Characters / My Hero Academia - Class 1-A (1-10)

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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
Pro Heroes: School Faculty and Staff (Shota Aizawa | All Might) | Other Heroes (Endeavor) | One For All and Its Torch Bearers
Villains: Known Villains [Stain] (League of Villains [All For One, Tomura Shigaraki, Dabi, Himiko Toga, Vanguard Action Squad, Artificial Humans], Shie Hassaikai [Overhaul], Meta Liberation Army, Paranormal Liberation Front, Villain Army)
Others: Police and Government Workers | Civilians (Main Characters' Families) | Other High Schools
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Class 1-A: Students 1-10

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.

01. Yuga Aoyama — Can't Stop Twinkling

Yuga Aoyama — Can't Stop Twinkling

Shining Hero

^{Click here to see him in uniform}

Voiced by: Kosuke Kuwano (Japanese), Joel McDonald (English), Hernán Río (Latin American Spanish/TV Series)

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

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

Quirk: Navel Laser^*Quirkless (formerly)

"If you face hardships all alone, then surely you won't be able to shine. ☆"

A vain, flamboyant and extremely eccentric young man. His Quirk, "Navel Laser", allows him to fire powerful laser beams from his stomach. However, continuous use of this Quirk is liable to give him a stomach ache, and he also needs to wear a special support belt at all times to prevent the laser from "leaking out".

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• Agent Peacock: As the most flamboyant member of the class and a hero-in-training, he certainly qualifies.
• Anti-Villain: Revealed to be the U.A. traitor, but it's made abundantly clear All For One is forcing him against his will under threat of killing him and his parents. His guilty conscience has been affecting him all series long, and he's ashamed when Izuku confronts him upon learning the truth.
• Aside Glance: Especially in the anime. Whenever he is in a group shot, he tends to look directly at the camera.
• Atrocious Alias: He suggested the Gratuitous English sentence "I can not stop twinkling" as his hero name, and to his classmates' shock Midnight accepted it, only suggesting he shorten it to "Can't Stop Twinkling."
• Attention Whore: He loves to hog the spotlight no matter where he shows up.
• Awesome, but Impractical: Although flashy and very powerful, his navel laser has several drawbacks, and can hurt his stomach if used continuously for more than a second. He also needs to wear his belt at all times to prevent it from "leaking" and hurting him as well. This makes a lot of sense when it's revealed to be a Quirk bestowed upon Aoyama by All For One, using a Quirk your body wasn't built for has been shown to cause drawbacks when in use.
• Beam Spam: His super move Navel Laser Buffet, which fires several smaller beams from his belt and shoulders.
• Bequeathed Power: He was not born with Navel Laser. It was given to him by All For One as part of a deal his parents made, and was previously a Quirk stolen from someone else.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He mostly provides comic relief and his Quirk is very ridiculous looking, but the ability to fire laser beams still makes him pretty powerful. He also has moments showing surprising awareness.
• Big Damn Heroes: After spending most of the Forest Training Camp Arc hiding in fear, he delivers an attack that saves Tokoyami. This is given more context with the reveal that he's the U.A. traitor and the information he passed along lead to Tokoyami being endangered in the first place.
• Big Ego, Hidden Depths: Behind this silly, vain character, there's an insecure young man who is unsure about his place in the world. The fact that he's a 'fake' hero and being Forced into Evil compounds this. He even carves a message into a rock wall with his laser that reads "Still Waters Run Deep" before revealing to Izuku his similar issues with his Power Incontinence as Izuku's own with handling One For All.
• Bishie Sparkle: So much that even his beams have those.
• Book Dumb: He had the third-lowest score on the midterm, ahead of only Ashido and Kaminari.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Downplayed, but Aoyama can often be found staring (or even winking) directly into the camera, especially during group shots or montages.
• Broken Tears: Yuga finally breaks apart after carrying out several betrayals that hurt his friends and acquaintances and not being allowed to stop the deception. When his ugly secret gets out, he is a sloppy mess of tears and has a face of utter brokenness.
• But Not Too Foreign: He's Japanese but he was born in France, a thing which he likes to play up as his heritage by using Gratuitous French.
• Butt-Monkey: He is often on the receiving end of painful moments like Mineta, Kaminari and Sero.
• Campy Combat: A vain Attention Whore who likes sprinkling French and English words in his dialogue, and his Quirk "Navel Laser" shoots a sparkling beam out of his belly button.
• Charged Attack: His new move, "Can't Stop Twinkling: Supernova," allows him to deliver a laser attack much more powerful than usual by charging it for five-seconds.
• Chest Blaster: Or Navel Blaster in this case. He fires his beam from his belly button. His hero costume incorporates mirrors and lenses that allow him to direct it out of spots on his knees and shoulders as well. Deconstructed, as he suffers some health problems due to its placement. He explicitly states that overuse crushes his stomach, most likely due to high recoil going into his gut.
• Cloudcuckoolander: No one knows what his deal is, not even Kōhei Horikoshi himself.
• Color Motif: Blue. The "Ao" in his last name means Blue in Japanese, his eyes are Blue and cape in his hero costume is also Blue.
• 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.
• Commonality Connection: He befriends Midoriya because both their Quirks are ill-suited for their bodies, with One For All causing Midoriya's limbs severe damage before he trains enough, and Navel Laser hurting Aoyama's stomach and leaking out because of his birth defect. Turns out this is because Aoyama was also born quirkless and had a quirk given to him.
• Cowardly Lion: During the Forest Training Camp Arc, he hides in the bushes and is absolutely terrified when he discovers he is mere feet away from the villains' rendezvous point. Still when the villains start to escape with two student hostages, he is able to blast the hostage-taker and free at least one student. Considering how outnumbered he was and with two unconscious fellow students, staying quiet was ultimately the better plan.
• The Dandy: Likes bling, trendy fashion, and French cuisine. He is foppish and he has exaggerated French speech mannerisms.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Aoyama was born quirkless, and thus bound to a life of discrimination and disability. However, his parents, as a last desperate resort to help him, went to All for One in exchange of a quirk from him, which resulted in him becoming an unwilling mole within class 1-A on All for One's behalf.
• Demoted to Extra: Despite being playable in the first game of the franchise, Aoyama is not present among the playable cast of My Hero One's Justice. He was later added as DLC to its sequel, however.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Seems to be his default expression once he is revealed as the UA traitor.
• Easily Forgiven: While everyone is initially distraught to learn that he was The Mole who allowed the attacks at USJ and the training camp, none of them actually hold a grudge over it. They acknowledge his guilt over endangering their lives, and even blame themselves for not noticing his inner turnmoil. This is particularly surprising with Aizawa, who assures Aoyama that he has no intent to expel him, despite previously admitting that he wanted to expel him (and most of the class) for simply knowing about an unauthorized rescue for Bakugou after he was kidnapped in the training camp attack that Aoyama helped start in the first place.
• Eating Lunch Alone: Subverted. He's not shunned by anyone, he wants to eat lunch by himself since he prefers his fancy and elaborate French meals to any other food.
• Effeminate Voice: He speaks with a campy tenor that goes hand-in-hand with his flamboyant persona.
• Everything's Better with Sparkles: He has a lot of shiny things in his room, including a disco ball and an armor set.
• Evil Counterpart: Evil is a strong word, but his upbringing of being Quirkless before being empowered makes him a counterpart to Deku, he would have been what Deku would turn out, had his parents made a deal with All For One.
• Exactly What I Aimed At: While fighting Kunieda as one of the last two heroes standing against him, he keeps firing his Navel Laser despite his support item being damaged. While Kunieda thinks Aoyama's just missing and essentually flailing widely in the face of death, it turns out he was actually aiming at Hagakure behind Kunieda, who was gathering all the stray blasts together before blindsiding the villain with a Wave-Motion Gun at point blank, defeating him in one hit.
• Feed the Mole: After finding out that he's the UA traitor with a direct, if one-sided, communication to All For One, Midoriya proposes this trope.
• Forced into Evil: Chapter 336 reveals that Aoyama is the traitor and The Mole for All For One, and he states that this is because he was born Quirkless and was given a Quirk by the villain in question, which resulted in him and his family becoming his pawns.
• French Cuisine Is Haughty: He likes to eat by himself instead of joining everybody in the cafeteria, and his meals are as fancy as you'd expect. He also enjoys Pont-l'Évêque cheese slices as snacks.
• Gratuitous English: He chooses "Can't Stop Twinkling" as his hero name, which sounds very silly to a native English speaker.
• Gratuitous Foreign Language: Alternates between using Gratuitous English and Gratuitous French in his dialogue. It's possibly a result of him coming from a wealthy family, as french culture and language is considered "classy" and refined in Japan.
• Handicapped Badass: Aoyama's Quirk comes with a birth defect that makes it hard to keep the beam from releasing without a support item and also causes him to lose control of his bowels if he fires his blaster for too long. However, his beams are still quite powerful. This eventually revealed to just be a cover story, meant to obscure the fact that, like Izuku, he got his Quirk recently, and his body wasn't given the same level of preparation and training All Might had Izuku go through in order to withstand One For All's usage.
• Heroic RRoD: Can't fire his blaster too much or it'll put a strain on his stomach.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Attempts to use himself as bait by firing his laser straight up into the sky to draw everyone's attention during the Provisional Hero License Exam Arc so Ida can run away after they're heavily outnumbered. Luckily, the remaining members of the class all converge on the laser to help.
• Hidden Depths: Despite his evident lack of social skills, he's shown himself to be very intuitive of other people, apparently picking up on Uraraka's crush on Midoriya before anyone else did, as well as the fact that he's similar to Midoriya in that their powers are incompatible with their bodies. That was all before The Reveal that he is the U.A. Traitor and why he ended up having that role.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: It's implied that his overblown narcissism may be an act he puts on while in public. He states that he's always wanted to be equals with the rest of the class during the provisional hero license exam, prompting Ida to tell him that he already is.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's a Narcissist to the third degree, but deep down he does care about his fellow classmates.
• Knight in Shining Armor: His costume is supposed to invoke this imagery, and looks more like what a classic fantasy knight would wear, as opposed to Ida whose knight-themed hero costume looks more modernized and sci-fi-styled.
• Laser Blade: Following his winter internship, he gains the ability to form a sword out of his navel laser, which, while still causing him incredible pain from holding it, allows light-manipulation Quirk-users to more easily control it in a combo move.
• Leitmotif: "Yuga Aoyama", aptly named, is a remix of "Just Another Hero" but with a much more light feel to it, while keeping the original piece's intensity, which makes complete sense taking into account his Hidden Depths.
• Light 'em Up: He fires lasers from his navel. He also uses himself as an unorthodox but very effective torch to help a rival student looking in dark places for civilians in the Provisional License Exam and becomes a walking light show during the Culture Festival.
• Making a Spectacle of Yourself: His Hero costume includes very large, red sunglasses shaped like an angel's wings, in keeping with his flamboyant design.
• Meaningful Name:
  • The two kanji characters that make up his first name mean "excellent, superior" (優 yu) and "elegant, graceful, refined" (雅 ga). His surname also contains the kanji for "mountain" in it, because his self-importance is as high as a mountain.
  • His Quirk's name and function, Navel Laser, is quite fitting, because being The Dandy, he's quite fond of navel-gazing.
  • His hero name is also this as Foreshadowing of his role. He wants someone to stop him from that horrible role yet he isn't really noticed until The Reveal.
• Medium Awareness: Implied — he's frequently seen mugging at the camera, usually in group shots, with the obvious implication being that he wants the viewers to focus on him.
• Mysterious Watcher: Ever since the end of the Internship Arc, Aoyama has been watching Midoriya in his sleep from the window and generally invading his personal space. That is because he has no social skills. Midoriya understands him and becomes his only friend.
• Narcissist: As revealed in his profile, his favorite thing is himself. His dorm room has a large portrait of himself as well as an entire set of mirrors of different sizes.
• No Sense of Personal Space: After the Internship Arc, Aoyama starts doing things like hand feeding and getting uncomfortably close to Midoriya, terrifying him.
• No Social Skills: Aoyama doesn't seem to have any close friends, and is shown to stay behind by himself in the classroom during lunchtime. It's not until after the Internship Arc that he starts coming out of his shell, wanting to befriend Midoriya, because, from his perspective, they are the same (two people with Quirks their bodies can't properly control). However, instead of simply approaching him and asking to be his friend, he went about it in ways that frightened Midoriya, from watching him sleep to leaving vague messages outside his window.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: It's implied after his reveal as the UA traitor that he was deliberately flunking exams and trying to get himself expelled to escape being Trapped in Villainy.
• Odd Friendship: He develops one with Midoriya after he opens up about his disorder.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • After the events with the Shie Hassaikai, Aoyama starts to behave really unusually, even for him, and Midoriya picks up on it. Then, while Midoriya sleeps, Aoyama peers in from outside his window with a leering gaze, and we see the first glimpse of his true nature. Thankfully, the next chapter explains that it was just a case of Aoyama having No Social Skills as well as an interest in Izuku for their shared issues with properly handling their Quirks ...only for Chapter 336 to reveal that he's the actual U.A. traitor and has been suffering from both his suppressed guilt towards his classmates and his inability to admit his culpability, leading him to hint at it in indirect ways.
  • He's a Perpetual Smiler, meaning that when he actually does stop, he's either really scared, surprised, or serious.
  • His facial features are subtly more cartoony and undefined compared to some of his other, more realistically shaded classmates, which helps highlight his nature as the Plucky Comic Relief amongst the class. Accordingly the few times he's seen drawn in line with them are when things have gotten deadly serious for him, such as him being scant feet away from Dabi and on his own during the hideout raid, with only a few bushes between himself and a painful demise. The full-page Wham Shot of his sobbing face revealing him as the U.A. traitor has him drawn as his most realistic yet, to highlight how broken Aoyama is over his betrayal.
• Perpetual Smiler: His facial expression rarely changes from a half-lidded, closed smile, even when he speaks.
• Personality Powers: His Quirk, "Navel Laser", goes hand-in-hand with him being a mirror-vain dandy who mostly cares about himself (also known as navel-gazing). The sparkling beams he fires using it are as flashy as he is.
• Potty Failure: The disgusting result if Aoyama overuses his Navel Laser, since it can crush his stomach and make him lose control of his bowels.
• Power Crutch: His belt prevents his navel laser from leaking out and harming him and allows it to function as a proper superpower.
• Power Incontinence: Because of a birth defect, Aoyama's beams can involuntarily leak out from his navel, which explains why he needs to wear a special belt all the time. On top of that, the way he suffers leakage causes actual incontinence, since he loses control of his bowels. His issues with controlling the power properly make more sense when it's revealed that he himself was originally Quirkless, meaning he was using a Quirk his body was never built for.
• Pretty Boy: Parodied. He has glossy blonde hair, thin eyebrows, glinting eyes, prominent eyelashes, and a slender build. His design is purposefully unusual as it makes him much more disturbing when he's not in his over the top persona, best demonstrated by his blank stare as he watches Midoriya sleep through his dorm room window at night.
• Put on a Bus: Baring a cameo in the credits, he, Ojiro, and Koda are the only members of Class 1-A who don't appear in My Hero Academia: Two Heroes.
• Real Men Cook: Those fancy French-style meals he eats for lunch? According to the promotional booklet for World Heroes' Mission, he prepares them himself.
• Recoil Boost: Can propel himself by firing his beam at the opposite direction he wants to go. His first attempt of this isn't very successful, as he runs out of steam half-way down the running track and has to pick himself up and fire again, coming in behind Mina, who just ran the course normally.
• Regretful Traitor: He only obeyed All-For-One's orders to infiltrate U.A. under threat of death and after connecting to the rest of class he becomes a complete emotional wreck. Notably, when Midoriya and Hagakure overhear and confront him and his family discussing his latest orders his parents hastily try to deny the accusation while Aoyama immediately confesses.
• Running Gag: It goes hand-in-hand with his narcissism. Whenever he starts to brag or speak highly of himself, he either gets interrupted, mainly by Ashido, or just outright ignored.
• Sad Clown: Aoyama tends to go out of his way to be goofy and an Attention Whore, but he's actually insecure about the fact that his Quirk actively harms him and he has to wear a belt to control it at all. With the reveal that he is the U.A. Traitor, this really shot up.
• Say It with Hearts: In his case, stars, to showcase his perfect grandiosity. ★
• Screams Like a Little Girl: He lets out some pretty campy screams and whines when training his Quirk.
• A Shared Suffering: Aoyama sees Midoriya as a kindred spirit and tries to connect with him due to them both possessing powerful quirks that damage their bodies. It's also implied that he believed that Midoriya was another mole sent by All-For-One for this reason and sympathized with him as he himself was utterly miserable in this task.
• Shipper on Deck: He seems to be one for Midoriya and Uraraka, seeing how the latter often mentions him during dire situations. This unknowingly causes Uraraka to realize her feelings for Midoriya and often become nervous whenever she is close to him.
• Shout-Out: He's basically a flamboyant version of Cyclops, but with his power coming out from his navel instead of his eyes.
• Sleeps with Both Eyes Open: As seen in Chapter 193, right before he wakes up because of Midoriya's quirk awakening.
• Small Name, Big Ego: He's extremely conceited for a character that is mostly used for gags.
• Squishy Wizard: His lasers are very powerful, but he's got no endurance. During their fight in the U.A. Sports Festival Arc, Ashido takes him down with a single punch once she evades his lasers and gets close to him.
• Stepford Smiler: Implied. He's usually seen smiling, but it comes off as being an artificial pointed smile. However, he is occasionally drawn smiling widely◊, and these smiles are implied to be more sincere.
  • Confirmed in Chapter 336 and 337 when it's revealed that Aoyama has been spending the past year in near-suicidal despair over his role as the UA traitor.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Facially, he and his mother are near-identical, with the only big difference being their hairstyles.
• Superheroes Wear Capes: His hero costume includes a sparkly purple cape.
• Superpower Disability: He has a disability that makes it impossible for him to control his Navel Laser properly, so the Quirk comes with a side of Power Incontinence and literal incontinence, plus horrid stomach pain. He uses a special belt to mitigate the drawbacks. Given that like Midoriya he was originally Quirkless it is understandable that his Quirk would be damaging to his body.
• Token Evil Teammate: Downplayed, as Yuga only qualifies as "evil" due to his forced association with All For One and acts as his Mole in U.A..
• Trademark Favorite Food: Cheese. He believes it's so essential for life that he blames Midoriya's powers going wild in the middle of the night on a lack of it.
• Trapped in Villainy: For him, it's either spy on U.A. for the benefit of All For One, or have himself and his family be killed. He is extremely torn up about it.
• Triangle Shades: Sports an orange winged pair in his costume.
• Villainous BSoD: Though villainous is a big stretch, Aoyama suffers this big time come Chapter 336 and 337, when Hagakure and Midoriya catch his parents trying to talk him down from revealing himself as the UA traitor, to the point that it almost borders on a Despair Event Horizon. When Aoyama finds out that the cat is out of the bag he falls apart completely, clawing at his own face and attacking Midoriya in a blind panic. After he is restrained and brought in front of UA, he spends the rest of the chapter with Dull Eyes of Unhappiness.
• Walking Spoiler: Aoyama is this for two notable reasons and they are both huge spoilers, one, he is the U.A. Traitor; and two, he like Izuku, is born Quirkless before meeting someone who gave him a quirk. In Aoyama's case it's All For One.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Aoyama goes AWOL during the villain attack on the USJ. He later lampshades it after the battle, asking in the background if anyone was curious as to where he went. The true reason is that he is the one who tipped off All For One about Class 1-A's imminent training session and caused the invasion. Aoyama hid because he couldn't overplay his hand and risk exposure as a traitor, and he was cowering in guilt. When he reappears, he's behaving eccentrically like usual and no one questions it because he's not taken seriously.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer…: His sparkling laser isn't very versatile, but it's powerful enough to qualify him as a pro-hero in training. He makes his first appearance effortlessly blasting apart a robot with it in the practice exam. However, during Aizawa's follow-up class tests at seeing how the students preform in tasks that aren't linked to combat, Aoyama's attempt to use his laser to Recoil Boost himself across the finish line in a 100-yard dash failed miserably because his quirk cut off mid-way, and by the time he recovered to finish boosting himself across the finish line Ashido had beaten him simply by running the track normally. His lack of creative versatility with a powerful quirk he'd been born with is later revealed to be because he wasn't born with it, and only received it recently. All For One gave him a strong straightforward power to enable him to pass the entrance exam without needing to spend time acclimatising his body to the drawbacks of using an ability it wasn't prepared for. Notably, the time Aoyama spends training under Aizawa's tutelage actually does see him noticeably improve in his handling of the power in more creative ways.
• Wine Is Classy: While it's probably not actual wine due to his age (the legal drinking age in Japan is 20), he's frequently seen drinking something red out of a wineglass during lunch scenes, fitting with his haute and effete presentation.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Upon seeing All Might defeating AFO, Yuga thought that he would be freed from AFO's sway and could at last live in peace with the rest of his friends. During that short time, he opens up a bit more to his classmates and tries to interact a bit more with them, especially Deku with whom he tries to strike an actual friendship. But AFO's big escape from Tartarus changed it all, forcing Yuga to act as The Mole and sneak information to AFO all over again.

02. Mina Ashido — Pinky

Mina Ashido — Pinky

^{Click here to see her in uniform}

Voiced by: Eri Kitamura (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English), Nathalie Varona (Latin American Spanish/TV Series), Diana Nolan (Latin American Spanish/Movies)

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

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

Quirk: Acid

"When you've actually overcome yourself deep down, come and tell me, okay?"

An emotional and excitable girl with a strange alien-like appearance. Her Quirk, "Acid", allows her to produce corrosive liquid through her skin. She can manipulate its level of solubility and viscosity, but excreting too much acid will eventually start to damage her own skin.

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• Acid Attack: Her Quirk. She can control the pH and viscosity of the fluid she secretes from her skin, meaning it can be highly acidic and thick or barely acidic and slippery. Turns out she can make it powerful enough to even melt through the skin of the Nigh-Invulnerable Gigantomachia.
• Action Girl: She tends to get more up-close-and-personal than most of the 1-A girls, as she predominantly has been shown finishing her fights with punches after using her acid to close the distance. She also uses her great agility to jump around battlefields and generally has an energetic, highly mobile fighting style.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Her skin is bright pink as a result of acid buildup.
• Apologetic Attacker: After beating Aoyama in the U.A. Sports Festival, she does an awkward apology pose.
• Bad Powers, Good People: Acid is not exactly the most heroic of powers. While it's not a problem when she has to face robots or destroy objects, she has to adjust herself against human enemies.
• Black Eyes of Crazy: Subverted. Despite somewhat looking like a female Majin Buu, she's a nice, energetic heroine. Bakugo calls her "Raccoon Eyes". Her sclerae are tinted black from the acidic content in her body. When she runs low on her reserves and dehydrates, they start reverting to white just like a normal human's.
• Book Dumb: Like Kaminari, she doesn't perform well in tests, despite having a highly versatile and useful Quirk and reaching the Top 8 of the U.A. Sports Festival. The databook gives her Intelligence as a simple, if pitiful, 1/5. Despite that, she knows that destroying Aoyama's belt is the best way to limit his ability to use his Quirk, and is able to give Gigantomachia false directions so that he'll leave her friends alone.
• Break the Cutie: The events of the War and beyond have not been kind to her. First she's revealed to suffer from severe PTSD from having seen one of Gigantomachia's rampages as a child, and seeing him again during the War causes her to have a panic attack at a critical moment. Then she's one of the students who discovers Midnight's broken, bloody remains, leaving her devastated, especially since the chaos caused by AFO's Tartarus breakout has given her practically no time to properly grieve. And then, just when it seemed things were calming down, she discovers that Aoyama, one of the students she was closest to, is the Traitor. And then, during the final battle, she ends up running into Midnight's killer, who proceeds to gleefully taunt her about it.
• Character Tics: Ashido tends to bounce when she's excited, and clings onto people when she's scared.
• Cheery Pink: Pink is effectively her color motif, and there's nary a moment where she's not smiling, being full of energy, or both.
• Child-Like Voice: Her spunky, chipper personality and overall cuteness is well-matched by a sweet, high soprano as provided by Eri Kitamura.
• Clothing Damage: According to her character file, she'll dissolve her clothes if she isn't careful using her Quirk.
• Color Character: Pink as her appearance and hero name (the second one anyway) makes abundantly clear.
• Combination Attack: With Mineta, 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.
• Cute Monster Girl: An attractive, humanoid... something.
• Dance Battler:
  • Ashido is a moderate example, because she doesn't fight with dancing, but it has an effect on her agility. A lot of her physical prowess comes from her breakdancing hobby. As Midoriya sees it, it's like she puts her whole body into everything she does. He goes on to incorporate what moves he learned from her during the U.A. Cultural Festival in his battle against Gentle, so she does have potential to utilize this in the future.
  • In My Hero Academia: Heroes: Rising, she faces off against Slice and dodges her Flechette Storm with a rapid series of flips that would make Spider-Man proud. Unfortunately, even this isn't enough for her to avoid getting hit in the thigh after a while, but she made herself an exceptionally difficult target to hit for someone without any kind of Super-Speed.
• Death Glare: Shoots one of these at Midnight's murderer when she comes across him by chance during the Final Battle and overhears him gloating about killing her. She clearly starts looking for payback so she can bring him to justice.
• Domino Mask: She wears a white one as part of her hero costume.
• Dumb Muscle: While physically strong and athletic, Ashido isn't the smartest out of her class, as she and Kaminari both fail their exam against Principal Nezu.
• The Face:
  • Ashido's good with conversation. Very, very good. She easily makes friends with other people, owing a lot of it to being outgoing and very easily noticeable. Even before coming to U.A., she had herself an entourage of friends- including bullies she won over to her side. She even got a villain to go away by simply talking to him when everyone else was avoiding him, even though she knew she was taking a risk by telling him a lie... but he didn't know that, so it was worth the risk if it meant protecting her friends from harm.
  • She could tell that Kirishima hadn't gotten past his guilt over being a coward even though he was telling her otherwise.
• Fantastic Arousal: Her horns are apparently sensitive given her reaction to them being touched.
• Genki Girl: Next to Hagakure, she's one of the liveliest girls, if not one of the liveliest students in general.
• Gyaru Girl: Of all 1-A girls, Mina has this aesthetic, having pink and unruly short hair, dark skin in the manga, and a fashionable hero costume that contains a fur collar on her vest and patterns on her bodysuit, all to fit her carefree and energetic personality.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: In spite of the potential lethality of her Quirk — or, more likely, perhaps because of it — she tends to use only mildly burning acids against human enemies and instead prefers finishing them off with punches.
• Green-Skinned Space Babe: Her motif. She is very alien in appearance and even attempts to name herself "Alien Queen", but she's still quite attractive.
• Hidden Buxom: Based on her hero costume, it's clear she's not exactly flat-chested, but it's never made clear just how busty she is until she's seen in a bikini in the anime: she has larger breasts than every girl in the class barring Yaoyorozu. Her bikini in the Smash Tap mobile game even shows generous underboob from her spilling out of her top.
• Hidden Depths: In her profile, it's stated that she likes dancing which explains why she's the most physically fit of the girls and has the best reflexes among the class. She's seen actually breakdancing in a flashback, using it to break up a fight.
• Horned Humanoid: Has a small pair of horns. They are flexible and sensitive, making it unlikely they are made of bone. Horikoshi initially made them much bigger and curly like ram's horns, but he had too much difficulty drawing them on a regular basis.
• Instant Armor: Following her winter internship, she develops "Acidman", a move that covers herself in a Blob Monster-like coating of acidic goo, which melts anything that touches it. She mentions to Kirishima that she was inspired by his "Unbreakable" move to create it. It even allows her to run a wall of flames Dabi created.
• Lightning Bruiser: Between some creative use of her Quirk and her general agility, she's very good at moving quickly and unpredictably; Heroes: Rising in particular shows her run though a complicated series of flips and gymnastic maneuvers to stay ahead of Slice's attacks. Additionally, while she's not a physical powerhouse, her Quirk can inflict a lot of damage on just about anything she aims it at.
• Love Freak: Ashido is highly interested about the love lives of other people, although she herself is confirmed to have never been in love with anyone.
• Man of Kryptonite: It turns out her powers are the perfect counter to the Sludge Villain, as her acid mixing with his body bypasses his resistance to damage. As such, the moment she starts attacking him, he runs for it.
• Meaningful Name: Her surname sounds like "acid", referring to her Quirk. The first kanji in her given name, "mi" (meaning "three") can also be pronounced "san", which is also the pronunciation of the Japanese word for "acid".
• Messy Hair: Not unlike Midoriya's, her hair sticks up in different directions.
• Modesty Shorts: Mineta laments that Ashido wears these when she starts a bit of breakdancing. He at least wants her to take the skirt off because it's not necessary, at least to him.
• Ms. Fanservice: And proud of it. When Kota stops Mineta from peeping on the girls, she has no problem thanking him while sitting on a rock outside of the water, completely naked (but still covered by Scenery Censor to the audience). She is also keen to wear a cute swimsuit she recently purchased when the Class 1-A girls think of using the school pool.
• My Suit Is Also Super: By necessity, her hero costume is acidproof.
• Nice Girl: She's shown to be rather friendly. This is exemplified in Kirishima's backstory, where she uses non-aggressive means to resolve conflicts, like using breakdancing to get bullies to leave their victim alone, and giving a villain false directions when he was harassing her friends. The only people she's shown hostility towards are Bakugo and Monoma.
• Perpetual Smiler: It's rather rare to see her without a wide smile on her face.
• Pink Means Feminine: Exaggerated. She is one of the prettier, more feminine girls in her class, and she has pink skin, pink hair and Pinky for a Hero name.
• Power Incontinence: In her civvies, Mina has at least one top with little holes burnt through the fabric from acidic sweat.
• Power Stereotype Flip: Somebody with acid as a superpower could be expected to be evil or destructive, but Ashido is a friendly, outgoing, fun-loving person.
• Required Secondary Powers: Her skin is resistant to her own acid, but using it consecutively can lead to it harming her.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: Both Rose-Haired and Rose-Skinned Sweetie. She's a perky, friendly and sociable girl who makes friends with ease and is very popular among her classmates. She's also a bit of a Love Freak, getting very enthusiastic about seeing or talking about romance.
• Sailor Fuku: During flashbacks to Kirishima's backstory, she's seen wearing a regular Japanese school uniform.
• Shipper on Deck: This comes as a result of Ashido being fascinated by romance in general, leading her to love to see romance around her and support romance as a whole, rather than any particular pairing:
  • She's intrigued with and supports the idea of Uraraka having a crush, though she doesn't know who it is at first. But once she discerns that it's Midoriya, she becomes quite giddy at the thought of the two becoming a couple.
  • To a much lesser extent, she was also entertained with the idea of Aizawa and Ms. Joke being an item.
  • Midnight and All Might getting to the joint training together is all that she needs to start thinking that they could be lovers.
• Shout-Out: When deciding what their hero names will be in Chapter 45, Ashido's original choice was "Alien Queen," a clear reference to the Xenomorph Queen in Aliens. It's even lampshaded by one of the students. There's even an image of Ashido with features of a Xenomorph, and she gives herself the sub-name "Ridley Hero".^note Though in his author's notes, Horikoshi remarks that the Alien Queen first appeared in Aliens, so "Cameron Hero" would be more appropriate.
• Signature Laugh: Although she's only used it twice, she has a distinctive "Nyee hee hee!" laugh accompanied by a mischievous smile.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Aoyama. She often steals his spotlight when he attempts to call attention to himself by either managing to be an even bigger ham than him, or by simply pointing out how he is wrong in a friendly manner. As a result, it's heavily implied that he dislikes her. She also beats him in the U.A. Sports Festival.
• The Social Expert: Confident, principled, friendly, and a spirited conversationalist, Ashido was easily one of the most popular girls in her middle school.
• Super Sliding: Ashido is able to emit a low-concentration Hollywood Acid through holes in her shoes, allowing her and anyone with her to quickly slide forward on the resulting slick surface.
• Technicolor Eyes: Her eyes have black sclerae combined with yellow irises. Horikoshi notes that they give off a very different impression before they're inked in.
• Technicolor Toxin: Her stored acid turns her skin pigmentation purplish pink and tints her sclera black for some reason.
• Trauma Button: When she's about to throw her vial of anesthetic into Gigantomachia's mouth, the giant villain rumbling about so many pests makes Ashido recognize him from the time they met and freeze. She briefly flashes back to the schoolgirl she was then in her mind, accidentally losing her grip on the vial in the process. If Kirishima hadn't pushed her out of the way, Gigantomachia would've crushed her.
• Tricked-Out Shoes: She has special shoes with her hero costume that allow her to secrete acid directly from her feet (presumably worn without socks) that she can glide around on. She was permitted to use them during the U.A. Sports Festival because they technically don't constitute a full costume.
• Underboobs: Her bikini in the Smash Tap mobile game shows the undersides of her breasts as well.
• Wild Take: When she and the rest of the extra lessons group excitedly think they'll do a courage test in the forest during the Forest Training Camp Arc and Aizawa bursts their bubble by informing them that they're gonna have a class with him right now, she reacts like this, shouting "you've got to be kidding me!" in a weird, exaggerated voice complete with Color Failure.
• You Don't Look Like You: Her Bellfine 1/8 scale figure shows her spraying green acid instead of white.

03. Tsuyu Asui — Froppy

Tsuyu Asui — Froppy

Rainy Season Hero

^{Click here to see her in uniform}

Voiced by: Aoi Yūki (Japanese), Monica Rial (English), María José Estevez (Latin American Spanish/TV series), Jennifer Medel (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: Frog

"It doesn't matter how righteous our feelings are. If we start another fight...if we break the law...then we're no better than the villains!"

A young girl with a strange appearance caused by her Quirk, "Frog", which allows her to do pretty much anything a frog can, such as jump long distances, swim with extreme agility and extend her tongue like a flexible steel cable. She is calm and level-headed even in the most stressful situations, and tends to bluntly say whatever is on her mind.

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• The Ace: Recovery Girl describes her as "a stellar hero with no obvious weaknesses", able to handle situations under pressure.
• Achilles' Heel:
  • Her tongue is a primary weapon, but can be used against her if grabbed.
  • She's also vulnerable to sharp variances in temperature, as seen when Saiko Intelli forced her into a coma by locking her in a chilled room during the Preliminary License Exams.
• Action Girl: While she physically fights out of self-defense, she's quite good at it, as shown when she drop-kicked a villain about to attack Midoriya. She also put quite a fight against Innsmouth and his crew when they held Sirius hostage.
• Affectionate Nickname: Insists to anyone she makes friends with on being called "Tsuyu-chan" ("Tsu" in the English dub), which her classmates endearingly calls her so.
• Amphibian Assault: Can make use of her Frog Quirk and attributes in full during battle. This include her long and versatile tongue.
• Animal Motifs: Froppy is froggy! Fittingly, her first friend was a snake girl.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: "Does whatever a frog can!" To boot, she speaks with a nasal voice reminiscent of a frog's croak.
• Anime Hair: It appears to be tied in a bow.
• Badass Adorable: The badass part becomes obvious after she dropkicked a shark-like villain in order to save Midoriya's life. The adorable part comes from being an endearing Cute Monster Girl who makes a variety of cute facial expressions and always insists that her friends call her Tsuyu-chan ("Tsu" in the dub). Even her hero name sounds adorable, as lampshaded by her class when she came up with it.
• Badass in Distress: Despite being a fairly competent fighter, she still has a lot to learn and is out for the count if villains manage to catch her (such as Innsmouth and Toga).
• Beneath the Mask: Tsuyu is calm and unwavering on the outside, but on the inside, she beats herself up real hard.
• Big Damn Heroes: Saves Midoriya and Mineta after they're warped to a water area, and attacked by a fish-type villain.
• Brutal Honesty:
  • Not afraid to say what's on her mind. After the Bakugo vs. Uraraka fight, she has an exchange with Kaminari along the lines of this:
    Kaminari: (to Bakugo) If it were me, I wouldn't dare to go all out on a fragile girl like that.
    Tsuyu: You got easily beaten, though.
  • She acknowledges this trait of hers in Chapter 99, but then reveals she subjects herself to the very same treatment in private. However, being truthful with herself is especially painful, because she has to live with the shame of confessing to her own mistakes, and realizing her honesty actually makes things worse sometimes. When she works up the courage to tell everyone that her remarks were misguided, it also becomes clear that, had she held back her real feelings, she wouldn't be able to live with herself. Getting all this out in the open is enough to make her cry buckets. Fortunately, she has people who care enough to instantly hold her and comfort her once she succumbs to her tears.
• Catchphrase: "Ribbit-ribbit." ("kero kero" in Japanese). She is part-frog, after all.
• Chameleon Camouflage: The result of her training her Quirk is that Tsuyu can now camouflage herself much like certain species of frogs.
• Character Tics: She has a habit of touching her chin with her point finger in contemplation. She also can't seem to keep her tongue in her mouth, and has a habit of walking around bowlegged in a frog-like pose. She also tends to keep her arms pronated as a default posture.
• Chekhov's Skill: During the USJ Arc at the end of Season 1, she tells Midoriya and Mineta that one of her abilities is to secrete a "toxic" mucus that actually only stings a little. This finally comes into play in Season 5, when she uses it to mask Kaminari and Shinsou's scents during the mock battle against Class 1-B, fooling Shishida's sense of smell and giving them the upper hand.
• Combination Attack: With Uraraka, they can use the combo move Meteor Fafrotskies — Uraraka levitates debris and Tsuyu, and Tsuyu uses her tongue to throw the debris. They first use it against two giant villains during their internship with Ryukyu.
• Cute Monster Girl: You wouldn't expect a human frog to be this adorable.
• Diving Kick: Her signature attack technique, due to having strong legs out of being part-frog.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": Only her friends call her "Tsu". She won't let just anyone do it, and tells the psycho villain Toga not to.
• Emotionless Girl: Played with as a misconception people tend to have about her at first glance, because her looks can deceive. She has a relatively unemotive face much like a frog's, and on the outside, it makes her appear aloof and a little creepy to strangers, which is why it was hard for her to find true friends during middle school. She really does feels emotions just as much as anybody else would, some even more so than others.
• First Friend: To Habuko, a snake girl she met in middle school who had previously had a hard time making friends due to her frightening appearance. Notably, Habuko was also her First Friend, as Tsuyu hadn't had any time to make friends before due to having to spend all her time after school looking after her siblings.
• First-Name Basis: Insists people call her by her first name, Tsuyu, and add "chan" to it, and does the same for most of her female classmates. A bonus chapter showing her backstory implies she considers it a sign of friendship, due to it being what her first friend referred to her with. However, if she refuses to let someone call her by that name, it's a sign of hostility.
• Friendless Background: Thanks to studying and having to look after her siblings, she didn't make any friends until the last year of middle school.
• Frog Men: Not only does she have froglike features, but her entire family are all frog people.
• Goggles Do Nothing: Her hero costume includes green-tinted goggles that are usually perched on the top of her head. She hasn't been seen using them yet, though presumably, they improve her vision underwater.
• Graceful in Their Element: Being a Little Bit Beastly makes her stand out a little due to her frog-like characteristics, but she has excellent mobility in water.
• Hair Color Dissonance: Her hair is either black, black with teal highlights, or teal entirely.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: How good a superpower is the ability to do "whatever a frog can", exactly? Good enough to qualify into an elite hero school with a 1 in 300 admittance rate, apparently. She has super jumping, a prehensile tongue, mildly poisonous mucus, Wall Crawling, and other amphibian superpowers. Not a bad package overall.
• In a Single Bound: Being a frog, she can jump very high.
• Jack of All Stats: Above average agility, strength, intelligence, and special abilities. This makes her extremely adaptable to any emergency, and she can be instantly plugged into any team and improve it. That being said, she also suffers from not being a heavy hitter, so she excels as a support fighter, but typically leaves the actual attacking to the rest of her team.
• Kick Chick: Her signature attack is a flying kick with both legs, from various angles.
• Last-Name Basis: Goes out of her way to try and defy this, telling her friends to call her Tsuyu-chan (which is especially informal and endearing) instead of Asui-san (the traditional honorific) even in the midst of battle.
• Little Bit Beastly: Has a frog tongue as well as certain frog abilities like croaking and secreting poison. She also has elongated hands, feet, and digits as well as the limberness of a frog.
• Logical Weakness: According to Recovery Girl, Tsu has no "obvious weaknesses". That said, having frog attributes also means she has frog weaknesses:
  • She is particularly weak to low temperatures which turn her sluggish and weak as her body gets ready to hibernate, much like an actual frog. She is incapacitated this way by a group of enemies in Episode 55.
  • Her long tongue is an easy target. Toga managed to leave a slight cut. An octopus villain in her intern assignment was able to grab it.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: And hers is long enough to be tied in a bow. It's a bit impractical in a fighting situation, however, as Toga was able to pin her to a tree by her hair with a throwing knife.
• Lovely Angels: She can be this with Uraraka. The two easily cooperate with each other while as seen during their fight against Toga and also both do the hero work studies together at the Ryukyu agency, where to the point that they have created a Super Move by combining their respective Quirks: Meteor Fafrotskies which was used against a giantified villain.
• Meaningful Name: "Asui" contains the character for "frog".
• Multipurpose Tongue: Again, frog. Overly-Long Tongue is to be expected.
• Nerves of Steel: One of her strong points as a heroine is her ability to remain calm, no matter how dire the situation may seem.
• Nice Girl: Brutal Honesty aside, Tsuyu really is a sweetheart who just has problems emoting properly.
• Non-Standard Character Design: She looks more cartoonish than her other classmates — especially with her big stylized eyes, wider mouth and bow-legged stance — but is certainly far from a Gonk.
• Not So Stoic: Poor girl actually cries in Chapter 99 when she expresses her feelings to Bakugo's rescue squad.
• Odd Friendship: Who would think that a frog-like girl would be best friends with a girl with the appearance of a snake?
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She's normally calm and very open with her thoughts. So when she expresses to Bakugo's rescue squad that she doesn't know what to say to them regarding what happened and then starts crying due to her conflicted emotions, it really hammers in how heavily that arc affected everyone.
• Pervert Revenge Mode: If Mineta makes an inappropriate comment, even if it's not directed at her, she's usually the one to dish out some Laser-Guided Karma.
• Poisonous Person: Somewhat, her stomach can make poisonous mucus and she can secrete it, but it makes more of a stinging sensation than anything really dangerous. By the time of the second movie, it's strong enough to paralyze a villain for a few seconds.
• Power Perversion Potential: Having a prehensile tongue that's long and strong enough to restrain someone with, there are a lot of possibilities. Comes up briefly in-story after she captures a student from Class 1-B during a joint training exercise, and afterward the guy's heart is pounding at the memory of it.
• Promotion to Parent: Due to her parents often being away from home, she acts as this for her younger siblings.
• Running on All Fours: She occasionally runs on all fours in a frog-like stance when she needs to get somewhere quickly, which further highlights her overall frog motif.
• Semantic Superpower: Doing anything a frog can do means the following: extremely powerful leg muscles, a lightning-fast tongue like a prehensile steel cable, adhering to walls, inverting her stomach and secreting toxins, and invisibility through camouflage. Needless to say, she's a very versatile heroine. On the downside, she's ectothermic and becomes sluggish when it's cold.
• Shipper on Deck: Less pronounced than Mina but she also supports Ochaco's romantic affection for Izuku, she just does it quietly. It's to the point that she becomes Ochaco's wingwoman, interrupting Toga before she can spill the beans about Ochaco's crush and thus ruin her chance to confess properly.
• Shout-Out: Her Quirk seems to be one to Toad from X-Men, having very similar powers to his due to their amphibious physiologies.
• The Stoic: Like water off a frog's back, nothing really fazes her and her expression rarely changes. This is noted to be her strongest point as a hero, as her always cool-headed personality allows her to make good judgments in many situations and also gives a calming effect on others, making her an emotional pillar in teams.
• Stomach of Holding: She's able to hold fairly large objects in her stomach, but getting them out leaves her nauseated. One of which were a pair of prop handcuffs needed to "arrest" Ectoplasm during the Final Exam.
• Super-Strength: One of her most important Required Secondary Powers. She can carry people with her tongue and her legs are as enormously powerful as you might expect from a human who can jump around like a frog.
• Thinking Out Loud: She does this sometimes, often to the point of being overly descriptive.
• Tongue Trauma: Gets a small cut on her tongue during the Forest Training Camp, which thankfully heals.
• Took a Level in Badass: Tsuyu struggled against Ectoplasm during their spar and, as mentioned below under Weak, but Skilled, she has trouble doing major damage to villains as evidenced by her 1/5 rating in power. By the time she took up her internship, Tsuyu has trained enough to be able to knock out a Gigantification Quirk user, who was the size of a small apartment complex, in one attack after Nejire knocked them over.
• The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Both of her parents are Gonks, but Tsuyu and both of her siblings look far cuter.
• Verbal Tic: "Kero", the Japanese onomatopoeia for a frog's croaking. In English, it naturally becomes "ribbit".
• Vocal Dissonance: Despite her rather cute appearance, Tsuyu's voice is rather gruff and frog-like. Her dub voice can best be described as "Peridot with a cold".
• Wall Crawl: Able to stick to surfaces and climb along them.
• Weak, but Skilled: As displayed in her official stats, her Power sits at a miserable 1, her Speed at a middling 3, but her Technique and Intelligence are both 4. Overall, while her powerset is not ideal for taking down stronger villains—she lacks the sheer power for that—it is excellent for rescue purposes both on land (she can grab someone from a great distance with her long tongue, then leap to safety) and underwater (where she has frog-like swimming capability). Additionally, her Cooperativeness stat is 5, and she has proven skillful at providing support for teammates, such as by hindering villains or pulling allies out of dangerous situations.

04. Tenya Iida — Ingenium

Tenya Ida — Ingenium

^{Click here to see him in uniform}

Voiced by: Kaito Ishikawa (Japanese), J. Michael Tatum (English), Gabriel Gama (Latin American Spanish/Movies), Luis Carreño (Latin American Spanish/TV Series), Gabriel Noya (Brazilian Portuguese)

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

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

Quirk: Engine

"I'm a novice. I can't measure up to their standards! Be that as may... I have to stand up! Never again! Never again will they... or my brother... Leave me behind in the dust!"

Class 1-A's president. He's an earnest, goal-oriented but rather uptight young man who comes from a wealthy family of heroes. His big brother, the first Ingenium, is a renowned hero who was critically injured by the Hero Killer Stain, and he wants to become just like him, as well as defeat Stain himself. His Quirk, "Engine", takes the form of engine-like tubes on his calves, giving him incredible speed and kicking strength.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: He has blue eyes in the anime adaptation while his eye color was red in the manga.
• Always Someone Better: Believes he will never be as good a hero as his brother, but as it turns out, his brother thinks the same thing of him, believing that in the long run, Tenya will be a far better hero than he ever was.
• Animal Motif: Horses. In a lot of fan arts with Iida, he is often seen depicted as an anthropomorphic horse or riding one. His Quirk and fighting style are also reminiscent of a horse: he has great speed and is a heavy hitter thanks to Engine enhancing his kicking strength. His Hero Costume is also a gleaming white color, like an elegant White Stallion. Just as horses carry a lot of burdens due to how valuable and strong they are, Iida himself also carries much burden due to being the de facto leader of Class 1-A when Aizawa isn't around.
• Big Brother Worship: Admires his big brother and aims to become a great hero like him.
• Bizarre Human Biology: Although his Quirk looks mechanical, it's actually an organic combustion engine that runs off of fuel produced by his body. Pieces of it will regrow if torn off, and will be stronger than the old ones provided his body is also strong enough. All the Ingeniums do this at some point, as the parts grown as a child don't work well for an athletic young adult, but the process is implied to not be able to be done under full anesthetic and must be done on their own because the operation is a family secret. Ida ripped off his own exhaust sometime after the provisional hero license exam, bleeding from the holes and was clearly in extreme agony.
• Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: Manages to fight off Stain along with Midoriya, but he has sustained serious nerve damage in his left arm.
• Character Development: Originally, he had a serious case of tunnel vision, often focusing on a single goal to the detriment of others, such as his abandoning Uraraka to the Zero Pointer to focus on the entrance exam, or being so consumed with revenge against Stain that he ignored the injured Native in favor of pursuing it. Come the Joint Training Arc, rather than pursue Honenuki fruitlessly, he instead intercepts Kaibara as he battles Ojiro, opting to treat the exercise as real and take out an immediate threat rather than let his own concerns distract him.
• Characterization Marches On: In his first appearance, Ida was considerably more arrogant than he would be later in the plot. His more endearing traits and Character Tics also wouldn't show up until the end of the Heroes vs. Villains exercise.
• Character Tics:
  • Straightening his arms and gesturing. A running gag with him is that he seems to be unaware of what his hands are doing, so he makes more and more bizarre hand gestures while trying to express himself. In Vigilantes, his brother even asks him if he's a robot in a flashback.
  • Addressing all his classmates, including girls, with "-kun" honorific, as a sign of a professional relationship. Especially noticeable when he has to address Tsuyu, who asks everyone to call her "Tsuyu-chan", which results in Ida calling her "Tsuyu-chan-kun".
• Clark Kent Outfit: His school uniform doesn't reveal anything, but he has the body of a bodybuilder, to the point of having an 8-pack showing through the clothes he first wore during the admission exam. He is actually the most muscular member of the main cast, and one of the most muscular among the students. This is justified given his Heroic Build.
• Class Representative: Fits the archetype to a T, even getting a Lampshade Hanging from Uraraka. Interestingly, he initially supported Midoriya for the position despite really wanting it, and was granted the position after Midoriya acknowledged his leadership skills.
• The Comically Serious: Everything is Serious Business to him, including playing a villain, complete with evil laugh and thoughts. Unfortunately for him, he's stuck in a Wacky Homeroom.
  Ida: [After Honenuki softens Todoroki's ice and Ida gets trapped inside it] Are you trying to keep us from working as a team? You crafty villain!
  Shinso: He's really in character, huh?
• Crazy-Prepared: Played for Laughs:
  • During the first simulation against Uraraka, he empties the room of all objects that aren't nailed down so that she can't use her Quirk, though ultimately it doesn't do much good since Midoriya breaks the floor open for her to use the ensuing debris as emergency ammunition.
  • He has an entire wall filled with shelves of spare prescription glasses in his dorm room because he expects them to get destroyed during their intense training, much to Uraraka's amusement.
• Demoted to Extra: In the beginning of the series Ida was given a lot of focus and treated as one of the primary main characters. Since the Field Training Arc, Ida has not had an arc focused on him, and even has slowly been disappearing from marketing. While he still has a decent size role, his role has been noticeable been reduced since that arc and is more of a side character in the series at this point.
• Ditzy Genius: Has shades of this. His academic performance is so strong that he's second-best in the class. Despite this, it's clear that he struggles when dealing with basic level social interaction, usually coming off as too loud and intense.
• Diving Kick: His most common finishing move. Justified by the fact that the engines in his calves multiply the force of his kicks, making this move particularly efficient in his case.
• Evil Is Hammy: Invoked. When playing the role of a villain for an exercise, he includes stereotypical villainous thoughts and laughter in his actions.
• Explosive Overclocking: What his secret weapon is. He can put the "engines" in his legs into overdrive, but stalls immediately afterwards.
• Extremity Extremist: Mostly fights with his legs. This is justified as they are strengthened by the boost of the engines.
• Family Theme Naming: Tenya and his brother, Tensei.
• Friendly Rivalry: Genuinely likes and respects Midoriya, but also feels the need to test himself against his friend so that he doesn't get lost in Midoriya's shadow.
• Hair Color Dissonance:
  • His hair is either black or dark blue depending on the artwork.
  • In the anime, his eyes are blue, but in the manga, they're red, orange, or gold.
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: A somewhat mixed example. Whenever he is in full uniform, he almost always wears his helmet. During his fight with Stain, however, his helmet is knocked off by Stain at the beginning of their fight, and he doesn't put it back on during the ensuing battle.
• Heroic Build: Justified. He needs a muscular body in order to keep up with the speed of his legs and wear his heavy body armor.
• Heroic Lineage: He comes from a long line of heroes and wishes to be as great as his brother.
• Hot-Blooded: A particularly polite and well-behaved example, but still counts:
  Tsuyu: Iida's got a really oddball way of unleashing his passion. Weirdo.
• Hunk: A clear-cut straight example with his massive yet chiseled physique, his height, his square jaw (one of the few to have this in class 1-A) and overall good looks.
• Inconsistent Spelling: His surname can be romanized as "Ida" or "Iida". The anime has gone with the latter, but the official Viz translations go with the former.
• Informed Flaw: After the battle with Stain Iida's left arm suffers severe nerve damage with him stating that he would have trouble moving his fingers correctly from then on. Since Iida primarily uses his legs for fighting the audience never gets to see this problem affect him in his day-to-day life.
• Keeping the Handicap: He receives a scar and residual damage to his arm after his fight with Stain. Although he could have had it removed with surgery, he decides to keep it as a reminder of his past mistakes until he feels he learned his lesson.
• Knight in Shining Armor: Wears a set of full plate armor, and has the noble and honorable personality down to a T as well. Unlike Aoyama who also wears a knight-themed hero costume, Ida's is more modernized and looks like it came out of a sci-fi series. He's even a knight in the Heroic Fantasy-themed popularity poll art.
• Large and in Charge: One of the tallest pupils of Class 1-A, second only to Rikido in the muscle department, tallest and most muscular of the main cast. Current class rep and resident Team Dad.
• Large Ham: Played for Laughs. Iida tends to be fairly loud, make exaggerated hand gestures and poses, and act overdramatic in situations that don't call for it.
• Legacy Character: His brother was the previous Ingenium, one of a long line of speedster heroes. He takes up the name at his brother's request after his brother was critically injured by Stain.
• Leitmotif: "Ingenium".
• Lightning Bruiser: Not only do his engines give him super speed, they also let him hit like a truck with his kicks.
• Logical Weakness: Jamming the exhaust pipes of his leg engines will cause them to stop working. Similarly forcing his engines to go beyond what they normally can handle will cause them to overheat and render him useless.
• Milking the Giant Cow: One of his Character Tics is jerking his arms robotically for emphasis, making it resemble this.
• Mr. Fanservice: During endurance training at the pool, his hunky physique is shown off for all its worth.
• Nice Guy: A very kind and polite guy. After their first battle, he's seen rubbing Uraraka's back as she tries not to puke from her Quirk. He also (mistakenly) assumes that Midoriya got into the academy because he figured out the hidden purpose of the exam, and apologizes for doubting his abilities.
• Not So Above It All:
  • Despite his attempts at being a stoic and composed leader, as his reactions to Yaoyorozu's analysis of his performance during the Heroes vs. Villains exercise and Ectoplasm calling his Recipro Burst a technique worthy of being called a "Super Move" show, Iida really likes being praised.
  • After Midoriya, Uraraka, Kirishima, and Tsuyu came home from their mission, Ida stepped in to stop everyone else from freaking out over them. After Midoriya tells Ida that they really are alright, Iida say "Well then..." and then begins to freak out over them harder than anyone else had.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • After his brother is seriously injured, Iida goes to visit him in the hospital and starts running in the halls.
  • When Midoriya finds out that Iida abandoned his post during the Hosu City crisis, he remarks it's really unlike Ida to do that. This is part of how he deduces where Ida went.
• Out of Focus: Sometimes, secondary characters get as much if not more attention than him, particularly Tokoyami and Yaoyorozu. For quite a while, he was often in the background compared to his classmates, putting his status as a main character into question. Come the Joint Training Arc, he's firmly reestablished his presence by displaying his improved skill and resolve.
• Poor Communication Kills: It's noted more than once that his issues with Stain became a serious problem because he didn't talk them out with anyone. Iida brings this up later when Midoriya is going through a hard time of his own during the Internship arc. Unfortunately, Midoriya is not allowed to talk about his problems this time.
• Power at a Price: Iida's upgraded special move, the "Recipro Turbo", required he remove the muffler in his legs so his Quirk will grow new, stronger muffler. In addition, while it effectively allows him to use his Recipro Burst for up to 10 minutes, it sacrifices control in the process, leaving Ida running out of control at high speeds.
• Punny Name: "Idaten" means "sprinter" in Japanese.
• Ring Out: During their duel at the U.A. Sports Festival, he defeats Shiozaki by grabbing her and pushing her out of the ring before she could entangle him with her brambles.
• Rotating Protagonist: He tends to fall in and out of focus depending on the arc. He gets a spotlight in the Battle Trial, U.A. Sports Festival, Field Training, Hideout Raid, and Joint Training Arcs.
• Scars Are Forever: His left arm ends up suffering from residual damage after the battle against Stain. This is an invoked example as his arm could have been fixed through surgery, but he decided to keep it damaged as a reminder of the encounter, at least until he feels he has learnt his lesson.
• Secretly Selfish:
  • This pops up a couple of times with Ida, such as abandoning Uraraka when she was trapped during the Entrance Exam. He also totally ignored the wounded pro hero that Stain was about to kill because he was so focused on his revenge. Stain and Todoroki call him out on this.
  • He chose to join Todoroki's team instead of Midoriya's during the cavalry battle, saying that Midoriya might be his friend, but right now he's also his rival. By contrast, Uraraka joined Midoriya's team without a second thought, despite the target on Midoriya's back. Of course, Uraraka later concedes that Ida was right to think of Midoriya as a rival, and is determined to succeed on his own.
• Stoic Spectacles: Has a serious expression for most of the time, and his square glasses help this image.
• Super-Speed: His Quirk allows him to run very fast. He has literal engines on his legs. He's even faster than Gran Torino after doing some self-surgery on his legs. In the Final War Arc, with some support from Todoroki, he proves capable of breaking the sound barrier.
• Team Dad: Invoked. He tries his best to remain a composed leader figure and have everyone follow the rules, to mixed results.
  • He reaches the peak of it in the Dark Hero Arc. When Deku flies away from his classmates in order to hunt All For One and Tomura by himself, which would've been self destructive for Deku, Iida being the only one able to keep up with his speed manages to grab Deku's hand and reach to him emotionally despite the latter's protests, by saying that "Ingenium is a hero who will run anywhere to grab the hand of a lost child.". After this speech, Iida grabs Midoriya in his arms and lands with him safely in Kirishima's arms, who was there to stop the impact. Mind you, that midoriya is older than Iida.
• Too Fast to Stop: He can run super-fast when he activates his leg engines, but deactivating them takes time. Bakugo takes advantage of this in the Training of the Dead OVA by baiting Ida into running after him and leading him straight into a trap made of capture tape.
• Trademark Favorite Drink: His Quirk is fueled by the liquids he drinks and orange juice has the highest octane rating of everything he's tried. As such, he will always drink that if it's available.
• Tragic Keepsake: His own hero name; "Ingenium" was originally his brother's before he was paralysed from the waist-down by Stain. He initially refuses to use it out of respect and trauma, instead choosing to use his own name until he confronts Stain himself, now vowing to take him down using this title.
• Virtuous Character Copy: He is, at first glance, a dead ringer for Yukio from Blue Exorcist — both are tall mature-looking guys with glasses, being overly serious workaholics who idolize their older brothers but are also prone to competitiveness and self-deprecation. But while Yukio is kinda mentally unstable, prone to abuse his brother Rin and even briefly does a Face-Heel Turn, Iida is only briefly snaps at Midoriya for his seemingly reckless behaviorand is otherwise friendly and loyal to everyone his classmates.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Drinking any carbonated beverage will make his engines stall.
• Younger Than They Look: He is only 16 despite having a body that looks more suitable for an adult. It actually comes in handy when Yaoyorozu has them disguise themselves on the mission to rescue Bakugo, as he can pass for someone who looks older.

05. Ochaco Uraraka — Uravity

See her page.

06. Mashirao Ojiro — Tailman

Mashirao Ojiro — Tailman

Martial Arts Hero

^{Click here to see him in uniform}

Voiced by: Kosuke Miyoshi (Japanese), Mike McFarland (English), Juank Jurado (Latin American Spanish/TV series)

Debut: Chapter 8 (Manga), Episode 5 (Anime)

Quirk: Tail

"But this is the place everyone earned by clashing at their full power... I wouldn't feel right standing among you without even understanding how I got here, I just can't do it"

A discreet yet determined student whose Quirk, "Tail", manifests as a thick, prehensile tail which he can use as a third limb. He is also skilled at martial arts and has a deep sense of honor, but often struggles to stand out among his classmates, a fact he's himself is very aware of.

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• Animal Motifs: Monkeys, due to a mix of his tail and martial arts prowess. In the U.A. Sports Festival Arc, Shinso mockingly compares him to one and he's depicted as one in a piece of side art that portrayed all of Class 1-A (except Bakugo) as animals.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: Unlike others whose fighting styles are based entirely on their Quirks, Ojiro fights using martial arts in combination with his tail for fast and acrobatic moves. His epithet is even "The Martial Arts Hero".
• Battle Amongst the Flames: During the USJ battle, he was among the students warped to the fire disaster simulator. He's seen still easily dispatching some low-level villains after All Might punches the Nomu sky-high.
• Boring, but Practical: His Quirk is as simple as it gets, to the point that it is used as an explanation for Quirk Factors in Chapter 135: a sturdy tail that can be used for attacking, movement or as a third arm. Very useful, but not exactly flashy.
• Character Tics: In the manga, wagging his tail when excited.
• Color Motif: White. The "Jiro" in his last name means White in Japanese, and his hero costume is White.
• Fastball Special: He and Ida perform one in the anime when fighting Power Loader. With Ojiro's tail wrapped around his leg, Ida launches him at high speed towards the goal.
• Fights Like a Normal: Downplayed. A tail is not at all normal on the modern-day human, but he learned martial arts to supplement his tail as a weapon.
• The Generic Guy:
  • Chapter 98 shows the various rooms of Class 1-A. Midoriya's is basically an All Might shrine, Koda has pets in his room, and Tokoyami has a goth room. However, in contrast, Ojiro's room is completely plain and simple.
  • This trait of his is continuously lampshaded, with other characters often remarking how ordinary he is.
• Human Furniture Is a Pain in the Tail: An extra info page notes that his tail makes it tricky to sit in and get up from normal chairs, and he prefers ones that have holes in the back.
• Humble Hero: He's very self-aware and he knows that he's not the flashiest student around but he's making the best of what he has.
• Inconsistent Spelling: His surname's proper spelling is "Ojiro", but some non-Japanese-speaking fans incorrectly spell it "Ojirou", assuming it uses the same rule as "Bakugo/Bakugou" or "Jiro/Jirou".
• Meaningful Name: "Mashirao" is a common Japanese name. It also includes the kanji for "tail".
• Nice Guy: Ojiro has also been shown to be very sweet and humble, as he is a very caring and empathetic person when it comes to the emotions and well-being of other people. A good example of this is during the Sports Festival, where he's visibly guilty about turning down Midoriya's request to team-up during the cavalry battle thanks to having so many points. He then informs him of Shinso's Brainwashing in the following round to make it up to him.
• Non-Uniform Uniform: His school uniform pants and gym pants are custom-tailored with an opening for his tail. Additionally, he wears white sneakers instead of the usual brown dress shoes that are worn by almost all the other students.
• Out of Focus: Stemming from his status as The Generic Guy, Ojiro doesn't get much attention in regards to character development or unique combat techniques (having a fairly basic Quirk with some athletic moves and martial arts), and winds up being underutilized beyond a few scattered moments of attention, and isn't very prominent in movies and OVAs.
• Phrase Catcher: Other students are always commenting on how plain/ordinary everything he does is.
• Prehensile Tail: His Quirk gives him a thick, strong tail that he uses as an extra limb while doing martial arts.
• Put on a Bus: Baring a cameo in the credits, he, Aoyama, and Koda are the only members of Class 1-A who don't appear in My Hero Academia: Two Heroes.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: He's occasionally shown playing the Savvy Guy to Hagakure's Energetic Girl.
• Skintone Sclerae: Weirdly enough, they end up making him look more Asian than the rest of the cast, who are prominently Japanese. This is averted in the anime, which whitens his eyes, and it seems like the author updated Ojiro's design to match in at least one subsequent color spread chapter of the manga, where some of the characters are modeling fashion.
• Spin Attack: During the Joint Training Arc, he demonstrates that he took this kind of attack as a specialty along with his trademark Tail Slap. He's now capable of spinning his tail so hard it generates a gust of wind strong enough to send his opponents flying.
• Tail Slap: His tail is part of his martial arts repertoire.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: He seems completely unfazed by Denki regularly twiddling with his tail, especially its fluffy end.
• Weak, but Skilled:
  • Although we haven't really seen him in action yet, he passed the combat-heavy entrance exam with nothing but a Quirk that just gives him a tail, with the rest being martial arts he learned. This is something of notice in an exam that favors students with powerful, flashy Quirks capable of destruction.
  • He managed to hold out against a group of foes by himself using hit-and-run tactics when the League of Villains attacked USJ.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer…: He once got chastised for using his tail in a way most people would expect, thus ending up a predictable fighter.

07. Denki Kaminari — Chargebolt

Denki Kaminari — Chargebolt

Stun Gun Hero

^{Click here to see him in uniform}

Voiced by: Tasuku Hatanaka (Japanese), Kyle Phillips (English), Juan Sebastián Naranjo (Latin American Spanish/TV series), Gabriel Ortiz (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: Electrification

"You only heard bits and pieces about us, but go on acting like a know-it-all... quit dissing my mates, damn it!"

A feisty but goofy and slightly dim-witted young boy who often tries to show off and look cool in front of the girls. His Quirk, "Electrification", allows him to discharge electricity from his body. While this is extremely powerful, there is a limit to how much electricity he can release at once; going over this limit short circuits his own brain, temporarily turning him into a giggling idiot.

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• All Men Are Perverts: While Kaminari is not as bad as Mineta, he has no problem in joining the latter's antics.
• Asleep in Class: In this◊ set of keychains featuring Class 1-A students at their desks, Kaminari is asleep and snoring while everyone else is taking notes.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Has spiky blonde hair with a completely natural lightning-shaped streak, and he just so happens to have electric powers.
• Badass Adorable: A goofy and very kind guy who will shock you to oblivion if you harm his friends.
• Begin with a Finisher: One of his biggest early shortcomings is his tendency to default to his full power attack, "Indiscriminate Shock: 1.3 Million Volts," as soon as possible, which results in his brain short-circuiting. In his Sports Festival "fight" against Shiozaki, her ability to No-Sell his electricity means their match lasts about 15 seconds as a result. This frequently backfires even when successful, as he immediately becomes The Load; which, in cases like the USJ attack, leaves him very open to follow-up attacks. A large part of his Character Development involves him becoming a more patient and tactical fighter.
• Book Dumb: Does horribly in tests and ended up with the lowest midterm score of Class 1-A, although it has been shown that he can manage his way through villain attacks just fine.
• Butt-Monkey: Doesn't have it quite as bad as Mineta, but the dumb state he's left in when he short circuits and some of his screw-ups, like his match against Shiozaki, have been the subject of a good few jokes at his expense.
• Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: He has a crush on Jiro, but doesn't include her in his Imagine Spot of a maid cafe for 1-A.
• Captain Obvious: Kaminari will often point out the obvious, which is one of the main reasons why he often passes off as the class' resident idiot.
• Catchphrase: Whenever he discharges too much electricity, his brain short circuits for an hour and the only thing he can say is "Yaaaaay!" or "Wheyyyyyy!"
• Character Tics: Whenever he's around Ojiro, he tends to pet and fiddle with his tail, to which Ojiro pays no mind.
• Chekhov's Gunman: He serves as this in the Final Battle of the Heroes Rising movie. Deku and Bakugo had been severely injured by Nine's devastating lightning attack in a previous fight. With all the action and chaos of the final battle it's easy to overlook the fact that Kaminari hasn't made an appearance despite everyone else pushing themselves to their absolute limits to defeat the villains. It eventually transpires that this is because Kaminari was hiding in wait the entire time for Nine to unleash another lightning attack so he could absorb it, which allows Deku and Bakugo keep fighting.
• Chivalrous Pervert: While he has no problem with ogling the girls or joining in Mineta's cheerleading joke, he won't go as far as Mineta. He acts very differently with Jiro, as he doesn't include her in his maid fantasy.
• Civvie Spandex: His hero costume is not very different from Jiro's, favoring a trendy look over any sort of practicality. He gets a few gadgets later, but he still looks relatively casual. According to supplementary materials, they were made by the same designer, so this may have been intentional on the designer's part.
• Cool Shades: His second hero costume includes a blue-tinted pair. According to supplementary materials, they update him with info on the location of his flying projectiles.
• Cowardly Lion: Spends the first stage of the provisional hero license exam thoroughly freaked out by Seiji Shishikura's Quirk, but after Shishikura insults his classmates one too many times, Kaminari finally goes on the offense. Then during the raid on the Villains' HQ, he's panicking at being on the front lines at first, but after some encouraging words from Tokoyami and Midnight, he goes on to cancel out a wide-range electricity attack.
• Curtains Match the Window: His golden eyes match his blond hair.
• Deadpan Snarker: Not as much as Jiro, but he can be this at times. His primary target is usually Bakugou.
• Death or Glory Attack: "Indiscriminate Shock: 1.3 Million Volts", where he unleashes all the electricity in his body at once. It's strong enough to fry an entire crowd of opponents, but if there's anyone left standing... well, taking out a brain-fried Kaminari just got easier for them.
• The Ditz: While not that stupid, he definitely counts while in his "moron state", when he literally short circuits his brain and temporarily becomes a babbling idiot.
• Dumb Blond: Blond hair, and a lovable idiot.
• Elemental Absorption:
  • During the raid on the Paranormal Liberation Front, it's revealed that alongside producing electricity and being heavily resistant to it, he's also capable of absorbing it, which he demonstrates by completely negating an incredibly powerful electric attack from a villain.
  • It shows up again in the 2nd Movie. Which has Denki acting as a lightning rod to save Deku and Bakugo from Nine's weather manipulation Quirk.
• Elemental Hair Colors: His hair is blonde and spiky, fitting for a guy with electric powers.
• Elemental Personalities: He's bright, cheerful and energetic, matching his electricity theme.
• Everyone Has Standards: Implied. Kaminari is a bit of a Casanova and never misses the chance to hit on a beautiful lady, and was even excited to see the girls of Class 1-A in swimsuits, but he never goes as far as Mineta does, such as attempting to grope the girls or peep on them in the hot springs.
• Exactly What I Aimed At: His upgraded hero costume now includes flying disks that he can send his electrical blasts toward through air instead of touch, but he must position them behind what he wants to hit, hence seeming to miss with his disk launcher.
• Expy : Friend of the protagonist? Check. Comic relief? Check. Seen as kinda dumb? Check. Relatively strong but lost almost all his fights? Check. Good looking boy, a bit perverted and a Casanova? Check. Friend with someone smaller and more perverted than him? Check. Crush on a Tsundere? Check. Yamcha is that you?
• Genius Ditz: He may be an academic putz, but he has shown on multiple occasions that he can come up with insightful combat tactics for the field, like using his discs when he defeated Shishikura.
• Gratuitous English: During the room presentation contest, he wears a shirt with "Thunder Bolt" on it in English text.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: A good-natured hero-in-training with electric blond hair.
• Handsome Lech: A classic example. Kaminari is quite handsome and stylish, but his goofy personality seems to interfere with any serious chances he has of picking up any of the girls he hits on.
• The Heart: Shares this role with Kirishima - according to Horikoshi, Kaminari ties the class together.
• Heroic RRoD: He has a wattage limit to how much he can discharge. If he goes over that, he'll short circuits his own brain, leaving him in a dumb state for an hour.
• Hidden Depths:
  • When Jiro suggests the hero name "Jamming-Whey" for Kaminari (as an insult, since when in his "moron state", he just makes the sound "wheyy"), he immediately thinks she's making a connecting to Ernest Hemingway, an American novelist. Quite the connection for a generally Book Dumb Japanese student.
  • While in the remedial class during the Forest Training Camp Arc, he's seen drawing Aizawa on a piece of paper. It's fairly well done, indicating he has some drawing skills.
  • While he doesn't have much book smarts, he's proven to be a pretty good, if not great, field strategist. When he, Tsuyu, Kirishima, Koda, and Shinso are facing off against Class 1-B, he's the one that comes up with the match-winning plan.
• Hormone-Addled Teenager: Downplayed. He has clearly displayed an interest in all things sexual and will sometimes join Mineta in his lewd attempts at ogling the girls in their changing rooms or in their bikinis but, unlike Mineta who craves the nasty, Denki knows where to draw the line.
• Identical Stranger: Not quite identical, but he has a similar hairstyle and color to the man in the Shie Hassaikai who is taking care of Eri.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: Kaminari may have fluff for brains, but he's got a big heart.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: During the provisional hero license exam, Kaminari finally gets show off how much he's improved using his Quirk.
• Living Battery: His powers are often used for charging the phones of other students, topping up emergency batteries in Heroes Rising, or hotwiring a car during rescue training. In Chapter 346, he alongside other UA students use their electricity to power the engines keeping UA High afloat.
• The Load: If he uses too much electricity and fries his brain, he becomes useless for an hour.
• Logical Weakness: He's strong against most conductible metals and surfaces, but he struggles if his opponent is shielded by something that insulates against electricity (like Shiozaki's plant hair).
• Made of Iron: Kaminari gets pummeled with debris roughly his own size from Mister Compress and falls from the back of Gigantomachia, but remains conscious at least.
• Meaningful Name: "Denki" means "electricity", while "Kaminari" means "thunder".
• Misery Trigger: A very easy way to throw off Kaminari's groove is to make fun of his intelligence (or rather, lack thereof), or making fun of his Stupidity-Inducing Attack.
• Mundane Utility: Thanks to his Quirk, he can charge electric devices, such as phones.
• Nice Guy: A cheerful, upbeat, friendly and welcoming individual who deeply cares for his friends and allies and will try his best to help and protect them.
• No Sense of Personal Space: He loves to play with the fluffy end of Ojiro's tail. Also does this to Jiro on one occasion, moving just a bit too close to her face in excitement while praising her musical skills.
• Only Friend: Kaminari is the only student who actually seems to be Mineta's friend, with others merely tolerating him to various degrees. The two of them often engage in perverted antics such as tricking the girls into wearing cheerleader uniforms. Notably in My Hero: One's Justice 2, Kaminari is the only one to benefit from having Mineta as a sidekick, which in general is based on canon relationships.
• Required Secondary Powers: He has to be resistant to his own electricity so he won't kill himself while using his Quirk, but overusing it will fry his brain for an hour. It also immensely helps if he has to act like a lightning rod just like what he did against Nine's thunder.
• Running Gag: Whenever he uses his power at maximum, Kaminari will turn into a giggling idiot who stares vacantly into thin air and can only gesture a double-thumbs-up while chuckling through a goofy slack-jawed grin.
• Ship Tease: With Jiro. Kaminari makes her flustered when he praises her for music skills. Later when Midnight tells him to think of the most important person to him during the Liberation War to gather courage, Jiro is the person who comes up and encourages him.
• Shock and Awe: At first, he's not quite good at controlling it and just "wears" lighting and can discharge it in short bursts. Meaning at best he just acts as a taser and this means having to actually get up close to his targets. If he goes all out, he risks hitting allies as well as enemies. As of Chapter 107, however, he's received equipment from Hatsume and Power Loader that lets him extend the range and precision of his Quirk, allowing him to target enemies from a distance.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: Not him, exactly, but his dumb mode. In the early arcs of the series, it would appear quite frequently to provide levity, but it's no coincidence that he finally gets some proper aiming gear and stops overloading himself right before the Overhaul arc plunges the story into its most serious tone yet. Tellingly, he's completely serious when he takes to the field in the Liberation War arc and gets knocked out legitimately instead of dumbing down again.
• Slasher Smile: He's actually capable of giving very scary ones whenever he feels he may get the upper hand in a fight, especially whenever he's about to discharge his electric attack.
• Stupidity-Inducing Attack: It's his Heroic RRoD caused by breaking his own wattage limit. If he ends up like this in a battle, it's an Instant-Win Condition for the opponent.
• Took a Level in Badass: While his Quirk was recognized as very strong from the get go, its limited control and problematic drawbacks made his usefulness very limited, not helped by the fact that he was not very bright either. By the time of the Provisional Hero License Exam Arc, he is way more careful about his voltage limit and has gotten equipment specifically to help with long-range attacks. During the training matches against Class 1-B, he also shows a more tactical approach to the situation, showing his strategic growth as well.
• Those Two Guys: Seen often with Mineta.
• Unskilled, but Strong: His Quirk is strong enough to electrocute a whole army, as shown in the USJ incident. Unfortunately, he temporarily becomes a vegetable once he uses his Quirk at his fullest, and needed a tool to help him control it.
• Vitriolic Best Buds:
  • His relationship with Jiro is something akin to this. They hang out with each other frequently, but their interactions consist mostly of bickering.
  • His relationship with Bakugo starts to develop into something like this. Kaminari gets to joke and fool around Bakugo in a manner that would result in an explosion to the face for almost anyone else besides Kirishima. He even begins to call him "Kacchan" like Midoriya does.

08. Eijiro Kirishima — Red Riot

Eijiro Kirishima — Red Riot

Sturdy Hero

^{Click here to see him in uniform}

^{Click here to see his hair before he changed his look}

Voiced by: Toshiki Masuda (Japanese), Justin Cook (English), Ledner Belisario (Latin American Spanish/TV series), Miguel Ángel Leal (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, Fortnite

Quirk: Hardening

"...I couldn't do anything!! I didn't do anything!! If I don't act now... forget being a hero, I'm not even a man!"

An eager and friendly young man obsessed with the concept of manliness and the hero Crimson Riot, whom he has modeled himself after to the point of taking a similar name. He is one of the few students who is on friendly terms with Bakugo. His Quirk, "Hardening", allows him to harden his body and get harder with every hit he takes; he has some self-esteem issues due to thinking it's not flashy enough for a hero.

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• Alliterative Name: His hero name, Red Riot.
• Ambiguously Gay: Kirishima doesn't appear to be attracted to any girls in his class, but has a significant number of moments with Bakugo that could be construed as Ship Tease, including some questionable moments in My Hero Academia Smash!! such as accepting a challenge to see whose heart will submit first, wearing a Little Red Riding Hood/Big Bad Wolf couples' costume with him. There is also kanji in one of his bios referencing a Japanese "tough-guy" homosexual subculture and also that he likes “tough guys” while Mineta’s says he likes women.
• Animal Motifs: Crocodiles. Kirishima's teeth are razor-pointed like Setsuna's and Tetsutetsu's, appearing similar to a crocodile's teeth. Kirishima's Hardening, which grants him powerful dermal armor for offense and defense can be reminiscent of crocodiles as they too have very strong scales.
• Anime Hair: Styled to be so, since his natural hair is down and he sometimes wears it that way when off duty or chilling indoors. When spiked, his hair is made to even make it look like he has two little horns.
• Ascended Extra: Slowly grows in importance and gets more screen time in the later arcs until he joins the main characters for the Internship Arc.
• Attack! Attack! Attack!: He uses that strategy occasionally, most visibly - and unsuccessfully - during the fight with Cementoss.
• Badasses Wear Bandanas: He sometimes wears a white strip of cloth around his forehead like a bandana.
• Bash Brothers: With Bakugo during both the cavalry battle in the U.A. Sports Festival Arc and the Joint Training Arc. Has also this dynamic with class 1-B Tetsutetsu with whom he shares a similar Quirk along with the same values, fighting style and birthday, which used to annoy Eijiro.
• Becoming the Mask: His high school appearance persona is a conscious attempt to shed the person he used to be.
• The Berserker: His main strategy is really just to attack anything in his way. Kirishima's main reason for this is because of his durable Quirk. This is justified when he turns "Unbreakable" as he can fight to his heart contents. However, he only can do it for a short amount of time.
• Beware the Nice Ones: While he is one of the nicest characters in the series, he is powerful and does well during combat. In addition, he's certainly not a pushover and is not above getting angry at people who go too far.
• Big Damn Heroes: He saves Mina's life by shoving her out of harms way right before she's crushed by Gigantomachia's hand.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Kirishima is very Hot-Blooded and has a manly spirit that would make his idol proud.
• Book Dumb: His grades aren't great and he spends most of his time working out instead of studying. That said, he's not exactly dumb in the field.
• Boring, but Practical: How he feels about his own Quirk. He acknowledges that it's useful, but also finds it generic and not flashy enough. He doesn't take it well when he meets another student whose Quirk is nearly identical to his own, with the exception that he can get harder with every hit. His special move reflects this. While others use flashy techniques or complex tricks, Kirishima's special move is to push his Quirk to its absolute limit to gain even more Super-Toughness than he already has.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": His first costume had a belt with the letter "R" on it.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: Eijiro is one of the most fight-happy members of Class 1-A and has the skills to back it up, being a particularly powerful and efficient melee fighter. Also a genuine Nice Guy.
• Character Development:
  • After the Internship Arc, like everyone else involved in the raid on Chisaki's hideout, Kirishima is much more mellow and aware of both his and his comrades' mortality. He and Tsuyu are the only two students to be completely depressed up over every mistake in the Class 1-A vs. Class 1-B mock battle because if it was a real battle, Kirishima would've died. It's well contrasted after by the usual joke situation of him acting just like Tetsutetsu being completely discarded. Kirishima was actually trying to be careful, serious, and stick to Tsuyu's battle plan in the simulation, but Tetsutetsu is a Leeroy Jenkins already treating the training as if it were real and not getting caught up in self-pity.
  • On a more positive note, his backstory reveals that he once saw Gigantomachia threatening his classmates, and was frozen in fear and unable to bring himself to intervene. He saw himself as a coward, especially next to Mina after she was able to trick the giant into going away. Cut to the Meta Liberation Army arc, and not only is he the one to ultimately pull off the plan to put Gigantomachia out of the fight, but he saves Mina's life by diving in and throwing her out of harms way right before being crushed under Gigantomachia's giant hand.
• Close-Range Combatant: Given the nature of his Quirk, he's strictly a melee fighter. He's also a decent brawler thanks to his continuous training.
• Color Character: Red Riot, which in turn is inspired by Crimson Riot, a retro hero that Kirishima admires.
• Curtains Match the Window: Subverted. At first, it seems like he has natural red hair and red eyes. It's later revealed his hair is dyed red and is naturally black.
• Dark Is Not Evil: His Quirk being activated makes him look terrifying and he looks like a demon when using Unbreakable, but he's one of the most genuinely heroic characters in the show.
• Determinator: Kirishima charges right through Dabi's inferno to push Ashido out of Gigantomachia's hand; from there, he scales up the massive villain's arm to toss a vial of anesthetic into his mouth. Toga shattering it with her knife just prompts him to try again with one Ashido had dropped earlier, which succeeds.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Horikoshi indicates that he can be seen in Chapter 3, but you won't recognize him if you're looking for spiky red hair; it's dark and matted at the time. Chapter 142 reveals through a flashback that he used to have black hair, and in Chapter 145, another shows he changed it for his high school debut into U.A.
• Elemental Motifs: Earth. Kirishima's Quirk allows him to transform his skin into jagged rock-like armor, granting him powerful defensive and offensive capabilities. In terms of personality, Kirishima is often a peacemaker in the group and one of Bakugo's most supportive friends at the start.
• Exposed to the Elements: Not to the extent of Hagakure, but his hero costumes tend to leave him shirtless and he doesn’t cover his torso up even in the winter, when most of the other students do cover up.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: A very clear-cut example of this, revealed through flashbacks and a subtle first appearance. Kirishima's hair is naturally black and matted down. Right after he took the exams at U.A., he changed his hairstyle to its current look, a loud and flashy red series of spikes, resembling that of Crimson Riot. The whole point behind it was to stand out more. Kirishima was also going for a high school debut and wanting to ditch everything about his old pathetic self.
• Eye Scream: Accidentally cut his right eyeball as a child due to not being able to control his Quirk when it began to develop. "Red Riot: Unbreakable" hardens both of his eyes, making them look fractured. They're still fine when the effect wears off, though.
• Fatal Flaw: His lack of tactical thinking. Kirishima's Hardening can make him a force to be reckoned with, so much so that he's one of Class 1-A's best hand-to-hand fighters. Unfortunately, his brains isn't as good as his brawn. It's shown many times that his overall fighting strategy is to attack his enemy head-on. As shown in his fights against Bakugo and Cementoss, Kirishima doesn't think tactically in a fight. If someone knew his weakness (his limit on how long he can use his Hardening) and could outsmart him, they could trick Kirishima into tiring himself out.
• Fiery Redhead: Invoked. He dyes his hair red upon entering U.A. and is one of the most Hot-Blooded students of the class.
• First Friend: While Bakugo had many admirers and hangers-on during elementary and middle school, Kirishima is the first classmate at U.A. to look past his prickly exterior and admire his pride and strength, as well as the first person who Bakugo truly respects in kind. This actually becomes a plot point during the Hideout Raid Arc, as Kirishima is the only person Bakugo trusts enough to accept help from when rescuing him from the League of Villains.
• For Want Of A Nail: In a fit of rage following him failing to protect some students from Gigantomachia before Mina Ashido tricked the latter to go away, he knocks over a gift he forgot about which contained a promotional recording of an interview of his hero Crimson Riot revealing that much like Kirishima, he also still has fear and regrets about his past. If he didn't find this, it's likely that Kirishima would've turned down the chance of going to U.A.
• Friendly Rivalry:
  • With Bakugo, Kirishima tends to be one of the few students to take his bad attitude in stride at first, and acknowledges the drive he has. In turn, Kirishima is one of the few students Bakugo's initially willing to show some degree of respect to.
  • With Tetsutetsu, while the two won't hesitate to compete with each other in training, and acknowledge how similar they are to each other, outside of that they act more like brothers.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: When using "Red Riot: Unbreakable", his scarred eye glows bright red.
• The Heart: Shares this role with Kaminari. Kirishima always ends up in this role no matter what team he's on. He can even get Bakugo to be somewhat cooperative, which is a massive achievement. Horikoshi says that he was created to help bring everyone in Class 1-A together.
• Heroic Build: Like most of the other guys in class, Kirishima is ripped for his age, which is blatantly showcased in his hero costume, which leaves him completely shirtless. This is a Required Secondary Power, since his Quirk is useless offensively unless he can muscle his way into close range.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Blames himself for not doing anything to prevent Bakugo from getting captured, and, overall, thinks he's behind his classmates in terms of ability and experience. At one point, even goes as far as saying he's "just a mess of weaknesses." His self-depreciation surprises people when he expresses it. Chapter 144 reveals that he has been having these doubts ever since middle school and had actually given up on U.A. at one point. He's obviously too hard on himself considering he placed second on the practical exam for entering U.A., second only to Bakugo.
• Hero-Worshipper:
  • Crimson Riot is to him what All Might is to Midoriya; a role model to strive towards. His own hero name is derived from Crimson Riot's as well.
  • He also deeply admires Mina as someone he wants to be like.
• Hidden Depths: On the surface, especially at the beginning of the manga, he comes across as confident. However, throughout the series, he makes comments that are critical of himself, showing he is very humble. It is confirmed during the Internship Arc that he has low self-esteem. He even hated his own Quirk for a long time after he nearly stabbed his own eye out with it as a child.
• Horrible Judge of Character: He once tried to talk down a criminal who injected himself with Quirk enhancing serum and tried to relate their experiences of wanting to get stronger and feeling inadequate. He then found out the hard way that the man couldn't care less about his background. Twice.
• Hot-Blooded: Inspired by the famous Crimson Riot, Kirishima has developed a fiery attitude in order to leave behind his former gloomy, weak self. Demonstrated as he has some extreme moments where he shows off his boisterous personality.
• Idiot Hero: His grades are poor and most of his battle tactics come down to "harden and punch your way through every problem that you run into". Despite this, he's among the most warm-hearted members of the cast and proves to be integral to the operation against the Eight Bullets.
• Immune to Bullets: Downplayed, as a thug shoots him with a prototype Quirk-erasing bullet while Kirishima is off-guard, but it harmlessly shatters against his hardened skin due to its more fragile construction.
• Inconsistent Spelling: His first name can be spelled "Eijiro", "Eijirou", or "Eijirō".
• In-Series Nickname:
  • Depending on the translation, Bakugo calls him "Dumb/Weird/Shitty Hair".
  • In middle school, his friends shortened his name to "Ei".
• Instant Armor: His Quirk is being able to harden his body. His special move makes it so even his eyeballs are tough enough to shatter blades.
• I Want to Be a Real Man: A major part of his characterization is his pursuit of manliness. He idolizes the strong and chivalrous Crimson Riot, describes his likes and dislikes as "manly" and "unmanly", and has masculine interests (such as working out). This is partially driven by his own insecurity. It should be noted that Kirishima's definition of manly is more focused on the responsibility of a man to be chivalrous and protect others.
• Jack of All Stats: As a nod to his Boring, but Practical powers, the databook gives him a set of pretty balanced stats.
• Kiai: When using his power with Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs, he shouts "Ora ora ora ora!!!", JoJo's Bizarre Adventure-style.
• Leeroy Jenkins: He along with Bakugo are the first to attack the villain blocking his class's path during the Rescue Trial. Doesn't work, but points for trying.
• Mangst: Despite his upfront enthusiasm and cheerful disposition, Kirishima shows from time to time that he's actually deeply insecure and very humble. Internally, he often worries that his Quirk isn't enough to actually get things done, not to mention his grade school episode where Mina Ashido proved being braver than him confronting Gigantomachia despite being clearly outclassed in comparison.
• Meaningful Name: "Kirishima" has the character for the verb "cut". Likewise, "Eijiro" has the character for "sharp". Both of these are references to how sharp his body becomes when transformed.
• Metalhead: Though never explicitly confirmed, chapter 172 implies he's a fan of Heavy Metal music, as when he volunteers to be the vocalist for the band playing for the Culture Festival, he does what appears to be a Metal Scream, with Jiro even remarking "wrong genre?".
• Men Don't Cry: Defied: despite, or perhaps because of, his desire to be manly, Kirishima makes a point to be very open about his emotions and encourages others to be the same.
• Mighty Glacier: He's strong and tough enough to take repeated explosions from Bakugo and his arm wrestling match with Tetsutetsu ended up smashing the concrete pillar they were competing on. But unlike Bakugo and Midoriya, his Quirk doesn't improve his mobility at all. As a result, he's often lagging behind in a fight and has to chase villains on foot at normal speed.
• Morality Pet: For Bakugo, who shows hints of a (very, very deeply hidden) kinder side around Kirishima.
• Mr. Fanservice: He walks around shirtless in his hero costume, and boy, is he ripped.
• Muscles Are Meaningful: Kirishima works out a lot, as the amount of exercise equipment in his room shows. His superhero outfit shows off his built muscles. This gives him some of the highest non-Quirk augmented physical abilities in the class. It's mentioned by Aizawa that he needs it to make his Stone Wall Quirk stronger as well as usable as an offensive tool.
• My Greatest Failure: Seems to view his inability to prevent Bakugo's kidnapping as this.
• Mythical Motifs: The fantasy-themed third anime ending depicts Kirishima as a big red dragon serving as Bakugo's steed.
• Nice Guy: One of the most genuinely kind characters in the series. He's the only one who tries to befriend Bakugo and he attempts to break the tension when Todoroki declares Midoriya a rival. He's the first student to try to check All Might's condition after his fight with Nomu and immediately goes to comfort Tsuyu when she's feeling guilty, and even tries to comfort and give advice to a villain who just shot Kirishima's senpai and Kirishima himself. The result of the entrance examination also shows him with the fourth-highest Rescue Points of the results, just behind Midoriya, Uraraka, and Class 1-B's Kendo.
• Nightmare Face: In Chapter 134 when he turns his Quirk up a notch. The facial crenelations that usually come with activation of his Quirk intensify and extend onto his eyeballs, his irises become polygonal, his hands are transformed into talons, and his mouth becomes a distended, lipless maw.
• No-Sell: During his fight with Bakugo at the U.A. Sports Festival, he shrugs off his opponent's first attack. However, as the fight goes on Kirishima's Quirk becomes less and less effective, so Bakugo's blasts ultimately do the trick.
• No Sense of Direction: In My Hero Academia: Two Heroes at least, he gets lost while trying to find the reception area of the building where he and several other classmates are supposed to attend a party. As in, "leads himself and Bakugo to the 80th floor instead" lost.
• Not So Similar: While it was originally a joke that one was a xerox copy of the other, as a result of Divergent Character Evolution, Kirishima and Tetsutetsu have become more and more different as the school year progresses. Whereas Kirishima is now more cautious and defensive in combat, Tetsutetsu is more a Leeroy Jenkins. Kirishima's training focused on increasing the defensive capabilities of his Quirk by making his body harder, while Tetsutetsu's training has focused on making his Quirk more resistant so he can charge without worry. Kirishima's insecurities have become more prevalent as time goes on, while Tetsutetsu is more focused on hero work than self-doubt.
• Oblivious to Love: In My Hero Academia Smash!!, Jiro starts noticing his muscular physique and good looks and starts developing a crush on him. Kirishima, however, barely notices any hints of attraction, gets distracted by Bakugo and tries to hang out with him instead. The narration reveals that Kirishima had no idea why Jiro refused to talk to him for the next couple of days. In the canonical series, he seems uninterested in love and romance as he looks rather exasperated when Kaminari starts flirting with Mei Hatsume.
• Odd Friendship: He's the only person Bakugo considered a real friend in the beginning. It saves the day during the rescue operation since Kirishima is the only person that Bakugo is willing to let save him.
• Only Friend: To Bakugo, at least at first. While Kirishima has a good relationship with everyone else in his class, particularly with Kaminari, Mina and Sero, Bakugo only sees Kirishima as his friend, though this is starting to change. This actually became the key to success in Bakugo's rescue planned by Midoriya, as he wouldn't especially listen to Iida or Midoriya, but would most likely respond to Kirishima reaching his hand out.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: He thinks of himself as a pretty plain and boring individual, right down to his Quirk, while others stand out naturally. In particular, he was jealous of Ashido prior to joining U.A., having seen her prowess as a social butterfly and the talk of the town.
• Personality Powers: The only classmate who's able to simply shrug off Bakugo's attitude and even act friendly toward him. In other words, he's very "thick-skinned".
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: On occasion, he uses his Quirk while performing a very strong punch rush.
• Real Men Eat Meat: According to official materials, he likes meat and manly things.
• Red Is Heroic: His hero costume is predominantly red, matching his dyed hair. Bonus points for choosing the hero name Red Riot. It's also an inversion of Red and Black and Evil All Over, because he has black pants and sleeves, but is as heroic as they come.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Zigzagged between the two as he can be Blue to Bakugo and Kaminari's Red, as while both are hot-headed, Kirishima is at least the more cautious, combat wise, focusing on being on the defensive. While Bakugo is more focused on destroying his opponent on sight. He could also be Red as he is more extroverted and more boisterous outside of hero work. Whereas Bakugo can be seen surprisingly as The Aloner. With Kaminari, Kirishima is usually the one with the more common sense of the two and Kaminari is a tad more excitable and impulsive.
• Required Secondary Powers: Skin hardening gives him a great defense and hardened fists means his punches will hurt, but he has to get there first. As a result, he works out the most in his class, besides maybe Bakugo, to get a Heroic Build so he can muscle his way into close range, otherwise he has to depend on help from someone else to boost his mobility.
• Scars Are Forever: Nicked himself in the eye when his Quirk first manifested at the age of three. He still has a small line right above his eyelid. Although, it can be easily mistaken as an eyelash, which is noted in his character profile during one chapter.
• Scary Teeth: He is depicted with jagged, unusually sharp teeth in contrast to the majority of the cast.
• Shonen Hair: It somehow manages to outspike Bakugo's. The hair is not natural though since it takes three minutes to style. His hair sometimes gets spikier and sharper when he uses his Quirk, especially when he uses his special move, "Unbreakable".
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: Inverted, funnily enough. Kirishima is a staunch advocate of masculine confidence and chivalry, but the only thing his Hero costume has on top is a pair of sleeves.
• Stealth Pun: A skin-hardening Instant Armor hero that's easy-going enough with everyone to befriend even Bakugo? One could say that Kirishima's thick-skinned.
• Stock Shōnen Hero: Interestingly enough, he plays this straighter than actual protagonist Midoriya despite being a supporting character at best. He has much spikier red hair, Hot-Blooded personality, and not enough intelligence. He also makes friends with everyone, including Bakugo. It's later revealed that this is not his natural behavior and he's consciously projecting the image of an enthusiastic bruiser in hopes of burying his insecurities.
• Stone Wall: Basically what his move "Unbreakable" turns him into. His entire body becomes so hard it shatters blades on impact. It's downplayed in when he does hit someone while his body is hard its going to be really painful.
• Super Mode: "Unbreakable". It gives him Nigh-Invulnerability and covers him with sharp spikes, but he can't keep it up for very long.
• Super-Strength: It's not given a lot of emphasis, but one of his Required Secondary Powers seems to be superhuman strength. This is mostly shown in him having the might to punch through obstacles (like concrete walls or skyscraper-sized robots).
• Super-Toughness: Literally his main ability is to harden his body at any given point and time as he can survive tons of steel falling into him thanks to this Quirk.
• Testosterone Poisoning: Obsessed with "manly" things. That's because Crimson Riot, his idol, defines manliness as living without regrets, which Kirishima is determined to do.
• Those Two Guys: Is often paired with Kaminari.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Kirishima has incredible durability which also gives him a lot of power in his punches and can destroy a wall of cement with just one punch. But he rarely relies on skill and finesse due to his durable skin Quirk that allows him to run through steel and many other objects and to destroy giant walls.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: His hero costume has him topless except for a couple of cog-shaped pauldrons over his shoulders. Considering his Quirk, it's not as though he needs protection, and if he wore a top, that top may rip since his Quirk can cause spikes to come out of his skin.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Without any more subtle way to restrain villains or avoid their attacks, he has to hope that hardening and punching his way to victory is enough. His special move is simply to harden himself even more than normal, hardening even his own eyeballs in the process, and making it so hard that it would shatter blades attempting to cut him.
• Worthy Opponent: During the Internship Arc, he gets recognized as a man by deathmatch craving thug Rappa for his valor and determination. Unfortunately, Kirishima's only barely conscious and still thinks he hasn't done enough.
• Youkai: His appearance draws similarities to oni, ogres in Japanese mythology with horns, fangs, rough skin, and red coloring.

09. Koji Koda — Anima

Koji Koda — Anima

Petting Hero

^{Click here to see him in uniform}

Voiced by: Takuma Nagatsuka (Japanese), Greg Ayres (English), Giset Blanco (Latin American Spanish/TV series)

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

Quirk: Anivoice

"That's right. I got into U.A., my dream school... At U.A., it's always about moving forward! That's what we tell ourselves... Plus Ultra!!"

A shy and self-effacing student with an odd, golem-like appearance and a love for nature. His Quirk, "Anivoice", allows him to speak with and control animals. He rarely speaks outside of his Quirk, and usually communicates through hand gestures.

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• Alliterative Name: Koji Koda.
• Antiquated Linguistics: When he finally speaks, he does it through this:
  Koda: Please, go forth, oh band of creatures small, the time to vanquish the source of that cacophony is now, if that's all right...
  Jiro: You talk up a storm!!
• The Beastmaster: His Quirk allows him to command animals with his voice. While he can traditionally command them for combat, he can also communicate with them for reconnaissance, such as having birds scope out an area to make sure there aren't any straggling civilians left behind during an evacuation. After his horns grow in, his range vastly increases and his control becomes telepathic rather than just vocal.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's one of the sweetest kids in Class 1-A, but he can still send a legion of animals after you if he wants to. The Hooded Advisor makes him genuinely furious by belittling Shoji. This results in him using his newly upgraded Quirk to summon a gigantic flock of birds and insects to throw the Advisor off a building with Hitchcock Birds.
• Bunnies for Cuteness: He has a pet rabbit named Yuwai-chan, which the girls of Class 1-A find adorable.
• Cool Mask: Has one as of the costume upgrades prior to the Provisional Hero License Exam which covers his mouth and doubles as a megaphone for his Quirk.
• Costume Evolution: Koda starts wearing a face mask with what appears to be a built-in speaker system to amplify the cadence of his voice while using his Quirk.
• Creepy Good: He may be one of the sweetest students in Class 1-A, but that doesn't change the fact he can command an army of bugs to swarm someone. Just ask Present Mic. Downplayed, however, as he's just as terrified by bugs as Mic, only commanding them when there's no other choice.
• A Day in the Limelight: He gets some focus during Final Exams Arc and Final War Arc.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Koda has changed the most of any character since his introduction. He used to have much rougher features, which have been continuously made rounder and thus cuter.
• Elective Mute: He's such a Shrinking Violet that he rarely ever speaks when he isn't using his Quirk, instead preferring to communicate through sign language. He starts growing out of it as the story progresses, though he's still not talkative much.
• Emotional Powers: After his power-amplifying horns grow in, it's revealed in a flashback to her mother that Koda's own horns like her own will grow if he gets significantly angry, which she hopes is for the right reason such as trying to protect the ones he cares about. Said reason arrives during the final battle where Hooded Advisor is constantly belittling Shoji, which causes Koda to snap and awaken his true potential.
• Fire-Forged Friends: His friendship with Jiro sets off from their teamwork against Present Mic in the Final Exams Arc.
• Flat Character: Aside from him becoming less shy over time, he is easily one of, if not the least developed character of the series. It gets a bit subverted with Final War arc.
• Gentle Giant: He is one of the bigger students in the class. He's quite possibly the gentlest one too.
• Good Parents: As revealed in Final Exams arc, he has a loving and caring mother and it's implied his father is also a kind individual. In the flashback of Chapter 372, Koji's father defends his wife from bigoted people.
• Hand Signals: His main way of communication due to his utter shyness. He has started talking more to others, but he is still mostly quiet.
• Irony: He is the only person in Class 1-A with a Quirk that is voice related. He is also easily the quietest member of the class, almost never talking outside of using said Quirk. His inherited horns from his mother enable him to use Telepathy to control animals without needing to speak at all.
• Logical Weakness: He has no use in a place where there are no animals to manipulate, or where his voice cannot reach them. His Quirk also seems to have no effect on humans with animal-based ones. However, when he gets angry enough during the Final Battle, his body sprouts an odd horn formation from his head as he attacks the Hooded Advisor with it subsequently revealed that said horns enable him to use Telepathy over a massive range to summon and control animals without needing to speak, enabling him to defeat the Hooded Advisor with birds summoned from all over the city at once.
• Nature Lover: According to supplementary info. Not surprising considering his Quirk. Might also be a Nature Hero, although he doesn't live in isolation. We see him quite often interacting with various animals too.
• Nice Guy: He doesn't speak much but Koda's actions alone are enough to tell you he's a good guy. This makes him hitting the Rage Breaking Point after hearing the Hooded Advisor belittle Shoji's experiences with Fantastic Racism more pronounced, as he uncharacteristically attacks the advisor himself close-rage whilst shedding Berserker Tears.
• Odd Friendship: While he is a very shy Shrinking Violet, Jiro is an outspoken Deadpan Snarker. Additionally, he can talk with animals, while she can attack using sound.
• Out of Focus: Koda is one of the least focused-on members of Class 1-A.
• Personality Powers: Played with. It's true that he is good with animals and loves nature, but he is not very communicative otherwise.
• Power Makes Your Hair Grow. Played With. His natural appearance doesn't have any hair on his head, but during the Final Battle, hearing the Hooded Advisor urging on the heteromorph supporters of Spinner to assault the hospital whilst belittling Shoiji's own experiences with Fantastic Racism enrages him to the point he attacks the advisor with a massive swarm of birds, an odd horn formation bursting from his head as he does so. It's revealed that this horn enables him to use Telepathy to summon and control animals from over a greater range than before without needing to speak, allowing him to attack the Hooded Advisor with a tsunami of birds summoned from all over the city.
• Put on a Bus: Baring a cameo in the credits, he, Aoyama, and Ojiro are the only members of Class 1-A who don't appear in My Hero Academia: Two Heroes.
• The Quiet One: He speaks very rarely, usually preferring visual communication.
• Repetitive Name: Koji Koda.
• Removed Achilles' Heel: His Quirk's main weakness is it's limited by his ability to speak and how far away his voice carries. His rage over seeing Shoji belittled and insulted causes his horns to finally grow in, granting him telepathic animal communication over a much larger range, removing this weakness and giving him a huge power up.
• Rock Monster: While his body appears to be made of rock, he doesn't really look that monstrous.
• Secret-Keeper: Was originally the first and only student that Tokoyami told about how Dark Shadow works depending on the area's light level, due to tending not to talk much.
• Shout-Out: One of his Ultimate Moves is called 'Hitchcock Birds', which as to be expected, involves sending a lot of birds. After growing his horns, his range and ability to use telepathy massively upgrades it to be more akin to the movie.
• Shrinking Violet: Very clearly a shy person, which explains why he's The Quiet One. He is apparently so shy that statwise, he shares the lowest teamwork rating with both Bakugo and Aoyama.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Enraged by the Hooded Advisor belittling Shoji, he attacks him mid-sentence with a literal wall of birds.
• Sincerity Mode: Jiro is shy at displaying her musical skill in public, so much so that even Koda is willing to speak up and tell her that she really rocks.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: He can talk to animals. It's only implied he can understand them as well.
• Superpowerful Genetics: He inherited his Quirk from his mother.
• Telepathy: Once his horns grow in, his Quirk awakens and can now work via telepathy rather than his voice over a far larger area.
• Tranquil Fury: When his horns grow in, enabling the use of telepathy for his Quirk without needing to speak, the first thing he does is silently order his impromptu army to shove the Hooded Advisor off the building he was standing on.
• Vocal Dissonance: He is easily one of the biggest members of Class 1-A and is rather ripped when seen without a shirt on. Vocally, however, he sounds like a small child.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He's afraid of insects, despite being able to control them. After his Quirk Awakening, he's able to control several insects along his usual choice of birds without any issue.
• Zerg Rush: He can literally swarm foes with nearby animals. Even moreso after his horns grow in.

10. Rikido Sato — Sugarman

Rikido Sato — Sugarman

Sweets Hero

^{Click here to see him in uniform}

Voiced by: Tooru Nara (Japanese), Cris George (English), Sergio Romero (Latin American Spanish/TV series), Rodo Balderas (Latin American Spanish/Movies)

Debut: Chapter 8 (Manga), Episode 5 (Anime)

Quirk: Sugar Rush

"I was baking a chiffon cake! I thought you would all want a midnight snack, so..."

A tall and strong-built student who can bake some mean desserts. His Quirk, "Sugar Rush", greatly increases his physical strength and muscle mass through an intake of sugar. However, his brain activity slows down the more sugar he consumes, making him doped up and sleepy if he overdoses.

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• The Big Guy: Sato towers over most of his fellow pupils, except for Shoji, and he is built like a weightlifter, even by the standards of the rest of class 1-A where all the boys, bar Mineta, have a Heroic Build. Doubly so when his Quirk is in action.
• Chick Magnet: Played for Laughs. His Nice Guy persona and baking skills wins over all the girls during the dorm room contest, which scores him the victory. He even mentions that a lot of girls like to go to him for his desserts. Resident pervs Kaminari and Mineta are quick to attack him for this.
• Close-Range Combatant: His Quirk makes him a very efficient brawler and wrestler but he's rather disadvantaged against long-range attacks.
• Covert Pervert: When Mineta reveals the peephole in the boys' locker room, Sato is one of the male students who shows an interest in the discovery.
• Dumb Muscle: Invoked. While his Quirk allows him to become stronger, it gradually makes him dumber as well.
• Food as Bribe: He denies it when Kaminari and Mineta accuse him of doing this in order to win the dorm room contest.
• Gag Lips: His lips resemble nothing so much as a frosted donut.
• Heroic Build: He's very tall and muscular.
• Heroic RRoD: The reduced brain activity that comes with his Quirk.
• High-Pressure Emotion: He's not used to being the center of attention. So when the class 1-A girls notice that he's actually a Supreme Chef, complimenting his skills to the point of electing him the winner of the dorm room contest, he's so surprised and flattered that he almost explodes from embarrassment, red face, fuming ears and all.
• Hour of Power: The boost of strength he gets from ingesting sugar only lasts three minutes.
• Hulking Out: Becomes much bigger and more muscular the more sugar he ingests, increasing his strength dramatically.
• Logical Weakness: Implied. Because his Quirk requires consumption of sugar, it can be safe to assume that he's screwed if he doesn't have any. He also loses intelligence when he's doped up with sugar because enough of it will leave his mind all doped up, too. If faced with a test of endurance or a Mighty Glacier and/or Stone Wall kind of opponent like Cementoss, both of these weaknesses compound and seriously reduce his chances of victory.
• Meaningful Name: His name can literally be translated to "Sugar Strength".
• Never Gets Fat: He eats a lot of sugar and still keeps his muscular figure. Justified because of his Quirk; eating a lot of sugar just increases his strength and physique!
• Nice Guy: A pretty affable dude who's happy to bake for his friends.
• Out of Focus: Sure, a good amount of 1-A has this issue, but bar none this guy has it the absolute worst. He's shared one extremely brief fight with the much more prominent Kirishima, where both lost extremely soundly to Cementoss. He doesn't really have much to do in most of the more mundane scenes on top of getting extremely few fight scenes, and all in all the only time he's ever really had any character development at all is revealing his Supreme Chef status. That day in the limelight versus Cementoss up there? Literally all he's had yet, and that was all the way back in the Final Exam Arc, in Chapter 67.
• Power at a Price: While Sugar Rush does give him a good amount of strength, the cost while it is active is decreased intelligence and cognitive abilities.
• Power-Up Food: The ingestion of any sweet food increases his strength.
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: When in Super Mode, he can produce a barrage of powerful punches.
• Real Men Cook: Turns out he is also a great baker. This is actually justified since this skill is a perfect complement for his Quirk.
• Real Men Hate Sugar: Inverted. Sugar actually makes him manlier. His Trademark Favorite Food also happens to be cake.
• Real Men Wear Pink:
  • Wears a pink tuxedo during the popularity poll announcement.
  • "Sugarman" is not the manliest of names.
• Shout-Out: He has a strength-related Quirk and his character design is a mix between Kinnikuman and Takeo Goda from My Love Story!!.
• Super-Strength: The main advantage of his Quirk.
• Supreme Chef: Chapter 99 reveals that, in training his Quirk, he has become excellent at baking cake, which in turn makes him instantly popular with the girls in his class, much to the dismay of Mineta and Kaminari.
• Through His Stomach: Gender inverted. He wins the dorm room contest because the girls really loved the cake he made. Mineta and Kaminari, understandably, are shocked that he could become so popular with the girls just like that and so quickly.
• Vocal Dissonance: He's one of the biggest guys in class, but in the anime, especially in Japanese, his voice is a rich and raspy tenor instead of the expected Baritone of Strength
• Wrestler in All of Us: Power grabs are part of his fighting style, as shown in the Joint Training Arc.

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