

It's clear that Todoroki left side is burnt but isn't it also his flame side.
If he is able to tolerate the high temperature he himself generates from his
own flames shouldn't he also have been able to withstand the burn when his
mother throws hot water on his face?


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Why is Todoroki scalded when his mother throws hot water on him?


I don't think Todoroki necessarily is impervious to heat. Midoriya notices
when they fight that Todoroki's use of his cold power is limited to how much
cold he himself can stand, and that if he would not refuse to use his heat
powers he would be able to remove this limit. So if he's not immune to the
cold he may not be immune to heat. However, his father does have the flaming
facial hair which doesn't seem to bother him. I think it's most likely that
he's immune to the flames and the ice that he creates but when he uses it too
much or is affected by something in the environment he's affected normally.


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Well he maybe wasn't trained t activate his ability yet andhe does still get
cold and freezes even though he's part cold


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It could have to do with the fact that he was still quite young and probably
hadn't worked on his quirk for a long period of time and even if his body was
able to withstand the heat from his own flames, the boiling water would of
probably been extremely hot to of left a burn of that degree on anyone's face.
But I don't think we'll ever really know why.


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After finally getting to watch more of the anime, I've thought of an
interesting theory for this. Seeing as Todoroki accepts his ice side much more
than his fire side, maybe he was working to empower his ice far greater than
his fire. With the training leaning more to his ice, his fire and heat
resistance might not have been _that_ strong at the time, growing stronger
over the years...


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Todoroki's scar is a frost burn because her mother poured boiling water over
him and in panic used her quirk on him to 'easen' the pain, but it actually
made it worse.

> ![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wWsMYl.png)

It's basic knowledge not to put ice over the wound as it will make it worse
and will create a frost burn scar. If his mother didn't use her quirk,
Todoroki would've been fine and wouldn't have a scar as he can easily go
through extremely high temperature (on his left) and low temperature (on his
right).


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