Katsuki Bakugo

Katsuki Bakugou (爆豪勝己, Bakugō Katsuki) is the deuteragonist of the series.

Appearance
He has ash brown spiky hair and wears a button shirt with long pants. His hero costume are composed of a black sleeveless V-neck shirt with an orange X with the top half boarders his shirt collar. His costume also has a seemingly metallic neck brace fashioned and used as a collar with with three holes in both sides, sleeves reach from within his large grenade-like gauntlets to his biceps. His belt, which also carries grenades, holds up his baggy pants with knee-guards. He occasionally wears his hero mask that has large flare-shaped cloth

Personality
Katsuki is a very crude and aggressive person that has a tendency of bullying Izuku Midoriya, who he also treats in some ways as a rival.

Brutal and bloodthirsty, he smiles eerily when he's put into battle. While battling, his personality reflects his fighting style. His brutish way of fighting is shown through the Battle Trial: mercilessly assaulting Izuku and having no regard for nearby objects, merely destroying them with his power. Despite this, he's quite talented in fighting, able to use his quirk to not only destroy, but to maneuver around the battlefield.

He has a superiority complex and wants to be first and the best at everything. He doesn't like when people look down on him, as if they were superior to him; thus, it diminishes his already short fuse. Despite his extreme arrogance, he also thinks of people such as Izuku Midoriya as an obstacle on his path to becoming the greatest hero.

Past
Katsuki and Izuku have lived in the same neighborhood since childhood and thus, have been childhood friends since their youngest age. Katsuki had always been praised by the teachers and other people, and had always been the best at everything, as he has a powerful quirk. He would always bully Izuku because the latter was "quirkless" and couldn't do anything right. He always felt superior and thought that nobody would ever be better than him.

Entrance Exam Arc
When walking into the front of Yuuei Katsuki sees Izuku also walking in. He confronts him by telling him to get out of his way and walks passed him. Later in the auditorium in Yuuei, he sits next to Izuku and tells him to "shut it" because Izuku is yelling about Present Mic being Examiner. Katsuki then gets mad when Present Mic tells them that they can't attack other examinees because he really wanted to crush Izuku. Later during Plus Ultra, Katsuki can be seen destroying multiple enemies.

Quirk Apprehension Test Arc
Katsuki uses his quirk to launch a ball the farthest and become ranked on how long strong and how useful it is. He uses Explosion and launches it. When he sees Izuku Midoriya use his quirk, he becomes really mad.

Battle Trial Arc
Katsuki is teamed with Tenya IIda as the villains team and assigned the mission to stop the heroes team consisting of Izuku Midoriya and Ochako Uraraka. Katsuki ambushes Izuku and uses Explosion on Izuku. Izuku grabs his arm and then throws him on the ground.

Rescue Trial Arc
Katsuki is approached by reporters, asking him if he is the person from the sludge man incident, but he ignores them. In class, Shouta Aizawa reprimands Katsuki, telling him to stop acting like a 7-year old as he is wasting his talent being like that. At the end of the class elections, Katsuki is angered to see that people voted for Izuku.

Quirk
"Explosion" - The power to make his sweat into something similar to nitroglycerin, then it detonates to create explosions. The more Katsuki sweats, the stronger his explosions become. So far, the signature use of his quirk are through his hands; usually between punches or to shroud his fist with explosive energy.

Moves

 * "Blast Rush Turbo (Move)": Katsuki throws his hands backwards and that causes an explosion in his palms, to propel himself. This move was first used during the 50 meter dash of the quirk apprehension test in Chapter 6.
 * "Grenadier Bracers": An adjustment added to Katsuki's hero costume that stores his nitroglycerin like sweat, once filled he can pull the grenade pin in order to release a large blast. As shown when he fought Izuku in the Heroes vs Villains test it has enough explosive power to destroy all parts of the building within its blast radius. This move was first used during the Battle Trial arc in Chapter 9.

Battles
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Battle Trial Arc
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 * Katsuki Bakugou vs. Izuku Midoriya: Win

Izuku Midoriya
Katsuki and Izuku are childhood friends but Katsuki always considered the latter as a hindrance, an obstacle, in his path to become the greatest hero. Although he felt he was superior to Izuku, there are times where he had a feeling that Izuku was making fun of him by saving him or "hiding the fact that he had a quirk all this time".

Trivia

 * Katsuki's nickname is "Kacchan".
 * He loves spicy food.
 * He loves mountain climbing.
 * According to vol 1 omake, Bakugou was supposed to be a natural born genius, very kind and gentle character but the author decided to make him an unpleasant character instead.
 * He's student no.17 in Class 1-A.
 * Katsuki ranked first during the Entrance Exam and third during the Quirk Apprehension Test.
 * His name is composed of "爆"(baku) from "爆破" (bakuha) meaning "explosion" and "勝" (katsu) from "勝つ" (katsu), "to win".