Enji Todoroki, also known as the Flame Hero: Endeavor, is the Pro Hero with the highest tally of resolved cases in history. Following All Might's retirement, Endeavor temporarily became the No. 1 Hero after being the No. 2 Hero for a very long time and after the latest Hero Billboard Chart JP announcement, officially became the No. 1 Hero. In the aftermath of the Final War, Endeavor officially retires from active hero duty, due to the injuries he sustained during the war, choosing to spend the rest of his life making amends for his actions. Enji is a tall, sturdily-built man with a very muscular physique. He has short crimson hair, which he wears spiked up around his head, and sharp turquoise eyes. His beard and mustache appear to be made of fire, but when he voluntarily turns off the flames on his face, a slight amount of stubble shows around his jaw. His hero costume is comprised of a tight, navy turquoise bodysuit, with flames streaming across his chest, upper torso, arms, and most prominently, his shoulders. He uses his flames as a makeshift mask around his eyes, and his tall boots appear to be either made of fire themselves or constantly left alight, as only their soles and laces are visible around the flames. He sports white bracers on his lower arms, styled in a cage pattern, and a blue belt with a pouch on either side. After officially becoming the No. 1 Pro Hero, Endeavor's costume was upgraded. His bracers have been redesigned to look sharper and armor-like, and they now completely encase his arms. On the back of his hands are grill handguards with holes to flush a torrent of flames out the back of his hands if needed, and his fingers are exposed from the base knuckles. His bodysuit now has large stripes running across his torso, completely engulfing the spaces between his flames. Endeavor also added shoulder pads and a new belt that are made of the same material as his bracers. His belt is a stylized kanji for ¨Flame¨. During his battle against Hood, the left side of his face was greatly damaged after being hit by a surprise attack. After receiving surgery and being healed by Recovery Girl's Heal Quirk, his eye was shown to be intact, though he now has a large, jagged scar reaching from his hairline all the way down to his chin. During the battle against All For One, he loses his right arm, being ripped off after being hit by one of the Rivet Stabs. Following his battle against Dabi, his face and body have been severely burned. In the aftermath of the Final War, Enji's face is heavily bandaged, with significant burns still visible. He is also now unable to stand on his own, requiring a wheelchair to get around. During his childhood days, he bore a striking resemblance to his own son, Natsuo. Shoto has described his father as a prideful and ambitious man, driven by his goal to surpass the No. 1 Hero, All Might. This obsessive drive to surpass All Might in strength and power has followed Enji throughout his entire life, and repeated failure has plagued him since his youth. Dedicated to his studies and hero work, Enji strived to become the absolute strongest Pro Hero in the country. However, the figure of All Might proved itself too much of an insurmountable obstacle for him or anyone else to overcome, leaving Enji in a growing state of despair as he became increasingly aware that closing the gap between him and the Symbol of Peace was futile. As a result, Enji turned into a cold, callous person who didn't care for anything but his impossible dream, something a young Inasa Yoarashi would notice by just looking at his eyes. Enji has always been aware of his limitations, but due to his stubbornness, he never once considered relinquishing his wish, wanting to accomplish it at any cost and even passing on his aspirations to another person if necessary. As a way to balance the downsides of his Quirk, something he always found cumbersome, Enji sought to have a child with an ice Quirk user to create someone that could inherit his will and conceive a child who had the perfect mix of both fire and ice. This way, Enji would not only have his Quirk inherited but also his training and experiences by a "perfect" successor. Enji would become a cold, even abusive father and husband, with his actions negatively affecting all members of the family he formed. Shoto, his youngest child, was considered his masterpiece, a tool with all the correct elements to exceed All Might's ability and nothing else. As a result, Enji focused all his hopes on Shoto, forcing him through incredibly harsh training from a young age and showing no concern for his son's desires. The rest of his children were ignored and perceived as "failures" that weren't allowed to interact with their younger brother. Enji became verbally and physically violent towards his wife, Rei, whenever she tried to defend Shoto from the brutal training, to the extent where she began to fear him and started seeing him in the faces of their children. When his wife succumbed to a mental breakdown and injured Shoto, Enji sent her to a psychiatric ward to prevent her from getting in the way of his child's development. At the same time, he wasn't entirely without feelings and concern for his family. Upon learning that his first son, Toya, had stronger fire powers but a body that could not handle his flames, Enji quickly stopped forcing his efforts on Toya in fear for his well-being and was frustrated when he refused to quit and kept burning himself. Beforehand, he was content with training Toya to be his successor, despite him not inheriting the ideal Quirk that he desired, and his training with Toya was nowhere near as harsh or brutal as he would be with Shoto. Also, despite their arranged marriage, he did show some sentiment towards Rei when they first got together, remembering her favorite flower despite her only telling him about it once. While he wasn't that involved in the personal lives of his children, relying on Rei, their housekeeper and later Fuyumi, to look after his younger sons, this shows that Enji did not start out as such an abusive father and husband. At the very least, he had a more positive relationship with his family and his obsession with surpassing All Might had not yet consumed him. As the years passed however, Enji became more stubborn and impatient to fulfill his lifelong goal. Being so devoted to his hero work and his dream, he never took the time to learn how to be a family man, believing that all he could show anyone was the world of a hero. Rei accused Enji of using his hero status to avoid his problems as a father, and he would admit this to be true to Natsuo years later, confessing that all he could do was dodge his responsibilities and blame others. This avoidance of his parental responsibilities led to the abuse of his wife and the neglect of his children, especially Toya, who drove himself hysterical yearning for his father's acknowledgment after being replaced in favor of Shoto. While Toya's apparent death devastated him, Enji's obsession with training Shoto remained, feeling as though it would have all been for nothing had he given up. After the Kamino Incident, which resulted in All Might's retirement and Enji's succession as the No. 1 Hero, Enji's character shifted in a course. Enji's interest in the title of No. 1 Pro Hero was always based on earning it through merit and ability, valuing his work in attaining the No. 1 spot more than the spot itself. As such, he became furious about reaching the top through a technicality, feeling that his efforts from a lifetime were now wasted. As much as he disliked his longtime rival All Might, Enji still respected his power and feats as the No. 1 Hero, to the point of not believing that the "real" All Might was a sick and weak-looking man. Sensing the rising crime and unrest in a society losing its Symbol of Peace, Enji began questioning his role and duty as the new No. 1 Hero. After a conversation with All Might about what being the No. 1 Hero means to the world, Enji starts considering how he treated his family up until then. He starts visiting his estranged wife with frequency, even though the doctors in charge of her recovery have stated that this action is not best for her, and he wishes to become an actual father figure to his children, despite Natsuo's vocal desire to not have the older man involved in his life. While aware that his two sons resent him, Enji still attempted to atone for his past actions and made an effort to connect with his children; knowing that he wouldn't be so easily forgiven, he at least wanted to repent and help them recover from the dreadful childhood he made them go through. However, Enji soon concludes that his family is better off without him and would go on to buy a new home for his children and their mother while he remains by himself, willing to distance himself from them so they can be happy. As a Pro Hero, Enji is depicted as confident, reliable, and imposing, thanks to his excellent track record of solving cases. His rude and aggressive personality is well-known to the public, with his fans thinking of them as a selling point while others are scared by his overall violent attitude. Endeavor is particularly sensitive to being compared to All Might as he's always painted unfavorably towards the former No. 1 Hero. Despite this, he does make an effort to interact with his fans upon becoming the new No. 1, as seen with him greeting Hiroshi Tameda, although he was shocked to see his new, more amicable side be met with harsh criticism.[15] Furthermore, Enji realized that he could have been a friendly and kind Hero like All Might had he wanted the prestige and respect that the latter had received, but instead became obsessed with reaching his position at the very top of Japan's Hero rankings, which led him down his dark and bitter path. Enji, whether during work or outside of it, is known for his bad temper. He has a very no-nonsense attitude towards those he meets and is easily angered by goofier personalities. This disposition, however, does not affect his competence as a Pro Hero in any shape or form. Thanks to his studies, training, and valuable experience obtained as the No. 2 Hero, Enji knows how to strategically direct forces in battle, immediately understand his situation, and resolve incidents as fast as possible, with minimal casualties. Enji and his agency pride themselves as experts in the three basics of heroism (suppression, rescue, and evacuation), believing that a true hero excels at all of those areas. However, even Enji can have lapses in his bravery and immense resolve. After Natsuo was kidnapped and held hostage by Ending, Enji froze in place and could not move, fearing that his son would never speak to him again had he saved him, only to embrace Natsuo in relief after he was saved. Following the Paranormal Liberation War, after Enji's seemingly deceased son was revealed to be the League of Villains member Dabi, Enji fell into tears of despair after realizing that his actions as a father led to his son becoming a villain and mass murderer, going as far as to tearfully apologize to his family for all the harm he caused them, while also realizing that his hero career was doomed with his past having been revealed to the public. After being encouraged by Shoto and supported by his family to confront Dabi, however, Enji manages to regain his strength and willingness to move forward; rather than lying or trying to deflect any blame, he comes clean to the public about his past and promises to do everything he can to defeat the villains. Even with people blaming him and the other heroes for the current state of things, Enji only tells the public to throw any burdens or complaints they have at him while he promises to bring society back with everything he has. During the Final War, it is revealed that Enji's motivation to be a hero stemmed from when he was a child after he saw his father try and save a little girl from a villain, only to die alongside her. The death of Enji's father deeply impacted him, causing him to blame it on his weakness and leading to his desire to become a strong hero, to the point where he chose the hero name "Endeavor" to reflect all his hard work and efforts. While fighting All For One and encountering his past self as a U.A. student, Enji comes to terms with no longer being able to redeem himself as a hero, acknowledging that he'll never be like All Might or Deku.[8] Enji accepts that he's responsible for his son becoming a villain and that the people Dabi has killed fall on him as well but resolves that he'll continue to atone for his crimes so that his mistakes won't burden the next generation of heroes. Following the Final War, after suffering the loss of his arm and being bound to a wheelchair, Enji effectively retires from his hero position, having intended to do so prior to the war while saying that Endeavor was burned up by Dabi's flames. While facing a dying Toya being kept in stasis, Enji reflects on how he failed him as a father and promises to visit Toya every day along with the rest of his family, wanting to keep his son company during the time he has left. Following the visit, Enji vows that he will spend the rest of his life atoning for his actions as to make sure that his family won't be dragged down with him, believing this to be the reason why he survived.
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