Katsuki Bakugo

**Katsuki Bakugo,** also known as **Kacchan** by his childhood friends, and his hero name **Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight**, is the deuteragonist from My Hero Academia. He fought Genos from One Punch Man in the final episode of Mini Rumble Season 2.

## Description

**Katsuki Bakugo** is a student in Class 1-A at U.A High School training to become a Pro Hero. He is the complete opposite of Deku, being stubborn, hot-headed, arrogant, and gifted. Despite his bad attitude, he has very high standards of what a hero should be, admiring All Might as much as Deku does.

## Quotes

### XVX Skit #2: You just don't learn, do you?

* Deku?!?
* I hate you!
* Wait a minute, that blonde bit-

### Genos vs Bakugo

* Deku, you bastard!
* Where the hell are you going?
* Wait a minute, who is that girl?
* Who are you, bastard!?
* HUH??
* The hell are you talking about?!
* I don't see you wearing one.
* YEAH! I'm looking RIGHT at it!
* Learn from that, idiot!

## Trivia

* Originally, Katsuki was a very kind and gentle character who spoke without thinking and unintentionally insulted others. Horikoshi, however, found this original draft to be boring and decided, while still keeping him a natural born genius, to make him an unpleasant character instead.
	+ In later concepts, Katsuki would adopt the hero name "Ground Zero" at some point. In the series proper, Katsuki's hero name is Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight.
* Katsuki's surname contains the kanji for "bomb" (爆 *baku***?**) and "powerful" (豪 *gō***?**), and his first name contains "to win" (勝 *katsu***?**) and "self" (己 *ki***?**).
	+ The first kanji used to write Katsuki's surname is also the first kanji that's used in the word "explosion" (爆破 *bakuha***?**).
* According to Katsuki's Volume 1 profile:
	+ His favorite food is spicy food.
	+ His favorite activity is mountain climbing.
* Katsuki's known academic data at U.A. is as follows:
	+ Student No. 17 in Class 1-A.
	+ Ranked 1st during the U.A. Entrance Exam.
	+ Ranked 3rd during the Quirk Apprehension Test.
		- His fifty-meter dash record is 4.13 seconds. His previous record was 5.58 in middle school.
		- His softball throw record is 709.6 meters, updated from 705.2 meters during the Quirk Training Camp. His previous record was 67 meters in middle school.
	+ Ranked third in Class 1-A's mid-term grades.
	+ Winner of The U.A. Sports Festival First-Year Stage.
		- Katsuki received a total of 3,556 nominations from Pro Heroes for his U.A. Sports Festival performance, making him the 2nd most nominated student of Class 1-A despite winning the competition.
	+ Since he failed the Provisional Hero License Exam, he scored below 50.
* Katsuki's old, Quirkless 50-Meter Dash record is the same as Tsuyu Asui's current, Quirk-using record (5.58 seconds).
* Katsuki's rankings in the Popularity Polls are as follows:
	+ Katsuki ranked 3rd in the First Popularity Poll.
	+ Katsuki ranked 1st in the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Popularity Polls.
	+ Katsuki ranked 5th in the First US Popularity Poll.
	+ Katsuki ranked 1st in the Second, Fourth and Fifth US Popularity Polls.
* With his birthday taking place on April 20, Katsuki is the oldest student in Class 1-A, as everyone was fifteen when they started U.A.'s school year in early April.
* Katsuki and Ochaco share the same costume designer.
* As a child, Katsuki is voiced by Kate Oxley in English, who also voices Fuyumi Todoroki.
* Katsuki doesn't sleep with his blanket.

### XVX

* Bakugo is the third MHA character to appear, after Midoriya and Eri.
* Excluding the Double Pack, Bakugo and his opponent are the final chaacter to appear in Mini Rumble Season 2.