Daigoro Banjo

Daigoro Banjo, also known as Lariat (ラリアット), was a former Pro Hero and the fifth user of the One For All Quirk.

Appearance
Daigoro was a large muscular man of a wide build. He had a square jaw, small dull blue eyes and lacked eyebrows. He was also bald and had a very short beard.

His hero costume consisted of dark leather clothes, golden stylish goggles, and a bandolier. The leather jacket had yellow shoulder pads, and as Daigoro always had it open and didn't wear a shirt, it showed his muscular torso.

Personality
Daigoro is described as "super funky", and has an energetic personality compared to other One For All users who are reserved in manner.

He was very proud of his given Quirk, referring to it as 'top grade'. He likes to tease his predecessor, Hikage Shinomori for being a hermit and was a senior colleague to his successor, En.

Given that he resisted having One For All stolen by All For One, Daigoro presumably has an extremely strong willpower.

History
Daigoro Banjo was a Pro Hero of his time, known as "Lariat", using his Blackwhip Quirk to swing and fling himself onto other buildings to face danger. At some point, he met Hikage Shinomori, the fourth user of One For All. However, Hikage's body was rapidly aging him and deceased his lifespan by ten-folds due to him possessing One For All and his original Quirk: Danger Sense. Shortly before dying, Hikage entrusts Daigoro with the One For All Quirk, passing it on to the Hero before he dies.

In his life, Daigoro would continue on with his Hero duties and encounter a man named En. Eventually, All For One managed to track him down. He fought hard, but All For One was too powerful for him, and he nearly stole One For All from Daigoro, but he failed. Daigoro was killed by All For One, but not before he was able to transfer One For All to En.

U.A. Sports Festival Arc
During the fight between Izuku Midoriya and Hitoshi Shinso in the tournament of the U.A. Sports Festival, Izuku is brainwashed by Hitoshi's Quirk, who orders him to walk out of bounds. Although Izuku tries to resist, he cannot disobey the order, but when he is about to cross the edge of the ring, Daigoro and the rest of the previous users appear to Izuku as shadowed mental figures. They unclouded his mind and allow Izuku to use One For All in his fingers, allowing him to escape the trance and win the fight.

Pro Hero Arc
For several months, none of the users reappear to Izuku again, until the night before the Joint Training Battle, where Daigoro and several of the previous users, including All For One's brother and Nana Shimura, appear in a dream but with his real appearances and not as shadowed figures. The dream shows Izuku memories of the first user.

Daigoro says nothing, but the first user speaks for everyone and assures Izuku that he is not alone. Izuku's dream concludes with all of his predecessors looking at him with kind expressions, seemingly aware that he is the ninth wielder of One For All and welcoming him.

Joint Training Arc
Daigoro interacts directly with Izuku for the first time during his round in the Joint, in which the Izuku team faces the Monoma team, who had Hitoshi in their ranks. Neito Monoma says nasty things to provoke Izuku to make him fall into a trap. This prompts an enraged Izuku to charge at Neito, preparing to unleash a concentrated Delaware Smash, but just when he is going to shoot, Izuku's arm once again glows as One For All goes berserk. Suddenly, tendrils of dark energy begin to unleash from his body and start causing havoc.

Unable to control the new sensation, Izuku orders everyone to take cover while he struggles in pain, but Ochaco Uraraka clings to Izuku to stop him and yells Hitoshi for help. Hitoshi uses his Brainwashing Quirk on Izuku and the mysterious black power disappears as he loses consciousness and his powers deactivate. While unconscious, he finds himself in an unknown area and Daigoro appears before him, telling Izuku that although his Quirk has finally manifested, he's using it in a wrong way. Daigoro encourages Izuku to try harder to control the Quirk.

Daigoro continues lecturing Izuku, telling him that the black tendrils he was emitting earlier are actually the manifestation of his Quirk, Blackwhip. The reason it suddenly appeared is that Izuku was thinking about how he wanted to capture Neito, fitting the nature of the Quirk perfectly and so causing it to appear.

Daigoro explains that the Quirk Factors of all the previous wielders have been inside One For All for a long time, dormant, in the small core of the Quirk. He says that this core has started expanding and growing larger and that the same is also happening to One For All itself. Daigoro also says that its strength has also been increased due to the power of One For All, and after he tells Izuku to do his best, and that all the predecessors are there with him and are supporting him, he vanishes afterwards.

My Hero Academia: Heroes: Rising
During a devastating battle between a villain with a copy of All For One's Quirk, in a last-ditch effort to defeat him, Izuku transfers One For All to Katsuki Bakugo, even at the cost of rendering himself Quirkless once more. Through the dual power of the One For All's, the two manage to take the villain down, even as the remaining embers of One For All seemingly disappear from Izuku. However, Daigoro and the other users of One For All, wanting Izuku to continue to harness the power, and recognizing his heroism of being willing to sacrifice his power to save everyone, only temporarily transferred the power over to Katsuki, while the full essence of One For All remains within Izuku. Toshinori tearfully thanks the predecessors for staying with Izuku.

Paranormal Liberation War Arc
In the aftermath of the Paranormal Liberation War, when Izuku is rendered comatose, he speaks to all the vestiges within One For All. The first user, Yoichi Shigaraki, mentions how originally they were only able to interact with Izuku during specific instances within his consciousness, but that in the last four months, the power has been growing exponentially, and has reached the point that the vestiges are now able to more freely communicate with each other, even more so after All For One's attempt to steal One For All.

Daigoro reassures Izuku his privacy is safe, but then remembers he still doesn't have a mouth in his current vestigial state. However, much to Daigoro's delight, Izuku realizes that his voice has been slowly manifesting, and finds a way to communicate with the users through muffled speech. Hikage introduces himself to Izuku, and Daigoro pokes fun at Hikage for being a hermit who shunned society and lived alone, trying to smack him with Blackwhip while he uses Danger Sense to evade him. Hikage then asks Izuku about his age and cause of death, which Izuku recalls that he was forty and that All Might had scratched out his cause of death in the notebook, which Hikage reveals was "old age".

All Might rediscovered his medical history and autopsy, and they realized the truth, that possessing multiple Quirks ate away at his life. The discrepancy with All Might led Hikage to wonder if there was something that All Might had that he didn't, with Izuku realizing the difference between Hikage and All Might: All Might was Quirkless. All Might managed to hold onto One For All for forty years because it perfectly fit his previously empty vessel, and became his Quirk.

They conclude that due to these circumstances, the true value of the power can only be wielded by those who lacked power to begin with, and with the Quirkless population significantly dwindling, Daigoro adds that because of this, Izuku may be the last successor of One For All.

Afterwards, Nana Shimura asks Izuku if he can kill Tomura Shigaraki, clarifying it isn't a request, but a question of his resolve. She reminds him of their last interaction and that since all of the inheritor's are connected to his emotions, they could telepathically sense that he saw him as someone who needed saving. Daigoro states that he and the other users don't feel the same way, and that even if Tomura is suffering under All For One, that doesn't necessarily mean he would want their help, since even they could see his eyes were still filled with hate.

Yoichi speculates that his older brother purposefully raised Tomura this way, and now that All For One has taken over his body and mind, he believes this is part of another plan to claim One For All. Daigoro reveals that All For One had attempted to steal One For All from him and his successor, En, twice, but failed, and that one must have an incredibly strong will and overbearing emotions in order to override the basic principle of One For All, which means All For One is using Tomura's hatred to complete the job.

Confronted about his resolve, Izuku says he knows that countless people died and many of his precious friends were hurt because of Tomura, but he stands his ground believing that One For All is a Quirk meant to save lives, not kill; that All Might taught him that, and that he and all the other users who have helped grow and cultivate the power, have in the process saved and brought hope to countless people. He accepts the real possibility that Tomura can only be stopped by killing him, and he doesn't know how he will deal with everything exactly yet, but he still wants to try and save "that little boy", all the while briefly transforming into his child self.

Daigoro and the other users happily agreed to aid Izuku, just as Yoichi turns to the Second and Third users asking for their assistance. Met with an awkward silence, Daigoro breaks the ice by playfully messing around with Izuku, telling him he should first focus on learning more about Hikage and En's Quirks, of which En agrees to, them all starting to instruct him on how to understand their Quirks.

Dark Hero Arc
In the aftermath of the Paranormal Liberation War, All For One has escaped from Tartarus, and proceeded to break into several more maximum security prisons, liberating the inmates. Due to the chaos inflicted by Gigantomachia and the mass breakout of prisoners, the whole country entered a state of total chaos and anarchy. In addition, many heroes resigned and called it quits because of the massive criticism of their work, and the destruction spreading unchecked.

Izuku decides to leave U.A. and his friends behind in order to protect them so he can hunt down the Villains, with all the users on his side ready to back him up. As he surveys the city one night, Izuku converses with Daigoro, who reminisces on the events being similar to his day and age, and how much trouble it was.

However, over the course of about a month, Izuku starts to tire out as he becomes increasingly obsessed with solving every problem all on his own, even ignoring the other Heroes' suggestions to take it easy. Daigoro and the other inheritors of One For All try to convince him to rest before Danger Sense warns him of another threat and heads off, ignoring their words.

In the vestige world, Nana fears that her emotions are getting the better of Izuku, while Daigoro and the other inheritors assure her that by going over his limit, he's acting like a true hero would do. He claims that every actions Izuku takes to save people and stop the villains is always a worthy cause, even if it means it'll break him physically and mentally. It is all through his former classmates that Izuku is finally able to rest easy knowing that they still got his back.

Final War Arc
As the final battle between the heroes and villains commence in the Final War, Izuku prepares for his final encounter with Tomura. While a snag in the plan delays his arrival, he eventually makes his way over to the U.A. Floating Fortress designed to contain Tomura to fight him. fter regaining his bearings after seeing the other Heroes' comatose bodies, Izuku confronts Tomura, who over the course of the battle has transformed himself into a hulking beast covered in fingers, and addresses him as "All For One", asking if Tomura is still within him.

"Tomura" claims that he no longer exists, as he and All For One's psyches have melded together into a perfect new being. However, Mirio Togata reveals that during their battle, the villain reacted to one of his taunts like that of a child, believing them not to be as melded as he thinks. Seeing the faces of the Shimura family on his left hand confirms this thought, and the battle resumes.

Izuku activates the Quirk of the Second User, Gearshift, and now with all the Quirks unlocked, unleashes the full power of One For All upon Tomura, overpowering him, with Daigoro and the other predecessors right there behind him. After Izuku destroyed Tomura's absolute defensive Form, Tomura releases the pent-up damage in an explosion which weakens All For One's influence over him, allowing Tomura to regain control of his body. Izuku drags Tomura out of the U.A. Floating Fortress to confront him now with his Quirks returned.

Abilities
Overall Abilities: While the full extent of his abilities are unknown, Daigoro can be assumed to be a very strong and experienced Pro Hero, being a One For All vestige. However, he was not strong enough to defeat All For One and died at his hands during their battle.

Trained Muscles: Usage of One For All requires the user to have strong muscles, as One For All is a lot to handle and could cause the user's body to be blown apart if they don't possess the necessary strength of the body.

Indomitable Will: Daigaro has resisted All For One trying to steal One For All from him, twice, which demonstrates his incredible willpower.

Quirks
Blackwhip: Daigoro's Quirk allowed him to create tendrils of black energy from his arms. These tendrils were excellent for grappling and increasing his mobility.

One For All (ワン・フォー・オール): Transferred to him from Hikage, Daigoro's second Quirk allowed him to stockpile an enormous amount of raw power, allowing him to significantly enhance all of his physical abilities to a superhuman level. This resulted in unbelievable levels of strength, speed, agility, and durability.

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Trivia

 * His name contains the kanji for big (大), enlightenment (悟), and male name suffix (郎), and his surname contains everything (万) and rope (縄).
 * As the fifth user of One For All, the kanji "悟" of his name sounds like "five" (五) in Japanese. Note that the kanji for that "go" in names like Goro and Daigoro is usually "five".
 * His hero name is a fighting technique where one moves and strikes their opponent with their arm straight out. It also refers to a rope or lasso, which references his Quirk.
 * His appearance resembles that of the superhero,.
 * He is the first previous One For All users whose Quirk was revealed.
 * Daigoro's English voice actor, Andrew Love, also voices Mr. Plastic.

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