My Hero Academia: Star and Stripe’s Quirk, Explained

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Quirks are the main way My Hero Academia’s characters define themselves. In the series’ superhero-obsessed world, one’s quirk can decide their entire life trajectory, and their chances of survival.

While even some heroes don’t have the most impressive quirks, the strongest among them wield quirks that would give any marvel hero a run for their money. Easily one of the strongest quirks introduced in the series, however, ‘new order’, belonged to a sadly short lived character, Cathleen Bate, better known as Star and Stripe.

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Star’s quirk is easily one of the most absurd in the entirety of My Hero Academia. Most of the quirks in the series have some biological explanation or basis that makes them somewhat grounded. Endeavor’s ‘hellflame’ quirk, for example, takes into account his body overheating and the risks that come with it. Star’s quirk however, rejects notions of being grounded, and goes to levels more common in series like Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure or Jujutsu Kaisen.

New order’s basic function is allowing Star to apply a rule to anything she touches. The rules can be almost anything, as long as she knows and says the name of what she's touching. These rules can range anywhere from being used to change an object’s physical properties, to creating a cause-and-effect rule the object must obey.

For example, when a laser beam is fired at her, she touches it with her hands, and applies a rule to it that makes it holdable, thus allowing her to catch it. Later on, she attempts to apply a rule to Shigaraki that would make his heart stop if he moved, showing that she’s used rules like that in the past.

Besides the requirement of her touching and saying the name of an object, Star is also