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Thorough Analysis: Execution & Wasted Potential

These six villains (and one group) perfectly embody the “S-tier Quirk, F-tier everything else” curse that plagues 90 % of My Hero Academia’s mid-to-low-tier antagonists.

1. Starservant – The Doomsday Prophet Who Jobbed in One Chapter

Quirk: Full telekinetic control over glass on a city-block scale. Can liquefy, solidify, reshape, levitate, and weaponize thousands of tons of it instantly.

Realistic threat level: Could have stripped every window from downtown, turned them into a glass storm, and killed hundreds before any hero even arrived.

Actual execution: Floats around like a discount Messiah screaming “the stars have spoken” while sucking glass off office buildings in broad daylight purely to bait Endeavor. Sets up a single alley ambush with three nameless grunts who get folded by interns. Gets one-shotted by a casual Flashfire Fist and spends his last moments ranting that Endeavor is the “dark lord.” Verdict: Had the power to be a walking natural disaster. Used it for performance-art terrorism and a suicide-by-Endeavor fantasy. Absolute waste.

2. Gashly Eijiju – Tartarus-Level Psychopath Who Brought a Book to a War

Quirk: Spawns an infinite, regenerating horde of grotesque infant puppets from black mist. Explicitly designed for psychological warfare and battles of attrition.

Realistic threat level: Could overrun entire cities with nightmare fuel, break civilian morale instantly, and force heroes into no-win scenarios.

Actual execution: Waits until the final war, gets Troy splits everyone up, then casually stands in the rain reading a book while his puppets fight for him. Still overwhelms a full hero team… until two random Class 1-B students drop from the sky and knock him out in one combo because he never once looked up from his novel. Verdict: One of the single most broken horde Quirks in the series, used by a guy whose entire battle plan was “I’ll just read until they die of horror.” Zero awareness, zero adaptability, zero menace.

3. Kunieda – The Serial-Killer Botanist Who Almost Soloed the Final War

Quirk: Sprouts city-wide carnivorous plants/fungi that feed on living flesh, propagate via pollen chain-reaction, and keep growing even if he’s unconscious. Explicitly turns victims into fertilizer for bigger blooms.

Realistic threat level: Top 5 most dangerous Tartarus escapees on paper. Could have turned Japan into The Last of Us in a weekend.

Actual execution: Gets left behind in the Troy shuffle with only Fat Gum and Aoyama as notable opposition. Still casually solos 31 pro heroes and turns Fat Gum into a giant flower… then spends five minutes monologuing about how “pitiful” Aoyama is instead of finishing him. Gets blindsided and one-shotted by invisible Toru because he never considered the one hero he couldn’t see. Verdict: Closest any of these came to living up to the hype, but still defeated because he stopped to give a philosophy lecture mid-fight. Arrogance diff.

4. Dictator – Human-Shield Tactician Who Lost to a Tired Deku

Quirk: Despot — mass puppet control via wires. Can turn dozens of civilians into meat shields simultaneously while retaining their consciousness (pure psychological cruelty).

Realistic threat level: Walking war crime. Could have paralyzed entire cities by turning civilians into weapons.

Actual execution: Waits until Deku is literally falling asleep on his feet, surrounds himself with puppeted civilians… and still loses because Bakugo drops from the sky and snipes him in one AP Shot. Entire fight lasts three pages. Verdict: Had the perfect setup for one of the most morally horrific fights in the series. Reduced to a speedbump because he picked the one target who still had plot-armor adrenaline.

5. Ending – The Original Endeavor Stan Who Wanted to Die

Quirk: Whiteline — full control over painted road lane markings, turning them into tentacles.

Realistic threat level: Could paralyze traffic across entire prefectures, cause mass pile-ups, or cocoon buildings.

Actual execution: Injects Trigger, kidnaps Natsuo, stands in the middle of a highway begging Endeavor to murder him while flinging cars around. Gets frozen solid by Shoto because Endeavor was having a panic attack and wouldn’t indulge the suicide request. Spends his defeat crying that Endeavor isn’t “cool and ruthless” anymore. Verdict: Literally the only villain whose entire motivation is “please kill me, senpai.” Had a solid Quirk and still managed to make the worst possible use of it.

6. Cider House – The Christmas Pickpocket Squad

Collective power: Leader has pressurized carbonated-water blasts + illegal Detnerat gatling gauntlets; entire gang can surf giant waves through city streets.

Realistic threat level: Coordinated, well-planned, black-market equipped, studied hero patrol routes for a month.

Actual execution: Pick the exact 30-minute window when Bakugo and Shoto just got their provisional licenses. Get absolutely demolished by two teenagers in their first week of hero work. Leader’s illegal support gear explodes on defeat. Later escape prison post-war and immediately get beaten by untrained restaurant staff with kitchen knives and frying pans. Verdict: The only competent plan on this entire list… executed on the single worst day possible against the two most trigger-happy students in U.A. history.

Final Tally of Wasted Potential

All six (plus group) have Quirks that range from city-block to potentially country-level threats.

Every single one defeated in under five chapters (most in under twenty pages) because of terminal brain-rot, suicidal ideation, monologuing, or just picking the absolute worst possible opponent and timing.

Proof that in My Hero Academia, raw power means nothing when your IQ is in the single digits.