Villain Bots

U.A. builds these machines so that its students can rehearse combat against something that behaves like an enemy. The idea is exposure: give an applicant a rough sense of what facing a criminal feels like before the stakes turn real.

In practice they are not much of a threat, and there are plenty of ways to put one down. The exception is the zero-point class, which is built on a far larger scale and is genuinely hazardous. Arena Traps are seeded across the exam grounds to catch people out and keep the high scorers honest.

Scoring runs on a simple ladder. The one-point machines are the easy tier, the two-pointers sit in the middle, and the three-pointers are the hard ones. Arena Traps are worth nothing at all, which is the whole point of them. Candidates earn their totals either by wrecking a machine outright or by rendering it unable to move, so a Quirk built for restraint scores as well as one built for demolition.

Whatever survives the entrance exam does not go to scrap. The remaining units are redeployed as hazards along the obstacle course at the U.A. Sports Festival, giving them a second life in front of a crowd.

The four classes take their names from Star Destroyer designs in Star Wars: Victory for the one-pointers, Imperial for the two-pointers, Venator for the three-pointers, and Executor for the zero-pointers.

U.A. High School owns and deploys the machines and is also their source. Tartarus appears to run its own fleet as part of the prison's defenses against assault and infiltration, finished in black and including variants not seen on the school's grounds.

One went badly wrong in My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, where a rogue Executor went on a rampage until Toshinori Yagi shut it down.