When All for One sent his son Izuku to hang out with the children of Japan's top villains, it was in the hope that the boy would give up on his dream of becoming a hero. Instead, he now has a couple dozen teenagers all wanting to be heroes as well. So, lacking any other options, he decides to blackmail Principal Nedzu into letting the kids attend the U.A. Hero Course, even placing himself as Vice-Principal. This will only end well for all parties involved.
Answering the Call
is a My Hero Academia fanfiction created by Mirrond. It is the fifth in the Curious cases of family bonds or lack thereof series.
For other works by this author, see Cure to Evil, Ties that Bind (MHA), Dead on Arrival (MHA), and Exiting the Stage.
This fanfic contains examples of:
- Adaptational Heroism: Shigaraki, Toga, and several other villain characters, OC or otherwise, are all trying to become heroes in this fic.
- Adaptational Villainy: Nedzu is secretly an MLA recruiter, sending students Eraserhead expels to Deika City.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Mera really didn't want to be at UA while both All for One and All Might are there and begs the HPSC President to not send him there, up to and including licking her shoes.
- Almighty Mom: Inko aka Mischief is able to convince her husband, All for One, to retire from Villainy for the sole reason she didn't like earning money from illegal activities. She was also able to veto All for One's plan of bringing Japan to ruin in the hope of stopping Izuku from becoming a Hero by pointing out that it'll only make their son hate him.
- Amazon Chaser: After learning that All for One fell in love with Inko because she literally stole his heart in a panic and made him apologise for scaring her, Nedzu adds "he enjoys women that don't cower in front of him" to his psychological profile of the man.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Asa considers big breasts to be the best quality of a woman and all of his girlfriends have large breasts.
- Contrived Coincidence: Tsukauchi questions the absurd improbability of there being thirty former kid villains of the same age who decided to become heroes. Nedzu explains that apparently, about nineteen years ago, when Stars and Stripes came to Japan, the villains partied very hard after she left.
- The Corrupter: Somehow, somehow, Eri is the one who encouraged Overhaul's murderous tendencies against anyone who dares look down on the yakuza.
- Crack Fic: The story is tagged as "Crack" and the premise is that All for One, in spite of being the supervillain, failed to turn his son Izuku into a villain because he very much wants to become a hero, and things simply get crazier from there.
- Didn't See That Coming: Nedzu is shocked that so many prospective kid villains decided to become heroes purely from interacting with Izuku.
- Emasculated Cuckold: The reputation of the Inhuman Supremacy Party as a bunch of rapists is completely made up. What's actually happening is that they cuck bigots and the cucks pretend their wives or daughters were raped since that's less humiliating for them than admitting the truth.
- Even Evil Has Standards: All for One is a villain, but he has several lines he won't cross, most of which are played for laughs:
- Even All for One wouldn't make people think Nedzu liked Morbius.
- All for One once posed as a politician and voted for the creation of the Hero Public Safety Commission and considers it one of the worst mistakes he ever made after they became ridiculously corrupt.
- All for One thinks pornography is evil. In fact, Beast says All for One genuinely believes legal porn is worse than blowing up a school.
- Five Stages of Grief: Geten is in denial at seeing his sister wear a bunny suit on live television.
- Flat "What": Nedzu's audience can only begin to respond with a "what" when he informs them All for One blackmailed him into making him Vice Principal of UA, that one of All for One's kids decided to become a hero which led to him conditionally not annihilate Japan over that, and that All for One's attempts to turn him to villainy by having him interact with other kid villains led to all of said kid villains wanting to become heroes.
- The Gadfly: All for One enjoys messing with Mera to Nedzu's full approval.
- Got Volunteered: Mera is ordered by the HPSC President to be present and oversee UA's Villain Rehab, and is called a "volunteer".
- Ignorance Is Bliss: All Might was happier not knowing Nana knew about his sexual activities.
- Insult to Rocks: All for One compares the HPSC to a tribe of constipated chimpanzees, but Nedzu says that's not fair to the chimpanzees, which All for One concedes.
- Internal Reveal: The other villain parents find out their kids are part of UA's Villain Rehab course in Chapter 8.
- Magically-Binding Contract: As part of the agreement for All for One becoming a Vice Principal at UA he has to be bounded by a quirk-enforced agreement where being in violation results in death. One of the terms is that he cannot harm the students, which All Might and Yoichi take full advantage of to troll All for One by having Yoichi manifest and enroll as a student, meaning he can harass All for One, but All for One is defenceless unless he wants to risk death.
- Mood Whiplash: When the hero students first meet Decay of the Villain Rehab classes, he is introduced as being so intimidating that they actually freeze up in terror. And then he puts on a pair of cheerleader pompoms to cheer on his girlfriend, hurting his intimidation factor.
- Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!: En tricks Rini into getting stalled with a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors by insinuating she wants to chicken out of it.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Stain gets away with disguising himself with just a fake nose and moustache because Stain has no nose and therefore, the new teacher of UA that looks like him cannot possibly be him with a terrible disguise.
- Point of Divergence: Saiko Intelli is both 1 year younger than canon and is attending UA instead of Seiai unlike canon. She actually briefly has the odd feeling that something is off about her attendance at UA before shrugging it off and embracing UA's chaos.
- Polyamory: All of Inko's kids are polyamorous according to Mr. Compress.
- Power Misidentification: The One for All wielders that pose as Hero students hide their superstrength as extensions of their official Quirks. Present Mic calls bullshit but Eraserhead accepts the explanations at face value.
- Shout-Out: Re-Destro does full Phineas and Ferb homages and involves his MLA executives in it.
- Sibling Rivalry: Each of Inko's kids have a rivalry that's described by Compress as being a borderline harem war since it's based on what they each find attractive in someone.
- Social Engineering: Nedzu is running a secret long-term international psy-op to manipulate Poland's legislation into banning cheese. Once he figures out what works and what doesn't, he will then attempt to manipulate France into banning wine. He's doing this all out of boredom.
- Spit Take: The HPSC President and Mera were drinking coffee when they saw the announcement that All for One is now UA's Vice Principal, which caused them to spit their drinks in each other's faces.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Kyouka denies feeling anything for Shouji when she says that she doesn't have a thing for gentle giants that they could play music for while knowing any praise they give is sincere. Toxicity doesn't buy it one bit.
- Super Breeding Program: Geten and Hypothermia are the result of generations of Quirk Marriages to produce powerful Ice Quirk wielders and it especially shows in Hypothermia who is capable of creating massive ice dragons.
- Take That!: Mieko makes a dig against an In-Universe fanfic that closely resembles Intersection's story for the plot point where the character's timeline is reset, making the whole story retroactively pointless.
- Themed Harem: Asa's girlfriends all have big breasts.
- Touché: Nedzu is shocked to learn All for One is grooming kids to serve him. He counters by gesturing to UA, which prompts Nedzu to name the trope.
- Troll: Yoichi manifests to All Might and comes up with a delicious way of messing with All for One. By using One for All to physically manifest several of the vestiges, have those vestiges enroll as students, and have those vestiges use psychological warfare against All for One who cannot retaliate on threat of death due to a Quirk-enforced contract. It includes Yoichi acting proud that All for One is a hero even though All for One hates it, and lying through his teeth that All for One is an All Might fanboy, to the point of having a celebrity crush on him.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Geten views Re-Destro as his father figure and really wants his approval, up to and including trying to murder his own sister to usurp her place in Re-Destro's heart.
