Tomura Shigaraki
Tomura Shigaraki is a male anime and manga character who features in My Hero Academia.
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Biography
Tenko Shimura (Japanese: 志し村むら転てん弧こ, Hepburn: Shimura Tenko?) was a male human born in Japan in the modern age following the rise of Quirks within humanity. He was born the son of Kotaro Shimura and Nao Shimura where he had an older sister named Hana Shimura.
He eventually came to take the name of Tomura Shigaraki (死し柄が木らき弔とむら, Shigaraki Tomura?).
Alongside Kurogiri, he led a surprise League of Villains attack against U.A. where they had a Nomu accompany them. Using his ally's teleportation ability, they were able to infiltrate the training grounds of the school. This allowed them to take people hostage as they looked to eliminate any skilled heroes at the scene. Ultimately, Shigaraki had intended to draw out All-Might in the hope that Nomu would be able to defeat and kill the Number 1 Pro Hero. Arriving at the U.A., he was disappointed to find that his quarry was not present in the training course despite being listed as a teacher on the day. Instead, there were several instructors present among which included Eraser Head who attacked the villains in order to protect the students. This led to a fight with Tomura where Eraser Head managed to narrowly evade disintegration but ultimately was overwhelmed by Nomu. In the chaos, one of the students managed to escape in order to call for help whilst the others stood their ground against the villains. Shigaraki then decided to kill some of All-Might's students instead before more Pro Heroes arrived at the scene. Before this could happen, All-Might himself arrived at the scene ready to protect everyone. Tomura came to notice though that the Symbol of Peace was not as fast as he used to be in the past and unleashed Nomu against the Number 1 Pro Hero.
Kurogiri warped himself and Shigaraki to their hideout with Tomura lamenting the failure of his mission. He came to ask his master on why his plan had failed to which All For One that the League of Villains was not prepared and had underestimated their foes at U.A. High. He then told All For One about a U.A. student with speed like All-Might though his master told Tomura to calm down and to gather villains to his cause as next time he would show the world the horror of his existence.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Tomura Shigaraki was a slim human male with deathly pale skin, tinged yellow, and wrinkled a great deal around his eyes. He was eventually given the name Tomura Shigaraki (死し柄が木らき弔とむら, Shigaraki Tomura?) by All For One who explained that 'Tomura' came from the word 'Tomurau' which meant 'to mourn' which signified the sadness that came with death and parting whilst 'Shigaraki' was All For One's real last name. As a rising supervillain, he came to be known by the epithet of the Symbol of Fear (恐怖の象徴 Kyōfu no Shōchō?).
Originally, he felt great love for his family and expressed remorse for accidentally killing of them upon losing control of his Quirk. This led to him wearing the severed hands of his family as they were the only remnants of his lost loved ones. Tomura had said that wearing the hands made him feel sick yet also kept him calm. The trauma he experienced at their deaths caused him to lose his memories of them for a time where he would only have occasional flashbacks of his family.
Such was the weight on his heart that he felt that it would never go away. Thus, he cared little if hero society collapsed or if he rose to rule the underworld. By the end, Shigaraki simply hated everything as he found that every living thing irritated him. It was this reason that he came to consider destroying everything around him.
He cared nothing about the lives of others and had no qualms about performing evil deeds like murdering innocent people. Unlike his mentor, Tomura lacked any subtlety with him instead having a preference to eliminate problems through force.
Shigaraki was unable to cope with his own feelings where instead he lashed out and abused both others or himself. Initially, he was shown to be a very irritable person but learnt to be more patient and self-controlled over time after All For One's arrest.
Tomura was proud of the League of Villains where he wanted to prove that his organization had the necessary power to shake society and took pleasure in mocking those standing in his way.
Though distant to his allies, he was shown to care about them to a certain degree. This was shown in him prioritizing their comfort once he obtained the necessary finances. In addition, he was angered when they were injured or killed by others such as when Magne was killed by Overhaul who also destroyed one of Compress's arms.
At first, he lacked any defined goals as he simply caused destruction just for the sake of it and felt directionless about the League's path forward after Stain's arrest. It was only after a fateful meeting with Izuku Midoriya in a mall when he developed an epiphany and became aware of his true convictions which was to crumble society through All Might's death.
Tenko Shimura was the son of Kotaro Shimura (志し村むら弧こ太た朗ろう Shimura Kotarō?) and his wife Nao Shimura (志し村むら直なお Shimura Nao?). He also had an older sister who was named Nao Shimura (志し村むら直なお Shimura Nao?).
He was the grandson of Nana Shimura (志し村むら菜な奈な Shimura Nana?) who was once a wielder of the One For All Quirk and had been a Pro-Hero.
Powers and abilities
Shigaraki was a Quirk (個こ性せい Kosei?, lit. "Individuality") user where his took the form of Decay (崩ほう壊かい Hōkai?) that allowed him to disintegrate whatever he touched with all five fingers. The power worked on any object touched by him whether it was organic or not. Once activated, the disintegration spread quickly and spread throughout the entire form of the target. A means of stopping it was by amputating the affected decaying part thus stopping the disintegration from spreading throughout the target.
In his battle against Re-Destro, Tomura experienced a reawakening that bolstered the effectiveness of his Quirk. This allowed him to wither away anything he touched without using all five fingers where he could partially damage a person with only a few of his digits. However, the spread of the decay was not as fast when compared to him using all five fingers and its effects were not as strong. In addition, the power of his Quirk had increased to much greater level where he was able to use it to nearly destroy an entire city where everything was reduced to dust using his own good hand.
After taking over the Paranormal Liberation Front and gaining Gigantomachia's respect, Tomura came to prove himself to Kyudai Garaki who agreed to help the young villain. This led to him performing body modification surgery on Shigaraki in order to increase his power.
He came to be the leader of the League of Villains (敵ヴィラン連れん合ごう, Viran Rengō?) that had been founded by his master All For One.
Notes
- Tomura Shigaraki was created by Kōhei Horikoshi where he featured in the setting of My Hero Academia.
In other media
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Appearances
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