Top Five Dead or Alive: Shoto Todoroki (My Hero Academia)

Yo. My Hero Academia has been giving me life ever since I devoured the first two seasons late last year. It is currently letting me relieve the feeling of Saturday Morning Cartoons because I get to roll out of bed, turn on CrunchyRoll at 8AM, and watch the latest heroics of Class 1-A. With the manga out for four years and the anime airing for two years with the current Season 3 being simulcast, I think it’s high time we talk about some of the G.O.A.T.s of My Hero Academia and since you already read the title, you know I ain’t talking about Deku. Midoriya’s ascent to being the greatest hero is cool and all, but listen. We need to talk about the perennial second placer, the son of the World’s Second Greatest Hero, the master of the Half-Hot/Half-Cold Quirk: Shoto Todoroki.

“In the freezing cold, y’all keep chillin’. We’ll leave tracks you can follow in.”

Shoto Todoroki has a pedigree, y’all. Son of Endeavor, ranked #2 right Behind All-Might, Todoroki isn’t your average UA student. Nah. The hero course requires rigorous testing, but you know who got to skip that? Todoroki. He was one of the two recommended students who the Academy basically went up to and whispered “we don’t want to embarrass the other applicants. Here’s your orientation packet. Enjoy the summer.” His quirk, Half-Hot/Half-Cold makes him a bonafide cryomancer capable of creating walls of ice and massive flames. Even with how powerful that is, when Deku and the audience first meets him he is only really using h…