ALL Quirks explained - The My Hero Academia Power Guide

(Timestamps are in the description) FAQ! What is this? An all-you-can-eat buffet on all things Quirks! An explanation of the power system as well as a brief overview of all the named powers in the main series. How'd you decide which quirks got their bespoke segment and which ended up in the Fodder Round? Mostly based on how many people would care about that character. What about [x quirk]? It wasn't covered because it doesnt fit the criteria. Check out 0:0:44. Why does the anime footage look weird? Copyright-proof color filter. Why do the Manga panels look weird? Before they are collected into Volumes, weekly manga chapters only exist at medium quality. So, manga images and character renders were AI upscaled to make the important bits actually visible at HD resolution where necessary.

"Are you a MHA fan? Name all quirks then" And the madman actually did it.

"Oh? Your an mha fan? Name every Vigilante original quirk."

I really love how quirks have completely altered the human genepool, like how Koda is a rock person simply due to his moms genes which likely come from an ancestors initial quirk permanently affecting his future bloodline. Tokoyami same thing, if he lost dark shadow he wouldn’t suddenly become a human. Its one of my favorite worldbuilding things in Mha

It's also worthy to note that Kaminari's quirk can absorb electricity from other sources.

I love how you gave Tetsutetsu an almost identical explanation as Kirishima lmao.

To be fair to my boy Stain, a few minutes is all the time you need to slice and dice an immobile opponent.

I always loved it when a story gave a scientific explanation of the hows and whys characters can do certain things but some MHA characters can do straight-up magic which is just funny, god bless Horikoshi

The fact that Hanta Sero's tape is said to be limited, and that it dries out his skin, leads me to believe that the tape is Created from moisture within his body, like how Momo Yaoyorozu is reliant on body fat

It wasn't mentioned in his segment but Best Jeanist's quirk doesn't just affect cloth. In Vigilantes it's shown that he can manipulate fibers of literally any kind; up to and including industrial grade steel cables, the kind used in suspension bridges.

Fun fact: ibara shiozaki was originally going to be in class 1-a but Horikoshi changed her to 1-b due to how hard she was to draw.

Important to note for Erasure: another weakness Aizawa has is that he can't erase mutant quirks.

Imo, Compress might be a top 10 quirk. So ridiculously versatile, super broken. Aside from what you mentioned and it being a one touch kill quirk, bro can literally compress himself. Imagine he's fleeing from heroes and he just turns into a marble, rolls into a drain and disappears into the sewers

So this is why the anime reminds us of everyone’s quirk every five seconds

I love that any power has the potential to be cool if you just practice with it. Like Edge Shot and Kirishima

Some small but important notes on some of these: Mezo Shoji's Dupli-Arms: He was originally only able to replicate body parts on the ends of his six "base" arms, but after much training he can now also duplicate the duplication organs themselves, thus allowing him to create entire networks of branching limbs or super extended tentacles. Eijiro Kirishima's Hardening: There's a fan theory that I personally support that asserts his quirk isn't just getting rock hard, but the very concept of hardening itself. Since it's been shown that the more punishment he takes the stronger his next use of his quirk will get, the idea is that he may not have an upper limit on his quirk. This also helps explain why he was able to beat Tetsutetsu, since Tetsutetsu can only become as hard as steel, while Kirishima can get theoretically infinitely harder. Ochaco Uraraka's Zero Gravity: The nausea isn't just when she makes herself float, but it's also been shown as just a general side-effect of over-using her quirk. She's made herself sick many times using her quirk long before she started making herself weightless. Neito Monoma's Copy: Originally, he was only able to copy a single quirk at a time, and only for 5 minutes; through training he is now able to hold multiple quirks for up to 10 min each. Hiryu Rin's Scales: He has trained to also be able to grow the scales backwards, to use the tips and edges as sharp abrasive offensive melee weapons, rather than only having them as defense or projectiles. Shota Aizawa's Erasure: It also specifically does not work on mutant type quirks, and if he over-uses it he gets serious dry-eye. Twice's Double: Originally only able to copy the physical form of others, since the sheer level of his trauma had repressed the ability for clones to use quirks. Eventually he starts to recover, allowing him to make armies of clones and make fully functional clones of allies with their quirks. Dr Garaki's Lifeforce: Thanks to the Doctor's experiments, he was somehow able to "clone" his quirk at a weaker level, and thus donated his original stronger quirk to All for One and kept the weaker copy for himself. This explains how both he and All for One are still alive even though we've been through 7 other One for All users. Himiko Toga's Transform: Just like Twice, originally she could only copy someone's appearance; but after overcoming her own past traumas, she can now also copy their quirks. All for One's Warp and Kurogiri's Warp Gate: All for One's warping can only be used to bring people near the user to another person the user knows, or bring that far person the user knows to the user; but does not require the user to know the actual physical location of that other person(s). Kurogiri's can transport anything, not just people, but it is coordinate based and thus requires the user to see or directly know the exact location of the things to be transported. (As shown in the Kamino arc when he claims the Nomu he was going to bring in as backup were "not there") Mustard's Gas: Also, the user is not immune to their own gas, and this is why he wears a gas mask. Nemoto's Confession: There is also a fan theory here that the targets may only be forced to answer what they believe the truthful answer may be, and not the actual empirical truthful answer. Overhaul: Another fan theory - the hives and bulging blood vessels we see when he uses the quirk, and the fact they spread and get more serious as he uses it more, may indicate some kind of auto-immune reaction to the use of the quirk. Stain: His quirk being mostly useless is a big part of why he's such a threat though, since he had to train his body and hone his skills extremely to get to the point where he can freely kill pro heroes and evade the police (and presumably even evade All Might). He's kinda essentially the villain version of Eraserhead. Gently Criminal and La Brava: No added notes here, they are objectively best Villains of the series.

I did not not know about the ripping out the mufflers thing with the engine quirk. My respect for tenya has increased immensely

The way I understand Tokoyami's dark shadow is that it's just how Venom is. The difference is that instead of being an alien organism, dark shadow manifests within him, and instead of being sensitive to sound and heat, it's sensitive to light.

bro took the phrase "oh Your an mha fan? Name every quirk." to heart thats very nice gamer

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