History Fanfic / ViridianTheGreenGuide

* UngratefulBastard: Due to the nature of the Villain's quirk isolating the attack site, Viridian is the only reason the heroes are alerted to the New Year's Attack, first accessing the hero coms through a civilian computer to call for aid akd then staying on the scene as the only fighter standing between the villain and civilians until the heroes arrive. [[spoiler:Endeavor expresses his gratitude by launching a lethal attack at both Viridian and the berserker ''on sight.'' When challenged by other heroes over the immoral act, Endeavor unrepentently insists that as far as he's concerned, he saw two villains and did his job]].

This fic has been completed as of August 6th 2021.

* AccidentalPervert: Denki buys into Mineta's lie that Aizawa asked for the girls to wear cheerleading uniforms (he wanted to ogle). The situation is salvaged though because Denki says that a girl only really looks sexy when she ''feels'' sexy and confident, which encourages the girls to wear personalized outfits (most of which more covering than the standard uniform) and have fun. Later he freaks out when he realizes that Aizawa never said such a thing.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: Whilst Izuku did quite well in school in canon, here he aces the entrance exam for an online school, then gets excellent scores in his online courses and finishes the finals far quicker than he expected. It's strongly implied Izuku had been sabotaging himself due to his poor self-esteem back at Aldera.
* AdaptationalJerkass: While Mineta has never been the most morally clean of 1A's students due to his perverted tendencies, [[spoiler:in the final chapter he ends up asking why Midoriya is allowed to be in the class, calling him a [[FantasticRacism "quirkless freak"]], which gets him a detention in response.]]

** Dabi is a villain, murderer and serial arsonist hell-bent on destroying his family in canon. Here he has yet to turn to villainy, instead working as an underground informant in a shady bar, and while he still wants to kill his father he cares about his siblings enough to ask about their well-being.

** One for All exists primarily to defeat All For One, and has gone through nine holders for the sake of accomplishing this legacy duty. [[spoiler:All For One is killed by a quirkless kid with a screwdriver and the assistance of his quirk-cancelling mentor.]]

* AscendedExtra: In the ''MHA'' canon, Amplifier was a pro-hero that only makes a one-scene appearance in ''Anime/MyHeroAcademiaTwoHeroes'' as an announcer to the "Villain Attack" attraction for the I-Expo's Early Access Event. Here, she is the first pro who encounters Izuku when he begins his vigilante career. It is through her that the various local heroes learn about him and come to see him as an early warning system for nearby-crimes. She also runs a villain rehabilitation centre, which Bakugou attends after his HeelRealization.

** [[spoiler:Katsuki himself only pieces it together when Shouto reveals that he has another, suposedly dead brother; AFTER Shouto asks him if his brother is alive or not.]]

* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler:Katsuki recruits Shinsou to help undo Ogawa's brainwashing, figuring that another brainwashing quirk would help undo the first. The brainwasher is none other than All For One, which results in him and Shinsou duking it out over control of Ogawa's brain, with Shinsou asisted by the vestiges in Ogawa, while Izuku and Katsuki are keeping an eye on Ogawa's vitals]]. In a later chapter [[spoiler:Shinsou fights All For One over control of Kurogiri, this time without any backup, or any machines monitoring Kurogiri's vitals, and with All For One knowing him as a threat. He still wins.]]

* TheBet: The employees at the store where Izuku's buying his supplies for have a betting pool on what he could possibly be doing with such an odd selection. Denki's bet was some elaborate art project.

* BlatantLies: [[spoiler:Eraserhead questions [[UnSorcerer Viridian]] on how he's unharmed by [[BeeAfraid Queen Bee's]] [[PowerDegeneration quirk-based venoms]]. [[BadLiar Viridian's]] response is a nervous claims that he wasn't stung at all. Eraserhead appears to believe him, but later tells Nedzu he knows Viridian was lying, although he is not sure about what.]]
* BoringButPractical: Izuku's first two weeks as a vigilante consist entirely of heckling heroes until they chase him towards a crime he spotted earlier. While certainly not glamorous, it does help people and Izuku currently has neither the skills nor physical fitness to fight villains himself.
* BratsWithSlingshots: When looking for things to use as vigilante weapons at a hardware store, Izuku comes across the store's display of hunting slingshots. He decides to buy one, and purchases a large number of marbles in bulk at a toy store to use as ammunition.

** Those same Instant Villains fall victim to a second level of brainwashing later on. [[spoiler:All For One arranges their kidnapings from hospitals and police stations, and they get taken to Ujiko's lab, where they're pumped with extra quirks, brainwashed, and turned into Berserkers]]. The only one to survive this process are [[spoiler:Ogawa and Kurogiri]], and that's only because [[spoiler:Shinsou was there to save them.]]

* CheapCostume: Izuku's Vigilante costume is nothing more than a dark-green hoodie, a black long-sleeved shirt, a pair of black ripped jeans, green-tinted goggles that are Quirk-enhanced to not color the wearer's vision, and his sneakers. He humored the idea of using his hero-merch to disguise himself, but he already knows that that is [[Manga/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantes the Crawler's]] thing and he doesn't want to make him look bad by accident. In Chapter 7, Izuku added a dark-green tool waist apron to his costume to safely and securely store his new weapons on his body.

** Shortly after they first start hanging out, Kaminari takes Izuku to a cafe. Their waitress has an eyepatch and is offhandedly mentioned as having her personality change somewhat after her accident. [[spoiler:Izuku learns in chapter 51 that Queen Bee enters teenager girls' heads through their eye sockets and takes control of them. Said waitress is Queen Bee's current host]].

* CrypticConversation: Some time after Izuku saves them on New Year's Eve as Viridian, he meets Tsuyu's parents. As Izuku's leaving Ganma, Tsuyu's father, softly thanks him then elaborates he means for the cookies Inko baked. As Ganma seemingly recognized him earlier, Izuku's pretty sure it wasn't about the cookies.

* DisabilityImmunity: [[spoiler:Izuku's quirklessness means that he's completely unaffacted by Queen Bee's venom, which is made to target quirk factors. It also makes him immune to All for One.]]

** Izuku interprets One For All as relatively safe for anyone to inherit based on All Might's medical information, and further, uses this information as the basis for his argument that it would be much safer for someone like Denki to inherit the Quirk, since his body is already used to having one while Izuku's isn't. The audience knows, however, that Izuku is interpreting the data completely wrong because of one very important missing piece of context: All Might was born part of the genetically Quirkless minority, so his data actually only supports the idea that One For All is safe for people like ''Izuku,'' not Denki--the exact opposite of Izuku's conclusion.

** Tsuyu's parents were in the club the berserker villain attacked on New Years Eve.

** Downplayed. While "Viridian" isn't well known to the public, he's become fairly famous among Pro Heroes. Ingenium even comments that his marbles have become collector's items in the hero community. [[spoiler:Then he gets filmed saving the people attending a New Year's Eve party from a berserker villain and becomes famous all over Japan.]] Izuku complains in chapter 51 that he couldn't replace his hoodie or marbles because everyone's buying them, lampshading how everyone buying green marbles because of Viridian have left none for the actual Viridian to use.

* ForWantOfANail: Izuku doesn't receive One For All from All Might. While in ''Mastermind'' this [[AdaptationalVillainy pushed him into villainy]], and ''Deku?'' led to him becoming an [[AwesomenessByAnalysis analyst for heroes]] and a [[BadassNormal hero-course student by recommendation]], this incarnation of Izuku took the middle-ground and becomes a VigilanteMan.

* HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler:After Endeavor's death, Dabi makes several remarks about rethinking his life, and is seen acting civil with his siblings. However it's vague whether he truly wants to redeem himself, or is only pulling an EnemyMine against the League of Villians. He eventually joins the Vigilante Rehabilitation Program after he becomes the one to capture Shigaraki.]]

* HeroDoesPublicService: After his HeelRealization, Bakugou takes to volunteering at a villain rehabilitation center, partially because it looks good on his application to U.A., but largely because he's trying to learn how to properly be a hero.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: PlayedForDrama. Aizawa is shocked that Viridian, who he can tell is a smart and resourceful kid, considers himself stupid, which makes him deduce (correctly) that he was the target of bullies that really did a number on his self-esteem.

* ImprovisedWeapon: When Izuku is fighting somebody who was about to rape a reporter, he uses the pencil in his back pocket and a random tin can of beans as makeshift weapons. He later upgrades to a box-cutter and some wooden dowels (and a soup can). In Chapter 7, Izuku buys an actual knife and a slingshot from a hardware store, but he still buys two 30cm long pipes to use as fighting batons. Izuku also gets marbles to use as his slingshot ammunition instead of steel-shot ammo because the marbles were cheaper and he was uncomfortable with the idea that shooting steel-shot was potentially as lethal as using a gun. The heroes think he may have picked pipes as his weapon because they are harder to track.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Aizawa tries to keep Viridian out of the Trigger investigation by pointing out he should be worrying more for making plans with his friends - hitting one of [[FriendlessBackground Izuku's buttons]].

** This is how Izuku and Aizawa [[spoiler:manage to kill All For One. Knowing he's listening on them through a camera, they make him think they are planning for him to steal Aizawa's Quirk, expecting it will erase all the other Quirks he carries and giving them a window of time to free themselves. This turns out to be BriarPatching, as their actual plan is for All for One to attempt to steal Izuku's (nonexistent) Quirk and then take advantage of his shock so Aizawa can erase All for One's Quirks while Izuku (who has freed himself and carries an ImprovisedWeapon) stabs him to death.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:All For One's. He spends the story committing brutal medical atrocities onto the people he has kidnapped, most of which result in brain decay to the point where the only remaining brain function is uncontrolled rage. The resulting violence the victim then instigates while blinded by rage inevitably gets them killed. Though never victim to experimentation, All For One ends up instigating the circumstances of his side's defeat and his own death out of a similar senseless rage towards Viridian.]]

** Then, after he obviously gets a beating from a bunch of bullies at school - which leave multiple bruises and a broken arm - the school headmaster has the gall to suspend ''Izuku'' for two weeks, claiming that Izuku was the one that attacked the bullies, who just "defended" themselves and thus don't get punished. Unsurprisingly, Inko pulls Izuku out of the school that same day. [[spoiler:Even Bakugou realizes how dumb this was after the fact.]]

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: In Chapter 6, a thug complains about the flies flying around him and his group and biting them. Shortly thereafter, they all go berserk, showing signs of being affected by [[FantasticDrug Trigger]], even though Izuku did not see them any of them shooting up or smoking. He later realizes that there should have been no flies, because it was night and they should have been asleep. [[spoiler:He later realizes that the "flies" were actually the delivery system for Trigger.]]

* NamedByTheAdaptation: The unnamed ponytailed reporter that harassed the students before the USJ attack is given the name Hina Yu.

* NoSell: Being Quirkless, [[spoiler:Izuku is totally immune to the Quirk-burning poison contained by the bees which attacked Bakugo, Ogawa, and Eraserhead. Next chapter reveals that he didn't even realize the bees were injecting him with poison.]]

* NotSoAboveItAll: Iida gets a moment or two likes this.
--> "Please refrain from comparing our classmates to animals." Iida reprimanded. "Bakugo is a human, not a hedgehog or a pomeranian [[DamnedByFaintPraise no matter how apt those comparisons may be]]!"

* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Downplayed. When Aizawa offers Izuku the chance to become a Pro Hero through a rehabilitation program, Izuku rejects the offer, since he is not a vigilante and that "people like [him]" can't become Heroes. Aizawa believes Izuku is just engaging in HeroicSelfDeprecation [[spoiler:in the aftermath of the fiasco with Queen Bee]], but Izuku is actually speaking of the fact that he's Quirkless (meaning that (a) [[LoopholeAbuse he cannot be actually accused of being a vigilante]] and (b) he fully expects the authorities' offer of Vigilante Rehabilitation Program membership to be taken away once he's revealed to be quirkless, as they’d never allow somone like him in.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Dabi states that only he is allowed to kill Endeavor [[spoiler:and goes on the war path against All For One and the Villain Factory when they cause Endeavor to go missing and then die - culminating in him showing up when Shigaraki attacks U.A. during the Sports Festival and stopping him]].

* OppositesAttract: Subverted. Kaminari and Izuku initially appear to be opposites, with Kaminari a "dumb" "social butterfly" with a powerful quirk and Izuku a nerdy and socially awkward UnSorcerer pariah. It turns out that while Kaminari is excellent at shallow socializing, he has difficulty truly opening up to people because he's been taught that his more atypical personal habits make others uncomfortable. Both Izuku and Denki are open-minded and supportive people who tend to deep dive and hyperfocus on their interests, have difficulty appreciating their real talents, are secretly very insecure about whether their loved ones honestly like them, and cherish the one friend that has completely accepted them, all while fearing coming off as creepy or clingy.

* SameCharacterButDifferent: In-universe, this is what [[spoiler:Izuku is to Bakugou. The last time Bakugou sees Izuku pre-character development, Izuku is the school's punching bag who never fights back and whom everyone either actively suicide baits, beats or complicitly allows his beating and punishes Izuku if he doesn't accept the abuse with grace. Then from Bakugou's perspective, Izuku is PutOnABus when his mother withdraws him from school, and Bakugou doesn't see him again for almost a year. The next time Bakugou sees him, Izuku is Viridian, a famous vigilante who regularly defeats villains on the street and took down the Number 2 hero after Endeavor went berserk. The shock of this change is so great it takes Bakugou several chapters to work through it.]] In actuality the trope is Subverted in-universe, as while Izuku is very different, it quickly dawns on [[spoiler:Bakugou]] that Izuku still bears psychological scars from his earlier circumstances.

** [[spoiler:Bakugou becomes this for Izuku after seeking out Viridian for information on the Villain Factory. He doesn't ''like'' keeping the secret, because he thinks Izuku should accept the offer to become a legit hero, but he recognizes that he's hurt Izuku too much to justify disrespecting his wishes further.]]

* TakeAThirdOption: In his first deliberate act as a vigilante, Izuku comes across a mugger in an alleyway. Not having the experience, skills or fighting spirit to take him on himself, he couldn't just leave a helpless bystander at the mugger's hands either. So instead, he heckles the pro-hero Amplifier into following him into the alleyway, managing to slip away [[SetAMookToKillAMook when Amplifier noticed the crime occurring]] and watching the battle from a safe distance.

* UndignifiedDeath: For all the power, cleverness and resources [[spoiler:[[PersonOfMassDestruction All For One]] has available, and his grand schemes to bring the world to its knees, he [[DiesDifferentlyInTheAdaptation dies not in a superhero battle for the ages as in canon, but]] instead by being shanked with a screwdriver.]] The specifics are complicated, but this remains an undeniable fact.

* VigilanteMan: Izuku becomes this because he can still help people this way and because vigilantism is defined as using your quirk like a Pro-Hero if you don't have a license, which means that [[LoopholeAbuse with Izuku being quirkless he can't be busted for being a vigilante]].

** A fundamental assumption of the authorities' investigation into Viridian is that he has a Quirk. It never occurs to anyone that he might not. This is occasionally [[EntertaininglyWrong played for laughs]], but mostly PlayedForDrama, because it means Viridian has completely valid reasons for not believing in their "guaranteed" offer to put him in the Vigilante Rehabilitation Program, all while the police and heroes can't understand why the offer repels him, doggedly operate under the assumption that of ''course'' capturing Viridian would help him, and conclude that Viridian's refusal comes from ''[[DramaticIrony Viridian]]'' suffering from [[HeroicSelfDeprecation faulty reasoning]] and the kid just doesn't know what's best for himself. [[spoiler:When Aizawa does find out the truth, he realizes that Viridian was right the whole time in thinking the offer would be taken away from him as soon as he was captured and the Hero Commission [[FantasticRacism found out he was quirkless]], and takes action to force a work-around.]]
** When fleeing the diner and [[spoiler:Kohaku's corpse,]] Izuku feels himself being watched and assumes Aizawa is following him, commenting internally about how hard it is to focus on losing his tail in his current emotional state. It was actually Queen Bee, who was ordered by All For One to hang around the diner to see if whoever hacked her hive would come back, and to follow them home.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:All For One decides this about Queen Bee, after her mistakes in being unable to elminate two high-profile targets (Viridian and Ogawa), followed by the destruction of her hive at the Sports Festival.]]

** [[spoiler: All For One is killed by Izuku and Eraserhead, the former brutally stabbing the villain in the head with a screwdriver and the latter erasing his Quirks to prevent him from healing.]]

* MasterOfDelusion: Izuku is very good at convincing himself that he's below average and that serious injuries are nothing to worry about. Not only does he brush off Eraserhead's sincere praise of his analytical abilities, Izuku convinces himself that his arm which is visibly bent in the middle of his forearm isn't broken.

* EvilVsEvil: [[spoiler:Dabi vs. Shigaraki.]]

* MegaTwintails: Akiko, one of the members of a villain rehabilitation group, has massive pigtails which she can use to drill through almost anything.

* BeneathSuspicion: [[spoiler:Queen Bee]]'s entire Modus Operandi and the reason why [[spoiler:she]] is such a terrifying villain. [[spoiler:She possesses normal civilians and uses the bees that come from her quirk for spying and attacking people]]. It's so inconspicious that Katsuki geniunly wonders if he's going crazy when he suspects [[spoiler:the bees]] for suspicious activity.

* FighitingFingerprint: Aizawa realizes that there's a connection between Denki and Viridian when he notices that they have the same fighting style, except that Denki uses his quirk as a taser instead of any actual weapons [[spoiler:Shouto]] also notices the similarity by the end of the fic, but he thinks they're the same person (he has never seen Viridian).

* HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler: After Endeavor's death, Dabi makes several remarks about rethinking his life, and is seen acting civil with his siblings. However it's vague whether he truly wants to redeem himself, or is only pulling an EnemyMine against the League of Villians. He eventually joins the Vigilante Rehabilitation Program after he becomes the one to capture Shigaraki.]]

* AwesomnessByAnalysis:

* EvilVsEvil: [[spoiler: Dabi vs. Shigaraki.]]

* AbledInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: With the help of Viridian, Bakugou, and the Crawler, Tensei defeats Stain and never becomes paralyzed.]]

* AdaptationalJerkass: While Mineta has never been the most morally clean of 1A's students due to his perverted tendencies, [[spoiler: in the final chapter he ends up asking why Midoriya is allowed to be in the class, calling him a [[FantasticRacism "quirkless freak"]], which gets him a detention in response.]]
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Bakugou's character development begins much earlier than in canon; after a HeelRealization, he ends up volunteering at a villain rehabilitation center to learn how to be a better person.

** [[spoiler: Years of planning spent by All For One are ultimately undone by Izuku, culminating in Shigaraki being captured and Kurogiri's brainwashing being broken during the Sports Festival - and then his own death.]]
** One for All exists primarily to defeat All For One, and has gone through nine holders for the sake of accomplishing this legacy duty. [[spoiler: All For One is killed by a quirkless kid with a screwdriver and the assistance of his quirk-cancelling mentor.]]

* ArmorPiercingResponse: After finally learning about Viridian's identity, and faced with his continued denials that someone like him could ever be a hero, [[spoiler: Inko]] says six words that shut down his argument completely.

* AscendedExtra: In the ''[=MHA=]'' canon, Amplifier was a pro-hero that only makes a one-scene appearance in ''Anime/MyHeroAcademiaTwoHeroes'' as an announcer to the "Villain Attack" attraction for the I-Expo's Early Access Event. Here, she is the first pro who encounters Izuku when he begins his vigilante career. It is through her that the various local heroes learn about him and come to see him as an early warning system for nearby-crimes. She also runs a villain rehabilitation centre, which Bakugou attends after his HeelRealization.

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Aizawa manages to get Izuku into the vigilante rehabilitation program by keeping mum about his Quirklessness until ''after'' the Hero Commission announces Viridian's enrollment in the program.]]

* BlatantLies: [[spoiler: Eraserhead questions [[UnSorcerer Viridian]] on how he's unharmed by [[BeeAfraid Queen Bee's]] [[PowerDegeneration quirk-based venoms]]. [[BadLiar Viridian's]] response is a nervous claims that he wasn't stung at all. Eraserhead appears to believe him, but later tells Nedzu he knows Viridian was lying, although he is not sure about what.]]

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:All For One has Endeavor captured, drugged with Trigger and brainwashed so he will fight non-stop until he kills Viridian, and then stuffed with so many fire Quirks that he can produce a lot more fire, at the cost of only having a few days of life.]]

* SameCharacterButDifferent: In-universe, this is what [[spoiler:Izuku is to Bakugou. The last time Bakugou sees Izuku pre-character development, Izuku is the school's punching bag who never fights back and whom everyone either actively suicide baits and beats or complicitly allows his beating and punishes Izuku if he doesn't accept the abuse with grace. Then from Bakugou's perspective, Izuku is PutOnABus when his mother withdraws him from school, and Bakugou doesn't see him again for almost a year. The next time Bakugou sees him, Izuku is Viridian, a famous vigilante who regularly defeats villains on the street and took down the Number 2 hero after Endeavor went berserk. The shock of this change is so great it takes Bakugou several chapters to work through it.]] In actuality the trope is Subverted in-universe, as while Izuku is very different, it quickly dawns on [[spoiler:Bakugou]] that Izuku still bears psychological scars from his earlier circumstances.

** A fundamental assumption of the authorities' investigation into Viridian is that he has a Quirk. It never occurs to anyone that he might not. This is occasionally [[EntertaininglyWrong played for laughs]], but mostly played for drama, because it means Viridian has completely valid reasons for not believing in their "guaranteed" offer to put him in the Vigilante Rehabilitation Program, all while the police and heroes can't understand why the offer repels him, doggedly operate under the assumption that of ''course'' capturing Viridian would help him, and conclude that Viridian's refusal comes from ''[[DramaticIrony Viridian]]'' suffering from [[HeroicSelfDeprecation faulty reasoning]] and the kid just doesn't know what's best for himself. [[spoiler:When Aizawa does find out the truth, he realizes that Viridian was right the whole time in thinking the offer would be taken away from him as soon as he was captured and the Hero Commission [[FantasticRacism found out he was quirkless]], and takes action to force a work-around.]]

''Viridian: The Green Guide'' is a ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fanfic by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/myheadinthecoudsnotcomingdown/pseuds/Clouds myheadinthecloudsnotcomingdown]]. It can be read on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23529571 here]]. The story also has a completed [[AudioAdaptation podfic adaptation]] by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/RuneLore/pseuds/RuneLore RuneLore]], which can be found [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/28748022/chapters/70491225 here]].

''Viridian: The Green Guide'' is a ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fanfic by myheadinthecloudsnotcomingdown. It can be read on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23529571 here]]. The story also has a completed [[AudioAdaptation podfic adaptation]] by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/RuneLore/pseuds/RuneLore RuneLore]], which can be found [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/28748022/chapters/70491225 here]].

''Viridian: The Green Guide'' is a ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fanfic by myheadinthecloudsnotcomingdown. It can be read on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23529571 here]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Izuku sets out to become a vigilante but quickly learns he has no actual relevant skills and is forced to bring heroes to the crimes he finds.
** When Izuku is brought into the hospital with obvious signs of someone beating him and presenting a different story than his mother, the doctors take the time to ask him if he's being abused by his mother.
** [[spoiler: Endeavor's needlessly brutal attack against Viridian not only almost kills him, it traps people inside and ends up causing enough damage to collapse the building.]]
** [[spoiler:The only reason All For One is still alive is because of his Quirks. When he gets into [[PowerNullifier Aizawa]]'s range, he's left completely defenseless and without any healing ability, allowing Izuku to kill him with an ImprovisedWeapon.]]

** A fundamental assumption of the authorities' investigation into Viridian is that he has a Quirk. It never occurs to anyone that he doesn't. This is occasionally [[EntertaininglyWrong played for laughs]], but mostly played for drama, because it means Viridian has completely valid reasons for not believing in their "guaranteed" offer to put him in the Vigilante Rehabilitation Program, all while the police and heroes can't understand why the offer repels him, doggedly operate under the assumption that of ''course'' capturing Viridian would help him, and conclude that Viridian's refusal comes from ''[[DramaticIrony Viridian]]'' suffering from [[HeroicSelfDeprecation faulty reasoning]] and the kid just doesn't know what's best for himself. [[spoiler:When Aizawa does find out the truth, he realizes that Viridian was right the whole time in thinking the offer would be taken away from him as soon as he was captured and the Hero Commission [[FantasticRacism found out he was quirkless]], and takes action to force a work-around.]]