks later in the series confirms his capture.

Hired Guns: Sent by All For One to hunt down Midoriya. Like with the second hired gun sent by All For One, it's unknown what All For One used to get him to comply.
Kaiju: His design seems inspired by such classic monsters.
Waist-Deep Ocean: When he fights Midoriya, the water is barely reaching up to his stomach.
What Happened to the Mouse?: The only panel time he gets is when he's about to fight Midoriya and the results of such a fight, or that he was even one of the hired guns, weren't known until nine chapters later in the manga when Hawks reports that he was defeated and captured.

Dictator

Voiced by: Reagan Murdock (English)

Debut: Chapter 318 (Manga), Episode 135 (Anime)

Quirk: Despot

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Ho ho spoiling for a fight, are you?! Very well! A fight you shall have! AGAINST THE IGNORANT MASSES THEMSELVES!

Another escapee from Tartarus that All For One employs to capture Midoriya, being the fourth to attack him. He was captured by Crust five years prior to the main story. His Quirk is Despot in which he can control multiple beings via strings from his body and force them to do his bidding.

And I Must Scream: His victims still have their bearings when he makes them go on the attack, but they can't do anything to stop their bodies from obeying Dictator's commands.
Bad Powers, Bad People: Naturally, the guy who can control whole crowds of people against their will while they're fully conscious is a villain. He takes full advantage of his quirk too, employing dirty tactics like using the controlled people as human shields.
Combat Pragmatist: He attacks Midoriya while the young hero is on the brink of collapsing, and since the controlled victims of his Quirk can be freed by either a strong blow to them or knocking him out, he makes sure that plenty of people surround him for protection.
Didn't See That Coming: He was only focused on Midoriya going off of what All For One told him. He didn't think his classmates would come to his aid with Bakugo nailing him directly with a attack from above.
Hired Guns: He’s sent by All For One to capture Midoriya like Lady Nagant, though instead of another Quirk, he mentions that his reward would be some unspecified security.
Human Shield: He uses civilians to keep Midoriya from attacking him. Midoriya knows a heavy blow will knock them out of Dictator's control, but doesn't want to risk hurting them. Luckily Bakugo's arrival prevents Deku from getting swarmed.
Marionette Master: He's shown controlling his victims via strings from his body and his arm motions like a marionette puppeter.
Monster Clown: He has the look of one.
People Puppets: Quite literally. His Despot Quirk forces people to obey his commands with them fully aware of it and unable to resist.
Squishy Wizard: His Quirk can affect a huge crowd all at once, but he goes down in a single attack from Bakugo.
Zerg Rush: His strategy against Midoriya is to swarm him with numbers of the civilians he controls, knowing full well Midoriya wouldn't want to risk hurting them.

Kunieda

Debut: Chapter 353 (Manga)

Quirk: Unnamed Plant Quirk

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This is about empirical utility and harm. None of those who've deceived him in the past have lived to tell the tale. Exceptions will not be tolerated. Because of Dictator's failure, my turn never came around. But now I can demonstrate my utility to All For One as one of his assassins.

An escapee from Tartarus recruited by All For One. Due to Dicator's failure, Kunieda never got the chance to fight Midoriya. He joined All For One during the Second War. Because of the Heroes plans, the villains were split up and Kunieda was left behind in the Troy parking lot to face against Yuga Aoyama and Fat Gum.

Cold Ham: So much so that an exasperated Fat Gum calls him an alien for it.
Divide and Conquer: He's able to figure out that the split up plan the heroes came up with was generally for the primary fighters on the villains' side, but notes that not much thought was given to the "dregs" left in the parking lot.
The Dreaded: He's named dropped by a hero in the Kamino Squad as being apart of the Tartarus Escapees that would give the heroes trouble in their efforts to defeat the villains. A fear that's well placed as Kunieda's Quirk allows him to wipe out nearly an entire squad of Heroes all by himself.
Desecrating the Dead: He not only kills people, but he collects their bodies as food to make his plants. An ability he showcases by turning nearly the entirety of the Troy Parking Lot Hero Squad into plants. Thankfully, such states can be reversed if fast enough, which is done by Aoyama and Hagakure.
Didn't See That Coming: Near the end of the Parking Lot fight, Kunieda has Aoyama dead to rights, his belt taken away and most of the other Heroes turned into plants. He most certainly was not expecting Aoyama's last ditch, unfocused lasers to be reflected by Hagakure into shooting right back at him to knock him out.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Believes concepts like "hope" or "trust" coat the planet like an "oppressive membrane".
Green Thumb: His Quirk allows for the creation and quick growth of plants, which are apparently fast growing enough that by the time the action returns to the lot, he sprouted an entire forest to sit upon and has skewered several people with his plants as well. His Quirk's spore abilities allows him to grow plants using people as nutrients and can have them proliferate fast enough to wipe out practically all 32 Heroes assigned to the parking lot, except for Hagakure.
Hired Guns: He was also recruited by All For One initially for the purpose of capturing Midoriya. Given his dialogue, and his knowledge of All For One's streak of killing traitors, there's an implication Kunieda may have been a former associate of AFO.
I Fight for the Strongest Side!: Inverted. He accuses the Traitor of being the 'bat of the aesop' for their actions and seeks to kill them in order to preserve the streak of All For One arranging the murders of those who betray him.
In the Hood: Wears a hood and mask that conceals most of his face.
Lean and Mean: He's a pretty lanky villain and definitely fits the "mean" part due to his status as a dangerous escaped serial killer turned assassin.
Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Inverted. He seeks to fulfill this by killing the traitor for the villains side, and flat out tells them that the "dregs" left behind will seek to kill them as well.
Serial Killer: His bio during his fight against Aoyama lists his major crimes as being a mass murderer.
The Unfought: Following Dictator's defeat, he was unable to fight Midoriya. Thus, he seeks to prove his utility as All For One's assassin by killing the one who betrayed the villains.

Gashly Eijiju

Gashly

Debut: Chapter 406 (Manga)

Quirk: Unnamed Monster Baby Quirk

Gashly

An escaped convict from Tartarus that joined All For One, fighting for the Villain's side during the Second War. Due to the Heroes plan to divide the Villains, he was sent to Takoba Arena to fight against the Heroes stationed there.

The Dreaded: He was specifically namedropped as being a Villain that the Heroes in the Kamino Squad considered themselves lucky not to fight. A fear well placed as, when the action turns to the Takoba arena, Gashly's Quirk allows him to fend off hordes of Heroes while the Villain is preoccupied reading. By the time reinforcements arrive to Takoba, he was very close to defeating the Heroes stationed there.
Enfant Terrible: His Quirk allows him to unleash a horde of foamy unending monster children out at the Heroes fighting against him at Takoba, thus allowing him to hold his ground against his attackers.
Hoist by His Own Petard: In a sense. His powers are tailor-made for long, stamina-draining fights by spawning an endless horde of attackers at his enemies from a safe distance away. This tactic means that he actually lasts long enough to be the only still-active battlefield besides Izuku and Tomura's once all the various fights are resolved one-by-one. When Aizawa is utilising their renewed control over Kurogiri's warp portals to assemble all the scattered heroes into one force, this allows them all to concentrate on Gashly by opening a portal right behind him and rushing him with a small army of attackers at a distance he can't avoid.
Logical Weakness: Gashly is a master of long range combat, spawning endless minions to rushdown his target and protect him until they die. However, Gashly himself has no way of defending himself personally beyond that, meaning if someone were to bypass the horde entirely he's as good as defeated. Case in point, the moment a Warp Gate appears behind him without his notice, Gashly winds up being rushed down and defeated by Lizardy, Jack Mantis, Ectoplasm and a swarm of other Heroes acting as back-up to end the fight in Takoba.
Meaningful Appearance: His design (from his scarf, to his hat to his umbrella) is based upon the skull-faced gentleman from the Gashlycrumb Tinies.
Meaningful Name: He's named after the Gashlycrumb Tinies, an alphabet book written by Edward Gorey that lists the demise of 26 children from A-Z.
Silent Antagonist: Gashly doesn't make a peep in his only on-screen appearance, but given how he looks quite jolly from nearly killing the Takobea Heroes, his sadistic nature is pretty blatant.
Sinister Silhouettes: He's first shown in silhouette, but given his appearance and what Gashly signifies, it leaves no doubt that he is that Villain question.
Victory by Endurance: Gashly is cited as a Villain that's skilled when it comes to wide ranged destruction and a master of battles of attrition due to his Quirk allowing him to make an infinite horde of minions against his foes while he can just sitback comfortably without getting in the fray. He nearly succeeds in besting the Takoba Heroes were it not for the arrival of a second wave of Heroes ambushing him.

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