Toshinori Yagi
Toshinori Yagi is a male anime superhero that features in My Hero Academia.
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Biography
Toshinori Yagi (八木俊典 Yagi Toshinori?) was a blonde male inhabitant of the world following the emergence of Quirks. However, unlike others at this point, Toshinori was actually born Quirkless that meant he had no powers. This was until he encountered a Nana Shimura who was the 7th bearer of One for All who took Toshinori under her wing and passed the Quirk to him. She was eventually killed but passed her successors training to her old friend Gran Torino. Gran Torino then began to teach at U.A. for a year and served as Yagi's home room teacher as he helped him come to grips with One for All. Due to Yagi's strength, much of the training involved combat in order to help him develop into a hero whereupon he took the name All-Might (オールマイト Ōru Maito?).
Whilst operating in the United States, Toshinori came to be involved in numerous superhero activities as he battled villains in the country. During one such occasion, he went to the scene of an explosion at a laboratory where he saved the scientists present at the scene. This led to him encounter David Shield who became impressed at the Japanese hero. Shield noted that All-Might’s clothes were damaged in the incident and offered to make him a hero costume to better aid him in the field. This cemented the two’s friendship as they began to work with one another. David often accompanied All-Might into the field where he produced various equipment for Toshinori and aided him in stopping villains.
Around six years ago, he confronted the villain All For One with this battle being done so in secret. During the brutal fight, he managed to badly wound the villain who similarly hit All Might with a grievous injury in his stomach. The injury destroyed his stomach and damaged his lungs requiring Yagi to go through many operations to stabilise the wound but it could never be repaired. Thus, the fight had left a permanent injury on All Might that also reduced his ability to be a hero for long periods of time. He kept the circumstances of the fight and his injury a secret from other people as he believed it would affect his image in being the Symbol of Peace for them.
Whilst in his civilian form, he went out for shopping when he witnessed a robbery by a villain made of sludge. He pursued the villain into a tunnel where the sludge creature had captured a young boy by the name of Izuku Midoriya. The villain had attempted to take over the child's body but All-Might saved him.
Overview
Personality and attributes
He came to be referred to by his title as the world's Symbol of Peace (平和の象徴 Heiwa no Shōchō?).
It was claimed that there was always a smile on his face even when things were bad.
When he was young, he told his mentor Nana Shimura that he wanted people to have a smile on their faces with the only way for that to happen was if they had a symbol of peace to look up to in life. As such, he was resolved in making himself that symbol to inspire the people of the world.
After encountering David Shield, Toshinori forged a close friendship with the American inventor. The two were considered best friends to the point that David’s daughter Melissa came to encounter Toshinori as an uncle and referred to him as ‘Uncle Might’. Despite their close ties, All-Might never revealed to David the true nature of his Quirk One For All or that he could pass it on to another person. He did this because he feared that this knowledge would have made the Shield family targets to All-Might’s enemies, particularly to All For One.
For a time, he came to believe that there was no place in the hero world for a person without Quirks. As such, he told Izuku Midoriya that he could never become a hero if he had no Quirk and that he had to choose more attainable dreams. However, he felt shamed when he saw the Quirkless boy risk his life for his friend Bakugo when he was captured by the sludge villain. This convinced All Might of the greatness and heroic spirit inside Midoriya which became the reason why he decided the boy would become his successor.
Powers and abilities
Through Shimura, he came to inherit his own Quirk that was known as One For All (ワン・フォー・オール Wan Fō Ōru?) with it being unique and keyed to the users DNA with it being derived from an older Quirk called All For One. This Quirk provided him great strength and physical abilities such as incredible endurance and durability as well as speed. He was able to hit with incredible force or jump across great distances with a single leap. Following a battle with All For One, Toshinori was badly wounded by the villain who left a great wound in his stomach. The effects of this injury meant that he was no longer able to maintain his form as All-Might permanently. In fact, he could only maintain his strong All-Might form for a short period of time with this typically being around 3 hours. Otherwise, he reverted to his more scrawny civilian guise. Similar to his predecessor, he was able to pass the Quirk onto another person which required them to eat portions of his hair that was specially prepared for consumption. It could not be taken by force but could be transferred by force. After this was done, then One For All had left his body with only the faint embers of it remaining in him which meant that it had a limited supply that was ultimately capable of being exhausted until it was completely gone from him.
His physical strength manifested in a variety of special attacks. One of these was Texas Smash (テキサススマッシュ Tekisasu Sumasshu?) that was a straight and powerful punch which was strong enough to create large amounts of wind pressure. It had the ability to level a city with this capable of being done with a single punch. Texas Smash was able to be used to send a powerful burst of wind that could scatter the body of a liquid based foe. A similar move was Detroit Smash (デトロイトスマッシュ Detoroito Sumasshu?) that was a super-move whereby he threw a punch that produced a massive amount of wind pressure that created powerful updrafts of wind and could alter localised weather to lead it to start raining afterwards.
His Oklahoma Smash (オクラホマスマッシュ Okurahoma Sumasshu?) allowed him to whirl around whilst his enemies latched onto him whereby he span with enough force that it forced them to release him and sent them flying through concrete. All-Might's ultimate attack was the United States of Smash (ユナイテッド ステーテス オヴ スマッシュ Yunaiteddo Sutētesu Ovu Sumasshu?) whereby he used all his power to deliver an incredibly powerful punch that was strong enough to reverberate across the surrounding area. It was used to incapacitate only the most dangerous and most powerful of enemies.
Originally, All-Might wore ordinary clothing which regularly got destroyed in the field. However, upon encounter David Shield, he was provided specially made costumes that were made of material able to withstand damage and his Quirk’s abilities. Shield was noted to had crafted the various costumes of All-Might including his Bronze, Silver and Golden age designs.
Notes
- Toshinori Yagi was created by Kōhei Horikoshi where he featured in the setting of My Hero Academia.
In other media
Video games
Appearances
- My Hero Academia:
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