The League of Villains

The League of Villains (敵連合) is the autobiography of Shuichi Iguchi, the villain known as Spinner and one of the few League members still breathing. It reaches print after the Final War and appears in Chapter 430 and Episode 170. It shares its name with the organization it chronicles.

The book begins as a promise made in a hospital room. Spinner is at Central Hospital recovering from having nearly been turned into a Nomu when Izuku Midoriya comes to see him. Spinner brands him shameless, a murderer, the man who ended Tomura Shigaraki. Izuku does not argue the charge. He came only to hand over what Tomura left behind: that even at the bitter end, he kept fighting to destroy. Hearing that the words were meant for him alone, and for no one else in the League, is what breaks Spinner apart.

What spills out is what Tomura meant to him. A shining hope who grinned while promising to tear everything down, who turned Deika City into a crater, who spoke for people like him and gave that voice somewhere to go. Ground down for what he was and ready to quit on life entirely, Spinner had been handed a dream to hold and a reason to believe he could amount to something. He remembers the rest of it too, crying as he says it: a shut-in whose whole world was video games, who happened to love the same ones Spinner did, and who became the first friend he ever had. Izuku tells him a hero owed something to all of them, that the League held its own place in his heart, and that the message was Tomura's way of saying the feeling ran both directions.

Spinner knows how this goes. The fighting will continue, and eventually Tomura and the League will simply be forgotten. So he declares he will write it all down instead, the legacy of the Symbol of Fear and an organization that lived to destroy, a book aimed squarely at the Heroes for good, because the past refuses to die, and he means to spin the tale himself. Izuku suggests he make it a comic and promises, before leaving, that he will never forget Tomura. Spinner scoffs at the suggestion, then reverses himself in a later interview, deciding pictures belong in it after all, on the grounds that they would help readers who lack schooling or come from other countries.

Shuichi Iguchi authored it. Atsuhiro Sako, Mr. Compress, the only other surviving member of the League, reads it inside his cell once it reaches the public, smiling at the memory. Elsewhere, a shopper notices the volume sitting on a store shelf, works out that someone from the League wrote it, and resolves to pick it up and read it sometime. Izuku Midoriya prompted the whole undertaking without meaning to.