Villains who wanted to be heroes

Summary

• Personal tragedies and disillusionment with the Hero Society drive some characters against villain.

• Hard realities, failed dreams and storage lead specific individuals to reject heroism.

• My hero Academy deepens complex character motivations and shows the dark side of the hero culture.

Want to become a hero in the world of My hero Academy can end in one of two ways. On the one hand, it can motivate characters to work hard and exercise as much as possible so that one day they can protect civilians from fear, but in some cases it may actually end up someone more against villain. A lot of My hero AcademyThe story is based on dissecting what it means to become a hero, with it gradually becoming clearer to the readers and viewers that the hero community is not as equal and fair as it can work on the surface.

As a result, there are several individuals who, even though they initially wanted to become heroes themselves, were instead going down on a path of darkness and turning into villains, but what exactly drove them to reject their dreams in the first place? It's time to take a closer look at these villains to reveal where everything went wrong for them.

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Mild criminal

Gentle's dreams of becoming a hero was destroyed by a simple accident

• First appearance: Section 81

Danjuro Tobita is a character that experienced the harsh reality and strictness of the Hero Society from the first place, and after realizing how horrible it could really be, he decided to take on the person from a villain known as mild criminal. Before My hero The story starts, Danjuro is a young student who is keen to prove his value to eventually become a hero, but this zeal ends with being better by him. After trying to use his elasticity limit to save a man who fell from a building, Gentle ended up getting in the way of a pro hero trying to do the same, resulting in the victim landing on the floor and causing many injuries before being hospitalized.

This not only blasted Danjuro's confidence, but it put his parents in heavy debts when they tried to pay for the man's injuries, with Danjuro who was hated among the public because of his actions. What really did Danjuro Snap, however, was when he met one of his schoolmates who had just become a pro-hero, just to find out that his friend did not even remember his name. All this would result in gently collaborating with the spunky la Brava to become a villain duo ready to do devastation, even though he again acts as a hero during the final war.

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Lady

Nagant began to question his role in society after being used as a killing machine

• First appearance: section 133

During her younger years, Lady Nagant was motivated, or Kaina Tsutsumi by the idea of ​​using her deadly rifle churches as a way to protect society when she became a pro-lord. Originally, this personal goal went pretty well, especially when she got the title as the best marker in Japan. But as the time passed, Kaina began to realize that the majority of her mission involved her noble to kill not only villains, but also heroes, rather than trying to scare them or reform them.

Eventually, the stress was to constantly kill strangers for the hero commission too much, and Kaina broke out by killing the Commission President, which resulted in her being thrown into the Tartarus prison. As has been shown with many characters in the series, including Nagant, it is not always easy to keep the peace, and behind closed doors, are those who pull the strings more than willing to commit dirty deeds if it means to save their reputation, which is something that Nagant came to contempt.

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Spot

After discovering why people registered to be heroes, the spot became a violent vigilante

• First look: section 24

Stain is not a traditional villain, in the sense that he does not want to take over the world to hatch any kind of master plan as a highest ruler. Instead, Stain's goal is to hunt and kill “fake heroes”, with reference to anyone who becomes a hero purely for their own selfish gain, rather than to protect others. The story of how he adopted this way of thinking comes from Vigilant Spin-off series, where it is shown that the stain was actually a massive fan of all power when he was young, so much that he even joined a hero academy to be just like him.

After noting how many people chose to pick up the hero mantle just for money and fame, the stain became a vigilance that was still leaning on the side of heroism, as he was only aimed at killing villains at that point. But after colleague Vigilante Knuckleduster has rejected him as a little more than a “crazy slasher”, this would mark the birth of Stain's hero murderer persona, where he would turn his focus to eliminate fake heroes which he considers to be unworthy to keep their positions in society.

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Dabi

When the pursuit stopped paying attention to Dabi, he realized the harsh reality of the hero culture

• First look: section 31

The whole reason why Dabi, whose real name is Toya Todorki, was born so that the endeavor could raise a child who would one day surpass all power, the first hero at that time. For starters, this didn't seem too much problem, as Toya's hell -quirk was much more powerful than his father's, which made the young boy excited to one day become a big hero. But things started to get angry when Shoto, Endeavor's fourth child, went into the picture and had both his father's flame and his mother's ice. At the same time, Toya's own flames began to burn him when he used them, which got the quest to see him as a failure.

By seeing Shoto as his latest wonderful child, the pursuit began to ignore Toya, which caused the boy to beg for his father to pay attention to him. When Toya decided to go to Sekoto Peak to show the quest how far he had come through his own training, just because his father would not show up, Toya then became obsessed with assuming revenge on him and becoming the very dangerous villain known as Dabi. Dabi's situation is an example of the harmful activities that are going on behind the scenes in the Hero Society, and while the endeavor would desperately try to reconcile his sins against his children, it was still his own actions that made Dabi become a villain in the first place.

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Tomura Shigaraki

Shigaraki's fascination for heroes resulted in him having a horrible childhood that eventually led him to villain

• First appearance: Section 8

Although Shigaraki can come across as a sick and twisted villain during much of the series, he did not actually start this way. In fact, Shigaraki was a fairly normal child who looked up to heroes and even wanted to be himself, but this was not an idea supported by his father, Kotaro. At a young age, Kotaro's mother, Nana, abandoned him to go and fight one, which made him believe that heroes are simply people who would rather protect strangers than their own families.

After ridicating and abusing Shigaraki because of his dream, the young boy not only ended his father but his entire family, after he accidentally activated his decay. Shigaraki would carry his hands on his deceased relatives around his body from the tragic day onwards, and would eventually become a farmer of all for even until he is eventually taken out for good at the end of the story of Midoriya.