My Hero Academia: World Heroes Mission Review - 8 Ups & 2 Downs
10. Down: The Lacklustre Villain
Perhaps not quite as weak as the villain from the first My Hero Academia film in terms of background, the head of the Humarise cult, Flect Turn, ended up being one of the biggest disappointments.
His introduction is extremely strong, with his design being visually interesting and his role as the head of an unsettling cult only made more horrifying by his first act of terrorism. As the leader of a human-supremacy cult that hates the superpowered, quirk-filled world they live in, Flect Turn was perhaps the most conceptually interesting villain of the films.
He's made more interesting by proxy when you meet the people who serve him, primarily the ones with powerful quirks who have been convinced that their powers are a curse or disease.
In the end, however, his motivations become somewhat laughable. Angered by his reflective quirk preventing him from keeping emotional connections, he gave up on reaching out entirely and started an anti-quirk cult instead.
Though it works on a thematic level in a film where emotional connection and never giving up are major themes, the dialogue explaining it felt clumsy, and the execution of this villain just didn't live up to the build up.