A Certain Magical Index / Scientific Railgun / Scientific Accelerator character index
Main Characters
Touma Kamijou | Accelerator | Railgun's Main Cast (Mikoto Misaka)
Science Side
The Level 5s | The Teachers and Students of Academy City | Academy City Founders, Researchers and Law Enforcement
Academy City's Dark Side | The Sisters | Other Science Side Characters
Magic Side
England and its Allies | The Roman Catholic Church | GREMLIN | True GREMLIN | Other Magic Side Characters
Other Characters
Other Light Novel, Manga, and Anime Characters | Audio Drama, Video Game, and Movie Characters
Main Characters
Touma Kamijou | Accelerator | Railgun's Main Cast (Mikoto Misaka)
Science Side
The Level 5s | The Teachers and Students of Academy City | Academy City Founders, Researchers and Law Enforcement
Academy City's Dark Side | The Sisters | Other Science Side Characters
Magic Side
England and its Allies | The Roman Catholic Church | GREMLIN | True GREMLIN | Other Magic Side Characters
Other Characters
Other Light Novel, Manga, and Anime Characters | Audio Drama, Video Game, and Movie Characters
The Radio Noise project was originally devised to mass produce Level 5 esper clones of Mikoto Misaka, but only managed to produce level 2 and later level 3 espers. It was later retooled in the Level 6 shift project, which involved creating a Hive Mind of 20,000 clones in order to force Accelerator to attain Level 6. After the project was stopped, MISAKA 10032 and on are still alive. This page details the most prominent ones.
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Clones in General
The clones share the following tropes:
- Art Evolution: In the Railgun S anime, they have much more natural-looking eyes than in Index, though they still don't look like Mikoto's and aren't much more expressive. This design is carried into Railgun T.
- Artificial Family Member: Despite their artificial origin, Mikoto Misaka sees them as her own little sisters.
- Artificial Human: Each Sister is an identical clone of Mikoto Misaka that had her growth accelerated within an incubation tank.
- Bad Liar: Their Verbal Tic means they have a tendency to announce when they are trying to deceive or manipulate people.
- BFG: The Metal Eater MX
, one of the Sisters' two standard-issue weapons, is a fictional Super Prototype version of the Barret M82A1 anti-material rifle — which is a BFG in its own right — that is fully automatic. The full-auto mode was removed for mass-production on account of its excessive recoil... but the Sisters can easily negate said recoil by using their electrokinetic powers to counteract it, turning what would normally be an Awesome, but Impractical weapon into a practical weapon without losing an ounce of its awesomeness. Unfortunately, it predictably does jack shit against Accelerator's vector-manipulating automatic defense. - Born as an Adult: Downplayed; each clone was born as a 14-year-old adolescent (or in Last Order and Misaka Worst's cases, as a 10-year-old child and a 16-year-old teen, respectively) rather than as an infant, thanks to a regimen of drugs and hormones accelerating their growth. Subverted, in that this only applied to their state of physical development; their minds matched their actual ages (i.e. they were basically infants) until they underwent Testament-induced Neural Implanting.
- Clone Army: Twenty thousand identical clones of Mikoto Misaka with a much weaker but still relatively potent form of her Electromaster powers, extensive military training, and standard equipment of a bullpup assault rifle and a fully-automatic tank-busting sniper rifle. Definitely an army right there.
- Clones Are People, Too: Not at first, but once Touma saves 10032 and gives her a speech, they begin to start treating themselves as individuals more, rather than just puppets of the Hive Mind. When their existence is eventually made public knowledge, Accelerator and Roberto Katze make certain to paint them in a sympathetic light, which gets the world at large (which still condemns cloning itself as abhorrent) to see them this way as well.
- Cuteness Proximity: A mild variation; when they see cute things there is a little more expression, although it's probably natural for Last Order.
- Designer Babies: They were all genetically made to grow faster, so that they'd be useful for the Project. After the Project was shut down, they underwent hormone balance adjustment to slow down their cell reproduction and thus their aging to more "normal human" levels.
- Doppelganger Link: The Sisters are clones who can share experiences and memories through a Hive Mind.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: In all media except for the Railgun anime, they are drawn with these eyes to distinguish them from the original. The exception is Last Order, who is already easy to distinguish from Mikoto by virtue of being a Token Mini-Moe Genki Girl.
- Electronic Telepathy: The Sisters use their inherent electricity-manipulation powers to act as living radio transceivers, allowing them to maintain a "brainwave network" that resembles a more traditional psychic Hive Mind while not being quite the same thing.
- Expendable Clone: Twenty thousand clones created for the sole purpose of being brutally murdered. Before the experiment ended, several people had the opportunity to ask why they were going along with it. The Sisters always responded with simple, honest confusion, as they couldn't conceive of the possibility that they had any value.
- Girls with Guns: Sisters numbered 00001 to 20000 carry assault rifles in their bookbags and sniper rifles in guitar cases.
- Gratuitous English: The "Radio Noise" name.
- Goggles Do Something Unusual: The Sisters are not as powerful with their Electromaster abilities as their genetic template Mikoto is, so they can't see electrical currents. They wear special goggles to compensate for this.
- Good with Numbers: Due to the way their base programming is constructed, they're basically an organic supercomputer. Because of this, they're capable of very advanced calculations; Accelerator regains half his calculating power just by borrowing a tiny amount of each Sister's brainpower, and at the end of Railgun S, Mikoto calls them to calculate the trajectory of a missile.
- Hive Mind: Through an Electronic Telepathy-based "brainwave network" (known appropiately as the Misaka Network), the Sisters are able to share their experiences and memories almost instantaneously, effectively simulating a true Hive Mind while each Sister remains an individual entity. The story indicates, however, that the network itself is alive and has a will that can use the individual Sisters like you would use your hands and feet. Last Order is the administrator and superior of the Misaka Network, but is not the network itself. WORST is connected to the network, but is designed to act independently of it and not to be under the control of Last Order; compared to all the normal Sisters, she thus has a great deal more autonomy and individuality.
- Identically Powered Team: The Sisters have the same Esper power, Radio Noise, which is itself just a weaker version of their naturally born older "sister" Mikoto's own Esper power.
- Irony: After being defeated by Touma, Accelerator gets shot in the head while defending Last Order, prompting Heaven Canceler to supplement the damage to his brain using the Misaka Network. This after he killed roughly half of them during the Level 6 experiments.
- Narrating the Present: "With the exception of Misaka WORST, all the Misaka clones state what they are doing or what is happening while they speak", says Misaka, while pointing to the helpful context.
- Neural Implanting: While each Sister started with the mental capacity of an infant at "birth", the machine known as Testament was used to accelerate their the development of their minds via directly inputting every needed type of information, from speech, to motor functions, and even personality and emotions. The machine apparently can't teach them how to properly express themselves, though... either that, or the scientists deemed it "unnecessary".
- Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: The tend to talk this way.Sister 10031: "Your next partner for the experiment is me, Misaka 10031, reports Misaka."
- Rescue Romance: All of them (save for Last Order and Worst) end up having a crush on Touma after he saves Misaka 10032 from Accelerator and stops the Level 6 Shift experiment.
- Shock and Awe: The standard clones have a level 2 version of Mikoto's electromaster powers by the end of the experiments, while Misaka WORST is level 4.
- Sibling Team: The Sisters are an army of identical clones, which makes them basically twin sisters to each other.
- Super-Soldier: All the sisters have the power of a level 2 electromaster and military training, as well as experience from over 10,000 battles with the strongest Esper in Academy City. One was able to use a Barret .50 cal on full auto. If they were put against anyone but Accelerator, they would win hands down.
- Third-Person Person: Every single one of them narrates themselves.
- Tin Man: Most of the clones appear to be Emotionless Girls, but they actually do have feelings.
- Uterine Replicator: Each Sister was "born" from an incubation tank.
- Verbal Tic: "Nearly all Sisters have a weird speech pattern where they explain their emotional state," says Misaka as she delightfully demonstrates this trope.
- You Are Number 6: The Sisters' "names" are simply numbers that signify their order of "activation" (i.e. when each clone was finally released from Uterine Replicator incubation). Even after the horrendous Level 6 Shift Project experiments are finally stopped and they become relatively free to do whatever they want (so long as they stay out of trouble), they still stick with the numerals rather than adopt actual names; that being said, the most recurring and prominently featured Sister, Misaka 10032, is quickly nicknamed "Misaka Imouto" (literally "Misaka's Little Sister") by the protagonist Touma (since he rarely meets any other Sister), whether it's because her numeral is a big mouthful or he dislikes the dehumanizing nature of such "names".
- Younger Than They Look: All of them are basically toddlers as far as "years lived", and actually start with the minds of infants before Testament fixes that; it comes with accelerated growth.
Dolly
Dolly
- Brain Uploading: Her memories were implanted into a second body that was kept in incubation, though it takes her a bit after being freed before they come back to her.
- Cyborg: She has extensive mechanical implants in her chest to keep her alive. Her second body lacks these.
- Expendable Clone: Dolly was a prototype created only to be experimented upon to facilitate the creation of even more expendable clones. For this goal, she was pumped full of all sorts of unsafe chemicals to see how she would react. The control for the experiment was apparently not considered expendable and is thus still in stasis when the arc begins.
- Flawed Prototype: The cloning process wasn't perfected when Dolly was made, hence the cybernetics.
- Ghost Memory: Misaki learns that another clone has the memories of Dolly and enlists Mitori to find her and wake her up together, but warns Mitori that just because she has Dolly's memories doesn't mean she is Dolly. That said, the clone in question still clearly considers herself Dolly and that Mitori and Misaki are her friends.
- Hidden Depths: She's smarter than she lets on. Not only did she know that her condition was deteriorating and she wouldn't survive much longer without major treatment, she also knew Misaki was not "Mi-chan."
- Like an Old Married Couple: In A Certain Scientific Mental Out, Dolly and Mitori are living together. Mitori comes home from work to find Dolly has prepared dinner as if they've been married for years.
- Meaningful Name: Dolly, after the first cloned sheep.
- Morality Pet: The second Dolly, as following her recovery, Mitori no longer wants revenge.
- The Nose Knows: She has a habit of sniffing her friends, specifically their hair. This was how she realized Misaki was not Mi-chan, and later how she confirmed Mitori's identity when she got out of the pod.
- Only Friend: Apparently a girl named "Mi-chan," Kouzaku Mitori, and who apparently stopped visiting her after being freaked out by her implants. The researchers, who needed Dolly's emotional state stable for their experiments, requested that Misaki use her powers to pretend to be this person. Dolly quickly became Misaki's only friend, and soon after we find out that Dolly knew from the start Misaki wasn't Mi-chan.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: "Dolly" is a nickname based on her project code name. Unlike other Misaka clones, we never find out her serial number. She was originally assumed to be Misaka 00000, Full-Tuning, but that turned out to be someone different.
- Posthumous Character: Dolly was an experimental prototype. She died not long after Misaki befriended her. However, it turns out to be subverted as her mind was uploaded to another body.
- Prehensile Hair: Dolly's second body can control her long hair and use them as the "rails" for her own version of a railgun.
- Verbal Tic: Notably averted; unlike the other clones, she speaks normally. This lends more credence to the fan theory that the clones' narration is how they upload data to the Misaka Network. The network didn't even exist when Dolly was made, so there was no need for that.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Apparently dies after she is introduced, which is also only a short time after she meets Misaki, but subverted when it's revealed her memories were uploaded to another body.
Misaka 00000
Full-Tuning/Misaka 00000
A mysterious clone of unknown purpose. Originally readers mistakenly believed the second Dolly clone was Full-Tuning, but it turns out that she is a distinct character.
- Ambiguous Situation:
- It is unclear if she came before or after Dolly. Since Dolly was explicitly the experimental clone, that implies she was the very first, but Full-Tuning being number 00000 would imply that no one came before her.
- Where she is now, and if she is still alive. 19090 and Dion Fortune mention her, but not in any way that can narrow down her location.
- Her purpose. She was originally assumed to be Dolly, part of the "tuning" of the Network, but that was confirmed to be incorrect by
Word of God. Other than that, there's very little to go on. The common theory is that she has a full personality (with one vocal part of the fandom believing that she is literally Misaka Mikoto), but that's just speculation.
- The Ghost: She has yet to show up in either the novels or the manga. The only sign that she exists is a few characters mentioning her, implying she's still alive.
Misaka 9982
Misaka 9982
- An Arm and a Leg: Gets her leg ripped off by Accelerator.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: When she steals Mikoto's ice cream.
- Brutal Honesty: This exchange when she tastes her first cup of tea:Researcher: How is it? It's a really high quality tea that costs 20000 yen per can.
Misaka 9982: It's horrible.
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Misaka 9982: My very first tea is this crap?! Misaka laments over her misfortune. - Classified Information: Her response when asked by Mikoto about the project.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Killed by Accelerator dropping a locomotive on her, but not before getting her leg violently ripped off by him.
- Doomed by Canon: She's clone 9982. All clones before 10032 were killed by Accelerator. What do you think is going to happen to her?
- Emotionless Girl: Although that doesn't stop her from being very snarky.
- Gallows Humor: "Misaka objects to the childish taste of the Original." Her comment to the first and last gift she ever received.
- Hope Spot: She managed to catch Accelerator by surprise by planting a landmine. Unfortunately, while surprised, it didn't harm him at all.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: Doesn't mind dressing up in front of other people, or flipping up her skirt to save a kitten.
- Kill the Cutie: After they meet, she and Mikoto spend the afternoon squabbling like sisters until Mikoto finds out about the experiments and arrives just in time to see her smashed by a locomotive.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Mikoto meets her when she's rescuing a cat from a tree.
- Literal-Minded:Researcher: The people [in the outside world] are packed like sardines, though.
Misaka 9982: People are packed in containers?! - Sacrificial Lamb: She exists to show up, let Mikoto know that she has clones and get attached to one and then die without being able to do a thing. Her death sparks the darkest arc in the Railgun storyline.
- Squashed Flat: She meets her end when Accelerator drops a locomotive on her.
Misaka 10031
Misaka 10031
- Ascended Extra: Misaka 10031 only appears briefly in the Index light novel and anime. In Railgun, however, she has a small character arc spread out over multiple chapters/episodes.
- Family-Unfriendly Death: One of the most horrifying in the series. Accelerator kills her by reversing the flow of blood in her circulatory system, with violently distributed results. The actual moment, as depicted in Railgun, is mercifully obscured, but we vaguely glimpse bits of the aftermath in both anime adaptations. The light novel describes the scene as Touma finds it a few minutes later in brief but disturbing detail.
- Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: She loses a shoe while frantically dodging one of Accelerator's attacks, then ditches the other one as she retreats. Touma stumbles upon them while looking for Misaka 10032. This leads to him discovering her body, and thence learning about the Sisters and the experiments. This in turn causes him to visit Mikoto's dorm, which results in him learning about Project Level 6 Shift and, ultimately, taking action to shut it down.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Although her appearance in the story is brief, she plays two critical roles: first, she reveals to Mikoto that Project Level 6 Shift is still active; second, thanks to a series of small coincidences, her death triggers the events leading to Touma stopping the project for good.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies one (in-universe) day after being introduced. In the Railgun spin-off, a handful of brief scenes are told from her point of view first, which just drives it home harder.
- What Is This Feeling?: Mikoto, while in the midst of a Heroic BSoD, screams at Misaka 10031 to stay away from her. Misaka 10031 is sad at being rejected, but lacks the capacity to contextualize the feeling except as a strange pain in her chest. She asks the project's medical team to check her out, but their thoughtless remarks only make things worse. She spends her last day of life believing Mikoto despises her, and wondering if her imminent death is for the best.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: The anime adaptations intersperse her battle against Accelerator with Touma anxiously searching for her. In the Railgun version especially, it looks for some time as though he might arrive in time to save her. He doesn't. That said, what he learns in the process does ultimately allow him to save Misaka 10032, and all the remaining Sisters.
Misaka 10032
Misaka Imouto/Misaka 10032
- Badass Adorable: Comes with being Mikoto's "little sister".
- Breakout Character: She started off as just the Sister that Touma got close to and saved from Accelerator, but as time went on she became the main viewpoint character and representative of the Sisters outside of the special cases like Last Order and Worst.
- Clone Angst: As with the rest of the clones, although she's most notable because she's the first one who goes to the experiment regretting that she won't survive the night.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Shows shades of this, such as considering naming her cat "Dog".
- Cold Sniper: Though she is very kind, she is focused during a mission.
- Damsel in Distress: She gets kidnapped a lot. At least Last Order has the excuse of being the keystone of the Network; 10032 just has really bad luck.
- A Dog Named "Dog": Subverted when she finds a stray cat. When Touma asks what she wants to name it, she replies "Dog.""A cat named 'dog'. Heh heh heh."
- Goggles Do Something Unusual: They let her see in the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: She seems to neither care nor notice that Touma’s getting an eye-full of her striped panties, places his hand on her chest in order to perform readings after he wakes up from a battle, and doesn't bat an eyelash to Touma seeing her completely naked while she undergoes her body adjustments. She is definitely toying with Touma in her own weird way, but she still thought nothing of stripping her skirt off in a crowded mall.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: With Schrodinger/Inu/Tokugawa Ieyasu. Can I take her home with me?
- Moe: She invokes this trope as part of her Narrating the Present, which makes it an in-universe example of this trope. When asking Touma for help finding her goggles, she said that she made her eyes bigger to "suggest vulnerability", and when Touma suggested switching her necklace for a different one she took a melancholy posture while saying how she had "too many things taken from her already today".
- Nonchalant Dodge: While playing a game of tag during the School Festival, her opponents found "Mikoto" far more slippery than expected.10032: Misaka has fought over ten thousand battles with a man who could kill with a touch. You will not catch her so easily.
- Not So Stoic:
- An interesting case of this. If you pay close attention to the way she talks and acts, you'll find that she's actually pretty quirky and can get rather emotional at times (such as hunting down Last Order with a rifle for taking her goggles). It's just that she always uses the same tone of voice and facial expression due to her being a clone and not really knowing how to express her emotions, like when chasing down Last Order with a rifle for taking her goggles.
- When she's used as the delivery point for Gensei's custom virus to force the Level Shift 6 on Mikoto, she screams in very noticeable pain.
- Rescue Romance: While all the surviving Sisters undergo this with Touma, it's most noticeable with 10032 since she's the Sister Touma physically saved from Accelerator and the one he majorly interacts with afterwards. To drive it home, when she meets up with Touma and Mikoto together, she effectively tells the latter to her face she has no interest in just handing off Touma to her and when Mikoto fervently denies any attraction, 10032 takes the opportunity to make a "bold" move to hug Touma's arm closely.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She's actually a warm and kind-hearted girl who just has trouble expressing emotions due to being a clone, and therefore not having had practice expressing them.
- Tranquil Fury: When Last Order steals her goggles, she pulls an assault rifle out and goes on the hunt.
- Twin Switch: Briefly, during the School Festival, she takes Mikoto's place in the games. She gets kidnapped when Mikoto isn't paying attention and used to upload the virus that forces Mikoto into the Level 6 Shift.
- What Measure Is a Mook?: When fighting against Accelerator, Touma interrupts their fight in order to take him on and save her. She insists that she was ready to die, and that there would be countless other clones like her to continue the experiment. Touma calls her rationale foolish, and states that while she has many sisters, there's only one of her. This causes the remaining sisters to reconsider dying so pointlessly for the experiment, and they help Touma to defeat Accelerator.
- You Are Number 6: She normally goes by her production number, just like every other Misaka. But when she introduces herself to Kongou as "Misaka 10032," Kongou is very confused, and suggests calling her "Ichi" ("one") instead. 10032 jumps on this surprisingly quickly.Mikoto: Hang on, you like it?
Misaka 10046
Misaka 10046
- Damsel in Distress: She gets kidnapped by DA because she stood up to them and they needed a hostage to get away clean.
- Living MacGuffin: Despite being grabbed at random, Mitsuhiko Hishigata recognizes that he can use her for his necromancy. While he originally wanted Last Order in order to download the 10031 deaths from the Network, he realized he could use any Sister.
- Rescue Romance: She is implied to have a crush on Accelerator after he rescued her.
- Technopath: When captured, she tried to use her powers to hack the robotic arms. It didn't work because her captor knocked her out, but points for trying.
Misaka 10777
Misaka 10777
- Big Damn Heroes: As the Star of Bethlehem is falling apart, she flies a VTOL up to rescue Touma. Subverted when he doesn't board.
- Hopeless Suitor: Has a crush on Touma, just like all her sisters. Unlike Mikoto and 10032, she lives in Russia.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Courtesy of spending her entire screentime with her big sister.Misaka 10777: You managed to single handedly defeat a company of troops 200 strong. Seeing that, it seems to be giving Misaka a complex, says Misaka as she feels a bit downhearted.
Misaka 19090
Misaka 19090
- Chekhov's Gunman: In a strange and convoluted way. She's the first clone to display the ability to hide thoughts from the network. She went on a diet (to attract Touma), and the other Sisters didn't realize it until they noticed she was skinnier than everyone else. However, in Railgun, she's the clone in the tank that had the emotions uploaded to her, which were then blocked by Last Order from going to the rest of the clones. No one knew about this until she tells Shinobu about it during the final arc of Railgun S. It's likely that this is what caused her to hide her dieting plans from the rest of the clones. It's a straight example once one considers the timeline in universe, as opposed to when things were released.
- Emotionless Girl: Averted, actually. In the Railgun anime, it's revealed that she acquired emotions after Shinobu attempted to upload them to the Network. The final scenes of the anime show her drinking tea and smiling, while her sisters look on expressionless.
- Hopeless Suitor: Goes on a secret diet in an attempt to attract Touma.
Last Order
Last Order/Misaka 20001
- A-Cup Angst: She is very jealous of Misaka Worst's breasts. She doesn't take it well when Worst says she won't get to her level because they've been grown with different hormones.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: To the rest of the Network, despite the fact that she's technically their superior, because she was the last clone made. She has a similar dynamic with Accelerator. She plays keep-away with 032's googles ("says Misaka Misaka, making fun of Misaka!" and splashes Accelerator with water.
- Blush Sticker: The pink spots are constantly present on her face, which helps separating her from more mature Sisters.
- Cheerful Child: Unlike the other 20,000 Sister clones, she's quite capable of expressing emotions and is quite a cheerful girl. This is a big clue that she's not a "normal" Misaka clone.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: When she first runs into Esther Rosenthal, who was sitting in Accelerator's hospital room, she immediately grows suspicious and starts asking who she was. Esther claims to be sort of a classmate of his and wanted his help with something, but is stopped short by him from revealing too much. Last Order gets upset and throws the three take out meals she brought at his face.
- Compulsory School Age: In New Testament, Yoshikawa and Accelerator discuss enrolling her in school in an attempt to give her something of a normal life. Last Order vehemently objects.
- Crocodile Tears: When Accelerator scolds her for leaving the apartment and running off on her own after stealing Misaka 10032's goggles. Flatout admits it too, of course, due to her Verbal Tic.
- Damsel in Distress: Despite being Level 3, her powers are underdeveloped, putting her in several dangerous situations involving those who want to tamper with the MISAKA network.
- Department of Redundancy Department: Being the least mature of them, Last Order is an even bigger Captain Obvious than the rest of the Sisters by using Third-Person Person twice to narrate how she says something, and after every sentence.
- Foil: To Index, as she's also a Pretty Freeloader and Deuteragonist in Accelerator's arcs, and both tend to bother their guardians. While Index is a magician with a childish attitude, Last Order is an Artificial Human and an actual child.
- Genki Girl: She typically acts like a little kid on a sugar rush.
- Hidden Depths: Every once in a while she turns off her cheerful persona, reminding viewers that she has full access to all the memories of the Network, including their 10,031 deaths.
- Hive Queen: She's the central administrator of the MISAKA Network, with the ability to override (almost) any viruses and give orders which they must obey. Of course, since the other Sisters are all Tin Men and she's a Genki Girl, they mostly ignore her unless she forces the issue.
- Hopeless Suitor: It's clear that she has a Precocious Crush on Accelerator. It's just as clear that he doesn't reciprocate, viewing her as a little sister instead.
- Idiot Hair: While childish, she's by no means an idiot so instead it's possibly intended to show her status as the "control tower" for the Sisters. (Though there's also the possibility that it's simply because her body is physically around the age when the original Misaka had a pronounced Idiot Hair herself.)
- Keystone Army: Her status as the administrator of the Network means it is virtually impossible to mind control individual Sisters (either through a virus or powers). However, it also means she is the single point of failure, as a virus uploaded through her cannot be resisted by the rest of the Network. The only time the Network was forcibly hijacked without Last Order was when Kihara Gensei used Exterior, which allowed him to use an amplified version of Misaki's powerset to forcibly upload a custom virus through Misaka 10032 to the Network that Last Order couldn't do a thing about.
- Kid with the Leash: She controls the Misaka Network which Accelerator must rely on for calculations after taking brain damage. At one point, she decides that she doesn’t like his tone and casually strips him of the ability to speak coherently, though getting strangled by his blanket likely discouraged her from pulling that again.
- MacGuffin Super-Person: As the central controller of the Sister network, she has been captured at least twice in an effort to upload a virus to all the other Sisters.
- Morality Chain: When Accelerator goes nuts in Volume 15, falling into an Unstoppable Rage from Kakine stabbing Yomikawa, only her words stop him from attacking anyone else.
- Morality Pet: She is the reason Accelerator started down the path of heroism. When he goes nuts in Volume 15 and falls into an Unstoppable Rage from Kakine stabbing Yomikawa, she is quite literally the only thing he can't bring himself to attack, his black wings stopping just short of her no matter how many times he tries.
- Motor Mouth: Unless the situation is really serious, she never shuts up.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When interrogating Esther about who she is and how she knows Accelerator, she drops the Verbal Tic altogether.
- Token Mini-Moe: Among the Sisters, she is the smallest, which she claims were the result of being taken out of her incubator early.
- Verbal Tic: In addition to Narrating the Present she announces herself as the topic of the conversation twice (Misaka wa Misaka wa) which isn't really translatable. Most translators go with "[normal speech] Misaka says, as Misaka [action].", though Funimation's translations just have her calling herself "Misaka Misaka".
- Vocal Evolution: Hidaka gives her a higher-pitched voice after the first season.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: With the advent of the MISAKA Worst clones, Aleister planned to replace her with a MISAKA Worst-version administrator. Accelerator thwarts this, fortunately.
Misaka Worst
Misaka Worst
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: She seems to be this way towards Accelerator. It helps this perspective that she doesn't like the 'Hero', Touma Kamijou. In fact, she is afraid of him because he's never treated her sisters badly.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: After a brutal beating inflicted by a stressed-out Accelerator, she pleads for help.
- Ax-Crazy: Justified. She was literally designed to be this by genetic manipulation; she runs off the negative emotions in the MISAKA Network and had Accelerator's old thought patterns forced into her. Averted after making a Heel–Face Turn by expanding on the implication that she mostly just hates Accelerator and the researchers.
- Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Look down at the Dark and Troubled Past below.
- Big-Breast Pride: She's very proud of the fact that she has the most impressive bust of all her sisters, including the original. She trolls them about it, too, noting that since she was grown with different hormones there's no guarantee they'll be the same.
- Blood Knight: Although she is this, Worst points out in NT 3 that when she's not with Accelerator, she loses interest.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Has demonstrated the ability to break the fourth wall.Worst: Oh, Misaka never said that. Maybe she was talking about number of appearances.
Mikoto: Now you’ve said it!! - Break the Haughty: Administers this to Umidori so much that she makes her cry.
- Bullying a Dragon: Her advantage against Accelerator almost entirely depends on his emotional hang-ups over harming another Sister. She eventually pushed him too far by threatening Last Order, and would live to regret it. Then again, she knew this would happen, but it didn't really matter to her since she wasn't meant to survive past dealing with him anyways.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: In NT, notable for being against her will. Since she's an Enemy Without, she expresses all negative emotions, including jealousy. So when Last Order is feeling a strong bout of jealousy, Hilarity Ensues.
- Enemy Without: Sort of; Misaka Worst is the outlet of the negative feelings of the original network. Her will can be overtaken if the negativity is too strong.
- Evil Counterpart: To Misaka Mikoto, Last Order, and pretty much all of the clones.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In NT volume 3, while Worst is jamming all the cameras, she confesses that she's worried about putting Accelerator in danger.
- The Gadfly: It seems that if she doesn't get to be evil, she's at least going to do her best to screw with people.
- Good Colors, Evil Colors: Her lightning is purple, compared to the original's blue.
- The Gunslinger: Shows signs of being able to use guns pretty well. Seems to be able to keep up with Shiage.
- Heel–Face Turn: Teams up with Accelerator after trying to kill Last Order and him under orders from Academy City.
- Ironic Fear: Of Touma; unlike the other Sisters. This is justified, as she values herself as the negative embodiment of the Misaka network, and NONE of the Sisters have negative feelings about him, making her fear him as dangerous to her existence.
- Lame Pun Reaction: When Accelerator tells her to be careful with Last Order, she responds with "Well, shucks! This is what Misaka is worst at!" Accelerator is far from being amused, reminding her that she's lucky she's useful to him or else...
- Laser Guided Tyke Bomb: Sent out to break Accelerator by either forcing him to kill her (which would break him), kill Last Order, kill him since he doesn't want to reflect her attacks and is relying on dodging or in a worst-case scenario simply die in front of him. Her entire mental outlook is more or less shaped around making her hate Accelerator and herself.
- Light Is Not Good: So far, Worst has been dressing in purely white outfits, but that doesn't match her persona.
- Male Gaze: Gets this treatment in the anime, with many shots of her ass during her fight against Accelerator.
- Malevolent Masked Woman: She originally appears wearing a metal face mask that only lets some of her hair loose.
- Mind Rape: To Accelerator. Technically, she fails although she does break him. Accelerator doesn't die, Last Order doesn't die and she herself survives. After the whole thing, Accelerator is even better off due to Touma knocking some sense into him, figuratively and literally.
- Morality Pet: It is strongly hinted that interactions with Accelerator reform her. Yes, one of the Misaka clones is becoming less evil because of someone who was made less evil by a different Misaka clone.
- Motive Rant: She kind of has a point.Misaka Worst: Misaka was created in order to kill [Accelerator]. Misaka didn’t particularly want to be born, but she was forced to do so. In order to cut off the signals from Last Order, her skin was cut open and a bunch of strange sheets and selectors were embedded within. If it weren’t for you, none of that would have happened. If you hadn’t made that decision, Misaka would never have been born. And even if she had been, it would not have been in that way that cut off all chance for a future. ‘It hurts. Help.’ By the time Misaka learned those words, she was already in a situation where she could not say them. That is why Misaka has the right to blame you. That is why she has a reason to kill you.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Spends her first appearance trying to either kill Accelerator or break him mentally. When she succeeds in driving him insane, she instantly regrets it, begging him to calm down and snap out of it.
- Nail 'Em: She can use Mikoto's Railgun technique... except she uses a nail instead of a coin.
- Nominal Hero: She has no desire to help people or make friends. She only fights bad guys because she likes kicking ass and it's convenient for her to do so.
- Psycho Electro: She’s designed to channel the negative emotions that the other Sisters couldn’t express.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: She is far higher energy than the dry Accelerator, and one of the few people who consistently spends time with him. Poor Accelerator- both the genki-girl clone and the teasing clone hang around him.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives Accelerator a scathing one for believing that trying to save just Last Order can make up for the brutal murder of over 10,000 other Sisters.
- She Is All Grown Up: She's an older, high-school version of Misaka Mikoto.
- Ship Tease:
- With Accelerator, such as the "ice cream licking" tease.
- Averted with Touma and to a certain extent Shiage, in whom she has no interest.
- Slasher Smile: Her smile puts her craziness on full display.
- The Tease: In New Testament Volume 1.Misaka Worst: Should Misaka use her tongue seductively as she licks [the ice cream]?
Accelerator: Who are you trying to please by doing that? Yourself?
Misaka Worst: Well, there is that. If it would be devastating to your relationship with Last Order, Misaka will let you touch her tits and ass, but doing it now would seem rather pointless. - Tsundere:
- She has show slight signs of this towards Accelerator because of the aforementioned use of Enemy Without.Misaka Worst: Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!! Misaka doesn’t care about him, so why!?
- In New Testament Volume 3, she remarks that when she isn't with Accelerator, she loses interest in picking fights. In short, Accelerator's proximity is her tsun trigger.
- She has show slight signs of this towards Accelerator because of the aforementioned use of Enemy Without.
- Would Hurt a Child:
- She tried to kill Last Order.
- In New Testament volume 3, she doesn't hold back on Umidori. She keeps this up even after she makes Umidori cry.
- Vapor Wear: The jumpsuit she wears in the anime suggests she doesn't wear anything else.
- Verbal Tic: Exchanges the typical self-narration of a Sister for a more standard take on being a Third-Person Person.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Academy City made sure that whatever was the outcome of her fight with Accelerator, she would self-destruct. Who saves her? The broken, dead-inside Accelerator that just broke her arm due to being brutally Mind Raped by her. And in a different way, her generation of clones were intended to be this towards the previous set of clones. However, Accelerator appears to have forced them to stop production.
The Will of the Misaka Network
The Will of the Misaka Network
Voiced by: Creator/Nozomi Sasaki (As a Misaka clone)/Rina Hidaka (As Last Order)
A thought entity formed from the Misaka Network itself. It is capable of thought and action independent of the Sisters that comprise it, but must possess one of the clones' bodies in order to interact with the physical world."I am the large will created by the whole of the Misaka Network /return. Nice to meetcha☆ /return."
- Genki Girl: It is cheerful and energetic, giving Touma a big friendly wave moments after preventing him from comitting suicide. Considering the contrast with most of the Sisters, this is often the first sign that the Will has taken over.
- Grand Theft Me: It can focus itself through any of the Sisters in order to speak to others, though the Sister in question seems to be unaware while this is happening. Misaka WORST is apparently the exception, as she is not truly part of the Network, she simply "hacked in."
- Hive Mind: It is the hive mind. The exact circumstances are a bit unclear, but it seems to act as a mind behind the individual Sisters. Last Order is the administrator, but not actually in control of the collective itself.
- No Biological Sex: Granted, it can technically be called female due to being created from the Sisters' minds and usually manifests physically through using a Sister as a mouthpiece, but being for all intents and purposes a thought being makes it this.
- Our Angels Are Different: Due to the way angels work in this universe, it has the potential to become an angel in the same way the Level Upper network did. This was done twice, with Kazakiri and with Mikoto.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: It retains its memories of the original world despite Othinus drastically altering reality, as it exists in a state between life and death.
- Spanner in the Works: Its intervention prevents Touma from committing suicide in the Othinus' constructed Omega Phase and its resulting pep-talk gives him the courage to finally reject it and fight for his own reasons. Had it not done either of these, Othinus would have won.
- Super Mode: When fused with Hyouka Kazakiri, it can turn her into FUZE=Kazakiri, an artificial angel. It's also revealed that doing the same to Mikoto can drive her to Level 6 if circumstances are right.
- Verbal Tic: Unlike the Sisters, it doesn't narrate itself. Instead, it constantly says "Escape" and "Return", as it speaks like a typed message.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Speaking through Last Order, it berates Accelerator for trying to take the easy way out in his path to redemption by becoming a Death Seeker (ironically, Shizuri Mugino had scolded him about this earlier, but he forgot quickly). It says if he doesn't shape up and struggle to fight the darkness with everything he has, it will throw him into a Hell several times larger than he can imagine.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Gives one to Touma during the events of NT 9 in the Omega Phase, eventually getting him to realise that while the constructed world is 'perfect', he still wants to fight to bring his original one back. Notably, it chooses this route to convince Touma to fight Othinus, despite knowing he'd immediately do it if it simply told him it was being 'overwritten'.
