Tomura Shigaraki (My Hero Academia)

Tomura Shigaraki (死し柄がら木き弔とむら Shigaraki Tomura?), real name Tenko Shimura (志し村むら転てん弧こ Shimura Tenko?), is the leader of the League of Villains after his master, All For One's, defeat and arrest, and the primary antagonist of the series. He made his first major appearance as one of the main antagonists of the U.S.J. Arc. Like the rest of the League, his goal is to kill All Might, the "Symbol of Peace," thus destroying the society he represents and to create a new one with a new form of justice in his own image.

Later on, Tomura changed his goal to instead, destroy society all together rather than reshape it. He soon merged his organization and the Meta Liberation Army to form the Paranormal Liberation Front, becoming its Grand Commander and later inheriting the All For One Quirk.

Why He Rocks

 * 1) He's an example of a villain with a villain with a tragic past done right as his past, as in his childhood (Known as Tenko Shimura at the time) he always wanted to be a hero but his father Kotaro Shimura often abused him whenever he mentions the word "Heroes", later one day he reads a letter from his late Grandmother Nana Shimura to his dad, meanwhile Kotaro find it and abuses him which leads to Tenko suddenly admitting to hating everyone and awakening his quirk which accidentally kills his family (Although he did killed his dad on purpose), and after being abandoned he was later picked up by All for One.
 * 2) Despite him being a villain he gets major Character development in the My Villain Academia arc going from a stereotypical villain in the USJ arc where he wanted to kill All Might to destroy society all together rather than reshape it.
 * 3) Both Kōki Uchiyama (Japanese) and Eric Vale (English) did great jobs voicing him.
 * 4) His quotes such as:
 * 5) *"Heroes and villains both thrive on violence, but we're still categorized. "You're good." "You're evil." That's how it is!! Symbol of peace? Hah!! In the end you're just a tool for violence, made to keep us down! And violence only breeds more violence."
 * 6) *"It's all because of All Might"
 * 7) As each arc progress he improves himself as a villain.
 * 8) His decay quirk is pretty unique.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) As previously mentioned he was basically a generic villain prior to the My Villain Academia arc.
 * 2) He's a bit of a hypocrite as he critizes heroes for committing violence yet does the same thing.

Trivia
Tomura's surname contains the kanji for "death" (死 shi?), "handle, grip" (柄 gara?) and "tree" (木 ki?), and his first name contains "funerals" (弔 tomura?). Additionally, his birth name contains the kanji for "intention" (志 shi?), "village" (村 mura?), "revolve" (転 ten?) and "arc" (弧 ko?).
 * 1) Tomura was initially designed to be creepier, having empty, black eyes and mouth. Aside from those specific features, this design was not very different from his final one. His prototype codename was Sazanka (沙サ惨ザン禍カ? lit. "Sand Calamity").
 * 1) Tomura's rankings in the Popularity Polls are as follows:
 * 2) *Tomura ranked 19th in the First Popularity Poll.
 * 3) *Ranked 16th in the Second Popularity Poll
 * 4) *Ranked 15th in the Third Popularity Poll.
 * 5) *Ranked 24th in the Fourth Popularity Poll.
 * 6) *Ranked 6th place in the Fifth Popularity Poll.
 * 7) *Ranked 10th place in the Sixth Popularity Poll.
 * 8) Horikoshi revealed that he found drawing inexpressive hands extremely difficult. He stated that he was on the verge of tears every week due to having to draw a particular character which we are left to assume is Tomura.[28]
 * 9) Horikoshi revealed that Tomura is based on the protagonist of his first oneshot from 2007 titled “Tenko”, starring the eponymous boy during war time in feudal Japan.
 * 10) *Both share the same first name (Tomura's real name is Tenko Shimura).
 * 11) *Both share the same power to disintegrate anything they touch with their hands.
 * 12) *Both are orphans, having accidentally killed loved ones with their powers.
 * 13) *Both are driven by a deep hate for the world and a very intense goal to destroy something in it. For Tomura, it's All Might and the world of heroes, and for Tenko, he wants to destroy all the swords in the world.
 * 14) The design and appearance of Tomura when he is young is similar to Tenko's, only with shorter hair.
 * 15) He shares his birthday with Naomasa Tsukauchi, Chiyo Shuzenji and Kesagiriman.
 * 16) The severed hands that Tomura wears across his body are remnants of the first people he ever killed.
 * 17) *The hands around his neck came from his mother.
 * 18) *The hands on his upper arms came from his maternal grandfather.
 * 19) *The hands on his elbows came from his maternal grandmother.
 * 20) *The hands on his wrists came from his older sister.
 * 21) *The hands on his shoulders and sides came from two random men who made Tomura angry.
 * 22) *The hand that he wears on his face came from his father.
 * 23) *The hand he wears on the back of his head is a replacement given to him by All For One after he used his Quirk to destroy his father's other hand, later to be revealed as Nana's.
 * 24) Tomura can be considered as a dark parallel to Izuku Midoriya. Although My Hero Academia tells the story of how Izuku became the greatest hero, it also focuses on how Tomura will possibly become the greatest villain. Like Izuku, Tomura starts off being rather naïve and insecure of his position and power due to his tragic backstory, but he gradually begins to become more mature and confident as the story continues.
 * 25) Tomura is one of the few people who are revealed to be descendants of one of the 3 most infamous villains: All For One, Destro, and Oji Harima. In Tomura's case, he is the successor of All For One.