My Hero Academia

Quirks are, to me, somewhat reminiscent of Devil Fruit powers. They don't necessarily get more powerful, their users just get more adept and/or creative in their use.

By my understanding, going to UA is probably the first time these kids have been able to give their Quirks free rein. I remember in their first class Eraserhead noted that in grade and middle school they were required to not use their quirks at all if it could be helped, at least in athletic competition.

There are some quirks that I see can become more powerful. Bakugou's explosions, how much weight can Uraraka hold, how much electricity can Kaminari use before frying his brain.

Some quirks do require more skill and creativity rather than pure power. Like Yaoyorozu and Mineta's. Mutant types like Tsuyu's probably directly related to their physical strength.

I disagree with the "no consequences because of Recovery Girl" thing. For one, she's not always around, especially mid-battle. That means Deku will have to plan ahead how and when to use Of A. Secondly, we've been shown that she can't overuse her healing power or it will kill Deku instead. If Deku spent his Of A limit, he's out for the rest of the arc.

There is some worry though. Deku's fights are still interesting because he can only use 5%. What if he learns to use 100%? That's going to be a major Can't Catch Up for the rest of the classmates except for the support-types.

He's not likely to get to that point except by the end of the series

And even at that point I could see him with more to grow and an 'the adventure continues' kind of thing.

I wonder, will the story end with the graduating or will it continue even after that to show them being heroes. Or rather, I wonder what the author has in mind, if he has anything like that in mind yet.

It would be a bit weird taking the academia part out, but hey, maybe he could become a teacher or something. That sort of sounds like spin-off material though.

The whole premise of the series is that All Might is an untouchable symbol of absolute justice. Literally the point of One For All is that it's an invincible power.

Recovery Girls healing power can't magically fix bones that have been broken and have fragments in places they don't belong. She mentions that's why she won't heal Deku if he continues to pull such stunts after fighting Todoroki. He still needed to have those fragments removed naturally if I recall right.

It's not invincible. It has the potential to be invincible by being passed on from person to person. All Might shows that even when his superhuman abilities it is still possible to harm and even fatally injure them. Sure the injury isn't instant because of Of A, but he knows it will kill him eventually.

edited 27th Sep '15 8:41:27 PM by OmegaRadiance

Surgery is not "natural" by most definitions, but yes. Her power accelerates the body's healing, but some injuries just wouldn't heal at all without actual medical intervention. Like, anything that would cripple you.

Indeed.

Note that she can't do shit for All Might and his injury.

Also, logically if one for all needs body that can handle it, eventually nobody can handle it without having their bones crushed if it always just stockpiles power more and more when transferred

Not really. We know you can be trained to properly withstand the power, it's just that Deku didn't originally have time for that due to needing to enter Yuuhei right away.

Considering how ripped All Might is when using the power (or even the residual power) it stands to reason that you can always train to be able to withstand it (and you bulk up significantly in the process).

That depends whether the requirement to handle the power increases as the power gets stockpiled, as it seems to be the case. If it managed to gets passes to, say, 100 generations later, it might mean the requirements would be inhumanly high.

...which gives me an idea. Animals with quirks became intelligent like the principal. So...One-for-All wielding grizzly bear anyone?

That's assuming that the Principal's power isn't simply super-rodent intelligence, of course.

edited 28th Sep '15 1:13:23 AM by Elfive

Why do you assume that to be the case, I haven't taken anything stated about it to imply that.

If that's all he's got it doesn't make much sense for him to be participating in this exam like he's apparently doing.

I´m also assuming an increase of the requirements for One for All, because Deku had to build up muscles to manage it while the first user of One for All was said to have been rather frail. I admit not the best of arguments, because One for All was only created from merging with his own quirk he could be an exception...

edited 28th Sep '15 6:38:14 AM by Samaldin

What All Might says here. I read it as the training is for handling the accumulated power, not the quirk itself. Unless this is one case of FA taking too much liberties again.

Hmm, strange. I thought it was stated in his profile, but I checked the extras and it's nowhere to be found.

edited 28th Sep '15 6:43:56 AM by TrueShadow1

So, chances of Bakugou defecting to the Villain Alliance? I'd really prefer if that that didn't happen but it seems like we're going down the route of him getting worse and worse until it all just comes crumpling down.

0% chance.

Like it always was.

Yeah. I'm pretty sure the point of Bakugou is that he's a dick, but he'll still be a hero.

I mean, if Endeavour is still a hero after the bullshit he pulled......

so... the end of term test.

the students are split into teams of two and have to fight the teachers. Deku and Bakugou have to fight freaking All Might.

this is gonna be good.

edited 29th Sep '15 7:51:53 PM by crimsonstorm15

I hope this ends up in another instance of Kacchan breaking down crying just like the the Hero vs Villain mock battle. And then have someone not Deku comfort him so he can get back up and get some development.

He needs to stop being so tsuntsun and show some dere already.

Spoilers.

Kacchan is being kiiiiind of a dick.

That's not exactly breaking news, so much as the usual status quo.

Is that really all it says? Because that might as well be water is wet.

edited 1st Oct '15 10:13:53 AM by LSBK

Well,more precise,Deku thinks running away is a better start,while Kacchan wants to fight,so he slaps/punches Deku in the face.

There's two ways to pass this exam: either handcuff the opponent or run away from the arena they're in. From what I gather this is mainly a test of communication and cooperation; if Kacchan and Deku can't get along, they'll certainly lose.