Character sheet for Thermal Operator. Currently under construction.
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Teihen High-school:
Students:
Serizawa Atsushi
I have a [Talent]? YES! I can finally be a hero!
Let Kagura go, right now, you disgusting thugs!
The protagonist.- Accidental Discovery: He realizes he has a [Talent] when his parents accidentally drop a hot-pot right on his head and he remains completely unhurt.
- All-Loving Hero: He rarely gets mad or holds a grudge, but when he does, WATCH OUT!
- Badass Abnormal: His [Talent] isn't all he's got going for him. He's also a master of kendo, defeating a swordsman that took a swing at him, barehanded, and without using his powers in the slightest.
- Badass Pacifist: He doesn't care much for fighting, but when push comes to shove, he is quite talented, capable, and fierce.
- Berserk Button: He is a very, very chivalrous guy. So harming a girl where he can see it is a fundamentally bad idea. He will instinctively do whatever it takes to get the girl out of danger. If that means hurting, or even killing, you, he'll do it without a thought. He might regret it later, but that's not likely to help you much.
- Beware the Nice Ones: He is a sweet and sensitive guy who rarely holds a grudge, but he's got the power to literally reduce you to ash, or freeze you then shatter you like being dipped in liquid nitrogen, if he wants to, and that's before he gets creative.
- Fantastic Nuke: When he's asked to make a pebble as hot as lava, but not the air around it, he stops and puzzles for a while, eventually coming up with a super-heated pebble surrounded by cold air. The principal of Teihen High takes one look, tells him to throw it away, and seconds later, the mountain it lands on is vaporized, with a mushroom cloud ascending in the background. Fans theorize that this is an accidental grenade composed entirely of raw plasma.
- Genius Bruiser: He's not just a winner of the Super Power Lottery. Even when he thought his power was literally useless, he was clever enough to use it to punch way above his level, taking down a delinquent with Flechette Storm powers by using a mixing bowl, a skull from a biology model skeleton, some water, and a towel to build a make-shift steam cannon.
- Heroic Safe Mode: When he sees a gagged Kagura stare in desperate pleading at him as she's about to be gang-raped, his mind shuts down with an audible "SNAP." He then goes into auto-pilot, melts off his hand-cuffs and becomes literally untouchable as the air around him gets hot enough to melt tempered steel instantly, giving fourth-degree burns to the guy who tried to stab him with a knife, melting a steel pipe in half, and then when the same guy tried a piece of wood instead, out of desperation, not only reduces the wood into charcoal on contact, but grabs the guy's hand and cooks him alive. He only stops because Kagura calls out to him...
- Hero-Worshipper: He idolizes the 9 level 5 "heroes" who run the world and wants to grow up to be like them, or at least joint their ranks. He doesn't take it well when he's informed of their Warts and All.
- Hormone-Addled Teenager: Let's just put it this way, he's quite horny and eager to lose his V-card.
- Hot for Teacher: He's got a major crush on the first-aid teacher in Teihen High, and is quick to interpret what she says in a sexual manner. It doesn't help that she frequently speaks in
Accidental Innuendo. - Hypocritical Humor: He yells at Ueki for going all chuuni when facing off against Kirisaki, and then goes all chuuni when he and Ueki have beat Kirisaki down.
- Lethal Harmless Powers: He's told his Thermal Operator [Talent] is even less useful than a common microwave. This is a lie. His [Talent] has no upper or lower limit to the temperature he can reach.
- Made Out to Be a Jerkass: The entry day of his attendance to Teihen High was full of pitfalls, as various mishaps and misunderstandings clumped together to paint a bleak picture of his character that's completely untrue, and this isn't a recent phenomenon. Back in his elementary and middle-school years, an extremely perverted "friend" of his was very fond of doing borderline criminal sexual harassment of the female classmates, but making him look at least as culpable, if not entirely culpable for it in his place while feigning innocence. He is not pleased at finding out this guy not only wound up in the same class, but got Personality Powers too.
- Necessary Drawback: He has to physically touch whatever he wants to alter the temperature of, but this includes the air around him.
- Required Secondary Powers: He is completely unaffected by extremes in temperature. He can make the air around him hot enough to melt steel on contact, and it doesn't bother him or his clothes a bit.
- Skilled, but Naive: Once he realizes his [Talent] has no upper or lower level limit, he really starts getting creative in its application, but he's still a high-school student with the corresponding lack of experience. So the principal takes to training him it its use, personally.
- Squishy Wizard: His [Talent] is immensely powerful, but he's still got the physique of an ordinary human, so those that can get past his power can still take him down with a punch.
- Traumatic Super Power Awakening: Played with. He already had a [Talent] awaken, but was lead to believe it was less useful than a common microwave. When he's Forced to Watch a female classmate suffer a near-rape experience, he snaps, melts off the handcuffs binding him, and proceeds to turn the air around him hot enough to melt the steel pipes, crowbars, etc. that the would-be rapists try to use against him, on contact. When one of the thugs tries to punch him, after the wooden two-by-four catches fire, he grabs the offending hand and literally makes the guy's blood boil in his veins!
Yomohira Miria
Hello, Serizawa. Pleasure to meet you.
The first Teihen student Serizawa meets.- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Controlling dolls doesn't seem too useful on the battlefield, until it's revealed that she can also control anything with a humanoid frame, regardless of size, even actual people, that have already been rendered unconscious. There is also no mention of how many puppets she can control at once...
- Marionette Master: Her [Talent] allows her to control dolls and move them around.
- Mook Maker: She builds her dolls herself, and she's so talented, they're indistinguishable from the famous and expensive Bisque dolls.
- Older Than They Look: She looks like an elementary school student, but she's first year high-school.
- People Puppets: Her [Talent] doesn't just allow her to animate dolls. She can also animate and control people (unconscious).
Kirisaki Noboru
Yo, shitheads, guess ya donna know mah powah!!
A second year student who takes an immediate dislike to Serizawa.- Accent Adaptation: His Kansai accent is translated into ghetto speak.
- Entitled to Have You: To Yomohira. When he spots Serizawa chatting with her, he immediately sports a Death Glare and intimidating stance, then spouts "what ya doin' with mah (future) girl!" then rips her doll out of her hand, vandalizes it and says "why don' ya quit playin' wi' dolls, and have some fun with me!"
- Flechette Storm: His [Talent] involves summoning throwing knives, in multiples of 3-5, and throwing them, or holding them between his fingers and using them like Wolverine Claws.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He's especially easy to piss off.
- Japanese Delinquents: Plays with knives, has a mohawk, and dyes his hair blonde.
- Loving Bully: Deconstructed. The narration states he's a "clumsy guy who has feelings for Yomohira," but he honestly believes the best way he can get her to like him is to trample her hobbies (figuratively in the manga, literally in the light novel), insult her, grab her, and harass her, both physically and sexually. He refuses to see that he's just terrifying and alienating her.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: His default response to any irritation is attempted murder, and he has the gall to wonder why Yomohira wants nothing to do with him.
- One-Shot Character: Introduced to the audience in the early chapters, beat up by Serizawa and Ueki, in self-defense, and then never seen or heard from again.
- Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: As if being a violent delinquent wasn't enough of a headache, somebody put him on the morals committee, to enforce the rules students have to obey outside of class. Rules he breaks from his introduction by deliberately vandalizing Yomohira's doll after ripping it from her hands.
- Smarter Than You Look: He does indeed get good grades in class, but one would never know that because he's a belligerent, petty thug who can't comprehend why being belligerent alienates the girl he's got his eye on.
- Starter Villain: The first antagonist Serizawa has to face.
- Summon to Hand: When he calls upon his throwing knives, they either appear in his hands or hovering just above his open palm.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: In the manga version, at least, the last time he's seen, his unconscious form was taken to the infirmary, and he was promptly forgotten by almost everyone.
Ueki Hideoshi
Behold our magnificent powers, evil doer! (turns to Serizawa), right buddy?!
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Calling him odd is putting it mildly.
- Expy: From the manga "Law of Ueki" that has a main character with the same name and also has a Green Thumb, turning trash into trees.
- Fearless Fool: He gets into difficult situations because he has little in the way of self-preservation and thinks way too highly of his abilities.
- Green Thumb: He can manipulate plant growth, but only with beans and radishes for some reason.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: When it looks like he's going to turn the team vs team fight around, and actually manages to block the other school's Fragile Speedster, he accidentally steps on one of his own sprout "land mines" taking himself out of the fight, causing his team to collapse.
- Large Ham: Very flamboyant and loud.
- Small Name, Big Ego: His power is useful, but it's not that great, and his mouth is always writing checks his body and [Talent] can't cash.
Shizamaki Yurai
Y-yes! Got it! Serizawa, can you hear me?
The classmate with the power of [Communication].- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Blonde and a nice girl who cares about her classmates.
- No Social Skills: Played with. She can use her [Talent] to communicate just fine, but she freezes up and becomes unable to speak face to face especially if she's under duress of any kind.
- Shrinking Violet: She's exceptionally shy and timid. She freezes up and is unable to speak if she's confronted in any way. She's only able to communicate effectively with her telepathic [Talent].
- Telepathy: She speaks to others with her mind. This [Talent] is shown to not be affected by distance in the slightest.
Midou Suguru
How mean, Serizawa. I thought you were my best friend (pervert).
A kid Serizawa knows and does not like.- Adaptational Modesty: In the original novel, he wins the team battle event by stealing panties. In the manga, he somehow swaps out the girls' outfits with cosplay without them noticing. Which means he was able to strip all their outfits in public and replace them without being seen...
- Failed a Spot Check: He can use his [Talent] to mess with other people's cognitive abilities so they don't realize he's present and don't notice him until he actively acts against them, and then he just simply disappears from their perception again.
- Handsome Lech: He's a handsome total raging pervert who sexually harasses every girl he can get his hands on. He even wins the team competition with the rival school by stealing the underwear of the female members of the opposite team in the middle of the match to invoke Defeat by Modesty. When the lone male member of the other team was righteously enraged, he then knocks the guy out with his own team-mate's Forced Sleep part of her [Talent].
- Perpetual Smiler: He almost never stops smiling.
- Toxic Friend Influence: When both he and Serizawa were younger, he got the latter into plenty of trouble with girls so he could then perv out in relative safety, using trickery to get Serizawa left holding the blame. Serizawa wised up and resents him for it.
Kirishima Kaname
You defeated Noboru, now face me!
The heir of the Kirishima Clan.- Big Damn Kiss: After the inter-school mock combat, she thanks Serizawa for his part in their victory and his coaching by pulling him close and planting a wet one on his lips. He's both stunned and ecstatic.
- Crime of Self-Defense: Unintentionally. She comes at Serizawa with a katana. He tries to talk her down and gets constantly rebuffed until he has no choice but to disarm her by force. Seeing that she's no match against him, even without going up against his [Talent], she breaks down crying. As he's trying to comfort her, a bunch of bystanders show up and start gossiping about how he made her cry...
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: After a bit of a pep talk from Serizawa, she realized that rather than using one cherry petal at a time, her [Talent] is best for attacking with a swarm of them.
- Expy: Her [Talent] is almost a spitting image of Byakuya's [Bankai] from Bleach.
- Mafia Princess: The heir of a yakuza clan.
- Misapplied Phlebotinum: She tried to copy Norobu's use of his [Talent], since hers is similar, but that clearly didn't work, since a petal is smaller and weaker than a dagger and she's physically weaker too. This gave her a terrible inferiority complex. When Serizawa pointed out a more fitting way to use her [Talent] and it worked well for her, she was ecstatic!
- Petal Power: Her [Talent] summons cherry blossom petals that cut, but while one at a time can't even flick a pebble, a massive swarm of them is a force to be reckoned with.
- Spirited Competitor: Briefly. She hoped to get stronger by dueling the guy who beat up Noburu. Once she's shown that there's better ways to use her [Talent], she stopped trying to compare herself to others and began to develop it her own way.
- Took a Level in Badass: Literally. When she was introduced, her [Talent] was level 1. After a couple of days excused absence with off-screen training, she returns and wins a duel with a level 3 opponent in the annual "mock combat" tournament.
Akai Tsubasa
Only pure trash would raise a hand to a girl!
- Berserk Button: He's even more chivalrous than Serizawa. He doesn't have to see a girl in trouble, he just hears a rumor about it and he gets violent. Unfortunately, this is somewhat deconstructed because he acts before he gets all the information and attacked Serizawa because of rumors that he beat up on Kirishima, and has to apologize when he learns that Kirishima came at Serizawa with a blade first.
- Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: He gets a lot of horrible rumors about him using his fire [Talent] to supposedly burn down a school. What actually happened is that he was fighting to protect his girlfriend from kidnappers and a school apparently was torched as collateral damage.
- Playing with Fire: His [Talent] allows him to summon, control, and hurl flames around.
- Required Secondary Powers: Fire does not hurt him.
- Wife-Basher Basher: He beats up on guys who beat up on girls.
Kagura
Good to see there's someone who can understand Akai.
Akai's girlfriend.- Attempted Rape: Her kidnappers didn't think subjecting her to Superhuman Trafficking was enough, oh no. They pull her legs apart and try to gang-rape her while Serizawa was handcuffed in the room, Forced to Watch. This was a fundamentally bad idea as it triggered his Traumatic Super Power Awakening and they all were beaten within an inch of their lives.
- Healing Hands: Her [Talent] allows her to heal any wound.
- Living MacGuffin: When she's kidnapped, she's called a "valuable asset worth one billion" by the head of the kidnapping para-military gang. The head kidnapper himself callously smirking at the thought that she'd become a lab-rat, slave, or worse, and no longer seen as a human being.
- Protectorate: Mess with her and Akai hears about it? You're toast, literally.
Faculty
Kurono Melia
"Heroes?" HAH! They're all just monsters who go around punching out nukes, blowing up entire countries and rewriting the world's topography, and you call them heroes? Don't make me laugh!
Teihen's School Nurse, and the government official who screened Serizawa.- Bad Powers, Good People: Her [Talent] unleashes deadly plagues, which is why she was thrown into the front lines, at 10. She may be jaded, but she is a school nurse and tries to be a good teacher so her students can be productive members of society after mastering their [Talent] powers.
- Child Soldier: Played for horror. At 10-years-old, she was thrown into the front lines and repeatedly compelled to use her [Talent] to graphically kill enemy soldiers via plague. The only reason she's alive in the present is that she was rescued, and adopted, by one of the 9 class-5 powers, the man now active as the principal of Teihen High.
- Cruel to Be Kind: She starts the story lying to Serizawa about the nature of his [Talent], crushing his dream to be a "hero" and shipping him off to Teihen High, the school with the worst reputation of raising [Talent] users, because if she was entirely honest with him, she'd have placed a bullseye on his back for entire groups of loathsome individuals who'd stop at nothing to either capture or eliminate him for the sake of truly heinous goals. This all proves justified when Serizawa and Kagura were grabbed in broad daylight right in front of the school gate!
- The Cynic: Her stint as a Child Soldier and the rest of her Dark and Troubled Past has left her extremely jaded and bitter.
- Dark and Troubled Past: For starters, she was a Child Soldier during WWIII, and nearly died as a result.
- The Extremist Was Right: Lying to Serizawa about the nature of his [Talent] and shipping him off to Teihen proves justified when kidnappers grab Kagura and him off the street because it placed him at the scene, allowing him to rescue her and crush the kidnapping gang of mercs.
- Happily Adopted: She loves Kagenobu like a father, and sees him as the one and only Class-5 that is respectable, even if she still sees him as a "monster."
- Hot Teacher: She's the school nurse, teaches biology, and is gorgeous.
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: She has training as a nurse, at least, if not a Phd in medicine, and she's the government issued [Talent] screener, who decides which schools [Talent] using students go, the school nurse of Teihen, and the adopted daughter of Teihen's principal, one of the nine Class-5 [Talent] users... Can you say "conflict of interest"?
- Required Secondary Powers: She's immune to her own plagues.
Tsurumi Chihaya
Behave yourselves, or I'll send you flying next!
Serizawa's home room teacher.- Eyes Always Shut: She's illustrated in the manga with her eyes shut, yet it doesn't hinder her vision in the slightest.
- Fiery Redhead: She has red hair and a hell of a temper.
- Intimidation Demonstration: She's introduced hurling a piece of chalk with such force that it leaves a crater in a concrete wall, and then threatens to use her [Talent] to send students flying into space if they don't behave themselves.
- Necessary Drawback: She has to touch whatever it is that she wants to levitate or send flying.
- Simple, yet Awesome: Her [Talent] allows her to levitate or accelerate anything she touches. These objects can be accelerated to incredible speeds.
- Stern Teacher: She tolerates absolutely zero crap from her students.
Kurono Kagenobu
Serizawa, come with me. I will train you.
The principal of Teihen High and Melia's adoptive father.- Almighty Janitor: He's one of the 9 Class-5 [Talent] users, yet he's content to be the principal of a High School.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: He instructs Serizawa to heat up a pebble as high as he can without vaporizing it. Serizawa stops and puzzles for a moment before heating the pebble in a high pressure bubble of cold-air to comply. Say hello to Fantastic Nuke.
- Big Damn Heroes: He appeared instantly in front of Melia when she was about to be gunned down during WWIII, aka [The Great Talent War], and when Serizawa found himself over his head trying to rescue Kagura, even with Akai's help, he showed up and punched out the Class-4 [Talent] user responsible and the helicopter the guy rode in on.
- Charles Atlas Super Power: He's been shown punching out a helicopter, and even without using his [Talent], he can punch holes in boulders.
- Dumb Muscle: He's not much of a thinker, at all. He doesn't even understand how his [Talent] works. Even though Serizawa is able to figure it out and explain it coherently, in simple layman's terms, he still doesn't get it, and tries to make Serizawa copy him, a physical impossibility...
- Necessary Drawback: While the full limits of his ability are unknown, he's shown that he can't be in multiple locations simultaneously, nor has he been shown to travel back in time, and he certainly is not omniscient.
- Parental Substitute: He picked up Melia when she was a 12-year-old, about to die, and took her in, raising her as his own daughter.
- Red Baron: "Chrono Operator"
- Required Secondary Powers: He's strong and durable enough to handle accelerating himself and decelerating the rest of the world at relativistic speeds, and it's such second-nature to him that he can't comprehend why others can't do it.
- Sink or Swim Mentor: His idea of training Serizawa is to just throw a bunch of problems at him and letting the poor boy figure it out himself.
- Time Master: In a sense. He accelerates himself while simultaneously slowing down the rest of the universe in a localized area. He lets Newton's laws of motion and kinetic energy handle the rest.
- Unskilled, but Strong: He's ranked a Class 5, but he's only coasting along on his Required Secondary Powers. If he even bothered to do even the tiniest bit of study into Newtonian physics, or put in any thought into his power whatsoever, he'd be far, far more powerful and deadly. Simply hurling a pebble at relativistic speeds trumps the most powerful nuke ever built.
Antagonists:
"Big Bro"
This is what happens when you louts can't baby-sit properly!
I was only holding back because I was told to keep the merchandise intact.
The leader of the kidnap gang that grabbed Serizawa and Kagura.- Bad Boss: When one of his henchmen runs to him, asking for help to deal with Serizawa, who is a [Talent] user that went through the rest of the gang like a laxative laced with pure capsaicin, he punches a hole through the guy's chest, killing him. When he's asked why that is, he retorts "You're useless."
- Disk-One Final Boss: He may have been the leader of his squad, but after Akai and Serizawa take him down, his boss shows up with an army of 30 some combatants behind him and several helicopters.
- Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Killing his man would be, and still is, a horrific thing to do, but the guy and the rest of the gang ignored their orders to keep Serizawa and Kagura secured and intact, due to the fact that any and all injuries would greatly lower the incoming rewards, just so they could rape her for their sick thrills.
- Lack of Empathy: He doesn't give a crap about anyone.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Pissing off Akai and Serizawa gets him roasted, and good.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: His [Talent] allows him to manifest extra hands on his body which he uses to enhance his combat ability and make himself far deadlier.
- No Name Given: He is never named in the manga.
- Only in It for the Money: All he cares about is getting paid, period.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: If you're not useful to him, he sees no problem with killing you at the first opportunity.
Lab Coat
I should have never left this all to that Level 3.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: He's a level 4, someone comparable to a nuclear weapon in power, and he's sharply dressed.
- Greater-Scope Villain: "Big Bro" may have run the kidnap gang, but he's the client that hired them, and arrived to capture Kagura, personally, with an army behind him.
- No Name Given: His name is never mentioned.
- Smug Snake: He is indeed powerful, but he spends so much time preening and crowing about his superiority that Kagenoubu had time to show up and show him what a level 5 looks like.
- The Worf Effect: He swats aside Akai with ease, and then gets swat aside by Kagenobu, along with a few of the helicopters he brought with him.
Taksei Academy:
Students:
Yuuki Kurasaki
Ouch, that hurt! I'll kill you!
The opponent against Akai in the interschool tournament.- Casting a Shadow: She uses her shadow to move around very quickly.
Hikawa Takeru
It's been a long time, Serizawa
- An Ice Person: Fights with ice-based attacks.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: The moment Serizawa started to dominate the fight, he surrendered.
- Reality Is Unrealistic: In his fight with Serizawa, he points out that air is a very effective insulator, and he has the field advantage since he can hurl ice-based projectiles while Serizawa can only use his powers by touch. Serizawa turns this around on him when their fighting arena becomes flooded and Serizawa points out that water is a good conductor, negating the initial advantage.
- Spirited Competitor: Fights purely for the thrill of the challenge, win or lose.
Staff:
Shidara Ogen
The principal.
- Assumed Win: He brought in his school's top students, expecting to easily crush Teihen high. While his students did have some well deserved victories, his school lost, with his strongest [Talent] user, a level 4, having to concede against Serizawa.
- Corrupt Politician: In addition to being the principal of Taksei, he's in the Diet and not only traffics [Talent] users, but engages in illegal human experimentation.
- Evil Old Folks: So old his hair turned gray, and he engages in a lot of nastiness.
- Playing with Syringes: He commissions labs to engage in illegal human experiments.
- Revenge Myopia: It's okay for him to go around kidnapping kids and putting them through unholy experiments, but when Kagenbou finds and destroys said lab, freeing the test subjects, he wants bloody vengeance.
- Superhuman Trafficking: He kidnapped and sold off [Talent] users.
- This Can Not Be: When the results came in, and his school lost, he was screaming in frustration at how "impossible" it was that the loss happened.
- Would Hurt a Child: Considering that he sees nothing wrong with kidnapping high-schoolers and putting them through illlegal experiments, he sure would.
