My Hero Academia Now Has Two All For Ones

Warning! Spoilers ahead for chapter 335!

The latest chapter of My Hero Academia finally clears up an earlier discrepancy about All For One… with a dire implication – there are now two of him. Worst of all, the one who is fusing with Tomura Shigaraki and who the late top American hero Star and Stripe tricked into stealing her “cursed” New Order quirk appears to be the clone.

In chapter 335, a character who looks exactly like how All For One did before he fused with his apprentice Tomura Shigaraki is standing over the villain who had just barely survived his encounter against Star and Stripe and whom readers had known as the only All For One up until that point. The unwounded figure says, “Worry not, my other-self. All will be well.” This proves definitively that there are in fact two All For Ones now.

Six chapters earlier, My Hero Academia threw readers for a loop with a scene depicting All For One speaking to Spinner about his true endgame and plans for world domination. All For One and Spinner are both in hiding during the discussion, so it was clear at the time that the conversation took place after the Paranormal Liberation War. However, All For One had already forcibly assumed control of Tomura Shigaraki’s body at the conclusion of the war, so readers were led to assume that All For One must have relinquished his hold on Shigaraki, and that the villain who was just about to confront the then-still-alive Star and Stripe was, in fact, a freed Shigaraki. It soon became clear in the ensuing battle, however, that Star and Stripe were actually fighting All For One, creating the impression that the earlier scene with All For One and Spinner must have transpired sometime before the Paranormal Liberation War. But now My Hero Academia just proved without a shadow of a doubt that readers were deliberately led astray, and that there are in fact two All For Ones.

While the obvious realization that there are now two versions of what had been Japan’s worst villain is understandably terrifying, this shocking development yields additional unfortunate implications that belittle the sacrifice that Star and Stripe made to ensure All For One’s destruction. Knowing the villain sought to steal her power, Star and Stripe used her New World quirk that allows her to impose three rules on objects simultaneously (one of which can only be applied to her) to alter the reality of the quirk itself by making it revolt against other quirks. Once All For One stole New Order, it immediately began destroying him and his numerous other quirks. Even though All For One was able to force New Order onto an unsuspecting small-time criminal for further study, Star and Stripe’s sacrifice was still not wholly in vain because it was believed All For One had already lost many of his other quirks. But now that there is another All For One in the picture, the entire confrontation was now completely meaningless, for the unhurt villain can use his power to bestow upon his wounded and fusing counterpart with the quirks that New Order destroyed.

Unfortunately, numerous other caveats now abound in My Hero Academia. Not only can All For One now study the New Order quirk for prospective use as some sort of weapon to destroy quirks, but if the fused All For One is ever defeated in battle, then the second one can take his place. Even though his replacement wouldn’t be as capable as him because he never fused with Shigaraki, the unfused All For One would be facing heroes who would obviously be tired from their fight against the first – making them easier to defeat.

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