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Flect Turn is not the most compelling antagonist we’ve had in My Hero Academia; however, he’s set up as a kind of foil for Deku and the superhuman world at large, as he believes that Quirks are a blight unto this world and that the only way to save humanity is by forcibly releasing them of their meta abilities. Turn is spurred on by personal circumstances, as his Quirk, Mirror, enables him to reflect any physical contact he experiences by several times, if not several hundreds of times. It is also one of those Quirks that is always activated, like Froppy’s Quirk.
Unable to establish deeper connections with people, Turn blames it all on the incidence of Quirks, looking to develop the kind of technology that could release him from his anguish. Unfortunately; however, we don’t get to see much about Flect Turn before the events of the film, so his character goes severely underdeveloped, which is quite a disappointment because he’s an overpowered antagonist with reasons to change the world unlike anything we’ve seen in the series. Ideologically, he could be placed directly opposite to Destro, Re-Destro, and the Meta Liberation Army (we’d say Paranormal Liberation Front specifically; however, Shigaraki’s ideals have very little to do with Quirks in the way that Re-Destro and this film’s antagonist, Flect Turn, have ideals revolving around the incidence of meta abilities in society).
Unlike the major antagonists of season 5, Flect Turn wants to use the Quirk Factor to effectively rid the world of them entirely. While his motivations are understandable, somewhat, the film fails to give flesh to his grievances against Quirks, and as a result, we don’t really know Flect Turn aside from the fact that he’s blue, reflects attacks, and is highly charismatic, as you’d expect from the leader of a movement. This dampens the final fight and forces it to rely on the flashy visuals, high stakes, and the clocking ticking ever closer to global ruin. A lot more attention on the film’s villain would have made for a much more entertaining experience.
The antagonists are not developed much by the film, which focused its runtime more on Deku and Rody, with some interesting sequences featuring some of the more popular members of Class 1A like Todoroki, Bakugo, Froppy, and Uravity. There are loads of cameo appearances from the cast of Class 1A and 1B, as they all fought valiantly against the members of Humarise who had been doping with the same Quirk Acceleration Factor used in the Quirk-eradicating Trigger Bombs.
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