My Hero Academia Trivia Quiz: Are You a True Fan?

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In a world where roughly eighty percent of the population develops a superpower at some point in childhood, being born without one makes you the rare exception, not the special one. That’s the situation Izuku Midoriya starts in: a Quirkless kid obsessed with heroes in a society that’s built entire institutions, rankings, and licensing systems around superpowered crime-fighting. Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia takes a premise that could have been a straightforward superhero story and turns it into something more specific: a coming-of-age story about a kid who gets handed power he didn’t earn and has to prove, constantly, that he deserves to keep it.

All Might can hold his muscled hero form for about three hours a day when the series opens, a ceiling that keeps shrinking as the story goes on, and the reason is a wound taken five years earlier that cost him most of a lung and his stomach and leaves him gaunt and hollow-cheeked the rest of the time. That single constraint drives the plot: the world’s top hero needs a successor before the clock runs out, and he settles on a Quirkless middle schooler he watched run straight at a sludge villain that licensed professionals were standing back from. The power he hands over, One For All, is a stockpiling Quirk passed down through eight previous holders, each one adding strength to it, which means Izuku inherits an accumulated history as much as a punch.

The villains run the same idea in reverse, which is the parallel the series is built on. All For One, who can strip Quirks from other people and redistribute them at will, spent decades grooming a successor of his own in Tomura Shigaraki, born Tenko Shimura, a boy whose Decay Quirk destroyed his own family before he understood what it did. Shigaraki is the grandson of Nana Shimura, the seventh holder of One For All and the woman who trained All Might, a connection neither side recognizes for most of the story. Two inherited powers, two mentors who chose badly or too late, and a school full of teenagers caught in the middle of an argument that started generations before any of them enrolled.

Questions here range across all of that. Some sit on the surface: the nickname Izuku carries, the school he tests into, the man who hands him his power. Others sit further in, on the nitroglycerin-like sweat that Katsuki Bakugo detonates from his palms, the reason Shoto Todoroki spent years refusing to use his left side against opponents, the two words on U.A.’s crest that the school treats as doctrine, and where Endeavor sat in the official hero rankings before All Might’s retirement moved him up a slot he never wanted to earn that way.

Anyone who followed the story past the tournament arcs will have an easier time here, because a fair share of it turns on the administrative machinery around the fighting: provisional license exams, workplace internships, the quarterly rankings, the Hero Public Safety Commission, and the slow reveal of who had been standing behind the League of Villains the whole time. Matching a Quirk to the wrong owner is exactly the sort of mistake the score sheet at the end exists to catch.