Characters / The Emerald Phoenix

Here is a list of characters from The Emerald Phoenix.

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The Polycule

The group formed by Izuku Midoriya and the girls he's bonded with throughout his time at UA.

In General

• Battle Harem: All of the polycule are heroes-in-training capable of fighting against some of the worst villains in the series.
• Hormone-Addled Teenager: Much more prevalent than in canon, with Setsuna and Mina being the most ardent of the polycule, to the point that Momo had to reign them in before they let Yui in despite not meeting the requirements. (Going out on a date with everyone in said polycule to see if there's any chemistry).
• Incompatible Orientation: A discussed example as an understandable threat to the polycule, especially after hearing how it was the cause of the dissolution of Nejire's first polyamorous relationship. In order to avert it, everyone involved dated everyone else round-robin style to ensure that there is chemistry between all of them. It's implied that anyone new joining in would have to do the same.
• Insistent Terminology: Izuku and his girlfriends are a polycule, not a harem. The girls are romantically involved with each other as much as they are with Izuku.
• Poor Communication Kills: Discussed and downplayed. Nejire warns the other girls that polycules, more so than other relationships, need honest communication to function and Yuyu not being honest about only wanting to be with her without Mirio involved killed her last polycule relationship. They forget about this when they each date Izuku with the intention of surprising him, which on Izuku's end left him confused and squirming at the possibility the other shoe will drop. They apologize for this when they realized their error. This is later exasperated during the I-Island Incident when they kept their relationship a secret simply because they saw the obvious chemistry between Izuku and Melissa.
• Promoted to Love Interest: In canon, Izuku and Mina, Momo, and Setsuna are mere classmates, while Nejire is an upperclassman who rarely if ever interacts with those four, and Camie has never actually met any of them due to being replaced by Toga Himiko during her first appearance. Here, they are all friends at a minimum and have romantic interests. As of chapter 9, all six of them are romantically involved in a polycule.
• This Is Unforgivable!: They all react like this when they learn just how much of an Abusive Parent Endeavour truly is, running the gamut from Izuku and Momo to Setsuna.

Izuku Midoriya

Izuku Midoriya — Eon

Quirk: Phoenix Force

The main protagonist of the story and All Might's choosen successor. The divergence point from canon is that Izuku was in reality a rare "late bloomer" his quirk finally develops during his time of need in the slime villain incident. His Quirk "Phoenix Force" allows him to wield vast powers such as Telepathy and Pyrokinesis

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• Absurd Cutting Power: Izuku's psychic blade can cut through anything, including the Zero Pointer and the ground beneath it, creating a canyon on the testing grounds.
• The Ace: Izuku quickly proves to be this for 1-A, as he takes the lead in not only the exercises, or with his powerful, versatile Quirk, but also in how he helps the others become far stronger in turn. Indeed, Momo wholeheartedly believes that despite her own formidable intelligence, Creation Quirk, and being the next wielder of One For All, Izuku is the one who will be the next Number One Pro.
• Adaptation Name Change: Izuku chooses the hero name "The Cosmic Hero: Eon" rather than Deku.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Izuku and Inasa are best friends rather than being basically nonentities to one another.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: He's a psychic rather than inheriting One for All.
• An Arm and a Leg: The USJ Noumu stomps on Izuku's leg, breaking it off at the knee. He gets better. He also loses his arm during the battle. Unlike with his leg, by that point, he exhausted his Quirk and is unable to immediately regenerate it. Izuku is able to regenerate it when he gives his speech at the Sports Festival to make a point.
• Artificial Limbs: After losing an arm to his Dangerous Forbidden Technique, Izuku eventually creates an artificial one by making a psychic barrier in the shape of an arm around his healing flames.
• Atomic F-Bomb: Izuku's shouted "Fuck" is loud enough to be heard over the evacuation alarms going off when the press gets onto the school grounds.
• Battle Aura: When Izuku makes a Declaration of Protection against the League of Villains at the USJ, a ghostly image of All Might appears behind him.
  Izuku: You won't touch them. You won't harm any of them! BECAUSE I AM HERE!
• Battle Couple: During the final part of the fight against Wolfram, Izuku and Momo work together to obliterate him, including being the two who finish him off (unlike canon where it was All Might helping Izuku).
• Blood from Every Orifice: Pushing his Quirk far beyond what he should at the USJ causes Izuku to start bleeding from every orifice on his head.
• Boxing Lessons for Superman: After the USJ attack, Izuku learns anatomy so he can better direct his healing flames rather than make his quirk do all the heavy lifting, which is necessary if he wants to regain his arm.
• Brought Down to Badass: After the USJ attack, Izuku is left without a right arm and unable to use his Quirk for three weeks. Despite this, he's still one of the best in his class during rescue training, with All Might outright saying to his face that even if Izuku had come to UA as a Quirkless applicant, he would have grown up to be one of the best heroes of all.
• Cast from Stamina: Izuku's healing is physically draining, though he does note that Recovery Girl's Quirk is much more draining than his own. On the other hand, healing others drains him about as much as Recovery Girl's Quirk does.
• Character Development: Izuku has already grown quite a bit as a person. While he is still recognizably the Adorkable cinnamon roll from canon, his early friendship with the boisterous, Hot-Blooded Inasa Yoarashi as well as the relatively early development of his own Quirk has given him some much-needed confidence. He is far more comfortable in his own skin and much more willing to speak out and put himself forward. He even manages to break out of his shell a little bit with the ladies of the class. He even accepted First-Name Basis with Mina Ashido (though it took some trying on her part), Tsuyu Asui, and eventually Momo Yaoyorozu. He still blushes iridescent when Mina decides to tease him or get cuddly.
• Clothing Damage: A non-sexy example comes when Izuku has his leg broken off by the USJ Noumu. After he heals it, his leg and foot are bare from the knee down.
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: Being a harem fic, Izuku is beginning to gain the notice of his female classmates (Momo, Mina, and Camie in particular). It takes him some time to even realize they might be interested in him.
• Cold Flames: Izuku's healing flames are cool to the touch and can't burn anything. His love interests find touching it to be particularly arousing.
• Combo Platter Powers: Izuku's psychic quirk manifests as no less than six different abilities: Telekinesis, Telepathy, Psychometry, Teleportation, healing flames, and his Inferno Overdrive.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Once Izuku actually gets to fight Shigaraki at the USJ, it's completely one-sided. Izuku has plenty of combat training with his Quirk and can fight without it in a pinch. Shigaraki is Unskilled, but Strong and has to touch someone with all five fingers to use his Quirk on them, something Izuku can prevent with telekinesis
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Combining Izuku's healing flames and telekinesis creates a fire so hot that water evaporates without even touching it. It also set him on fire and taught Izuku, during the USJ, that while he is actually fireproof, his Emerald flames simply don't care. After All Might puts him out, Izuku's warned to never even attempt that technique again without close supervision. He's forced to use it in order to kill the USJ Nomu before it kills them.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Izuku loses his video game races with Camie because she got frisky with him on the last race.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: The first time Izuku deliberately uses his telekinesis, he tries to lift a salt shaker and accidentally sends it through the roof. It's revealed that the harder Izuku pushes himself and his Quirk the stronger it gets, so after the USJ, he uses much less power to try and grab a plastic cup after he's allowed to use his Quirk again and nearly crumples it, showing that he'll have to use even more control exercises to not accidentally crush whatever he attempts to psychically grab.
• Dungeon Bypass: In an omake for chapter 13, Izuku simply teleports to the end of the obstacle course, ignoring the implied consequences for doing so. It turns out that the second event begins the moment someone finishes the first.
• Fell Asleep Standing Up: A dramatic example. The battle against the USJ Noumu exhausts Izuku to the point he passes out on his feet.
• Forgot About His Powers:
  • Izuku admits that after his match in the Heroes vs Villains exercise, he simply forgot to use his healing flames and went to Recovery Girl instead.
  • In chapter 9, Izuku admits he hasn't focused very much on his telepathy because he views it as an invasion of privacy to read people's minds and anything more intensive would be exceedingly dangerous to attempt. Nejire calls him out on such thinking, insisting that a proper hero has to use everything in their arsenal. Later, on I-Island he is actively using it to the benefit of the group.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Izuku gets injured almost as frequently as he does in canon. But because he has his own Healing Factor, it's usually less of a problem.
• Handicapped Badass: During the attack on the USJ, Izuku burns his arm so badly that the charred remains simply fall off later. Once he's cleared to use his quirk again, his flames can't heal his missing limb, leaving him with only one arm, though he does find a work around with his quirk. As of chapter 13, he's regrown his missing arm, having studied enough anatomy to properly direct his healing flames.
• Harmful Healing: Regrowing his arm is immensely painful to Izuku as he's basically tearing his stump open with the growing flesh.
• Healing Hands: In chapter 8, Izuku learns on accident that his healing flames also work on others, but much less efficiently than on himself.
• Healing Factor: Izuku can create healing flames to regenerate but it seems to have a minimum amount of damage it can heal. All Might has to break one of Izuku's arms for the boy to activate it. By the time he enrolls in U.A., Izuku can activate it at will but it no longer activates automatically.
• Hellfire: Though not actually infernal in nature, Izuku's Inferno Overdrive qualifies. Besides the flames being green in color, they seem to burn without any fuel, outright incinerate anything that should be fireproof, clothing or otherwise, in an instant, and are hot enough to boil a lake from a considerable distance, and going from the anime that distance could be anywhere between 30-50 meters, considering that Izuku uses his Inferno Overdrive somewhere near the center of the USJ.
• Heroic RRoD:
  • Destroying the Zero Pointer overloads Izuku's Quirk, to the point he feels like his brain has been shoved in a blender.
  • A milder example occurs when Izuku freezes everyone in the cafeteria. After he's done lambasting them, Izuku collapses to the ground.
• Logical Weakness:
  • While Izuku can heal from nearly any injury, he still feels pain. A sufficiently painful injury can leave him near helpless as a result.
  • Izuku can find himself unable to use his powers if he can't focus, such as when he has a concussion.
• Master of None: The prospect of becoming this is part of why Izuku doesn't get One For All. Izuku's own Quirk of telekinesis and telepathy has no common ground with One For All's super strength and toughness, which means, as Nedzu put it, Izuku would either have to forsake one Quirk to focus on the other or work on each and be mediocre at both.
• Mundane Utility:
  • As part of having to practice his telepathy, Izuku learns formal dancing by linking his mind with Momo's.
  • During a day at the beach, Izuku uses his pyrokinesis to light several fireworks fuses at once. Similarly, about half of the students present use their Quirks for a volleyball game after Katsuki starts using his.
• Non-Indicative Name: His hero name, Cosmic Hero: Eon, could make people his Quirk something akin to Space Master, when in fact it is Mind over Matter.
• Not So Above It All: While Izuku is exasperated by their antics, he still does JoJo poses with Mina and Camie while Kyoka plays the Pillar Man song with her Quirk.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Whenever Izuku or Momo start swearing, it is an indication the situation is serious, or at least overwhelming, as the two students would otherwise keep their language clean.
• People Puppets: After Kaminari's attack fries Izuku's nervous system, Izuku uses his telekinesis to control his own body.
• Power Incontinence:
  • The reason Izuku can't risk inheriting One For All is the possibility that it would merge with his telekinesis and put him in a world of cardboard.
    Nezu: He would be breaking things with even the slightest touch of his Quirk. Crushing full trucks into soda cans. Picking people up to rescue them and putting them on the moon! How could he possibly learn control when even the lightest touch could be enough to send something he struggles with now straight into orbit? He could never use his Quirk again! He'd be back where he started! For all intents and purposes… Quirkless.
  • It took Izuku getting purposefully injured by All Might to learn how to activate his Healing Factor at will. In addition, due to it being Cast from Stamina he also had to learn how to not let it activate when he didn't want it to.
• Precision F-Strike:
  • When the evacuation alarm sounds during lunch, several students are almost trampled, causing Izuku to freeze everyone in place and start yelling at them.
    Izuku: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ALL DOING?! ARE YOU HEROES IN TRAINING OR A BUNCH OF STAMPEDING IDIOTS?! CAN'T YOU SEE YOU'RE HURTING EACH OTHER?! YOU ALMOST CRUSHED ONE OF MY CLASSMATES!
  • When the USJ Noumu heals from being blown up into Ludicrous Gibs, Izuku lets out another one.
    Izuku: Are you fucking SHITTING ME?!
• Psychometry: While on a date with Setsuna, a question by the girl gets Izuku to discover he can use his Quirk to read the past of objects. They promptly start viewing the past of every dinosaur they can find, provided one of its actual bones are present rather than just casts.
• Superpower Lottery: Izuku is a psychic who initially has only telekinesis and healing flames but by the entrance exam has also gained telepathy and teleportation, giving him power at least on par with Todoroki and similar versatility to Momo.
• Technicolor Fire: Izuku's healing flames are blue in color, while the ones from his Inferno Overdrive are green.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Went from a scrawny kid with no muscles, to The Ace of his heroics class, and the one All Might confidently believes will surpass him.
  • One of the reasons Izuku is so popular with his classmates, is because of his efforts to help everyone become even more powerful. At the Battle Trials he points out how effective Koji would have been if he had unleashed rats against his opponents, and at their group sessions leads similar conversations, which helps several of his peers make more progress with their Quirks in minutes than they have managed in years.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Izuku's telekinesis first awakens when he desperately tries to save Bakugo from the Sludge Villain. His healing activates shortly after when said villain stabs him in the shoulder.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Downplayed. After learning that his girlfriends were letting him feel guilty over his attraction to Melissa because they were curious to see where things would go, Izuku gives them a mild calling out for playing with his feelings for both that and for their initial week of dates where they refused to explain what was going on.
• Yin-Yang Bomb: Izuku attempts this by combining his healing flames with his telekinesis. The first time he does it, all he accomplishes is painfully setting himself on fire.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: After a day of rescue training All Might assures Izuku that he's far more than his Quirk, insisting that Izuku was always meant to be a fantastic hero and that one day he'll be "the best of us".

Momo Yaoyorozu

Momo Yaoyorozu — Izanami

Quirk: Creation

U.A. Class: 1-A, Hero Course

Smart, studious but also kind and gentle, Momo hails from an extremely wealthy family and was enrolled through recommendations like Setsuna. Her Quirk, "Creation", allows her to create any inorganic object out of her body, as long as she knows its atomic composition.

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• Adaptational Modesty: Momo's second costume, while still revealing in Creation Mode, notably doesn't show any cleavage. In Full Armaments mode, it covers her entire body.
• Adaptational Name Change: Her hero name is Izanami instead of Creati.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Momo can further alter items she creates so long as she doesn't let go of them. This is particularly useful when she creates her own clothing, letting her modify it on the fly.
• Ambiguously Bi: Momo, who lampshades that while she's attracted to the female form, she's unsure if it's actual bisexuality or simple bi-curiosity. As of chapter 10, it is no longer ambiguous as she's in a polycule.
• Bad Liar: Momo is terrible at lying about One For All, to the point her friends suggest she just tell them it's a secret rather than try to make something up. Made worse for her, as she feels experienced at it due to various public appearances she has had to make for her family, but apparently unable to do so with her friends. However, even Todoroki is poking holes in it, as One For All behaves entirely differently from her original Quirk, so cannot be related as she and Izuku are claiming. On I-Island, her friends also note her story is inconsistent. When she blurts out a vital clue when in (entirely justified) pain, she and Izuku realize the jig is up, and get telepathic permission from All Might to just tell the truth.
• Battle Couple: During the final part of the fight against Wolfram, Izuku and Momo work together to obliterate him, including being the two who finish him off (unlike canon where it was All Might helping Izuku).
• Beware the Nice Ones: Momo is a sweet, sheltered little princess, generally missing the darker or cruder stuff in others. She is also a walking arsenal of increasingly sophisticated and deadly weaponry, and will resort to lethal force if necessary. When she learned that Bakugo had suicide-baited Izuku once, she created a knife without even realizing it.
• BFG: Momo creates a belt-fed, automatic anti-tank rifle to deal with swarms of security robots during the attack on I-Island. Though she eventually has to stop due to the sheer number of them.
• Big Eater: Due to the requirements of her Quirk, she needs to eat a lot of food.
• Birds of a Feather: She connects with Izuku through their intelligence and ability to analyze.
• Character Development: Momo blossoms under the positive reinforcement her new (and first) friends provide her, particularly Izuku, and grows increasingly into a strong and confident young woman who will not be shaken by any failures.
• Class Representative: She's 1-A's Vice-president.
• Clothing Damage: Another non-sexy example from the same chapter as Izuku. Momo is left completely topless by the end of the battle but has used up so much of her fat stores that she's visibly emaciated.
• Corrupt the Cutie: Downplayed. Momo notes she's been swearing more ever since she became friends with her boyfriend and especially her girlfriends, and has started watching some anime and abridged series that are particularly gruesome and she had never been interested in before. She even quotes Hellsing Ultimate Abridged at one point.
• Crazy-Prepared: Before the Heroes vs Villains exercise, Momo creates a pair of drones with optional x-ray cameras so she and Kaminari can scout the area for the villains' team. She also creates a large battery as a last-ditch resort for Kaminari, coats her staff in plastic so Mina can't melt it, and wears pasties under her costume in case she has to open it fully to create something.
• Death Glare: She gives a rather impressive one, which Setsuna can feel without looking in her direction, to keep her lovers quiet about having spent a night as a French Maid.
• Determined Defeatist: All Might praises Momo for this attitude during the Heroes vs Villains exercise after her partner is eliminated, declaring that like all heroes, she faced a situation where she seemingly had no hope of winning but pressed on anyway. While she lost, Momo still came within a hairsbreadth of victory.
• Endearingly Dorky: She is somewhat socially inept but others, especially Izuku and Mina, find her enthusiasm adorable.
• Fan Disservice: By the end of the USJ, Momo is completely topless but is also extremely emaciated from using basically all of her fat reserves and has significant burns on her upper body.
• Fate Worse than Death: Parodied. Momo unconsciously makes a knife while saying that she's first going to kill Katsuki, and then have him expelled. Then again, Katsuki would very likely consider expulsion life-ending, so she might just be doubling down.
• Foil: Todoroki is this for her after the USJ, as in that crisis they both nearly died in their fights: him from refusing his fire, and relying solely upon his ice to the point he was called out multiple times for how stupid he was being; and her from going FAR beyond her limits and even burning herself using a flamethrower for the first time without thinking of her own protection. When we see them fight next, it is the second sparring match between the two since the USJ, and Todoroki continues to refuse to use anything but his ice, unleashing his biggest glacier he can manage. In contrast, Momo creates "a cross between a flamethrower and a flak cannon," which not only casually burns straight through the glacier, but her new protective features ensure she is not even mildly warm. She wins the match with laughable ease.
• Gatling Good: Momo creates a minigun from her body against the USJ Noumu. Sadly, it does little more than keep it pinned down for a while. Her subsequent weaponry is more streamlined and advanced than this.
• Got Me Doing It: She picks up on Izuku's habit of mumbling her thoughts.
• Hidden Depths: Momo is a fan of comic books and mentions the Pstandard Psychic Pstance by name. She later reveals she has experience shooting guns and while on a date with the polycule, very quickly stops them from using more powerful firearms they're not ready for.
• Hollywood Density: Momo mentions that her body's much denser than normal and she actually weighs almost triple what someone her size should. Despite this she is still buoyant and able to swim.
• Humiliating Wager: After losing a bet, she has to serve the rest of the polycule while dressed as a French Maid for the rest of the night.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: A G-rated version. After learning the truth about All Might and One For All on top of being offered One For All, Momo says she'd really like that tea All Might offered her earlier.
• Innocently Insensitive: Subverted. Momo unintentionally flaunts her wealth to her classmates but they find her too adorable to be offended by it.
• Lonely at the Top: Discussed. Momo realizes that the biggest problem with All Might being The Symbol of Peace is that he's The Symbol of Peace, meaning that many heroes don't even try to catch up to All Might in deeds and actions, making him the lone pillar. And his dropping appearances has started to show its consequences by a slow but steady uptick in crime due to the resulting Bystander Syndrome and All Up to You attitudes that have infected Pro Heroes. By accepting and becoming the Ninth Bearer of One for All, she plans on subverting this trope by standing right next to Izuku at the top.
• Lonely Rich Kid: Her life pre-U.A. seems to be quite sheltered due to her family's status that resulted in her peers trying to leech of her.
• Ms. Fanservice: She's a competitor for the title of the most attractive female student in 1-A.
• No Conservation of Energy: Downplayed in that Momo's Creation Quirk needs her lipids to create objects that she knows the molecular structure of, but at the same time, a lot of the items she makes have significantly more mass than a 15-year-old, even one who is 173cm^*about 5'8 tall and well-shaped, should have. Of course, she can suffer a Heroic RRoD and become horrifically emaciated if she overuses her Quirk. Turns out that Momo's Quirk actually works as a sort of sci-fi Matter Replicator and only uses her lipids as fuel rather than the converting into the atoms needed. Not only that, but Momo is actually heavier than she looks, weighing nearly more than triple someone with her body type should weigh, meaning that her mass might actually be very densely packed.
• No Social Skills: Momo is a downplayed example, completely missing Denki's innuendo when they're teamed up, and unintentionally flaunting her wealth to her friends. For the latter, everyone can tell it is not intended boasting on her part, so they do not take offense.
• Noodle Incident: Apparently, eating All Might's hair isn't the grossest thing Momo's ever eaten, having eaten some rather nasty Foreign Queasine at some high-class dinner parties she had to attend. It was the only time she was ever truly been angry at her parents.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Whenever Izuku or Momo start swearing, it is an indication the situation is serious, or at least overwhelming, as the two students would otherwise keep their language clean.
• Percussive Prevention: Melissa makes her point about Momo's shelf and dictionary on her costume by grabbing said shelf and shoving it into her back. While Momo's initially upset by the action, Melissa gets her to think about what would happen if she landed on the shelf during a fight, causing her to realize her costume is liable to break her spine.
• Reckless Gun Usage: Subverted, due to her Quirk, her parents saw fit to give her firearms training. Something no Japanese civilian would've received outside of those circumstances.
• The Smart Girl: She's easily 1-A's smartest student, and her Quirk requires her to memorize and/or imagine the molecular structure of what she wants to make.
• Spoiled Sweet: When planning to hang out at her house, Momo asks what everyone's favorite tea is and offers to have the butlers run to the store to buy it if she doesn't have it in stock.
• Stronger Than They Look: Momo can effortlessly carry a minigun and fire it for a considerable amount of time. During a rescue exercise, she picked up human-sized robots with one hand without a hint of effort.
• Taught by Experience: After badly burning herself when using a flamethrower at the USJ, the next time she creates one, Momo also creates a shield of transparent aluminum coated in aerogel to protect herself. As well as a more powerful, and more carefully thought-out weapon.
• Top Wife: She's the first one to admit she loves Izuku, his first reaction when he hears someone might be planning on asking him out is to hope it's her, has by far the best synergy with him, and generally keeps the more out-of-control members of the polycule in line.
• Tranquil Fury: After learning that Bakugo once told Izuku to "take a swan dive off a roof", Momo declares she's going to kill him then have him expelled, all while fiddling with a knife she didn't even realize she'd created.
• Underestimating Badassery: Izuku and Momo realize that they, All Might, and everyone else in the know had actually been doing this with One For All. While All Might had spent the last six years becoming progressively weaker, the Stockpile Quirk had only continued to gain in strength. Indeed, a key reason nobody had caught on All Might's power was dwindling, was how even while he could only use increasingly little power, that percentage was of an increasingly stronger power. To the point that Momo's 100% is already significantly greater than All Might's in his prime.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are:
  • Momo starts doubting herself after Izuku defeats her, only for both Izuku and All Might to list everything she did during the Heroes vs Villains exercise, with Izuku insisting she be named MVP of the match.
  • Momo gets another dose when everyone is discussing their Quirks and she's reassured that unless she had a brain-enhancing Quirk, it'd be impossible for her to remember formulas to create objects faster than she already does. The others also point out that Momo not only made a fully charged battery but a pair of drones and tablets that were already fully programmed when she created them.
• What Is This Feeling?: Momo is surprised to find herself jealous of Mina when the latter cuddles Izuku.
• You Are Not Alone: Momo's reason for accepting One For All is that she doesn't want Izuku to be forced to stand alone at the top like All Might was.

Mina Ashido

Mina Ashido — Amina Acid

Quirk: Acid

U.A. Class: 1-A, Hero Course

Behind an alien-like appearance lies an emotional and excitable girl who can produce corrosive liquid through her skin thanks to her Quirk, "Acid": she can manipulate the strength of acid but going too far can override her natural resistance and damage her skin.

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• Adaptational Name Change: Her hero name is Amina Acid instead of Pinky.
• Acid Attack: Her Quirk. She can control the pH and viscosity of the fluid she secretes from her skin, meaning it can be highly acidic and thick or barely acidic and slippery.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Her skin is bright pink as a result of acid buildup.
• Bad Powers, Good People: Acid is not exactly the most heroic of powers. While it's not a problem when she has to face robots or destroy objects, she has to adjust herself against human enemies.
• Birds of a Feather: Quickly becomes friends with Setsuna and Camie.
• Boxing Lessons for Superman: On top of her destructive Quirk, Mina is also adept at the martial art style capoeira, and spars with Camie who also knows it.
• Cheery Pink: Pink is effectively her color motif, and there's nary a moment where she's not smiling, being full of energy, or both.
• Cuddle Bug: Mina has a thing for hugging people, Izuku in particular.
• Domino Mask: She wears a white one as part of her hero costume.
• First-Name Basis: Prefers to be called by her first name.
• Genki Girl: Next to Hagakure, she's one of the liveliest girls, if not one of the liveliest students in general.
• Godzilla Threshold: During the USJ Incident, she pushes her Quirk so far she gets several acid burns.
• Green-Skinned Space Babe: Her motif. She is very alien in appearance and even attempts to name herself "Alien Queen".
• Hormone-Addled Teenager: Alongside Setsuna, she's this among the polycule, to the point that Momo had to reign them in before they let Yui in despite not meeting the requirements.
• Hollywood Acid: Mina can create acid that will eat through anything, but it's both very tiring and too dangerous to use in a training exercise. However, using it also overwhelms her own natural resistance to it. When she finally does use it in the USJ, the Nomu melts while she suffers burns that take her arms out of action.
• Logical Weakness: Mina's acid is extremely corrosive but can't dissolve plastic, which Momo takes advantage of by coating her staff with plastic before engaging her. Subverted when Mina later admits she can make Hollywood Acid if she pushes herself, but she felt it was too dangerous to do so for a training exercise.
• Ms. Fanservice: A contender for most beautiful girl in class 1-A. Izuku's a frequent victim of this, and she's more than happy to get up close and personal with him.
• Mundane Utility: Mina mentions using a mild variant of her acid to prevent ever getting morning breath. Similarly, Momo uses her quirk to create breath mints after realizing her boyfriend and girlfriends all have morning breath when they try to kiss.
• No-Sell: Mina's Acidman technique lets her ignore Beros's attacks as the arrows are melted before they even reach her.
• Plug 'n' Play Friends: She and Setsuna become great friends almost instantly due to their similar senses of humor.
• That Came Out Wrong: While brainstorming costume improvements, Mina mentions that Izuku and Momo "taught her how to squirt". When three of the other girls smirkingly tell her that was Too Much Information, she clarifies that she meant her acid.
• Willfully Weak: Mina holds back when creating her acid, citing that her strongest acid is dangerous even to her and she can shower with acid that others need a hazmat suit to even approach.

Camie Utsushimi

Camie Utsushimi — Discordia

Quirk: Glamour

U.A. Class: 1-A, Hero Course

A curvaceous and attractive first-year girl who attends U.A. Despite having a ditzy personality and a Valley Girl-esque way of speaking she's very kind-hearted. Her Quirk, "Glamour" allows her to conjure up life-like illusions to deceive her opponents.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: She appears on the first day of class rather than during the Provisional License Exam.
• Adaptational Name Change: Her hero name is Discordia instead of Maboromicamie.
• Ascended Extra: In canon, Camie was a side character from a completely different hero school. Here she's very much part of the main cast and a love interest to Izuku.
• Age Lift: A mild case. Camie is a year younger than canon, being fifteen rather than sixteen.
• Beware the Silly Ones: She comes off as a ditzy, upbeat, and flirtatious girl, but is surprisingly creative and devious when in combat.
• Breath Weapon: Her illusions seem to be created from the air in her lungs.
• Combat Pragmatist: How Camie has to fight, as with her Quirk she needs to rely upon deception to best her opponents.
• Deadly Dodging: While fighting Leviathan, Camie uses her Quirk to dodge an attack and make it hit Flect instead, managing to both damage his support gear and injure Leviathan with the reflected attack.
• First-Name Basis: Prefers to be called by her first name.
• Jive Turkey: Her speech is usually full of slang, such as "LMAO" and "lit"
• Kung-Fu Wizard: Knowing better than to be solely reliant upon her illusions, Camie is also adept at the martial art style capoeira, and spars with Mina who also knows it.
• Master of Illusion: Her Quirk, "Glamour", allows her to cast illusions.
• Ms. Fanservice: A contender for most beautiful girl in class 1-A. She's busty and shows off her cleavage by pulling her zipper down.
• Nice Girl: Camie may be a bit of a ditz and often uses gyaru slang, but she's never been shown to be anything other than a sweetheart.
• Spy Catsuit: Her hero costume is a black catsuit that really shows off her curves.

Setsuna Tokage

Setsuna Tokage — Automata

Quirk: Lizard Tail Splitter

U.A. Class: 1-B, Hero Course

A talkative Class girl who enrolled into U.A. through recommendations. Her Quirk, "Lizard Tail Splitter", lets her split her body into multiple pieces that she can control independently.

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• Adaptational Name Change: Her hero name is Automata instead of Lizardy.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Lizards. Her family name is a homophone for "lizard", her hero costume makes her look like she's covered in scales, and her Quirk is based on lizards' ability to detach their tails as a defense mechanism.
• Attack Drone: She uses parts of herself as autonomous weapons. She can split into 50 pieces at once, creating so many angles of attack that almost no one can properly defend against it.
• Birds of a Feather: Quickly becomes friends with Mina and Camie.
• Boring, but Practical: Her method of getting through most of the obstacle course, only having her feet touch the ground and otherwise floating past, is repetitive and not very flashy but it lets her get past most obstacles fairly quickly.
• Bully Hunter: Admitted to being suspended nineteen times for protecting a classmate who used to get bullied for being Quirkless.
• Detachment Combat: Able to split her body into several different parts and make them move or fly around at will.
• Foil: Serves as one to Bakugo. Both were born with powerful and versatile Quirks, want to be heroes, are highly intelligent, and went to schools where there was a Quirkless peer. Bakugo regularly abused and bullied his Quirkless classmate, and had a spotless record, while Setsuna had nineteen suspensions on hers for defending her Quirkless classmate from being bullied.
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Subverted. Her catsuit is deep violet but she herself is quite brassy.
• Hormone-Addled Teenager: Alongside Mina, she's this among the polycule, to the point that Momo had to rein them in before they let Yui in despite not meeting the requirements.
• Lovecraftian Superpower: Her Quirk allows her to split her body into 50 pieces that can move around independently at will.
• Meaningful Appearance: Her hair is green, to complement her reptilian theme.
• Plug 'n' Play Friends: Her and Mina become great friends almost instantly due to their similar senses of humor.
• The Smart Girl: Like Momo, she joined U.A. through recommendations.
• The Tease: Takes a great deal of joy in making Izuku flustered with her advances.
• Weak, but Skilled: An excellent strategist and wily fighter, but her Quirk has little direct offensive power.

Nejire Hadou

Nejire Hadou — Spiral-chan

Quirk: Wave Motion

U.A. Class: 3-A, Hero Course

A smiling and welcoming girl that has a child-like sense of curiosity. Her Quirk, "Wave Motion", enables her to release her vitality as energy shockwaves. A member of the infamous Big Three a group of students who are the best U.A. has to offer.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: Nejire is introduced before the sports festival rather than after.
• Adaptational Name Change: Her hero name is Spiral-Chan instead of Nejire-Chan.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Nejire's power is much stronger than in canon, though retaining similarities. She can make her spirals much, much tighter than in canon, for precise and directed attacks. She can strengthen her body with her energy, and at higher levels of output can even mimic Izuku's psychic barriers to a degree. The stronger and fitter she is, and the more stamina she has, the higher her output can be.
• Badass Adorable: Very cute and good-looking, and more than capable of fighting robots and villains alike.
  • Her first appearance involves the absolute manhandling she inflicted on to Class 1-A during a sparring session. Among other things, she:
    • One-shots Katsuki, one of the stronger members of the class.
    • Casually destroys a glacier from Shoto. When he tries it again, she drills through it and manhandles him.
    • Rips apart Sero's Phoenix-Force-Reinforced tape and casually slings him across the room with one hand, while apologizing sheepishly for a comment.
    • Senses an invisible Camie and dodges a kick from her.
    • Outmuscles Shoji, who can have as many muscles as he wants.
    • Outspeeds Momo at her current One For All limit so badly she can't even react to it.
    • Predicts and outspeeds Izuku after a teleport escape. As in, he teleports, and before he's even fully reformed, she's punching him in the gut.
  • At I-Island, not only is she easily one of their heavy hitters, but there is no sign of the goofball having fun as she fights, but a hardened fighter who takes command of her juniors and leads them to battle, while also psychologically tearing into the enemy.
• Casual Kink: After Mina playfully spanks her, Nejire is very open about how much she enjoyed it.
• The Consigliere: While Izuku may be The Hero, Neijire is the leader of the group by way of being the most experienced as a third year, as well as an intern that's all but hired at the agency of one of Japan's Top 10 Heroes and, the only one with a Hero License, even if it's just a probationary one.
• Constantly Curious: She has a child-like sense of curiosity that pushes her to fire a lot of questions before the person can reply, and tends to ramble.
• Cute Bruiser: Nejire is absolutely adorable and smaller than most of the class. She's also capable of taking out most of them with minimal effort and the rest only require she take them seriously. Even then, she was still going easy on them.
• Flying Firepower: She can use her Quirk to fly and blast off energy bolts.
• Finger Poke of Doom: Nejire defeats Katsuki with a single blast of her Quirk, delivered through poking his nose.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Calls out Flect Turn for using his problematic Quirk as an excuse to "throw himself a pity party" and using an unproven hypothesis to create a doomsday cult to feel better about himself.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: During her spar against Class 1-A, Nejire spends most of the fight manhandling them. But once they prove capable of fighting back, her energy engulfs her as she switches to "version 2" and overwhelms them once more.
• Lightning Bruiser: Despite being shorter than most of 1-A, Nejire can tank attacks from any of them, overpower Shoji in raw strength, and move and react fast enough to punch Izuku mid-teleport. Only three students manage to land a good enough hit to "win" against her: Shoji and Camie through trickery and teamwork, and Kyoka catches her off-guard with one of her sonic attacks.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Subverted, originally everyone was surprised that someone of Neijire's figure can outmuscle Shoji, but she later reveals that she is indeed quite muscled, on account of being friends with Mirio, it's just that they're not noticeable unless she flexes.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Downplayed. She's very upset with herself when she realizes she was deliberately engaging in Poor Communication Kills regarding the girls' relationship with Izuku despite knowing personally how important communication is in a relationship. That she had explicitly warned the girls about it just makes her feel worse.
• Nice Girl: Besides her eccentricity, she's a kind and thoughtful girl.
• Number Two: She serves as this within the polycule due to having both first and second-hand experience with polyamorous relationships.
• Stating the Simple Solution: After hearing about what the students went through to defeat the USJ Nomu, Nejire asks why Izuku didn't just use his telepathy to "mind crush" it. Izuku admits he hadn't thought of it, but also because he doesn't know if he even can, not to mention how tricky something like that would be without leaving the target brain dead
• Stronger Than They Look: Nejire is very muscular, but it is not noticeable until she flexes. She cites it as a consequence of her friendship with Mirio.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Nejire gives one to Flect Turn when the latter rants about how his Quirk should be impossible to defeat.
  Flect: What have you DONE TO ME?! My- My Quirk! WHY DID IT NOT WORK?!
  Nejire: We overwhelmed it! Just like every Quirk can be! No Emitter Quirk is permanently active. They all take energy to use! To control! They have to be trained and refined! Something you never did! You gave up on your Quirk! You never bothered to learn everything there was to know about it! You gained it and didn't like what it did, so you threw yourself a pity party because of it! You never tried to overcome its weaknesses! You just gave up! You allowed IT to control YOU, and used your own fear to stoke the fear in others! You peddled an unproven theory as fact to feel better about yourself!

Melissa Shield

Melissa Shield — Minerva

Quirkless

U.A. Class: 1-A, Hero Course

A quirkless girl and the daughter of David Shield, an old friend of All Might. A genius inventor of support gear, she eventually join Class 1-A in pursuit of her dream of being a hero thanks to the encouragement of Izuku and company.

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• Adaptational Badass: Proves to be a tech-based Badass Normal rather than simply a Gadgeteer Genius, functioning as a frontline fighter during the attack on I-Island.
• Badass Normal: Melissa Shield. Using her non-Quirk enhanced intellect, engineering prowess as well as the inspiring words of All Might and the polycule, Melissa rather than just being support during the events of I-Island, becomes a frontliner using a nanotech suit in the design of Samus' Zero Suit, that has all the armaments of an N7 Paladin Sentinel. All Might even notes that he will ask Nezu as well as pull some strings to get her into U.A.'s Hero Course.
• Bespectacled Cutie: Normally wears a pair of glasses, and is quite cute.
• Gun Nut: Played for Laughs. The narration says she proves how American she was by asking her new boyfriend and girlfriends if they want to go shooting with her.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Blonde-haired and a kind, outgoing girl who wants to do nothing but develop inventions that can help the Heroes she admires save even more people.
• Held Back in School: Justifed and exaggerated. Melissa will be joining the Hero Course two years late, as she has none of the necessary experience to be a second-year hero student, let alone a third year as she would normally be. Thus, she will be in 1A for any heroics courses, filling Mineta's empty seat. It should be noted that this only extends to her heroics courses, her regular classes will still be at her actual level.
• Meaningful Name: A wonderful retroactive example as her nanotech suit has all the armaments of an N7 Paladin Sentinel, including the iconic Omni-Shield.
• Nice Girl: A kindhearted idealist who uses the power of science to help make the world a better place.
• Percussive Prevention: Melissa makes her point about Momo's shelf and dictionary on her costume by grabbing said shelf and shoving it into her back. While Momo's initially upset by the action, Melissa gets her to think about what would happen if she landed on the shelf during a fight, causing her to realize her costume is liable to break her spine.
• Tears of Joy: After All Might admits he was wrong about his old idea that one couldn't be a hero without a Quirk and specifically insists that, if she wants, she'd be an amazing hero, Melissa breaks down crying over having someone finally believe in her.

U.A. High School

Class 1-A

In General

• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Yes, Class 1-A can be a bunch of goofballs, but put them in any sort of crisis situation and they'll prove that they're more than fit to become the next generation of pro heroes.
• Doom Magnet: Class 1-A sure does run into a lot of villain-related disasters.
• Fire-Forged Friends: After facing many dangers and villain attacks together, Class 1-A with the exception of Bakugou has become incredibly tight-knit. Even Todoroki has started coming around following the events of I-Island.
• For Want Of A Nail: Due to Camie, who along with Tooru, having a Quirk with little combat utilization and Melissa, a Quirkless individual being Hero Course students, Class 1-A is a lot less sympathetic to the General Studies students for not making it in. In fact, Class 1-A use the blaming of their Quirks as a basis for their "The Reason You Suck" Speech towards the former.
• Good Is Not Soft: The various hero students threaten to kill Kurogiri after he attempts to murder Setsuna. Mina in particular keeps one hand on his metal collar and uses the other to drip some of her more potent acids on the ground next to him. And, during the subsequent fight, many end up using moves that could be brutal or even deadly.
• Heroic Build: Aside from Mineta (who is later expelled), all the guys in Class 1-A are well-built for their age, as pro heroes have to be for their line of work.
• Kid Hero: For a looser definition of "kid", they're a bunch of teenagers attending a Superhero School. Despite training to become pro heroes, many of them still have the mentalities of children.
• This Is Unforgivable!: Those present at I-Island all react like this when they learn just how much of an Abusive Parent Endeavour truly is, with Inasa feeling particularly guilty at the fact that he wrote off Todoroki's issues as casual and unimportant Daddy Issues
• True Companions: Everyone in Class 1-A becomes fast friends with one another for the most part (Bakugou and Mineta are exempt from this)

Inasa Yoarashi

Inasa Yoarashi — Gale Force

Quirk: Whirlwind

U.A. Class: 1-A, Hero Course

A towering, energetic, and eccentric first-year student, unlike in canon where he willingly turned down his spot at U.A and chose Shiketsu. Here he meets Izuku during his training with All-Might and after some encouragement fully commits to U.A

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• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Izuku and Inasa are best friends rather than being basically nonentities to one another.
  • It's Inasa who essentially starts pushing Shouto to use his fire, instead of Izuku and it's Inasa's words which Todoroki takes to heart.
• Amusing Injuries: While apologizing for almost outing Toshinori as All Might, Inasa bows so forcefully that his forehead dents a mini-fridge, leaving his face bloody. Izuku is trying to break his friend's ongoing habit of self-harm.
• Armor-Piercing Response: During his Rousing Speech to Shoto, Inasa points out the flaw in his idea of spiting his father by functionally doing what the man wants.
  Inasa: I don't know what your problem with him is, but all you've done is tell us that you want to become a top Hero without his fire. If you really wanted to spite your father, you'd become a hermit and never use your Quirk at all. As it is, he gets what he wants regardless of whether you use your full Quirk or not.
• Ascended Extra: Inasa joins U.A. in Class 1-A instead of Shiketsu. Inasa also befriends Izuku while the latter is training under All Might.
• Badass Longcoat: His hero costume has a particularly awesome one.
• Best Friend: To Izuku Midoriya, moreso than Bakugou. Thanks to their chance meeting they've grown particularly close.
• The Big Guy: His height is exceptional for a Japanese man (a full 6'3/190 cm) and he towers over most people he meets as a consequence.
• Blow You Away: His Quirk, which when first displayed, created a huge whirlwind.
• Blood Knight: Inasa loves the idea of a good fight, however, he does lose his enthusiasm when said fight starts going too far. His outright horrified when Blazing-chan starts burning from the inside when she uses a Deadly Upgrade.
• Boisterous Bruiser: He is conspicuously muscular and wields a powerful elemental Quirk, on par with Todoroki himself. Overly enthusiastic personality, big mouth, imposing presence, big heart.
• Character Development: Inasa has reined himself in a bit through his friendship with Izuku and occasional tutelage under All Might. Izuku is able to talk him out of rejecting his U.A. acceptance over his issues with Shoto Todoroki.
• Death Glare: Gives one to Bakugou upon learning his past history with Midoriya.
• Desperation Attack: During the USJ attack Inasa has to create an entirely new technique (by compressing air into a tight ball to form a concussive blast) to defeat Blazing-chan as she's too hot for his attacks to otherwise land.
• For Want Of A Nail: Because of a chance meeting with Izuku, Inasa is convinced to not reject his acceptance into U.A. when he gets offended by Shoto.
• Gentle Giant: Downplayed. Inasa is very approachable, enthusiastic, and friendly. However, he's always ready for a good fight and never hesitates to make full use of his powerful Quirk
• Leeroy Jenkins: Inasa has a problem with charging headfirst into a fight without thinking about his teammates, something he gets lectured for multiple times.
  • During the Heroes vs Villains exercise, Inasa charges in the moment his partner Koda determines where the other team is, causing Koda to be left behind and captured by Shoji.
  • Then during the USJ incident, he rushes to fight Blazing-chan away from his classmates, even though Reiko had already been injured. In the aftermath, the teachers admit they aren't sure he was necessarily wrong to do so but his reasoning, wanting to fight a particularly strong opponent, was.
• Logical Weakness: Because warm air rises, Inasa has trouble controlling his wind in the Conflagration Zone where he's surrounded by fires.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Inasa when Blazing-chan absorbs so much fire that the temperature in the Conflagration Zone starts noticeably dropping.
  • Inasa again as he realizes Blazing-chan is about to launch a stream of plasma at him.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: You know a secret is serious when Inasa knows it and has actually kept it quiet.
• Power Stereotype Flip: He's a Hot-Blooded and boisterous wind-user.
• Redeeming Replacement: His close friendship with Izuku is played up to be this for the latter compare to the broken one he had with Bakugou.
• Save the Villain: Inasa attempts to stop Blazing-chan from using her Deadly Upgrade once he realizes it's cooking her from the inside. Even after defeating her, he's near tears from the fact she's been permanently crippled.
• Ship Tease: Him and Itsuka have shown a bit of interest in one another
• You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good!: Inasa tries to tell Blazing-chan she could have been a great hero, but she disagrees, stating she can only manipulate and absorb pre-existing fire. In her words, she can't be a hero if she's the one starting fires.

Kyoka Jirou

Kyoka Jirou — Symphony Regalia.

Quirk: Earphone Jack

U.A. Class: 1-A, Hero Course

One of Izuku's classmates who quickly becomes a close friend, even if not one he's romancing.

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• Adaptational Badass: Thanks to the study sessions, Kyoka makes more progress in understanding and improving her Quirk in minutes than she has managed in years, particularly by learning how to use more powerful sounds than just her heartbeat. Particularly sounds from devices like her phone.
• Adaptation Name Change: Inspired by some of the naming choices of her classmates, particularly after different animes, Kyoka chooses to call herself Symphony Regalia.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Jirou can produce simple sounds besides just her heartbeat, such as Morse code.
• Adapted Out: Absent for the I-Island arc.
• Combat Pragmatist: During their first training session again Nejire as she absolutely wrecks the whole class, Kyoka blindsides her, and thus is one of the very few to actually land a hit on the teaching assistant, and even hurt her enough for a passing grade. Those who try a head-on offensive are merely humiliated.
• Bizarre Human Biology: Her body has actual earphone jacks in her ears, which she can plug into walls or machines, and use to produce sound. The can also extend a fair distance if she wants them to.
• Deadpan Snarker: Tends to have quite the attitude.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Kyoka has to take off her jacket and shirt for their actual rescue training, leaving her in a a rather tight sports bra which leaves her blushing as she gets an appreciative wolf-whistle from Camie and Mina (and other classmates).
• Fight Off the Kryptonite: Kyoka's Super-Hearing leaves her sensitive to loud noises, so she spent years training to reduce said weakness.
• Head Desk: Kyoka bangs her head on the table when Momo's suggestion of plugging one of her jacks into her phone so she has more sound options proves viable, being upset that she never thought of that herself.
• No Waterproofing in the Future: To Kyoka's dismay, when they are going into the water for rescue training, she does not know if all her electronic gear —which she depends upon for amplifying her Quirk for combat— is water-proof or not. Either way, she resolves to guarantee it is in the future.
• invokedSquick: Kyoka is grossed out by a villain who fires his finger bones at her.
• Tomboy: Has a boyish figure and speaks more bluntly than most of the other girls.
• Vibroweapon: By chapter 9, Momo gives her a Deadly Upgrade of vibroblades that go unto her jacks which she can then activate with her sonic powers to casually cut through things.

Mezo Shoji

Mezo Shoji — Tentacole

Quirk: Dupli-Arms

U.A. Class: 1-A, Hero Course

A tall, intimidating, yet friendly young man whose Quirk, "Dupli-Arms", takes the form of multiple arm-shaped tentacles that can replicate any part of his body at their tips. For personal reasons not shared with his classmates, he chooses to always keep his face concealed under a mask.

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• The Big Guy: Subverted; though he is physically the largest student in class 1-A, and he can use his quirk to generate numerous fists for punching, he rarely gets to actually play this role. More often, he plays a reconnaissance role by generating extra eyes and ears and using the flaps of skin between his arms as giant eardrums.
• Boring, but Practical: Shoji's go-to move is to sneak up behind people and grab them in a hug with his multiple arms so they cannot escape. Not at all flashy, but with his superior strength, it gets the job done. Nejire even counts it a win against her during her 'spar' against 1-A, even if she shortly proves she could break out easily.
• Combat Tentacles: Uses them to replicate parts of his body.
• Cool Mask: The lower half of his face is always covered by a sort of ninja mask.
• Creepy Good: He is far from heroic-looking, and according to extra material, his mask is used to hide a villainous-looking face, yet he's one of the gentlest kids in Class 1-A.
• Good Is Not Soft: Upon seeing his classmate Aoyama being tortured to death by a Villain about his own age, Shoji punches him as hard as possible without caring to check if he survives or not.
• Megaton Punch: His strongest ability is to create a multitude of arms and merge them together into a very powerful fist.
• Morton's Fork: After rescuing Aoyama from a villain at the USJ, Shoji is left with the choice of either leaving him behind to save Tokoyami and Kuroiro, or try to carry the badly injured boy into battle. Luckily, Aoyama provides a third option: having Shoji aim him at the villain crippling their classmates so he can take him out with his Quirk.

Katsuki Bakugou

Katsuki Bakugou

Quirk: Explosion

U.A. Class: 1-A, Hero Course

Izuku's former Childhood Friend and long-time bully. Bakugou has it all: athleticism, great grades, and an extremely powerful Quirk called "Explosion", which lets him turn the sweat his body expels into nitroglycerin, allowing him to create explosions at will. His genius is only matched by his ego and fiery temper, refusing to let anyone else top him as he sets out to become the Number One Hero.

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• The Ace: Deconstructed. At the start of the series, Bakugo was a skilled Quirk user who succeeded at just about anything he attempted, including having great grades. This, combined with him getting praised by so many people for his luck and talent, meant Bakugo grew up knowing he was this — which made him into a massive egotistical jerkass who looks down on everyone else. At UA though, he is nothing special, with many increasingly starting to surpass him.
• Adaptational Badass: Rather than just detonating the sweat from his hands as in canon, Bakugo can detonate any of the sweat on his body, making him more versatile.
• Bewildering Punishment: Bakugou is so used to being an ass and getting his way anyway that he is dumbfounded when his attitude alienates himself from his classmates and his teachers refuse to bend over backwards for him, instead calling him out for his attitude.
• The Bully: Has been bullying Izuku for most of his life.
• Butt-Monkey: During the Sports Festival, Bakugo gets hit or otherwise messed with more often than almost anyone during the obstacle course, mostly due to others retaliating against him for his insults, attempting short cuts, or due to his own hubris.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: He tries to bypass an obstacle during the Sports Festival, only to be blasted in the face by water cannons and forced to start the obstacle over. As he was over halfway through, this actually costs him more time than just doing the obstacle properly.
• Didn't Think This Through: He attempts to use his Quirk to win a volleyball game. When the other team starts using their Quirks as well, it quickly becomes apparent that they're far more suited for the game than his team's, causing what had been a close game into an outright slaughter.
• Entitled Bastard: Treats everyone like crap, yet still expects the world to bend the knee to his will, not that the people around him did otherwise before he arrived to U.A. At U.A., the other students and the teachers will not put up with his attitude and constantly call him out for it, none of which sticks.
• Everyone Has Standards: In the aftermath of the USJ, Katsuki makes a point of looking away when he realizes that Momo is completely topless.
• Fantastic Racism: Relentless bullied Midoriya for his Quirkless status. Not to mention his reaction towards Melissa being 1-A's newest member.
• Foil:
  • Serves as one to Setsuna. Both were born with powerful and versatile Quirks, want to be heroes, are highly intelligent, and went to schools where there was a Quirkless peer. Bakugo regularly abused and bullied his Quirkless classmate, and had a spotless record, while Setsuna had nineteen suspensions on hers for defending her Quirkless classmate from being bullied.
  • Also acts as one to Kirishima. Bakugo has a Difficult, but Awesome Quirk that's purely offensive in nature and a Hair-Trigger Temper. He also (briefly) mocks a villain after maiming her at the USJ. Kirishima, in contrast, has a defensive Quirk that's Boring, but Practical and he's very friendly with basically everyone. When he maimed someone at the USJ, he's upset by it despite understanding the necessity.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: In canon, Class 1-A treated Bakugou neutrally at worse and treated him as a classmate despite his negative traits. Here, he gets no such allowance and they treat him with contempt for his canon negative traits, especially when All Might makes clear in this story that Bakugou's behavior is so obviously unheroic. By chapter 12, everyone is quite happy to make clear their distaste towards him, with only Kirishima attempting to be friendly towards him anymore, and even that is becoming strained.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: It's hard to find something that doesn't set him off.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Bakugo entered UA expecting to be the top dog as he was back in middle school, only to face failure after failure. Not only do his peers continue to best him in class, they constantly insult him to his face, refuse to be intimidated by his attitude, and never follow his lead even when he has a good idea. In chapter 12, Izuku, Bakugo's former abusive victim, outright threatens him if he completes a discriminatory comment towards Melissa, and everyone can tell he means it.
• Jerkass: Absolutely. Unlike his middle school days though, he is dealing with people who have little patience for it.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Bakugou has a massive ego, but it is fragile, requiring constant reinforcement for him to feel good about himself. Before U.A., this came from abusing Izuku, enabling teachers, and sycophantic classmates. At U.A., there is none of that, and his sense of superiority is constantly challenged at every turn. It takes further hits after his classmates achieve massive success as heroes at I-Island which he did not go to, and their new classmate is Quirkless. Everyone shuts him down hard, and Melissa casually proves she is anything but "useless."
• My God, What Have I Done?: After defeating the Dazzler expy at the USJ, Bakugo briefly mocks her, but a What the Hell, Hero? from Kirishima causes him to realize just how badly he maimed her. He's noticeably subdued for the rest of the attack.
• No Social Skills: A prick to everyone around him, not that the rest of Class 1-A tolerate it in any way.
• The Nicknamer: He doesn't even seem to (want to) know everyone else's names, so he gives insulting nicknames based on people's features. To his fury, his classmates are increasingly returning the favor, showing he can't take it as well as he gives it.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Katsuki has a mouth that would make a sailor proud.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Bakugo uses his gauntlet at the USJ to defeat a villain whose laser Quirk makes her too dangerous to get close. Though after the adrenaline dies down and a chewing out by Kirishima, he's horrified by how badly he injured her.
• We ARE Struggling Together: When paired up with Aoyama for the Heroes vs Villains exercise, they spend more time arguing with each other than actually trying to complete the exercise. Their showing was disgraceful even before Bakugo resorted to lethal force against explicit orders.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Midnight asks if Bakugo is messing with her when he proposes a hero name with Murder in it.

Shoto Todoroki

Shoto Todoroki — Frozone

Quirk: Half-Cold Half-Hot

U.A. Class: 1-A, Hero Course

A serious, determined, uncommunicative but well-meaning student enrolled by recommendation, he is the son of Endeavor (Enji Todoroki), a famous hero ranking behind only All Might himself. His Quirk is "Half-Cold Half-Hot", which allows him to generate and control large amounts of ice and fire from his right and left sides, respectively. Raised by Endeavor for the sole purpose of surpassing All Might, Todoroki hates how his father only views him as a tool and had originally vowed to become the number one hero without ever using his fire abilities as a form of rebellion. Something which he spends a great deal of time being raked over the coals over.

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• Adaptational Name Change: His hero name is Frozone instead of simply Shoto.
• Burn Scars, Burning Powers: He has fire powers and has a burn scar across his face thanks to his mother scalding his face with boiling water during a mental break.
• Can't Catch Up: Due to his refusal to use his fire, after the USJ, Shoto blatantly starts falling behind the other heavy hitters in his class. While he's aware that he's being left behind, he also refuses to admit why.
• Dramatic Irony: Kirishima remarks that Todoroki could defeat a USJ villain with a paper Quirk easily due to the fire part of his Quirk. What he doesn't know is that Todoroki at the time refuses to ever use his fire in combat, not even to save his own life.
• Elemental Eye Colors: Inverted. He has a blue left eye but his fire powers come from his left side.
• Elemental Hair Colors: To reflect his ice-and-fire powers, his hair is half-white and half-red. Both sides also indicate which side controls which.
• Foil: Todoroki has three:
  • The first is Momo. At the USJ, Momo and Todoroki both nearly died in their fights: him from refusing his fire, and relying solely upon his ice to the point he was called out multiple times for how stupid he was being; and her from going FAR beyond her limits and even burning herself using a flamethrower for the first time without thinking of her own protection. When we see them fight next, it is the second sparring match between the two since the USJ, and Todoroki continues to refuse to use anything but his ice, unleashing his biggest glacier he can manage. In contrast, Momo creates "a cross between a flamethrower and a flak cannon," which not only casually burns straight through the glacier, but her new protective features ensure she is not even mildly warm. She wins the match with laughable ease.
  • The second is Izuku. In the aftermath of the USJ, both were chastised for not using their Quirks to their fullest extent, Todoroki's being his fire which he still refuses to use weeks later, and Izuku for failing to mind crush the Nomu. When that is pointed out, Izuku points out it is not an ability he can safely practice and had avoided using his telepathy much before due to concerns for the privacy of others. However, he quickly comes around to the necessity of using every tool available to him and starts using it more and more in practice matches, and quickly uses it when face-to-face with actual villains, providing invaluable intel.
  • The third and final is Flect Turn, who considers his Quirk nothing more than a curse. His conviction already weakened by the arguments of his peers, hearing the insane cultist describe his own Quirk in such a familiar manner leads Shouto to embrace his fire and use it to help win.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: After the USJ attack, Aizawa makes clear to Shouto that he doesn't care what the boy's issue with his father is; if Shouto doesn't start using both halves of his Quirk, he'll be expelled from U.A. and blacklisted from every hero school in Japan. His peers can also tell there are some 'daddy issues', at minimum involved, but also refuse to give him any slack for it.
• The Gift: He has an extraordinarily powerful Quirk, and has the talent and physical abilities to use it effectively.
• Heel Realization: During the Battle Of I-Island, seeing Flect Turn's attitude to his own quirk mirror Shouto's feeling towards the fire aspects of his quirk is essentially what pushes the younger teen to internalize what his classmates were telling him and stop holding back on using his fire.
• Heroic Lineage: His father is Endeavor, the #2 hero, who is only topped by All Might.
• His Own Worst Enemy: Shoto is highly intelligent with an incredibly powerful Quirk and has everything it takes to become a top-ranking pro hero. However, his refusal to go all out with his powers (either using his fire at all or using both at full potential) is based on wanting to spite his father, something that his classmates on multiple occasions call him out on. A marked change is noted when he finally starts using his fire.
• Hybrid Power: His Quirk allows him to use fire and ice thanks to his parents.
• An Ice Person: On the right side. He also seems to strongly prefer using it over his fire abilities.
• Icy Blue Eyes: His left eye is icy blue like his father's. Ironically, this is where his fire powers come out of.
• Irony: Todoroki, one of the strongest members of Class 1-A is also the only student at the USJ to completely fail to defeat his villain, with even Mineta managing a temporary victory.
• Like Father, Like Son: Part of how his classmates get through to Shoto is by pointing out that he's acting almost exactly like his father, for all he doesn't want to be anything like the man. They are horrified when they later learn that they were comparing a victim to his abuser, but Shoto assures them that they had been more correct than he wanted to admit at the time.
• Long-Range Fighter: His Quirk has incredible range and firepower, allowing him to ice dozens of Mooks at once without even trying. But this power has also made him reliant on it, and he struggles against those that can get within close range or counter his quirk completely
• My God, What Have I Done?: Todoroki is horrified when he loses his temper and lashes out with a massive amount of ice during the Heroes vs Villains exercise. Even with his quick action melting the ice, he still badly injured his classmates, including breaking several of Camie's ribs. Afterwards, the one thing keeping his reputation above Bakugo's is that he obviously didn't intend to go as far as he did and was disgusted with himself, even by the time of I-Island.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: During the USJ attack, Shouto's insistence on only using his ice merely makes a pair of villains more powerful, something Aizawa calls him out on.
• "Not So Different" Remark: During her "The Reason You Suck" Speech to him, Momo states that for all Shoto wants to prove his father wrong, he never will because he's just like the man. Later she feels bad about it after learning the truth about his childhood, but he says she was right the whole time.
• The Reveal: Upon learning that All Might is going to retire within the year, and has been a "shell" of himself for years, Shouto reveals to his class the truth of his childhood.
• Shout-Out: His hero name is Frozone.
• Super Breeding Program: He's the end result of Endeavor's attempt to have a child that would be more powerful than him and surpass All Might.
• Took a Level in Badass: Almost immediately after he learns to use the fire half of his quirk, he quickly starts learning to blend both halves together for effective combination moves, such as propelling himself down an ice ramp to cross a pit obstacle in the Sports Festival.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Not that he was ever not kind, but after I-Island he becomes both a great deal more open and approachable with his classmates and learns to have a much more healthy attitude towards the fire side of his quirk, using it more casually. Aizawa actually takes note of this, to which Shouto answers that he has come to several important realizations.
• What Does She See in Him?: When 1-A offers to kill Endeavour for the man's abuse, Shouto says if that is what he wanted, he would do it himself. At the end of the day, Endeavour is his father, and that means something to him. Plus the fact that with All Might's upcoming retirement they cannot risk the instability of arresting the #2 Hero, who ''is'' very good at his job.
• Willfully Weak: He actively chooses to neglect his fire capabilities out of spite toward his dad and to prove he doesn't need "his fire". This bites him on the butt big-time as several characters call him out on it (Hagakure, Yaoyorozu, and Aizawa) as not using his full potential. At I-Island he finally attains the clarity to start using it.

Eijiro Kirishima

Kirishima — Red Riot

Quirk: Hardening

U.A. Class: 1-A, Hero Course

An eager and friendly young man obsessed with the concept of manliness and the hero Crimson Riot, whom he has modeled himself after to the point of taking a similar name. He is the only student in 1-A who is on somewhat friendly terms with Bakugo.

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• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In canon, Kirishima was a big supporter of Bakugo, and a friend. Here, while originally impressed by Bakugo, the explosive-tempered student's callousness and outright cruelty at the USJ became a major turnoff. However, Bakugo also clearly has come to regret it, so Kirishima is still trying to make things work with Bakugo, but he is also disgusted by Bakugo's reaction to learning their newest classmate is Quirkless.
• Combat Pragmatist: Attempted by Kirishima who ignores Tsuyu and goes straight for the bomb. Sadly, her superior range and mobility let her keep the bomb out of his reach long enough for Jiro to capture him. He is still praised for the proper mindset.
• Die or Fly: Kirishima manages to figure out Unbreakable three seasons early to defeat a villain at the USJ who would have otherwise killed him and Kamakiri.
• Dramatic Irony: Kirishima remarks that Todoroki could defeat a USJ villain with a paper Quirk easily due to the fire part of his Quirk. What he doesn't know is that Todoroki at the time refuses to ever use his fire in combat, not even to save his own life.
• Foil: Acts as one for Bakugo. Kirishima is a friendly teen who's very modest about his Boring, but Practical Quirk, which is largely defensive in nature. Contrast Bakugo, who has a Difficult, but Awesome Quirk that's purely offensive and a Hair-Trigger Temper.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Kirishima broke off a villain's leg at the USJ, something he's not proud of but admits he had to in order to save his friends.
• Red Is Heroic: His hero costume is predominantly red, matching his dyed hair. Bonus points for choosing the hero name Red Riot. It's also an inversion of Red and Black and Evil All Over, because he has black pants and sleeves, but is as heroic as they come.
• Took a Level in Badass: Kirishima unlocks his Unbreakable super move at the USJ, three seasons earlier than canon.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Kirishima gives a textbook German Suplex to a villain at the USJ. Sadly, it was a decoy.
• You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good!: Kirishima tries the same with the Tubalcain Alhambra expy, only for the villain to laugh at the very idea, saying he enjoys killing people far too much.

Denki Kaminari

Denki Kaminari — Conduit

Quirk: Eletricfication

A feisty but goofy and slightly dim-witted young boy who often tries to show off and look cool in front of the girls.

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• Adaptational Name Change: His hero name is "Conduit" instead of "Chargebolt".
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Kaminari no longer produces electricity as an offensive weapon but instead stores and manipulates electricity (and magnetism to an extent), including using electricity to boost his healing. His weakness is also changed to having significant amounts of water shorting him out and causing painful electric shocks, even having to ground himself to take a shower. Kaminari is also not allowed inside cars lest his electricity accidentally ignites the gasoline.
• Charged Attack: During the USJ attack, Kaminari is hooked up to the motor of the ship in the Flood Zone, allowing him to fry all the villains present. Then, during I-Island, he gets several chances to do this again.
• Delayed Realization: When the security robots at I-Island manage to capture him, Kaminari needs a moment to realize he's now connected to dozens of sources of electricity that he can drain.
• Epic Fail: Denki's attempt to flirt with Momo goes right over her head.
• Heal It With Fire: When caught by the security bots' taser cables on I-Island, Kaminari simply grins and drains them of all their electricity, revitalizing himself.
• Heroic Sacrifice: When stuck in the middle of the Flood Zone and with no more platforms to jump to, Kaminari deliberately jumps towards the water, intending to pull a Taking You with Me against the villains to save his classmates. Thankfully, Manga gets his Quirk working again in time to save him.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: At the USJ, one of the Flood Zone villains is a Rubber Man, which Kaminari comments on.
  Kaminari: Dude, if they wasted rubber on some throwaway villain, I'm going to be pissed.
• No-Sell: Kaminari amusedly ignores Flect Turn reflecting his electrical attack back at him, due to being immune to electricity.
• Obvious Rule Patch: Because letting him get submerged is a serious danger to himself and others, Denki is allowed to bypass one part of the obstacle course event at the cost of having to sit down and wait for five minutes on the other side.
• Ship Tease: With Kinoko, and by chapter 13 they are officially a couple.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Kaminari is far more vulnerable to water, including rain, to the point it is a major health risk for him.

Toru Hagakure

Toru Hagakure — Prism

Quirk: Invisibility

A bubbly and cheerful girl whose Quirk, "Invisibility", renders her entire body permanently invisible.

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• Adaptational Modesty: Toru actually wears a suit that goes invisible with her instead of just a pair of gloves and boots.
• Adaptational Name Change: She goes by "Prism" instead of "Invisible Girl".
• Crippling Overspecialization: Toru and Mineta do the worst of everyone during the physical tests due to relying too heavily on their Quirks. Except for Mineta using his balls for the side-hop challenges, the two are among the worst performances on every test. Other hero classmates with support Quirks had trained up their bodies to compensate. Therefore Toru throws herself into improving, and she is proud of how well she is doing.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Defied. She admits considering Todoroki attractive, but that doesn't stop her from calling him out on his stubborness over not using his left side.
• The Gadfly: Toru plays up her Invisible Streaker status to mess with her classmates. In reality, she has a costume made using her DNA. The gloves and shoes are there so people can see her while being easy to remove.
• Hammerspace: Toru somehow hid a glass cutter on her person even though she's nude. Later averted when it's revealed she actually does have a costume and just likes to mess with her friends.
• No Sympathy: After Shoto's refusal to use his flames nearly gets him killed during the USJ, Toru promises to tell it to Aizawa, not giving a damn if it would get Todoroki expelled in the process.
• What the Hell, Hero?: She slaps Todoroki in the face and calls him out over his refusal to use his flames when a villain with hydrokinesis nearly drowns him with his own ice.

Yuga Aoyama

Yuga Aoyama — Polaris

Shining Hero

Quirk: Navel Laser

Flamboyant and egocentric, but nevertheless has his heart in the right place.

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• Adaptation Name Change: He calls himself Polaris after his original idea is completely shot down by Midnight.
• Determinator: Even after being tortured with the overuse of his Quirk to the point he's vomiting blood, Aoyama still manages one final shot in order to save his classmates.
• Foil: He is blonde and egocentric just like Bakugou, and their egos caused them to clash when they are paired up in the Heroes vs Villains exercise which results in both of them getting heavily criticised for it. Where they differ is that Yuga learned from his mistakes while Bakugou didn't as shown during the USJ where Yuga deliberately puts himself in more pain to save his fellow students while Bakugou by the time of the sports festival lets his abrasiveness alienate himself from everyone, even Kirishima.
• Heroic RRoD: Aoyama's Quirk is badly overused due to a USJ villain whose Quirk allowed him to forcibly keep it active. Aoyama barely manages to fire off a shot to help Tokoyami and Kuroiro before passing out.

Class 1-B

In General

• Adaptational Early Appearance: Class 1-B is introduced during the USJ instead of shortly before the Sports Festival.
• Doom Magnet: Similar to 1-A, members of this class sure run into a lot of villain-related disasters.
• Fire-Forged Friends: After facing many dangers and villain attacks together, Class 1-B has become incredibly tight-knit, and bonds with the members of 1-A they fought alongside.
• Kid Hero: For a looser definition of "kid", they're a bunch of teenagers attending a Superhero School. Despite training to become pro heroes, many of them still have the mentalities of children.
• True Companions: Everyone in Class 1-B becomes fast friends with one another for the most part (Monoma being a clear exception, and Kamakiri and Kuroiro not hanging out socially with them).

Itsuka Kendou

Itsuka Kendou — Battle Fist

Quirk: Big Fist

Class 1-B's class president, a friendly tomboyish girl who often has to keep Monoma in check. Her Quirk, "Big Fist", allows her to increase the size of her hands, with their strength growing exponentially the bigger they get.

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• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Itsuka sympathizes with what happened to Kanga-chan but insists that it doesn't excuse her becoming a villain and a killer. Especially as she should have either tried again or applied to a different hero school.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: Itsuka defeats Kanga-chan by hitting her with the absorbing villain.
• Megaton Punch: At the USJ, Itsuka enlarges her fist until it's several times the size of her entire body to punch a villain who injured Reiko.
• Nice Girl: Even if she is forced to deal with Monoma all the time, she never stops being kind to those around her.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Like most of those present at the USJ, she calls Mineta out not only when his perverted antics cause Reiko to be seriously injured, but also how his cowardice is a disgrace to the Hero course.
• Ship Tease: With Inasa.
• Sympathy for the Devil: When Kanga-chan rants about how a cowardly pervert like Mineta was allowed in the hero course but she was expelled, Itsuka admits that she understands where the older woman is coming from, even if she doesn't agree with her.

Yui Kodai

Yui Kodai — Rule

Quirk: Size

A stone-faced girl from 1-B. Her Quirk, "Size", allows her to increase and decrease the size of any non-living objects she touches.

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• The Ace: Her incredible intelligence and creativity in using her quirk always earns her deeply impressed reactions by those who witnesses it in action, with both Momo and Aizawa at separate times semi-jokingly trying to poach her for Class 1-A instead.
• Combination Attack: Yui and Nirengeki have a combination move where he kicks several pebbles at an opponent then they each use their Quirks on the rocks, turning them into boulders flying at much higher speeds than before.
• Covert Pervert: She became very excited when she learned that Momo cosplayed as a maid. She also once asked Setsuna to send her nudes of Izuku. And when Izuku offers to heal her pain from the Groin Attack at the Sports Festival, she grins and forces his hand on the pained region, getting The Immodest Orgasm on live TV.
• Emotionless Girl: Very stoic and rarely displays emotions.
• Geek: She's a massive fan of Ultraman, and based her costume on its design. She's also a fan of Zoids, given her reaction to seeing a rare model of one at I-Island.
• Groin Attack:
  • When Yui attacks the mercenaries by controlling the room's walls and floor, one of them is mentioned to be hit several times in the jewels.
  • She's on the receiving end at the Sports Festival when a punching piston comes up from below to hit her square between the legs.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Yui's Quirk initially seems decent but nothing special, but on I-Island, she shows how versatile it truly is. Because she can grow or shrink part of an object, she can do things like create waves of material hitting a group of opponents, grow part of the ground to act as a barrier, or hit enemies with columns formed by growing part of a wall.
• Tranquil Fury: Suffering a Groin Attack barely changes her expression but she immediately uses her quirk to destroy every trap in the area then seal off tunnel behind her, trapping several other competitors. Izuku even notes how her face was as expressionless as ever but her eyes were burning with fury.
• Whole Costume Reference: Her hero costume is a deliberate homage (bordering on copyright infringement) to Ultraman.

Kinoko Komori

Kinoko Komori — Shemage

Quirk: Mushroom

A silly-looking and eccentric Class 1-B girl who wants to become an idol hero. Her Quirk, "Mushroom", allows her to emit spores from her body that instantly sprout mushrooms on any surface. The range and speed of these spores depend on how humid the area is.

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• Covert Pervert: During the obstacle course, she insists that she's the only one allowed to tie up her boyfriend.
• Cowardly Lion: She is, reasonably, terrified to fight the villains during the USJ, as well as the mercenaries and Humarise cultists during the I-Island attack, but she powers it through and fights like all her fellow hero students.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: During the attack on I-Island, Kinoko doesn't have her fungicides with her. Unfortunately, Momo can't simply make her some as she doesn't know the chemicals needed and her new suit's database is unavailable due to the villains controlling every satellite.
• Innocently Insensitive: Kinoko offhandedly mentions she can't stand Chuunibyou acts like Tokoyami's, which upsets Kuroiro as he has a crush on her and acts similarly.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: She floods the area at the USJ with mushrooms to get payback against the villains that attacked here.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She gets so pissed and upset after being attacked by villains during the USJ, particularly one immune to her powers and planning to force her into being his wife, she doesn't make a single pun about mushrooms.
• Pungeon Master: She always finds away to sneak a mushroom pun in her lines.
• Rage Breaking Point: Once Kinoko is saved from Boarus, she quickly sprays her fellow students with an anti-fungal spray then promptly covers the entire Downpour Zone in mushrooms, taking out every remaining villain.
• Ship Tease: With Denki, despite Kuroiro's crush on her. They officially start dating while on I-Island.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Kinoko is terrified of flying, something which complicates the plan to potentially fly outside the tower at I-Island to skip several floors.

Neito Monoma

Neito Monoma

Quirk: Copy

A sly and abrasive student from Class 1-B who is incredibly envious of Class 1-A's popularity, and obsessed with proving Class 1-B's superiority over them. His Quirk, "Copy", allows him to use the Quirk of anybody he touches for five minutes.

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• Butt-Monkey: He gets hit or otherwise messed with more often than almost anyone during the obstacle course, mostly due to others getting tired of his arrogance and abrasiveness.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: No one in 1-B stands his arrogant personality and his imaginary rivalry with 1-A.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: He will take anything said by a Class 1-A student as a personal insult towards 1-B and himself.
• Skewed Priorities: Even while fighting villains, he'll be more focused on trying to one up 1-A than anything else.

Nirengeki Shoda

Nirengeki Shoda — Double Tap

Quirk: Twin Impact

The vice president of Class 1-B, a humble and responsible student. His Quirk, "Twin Impact", allows him to, anywhere he has already made a strike, remotely trigger a second, much stronger impact.

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• Adaptational Name Change: His hero name is Double Tap, instead of Mines.
• Class Representative: He is 1-B's vice-president.
• Pop-Cultured Badass: His fighting moves are named after Devil May Cry attacks.
• Combination Attack: Yui and Nirengeki have a combination move where he kicks several pebbles at an opponent then they each use their Quirks on the rocks, turning them into boulders flying at much higher speeds than before.

Shihai Kuroiro

Shihai Kuroiro — Vantablack

Quirk: Black

A discreet and tricky Class 1-B boy with jet-black skin due to his Quirk, "Black", which allows him to merge into anything black and control it to an extent. He seems to have a friendship with Tokoyami due to their similar powers and personalities.

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• Birds of a Feather: He quickly befriends Fumikage during the USJ due to their Dark Is Not Evil Quirks as well their goth personalities.
• Brought Down to Badass: When a villain with a light Quirk disables Tokoyami's and Kuroiro's Quirks at the USJ, they still fight off several villains with improvised weapons and hand-to-hand combat.
• Chuunibyou: Much like Fumikage, he is "a worshipper of darkness".
• Not So Stoic: He temporarily drops his fancy speaking pattern when he realizes Kinoko is lost somewhere and could lose control of her Quirk due to the environment.
• Oh, Crap!: His reaction when Kinoko drops using her signature puns to demonstrate how absolutely furious she is. Sure enough, after inoculating her classmates, she unleashes a wave mushrooms against the villains that wipe out dozens in a single go.
• Unknown Rival: He vows to defeat Denki for dating Kinoko, whom he has a crush on, but Denki isn't even aware of it.

U.A. Staff

All Might

Yagi Toshinori — All Might

Quirk: One For All

The Symbol of Peace

^{Click here to see his real self post-injury}

^{Click here to see him in his prime}

The Number One Hero in Japan, and quite frankly the world, All Might is ready to settle down and retire due to injuries he has accumulated in the line of service. But not before he finds a successor to himself as the Symbol of Peace, and instead finds himself a growing number of them...

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• Adults Are Useless: Lampshaded by All Might during the attack on I-Island. The heroes are only freed after everyone but Wolfram has been handled and he jokingly tells the students to "Leave the rest to us useless adults".
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: On I-Island, All Might could have broken free of his constraints at any time, except the backlash from the exertion would have killed many of those around him.
• Lonely at the Top: Discussed. Momo realizes that the biggest problem with All Might being The Symbol of Peace is that he's The Symbol of Peace, meaning that many heroes don't even try to catch up to All Might in deeds and actions, making him the lone pillar. And his dropping appearances has started to show its consequences by a slow but steady uptick in crime due to the resulting Bystander Syndrome and All Up to You attitudes that have infected Pro Heroes. By accepting and becoming the Ninth Bearer of One for All, she plans on subverting this trope by standing right next to Izuku at the top.
• Playing Possum: During the Battle Trials, assuming your opponent is down while they are not, costs several teams dearly, leading All Might to give them a grim warning about that in the future. He proves right, as in the USJ Aoyama is nearly tortured to death for assuming one of his opponents is unconscious like the rest.
  All Might: I should have declared Todoroki-shonen out of the exercise once he was fully wrapped to the crate. In the real world, that could have been an easy way to end up with a knife in the throat. Remember that while you're training for it, out in the field is a different world. Villains… real Villains often do not hesitate to kill or cripple. This is a rewarding profession in very many ways, but it is a dangerous one. Never forget that.
• Pose of Supplication: Toshinori takes a full dogeza pose while apologizing to Izuku for foolishly wasting his time the morning of the USJ attack.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: All Might comes off as this much more than canon.
  • The first few paragraphs of the story make it clear why All Might initially didn't think Izuku had what it took to be a Quirkless hero, and that is that Izuku had done nothing to mitigate his Quirklessness. He had not physically conditioned himself and rather was trying to coast on just a dream in his head. While your mileage may vary on the validity of these claims, it is a noted difference to other fics that have All Might coming out as a hypocritical jerkass for also being Quirkless until he received One For All.
  • When they found that Izuku did have a Quirk, he took him to Recovery Girl and Nedzu to try and understand his Quirk more.
  • In the Battle Trials, he personally intervenes whenever a student (Bakugo and Todoroki) take things too far, and makes clear their behavior is inexcusable.
  • Following the USJ fiasco, he vows to not allow himself to be distracted from his newfound duties as a teacher again, and briefs his new peers on his dark suspicions about All For One.
  • When searching for a successor, he carefully studies the various candidates, with the USJ offering excellent insight; he also concludes that the particulars of Mirio's Quirk would make it too dangerous to give him One For All, just like with Izuku.
  • During the I-Island Crisis, while like canon he gives the students permission to act, here he not only takes the time to designate mission parameters, he also specifies their leadership hierarchy, highlighting how closely he has been paying attention to his students' capabilities. In the aftermath, he takes the time to praise them all for their accomplishments, stating that he can soon comfortably retire knowing that the likes of them will replace him.
• The Reveal: Originally a gag for All Might as more and more people discover the secret of his identity and injury, he starts sharing it more and more with his students. When he does so with the I-Tower Wrecking Crew, it is to emphasize to them that he will not be able to serve as a hero who always saves the day for more than another year... and that he has absolute faith that they will all step up to replace him.
• Super-Strength: The most powerful example of this upon the planet, with the feats he can do being absolutely devastating.
• Underestimating Badassery: Izuku and Momo realize that they, All Might, and everyone else in the know had actually been doing this with One For All. While All Might had spent the last six years becoming progressively weaker, the Stockpile Quirk had only continued to gain in strength. Indeed, a key reason nobody had caught on All Might's power was dwindling, was how even while he could only use increasingly little power, that percentage was of an increasingly stronger power. To the point that Momo's 100% is already significantly greater than All Might's in his prime.

Eraser Head

Shota Aizawa — Eraser Head

Quirk: Erasure

Erasing Hero

Class 1-A's homeroom teacher. He's a bit of a Lazy Bum, but looks out for his students and pushes them to improve.

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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• Anti-Magic: His Quirk effectively nullifies one other person's Quirk, as long as it's an emitter or transformation Quirk.
• Apathetic Teacher: 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.
• Armor-Piercing Response: When Shoto tries to insist he "doesn't need [Endeavor's] fire", Aizawa shuts him down by saying that in that case, he doesn't need to be a hero.
• Brutal Honesty: 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.
• Celebrity Is Overrated: 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.
• Cloth Fu: His scarf isn’t just a fashion statement, it’s a support item he uses to tie opponents up, or to set up traps.
• Cool Shades: 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.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Whenever he gets especially harsh with a student, it's because they just did something that put themselves or others are serious risk unnecessarily, such as Mineta molesting women during the USJ attack.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may be stern and standoffish teacher, but he cares about his students and prioritizes their safety whenever villains enter the picture.
• Not So Above It All: As Izuku notes with wry sarcasm, he's really enjoying seeing his students go through the Lighter and Softer Death Course that makes the first round of the U.A. Sports Festival. And when Izuku later blatantly but playfully accuses him of enjoying his "logical ruses", Aizawa is openly amused when agreeing with Izuku
  Aizawa: (With a giant Cheshire Cat Grin) Live by the Logical Ruse and die by the Logical Ruse.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: His lecture towards Shoto is absolutely scathing over how the teen's attempts to spite his father nearly got him and his fellow students killed at the USJ, especially because several other students nearly crippled or killed themselves in the attack.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Unlike canon, when Aizawa comes to class to start teaching, his injuries are not nearly as bad as canon, and he insists his students get therapy. He also is quick to crack down on bigotry, failing to fully apply yourself, sexual harassment, etc.

Midnight

Nemuri Kayama — Midnight

Quirk: Somnambulist

The S&M-themed pro heroine. She teaches Modern Hero Art History.Her Quirk is "Somnambulist", which allows her to release a sleep-inducing fragrance from her body.

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• Adaptational Intelligence: Downplayed. Midnight is by no ways an idiot, but at least in here she realizes that letting Aoyama name himself any variation of "I Cannot Stop Twinkling" is a bad idea.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Aside her dominatrix and Double Entendre tendencies, she genuinely wants to help students and encourages their efforts in becoming heroes.
• Chained by Fashion: Has two handcuffs on her wrists as part of her S&M motif.
• Everyone Has Standards: Considering her moniker and motif, Midnight is unsurprisingly an advocate for looser sexual mores. Note that is looser and not completely unrestrained as is the case with Mineta, with the USJ After Action meeting all but stating that she was pissed off enough to lead the charge for the latter's expulsion.
• Domino Mask: She wears a red one as part of her hero costume.
• Dressed Like a Dominatrix: 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 whip as a weapon.
• Hot Teacher: The 18+ Heroine has earned her name and reputation as a sexy heroine and is a teacher at U.A.
• Knockout Gas: Her Quirk. It releases this from her skin.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: She publicly advertises herself as "R-rated"
• This Cannot Be!: Her reaction when she finds out that All for One, whom she and everyone else thought to be a myth, not only exists, but is behind the attack on U.A.

Principal Nezu

Principal Nezu

Quirk: High Spec

The principal of U.A. High School. His appearance resembles some sort of furry animal. he's an extremely rare case of a Quirk appearing in an animal.

His Quirk is "High Spec", which grants him Super-Intelligence.

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• Animal Superheroes: Naturally. Being a hero is one of the requirements for one to become a teacher at U.A.
• Anthropomorphic Transformation: Actually an animal who was morphed to have an anthropomorphic body by his Quirk.
• Big Good: A formal example due to his position as principal of U.A.
• Beware of the Nice Ones: 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.
• Evil Laugh: Unnerves just about anyone who hears it.
• Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: He's some kind of animal, but wears clothes just like humans.
• Intellectual Animal: Thanks to his Quirk, he's actually smarter than any human.
• Large and in Charge: Inverted. He is the smallest teacher in U.A. and its principal.
• Meaningful Name: "Nezu" is a pun on the Japanese word for "rat", "nezumi"
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Nedzu takes the safety of his students very seriously, with none of his usual joviality. Given the scope of the situation at the USJ, he and All Might share all they know with the other teachers so they can plan accordingly. After he's forced to host the Sports Festival despite his protests, he massively increases security, including having hundreds of heroes present in the stadium.
• Uplifted Animal: He's an animal who got Super-Intelligence because of his Quirk.

The League of Villains

In general

• Elite Mooks: While most of the USJ villains are weak enough for the various students to effortlessly plow through, several are actually highly dangerous in their own right. The Konan and Tubalcain Alhambra expies are particularly powerful as, unlike other villains, they don't need a specific environment for their Quirks nor are they only dangerous against particular students.
• Man of Kryptonite: Several of the USJ villains are lucky to be matched against students they happen to counter. A boar villain perfectly counters Kinoko's mushroom quirk. A pair of villains can turn Shouto's ice against him. Tokoyami and Kuroiro land in the zone where one of the villains has a Light Quirk than counters their own to the point of unusability.
• Underestimating Badassery: At the USJ, the villains badly underestimated the students they would be up against. They were anticipating a fun experience torturing and murdering terrified teenagers. Instead, those who were not fortunate enough to be simply curb-stomped, all ended up outright hospitalized, sometimes with crippling injuries. Shigaraki was outright maimed.

All For One

All For One

The shadowy true leader of the League of Villains.

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• Don't Create a Martyr: All For One warns Shigaraki that merely killing All Might will turn him into a martyr. Instead, they first have to destroy All Might's legacy: by killing all the first-year hero students.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Because of how powerful and multifaceted Izuku's quirk is, he automatically assumes the boy has One For All, with the narration stating that it didn't even cross his mind that he might not.

Shigaraki Tomura

Shigaraki Tomura

Quirk: Decay

The leader of the attack upon the USJ, intended to kill the hero students attending. While proclaiming himself as the leader of the League of Villains, in the aftermath it is obvious to the Pro Heroes that he is anything but.

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• Adaptational Villainy: While Shigaraki was already villainous in canon, here the attack on the USJ was specifically to torture and kill as many students as possible, and then kill All Might, rather than just to kill All Might. He was also delighting in the beating Izuku initially received from the Nomu.
• An Arm and a Leg: Shigaraki loses both an arm and a leg at the USJ. The former by an AP shot from Bakugou and the latter because his leg was encased in ice when the former happened. The arm is destroyed beyond retrieval, and the leg is abandoned. A later chapter shows they couldn't be regrown using regenerative quirks either.
• Contrived Coincidence: Shigaraki's severed arm lands in a puddle of molten rock caused by Izuku's Inferno Overdrive, instantly burning it beyond recovery or repair.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Moreso than the original, with special emphasis on manchild considering his constant use of gamer lingo. That being said, it does nothing to mitigate his intelligence as he's quick to realize that Izuku is on the rise as the new face of Hero society, calling him "player two".
• Unskilled, but Strong: While fast and possessing an extremely powerful Quirk, Shigaraki has no actual combat ability beyond "Use my Quirk to disintegrate them." While it's all he needs against most enemies, Izuku can use his telekinesis to prevent Shigaraki from touching him, resulting in a Curb-Stomp Battle.
• Villainous Breakdown: Shigaraki starts howling and foaming at the mouth when Izuku reminds him of All Might, insisting the boy has to die before he becomes another symbol of peace. Even when his leg is frozen in place, he nearly tears it off himself trying to reach Izuku.

Blazing-chan

Blazing-chan

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• Blessed with Suck: Blazing-chan can control and absorb fire, the latter of which makes her stronger and tougher. However, she can't create fire and constantly feels like she's freezing unless she absorbs a large amount of fire. She apparently went to prison for arson when she burned a building to escape the constant cold.
• Blood Knight: Blazing-chan loves the idea of a good fight.
• Deadly Upgrade: Blazing-chan gains a massive power boost from absorbing almost all the fire nearby in the Conflagration Zone, but doing so starts burning her alive from the inside. Even after she's knocked out of her Super Mode, her right arm has been completely burnt off.
• Driven to Villainy: The nature of her quirk drove her to arson just to feel warm. That said, she is a Blood Knight who doesn't regret her crimes.
• Elemental Absorption: Blazing-chan can absorb fire to grow stronger and tougher, though absorbing too much is lethal for her.
• Feel No Pain: While in her Super Mode, Blazing-chan can't feel her body literally falling apart due to having burnt out her pain receptors.
• Freudian Excuse: She became an arsonist because she always feels like she's freezing unless she absorbs massive amounts of heat.
• Kamehame Hadoken: While in her Super Mode, Blazing-chan fires off a beam of plasma and is explicitly stated as taking the same stance as the Kamehameha wave.
• Limit Break: Blazing-chan can fire what amounts to a Kamehame Hadoken made of concentrated fire, but apparently needs to be in her Super Mode to do so.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: She likes Inasa's nickname for her and tells him to just call her Blazing-chan.
• Required Secondary Powers: Blazing-chan is almost immune to fire. Absorbing enough will overload her resistance and cause her to start cooking from the inside.
• Sex Is Violence: During their fight, Blazing-chan asks if Inasa wants to have sex when they're done due to how worked up she's getting.
• Slasher Smile: Blazing-chan sports one after she transforms into her Super Mode.
• Volcanic Veins: Blazing-chan's veins glow like fire when in her Super Mode.
• You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good!: Inasa tries to tell Blazing-chan she could have been a great hero, but she disagrees, stating she can only manipulate and absorb pre-existing fire. In her words, she can't be a hero if she's the one starting fires.

Kanga

Kanga

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• Animal-Themed Superbeing: She has a kangaroo mutant Quirk.
• Dynamic Entry: Kanga-chan reappears after Mineta "defeated" her by leaping onto the scene and kicking him hard enough to send the teen flying.
• Freudian Excuse: She became a villain after getting expelled from U.A. by Aizawa.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Itsuka sympathizes with what happened to Kanga-chan but insists that it doesn't excuse her becoming a villain and a killer. Especially as she should have either tried again or applied to a different hero school.
• In a Single Bound: Kanga-chan, due to having a kangaroo Quirk, can jump incredible distances.
• Kick Chick: Due to her Quirk greatly enhancing her legs, Kanga-chan fights predominantly with kicks and stomps, though she also uses her tail at times.
• Murderous Thighs: After Mineta has a Freudian Slip, Kanga-chan attempts to crush him between her thighs.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: "Kanga-chan" is a nickname invented by fans. She doesn't actually have a name in canon.
• Pervert Revenge Mode: Kanga-chan becomes far more determined to brutally murder Mineta after he gropes her during their fight.
• Villain Has a Point: Kanga-chan is right to complain about Mineta's presence in the Hero Course, especially since he is perverted and groped her, something the other Hero Students concede to.

Other Villains

Humarise

Flect Turn

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• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Nejire calls out Flect Turn for using his problematic Quirk as an excuse to "throw himself a pity party" and using an unproven hypothesis to create a doomsday cult to feel better about himself.
• Logical Weakness: Quite a few actually, as while his Quirk reflects attacks back the way they came, it and his support equipment have multiple weaknesses that make him especially vulnerable to group attacks.
  • He can't (or rather, doesn't know how to) turn off his Quirk, meaning that he injures Leviathan when the latter is tricked into attacking him.
  • Without his support equipment, his Quirk can't be aimed, only ever reflecting each attack back in the exact direction it came from.
  • Flect still needs to breathe, making him vulnerable to Camie's gas-based quirk.
  • Because his support equipment works off mirrors that reflect attacks at certain angles, it needs time to properly orient the mirrors in place, allowing the students to destroy said mirrors and/or dodge.
  • Flect's Quirk reflects all forms of impacts but can't work against heat, leaving him vulnerable to Shoto's fire.
• Minor Injury Overreaction: Flect Turn freaks out when Kaminari's electricity actually harms him, due to having never felt pain in his entire life before.
• Powers Do the Fighting: Without his Quirk, he's completely helpless.
• Power Incontinence: Not only does Flect not know how to turn off his Quirk, without his support equipment, he can't use it beyond reflecting attacks back in the exact same direction they came from.
• Psychic Block Defense: Flect Turn's reflect Quirk prevents Izuku from being able to read his mind.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Nejire gives one to Flect Turn when the latter rants about how his Quirk should be impossible to defeat.
  Flect: What have you DONE TO ME?! My- My Quirk! WHY DID IT NOT WORK?!
  Nejire: We overwhelmed it! Just like every Quirk can be! No Emitter Quirk is permanently active. They all take energy to use! To control! They have to be trained and refined! Something you never did! You gave up on your Quirk! You never bothered to learn everything there was to know about it! You gained it and didn't like what it did, so you threw yourself a pity party because of it! You never tried to overcome its weaknesses! You just gave up! You allowed IT to control YOU, and used your own fear to stoke the fear in others! You peddled an unproven theory as fact to feel better about yourself!
• You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good!: The UA students point out how Flect Turn's ability would be invaluable for heroism, provoking a rant from the fanatic over how his Quirk is a curse.

Beros

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• Logical Weakness: Her Quirk only creates her bow, not the arrows she fires from it. The hero students use this against her by destroying her arrows throughout the fight.
• Turns Red: After she runs out of ammo, she takes Trigger to temporarily evolve her Quirk, allowing her to generate her own arrows and attack with far greater power than before.

Others

Mineta Minoru

Mineta Minoru

Initially a member of Class 1-A at U.A., his perverted manners earned him a growing disgust from his peers, and warnings from the teachers. He was expelled after his behavior at the USJ.

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• Cassandra Truth: Nobody believes Mineta when he truthfully insists he didn't mean to grope Reiko.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Toru and Mineta do the worst of everyone during the physical tests due to relying too heavily on their Quirks. Except for Mineta using his balls for the side-hop challenges, the two are among the worst performances on every test.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Mineta - a Dirty Old Man in a teenager's body - disregards Sero Hanta entirely when attempting to "capture" Camie during their Battle Trial, not-so-secretly hoping to cop a feel. Camie rightfully hits him where it hurts after dodging, and an embarrassed Sero wraps him up. At the USJ, he's distracted by the very voluptuous Kanga-chan and nearly gets himself killed.
• Freudian Slip: Upon seeing Kanga-chan, Mineta declares his wish to be crushed by her thighs.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Mineta is expelled from U.A. after Aizawa decides he wasn't making any actual effort to improve himself when the USJ proves that even in a life or death situation, he lets his perversions rule him.
• Logical Weakness:
  • Mineta's sticky balls share some traits with rubber and thus don't function properly at high temperatures.
  • His sticky balls are also good for trapping someone but if they're strong enough, they'll just rip away whatever they're stuck to. Kanga-chan gets stuck to the road after landing on several of Mineta's balls but simply rips herself free, leaving her with bits of asphalt stuck to her body.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Mineta twice in chapter 5, both of which get him expelled:
  • First, his reflexive groping of Reiko distracts her and Sen long enough for a villain to crack her ribs.
  • Second, trying to help capture a villain instead causes all the debris Reiko is pelting him with to stick together, giving the villain an Improvised Weapon.
• Oh, Crap!: Mineta at the USJ when he sees Kanga-chan jump into the side of a building and tilt it.
• Pervert Revenge Mode: After Mineta gropes Kanga-chan's butt while fighting her, she stops joking around and becomes completely serious about murdering him.
• Reflexive Response: When Mineta runs into Reiko and Sen during the attack on the USJ, he reflexively gropes Reiko once he's close enough.
• Thanks for the Mammary: At the USJ, Mineta accidentally gropes Reiko on reflex.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Mineta is chewed out by Inasa, Itsuka, and Sen for groping Reiko in the middle of a life-or-death situation, especially because her distraction got her injured by a villain.
• What You Are in the Dark: At the USJ it is made clear that Mineta has no control over his perverted nature, from making harassing remarks towards Kanga-chan and deliberately molesting her to, perhaps unintentionally, groping Reiko. Unsurprisingly, this gets him unceremoniously expelled from U.A.

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