My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission

My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (僕のヒーローアカデミア THE MOVIE ワールドヒーローズミッション) is a 2021 animated film and the third movie in the My Hero Academia series.

The movie was officially announced on March 27, 2021 and premiered on August 6th, 2021 in Japan. It was released in North America, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, on October 29, 2021.

Synopsis
When a terrorist organization threatens to wipe out the superhuman society, the fate of the world hangs in the balance of the future heroes. Within hours until the collapse of civilization, Deku, Bakugo, and Todoroki must work as a team, but there is one problem: Deku's on the run for murder.

Prologue
In the main sanctuary of the Humarise sect, the leader Flect Turn gives a speech to all his followers gathered there about how ever since the appearance of Quirks, they will eventually become so powerful they will lead to the extinction of humanity, as the Quirk Singularity Doomsday Theory assures. To ensure the salvation of the pure humans, those who are Quirkless, Flect says Humarise must take action, even if that means the deaths of millions of people. While this sermon is taking place, deep in a secret underground cavern facility, a lone defector, Alan Kay, flees from the terrorist organization.

Flect Turn demonstrates their resolve by detonating one of the Trigger Bombs in a major city, releasing a large amount of green gas that quickly covers the entire city, while the terrified citizens try to escape. Such gas is made from a chemically enhanced substance known as Ideotrigger, which causes the Quirks of anyone who breathes and inhales it to go berserk and lose control of their super-empowered Quirks that are highly toxic to the users themselves and destructive due to the enhancing properties of the chemicals.

Both civilians and heroes are unable to control their chemically-enhanced powers, being consumed by their overpowered Quirks and causing great destruction throughout the city, increasing the death toll. The only ones who survive this tragedy are a few Quirkless individuals, completely shocked by the death and devastation they had just witnessed. The Humarise agents approach these terrified survivors to congratulate them for being granted by salvation.

Sometime after the devastation, Humarise broadcast to the world as the ones responsible for the bombing.

Act 1: Heroes Assembled
In response to the act of terrorism, the All-Star World Heroes Association mobilizes the largest anti-terror joint task force made up of the top Heroes all over the globe, with All Might as the advisor. While each team of heroes goes to their designated targets, the director of the association explains the situation as well as the main goals of the operation. Their mission is to simultaneously raid the twenty-five known branches of Humarise in the world, aprehend all its members including the leaders, and seize the Trigger Bombs. Since the nature of the entire operation is strictly off-books clandestine, they must refrain from asking for help from local law enforcement.

Various members from Class 1-A and Class 1-B from the U.A. Heroes Course were recruited to boost the number of the Heroes being deployed both at home and overseas. The Lurkers recruited their trainees Minoru Mineta, Hanta Sero, Denki Kaminari, and Ibara Shiozaki to join Salaam in raiding the Humarise branch in Cairo, Egypt. Ochaco Uraraka, Tsuyu Asui, and Nejire Hado were selected by Ryukyu to raid the Humarise base in Paris, France. Gang Orca assembled a joint operation with Present Mic and Cementoss in Tokyo, Japan to raid a Humarise forward operating base with the trainees, Kyoka Jiro and Mezo Shoji. Fat Gum and his trainees, Eijiro Kirishima, Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, and Tamaki Amajiki will assist with the Japanese operations. Momo Yaoyorozu and Setsuna Tokage were chosen by Majestic to assist Singapore's top hero, Big Red Dot. Hawks and Fumikage Tokoyami are sent to New York City, United States with Shishido and his trainees, Mashirao Ojiro, Rikido Sato, Nirengeki Shoda, and Jurota Shishida to apprehend the American branch.

The Heroes of the Endeavor Agency, including Work-Study trainees Izuku Midoriya, Katsuki Bakugo, and Shoto Todoroki, join a secret covert black-ops mission to the capital city of Otheon, where the main headquarters is presumably located and apprehend the leader, Flect Turn. Once the operation begins, the heroes attack Humarises' forward operating bases in Otheon, as the heroes led by Endeavor raid the headquarters via HALO jump.

Endeavor himself leads the first team with Clair Voyance to locate the bombs, while a second team, in which the trainees are in, is charged with apprehending the members and their leader. Clair uses her Voyance Quirk in order to find the bombs, but she informs Endeavor that there are none in the building. The secondary team are also unsuccessful in locating Flect Turn. They quickly search the entire building but fail to find any of their targets.

The other Hero Teams from around the world have also successfully raided the other branches but, much like Otheon's, none were able to discover any trace of the Trigger Bombs. Hawks informs the association's director that none of the captured cultists they interrogated know anything about the whereabouts of the devices, so he assumes that only members of Flect Turn's inner circle know of their existence. All Might suggets there may be another Humarise facility that they don't know about, so the director orders all the hero teams to be on standby and requests for more help.

While all this is happening, Alan Kay is still on the run, carrying a wrapped package with him, obsessed with delivering it to prevent the destruction of the world.

Sometime later, in Otheon capital city's shantytown, a street urchin named Rody Soul has been taking sketchy jobs in order to make money to take care of his younger brother and sister. He comes with a recent job to be a courier man for a robbery of uncut, untraceable jewelry.

As the lowest ranking members of the team, Izuku, Shoto, and Katsuki were making some errands for the heroes, much to Katsuki's annoyance and frustration. They discuss about Humarise and their fanatical paranoia about the Quirk Singularity when a jewel robbery is being commenced nearby. Izuku, Shoto, and Katsuki spot the robbery and respond quickly. The villains saw them and split up with Shoto and Katsuki easily capturing the jewelry villains, however, Izuku notices Rody running away with the briefcase given by the robbers and makes a break into a chase after Rody across the city, through the streets and on the rooftops. Izuku tries to apprehend him with his Blackwhip, but Rody, who is exceptionally skilled in thievery and parkour and with the knowledge of the city streets, easily evades all of his attacks.

At the same time, Alan Kay attempts to escape with a briefcase in his possession to alert the authorities, but he is ambushed by a Humarise agent, Beros, who uses her Longbow Quirk to shoot armor-piercing laser arrows, leading to a car crash on a bridge that ends up in the middle of Izuku and Rody's chase. In the scuffle, Rody grabs the briefcase supposedly meant to contain the jewelry, and nearly gives Izuku the slip, but he catches up inside the subway station. The two fight over the briefcase until they realize it only contains only documents, books, and notepads, confusing the two, especially Rody since he was supposed to deliver the jewelry to a dealer.

Back on the bridge, Shoto was able to spot the crash and freeze the car to prevent it from exploding. There, he notices the large bullet-like holes on the car, indicating that the car was targeted for an attack and not in a car accident. Nearby, unknown to the police, Beros checks the briefcase, only to find it containing the untraceable, uncut diamonds. She informs her leader, Flect Turn, about the situation, and he orders her to take precaution to eliminate the witnesses.

As Rody and Izuku try to understand the mix-up, the Otheon police arrive in SWAT gear. Izuku tries to defuse the situation, but suddenly, the Otheon police responds with a shoot-to-kill order and shoot at him and Rody. Izuku escapes with Rody by swinging throughout the city with Blackwhip, avoiding the police, and taking the chase to the Otheon sky bridge. As Izuku was able to evade the police, they are suddenly attacked by Beros. Rody passes out from the shock and Izuku is forced to escape into the ocean water to avoid civilians getting hit in the crossfire.

Back in the Otheon team's headquarters, Endeavor reprimands both Shoto and Katsuki for disobeying direct orders to standby and for stopping a petty thievery instead, and demands to know where Izuku is. Shoto claims that Izuku was chasing after the third person suspected of helping the jewelry villains, but he hasn't called back or answered his phone. Right on cue, Izuku gets in contact with Shoto, explaining the situation with him being shot of by the police and a villain.

As Izuku continues on to explain his encounter, Shoto and the rest of the team are notified by Clair showing them to the television screen where the Otheon international news agency announces that Izuku is publicly accused of a mass murder of twelve people, notifying the entire nation that he is considered to be extremely armed and dangerous, resulting in putting him on the most wanted list. The entire team are shocked of Izuku's accusation as Shoto tells him to stay off the grid, and remove the GPS chip on his phone once he is done talking.

Act 2: On the Run
The news of Izuku's accusation spreads to the entire world, including All Might and the members of Class 1-A who are all shocked by the evidence. Class 1-A voice their opinions of Izuku's innocences in protest over the false claims by the Otheon government.

In Otheon, Izuku and Rody are now wanted fugitives by the authorities. With no support or contact from Endeavor and the other teams, Izuku figures out that the reason for the police to be shooting at them was because of the briefcase that Rody stole. Rody suggests to hand the briefcase over to the police to clear their names, but Izuku advises against it in concern that the police and the villain who attacked them with arrows are hunting them. In short, Izuku and Rody decide to make their way over to the neighboring city of Klayd, where the Otheon police won't have jurisdiction. They change out their clothes and disguise themselves as native tourists to avoid being spotted by anyone and the police.

At the Otheon Police HQ, Endeavor complains to the Otheon Chief of Police to demand for the charges against Izuku to be dropped, but the chief of police refuses, filing the evidence that are against Izuku to be under Otheon's jurisdiction much to Endeavor's frustration. However, unknown to Endeavor, the chief of police is revealed to be a member of Humarise and was able to file false claims of Izuku's accusation of being a mass murder in order for Humarise to retrieve the briefcase and eliminate them.

Meanwhile, at the Otheon hero teams' base, Shoto is informed by Clair that she had a detective friend to look into the car that had the bullet-like holes, and it was revealed to be caused by a Quirk, and the driver, Alan Kay, is a defective scientist from Humarise who has survived the crash, but was left in a comatose state. Furthermore, she also informs Shoto that the briefcase that contains the uncut, untraceable jewelry were left at the scene of the crime. Shoto later receives a coded message from Izuku, revealing his intended new destination to Klayd, and recruits Katsuki to meet him there, having to deduce that the briefcase they possess is related to Humarise. They notice that the police are also trailing them, so they manage to evade them as well. While heading to the rendezvous point, Katsuki and Shoto recap Izuku's experience with the police shooting at him and his encounter with a villain targeting him and Rody, deducing that Humarise have already infiltrated some of the police units in Otheon, which explains their heavy mobilization, the false claims, and Izuku making a run for the Klayd-Otheon border, so they decide to take precaution of trusting no one but themselves.

Meanwhile, Izuku and Rody take a break inside of an old farmhouse to get some rest for the night before they can move again. Rody becomes distressed over leaving his siblings alone, remembering the unbearable childhood of his past. He remembers his father, Eddie Soul, abandoning him and his younger siblings to join the terrorist organization, Humarise, resulting in his siblings being kicked out of every house and losing their friends. Rody couldn't let his siblings suffer even more when he was gone, so overnight he takes the briefcase and secretly reports to the police. Outside, Rody spots a search helicopter arriving, only to learn that Humarise have already been notified and sent Beros and Rogone to take the briefcase and kill him.

However, Izuku arrives to save him and escape, having been woken up by his bird companion, Pino. Izuku is shot in the chest by one of Bero's arrows in the fight, destroying his phone, leaving him and Rody without any communications to contact the Otheon team. Rody apologizes for his actions while helping stitch him up, and Izuku forgives him, announcing his intentions to become the hero like All Might, someone Rody has respect for. The next morning, Rody is able to get a truck and as they travel, the two get closer to each other, with Rody explaining how he and his siblings were abandoned by everyone after his father suddenly left to join Humarise, stating that they are the most important things in life for him now.

After days of traveling, Izuku and Rody had finally reached to the Otheon-Klaydian border in the canyon, only to find out that the only way to get across is heavily guarded by the police, forcing them to climb up on the canyon to escape. Rody offers the briefcase to get Izuku out of the country safely and easier, but then the two are once again attacked by Beros and another Humarise agent, Sidero. She shoots arrows at Izuku and Rody, but Izuku is able to evade quickly despite his injuries. Sidero gives Beros some iron balls using his Quirk to create and detach iron balls from his knuckles and then enlarge in size and mass, causing Rody to fall off the cliff.

Fortunately, Rody was saved by Katsuki and Shoto who arrived on the border. Shoto defeats Sidero and Katsuki chases after Beros. Out of arrows and finding herself cornered, Beros chooses to jump out of the helicopter into the chasm, right before it crashes. In the aftermath, Izuku discovers a hidden compartment in the briefcase, containing a puzzle that Rody remembers solving as a kid, uncovering inside a memory device and data disk.

The four head to the nearest town in Klayd to investigate it, discovering a message from Alan Kay, who was one of the scientists forced to work for Humarise to create the Trigger Bombs. There, he explains Flect Turn's true goal: to use the first terrorist bombing as a decoy to lure as many of the top Heroes around the world to the designated targets acting as their forward operating bases where he can detonate the bombs worldwide, killing the majority of the Heroes and then proceed to exterminate the rest of the people with Quirks once civilization is destroyed from within by the chaotic anarchy and societal collapse. Alan reveals that he and Eddie, Rody's father who was killed shortly after his treachery was discovered, created a device that will shut down the bombs for good.

Act 3: The Race Against Time
Flect Turn was informed of Rody's escape with the briefcase into Klayd borders, so he is forced to begin his final phase of his plan. Humarise publicly broadcasts to the world that they will detonate their bombs in two hours at over twenty-five different countries with the highest population in the major cities, and as of result, causing massive widespread hysteria and panic all throughout the world, specifically at all of the twenty-five countries. The All-Star World Heroes Association has given the Heroes the green light to scramble in defense to the major cities that are being targeted by Humarise in attempt to quill the society and locate the bombs. Once the heroes managed to found the bombs, the heroes engage in an all-out war against the Humarise sleeper agents, both heavily armed and enhanced with Quirk-empowering drugs.

Izuku, Katsuki, and Shoto also saw the entire broadcast, and Rody realizes that his siblings are within one of the bomb's blast radius. They are also aware of the Otheon team being deployed to the Otheon capital to locate the bombs, leaving them without support. With no backup and running out of time, the four of them decide to take the disarming device to disable the bombs. Katsuki is able to figure out the exact location of Humarise's true home base, and with Rody flying them there on a plane, they head out to shut down the bombs. The three heroes gear up and launch a direct assault at the Humarise's base, heavily guarded by armed terrorists and empowered Quirk users.

Katsuki launches a blitzkrieg attack using Explosion to clear a path for Shoto and Izuku while he deals with the army. After Katsuki takes down the weaker members, he deals with a group of killer twins known as the Serpenters. He fights against them using combined moves such as AP Shot: Auto-Cannon, Explosive Speed and AP Shot, only to be completely outclassed by their incredible speed and agility, constantly getting sliced and stabbed by their Sword Kill Quirk, which can cut through even the biggest of his explosions. Knowing that he cannot outmatch them altogether, Katsuki decides to outsmart them by planting some of his grenades on the ceiling to cause the cave entrance to collapse onto them.

Unfortunately, the Serpenters used Trigger to break out of the rubble, gaining more speed, agility, and sharper blades. They start to slice and dice Katsuki mercilessly while dodging his Explosions. Katsuki starts to struggle against the Serpenters but keeps on pushing until he manages to trick them by grabbing both of their blades and then slamming them against the cavern wall to immobilize their movement. Now that the Serpenters are trapped, Katsuki fires both his Grenadier Bracers to blast them and then goes all out to defeat the Serpenters with his Super Move: Howitzer Impact before he collapses from the blood loss.

Meanwhile, Izuku and Shoto have successfully broke through Humarise's defenses and Shoto stays behind to hold off the incoming reinforcements. Once Shoto defeats the other members, he comes to face against a giant behemoth Quirk user known as Leviathan. He uses his Half-Cold Half-Hot Quirk to stop the behemoth, but the villain was impervious to any of the flame attacks because his Quirk, Helical Scythe, enables him to twist and control the red appendages on his fingers and head to cancel the fire. Shoto tries to uses his ice to freeze him, but the villain is revealed to be induced with the same chemically enhanced Trigger that makes him stronger enough to break through the ice.

Leviathan overpowers Shoto and smashes him into the underground river where he uses his Quirk to control the flow of the water in attempt to drown Shoto, leaving him no room to escape. Fortunately for Shoto, he notices that the underground river leads him to the waterfall outside, giving him the opportunity to escape Leviathan's grasp and freeze the waterfall before he traps the villains inside of the ice with Flashfreeze Heatwave. Despite trapping the villain, Leviathan breaks free by controlling the flow of fire too, burning Shoto under the extreme heat of fire. While being trapped by Leviathan, Shoto concentrates his left side and uses the flow of the fire to defeat Leviathan using his Super Move: Jet Kindling before he and the villain fall back into the waterfall.

Now as the lone hero left inside the Humarise base, Izuku reaches the main hub and encounters Flect Turn himself. Izuku reasons that the Quirk Singularity hasn't been verified by the scientific community, and accuses his actions based on his fear and paranoia. Flect Turn answers that the Quirk will evolve to the point where they become destructive and incapable of control, creating a mass extinction level event that will bring the end of humanity. Izuku retaliates by attacking Flect Turn with St. Louis Smash, but he discovers that Flect Turn's Quirk, Reflect, forces him to reflect anyone and anything that comes in contact with him with the same power level as the one reflected against. Flect Turn reasons that the Quirk he has resulted in everyone abandoning him, leading to him believing Quirks are a disease. Izuku attacks Flect Turn with Delaware Smash Air Force, but it's reflected back to him again, and every one of his punches and kicks are thrown right back at him, which followed by an onslaught of laser attacks that shot him multiple times, severely wound him.

Rody suddenly appears and seemingly prepares to betray Izuku, having already made a deal with Humarise not to detonate the Otheon bomb in exchange for saving his siblings. Rody is about to give the disarming key to Flect Turn, however, thanks to Pino, who Rody had revealed to him earlier is actually his Quirk, Soul, an extension of himself and shows his true feelings, Izuku realizes it's a feint and uses the opportunity to catch Flect Turn off guard. Rody is fatally wounded by lasers in the scuffle, but continues to make his way to deactivate the bombs while Izuku keeps Flect Turn at bay.

The hero enters 30% of One For All and attacks Flect Turn with volumes of kicks and punches, but each one are always reflected by his Quirk. Both Izuku and Flect Turn were evenly matched until Flect Turn starts to budge from the attacks. Izuku eventually realizes that Flect Turn's reflecting Quirk cannot sustain too much damage, and every time it reflects an attack, Flect Turn loses stamina and the Reflect gets weaker. Pushing through with another barrage of kick attacks and powerful punches, Flect Turn starts to fall back even further. Inspired by everyone else all around the world still fighting their hardest even when things seem at its bleakest, Izuku vows to defeat Flect Turn and pushes himself beyond his limitation by activating One For All: Full Cowl - 100%, overloading the Reflect Quirk with a bombardment of super-fast punches that causes the Reflect Quirk to be stretched further beyond its limits until the Quirk releases its pent-up energy. Izuku finally knocks the villain out for good using the built-up energy to power his Super Move: United States of World Smash. He arrives to the master Trigger Bomb to find Rody, who is still alive, and Pino, barely managing to insert the device in time, saving the world.

Epilogue
With the terrorist plot foiled and imminent destruction averted, it was a decisive victory for the heroes worldwide. All the surviving Humarise members have been arrested, the bombs are safely removed, and the injured Heroes are treated with medical care. Recovery Girl manages to retrieve Izuku, Katsuki, Shoto, and Rody, who reunites with his younger siblings. As the heroes from the Endeavor Agency prepare to head back to Japan, Izuku and Rody bid a tearful goodbye to each other.

After the end of the mission, Class 1-A reunite back at U.A., while Rody gets a job as a bartender and continues to care for his siblings, as well as looking to pursue his dream as a pilot.

Manga Adaptation
Volume World Heroes is a special tie-in volume that was released alongside the premiere to audiences in Japan and America. Just as was the case with the previous two movies, this includes concept sketches, interviews, and a new chapter, all by Kohei Horikoshi. The chapter, Hawks: Soothe, acts as a prequel directly before the events of the film. This is the first time a special tie-in volume was released outside of Japan.

A bonus chapter was also released in Weekly Shonen Jump to coincide with the movie, written by Yoco Akiyama, who created similar spotlight chapters for the previous two films. Titled "Endeavor's Mission", the chapter acts as a prequel as well, with the trainees being tested by Endeavor to join in on the mission.

Soundtrack
The movie's theme song is titled "Empathy", performed by Japanese alternative Rock band. In addition, they also performed an insert song called "Flowers".

Gallery

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Trivia

 * This is the first movie to use characters introduced in a previous movie, including several Pro Heroes introduced in My Hero Academia: Two Heroes.
 * This film and the anime tie-in episode are the first times Trigger is named in the series outside of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes.
 * This is currently the first movie not to have any members of the League of Villains.

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