
Kenji Hikiishi, better known as Magne, brought a giant magnet and a shorter temper to the League of Villains' Vanguard Action Squad. Her Quirk polarized anyone standing nearby and dragged them into range. She joined the League chasing the freedom to live as herself, and that same refusal to kneel is what got her killed.
White-framed sunglasses cut into sharp triangles sat over her eyes at all times, hiding them completely. Below that were full, pink-tinted lips much like Rikido Sato's, a squared jaw dusted with light stubble, and smooth magenta hair falling to her shoulders. Her frame was broad and heavily built.
For clothes she favored an unbuttoned dark orange shirt with a white v-neck showing underneath, jeans held up by a belt, and plain brown boots.
Brutality came naturally to her and she made no apology for it. What drew her to the League was not ideology so much as room to breathe. She wanted to decide for herself where she belonged, and when Overhaul offered her a place beneath him she answered with a swing instead of a word.
She was sharper than her temper suggested. Reading the aftermath at the training camp, she pinned Muscular's defeat on Izuku Midoriya and argued the boy should be killed for it, and it was her call to chase the students once Katsuki Bakugo was in League hands.
Magne was a transgender woman, the second in the series after Tiger, who fights with the Wild, Wild Pussycats, and the two ended up trading blows on opposite sides of the same raid. She also holds the distinction of being the first character with a name to die in the story. Shortly before that, it came out that a friend of hers had backed her choice to live openly, even while lacking the nerve to do the same.
Magnetism let her assign polarity to anyone standing within roughly four and a half meters, across a whole body or on a chosen portion of it. Men took the south charge and women the north, and she was the one exception, unable to affect herself. Paired with the cloth-wrapped magnet she hauled around, that meant she could rip a target off their feet and into her swing. Her ultimate move, Moonlight Flit Cannon, charged two people of one gender so they repelled each other, launching whichever one she was not holding.
Tiger put her record at nine armed robberies, three killings, and twenty-nine attempts. She had the strength to match it, blocking his punches outright, and the eye to use it well, singling out Pixie-Bob first because Earth Flow made her the most dangerous of the Pussycats and dropping her unconscious before the fight properly began.
Against Tiger himself she read the attacks and slipped them for minutes on end, losing only when an argument with Spinner over Izuku's escape handed the hero one clean opening and then a Pliabody wrap she could not break. At Kamino she and her teammates made a final grab for Katsuki, were cut off by Mt. Lady, and went down to Gran Torino. Her last fight was her best hit: she polarized Overhaul, hauled him in, and carved a scar across his face before his Quirk blew her apart.
Kenji Hikiishi, known as Magne, is a transgender woman in My Hero Academia, listed as female and identified as the second transgender character in the series after Tiger.
Kenji Hikiishi's Quirk is Magnetism, letting her assign a magnetic polarity to anyone within roughly four and a half meters, men taking a south charge and women a north charge, so she can pull targets into her swinging magnet.
Magne, also known as Kenji Hikiishi, is voiced by Satoru Inoue in the Japanese version and Jeremy Inman in the English dub.
Kenji Hikiishi, better known as Magne, is a member of the League of Villains' Vanguard Action Squad who wields a giant magnet and a Magnetism Quirk, and who joined the League seeking the freedom to live as herself.
Magne died during her final fight against Overhaul, whom she managed to polarize, pull in, and slash across the face before his Quirk killed her, making her the first named character in the story to die.
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