Cathleen Bate

Cathleen Bate, also known as Star and Stripe (スターアンドストライプ), was the No. 1 Pro Hero of the United States of America.

Appearance
Star and Stripe is a tall, beautiful woman of curvaceous yet very well-muscled build. She has elegant facial features, narrow eyes, and long flowing blonde hair with eight distinct tufts swept backward and fashioned in a similar manner to the ones All Might possessed in his empowered form.

Her hero costume is a high-collared skin-tight bodysuit with shoulder pads, boots and gauntlets. Fitting to her home country and hero name, the upper torso is decorated in stripes, and her gauntlets and collar are studded with metal stars. Completing the outfit is a long, striped cape that resembles of the U.S. flag.

As a young girl, Star and Stripe had long brown hair, suggesting that she either dyes her hair or it changed as a result of her Quirk. She also wore glasses.

Personality
Star and Stripe is very brash, choosing to immediately head out to Japan to aid the fight against All For One despite the United Nations not finalizing a decision on international hero aid.

She also appears to be somewhat ignorant on villains outside her jurisdiction. Not knowing if the villain appearing before her was All For One or not.

She has a profound admiration for All Might, due to him saving her and her family years ago when he was studying abroad. She considers his two hair tufts to be a symbol of heroism and had her own hair styled in a similar manner with eight tufts, to symbolize her dedication of being a hero. Star and Stripe also admires his incredible strength, to the point where she always applies super strength to herself using her Quirk.

Star and Stripe is also shown to have an intense desire to protect others and seek justice, to the point where she's willing to ruin her own reputation and career for the sake of others. This is best seen when she all but demands the use of the Tiamat missiles to destroy Tomura despite the potential international fall out it could cause. Even when told she'd lose her hero license, she didn't care as she could see how much of a threat Tomura is and that it's worth the risk.

She appears friendly and sisterly, since she refers to the squadron she works with as "brothers" and "bros." Since the pilots in the squadron refer to her by the nickname "Star," we can assume they reciprocate that closeness.

Abilities
Overall Abilities: Star and Stripe is the No. 1 Hero in the United States, and regarded by All For One as "The strongest woman around." He also noted that she can easily shrug off cheap tricks and petty tactics. Even more, her might is shown able to compete single-handedly against Tomura Shigaraki, while at 98% full power of wielding All For One. Notably, she was able to fly across the Pacific to Japan while standing on top of the plane she was riding, showing she has exceptional balance and endurance.

Quirk
New Order: Star and Stripe's Quirk allows her to set a rule onto her surroundings, allowing her to manipulate and bestow new properties onto herself and the world around her. In order to activate her Quirk, she must first make physical contact with the target and speak its name, then explain the rule she wishes to impose. She can only impose two rules at any given time.

She can give herself additional abilities, as well as manipulate the condition of her opponent's body. While there seems to be no limit to how much she can impede someone, even to the point of killing them, there is a limit on how much she can increase ones power, so she cannot give herself infinite strength.

She can even use her power on incorporeal things, like the air and laser beams, which she can shape into constructs, even very powerful gigantic ones. However she cannot arbitrarily effect a target she hasn't touched through clever wording; for example, after touching the air, she can't make it so that a person who touches the air around them will die.

In order for her Quirk to function, the target must acknowledge itself as the name that Star and Stripe identified them as; if a living target is in a state of identity crisis, then the Quirk will not effect them. Alternatively, in the case of an inanimate object, which has no sense of identity, then Star and Stripes one-sided perception of the target is enough.


 * Superhuman Physical Prowess: Using one of the two rules that she can impose, Star usually keeps herself in a constant state of enhanced physical ability. Strength, speed, agility, reflexes, etc.; which, while not at All Might's level, are all still considered to be impressively high. In more desperate situations however, Star and Stripe will disengage her constantly activated rule of enhanced physical ability. This allows her to perform supermoves with two rules of New Order, but subsequently makes her weaker and more vulnerable.

Super Moves

 * Fist Bump to the Earth (フィスト・バンプ・トゥ・ジ・アース): Star and Stripe solidifies the air into the shape of her body, but 1000 times larger. The giant air Star and Stripe is invisible and mimic's the real ones movements.
 * Keraunos (ケラウノス): After creating the giant air construct of herself, she has the team fire lasers at it, which she collects and makes into a sword for her giant self.
 * State-of-the-Art Hypersonic Intercontinental Cruise Punch (パンチ): Star and Stripe grabs the Tiamat missiles with her giant air self and uses New Order to command the missiles to change trajectory, allowing her to swing them around and a unleash a giant air punch that releases a supermassive explosion.

Equipment
Fighter Squadron: Star and Stripe has a number of fighter jets at her disposal which are piloted by her close allies.

Tiamat (ティアマト): Star and Stripe has been given special authority that allows her to call on a series of state-of-the-art hypersonic intercontinental cruise missiles from the U.S. military.

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Trivia

 * Star and Stripe's hero name is based on a nickname for the flag of the United States of America ("Stars and Stripes"), after which her costume is designed.
 * It is also the name of a DC comics stepfather & stepdaughter DC hero duo, and.