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* MythologyGag: [[spoiler:Defiant defeating Overhaul by using a powerful punch to slam his head into the ground, followed by Defiant raising his fist in victory on live television is reminiscent of All Might defeating All for One at Kamino]].


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* WhyWontYouDie: [[spoiler:Overhaul yells "WHY DON’T YOU JUST DIE ALREADY!" when he sees Defiant survived his trump card]].

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** [[spoiler:Romero Fujimi was a hero student in canon. Here, he joins the Shie Hassaikai Yakuza after the Gunga Mountain Raid]].



** Moonfish is called Impaler in this story.



* DelayedReaction: [[spoiler:While the Bakugous are watching the news of Defiant's and Overhaul's battle, Eri tells them that Defiant is Izuku. Mitsuki spends half-a-sentence trying to tell Eri she shouldn't watch the gruesome news before what Eri said sinks in]].



** In Chapter 89, [[spoiler:Eri reveals to Mitsuki and Masaru that Defiant is Izuku]].



* TheMole: Overhaul has a spy in the police forces.

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** [[spoiler:Before the final battle, Himiko manages to replace one of Overhaul's praetorians and infiltrate Overhaul's forces]].

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** [[spoiler: Hekiji Tengai is among the Shie Hassaikai members who are tortured to death by the League.]]
** [[spoiler: Yokumiru Mera is assassinated by Tenko before the Gunga Mountain raid.]]

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** [[spoiler: Hekiji [[spoiler:Hekiji Tengai is among the Shie Hassaikai members who are tortured to death by the League.]]
** [[spoiler: Yokumiru [[spoiler:Yokumiru Mera is assassinated by Tenko before the Gunga Mountain raid.]]



** [[spoiler: After a long fight, Inko Midoriya is killed during the aftermath of the Gunga Mountain raid thanks to Katsuki Bakugou, who demanded both her and Izuku's death so he could be recruited into the Shie Hassaikai. Izuku ends up returning the favor to Katsuki, ripping the villain to shreds with his quirk. Chronostasis also dies due to Torino catching him fleeing from the fight between Inko and Katsuki and blowing his head off with a shotgun]].

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** [[spoiler: After [[spoiler:After a long fight, Inko Midoriya is killed during the aftermath of the Gunga Mountain raid thanks to Katsuki Bakugou, who demanded both her and Izuku's death so he could be recruited into the Shie Hassaikai. Izuku ends up returning the favor to Katsuki, ripping the villain to shreds with his quirk. Chronostasis also dies due to Torino catching him fleeing from the fight between Inko and Katsuki and blowing his head off with a shotgun]].shotgun]].
** [[spoiler:Dabi is killed in battle by Shouto at Hosu during the final confrontation with Overhaul]].
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* TheConsigliere: Hari Kurono is one of Overhaul's most important subordinates in spite of his lack of Meta Ability, being able to see when his boss is making a mistake and advising him against it, and while Overhaul is an excellent ''strategist'', he is merely ''good'' at tactics and Kurono is the one who helped with that. [[spoiler:His death results in Overhaul's organisation being less effective]].


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** In Chapter 87, [[spoiler:Dabi reveals to all of Japan that he is Touya Todoroki, while Amplitude reveals he is Shouto Todoroki]].
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Bakugou Katsuki does not actually appear in the majority of the story, only a few chapters at most, but his bullying is what made Izuku the wreck he is in the beginning, and Izuku recovering from that, helping so many others in the process, helped make him and his Metahuman Network the great institution it is by the end of the story.


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* ThisMeansWar: [[spoiler:Overhaul, having decided to settle his feud with Defiant and the Metahuman Network once and for all, makes several large-scale terrorist attacks and issues an open declaration of war against them and their allies in Chapter 86, prompting them to answer in kind]].

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* AndYourLittleDogToo: Overhaul threatens to go after all of Defiant's loved ones, and even people who only smiled at him, if he continues to oppose him.



* EvilIsPetty: Overhaul steals a chair from a news station because he could and he felt like being petty in that moment.



* TheUnmasquedWorld: [[spoiler:The worlds' governments officially announce the existence of Meta Abilities to their citizens in Chapters 83 and 84, with the Japanese government also revealing the fledgling Hero System created by the Metahuman Network]].

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the Japanese government also reveal of Supervillains and Superheroes in Chapter 86 by launching multiple terrorist attacks and taking over a news broadcast station and revealing everything on live television]].
* VillainRespect: Overhaul hates Defiant, but sincerely respects him as an adversary because like Overhaul, Defiant had a vision of
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* SlaveToPR: One thing the Metahuman Network and their allies takes into strong consideration is how the public will react to the revelation that there are people with superpowers, which directly impacts the wellbeing of the superhumans. Making sure there is as positive an image as possible affects several decisions they take.

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** [[spoiler:When Prime Minister Nana Shimura reveals the existence of Metahumans, she pretends her government knew about it and was working on the issue all along since the last thing anyone needs is the government collapsing due to lack of faith in it]].



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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Endemic among First-Generation Quirk Users is that if they have a powerful Quirk, they also tend to be complete nutcases. Dabi and Firestorm are both first-generation, and they're gleeful arsonists. Carnage is another first generation, and he's a vicious murderer who kills because he can. Even Overhaul, who is relatively stable, is a complete sociopath with no qualms about committing atrocities.
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* AWorldHalfFull: After World War Three, the entire world is more or less a giant ball of crap with the worst-off nations suffering civil wars and even better-off nations having rampant crime. This does not stop the protagonists from doing their best to change things around, with key successes such as working out the kinks in the fledgling hero system before the Japanese Government officially adopts the system.


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* EvilVsEvil: Aizawa and his allies ''hopes'' all the villain factions will fight each other and take each other out. It'd make life so much easier for them.


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* ParentsAsPeople: Stain is not the best father as his daughter Rini would gladly attest to, but at least he can admit he fucked up there and hopes he, his wife Rumi, and Rini could all go to a family therapist together and fix things.


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* TheUnmasquedWorld: [[spoiler:The worlds' governments officially announce the existence of Meta Abilities to their citizens in Chapter 83]].
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** [[spoiler:Played with with Hagakure Tooru. She was a hero student in canon. Here, she's a WellIntentionedExtremist who is part of a terrorist organisation that has done very bad things to stop another organisation, including stating ''World War Three'' in a genuine belief it was necessary]].


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** Hagakure Tooru calls herself Chameleon instead of Invisible Girl.


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* DramaticIrony: Yagi thinks Aizawa is happy to keep getting promotions, but Aizawa hates that more responsibility is heaped on him.


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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: In a twisted way, Overhaul made the Metahuman Network an overall better organisation in his conflicts with them. By opposing him, the Metahuman Network and their allies are able to gain valuable experience, as well as test what works and doesn't before it gets applied more broadly.
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* BreatherEpisode: After the absolute shock of the Gunga Mountain Raid and its immediate aftermaths, there were several chapters where some much needed emotional and relationship talks happened that helped the characters and readers alike process the events and recover.


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* FantasticLegalWeirdness: Politicians and legal experts in the know realise that with the Dawn of Quirks, several legal questions needs to be asked and answered. What authority should the incoming superheroes be allowed to have? To minimise the risk of villains continuing to be villains, what level of leniency can and should be granted for those wanting to change? What checks can be put in place to prevent the rehab program from being a "Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free" card? Should Meta Abilities be registered, and if yes, how should that be organised? And so on and so forth.


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* SuperRegistrationAct: Aizawa supports the creation of a registry of all Metahumans with their Meta Abilities listed on it, and to make it palatable to the Metahumans, the registry should, at least in the beginning, be maintained by the Metahuman Network.

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** [[spoiler:Ryuko Tatsuma was a hero in canon. Here, her dragon instincts makes her haughty and greedy and leads to her joining Kuroiro's League of Villains, albeit under some degree of duress since she wanted to be the leader]].

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** [[spoiler:Ryuko Tatsuma was a hero in canon. Here, her dragon instincts makes her haughty and greedy and leads to her joining Kuroiro's League of Villains, Villains after the Gunga Mountain Raid, albeit under some degree of duress since she wanted to be the leader]].leader. Also joining the League of Villains after the raid is Yo Shindo, Saiko Intelli, Seiji Shishikura, and Camie Utsushimi]].


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** In Chapter 78, [[spoiler:Yagi reveals everything Aizawa told him about meta-abilities and the fledgling superhero system he helped built to Nana, also telling her her grandson Tenko is a supervillain called Decay]].

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** Because of Dabi's sheer power and disposition, Aizawa gives the order that if he is engaged where there are civilians, that the police and Metahuman Network are to fight to kill. Izuku reluctantly agrees as apprehending him is not as important as civilian lives. This principal extends to other dangerous Villains and even non-superpowered criminals. If they're that dangerous, superpowers or not, fight to kill. Things in Japan are bad enough anyway that the public won't care as long as they aren't blatant about it.

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** Because of Dabi's sheer power and disposition, Aizawa gives the order that if he is engaged where there are civilians, that the police and Metahuman Network are to fight to kill. Izuku reluctantly agrees as apprehending him is not as important as civilian lives. This principal principle extends to other dangerous Villains and even non-superpowered criminals. If they're that dangerous, superpowers or not, fight to kill. Things in Japan are bad enough anyway that the public won't care as long as they aren't blatant about it.


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* SimpleSolutionWontWork: [[spoiler:Sakaki asks Chiyo about recreating Yoichi's research into the Quirk-related genes, since reverse-engineering it should theoretically be possible, but Chiyo says that it simply isn't possible without accurate DNA-records from ''before'' Yoichi unleashed his creation that permanently deactivated the Minus-Ultra genes, and the accuracy of those records are in doubt since all the world's governments made them state-secrets out of fear their enemies would create bio-weapons targeting specific ethnic groups, and the Council of Twelve would in all likelihood tamper with them]].

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* AdaptationalIntelligence: [[spoiler:In canon, there was no indication Yoichi had anything besides average smarts. Here, he's such a genius that he cracked what causes Quirks, and was able to make something that forced Quirks to manifest in the global population]].



** Because of Dabi's sheer power and disposition, Aizawa gives the order that if he is engaged where there are civilians, that the police and Metahuman Network are to fight to kill. Izuku reluctantly agrees as apprehending him is not as important as civilian lives.

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** Aizawa gives the directive to Izuku that any SSS-Rank Villains are kill-on-sight where possible. The threat a villain of that calibre poses to Japan is too high to risk the country's safety by merely imprisoning them.


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* SuperIntelligence: [[spoiler:Chiyo thinks Yoichi ''has'' to be one as she can't fathom how else he is able to discover the Minus-Ultra genes, which part of the genetic code is responsible for genes, and create something that permanently deactivates the Minus-Ultra genes in the entire population]].
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** [[spoiler:Ryuko Tatsuma was a hero in canon. Here, her dragon instincts makes her haughty and greedy and leads to her joining Kuroiro's League of Villains, albeit under some degree of duress since she wanted to be the leader]].


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* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: [[spoiler:Sakaki is minorly offended that a worldwide conspiracy mind-controlling important people did not target him with the mind-controls]].


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* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:Ochako was raped by guerrillas nominally fighting for Japan but really were deserters who turned to banditry]].

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* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Izuku offers Asa adoption as his brother. Asa happily accepts, having already looked up to him as a big-brother figure anyway]].



* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Yoichi Shigaraki, the One For All first Holder, was this to the same - if not greater - degree than his brother, allowing the latter to take over the world through mind control of its leaders, before deciding that it leads to nowhere. His reaction to that and his brother refusal to see reason? Causing the Dawn of Quirks (despite the risk of it resulting in the Quirk Singularity destroying the world centuries in the future), and causing World War III - with death toll in millions - to break All for One's tight control over the world.]]

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Yoichi Shigaraki, the One For All first Holder, was this to the same - if not greater - degree than his brother, allowing the latter to take over the world through mind control of its leaders, before deciding that it leads to nowhere. His reaction to that and his brother refusal to see reason? Causing the Dawn of Quirks (despite the risk of it resulting in the Quirk Singularity destroying the world centuries in the future), and causing World War III - with a death toll measurable in millions - to break All for One's tight control over the world.]]



* YoureNotMyFather: [[spoiler:Kurogiri's daughter is this to him for not being ambitious and actively works with her boyfriend to nearly kill him if not for Overhaul.]]

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* SharedFamilyQuirks: [[spoiler:The cousins Izuku and Asa are both nervous wrecks who managed to attract several girls willing to share them. After Izuku learns they're cousins, he could see the strong similarities]].


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** Izuku thinks Sakaki grooming him into the Number One Hero of Japan without talking to him about it is of questionable morality, but given how desperately Japan needs hope and his own state of being, understands where he is coming from.
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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Ochako's backstory and Mei's pregnancy turns out to be the key things that helps Izuku recover from the Gunga Mountain Raid clusterfuck and the shock of Bakugou reappearing in his life and murdering his mother]].

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* CasualKink: Himiko is a sub and loves being hypnotised by Shinsou, but no one makes a big deal out of it.



** In Chapter 73, [[spoiler:Izuku finds out Mei is pregnant with his child]].



* {{Polyamory}}: In Chapter 30, [[spoiler:Tsuyu officially joins Izuku's and Mei's relationship]].

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** In Chapter 74, [[spoiler:Rabbit, Rini, Immortal and Deadshot all enter into a relationship with each other]].

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** The Gunga Mountain Raid ends with [[spoiler: Spinner, Backdraft, Tensei Iida, Edgeshot, Manual, and Inasa Yoarashi all dying during the battle, with Chronostasis dying during the aftermath due to Torino catching him fleeing from the fight between Inko and Katsuki and blowing his head off with a shotgun. Kyudai Garaki is also revealed to have been killed a year before the battle thanks to Nedzu.]]
** [[spoiler: After a long fight, Inko Midoriya is killed during the aftermath of the Gunga Mountain raid thanks to Katsuki Bakugou, who demanded both her and Izuku's death so he could be recruited into the Shie Hassaikai. Izuku ends up returning the favor to Katsuki, ripping the villain to shreds with his quirk.]]

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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Izuku had an adoptive sister named Ayako that was bullied by Bakugou and the rest of the school so badly she committed suicide]].

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** ''Barely'' subverted [[spoiler:in Ochako's backstory. Her parents were forced to work for Chinese occupiers. JGSDF guerrillas didn't care about the duress part and killed them and took her so that their leader could rape her. She escaped by killed them after her Quirk manifested and found herself in the abandoned home Izuku found her at. She was close to committing suicide before Izuku's arrival in her life gave her hope that things would turn around]].



* NeverMyFault: Bakugou refuses to accept any responsibility for his role in bullying Izuku and driving his sister to suicide.



* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:After learning Bakugou killed his mother, Izuku first destroys his hands, and then slams him into the walls, ceiling, and floor until his corpse is in pieces]].



* SingleTargetSexuality: By Mei's own words in Chapter 73, she was not interested in ''anyone'' until she met Izuku.



** [[spoiler:The chapters where Nedzu reveals the origin of quirks, the government conspiracy, that Yoichi was Izuku's father, and that Inko gave home One For All (Ignition). Word of God also mentions how these events are actually the backstory to his other stories.]]

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** [[spoiler:The chapters where Nedzu reveals the origin of quirks, the government conspiracy, that Yoichi was Izuku's father, and that Inko gave home him One For All (Ignition). Word of God also mentions how these events are actually the backstory to his other stories.]]

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* ContrivedCoincidence: Izuku successfully recruiting someone who just happens to have construction skills right when his group needed those skills is considered by him and Mei to be so absurdly lucky they seriously consider divine intervention.

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** [[spoiler:Overhaul is stunned that the guy that the prospective recruit Bakugou Katsuki wanted to kill, Midoriya Izuku, turns out to be ''Defiant''. In his own thoughts, there were thousands of young adults in Takoba. The odds of the one Katsuki wanting to kill ''just happening to be'' Overhaul's archnemesis was ''low'']].



* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Katsuki murdering Inko leaves Izuku dead to the world after he killed Katsuki in kind]].



* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler:When Overhaul sends his plant to the police to tell them about the Gunga Mountain facility, he makes sure to hypnotise his plant into believing they are a genuine defector to fool potential Quirk Wielders that could check the sincerity of their defection]].

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** [[spoiler:Izuku keeping a panic button even when not doing Hero work, turns out to be the correct choice of action when Katsuki tries to murder him after having already killed Inko]].


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* TitleDrop: Played for maximum drama in Chapter 72, when paramedic pronounce [[spoiler:Inko Midoriya]] dead on arrival.
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* DidNotSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:The reason that the Gunga Mountain Raid was a complete clusterfuck is because of the presence of ''three'' SSS-Rank Villains, a category the Metahuman Network and their allies did not ''ever'' think was possible]].

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* DidNotSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:The reason that the Gunga Mountain Raid was a complete clusterfuck is because of the presence of several reasons. One, there were ''three'' SSS-Rank Villains, Villains present, a category the Metahuman Network and their allies did not ''ever'' think was possible]].possible. Two, it turns out Overhaul played them with the "defector" who was actually meant to point them to the Gunga Mountains so that the Metahuman Network bears the risk of attacking an unknown force while Shie Hassaikai gets the spoils. Three, it turns out there is a ''fourth'' faction with stakes in the facility who arrived and made things even more chaotic. After Yagi hears all that, he changes his mind about firing Aizawa and instead commends him for how the casualties on his side were surprisingly low in light of all that]].
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Hawks does not act like the most professional person, acting very goofy even in serious situations, but he is ''damn good'' at his job as a high-ranking and elite police officer.


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* GoodIsNotSoft: The Metahuman Network and their allies may be idealistic about their goals, but they are also realistic about their ability to meet them. They'd ''like'' to save the day with no casualties, even on the enemy's side, but they ''know'' that's not feasible and ''will'' inflict serious injury or kill their opponents if that results in the best outcome for everyone.


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* HeelFaceDoorSlam: One enlightened individual realises the problem with this trope and the wisdom of the Villain Rehabilitation Program the Metahuman Network has. If one powerful metahuman wants to turn good, ''you do not reject them'', as that more or less ''guarantees'' they keep doing dangerous criminal acts with a lot of innocent casualties.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Nedzu may be an SSS-ranked Villain, but his intelligence allows him to see all the flaws with Hisashi's supposed utopia that he wants to implement, and wants to prevent that from happening]].


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* Foreshadowing: A lot of things added up to the reveal that [[spoiler:Izuku is Yoichi's son and that Izuku has One for All. Izuku has a genetic disorder that makes him weaker, which is exactly what Yoichi has. His Ignition is visually similar to when One for All activates. Inko also describes Izuku as being as heroic as his father, which fits how in canon, All Might describes Yoichi as a heroic figure]].

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* MetaOrigin: [[spoiler:Nedzu reveals in Chapter 69 that Yoichi discovered that humanity has always had the genetic adaptations for superpower manifestation, but evolutionary-pressures resulted in genetic selection for the suppression of these genetics. The cause of the manifestations in the ''present'' is due to him releasing a DNA-altering retrovirus deactivating the Minus-Ultra genes preventing the manifestations. Nedzu explains that this is ''permanent'', and that there are ''no'' genetically Quirkless people left]].



* OffscreenVillainDarkMatter: {{Deconstructed}} by Sakaki when discussing the possibility of a large conspiracy hiding the existence of metahumans. Among other issues, a conspiracy that large simply isn't sustainable. Eventually, ''someone'' is going to notice the suspicious money and logistical flows. You'd have to bribe them to not reveal anything, but that results in ''more'' things to cover up. Repeat the process and it just gets too big.

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* OffscreenVillainDarkMatter: {{Deconstructed}} by Sakaki when discussing the possibility of a large conspiracy hiding the existence of metahumans. Among other issues, a conspiracy that large simply isn't sustainable. Eventually, ''someone'' is going to notice the suspicious money and logistical flows. You'd have to bribe them to not reveal anything, but that results in ''more'' things to cover up. Repeat the process and it just gets too big. [[spoiler:Sakaki didn't take into account judicious use of mind-control, which is how the Council of Twelve managed to cover up metahuman existence for so long]].


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** Chapter 69 references Riddler and Joker from ''Film/TheBatman2022'' and Syndrome from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''.

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** [[spoiler:Nedzu is an SSS-Rank Villain working for the Meta Liberation Army as the head of the Meta-Abilities Research Division]].



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* AnachronisticOrder: The Gunga Mountain raid is not shown in chronological order. The beginning is shown, then skips to the aftermath, and the middle is explained by Aizawa to Yagi in the debriefing of the raid.

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* SuperMobBoss: Overhaul is one in canon, but here, it has to be reiterated since he is a prominent long-term antagonist as the leader of the Shie Hassaikai Yazuka and is the primary threat Izuku has been working against.
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* FakeDefector: Played with. [[spoiler:The informant who defected from the Shie Hassaikai turns out to be a plant by Overhaul, but was hypnotised into believing they were a genuine defector to fool potential Quirks that could test the sincerity of their defection]].
* FalseFlagOperation: One of Destro's recruitment methods is to have some of his people pose as a government anti-metahuman black ops unit that kidnaps metahumans, and then have different people subsequently free them and offer recruitment into his forces, and after their treatment at the "government's" hands, they'd gladly join.


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* GladHesOnOurSide: [[spoiler:After being enlightened on just ''some'' of the Meta Abilities out there, Governor Yagi is of the firm opinion the government ''needs'' Metahumans on their side]].


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* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler:When Overhaul sends his plant to the police to tell them about the Gunga Mountain facility, he makes sure to hypnotise his plant into believing they are a genuine defector to fool potential Quirk Wielders that could check the sincerity of their defection]].
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* AnachronisticOrder: The Gunga Mountain raid is not shown in chronological order. The beginning is shown, then skips to the aftermath, and the middle is explained by Aizawa to Yagi in the debriefing of the raid.


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* DidNotSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:The reason that the Gunga Mountain Raid was a complete clusterfuck is because of the presence of ''three'' SSS-Rank Villains, a category the Metahuman Network and their allies did not ''ever'' think was possible]].

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* InternalReveal: Before the inevitable Reveal Day happens, those not in the know about metahumans are slowly brought in the know on a case-by-case basis.

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Before the inevitable Reveal Day happens, those not in the know about metahumans are slowly brought in the know on a case-by-case basis.basis.
** In Chapter 65, [[spoiler:Aizawa reveals to Yagi that meta-abilities were not the minor issue he thought they were. He also enlightens him on Tartarus and the Metahuman Network full of heroes that are cooperative with the law that they have in place]].
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* SlaveToPR: One thing the Metahuman Network and their allies takes into strong consideration is how the public will react to the revelation that there are people with superpowers, which directly impacts the wellbeing of the superhumans. Making sure there is as positive an image as possible affects several decisions they take.

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