History Fanfic / ExitingTheStage

** [[spoiler: Class 1-A, also called the "Cursed Class", saw eleven of its twenty members die as heroes, and two more live long enough to die as villains. The remaining seven members are reunited under the League of Villains banner as part of this fic's first act]].
** [[spoiler: Kaminari and Mineta both perish during the first USJ Incident as a result of Hana/Entropy's paranoia and overall bloodthirstiness, together with Thirteen]].

** [[spoiler: Hana Shimura/Entropy is a {{zigzagged}} version of this trope - she survived her would-be death in canon, but died when her and Overhaul's attempt at overthrowing the HPSC failed.]]

** Out of the UA faculty [[spoiler: Nedzu is presumed to have been asssassinated by the HPSC, Thirteen is killed during the USJ attack by Kurogiri, Midnight and Cementoss die during the failed attack on Doctor Garaki's stronghold in Jaku General Hospital, Vlad King died during the Summer Camp Massacre buying time for his students to flee to safety, while Present Mic, Eraserhead, Power Loader and Recovery Girl survive the First Paranormal Liberation War only to die as a result of failed attempt to overthrow the HPSC.]]
** [[spoiler: In a flashback, Shinso is shown to have committed seppuku after killing Nightshade and Red Wing and crippling Thunderbolt for life. His motive for this? The former two's murder of Himiko Toga while the latter sat by and watched.]]
** [[spoiler: Bakugou Katsuki is confirmed to have died after being one of the few heroes that responded to the call from help from a quirkless ghetto, holding ground long enough to preventing the pogrom from happening.]]

* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler: Invincible's pretty damn close to this status thanks to his quirk combination granting him complete and near-complete resistance to majority of forms of attack. He is explicitly stated to be capable of leaving Earth's orbit without suffering any ill-effects from exposure to the vacuum of space, and his general skillset resembles that of Superman.]]

* DefectorFromDecadence: After the disaster at Marukane Ward, [[spoiler:various Heroes and local governments rise in rebellion against the main government in Tokyo]].

* PragmaticVillain: The Prime Minister, formerly the president of the HPSC, doesn't initially want to deploy the third stage of the Sword of Damocles not out of humanitarian reasons or basic human decency but because she fears the PLF will use her ordering a nuclear strike as part of their propaganda, especially as they have no idea yet of what's happening and that [[NuclearOption nuking the entire island IS the appropriate response]].

* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Pretty much Midoriya's entire role in the [[spoiler: USJ attack]] is giving one of these to [[spoiler: Thunderbolt]], aside from formulating strategies to [[spoiler: annihilate as many of the HPSC's tactical advantages as possible in the most gratuitously brutal way possible]].
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: All For One raises Midoriya as his son alongside Tenko/Decay, Hana/Entropy, Aiko/Apocrypha, and Asa/Rabbit because he is born with an invisible and fascinating Quirk that AFO finds too hazardous to steal]].
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Star and Stripes]] arriving in the middle of the Second Battle of the Marukane Ward completely ruined the PLF plan to deal with Invincible.

** According to Intelli, the Prime Minister, while a fascistic dictator, sees herself as doing what is necessary for the good of Japan, and would have never unleashed a [[spoiler:ZombieApocalypse]] on Shikoku as a FalseFlagAttack to have the people go to the government for protection.

** Invincible [[spoiler: delivers rather epic one after his arrival at the battlefield during the Second Battle of the Marukane Ward, killing Firestorm, Tornado and Curator, while heavily injuring Frostfire and knocking out Quicksilver and Miruko [so, six supervillains eliminated in total] in thirty-seven seconds.]]

** [[spoiler: Kaminari and Mineta both perish during the first USJ Incident as a result of Hana/Entropy's paranoia and overall bloodthirstiness]].

* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler: Invincible's pretty damn close to this status thanks to his quirk combination granting him complete and near-complete resistance to majority of forms of attack.]]

* ProperlyParanoid: There's nothing of value in Shikoku, so the island had been long neglected in its defense needs, defended by a single brigade... Up until the new regime decided to rebuild the brigade in a full combined arms division (with expanded personnel) and add an engineering brigade, purely because the original Meta Liberation Army had been able to conquer the island in their insurrection. The larger and better equipped force actually manages to slow down [[spoiler:Armageddon]]'s advance.

** [[spoiler: The New Vigilante Alliance (which targets heroes more than anyone else) is now run by Ryukyu and Gang Orca; it is composed of the leftovers of previous hero/vigilante rebellions led first by Eraserhead and Miss Joke, then by Miruko and Knuckleduster. Their strongest members are the SS-rank supervillains known as the "Four Disasters" - Inasa Yoarashi/Tornado, Ryuko Tsuchikawa/Landslide, Moe Kamiji/Firestorm, and Yo Shindo/Earthquake; other members include Camie Utsushimi and Ayako Nakahara/Spyglass.]]

** [[spoiler: Midoriya almost perfectly calculates when the HPSC's Fast Response Unit will warm into the USJ. They arrive just in time to be erased from existence by the combined firepower of Aiko and Todoroki.]]

* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler: Todoroki and Aiko have both proven to be this, given their ability to wipe out a squadron of S-rank and SS-rank heroes in a matter of seconds. The former has broken the limits of his flames to the point where they now burn white-hot, while the latter has a Quirk that lets her fire a WaveMotionGun attack that erases whatever it touches]]. And then there's Armageddon, the first PLF's final weapon, so terrible that Midoriya caused the collapse of the first PLF rather than letting it deployed: [[spoiler:it's Romero Fujimi, turned into a Nomou whose original Quirk [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Zombie Virus]] was augmented and supplemented enough to turn him into a walking Zombie Apocalypse]].

* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Star and Stripes]] arriving in the middle of the Third Battle of Marukane Ward completely ruined the PLF plan to deal with Invincible.

** [[spoiler: Ochako, thanks to her Nomufication and unwilling devotion to Midoriya, is one of the League's core members in both strength and loyalty, as she literally cannot betray the cause.]]

** [[spoiler: Ochako]] also counts, having been [[spoiler: converted into a Noumu bodyguard/lover who literally cannot say no to Midoriya by All For One as a demented sort of birthday present]]. [[spoiler: Hagakure was also converted into a Nomu, in her case specialized in tracking and assassination. Her death apparently "prolonged the existence of hero society by a good few years", implying that she was a particularly deadly and efficient assassin.]]

* ReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** Pretty much Midoriya's entire role in the [[spoiler: USJ attack]] is giving one of these to [[spoiler: Thunderbolt]], aside from formulating strategies to [[spoiler: annihilate as many of the HPSC's tactical advantages as possible in the most gratuitously brutal way possible]].

* ZombieApocalypse: Courtesy of All for One, there's one ready to start: [[spoiler:he had Romero Fujimi turned into Armageddon, a Nomou capable of unleashing one]]. And [[spoiler:Entropy in Nejire Hado's body]] went and unleashed it years after Midoriya thought he had sealed it away for good.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: [[spoiler: Tokoyami and Ragdoll have both become more Quirk than human as a result of something Aiko is implied to have done to them. Quite frankly, Aiko herself is questionable as well.]]
** [[spoiler: Ochako]] also counts, having been [[spoiler: converted into a Noumu bodyguard/lover who literally cannot say no for Midoriya by All For One as a demented sort of birthday present]]. [[spoiler: Hagakure was also converted into a Nomu, in her case specialized in tracking and assassination. Her death apparently "prolonged the existence of hero society by a good few years", implying that she was a particularly deadly and efficient assassin.]]

** [[spoiler: Midoriya almost perfectly calculates when the HPSC's Fast Response Unit wll warm into the USJ. They arrive just in time to be erased from existence by the combined firepower of Aiko and Todoroki.]]
** Mieko/Eclipse [[spoiler: demonstrates herself to be one of these during the Tartarus break-in portion of the Revival Ceremony, using her Quirk in a narrow space to effortlessly chop dozens of wardens into bloody chunks. This is in stark contrast to Rini/Lady Murder, who flirts with death as much as possible during her two-on-one fight against S-rank heroes Briares and Gyges during the same attack.]]
* CurbStompBattle: The Fast Response Unit [[spoiler: is a victim of one of these after warping into the USJ. They have just enough time to express their shock before Aiko and Todoroki vaporize all but one of them, who is then efficiently killed by Mika/Quicksilver almost immediately after.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: Being set in an alternate future Japan where [[spoiler: All For One raised Midoriya as his son due to the boy possessing an invisible Quirk, leading to a chain of events that eventually snowballed into the nation becoming a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by the remains of the Hero Public Safety Commission]] and where [[spoiler: much of the canon cast is dead or have become villains, including all of Class 1-A]], expect a very different atmosphere from canon MHA. Mirrond described it as "bordering on grimdark".

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Overhaul, Re-Destro, and most of the original PLF's higher-ups: during the first Paranormal Liberation War they would have rather lost the war than deploying Armageddon and wiping out all of Japan with [[spoiler:a ZombieApocalypse]], their death and the realization he would fail to keep Entropy from unleashing it is what pushed Midoriya to betray the organization and have it destroyed before Armageddon could be unleashed.

* GodzillaThreshold: In case of either supervillains such as All for One or Overhaul, armies of villains (or rebellious Heroes), or similar existential threats to Japan, the HPSC ''will'' deploy the Sword of Damocles, whose third stage is a nuclear strike. That said, the first and second stage are normally enough: the first stage is composed of high-powered, high-precision missiles aimed directly at ''single persons'' to kill them as swiftly as they can with relatively small collateral damage, and the second is the same missiles plus pre-emplaced explosive charges targeted at key infrastructure to slow down the advance of the enemy army and give the Heroes, the JSDF and the first stage the time to destroy the opposing force, with the third stage being used exactly once against the fortress of Deika City during the First Paranormal Liberation War

* AdaptationalVillainy: For many of the core characters, who have been portrayed as heroes or at worst morally-gray vigilantes in Mirrond's other works, this trope rings shockingly true.

* ZombieApocalypse: Courtesy of All for One, there's one ready to start: [[spoiler:he had Romero Fujimi turned into Armageddon, a Nomou capable of unleashing one]]. And someone went and unleashed it years after Midoriya thought he had sealed it away for good.

* GodzillaThreshold: In case of either supervillains such as All for One or Overhaul, armies of villains (or rebellious Heroes), or similar existential threats to Japan, the HPSC ''will'' deploy the Sword of Damocles, whose third stage is a nuclear strike. That said, the first and second stage are normally enough: the first stage is composed of high-powered, high-precision missiles aimed directly at ''single persons'' to kill them as swiftly as they can with relatively small collateral damage, and the second is the same missiles plus pre-emplaced explosive charges targeted at key infrastructure to slow down the advance of the enemy army and give the Heroes, the JSDF and the first stage the time to destroy the opposing force. The third stage was used exactly once against Deika during the First Paranormal Liberation War, though Armageddon's appearance in Shikoku is enough for them to consider deployment. [[spoiler:Intelli's realization that Armageddon has infected a Warp Quirk user and thus destroying the bridges between Shikoku and Honshu won't work prompts her to recommend its ''immediate'' deployment]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Overhaul and most of the original PLF's higher-ups: during the first Paranormal Liberation War they would have rather lost the war than deploying Armageddon and wiping out all of Japan with [[spoiler:a ZombieApocalypse]], their death and the realization he would fail to keep Entropy from unleashing it is what pushed Midoriya to betray the organization and have it destroyed before Armageddon could be unleashed.

** PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler: Todoroki and Aiko have both proven to be this, given their ability to wipe out a squadron of S-rank and SS-rank heroes in a matter of seconds. The former has broken the limits of his flames to the point where they now burn white-hot, while the latter has a Quirk that lets her fire a WaveMotionGun attack that erases whatever it touches]]. And then there's Armageddon, the first PLF's final weapon, so terrible that Midoriya caused the collapse of the first PLF rather than letting it deployed: [[spoiler:it's Romero Fujimi, turned into a Nomou whose original Quirk [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Zombie Virus]] was augmented and supplemented enough to turn him into a walking Zombie Apocalypse]].

** NuclearOption: That said, the third stage is ''exactly'' what is appropriate against [[spoiler:[[ZombieApocalypse Armageddon]]]] now that someone retrieved and deployed him.

* ZombieApocalypse: Courtesy of All for One, there's one ready to start: [[spoiler:he had Romero Fujimi turned into Armageddon, a Nomou capable of unleashing one]]. And [[spoiler:Dabi]] went and unleashed it years after Midoriya thought he had sealed it away for good.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Overhaul and most of the original PLF's higher-ups: during the first Paranormal Liberation War he'd have rather lost the war than deploying Armageddon and wiping out all of Japan with [[spoiler:a ZombieApocalypse]], and after his death and the realization he would fail to prevent its deployment is what pushed Midoriya to betray the organization and have it destroyed before Armageddon could be unleashed.

* ZombieApocalypse: Courtesy of All for One, there's one ready to start: [[spoiler:he had Romero Fujimi turned into Armageddon, a Nomou capable of unleashing one]]. And someone went and unleashed it years after Midoriya thought he had sealed it away for good.

** PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler: Todoroki and Aiko have both proven to be this, given their ability to wipe out a squadron of S-rank and SS-rank heroes in a matter of seconds. The former has broken the limits of his flames to the point where they now burn white-hot, while the latter has a Quirk that lets her fire a WaveMotionGun attack that erases whatever it touches]].

* VillainTeamUp: The Paranormal Liberation Front is an alliance of different villain factions and groups united by their hatred of the HPSC dictatorship.

** [spoiler: Chapter 17 introduces us to two more ex-hero student operatives in Midoriya's debt - Ibara Shiozaki/Eden and Seiji Shishikura/Shishikross.]]

** [[Hatsume has become a successful support manufacturer who also happens to supply rebel groups with black market weaponry via Yaoyorozu's criminal empire thanks to a vendetta against the HPSC over Power Loader's fate. She also typically spends her free time on drugs.]]

** [[spoiler: Midoriya was raised as All For One's son alongside Hana, Tenko, Aiko and Asa, was kicked out of the UA hero course by the HPSC for PR purposes after All Might's death, and was Re-Destro's anointed successor before Deika city was destroyed. He ends up starting the second Paranormal Liberation War, however, because the HPSC made the mistake of kidnapping Eri to train her into a child soldier.]]

** [[spoiler: Ochako]] also counts, having been [[spoiler: converted into a Noumu bodyguard/lover who literally cannot say no for Midoriya by All For One as a demented sort of birthday present]].

** [[spoiler: Hana Shimura/Entropy is a {{zigazgged}} version of this trope - she survived her would-be death in canon, but died when her and Overhaul's attempt at overthrowing the HPSC failed.]]

* VillainTeamUp: The Paranormal Liberation Front is an alliance of different villain factions and groups united by their hatred of the HPSC distatorship.

* ForWantOfANail: This fic is essentially just ''Fanfic/TiesThaBindMHA'', except for the tiny detail of [[spoiler: Midoriya being born with a Quirk that All For One finds both fascinating and too hazardous to steal]]. This causes him to radically change his plans, leading to [[spoiler: Hana/Entropy conducting a much more successful USJ attack that leaves several students injured or dead]], and from there it all goes downhill.

** Pretty much Midoriya's entire role in the [[spoiler: USJ attack]] is giving one of these to [[spoiler: Thunderbolt]], aside from formulating strategies to [[spoiler: annihilate as many of the HPSC's tactical advantages as possible in the most gratuitously brutal way possible]].

* AmbiguouslyHuman: [[spoiler: Tokoyami and Ragdoll have both become more Quirk than human as a result of something Aiko is implied to have done to them.]]
* CombatPragmatist: Multiple examples
* DarkerAndEdgier: Being set in an alternate future Japan where [[spoiler: All For One raised Midoriya as his son due to an invisible Quirk, leading to a chain of events that eventually snowballed into the nation becoming a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by the remains of the Hero Public Safety Commission]] and where [[spoiler: much of the canon cast is dead or have become villains, including all of Class 1-A]], expect a very different atmosphere from canon MHA. Mirrond described it as "bordering on grimdark".