My Hero Academia: Why Doesn’t Himiko Have a Villain Name?

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Pseudo names and monikers are one of the most defining features of the superhero genre, with most stories from Batman to Ms.Marvel making use of them. My Hero Academia is no different, but why is it that one of its most prominent villains forgoes the classic naming convention?

Since her first main appearance in My Hero Academia’s forest training camp arc, Himiko Toga has been one of the most popular characters in the series, often ranking high on character popularity polls. Unlike the rest of her villain comrades though, she doesn’t operate under a villain name. Why is that?

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To understand Toga’s choice to forgo a name, we need to know why other characters use them. MHA actually gives an explanation on the hero side of things when class 1A chose their hero names. Their teacher and pro hero Midnight emphasizes that their hero names must represent who they are and how they want to be viewed by the world. Hence, why Bakugo and Ashido have their original hero names “Lord Explosion Murder” and “Alien Queen” rejected for being too unsavory or long. “Red Riot”, “Uravity”, or even “Deku” are accepted as names because they fulfill the purpose of representing the heroes and what they’re about.

The same idea carries for the villains as well. While we never see most of the villains’ reasons for choosing the names they do, we can easily assume why they did. “All for One” as a name represents his desire for supremacy and his selfish worldview. “Mr.Compress” as a name fits with his magician aesthetic and hints at his compression quirk. Villain names also serve the double purpose of disguising a criminal’s real identity in order to make them harder to locate and