History Fanfic / Type2Hero

** Ochako decides to go forward with her attraction to Izuku sometime after the Sports Festival.

* AdaptationNameChange: The percentage-based version of One for All that Midoriya develops is called Full Cowling in canon. Since [[spoiler: Uraraka]] has it in this story instead of Midoriya, it instead gets called "[[spoiler:Nebula Shroud]]".

* AdaptationOriginConnection: [[spoiler:Ujiko (the doctor behind the project that created the Nomu) turns out to be the one that experimented on Nezu.]]
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Kamui Woods has been in a relationship with Pixie-Bob from the Wild, Wild Pussycats for some time before the explosion that crippled Izuku. This causes them to learn about Izuku well before they meet him at summer camp.
** Ochako decides to go forward with her attraction to Izuku some time after the Sports Festival.

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Like in a myriad other stories, Midoriya gets quite the hefty upgrade in angst. Not only does he avert the SchoolBullyingIsHarmless trope, but he even ''lost an arm'' thanks to Bakugo.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Eri, Overhaul [[spoiler:and the Meta Liberation Army]] appear before the Summer Camp even happens.

** Mei is a lot more considerate than her canon self, being more careful with her inventing when Izuku's around (as she knows he has explosion-related PTSD), gets behind the projects to help him with his life (such as the portable desk and the artificial arm) and is ready to hunt down ''All Might'' with an anti-tank cannon when she learns how he told Izuku that his Quirklessness would prevent him from being a Pro Hero.
** Dabi as well. In this story, Endeavor is arrested for his crimes and Stain doesn't get linked to the League of Villains, which gives him less reasons to be a {{Jerkass}} or being loyal to the League, [[spoiler:which leads to him ratting out the League to the heroes to save Izuku.]]

* AnIcePerson: Apart from Shoto Todoroki, there's also Ayame Moroboshi, who not only has the ice control part down pat (perhaps even better than Shoto), [[spoiler:she's capable of unleashing the Howl of Winter, a technique that freezes everything in a cone in the direction she shouts,]] as well as her uncle, the pro-hero Frosty.
* AscendedExtra: Class 1-C from the Department of General Education Students are given little to no time in canon, the only ones with any presence being Shinso (who in the fanfic is a 1-A student from the get-go), Agoyamato and Togeike fighting for a spot in the hero course during the Sports Festival. With the protagonist of the story starting out as a member of the Gen-Ed course, the story itself focuses more on 1-C, portraying them as a RagtagBunchOfMisfits with [[LethalJokeCharacter quirks that seem useless or ridiculous, but can be a force to be reckoned with when the moment presents itself]].
* TheAtoner: Kamui Woods does his best to atone for how he berated Izuku after the Slime Villain attack, as well as not acting soon enough to prevent his crippling.

* BareHandedBladeBlock: Izuku uses his artificial arm to do this to [[spoiler:Stain... and punch the daylights out of the Hero Killer]].

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Nezu is funny, genteel, a great teacher and a full demonstration of PuttingThePalInPrincipal. He's also TheDreaded among his fellow Pro Heroes, acts as a PapaWolf when it comes down to protecting his students, and if angered his twisted mind and high intelligence will come up with convoluted plans to ruin whoever gave him cause to do so.

** Some time after the I-Island arc, Mei gets several materials for a project she's working on with Melissa, but won't tell Ochako about it. [[spoiler:After Izuku is kidnapped, the project is revealed to be robots that Melissa can control from a distance to aid in the field.]]
** At the night of the Kamino raid, [[spoiler:Bakugou Mitsuki makes a call to Inko to make amends and mention that Bakugou has been brought to a juvenile detention center after he failed his UA entrance exam in her talk with Inko. It's later revealed that Ketsubutsu has a Villain rehabilitation facility that doubles as a juvenile detention center, and it's where Bakugou was brought and enrolled to after failing his entrance exam to UA, and where Toga, Mustard, and Dabi were sent to after the Kamino raid]].

* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:The student with the head imitation Quirk uses it during the Kamino Raid to make the villains think Endeavor is waiting at the bar's back door, preventing them from trying to escape that way while letting Mustard and Toga try to sneak Izuku and Ragdoll that way.]]

* DawnOfAnEra[=/=]EndOfAnEra: Chapter 53 opening describes how [[spoiler:All-Might's retirement has lead to an increase of crime like in canon. But also watching so many Heroes work together to defeat All For One has resulted in Heroes, Vigilantes, and even random citizens to pick up the slack with All-Might's retirement]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Izuku begins the story as a broken, one-armed teenager, but by working hard, never giving up and simply being his kind, good-natured self, he ends up gaining multiple friends, two wonderful girlfriends that love him as much as he does them, an adorable adoptive daughter and the Pro-Hero position that had been his dream since he was a small kid.

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Mei says she's Asexual, but even she'll admit that Tsuyu has a nice butt.

* FireBreathingDiner: Izuku brings Moroboshi, Shoto and Mina to a spicy food restaurant with a standing challenge where eating certain dishes (graded from 1 to 10 in spiciness) while following a set of rules can net you a discount or even getting paid. Mina ends up accidentally sweating acid while Shoto actually burps fire.
* ForWantOfANail:
** Midoriya not only doesn't get One for All, but the day after he started to train with All Might in canon was when Bakugo blew off his arm, leading to Bakugo being banned from U.A. property and from ever taking the exam.
** [[spoiler:Uraraka gains One for All instead, and has a much easier time controlling it than Izuku in canon.]]
** Midoriya goes to the General Education department in Class 1-C, considering his situation.
** [[spoiler:The Shie Hassaikai are arrested en masse after Izuku defeats Overhaul during the Hero Killer arc.]]
** [[spoiler:The investigation into a Quirkist journalist leads to the collapse and destruction of the Meta Liberation Army.]]
** [[spoiler:Endeavor is arrested when his abuse of his children and wife, as well as bribes and the Quirk marriage he forced on Rei, become public.]]
** [[spoiler:All for One sending Gigantomachia to I-Island cause chaos during Wolfram's attack leads to the villain's capture, ridding All for One of one of his most powerful weapons.]]
** [[spoiler:Izuku's intelligence and analytic skills make him the League of Villains' main target at the summer camp.]]
** Itsuka being with 1-A during the test of courage means she's not present to blow Mustard's gas away, causing more students to fall sick to it and allowing Mustard to escape with the other villains. Magne gets captured instead.
** As Stain never gets to make his public speech deriding Pro Heroes, [[spoiler:he doesn't get connected with the League of Villains, so Spinner becomes a vigilante while Dabi, Mustard and Toga aren't as loyal to the League of Villains. This causes the three of them to eventually turn on All for One (Dabi, in particular, due to the parallels he saw between him and Endeavor and emboldened by Endeavor's arrest) and help Izuku and Ragdoll escape, becoming fundamental in stopping Shigaraki.]]
** [[spoiler:The U.A. students' rescue team is bigger, with several students from 1-B and 1-C joining 1-A's group, plus they get official permission from Nezu to use their Quirks, ensuring they won't get in trouble.]]
*** [[spoiler:Thanks to them, not only do they almost manage to save Izuku, the heroes have an easier time fighting off the Nomu All for One sets on them, while All for One himself suffers a surprise attack that gives All Might breathing room to deal with the supervillain. Plus, as he didn't have to go all out during the USJ, he isn't running on fumes during the fight and can go full out.]]
** Thanks to Izuku's analysis skills, [[spoiler:Kamui Woods manages to develop a way to shield the heroes attacking the Kamino warehouse from All for One's attack, saving Best Jeanist from taking the brunt of it, and becomes fundamental in holding the line while All Might comes.]]
** [[spoiler:With Tomura Shigaraki's death, All for One's plan to have him succeed him (and get a copy of All for One implemented in him), which has driven several arcs in the manga, have gone down the crapper.]]
** [[spoiler:All for One is finally defeated not by All Might, but by Ochako and Izuku fighting together.]]

* HasAType: Inverted. Turns out that Oscar is the perfect type for wealthy multi-billonaire heiresses. Both Maria Draconis and Momo latch onto him the second they meet him.
* HateSink: Hisashi divorced Inko and cut off child-support right after Izuku lost his arm - not wanting to support a "double-cripple", forcing Inko to take up multiple jobs to support the both of them without Izuku's knowledge - only to suddenly show up out of nowhere wanting to bond with his son after Izuku becomes a celebrity. Needless to say, Inko had no problem with Midnight knocking him out and taking him out like the day's trash the moment he dared show up and promptly filed a restraining order against him.

* HypocriticalHumor: Tomura freaking out when he realizes that Izuku is missing an arm. He only notices this because he had just attempted to remove Izuku's arm with his quirk.

* ImmoralJournalist: A newspaper's editor (whose son was one of Izuku's bullies and just got rough-handled by Ochako) writes and publishes an article revealing Izuku's and Ochako's relationship, deriding her for "dating so low". [[spoiler:She's also a member of the Meta Liberation Army.]]
* IncorrectAnimalNoise: In-universe to boot. Red has no idea what sound a Giraffe makes so he makes one up when (badly) pretending to be a talking giraffe to mess with All for One.

--> '''Shigaraki''': ... Oh I get it. It's because of All Might!\\

* LamePunReaction: When the study group rips off the ''Film/DieHard'' version with talking apes they just finished watching, one of them asks what the ape actors were paid to act in the movie and Mina jokes that they were probably paid peanuts. Everyone else boos and pelts her with popcorn.

** After having put up with Aizawa's tendency to come up with "logical ruses", half-truths and flat-out lies while expecting his students to figure everything out themselves for the entirety of her time at U.A., Uraraka snaps when he leads them into an avalanche without any warning of their being expected to reach the camp through woods full of traps. When she manages to make it to the camp, the first thing she does is punch him in the face. The other students joining her in their complaints gets Aizawa in serious trouble with the Pussycats.
---> '''Aizawa''': Impressive. You made it out-\\

** Muscular's Quirk allow him to grow his muscles. It increases his strength and durability, but they are still muscles - which Izuku takes advantage of by electrocuting him with his taser.
** A creature All for One unleashes during the Hideout Raid Arc has the ability to merge with concrete in the form of a graffiti, but not standing in concrete actually hurts it. When the U.A. students fighting it notice it burning from standing on a patch of grass, they attack it until it jumps into a concrete chunk and then they hurl it into a park, trapping it and essentially taking it out of the game.

** All-Might has been regretting his words to Izuku for most of the story, with the regrets piling on the plot progresses and both Izuku and him pay for it.
** Todoroki has a horrifying moment during the Sports Festival when it looked like he had obliterated Gakushuu's head when one of his attacks when too high. Thankfully, Gakushuu had just flattened his head to dodge the attack.

** Izuku, Melissa and Ochako get together, as each of them is attracted to the others.

* RocketTagGameplay: A non-videogame example. Izuku's fights against opponents like Shigaraki and Overhaul are very short and decisive due to both parties being capable of inflicting lethal injuries very quickly.

** During the Sports Festival tournament Momo and her opponent both discuss sword styles named for ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' stances, while imitating the flow of Inigo and the Dread Pirate Roberts' duel from ''Film/ThePrincessBride''.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Because he doesn't get accepted into U.A., Bakugou has basically no presence in the story besides a flashback once in a while. But it's him destroying one of Midoriya's arm, and his cruel bullying of him, that drives most of Midoriya's character arc through the story.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Izuku being present at the USJ even though he's not in the Hero Course fools Kurogiri into thinking he's one of them, leaving him unaware about Iida's escape before it is too late.

* TalkToTheFist: Monoma decides to mock 1-C for having a "pet" (Sakai) and a quirkless (Izuku) in their class. Asano [[SizeShifter grows]], grabs him by the head and hurls him out of the cafeteria.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: During Izuku's week long Provisional Hero License test, he wears a device that acts like a panic button and, without his knowledge, as a microphone, so the heroes testing him can keep an eye on what he says and does while they are away. Needless to say, Izuku passes this test with flying colors.

* YinYangBomb: Themetically at least. [[spoiler: All For One is ultimately defeated by the wielder of the most powerful quirk, and the strongest Quirkless person.]]

** This is also something All Might realizes as he watches Ochako and Izuku beat the crap out of All for One: all the Torchbearers had chosen to fight him alone to save other people from potentially dying at the villain's hands, but the two of them are capable of doing it because All for One is unable to keep up with being attacked like they do.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19262302/chapters/45809623 Type-2 Hero]]'' is a ''[[Manga/MyHeroAcademia My Hero Academia]]'' fanfic written by Mad_Nimrod over at Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn.

* DawnOfAnEra[=/=]EndOfAnEra: Chapter 53 opening describes how [[spoiler:All-Mights's retirement has lead to an increase of crime like in canon. But also watching so many Heroes work together to defeat All For One has resulted in Heroes, Vigilantes, and even random citizens to pick up the slack with All-Might's retirement]].

** Izuku roars out laughing when All for One reveals that Shigaraki is [[spoiler:(or rather [[DeathByAdaptation was]])]] Nana Shimura's grandson, [[spoiler:because he knows his mother Inko is Nana's only child, which makes ''[[DramaticIrony him]]'' Nana's grandson]].

** [[spoiler: Uraraka has One for All]], which comes with all the ridiculous perks that Midoriya had in canon.
** Retroactively, even though he got dealt quite the AdaptationalAngstUpgrade, Midoriya also becomes a bigger badass by the fact that he takes out [[spoiler: Stain ''and'' Overhaul]] alone, Quirkless and all within the same week.
** [[spoiler: The U.A. students' rescue squad not only becomes bigger thanks to the addition of several 1-B and 1-C students, they also make a direct intervention into the fighting with Nezu's approval. Mei and Melissa are also able to intervene as well, the former as a FriendlySniper with a railgun and the latter controlling combat robots.]]
** [[spoiler:During the Kamino Raid, All Might manages to fight All for One at his best level for longer - until Ochako and Izuku take over and pummel the villain.]]

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Mei is a lot more considerate than her canon self, being more careful with her inventing when Izuku's around (as she knows he has explosion-related PTSD), gets behind the projects to help him with his life (such as the portable desk and the artificial arm) and is ready to hunt down ''All Might'' with an anti-tank cannon when she learns how he told Izuku that his Quirklessness would prevent him from being a Pro Hero.

* AnArmAndALeg: The second divergence that leads to the story is Izuku losing an arm after Bakugo blows it with his Quirk.

*** They can store a lot of energy, [[spoiler:which Izuku exploits by making All for One think they explode if exposed to certain Quirks, preventing the villain from taking Ragdoll's Quirk or his arm.]]
*** This then leads [[spoiler:All For One to try and detonate Izuku's arm on purpose, only for Izuku to reveal his lie and electrocute him with his now supercharged taser arm.]]

* DawnOfAnEra[=/=]EndOfAnEra: Chapter 53 opening describes how [[spoiler: All-Mights's retirement has lead to an increase of crime like in canon. But also watching so many Heroes work together to defeat All For One has resulted in Heroes, Vigilantes, and even random citizens to pick up the slack with All-Might's retirement.]]
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Overhaul]] bites it when [[spoiler:the Eight Bullets]] attempt to get him out of police custody.
** [[spoiler:Re-Destro is killed by Thrawn's men after he tries to kill Thrawn in the aftermath of the attack on the Meta Liberation Army's last compound.]]
** [[spoiler:Shigaraki dies when the arm that had been grafted on him turns out to be an actual Nomu that rips itself off him, causing him to bleed out.]]

** In-canon, Bakugo is a constant presence in the story since he is Midoriya's {{Foil}} and [[TheRival rival]]. While his presence in Izuku's life is still very relevant to the story ([[SmallRoleBigImpact considering he was the one who turned him into a stuttering, one-armed bag of anxiety]]), Bakugo was barred from enlisting into UA and is thus entirely absent in the story proper. [[spoiler:He eventually returns as a Ketsubutsu student after having been placed in juvenile villain rehabilitation]].

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu[=/=]DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[PaperPeople Gakushuu]] gives [[spoiler:All for One]] the double bird before catapulting him into a warehouse. [[spoiler:He's the vigilante Red's grandson, so it's InTheBlood.]]
** [[spoiler:Melissa does the same through one of the robots she controls, grabbing All for One and flipping him off before self-destructing.]]

* DramaticIrony: In canon, Sir Nighteye was critical of the fact that All Might picked Izuku as his successor. Here, he criticizes him for not considering the possibility of picking Izuku as his successor.

** [[spoiler:Not even All for One can stand the JustForFun/{{Rickroll}}.]]

** When Sir Nighteye details the features of Izuku's first hero uniform, he ends the list by stating [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles it's machine washable]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: A ''lot'' of things have realistic consequences compared to canon.
** Monoma's habitual trash talking of classes other than his own, while nowhere near as nasty as Bakugo's behavior, is still a violation of the school's anti-bullying policies, and after several warnings he gets demoted from the Hero track to General Education.
** Because Quirks are extremely random by their very nature, and pro-heroes do a lot of things to keep the populace safe, a type system is developed to make clear what hero does what: Type-1's like All Might are based on fighting villains, Type-2's like Nighteye are based on intelligence, and Type-3's like Recovery Girl are based on support.
** Gakushuu's Quirk lets him go 2-D and 3-D instantly. Turning 3-D causes large shockwaves from the displaced air that deal no damage but knock people back easily.
** Midoriya is a stuttering kid with quite the grave trauma and is missing an arm. Though he gets an artificial limb soon enough, that still makes it unlikely - if not ''impossible'' - for him to participate in the actual Sports Festival without causing a gigantic backlash, so he's made the co-announcer of Present Mic instead.
** [[spoiler:Moroboshi is given the chance to join the hero course after coming ''very'' close to winning the Sports Festival.]] Rather than ignore her previous intentions, she unleashes a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on Nezu ''and'' All Might, as well as society as a whole, by pointing out how [[spoiler: the only reason they're even giving her the choice is because of her strong Quirk, while Izuku would have never been given the chance due to his Quirklessness.]]
** Izuku's fights tend to be very short and bloody. By utilizing a large and very sharp blade, the injuries he can inflict with it are devastating no matter how powerful the enemy is because traits like a TouchOfDeath do not make flesh and bone any harder to cut.
** When Izuku begins to make his mark due to his great intelligence and analysis skills, it was a matter of time before the villains learned this, [[spoiler:and All for One has him kidnapped so he can either exploit Izuku's knowledge and skills or force him to reveal the different Heroes' vulnerabilities.]]
** Aizawa reveals that [[spoiler:blacklisting a student usually requires having said petition to be given to the education school boards and also representatives of other hero schools, and since all of Bakugou's records were tampered and cleaned up by Aldera, it makes it hard to justify why Bakugou had to be blacklisted. Thus, Bakugou ends up receiving a red-mark on his record instead of outright being blacklisted, leading to Bakugou being brought to Ketsubutsu as part of his rehabilitation in Ketsubutus's juvenile detention center]].
** The reason [[spoiler:Bakugou was able to enter Ketsubutsu is because Ketsubutsu has a villain rehabilitation facility, and seeing his record sent from Nedzu prompted Ketsubutsu staff to take Bakugou in as their student, due to seeing Bakugou as a case of being a juvenile villain, but Bakugou is only allowed to enter the Heroics course of Ketsubutsu ''after'' he has gone through rehabilitation]].

* TheLastStraw: After having put up with Aizawa's tendency to come up with "logical ruses", half-truths and flat-out lies while expecting his students to figure everything out themselves for the entirety of her time at U.A., Uraraka snaps when he leads them into an avalanche without any warning of their being expected to reach the camp through woods full of traps. When she manages to make it to the camp, the first thing she does is punch him in the face. The other students joining her in their complaints gets Aizawa in serious trouble with the Pussycats.
--> '''Aizawa''': Impressive. You made it out-\\

* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Yoshio and Tabata's reaction [[spoiler:after seeing Oscar, Maria and Momo come out of a shed, clearly disheveled and smiling.]]

** Izuku, Ochako, and Melissa Shields all had this reaction to each other.
** Both Maria Draconis and Momo fall, if not love, then in fatuation with Oscar at first sight.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: All-Might has been regretting his words to Izuku for most of the story, with the regrets piling on the plot progresses and both Izuku and him pay for it.
** Todoroki has a horrifying moment during the Sports Festival when it looked like he had obliterated Gakushuu's head when one of his attacks when too high. Thankfully Gakushuu had just flattened his head to dodge the attack.

* OhCrap: [[spoiler:All for One feels fear for the first time in a long time moments before Ochako unleashes her finishing move on him. The villain even believes to see all the Torchbearers ready to attack him in that one instant before he gets smashed into the ground.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The U.A. teachers know that Nezu has four levels of anger, and when he gets angry usually begins from the first level. When Vlad King and Eraserhead bring Bakugo to his office and see that he's already up to level two, they know Bakugo is completely screwed.

* {{Polyamory}}: Izuku, Melissa and Ochako get together, as each of them is attracted to the others.

* PoorCommunicationKills: PlayedForLaughs. The students who come to scope out 1-A after the [=USJ=] incident come to the conclusion that Izuku is a total badass who won't let his losing an arm get in the way of being a hero. Izuku really lost the arm a long time ago and the tattered sleeve on his jacket is the worst he got.

** Aizawa reveals that [[spoiler:blacklisting a student usually requires having said petition to be given to the education school boards and also representatives of other hero schools, and since all of Bakugou's records were tampered and cleaned up by Aldera, it makes it hard to justify why Bakugou had to be blacklisted. Thus Bakugou ends up receiving a red-mark on his record instead of outright being blacklisted, leading to Bakugou being brought to Ketsubutsu as part of his rehabilitation in Ketsubutus's juvenile detention center]].
** The reason [[spoiler:Bakugou was able to enter Ketsubutsu is because Ketsubutsu has a villain rehabilitation facility and seeing his record sent from Nedzu is what prompted Ketsubutsu staff to take Bakugou in as their student, due to seeing Bakugou as a case of being a juvenile villain, but Bakugou is only allowed to enter the Heroics course of Ketsubutsu ''after'' he has gone through rehabilitation]].
* TalkToTheFist: Monoma decides to mock 1-C for having a "pet" (Sakai) and a quirkless (Izuku) in their class. Asano grows, grabs him by the head and hurls him out of the cafeteria.

** Aizawa reveals that [[spoiler:blacklisting a student usually requires having said petition to be given to the education school boards and also representatives of other hero schools, and thus Bakugou ends up receiving a red-mark on his record instead of outright being blacklisted, leading to Bakugou being brought to Ketsubutsu as part of his rehabilitation in Ketsubutus's juvenile detention center]].

** At the night of the Kamino raid, [[spoiler:Bakugou Mitsuki makes a call to Inko to make amends and mention that Bakugou has been brought to a juvenile detention center after he failed his UA entrance exam in her talk with Inko. It's later revealed that Ketsubutsu has a Villain rehabilitation facility that doubles as a juvenile detention center, and it's where Bakugou was brought and enrolled to after failing his entrance exam to UA, and where Toga, Mustard, Spinner, and Dabi were sent to after the Kamino raid]].

** In-canon, Bakugo is a constant presence in the story since he is Midoriya's {{Foil}} and [[TheRival rival]]. While his presence in Izuku's life is still very relevant to the story ([[SmallRoleBigImpact considering he was the one who turned him into a stuttering, one-armed bag of anxiety]]), Bakugo was barred from enlisting into UA and is thus entirely absent in the story proper.

** The reason [[spoiler:Bakugou was able to enter Ketsubutsu is because Ketsubutsu has a juvenile villain rehabilitation facility and seeing his record sent from Nedzu is what prompted Ketsubutsu staff to take Bakugou in as their student, due to seeing Bakugou as a case of being a juvenile villain, but Bakugou is only allowed to enter the Heroics course of Ketsubutsu ''after'' he has gone through rehabilitation]].

** The reason [[spoiler:Bakugou was able to enter Ketsubutsu is because Ketsubutsu has a juvenile villain rehabilitation facility and seeing his record sent from Nedzu is what prompted Ketsubutsu staff to take Bakugou in as their student, due to seeing Bakugou as a case of being a juvenile villain, but Bakugou is only allowed to enter the Heroics course of Ketsubutsu''after'' he has gone through rehabilitation]].

* {{Asexuality}}: Mei claims to be this.
--> '''Mei''': Not sure I swing any way. Married to my work, ya know?\\
'''Eri''': [[FromTheMouthsOfBabes But didn't you say the frog lady had a nice butt?]]\\
[{{Beat}}]\\
'''Mei''': ... Eri-chan, please don't repeat everything I say.

* AscendedExtra:
** Class 1-C from the Department of General Education Students are given little to no time in canon, the only ones with any presence being Shinso (who in the fanfic is a 1-A student from the get-go), Agoyamato and Togeike fighting for a spot in the hero course during the Sports Festival. With the protagonist of the story starting out as a member of the Gen-Ed course, the story itself focuses more on 1-C, portraying them as a RagtagBunchOfMisfits with [[LethalJokeCharacter quirks that seem useless or ridiculous, but can be a force to be reckoned with when the moment presents itself]].
** A variation with Uraraka; she's a main character in the canon manga, allegedly, but her prominence wanes after the Sports Festival arc. In this story, she's a consistent main character.
** Melissa Shield also joins the main cast (transferring to Support Course 3rd year and even becoming Izuku's first LoveInterest) when her one appearance was in a movie and in a supporting role.

** Izuku's fights tend to be very short and bloody. By utilizing a large and very sharp blade, the injuries he can inflict with it are devastating no matter how powerful the enemy is because traits like a TouchOfDeath do not make flesh and bone any harder to cut. Also, the fights end so quickly because, in the real world, there is no such thing as a knife or sword ''fight''. The first person to get cut deeply will lose blood and strength fast.

** Izuku's fights tend to be very short and bloody. By utilizing a large and very sharp blade, the injuries he can inflict with it are devastating no matter how powerful the enemy is because traits like a TouchOfDeath do not make flesh and bone any harder to cut.

** Bakugou's Quirk lets him create explosions, and he's perpetually angry and quick to violence. It's little doubt that, if push comes to shove, he could potentially cripple someone, as was the case with Midoriya.
*** Furthermore, thanks to Nezu checking his previous history, he gets banned from taking the entrance exam and thus isn't a part of U.A., as they have a zero tolerance policy on bullying, which itself is a case of this as the most prestigious hero school in Japan - or really, ''anywhere'' - wouldn't tolerate something that could jeopardize their main mission.
*** On top of Bakugo getting blacklisted from U.A. (and, actually, any chance of joining a Hero program) for his villainous actions, Nezu calls for an investigation into Aldera Junior High for their habitual whitewashing of Bakugo's record. A lot of teachers end up losing their licenses, and some are even imprisoned for enabling child abuse by permitting the stronger students to openly abuse the weaker ones.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Ochako to [[spoiler:Bakugo after finding hin in the Provisional Hero License exam]].

* RealityEnsues: A ''lot'' of things have realistic consequences compared to canon.
** Bakugou's Quirk lets him create explosions, and he's perpetually angry and quick to violence. It's little doubt that, if push comes to shove, he could potentially cripple someone, as was the case with Midoriya.
*** Furthermore, thanks to Nezu checking his previous history, he gets banned from taking the entrance exam and thus isn't a part of U.A., as they have a zero tolerance policy on bullying, which itself is a case of this as the most prestigious hero school in Japan - or really, ''anywhere'' - wouldn't tolerate something that could jeopardize their main mission.
*** On top of Bakugo getting blacklisted from U.A. (and, actually, any chance of joining a Hero program) for his villainous actions, Nezu calls for an investigation into Aldera Junior High for their habitual whitewashing of Bakugo's record. A lot of teachers end up losing their licenses, and some are even imprisoned for enabling child abuse by permitting the stronger students to openly abuse the weaker ones.
** Monoma's habitual trash talking of classes other than his own, while nowhere near as nasty as Bakugo's behavior, is still a violation of the school's anti-bullying policies, and after several warnings he gets demoted from the Hero track to General Education.
** Because Quirks are extremely random by their very nature, and pro-heroes do a lot of things to keep the populace safe, a type system is developed to make clear what hero does what: Type-1's like All Might are based on fighting villains, Type-2's like Nighteye are based on intelligence, and Type-3's like Recovery Girl are based on support.
** Gakushuu's Quirk lets him go 2-D and 3-D instantly. Turning 3-D causes large shockwaves from the displaced air that deal no damage but knock people back easily.
** Midoriya is a stuttering kid with quite the grave trauma and is missing an arm. Though he gets an artificial limb soon enough, that still makes it unlikely - if not ''impossible'' - for him to participate in the actual Sports Festival without causing a gigantic backlash, so he's made the co-announcer of Present Mic instead.
** [[spoiler:Moroboshi is given the chance to join the hero course after coming ''very'' close to winning the Sports Festival.]] Rather than ignore her previous intentions, she unleashes a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on Nezu ''and'' All Might, as well as society as a whole, by pointing out how [[spoiler: the only reason they're even giving her the choice is because of her strong Quirk, while Izuku would have never been given the chance due to his Quirklessness.]]
** Izuku's fights tend to be very short and bloody. By utilizing a large and very sharp blade, the injuries he can inflict with it are devastating no matter how powerful the enemy is because traits like a TouchOfDeath do not make flesh and bone any harder to cut.
** When Izuku begins to make his mark due to his great intelligence and analysis skills, it was a matter of time before the villains learned this, [[spoiler:and All for One has him kidnapped so he can either exploit Izuku's knowledge and skills or force him to reveal the different Heroes' vulnerabilities.]]

* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:Tomura Shigaraki: "If there're more heroes like you, maybe society could be saved after all. Stay alive, brat. Be a true... hero..."]]