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Browse all techniques in the Dragon Ball universe.

2D-ify

2D-ify is an Emitter Quirk belonging to one of the Avant-Garders, and it reduces whatever it catches to flat artwork. Victims end up sealed behind a picture frame, still able to move around inside the image but with no route back out into…

Absorption and Release

Absorption and Release is the Quirk of the Four-Eyed Nomu, a power that swallows an incoming Emitter attack and throws it straight back at whoever fired it. Endeavor met it during the Hosu Incident and dismissed it quickly, since taking a…

Accelerator Rings

Accelerator Rings is the yellow-ringed propulsion Quirk that Tenko Shimura was born with, lost to All For One before he could ever use it, and unknowingly took back decades later as Tomura Shigaraki. Neither villain ever recognized it as…

Acid

Acid is the Quirk of Class 1-A's Mina Ashido, giving her corrosive fluid straight out of her own skin along with a tolerance for it. She can dial its solubility and viscosity to suit the moment, and pushing it too hard corrodes her badly…

Acid Sweat

Acid Sweat belongs to Masaru Bakugo, whose palms leak a perspiration that both burns and detonates. Paired with his wife's Glycerin, it accounts for why their son Katsuki has to sweat before he can blow anything up.

Air Cannon

Air Cannon drives a shockwave of compressed air out of an open palm, and its shape follows the swing of the arm that fires it. Stolen by All For One from someone never identified and later inherited by Tomura Shigaraki, it became the…

Air Walk

Air Walk hardens the air around its wielder into footing, which amounts to levitation and freedom from the ground entirely. All For One stole it from an unknown owner and eventually handed it to Kaina Tsutsumi, who uses the height it buys…

Air Wall

Air Wall shapes compressed air into circular shields, and Nine used it in Heroes: Rising to blunt everything the students threw at him. Its durability rises and falls with his health, and it only ever exists where he points, which is…

Alchemy

Alchemy lets Valdo Gollini rewrite any lifeless thing he touches, from a coin to an entire flying fortress. It built him an All Might body, a private paradise in the sky, and the illusion that he held several Quirks at once, though…

All For One

All For One takes other people's Quirks, hands them out again, and lets one person carry any number at once. It gave its first wielder a century of hidden rule over Japan, and it carries his psyche into whoever inherits it, which is the…

Amplivolt

A villain's answer to the problem of making lightning: skip the making. Amplivolt takes a charge in from outside the body, multiplies it internally, and throws the result. Its owner keeps a taser on his person for exactly that reason, and…

Anivoice

Koji Koda asks, and the animal kingdom answers. Anivoice turns a spoken request into a command any creature within earshot will follow, which makes a shy boy into a hero with wings, claws, and antennae on call. The stone head he was born…

Anthropomorph

Furniture becomes people. Anthropomorph lets Skeptic take any object roughly the size of a person and reshape it into a convincing double of someone real, then run a whole squad of those doubles by remote from somewhere safely distant.

Antigen Swap

One of the quietest powers in All For One's collection, and one of the most useful to a man who never wanted to be found. Antigen Swap changes his blood type on command, which erases the single most damning thing a criminal tends to leave…

Arbor

Kamui Woods grows his weapons out of his own skin. Arbor sends timber sprouting from anywhere on his body and stretches it across city blocks, which serves equally well for pinning a villain in place, lifting civilians clear of danger, or…

Assault Dust

A grade schooler with a weaponized cloud. Assault Dust makes its own grit out of nothing and fires it fast enough to hurt, one of the many small chaos engines waiting for Class 1-A at Masegaki Primary School.

Attraction of Small Objects

Inko Midoriya's power never got a name, and it never got much reach either. She can coax light things across a room toward her hand, which in a world of fire and lightning is exactly the kind of gift that makes a boy wonder what he…

Barrier

Hekiji Tengai throws up a dome of pure will and dares anyone to get through it. Fat Gum compares hitting the thing to hitting a steel wall. It cannot attack, it cannot leave him behind, and it still turned one man into the hardest door the…

Bat

Wings along the arms, fangs, ears drawn to a point: Batto Yobayakawa was built for the night before anyone got hold of him. What Bat can do on its own is guesswork, because every time it has been seen the drug Trigger was already in his…

Beams From His Eyes

Ichimoku Samazu wears a visor with a switch on it, and whatever he happens to be looking at when he throws that switch takes a laser to the face. Whether the visor is a safety measure or just a trigger has never been answered.

Beast

Jurota Shishida is the politest student in Class 1-B until he lets the Quirk off its leash. Beast swells him into a fanged, fur-covered monster that hits hard enough to launch people over the horizon, and the only real cost is how much he…

Big Fist

Itsuka Kendo's hands swell to roughly triple the size of the rest of her, and they hit like it. Big Fist crushes tungsten, carries civilians, fans away poison gas, and mostly it just ends fights before the other side understands what…

Big Horn

Big Horn is the Mutant Quirk belonging to Daikaku Miyagi, a newscaster whose body naturally carries bull-like horns. Rather than a combat power, it defines his silhouette on screen, and his decision to remove one of the pair drew a sharp…

Big Monkey

Big Monkey is a Transformation Quirk from My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, held by Rikiya Eno. Every recorded use of it happens while he is dosed with Trigger, the drug that inflates Quirk output, which leaves its baseline capacity outside…

Binging Ball

Binging Ball is the Emitter Quirk of Tamashiro, a student at Masegaki Primary School. It produces small hovering spheres, each fitted with a mouth, which double as high-speed projectiles and as eaters capable of swallowing whatever they…

Black

Black is Shihai Kuroiro's Transformation Quirk, letting him sink his body into anything dark enough to hide him and travel through it at speed. Cramped, unlit ground is where it thrives, and bright light is the thing that tears him back…

Black Hole

Black Hole is Thirteen's Emitter Quirk, opening miniature singularities at her fingertips that reduce matter to atoms. Built around disaster rescue rather than combat, its sheer lethality is exactly what stops her from using it freely…

Blackwhip

Blackwhip is the Quirk Daigoro Banjo carried into One For All, where it waited until Izuku Midoriya's anger dragged it into the open. Tendrils of dark energy grab, swing, bind, and eventually brace Izuku's body from the inside, right up…

Blade-Tooth

Blade-Tooth is Moonfish's Transformation Quirk, growing his teeth into long, steerable blades. It turns a restrained villain into a distance threat, since the fangs reach far enough to skewer targets across a battlefield and strong enough…

Blast

Blast is the Emitter Quirk of the Pro Hero Sensoji from My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, pouring out rapid, heavy bursts of energy. Its own muzzle flash is the problem, blinding him mid-volley, a flaw ultimately solved by something as…

Blazing Hair

Blazing Hair is the Mutant Quirk of the Pro Hero Moe Kamiji, whose head burns with flames she commands directly. She tears pieces of it loose to throw as fireballs or shapes them into swords, and she rides the same fire through the sky.

Blood Control

Blood Control is Vlad King's Emitter Quirk, handing him command of his own blood the instant it leaves his body. He steers it, hardens it into restraints, and pulls it back in again, all through a costume rigged with tubes and specialized…

Bloodcurdle

Bloodcurdle paralyzes anyone whose blood the user tastes, and it is the power that made Chizome Akaguro into the Hero Killer Stain. All For One tore it out of him during the Final War, which makes it the last Quirk he ever added to his…

Bloodlet

Bloodlet lets its user push every drop of blood out of their own body and then take it all back. All For One stole the Quirk from an owner who is never identified, and paired it with Antigen Swap to break Stain's Bloodcurdle in the middle…

Blueflame

Dabi's fire runs blue because it runs far past what ordinary flame reaches, and that heat cuts in both directions. Born of a Quirk Marriage but housed in a body built for cold, Blueflame handed its owner firepower beyond Endeavor's while…

Body Bulk

Body Bulk converts fury into raw mass. Handed to Shuichi Iguchi by All For One, who had taken it off someone else entirely, this Transformation Quirk swells its owner outward and multiplies his strength, and it answers loudest when the…

Body Morph

Four arms and the muscle to swing all of them. Body Morph is the Mutant Quirk belonging to Steel Bulwark, a close-quarters build that hands its owner an extra pair of limbs alongside a serious jump in raw physical power.

Bombify

Number 6 does not carry explosives, he grows them. Bombify reshapes portions of its user's body into live bombs of whatever size the moment calls for, and in his hands it slots neatly into a chain of other Quirks that detonate and then…

Boomerang

Throw it and it finds you. Boomerang lets Itejiro Toteki steer whatever leaves his hand, bending a projectile's flight path mid-air so it chases down a target instead of sailing past. A purple glow marks the objects currently under his…

Brainwashing

All Hitoshi Shinso needs is an answer. Say a single word back to him and your body stops being yours, waiting quietly for whatever he tells it to do next. Brainwashing has no punch and no shield, yet it can end a fight before the first…

Brawn Boost

A plain power-up with a brutal twist in whose hands it landed. Brawn Boost raises physical strength, nothing more complicated than that, but All For One holds three copies of it at once, stacking the effect far beyond whatever its original…

Bristle

Hair turned rigid on command. Bristle belongs to Tsuyoshi, a Transformation Quirk from the Team-Up Missions spinoff that hardens its owner's hair dramatically. Beyond that single description the ability remains almost entirely unexplored,…

Brown Bear

Everything a bear brings, packed into a person. Brown Bear hands Bearhead the muscle, the toughness, the sharpened senses, and the claws of the animal it names, a close-range Mutant Quirk that exists outside the main story in game material…

Bruiser

Patience turns into damage. Bruiser lets Chuma Yakumaru load power into a single arm or leg and swing it as one heavy strike, and the longer he spends winding up, the harder the eventual hit lands. Trigger changes the math entirely,…

Bubble

Every scent Kaoruko Awata has ever caught becomes ammunition. Her Quirk produces bubbles at any size she likes, each one loaded with an aroma she has encountered before, and popping them in an opponent's face buys the seconds she needs to…

Bullet Laser

Purple beams that pour out of the fingertips and bend on command, Bullet Laser is one of the stolen powers in Nine's collection. Never given an official name in the story, it earns its label from what it does: cutting, curving light with…

Bull Head

A pair of horns and little else on record. Bull Head is the Mutant Quirk belonging to Minotaurus, giving its owner bull-like horns for melee work. The story keeps it simple, and the ability's name comes from supplementary game material…

Bullhorn

Some Quirks reshape battlefields. Bullhorn simply makes its owner impossible to ignore. Belonging to an unnamed admirer of All Might, it turns an ordinary voice into something that carries, and little else about it has ever been spelled…

Burst

A power with exactly one use, and the user does not survive it. Burst turns a Near High-End Nomu into a flash of light on command, and the order comes from someone else. It is a weapon aimed by a third party, not by the body carrying it.

Cell Activation

A healing power gated by blood type, Cell Activation wakes up the cells in a body through touch and pushes them to work faster. It runs in the Shimano family, and it is the prize Nine kills for in Heroes: Rising, only to find that his own…

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