Izuku Midoriya

Izuku Midoriya, also known as Deku, is the main protagonist from the My Hero Academia series.
== Charactah Account ==
Though originally born without a Quirk, Izuku manages to catch the attention of the legendary hero All Might and has since become his close pupil and a student at UA.
Izuku is a very timid and polite boy. Due to being bullied since childhood for being born without a Quirk, he is initially portrayed as insecure, being more reserved and not self expressive, especially in front of Katsuki. However, after being accepted into UA and facing Katsuki during Battle Training, he has gradually become more confident and brave.
Izuku is also very diligent and strong willed. Since he greatly admires Heroes and has always aimed to be one, he has a habit of writing down in his notebooks all he knows about heroes and their quirks, including other UA students. He is a very caring person, and will never hesitate to rescue someone in danger, even if he knows he's not strong enough. When someone has a personal problem, Izuku will always try to help, even if it's not his business. Izuku also has the tendency to overthink with anything that grabs his attention, which makes him start mumbling to himself a lot.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* My Hero Academia
* My Hero Academia Movie 1: Two Heroes
* My Hero Academia Movie 2: Heroes Rising
* My Hero Academia Movie 2: Heroes Rising - Epilogue Plus
* My Hero Academia Movie 3: World Heroes' Mission
* My Hero Academia ONA
* My Hero Academia Season 2
* My Hero Academia Season 2: Hero Notebook
* My Hero Academia Season 3
* My Hero Academia Season 4
* My Hero Academia Season 5
* My Hero Academia Season 6
* My Hero Academia: Make It! Do-or-Die Survival Training
* My Hero Academia: Rescue! Rescue Training
* My Hero Academia: Training of the Dead
=== Light Novels ===
* My Hero Academia: School Briefs
=== Manga ===
* My Hero Academia
* My Hero Academia: Smash!!
=== Video Games ===
* Brave Frontier
* Extraordinary Ones
* Jump Force
* Jumputi Heroes
* Monster Strike
* My Hero Academia: Battle for All
* My Hero Academia: Halloween Special - Otome Game
* My Hero Academia: Smash Rising
* My Hero Academia: Smash Tap
* My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions
* My Hero Academia: Ultra Impact
* My Hero Academia: Ultra Rumble
* My Hero One's Justice
* My Hero One's Justice 2
* Puzzle and Dragons
* Weekly Shonen Jump Jikkyou Janjan Stadium
== Trivia ==
* Izuku was originally planned to be an adult, as seen in the one-shot My Hero.
** In the early concept stages of My Hero Academia, Izuku was known as "Mikumo Akatani." He had a longer and curlier hairdo, with bangs blocking one of his eyes. He was Quirkless in this concept, relying more on makeshift gadgets and luck to deal with obstacles. His hero costume was also slightly more intimidating. The costume was shown in a sketch having an orange color scheme.
** Kohei Horikoshi once commented that he was unsatisfied with Mikumo's design, especially his hair. This made Horikoshi think up the current design with slightly shorter hair. He also received suggestions from editors to give the protagonist an actual superpower, so he wouldn't naturally fade into the background.
* According to Izuku's profile in Volume 1:
** His favorite food is Katsudon.
** He was deliberately designed to look plain.
* Regarding Izuku's academic life and performance, his U.A. data is as follows.
** Student No. 18 in Class 1-A.
** Ranked seventh during the U.A. Entrance Exam.
** Ranked twentieth (last) for the Quirk Apprehension Test.
*** His fifty-meter dash record is 7.02 seconds. His previous record was 7.49 in middle school.
*** His grip strength record is 56 kilograms (123.459 pounds). His previous record was 40 kilograms (88.185 pounds) in middle school.
*** His softball throw record is 705.3 meters. Without his Quirk, it's 46 meters.
** Ranked fourth in Class 1-A's mid-term grades.
** Ranked in the Top 8 of the U.A. Sports Festival First-Year Stage.
*** Izuku received only one nomination from Gran Torino for his U.A. Sports Festival performance, technically making him the tenth most nominated Class 1-A student.
** Scored seventy-one in the Provisional Hero License Exam.
* Initially, Izuku was voted to be 1-A's class representative, before he decided to willingly pass the position over to Tenya.
* Izuku's surname contains the kanji for "green" (midori) and "valley" (ya), and his given name contains "coming out/being from a certain place, one's turn to go on" (izu) and "long ago, old story" (ku).
* "Deku" is another reading of his first name, Izuku. Written with different kanji, it can refer to a wooden figure or puppet, which is a term often used as an insult for someone who can't do or achieve anything.
** Izuku's nickname, "Deku," was given to him by Katsuki when they were children as an insult.
** According to Kohei Horikoshi, the inspiration for the name Deku was from Kenji Miyazawa's poem "Ame ni mo Makezu" (Be Not Defeated by the Rain).
** Later, Ochaco finds the nickname inspiring and says that "Deku" gives off a feeling of "I can do it" (ganbaru), because of its similarity to the word meaning "to be able to do" (dekiru).
** In the Funimation dub, both Katsuki and Izuku indicate that his nickname is an abbreviation of a different nickname: "Defenseless Izuku," hence Deku.
* Izuku's rankings in the Popularity Polls are as follows;
** Izuku ranked first in the first Popularity Poll.
** Izuku ranked second in the second, third, fifth, sixth, and seventh Popularity Polls.
** Izuku ranked third in the fourth Popularity Poll.
* He shares his birthday with Mirio Togata and Rapt Tokage.
* His Quirk is listed as "Super-Power" (Chou Pawaa) in public records, in order to protect the secret about One For All.
* Izuku's alpha costume cost only ¥40,380 ($370.53 U.S. dollars) to make.
** Izuku's later costumes share the same designer as Shoto's.
* Izuku's Japanese voice actor for when he was a child, Akeno Watanabe, also voices Nemuri Kayama and Mika Jiro.
* Izuku is one of three characters (along with Nine and Gigantomachia) with the third most amount of Quirks, possessing a total of seven Quirks, though he does not have access to one of these Quirks yet.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Izuku Midoriya at My Hero Academia Wiki
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