Roughly seventy small-time criminals answered Tomura Shigaraki's call before the League of Villains stormed U.A.'s rescue-training dome, and Varanus was one of the bodies in that crowd. Hunched, long-necked and masked in bone, he lasted moments against Eraser Head and went to prison with the rest of the mob.
Bone covers his face rather than cloth: the skull of some animal, strapped on as a mask. He stands noticeably shorter than the criminals crowding around him. A heavy hump rides between his shoulders, and the neck emerging from it runs long, so the whole silhouette reads as something reptilian instead of human. Red lines mark both arms, his eyes are black, and below the waist he wears little beyond green trousers held by a black belt.
His alias follows the theme: Varanus is the genus that covers monitor lizards.
Tomura Shigaraki's recruitment drive scraped together dozens of low-tier criminals, and Varanus signed on for what became the raid against U.A.'s Unforeseen Simulation Joint, which made him a footnote antagonist of that arc. He came in with the horde and joined the pile-on aimed at Shota Aizawa.
It ended quickly. Martial Hair fell first, and Varanus went down right behind him, wrapped up by the capture weapon and the close-range fighting style the Pro Hero builds around it. Police took him in with every other recruit once the operation collapsed, and prison has held him since.

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The reptilian looking villain in My Hero Academia is Varanus, a masked minor criminal who joined Tomura Shigaraki's raid on U.A.'s Unforeseen Simulation Joint. His alias comes from the lizard genus Varanus, which covers monitor lizards.
Varanus is the taxonomic genus that covers monitor lizards, a fitting alias for the character given his long neck, hunched posture, and bone mask that give him a reptilian silhouette.
Varanus wears an animal skull as a mask, has red markings on both arms, a hump between his shoulders, and an unusually long neck that makes his overall silhouette look reptilian rather than human.
During the U.S.J. Arc, Varanus joined the mob attacking Shota Aizawa but was quickly defeated by Aizawa's capture weapon and close range fighting style, then arrested along with the rest of the League of Villains recruits.
Varanus's Quirk was never revealed. Shota Aizawa's Erasure shut it off before he could use it, and he was subdued before demonstrating any ability.
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