There was a long-awaited disclosure regarding Enji Todorki’s eldest kid in the 17th episode of My Hero Academia Season 6, titled The Wrong Way to Put Out a Fire. It clarified why Toya blamed his dad for everything that went wrong in his life. We learn from the episode’s trailer that Endeavor’s drive to succeed affected his whole family. Toya rejected the very idea of heroes and became a villain, in contrast to Shoto, who renounced his peculiarity but still aspired to become a hero. This article provides a summary & analysis of the events of My Hero Academia season 6 episode 17, “The Todoroki Family’s Nightmare,” which showed the tragic truth behind the Todoroki family’s situation. Toya’s background and Endeavor’s fixation are revealed in episode 17 of My Hero Academia season 6, and OFA is brought up in the conversation that follows.
Effort weds For Rei’s Goals to Come True
The seventeenth episode of My Hero Academia’s sixth season opened with Enji Todoroki paying a formal visit to the Himura family in order to meet Rei, whom he planned to marry because of her Ice quirk. It dawned on the hero that his bride was from a once-prestigious family and that they were only interested in his reputation and fortune, regardless of the fact that their union was a Quirk Marriage, which is frowned upon by many. If Enji were to produce a kid with both a Fire and an Ice quirk, that child would have a greater chance of becoming more powerful than All Might, or so he thought.
A present-day flashback occurred in episode 17 of My Hero Academia Season 6, in which an understandably shaken Endeavor asked his wife if she was okay, to which Rei replied that she was not. She argued that she, not only the hero, was to blame for Toya’s change. They didn’t realise the flames were scorching Toya’s flesh until the 17th episode of My Hero Academia Season 6. As the doctor explained, the kid had inherited his mother’s heat resistance and a flame quirk stronger than Endeavor’s. The doctor advised that Toya minimised his usage of his eccentricity and reminded Enji and Rei that trying to select their child’s genetic makeup was not a good idea.
Toya’s fixation grows more severe
Toya misinterpreted Enji’s efforts to stop him from exploiting his peculiarity and took it as a sign of his father’s disapproval. In episode 17 of My Hero Academia season 6, Toya complained to Fuyumi that he could handle the ailments brought on by his quirk since he knew his body better. When his younger sister expressed concern that she didn’t want Toya hurt, he exploded and told her she wouldn’t understand since she was a girl. Toya Todoroki had made up his mind to beat All Might, and the other Todoroki children knew what their father expected of them. Enji thought that having another child, Natsuo, would be the best method to dissuade Toya, so he went ahead and had another kid.
Soon, though, it became clear that he, too, could not compete with All Might. Shoto was the masterwork that Endeavor had been anticipating, crushing Toya’s last remaining dreams. The seventeenth episode of My Hero Academia’s sixth season showed that the eldest Todoroki had kept training his quirk despite the flames. The idea was that if he spent more time socialising and having fun with his family and classmates, he may forget about his desire to one day become a hero. The youngster, however, insisted that he not forget that he was the son of Endeavor because everyone in school aspired to be a hero. Toya’s despair and wrath caused him to attack his younger brother, Shoto, after which he was forbidden to get near him.
As Toya is ignored, Endeavor smacks Rei
Episode 17 of season 6 of My Hero Academia took place in the future when Toya was 13, Fuyumi was 12, and Natsuo was 8. Toya’s hair began as a bright red when he entered the world, but by the time he was a teenager, it had faded to white with a few hints of red. Five-year-old Shoto was taken from his siblings and secluded for training by their parents, the leaders of the company Endeavor. Toya, though, seems to have not forgotten his initial objective, since he kept up his covert training all the same. In the middle of the night, he woke up Natsuo with an angry tirade about how it wasn’t Shoto’s fault but rather their father’s. His sibling, who was used to his outbursts, approached him to have a chat with their sibling.
By shouting out at Rei when she tried to discourage his training and by complaining that Endeavor’s aspirations were smothering him, Toya’s statements suggested that he saw the women in his family as weak. Since she had been coerced into marrying him, he said, she had no standing to say such a thing to him. Toya learned that the intensity of his excitement was directly related to the size and colour of his flames in episode 17 of season 6 of My Hero Academia. He tried to tell Endeavor and invite him to Sekoto Peak, but the hero chastised him, saying that he would never be able to compete with All Might. As if it hadn’t been traumatic enough, Enji then beat Rei, the man he’d assigned to look after Toya. She started to notice echoes of Enji in her children, and that’s when she burned Shoto by mistake and had to go to the hospital. Toya, overwhelmed, lost control of his fire, engulfed in it, and set fire to the woodland surrounding him when Endeavor failed to appear on the hilltop.
Rei urges Endeavor to go to battle
As the sixth season of My Hero Academia came to a close, Endeavor mourned and remarked that Toya would still be alive if he had given up on his vision the day his quirk proved to be incompatible with his body. Rather than try to pound some sense into their elder brother, Fuyumi and Natsuo revealed that they had ignored Toya’s fixation and their dysfunctional family. Given that only he could defeat Dabi, Rei vowed that they would force Endeavor to take a stand and fight. After talking to his mom earlier, Shoto said he had changed his mind about taking on Dabi on his own. The seventeenth episode of season six of My Hero Academia had Hawks and Best Jeanist joining the Todoroki family and promising to aid Endeavor in his goal to stop Dabi. Hawks is curious about One For All. Although it was still unknown how the boy had survived the fire, they claimed that learning about Toya’s background helped them better comprehend Dabi’s goals.
Hawks questioned Endeavor about what he meant by “One For All” at the start of their war against Shigaraki after they had gone through the logistics of making a statement to the press and responding to the claims against him. The green-haired hero remembered Deku using the word when he told him the Decay enemy was after him and realised that Deku knew what it meant. In season 6 episode 17 of My Hero Academia, Hawks and Best Jeanist were seen making their way to an unconscious hero student’s chamber, while All Might sat inside and said he would sense that Deku was chatting to the previous OFA holders.
Foreshadowing of Episode 18 of Season 6 of My Hero Academia
In the sneak peek for episode 18 of My Hero Academia’s sixth season, we see Deku in the vestige realm once again, this time surrounded by former OFA holders. In this episode, the heroes of old tell Deku everything and beg him to murder Tomura Shigaraki. The green-haired youngster is in the same condition as previously, with a black mist obscuring his mouth and making it difficult for him to communicate. Deku reveals the title of episode 18 of My Hero Academia season 6 as “Izuku Midoriya and Tomura Shigaraki” and says that the episode would test his origin.