My Hero Academia Characters Dont Even Understand Their Own Powers

My Hero Academia Characters Don’t Even Understand Their Own Powers

In My Hero Academia, almost everyone has a quirk, but only pro heroes can use them freely. Do most people even know what their quirk really is?

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My Hero Academia Characters Dont Even Understand Their Own Powers

It’s not uncommon for manga characters to gain new powers and abilities as a story progresses, but the way that this often happens in My Hero Academia indicates that many of them don’t really get what their powers are to start with. When the complexities of some quirks are taken into account, this isn’t necessarily a surprising revelation, but even some seemingly simple quirks are far more complicated than they initially appear.

Individuals must register their quirks with the government, to be kept on record, but quirk registration isn’t a one-and-done sort of thing. It’s recognized that people might discover more aspects of their quirk over time, and so it’s possible to revise your registration without issue at a young age. Take Momo Yaoyorozu’s quirk, for example; since her creation ability requires that she understands how objects are constructed at a molecular level, it likely took her quite some time to be able to demonstrate exactly what her quirk was capable of. Those who aren’t in hero training courses probably have a much more difficult time, since they’re only able to use their quirks in the privacy of their own homes, and a lot of quirks (like gigantification) aren’t well suited for that.

There’s no better case study for a person who’s had to radically revise their idea of what their quirk is than My Hero Academia Vigilantes protagonist Koichi Haimawari. Koichi initially presents his quirk as being “slide and glide,” an apparently not-uncommon type of quirk where an individual can glide in an essentially frictionless fashion across the ground. Koichi believed he needed three points of contact with the ground to use his quirk, but that wasn’t quite true. His mother later reveals that as a baby, he used to use his quirk to “fly” out of his crib, something which his parents heavily discouraged since a baby is already a handful, even without flight. Throughout his vigilante career, Koichi comes to realize that his ability is really more of an attraction/repulsion based quirk—his “gliding” was actually a minor repulsion field pushing him away from the ground, and he eventually starts using it in reverse to cling to walls, and to fire repulsor projectiles at villains. Koichi’s quirk is far more versatile and useful than he thought, but he only discovered this by using his quirk illegally to fight crime.

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With that in mind, one has to wonder just how many people with seemingly unimpressive quirks, like Midoriya’s mother and her limited telekinesis, or Bakugo’s mother and her glycerin quirk, might actually have much greater abilities than they think. This actually factors into the Paranormal Liberation Front’s messaging, as one of their demands was to make quirks more usable in everyday life, allowing people to fully understand their abilities. Several characters, both heroes and villains, have experienced “quirk awakenings” where their ability improved, but what if that’s just a greater mastery rather than an actual improvement? While the bad guys’ actions have been inexcusable, they do seem to have a valid point here. When quirks are treated as something so essential and intrinsic to who someone is, can a person really come to understand themselves if they don’t even understand their quirk?

With the power to do good that some quirks possess, like Momo’s, or Recovery Girl’s healing, it does seem like the society of My Hero Academia is missing out on some potentially amazing, perhaps even world-changing abilities by restricting quirk usage so much. Instead of embracing change and trying to awaken quirks, this world chose to ignore quirks as much as possible and try to live as before. With society already broken down to its foundations in the most recent chapters of the manga, this may present the opportunity to build the world back in a way that’s more inclusive of quirks. A post-All for One world could end up looking very different than it did before…and that might just be for the best.

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