Character from My Hero Academia by Kohei Horikoshi
Class 1-A's perpetually exhausted homeroom teacher — a man who erases quirks with a glance and expels students without hesitation to protect them from worse fates.
Shota Aizawa built his entire hero career on the principle that flashy heroism gets people killed. His Erasure quirk — which nullifies any quirk he looks at as long as his eyes stay open — makes him the ultimate counter to overconfident fighters, but it comes with crippling limitations: dry eye, the need to blink, and vulnerability to anyone who fights without a quirk. As Class 1-A's homeroom teacher, he projects cold indifference while systematically preparing his students for a world that wants to destroy them. He has expelled entire classes he deemed unprepared — not out of cruelty, but because sending weak students into the field is a death sentence he refuses to sign. The USJ attack, the training camp ambush, and the war each took pieces of him physically — crushed orbital bones, damaged eyes, and finally the loss of his right eye and leg. His capture weapon fighting style is entirely self-taught. His dead friend Oboro Shirakumo was turned into the Nomu Kurogiri, a fact that haunts every interaction with the League.
Tall, lean man with long, unkempt black hair, perpetual stubble, and dry, bloodshot eyes ringed with dark circles. Wears a dark layered outfit with his signature capture weapon — a carbon-fiber binding cloth — wrapped around his neck like a scarf. Yellow goggles pushed up on his forehead. After the war, missing his right eye beneath bandages and bearing facial scars. Often seen sleeping in a bright yellow sleeping bag.
Also known as: Shota Aizawa, Aizawa-sensei, Aizawa, Eraser, Mr. Aizawa