Characters / My Hero Academia - Students From Other Classes

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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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Vigilantes: Main Characters | Villain Factory | Supporting Characters
Team Up Mission

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General Department (Classes C, D, & E)

Hitoshi Shinso

Hitoshi Shinso

Voiced by: Wataru Hatano (Japanese), Jarrod Greene (English)

Debut: Chapter 23 (Manga), Episode 15 (Anime)

Playable in: My Hero One's Justice 2

Quirk: Brainwashing

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"There was no gateway to success here for me, not with this Quirk! Not that someone as blessed as you would ever understand!"

A student from the General Education Department, Shinso is cold, discreet and aloof yet very hard-working. His Quirk is "Brainwash", which allows him to control the minds of anyone who verbally replies to him.

He claims that the students of the Heroics Department are arrogant, though in truth he's jealous of them because he wanted to be a hero himself. Unfortunately for him, his Quirk was useless in U.A.'s entrance exams, making it impossible for him to get into the Hero Course. He was relegated to General Education instead, though he still looked for opportunities to prove he was Hero material. His performance at the U.A. Sports Festival eventually gave him the opportunity to apply for transfer into the Hero Course, and after an impressive performance during the Class 1-A and 1-B Joint Training Exercise, his wish was granted; he'll be joining the Hero Course in his second year.

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• All of the Other Reindeer: Initially, people would shun him due to the nature of his Quirk which seems more tailored for a Villain than a Hero.
• The Apprentice: After the Sports Festival, Aizawa took Shinso as his apprentice and personally trained him to fight, especially in the use of his own signature capture weapon. Aizawa offered to enter Shinso into the Hero Course and many other teachers agreed with the decision.
• Ascended Extra: It was established after his first appearance that his Quirk was seen in a much more favorable light after his showing in the Sports Festival. However, while repeatedly ranking highly on popularity polls, for countless chapters, he made extremely sparse cameos for a while rather than doing anything significant. Much later, though, he finally gets a chance to prove he has what it takes to ascend to the Hero Course the story focuses on.
• Bad Powers, Good People: He wants to be a hero for the same reasons Midoriya does. It irritates him that everyone always treats his ability like a villainous power and act afraid of him because of it, despite his own determination to be a hero.
• Beta Outfit: Justified when he returns in the Joint Training arc with just his gym clothes and some support items, since he's being trialled for the Hero Course. Once he proves himself and earns a place on it, he later gets an official costume.
• Blessed with Suck: His Quirk is actually pretty great, but because of the way the entrance exam was designed, he knew he was fated to become only a General Ed. student despite clearly wanting to get into Heroics. Not to mention the constant teasing his Quirk got for being considered more adequate for villains. Additionally, the fact that his Quirk only works on people that talk to him means that people that figure it out will just stop talking to him at all. Awesome for Heroics, terrible for day-to-day life.
• Boring, but Practical: His strategy for winning the Battle Tournament 1 vs. 1 rounds? Get his opponent to respond to him, activate his Quirk, and make them walk out of bounds. It loses its practicality when his opponent figures out how to break the mind control. However, it's implied that after it takes effect, no one should be able to realize they're being controlled and break the hypnosis. Midoriya only was able to break out on his own because he's got more than one person in there.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: In the Final War arc, he gets possessed by the Sludge Villain until his teammates manage to beat him out.
• Brainwashing for the Greater Good:
  • He wants to play this straight since his peers teased him about having a Quirk that better suited for villains.
  • In order to lure AFO into the open, the heroes need to have Aoyama and his parents contact him. However, knowing that AFO likely has a way to detect lies, Shinso is brought in so he can use his Quirk on Aoyama and his family to make them talk so their words won't register as lies. The plan is successful and AFO doesn't suspect a thing.
• The Bus Came Back: After quite a few chapters showing that Aizawa has taken him under his wing, he reappears in Chapter 194 as a guest in a training session with Classes 1-A and 1-B, now applying for transference to the Hero Department. Midoriya is pleasantly surprised about it.
• Can't Catch Up: Shinso's rematch with Midoriya during the joint training still largely goes in Midoriya's favor, even with Monoma's assistance. Despite all of Shinso's offscreen training, Midoriya by that point has experienced multiple life-or-death battles and has multiple internships under his belt. This is best illustrated when Shinso tries to escape using the Binding Cloth that Aizawa trained him to use, but then Midoriya manages to close in on him in a matter of seconds.
• The Cameo: After his introduction in the U.A. Sports Festival Arc, he only appeared a few times, usually a single page or panel, but these pages heavily imply that his wish to be in the Hero Course was coming true. By the wintertime, Shinso makes his first major appearance in a long time and it reveals Aizawa has been cooperating with him to get Shinso actively involved in the classes.
• Cape Snag: His capture tool works against him when Midoriya grabs it and uses it to drag him closer during their joint training battle.
• Character Tics: Passing his hand on the nape of his neck as a sign of timidity whenever he receives positive attention or praise, which he is not used to at all.
• Compelling Voice: His Quirk in a nutshell, but only if he can get his target to reply to something he said first and he can still be very selective with it.
• Conditional Powers:
  • He can only manipulate the minds of people who verbally respond to him.
  • A fairly rough physical jolt will break his control.
  • He can't control people through things like phones or loudspeakers, as his voice is converted into electric signals and thus loses its mind-controlling properties. His "artificial vocal chords" mask is specifically designed in a way that changes his voice without de-powering it.
  • He can't make people talk (which is why he had to make Midoriya walk out of bounds, rather than say "I give up") or do other things that require using their cognitive functions (i.e. "write down the frog girl's name" — even if the person knows who Tsuyu Asui is, they can't make the connection while brainwashed). This also means that contrary to a spectating pro hero's suggestion during the sports festival, his Quirk can't be used for interrogation or information gathering. By Chapter 344, he’s trained his Quirk up to the point he can make his victims talk enough to respond to a conversation. Though whether he can make them reveal information is still unknown.
  • He can't brainwash several people simultaneously, otherwise he'll possibly lose consciousness. He can control multiple people at once, as was shown during the U.A. Sports Festival Arc, but he has to brainwash them one by one, not all at once. This includes not being able to brainwash multiple people in the same body, which makes his Quirk ineffective against Midoriya if his Mind Hive decides to lend a hand.
• Consummate Liar: Not himself, but he can make others into this by taking away their voluntary and involuntary tells through his Brainwashing. It's potent enough that even a Living Lie Detector would be fooled.
• Creepy Good: A mild case. He's got a somewhat disheveled appearance and a cynical, loner personality that doesn't inspire a ton of confidence. He's also got that paranoia-inducing mind control Quirk which has a ton of villainous potential, and he occasionally uses it as a prank. That said, he's firmly committed to using his power as a hero and insists that he'd never use it for malicious purposes.
• Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: Has these, though he's actually a driven, but misunderstood individual.
• Crippling Overspecialization: His problem in the early part of the series is that he's got all of one trick, his Quirk, and in situations where it isn't helpful, like in the entrance exam, or his enemy is ready for it, like in his fight with Midoriya, he's left with nothing but an average high schooler's physique. His training was meant to address this, with his starting to use Eraser Head's capture tool to have more options and getting some voice-changing gear to expand his Quirk's usefulness.
• Crying Wolf: Once his brainwashing abilities become known during a fight, this drives the opposition paranoid into thinking that anything their teammates say could actually be Shinso in disguise, so they either make sure that each voice is genuine through eye contact or outright refuse to answer. This causes Jurota Shishida's downfall in the Joint Training Arc where he ignores Hiryu Rin's pleas for him to get out of the way while Shinso is flinging him at high speed towards Shishida.
• Cursed with Awesome: Despite the flaws his Quirk has for someone who wants to be a hero, several of the pros in the audience are capable of appreciating how useful his Quirk really is, and agree with how unfair the entrance exam is for students with Quirks like his.
• Curtains Match the Window: He has indigo-coloured hair, eyebrows, and eyes.
• Defeat Equals Friendship: Downplayed. While as of this writing they've not become friends, Shinso is much more amicable toward Midoriya and in turn, Midoriya is always happy to see him.
• Didn't See That Coming: He's completely confused and has a breakdown when Midoriya moves on his own during his brainwashing without any kind of assistance or pre-planning, something that shouldn't even be possible. His power had never failed like that before, and his ridiculous Superpower Lottery was what he was counting on for a course transfer; it suddenly being useless for no reason makes him flip out in quite a spectacular manner. Admittedly, not even All Might himself had any way of knowing that fight was actually nine-on-one against Shinso from the start.
• Face of a Thug: Reasonably bitter and antagonistic towards members of the Hero Course at first, and a bit of a Troll, but despite his off-putting demeanor and "bad" powers, he really isn't a bad dude.
• Fights Like a Normal: It's revealed that for some time, Shinso underwent training from Aizawa to have an identical fighting style so he can move into the Hero Course. This is invoked, as Aizawa reveals in a flashback that he, like Shinso, was shunned for having a not-very-flashy/combat-oriented Quirk and had to rely on natural hand-to-hand combat to get by.
• Forehead of Doom: He has a high and large brow to hint at his mental capabilities.
• Foreshadowing: Following his fight with Midoriya, Shinso implies that he will keep trying to enter the Hero Course. Following the start of their second semester, he's seen walking around with Aizawa and it's mentioned that he's been training/working out. In Chapter 194, The Bus Came Back and he joins a training session with Classes 1-A and 1-B, with Aizawa and Vlad King mentioning that he has requested a transfer to the Hero Department.
• Friendly Rivalry: He develops one with Midoriya. His declaration to fight him again helps snap him out when his Quirk went out of control and grins before they resume their match.
• The Gadfly: Even after the match with Midoriya is over, he uses his power twice on him while the two are having an otherwise serious discussion seemingly just to tease Midoriya for being one of the few people who is comfortable talking to him despite his talent. He doesn't do it to make Midoriya do anything and even he seems surprised when Midoriya falls for his setup the second time. Thanking his teammates for their "hard work" after the cavalry battle can also be seen as this since his brainwashing leaves most of them at a loss for what just happened.
• Heroic BSoD: Shinso goes through this when he has a near-death experience during what was supposed to be a mock battle. After seeing Midoriya manifest a completely unknown power and nearly killing him by crashing into his hiding spot, he's frozen in fear. He can't even run when Midoriya tells him to and can only watch as Midoriya's own Quirk tries to tear its owner apart until Uraraka begs him to help restrain Midoriya.
• History Repeats: By the time he comes back, this has happened twice:
  • It's the second time someone says to everyone that I'm Not Here to Make Friends, but specifically to Midoriya.
  • It's shown that he will be placed against Midoriya again. And once again, Midoriya immediately gets brainwashed.
  • Both of his fights against Midoriya showcases something completely unprecedented with One For All.
  • He loses to Midoriya a second time. Both times Midoriya slams him down.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Shinso tries to capture Midoriya with his capture weapon. Midoriya grabs the weapon and uses it to capture Shinso.
• I Shall Taunt You: Justified, in order to control people, he needs them to verbally respond to him first, and a provocation is a good way to get it.
• I Work Alone: His declaration that I'm Not Here to Make Friends aside, he has a 1/5 Cooperation rating. He's probably simply used to being alone due to his Quirk scaring people off from interacting with him.
• I'm Not Here to Make Friends: He mentions that he has no intention of becoming buddies with anyone of the Hero Course, since he sees them as obstacles in his way of becoming a great hero. His audience doesn't take it too seriously — Sero mentions that it looks just like what Todoroki said back in the Sports Festival (before he defrosted and became friends with them anyway) and Midoriya, Monoma and Kaminari seem to want to become friends with Shinso anyway.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Jerkass is a strong word, but he does have a point: the Hero Course greatly favors those with flashy combat-focused Quirks, despite a large amount of heroism involving rescuing civilians, deescalating threats without force, and resourceful thinking. Plenty of capable potential heroes like him are stuck with General Education simply because they had a major disadvantage in destroying giant robots as the entrance exam.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Side material says he's fond of cats, and as noted despite how others treat him he still wants to help people as a hero.
• Logical Weakness:
  • As powerful as his Quirk is, it can be easily avoided by just remaining silent. He gets around this by being good at trash-talking his opponents to get under their skins and make them angry enough to forget they aren't supposed to respond, but it's not always a given.
  • His Quirk is completely useless against anything that isn't a human, which is why he couldn't pass the entrance exam — the practical portion involved fighting robots, which he can't control because they can't respond to him and don't even have brains for his Quirk to act on.
  • He eventually gets around the first problem by donning a mask that allows him to mimic the voices of other people with "artificial vocal chords", which tricks people into responding to him without realizing it, and the second problem by training with Aizawa's capture scarf.
  • His power only allows him to control the mind that replied to him. This is how Midoriya is freed from his mind control. The other minds inside One For All activate his Quirk for him.
• Looks Like Cesare: Indigo Messy Hair, pale complexion, and sunken-in eyes? Checks all around, which while it suits him it doesn't help him come across as someone who honestly wants to be a hero.
• Man of Kryptonite: Of all people, it turns out his powers make him the perfect counter to Gigantomachia, whose Blind Obedience to his masters is so great that he always unthinkingly responds to any commands given in their voice, which additionally amps him up and makes him effectively unstoppable whilst enacting said orders. Shinso's Voice Changeling Persona Chords allow him to give Machia orders, having him instantly respond to them, and control his might against the villains without him being able to resist.
• Meaningful Name: "Shinso" means "manipulating heart" and "Hitoshi" means "playing with people". Really subtle.
• Mind-Control Eyes: His victims get Empty Eyes.
• Mind Manipulation: His Quirk, which is why people are often initially uncomfortable with him as "stealing a person's free will just by talking to them" is very versatile and could be easily abused.
• Mirror Character:
  • Shinso is a general education student who wants to be a hero. Unfortunately, he's saddled with a Quirk that isn't only unsuited for combat situations, but also makes people think of him as a potential villain. He calls out Midoriya during their Sports Festival battle as not being able to understand what he's going through, but Midoriya can absolutely relate- having been a Quirkless boy with no chance at passing the entrance exam before getting his power, and wanting to be a hero despite everyone telling him he can't.
  • Shinso is quite similar to Monoma who seems to have taken a liking for him since both of them have non-flashy situational Quirks (Monoma needs to touch other Quirk users to copy their Quirks, Shinso needs to have someone address him to make his mind control work) but both want to become pro heroes regardless.
  • He shares many traits with his mentor, Aizawa. They even both like cats in their profile.
• Never Heard That One Before: Yes, Mind Manipulation is an incredibly good Quirk if you want to get away with villainy. He knows. That's basically all he's heard about the Quirk since he got it. He wants to be a hero, not a villain. It's a rather heartwarming moment when he hears pro heroes at the Sports Festival discuss how useful his Quirk could be for heroic purposes and how they wished they had it because that's something he really had never heard before.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: Originally, one limitation of his Quirk was that he can't control someone's speech. Much later in the story, he announces that he's managed to train until he became able to make someone talk — just when such an ability was needed to make someone lie to All For One without triggering his Living Lie Detector ability.
• Ninja: Given he’s been trained to fight by Aizawa, his hero costume invokes this to further go along with their similarities. It’s more stylish compared to Aizawa’s vagabond look though.
• "Not So Different" Remark:
  • Midoriya privately acknowledges that he also used to resent other people with Quirks before he obtained "One For All".
  • He's similar to Monoma since both of them want to be pro heroes despite having non-flashy situational Quirks. This is something Monoma acknowledges.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: His Boring, but Practical Mind Manipulation Quirk is way outclassed by the flashier, more combat-focused Quirks, which is why he isn't in the Hero Course. In fact, this is noted In-Universe, when several pro heroes note how powerful a hero he could be with his Quirk, and that it's a shame he was left out of the Hero Course.
• Paranoia Gambit: Played with, as this is a side-effect of his Persona Cords. Because he can mimic the voice of his enemies, his enemies start trusting less and less on their spoken communication, unsure of whether they're hearing their colleagues or Shinso mimicking their voice. This hinders communication among the team who no longer rely on the information they're sharing with each other. In his fight against Class 1-B, Gevaudan became so sure that the voice warning him of an attack was Shinso that he did not dodge the move that knocked him out.
• Power Perversion Potential: When his classmates are seen talking to him in a flashback about how cool they think his "criminal" Quirk could be, one of them quite obviously has his mind in the gutter, though Shinso is understandably offended by assumptions like this.
• Refuge in Audacity: During the obstacle course, other students were carrying Shinso. It's a weird, one-off gag that becomes hilarious on repeat viewings.
• The Resenter: Doesn't think very highly of his own Quirk, and resents people like Midoriya who have more awesome powers.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: His mask lets him imitate other voices which he uses during the Joint Training arc to mimic Uraraka shrieking in a ploy to fool Midoriya. The trick fails and everyone knows it has to be him, with Ashido commenting it would be fun to see his face while screaming 'kyaahh'.
• Shout-Out: His powers, as well as his hair color, bring to mind the Daredevil villain Zebediah Kilgrave/The Purple Man. Unlike The Purple Man, however, Shinso is very much on the side of good, just like The Purple Man's daughter Persuasion.
• Skilled, but Naive: This is shown during a joint training between Class 1-A and 1-B. Shinso simply isn't used to the pace of hero fights, so he's noticeably slower than the Hero Course students, even if his Quirk is considered very troublesome.
• Squishy Wizard: Aizawa notes that Midoriya is simply more physically fit than Shinso, so once Midoriya manages to break his mind control and the two enter a Quirkless grappling match he overpowers him with relative ease. He seems to have acknowledged this and is actively working on it; he's noted to be bulkier in muscle when he reappears after the U.A. Sports Festival Arc, but still not fast or athletic as the students in the Hero Course.
• Summon Bigger Fish: How does he come in to directly help with the Final Battle? Take control of Gigantomachia with his Quirk.
• Superpower Lottery: Played with. His Quirk would have been a Story-Breaker Power in other stories, but here, its non-combat nature made him fail the entrance exam and got stuck in General Education.
• Took a Level in Badass: When he first shows up at the Sports Festival, he's pretty much a one-trick pony. He has no real backup plan if someone figures out his Quirk and Aizawa mentions that Midoriya outscored Shinso in every physical event at the beginning of the year even without using One For All. In a scene during the U.A. Cultural Festival, he snaps a thick wooden board in half with his bare hands. When he returns in the Joint Training Arc, he's been training with Aizawa for some time, getting notably fitter, picking up several support items to aid him, and refining his use of his Quirk.
• Trash Talk: He's mastered it, as something essential to his Quirk. It's part of why he comes off as more abrasive and mean than he really is.
• Weak, but Skilled: He has excellent control over his Quirk, but his combat skills are relatively poor. His databook stats reflect this, with his Technique and Intelligence being 4/5, but Speed, Power, and Cooperation a low 1/5.
• Worthy Opponent: He and Midoriya consider each other this, to the extent that his question to save Midoriya from himself is a promise to have a rematch.
• Voice Changeling: Shinso's costume has "artificial vocal chords" in it, allowing them to mimic the voices of others, which lets him easily use his Compelling Voice Quirk.

Tsutsutaka Agoyamato and Chikuchi Togeike

Tsutsutaka Agoyamato and Chikuchi Togeike

Agoyamato's voiced by: Yoshihito Sasaki (Japanese), Jim Foronda (English)

Togeike's voiced by: Yuri Noguchi (Japanese), Tabitha Ray (English)

Debut: Chapter 171 (Manga), Episode 82 (Anime)

Quirks: Unknown

Agoyamato on the right and Togeike on the left.

Two General Department upperclassmen that have a severe distaste for Class 1-A.

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• All There in the Manual: Their names are only revealed in the Volume 19 extras.
• Delinquent Hair: Tsutsutaka's got one big pompadour.
• Girlish Pigtails: Togeike has these.
• Humble Pie: They both apologize to Class 1-A for projecting their frustration with U.A. onto them after being dazzled by the crazy performance Class 1-A put on at the cultural festival.
• It's All About Me: While their bitterness about the incidents involving Class 1-A having repercussions for the rest of the school is understandable, they seem more focused on how they've been inconvenienced than the fact that members of the Hero Course were nearly killed in the attacks on the USJ and training camp. In the latter incident, Class 1-B was also involved as well. As such, the two of them come off as rather self-centered.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Their grudge against Class 1-A isn't entirely unfounded. Class 1-A's brushoff with villains has led to all of the U.A. student body having to live in dorms rather than their own homes, which would be a frustrating change of pace for anyone. Obviously, their grudge isn't logical or fair, but it's at least understandable from an emotional point of view. Rather than resent them for feeling that way, Class 1-A resolves to put on a good show for the cultural festival to change their minds.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: Tsutsutaka's chin is really big and pointy.
• Meaningful Name: Tsutsutaka's name is comprised of the kanji for chin and jaw, referencing his large chin.
• Those Two Guys: In their very brief screentime, the two are always seen together.

Support Department (Classes F, G, & H)

Mei Hatsume

Mei Hatsume

Voiced by: Azu Sakura (Japanese), Alexis Tipton (English)

Debut: Chapter 25 (Manga), Episode 15 (Anime)

Playable in: My Hero One's Justice 2

Quirk: Zoom

"Sorry for the sudden explosion!!"

A self-absorbed but brilliant student from the Support Department. She loves making gadgets and relishes the opportunity to show them off. However, she's so obsessed with them that she loses sight of everything else, making a scene at the expense of other people. She allies herself with Midoriya during the Cavalry Battle of the U.A. Sports Festival, and later helps him tinker with his hero costume when he needs to mitigate the damaging effects of One For All. Her Quirk is "Zoom", which gives her telescopic vision.

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• Anime Hair: Her hairstyle looks like a bunch of sea anemone fronds.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: She has a short attention span regarding anything that doesn't involve her babies.
• Attention Whore: Not for herself or her own Quirk, unlike the students in the Department of Heroics. Rather, her goal in the sports festival is to show off her "cute little babies" and get the attention of a big company. Her "fight" with Iida during the tournament is nothing but ten minutes of showing off her inventions before conceding the match.
• Awesome, but Impractical: Some of her ideas and inventions are either downright ridiculous, break too easily, or explode.
• Brick Joke: She mentions at the start of the U.A. Cultural Festival Arc that she hasn't slept in days and intends to sleep once the festival is over. In Chapter 183, one panel of Midoriya walking around the event shows her asleep on the floor.
• Brutal Honesty: Hatsume is rather tactless, saying whatever she thinks regardless of social appropriateness.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She may be a bit scatterbrained and she may have some seriously Skewed Priorities, but there is no denying that she is a brilliant inventor. Power Loader even states that while she gets on his nerves, the Hero Department students would do well to befriend her because when it comes to inventing she has no equal.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: She has a busty figure that catches even Midoriya and Uraraka's attention.
• Crash-Into Hello: Technically, it's her second meeting with Midoriya, but when the latter attempts to enter the Support Department Classroom, she sets off an explosion and ends up landing on top of him. Happens again much later in the series.
• Crazy-Prepared: She has a veritable treasure trove (or depending on the individual, one great big oversized junk drawer) of inventions just lying around at school to accommodate nearly any kind of situation.
• Ditzy Genius: A very intelligent Wrench Wench who lacks any social cues.
• Economy Cast: If a representative from the Support class is needed for plot reasons, it's going to be her. This is justified as she is not only the best among the Support students, she is also a huge Workaholic Gadgeteer Genius who can easily make the request of all other classes. Since she also spends most time in the laboratories, it's easier to find her than any other support student, so everyone tends to go to her.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Her eyes look like crosshairs. This is justified given her Quirk.
• Flash Step: As soon as Midoriya mentions that he'd like her to make gadgets for him, she zips right up to his face and says, "You have my attention."
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Neither Iida nor Uraraka are very fond of her. Iida doesn't like her because she used him as a guinea pig for her inventions during their tournament match, while Uraraka doesn't like her because she keeps invading Midoriya's personal space and neglecting her. Even the spectators at the U.A. Sports Festival are quickly annoyed with her because she basically uses the arena as a platform to literally advertise herself. Midoriya has a better relationship with her, but only really spends time with her when he needs her help.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Goes without saying as a representative of the Department of Support, but even Power Loader says that she's an incredibly rare talent even by the department's standards.
• Genki Girl: She is quite energetic, going from one topic to another, especially in regards to her inventions, which she seems to be utterly obsessed with.
• Goggles Do Something Unusual: They compound the magnification of her Zoom Quirk.
• I Call It "Vera": Calls her gadgets her "cute little babies".
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: She falls on top of Midoriya, totally unaware that her chest is in his face.
• Insane Troll Logic: What's her solution to help Iida when his legs get tired from running? Strap boosters on his upper limbs so he can run with his arms.
• It's All About Me: Downplayed. She bears no ill will, or a desire to tear others down to promote herself, but her prime concern are her inventions and promoting them wherever she sees fit, often without solicitation.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Given that she was already done promoting her new hardware at the U.A. Sports Festival, she had no reason to keep on fighting and conceded victory to Iida without regrets. As another practical matter, it was pretty unlikely that she would be allowed to keep using her equipment after her "fight" with Ida, even provided she didn't end up fighting someone her machines would be useless against. Given that her quirk is useless in combat, she had no reason to go risk getting beaten up.
• Leitmotif: "Shougaibutsu Kyousou". A perky, upbeat, ska piece that fits her somewhat manic personality.
• Mad Scientist: Gadgeteer in this case as she's very enthusiastic about her inventions. Some of them are genuinely useful and helpful. A big proportion of them either fail to work, are potentially dangerous due to bugs and flaws, or they blow up.
• The Madness Place: When she really gets into her work, she'll happily forgo things like sleeping or bathing.
• Male Gaze: This happens when both Midoriya and Uraraka stare at Hatsume's breasts following the aforementioned moment where she lands on top of him.
• Marshmallow Hell: Her landing on top of Midoriya after an explosion nearly results in him being smothered by her hefty endowments by accident. Uraraka is not pleased. It happens later on, except Midoriya has a comically serious expression pasted on his face the whole time.
• Meaningful Name: Her name comes from "hatsumei", the Japanese word for "invention".
• Mid-Season Upgrade: She's responsible for most of Class 1-A's costume upgrades, particularly Midoriya, Kirishima, and Kaminari's.
• Motor Mouth: She rattles on and on about her how her gadgets can be useful for Midoriya as he's trying to find a teammate for Human Calvary during the Sports Festival. She gets so into it that she doesn't even notice Uraraka.
• Mundane Utility: While telescopic vision can have many uses, it comes in particularly handy for an inventor working on particularly small components or electronics.
• No Indoor Voice: Hatsume has a lack of volume control, yelling everything instead of speaking at a normal volume.
• No Sense of Personal Space: When Midoriya requests help from the Department of Support for a new hero costume to better support his Quirk limitations, she immediately starts to invade his personal space. She even gives him an impromptu physical to get his measurements. She also stands behind Iida when she hears him ask for Power Loader's help.
• No Social Skills: Because she spends most of her free time making new inventions, she has ended up with poor social skills with other students. This is best seen when she doesn't remember Iida the second time they meet each other, implying an unwillingness or inability to remember faces. Not helping matters is that she also has a short attention span concerning subjects that bore her.
• Odd Friendship: While she has No Social Skills and spends most of her time with machines than people, Midoriya relies on her for reliable support items and costume upgrades. He notes how invaluable her items are during his fights. As of the U.A. Cultural Festival, Midoriya is one of the few people whose names she bothers to remember after one encounter.
• Opportunistic Bastard: Downplayed. She's not an awful person and will never do anything to purposely hurt other people, but she is a consumate opportunist and she will trick people into showing off her inventions if it gets her publicity. Iida finds this out the hard way when she makes him think she's going to play fair by giving him gadgets to use along with hers in their match, only to use the entire match to pitch her inventions. However, once her presentation is complete, she willingly forfeits the match, allowing Iida to move up.
• The Pig-Pen: She's so enraptured in her work that she hardly takes showers. Midoriya notes this when she comes to give him his upgraded equipment. When he mentions her being dirty, she says that bathing would take a few minutes a day away from her inventing, so she doesn't bother.
• Shameless Self-Promoter: She'll take any opportunity to promote her own inventions. This is demonstrated during her match against Iida — she spends time advertising her inventions to the watching support companies, then throws the match, much to Iida's displeasure.
• Sitcom Archnemesis: Power Loader, who oversees the Support Department. He regularly gets annoyed with her antics, which often result in chaos. He has even threatened to kick her out on a regular basis.
• Small Name, Big Ego: She makes a big deal about all her inventions whenever she can, but her obsession with making it big clouds her mind so much that she fails to recognize that she's not all that well-received.
• The Smart Girl: She's a particularly brilliant member of the Support Class that's acquainted with the main characters, so her focus is to help them and other heroes using her intelligence.
• Steampunk: A modernized take of it. She has some aspects of the genre with her use of fancy and unusual machines, especially those fancy-looking antique-like pipe goggles of hers that she rarely takes off.
• Super Costume Clothier: She's a member of the Development Studio and creates gadgets for the other students to use using her Quirk to see fine detail better when making these items. Not that stops said items from exploding sometimes.
• Super-Senses: Her Quirk gives her telescopic vision. It doesn't see much use, though, because she doesn't see a lot of action as a gadgeteer, and the one time she's used it thus far is at the Sports Festival — and not to scope out not the competition, but company executives.
• Tank-Top Tomboy: She is a tomboyish Wrench Wench who typically wears a black tank top and coveralls tied around her waist.
• Technology Marches On: In-Universe: She offhandedly invented a stress-reducing glove that would prove beneficial to Midoriya, which also happened to be an extremely condensed and smaller version of a giant bulky brace All Might tried to use back in his heyday, but stopped using due to how impractical it was. He's humoured and fascinated by how far technology has gone.
• Teen Genius: Still a high school First Year, but she has a large and varied arsenal of gear intended to be used by heroes. She's even replicated equipment used by pro heroes.
• Traitor Shot: She tricks Iida into wearing some of her equipment by appealing to his sense of good discipline and earnestness. The aside look she makes to Iida is wicked. This is played with, however, in that her ulterior motive isn't to sabotage Iida. It's to trick him into helping her show off her genuinely useful equipment while she makes an utter mockery of their match by turning it into an extended sales pitch.
• Unknown Rival: Very one-sided but Uraraka is quite jealous of her, in no small part due to her habit of invading Midoriya's personal space, unwittingly flashing her cleavage, and ignoring her while doing it. This is subverted in that Hatsume is obviously not interested in Midoriya for anything else than testing her gadgets on him.
• Weak, but Skilled: Possibly the most dramatic case of this in the series. She isn't particularly physically strong and her Quirk has little practical use in combat, but her insane skill at utility design makes her a force to be reckoned with, only not counting as a Badass Normal because she does technically have a superpower. She makes it to the tournament round at the Sports Festival and blatantly uses her match with Iida to advertise her devices, running circles around him the whole time and "losing" intentionally because winning the tournament wasn't her goal.
• Wrench Wench: She's a brilliant teenage inventor who definitely knows her way around machines, and is oftentimes found tinkering with them.

Bibimi Kenranzaki

Bibimi Kenranzaki

Voiced by: Ayano Shibuya (Japanese), Amanda Lee (English)

Debut: Chapter 173 (Manga), Episode 83 (Anime)

Quirk: Unknown

"How dull!! This girl understands nothing, and she'll never measure up to me!! My splendiferous gorgeousness is the pinnacle of beauty! Oooooh oh oh oh oh oh!"

A snooty and stuck-up beauty queen known for an incredibly glamorous appearance and supremely long eyelashes. She consistently wins Miss Con, the top title of the beauty contest U.A. holds during its cultural festival. Because of her access to the Support Department's gadgetry, she goes all-out with her performances. Excessively. Very excessively.

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• Attention Whore: She puts Hatsume to shame in this regard. Literally every moment she's onscreen she reeks of "look at me"! She is such an outlandish-looking person as is that it's impossible not to notice her... and her eyelashes poke people anyway, so they will notice her sooner or later.
• Bling of War: She has her own tank which looks just like her... and she looks really flamboyant as is.
• Chewing the Scenery: Another one from Class G who can't stop hogging the spotlight.
• Eyes Always Shut: Likely in order to draw attention to her outrageously long eyelashes which poke out about a good foot from her face.
• Gadgeteer Genius: She's in the support course, so she's a skilled engineer. She built her own giant tank in the image of her face.
• Graceful Loser: She offers her hand to Nejire in a modest manner after the latter wins Miss Con.
• Hidden Depths: Although she comes off as fairly one-note and egotistical in the manga, the fourth spinoff light novel reveals that she is actually an incredibly disciplined and hard worker who also spends a lot of time looking after her younger classmates within the support department.
• Incoming Ham: It really speaks volumes when the first sign she's arrived are her eyelashes poking out and sticking people before she comes into view.
• Large Ham: In some ways, she's worse than Hatsume. Midoriya's suspicion that all the Support Department students are like this is not unfounded.
• Narcissist: Her idea of a beauty contest performance? Drive in on a giant tank modeled after herself, with all the exaggerated looks she sports on it as well.
• Noblewoman's Laugh: Yet another sign she's a very regal but obnoxious character.
• Ojou Ringlets: Of course she'd have the staple hairstyle of a fanciful proper lady, and she sports enough curls to go on for miles at that.
• Proud Beauty: She's very smug about her appearance and the fact she has been the beauty queen of the school for two years in a row.
• The Rival: To Nejire, but it's a lighthearted rivalry.
• Running Gag: Her obscenely huge eyelashes keep jabbing people.
• Something about a Rose: Often uses roses and rose petals to signal her presence whenever she enters somewhere.

Department of Management (Classes I, J, and K)

In General

The first-year students.

This department focuses on all aspects of heroic business, from the founding and managing hero agencies to promotion of public opinion regarding heroes. They even do hands-on lessons in venture capitalism.

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• The Bus Came Back: After being completely sidelined for nearly the entire series, they appear during the Final War arc with much larger roles.
• Hufflepuff House: They hardly get any mention nor any of their members are named in the series.
• I Should Have Been Better: They blame themselves for letting the Heroes down during the aftermath of the Paranormal Liberation War, since their own jobs were to help document everything and bridge the broken gap between the civilians and heroes, but that spiralled into branding the heroes as useless because they didn't do anything. They try to make up for everything in the Final War arc by documenting everything going on in the floating UA island and start recording Midoriya and Shigaraki's final battle.

The Big Three

In General

Mirio, Nejire, and Tamaki.

"I see you're all lacking any sort of rationality."

Aizawa, about the trio's incapacity of making a presentation

The trio of third years considered to be the best among U.A. students. They are all very talented students who have been praised as being equal, if not above the level of pro heroes. However, they are also recognized as eccentric people.

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• The Ace: The trio is composed of the best U.A. students, all of whom are skilled enough to compete with the pros.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The trio seems to be incapable of even giving a simple explanation for how the internship system works (Tamaki gets shy, Nejire is constantly distracted, and Mirio wants to start a fight). They are, nonetheless, the best students in U.A. All of their on-site skills also show them to be capable heroes, despite being only interns (Nejire particularly got herself an internship with the 9th ranked hero, while Mirio works under one of All Might's former sidekicks).
• Cloudcuckoolander: To say they are peculiar and quirky would be an understatement. Each has their own thing: Nejire asks questions that often verge on nonsense, Tamaki imagines people as potatoes due to his overt shyness, and Mirio presents himself by freaking Midoriya out and showing his own face through a wall.
• Establishing Character Moment: Their presentation is this. Tamaki gets shy and can't talk to the class, Nejire distracts everybody by asking personal questions, and Mirio decides to stage a fight against Class 1-A.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Mirio is the physically strongest and more combat efficient as the fighter, Nejire is more used to having a long-range advantage and is more distant as the mage, and Tamaki's multiple unusual tricks and quiet nature make him the Thief.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Nejire is the only one with ranged attacks. Tamaki’s Quirk really only gives him an edge in martial combat, while Mirio’s has no direct combat capability whatsoever.
• Large Ham: Even the awkward Tamaki is capable of chewing the scenery when it comes down to it. Mirio is by far the biggest one, to the point of being at All Might's level.
• Remember the New Guy?: Everyone in Class 1-A already knows about the Big Three and their legendary status at U.A. when Aizawa announces they're stopping by, but for whatever reason, none of the main characters mentioned their existence prior to this.
• Shout-Out: Possibly to DC's Trinity, especially DCAU counterparts. Mirio as to Superman by being the most optimistic in the whole group, having heroic build and pupil eyes, Nejire to Wonder Woman by being only girl on the team, having a bit pushy and awkward but friendly personality, and Tamaki to Batman by being Comically Serious and aloof guy on a team. The latter two even share their moments that suggest they are more than just friends.
• Two Guys and a Girl: The three seem to hang out together a lot, being that Mirio and Tamaki are Childhood Friends and Nejire seems close to them. In the final arc, the three join other pro-heroes in battle against Shigaraki and get to show how powerful they are when working together.
• With a Friend and a Stranger: Mirio and Tamaki were longtime friends and have known each other since childhood, but only met with Nejire when they got into U.A.

Mirio Togata — Lemillion

Mirio Togata — Lemillion

Voiced by: Tarusuke Shingaki, Wakana Minami (young) (Japanese), Ricco Fajardo, Megan Shipman (young) (English)

Debut: Chapter 121 (Manga), Episode 62 (Anime)

Playable in: My Hero One's Justice 2

Quirk: Permeation

^{Click here to see him in uniform}

"If there's someone in trouble, or needs help, meddling in their affairs is standard protocol for a hero, isn't it?"

A cocky yet friendly and upbeat Class 3-B student, who, according to Aizawa, is the closest person to becoming the next #1 hero. His Quirk, "Permeation", allows him to phase through solid objects, living beings, sound waves, and even light.

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• The Ace: So much so that he was declared to be among the best candidates to becoming Japan's #1 hero, including the pro heroes. Nezu even suggested him to be All Might's successor, and Mirio would have been if All Might hadn't met Midoriya first.
• Actually Pretty Funny:
  • invoked When Ashido compares his Quirk to a Good Bad Bug, Mirio can't help but burst out laughing.
  • He is the only one who actually likes Bakugo’s Atrocious Alias “Explosive Murder God Dynamight” and actually tells Bakugo he thinks it's funny to his face.
• Apologetic Attacker: Shigaraki's original persona as Tenko briefly taking over his own body again to voice his hurt over Mirio saying he has no friends is so abrupt and unexpected that Mirio actually apologizes. Remember, Tenko is mentally stuck at five-years-old, so naturally Mirio's instinct would be to say sorry even if he doesn't quite know what just happened.
• Artistic License – Physics: Inevitable in a world full of superpowers, but while explaining his Quirk, he mentions that light passes through him while he's intangible, preventing him from seeing anything. Logically, this would work both ways, as sight perceives things from the way light bounces off objects. Because of this, Mirio should technically also be invisible while intangible, even though the story doesn't depict him as such.
• Armor-Piercing Attack: If someone tries to block his attacks, his usual method is to phase past it, such as Yaoyoruzu conjuring up a shield which he ignores and clocks her in the face, and punches Overhaul when he tries to cover his face.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: A Required Secondary Power he's trained himself to have. Because he cannot see or hear anything while he's using his powers, he has to calculate where people are going to be and their most likely actions as he's attacking. As his total disassembly of Class 1-A shows, he's damn good at it.
• Badass and Child Duo: What he evolves into with little Eri.
• Badass Boast: Even after getting hit with a Quirk erasing bullet, Mirio simply stands up, punches Overhaul in the face, and declares that "I will always be Lemillion!"
• Battle Cry: "POOOOOWEERRRRRR!"
• Beware the Nice Ones: Mirio is basically a younger All Might in terms of kindness and generosity, with his love of smiling and thus being a hero in training. However, none of that detracts from the threat he presents in a fight. During the fight against Overhaul, Mirio was clearly the biggest threat to him, until Midorya teamed up with Eri to unleash One For All at full power. Mirio was such a severe threat that Overhaul wound up needing to use one of his precious, and expensive, Quirk-erasure bullets to shut him down. And, even after that, Mirio still managed to continue fighting until the rest of the heroes were able to catch up.
• Big Brother Mentor: Takes up this role with Midoriya while they're both working for Sir Nighteye, giving him tips on how to present himself to others as well as when to back off, even when their mutual Chronic Hero Syndrome instincts are screaming for them to act. He also acts like an older sibling to Eri, even helping her write a letter to Midoriya.
• Big Man on Campus: He precedes Midoriya in this department due to being considered the closest one to All Might's greatness and being usually quite popular and respected among his peers due to his mastery of his quirk.
• Blood Knight: The first thing he does when he meets Class 1-A is to challenge them to a fight. This shows that he's eager to jump into battle.
• Blessed with Suck: His Permeation Quirk was this before he learned how to manage the downsides. Sure, he can No-Sell any attack... but he also loses all his senses and would fall through the ground. His dad even warned him against trying to become a hero because of how he could potentially hurt himself with the Quirk.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Mirio has no problem showing off his fun-loving and daring personality. Also, his frequent Character Catchphrase is him screaming out "POWER!" with a hero smile.
• Book Dumb: He has very bad grades, but is actually very capable as a hero.
• Broken Tears: In his desperate struggle to rescue Eri, he had his Quirk neutralized and he took a horrible beating. As he tries to drag Eri to safety, Mirio's body begins to give out and he starts crying because he's failing to do as he promised and is unable to escort her out of the Yakuza hideout.
• Brought Down to Badass: Being shot with a power-nullifying bullet doesn't hinder him from further beating up Overhaul, although he starts accumulating severe injuries.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: His Curb-Stomp Battle of Class 1-A and subsequent explanation of how he did it and the challenges he faced to get that far was effective at getting across his point. He's also a very good hero, naked fighting and all.
• The Cape: In addition to his skill, he also has a strict code of honor, selflessly helpful nature, and reassuring charisma. He's also one of the few heroes in the series to wear a literal cape.
• Character Tic: He has a habit of clenching his fists and waving his arms wildly whenever he's excited or worked up.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: His physical strength comes from regular training, not from his Quirk. He's even able to punch out a hardened Kirishima in one shot without getting so much as a scratch on him. This proves insanely useful when he loses his Quirk, as he can still give a beatdown to Overhaul. However, this means that when facing foes with above-average durability or strength at their disposal, he's basically only capable of performing Scratch Damage at best, despite his unparalleled defences and manoeuvrability, warping him back to Weak, but Skilled against them, as showcased by the climatic battle against TomurAFO at U.A. He is able to implement a workaround via having Nejire wrap her energy spirals around his arms to augment his own blows, but his base physical strength still remains within normal athletic limitations.
• Chekhov's Gag: His peach joke comes back around when he does the same thing to stall Shigaraki long enough for Deku to arrive.
• Childhood Friends: He and Tamaki have been friends since the third grade. In a flashback, it is revealed that one day during high school, it was Mirio who gave Tamaki his hero name, Suneater.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Very downplayed since he is peculiar too, but he seems to be this to the other two to some degree. He has a more straightforward demeanor than the exceedingly cheery Nejire and the painfully shy Tamaki.
• Combat Pragmatist: He doesn't fight particularly dirty, but he exploits his Quirk fully when to appear behind and beneath people to strike them while they're unaware, and to make people waste attacks by having them phase right through him. He also fought completely naked for a time, which throws off his opponents, though this one seems incidental.
• Combination Attack: He uses one with Nejire where she cloaks his arm in her shockwaves; it allows his mediocre power output to be bolstered by Nejire's destructive blasts.
• Cool Big Bro: Acts as this to Midoriya, and later Eri, being an older, more experienced character who is always willing to offer kindness and assistance. The school administration knows he's this and makes a special situation to keep him around, despite having no ability to be an active hero anymore to help take care of Eri, who desperately needs someone like him to help her.
• Covered in Scars: Mirio has at least three scars across his arms (two on one, one on the other), which were no doubt acquired through his rough training and mishaps, possibly the fault of gradually learning to master his complicated Quirk.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He is a major weirdo in class, but shows how scarily powerful he is when it comes to combat.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Defeats half of Class 1-A in less than six seconds. Doesn't take much to take down the other half, either.
• De-power: During his battle with Overhaul, he loses his Quirk after Taking the Bullet for Eri, the bullet in question being one that contained Overhaul's Quirk-destroying drug. The effects of the drug are technically permanent, though the heroes theorize that Eri has the potential to undo its effects with her Quirk. There also exists an antidote serum that Overhaul developed, but that's currently in the League of Villain's possession. In Chapter 292, he returns with his Quirk thanks to a now properly trained Eri.
• Declaration of Protection: The first opening for Season 4, "Polaris", is Mirio's and Midoriya's promise to protect Eri:
  Push aside these tears the best as I can
  I'll give you everything that I have
  So please don't give up on me and disappear
  On that day I promised to protect you,
  That promise still remains in my heart...
• Determinator:
  • Flashbacks show that his Quirk was full of small details and was incredibly difficult to use. In order to train his Quirk to be able to only pass his face through a wall, he needed to hit his face against a wall several times until he could finally use it properly. The fact he was able to master it was a feat of incredible dedication.
  • Losing his Quirk does not stop him from desperately fighting off Overhaul and protecting Eri simultaneously. Even after he gets impaled in his side, he stands firm, not even giving an inch.
• Deuteragonist: Takes Bakugo's place for this role for the duration of the Internship Arc, his drive to save Eri and clash with Overhaul being one of the major parts of the arc.
• Difficult, but Awesome: His Quirk is very hard to use and has several downsides, such as temporarily taking away his ability to see, hear, and breathe. If his feet become impermeable, he will even fall through the floor. And he can't keep his clothes on, either. Yet with extensive training, he's perfected a lightning-fast combat style that makes short work of Class 1-A.
• Double-Edged Buff: Mirio Togata's Permeability Quirk comes with a lot of downsides. While he's completely untouchable with it active, he can't breathe or see while intangible because light and air pass through him. Walking becomes nigh impossible because he'll simply sink into the ground, and he's violently ejected out of any material if he tries to rematerialize while inside it.
• Dub Name Change: His "Phantom Menace" attack is changed to "Phantom Threat" in the American localization, likely due to the former sharing its name with the Star Wars film.
• Elemental Motif: Light. Tamaki constantly compares Lemillion to the sun, claiming to 'shine brightly' in comparison to him. There are several times when Mirio is seen running forward with light shining around him. Along with this, he also has a very 'bright' personality: selfless, kind, funny, protective and optimistic.
• Expy: He’s remarkably similar to Cedric Diggory of the Harry Potter franchise; the resident ace who pretty much eclipses the main hero in terms of skill, integrity, bravery, charisma, intelligence, and kindness, who is ultimately snuffed out before he could really shine. However, unlike Cedric, he survives his Sacrificial Lion moment, and there’s a small hope he’ll get his powers back, someday. By Chapter 292, this appears to be the case.
• Friendly Rivalry: The Ultra Analysis databook says he shares this dynamic with Tamaki.
• First-Name Basis: With Tamaki. Mirio refers to him by his given name rather than his surname with honorifics due to their closeness and history together.
• Full-Frontal Assault: His Quirk, when activated, doesn't allow him to keep his clothes. He's only able to avert it with his hero costume due to it being made with fibers of his own hair, which allow it to phase with him.
• Fun Personified: Mirio can't stay quiet or sit still, and even his grief over losing his Quirk and mentor doesn't keep him down too long, as his overhype about going on a "date" with Eri shows.
• Good Bad Bugs: Referenced in-universe. His ability to instantly show up aboveground when deactivating his Quirk while underground is compared to one of these. The proper term for this kind of video game bug is known as Clipping, where characters and the like pass through objects, environments, and scenery because the game's programming/engine failed to recognize that something collided with a solid object, a.k.a. collision detection. Being ejected out of solid objects when he deactivates his Quirk is another aspect of Clipping that gamers often exploit to either reach inaccessible areas or trigger a boost of speed.
• Good Is Not Soft: Mirio is one of the most benevolent and selfless characters in the series. But if you challenge him or if you hurt someone in front of him... may God help you.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Mirio's body is covered in scars that may be accumulated from accidents often caused by the intense training he underwent with the tricky learning curve of his Quirk.
• Grin of Audacity: He's not above giving one of these to his teammates and his enemies alike but he does this much less frequently than Bakugo for instance.
• Hair-Contrast Duo: Upbeat, energetic, and outgoing blond Mirio to his best friend, the quiet, serious, and calmed down purple-haired Tamaki.
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: He has a helmet with his hero costume, but it apparently doesn't have the augumentations like his suit which has his hair fibers in it to interact with his Quirk, as he ditches it early on in the Shie Hassakai raid so he can phase through a wall.
• Heroic Build: The single most ripped student seen thus far. Given that practically every guy in Class 1-A needs this in order to keep up with the Hero Curriculum, this is saying something.
• He's Back!: Makes a triumphant return in the Paranormal Liberation War arc with his Quirk restored to help the heroes in their time of need.
• History Repeats: He's the second person after Ragdoll who loses access to his Quirk in the midst of a crisis that entails a rescue mission.
• Horrifying the Horror: He was giving Overhaul such a beating that the Yakuza decided to use one of his extremely rare, hard-to-create Anti-Quirk bullets to stop him... and the kid was still kicking his ass after. Sir Nighteye lampshades it:
  "So you really were afraid of Lemillion!"
• Humble Hero: Reflected in the reason behind Mirio's hero name of "Lemillion." The million comes from his goal of one day being able to save a million people. The "L" ("Ru" in Japanese) is actually a reference to All Might, but he doesn't feel ready to use the whole word "All" ("Oru" in Japanese) yet.
• Hunk: One of two examples of this among the U.A. students shown so far along with Ida. Mirio is quite handsome, tall, with a particularly muscular body that he's unafraid to show off. But unlike the serious Ida, he's much more upbeat.
• Ideal Hero: He's a morally upstanding, humble, and very strong young man, shown in his dedication to protecting Eri. He's this to the point that he was recommended to succeed All Might, who currently fulfills the niche.
• Intangibility: The basis of his Quirk. He can phase through any solid matter, but doing so leaves him deaf, blind, and numb depending on just what parts of his body he makes intangible. If he goes full-body he falls through the earth itself and his only sensation is that of falling. Once he becomes solid he is forcibly ejected out of whatever he is inside of.
• Is That Cute Kid Yours?: When he takes Eri for a tour of U.A prior to the school festival, several students ask if his leave of absence is because he's taking care of his kid, namely Eri, who is clutching the hem of his shirt. He just smiles, neither confirming nor denying it.
• Leitmotif: "Mirio", an electronic track that's upbeat and energetic, much like Mirio himself. Also, depending on how one classifies music, his leitmotif could classify as Glitch Hop.
• Lifesaving Misfortune: He was supposed to receive One For All until All Might decided to pass it on to Midoriya. This ends up being a good thing because Mirio already has a Quirk and would have died from Rapid Aging in a couple of years if All Might or Midoriya passed it on to him.
• Lightning Bruiser: Trained so hard that he can break someone's arm with one punch? Check. Nigh-Invulnerable due to his Quirk? Check. So fast he looks like he's teleporting? Check.
• Logical Weakness: The obvious downside to having a Quirk that lets everything pass through him is that when it's fully activated throughout his body, he can't breathe, see, or feel anything other than a sensation of falling because he still has mass. From a combat standpoint, in order to use his Quirk effectively, he has to be an expert at Awesomeness by Analysis since he can partially activate his Quirk on separate parts of his body and let things pass through, not to mention having to predict what his opponents will do if he fully activates because he can't see, hear, or feel anything. This means that someone who is an expert at Confusion Fu or is so much stronger and faster than him that he simply can't keep up, are very dangerous opponents to fight. Also, while his Quirk is great defensively, his offensive capabilities are limited to close-range melee combat so simply staying out of his reach is enough to protect yourself against him.
• Lovable Jock: He ticks all the boxes of the trope despite not being part of a college sports team, being a tall and highly trained athlete with a ripped physique and always up for a good fight. Yet, he's also incredibly good-hearted, generous and follows a strict moral code.
• Magic Pants: To some degree, it seems that his pants fall less than his shirt, to the point where he is capable of fighting with his pants on, but unable to keep a shirt on.
• Magikarp Power: His quirk is very useful and versatile, but he had to work hard his whole life to make it usable or even safe to activate.
• Manly Man: Mirio represents a shining example of positive masculinity. He's ripped, determined, leader-like, and utterly ruthless in combat but also generous, Friend to All Children, and selfless. A young man with his heart and balls in the right place.
• Meaningful Name: His Hero name "Lemillion". Mirio is aware that he can't save everyone, but will still strive to save as many people as he can. His hero name is his stated goal to save at least one million people as a Pro Hero.
• Missed the Call: It might be more accurate to say the call hung up on him. He was nominated as the top choice to succeed All Might, but the hero admittedly bumped into Midoriya first before he had a chance to meet him. It later becomes a Refusal of the Call after he turns down Midoriya's offer of One For All.
• Mooning:
  • Being one of his favorite gags, he sticks his butt out from a bush to make a peach joke.
  • Shigaraki is baring down on the heroes and has to be distracted for just a moment so Deku can arrive. Mirio's way of distracting him is to moon him. It works.
    Mirio: Full Moon Risin' Tonight!
• Mr. Fanservice: When a guy with a Heroic Build has a power that can't be used without causing a Full-Frontal Assault, you have this.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Shares this reaction with Midoriya when Sir Nighteye reveals what Overhaul has been doing to Eri, and realizes that they could have saved her and ended Overhaul's whole scheme.
• My Suit Is Also Super: His hero costume was woven with samples of his own hair, giving it the means to permeate along with him, unlike most clothing.
• Naked People Are Funny: He battles all of Class 1-A in the nude, hollering "Power!" every time he takes out a swathe of them. Jiro's reaction to him suddenly getting naked is this in particular.
• Nice Guy: When asked about why he helps Midoriya so much, since they only just met, Togata mentions that he isn't being nice on purpose, just happened that it's within his instincts as a hero to help someone who needs. Very prominent in his friendship with Midoriya and Eri.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: His Quirk makes him intangible and almost impossible to hit as he can travel through the walls and ground.
• No-Sell:
  • His Intangibility Quirk makes him a perfect counter to Overhaul, whose Quirk relies on being able to touch his foes or otherwise impale them by reshaping the landscape. Even the Quirk destroying bullets the Precepts worked so hard to make are useless against Mirio thanks to his intangibility. Which is why they end up firing the bullet at Eri, forcing Mirio to take it.
  • Nemuto tries to do a Break Them by Talking routine on him, Mirio shrugs it off with little effort because he faces his weaknesses head-on instead of letting them overcome him.
• Non-Standard Character Design: With his Tintin-like face, he looks really silly alongside the other students.
• One-Man Army: Mirio is so powerful that he can take on the entirety of Class 1-A at once and curb-stomp them with his bare hands in a matter of minutes.
• Papa Wolf: Mirio is a combination of being a father and brother to the young Eri. Either way, he is extremely protective of her.
• Perpetual Smiler: Just like All Might. Also like All Might, he develops shades of Stepford Smiler after his mentor's death, both to honor his last wishes and because he can't afford to look sad around Eri.
• Pie-Eyed: How his eyes are drawn. It's one of his Shared Family Quirks, as his dad, who is drawn like a cartoon version of a fifties greaser right down to the pompadour, has them too.
• Power Loss Depression: Mirio loses his Quirk after being shot by Overhaul's Quirk-destroying bullet while trying to rescue Eri. He puts up a strong front and fights hard against Overhaul regardless, but he soon breaks down into tears as he's forced to flee with Eri, despondent over how he can't do more to help. After the incident, he once again puts on a smiling face and doesn't seem to be angsting over his lost Quirk, but he is clearly a Stepford Smiler who's trying to be strong for the sake of the people around him.
• Primary-Color Champion: His hero costume has red, white, and blue on top of a great deal of white as well as some green and yellow.
• Promotion to Parent: What he ultimately becomes for Eri, becoming a mix between a Cool Big Bro and a Papa Wolf, looking after her like a father would, to the point that many students in U.A. believe that Eri is his actual daughter, an idea he seems quite comfortable with.
• Refusal of the Call: pretty much. Izuku offers him One For All after his quirk is stolen but he refuses it.
• Refused by the Call: Nighteye was training him to be the ninth wielder, but All Might took his own path with Midoriya.
• Required Secondary Powers: Downplayed. He has next to none of the usual set for an intangibility superpower. If he turns his head intangible, he can no longer hear, see, or breathe because he isn't touching the air around him. If he turns his feet intangible, he starts to fall through the ground. About the only one he does have is that turning solid while inside something merely propels him outside it instead of anything messy.
  • To this end, he had to train himself how to consciously activate his intangibility though only parts of his body (if he were to try walking through a wall, he illustrates that he'd need to keep one foot tangible to stay grounded, step through, and make it tangible to continue). He also has to pre-calculate the trajectory he'll take when he turns off his power when fully submerged within a solid since he's unable to sense where he is once he's in the ground.
    • It's worth noting that the sheer amount of trained skill it takes him to accommodate for the secondary powers he lacks is enough to make him almost as much of a threat without his quirk as he is with it.
• Shoot the Mage First: The first thing he does during his fight against Class 1-A is take out all the long ranged fighters.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: He will always be Lemillion, Quirk or no Quirk, and Overhaul's Breaking Speech isn't about to change that.
• Signature Move: A punch to the solar plexus. It's a Simple, yet Awesome attack, one that anyone with sufficient training can pull off and strong enough to put most anyone down in one hit. He makes it his own by using his Quirk to phase through any attempts to block the attack, and he's good enough at it that he took down the entirety of Class 1-A using nothing but variations of it. Even his super move Blinder Touch Eyeball Crush is just a feint meant to set up one of these hits.
• Strong and Skilled: Compared to hand-to-hand combat, Mirio is the best example of this. This is from the hard Training from Hell he received to control his Quirk and make him useful in combat. His physical strength and combat skills are greatly effective enough to take out an entire class that has been encountering villains on the daily.
• Superheroes Wear Capes: One of the few known new generation heroes to include a cape in their costume. When fighting Overhaul and Chronostasis, while protecting Eri from bullet fire, he first uses it to obscure their view. Seeing this Chrono notes that he always thought capes were for show, to which Mirio explains that they're to bundle-up traumatized young girls like Eri.
• Taking the Bullet: Jumps in front of Eri, to protect her from a bullet fired by one of the Expendables, who was counting on him to do so.
• Taught by Experience: Mirio is a strong believer in the idea of learning from experiences, both good and bad, and credits this with the development of his own Quirk. His experience and tutelage under Nighteye went a long way towards turning him from dead last among his peers to number one at U.A.
• Tears of Joy: Seeing Eri beaming with excitement at the cultural festival makes Mirio cry tears of joy at finally seeing her smile.
• Tele-Frag: Notable for its aversion. This is the one aspect of intangibility that Mirio does not need to worry about.
• Teleportation: His power allows him to exploit the fact that two things can't be in the same place at once: when he becomes solid while underground he immediately pops directly up from his location. By controlling his location and direction, he can therefore seem to disappear and reappear in a different location to the naked eye.
• Took a Level in Badass: In his past, Mirio was a mediocre student at best and often struggled, as indicated by Midoriya's flashback of his performance at the Sports Festival. However, Sir Nighteye willingly took him in for internships with the intent of him being All Might's successor and the results speak for themselves as he's considered to be the best amongst U.A.'s three best Third Years in the heroic department.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: Parodied. His father looks even sillier than him, complete with cartoony nose, eyes, and hairdo.
• Unknown Rival: An unusual case with Midoriya. They are both contenders for the position of All Might's successor, Midoriya being the one chosen by All Might and given One For All while Mirio was The Ace who had been specially groomed to be the next All Might. However, not only were they unaware of each other, they weren't even aware there was competition. Even after Midoriya learns Mirio was the other candidate and starts comparing himself (unfavorably) to him, Mirio remains blissfully unaware. It also turns out that the rivalry would have been completely pointless in the end, as its eventually revealed that One For All's true nature is a Deadly Upgrade to anybody born with a natural quirk, resulting in the accumulated power eating away at their lifespan. The only ones immune to this effect are those who lack a natural-born power, and thus have an emptier 'vessel' the quirk can properly expand into, meaning Izuku was the only true choice from the start.
• Weak, but Skilled: His true strength has less to do with his exceptional (but inconvenient) Quirk, and more to do with his incredible skill at managing its downsides. After losing his Quirk, he's still an exceptionally strong young man and skilled martial artist, though he takes a break from school and hero work while everything with his Quirk gets sorted out.

Nejire Hado — Nejire Chan

Nejire Hado — Nejire Chan

Voiced by: Kiyono Yasuno (Japanese), Lindsay Seidel (English)

Debut: Chapter 122 (Manga), Episode 62 (Anime)

Playable in: My Hero One's Justice 2

Quirk: Wave Motion

^{Click here to see her in uniform}

"No matter who I look at, all of you have things that pique my interest! How strange!"

A smiling and welcoming Class 3-A student that has a child-like sense of curiosity. Her Quirk, "Wave Motion", enables her to release her vitality as energy shockwaves, though they lack speed due to coming out in spirals.

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• Adaptational Curves: She's given a more noticeable bust in the anime than in the manga.
• Anime Hair: Modeled after her "twist" motif. It fans out, then gets itself together only for two strands of hair, then fans out again. To make it worse, it's colored in gradient blue, being brighter on top and darker below. It later gets burned off by Dabi to where it barely reaches her shoulders, and the only "twist" part are two antenna-like strands on top.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Judging from how fast she switches between topics, she's got the attention span of a fruit fly.
• Badass Adorable: For all her cuteness and good looks, she is still among the top three U.A. students and easily takes out two building-sized villains in one attack.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Takes a full flame blast from Dabi, and though she’s visibly burned at the time, later she’s perfectly normal with the only lasting sign of damage being shortened hair.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Her ditzy Nice Girl personality makes her look harmless, but she's still an ace hero student. She becomes very serious and level-headed in serious situations, with none of her quirks ever manifesting during battle.
• The Big Guy: Of the Big Three. Her usual role seems to be blasting her opponents with superior firepower, while her male counterparts require more technical skill.
• Brainless Beauty: Subverted. She's a pretty girl who can come across as naive and ditzy, but she’s still part of the Big Three.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: Her curvaceous figure has Mineta drooling and even Midoriya gets distracted by the sight of her sizable cleavage in her beauty pageant dress.
• Cast from Stamina: Her Wave Motion Quirk allows her to convert her stamina into energy, which she can use in a variety of ways, but usually she just discharges it as a Hand Blast attack.
• Close-Call Haircut: Dabi burnt off the long locks Nejire has down her backside.
• Combination Attack: She uses one with Mirio where she cloaks his arm in her shockwaves; it allows her slow moving waves to gain the benefit of Mirio's Flash Step abilities.
• Constantly Curious: She asks everything that passes through her head and has no filter about when she might be getting too personal with her questions. She also asks things at such a speed she hardly even hears the answers to the first question.
• Cool Big Sis: Becomes one to Eri after she's put under U.A.'s care. Nejire dotes on her like they were actually siblings, styling her hair and even cradling her when she cries.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Gives one to two giant villains, throwing them on the ground with one attack.
• Curtains Match the Window: Her hair, eyebrows, and eyes share the same shade of light blue.
• A Day in the Limelight: A part of the U.A. Cultural Festival Arc focus on her, as she tries to win the beauty pageant in her last year at U.A.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Chapter 361 reveals that she, surprisingly, was more somber and intimidating during her first year at U.A. She Took a Level in Cheerfulness and became who she is in the present thanks to Tamaki reaching out to her.
• Energy Donation: She can use her Quirk to transfer her own stamina / energy to other heroes, boosting them at the expense of her own.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Downplayed. While not odd, she is one of the few characters to have white irises, rather than black.
• Flight: She can boost herself upwards by releasing her waves from her feet.
• Friendless Background: Her brief backstory in Chapter 361 reveals that, in their first year, Nejire's classmates found her intimidating because of her strength and Quirk. They believed that she was arrogant and looked down on the rest of them for being weaker than her. The first person from her class who was willing to talk to her? Tamaki. Mirio followed suit. That's when Nejire opened up and felt comfortable enough to display her natural curiosity, which caused her depression to change into glee.
• Genius Ditz: Despite her attention deficiency, the very fact that she’s one of the Big Three speaks volumes of her skill level and isn’t someone to be underestimated.
• Genki Girl: Impossibly cheery and upbeat at all times. Nejire is always energetic and tries to talk with everyone all the time.
• Glass Cannon: Her Quirk is strong enough to knock out two giants in one hit, but she’s only as tough as a normal person. This is demonstrated when Dabi severely injures and knocks her out in one attack during the Paranormal Liberation War. This is then downplayed when she gets up after Mirio arrives on the field and helps him launch an attack on some of the villains, though she's still visibly injured.
• The Glomp: She jumps to hug Ryukyu during the hero meeting. Ryukyu is apparently very welcoming of this kind of skinship and hugs her back easily.
• Graceful Loser: Has lost the school's beauty pageant to Bibimi Kenranzaki for two years in a row, but doesn't hold a grudge and even describes Bibimi as being "amazing" for winning, despite the girl being smug and condescending about her victories.
• Hand Blast: Her most common use of her Quirk is to discharge spiral-shaped energy blasts from her hands.
• Handwave: The reason why her Quirk releases shockwaves in spirals is never cleared up. When the explanation of her Quirk happens, it handwaves this as something that just happens and nobody knows why.
• Hidden Depths:
  • After spending a lot of time behaving like an airhead, she actually takes it personally to win a beauty contest against Bibimi and is very keen about looking elegant and pretty.
  • For all her flightiness, she's surprisingly focused when it comes to building up her stamina to maximize her Quirk.
  • As a first year, Nejire displayed zero of the airheaded and childlike personality traits that she has currently. She only became that way after befriending Tamaki and eventually Mirio. It brings into question just how lonely and ostracized Nejire was that her friendships at U.A. had that big of an impact on her.
• Informed Attractiveness: She's drawn in the same style as the other characters, but is considered quite the beauty In-Universe. Even Midoriya can't help but blush and stutter around her.
• Innocently Insensitive: While she's a nice girl she can be unknowingly rude to people due to her being Constantly Curious and her lack of lack of tact.
  • She's not very good at reading moods when interacting with Class 1-A. She bluntly asks Todoroki about his burn, Shoji's mask, and continues to play with Ashido's horns, despite her annoyance.
  • In the anime version of the visit to Class 1-A, she also tells a stage fright-striken Tamaki he "needs to have the heart of a lion, not a kitten" talking to the students, which doesn't exactly help. Smaller moments and supplementary material implies that she tends to be like this towards Tamaki. It's unknown if she's just being innocent or she's aware that she's teasing him.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: She has waist-long hair that emphasizes her femininity.
• Meaningful Name: One of the straightest examples. Her surname is literally the name of her Quirk, while her given name means "twist" referring to the shape of her shockwaves.
• Mighty Glacier: Her "Wave Motion" Quirk is incredibly powerful but also very slow, due to the spinning motion it acts with.
• Motor Mouth: Talks a mile a minute whenever she gets a chance to open her mouth.
• Ms. Fanservice: She has a curvy figure and is described as having the right amount of "cute" and "sexy" to her looks. Nejire has even been the beauty pageant runner-up for two years, and the winner of her last year. Even Midoriya is awed by her good looks during her shoot. Her hero costume is essentially a skin-tight bodysuit.
• Nice Girl: She has a kind, happy-go-lucky personality and never means anyone harm.
• No Sense of Personal Space: She plays with Ashido's horns, not caring about her annoyance and often gets close to people's faces when asking some questions.
• Out of Focus: Unlike her friends, she does not receive any particular amount of focus during the Internship Arc. While Tamaki and Mirio receive a backstory and an exploration of their motivations as well as big, climatic battles, she gets half a chapter of focus and no backstory.
• Proud Beauty: She's proud of her appearance and enjoys competing at the school's beauty pageant.
• Sensual Spandex: Her costume is a tight, form-fitting bodysuit.
• Spectacular Spinning:
  • She has a "spiral wave" blast that can take out villains the size of buildings.
  • Her hero costume includes a lot of ornaments that seem to spin around her and her limbs.
• True Blue Femininity: She has a blue Color Motif, but is delicate, adorable and feminine. The U.A. Cultural Festival Arc reveals she is widely considered one of the best-looking girls in the school.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: In a world where this is played straight, she actually averts it by asking about all the little details other characters take for granted.
• Vibration Manipulation: Nejire can convert her own vitality into energy and release it in the form of spiraling shockwaves.
• Womanchild: Despite being 17, she is mentioned to act like a kindergartner in her childish glee.

Tamaki Amajiki — Suneater

Tamaki Amajiki — Suneater

Voiced by: Yūto Uemura (Japanese), Aaron Dismuke, Apphia Yu (young) (English), Pablo Azar (Latin American Spanish/TV series)

Debut: Chapter 122 (Manga), Episode 62 (Anime)

Playable in: My Hero One's Justice 2

Quirk: Manifest

^{Click here to see him in uniform}

"What should I do... the words... they won't come out! My mind's completely blank... It's so painful...! I wanna go home...!"

A socially-awkward and painfully shy dark-haired Class 3-A student who is one of Mirio's childhood friends. His Quirk is "Manifest", which allows him to transform parts of his body into the body parts of things that he eats.

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• Badass Boast:
  • Subverted during the hideout raid. Tamaki doesn't have enough self-esteem to boast about himself, so when he declares that he can defeat three villains at once by himself, Fat Gum just accepts it as a statement of fact.
  • Played straight during the subsequent fight:
  Tamaki: I've got a light that can swallow even the sun's! That's why I'm Suneater!
• Bridal Carry: Gives one to Mirio after he passes out from his injuries from his fight against Overhaul, and has to take it out of the Shie Hassaikai lair so that they can take Mirio to the hospital.
• BFG: In the Final War Arc, He manages to create one after combining more than a dozen animal traits.
• Character Catchphrase: Says "I want to go home" when he's uncomfortable.
• Character Tic: He has a habit of leaning against a wall to hide his face from others when he is overly anxious, feel insulted, or have a bad feeling.
• Childhood Friends: He and Mirio have been friends since the third grade. In a flashback, it is revealed that one day during high school, it was Mirio who gave him his hero name, Suneater.
• Clothing Damage: If he generates huge and inhuman body parts with his Quirk, they tend to wreak havoc on his clothes because they no longer conform to his anatomy.
• Combat Tentacles: For most of his battles transforms his fingers or hands into octopus tentacles to trap his opponents.
• Combo Platter Powers: His Manifest quirk can give him a lot of different tricks to call on, like Combat Tentacles (octopus), a shell shield (clam), and sharp talons (chicken). The Paranormal Liberation Army raid also shows him transforming into a cow-centaur.
• Corner of Woe: Whenever he loses his confidence or someone takes it away from him, he cowers against a wall or hangs his head in shame.
• A Day in the Limelight: Chapters 140 and 141 focus on his battle against three of the Eight Expendables, as well as his past with Mirio and the origins of his codename. This translates to season 4, episode 8 of the anime.
• Demoted to Extra: Despite having a relatively important role during his debut in the practice arc, compared to Mirio and Nejire, he barely has appearances and dialogue in the later arcs in which he appears as Culture Festival Arc or Paranormal Liberation War Arc.
• Determined Defeatist: Despite his constant pessimism and rock-bottom self-esteem making him a Nervous Wreck, Amajiki is extremely driven to become a hero and surprisingly tenacious in a fight. It's revealed that this is the trait Mirio admires the most about him.
• De-power: Gets injected with a drug that damages Quirks. He temporarily loses his ability until he heals.
• Death Glare: Subverted. Class 1-A thinks that he's doing one, but he's actually just trying to envision them as something else in order to feel more comfortable.
• Eldritch Transformation: If Tamaki devours a huge number of edible things ranging from aquatic life, animals, plants, insects, even arachnids, the result is a HEAPING mass of discombobulated creature body parts.
• Energetic and Soft-Spoken Duo: He has this relationship when paired with Mirio, or Nejire, or Kirishima, or Fatgum. It might be easier to show who he doesn't have this dynamic with.
• Face of a Thug: He doesn't look like someone you'd want to meet in a dark alley, but any menace in his appearance is promptly subverted by his attack of stage fright.
• Friendless Background: It is implied that prior to transferring to Mirio's school in third grade, he had no friends due to his shyness and poor ability to talk to people. Once Mirio speaks to him and introduces himself, he becomes his First Friend.
• Friendly Rivalry: The Ultra Analysis databook says he shares this dynamic with Mirio.
• First-Name Basis: With Mirio. Tamaki refers to him by his given name rather than his surname with honorifics due to their closeness and history together.
• Gut Feeling: The moment Mirio is shot by a depowering bullet, Tamaki wakes up and wonders if something happened to him.
• Hair-Contrast Duo: The quiet, serious, and calmed down purple-haired Tamaki to his best friend, the upbeat, energetic, and outgoing blond Mirio.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: He doesn't think very highly of himself when compared to Kirishima and Mirio, who he describes as "suns", since they are bright and inspiring to others.
• Hidden Depths:
  • In his Character Profile it is revealed that his favorite things are butterflies.
  • He is rather perceptive of others and can muster the bravery to approach people when needed, despite his crippling social anxiety. He was the one who invited Kirishima to do his work study with Fat Gum. And he was the first to befriend Nejire during their first year, despite how the rest of the class were intimidated by her.
• Imagine the Audience Naked: A variation where he tries to imagine the audience as potatoes. He still fails as Class 1-A still comes off as literal potato heads with human bodies.
• In the Hood: His hero costume features a hood that can cover part of his face. He has a habit of pulling it down to cover his face completely when he's embarrassed.
• Like a God to Me: Tamaki is grateful that Mirio has wanted to talk to him in third grade, he sees Mirio as a great person and a brilliant hero, recognizing him as invincible. Tamaki admires Mirio. He praised the techniques Mirio achieved from the hardships he went through. He told Eijiro he shines like the sun similarly to Mirio, something Tamaki himself feels a lack of confidence to achieve.
• Logical Weakness: The manifestations of its Quirk depend on the amount of food you have in your digestive system. If he doesn't eat sooner or Tamaki's digestive system runs out, he won't be able to use his Quirk and he won't be able to manifest anything, leaving him in a vulnerable position.
• Lovecraftian Superpower: His "Vast Hybrid" technique combines the various traits of all he's eaten together into forms that can sometimes be nightmarish, like combining various crustaceans with octopi to create clawed, armored tentacles to thrash about.
• Meaningful Name:
  • His name contains the kanji for "heaven" (天 Ama) and "eating" (喰 jiki). And his first name contains "ring, link" (環 Tamaki).
  • His Hero name was inspired by Mirio. While Tamaki compares people like Mirio to "suns" who shine so brightly in life, Mirio claims that Tamaki has his own intensity that is so great it eclipses that light, so he is "Suneater".
• Messy Hair: He has messy indigo hair which sticks out behind his head like his uniform, possibly because he doesn't put much effort into his appearance.
• My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Tamaki wakes up and realizes something bad happened to Mirio immediately after the latter gets shot with one of the Yakuza's Quirk-Nullifying Bullets.
• Nice Guy: His deep shyness aside, he acts friendly to other students and pro heroes. He also sympathizes with his enemies, as explained below.
• No Social Skills: Because he is distant, depressed, and extremely shy, he is socially awkward at talking to people and becomes paralyzed very easily. It is a quality that he has had since he was a child and is usually seen talking to very few people.
• Not So Stoic: He initially appears to be stoic and aloof, even a bit threatening, but he is actually very shy and awkward.
• Out of Focus: He receives this both in the Cultural Festival Arc where he barely has dialogue and doesn't have any special moment, unlike his friends, and in the Paranormal Liberation War Arc where he has the least screen time and the least participation during the war, with a single manga page showing its fight scene, while his companions were in the center of the main battle and Kirishima and Fat Gum had more participation and moments.
• Pointy Ears: He sports elf-like ears.
• Poisonous Person: One application of Tamaki's Quirk is to generate poison. For example, he incapacitates the Shie Hassaikai's Garbage Trio using an octopus' paralytic neurotoxin.
• Prefers Going Barefoot: Shoes seem to interfere with his Quirk manifestation because they close off his feet. In his hero costume, he wears ankle/instep guards that leave his digits and heels uncovered so he can generate helpful appendages such as chicken talons.
• Purple Is Powerful: He has indigo hair (a bluish-purple hue) and most of his hero costume is purple and is one of the most powerful students in the entire U.A. High school. Also, even heroes and teachers say that their abilities have surpassed those of hundreds of professional heroes.
• Ship Tease: A bit with Nejire. During the cultural festival, he looks upon Nejire's performance with a smile on his face while he compared her to an innocent fairy. Additonally, Chapter 361 reveals that it was Tamaki who approached the (then lonelier) Nejire during their first year at UA, greeting her the same way Mirio did when they first met as kids. It was this interaction that eventually led to the Big 3 becoming friends and Nejire Taking a Level in Cheerfulness.
• Shrinking Violet: His shyness is his most prominent character trait.
• Socially Awkward Hero: He can fight villains like a true professional, but he is very shy around people and awkward when trying to deal with or talk to other people and usually ends up with his head against a wall. He quickly flakes on his presentation to Class 1-A because he gets stage fright and even in his work as a Hero he is paralyzed when he receives congratulations from the people.
• The Eeyore: Compared to most of the people he hangs out with, works with, or talks to, Tamaki is more quiet and serious. In addition, he has a tired and nervous expression on his face almost all the time.
• The Quiet One: He is usually more quiet, serious, and socially withdrawn than his friends and co-workers.
• The Smart Guy: His official stats show that he is the smartest of the big three and the Fat Gum Agency.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: His Quirk, though it's limited to things he eats.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Receives this from Kirishima due to Tamaki being vocal about his insecurities, who states that Tamaki is also a sun, since he was the one who introduced Kirishima to Fat Gum. It's later shown that his name "Suneater" came due to a similar conversation between him and Mirio when they were younger as that's how Mirio used Tamaki's metaphor to convey how he sees Tamaki as a more impressive person than he is.
  • For all his anxiety and self-esteem issues, Tamaki demonstrates some considerably advanced techniques and creative uses of his Quirk. He can combine anything in ways that, while bizarre looking, serve the exact purpose he wants. This is why both Mirio and Nejire are putting themselves on the line and counting on him to do a lot of damage to Shigaraki in Chapter 361. They acknowledge that, out of the 3 of them, it is Tamaki who doesn't have a "limit" to his Quirk.
  Mirio: So if I'm the sun, you must be something even more incredible than that!
• You Are Who You Eat: His Quirk allows him to manifest the characteristics of things he eats (e.g. talons and wings from fried chicken and tentacles from takoyaki).

Other Students

Yuyu Haya

Yuyu Haya

Voiced by: Momoko Soyama (Japanese), Lauren Moore (English)

Debut: Chapter 173 (Manga), Episode 83 (Anime)

Quirk: Unnamed Electrical Arrow Quirk

"Nejire is more of a cute type than a sexy type!"

Nejire's best friend, a third-year student who is in the Hero Course and the same class as Tamaki and Nejire.

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• All There in the Manual: Her full name is listed in the Volume 20 extras.
• Artistic License: Kōhei Horikoshi makes note in her Character Profile that her piercings and dyed hair would be against dress code in a real school, but that it's fine in the story.
• Delinquent Hair: She dyes her hair, though the color isn't specified in the manga. In the anime, it's dyed a reddish-pink. In the School Briefs light novel, she bleached her hair blonde.
• Meaningful Name: Her name contains the kanji for "arrow," and the electricity she discharges is shaped as an arrow.
• Satellite Character: Her main purpose is to serve as Nejire’s Best Friend and all of her notable scenes revolve around how much she cares for Nejire. Even in the light novel story where she’s one of the main characters involved, Yuyu is entirely focused on supporting Nejire.
• Shock and Awe: Her Quirk has some form of ability to generate electricity, as she is seen helping provide power to allow a flying U.A.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Downplayed. While Kendo notes that Nejire’s free-spirited nature just helps emphasize Yuyu’s levelheadedness and cool exterior, and the two of them look the part, Yuyu otherwise doesn't have an overtly tomboyish personality.

Mawata Fuwa

Mawata Fuwa

Voiced by: Arisa Sekine (Japanese), Dani Chambers (English)

Debut: Chapter 254 (Manga), Episode 107 (Anime)

Quirk: Unknown

A second-year student in the hero course. She was part of the class that Aizawa expelled and reenrolled in order to Scare 'Em Straight.

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• All There in the Manual: Her name was first mentioned in the Volume 26 extras.
• Chekhov's Gunman: While she herself isn't mentioned directly, her entire class being expelled by Aizawa was first mentioned all the way back in Chapter 6/Episode 6. She and her class are introduced to the audience 249 chapters later, along with the reveal that they were re-enrolled back into the school.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Not only are her pupils much lighter than her irises, but they also appear to be shaped like little cotton balls.
• Misery Builds Character: While she wishes that she and her classmates hadn't been temporarily expelled, she admits that it ultimately was for the best.

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