Grasshopper

Grasshopper, rendered in Japanese as Batta, is a close-range Transformation Quirk belonging to the sibling pair Ichiro Hotta and Jiro Hotta. It arrives in Chapter 32 of the Vigilantes manga, with the anime adaptation introducing it in Episode 14.

The power is a deliberate homage to Kamen Rider. The concept reached Hideyuki Furuhashi through wordplay: the Japanese term batta-ya describes a shop peddling cheap goods obtained through unlicensed channels, and it sounds identical to the word for grasshopper. That pun steered him toward insect monsters and, eventually, counterfeit Riders. Betten Court struggled with the visual design, since other media had already saturated the space with weak imitations of the Riders.

Activating the Quirk converts its holder into a sizable humanoid grasshopper, and the altered body carries markedly greater physical capability than the user's ordinary frame.

One caveat clouds any honest assessment of the power. Neither Hotta has been observed transforming without first injecting undiluted Trigger, so what Grasshopper achieves on its own has never been established.

Ichiro and Jiro Hotta both carry Grasshopper and lean on it almost entirely for fighting. Trigger stacks additional strength, agility, and leaping range on top of the transformation, and the two coordinate well enough to land combination attacks in unison.

Their tandem repertoire includes Double Hotta Kick, in which the brothers spring skyward, flip, and descend with a simultaneous kick. Hotta Jump sends them into a towering leap that either sets up that kick or simply pulls an opponent's attention where they want it.