Warning: Spoilers for My Hero Academia Season 6, Episode 15One of the most dangerous villains that My Hero Academia‘s Deku has ever fought is now free, and getting revenge has always been on his mind. Now that he’s loose once more, will Deku be able to stop him?
Back during the Forest Training Camp arc, Deku became separated from the others and ran into a powerful, cruel villain who called himself Muscular. Muscular’s Quirk, as his name suggests, allowed him to create new muscle tissue on a whim, giving him both incredible defensive/regenerative and offensive abilities. While Deku took a lot of damage, he was eventually able to defeat Muscular, and the villain was arrested. Now, thanks to All for One’s jailbreak in My Hero Academia, Muscular is back on the streets as well.
My Hero Academia’s Muscular Returns
Things have changed a lot for Deku while Muscular has been locked away; he’s unlocked new Quirks and learned how best to harness his power. While in-universe it’s only been a few months since the Forest Training Camp, those have been some action-packed months for Deku, having seen him go up against Overhaul, most notably, and now My Hero Academia’s entire Paranormal Liberation War. He’s not the same boy who was still unfamiliar with his powers and unable to attack without substantially injuring himself. Of course, the imprisoned Muscular has no way of knowing this, and honestly no reason to expect it, at least at this stage. He may find that Deku is a far bigger threat than he’s expecting to deal with.
Is Deku Ready for a Rematch With Muscular in My Hero Academia?
Another problem Deku faced in his initial fight with Muscular was that he had to protect the young boy, Kota, in addition to fight. Given the state that Japan is in right now in My Hero Academia, it probably won’t be so easy to grab a hostage this time. While Muscular could be extremely threatening as part of a group assault, he’s not exactly a team player, either; there’s a reason he wasn’t able to escape with the rest of the League, after all.
There’s also, of course, the fact that Deku is currently laid up in the central hospital following My Hero Academia’s Paranormal Liberation War, due to the injuries he suffered. He’s in no state to be fighting anyone at the moment, much less a deadly foe like Muscular. Deku is shown to be unconscious and comatose at the end of the episode, with no indication as to when he might wake up. The question then becomes–how set on vengeance is Muscular? Enough so that he’d attack a hospital? Or will he simply go about wreaking havoc and making a name for himself, hoping to draw Deku to him? Neither course of action is particularly good, and for a man who was eager to kill two children in the Forest Training Camp arc, nothing may be too far past the line.
Whatever My Hero Academia‘s now-freed foe may be up to, it’s likely that the job of stopping him will fall to Deku, one way or another. Muscular may be in for a shock when he does run into Deku again, though–the boy is a boy no more.
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