Kunieda

Kunieda (クニエダ) is a villain who was imprisoned in Tartarus for mass murder and corpse collecting. He escaped due to a prison riot caused by All For One.

Appearance
Kunieda is a lanky man with thin arms and a thin waist. He also seems to have a long neck.

Personality
Kunieda is very pragmatic and thinks that intangible things like trust and hope don't mean much. He is also cunning enough to gain insight on his enemies plans in the midst of battle. He displays a mocking and sadistic side, taunting Yuga Aoyama over the young man's treachery and deeming him as pitiful for being controlled by All For One with a Quirk that doesn't function properly without a support item.

As one of All For One's deadliest assassins, Kunieda was indebted to All For One for breaking him out of Tartarus and pledged his allegiance to him, showing a degree of loyalty that he threatens to kill Yuga for betraying him.

History
Kunieda became a villain with his Plant Quirk, and rise up to rack up body counts using corpses he collects as fertilizers for his Quirk. Due to his sadistic nature, he was a serial killer before he was defeated, captured, and locked in Tartarus for his heinous crimes.

While he was imprisoned, All For One uses Tomura Shigaraki's body to break into the prison and free himself. Kunieda was freed by All For One along with several other high-level villains, telling them to join him on his path of devastation, to become the greatest demon lord. In debt to All For One, Kunieda pledged his allegiance alongside several other inmates as assassins to capture Izuku Midoriya.

Final War Arc
After months of hiding, Izuku made contact with All For One's mole agent, Yuga Aoyama to meet him in disclosed location of a deserted construction site where he can make his move to steal Izuku's One For All. All For One has finally revealed himself before Izuku to claim One For All. However, Izuku and Yuga manage to trick All For One, leading him to Warp Kurieda and an army of villains to the location. Suddenly, Neito Monoma managed to copy the Warp Gate Quirk to open Warp Gates for the Heroes utilizing Warp Gate to teleport themselves in to confront All For One and his army of villains.

As the Final War begins, with all the villains have been summoned in one place, All Might activates the Troy system, trapping all the villains in cages emerging from beneath the battlefield. Neito summons several more Warp Gates around the cages, and the Heroes prepare to shove them all in, to split up the villains.

With the majority of villains warped to different areas all over the country, Kunieda was able to assess that it was all of the primary fighters that were the ones warped away, and wondered what the purpose for the "dregs" left behind is to be. Looking toward Yuga, who was being watched over by Fat Gum, he states that no one has betrayed All For One and lived to tell the tale, and Yuga will be no exception. After mentioning how Dictator failed his duties, Kunieda declares that as All For One's next assassin, he'll show how to get the job done, and asks Yuga if he's ready to be the next target, which he confidently responds to.

Yuga and Fat Gum faces off against Kunieda after defeating the other Villains, but all but one of the 32 Heroes in the area have been defeated by Kunieda. He uses his plants to consume the entire area, and keeping Yuga and Fat Gum contained in his plants and fungus.

Kunieda mocks that there's no need for light, since his seedlings only require flesh to thrive, just as the roots being to consume Fat Gum, rendering his Fat Absorption Quirk useless. He uses his last strength to tell Yuga to show them what he's made of, before he is transformed into a plant as well. Kunieda states how after just one bloom, the spreading pollen allowed them to propagate like a daisy chain, them all being extensions of himself via their roots.

He holds up Yuga's destroyed belt, telling the "filthy traitor" he has no hope of escape, as without it, his Navel Laser will freely leaks out from his body uncontrollably. He says that through his desire to fit in, he became a pawn by accepting a power ill-suited for himself, calling him a "pathetic, shameful life". Nonetheless, Yuga speaks up confidently, saying that reminding himself of how he lived is what purred him on to follow in the light his classmates bring, giving him the desire to shine from deep down within his core.

Yuga surpasses his limits and proceeds to release a barrage of Navel Lasers that blast all over the arena, which Kunieda taunts as chasing after hat is beyond his sight will lead to an shameful death. However, just behind him, a partially visible Toru appears, shouting that it took him long enough, calling him a hero, as she releases Warp Refraction: Navel Laser, blasting Kunieda from behind with a barrage of light.

Abilities
Overall Abilities: Kunieda is one of Tartarus' most dangerous and one of All For One's most powerful villains that ever walked the planet. He was known to collect those he killed as uses their corpses as fertilizers for his Plant Quirk. Because of this, he was brand a serial killer that he was imprisoned in Tartarus before escaping with All For One. Kunieda has expert mastery of his Quirk, enabling him to defeat all the Heroes that remained in Operation Troy, easily disabling Yuga and Fat Gum, who was known for storing kinetic energy into his Fat Absorption, and using their bodies as fertilizers for his Quirk.


 * Keen Intellect: Kunieda is a master strategist, as he was able to deduce the plan to split the villains all over the country. Due to his high level of intelligence, he was able to dispatch the entire strike force of 32 Heroes that were in the parking lot with minimal effort thanks to his Quirk.

Quirk
Plant Growth Quirk: Kunieda's Quirk allows him to sprout and grow gigantic flowers, spores, and fungus-like plants from the ground. They can also sprout from people's bodies and thrive off the victim's flesh, growing into a large carnivorous plant.

The greater the victim's body is, the larger and stronger the plants will grow. Since the roots grow in slowly, Fat Absorption is powerless to defend against them. Once a single carnivorous plant reaches maturity, it will spread pollen, allowing them to propagate rapidly. They are veritable extensions of Kunieda himself via their roots.

Chapter Appearances

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