Villains are a very important but often underrated aspect of most anime series, seeing how their characterizations can often make or break the anime that they’re in. Their primary function is to serve as a foil for the hero or heroine and they are often shown as extremely powerful characters who are usually just born that way.
However, in rare cases, villains start off as being weak and they become powerful usually through their actions and battles. In fact, their increase in power parallels the MC’s increased powers through sheer hard work and training.
10 Yukiteru: A Regular Boy Who Became The God Of Time & Space (Future Diary)
Yuki started off as a regular teenage boy who got caught in Dues Ex Machina’s survival game. He started off with wanting to win the game but ended up wanting to become the next God in order to bring back his dead parents.
Due to this, he resorted to manipulating, using, and even killing people to get what he wanted, even after being told the dead can’t be brought back to life. Ultimately, he became the next God Of Time And Space.
9 Nanami: She Became So Strong That Her Body Couldn’t Handle Her Abilities (Katanagatari)
Despite having a frail body that was prone to illness, Nanami was a force to be reckoned with. Right from her childhood, she trained herself by simply observing her father teach martial arts to her brother. She grew up to be much stronger than her brother, Shichika, and defeated him easily in several one-on-one battles.
In her final battle, she had grown so strong and accumulated so many powers and techniques that her body started degenerating because it was unable to hold so many powers inside it.
8 Moral: Injected Himself With The Forbidden Minimum Power (Hamatora)
Moral started off with experimenting on non-Minimum holders by injecting them with Minimum powers. After he was confident of his experiment, he became his own final test subject and he inserted the Forbidden Minimum via his neck.
He accumulated two Minimum powers, becoming the strongest and most fearsome Minimum holder in the world until his body eventually began dying because it couldn’t contain two powers inside it.
7 Kureto: Controlled An Angel Through His Magic-Science Experiments (Seraph Of The End)
While Kureto himself was an excellent soldier and fighter on the battlefield, what truly made him powerful were the successful results of his illegal human experiments on Mirai Kimizuki for an unknown period of time.
She triggered the power of the 5th Trumpet, which was strong enough to annihilate an entire vampire city. Since Kureto was the only one who could control her, he became an extremely dangerous (and the most powerful) villain in the series.
6 Frill: This AI Is The One Forcing Innocent Girls To Commit Suicide (Wonder Egg Priority)
Frill was created as a sweet 14-year-old girl, but she ended up murdering Acca’s wife due to which she was confined within a box inside the basement.
Although the anime doesn’t explain how she did it, Frill became strong enough to not only make contact with Acca’s daughter, Himari, but managed to influence her to commit suicide. She did not stop there –she ended up exploiting the sadness of other vulnerable girls, pushing them to kill themselves, due to which Acca and Ura-Acca were forced to create the Egg World in order to protect such girls.
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5 Muzan: A Weak Boy Who Became The First & Most Powerful Demon (Demon Slayer)
Muzan was born as a frail and weak human boy, whose body became stronger due to an unknown medicine that is given to him by a kind boy. He soon realized he’d become a demon and it took him several centuries to figure out his strengths and weaknesses.
The Muzan of today is the world’s most powerful demon who can not only create new demons but control them or kill them when they utter his name.
4 Garou: A Human Boy Who Grew Strong Enough To Defeat Superheroes (One-Punch Man)
Tired of always being weak and helpless, a young Garou joined Bang’s dojo and under his sensei’s tutelage became a martial arts prodigy. After he felt he had nothing more to learn, he turned his attention towards superheroes, calling himself the Hero Hunter.
Even though Garou was a mere human, his techniques were so strong that he easily managed to overwhelm the S-Class heroes Tanktop Master and Metal Bat during long-drawn battles.
3 Light: Started Off Killing Petty Criminals & Attained A God-Like Status Among Fans (Death Note)
Light began using the Death Note out of mere curiosity to test its limits, and as soon as he found different ways in which he could interpret its rules, he jumped from killing petty criminals to killing people who held high positions in government, private and political circles.
In fact, his killings as Kira resulted in him having a global fanbase of blind supporters, which in turn triggered his God complex and made him kill even more high-risk targets.
2 Father: The Dwarf In The Flask Eventually Became As Strong As A God (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
His life started with Van Hohenheim’s blood which made him into a homunculus. This was 400 years before the anime started when he was just a black ball inside a glass flask.
With the passage of time, he gained exceptional powers like immortality by sacrificing the Xerxians, inherited the knowledge of the Eye, created homunculi, and eventually became strong enough to create a tiny sun in the palm of his hand.
1 Madara: A Young & Defenseless Boy Grew Up To Become An OP Villain In His Universe (Naruto)
As a child, Madara was blessed with a strong chakra which he used to defeat Senji. Over the years, he met different people (both friends and foes), learned new things from them, fought with them, and eventually became a new man.
In the end, he became strong enough to seal the Ten-Tails into his body and easily defeat the Five Kages. He was also an exceptionally intelligent man with years of battlefield experience and even without his powers, he was a tough man to defeat.
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