A Certain Magical Index/Characters/Level 5 Espers: Difference between revisions

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The most powerful espers in Academy City, the Level 5s hit the [[Superpower Lottery]] ''big time''. They are capable of overwhelming shows of force and ability, at almost god-like levels. They are both revered for their powers and despised for the privileges that come with them. It is important to note, however, that esper levels are a measurement of how effective an esper is at using their powers, not necessarily their skill at [[Stuff Blowing Up|Blowing Stuff Up]]. {{spoiler|The Level 5s are actually ranked by how useful they are in helping the goal of reaching SYSTEM (Level 6); it's not an accurate measure of their power, but rather their usefulness in Aleister's plans.}}

 

 

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Tropes shared between the Level 5s:

** [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: This doesn't help matters.

* [[The Dreaded]]

** [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]

* [[Sobriquet]]: Their Badass Nicknames have often come to define them in the public over their real ones: Especially Accelerator, who claims to have forgotten his real name after repeated use of 'Accelerator'.

* [[Superpower Lottery]]

 

== Accelerator ==

 

== Teitoku Kakine ==

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* [[And I Must Scream]]: {{spoiler|His brain was preserved and forced to create a constant stream of Dark Matter after his "death" by Accelerator. No longer the case as of NT Volume 5}}

** [[Unobtanium]]: {{spoiler|After becoming a [[Brain In a Jar]], the Dark Matter it continuously produces is used as the basis for [[Faceless Goons|combat masks equipped on certain Academy City soldiers]] to create [[Elite Mooks]].}}

* [[Foil]]: To both Accelerator and Shizuri. It's pointed out that he specializes in creation while they specialize in destruction.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|After Beetle 05 gains its own will, it hijacks control of the network and becomes the new Teitoku.}}

* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]:

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Despite his angelic appearance and using weaponized light as his main attack, Teitoku isn’t a very nice person.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: His name can roughly be translated as "Emperor of the Front Fence".

* [[Not Worth Killing]]: He has absolutely no compassion or remorse, but he will sometimes leave his opponents alive if they are completely helpless or already dying, just because he thinks it would be beneath him to waste energy on them.

* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: He has a relatively normal personality when not on the job.

* [[Redemption Demotion]]: {{spoiler|He doesn't use his [[Self-Duplication]] anymore, as that would risk allowing an evil personality to take over.}}

** [[Always Second Best]]

** [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: {{spoiler|It eventually leads to his downfall.}}

 

== Mikoto Misaka ==

 

== Shizuri Mugino ==

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* [[Amplifier Artifact]]: {{spoiler|Exterior, a giant brain cloned from her brain tissue. When she connects to it telepathically, it allows her to control ''thousands of people at once''. However, it's destroyed at the end of the Daihaseisai arc in ''Railgun''.}}

* [[Everyone Has Standards]]: She takes care of people under her control. She also refuses to read Touma's mind.

* [[Eyes of Gold]]

* [[Fandom Rivalry]]: In-universe, there's a rivalry between her and Mikoto's fans.

* [[Foil]]:

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: {{spoiler|Though she loves Touma, she can never be with him since he'll never be able to remember her. She stays out of his life (except when he ends up encountering her by chance), as trying to be with him would only hurt them both.}}

* [[I Will Wait for You]]: {{spoiler|While she knows there's little chance of it happening, she's hopeful that Touma will someday be able to remember her.}}

* [[Magic Feather]]: She uses various kinds of remotes to focus her power. Each kind is assigned to a specific function, such as reading memories. This is because her power is so versatile that she wouldn't be able to do anything without limiting herself in this way.

* [[Memory Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Defeats Gensei Kihara this way. He also has access to Mental Out, along with many other esper abilities. She has the code that he needs to release Exterior's limiter, but she can only stop him from reading her mind as long as she remains conscious. Since Gensei has many other abilities, she wouldn't be able to hold him off for long. So she deliberately rewrites her own mind to switch her memories of the limiter release code and the self-destruct code, and removes her memory of doing so. When Gensei knocks her out and reads her mind, he accidentally inputs the self-destruct code, incapacitating himself.}}

*** [[Psychic Surgery]]: She can transplant emotions and thoughts.

** [[Superpower Lottery]]: She’s like [[Bleach|Aizen]] [[This Is Your Premise on Drugs|on steroids]].

* [[Verbal Tic]]: She often appends "power" or "ability" to the end of words.

* [[The Voiceless]]: Uses [[Brainwashing|mind-controlled]] proxies and her own followers whenever she needs to communicate.

* [[Younger Than They Look]]: A middle-schooler who could pass for a high-schooler or even a young adult. This is lampshaded in her first appearance by Mikoto.

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: With [[Fetish Fuel|lace]].

 

== Etsu Aihana ==

The mysterious sixth Level 5 Esper. Not much is known about this person, not even their gender. They are a mystery even in-universe, with their actual appearance and ability being unknown to most. Their real name is only confirmed in New Testament Volume 12, which marks the first time they actually appear for more than the space of a single line.

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* [[Helping Would Be Killstealing]]: {{spoiler|Rather than using their power to help people directly, they lend their identity to others so that they can help themselves. It's unclear whether this is the truth or an excuse for laziness or wanting to stay hidden.}}

* [[No Name Given]]: Their name was only confirmed in NT Volume 12. It was actually first mentioned in NT Volume 7 by an imposter, but it wasn't clear at the time whether it was the real person's name.

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* [[Badass]]: Despite getting [[The Worf Effect|Worf'd]], he's still undeniably badass.

* [[Blood Knight]]: He wants to fight strong opponents. {{spoiler|After seeing the dragon(s) inside Touma, he says that he'd like to fight him some day. Note that the dragon(s) in question were capable of eating the power of an esper close to Level 6.}}

* [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine]]: Happens with Yabumi Haratani. Whenever Gunha gives out an explanation for his powers, Haratani ends up calling him on it, followed by Gunha responding with a dumbfounded variation of "Then what did I just do?" Gets [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Mikoto.

* [[Born Winner]]: Being a Gemstone, he was born with his esper abilities.

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: "Amazing Puuunch!"

{{quote|'''Yokosuka''': Please, just beat me with an attack that sounds like it's worth losing to at least. Not that Amazing Punch attack.}}

* [[Combo-Platter Powers]]: His power is stated to be impossible to define, and manifests in a variety of ways, including:

* [[Determinator]]: He repeatedly gets back up during his fight with Ollerus despite being totally outclassed.

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: [http://www.mangareader.net/1080-40270-5/to-aru-kagaku-no-choudenjibou/chapter-15.html Appears] unnamed in one of the memories of a Level Upper user during the AIM Burst phenomenon in Chapter 15 of the Railgun manga, well before his actual first appearance in Chapter 44. Witnessing Gunha's amazing power appears to have been the catalyst for that esper to use the Level Upper in the first place.

* [[Foil]]: To Touma. Mikoto even wonders if they know each other after Gunha is able to withstand her electrical attacks.

* [[For Great Justice]]: Making the world a kinder and gentler place..... one ass-kicked villain at a time.

* [[The Paladin]]: Although without the religious implications.

* [[Shout-Out]]: In his first appearance in SS Volume 2 ([[Running Gag|and in the Railgun manga and in the Fanfare side story]]) he makes a dramatic speech that is immediately followed by [[Sentai|explosions of colored smoke behind him]].

* [[Verbal Tic]]: He believes in being gutsy over everything else to such a degree that he tries to insert something about 'guts' in as many of his sentences as he possibly can.

* [[Wearing a Flag on Your Head]]: He wears a shirt emblazoned with the Rising Sun.

* [[The Worf Effect]]: Gets [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb-stomped]] by Ollerus. Going by what we now know about [[Reality Warper|Ollerus]], though, Gunha never stood a chance...

* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Thinks he's [[The Hero]] of a [[Sentai]] anime.

 

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