History Fanfic / MyHeroSchoolAdventureIsAllWrongAsExpected

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Many of Hachiman's least flashy copied Quirks are actually the most important. For example, Efficient Sleep allows him to have the health benefits of an entire night of full sleep in just a few hours, which is essential to his current lifestyle. Hachiman doesn't get any of the cool stuff of his sister's Homomorphic Chimerization, but the aspect of her Quirk that protects her human form is the one thing preventing Hachiman from suffering a body dysmorphic disorder from his various Heteromorphic Quirks telling his brain that his body should have the Heteromorphic characteristic that comes with each of them, like wings, scales, or whatever.

* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Some Quirks in canon are classified as Mutant/Heteromorph types, which Hachiman is explicitly unable to copy. However, in this story some may be wholly or partially reclassified as Emitter or Transformation types if the author finds it necessary for the story.

* BackhandedApology: Todoroki gives the most backhanded apology possible to Hikigaya after messing up [[spoiler:the plan for the cavalry battle by allowing Monoma to copy his Quirk. He even delivers it ''while stabbing Hachiman and his team in the back.'']] Word of God is that Todoroki meant it to be an honest apology, he's just so awful at personal communication that everyone took it as an insult.

--> For some reason, people took this as a confirmation of the rumors. It was petty of me, probably.

* FlippingTheBird: After beating Bakugo for the first time, in a 50m sprint, Hikigaya raises his ''index'' finger at him, not middle finger, but Bakugo reacts similarly.

* ForWantOfANail:
** Hachiman's experience hurting himself by misusing strength-boosting Quirks allows him to give Izuku a few pointers at the start of the school year that make a ''huge'' difference in the number of times Recovery Girl has to heal him up.
** Hachiman bumping into a U.A. High student with a {{Shapeshifting}} Quirk, a power that the same guy ''didn't'' have when he originally copied it, allowed him to realize a Villain just infiltrated the school. [[spoiler:More specifically, he discovered that Himiko Toga was the one Kurogiri hired to sneak into U.A. to obtain the intel the League of Villains needed to target the USJ. While this [[InSpiteOfANail didn't actually prevent the attack]], it at least forewarned the good guys to be on the lookout for a Shapeshifter.]]
** Hachiman's copy of Recovery Girl's Quirk was a key element in [[spoiler:the resolution of the USJ incident, by healing Aizawa up at a critical juncture of the fight, who used his Erasure to support All Might and easily defeat the Nomu. Both teachers were spared from the worst of the battle damage they received in canon, with Aizawa in particular requiring a lot less recovery time thanks to getting prompt treatment from Hachiman.]]
** Thanks to Hachiman collecting intel on the competition, Izuku is forewarned about Shinshou's CompellingVoice Quirk and wins his duel against him in the tournament stage of the U.A. Sports Festival as a SingleStrokeBattle.
** The same report allows Yaoyorozu to avoid Mineta's attempt to literally glue himself to her back during the Obstacle Course portion of the Sports Festival. She profusely thanks Hachiman for helping her prevent her canonical fate, pointing at the little perv hitching a ride at another girl's expense as a representation of the bullet she just dodged.
** [[spoiler:The fact that Hachiman's quirk is so versatile and he proves to be an accidental [[TheParagon paragon]] for his class, Todoroki focuses his attention more on him than either of his canon rivals -- Midoriya or Bakugo. So, during the Sports Festival, Todoroki loses out on the EpiphanyTherapy his canon counterpart receives from Midoriya and never embraces the fire half of his quirk. Bringing his character arc to a stall.]]
** Because of Hachiman and Yukinoshita's participation, [[spoiler:Midoriya ends up the winner of the sports festival, rather than Bakugo.]]
** Due to the existence of a heteromorphic pro-hero like Cyberpunch - who herself is a major advocate for heteromorph rights - [[spoiler:she gets a significant boost in popularity for fighting the Nomus during the Hosu Incident, and it causes ''Spinner'' to become a massive {{Fanboy}} for her and never develops his [[LoonyFan obsession]] [[StartOfDarkness with Stain]].]]
** Midoriya (and Bakugou) never found out about Todoroki's parental issues motivating his handicap since the latter chose to disclose it to [[ByronicHero Hachiman]] instead, who dipped out of spite. Thus Midoriya was able to put his Plus Ultra into winning the match instead of trying to give Todoroki the counseling he needed.

--> Or a kidney of gold. Maybe an appendix.

** Another of his copies makes his skin just a few grades hotter than normal, which is great for faking a cold or to coax cats to snug up to him.

** Bakugo and Yuigahama continue the nicknaming traditions of their canonical selves. Naturally, each of them have one for each other that they both dislike, namely "Airhead" and "Bakubaku".

* PutOnABus: {{Subverted|Trope}} with Mineta, who didn't make it into the Hero Course thanks to Hachiman managing to do ''just'' a bit better than him, but makes a reappearance as a General Studies student.

** Yuigahama's Quirk becomes useless if there's no fabric for her to manipulate. This means that ClothingDamage is a very real concern for her beyond the scope of the DefeatByModesty trope.

!!My Hero School Adventure is All Wrong, As Expected provides examples of:

Written by storybookknight, this story is available on [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/my-hero-school-adventure-is-all-wrong-as-expected-bnha-x-oregairu.697066/ Spacebattles.com]], [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/my-hero-school-adventure-is-all-wrong-as-expected-bnha-x-oregairu.51348/ Sufficient Velocity]], [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13113155/1/My-Hero-School-Adventure-is-All-Wrong-As-Expected Fanfiction.net]], and [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23072158/chapters/55189093 ArchiveofOurOwn]].

** Pretty frequent in Yukinoshita's canon omake. For example, when Hachiman pulled off an amazing DynamicEntry to help her during the USJ incident, her narration goes out of its way to explain "the suspension bridge effect is pseudo-scientific tripe". She also swears she's not bitter about him besting her once in a sparring match, followed by a long string of {{Backhanded Compliment}}s.

** Zig-zagged with Bakugo's relationships with 1-A. Much like the original work, Bakugo at first couldn't care less about his classmates, but after being bested by Hachiman, he gains respect towards him, and later Yukino and Yui, and with a bit of planning from Hachiman, comes to at least care about the other students' abilities. This isn't because he cares about them as people, rather he recognizes that it won't mean anything for him to be number one of his group if said group is mediocre, as was taught to him by UA. His reasons for hating Izuku are also expanded, almost bordering on JerkassHasAPoint; from his POV Izuku was obsessed with having a Quirk and neglected the physical work required to be a Hero, so while being lied to is still the main part, there is still the fact that Bakugo saw Izuku's dreams as insulting because beyond studying other heroes, he wasn't putting in the effort.

* AdaptationExpansion: Many side-character in canon are expanded on and given plenty of time to shine that they otherwise didn't get in source materials for both series. There's also more focus on the inner-workings and dynamics of the hero industry from the perspective of lower tier pro-heroes.

* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Hachiman to his little sister pretty much all the time. It's revealed later on that there's [[JustifiedTrope more to the gesture than just showing affection]]. Komachi's automatic AdaptiveAbility Quirk improves her body without warning her of what exactly changed, which was a constant source of anxiety and frustration to her until Hachiman got a good enough handle of his Quirk to identify the changes and advise her how to make the most out of them. Patting her head then became a daily ritual for Hachiman to scan Komachi's Quirk looking for those changes.
* AffectionateNickname: A ClassRepresentative is typically referred by his or her title in Japanese ("Iincho"), but the majority of Class 1-A refer to Hachiman as "Taichou" (lit. "captain") out of respect and admiration for their de facto leader, with several referring to him affectionately as "Hikitaichou".

* CharacterWitness: [[TakeThat The Essay]] that Hachiman submits to the faculty of U.A. as part of the written entrance exam would likely have disqualified him from admission were it not for Yui and Yukino. Both girls came forward to the school's teachers and informed them of how Hachiman jumped in front of a speeding car to save a dog, broke his leg, and then proceeded to take the Hero exam anyway. The devotion that Hachiman's actions, rather than his words, showed towards the ideals of heroism convinced everyone that he was a worthy candidate of U.A.. [[spoiler:Even then, it was ''Aizawa'' of all people arguing on his behalf that sealed the deal.]]

* CuteBruiser: Komachi's Quirk, Homomorphic Chimerization, allows her cells to copy any alterations done to a person's body by their Quirk as long as it doesn't change her basic body shape. By the time the story has started she's copied so many her bones are like titanium and her skin is as tough as Kevlar. To paraphrase Hachiman, she's a "T-Rex squeezed into the body of a little girl".

** A sorta accidental example also happens when Shinshou and many others in the General Studies course come to Class 1-A, to warn them that they're intent on doing better than them at the U.A. Sport Festival in order to get one of their seats in the Hero Course. Hachiman retorts with a trademark TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, but as Bakugo puts it, the actual effect of his words was like "lighting a fire under everybody's asses", driving Class 1-A even further to improve. The best part? Later chapters reveal [[spoiler:someone recorded the whole thing on their phone and uploaded it for everybody to see. Since then and to his utter embarrassment, Hachiman's speech has been motivating at least all first-years to really go the distance. It's even become an InUniverse case of MemeticMutation with jokes like, "Did you put your three hours in yet?"]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: A mildly darker take than compared to canon BNHA, [[spoiler:at least the earlier parts of the manga]]. Rather this story puts more emphasis on the students being teenage kids, with all the emotional and hormonal issues that bring; as well as put more focus on how real-world behavior would translate in a society of superpowers and physical mutations, such as racism and mundane criminal elements, which are more hinted at in canon.

** Hachiman and Yukinoshita's first fight in a training scenario ends up with him firing a water cannon at her point-blank, soaking her Hero Costume through, which was promptly frozen over by her own Quirk and made the special fabric brittle. While the battle officially ended because he used the capturing tape on her while she was immobilized, the real reason she didn't break free and continue fighting is that [[WetSariScene her white kimono was now see-through and clung to her every curve]] and she didn't want to give him even more of a eyeful.

* DidntSeeThatComing: Yukinoshita could have easily defeated Hachiman in their first sparring match after catching him on a perfectly executed aikido hold, but she had no way to know he could turn his captured arm into a water cannon and shoot at her with it point-blank.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: In a later chapter, [[spoiler:after the students have settled on their internships, Yukino questions why Hachiman didn't go with Haruno's offer. When he tells her he always had Cyberpunch in mind, she reminds him that an internship with a popular up-and-comer like her older sister is an almost guaranteed ticket into stardom. Hachiman tries to blow it off … but it quickly sinks in that he just threw away all of the potential money he could've made for the sake of his vendetta, and all he can do is sheepishly trail-off his sentence. However, this is a good thing as it helps [[SecretTestOfCharacter prove to Yukino that]] Haruno was wrong to think Hachiman was a scheming SocialClimber.]]

** Hachiman's assessment of Yaoyorozu's Quirk. He barely uses it at all despite copying it because it's hard as hell to do it right. The best he can do is creating small single-material objects in basic geometrical forms.

** After finding out that All Might is [[SecretlyDying much weaker than he lets on]], Haruno Yukinoshita comes to the conclusion that Japan's number one hero is like her, a conniving hedonist who only cares about their public appearance.

** Due to the existence a heteromorphic pro-hero like Cyberpunch - who herself is a major advocate for heteromorph rights - [[spoiler:she gets a significant boost in popularity for fighting the Nomus during the Hosu Incident, and it causes ''Spinner'' to become a massive {{Fanboy}} for her and never develops his [[LoonyFan obsession]] [[StartOfDarkness with Stain]].]]

* HeroicBuild: {{Invoked|Trope}} in Hachiman's case, who gives himself a Creator/BruceLee-quality build in a matter of months. Realizing that the basis of strength training is damaging one's own muscles in just the right way and at the right pace for the body to rebuild itself stronger little by little, Hachiman comes up with the idea of throwing a strong HealingFactor into the equation. That way, he just had to experiment by trial and error until finding the most time-efficient way to cause himself that kind of damage, heal up, and repeat, collecting the benefits without any actual exercising. While this does have its fair share of drawbacks -- first of all, the procedure is very, very painful, requires abundant nutrition to maintain, and he had to forgo the chance to include more gymnastics, martial arts training, etc. into the regime -- Hachiman does manage to cram years of physical conditioning into less than one, giving him at least a chance to endure the physical aspects of the Hero Course.

* IdealHero: {{Discussed|Trope}} and {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in Hachiman's essay that serves as the story's opening paragraphs. In it, he describes a cynical thought experiment to artificially produce an IdealHero that will tirelessly serve society by taking a Quirkless nobody that never received any praise or respect, suddenly giving that person a powerful Quirk custom-made for heroics, and then just letting them get addicted to the approval that society never gave them as they won't have any psychological defenses to it. Doubles as a cynical TakeThat to Izuku's entire CharacterDevelopment in canon.

** When Yui expresses frustration at Best Jeanist forcing her to wear different costumes in order to better her abilities with her Quirk instead of simply explicitly explaining it to her, Kawasaki expresses sympathy and states how aggravating it is people simply don't tell each other their thoughts and feelings. The whole story is littered with people not openly expressing themselves, including she and other girl's interest in Hachiman.

** Another of his copies makes his skin just a few grades hotter than normal, which is great to fake a cold or to coax cats to snug up to him.

* NoJustNoReaction: Yukino realizing that, with Katsuki and Yui being mostly a brat and innocent NiceGirl, respectively, she's the second most perverted member of Group D by default (after Hachiman, of course).
* OddFriendship: Hikigaya ends up in one with ''Bakugo'' of all people. This relationship has actually managed to produce a fair amount of CharacterDevelopment from both teens with Hachiman forcing Bakugo to become much more of a team player and Bakugo, through his honest and straightforward personality, forcing Hachiman to internally admit that the two actually are friends. [[spoiler:This gets deconstructed when Hikigaya returns to school after the Hosu Charity Gala. Bakugo–who's used to the dedication Hikigaya showed building up to the Sport's Festival–interprets Hikigaya's significant drop in power as him slacking off and becoming egotistical from beating Stain, which naturally causes Bakugo to lash out, both in [[HardWorkHardlyWorks anger]] and [[AngerBornOfWorry concern]]. What he doesn't know is that Hikigaya has not only been severely traumatized by very nearly dying for the ''fourth time in a row'', but also critically exhausted his Quirk stores, to the point that it'll probably take ''months'' for him to get back to half of his strength. The problem being that they're both people with very different sets of values, and lack the communications skills to properly express themselves.]]

** Miura Yumiko is able to fire a barrage of light arrows that are very accurate and pack a good deal of force, making her very useful for long-range combat, but less useful against close-range opponents. Miura herself is fairly social savvy and can give good advice to others, but she has trouble looking at things objectively if she herself isn't removed from the situation.

** Ebina Hina is a perverted girl who tends to see the world as it is in [[YaoiFangirl her fantasies]]. She took the place and Quirk of Kinoko Komori, allowing her to surround herself with a near endless amount of phallic objects (mushrooms).
* PortalCut: During the USJ incident, [[spoiler:when All Might subjects the Noumu to a German suplex, briefly trapping it in the ground, Kurogiri tries to get it out with his teleporting mist just like in canon. Unlike canon, Hachiman heals up Aizawa with Recovery Girl's Quirk (yep, kiss and everything, don't remind him), allowing the teacher to deactivate Kurogiri's Quirk just when the upper and lower halves of the Noumu are in separated places, cutting it in half. When the Noumu's [[HealingFactor high-speed regeneration]] threatened to kick in, Aizawa simply kept using Erasure on it to keep it wounded, which is when Kurogiri [[KnowWhenToFoldEm wisely took Shigaraki and teleported away]].]]

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: {{Discussed|Trope}}. Hagakure wonders to the rest of 1-A if the only reason Team Todoroki was allowed to advance after [[spoiler:Yukino technically broke the rules by kicking Hachiman [[note]]In kibasen (the Japanese term for the cavalry battle), the horses are not allowed to use their limbs. The rule is that only the rider can attack, the horses can only run into people and hope it knocks them over, nothing more.[[/note]]]] was because their team contained the relatives of two high profile heroes. The other members of Class 1-A state that that's probably not the case, but still seem to believe that Hagakure may have a point.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Deconstructed. It's discussed how Heteromorphs may require certain diets due to their mutations, either because it aides their abilities, like Shoji eating high collagen foods to help his shape shifting, or to make up for a deficiency, such as Hagakure needing more Vitamin D she can't get with her invisibility.

* OddFriendship: Hikigaya ends up in one with ''Bakugo'' of all people. This relationship has actually managed to produce a fair amount of CharacterDevelopment from both teens with Hachiman forcing Bakugo to become much more of a team player and Bakugo, through his honest and straightforward personality, forcing Hachiman to internally admit that the two actually are friends.

* AdaptationExpansion: Many side-character in canon are expanded on and given plenty of time to shine that they otherwise didn't get in source materials for both series. There's also more focus on the inner-workings and dynamics of the hero industry from the perspective of lower tier pro-heroes.

* AngerBornOfWorry: Yui sees this as the cause for Bakugo’s grudge against Midoriya for his self-destructive behavior, rather than the real reason being Midoriya’s self-sacrificing nature triggering his InferioritySuperiorityComplex.

--> '''Campestris''': I stop more crimes by being famous than I actually do stopping crime. It’s true! After I got the Strike contract, crime in Chiba went down by three percent. Because I was more visible, because more people knew that a ‘big league’ hero was in town, criminals and villains went elsewhere. Civilians called for help instead of using their quirks and getting themselves hurt. And I made enough from it all that I can afford to hire Meguri-chan full-time at the end of the year, so things will be getting even better. Face it, Yukino-chan. The hero industry runs on fame, and the sooner you make like your friend Hikigaya and recognize it, the better off you’ll be.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: In a later chapter, [[spoiler:after the students have settled on their internships, Yukino questions why Hachiman didn’t go with Haruno’s offer. When he tells her he always had Cyberpunch in mind, she reminds him that an internship with a popular up-and-comer like her older sister is an almost guaranteed ticket into stardom. Hachiman tries to blow it off … but it quickly sinks in that he just threw away all of the potential money he could’ve made for the sake of his vendetta, and all he can do is sheepishly trail-off his sentence. However, this is a good thing as it helps [[SecretTestOfCharacter prove to Yukino that]] Haruno was wrong to think Hachiman was a scheming SocialClimber.]]

* DistressedDude: Hachiman winds up being captured by the Sludge Villain right along with Bakugo, and rescued by All Might. Notably, this is the incident that lets him copy both One For All’s [[StrongerWithAge Stockpiling]] as well as the [[BlobMonster Sludge Villain Quirk]]; two of his most essential Quirks that lets him become a Hero.

* EyeScream: [[spoiler: For lack of any other options, Hachiman ends up flinging acid into Stain's eyes.]]

** Hachiman is TheCynic. Naturally. He doesn’t actually care about the assignments and has poor relationships with the other people in his group, but he’s usually the first to take the most expedient and pragmatic options.
** Yui is [[TheIdealist The Optimist]]. She wants to do the assignment the best way possible and get the best result because that’s what a hero is supposed to do.

** Bakugo is [[{{Jerkass}} The Apathetic]]. Like Hachiman, he doesn’t care about the assignment at all and would rather not do it. However, he can be motivated to go along if he’s properly goaded into doing so.

** When Yui expresses frustration at Best Jeanist forcing her to wear different costumes in order to better her abilities with her Quirk instead of simply explicitly explaining it to her, Kawasaki expresses sympathy and states how aggravating it is people simply don’t tell each other their thoughts and feelings. The whole story is littered with people not openly expressing themselves, including she and other girl’s interest in Hachiman.

--> '''Hachiman''': Cat's tongue, huh? I know you like cats, Yukinoshita, but there are limits to that sort of thing.\\
'''Yukinoshita''': Better a cat's tongue than a viper's, Hikireptile-kun.\\
'''Yuigahama''': ''Oh boy.''\\
'''Hachiman''': I'll have you know that a snake’s tongue is exceptionally sensitive to temperature and vibrations, Yukinoshita-san. As such, any resemblances my own tongue has to that of a snake are purely survival strategies developed after being in your presence.\\
'''Yukinoshita''': I see. In that case, I humbly apologize to all animals of the Family Viperidae for associating them with you, Slug-tongue-aya-kun.\\
'''Hachiman''': The ‘Family Viperidae’ might accept your apologies, Yukipedia-chan, but if mere apologies were enough to settle slander cases there would be no need for courts. I hereby demand a full retraction of your insults towards me, a formal apology, and ten million yen in compensation plus punitive damages.\\
'''Hagakure''': ''Um...are they okay? Should we stop them?''\\
'''Yukinoshita''': I'm afraid, Hikigaya-san, that your lawsuit will be pointless. Slander only comes into play when accusations are detrimental to one’s reputation, and I'm certain that any reasonable judge would determine that a comparison of you to any vertebrate could only be construed as a compliment.\\
'''Yuigahama''': ''Eh heh heh... They do this all the time, it's fine.''\\
'''Hachiman''': Did you forget about the jury of your peers, Yukinoshita-san? I mean, they won’t be able to hold the trial until January rolls around and they can find enough icicles to fill a jury box, but at least it'll give you plenty of time to prepare a defense.\\
'''Shoji''': ''Are you sure? This seems sort of harsh.''\\
'''Yukinoshita''': How fortunate for you. Burnable trash is collected weekly.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Deconstructed. It’s discussed how Heteromorphs may require certain diets due to their mutations, either because it aides their abilities, like Shoji eating high collagen foods to help his shape shifting, or to make up for a deficiency, such as Hagakure needing more Vitamin D she can’t get with her invisibility.

A FusionFic between ''LightNovel/MyYouthRomanticComedyIsWrongAsIExpected'' and ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' taking place in the setting of the latter but with characters from the former integrated into the world.

* {{Expy}}: The author is fond of including characters from other series into the story, with characters from ''Skip Beat'' being prominent in the Internship Arc. As this story is a crossover between LightNovel/MyYouthRomanticComedyIsWrongAsIExpected and Manga/MyHeroAcademia, they mostly serve as minor characters in place of OCs, but with hints that their own stories are playing out of focus in the MHA world.

* FusionFic: The premise of the story is having most of the ''[[LightNovel/MyYouthRomanticComedyIsWrongAsIExpected Ore Gairu]]'' cast as native inhabitants of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' world. To wit, Hachiman, Yukino, Yui, Hayato, Yumiko, and Tobe are Class 1-A students, Orimoto, Ebina, and Iroha are in Class 1-B, Saika and the rest of Hayama's posse enter General Studies, and Saki Kawasaki is in Support. For others, Yukino's sister is a successful Pro Hero and U.A. High alumna, and Hiratsuka-sensei works as an Investigative Hero.

* GrumpyBear:
** Class 1-A contains almost too much optimism for Hachiman to handle. A lot of it has to do with the fact he's surrounded by highly driven people who take the "Plus Ultra" motto to their hearts, meaning that Hachiman's cynical worldview and trademark put-downs only get them to look at their shortcomings and try harder to overcome them.
** [[spoiler:Cyberpunch is an example of someone who grew out of being a GrumpyBear. That's not to say she's not a cynical person, but she diligently runs her dojo to help at-risk kids, genuinely respects All Might, and understands how important her job is not only a crime-solving hero but also a pillar of the community. Essentially, she's what Hachiman could grow into, someday.]]

A FusionFic between LightNovel/MyYouthRomanticComedyIsWrongAsIExpected and Manga/MyHeroAcademia taking place in the setting of the latter but with characters from the former integrated into the world.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Tokoyami's Quirk, Dark Shadow, becomes too powerful to control in the darkness, but this is {{Subverted|Trope}} with Hachiman's copied version of it. Thanks to starting at merely the 1/108th power base of the original, pitch-black darkness instead just makes it strong enough to be usable even without Stockpiling first.

** A sorta accidental example also happens when Shinshou and many others in the General Studies course come to Class 1-A, to warn them that they're intent on doing better than them at the U.A. Sport Festival in order to get one of their seats in the Hero Course. Hachiman retorts with a trademark TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, but as Bakugo puts it, the actual effect of his words was like "lighting a fire under everybody's asses", driving Class 1-A even further to improve.

** The best part? Later chapters reveal [[spoiler:someone recorded the whole thing on their phone and uploaded it for everybody to see. Since then and to his utter embarrassment, Hachiman's speech has been motivating at least all first-years to really go the distance. It's even become an InUniverse case of MemeticMutation with jokes like, "Did you put your three hours in yet?"]]

* GrumpyBear: Class 1-A contains almost too much optimism for Hachiman to handle. A lot of it has to do with the fact he's surrounded by highly driven people who take the "Plus Ultra" motto to their hearts, meaning that Hachiman's cynical worldview and trademark put-downs only get them to look at their shortcomings and try harder to overcome them.

* IAmSpartacus: [[spoiler:In the wake of the Sports Festival, Hachiman sees that relations between 1-A and the rest of the school (especially 1-B) are at an all-time low thanks to him. After a tense moment with 1-B students, he just can't ignore his conscience anymore and openly confesses to manipulating his class to get ahead in the Festival, fully expecting his classmates to turn on him. However, his classmates interpret this as him falling on his sword for the sake of the class, so they (led by Yaoyorozu) admit to their small part in the plan as a show of support and solidarity. Only Yukino saw it for the admission of guilt that it was.]]
** [[spoiler: Which ends up ruining Hachiman's hope to reduce the tensions between classes 1-A and 1-B.]]

* PyrrhicVictory: Each of Yukino's victories in the second and third rounds of the sports festival is incredibly bitter. [[spoiler:Her team only managed to pass the second round by means of a CavalryBetrayal against her two closest friends, her breaking of Ashida's arm leads the rest of Class 1-A to question whether or not she is too quick to use excessive force, and her similar fight against Orimoto wherein all of Class 1-B cheers for their last candidate while the 1-A stands remain completely silent leaves her feeling empty.]]
-->I was one step closer to matching my sister's legacy. \\

* UncertainDoom: It isn't entirely clear what happened to [[spoiler:Zaimokuza. It's certain that he went missing and that the Noumu that League of Villains brought to the USJ had his Quirk, but did All For One take his HealingFactor and give it to the Noumu, or [[WasOnceAMan was Zaimokuza turned into the Noumu]]? And if it's the former, is he still alive somewhere, or was he killed after All For One got his Quirk?]]
** [[spoiler:A later chapter reveals that the Nomu was built on the "base" of some kid who had an adrenaline quirk, giving us a hint at what most likely became of Zaimokuza.]]

** Yukino is [[TheKirk The Realist]]. Very much like Hachiman, Yukino tries to find the best course of action, however, she is more interested in weighing the pros and cons to find the best solution.

** Something similar happens right afterwards in his fight against Yuigahama during the same Heroes vs. Villains training exercise. Thanks to his partner Kirishima weakening her Quirk-empowered Hero Costume before Hachiman arrived, just one good hit from him aimed at her kidneys was enough to shatter a large chunk of it. Naturally, panty shot ensues and an embarrassed Yuigahama squatted down to cover herself, an opening that Hachiman exploited to run to the bomb she was defending and tag it [[RaceAgainstTheClock with only 16 seconds on the timer to spare]].