WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission, now showing in theaters.
With the recent conclusion of My Hero Academia Season 5, the third and latest movie in the franchise, World Heroes' Mission, raises the stakes and continues to push our heroes to their limits. This comes in the form of a fierce terrorist group called Humarise, which consists of individuals both with and without Quirks and is led by the sinister Flect Turn.
Vast in numbers and power, they pose a worldwide threat with a plan to completely eradicate those with Quirks, while in turn saving the Quirkless. With a heinous scheme of global devastation and murder, they wish to create a new world with Humarise at the top and Flect as the sole leader of a new society.
To achieve their goal, the members of Humarise infiltrate various countries and plant Trigger Bombs. These bombs are activated in the presence of Quirks and release a gas that swiftly kills those possessing a Quirk, while the Quirkless are spared. However, while already presenting a grievous threat, there's even more to Humarise's plan than meets the eye.
Targeting the main population is a great catalyst to launch the World Heroes' Association into action, but it is merely a ruse. Rather, Humarise intends to lure the best of the Pro Heroes and students within range of these bombs. By attacking the most aspirational of heroes and killing them first, there is nothing stopping Humarise from obtaining their goal on an international scale. Of course, heroes are meant to save those in trouble, so it's a given that they would rush headfirst into danger to take out these bombs. In World Heroes' Mission we get to see familiar Pro Heroes, their agencies and students of U.A. High School fighting valiantly and desperately on the frontlines. If Humarise was successful in their plan, a majority of the My Hero Academia cast would've been wiped out almost instantly -- alongside any civilians caught within the blast radius.
Though battling for an essentially Quirkless society, Flect Turn does wield a Quirk just like many other members of Humarise. This is because their true motivations rely on a strong belief in the Quirk Singularity Doomsday Theory. Mentioned in the main My Hero Academia series multiple times, this theory suggests that as Quirks continue to grow and evolve with each generation, they will one day become too powerful and complicated for humans to control. As a result, it implies that Quirk evolution will one day be the destruction of humanity. As Deku points out in World Heroes' Mission, this theory is not scientifically proven, but is instead a popular belief. Yet Humarise has taken this theory as fact, acting on the notion that Quirks will one day lead to a disastrous future.
A group capable of executing a worldwide attack calls for an influential leader, and Flect Turn's potent disdain for Quirks can be traced back to his upbringing and childhood. Like most children, he manifested his Quirk, Reflect, at a young age. Reflect mirrors the power of any received attack back at his opponent. Flect can even store these attacks if he wants, rather than reflecting them back immediately. However, his Quirk was too powerful and the people around him dared not touch him in fear that it would hurt them. Disregarded by his family and unable to make friends due to his manic power, Flect realized he lives in a Quirk-biased society. This is why he believes in the Quirk Singularity Doomsday Theory so strongly, and why he now views Quirks as a wretched disease.
And yet, Flect's Quirk-related isolation is something My Hero Academia fans have seen before. The series' protagonist, Deku, had a childhood riddled with extensive bullying as he was ostracized from his peers simply for being Quirkless. But even more reminiscent of Flect's backstory is Eri. Having developed a rare mutation Quirk at a young age, Eri could not control her power and accidentally killed her father. Thus, she was abandoned by her family before eventually ending up in Overhaul's hands.
World Heroes' Mission wonderfully captures the hearts of the new generation of heroes in a spectacular feature film that highlights three fan favorites -- Deku, Bakugo and Todoroki -- with the addition of a fun new character, Rody Soul. With higher stakes and a thought-provoking premise, it's an epic, action-packed film sure to entertain any My Hero Academia fan.
