Death

**Death** is a villain and the main antagonist of the first half of the Apocalypse arc.

## Appearance

Death is a seemingly young man with shoulder-length black hair. His typical attire consists of a black trench coat over a business suit.

Throughout most of the series, he was drawn to be kempt. When his second personality state takes over, he becomes disheveled and looks more like an insane fanatic.

## Personality

Death suffers from dissociated personality disorder, which was caused by getting his second quirk.

His first personality is the one he shows the most often and is the only one we know about until his conversation with the pro hero Virata. This first personality is calm and collected. He is always calculating what his next move will be and rarely ever shows any emotions. He is also a great leader, being able to bring people to his cause and successfully control one of the largest and most successful villain organizations in history.

He keeps his second personality well-hidden and only lets it come out during his training of Wrath and when he is overcome with great emotion. This personality is loud and boastful. He also has an obsession, namely to train people into becoming as powerful as they can be for both heroes and villains, though he prefers the latter. In this state he lets go of most of his emotions and has no control over them.

## History

Death used to be an advisor for All for One and even considered him a friend. They were eventually so close that All for One gave him an unknown quirk, which led to his dissociated personality disorder, though he never blamed All for One for this. Seeing his mistake All for One took the quirk away in mere minutes, avoiding most physical damage, but it was too late to stop his split personality from forming. But when All for One told him he would give Stockpiling to his younger brother, Death advised against it, predicting it would lead to All for One's downfall. After he ignored his advice, Death decided to secretly train the first user, who he calls Number One. After One's death he trained Number Two and left for several decades. He trained multiple historic villains throughout history. Ten years before the start of My Hero Academia he was arrested after it was revealed he was a trainer for several of these villains, including one that was only recently captured.

## Abilities

**Overall abilities:** Death was one of the most dangerous villains the world has ever known, though this did not come from his fighting capability, but rather because of his intellect.

* **Leadership capabilities:** Death was a talented leader, who could gather people to a cause and make them extremely loyal to him. He was able to juggle with the needs of all the parts of The Army of the Apocalypse in order to make it work even more efficiently than the hero response. Shigaraki himself was unable to do this, which led to the Army Revolt and eventual dissolving of the Army.
* **Keen intellect:** Death was a master strategist, which came in part from his quirk. His long life also made him very aware of people and their reactions to situations, making him capable of devising tactics that most people would fall for. Whilst he did make several misjudgments, not ordering Shigaraki's death when he could being the most obvious, these were rare.
* **Teaching:** Death is extremely good at evaluating someone's quirk and devising methods to train it. He was the trainer of several great heroes and villains and spends a large portion of the Apocalypse Arc training Wrath.

### Quirk

**Death Vision:** His quirk, Death Vision allows him to see someone's name above their head along with a timer counting down to the time at which they die, assuming they aren't killed by any unnatural cause before it runs out. When he makes eye contact with someone he can see the most likely ways that person might die, alongside the chance that they will die that way. Lastly he can change these timers to make people age slower, though he can only do this once a week on himself or once a month if he tries it on anyone else.

## Trivia

* Death is the only member of the Four Horsemen whose name is unknown.
* He has an obsession with biblical names and metaphors.