History Fanfic / Venality

* TheTeam: The "Bakugang", comprised of Bakugou and four other 1-A students.
** TheLeader: Katsuki Bakugou, the resident ace and the reason for the squad's existence.
** TheLancer: Eijiro Kirishima, Bakugou's best friend.
** TheHeart: Kinoko Komori, a GenkiGirl.
** TheStraightMan: Kyoko Jiro, a DeadpanSnarker.
** FalseFriend: Denki Kaminari, A mole for the League of Villains.

--->'''Aizawa''' "What do you want, Midoriya?"
--->'''Izuku''' "Me? Respect. A friend who didn't burn me three out of seven days a week. To feel wanted for once."

** In canon, Dabi [[spoiler: doesn't at all care about his family or how they suffered under Endeavor, and only wants to get back at his father for what [[{{ItsAllAboutMe}} he did to him]]. In fact, Dabi outright wants to kill Shoto, his little brother, and is implied to be willing to kill his other family members as well, if only to make Endeavor suffer more.]] Here, the exact opposite is true. Touya's main goal is to save his family from his father, and is overall very kind to them, particularly Shoto, who he is very protective of.

** [[spoiler: ''Possibly'' with All For One, who doesn't seem to want to take over Shigaraki's body anymore and is more than happy to have his successor lead the charge against Hero Society. Of course, given that this is [[{{ManipulativeBastard}} All for One we are taking about]], whetever or not this sticks is up in the air. It helps that All For One seems to actually value his close allies, while in canon he couldn't care less about them.]]

** Izuku lost all of his respect for All Might after the latter crushed his dreams, to the point of hating him just as much as Bakugou. In term, All Might no longer has his mentor-student friendship with Izuku, and in fact [[{{ButForMeItWasTuesday}} doesn't even remember his intial encounter with Izuku]].

** The Culture Festival and the battle with Gentle and La Brave is also completely skipped over. {{Justified}} in that the allegiances of the main characters makes it hard for them to participate in said Festival.
** Uniquely, the month long fight with Gigantomachia never happens, seemingly thanks to [[spoiler: Kurogiri getting in contact with Gigantomachia without being captured.]]
* AmbiguouslyRelated: Haru Garaki is ''very'' similar to Tomura's long dead sister, Hana Shimura. She has brown hair with sliver highlights and her quirk has the same activation as Tomura's decay, though with [[{{HealingHands}} opposite effects]]. Her being in an accident years ago, while vague, lines up with Tomura's quirk activation incident, and her injuries, which include a lost arm and damage to her throat and torso line up with the canonical fatal injuries Hana received. Haru also very quickly forms a bond with Tomura, expressing concern for his neck scratching habit. The fact that The Doctor was ordered, by All for One, to keep Haru away from Tomura out of worry that she would regain her memories doesn't help these comparisons. [[spoiler: Chapter 46 would end up confirming that Haru is actually Hana.]]

* AntiVillain: {{Deconstructed}} with Momo Yaoyorozu. Out of every member of Venality, and later the League, Momo comes off as the most inherently "good", wanting to weed out the corruption within the Hero system instead of destroying it outright. While she does so by forcing dirty secrets out in the open and killing corrupt heroes, all of her victims are portrayed unsympathetically. Adding to this, Momo is also the most doubtful about the League's goals and plans, and disapproves of a good amount of their actions, such as attacking a police station or killing the various {{Mooks}} of the Meta Liberation Army. However, while this does shine Momo in a better light than her comrades, several characters point out that she is still siding and working with AxCrazy serial killers and, even if she disapproves of them, is still allowing these actions to happen. While Momo is able to brush these comments off, [[spoiler: once she confronts the President of the Heroes Commission, the latter uses her quirk to point out how much of a massive {{Hypocrite}} Momo is, and that, in spite of her claims to make a world a better place, she was still protecting a group of villains who murdered innocents and wish to destroy Japan all in the vague hope to create something better, and that Momo working with them makes her just as much as a villain as them. Momo, in term, comes to realize her hypocrisy, and revolves to shed her convictions to support the League, if only because she is too far gone to stop now.]]

* AscendedExtra: Mustard and Magne. In canon, Mustard is a one off villain, getting captured during the Training Camp attack, who's character never gets much spotlight and backstory is completely unknown, while Magne is an ultimately minor villain who never shows off much in the way of personality [[spoiler: before getting killed by Overhaul.]] In this story, both of them have far more focus, as Mustard is given a proper backstory and manages to escape the Training Camp, while Magne is arguably the most focused on League member who joined after Hosu, actively participates in several attacks such as the Provisional License battle. [[spoiler: It helps that she also survives the meeting with Overhaul here.]]
** Toru Hagakure and Hitoshi Shinso are a part of the main cast here, with Toru arguably being the main female character. In canon, Toru is infamous for being largely OutOfFocus in comparison to everyone in 1-A not named Ojiro, Koda, and Sato, while Hitoshi was only relevant during the Sports Festival, barring a few cameo here and there after that.

** Speaking of Ochako, the battle against the Meta Liberation Army seemed to give a few hits towards her sanity and showed just how horrifying she could be when you threaten her parents. She not only kills a ton of unnamed {{Mooks}}, but [[spoiler: she is responsible for two of the three named deaths in the battle, one of whom, Curious, is implied to have been tortured to death offscreen in a completely agonizing way]].

** The Kamino Ward battle also ends with the villains gaining a decisive victory, despite [[spoiler: losing All for One and Momo's identity as a traitor being unveiled. To wit, they injure and even kill several high ranking heroes, destroy Sir Nighteye's Hero agency and multiple tributes to All Might, and expose All Might's weakened form and force him into retirement.]] Even the Hero's Commission considered the battle a loss.
** [[spoiler: The Tartarus raid is an overwhelming victory for the League. Thanks to Izuku, the League catches the entire prison off guard and launches a sudden and brutal attack with the Heroes unable to properly respond. By the end of the raid, Tartarus has fallen, it's staff, Wash, and Gang Orca are dead, and villains such as All For One, Number Six, Prisoner C-46, Muscular, and Nine are free and join up with the League. The only loss the League had was allowing Overhaul and Chronostasis to escape.]]

* BerserkButton: Anything to do with Bakugou is enough for Izuku to near completely lose his mind in anger.

** [[spoiler: Once her ploy of disguising as Tsukauchi is exposed, it's implied, despite what she say otherwise, that Toga was more than willing to kill herself to avoid being captured by the Heroes. This ends up failing thanks to Hawks.]]
* BeyondRedemption: At first, Kirishima and Iida clearly wished to save Mina and Momo from the League, believing that the two were being manipulated and that it wasn't too late to turn back. By the Kamino War battle, however, the two have seemingly given up, recognizing that Mina and Momo are too devote to the League to redeem. As a result, [[spoiler: Iida reveals Momo's involvement with the League]], and by the next time Kirishima encounters Mina, he is completely focused on taking her down.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: The meeting between Mirio and Izuku in Chapter 31 have both sides make fairly accurate points that the other cannot counter. To wit...
** Mirio: Mirio was right in saying that Izuku was manipulated by All for One in turning into a villain, even if Izuku isn't shown to care. He was also fairly accurate in pointing out that Izuku isn't happy in his current life and that, deep down, he just wants to be saved and respected by the heroes he once looked up to, and that he, and his friends, deserve a second chance.
** Izuku: Izuku was more than right in pointing out that Mirio was deflecting a lot of the faults of heroes and All Might onto All for One (something that All Might himself later do again when he [[{{NeverMyFault}} deflected most of his guilt of turning Izuku into a villain onto his arch nemesis]]), and that the heroes would only respect him now that he had a powerful quirk. He also points out that Mirio attempting to save him and his friends was laughable given that none of them had any intention of going back to a world that did nothing but hurt and abuse them.

* BreakTheHaughty: Endeavor suffers this twice. Firstly, Shoto running away makes him realizes how much of a fool he was, though he is unabled to seek any forgiveness. Then, an even bigger one happens during the Kamino Ward battle, when [[spoiler: Shoto and Touya reveal themselves as villains, blaming their father for making their lives miserable. This '''destroys''' Endeavor, to the point were he hardly puts up a defense when Shoto and Touya launch a powerful attack at him, [[{{AnArmAndALeg}} robbing Endeavor of an arm]].]] He's even noted to be subdued and unusually somber in the hospital afterwards.

** This is a common theme with the members of Venality. All of them had admiration with heroes at some point, only for something to break that illusion, leaving them disgruntled by society.

** It's heavily implied that Hawks completely lost his admiration of Endeavor after [[spoiler: Shoto and Touya revealed themselves as part of the League]]. Notably, he doesn't seem to Endeavor in any positive regard after this, and is the only Hero at the Hero Rankings ceremony who [[spoiler: believes that Touya and Shoto are Dabi and Crucible]].

* CoolOldLady: Teruko Matsunaga, the President of the Heroes Commission, is portrayed as a stone cold, terrifying WellIntentionedExtremist who [[spoiler: hides the crimes of heroes for the sake of maintaining peace. Not only does she refuse to run when the League is knocking on her door, she then uses her quirk to attempt to MindRape Momo and break her.]]

* CorruptTheCutie: Mina Ashido, in middle school, was a friendly, cheerful, but inwardly depressed child who just wanted to be accepted despite her quirk. Que Himiko Toga entering the scene and becoming Mina's OnlyFriend and eventual girlfriend, resulting in Mina turning into an AxCrazy, murdering psychopath.

* CurbStompBattle: The battle against the Heroes Commission gives us Mustard vs Best Jeanist. Mustard isn't even able to touch the hero, who completely out thinks and out maneuver him at every term. Had it not been for Hitoshi, Mustard would have been captured.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler: After being defeated by the Himura brothers, Geten ends up better understanding their motives and seems to form a truce with them. Dabi and Shoto, in term, spare Geten and even offer him a place in the League, through the latter refuses.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: While she doesn't die, [[spoiler: Ochako, in Chapter 52, is outplayed by Nezu and the U.A staff and left in a hopeless situation with no chance of the League backing her up. She spends her last moments of freedom telling the heroes and their attempts to make her see reason off, and would have fought to the bitter end if Edgeshot didn't immediately knock her out.]]

* DwindlingParty: [[spoiler: Once the war between Hero Society and the League starts, the top ten heroes begin to drop like flies. Gang Orca and Wash are killed in the Tartarus Breakout, and Kamui Wood and Endeavor are killed during the battle against the Heroes Commission. With Ryukyu suffering a near fatal injury and Best Jeanist quirkless, only Hawks, Mirko, Crust, and Edgeshot remain on duty.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: In general, most of the League and Venality appear to hate [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrites]], likely due to their belief that the entire hero system was founded on hypocrisy. The reason Momo and co went after Stain in the first place was due to his refusal to see that his "crusade" was hurting just as many people who deserved to be heroes as those who didn't, all while looking up to All Might as the idea hero, when he is no less clean that some of the heroes Stain had killed. [[spoiler: Ironically, it's later pointed out that the League are as hypocrital as Stain.]]

** Izuku, being someone who suffered under abuse as a child, is understandably '''not''' happy when Toru tells him that Overhaul was using his quirk on Eri to produce Quirk erasing bullets. This soon extends to the entire League [[spoiler: and Rappa]] when Izuku informs them of Eri.

** While the League is far more willing to kill once they [[spoiler: start their all out war against Hero Society]], they do attempt to spare "good" heroes if they get the chance. [[spoiler: Hitoshi and Mustard end up sparing Best Jeanist once they rendered him quirkless and, mostly, neutralized him as a threat.]]
* ExactWords: [[{{TruthSerums}} Nemoto]], during [[{{DoubleAgent}} Toga, Twice, and Hitoshi's]] introduction into the Shie Hassaikai, asks them if they were here to betray the Shie Hassaikai, to which the trio said no. After all, you can't betray someone you weren't allied to in the first place...

** Izuku Midoriya has [[{{BlindedByRage}} Wraith]]. Despite his intelligence and ability to calmly plan around and act in most situations, Izuku is ''very'' emotionally unstable due to his past experiences. As such, when dealing with problems that cause him to lash out, such as anything to do with Bakugou, Izuku abandons any rationality and throws himself, full force and fists swinging, into the problem with little reason, to the point where people like [[{{PsychopathicManchild}} Shigaraki]] come off as more stable by comparison. This has very nearly lead to Izuku being defeated and/or captured on multiple instances, a good example being his battle with Bakugou at the Sports Festival, in which Izuku's sloppiness and rage results in not only Bakugou and Inko discovering his identity, but Nezu as well, who also puts together that Izuku is connected with the League. It's only thanks to All for One pulling Izuku out of the hospital he was sent to that Izuku wasn't arrested by the police.
** Of course, Katsuki Bakugou isn't much better in this regard. Bakugou's lack of a filter and horrendous temper end up setting the story in motion, and even when he slightly mellowed out, his inability to control his rage at pivotal moments constantly either makes things worse for the heroes or destroys potential leads into defeating the League.
** All Might has [[{{InnocentlyInsensitive}} Insensitivity]]. His blunt reject of Izuku's dreams without any consideration of how Izuku would take it ends up creating one of the worst villains Japan has ever seen.
*** All Might also has his [[{{BlackAndWhiteMorality}} blindness to the flaws of]] [[{{NeverMyFault}} both himself and hero society]]. When confronting All for One about why Izuku and friends turned to the side of evil, he immediately pins all the blame onto All for One and refuses to believe for a second that either he or the hero's could have been mostly responsible for creating villains, even when All for One outright tells him that he had nothing to do with them.
* FirstNameBasis: All of the members of Venality are on this with one another, showing how much they trust and relay on each other. This is [[{{PlayedWith}} played with]] with the newer members[[note]] Ochako, Denki, and Momo. [[/note]], however, as more formal characters like Shoto refer to them by their last names.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Whenever Momo brings up her work on compiling the data Toru stole on [[spoiler: the Heroes Commission]], she never refers to it as her work, but instead uses plural words such as "our" and "we". While this may have been refering to Toru, [[spoiler: it's revealed that Momo has had someone outside of the League helping her sort through and collect this information, that person being Kyoko Jiro.]]
** After the [[spoiler: Attack on the Heroes Commission]], Naomasa Tsukauchi begins acting a bit odd, calling eveeyone by their first names, giving All Might a nickname and never just calling him "Toshinori", and is extremely shocked when [[spoiler: Gigantomachia]] was revealed to be captured. [[spoiler: Sure enough, it's soon revealed that this Tsukauchi is actually Himiko Toga, and the real Naomasa is long dead.]]

*** Shoto reconciling with his brother, Dabi, and seeing him get heavily injured in a fight against Endeavor.
*** Izuku helping Toru with her self identity issues and giving her the ability to turn visible.

*** Mina encountering and becoming friends with Toga and accidently killing a hero.
** Due to Izuku being [[{{AdaptationalBadass}} much stronger at that point]], he sweeps the Entrance Exam and steals point that would have gone to other participates, and never needs to be saved from falling to death. One of these participates, Ochako Uraraka, would fail to gain enough points to make it into the Hero course as a result, leading her down a life of crime.

* ForgottenFallenFriend: At first played straight, then {{Subverted}} with [[spoiler: Mt.Lady. Despite dying during the Kamino Ward battle, she is only mentioned as a footnote after the fact, and we never see how her close friends, such as Kamui Woods, reacted to her death. This is {{Subverted}} once the new hero rankings are announced, as it's revealed that Edgeshot, Kamui Woods, and Death Arms formed a team with the sole purpose to bring Mt.Lady's killer to justice, with Kamui Woods using his speech to promise to take the killer ([[{{DramaticIrony}} who they think is Momo]]) down.]]
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: During his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, Monoma points out that he knows everyone in the League was slighted in life. He then precedes to call them all children throwing a tantrum while blaming the world for their problems, making it clear that he doesn't care.

** During the climax of their battle at the Sport's Festival, Izuku calls Bakugou "Kacchan" when dealing the final blow. Given that Bakugou was able to identify Izuku based on his scars, it hardly mattered at that point.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: While the series does veer into BlackAndGrayMorality on occasion, this is how the story sets up it's main conflict. On the one hand, the villains are shown to [[{{VillainHasAPoint}} be right on numerous points]], are fighting for a better world, and are deeply sympathic, but are still shown to be cruel [[{{KickTheDog}} puppy kickers]] at quite a few moments and use extreme acts of terrorism to accomplish their goal, resulting in many deaths. The heroes, meanwhile, are mostly portrayed as well meaning, if somewhat imcompetent, with many of their bad deeds being [[spoiler: covered up be an amoral Commission.]] However, it still is noted that they unknowingly allowed corruption to seep into their ranks, and, while they promise to fix the corruption "the right way", they likely wouldn't have the ability to do so, not help by their starch refusal to [[{{GoodCannotComprehendEvil}} understand why the members of the League are who they are]].

** [[spoiler: The Heroes Commission is eventually revealed to be a corrupt organization that covers the crimes of various heroes and allows innocents to suffer to maintain a thin veil of peace. Once the truth about the Heroes Commission comes out, nobody is shown to defend them, not even their agent, Hawks. Of the dozens of still alive named heroes, only five, Endeavor, Burnin, Kamui Woods, Edgeshot, and Best Jeanist, show up to fight the League when they raid the Commission, and none of them are fighting to keep the Commission as is, Best Jeanist even admitting that, after the League, the Commission would be the very next target. When overall good heroes such as Hawks and Mirko decide to ignore your calls for help, you know you did something wrong.]]
* HazyFeelTurn: Despite recognizing that Giran was likely a villain and still willingly working for him, Mei Hatsume, in her debut chapter, only really wanted to [[{{TheUnfettered}} make a name for herself and get her inventions out there]], and didn't show any real interest in becoming a villain or joining with the League. It was even unknown if she knew that her inventions were being used by League members, or if she was just being kept in the dark by Giran. This gets completely {{Subverted}} by her later appearances, however, as Mei not only knows about her inventions being used by the League and is trusted enough by Ochako to know of her identity as Singularity, but she had also expressed interest in joining the League, making it very clear that she pulled a FaceHeelTurn.

** Like in canon, the League attempts to recruit a blonde, arrogant, {{Jerkass}} member of a first year heroes course due to believing that they had legitimate beef with the world, only to be told to screw off. Here, however, it's Neito Monoma instead of Katsuki Bakugou.

* IveComeTooFar: [[spoiler: Several members of the League, specifically Shoto, Ochako, and Momo, eventually come to regret just how far they'd fallen during the war against Heroes Society, and believes that the League had lost sight of it's original goal. However, all of them recongize that they are too deep in the League to just give up, and as such fight in hope that whatever comes of the war will be better.]]

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Some of the members of Venality, before the Sports Festival, had sets of standards that prevented them from being completely loyal to the League. For example, Toru hated the idea of killing, Hitoshi only wanted to kill Mt.Lady, and neither Ochako or Denki were that involved with the League, and even had doubts about its goals. When Izuku was severely injured during his fight against Bakugou and then blamed for the fight when Bakugou gave him deeper injuries, all of these standards were dropped, and everyone in Venality swore to bring down Hero Society with the League.

* ManipulativeBastard: Even if he didn't intend to be one, Izuku fits this to a tee. While every member of Venality had doubts about Hero society, it was Izuku, through helping people like Toru, Denki, and Ochako with their problems, or offering people like Mina, Shoto, and Hitoshi a place to stay where they wouldn't be judged or abused, that caused these doubts to bloom into a full on hatred of heroes. Izuku seems to embrace this role more over the course of the story, however, as he deliberately asked for Rappa and Setsuno[[note]] though he would get [[{{RedOniBlueOni}} Rappa and Tengai]] instead due to Overhaul predicting this.[[/note]] to work with the League during their "alliance" with the Shie Hassaikai, knowing full well that they were the least loyal to Overhaul and the most likely to turn if given the chance, [[spoiler: which proves to be completely right in the case of Rappa.]]

* TheMedic: Haru Garaki, The Doctor's adopted daughter, serves as this to the League. Her quirk, Repair, allows to heal all wounds, external or internal, by placing all five of her fingers on the subject, though she cannot regrow limbs doing this.

* TheMole: Izuku, Ochako, Denki, and Momo are all stationed in U.A and actively feeding information about the school to the League. [[spoiler: Following the Kamino Ward incident, only Denki and Ochako remain in the school, and as of Chapter 52, Denki is the only traitor to have let to be exposed.]]
** [[spoiler: As it turns out, some of the Shie Hassaikai {{Mooks}} than Rappa recruited into the League were members of the Meta Liberation Army. This is presumably how the MLA found out about the League's location and the allegiances of Denki, Ochako, and Mei.]]
* MookHorrorShow: Twice in Chapter 28, ''Trojan Horse'', in which Dabi, Mina, and Toga hunt down two members of the Shie Hassaikai for information. Neither end up making it out alive. Of note is Masao, who is quite literally hunted down by Toga and Mina in a sequence that wouldn't be out of place in a horror movie.
* MoralityPet: Eri becomes this to Izuku and Toru once they learn of her existence. This soon extends to the entirely of the League when Izuku briefs them on the situation.

* NeverMyFault: This is one of All Might's [[{{FatalFlaw}} fatal flaws.]] He completely refuses to consider that the current hero system has any major faults, and will often pin the consequences of said faults, such as several promising teenagers [[{{FaceHeelTurn}} turning to evil]], onto manipulation from villains such as All for One. [[spoiler: This is best shown when All Might finally remembers his initial encounter with Izuku and how his words were likely the straw that broke Izuku and turned him into a villain. Despite recognizing this, and even feeling guilty about saying those words to Izuku, he near immediately pins most of the blame onto All for One's manipulations instead of himself and the years of bullying and abuse Izuku suffered under.]]

* OccamsRazor: [[spoiler: Despite Dabi and Crucible identities as Shoto and Touya Todoroki being a well known fact by the time of the new Hero Rankings, a good majority of heroes are shown to either doubt the brother's claims (Mirko) or dismiss them outright (Best Jeanist), bring up theories such as Crucible being a Noumu that was designed after Shoto or Dabi being a delusional villain that has a similar Quirk to Touya, ignoring the simple solution of the two just being the Todoroki brothers. This is lampshaded by Hawks, who quotes Occam's Razor to Best Jeanist and tells him that he is likely overthinking it.]]

* PapaWolf: After the attack on the Provisional License exam, Aizawa makes it his main goal to find and take down the League and Venality, refusing to allow any of his students to die like Oboro did. Yamada also ends up joining with Aizawa in his endeavor.
* PowerTrio: Between Shoto Aizawa, Present Mic, and Ms.Joke. The three have swore to bring the League down, and have each others backs in every major battle they fight in.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Monoma gives a massive one to Venality, the League, and Izuku in particular, not only calling them spoiled children for wanting to destroy the hero system because of their own problems and thinking that he would be swayed to their side, but also calling Izuku pathetic because he just wants to prove himself better than someone, something that Izuku is unable to retort against.
** [[spoiler: Just before their final battle against him, Touya and Shoto completely pick apart Endeavor and his past actions, stateing that he didn't deserve their forgiveness after all that he had done. Endeavor, in term, gives his sons a minor one before his death, asking if all of the death and horror they had wrought, on top of basically repeating what he did on a much worse scale for their ambitions, was worth it.]]

* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler: Kamui Woods ends up taking a blow meant for Endeavor during the latters fight against Dabi and Crucible, resulting in his death. While Endeavor does manage to heavily injure his sons, Kamui's sacrifice is ultimately pointless when the two brothers manage to beat and kill Endeavor anyway.]]
* ShipTease: As of the Shie Hassaikai raid, Momo and Shoto are shown to be very close, often complementing each others and their accomplishments. Characters like [[{{DeadpanSnarker}} Mustard]] are more than willing to point this out.
* ShoutOut: Toru name on Venality and her villain name is [[Franchise/TheIncredibles Violet]].

** Izuku's quirk, being a leg based ability that allows him to control wind, shot air bullets, and propel himself through the air, is very similar to [[Franchise/OnePiece Vinsmoke Sanji's "Black Leg Style"]].

** Similarly, Chapter 44 is named ''[[{{Music/Gorillaz}} Rhinestone Eyes]]''. Given that Skeptic is fought is this chapter, it's not really surprising.
* SmugSuper: Most of the League and Venality portray themselves as arrogant their battles with the heroes, and almost always has some kind of taunt to rile them up. The fact that none of them have been captured and they have always managed to put up a fight shows that their confidence isn't at all unfounded.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Momo is this for the League. Unlike the rest of the League who consider all heroes scum she acknowledges that some of them are worthy of the title such as Tensei Iida, the Wild Wild Pussycats and numerous members of the top ten. Additionally she makes it clear she doesn't enjoy fighting her former classmates or the various {{Mooks}} of the Meta Liberation Army.

** Izuku Midoriya, from birth, wanted nothing more than to be a hero in spite of being quirkless. Years of bullying and abuse that accumulated in his personal idol, All Might, crushing his dreams without a second thought broke Izuku, leading him to the League. Had Izuku just gotten any support or encouragement, the events of this story could have been avoided.
--> '''Aizawa''' "What do you want, Midoriya?"
--> '''Izuku''' "Me? Respect. A friend who didn't burn me three out of seven days a week. To feel wanted for once."

** Toru Hagakure was abandoned by her peers due to her quirk, and suffered under massive self identity issues. Izuku and co being the only ones who attempted to help her with her problems resulted in Toru joining the League.

** Mina Ashido was ostracized by her peers due to her quirk, and no matter what she did Mina couldn't get rid of the idea of her quirk being unstable. The only person who didnt treat Mina like a walking biohazard was Himiko Toga, an infamous villain. After accidently killing a hero, Mina is slowly corrupted by Toga into becoming a deranged psychopath.
** Ochako Uraraka wanted to be a hero to give her parents a comfortable life. However, after failing the U.A entrance exam, a desperate Ochako turns to helping the broker Giran to make money. After several deals, Ochako finds herself becoming more and more used to villainy, if only because doing so would help her parents when others didn’t.

** Momo Yaoyoruzu was lied to by her parents and mentors their actions, something that breaks Momo when she discovers that her parents may be the biggest criminals of all, covering up the crimes of Heroes that abuse their titles. All of this cumulated in Momo becoming a HeroKiller in vengeance of everyone that suffered because of them.
*** Geten was born into a wealthy family whose business was destroyed by Endeavor. Because neither parent wanted to quit their lifestyles, Geten was sold into slavery to play off their debts, eventually ending up in the hands of Re-Destro. This eventually lead Geten to becoming a Lieutenant of the MLA and dedicating his life to killing Endeavor and destroying his legacy.
* TrueCompanions: The League of Villains, being comprised of societal rejects, those who had a bad hand in life, and those who seek to destroy the current hero system, all trust and care about each other to an immense degree. It to the point where [[spoiler: when one of their members gets killed, '''everyone''' in the League gets pissed off and swears to make the perpetrator suffer.]]
* UncertainDoom: During the battle between the Meta Liberation Army and the League, [[spoiler: Slide'n'Go is stabbed in the throat by Toru while Skeptic is dropped off the main MLA tower by Ochako. Neither are confirmed dead after this, but given that both injuries are likely severe, and, in the cause of Skeptic, something that outright killed Curious in canon, the chance for either living are very low. Ultimately {{Subverted}}, as both are confirmed dead after the battle.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: The entirety of Venality are this to Izuku, due to him helping them at their lowest and giving them a place in the world. Izuku being heavily injured during his fight with Bakugou during the Sports Festival and being slandered as the sole aggressive party in the fight is enough for everyone on the team to drop their morals and fully submit to the League's cause.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Played with for Mina and Kirishima. While she notes they were merely classmates rather then friends she did appreciate that he was less cautious around her than others due to his quirk and he admired her for standing up to Gigantomachia. When they meet each other again during the USJ attack she expresses resentment towards him for having everything she wanted and only being less cautious around her due to his quirk. She has since expressed the desire to kill him at multiple points. However when encountering him again during the attack on the training camp she refers to him as her old friend.

* WhatTheHellHero: After the two encounter Overhaul and a runaway Eri and watched as the former took her back, a very rightfully pissed off Izuku calls Mirio out for abandoning Eri to Overhaul and deliberately holding him back from rescuing the girl just because doing so would ruin Sir Nighteye's plan, despite Mirio knowing full well that Eri was being abused. Mirio, in term, recognizes how bad the situation looked, though he stands by the idea of it being the best choice.

* WhamLine: Chapter 47 ends off with a massive one, both potentially changing the dynamic of the story and signaling that Izuku’s plan to destroy Hero Society has began.
--> News Report: '''[[spoiler: League Strategist Usagi apprehended]]'''
* WorthyOpponent: Rappa and Mirko, [[Manga/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantes in a callback to their canonical teamup]], are very complementary of each others talents and accomplishments, and are very [[{{FriendlyEnemy}} friendly to each other even on the battlefield]]. Rappa even calls his first fight with Mirko the best one he had in years.

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* ShoutOut: Toru name on Venality and her villain name is [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Violet]].

** Toru's villain name is Violet, which is, InUniverse, an intention ShoutOut to ''[[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles The Incredibles]]''. This is despite the fact that Violet is a heroic character within the movie. {{Downplayed}} in that the official Police callsign for Toru is the far more generic but more appropriate "Ghost", which ends up catching on with both the Heroes and public.

** TheChick: Kinoko Komori, a GenkiGirl.

** Endeavor is eventually revealed to have had a similar JerkassRealization after Shoto ran away, and wants to make up his years of abuse to the family he has left. [[{{SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome}} Needless to say]], none of them give him the chance.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: During the Sports Festival, Monoma copied Izuku's quirk, Bound, to overpower him, the same quirk that Izuku had spent months of rigorous training to master. Unsurprisingly, Monoma almost immediately self-K.O's himself because he lacks the knowledge to even use the quirk properly, let alone fight with it.
** Unlike in canon, Mei Hatsume's interruption of the Sports Festival does not work out in her favor. Not only does Power Loader [[{{WhatTheHellHero}} call her out]] on ruining the integrity of the Sports Festival, but her sales pitch fails to attract any potential backers, as her decision to only show them off and not fight with them didn't give said backers any idea if Mei's inventions actually worked as intended. In the end, all Mei's interruption did was give herself a bad reputation.
** Just before his fight with Hojo and Setsuno, Hitoshi uses the full force of Hojo's quirk to deliver a crippling punch to Tabe's head, knocking him out of the fight before it even began. [[spoiler: Around an hour later, when the Shie Hassaikai raids is finished, Tabe is found dead due to extreme head trauma and internal bleeding. [[{{CaptainObvious}} As it turns out, delivering a punch with the strength of a brick wall to a human skull will likely shatter it]].]]
** A dark example with Giran's backstory. Due to some currently unknown circumstances, Giran ended up in the wrong crowd as a young adult and served five years in prison. When he got out, despite wanting to turn his life around, his past actions caused him to be rejected from every job he tried for, forcing him back into a life of crime. This is a sadly common occurrence for many former criminals across the world.

** Dabi, after seeing the USJ Noumu, promptly calls it [[Film/ThePredator "an ugly motherfucker."]]

* FamousLastWords:
** "Quit struggling, Toga. This is the end for you." [[spoiler: The Repelling Hero, Red Stone, before getting his skin burned by Mina, giving Toga an opening to stab him to death.]]
** [[{{BigWhat}} "What?"]] [[spoiler: Chizome "Stain" Akaguro, after Violet blocked one of his attacks, giving Forge an opening to knock him out. Stain is shortly thereafter stabbed fatally in the back.]]
** [[{{AintTooProudToBeg}} P-Please. I'm sorry. I don't..."]] [[spoiler: Yu "Mt.Lady" Takeyama, before being KilledOffscreen via brutal beating by Hitoshi.]]
** "You're not with them?" [[spoiler: An unnamed Police Officer, before being KilledOffscreen by Mina.]]
** "Take this, you bastard! [[spoiler: High Speed Cutter!"]] [[spoiler: Shuichi "Spinner" Iguchi, attempting to attack a defenseless Overhaul. He is then stabbed by one of Chronostasis's hairs, giving Overhaul an opening to use his quirk on him, reducing Spinner to a puddle of blood.]]
** "I... I don't-" [[spoiler: Walter, a member of the Shie Hassaikai, before being burned offscreen to death by Dabi.]]
** "Mister Setsuno. Save Me." [[spoiler: Maseo, a member of the Shie Hassaikai, before being KilledOffscreen by Mina and Toga]]
** "No. Don't-" [[spoiler: Hekiji Tengai, after being left at the mercy of an enraged Toru, who then stabs him to death.]]
** "[[spoiler: Kai!]] You-" [[spoiler: Joi "Mimic" Iranaka, before being KilledOffscreen via forced suicide by Hitoshi.]]
** "[[{{TemptingFate}} I shall end you here and now, Tomura Shigaraki]]" [[spoiler: Sajin "Snatch" Higawara. He doesn't die after saying this, but says nothing else throughout the rest of the battle. He ends up being dusted by Shigaraki.]]
** "Now, listen here Mister [[spoiler: Okuta...]]" [[spoiler: Slide'n'Go, attempting to convince Giran and Haru of the rightfulness of the MLA. As Giran delivers his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, Slide'n'Go has his throat silt by Toru.]]
** "[[{{OhCrap}} NO! PLEASE! DON'T!]]" [[spoiler: Tomoyasu "Skeptic" Chikazoku, before Ochako uses her quirk to drop him off the main MLA tower.]]
** "W-What are you... going to do with me?" [[spoiler: Chitose "Curious" Kizuki, just before Ochako starts to torture her. While this isn't shown, WordOfGod has all but outright confirmed that she is dead.]]
** [[spoiler: "Wash."]] [[spoiler: Wash, during the battle against Shoto and Dabi. The former would freeze Wash from the inside out, turning him into a human popsicle.]]
** "You bastards..." [[spoiler: Kugo "Gang Orca" Sakamata, after witnessing Wash's death. Gang Orca is shortly thereafter burned alive by Dabi.]]
** "Keep taking, Villain. It won't stop my assault." [[spoiler: Yoroi Musha, during his battle against Muscular. He is later KilledOffscreen by the villain after Hana gave Muscular a dose of Trigger, giving him enough strength and speed to literally punch Yoroi Musha's head off.]]
** "I understand. Be careful, he's tough" [[spoiler: Masaki "Manual" Mizushima, ending his conversation with Ryukyu before letting her take over the fight against Muscular. He later dies from an unknown villain offscreen.]]
** "My apologies [[spoiler: Nana]], I wasn't strong enough." [[spoiler: Sorahiko "Gran Torino" Torino, before being dusted by Shigaraki in a fit of rage.]]
** "Heh. So... you do care... I'm glad. You're... a good man... [[spoiler: Endeavor]]. Now, take... them...down." [[spoiler: Shinji "Kamui Woods" Nishiya, after saving Endeavor from Dabi, getting fatally wounded in the process.]]
** "[[{{PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou}} So go on then. Take your revenge. What are you waiting for?]]" [[spoiler: Enji "Endeavor" Todoroki, before Shoto drives a blade of ice into his chest, ending the life of the number three hero.]]
** " Ha. Y-You fool. You'll learn. F-Freedom... is the biggest enemy..of..." [[spoiler: Teruko Matsunaga, the President of the Heroes Commission, attempting to give one last BreakingSpeech to Momo before dying of her wounds.]]
** "[[{{BetterToDieThanBeKilled}} You won't get anything from me]]." [[spoiler: Naomasa Tsukauchi, before shooting himself to avoid being captured by Toga.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: And they do. [[{{CharactersDroppingLikeFlies}} A lot]]. So far, of the canonical characters present in the story, [[spoiler: Native, Stain, The Chainsaw Noumu, Mt.Lady, Spinner, Tengai, Tabe, Mimic, Snatch, Slide'N'Go, Skeptic, Curious, Moonfish, Gang Orca, Wash, Yoroi Musha, Manual, Gran Torino, Kamui Woods, and Endeavor]] have bit the dust.

* AssholeVictim: The story tends to subvert this a lot, often portraying the heroes that were responsible for turning people like Hitoshi and Shoto into villains as either deeply remorseful or completely ignorant of their crimes [[spoiler: thanks to the Commission covering for them]], as well as making it clear that even the most assholish of villains have friends and allies that look up to and trust them. With that said, there are a few examples.
** None of the League shed tears they intentionally send police to Muscular and Moonfish, as they see both of them as insane psycopaths that don't even respect their own side. [[spoiler: Later on, Moonfish is killed with no fanfare, by All for One, no less, and while Muscular is allowed into the League, it's made clear that, with the exception of Chimera, nobody liked him. As such, when he is captured during the first hero raid against the League, no one cares, in sharp contrast to how broken up the League is about Re-Destro, Trumpet, and Gigantomachia.]]
** [[spoiler: Once the truth about the Heroes Commission comes out, nobody is shown to defend them, not even their agent, Hawks. Of the dozens of still alive named heroes, only four, Endeavor, Kamui Woods, Edgeshot, and Best Jeanist, show up to fight the League when they raid the Commission, and none of them are fighting to keep the Commission as is, Best Jeanist even admitting that, after the League, the Commission would be the very next target. When overall good heroes such as Hawks and Mirko decide to ignore your calls for help, you know you did something wrong.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: In general, most of the League and Venality appear to hate [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrites]], likely due to their belief that the entire hero system was founded on hypocrisy. The reason Momo and co went after Stain in the first place was due to his refusal to see that his "crusade" was hurting just as many people who deserved to be heroes as those who didn't, all while looking up to All Might as the idea hero, when he is no less clean that some of the heroes Stain had killed.