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| 6 | [[WMG:[[center:''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' [[Characters/MyHeroAcademia Main Character Index]]\ |
| 7 | [-''U.A. High School Students'': [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaClass1A Class 1-A]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaClass1A1To10 1-10]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaClass1A11To20 11-20]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaIzukuMidoriya Izuku Midoriya]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaKatsukiBakugo Katsuki Bakugo]]) | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaClass1B Class 1-B]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaStudentsFromOtherClasses Students From Other Classes]]\ |
| 8 | ''Pro Heroes'': '''School Faculty and Staff''' ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaAllMight All Might]]) | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaOtherHeroes Other Heroes]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaTopHeroes Top Heroes]]) | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaOneForAll One For All and Its Torch Bearers]]\ |
| 9 | ''Villains'': [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVillains Known Villains]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaLeagueOfVillains League of Villains]] [[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaAllForOne All For One]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaTomuraShigaraki Tomura Shigaraki]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaDabi Dabi]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVanguardActionSquad Vanguard Action Squad]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaArtificialHumans Artificial Humans]]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaShieHassaikai Shie Hassaikai]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaMetaLiberationArmy Meta Liberation Army]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaParanormalLiberationFront Paranormal Liberation Front]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVillainArmy Villain Army]])\ |
| 10 | ''Others'': [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaPoliceAndGovernmentWorkers Police and Government Workers]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaCivilians Civilians]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaOtherHighSchools Other High Schools]]\ |
| 11 | ''Characters From Other My Hero Academia Media'': [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVideoGameCharacters Video Game Characters]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaMovieCharacters Movie Characters]]\ |
| 12 | ''[[Manga/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantes Vigilantes]]'': [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantesMainCharacters Main Characters]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantesVillainFactory Villain Factory]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantesSupportingCharacters Supporting Characters]]\ |
| 13 | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaTeamUpMission Team Up Mission]]]]-]]] |
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| 15 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 16 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 17 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ua_teachers.png]] |
| 18 | [[caption-width-right:350:Welcome to Class![[note]]From left to right: Ectoplasm, Cementoss, Power Loader, Snipe, Eraser Head, Nezu, Present Mic, Thirteen, and Midnight.[[/note]]]] |
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| 20 | * BadassTeacher: All of them are or were pro heroes, so this is a given. |
| 21 | * BigDamnHeroes: They show up at the end of the USJ Arc when Iida comes to find them and reveal that villains are attacking. Their appearance is threatening enough for Shigaraki to cancel the attack on sight. |
| 22 | * ADayInTheLimelight: They get a chance to show their individual powers and combat styles in the Final Exams Arc. |
| 23 | * DramaPreservingHandicap: This is invoked when they fight the students during the final exams. They put on devices that add half their body weight to their movements. It's pointed out that the fights would be over too quickly and the students couldn't be sufficiently graded if the teachers went up against them without a handicap. All Might suffers doubly with this one due to his weakening powers and heroic build. He makes a particular point of noting how much they're slowing him down. Despite this, he's ''still'' insanely fast. |
| 24 | * SecretKeeper: The hero teachers, principal, and nurse are some of the only people in the world who knew of the limits on All Might's power [[spoiler:before it was publicly exposed during his fight with All For One.]] |
| 25 | * TwoGirlsToATeam: Recovery Girl and Midnight are the only known female members of the faculty at U.A.. Although later retroactively averted, [[AllThereInTheManual when a character book confirmed]] that Thirteen (who has never been seen out of costume) is also a woman. |
| 26 | [[/folder]] |
| 27 | !U.A. Homeroom Teachers |
| 28 | [[folder:Shota Aizawa -- Eraser Head]] |
| 29 | !!Shota Aizawa -- Eraser Head |
| 30 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunichiSuwabe (Japanese), Creator/AlexOrgan (English, Season 1), Creator/ChristopherWehkamp (English, Season 2 onward), Ernesto Rumbaut (Latin American Spanish/TV series), José Arenas (Latin American Spanish/Movies) |
| 31 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 5 (Manga), Episode 5 (Anime) |
| 32 | !!!'''Playable in:''' ''VideoGame/MyHeroOnesJustice'', ''My Hero One's Justice 2'' |
| 33 | !!!'''Quirk:''' [[AntiMagic Erasure]] |
| 34 | [[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shouta_aizawa.png]] |
| 35 | [[caption-width-right:160:Erasing Hero]] |
| 36 | ->''"I'm sorry to tell you... that for the next three years... U.A. will run you through the wringer. That's "Plus Ultra". Use your strength to overcome it all. So bring it."'' |
| 37 | |
| 38 | Class 1-A's homeroom teacher. He's a bit of a LazyBum, but looks out for his students and pushes them to improve. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | Aizawa is also the pro hero Eraser Head. His Quirk, "Erasure", allows him to nullify others' control over their Quirks just by looking at them. Blinking dispels the effect of his Quirk and using it gives him very dry eyes. |
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| 42 | * TwentyFourHourArmor: Downplayed. Aizawa often skulks around off-duty in his hero costume, minus his goggles, which he uses whenever he's in combat, and is rarely seen wearing anything else. When he's turned in for the night, though, he wears pajamas like any other normal person would. |
| 43 | * AmputationStopsSpread: [[spoiler:After being shot by a Quirk-erasing bullet, he has to cut off his right leg in order to save his Quirk from being destroyed.]] |
| 44 | * AirplaneArms: He runs like this while fighting. |
| 45 | * AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: He cuts off his right leg in Chapter 282, after it's hit by a Quirk-Eraser.]] |
| 46 | * AntiMagic: His Quirk effectively nullifies one other person's Quirk, as long as it's an emitter or transformation Quirk. |
| 47 | * ApatheticTeacher: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. He appears to be one at first. However, it's shown that he has very high standards for his students when it comes to heroism, seriously pushes them in that regard, and is willing to stick his neck out for them when there's trouble. That said, he's still a LazyBum who falls into complete apathy when it comes to subjects he considers irrelevant, and on off days, he would rather curl up in a sleeping bag than put up with the WackyHomeroom. |
| 48 | * ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler:After hacking off his right leg to avoid the spread of a Quirk-erasing bullet, Aizawa received a mechanical replacement with digits and joints.]] |
| 49 | * AscendedExtra: Downplayed. While he's a main supporting character in the main series, he's a full-on main character in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantes'', having multiple chapters focused on him and his past. |
| 50 | * BadassInDistress: |
| 51 | ** During the battle at USJ, Aizawa is beaten to the ground by [[TheBrute Nomu]], having both of his arms broken and his face smashed into the ground, making him essentially a hostage. This still doesn't stop him from using his Quirk to erase Shigaraki's power when the villain tries to hurt on of his students though. |
| 52 | ** During the raid on the Hassaikai's headquarters, [[spoiler:Aizawa is hit by [[TheDragon Chronostasis']] Quirk leaving him barely able to move for the duration of an hour. Afterwards, the yakuza keeps Aizawa blindfolded to prevent him from using his Quirk. He's saved by Tamaki Amajiki, a.k.a, Suneater, who immobilizes Chronostasis.]] |
| 53 | * BadassTeacher: Although his teaching methods can be rather questionable, Aizawa is a very competent pro hero who is protective of his students. |
| 54 | * BandageMummy: After his grievous injuries in the USJ Arc, Aizawa spends the U.A. Sports Festival with his entire face and both arms wrapped in bandages as he recovers. |
| 55 | * BatmanParody: A DownplayedTrope, mostly seen in contrast to All Might's SupermanSubstitute. He uses skill and tactics over brute force and power, is a PerpetualFrowner and TheStoic along with being TheComicallySerious, and overall deals with threats in a more brutal nature akin to TheCowl. The main difference is that unlike Batman, he has powers, though they are of limited use. |
| 56 | * BigDamnHeroes: |
| 57 | ** A downplayed example. When Midoriya is about to be killed by Eri's uncontrollable Quirk, Aizawa uses his own Quirk to deactivate it, saving Midoriya and Eri. |
| 58 | ** He does it again when [[spoiler:Shigaraki grabs Ryukyu to turn her to dust, appearing in a nick of time to disable Shigaraki's Decay.]] |
| 59 | * BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: Has this routine going on whenever he crosses paths with Ms. Joke, much to his annoyance. Even though he never hits her, he continuously corrects her with cold exasperation and telling her to shut up. |
| 60 | * BrutalHonesty: Aizawa never pulls his punches with the truth, especially when it comes to pointing out flaws or naivete. He never does this out of malice, because his main goal is to ensure that the students learn quickly they're entering a profession with some very harsh realities and need to take things seriously. |
| 61 | ** However, he tells Deku and Mirio to purposefully avoid this after Overhaul is defeated -- Eri was already blaming herself for the entire incident, so it would just be too cruel to tell her [[spoiler:[[KilledOffForReal what happened to Nighteye]]]]. |
| 62 | ** Unsurprisingly, he's also brutally honest with Aoyama regarding [[spoiler:his being the traitor at U.A., saying that his sins will stay with him forever, and he may not be able to return to U.A. once all is said and done. However, he also says he intends to protect Aoyama, and has no intention of letting him die alone, burdened by guilt.]] |
| 63 | -->'''Aizawa''': Those friends of yours like to sugarcoat things, but I'll tell it to you straight. |
| 64 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Often teaches while still inside a sleeping bag. He is also willing to expel entire classes if he feels that they don't meet his very high standards. This is all overlooked thanks to U.A.'s own policy of academic freedom. |
| 65 | * {{Caltrops}}: During the Final Exams Arc, he uses these after capturing and suspending Todoroki in the air and preventing him from escaping and landing safely. |
| 66 | * CantHoldHisLiquor: In one ''School Briefs'' story, he claims that he can't recall ever getting drunk. Later in the same chapter, it's revealed that this is because he goes from sober to blackout wasted while skipping all intermediate steps, so yes, he doesn't ''remember'' being drunk. |
| 67 | * CareerEndingInjury: [[spoiler:He loses both an eye and a leg in battle with the enhanced Shigaraki in the Liberation War. While he does get a prosthetic replacement for his leg, his missing eye damages his ability to use his Quirk too much for him to take part in the final battle, which is why it's the Monoma who uses Erasure in the fight against Shigaraki.]] |
| 68 | * CelebrityIsOverrated: Dislikes the attention of the media, believing that it gets in the way of his job as a hero. This results in him being very obscure to the general population. Even a hero fanboy like Midoriya took some time to recognize him during their first meeting. |
| 69 | * CharacterDevelopment: It's very subtle, but it's implied that because 1-A are cut from a different cloth, he begins to lower his walls and start treating students less aloofly. This starts with Izuku proving him wrong during the Quirk Apprehension test at the beginning, and even through his many threats to do so, he never ''actually'' expels any 1-A student despite being proven to have done so multiple times before. [[spoiler:Even when Aoyama is revealed to be the traitor feeding information to All For One, he reassures him that he ''still'' has no intention of expelling him, showing he has well and truly accepted the class as his own and lightened up on his strict teaching methods.]] |
| 70 | * CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Not prominent, but he would have to have this to take on villains that can smash through walls and even level buildings with their Quirks as well as handle the exceptionally powerful and strong members of Class 1-A. He also survived a beating from Nomu, a monster that could go toe-to-toe with All Might, albeit with lasting consequences. |
| 71 | * CheshireCatGrin: Occasionally flashes a mischievous, creepy-cute, toothy grin during his {{Troll}} or "logical ruse" moments. |
| 72 | * ChildhoodFriends: |
| 73 | ** Aizawa and Present Mic have been best friends since at least their freshman year of high school. A volume extra flashback shows that Mic is the one who named him Eraser Head. |
| 74 | ** During his time at U.A., Aizawa formed a young team of three with Yamada and Shirakumo, which was eventually broken through the latter's death in their second year. The reveal that [[spoiler:Kurogiri is a Nomu-fied Shirakumo]] hits both of them extremely hard. |
| 75 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: Despite his apathetic traits, Shota genuinely cares about his students and will go to great lengths to protect them, best shown when he saved Tsuyu from being touched by Shigaraki, in spite of his grievous injuries by Nomu. Not just students but civillians in danger as well as showcased in Vigilantes. |
| 76 | * ClothFu: His scarf isn’t just a fashion statement, it’s a support item he uses to tie opponents up, or to set up traps. |
| 77 | * CombatCommentator: During the U.A. Sports Festival, he sits in the announcers booth with Present Mic, although he lets Mic do most of the commentating and only chimes in when necessary. |
| 78 | * CombatPragmatist: Since Aizawa's Quirk only impacts other Quirk users while offering him no direct physical advantages and operates under a strict time limit, he long ago figured out that fighting superpowered opponents "fairly" would only get him or others killed. So he instead uses whatever tools or tactics he can come up with to end fights as efficiently as possible. While he is a capable fighter, he tries to avoid direct combat if possible, preferring to ambush opponents when possible and timing his Quirk usage for maximum effect in fights. This is best shown during the USJ Arc when he purposely waits to use it in order to give himself an advantage and disorient his opponents. He encourages this mindset with his students as well, teaching them to treat their fights as matters of life and death because villains will not share their sense of honor. |
| 79 | * TheComicallySerious: Will take things like Nezu climbing out of his scarf with the straightest of faces. |
| 80 | * CoolShades: Wears a pair while working as a hero, with the intent to keep his opponents from knowing who he's looking at. Particularly useful against a crowd. |
| 81 | * CoolTeacher: He's a pretty badass underground hero and teacher overall, but this especially applies to his relationship with Shinso, who admits to idolizing Eraser Head and officially becomes his apprentice after the Sports Festival. Present Mic even comments on how similar they are in personality and mannerisms. |
| 82 | * TheCowl: His general design is based on this, being an underground hero that avoids media attention and works as a {{Foil}} to [[TheCape All Might]]. |
| 83 | * CreepyGood: He looks like a villain, sometimes acts like one, but is second only to All Might and Deku in the ChronicHeroSyndrome department, as mentioned above. |
| 84 | * CruelToBeKind: Aizawa's teaching philosophy is that it's better to not pull punches about the harsh realities of hero work and enforce high expectations of performance on the students while they're in a safe environment than to treat them with kid gloves and leave them unprepared for an unforgiving career. He's seen firsthand many ways an unprepared would-be hero can meet a terrible fate, so he's more than willing to destroy a student's dream of being a hero if he finds they don't have the potential to take it. He considers expecting students to survive a brutal, uncaring world with heads full naive ideals and false hope to be the true cruelty. |
| 85 | * CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler: The death of his best friend and battle partner during a mission is what finally drove Aizawa to drop all plans of joining a hero agency and aim for a solo career. The only reason he is back at UA as a teacher is because he was incessantly nagged into it by Present Mic and Midnight, who thought he would benefit from it mentally]]. |
| 86 | * DeadpanSnarker: Aizawa occasionally drops dry quips in order to shrug off things he finds foolish or otherwise grating, most notably Mic's antics. After Midoriya and Bakugo's big fight, he is obviously ''pissed'', but he [[TranquilFury doesn't raise his voice at all]]. Instead, he [[SarcasmMode sarcastically congratulates the two]] for having enough energy left to go all out against each other, despite having just finished with the preliminary hero licensing exam, while restraining them with his scarf, which is not a comfortable situation. |
| 87 | * DeathGlare: He does this when he's angry. Due to the nature of his Quirk, this will also render whoever he's looking at Quirkless. |
| 88 | * DefrostingIceQueen: He slowly warms up to the children of Class 1-A over the course of the show. From observing them with professional detachment in the first couple of seasons, he eventually, and hypocrytically, follows in All Might's footsteps and begins treating them as if they were his own children. It has probably a lot do with the fact that the current Class 1-A is implied to be the first to take his lessons to heart and eventually come to appreciate Aizawa and his strict teachings. |
| 89 | * DentedIron: Following his extreme injuries after the attack of the USJ, his Quirk becomes unstable, meaning he can't keep it active as long and has to take brief breaks between uses. |
| 90 | * {{Determinator}}: Shows up in the USJ Arc, even after pushing his Quirk to the limit and taking a severe beating by Nomu, including having his head repeatedly slammed into concrete, he still manages to stare at Shigaraki, preventing him from using his Quirk to kill Tsuyu. |
| 91 | ** In the Paranormal Liberation War Arc, he goes so far as to [[spoiler:'''cut off his own leg''' as to not lose his Quirk and keep nullifying Shigaraki.]] |
| 92 | * DeusExitMachina: During the Internship Arc. While not really the most powerful man in the room, Aizawa is [[spoiler:absent or held captive by Chronostasis during Overhaul's fights with Mirio and Midoriya, as Aizawa [[AntiMagic knocking out Overhaul's Quirk]]]] would end the battles too quickly. |
| 93 | * DisappointedInYou: |
| 94 | ** Towards Class 1-A after the hideout raid: [[spoiler:Out of the 20 students in the class, five of them decided to break all possible rules and save Bakugo by themselves, while 12 other students knew, none of them reported them (although Tsuyu believed she had talked them out of it)]]. He said that he was more than willing to throw away all of them, but will not due to the circumstances, and says it will take a long time until he is able to trust them again. |
| 95 | ** He gives an even harsher verbal tongue lashing to Midoriya and Bakugo when they get in an unsanctioned brawl. Aizawa still hasn't let Midoriya off the hook for this incident and warns him that his maverick tendencies will be punished formally if he does something like this again. As for Bakugo, falling behind the rest of the class with extracurricular hero training is punishment enough. |
| 96 | * DrearyHalfLiddedEyes: His default eye expression, very rarely changed. |
| 97 | * TheEeyore: He's a ''massive'' buzzkill who dresses in shambles and constantly likes to remind everyone that life sucks. It's so bad that when high energy Present Mic pops in to teach his soul-sucked class, there's no hope in trying to bring them back to life after he's reduced them to practically zombies. On his worst days, he even whips out a sleeping bag and curls up in a cocoon, too unmotivated to even teach. |
| 98 | * EmbarrassingNickname: Mic has given him a ton of these, including "Prince of Slumberland" ([[FunWithAcronyms P.O.S. for short]]) and "Snooze Master". Aizawa's usual response is to place him in a choke hold until he shuts up. |
| 99 | * EveryoneHasStandards: He has a tendency to throw his students into the deep end when training but during the rescue exam when it's revealed that the students have to save people and fight off attacking villains at the same time (something he notes would difficult even for a seasoned pro), even he thinks it's a bit much. |
| 100 | * EyepatchOfPower: [[spoiler:{{Inverted}}. He gains an eyepatch over his right eye when Tomura succeeds in giving him a partial EyeScream during the Paranormal Liberation war, which instead serves as an example of how weakened his quirk has become by the physical damage his body has endured]]. |
| 101 | * EyeScream: [[spoiler:Aizawa lost his right eye against Shigaraki during the Paranormal Liberation War and now wears an eyepatch, which has obviously handicapped his Quirk.]] |
| 102 | * FightsLikeANormal: Although he has a powerful Quirk it doesn't make him naturally tougher or stronger than a baseline human, and has a notable weakness. This means he needs to rely on weaponry, and martial arts, and good tactics. |
| 103 | * FragileSpeedster: Aizawa is immensely fast and agile, boasting one of the highest speed rankings of most pro heroes, his battle outfit allows him to ensnare and trap opponents from escaping, has strong martial arts abilities and can shut down other people's Quirks with his own. However, Aizawa has dry eye, his evasive fighting style can leave him open to attacks when he isn't careful, and with his limited stamina, juggernauts such as the Nomu can defeat him in a few moves. |
| 104 | * FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:''Vigilantes'' implies that the death of Shirakumo, his classmate and partner in internship, during a villain attack inspired a lot of his behavior towards his students, such as his hard line and the need to teach them early about the horrors and difficulties of being a hero.]] |
| 105 | * FriendToAllChildren: When he was younger, he thought kids hate him, which obviously wasn't true, and Aizawa himself was in crisis during that time, doubting in his abilities. Now, while he wouldn't admit it, he gets along with teenagers well with his "strict, but fair" attitude. |
| 106 | * GameBreakingInjury: The damage inflicted onto him by the original Nomu in the USJ Arc permanently damages him in such a way that weakens his Quirk for the series, largely by causing his time he can use it to shorten. While he recovers and returns to fighting a few arcs later, in several situations its a major handicap and almost gets him killed once or twice. |
| 107 | ** [[spoiler: Happens again during the Parahuman Liberation War where he loses both a leg and eye, crippling his martial skills and further weakening his Quirk. This prevents him from entering the final battle between the Heroes and All For One and likely ends his career as an active pro-hero entirely.]] |
| 108 | * GenerationXerox: Yamada comments that Shinso is turning out to be almost identical to Aizawa, right down to the easily underestimated mental Quirk, [[CreepyShadowedUndereyes tired eyes]], [[LazyBum slouched posture]], [[ScarfOfAsskicking capture scarf]], and [[KindheartedCatLover love of cats]]. |
| 109 | * GogglesDoNothing: Subverted. They seem like mere accessories to the outside viewer, but they make it difficult for others to tell who he's glaring at and thus using his Quirk on. They also keep stuff out of his eyes that could force him to blink like smoke. ''Illegals'' shows that this wasn't always part of his costume and he started wearing goggles at the suggestion of his friend, Shirakumo. |
| 110 | * HairContrastDuo: The lazy, cynical, and slovenly black-haired Aizawa to his old friend, the upbeat, energetic, and outgoing blond Present Mic. |
| 111 | * HamAndDeadpanDuo: Tends to have this dynamic with both All Might and Present Mic. While the latter two are very loud and bombastic, Aizawa is surlier, quieter, and more sarcastic. |
| 112 | * HeCleansUpNicely: When he ''has'' to appear before the media, he actually bathes, neatens his hair, and wears a suit. |
| 113 | * HeroicBSOD: Suffered a major one in his school days that he is evidently still healing from, given his reaction to [[spoiler: Kurogiri being revealed as a nomu-fied Shirakumo]]. The experience was so traumatic to him that for a very long time he wanted nothing to do with UA and would lash out at Present Mic or Midnight for suggesting that he work with them. |
| 114 | * HeroicSelfDeprecation: In his school days, he thought his Quirk was weak and mediocre and frequently struggled in exercises and in the field. His confidence took a hit because of this and he frequently berates himself for failing. |
| 115 | * HiddenDepths: After his backstory arc in ''Vigilantes'' a lot of his behavior points towards Aizawa suffering some form of PTSD and / or depressive disorder. Most notably, Aizawa has suffered severe self-confidence issues since at least his high school days, which were exacerbated by [[spoiler: his friend Shirakumo's death]] and has translated to avoidant and abrasive behavior in his adult years. He, in particular, has a persistent habit of avoiding any and all situations that risk reminding him of [[spoiler: Shirakumo]] or making him feel responsible for someone else's wellbeing, to the point where he initially refuses to have anything to do with UA, can't do so much as look at cats, and decides to start his hero business as a self-employed vigilante; even pushing away Mic and Midnight for years before the latters convince him to becom a teacher. As a teacher he's furthermore at first insistent on putting a wall up between himself and his students, throws himself recklessly into battle to defend them with little concern for his own life (despite preaching to them not to do the same), and keeps himself busy to the point that he passes out between classes. When Mic tries to discuss the topic of death or grief with him he is also quick to cut the conversation short and jump to other topics. Notably, when facing the fact that [[spoiler: Shirakumo has been turned into a Nomu]] Aizawa breaks apart and is for the first time forced to stay home from teaching, something not even breaking his arms and crushing his skull could keep him from. All in all, most if not all of Aizawa's behavior towards his students and colleagues can be attributed to fear and a massive GuiltComplex. |
| 116 | ** It's also worth keeping in mind that as an underground hero he has seen first hand a lot of the more gritty crimes and violence that the Hero Commission tries to keep from the public. He hated All Might because a part of him blames All Might for motivating young heroes to kill themselves in the name of justice, and he dislikes the Hero Commission because it underprepares students for what being a hero is actually like in Aizawa's experience. He furthermore also shows a preference towards hero students with non-combat oriented quirks or low self confidence, as he has experienced the discrimination they've faced first hand and is living proof of their combat potential should someone show them patience and a little faith. |
| 117 | ** AFO later notices this fragility within Aizawa and aptly decides that the quickest way to deal with him is by the way of BreakThemByTalking. |
| 118 | * HypocriticalHumor: He tends to tell people to cheer up after he eviscerated their jovial moods. And if other people are already mopey without his doing when he enters a room, he thinks they need to stop moping. |
| 119 | * ILied: |
| 120 | ** Proclaims that the one who ranks last in his exercises on the first day will be kicked out of the school. Then he says he was lying just to get more effort out of them. [[spoiler:All Might calls him out on this, pointing out that in a previous year, he had expelled his entire class. Aizawa admits that he would have followed through if the one ranking last showed zero potential to be a hero. Since the one who did rank last, Midoriya, did show some potential in his eyes, he decided to pretend he had been lying.]] |
| 121 | ** [[{{Troll}} He takes great pleasure in]] telling the students that they will be subjected to "remedial hell" if they fail the end of license exams. Turns out he only meant the ''written'' portion of the exams. Those who failed the combat portion of the tests actually need the summer camp the most. |
| 122 | * InformedAttribute: We're told that Aizawa is definitely known for expelling students frequently. Not only has he not expelled anyone in his current class, he has also not hinted at making any attempt to judge who should be expelled beyond the first class, other than the occasional joke "normally I would expel almost the entire class for this, but..." [[spoiler:It turns out that his "expulsions" of the students who fail his Quirk test don't actually stick.]] |
| 123 | * InstantKnots: Can manipulate his capture tape so that it instantly wraps around an opponent. |
| 124 | * IntrovertedCatPerson: Implied -- Aizawa isn't one for social interaction. ''Vigilantes'' shows him with a shopping bag full of cat food and cat care books, implying he's fond of them. The anime eyecatches also list "cats" as his interest. |
| 125 | * {{Irony}}: He balks at both the idea of fairness and the (in his opinion) antiquated sentiment that all Quirks are equal when his own power has the potential to level the playing field. |
| 126 | * IveComeTooFar: [[spoiler:In Chapter 298, Aizawa is clearly trying his hardest not to look heartbroken at Midnight's death. However, he knows he can't give up and dwell in sorrow, so he needs to move on and try to protect his students as best as he can in order to not let them die too.]] |
| 127 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He may be stern and standoffish teacher, but he cares about his students and prioritizes their safety whenever villains enter the picture: |
| 128 | ** During the final exam against Yaoyorozu and Todoroki, he allows Yaoyorozu to claim victory for the team instead of capitalizing on her mistake and defeating them, in order to allow her to build up her destroyed confidence again: |
| 129 | --->'''Recovery Girl:''' When all's said and done, that man's a softie. |
| 130 | ** During the Joint Training Arc, it's confirmed that Aizawa started training Shinso after the U.A. Sports Festival because he believed Shinso had the potential to become a hero like he'd always dreamed. And after an accident occurs during the clash between Shinso's team and Midoriya's, ''Aizawa'' is the one who asks that they keep the match going once things settle down, because both of his students still have the desire to win. |
| 131 | ** When he learns of the identity of the traitor in his class and meets with said individual, he's both brutally honest and compassionate, and continues to consider said traitor one of his students. |
| 132 | ** In ''My Hero One's Justice 2'', Mr. Aizawa is the most broken in the matchup system, as he will gain a boost from being with almost all of his playable classmates (except Mineta). |
| 133 | * TheKilljoy: Aizawa has made it his mission to prepare his students for the rigors and cruel realities of hero work, even if it means crushing their dreams with scathing criticism, threatening them with expulsion for bending the rules, and literally dragging them off to remedial classes. There are times when his coworker, Present Mic, walks into Class 1-A to find the class reduced to lifeless zombies because of the sheer negativity Aizawa exudes. This is also {{deconstructed|Trope}}, as his SinkOrSwimMentor and SternTeacher tendencies backfire at several points in the story, and he admits that his counterpart in Class 1-B, Vlad King, is a better teacher than he is. |
| 134 | * LaserGuidedKarma: After spending the entire series disciplining his students and doing his best to protect them from villains, [[spoiler:Midoriya and Bakugo tackle Shigaraki just as the latter is about to kill him. Both boys declare that this time, it's their turn to save him.]] |
| 135 | * LazyBum: Introduced sleeping on a floor in front of his classroom in a sleeping bag. He also often teaches while in said sleeping bag. |
| 136 | * LifeOrLimbDecision: [[spoiler:After being hit by a Quirk erasing bullet from Tomura, Aizawa is forced to immediately amputate his right leg below the knee to protect his Quirk.]] |
| 137 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: He is not one of the select few who knows the secret of All Might and Midoriya's Quirk. He has come to realize there is a connection between the two, but he doesn't know exactly what it is. And he is pretty suspicious when All Might volunteers to go break up the fight between Midoriya and Bakugo. |
| 138 | * LogicalWeakness: Aizawa's Quirk is powerful, but he must keep his eyes open for the effect to persist. Blinding or binding up his eyes makes it impossible for him to use it, and depriving him of sleep or forcing him to stare at a single person for an extended period of time will make his eyes tired and thus reduce the effectiveness of his Quirk. Even normal use puts wear and tear on his eyes, so he constantly carries eye drops. |
| 139 | ** His Quirk works on Emitter and Transformation Quirks, but not Mutation since they [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin mutate]] the body's physical structure and thus are permanently active. |
| 140 | ** His power is obviously useless against a well trained fighter who doesn't rely on a Quirk. All he can do then is rely on good tactics, equipment, and his own impressive martial arts skills and hope it's enough. |
| 141 | ** Enemies that that have superhuman abilities that don't qualify as Quirks or with particularly powerful technology are his natural counter. Aizawa is highly trained and can [[WeakButSkilled punch above his weight]], but he's still a fairly normal man at the end of the day. Training and tactics can only take you so far in a world of superpowered monsters. His [[CurbstompBattle "battle"]] with the USJ Nomu proved that all too well. |
| 142 | ** If somebody sees who he's looking at, they can anticipate the use of Aizawa's Erasure. This is why Aizawa uses his one-way goggles to shield his line of sight from view as a workaround. |
| 143 | ** Aizawa's hair stands on end when his Quirk is active, which allows for opponents to know when he's using it even if they can't see who he's using it on at the moment. |
| 144 | ** He needs to actually see the person. As such, clothing that fully covers the body, like heavy hooded cloaks, will protect one from his Quirk. |
| 145 | ** While Aizawa can stop his targets from activating their Quirks, he cannot undo any effect that they had on the environment or objects summoned before then. Yayorozu exploited that weakness to capture him in their test battle. |
| 146 | ** Finally, his Quirk working on only ''one'' person at a time is a problem when dealing with multiple opponents. He gets around this to an extent with impressive hand-to-hand abilities, while switching his Quirk target for maximum effect, but like any other martial artist, he can be overwhelmed by sheer numbers or simply an opponent naturally much stronger or faster than him. |
| 147 | * MagicalEye: It's by looking at someone that he can erase Quirks. [[spoiler:It is for this reason he is asked to look after Eri, a little girl with a dangerous uncontrollable Quirk, since he can quickly nullify it before it causes damage.]] |
| 148 | * MeaningfulName: His given name has a character that means "erase", while his last name contains a character that can mean "councillor". The first syllable of his last name, "Ai", is also a homophone for "eye", the source of his Quirk. |
| 149 | * MentorArchetype: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} because he is not an endlessly wise and patient teacher figure, but someone who fails at guidance at times, and has a personality and life that exists outside of his job as a teacher. |
| 150 | ** He's an extremely strict SinkOrSwimMentor, though that's primarily a result of him not being an experienced teacher. The only reason he even became one in the first place is because Midnight talked him into it in ''Vigilantes''. On some days he's too unmotivated to even stand up in front of the class, instead leaving them to their own devices while he naps in the corner. |
| 151 | ** His stern demeanor makes it hard for his students to determine whether or not he is being sincere in his methods, so when he tries to be a TricksterMentor with his "rational falsehoods", they mistake him for being serious and understandably get scared. The fact that he ''has'' expelled many students in the past makes it harder to tell when he's bluffing. |
| 152 | ** While he tries to take care to observe whether or not his students are in despair, he doesn't always notice, and his actions don't always make things better when he does: |
| 153 | *** He notices that Iida specifically chose to intern under Manual in Hosu, even though Iida could have chosen higher-ranked heroes, and finds it odd that Manual was Iida's only choice, but fails to pick up on the connection between Hosu and Stain's last known whereabouts. |
| 154 | *** He notices the tension between Midoriya and Bakugo when assigning teams for the final exams and understandably thinks pitting them against All Might will force them to pull an EnemyMine, if not become FireForgedFriends. However, doing this almost cripples both of them thanks to All Might's inability to hold back, and their issues don't even come close to getting better. |
| 155 | *** He doesn't pick up on Bakugo's issues following his kidnapping, nor the issues with putting him through the provisional hero license exam where one of the tests is a recreation of Kamino Ward, the location of the event that took place as a result of his kidnapping. As such, this leads to the fight between Midoriya and Bakugo later on. |
| 156 | ** This is acknowledged in-story during the Joint Training arc, as he calls Kan, his counterpart in Class 1-B, a flat out better teacher than him. |
| 157 | * MentorInSourArmor: His usual attitude towards his students is getting them familiar with the high-stakes harshness of fighting villians, responding to deadly disasters, etc. so they can prepare for it. Those that can't handle it are better off dropping out now before they die. |
| 158 | * MessyHair: His long disheveled hair adds to the LazyBum image. |
| 159 | * MotivationalLie: He passes off his lie of threatening to expel the student in last place as this when he changes his mind. |
| 160 | * MundaneUtility: His hair stands on end when he uses his Quirk, which he'll use to keep his hair from tangling in his scarf. |
| 161 | * NervesOfSteel: Even when he's fighting for his life and the lives of his students, he retains a stoic composure. Very little seems to faze him, not even the huge explosion from the Todoroki vs. Midoriya fight at the U.A. Sports Festival. |
| 162 | * {{Ninja}}: From his fighting style (slow down his opponents with StatusEffects, then snag them to either restrain them or beat them into submission as quick as possible, similar to Bujinkan Ninjutsu and Chikari no Jutsu), to his preferences in staying anonymous to prevent people predicting his moves, the use of caltrops to deter a restrained Todoroki during his final exam, even the fact that he ''sleeps on his left side in his sleeping bag''[[note]]a self-preservation tactic used by ninjas is when they would sleep on their left sides with their arms over their hearts as a means of protecting them from being killed instantly as they slept[[/note]] ''and his affinity for cats''[[note]]Ninjas would dress up cats similar to them to make other people believe that they could transform, and some would even keep a cat with them to use the way they dilated their eyes to tell time, though it is debatable whether or not this is true[[/note]] all point to Aizawa essentially being [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot a ninja hero]]. |
| 163 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Not exactly, but he does end up almost fulfilling the literal description. [[spoiler:His skills, fighting style and affinity for cats basically make him a ninja hero, and after the liberation war he loses an eye to Shigaraki, replacing it with an EyepatchOfPower that combines with his usual disheveled appearance to make hm resemble a pirate. He's also forced to amputate his right foot and replace it with a robotic prosthetic. Just about the only thing missing is him being a revived zombie and his ex-friend Shirakumo--also known as Kurogiri-- would technically fulfil that aspect as well]]. |
| 164 | * NoBadassToHisValet: His past history with Ms. Joke makes it so that she leisurely screws with his nerves without fear of consequence. |
| 165 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Seems like an offbeat fellow but can get just as serious when the time comes. |
| 166 | * OddFriendship: He and Mic are good friends despite their clashing personalities; they actually have been friends ever since they were classmates at U.A. |
| 167 | * OneManArmy: Surrounded by villains with a few that can't be stopped by his eraser power. Doesn't stop him in the slightest as he reveals he excels at hand-to-hand even without his Quirk. That said, he admits that he isn't really equipped to handle large groups in open combat for long and did eventually get overwhelmed. |
| 168 | * OnlySaneMan: Aizawa consistently tackles problems that are not glamorous enough to get the attention of the other faculty. He notices that the entrance exam discriminates unfairly against Quirks that aren't battle-oriented, and strives to prepare his students for harsh realities that All Might and co. tend to gloss over. |
| 169 | * OriginsEpisode: He has an origins arc in ''Vigilantes'', showing his time during second year of U.A. and getting into an internship with Midnight and Shirakumo, as well as how he grew into his current mindset. [[spoiler:The death of his classmate during a villain attack influenced all of it.]] |
| 170 | * PapaWolf: |
| 171 | ** Much like with All Might, attacking his students is a good way to end up in the hospital. During the USJ attack, despite being badly wounded by a huge and muscular Nomu, he was able to muster the HeroicWillpower to save Tsuyu from being disintegrated by Shigaraki. He was also angered by the crowd during the fight between Uraraka and Bakugo, telling those that booed Bakugo for supposedly bullying Uraraka that they shouldn't be heroes anymore, because not only did they not notice Bakugo was playing it safe, but because none of them had noticed Uraraka had been setting up a big attack. |
| 172 | ** When staring down [[spoiler:Shigaraki, Aizawa is not doing it out of a sense of duty as a hero, but to remove an obstacle that is threatening the futures of his students.]] |
| 173 | ** After [[spoiler:being shot in the leg with a Quirk destroying bullet, knowing that his Quirk is the only reason why he's allowed to care for Eri instead of her being forced to live in isolation because of her Quirk, he chooses to [[LifeOrLimbDecision cut off his own leg]] to prevent the [[AmputationStopsSpread bullet's contents from spreading]] enough to erase his Quirk.]] |
| 174 | * PaperThinDisguise: He's virtually unrecognizable to the public and to even hardcore hero fans like Midoriya without his distinctive goggles. This is {{justified|Trope}} in that he's an underground hero who primarily operates at night. Due to his black ensemble along with his rapid movements, the only real discernible features on him would be his capture device, and his goggles. In the daytime, however, he simply looks like a scraggly insomniac wearing a thick scarf and sweats. |
| 175 | * ParentalSubstitute: |
| 176 | ** Downplayed. U.A assigns him with the main responsibility of looking after little Eri because his Quirk is the only reliable way to stabilize her should she ever lose control over her Quirk. As a result, he acts as something of a guardian figure, bringing her to class events and looking out for her general well-being. |
| 177 | ** To Shinso Hitoshi. After noticing his potential during the Sports Festival, Aizawa decides to train Shinso one-on-one as his apprentice and help him transfer into the Hero Course. Not only does he teach Shinso how to best utilize his mental Quirk with [[FightsLikeANormal close combat fighting]], but he also trains him in how to use his trademark -- and notoriously difficult -- capture weapon. By the Joint Training Arc, Shinso looks and acts like a younger version of Aizawa, right down to the [[CreepyShadowedUndereyes tired eyes]], [[LazyBum slouched posture]], and [[ScarfOfAsskicking capture scarf]]. |
| 178 | * PermaStubble: Aizawa has five-o-clock shadow going nonstop. When he is seen ''clean shaven'' after the summer training camp incident, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness it's a clear sign things have gotten bad]]. |
| 179 | * PetTheDog: After Midoriya feels bad about not being able to save Eri, Aizawa offers him some reassurance that they can still save her, they just need more time and preparation to do it. |
| 180 | * PowerIncontinence: How his AntiMagic works. It doesn't actually nullify the power itself; rather it nullifies the ''control'' over said power. Thus it works on Emitter and Transformation, but fails on Mutation Quirks. |
| 181 | * TheQuietOne: He tends to be ''much'' quieter and more socially withdrawn than his friends and coworkers. This is especially evident with Present Mic and All Might, who frequently annoy Aizawa with their loudness and bombastic personalities. |
| 182 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Stern as he is, he isn't unfair. His past habit of expelling students was because he felt that it would be far more cruel to keep someone with no potential in the hero program when the end result for them would either be failure or death at the hands of a villain. In ''Vigilantes'', which takes place before he started teaching at U.A., he runs into Koichi as "The Crawler" during a villain attack. Though he's obligated by the law to treat him as a villain for using his Quirk to fight without a license, he ultimately lets it slide because Koichi helped him out. |
| 183 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: His eyes glow red when he's using his Quirk. Personality-wise, he's one of the sternest teachers at U.A. and is fully willing to expel his entire homeroom class should they step out of line or fail to meet his expectations. |
| 184 | * RedOniBlueOni: The cool-headed blue to Present Mic's hot-blooded red. Because of his personality, he winds up being the Blue Oni to most people he's with. Lampshaded by himself: |
| 185 | -->'''Aizawa:''' (about Ms. Joke) Why am I always surrounded by these annoying types... |
| 186 | * RenownedSelectiveMentor: All Might mentions that he once expelled an entire class of students that didn't meet his standards. Midoriya was spared the same fate only after he managed to impress him at the last moment. |
| 187 | * ScareEmStraight: [[spoiler:Chapter 254 reveals that he not only has free reign to expel students, but also to re-enroll them, and he temporarily expels students in order to scare them into behaving and applying themselves properly. He says he believes students should experience this thing, and the 2-A students, apparently composed of a number of students he expelled and brought back, believe it helped them grow.]] |
| 188 | * ScarfOfAsskicking: A multi-layered one around his neck which he uses to bind his opponents. |
| 189 | * ScarsAreForever: Of all the wounds he received during the battle at USJ, the one that has stuck around was a horizontal scar under his eye. Though he always wears long sleeves so we don't know what his arms look like after all that happened to them. |
| 190 | ** although [[JustifiedTrope it does make sense in this case]] as it hasn't even been a year since the battle that gave him the scars. |
| 191 | * SeriouslyScruffy: Aizawa looks incredibly disheveled and miserable for the most part. However, if forced to go before the press, he will attempt [[HeCleansUpNicely some degree of maintenance with his looks...]] then go right back to his old self as soon as he doesn't need to look good for the cameras anymore. |
| 192 | * SinkOrSwimMentor: Will expel entire classes if they're not up to his standards, and is not above showing tough love to the students that do meet them. For example, he doesn't warn Class 1-A in advance that [[ThePerilsOfBeingTheBest other hero schools will be out to get them during the license exams]], or that the competition knows about their Quirks for their own self-development. Real enemies won't give them warnings, so neither will he. Somewhat deconstructed in that Aizawa eventually realizes his methods are a little ''too'' harsh after observing Vlad King's teaching style, and starts to relax to a degree after the 1-A vs 1-B joint training exercise. |
| 193 | * {{Sleepyhead}}: He has a habit of dozing off anywhere and anytime, dragging his sleeping bag around for this reason. Sometimes he can't even bring himself to teach, swaddling himself up and letting Iida and Yaoyorozu take over. For this reason, Present Mic gives him nicknames like "Prince of Slumberland" and "Snooze Master". Possibly justified in that the majority of his Hero work tends to be done at night, so between Hero work and his teaching position he probably doesn't get many opportunities to get a normal amount of sleep. |
| 194 | * SoProudOfYou: |
| 195 | ** [[spoiler:When Yaoyorozu gets her confidence back and resolves to defeat him during her final exam. He doesn't say anything, [[WhenHeSmiles but his smile says it all.]]]] |
| 196 | ** When his entire class passes the first round of the provisional hero license exam, his response is basically "took them long enough", which Ms. Joke teasingly translates as "I knew all of you could do it". |
| 197 | ** [[spoiler:The little smile on Aizawa's face when seeing Shinso and his team doing well during the Joint Training Arc shows just how incredibly proud he is of the formerly weak and inexperienced boy that he's taken under his wing.]] |
| 198 | ** [[spoiler:He makes another little smile, when he sees the broadcast of his students trying to comfort protesting civillians who don't want Izuku back to U.A. at the end of Tartarus Escapes Arc.]] |
| 199 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: His first name can be spelled "Shōta", "Shota", or "Shouta". |
| 200 | * TheSpock: His actions and thoughts are governed by logic, paying little heed to social or emotional factors. The light novels even refer to him as someone who tries to live as rationally as possible, putting in as little effort as necessary and napping when there's nothing to do. |
| 201 | * SternTeacher: At first, he seems to be an ApatheticTeacher, but it eventually comes to light that he just has high standards and very low opinions of those who don't meet them. |
| 202 | * TheStoic: Downplayed. He doesn't usually gets much emotional, at best showing his anger, irratation or a [[SmugSmiler sorf of grinny, but proud smile]]. |
| 203 | ** Tends to be subverted into NotSoStoic like when he [[spoiler: faces Kurogiri in prison with Yamada trying to remind him of who he was in the past, [[BerserkerTears bursting into tears]].]] |
| 204 | * StoryBreakerPower: Almost all of the really powerful and dangerous Quirks are not mutation Quirks (Quirks that alter people's bodies as a default not a transformation) which also happens to be the type of Quirks Aizawa's ability works on. If he had been present with the other heroes when All For One showed up while the good guys were trying to rescue Bakugo, then the fight would have lasted for all of 5 seconds. His Quirk robs you of the ability to access and control your Quirk (which is why it doesn't work on Quirks that permanently mutate people as it isn't something that they can control) which means that none of the big bads would have a chance against him one on one. If he didn't have any LogicalWeakness built into his ability and the way it functions, then the big time villains would never have a chance of beating the heroes. [[spoiler: When he proves to be vital to the fight with Shigaraki during the Meta Liberation raid, the newly-enhanced villain notices how dependent the heroes are on him and decides to [[ShootTheMageFirst get rid of him directly]] instead of wasting more time bothering with the frontline fighters. Aizawa was rescued, but he lost a leg and an eye in the process. This removed him from not just that fight, but all following fights in the final stretch of the series.]] |
| 205 | * TheTell: His hair inadvertently reveals what his Quirk's weakness is during the USJ Arc. |
| 206 | * ToughLove: His teaching style in a nutshell. He calls out failures, expects high performance, crushes naivete, and rarely gives praise. On the other hand, hard work is acknowledged, advice is given, eccentricity is accepted (to a point), emotional problems are understood, unfair outside critics will be silenced, and he will go to the bat to protect his students from danger. He can be harsh, but he does it only to help the students become strong enough to handle the unforgiving world of pro heroes as quickly as possible. |
| 207 | * TragicBromance: With Oboro Shirakumo, a close friend and classmate of his and Yamada's [[spoiler: who died during their second year at U.A.]] Aizawa became much more [[TheStoic socially isolated]], combat-oriented, and cynical of other heroes and the hero industry as a whole after [[spoiler: Shirakumo's death]], effectively shaping him into the brutally efficient underground hero he is in the present day. |
| 208 | * TragicKeepsake: His goggles. [[spoiler:They are a design suggestion from his deceased classmate Shirakumo, and they were supposed to use them together to symbolize their partnership.]] |
| 209 | * {{Tsundere}}: He's a Type A to his entire class, being grouchy and stern all the time while concealing how much he believes in them and worries about them. Ms. Joke teases him about it. |
| 210 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: As shown in ''Vigilantes'', Aizawa was still dour in his school days, but he was timid and lacked confidence while trying his best to be a good hero despite repeated failures. He looked to others like Shirakumo and Yamada for support and was a dorky, sweet guy overall. In the present, his experiences have hardened him to be gruff and no-nonsense on the job to the point of being TheEeyore. |
| 211 | * VillainRespect: Due to his status as a OneManArmy and {{Determinator}}, Aizawa seems to be the one hero that Shigaraki actually respects. |
| 212 | * VitriolicBestBuds: The light novels reveal him to be this with Mic. Mic constantly annoys Aizawa by giving him {{Embarrassing Nickname}}s, singing and rapping in Aizawa's ears while he's trying to nap, and dragging him into conversations he wants no part in. Aizawa responds to this by placing Mic in choke holds until he shuts up (which usually fails in the long-term anyways). Despite this, they're the other's closest confidants and the two hang out together more often than not. |
| 213 | * WeakButSkilled: Since his Quirk doesn't boost his abilities in any way, Aizawa combines it with hand-to-hand combat and restraining support gear to even the playing field with villains. It makes him lethally effective since he is extremely smart on when to use it. Fittingly enough, this contributes to his {{Foil}} nature with All Might. It also applies to his fighting style. He has to rely on his impressive speed and agility, preferring stealthy ambushes to straight up brawls, due to his slender build. |
| 214 | * WeaksauceWeakness: His Quirk would be even more useful if he didn't suffer from dry eye. |
| 215 | * WhatTheHellHero: |
| 216 | ** He gets one from All Might, who points out that Aizawa was lying when he claimed that his threat of expelling the lowest-ranked student was only a bluff. Aizawa explains himself, but while All Might isn't convinced, he decides to AgreeToDisagree with Aizawa. |
| 217 | ** In the aftermath of the Hideout Raid Arc, he states that were it not for [[spoiler:All Might's retirement]], he would not just have expelled Midoriya, Kirishima, Iida, Yaoyorozu, and Todoroki for [[spoiler:making an unsanctioned attack on the League of Villains]], but ''every single student in Class 1-A save [[LockedOutOfTheLoop Hagakure, Jiro]], and [[spoiler:[[DistressedDude Bakugo]]]]'' simply for knowing about the plan and doing nothing to stop it. |
| 218 | * WhenHeSmiles: Disheveled, aloof to the near point of apathy, and perpetually melancholic, Aizawa rarely shows how much he cares about his students and their development into heroes. But when they show flashes of reaching their potentials and his high expectations, expect to see a mischievous smile appear on his face. |
| 219 | ** He does smile sometimes when he's with Oboro in Vigilantes. |
| 220 | [[/folder]] |
| 221 | [[folder:Sekijiro Kan -- Vlad King]] |
| 222 | !!Sekijiro Kan -- Vlad King |
| 223 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Shuuhei Matsuda (Japanese), Ben Bryant (English), Héctor Almenara (Latin American Spanish/TV series) |
| 224 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 20 (Manga), Episode 13 (Anime) |
| 225 | !!!'''Quirk:''' [[ThePowerOfBlood Blood Control]] |
| 226 | |
| 227 | [[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vlad_king_full.png]] |
| 228 | [[caption-width-right:280:Blood Hero]] |
| 229 | |
| 230 | ->''"Class A stole the spotlight every time in the first semester, so the second semester's gonna be Class B's time to shine. Got that? Not Class A. Us!"'' |
| 231 | |
| 232 | The homeroom teacher of Class 1-B. His Quirk is "Blood Control", which allows him to control blood. |
| 233 | ---- |
| 234 | * BadPowersGoodPeople: Manipulating and weaponizing blood is hardly a heroic power, but he is still a pro hero and a teacher. |
| 235 | * TheBigGuy: As imposing and solid as Endeavor. |
| 236 | * BilingualBonus: His surname, Kan, means blood, but in Turkish. |
| 237 | * BloodyMurder: He can weaponize blood. |
| 238 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Early in the series, Vlad King's one-sided rivalry with Class 1-A and Aizawa is a fairly minor bit of jealousy and barely gets mentioned. By the time of the Class 1-A vs. Class 1-B exercises, Monoma's rubbed off on him enough to the point where he can't say anything good about Class 1-A and believes even the most pathetic accomplishments make them better. Ashido calls him out on this multiple times. |
| 239 | * CoolTeacher: Very supportive of his class and beloved by his students, particularly Monoma. He proves highly adept in teaching Class 1-B strategy and team maneuvers, which show fruit in the joint training where Class 1-B displays superior tactics and teamwork compared to Class 1-A. Aizawa even admits that Vlad King is a better teacher than he is. |
| 240 | * EveryoneHasStandards: For all his fervant favoritism towards his class, even he gets annoyed by Monoma's ranting after 1-B loses the Joint Training Exercise and tells him to quiet down. As he says, there is no point in saying who would win or not when the day's class is already over. |
| 241 | * FangThpeak: Not obvious in the original Japanese, the English dub does give him this speech pattern. |
| 242 | * FangsAreEvil: Inverted. He has a pair of conspicuous fangs sticking out from his lower jaw but he's a seasoned pro hero and is firmly on the side of U.A.. |
| 243 | * FriendlyRival: He's this to Aizawa, when they don't have to compete. |
| 244 | * HeroesLoveDogs: It's mentioned in his profile that he has a dog at home. |
| 245 | * HeroicBuild: A tall and conspicuously muscular man. |
| 246 | * LargeHam: Proves to be this in the Joint Training Arc, much to Class 1-A's annoyance. |
| 247 | * MeaningfulName: Kan is Turkish for blood. His name also contains the kanji to "vessel", "red" and "love", mostly referring to his powers of manipulating blood. His hero name is "Vlad King", a reference to Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration behind Dracula. |
| 248 | * NotSoAboveItAll: He mostly acts in a professional manner, but when the rivalry between the two hero classes heats up, he's almost as bad as Monoma. |
| 249 | * OurVampiresAreDifferent: He has fangs like a vampire and a blood motif, but none of the other classic vampiric traits. |
| 250 | * PerpetualFrowner: Before the Joint Training Arc, he constantly harbored a scowl on his face and seemed displeased or angry all the time. Even his resting face during the press conference was just a slightly less threatening scowl. He still sports a scowl during the Joint Training Arc, but he also starts having more gleeful expressions as he brags about his class's skills. |
| 251 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Inverted. He is mostly clad in red with black details, even his eyes are red and he seems to have a permanent scowl, but he is a hero nonetheless. |
| 252 | * RedIsHeroic: A blood-red costume and a known hero and teacher. |
| 253 | * RequiredSecondaryPowers: He uses his own blood to make constructs without dying, so he must have more inside him than the average person. |
| 254 | * ShoutOut: To the Romanian Prince [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_Impaler Vlad Tepes]], who inspired Literature/{{Dracula}}, hence his hero name and blood-based Quirk. |
| 255 | * SitcomArchNemesis: With Aizawa. While Aizawa hardly minds him, Vlad King is constantly competing with the former to make his class stand more than Class 1-A, who has the attention of both the school and the media. That doesn't prevent him from closing ranks with Aizawa against a common threat though. |
| 256 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: His hero name has also been spelled "Blood King", and even "Brad King", because Japanese doesn't have V or L sounds in it naturally. |
| 257 | * XMarksTheHero: His lower left cheek sports an X-shaped scar. |
| 258 | [[/folder]] |
| 259 | !Other U.A. Teachers |
| 260 | [[folder:Toshinori Yagi — All Might]] |
| 261 | -->See his [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaAllMight page]] |
| 262 | [[/folder]] |
| 263 | [[folder:Hizashi Yamada -- Present Mic]] |
| 264 | !!Hizashi Yamada -- Present Mic |
| 265 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiroyukiYoshino (Japanese), Creator/SonnyStrait (Season 1), David Trosko (Season 2 onward) (English), Jorge Luis García (Latin American Spanish/TV series) |
| 266 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 3 (Manga), Episode 3 (Anime) |
| 267 | !!!'''Playable in:''' ''[[VideoGame/MyHeroOnesJustice My Hero One's Justice 2]]'' |
| 268 | !!!'''Quirk:''' [[SuperScream Voice]] |
| 269 | |
| 270 | [[quoteright:325:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/present_mic_anime_artwork.png]] |
| 271 | [[caption-width-right:325:Voice Hero]] |
| 272 | |
| 273 | ->''"The great hero Napoleon Bonaparte once said... 'True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life.' Plus Ultra!! Break a leg, everyone!!"'' |
| 274 | |
| 275 | A hero who doubles as a DJ. Usually plays the role of event announcer whenever one is required. He is also an English teacher. |
| 276 | |
| 277 | His Quirk is "Voice", which allows him to heighten the loudness of his voice for offensive purposes. |
| 278 | ---- |
| 279 | * AnimeHair: His hair is some sort of reverse pompadour that is three times bigger than his own head. This is actually only part of his hero costume, a sketch of him with casual clothes shows his hair is usually down and he is pretty normal looking. |
| 280 | * BadBadActing: His acting is just as loud and over the top as everything else about him. |
| 281 | * BadassTeacher: Besides being a pro hero and radio DJ, he's also bilingual in Japanese and English and is U.A.'s English teacher. Unfortunately for him, most students find his subject material -- grammar, conjugations, etc. -- to be less than thrilling. |
| 282 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: He might be the LifeOfTheParty, but he's still a teacher at U.A. and has the skills to prove it. He also marks as 5/5 on the "Intelligence" stat and is the first one to point out that there's a traitor at U.A. and states his reasons to think so. [[spoiler:His deduction proved to be correct after it is revealed one of the students -- Aoyama Yuga -- was the spy for All For One and had given reconnaissance to him.]]. Also, he is shown to go into TranquilFury when Aizawa is badly hurt. |
| 283 | * BigWordShout: Justified as his Quirk is [[SuperScream making his own voice louder]]: |
| 284 | -->'''Present Mic:''' YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! |
| 285 | * BigYes: This is actually ''one of his attacks'', where he simply screams "''YEAH!''" at an enemy as loud as he can. With [[SuperScream the way his Quirk works]], it's actually pretty effective. |
| 286 | * BrickJoke: During the entrance exam, Midoriya mentions that Present Mic hosts a weekly radio show. During the Final Exams, he plugs it while Aizawa is narrating his BossSubtitles. |
| 287 | * {{Catchphrase}}: "[[GratuitousEnglish Everybody Say Hey!]]" |
| 288 | * ChildhoodFriends: |
| 289 | ** With Shota Aizawa. They've known each other since high school at the latest and are still very close friends who enjoy working together. ''Vigilantes'' shows that they also knew Nemuri Kayama while at U.A., although she was one year ahead of them. |
| 290 | ** Another close friend of theirs from high school, [[NiceGuy Oboro]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Shirakumo]], was believed to have died during their second-year, but it's later revealed that [[spoiler:he may in fact be Kurogiri, who is now a Nomu and appears to share a base Quirk with their deceased friend]]. |
| 291 | * CombatCommentator: Provides running commentary on the events of the U.A. Sports Festival, including the one-on-one matchups that happen in the final stage. |
| 292 | * CoolCar: Mic drives a 1966 Ford Mustang Shelby [=GT350=], perhaps one of the flashiest examples of classic American muscle cars anybody could own. |
| 293 | * CoolShades: Wears these as part of his hero attire, but not while in plainclothes. |
| 294 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He's usually depicted as an obnoxious moron with an unavoidably loud voice. At the same time though, his Quirk is nothing to sneer at, as shown when he uses his Quirk to blow out the villains' eardrums and a good chunk of the stadium during one of their attacks. He's also not as dumb as he lets on, as he marks as 5/5 on the "Intelligence" stat and is very intuitive of the people around him. |
| 295 | * DumbassDJ: He can be obnoxiously loud at times. Aizawa definitely thinks so, anyways. |
| 296 | * EarlyPersonalitySigns: Apparently, he had his Quirk from birth. When he was born, his cry was so loud it damaged the ears of his parents and the doctor who delivered him. |
| 297 | * FunPersonified: As long as he isn't upset in dire situations or is legitimately angry, Present Mic is extremely comedic in his appearances. |
| 298 | * FillingTheSilence: An in-universe example. Mic ''cannot'' be bothered to sit still in silence. He will go absolutely berserk and do anything in his power to fill the void of silence. |
| 299 | * GaleForceSound: One of Present Mic's most powerful attacks, "Loud Voice", is effectively a sonic boom that blasts away nearly anything in its path and can do [[PersonOfMassDestruction extreme structural or bodily harm]] depending on the projected volume, pitch, and frequency. |
| 300 | * GoodIsNotSoft: |
| 301 | ** Recovery Girl isn't a fan of his involvement in the final exams, because he's one of the reasons why her services are needed most after the exams conclude. He screamed until he ''made Jiro's ears bleed''. |
| 302 | ** He's pretty quick to suggest that they beat up the reporters who trespassed onto U.A. property. [[TheSpock Aizawa]] tells him to stand down and just wait for the police to arrive. |
| 303 | ** Mic has absolutely no qualms about [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating the ever-loving shit]] out of the elderly [[spoiler:Quirk doctor]] who was behind Shirakumo's death and admits to having been after [[spoiler:Aizawa's Erasure Quirk]] all along. |
| 304 | * GratuitousEnglish: Sometimes spouts random sentences in English. Incidentally, he's also Class 1-A's English teacher. |
| 305 | * HairContrastDuo: Upbeat, energetic, and outgoing blond Present Mic to his old friend, the lazy, cynical, and slovenly black-haired Aizawa. |
| 306 | * HellBentForLeather: Almost his entire hero costume consists of black leather, including his jacket, gloves, pants, belts, and boots. He even seems to favor a red leather jacket during his time off, too. |
| 307 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Aizawa. They have been through a lot together, including the [[spoiler:death of their close friend Shirakumo]], Aizawa's resulting depression, and numerous injuries and close calls from hero work, but they're always there for each other and have remained close friends into early adulthood. This becomes especially evident when [[spoiler:Kurogiri's revealed to possibly be a Nomu-fied Shirakumo.]] |
| 308 | * HiddenDepths: In his friendship with Aizawa, despite what thier [[HamAndDeadpanDuo personalities]] might imply, ''[[LargeHam Yamada]]'' is the more pragmatically cynical of the two, as seen with his [[spoiler: hesitation to truly trust [[TheMole Aoyama]] and being [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids a ''lot'' more cynical]] about the idea that [[EvilFormerFriend Oboro's personality can be rescued from Kurogiri]] than Aizawa.]] The {{Irony}} is actually quite strong and striking, and it's just another sign that there is a [[ObfuscatingStupidity ''lot'' more to Yamada that most people suspect.]] |
| 309 | * IncomingHam: And how! On top of his official job as a loudmouthed DJ and radio host, Yamada cannot enter a scene without bringing an entire wheelbarrow of HotBlooded ham with him. |
| 310 | ** "First period is English! In other words: It's '''JAM TIME'''! Been an age since I stood on this stage! Did you miss me?!" |
| 311 | ** "You're '''LATE'''!! You bad boys!" |
| 312 | ** "That's it! The MC in me can't take it anymore! Where's the mood music?! And would it kill them to have some commentary?! Someone's gotta inject some soul into this complete buzzkill, All-Mighty!! '''NOW, LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED!! OKAY?!'''" |
| 313 | * LargeHam: Even without using his Quirk, he's very on the loud side. |
| 314 | * LargeHamAnnouncer: Of the entrance exams and the U.A. Sports Festival. Naturally, this has even carried over into video games. |
| 315 | * LifeOfTheParty: He's relentlessly cheerful, loves drinking, and can't help but try to socialize with everyone around him. He's one of the first to invite others to the bar with him and drags Aizawa into them against his will. |
| 316 | -->'''Yamada:''' What are days off for, if not hangovers?\ |
| 317 | '''Aizawa:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Literally anything else.]] |
| 318 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: Heavily implied to have become one to Aizawa after [[spoiler:Shirakumo's death.]] When Aizawa stopped socializing with their classmates and spent nearly all of his time training, Yamada was the only one who truly stuck by his side and tried to help him work through the grief. [[TrueCompanions Between him and Kayama]], they eventually convinced Aizawa to teach at U.A., rightly believing that it would be good for his mental and emotional health. |
| 319 | * TheNarrator: Downplayed since the series doesn't really have a consistent narration aside from Midoriya's occasional inner monologues, but in the anime, he provides voiceovers revealing the names of other characters' Quirks and explaining how they work. Concerning his Quirk, it's Aizawa who provides the voiceover. |
| 320 | * NiceGuy: Loud and eccentric as he can be, he really cares about everyone's safety. |
| 321 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: He delivers a brutal one in Chapter 269 to [[spoiler:the doctor]] who was responsible for Shirakumo's death and Aizawa's emotional breakdown. |
| 322 | * NoIndoorVoice: His Quirk is all about being loudmouthed, and he's a career DJ who thrives on being loud and lively. Except it doesn't translate well to the teaching atmosphere when he's irreverently loud for the occasion. |
| 323 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Often acts like a loud-mouthed airhead while in public, but it's shown at various points that he's ''much'' more observant and clever than most people realize. Not only is Mic the first person to suspect a traitor among the U.A. staff, but he also has a very good people sense and quickly puts the pieces together regarding the connection between [[spoiler:their deceased high school friend Shirakumo and the League of Villains' Kurogiri.]] |
| 324 | * OddFriendship: He and Aizawa are best friends despite their clashing personalities. They've known each other since their time at U.A. and are incredibly in-tune with one another's fighting styles. |
| 325 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: |
| 326 | ** He's usually the LifeOfTheParty wherever he goes and literally can't bring himself to sit down and be quiet, so if Present Mic isn't smiling or joking around, then that's usually a major indicator that something really serious is going on. |
| 327 | ** When the pro heroes pull their BigDamnHeroes entrance at USJ, it's the first time Mic is shown looking [[TranquilFury totally calm and serious]] while his best friend's mangled body is being cared for directly behind him. Mic then proceeds to blow out the villains' eardrums and a good chunk of the stadium after that. |
| 328 | ** When he relays information to Aizawa that [[spoiler:Kurogiri's Quirk appears to share a base Quirk from their deceased friend Shirakumo]], thus possibly implying his identity and that he was experimented on in a similar manner to the Nomu, he's entirely stern and serious to the point that he has to tell ''Aizawa'' to calm down. |
| 329 | ** In the aftermath of the above, Mic lays on the couch face down, simultaneously emotionally exhausted and furious. And once the raid on the hospital begins, it's finally shown that Mic has been suppressing a [[BewareTheSillyOnes whole mountain of rage]] for a ''very'' long time. |
| 330 | ** When the heroes raid the Jaku Hospital, this is the only time Mic's signature BigYes is rendered as a BigNo, as he does ''not'' want Tomura to be awakened. |
| 331 | * PersonalityPowers: Mic has the capability to [[SuperScream make his own voice louder]], and is fittingly the LifeOfTheParty. |
| 332 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: His Quirk can do an insane amount of damage, both bodily and structurally, if it's not carefully controlled, as demonstrated several times when his lower-level yells cause extreme physical discomfort and burst eardrums while also flattening trees, shattering glass, and even fracturing wood and solid concrete. |
| 333 | * PopCulturedBadass: Comes naturally with his schtick as a famous radio DJ and combat commentator for one of the largest tournaments on the planet. |
| 334 | * PowerIncontinence: He may be unnecessarily loud socially, but he actually has excellent control over his Quirk, with only two known exceptions: His birth, which bursted the eardrums of his parents and the hospital staff, and [[spoiler:confronting the Doctor, which the [[RageBreakingPoint boiling rage]] in his voice [[GlassShatteringSound cracked his sunglasses]].]] |
| 335 | * PsychoticSmirk: He'll occasionally bust out [[https://68.media.tumblr.com/e6f9dca8d1a0d32b72da7685a9e683fa/tumblr_owe51vPebW1uku9tco3_500.jpg a frightening smirk]] with dartboard eyes visible under the shades. |
| 336 | * RageBreakingPoint: There have been vague hints throughout the series of Present Mic's [[BewareTheSillyOnes well-hidden]] [[GoodIsNotSoft ruthlessness]] and [[SmarterThanYouLook pragmatism]], but it's in Chapter 268 when his simmering rage finally explodes against the Doctor -- who just openly admitted to experimenting on murdered children like [[spoiler:Shirakumo]] and that [[spoiler:his original target fifteen years ago was Aizawa]] -- and he literally knocks the old bastard's teeth and nose in while manhandling answers out of him. |
| 337 | * RedOniBlueOni: The hot-blooded red to Aizawa's cool-headed blue. |
| 338 | * SadClown: He may outwardly appear to be happy-go-lucky and energetic all the time, but between [[spoiler:Shirakumo's death]] and Aizawa's resulting depression, it's clear that Yamada has sometimes used his exuberance to cope with difficulty in his life. |
| 339 | * SmarterThanYouLook: Although he does not seem like the brightest guy, he has a 5/5 Intelligence stat on the Official Character Book, which is above even Aizawa. |
| 340 | * SuperScream: He can amplify the loudness of his own voice. When he was born, his cries ruptured the eardrums of his parents and the doctors. He also has a directional speaker mounted on his neck to control where his sound wave attacks go. |
| 341 | * TragicBromance: With Oboro Shirakumo, a close friend and classmate of his and Aizawa's [[spoiler:who died during their second year at U.A.]] While Aizawa became even more detached and cynical, [[spoiler:Shirakumo's death]] led to Yamada attempting to mitigate his friend's grief and melancholy by acting as Aizawa's primary source of friendship and encouragement, [[SadClown no matter the cost]]. |
| 342 | * TranquilFury: |
| 343 | ** After arriving at USJ and seeing Aizawa's broken body, Mic is almost eerily calm as he steps forward -- not a single joke or smile to be seen -- and unleashes a brutal sonic scream straight down on the villains. |
| 344 | ** The hospital raid reveals that Mic has been bottling up some serious anger issues over the numerous tragedies that have befallen him and his best friends. When he's given a chance to get his hands on [[spoiler:the Doctor]] largely responsible for all of them, Mic doesn't hesitate to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat the absolute shit out of him]]. |
| 345 | * UndyingLoyalty: To his childhood friends, Aizawa and Shirakumo. He has steadfastly stuck by [[TheEeyore Aizawa's side]] for over fifteen years and is more than willing to defy the Hero Commission if it means that he and Aizawa can finally get some answers about what really happened to Shirakumo. |
| 346 | -->'''Yamada:''' ''[punching Ujiko in the face]'' That one's for making my friend cry! |
| 347 | * VitriolicBestBuds: The light novels reveal him to be this with Aizawa. Mic constantly annoys Aizawa by giving him {{Embarrassing Nickname}}s, singing and rapping in Aizawa's ears while he's trying to nap, and dragging him into conversations he wants no part in. Aizawa responds to this by placing Mic in choke holds until he shuts up (which usually fails in the long-term, anyways). Despite this, they're the other's closest confidante and are almost always seen hanging out together. |
| 348 | * VocalEvolution: In the English dub's first season, Sonny Strait made Present Mic sound like a stereotypical DJ. In Season 2, due to Sonny Strait coming down with vocal strain, the role was recast to David Trosko, whose voice is less nasal without compromising how bombastic Mic is supposed to be. |
| 349 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Bugs turn out to be a major weakness for him as he can't blow them away with his Quirk because sound can't travel underground, allowing burrowing bugs to sneak up on him. |
| 350 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He's deathly afraid of bugs. This is exploited by Jiro and Koda when they are pitted against him during their final exam. |
| 351 | * {{Workaholic}}: He's a pro hero, English teacher at U.A., and major radio show host. |
| 352 | [[/folder]] |
| 353 | |
| 354 | [[folder:Anan Kurose -- Thirteen]] |
| 355 | !!Anan Kurose -- Thirteen |
| 356 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Inuko Inuyama (Japanese), Creator/MorganBerry (English) |
| 357 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 12 (Manga), Episode 9 (Anime) |
| 358 | !!!'''Quirk:''' [[PowerOfTheVoid Black Hole]] |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[quoteright:265:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/no_13.png]] |
| 361 | [[caption-width-right:265:Space Hero]] |
| 362 | [[caption-width-right:265:[[labelnote:Click here to see her without her helmet]]\ |
| 363 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anan_kurose_profile.png]] |
| 364 | [[/labelnote]] |
| 365 | |
| 366 | ->''"Your powers are not meant to inflict harm. I hope that you leave here today with the understanding that you're meant to help people."'' |
| 367 | |
| 368 | A woman in a spacesuit who is known for working with disaster relief. Nicknamed "Space Hero No. 13", she works as a teacher at U.A. that overlooks the rescue exercises. Her Quirk, "Black Hole", allows her to create black holes with her fingers; said holes can disintegrate matter at the atomic level. |
| 369 | ---- |
| 370 | * AllLovingHero: There's a reason she's the one teaching kids how to use their power for good - she outright believes ''any'' power can be used to save lives, and that saving lives is their natural use. |
| 371 | * AmbiguousGender: While she is referred to as the "gentle''man'' hero", Thirteen's actual gender was unknown for a very long time. Both the manga and anime made it a point to never show Thirteen's body outside of her costume, her costume appearing empty after being torn open by Kurogiri, and her hospitalized body being off screen while the scene focuses on her costume against a wall. The only part of her body that is visible in costume is her thin legs, which doesn't help. The anime doesn't help matters either by giving her a female voice actress in both the original Japanese and English dubs, as it is not uncommon to give male characters female voices to simulate a higher-pitched male. In the English dub, she's the only one of the teachers helping out in the final exams who aren't addressed as "Mr." or "Ms." -- in Japanese, the "-sensei" honorific is gender neutral. The ''ULTRA ANALYSIS Character Book'' eventually confirmed her to be female. |
| 372 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: It was unknown how she looked under that space suit. When she nearly dies due to Kurogiri, the audience only sees the empty part of the suit and nothing more. While it's confirmed there is a body in the suit, as the suit is seen on the side with Thirteen is hospitalized while they lie in bed, her body is obscured by the remains of the suit, making it unknown if she appears human of not. In Chapter 296, a portion of Thirteen's face is finally seen through her cracked helmet. Chapter 322 gives us a more clear shot of her face. |
| 373 | * BadPowersGoodPeople: Through her Quirk, she can create black holes that can disintegrate matter at the atomic level, easily capable of killing people if they're drawn close enough. However, Thirteen's an AllLovingHero who cares deeply for her students and uses her Quirk exclusively for disaster relief and sometimes the capturing of villains. She also avoids combat because she notes this Quirk is one that can easily kill if harnessed improperly. |
| 374 | * BadassInDistress: Kurogiri critically injures her during the USJ Arc by reflecting the effects of her Quirk back at her through [[ThinkingUpPortals his power]], forcing the students to split their attention between protecting Thirteen and fighting off the villains. |
| 375 | * CallingYourAttacks: "BLACK HOLE!!!" |
| 376 | * CosmicMotifs: Thirteen is nicknamed the "Space Hero". Her costume resembles a space suit, she is named after the Apollo 13 mission, and her Quirk (named "Black Hole") gives her [[UnrealisticBlackHole "black hole fingers"]] that can disintegrate matter at the atomic level. Uraraka, who has [[GravityMaster a gravity-based Quirk]], looks up to Thirteen and partially patterns her hero identity on space as well. |
| 377 | * DarkIsNotEvil: A heroic teacher who has the ability to make black holes. |
| 378 | * ExoticEyeDesigns: The brief glimpse we get of her face in Chapter 296 shows that her irises have lines intersecting them that make her eyes resemble black holes, fitting with her Quirk. |
| 379 | * TheFaceless: In most of her appearances, we never see any part of her underneath her costume. It isn't until Chapter 296 that we get even a glimpse of her, and it takes all the way until Chapter 322 for us to see her face in full. |
| 380 | * GoodIsNotSoft: Thirteen unhesitatingly uses her Quirk against Kurogiri when he threatens the students, despite the very real possibility that it could've killed the villain had she gone all-out. |
| 381 | * HoistByHerOwnPetard: Kurogiri used his warp gates to loop Thirteen into one of her own black holes, badly rending her apart. She survived, but she was laid up in the hospital for quite some time. |
| 382 | * MeaningfulName: Her hero name, Thirteen, is a reference to the Apollo 13 mission, which famously [[GoneHorriblyWrong went horribly wrong]] and turned into a disaster that the astronauts barely managed to limp home from. Even her prototype's civilian name, Hirooki Anakuro, means "Middle Space". |
| 383 | * NatureIsNotAToy: A fact that she's all too aware of, given the inherent destructive nature of black holes, and she takes great care to maintain control over her powers so as to not kill anyone or cause even more damage. |
| 384 | * PowerOfTheVoid: Uses her black holes for clean up during rescue missions, but mentions that she has to keep control over it so that it doesn't kill the people she's trying to rescue. This is because her black holes pretty much disintegrate everything it sucks to a molecular level. |
| 385 | * PoweredArmor: Her spacesuit is designed to keep her black holes under control. For example, her fingers have little caps she can flip up and use the gravity of the black holes she produces inside to vacuum-clean debris and pull things toward her slowly. |
| 386 | * SamusIsAGirl: Thirteen's face is hidden until Chapter 296, where her helmet has been partially broken and reveals an unmistakable female face. Until then, no one could confirm the gender of Thirteen by her voice, which was ambiguously feminine. |
| 387 | * StatuesqueStunner: Anan Kurose is 5'11'' high and her eventual face reveal shows that she was BeautifulAllAlong. |
| 388 | * UnrealisticBlackHole: Her Quirk can essentially be described as black hole fingers. |
| 389 | * UnskilledButStrong: Kurogiri pretty much says this; being that Thirteen's Quirk is very dangerous, but is at a disadvantage without experience fighting villains. |
| 390 | [[/folder]] |
| 391 | [[folder:Ken Ishiyama -- Cementoss]] |
| 392 | !!Ken Ishiyama -- Cementoss |
| 393 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Kenta Okuma (Japanese), Creator/ChrisRager (English), Carlos Márquez (Latin American Spanish/TV series) |
| 394 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 21 (Manga), Episode 13 (Anime) |
| 395 | !!!'''Quirk:''' [[DishingOutDirt Cement]] |
| 396 | |
| 397 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cementos.png]] |
| 398 | |
| 399 | ->''"Listen. When it comes to fighting... it's all about making use of your particular strengths."'' |
| 400 | |
| 401 | A being who can control any form of cement through his Quirk, "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Cement]]". Also a Modern Literature teacher. |
| 402 | ---- |
| 403 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: There's a reason he's described as a "being". |
| 404 | * BadassTeacher: He's the Modern Literature teacher. |
| 405 | * BarrierWarrior: A more blunt example than most, one of the most common uses of his Quirk is to raise barriers from cement. |
| 406 | * CurbStompBattle: Gives an absolutely one-sided one to Satou and Kirishima during the Final Exams Arc. |
| 407 | * DishingOutDirt: Anything with concrete he can control. |
| 408 | * HomeFieldAdvantage: Very powerful in urban settings thanks to the abundance of concrete. |
| 409 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:After his fight with Geten in the Liberation Army War Arc, he's not looking so good with several large spikes of ice imbedded in his body, about the only reason to say he's not dead is because he's not on the list of casualties in Chapter 296.]] |
| 410 | * {{Irony}}: Despite being blocky, official material states that he likes round things. |
| 411 | * LogicalWeakness: He doesn't fare well in areas that have no concrete for him to manipulate. |
| 412 | * MeaningfulName: His name means "stiff, firm", like cement, referencing to his Quirk. His last name contains the kanji for "stone" and "mountain". |
| 413 | * MundaneUtility: He uses his cement powers to provide the ring for the Sports Festival. |
| 414 | * NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler:Somehow manages to survive being impaled by multiple shards of ice in several vital areas, though not without a metal plate and stitches in the affected areas.]] |
| 415 | * TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: He's a hero who's a big fan of All Might. |
| 416 | * WakeUpCallBoss: Minor example. He's the first teacher faced during the final exams in the anime (the manga has the matches occur at the same time), and his sound defeat of Kirishima and Sato demonstrates that even if the teachers are going easy on the students, they're not playing to lose. |
| 417 | [[/folder]] |
| 418 | [[folder:Nemuri Kayama -- Midnight]] |
| 419 | !!Nemuri Kayama -- Midnight |
| 420 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkenoWatanabe (Japanese), Creator/ElizabethMaxwell (English), Giset Blanco (Latin American Spanish/TV series) |
| 421 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 12 (Manga), Episode 9 (Anime) |
| 422 | !!!'''Playable in:''' ''[[VideoGame/MyHeroOnesJustice My Hero One's Justice 2]]'' |
| 423 | !!!'''Quirk:''' [[KnockoutGas Somnambulist]] |
| 424 | |
| 425 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/midnight_anime_profile.png]] |
| 426 | [[caption-width-right:350:18+ Only Heroine]] |
| 427 | ->''"With so much time left, I thought I'd park myself at the gate... but, well, taking that approach is just no fun at all... Because watching you run and shriek like a baby... makes the sadist in me ache for a chance to play."'' |
| 428 | |
| 429 | An S&M-themed pro heroine. She refs the U.A. Sports Festival and teaches Modern Hero Art History. Her Quirk is "Somnambulist", which allows her to release a sleep-inducing fragrance from her body. |
| 430 | ----- |
| 431 | * ActionGirl: As a professional hero and a member of U.A.'s staff, Midnight is a very qualified hero whose entire job is to kick villain butt and protect the peace. |
| 432 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Her flesh-colored bodysuit is changed into white for the anime. |
| 433 | * AnimeHair: While it isn't long hair, it's still very long and is styled akin to a conifer tree. She had shorter hair when she was young. |
| 434 | * AscendedExtra: Midnight doesn't have a big role in the main series, but in the prequel ''Manga/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantes'', she is one of the returning characters with the biggest amount of screentime, alongside Aizawa. |
| 435 | * BadassTeacher: She teaches Modern Hero Art History, which entails aesthetic features of hero work, and can easily incapacitate enemies with her Quirk. She was also once depicted teaching what looked to be trigonometry. |
| 436 | * BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Subverted. [[spoiler:During the heroes' battle with the Paranormal Liberation Front, Midnight tries to knock out Gigantomachia with her Quirk, only to be intercepted by a massive chunk of concrete thrown by Mr. Compress. She falls to the forest floor bloodied and badly injured with her hair disheveled and her mask in disarray. She is later confirmed to have died in her fight with a villain, the manga [[GoryDiscretionShot never shows her body]], but an earlier scene of her face down in a pool of blood confirms it wasn't pretty.]] |
| 437 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Aside of her {{dominatrix}} and DoubleEntendre tendencies, she genuinely wants to help students and encourages their efforts in becoming heroes. She believes she can stop teenagers from turning into criminals by being a teacher and sometimes supervises their Quirk training. |
| 438 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: Her buxom figure is often the focus of MaleGaze camera shots and some her pervier students keep getting [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted]] by them. |
| 439 | * ChainedByFashion: Has two handcuffs on her wrists as part of her S&M motif. |
| 440 | * CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:She's KilledOffscreen in Chapter 278 after receiving a sneak attack from Mr. Compress that leaves her heavily injured and with a group of villains running to attack her. Chapter 296 sees the U.A. students discover Midnight's corpse. The same chapter also lists Midnight among the casualties of the attack, confirming that she's dead.]] |
| 441 | * CoolBigSis: ''Vigilantes'' shows that she was a year above Eraserhead and Present Mic while they were all students at U.A and since then, she's been something of an older sister figure to them both, getting Eraserhead his student internship as well as his eventual teaching position a decade later. |
| 442 | * CoolTeacher: Midnight tends to be very supportive of the students, as demonstrated with Class 1-A's naming assignments. She praises almost all the hero names, the exceptions being [[ShoutOut Ashido]] and [[AxCrazy Bakugo's]]. |
| 443 | * CutenessProximity: When she gets to hold the CuteKitten Aizawa was taking care of in ''Vigilantes'', she just melts into a wavy-mouthed, {{Baby Talk}}ing softie who promptly names [[ImTakingHerHomeWithMe and adopts]] the little guy: |
| 444 | -->'''Midnight:''' Awww, so fwuffy.[[SayItWithHearts ♡]] |
| 445 | * DeadHandShot: [[spoiler:The last that's seen of her in Chapter 296, [[DeadHatShot alongside her crumpled mask]].]] |
| 446 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: To go with her S&M theme, her Quirk being KnockoutGas is reminiscent of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroform Chloroform]]. |
| 447 | * DominoMask: She wears a red domino mask as part of her hero costume. |
| 448 | * DoubleEntendre: A good chunk of what comes out of her mouth is this. Sometimes she even does it subconsciously, like her explanation about wanting to be a teacher to help students work through their teenage angst in ''Vigilantes'': |
| 449 | -->'''Midnight:''' Fufu... isn't it just wonderful? The blood, sweat and tears of youth? And various other... bodily fluids.\ |
| 450 | '''Aizawa:''' Bodily fluids?\ |
| 451 | '''Midnight:''' (while making a ''very'' suggestive squeezing hand gesture) Do I have to spell it out for you? There's plenty of kids out there who get stricken by puberty and go on to become villains and criminals because they weren't able to "let it all out"! And that's where I come in! I'll squeeze them all dry! |
| 452 | * DressedLikeADominatrix: Despite being a heroine, she wears a black breastless leotard over a white bodysuit to contain her natural sleeping gas powers, along with thigh-high stockings and black knee boots. She also uses a [[WhipOfDominance whip as a weapon]]. It's later revealed that her original hero costume, dubbed "Birthday Suit Style" in ''Vigilantes'', was even worse, effectively being a trench coat and strategically-placed pouches and belts. This directly led to the "Hero Costume Skin Exposure Limitation Act", which outlawed such outfits. Her second hero costume was a braless corset leotard with a weapon harness that just happened to cover around a fifth of her breasts. |
| 453 | * DuelBoss: The final exams are supposed to be two students against one teacher. However, Midnight knocks out Sero in three seconds flat, forcing Mineta to face her by himself. |
| 454 | * ExactWords: Unintentionally does this in ''Vigilantes''. When she was still attending U.A., she claimed that she and her "Birthday Suit Style" hero costume would "have all of Japan thinking differently" about {{Stripperiffic}} hero costumes in one year's time. She was right because one year later, the government pushed forward the "Hero Costume Skin Exposure Limitation Act": |
| 455 | -->'''Midnight:''' (''embarrassed'') Too much, too soon? |
| 456 | * {{Fangirl}}: Of her students, since they represent the pinnacle of youth. She gets excited watching them fight. |
| 457 | * GargleBlaster: Her preference for heavily alcoholic beverages leads her to mix up the nastiest cocktails possible when she's feeling tipsy. Worse still, she forces others to try them, and one serving was enough for Mic to claim he saw the other side and his ancestors waiting to greet him. |
| 458 | * GoodBadGirl: She's always been very flirty and shameless woman who has ''zero'' qualms about her behavior, but is a good and honest woman at heart. |
| 459 | * HardDrinkingPartyGirl: She's this on her days off. According to "School Briefs", she prefers drinks that can put a fire in her gut, ordering tequila as her first drink at a teacher's night out. Unfortunately, she also has a habit of mixing up gargle blasters that she forces other people to try when she's drunk. |
| 460 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 461 | ** ''Vigilantes'' reveals that she wanted to become a teacher to help the youth since she believes many criminals and villains are born out of teenagers who were too repressed to properly express themselves when they were young. It's also implied that she likes to act as a counselor for the students. |
| 462 | ** In an omake, she goes into a detailed and logical explanation for the skimpy clothing, in that due to the nature of some Quirks, clothing hinders them and the sexiness for some became a necessity. Unfortunately, Mt. Lady provokes her before she can finish. |
| 463 | * HotBlooded: She loves the passionate youth, readily agreeing to bend the rules of the U.A. Sports Festival when things are done out of passion, such as letting Ojiro and Shoda drop out of the combat portion when they feel their pride won't let them compete without properly earning the spots or letting Iida use Mei's inventions. Additionally, she fangirls over the manly DefeatMeansFriendship that happened during Kirishima and Tetsutetsu's fight and gets pumped up whenever it seems that a fight is about to reach its peak. |
| 464 | * HotForStudent: A few jokes are made about her interest in youth being actually an interest in her students. Subverted when she actually acts in a motherly fashion to her students, especially when she talks to Midoriya and Mirio about how the school is taking steps to make sure the Cultural Festival will be safe and when she tells Momo that she would one day be a fine leader. [[spoiler:This makes her untimely demise all the more tragic, as even Mineta [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness was worried about her safety]].]] |
| 465 | * HotTeacher: The 18+ Heroine has earned her name and reputation as a sexy heroine and is a teacher at U.A. In ''Vigilantes'', she more of the traditional pedagogical hottie, as she dresses in secretarial clothes. |
| 466 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Even though Midnight is a challenging opponent, she suffers critical injuries in the battle against the Parnormal Liberation Front, and the sheer number of villains overwhelms her and ultimately kills her.]] |
| 467 | * KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler:She's last seen in Chapter 278 after receiving a sneak attack from Mr. Compress that leaves her heavily injured and with a group of villains running to attack her. For eighteen chapters, her status remained unknown, though Yaoyorozu and Ashido keep assuring everyone she is fine. Then comes Chapter 296 when the U.A. students find her dead body, the chapter fully confirms her death by listing her first among the hero casualties of the Liberation Army War.]] |
| 468 | * KnockoutGas: Her Quirk. It releases this from her skin, which is why so much of it is covered. |
| 469 | * LasciviousBeautyMark: The exhibitionist dominatrix hero has a mole under her left eye. |
| 470 | * MaleGaze: Due to her [[{{Stripperiffic}} revealing hero costume]] and general bearing, she's the subject of much male attention when she walks around. When she enters 1-A's classroom during the lesson where they choose their code names, she [[SupermodelStrut struts in]] with her hands provocatively held up behind her head, while the first two things the camera focuses on are her butt and boobs respectively. |
| 471 | * MarshmallowHell: In ''Vigilantes'', this is how she nullifies villains affected by her Quirk with a hug to her chest. |
| 472 | * MeaningfulName: Her real name contains the kanji for "fragrance" and "sleep". Her hero name actually has two different meanings, referring to midnight as in bedtime, and midnight as in her after dark nature as a heroine catering to a more adult crowd. |
| 473 | * MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler:As a teacher at U.A. it was her job to mold and train young heroes. ''Vigilantes'' revealed it was something she greatly enjoyed. One of her last acts was encouraging her students to continue to work at becoming great heroes and to keep fighting. She was especially impressed by Yaoyorozu's ability to lead and saw great potential in her. Sadly, she dies during the Paranormal Liberation War.]] |
| 474 | * AMillionIsAStatistic: Very much PlayedForDrama. [[spoiler:Despite being a major, world famous hero and part of the main trio of the U.A. staff, her death is treated in story and out as essentially an afterthought, highlighting that she's just one of the countless faceless heroes and villains who fell during the War.]] |
| 475 | * MsFanservice: |
| 476 | ** Just look at her hero costume. Even All Might is careful not to look at her when she is standing close to him. |
| 477 | ** Subverted in a ''Smash!!'' comic where she is supposed to be the teacher for a pool exercise for Class 1-A. Mineta and Kaminari believe they'll get to see her in some nice bikini, but she is wearing layers of unflattering clothes and hat to protect her skin from sun damage. |
| 478 | ** To make up for the [[{{Bowdlerise}} alterations to her costume in the game itself]], the promo art for ''VideoGame/MyHeroOnesJustice 2'' has her in an office lady outfit that shows off her legs. |
| 479 | * NudeColoredClothes: She wears tights all over her body as a form of censorship, which is more obvious in the anime, where they are white instead of skin color. |
| 480 | * PinkIsErotic: Her Quirk emits a pink aroma that puts her targets to sleep. Her outfit is supposed to invoke imagery of a dominatrix and her aroma is comparable to the effects of a date rape drug. |
| 481 | * ProudBeauty: She's comfortable and proud of her sex appeal, openly flaunting it whenever she can. |
| 482 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In ''Vigilantes'', she's able to see that [[spoiler:Pop is not in her right mind during the bomber incident due to their shared history, harmlessly knocking her out after Koichi brings Pop to her. She also allows Koichi and the others to escape and lies to Endeavor to keep them out of danger.]] |
| 483 | * RequiredSecondaryPowers: She's immune to her own sleep-inducing mist. |
| 484 | * SacrificialLion: Midnight is part of the team of three of the U.A. teachers, proved herself useful and crafty, and she had a bigger role in the ''Vigilantes'' spin-off. However, her [[spoiler:sudden death during the Paranormal Liberation War Arc took Aizawa and the Class 1-A students by surprise, with Kirishima, Ashido, and Yaoyorozu mourning over her body.]] |
| 485 | * {{Sadist}}: PlayedForLaughs. Watching someone run away in terror gets her heart throbbing, but she's not that cruel to make an innocent suffer just for her pleasure. |
| 486 | * SadistTeacher: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged]]. While she does have sadistic tendencies, she genuinely wants to help students and guide them towards their goals. |
| 487 | * ShamelessFanserviceGirl: She publicly advertises herself as "R-rated": |
| 488 | ** She has no problem wearing BDSM gear during televised events or in class. In fact, her first hero costume was so revealing that a law was passed in response, requiring hero costumes to cover a certain amount of skin. |
| 489 | ** In Chapter 43 of ''Vigilantes'', she wears a corset that shows off her ample cleavage, panties and dark leggings. Thankfully, her Quirk knocks out all the guys. |
| 490 | ** Chapter 60 of ''Vigilantes'' also reveals she was a straight-up exhibitionist as a U.A. student, wearing nothing more than a trench coat and strategically-placed pouches and belts. She even brags about her "costume" being the pinnacle of form and function. |
| 491 | * SitcomArchNemesis: She and Mt. Lady don't get along all that well. Mt. Lady tends to mock Midnight for [[OldMaid not having a husband at 31 years old]], while Midnight puts Mt. Lady on blast for being OnlyInItForTheMoney. As such, the two are constantly sparring, even though they're both heroes. [[spoiler:That said, Mt. Lady takes Midnight's death pretty hard.]] |
| 492 | * StatuesqueStunner: Even without the heels, she's still 175 cm tall woman, helping with her model-like looks. |
| 493 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: Her hero costume [[InvokedTrope invokes this]]. In order to use her Quirk, she has to have her skin exposed. This means that exposing as much skin as possible is necessary for her to be effective. Her original hero costume from when she was first starting out, fittingly called "Birthday Suit Style", was an actual example, so much so that it provoked actual legislation concerning skimpy hero costumes. |
| 494 | * SuperheroSobriquets: "18+ Only Heroine". |
| 495 | * TemptingFate: As mentioned under ExactWords, when she confidently predicted that people would become more accepting of risqué hero costumes, the opposite ended up happening. |
| 496 | * VillainBall: During the Final Exams Arc, Midnight plays the "villain role" for Sero and Mineta. [[spoiler:Had she stayed at the escape gate, she could've run down the clock, which would have caused them to fail their final exam. However, her sadistic nature led to her pursuing Mineta, only to get pinned down by his Quirk far away from the gate. To her credit though, she was going easy on them and even lampshaded this, making it justified why she wouldn't be so willing to knock Mineta out.]] |
| 497 | * WeakButSkilled: While her power is a 2/5 as stated by the Character Book, she more than makes up for it with an outstanding 5/5 in Technique. Her Quirk is not good for attacking, but it is strategically invaluable. |
| 498 | * WhipOfDominance: She's an S&M-themed heroine that's DressedLikeADominatrix and has a sadistic and domineering personality, and she fights with a whip alongside her KnockoutGas Quirk to complement her theme. And she's shown to own several different types of whips, such as a flogger-style whip that can actually be used to spread her KnockoutGas scent in various directions or a bullwhip-style whip for more straight combat purposes. |
| 499 | [[/folder]] |
| 500 | |
| 501 | [[folder:Snipe]] |
| 502 | !!Snipe |
| 503 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Tōru Nara (Japanese), Creator/DavidWald (English), Rómulo Bernal (Latin American Spanish/TV series) |
| 504 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 20 (Manga), Episode 13 (Anime) |
| 505 | !!!'''Quirk:''' [[HomingProjectile Homing]] |
| 506 | [[quoteright:345:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/snipe_anime.png]] |
| 507 | |
| 508 | A sharpshooting hero. He possesses the Quirk "Homing", which allows him to control the trajectory of his bullets at a range of up to 600 meters. |
| 509 | ---- |
| 510 | * AccidentalPervert: He ends up accidentally elbowing [[InvisibleStreaker Hagaruke's]] breasts in the Final Exam arc. To his credit, he frantically tries to apologize for it as soon as he realizes what happened. |
| 511 | * BigDamnHeroes: Announces the presence of the arriving pro heroes to the invading villains of the training grounds by hitting a good number of them with his aiming skills. He even nearly severely wounds Shigaraki before Black Mist warps him out of there. |
| 512 | * BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: His hat has a big "S" on it, referring to his name. |
| 513 | * CoolMask: Wears a stylish gas mask as part of his costume. |
| 514 | * GoodIsNotSoft: He's a genuine hero, but his weapon and powers revolve around shooting people. This is downplayed, however, as he is very good at aiming to incapacitate, not kill. |
| 515 | * TheGunslinger: His weapon is a gun, fitting his cowboy theme. Due to his Homing Quirk he [[ ImprobableAimingSkills possesses exceptional marksmanship skills]]. |
| 516 | * HandCannon: Wields an oversized, double-cylindered pistol. |
| 517 | * HomingProjectile: His Quirk, aptly called "Homing", lets him control the trajectories of his bullets to better hit their targets. |
| 518 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: Justified by his Quirk, Homing, which allows him to alter the trajectory of his bullets, but he is still doing so while they're nothing more than a spec in his field of vision or while they're behind obstacles in such a way that he barely has any sight on his targets at all. |
| 519 | * OutOfFocus: Snipe is often shown as one of the teachers part of Nezu's inner circle and discussing the school's plot-important decisions alongside Midnight, Present Mic, Aizawa, All Might, and Vlad King. In comparison to them, he receives the least amount of attention and very rarely interacts with the students. One of his noticeable scenes is technically a flashback to an interview where he's talking about another hero who's better than him [[spoiler:who just so happens to be in the present [[HiredGuns hunting Midoriya down for All For One]].]] |
| 520 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: To Lady Nagant, who he freely admits is his better thanks to her superior range (3km to his 600m), superior firepower (packing a sniper rifle with AbnormalAmmo she generates on the fly while he uses pistols with conventional ammo), and the fact that while he needs his Quirk for his ImprobableAimingSkills, hers are ''all-natural''. |
| 521 | * ShoutOut: A cowboy-themed sharpshooter with the power to control the trajectory of his bullets, similar to Hol Horse from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. |
| 522 | * SuperheroPackingHeat: As expected of a hero sharpshooter. Unlike most examples, however, he seems to near exclusively aim for incapacitating, nonlethal shots. |
| 523 | * TalkingIsAFreeAction: Averts this when he shoots Shigaraki mid-monologue. If Kurogiri hadn't been there to bail him out, Shigaraki would have been left helpless and captured. |
| 524 | * ThanksForTheMammary: Accidentally touches [[InvisibleStreaker Hagakure]]'s breasts with his elbow after he's beaten in the end of the final exam. |
| 525 | * TooManyBelts: Wears at least three or four of them under his poncho. However, each one serves a purpose, securing his holsters and body armor in place. |
| 526 | * {{Transplant}}: He originally came from the ''Manga/{{My Hero|2008}}'' one-shot. |
| 527 | * WeakButSkilled: According to the statbook, he's average in everything but technique, which is ranked S. |
| 528 | [[/folder]] |
| 529 | |
| 530 | [[folder:Ectoplasm]] |
| 531 | !!Ectoplasm |
| 532 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Masakazu Nishida (Japanese), Creator/{{Mike McFarland}} (English) |
| 533 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 20 (Manga), Episode 4 (Anime) |
| 534 | !!!'''Quirk:''' [[SelfDuplication Clones]] |
| 535 | |
| 536 | [[quoteright:305:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ectoplasm_anime_profile_9.png]] |
| 537 | |
| 538 | ->''"Less than ten minutes remaining... can you keep this up? I'm looking for... heroes who rise up and break through in the face of adversity."'' |
| 539 | |
| 540 | A hero with a ghostly theme and U.A.'s Mathematics teacher. His Quirk, "Clones", allows him to create copies of himself out of ectoplasm coming out of his mouth. |
| 541 | ---- |
| 542 | * AnArmAndALeg: Prior to the series, he lost his legs to a villain, and now wears prosthetics. |
| 543 | * AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: He can create a huge copy of himself. |
| 544 | * BadassLongcoat: He wears a heavy trenchcoat in costume and lets the collar stick up like the mantle of a cape. This is not to be confused with a CoatCape where someone drapes their coat on their shoulders, because Ectoplasm wears his over his entire body. |
| 545 | * BadassTeacher: Evidently, he's a math teacher. |
| 546 | * DarkIsNotEvil: Very creepy-looking (and with an even creepier voice), but he's a hero and a teacher. |
| 547 | * DoppelgangerAttack: How he uses the copies he makes -- multiple copies can attack the enemy at once, but they only take a hit or two to take down. |
| 548 | * ExtremityExtremist: Exclusively uses his legs during combat, leaving his arms tucked underneath his trenchcoat. |
| 549 | * HandicappedBadass: He lost his legs in a past battle against a villain, and now uses two prostheses: a normal one for everyday civilian life and a lightweight one for heroism. |
| 550 | * HiddenDepths: He apparently really likes karaoke. |
| 551 | * MysticalHighCollar: The lapels of his coat are very flared and upturned, and his powers stem from what is deemed ectoplasm, which is usually seen as the supernatural slime of ghosts. |
| 552 | * NightmareFace: He looks scary even without his mask. That SlasherSmile isn't part of his hero costume, it's just what his mouth looks like normally. |
| 553 | * SelfDuplication: His Quirk. He's limited to creating around 30 (36 after a heartfelt karaoke session) clones of himself at once, but he can move and dissolve these clones at will. He can also create a big copy, but at the expense of not being able to create more clones while the big one is active. |
| 554 | * StealthPun: Ectoplasm teaches math. He's the multiplying teacher. |
| 555 | * SoulPower: Can manipulate ectoplasm to form clones of himself. |
| 556 | * TrainingDummy: His clones make great punching bags for students trying to get a better handle on their Quirks. |
| 557 | * WholeCostumeReference: |
| 558 | ** Of ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'', particularly of his later redesign which included [[ScaryTeeth similar teeth to Ectoplasm's]] and their MysticalHighCollar (though Spawn's is part of his red cape while Ectoplasm's is white), who is a genuinely undead NinetiesAntiHero. |
| 559 | ** His helmet is extremely similar to the one wore by one of the members of the band Music/DaftPunk. He is even stated to like karaoke as well. |
| 560 | [[/folder]] |
| 561 | [[folder:Higari Maijima -- Power Loader]] |
| 562 | !!Higari Maijima -- Power Loader |
| 563 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Yō Kitazawa (Japanese), David Wilson-Brown (English) |
| 564 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 20 (Manga), Episode 13 (Anime) |
| 565 | !!!'''Quirk:''' [[AbsurdlySharpClaws Iron Claws]] |
| 566 | |
| 567 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/power_loader_full_body.png]] |
| 568 | [[caption-width-right:350:Excavation Hero]] |
| 569 | |
| 570 | ->''"If you keep making a mess of things, I'm going to ban you from here."'' |
| 571 | |
| 572 | A Hero Support teacher and pro hero who wears an animalistic suit of mechanized gear. |
| 573 | ---- |
| 574 | * CloudcuckoolandersMinder: He attempts to play this to the ever energetic Hatsume. However, she spends a good amount of time not paying attention to him or even outright ignoring his warnings. |
| 575 | * TheFaceless: Only ever seen with his mechanical headgear on. |
| 576 | * GadgeteerGenius: He is the resident tech teacher, able to help in designing and upgrading hero costumes and gear. He is also Hatsume's teacher. Oddly enough, though, he only has 2/5 Intelligence. |
| 577 | * TheNapoleon: He's sensitive about being short. |
| 578 | * PoweredArmor: He wears a suit of armor. |
| 579 | * ShoutOut: To the Power Loader, the powerful yellow exosuit from ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''. |
| 580 | * SlasherSmile: It seems to be his default expression. |
| 581 | * TunnelKing: His fingers are tipped with claws that allow him to dig through the ground. Iida and Ojiro's final exam is set in a large field, which Power Loader is continuously destabilizing by digging. |
| 582 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: He doesn't wear anything covering his torso. |
| 583 | [[/folder]] |
| 584 | ! Other U.A. Staff |
| 585 | [[folder:Principal Nezu]] |
| 586 | !!Principal Nezu |
| 587 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YasuhiroTakato (Japanese), Creator/JerryJewell (English), Xavier Coronel (Latin American Spanish/TV series) |
| 588 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 12 (Manga), Episode 4 (Anime) |
| 589 | !!!'''Quirk:''' [[SuperIntelligence High Spec]] |
| 590 | |
| 591 | [[quoteright:260:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/principal_3.png]] |
| 592 | |
| 593 | ->''"...What we need now is a revival. At least for the students...we need to present them with prospects of a brighter future."'' |
| 594 | |
| 595 | The principal of U.A. High School. His appearance resembles some sort of furry animal. His character sheet reveals that his real name is Nezu, a play on the word for "rat" in Japanese, and that he's an extremely rare case of a Quirk appearing in an animal. |
| 596 | |
| 597 | His Quirk is "High Spec", which grants him SuperIntelligence. |
| 598 | ---- |
| 599 | * AnimalSuperheroes: Naturally. Being a hero is one of the requirements for one to become a teacher at U.A. |
| 600 | * AnthropomorphicTransformation: Actually an animal who was morphed to have an anthropomorphic body by his Quirk. |
| 601 | * BigGood: A formal example due to his position as principal of U.A. |
| 602 | * BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Downplayed. While he chose to use his intelligence for heroic purposes despite the experiments that were performed on him, that doesn't mean that he won't enjoy the occasional opportunity to make humans squirm. |
| 603 | * BewareOfTheNiceOnes: He deeply cares about his students and teacher's staff, but when he will have an oppurtunity to show his "evil" side, he WILL use it. |
| 604 | * CartoonCreature: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in his very introduction. He is supposedly a mouse, but that wouldn't explain his [[RodentsOfUnusualSize size]]. |
| 605 | * CharacterFilibuster: Nezu tends to ramble incessantly whenever he addresses the student body and faculty. All Might lampshades it best: |
| 606 | -->'''All Might:''' With the principal, if I let him go on, it'll never end... |
| 607 | * CurbStompBattle: He's one of two teachers who wins their final exam fight, absolutely ''shredding'' Ashido and Kaminari, boxing them in by strategically knocking down their surroundings with a wrecking ball. Even when he purposefully leaves them a way out, they can't find it and lose. |
| 608 | * DisasterDominoes: {{Invoked|Trope}}. With his vast intelligence, Nezu can perfectly calculate where to strike with his wrecking ball during the final exam to create the exact chain of destruction he needs to rout his targets. |
| 609 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: He actually has a real name, but is frequently referred to as the school's principal. |
| 610 | * EvilLaugh: When showing his "darker" side. |
| 611 | * {{Expy}}: Shares the same name as the villainous politican from ''{{Manga/Akira}}'', given both have rat/mouse themes. However, ''this'' Nezu plays an unambiguously heroic role in ''My Hero Academia'' by contrast. |
| 612 | * Fiction500: In Chapter 323, Endeavor explains that Nezu’s contributions to Quirk education are so pervasive that it's made him massive amounts of money, which explains how he can construct replica city blocks and industrial areas for training grounds and active robots as live punching bags that all get smashed on a regular basis, all seemingly without any government financial aid and [[spoiler:completely revamped U.A.'s security systems to a ridiculous degree, to the point that the entire campus is actually mobile, and that the individual evacuation shelters can be shuttled off via underground tunnels to completely different parts of the country, while protected by dozens of layers of armor plating. The kicker is Nezu also paid for this entire system out of his own pocket.]] |
| 613 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: He's some kind of animal, but wears clothes just like humans. |
| 614 | * IntellectualAnimal: Thanks to his Quirk, he's actually smarter than any human. |
| 615 | * LargeAndInCharge: Inverted. He is the smallest teacher in U.A. and its principal. |
| 616 | * MeaningfulName: "Nezu" is a pun on the Japanese word for "rat", "nezumi". That said, whether it's really a MeaningfulName or a NonIndicativeName depends on whether Nezu is a rodent or some other animal. At any rate, it reflects his past as a [[TheyWouldCutYouUp lab rat]], be it literal or figurative. |
| 617 | * NiceGuy: Barring his "evil" side, overall he's a plesant, kind and trustworthy individual. |
| 618 | * PuttingThePalInPrincipal: Nezu is an affable creature who genuinely prioritizes the students' growth and well-being. He does have a "darker side" that is played for laughs, though. |
| 619 | * ReadingsAreOffTheScale: Not quite as much as All Might, but his Intelligence at least breaks the official rating scale at 6/5. Appropriate, since SuperIntelligence ''is'' his power. |
| 620 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: So far, he appears to be a nice, smart and trustworthy person, enough to be one of the few people that knows about the true nature of All Might's One For All. [[spoiler:He even hears out class 1-A after the Paranormal Liberation War and determines they are unfairly being kept in the dark about where Izuku is and what the heroes' plans for fighting All For One are. He also makes it clear U.A.'s doors are always open to Izuku, whether he is targeted by All For One or not, because he is one of its students.]] |
| 621 | * RodentsOfUnusualSize: Part of the reason he gives off ViewerSpeciesConfusion InUniverse is that he is too big to be a mouse. |
| 622 | * RuggedScar: Has one on his right eye. It's almost undeniable that he got it from the many abuses inflicted on him through experimentation. |
| 623 | * SecretKeeper: He's one of the handful people who know the true nature of One For All, along with Recovery Girl, Midoriya, and Gran Torino. |
| 624 | * ShoulderTeammate: He is occasionally seen sitting on his colleagues' shoulders. |
| 625 | * SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Nezu doesn't wear glasses but his Quirk's name, High Spec, evokes this. |
| 626 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: His name is often spelled as "Nedzu" by fans. |
| 627 | * TheStrategist: As Kaminari and Ashido learn, Nezu is always ''many'' steps ahead of his opponents and it takes a lot of brainpower to outwit him, something they sadly lack going into their final exam. Nezu schools them harder than any other teacher, proving why he's the principal of U.A. |
| 628 | * SuperIntelligence: His Quirk, and its not that he is an animal with human level intelligence, his Quirk has made him the smartest person on the planet. |
| 629 | * TheyWouldCutYouUp: As an animal with a Quirk, he was experimented on when he was first discovered. |
| 630 | * TokenNonHuman: [[invoked]] Even taking into account the various mutant Quirks, Nezu is actually not a human, he's an [[ViewerSpeciesConfusion animal]] who's among the very few who have Quirks, making him this not only for U.A.'s staff, but also amidst heroes as a whole. |
| 631 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: CartoonCheese, which he munches on at lunchtime. |
| 632 | * UpliftedAnimal: He's an animal who got SuperIntelligence because of his Quirk. |
| 633 | * ViewerSpeciesConfusion: [[invoked]] His species is indeterminate. As [[InUniverse he himself says]], he might be a mouse or a dog or a bear. This is lampshaded to the point that he's the trope image. However, it has been lightly implied that he is a mouse later in the plot. |
| 634 | * WeakBossStrongUnderlings: Nezu is an indeterminate small animal whose Quirk is SuperIntelligence. As such, his value mostly resides in being TheStrategist rather than a frontline combatant. Nezu is the principal of Japan's best hero school, so his employees and students often possess Quirks with more obvious offensive potential. One of the teachers is the current number one hero and BigGood, All Might. |
| 635 | * WhatYouAreInTheDark: As a result of abuse and mistreatment by humans in the past, Nezu's true character reveals itself whenever he is in combat. He enjoys "toying" with humans. He still holds a grudge over the many experiments he went through, coming off as slightly insane and unpredictable as a result. |
| 636 | * WorldsSmartestMan: Nezu, whose Quirk, High Spec, does not merely give him SuperIntelligence, but makes him smarter than any human on Earth, to the point that he's easily able to calculate the precise angles and velocities required to perform DisasterDominoes with a wrecking ball. He's also in charge of the most esteemed hero school in Japan and his official ratings give him a [[BrokeTheRatingScale 6/5 in intelligence]]. |
| 637 | [[/folder]] |
| 638 | |
| 639 | [[folder:Chiyo Shuzenji -- Recovery Girl]] |
| 640 | !!Chiyo Shuzenji -- Recovery Girl |
| 641 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EtsukoKozakura (Japanese), Juli Erickson (Season 1), Creator/LuciChristian (Season 2 onward) (English), Patricia Azan (Latin American Spanish/TV series) |
| 642 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 4 (Manga), Episode 4 (Anime) |
| 643 | !!!'''Quirk:''' [[HealingHands Heal]] |
| 644 | |
| 645 | [[quoteright:255:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/c_chara_main28_1.png]] |
| 646 | [[caption-width-right:255:Youthful Heroine]] |
| 647 | |
| 648 | ->''"All right, this poor boy should be sorted now. Are there any more injured to take care of?"'' |
| 649 | |
| 650 | The school's resident nurse. Her Quirk, "Heal", speeds up the recovery of injuries of her patients. |
| 651 | ---- |
| 652 | * FanDisservice: Any one of the kisses she gives to heal wounds qualifies. Both the manga and the anime portray the first instance she does this as revolting enough to warrant an action splash graphic. |
| 653 | * GoodIsNotSoft: While Recovery Girl is a kindhearted person, if someone engages in SelfHarm through abuse of their Quirk, she'll eventually refuse to treat them unless it means they'll die. Midoriya and, by extension, All Might find out about this after the former's defeat in the U.A. Sports Festival, thanks in no small part to his recklessness in his match against Todoroki. |
| 654 | * HealingHands: Played with, as her power allows her to magnify someone's own regenerative process. |
| 655 | * HealingMagicIsTheHardest: Her Quirk technically doesn't heal injuries outright, but rather speeds up the patient's natural healing process to repair any damage. As a result, those healed by her are exhausted after receiving the benefits, and her powers can become ineffective after too many repeated uses due to the body using up its energy reserves, as Midoriya finds out the hard way. It also doesn't work on lost limbs or organs nor repair anything that the human body can't merely regenerate on its own like nerve damage and heavy scars. She also has to conduct manual surgery if the patient ended up fragmenting their bones in order to remove the shards. |
| 656 | * HospitalHottie: [[IWasQuiteTheLooker Heavily implied to have formerly been one]] judging by her obviously outdated subtitle. |
| 657 | * IntimateHealing: Her Quirk manifests through [[MagicKiss smooches]]. |
| 658 | * MeaningfulName: Her name contains the characters for "discipline", "provide", "healing" and "virtuous". All of which can connect to her personality and Quirk. Her first name, "Chiyo," sounds like ''chiyu'' (治癒), meaning "healing", which also explains her Quirk working via a MagicKiss, or ''chuu''. The "Shuzen" in her last name is also homophonous with "repair" (修繕). |
| 659 | * TheMedic: She's the school nurse with the power to heal. You have to expect she's this. |
| 660 | * MiniatureSeniorCitizens: One of the oldest members of the school and naturally short in stature. |
| 661 | * NonActionGuy: Unlike the rest of U.A.'s staff, who are still active heroes when the need arises, Recovery Girl stays in her office and treats the wounded even during times of crisis. Considering she's an elderly woman with a Quirk that has no apparent combat value, [[JustifiedTrope it makes sense]]. |
| 662 | * NonIndicativeName: "The Youthful Heroine: Recovery Girl" is a senior citizen, not a young lady as the name suggests, implying that she's had this for a long time and never bothered to change it. |
| 663 | * RuleOfSymbolism: Befitting a healing-themed heroine, both her hairpin and cane are styled after a syringe. |
| 664 | * SecretKeeper: She is one of the few people who knows everything about All Might's Quirk. [[spoiler:This is because she was one of the people who helped him through his long and troubled recovery after All For One brutally maimed him, and not even her power was enough to completely fix him back up, because some of his organs were outright ''gone'' and she can't recreate lost body parts - that's a totally different Quirk entirely.]] |
| 665 | * StealthPun: She literally kisses the boo-boos away. |
| 666 | * SuperheroSobriquets: "The Youthful Heroine". |
| 667 | * TeamMom: As the oldest member of the faculty at U.A., she seems to have a tendency of behaving very motherly both towards her patients and towards All Might sometimes, reprimanding his bad behavior in the manner of a mother talking to her child. |
| 668 | * WhatTheHellHero: |
| 669 | ** Delivers one to All Might when Midoriya's drive to meet his expectations results in three limbs being so broken that they can't be healed with her Quirk the normal way, requiring surgery. |
| 670 | ** Does this again after both of Midoriya's matches in the U.A. Sports Festival, as he had broken his fingers on both occassions. She even went as far as to hit All Might to emphasize her point. Following Midoriya's defeat against Shoto Todoroki, she outright refuses to heal him going forward because he showed little regard for his own health throughout the event. Perhaps the exception to this involved the aftermath of his class's battle against [[spoiler:the League of Villains' Vanguard Action Squad and the Shie Hassaikai.]] |
| 671 | ** Does it once again after [[spoiler:the training session in which Midoriya and Bakugo are brutally beaten by All Might's overwhelming strength, saying that Midoriya's lower back was within a hair's breadth of snapping beyond all recovery.]] |
| 672 | [[/folder]] |
| 673 | [[folder:Lunch Rush]] |
| 674 | !!Lunch Rush |
| 675 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Tyler Wright (English) |
| 676 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 7 (Manga), Episode 6 (Anime) |
| 677 | !!!'''Quirk:''' Unknown |
| 678 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lunch_rush_work_uniform_28anime29.png]] |
| 679 | |
| 680 | The school's chef. |
| 681 | ---- |
| 682 | * TheBusCameBack: He plays a small but major role in Chapter 346, making food en masse for Momo Yaoyorozu to convert into lipids so she can make the parts needed for the moving concrete panels after Shigaraki destroys some. |
| 683 | * TheFaceless: Wears a breathing mask and a large chef's hat over his head. |
| 684 | * MeaningfulName: His hero name references what his job is. |
| 685 | * SupremeChef: Implied due to how many students are seen eating in the Grand Mess Hall, as well as Uraraka stating that she likes the school's food. While brainstorming for the SchoolFestival, Class 1-A decides against doing anything food-related since there's no way they can rival his cooking. |
| 686 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: He likes white rice. |
| 687 | [[/folder]] |
| 688 | [[folder:Ryo Inui -- Hound Dog]] |
| 689 | !!Ryo Inui -- Hound Dog |
| 690 | !!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/EijiHanawa (Japanese), Zach Bolton (English), Rubén Moya (Latin American Spanish/TV series) |
| 691 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 20 (Manga), Episode 13 (Anime) |
| 692 | !!!'''Quirk:''' [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing Dog]] |
| 693 | |
| 694 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ryo_inui_hero_costume_28anime29.png]] |
| 695 | |
| 696 | ->''"WHAT ARE YOU STARING AT ME ALL GLOOMY-LOOKING FOR?"'' |
| 697 | |
| 698 | The school's Lifestyle Guidance Counselor who sometimes falls victim to his canine nature. |
| 699 | ---- |
| 700 | * {{Angrish}}: Starts barking and growling when he's worked up. Since he's introduced immediately after Bakugo and Midoriya's fight, he's so mad that he can barely get more than three actual words out. |
| 701 | * AnimalThemedSuperbeing: He's a dog-themed hero, which is made pretty obvious by his hero name. He also greatly resembles a dog and tends to revert to canine behavior when he's upset. |
| 702 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: He has a tendency to devolve into fits of angry snapping and barking and even physically attacking people in the process, but he is also a very caring guidance counselor who wishes to help students as best he can. |
| 703 | * FaceOfAThug: His face is a permanent furious glower even without the mask, and his eyes are lizard-like slits. |
| 704 | * HiddenHeartOfGold: Like Gang Orca, he's stern and ''really'' intense when he gets worked up, but he's good with kids and cares deeply for U.A.'s students. |
| 705 | * InformedAttribute: It's said that he works as a school counselor but we rarely ever see him doing his job or offer his services to the U.A. kids, especially Class 1-A. |
| 706 | * MeaningfulName: His family name contains the kanji for "dog", and his given name means "hunting", with the kanji used for it also being part for the Japanese word for "hound" (''ryoken''). |
| 707 | * TheNoseKnows: As could be expected of a person with the abilities of a dog, he's got an incredibly keen sense of smell, which was once used to have him act as a "guard dog" when the school beefed up security for the school festival. |
| 708 | * TheUnintelligible: Not all the time, but when he starts spewing angrish, it's hard for him to get his point across. He can talk just fine when he's relatively calm, though. |
| 709 | [[/folder]] |
| 710 | !Others |
| 711 | [[folder:Robots]] |
| 712 | !!Robots |
| 713 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 3 (Manga), Episode 3 (Anime) |
| 714 | |
| 715 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/villain_bot.png]] |
| 716 | [[caption-width-right:350:A Victory bot.]] |
| 717 | |
| 718 | U.A. employs several types of semi-intelligent machinery to assist with teaching. Notably, there's Villain Bots, combat testing machines designed to simulate real-life D rank villains during the entrance exam, Conveyor Bots, tiny machines that assist with the transportation of the injured, and Camera Bots, that record school events and monitor the school. |
| 719 | ---- |
| 720 | * AIIsACrapshoot: |
| 721 | ** PlayedStraight in the ''Vigilantes'' bonus Chapter 6+ Beta, where a rogue Executor rampages in a city and is taken down by All Might. |
| 722 | ** Invoked during training sessions, such as the one showcased in Chapter 256. The villain bots boast about being [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} "the skynet of this world"]], but it's just a way to make the training session more lively. |
| 723 | * BenevolentAI: While it's unclear exactly how intelligent the machines are, they are intelligent enough to crack wise and snark at humans without actually showing any vitriol toward them. |
| 724 | * DeadpanSnarker: They take plenty of jabs at their human creators, such as the Conveyor Bots noting how fragile humans are, or a Camera Bot giving Aizawa a hard time when it catches Midoriya and Bakugo fighting. |
| 725 | * PetTheDog: [[spoiler: During the Final War arc, Rei asks one of the robots to take her to Endeavor and Dabi's fight, so she could help them. Despite the ''huge'' danger it can cause to her and the robot, it agrees and says that they exist to fulfill human's desires, while making a thumb's up.]] |
| 726 | * ShoutOut: |
| 727 | ** In the manga, during Present Mic explanation of the entrance exam, the Villain Bots are represented by a Koopa, a Goomba, a Piranha Plant, and a Thwomp, all enemies from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' The anime replaces them with silhouettes of the robots. |
| 728 | ** The different types of Villain Bots are named after classes of starships from ''Franchise/StarWars'': one-pointers are '''Victory''', two-pointers are '''Venator''', three-pointers are '''Imperial''', and zero-pointers are '''Executor'''. |
| 729 | [[/folder]] |
| 730 | [[folder:Eri (Spoilers)]] |
| 731 | !!Eri |
| 732 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Seiran Kobayashi (Japanese), Creator/EmilyNeves (English), Ana Sofía Medina (Latin American Spanish/TV series) |
| 733 | !!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 128 (Manga), Episode 66 (Anime) |
| 734 | !!!'''Quirk:''' [[DevolutionDevice Rewind]] |
| 735 | |
| 736 | [[quoteright:239:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eri_well_dressed.png]] |
| 737 | [[caption-width-right:239:''"It's sweeter than an apple."'']] |
| 738 | [[caption-width-right:239:[[labelnote:Click here to see her outfit during the Internship Arc.]]\ |
| 739 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eri_anime.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 740 | %% There is a dispute concerning her last name, "Sakaki", due to the dubious nature of scanlation translations; Mangastream and Fallen Angels both use that name for a line of dialogue Shin Nemuto says, but the official wiki hasn't budged on the matter yet. As such, it won't be put here until there's solid confirmation regarding the matter. |
| 741 | |
| 742 | ->''"I don't really know, but so many people are trying their hardest. So I want to know how it will turn out."'' |
| 743 | |
| 744 | A young girl whom Overhaul claimed to be his daughter. She was held captive by the Shie Hassaikai, as her Quirk was central to their plans, before being rescued by the heroes. As of the U.A. Cultural Festival Arc, she's been taken into custody by U.A. and is taken care of by the staff. |
| 745 | ---- |
| 746 | * AbusiveParents: |
| 747 | ** Eri's real mother didn't want anything to do with her after [[spoiler:her Quirk accidentally erased her father from existence. This prompted Eri's mother to disown her and leave her in the care of Eri's grandfather, the former Boss of the Shie Hassaikai, after telling him that her own daughter is cursed.]] |
| 748 | ** Overhaul pretends to be her father just for the sake of manipulating her more easily. He makes her think she's a weapon being used to and born to destroy people. [[spoiler:He drains her blood to use its properties to make Quirk nullifying bullets. When she runs out of blood to give, he uses his Quirk to break her down and reset her back to normal. Given what's seen of people who have been broken down, it can't have been a nice experience at all and Eri has clearly been traumatized by these experiences.]] Mirio is completely horrified when he learns about it. |
| 749 | * AdaptationDyeJob: A similar downplayed case to Shigaraki, colored pages show she has pure-white hair in the manga, which is changed to a blueish-white tint in the anime. |
| 750 | * BadassAndChildDuo: Has this dynamic with both Mirio and Midoriya when defending her from Overhaul. Becomes especially apparent with Midoriya when [[spoiler: he straps her to his back to take down Overhaul for good, her "rewind" Quirk able to undo the damage he gains from One For All 100%, thus allowing him to go all out against Overhaul.]] |
| 751 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:According to Overhaul, she'll be all right if he "destroys" her so long as he "repairs" her immediately -- and it's happened before.]] The prospect of hearing this makes Mirio ''sick''. |
| 752 | * BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler:The end of chapter 415 has a panel of her running away with determination in her eyes after seeing Deku getting steadily overwhelmed in his climatic fight with Tomura, making it look like her power will be vital in allowing him to contend against his enemy's sheer power [[CombinationAttack like they did with Overhaul]]...only for the next chapter to have Ectoplasm stop her in her tracks. Not only is an adult hero ''not'' going to allow a child anywhere near such a dangerous battlefield that's hundreds of kilometers away, but the fighting against the Villain Army has also wreaked and destroyed any transport modules that could potentially be used to reach it. Ectoplasm furthermore points out that after healing Mirio to the point of being able to use his Quirk again, not enough time has passed to allow her to rewind the injuries sustained in the fighting by Aizawa, let alone Izuku, meaning she's forced to remain on the sidelines]]. |
| 753 | * BarefootCaptives: She goes barefoot while living in the care of the Shie Hassaikai. [[spoiler:This is no longer the case after she is rescued and taken into the care of U.A. She is given cleaner and prettier clothing, including some nice shoes.]] |
| 754 | * BlessedWithSuck: Eri can [[spoiler:rewind living beings to a previous state.]] A bout of PowerIncontinence led to her [[spoiler:accidentally erasing her father from existence, which prompted her horrified mother to disown her.]] Her Quirk then led Overhaul to take an interest in her as a source of Quirk erasing drug, which he extracted from her body in an excruciatingly painful process. |
| 755 | * BrokenBird: Eri has been abused so much in the hands of the Hassaikai and Overhaul that she has actually resigned herself to bear the suffering out of sheer ''hopelessness''. When she's going to be harmed because Overhaul will fix any damage done to her and is throwing her under the bus, Eri grits her teeth and waits for the inevitable. She's in a near-catatonic state when she finally meets Midoriya out of fear and pain, and by the time Midoriya and Mirio meet her in the hospital after the raid, the overall trauma has caused her to forget how to smile. |
| 756 | * BrokenTears: In the middle of being rescued, Eri starts to break down in tears when she sees that the rescue operation is only managing to get heroes brutalized left and right, and they get worse when Overhaul gives a BreakingSpeech saying that it was selfish of them to try and rescue her because Eri is unwanted and trying to save her will just result in more pain for her and everyone involved. |
| 757 | * CheerfulChild: Though she's introduced as being [[TroubledChild deeply traumatized]] by Overhaul's abuse, being rescued and U.A. taking her into their custody has improved her mental state and she's well on her way to becoming more cheerful. [[spoiler:Class 1-A's performance]] makes her [[WhenSheSmiles grin for the first time in the series]], which clearly delights Mirio, and she excitedly recaps it to Midoriya afterwards. Later, she giddily consumes a candy apple Midoriya made for her. |
| 758 | * ColorCodedWizardry: When her Quirk is used, it manifests as glowing yellow streams of energy. |
| 759 | * CombinationAttack: [[spoiler:Eri continually heals Midoriya's wounds to bypass One For All's drawback to [[SuperMode pull out 100% of its power]] against Overhaul in the final battle of the Internship Arc, while Midoriya continuously destroys his own body to keep her from accidentally erasing him.]] |
| 760 | * DamselInDistress: She's a young defenseless girl in the Hassaikai's custody who are using her cells as [[PoweredByAForsakenChild the basis for a drug-dealing operation]]. Saving her and taking down the Hassaikai are the objectives of the Internship Arc. |
| 761 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: ''Good Lord''. Disowned by her mother [[spoiler:because she accidentally erased her father]] and then an existence of getting ''ripped apart and reassembled by Overhaul'' so he could harvest her blood for his Quirk-Destroying bullets. To see that she doesn't know how to smile is depressing as all hell, but not at all surprising. |
| 762 | * DeathByDeaging: [[spoiler:Her Quirk lets her "rewind" living things to a previous state, [[CessationOfExistence including to the state in which they never existed]]. She accidentally did this to her father when her Quirk first awakened, and the bullets that the Shie Hassaikai are producing work by rewinding the people they shoot to a state from before humanity first developed Quirks.]] |
| 763 | * DevolutionDevice: Humans with Quirks are [[EvolutionaryLevels considered the next stage of evolution]]. Eri's Quirk is a SemanticSuperpower [[spoiler:revolving around the term "rewind"]], which Overhaul exploits to create bullets that DePower those with Quirks, turning them into normal humans. He also suggests that she can turn a human into an apelike creature with some effort. |
| 764 | * DispelMagic: [[spoiler:She uses her Quirk to cancel Overhaul's fusion with Nemoto, separating them into their normal selves.]] |
| 765 | * DubNameChange: The Arabic dub changes her name to "Rei", due to "Eri" possibly meaning "my d*ck" in Syrian Arabic. |
| 766 | * TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:As Overhaul is about to escape with her during his fight with Midoriya, Eri, reminded of the heroic sacrifices of those who came to save her, uses her Quirk to undo Overhaul's OneWingedAngel and free herself. Eri eventually teams up with Midoriya and uses her Quirk to erase the drawbacks of fighting at One For All at 100%, allowing the two of them to defeat Overhaul once and for all.]] |
| 767 | * EveryonesBabySister: She is basically adopted by the entirety of Class 1-A . Midoriya and Mirio jointly have BigBrotherInstinct, Tsuyu says Eri reminds her of her own little sister, and Aizawa becomes her legal guardian. Mirio is her actual caretaker, and Nejire is seen putting her hair into pigtails. Tamaki might be too shy to interact with her, but it may be The Big Three's little sister's as well. |
| 768 | * FirstNameBasis: Partly as a result of having OnlyOneName, and partly due to being a young girl (so people are generally less formal with her), people exclusively refer to her by her first name, even when they generally use last names on others. |
| 769 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: Eri's Quirk [[spoiler:shows that Quirks aren't always physical abilities, and can potentially be metaphysical forces that warp reality in strange and impossible ways (which rarely happen). Soon after, [[WhamEpisode the revelation hits that One For All isn't]] a [[BodySurf purely physical ability either]].]] |
| 770 | * GildedCage: Overhaul gives her a nice room with a comfortable bed and lots of expensive toys. It doesn't change the fact that [[spoiler:he exploits her Quirk in an extremely painful fashion to manufacture Quirk erasing bullets]]. To drive this even further home, the toys she was given haven't even been touched or opened, emphasizing how she's too traumatized to even consider playing with them. |
| 771 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: Right after Midoriya finishes trashing Overhaul with the help of Eri’s Quirk, it starts to go out of control again, causing her eyes to glow solid white and a terrifying yellow aura of energy to surround both of them. She can only cry, “Stop...! Stop...!” as it’s about to rewind Midoriya out of existence. Thankfully, Aizawa is there and is able to nullify it, saving Midoriya’s life. |
| 772 | * GooGooGodlike: She's a 6-year-old girl with an incredibly powerful, dangerous, and uncontrollable Quirk [[spoiler:that basically ruined her life, causing her to accidentally erase her father from existence, which led her mother to disown her and give her up to people who used her as a source of material to make Quirk-erasing bullets without any care for her welfare. Even after she's rescued, Aizawa notes that her Quirk isn't one that can be easily trained since it only works on living things and testing it out would put lives at risk. A loophole is later found with practicing on bugs and lizards]]. |
| 773 | * HealTheCutie: She's introduced as a quiet, traumatized little girl after [[spoiler:accidentally killing her father, being abandoned by her mother and being tortured by Overhaul to make anti-Quirk bullets]]. Midoriya and Mirio make it their personal mission to make her smile again, and using friendship, treats, and ThePowerOfRock finally help her to become the CheerfulChild she was meant to be. |
| 774 | * HealingHands: [[spoiler:Since her powers let her rewind living things to a previous state, she can essentially make injuries never happen in the first place with a touch. Of course, if she holds on too long, than she does the opposite. While under care with Mirio and U.A, she practiced her powers on small insects and lizards, eventually being able to use the right amount of power to restore Mirio's Quirk.]] |
| 775 | * HeroicSacrifice: A non-deadly one, but Eri decided to go away with Overhaul instead of being saved by Mirio and Midoriya during their first encounters with each other because she could tell the two would most likely die in a fight between them. |
| 776 | * HeroicSelfDeprecation: Eri has been used, abused, and told that she's "cursed" so often that she cannot understand why anyone would want to save her, much less be so determined to save her that they would give up their life, [[spoiler:or even their own Quirk]], to do so. |
| 777 | * HopeSpot: She finally manages to escape wherever she was being held captive and finds heroes willing to rescue her... but has to go back for the sake of those heroes' lives. |
| 778 | * HornedHumanoid: Sports a small horn on one side of her head. When her Quirk activates, sparks can be shown coming off of it. Chapter 167 reveals that the horn is where her Quirk originated from, and also that it has shrunken down to a small bump. [[spoiler:In Chapter 256, her horn starts tingling and growing back, indicating that her Quirk is re-asserting itself.]] |
| 779 | * ImageSong: The Season 4 anime ending, "Koukai no Uta" (lit. "Song of a Voyage"). The ending's visuals focus exclusively on Eri, her past, and her current predicament. While the song itself isn't sung by her, the lyrics can apply to her character and seem to be encouraging her not to give up hope that one day she will be able to escape from the Shie Hassaikai, and no longer be forced to live a life full of pain and loneliness. |
| 780 | -->''Don't need to be strong, doesn’t matter if you have nothing''\ |
| 781 | ''Just as long as you believe''\ |
| 782 | ''That will be the one thing that saves you''\ |
| 783 | ''No matter what kind of pain awaits in the future''\ |
| 784 | ''Go forth without hesitation!'' |
| 785 | * ItsAllMyFault: She blames herself for the events of the Internship Arc. While she did play a part, being a LivingMacGuffin, Togata and Midoriya ensures her that it wasn't her fault. |
| 786 | * LivingMacGuffin: Of the Internship Arc. She is a MacGuffinSuperPerson who is being wrongfully detained by Overhaul and the Shie Hassaikai for overtly nefarious plans and that the heroes seek to liberate. |
| 787 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: She's kept in the dark about [[spoiler:Sir Nighteye's death]] because it would be traumatic for a child and she'd start blaming herself for it since [[spoiler:Nighteye died shortly after her rescue mission succeeded]]. |
| 788 | * MadwomanInTheAttic: A variation. Her captors do consider that she's indeed too dangerous to be left wandering in society due to her Quirk but also because she's instrumental in their schemes. |
| 789 | * MafiaPrincess: Completely averted. While Eri is the granddaughter of the Shie Hassaikai's boss who Overhaul revered, she gets no special treatment from the organization and Overhaul treats her as more of a tool than a human being. |
| 790 | * MeaningfulName: Eri's name is made up of two kanji meaning "break" and "reason/logic"; put together, they can translate as "destruction". [[spoiler:This alludes to how Overhaul is using her blood to make a Quirk destroying drug, and how her own Quirk can potentially destroy someone by erasing them from existence entirely. Her Quirk also "breaks logic" by [[WrongContextMagic being nothing like any known Quirk in existence]], often referred to as a mutation by other characters and having no connection to any Quirk on either side of her family.]] |
| 791 | * NeverHadToys: A variation -- while Eri ''does'' have toys in her room at the Shie Hassaikai's base (and expensive ones, at that), she's too traumatized to play with or even open them. |
| 792 | * OnlyOneName: She is the only named character to have no family name. Although she is stated to be Overhaul's daughter, she is never called "Eri Chisaki", [[spoiler:especially when it's made clear that he's not her real father anyway]]. The reveal that [[spoiler:she was disowned by her mother at a very young age after accidentally erasing her father from existence]] could have something to do with it. |
| 793 | * ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:When Eri's Quirk first awakened and accidentally erased her father from existence, her mother was so distraught that she willingly abandoned Eri by handing her over to the Shie Hassaikai, wanting nothing to do with a daughter she believed was "cursed".]] |
| 794 | * {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler:She accidentally erased her father from existence when she awakened her Quirk. While this wasn't entirely her fault since she was very young and [[PowerIncontinence had no control over her Quirk]], her mother didn't take it well at all and abandoned her because of it.]] |
| 795 | * PleaseDontLeaveMe: Upon first meeting Midoriya, she clings to him and begs, "Please...don't go..." Midoriya can immediately tell that she has been mistreated by the way she clings to him so tightly, even though she only met him a few minutes ago. |
| 796 | * PowerIncontinence: Eri is unable to control her own Quirk; not only is this due to her young age, but she's never even been told what her power was, nor has she ever been given the chance to learn how to use it safely. Her TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening [[spoiler:erased her father from existence]], and Overhaul's dialogue indicates she hasn't yet improved in this regard. Midoriya compares her use of her Quirk as slamming her foot on the gas pedal and unable to get off it. [[spoiler:By the time Midoriya finally defeats Overhaul, her Quirk's gone so far out of control it's only due to [[AntiMagic Aizawa]] that Midoriya isn't RetGone either.]] By the events of Chapter 293, Eri has a decent amount of control over her abilities. |
| 797 | * PowerNullifier: She is being used to create anti-Quirk bullets. [[AntiMagic Unlike Aizawa]], the bullets attack the Quirk itself instead of just halting the use of one, at least at first. Chapter 156 reveals that [[spoiler:it's not exactly a power nullifying Quirk, but a Quirk that can restore a person to a previous state, like rewinding a biological clock.]] |
| 798 | * PoweredByAForsakenChild: The Shie Hassaikai are using Eri to produce PowerNullifier bullets that disable the Quirk factor through the use of [[spoiler:her Quirk, which allows her to rewind things back to a previous state. They do this by harvesting her blood and tissues as a prime matter for the bullets until she's ''dead''. Then their leader, Overhaul, who has the power to deconstruct and reconstruct anything he touches, brings her back to life to repeat the process. Midoriya and Mirio are absolutely disgusted with themselves that they weren't able to immediately save her when they encountered her beforehand after they find out. Even the former Boss of the Shie Hassaikai [[EvenEvilHasStandards was appalled by the lengths Overhaul was going to in order to gain power.]]]] |
| 799 | * {{Protectorate}}: She becomes a precious person whose smile must be protected for Mirio and Midoriya from the moment they get her away from Overhaul. Aizawa is later appointed to oversee her since he can stop her with his Quirk in case her Quirk goes haywire. She is now under the custody of U.A.. |
| 800 | * RaisedByGrandparents: After her mother abandoned her, Eri was left to live with her grandfather. [[spoiler:However, he had left her to be cared for by his adoptive son, who put him into a coma and used her blood to create Quirk destroying bullets. It's still unknown if/when Eri's grandfather would wake up after the Hassaikai is dissolved.]] |
| 801 | * RandomlyGifted: From a genetic roll of the dice, Eri was born with an extremely powerful but uncontrollable Quirk that none of her family members share. |
| 802 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Played with. On the one hand, her Quirk is very dangerous when used improperly. On the other hand, when used properly, it can be very beneficial, and Eri herself is a sweet and adorable girl. |
| 803 | * ScarsAreForever: Without the bandages, she's revealed to have numerous faded scars on her arms and legs from when she was repeatedly broken down and remade by Overhaul's Quirk to provide more blood for his Quirk-erasing bullets. |
| 804 | * SelfHarm: [[spoiler:In Chapter 420, she resorts to ''breaking off her own horn'' with the help of Ectoplasm since she wouldn't be allowed anywhere near the battlefield, but still wanted to help Midoriya regain his arms with it at least even if her Quirk might be permanently damaged since her horn is her Quirk Factor.]] |
| 805 | * SemanticSuperpower: Her Quirk, Rewind, is described as being able to [[spoiler:"rewind" things to a previous state. So far, she's removed Quirks, undone fusions, healed injuries, and ''erased people from existence''.]] Because such a power could easily become a StoryBreakerPower, she's hospitalized and feverish at the end of her spotlight arc, which also implies that her power is limited. [[spoiler:Chapter 293 adds in "restored Quirks" to the mixture.]] |
| 806 | * ShadowArchetype: |
| 807 | ** To both Midoriya and Mirio. Like them, she possessed an incredible but erratic, potentially dangerous Quirk that she couldn't control. She is also self-sacrificial to the ultimate extreme. ''Unlike'' them, she never had anyone to care for her and help her, came to see her Quirk as a curse, and lost any hope of her situation improving until she met them. |
| 808 | * SheCleansUpNicely: After being rescued from Overhaul and taken in by the authorities to be healed, she's finally able to lose the rags she was wearing previously and given proper clothing, looking quite cute in the process. |
| 809 | * SignificantBirthDate: Her birthday is December 21, or 12/21. It's the same backwards and forwards--her Quirk is to make things go backwards. |
| 810 | * StoryBreakerPower: Her power would take all the tension out of the story if she could control it. For example, she could [[spoiler:rewind All Might back to his powered-up form, undo all of Midoriya's injuries, give back Mirio's Quirk,[[note]]which he does plan to ask her to do once she has control of her power[[/note]] etc. For this reason, the end of the Internship Arc sees her feverish and unconscious in a hospital, incapable of using her powers. After she recovers, her Quirk becomes much weaker and somewhat unstable due to the massive amount of harmful Quirk enhancing drugs Overhaul used on her. By Chapter 293, it's revealed that she has enough control to at least undo the damage done to Mirio and has been practicing healing injured bugs and lizards.]] |
| 811 | * SuperStrongChild: PlayedForLaughs. Despite being a little girl, she [[GlacierWaif manages to carry]] a {{BFS}} on her shoulder effortlessly, which stupefies Ojiro. |
| 812 | * SuperpowerfulGenetics: One of the rare Type 2s of this series. Her Quirk is completely unlike any that belongs to her family tree due to a rare genetic mutation that changed it. |
| 813 | * SweetTooth: She has a love of candied apples. |
| 814 | * ToyBasedCharacterization: Eri is a little girl whose blood is being used by Overhaul, boss of the Shie Hassaikai, as the primary ingredient in his Quirk-erasing bullets. He has bought several toys for her, but she is so traumatized that she cannot bring herself to play with them. They can be seen strewn around her room, still in their original packagings. It is also worth noting that, while expensive, they're all generic little-girl toys (including a princess doll, teddy bear, and mirror set) rather than anything specific she might actually want, underlining that he doesn't really care about making her happy, only that she cooperates and isn't a liability to him. |
| 815 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: She likes apples. Horikoshi has said that since Tokoyami also likes apples, he would like to draw them eating apples together. |
| 816 | * TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: She discovered her Quirk when [[spoiler:she accidentally rewound her father out of existence with it. This caused her distraught mother to disown her, leaving her in the care of her grandfather and adoptive uncle.]] |
| 817 | * TroubledChild: After being disowned by her mother for [[spoiler:accidentally erasing her father from existence]] and being horribly abused by her [[spoiler:adoptive uncle]] Overhaul, she's so broken that she's unable to smile, and doesn't even know what heroes are. Midoriya and Mirio greatly regret not saving her when they had the chance. |
| 818 | * UnskilledButStrong: Justified. Eri's rewinding Quirk verges on being a StoryBreakerPower, but because it only affects living beings and Eri herself suffers from massive PowerIncontinence due to her young age and inexperience, it can't be properly trained without having to risk a life in the process, as Aizawa notes. |
| 819 | * UnwittingTestSubject: Eri was a lab rat to Overhaul to create his bullets by using her blood and cells, all which was against her will. |
| 820 | * WhenSheSmiles: After spending nearly her entire page time since her introduction unhappy due to [[TroubledChild her abuse]], she finally breaks out into a huge, happy, uninhibited grin while [[spoiler:watching Class 1-A's performance at the U.A. Cultural Festival]]. The sight of it clearly delights Mirio. |
| 821 | * WrongContextMagic: Eri has a Quirk that absolutely cannot be a physical ability since it explicitly warps living creatures to whatever is vaguely defined as "backward". Obviously, it's one of the most dangerous powers in the story because no one understands how it works and it can't be researched without sacrificing human lives, so U.A. will stop at nothing to keep anyone else from getting their hands on her after taking her away from Overhaul. |
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