Next-Level Villains

The Next-Level Villains are a group of villains from the spin-off series Vigilante - My Hero Academia: Illegals. They are the successors of the Impromptu Villains, the next step in the mysterious objective of the Villain Factory.

Description
The Next-Level Villains are people who are taken by Villain Factory, and all of them had previously been Trigger consumers and turned into Impromptu Villains. After distributing the drug through the city and collecting data of the Impromptu Villains, the criminal organization studies the capacities of each of them, and if they consider that some of the users have potential, their agents kidnap them and take them to their secret laboratory in Onomura Pharma Corp.

Once there, the bodies of the Trigger users are modified via bio-engineering into giant, powerful, monstrous beings, to strengthen their Quirk and allow them to be able to take higher doses of Trigger than before. Once the process of transformation is finished, the Villain Factory dope them with Trigger and releases the newly created Next-Level Villain through the streets of Naruhata where they inevitably go on a rampage, attacking everyone and destroying everything in their way.

The Villain Factory does not do this just to cause chaos. Inevitably, the violent actions of the Next-Level Villain attract the attention of the Heroes and / or the Vigilantes, who will face them to stop them. The Villain Factory doesn't care if their creations end up being defeated and imprisoned, the only thing that interests their mysterious leader is to collect combat data, and if the Next-Level Villain turns out to be a promising one, also acquire samples of them.

Unlike what happens to Impromptu Villains once there are defeated and Trigger doses stops being effective, the physical transformations of the Next-Level Villains is permanent, that is, they do not recover their original bodies once the Trigger's effect is over. When that happens, they regain their senses, but their power fades without more Trigger doses.

There is a particular variant of the Next-Level Villains called Bombers, these villains are villains of design created to carry out suicide attacks.