Explosion Fire

**Explosion Fire** (爆発火災 Bakuhatsu kasai) is a Quirk used by Ikari Bakugo.

## Description

Explosion Fire allows Ikari to excrete nitroglycerin-like sweat from her palms and ignite it at will to create explosions of various sizes.

Through either one of her palms, Ikari creates fiery shock waves that are highly powerful and destructive, often burning and/or shattering whatever they hit, with Ikari herself being immune to them, save for some recoil, once an explosion hits impact fire will emerge.

The more Ikari sweats, the more powerful the explosions become. This essentially means that Ikari's blast gradually grows in power the longer her combats since she will naturally sweat more through ongoing physical activity.

### Weaknesses

During cold weather, the nitroglycerin-like sweat requires a slightly longer time to detonate, as opposed to warm weather, where conditions are optimal for ignition.

Repeated explosions, particularly large ones, eventually result in throbbing pain to Ikari's arms and shoulders. Additionally, creating explosions with both arms at the same time causes their overall strength to disperse between both limbs, leading to individually weaker blasts.

Due to her being limited to producing explosions from only her hands, which are also her Quirk Factor, Ikari will be unable to utilize his Quirk if she loses the said limbs.

## Usage

Ikari is very proud of her Quirk. Throughout her life, people frequently commended Explosion Fire especially her father (Ground Zero), leading Ikari to develop a superiority complex. As a result, she became arrogant and condescending over others and their Quirks, regarding himself as beyond their level. Before getting into U.A. High School, Ikari had the habit of using Explosion Fire as a means of threatening and bullying others, and while she has dropped that practice for the most part in the present, she still likes to use his Quirk to intimidate foes during fights, usually by creating miniature explosions around both her palms.

Ikari is able to use Explosion Fire to propel herself through mid-air, blind opponents, and release long-range blasts, among other applications. Explosion is a versatile Quirk, especially for battle situations as the recoil caused by the blasts can be exploited for mobility purposes. When coupled with her fighting talent and intelligence, Ikari can come up with new moves with little difficulty, even having a few ready by the time he started U.A. High School's school year. Thanks to Ikari's battle ingenuity and natural aggression, Explosion Fire tends to be a very overwhelming Quirk for others to face off against.

In battle, Ikari prefers all-out offense, using her Quirk's propulsive abilities to close the distance between her and her opponents, followed by a bombardment of close-range attacks that are often started with a powerful right hook. Despite having great mastery over her Quirk, Ikari tends to recklessly cause unnecessary damage to hwe surroundings, which is a common issue with hero work, as it may jeopardize missions that require more careful approaches.

As mentioned by Ikari herself, the Grenadier Bracers from her costume serve to reduce the risk of physical strain caused by overusing her Quirk. These bracers store part of her explosive sweat, with Ikari being capable of igniting all of it at once by triggering one of the bracers' firing pins, releasing a massive blast that, while devastating, tolls the shoulder of whoever uses it, although Ikari seems to be completely unfazed by this due to her superior physical ability. Ikari also carries around grenade-like containers that can be filled with her sweat, allowing her or someone else to use them as actual explosives.

## Named Super Moves

* **Blast Rush Turbo** (ターボ *Bakusoku Tābo*): Ikari throws her hands back and then causes an explosion in her palms to propel herself forward. This move can also be used to achieve a pseudo form of flight, as Ikari used this move to fly over the giant robots during the Obstacle Race during the U.A. Sports Festival.
* **Stun Grenade** ( *Sutan Gurenēdo*): Ikari creates a sphere of light with her hands. The sphere of light implodes, causing an explosion around Ikar, blinding anything in Ikari's vicinity.

* **Zero Distance Stun Grenade** (ゼロ *Zero Kyori Sutan Gurenēdo*): A variation where Ikari fires off her Stun Grenade at point-blank range of the opponent to immediately stun and immobilize them with little lasting damage.
* **Howitzer Impact** ( *Hauzā Inpakuto*): Ikari dashes into the air and creates two Explosions in her hands. While in the air, Ikari spins herself around, building up momentum for her Explosions. After spinning herself round and gathering momentum for her Explosions, Ikari fires an Explosive tornado at her opponent.
* **AP Shot** ( *Ē-Pī Shotto*, literal meaning "Armor-Piercing Shot"): Ikari stretches out one of her hands and uses her other hand to form a circle on the palm of her outstretched hand. Ikari then fires an explosion through the circle, which creates a concentrated blast beam. By focusing her the path of his explosions into a single point instead of around his whole palm, Ikari creates a concentrated blast with reduced area of impact, but with enough power to successfully pierce even solid concrete.
* **AP Shot: Auto-Cannon** ( *Ē-Pī Shotto Ōtokanon*, literal meaning "Armor-Piercing Shot: Autocannon"): A scattershot version of his AP Shot technique, the explosion power is reduced in order to avoid dealing severe damage to human targets.

* **AP Machine-Gun** ( *Ē-Pī Mashingan*): A stronger version of her AP Shot: Auto-Cannon where Ikari fires larger, rapid fire explosions.

* **Explode-A-Pult** (カタパルト *Ekusu Kataparuto*): While in mid-air, Ikari grabs an opponent with one of his arms, then fires an explosion with her free arm, causing both her and her opponent to spin. Ikari then forcefully throws her opponent with the aid of a second explosion.