Cathleen Bate

Star and Stripe (スターアンドストライプ), real name Cassie (キャシー), is the current 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.

History
Many years ago, a young Star and Stripe was travelling with her family on their way to the Santa Monica pier when they got caught in the middle of a villain attack. She was terrified and prayed for at least her little sister to survive, however, they were all saved by a Japanese foreign exchange student, who would become All Might. From that day on, she became inspired to become a hero just like All Might, seeing him as her role model.

Once she was an adult, she entered military training and later became a Pro Hero, eventually rising through the ranks to become the No. 1 Hero in the United States, thanks to her Quirk, New Order. However, during her training days, she did everything she could think of to boost herself to All Might's level, but she was never able to bypass the limitations of her Quirk. Her fellow soldiers, who would later go on to be her teammates, would console her about her insecurities, telling her about how great she already was.

During Star and Stripe's time as a Pro Hero, the U.S. government tried to keep the specifics of how her Quirk exactly worked a secret.

Tartarus Escapees Arc
After the events of the Paranormal Liberation War, the hero society of Japan had fallen, with escaped villains rampaging throughout the streets, many heroes going into retirement, and the masterminds behind it all, All For One and Tomura Shigaraki, still at large. In desperate need of aide, the remnants of the hero governments sought out assistance from the foreign heroes to provide backup.

This was accelerated to a desperate response when All Might learned that Tomura was to be completed faster than they initially believed, personally calling for help. While the rest of the nations debated amongst themselves whether they'd be able to provide assistance, Star and Stripe, alongside an army of fighter jets, almost immediately made their way over to Japan to rendezvous with the Pro Heroes and help her "master."

Current Arc
While in the airspace nearly to their destination, Star and Stripe and the fighter jets were met faced against "Tomura Shigaraki" riding a flying Nomu, as she asks him if he is the villain known as "All For One." One of the pilots corrects her, telling her it is actually Tomura, as the jets proceed to deploy shock shields and take formation to fight. Star and Stripe shouts that they're ready to fight, and tells the pilots she'll bring their remains back to their loved ones if they fall.

"Tomura" comes at his opponents with a multi-Quirk attack, using Radio Waves, Air Cannon, and Heavy Payload to release an enormous wave of electric energy toward them, which they manage to dodge. Star and Stripe and "Tomura" both trade taunts with each other, as she confidently decides to unleash her Quirk, declaring that "the air does not exist 100 meters ahead of me."

Suddenly, the air all around "Tomura" completely disappears, forcing him to hold his breath. Star and Stripe notes that if he's facing against her he wouldn't go down that easily, and orders the fighter jets to shoot lasers at him, which they fire at all angles directly into him. She warns the pilots not to be cocky, as sure enough, "Tomura" uses a combination of Reflect and Scatter to disperse the lasers back at the jets.

Star and Stripe uses her Quirk to safely catch the laser, while everyone notices "Tomura" regenerating, realizing that is why the Japanese heroes lost against him. Creating a new rule also results in the air around "Tomura" returning, which he takes advantage of to blast his way forward right towards her.

However, Star and Stripe simply punches "Tomura" in the face, smacking him into one of the jets, as she proclaims to him why she was inspired by All Might to become a hero. He's annoyed that once again everything comes back to All Might, which she says is why he is the Symbol of Peace to begin with. After touching him and saying his name, she declares "If Tomura Shigaraki moves at all, his heart will stop."

Unbeknownst to her, "Tomura"'s procedure to receive All For One had resulted in a slowly growing fusion between the real Tomura and All For One, as Tomura's resistances start to permeate the outside. Star and Stripe is shocked to see "Tomura" move despite her declaration, wondering if this means he "isn't Tomura Shigaraki", as an explosion suddenly goes off.

With her Quirk and the lasers having been ineffective, Star and Stripe realizes that Tomura had graduated from being a threat to Japan to being a threat to the entire world and tells her team to call Commander Agpar so she can exercise her special authority.

While waiting for Agpar to send in their trump card, Star and Stripe uses her Quirk to shape the air into the form of her body, but much larger. Making the giant air effigy mimic her movements, she uses Fist Bump to the Earth to send various strikes at "Tomura" and then orders her team to aim their lasers at her. She uses her Quirk to combine the lasers into a giant energy sword for her giant air construct to wield. The giant air clone utilizes Keraunos to take the laser blade and stab "Tomura" down into the ocean below, though it’s not nearly enough to finish him.

While keeping the villain pinned, Star and Stripe receives a call from Agpar, reprimanding her for her impulsiveness. He tells her the time has come for her to surpass All Might and to make good use of the special missiles he sent her.

The missiles, known as Tiamat, arrive at the battlefield, as Star and Stripe is forced to disabled the laser sword rule so that she can set a rule on the missiles. The team uses their lasers to keep "Tomura" pinned in the meantime. After grabbing the missiles with her giant air self, she has them swing around and punch Tomura with the missiles in her air effigy's fist, resulting in a powerful explosion known as the State-of-the-Art Hypersonic Intercontinental Cruise Punch, that could be seen all the way from the mainland.

"Tomura" was able to escape most of the danger, however, by using Decay to rot away a hole in the ocean floor where he could hide. After the explosion, "Tomura" leaps up onto one of the jets. The pilot tells Star and Stripe to attack with the giant air double, believing that the explosion from the plane would be enough to kill "Tomura", but she hesitates to kill her friend. This allows Tomura the chance to jump at her and grab her face.

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 constantly keeps herself in a 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.

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: 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.