History Fanfic / TiesThatBindMHA

** All Might and Mischief [[{{DatingCatwoman}} relationship]] comes across like the TropeNamer, [[{{Franchise/Batman}} Batman and Catwoman]]. The fact that Mischief was a thief and even had a cat-themed bodysuit suggests that this was no coincidence.

** [[spoiler:Godhaul's first use of his quirks is to give himself blonde spiky hair akin to a Super Saiyan]]. Sadly none of the heroes recognize the reference.

* WhamShot: Chapter 59 [[spoiler:Re-Destro's attempt to use the AFO clone Nemesis to kill Overhaul and ambush the heroes results in Overhaul's consciousness taking control from the Vestige World and evolving his powers to become Godhaul who according to Word of God is much stronger than he was in Cure to Evil.]]

As of 1 August 2022, it is completed at 70 chapters and 298,946 words.

** Within the series canon, multiple of the younger OC’s who were a part of the League in ''Fanfic/CureToEvil'' or villains in Mirrond’s other fics are either citizens or redeemed villains here. These include Rabbit/Asa Midoriya, who is a civilian, Toxicity/Miyuki Tagawa, Zealot/Yoshihiro Maki, and Blueberry/Mieko Eto, all of whom are a part of 1-B’s rehabilitation course.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Nedzu is portrayed as extremely vindictive, sadistic, and cruel to his enemies, the only thing keeping him from being a villain being that his enemies largely deserve it, and that no one is willing to risk his wraith to attempt to expose him, not that the heroes wish to do so given that Nedzu is still a good principal and hero despite all this.

** {{Downplayed}} With Inko, who was the former thief and S-Ranked villain Mischief. The fact that All Might had a crush on her and nobody who knows her secret in the present is willing to turn her in suggests that she wasn’t that bad of a person, with it being said that she was more of a vigilante than a villain.

** The staff of Aldera Middle School are revealed to have been actively grooming arrogant heroes to increase their reputation, many of these “heroes” going on to become villains when they are called out on their behavior.

* AdaptedOut: In terms of Mirrond's previous work, ''Fanfic/CureToEvil'', Juggernaut is thus far the only OC that have yet to show up or be mentioned in the story. [[note]] While Mastermind and Suto/Awoo have yet to appear, the former has been mentioned in conversations and Suto is confirmed to show up eventually. [[spoiler:As of the Overhaul raid arc she has been rescued from her abusive father.]] [[/note]]

** Yoichi is this to Aiko, being one of the few people that can crack through her creepy façade and being the only person within the vestige realm who isn’t the slightest bit intimidated by her.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Shinso and Toga were both ostracized for their Quirks at a young age and abused by their respective families. Toga would eventually snap and commit a few stabbings while in a blood-fueled state, while Shinso would be kicked out of his home and forced into a petty thief to survive. To make this even worse, soon after meeting each other, the two are targeted by corrupt heroes who seek to beat them within an inch of their lives and throw them in Juvie, if not just kill them outright. Thankfully, Shinso and Toga are saved by Izuku, who gives them a chance to enter U.A. and become heroes.
* DatingCatwoman: When All Might was younger, he had a crush on the notorious villain Mischief, unaware that said villain was actually his brief lover, Misaki Kawamura, aka Inko Midoriya. When the two reunite years later, their relationship very quickly resumes.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: After learning of Shoto’s past during the sports festival, Izuku gets [[{{OOCIsSeriousBusiness}} uncharacteristically angry]], being extremely blunt and rude with Shoto and refusing to entertain his logic for a second. He explains that this is due to not believing someone when they told Izuku about Endeavor, and that they were right all along. [[spoiler: That person is eventually revealed to be Dabi, whose descent into villainy and acts of meaningless killing could have been stopped had Izuku believed him.]]

* ForWantOfANail: The reason why this fic doesn’t go down the same path as ''Fanfic/CureToEvil'', despite taking place in similar universes, is due to Inko being revolted at All for One’s career path and divorcing him.
** All Might killing All for One not only leads to his empire scattering across Japan, with Kurogiri and Doctor Garaki going to join the Paranormal Liberation Front but also leads to the capture of Tomura Shigaraki/Tenko Shimura, who is promptly put under the guardianship of Gran Torino.
** Thanks to Shinso helping her at her lowest, Himiko Toga doesn’t go on to become an AxCrazy serial killer and instead is able to regain her sanity and eventually join U.A.
** Because of Aldera being exposed and shut down, Bakugou is left with a black mark on his record and thus unable to apply for any hero school. [[{{InSpiteOfANail}} While he would make it into U.A by the rehabilitation program on Izuku’s insistence]], this does change several things during the few days in which he is not at U.A.
*** Inasa Yoarashi ends up taking his spot in 1-A.
*** Izuku and Ochako face Iida and Inasa during the battle trials.
** With All for One dead and his original plans being stopped much earlier, the criminal underworld and Villain factions unite into the Paranormal Liberation Front.
** Thanks to the efforts of the Gen Ed kids, a large amount of 1-A and 1-B are taken out during the first round of the Sports Festival, with the notable losses of Sero, Kirishima, Kaminari, Aoyoma, and Tetsutetsu, all of whom made it to the finals in canon.
** Thanks to Jirou, several hero students and members of the U.A. staff find out about Endeavor’s abuses sooner than in canon.
* HappilyMarried: All Might and Inko, after the first chapter. Eraserhead and Ms.Joke as well.

** Izuku is not used to praise given his backstory, so he tends to undermine his accomplishments and gets embarrassed when others compliment him. [[spoiler: It also turns out a lot of this is due to a severe case of guilt caused by Izuku very nearly becoming a villain after being rejected by All Might.]]

* LampshadeHanging: Nana Shimura would throw one on the sheer absurdity of All Might’s former crush also being an S Ranked villain and formerly married to All For One.
---> ''This is literally the least probable thing in the entire world.''

* LoveIsAWeakness: {{Subverted}}. Ochako ends up realizing her crush on Izuku during her internship with Gunhead, and begins to go down this route. Gunhead then ends up throwing her logic back in her face by pointing out that just because heroism is a hard and cooperative career doesn’t mean that having someone to lean on and help you is a bad thing or a distraction. This ends up pushing Ochako to confess to Izuku.

* ReasonYouSuckSpeech:

* SpiritualAntithesis: To Mirrond’s previous work, Fanfic/CureToEvil. Both fics feature an Izuku who uses his analysis skills and Quirk to change the current hero society and follow their mentor and father’s path, gathering loyal allies, many of whom are small-time villains, to do so. Both Izuku’s ultimately wish and fight for a better world, and seek to gain an influential position in society to do so, all while fighting various villains and villain groups who seek to tear society down and kill Izuku and his allies. The difference? Ties that Bind focuses on Izuku following All Might’s legacy and becoming the number one hero, gathering allies from U.A. and helping small-time villains get the chance to redeem themselves. Izuku attempts to change hero society from the inside and take down the corruption within it in non-lethal ways. Cure to Evil, on the other hand, focuses on Izuku following the path of his father, All For One, and becoming the new symbol of terror. He mostly gathers allies from villains and promotes them from small-time to major, and focuses on violent change, oftentimes killing his enemies to get his way.

** [[spoiler: After Gran Torino ripped into his personality and made it clear that he was heading down the path of many mass-murdering villains who wanted to be heroes at one point, Bakugou’s arrogant attitude completely breaks and he becomes TheAtoner.]]

* DidntSeeThatComing: In the raid against Overhaul, [[spoiler: the heroes were not expecting another clone of AFO to appear. The Heroes and Re-Destro were not expecting Overhaul to take control after the clone tried to assimilate him.]]

** {{Downplayed}} With Inko, who was the former thief and S-Ranked villain Mischief. The fact that All Might had a crush on her and nobody that knows her secret in the present is willing to turn her in suggests that she wasn’t that bad of a person, with it being said that she was more of a vigilante than a villain.
** Also {{Downplayed}} with Hitoshi Shinso, who, before being found and helped by Izuku, was forced to become a petty thief to not only survive but to keep Toga sane. Even if he had to enter the Villain Rehabilitation Program to join U.A, nobody seems to hold his past against him.

** [[spoiler: Tsuyu Asui is revealed to have been a spy for the Paranormal Liberation Front, helping them in revenge for all of the bullying she went through and to, in her eyes, avenge Habuko. With that said, she does regret what she did after bonding with Class 1-A, and abandons the PLF after the USJ incident.]]

* AwesomeByAnalysis: Izuku is extremely fond of this, creating plans to manipulate his opponents into making mistakes and capitalizing on them. He can turn near hopeless situations around and almost completely destroy any plan his enemies make. [[spoiler: This is best showcased during the Kamino Ward raid, in which Izuku is able to get Tenko to fake defecting to the villain's side and destroy their means of teleporting and jam their communications so that they couldn’t get back up, turn Dabi and Spinner against the PLF, identify that Tsuyu was a former spy for the PLF and convince her to contact the villain group and have them prepare for the raid on a different day than when it was happening, and have Compress, Stain, and La Brava neutralize their sentries and hack into their network. The result is a hopeless situation for the heroes that would have left half of them slaughtered being turned into a CurbStompBattle that left several top villains either dead or arrested, and leaving the PLF fractured.]]
* TheBadGuysWin: While not in the way he expected, Re-Destro achieved much of his ''actual'' goals, enough to potentially achieve Destro's Golden Ending for the Second Meta Liberation War in the future: [[spoiler:the remnants of All for One's empire plus other hostile groups have been wiped out or otherwise so weakened they're effectively neutralized, the HPSC has been discredited and disbanded and its members jailed, the Heroes have been weakened and the new levies are generally better persons, public faith in Heroes and the system has been weakened enough the popolous is asking for reforms, Destroist ideology represented by the Heart and Mind Party is being rehabilitated to the point the party stands a legitimate chance to win the next elections, and become so powerful that while Nedzu has realized their existance he also realizes they can't afford to start a full war]].

* ChickMagnet: Izuku has the interest of Ochako, Himiko, Tsuyu and Momo.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Shinso and Toga were both ostracized for their Quirks at a young age and abused by their respective families. Toga would eventually snap and commit a few stabbings while in a blood-fueled state, while Shinso would be kicked out of his home and forced into a petty thief to survive. To make this even worse, soon after meeting each other the two are targeted by corrupt heroes who seek to beat them within an inch of their lives and throw them in Juvie, if not just kill them outright. Thankfully, Shinso and Toga are saved by Izuku, who gives them a chance to enter U.A and become heroes.

* FantasticRacism: More emphasis is placed on complex mutants such as Tsuyu, Miruko, and Himiko being discriminated against due to their bizarre, inhuman traits and appearances and often hitting the UncannyValley. It’s so bad that [[spoiler: suicide is common, and even good people such as Tsuyu could snap and turn to help villains for some vague promise of making everything better.]]

** All Might killing All for One not only leads to his empire scattering across Japan, with Kurogiri and Doctor Garaki going to join the Paranormal Liberation Front, but also leads to the capture of Tomura Shigaraki/Tenko Shimura, who is promptly put under the guardianship of Gran Torino.
** Thanks to Shinso helping her at her lowest, Himiko Toga doesn’t go on to become an AxCrazy serial killer, and instead is able to regain her sanity and eventually join U.A.

** Thanks to Jirou, several hero students and members of the U.A staff find out about Endeavor’s abuses sooner than in canon.

** Yoshihiro, due to being a former member of the Creature Rejection Clan, thinks himself to be inferior to anyone with a mutant type quirk. This is a massive problem given that his quirk works on how morally superior he feels to his opponent.
* InSpiteOfANail: Shouto still comes to the conclusion Izuku is All Might's secret love-child. He just so happens to be right this time.

* LighterAndSofter: Compared to ''Fanfic/CureToEvil'' and even canon, while still not without its dark and tragic moments this fanfiction focuses more on the humor and slice of life aspect of the world of MHA. Comparing the number of characters who die in ''Fanfic/CureToEvil'' to this fic makes the difference very clear.
* LoveIsAWeakness: {{Subverted}}. Ochako ends up realizing her crush on Izuku during her internship with Gunhead, and begins to go down this route. Gunhead then ends up throwing her logic back in her face by pointing out that just because heroism is a hard and cooperative carrier doesn’t mean that having someone to lean on and help you is a bad thing or a distraction. This ends up pushing Ochako to confess to Izuku.

* PapaWolf: All Might toward his children, adopted and not. Even after he can't use One for All anymore he remains extremely dangerous to any would be kidnapper - just ask Magne and Moonfish.

* SpiritualAntithesis: To Mirrond’s previous work, Fanfic/CureToEvil. Both fics feature an Izuku who uses his analysis skills and Quirk to change the current hero society and follow their mentor and father’s path, gathering loyal allies, many of whom are small-time villains, to do so. Both Izuku’s ultimately wish and fight for a better world, and seek to gain an influential position in society to do so, all while fighting various villains and villain groups who seek to tear society down and kill Izuku and his allies. The difference? Ties that Bind focuses on Izuku following All Might’s legacy and becoming the number one hero, gathering allies from U.A and helping small-time villains get the chance to redeem themselves. Izuku attempts to change hero society from the inside and take down the corruption within it in non-lethal ways. Cure to Evil, on the other hand, focuses on Izuku following the path of his father, All For One, and becoming the new symbol of terror. He mostly gathers allies from villains and promotes them from small-time to major, and focuses on violent change, oftentimes killing his enemies to get his way.

* ToWinWithoutFighting: The original Destro's goal was to start reforms and be ''elected'' into power, and only resorted to civil war when that failed - and when he realized he would lose he left to his eventual successors instructions on how to succeed where he failed, his Golden Ending. [[spoiler:Re-Destro has got far enough the Hearts and Minds Party is poised to win the next elections, and while Nedzu has discovered his existance and identified the public fronts of the MLA he also realizes that they're too powerful to go after them with force without starting a civil war the MLA could well win]].

** While far from a complete {{Jerkass}}, Momo Yaoyorozu did start out in the story struggling with jealously towards Izuku and a tendency to look slightly down on her classmates due to her social status, especially the former villains. After Izuku helped Mineta, someone Momo wanted to see expelled, she begins to lighten up, read up on quirk discrimination, and even becomes close friends with Izuku and Mei Hatsume.
** Mineta’s perverted, near harassment tendencies are dropped after Izuku points out to him that he’s likely depressed and using his interest in girls to cope.

* UncertainDoom: Overhaul and the Shie Hassaikai were dealt with years prior to canon thanks to several of the villains the Midoriya’s were close to launching an attack on Overhaul’s base, seemingly killing him when the building collapsed. While Overhaul was very quickly revealed to have survived and Chronostasis managed to get out as well, the fate of the rest of the Shie Hassaikai is unknown.

* WhamShot: Chapter 59 [[spoiler:Re-Destro's attempt to use the AFO clone Nemesis to kill Overhaul and ambush the heroes results in Overhaul's consciousness taking control from the Vestige World and evolving his powers to become Godhaul who according to Word of God is much stronger than he was in Cure to Evil.]]

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/36245944/chapters/90355756 Ties that Bind]]'' is a ''Franchise/MyHeroAcademia'' fanfiction created by Mirrond. It is the second part of the ''Curious cases of family bonds or lack thereof'' series. It can also be read on Fanfiction.net [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14010260/1/Ties-that-Bind here]]

* AdaptedOut: In terms of Mirrond's previous work, ''Fanfic/CureToEvil'', Juggernaut is thus far the only OC that have let to show up or be mentioned in the story. [[note]] While Mastermind and Suto/Awoo have yet to appear, the former has been mentioned in conversations and Suto is confirmed to show up eventually. [[spoiler:As of the Overhaul raid arc she has been rescued from her abusive father.]] [[/note]]

* ContrivedCoincidence: PlayedForLaughs: The sheer amount of coincidences surrounding All Might and Inko’s reunion and history, from Izuku being All Might’s biological son, Inko being a former villain that All Might had a crush on, to Inko’s former husband being ''All Might’s dead arch nemesis whom she also had children with'', is all done not only for comedy but to set up the [[{{EstablishingSeriesMoment}} tone of the fic]].

* CreepyChild: The way Aiko Midoriya acts, from her jokes about death, her mysterious power, and her terrifying stares, wouldn’t make her out of place in a horror movie. Hell, she even references ''Film/TheShining'' at one point!

* NotSoAboveItAll: All for One wore Paw Patrol pajamas.

* AdaptedOut: In terms of Mirrond's previous work, ''Fanfic/CureToEvil'', Juggernaut is thus far the only OC that have let to show up or be mentioned in the story. [[note]] While Mastermind and Suto/Awoo have yet to appear, the former has been mentioned in conversations and Suto is confirmed to show up eventually. [[/note]]

** [[spoiler: Habuko Mongoose, Tsuyu’s friend from Middle School and a student from Isamu in canon, is revealed to have committed suicide as a result of the bullying she received due to being a complex mutant.]]

* VillainTeamUp: The Paranormal Liberation Front is an alliance of different Villain factions and groups.

* AdaptedOut: In terms of Mirrond's previous work, ''Fanfic/CureToEvil'', Juggernaut is thus far the only OC that have let to show up or be mentioned in the story. [[note]] While Mastermind and Suto/Awoo have let to appear, the former has been mentioned in conversations and Suto is confirmed to show up eventually. [[/note]]

** {{Downplayed}} With Inko, who was the former thief and S-Ranked villain Mischief. The fact that All Might had a crush on her and nobody that knows her secret is willing to turn her in during the present suggests that she wasn’t that bad of a person, with it being said that she was more of a vigilante than a villain.

* AdaptedOut: In terms of Mirrond's previous work, ''Fanfic/CureToEvil'', Juggernaut and Non are thus far the only two OC's that have let to show up or be mentioned in the story. [[note]] While Split, Mastermind, and Suto/Awoo have let to appear, the former two have been mentioned in conversations and Suto is confirmed to show up eventually. [[/note]]

** Mr. Compress is more of a Robin Hood-type thief here, stealing from the rich, exposing corruption, avoiding direct conflict, and never killing. Contrast this to canon, in which he is a member of the League who is more than willing to hurt and kill heroes and teenagers.

** {{Downplayed}} With Inko, who was a former S-Ranked Robin Hood-type thief. The fact that All Might had a crush on her and nobody that knows her secret is willing to turn her in during the present suggests that she wasn’t that bad of a person, with it being said that she was more of a vigilante than a villain.

* CoolUncle: Yoichi is this to Aiko, being one of the few people that can crack through her creepy façade and being the only person within the vestige realm who isn’t the slightest bit intimidated by her.

** All Might killing All for One not only leads to his empire scattering across Japan, with Kurogiri and the Doctor going to join Overhaul, but also leads to the capture of Tomura Shigaraki/Tenko Shimura, who is promptly put under the guardianship of Gran Torino.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/36245944/chapters/90355756 Ties That Bind]]'' is a ''Franchise/MyHeroAcademia'' fanfiction created by Mirrond. It is the second part of the ''Curious cases of family bonds or lack thereof'' series. It can also be read on Fanfiction.net [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14010260/1/Ties-that-Bind here]]

* SpiritualAntithesis: To Mirrond’s previous work, Fanfic/CureToEvil. Both fics feature an Izuku who uses his analysis skills and Quirk to change the current hero society and follow their mentor and father’s path, gathering loyal allies, many of whom are small-time villains, to do so. Both Izuku’s ultimately wish and fight for a better world, and seek to gain an influential position in society to do so, all while fighting various villains and villain groups who seek to tear society down and kill Izuku and his allies. The difference? Ties That Bind focuses on Izuku following All Might’s legacy and becoming the number one hero, gathering allies from U.A and helping small-time villains get the chance to redeem themselves. Izuku attempts to change hero society from the inside and take down the corruption within it in non-lethal ways. Cure to Evil, on the other hand, focuses on Izuku following the path of his father, All For One, and becoming the new symbol of terror. He mostly gathers allies from villains and promotes them from small-time to major, and focuses on violent change, oftentimes killing his enemies to get his way.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Izuku is not used to praise given his backstory, so he tends to undermine his accomplishments and gets embarrassed when others compliment him. [[spoiler: It also turns out a lot of this is due to a severe case of guilt caused by Izuku very nearly becoming a villain after being rejected by All Might.]]

* ThrowTheDogABone: After their efforts in the sports festival to stand out and show that they deserved to be heroes as well, Nedzu would end up turning Class 1-C into a third hero course, with the potential for 1-D to follow if the students there improve their grades.
* TookALevelInKindness: While far from a complete {{Jerkass}}, Momo Yaoyorozu did start out in the story struggling with jealously towards Izuku and a tendency to look slightly down on her classmates due to her social status, especially the former villains. After Izuku helped Mineta, someone Momo wanted to see expelled, she begins to lighten up, read up on quirk discrimination, and even becomes close friends with Izuku and Mei Hatsume.

** Mr.Compress is more of a Robin Hood-type thief here, stealing from the rich, exposing corruption, avoiding direct conflict, and never killing. Contrast this to canon, in which he is a member of the League who is more than willing to hurt and kill heroes and teenagers.
** Stain is not a killer here. Rather, he sticks to exposing the Heroes he targets and revealing who they truly are to the public.

*** Related to the above, Mustard is also revealed to be in Class 1-B’s rehabilitation program.

* AdaptationalVillainy: {{Downplayed}} With Inko, who was a former S-Ranked Robin Hood-type thief. The fact that All Might had a crush on her and nobody that knows her secret is willing to turn her in during the present suggests that she wasn’t that bad of a person, with it being said that she was more of a vigilante than a villain.

** [[spoiler: Tsuyu Asui is revealed to have been a spy for the Paranormal Liberation Front, helping them in revenge for all of the bullying she went through and to, in her eyes, avenge Habuko. What that said, she does regret what she did after bonding with Class 1-A, and abandons the PLF after the USJ incident.]]
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Inko and All Might go from strangers who are only connected by their relationship with Izuku to old lovers who get married after reuniting.

* AwesomeByAnalysis: Izuku is extremely fond of this, creating plans to manipulate his opponents into making mistakes and capitalizing on them. He can turn near hopeless situations around and almost completely destroy any plan his enemies make. [[spoiler: This is best showcased during the Kamino Ward raid, in which Izuku is able to get Tenko to fake deflecting to the villain’s side and destroy their means of teleporting and jam their communications so that they couldn’t get back up, turn Dabi and Spinner against the PLF, identify that Tsuyu was a former spy for the PLF and convince her to contact the villain group and have them prepare for the raid on a different day than when it was happening, and have Compress, Stain, and La Brava neutralize their sentries and hack into their network. The result is a hopeless situation for the heroes that would have left half of them slaughtered being turned into a CurbStompBattle that left several top villains either dead or arrested, and leaving the PLF fractured.]]

* BigBad: Overhaul, who is the leader of the Paranormal Liberation Front here and seeks to tear down Japan.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Chapter 2 introduces the trio of Thunderbolt, Red Wing, and Nightshade, all of whom use their status as Heroes to brutalize the villains they fight and even kill those with villainous quirks. They are portrayed as a few of the many “Heroes” who do similar things, hiding behind the Commission and their status to get away with what are hate crimes and villainous activities.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Shinso and Toga were both ostracized for their Quirks at a young age and abused by their respective families. Toga would eventually snap and commit a few stabbings while in a blood-fueled state, while Shinso would be kicked out of his home and forced into a petty thief to survive. To make this even worse, soon after meeting each other the two are targeted by corrupt heroes who seek to beat them within an inch of their lives and throw them in Juvie, if not just kill them outright. Thankfully, Shinso and Toga would be saved by Izuku, who gives them a chance to enter U.A and become heroes.

* DeathByAdaptation: One of the major changes to canon here is that All for One did die after his first battle with All Might.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: After learning of Shoto’s past during the sports festival, Izuku gets [[{{OocIsSeriousBusiness}} uncharacteristically angry]], being extremely blunt and rude with Shoto and refusing to entertain his logic for a second. He explains that this is due to not believing someone when they told Izuku about Endeavor, and that they were right all along. [[spoiler: That person is eventually revealed to be Dabi, whose descent into villainy and acts of meaningless killing could have been stopped had Izuku believed him.]]

** With All for One dead and his original plans being stopped much earlier, Overhaul ends up uniting the criminal underworld and leads the Paranormal Liberation Front.

* UncertainDoom: Overhaul and the Shie Hassaikai were dealt with years prior to canon thanks to several of the villains the Midoriya’s were close to launching an attack on Overhaul’s base, seemingly killing him when the building collapsed. While Overhaul was very quickly revealed to have survived and Chronostasis managed to get out as well, the fate of the rest of the Shie Hassaikai is unknown.

* PhantomThief: Asa Midoriya is very efficient in robbing anyone he choices to blind without them noticing. He can even do this to people like Endeavor.
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Though we don’t see it, a member of the general education course, Ayako Nakahara, spends the entirety of her opening speech at the sports festival dumping on the bias against less flashy quirks and the Heroes Commission policy to favor heroes that the public finds “inspirational”, aka those with flashy quirks. Humorously, this is an abbreviated version of a massive manifest that was published on the internet.

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Izuku is quite literally All Might’s son here, a product of a fling between his mother and Yagi years prior.

** Lawful characters such as Tsukauchi, Aizawa, and Present Mic, being traumatized and/or terrified by the Midoriya’s.
** Aiko terrorizing everyone who isn’t used to her.

* AwesomeByAnalysis: Izuku is extremely fond of this, creating plans to manipulate his opponents into making mistakes and capitalizing on them. He can turn near hopeless situations around and almost completely destroy any plan his enemies make. [[spoiler: This is best showcased during the Kamino Ward raid, in which Izuku is able to get Tenko to fake deflecting to the villain’s side and destroy their means of teleporting and jam their communications so that they couldn’t get back up, turn Dabi and Spinner against the PLF, identify that Tsuyu was a former spy for the PRF and convince her to contact the villain group and have them prepare for the raid on a different day than when it was happening, and have Compress, Stain, and La Brava neutralize their sentries and hack into their network. The result is a hopeless situation for the heroes that would have left half of them slaughtered being turned into a CurbStompBattle that left several top villains either dead or arrested, and leaving the PRF fractured.]]

* ShoutOut: All Might and Mischief [[{{DatingCatwoman}} relationship]] comes across like the TropeNamer, [[{{Franchise/Batman}} Batman and Catwoman]]. The fact that Mischief was a thief and even had a cat-themed bodysuit suggests that this was no coincidence.

** Overhaul is even more of a monster here than in canon, being the leader of the Paranormal Liberation Front and someone willing to commit mass genocide on the Heroes to take over Japan.

** [[spoiler: Tsuyu Asui is revealed to have been a spy for the PRF, helping them in revenge for all of the bullying she went through and to, in her eyes, avenge Habuko. What that said, she does regret what she did as soon as she sees just how brutal Overhaul is, and abandons the PRF after the USJ incident.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Shinso and Toga were both ostracized for their Quirks at a young age and abused by their respective families. Toga would eventually snap and commit a few stabbings while in a blood-fueled state, while Shinso would be kicked out of his home and forced into a petty thief to survive. To make this even worse, soon after meeting each other the two are targeted by corrupt heroes who seek to beat them within an inch of their lives and throw them in Juvie, if not just kill them outright. Thankfully, Shinso and Toga would be saved by Izuku, who gives them a chance to enter U.A and become heroes..

* DeathofPersonality: [[spoiler: Izuku, with Eri’s help, inflicts this on Dabi, turning him back to when he was 6 without any of his memories or his hatred of Endeavor.]]

** With All for One dead and his original plans being stopped much earlier, Overhaul ends up uniting the criminal underworld and leads the Paranormal Liberation Front.

** Characters doing a FaceFault during more absurd moments.

* TookALevelInKindness: While far from a complete Jerkass, Momo Yaoyorozu did start out in the story struggling with jealously towards Izuku and a tendency to look slightly down on her classmates due to her social status, especially the former villains. After Izuku helped Mineta, someone Momo wanted to see expelled, she begins to lighten up, read up on quirk discrimination, and even becomes close friends with Izuku and Mei Hatsume.