My Hero Academia Proves Its Lamest Villains Are Better than its Heroes

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Warning! Spoilers ahead for My Hero Academia chapter 353!

One of My Hero Academia's strongest attributes will always be how mangaka Kohei Horikoshi can make readers sympathize with his villains no matter how despicable they are — even more this his heroes. Horikoshi just took this dynamic to a whole other level through the heart-wrenching effect he somehow created with a villain no one really cares about.

Essentially every single member of the original League of Villains has an origin story that pulls at the heartstrings to the point where readers begin to question whether or not they're actually evil. Many of them, including Twice and Himiko Toga, just needed somewhere to belong, and it just so happened that the only person who would accept them for who they were was the most effective manipulator All For One who took advantage of their plight and molded them into his minions. Readers even feel compelled to feel for lesser-known villains like Mr. Compress who share admirable ideals that would have made him his own hero had he not joined the League of Villains. The only exception is Tomura Shigaraki, but only on the basis of him not feeling any remorse after accidentally killing his entire family aside from his mentally abusive father.

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But in chapter 353, mangaka Horikoshi achieves the impossible by how he effectively captures the anguish of his lesser-known and unpopular villain Spinner. Upon hearing that Dabi has lost against Shoto Todoroki, Spinner can't believe that the information is actually valid and even tries to convince himself that the news was just «information warfare.» Spinner's struggle culminates internally and externally. Internally, he's