Characters / My Hero Academia - Ochaco Uraraka

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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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Ochaco Uraraka — Uravity

^{Click here to see her in uniform}

^{Click here to see her first costume}

Voiced by: Ayane Sakura (Japanese), Luci Christian (English), Andrea Villaverde (Latin American Spanish/TV series), Claudia Bramnfsette (Latin American Spanish/Movies)

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, My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero, My Hero Academia: Ultra Impact, Fortnite

Quirk: Zero Gravity

"So I'm going to be a hero. I'll make that money...So that my mom and dad can have easier lives!"

An outgoing young girl who befriends Midoriya after he saves her during the entrance exam. Her Quirk is "Zero Gravity," which lets her reduce the gravitational pull of anything she touches to zero. Her family owns a construction company that hasn't gotten any work in a long time, leaving them flat broke, and because of this, she wants to become a heroine in order to earn enough money to give her parents a good life. She becomes very close with Midoriya throughout the series, and most people assume she has developed a crush on him, which might just be true. Although anytime you ask her about it, she's liable to float away out of embarrassment.

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• Achilles' Heel: She can remove the weight of any physical object or person up to three metric tons per day. Awesome! Only problem is, once she reaches that limit or uses it on herself, she pukes. She gets better over time and not only vastly increases her daily limit, but also has no more issues using her Quirk on herself so she can effectively fly.
• Action Girl: Slowly grows into this, especially since receiving martial arts training from Gunhead, where she mixes martial arts moves along with her Quirk.
• Affectionate Nickname: A very special case of this, with Ochaco nicknaming Izuku "Deku". That nickname was initially an insult that Izuku's former friend Katsuki used to belittle him (it means 'useless'), but Ochaco came to use the name after a misunderstanding, thinking it sounded encouraging (it sounds like "dekiru", "you can do it", in a Kansai accent). This completely changed Izuku's outlook on that name, to the point he decided to adopt it as his superhero alias; while Katsuki looked angry about that, Ochaco was very touched.
• All-Loving Hero: Like her best friend and love interest Izuku, Ochaco wants to put smiles on people's faces and make them feel safe, feeding into her development as a hero growing beyond her initial monetary motivations. It's this empathy that convinces her to try to save Toga, despite her terrible crimes, and is softly encouraged by Izuku to follow her instincts since he plans to do the same with Shigaraki. Although he also reminds her there might be no way to avoid a battle despite their best efforts, which Ochaco agrees with.
• Animal Motifs:
  • Her suit redesign has her ditch the helmet in favor of a headpiece that mimics the rabbit-like ears on Izuku's hero costume.
  • Alongside Shoto, the volume 30 character page depicts her as a cat, which makes sense given in her case they can be quite playful like her. The pads on her fingertips can invoke those on a cat's paws.
• Anti-Hero: Subverted. When questioned, Ochaco reveals that the real reason she became a hero was in order to get money for her family, and Ochaco herself worries that she is Secretly Selfish and isn’t being a hero for the right reasons. However, she is reassured that wanting to get money to financially support her family is still a noble cause in it’s own right and Ochaco is just such a Nice Girl that she can’t help but rescuing people for it’s own sake anyway from the get-go, proving her as an All-Loving Hero just like Izuku.
• The Apprentice: For the Hero Agency Internships, Ochaco chooses to become a temporary apprentice towards Gunhead, believing that it will help her improve her physical fighting capabilities as well as offer her new perspectives and opportunities. Future battles would show that these lessons paid off as she is now capable of taking opponents down with her body alone.
• Arch-Enemy: Is steadily but surely being set up as one for her Evil Counterpart Toga, as Toga's violent obsession with her, violent obsessions with her close friend Tsuyu and crush Midoriya, wanton murder of innocents, and confessing to using Uraraka's own Quirk to murder somebody has made Uraraka personally determined to stop Toga herself. Was initially one-sided, as Toga genuinely sees herself as Uraraka's friend; However things are more up in the air following Toga's heartbroken reaction to Uraraka rejecting her friendship/love again during their second encounter.
• Artistic License – Physics: Her powers frequently don't make much sense compared to actual zero gravity,^note The most common issue being that both inertia and mass would remain without gravity. If she touched a falling object, its speed would stop increasing but it would continue at the velocity it had when she touched it. Also, if she removed gravity from a massive object, it wouldn't bounce around like a beach ball. Uraraka would be able to move it, but only very slowly after pushing against it for several seconds (in the same way that you can move a huge boat in a calm harbor if you are persistent enough). although they make considerably more sense if you assume that she also reduces the mass of whatever she touches to nearly zero.^note This would explain how un-gravitating Midoriya saved him from smashing into the ground—with a lower terminal velocity, the air would act like a cushion, slowing him to a survivable speed. The scene where she swings a giant concrete pillar like a baseball bat also works far better if you assume that she reduced its mass to something manageable. This is generally what people imagine happening in zero gravity, because it's described as "weightlessness", but weight and mass aren't the same thing. Weight is mass scaled to gravitational strength; lower gravity lets you lift heavier objects, but the same amount of force is still required to move them.
• Badass Adorable: A cute and sweet girl, who between her control of gravity and managing to even give Katsuki Bakugou a hard time during the U.A. Championship is happy to show you she's got what it takes to be a heroine.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: She interned under Gunhead to learn how to fight, and she definitely took a lot from his martial arts tutelage. She appears to have continued training even after her internship ended as her martial arts skills are the best of Class 1-A.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine:
  • The cheerleader outfit she wears during the Sports Festival shows her belly button, which she doesn't seem to mind, initially.
  • During the Beach Episode, she wears a two piece bikini.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: While Ochaco did save Izuku from falling during her Establishing Character Moment, where there specific friendship really began was when he saved her from being crushed during the Entrance Exam. She’s also on the receiving end, due to stopping Izuku from falling albeit by slapping him, as well as offering some of her points to him.
• Best Friend: Not only is Ochaco the love interest for Izuku, she is also the first real friend that he ever had and is one of his best ones alongside Tenya.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Ochaco Uraraka, a cute and charming girl whose main drive is to be a hero to support her family, and displays a cheerful disposition with everyone. But don't underestimate her sweet nature: when push comes to shove, she can push back with her gravity powers:
  • A good example of this is when she lost to Bakugo in the U.A. Sports Festival, but she showed real ingenuity in their battle, and came close to beating him.
  • Believe it or not, her Quirk itself is actually one of the more inherently dangerous ones compared to a lot of other Quirks. As demonstrated by Toga using her Quirk while transformed into her, Uraraka can very easily kill by floating people up to fatal heights and just allowing them to fall. The only thing stopping her is her own moral compass.
• Big Beautiful Woman: By Japanese standards, she's supposed to be on the plump side, though even then it seems like an Informed Attribute. Plump or not, she's still adorable.
• Birds of a Feather: Played with but ultimately defied. Izuku and Ochaco seem very similar, with their in-sync reactions to their classmates' eccentricities, how they bounce of Iida's overly serious demeanor, and their own matching designs. The buck stops when Ochaco realizes Izuku's self-sacrificing nature is born from some deep-rooted self-esteem issues, and decides to look after him so he doesn't destroy himself. This is unlike her who has a fairly healthy understanding of her abilities and shortcomings. It also doesn't quite fit once you see how extroverted and open Ochaco is compared to the introverted and naturally reserved Izuku.
• Bizarre Human Biology: Downplayed. She looks completely anthropomorphic, with the exception of distinct soft pads on her fingertips, which she uses to activate her Quirk.
• Blood Knight: While she's normally optimistic and fairly reserved, events like the Sports Festival show that Ochaco can have a love for battle and in general she is a fan of “manly” things. She is also the only girl who actually appreciates Kirishima's masculine room, while Mina has a non-reaction and Hagakure finds it disgusting.
• Blush Sticker: She has small permanent ones which highlight her cuteness and innocence; they're even noted as a Charm Point in the character descriptions. She inherited the blush stickers from her mother, who also has them.
• Boxing Lessons for Superman: Almost literally. Uraraka's main method of improving as a hero was to learn martial arts from Gunhead to supplement her natural-born superhuman ability.
• Boyish Short Hair: Her hair is only about shoulder length and has bangs that only reach a quarter of the way down her forehead, and while she does have feminine traits, she is still a Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak.
• Brainy Brunette: She has auburn brown hair, and while she isn’t the smartest character in the series, she is shown to be very skilled at planning, reading people, and responding to emergency situations. (See Hidden Depths below.)
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Never fails to bolster Izuku when he lapses into his more self-deprecating tendencies. This rears its head most prominently when attempting to convince Izuku to come back to U.A. alongside the rest of 1A after he's gone full brooding mode as a filth-covered trailblazer tackling Japan's most dangerous escaped criminals all by himself. She is one of the driving forces behind bringing him home through her compassion and love for him combining with her desire to make the general public happy to see heroes again.
• Call-Back: Twofold. She welcomes Izuku back to U.A. by shouting down the mass of refugees trying to kick him out, setting Izuku back on the path he had strayed from in his rush to save everybody. This calls back to her setting him on his feet again after he tripped before the entrance exam, along with All Might officially welcoming Izuku to U.A. in his acceptance video by repeating his words almost entirely verbatim.
  Ochaco: This place is his hero academia! Let him stay here!
• Cannot Spit It Out: She can't talk about Midoriya in even a light romantic context with her friends without blushing up a storm and has never directly admitted even in her inner thoughts that she likes him, let alone brought it up with the boy himself. But she has acknowledged that some "feelings" exist.
• Character Development:
  • Following the Internship Arc, Uraraka decides she wants to be a heroine in order to save people, whereas her original motive was to look after her family.
  • She also gets some development when she chooses to put aside her growing feelings for Midoriya as she starts to believe they'll distract her from her hero studies. Though Toga thinks she's making the wrong choice, time will tell how she grows as a hero going forward with her new resolve.
  • After losing to Bakugou, who only used one shot to completely blast through Uraraka's plan, she realized just how powerless and weak she is without being able to rely on her Quirk, and in order to become a hero she needs to get stronger, which led her to train under Gunhead and learn some basic combat skills.
  • After first hand witnessing Sir Nighteye die trying to save Eri, and even more, seeing Deku keep selflessly saving people by harming himself, it makes her question if a hero's job is to save people from pain, then "who'll save the heroes when the heroes need saving?" Which further cements her goal to become a support/saving hero to other heroes as well as civilians.
  • She's further developed when she faced off Toga again in the War arc, for the first time she sees the vulnerable and human side of a villain, it's the moment when things became less black/white for her.
  • In the beginning, Ochaco was on friendly terms with Izuku. However, as time went on, she soon became incredibly flustered when Izuku and her tried to talk to each other like at the mall. Originally, Izuku was one of the people that Ochaco spoke to the most, excluding the girls. However, by the time of the final offensive, the two of them are able to openly speak to and compliment each other and openly discuss what their individual plans are to each other.
• Character Tics: She is always careful not to touch anything with open hands to avoid accidentally triggering her Quirk; she also frequently holds her hands in paw-like fists so as not to accidentally touch something.
• Cheery Pink: Her Color Motif is pink, and she has a very optimistic and outgoing personality.
• Chekhov's Skill: After her internship with Gunhead, Uraraka begins developing her skills in close-quarters combat. This becomes very instrumental in her match with Thirteen, allowing her to turn the tide in her favor, and helps her stand her ground against Toga.
• Child-Like Voice: With a spirited, gentle and innocent personality and facial features resembling a small child, Uraraka's Japanese voice actress gives her a very high, sweet voice to match.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: It’s notable that Ochaco openly defies this trope. She sees Izuku repeatedly putting his own safety below the lives of others, and how Hero Society in general encourages such behavior and begins asking herself “Who saves the heroes who need saving” and decides to become that person herself.
• Clark Kent Outfit: The girl has got a buxom that actually takes Izuku back whenever he first sees it, however, it’s not obvious underneath her school uniform.
• Classical Anti-Hero: Ochaco’s main hindrances are her own lack of self confidence, and her inability to act on her feelings towards Izuku.
• Clingy Jealous Girl:
  • Downplayed; while Uraraka is clearly bothered by some of the attention that Midoriya attracts from Hatsume and later Camie, she never actually breaks out into a jealous fit. She's also visibly shocked when Aoyama hand-feeds Midoriya. A lot of this rooted to her having trouble sorting out her own feelings towards him.
  • Played entirely and hilariously straight in Two Heroes where she terrifies Izuku with her hollowly nonchalant attitude upon catching him on a tour of I-Island alone with Melissa. She's flanked by Momo and Kyoka who came along for the trip, concerned Izuku uses his gentle demeanor to lure in women like Ochaco and play them. It's all a big misunderstanding, of course.
• Color Motifs: Two - Brown ("Cha" in her name, literally meaning Tea, is also used in the Japanese name for brown "Chairo", and she has a brown hair and eyes) and Pink (she has traces of the color on her suit, it shows up when she uses her Quirk, and it often appears in the background during frames that specifically focus on her. It highlights her cheerful, romantic and optimistic nature.)
• Combination Attack: With Tsuyu, 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.
• The Confidant: To Izuku, at least whenever the subject isn’t about romance. While he is generally open about his feelings, Ochaco especially is someone he can be honest with about his doubts, insecurities, beliefs, and fears. This becomes most evident on the eve before the final offensive, where Izuku tells Ochaco how he truly feels in regards to Tomura, and she does to same to him in regards to Toga.
• Cooldown Hug: When Izuku's Quirk goes out of control and awakens a new aspect because he was enraged at Monoma blaming Bakugo for All Might's retirement, Ochaco jumps in with one of these. While it doesn't itself calm Izuku down, it does provide an opportunity for Shinso to brainwash him into shutting his Quirk down.
• Cool People Rebel Against Authority: Downplayed. Ochaco doesn’t actively go against authority, just authority that she believes isn’t beneficial at the current moment, like rushing over to confront Himiko Toga against Asui Tsuyu’s advice, or helping to restrain Izuku’s Blackwhip Quirk rather than following protocal and waiting for a teacher.
• Crush Blush: All it takes is the mere mention that she has a crush on Izuku for her face to start lighting up.
• Curtains Match the Window: Has brown hair and brown eyes. Adds to her cheery and sweet disposition.
• Cute Bruiser: The girl is adorable, but she is very well-versed in self-defense martial arts, enough to bring Serial Killer Toga to the ground and be considered a threat.
• The Cutie: Ochaco is an optimistic, energetic, polite, and adorable young girl who just wants to help everyone that she can.
• Daddy's Girl: Wanted to help out at her dad's construction company as a kid, but he refused because he wanted her to achieve her own dream. Her father also consoles her after she loses against Bakugo during the U.A. Sports Festival.
• Damsel in Distress: Played with during the entrance exam. Midoriya rushes in to save her without a second thought when he sees her trapped under some debris. He succeeds but can't control his landing after he punches out the robot, resulting in Uraraka saving him with her gravity powers.
• A Day in the Limelight: She gets a decent amount of play in the main story but the anime decides to expand on her and Tsuyu's post-Christmas work study with returning characters from the latter's own season 2 filler episode. We learn that the girls were dealing with drug smugglers at about the same time Izuku and the boys were dealing with Shoto's rather, uh... unique family.
• Deadpan Snarker: Ochaco of all people will occasionally let out a snide remark whenever she sees any form of subtext concerning Midoriya and another girl.
• Death from Above: A strong attack she nearly beat Bakugo with. She gathers various objects that she made float, and then makes them fall at once. If only she hadn't pointed it out to him before unleashing it...
• Death or Glory Attack: The Death from Above attack she pulled on Bakugo during the U.A. Sports Festival. She passed her weight limit accumulating projectiles in the hopes that dropping them all on Bakugo would distract him enough to give her the upper hand. It fails, because he had a heavy hit in reserve (and because she made him notice it by stopping), and she's instead left too exhausted to continue the match. This is acknowledged in-universe.
• Demoted to Extra: She's present for the Internship Arc, but is largely separate from the action.
• Determinator: Proves to be this in her fight against Bakugo, taking explosion after explosion to set up a massive rain of debris to rain down upon him. In the end while it fails and she collapses from Heroic R Ro D, she manages to impress sponsors and land herself some internship offers.
• Emotions vs. Stoicism: Downplayed as both Ochaco and Izuku are very emotional people, however sometimes Izuku will sink deep into his introverted and melancholic nature which will require the extroverted and optimistic Ochaco to help pull him back out of it.
• Epic Flail: Her "Zero Satellites" move. By attaching her wrist cables to multiple floating objects she’s touched, she can swing them around to hit an opponent.
• Establishing Character Moment: On his way to the U.A. Entrance Exam, Deku is so lost in his own thoughts that he isn't paying attention to where he's stepping and ends up tripping. Before he can fully fall, though, Uraraka levitates him with her Quirk and wishes him good luck before taking off. Though this is an incredibly brief interaction, it's one that solidifies Uraraka's character. It shows that she's someone selfless who will help others even if she doesn't know them personally, a trait which she shares with the protagonist.
• Everyone Can See It: When the likes of Aoyama and Mina begin to catch on to her feelings for Izuku, Ochaco becomes extremely flustered and has a tendency of using her Quirk erratically. Eventually the rest of the class clearly come to see she's crushing on him, with a few like Tsuyu giving subtle signs of support and encouragement for when Ochaco is finally ready to confess.
• Eye Pop: One of the most epic in fictional history, with one eye popping out so far her mother needs to push it back in. This also implies it's not the first time it's happened either...

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• Fangirl:
  • Of Thirteen, likely due to how her "Black Hole" Quirk has a similar gravity theme to her own.
  • She's a fan of hero dramas in general. She loves it whenever Bakugo acts like a proper rival to Midoriya, excitedly calling it "the fated battle between men".
  • She is a fangirl of Midoriya himself, showing constant admiration for how smart, kind, selfless, and determined he is. When she ran into him on the first day of class, she enthusiastically recalled how he defeated the robot with a punch, and she respects him so much during the U.A. Sports Festival that she actually feels bad about herself for leaning on him. During the climax of her fight with Bakugo, she is motivated by two things - her family and Midoriya. She starts to develop a crush on him around this time, but chooses to focus on her own growth first.
• Fan of Underdog:
  • Was initially one of these as Midoriya's constant support and the only one to completely believe in him since the start. However, this stops applying once others start seeing how capable he really is.
  • She gets to be on the receiving end from Present Mic who behaves this way during her fight against Bakugo, openly stating he's rooting for her to win. She doesn't, but she put up a damn good fight.
• Fanservice Pack: A year of training at U.A. to be a hero along with puberty make her noticeably more voluptuous in the second half of the story. Her bust doesn't grow a considerable amount, but her wide hips and thighs are on display in a few panels and it's clear she's done a lot of growing physically, not just mentally.
• Fastball Special: Does this a lot with her Quirk. Since she can remove things from gravity for a time, turning it back on suddenly gives something a lot of momentum.
• Fatal Flaw: Initially, Ochaco saw her admiration of Izuku as a flaw that she needed to overcome. Now, her Fatal Flaw has become her constant desire to supress her feelings for Izuku resulting in her being unable to properly communicate with him.
• First Friend: She's the first person Midoriya's age to befriend him at U.A., turning his Embarrassing Nickname into an Appropriated Appellation and brings him out of his shell with her constant cheeriness and support for him.
• Fish out of Water: When it comes to hand-to-hand fighting, Ochaco doesn't show any strong skills fighting in close combat. This lack of skill becomes problematic. After all, as other characters point out, this type of combat is necessary when she needs to be near her opponent to use her Quirk. Ochaco understands this problem. As a result, she picks a mentor who is the complete opposite of her. Her mentor, Gunhead, is tall, strong, and experienced when it comes to hand-to-hand combat. So he teaches her skills that she uses when she fights. It’s somewhat downplayed though, by the fact that, for being so unfamiliar with them, she does take to learning martial arts rather easily and quickly.
• Flight: With enough training and the use of some trusty cables built into her new gauntlets, Uraraka is zipping around in the air with style.
• Form-Fitting Wardrobe: While her hero costume is nothing outrageous for a heroine, she actually points out the snug fit her first time wearing it because she didn't intend for it to be so skin-tight. Apparently, if the desired fit isn't explicitly specified, the companies that create hero costumes just default to Sensual Spandex.
• Genki Girl: Ochaco Uraraka is pretty cheery and passionate most of the time as well. In fact, Word of God states he deliberately invoked this trope when designing her to contrast with the pessimistic and shy Midoriya.
• Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand: When it comes to their relationship with Izuku, Ochaco is the optimistic and loving gentle touch to Tenya’s stern, no-nonsense firm hand.
• Girly Bruiser: Is rather bubbly and even bashful at times. Can also knock you on your ass and put you in restraints before you even know what's happening.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She's a girl with a very warm, lively, occasionally ditzy and overall Girl Next Door type of personality, her favorite food is mochi, she has a tendency to cling onto her friends when she's scared, and blushes up a storm whenever it comes to romance. Her hair is also kinda short and later styled in a ponytail and she is also shown to be quite entranced by 'manly' things much like Kirishima is, got insanely fired up about competing in the Sports Festival, and threw herself into learning martial arts to make up for her weaknesses.
• Girl Next Door: She and Izuku aren’t neighbors, but her personality fits this trope perfectly, being open, approachable, nonjudgemental, and the closest thing that Izuku has to a best friend alongside Bakugo and Iida.
• Give Geeks a Chance: She develops a huge crush on Midoriya despite him being a consummate Fanboy and a total dork at the beginning of the series. He becomes much more confident and determined as the series progresses, but he still remains a huge super-hero geek which doesn't whet her interest in the slightest. Izuku Midoriya/Deku mostly reciprocates the attraction. But given just how shy and awkward both are around each other, they remain Just Friends for now, even though it's quite clear from their interactions that both care deeply for each other in ways that are beyond platonic.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Her second encounter and argument with Toga during the Paranormal War Arc essentially boils down to them not being able to understand each other; Uraraka cannot understand how Toga could just flippantly kill people without a care in the world or a shred of guilt, while Toga cannot understand why Uraraka desires to save other people but stops Toga from doing what she wants. The encounter leaves Toga upset and Uraraka unsettled, unclear of where to go from there.
• Good Is Not Dumb: While her grades are really nothing to write home about, Ochaco has demonstrated the ability to come up with complex strategies right on the spot with very little assistance which fully utilize the strengths of her Quirk, allowing her to reach third place in U.A.'s rigorous Entrance Exam and tenth place during Eraser Head's Quirk Apprehension Test. She has also displayed some remarkable amounts of intelligence in other areas as well. (See Hidden Depths below.)
• Good Is Not Soft: While she is usually reserved and polite, when people are threatening to harm innocents, she shows that she is not one to take that lightly, subduing her foes with any number of grappling, take down, and throwing maneuvers mixed with her gravity Quirk. She even slaps Izuku in the face at two points, one to stop his fall in the entrance exam and the second to help snap him out of the trance Shinso put him in to stop his Blackwhip Quirk from rampaging.
• Gravity Master: Her Quirk allows her to reduce the gravitational pull of whatever she touches to zero through pads on her fingertips, making it near weightless. Her main weakness is that if she overuses her powers she suffers vertigo symptoms.
• Has a Type: A chapter from the first volume of School Briefs has her, Tsuyu, and Momo apprehending a petty thief who soiled himself before his date with his crush. Seeing his date still accept him and offer him a second chance makes her think of Izuku, classifying him as another "fixer upper" like the thief and understanding the appeal of a seemingly lost cause. Although Izuku has never had anything that embarrassing happen to him and eventually becomes 1-A's strongest student, implying she has more of a thing for the Hidden Badass type.
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Her original costume comes with a helmet, but events would often conspire to knock it off, leaving her head bare. She eventually forgoes the helmet when remodeling her costume in favor of futuristic headgear that gives a clear view of her face.
• Heroic RRoD: If she overuses her power, which has a limit of 3 tons, she gets violently woozy. If she really overdoes it, she will collapse.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Attempts a non-lethal version after the Entrance Exam by asking the U.A staff to give some of her points to Midoriya as thanks for saving her from the 0-Pointer. However, this request gets turned down since Midoriya had already qualified with the hidden Rescue Points factor, but her request was still used in support of Midoriya further.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Uraraka can be hard on herself for what she considers less-than-heroic tendencies, from wanting to become a hero so that she can make money for her parents to feeling sympathy for people like Himiko Toga. Luckily for her, Midoriya reassures her that there's nothing wrong with feeling that way.
• Hero-Worshipper: Ochaco slowly starts becoming this towards Izuku due to his heroic nature, but it’s also partially due to her own personal feelings towards him. Once she realizes this, she decides to try and bottle the feelings up, believing that they would only serve to hold her back.
• He's Not My Boyfriend: During her internship, Uraraka talks to Deku through the cell phone, and the Pro Hero Gunhead quickly assumes she's talking to her boyfriend. She denies it, but her later actions make it clear she's developed a crush on him.
• Hidden Buxom: While it isn't obvious when she wears her uniform, her figure is made more visible in other outfits, most notably her skin-tight hero costume. When she wears her hero costume for the first time, it is so form-fitting that Midoriya is taken aback by her figure.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Despite being a sweet girl with a somewhat goofy nature, she is actually really good at strategic planning and execution. She is also shown to think quite a bit about the future, deciding to intern with a battle-styled hero instead of a rescue operations hero because she wants to be prepared for any situation.
  • A special chapter shows she's very good at reading people as she is able to pinpoint and explain the reasons for Bakugo's rivalry with Midoriya. She was also the first to notice when the calm and collected Tsuyu was upset about something.
  • She's extremely good at quick action in crisis situations, and can almost shut her emotions off in a focused trance when someone is in danger. The Yakuza raid and Midoriya's rampaging Quirk immediately come to mind. The aftermath of said situations, on the other hand, is very hard on her.
• High-Heel Power: Her hero costume comes with high heels and she's an Action Girl who can kick asses any time. This is justified as her heels are spring loaded and act as shock absorbers when she lands.
• High-Pressure Emotion: Blushes red as a tomato whenever she catches herself getting too close to Izuku or other people bring up how intimate she is with the boy.
• Hope Bringer: After an exhausting search and retrieval of Izuku after he runs off on his own to protect his friends, he's brought back to U.A. only to hear chants from the crowd of refugees inside urging him to leave. Foisting more of their problems on him and essentially sending him out to die. He's about to listen and depart when Ochaco grabs his hand, vowing to herself she's not letting him go. Then she marches straight to the crowd of protestors to force them into letting him stay.
• The Idiot from Osaka: While not present for the most part, her face-to-face interactions with her parents are the most genuinely slapstick-like, including an Eye Pop that her mother helps push back in.
• Implied Love Interest: Uraraka is this to Izuku. He's definitely expressed some attraction to her, and especially early on gets flustered while talking to her. He also instantly shifts from hating his childhood nickname "Deku" to adopting it as his own (eventually even using it as his hero name) because Uraraka said she likes it (Iida even Lampshades how abrupt this is), and this happens when they've only known each other for less than a day. It's now definite that she has a crush on him, but so far she's chosen not to distract herself by pursuing it.
• In a Single Bound: In the early chapters, this tended to be how Uraraka used her power on herself, as being floaty usually made the side effects of her Quirk significantly worse. After training it though, Uraraka can now use her power on herself with almost no repercussions, essentially giving her the ability to fly.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: While she initially appears to only be a hero in order to get money, she is shown to be inherently a purely sweet girl, and eventually she decides that she wants to be a hero in order to save everyone.
• Instant Expert: It's a little startling how good she gets at martial arts in so little time.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: The first time she wears her hero costume, she unintentionally renders Midoriya uncomfortable with arousal because she didn't know when filing the request for a uniform the company would assume skintight materials unless otherwise instructed.
• Jerkass to One: The Drawing Smash exhibition had the franchise's main characters doing commentary on various exhibits, and on all of the ones she's partnered with Bakugo on, she won't stop picking on him. Izuku can only watch on nervously as she slyly tears Bakugo several new ones. This coming from the resident Plucky Girl shows she strongly disapproves of Bakugo's repugnant attitude and his terrible treatment of Izuku up until post-License Exam.
• Large Ham: Ochaco has a few moments where she is this, due to her cheerful and energetic nature, it especially manifests whenever she gets flustered in regards to her crush on Izuku.
• Latex Space Suit: Her hero costume is a form-fitting suit with a helmet that resembles an astronaut's. She was going for the space theme when designing it. Not so much the form-fitting part.
• Leave Him to Me!: Urges Izuku to hurry ahead and get to where Shigaraki is after Toga pulls him through a portal and derails their plan to defeat the villains. She wishes him good luck, implicitly urging him to accomplish his goal of saving Shigaraki while she stays behind and tries to save Toga in turn.
• Lethal Harmless Powers: Her Quirk generally isn't combat-oriented and Uraraka herself typically doesn't use it on other people, but when Toga mimics her Quirk, she uses it to float Curious and her followers high into the air before releasing them to splatter on the concrete below.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: With Toga. She mostly embodies positive femininity and a rather sunny and wholesome personality, while Toga embodies negative femininity with her sadistic and twisted personality.
• Light Is Good: Her costume and Color Motif consist of bright pink and she is an All-Loving Hero.
• Like Parent, Like Spouse: Downplayed. Both Midoriya's mother and Uraraka have gravity-themed Quirks, soft features, a fondness for pink clothing, and sweet personalities.
• Living Emotional Crutch: To Izuku. After being homeless, caked in blood and filth, and about to be lynched by the U.A. refugees like how he was ostracized in his early life, the first time his eyes regain some of their old light is hearing Ochaco passionately defend him. No other person has ever stood up for him like this, and it clearly leaves a deep impression on him.
• Lookalike Lovers: Uraraka shows romantic feelings towards Midoriya, and both of them have similar-looking faces.
• Love Is a Weakness: Downplayed. It's not so much that she considers love a weakness as much as she considers it a distraction from her studies. Uraraka is close friends with Midoriya, but it's evident that she has more than platonic feelings for him. However, because of the competitive program for heroes, at least in Japan, she sees her feelings as getting in the ways of her goal. As such, she has been suppressing her romantic feelings for him and trying to just enjoy their friendship. That doesn't mean they've gone away for good, it just means she's used a stopgap measure to avoid dealing with them.
• Lovely Angels: She can be this with Tsuyu. The two easily cooperate with each other while as seen during their fight against Himiko 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.
• Luminescent Blush: Ochaco has a few of these whenever her crush on Izuku is brought to the forefront of her mind.
• Made of Iron: She's quite tougher than she looks, as she tanks several of Bakugo's typical explosions before finally being knocked unconscious after forcing him to use his full power. Her Quirk has nothing to do with tanking explosions. This earns her respect from Bakugo himself, as he rejects Kaminari's notions that he's fighting a "frail" girl.
• Meaningful Name: Her name managed to be both this and Punny Name at the same time... on two levels!
  • "Uraraka" means "bright." "Ochaco" can be derived from the expression "ocha no ko" (roughly meaning "piece of cake!") or "ochappii" (a chatterbox girl). This all illustrates her bright, cheerful, Nice Girl personality.
  • Uraraka's full name is written 麗日お茶子. 日 (ka) can be alternatively pronounced as bi; meanwhile, 茶 (cha) translates to "tea", which in Japanese phonology is rendered ティ (ti^note Not to be confused with ち (chi in Hepburn romanization), which is rendered in some romanization systems as ti.). Contracting the pronunciation of 麗 (urara) to just ura, it can be combined with 日's bi pronunciation and the Japanese transliteration of "tea", creating ウラビティ (Urabiti), which is both the Japanese pronunciation of Uraraka's codename "Uravity" and just a consonant away from guraviti ("gravity"), the crux of her Quirk.
• Meet Cute: Izuku Midoriya is going to the UA High to take the entry exam, and accidentally trips over his feet. Luckily for him, Ochaco Uraraka happens to be nearby and uses her Zero Gravity Quirk to stop him from falling flat on his face. She apologizes for using her Quirk without permission, and after giving some words of encouragement goes on her way. Izuku is excited over having talked to a girl, even though he didn't actually say anything.
• Ms. Fanservice: Both her school uniform and hero costume elicit dumbstruck reactions from Midoriya. She's also seen wearing a bikini twice. She is also prone to blatant Male Gaze shots.
• Mundane Utility: It's pointed out that her powers would be incredibly helpful in her parents' construction business, and the only reason she doesn't is because they wanted her to have her own life rather than get stuck following their career.
• Nerds Are Sexy: Amusingly, as detailed in one of the light novels, she's the only girl at the training camp slumber party that finds Midoriya's All Might geeking as a positive, while the rest of the girls unanimously dismiss him as boyfriend material on the grounds that he'd "probably take you on a date to an All Might meet and greet". Uraraka sees no problem with such a scenario and is quietly annoyed by their conclusion.
• Nice Girl: Uraraka is a very friendly and charming person overall. Even her Only in It for the Money motivations behind pursuing heroism are out of concern for her family rather than greed or anything of the sort, and she very quickly learns to value heroism for its own sake anyway. It is heavily implied that the reason Midoriya is attracted to her is because she was the only human being who was nice to him when nobody except his own mother and All Might was (and even they didn't exactly help, his mother never tried to support his dreams of becoming a hero after finding out he is quirkless and All Might flat out told him that hero work involves risk and someone who doesn't have a quirk can't hope to be one). Not only did Ochaco warmly greet him after saving him from faceplanting to the ground right before the entrance exams, she even offered to give him some of her points, after realising that he didn't score a single point because he tried to rescue her.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Of the three students Izuku has a close relationship with when he first attends U.A. Ochaco is the “Nice” to Bakugo’s “Mean”, and Tenya’s “In-Between”. Of those three, Ochaco is the most gentle and supportive to Izuku.
• No Sense of Personal Space: She has a habit of getting right up in Midoriya's face, which flusters the guy to no end. By episode 40 of the anime, she realizes how she's gotten far too comfortable with this (not to mention recognizing her own attraction to him) and starts acting as embarrassed as he does.
• Not Quite Flight: She can use her Quirk on herself to achieve this, though in the beginning of the manga, she avoided doing it because it tended to make her nausea side effect several times worse. However, after training extensively, she can now float herself with barely any repercussions.
• Not the Fall That Kills You…: Her power can arrest the momentum of an object but can't do so immediately. When saving Midoriya from a lethal fall, Uraraka pointedly floats herself up into the air to create space for him to slow down before coming to a stop.

O-Y

• Only in It for the Money: Her initial reason for becoming a heroine is to earn money for her parents now that their construction company is out of work. When confessing this, she felt embarrassed that it wasn't for more pure-hearted reasons. However, it's heavily downplayed, as she's still an incredibly kindhearted girl who still wants to help people, and the others reassure her that doing so for her family is a noble and understandable motivation. It's also phased out as the story goes on and certain events, starting with Nighteye's death, make her reconsider why she became a heroine.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Everyone thinks it's weird when she gets aggressively fired up about the U.A. Sports Festival, even knowing how important doing well there can be for an aspiring hero's career. It turns out that she has a good reason.
  • Even though Ochaco tends to be kind and friendly, there are times when she becomes intense. During one of her classes, Ochaco and Aoyama have to fight against a Pro Hero. When sparring with the hero, Ochaco gets yanked towards a black hole. Because of her practice with Gunhead, Ochaco's reflexes kick in. She uses the pull from the black hole to get herself into a position to handcuff the teacher. When she begins to make her move, Ochaco's bright brown eyes turn white. Ochaco flips the hero onto her back, cuffing her hand behind her back.
  • This actually ends up being exploited by Izuku. During the Hero License Exam, Uraraka is struck by a rival student's Quirk and falls from the platform and doesn't try to float. Midoriya lampshades how odd this is and it turns out it's not Uraraka at all; it's actually Camie — actually Himiko — posing as her. At the time, Himiko didn't yet know that she could use Uraraka's Quirk while transformed into her.
• Opposites Attract: Ochaco (extroved and open) has a mutual crush on Izuku (introverted and emotionally reserved).
• Out of Focus: Particularly in the Field Training and Hideout Raid Arcs where her appearances are minimal, limited to maybe one or two conversations with other characters. The anime adaptation mitigates her lack of appearances in the former, where she is given a lot more scenes and her training with Gunhead is shown in full.
• Passionate Sports Girl: Whenever it came time for the Sports Festival, Ochaco got more fired up then she had ever been up to that point, fully determined to give it her all.
• Penny Among Diamonds: While not everybody in U.A. is rich like Ida, Todoroki and Yaoyorozu, most seem to be upper-middle-class. Uraraka, however, has stated that her family is poor, and that being able to make money and provide for them is her motivation to be a heroine. This does tend to be Played for Laughs, as she often comically faints when confronted with something lavish, like Yaoyorozu worrying about a trip to Venice or how utterly fancy Heights Alliance is compared to her humble abode. Uraraka tries to defy the trope of being The Idiot from Osaka by speaking standard Japanese instead of her native Osaka dialect and not telling anyone about her poor family life, but earning money for her parents from hero work is her motivation.
• Pink Heroine: She has traces of pink throughout her costume, her Quirk manifests as a pink color, and she is an All-Loving Hero.
• Pink Means Feminine: Her hero costume is primarily pink, white, and black.
• Plucky Girl: Several characters have described her as "bright", which is reflected in her name, because of her overly positive nature. She is also very determined when she wants to be. This is somewhat enforced, as Kōhei Horikoshi thought this kind of character would interact well with the more introverted and pessimistic Midoriya.
• Power Floats: Through her Zero Gravity Quirk, Ochaco can make anything solid float in mid-air as long as they are within the weight limit of her Quirk, which is around three tons. Eventually, it gets to the point that she is making an entire plane float and even her own body.
• Pre-Battle Banter: On the eve of the final offensive, she shares a tender heart-to-heart alone with Izuku who thanks her for standing up for him against the refugee mob who tried to kick him out of U.A. and discuss the viability of saving Toga and Shigaraki despite their horrific crimes. Along with telling her how perfect her hair is.
• Proper Tights with a Skirt: Ochaco Uraraka wears gray tights with her school uniform, representing her properness and how nice she is. There is also practicality involved, as her Quirk of anti-gravity has her floating in mid-air quite often.
• Poverty for Comedy: Bar none has the roughest go of it of all the U.A. hero course students financially and it's played for laughs a fair amount. Even after upgrading to the dorms she's overwhelmed by even the most mundane of luxuries compared to being forced to sweat like a pig in her apartment or even starve some days.
• Power Incontinence: Her Quirk activates on anything she touches with all five pads on her fingers regardless of intent, so she's usually careful to hold things with one finger off. She even wears mittens in bed to keep her Quirk from inadvertently floating things in her sleep.
• Punny Name: Her name managed to be both this and Meaningful Name at the same time. One of the kanji in "Uraraka" can be read as "bi". Meanwhile, "ocha" in "Ochaco" means "tea." Her name then can be read as "Urabi-tea." Add a "g" in front, and it's very close to the Japanese pronunciation of "gravity." This pun is also the basis of her hero name.
• Puppy Love: Downplayed. Ochaco and Izuku aren’t readily willing to openly admit their love for each other, but the countless Ship Tease moments that they’ve had between each other still display this trope clearly.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni:
  • The easily excitable and extroveted red oni, to Izuku’s more emotionally reserved and introverted blue oni.
  • Is also the more laid back blue oni to Tenya’s controlling Large Ham red oni.
  • Ochaco is the more open and honest red oni compared to Tsuyu, who is aloof and has trouble expressing herself.
  • She is the blue oni compared to Mina Ashido, who manages to be even more emotional and easily excitable than her.
  • She is also the sane blue oni compared to Toga’s pshycotic red oni.
• Reed Richards Is Useless: Lampshaded in the Smash extras. An object that doesn't conform to gravity would be a priceless boon to science (as an objective yardstick in a relative universe), but nobody ever thinks of this. Particularly egregious given her primary motivation for becoming a heroine is her desire to earn money for her family.
• Rescue Romance: This gets played both ways with Izuku Midoriya and Ochaco Uraraka. During the entry exam for the UA High, Ochaco ends up with her leg pinned by some debris as a giant robot approaches. Disregarding his own safety and the fact that he needs to score points, Izuku rushes to jump in and smashes the robot with a single punch to save her. Unfortunately, the strain of using his powers ends up leaving his limbs crippled and he plummets to the ground, but then Ochaco uses her zero-gravity powers to stop him before he hits the ground, saving him as well. As the story advances, it becomes evident that the two have developed feelings for each other, but they both are too shy to express them.
• Rotating Protagonist: She tends to fall in and out of focus depending on the arc. She gets a good spotlight in the Battle Trial, U.A. Sports Festival, Forest Training Camp, Provisional Hero License Exam, Internship, and Joint Training Arcs, but outside of that, she sometimes does not appear.
• Rousing Speech: She gives a pretty badass one at the end of the Villain Hunt arc when she shouts down the crowd of refugees protesting Izuku's admittance back to the U.A. campus. She speaks at length about Izuku's qualities, and that it isn't fair to place so much burden on one person to make things easier. She makes it clear that for everybody to survive All For One and Shigaraki's reign of terror, they need to accept Izuku, nor can they treat anybody else with prejudice or hate because they're too scared or too lazy to make real change in society.
• Running Gag:
  • Her costume helmet tends to get knocked off in combat. It actually becomes a plot point during the Provisional Hero License Exam Arc when Camie, a.k.a. Toga, assumes Ochaco's form with the helmet on, after Shindo shook the license testing site with a quake and caused the real Ochaco to lose hers. The very fact this other Ochaco still has a helmet hints that she's a fake. Eventually her costume alters it so it's a visorless headset that's less likely to fall off.
  • Seeing Tenya take things too seriously, or hams up a performance, guarantees a spitting laugh from her.
  • Her Quirk is sometimes activated on herself, or others, when ship teased about her and Izuku.
• Sailor Fuku: She's briefly seen wearing a regular school uniform when addressing Present Mic about Midoriya saving her during the U.A. entrance exam.
• Save the Villain: Discusses this with Izuku before the final battle concerning Toga and Shigaraki. The two understand there's no forgiving them for what they've done, but they can't ignore their pain and resolve to save both of them if possible. Because that's what being a hero is about.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: With Midoriya. This is enforced by Horikoshi, who thought her Plucky Girl personality would play off Midoriya's introverted and pessimistic personality.
• Sci-Fi Bob Haircut: Sports a particularly round bob of brown hair and is the lead female character in a 20 Minutes into the Future setting where almost everybody possesses a mutation of some kind that grants them a superpower.
• Secretly Selfish: During the U.A. Sports Festival Arc, Uraraka comes to believe she is using Midoriya as a crutch to help her advance after Ida declined to work with the two since, due to how the tournament works, they all are rivals to each other. Upon hearing this, she tells Midoriya and Ida how bad she feels about effectively using their friendship to get ahead, and strives to go all out to make it fair.
• Sensual Spandex: Ochaco’s Hero uniform is skin-tight and despite her claiming it wasn’t supposed to be that way, she still hasn’t gotten it replaced, implying that she's grown into it.
• Ship Tease: Ochaco Uraraka has had this with Izuku more than any other character with Uraraka being teased by others over her obvious feelings for Deku. Despite her denial at first, she eventually realizes she does have feelings for him, but puts them to the side for now to follow her dream.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Ochaco's main romantic interest throughout the series has always been Izuku. There’s no indication she ever had a crush in the past and she hasn’t displayed a crush towards anyone else since meeting him.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She develops a crush on Midoriya, who is a kind, helpful and friendly Endearingly Dorky boy who saved her during the Entrance Exam. As such, he's the only boy she has ever been shown to harbor romantic feelings toward, and even prior to realizing how she felt, she would often gush about him or be concerned for his well-being more than others. It enters deconstruction territory when she realizes these feelings could become a distraction that interferes with her judgment as a hero, so she tries to suppress them.
• Sleep Cute: In the third ending theme for My Hero Academia, Uraraka and Midoriya are both asleep on a bus while resting their heads on Iida's shoulders (and he's also asleep). It's cute and edges slightly into Threesome Subtext.
• Spell My Name With An S: The standard romanization for her name would be "Ochako", but her name is consistently romanized as "Ochaco" across all official media.
• Spit Take: Often spits out laughing whenever Tenya Iida goes Large Ham.
• Squishy Wizard: With the right timing and planning, she can deal a lot of damage with her Quirk and has been absolutely vital to the victories of the main cast several times. However, because her Quirk drains her stamina so quickly, she often struggles with her defenses.
• Stronger Than They Look: Ochaco has a somewhat thin build, but that doesn’t stop her from throwing people and pinning them down with her bare arms and getting back up from multiple explosions by Bakugo.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Uraraka seems to have inherited most of her mother's looks — her skin complexion, hairstyle, and even the same blushed cheeks, but she also has her father's spiky hair and bangs, brown eyes and short and stubby eyebrows. She also shares her cheery personality with both of her parents.
• Stunned Silence: Will lapse into this with Izuku and Iida as a part of their dynamic whenever confronted with something shocking like Aizawa revealing he never intended to expel any student after the Quirk Apprehension test or Bakugo being... Bakugo.
• Super-Strength: Played with. Much like her flying ability, it isn't real super strength, but with her power, she can easily lift up to three tons and send it flying like a meteor at her opponent.
• Support Your Parents: She wants to become a pro heroine so she can financially support her parents, as their failing construction business has left them poor.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: While Ochaco isn’t that much of a tomboy as of Chapter 284, she has started wearing her hair as this style and has definitely evolved into more of an Action Girl by this point.
• Took a Level in Badass: Invoked by Uraraka herself, when she joins a fighting hero for her one week hero internship, thinking that she'll be able to expand her skillset. She makes good on it too, as she is already knocking out villains with Gigantification Quirks with one special move. Later during the fight with Class 1-B, it isn't Midoriya who ends up being the one to take out most of the other team, it's Uraraka, who is responsible for half of the other team's members getting captured.
  • During her final battle against Toga, when the villain unleashed an army of evil clones of all the heroes on her; Ochaco's Quirk receives an awakening. Now she's capable of using Zero Gravity without needing to touch her targets, this allowed her to push away all the evil clones with just a motion of her hand; much to the shock of Toga and everyone watching.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Really likes mochi, and at one point recruited some of her classmates to help her get around a "limit one box per customer" restriction on a sale at the supermarket. Her Christmas present to Izuku is a pack of sliced mochi.
• Tricked-Out Shoes: Has a pair with spring heels to reduce falling impact as part of her hero costume.
• Twice Shy: Midoriya and she clearly harbor more than platonic feelings for one another but their mutual timidity and awkwardness make it nearly impossible for them to convey anything.
• Two Guys and a Girl: The girl to Izuku and Iida as the two guys.
• Unusual Eyebrows: Opposed to most other characters, Ochaco's eyebrows are short and even shown as stubby sometimes to better frame her wide, circular eyes. This is likely to accentuate her Plucky Girl nature and help her stand out more.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Implied and downplayed. Ochaco shows a more aggressive side whenever it comes to Izuku’s and her relationship with him has so far been mostly Ship Tease. Nevertheless, threatening or trying to harm Izuku is a quick and easy way to get Ochaco on your bad side.
• Vomit Discretion Shot: After overexerting her powers to save Midoriya, Uraraka leans her head down just out of frame in order to throw up. We know she's not just gagging because it's highlighted with rainbows and sparkles! Later on, she's shown trying to hold back again while Iida nervously fusses over her. This technique is used again in an anime-only episode in season 5, again after she overused her powers while on a mission.
• Waif-Fu: Uraraka is a seemingly dainty teenage girl, yet not only can she tank some pretty big hits but she also learns martial arts in just a week after attending an internship. She then incorporates these moves in tandem with her quirk to deliver some pretty sick takedowns in what is so far a rather brief career as a provisional hero.
• Weak, but Skilled: According to the power rankings. Her power sits at a middling 2/5, but she's excellent at using it with a 5/5 in technique. This is downplayed later on as the series progresses as her power grows to a 4/6 (B-), but her technique is still stellar at 5/6 (A).
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Initially, Ochaco’s main motivation for becoming a hero was to earn money for her parents and so that they would be proud of her. She was originally going to help her father with his construction, but her parents told her that she should follow her own dreams, and she eventually does decide she wants to save people for her own reasons.
• What Does She See in Him?: At one point, all the other girls discuss and dismiss Izuku as boyfriend material due his dorkish nature and obssession with All-Might. Ochaco remarks that those are qualities that she likes about him.
• What Would X Do?: Has taken to asking herself "What Would Deku Do?" in dire situations, and is often seen aspiring to be like him.
• Who Watches the Watchmen?: She contemplates a variant in Chapter 212, wondering who helps the heroes when they need saving. This becomes a core part of her character development later on as Uraraka begins to contemplate the more psychological aspect of being a hero, realizing that taking care of peoples mental health is just as important as taking care of them physically, and that many people, hero and villain alike, are not getting the proper help they need.
• Women Prefer Strong Men: She is a huge fan of manly things and tends to get excited when she sees them. In the Dorm Room showoff, she was the only girl who liked Kirishima's room. While she doesn't like how Bakugo acts, she does get excited when he and Midoriya pull heavily on stock rivalry tropes.
• Working-Class Hero: Her family own a barely-afloat construction company and she sticks out compared to the more well off students of U.A.
• Worthy Opponent: Was acknowledged as one by Bakugo after their match. In the U.A. Sports Festival Arc, he takes their fight seriously because of what happened to him the last time he underestimated someone (during the Battle Trial Arc), and because he thought she'd have an ace up her sleeve because Midoriya would have given her some battle plan. He was half right. After getting his facts straight from Midoriya himself, Bakugo begrudgingly acknowledged to himself she wasn't frail at all.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Changes Izuku's opinion on the nickname Deku and has him take what was a derogatory title as his hero name, saying it sounds like dekiru which means "never giving up." A new source of strength. Subsequently making Uraraka herself a primary source of Izuku's determination for the rest of the series.

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