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* TheBadGuyWins: The end of the Forest Training Camp Arc sees the League of Villains get [[spoiler:what they wanted (Bakugo)]] and manage to get away even though a few are beaten and captured, including the villain who [[spoiler:killed Kota's parents]].

* Adopting The Abused: Eri was horribly abused by the villain Overhaul as part of his plan to create bullets embedded with her Quirk factor to depower superheroes and put the yakuza back on the map. By the end of the arc, Eri is taken in by U.A. for her protection and given a loving and safe environment where she's not exploited or ostracized for her powerful but highly dangerous Quirk. She's also supervised by Aizawa so she can practice using her Quirk to heal small animals while he uses his Quirk to turn her powers off if she loses control.

* FreezeFrameIntroduction: Starting from halfway through season 2, every episode kintroduces every single character appearing in that episode with a still frame including the character's name, hero/villain description and Quirk. This applies only to the original broadcast (and simulcast) airing: the Blu-ray version of the series (which is also used for the foreign dubs) removes the subtitles, mainly because in a format where the viewer is allowed to watch multiple episodes one after the other reintroducing the exact same characters over and over every 25 or so minutes would feel kinda redundant.

* ForWantOfANail: Midoriya feels that if hadn't chosen to fight Muscular, resulting in his arms being injured, he may have been able to stop Bakugo's abduction, which is what led to the Heroes raiding the League of Villains' hideout and All Might's confrontation with All For One, [[ItsAllMyFault and resulted in All Might using up the last of his Quirk and retiring]].

* BigBad: Tomura Shigaraki and All For One are the two biggest contenders for the series as a whole, with Dabi as a DragonWithAnAgenda independently serving as the main antagonist of the Todoroki family's story:
** All For One is the founder of the League of Villains and Shigaraki's EvilMentor, giving him resources and molding him into his successor. Even after [[spoiler:All Might defeats and incarcerates him at the end of the "U.A. Beginnings" Saga]], his presence is felt even in arcs he doesn't physically appear in.
** Shigaraki is the [[TheHeavy public leader]] of the League of Villains, who is being molded to take All For One's place as the top villain. After [[spoiler:his mentor is defeated, Shigaraki ascends full-time to the BigBad position, defeating his rival Overhaul and forming the Paranormal Liberation Front. It's eventually revealed that at some point in time All For One passed down his own Quirk to Shigaraki, AFO himself retaining a copy, making Shigaraki even ''more'' powerful. Shigaraki states to the remnants of All For One's consciousness that he doesn't want to ''become'' All For One, he wants to be ''[[SuperiorSuccessor better]]'' than All For One]].
** [[spoiler:At the end of the Paranormal Liberation War Arc, once Shigaraki gains the original All For One Quirk, he and the consciousness of All For One start fighting for control over their shared body, each one taking over for the other at some point in the arc. By the time they escape the battlefield, AFO has enough control that Midoriya sees Shigaraki as someone he needs to ''rescue'']].
** During the FinalBattle [[spoiler:Dabi makes his own move, having never really cared about Tomura or All For One's plans to begin with. All he cares about is ruining his father's reputation and slaughtering his own family, and his plan to do so leads to him triggering a SuperpowerMeltdown that threats to wipe out everything in a 5 kilometer radius, including his family, both sides of the conflict, and likely millions of innocent civilians. As such, stopping Dabi becomes just as important to the heroes' final victory as stopping Tomura or All For One.]]

* FatalFlaw: One For All as many know is an inheritable Quirk, passing down its stockpile of Quirks from person to person. [[spoiler:However, one major problem occurs if passed to a user with an existing Quirk, the strain of One For All takes a toll on the user's body on top of their own and they are fated to die young. As a testament to that, Hikage Shinomori, the fourth user and the second longest user next to All Might, died at 40, but the official statement says he died of old age. All Might, who's had One For All for at least 40 years, realized that One For All is optimal when passing on to a Quirkless user, thus Midoriya was the best choice to inherit One For All. But then this leads to the next flaw concerning One For All, seeing that Quirkless people are already a rarity and dropping more and more, Midoriya may be One For All's final successor.]]

* Adopting The Abused: Eri was horribly abused by the villain Overhaul as part of his plan to create bullets embedded with her Quirk factor to depower superheroes and put the yakuza back on the map. By the end of the arc, Eri is taken in by U.A. for her protection and given a loving and safe environment where she's not exploited or ostracized for her powerful but highly dangerous Quirk. She's also supervised by Aizawa so she can practice using her Quirk to heal small animals while he uses his Quirk to turn her powers off if she loses control. - ROGUE LAUNCHED TROPE

%%* Adopting The Abused: Eri was horribly abused by the villain Overhaul as part of his plan to create bullets embedded with her Quirk factor to depower superheroes and put the yakuza back on the map. By the end of the arc, Eri is taken in by U.A. for her protection and given a loving and safe environment where she's not exploited or ostracized for her powerful but highly dangerous Quirk. She's also supervised by Aizawa so she can practice using her Quirk to heal small animals while he uses his Quirk to turn her powers off if she loses control. - ROGUE LAUNCHED TROPE

** [[MakeMeWannaShout Jiro]]: Warm Grey.

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** Midoriya's narration in Chapter 46 indicates that something bad will happen to Ida. It does.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** While All Might explains the nature of "One For All" as a Quirk that is to be cultivated and inherited, there are eight balls of light that are interconnected, like a constellation. These hint at the eight previous holders of the Quirk, with Midoriya being the ninth successor.
** All Might explains that One For All cannot be stolen. Though it seems that this statement should be normal given that it is a Quirk that is transferred between people, this becomes an important clue later on when [[spoiler:All For One shows up]].
** The vestiges of One For All show up when Midoriya is battling Shinso, and break his finger to snap him out of Shinso's brainwashing. This not only foreshadows [[spoiler:Midoriya's eventual alliance with them]] but also foreshadows [[spoiler:All For One (from whom One For All was given), being the sole possessor of the Quirk before Shigaraki, eventually strengthening the connection to pull a GrandTheftMe on him.]]
** All Might gives Midoriya a training regime to prepare him for U.A. Midoriya quickly starts going beyond the limits the plan called for, causing him problems with overwork. Not only does Midoriya hurting himself from pushing himself too far become a recurring element of the series, but the differences between his and All Might's personalities seriously hamper their teacher-student relationship.
** Early in the USJ Arc, Kirishima describes his Quirk as not at all "flashy" and thinks it would be easier for him to be a pro hero if he had a flashier moniker. [[spoiler:Come the Work Study Arc, it's revealed that during middle school, around the time Bakugo and Midoriya fought the Sludge Villain, Kirishima was having self-doubts about his chances at being a hero, even giving up on going to U.A. at one point.]]
** In the opening shots of the second opening, Midoriya can clearly be seen. Note the sleeves on his arms, which seem to have been torn off. This is a hint of the permanent damage he'll do to his arms at the end of the arc.
** All Might mentions One For All boosts a person's Quirk greatly. [[spoiler:This comes into play when Deku unlocks the powers of the other users, they're all amplified as All Might said.]]
** During the last thirty-seconds of the third opening, one gets a decent shot at all the major members of the League of Villains, including its real leader, as the shadow behind them heavily resembles All For One.
** During the Remedial Course Arc, an InUniverse theory called the "Quirk Singularity" is introduced. Later on, during the Joint Training Arc, it's revealed that One For All is a perfect example of this theory, having grown strong enough in power over the first eight generations to allow the ninth wielder, Midoriya, to [[spoiler:not just interact with the "ghosts" of his predecessors, but also allow him access to their Quirks.]] Although that means Midoriya will be more powerful than all of his predecessors by far, it also means he'll have an even more difficult time mastering One For All than initially thought.
** In the climax of the first volume of the light novels, when a villain takes Class 1-A's parents hostage, who are visiting for Parents' Day, Inko Midoriya calms down a belligerent Mitsuki Bakugo by telling her, "We're hostages, remember?" This sounds like Inko's trying to remind Mitsuki of the danger they're in, but [[spoiler:it turns out to be a warning not to break character, as the entire thing is just an exercise]].
** All Might explains that One For All is passed down from each generation to the next while accumulating power with each generation adding to it. All Might himself also stated that he instantly mastered One For All while stating why it can be hard for him to teach Midoriya. Later, when Midoriya starts to see the [[spoiler:vestiges of the previous One For All users]], they have a life of their own and aren't just memories or remnants. [[spoiler:This is a major hint that not only does One For All gain power for each successive generation but also gains the Quirks of the holders of One For All. Now that One For All has become strong enough, not only can the vestiges communicate with the current wielder, but they can also lend them their powers. All Might missed the previous Quirk users ''because'' he was an InstantExpert with the Quirk and never bothered much to master it completely, missing the advice the former Quirk Users could have given him.]]
** [[spoiler:Aoyama]] is conspicuously missing when the League of Villains attack the USJ, foreshadowing his role as the [[spoiler:traitor for the villains.]] Similarly, [[spoiler:Aoyama]]'s growing interest in Midoriya when noting the difficulty Midoriya is exerting in trying to control One For All is a hint that [[spoiler:Aoyama himself was also born Quirkless, and similarly has a great difficulty mastering Navel Laser, and he thought Midoriya also got his Quirk from All For One]].
** The cover image for Chapter 306 has [[TheHero Midoriya]] and [[ArchEnemy Shigaraki]] sitting atop a pile of broken [=TVs=], each holding a monitor that displays the other's mentor figure, [[BigBad All For One]] for Midoriya and [[TheParagon All Might]] for Shigaraki. [[spoiler:By the time of the FinalBattle, both characters wind up taking characteristics of their opposing mentor into their fighting style, essentially becoming a good/evil version of them on the opposing side of the fight, with One For All having evolved enough to allow Midoriya to [[ComboPlatterPowers wield the Quirks of the past users in tandem]] with the SuperStrength function like a weaker version of All For One's signature ability, and Shigaraki having grown so powerful after being enhanced by Garaki's research and gaining All For One's Quirk with its accumulated power that the only reason the heroes have a chance is by using [[PowerNullifier Erasure]] to seal his multitude of Quirks, leaving him with only the base strength of his enhanced body to fight with, which Shigaraki regularly compares to All Might in terms to illustrate to the heroes how unstoppable he is even without his Quirks]].
** In Chapter 334, as the [[spoiler:vestige of Star and Stripe fades away, having burned itself out from destroying so many of All For One's stockpiled Quirks, it taunts the shredded and tattered mental amalgamation of Shigaraki and All For One that one day a true hero will put an end to him and his ambitions. Whilst the All For One aspect of the avatar spitefully denies her claims, it's shown that within a hole in the avatar's figure made by Star's assault, a mental version of "Tenko Shimura" resides at the center, responding to Star's words and uttering Midoriya's name. During the FinalBattle, it's revealed that this is all that remains of [[ChildrenAreInnocent Shigaraki's good half]], being brought to the surface in denial of Mirio's claims that Shigaraki suffered from a FriendlessBackground. As All For One only understands negative emotions like anger and hatred, he was able to assimilate the "Shigaraki" aspect of his psyche, whom he specifically groomed since childhood to be as [[ThePowerOfHate hate-filled and misanthropic]] as possible, but was [[EvilCannotComprehendGood completely blind]] to the part of Shigaraki's mind that still embraced the few happy memories he possessed, leaving him mistakenly thinking he'd assumed full control over Shigaraki's mind and body]].