The Most Useless Quirks In My Hero Academia

Quirks in My Hero Academia are special powers that eighty percent of humans are born with. They are inherited from a user’s parents, often mixing and mutating into entirely new quirks. Considering these quirks develop over generations, you would expect all of them to become super strong. However, a lot of the quirks we see are actually rather weak.

Forget superpowers or battling villains, some quirks even lack real-life application, with others being a hindrance to everyday life. Some weak quirks may have the potential for improvement, but some are so inherently flawed that no amount of training can make them useful.

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Pop Off

Minoru Mineta

Mineta’s quirk, Pop Off, allows him to produce squishy purple spheres on his head that stick to everything but Mineta. Once a ball has been removed, another one will quickly grow in its place. If Mineta takes too many of them off, his head will start bleeding.

Pop Off is not completely useless, as we’ve seen Mineta use it to escape Todoroki’s ice. However, it’s still a weak quirk with little potential. Mineta himself isn’t physically strong, so this quirk isn’t good for direct confrontations either.

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Squirmy Fingers

David Shield

David Shield is from the My Hero Academia Movie called Two Heroes. His quirk allows him to manipulate and bend his fingers in any way he wants. It’s easy to imagine a few useful applications for this quirk, but that’s as far as it goes. David uses it to build hero costumes or other inventions.

Besides boosting David’s productivity by a few minutes, it’s a useless quirk. Even David himself admits that this quirk doesn’t even help him out that much. He certainly got the short end of the stick with Squirmy Fingers.

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Navel Laser

Yuga Aoyama

Navel Laser allows Aoyama to shoot a beam of laser from his belly button. If he keeps using it for more than a few seconds, he will get a very bad stomachache. The destructive power of the laser isn’t good either, as we’ve only seen it slightly damage its target.

We have never seen Aoyama use Navel Laser while moving around, so the quirk quite literally makes him a sitting duck. It can sometimes be useful for surprise attacks in battle, but Aoyama cannot take on a villain by himself.

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Bubble

Bubble Girl

As implied by its name, Bubble Girl’s quirk allows her to make bubbles. These bubbles don’t have any special properties except that she can make them smell good or bad. The bubble itself travels extremely slowly and bursts upon impact, much like a normal bubble.

We’ve seen Bubble Girl use this quirk once to take out a normal Yakuza guy, but it was mainly thanks to her takedown technique rather than the bubble she produced. Besides making the house smell nice, there isn’t a practical application for this quirk.

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Object Attraction

Inko Midoriya

Inko Midoriya is Deku’s mom who supported Deku throughout his entire life. She possesses a quirk that allows her to attract very small objects towards her. The speed at which she attracts these objects is slow, but the quirk can be useful for day-to-day chores.

Besides that, there is no practical use for her quirk in the world of heroes. The quirk is certainly weak, but that’s not to say that it doesn’t have any potential. With training, Inko might be able to enhance her quirk, allowing her to attract larger objects more quickly. As it stands, however, the quirk is one of the weakest.

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Zoom

Mei Hatsume

Mei is an incredibly smart and inventive character from the support course at UA. Her quirk is pretty self-explanatory; she has great eyesight, allowing her to zoom in and see further away. Mei uses this quirk to look further into machinery parts for precise work.

However, that’s all her quirk does for her. Mei’s intelligence and creativity have nothing to do with her quirk. She could replace her quirk with binoculars or a magnifying lens without facing any setbacks.

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Telescopic

Tatami Nakagame

Tatami is a second-year student at Ketsubutsu High School, with a quirk that allows her to shrink her upper body into her lower half. There isn’t any potential for improvement for this quirk, and it serves little purpose in battle. It might offer slightly improved defensive abilities, but that’s the same as ducking at the end of the day.

The other practical use for this quirk could be infiltrating hard-to-reach places. But then again, the task could simply be handed over to a smaller hero with a better quirk. Tatami is a good character, but it’s hard to imagine how she passed the entrance exam with a quirk like this.

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Gecko

Shuichi Iguchi

Iguchi, better known as Spinner, is a heteromorph villain who sees no place for himself in society. His quirk gives him the appearance and characteristics of a reptile, but the only reptilian power he has is sticking to walls. Otherwise, Iguchi is just like a normal person who looks like a lizard.

Spinner’s quirk isn’t completely useless, as he can also stick to high-speed objects as well. However, his quirk is doing him more harm than good, considering the drawbacks Spinner had to face due to his appearance. To top it off, Spinner isn’t great at martial arts either.