Hero i quit a long time ago Anime english dub

I'm Quitting Heroing might not be the Spring 2022 Season's most groundbreaking anime. It is, however, an interesting deconstruction of the chosen one archetype, featuring a demonized hero who is expelled from his community and resolves to join the dark side, whether the dark side wants him or not. But will I'm Quitting Heroing be dubbed in English?

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I'm Quitting Heroing: What Is It About?

The Symbol of Evil

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Voiced by: Akio Ōtsuka (Japanese), John Swasey (English), Carlos Segundo (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 59 (Manga), Episode 33 (Anime)

Playable in: My Hero One's Justice, My Hero One's Justice 2

Quirk: All For One (Artificial Duplicate), All For One (Original; Formerly)

Stolen Quirks: Currently: Air Cannon, Warping, Springlike Limbs, Kinetic Booster (x4), Strength Enhancer (x3), Impact Recoil, Rivets, Spearlike Bones, Hypertrophy, Proliferation, Forcible Quirk Activation, Rivet Stab, Infrared Ray, Life Force (Original), Unnamed Telekinetic/Gravity Quirk(s), Search, Unnamed Lie Detection Quirk, Unnamed Levitation Quirk, Unnamed Crescent Blade Quirk, Unnamed Black Ooze Quirk, Hardflame Fan, Unnamed Mouth Quirk Unnamed Vibration Detection Quirk, Unnamed Glue Quirk, Unnamed Shield Quirk. Formerly: Stockpiling, Super Regeneration, Enhanced Strength, Overclock, First Generation Spike Quirk, Air Walk, Navel Laser, Body Bulk, Scale Mail. Unknown Status: Unnamed Lightning Quirk(s), Unnamed Landscape Manipulation Quirks, Unnamed Fire Quirk(s), Unnamed Monster Jaw Quirk, Miscellaneous First Generation Quirks (x4).

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Rank: S

"If it's freedom you desire, then submit to me, my brethren. And bear witness, by my side. This impending void era will give rise to a more perfect demon lord. This will be the story of how I became the greatest demon lord of all!"

All For One has been around since Quirks first emerged. Since that time, he had used his power to amass numerous devout followers, with whom he ruled the Japanese underworld from the shadows for years. He had a younger brother named Yoichi Shigaraki, who opposed him and became the first wielder of One For All. Five years prior to the events of the main story, All Might put a stop to his reign of evil by defeating his minions and eventually the man himself in a battle that left both parties severely injured. Since then, All For One wants to bequeath his place to his protégé, Tomura Shigaraki.

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By the series' final arc, it's revealed that All For One's true goal is to Take Over the World by making him and his Quirks the only way to provide sustainable resources, forcing everybody to rely on him as a God-Emperor. To accomplish this, he wants to steal One For All, his greatest obstacle.

All For One boasts of a staggering power in a class of its own due to his titular Quirk, "All For One". With it, he can steal other Quirks for personal use or transfer them to others. He inadvertently created One For All this way.

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• Ability Mixing: His most devastating attacks come from the combination of several Quirks that complement one another. For example, mixing his Air Cannon with Kinetic Boosters, Strength Enhancers, and Springlike Limbs to make what would've been a contained burst of air into a shockwave that topples buildings. Additionally, his Quirk also possessed the unique function to create entirely different Quirks and effects from mixing two separate Quirks together, which is the genesis of how One For All was accidentally created by him.
• Above Good and Evil: All For One doesn't believe in morality, believing that people are free to do as they please if they have the power to do so. It's a belief that he tries to teach Tomura as well. This is ultimately subverted: All For One's true motivation is to be the most reviled, invincible Demon King the world has ever known. He knows he's the villain, because he wanted to be. This implies that he was simply fostering Tomura's loathing of the status quo and society as a whole rather than something he actually genuinely believes.

  All For One: (to a young Tomura Shigaraki) Conscience, integrity, morals, ethics... all mere fabrications invented by others. People who wanted to run the world smoothly as they saw fit.

• Abusive Parents: Zigzagged and then ultimately played straight. He does appear supportive towards his adopted son at first, but the ensuing reveal that he intends to merge with Tomura into one being against his will shows he never actually cared about him at all. He just saw him as an extension of himself, making him the ultimate narcissistic parent. Tomura also mentions over and over how nobody saved him when he needed it even though All For One supposedly had saved him, implying he's known all along that his master had condemned him to a life of suffering, and deeply hates him for it.
• Adapted Out: Not him, but the holes in his palms that let him give and take Quirks are absent during his appearance in season 3. Entirely averted later in season 5 where they're added following the manga drawing attention to this being an important detail to having the All For One Quirk.
• The Ageless: He's older than One For All, which has been passed down for nine heroes, yet has not aged since. All Might speculates that he found a Quirk that stops aging, later confirmed to be Dr. Garaki's Quirk, "Life Force". It's implied that he's not truly ageless, but his natural ageing process has been slowed down so noticeably that he'll be alive and in good health for a very long time— and his overarching plan throughout the series is ultimately to create the 'next him' in the younger Tomura's body with said Quirk copied into it, meaning All For One would outlive his original self's natural death and have an extended lifespan on top of that. This is part of the reason his Hour of Power with Eri's Rewind is able to last so long — despite the energy rewinding him at a speed so fast that the wounds All Might inflicted on him years ago vanish in seconds, he's so old that his lifespan has enough years on the clock that he's confident of freeing his 'Next me' before his inevitable Cessation of Existence.
• All According to Plan: For most of the story, this is played straight. All For One has an overarching goal he is manipulating both the League of Villains, and especially Tomura, and the heroes towards achieving, but is intentionally vague about what said goal is so nobody can preempt his machinations. Even defeating him and locking him in Tartarus doesn't stop his plans, because he'd set them up to be self-sustaining long before he ever stepped up to fight All Might. He later gloats to Dabi that he'd made full use of his extended lifespan to set up as many long-term contingencies and fallbacks as he could think of years in advance, so no matter what the outcome, he'd always have a fallback plan even in the worst-case scenario. However, the heroes are eventually able to turn the tables on him in the final battle, in part by letting All For One think this trope is still at play.
• All Your Powers Combined: His Quirk combines this with Power Parasite and Super Empowering. He's able to steal others' Quirks for himself, allowing him to combine several Quirks together. He can also stack multiples of the same Quirk to amplify their power.
• Ambition Is Evil: Even as a kid he loved to emulate a demon king from a manga, and came to revel in the power to rule the world. He was there at the beginning of the Quirk crisis where Heroes, Vigilantes, and Villains arose, rising to power in the ensuing chaos. It can be argued that his ambition is the exact same as it was ever since he was a child — to become an invincible demon lord and successfully enact whatever plans and schemes he has to in order to ensure a future where The Bad Guy Wins, and all that changed in the meantime was the variety of Quirks he could steal, export and monopolise towards that childish dream at the expense of countless people.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: Anyone he offers a service to will quickly learn that he expects to gain far more than he ever gives. Answering "no" isn't an option: once the "offer" is given, he already has his hooks too deep into the targets for them to ever be free from him again. They'll be forced to serve All For One for the rest of their lives, either as a minion, a resource, a tool, or an example.
• Antagonist Abilities: The Quirk "All For One" is exceedingly powerful, and could be considered the ultimate nightmare in a society that revolves around Quirks. With the story's emphasis on putting one's better qualities in service of society, it's only appropriate that the Greater-Scope Villain's power would be to steal the "talents" of others for himself. The ability also acts as a Foil to "One For All", which enables the cultivation of a collective legacy throughout multiple generations.
• Arch-Enemy: It's difficult to find a major character he hasn't royally pissed off to the point they're personally invested in ending him.
  • He sees every inheritor of One For All as worthless and always tries to break their spirits so he can finally acquire the Quirk they hold. Of them, there are four he has particularly earned the ire of:
    • Of all the users of One For All, he seems to genuinely hate the Second User. When fighting Bakugo, the vestige of All For One starts getting reminded of the Second, making him uncharacteristically angry. His Tranquil Fury towards the Second is shown with streams of tears pouring down his face. It's hinted that this is due to Yoichi having passed away after successfully passing on One For All to the Second.
    • It was because of him that Nana Shimura had to give up her young son for adoption to protect him from the clutches of an evil cult. All For One would later track down her grandson Tenko and groom him into becoming Tomura Shigaraki, even giving him one of Nana's hands for his villain costume in a final defilement of her legacy.
    • All Might, as the murderer of his mentor Nana Shimura, and the one who dealt him a crippling blow. He reciprocates the feeling towards All Might, despising him for destroying his criminal empire, and makes his loathing clear during their interactions.

    All For One: You know All Might, as much as you hate me, I think I probably loathe you more.

    • He tells Izuku that during his time in prison all he could think about was him, and tortures him mercilessly. And the feeling is mutual on Izuku's end as he loathes and detests him with every fiber of his being.
  • He has slowly but gradually become this to all of Class 1-A over the course of the series. In between attacking them at the USJ and the Training Camp, targeting both Midoriya and Bakugo at different points, and finally, his exploitation of Aoyama, he is officially at the top of their shit list.
• Archnemesis Dad: To Tomura, having raised the boy as his adoptive father with the express purpose of absorbing his consciousness into himself to ascend as a "more perfect Demon Lord." In the Final Act of the story he becomes as much of a threat to Tomura's goal of becoming the greatest villain as he is to the heroes, although he keeps trying to play it off as genuine respect. He only sees Tomura as an extension of himself, explaining why he was able to care about him at all. It was always in service to his own prosperity and to Tomura's detriment.
• Ascended Fanboy: Played horrifically straight which makes him a dark mirror to Izuku. Rather than be a fan of the superheroes in the comics he grew up reading, he became a fan of the Demon King, seeing many similarities between himself and the character. With his Quirk, he became able to enact his Demon Lord fantasies in real life and stops at nothing to ensure he can play the role for eternity. His dialogue during his conflict with the heroes even implies that he sincerely believes he can't be challenged or beaten by anybody other than a holder of One For All, both because of his own immense might and because of the 'roles' each are playing.
• Attack Reflector: One of his Quirks, "Impact Recoil", lets him reverse the impact of someone's attack. By combining it with his "Warping" Quirk, which lets him teleport people to his location, he can create impromptu Human Shields as Gran Torino learned the hard way. However, it only works on physical attacks, meaning attacks that uses properties like extreme heat cannot be reflected, such as a massive flaming punch.
• Authority Grants Asskicking: All For One is the true leader of the League of Villains, and the most powerful character in the whole series, only matched by All Might. It takes him seconds to defeat several top-ranked Heroes.
• Awesome, but Impractical: Mass Quirk combinations like his 'ultimate combination of Quirks' fall into this: he has to activate the individual Quirks and spend time actually letting the changes to his body take effect. Against All Might this wasn't an issue because All Might couldn't really counterattack and no one was able to interrupt, but he's notably never shown using that complex of Quirk combinations otherwise, normally settling for one or two at a time.
• Back from the Dead: At the exact moment of death by being nearly vaporized by Endeavor's flames no less, as he activates his artificial copy of Eri's Rewind reverse-engineered from Overhaul's bullets despite ensuring Cessation of Existence just to make the fight even harder as he heals to his prime, making all their efforts for naught to screw with them one last time.
• Bad Boss: During the Paranormal Liberation War arc, he hijacks Tomura's body and flees the battlefield, deserting most of the League of Villains members, including Gigantomachia. He frames this as Tomura's punishment for losing the battle against Deku and Endeavor. Otherwise, he averts this trope through Pragmatic Villainy.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: All For One hires Lady Nagant to capture Deku, but she is defeated by him. Deku tries to sway her to his side but All For One abruptly detonates her for failing her task. Played With, however, in that he never actually intended Nagant to win against Deku, having concealed vital information from her about his Combo Platter Powers that allowed Izuku to seize the advantage against her, and was always intending on killing her right before Izuku's eyes to break him, aware he would be compelled to try and help her and using that to mock his efforts.
• Bad Powers, Bad People: The ability to steal powers from people and forcefully implant them into others is about as villainous as it sounds.
• Bad Samaritan: He made it a habit to take in desperate children harmed or rejected by society and provide guidance for them. Not because he cares for any of them, but because he was on the lookout for children with powerful Quirks and enough trauma that he could mold them into potential host bodies to replace his damaged original one. Those who were unsuitable for that were put to use as either minions or materials for his Nomu experiments. In some cases, it's implied that he was at least partially responsible for some of the circumstances that lead the kids into his clutches in the first place. It turns out his entire endgame is to set up a situation where everything is so horrible, he can swoop in to 'help' with his Quirks, all so he can force the world to bow down to him as their demon king.
• Badass Baritone: In the Japanese dub, All For One has a deep, menacing voice befitting a villain of his caliber. This is downplayed in the English dub, where he is given a softer voice.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: He is always seen wearing a suit, like Lex Luthor or many of Batman's villains.
• Badass Longcoat: Chapter 193 reveals that he used to wear one, back in his prime.
• Bald of Evil: Everything from his mouth upwards is nothing but mangled scar tissue, including his scalp. Granted, he used to have hair before his first clash with All Might, and gets to have it back temporarily when using Rewind as a Suicide Attack against Endeavor's group.
• Battle in the Center of the Mind: On two fronts, his plan relies on both subjugating Tomura's personality to absorb into his own, and then use their combined wills to override the will of One For All. This ends up backfiring spectacularly as the punishment he suffers in Tomura's body from the heroes stacks and stacks with Erasure deactivating his Quirks, leading to the "fissure" resulting in Tomura's original aspect as Tenko to fight back against his adoptive father. When Izuku catches a glimpse of All For One's inner vestige world, he sees him stumbling around in a pool of metaphysical miasma, on the cusp of being overwhelmed and just barely keeping himself and Tomura merged.
• Benevolent Boss: Subverted. All For One seems to be genuinely lenient, patient, and encouraging as leader of the League, willing to give them as many chances to succeed. However, this "compassion" is but a false front: ultimately, he sees people as mere means to an end, and will abandon them as he sees fit, without remorse.
• Berserk Button:
  • There are two things shown in the series actually capable of making All For One not just angry, but furious: not being in control and having his self-image as the invincible Demon King undermined. While these would make anyone angry, All For One's nature makes them this trope for him specifically: as a Sociopath, his shallow emotions mean genuinely angering him is borderline impossible on a pathological level. This means not only do these things make him truly angry, they're seemingly the only two things in the world that can. All his outward displays of furious rage can be linked back to these in some way or another, for example: He shed Berserker Tears and displayed uncharacteristic icy fury towards the Second holder of One For All, which persists even generations later, because his actions prevented him from forcing Yoichi to join him and demonstrated that all his accumulated power could not stop his 'possessions'' from being taken from him.
  • People pointing out that villains are inevitably destined to lose is a more downplayed one, that combines the above two points together. He grabbed Yoichi by the face to force the power-stockpiling quirk onto him when he refuted his dreams of The Bad Guy Wins with this and his ongoing Villainous Breakdown through the Final Battle is tied to the fact that no matter how much effort or planning he put into averting this outcome, he's somehow still losing in the end.
• Berserker Tears: Surprisingly enough, yes. A flashback to him killing the Second user of One For All has him coldly glaring at him whilst giving him a Neck Lift with tears streaming down his face, his demeanour ice-cold and the complete opposite of his usual enjoyment of killing his enemies as painfully as possible. It's hinted this is because of Yoichi having passed away after Passing the Torch to the Second, and All For One getting unusually enraged by the loss of his only family, or at least a valuable possession.
• Beyond Redemption: Even Izuku, the resident All-Loving Hero who's trying to save Shigaraki of all people from him, considers no other option than killing All For One to ultimately save the day. The story takes every chance to frame him as a soulless psychopath, an image he wholeheartedly embraces with glee, with even the League of Villains ending up his victims in ways that elicit sympathy. From manipulating and grooming Shigaraki, to reviving Toya and triggering his descent into becoming Dabi, to using Spinner as a back up plan during the Final Battle, and more, All For One proves himself entirely undeserving of pity, and the world will be better off once he's gone.
• BFG: During his battle with Team Endeavor, All For One combines his various Quirks together to create a large, grotesque organic cannon and fire off a supercharged Air Cannon. It's only thanks to a timely save by Hawks are Jirou and Tokoyami able to dodge it, though it ends up costing Jirou her ear and half her Quirk.
• Big Bad: He is the central antagonist of the series and the founder of the League of Villains until All Might beats him and he is incarcerated. Even with him imprisoned, the story still frames him as the ultimate evil, and his presence is felt throughout. It becomes Played With later on, as upon freeing his original body from Tartarus, he takes back control over the remnants of the League in full, now focused on destroying Izuku and completing his centuries-long plan of stealing One for All, aided by the fact that Tomura's consciousness is getting subjugated by the Split-Personality Merge with his vestige. However, All For One reveals that he considers his original body and self expendable compared to his perfected 'Next Me' in Tomura and his plans still hinge upon nurturing and exploiting the boy's own rage and efforts for his ultimate goal, like a parasitic leech, meaning that Tomura himself is still a vital driving force on the antagonist's side and the focal point of Izuku's ultimate confrontation, despite All For One's attempts to twist the narrative to serve his own ends.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: With Shigaraki. All For One monitors him from the shadows, while Shigaraki leads the League of Villains publicly; their dynamic changes throughout the story, however.
• Big Bad Ensemble: By the time of the Paranormal Liberation War arc, once Shigaraki gains the original All For One Quirk, master and apprentice start fighting for control over their shared body. By the time he has Tomura's body retreat from battle, he has wrestled enough control that Deku sees Tomura as someone to rescue despite being archenemies.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Deconstructed. All For One remains the true Big Bad for much of the story, but that's precisely why he begins sliding into this territory instead: he remains Big Bad for too long, well past the point he's able to keep up with the heroes. The central theme of the series is about succession, one generation to the next. All For One can't accept that, eventually, he will be surpassed and so tries to hog the position from Tomura when he's well past his prime to relive his glory days as the Symbol of Evil. This leads to him consistently being foiled and out-gambited by the end, struggling to become a perfect Demon Lord but suffering failure after failure. The situation only start turning around for him because of the efforts of the younger villains on his side, coming across as him leeching off their efforts to win, rather than anything All For One did himself, something he's all to willing to exploit.
• Big Brother Bully: He seemed to be his younger brother's primary caretaker. He also locked him in a safe, kept him from interfering with his plans, and ultimately forced a Quirk upon him. He did claim this to be a compromise, and may have had good intentions, though any details are ultimately obscure.
• Blatant Lies: Whilst normally he prefers to distort the facts in his favor, or will happily gloat to his enemies' faces about any Awful Truth that will hurt them, when he's pushed into a corner he will resort to this to keep as much of an advantage as he can. When the heroes successfully wear him down physically and mentally during the Final Battle, when Izuku arrives to confront him and demands to know if any part of Tomura's mentality is remaining after their Split-Personality Merge, he claims that there isn't and that only All For One's consciousness remains thanks to his extended years alive in comparison, just to demoralize Izuku and deny him any hope of an 'ideal ending'. Both the imagery and Miro's recounting of TomurAFO's Out-of-Character Alert make it clear that All For One and 'Tenko Shimura' are still Fighting from the Inside with each other, and All For One gets irked at his deception failing instantly.
• Blind Seer: He's been blind since his fight with All Might, and uses an "Infrared Ray" Quirk to sense his surroundings. The prison he's kept in has so many sensors that it impairs his ability to "see". This ceases to be the case after he activates a variant of 'Rewind' he managed to get from the Destroying bullets Tomura successfully salvaged from the hospital, with his right eye regenerating as part of the Wham Shot of his survival despite lacking a direct Healing Factor like Tomura or the Nomus at that point.
• Blow You Away: One of his Quirks, "Air Cannon", fires a blast of air from his hands. He can combine this with a "Spring-like Limbs" Quirk, four "Kinetic Boosters", and three "Strength Enhancers" to increase its destructive power. It takes out several pro heroes in seconds.
• Body Backup Drive: His ultimate purpose for Tomura. Over the decades, All For One's own body had experienced difficulties storing new Quirks, as these evolved at a fast rate. When Dr. Garaki performs a body enhancement surgery on Tomura and transplants the original "All For One" Quirk onto the young villain, a vestige of All For One's consciousness, which can override Tomura's will, is carried with it. To this end, All For One starts treating his original, crippled body like a disposable pawn, willing to undertake risky moves with it that he would never do himself otherwise because he fully plans to live on through his 'Next Me', performing faux Heroic Sacrificess with it to further his plans, such as staying behind to fight All Might to enable Tomura and the League to flee the scene despite the risk of him losing and being executed for his crimes, or using a variant of Eri's dangerous and untested 'Rewind' Quirk he salvaged from the Destroying Bullets in order to 'try it out' on a body that he held no particular attachment and was already doomed anyway.
• Body Horror: With the exception of his mouth and chin, his head is a mass of scar tissue, with no eyes, nose, or ears; judging by the scars on the back of his neck, there are likely many more hidden within his suit. Then he starts using his powers. A Spring-Limbs Quirk causes his arm to compress and inflate like an actual spring. His "Rivet Stab" Quirk has black and red tendrils extend from his fingers. In an attempt to finish off All Might, he uses a mass combination of Quirks to transform his entire right arm into a grotesque sight of hypertrophied flesh and tangled arms with metallic parts sticking out. A special note goes to the Spear-like Bones Quirk, which couldn't be pretty under any circumstances. He adds a new one to the list in the final battle by showing the ability to transform parts of his flesh into mouths whether it be a single finger or his whole hand; special mention also goes to him combining this with Spear-like Bones to serve as the teeth.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: He uses All Might's "I am here" as a means to either sway others to join his cause, or to let the heroes know that things will be going south for them.
• Break the Haughty: The entire Final Battle consists of All For One's self-image of an invincible demon king being torn to shreds as the heroes completely upend his plan and he begins to be beaten by 'Jobber Characters.' All For One doesn't take this well.
• Break Them by Talking: The sheer ease with which he's able to get under someone's skin is practically a Quirk in its own right.
  • When facing off against All Might, he drops a bombshell by revealing Tomura Shigaraki's true identity: Tenko Shimura, the grandson of All Might's mentor, Nana Shimura. All Might is so stunned by the revelation that he briefly loses the will to fight. It takes the help of Endeavor and other Pro Heroes for him to get back into the fight. Later, when All Might visits All For One in Tartarus, All For One wastes no time trying to antagonize him by making an educated guess about the current state of society and mocking All Might's powerlessness.
  • When facing off against Endeavor in the final battle, he wastes no time trying to get under his skin, bringing up his abuse of his children and accusing him of shirking responsibility by pitting Shoto against Dabi. Hawks desperately warns Endeavor to not fall for his mind games and Endeavor is able to ignore his taunting for the most part... until All For One mentions his indirect role in Dabi's descent into villainy, enraging Endeavor and leaving him vulnerable to a brutal counter attack.

    All For One: (in Chapter 345) But you're a cruel man, Endeavor. Pitting One For All against Tomura is a deadly knife's edge to dance upon. But the most brutal part of this little scheme has to be you forcing your youngest to clean up your own mess, no matter how much it pains him. And the unceasing abuse toward your eldest child!
    All For One: (After Dabi is defeated) What does that face imply? Affection? Grief? You refused to take a good look at Toya, foisting the task onto little Shoto instead! That must have been your decision, right?! And you justify that choice by being here?! "Heroes just have sooo much to protect", right? That's why you lose, Number One!
    All For One: (Chapter 354) But Hawks... Your timing doesn't quite match up. It almost seems like Endeavor's heart isn't in it? Behold, Endeavor. Everyone is fighting so hard to fulfill their role. Even the novices among them are focused on the battle at hand. So why does it feel like your head is somewhere else? Maybe because your masterpiece mopped up your failed experiment?! Aren't you delighted?! You should know, for ages now, I've had my eye on your twisted longing for power. And the thing about me is when I come across fertile ground, I can't help but sow seeds. You never did find Toya's body, did you?

• Brilliant, but Lazy: All for One is a genius manipulator, but rarely demonstrates more than a surface-level handling of individual powers, meaning that people who've trained hard with their singular Quirk's limits can still hold an edge against him in skilled usage of their powers. His disinterest in training contrasts with Izuku's own exhaustive efforts to master One For All's Combo Platter Powers slowly but steadily over the course of the series.
• Brought Down to Badass: While his Quirk didn't get any weaker after his crippling fight with All Might, his body's condition did. Due to the horrible injuries All Might inflicted, he is severely limited in how much power he can output and how much damage he can take. Compounding this, his Quirk takes its own toll: there is a limit to how many Quirks he can safely hold, and since this is dependent on his physical condition, the number and strength of the Quirks he can have has gone down as well.
• The Bully: At his core, All For One is this. For all his power and influence, All For One is nothing more than a narcissistic, sociopathic bully who just wants to lord his power over everyone and everything, and constantly mocks and belittles anyone brave enough to challenge him. In particular, his hatred of All Might stems from him dismantling his criminal empire and ruining his image of himself as this all-powerful demon lord.

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• Cain and Abel: He had a younger brother named Yoichi who had a strong sense of justice and opposed him. Yoichi became the first wielder of One For All and would create the line of heroes dedicated to ending All For One's evil.
• Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: Downplayed. All For One isn't completely delusional, and is fully capable of understanding the reality of his situation and adapting it to suit it long-term plans with practiced skill, but as the series approaches the Final Battle and he escapes from Tartarus, it becomes clear that on some level, he genuinely does see the entire story unfolding around him like it was a real-life comic book, helped by the fact that he exists in a world with actual superpowers. He sees himself as being a real-life 'Demon lord' and sincerely refers to other heroes who oppose him as "Jobber characters" who only exist to showcase his strength in a fight. And this mindset backfires on him constantly when those same "Jobber Characters" start turning the tables on him.
• Can't Catch Up:
  • All For One acknowledges that as Quirks get stronger, there might be an upper limit to how powerful and complex of a Quirk his body is physically capable of containing, let alone stealing. Part of his entire plan for Tomura is to circumvent this by making his 'next me' so physically powerful this isn't an issue.
  • It becomes apparent that while All For One is capable of becoming stronger, One For All's ability to improve is superior to his own. With each transfer, it exponentially increases in power while also retaining and empowering their Quirks as well. All For One can only stockpile powerful Quirks and thus is limited to what he can find. In addition, he can't actually increase the power of the Quirks he's stolen unless he can find Quirks close enough that he can stack them on top of one another. It is greatly implied that part of All For One's obsession with One For All is his acknowledgement of this, as if he were to combine the Super Empowering trait with his own stockpiled abilities and an extended lifespan in Tomura's enhanced body, he would effectively become a God in name and deed.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Later in the story, it's revealed that he knew who the holders of One For All were the entire time. He just let them live long enough to cultivate the Quirk and pass it on to a new wielder before he personally killed them. All to ensure that One For All would become as strong as possible before he stole it. Even after it grew powerful enough to overwhelm him, he refused to kill All Might or Izuku and risk losing his prize before the next "him" could claim it.
• Card-Carrying Jerkass: He's not only narcissistic, megalomaniac, and lacking any semblance of empathy; he revels in it. It goes a long way when, in Japanese, he's the only character whom the normally polite All Might refers to with the extremely hostile pronoun kisama.
• Card-Carrying Villain: When All Might visit him in prison, he outright asks All For One for his motives. The villain plainly states that being "an all-powerful devil king" had always been his ambition. This sets All For One apart from the rest of the League and villains in a big way. He chose to be a villain entirely of his own free will for no other reason than that he wants to be. He knows he's evil, he simply doesn't care because being a demon king is his end goal in and of itself.
• The Caretaker: He seemed to have been his younger brother's caretaker and did not seem bothered by it, as he was the only person All For One ever treated with anything close to genuine kindness, though even there he was possessive and controlling.
• Casting a Shadow: Many of the Quirks he uses evoke darkness: his signature "All For One" manifests as red and black flames; the "Warping" Quirk is a pool of black liquid that emerges from those he teleports; and "Rivet Stab" manifests as red and black tendrils he extends from his fingers.
• Classic Villain: A petty, sociopathic madman representing Greed and Pride to the extreme who is designed as the ultimate foil to All Might, Izuku, and the philosophy behind heroes as a whole.
• The Coats Are Off: When he shows up to confront Izuku for their final battle, he does so with a similar suit and Cool Mask getup as when he confronted All Might at Kamino. However, Aoyama's surprise attack against him burns off part of the left sleeve, and he removes the whole jacket as he summons the villains en-masse.
• Combat Pragmatist: For all his power, All For One is a very dirty fighter and will use any tactic to gain the advantage in a fight. He'll play mind games to get under his opponent's skin, use sneak attacks, take others as human shields, and even threaten innocent bystanders to win. In Volume Origin, he knew that Nana was using the final dregs of One For All, yet he does not hesitate to kill her with a massive explosion that ravages an entire island. During his fight with Endeavor, he immediately engages in psychological warfare, bringing up his abuse of his children to throw Endeavor off his game. Endeavor is able to ignore his taunting for the most part... until All For One mentions his indirect role in Dabi's descent into villainy, enraging Endeavor and leaving him vulnerable to a brutal counter attack.
• Combat Tentacles: One of his Quirks, "Rivet Stab", manifests as black and red tendrils he extends from his fingers. He uses them to attack All Might, and as a contact point for his "Forcible Quirk Activation". The same ability manifests in Tomura Shigaraki, which he uses to skewer Endeavor and Bakugo.
• Control Freak: All For One is defined by his pure selfish ego and borderline pathological need for control. As far as he's concerned, everything exists only for him. Him giving his brother Yoichi a Quirk was done purely in an attempt to make Yoichi submit to him and his obsession with stealing One For All stems from him wanting to make a part of his brother bend to his will. Garaki would later comment on this tendency of All For One's, noting that he had known "absolute control far and wide", and finding the few times he failed to achieve control over somebody notable enough that he easily remembered Toya Todoroki because of the latter's refusal to accept All For One's offer to help him. This is best shown by his visceral reaction to Star and Stripe booby-trapping her Quirk to destroy him from the inside. For the first time in his life, things didn't play out to his script and he can't handle it. When the heroes manage to outplay him completely, his internal monologue consists of him frantically trying to convince himself he's still in control even as every one of his backup plans is shredded. His speech also takes on a more frustrated and angry tone, showing that he genuinely can't handle things being out of his control.
• The Corrupter:
  • Took Tenko Shimura, the grandson of his most hated adversary, and groomed him from childhood to become his own successor as a villainous symbol of evil.
  • In Vigilantes, All For One muses that he can turn anyone into a villain by either making their Quirks go berserk or igniting their rage to violent proportions.
  • It's later revealed that he was able to turn Aoyama to his side by offering them a Quirk, as said person was naturally born Quirkless, enabling them to live their dreams of being a hero before the demands he made of him in return for his 'favor' turned into a twisted nightmare for him. This is exactly what Yoichi warned the two unnamed individuals whom All For One demonstrated a similar 'deal' with about far in the past.
• Costume Evolution: As his previous helmet was destroyed during his battle with All Might, for the final battle with Midoriya, All For One sports a sleeker, more futuristic version of his original helmet that somewhat resembles Kurogiri's. This helmet has more armored plating as it was able to withstand a slash from Hawks' feather blade, which makes sense as he was planning on facing Izuku in a fight and wanted his Achilles' Heel to have adequate protection against his raw power.
• Crazy-Prepared:
  • He has Dr. Garaki replicate the Quirk All For One, takes the replica for himself, and gives the original to Shigaraki, after foreseeing his own defeat. He furthermore rigged the hospital data on Shigaraki's medical procedure to give an inaccurate timeline for the stabilization of his perfected body. This was set up back before All Might took him down at Kamino, months before Tomura even underwent the procedure.
  • He waxes poetic to Dabi about this principle of his in Chapter 335, making it clear that he's made full use of his extended lifespan to prepare every angle he can imagine to guarantee his victory, regardless of what Spanner in the Works the heroes try to throw at him. Given this comes on the heels of him suffering his first actual setback against Star and Stripe, it underlines how much effort and preparation All For One has put into place before the series even began, that even that can be overcome eventually.

    All For One: Listen well... When I find myself with a goal, I'm sure to plan out a number of... routes to the goal, shall we say. To be exact, I weave my plots years or even decades prior so that I may employ a viable route when the time comes. A route that inevitably achieves my ends.

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