All Might
Toshinori Yagi: Retired | Quirk One For All
All Might is the greatest hero in history and the 8th user of One For All, a power that stockpiles raw strength across generations of users. For decades his unbeatable presence alone suppressed crime worldwide, earning him the title Symbol of Peace. Severely injured in a prior fight with All For One, he spent years burning through the last of his power before finally choosing Izuku Midoriya as his successor. He makes his final stand at Kamino Ward, defeating All For One one last time before permanently retiring — leaving the hero world without its pillar.
Eraser Head
Shota Aizawa: Active | Quirk Erasure
Eraser Head can nullify any Quirk simply by looking at the target, making him one of the most tactically dangerous heroes in the world despite having no offensive power of his own. He works primarily as an underground hero, preferring to neutralize threats quietly before anyone knows he was there. As Class 1-A's blunt, sleep-deprived homeroom teacher, he hides a fierce protectiveness behind his exhausted exterior — repeatedly throwing himself in harm's way to shield his students, from the USJ attack to the Final War.
Present Mic
Hizashi Yamada: Active | Quirk Voice
Present Mic can amplify his voice to ear-splitting, physically destructive levels — capable of disorienting or incapacitating enemies at range. Off the battlefield he is U.A.'s English teacher and hosts a popular radio show, channeling the same boundless energy into entertainment as into heroics. Beneath his big personality is a deeply loyal man — the revelation that his childhood friend Shirakumo was turned into the villain Kurogiri by Dr. Ujiko is one of the series' most heartbreaking moments, and it drives some of his most important actions in later arcs.
Thirteen
Active | Quirk Black Hole
Thirteen can generate miniature black holes from their fingertip suit ports, capable of disintegrating any matter pulled into them. Despite wielding one of the most destructive Quirks in the series, Thirteen has dedicated their career entirely to rescue operations, embodying the show's philosophy that how you use a power defines your heroism. Their role as guide for the Unforeseen Simulation Joint training facility sets the stage for the USJ attack in Season 1, where they are gravely injured holding off Kurogiri to protect the first-year students.
Midnight
Nemuri Kayama: Quirk Somnambulist
Midnight secretes a sleep-inducing aroma from her skin that knocks out targets within seconds, making her effective at disabling multiple opponents without lethal force. One of U.A.'s most flamboyant and beloved faculty members, she served as the official referee and judge for the U.A. Sports Festival. Her death during the Paranormal Liberation Front raid — ambushed and overwhelmed by a mob while separated from other heroes — marks one of the franchise's most impactful losses and a turning point that signals the series is entering territory from which there is no easy return.
Recovery Girl
Chiyo Shuzenji: Field Retired | QuirkHeal
Recovery Girl's kiss accelerates a patient's natural healing to near-instant speed, closing wounds and mending bones in seconds — but only at the cost of the patient's own stamina, meaning she cannot heal someone already too exhausted to survive the process. As U.A.'s school nurse and a retired battlefield hero herself, she serves as a crucial moral check on Izuku Midoriya's self-destructive approach to wielding One For All. She bluntly refuses to enable behavior that she believes will eventually kill him, making her one of the few characters who consistently holds Deku accountable.
Mt. Lady
Yu Takeyama: Active | Quirk Gigantification
Mt. Lady can transform her body into a giant form that matches the scale of massive Nomu or large villain threats, giving her extraordinary physical power and reach at giant scale. She famously makes her debut in the very first episode by stealing Kamui Woods' capture for the cameras — immediately establishing her as ambitious, media-savvy, and not above theatrics. Over the course of the series she matures significantly, becoming a reliable presence in major battles. Her Gigantification Quirk proves instrumental in the Final War Arc where battlefield scale matters enormously.
Kamui Woods
Shu Mizushima: Active | QuirkArbor
Kamui Woods can extend and manipulate wooden branch-like appendages from his body, allowing him to entangle, restrain, and immobilize multiple targets simultaneously with great precision. He is methodical, professional, and one of the more serious heroes introduced in the series — a stark contrast to the flashier personalities around him. Debuting in episode one alongside Mt. Lady, he represents the competent working-class tier of professional heroes who hold the line without seeking celebrity, and consistently ranks in the top ten of the Billboard Hero Charts.
Endeavor
Enji Todoroki: Active | QuirkHellflame
Endeavor produces and controls enormous amounts of fire, capable of generating temperatures that even highly durable Nomu cannot withstand. Introduced briefly in Season 1 as the perpetual Number 2 hero consumed by an obsession to surpass All Might, he becomes one of MHA's central figures and most complex characters in later seasons — a deeply flawed man who weaponized his own family in pursuit of power, and who must spend the rest of the series trying to earn back what he destroyed. His journey from villain-adjacent antagonist to genuine pillar of heroism is one of the franchise's finest narrative arcs.
Ingenium
Tensei Iida: Retired | Quirk Engine
Tensei Iida, older brother of Class 1-A student Tenya Iida, possessed powerful engines in his calves granting exceptional speed and propulsion. He ran his own hero agency and was a well-respected professional before the Hero Killer Stain attacked and severed the engines in his legs, permanently ending his career. His incapacitation serves as the catalyst for one of Season 2's defining storylines — Tenya's dangerous spiral toward revenge — and the Ingenium name is ultimately inherited by Tenya, who carries it forward with genuine heroic spirit rather than vendetta.
Death Arms
Active | Quirk Unnamed Strength
Death Arms is a street-level Pro Hero who appears in the very first episode of the series during the Sludge Villain incident, attempting but failing to rescue young Izuku Midoriya from the villain's grip. His Quirk gives him enhanced physical strength, making him an effective front-line combatant. He represents the vast tier of working Pro Heroes who handle ordinary urban threats — not ranked or celebrated, but consistent presences in daily hero operations. His inability to rescue Deku without causing collateral damage inadvertently forces the situation that All Might ultimately resolves.
Backdraft
Active | Quirk Water Hose
Backdraft is a firefighter-style Pro Hero introduced in Season 1 who can produce water from hoses embedded in his hands, allowing him to control and suppress fires. He is one of MHA's earliest examples of a Quirk specifically tailored to a support and rescue role rather than combat — showcasing how the hero world categorizes specializations. Though a background character without a major story role, he grounds the world-building by demonstrating that heroism extends well beyond fighting, encompassing the full spectrum of emergency response and disaster control that keeps civilian life safe.
Season 2 Sports Festival & Hero Killer · Episodes 14–38
Gran Torino
Sorahiko Torino: Retired | Quirk Jet
Gran Torino expels jets of air from the soles of his feet for explosive bursts of speed and unpredictable aerial movement, making him extraordinarily fast and difficult to track despite his tiny, elderly frame. He was All Might's personal trainer and a close friend of Nana Shimura, the 7th One For All user — meaning he carries a deeper connection to the series' central mythology than almost anyone. In Season 2 he trains Izuku Midoriya to move more naturally with One For All, breaking through Deku's tendency to treat the Quirk as an isolated power rather than a full-body technique.
Best Jeanist
Tsunagu Hakamata: Active | Quirk Fiber Master
Best Jeanist can manipulate the individual fibers of any cloth or textile, using them to restrain, redirect, and immobilize targets with extraordinary precision — often controlling multiple enemies simultaneously. One of the most decorated heroes on the Billboard Chart, he is a consummate professional known as much for his impeccable fashion sense as for his battlefield effectiveness. He takes Katsuki Bakugo as an intern in Season 2, attempting to temper the explosive young hero's attitude. He later returns dramatically to the battlefield — having been hidden away as apparent proof of the villain alliance's power — to turn the tide of a major confrontation.
Manual
Active | QuirkWater Manipulation
Manual can freely control the flow and direction of water, redirecting streams, creating barriers, and assisting with flood and fire emergencies. He is an earnest, professional hero who takes Tenya Iida as an intern in Season 2 — largely unaware that Iida is in the city specifically to hunt down the Hero Killer Stain in revenge for his brother. Manual represents the decent, unremarkable professionals who form the backbone of the hero system: not especially powerful or flashy, but steady, reliable, and genuinely committed to doing good work every day.
Fourth Kind
Active | Quirk Four Arms
Fourth Kind possesses four arms, each with superhuman strength, giving him exceptional combat capability and the ability to multitask in physical confrontations beyond what any two-armed hero could manage. He runs a hero agency and takes Eijiro Kirishima as an intern, providing the hardening-Quirk student his first taste of genuine professional hero work. Fourth Kind is demanding and no-nonsense with his interns, believing that hardship and real-world experience build better heroes than any classroom exercise — a philosophy that proves formative for Kirishima's development as a hero and as a person.
Uwabami
Active | QuirkSerpentress
Uwabami has three snakes growing from her head that act as sensory organs, giving her dramatically enhanced smell and awareness in her surrounding environment. She is a celebrity hero who splits her time between active duty and high-profile commercial work — a combination that draws gentle criticism from more traditionally-minded heroes. She takes Momo Yaoyorozu and Itsuka Kendo as interns in Season 2, though the experience is largely commercial rather than field-focused, which becomes a moment of mild introspection for the students about what it truly means to pursue heroism as a profession versus a lifestyle.
Gunhead
Active | Quirk Gunhead Magnetism
Gunhead is a battle-specialized Pro Hero with cannons built into his forearms and expert-level hand-to-hand combat technique, having developed his own fighting style called Gunhead Martial Arts. Despite his intimidating robotic-military aesthetic, he is a committed professional with a calm demeanor and genuine enthusiasm for teaching. Ochaco Uraraka completes her internship under him in Season 2, and the combat skills she gains transform her fighting ability entirely — she becomes a genuinely dangerous close-quarters combatant, which pays off dramatically in her later fight against Katsuki Bakugo at the Sports Festival.
Native
Active | Quirk Unnamed Speed Type
Native is a local Pro Hero encountered in Hosu City who is ambushed and nearly killed by the Hero Killer Stain during Season 2's pivotal internship arc. His survival becomes one of Stain's unintentional contradictions — the Hero Killer spares heroes he deems to have genuine heroic spirit, and Native's survival hints at the bizarre ideological code that makes Stain one of MHA's most philosophically interesting villains. Though not a major character, Native's rescue triggers the confrontation between Izuku, Iida, Shoto, and Stain that defines the arc and forces all three students into an unauthorized but undeniably heroic fight.
Season 3 Training Camp, All Might's End · Episodes 39–63
Gang Orca
Kugo Sakamata: Active | Quirk Orca
Gang Orca has the full physical attributes of an orca whale — immense strength, thick durable skin, and the ability to emit paralysis-inducing hypersonic waves from his body that disable anyone who hears them. Despite being voted Japan's most villainous-looking hero multiple years in a row, he is deeply professional and a skilled tactician. In Season 3 he acts as the "villain" during the second part of the Provisional Hero License Exam, testing students with his genuine combat ability and coordinated assault, giving examinees a taste of what real villain encounters demand beyond individual Quirk use.
Edgeshot
Shinya Kamihara: Active | Quirk Foldabody
Edgeshot can fold his body into needle-thin shapes and move faster than the speed of sound, piercing through and incapacitating targets with surgical precision before they can react. One of the most purely lethal heroes in the series when applied offensively, he also operates as one of the key coordinators among the top-tier heroes in major operations. Season 3 sees him involved in the response to the Kamino Ward incident, one of the most important battles in the series. In later seasons he is revealed to have made an almost unimaginable sacrifice to save a fellow hero during the Final War.
Inasa Yoarashi
Inasa Yoarashi: Student | Active | Quirk Whirlwind
Inasa Yoarashi is Shiketsu High School's top student, capable of generating and controlling massive winds with extraordinary force and precision. He is exuberant, passionate about heroism to the point of eccentricity, and possesses physical abilities that place him comfortably among the most talented students in the country — he voluntarily withdrew from U.A.'s entrance exam after a conflict of personal principle. During the Provisional License Exam he clashes with Shoto Todoroki due to his deep grudge against Endeavor, and the two must overcome their animosity mid-battle to cooperate — a key lesson about putting personal feelings aside for the mission.
Vlad King
Sekijiro Kan: Active | Quirk Blood Control
Vlad King can control and project his own blood, hardening it into restraints or using it to immobilize enemies at a distance. As Class 1-B's homeroom teacher, he is a steady, protective presence who takes his duty to his students seriously and is often positioned as a counterpart to Aizawa's methods. Season 3's Forest Training Camp arc puts him directly in conflict with the League of Villains when they target his students, and he fights fiercely to hold the line — demonstrating that his less theatrical approach to heroism is backed by genuine skill and commitment when the situation demands it most.
Wash
Active | Quirk Wash
Wash is a laundry-machine-themed Pro Hero who can produce large quantities of water and control it in a washing-machine-like motion for large-scale containment and rescue operations. Despite the comically mundane aesthetic, Wash consistently ranks in the upper tier of Japan's Billboard Hero Charts — a running gag in the series that proves Horikoshi's point about rescue statistics mattering as much as villain arrests in the ranking system. Wash appears prominently in Season 3 during the Provisional License Exam and represents MHA's habit of hiding surprising power and effectiveness behind absurd-looking Quirk designs.
Snipe
Active | Quirk Homing
Snipe is U.A.'s cowboy-aesthetic faculty member whose Homing Quirk allows him to control the trajectory of bullets he fires, bending their paths within a 600-meter range to hit targets that would be physically impossible for conventional marksmanship. This makes him an exceptional support hero in large-scale battles, capable of neutralizing threats across wide areas. Season 3 features him responding to the Kamino Ward incident as part of the U.A. faculty deployment. His calm, methodical combat style makes him a reliable anchor in coordinated hero operations against major villain forces.
Season 4Shie Hassaikai & Pro Hero Arc · Episodes 64–88
Sir Nighteye
Mirai Sasaki: Quirk Foresight
Sir Nighteye could see a person's exact future by making eye contact and touching them — a vision that played out with total accuracy for one hour of their life starting from the moment of activation. He was All Might's former sidekick and one of the most analytically brilliant heroes in the series, but the future he saw for All Might broke him, and he spent years trying to redirect One For All to Mirio Togata instead of Deku. His death in the Shie Hassaikai raid — having foreseen his own end but witnessing it changed at the final moment — is one of the most emotionally powerful chapters in the entire manga.
Fat Gum
Taishiro Toyomitsu: Active | Quirk Fat Absorption
Fat Gum's Quirk allows him to absorb physical impacts into his body fat, converting the stored kinetic energy into a single devastating burst of raw power released on command. He runs his own hero agency in Osaka and takes Kirishima and Suneater as interns during the Shie Hassaikai arc. His match against the villain Rappa alongside Kirishima — where both heroes absorb punishment far beyond what should be survivable before delivering a final concentrated counterattack — is one of Season 4's standout fights, showcasing Fat Gum's depth behind his cheerful, food-loving exterior.
Ryukyu
Ryuko Tatsuma: Active | Quirk Dragon
Ryukyu can transform fully into a massive, powerful dragon, granting her extraordinary strength, flight, and physical durability at a scale that puts her among the upper tier of combat-capable heroes in Japan. She runs the Ryukyu Agency and takes Ochaco Uraraka, Tsuyu Asui, and Nejire Hado as interns during Season 4, proving to be an attentive and capable mentor. Her dragon form is instrumental in the Shie Hassaikai surface battle, where she holds two powerful villains at bay simultaneously while the main underground team works toward Eri. She ranks consistently in Japan's Top 10.
Lemillion
Mirio Togata
Student / Big 3 | Active | Quirk Permeation
Mirio Togata can phase his body through any solid object — a Quirk that should be nearly useless in combat but which he has mastered so completely that it becomes overwhelming, appearing and striking from any angle, through floors, walls, and opponents. Sir Nighteye considered him the most All Might-worthy successor in the country. When Overhaul fires a Quirk-erasing bullet to stop Mirio from protecting Eri, Mirio continues fighting an entire hallway of armed villains Quirkless — for minutes — one of MHA's greatest single-character moments. His Quirk is later restored by Eri, and he earns his Pro License in the Final War.
Suneater
Tamaki Amajiki: Student / Big 3 | Active Quirk Manifest
Tamaki Amajiki can manifest the physical properties of anything he has recently eaten — octopus tentacles, clam shells, chicken talons — as parts of his own body, creating an endlessly flexible and adaptive combat style limited only by his diet. Cripplingly anxious and self-doubting in personality, he is paradoxically one of the most powerful students in U.A. history. His solo battle against three Shie Hassaikai members during the raid — holding a corridor alone so the rest of the team can advance — cements him as a legitimate powerhouse hiding behind his nervous exterior. Fat Gum's mentorship is pivotal to his growth.
Nejire Chan
Nejire Hado: Student / Big 3 | Active | Quirk Wave Motion
Nejire Hado converts her own vitality into spiral wave energy that she fires as powerful blasts, with the output scaling directly to her physical stamina. Endlessly curious, cheerful, and a little oblivious to social norms, she is one of the most visually expressive characters in the series. She interns under Ryukyu during Season 4 and participates in the Shie Hassaikai surface battle. In Season 6, her fight against Dabi while protecting Endeavor is a significant emotional sequence that underscores how deeply the students have integrated themselves into the front lines of the hero world's most desperate battles.
Bubble Girl
Kaoruko Awata: Active | Quirk Bubble
Bubble Girl can generate bubbles containing a powerful paralysis-inducing aroma, using them to incapacitate villains without direct contact. She works as one of Sir Nighteye's sidekicks alongside Centipeder, and her devotion to her agency head is evident in everything she does. In the Shie Hassaikai Raid she assists with logistics and perimeter operations, supporting the main team rather than engaging directly. She represents the layer of professional heroes who work within agencies under more prominent heroes — essential contributors to major operations who rarely get individual spotlights but are fundamental to how the hero system functions.
Centipeder
Active | Quirk Centipede
Centipeder has a centipede-based Quirk that allows him to extend and multiply limbs from his body, creating an overwhelming number of arms for restraint, combat, and environmental control. He works as Sir Nighteye's right-hand sidekick and is deeply affected by his mentor's death. Centipeder later inherits the leadership of Nighteye Agency, renaming it Centipeder Agency and dedicating it to carrying on Sir Nighteye's work and philosophy. This transition represents one of MHA's recurring themes — the responsibility of those who survive to carry forward what was lost, and to build something lasting from tragedy.
Rock Lock
Ken Takagi: Active | Quirk Lock Down
Rock Lock can freeze non-living objects in place by touching them — effectively locking anything inanimate into a fixed position in space, which has surprisingly versatile defensive and offensive applications. A gruff, skeptical hero, he is openly hostile to the idea of students participating in the Shie Hassaikai raid, insisting that involving minors in a genuine criminal operation is irresponsible regardless of their abilities. His pushback is one of Season 4's more grounded narrative threads — he is not wrong to be concerned, and his protectiveness, though abrasive, reflects real professional responsibility rather than dismissiveness.
Cementoss
Ken Ishiyama: Active | Quirk Cement
Cementoss can reshape and manipulate cement and concrete at will, instantly raising walls, sealing passages, or creating terrain features that fundamentally alter the flow of a battle. As U.A.'s Modern Literature teacher and one of the highest-ranked heroes on the Billboard Chart, he is a quiet but formidable presence in major hero operations. He participates as one of the faculty coordinators in large-scale events including the Sports Festival and the Provisional License Exam. His construction-scale area control makes him an invaluable strategic asset in any battlefield scenario that requires rapid environmental manipulation to protect civilians or contain threats.
Season 5Joint Training & Endeavor Agency · Episodes 89–113
Hawks
Keigo Takami: Active | Quirk Fierce Wings
Hawks can telekinetically control each of his large scarlet feathers as independent projectiles, using them for surveillance, combat, rescue, and rapid flight — and the more feathers he expends, the more limited his flight becomes. Recruited by the Hero Public Safety Commission as a child, he was raised as an intelligence operative rather than a conventional hero. Season 5 deepens his central arc: his undercover infiltration of the Paranormal Liberation Front, including the agonizing decision to eliminate Twice to protect the hero alliance's advantage. His easy smile and irreverent manner conceal a man operating under enormous psychological strain.
Burnin
Moe Kamiji: Active | Quirk Fierce Flame
Burnin produces blazing fire from her hair, using it for both mobility and offense. She is one of Endeavor's most trusted sidekicks at the Endeavor Agency, where Deku, Bakugo, and Shoto intern in Season 5. Direct, energetic, and loyal to a fault, she runs operations at the agency with sharp efficiency and treats the interns seriously rather than as burdens. She first introduces the three students to the concept of fighting Nomu at street level — an adjustment that forces them to operate tactically rather than relying on power alone. Burnin represents the tier of dedicated professional sidekicks who shape the next generation of heroes through daily mentorship.
Mirko
Rumi Usagiyama: Active | Quirk Rabbit
Mirko's Rabbit Quirk amplifies all the physical attributes of a rabbit to superhuman extremes — terrifying leg strength, explosive speed and vertical mobility, and sensitive ears with exceptional environmental awareness. She is the highest-ranked solo hero in Japan, having refused to work with partners or join team-ups on principle, believing that each hero should be able to stand alone. Introduced more prominently in Season 5's Pro Hero arc, she becomes the franchise's breakout fan favourite by Season 6, where her refusal to retreat even after losing multiple limbs defines one of MHA's most celebrated action sequences and an indelible demonstration of what pure determination looks like in a hero.
Ectoplasm
Active | Quirk Clones
Ectoplasm can expel a substance from his body that forms into multiple functional clones of himself, enabling him to fight multiple opponents simultaneously or flood an area with copies. As U.A.'s math teacher, he participates in the Final Exams as one of the teacher-villain obstacles that students must defeat or escape. His clone Quirk makes him a uniquely difficult combat opponent because defeating one instance doesn't stop the rest. He is a measured, professional hero who transitions between educator and battlefield hero smoothly, representing the dual function that U.A. faculty serve in the series' world.
Season 6Paranormal Liberation Front Raid · Episodes 114–138
Jeanist (Post-Return)
Tsunagu Hakamata: Active | Quirk Fiber Master
Best Jeanist's dramatic return in Season 6 is one of the arc's pivotal moments — presumed dead after All For One apparently extracted his life force, he was secretly preserved by Hawks as physical proof of the villain coalition's crimes for the Hero Public Safety Commission. Re-emerging during the climax of the Jakku confrontation, he uses his Fiber Master Quirk at massive scale to restrain multiple high-priority targets including Gigantomachia, buying critical time for the hero forces. His return represents a reversal that shifts momentum at the exact moment the heroes need it most, and he is subsequently named Pro Hero of the Year for the third time.
Mirko (PLF Raid)
Rumi Usagiyama: Active | Quirk Rabbit
Season 6 transforms Mirko from a fan favourite into a true legend. Tasked with breaching the PLF's underground laboratory and destroying Tomura Shigaraki's Quirk awakening tanks before he finishes developing, she faces an army of High-End Nomu alone in a series of tunnel corridors. She loses an arm, then another arm, then a leg — and keeps fighting. She keeps fighting through injuries that should end any hero, screaming her battle cry, refusing to give ground, refusing to let the tanks be protected. It is the most visceral and sustained display of individual heroic will in the entire franchise, and it makes Mirko the defining hero of Season 6 without question.
Kamui Woods (PLF)
Shu Mizushima: Active | Quirk Arbor
Kamui Woods takes a significantly more prominent role in Season 6, coordinating restraint and containment operations during the PLF Raid. His ability to entangle and immobilize dozens of targets simultaneously makes him indispensable in the chaotic environments of mass-villain encounters where individual combat is less useful than battlefield control. His partnership with Mt. Lady — who covers large-scale physical threats while he handles mid-range containment — becomes a complementary combat system that shows the raid's tactical depth. Season 6 uses him to demonstrate how even top-20 heroes must function as part of an orchestrated system rather than solo acts in large operations.
Mt. Lady (PLF)
Yu Takeyama: Active | Quirk Gigantification
Mt. Lady reaches her peak in Season 6 as a full-scale battlefield asset during the PLF Raid and subsequent chaos. Her giant form proves critical in slowing and eventually restraining Gigantomachia — the League's massive, near-indestructible enforcer who tears through the countryside toward the battle site. Working in coordination with Best Jeanist, she holds Gigantomachia's body while fiber restraints are applied, an act that requires absorbing enormous physical punishment without retreating. Season 6 is the arc where Mt. Lady fully earns the ranking she's worked her entire career toward, moving from media personality to genuine cornerstone of the hero alliance.
Eraser Head (S6)
Shota Aizawa: Active | Quirk Erasure
Season 6 delivers Aizawa's most harrowing arc yet. He is captured by Shigaraki during the PLF raid, and in a desperate act to protect others from Shigaraki's Decay Quirk — which requires him to use Erasure — he has his own leg amputated to break Shigaraki's grip and preserve his ability to erase. He subsequently operates throughout the arc missing a leg and still fighting. The emotional weight of Aizawa's continued service in Season 6, combined with the devastating revelation about his friend Oboro Shirakumo and the villain Kurogiri, makes this arguably his most important season in the entire series for character depth and heroic sacrifice.
Endeavor (S6)
Enji Todoroki: Active | Quirk Hellflame
Season 6 is Endeavor's crucible. He leads the hero assault on the PLF's mountain stronghold, bears the weight of the Symbol of Peace mantle in All Might's absence, and then faces the unraveling of everything he has tried to rebuild in his personal life — when his eldest son Dabi reveals himself publicly and exposes Endeavor's abusive history to the entire world in a moment calculated for maximum devastation. Endeavor must continue fighting Shigaraki with the full weight of public condemnation falling on him simultaneously. His refusal to stop, even shattered, even without absolution, becomes the season's most wrenching statement about what it costs to keep choosing heroism.
Season 7 Star & Stripe, The Final War · Episodes 139+
Star and Stripe
Cathleen Bate: Deceased | Quirk New Order
Star and Stripe is America's Number 1 Hero and one of the most powerful beings in the entire MHA universe. Her Quirk, New Order, allows her to impose a single rule on herself or one designated target — a rule that becomes absolute physical law, allowing her to do things like "give the air mass of a mountain" or command her own body to disregard limits. A longtime admirer of All Might who modeled her entire hero philosophy on him, she flies to Japan to help Deku and confronts Shigaraki directly. Her battle — brilliant, devastating, and ultimately sacrificial — reshapes Shigaraki's stolen Quirk collection in a way that creates critical vulnerabilities the heroes will exploit in the Final War.
All Might (Final War)
Toshinori Yagi: Quirkless QuirkNone (Quirkless)
In Season 7 and the Final War Arc, All Might participates in the conflict as a Quirkless man — which is an extraordinary act of courage in a world where power is everything. Armed with technology provided by support developers and driven purely by the refusal to abandon his students and successor, he enters the battlefield as a target and a distraction, drawing All For One into a personal confrontation that allows the hero forces to execute their coordinated strategy. All Might's arc in Season 7 is the completion of his character — proving that the Symbol of Peace was never about the Quirk, but about the man who kept standing up when he had every reason to stay down.
Lemillion (Pro Licensed)
Mirio Togata: Active | QuirkPermeation
By Season 7, Mirio Togata has earned his full Pro Hero license and takes the field as Lemillion in the Final War Arc with his Quirk fully restored by Eri's rewind. His return as a licensed Pro Hero — the journey from Sir Nighteye's handpicked successor, to Quirkless resistance fighter, to fully empowered professional — is one of the most complete hero arcs in the series. He fights in the Final War with the same overwhelming competence that made him near-mythical as a student, and his presence represents the torch-passing from the previous generation's heroes to the new one that Deku's story has always been building toward.
Eraser Head (Final War)
Shota Aizawa: Active | QuirkErasure
Even in the Final War Arc, Aizawa continues to serve despite his injuries, his prosthetics, and the full weight of everything he has lost. His role in the endgame strategy centers on using Erasure at critical moments to strip Shigaraki and All For One of their most dangerous abilities — making him an irreplaceable asset in a war where Quirk cancellation is one of the few tools that can meaningfully level the playing field. Aizawa's persistence through Season 7 is the series' quiet argument that heroism is not dramatic sacrifice alone, but showing up every day in whatever form you have left, without ever giving yourself permission to stop.
Edgeshot (Final War)
Shinya Kamihara: Active | QuirkFoldabody
Edgeshot's defining moment in Season 7 and the Final War is arguably the most selfless act a hero performs in the entire franchise. When Katsuki Bakugo is killed by Shigaraki — his heart shredded beyond any conventional medical ability to save — Edgeshot unfolds his own body into a thread-thin form and manually sutures Bakugo's heart from the inside, using the remaining life force in his own body to keep the repair going. He offers his life to restart the young hero's heart. The act encapsulates everything MHA has said about heroism: not power, not ranking, not recognition — just the willingness to spend yourself completely for someone else.
Mirko (Final War)
Rumi Usagiyama: QuirkRabbit
Mirko returns in Season 7's Final War with prosthetic limbs replacing what she lost in the PLF raid — and she enters the battlefield at full intensity. She has not slowed, not softened, not reconsidered her preference for solo combat. If anything, the prosthetics seem to make her angrier, faster, and more determined. Her presence in the Final War chapters is a statement in itself: a hero who lost multiple limbs fighting the last battle and is back for the next one, right at the front, unwilling to be anywhere else. She is the series' ultimate argument that a hero's spirit is the part that cannot be cut off.
