The realm of Japanese animation is home to a fantastic variety of heroes and protagonists, with classic shonen heroes being some of the most popular and well-known. Some of them are full-blown superheroes, while others are simply ordinary people who gained great power and resolved to do good with it.

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These heroes vary greatly in their abilities, personalities, and backgrounds, and they also vary in their fighting styles. Certain heroes are precise and careful in battle and cause very little collateral damage. Other heroes have highly destructive powers and cause immense collateral damage to an urban or rural environment as they fight, and this can add up quickly.

10 Megumin's Explosions Have A Wide Radius (Konosuba)

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Megumin is an explosion witch, and she stubbornly refuses to learn any other sort of magic on principle. She is talented and well-educated, but her only real goal is to impress the witch who taught her explosion magic, not save the world. She'll join forces with anyone who can give her a chance to blow things up.

Megumin is an anime hero, but only barely, which is typical for Konosuba's beloved characters. She can wipe out nearly any foe with her explosions, but she also tends to blow up the terrain around them, and never does she restrain herself. She wants to show off every time.

9 Saitama Sometimes Wrecks The Landscape (One-Punch Man)

Saitama Facing A Weaker Enemy

Saitama the caped baldy is the strongest hero of all time, but he doesn't always hold back his powers when fighting. Sometimes, he dispatches a monster or villain with one precise punch, which minimizes collateral damage, but there have been times when he caused more carnage than any villain.

One of Saitama's most infamous cases was when he punched a falling meteor and paid no attention as the chunks rained down on City Z. He also did nothing to help rebuild after that, and he also sometimes blasts the landscape apart after throwing a serious punch.

8 Eren Yeager Tore Liberio Apart (Attack On Titan)

Eren looking over his shoulder in Attack on Titan Season 4

Eren Yeager blurs the line between hero and villain, being a typical shonen protagonist at first before becoming a brutal nationalist warrior fighting on behalf of all Eldians. Eren's real power comes from his Attack Titan form, and he often causes collateral damage as he pummels pure Titans in urban environments.

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After the time skip, Eren took the fight to the Marley Empire, and he utterly wrecked the Marleyan city of Liberio as he slaughtered his enemies, including Willie Tybur. He also absorbed the War Hammer Titan, granting him even more destructive capabilities.

7 Mt. Lady Can't Restrain Her Strength (My Hero Academia)

Anime My Hero Academia Mt Lady Gigantification Quirk

Mt. Lady is a gigantic pro hero who can switch back and forth between her normal form and her giant form. However, there's no in-between - if it's time to fight, she must assume full size, and cannot partially expand her body to limit collateral damage.

Mt. Lady is an impressive melee hero, but she tends to cause massive collateral damage along the way, and she often willingly uses trains, cars, and trucks as melee weapons, too. Despite all this, she belongs to a hero team called the Lurkers, implying a subtlety that she doesn't have.

6 Edward Elric Keeps Tearing Up The City Streets (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)

Edward Elric holds his cyborg arm and smirks

Edward Elric sometimes shows restraint during battle, especially since his real goal is to restore his and Al's bodies, not fight everyone whom they meet. He can't cause any collateral damage if he uses martial arts and basic weapons, but sometimes, he must use extreme force to win.

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Edward regularly uses his combat alchemy to reshape the streets, walls, and even vehicles around him, all to pummel or capture his enemies with brute force. He keeps wrecking urban environments to do this, and he is rarely seen using alchemy to restore the roads and walls that he ruined.

5 Gildarts Clive Uses Crush Magic (Fairy Tail)

Gildarts Clive Looks Irritated In Fairy Tail

Gildarts Clive ranks among the Fairy Tail guild's best wizards, but he is also quite destructive to his enemies and the terrain alike. When he uses his trademark Crush magic, he can obliterate anything in his way, and the people of Magnolia know it. They feared his abilities so much, they rebuilt the entire city with him in mind.

Every time Gildarts returns home, the city is reshaped so he walks alone, separated from all the buildings until he reaches the Fairy Tail guildhall. This ensures that he cannot accidentally damage any buildings along the way. No other wizard ever merited such remarkable countermeasures from civilians.

4 All Might's Punches Harm More Than Villains (My Hero Academia)

All Might vs. Nomu

Mt. Lady isn't the only pro hero who tends to ruin the cityscape during a battle. The invincible All Might is also liable to cause serious damage to the city since his devastating Smash attacks create overwhelming blasts of dense air and energy. He can't easily restrain such power.

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All Might often punches villains into buildings or down onto the street, shattering pavement and blasting apart entire floors of skyscrapers and hotels as he goes. He always saves the day, but the collateral damage is sure to cause some headaches.

3 Narancia Ghirga's Stand Sprays Bullets Everywhere (JoJo's Bizarre Adventures)

Narancia uses Lil Bomber to locate enemies

A few enemy stands are liable to cause serious collateral damage, such as Green Day and Killer Queen, and among the heroes, Narancia Ghirga is particularly prone to causing collateral damage, too. Narancia is a street punk with a Stand named Aerosmith/Lil Bomber, which can fly and shoot like an actual fighter plane.

Aerosmith will recklessly spray bullets all over the place during a Stand battle, and it never seems to run out of ammo, nor does Narancia care about collateral damage in urban environments. He can even drop a bomb with Aerosmith, causing yet more damage.

2 Milim Nava Has Devastating Strength & Ranged Attacks (That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime)

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Demon Lord Milim Nava is a petite but incredibly powerful fighter who loves snacks and pranks as well as mortal combat. She fears no enemy, but Rimuru is concerned about her habit of destroying absolutely everything during her battles. She even causes serious damage while playing in Rimuru's capital city.

Milim doesn't hold back, demolishing her foes and the landscape alike when she's fighting. She can also use the devastating Drago Buster move, an energy attack that can reshape the entire landscape with ease. She can level entire forests or mountain ranges with it.

1 Avatar Korra Destroys Almost Everything (The Legend Of Korra)

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Avatar Korra is a brave and confident bender hero, but she also tends to wreck the cityscape or even the countryside during her heroic adventures. Korra grew up in the Southern Water Tribe, where she was used to throwing around elemental bending with wild abandon. She never had to consider property damage.

Then Korra moved to Republic City and caused all kinds of carnage while fighting gangsters and the Equalists. She tried exercising restraint, but all the same, her firebending and earthbending tend to tear up the landscape, and she is rarely ever seen fixing the damage after a fight.

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