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Inko and Hisashi Midoriya
Inko and Hisashi Midoriya
Inko Midoriya
Midoriya's adoptive parents. They discovered his spaceship by chance while camping out at Mt. Fuji to get away from the world. Although Hisashi is hesitant to adopt an alien child, they both become the loving parents Izuku needed to put him on the path towards becoming the World's Greatest Hero.
- Adaptational Badass: Hiashi is not only a hero, but he’s also is one half of Firestorm in his story.
- Adults Are Useless: Played for Laughs while the Midoriyas are visiting the U.A. Culture Festival. When Izuku accidentally butts heads with a giant man in a plague mask over a rare Beebo doll, he looks to his parents for help. Inko is terrified for Izuku but doesn't know what to do in this kind of situation. Hisashi just shrugs at him, confident that Izuku will come out unscathed.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Izuku can get embarrassed by how fussy his parents and godfather can be over his well-being, getting red-faced as they shower compliments on him and drop him countless reminders right before he heads off for his first day at U.A.
- Anime Hair: Chapter 18 reveals that Hisashi has green hair styled like a five-pointed star.
- Ascended Extra: Hisashi Midoriya is The Ghost in canon, but is considerably more involved in Izuku's life here, talking to his wife about the X-ray results that would have shown that Izuku is Quirkless and defending him after the disastrous accident with Bakugou. He's also a scientist researching things that could change the world rather than a simple businessman working overseas, using his connections to forge adoption papers for Izuku. He is also said to come home once or twice a month and Izuku is grateful to have him in his life. Hisashi is also the superhero Firestorm.
- Big "NO!": Hisashi combines this with Rapid-Fire "No!" while arguing with his wife about adopting a baby Izuku.Hisashi: No.
Inko: [about the baby] He looks like a normal baby-
Hisashi: No.
Inko: -and everyone's probably looking for a big, green, monster man.
Hisashi: No.
Inko: It's hard to find something when it's hiding in plain sight-
Hisashi: Nonononononononononono-
Inko: -so if we don't want anyone to know we were involved in this, I was thinking that-
Hisashi: NO! [stream of fire shoots out of his mouth] - Breath Weapon: Hisashi's Quirk allows him to breathe fire, though it isn't always intentional.
- Character Tics: Hisashi's fire-breathing Quirk tends to activate on reflex when he's stressed. He also rambles while panicking or deep in thought, just like his son.
- Children Are Innocent: Inko believes this of the alien child she and Hisashi discovered that fateful night, despite her husband's fears that it could somehow be a Sleeper Agent. To her credit, she is absolutely right, and manages to raise him into a caring and compassionate young man with a strong sense of justice and an admiration for the world's greatest Heroes.Hisashi: Are you insane?! You want us to raise an alien baby?!
Inko: So what if he's an alien? It's not like all aliens are evil. The Martian Manhunter certainly wasn't evil. Besides, he's just a baby, and babies can't hurt people. - The Comically Serious: Hisashi is characterized like this, constantly fretting about little things and taking a conspiracy theory about aliens taking over worlds with their cuteness seriously, as seen under Enfant Terrible. That said, his government connections mean that some of his other fears (like the The Men in Black) may be more of a case of Properly Paranoid.
- Composite Character: Not to the same degree as their son, but they act like Jonathan and Martha Kent from the Superman mythos as Kal-El’s adoptive human parents.
- Deadpan Snarker: Inko, surprisingly enough, is this when speaking with her husband.Hisashi: [after rambling about how he had just taken an alien baby] This is serious, and you're not even paying attention.
Inko: No, I heard you just fine. You were rambling on and on about how we shouldn't have taken an alien with us and how we're going to get into a ton of trouble for doing this, right?
Hisashi: Well, yes, that more or less sums it up. Still, I shouldn't be the only one freaking out about this. - Dramatic Drop: She drops a plate full of food on the floor when Izuku reveals that he heard the conversation about how he shouldn't have a Quirk or a Metagene.
- The Faceless: Hisashi's appearance is never actually described in the story, but he apparently looks enough like his son that it is easy for people to believe that they're related by blood.
- Fainting: Inko's legs give way when she learns that Izuku inadvertently beat and befriended Kendo Rappa, a dangerous member of the yakuza.
- Fantastic Racism: Hisashi is extremely hesitant to adopt Izuku at first because of his anti-alien paranoia, which stems from his knowledge of the Lantern War and the fact that his father fought in it. All of it melts away after he goes through with it, proving himself to be a doting father despite his initial reservations.
- Forced Transformation: Mister Mxyzptlk turns Inko into a dog when she came to investigate what is happening in the kitchen on Izuku's second day of school.
- Friend of Masked Self: Hisashi says that Firestorm operates near where he works in New York and has dealt with the New York branch of the Hasigawa Family once the topic of the yakuza is brought up.
- Geek Physique: Hisashi couldn't pull off the lid to Izuku's spaceship alone. As per the narration, he pulled on it with all his might, but it isn't much might. He's also said to have all the build of a bamboo shoot.
- Good Parents: They're nothing but kind, patient, and supportive of Izuku. Even after he nearly kills Bakugou during their fateful brawl in the park, they fiercely defend him from the police officers who want to prosecute him. After they're forced to reveal his true origins, they assure him that he's still their son even if he isn't biologically their own.
- Happily Married: Despite their child troubles and occasional snarking at each other, it's clear that Hisashi and Inko love each other dearly and do their best to provide a stable home for Izuku.
- Housewife: Inko is always at home to take care of her son while her husband works overseas. She considers going back into designing after designing Yaoyorozu's and her son's costumes.
- I Am Not Your Father: They're forced to have this conversation with Izuku after he injures Bakugou, revealing that he isn't their biological son and that he is an alien. He doesn't take it well, declaring that he is a monster before slamming the door to his bedroom shut with tears streaming down his face.
- I'm Taking Her Home with Me!: Inko's response to discovering the baby alien inside the spaceship. She is just so distraught over discovering that she is infertile that she fell in love with him at first sight.
- It Began with a Twist of Fate: The Midoriyas would have never found Izuku if they hadn't chosen to camp out at Mt. Fuji on that fateful day in that specific spot.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: Hisashi initially refers to the alien baby as "it" until Inko corrects him after looking in the baby's diaper.Hisashi: If anyone finds out that we were the ones who took it-
Inko: Him.
Hisashi: What?
Inko: I looked inside the diaper, and the baby isn't an "it", it's a "boy". - Law of Inverse Fertility: The Midoriyas wanted a child really badly as they did in canon, but found that they were infertile. Luckily for them, a certain spaceship came streaking through the sky over their campsite.
- Mind over Matter: Inko's Quirk allows her to pull things towards her, but she's limited to small objects. She used it to pull off the lid to Izuku's spaceship with her husband's help.
- Mother Nature, Father Science: Izuku mentioned that Inko worked as a designer before settling down to become a housewife, while Hisashi is a nuclear physicist, mirroring the roles of Lara Lor-Van and Jor-El who were a priestess and a Omnidisciplinary Scientist respectively.
- Muggle Foster Parents: Played with. The Midoriyas both have Quirks, but they aren't integral to their daily lives and are considered "normal" among the 90% of people with some form of superpower on Earth. They're still the loving adoptive parents of one wayward Kryptonian child, whose origins would be considered anything but normal on an Earth rife with Fantastic Racism even though his powers aren't necessarily out of place. Subverted when its revealed Hisashi Midoriya is actually one half of Firestorm.
- Not Listening to Me, Are You?: Hisashi's and Inko have this exchange while moping around their campsite.Hisashi: [referring to the "shooting star"] I'm guessing you saw it, too.
Inko: Uh huh.
Hisashi: Man, not every day you see a shooting star crash into the planet.
Inko: Uh huh.
Hisashi: I think I'm gonna turn into a walrus and start living on the moon.
Inko: Uh huh. - Papa Wolf: Hisashi is fully willing to pick a fight with Detective Shitsugen when the latter implied that he would seek charges that could throw Izuku into prison. He also threatens to bring down all of Mt. Fuji as Firestorm when Izuku is seemingly killed.
- Parents as People: Although they're very Good Parents, even they are at a loss of what to do when Izuku's powers first manifest and they fail to teach him to control his strength before the terrible accident. Despite their best efforts, they were never able to get Izuku over his angst from being an alien and his guilt complex. Hisashi also works overseas, so he isn't always able to be there for Izuku and is only able to come home once or twice a month.
- Power Incontinence: Hisashi's firebreathing Quirk can act up when he's feeling stressed, punctuating his exclamations with streams of fire.
- Secret Identity: Hisashi is secretly Firestorm, keeping the fact from everyone, including his own family, to protect them and everyone else from reckless attempts to reproduce the Firestorm Matrix or people with two Quirks.
- Secret Secret-Keeper: Izuku has no idea that Hisashi already heard the story about Izuku's origins earlier that day as Firestorm.
- Shared Family Quirks: Hisashi shares his tendency to ramble with Izuku while Inko passed her tendency of Tender Tears and in some cases snark to her son. Izuku and Hisashi (as Firestorm) also fanboy hard over All Might (albeit, Izuku is far nerdier than his father ever will be).
- So Proud of You: They're proud and happy to learn that their son has reclaimed his boyhood dream and is successfully admitted into U.A, beaming at him as he runs out the door on his first day of school.
- Strong Family Resemblance: They look enough like their adoptive son that no one really questioned the idea that he is biologically theirs until they notice how different Izuku's powers are.
- Tempting Fate: Hisashi says this the same day he and Inko saw a certain spaceship streak over their heads.Hisashi: Too bad babies don't just fall out of the sky.
- There Are No Coincidences: Inko considers it fate to have found Izuku after discovering that she is infertile, using this trope to justify adopting him over her husband's protests. Hisashi is skeptical at first, but he isn't a fan of the alternatives either.Inko: Hisashi, don't you think that we need to be doing this? The whole reason we were there was because we wanted to forget about the fact that we could never have a child of our own, and then a baby falls into our laps? That can't just be a coincidence.
Hisashi: It is absolutely a coincidence! If you looked up coincidence in the dictionary, the definition would read "What is happening to Hisashi and Inko", right now! - Unrelated in the Adaptation: They’re not Izuku's birth parents here as the latter is Superman.
- Your Favorite: Hisashi stops by a donburi joint to pick up katsudon for Izuku while visiting home in Chapter 6.
Mitsuki Bakugou
Mitsuki Bakugou
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: This version of Mitsuki has to deal with her son nearly dying as a child and the aftermath of it. At one point, she even tries to get him to give up on being a Hero so he won't get hurt anymore.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: She's nowhere near as hostile towards her son as she is in canon, even if it was mostly played for laughs.
- My Beloved Smother: Because of Bakugou's near-death experience, she becomes more protective of him, as noted above in Adaptational Nice Guy, and when Bakugou nearly hurt himself again as a child, she tries to get him to stop trying to be a Hero, entirely.
Dr. Tsubasa
Dr. Tsubasa
The doctor that diagnosed Izuku as Quirkless and told him to give up on his dreams when he was four years old. He's later called in to offer his opinion on Izuku's abilities after Bakugou is nearly killed by Izuku's Super-Strength.
- Bearer of Bad News: He's the one who declared Izuku to be Quirkless. Of course, this story being what it is, that's hardly the end of it. While offering his opinion at the hospital, he also rules out any of the conventional factors that could have given Izuku superpowers if he were human, referring to him as a "what" rather than a "who".
- Brutal Honesty: He tells a four-year old to give up on his dreams without any semblance of sugarcoating or sympathy.Tsubasa: You should probably give up, already.
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Wears one along with a stethoscope.
- Mr. Exposition: His testimony offers insight into the way superpowers manifested in the story's mishmash of DC Comics and My Hero Academia's worlds.
- Round Hippie Shades: Wears these kind of glasses, which are dark green, with brown frames.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Izuku would have never suspected that he was different from anyone else if it wasn't for Tsubasa's testimony, changing his life forever.
Holly Taniguchi
Holly Taniguchi
A sketchy sensational reporter, she shows up at U.A. after the second day of classes to ask some rather charged questions to the students and faculty.
- Alliterative Name: She's popularly known as "Hero Hater Holly" for her tirades against Heroes on the radio.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Downplayed. While she hasn't done anything truly villainous, she's a bespectacled reporter whose questions are tailor-made to embarrass and humiliate her interviewees, particularly hapless students who don't know how to present themselves in front of Media Scrum.
- Gonzo Journalism: She seems to have a bent against Heroes and Heroes-in-Training despite reporting for a Hero-focused news network. Her questions are laser-guided to put everyone in the most negative light possible, asking Izuku if Hero schools other than U.A. aren't good enough for him and accusing Endeavor of bribing U.A. into admitting a frostbite-proof punching bag for his son.
- Paparazzi: She apparently runs a radio show that Ochaco used to listen to and seems to exclusively cover Heroes, to the point that she recognizes the face of the otherwise obscure Eraserhead.
- Race Lift: She's a Japanese version of Livewire, a Shock Jock who made her living off bashing Superman.
- Shock Jock: She takes constant potshots at U.A.'s students and faculty to produce more eye-catching footage while using semi-reliable sources and making wild accusations. She's known as "Hero Hater Holly" for this reason.
