Characters / My Hero Academia - Class 1-A (11-20)

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U.A. High School Students: Class 1-A (1-10, 11-20, Izuku Midoriya, Katsuki Bakugo, Shoto Todoroki, Ochaco Uraraka) | Class 1-B | Students From Other Classes
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Class 1-A, Students 11-20

Spoiler Policy forbids hiding trope names, so merely seeing some tropes listed here could spoil certain plot twists. Proceed with caution if you aren't caught up with the manga.

11. Mezo Shoji — Tentacole

Mezo Shoji — Tentacole

Tentacle Hero

^{Click here to see him in uniform}

^{Click here to see his unmasked face (SPOILER)}

Voiced By: Masakazu Nishida (Japanese), Ian Sinclair (English), Dan Osorio (Latin American Spanish/Movies)

Debut: Chapter 3 (Manga), Episode 4 (Anime)

Quirk: Dupli-Arms

"I regret it all too. Still... this is no time to let our emotions get the better of us."

A tall, intimidating, yet friendly young man whose Quirk, "Dupli-Arms", takes the form of multiple arm-shaped tentacles that can replicate any part of his body at their tips; he is often compared to an octopus. For personal reasons, he chooses to always keep his face concealed under a mask.

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• All There in the Manual: The sketches of his original design reveal how his face looks unmasked. Otherwise, it can't be seen in the manga until Chapter 370.
• Anatomy Anomaly: He doesn't have any visible ears.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: An octopus. This one is a bit subtle.
• An Arm and a Leg: A villain severs one of his arms during the attack on the training camp. It leaves a nasty gash, but he comes out fine otherwise due to his Quirk. Good thing he can heal.
• The Big Guy: Subverted; though he is physically the largest student in class 1-A, and he can use his quirk to generate numerous fists for punching, he rarely gets to actually play this role. More often, he plays a reconnaissance role by generating extra eyes and ears and using the flaps of skin between his arms as giant eardrums. This gets played straight by the Final Battle, where he takes on Spinner Mano-a-Mano after the latter had accepted multiple Quirks from All For One to transform into a hulking musclebound giant, with Shoji's strength allowing him to seriously hurt him even with his increased power.
• Combat Tentacles: Uses them to replicate parts of his body.
• Cool Mask: The lower half of his face is always covered by a sort of ninja mask.
• Creepy Good: He is far from heroic-looking, and according to extra material, his mask is used to hide a villainous-looking face, yet he's one of the gentlest kids in Class 1-A.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Shoji lived in a small rural town where he was actively harassed for his mutated appearance. After saving a young girl from a flash-flood, he was further accosted and recieved scars across his face from someone striking him with a rake. Despite receiving scars on his face from the people in his hometown who hated and feared him for his Heteromorph quirk, Shoji holds little to no malice within him; simply choosing to focus on the fact that he was able to save someone with his Quirk and hides his old scars behind a mask precisely so that he may one day be recognised as a cool mutant hero by the masses and inspire more children to move past their prejudice of mutant-type Quirks, and to remove any inkling that he took up being a hero with a vindictive heart guiding his actions.
• A Day in the Limelight: Gets some focus on his backstory with Koda during Final War.
• Determinator: In Heroes:Rising, he puts his all into protecting Katsuma and Mahora. Even taking several attacks from Nine's fingerbeams that were even able to seriously hurt Deku and still kept on trucking to protect them!
• Early-Bird Cameo: He appeared during the entrance exam, albeit he could only be seen from a back view.
• Extra Eyes: He can put extra eyes at the ends of his tentacles.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: And also mouths, ears, etc. He can replicate any body parts on his tentacles.
• Face of a Thug: According to his character description and some concept art, his face is scary-looking, but he's a Nice Guy who is training to be a Pro Hero. He constantly wears a face mask to deliberately defy this trope. His face reveal in chapter 370 shows he actually has a deeper reason to cover up how he looks since his jaw and neck are Covered in Scars from taking a pitchfork slash to the face when he was younger, which, along with his Quirk, make it clear to an outside observer that he's suffered from Fantastic Racism in the past, and he hides them to avoid people assuming he became a hero out of a desire for Revenge.
• Friend to All Children: Exemplified best in the second movie, where he protected Mahoro and Katsuma to the best of his ability, even using his own body to shield them from Nine’s attacks and falling debris. He’s also shown to be really kind and gentle when talking with both of them. This pays him back well when Katsuma uses his Quirk to heal him while the two are trying to encourage Bakugo and Deku.
  • As he elaborates to the rest of 1-A in a flashback, this was ultimately the reason he became a hero. Despite receiving scars on his face from the people in his hometown who hated and feared him for his Heteromorph quirk, Shoji instead chose to focus on the one good memory he had about his powers, using them to rescue a young child who was nearly drowned in a flash-flood, and hides his old scars behind a mask precisely so that one day he'll be recognised as a cool mutant hero by the masses and inspire more children to move past their prejudice of mutant-type Quirks. His Breaking Speech to the followers assaulting the hospital is capped off by him screaming at them that their actions will only cause the same animosity and hatred they endured to be targeted at their own children in the future, begging them to be better than their rage for their sake.
• Gentle Giant: He is noticeably taller than most of his classmates, enough to carry two of them on his back, but he's one of the kinder members of Class 1-A. This makes his Rage Breaking Point by the various heteromorph civilians supporting the villains out of their anger against the Fantastic Racism they experienced more pronounced, as he points out how they're endangering innocent civilians contained within the hospital out of their blind anger towards society, whereas the heroes have made every effort to protect those same people.
• Glasgow Grin: A heroic example, as the people from his countryside hometown attacked him when he was younger and gave him one of these with a pitchfork to the face because they discriminated against him for being a heteromorph.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Bears a Glasgow Grin beneath his mask after somebody attacked him prior to coming to U.A., but it doesn't do too much to detract from his overall appearance. He ultimately doesn't look that bad even without it either, and you'd be hard pressed to find a sweeter boy anywhere. As he elaborates, he covers the scars up with his mask not because he's ashamed of them, or afraid to show them to others, but combined with his heteromorph quirk they make it clear to an outside observer that he's suffered from Fantastic Racism in the past, and since Shoji aims to become the kind of hero who passes down 'good memories' to future generations in hopes of eventually removing this discrimination and prejudice, he hides them so others won't assume he's out for revenge for his prior mistreatment.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: In the Forest Training Camp Arc, he gets a hand chopped off by an attacking villain. Fortuitous, as he's the only member of the class who can easily recover from such an injury.
• Healing Factor: Shoji is capable of regrowing lost duplicate limbs, such as a double duplicate that was cut off from one of his limb branches during the forest trip.
• Hidden Depths: Apart from a desk and a futon, Shoji's room is completely empty. He explains that it's because he hasn't had any "worldly desires" ever since he was young, complete with Todoroki identifying him as a minimalist. His flashback in Chapter 371 puts a darker spin on this by implying that he was never afforded any luxuries beyond the barest necessities because of his appearance.
• Horrifying Hero: According to the initial sketches of his character, he took steps to avoid this. He was told his face was terrifying, so he always wears a mask to cover his mouth to avoid scaring people:
  "I'm used to being feared."
• Humble Hero: As he states, he has no "worldly desires" and seems to live a very simple lifestyle. The dub adds a bit of dry wit to this when he states that he's "never understood why people would want to fill their room with junk." The Reveal about his past suffering and disfigurement due to Fantastic Racism implies that his simplistic living style is born out of never having been granted basic comforts like other kids his age, and him having reconciled himself with that to eventually overcome said prejudice rather than allowing it to twist him.
• Hypocrisy Nod: He tells an apologetic Mineta that he thought nothing of him calling him an octopus, noting that aside from considering it a natural reaction, he himself likes to watch things like "Heroes that look like villains" Ranking despite his own experiences with Fantastc Racism.
• I Am What I Am: After years of hiding his face out of fear he'd be attacked again for his appearance simply for touching a non-heteromorph person, as is necessary in hero work, Shoji confidently declares that his "gross" octopus arms are part of who he is when trying to keep a beefed-up Spinner and his army from ransacking the central hospital.
  Shoji: Yeah. This is who I am.
• Lonely Bachelor Pad: Subverted. His own room is indeed minimalistic with no furniture at all except for the absolute basics and thus looks very much like this. However, Shoji is merely a teenager so this spartan get up is actually quite uncommon for young man his age. It's an early hint that his childhood was not quite as pleasant as the rest of his classmates.
• Lost in Translation: His hero name in Japanese is pronounced as "Tentakoru", which is close to the Japanese way to pronounce "Tentacle" (Tentakuru), except with "tako" (Japanese for "octopus") inserted in place of "taku", turning his hero name into a Punny Name. This wasn't localized, which means that Shoji's hero name ends up sounding just like a weird corruption of the word "Tentacle", though he points out the specific inclusion himself in chapter 371 when explaining his Dark and Troubled Past and desire to embrace his mutant powers to eventually overcome the Fantastic Racism still present in society.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He can grow multiple arms if he wanted as part of his Quirk.
• Nice Guy: He's very kind-hearted and calm most of the time, reassuring Tokoyami he holds no grudge against him after Dark Shadow goes on a rampage, and even rescuing him. He's also one of the few students that seems to tolerate Mineta.
• Non-Uniform Uniform: The only student to wear a sleeveless uniform, in order to accommodate his six arms. That's one of the differences about a post-Quirk world; outfits can be custom-tailored on demand to accommodate unusual needs.
• Not Quite Flight: The membranes between his arms allow him to glide to a certain extent.
• Not So Stoic:
  • When All Might shows up in the USJ Arc, he is seemingly fanboying over it for a second (with at least two big smiles).
  • During the battle with the League of Villains at the training camp, he visibly freaks out when Dark Shadow's full power is unleashed and it goes completely berserk, destroying everything in its path. Hearing the normally stoic Shoji shouting in a panicked voice is unnerving.
• Punny Name: His name references a proverb: "the walls have ears, the doors have eyes". In this case, it's a reference to the traditional Japanese sliding paper doors, which are called shoji. Eavesdropping is the main strength of his Quirk. This is also the case with his hero name, as shown on the Lost in Translation entry.
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: He can do this by duplicating more arms to punch with.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: He gives an enraged one to the various heteromorph civilian supporters joining in on the fighting against the heroes out of the belief that the villainous Spinner is the only kind of hero they need, willing to fight against the society that so discriminates against Heteromorph-users in less urban areas. He points out that by supporting the villains in attacking the hospital to liberate Kurogiri, they're endangering innocent civilians within the building as well, whereas the heroes they so despise made every effort possible to evacuate the patients from Jaku hospital before the fighting started. Underlying this, his mask is torn off by the beating they're giving him, exposing his Glasgow Grin that demonstrates he clearly experienced the same discrimination as them as he calls them out for how shortsighted they're being.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: Both his school uniform and his hero costume have no sleeves in order to accommodate for his Quirk.
• The Stoic: Mostly keeps level headed and calm, even in dangerous situations, this can be partly said to the fact that, since he has only half of his face showing, it would be harder to show expressions.
• Super-Senses: His hearing is noted to be especially good to the point he can discern if someone is barefoot, and is useful for scoping out large areas.
• Super-Strength: Thanks to his large build and being able to have extra arms, he is one of the class' physical powerhouses.
• Talking the Monster to Death: He tries his best to talk down Spinner's supporters, trying to convince them to stop what they're doing and listen to reason. While it takes seeing what Spinner has actually become to sink in, it does finally hit home and stop them.
• Team Dad: The way he looks out for the well-being of his classmates, such as carrying Midoriya on his back when he's injured or wrapping a freezing Tsuyu in all his arms to keep her warm, coupled with his Nice Guy personality makes him a good example.
• Too Many Mouths: His Quirk allows him to replicate any body part onto his tentacles; he's occasionally used them for growing mouths.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: Compared to his classmates, Shoji shows a great amount of discipline and maturity, never letting his emotions get the better of him and always calling to his friends to respond to reason when things are tense. During the Final Battle, its revealed this is an attitude he cultivated because of his disfigurement due to Fantastic Racism, refusing to allow the unfair treatment he suffered to warp him into somebody out for Revenge, and instead aiming to move beyond that to become a cool mutant hero that will inspire more children to overcome prejudice. On hearing this, Tokoyami says that he's a truly strong person even without his quirk.
• Would Hit a Girl: When Toga pinned down an incapacitated Izuku during the kidnapping of Bakugo by the League of Villains, he didn't hesitate one-second in slapping her away. Justified because had he not intervened, Toga was fully intending to stab Izuku, potentially fatally.
• Younger Than They Look: Despite being the tallest kid in his class, enough to pass off as an adult, Shoji is actually the youngest student; he's almost a whole year younger than the oldest student, Bakugo, even.

12. Kyoka Jiro — Earphone Jack

Kyoka Jiro — Earphone Jack

Hearing Hero

^{Click here to see her in uniform}

Voiced by: Kei Shindō (Japanese), Trina Nishimura (English), Chrissy Costanza (singing), Patricia Azan (Latin American Spanish/TV series), Sandra Olarra (Latin American Spanish/Movies)

Debut: Chapter 5 (Manga), Episode 5 (Anime)

Playable in: My Hero Academia: Battle for All, My Hero One's Justice, My Hero One's Justice 2

Quirk: Earphone Jack

"But there's no time to hesitate, so do it now! You wanna be a hero, don't you?! Then let's pass this test."

An aloof, sarcastic, tomboyish but unexpectedly prudish student whose Quirk, "Earphone Jack", takes the form of elongated earlobes ending in jack plugs, which she can extend and plug into objects to catch extremely faint sounds or channel the sound of her own heartbeat into them in the form of powerful vibrations. She is a talented musician and is especially fond of rock music.

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• Action Girl: She can unleash powerful sound waves by plugging her earphone jacks into the speakers built into her boots.
• A-Cup Angst: She appears to be sensitive about having the smallest cup size in class. She even got upset when Mineta went on a rant about the girls he wanted to peep on, and she was the only one who wasn't mentioned.
• All Women Are Prudes:
  • Jiro has little tolerance for nudity and gets immediately flustered when confronted with it. During the USJ Arc, when Yaoyorozu's costume gets torn up by her Creation Quirk, Jiro is more embarrassed by Yaoyorozu's skin exposure than the one actually exposed.
  • After being tricked into wearing cheerleader uniforms, Jiro's the only one pouting and sitting out whereas the other Class 1-A girls try to have fun in spite of it.
  • Jiro is the only one of the girls to be utterly terrified at the sight of a naked Mirio upon training with him, especially when he looms right behind her completely naked, implying that she's a total prude indeed or that Mirio is unusually huge downstairs.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Similar to Kaminari, she has highlights in her hair that resemble audio waveforms in her case, which perfectly fit her sound-themed Quirk.
• Audio Erotica: According to her classmates, she has a very husky, sexy singing voice. We finally get to hear it in the anime, and it's amazing!
• Beautiful Singing Voice: Class 1-A is assigned to put on a show for the school's culture festival. When deciding who would be singing, the class is immediately blown away by Jiro's husky and powerful voice, planting her in the role of lead singer while everyone else would be doing stunts, instrumentals, and backup.
• Berserk Button: Jiro is really embarrassed by her closet punk rocker hobby, and if somebody brings it up in conversation, she gets mad enough to raise her earphone jacks at the offending party. When Kaminari learned about it during the Room King contest, Jiro was blushing and very put out at having to show people her room, and even though he thought it was something she was comfortable sharing, she got so upset she ran off and sulked at her desk when it was brought up in class.
• Big Damn Heroes: She arrives just in time riding on a flying Tokoyami to save Hawks from getting blasted out of the air by All For One himself.
• Bizarre Human Biology: Similar to Ida and his leg mufflers, Jiro has actual earphone jacks as part of her body, which she inherited from her mother. She can even plug them into her cellphone and listen to music.
• Boyish Short Hair: She is a snarky rock musician with short hair down to her chin.
• Character Tics: She tends to fiddle with her earlobes or twirl them around her fingers.
• Civvie Spandex: Keeping with her punk rock theme, her hero costume looks more like she's heading to a mosh pit rather than fighting crime. Her upgraded costume includes headphones.
• Combat Pragmatist: She kicks Kaminari into the action despite his hesitance to fight because she realizes that he can function as a living taser before he does.
• Combination Attack: Her and Hawks combine her sonic attack with his feather sword to create a resonating slash that finally pierces All For One's helmet.
• Crazy-Prepared: Like Midoriya, she compiles journals about her love of music. So when the time came for Class 1-A to put on a show and she needed to help prepare the others with their instruments, her journals came in handy.
• David Versus Goliath: Of all the members of Class 1-A, she and Tokoyami are the ones who go up against All For One in his original body. She loses an ear for it, but her Heartbeat Surround Legato Super Move ends up being what rouses the Quirk vestiges inside All For One's copied Quirk to action. This lets Endeavor burn All For One to a crisp and force the maniacal supervillain to employ a Suicide Attack by using Rewind on himself, ensuring his eventual death. However, this doesn't stop his contingency plan to reside in Shigaraki's body full time.
• A Day in the Limelight: Gets a big focus during the School Festival Arc.
• Dishing Out Dirt: Her new special move, "Heartbeat Fuzz", allows her to use her sound waves in such a high impact, it is able to shake and destroy the earth before her.
• Dramatic Irony: When she and Koda face off against Present Mic, she is surprised by his efficiency in battle, having thought he had gotten by on flash and showmanship. While Mic does prove himself to be quite ruthless, he really was just screwing around with them.
• Dub Personality Change: A minor case, but her reactions to Yaoyorozu scolding her for shoving Kaminari into the enemies during the USJ attack are quite different in the sub and English dub.
  Sub: Sorry, thought it was a good idea at the time.
  Dub: I'm sorry. Next time I'll ask before saving our butts.
• Dude Magnet: Despite feeling insecure about her looks, Casanova Wannabe Kaminari ends up genuinely falling for her and even considers her first and foremost in his heart. Koda is also implied to have a thing for her after she helped him conquer his fear of insects to pass the term exam.
• Ear Ache: Gets one of her earphone jacks torn off courtesy of All For One during the final battle. It's unclear if she lost the entire ear due to her hair covering the side of her head where it would be.
• Facial Markings: She has tear-shaped markings on her cheeks as part of her hero costume. It's unknown whether they serve any practical purpose or are just for aesthetics.
• Female Rockers Play Bass: She's the most 'alternative' of the Class 1-A girls (she's a snarky and aloof rocker with short hair, in contrast to the other girls who are preppier or straightforwardly feminine) and is the class's most preeminent musician; during the School Festival she spearheads their school festival with her Beautiful Singing Voice and skill at the bass guitar.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Her friendship with Koda sets off from their teamwork against Present Mic during the Final Exams Arc.
• Flipping the Bird: One of her most potent insults. One time, Kaminari apparently said something insensitive to her without meaning to after the aforementioned peeping incident that rubbed her the wrong way. Cue her doing this to a stunned Kaminari.
• The Gadfly: She absolutely loves to screw with Kaminari. She has a fondness for him because he makes her laugh. This is especially the case when he's reduced to a gibbering, "wheeying" idiot. She also loves to give him a condescending remark.
• Goth: The rock fan variety. She wears a lot of black and has a dark aesthetic even in her hero outfit.
• Guilty Pleasures: Her interest in music. She's the only girl embarrassed about the others seeing her room during the dorm tour. Chapter 169 reveals that she doesn't think her musical interest is heroic, and that she isn't proud enough about it to perform live during the U.A. Cultural Festival. Even though Uraraka and Hagakure have watched her perform in her room on the guitar, her body language shows she is really shy in front of an audience: nervously blushing, hands tucked under her legs, and feet dangling above the floor with her toes pointed out and avoiding the ground. It turns out that this is largely due to the fact that in the past, she felt conflicted about her dream of becoming a pro hero since she thought her parents would want her to become a musician like them, even though they assured her they would support her no matter which path she took.
• Hidden Depths: She's a great bass player and vocalist, and leads the effort for 1-A's performance by creating the song and teaching the others how to play. This is due to both of her parents being musicians, and they fostered her love of music from an early age.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Her first name can be spelled "Kyoka", "Kyouka", or "Kyōka", while her last name can be spelled "Jiro", "Jirou", or "Jirō".
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed. While she isn't exactly the nicest or outgoing person, and can be very snarky and rude, she's still a supportive, caring friend towards other classmates. Best shown when she tries to encourage Koda to do his best during their final exam.
• Like Parent, Like Child:
  • She and her mother share the same Quirk and similar physical traits.
  • Her love for rock music definitely comes from her father.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Due to injuries sustained during the Forest Training Camp Arc, she is one of only three students in Class 1-A who don't know about Kirishima's insane plan to rescue Bakugo, the others being Hagakure and Bakugo himself.
• Logical Weakness: Having sensitive ears means if there is a sudden loud noise when she amplifies her sense of hearing, Jiro will get shocked. This is how Bakugo knocks her out in the second OVA and how she is damaged in Episode 55. In addition, she has to have some kind of surface to transmit vibrations through or she cannot use her Quirk at all offensively. Normally her hero costume fixes this, but if she is unable to use it, she can only really use it for support roles.
• Make Some Noise: Her Quirk allows her to increase the sound of her heartbeat and, in combination with her hero costume, transfer the sound to her targets. While debilitating on its own, she later gets upgraded speakers that she can use to turn them into destructive shock waves that demolish the ground.
• Meaningful Name: "Jiro" contains the character for "ear". "Kyoka" contains the character for the verb "echo".
• Mundane Utility: Yes, her Quirk can function just like normal earplugs, as seen with Jiro plugging them into her phone.
• Nom de Mom: She and her dad use her mom's surname, which is apparently relatively common in this universe.
• Not Even Bothering with the Accent: In the Latin American Spanish dub of the TV series, she speaks with a very thick Cuban-American accent. Averted in the dubs of the films, since she was dubbed with a neutral accent.
• Odd Friendship:
  • She seems to have one with Yaoyorozu. Yaoyorozu's a sweet Teen Genius, while Jiro's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who has a very unsophisticated Quirk and lifestyle.
  • She has one with Koda. Koda is a very shy Shrinking Violet, while Jiro is an outspoken Deadpan Snarker. Both of their Quirks work based on sound, but he talks with animals, while she attacks using sound.
• Organic Technology: Her earphone jacks are naturally part of her body and can be extended or retracted at will.
• Personality Powers: Yes, the rocker girl has sound-based earplug powers.
• Pervert Revenge Mode: When Mineta loudly discovers a peephole to the girls' locker room, her response is to quickly stab him in the eye through it.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: In opposition to their color schemes, she's the Red Oni to Yaoyorozu's blue in both the USJ and the anime filler episode 55: Impulsive and fiery in comparison with the cautious Yaoyorozu.
• Running Gag: A minor one, but whenever one of the boys fantasizes about the girls, Jiro always seems to be left out of it. One of the first things she does when arriving at the party wearing a cute dress in Two Heroes is zapping Kaminari and Mineta when they start saying unflattering things about the way she looks.
• Sensor Character: In team situations, she usually uses her Quirk to plug her jacks into walls or floors to listen for oncoming enemies.
• Ship Tease: With Kaminari. Though they undoubtedly start out as Vitriolic Best Buds, she becomes flustered around him after he praises her musical skills. Later, she is the first person he focuses on when Midnight tells him to think of the most important person to him during the Liberation War to gather courage, while the two are seen together in hospital during the arc's denouement.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: She throws All For One's comments about her and Tokoyami being like the jobber characters from the comics he read at him by saying that he should keep his speeches to himself until he has actually won. This defiance from what All for One calls "an extra" ends up encouraging the vestiges of all the Quirks he has stolen to outright rebel against the Big Bad, holding him down for a critical moment and allowing Hawks' and Kyoka's Combination Attack to shatter All for One's mask.
• Shy Finger-Twiddling: She does a variant of this with her earlobes when flustered or embarrassed, tapping the ends of her headphone jacks together meekly.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Kyoka, along with the rest of the heroes, were seen as nothing but "jobber characters" by All For One; saying that they aren't impressive and genuinely believing that they couldn't defeat him. Kyoka's response was to yell at All For One that she doesn't care what he thinks and launches a powerful soundblast that weakened All For One enough for Fumikage to destroy his mask. Her defiance against All For One also inspired the vestiges inside the villain to rebel against him, much to his disbelief. Due to the vestiges' rebellion, he was unable to properly use his Quirks, resulting in him getting brutally burned alive by a furious Endeavor.
• The Snark Knight: She's quite sharp-tongued, especially towards Kaminari in order to tease and make fun of him, but no one is safe from her cutting sarcasm.
• Squishy Wizard:
  • While her Quirk has immense offensive power when utilized properly, it leaves her with very few defensive options. This is shown aptly during Jiro's first big fight scene during the USJ Arc, where she manages to wipe out entire scores of villains singlehandedly, but would've been taken out by a single surprise attack had it not been for Yaoyorozu's intervention.
  • Class 1-B prioritizes eliminating her first, since her search abilities and firepower are an asset to her team, while her lack of defensive abilities makes her an easy target. Luckily for her team, Bakugo, who's become willing to protect his teammates, comes to her aid.
  • Her battle alongside Hawks and Tokoyami against All For One has the supervillain prioritize attacking her. Not because he thinks she's a threat, but because he's such a cowardly bully he will always go for who he perceives to be the weakest target. Unfortunately for him, Kyoka ends up the exact person who can rouse the vestiges held hostage within the copied All For One Quirk to action, which starts a chain of events leading to his inevitable death.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Jiro is the spitting image of her mother, down to having the same Quirk, except for the fact that her mother wears glasses. It's subtle but she inherited her father's eyes down to their shape.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality:
  • Besides being quite snarky all the time, she has a soft spot for Yaoyorozu and Koda.
  • She also never misses the chance to taunt Kaminari and call him stupid, and even uses her Quirk one time on him and Aoyama for saying her room is not "girly". Regardless of this, she still cares for him and all of her friends.
• Token Wholesome: The only girl in Class 1-A who isn't outwardly sexualised in any way. She's one of the least sexualised female characters in general.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Kyoka Jiro is a snarky rock musician with Boyish Short Hair. Momo Yaoyorozu is a sweet Yamato Nadeshiko with long hair.
• Tomboyish Voice: In theme with her style, she also has the gruffest voice of all the girls in 1-A.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Despite her interest in rock music, her fairly boyish fashion sense, and her sarcastic personality, her character file states that she has a girly side. In Two Heroes, she wears a pink dress and a floral hair accessory to the party.
• Tricked-Out Shoes: Her hero costume's boots have speakers on them that she can plug her earlobes into. Later, she adds a set of headphones to her ensemble to make it easier and faster to execute her heartbeat assaults and prevent bad guys from recognizing and reacting to what she's about to do.
• Unusual Ears: Her earlobes are long and look like audio connectors. She inherited them from her mother.
• Variable-Length Chain: She can extend her earlobes and use them as weapons at will.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Her relationship with Kaminari is something akin to this. They hang out with each other frequently, but their interactions consist mostly of bickering.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Seems to have this relationship with her father. When he tries to look like a serious stern father in front of Aizawa and All Might, she points out he was acting like a fanboy the day before.
• Waistcoat of Style: Jiro is the only student in her class that wears a waistcoat as part of her school uniform. Everyone else wears jackets.

13. Hanta Sero — Cellophane

Hanta Sero — Cellophane

Taping Hero

^{Click here to see him in uniform}

Voiced by: Kiyotaka Furushima (Japanese), Christopher Bevins (English), Braulio Hernández (Latin American Spanish/TV series), Ángel Pardo (Latin American Spanish/Movies)

Debut: Chapter 6 (Manga), Episode 5 (Anime)

Quirk: Tape

"See, the simpler you are, the better!"

A chipper, down-on-his-luck boy whose Quirk, "Tape", allows him to shoot an incredibly strong tape-like material out of his slot-like elbows, which he can use to restrain foes, hold objects together, or simply swing through the air with great agility. His plain face is often the butt of many jokes, as is his unfortunate tendency to be shown up by others.

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• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: His hair looks like the jagged edge of a torn piece of tape.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Invoked and exploited. Sero knows that he looks silly and not very threatening and he often uses this to his advantage because people often overlook him. Thus, no one ever sees him coming, which allows him to prove his resourcefulness to its fullest extent whenever he's given a chance and how versatile his Quirk can be.
• Bizarre Human Biology: The shape of his elbows implies that he has actual tape dispensers inside of him which he can control like an organ.
• Book Dumb: He has an average intelligence stat of 3/5, but apparently he's not very good at tests. He had the 4th lowest score on Class 1-A's midterm.
• Boring, but Practical: Much like Mineta, he specializes in traps more than direct combat. His Quirk is more versatile though, and can be used as a Building Swing.
• Broken Faceplate: During the battle against Nine in Heroes:Rising, he gets half of the visor destroyed. It gets completely wrecked when Nine sends him flying into the ground.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": His hero costume has a stylized white "H" on the front.
• Building Swing: A practical use of his Quirk, just like Spider-Man.
• Butt-Monkey: Despite his upbeat disposition, he is probably the biggest one in the whole class next to Mineta. Every time he gets a chance to prove himself, someone either one-ups him or takes him down before he ever had a chance to really show his stuff.
• Covert Pervert: During the Provisional Hero License Exam Arc in the anime, Sero is flustered when Midoriya tells him and Uraraka that Camie turned into the latter. He then asks whether or not Camie is naked in her Uraraka disguise. He then shares this information with the two-class perverts.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: In matches against both Todoroki and Midnight, he gets wasted in seconds.
• Deadpan Snarker: Quite surprisingly so. Despite his cheerful disposition, he's also notable for having some of the snarkiest lines of the series.
  Sero: (To Bakugo about being class rep) What? Did you honestly think anyone was gonna vote for you?
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: After Todoroki puts him in a deep freeze barely seconds into their match during the U.A. Sports Festival, the whole audience is roused into a pity party for poor Sero, chanting for him not to worry about it. To Kick the Dog even more, little schoolkids randomly come up to him on his way to U.A. and tell him the exact same thing. Tsuyu tries to tell him not to worry about that, but she only compounds his humiliation.
• Duct Tape for Everything: What his Quirk boils down to, even though it's not exactly duct tape. Sero uses his tape mostly as rope-like implements.
• Grappling-Hook Pistol: Sero's tape dispenser elbows can essentially work like this as the tape he shoots out from them can be rolled back in order to pull himself up (or pull other people towards him).
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: The power to create scotch tape has never been more useful.
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Subverted. Whenever he is in a proper combat situation, he always wears his helmet, which covers his entire face. The visor becomes conveniently translucent whenever Horikoshi wants us to see his face if he doesn't open it.
• Heroic RRoD: Ejecting too much tape causes him to suffer dry skin.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Had one of the more exotic and tastefully decorated dorm rooms among the boys, belying his otherwise plain nature. Jiro even lampshades the unexpected nature.
    Jiro: Sero, I didn't peg you for someone who'd like this stuff.
    Sero: Yup, that's me! Always the wild card.
  • His favorite foods are oranges, soybeans, and other foods that look healthy, implying that he's somewhat health-conscious. He does have a Heroic Build like all the other male Class 1-A students.
  • He seems to know exactly how to press people's buttons when needed, which is exactly how he got Bakugo to showcase his drumming ability.
• Instant Knots: His tape can easily wrap around his intended target. His Quirk wouldn't be as useful otherwise.
• Keet: He's loud and show-offy and is quite easily one of the most energetic and fun-loving people in the class.
• Lethal Harmless Powers:
  • It's implied that his tape could be used to suffocate someone. When Mineta used a piece of it as a makeshift gas mask to protect himself from Midnight's sleep-inducing mist, he could only wear it for about a minute before starting to lose oxygen.
  • He can also use his tape as a sling by sticking one end of it to a large, heavy object, such as a rock or piece of debris, and swinging it directly at the intended target. He used this tactic to great effect in the provisional hero license exam. In the 2nd Movie he uses this extensively with Uraraka's help by having her float rocks, with him using his tape to send them flying at Nine.
• The Load: During the final exam, he gets wasted in three-seconds flat by Midnight, albeit after getting Mineta to safety, forcing Mineta to deal with her in one-on-one combat. As a result, he's the only member of a winning team to be assigned remedial training.
• Nice Guy: He's a friendly guy who gets along well with everyone. The Official Character Book gives him a 5/5 for cooperativeness.
• No Badass to His Valet: A variation. Sero is not exactly the closest to Bakugo but he's indeed one of the few in Class 1-A that Bakugo can't seem to browbeat into submission, no matter how violent he gets or how much he threatens to kill him. In fact, Sero seems to really enjoy screwing with Bakugo's short fuse, despite their huge power difference.
• The Nondescript: Lampshaded in the character descriptions, which straight-up call him a background character. His face also falls under this, being described by Bakugo as a "Soy Sauce Face", which is one of six stereotypical ways to draw an Asian - this one, to be specific, is flat-faced.
• One-Way Visor: Featured in his hero costume.
• Open Mouth, Insert Foot: During the Forest Training Camp Arc, when Yaoyorozu says that her Quirk allows her to produce objects from the lipids in her body, Sero comments that it's like pooping. This causes her to go into a Troubled Fetal Position, which earns him a punch in the face from an angry Jiro.
• Out of Focus: He's considered one of the background characters in Class 1-A, getting little focus or characterization.
• Perpetual Smiler: He's never not seen with an angular, toothy smile most of the time.
• Personality Powers: He is very social, friendly, and outgoing. In other words, he likes to "stick" to people.
• Pervert Revenge Mode: He does this on Toru's behalf when Mineta tries to use the room decoration contest to go through her underwear drawer. For the rest of the contest, Mineta's cocooned in tape and being dragged around like dead weight.
• Punny Name: "Serohantepu" is the Japanese way to pronounce "cellophane tape".
• Steven Ulysses Perhero: His chosen hero name doesn't stray too far from his real name. He himself lampshades this, noting he really didn't have to think too hard on the name.
• Tombstone Teeth: His most distinctive feature is his wide, toothy smile, setting him apart from most of the other characters who instead have a Tooth Strip.
• Troll: Tends to do be one to Bakugo, particularly in first few arcs.
• Weak, but Skilled: Sero is not that great in direct combat and doesn't have much offensive potential, but he can make very good use of his Quirk by using it to capture a target, as a grappling hook to scale buildings, to move quickly through a large area using Building Swing-style maneuvers, or to pull someone out of the way in a dangerous situation. The Official Character Book gives him a 1/5 for power, but a 4/5 for speed and technique.

14. Fumikage Tokoyami — Tsukuyomi & Dark Shadow

Fumikage Tokoyami — Tsukuyomi

Jet-Black Hero

^{Click here to see him in uniform}

Voiced by: Yoshimasa Hosoya (Japanese), Jessie James Grelle (English), Jonathan Ramírez (Latin American Spanish/TV series), Dan Osorio (Latin American Spanish/Movies)

Debut: Chapter 5 (Manga), Episode 5 (Anime)

Playable in: My Hero One's Justice, My Hero One's Justice 2

Quirk: Dark Shadow

"With your positions revealed, you're in my crosshairs. And there's no hiding from the coming storm. As Hawks would say... speed beats power."

A reserved, serious young man with a bird-like appearance. His Quirk, "Dark Shadow", manifests as a shadowy monster that inhabits his body which he can summon to fight on his behalf. Dark Shadow's power and personality change with the amount of light: strong light makes it weaker but easier to control, while darkness drastically increases its power but makes it much wilder and violent, which puts Tokoyami at risk of losing control over his Quirk.

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• All-Encompassing Mantle:
  • His hero costume features one. This is justified, as Dark Shadow is Weakened by the Light, so the cape keeps it in shadow. He uses this to better effect when utilizing Black Fallen Angel. A technique he developed while training under Hawks that allows him to fly using Dark Shadow to carry him while also covering Dark Shadow in the cape to protect it from the sun.
  • His newest technique, "Black Ankh", has him use Dark Shadow as a mantle, allowing him to overcome his weakness in close quarters combat by increasing his defensive and offensive capabilities.
• Animal Motifs: Unsurprisingly, he's associated with birds.
• Badass Arm-Fold: This is pretty much his default posture.
• Badass Cape: Wears a billowing black one as part of his Hero attire.
• Bad Powers, Good People: And thank goodness for that. Tokoyami would be a major villainous threat with his Quirk at night if he weren't aspiring to be a hero. The carnage that happens during the Training Camp arc spells out how dangerous Dark Shadow could be after it turns gigantic and Tokoyami struggles to keep him at bay. The League of Villains even try to kidnap him for the same reason as Bakugo in an attempt to recruit him, and he turns Dark Shadow into a Gigantomachia-sized kaiju in the final battle to try and imprison All For One.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • During the Paranormal War Arc, he swoops in and saves Hawks from being burned to death by Dabi.
  • Saves Hawks' ass again alongside Jiro during the Final Battle, this time against All For One himself. He reassures his mentor that while he's not a suitable replacement for Endeavor, who had been injured by All For One just prior, he and Hawks are still a good team and he is willing to take a stand even with his life on the line.
  • All For One looks like he's going to start stealing Quirks and killing the heroes, with Tokoyami having been missing for some time. Turns out Tokoyami was busy immersing himself in darkness to power up and promptly blindsides All For One in his Full Release form.
• Book Dumb: Downplayed. Despite placing fifth on Aizawa's Quirk Test and third in the Sports Festival, Tokoyami has a rather subpar rank of 14th on the midterms.
• Casting a Shadow: His Quirk is a Living Shadow that he can project from his body.
• Chuunibyou: He has a tendency to act like one through his gothic appearance and mystical flare. However, he subverts a lot of the negative behaviors and he is a legitimate good-hearted and talented hero. It's something of a parody, since unlike most Chuunibyou, he really does have powers and they really are dangerous and hard to control at times.
• The Comically Serious: He has a tendency to say dramatic things about situations that don't quite deserve them, such as calling a recreational game on their school trip a "mad banquet of darkness." He even repeats it which Uraraka lampshades. His first name for his new super move is very dark and dramatic sounding, but Midnight tells him that it doesn't roll off the tongue well at all. Cementing this is how he gets angry when nobody takes his room's decor, which was very dark and spooky, seriously.
• Cold Ham: He constantly tries to invoke this. When he speaks, expect Tokoyami to say something overly dramatic about the current situation:
  Tokoyami: (about the interclass fear challenge) A mad banquet of darkness.
  Uraraka: He said it again.
• Covert Pervert: He's usually one of the most serious and stoic members of the class, but he's also more than a bit perverted. For one he considers entering his female classmates bedrooms to be "the forbidden gardens." For another, Tokoyami is so distracted by Jiro using him as a Sapient Steed, that he asks her to "keep her rear end still", in the middle of the Final Battle.
• Creepy Good: From the way he behaves to his powers and his Superpowered Evil Side, it's easier for people to be scared of him, but he is nonetheless, a hero in training.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Darkness and shadows are traits normally associated with villains, but what we've seen of Tokoyami so far paints him as a rather valiant person. Lampshaded by Tokoyami himself when he responds to All For One giving a Badass Boast about lurking in the darkness during his golden age.
  Tokoyami: Even darkness comes in a range of shades. So you don't get to speak of the dark.
• "Darkness von Gothick" Name: He has a very evil-sounding, darkness-based name. "Tokoyami" literally means Eternal Darkness, and his first name contains the character for "shadow". This matches his powers and personality, though he's not evil.
• Death Glare: When he finally works his way around All For One to launch a surprise attack on him, he fixes him with the most scathing, hateful glare possible for all the harm and anguish he's caused... and for sullying the very idea of "darkness."
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: While Hawks and Jiro were the ones to break All For One's mask, Tokoyami is the one to shatter it to bits once it's damaged with a full power strike. This makes him the first person other than All Might to do serious damage to the original All For One. He also ends up overwhelming him with Abyssal Black Body: Light of Baldur later in the fight.
• The Dreaded: It's implied he became this to All For One after shattering his life support mask, as when he senses the full powered Dark Shadow looming behind him he instantly panics while flashing back to Tokoyami doing it. After blasting Tokoyami off, he instantly tries to escape despite previously having been committed to wiping the heroes out. This is notable, as it makes him only one of three people to ever make All For One show fear of any kind, the other two being All Might and Endeavor.
• Early-Bird Cameo: He first appears in the third chapter fighting a 2-point robot during the entrance exam, but it's easy to completely miss him. Bonus points for actually looking like a bird.
• Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: He is weak against Quirks able to generate light like those possessed by Bakugo, Kaminari, and Todoroki. On one hand, he's at a disadvantage should he face them in a direct combat situation, like in the U.A. Sports Festival, but on the other, they can weaken Dark Shadow should Tokoyami lose control of it.
• Equippable Ally: Tokoyami can wear Dark Shadow over his body as "Black Ankh", augmenting his close-range combat.
• Eviler than Thou: Or rather, Darker Than Thou. As All for One gloats that everything is below him, the self-proclaimed King of Darkness, Tokoyami and Dark Shadow pop behind him and boast that their darkness is greater than him. It's not empty boasting either, as even All for One recognizes that he must dodge the incoming attack, done by Dark Shadow empowered to Kaiju-level.
• Goth: If his appearance didn't already make it clear, his dorm room takes this up a step further.
• Hero of Another Story: He received an internship from Hawks offscreen while the story arc at the time focused on other Class 1-A students' internships. Later chapters do go into more details of Tokoyami's experience.
• Hidden Depths:
  • He seems like a very dark and serious guy at first glance, but he actually has a rather strong sense of justice, is very respectful, and works well with others. He is also The Comically Serious, as noted above. He's also not the best student, placing 14th out of the 20 students in Class 1-A grade-wise.
  • He is actually a very good guitarist, and has experience with it.
    Tokoyami: I put down the axe when I was bested by the F chord.
• Horrifying Hero: His Super Mode, Abyssal Black Body: Full Release, sees him supercharging Dark Shadow until he becomes a Kaiju with Tokoyami piloting it. Despite looking like a terrifying monster made of darkness, Tokoyami is in complete control and as heroic as ever.
• Innocently Insensitive: Not knowing about Todoroki's Abusive Parents, Tokoyami tries to encourage Todoroki by relating to his duty as the student of the #1 and #2 heroes. Todoroki ends up thinking about the horrible things Endeavor did to him. He pretends to appreciate the support, but basically goes into a trance until Ida's enthusiasm snaps him out of it.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Surrenders to Bakugo in their duel during the U.A. Sports Festival, after realizing how severely Dark Shadow is Weakened by the Light of Bakugo's explosions.
• Lightning Bruiser: After figuring out his Abyssal Black Body and Ragnarok techniques, he becomes both extremely fast and able to hit harder than many pro-heroes. Abyssal Black Body: Full Release make him strong enough to scare All For One, fast enough All For One couldn't dodge his attacks, and durable enough to tank his attacks without much issue. Notably, it takes All For One overclocking a Wave-Motion Gun of pure light to the point he blows his own arm off to finally take him down.
• Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!: Justified. People born with mutation quirks that give them a non-human head or other non-human parts of their bodies are commonplace in The 'Verse, so nobody ever remarks on his black bird head.
• Limit Break: Dark Shadow: Total Release requires him to fully immerse himself in darkness from multiple sources to supercharge Dark Shadow. The end result? A Kaiju-sized version of his Abyssal Black Body technique so powerful it can give All For One trouble one on one.
• Long-Range Fighter: He is great at keeping enemies away from him, but has trouble if the enemy manages to close in through dodging or numbers. He tries to avoid this later on by developing a new technique, Dark Ankh, where he covers himself in Dark Shadow-like armor to increase his defense and improve his capabilities in close-quarter combat.
• Meaningful Name: His first name roughly translates to "Unsavory Shadow" while his last name literally means "Eternal Darkness", both emphasizing the power and hard-to-control nature of his darkness-related Quirk.
• Multiform Balance: Depending of the surrounding light conditions, he has to sacrifice either the strength of his Quirk or his control over it. In bright light, his Dark Shadow is docile but also very weak and timid. In darkness, it's stronger but also harder to control as well. Later, he develops a technique of shrouding himself in Dark Shadow as a close-range option, trading range for improved defense. He gradually gets more control over Dark Shadow's full power.
• Nice Guy: Tokoyami may act reserved, but when he teams up with others, he becomes more sociable, helping his teammates out, reassuring his trust in them and thanking them for their effort.
• Non-Human Head: His head is bird-like in appearance, but everything else from the neck down is human. He also wears a red choker at all times, which hides his human neck to emphasize his bird head.
• No-Sell:
  • Tokoyami ends up the perfect counter to All For One and his Quirk since Dark Shadow only being an extension of Tokoyami means there's no Quirk factor to steal from it unlike his main body. Once All For One is restored to his prime and begins blasting away the heroes, looking for an opening to steal some Quirks and head to Shigaraki, Tokoyami sneaks up behind him and overwhelms him with a similar fearsome pressure that All For One inflicts upon his enemies with the aid of Pixie-Bob and the storm providing the darkness necessary to amplify is powers.
  • All For One lets loose a giant explosion to try and get away then fires black lightning or tendrils...and Tokoyami shrugs it off with no visible damage and resumes the chase. This is notable, as All Might is the only other person to ever tank a direct hit from All For One and get right back up without injury. Though later on, it takes All For One attacking him with a massive beam of light, one so strong that it annihilated the arm he fired from, to dispel Dark Shadow's Total Release form.
• Not Quite Flight: His Black Fallen Angel technique that he developed as a result of his internship with Hawks. Using his Quirk's natural ability to levitate he's able to have Dark Shadow carry him in his arms and grant him the ability to fly.
• Not So Stoic:
  • He does have his moments when he can't always keep his cool. When his classmates got a good look at his gothic dorm room, he's sulking and angrily yells at them to get the hell out.
  • A more dramatic example: during the Forest Training Camp Arc, when Dark Shadow goes berserk, Tokoyami can be seen crying in agony from the intense duress it causes him. To boot, he has to watch as it targets his friends.
  • In chapter 271, he breaks down crying while holding his injured mentor Hawk after escaping from Dabi's grasp.
  • Awkwardly informs Jiro when carrying her in their fight against All For One that she shouldn't move her butt too much, otherwise he'll become flustered. Jiro is not amused by this, understandably.
• Odd Friendship: Seemingly starts developing one with Shoji from the Forest Training Camp Arc onward, showing that a six armed Gentle Giant and a bird-headed chuunibyou Goth really can be friends.
• Personality Powers: Casting a Shadow -> Gothic, brooding guy implied to have a "chuunibyou" complex (the "Evil Eye" type). On the other hand, given how he does have powers, it's also spoofed. Not to mention it is a legitimate power and dangerous.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: At 158 centimeters (5'2"), Tokoyami is the second shortest male in Class 1-A after the miniature Mineta, but is explicitly stated to be one of its strongest fighters. It's notable that his full power was enough to completely shatter All For One's life support helmet to pieces. While Jiro and Hawks had weakened it, it'd still proved itself nigh impossible to damage.
• Powers Do the Fighting: His Dark Shadow pretty much does all the fighting for him. This leaves him rather helpless in situations where he can't rely on his shadow, and All Might suggests he work on his own body as well.
• Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: He delivers a fantastic one to All For One in the Final Battle just before he fully unleashes Dark Shadow on him:
  Tokoyami: Even darkness comes in a range of shades. So you don't get to speak of The Dark. The muddied, dismal darkness you brought about... we've already devoured it whole!!!
• Purple Is the New Black: He's a dark shade of purple, and also one of the stronger heroes in Class 1-A. His room is also almost completely dark with the only sources of light being purple, including candles, skulls, a crystal ball, and some kind of animal's head with glowing eyes.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Is particularly incensed over All For One using his Chuunibyou obsession with "darkness" in order to become a Shadow Dictator instead of respect it as an actually awesome thing in its own right that can be used for good.
  Tokoyami: Even darkness comes in a range of shades. So you don't get to speak of The Dark. The muddied, dismal darkness you brought about... we've already devoured it whole!!!
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted. Despite these red eyes being paired with a a dark bird-like appearance and a powerful shadow-based Quirk, Tokoyami himself is valiant and compassionate.
• Red Is Heroic: Besides his red eyes, he also wears a red choker in honor of a pro hero he admires, Dark Crystal.
• The Sacred Darkness: Ultimately, Tokoyami seems to view his darkness themed powers in this regard. He flat out spells it out to All For One that he views All For One's darkness as 'muddled, dismal darkness,' while his is a different shade altogether.
• Samurai: Present Mic actually calls him one, but whether or not he is or it's just part of his "coolness" hasn't been explored. Tokoyami does have a very poetic and respectful way of speaking, would bow after defeating Yaoyorozu and Ashido, and has an actual sword in his dorm room. All of which could imply that he's either the real deal or just cool like that.
• Shout-Out: Tokoyami is a male version of Raven. Aside from obviously looking like a raven, Tokoyami possesses both a somewhat reserved demeanor as well as a certain control of darkness that he sometimes loses, resulting in a Superpowered Evil Side.
• Significant Birth Date: Tokoyami's birthday is October 30, one day before Halloween, sometimes called Devil's Night.
• The Stoic: One of the more cool-headed students of Class 1-A, and overall a no-nonsense kind of person. Then again, a bird head doesn't allow for much expression either way.
• Super Mode: Burying himself in the earth and using the darkness of the storm generated by the Final Battle allows him and Dark Shadow to enter a 'Full Release' version of his Abyssal Black Body technique. The end result is Tokoyami controlling a Kaiju-sized Dark Shadow powerful enough even All For One panics before it and acknowledges it poses a genuine threat to him. Not only is he absurdly powerful, he's also extremely durable, enough to No-Sell a gigantic explosion from All For One point blank and only be knocked back by the force. The fact the light from the blast didn't seem to hurt him also implies his Weakened by the Light vulnerability is lessened due to the sheer amount of power he has.
• Superpowered Evil Side: At nighttime, Dark Shadow actively works to take control of his body, and the trade-off is an insane amount of raw power that perhaps only One For All could match. He gradually gains more control over it.
• Toothy Bird: He's got a set of human-like choppers inside his beak.
• Unskilled, but Strong: His Quirk at max power can easily beat enemies that even Todoroki or Bakugo would have trouble with, and it's implied that in this state, only All Might can match him power for power. But his control over this form is very limited. He eventually gets around this by developing his Ragnarok technique, which lets Dark Shadow off the leash just long enough to deliver an attack. This also showcases just how strong he is, as he's able to shatter All For One's life support helmet to pieces after Jiro and Hawks damaged it. His max power is so immense even All For One realizes he has to dodge his attacks.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Really downplayed example, but it was his curb-stomping of Yaoyorozu in the U.A. Sports Festival that started her crippling self-confidence problems she had until the Final Exams Arc.
• Vocal Dissonance: He's the shortest guy (after Mineta) in Class 1-A and looks like a bird of prey, but has the deepest voice.

Dark Shadow

"Revelry in the dark."

^{Click here to see its human form}

Voiced by: Yoshimasa Hosoya (Japanese), Jessie James Grelle (English)

Debut: Chapter 11 (Manga), Episode 8 (Anime)

"Violence solves nothing!"

—Dark Shadow, In the light

"You don't matter, insignificant bug!"

—Dark Shadow, In the dark

Tokoyami's Quirk, which has a very literal mind of its own.

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• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Dark Shadow has a bird head as well.
• Ax-Crazy: Dark Shadow is this when fully controlling Tokoyami in complete darkness. It crushes everything within its path and enjoys the destruction.
• The Berserker: At its zenith, Dark Shadow takes control of Tokoyami and attacks everything in sight, completely out of control and deranged.
• Character Catchphrase: Dark Shadow tends to reply to Tokoyami's commands with "Aye-aye!"
• Cowardly Lion: When weakened enough, it becomes fearful and shies away from violence, but still carries out Tokoyami's commands in a fight.
• Dark Is Evil: While it is not inherently evil, it becomes quite destructive when it gets out of Tokoyami's control, becoming a mass of shadows that tries to engulf him while attacking even those he considers friends.
• Department of Redundancy Department: Its name "Dark Shadow" is a quite blatant example of this.
• First-Name Basis: Dark Shadow is the only individual who calls Tokoyami by his first name, Fumikage.
• Flight: You could be forgiven for thinking it's just weightless and just floats easily in the air by using a single leverage point, but it actually is flying. Tokoyami exploits this for his Black Fallen Angel supermove to fly himself.
• Foil: To Tokoyami himself. Tokoyami is cool-headed, cooperative, and noble. Dark Shadow is either childish and sheepish, or bloodthirsty and unstable.
• Guardian Entity: Dark Shadow is a spirit-like entity that Tokoyami can command.
• Kaiju: Tokoyami manages to empower it enough during the Final Battle for it to grow to such gargantuan size that its eye dwarfs All For One.
• Living Shadow: Dark Shadow appears to have its own mind and personality despite being just an extension of Tokoyami's body, and in a brief flashback in Chapter 381, it appears to have grown up along with Tokoyami, being much smaller and more childlike in the flashback of Tokoyami as a toddler.
• Logical Weakness: As it's made of shadows, light reduces it.
• Mood-Swinger: Its personality varies depending on its strength. Most of the time, it's a loyal and obedient companion. However, when on the receiving end of too much light, it becomes cowardly and reluctant to fight, while too much darkness causes it to be sullen and willful, which can eventually graduate to out-of-control rage if not dealt with.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Dark Shadow is given very rough pencil shading, a clear contrast to the clean lines and ink of other characters. In the anime Dark Shadow's shading is re-rendered each frame, making his more ethereal form even more apparent.
• One-Winged Angel: Dark Shadow's 'berserk state' becomes far larger and more monstrous, on top of becoming far stronger. During the Final Battle, Tokoyami feeds Dark Shadow's power with both the darkness of the storm the clash has generated and letting himself be buried in earth. The end result is Dark Shadow growing to Kaiju size and capable of making All For One have an Oh, Crap!.
• Power Incontinence: When it gets too dark, it acts on its own, with Tokoyami taking a backseat.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Dark Shadow's Supernatural Gold Eyes become red whenever it goes berserk.
• Samus Is a Girl: Chapter 84 of My Hero Academia Smash!! implies that this is the case, as when a villain's Quirk gives Dark Shadow a physical body, it's that of a little girl with long black hair that Mineta nicknames "Kokage".
• Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: It's human form in chapter 84 of My Hero Academia Smash!! is designed like this, being a small girl with long, messy black hair wearing an oversized white tee-shirt.
• Summon Bigger Fish: During the Training Camp arc, Dark Shadow takes over Tokoyami's body, gaining a massive power boost with the drawback of being more aggressive and feral, but he proves to be the muscle Midoriya and Shoji need to take down Moonfish, with the villain lasting all of ten seconds against him.
• Weakened by the Light: Dark Shadow becomes weaker when faced with light, but this also makes it easier to control for Tokoyami. His character sketch mentions that a fully weakened Dark Shadow could be beaten by a cockroach.
• Your Size May Vary: Dark Shadow varies in size depending on how powerful it is at the moment. At its weakest, it's only the size of a hand, while at its strongest, it's big enough to tear down trees with ease.

15. Shoto Todoroki — Shoto

See his page.

16. Toru Hagakure — Invisible Girl

Toru Hagakure — Invisible Girl

Stealth Hero

^{Click here to see her in uniform}

^{Click here to see her face (SPOILER)}

Voiced by: Kaori Nazuka (Japanese), Felecia Angelle (English), Judith Noguera (Latin American Spanish/TV series), Sandra Olarra (Latin American Spanish/Movies)

Debut: Chapter 5 (Manga), Episode 5 (Anime)

Quirk: Invisibility

"It's fine, isn't it? C'mon, let's have a go at it!"

A bubbly and cheerful girl whose Quirk, "Invisibility", renders her entire body permanently invisible. She is usually seen as a set of seemingly floating clothes — or in the case of her hero costume, just a pair of floating gloves and shoes. Because of this, she often jokes about her condition and is able to get away with states of undress no visible human could dream of trying in public.

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• Anime Hair: When her full design is shown visible and in-color on the cover of Chapter 368, Toru is shown to have a rather shaggy, Post-Eclipse Casca-esque hairdo, being a messy mop of light green with pink tips. Appropriate, since styling invisible hair would not only be difficult, but also pointless since no one would be able to see her hair anyway.
• Agony of the Feet: Is defeated in a single move by Todoroki in the Battle Trial due to him freezing the surfaces of the building, sticking her bare feet to the floor.
• All There in the Manual: Her first full-bodied visible appearance was in a promotional image posted to Twitter.
• Attack Reflector: After some training, she learned to use her light manipulation abilities to reflect light-based attacks, such as Aoyama's Navel Laser. This is what allows her to save Izuku from Aoyama's laser in chapter 337.
• Battle Strip: She can make the best use of her Quirk as an Invisible Streaker. It's one of the ways that her invisibility is shown to have weaknesses, since her bare feet could be a prime target, and sufficiently low temperatures can outright remove her from the equation.
• Berserker Tears: When her face is finally shown in Chapter 337, she's crying in rage, because she had to use her power to deflect Aoyama's navel laser.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Subverted, but she is revealed to have eyelashes in the same style as Tetsutetsu's bushy and spikey eyebrows.
• Blinded by the Light: Able to refract light inside of her and intensify it, making her capable of blinding people. This hints at a general light manipulation ability, with her invisibility being one of its effects. Also doubles as a Visual Pun since she does it in costume: she's flashing her opponents.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: She has an ample chest, which given she's invisible, is one of the only physical features that can be noted about her, via the outline of her clothing. This often gets noticed by her more perverted classmates and there are several Male Gaze shots aimed at her chest.
• Child-Like Voice: In Japanese, her voice is just as high and endearing as Uraraka's and Ashido's.
• Combination Attack: Aoyama uses his super move Navel Saber, with Hagakure using her Quirk to curve the blade. It's first seen to slash through Villain Bots during training, and was developed during their work-study under Yoroi Musha.
• The Cutie: Her bubbly, cheerful, energetic personality, combined with her love of stuffed animals and child-like room makes her completely adorable.
• Exposed to the Elements: Her winter costume is unchanged from her normal one, meaning she's still mostly naked. This is lampshaded by Jiro, who asks if she's cold. Also, when Toru confronts Todoroki, his ice power makes it impossible to walk, because her bare feet would freeze to the ice.
• The Faceless: For the most part, which is expected, as Hagakure is invisible all the time. One chapter of My Heroine Academia has the other girls desperately try to find a way to see what her face looks like. According to Hagakure herself, she looks like Yang Guifei and Francis Xavier mashed together. This just leaves her classmates confounded even more. When her face is finally partially revealed in Chapter 337 (and then fully in color on the cover of Chapter 368), she is indeed cute and looks nothing like what she described to her classmates.
• Flat Character: Out of the classmates and girls in particular, mostly her traits are being cheery and bubbly or Plucky Comic Relief with how she can't be seen.
• Floating Limbs: Played with; she actually does have a normal body with limbs, but due to her invisibility, her hero costume does give the impression she's just a pair of floating gloves and boots.
• Full-Frontal Assault: Considering that her hero costume is just a pair of gloves and shoes, she's usually fighting in the nude as an Invisible Streaker. Not that it bothers Toru very much, since no one can see her anyways.
• Gender-Blender Name: "Toru" is usually a male name. Horikoshi originally conceived the character as a boy, but thought it would be cooler/funnier if they were a girl instead.
• Genki Girl: She seems very lively for an invisible person. When some of Class 1-A was tricked into being cheerleaders during the manga's Tournament Arc, Toru was enthusiastically cheering and waving her pom-poms in spite of knowing it was a trick.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She has several in her room, including one that looks like Nezu.
• The Gloves Come Off: When Hagakure wants to get serious with her use of invisibility, she takes off the gloves and shoes as part of her very sparse costume, rendering her fully invisible.
• Hand Signals: Due to her constant invisibility, a lot of her characterization comes from all the Body Language she expresses via hand gestures or signals.
• Hidden Buxom: Only "hidden" since she's invisible. The school uniforms are Clark Kent Outfits and her hero costume renders her fully invisible, so whenever she's in casual clothing it becomes apparent that has large breasts. She also gets a very noticeable bounce in the anime when she shows off her room wearing a casual T-shirt.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Her first name can be spelled "Tōru", "Tooru", or "Tohru".
• Informed Attribute: Surprisingly, Hakagure's official intelligence stat is 4/5, but she didn't have an opportunity to showcase it. Doesn't help her stat is bigger than many of her classmates and that at the first written tests she scored at 16th place, much lower than f.e. Jiro who has 3/5 intelligence stat and has 7th place.
• Invisibility with Drawbacks: Her Quirk in a nutshell is 24-hour invisibility. Both of her parents have invisibility Quirks too. Her clothes don't turn invisible with her, so she has to go naked in order to be totally invisible and is thus Exposed to the Elements. Also, she can't turn her Quirk off, so she's invisible all the time.
• Invisible Streaker: Her Quirk doesn't affect her clothing, so she needs to constantly strip off her clothes in order for it to be useful.
• Irony: Most heroes are defined by a costume, while she's defined for almost having a total lack of one.
• Light 'em Up: It was hinted at before with her Blinded by the Light move, but following her winter internship, she has fully gained the power to manipulate light refractions.
• Logical Weakness: Toru is completely invisible with no way for an enemy to remove it, but there are ways to circumvent not being able to see her.
  • Toru's Quirk is at its most useful when she's totally naked, which means she gets Exposed to the Elements. When she confronts Todoroki, his ice power made it impossible for Toru to walk without freezing her bare feet to the floor, which rendered her presence moot.
  • If Toru makes any discernible noise, and someone can hear it or sense it, they can find Toru even if they can't see her with the naked eye.
  • While her power can't be removed, that means it can't be removed even if she wants it to be. She's invisible all the time with no way to stop using it, although Toru usually gets around it by wearing clothing that shows her body's outline.
• Meaningful Name: "Toru" means "transparent", which is fitting since she's made transparent by her permanent invisibility. "Hagakure" means "hidden in leaves" when written as one word.
• Messy Hair: When her true appearance is revealed, she is shown to have light green and very messy hair that gives Aizawa and Midoriya a run for their money. Justified since she's invisible the majority of the time, she likely doesn't have much reason to style it.
• Ms. Fanservice: Played for Laughs, given she's invisible all the time, although the fact she's often in a state of undress is still used for titillation as well as humor. She also has a fairly buxom and curvaceous figure which has to be outlined either via her clothing or her body shape in a pool of water.
• Naked People Are Funny: The whole "she's naked but you can't see it in the first place" aspect of her character is played for all the comedy it can give, like her volume profile being described as "tasteful nude." It shows nothing at all, because she's invisible.
• Nice Girl: Hagakure is a bubbly, cheery, and easygoing girl that does most things with an upbeat attitude.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Gives a hilarious one to Manga Fukidashi in the Joint Training arc.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Given her normally bubbly and happy-go-lucky attitude, it's really disturbing to see her break down in anger when she finds out Aoyama is a traitor.
• Out of Focus: She's one of the least focused on characters in Class 1-A, which is partially because she's invisible, but her character hasn't been explored like many of her classmates. Chapters 335-336 reveal that this is because Horikoshi was using her as a Red Herring for The Reveal of the true traitor within class 1-A.
• Pink Means Feminine: Her dorm room is covered in cute things and has pink curtains, carpet, chairs, tables, and bedspread.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Given her status as Out of Focus compared to the rest of her class, she mostly exists to provide light-hearted humor.
• Power Incontinence: If she could turn visible, she would've by now, but she can't. She's also never shown any concern about being stuck invisible or it having any impact on her life. It's ambiguous if this is because great emotional distress can cause her to become visible for a short moment, as shown by her reaction to Aoyama's treachery, if manipulating such a massive source of light as his navel laser briefly outlined her features, or if the panel showing her face was purely for the sake of the readers seeing her expression. Chapter 400 has her Quirk glitch out after reflecting Aoyama's Navel Laser much more than usual, causing her to turn visible much to her horror.
• Power Stereotype Flip: Despite being literally invisible, she is not shy or introverted at all. In fact, one could argue she's so outgoing and unabashed because of being literally invisible.
• Red Herring: The final page of chapter 335 sets her up as the U.A. traitor, by way of an Answer Cut to her when All For One talks about how he has "friends" he can use. There are also some hints that seem to support this, as Hagakure was unconscious during Bakugo's rescue attempt, and couldn't have warned All For One. In reality, Aoyama is the traitor, and Hagakure just overheard Aoyama talking with his parents about his role as a spy.
• The Reveal: Her face is shown in Chapter 337 when it's discovered that Aoyama was actually The Mole, with Toru crying Berserker Tears from feeling enraged at Aoyama's betrayal.
• Running Gag: People blushing at just the implication that she is totally naked most of the time. The group of students she teams up with during the U.A. Sports Festival Arc provides a good example of this.
• Satellite Character: Out of all the girls in the class, virtually nothing is known about Hagakure's background and her screen/panel time is just as scarce as Sato.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Often plays the Energetic Girl to Ojiro's Savvy Guy.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: The only girl in the class who doesn't mind wearing a cheerleader outfit, even after it turned out to be just a prank by Mineta and Kaminari, plus she has no problem walking around naked half the time. Of course, she's invisible, so it doesn't really matter. Amusingly, she does get embarrassed when seen "undressing" and asks people to look away as she does it, despite it only being her taking off her gloves.
• Shout-Out: Has the same alias ("Invisible Girl") and powers (invisibility) as early Susan Storm.
• Sleeps in the Nude: During the School Trip Arc, when we see her sleeping, only her mass on the bed is invisible, meaning she sleeps with no clothes on.
• Stealth Expert: Her invisibility Quirk makes her very good at sneaking around. Even if it's shown that there are ways around her invisibility, someone who can't see Toru may not know she's even there, so her primary skills are in espionage and stealth. This is lampshaded during her final exam in the anime:
  Yaoyorozu: As expected, Hagakure is a cut above when it comes to covert activities!
• Talking with Signs: In the Two Heroes movie, she plays rock paper scissors with three signs depicting each move. She loses.
• Took a Level in Badass: Was something of a Joke Character due to the limitations of her Invisibility Quirk, but then she learns how to start to manipulate light, and under the mentorship of Yoroi Musha refined her light manipulation for both offensive and defensive uses.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Caramels are her favorite type of food.
• The Unreveal: The first chapter of My Heroine Academia is about the girls wanting to know what Hagakure's face looks like. They try and fail with various schemes before just outright asking her, but her explanation is so contrasting that it doesn't help at all.
• V-Sign: A favorite of hers. Only visible in her costume though, because it has gloves, which means she is likely to use it after triumphing at something.
• Was It All a Lie?: She's on the giving end towards Aoyama when she finds out he was the one feeding All For One information, asking if his friendship and camaraderie with the rest of Class 1-A was all fake.
• Weak, but Skilled: Her ability is great for stealth, but not that good for combat. Her needing to discard clothing to make full use of her powers also means she has little to no defenses and is pretty vulnerable to getting attacked, not to mention being Exposed to the Elements constantly. Shoto beats her simply by turning the interior of a building sub-zero, sticking her exposed soles to the ground and warning her that she could tear the skin off her feet if she moves. Nonetheless, she seems capable to hold herself in a fight, as shown in the Hero License Exam and how she was able to pass the U.A. Entrance Exam.

17. Izuku Midoriya — Deku

See his page.

18. Katsuki Bakugo — Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight

See his page.

19. Minoru Mineta — Grape Juice

Minoru Mineta — Grape Juice

Fresh Picked Hero

^{Click here to see him in uniform}

Voiced by: Ryō Hirohashi (Japanese), Brina Palencia (English), Paula Barros (Latin American Spanish/TV series), Isabel Martiñón (Latin American Spanish/Movies)

Debut: Chapter 5 (Manga), Episode 5 (Anime)

Playable in: My Hero Academia: Battle for All, My Hero One's Justice 2

Quirk: Pop Off

"I was wrong. Ever since coming here... and practically dying... I finally get it! Being a hero doesn't make you cool... they're heroes because they're cool!"

A short and incredibly lewd boy whose Quirk, "Pop Off", allows him to produce highly adhesive balls from his head which can be used for a variety of situations, although pulling too many will rip off his scalp and cause bleeding. Despite getting into U.A., he doesn't feel like he'll be able to become a hero due to his odd Quirk.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: His perverted attitude in general doesn't win him the hearts of those he comes onto, with Momo Yaoyarozu being the primary target of his lust.
• Acquired Situational Narcissism: Due to being a Butt-Monkey, on the rare occasions that Mineta does achieve anything, he'll suddenly develop an overinflated ego.
• Alliterative Name: Minoru Mineta.
• Beware the Silly Ones: His costume looks ridiculous, and his quirk is usually regarded as dumb (even Mineta thinks so) but if done well, he can be a rough obstacle, as shown at first in USJ arc.
• Bizarre Human Biology: His hair consists of adhesive balls that he can rip off and regrow very quickly.
• Blessed with Suck: How he views his own Quirk.
• Boring, but Practical: What his Quirk really falls under into. Case in point, he still managed to pass the entrance exam by trapping the robots with his balls, immobilizing them, which still counted as points. It's not flashy by any means, but they're definitely useful as traps. Too bad he's still too much of a Cowardly Lion to realize his potential.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: His stats list him as one of the smartest kids in the class (5/5, second only to Yaoyorozu), but he got ninth place in their midterm scores, and was strangely proud to barely be in the top half. His idea of training for the sports festival is to hold a trophy and practice his acceptance speech.
• Butt-Monkey: Of Class 1-A. Most of it is his own fault, as his perversion is repeatedly rebuffed and punished. Tsuyu tends to be the one who inflicts justice on him the most (Aizawa comes in second).
• Casanova Wannabe: He fiends for anything with a remotely sexy figure, though as a result he doesn't have any female friends, besides perhaps Tsuyu who seems to stick around him to try and stop his lecherous tendencies.
• Character Development:
  • During his final exam, he ends up winning against Midnight by himself when he realizes that heroes aren't cool because they're heroes, but it's the other way around, making him decide that he wants to be cooler as a hero.
  • Over time, he has become more courageous and less hesitant to jump into hero duty, as well as more focused. In the first movie, he balks when the group asks him to climb up the tower and only relents when Kaminari promises him a harem if he does so; in the second movie, he joins the rest of Class 1-A in their fight against Nine without hesitating. In the Season 5 opener, he only has one small perverted moment and otherwise does a great job at keeping the bridge from falling apart and saving Mirio during the emergency drill. A few episodes later he saves Ashido from Class 1-B students, causing her to become genuinely grateful. Of course, he then intentionally bounces right into her breasts but progress is progress.
  • Mineta is also slowly (but still incredibly slowly), acting less perverted. While he used to actively seek out opportunities to peek and pry at his classmates, he's only ever taking advantage of a situation if an opportunity presents itself. It's not much but it's an improvement. The girls of Class-A are also noticeably more comfortable around him, implying he might be doing better.
  • He used to be a total pervert to hot women, even Midnight, but by the Paranormal Liberation War, he shows actual concern for her, even asking Mina if Midnight will be alright. Turns out his fears were genuine as Midnight is one of the many heroes who don't make it.
  • He has become much braver by the final arc. Earlier he used to wet himself at the mere thought of facing off against real villains, but once Midoriya dropped out of UA, he volunteered along with the rest of the class 1-A to bring him back, knowing full well that he is being directly targeted by Shigaraki and All For One and the hero society has more or less collapsed.
• Child-Like Voice: A Tiny Schoolboy can only have a notably childish voice, and both his Japanese and English voice actresses drove that trope home. His Japanese VA gave him a high-pitched voice, while his English VA went more with a husky "young boy voiced by an adult woman" cartoon voice.
• Chivalrous Pervert: As perverted as he may be, Mineta always tries his absolute best to give it his all whenever the going gets tough.
• Classical Anti-Hero: Thanks to his general unpopularity, cowardliness, perverted antics and unimpressive Quirk, he is a textbook, if not exaggerated example.
• Combination Attack: With Ashido, they can use the combo move Grape-Pinky Combo Mineta-Bounce. Mineta lays Pop Off spheres on the ground and walls, with Ashido then throwing Mineta so he keeps bouncing from the spheres and throws more of them onto the enemy. They first use it in the Joint Training Battle against Class 1-B.
• Cowardly Lion: He's the first to run away from battle, but push him into a corner and he'll give everything he's got to beat you.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: He throws a Pop-off ball at, and then mocks, All for One, while gravely injured, telling him that stealing Tsukuyomi's Quirk would make him even more of a "cringey edge lord", and daring the Big Bad to steal his Quirk since it'd give him a sick hairstyle.
• Demoted to Extra: Despite being playable in the first game of the franchise, Mineta is not present among the playable cast of My Hero One's Justice, but he is still present as a Virtual Paper Doll, and characters can have him glued to their back as he did with Yaoyorozu in the U.A. Sports Festival. He is finally added to the playable roster in the sequel.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: The lower half of his hero costume is meant to resemble a bowl, though it unfortunately looks like a reinforced diaper.
• Dreadful Musician: He's a terrible singer, as seen when he tries out for Class 1-A's band for the school festival.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • While his are very low and he constantly attempts to peep on his female classmates, he does draw a line at attempting to grope them. The one time he did could be explained away as being waterlogged and then just not noticing since he was so happy when he heard the villains were leaving during the USJ Arc. His "target" Tsuyu may have retaliated at both examples but holds no ill will which might indicate that they were accidents.
  • While he is not above aggravating his classmates and has a relatively one-note methodology, even he finds Monoma endlessly annoying.
  • After hearing about the discrimination Shoji suffered as a child, he is outright horrified and extremely apologetic when he realizes that a seemingly innocuous comment he'd made in the past could have been triggering for the latter.
• Eye Scream:
  • While in the boys' locker room, he tries to get an eyeful of the girls changing next door through a peephole and swiftly gets stabbed in the eye by one of Jiro's earphone jacks.
  • Later, as punishment for bouncing into her breasts during a training exercise, Mina uses the Ludovico Technique on him.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Outside of Bakugo, Mineta is probably the Class 1-A student that gets this the most, mostly due to his perverted personality. He is still good friends with Midoriya and the other perverts, Kaminari and Sero at least.
  • Appears to be a zig-zagged trope however, since rest of students still accept or tolerate him as fellow classmate, and praise him when he does something well.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Throwing sticky balls may seem underwhelming as a superpower, and Mineta himself expresses doubt about its usefulness in combat, but thanks to Midoriya, he realizes that it's very useful for immobilizing enemies. By throwing a large amount of them into the water at USJ, followed by a Smash from Midoriya, a large group of villains ends up stuck together and helpless. Later on, during the final exam, he uses them to trap Midnight and successfully escape from the training grounds with Sero. Finally, his sticky balls adhere to everything except for him. Instead, they repel him with great force, allowing him to use his sticky balls as trampolines, greatly improving his movement.
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath: His Nominal Hero status is entirely Played for Laughs. He's a hero, but he only cares about leering at girls and is overall smug and self-serving, never really caring about his classmates' feelings or how his actions may affect them. He's happy to throw them under the bus if it helps him, as evidenced by his "performance" in the U.A. Sports Festival. Were he not played for comedy this would be unsettling.
• Heroic RRoD: He can't keep pulling his sticky balls out for too long or they'll start to make his skin bleed.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Believe it or not, Mineta's intelligence is 5/5 (behind only Yaoyorozu) and ranks 9th in his class in terms of grades.
  • He also has a high Cooperativeness stat, at 4/5. Despite being a nuisance to his classmates most of the time due to his sleaziness, he actually makes a good partner when he's working alongside someone. He helped Midoriya and Tsuyu trap the villains at USJ, came up with a practical and legal "tank" strategy in the sports festival that made his team practically invincible, used Sero's tape as a mask to protect himself from Midnight's Knockout Gas before dragging him out of the arena to safety, worked with the rest of 1-A in taking down the other schools during the provisional hero license exam, and devised a combo-move in tandem with Ashido during the joint training exercise. This all adds up to the idea that despite not thinking much of his own Quirk, as well as his cowardly nature, he's more capable than he believes he is.
  • He seems to be able to make precise calculations on the fly, as demonstrated in the joint training exercise: He's able to lay out his balls in a pattern that easily allows him to bounce between them, temporarily trapping Class 1-B's team.
  • While he is a Hormone-Addled Teenager and is occasionally jealous of his hotter classmates, he genuinely cares about the ones he truly sees as friends, shedding Tears of Joy when Bakugo recovers after fighting Shigaraki in the Paranormal Liberation War and volunteering to bring Midoriya back to UA after he dropped out to keep the others safe and openly telling him how much he means to him, with or without a quirk.
• Hormone-Addled Teenager: Mineta is nothing but a bag of raging sexual hormones craving for satisfaction. He's rarely afraid to admit it:
  Tsuyu: Mineta, are you thinking of something perverted right now?
  Mineta: ...Possibly?
• Hypocrite: Despite being openly perverted, he has no qualms about criticizing others for perceived sexual behavior, even when they're misunderstandings.
• I Just Want to Be Badass: Overall, this is the goal he is pursuing as a hero (that and feeling up a woman, and as his final exam reveals, the former is almost entirely in service of the latter).
• Informed Attribute: Mineta's official intelligence stat is 5/5. However, he hasn't showcased to be sufficiently smart to justify it. While he isn't stupid and has some Brilliant, but Lazy moments, he has been mentally outdone by people with lower intelligence stats than him, which include ranking 9th in the midterm (below five people with 4/5 and two with 3/5). He does score high marks in the written tests.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Mineta may be a huge sleaze but he does demonstrate loyalty to his classmates. To complete the final exams, all he has to do is pass through the escape gate after incapacitating Midnight, but he took the time to drag his unconscious partner Sero with him. He truly does care for rest of students and especially Midoriya as well, quickly dismissing the news of him being a mass murderer in the third movie and is the most desperate to comfort him when he returns to U.A. and breaks down into tears. He is also quite nice to Shoji, especially after learning of his Dark and Troubled Past. Earlier he openly shed Tears of Joy when Bakugo woke up in the hospital after the Paranormal Liberation War.
• Lethal Joke Character: His small stature, weak frame, ridiculous power set, and constant whining might make it seem like Mineta's just a useless comic relief character, but many opponents who have underestimated him have found themselves utterly defeated by his clever application of powers, and his surprising craftiness and tenacity when pushed into action. Hell, the fact that he has survived several dangerous situations against overwhelming odds and come out on top is an indicator that he's not as useless as he might initially seem.
• The Load: Literally during the U.A. Sports Festival. He glues himself to Yaoyorozu's back and makes her carry him until they reach the finish line, putting him in 18th place behind her.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: He's a massive, open pervert who admits out loud that his biggest regret was not touching Yaoyorozu's boobs and gropes Tsuyu during a hug. Even his plan to get through the Obstacle Race event involves using his sticky balls to cling to Yaoyorozu's back, earning him a severe beating, but allowing him to place in the top 42. All of this is Played for Laughs, so he comes across as a mostly harmless annoyance rather than a really dangerous degenerate. The "lovable" part is far more debatable since barely anyone shows a particular liking towards him, both in-universe and meta.
• The Ludovico Technique: In a humorous scene, Mina straps him into a straitjacket and forces his eyes open with metal tools in front of a TV screen to correct his perverted behavior.
• Made of Iron: Gets a lot of punishment done to him (mainly comical but was once hit full on by a giant 0-pointer robot) and wasn't any worse for wear. Shows again during the Provisional License Arc, where he threw so many of his balls that he was barely able to walk over and eliminate at least one other student. His Quirk doesn't have anything to do with stamina.
• Meaningful Appearance: His mohawk is mostly purple, going with his grape theme.
• Meaningful Name: Minoru means "producing fruit" like his talent and the first part of his surname sounds a lot like the English term "mini" matching his size. His surname also happens to be a Polish word for cunnilingus.
• My God, What Have I Done?: A small example — after learning Shoji's backstory, Mineta is horrified upon remembering that he compared him to an octopus when they first met and tearfully apologizes. Downplayed as Shoji, for his part, doesn't mind the comparison.
• Mystical 108: Minoru stands at measly 108 centimeters tall and is by far the most perverted person in the series.
• My Suit Is Also Super: The gloves of his hero costume were made with samples of his skin cells so they wouldn't get stuck to his sticky balls.
• Never My Fault: Throughout the series, whenever things don't go his way, he'll often resort to blaming others or acting like he's innocent. After failing in the Sports Festival, Mineta blames his teammates. When Ashido rightly gets angry at him for pushing into her breasts during the Joint Training, he claims it was an accident when he knew the impact of Mines's attack would do so.
• No Indoor Voice: He tends to speak his perverted ideas out loud. This trait quickly becomes a Hoist by His Own Petard, as he'll announce a lecherous plan to peek on or sexually harass girls, with the intended targets standing right there to hear it.
• Nominal Hero: Mineta's mostly driven by his desire to be seen as cool and get girls, rather than the more altruistic motives that some of his other classmates have.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Mineta has a more cartoony design than most of his classmates, almost to the point of resembling a character from Family Guy. He's also the only male student in Class 1-A who does not have a Heroic Build. He even specifically gripes about his character design when preparing for the School Festival as his short stature prevents him from properly holding a guitar.
• Odd Friendship: Early on at least, Mineta seems to show a strong admiration for Shoji and the two team up during the Sports Festival. Shoji also keeps Mineta from getting swept away by a blast of wind in the same arc. He's also seen carried on Shoji's back.
• Older Than They Look: He looks like a small child despite being the same age as his classmates (15).
• The Peeping Tom: He tries to use a peephole to peek in the girls' locker room, and gets one of Jiro's earphone jacks in his eye for his troubles. He attempts it again in the baths during the class trip, with similarly limited success.
• Personality Powers: His Quirk can be considered a big accidental innuendo. Thus, it's not surprising that he is a gigantic pervert.
• Perverted Drooling: His very own Character Tic along with his typical depraved expressions whenever he hears or sees anything even remotely sexual.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Literally, as his Quirk actually involves plucking.
• Required Secondary Power: Mineta doesn't stick to his own sticky balls and can, in fact, repel off of them with great speed. Otherwise he'd never be able to use them after pulling them off his scalp.
• Skewed Priorities: During the practical exam, when his partner Sero is KO'd by Midnight's Knockout Gas, all Mineta can think about is how jealous he is that Sero's head is in Midnight's lap. To his credit, he does eventually pull himself together and figure out a strategy to pass the exam.
• Smarter Than You Look: Between his lewdness and overall cowardice, it's surprising to know he's at least ranked in the top half of his class in grades, and the databook actually gives him an A in intelligence, ahead of the likes of Midoriya, Bakugo, and Ida and behind only Yaoyorozu. Kaminari and Ashido are positively mortified when they find out.
• Speech Impediment: He has a noticeable lisp in the dub.
• Sticky Situation: His Quirk is pulling sticky balls off of himself and sticking it to objects. As long as he's still healthy, they'll stay on for a whole day.
• Tiny Schoolboy: Standing at just 108 cm (3'6''), he is shorter than Miniature Senior Citizens Gran Torino (128 cm) and Recovery Girl (115 cm), and even 6-year-old Eri (110 cm).
• Unscrupulous Hero: He does want to be a hero, but his reasons are largely selfish, as he just wants girls to like him and be popular. He does this by lecherously watching the girls undress or watching them bathing.
• Vocal Dissonance: In the English dub, his voice sounds perfectly normal for a teenage boy even though he looks like a small child.
• Wall Crawl: He can swiftly scale a wall using his sticky balls as handholds, and did so once to get to the other side of a hot spring where his female classmates were having some private time.
• With Catlike Tread: Upon discovering a peephole to the girls' locker room, he discusses peeping on his female classmates. Very loudly. He gets one of Jiro's earphone jacks in his eye very quickly.

20. Momo Yaoyorozu — Creati

Momo Yaoyorozu — Creati

Everything Hero

^{Click here to see her in uniform}

Voiced by: Marina Inoue (Japanese), Colleen Clinkenbeard (English), María José Estevez (Latin American Spanish/TV series), Mildred Barrera (Latin American Spanish/Movies)

Debut: Chapter 6 (Manga), Episode 5 (Anime)

Playable in: My Hero Academia: Battle for All, My Hero One's Justice, My Hero One's Justice 2

Quirk: Creation

"We've got to start at the bottom and work up! And if we don't earnestly cheer each other on... we'll never be top heroes!"

Class 1-A's vice president. Smart, and studious but also kind and gentle, Momo hails from an extremely wealthy family and was enrolled through recommendations like Todoroki. Her Quirk, "Creation", allows her to create any inorganic object out of her body, as long as she knows its atomic composition. Despite her versatile Quirk and considerable intelligence, she struggles with low self-esteem due to the high expectations put upon her.

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• The Ace: Momo is one of four students recommended to enroll in U.A., the others being Todoroki, Tokage, and Honenuki. She comes from a patrician family and is pretty, intelligent and well-versed in combat. She is the vice president of Class 1-A and also received the highest grades in the mid-term exams as well as in the Provisional Hero License Exam.
• Adaptation Expansion: Her fight with Tokoyami at the U.A. Sports Festival was just a single panel in the manga, and was part of Midoriya explaining the fights. It wouldn't be until much later that we see how much her loss affected her mental state. The anime, on the other hand, shows the fight in earnest while also focusing on how overwhelmed and nervous Yaoyorozu was during it. In Season 3, how she passed the first stage of the Provisional Hero License Exam is shown, whereas in the manga, she and her group just met up with Todoroki after he passed.
• Affectionate Nickname: A few of her classmates nickname her "Yaomomo", as a portmanteau of her family and given names. In the English translation of the manga, it's flipped around to western order as "Momo Yao".
• All-Encompassing Mantle: Her winter costume features a long dark cloak on top of her normal one, presumably to prevent Exposed to the Elements.
• Always Someone Better: When comparing herself to Todoroki, she considers him this. The Final Exams Arc reveals that this is mutual, although both recognize that Todoroki is the more powerful one, he thinks that she is a far better leader and strategist than him.
• Animal Motifs: Cranes, specifically the Red-crowned Crane. Yaomomo's hair greatly resembles the tail of said animal and cranes are symbols of good fortune and wisdom in Japan. Yaomomo is the wealthiest student in Class 1-A, but uses her resources to help others and never intentionally flaunts her wealth maliciously. She is also very wise and intelligent as she often has to keep her classmates from making rash and impulsive decisions.
• Anime Hair: Her Hero hairstyle is a very tricked-out ponytail that resembles a crest. When she lets her hair down, however, it looks completely realistic.
• Badass Adorable: The most fearsome female student of Class 1-A is also a kind and beautiful ray of sunshine, whose bright and enthusiastic smile when wanting to help people infectiously warms the hearts of everyone around her.
• Badass Bookworm: Has the highest grades in the class, as well as rivaling Midoriya in assessing and analyzing battles. She also carries an actual book with her as part of her hero regalia. It's a dictionary (The Yaoyopedia) with a comprehensive description of all raw materials that might come in handy in the field because she needs a strong mental grasp of how to replicate these materials for them to work properly.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: This is largely justified due to know Yaoyorozu's Quirk works. Any object she generates comes directly from her body, meaning she needs a large enough area of bare skin to pull the object out of. She can (and does) generate smaller items out of her hands or side but large objects have to be created out of areas like the midriff or back and generally having much skin exposed as possible is an advantage. As a result unlike many other costumes hers leaves much larger percentage of her skin bare. She also unzipped her tracksuit during U.A. Sport Festival to reveal a sports bra that lets her access her midriff.
• BFG: Her go-to attack is usually to create a cannon, early on she used 19th-century naval guns, and by the Paranormal Liberation Arc she seems to have moved on to modern artillery pieces
• Big Eater: Her classmates are shocked to see their Ojou vice president devouring food at training camp. As she explains, however, this is justified since her powers are Cast from Calories. She eats a lot in order to have a large store of matter to draw from when she creates objects.
• Big Fancy House: Her first reaction when she invites some students over to her house to study is that she'll have to ask her mother to open up the hall. When her classmates do arrive at her house, they're stunned as the front gate of her estate runs the entire street:
  Ashido: I knew she was rich, but I didn't know she was that rich!
• Book Smart: She has the best grades in Class 1-A by a long shot, to the point that a quarter of her class comes to her for tutoring. This also ties into her usage of her Quirk, which requires her to understand and memorize the exact formula of whatever object she's creating. However, her abilities as The Strategist are rivaled or surpassed by her classmates, Midoriya and Bakugo, whose grades are fourth and third in the class respectively.
• Broken Ace: Thanks to losing to Tokoyami before she could fight back in the U.A. Sports Festival, not being able to assert her ideas during the cavalry battle and exams, and to add insult to injury, finding out that the pro heroine who handpicked her for an internship pretty much only did so because of her looks, her confidence takes a nosedive. She recovers it after figuring out a way to beat Aizawa.
• Brutal Honesty: Points out all the flaws in the first Heroes vs. Villains match and how it could've gone if the teams used their powers more effectively, and only praises Ida, the only one who did his part well. Freaked out by her lack of tact and the effect it has on the class of causing a very awkward silence to ensue, All Might silently thinks to himself that she was being a little too honest. Later in the story, this seems to be the case of Early-Installment Weirdness, with that trait taken by Tsuyu.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: She has a well-endowed figure, which is emphasized by the Navel-Deep Neckline on her hero outfit and a few gratuitous Male Gaze shots on her chest. Mineta and Kaminari are shown to be attracted to her bust multiple times.
• Cast from Calories: Lipids, technically, but the effect is pretty much the same. Her Quirk uses them as raw materials, and being a Big Eater is the easiest way she can replenish them. She can tire herself out if she uses too much of them.
• Character Tics: Occasionally covers her chest with her arm while in her hero costume or clenches her fist.
• Child Prodigy: She was able to use her Quirk as a child, meaning she could understand and memorize the molecular makeup of the different objects she created, starting with Russian matryoshka dolls.
• Class Representative: The vice president of Class 1-A, below Ida, and a polished and straight-laced young lady. As she lampshades in the second OVA, her job is much harder than it should be.
• Clothing Damage: Creating especially large objects can require more exposed skin than her hero costume has, which means the costume gets shredded. She can simply make a replacement costume with her quirk, however, so this isn't a major obstacle for her.
• Crazy-Prepared: She learned how to create any and everything that might come in handy in her job as a heroine, which included flashbangs, tracking devices, several different types of melee weapons, gas masks, and anti-electricity capes.
• A Day in the Limelight: Gets her time to shine during Final Exams arc.
• Depending on the Writer: Yaoyorozu's characterization in the manga and the Smash!! comics is notably different in a few aspects. In the manga, her self-esteem issues are based on a variety of reasons and is expressed as a generalized feeling of anxiety, but in the Smash!! comics, she is particularly ashamed and afraid of being a Cute Clumsy Girl and has focused on correcting the "clumsy" aspect of her personality.
• Difficult, but Awesome: Her Creation Quirk is very useful and versatile, but she needs to actually know the chemical composition of the things she's creating in order to make them, and she needs to actually know how to use the weapons she creates. Fortunately, she's very intelligent (with the highest grades in the class) and carries an encyclopedia-like book around with her should she need to look up materials.
• Distaff Counterpart: She is the Ida among the girls: always quick to encourage proper behavior, but gets carried away with it all too often. Fittingly, she skirts closer to Team Mom, as she tends to be more nurturing and inclusive. Both also come from wealthy backgrounds, but neither choose to flaunt it in a negative sense.
• Eating Solves Everything: Since her Quirk involves creating objects base on how much she had eaten, she always makes sure to have eaten enough to make a solution for even the toughest of problems.
• Endearingly Dorky: Momo is a Nice Girl who tries to be as mature and serious as possible but still can get easily excited and be somewhat awkward and goofy.
• Extreme Doormat: For a while, she had trouble voicing her own ideas and plans, usually going along with others. However, during the Final Exams Arc, she gets better.
• Fatal Flaw: Her indecisiveness and low self-esteem were holding her back, especially as she used to compare herself with Todoroki a lot. Later on, she rebuilds her confidence and makes choices and plans on her own. She still struggles with insecurities and self-doubt, but her confidence grows as she learns to stop comparing herself to others, mostly Todoroki.
• Fish out of Water: She's filthy rich, but she often forgets that her fellow classmates don't have things such as butlers or giant fluffy master beds.
• Friendly Rivalry: She formed one with Kendo during the Joint Training Arc. Kendo was disheartened over the fact she and Yaoyorozu were treated as a package deal despite feeling Yaoyorozu got better grades and had a better Quirk, and revealed she desired to face off with Yaoyorozu, something Yaoyorozu was happy to oblige with. It helps that outside of training, the two have gotten along swimmingly thanks to their joint internship under Uwabami.
• Formal Characters Use Keigo: Whether she's addressing elders, or her peers, Yaoyorozu speaks in a formal, dignified manner in her Japanese dialogue, never using casual phrases. It's noteworthy that she's the only girl who uses the "-san" honorific to address boys.
• Go-Getter Girl: She's focused on academic studies and becoming a heroine, which shows in her class grades and rank, but falls into Heroic Self-Deprecation at times.
• Great Big Book of Everything: One of her support items is a dictionary called "the Yaoyorictionary" (or in some translations, "the Yaoyopedia"). It contains comprehensive descriptions of what is needed to make every single item that she needs.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: She's prone to insecurity regarding her intelligence and skills as a heroine. After Tokoyami easily defeats her, she slides into doubting herself entirely until Todoroki speaks out and gives her a much-needed pep talk.
• Hidden Buxom: Zigzagged. In her school uniform and day-to-day clothing (which leans towards pretty and graceful, rather than provocative), it's not quite evident how well-endowed she is. But as her hero costume and appearance in a bikini in the anime reveal, she is stacked.
• High-Heel Power: She wears high heels as part of her hero costume plus she's one of the top students academically, has a powerful Quirk, and possesses amazing leadership skills.
• Huge School Girl: At fifteen to sixteen, Momo stands at a whopping 173 centimeters (5'8) tall, towering over most of her class and year mates, being the tallest female of the first years. As seen here, when the students of Class 1-A stand heightwise, most girls are grouped around the shorter boys (Mineta, Tokoyami and Midoriya), Momo stands between Bakugo (who is only slightly shorter than her) and Todoroki (who is slightly taller). Of course, In-Universe this is downplayed as Quirks that can affect a person's height without altering it are common so no one treats their respective heights as anything special, especially as she's only the 75th percentile in terms of height.
• Humble Hero: Zigzagged. She honestly wants to be a heroine for good, but is completely oblivious when socializing with those on the lower spectrum of the economy class, so she tends to come across as Innocently Insensitive towards her friends. Interestingly, this is considered an endearing point of hers for them.
• Imagination-Based Superpower: She can create anything from her body — from mundane things like Russian dolls to weapons as powerful as cannons. The downsides are that she has to know the exact molecular makeup of whatever she's creating and that her power is limited by her food intake.
• Improbable Hairstyle: How does her ponytail stay up like that?
• Inconsistent Spelling: Her hero name is "Creati", but the eyecatch of the sixth season of the anime spells it as "Creaty".
• The Indecisive: Of the insecure type. Losing to Tokoyami in the Sports Festival arc caused her to lose confidence in herself and constantly compare herself with The Ace Todoroki. Fast forward to the practical exam where she's paired up with him, and she's just following his plan hesitantly, unsure of its effectiveness. When Mr. Aizawa has Todoroki tied up and hanging in the air, she internally freaks out over whether she should save him or just stick to his plan and keep running. She's able to regain her confidence, make her own decisions, and come up with a successful strategy, after receiving encouragement from Todoroki.
  Yaoyorozu: [having an inner conflict] Is Todoroki all right? Is this okay? Should I make something to help me go faster at the expense of time? Is this okay? Will I be able to get out like this? Where am I running? No... why? Is this... really okay?
• Innocently Insensitive: In an endearing way, Yaoyorozu tends to forget that status-wise, she's much wealthier than her classmates, not because she feels that she's above them, but because she's naive about their differing lifestyles. So she'll do things like casually talking about her mansion and expensive tea brands while being oblivious to how baffled her friends are. However, she's so sweet that her classmates find her too adorable to be mad at her.
• In-Series Nickname: Yaomomo, mostly used by Jiro and the other girls in the class.
• Lady of War: A sophisticated, graceful ojou who shows great expertise in wielding the different weapons she generates from her Quirk, especially staffs. Even in very dangerous situations, despite her young age, she remains calm and analytical enough to devise innovative strategies.
• The Leader: Yaoyorozu has notable leadership skills for her age. She's capable of understanding a situation quickly and formulate a plan fast. Midnight praises her and says she will be a great leader one day. She often becomes the leader of the class whenever Midoriya isn't around. She also needs to lead a group of interns from 1-A and 1-B into halting Gigantomachia.
• Leitmotif: "Momo Yaoyorozu", which is a sophisticated and sweet piece that is led by a violin.
• Leotard of Power: Her hero costume is essentially a rather revealing one-piece.
• Logical Weakness: Not only can she not create things she doesn't know how to create down to the atomic level, but she also needs time to both make and use her items. Tokoyami defeats her in the Sports Festival by having Dark Shadow attack her continuously, giving her no time to think or go on the offensive herself. Even then, excess use can drain her to exhaustion as she still needs lipids for herself.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: She has long black hair usually tied in a ponytail, and is a refined, polite girl from an extremely wealthy family.
• Matter Replicator: Her Quirk allows her to come up with any object out of her body save for living matter, though larger objects take more time and cause Clothing Damage. The material is transmuted from her body fat.
• Meaningful Name: "Yaoyorozu" is a traditional word that means "eight million" or, more appropriately, a really high number. This relates to the amount of stuff she can create with her Quirk and to her financial position.
• Misery Trigger: Yaoyorozu's Quirk allows her to make just about anything depending on how much mass it requires and how much food she's eaten. As she herself puts it, the more she eats, the more she makes. When Sero compares this to poop, Yaoyorozu becomes instantly depressed.
• Ms. Fanservice: The lower part of her hero costume consist of two utility belts and a top that boldly displays her cleavage. Given that her Quirk requires exposed skin to produce objects, there is at least some practical justification for this.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: The top of her hero costume is a shirt with a cut low enough to reach her midriff.
• Never Gets Fat: She has the ability to make just about anything out of her body fat, so whatever weight she puts on through eating is quickly turned into various items she uses while being a hero in training. In fact, she has to go out of her way to make sure she's eating extra to make up for all the extra calories she burns.
• Nice Girl: Although she can come off as a little stern and condescending due to her upbringing, she has nothing but the best interests at heart and radiates sweetness when she's in a good mood, leaving her surrounded by "bounciness" SFX during such times.
• No Conservation of Energy: Downplayed. Creating things is explicitly said to use her own body fat and is limited by her food intake, but the amount of stuff she's able to create at once still far exceeds what should be possible (such as during the U.A. Sports Festival, she pulls an entire cannon out of herself), especially considering her relatively slender frame.
• Not So Above It All:
  • In a deleted panel from the manga that is included in the volume extras and anime, she was hyper overjoyed when she was asked to host a study session at her house. She then proceeded to obliviously brag about the perks of her posh accommodations, without realizing she just insulted everybody who's working class.
  • Despite the seriousness of the situation, during the Hideout Raid Arc, when the team needs disguises, they purchase them from a store. When it's pointed out that Yaoyorozu could've just made them herself, she stammers and tries to play it off as supporting the local economy, despite it being pretty obvious that she was excited about visiting said store.
• Number Two: She is the vice president of Class 1-A behind Ida. In an unofficial way, she is also this to Midoriya. In most given situations, Class 1-A looks at Midoriya for guidance. If he is not around, the one to take the role of The Leader will often be her.
• Odd Friendship: She becomes Jiro's close friend as time goes. Jiro being the most outspoken tomboyish and snarkiest girl in the group, while Yaoyorozu is a pinnacle of delicacy and politeness.
• Ojou: A polite and well-mannered girl from a very rich family. Her insane wealth has become something of a Running Gag.
• The Power of Creation: Her Quirk can create any non-living object she wants so long as she knows the exact molecular formula of said object.
• Red Is Heroic: She wears a red costume and is a sweet and kindhearted hero.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: In opposition to their color schemes, she plays the Blue Oni to Jiro's Red in both the USJ and the filler episode 55: calm, poised and calculating.
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: She's so used to her luxurious accommodations that she doesn't realize how badly she accidentally insults her working-class classmates when she talks about how many resources she has at her disposal nor does she notice how uncomfortable and out of place they feel in her incredibly large and fancy house. Her mother also forbids her from attending public festivals known for selling sweets and street food, as her family's personal cooks could make better, less sickening desserts.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: Played with. Her Quirk requires exposed skin, so her hero costume is very skimpy, to begin with, and she has a pretty significant problem with Clothing Damage when creating larger objects. She doesn't seem to worry about exposing herself at all for practical purposes, such as when Jiro embarrassingly points out to Yaoyorozu that her plan destroyed her entire top, the latter is unfazed and simply states that she'll make a new one. Even male classmates being around doesn't cause her to hesitate at all, as she pulls open her top in front of Todoroki without warning him in order to allow for more space in creating alloy fibers, and in the anime adaptation, she all but flashes an embarrassed Shoji when she needs more space to work with. However, she doesn't appreciate being manipulated into things like this for non-practical purposes, as seen with Mineta and Kaminari's plot to trick the girls into wearing cheerleader outfits during the U.A. Sports Festival halftime, even though her hero costume shows more skin than the cheerleader outfits.
• Silk Hiding Steel: Yaoyorozu is elegant, kind, feminine and demure...and is a brilliant strategist, skilled with a bo-staff, and is the smartest student in Class 1-A, potentially in the whole series.
• Skilled, but Naive: Aizawa notes that while she's very gifted, in terms of mental/emotional maturity, she's still a 15-year-old girl who easily gets overwhelmed in times of crisis. She matures a little bit after Todoroki boosts her morale by professing his faith in her abilities after she suffers a lapse in confidence. During the Forest Training Camp Arc, she manages to make a tracker to hunt down a Nomu with, and All Might praises her for her quick thinking and ability to make snap decisions.
• Solid Gold Poop: It's heavily implied that she provided the three gold bars for the Christmas party's mystery gift swap.
• Spoiled Sweet: She is the wealthiest student in her class, but she never flaunts her money or acts snobby — willingly, that is. She's prone to accidental insults, and she's so used to being able to casually spend large amounts of money that she forgets her friends can't do the same. Nevertheless, she still is a genuinely kind and sweet girl, who willingly opens her home to her classmates who need to study for finals, and always looks out for the others on the battlefield.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: She has the ability to generate any type of non-living matter from her body, and she uses it to create weapons and other equipment for her friends.
• Squishy Wizard: She can create just about any kind of object she wishes, but depending on the object, it takes time to make them. So she needs others to hold off the enemy while she creates the materials she needs. While her creations can do a lot of damage (like when she makes an entire cannon) and is possibly the most versatile Quirk of any character, in terms of direct physical prowess she's as normal as anyone else, as demonstrated in her fight with Kendo.
• Statuesque Stunner: Yaoyorozu stands tall at 173 cm (roughly a little over 5'8'', and elevated to roughly 5'9'' in her hero costume's boots), towering over all the girls in her class and even several of the boys. It also helps her stand out as the vice president of the class and the most matured, demure and refined girl out of the bunch.
• The Strategist: Combine The Ace with Teen Genius and this is the result; Yaoyorozu's quick thinking and considerable intelligence give her the potential to be a great strategist.
• Stripperiffic: Justified. Because Yaoyorozu needs her skin exposed to have free access to her Quirk, her outfits are revealing for practical reasons. She comes dangerously close to this prospect but manages to stay within the bare limits of wholesome. While wearing her gym clothes, she'll often unzip her jacket to reveal a sports bra for a similar level of effectiveness with significantly less exposure. She also tends to be fairly prone to Clothing Damage.
• Superpower Lottery: Definitely a winner. She was born with one of the stronger Quirks in the series, as the ability to make literally any object or weapon she wants essentially gives her unmatched creative potential even compared to most pro-heroes; All For One himself is probably the only person with more versatility than her. Still, her work-ethic is not to be discredited. She has to know the exact molecular structure of anything she wants to create, which requires an encyclopedic knowledge of a wide variety of things and took years of studying to master.
• This Banana is Armed: During the Final Exam against Mr. Aizawa, she constantly produces Russian nesting dolls as an indicator if he's present, since she would stop producing them. When Aizawa does appear, she throws the dolls she made at him, most of which had flash grenades hidden inside.
• Tears of Joy: She cries after she passes the practical exam with Todoroki, especially after he thanks her for developing the effective strategy that allowed them to win against Mr. Aizawa.
• Teen Genius: A justified example as Yaoyorozu's Quirk requires her to know the exact molecular formula of any object she wants to create, so she needs to have great memory and analysis skills. This is made obvious as she has the highest grades of the entire Class of 1-A and according to her stats in the Official Character Book, she has an Intelligence Ranking of 6/5 or S.^note This puts her in the same intelligence bracket as All Might, Nezu and All For One.
• Token Rich Student: While other students like Ida and Todoroki are also mentioned to be fairly well-off, she unknowingly flaunts her wealth in front of her working-class classmates as a Running Gag. She has a fabulous Big Fancy House, goes on vacations to Europe, brings a too-large four-poster bed to a Japanese dorm because she didn't know it wouldn't fit, and is excited at the prospect of thrift shopping because she's never done it before. However, she's so sweet about it that her classmates don't mind.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Kyoka Jiro is a snarky rock musician with Boyish Short Hair. Momo Yaoyorozu is a sweet Yamato Nadeshiko with long hair.
• Took a Level in Badass: Her usage of Creation initially starts with basic melee items like poles and shields as well as some utility items, then over the course of the series, begins to make more advanced creations of the mechanical kind like cannons and gas masks, and takes a step up further with electronics like GPS bugs and trackers as well as heat-detecting headsets that can lock onto things.
• Tritagonist: Yaoyorozu often takes this role when she tags along with people like Todoroki and Midoriya, acting as the strategist of the group who keeps everybody composed and stops them from making rash decisions.
• Uncle Pennybags: She's very happy to open her home to her classmates when they ask her for study tips, going so far as to ask what kinds of tea they would prefer and bringing what are clearly very expensive sweets to her study hall for them to enjoy.
• Utility Belt: Wears a thick yellow one as part of her suit.
• Vapor Wear: Her hero costume clearly has very little bust support, being a Leotard of Power with a Navel-Deep Neckline.
• Vocal Evolution: An English Dub only variant. In Season 1, Colleen Clinkenbeard uses a lower pitched and rougher voice, but while that works for older characters she's voiced like Riza Hawkeye and Erza Scarlet, it only causes Vocal Dissonance for Momo Yaoyorozu due to her being 15 still. Season 2 and on has her adopt a higher pitched and softer voice for Momo to denote her being younger, and though it does still get rougher at times, it's largely restricted to when Momo is exhausted or overtly serious.
• Well-Trained, but Inexperienced: Momo Yaoyorozu got into U.A. on recommendation, coming from a rich family and possessing a Quirk - "Creation" - that she had spent hours studying for in its use. While she is an incredibly intelligent member of the class and has used her Quirk to great effectiveness when as part of a group, she has difficulty when forced to stand on her own, a problem that has given her reserves of self-doubt as she continues to lose fights as the series progresses. Recognizing this, Aizawa pairs her up with Shoto Todoroki (who also relies too much on his Quirk to carry him) against himself.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: While she is a Ms. Fanservice in a Stripperiffic Leotard of Power, otherwise, she hits many of the qualifications, especially out of costume. She is a kind, polite and selfless young lady, beautiful with long black hair and fair skin, acts calm and demure, takes the Team Mom role towards her classmates, and proves to be a tough Lady of War.
• Younger Than They Look: Like Ida, she has a very mature physique for a 15-year-old. This actually comes in handy when they disguise themselves when rescuing Bakugo because she looks much older as a result.

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