Spoiler Warning: Monoma and Toga

As you’ve seen with my other posts, My Hero Academia has no shortage when it comes to theory fuel. The manga and anime both have so much grounding in science and are both very self aware. It means you can take details and parallels into consideration when in many other shows they are most likely irrelevant or accidental. Horikoshi, the main creator of the manga, however is very purposeful with each speech bubble. They bring attention to every character at some point, even the villains. Unfortunately one character is missing the character development and backstory of some of the others despite making multiple appearances. I think I’ve finally uncovered the truth about why that is, so here it is. I believe Monoma Neito and Toga Himiko are related.

For those of you who don’t closely follow the anime or manga you probably have no clue who these characters are. For those same people here’s a legitimate spoiler warning for any story regarding the characters in question and other information revealed in chapter 290.

Now, Monoma Neito is a student in Class 1-B at UA. He seems like a normal hero student minus with his obsession with making Class 1-A look inferior. He mocks them at any given opportunity. The interesting thing about this obsession is that he’s not doing it out of his own pride but rather to hype up his class. He even mocks himself sometimes in order to make a dig at Class 1-A. It makes it more into a rivalry rather than singular obsession. His quirk is called “Copy”. It allows him to duplicate and use another person's quirk for a limited amount of time once he makes physical contact with them. As of now he can only hold 4 quirks and can’t use any quirk that requires built up energy to work. Other important information is that he has blonde hair and blue eyes.

Himiko Toga is a villain that closely works for League of Villains. She’s the youngest in the league that you know of, being only 17 as of the current chapter. She also has very obsessive tendencies. Hers however are less centered around others and success and more with herself and love. Her quirk is called “Transform” and it allows her to become a physical lookalike of another person, as well as copy their voice. She can only transform into people whose blood she has ingested. The more blood she drinks, the longer she has access to that person's form. Recently, however, her quirk experienced something called an awakening. This allows a quirk to grow stronger than previous limitations in situations of stress or anytime when someone pushes their quirk past it’s limit. Toga’s awakening allowed her to also use the quirks of the people she transforms into. This is a very important piece of information that I’ll come back to in a bit. The final piece of background information about her is her blonde hair and goldish eyes (presumably a result of her quirk).

Horikoshi has already revealed one set of siblings on either side of a war. This pair is Shoto Todoroki and the villian Dabi, now confirmed as Touya Todoroki. This reveal was a long time coming and most people knew about it or had guessed before chapter 290 when it was confirmed. The reveal had a couple steps though, not necessarily in order. First, one character of the pair had their backstory revealed and the other was left ambiguous. In this case Shoto Todoroki had his trauma from his family revealed during the sport festival arc. Dabi, however, had his backstory hidden even when every other villain’s backstory was being revealed. Another step was that parallels were drawn between them. Parallels like their quirks and fighting styles were revealed long before Shoto and Dabi’s relationship was. The last big step was both shying from interactions with each other and the scenes feeling very heavy or awkward when they do interact. An example is when Dabi attacked the training camp and Shoto was there. The brief interaction had an air of heaviness and importance that hadn’t made sense at that point.

Now with the background information out of the way we can get into the actual theory.

The steps for a reveal have almost been completed. Just like Shoto and Dabi, only one character's backstory has been revealed. Unlike them, Toga’s back story (the villain’s backstory) was revealed and not Monoma’s. Step two was also completed as well though with an extra bonus. It’s hard to deny the similarities between they’re behaviors and quirks. In fact their quirks seem to each fill in one side of the same coin. Monoma’s quirk is exactly what Toga’s quirk was missing to complete her transformations and the inverse is true as well. Another piece of interesting information is that Toga’s awakening led her quirk to develop an aspect similar to Monoma’s quirk. It could be genetics that caused that to happen. It makes me wonder if Monoma’s had awakened if it would cause his physical appearance to modify slightly when he copies a person’s quirk. Another more obvious comparison are their appearances, with them both having blonde hair. They also share the same approach to their respective goals which could come from influencing each other as they grew up. They both throw every bit of themself into their goal and never let it leave their sight. They also try to twist situations into a win for themself or for their teams mentally as long as literally. The only step missing is having interactions. You could argue that they’re avoiding interaction but despite the fact Monoma was in the area when Toga was helping the training camp. He was also physically unable to leave and I doubt he knew Toga was one of the villains. Toga most likely also changed her name for this theory to be true. Toga also had no interest in Monoma what so ever though it may be because she didn’t know he was there.

That’s all I have this week! Let me know what you think in the comments. Could Monoma and Toga be related? Maybe they just met in middle school before their paths split?

Don’t forget to suggest any theory ideas you have for me to do!