History Characters / MyHeroAcademiaKatsukiBakugo

[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaClass1A Class 1-A]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaClass1AMainCharacters Class 1-A Main Characters]] [[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaIzukuMidoriya Izuku Midoriya]], '''Katsuki Bakugo''']) | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaClass1B Class 1-B]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaStudentsFromOtherClasses Students From Other Classes]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaSchoolFacultyAndStaff School Faculty and Staff]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaAllMight All Might]]) | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVillains Known Villains]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaLeagueOfVillains League of Villains]] [[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaArtificialHumans Artificial Humans]]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaShieHassaikai Shie Hassaikai]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaMetaLiberationArmy Meta Liberation Army]]) | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaOtherHeroes Other Heroes]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaTopTenRankedHeroes Top 10 Ranked Heroes]]) | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaPoliceAndGovernmentWorkers Police and Government Workers]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaCivilians Civilians]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaMainCharactersFamilies Main Characters' Families]]) | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaOneForAll One For All and Its Torch Bearers]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaOtherHighSchools Other High Schools]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVideoGameCharacters Video Game Characters]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaMovieCharacters Movie Characters]] | ''[[Manga/VigilanteMyHeroAcademiaIllegals Illegals]]'' ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaIllegalsMainCharacters Main Characters]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaIllegalsSupportingCharacters Supporting Characters]])]]]]-]

* TheParagon: In a strange way. Aizawa believes Bakugo, along with Midoriya, are the ones who help move the class forward. However, their methods are completely different; Midoriya inspires people to be better through his actions, personlity, and charisma, while Bakugo makes people work harder to compete with him through his competitiveness and determination.

* ReformedBully: Played with; he is no longer a bully, but that's because the people around him are not intimidated by him and actually tease him when he tries and his favorite victim, Midoriya, [[TheDogBitesBack can and will fight him if he tries to bully him]].

** Averted when he gets kidnapped by the League of Villains; said incident is treated as a serious emergency.

* {{Wrath}}: He's the ''king'' of it. Every problem, every slight, even ''brushing his teeth''- all approached with violence, swearing, yelling, hatefulness, explosions, and destruction. Even one of the top heroes in the nation, Best Jeanist, sees him as a volatile beast who ''must'' be groomed if he ''ever'' hopes to have a shot at being accepted as a hero. His wrath is so bad that it ''alone'' killed his chances of getting a hero license when he yelled at the people he's supposed to save and got his points docked for it.

* TheBerserker: He is reckless and very aggressive when he fights. This proves to be his weakness when he has to fight Midoriya during the Heroes vs. Villains exercise because he fights so aggressively and so frequently that Izuku, who has witnessed and often been on the receiving end of his attacks can easily predict his moves, such as the fact he always opens with a strong right hook.
* BerserkerTears: During his rematch against Izuku, when he confesses that he blames himself for the end of All Might's career. This is actually the first time he actually shows a softer feeling rather than anger.

* {{Wrath}}: Kacchan is the ''king'' of it. Every problem, every slight, even ''brushing his teeth''- all approached with violence, swearing, yelling, hatefulness, explosions, and destruction. Even one of the top heroes in the nation, Best Jeanist, sees him as a volatile beast who ''must'' be groomed if he ''ever'' hopes to have a shot at being accepted as a hero. His wrath is so bad that it ''alone'' killed his chances of getting a hero license when he yelled at the people he's supposed to save and got his points docked for it.

* {{Sadist}}: Was once a BarbaricBully towards Izuku for basically no reason and only did it just to enjoy beating the crap out of him. Also during their first fight he only cares about keeping Izuku below him and just wants to crush him just for good measure to keep the victim down. He tones down a lot afterwards but is depicted as this because of his anger issues.
* ScreamingWarrior: Kacchan can be counted on to be yelling at someone or roaring in battle in all his appearances.
* SecretKeeper: [[DoubleSubversion Double subverted]]. After the Heroes vs. Villains exercise, Midoriya tells Bakugo that his Quirk was given to him by someone else. Much to All Might's relief, Bakugo simply thinks that Midoriya is lying to pity him and doesn't believe it. Later on, however, Bakugo puts two and two together and figures out where Midoriya's Quirk came from. He is not happy about it to say the least. At the end of their confrontation in Chapter 120, Bakugo agrees that he'll keep All Might's secret between himself, Midoriya and All Might. However, it comes at the cost of pissing off Aizawa and [[KickTheDog going on house arrest for the better portion of a week apiece.]]

* SmarterThanYouLook: Because of his [[HairTriggerTemper hot temper]], [[SmugSuper smugness]], [[SirSwearsALot vulgar vocabulary]], and [[{{Jerkass}} overall jerkassery]], it's harder to remember that Bakugo is actually a genius student who strives to be number one at everything, which should include intellectual activities. His grades are the 3rd best of the class, surpassing both [[NerdActionHero Midoriya]] and [[TheAce Todoroki]] and being behind only the {{Class Representative}}s Yaoyorozu and Iida.

%% Do not add Tsundere here, this Trope does not apply. Tsundere is about a character who either slowly showcases a soft, sweet and vulnerable side, or a character who alternates between sweet and caring with angry and violent. The description people keep giving is just a Jerk With a Heart of Gold.

* UnstoppableRage: Kacchan is this trope incarnate. Once pissed off, [[HairTriggerTemper which is very easy to achieve]], he'll fly into a rage nonstop, unless something manages to stop him or calm him down. But even that is incredibly difficult.

* {{Wrath}}: Kacchan is the ''king'' of it. Every problem, every slight, even ''brushing his teeth''- all approached with violence, swearing, yelling, hatefulness, explosions, and destruction. Even one of the top heroes in the nation, Best Jeanist, sees him as a volatile beast who ''must'' be groomed if he ''ever'' hopes to have a shot at being accepted as a hero. His wrath is so bad that it ''alone'' killed his chances of getting a hero license when he yelled at the people he was supposed to save and got his points docked for it.

** The red to his childhood frenemy Izuku's blue. Izuku is meeker and more unassuming than the angrier and meaner Kacchan; their costumes and appearances also contrast as Kacchan's incorporates warmer colors, while Izuku's makes use of cooler ones.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: Bakugo picked Best Jeanist for his internship for the sole reason that he was the highest-ranked hero of the offers he got. Best Jeanist saw through this right away and had nothing but disdain for Bakugo's single-minded and short-sighted obsession with simply being the "best". Best Jeanist's emphasis on being presentable, disciplined and giving off a calming and reassuring aura hits at the heart of most of Bakugo's biggest flaws. Ironically thanks to Best Jeanist's own smug, condescending personality and failing to teach Bakugo anything ''practical'', Bakugo unsurprisingly considers the entire internship to be an enormous waste of his time, which it sort of was.

** The Provisional License Exam arc forces him to confront his [[HeroWithAnFInGood unheroic attitude]]. Despite performing perfectly, his snapping at the people he was supposed to comfort and help makes him lose in the second half. Ever since then, he's put more effort into being a nice person, although he's still quite gruff. Ironically, even though he initially regretted interning with Best Jeanist, it's the latter's lessons that are helping Bakugo the most now.

* IResembleThatRemark: If you say or imply Kacchan has explosive temper, be prepared for him to be angry at you.
* IWorkAlone: As soon as the Provisional Hero License Exam start, he drifts away from the group. This is played with as even with him gone, Kirishima and Kaminari follow him, much to his annoyance.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: He suggests smacking the class of children around during their Provisional License supplementary a lessons to ''Todoroki'' before remembering a few seconds later that Todoroki was a victim of horrifically severe child abuse. [[PetTheDog He quickly drops the idea after that]].

** A bully he is in the very first chapter, but he wasn't wrong when telling Izuku that he couldn't be a hero without a Quirk. As throughout the story from there, it's repeatedly shown how being a Hero takes more than just being kind and saving people, as many of the villains introduced were impossible for Izuku to defeat without One for All.
** He points out to Kirishima that attacking Kurogiri isn't being a LeeroyJenkins, it's good tactics- since Kurogiri is Shiragaki's personal VillainExitStageLeft, taking out him will cripple the League.

** During the fight against All Might in the Final Exams Arc, he points out that Midoriya's plan of avoiding All Might and running for the exit gate can't work because All Might's too fast, so they're going to have to fight him anyway.

* BornWinner: Subverted, but he sees himself as this. At the age of 4, he developed a very powerful combat-oriented Quirk, with everybody he ever met filling him with praise and admiration, added to the [[ParentsAsPeople unknowingly negligent behavior of his parents towards these attitude problems]], he quickly developed the mentality that he is simply better than everybody else. However, it only takes one day of exercise at U.A. to force him to face the reality that he is liable to lose to someone he looked down to his whole life and that there are several people who are even better than him. That said, it's still played straight in that multiple characters envy how absolutely ridiculous his quirk is in terms of versatility and power. He's also one of the only characters in the entire series whose costume negates nearly all of the downsides of his ability.

** The Heroes vs. Villains exercise was a big, piping hot slice of 'Not the NormalFishInATinyPond Anymore'. His LeeroyJenkins tactics of totally disregarding Iida and Uraraka in order to recklessly assault Midoriya are directly responsible for his team's loss, and his fight with Midoriya didn't even count in his eyes since Midoriya didn't use his quirk (because he had no idea how to properly control it, but Bakugo didn't know that yet). And then Todoroki uses ''his'' [[SuperpowerLottery powerful quirk]] and easily wins.

* StrongAndSkilled: Bakugo has no real weakness when it comes to fighting. His quirk is incredibly powerful on its own, but he is also fully capable of using it creatively, and he's a fairly good tactician. The only way you can consider him UnskilledButStrong is in his personality and inability to control his HairTriggerTemper.

* StockShonenRival: Somewhat averted. Unlike most examples of this trope, Bakugo is neither [[TheStoic reserved]] nor [[PrivilegedRival privileged]], and instead; has traits with the usual StockShonenHero such as his [[HairTriggerTemper explosive]] [[HotBlooded attitude]] and wears bright orange in contrast to much more calculating dark green wearing Midoriya. Interestingly, while he's pretty blatantly set to follow the "RivalTurnedEvil" path from the get-go, he completely defies it when the League of Villains offers him a membership.

* TigerVersusDragon: Bakugo is the tiger to Midoriya's dragon.

* ShoutOut:
** A massive {{jerkass}} with spiky blond hair who [[WeUsedToBeFriends used to be friends]] with TheHero when they were little, before suddenly turning on him and becoming TheBully, who boasts that he'll be the best at whatever flashy career their society revolves around, and becomes TheRival of TheHero to get there. They also have diametrically opposed red/orange and green color schemes. Anyone else getting [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Green]]/[[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Gary]] vibes?
** His character could also be one to [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Naruto Uzumaki]]. Both of them wear orange in their attire, are [[TheDeterminator Determinators]] with a HotBlooded attitude, believes themselves in becoming the best, have spiky hair, and even their names sound similar as well.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobuhikoOkamoto (Japanese), Sachi Kokuryu (Japanese, young), Creator/CliffordChapin (English), Kate Oxley (English, young), Rafael Escalante (Latin American Spanish)

* StockShonenRival: Somewhat averted. Unlike most examples of this trope, Bakugo is neither [[TheStoic reserved]] nor [[PrivilegedRival privileged]], and instead; has traits with the usual StockShonenHero such as his [[HairTriggeringTemper explosive]] [[HotBlooded attitude]] and wears bright orange in contrast to much more calculating dark green wearing Midoriya. Interestingly, while he's pretty blatantly set to follow the "RivalTurnedEvil" path from the get-go, he completely defies it when the League of Villains offers him a membership.

** He's also one to [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Naruto]]

* StockShonenRival: Somewhat averted. Unlike most examples of this trope, Bakugo is neither [[TheStoic quiet]] nor [[PrivilegedRival privileged]], and instead; has traits with the usual StockShonenHero such as his HotBlooded attitude and wears bright orange in contrast to much more calculating dark green wearing Midoriya. Interestingly, while he's pretty blatantly set to follow the "RivalTurnedEvil" path from the get-go, he completely defies it when the League of Villains offers him a membership.

* ShoutOut: A massive {{jerkass}} with spiky blond hair who [[WeUsedToBeFriends used to be friends]] with TheHero when they were little, before suddenly turning on him and becoming TheBully, who boasts that he'll be the best at whatever flashy career their society revolves around, and becomes TheRival of TheHero to get there. They also have diametrically opposed red/orange and green color schemes. Anyone else getting [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Green]]/[[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Gary]] vibes?

* StockShonenRival: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. Bakugo is Midoriya's childhood friend turned bully. He is very arrogant and initially looked down on the Quirkless Midoriya. However, he's the HotBlooded one who wears orange in contrast to much more calculating dark green wearing Midoriya. Interestingly, while he's pretty blatantly set to follow the "RivalTurnedEvil" path from the get-go, he completely defies it when the League of Villains offers him a membership.

[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaClass1A Class 1-A]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaClass1AMainCharacters Class 1-A Main Characters]] [[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaIzukuMidoriya Izuku Midoriya]], '''Katsuki Bakugo''']) | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaClass1B Class 1-B]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaStudentsFromOtherClasses Students From Other Classes]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaSchoolFacultyAndStaff School Faculty and Staff]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaAllMight All Might]]) | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVillains Known Villains]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaLeagueOfVillains League of Villains]] [[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaArtificialHumans Artificial Humans]]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaShieHassaikai Shie Hassaikai]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaMetaLiberationArmy Meta Liberation Army]]) | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaOtherHeroes Other Heroes]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaTopTenRankedHeroes Top 10 Ranked Heroes]]) | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaPoliceAndGovernmentWorkers Police and Government Workers]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaCivilians Civilians]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaOneForAll One For All and Its Torch Bearers]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaOtherHighSchools Other High Schools]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVideoGameCharacters Video Game Characters]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaMovieCharacters Movie Characters]] | ''[[Manga/VigilanteMyHeroAcademiaIllegals Illegals]]'' ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaIllegalsMainCharacters Main Characters]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaIllegalsSupportingCharacters Supporting Characters]])]]]]-]

* ScreamingWarrior: Bakugo can be counted on to be yelling at someone or roaring in battle in all his appearances.

* {{Tsundere}}: With a lot more emphasis on the 'tsun' part, before CharacterDevelopment set in. He really does care about his friends, is grateful to the Bakugo Rescue Squad for saving him, and he respects Izuku's strength. He'll still express it with violent swearing and death threats, though.

* {{Tsundere}}: With a lot more emphasis on the 'tsun' part, before CharacterDevelopment set in. He really does care about his friends, is grateful to the Bakugou Rescue Squad for saving him, and he respects Izuku's strength. He'll still express it with violent swearing and death threats, though.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: For a given definition of "sweet." Bakugo was always prideful, but flashbacks show that as a child he was more sociable, less temperamental, and willing to stand up to bullies. Then he got his Quirk and all the praise he received for it went to his head, resulting in his InferioritySuperiorityComplex.

!!!'''Playable in:''' ''My Hero Academia: Battle for All'', ''VideoGame/MyHeroOnesJustice''

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His last name can be spelled "Bakugo", "Bakugō", or "Bakugo".

** He is one to Hitoshi Shinsou and Seiji Shishikura. Shinsou hates a society that rewards people based on preferential treatment when they have Quirks better suited for the jobs they want to take and slants them toward heroism while throwing the less desirable Quirk holders to the wayside, and Seiji wants to conduct himself in a dignified manner and set a good example for the school he comes from and herd the incoming generation of hero hopefuls to only include the best role models. Bakugo wants to be praised and couldn't care less about discipline and how he's always making his classmates and school look bad.

** It's only one scene in Chapter 98, but it really hammers in how differently Bakugo treats his classmates now. The class is distraught after being told by Aizawa that he would have expelled most of them for allowing five students to go and rescue Bakugo, and Kirishima is clearly the most guilt-ridden of them. As a result, Bakugo proceeds to force Kaminari to exceed his Quirk's wattage limit, turning him into a babbling moron that captures everyone's attention and even gets Jirou to laugh hysterically. While that's happening, Bakugo hands over some of his own money to Kirishima in order to make up for an expense he thinks the latter made for his sake. To sum it up, when his classmates were left rather depressed, Bakugo helped lighten the mood and make them laugh, and in his own way thanked Kirishima for what he did. All this is done without yelling or losing his temper, though the effort was still like pulling teeth for him.

** In Chapter 207, he [[spoiler:actually ''saves Jirou from an attack'', showing that All Might's words about "winning by saving" stuck after all. He then demonstrates amazing (but coarse) leadership and iron-clad teamwork that turns his fight into a CurbStompBattle against Class 1-B's team. It's even lampshaded by Class 1-B, who never expected someone like him to ever turn around and save someone, much less be an effective team player.]]

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Other than Midoriya and Kirishima, nobody in the class seems to particularly ''like'' Bakugo. They constantly rib him for his attitude and constantly question how he can even be a hero with his violent and rude personality. In fact, he's more disliked than ''Mineta'', who also dislikes Bakugo. They do respect his skill and Quirk, however, as well as his drive to be a hero and at the end of the day, consider him part of the class. For an added twist of irony, he ''was'' popular at his and Midoriya's middle school, while the latter was the least popular kid in school. In high school, however, they ended up somewhere where his personality actually drives people away, while Midoriya's personality quickly makes him popular in his class. As his CharacterDevelopment continues, he's shown to have developed a friend group with Kaminari, Sero, Tokoyami, and Jirou as well. Kaminari even goes so far as to tell a student from another hero school to not "diss his mate" during the Provisional Hero License Exam Arc.

** A flashback during the school festival shows that at one point in the distant past he really wanted to be a in a band. However, his usual selfishness and pride caused him to be kicked out of every single one because he kept trying to be an AttentionWhore and wouldn't follow the songs. Because of this he gave up his side dream of becoming a musician despite loving the drums. His first time accepting that to be a great drummer he needs to be a supportive pillar to Jirou, Tokoyami, and Yayorozu even if it means he doesn't end up the star [[TookALevelInKindness is what causes the most important part of his character development in his hero training]]. This small detail of his past and the what kind of great things can happen by relying on his band mates this time around gives him the EurekaMoment that applying this attitude to his hero career was what All Might was trying to get him to do the night he learned of One for All. Kirishima even mentions that his improvement in the team mock battles was because of all the things he learned working on the concert allowed him to make such a drastic change in fighting style.

** He saves Jirou from an attack from Class 1-B.