My Hero Academia : Heroes Rising , the 2nd bear - alone film in theMy Hero Academiaseries , feature a shocking moment towards the conclusion of the film that presents some contradictory facts about One For All , the " quirk , " or great power , that can be freely change from one mortal to another . Based off of the manga series by Kohei Horikoshi , My Hero Academia : Heroes Risingposes some question about One For All that are left unreciprocated by the end of the film .

My Hero Academia : Heroes Risingfollows Izuku Midoriya ( Justin Briner ) andclass 1 - Afrom U.A. High School after they ’ve all passed their provisional hero permit examination . raise for the Hero Work Recommendation Project , all twenty of the aim submarine sandwich are hired by the Heroes Safety Commission to run a hero office on the peaceable Nabu Island , which is in want of assistance after all of the resident heroes hit the hay . Successfully running the paladin agency without any supervision , Izuku and his schoolfellow enjoy guarantee real hero study solo until the villain Nine ( Johnny Yong Bosch ) and his muscular companion appear on the island intention on stealing the quirk of a young son named Katsuma Shimano ( Maxey Whitehead ) .

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As Izuku and his classmates , including Ochaco Uraraka ( Luci Christian ) , Shoto Todoroki ( David Matranga ) , and Katsuki Bakugo ( Clifford Chapin ) , attempt to protect Katsuma and his sister Mahoro ( Dani Chambers ) from the villains , Izuku is storm to make a tough call and decides that the only way to get the better of the villains and keep open everyone on the island is to transport hisquirk , One For All , over to Bakugo . Not only does the scene blow one of the most lurid twists featured inMy Hero Academia , but it also further break the burgeon friendship between Izuku and Bakugo , who were formerly bitter rivals . While the mo is fundamentally a cerise on top of a pretty whole motion-picture show , My Hero Academia : Heroes Rising’sscenes boast the power One For All , including the climactic ending , raise some question about how the crotchet can be inherit .

How Did Izuku Transfer One For All To Bakugo?

While the canonical origins of One For All has been divulged in theanime serial , there is still a quite a little of mystery surrounding the quirk , include the identity of all of the retiring wielder ’s of One For All and the minutia of how the ability actually works . In thefirst time of year , All Might ( Christopher Sabat ) chooses Izuku Midoriya to be his successor as the “ Symbol of Peace . ” After training for ten months to be physically up to of inherit One For All , All Might give Midoriya a strand of his hair to swallow , explaining that One For All can only be inherited by take in the current wielder ’s DNA . Once Midoriya eats the haircloth , it takes his body a few hours to process it , and he only has approach to the ability during his U.A. High School entrance examination . InMy Hero Academia : Heroes Rising , all of the former rule about the process of inherit One For All seem to be disregarded .

During the scenery when Izuku transfershis quirkto Bakugo , the two simply concern hands and One For All appear to be passed on to him instantly . In comparison to Izuku ’s experience , Bakugo never absorb any of Midoriya ’s deoxyribonucleic acid and no time limit prevents him from using the quirk right aside . While it is n’t made well-defined in the film , one potential grounds for the mutual exclusiveness could be that Bakugo already has a quirk of his own . Unlike Bakugo , Izuku was quirkless when he first inherit One For All , and while his body needed the extra clock time to give up the quirk to manifest , Bakugo was capable to use the quirk instantly , since it was strengthening his own quirk , not giving him a new one .

However , it is not so easily explained how Bakugo is able to inherit One For All without first swallowing some of Izuku ’s DNA . As amusing as it would have been to see Izuku assay to win over Bakugo to eat his hair’s-breadth and might have resulted in a Greek chorus of“Shut up , you curse nerd!”the climax ofHeroes Risingaims for seismic disturbance economic value over practicality by letting this one incompatibility slide .

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Can One For All Be Stolen?

During the sophomore season ofMy Hero Academia , it was previously revealed that the quirk One For All can only be given volitionally and not be make by force . After Izuku faces the grinder - killer Stain , All Might explicate to Izuku that even though Stain take in some of his DNA , the villain did n’t inherit One For All because the quirk can only be given if the holder intends to spend the power on . InHeroes Rising , however , the ability belong to the villain Nine challenge some ofAll Might ’s former statements regarding One For All ’s exposure .

InHeroes arise , Izuku faces the idealist Nine , a super - villain who undergo quirk sweetening experiments that allows him to slip and lay in up to nine single quirks . When Nine and his crew onrush Nabu Island intent on steal the cell activation quirk from Katsuma , there is a scene where Izuku agitate Nine solo . When Nine analyzes Izuku ’s quirk and seek to slip it for himself , he discovers that he ’s unable to take it because there are multiple quirks within One For All , specifically traces of the single quirks that formerly belong to past bearer of One For All . Nine ’s inability to steal One For All , however , seems to stand up from a technicality .

The only issue that seems to keep Nine from steal Izuku ’s quirk is the fact that Nine can only store nine quirks at a clip , a fact which is made obvious through his namesake , and while he did n’t have elbow room to salt away all of the quirkiness keep back within One For All at that give time , it still would have been potential to steal it had Nine had the vacuum . With this is brain , it beg the question whether One For All can be stolen by someone with a " crotchet - steal " ability , such as the chief villain All For One .

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Can One For All Be Inherited More Than Once?

After Izuku and Bakugo defeat the villain Nine , Izuku apologizes to All Might for giving Bakugo One For All , since it means that he himself may no longer be able to utilise the oddity that All Might passed down to him . Once One For All begin to touch off within Izuku ’s torso in the form of glowing red current , it ’s made clear that Izuku is still the current bearer of One For All for two possible reasons .   First , Bakugo fell unconscious before his soundbox had time to march the newfangled queerness , and   second , the past bearers of One For All allowed the quirk to remain with Izuku . While the end ofHeroes Risingprovides a swift and lucid resolution to the job , the reason explaining why Bakugo did n’t fully inherit One For All seem like a copper - out , especially when considering an alternative resolution that might have lended the film a unassailable finish .

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Since one of the principle rule associated with One For All is the concept that it has to be given willingly , one resolving that would have nicely bookendedHeroes develop — a narrative about two rivals finding common respect for one another as heroes and friends — is to have Bakugo number to the realisation himself that he should return the quirk to Izuku . Sacrifice for the sake of someone else has never been something that Izuku struggles with , so when he hear that defeating Nine and saving every citizen on Nabu Island could only be achieve by devote his oddity to his rival Bakugo , it was a necessary , not a decision .

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If Bakugo had fully inherited One For All by the end ofHeroes grow , it would have provide the character with a similar chance for growth and self - sacrifice , since keeping One For All for himself would not only give Bakugo the kind of power that could help him attain his end   of becoming the number one hero , but it would ’ve also removed his greatest rivalry in one - hide - slide . This ending , however , would have only been potential if there were n’t any preexisting restrictions preventing the quirk from being inherited   more than once by   the same person .   While this alternative conclusion might have made for a more compelling history overall , it would have posed more problem refer the inheritance of One For All than could have been resolve in a ten - moment foresighted conclusion .

WhileMy Hero Academia : Heroes Risingmay have left some questions unanswered about the quirk One For All , they most in all likelihood wo n’t be answer in any future movie since a assertion from Horikoshi revealed   that this will likely be the lastMy Hero Academiafilm . Luckily for fans , the specific pertain the quirk is a topic that is n’t isolated to the plot of ground ofHeroes Risingand will most in all probability be addressed within theanimeseries in the future .

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