Last time on My Hero Academia, All
Might received some disturbing news. His friend and police contact Detective
Tsukauchi told him what they’d learned about the Noumu that they captured.
According to DNA tests, this monstrosity was originally a petty criminal that
has been augmented with drugs and had several other people’s DNA forcibly added
to his own. This is unusual as such Chimeric fusions don’t induce multiple
powers in people, leading Tsukauchi to believe the DNA fusion is due to someone’s
Quirk. All Might is visibly shaken at the thought that this proves “Someone” is
back. Meanwhile, Shigaraki meets and instantly hates Stain the Hero Killer. In
a bid to out do the hero killers notoriety, Shigaraki unleashed three Noumu
into Hosu City, where he’d dropped Stain off in. He hopes his monster’s rampage
will make everyone forget about Stain. And, while Stain abducted and sets about
killing a hero called Native, Iida tracks him down. He vows to defeat his
brother’s assailant and claims the name Ingenium before the battle begins.
With Izuku, his mentor for the week,
Gran Torino, singlehandedly fends off a Noumu from attacking their train car.
He tells Izuku to stay in his seat while Torino deals with this, but Izuku
being Izuku ignores that sensible order. He leaps after Torino and the Noumu
back to the city. On the street, Torino is able to easily outpace the Noumu,
but the monster is easily distracted. When Torino proves to be too hard a
target, it turns its attention on a few bystanders. Thankfully, the monster is incinerated
before it can hurt anyone. That colossal Domineering
Incendiary-lobbing Condescending Kiln-impersonator (Don’t give me that look it’s been a while since I
did a DICK acronym) Endeavor, had come to town to hunt down Stain and decided
to step in on the Noumu. While he’s a terrible parent, the dude’s fire power is
peerless, he burns the creature to cinders in seconds.
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| Some men, and monsters, just want to watch the world burn. |
Unfortunately, there are still two
more Noumu to deal with, a bat-winged gargoyle creature and a behemoth that lacks
eyes. As Izuku runs in to lend aid, he happens to hear Iida’s mentor Manual
loudly call out for his missing student. Izuku realizes that his stiff friend had
probably run off to deal with Stain and starts looking for him.
With Shigaraki, we flashback a few
hours. Turns out, sometime either just before or right after dropping Stain off,
he demanded his master turn over the six Noumu that recently been finished for
his use. Master, being a cautious but ambitious man, lets his student have
three. They’re not as powerful as Duckbill Noumu, but the three should be
destructive together. Shigaraki is certain that his monster’s attack will eclipse
Stain’s reputation by the time dust settles.
Back with Iida, he gives the vile
Stain a speech about how amazing his brother was as a hero and how heartless it
was that Stain took that from the elder Iida. He reaffirms his identity as
Ingenium, and rushes his nemesis. Stain easily dodges, stabs Iida with a spiked
boot and knocks him to the ground. The twisted shinobi mocks the new Ingenium
and claims both men who’d held the name aren’t ‘real’ heroes. In a fury, Iida
screams that he’ll kill Stain. Stain then points out what a failure Iida is as
a hero, because he’s focusing on his vengeance more then protecting the injured
hero Native. He then licks Iida’s blood, and Iida is suddenly paralyzed. Before
the villain can capitalize on his advantage, Izuku highspeed leaps in and punches
the jerk hole off his friend.
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| Izuku punch! |
Izuku realized that Stain is
probably connected to the League of Villains and that his modus operandi meant
he’d be somewhere far from the action with the Noumu. Focusing on that idea, Izuku
highspeed leapt around the back alleys until he found his friend at Stain’s
mercy. He wants to lead the villain to the street, so they could get some
backup from more heroes, but the paralysis of Native and Iida makes it
impossible. After hearing Stain pontificate about how corrupt the hero world
has become, he realized that the villain is a fanatic. He texts something out
before the fight continues. Iida begs Izuku to run, as this isn’t his fight,
but Izuku refuses. Since, yeah know, heroes meddle. He rushes Stain again. He’s
able to dodge around Stain’s sword and hits him with a 5% OFA smash. He knocks
the baddie for a loop, but Stain is able to slash him with a dagger and licks
up the blood. Izuku drops, paralyzed as well.
Stain praises Izuku for being a
real hero, focusing on saving others above all else. He might just leave Izuku
alive after killing the “fakes” Native and Iida. Before he can hurt either of
them, a massive blast of flame forces him back. Todoroki walks up. Izuku had
texted out his gps location, which caused some confusion for Todoroki, but he
figured it out and rushed right over to help his classmates. Izuku advises Todoroki
keep out of Stain’s stabbing range, which he does with his fire and ice
attacks. He takes a moment to point out to Iida that, if he really wants to be
Ingenium, he needs to let go of that killer look in his eyes.
Izuku starts twitching, much to his
own surprise. Stain, deciding to get his kill, distracts Todoroki by throwing a
kunai and runs to kill Native. Izuku gets up and lunges at him, knocking the
villain away. This causes some confusion, as Izuku was the most recent victim
of Stain’s Quirk and should still be immobile. They quickly theorize that Stain’s
power must work according to blood type. Present Mic’s disembodied voice explains
to us, the audience, that Stain’s power is called Bloodcurdle. He paralyzes his
victims for several minutes depending on their blood type. It goes O, A, AB,
and B, with O being the shorted and B the longest. Stain’s blood type is B for
those who are curious.
Todoroki and Izuku hit Stain in
tandem, Todoroki’s ranged attacks making openings for Izuku and Izuku’s close
combat skills giving Todoroki ranged options. Todoroki muses to himself that he
knew Iida’s hatred as it was the same kind that he carried for so long. He was
able to let go of it after seeing his mother and hearing her tell him to keep
moving forward. Her advice was what let him get out of his own way and work for
his dad, something he’d have never done before. Love or hate Endeavor, he’s the
second greatest hero in Japan, so there’s a lot he can learn from him. Iida
tells his friends to run, as he feels he’s not worth all of their efforts and
potential sacrifices. And Todoroki tells him to stop whining and be a hero, to
be the kind of Ingenium that Tensei could be proud of. This seems to hit a cord
in Iida and he starts struggling to move. Damn you guys!
Okay, so let’s talk about Stain. As
of right now, we know that he’s insane. He is a man that is so against the idea
of non-selfless heroes that he is hell bent on killing or maiming any hero that
even slightly seems like they’re doing it for the money. Stain, buddy, we all
love Spider-Man but not everyone can do the whole poor hero thing. Despite this
insanity, he’s incredibly skilled. His gear and weaponry are all optimized to
increase the odds of drawing blood. He flips swords and knives around with such
skill that you’d think his powers were physically based. Instead, he has what
might seem like a near useless power in paralysis via ingesting blood. I don’t
know about anyone else but that just sounds ookie. That all said, he’s a convicted
SOB. He believes wholeheartedly in his mission to ‘purify’ the word hero, and
does make a few good points. He’s got that in common with Thanos I guess, nutty
but has a few good points. It’s a shame he went nuts. If he’d made it as a hero,
he probably could have done a lot of good with his power. I like that his words
seem to have a jarring effect on Iida. I could think of few things more
emotionally damaging then facing off against one’s sibling’s assailant and
realizing that he has good points about your job. Side note, I’m really confused
why Ingenium was on his list. As far as we know, he’s just as committed to saving
people selflessly like All Might. Really, the only difference between the two
is that Ingenium had a ton of help in his sidekicks. So, I guess the hallmark of
a real hero is doing it yourself. Thankfully, Izuku, Todoroki and hopefully Iida
will be able to stop this psycho before he does any more damage.
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