Dekusquad

Dekusquad is the friendship between Izuku Midoriya, Ochako Uraraka, Tenya Iida, Shoto Todoroki and Tsuyu Asui from the My Hero Academia fandom.

The Original Dekusquad
They met in the

Izuku and Ochako first met before the actual exam took place. Izuku, caught up in his head hadn't wasn't looking where he stepped and tripped. Before he could fall, Ochako floated him upright, wishing him good luck before making her way to their destination. After she leaves, Izuku blushes madly and (internally) yells, "I TALKED TO A GIRL!!" although his pre-exam jitters didn't exactly allow him to speak!

Inside the building, Izuku was fanboying over Present Mic when he explains the rules of the Entrance Exam, muttering about he listens to Present Mic’s radio every week, he’s so moved and very amazed that every UA Teachers are Pro-Heroes, and then Katsuki told him to ‘shut-up’. After Present Mic explains about the rules, Tenya asks a question, talks about how shameful if UA did a misprint and then points his finger at Izuku, scolding him for muttering, telling him it’s distracting and then telling him that if he’s there just for a pleasure trip, he better go home.

Before the exam begins, Izuku spotted Ochako near the gate, so Izuku thinks on approaching her to thank her for helping him when he’s falling before, "the nice girl who saved me earlier" he says. But when he’s still walking, Tenya puts his hand on Izuku’s shoulder to stop Izuku and telling him that Ochako appears to be trying to focus. And then he asks Izuku about what he is doing there and thinking that Izuku is taking the Entrance Exam to interfere with everyone else which Izuku quickly told him that it’s not like that.

After Present Mic says ‘Start’ to start the exam, they’re all stopped for a second and after Present Mic told them that heroes doesn’t need countdown so go run, Tenya and the other Examinees quickly run into the gate leaving Izuku and then Izuku run trying to catch up with them. After his One-Pointer Robot got ‘stolen’ by Yuga and Present Mic announced that the exam will end in 6 Minutes and 2 Seconds, Izuku search for Pointer Robots, where he see Tenya kicking a Two-Pointer Robot while shouting “45 Points!” and Izuku repeated his words in surprise.

After the Zero-Pointer Robot is released, Izuku freeze on his place, Tenya can be seen running past him while looking at him but the quickly looks away. After Izuku saves Ochako from the Zero-Pointer Robot, Tenya along with the other examinees stare at him with a very amazed or rather surprised expression.

Ochako is revealed to try to give Izuku some of her points in the end.

After Izuku get into UA, Tenya started to admire Izuku due to his heroic action, thinking Izuku knows something more about the test (Where in reality, he didn't)

Tsuyu + Minoru
Izuku is warped directly into the middle of the water. As he dives to the surface, his mind can't stop wondering what is going on. His thoughts are interrupted when hr immediately comes face to face with the villain Sharkyonara, swimming towards him with the intention of bite him to death. Before harm comes to Izuku, Tsuyu swoops in and kicks the villain away. With Minoru already in tow, Tsuyu uses her quick swimming skills and her tongue to swiftly to takes herself and her classmates safely aboard a replica ship.

Izuku and Tsuyu discuss the villain's plans to kill All Might and the current situation, but Minoru doesn't believe that the villains have the slightest chance of murdering All Might, but Tsuyu corrects him saying that they would not try so hard if they did not have the means to achieve it. She also adds that, until All Might arrives, the villains have the intention of killing them all. Minoru is too distraught by her words that he cries for his life.

Several villains arise from the water and surround the ship. Despite their perilous situation, Izuku decides that he and his peers must fight back and win. They must be like real heroes in order to save All Might from these criminals. Izuku's declaration makes Minoru panic even further.

Despite outnumbering them and being in an area that gives their Quirks an advantage, the villains are cautious and do not attempt to board the ship. This makes Izuku deduce that the villains' plan has a major flaw, and that is that they are unaware of Class 1-A's Quirks, since if they did they would not have sent someone like Tsuyu to the Shipwreck Zone. This small advantage is enough for Izuku to form a strategy after Tsuyu and Minoru explain their Quirks to him.

Tired of waiting for the students to act, one of the villains, Hanzo Suiden, uses his Water Control Quirk to break the ship apart. Minoru desperately uses his Pop Off Quirk, throwing several purple spheres at the enemy. Izuku notices that the villains are afraid to touch them.

Sharkyonara declares that the ship will not take long to sink, and once it does, they will finish them off. His words make Minoru even more nervous, but Izuku tries to reassure him by saying that when the enemy become certain of their victory, that will their chance to turn the table.

Izuku decides to put his plan into action and leaps out of the ship above the villains. Because the villains are scattered throughout the water, in addition to not wanting to break his arm in the process, Izuku is aware that he cannot just punch with the One For All, so he opts to use a Delaware Smash on the surface of the water to make it spread out and disperse the enemies. On his signal, Tsuyu takes Minoru with her and jumps from the ship, grabbing Izuku with her tongue.

The water begins to collect rapidly back together. Inspired by the bravery displayed by Izuku, Minoru overcomes his fear enough to use his quirk, throwing his sticky spheres at the converging water. The converged water traps the villains in a vortex mixed with Minoru's spheres, and they ended up being launched into the air from the water sprout. With the villains defeated, trapped and stuck together in the water, Tsuyu uses her Quirk to escape the Shipwreck Zone along with Izuku and Minoru while mentioning how amazing they are.

After trapping all the villains in the water and unable to free themselves, Tsuyu leads her comrades out of the Shipwreck Zone. Once safe, Izuku begins to mutter about how his plan was too risky, until Tsuyu tells him that, rather than reflecting back, they should think what to do next.

She congratulates Izuku on a job well done and inquires about his injury. Izuku tells her not to worry and moves on to discuss their next move. At first, they want to try and make for the exit, but eventually decide to support their teacher at the central plaza

Shoto
Todoroki “joined” DekuSquad following the U.A. Sports Cavalry Battle Arc, after he got over his one-sided rivalry with Izuku and came to terms with his quirk as well as his father, which was the source of most of his antisocial behavior. In addition, when Izuku sends out his location during the fight with Stain in the V.S. Hero Killer Arc, Todoroki is the first and only one to come to his aid, stating to his father that his friend is in trouble. After this, he is shown to open up to his classmates more and is often seen eating with Izuku and his friends.

During the USJ incident, Izuku and Tsu were forced to fight off villains together, and showed commemorable teamwork in defeating them. In addition, when the Bakugou Rescue Squad recruits Deku for their mission, Tsu doubts their plan and tries to convince them not to go, stating that they would be “no different than villains”, however, they ignore this statement, and go on the rescue mission anyways. Tsu later feels bad about doubting them, which leads to both parties apologizing once the mission is over and thus repairing their friendship.

Fanon
There is controversy to whether Tsuyu actually belongs in Dekusquad, but she's widely accepted to be a member as she is shown eating and hanging out with the group multiple times. Sometimes, Yuga are also included in the Dekusquad due to him starting to get close to Izuku in Season 3 (Giving him cheese), and their closeness even after Yuga revealed to be the UA Traitor, or Hanta, some people in the fandom thinks he is polysquad - both in the Bakusquad and Dekusquad even though most of them put Hanta in the Bakusquad due to him not having the 'calm and controlled' behavior the Dekusquads have. The group was also dubbed and is sometimes referred to by fans as the "Deku Squad" or "Izucrew." The alternative, or rival, group is the Bakusquad, which consists of Katsuki Bakugou, Eijiro Kirishima, Denki Kaminari, Hanta Sero, Mina Ashido and occasionally Kyoka Jiro. There's no canon rivalry between the two groups, but the rivalry between their namesakes Deku and Bakugou is enough for the fandom to support the idea. They are opposites in the tone of their friendships, as Dekusquad is more calm and controlled and Bakusquad is loud and chaotic.

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 * DekuTsuChako refers to the ship between Izuku, Tsuyu and Ochako
 * IidaOcha refers to the ship between Ochako and Tenya
 * IidaDeku refers to the ship between Tenya and Izuku
 * IiTsuyu refers to the ship between Tenya and Tsuyu
 * IiTsuChako refers to the ship between Tenya, Tsuyu and Ochako
 * IzuOcha refers to the ship between Izuku and Ochako
 * MidoTsu refers to the ship between Izuku and Tsuyu
 * OchaIiDeku refers to the ship between Ochako, Tenya and Izuku
 * TodoChako refers to the ship between Shoto and Ochako
 * TodoDeku refers to the ship between Shoto and Izuku
 * TodoIida refers to the ship between Shoto and Tenya
 * TodoIiDeku refers to the ship between Shoto, Tenya and Izuku
 * TodoIiDekuOcha refers to the ship between Shoto, Tenya, Izuku and Ochako
 * TodoIzuOcha refers to the ship between Shoto, Izuku and Ochako
 * TodoTsuyu refers to the ship between Shoto and Tsuyu
 * TsuChako refers to the ship between Tsuyu and Ochako