Recaps

Uraraka Shige escaped prison, joined the League of Villains to gain protection and time to grow stronger, and returned to prison before escaping again. By the time AFO assembled a villain force, Shige was helping Shigaraki investigate U.A. High School ahead of a planned attack.

• Uraraka Shige discovered that Sakinagi Shushin’s Quirk had changed his outlook, then trained with Gu Yu and Kurasu Rikizo before guards moved him into solitary confinement.
• AFO’s agents contacted Uraraka Shige in prison and invited him to join, so he decided to escape, freed inmates amid a riot, and fled with Gu Yu and Rikizo.
• Uraraka Shige met Tomura Shigaraki and agreed to join the League of Villains, then visited friends and returned to prison as a special educator.
• Uraraka Shige developed new gravity techniques while training in prison, helped Yamahara Ishiga lose weight, and eventually reached full control of his gravity Quirk.
• Uraraka Shige escaped again, freeing Qu Zhi and other educators, then later returned to U.A. High School before going back to the League’s base.
• AFO gathered roughly two hundred villains for Shigaraki and gave him a Nomu intended to counter All Might.
• After learning All Might had joined U.A. High School, Shigaraki took Uraraka Shige to investigate the school and search for All Might’s class schedule.
• Power Loader confronted Uraraka Shige inside U.A. High School, and Shige prepared to fight before Kurogiri said they had what they needed and could withdraw.

Uraraka Shige joined Shigaraki’s attack on U.A.’s USJ, fought the heroes, and escaped with Shigaraki’s severed hand after being wounded. Back at the hideout, Shigaraki began considering how to unite villains, while Uraraka Shige watched Ochaco at the Sports Festival and faced Stain’s challenge.

• Shigaraki launched the USJ invasion, where Eraser Head fought the villains until the Nomu overwhelmed him and All Might arrived with Power Loader.
• All Might fought the Nomu while Uraraka Shige confronted Power Loader and the rescued students, then battled Power Loader at the Flood Zone.
• An unseen shooter wounded Uraraka Shige, who fled across the USJ, found Shigaraki’s severed hand, and escaped through the roof.
• Uraraka Shige evaded U.A. staff and returned to the quarry hideout, where he gave Shigaraki the severed hand and AFO sent him to a doctor for treatment.
• After the USJ attack failed, Shigaraki concluded that the League needed a powerful symbol to unite villains, and Uraraka Shige later asked how they would recruit elite allies.
• Uraraka Shige watched Ochaco compete in the Sports Festival and felt proud of her progress before Stain arrived at the hideout.
• Shigaraki told Stain that he wanted to kill All Might and destroy what he disliked, prompting Stain to attack and test the villains’ convictions.

Uraraka Shige helped Stain’s influence draw new members to the League of Villains, then joined the attack on U.A.’s forest training camp and the League’s battle with All Might and the students. When Shigaraki’s Decay returned, Shige turned against him and prepared to fight alongside Gu Yu and the other helpers.

• Stain spared Shigaraki after hearing his desire to destroy hero society, and Uraraka Shige persuaded Shigaraki to keep Stain alive and recruit him.
• Uraraka Shige rescued Stain from the heroes in Hosu, and Stain’s notoriety brought Toga, Dabi, Big Sis Mag, Twice, and other new members to the League.
• AFO sent the League to attack U.A.’s forest training camp and capture Ragdoll, while Shigaraki planned to take Bakugo hostage.
• Uraraka Shige fought Ochaco during the attack, then helped Toga escape as the villains secured Bakugo and Tokoyami.
• Aoyama exposed Atsuhiro Sako’s trick, but Uraraka Shige recovered the compressed marbles containing Bakugo and Tokoyami and returned with the League to its hideout.
• Bakugo rejected Shigaraki’s recruitment attempt, and All Might burst into the hideout before AFO teleported the villains to the Nomu factory.
• As All Might battled AFO, Bakugo and Tokoyami resisted the League until Midoriya and the others arrived to rescue them.
• Uraraka Shige pinned Shigaraki with his gravity Quirk, but Shigaraki’s Decay returned and began destroying the ground.
• Uraraka Shige urged Toga, Spinner, and Big Sis Mag to protect Kurogiri’s portal, then joined Gu Yu and the other helpers and hurled his wooden sword at Shigaraki.

Uraraka Shige joined forces with escaped inmates and the Kyoyama Society elders to fight AFO, but Rikizo died and Shige fled after AFO was killed. Shige began building the Wandering Protector’s future, then returned home after Giant Machia destroyed his family’s house and set out to find his family and identify AFO’s former followers.

• Uraraka Shige removed his Shackles and used their gravity to crush Shigaraki, while AFO accepted Shigaraki’s death and attacked the battlefield.
• Uraraka Shige and Qu Zhi organized the escaped inmates, and Stain joined them as they prepared to fight AFO alongside All Might.
• Uraraka Shige crushed Kurogiri into a small black bead, then joined the battle as the Kyoyama Society elders arrived and helped create an opening against AFO.
• Uraraka Shige told All Might how he had been forced into the League of Villains, then vowed to stop AFO from threatening his family while All Might insisted on handing AFO to the law.
• Rikizo shielded Uraraka Shige and battled AFO, finally knocking him down with a headbutt and uppercut before dying from his injuries.
• Yamato killed the unconscious AFO as reinforcements approached, and Uraraka Shige stayed behind to delay All Might while Qu Zhi and the others escaped with Rikizo’s body.
• Uraraka Shige announced the Wandering Protector, escaped the arriving heroes, and began considering a gravity bomb as deterrence while his family and Ochaco saw reports identifying him as a villain.
• After weeks of experiments and evading capture, Uraraka Shige returned to his hometown and learned that Giant Machia had destroyed his family’s home, then turned as an unknown person touched his shoulder.