History Characters / MyHeroAcademiaVillains

[[caption-width-right:280:Lady Nagant's Pro Hero appearance]]

* CastingGag: Nagant used to be an assassin for the Hero Commission. Creator/AtsumiTanezaki is mostly known for voicing Anya from ''Manga/SPYxFamily'', and her mother Yor is assassin. Fans often joke that Nagant is what Anya would be like if she decided to follow her mother's footsteps.

* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: 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". Sometime later, she is surprisingly back on her feet in time to aid in the final battle, though badly scarred and barely standing.]]

* UnexplainRecovery: [[spoiler: 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". Sometime later, she is surprisingly back on her feet in time to aid in the final battle, though badly scarred and barely standing.]]

* ImprobableAimingSkills: 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. [[spoiler:She manages to even snipe off Shigaraki's hand from a massive distance away from the completely unstable flying UA in rainy weather.]]

* ZergRush: His strategy against Deku is to swarm him with numbers of the civilians he controls, knowing full well Midoriya wouldn't want to risk hurting them.

* DivideAndConquer: He's able to figure out that the split up plan the Heroes came up with was generally for the primary fighters on the Villain's side, but notes that not much thought was given to the 'dregs' left in the parking lot.
* TheDreaded: 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.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Believes concepts like 'hope' or 'trust' coat the planet like an 'oppressive membrane'.

* LeanAndMean: He's a pretty lanky Villain and definitely fits the 'mean' part due to his status as a dangerous escaped prisoner turned assassin.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Inverted. Seeks to fulfill such a trope 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.
* TheUnfought: Following Dictator's defeat, he was unable to fight Midoriya. Thus, he seeks to prove his utility as All One's assassin by killing the one who betrayed the villains.

!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 317 (Manga)

!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 318 (Manga)

* NotQuiteFlight: She has been given the Air Walk Quirk by All For One to aid her in capturing Midoriya.

* CastingGag: Nagant used to be an assassin for the Hero Commission. Creator/AtsumiTanezaki is mostly known for voicing Anya from ''Manga/SPYxFamily'', and her mother Yor is assassin. Fans often joke that Nagant is what Anya would like if she decided to follow her mother's footsteps.

* OrganicTechnology: Both her rifle and her ammunition are created from her own bodily tissues.

* PinkIsFeminine: Downplayed. Only a couple of her hair stripes are pink, altough pink is one of the colors that made part of her merch.

* AnimeHair: Similarly to Yaoyorozu, while tied up in a ponytail, her hair has a very wave-like look

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: During her time as a Pro Hero she wore her hair long and tied on 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.

* EvilCostumeSwitch: PlayedWith. 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, like flashbang grenades. As a pro hero, she wore a black sleeveless bodysuit and a sunglass over her right eye to help her aim.

* VillainousBreakdown: Has one when Gentle looses in his battle with Midoriya.

* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Like mentioned above, after more than a hundred chapters since their last appearance at the School Festival arc, they return to help the heroes against Shigaraki and th PLF.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last time they appeared had the two in custody, with the implication that they would be given a chance to turn over a new leaf. As of nearly two-hundred chapters later, outside of Midoriya thinking of them in relation to his journey, they haven't appeared or been mentioned since.

[[folder:Danjuro Tobita -- Gentle Criminal]]
!!Danjuro Tobita -- Gentle Criminal

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: During her time as a Pro Hero she wore her hair long and tied on 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.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: PlayedWith. 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, like flashbang grenades. As a pro hero, she wore a black sleeveless bodysuit.

* PurpleIsPowerful: 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.

** Young Gentle's well-intended but vigilante attempt to save a falling person's life goes wrong in so many ways. He tried to soften the fall with his Quirk's trampoline, only to accidentally trip up a pro hero who had arrived to save the day. The falling man suffered severe injuries due to Gentle's interference and sued him for the incident, causing Gentle's family to go broke fighting the lawsuit. On top of constantly failing his provisional hero license exams, his reckless interference with pro hero work got him expelled from his hero school. His parents furiously kicked him out of the house, and with no proper education or method of work, Gentle spends much of his adult life alone, in poverty, and unable to achieve his dream of being a hero.
** In addition to the aforementioned poverty, Gentle's online videos probably aren't monetized in any way because he's a criminal and they keep getting deleted. This means the only revenue he and La Brava have is what they manage to steal, and going by the failed convinience store robbery, they likely don't get away with very much. This is evidenced by his home being noticeably barren and not well taken care of on the outside.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: While counter hacking [[InsufferableGenius Skeptic]] she's ''utterly'' dismissive of the other man, outright telling him he's still as bad as he was all those years ago when she did it the first time. When a furious Skeptic screams at her about what her first hacking lost him, her incredibly dry answer to that is a very sarcastic "sorry, my bad"]]

* VillainousBreakdown: Has one when Gentle looses in his battle with Deku.

* MyGreatestSecondChance: [[spoiler:After being turned into a BrokenBird by the Commission and used by All for One into a tool to torture Midoriya with, [[TheParagon Midoriya]] manages to reignite her faith in true heroism. Come the FinalBattle, she brings out her rifle to provide support to the heroes by shooting Shigaraki's hands off before he can release a Decay Wave.]]

* ScarsAreForever: [[spoiler:She still bears the scars from All for One's bomb quirk across her face.]]
* ShadowArchetype: 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, Nagant broke and lost herself, becoming sad and apathetic.

When All For One destroyed Tartarus, numerous prisoners escaped from their cells to wreak havoc across Japan once more. During this escape, All For One recruited a small number of escapees (from former Pro Hero, Lady Nagant, to the body controller that is Dictator) for the goal of capturing Izuku Midoriya.

* TheDreaded: 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.

* TheDreaded: He was specifically namedropped as being a Villain that the Heroes in the Kamino Squad considered themselves lucky ''not'' to fight.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the HitmanWithAHeart 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. [[spoiler:It's further deconstructed in that AFO is implied to have sent her after Midoriya specifically because of this trait- not to beat the potential SpannerInTheWorks before he better masters his powers, but solely just so that Midoriya would attempt to reach out to Lady Nagant once he realizes [[BrokenBird what kind of person she was]]-- and AFO could render his efforts pointless by detonating her [[ForcedToWatch right in front of him]], using the tragedy of her existence and Midoriya's failure to save her to further demoralize the young hero before their proper rematch.]]

!!!'''Playable in:''' ''VideoGame/MyHeroOnesJustice'', ''My Hero One's Justice 2''

!!!'''Debut:''' ''My Hero Academia: Laugh! As If You Are in Hell

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Endeavour is incredulous the police asked him to go after a mere graffiti artist. Said "mere graffiti artist" proves nigh-on impossible for Deku, Shoto, Bakugo, and even Endeavour himself to beat in a straight fight.
* EmotionBomb: As mentioned above, so long as his face is being shown in real time, anyone who sees it is forced into fits of laughter

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* HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler:She survived her detonation by All for One, though heavily injured and scarred. Doesn't stop her from wobbling along and providing heavy-duty sniper support to Midoriya against Shigaraki.]]

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Strictly platonic example. [[spoiler:Even after being blown up by All For One, she still eventually sides with Izuku 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 BigDamnHeroes moment listed below to adequately repay him.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: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 Izuku for his kindness towards her.]]

* ArcVillain: Of the Tartarus Escapees 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.