History Headscratchers / MyHeroAcademia

** Well, he just did that, although the absorbers also slightly increase his Full Cowl power. 100% One For All is still too much for his body even with them though, so he still needed to change fighting styles anyway.

** Aizawa's got dry eyes anyway, so this doesn't look like it would be efficient for him.

** Aizawa's got dry eyes anyway, so this doesn't look like it would be efficient for Aizawa.

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*** U.A. is not really opening applications for Quirkless students, but rather scooping for users of HeartIsAnAwesomePower like Shinsou. Because fighting ability is an essential metric, there's not much of a point of having a Quirkless hero when you have hundreds of seemingly useless Quirk users that could potentially undergo the same training. It's also worth noting that Stain is a direct example of the second point, his equipment and fighting style is exactly designed to allow him to use his Quirk more efficiently as his speed, ambushes and blades make it easier for him to have access to a victim's blood. The danger of his Quirk is really underestimated.

*** U.A. is not really opening applications for Quirkless students, but rather scooping for users of HeartIsAnAwesomePower like Shinsou. Because fighting ability is an essential metric, there's not much of a point of having a Quirkless hero when you have hundreds of seemingly useless Quirk users that could potentially undergo the same training. It's also worth noting that Stain is a direct example of the second point, his equipment and fighting style is exactly designed to allow him to use his Quirk more efficiently as his speed, ambushes and blades make it easier for him to have access to a victim's blood.

*** 2) In the current hero business, popularity is as important, if not even more important, than actual competence, which is one of the reasons Stain grew disillusioned with modern heroes. No matter how skilled, someone without a Quirk to attract attention to would have a hard time making ends meet.

*** Point number four doesn't really hold water. We already have examples of characters who can kick incredible amounts of ass even without using their Quirks. Take Stain, for instance. Sure, if he can lick a person's blood, they get paralyzed and are effectively helpless, but until he draws blood, he's effectively no different from Quirkless person. Nevertheless, he managed to kill or disable dozens of pro heroes and managed to hold off Iida's SuperSpeed, Midoriya's SuperStrength and Todoroki's massive AreaOfEffect ElementalPowers with only training, mundane weaponry and a normal human body. He lost in the end, but only because he got impatient and even then, Midoriya believes that Stain could have still killed him had he really wanted to. The Quirks of those three students are well above average, particularly Midoriya and Todoroki's. Most Quirks don't even have a fraction of the power of One for All or Fire and Ice, like Ojiro's Tail, which just gives him a strong tail. It isn't inconceivable that a sufficiently armed BadassNormal could defeat most villains given enough effort. The real reasons there are no Quirkless heroes are probably twofold:
1) The whole point of a hero license in the first place is to allow heroes to use their Quirks against other people, something that not even the police have the permission to do. A Quirkless person would receive no benefit from the license, nor would a hero academy's heavily Quirk development focused curriculum help them in any way. It would just be a waste of time when they can just become a policeman instead.
2) In the current hero business, popularity is as important, if not even more important, than actual competence, which is one of the reasons Stain grew disillusioned with modern heroes. No matter how skilled, someone without a Quirk to attract attention to would have a hard time making ends meet.
Even so, despite these two factors, UA recently allowed applications from Quirkless prospective students, showing that they are at least open to the idea. Lets not forget that in the original draft of the manga, Midoriya was going to stay Quirkless. A Quirkless hero might appear in time, it's just that nobody with the right amount of skill and motivation has appeared yet.

* How do the staff of Yuei balances their classes with their hero careers, their side business and their personal lifes? Can they at least temporally retire from crime-fighting? And how do professional heroes end teaching in a high school, apparently with degrees allowing to teach Literature or Maths?

** Third, equipment can't effectively replace Quirks, because it often gets lost, stolen, broken down, etc. It probably costs a lot too, especially because that stuff is often customized. The students and teachers can get away with it because U.A. funds them.

** Second, most equipment tends to be built around the Quirks themselves, so you still need the Quirk in the first place in order to use it. For example, Bakugou's Grenade Blasters that store his nitroglycerin sweat. So far, only Aizawa appears to have equipment that does not revolve around his Quirk.

** Second, most equipment tends to be built around the Quirks themselves, so you still need the Quirk in the first place in order to use it. For example, Bakugou's Grenade Blasters.

** Third, equipment can't effectively replace Quirks, because it often gets lost, stolen, broken down, etc. It probably costs a lot too, especially because that stuff is often customized.

* Why didn't Midoriya have his hero uniform made with someone to absorb the shock from One for All? I know he wanted to use what his mom gave him, but there's no reason he couldn't have had it modified.