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I've been trying to learn Japanese for a little over a month now which let me
finally read this little tag line on a My Hero Academia poster I have
「最高のヒーローに」

Once I looked up the meaning of each Kanji I gathered that is meant something
along the lines of "the best of heroes" or just "the best hero." When I
checked, I found out it translates to "be the best hero" so I was close.
Awesome.

However that に at the end started messing me up when I thought about it.
Thanks to my lessons, Google and other questions on here, I've seen that the
particle に is used for stuff like destination and time, being translated to
"to" or "at" but I don't get it here. Can it be used for stuff like "I'm
going/want to be" or to mark goals too?
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particles particle-に
Can に be translated to "be"?
Yes, ～に roughly means "to ～", "at ～" or "for ～". Here, a verb like なる ("to
become") is omitted, and に indeed adds the nuance of "I'm going to be" or "I
want to become".

Catchphrases and news headlines often end with a particle, leaving out the
corresponding verb for brevity. You have to infer the omitted verb, which is
not really difficult once you've got used to common patterns.

  * [Does the particle "を" (wo) have a special use when at the end of a sentence?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/1209/5010)
  * [What is the meaning of "超か" in this news headline?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/45029/5010)
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