1. Class 1-A — U.A. Hero Course

The main student class. Their Quirks and personalities make every training exercise a little chaotic.


1. Izuku Midoriya

Hero name: Deku

Quirk: One For All (later abilities develop)

Personality: Kind, analytical, determined, empathetic, and willing to risk himself to save others.

Appearance: Green curly hair, green eyes, freckles, athletic build.

Role: The main protagonist who dreams of becoming the greatest hero.


2. Katsuki Bakugo

Hero name: Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight

Quirk: Explosion

Personality: Loud, aggressive, competitive, proud, and fiercely driven to win.

Appearance: Spiky ash-blond hair and sharp red eyes.

Role: Izuku's childhood rival and one of the class's strongest fighters.


3. Ochaco Uraraka

Hero name: Uravity

Quirk: Zero Gravity

Personality: Cheerful, caring, brave, and practical.

Appearance: Brown bobbed hair, warm brown eyes, pink-accented hero suit.

Role: A close friend of Izuku who wants to help support her family.


4. Shoto Todoroki

Hero name: Shoto

Quirk: Half-Cold Half-Hot

Personality: Quiet, serious, observant, and unintentionally funny.

Appearance: Half-white, half-red hair; one gray eye and one turquoise eye; a burn scar around his left eye.

Role: A powerful student learning to define himself beyond his family.


5. Tenya Iida

Hero name: Ingenium

Quirk: Engine

Personality: Formal, disciplined, responsible, and very intense about rules.

Appearance: Dark blue hair, rectangular glasses, muscular calves.

Role: Class representative who takes hero training seriously.


6. Tsuyu Asui

Hero name: Froppy

Quirk: Frog

Personality: Calm, honest, observant, and dependable.

Appearance: Long dark-green hair, large eyes, frog-like features.

Role: A versatile rescue and combat hero with excellent mobility.


7. Eijiro Kirishima

Hero name: Red Riot

Quirk: Hardening

Personality: Friendly, courageous, loyal, and obsessed with being manly in the heroic sense.

Appearance: Red spiky hair, sharp teeth, muscular build.

Role: A durable frontline fighter and one of Bakugo's friends.


8. Denki Kaminari

Hero name: Chargebolt

Quirk: Electrification

Personality: Social, goofy, energetic, and sometimes reckless.

Appearance: Blond hair with a black lightning-shaped streak.

Role: An electric attacker who can temporarily short-circuit his own brain when he overuses his power.


9. Mina Ashido

Hero name: Pinky

Quirk: Acid

Personality: Outgoing, playful, sociable, and a talented dancer.

Appearance: Pink skin, pink hair, small horns, yellow eyes.

Role: An agile fighter who uses corrosive acid for offense and movement.


10. Momo Yaoyorozu

Hero name: Creati

Quirk: Creation

Personality: Intelligent, polite, strategic, and sometimes unsure of herself.

Appearance: Long black hair in a high ponytail and a tall build.

Role: The class vice representative, specializing in planning and creating tools.


11. Fumikage Tokoyami

Hero name: Tsukuyomi

Quirk: Dark Shadow

Personality: Reserved, serious, poetic, and fond of dramatic expressions.

Appearance: Human body with a dark bird-like head.

Role: Commands a living shadow creature that becomes stronger in darkness.


12. Kyoka Jiro

Hero name: Earphone Jack

Quirk: Earphone Jack

Personality: Sarcastic, cool-headed, musical, and secretly softhearted.

Appearance: Short dark-purple hair and earphone-jack earlobes.

Role: A sound-based hero with excellent hearing and reconnaissance skills.


13. Hanta Sero

Hero name: Cellophane

Quirk: Tape

Personality: Laid-back, humorous, and sociable.

Appearance: Black hair, long elbows with tape dispensers.

Role: Uses tape for swinging, binding enemies, and rescue work.


14. Mashirao Ojiro

Hero name: Tailman

Quirk: Tail

Personality: Humble, polite, and disciplined.

Appearance: Blond hair, martial-arts uniform style, strong tail.

Role: A hand-to-hand combat specialist who relies on technique.


15. Mezo Shoji

Hero name: Tentacole

Quirk: Dupli-Arms

Personality: Gentle, protective, patient, and brave.

Appearance: Tall, muscular, masked, with multiple appendages.

Role: Excels at reconnaissance, protection, and rescuing others.


16. Rikido Sato

Hero name: Sugarman

Quirk: Sugar Rush

Personality: Friendly, considerate, and fond of baking.

Appearance: Broad build, brown hair, strong jaw.

Role: Gains enhanced strength after eating sugar.


17. Koji Koda

Hero name: Anima

Quirk: Anivoice

Personality: Shy, kind, gentle, and animal-loving.

Appearance: Large stone-like head and quiet demeanor.

Role: Communicates with animals and can enlist their help.


18. Toru Hagakure

Hero name: Invisible Girl

Quirk: Invisibility

Personality: Cheerful, chatty, playful, and friendly.

Appearance: Usually invisible, with gloves and boots giving clues to her position.

Role: A stealth specialist who can use light-refraction techniques as her abilities develop.


19. Yuga Aoyama

Hero name: Can't Stop Twinkling

Quirk: Navel Laser

Personality: Dramatic, flamboyant, and more vulnerable than he first appears.

Appearance: Blond hair, sparkling blue eyes, and a showy style.

Role: Fires a laser from his navel. His ability has physical limitations.


20. Minoru Mineta

Hero name: Grape Juice

Quirk: Pop Off

Personality: Nervous, mischievous, clever, and often cowardly until pushed to act.

Appearance: Very short, with purple ball-shaped hair.

Role: Throws sticky spheres from his head to trap opponents.

2. Class 1-B — The other hero class




Class 1-B is taught by Vlad King. Its students compete with Class 1-A and have plenty of distinctive abilities.


Character
Quirk
Personality / specialty

Itsuka Kendo
Big Fist
Responsible leader; enlarges her hands.

Neito Monoma
Copy
Theatrical, competitive, and provocative; copies others' Quirks by touch.

Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu
Steel
Tough, stubborn, and courageous; turns his body into steel.

Ibara Shiozaki
Vines
Sincere and principled; controls her vine-like hair.

Juzo Honenuki
Softening
Calm tactician; softens nonliving material.

Setsuna Tokage
Lizard Tail Splitter
Playful and strategic; separates and controls body parts.

Kinoko Komori
Mushroom
Cheerful and mischievous; grows mushrooms.

Pony Tsunotori
Horn Cannon
Friendly and energetic; controls and launches her horns.

Yosetsu Awase
Weld
Practical and dependable; fuses objects together.

Sen Kaibara
Gyrate
Focused fighter; spins his body parts.

Togaru Kamakiri
Razor Sharp
Aggressive combatant; creates blades from his body.

Shihai Kuroiro
Black
Sneaky and dramatic; merges with dark-colored objects.

Yui Kodai
Size
Quiet and reserved; changes the size of objects.

Jurota Shishida
Beast
Polite but formidable; transforms into a powerful beast.

Nirengeki Shoda
Twin Impact
Thoughtful tactician; adds a second impact to a hit.

Kosei Tsuburaba
Solid Air
Confident and energetic; creates solidified air.

Manga Fukidashi
Comic
Expressive and funny; materializes sound-effect words.

Kojiro Bondo
Cemedine
Gentle and helpful; emits adhesive.

Reiko Yanagi
Poltergeist
Quiet and eerie; telekinetically moves objects.

Hiryu Rin
Scales
Disciplined fighter; produces protective scales.



3. U.A. teachers and staff





Character
Quirk
Bio

Shota Aizawa
Erasure
Tired-looking, blunt, practical teacher who can temporarily cancel a person's Quirk while maintaining his gaze. Hero name: Eraser Head.

All Might
One For All (formerly)
Symbol of Peace, inspiring mentor to Izuku. Has a powerful muscular hero form and a weakened true form.

Present Mic
Voice
Loud, enthusiastic English teacher and radio personality who weaponizes his voice.

Principal Nezu
High Spec
Highly intelligent principal with an animal-like appearance and brilliant tactical mind.

Midnight
Somnambulist
Confident, theatrical teacher whose aroma can induce sleep.

Cementoss
Cement
Calm teacher who manipulates cement and concrete.

Ectoplasm
Clones
Serious mathematics teacher who creates duplicates of himself.

Thirteen
Black Hole
Rescue instructor whose Quirk can suck in and disintegrate matter.

Snipe
Homing
Marksman hero with guided shots.

Power Loader
Iron Claws
Support-course teacher and equipment specialist.

Recovery Girl
Heal
School nurse who accelerates healing, using the patient's energy.

Hound Dog
Dog
Discipline counselor with enhanced animal-like senses.

Vlad King
Blood Control
Class 1-B's strict but caring homeroom teacher.

Lunch Rush
Unknown
U.A.'s chef, responsible for feeding the students.



4. The Big Three and other U.A. students




• Mirio Togata — Lemillion: Quirk Permeation. Cheerful, fearless, and relentlessly heroic; can pass through solid objects.

• Tamaki Amajiki — Suneater: Quirk Manifest. Shy and anxious but exceptionally capable; manifests traits of what he eats.

• Nejire Hado — Nejire Chan: Quirk Wave Motion. Curious, friendly, and energetic; converts vitality into spiraling energy waves.

• Hitoshi Shinso: Quirk Brainwashing. Reserved and determined; can control people who verbally respond to him under the right conditions.

• Mei Hatsume: Quirk Zoom. A brilliant, eccentric Support Course inventor who builds hero equipment.

• Togata's classmates and other U.A. students: Include Yuyu Haya and students from the General Studies, Support, and Management courses.

5. Pro Heroes





Character
Quirk
Bio

Endeavor
Hellflame
Intense, powerful fire hero and Shoto's father. His family history is complicated.

Hawks
Fierce Wings
Laid-back, perceptive, fast-moving hero with controllable feathers.

Best Jeanist
Fiber Master
Polished, disciplined hero who controls fibers and clothing threads.

Mirko
Rabbit
Fearless, independent close-combat hero with extraordinary jumping power.

Edgeshot
Foldabody
Quiet ninja-like hero who can flatten and narrow his body.

Mt. Lady
Gigantification
Glamorous hero who can grow to enormous size.

Kamui Woods
Arbor
Restrains enemies using wooden branches and limbs.

Ryukyu
Dragon
Responsible hero who transforms into a dragon.

Fat Gum
Fat Absorption
Warmhearted hero who absorbs impacts and can release stored energy.

Gang Orca
Orcinus
Intimidating-looking hero with powerful orca-like abilities.

Gran Torino
Jet
Tiny, experienced veteran who moves at tremendous speed.

Sir Nighteye
Foresight
Serious former All Might sidekick who can see a person's future under specific conditions.

Mirio's mentor's associates
Various
Bubble Girl, Centipeder, and other heroes support investigations and rescue operations.

Star and Stripe
New Order
Powerful American hero who can impose rules on things after meeting specific conditions.

Wild, Wild Pussycats
Various
Mandalay, Pixie-Bob, Ragdoll, and Tiger specialize in rescue and wilderness training.



Other notable heroes include Wash, Manual, Rock Lock, Ryukyu, Burnin, Fourth Kind, Gunhead, Selkie, Uwabami, Death Arms, Backdraft, and Sir Nighteye's agency members. The official anime character directory groups these characters separately from U.A. staff.

6. Main villains




These bios include major story reveals about villain identities and motivations.


Tomura Shigaraki

Quirk: Decay, later greatly enhanced.

Personality: Bitter, destructive, and increasingly driven by hatred of the existing hero society.

Role: Central antagonist and leader of the League of Villains.


Dabi

Quirk: Blueflame.

Personality: Cold, sarcastic, vengeful, and secretive.

Role: Villain whose history is deeply connected to the Todoroki family.


Himiko Toga

Quirk: Transform.

Personality: Cheerful on the surface, obsessive, unpredictable, and desperate to express affection in her own distorted way.

Role: A dangerous League member who transforms into people after ingesting their blood.


All For One

Quirk: All For One.

Personality: Manipulative, patient, cruel, and power-hungry.

Role: An ancient mastermind who steals and distributes Quirks.


Kurogiri

Quirk: Warp Gate.

Personality: Formal, composed, and protective of the League.

Role: Provides portals and serves as a caretaker to Shigaraki.


Twice

Quirk: Double.

Personality: Erratic, talkative, emotionally vulnerable, and deeply loyal to his friends.

Role: Creates copies of people and objects, making him an unusually dangerous combatant.


Mr. Compress

Quirk: Compress.

Personality: Theatrical, cunning, and theatrical in combat.

Role: Traps people and objects inside small marble-like spheres.


Spinner

Quirk: Gecko.

Personality: Insecure, devoted to his cause, and influenced by Shigaraki.

Role: A reptilian-looking League member and activist turned villain.


Stain

Quirk: Bloodcurdle.

Personality: Fanatical, disciplined, and convinced most heroes are false.

Role: The Hero Killer, whose ideology influences other villains.

Other important villains and antagonists

• Overhaul (Kai Chisaki): Quirk Overhaul; a calculating yakuza leader obsessed with restoring his organization.

• Gentle Criminal (Danjuro Tobita): Quirk Elasticity; a theatrical criminal seeking recognition.

• La Brava (Manami Aiba): Quirk Love; a devoted hacker whose power boosts someone she loves.

• Re-Destro: Quirk Stress; a leader who seeks freedom for people with Quirks.

• Muscular: Quirk Muscle Augmentation; a violent brawler.

• Moonfish: Quirk Blade-Tooth; an unstable criminal with extendable teeth.

• Magne: Quirk Magnetism; a League member who manipulates magnetic attraction.

• Mustard: Quirk Gas; a young villain who produces poisonous gas.

• Lady Nagant: Quirk Rifle, alongside additional abilities; a former professional assassin with a complicated past.

• Gigantomachia: A gigantic, extraordinarily durable servant of All For One.

• Doctor Kyudai Garaki: A scientist involved in unethical Quirk experiments and Nomu creation.

• Nomu: Artificially modified beings with powerful combinations of abilities.

• Nine: A major antagonist from My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising.

• Wolfram: A villain featured in Two Heroes.

• Dark Might: A movie antagonist from You're Next.

7. Families and other important characters





Character
Connection and bio

Inko Midoriya
Izuku's loving, protective mother.

Hisashi Midoriya
Izuku's father, who is mentioned as working overseas.

Eri
A young girl with the Quirk Rewind, capable of reversing a person's physical state.

Fuyumi Todoroki
Shoto's older sister; hopes her family can heal.

Natsuo Todoroki
Shoto's older brother; openly struggles with his father's past actions.

Rei Todoroki
Shoto's mother, who has the Quirk Frost.

Tenko Shimura's family
Central to Shigaraki's tragic childhood and origins.

Sir Nighteye's agency members
Including Bubble Girl and Centipeder, who assist with hero work.

Naomasa Tsukauchi
Detective who works with heroes on criminal investigations.

Mandalay's group
The Wild, Wild Pussycats, who train students and conduct rescue operations.



8. Previous holders of One For All

One For All is passed from one successor to another, accumulating power over generations.

• Yoichi Shigaraki: The first holder, with the original transfer ability.

• Second holder: Kudo, a resistance fighter against All For One.

• Third holder: Bruce, Kudo's ally.

• Hikage Shinomori: The fourth holder, who developed danger-sensing abilities.

• Daigoro Banjo: The fifth holder, whose Quirk is Blackwhip.

• En: The sixth holder, whose Quirk is Smokescreen.

• Nana Shimura: The seventh holder, whose Quirk is Float.

• Toshinori Yagi: The eighth holder, better known as All Might.

• Izuku Midoriya: The ninth holder and the main protagonist.

9. Other schools and supporting characters

The MHA world includes many more characters, including:

• Shiketsu High: Inasa Yoarashi, Camie Utsushimi, Seiji Shishikura, and Nagamasa Mora.

• Ketsubutsu Academy: Yo Shindo, Tatami Nakagame, and Ms. Joke.

• Police: Chief Kenji Tsuragamae and detective Naomasa Tsukauchi.

• Hero Public Safety Commission: The organization involved in hero licensing and covert operations.

• Vigilantes: Koichi Haimawari (the Crawler), Pop☆Step, and Knuckleduster from the spin-off My Hero Academia: Vigilantes.

• Movie characters: Melissa Shield, Giulio Gandini, Anna Scervino, and others.

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