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[[WMG:[[center:''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' '''[[Characters/MyHeroAcademia Main Character Index]]'''\\
[-''U.A. High School Students'': [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaClass1A Class 1-A]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaClass1A1To10 1-10]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaClass1A11To20 11-20]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaIzukuMidoriya Izuku Midoriya]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaKatsukiBakugo Katsuki Bakugo]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaShotoTodoroki Shoto Todoroki]], '''Ochaco Uraraka''') | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaClass1B Class 1-B]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaStudentsFromOtherClasses Students From Other Classes]]\\
''Pro Heroes'': [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaSchoolFacultyAndStaff School Faculty and Staff]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaShotaAizawa Shota Aizawa]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaAllMight All Might]]) | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaOtherHeroes Other Heroes]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaEndeavor Endeavor]]) | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaOneForAll One For All and Its Torch Bearers]]\\
''Villains'': [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVillains Known Villains]] [[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaStain Stain]]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaLeagueOfVillains League of Villains]] [[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaAllForOne All For One]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaTomuraShigaraki Tomura Shigaraki]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaDabi Dabi]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaHimikoToga Himiko Toga]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVanguardActionSquad Vanguard Action Squad]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaArtificialHumans Artificial Humans]]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaShieHassaikai Shie Hassaikai]] [[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaOverhaul Overhaul]]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaMetaLiberationArmy Meta Liberation Army]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaParanormalLiberationFront Paranormal Liberation Front]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVillainArmy Villain Army]])\\
''Others'': [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaPoliceAndGovernmentWorkers Police and Government Workers]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaCivilians Civilians]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaMainCharactersFamilies Main Characters' Families]]) | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaOtherHighSchools Other High Schools]]\\
''Characters From Other My Hero Academia Media'': [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVideoGameCharacters Video Game Characters]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaMovieCharacters Movie Characters]]\\
''[[Manga/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantes Vigilantes]]'': [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantesMainCharacters Main Characters]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantesVillainFactory Villain Factory]] | [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantesSupportingCharacters Supporting Characters]]\\
[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaTeamUpMission Team Up Mission]]]]-]]]
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!Ochaco Uraraka -- Uravity
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyaneSakura (Japanese), Creator/LuciChristian (English), Creator/AndreaVillaverde (Latin American Spanish/TV series), Creator/ClaudiaBramnfsette (Latin American Spanish/Movies)
!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 3 (Manga), Episode 3 (Anime)
!!!'''Playable in:''' ''My Hero Academia: Battle for All'', ''VideoGame/MyHeroOnesJustice'', ''My Hero One's Justice 2'', ''My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero'', ''My Hero Academia: Ultra Impact'', ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}''
!!!'''Quirk:''' [[GravityMaster Zero Gravity]]

->''"So I'm going to be a hero. I'll make that money...So that my mom and dad can have easier lives!"''

An outgoing young girl who befriends Midoriya after he saves her during the entrance exam. Her Quirk is "Zero Gravity," which lets her reduce the gravitational pull of anything she touches to zero. Her family owns a construction company that hasn't gotten any work in a long time, leaving them flat broke, and because of this, she wants to become a heroine in order to earn enough money to give her parents a good life. She becomes very close with Midoriya throughout the series, and most people assume she has developed a crush on him, which ''might'' just be true. Although anytime you ask her about it, she's liable to float away out of embarrassment.
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* AchillesHeel: She can remove the weight of any physical object or person up to three metric tons per day. Awesome! Only problem is, once she reaches that limit or uses it on herself, [[VomitDiscretionShot she pukes]]. She gets better over time and not only vastly increases her daily limit, but also has no more issues using her Quirk on herself so she can effectively [[NotQuiteFlight fly.]]
* ActionGirl: Slowly grows into this, especially since receiving martial arts training from Gunhead, where she mixes martial arts moves along with her Quirk.
* AffectionateNickname: A very special case of this, with Ochaco nicknaming Izuku "Deku". That nickname was initially an insult that Izuku's former friend Katsuki used to belittle him (it means 'useless'), but Ochaco came to use the name after a misunderstanding, thinking it sounded encouraging (it sounds like "dekiru", "you can do it", in a Kansai accent). This completely changed Izuku's outlook on that name, [[AppropriatedAppellation to the point he decided to adopt it as his superhero alias;]] while Katsuki looked angry about that, Ochaco was very touched.
* AllLovingHero: Like her best friend and love interest Izuku, Ochaco wants to put smiles on people's faces and make them feel safe, feeding into her development as a hero growing beyond her initial monetary motivations. [[spoiler:It's this empathy that convinces her to try to save Toga, despite her terrible crimes, and is softly encouraged by Izuku to follow her instincts since he plans to do the same with Shigaraki. Although he also reminds her there might be no way to avoid a battle despite their best efforts, which Ochaco agrees with.]]
* AnimalMotifs:
** Her suit redesign has her ditch the helmet in favor of a headpiece that mimics the rabbit-like ears on Izuku's hero costume.
** Alongside Shoto, the volume 30 character page depicts her as a cat, which makes sense given in her case they can be quite playful like her. The pads on her fingertips can invoke those on a cat's paws.
* AntiHero: Subverted. When questioned, Ochaco reveals that the real reason she became a hero was in order to get money for her family, and Ochaco herself worries that she is SecretlySelfish and isn't being a hero for the right reasons. However, she is reassured that wanting to get money to financially support her family is still a noble cause in it's own right and Ochaco is just such a NiceGirl that she can't help but rescuing people for it's own sake anyway from the get-go, proving her as an AllLovingHero just like Izuku.
* TheApprentice: For the Hero Agency Internships, Ochaco chooses to become a temporary apprentice towards Gunhead, believing that it will help her improve her physical fighting capabilities as well as offer her new perspectives and opportunities. Future battles would show that these lessons paid off as she is now capable of taking opponents down with her body alone.
* ArchEnemy: Is steadily but surely being set up as one for her EvilCounterpart Toga, as Toga's violent obsession with her, violent obsessions with her close friend Tsuyu and crush Midoriya, wanton murder of innocents, and [[spoiler:confessing to using Uraraka's own Quirk to murder somebody]] has made Uraraka personally determined to stop Toga herself. Was initially one-sided, as Toga genuinely sees herself as Uraraka's friend; However things are more up in the air following [[spoiler:Toga's heartbroken reaction to Uraraka rejecting her friendship/love again during their second encounter]].
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Her powers frequently don't make much sense compared to actual zero gravity,[[note]]The most common issue being that both inertia and mass would remain without gravity. If she touched a falling object, its speed would stop increasing but it would continue at the velocity it had when she touched it. Also, if she removed gravity from a massive object, it wouldn't bounce around like a beach ball. Uraraka would be able to move it, but only very slowly after pushing against it for several seconds (in the same way that you can move a huge boat in a calm harbor if you are persistent enough).[[/note]] although they make considerably more sense if you assume that she also reduces the ''mass'' of whatever she touches to nearly zero.[[note]]This would explain how un-gravitating Midoriya saved him from smashing into the ground--with a lower terminal velocity, the air would act like a cushion, slowing him to a survivable speed. The scene where she swings a giant concrete pillar like a baseball bat also works far better if you assume that she reduced its mass to something manageable. This is generally what people imagine happening in zero gravity, because it's described as "weightlessness", but weight and mass aren't the same thing. Weight is mass scaled to gravitational strength; lower gravity lets you lift heavier objects, but the same amount of force is still required to move them.[[/note]]
* BadassAdorable: A cute and sweet girl, who between her control of gravity and managing to even give [[GeniusBruiser Katsuki Bakugou]] a hard time during the U.A. Championship is happy to show you she's got what it takes to be a heroine.
* BareFistedMonk: She interned under Gunhead to learn how to fight, and she definitely took a lot from his martial arts tutelage. She appears to have continued training even after her internship ended as her martial arts skills are the best of Class 1-A.
* BareMidriffsAreFeminine:
** The cheerleader outfit she wears during the Sports Festival shows her belly button, which she doesn't seem to mind, initially.
** During the BeachEpisode, she wears a two piece bikini.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: While Ochaco did save Izuku from falling during her EstablishingCharacterMoment, where there specific friendship really began was when he saved her from being crushed during the Entrance Exam. She's also on the receiving end, due to stopping Izuku from falling albeit by slapping him, as well as offering some of her points to him.
* BestFriend: Not only is Ochaco the love interest for Izuku, [[FirstFriend she is also the first real friend that he ever had]] and is one of his best ones alongside [[ClassRepresentative Tenya.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ochaco Uraraka, a cute and charming girl whose main drive is to be a hero to support her family, and displays a cheerful disposition with everyone. But don't underestimate her sweet nature: when push comes to shove, she can push back with her gravity powers:
** A good example of this is when she lost to Bakugo in the U.A. Sports Festival, but she showed real ingenuity in their battle, and came close to beating him.
** Believe it or not, her Quirk itself is actually one of the more inherently dangerous ones compared to a lot of other Quirks. As demonstrated by [[spoiler:Toga using her Quirk while [[ShapeShifter transformed]] into her, Uraraka can very easily kill by floating people up to fatal heights and just allowing them to fall. The only thing stopping her is her own moral compass]].
* BigBeautifulWoman: By Japanese standards, she's supposed to be on the plump side, though even then it seems like an InformedAttribute. Plump or not, she's still adorable.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Played with but ultimately [[DefiedTrope defied.]] Izuku and Ochaco seem very similar, with their in-sync reactions to their classmates' eccentricities, how they bounce of Iida's overly serious demeanor, and their own matching designs. The buck stops when Ochaco realizes Izuku's self-sacrificing nature is born from some deep-rooted self-esteem issues, and decides to look after him so he doesn't [[HisOwnWorstEnemy destroy himself.]] This is unlike her who has a fairly healthy understanding of her abilities and shortcomings. It also doesn't quite fit once you see how extroverted and open Ochaco is compared to the introverted and naturally reserved Izuku.
* BizarreHumanBiology: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. She looks completely anthropomorphic, with the exception of distinct soft pads on her fingertips, which she uses to activate her Quirk.
* BloodKnight: While she's normally optimistic and fairly reserved, events like the Sports Festival show that Ochaco can have a love for battle and in general she is a fan of "manly" things. She is also the only girl who actually appreciates Kirishima's masculine room, while Mina has a non-reaction and Hagakure finds it disgusting.
* BlushSticker: She has small permanent ones which highlight her cuteness and innocence; they're even noted as a CharmPoint in the character descriptions. She inherited the blush stickers from her mother, who also has them.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Almost literally. Uraraka's main method of improving as a hero was to learn martial arts from Gunhead to supplement her natural-born superhuman ability.
* BoyishShortHair: Her hair is only about shoulder length and has bangs that only reach a quarter of the way down her forehead, and while she does have feminine traits, she is still a GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak.
* BrainyBrunette: She has auburn brown hair, and while she isn't the smartest character in the series, she is shown to be very skilled at planning, reading people, and responding to emergency situations. (See HiddenDepths below.)
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Never fails to bolster Izuku when he lapses into his more self-deprecating tendencies. [[spoiler:This rears its head most prominently when attempting to convince Izuku to come back to U.A. alongside the rest of 1A after he's gone full brooding mode as a filth-covered trailblazer tackling Japan's most dangerous escaped criminals all by himself. She is one of the driving forces behind bringing him home through her compassion and love for him combining with her desire to make the general public happy to see heroes again.]]
* CallBack: Twofold. [[spoiler:She welcomes Izuku back to U.A. by shouting down the mass of refugees trying to kick him out, setting Izuku back on the path he had strayed from in his rush to save everybody. This calls back to her setting him on his feet again after he tripped before the entrance exam, along with All Might officially welcoming Izuku to U.A. in his acceptance video by repeating his words almost entirely verbatim.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Ochaco:''' ''This place is his hero academia! Let him stay here!'']]
* CannotSpitItOut: She can't talk about Midoriya in even a light romantic context with her friends without blushing up a storm and has never directly ''admitted'' even in her inner thoughts that she likes him, let alone brought it up with the boy himself. But she has acknowledged that some "feelings" exist.
* CharacterDevelopment:
** Following the Internship Arc, Uraraka decides she wants to be a heroine in order to save people, whereas her original motive was to look after her family.
** She also gets some development when she chooses to put aside her growing feelings for Midoriya as she [[LoveIsAWeakness starts to believe they'll distract her from her hero studies.]] Though Toga thinks she's making the wrong choice, time will tell how she grows as a hero going forward with her new resolve.
** After losing to Bakugou, who only used one shot to completely blast through Uraraka's plan, she realized just how [[GlassCannon powerless and weak she is without being able to rely on her Quirk]], and in order to become a hero she needs to get stronger, which led her to train under Gunhead and learn some basic combat skills.
** After first hand witnessing Sir Nighteye die trying to save Eri, and even more, seeing Deku keep selflessly saving people by harming himself, it makes her question if a hero's job is to save people from pain, then "who'll save the heroes when the heroes need saving?" Which further cements her goal to become a support/saving hero to other heroes as well as civilians.
** She's further developed when she faced off Toga again in the War arc, for the first time she sees the vulnerable and human side of a villain, it's the moment when things became less black/white for her.
** In the beginning, Ochaco was on friendly terms with Izuku. However, as time went on, she soon became incredibly flustered when Izuku and her tried to talk to each other like at the mall. Originally, Izuku was one of the people that Ochaco spoke to the most, excluding the girls. However, by the time of the final offensive, the two of them are able to openly speak to and compliment each other and openly discuss what their individual plans are to each other.
* CharacterTics: She is always careful not to touch anything with open hands to avoid accidentally triggering her Quirk; she also frequently holds her hands in paw-like fists so as not to accidentally touch something.
* CheeryPink: Her ColorMotif is pink, and she has a very optimistic and outgoing personality.
* ChekhovsSkill: After her internship with Gunhead, Uraraka begins developing her skills in close-quarters combat. This becomes very instrumental in her match with Thirteen, allowing her to turn the tide in her favor, and helps her stand her ground against Toga.
* ChildLikeVoice: With a spirited, gentle and innocent personality and facial features resembling a small child, Uraraka's Japanese voice actress gives her a very high, sweet voice to match.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: It's notable that Ochaco openly defies this trope. She sees Izuku repeatedly putting his own safety below the lives of others, and how Hero Society in general encourages such behavior and begins asking herself "Who saves the heroes who need saving" and decides to become that person herself.
* ClarkKentOutfit: The girl has got a buxom that actually takes Izuku back whenever he first sees it, however, it's not obvious underneath her school uniform.
* ClassicalAntiHero: Ochaco's main hindrances are her own lack of self confidence, [[CantSpitItOut and her inability to act on her feelings towards Izuku.]]
* ClingyJealousGirl:
** {{Downplayed|Trope}}; while Uraraka is clearly bothered by some of the attention that Midoriya attracts from Hatsume and later Camie, she never actually breaks out into a jealous fit. She's also visibly shocked when [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Aoyama hand-feeds Midoriya]]. A lot of this rooted to her [[CannotSpitItOut having trouble sorting out her own feelings towards him]].
** Played entirely and hilariously straight in ''Two Heroes'' where she terrifies Izuku with her [[DissonantSerenity hollowly nonchalant attitude]] upon catching him on a tour of I-Island alone with Melissa. She's flanked by [[RomanticWingman Momo and Kyoka]] who came along for the trip, concerned Izuku uses his [[DoggedNiceGuy gentle demeanor]] to lure in women like Ochaco and [[BitchInSheepsClothing play them]]. It's all a big misunderstanding, of course.
* ColorMotifs: Two - Brown ("Cha" in her name, literally meaning Tea, is also used in the Japanese name for brown "Chairo", and she has a brown hair and eyes) and Pink (she has traces of the color on her suit, it shows up when she uses her Quirk, and it often appears in the background during frames that specifically focus on her. It highlights her cheerful, romantic and optimistic nature.)
* CombinationAttack: With Tsuyu, they can use the combo move Meteor Fafrotskies -- Uraraka levitates debris and Tsuyu, and Tsuyu uses her tongue to throw the debris. They first use it against two giant villains during their internship with Ryukyu.
* TheConfidant: To Izuku, at least whenever the subject isn't about romance. While he is generally open about his feelings, Ochaco especially is someone he can be honest with about his doubts, insecurities, beliefs, and fears. [[spoiler: This becomes most evident on the eve before the final offensive, where Izuku tells Ochaco how he truly feels in regards to Tomura, and she does to same to him in regards to Toga.]]
* CooldownHug: When Izuku's Quirk goes out of control and awakens a new aspect because he was enraged at Monoma blaming Bakugo for All Might's retirement, Ochaco jumps in with one of these. While it doesn't itself calm Izuku down, it does provide an opportunity for Shinso to brainwash him into shutting his Quirk down.
* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Downplayed. Ochaco doesn't actively go against authority, just authority that she believes isn't beneficial at the current moment, like rushing over to confront Himiko Toga against Asui Tsuyu's advice, or [[spoiler: helping to restrain Izuku's Blackwhip Quirk rather than following protocal and waiting for a teacher.]]
* CrushBlush: All it takes is the mere mention that she has a crush on Izuku for her face to start lighting up.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Has brown hair and brown eyes. Adds to her cheery and sweet disposition.
* CuteBruiser: The girl is adorable, but she is very well-versed in self-defense martial arts, enough to bring SerialKiller Toga to the ground and be considered a threat.
* TheCutie: Ochaco is an optimistic, energetic, polite, and adorable young girl who just wants to help everyone that she can.
* DaddysGirl: Wanted to help out at her dad's construction company as a kid, but he refused because he wanted her to achieve her own dream. Her father also consoles her after she loses against Bakugo during the U.A. Sports Festival.
* DamselInDistress: Played with during the entrance exam. Midoriya rushes in to save her without a second thought when he sees her trapped under some debris. He succeeds but can't control his landing after he punches out the robot, resulting in Uraraka saving ''him'' with her gravity powers.
* ADayInTheLimelight: She gets a decent amount of play in the main story but the anime decides to expand on her and Tsuyu's post-Christmas work study with returning characters from the latter's own season 2 filler episode. We learn that the girls were dealing with drug smugglers at about the same time Izuku and the boys were dealing with Shoto's rather, uh... ''unique'' [[DysfunctionalFamily family.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Ochaco of all people will occasionally let out a snide remark whenever she sees any form of subtext concerning Midoriya and another girl.
* DeathFromAbove: A strong attack she nearly beat Bakugo with. She gathers various objects that she made float, and then makes them fall at once. If only she hadn't pointed it out to him before unleashing it...
* DeathOrGloryAttack: The DeathFromAbove attack she pulled on Bakugo during the U.A. Sports Festival. She passed her weight limit accumulating projectiles in the hopes that dropping them all on Bakugo would distract him enough to give her the upper hand. It fails, because he had a heavy hit in reserve (and because she made him notice it by stopping), and she's instead left too exhausted to continue the match. This is acknowledged in-universe.
* DemotedToExtra: She's present for the Internship Arc, but is largely separate from the action.
* {{Determinator}}: Proves to be this in her fight against Bakugo, taking explosion after explosion to set up a massive rain of debris to rain down upon him. In the end while it fails and she collapses from HeroicRRoD, she manages to impress sponsors and land herself some internship offers.
* EmotionsVsStoicism: Downplayed as both Ochaco and Izuku are very emotional people, however sometimes Izuku will sink deep into his introverted and melancholic nature which will require the extroverted and optimistic Ochaco to help pull him back out of it.
* EpicFlail: Her "Zero Satellites" move. By attaching her wrist cables to multiple floating objects she's touched, she can swing them around to hit an opponent.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: On his way to the U.A. Entrance Exam, Deku is so lost in his own thoughts that he isn't paying attention to where he's stepping and ends up tripping. Before he can fully fall, though, Uraraka levitates him with her Quirk and wishes him good luck before taking off. Though this is an incredibly brief interaction, it's one that solidifies Uraraka's character. It shows that she's someone selfless who will help others even if she doesn't know them personally, a trait which she shares with the protagonist.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: When the likes of Aoyama and [[ShipperOnDeck Mina]] begin to catch on to her feelings for Izuku, Ochaco becomes extremely flustered and has a tendency of using her Quirk erratically. Eventually the rest of the class clearly come to see she's crushing on him, with a few like Tsuyu giving subtle signs of support and encouragement for when Ochaco is finally ready to confess.
* EyePop: One of the most epic in fictional history, with one eye popping out so far ''her mother needs to push it back in.'' This also implies it's not the first time it's happened either...
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* FanGirl:
** Of Thirteen, likely due to how her "Black Hole" Quirk has a similar gravity theme to her own.
** She's a fan of hero dramas in general. She loves it whenever Bakugo acts like a proper rival to Midoriya, excitedly calling it "the fated battle between men".
** She is a fangirl of Midoriya himself, showing constant admiration for how smart, kind, selfless, and determined he is. When she ran into him on the first day of class, she enthusiastically recalled how he defeated the robot with a punch, and she respects him so much during the U.A. Sports Festival that she actually feels bad about herself for leaning on him. During the climax of her fight with Bakugo, she is motivated by two things - her family ''and Midoriya''. She starts to develop a crush on him around this time, but chooses to focus on her own growth first.
* FanOfUnderdog:
** Was initially one of these as Midoriya's constant support and the only one to completely believe in him since the start. However, this stops applying once others start seeing how capable he really is.
** She gets to be on the receiving end from Present Mic who behaves this way during her fight against [[HavingABlast Bakugo,]] openly stating he's rooting for her to win. She doesn't, but she put up a damn good fight.
* FanservicePack: A year of training at U.A. to be a hero along with puberty make her noticeably more voluptuous in the second half of the story. Her bust doesn't grow a considerable amount, but her wide hips and thighs are on display in a few panels and it's clear she's done a lot of growing physically, not just mentally.
* FastballSpecial: Does this a lot with her Quirk. Since she can remove things from gravity for a time, turning it back on suddenly gives something a lot of momentum.
* FatalFlaw: Initially, Ochaco saw [[LoveIsAWeakness her admiration of Izuku as a flaw that she needed to overcome.]] Now, her FatalFlaw has become her constant desire to supress her feelings for Izuku resulting in her being unable to properly communicate with him.
* FirstFriend: She's the first person Midoriya's age to befriend him at U.A., turning his EmbarrassingNickname into an AppropriatedAppellation and brings him out of his shell with her constant cheeriness and support for him.
* FishOutOfWater: When it comes to hand-to-hand fighting, Ochaco doesn't show any strong skills fighting in close combat. This lack of skill becomes problematic. After all, as other characters point out, this type of combat is necessary when she needs to be near her opponent to use her Quirk. Ochaco understands this problem. As a result, she picks a mentor who is the complete opposite of her. Her mentor, Gunhead, is tall, strong, and experienced when it comes to hand-to-hand combat. So he teaches her skills that she uses when she fights. It's somewhat downplayed though, by the fact that, for being so unfamiliar with them, she does take to learning martial arts rather easily and quickly.
* {{Flight}}: With enough training and the use of some trusty cables built into her new gauntlets, Uraraka is zipping around in the air [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/bokunoheroacademia/images/0/03/Chapter_248.png/revision/latest?cb=20200306123033 with style.]]
* FormFittingWardrobe: While her hero costume is nothing outrageous for a heroine, she actually [[LampshadeHanging points out the snug fit]] her first time wearing it because she didn't ''intend'' for it to be so skin-tight. Apparently, if the desired fit isn't explicitly specified, the companies that create hero costumes just default to SensualSpandex.
* GenkiGirl: Ochaco Uraraka is pretty cheery and passionate most of the time as well. In fact, WordOfGod states he deliberately invoked this trope when designing her to contrast with the pessimistic and [[ShrinkingViolet shy]] Midoriya.
* GentleTouchVsFirmHand: When it comes to their relationship with Izuku, Ochaco is the optimistic and loving gentle touch to Tenya's stern, no-nonsense firm hand.
* GirlyBruiser: Is rather bubbly and even bashful at times. Can also knock you on your ass and put you in restraints before you even know what's happening.
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: She's a girl with a [[NiceGirl very warm]], [[GenkiGirl lively]], occasionally [[TheDitz ditzy]] and overall GirlNextDoor type of personality, her [[TrademarkFavoriteFood favorite food]] is [[SweetTooth mochi]], she has a tendency to cling onto her friends when she's [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/bokunoheroacademia/images/a/a9/Dorm_life_24_o%27clock.png/revision/latest?cb=20181123045212 scared]], and blushes up a storm whenever it comes to romance. Her hair is also [[BoyishShortHair kinda short]] [[spoiler: and later styled in [[TomboyishPonytail a ponytail]]]] and she is also shown to be quite entranced by 'manly' things much like Kirishima is, got ''insanely'' fired up about competing in the Sports Festival, and threw herself into learning martial arts to make up for her weaknesses.
* GirlNextDoor: She and Izuku aren't neighbors, but her personality fits this trope perfectly, being open, approachable, nonjudgemental, and the closest thing that Izuku has to a best friend alongside Bakugo and Iida.
* GiveGeeksAChance: She develops a huge crush on Midoriya despite him being a consummate Fanboy and a total dork at the beginning of the series. He becomes much more confident and determined as the series progresses, but he still remains a huge super-hero geek which doesn't whet her interest in the slightest. Izuku Midoriya/Deku mostly reciprocates the attraction. But given [[TwiceShy just how shy and awkward both are around each other,]] they remain JustFriends for now, even though it's quite clear from their interactions that both care deeply for each other in ways that are beyond platonic.
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: Her second encounter and argument with Toga during the Paranormal War Arc essentially boils down to them not being able to understand each other; Uraraka cannot understand how Toga could just flippantly kill people without a care in the world or a shred of guilt, while Toga [[EvilCannotComprehendGood cannot understand why Uraraka desires to save other people but stops Toga from doing what she wants]]. The encounter leaves Toga upset and Uraraka unsettled, unclear of where to go from there.
* GoodIsNotDumb: While her grades are really nothing to write home about, Ochaco has demonstrated the ability to come up with complex strategies right on the spot with very little assistance which fully utilize the strengths of her Quirk, allowing her to reach third place in U.A.'s rigorous Entrance Exam and tenth place during Eraser Head's Quirk Apprehension Test. She has also displayed some remarkable amounts of intelligence in other areas as well. (See HiddenDepths below.)
* GoodIsNotSoft: While she is usually reserved and polite, when people are threatening to harm innocents, she shows that she is not one to take that lightly, subduing her foes with any number of grappling, take down, and throwing maneuvers mixed with her gravity Quirk. She even slaps Izuku in the face at two points, one to stop his fall in the entrance exam and the second to help snap him out of the [[spoiler:trance Shinso put him in to stop his Blackwhip Quirk from rampaging.]]
* GravityMaster: Her Quirk allows her to reduce the gravitational pull of whatever she touches to zero through pads on her fingertips, making it near weightless. Her main weakness is that if she overuses her powers she suffers vertigo symptoms.
* HasAType: A chapter from the first volume of ''School Briefs'' has her, Tsuyu, and Momo apprehending a petty thief who soiled himself before his date with his crush. Seeing his date still accept him and offer him a second chance makes her think of Izuku, classifying him as another "fixer upper" like the thief and understanding the appeal of a seemingly lost cause. Although Izuku has never had anything ''that'' embarrassing happen to him and eventually becomes 1-A's strongest student, implying she has more of a thing for the HiddenBadass type.
* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: Her original costume comes with a helmet, but events would often conspire to knock it off, leaving her head bare. She eventually forgoes the helmet when remodeling her costume in favor of futuristic headgear that gives a clear view of her face.
* HeroicRROD: If she overuses her power, which has a limit of 3 tons, she gets violently woozy. If she really overdoes it, she will collapse.
* HeroicSacrifice: Attempts a non-lethal version after the Entrance Exam by asking the U.A staff to give some of her points to Midoriya as thanks for saving her from the [[HumongousMecha 0-Pointer]]. However, this request gets turned down since Midoriya had already qualified with the hidden Rescue Points factor, but her request was still used in support of Midoriya further.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Uraraka can be hard on herself for what she considers less-than-heroic tendencies, from wanting to become a hero so that she can make money for her parents to feeling sympathy for people like Himiko Toga. Luckily for her, Midoriya reassures her that there's nothing wrong with feeling that way.
* HeroWorshipper: Ochaco slowly starts becoming this towards Izuku due to his heroic nature, but it's also partially due to her own personal feelings towards him. Once she realizes this, she decides to try and bottle the feelings up, [[LoveIsAWeakness believing that they would only serve to hold her back.]]
* HesNotMyBoyfriend: During her internship, [[PluckyGirl Uraraka]] talks to [[TheHero Deku]] through the cell phone, and the Pro Hero Gunhead quickly assumes she's talking to her boyfriend. She denies it, [[EveryoneCanSeeIt but her later actions make it clear she's developed a crush on him.]]
* HiddenBuxom: [[ClarkKentOutfit While it isn't obvious when she wears her uniform]], her figure is made more visible in other outfits, most notably her skin-tight hero costume. When she wears her hero costume for the first time, it is so [[FormFittingWardrobe form-fitting]] that Midoriya is taken aback by her figure.
* HiddenDepths:
** Despite being a sweet girl with a somewhat goofy nature, she is actually really good at strategic planning and execution. She is also shown to think quite a bit about the future, deciding to intern with a battle-styled hero instead of a rescue operations hero because she wants to be prepared for any situation.
** A special chapter shows she's very good at reading people as she is able to pinpoint and explain the reasons for Bakugo's rivalry with Midoriya. She was also the first to notice when the calm and collected Tsuyu was upset about something.
** She's extremely good at quick action in crisis situations, and can almost shut her emotions off in a focused trance when someone is in danger. [[spoiler:The Yakuza raid and Midoriya's rampaging Quirk immediately come to mind]]. The aftermath of said situations, on the other hand, is very hard on her.
* HighHeelPower: Her hero costume comes with high heels and she's an ActionGirl who can kick asses any time. This is justified as her heels are spring loaded and act as shock absorbers when she lands.
* HighPressureEmotion: Blushes red as a tomato whenever she catches herself getting [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace too close]] to Izuku or other people bring up how intimate she is with the boy.
* HopeBringer: [[spoiler:After an exhausting search and retrieval of Izuku after he runs off on his own to protect his friends, he's brought back to U.A. only to hear chants from the crowd of refugees inside urging him to leave. Foisting more of their problems on him and essentially sending him out to die. He's about to listen and depart when Ochaco grabs his hand, vowing to herself she's not letting him go. Then she marches straight to the crowd of protestors to force them into letting him stay]].
* TheIdiotFromOsaka: While not present for the most part, her face-to-face interactions with her parents are the most genuinely slapstick-like, including an EyePop that her mother ''helps push back in''.
* ImpliedLoveInterest: Uraraka is this to Izuku. He's definitely expressed some attraction to her, and especially early on [[CannotTalkToWomen gets flustered while talking to her.]] He also instantly shifts from hating his childhood nickname "Deku" to [[AppropriatedAppellation adopting it as his own]] (eventually even using it as his hero name) because Uraraka said she likes it ([[ClassRepresentative Iida]] even Lampshades how abrupt this is), and this happens when they've only known each other for less than a day. It's now definite that she has a crush on him, but so far [[LoveIsAWeakness she's chosen not to distract herself by pursuing it.]]
* InASingleBound: In the early chapters, this tended to be how Uraraka used her power on herself, as being floaty usually made the side effects of her Quirk significantly worse. After training it though, Uraraka can now use her power on herself with almost no repercussions, essentially giving her the ability to fly.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: While she initially appears to only be a hero in order to get money, she is shown to be inherently a purely sweet girl, and eventually she decides that she wants to be a hero in order to save everyone.
* InstantExpert: It's a little startling how good she gets at martial arts in so little time.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: The first time she wears her hero costume, she unintentionally renders Midoriya uncomfortable with arousal because she didn't know when filing the request for a uniform the company would assume skintight materials unless otherwise instructed.
* JerkassToOne: The Drawing Smash exhibition had the franchise's main characters doing commentary on various exhibits, and on all of the ones she's partnered with Bakugo on, ''she won't stop picking on him.'' Izuku can only watch on nervously as she slyly tears Bakugo several new ones. This coming from the resident PluckyGirl shows she strongly disapproves of Bakugo's repugnant attitude and his terrible treatment of Izuku up until post-License Exam.
* LargeHam: Ochaco has a few moments where she is this, due to her cheerful and energetic nature, it especially manifests whenever she gets flustered in regards to her crush on Izuku.
* LatexSpaceSuit: Her hero costume is a form-fitting suit with a helmet that resembles an astronaut's. She was going for the space theme when designing it. Not so much the [[FormFittingWardrobe form-fitting]] part.
* LeaveHimToMe: [[spoiler:Urges Izuku to hurry ahead and get to where Shigaraki is after Toga pulls him through a portal and derails their plan to defeat the villains. She wishes him good luck, implicitly urging him to accomplish his goal of saving Shigaraki while she stays behind and tries to save Toga in turn.]]
* LethalHarmlessPowers: Her Quirk generally isn't combat-oriented and Uraraka herself typically doesn't use it on other people, but when [[spoiler:Toga mimics her Quirk, she uses it to float Curious and her followers high into the air before releasing them to splatter on the concrete below]].
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: With Toga. She mostly embodies positive femininity and a rather sunny and wholesome personality, while Toga embodies negative femininity with her sadistic and twisted personality.
* LightIsGood: Her costume and ColorMotif consist of bright pink and she is an AllLovingHero.
* LikeParentLikeSpouse: Downplayed. Both Midoriya's mother and Uraraka have gravity-themed Quirks, soft features, a fondness for pink clothing, and sweet personalities.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: To Izuku. [[spoiler:After being homeless, caked in blood and filth, and about to be lynched by the U.A. refugees like how he was ostracized in his early life, the first time his eyes regain some of their old light is hearing Ochaco passionately defend him. No other person has ever stood up for him like this, and it clearly leaves a deep impression on him]].
* LookalikeLovers: Uraraka shows romantic feelings towards Midoriya, and both of them have [[https://comicbook.com/anime/news/my-hero-academia-izuku-midoriya-ochaco-uraraka-same-face-meme/ similar-looking faces]].
* LoveIsAWeakness: Downplayed. It's not so much that she considers love a weakness as much as she considers it a distraction from her studies. Uraraka is close friends with Midoriya, but it's evident that she has more than platonic feelings for him. However, because of the competitive program for heroes, at least in Japan, she sees her feelings as getting in the ways of her goal. As such, she has been suppressing her romantic feelings for him and trying to [[JustFriends just enjoy their friendship]]. That doesn't mean they've gone away for good, it just means she's used a stopgap measure to avoid dealing with them.
* LovelyAngels: She can be this with Tsuyu. The two easily cooperate with each other while as seen during their fight against Himiko Toga and also both do the Hero Work-Studies together at the Ryukyu agency, where to the point that they have created a Super Move by combining their respective Quirks: Meteor Fafrotskies which was used against a giantified villain.
* LuminescentBlush: Ochaco has a few of these whenever her crush on Izuku is brought to the forefront of her mind.
* MadeOfIron: She's quite tougher than she looks, as she tanks several of Bakugo's typical explosions before finally being knocked unconscious after forcing him to use his full power. Her Quirk has nothing to do with tanking explosions. This earns her respect from Bakugo himself, as he rejects Kaminari's notions that he's fighting a "frail" girl.
* MeaningfulName: Her name managed to be both this and PunnyName at the same time... on '''two''' levels!
** "Uraraka" means "bright." "Ochaco" can be derived from the expression "ocha no ko" (roughly meaning "piece of cake!") or "ochappii" (a chatterbox girl). This all illustrates her bright, cheerful, NiceGirl personality.
** Uraraka's full name is written 麗日お茶子. 日 (''ka'') can be alternatively pronounced as ''bi''; meanwhile, 茶 (''cha'') translates to "tea", which in Japanese phonology is rendered ティ (''ti''[[note]]Not to be confused with ち (''chi'' in Hepburn romanization), which is rendered in some romanization systems as ''ti''.[[/note]]). Contracting the pronunciation of 麗 (''urara'') to just ''ura'', it can be combined with 日's ''bi'' pronunciation and the Japanese transliteration of "tea", creating ウラビティ (''Urabiti''), which is both the Japanese pronunciation of Uraraka's codename "Uravity" and just a consonant away from ''guraviti'' ("gravity"), the crux of her Quirk.
* MeetCute: Izuku Midoriya is going to the [[SuperheroSchool UA High]] to take the entry exam, and accidentally trips over his feet. Luckily for him, Ochaco Uraraka happens to be nearby and uses her [[GravityMaster Zero Gravity Quirk]] to stop him from falling flat on his face. She apologizes for using her Quirk without permission, and after giving some words of encouragement goes on her way. Izuku is excited over [[CannotTalkToWomen having talked to a girl, even though he didn't actually say anything.]]
* MsFanservice: Both her school uniform and hero costume elicit dumbstruck reactions from Midoriya. She's also seen wearing a bikini twice. She is also prone to blatant MaleGaze shots.
* MundaneUtility: It's pointed out that her powers would be incredibly helpful in her parents' construction business, and the only reason she doesn't is because they wanted her to have her own life rather than get stuck following their career.
* NerdsAreSexy: Amusingly, as detailed in one of the light novels, she's the only girl at the training camp slumber party that finds Midoriya's All Might geeking as a ''positive'', while the rest of the girls unanimously dismiss him as boyfriend material on the grounds that he'd "probably take you on a date to an All Might meet and greet". [[FanOfUnderdog Uraraka sees no problem with such a scenario and is quietly annoyed by their conclusion]].
* NiceGirl: Uraraka is a very friendly and charming person overall. Even her OnlyInItForTheMoney motivations behind pursuing heroism are out of concern for her family rather than greed or anything of the sort, and she very quickly learns to value heroism for its own sake anyway. It is heavily implied that the reason Midoriya is attracted to her is [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe because she was the only human being who was nice to him]] when nobody except his own mother and All Might was (and even they didn't exactly help, his mother [[InnocentlyInsensitive never tried to support his dreams of becoming a hero]] after finding out he is quirkless and All Might [[BrutalHonesty flat out told him]] [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim that hero work involves risk and someone who doesn't have a quirk can't hope to be one]]). Not only did Ochaco warmly greet him after saving him from faceplanting to the ground right before the entrance exams, she even offered to give him some of her points, after realising that he didn't score a single point because he tried to rescue her.
* NiceMeanAndInBetween: Of the three students Izuku has a close relationship with when he first attends U.A. Ochaco is the "Nice" to Bakugo's "Mean", and Tenya's "In-Between". Of those three, Ochaco is the most gentle and supportive to Izuku.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She has a habit of getting right up in Midoriya's face, which [[ShipTease flusters]] the guy to no end. By episode 40 of the anime, she realizes how she's gotten far too comfortable with this (not to mention recognizing her own attraction to him) and starts acting as embarrassed as he does.
* NotQuiteFlight: She can use her Quirk on herself to achieve this, though in the beginning of the manga, she avoided doing it because it tended to make her nausea side effect several times worse. However, after training extensively, she can now float herself with barely any repercussions.
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Her power can arrest the momentum of an object but can't do so immediately. When saving Midoriya from a lethal fall, Uraraka pointedly floats herself up into the air to create space for him to slow down before coming to a stop.
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* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Her initial reason for becoming a heroine is to earn money for her parents now that their construction company is out of work. When confessing this, she felt embarrassed that it wasn't for more pure-hearted reasons. However, it's heavily {{downplayed}}, as she's still an incredibly kindhearted girl who still wants to help people, and the others reassure her that doing so for her family is a noble and understandable motivation. It's also phased out as the story goes on and certain events, starting with [[spoiler:Nighteye's death]], make her reconsider why she became a heroine.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** Everyone thinks it's weird when she gets aggressively fired up about the U.A. Sports Festival, even knowing how important doing well there can be for an aspiring hero's career. It turns out that she has a good reason.
** Even though Ochaco tends to be kind and friendly, there are times when she becomes intense. During one of her classes, Ochaco and Aoyama have to fight against a Pro Hero. When sparring with the hero, Ochaco gets yanked towards a black hole. Because of her practice with Gunhead, Ochaco's reflexes kick in. She uses the pull from the black hole to get herself into a position to handcuff the teacher. When she begins to make her move, Ochaco's bright brown eyes turn white. Ochaco flips the hero onto her back, cuffing her hand behind her back.
** This actually ends up being exploited by Izuku. During the Hero License Exam, Uraraka is struck by a rival student's Quirk and falls from the platform and doesn't try to float. Midoriya lampshades how odd this is and it turns out [[spoiler: it's not Uraraka at all; it's actually Camie -- actually Himiko -- posing as her. At the time, Himiko didn't yet know that she could use Uraraka's Quirk while transformed into her.]]
* OppositesAttract: Ochaco (extroved and open) has a mutual crush on Izuku (introverted and emotionally reserved).
* OutOfFocus: Particularly in the Field Training and Hideout Raid Arcs where her appearances are minimal, limited to maybe one or two conversations with other characters. The [[AdaptationExpansion anime adaptation]] mitigates her lack of appearances in the former, where she is given a lot more scenes and her training with Gunhead is shown in full.
* PassionateSportsGirl: Whenever it came time for the Sports Festival, Ochaco got more fired up [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness then she had ever been up to that point,]] fully determined to give it her all.
* PennyAmongDiamonds: While not everybody in U.A. is rich like Ida, Todoroki and Yaoyorozu, most seem to be upper-middle-class. Uraraka, however, has stated that her family is poor, and that being able to make money and provide for them is her motivation to be a heroine. This does tend to be Played for Laughs, as she often comically faints when confronted with something lavish, like Yaoyorozu worrying about a trip to Venice or how utterly fancy Heights Alliance is compared to her humble abode. Uraraka tries to defy the trope of being TheIdiotFromOsaka by speaking standard Japanese instead of her native Osaka dialect and not telling anyone about her poor family life, but earning money for her parents from hero work is her motivation.
* PinkHeroine: She has traces of pink throughout her costume, her Quirk manifests as a pink color, and she is an AllLovingHero.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Her hero costume is primarily pink, white, and black.
* PluckyGirl: Several characters have described her as "bright", [[PunnyName which is reflected in her name]], because of her overly positive nature. She is also very determined when she wants to be. This is somewhat {{enforced|Trope}}, as Creator/KoheiHorikoshi thought this kind of character would interact well with the more [[SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl introverted and pessimistic Midoriya]].
* PowerFloats: Through her Zero Gravity Quirk, Ochaco can make anything solid float in mid-air as long as they are within the weight limit of her Quirk, which is around three tons. Eventually, it gets to the point that she is making an entire plane float and even her own body.
* PreBattleBanter: [[spoiler:On the eve of the final offensive, she shares a tender heart-to-heart alone with Izuku who thanks her for standing up for him against the refugee mob who tried to kick him out of U.A. and discuss the viability of saving Toga and Shigaraki despite their horrific crimes. [[ShipTease Along with telling her how perfect her hair is]].]]
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: Ochaco Uraraka wears gray tights with her school uniform, representing her properness and how nice she is. There is also practicality involved, as her Quirk of anti-gravity has her floating in mid-air quite often.
* PovertyForComedy: Bar none has the roughest go of it of all the U.A. hero course students financially and it's played for laughs a fair amount. Even after upgrading to the dorms she's overwhelmed by even the most mundane of luxuries compared to being forced to sweat like a pig in her apartment or even ''starve'' some days.
* PowerIncontinence: Her Quirk activates on anything she touches with all five pads on her fingers regardless of intent, so she's usually careful to hold things with one finger off. She even wears mittens in bed to keep her Quirk from inadvertently floating things in her sleep.
* PunnyName: Her name managed to be both this and MeaningfulName at the same time. One of the kanji in "Uraraka" can be read as "bi". Meanwhile, "ocha" in "Ochaco" means "tea." Her name then can be read as "Urabi-tea." Add a "g" in front, and it's very close to the Japanese pronunciation of "gravity." This pun is also the basis of her hero name.
* PuppyLove: Downplayed. Ochaco and Izuku aren't readily willing to openly admit their love for each other, but the countless ShipTease moments that they've had between each other still display this trope clearly.
* RedOniBlueOni:
** The easily excitable and extroveted red oni, to Izuku's more emotionally reserved and introverted blue oni.
** Is also the more laid back blue oni to Tenya's controlling LargeHam red oni.
** Ochaco is the more open and honest red oni compared to Tsuyu, who is aloof and has trouble expressing herself.
** She is the blue oni compared to Mina Ashido, who manages to be ''even more'' emotional and easily excitable than her.
** She is also the sane blue oni compared to Toga's pshycotic red oni.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Lampshaded in the Smash extras. An object that doesn't conform to gravity would be a priceless boon to science (as an objective yardstick in a [[UsefulNotes/{{Relativity}} relative]] universe), but nobody ever thinks of this. Particularly egregious given her primary motivation for becoming a heroine is her desire to earn money for her family.
* RescueRomance: This gets played both ways with Izuku Midoriya and Ochaco Uraraka. During the entry exam for the UA High, Ochaco ends up with her leg pinned by some debris as a giant robot approaches. Disregarding his own safety and the fact that he needs to score points, Izuku rushes to jump in and [[MegatonPunch smashes the robot with a single punch to save her.]] Unfortunately, the strain of using his powers ends up leaving his limbs crippled and he plummets to the ground, but then Ochaco uses her [[GravityMaster zero-gravity]] powers to stop him before he hits the ground, saving him as well. As the story advances, it becomes evident that the two have developed feelings for each other, but they both are too shy to express them.
* RotatingProtagonist: She tends to fall in and out of focus depending on the arc. She gets a good spotlight in the Battle Trial, U.A. Sports Festival, Forest Training Camp, Provisional Hero License Exam, Internship, and Joint Training Arcs, but outside of that, she sometimes does not appear.
* RousingSpeech: [[spoiler:She gives a pretty badass one at the end of the Villain Hunt arc when she shouts down the crowd of refugees protesting Izuku's admittance back to the U.A. campus. She speaks at length about Izuku's qualities, and that it isn't fair to place so much burden on one person to make things easier. She makes it clear that for everybody to survive All For One and Shigaraki's reign of terror, they need to accept Izuku, nor can they treat anybody else with prejudice or hate because they're too scared or too lazy to make real change in society.]]
* RunningGag:
** Her costume helmet tends to get knocked off in combat. It actually becomes a plot point during the Provisional Hero License Exam Arc when Camie, [[spoiler:a.k.a. Toga]], assumes Ochaco's form with the helmet on, after Shindo shook the license testing site with a quake and caused the real Ochaco to lose hers. The very fact this other Ochaco still has a helmet hints that she's a fake. Eventually her costume alters it so it's a visorless headset that's less likely to fall off.
** Seeing Tenya take things too seriously, or hams up a performance, guarantees a spitting laugh from her.
** Her Quirk is sometimes activated on herself, or others, when ship teased about her and Izuku.
* SailorFuku: She's briefly seen wearing a regular school uniform when addressing Present Mic about Midoriya saving her during the U.A. entrance exam.
* SaveTheVillain: [[spoiler:Discusses this with Izuku before the final battle concerning Toga and Shigaraki. The two understand there's no forgiving them for what they've done, but they can't ignore their pain and resolve to save both of them if possible. Because that's what [[AllLovingHero being a hero]] is about.]]
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With Midoriya. This is enforced by Horikoshi, who thought her PluckyGirl personality would play off Midoriya's introverted and pessimistic personality.
* SciFiBobHaircut: Sports a particularly round bob of brown hair and is the lead female character in a TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture setting where almost everybody possesses a mutation of some kind that grants them a superpower.
* SecretlySelfish: During the U.A. Sports Festival Arc, Uraraka comes to believe she is using Midoriya as a {{crutch|Character}} to help her advance after Ida declined to work with the two since, due to how the tournament works, they all are rivals to each other. Upon hearing this, she tells Midoriya and Ida how bad she feels about effectively using their friendship to get ahead, and strives to go all out to make it fair.
* SensualSpandex: Ochaco's Hero uniform is skin-tight and despite her claiming it wasn't supposed to be that way, she still hasn't gotten it replaced, implying that she's grown into it.
* ShipTease: Ochaco Uraraka has had this with Izuku more than any other character with Uraraka being teased by others over her obvious feelings for Deku. Despite her denial at first, she eventually realizes she does have feelings for him, but puts them to the side for now to follow her dream.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Ochaco's main romantic interest throughout the series has always been Izuku. There's no indication she ever had a crush in the past and she hasn't displayed a crush towards anyone else since meeting him.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She develops a crush on Midoriya, who is a kind, helpful and friendly EndearinglyDorky boy who saved her during the Entrance Exam. As such, he's the only boy she has ever been shown to harbor romantic feelings toward, and even prior to realizing how she felt, she would often gush about him or be concerned for his well-being more than others. It enters deconstruction territory when she realizes these feelings [[LoveIsAWeakness could become a distraction]] that interferes with her judgment as a hero, so she tries to suppress them.
* SleepCute: In the third ending theme for My Hero Academia, Uraraka and Midoriya are both asleep on a bus while resting their heads on Iida's shoulders (and he's also asleep). It's cute and edges slightly into ThreesomeSubtext.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The standard romanization for her name would be "Ocha'''k'''o", but her name is consistently romanized as "Ochaco" across all official media.
* SpitTake: Often spits out laughing whenever Tenya Iida goes LargeHam.
* SquishyWizard: With the right timing and planning, she can deal a lot of damage with her Quirk and has been absolutely vital to the victories of the main cast several times. However, because her Quirk drains her stamina so quickly, she often struggles with her defenses.
* StrongerThanTheyLook: Ochaco has a somewhat thin build, but that doesn't stop her from throwing people and pinning them down with her bare arms and getting back up from multiple explosions by Bakugo.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Uraraka seems to have inherited most of her mother's looks -- her skin complexion, hairstyle, and even the same [[BlushSticker blushed cheeks]], but she also has her father's spiky hair and bangs, brown eyes and [[UnusualEyebrows short and stubby eyebrows]]. She also shares her cheery personality with both of her parents.
* StunnedSilence: Will lapse into this with Izuku and Iida as a part of their dynamic whenever confronted with something shocking like Aizawa revealing he never intended to expel any student after the Quirk Apprehension test or Bakugo being... [[ComicalOverreacting Bakugo.]]
* SuperStrength: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. Much like her [[NotQuiteFlight flying ability]], it isn't real super strength, but with her power, she can easily lift up to three tons and send it flying like a meteor at her opponent.
* SupportYourParents: She wants to become a pro heroine so she can financially support her parents, as their failing construction business has left them poor.
* TomboyishPonytail: [[spoiler: [[GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak While Ochaco isn't that much of a tomboy]] as of Chapter 284, she has started wearing her hair as this style and has definitely evolved into more of an ActionGirl by this point.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Invoked by Uraraka herself, when she joins a fighting hero for her one week hero internship, thinking that she'll be able to expand her skillset. She makes good on it too, as she is already knocking out villains with Gigantification Quirks with one special move. Later during the fight with Class 1-B, it isn't Midoriya who ends up being the one to take out most of the other team, it's Uraraka, who is responsible for half of the other team's members getting captured.
** [[spoiler: During her final battle against Toga, when the villain unleashed an army of evil clones of all the heroes on her; Ochaco's Quirk receives an [[EleventhHourSuperPower awakening]]. Now she's capable of using Zero Gravity without needing to touch her targets, this allowed her to push away all the evil clones with just a motion of her hand; much to the shock of Toga and everyone watching.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Really likes mochi, and at one point recruited some of her classmates to help her get around a "limit one box per customer" restriction on a sale at the supermarket. Her Christmas present to Izuku is a pack of sliced mochi.
* TrickedOutShoes: Has a pair with spring heels to reduce falling impact as part of her hero costume.
* TwiceShy: Midoriya and she clearly harbor more than platonic feelings for one another but their mutual timidity and awkwardness make it nearly impossible for them to convey anything.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: The girl to Izuku and Iida as the two guys.
* UnusualEyebrows: Opposed to most other characters, Ochaco's eyebrows are short and even shown as stubby sometimes to better frame her wide, circular eyes. This is likely to accentuate her PluckyGirl nature and help her stand out more.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Implied and downplayed. Ochaco shows a more aggressive side whenever it comes to Izuku's and her relationship with him has so far been mostly ShipTease. Nevertheless, threatening or trying to harm Izuku is a quick and easy way to get Ochaco on your bad side.
* VomitDiscretionShot: After overexerting her powers to save Midoriya, Uraraka leans her head down just out of frame in order to throw up. We know she's not just gagging because it's [[RainbowPuke highlighted with rainbows and sparkles]]! Later on, she's shown trying to hold back again while Iida nervously fusses over her. This technique is used again in an anime-only episode in season 5, again after she overused her powers while on a mission.
* WaifFu: Uraraka is a seemingly dainty teenage girl, yet not only can she tank some pretty big hits but she also learns martial arts in just a week after attending an internship. She then incorporates these moves in tandem with her quirk to deliver some pretty sick takedowns in what is so far a rather brief career as a provisional hero.
* WeakButSkilled: According to the power rankings. Her power sits at a middling 2/5, but she's excellent at using it with a 5/5 in technique. This is downplayed later on as the series progresses as her power grows to a 4/6 (B-), but her technique is still stellar at 5/6 (A).
* WellDoneDaughterGirl: Initially, Ochaco's main motivation for becoming a hero was to earn money for her parents and so that they would be proud of her. She was originally going to help her father with his construction, but her parents told her that she should follow her own dreams, and she eventually does decide she wants to save people for her own reasons.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: At one point, all the other girls discuss and dismiss Izuku as boyfriend material due his dorkish nature and obssession with All-Might. Ochaco remarks that those are qualities that she likes about him.
* WhatWouldXDo: Has taken to asking herself "What Would Deku Do?" in dire situations, and is often seen aspiring to be like him.
* WhoWatchesTheWatchmen: She contemplates a variant in Chapter 212, wondering who helps the heroes when they need saving. This becomes a core part of her character development later on as Uraraka begins to contemplate the more psychological aspect of being a hero, realizing that taking care of peoples mental health is just as important as taking care of them physically, and that many people, hero and villain alike, are not getting the proper help they need.
* WomenPreferStrongMen: She is a huge fan of manly things and tends to get excited when she sees them. In the Dorm Room showoff, she was the only girl who liked Kirishima's room. While she doesn't like how Bakugo acts, she does get excited when he and Midoriya pull heavily on stock rivalry tropes.
* WorkingClassHero: Her family own a barely-afloat construction company and she sticks out compared to the more well off students of U.A.
* WorthyOpponent: Was acknowledged as one by Bakugo after their match. In the U.A. Sports Festival Arc, he takes their fight seriously because of what happened to him the last time he underestimated someone (during the Battle Trial Arc), and because he thought she'd have an ace up her sleeve because Midoriya would have given her some battle plan. [[RightForTheWrongReasons He was half right]]. After getting his facts straight from Midoriya himself, Bakugo begrudgingly acknowledged to himself [[{{Determinator}} she wasn't frail at all]].
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Changes Izuku's opinion on the nickname Deku and has him take what was a derogatory title as his hero name, saying it sounds like dekiru which means "never giving up." A new source of strength. Subsequently making Uraraka herself a primary source of Izuku's determination for the rest of the series.
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** She gets to be on the receiving end from [[MakeMeWannaShout Present Mic]] who behaves this way during her fight against [[HavingABlast Bakugo,]] openly stating he's rooting for her to win. She doesn't, but she put up a damn good fight.

''Villains'': [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVillains Known Villains]] [[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaStain Stain]]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaLeagueOfVillains League of Villains]] [[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaAllForOne All For One]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaTomuraShigaraki Tomura Shigaraki]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaDabi Dabi]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaHimikoToga Himiko Toga]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaArtificialHumans Artificial Humans]]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaShieHassaikai Shie Hassaikai]] [[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaOverhaul Overhaul]]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaMetaLiberationArmy Meta Liberation Army]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaParanormalLiberationFront Paranormal Liberation Front]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVillainArmy Villain Army]])\\

* DistressedDamsel: Played with during the entrance exam. Midoriya rushes in to save her without a second thought when he sees her trapped under some debris. He succeeds, but can't control his landing after he punches out the robot, resulting in Uraraka saving ''him'' with her gravity powers.

''Villains'': [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVillains Known Villains]] [[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaStain Stain]]] ([[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaLeagueOfVillains League of Villains]] [[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaAllForOne All For One]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaTomuraShigaraki Tomura Shigaraki]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaDabi Dabi]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaHimikoToga Himiko Toga]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaArtificialHumans Artificial Humans]]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaShieHassaikai Shie Hassaikai]] [[[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaOverhaul Overhaul]]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaMetaLiberationArmy Meta Liberation Army]], [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaParanormalLiberationFront Paranormal Liberation Front]])\\

* TheApprentice: For the Hero Agency Interships, Ochaco chooses to become a temporary apprentice towards Gunhead, belieiving that it will help her imporve her physical fighting capabilities as well as offer her new perspectives and opportunities. Future battles would show that these lessons payed off as she is now capable of taking opponets down with her body alone.

* CallBack: Twofold. [[spoiler:She welcomes Izuku back to U.A. by shouting down the mass of refugees trying to kick him out, setting Izuku back on the path he had strayed from in his rush to save everybody. This calls back to her setting him on his feet again after he tripped before the entrance exam, along with All Might officially welcoming Izuku to U.A. in his acceptance video by repeating his worlds almost entirely verbatim.]]

* TheConfidant: To Izuku, at least whenever the subject isn’t about romance. While he is generally open about his feelings, Ochaco espicially is someone he can be honest with about his doubts, insecurities, beliefs, and fears. [[spoiler: This becomes most evident on the eve before the final offensive, where Izuku tells Ochaco how he truly feels in regards to Tomura, and she does to same to him in regards to Toga.]]

* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Downplayed. Ochaco doesn’t actively go against authority, just authority that she believes isn’t beneficial at the current moment, like rushing over to confront Himiko Toga against Asui Tsuyu’s advice, or [[spoiler: helping to restrain Izuku’s blackwhip Quirk rather than following protocal and waiting for a teacher.]]

* FatalFlaw: Initially, Ochaco saw [[LoveIsAWeakness her admiration of Izuku as a flaw that she needed to overcome.]] Now, her FatalFlaw has become her constant desire to supress her feelings for Izuku resulting in her being unable to properly communiate with him.

* JustForFun/SurprisinglySimilarCharacters: Amusingly, fans have compared her to Franchise/{{Kirby}}, both being pink, round [[TheCutie cuties]], with BlushStickers, [[TrickedOutShoes big shoes]] and [[PowerFloats floaty powers]].

!!!'''Playable in:''' ''My Hero Academia: Battle for All'', ''VideoGame/MyHeroOnesJustice'', ''My Hero One's Justice 2'', ''My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero'', ''My Hero Academia: Ultra Impact''

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Uraraka seems to have inherited ''all'' of her mother's looks — her skin complexion, hairstyle (aside from bangs that resemble her father's hair), and even the same blush stickers. She also has her father's brown eye color and eyebrows.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Uraraka has inherited ''all'' of her mother's looks -- skin complexion, hairstyle, and even the same blush stickers.

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Lampshaded in the Smash extras. An object that doesn't conform to gravity would be a priceless boon to science (as an objective yardstick in a relative universe), but nobody ever thinks of this. Particularly egregious given her primary motivation for becoming a heroine is her desire to earn money for her family.

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Lampshaded in the Smash extras. An object that doesn't conform to gravity would be a priceless boon to science (as an objective yardstick in a relative universe), but nobody ever thinks of this.

* StunnedSilence: Will lapse into this with Izuku and Iida as a part of their ThreeAmigos dynamic whenever confronted with something shocking like Aizawa revealing he never intended to expel any student after the Quirk Apprehension test or Bakugo being... [[ComicalOverreacting Bakugo.]]

* ThreeAmigos: With Midoriya and Ida.

* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: She's a girl with a [[NiceGirl very warm]], [[GenkiGirl lively]], occasionally [[TheDitz ditzy]] and overall GirlNextDoor type of personality, her main color motif of [[PinkMeansFeminine pink]], her [[TrademarkFavoriteFood favorite food]] is [[SweetTooth mochi]], she has a tendency to cling onto her friends when she's [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/bokunoheroacademia/images/a/a9/Dorm_life_24_o%27clock.png/revision/latest?cb=20181123045212 scared]], and blushes up a storm whenever it comes to romance. Her hair is also [[BoyishShortHair kinda short]] [[spoiler: and later styled in [[TomboyishPonytail a ponytail]]]] and she is also shown to be quite entranced by 'manly' things much like Kirishima is, got ''insanely'' fired up about competing in the Sports Festival, and threw herself into learning martial arts to make up for her weaknesses.

* PinkMeansFeminine: Her hero costume is primarily pink, white, and black.