Changes: Emi Fukukado

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You sure talk like you're above it all, Eraser. Kids hoping to be heroes are a dime and a dozen, y'know. And how far their determination will take them has nothing to do with how famous they are. Pretending you're the stars of the show and looking down on others is a good way... to get your just desserts.
Emi Fukukaido to Shota Aizawa in "White-hot Battle! To Each Their Own Strengths!"

Emi Fukukado

Hero Costume
Civilian

Biographical Information

Kanji Name

福 (ふく) 門 (かど) 笑 (えみ)

Rōmaji Name

'Fukukado Emi'

Alias

Smile Hero: Ms. Joke (スマイルヒーロー Ms. (ミス) ジョーク Sumairu Hīrō Misu Jōku^?)

Personal Description

Birthday

February 5

Age

28 (First Appearance)

29 (Current)

Gender

Female

Height

166 cm (5'5")

Hair Color

Seafoam Green

Eye Color

Dark Green

Quirk

Outburst

Status

Alive

Birthplace

Kumamoto Prefecture

Occupation

Pro Hero, Teacher

Affiliation

Ketsubutsu Academy High School

Fighting Style

Melee

First Appearance

Manga Debut

Chapter 34 (Cameo)
Chapter 103 (Actual)

Anime Debut

Episode 20 (Cameo)
Episode 53 (Actual)

Portrayal

Japanese VA

Mariko Nagai

English VA

Amber Lee Connors

Emi Fukukado (福 (ふく) 門 (かど) 笑 (えみ) , Fukukado Emi^?), also known as Smile Hero: Ms. Joke (スマイルヒーロー Ms. (ミス) ジョーク, Sumairu Hīrō Misu Jōku^?), is a Pro Hero and a teacher of 2nd year, Class 2 at Ketsubutsu Academy High School.^[1]

Appearance

Emi is a young woman of a strong athletic build with noticeably muscular arms. She has sea green hair that reaches just past her shoulders, and short fringe with splayed ends which is usually obscured by her bandana. She has dark green eyes with bright pupils, but by far her most prominent feature is her unwaveringly joyous smile.

Her hero costume consists of a sleeveless navy blue shirt with a high collar that’s buttoned up all the way to her chin, puffed shorts with a green and orange pinstripe design and a corset adorned with yellow smiley-face pins, dipping down in a shallow "U" in the center. Below this, she wears a white V-shaped belt, and on her hands she has padded yellow gloves with golden plates over her knuckles and lower fingers, which extend in orange-striped tubes down her lower arms, with thick metal cylinders acting as wrist-guards over the top. She also wears an orange bandana, and her costume sometimes includes a white hygiene mask with a circular smiley-face protrusion on either side.

Personality

Ms. Joke is known for her cheerful and outgoing personality. She always has her goofy and somewhat obnoxious sense of humor on full display, and jumps at the chance to make others laugh. She takes no shame in flirting with Shota Aizawa, endlessly trying to break his cold exterior to get out a smile. She enjoys poking fun at him and finds his stoic personality amusing, indicating her playful and teasing nature. Her playful attitude plays into her hero work as she fights by distracting her opponents with laughter.

Though her behavior may appear unprofessional, Ms. Joke takes her job as a teacher and pro hero very seriously, and clearly has a thorough understanding of heroics, as demonstrated through her commentary with Shota throughout the license exam.

Ms. Joke deeply values her students and believes in their abilities. She believes that Shota didn't share this same connection with his students because he didn't warn them about the licensing exam's traditions. She takes offense to Shota placing his students above her own, and believes all kids have dreams of becoming great heroes. She appears to be somewhat distasteful of U.A. High School, believing they hold an elitist attitude and overvalue their prestige.

Abilities

Overall Abilities: Ms. Joke is a famous Pro Hero known for incapacitating her opponents in the wackiest fashion. She passes on her skills and knowledge to the future generation of heroes at Ketsubutsu Academy.

Hand to Hand Combatant: According to Izuku Ms. Joke's main strategy is to incapacitate her enemies with her quirk before taking them down with her hand to hand techniques, suggesting a level of proficiency.

Quirk

Outburst (爆 (ばく) 笑 (しょう) , Bakushō^?): Emi's Quirk forces her targets to burst out into uncontrollable laughter. This laughter impairs opponents cognitive abilities, allowing Ms. Joke to take them down.^[2]

Equipment

Laugh Mask: Ms. Joke wears a grey mask with happy faces symbols on her cheeks. This allows her Quirk to be neutralized in a public setting.

Chapter Appearances

Appearances

v • eU.A. Sports Festival Arc
22. That's the Idea, Ochaco	Absent
23. Roaring Sports Festival	Absent
24. Mad Dash and Knockdown	Absent
25. In Their Own Quirky Ways	Absent
26. Chase Down the Leader	Absent
27. Earth-Shatteringly Fateful Negotiations	Absent
28. Strats, Strats, Strats	Absent
29. Unaware	Absent
30. Cavalry-Match Finale	Absent
31. The Boy Born with Everything	Absent
32. Smile, Prince of Nonsense Land!	Absent
33. Shinso's Situation	Absent
34. Victory or Defeat	Appears
35. Battle On, Challengers!	Absent
36. Bakugo vs. Uraraka	Absent
37. Midoriya and Endeavor	Absent
38. Todoroki vs. Midoriya	Absent
39. Shoto Todoroki: Origin	Absent
40. Emancipation	Absent
41. Fight On, Ida	Absent
42. Final-Match Time	Absent
43. Todoroki vs. Bakugo	Absent
44. Relaxing Day Off	Absent

v • eProvisional Hero License Exam Arc
98. Moving into Dorms	Absent
99. Goodbye Two-Digit Chapters, Hello Three Digits	Absent
100. Creating Ultimate Moves	Absent
101. The Girl Called Mei Hatsume	Absent
102. On Cloud Nine	Absent
103. The Test	Debut
104. White-Hot Battle! To Each Their Own Strengths!	Appears
105. Shiketsu High Lurking	Absent
106. Class 1-A	Appears
107. Denki Kaminari's Thoughts	Absent
108. RUSH!	Appears
109. Rescue Exercise	Appears
110. Rescue Exercise Continued	Absent
111. Smoldering Start	Appears
112. What's the Big Idea?	Absent
113. Test's Aftermath	Absent
114. Results' Aftermath	Appears
115. Unleashed	Absent
116. Meeting in Tartarus	Absent
117. A Talk About Your Quirk	Absent
118. Meaningless Battle	Absent
119. Deku vs. Kacchan, Part 2	Absent
120. The Three	Absent
121. Second Semester Opening Ceremony	Absent

v • eParanormal Liberation War Arc
253. Shirakumo	Absent
254. More of a Hero than Anyone	Absent
255. Hero Hopeful	Absent
256. The High, Deep Blue Sky	Absent
257. Pass It Forward, to Whomever	Absent
258. Friends	Absent
259. A Quiet Beginning	Appears
260. Life's Work	Absent
261. High-Ends	Absent
262. Mirko, the No. 5 Hero	Absent
263. I Wanna Be with You Guys!!	Appears
264. One's Justice	Absent
265. Villains and Heroes	Absent
266. Happy Life	Absent
267. Flames	Absent
268. Scramble!	Absent
269. The Three of Us	Absent
270. Inheritance	Absent
271. Dark Cloud	Absent
272. Good Morning!	Absent
273. The Thrill of Destruction	Absent
274. Search	Absent
275. Encounter, Part 2	Absent
276. You Cheated...!	Absent
277. Who...?	Absent
278. Disaster Walker	Absent
279. League of Villains vs. U.A. Students	Absent
280. Red Riot, Part 3	Absent
281. Plus Ultra	Absent
282. Footfall of Destruction	Absent
283. 75	Absent
284. Deep Blue Battle	Absent
285. Katsuki Bakugo Rising	Absent
286. The Ones Within Us	Absent
287. Mistake	Absent
288. Save Takeo!!	Absent
289. Miss Candid and Miss Shut-Away	Absent
290. Dabi's Dance	Absent
291. Thanks For Going Strong	Absent
292. Threads of Hope	Absent
293. Hero-Saturated Society	Absent
294. Final Performance	Absent
295. Tenacious	Absent
296. Hellish Hell	Absent
297. Tartarus	Absent
298. Sounds of Collapse	Absent
299. Like Those Tragic Tales	Absent
300. The Hellish Todoroki Family, Part 2	Absent
301. The Wrong Way to Put Out a Fire, Part 1	Absent
302. The Wrong Way to Put Out a Fire, Part 2	Absent
303. Top Three	Absent
304. Izuku Midoriya and Toshinori Yagi	Absent
305. Izuku Midoriya and Tomura Shigaraki	Absent
306. The Final Act Begins	Absent

Trivia

Emi's name contains the kanji for "fortune gate" (福門, fukukado^?) and "laughter" (笑, emi^?).
- Her name is a play on a Japanese proverb about fortune coming to those who laugh.
The two buttons on her neck may symbolize that her costume was created by the same designer as Ochaco Uraraka and Katsuki Bakugo.
Ms. Joke's general aesthetic seems to be inspired by the DC supervillain Joker.
- Both have a clown/comedy theme and have green hair.
- Emi's Quirk, Outburst, is similar to the effects of Joker Venom.
- Their aliases—Joker and Ms. Joke—sound extremely similar.
- Her annoyance to Shota reflects Batman's irritation to The Joker's tauntings.
Given also her heroic nature, she may have also been inspired by DC Earth-3's Jokester, the heroic parallel counterpart of The Joker whose outfit is buttoned with smiley faces and primary green (his whole color palette being an inversion of The Joker's).

References

↑ My Hero Academia Manga and Anime: Chapter 103 (p. 4-5) and Episode 53.
↑ My Hero Academia Manga and Anime: Chapter 103 (p. 4) and Episode 53.

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+{{Quotes|You sure talk like you're above it all, Eraser. Kids hoping to be heroes are a dime and a dozen, y'know. And how far their determination will take them has nothing to do with how famous they are. Pretending you're the stars of the show and looking down on others is a good way... to get your just desserts.|'''Emi Fukukaido''' to [[Shota Aizawa]] in [[Chapter 104|"White-hot Battle! To Each Their Own Strengths!"]]}}
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+{{Character Infobox
 |name= Emi Fukukado
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 |kanji= {{Ruby|福|ふく}}{{Ruby|門|かど}}{{Ruby|笑|えみ}}
-|romaji= Fukukado Emi
+|romaji= ''Fukukado Emi''
-|alias= {{Nihongo|'''Smile Hero: Ms. Joke'''|スマイルヒーロー {{Ruby|Ms.|ミス}}ジョーク|Sumairu Hīrō Misu Jōku}}
+|alias= {{Nihongo|Smile Hero: Ms. Joke|スマイルヒーロー {{Ruby|Ms.|ミス}}ジョーク|Sumairu Hīrō Misu Jōku}}
 |birthday= February 5
 |age= 28 (First Appearance)
+(Current)
 |gender= Female
 |hair= Seafoam Green
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 |quirk= [[Outburst]]
 |status= Alive
+|birthplace= {{Wikipedia|Kumamoto Prefecture}}
 |family=
 |occupation= [[Pro Hero]], Teacher
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+|fightingstyle = Melee}}
-}}
 {{Nihongo|'''Emi Fukukado'''|{{Ruby|福|ふく}}{{Ruby|門|かど}}{{Ruby|笑|えみ}}|Fukukado Emi}}, also known as {{Nihongo|'''Smile Hero: Ms. Joke'''|スマイルヒーロー {{Ruby|Ms.|ミス}}ジョーク|Sumairu Hīrō Misu Jōku}}, is a [[Heroes|Pro Hero]] and a teacher of 2nd year, Class 2 at [[Ketsubutsu Academy High School]].{{Ref|chap = 103|page = 4-5|ep = 53}}
 ==Appearance==
+Emi is a young woman of a strong athletic build with noticeably muscular arms. She has sea green hair that reaches just past her shoulders, and short fringe with splayed ends which is usually obscured by her bandana. She has dark green eyes with bright pupils, but by far her most prominent feature is her unwaveringly joyous smile.
-Emi is a young woman with an athletic build and chest-length hair, which is portrayed as cyan in the manga, but sea green in the anime. Her eyes are inverted in color, meaning her pupils are light whereas her irises are dark. Her most predominant feature is her constant smile. Her hero costume consists of a bandana around her head, sleeveless tank top, thick fighting gloves with metal cuffs, and vertically striped pants which resembles part of a clown's attire. Around her waist is a belt adorned with smiles. While in active duty, her costume also appears to feature a gas mask.
+Her hero [[costume]] consists of a sleeveless navy blue shirt with a high collar that’s buttoned up all the way to her chin, puffed shorts with a green and orange pinstripe design and a corset adorned with yellow smiley-face pins, dipping down in a shallow "U" in the center. Below this, she wears a white V-shaped belt, and on her hands she has padded yellow gloves with golden plates over her knuckles and lower fingers, which extend in orange-striped tubes down her lower arms, with thick metal cylinders acting as wrist-guards over the top. She also wears an orange bandana, and her costume sometimes includes a white hygiene mask with a circular smiley-face protrusion on either side.
 ==Personality==
 [[file:Emi Fukukado's personality.png|210px|left|thumb|Emi's outgoing personality]]
+Ms. Joke is known for her cheerful and outgoing personality. She always has her goofy and somewhat obnoxious sense of humor on full display, and jumps at the chance to make others laugh. She takes no shame in flirting with [[Shota Aizawa]], endlessly trying to break his cold exterior to get out a smile. She enjoys poking fun at him and finds his stoic personality amusing, indicating her playful and teasing nature. Her playful attitude plays into her hero work as she fights by distracting her opponents with laughter.
-Emi is cheerful, outgoing, and positive; She is also rather forward with her thoughts as she constantly flirts with Aizawa without embarrassment.
-Though she has a playful and fun personality, Emi does have a more mature and focused side, especially when it comes to teaching her students, as seen through her commentary with Aizawa throughout the Hero License Exam. She appears to care deeply about her students and understands the drive many young people have to become heroes.
+Though her behavior may appear unprofessional, Ms. Joke takes her job as a teacher and pro hero very seriously, and clearly has a thorough understanding of heroics, as demonstrated through her commentary with Shota throughout the license exam.
+Ms. Joke deeply values her students and believes in their abilities. She believes that Shota didn't share this same connection with his students because he didn't warn them about the licensing exam's traditions. She takes offense to Shota placing his students above her own, and believes all kids have dreams of becoming great heroes. She appears to be somewhat distasteful of [[U.A. High School]], believing they hold an elitist attitude and overvalue their prestige.
-Emi also appears to have a general disdain for U.A's teaching methods and the elitism that comes from their prestige. The best example of this is when she criticized U.A. for failing to recognize [[Hitoshi Shinso]]'s potential as a hero. She demonstrates this disdain again during the Hero License arc, when she scolds Aizawa for his condescending attitude toward hero academies, and for suggesting that U.A. students are more adept at heroics due to the school's harsher teaching methods.
 ==Abilities==
+'''Overall Abilities''': Ms. Joke is a famous [[Heroes|Pro Hero]] known for incapacitating her opponents in the wackiest fashion. She passes on her skills and knowledge to the future generation of heroes at Ketsubutsu Academy.
+'''Hand to Hand Combatant:''' According to Izuku Ms. Joke's main strategy is to incapacitate her enemies with her quirk before taking them down with her hand to hand techniques, suggesting a level of proficiency.
 ===Quirk===
-{{Nihongo|'''[[Outburst]]'''|爆笑|Bakushō}}: Emi's Quirk forces others to laugh which impairs their cognitive and motor skills.{{Ref|chap = 103|page = 4|ep = 53}}
+{{Nihongo|'''[[Outburst]]'''|{{Ruby|爆|ばく}}{{Ruby|笑|しょう}}|Bakushō}}: Emi's Quirk forces her targets to burst out into uncontrollable laughter. This laughter impairs opponents cognitive abilities, allowing Ms. Joke to take them down.{{Ref|chap = 103|page = 4|ep = 53}}
+==Equipment==
+'''Laugh Mask''': Ms. Joke wears a grey mask with happy faces symbols on her cheeks. This allows her Quirk to be neutralized in a public setting.
+==Chapter Appearances==
-==Relationships==
+{{Appearance/Header|color=#A6ACAF}}
-===[[Shota Aizawa]]===
+|{{Appearance/U.A. Sports Festival Arc|34=yes}}
-Emi has known Aizawa for a long time; their workplaces were once close to each other and as a result, whenever there was trouble, they would assist each other. While Emi likes Aizawa and is friendly towards him, Aizawa is indifferent towards her and does not find her sense of humor amusing. For example when she joked that they became lovers, while they were working together, Aizawa immediately denied her statement. Even though Emi annoys him, Aizawa appears to be tolerant towards her optimistic attitude and shows a willingness to work with her. Emi is determined to get Aizawa to laugh using her quirk or otherwise, however, Aizawa is often one step ahead of her and erases her quirk before she gets the chance.
+|-
+|{{Appearance/Provisional Hero License Exam Arc|103=debut|104=yes|106=yes|108=yes|109=yes|111=yes|114=yes}}
+|-
+|{{Appearance/Paranormal Liberation War Arc|259=yes|263=yes}}
+|}
 ==Trivia==
+*Emi's name contains the kanji for {{nihongo|"fortune gate"|福門|fukukado}} and {{nihongo|"laughter"|笑|emi}}.
-*Her surname {{Nihongo|Fukukado|福門}}, translates to "fortune gate", and her given name {{Nihongo|Emi|笑}}, is written with the character for "laughter". Her name is a play on a Japanese proverb about fortune coming to those who laugh.
+**Her name is a play on a Japanese proverb about fortune coming to those who laugh.
-*Ironically despite his personality, she seems to be romantically interested in Shota Aizawa. Though she might just be joking with him such claims are unconfirmed.
-*The two dots on her neck may symbolize that her costume was created by the same designer as [[Ochaco Uraraka]] and [[Katsuki Bakugo]]
+*The two buttons on her neck may symbolize that her costume was created by the same designer as [[Ochaco Uraraka]] and [[Katsuki Bakugo]].
 *Ms. Joke's general aesthetic seems to be inspired by the DC supervillain {{Wikipedia|Joker (character)|Joker}}.
 **Both have a clown/comedy theme and have green hair.
 **Emi's Quirk, Outburst, is similar to the effects of Joker Venom.
-**Their aliases - Joker and Ms. Joke - sound extremely similar.
+**Their aliases—Joker and Ms. Joke—sound extremely similar.
-**Her annoyance to Aizawa reflects Batman's irritation to The Joker's tauntings
+**Her annoyance to Shota reflects {{Wikipedia|Batman|Batman}}'s irritation to The Joker's tauntings.
+*Given also her heroic nature, she may have also been inspired by DC Earth-3's {{W|dc|Jokester (Earth-3)|Jokester}}, the heroic parallel counterpart of The Joker whose outfit is buttoned with smiley faces and primary green (his whole color palette being an inversion of The Joker's).
-*She also seems to be inspired by {{Wikipedia|List of Watchmen characters#The Comedian|The Comedian}} from ''Watchmen''.
-**She wears a belt of smiley faces, an image that is shown throughout the comic, and heavily associated with The Comedian.
-*Given also her heroic nature, she may been also inspired by DC Earth-3's [https://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Jokester_(Earth-3) Jokester], The heroic parallel counterpart of The Joker
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