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Himiko Toga

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Voiced by: Misato Fukuen (Japanese), Leah Clark (English)

Debut: Chapter 57 (Manga), Episode 31 (Anime)

Playable in: My Hero One's Justice, My Hero One's Justice 2, My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero, My Hero Academia: Ultra Impact

Quirk: Transform

Rank: A

"I just wanna love, live and die my way. My normal way. I wanna be even more like the people I love."

One of the League's newer recruits, Himiko Toga is a demented and constantly flustered 17-year-old girl suspected of several murders. She was the eldest daughter of her family before she went missing on the day of her middle school graduation. She apparently joined the League to make the world a place where she can be herself.

Her Quirk, "Transform", allows her to change her appearance through the ingestion of someone's blood.


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  • Act of True Love: Faced with a lifetime in prison, going on the run forever, or being killed by another hero, Himiko decides to save Ochaco instead. She transfuses her blood into Ochaco while transformed into her. It doesn't quite qualify as a Heroic Sacrifice as Himiko establishes she wants to save Ochaco for fighting adamantly to help her even when she had given her a serious wound, proving that somebody had finally received her love in the way she'd always wanted.
  • Actually Not a Vampire: Her sharp teeth, blood being seen around her mouth, and the mention of her killing people by draining their blood, all seem to give the impression that her Quirk is vampire-based. This only partially true, as her Quirk is actually more about shapeshifting and she just needs to ingest a person's blood to transform into them. Chapter 225, which focuses on Curious trying to learn more about her, is even titled "Interview with a Vampire".
  • Affably Evil: It's eerie how friendly she is to people who she's trying to kill. This is made even more so by the fact that despite trying to stab her, she still seems to genuinely think of Uraraka as a friend.
  • Arch-Enemy: To her heroic Foil Uraraka, with their confrontation built up as the cap off to both of their character arcs. Toga's own growing bitterness toward hero society ends up centered on Uraraka by the Final Battle, and she comes to equate killing her will finally allow her to be herself without worrying what other people think. However, Uraraka fights tooth and nail to reach out to her in a way she will be comfortable with by offering up her blood, something nobody had ever been willing to do. While remaining Uraraka's greatest personal enemy, she still chooses to save her as a means of dying truly free and sparing the only person outside of the League who ever reached out to her.
  • Audible Sharpness: In the anime, her needles make this sound when unsheathed.
  • Ax-Crazy: She's easily one of the most violent, aggressive villain in the series. Twice getting killed by Hawks during the Paranormal Liberation War Arc sends her completely off the deep end and she goes on a killing spree, murdering heroes left and right, and when she's broken out of it by Shigaraki's call to assemble, she noticeably adopts a calmer but no less intense attitude as she rides on top of Gigantomachia.
  • The Baby of the Bunch: She's the youngest member of the League of Villains, at just 17 years old.
  • Badass Adorable: A villainous example, being a cute, surprisingly cheerful and utterly unhinged and murderous teenage girl with an unhealthy fixation on blood and powerful enough to be a huge threat to Pro Heroes.
  • Bad Powers, Bad People: Considering that her Quirk requires ingesting a person's blood to transform into them, it's not much of a surprise that she's as Ax-Crazy as she is. She is a Deconstructed Character Archetype in that her past shows she was ostracized by her own parents for her obsession with blood even at a young age, and while they could have gotten her help and made her into a case of Bad Powers, Good People, they instead forced her to suppress her emotions and urges entirely for the sake of appearing "normal", the stress of doing so eventually causing her to snap and become the Serial Killer she is today.
  • Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Despite having some notable cuts all over her face after her fight with Curious for a few chapters, she eventually gets back to normal with no lasting scars.
  • Because You Were Nice to Me: Affirming her love for Ochaco leads to Toga offering her a life-saving blood transfusion, accepting that she will likely die in the process of giving her transformed blood away.
  • Beneath the Mask: Toga does this twice. The first time is when she suppresses her natural affinity for blood in order to seem "normal" and make her parents happy, wearing a mask of fake smiles to fit in. The second time is after she gave in to her bloodlust and wore another mask of fake smiles in order to lie to herself and not admit that she isn't happy. Curious commented on this and called Toga's smiling face that of a "beautiful doll" when the girl said that she was happy and this was her normal.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: A blushing schoolgirl with a wacky hairdo, and an out-there personality. She's introduced after seemingly just murdering somebody. She even takes down Rock Lock, a pro hero, by stabbing him from behind.
  • Blood Magic: Her Quirk requires blood ingestion in order to work. The more blood she drinks, the more she can stay in a transformed state, so she's literally fueled by blood. She needs to drink roughly one cup of blood to stay transformed for a full day.
  • Bloodbath Villain Origin: A flashback reveals that she stabbed a classmate and drank from his wound with a straw with a look of ecstasy on her face before she became a serial killer and joined the League.
  • Bloodlust: Her Quirk makes her naturally attracted to blood, hence why she chops up people. The reason she became interested in Stain was because of how bloody he appeared during video footage and she also blushes when she first sees Midoriya, since he was a bloody mess right after his fight with Muscular.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: She claims that she doesn't see anything wrong with her impulses and says that her way of life is "perfectly normal". This is strongly implied to be linked to her biological instincts to drain blood and become people, and the result of a mental breakdown in middle school after years of being pressured to suppress those impulses. Her sense of right and wrong is so horribly warped that Midoriya's Danger Sense doesn't work on her because she feels no hostility towards her victims, just overwhelming affection.
  • Body Horror: When her transformation ends, the "skin" of the person she's wearing literally melts off of her like goo.
  • Bowdlerise: Toga's Quirk allows her to take on someone's appearance and voice by ingesting their blood, complete with their clothes. However, this also melts any clothes she's currently wearing. While disguised as Camie in the anime, she instead has an opaque white bodysuit that resembles the tone of human skin rather than being blatantly naked upon revealing her Quirk. Though this was only in the original TV broadcast as the Blu-ray (and Toonami airing) showed her fully nude with only the transformation goop covering her.
  • Break the Cutie: She gets hit with this hard during the Paranormal Liberation War Arc. Learning that Twice was killed by Hawks sends her completely off the deep end and she goes on a killing spree, murdering heroes left and right. Once she calms down, the bubbly, sickeningly sweet schoolgirl is gone and replaced by a sad, broken and melancholic individual. Tellingly, in Chapter 287, when Mr. Compress mentions Midoriya and Uraraka, the two she "loves", she doesn't even react and the speech she gives to him implies that she may be suicidal.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: One of the most dangerous girls presented as a villain is appalled by the fact that her new battle gear doesn't look cute at all.
  • The Bus Came Back: After going MIA in the Paranormal Liberation War Arc, Toga rejoins the League in Chapter 341.
  • Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Her Quirk operates on this principle, as she needs her victims alive to have a renewable source of blood. Still, she maintains that she wants to kill Stain (or "Mr. Stainy" as she calls him) and then become him.
  • Collector of Forms: She has to consume the blood of her targets in order to shapeshift into them. She collects vials of their blood, which allows her to use their form for as long as she has any blood in the vials left to use.
  • Confusion Fu: Her main fighting style is to use sneak attacks, by hiding, striking, vanishing and repeating. It makes her hard to follow and harder to strike back against. Her costume is further designed to supplement this by letting her take in a large quantity of blood from multiple people simultaneously, allowing her to transform on the fly and sow confusion even better.
  • Covered in Gunge: When undoing her transformation, it melts off into slime.
  • Covered in Scars: Her battle against Curious has been so intense that she is now sporting quite her fair share of permanent scars all over her body and face, which she herself acknowledges makes her look creepier. Whether she actually has scars or not, however, is debatable since unlike every other character such as Aizawa and Midoriya, after a period of healing, there have been shown no visible trace of any scars in the manga.
  • Creepy High-Pitched Voice: In the Japanese version of the anime, Misato Fukuen portrays Toga with a notably high soprano, to illustrate both her Ax-Crazy mentality and her lack of maturity, given that she was very young when she descended into villainy.
  • Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: She has pronounced eyebags, as a clue to her mental instability.
  • Cute But Psycho: She's a cute teenage girl, but completely bonkers.
  • Cute Is Evil: A cute, perky, teenage girl who is also murderous, has an extreme Blood Lust with a quirk to match it, and part of a notorious league of villains.
  • Dehumanization: She gets hit with this realization hard during the Paranormal Liberation War Arc when she questions why the heroes didn't see Twice as a person. It's only furthered when she confronts both Uraraka and Midoriya at different points asking them why the world rejects people like her, as her inability to understand why her actions are considered "wrong" combined with everyone else treating her as less than human for being who she is causes her to snap and embrace Then Let Me Be Evil.
  • Depraved Bisexual: She's possibly pansexual, explicitly stating in Chapter 394 that she easily falls in love with animals, heroes, villains, girls and boys. She isn't attracted to the people though, but rather their blood. So her while she loves the person or animal, it is their blood that she is sexually attracted to.
  • Devious Daggers: She uses knives, which match her deviousness and trickery (thanks to her Shapeshifter Quirk). She can disguise herself as one of the heroes in order to approach a target and catch them off-guard with a sudden knife to the back, as she did to Rock Lock during the Shie Hassaikai raid.
  • Digital Bikini: Once her Quirk's transformation wears off, Toga is left naked. Certain airings of the anime change this so she's still wearing a skin-tight bodysuit after turning back.
  • Dissonant Serenity: Zigzagged. Due to her Blue-and-Orange Morality, Toga can be unnervingly chipper in scenarios that others would consider horrific.
  • Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Says this almost verbatim when Ochaco suggests she can't use Twice's Quirk to its fullest effect because she's operating on bloodlust instead of love. She flies into a raging Villainous Breakdown deriding Ochaco for what she perceives to be self-serving indulgence while keeping villains like herself beaten down and unable to have the happy lives she desperately craves but is unable to adjust herself into living. At the end, she realizes that yes, Ochaco was right.
  • Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Averted. The way she derives pleasure from drinking the blood of people isn't portrayed as "normal" or "endearing" or as "female empowerment" but as downright creepy and criminal.
  • Evil Counterpart:
    • To Uraraka: Both are the focal female characters of their respective sides and both have feelings for the same boy: Midoriya. Yet while Uraraka learns to be her own hero and grows from her relationship with Midoriya, Toga becomes fixated on people she doesn't actually know and lashes out when they can't understand her outlook on life and love in general.
    • To Midoriya: He readily admits that he can relate to Toga's desire to wanting to become somebody else, as it was something he struggled with in trying to be too much like All Might. The difference is that Midoriya's friends were there to stop him before that desire to be an infallible superhero consumed him completely.
  • Expository Hairstyle Change: A photo of her in middle school shows her with her hair down. In the present day, it's styled in two messy buns.
  • Eyepatch of Power: Toga temporarily wears an eyepatch over her right eye after the battle against the Meta Liberation Army.
  • Fangs Are Evil: Clearly shown to have sharp, vampire-like fangs for all four canine teeth.
  • Females Are More Innocent: Defied. When Curious tries to portray her as a helpless victim of circumstance, Toga adamantly insists on the fact that she has never been anyone's victim and that she has always been perfectly satisfied with being as twisted as she is since it's her own way to "love" people, which Curious acknowledges is an even better headline.
  • First-Name Basis: Toga seems to prefer referring to the people she considers friends, including her boss and enemies, by their first names and an honorific. Notably, when she is around Overhaul, someone she hates for murdering Magne, she refers to him by his last name Chisaki.
  • Foreshadowing:
    • Her shapeshifting Quirk has been hinted since her introduction, when she stated that she wanted to "kill and be Stain" and further referenced by her wishes to become the people she loves.
    • The fact that the Camie in the Provisional Hero License Exam is secretly Toga in disguise is foreshadowed by her taking an interest in Yoarashi's bleeding head wound.
  • For the Evulz: She believes that murder is the greatest expression of love. How is she able to work with other villains is a mystery.
  • Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Her backstory is genuinely horrible, being mistreated from childhood due to her Quirk and connection to blood, but while this is empahsized in the manga, the anime tries to use it to make her look more sinister. Even Toga herself realizes this in the end, acknowledging her true driving motivation was envy, hate, and anger rather than love and that there's no happy ending for her.
  • Friendly Enemy: Toga often tries to make friends with the people she is fighting against even if she is trying to drain their blood. For example, when she first encounters Uraraka and Tsuyu, she tries to give the former love advice and use Tsuyu's Affectionate Nickname. Suffice it to say, everyone is creeped out by this habit of hers.
  • Full-Frontal Assault: If she transforms over her clothes, they are absorbed and destroyed by her Quirk. Since any clothes she adds with her ability overlaps on what she is already wearing, she would become effectively naked once she deactivated her Quirk. Because of this, she's actually naked under her transformation whenever she creates clothes with her Quirk. While it doesn't appear to bother her when she's suddenly seen naked by other people, when Shin Nemoto uses his Confession Quirk on her, she reveals that she's actually embarrassed about this.
  • The Gadfly: She frequently lightly teases other League members, for example saying that Shigaraki misses Kurogiri or that Dabi has poor taste.
  • Has a Type: While she's a fan of anybody that's beat up and covered in blood (whether guys or girls), she seems to have a thing for round faced, curly haired boys in particular; her backstory shows that her first crush (and victim) bore a striking resemblance to Midoriya, who she later becomes enamoured with as well.
  • Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?: Toga's parents responded to her increasing interest in blood by demanding that she suppress her urges. Never receiving psychological help led to her mortally wounding a classmate when she finally cracked.
  • Heel Realization: Uraraka's efforts to reach out and save her results in Toga finally realizing she'd not been acting on genuine love, but on hatred, anger, and envy of others. This partially motivates her to sacrifice herself to save her.
    Himiko Toga: This knife allows me to become the people I love… but I filled it with anger and hate. To create a world that's easier to live in.
  • Hellish Pupils: Her pupils are slitted like a cat's. She also has Cute Little Fangs.
  • Hidden Depths: Despite her psychotic nature, it's obvious that she genuinely cares for the rest of her teammates, especially Twice.
  • Hidden Disdain Reveal: It transpires that she can only copy the Quirks of people she loves. Out of everyone in the League, she can only do this with Twice's, implying that she never really considered Dabi, Shigaraki, and the rest her friends.
  • Hour of Power: She can only stay transformed for a brief period after drinking her target's blood. The time varies based on the amount of blood she drinks, but it is always temporary. One cup of blood is the amount she needs in order to stay transformed for about 24 hours.
  • Hypocritical Humor: She points out how Shigaraki seems disturbed and that Dabi just has bad taste in people. Meanwhile, she's a serial killer who is crushing on the heroes trying to arrest her. Dabi is the only one who cares enough to snipe back.
  • I Die Free: Himiko establishes many times over that her freedom is more precious to her than anything besides her friends; it's why she's so terrified of being caught by the authorities and forced to live in prison, or killed in the struggle against heroes. When Ochaco is bleeding out in front of her after fighting so hard to save her, she realizes she'll never be happier than in that moment, and chooses to give her life for Ochaco's with a blood transfusion to ensure she truly dies on her own terms.
  • I Just Want to Be Loved: Is literally the reason why she started attacking people to drink their blood and why she joined the League of Villains. Life is hard and she wants to live in a world that is easier. This becomes disturbingly inverted once she properly explains she wants to become the people she loves, since she's long been denied it thanks to how her Quirk affects her. The final arc of the series explores this further, in that, after having been rejected for who she is her entire life by everyone, including her parents, she just wants someone to be able to accept her for who she is and not dehumanize her, something she had found in Twice before his death, and had hoped to find in Midoriya and Uraraka, even going to them in a desperate cry for help. After both individually reject her, however, she completely snaps and embraces Then Let Me Be Evil, no longer willing to try and force herself to live in a world that only rejects her.
  • I've Come Too Far: An unusual example: after being talked down by Uraraka, she realized that she's crossed so many lines that no matter what either of them do, there's no happy ending for Toga and it's too late to try and redeem herself. She's either going to prison, going to be killed by another hero, or be running for the rest of her life. As such, she decides to sacrifice herself to save Uraraka.
  • The Immodest Orgasm: While Toga is disguised as Rock Lock, as she tries to stab her precious Midoriya and he remembers her name, it's pretty obvious from her expression what happened. Afterwards, she seen wrapped in what's left of her clothes in what looks like a state of afterglow. This is even more obvious in the English dub:
    Japanese version: (with a completely red face and exhausted eyes) "I'm so glad I got to work temp here..."
    English dub: "I'm so happy I came."
  • Intergenerational Friendship: She's 17 and particularly close with 31-year-old Twice, whose death noticeably affected her.
  • It's All About Me: Downplayed. While not outwardly narcissistic, Toga's motivations and sense of morality are, like the rest of the League, strongly individualistic.
  • Kill and Replace: She loves Stain so much she wants to kill him and then be him. Given her blood-activated shapeshifting Quirk, she possibly could. It's implied that she wants to do this to everyone she "loves". She also nearly did this to Rock Lock.
  • Know When to Fold 'Em:
    • When help comes for Uraraka and Tsuyu, she stops mid-attack and heads off, stating simply that she knows if she sticks around she'll be overpowered.
    • When Uraraka and Sero show up to help Midoriya, she flees immediately, though she isn't happy about their alone time being interrupted.

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  • Lacerating Love Language: A Depraved Bisexual who falls in love easily. She expresses her affection by wanting to become the targets of her affection, which involves her stabbing and drinking their blood to make use of her Shapeshifter Quirk.
  • Last-Name Basis: Since Toga has no villain name, everyone calls her by her surname. Even Twice, who has a crush on her, calls her "Toga-chan" instead of using her first name.
  • Logical Weakness: Her Quirk and combat style requires her to hide and confuse her opponent, and her most powerful offensive options are close range. As a result, multiple opponents are not something she can handle, and she quickly excuses herself whenever she's faced with more than two enemies. Furthermore, her Quirk has a major handicap: she can only stay transformed based on the amount of someone's blood she's ingested. If she runs out, she loses the ability to turn into that person until she gains more of their blood.
  • Loony Fan: Of Stain. She doesn't even care about his ideals, she just thinks he's cool and wants to Kill and Replace him.
  • Love at First Sight: She gets a crush on Midoriya as soon as she laid eyes on him, mostly because his body was mangled and covered in his own blood, though her feelings get much stronger after her encounter with him during the provisional hero license exam. This is not a good thing. It's even why she's specifically able to keep attacking him from his blind spots even with Danger Sense— her twisted concept of "love" means that she literally equates loving somebody with violently stabbing them, allowing her to bypass Danger Sense completely because she's not sending out any malicious intent for the Quirk to sense.
  • Love Be a Lady: She's the frontmost girl in the League, and love plays a very prominent part in her life. It shows up everywhere, from how she ties her Quirk to the feeling to how she expresses her feelings to people.
  • Love Freak: Completely deconstructed. When Spinner asked why she followed Stain, her response is that she loves Stain, Midoriya, and Uraraka and that everything she does, she does out of love. Of course, her version of love involves violently stabbing her love interests and becoming them. She believes that her Quirk lets her copy powers too so that she could become those she "loves" even more.
  • Love Hurts: Twice's death haunts her well into the final arc, making her more violent than usual but also filling her with despair when she starts to believe she cannot avenge him. Her crying Broken Tears over her inability to replicate the League's Quirks during the Sad Man's Parade is how Uraraka notices her real body amongst all the various clones of Twice.
  • Luminescent Blush: She blushes for almost everything. It might have something to do with her blood-related Quirk, since blushing happens because of blood rushing to the face.
  • Man of Kryptonite: During the climactic battle with the League of Villains, she's able to throw a major wrench into the heroes' plans to separate the assembled villains to individual battlefields with the best opposable opponents by entangling Midoriya and dragging him with her away from his assigned spot. Midoriya can't react in time because the attack doesn't trigger Danger Sense and during the ensuing brawl Toga proves repeatedly capable of attacking Midoriya with knives from his blind spots without triggering Danger Sense at all. As he eventually deduces, her yandere mindset equates loving somebody with violently stabbing them. thus, akin to Venom's ability to remain undetected by Spider Sense, Toga still doesn't register as a threat by the Quirk because she's not emitting any malicious intent in her attacks. The vestige of Hikage Shinomori is outright shocked that somebody like her could even exist.
  • Mask of Sanity: Her parents forced her to pretend to be a normal student up until she finally snapped and started killing people. This is depicted quite literally in flashback, showing Toga in middle school as an obedient student, her face covered by a black mask with empty white eyes.
  • Master of Disguise: Her Quirk's power and operation is all over this, as it allows her to perfectly mimic someone's appearance.
  • Messy Hair: Her hairstyle is so wild that Horikoshi has trouble drawing it regularly.
  • Moral Myopia: Sees nothing wrong with the violence that her impulses drive her to inflict on others, yet is left devastated in the wake of both Twice's death and its implications.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Constantly being turned on by blood and being butt naked during battle makes her the villainous version of this.
  • Nightmare Face: She's a master at doing them. For one specific example, when Aizawa bound her in his binds and erased her Quirk all in the same movement, Toga gave him a look of cold anger, grabbed hold of the binds, and promptly used the momentum to stab him in the shoulder.
  • Nightmare Fetishist: She has a considerable blood fetish.
  • Not Good with Rejection: As her parents constantly rejected her impulses and urged her to suppress them until she eventually snapped from the stress, she views anyone not being able to accept her way of living and love in a similar vein, and will simply kill them. She takes this logic to its natural conclusion by noting how if the entire world rejects her, she'll reject the world in turn, and thus why she helps Shigaraki's plan to destroy everything. This trait comes back when Midoriya literally rejects her romantic advances towards the climax and she lashes out, having saw Midoriya loving her as the only thing she had left to live for, and fully embracing Then Let Me Be Evil after his rejection.
  • Oblivious to Hatred: She seems to think Uraraka and Tsuyu are her friends, despite being an Ax-Crazy Serial Killer with a serious case of bloodlust. Tsuyu even tells her not to use a First-Name Basis with her since she only lets her friends do it, but she doesn't comply.
  • Older Than They Look: She invokes the image of a middle schooler through clothes that look too oversized for her and a Girlish Pigtails hairstyle that she wore as a child. In truth, she's one year older than the main cast.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After Twice is killed, she adopts a much more subdued and colder attitude, her usual grins replaced with flat looks and intense frowns.
  • Personality Powers: Deconstructed. Having a Quirk that requires ingested blood for activation means that she has a natural affinity for blood since it's more or less part of her biological instincts, but because society would obviously consider such behavior psychotic and inappropriate, she was forced by her parents and counselors to suppress her own Blood Lust in order to fit within society, rather than actually get help. Needless to say, she eventually snapped and became a bloodsucking serial killer, her impulses driving her to madness and making her a slave to them. Her obsessive nature is also justified by her ability to transform into others.
  • Person of Mass Destruction: Chapter 341 has Dabi reveal that he secured a sample of Twice's blood from his corpse after his demise, implicitly goading Toga to use in in the final battle to replicate Twice's Sad Man's Parade to create an unending army that would render any numerical difference between each side meaningless. Since Twice's duplication of Toga herself also revealed that blood can be safely drawn from the clones without damaging them, this essentially means that if Toga can duplicate Twice once, she can create more blood samples to transform into him again, making her a literal One-Man Army and the cornerstone of Dabi's plans to overwhelm the heroes.
  • Perky Female Minion: She's almost constantly chipper, friendly and energetic - even in the midst of trying to brutally stab someone.
  • Pet the Dog: She comforts Twice when his mask is torn and covers him up to prevent him from hurting himself. Later as the final clone of Twice dies, Toga stays by his side hugging him thanking one last time for saving her.
  • Please Put Some Clothes On: Midoriya was freaked out by the fact she appeared before him in the nude as Camie.
  • Power Copying: While initially limited to only copying appearances, her Quirk spontaneously evolves during her fight with Curious and she can now copy a person's Quirk along with their appearance. Curious believes this was from stress and trauma while Toga believes it was from her "love" of the person she copied. Either way, like Twice unlocking his potential, it makes her much more dangerous.
  • The Power of Blood: Toga can only transform into someone after ingesting their blood. How long she can hold the transformation depends on how much blood she's consumed.
  • The Power of Love: While she can transform herself into anyone whose blood she ingests, she can only use their Quirks if she feels love for them. This proves to be a handicap on the Sad Man's Parade once she unleashes it against the heroes, as said restriction applies to any Doubles she creates, meaning she can create physical clones of All For One and Tomura, but none of their powers
  • Power Up Let Down:
    • Narrowly subverted: as powerful as Twice's blood and Sad Man's Parade is, Toga admits the situation she's in during the Final Battle would've made it worthless. There are simply too many heroes and not enough villains to hide in and she's isolated on an island with only 30-40 minutes worth of blood. Had it not been for Kurogiri's intervention, Toga flat out admits that the clones probably would've been wiped out without accomplishing anything.
    • It's later played straight with the same ability. Toga's restriction of 'needing to love a target' to use their Quirks also applies to the doubles she creates through Twice's Double. Whilst she can replicate their bodies, she cannot copy any of the league's various powers as well, meaning that the heroes only have to deal with an endlessly replicating horde of physical attackers instead. However, since this limitation is based upon Toga's emotional state, it's also noted that it could lift at any moment should she receive the right impetus.
  • Psycho Knife Nut: Toga is an Ax-Crazy Yandere who carries multiple knives on her as her signature weapon. he actually considers stabbing people to be a sign of affection, which means that Midoriya's Danger Sense can't alert him to Toga's attacks since she doesn't give off any Killing Intent.
  • Psychopathic Womanchild: As if the fact that she refuses to stop wearing her Sailor Fuku wasn't enough of an indication, Toga's mental and emotional development didn't progress much past middle school. While 17 is still quite young, her various raving schoolgirl crushes and her almost innocent misunderstanding of why her actions are wrong certainly call to mind somebody about 5 or 6 years younger, and she has the impulse control of a child as well.
  • Redemption Equals Death: In chapter 395, once Uraraka has finally managed to convince Toga to cease her attack, Toga, realizing that however sympathetic her past is, she will likely never see the outside of a cell again and out of loyalty to the first person other than Twice to show her kindness, transforms into Uraraka and offers a fatal blood transfusion to save her life, declaring she does not want to live in a world without Uraraka in it.
  • Red Right Hand: When she's not wearing her villain gear, the only things "off" about her appearance are her slitted pupils and sharp canine teeth.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: She goes on one in Chapter 273 in reaction to Twice's death, in which she disguised herself as a hero, infiltrated a small group of heroes invading the PLF mansion, and then begin to stab the other heroes in the group when they realized she didn't belong.
  • Rule of Symbolism: Her twisted idea of loving someone is to take so much blood from them that she will become them, even if they die in the process. Her first (and last) Act of True Love is to become Ochako and then give the real one all of her blood, with full knowledge that she will die in the process.
  • Sailor Fuku: Unlike the Class 1-A girls, her school uniform falls under this. This makes her psychopathy much more terrifying since it emphasizes that she really is just a teenage girl. This is actually invoked since while on the run from police, she eventually figured out people would be less suspicious of her in that outfit.
  • School Uniforms are the New Black: She wears her school uniform while hanging around the League, and her villain costume is just her bloodsucking apparatus on top of it.
  • Serial Killer: The first time we see her, she's standing in front of what looks like a corpse with blood on her face. Later, Giran confirms that she's a suspect in a string of murders.
  • Sex Is Violence: While not outright sex, it's clear she is deriving some... gruesome pleasure from drinking her victims blood. During her fight against Uraraka and Tsuyu, she pins Tsuyu against a tree, which she uses both to get closer to her and stab her. As Camie, when she pins Midoriya down and twists his arm, it looks like she's sexually assaulting him. Then there's her surprise attack on him during the yakuza base assault, which is as orgasmic as Horikoshi could make it without upping the rating of the manga:
    "I'M SO HAPPY, IZUKU!"
  • Shapeshifter: Her Quirk is "Transform", which allows her to change her appearance into anyone she ingests blood from. She gets aroused from doing this to people she likes.
  • Shout-Out: With all her Ax-Crazy tendencies, blond hair, general perkiness, generally silly antics and extremely violent behavior, Toga is basically the series' equivalent to Harley Quinn, particularly the DCEU version.
  • Shut Up, Hannibal!: She delivers one to Curious, angrily refuting the latter's attempts to frame her as a victim.
  • Situational Sociability: While freaking out about the idea that people might be "coming on to her" and saying she was not ready for something like that and admitting that she gets embarrassed when having to get naked if she wanted to create clothes for her transformations, she has no problem telling people how great they would look if they were bleeding and seems to forget all about being naked in the heat of the moment.
  • Slasher Smile: She sports one that would make Kouta Hirano proud during her rant about love in the Forest Training Camp Arc. Later, in the Meta Liberation Army Arc, she sports another one during her fight with Curious that temporarily stops Curious in her tracks.
  • The Smurfette Principle: From the Shie Hassaikai arc, she's the only female member of the League of Villains. After Curious' death, she's also becomes the only female regiment commander of the Paranormal Liberation Front.
  • Spanner in the Works:
    • Together with Twice in the Internship Arc. Sir Nighteye's operation had predicted that the relationship between the League of Villains and the Shie Hassaikai wasn't good, but they show up anyway to help Overhaul's escape. Then it's spun around while still being played straight in that she and Twice are there to sabotage the Shie Hassaikai, indirectly helping the heroes take down Mimic. Late in the operation, Toga disguises herself as Midoriya to lead the outside team to the ground that's above the area where Midoriya and Nighteye are holding off Overhaul, giving them a chance to pull a Big Damn Heroes.
    • She becomes another major one during the final battle when she manages to catch Midoriya with her syringe cables and pull him to her location through a warp gate. The heroes' main strategy depended on not only separating the villains via Monoma copying Kurogiri's warp gate, but also making sure the right heroes would be matched with the appropriate villain. By snagging Midoriya, she prevents him from facing Shigaraki alongside Bakugo and Best Jeanist, and thus immediately throws the heroes' main plan into chaos.
  • Stalker with a Crush: She's got it bad for Midoriya and Uraraka. Or could she just be out of their blood?
  • Stealth Expert: She’s the League’s top infiltrator for a reason after all. Toga’s ability to suppress her presence allows her to practically vanish into thin air, whether to escape or launch a deadly ambush.
  • Story-Breaker Power: With her in possession of a sample of Twice's blood to use in tangent with the Power Copying aspect of her Quirk, she also inherits the potential threat of Twice's Quirk.
  • Teens Are Monsters: She ran away from school and started her started down her path as a serial killer even before she had a chance to graduate from middle school.
  • Terms of Endangerment:
    • She insists on referring to Tsuyu as "Tsuyu-chan" (in Japanese) or "Tsu" (in English). Even when the frog girl says that only her friends can call her that, Toga happily declares that she is Tsuyu's friend too.
    • She also refers to Midoriya as "Izuku-kun" and Uraraka as "Ochaco-chan." In Japanese, using someone's first name is a sign that you are close with them, and attaching a cute honorific like -kun or -chan means you and the other person are extra close.
  • Then Let Me Be Evil: After the events of the PLF War and Twice's death, Toga was heavily teetering on a Heel Realization, and began questioning why heroes treated her and the rest of the League as less than human, and why no one was willing to accept her for who she was like Twice did. This causes her to confront both Uraraka and Midoriya separately in a cry for help, hoping at least one of them would be able to accept her. When Uraraka, unaware of Toga having Blue-and-Orange Morality and thinking she was just being evil, rejected her, Toga lost all love for her, and when Midoriya tried letting her down gently but still ultimately rejected her, Toga came to see there was no place for her in this world, and that if no one could accept her for who she is and will continue to treat her like a monster, she may as well act like one.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Her profile says that she likes pomegranates, rather appropriately as their juice looks like blood.
  • Tragic Villain: As twisted and violent as she is, much of Toga's villainy is ultimately a result of the psychological impact of her Quirk and the failure of the adults around her to help her find a proper method of handling it at a young age:
    • As a child, Toga was fascinated by blood due to her Quirk. After bringing a wounded bird to her parents, gushing over the its bloody form, they were horrified and disgusted enough to bring her to a Quirk counselor. Unfortunately, both the parents and the counselor were more concerned with making her "normal" than addressing her needs in a healthy way. The counselor's advice amounted to nothing but telling Toga to repress her urges. She tried to do so for the sake of looking normal to her parents and society, but years of hiding behind a mask and ignoring a psychological need eventually caused her to snap. Eventually stabbing the boy she had a crush on and drank his blood through a straw, crying the entire time, but unable to stop herself. Now incapable of restraining herself, she went on the run and began indulging in the impulses to an extreme, becoming the crazed Serial Killer she is today.
    • Invoked by both Curious and Re-Destro of the Meta Liberation Army. The two looked into Toga's background, and upon learning of her origins, felt she was the perfect candidate to be a martyr for their cause. They intended on killing her and then making her story public to elicit sympathy and justification for the Army's cause, only to fail once Toga realizes she can copy Uraraka's Quirk and uses it to kill Curious. Re-Destro orders any footage of the fight to be destroyed for the sake of maintaining morale.
  • Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Ambiguous. While Curious believes that being threatened and victimized by her prompted Toga's powers to evolve, teaching her how to use the Quirks of the people she impersonates, Toga herself believes that because she shows her "love" for people by becoming them, she can copy their Quirks to "love even more". It's unclear who is actually correct.
  • Villainous Breakdown: During the Final Battle, she loses it for good after Midoriya rejects her loony request to become her boyfriend. She lets go of her crush on him and becomes fully fixated on killing him and Uraraka instead, as evidenced by Danger Sense finally activating in response to her attacks. Note that while she was already trying to kill them before since she saw it as a sign of affection thanks to her Blue-and-Orange Morality, her new murderous desire toward them becomes actively malicious. She saw this as her last chance for a hero to save her and, finally internalizing that society would never accept her, careens full speed ahead into a remorseless killer.
    Toga: Deku-kun and Ochaco-chan are both the same, huh. Just like Mama and Papa. You all think that only heroes and those they save are valued as people. The rest don't even matter to you. Ever since I met you, I just couldn't stop thinking about you! I thought only about Deku-kun. But now I don't care anymore! If the world did nothing but reject me… then I'm entitled to do the same!
  • Villainous Crush: Of sorts for Midoriya, though it mostly means she wants to bleed him more. Her ecstatic reaction to Midoriya remembering her name, however, hints that she actually does have feelings for him. It's just those feelings are as twisted as she is. She also loves Uraraka and Stain and holds them on a similar pedestal. The crush is brought to a swift end when Midoriya diplomatically lets her down easy and she goes full batshit insane in response.
  • Villainous Friendship:
    • She forms a deep one with Twice in the Internship Arc. When the latter gets his mask torn up and starts freaking out, she quickly comes to his aid and covers the broken part of it with a handkerchief of hers to stop his breakdown. She then consoles him over the guilt he has about having inadvertently caused Magne's death, and the two spend the rest of the arc making fun of the yakuza together.
    • She was very close with Magne, treating the older villain like a Cool Big Sis.
  • Villain's Dying Grace: Toga saves Ochaco by giving her a fatal amount of her own blood, realizing Ochaco was right and wanting to die on her own terms.
  • Weak, but Skilled: Her Quirk doesn't help in combat at all, but she's fast and deadly with her blades. She's also good at hiding. So good that she disappears several times, fighting Midoriya, to the point that he mistakes her Quirk for one that lets her Flash Step. This may change since she's discovered that she can actually use the Quirk of the person she transformed into. Her second fight with Uraraka also showcases her skill; though Uraraka is stronger than her at this point and easily tosses her aside at first, Toga's superior skill and speed allows her to dodge all her subsequent attacks and even knock her down before she escapes relatively unharmed.
  • When She Smiles: Averted almost always, until in her another confrontation with Uraraka in Chapter 394, where Ochaco finally reached her and complemented Toga.
    Toga: Am I cute?
    Uraraka: The cutest in the whole world.
  • Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Her parents were disgusted by her bloodsucking Quirk and wanted her to act normal. This drives the rest of her dilemma throughout the story as she searches for a place to belong outside of the League as it's implied she's secretly afraid of dying despite being a serial killer.
  • Woman Scorned: Her attitude upon being rejected by Uraraka and Midoriya, barred from the insane "love" she wants to partake in with them. This ties into her mounting frustrations with society and the trauma of Twice's death to be completely objective, but her attitude during the final arc devolves into that of a jilted ex-lover who took a few too many crazy pills before coming into the office.
  • Would Harm a Senior: During the Paranormal Liberation War Arc, Toga takes the form of an elderly woman who's searching for her husband in order to lure Uraraka away. Since Toga's power requires her to suck the blood of the people she impersonates, Uraraka realizes that Toga attacked and possibly killed the woman.
  • Yandere: Played with. On the surface, she's an Ax-Crazy Psycho Knife Nut with a fetish for blood and a desire to "be like" anyone she is "in love" with, including Stain, Midoriya, and Uraraka. However, whether her love for them extends from genuine feelings for the individual in question or just to their blood and wanting to become one with them is unknown. She does little of the standard version of this aside from attempting to kill them when they fight. In addition, rather than the standard "cute and harmless" appearance associated with this, Toga's appearance is usually Cute But Psycho from the outset. This aspect of her throws a major Spanner in the Works into the heroes' plans during the Final Battle, as her equating violence with loving somebody means she doesn't emit any malicious intent when harming them, meaning she's completely invisible to Izuku's Danger Sense and is able to take him off-guard and drag him away from the battlefield he was meant to be assigned to.

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