#just made their designs on the spot but kinda love them especially Hawk’s stripes

[nightly-ruse]

Bloody love. Isn’t it beautiful? Some Valentines HawkAsh, what lovers wouldn’t want to drown together as they bleed out by someone they once knew and then had their murders covered up?

[greatwyrmgold]

I did that, too. 552 "A or B or neither?" questions, involving 168 characters, most of whom either showed up in movies or something or had slipped from my mind. Analyzing the results was fun, though.

I'm curious how the sorting worked for these. But I don't know enough to speculate, so...

I did not expect Toga to be at the top. I guess I have a soft spot for ill-considered sapphic neurodivergent allegories. Eri in second place isn't surprising at all; I love kids. And the only problem with Momo is her costume design. Probably also worth pointing out that the female characters (especially Star & Stripe) probably received a substantial boost from the lack of respect the manga gives them.

Aizawa, Amajiki, and Shinsou are there because I'm an introvert who projects onto them to varying degrees, and because Aizawa's pretty cool. Kurogiri has a cool power, a tragic origin, and an absolutely iconic aesthetic. He's a sinister cloud in a dapper suit.

Gentle Criminal is, as far as I can recall, the only truly non-villainous antagonist in the series. That deserves recognition. So does Overhaul's power—especially the underutilized bit where he can apparently take apart multiple people and put them together as one. Tsuyu, Ochaco, and Mirio are high because of their obvious appeal. And the two characters who technically matter the most, are also present.

If you look carefully, you'll note that Stain and Todoroki are both listed as #27. I am even more interested in how the sorting algorithm works.

If I were ranking characters consciously, I wouldn't have put Kirishima, Mei or Mina so high—certainly not above the likes of Todoroki, Stain, and Jirou. I guess the fact that they're upbeat and generally appealing pushed them up the ranks. That, or the others got some bad matchups. No idea why Gran Torino would be in the top 30, though.

Inasa's fun; I realize he's basically a foil/rival for Izuku's foils/rivals, but I wish we got to see more of him. In a place that made sense. Same deal for La Brava (with Gentle). Hawks is kinda interesting, and the mid-20's are where we start to see characters I don't have a strong opinion of. Aside from Gran Torino.

The two main villains are around here. Not sure why AFO is a dozen spots ahead of his protege. The idea of a nigh-immortal villain who's shaped the world from behind the scenes, engaged in a secret war with a superheroic lineage he created, is kinda neat...but All For One isn't a very good interesting of that concept.

Add Lady Nagant, Magne, Ryukyu, and Burnin' to the list of women HeroAca does dirty. Probably also Fuyumi, though we don't see enough of her to know for sure.

What the heck is Sirius doing all the way above some characters I have an opinion about?

And why is Twice so low? He's my second-favorite member of the League of Villains! Who did he get paired against that put him just above the bottom quarter?

Nice.

Given that this algorithm allows ties, I'm not surprised that there are a few many-way ties among movie characters, bit-part villains, and other people I have no strong opinion of. This isn't the biggest tie in my list; it's only 24-way, compared to 27-way ties for 94th and 131st. But you can guess why I only showed this one.

And at the bottom, where they belong.

Did the heroacasorter for fun since I saw people on twitter passing it around lol. I'm not really surprised by my results, though there's more ties than I thought there'd be. If I redid it, I'd put Izuku above Bakugou, and Toga above Nejire. Ochako before Shinsou is fine though.