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| “ | If you wanna stop this, then stand up! Because I've just got one thing to say to you! Never forget who you want to become! | „ |
| ~ Shoto Todoroki to Tenya Iida in "From Todoroki to Iida". |
Shoto Todoroki is one of the tritagonists (alongside Momo Yaoyorozu) in the manga and anime series, My Hero Academia. He is a student at U.A. High School training to become a Pro Hero. He got into U.A. through official recommendations. He is also Midoriya's second-best friend and rival.
He is voiced by Yūki Kaji in the Japanese version of the anime, and by David Matranga in the English version of the anime.
Bio
A serious but well-meaning student enrolled by recommendation, Shoto is the son of Endeavor (Enji Todoroki), a famous hero ranking behind only All Might himself. His Quirk is "Half-Cold Half-Hot", which allows him to generate and control large amounts of fire and ice from his left and right sides respectively, the former of which he inherited from his father and the latter from his mother. Raised by Endeavor for the sole purpose of surpassing All Might, Todoroki hates how his father only views him as a tool and had originally vowed to become the number one hero without ever using his fire abilities as a form of rebellion.
Appearance
Shoto is a tall and rather well-built young man, he has long hair that splits between white (on his right side) and red (on his left side). He has heterochromia iridium with his right eye being gray and his left being turquoise in color. He also has a burn on the left side of his face which reaches halfway down his cheek. Appearance-wise, he is regarded as quite handsome by girls such as Mina Ashido and Camie Utsushimi.
His initial hero costume consisted of a plain white shirt, with matching pants and boots. He wears an ice-like material on the left side of his body, which is detachable from neck upwards as a way of rejecting the fire side of his Quirk.
Shoto's costume is later updated to a dark blue, short-sleeved jacket and pants with two gold-colored straps over his shoulders. A metal plated combat vest with white boots, he also has a brown utility belt that contains medical supplies.
Personality
Powers & Abilities
Quirk
- Half-Cold Half-Hot:
Trivia
- Shoto greatly resembles Zuko from Avatar, The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra series:
- Both Shoto and Zuko come from dysfunctional families due to having abusive fathers. Shoto was abused due to his father's harsh training, while Zuko was abused due to being inferior in his family.
- Both have fire powers.
- Both have a burn-induced scar over their left eye caused by one of their respective parents.
- Both have a cold and distant attitude but become more open and become friends with the protagonist.
- Both were separated from their mothers when they still young and later reunite again many years later.
- However, there are some differences:
- Shoto at his first debut was not a villain, while Zuko is a redeemed villain who turned into a protagonist.
- Shoto has no siblings who became evil characters due to his father's influence, while Zuko has a sister (Azula) who becomes a secondary antagonist. (If the theory about Dabi's identity being his missing brother, Touya Todoroki, then this statement would be incorrect.)
- Shoto receives his scar from his mother, who suffers a mental breakdown after she sees Shouto's left side who resembles her abusive husband and while Zuko receives his scar from Ozai. Additionally, Shoto's mother apologized for her actions and has mostly recovered from her psychological trauma, while Zuko's father never shows an ounce of remorse for abusing his son.
- Shoto has the power to manipulate both fire and ice, while Zuko doesn't have ice-manipulation power, because he is not a water bender.
- While Shoto's father hold's great remorse for hurting Shoto and seeks to redeem himself, Zuko's father holds no regret for his actions and was never forgiven by his son.
- Shoto shares similarities with Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat.
- Both have ice powers.
- While Shoto had no siblings turned evil, Sub-Zero had a brother, Bi-Han who became Noob Saibot.
- Shouto shares similarities with Sanji from One Piece.
- Both Shoto and Sanji love deeply for their mothers for their kindness and compassion.
- Both hates their fathers due to their abusing methods of training from their own childhood and done such bad things (Shoto's flame quirk burnt his left face and Sanji was locked up in the dungeon).
- Both are a fire-wielding power character.
- They were both being used by their fathers as tools for their goals which ended up to their failures.
- Both have a cold and distant attitude but become more open and become friends with the Protagonist.
- Both separate from their mother when they were children (Shoto's mother was send into the hospital due to his father and Sanji's mother died due to the side effect of the counter drug).
- Shoto shares similarities with Sasuke Uchiha from Naruto.
- Both Shoto and Sasuke come from pretigious families.
- Both are high-achieving students.
- Both of their signature clothing is blue in color.
- Both have fire-based abilities.
- Both of them are stoic, and brooding.
- Both harbor hatred against a family member (Endeavor for Shoto and Itachi for Sasuke).
- Shoto shares similarities with Weiss Schnee from RWBY.
- Both of them comes from high-class families.
- Both are calm, mature, and composed.
- Both are high-achieving students.
- Both have ice-power abilities.
- Both have a scar on their left eye. Shoto has a burnt scar while Weiss has a slash scar.
- Both have cold and distant attitude but become more open and friends with the protagonists. Izuku to Shoto and Ruby to Weiss.
- Both have abusive fathers. Enji to Shoto and Jacques to Weiss.
- Both have separated from their mothers and later reunites again many years later. Rei to Shoto and Willow to Weiss.
- Both have sisters whom they cared about them. Fuyumi to Shoto and Winter to Weiss.
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