MHA Quirk Quiz: What Would Your Quirk Be?

In My Hero Academia a Quirk is not something you pick. It shows up in childhood and it is inherited, so the honest answer to “what would my Quirk be” is: whatever your parents had. This quiz answers a more interesting question — which canon Quirk suits the way you already act.

Each of the 12 questions is about behaviour: how you react when someone needs help, how you take a loss, what you are like in a team. Every answer adds points to one or two of eight Quirks from Class 1-A and its teachers. You get the Quirk you matched most strongly, plus the share of your answers that went to each of the others.

The pairing of a personality with a Quirk is ours, not the series’ — My Hero Academia never says a Quirk follows from character. Everything in the reference section below, though, is canon: what each Quirk does, which of the three official types it belongs to, and what it costs to use.

A Quirk is a superhuman power that a person is born able to develop. Each one is unique to its user, and a person naturally develops only one power or set of powers. Around 80% of the world’s population has one, and the share is still rising, which leaves fewer than one in five people Quirkless.

Quirks normally appear before the age of four, sometimes at birth, with rare late bloomers. They are inherited: a child receives the father’s Quirk, the mother’s, or a fusion of the two. Occasionally two Quirk-holders have a Quirkless child, and rarer still a Quirk appears that matches neither parent.

There is even a rough physical tell. Two joints in the little toe usually means a person is Quirkless, and one joint usually means they have a Quirk — though the series treats that as a rudimentary check rather than a diagnosis. It is often quoted the wrong way round.

Quirks are officially sorted into three types. The difference is what the Quirk does to the user’s own body, and it is what decides whether a Quirk can be switched off.

You will often see four types listed. The fourth, Accumulation, is a sub-type rather than a type of its own: it covers Quirks that have to build up power or a resource before use, such as One For All, and it can overlap any of the three.

Quirks are bodily functions. They can be trained like a muscle and they wear out like one, so every Quirk has a point where using it starts to cost something. Usually the cost is minor — dry skin, nausea — and occasionally it is severe.

That limit is where most of the series’ fights are decided, and it is why the drawback column below says more about a character than the power does.