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* CatSmile: In the comfort of a hot bath.

'''The Teachers and Students of Academy City''' | [[Characters/ACertainMagicalIndexAcademyCityLeadership Academy City Founders, Researchers and Law Enforcement]]\\

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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AzumiAsakura (Japanese), Creator/TeriRogers (English, Railgun 1/S), Creator/MikaelaKrantz (Railgun T - present)

The fifth Level 5 Esper. Being the second Level 5 to attend Tokiwadai, her followers and Misaka's followers often come into conflict. Her ability, Mental Out, involves the manipulation of memories and the human mind. She is also the leader of the largest clique in Tokiwadai.

She first plays a major role in the Railgun Daihaseisai Arc, and is a bit of a WildCard.

* AchillesHeel:
** Her mental powers have no effect on animals and robots, so if she is attacked by them, she is extremely vulnerable.
** She actually has to aim at a person to use her mental powers on them, so if they're moving too fast, it would take considerable luck for Mental Out to work.
* ACupAngst: She was flat and ashamed of it when she was younger. One year later, she's grown much taller and filled out enough to look three to five years older than she actually is, much to [[ACupAngst Mikoto's despair.]]
* AgonyBeam: Mikoto's electrical field [[NoSell prevents Misaki's mental powers from working on her]]. However, when Misaki tries, Mikoto gets a painful shock.
* AlphaBitch: She calls herself "The Queen" due to being the most popular girl and being the head of the largest clique at Tokiwadai. This is ''partially'' due to her Mental Out ability, though she's shown to be popular even without. Initially, she's presented as a straight example, with the haughty act one would expect from an Alpha Bitch, and even has a rivalry with the protagonist Mikoto, constantly targeting her for bullying. But after she's later revealed to be GoodAllAlong and to genuinely care for her clique, and tones down her antagonism towards Mikoto, she's presented more as a LovableAlphaBitch
* AlternateCharacterReading: The name of her esper power, Mental Out, can also be read as "Psychological Control".
* AmplifierArtifact: "Exterior," which can boost her powers to beyond what even a level 5 should be capable of. [[spoiler:It's a cloned portion of her own brain, enlarged to gargantuan proportions. It was originally intended to be able to give anyone her powers, but she didn't like that idea, so she stole it for her own use]]. In chapter 61 of the Railgun manga (Railgun T, Episode 10), [[spoiler:Gensei Kihara hijacks it and uses it to force Mikoto to join with the MISAKA network and undergo the Level 6 Shift.]]
* AnchoredShip: [[spoiler:Touma will never be able to remember who she is. This is different from the amnesia he got while saving Index in that it predates it and applies ''only'' to Misaki. Even after that event, he's met her several times, but always forgets her again afterward. She knows it's pointless to have any hopes for him, but if he ever does regain the ability to remember her, she's still waiting.]]
* AnimalMotifs: Her surname contains the character for "honey bee". She sometimes calls herself Queen Bee and she is referred to as the bee in scientists' reports.
* AthleticallyChallenged: She is terribly out of shape due to skipping P.E. constantly with her powers as the most powerful telepath in Academy City. She struggles to keep pace with a lightly jogging Misaka, wheezing and panting from even light physical exertion. She's also never succeeded in performing a sit-up.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler:Betraying Mikoto at the end of New Testament is one of the [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone biggest sources of remorse and internal torture for Misaki]], and yet against her expectations Mikoto [[EasilyForgiven easily forgives her]] and their FriendlyRivalry relationship remains intact. Both girls clearly like and respect each other much more than they let on.]]
* BenevolentBoss: Her clique is completely loyal to her and willingly submit to her mind control and do not mind even her most disruptive demands. In return, she keeps them out of danger, places their safety above her own and doesn't control them without their consent.
-->'''[[spoiler:Senya]]''': After all, Misaki-chan acts all cool and says you're just pawns, but she actually loves all of you.
* BigBreastPride: She loves flaunting her chest to Mikoto while poking at the latter's ACupAngst. Ironically, [[spoiler:she was just as flat-chested one year ago.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Downplayed. She's much more ruthless than what her outward sweet persona suggests to most people, and can be very paranoid and vengeful when provoked. But ultimately, Shokuhou is a kind and compassionate person which factors into her clique's loyalty to her.
* BrainsAndBrawn: Has this dynamic with Junko. Misaki is [[GuileHeroine intelligent and paranoid]], is AthleticallyChallenged and her esper powers rely entirely on MindManipulation abilities. In contrast, Junko is [[TheIngenue naive to a fault]], is very athletic and her esper powers make her a LightningBruiser powerhouse.
* BreakTheCutie: The events of ''New Testament 22 Reverse'' were not kind to her. By the end she's spent time crying while huddled on the floor, deeming herself unworthy of any trust that she'd been given, and regretting her part in everything.
* BuxomBeautyStandard: Her buxom figure is a huge part of why she's considered attractive and characters often think she's OlderThanTheyLook due to her breast size. It's also a common RunningGag for her chest to trigger Mikoto's ACupAngst, at one point it even creeps out Misaki by how she focuses on her breasts, despite usually having BigBreastPride.
-->'''Mikoto''': ''[after groping Misaki]'' I just can't seem to get over it... The sheer weight of them in my hands, their softness even through a layer of clothing, their springiness as they pushed back against my fingertips. I mean, I was the one grabbing them, but it was as if they were clinging to my hands...\\
'''Misaki''': ''[getting up and smacking Mikoto's head with her shoulderbag]'' I've had just enough of you reviewing my breasts! How long are you going to keep obsessing over that anyway!?
* ChekhovsGunman:
** She was first mentioned in the first volume of Index as someone who might have been able to fix Index's memory loss.
** Mikoto considered asking her to fix Touma's memory loss, but changed her mind, not wanting to be in her debt, in addition to being unable to trust her.
** She shows up briefly in the last episode of ''Railgun S''. [[spoiler:Mikoto swallowed her pride and asked her to edit a few memories so that Shinobu, Janie, and Febri could live in peace.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: Chronologically, the first trick we see her perform with her ability is switching someone's perceptions; she demonstrated the ability to make a test subject think the apples (which he hates) he was eating were actually watermelon slices. Soon after, the researchers ask her to use this trick to pretend to be [[spoiler:Dolly]]'s friend. And then it turns out [[spoiler:she was using this trick on the researchers the entire time, sitting in on their meetings after she had their helmets sabotaged.]]
* ClingyJealousGirl:
** A non-romantic example. Misaki is shown to be possessive of her BestFriend and closest confidant; Junko, when she starts interacting with other female characters, often claiming that Junko is hers.
** [[PlayingWithATrope Played straight]] with Touma, as she is shown to be annoyed by other girls such as Mikoto or Index being close to him despite Touma being unable to remember her.
* CombinationAttack: The [[WaveMotionGun Liquid-Proof Railgun]], an attack combining Misaki's power over liquids and Misaka's Railgun and Anti-Arts Armament. Using her ability to precisely manipulate liquids, Misaki coats Misaka's coin in a thin liquid lattice designed to melt in a specific way. When the coin is fired, the coating would protect the coin from being burned up by the friction while the explosive evaporation would add extra power to shot's acceleration effectively creating a railgun shot with limitless distance and power. The attack was so powerful it was able to [[spoiler:annihilate the Windowless Building]], a feat originally thought impossible.
* CommonalityConnection: Part of why she and Touma get along is that they both annoy Misaka.
* CrashIntoHello: [[spoiler:How she first met Touma. She later recalls him having ToastOfTardiness in his mouth (he didn't).]]
* CrazyPrepared: Her paranoia and mistrust of the happenings in Academy City means Shokuhou has a variety of fail-saves up her dainty sleeves. This is best exemplified during her fight with Kihara Gensei in the EXTERIOR lab and the Graviton Panels traps she set loose on the evil scientist, which involved several layers of backup traps. And when those fail, she's revealed to have predicted that her traps would have failed and used Mental Out on herself to switch her own concepts of the limiter release code with the self-destruct code, thus causing him to defeat himself once he reads her mind.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Due to her use of her esper ability to skip physical classes, she's very AthleticallyChallenged and gets tired easily whenever she has to run and has no hand-to-hand fighting abilities of her own. Her esper ability is also only useful in humans.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Her hair and eyes are both gold.
* ADayInTheLimelight:
** Volume 11 of NT is from her perspective. Accelerator and Shiage don't appear at all, Mikoto is only mentioned in passing and Touma is only present in flashbacks and at the very end. We finally learn why she trusted him so quickly a few volumes before and in Railgun, something very unusual for her given her paranoia.
** To a lesser extent, the Railgun version of the Daihaseisai Arc, where she is properly introduced, some of her backstory is revealed, and she plays a major role in thwarting Gensei Kihara's plans.
** Volume 22R of NT has her as a spotlight character.
** She would get her own spin-off manga called ''Mental Out''.
* DCupDistress: {{Subverted|Trope}}. When she's called out on being AthleticallyChallenged, she makes an excuse by saying that she's "top-heavy", but it's clearly because she's lazy and skips physical ED.
* EasilyForgiven: By Misaka in [[spoiler: Volume 22/22R of NT following her betrayal. Justified in that Misaki is [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone highly remorseful]] and [[BreakTheCutie visibly broken]] about it, and Misaka is a highly compassionate person.]]
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: She is usually referred to as the "Queen of Tokiwadai" rather than her actual name.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** She knows she's a jerk, but she won't abuse the power over people who have willingly become her pawns, she tries to keep mental damage to targets to a minimum and she refuses to read Touma's mind.
** PlayedForLaughs when she gets creeped out by Mikoto obsessing how much bigger her chest is, and even before then despite being a ProudBeauty she certainly isn't happy at Miko grabbing her breasts in the first place.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Her long blonde hair further illustrates her popularity at school.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: She has stars in her eyes, which are actually noted InUniverse with Mikoto once calling it "Shoujo manga eyes". According to her, she was born like this. Additionally, the same stars appear in the eyes of [[MindControlEyes those who she is controlling]].
* TheFaceless: Despite first being mentioned in the very first volume of Index, she never makes an official appearance until chapter 41 of Railgun, where she shows herself to Mikoto. Justified, as she apparently uses her power to communicate through others.
* TheFakeCutie: She has rather cheerful and goofy mannerisms that cover up a paranoid and manipulative mind. Of course, she's not actually trying to fool anyway, she just seems to find it fun to piss people off with her artificial cutesy attitude.
* FandomRivalry: An InUniverse example of it, there's some conflicts between her followers and Mikoto's fans in Tokiwadai.
* FatalFlaw: ''Paranoia''. She refuses to trust people she can't mind read, which is what partly causes her rivalry with Mikoto, whose EM field makes her immune to Misaki's powers. Even when the two have the same goals, Misaki does everything she can to sideline her until absolutely forced to work together. [[spoiler:Touma is the exception to this rule. Due to his [[AntiMagic Imagine Breaker]], she obviously can't mind read him, but doesn't seem to care. In fact, he may be the only person she truly trusts.]]
* FriendlyRivalry: Mikoto doesn't like her and beneath her cheerful attitude Misaki doesn't care for her either. However, they're quite capable of cooperating and they don't hate each other ''nearly'' as much as Misaki and Seria do. There's no real malice behind it and they reached an understanding while saving Misaka 10032.
* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:Though she hides it well, she reveals that she's very envious of Index of all people in ''New Testament Reverse'', because though their circumstances with needing to be saved by Touma were about the same and even resulted in him losing his memory, he can never remember her.]]
* GoodAllAlong: Despite her malicious introduction and MindControl powers, she is a good person who operates under a code of personal rules of "always taking a good care of those who she controls". This extends to her clique of willing followers and even applies to her enemies.
* GoodIsNotNice: [[spoiler:Despite first appearances, during the arc of the Railgun manga where 10032 gets kidnapped, she is ''not'' the villain. She kidnapped 10032 to keep her out of the bad guy's hands, and to heal some of the damage done to her.]]
* GuileHeroine: Due to being AthleticallyChallenged she relies entirely on her esper abilities, and often makes complicated plans to deal with those who can circumvent her powers, such as when she [[LaserGuidedAmnesia messed with her own memory]] in case Gensei did manage to defeat her and read her mind, and he ended up instead getting a self-destruct code rather than a limiter release when he read her mind.
* HateAtFirstSight: Chapter 132.5 of the Railgun manga reveals Misaki hated Mikoto from the moment they met as Misaki blames Mikoto for voluntarily giving her DNA to immoral scientists which leads to the creation and early death of Misaki's first friend, Dolly. As Mikoto will not know about the Sisters until a later date, all she sees is another Level 5 picking a fight with her for no reason.
* HighClassGloves: She's often wearing a pair of fancy white gloves, to denote her "elegant beauty" image.
* HypocriticalHumor: When Mikoto calls her out of shape, she says only someone with the mind and body of a child would be so petty about mere physical ability. Mikoto makes fun of her WingdingEyes by asking if she's from a shoujo manga and an offended Misaki retorts that insulting someone's body is just low.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: [[spoiler:The researchers studying her ability used complicated technological helmets to block her powers. She suborned one of the low-level techs, had the helmets sabotaged and was able to subtly take control of the entire operation without anyone noticing.]]
* IconicItem: She's almost always carrying a white shoulder bag with a star adorned in the middle, which is where she keeps her remotes.
* IGotBigger: Inverted, as New Testament Volume 11 reveals that in the previous August (a year before the events of Index/Railgun) Shokuhou had no bustline to speak of, and only a mere 148 centimeters tall.
* InstantDeathRadius: She has enough control over her powers so that this wouldn't happen, but just like when Ayu lost control of herself and her power, if Misaki were to become emotionally unstable and lose control of Mental Out, it would result in everything around her being instantly flash-frozen as all the moisture is drawn out of them and reducing them to desiccated mummies.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: She fell in love with Touma during an incident which [[spoiler:ended up erasing his memory of her permanently]] but stays out of his life to avoid troubling him.
* IWillWaitForYou:
-->'''Misaki''': [[spoiler:"If... If someday you do manage to overturn the expectations created by the adults and you remember me... Then let's have an important talk. A very, very sweet, kind, and important talk."]]
* IWorkAlone:
** In the Railgun manga, she says trust and co-operation are unreliable, and she won't work with anybody whose minds she hasn't read. [[spoiler:She eventually seeks out Mikoto for help simply because she's forced to admit that she won't be able to save the Sisters otherwise and the memory of her friendship with Dolly is one of the few redeeming characteristics about her. Following the Daihasei Festival, she's more willing to work with Mikoto if their interests align.]]
** The sole exception so far is [[spoiler:Touma, due to her feelings for him, despite that her powers obviously won't work on him.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: When Misaki bluntly states that she has no intention of trusting people whose mind she cannot read, Mikoto is horrified at her paranoia. But as Misaki points out, why ''would'' you trust someone in Academy City? Trusting people got ten thousand clones murdered just because a little girl wanted to help cure muscular dystrophy.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite working alongside Misaka she isn't exactly the nicest person. However, she does have standards: She's quite protective of her minions and were she to commit a crime with a pawn or lead them to be injured, she would take full responsibility for it.
* KickTheDog:
** When one of the members of her clique tries to prevent Misaki from consuming more sweets (out of concern for Misaki's 'wonderful proportions'), Misaki mind controls her and the rest of the clique, telling them to 'challenge yourselves to eat 15 eclair as fast as possible.'
** Her reaction to [[spoiler:Kongou]] getting rather brutally injured by Baba Yoshio. She basically says it's a shame that [[spoiler:Kongou]] was hurt, but it helped her anyway since she had no way to deal with Yoshio's KillerRobot mooks.
* LadyAndKnight: Has this dynamic with Junko, her knight.
* LivingMacguffin: A lot of people want to get their hands on her due to her ability.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Does not like this at all. However, both times she tried to get [[spoiler:Touma]] to tell her what's really going on, she gets interrupted by outside forces.
* LogicalWeakness: Since her powers are liquid based, someone with [[MakingASplash water manipulation powers]] would be able to resist her or undo her control.
* LongHairIsFeminine: She has waist-long hair and is a elegant and feminine character. She even has a habit of doing {{Hair Flip}}s.
* LovableAlphaBitch: In spite of her haughty and antagonistic attitude, Misaki is ultimately a good person and a BenevolentBoss to all who follow her.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: In ''New Testament 22 Reverse'', [[spoiler:Misaki serves as the Emanation's lynchpin as she uses her powers to hold several victors of the war under her sway, solely because he remembered her. That even includes turning on Misaka, whom she'd built something of a friendship with while co-piloting the A.A.A.]]
-->'''Misaki''': [[spoiler:"But he remembers me. I don't care if it's a miracle or a coincidence. I was never hoping for a logical answer. But... but whatever he looks like and whatever he might do...But if there are two Kamijou-sans out there... and one remembers me and one doesn't...That's the Kamijou-san I shared that summer with!! So I'm sorry, Misaka-saaan!!!!!!"]]
* MakingASplash: The true nature of Mental Out is actually the ability to manipulate fluids and moisture in the user's surroundings. Unlike Hydro Hand which is another liquid control ability, Mental Out trades out sheer power for more fine-tuned control over a smaller amount of fluids. Using Mental Out, Misaki can precisely manipulate a target's bodily fluids like blood, spinal fluids, and cerebral secretions in order to facilitate her mental powers over them. This does not however means she is only limited to manipulating body fluids. As stated, Mental Out grants Misaki fine control over all liquids and moisture in her surroundings, she can theoretically do things like freeze the moisture around her or control liquids in more traditional manners, but she is unlikely to rely on that aspect of her power.
** Circumstances during the Tokiwadai Election arc force her to make use of this facet of her powers culminating in her eventually freezing any entire hallway to protect herself and her classmates.
* MeaningfulName: Her first name can be translated as "Wish For Control". Her full name can be translated as "Dominated Psychology".
* MemoryGambit: [[spoiler:Finally defeats Gensei Kihara by using her powers on herself so that she'd think the limiter release code and self-destruct code for Exterior were switched. Gensei entered the self-destruct code by mistake, never suspecting a thing until it was too late because she sincerely believed it was the limiter release code.]]
* MistakenForGay: At the end of ''New Testament 22 Reverse'', [[spoiler:she and Mikoto end up in a compromising physical position with each other by accident just as Kuroko walks in. [[ClingyJealousGirl Kuruko does not take it well.]]]]
* MoralityPet: Touma and Dolly are the easiest ways of bringing out her good side. The latter is dead, but Misaki values her memory greatly.
* MsFanservice: As with many female characters in the series, Misaki has a sizeable bust and is often the subject of MaleGaze. Her well-endowed body has also causes people to mistake her for an older lady.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She has a moment when she finally calms down in ''New Testament 22 Reverse'', [[spoiler:after basically giving the Emanation control over a sizable number of magicians, as well as using her powers on Index and Misaka.]]
* MySkullRunnethOver: If she {{Mind Control}}s a very large amount of people, she gets a major headache and can only maintain it for a brief period of time, and even then, she is only able to give out them simple commands.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:She saved Touma's life by using her powers, but in the process damaged his brain so that he will never be able to remember her face.]]
* {{Ojou}}: According to Mikoto, she's the most {{Ojou}} of all the {{Ojou}}s at Tokiwadai, which really says something. She, however, subverts the traditional archetype by being quite frivolous, making silly poses, not caring for her weight, and saying cliché anime lines. It's just that she erases certain people's memories and that her fangirls don't say anything about it.
* OnlyFriend: Dolly is implied to be one of the few people she ever cared for in the past. Averted in the present day, where she has more friends such as Junko and (eventually) Mikoto.
** The First Year arc of Railgun shows that it actually took her awhile to become popular at Tokiwadai. Initially her only friend was Junko, who she knew from before she started attending school. She made no attempts to make other friends because she knew that the rest of the students didn't trust her due to her mind control powers. It was only after she used her powers to evacuate a burning building and nearly died rescuing a cat(her powers don't work on animals) that she accidentally became popular.
* PervertRevengeMode: When she overhears Aogami is selling lewd dreams about her and Misaka, the two set aside their rivalry to beat him up and destroy the Indian Poker cards.
* PowerCrutch: She carries various remotes in her purse. While she doesn't necessarily need them to use her power, the potential range and usage of her power is simply too complex for her to control correctly and thus she uses her remotes as a focus on what she wants to do.
* PowerIncontinence: She uses a series of remotes to help control her power. There are just so many applications that it's hard (but not impossible) for her to focus on the specific thing she wants. [[MagicFeather The remotes simply help her concentrate]].
* ProperlyParanoid: After what happened to Mikoto, Accelerator, and especially Touma, can you blame her? In New Testament Volume 7, her paranoia allowed her to correctly guess that [[spoiler:Tsuchimikado sent Touma on a wild goose chase in order to get him out of the way so he wouldn't interfere with whatever he's doing.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The moment when the Dorm Supervisor comes, even Misaki knows when to bail it.
* SecretKeeper:
** [[spoiler:She not only knew Touma prior to his memory loss, but also knows about Imagine Breaker.]]
** [[spoiler:It's revealed that the memory loss Misaki refers to upon meeting Touma is actually a separate instance.]]
* SitcomArchNemesis: She does not get along with Seria Kumokawa.
* StoryBreakerPower: She loves Touma, is a decent enough person [[EveryoneHasStandards in her own way]], seems to have a lot of free time and is at least in contact with Mikoto on a fairly regular basis. However, her powers give her complete, instant and irresistable control over anyone she targets, so long as they aren't moving too quickly for her to hit, an electromaster or mind control esper or wearing very specialized gear (though some magicians have safeguards in place as well). She could, in theory, defeat the likes of Fiamma in a straight confrontation unless he killed her immediately. See the problem? Not only is this too strong of an ability for an ally, but it's really too powerful even for an ''enemy'' to have, so her power can't be put together with a machine like Mikoto. It's somewhat lampshaded during the "Indian Poker" arc, when Junko points out that if Misaki and Mikoto decided to work together on anything, they would be a nigh-unstoppable crime duo thanks to their ability to mess with the memories of others as well as mess with any and all security footage. That's not even considering other, more lethal applications of her powers like the ability to instantly desiccate all living things within a certain radius of her person or freezing the vital fluids within a target.
* SquishyWizard: Given that her powers deal with the mind, and that she skipped P.E. and does not exercise regularly, she is a skinny, out-of-shape girl. In Episode 8 of Railgun T, she's panting and ready to collapse from trying to follow a lightly-jogging Mikoto. She even lost to a bunch of crows that ate her food and had to be saved by Touma.
* SuperDrowningSkills: In addition to not exercising, she never bothered to learn how to swim. She once almost drowned after falling into a shallow pool until she was told by Touma to StopDrowningAndStandUp.
* TheRival:
** To Mikoto, who is the other level 5 at Tokiwadai. Though part of the reason she resents Mikoto is because [[spoiler:her relationship with Touma is similar to how hers was before Touma lost his memories protecting her.]] It mellows into a FriendlyRivalry eventually.
** Also to Seria Kumokawa. Both are regarded by people as high-class beauties. Both are experts at manipulating the mind, Misaki via her power, and Seria via pure manipulation and guile. Both are extremely wary of one another, keeping tabs on one another (Misaki via mind controlled 3rd parties, and Seria via surveillance technologies) leading to a sort of cold war between the two, with the knowledge that should conflict break out between the two, it would only lead to a mutually assured destruction. The ONLY time the two can ever put things aside and work together is if it concerns [[spoiler:Touma, because both of them love him and doesn't want the other to get a head start on the other.]]
** To Index as well. [[spoiler:Touma's situation with her is practically parallel and in her she sees all the attention and happiness Index has with him, which she never can.]]
* TheTease: Absolutely willing to help with Touma and trusts him completely, but she also likes screwing with his head by flirting with him through a puppet and making the poor guy do highly embarrassing things. He can't even apologize.
-->'''Touma:''' Why are you increasing my supposed list of crimes!?
* {{Telepathy}}: Misaki's power, Mental Out, makes her Academy City's most powerful telepath, capable of reading and manipulating minds in several different ways. However, it only works on people, not animals or robots.
** MindManipulation: This seems to be her forte.
*** {{Brainwashing}}: One of the uses of her ability.
*** FakeMemories: Can implant them and erase them.
*** MindControl: Another application of her power. She can even program delayed or conditional orders in targets.
*** PsychicSurgery: She can transplant emotions and thoughts.
*** MasterOfIllusion: Can create illusions by manipulating the brain of a target.
*** PsychicBlockDefense: Misaki's ability can also protect her own brain from similar mental abilities, though it's weaker if she's unconscious.
*** {{Psychometry}}: Can read past memories of objects via physical touch, which is likely why she usually wears gloves.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:All her actions in the Daihaseisai arc in the Railgun manga play straight into Gensei Kihara's plan.]]
** While Misaki wasn't directly manipulated, her stolen remotes and thus the residual memories within them were used by Sha Danshan to create a phantasmal copy of her to control Antikythera in order to forward Sha's plot during the First Year arc.
* VerbalTic: Uses "power" and "ability" as suffixes a lot. She also ends many sentences with "~zo".
* VoiceForTheVoiceless: She often uses [[{{Brainwashing}} mind-controlled]] proxies and her own followers whenever she needs to communicate.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In the second volume of ''Genesis Testament'', she has the chance to abandon Misaka to her death in order to save herself. Despite the cold logical side of her mind telling her it would be the best course of action to take, she instead risks her life to save Misaka, justifying it by saying that Touma would be heartbroken if she died and that she personally would never be able to forgive herself for it.
* WildCard: She's a level five with zero confidants and rarely appears in public without an escort of minions, occasionally refusing to appear directly at all. She knows a fair amount about the city, the dark side and even Imagine Breaker, but she tells no one anything and rarely moves except to defend her own position. She does have a soft spot for Touma and the Sisters, but she doesn't like Mikoto and hates Kumokawa Seria.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: She's a middle-schooler, but she could pass for eighteen or nineteen easily. She actually developed very quickly: A mere year ago she basically looked like a blonde Kuroko.

* WouldHitAGirl[=/=]WouldHurtAChild: Doesn't care who his experiments hurt. Later, [[spoiler:he beats up Shinobu Nunotaba and gives her a black eye.]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: One of their known prerequisites is that a potential student must be a Level 3 esper. This rule is so strict that the school once sparked an international incident for refusing to accept a girl from a royal family because she didn't the power level requirement. This shows that despite being a school whose student population is primarily made of TheOjou, no amount of money can ever change or bend their rules of admission.

* CatchPhrase

A technical exchange student to Tokiwadai who was allowed entry into the school despite being a Level 2 Esper thanks to her skills. Her ability Whisper Bell allows her to hear emotions as sound, which becomes particularly deadly when combine with her shinobi training.

%%* ScaryShinyGlasses

* TheNoseKnows: She is able to track down her stalker by hunting down the smell of her perfume.

* ImprobableAge: InUniverse -- legal in age but lusted over by her {{Lolicon|AndShotacon}}-inclined detention students.
* {{Kawaiiko}}: Her students just can't get over how cute she is.

-->'''Mikoto''': ''[after groping Misaki]'' I just can't seem to get over it... The sheer weight of them in my hands, their softness even through a layer of clothing, their springiness as they pushed back against my fingertips. I mean, I was the one grabbing the, but it was as if they were clinging to my hands...\\

* MakingASplash: Her ability is water manipulation.

* AnythingThatMoves: His stated type is basically anything that can ([[WholesomeCrossdresser even technically]]) be classified as a human female.
-->“Ha, you’re too naïve, Kami-yan. I have a wide range of acceptance when it comes to women: not just fallen female main characters but also foster sisters, foster mothers, foster daughters, twins, widows, senpais, kouhais, fellow classmates, [[TeacherStudentRomance teachers]], childhood friends, [[{{Ojou}} ojou-samas]], blondes, brunettes, brown-haired, silver-haired, long-haired, medium-haired, short-haired, girls wearing bobby pins, wavy-haired, twintails, ponytails, one-sided ponytails, twin braids, [[IdiotHair ahoges]], curly-haired, [[SailorFuku girls in sailor clothes]], blazers, judogi, [[UsefulNotes/{{Archery}} kyuudougi]], kindergarten nurses, [[{{Meido}} maids]], policewomen, [[CuteWitch witches]], [[{{Miko}} shrine maidens]], nuns, military women, secretaries, [[LoliconAndShotacon lolis, shotas]], {{Tsundere}}s, cheerleaders, stewardesses, [[FanserviceWithASmile waitresses]], [[ElegantGothicLolita goth girls wearing black, goth girls wearing white]], [[AnimeChineseGirl girls in China dresses]], frail girls, albino girls, fantasists, girls with split personalities, queens, princesses, thigh-high socks, garterbelts, [[{{Bifauxnen}} girls who cross-dress as guys]], girls who wear glasses, girls who wear an eyepatch, [[{{Sarashi}} girls who wear bandages]], [[SchoolSwimsuit girls in school swimsuits]], one-piece swimsuits, bikinis, V-shaped bikinis, [[BarelyThereSwimwear bikinis that barely cover anything]], youkai, ghosts, [[LittleBitBeastly animal-eared girls]], etc. -- any female is within my area of acceptance.”

-->“Ha, you’re too naïve, Kami-yan. I have a wide range of acceptance when it comes to women: not just fallen female main characters but also foster sisters, foster mothers, foster daughters, twins, widows, senpais, kouhais, fellow classmates, [[TeacherStudentRomance teachers]], childhood friends, [[{{Ojou}} ojou-samas]], blondes, brunettes, brown-haired, silver-haired, long-haired, medium-haired, short-haired, girls wearing bobby pins, wavy-haired, twintails, ponytails, one-sided ponytails, twin braids, [[IdiotHair ahoges]], curly-haired, [[SailorFuku girls in sailor clothes]], blazers, judogi, [[UsefulNotes/{{Archery}} kyuudougi]], kindergarten nurses, [[{{Meido}} maids]], policewomen, [[CuteWitch witches]], [[{{Miko}} shrine maidens]], nuns, military women, secretaries, [[LoliconAndShotacon lolis, shotas]], {{Tsundere}}s, cheerleaders, stewardesses, [[FanserviceWithASmile waitresses]], [[ElegantGothicLolita goth girls wearing black, goth girls wearing white]], [[ChineseGirl girls in China dresses]], frail girls, albino girls, fantasists, girls with split personalities, queens, princesses, thigh-high socks, garterbelts, [[{{Bifauxnen}} girls who cross-dress as guys]], girls who wear glasses, girls who wear an eyepatch, [[{{Sarashi}} girls who wear bandages]], [[SchoolSwimsuit girls in school swimsuits]], one-piece swimsuits, bikinis, V-shaped bikinis, [[BarelyThereSwimwear bikinis that barely cover anything]], youkai, ghosts, [[LittleBitBeastly animal-eared girls]], etc. -- any female is within my area of acceptance.”

Chemistry professor of Touma's high school. She looks nowhere like a teacher, but it has been said that she's one of the older characters in the novels. She hasn't undergone the Ability Development Program, allowing her to use magic to heal Index in the first arc. She also teaches a special class to [[spoiler:survivors of the Level Up virus]] in ''Railgun''.

-->“Ha, you’re too naïve, Kami-yan. I have a wide range of acceptance when it comes to women: not just fallen female main characters but also foster sisters, foster mothers, foster daughters, twins, widows, senpais, kouhais, fellow classmates, [[TeacherStudentRomance teachers]], childhood friends, [[{{Ojou}} ojou-samas]], blondes, brunettes, brown-haired, silver-haired, long-haired, medium-haired, short-haired, girls wearing bobby pins, wavy-haired, twintails, ponytails, one-sided ponytails, twin braids, [[IdiotHair ahoges]], curly-haired, [[SailorFuku girls in sailor clothes]], blazers, [[MartialArtsUniform judogi]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Archery}} kyuudougi]], kindergarten nurses, [[{{Meido}} maids]], policewomen, [[CuteWitch witches]], [[{{Miko}} shrine maidens]], nuns, military women, secretaries, [[LoliconAndShotacon lolis, shotas]], {{Tsundere}}s, cheerleaders, stewardesses, [[FanserviceWithASmile waitresses]], [[ElegantGothicLolita goth girls wearing black, goth girls wearing white]], [[ChineseGirl girls in China dresses]], frail girls, albino girls, fantasists, girls with split personalities, queens, princesses, thigh-high socks, garterbelts, [[{{Bifauxnen}} girls who cross-dress as guys]], girls who wear glasses, girls who wear an eyepatch, [[{{Sarashi}} girls who wear bandages]], [[SchoolSwimsuit girls in school swimsuits]], one-piece swimsuits, bikinis, V-shaped bikinis, [[BarelyThereSwimwear bikinis that barely cover anything]], youkai, ghosts, [[LittleBitBeastly animal-eared girls]], etc. -- any female is within my area of acceptance.”

* EveryoneHasStandards: She knows she's a jerk, but she won't abuse the power over people who have willingly become her pawns, she tries to keep mental damage to targets to a minimum and she refuses to read Touma's mind.