Characters / My Hero Academia: Vigilantes - Main Characters

My Hero Academia Main Character Index
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
Characters From Other My Hero Academia Media: Video Game Characters | Movie Characters
Vigilantes: Main Characters | Villain Factory | Supporting Characters
Team Up Mission

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Character Sheet for the spin off, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes's main characters.

Beware of spoilers, both marked and unmarked!

Vigilantes of Naruhata

General

A trio of unregistered "heroes" taking to the streets to deal with the problems professional heroes either don't know, care, or (in rare cases) have the ability to do anything about. Banding together through "circumstances" (read: Knuckleduster dragging the other two along kicking and screaming), they deal with crime in their special way while trying not to get arrested by their stronger, more organized counterparts.

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• Almighty Janitor: Despite what they've done for the city, and their advances in fighting against a lethal drug trade; the best exposure and recognition they've gotten are tabloids misprinting Koichi's hero name. Pop is the only one that the public has really noticed, and not for the right reasons. This works to their advantage, because legally they're considered villains no matter how heroic their actions, and a high enough profile for the pro heroes to notice their vigilantism would require said heroes to arrest them.
• Anti-Hero Team: They're all outlaws by default, as unauthorized Quirk usage is considered illegal, even if it's with good intentions like playing a hero. However, Knuckleduster is the only one that really fits the mold.
• Clark Kenting: Against all odds they've managed to keep their identities a secret. Their costumes are things they threw together themselves rather than getting them from the Hero Association (which, to be fair, aren't big fans of anonymity either) and are varying levels of Paper-Thin Disguise. The only reason they haven't been investigated yet is because they're doing the bulk of the effort in taking down the Trigger addicts.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Makoto's survey of the area shows that as far as the public is concerned, Knuckleduster is either a scary troublemaker or unknown, "The Hauler" is well-intentioned but kind of creepy, and Pop☆Step has a nice butt. Pop☆Step's reputation grows more positive when she joins the FeatherHATS, and the same happens to Koichi as the series continues, but little changes for Knuckleduster.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Their ranks consist of a college-level social outcast, a high-schooler moonlighting as a pop idol, and a Badass Normal 30-something man trying to be The Punisher.
• Vigilante Man: But of course. Knuckleduster is far more overt about it than Koichi and Pop.
• Weak, but Skilled: Koichi and Kazuho have two of the weakest Quirks in the series offensively, having little-to-no combat potential and practicality, respectively. Meanwhile, Knuckleduster is Quirkless, which is a huge handicap when Everyone Is a Super. Doesn't stop them from trying, and it definitely doesn't stop them from winning.

Koichi Haimawari — Nice Guy/The Crawler

Koichi Haimawari — Nice Guy/The Crawler/The Skycrawler

Debut: Chapter 0 (Vigilantes)

Quirk: Slide and Glide

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"Nothing like doing good to make you feel good!!"

The hero of the story, a 19-year-old who wanted to be a hero, but missed his chance when he was young. After hours, he dons a costume and does "hero work" (really just self-imposed public services like giving out directions, delivering lost items, helping the elderly cross the street, and cleaning up trash), until an encounter with Knuckleduster changes his life.

His Quirk is "Slide and Glide", which allows him to slide around at the speed of a bike when at least three of his limbs are touching the ground. There's a lot more to his Quirk than he thinks, and with added training and experience, Koichi starts to take the brakes off it to use for vigilantism.

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• Abusive Parents: His mother tends to be overbearing and often smacks him for little things at times. Especially when he was a child and learned to float, but each time he used it he'd always get smacked.
• Accidental Misnaming: After changing his hero name, people still don't bother to remember it, calling him things like "The Hauler" or "The Cruller".
• All-Loving Hero: Koichi spent so long fighting as a vigilante not only to save innocent civilians but because he felt all the villains he fought were in need of help too. In his own words, he instinctively goes to the site of a commotion every time he spots one because he wants to help anybody in distress. During the story's climax in particular, he keeps brawling with Six even near-death because he senses he needs some company before he dies.
• Ambiguous Situation: Chapter 116 shows Koichi meeting Knuckleduster after being seriously injured in his fight with Number 6. As Knuckleduster is also shown to be on a roof top, but with his body slumped over and unresponsive, the ambiguity is between whether Koichi is simply hallucinating his mentor’s presence, or talking to his lingering spirit.
• Ascended Fanboy:
  • Not nearly to the extent as Izuku, but Koichi is also a major fan of All Might, gaining an appreciation for doing little tasks for others without reward and later doing "hero" work as a vigilante.
  • Near the end of the series, Makoto arranges to have Koichi retroactively signed onto Captain Celebrity's agency as an official sidekick to shield him from the legal ramifications of his vigilante actions and fight with Number 6. He ends up moving to New York City, taking up the name Skycrawler. Despite a deluge of bad press from his Destructive Savior tendencies and a My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels statement on live television, he remains popular among New Yorkers and is a local legend in Naruhata.
• Barrier Warrior:
  • He can use his quirk like this. His first demonstration was accidentally knocking away a Rocket Punch fired at his face, which leads to him realizing that he can project repulsive force from his palms offensively, leading to the creation of the Shooty Go Blam. During his Showdown with Number 6, this proves vital in protecting Koichi's life, as his quirk allows him to create what is basically a full-on forcefield in front of him for a split second, allowing him to nullify Number 6's Enhanced Punch attacks, though he's still blown away by the force of the blasts as he's not got proper grounding to endure it. Nonetheless, it allows Koichi to endure close-range combat with the crazed speedster, who has the edge over Koichi in terms of sheer sheer speed and hand-to-hand combat.
  • Later on during said fight, it's revealed that Koichi can either consciously or subconsciously create these shields anywhere on his body, allowing him to block Number 6 attacking him square in the back mid-air without either of his hands being in the way to block. This effectively make it impossible for Number 6 to actually hurt him with his explosive fists, despite all the advantages he has over Koichi as a fighter, because Koichi can nullify any angle of attack he makes and is somehow able to keep up with Number 6's Super-Speed to block in time.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Koichi dreamed of being a pro hero as a child, but never got into hero school due to missing his exam after stopping to save a child who was drowning in a river. His vigilante activities give him a taste of the hero life, but it's very clear that he's in over his head and often requires rescuing. After Captain makes him a pro hero for real, Koichi finds that official hero work is tougher than he bargained for as he's plagued with debt, lawsuits, and bad press from being a Destructive Savior. Despite this, it's clear the he feels he's hit the Karmic Jackpot and is enjoying his chance to live out his dreams.
• Berserk Button: He's a pretty mellow guy most of the time but he will not let anyone insult his costume. It's one of the few genuine things that can get him angry.
• Brought Down to Badass: In addition to the ways he was taught to restrain his quirk usage and not experiment with his limits handicapping his overall performance with the power, when Koichi ends up being officially recognized as a Vigilante by the police and pursued by Aizawa, he proves he can maintain his distance and continually escape from the seasoned hero using just Le Parkour and Knuckle's grappling hook to move around the city with Aizawa nullifying his quirk.
• But Now I Must Go: At the end of the story, Captain Celebrity shields Koichi from the legal consequences of being a vigilante by having him sign on as one of the Captain's sidekicks. But the tremendous collateral damage caused by his fight with Number 6 and deluge of bad press he got for it forces him to move out to New York City, leaving Pop and Knuckleduster behind. This also explains why he's absent from the main series.
• Butt-Monkey: He gets beat up a lot, even by low-level villains. It doesn't help that his Quirk doesn't exactly have a lot of raw power to incapacitate others with, at least at first.
• Calling Your Attacks: Like a real pro-hero, he tries coming up with names for his moves and oh boy, does he fail so badly at it.
• Childish Tooth Gap: One of Koichi's teeth is knocked out in his final battle with Number 6, leaving him a tooth gap that emphasizes how carefree and gentle he still is after his ordeal. This gap is later fixed in the final chapter.
• Civvie Spandex: His "hero costume" is simply one of his (many) All Might hoodies over motorcycle gear along with gloves and boots. He pulls his undershirt up to cover his mouth and (sometimes) uses a pair of shades to cover his eyes.
• Clark Kenting: The worst offender of the group, as his "costume" is just him wearing the hood of his All Might jacket, pulling his shirt up to cover the bottom of his face, and wearing tinted shades (which he rarely uses) to hide his eyes.
• Classical Anti-Hero: He's a bit cowardly and kinda lame, but he has the true spirit of a hero, even if he has to be a hero outside the law as a vigilante.
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: Koichi proves to be surprisingly popular with the ladies, given that Kazuho, Makoto, and Rin have all shown various levels of interest in him. It helps that he’s a genuinely nice guy, almost completely devoid of ulterior motives when it comes to the opposite sex.
• Combat and Support: He and Pop are the support to Knuckleduster's combat, getting civilians to safety and tripping up villains while their leader goes to town. Once Knuckle leaves and Pop gets transformed by Number 6 into Bee Pop, Koichi ends up having to step up and become the Combat part to Soga, Rapt and Moyuru's Support, as they are the only ones who understand the circumstances behind Pop's actions and how best to save her, rather than treating her as a Villain like Official heroes would, and Koichi has the skills necessary to face Pop on the field with proper training. Soga later on outright calls Koichi the Group's 'muscle' and when Number 6 attacks the hospital where Pop is recovering, Koichi is the only one on the scene who can face him in close combat without instantly dying against his Combo Platter Powers.
• Costume Evolution: His original "costume" as "Nice Guy" consists of nothing more than an All Might-themed hoodie over his casual clothes. He later starts wearing padding, knee, and elbow guards used by bikers to enable him to slide faster with reduced risk of injury. As he gains notoriety, he starts wearing opaque shades to hide his identity. His actual hero costume as The Skycrawler is a form-fitting spandex version of his original vigilante outfit, with stylized shoes, a Utility Belt, and streamlined elbow and shin guards.
• Creepy Good: Seen as this by the populace, where the most positive reaction amounts to, "He's such a nice man! But he's still creepy." A high-school girl was convinced that Koichi was busy flipping skirts with his Quirk, while a third guy said that Koichi was still way too fishy to trust. This even extends to his civilian life, where his classmates shun him because of his early attempts to invite friends to his apartment in an abandoned building.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: His Shooty-Go-Blam, an offensive move he created using his Quirk. He talks it over with Pop and uses her reactions to gauge how much of it he should use even in emergencies. And then there's an additional layer of forbidden with the concentrated version that takes it from "annoyance" to "killing blow," which he firmly decides never to use.
• Darker and Edgier: Played with. Koichi tries to shed his "Nice Guy" persona reputation by reinventing himself as "The Crawler" despite not changing his appearance or mannerisms all that much. He does end up getting embroiled with much darker situations than littering, but he also keeps up the little acts of good. Gets played slightly straighter when Number 6 turns Pop into Bee Pop and Koichi finds himself having to contend with Official heroes in the line of duty to protect her, getting officially labelled as a vigilante in the process, and becoming wanted by the authorities.
• Destructive Savior: Koichi causes a lot of property damage in his efforts to avoid getting killed by villains, to the point that the press labels him "the Destructor of Naruhata" by the end of the story even while he tries his best to keep people out of the crossfire. His reputation precedes him when he starts working as a pro hero in New York City, resulting in a lot of bad press. He mentions that he's in debt and is the target of numerous lawsuits due to collateral damage from his activities. He also accidentally agrees to smashing up downtown and Wall Street when he's mobbed by the press due to the Language Barrier.
• Didn't Think This Through: Once Knuckleduster disappears and the "Next Level-Villains" starts popping up, he tries to take them on by himself without any real way to bring them down, resulting in a very annoyed Captain Celebrity who has to swoop in, clean up, and save him every time instead.
• The Everyman: His life was more or less normal since he didn't get into Hero School. At least, until he met Knuckleduster...
• Exact Words: When Makoto gets a little too close to the truth about his identity, he manages to weasel his way out of her Living Lie Detector Quirk by the simple fact that she called him "The Hauler" much like the populace has been doing for a while. Since he sees himself as "The Crawler", he can blatantly say that he isn't "The Hauler" and pass her Quirk's test since he's telling the truth. Notably, Koichi isn't aware of her Quirk, so he did this unknowingly.
• Extreme Doormat: Knuckleduster and Pop☆Step pretty much invite themselves into his home without permission and he doesn't even bother trying to get them to leave. Not to mention the first technique he developed for his Quirk is a way to grovel without getting kicked.
• Fan Boy: Of All Might, having looked up to him since he was a child. Koichi is particularly proud of his collection of All Might hoodies, of which there were several re-releases that look virtually identical, but he's able to tell them apart with ease. These same hoodies are also used as part of his vigilante costume. And he thinks that wearing an All Might hoodie makes him more effective as a vigilante, but only if it's official merchandise.
• Flight: While trying to save himself and Makoto from a lethal fall, he manages to propel himself in mid-air enough for Ingenium to save them. According to his mother, he was able to do this when he was a baby, but out of concern for his safety she conditioned him to stop using his Quirk that way by punishing him whenever he did, so by the time he grew up he completely forgot that he could.
  • In Chapter 83, he gains the ability to propel the air in the same way he fires his compressed shots from his feet, allowing him to outright fly for a short distance.
  • By Chapter 101, Koichi reveals that in addition to the above he can do a short-range 'Double Jump' by using sharp bursts of force with his feet, allowing him to move around in mid-air without the sheer speed and velocity caused by his rocket-propelled propulsion method, though only up to 2 times. He says this as it's showcased that he's now performing multiple jumps in mid-air to race across the sky to the hospital where Pop's life is in danger, his mind too occupied to think about what he's doing.
• Flying Brick: Once he unlocks his quirk's expanded combat options during a life-or-death fight with Number 6, Kochi's powers falls into this. He's not 'physically'' strong enough to lift objects bigger than him, but he can create Megaton Punches with the Crawler:Knuckle style, creating repulsive force rings on his hands to enhance his blows to rip apart Number 6's Kaiju One-Winged Angel form from afar, can fly around the area with his quirk's mobility and enhance his durability by coating himself in a full-body repulsive forcefield and in extreme cases using opposite repulsive focal points to 'hold' his broken bones in place when he gets damaged. The end result is somebody who hits hard from a mid-range distance, is extremely hard to hit and can endure surprising amounts of damage in a fight.
• Forgotten First Meeting:
  • Actually saved Pop from drowning when she was a little girl on the way to his High School Entrance Exam. But he thought she was a little boy, and was in too much of a hurry after the rescue to note otherwise.
  • It later turns out that he met Knuckleduster when the latter was recently starting his search for the Villain Factory, having not yet adopted his trademark look and tactics and having become something of The Alcholic to deal with his sorrows. Koichi offered him a handkerchief after an altercation with a random street thug that left Knuckle's nose bleeding, showing him genuine concern for his wellbeing despite Koichi's nose also similarly getting busted up—not that he noticed. Knuckle later on recounts that the simple act of kindness Restored My Faith in Humanity and citing it to Koichi as proof that You Are Better Than You Think You Are, admitting he could never make Koichi a real hero in the end, because his protégé already was one from the very start.
• Fragile Speedster: After getting some tips from Ingenium, Koichi is able to keep up with the Turbo Hero himself but has even better maneuverability as well as the ability to go straight up walls. His overall fighting strength hasn't changed much though and he's still relegated to mostly tripping up opponents and distracting them rather than outright fighting them.
  • Even as the escalating situation brought about by Pop's corruption into Bee Pop forces him to take a more combat-active stance in his vigilantism, Koichi still maintains this, using his speed and maneuverability to keep his distance from his targets whilst using his lethal variation of Shooty-Go-Blam to properly attack them. Even when he's faced up against Number 6 which can equal or exceed Koichi's reaction times and speeds, and had the kind of Power that would turn him into a bloody smear in a single hit, it turns out Koichi can defend himself with his quirk, negating Number 6's attacks, but only if he can form a shield in time, otherwise he'd be dead in an instant.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: After months of research and digging into his background, All for One is left incredibly disturbed to find that Koichi was ultimately just an ordinary, unremarkable person before circumstances forced him to start taking some massive levels in badass.
• Future Badass: Subverted. His monologue post-Knuckleduster's disappearance is similar to Izuku's, but instead of talking about how he becomes a great hero, he claims that he matures into a respected if relatively minor local vigilante. Double Subverted by the actual ending. While he remains something of a goof with a mixed reputation, he's become a pro hero powerful enough to catch up to a falling plane and slow its descent enough for it land safely in the Hudson River.
• Giver of Lame Names: Neither of his vigilante names are particularly impressive and people have trouble remembering "The Crawler" and misname him repeatedly. Then there's the name of his "ultimate move".
  Koichi: Ultimate rapid-fire combo... The Crawler's Shooty-Go-Blam-Blam-Blam-Blam-Blam!
• Good Feels Good: Is genuinely gratified by the little things he does for others, being the primary reason he's stuck around with his group despite the fact that it's illegal.
  Koichi: (to Pop-Step while cleaning up a park) "I'll stop picking up trash because it's uncool?" That just doesn't feel right. That's not the kind of man I am.
• Hand Blast: By accidental coincidence, while using his powers, he discovers that his Quirk isn't restricted to three contact points in the ground to set off, allowing him to fire off the repulsing force from his free palms like shock waves akin of shotgun blasts as a result. Later on, he discovers that he can even make the shots smaller, more precise and strong enough to pierce through objects akin to a rifle bullet.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: As it turns out, his Quirk works by him repelling force with his palms, meaning his gliding is just him controlling the direction the force is repelled. He can also invert the force so that instead of pushing things, he pulls them in, allowing him to Wall Crawl on vertical surfaces. He later learns that he can cling to walls without moving as well. Using his Quirk, he can glide at great speeds, though he had trouble going too fast since he couldn't brake... that is, until Tensei Iida crossed his path and advised him on how to brake. Now, he can go fast enough to catch up with a speeding bus while also having enough maneuverability to make hairpin turns and slide through narrow alleyways without bumping into anyone.
  • Koichi can also outright fly with his Quirk, as he can use air as his points of contact. He was able to do it far more easily as an infant, but his mother feared for his safety and punished him every time he tried to do so until he forgot.
  • Then he discovers he can use his Quirk to fire Hand Blasts! Basically, he can use the repelling force to fire off invisible blasts of force at opponents.
  • And then he discovers that he can use his quirk as a Deflector Shield by using it to repel an enemy’s attack, and that he can produce this effect on any part of his body. Basically, "Slide and Glide" is a way better Quirk than he originally gave it credit for.
• A Hero to His Hometown: Koichi becomes a beloved local icon in his hometown of Naruhata for his constant self-imposed public services and heroism by helping Knuckleduster and Pop fight villains. Meanwhile, the police are very much not pleased with his vigilante activities and want to bring him in for breaking vigilantism laws (though a number of pro heroes are willing to look the other way for his sake). As a pro hero in the U.S., he's plagued by lawsuits, debt, and bad press from being "the Destructor of Naruhata" along with some Open Mouth, Insert Foot moments caused by the language barrier. Meanwhile, everyone back home watches his efforts online and continues cheering for him despite his less-than-ideal start to his hero career.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Zigzagged. He's A Hero to His Hometown for his constant self-imposed public services and helping to fight against villains in Naruhata, but the press lambastes him as the "Destructor of Naruhata" for his tendency to be a Destructive Savior while trying not to get killed. The police also aren't happy with him and Tsukauchi wants to take him in. This continues even after he becomes a pro hero, as America isn't sure whether to call him a hero or a villain given his sketchy professional background. He doesn't help matters when he gives a scripted response to questions he doesn't understand, resulting in his reputation plummeting even further.
• I Just Want to Be Badass: Even knowing it's too late for him now, he still dreams of being a real hero, just for once in his life. By Chapter 124, his actions are recognized by the right people and he's officially employed as Captain Celebrity's sidekick in America, under the name "Skycrawler".
• Innocently Insensitive: He's a Nice Guy at heart, but he has a habit of being unintentionally rude. Throughout the arc where Pop☆Step is set to perform on stage as part of an ensemble act, Koichi keeps blurting out comments about the captain of the dance squad who are taking part. Not only do these comments tend to be unintentionally insulting, but he keeps inadvertently preventing a guy who has a crush on her from giving her compliments.
• In the Hood: His "Hero" costume is just a hoodie with bunny ears on it. Many people just mistake him for a All Might cosplayer. Turns out he has quite a few as part of a collection of Annual All Might Hoodies.
• Irony:
  • Koichi tried to get into a hero school, but didn't get to the exam on time because he was busy saving someone. So he didn't get to become a hero because he was being a hero. Also the person whose life he saved turned out to be Pop☆Step.
  • He mentions hoping to get a girlfriend once in college, but never could due to his (misunderstood) reputation as a creep. Now that he's a vigilante, several women have shown attraction to him, and he's completely unaware of it all.
• Lethal Harmless Powers: His Shooty-Go-Blam isn't very impressive, but that's mostly because he uses it as a distraction rather than a genuine attack. When he wants to, he can concentrate the area repelled to a pinprick capable of punching straight through metal cans, or even a person. When he truly cuts loose, he's able to leave car-sized holes in Number 6's Kaiju form. Even then, Koichi actively avoids aiming for the physical parts of Number 6's body because he doesn't want to hurt him.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: After Queen Bee takes over Pop, he takes off his self-imposed restrictions to take them down by any means necessary.
  • Following Number 6 confronting him in the aftermath of the fight with Bee Pop and telling Koichi I'll Kill You!, Koichi can tell there's genuine and murderous malice in his intentions from the numerous times he's been subjected to the ire of people who've been annoyed at his vigilantism. When Given the choice of letting the police and the heroes look after Pop as she recovers from her near-death experience, Koichi just can't leave things be whilst Number 6 is still on the loose, even if it means being opposed to the official heroes he's made friends with and getting officially labelled as a vigilante and wanted man by the authorities. During the subsequent clashes against different patrolling heroes, Koichi demonstrates both how his quirk handling has improved in it's versatility as well as how he's improved without it, being able to escape on his own using Knuckle's Grappling Hook and Le Parkour when chased by Aizawa. When Number 6 attacks The hospital where Pop's resting, Koichi disregards the order to flee and call for All Might to confront Number 6 himself, managing to showcase the many ways his quirk can be used offensively and defensively in their subsequent fight.
• Logical Weakness: His quirk allows him to repel objects from his hands and feet and also reverse the force to stick to surfaces. This means that he can anchor himself to whatever he's standing on and use the repelling force of his palms as mini-shields that allow him to defect blows or objects. However, all of this is dependent on his weight and strength so anything too big or heavy for him to stop, he can only deflect or alter the course not stop it.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Mid-way through his fight with Number 6, it's revealed that Koichi has upgraded his control of his quirk enough to create full-on force fields with it from his hands, allowing him to block or nullify Number 6's Enhanced Punch attacks. When the latter attempts to bypass that by exploiting his Quirk's Achilles' Heel- that Koichi can only emit his repulsion force from his limbs— launching an attack square into his back whilst in mid-air, Koichi apparently subconsciously emits a shield there as well to save himself, revealing that he can emit his repulsion force from any point on his body, effectively allowing him to negate all incoming damage if he can react quick enough, and Number 6 is left stunned that Koichi is somehow capable of reacting quickly enough to keep up with his Super-Speed.
• Meaningful Rename: He was originally called "Nice Guy" when his "heroism" consisted of small acts of public service. After he joined up with Knuckleduster and started actually trying to fight criminals, he changed his hero name to "The Crawler". After joining Captain Celebrity's hero agency in America, he changed his hero name again to "The Skycrawler."
• More Powered Protégé: To Knuckleduster. Despite the latter being Quirkless, he provides Koichi with a lot of guidance on the basics of being a vigilante hero, most notably hand-to-hand combat and detective work.
• Mad Libs Catchphrase: Koichi usually introduces himself as, "I'm the man who (fill in relevant personality trait or action), The Crawler!"
• Nice Guy: It was his original vigilante name to begin with for a reason! Even after becoming "The Crawler", he still goes out of his way to help others for no benefit to himself by keeping kids from getting into the street, cleaning up after others and reminding them not to litter, giving people rides to work, and handing a man the lunch he forgot to pack at the behest of the man's wife.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Koichi didn't fail to get into Hero School due to a lack of merit or a bad Quirk, he failed to get in because he was late to the exam because he too busy trying to be a hero by saving a child who had fallen into the river, thus making him unable to take the test to enter Hero School.
• Oblivious to Love: He's extremely dense and fails to notice romantic cues, which often results in him blurting out insensitive comments to his secret admirer and other couples-in-progress.
• Older Than They Look: He's drawn as a young teenager depending on the panel, but in reality he's actually a 19-year old college student. Even after Time Skip and when he becomes Skycrawler, he doesn't look much older unlike other characters.
• Open Mouth, Insert Foot: In the epilogue, a bewildered Koichi is mobbed by the press after he helps land a plane in the Hudson River. But due to the language barrier, Makoto instructed him to give a scripted response even though he doesn't really know what it means. His poor use of said phrase in response to requests to smash up Wall Street causes his reputation to dip into the red.
• The Pollyanna: No matter how dire things seem or how down he is on himself, Koichi consistently has faith that things will somehow turn out okay. This trait of his reaches its apex at the climax of the manga when he breaks his arm and several ribs while narrowly escaping incineration at Number 6's hands. Despite the pain he's in and the fact that he's alone in this situation, he continues to smile without a single doubt that the pros will arrive and save the day. And so he continues to face the now Kaiju-sized villain without fear until the heroes do arrive as he hoped.
• Refusal of the Call: Knuckleduster offers to let him partner up to fight against criminals. But after getting a taste of what real hero action is like, Koichi initially refuses.
• Required Secondary Powers: He can speed up his glide but he can't slow down, which is why he usually stays at a manageable bicycle speed. It's not until he obtains protective motorcycling gear and learns how to fall safely that Koichi starts going faster. It's eventually subverted when it's pointed out he can slow down by just going backwards, then a deconstruction as his Quirk limitations are due to his lack of training and experimentation to find its true potential.
• Ridiculously Average Guy: Surprisingly enough for a main character. While he's not incredibly attractive, he not a Gonk either, just very average looking. Then again, he was an average guy until Knuckleduster offered him a chance to be a hero.
  • Ironically it's just how average he is that causes Number 6 to base his 'Rokuro' persona's appearance on him; much to Pop's eventual detriment however, it also helps Number 6 be more appealing to her.
• Rule-Abiding Rebel: One of his original acts as a costumed vigilante who illegally used his quirk on public streets was to recycle bottles in the correct bins.
• Running Gag: Everyone except Pop☆Step and Knuckleduster get his vigilante name wrong after he changes it to "The Crawler", with the general populace referring to him as "The Hauler". The only ones who do get his name right also happen to be villains who have developed a vendetta against him, though he's still happy that someone actually remembered.
• Scars Are Forever: Number 6's last act before dying is to give Koichi a scar across his left cheek, as a permanent reminder of one person he couldn't save.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Koichi's role in the scope of the larger plot of My Hero Academia seems minor overall, as the only direct intersect between it and the main series is the use of Trigger. However, at the end of Vigilantes, Koichi's triumph over Number 6 convinces All For One to abandon Operation Anonymous in favor of pouring his resources into developing the Nomu.
• Skilled, but Naive: As Koichi's mastery over his Quirk grows, he becomes increasingly competent at ducking out of danger and later defending himself from villains. But he remains something of a carefree goof who doesn't know how to handle pressure that well all the way to the end. He panics when he's mobbed by the press after catching up to a falling plane and helping it land in the Hudson River. Due to the Language Barrier he winds up telling the press that he'll smash up Wall Street with all his might, cueing Facepalms from Captain Celebrity and Makoto.
• Spider-Man Send-Up: Greatly resembles Peter Parker and his civilian life due to how life has a tendency to browbeat him. Likewise, his sliding pose resembles Spider-Man's wall crawl, is referenced as a bug, and discovers he can use his powers to stick directly to walls, just as Spidey does. His In the Name of the Moon Mad Libs Catch Phrase is also a Shout-Out to Spider-Man (Japan) (although Koichi has yet to call himself an "Emissary from Hell").
• Super-Reflexes: Mid-way through through his and Number 6's climatic fight, Koichi starts holding off the latter's attacks through using his quirk to create force fields to block all his explosive punches, causing Number 6 to attempt to hit Koichi In the Back where he cannot position his hands to block— only for Koichi to start creating forcefields there as well, apparently on sheer instinct. Number 6 is more taken aback by the fact that, even when he's moving at his Super-Speed, Koichi, despite having the perceptions of an ordinary human being, is somehow able to keep up with his nigh-imperceptible attacks in order to create the forcefields in time to block him.
  • Number 6's hallucination of O'Clock eventually decides that Koichi is subconsciously sensing and reacting instinctively to incoming danger from Number 6's attacks, even without Koichi himself fully realising what he's doing. This actually makes him even more of a threat to Number 6, because Koichi isn't intentionally pulling his punches in that life-or-death moment, leading to exchanges where he nearly shoots Number 6 in the head on reflex without fully processing it. In practice, it basically gives Koichi a very subdued variant of Spider-Sense.
• Super Sliding: Koichi's Quirk, Slide and Glide, allows him to glide along the ground at the speed of a bicycle so long as he has three points of contact with it. While it initially seems like a lame power, Koichi's continual use of it as a vigilante allows him to move more quickly and discover more applications for it. He eventually discovers that he's not restricted to gliding at all and can in fact fly under his own power once he gets the hang of it.
• Super-Speed: His Quirk allows him to move very quickly when he wants to, even up walls if he has enough momentum. More impressive is his maneuverability, as changing the direction of his propulsion allows him to make hairpin turns more conventional speed Quirks can't match. This allows him to keep up with Number 6's Own Super-Speed, even if the latter has the edge in actually moving and thinking faster than Koichi, Koichi's top speed and fast-turning skills make it hard for Number 6 to actually land a blow of him when chasing after him at full speed. Number 6 is also taken aback to realise that Koichi, despite lacking 6's perception of the world when using Overclock, is somehow still able to keep up with and block his attacks in close range, utilizing his newfound power to emit his repulsion force from any point on his body to protect himself no mater what angle of attack Number 6 chooses, even if he cannot physically move out of the way of the attack.
• Swiss-Army Superpower: While initially seeming quite limited, his Quirk is eventually revealed to be this. With it, he can move incredibly fast, slide around walls, fire Hand Blasts, and even fly, he just needed to experiment with it a little more.
• Take Me Instead: In Chapter 104, he’s willing to let Number 6 kill him so that he doesn’t have to kill Pop, though as Number 6 is preparing to blow him up using bomber cells on his feet, Koichi does a leg sweep so as to render him immobile for long enough to attack.
• Talking to Themself: To further the similarities between him and Number 6, Koichi also starts talking to the image of his mentor, Knuckleduster, who gives him advise as the fight reaches it’s climax in the same vein as Number 6 hallucinates O’clock. It’s also something of an Ambiguous Situation as it’s unclear at first if Koichi is hallucinating, or meeting Knuckleduster’s spirit while dying. Unlike Number 6, however, Koichi’s depiction is more accurate to the kind of advise Knuckleduster would give, and is as reluctant to agree as he normally is.
• Technical Pacifist: Despite wanting to be a hero, he shrinks at the first sign of mortal danger, and his definition of heroing is just doing public services, like picking up trash or pointing out directions to people. He gets into far more life-threatening situations as he continues his vigilante activities, but even then he rarely dishes out serious harm, tripping up people at worst. He starts fighting more later into the series.
  • This actually majorly handicaps him during his life-or-death fight with Number 6, as despite his opponent having no hesitation about using lethal force on him, Koichi blows several opportunities to land a Finishing blow on him because he cannot shake his subconscious avoidance of using lethal force on a human target. If not for the fact his quirk usage evolves several times during the fight to keep him alive, Koichi would be overwhelmed and killed in a heartbeat.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: This is played straight from the beginning to the end of the series.
• Took a Level in Badass: Hard to see since his mannerisms remain largely the same, but comparing his use of his Quirk in the first few chapters to later ones shows he's gotten significantly better at using it, not to mention that his heroism expands from to self-imposed community service to fighting villains.
  • Once Pop gets officially labelled as a Villain, and Soga recruits him to rescue her before the heroes do, Koichi intentionally undergoes training to improve his quirk usage and verify his limitations in direct combat, resulting in several applications of his quirk being discovered either through training or in the midst of a life-or-death situation.
  • When pushed to the brink against Number 6, he finally releases all of his inhibitions about his Quirk and starts using his Shooty-Go-Blam attacks to punch people and car-sized holes in Number 6's Kaiju form. One year later, Koichi is able to catch up to a falling plane and slow its descent enough to make an emergency landing in the Hudson River while working as a pro hero, though he needs to be fished out by Captain Celebrity. Even All For One is surprised and impressed by how powerful Koichi has become, abandoning Operation Anonymous in favor of the Nomu project after Koichi's triumph over Number 6.
• Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World: Played with. While Koichi is rarely engaging in life-changing events, his vigilante work is reflecting on his grades, forcing him to ask for help from his upperclassman... one of whom happens to be the sister of Officer Tsukauchi.
• Wall Crawl: Discovers that he can use his Quirk to glide up vertical surfaces early in the series. Later, he finds that he can also use it to cling to surfaces without propelling himself.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: His Quirk lets him move around at the speed of a bike, and he has to take a crawling pose for it to work. Actually using it gets him chewed out by a policeman. In battle, he figures he can go for his opponents' knees, but he doesn't have the strength or experience to pull it off. However...
• Willfully Weak:
  • Koichi's unimpressive use of his Quirk in early chapters is not because that's the full extent of his abilities. He can go a lot faster, but loses control if he goes too fast and would break rules which forbid reckless use of Quirks in public, already treading a thin line when he uses his with caution because there are strict regulations on transport-based Quirks like his. He also had plans to become an official pro hero, but they got derailed and he found himself stuck in mediocrity, so he was never really encouraged to go beyond his limits until circumstances changed.
  • After he develops his Shooty-Go-Blam technique, he demonstrates it at different levels of power to Pop, then uses her reactions as a metric for what amount of power is acceptable. So while his usual usage of it isn't much more powerful than a light tap and can range up to the equivalent of a solid punch if he wants to, he can go stronger than that. Much stronger.
  • When Koichi faces Number 6 in a life-or-death fight, he gains the advantage over the psychotic speedster several times due to the ways his Quirk can counter and react to Number 6's tactics, but despite that, he still fails to land a finishing blow on Number 6 because the latter still looks like a human being, something Koichi subconsciously avoids shooting with lethal intent on instinct.
  • Mid-way through his fight with Number 6, Koichi reveals that, in contrast to using Shooty-Go-Blam to focus his repulsion to a single point, if he widens the force outwards from his hands he can actually create Deflector Shields powerful enough to completely block Number 6's Enhanced Punch attacks, with the only caveat being that he's not strong enough to withstand the impact himself, and gets knocked backwards every time he blocks a full-on hit, though his training in learning how to take a high-speed tumble allows him to negate the worst of the damage. Then, when Number 6 tries to bypass Kochi's defenses and hit him where he can't position his arms in time, Koichi apparently subconsciously creates another shield on his exposed back, revealing that his Quirk's repulsion force isn't actually limited to being emitted just from his limbs, and that his defenses are both much stronger and absolute than they seemed when he was limiting his Quirk's potential.

Kazuho Haneyama — Pop☆Step

Kazuho Haneyama — Pop☆Step

Debut: Chapter 0 (Vigilantes)

Quirk: Leap

^{Click here to see her as a civilian}

"Heya! Mind if I step in?"

A girl who fashions herself as a Pop Idol and does "Guerilla Concerts" in public. Her Quirk is Leap, which allows her the ability to jump high into the air as long as she can touch a foothold.

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• Attention Whore: Intentionally just a self-proclaimed Idol for fame and whatnot.
• Cannot Spit It Out: She has feelings for Koichi, starting with when he rescued her from drowning. After the timeskip, it's revealed that she's been basically living with him for a few years without ever telling him that. It gets worse when she overhears Makoto propose a committed relationship; she spends the next few weeks avoiding having the conversation with Koichi even though they both know she needs to. Eventually, she breaks down and calls Rokuro for emotional support... and he turns her into the next Queen Bee.
• Clark Kenting: She's a plain-looking schoolgirl when she's not wearing her costume, complete with glasses.
• Cleavage Window: Her leotard has a small heart-shaped window to show her cleavage.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Averted. In later chapters when she gets an official idol gig, she stops doing her (technically illegal) street shows in favor of legitimate work that actually pays. It also means she starts gradually phasing out her work in the vigilante business.
• Damsel in Distress: Ended up bumping into the punks Koichi gained the ire of earlier who seriously were considering harming her and exposing her identity to the internet. Likewise ends up being caught by a drug dealer turned giant monster in the second chapter.
• Expy: Series author Hideyuki Furuhashi explicitly compared her to the heroine from the Shadow Lady manga while meeting with his editor to plan the series. (Later, the series artist originally decided not to have the wings on her back to keep the resemblance from being too obvious — and Furuhashi asked him to put wings on anyway. "The guy knows what he wants!")
• Eye Scream: Much like the previous host of the Queen Bee, Tamao Oguro, being turned into its host required it to burrow into her head through her eye, and in order to remove it, it needs to be pulled out of her eye socket. While later shown in critical condition at the hospital, bandages are shown to be covering her left eye, implying that just like with Tamao, she lost her eye to the Queen Bee.
• Face–Monster Turn: Pop is kidnapped and turned into the new host of the Queen Bee.
• Fan Disservice: At one point, Kazuho is shown completely naked underneath a sheet at night in a high-rise apartment. Problem is, it's after Number 6 has turned her into the new host of the Queen Bee, she's on the floor struggling, and blood is pouring out from underneath the bangs covering the left eye socket, crying the entire time.
• Fatal Flaw: Stubbornness. Because Pop is so brash and never tries to at least talk to Koichi about how she really feels about him, it leaves her never progressing anything with her feelings for him making him unable to see how she feels. Several characters know how she feels about him yet she herself is too reluctant to talk to him about it. Even after hearing Makoto tell Koichi how she feels about him and politetly tells him to talk it over with Kazuho, she overheard everything and seeked out Rokuro for emotional support, which turns her into the next Queen Bee and losing her left eye.
• Favors for the Sexy: Utilizes her fanbase in this way to get intel, as they're more than happy to share anything with her.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Starts to get this way once Makoto Tsukauchi enters the picture and starts spending time around Koichi.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: After being turned into Bee☆Pop by Number 6, her reputation has plummeted, the public seeing her as a mad bomber responsible for many deaths, not helping matters is her being labeled a villain after only her first offense, something unheard of at the time. Despite having been Brainwashed and Crazy at the time, everyone just sees her as a monster, with Endeavor even attempting to kill her despite being ordered to capture her alive.
• In a Single Bound: She uses her Quirk to "jump" in the air as long as she has a foothold to jump from.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Upon the series end she never gets the courage to tell Koichi how she feels about him. Upon seeing him being signed on by Captain Celebrity as his sidekick, she sees this as his chance to finally live his dream as a hero and is seen happy for him and wishes him the best of luck. She still does keep up with him through text messages and is glad to know he's happy.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's somewhat nice, thanking Koichi for warning her of the cops that have come to break up her show. But then she starts showcasing her rude side, commenting about how lame his costume is, and trying to coax him into being her security (and by coax we mean demand, for free). It's a bit more complicated then it seems.
• Jump Physics: Her Leap Quirk cushions any landing from her jumps, but only from her jumps, so she's still at risk from falls. She also needs a solid foothold to start from, making jumps from non-solid surfaces like sand difficult to impossible.
• Leotard of Power: Her idol costume is essentially a high-cut leotard with a very short skirt worn over it.
• Magic Idol Singer: How she fashions herself, anyway. It's unknown if she's truly trying to be a hero or just to get noticed.
• Mission Control: Since she has the least combat ability out of the trio, she spends most fights gathering information and being an eye in the sky to the others.
• Nominal Hero: While Koichi and Knuckleduster became vigilantes to do good, Pop☆Step doesn't have a reason to join and will admit she's not part of the group to anyone that asks. It's later implied she joined to stay with her childhood rescuer Koichi and repay the favor by helping him. She starts to more openly admit to enjoying her time with Koichi as the series progresses, with this trope lessening as she starts desiring to use her performances to help people.
• Only Sane Man: While Koichi is often either trying to control or getting dragged along by Knuckleduster, Pop is usually the one getting the right info.
• Pretty Freeloader: Starts crashing at Koichi's place without permission.
• Rescue Romance: Was saved from drowning as a little girl, and grew up with a case of Hero Worship for her rescuer Koichi.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: Wears a revealing leotard and a very short skirt, does all her performances in the air and apparently has no problems with showing people her ass as she does it. She becomes infamous to the point that even young children are noting how she has a "bouncy butt".
• She Cleans Up Nicely: As Kazuho, she's a frumpy-looking student, but as Pop☆Step she's very attractive to the point of having her own fanbase.
• Tsundere: As Koichi puts it, "she can't bring herself to apologize", and tends to hurl insults or accusations at people instead of being honest with her feelings. She especially becomes one around the person who rescued her as a child.

Knuckleduster (Spoilers)

Iwao Oguro — Knuckleduster

Debut: Chapter 0 (Vigilantes)

Quirk: Quirkless (Currently), Overclock (Formerly)

^{Click here to see him as a civilian}

^{Click here to see O'clock}

"Strong Quirks? The stuff to go pro? That crap's got nothing to do with true justice. In that moment when it's clear what's gotta be done... Do you take action, or don'tcha? All you need to be a hero is the right answer to that question!!"

A Quirkless vigilante who goes on the prowl for criminals at night. He seemingly retired from vigilantism after defeating Kuin and saving his daughter, but in actuality, he traveled to Hong Kong, China to learn more about Trigger.

Before the series began, he served as a hero called O'clock. He possessed an acceleration Quirk called "Overclock" that allowed him to move incredibly quickly in short bursts. He fell out of public view a few years before the series began and was even thought to have died, but he really just went into hiding after something resulted in him losing said Quirk, forcing him to become a Quirkless vigilante.

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• 555: His "business card" is full of fake information, among them a phone number which consists of XXX-XXXX-XXXX. The rest of the information, including the address and zip-code, is similarly cryptic. Nevertheless, his smooth presentation prevents Koichi's mom from suspecting a thing. Said presentation foreshadows his past as a Pro Hero, as he would have had to do this on a regular basis to promote himself.
• '90s Anti-Hero: Fashioned after them, and his overall attitude certainly brings this to mind.
• Ambiguous Situation: Chapter 116 presents his body being slumped over and unresponsive. It’s unclear whether he’s merely unconscious, or actually died after accumulating so much damage from his first fight with Number 6, and after getting shot twice.
• Archnemesis Dad: Seems to be this to Kuin Hachisuka, but it's a bit more complex than that. Kuin is using Tamao Oguro, his actual daughter, as a host body. So, while elements of Tamao's memory and personality are still active, the consciousness currently known as Kuin Hachisuka is driven by the Queen Bee attached to her brain.
• Badass Normal: He's Quirkless, but he's strong enough to send foes flying into walls, regularly tangles with villains juiced up on Quirk-enhancing drug, manages to go toe-to-toe with Eraser Head, a pro hero, as well as Stendhal, who would later go on to become the Hero Killer Stain.
• Batman Parody: Essentially a stand-in but without the tools, as the author admits. He has the gruff demeanour of being a Badass Normal Terror Hero who fights crime at night. He's also reminiscent of the DC character Wildcat, being an aging non-superpowered Boxing Battler.
• Beneath the Mask: Underneath his Blood Knight '90s Anti-Hero exterior, he's a loving father and husband who holds a deep grudge against the people who hurt his family.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • Arrives to save Koichi and Pop☆Step from a couple of thugs.
  • Does it again, saving Koichi from Stendhal.
  • He makes his triumphant return in Chapter 110 to save Koichi from a sharpshooting Number 6 by socking the villain in the face.
• Blood Knight: He loves to fight against villains who can actually pose a challenge to him.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: Liberally uses All Might's "I am here!" catchphrase when he either arrives onto the scene inelegantly or when he's about to sneak attack someone in a decidedly unheroic fashion. He also uses it outside of his vigilantism in more dramatic and heartfelt fashions, like when he assures his daughter that he isn't going to leave her.
• Boxing Battler: He fights using fisticuffs augmented by knuckle dusters and is shown training Koichi with focus pads.
• Brought Down to Badass: He used to be the super-fast Pro Hero, O'clock, but at some point his Quirk was stolen and he got his signature facial scar.
• The Bus Came Back: He finally returns in Chapter 110, assisting Koichi in the fight against Number 6.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: He's a Badass Normal to the point he can overpower a physical Quirk user in sheer brute force.
• Cleans Up Nicely: Most of the time he's either in his vigilante outfit or bumming around with Koichi. When he first meets Makoto and Koichi's mother, though, he shows up wearing a suit from his day job and completely masks his Blood Knight traits. As a result, even with the huge scar on his face, he comes across as suave and rugged instead of the scary guy he's usually presented as.
• Combat Pragmatist: His fists are usually good enough to handle most of the villains he faces, but when facing a serious opponent like Stendahl or Kuin, he has no problem whatsoever with using any means at hand to catch them off guard.
• The Cowl: Contrasting to All Might's Cape. He's a vigilante in his world's laws, but is more than willing to go out and be a hero after dark, when All Might isn't around and try to inspire others to do the same.
• Crutch Character: Unhinged as he is, early in their vigilante careers, his allies need his raw strength, life experience, and drive. So naturally, he leaves right when their challenges are getting even greater.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Pretty much every fight he's in is this for the other party. Knuckleduster brings Badass Normal to a level rarely seen.
• Dented Iron: By the time he returns to help Koichi, his previous battle with Number 6 has him suffer damage in the form of a busted knee and a ton of scars running over his face, their placement implying he may have lost the vision in his left eye. He struggles to walk up some stairs with the aid of a makeshift crutch thanks to the former, and whilst he is still capable of unleashing a massive beatdown on Number 6, it's only through correctly predicting his movements to ambush him in advance, taking him unawares and not giving him a moment to react to his assault, with it being clear that if he fails to finish of Number 6, he has zero chance of being able to handle him in a straight fight.
• Exact Words:
  • During his encounter with Stendhal, he lays down a line of wire and tells the killer that he'll punch him if he steps over it. When Stendhal gets close, Knuckleduster steps over the line and lays him out flat, pointing out that he never said that he wouldn't cross the line himself.
  • The description that he gives Koichi's mother and Makoto of the "community service" he and Koichi do is also full of this.
• Expy: A hero without a Quirk who fights with martial arts and gadgets. Kohei Horikoshi has confirmed that Knuckleduster was based on Batman. While he was O'clock, his red suit, yellow accessories and Super-Speed made him one for The Flash.
• Eye Scream: When he returns to ambush Number 6 during the latter's climatic fight with Koichi, the placement of his newly-gained scars and the fact that his left eye through his mask remains dark implies that he lost it in the damage sustained from their last battle.
• Hero with an F in Good: Tends to veer into this territory at times for comedic effect thanks to his "beat up every suspicious person in sight and sort out the details later" attitude, forcing Koichi to hold him back before he goes too far.
• I Have Many Names: May hold the franchise record for the most identities used by one character.
  • Aside from his actual name of Iwao Oguro, he frequently uses the pseudonym Takeshi Kuroiwa when he doesn't want to be identified in situations where a mask and a hero name wouldn't work, such as funding a certain hospital wing or greeting people as a seemingly normal civilian.
  • While he currently goes by Knuckleduster, he used to go by the name "O'clock" as a Pro-Hero, but only in Japan. In Hong Kong, he was known as "Ciupan Seikyun" (Hyper Quadfist).
  • He spent a stint posing as a fighter in underground arenas, where he went by The Ripper.
• Important Haircut: He gains a rather glorious one when he returns in Chapter 44, though he shaves it off soon after.
• It's Personal: His crusade against the Villain Factory is this in multiple ways. Firstly, it's heavily implied the Villain Factory hospitalized his wife in a near-vegetative state, eventually leading to her death. Secondly, Kuin took over his daughter Tamao's body and mind to use as a puppet. Finally, Number 6 of the Villain Factory is obsessed with him and trying to take his old hero identity for himself.
• Kayfabe: Played with. When he played the part of The Ripper in underground pit fights, he had a fully fabricated backstory as a Quirkless soldier with a bloody history. However, unlike wrestling, neither his opponents nor his audience had any idea the story was anything other than the truth instead of an act for the sake of drama.
• Loophole Abuse: Once Eraser Head realizes that he's Quirkless, he stops fighting him because if he isn't using a Quirk for illegal activities, then he falls outside hero jurisdiction.
• Meaningful Echo: His first line of dialogue during his introduction in chapter 1 mirrors his last line of dialogue during his reintroduction in chapter 44.
  Chapter 1: You punks... Did I hear you mention All Might? Well He ain't coming. But... I'm Here!!
  Chapter 44: No you're right. That guy... Died a long, long time ago. Nevertheless... I'm Here.
• Meaningful Name: Knuckleduster's main weapons are a pair of knuckle dusters.
• The Mentor: To Koichi, training him to be a hero outside the laws of their world. Number 6 wants him to be this to him, but Knuckleduster isn't into the idea.
• Metaphorically True: After meeting Koichi's mom, he presents a business card with his name and "company", which, "provides support in neighborhoods like East Naruhata, where local government and community organizations are less effective.... keeps the roads clean and patrols for crime at night". It isn't technically false, but it's omitting a lot of details about how he's doing these things.
• Mooching Master: He and Pop decide that Koichi's apartment is their new base of operations without asking first. They also frequently raid his fridge or sleep on his couch.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He winds up inspiring Stain's ideology after mocking "Stendhal's" lack of resolve, having easily knocked the murderous vigilante flat on his ass.
• Not So Similar: Completely rejects Stendhal when he tries to make "Not So Different" Remark to him. They may both be vigilantes but whereas Knuckleduster had to change his methods to continue the same job, Stendhal uses the same methods to hunt heroes that he used to use hunting villains.
  Knuckleduster: Me? The same as you? Don't make me laugh. I'm a badass champion of justice, and you're nothin' but an insane street murderer!
  • A flashback arc shows during a case where when he was still the Hero O'clock, he also had a similar "Not So Different" Remark from Rappa; who argued that they were the same in that they both lived for the thrill of battle. While he also rejected this assertion at the time, ironically his career as Knuckleduster would show him to be almost entirely like Rappa; right down to defaulting with the same method of fighting with their fists, minus the Death Match obsession, and willing to use more pragmatic methods when they’re needed.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: His teammates only call him by his hero name or other nicknames, like "old man" or "master". When he introduced himself to Koichi's mother, he acted surprised that Knuckleduster actually had a real name, unaware that even that was an alias.
• Put on a Bus: Gets this several times in the story, but the biggest one is at the tail-end of Sky Egg arc, after his fight with Number 6 in Chapter 58. While he makes a few more appearences, albeit in flashbacks, he doesn't really return until the middle of final arc in Chapter 110. Essentially, he disappeared for more than 3 years In-Universe, and he didn't meet Koichi again for probably even longer period.
• Red Baron: The Fist Janitor.
• Retired Badass: Retires from being a vigilante after he managed to save his daughter, though it's short-lived.
• Scars Are Forever: Has a gash on the left side of his face. He gained this gash on his last night as O'clock after a bad crash.
• Shadow Archetype: Like Koichi to Midoriya, he can be considered the spin-off's version of All Might. All Might is introduced when he dramatically appears on a sunny day, introduces himself before effortlessly defeating a powerful supervillain in one blow to save the adoring main character; Knuckleduster is introduced when he awkwardly appears out of a dumpster in the middle of the night, introduces himself before laboriously beating the shit out of some teenagers for longer than necessary to save the terrified main character. All Might is Loved by All; Knuckleduster is a Hero with Bad Publicity. AM stays in the hero business for as long as his body will let him; KD accomplishes his goal and then retires from vigilante work for months. And of course: Toshinori was born Quirkless but was gifted power as a young man; Oguro was born with a powerful Quirk but had it taken from him.
• The Speedster: As O'Clock, Iwao possessed the Quirk Overclock which granted him great speed. He even wore a full-body red suit similar to The Flash.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Averted, surprisingly. In a series where heroes try their best to not kill the villains but instead capture them and bring them to justice, Knuckleduster is one willing to advocate killing the villain if need be. He crushed the Queen Bee after freeing his daughter Tamao from it, and attempted to kill Number 6 via headshot with a sniper rifle, only missing due to a bird messing him up, and then tried to blow himself and Number 6 up just to get rid of him.
• Uncertain Doom: During his fight with Number 6, 6 detonated himself and caused the building they were on to collapse. While 6 did survive, it's unclear what became of Knuckleduster, as while Tanuma did find blood samples belonging to him and Number 6, there was no sign of a body. After the three-year timeskip, there is still no sign of him, with even his protege Soga having no idea what became of him, and having to take up his work in his stead. It is until Chapter 110, that he finally returns to assist Koichi in the fight against Number 6, albeit in a weakened state.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer…: He has a pair of knuckle dusters and that's it, and he uses it for everything from fighting criminals to interrogating civilians, much to Koichi and Pop☆Step's chagrin. Doesn't stop him from being a badass in any way.
• Would Hit a Girl: Has no problem whatsoever with punching Kuin in the face while she's using his own daughter's body no less because he knows he can't do any less if he wants to stop her.

Other Vigilantes

Stendhal (Spoilers)

Chizome Akaguro — Stendhal

Debut: Chapter 9 (Vigilantes)

Quirk: Bloodcurdle

"He... "Stendhal" has become more than human. The red of life, and the black of death. He is the one who cleaves that divide with a single slash. Judgement Personified."

Another vigilante that Crawler and Pop☆Step meet while chasing down a villain. Stendhal functions as a Serial Killer vigilante, targeting villains and killing them so they can't cause more trouble. For tropes regarding his current identity, see his entry here.

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• '90s Anti-Hero: Acts like one, mercilessly killing the villains he targets.
• Anti-Hero: Unlike Knuckleduster, he's not afraid to kill if he has to.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: His Quirk isn't why he can pull off all those ninja-like sword techniques. He spent all that time training because Bloodcurdle needs to injure the target first in order to work.
• Cynicism Catalyst: For a time he performed work as a Serial Killer vigilante, killing any villains he could find to accomplish what he felt the heroes couldn't. After losing to Knuckleduster and being called out on lacking resolve, he heeded Knuckleduster's words and resolved to instead target the false heroes he despised, becoming the Hero Killer Stain.
• Dramatic Irony: The first thing he says to Koichi is that he's a guy who likes to stick his nose where it doesn't belong. Years later he would hear these same words from a hero in training named Midoriya Izuku. And then he goes and actually cuts off his own nose, making it so that he doesn't have anything to stick where it doesn't belong.
• Establishing Character Moment: Cleaving a bad guy in half. Then, coldly walking away with the man's blood all over him without bothering to wipe it off as he continued to thumb through pictures of people on his hit list.
• Eye Scream: One of his favored tactics is going right for the eyes with his switchblades. Against those with bad reflexes, it works to horrifying effect, but to those experienced in combat, they are able to react in time to avoid having their eyes gouged out.
• Foreshadowing: From his outfit, weapons, and hard stance demeanor, it's heavily implied from the outset that this is Stain before he reached his Cynicism Catalyst with the hero world.
• Hypocrite:
  • After having his mask destroyed, he claims it is wrong to wear one. As Stain, he uses a Domino Mask to cover up his lack of a nose.
  • Part of his Knight Templar behavior is that associating with a villain makes you just as bad as one. Yet he associates with Kuin Hachisuka, a representative of the Villain Factory, for quite some time during his crusade.
• Knight Templar: Merely associating with a villain, no matter how tenuous, makes you just as bad as a villain, according to him. No mercy will be spared.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: While he is called a vigilante, he's more akin to a Serial Killer with how often his crusades end in murdering the villains he fights. Despite this, he still is pursuing his own warped sense of justice, in comparison to the Villain Factory simply aiming to pursue their own goals. Makes sense considering who he grows into.
• Meaningful Name: The name Stendhal, and his real name Chizome Akaguro, refers to the colors red and black. He associates red with life and black with death, and strives to sever the gap between the two, meaning that he holds the power of life and death in his hands.
• Ninja: He dresses and fights like one, preferring bladed weapons while moving extremely quickly.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Being a villain is cause enough to be killed, even if the said villain has never killed anyone.
• Self-Harm: After deciding that it is cowardly to wear a mask and that he needs resolve to remember that, he saws off his own nose with a trench knife to make it impossible to ever wear another mask. This willful disfigurement completes his evolution into Stain, plopping the discarded flesh in a sink and wandering down an alleyway muttering like a neurotic. It also shows that the dude is extremely imbalanced.
• Serial Killer: Although he is a vigilante, he works more like one of these, specifically targeting villains. After losing to Knuckleduster, he would forgo killing villains and shift his focus to becoming a Hero Killer, taking on the identity of Stain.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He lets Kuin know one day he will come to kill her despite being the source for his information.
• Two Aliases, One Character: Stendhal is the original alias of Chizome Akaguro, before he discarded it in favor of becoming the Hero Killer Stain.
• Villain Killer: Stendhal kills every villain he comes across. After his mask is broken in a fight with Knuckleduster, he loses what little sanity he had left him, cuts his own nose off and changing his target to "false heroes", becoming the "Hero Killer" Stain from Hero Killer Arc of the main series.

Major Pro Heroes

Christopher Skyline — Captain Celebrity

Christopher Skyline — Captain Celebrity

Debut: Chapter 14 (Vigilantes)

Quirk: Flight

"Okay, okay, but know I'm ready to put my back into it. This year, next year, and so on. C'est la vie."

A high-ranking American pro hero, whose playboy attitude landed him into so many scandals and lawsuits that he had to relocate to Japan just to find work.

His Quirk is "Flight" and it allows him to levitate and fly at high speeds.

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• Attention Whore: In the hero business completely for fame and nothing else. Heck, his hero name is Captain Celebrity. He even has a theme song played during fights and rescues.
• Big Damn Heroes: Captain and Makoto have Koichi sign papers declaring him one of Captain's sidekicks near the end of the series. This shields Koichi from the legal repercussions of his battle with Number 6 that would have otherwise landed him in prison. This also makes Koichi an official pro hero, with Captain taking him to work in New York City.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's a highly competent hero with a powerful Quirk, but his Attention Whore tendencies mean that he considers lower-profile crimes to be beneath him at first.
• Captain Superhero: A hero whose hero name is “Captain Celebrity.”
• Character Development: Due to Makoto's interference and his son's birth, he goes from being Jerkass who sleeps around and cares about fame to a legitimately heroic figure whose so enamored with his wife and son that he embarrasses them without realizing it.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: His Attention Whore tendencies and desire to make a show out of every fight he picks is the only reason why most villains last longer than a few seconds against him.
• The Dreaded: His ex-wife Pamela is this to him. When Makoto ends up calling her during an interview, his demeanor turns a complete 180 and he becomes utterly terrified.
• Eagleland: A very interesting example that's played with. On the one hand, he fits the stereotypical Type II, being a loud, boisterous, obnoxious, and glory-seeking American. On the other hand, it was all those traits that pretty much got him kicked out of the hero system in the US in the first place.
• Elemental Barrier: His Quirk covers himself and those he touches in an aerodynamic barrier. The barrier protects from heat, cold and physical harm. He can control whether he or whomever he is touching would get the most protection from it.
• Expy: Between his Attention Whore attitude, blonde hair, the star on his chest, and his visor, he's a dead ringer for Booster Gold. He gains Gold's positive traits after going through Character Development. Meanwhile, his Quirk is a clear sendup to the second Superboy, Conner Kent.
• Flying Brick: His Quirk gives him the ability to fly and he's strong enough to carry an entire cruise ship over his head. In essence, his Quirk is similar to the powers of the 90's Superboy who initially had a singular power of tactile telekinesis, which he was able to use to emulate several of Superman's powers such as flight and super strength.
• Frame-Up: It turns out that a lot of the sexual harassment suits against him fell through because the women were intentionally targeting him to score a Honey Trap payday or create a paparazzi scandal. His natural womanizing makes him an easy mark.
• Glory Hound: He tries to gather as much fame and glory as possible, though he will give credit where it is due.
• Hidden Depths: Chapter 52 and 2nd half of Sky Egg arc reveals Skyline isn't that much arrogant:
  • Despite his pride, the reason he wanted to get along with Pamela is because he didn't want to have any enemies or people who hate him, which is why he constantly wanted to make her smile. He eventually succeed and Pamela married him, developing a kinder side for him.
  • He faced many legal issues in the past, his allies turned out to be criminals and the enemies he defeated, turned their life around and sued him, like he was in the wrong. But for a man like Skyline, he didn't give up and continued being a hero.
  • When Koichi asks him why he smiles so often, he responds that on situation where he holds 50 thousands lives at stake, while fighting with villians, even an idiot like him can't get this wrong. It's not the first time he uses Heroic Self-Deprecation too.
  • And overall, Captain is actually truly heroic in time of crisis, and his superficial side is more because of Poor Judge of Character than him being rude. When Koichi attempts to save him from the fall, Skyline grabs him and uses last of his power to use protective barrier to save Koichi instead, saying he deserves it more than him. Thakfully, they both get saved by All Might.
• Jerkass: In his first few appearances, he was nothing but an Attention Whore who wouldn't act unless there was a camera watch. He was so bad that he had to leave America to find work! Thankfully subverted later on, as he gets better with the help of Makoto and eventually drops a lot of the characteristics that made him so bad initially.
• Jerkass Has a Point: After rescuing Koichi from a villain, Captain Celebrity complains that he's not getting paid for it. Koichi and Kazuho point out they're not getting paid for their hero work either, but Captain Celebrity responds by pointing out that to them, it's more like a hobby, but to him, it's his job. In general, he normally gives good rationalizations for his seeming lack of professionalism, reminding readers that for all his showboating he's a very experienced and competent hero.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In the later chapters he's revealed to be good with kids and loves his wife. He's even willing to put his own life at risk to save civilians.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: And how! His cleft chin juts out even further than All Might's.
• Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Later chapters have Makoto imply that a lot of his apparent harassment back home was more a case of this than any genuine malice on his part. He then proceeds to demonstrate by saying several well-meaning, but easily misunderstood and incriminating things almost immediately.
• Pet the Dog: He might've been a total jerk at one point, but he was genuine when he complimented Koichi on rescuing a child's dog while he was busy fighting a villain. He was also genuinely nice to his fans and was still willing to risk his life to save people.
• Really Gets Around: He's known as a philandering playboy to have gotten the name "Flying Stallion", which has resulted in multiple lawsuits involving his wife.
• Shout-Out: The Vigilantes Volume 3 Extras states that his costume is meant to be reminiscent of Vegeta, and that his hairstyle is based on Hanawa's from Chibi Maruko-chan
• Smug Super: While overall competent as a hero, he's in it for the glory and adulation.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Makoto's efforts to rebrand him, the birth of his son, and constant encounters with Koichi gradually soften Captain's Jerkass qualities as he becomes more and more genuinely heroic rather than purely a Glory Hound. It culminates in him and Koichi defending the Sky Egg from the bomber villains, with Captain taking constant hits that leave him bloody and bruised, yet he remains standing long enough for Japan's top heroes to intervene.

The Trigger Investigation

Tanuma

Tanuma

Debut: Chapter 5 (Vigilantes)

Quirk: Unknown

A detective on the police force, and the lead investigator of the Trigger outbreaks.

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• Friend on the Force: Turns out to be one for Knuckleduster.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: He's a smoker and a cop.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He sent Tsukauchi to request All Might's help in dealing with the Trigger outbreak, specifically telling him to talk to his secretary-manager, Toshinori Yagi, if All Might wasn't available. This situation led to Tsukauchi learning that Toshinori Yagi IS All Might, just in his skinny form, and led to him and All Might becoming friends.

Naomasa Tsukauchi

Naomasa Tsukauchi

A detective from the main series. In Vigilantes, he works as an investigator for the Trigger Incidents, which leads to him and All Might's first meeting.

See his entry here.

Shota Aizawa — Eraser Head

Shota Aizawa — Eraser Head

A Pro Hero from the main series. Since Vigilantes takes place a few years before the main series begins, he has yet to take his job teaching at U.A. and is working as a normal hero. He assists in investigating the Trigger Incidents and acts as something of a mentor to Koichi on occasion.

See his entry here.

Major Civilians

Soga Kugizaki

Soga Kugizaki

Debut: Chapter 1 (Vigilantes)

Quirk: Spikes

"That's always the way it is. These bastards are always... always... Smilin' all the while, treatn' me like I'm some sort of monster!"

A violent thug who crosses paths with the vigilantes on occasion. Initially just an antagonist, he eventually becomes a close ally to the vigilantes, namely Knuckleduster. His Quirk, "Spikes", enables him to produce spikes from his body.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: He actually finds Koichi's reason to rescue Pop Step amusing ( "when there’s only one way forward, it doesn't even qualify as a decision" - The Crawler refrencing a sentence in a letter made by his master) and cracks a smile. His friends point it out how it's unusual, with how rarely Soga smiles, which irritates him.
• Berserk Button: Due to past trauma, he absolutely hates it when people laugh at him.
• The Bully: What he is initially presented as, though this wasn't always the case, as he once wanted to be a hero too. He drops this after Knuckleduster recruits him into helping find his daughter Tamao, and later becomes her bedside aide.
• Bully Turned Buddy: Becomes a crucial help for Koichi to defeat infected with Queen's Bee Pop Step, giving him many important advices and general help to becoming a better fighter.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Seemingly a minor antagonist at first, but has a bigger role than initially perceived.
• The Cynic: He's very much a Perpetual Frowner, shown to be almost never smiling, even in front of his friends. His Character Profile in Volume 10 in the rubric of what he enjoys, it says nothing.
• Darkand Troubled Past: Chapter 10 reveals he was judged and laughed off by people in the past for his villainous appearence, he had problems with using his quirk trying not to hurt people with it and possibly had a Friendless Background. Thankfully, he was saved from criminal path and situation for him gets better.
• Easily Forgiven: Played with. Koichi has no problem with him even after the whole attempted murder thing and Knuckleduster comes to trust him as an ally, but Pop☆Step still hates him for what he tried to do to her.
• Face of a Thug: Granted, he is a thug in the present day, but in the past, he actually had noble ideals, and he cares for his friends enough to fight Stendhal alone.
• Foil: Is one for Koichi, specifically as a dark reflection of what Koichi might have become if he were shunned by society more harshly. Both are young men who are judged harshly on their appearance and who wanted to be heroes but were unable to.
• Heel–Face Turn: After being saved from Stendhal by Koichi and Knuckleduster, Knuckleduster employs him as an informant in the search for Knuckleduster's daughter's whereabouts. After Tamao is freed from Kuin's control, Soga and his friends watch over her bedside whenever Knuckleduster is out.
• Hidden Depths: One of his friends says that Soga wanted to become a hero too, and despite his Face of a Thug, he's shown to be rather sensitive to people laughing at him. Flashbacks show that people were constantly writing him off based on his appearance, leading him to become what they decried him as. Rapt reveals in Chapter 45 that he used to play guitar up until it was destroyed in a fight too.
• Irony: During his clash against Stendhal, he was so enraged by Kuin mocking him that he starts screaming as he reminisces the many times in the past that he was rejected and ridiculed. As his brief tirade goes on, he yells that he is being treated as if he were some monster - almost simultaneously as he is transforming into a porcupine-like appearance.
• Jerkass: At least at first, he enjoys attacking and humiilating people who annoy him. He gets better later on and becomes a Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Lesser of Two Evils: He's an attempted murderer, attempted rapist, and all-around a violent asshole, but he's nowhere near as irredeemable as the more dedicated villains in the series, such as Kuin or Stendhal. This gets subverted once he undergoes a Heel–Face Turn, showing off some of his Hidden Depths and acting more like a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
• Karma Houdini: He does a lot of shitty things in the first chapter, most notably attempted rape and attempted murder. But aside from some Laser-Guided Karma in the form of a beatdown from Knuckleduster, he ultimately walks away scot-free.
• One-Winged Angel: After getting overdosed on Trigger, forcefully administered into him by Kuin, he transforms into a monstrous human-sized porcupine as he rages on. The transformation eventually wears off, however.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: In the first chapter he planned to beat/stab Koichi to death, assaulted and threatened to rape Pop☆Step, and destroyed a store. After receiving a beating from Knuckleduster and getting victimized by stronger villains like Kuin and Stendhal, he turns around into an informant and ally of Knuckleduster, though he keeps his punk-ish traits.
• Ship Tease: With Tamoa Oguro, as he is frequently checking in on her and hanging around her listening to her music, to which he likes to hear.
• Spikes of Villainy: An antagonist with the power to create spikes from his body. Subverted after his Heel–Face Turn.
• Spiky Hair: Fittingly enough for a punk with a Spike-based Quirk.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: The reason why he is the way he is today. Despite initially wanting to be a hero as a child, years of mistreatment due to his appearance and his Quirk have made him into the punk he is today. He drops this, however, after he's saved from Stendhal by Koichi and Knuckleduster.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Thanks to Naruhata's Vigilantes and Knuckleduster's help, he becomes a bit more nice and becomes a vigilante himself.
• True Companions: With Rapt and Moyuru. He cares for them enough to fight Stendhal alone to keep them safe, even before having his Heel–Face Turn. After being made to watch over Tamao, she slowly becomes one for him too.
• When He Smiles: He is pretty much never being happy, even among his friends. But he does crack a smirk at Koichi's commitment to rescue his friend. Although it quickly goes away once Toichi and Tokage friendly mock it out.

Moyuru Tochi & Rapt Tokage

Moyuru Tochi and Rapt Tokage

Debut: Chapter 1 (Vigilantes)

Quirks: Unnamed Lizard Quirk (Rapt), Unnamed Flame Quirk (Moyuru)

Rapt on the right and Moyuru on the left

Soga: Rapt... you think you'd ever wanna fly again?
Rapt: Eh? No way. I flew. I fell. Bam! Hospital. What kinda dumbass doesn't learn a lesson?
Moyuru: No doubt! Hey, any hot nurses in this joint?
Rapt: Gya ha ha! Get yourself hurt and find out.

Soga's two punkish friends who follow him around and generally cause mischief. Rapt's Quirk gives him his lizard appearance and Moyuru's Quirk gives him a small flame on top of his head.

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• Curb-Stomp Battle: They and Soga are on the receiving end of one from Knuckleduster in the first two chapters.
• Easily Forgiven: Played with. Koichi is fine chatting with them after they beat him up, but Pop☆Step still hates them for what they tried to do to her.
• Good Feels Good: While they prepare for their fight with Pop, Moryu notes that working to help people is “kinda fun”.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Both are shown to be smokers, with Rapt even trying to smoke while he's in the hospital.
• Healing Factor: Moyuru and Rapt himself imply that his Quirk allows him to heal his injuries quickly, even after being "smashed to pieces".
• Heel–Face Turn: They pull one with Soga when he starts working for Knuckleduster, assisting Soga as he searches for Tamao and joining him in looking after her when she's found.
• In-Series Nickname: Moyuru is often referred to as just "Moyu" by his friends.
• Lizard Folk: Rapt is one due to his Quirk.
• Meaningful Name: Rapt is a dinosaur-man named "Raptor".
• One-Winged Angel: After taking Trigger, Moyuru grows bigger and his fire spreads all around his body, and Rapt becomes even more lizard-like and literally grows wings. Their transformations eventually wear off though.
• Playing with Fire: Moyuru, thanks to his Quirk.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: In the first chapter they beat up Koichi and assault Pop☆Step. Later on, they're still punks but not nearly so bad and have started working with Knuckleduster, even joining Soga in looking after Tamao.
• Satellite Character: For Soga. When he's a violent thug, they're his equally cruel cronies. When he's a gruff vigilante, they're his goofy sidekicks.
• Smarter Than You Look: They're punks, but they're not stupid. Rapt, in particular, is intelligent enough to turn down Trigger after it nearly got him killed the last time he took it, even if it allowed him to fly.
• Spell My Name With An S: In Vigilantes Volume 1, Rapt's name is translated as "Raputo", while all future volumes refer to him as "Rapt".
• Signature Laugh: Rapt's "Gya ha ha!"
• True Companions: With each other and Soga. Soga cares enough to risk his life for them, and they have, in turn, helped Soga out with issues. They become this with Tamao after they begin to watch over her with Soga.
• Villain Respect: Moyuru calls Koichi a "big man" when the vigilante strikes up a casual conversation with them, despite the fact that they attacked him.

Makoto Tsukauchi

Makoto Tsukauchi

Debut: Chapter 12 (Vigilantes)

Quirk: Polygraph

The younger sister of police detective Naomasa Tsukauchi, and an upperclassman at Koichi's college. She's studying the hero system and the history of vigilantism for her college thesis. Her Quirk, "Polygraph", enables her to tell whether someone is lying or not by making physical contact with them.

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• The Ace: When it comes to organizing and leading groups there isn't really a better ally to have than Makoto. She is very good at getting people to work together and while a bit manipulative she tends to make things better for everyone involved. She's also beautiful, kind, and an all-around fun person to be around.
• But Now I Must Go: In chapter 58, she leaves Japan to study abroad in America, but returns a few years later.
• Go-Getter Girl: A college student who is working on her thesis, investigating the Naruhata vigilantes' activities, practically running Captain Celebrity's PR department, and helps manage the event where Pop☆Step makes her stage debut. If there's anything that needs organizing, Makoto's your woman.
• Living Lie Detector: Her Quirk legitimately makes her one, she just needs to be making physical contact. It can be fooled either by Exact Words or if the subject doesn't believe that they are telling a falsehood, such as when she outright asks Koichi if he's "The Hauler". Because he's not, he's "The Crawler".
• Maybe Ever After: While it's left up in the air if she and Koichi gets together or he returns for Kazuho, the ending shows him going to America with her as Captain Celebrities sidekick and her staying by his side despite his bad publicity from Naruhata, hinting that he may have accepted her "proposal" to start a relationship with her.
• Ms. Exposition: In helping Koichi with his classwork, she provides an Infodump regarding the formation of the existing hero system.
• Ms. Fanservice: She's an attractive young woman with a beauty mark on her face and can dress in fashionable outfits when she wants.
• Nice Girl: Compared to the stubborn and blunt Kazuho, Makoto is more friendly and kind, but can have a fiesty side.
• One Degree of Separation: Connected to the vigilantes through Koichi, the police through her brother, and the world of pro heroes through working part-time for Captain Celebrity.
• Rescue Romance: Starts to fall for Koichi after finding out he is the Crawler while being rescued from a runaway bus.
• Secret-Keeper: Is this to Koichi's vigilante activities as the Crawler after being saved by him from a hijacked bus.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She falls for Koichi for his heroisms and for being a kind and brave man.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Unbeknownst to her, her feelings for Koichi and desire for him to come with her on her travels ends up pushing Pop towards Number 6, allowing him to isolate Pop from her peers and lure her into a trap to turn her into the new host for the Queen Bee.
• Wacky Marriage Proposal: When she comes back to Japan, she simply and flatly asks Koichi to come with her wherever she goes next. It's not quite a marriage proposal, but it's clear that's where she expects it to end up. She tells him to talk things over with Pop before making a decision.

Tamao Oguro (Spoilers)

Tamao Oguro

Debut: Chapter 28 (Vigilantes)

Quirk: Unknown, Queen Bee (Formerly)

"Not like I was ever in love with the guitar. Not really. I just played cuz I knew it pissed off my dad."

Knuckleduster's daughter, a.k.a Kuin Hachisuka... Kinda. After a fight with her father over her performing at a concert, Tamao was lured astray by the Villain Factory, and was selected to be the new host of the Queen Bee, creating "Kuin Hachisuka" as seen in the main story. As of Kuin's defeat, and the Queen Bee's extraction, she's been staying in a hospital recovering.

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• Antagonistic Offspring: Is this to Knuckleduster while possessed by Kuin. While she isn't in complete control over herself as Kuin, flashbacks show that she and her father did have a rocky relationship, mostly over her interest in music. Even after he saves her from the Queen Bee, she still gets a kick by playing the guitar because he apparently hated it.
• Eye Scream: Implied. Knuckleduster has to rip Queen Bee out of her eye socket, implying it drilled its way into her head via her eye, as she used to have two normal ones. She still wears an eye patch once she's hospitalized and it's all but spelled out that her left eye is entirely gone.
• Fan Disservice: Knuckleduster rips her shirt open, giving the audience a good look at her bust, but he's doing this because he's trying to resuscitate her by shocking her back to life.
• Idol Singer: She wanted to be one, which her father didn't approve of. Circumstances conspired and prevented her from obtaining the dream, and it's not clear if she still wants to do it, even initially refusing to practice the guitar again until Soga tells her it will piss her dad off.
• Near-Death Experience: Knuckleduster stops the blood flow to her brain in order to free her from Kuin, but he is able to resuscitate her.
• Puppeteer Parasite: She fell victim to one, the Queen Bee that resided in her head.
• True Companions: Thanks to her dad asking them to look after her, Soga, Moyu, and Rapt slowly become hers as she's stuck in the hospital.

Oboro Shirakumo — Loud Cloud

Oboro Shirakumo

Voiced by: Kensho Ono (Japanese), Stephen Sanders (English)

Debut: Chapter 59 (Vigilantes), Chapter 216 (Main Series), Episode 107 (Anime)

Quirks: Cloud

"Whoa there, Hizashi! Got yer hands all over Shota, do you? Outrageous! Scandalous! Shameful! Lemme in on it!"

A second-year classmate Eraser Head & Present Mic had when they attended U.A. High School. His Quirk, "Cloud", allows him to create various clouds.

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• Ambiguous Situation: Something happened to him between the time he was in school and the present time of Vigilantes. Exactly what happened is unclear until Chapter 64, which reveals that he tragically died during a villain attack. Even then, Chapter 253 of the main series casts that into doubt.
• Anime Hair: His hair is designed to look like a cloud, particularly with the way it's colored.
• Book Dumb: His teacher states that while his grades aren't great, his positive attitude and combat skill is enough for him to get by.
• Censor Steam: Does this for himself by making a cloud that acts as an "aesthetic that's censored just enough" when he needs to change during class.
• Character Death: While on his Work Studies with Aizawa, a giant villain named Garvey began to rampage through the town. The villain's destructive power lead to several buildings being brought down, one of which would have crushed a group of school children had Shirakumo not moved in to create a protective barrier of clouds over their heads. Unfortunately, he got too close to the destruction and was buried beneath a pile of rubble, leaving Aizawa as the only hero on the scene capable of defeating the large villain. Aizawa was able to do so, mainly due to Shirakumo giving him a Rousing Speech through his speaker. Except, he didn't actually do that; Aizawa just imagined that his own inner pep talk was coming from the speaker. As he finds out after his battle, Shirakumo had already been crushed to death, leaving Aizawa devastated at the loss.
• Chivalrous Pervert: He's doesn't hide his joy when he gets to see the nearly naked Midnight in her "Birthday Suit Style" costume. Still, he's a perfectly nice guy who's training to be a hero.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He's an odd duck for sure, whether it's causally stripping naked in class or potty training a kitten by having it wizz all over him.
• Doomed by Canon: Side conversations in the original series heavily implied that something terrible happened to Shirakumo before the events of the main story. As it turns out, Shirakumo was killed protecting a teacher and a group of schoolchildren while interning with Kayama and His Purple Highness.
• Early-Bird Cameo: He first appeared in Aizawa's small flashback in chapter 216 of the main series before he was wholly introduced in Vigilantes. He can also be spotted from the back in the second ending of the anime's fourth season, long before he was even mentioned in the anime.
• Establishing Character Moment: He introduces himself in Vigilantes by entering his class through a window, stripping naked because "wet underwear feels gross," and rescuing a kitten from the rain that Aizawa had previously left behind, establishing himself as a weird guy with a big heart.
• Foil: He is everything Aizawa isn't. He is confident, outgoing, personable, and essentially a natural-born hero, not unlike All Might, where Aizawa, as a teen, had big self-esteem issues, had a hard time seeing himself as a hero or even acting like one, and was not good at communicating and bonding with others outside of Mic. He is even introduced as one, since whereas Aizawa can't bring himself to save a kitty left abandoned in the rain, Shirakumo saves it and brings it to school without thinking twice.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: Averted. Shirakumo's death haunts Aizawa to the present day and is implied to have turned him from a dorky, timid guy to The Eeyore. When Tsukauchi reveals that the base of Kurogiri's Quirk is Shirakumo's, Aizawa is livid and it's Mic who has to tell him to calm down.
• Genki Guy: Shirakumo is friendly, excitable, and relentlessly energetic. Aizawa was bothered by this, but it also made him look up to Shirakumo.
• Goggles Do Nothing: Subverted. He wears his goggles to keep stuff like smoke and debris from getting to his eyes. He lends them to Aizawa when they're fighting a villain who can produce smoke with his Quirk, allowing Aizawa to disable him without worrying about having to shut his eyes. Aizawa sticks with the idea of using goggles in his future career as a Pro Hero.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He dies when he uses his clouds to protect a teacher and her kindergarten students from falling rubble, which allows it to fall and crush him instead.
• Meaningful Name: His last name refers to his quirk. "Shirakumo" (白雲) is literally translated as "White Cloud", as he has the power to summon clouds. Likewise, "Oboro" (朧) means "cloudy" or "hazy".
• Monkey King Lite: He's pretty clearly based on Sun Wukong. When in his hero costume, he wears a gi that looks a lot like the one worn by Son Goku (who's the most well-known example of the trope), uses a staff like Wukong and his headpiece resembles Wukong's Golden Ring Headband. He also has a pretty mischievous personality. The most obvious reference is his Quirk, which allows him to create a cloud that he can ride on like Wukong's nimbus cloud. He's also killed when he's crushed under a pile of fallen rubble, much like how Wukong was buried under a mountain. The only thing he lacks is a monkey motif, since there's more focus on his association with clouds due to his Quirk.
• Nice Guy: He brings a stray cat to school to protect it from the rain and also returns the umbrella that was originally shielding it from rain to its owner.
• Not Quite Dead: While he did indeed die on that fateful day, there seems to still be remnants of his old self left in Kurogiri, who is a Nomu made out of his corpse.
• Perpetual Smiler: His M.O. is to keep smiling no matter what, even when he screws up.
• Solid Clouds: His Quirk allows him to create clouds dense enough for him to stand on.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero: His last name means "White Cloud" and he can produce clouds as his Quirk.
• Stock Shōnen Hero: He has all the trappings of one. Wild hair, a cheerful, goofy personality, and a strong, practical Quirk with a variety of applications.
• Tragic Bromance: With Eraser Head. Though always introverted and snarky, Shirakumo's unexpected death caused Eraser Head to become more outwardly confident, critical of other heroes, and combat-oriented. Also with Present Mic to a lesser extent, since Shirakumo's death mostly led Yamada to pick up the slack in becoming Aizawa's primary source of encouragement (although Mic's outer exuberance also seemed to become a bit more artificial after losing his friend).
• Tsurime Eyes: Design-wise, his tsurime round off the trio of him, Aizawa, and Yamada. It also serves as a hint to his current identity in the main series.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Whenever Aizawa was down, he and Mic would always be there to cheer him up and assure him that he's a much better hero than he takes himself for.

Rokuro Nomura (Spoilers)

Rokuro Nomura

Debut: Chapter 67 (Vigilantes)

Quirks: Unknown

The Marukane Event Department's manager after Makoto moved to America. He also has a hero license and an interest in Pop☆Step.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: He's a really nice guy who can also kick some serious ass. Though, he isn't as nice as he acts.
• Be Yourself: His friends tell him to do this after Pop☆Step rejects him. He decides that they're right, and then kills them all, revealing his true identity as Number 6 to the audience.
• Defeat Means Friendship: He ends up befriending the three thugs he beat up in Chapter 69, with Chapter 70 even showing them trying to cheer Nomura up after Pop☆Step rejects his Love Confession. He thanks them by killing them all.
• Foreshadowing: When he first lets his hair (pictured to the side), a strand of his hair falls in front of his face, and is shaped and situated exactly like Number 6's scar.
• In-Series Nickname: His friends call him "Rock", cause he's one rockin' dude!
• Meaningful Name: His name is a hint towards his true identity. His first name is Rokuro, and Roku is "6" in Japanese, while his last name is Nomura, or Nomura, to be more precise, reflecting Number 6's apparent proto-Nomu nature.
• Nice Guy: He's very kind and caring towards Pop☆Step and others in general. Despite being a licensed hero, he doesn't actually work as a pro, he just got licensed so that he can be a legal version of a vigilante. Number 6 crafted this personality specifically to get Pop☆Step to like him.
• Not Good with Rejection: He takes Pop☆Step rejecting his Love Confession pretty hard. His friends try to cheer him up by giving him advice and playfully ribbing him, but killing them is what actually makes him feel better.
• Stronger Than They Look: He looks rather meek and mild, but is strong enough to handle three thugs twice his size. Justified, as he's a registered hero on the side, and because he's really Number 6 in disguise.
• Walking Spoiler: He's really Number 6 in disguise.

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