The strongest characters from the movies

Key things

• Multiple characters from My Hero Academia are manga canon, with some of them being surprisingly powerful.
• Support objects can play a vital role, as seen in Giulio Gandini's prosthetic limbs and cybernetic eye.
• Villains like Flect Turn and Dark Might perform powerful quips that challenge the main characters.

Like any successful shōnen action manga, My Hero Academia has been brought to the big screen on several occasions, with the most recent being My Hero Academia movie that was recently released in 2024. But what sets it apart from other similar IPs is that most of the characters that are introduced in these movies are actually canon from the manga, even though they are hardly mentioned in it.

This semi-canonical existence of characters introduced in various My Hero Academia movies are truly fascinating, especially since some of them are surprisingly powerful, to the point that they could easily stand up to the strongest heroes and villains of the main series, and the following 10 are among the most impressive. examples.

10 Giulio Gandini

An effective fighter who can't even use his wit

• Appears in My Hero Academia: You're Next

Jokes are everything in the world My Hero Academiabut the franchise occasionally introduces a strong character who can't use his wit but is still pretty strong. This is exactly the case Giulio Gandiniwhich comes from the latest film in the series. He may have lost an arm – which prevents him from using his Quirk – but he's still a pretty deadly fighter.

Giulio is a perfect example of how reliable and important support items can be, as he's a cyborg who quickly took down many enemies with his prosthetic limbs, robotic eye, array of non-lethal weapons, and armored motorcycle. He was even involved in defeating two different members of the Gollini family and both were able to use their quirks.

9 Hoyo Makihara (Mummy)

His unique Quirk can create an army of monsters

• Appears in My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising

The Nine and his allies are undoubtedly some of the most memorable and powerful adversaries in the world My Hero Academia movies and Hi Makiharabetter known as Mummyis no exception. With his joke, mummification, he can use his red bandages to catch inanimate objects and turn them into mummies, which he controls at will. It doesn't work on humans, but he can still control them by manipulating their clothing and accessories.

This proved to be quite an effective power, especially when Mummy had to fight multiple opponents at the same time, like many members of UA High School's Class 1-A. Still, he was defeated and captured by Bakugou much earlier in the film than any other villain, proving that he was the team's weakest link.

8 Ena and Dio (Serpenters)

This villainous duo gave Bakugo a very hard time

• Appear in My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission

Katsuki Bakugo didn't have many solo fights against villains in the main story, but he got one in the third movie and it was as intense as it was exciting. During climax World Heroes Missionhe had to fight Ena and Diobetter known as Snakesall alone

These villains were already quite powerful, thanks to their synchronized teamwork and their deadly wit that allowed them to turn their arms into extendable whip swords. But the tide of the battle completely changed the moment the Snakes swallowed Trigger, turning them into vicious monsters, each with six tentacle swords. Luckily, Bakugo was able to defeat them after a tough fight.

7 Leviathan

One of the weirdest jokes in the series is also one of the strongest

• Appears in My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission

Shoto Todoroki's fight against Leviathan maybe not as memorable as Bakugo's clash with the Serpents, but it was still one of the best action sequences in the movie. This is mostly due to the villain's strange appearance and his strange but deadly quirt with an equally strange name: the Helical Scythe.

This ability allows Leviathan to grow red spinning appendages on his fingers and head that he can stretch at will. These pendants are surprisingly powerful as they can break through Todoroki's ice and create strong eddies in the water. However, it's important to note that Leviathan's Helical Scythe was also boosted by Trigger, so it's currently unknown how it normally works.

6 Kiruka Hasaki (slice)

Malice with a powerful and practical wit

• Appears in My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising

At first sight Kiruka Hasaki the joke may not seem all that interesting, but throughout the film it shows how effective it really is. Slice (which is also her villainous name) gives her the ability to completely manipulate her own hair, making it stronger, longer, and even shooting sharpened strands at her enemies.

With this handy superpower, Slice destroyed multiple ships in one attack and could even hold her own while fighting multiple Class 1-A students at the same time, even though some of her hair was melted by Mina's acid. At the end of the day, she was stopped by the power of an enraged Dark Shadow fighting in the darkness, cementing how impressive she was.

5 Flex Turn

A living impenetrable barrier

• Appears in My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission

For the main villain The mission of word heroes, Flex Turnhis sense of humor is both a blessing and a curse. The simply named Reflect allows him to absorb energy and send it back to his opponents, an excellent defense to block enemy attacks. However, this permanent eccentricity also prevented Flect Turn from having physical contact with his friends and family, eventually radicalizing him.

With Reflect, Flect Turn becomes an impenetrable barrier that can not only withstand even the most powerful attacks, but can also send them back with equal force, although it's important to clarify that he is aided by his support item: an exoskeleton named Arachne. During the film's climax, Deku was forced to use several powerful One For All-enhanced attacks to overload Reflect and break through Flect Turn's defense.

4 Chojuro Kon (Chimera)

The strongest and most versatile mutant-type quirk in the series

• Appears in My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising

Most people in the franchise who are born with animal-like, Mutant Type Quirks can usually control the abilities of one particular creature at a time. But Chojuro Konbetter known as Chimerais a notorious exception, as he can apparently use the powers of multiple animals at the same time, thanks to his quirk, which is also called Chimera.

It has immense strength, speed and durability, the jaws of a wolf, the legs of a predator, the tail of a crocodile, and on top of all that, it can also shoot powerful blasts of fire from its mouth, similar to, for example, a dragon. The climactic encounter between several members of Class 1-A and the Chimera was quite intense as it seemed that they would not be able to defeat him. In the end, they barely managed to take him down and mostly managed to do so thanks to Shoto Todoroki's effective wit.

3 Tungsten

He was the only major villain who faced all of himself

• Appears in My Hero Academia: Two Heroes

Although the main antagonists of the subsequent My Hero Academia the movies were definitely stronger than him, there's no denying that Tungsten he is still one of the most compelling villains in the entire franchise. He wields a magnetic quirk called Metal Manipulation, which was quite useful in the futuristic setting of I-Island, and also enhanced it by wearing David Shield's Quirk Amplification Device.

If all that wasn't enough, Wolfram also got more jokes from All For One. All of these elements turned him into a gigantic mass of metal and muscle that seemed impossible to take down, and it took the combined efforts of Deku and All Might to defeat him. The fact that Wolfram was the only character in the entire series to fight this heroic pair of mentor and protégé proves just how menacing he really was.

2 Dark power

Twisted, Dark Version All Might with Enhanced Quirk

• Appears in My Hero Academia: You're Next

Valdo Gollinibetter known as Dark poweris an ambitious but dangerous villain who has not only twisted All Might's ideals to become more and more powerful, but also has an impressive quirk that allows him to do whatever he pleases, called Alchemy. With it, Dark Might can transmute the physical matter of anything it touches and turn it into something else, meaning it's not too different from the Overhaul joke.

Not only can he use alchemy to transform things like coins or rings into pillars, weapons, platforms, and flying fists, but he's also used it on himself to look exactly like All Might. And if Dark Might's immense power wasn't already threatening, he enhanced his joke with Anna's joke, Overmodification. By the end of the movie, Dark Might had undergone several powerful transformations that had to be taken down by the combined forces of Deku, Bakugo, and Todoroki, which was no small feat.

1 Nine

He's basically an all-in-one clone

• Appears in My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising

Nine is without a doubt the most powerful villain behind My Hero Academia feature film, especially since it has a strong connection to the main antagonist of the entire series. He was already born with an incredible wit that he could use to manipulate the weather at will, allowing him to create large electrical storms, powerful tornadoes, and more.

But as if that wasn't enough, Nine was one of All For One's personal pet projects before Tomura Shigaraki, and as a result was able to use a copy of his master's quirk that allowed him to steal and use other people's abilities. . The combination of several combined quirks made the Nine an extremely dangerous threat that the heroes would never have been able to defeat had Deku not given the One For All to Bakugo, allowing them both to use her full power to defeat the villain. bombastic final battle. There are very few characters in the series who could survive such a legendary attack.