Izuku Midoriya, also known by his hero name Deku, is a superhero and the main protagonist of the manga series My Hero Academia, created by Kōhei Horikoshi. In the series, he is a nerdy and ambitious high schooler misfit and the 9th holder of "One For All", a superpower which combines eight different individual superpowers, or "Quirks", together and creates powerful bursts of energy, and also has the unique ability to be passed off to other people. He was bullied at a young age.