Danjuro Tobita, alias Gentle Criminal, pursued Pro Hero status but repeatedly failed to gain entry into hero training programs. A defining teenage mishap—interfering with a Pro Hero’s emergency operation—culminated in legal charges, academic expulsion, and familial estrangement. Driven by financial instability and societal rejection, he spiraled into villainy as Gentle Criminal, orchestrating non-lethal crimes with partner La Brava to achieve notoriety through viral broadcasts. His Elasticity Quirk infuses objects or air pockets with elastic energy, enabling defensive barriers, acrobatic propulsion, or ensnaring traps. Preferring evasion and theatricality over direct combat, his schemes rely on tactical foresight and amplified power from La Brava’s Love Quirk, which scales with their shared emotional investment. In the U.A. Cultural Festival Arc, he targeted the school to elevate his infamy but clashed with Izuku Midoriya. Midoriya’s unwavering resolve and earnest ideals reawakened Gentle’s buried aspirations for heroism. Defeated, he publicly surrendered, expressing genuine remorse and openness to rehabilitation. Confined at Mikuzu Prison, he thwarted mass inmate escapes during All For One’s prison break campaign, displaying protective instincts that qualified him for frontline deployment in the Final War. There, he leveraged their combined abilities to cushion the falling U.A. fortress, redirecting elastic energy to minimize casualties—a decisive shift from self-aggrandizement to collective safeguarding. Post-war, he achieved reconciliation with society through marriage to La Brava and co-founding GeL Inc., serving as her executive assistant while maintaining reformed ideals. His arc transitions from vainglorious villainy to quiet redemption, balancing past ambitions with constructive purpose. Gentle Criminal’s persona merges performative grandeur with an acute dread of anonymity. Though framing misdeeds as chivalrous performance art, he exhibits sincere loyalty to La Brava and latent heroic integrity. His trajectory underscores societal marginalization, the redemptive power of empathy, and the blurred line between heroism and villainy, crystallized through his pivotal confrontation with Midoriya and ultimate sacrifice during humanity’s crisis.