True, the shadowed users could definitely be mutants. The only question I would have is how would this work with OFA? When Deku unlocked their quirk would he be permanently transformed like any other mutant quirk? If so the mutation would probably have to be pretty subtle like Miruko’s or Tsuyu’s, otherwise it might be a bit much.
My theory is that the predecessor with the black hair who is covering his mouth has a mouth related mutation quirk. Imagine a monster like mouth similar to Venom.
The mouth idea could actually be pretty cool, but I don’t know if Horikoshi would give his main character a monstrous looking mouth if he’s supposed to inspire confidence in people while rescuing them.My theory is that the predecessor with the black hair who is covering his mouth has a mouth related mutation quirk. Imagine a monster like mouth similar to Venom.
An upgraded version of this could look even more sinister with more + bigger + sharper teeth, a longer tongue and acidic saliva.
Definitely possible, but I’m not sure this has been confirmed.
I get the feeling Horikoshi's already figured that one out, so all of the predecessors most likely have emitter and transformation Quirks.
That's true, AFO can activate/deactivate mutation type quirks. That's what he did in the past with the 2 people who asked him for help. He took away a mutation type quirk and gave another mutation type quirk away.
Bolded: This is what I always had in mind. Even with 8 different people holding onto the Quirk, there's no way the collective strength of 8 would be strong enough to change the weather/atmosphere in a single punch. When this is revealed, I think that the predecessor will have useful tips to help Deku better regulate his output. Unless he has some sort of amplification Quirk like AFO had in his stock, which helped kick up the stockpile early on.
It depends. I had thought about that for a while but the series has also proven time and time that even without a quirk you can be what we'd regard as a mega athlete. Stain, erasehead, endeavor... have all shown extraordinary physical capacity. As in, stain exceeded the physical capacity of 5% deku. Not sure of what humanity's limit is in this regard though. I doubt people can reach 20% of OFA on their own since that's the point at which deku is already capable of air blasts and that's not something we see people just do. We also don't know how exactly OFA stockpiles power... It's doesn't appear to be something like the power is added just when people receive the quirk. Rather it looks like users stockpile it through their time as OFA users....In which case even if a human can at best achieve 10% without a quirk, he'd be putting in a little bit of power all through his tenure. Of course, if there was a super strength user then it'd still help a lot. A point against a super strength quirk though is how redundant it would be. And deku would eventually actually get that quirk... what would that even look like? Deku with the stockpiled strength using a super powered super strength quirk....
If there is a super strength quirk there I would think it'd be distinct from the super strength OFA normally gives. MIdoriya would have all the super strength OFA gives AND on top of that the super strength quirk which would in turn be super powered by the stockpiled power within OFA. Not sure of how it would help midoriya's output control in that regard. it's not like midoriya has output control issues. He can control his output pretty competently by now, his main issue is simply not being strong enough to output more.
I don’t think that the original author’s point was that the previous users quirks was super strength + something else. Just that all of the previous users had the OFA stockpiling power that acted as super strength in addition to their original quirk.
Actually, I don’t think it’s so big a stretch that OFA can do that after just 8 users.
Although this myth has been previously debunked by scientists, it does come up often in fiction, so I suppose I can accept it as the explanation for OFA’s stockpiling.
Nah, this is what I was replying to:
As in, the actual possibility that a previous OFA user had a super strength quirk. In which case the user would have had the super strength granted by the stockpiled power and on top of that a super strength quirk boosted by stockpiled power.
Yeah, of course scientifically speaking all of this is utter nonsense. It’s just the way that I’ve understood what Hori means when he says stockpiling power.
Cool, I was just trying to point out that I don’t think that the original tweeter was trying to to imply that any of the previous users had super strength I depended of OFA stockpiling power in his original argument.
