Blackwhip
Tendrils of black energy, inherited from the fifth holder of One For All.
Blackwhip is the Quirk of Daigoro Banjo, the fifth user of One For All in My Hero Academia. It let him create tendrils of black energy from his hands, which he used to capture enemies and to move around faster. Like the Quirks of the other past holders, it became embedded in One For All and passed to Izuku Midoriya.
Lore & Background
Blackwhip first appears in Izuku during the Joint Training between Class 1-A and Class 1-B, when it bursts out in answer to his wish to capture Neito Monoma and runs out of control. Ochaco Uraraka and Hitoshi Shinso help stop the rampage, and inside One For All Izuku meets Banjo, a muscular, bald and energetic man, who explains what the tendrils are and tells him he must learn to control his emotions before using the past holders' Quirks.
Reader's Guide
Izuku then trains to call the Quirk up on purpose, at first managing only a little of it for a second. Later he uses it to grab cars during his work-study with Endeavor, to escape with Rody Soul in World Heroes' Mission, to restrain the Aoyama family, and together with Float to pull Shigaraki into the air. In the last battle he reinforces his ruined body with Blackwhip in order to keep moving.
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