League of Villains vs. U.A. Students

Momo briefs the students on what is coming. Shoji's scouting puts the giant at twenty-five meters, and the blueflame trailing off his back means the League rides with him. Since Midnight's anesthetic has to be swallowed, the plan is to stop him and force his jaw open. Honenuki softens the ground into a bog, Mineta seeds it with sticky spheres, Momo packs explosives underneath, and Tokage watches the horizon.

Gigantomachia stumbles straight into the mire. Whips and vines lash his neck while the students strain to pry his mouth apart, and Aoyama and Jiro harry the villains clinging to his shoulders until Dabi burns Jiro's jack. Mr. Compress knocks Kaminari out of the sky before he can unload, and the giant simply exhales, blasting the trainees away in a gale that Dabi follows with fire. Undeterred, Momo detonates the second trap and drops him again.

Ashido sprints through the flames in her Acidman shell with a vial in hand, only to freeze when the beast speaks and she recognizes the voice from her middle school years. She trips, and Kirishima takes the blow meant for her, then climbs the giant himself. Toga knifes one vial out of the air; the other, recovered from Ashido, lands squarely in the mouth. The students follow with cannon fire, Honenuki douses the blaze, and Momo calls in Majestic. Gigantomachia answers by transforming.

In Jaku, Tomura rises again despite everything thrown at him and refuses Endeavor's demand to surrender. Quoting his father's line that heroes wound their families to rescue strangers, he indicts a society that looked away from him and declares that a world which rejected him has been rejected right back. Gran Torino floors him, only to have his leg crushed, and as he remembers Nana erasing her own son from the records to protect him, Tomura's fist punches clean through his chest. Ryukyu and Deku pin the villain, but he threads a hand through her wounded palm, flicks out the Quirk-destroying bullet that once cost Mirio his Permeation, and shoots Aizawa in the leg.

The student backup team successfully feeds Gigantomachia the anesthetic thanks to Kirishima recovering Ashido's vial, though the giant transforms rather than fall. Ashido realizes the beast is the same creature she encountered years earlier as a child. Dabi catalogues the giant's Quirk suite, including Endurance and Pain Blocker, and repeats Garaki's boast about building the perfect bodyguard.

Tomura articulates his creed on heroes and villains before crippling Gran Torino with a fatal-looking strike. A flashback shows Nana Shimura giving up Kotaro and falsifying the records to keep All For One from finding him. Deku's full-power Wyoming Smash fails to stop Tomura from firing the Quirk-Destroying Bullet, which strikes Eraser Head.

Chapters 279 through the opening pages of 282 supply the material. The Japanese broadcast fell on 19 November 2022 and the dub on 3 December, again bracketed by Single-Minded and SKETCH.

The adaptation drops Honenuki and Tokage worrying about Monoma's group. Momo's call to Majestic is restaged: rather than fleeing the fire in fireproof suits, she radios from a rock outcrop while Honenuki sinks the burning trees to smother the flames. The students visibly react to the giant's transformation, and Bakugo destroying a first Quirk-Destroying Bullet is cut, leaving Tomura with only the shot that hits Aizawa.