Kenji Kaminari

Kenji as a kid (left) and adult Kenji as Prohero LazerTazer (right)

Kenji during his time as a window cleaner

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## Description

Black hair, Goatee beard, golden eyes, ponytail, golden sunglasses.

Kenji can shoot electric lasers out of his eyes, that can electrify and melt objects or people.

#### Function

He can send lasers out of his eyes by widening them. The lasers are electricity-based instead of light-based, so they can electrify, stun, fry, heat, and melt whatever he is looking at when he chooses to activate them.

#### Drawback

If overused, he becomes temporarily blind.

#### Support

Yellow glasses which block the electricity when worn to prevent misfires.

## Biography

Kenji Kaminari, also known as Prohero LazerTazer, is Denki's father and Narihana Kaminari's husband. He is often seen with a Coca-Cola bottle in his hand and his yellow sunglasses in his black hair. Although his interviews show him as a charming and funny man, Kenji currently does not get along with his own son, nor his wife. He has cheated multiple times and is known to be an alcoholic.

Kenneth O'Reilly was born in Boston and grew up with his mother Hope and his sister Mikaela O'Reilly. He was a careless little boy, who always looked up to his mother and sister.HE used to dream about being a doctor in order to one day help to cure his mother's illness. Meanwhile he worked as a window cleaner with his sister in their neighborhood to raise some money for their mother's treatment. At school, Kenny was a victim of bullying, yet his sister did her best to protect him.

When Mikey had the idea to steal medication to help their mother, Kenny followed her to the hospital and tried to help her. His quirk suddenly manifested due to his increasing anxiety and he turned temporarily blind and got lost, ending up in a mysterious room. The next thing Kenny could remember was Mikey's sudden change of behavior. She turned cold and mean, which led to Kenny's anxiety becoming stronger. After their mother Hope had died, Kenny and his sister Mikaela moved to Japan to live with their aunt Jacqueline O'Reilly, a police officer. There, Kenny suffered from the abusive behavior of Mikaela and had to face death caused by his sister. His aunt got killed by Mikaela and Kenny went into the foster care system. He continued to work as a window cleaner and saw an ad from Prohero ElecTricks about a hero casting. He auditioned to earn more money and eventually became Narihana Kaminari's hero partner after some tough training.

After getting married to Narihana Kaminari, Kenny, now going by the name Kenji, took her last name. They got happily married and worked well, until Narihana publicly announced that she wanted a baby, which Kenji had never agreed to. In the meantime, Kenji befriended the quirkless police officer whom he was assigned to work with, Noël Monoma, even after years of disagreements. When Kenji talked to Noël about Narihana's dream of having a child, they received the news that ElecTricks and a business owner got injured by someone. While Narihana was stuck in a coma for two years, Kenji and Noël desperately tried to find the culprit of the attack. They succeeded when they found Hibiki and Aiko Shinsou at their haunted house. He attacked them and tried to arrest them using Noël's taser gun, but had become temporarily blind from his quirk and, in his haste, grabbed a real gun by accident. He shot and killed Hibiki, and, out of pure rage, Aiko Shinsou used her mind control quirk on Kenji, forcing him to kill his best friend Noël Monoma with his laser eyes.

After the incident, Kenji suffers from severe depression, anxiety, and PTSD. His hero ranking dropped substantially, and he was suddenly willing to get the Baby Narihana wanted after she woke up from her coma.

Kenji started cheating on Narihana when she has no time to spare for him anymore and his drinking problem worsens. Kenji became cold and unapproachable in an effort to keep Denki from getting to close to him.

In recent years, Kenji grew out his hair and decided to not cheat anymore to save his marriage. He has given in to obeying hero society and keeps his mouth shut.

When he and his son Denki get into an argument, Kenji gets slapped by him and leaves, fuming. Shortly, an unknown individual attacks him by almost choking him to death, and he gets rescued by Neito Kaminari before he gets killed.

Agreeing to the proposition from Neito to join him for dinner, Kenji follows him and meets his other son-in-law Hitoshi Kaminari. He suffers from a PTSD flashback episode as he connects the dots and realizes that Hitoshi must be related to Aiko Shinsou.

## Trivia

* Kenji is a crybaby
* Kenji was a window cleaner before he became a hero
* Kenji doesn't eat breakfast with his side chicks since, for him, it's only meant to be an activity with his actual family
* Before Kenji wanted to become a hero, he wanted to become a doctor
* Kenji has ADHD (Denki inherited it from Kenji)
* Kenji cusses in English
* His favorite movie is Titanic
* Kenji's quirk is heavily inspired by Cyclops from the X-Men and Oscar the fish from Sharktales