Fanfic / Anyone

Imagine a world where your quirk determines your path and your worth. A world that has no place for a quirkless boy.
Despite that, Izuku is determined to become a hero. Until he realizes no one will let him.
So he accidentally created a helpful (criminal) organization.
And he (not so) accidentally steals One for All.
May contain Izuku technically becoming a villain but still helping people, All Might running around like a headless chicken to find his stolen quirk, and All for One refusing to just go away.

Anyone is an Alternate Universe My Hero Academia fanfic written by Gentrychild.

It revolves around three premises: First, Izuku creates an organization dedicated to helping people, especially when those people cannot count on the police or the heroes to be protected. Second, after being told that he couldn't be a hero, something leads Izuku to steal One for All from All Might, starting something that will change the society of My Hero Academia forever. Third, Izuku, in order to rescue an innocent, leads to the villain All for One breaking out of Tartarus and, to his chagrin, moving in with him.

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Anyone contains examples of:

• Abusive Parents:
  • Endeavor as per canon, to the point that Shouto and Dabi refuse to bring him up in a conversation, and Dabi plans to kill him. Shouto hasn't reached that point but he thinks it's a matter of time.
  • Bakugou Mitsuki is this towards Katsuki, as she yells and hits him for discipline, and derides him for losing the Sports Festival after announcing that he'd win. Meanwhile, his father Masaru is neglectful, a "ghost" in the house that never tries to stop Mitsuki or interact with his son.
  • Tenko doesn't outright call his father abusive but he's not exactly pleased when he has to call him.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Izuku dyes his hair white as part of his "Akatani Mikumo" persona, which, unknown to him, makes him look very similar to his father.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • Izuku got One For All ten months earlier than in canon, which means that he is far more capable when handling the quirk. This is best showcased when he gets Black Whip prior to the Summer Camp raid, and masters it without any pointers.
  • Shouto has a greater range of temperatures. When pushed, his ice can be as cold as Fuyumi's, and he can use blue flames.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: Inko in the source material is a long-haired and overweight woman, the latter due to her stress-eating. In this fanfic, she has her hair in a bob cut and she is described as muscular.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: There are many differences between canon Izuku and Anyone Izuku's backstories. In canon, barring the bullying, Izuku lived a normal life with his mom. In Anyone, Izuku and his mom had severe financial problems, and along with an electrocution incident that didn't happen in canon, Izuku was removed from school (now attending online school) while his mother works abroad.
• Adaptational Early Appearance:
  • Shouto meets Izuku shortly after his initial encounter with All Might, and by that point, they have known each other for an unclarified amount of time. In canon, Izuku met Shouto ten months after that and they haven't had a proper talk until the sports festival.
  • Likewise, Izuku saves Eri from Overhaul prior to the UA entrance exams, as opposed to almost a year afterwards.
  • Sir Nighteye appears at some point around the sports festival, while in canon it was after the provisional exams.
  • Lemillion makes his first appearance during the Harbor Disaster, which was a few weeks prior to the UA Summer camp. In canon, he showed up along with Sir Nighteye.
  • Kurogiri is around from the very beginning instead of appearing during the attack on the USJ. Though here he's not a member of the League of Villains.
  • Dabi shows up before the UA entrance exam, while in canon his first real appearance was during the Summer Camp incident.
  • All For One appears well before the UA entrance exam.
  • Gang Orca attends an anti-Quirkism parade at some point after the Sports Festival, as opposed to during the provisional exams.
• Adaptational Heroism:
  • All For One never got his hands on Tenko, so he's been happily looked after by his Honorary Uncles Toshinori and Gran Torino, including working at All Might's agency.
  • Downplayed with Dabi. He's still a villain who wants to take down Endeavor and is part of a large villain organization. However, he has standards, is loyal to Anyone, and loves his family minus his father, while in canon he would do anything to hurt Endeavor —like killing his own brother— and doesn't care about the league.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: In the original manga, the sixth holder's quirk is Smokescreen. Here, it's an unnamed electricity quirk.
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • The premise of the fic is that Izuku is now a Villain Protagonist. While he still wants to — and still does — help people, he's a self-admitted villain who occasionally resorts to very questionable means (massive property damage, blackmail, theft, etc) to achieve his goals.
  • Likewise, Shouto as his number two commits a lot of crimes, being an active vigilante as opposed to just a hero student. He actually ponders on this trope somewhat as he's aware of his deteriorating moral compass.
  • While the Hero Commission has done a few shady things in canon, they're nowhere near the borderline Orwellian state that Anyone has them at. Their first action in the story proper is to kidnap Eri to force her to become a Paragon. They also regularly cover up the crimes of corrupt heroes like Nightmare, employ torture, hire criminals to kill heroes they dislike, and allow members to abuse their authority over regular citizens.
    • Given what has been revealed in recent chapters it can no longer be considered adaptational, the HPSC is very much a corrupt government.
• Agony of the Feet: In an attempt to fend off Gran Torino, Izuku cuts his foot with one of Stain's discarded knives. As Gran Torino's Quirk works by forcing jets of air out of his feet, he's essentially crippled until it can heal.
• All There in the Manual: Gentrychild posts a lot of background information in the author notes, comment replies, and Tumblr that are not mentioned in the fic. For example, Izuku taking a selfie with the Kaiju is only mentioned in the author notes of the chapter.
• Angry Animalistic Growl: Izuku, on the off-chance someone attempts to steal his coffee. Lampshaded by Shouto who wonders how he's making that noise.
• Animal Motifs: Cats for All For One. On several occasions, various characters compare him with a stray cat, and other people note that he has a feline grace. Izuku is also noted to have a cat motif on some rare occasions.
• Animals Hate Him: After Izuku takes One For All, animals start to dislike him for some reason. It's implied that something's off with his scent.
• Apologetic Attacker: Defied. Izuku's initial urge is to apologize to those he attacks, but he stops himself when he realizes that an apology means "I won't do it again" and he has every intention of doing it again if needed.
• Arbitrary Scepticism: All Might throws the hypothesis that Izuku stole the second quirk (Black Whip) from All For One. Sir Nighteye reminds him that it's impossible to steal a quick from All For One, but All Might replies that they thought stealing One For All was also impossible and look where that got them. Then again, All Might's hypothesis is wrong, but he has no way of knowing that.
• An Arm and a Leg: Shinshou loses a leg in the summer camp attack, while one of Katsuki's arms appears to be crippled.
• Army of Lawyers: After the Hero Comision starts arresting suspected Anyone members, various lawyers that have connections for the group aid them en-masse pro bono partially because it will look good on their resumes and partially out of goodwill.
• Artistic License – Biology:
  • Lampshaded In-Universe when All For One and Izuku watch some horror films and comment on how unrealistic the injuries the cast suffers are.
  • With Quirks this trope is a given, but a standout case is that it's implied that taking One For All has somehow fused Izuku's DNA with that of all the previous users, which leads to inconclusive results when the Hero Commission try to test DNA samples he left behind.
• Asshole Victim: By rule the people targeted by Anyone are this.
  • Nightmare is a pro-hero who emotionally abuses his wife and young daughter to bend them to their will, on top of the torture he inflicts on the people he interrogates. Initially Anyone simply wanted to help his family escape while he wasn't around, but then he went and almost killed an Anyone member and tortured Izuku. After that All For One turned him into paste.
  • Another abusive pro hero is dealt with by planting drugs in his car. Oh, and he just attempted to kill civilians.
  • The money launderer that All For One killed was a former member of his organization, who drained all the money from All For One's accounts to build himself a villa, leaving Inko and Izuku penniless and almost homeless.
• Attack the Injury: Due to Izuku not being a UA student in this fic, during the exam, Bakugo gets paired up with Shouto in the fight against All Might. Shouto, in a display of Combat Pragmatism, exploits the info given to him by Izuku to attack All Might's crippling injury and buy them time.
• Author Appeal: Tumblr is practically the only social media platform mentioned in the fic that's not Clamor (which is the In-Universe version of Discord), and at one point we are treated to a long series of posts in it. The only character mentioned to have an account on any other website is Hawks who has a Twitter, and absolutely no attention is drawn to this. Tumblr and Discord are Gentrychild's only social media.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Izuku is so good at this he manages to pass himself off to his school as having an analysis quirk; nobody once suspects otherwise, even when he's put in a class of people who have actual analysis quirks. Perhaps his crowning achievement is that he not only figured out that One For All exists based on internet rumors, but also that All Might is the current holder. Izuku is rather irritated during his internship when his ability at quirk analysis is attributed to his fake quirk, especially as he spent years honing his abilities.
• Ax-Crazy: Unlike every other villain in the fic, Muscular doesn't have any grand motivation. He just wants to kill strong people and that's it.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: All For One, who is undeniably the most badass person in the fic and always wears expensive suits regardless of the occasion.
• Bad Guy Bar: Kurogiri's bar serves as the unofficial headquarters for Anyone - if they're not all crashing at Dabi's place instead.
• Bait-and-Switch: Happens in chapter 31 over Dabi's warning "He is coming!", Izuku spots Lemillion and assumes Dabi was warning him about the young man instead of the actual person Dabi was referring to, All Might. A Double Subversion then happens after All Might actually shows up at that exact moment, the warning taking on another meaning when All for One shows up.
• Bathos: The ending of Chapter 38 has Kouta undergoing a panic attack as he realizes that the man who killed his parents, Muscular, is right in front of him... at which point Izuku falls out of the sky thanks to Kurogiri warping him a distance away from the camp, with Muscular instinctively catching him. Kouta and Muscular can only dumbfoundedly point when Izuku asks where the training camp is without acknowledging what just happened save for a mutter about killing Kurogiri.
• Beat Them at Their Own Element: Dabi says that using fire quirks against other fire quirks is actually very effective because the strongest flame eats the oxygen supply first, leaving the opponent with nothing to burn.
• Berserk Button:
  • All For One doesn't like it when someone touches his family, especially Izuku. Just ask the guy who stole their money, or better yet ask Nightmare, who brutalizes Izuku... Oh wait, they're both dead.
  • Shouto really does not appreciate being compared to his father. When the Hosu police chief tells him he's like his father, Shouto calls him a "mangy mutt" to his face.
• Best Served Cold: All For One's approach to taking revenge for anyone who ever wronged Izuku. Instead of killing them, he arranges accidents or airs their dirty laundry and lets the law do the rest. He prefers to prolong the suffering for as long as possible.
• Beyond the Impossible: Izuku thinks it's impossible for Katsuki's throat to hurt because he's ALWAYS screaming and never had an issue. That's until Shouto told him he can use fire too and he screamed so loudly he had to be sent to Recovery Girl. Izuku refuses to believe him.
• Big Damn Heroes: The summer training camp raid is full of these.
  • Izuku shows up just in time to save Kouta from Muscular.
  • Kurogiri saves Aizawa from Rokuro.
  • Izuku also barely shows up in time to save Shouto and Bakugou from other League of Villains members.
• Big Fancy House: All For One has a fancy beach mansion that formerly belonged to an underling of his. The house rarely gets used even though it's more comfortable than Izuku's small apartment. There's also a giant vault in the basement - or rather the basement IS a giant vault.
• Blackmail: After his internship boss tries to force him to do a Quirk marriage case, Izuku has Gwen dig up his every dirty secret and blackmails the man with the information. In exchange for Izuku not ratting him out, the man pays him half of what the agency's clients pay for his services, lets Izuku set his own hours, and reports to his school that Izuku is working full hours.
• Blatant Lies:
  • During his internship, Izuku gets so many people who think they have a telekinesis quirk that actually have something else (magnetism, wind, etc) that he eventually asks who told them that and insists he "just wants to talk" to them.
  • Hawks telling Dabi that "he's a hard man to find" while his inner monologue says that finding him was actually very easy thanks to his distinct appearance and tendency to send anyone who pisses him off to the hospital with burns.
• Blessed with Suck:
  • How Dabi views his and Izuku's Quirks, as using them causes severe damage to their bodies.
  • Izuku notes that many people in Anyone have ill-fitting Quirks that cause them difficulties instead of making their lives easier.
• Bridal Carry: Kurogiri warps Izuku outside the fire perimeter of the UA campsite, and straight into Muscular's arms. Izuku is determined to pretend this never happened.
• Brutal Honesty: After giving the parents of a potentially Quirkless child an inspiring speech about how pointless Quirks are in reality, Izuku still tells them to find a Quirk that can't be proven and blame an uncle or grandparent while pretending their child has a Quirk in public. While Quirks don't actually matter, there is still a lot of prejudice against the Quirkless.
• Butt-Monkey: Dabi tends to get a lot of mistreatment. Getting attacked by students from minor hero schools looking for thrills, being targeted by that same student because it could get put on his permanent record, having his home constantly invaded by his boss, his younger brother, and occasionally All For One, only getting served peanuts by Kurogiri, getting tracked down by Hawks, getting dropped into the Ocean by Kurogiri for inviting Hawks into his bar because he had a box of donuts, getting forced into being Hawks's handler, having to face off against Gang Orca, Eraserhead, Lemillion, and All Might... the man doesn't get a break. He does seem to consider it to be worth it since he gets to be in contact with his brother, have a bank account that isn't crying anytime he buys something not necessary for survival, and gets Required Secondary Powers for his quirk.
• Bystander Syndrome: Izuku's electrocution involving another student attacking him while everyone either looks on or ignores him.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: Shouto drinks one shot of cognac and gets so drunk that he actually skips the "drunk" phase to get to the hangover phase. He falls asleep clutching a box of strawberry milk like a teddy bear.
• Career-Ending Injury:
  • In their last ever meeting, Izuku flips over Bakugou and places his heel on Bakugou's wrist, both of them knowing all too well that if Izuku chose to, he could break Bakugou's wrists right there and then, and he would never be able to use his quirk again without excruciating pain. He doesn't go through with it, but that moment haunts Bakugou for the rest of the fic.
  • As per canon, the former Ingenium is paralyzed from the waist down after his encounter with Stain and has to retire.
  • Stain himself ends up paralyzed from the waist down, so he's no longer able to do the Hero Commission's dirty work.
• Cassandra Truth:
  • Played for laughs; Dabi is under the impression that Shouto is joking when relaying some of the incidents prior to him joining, such as Izuku accidentally freeing All For One from prison or him and Shouto helping plant drugs in a pro-hero's car. He's horrified to realize that they're not joking at all. Izuku wonders why the aspiring father-killing pyromaniac is the Only Sane Man.
  • Shouto figured out that All For One is Izuku's father but whenever he tries to bring it up, Izuku reacts with complete denial.
• Combat Pragmatist:
  • Shouto is noted by Aizawa and a League to have a particularly brutal approach to fighting (though the League member only sees the aftermath of his ice quirk). Aizawa attributes this to Shouto being trained by Endeavor, but he still feels that this explanation is lacking.
  • Izuku proves to be an even bigger one by specifically choosing the "battlefield" in his spar against Shouto (the still dirty Dagobah beach) so Izuku gets the most advantage, and even setting up some stuff prior. By the time the fight is over - with Izuku's victory - Shouto is left wondering how many levels he's beaten.
  • All Might is forced to adopt this attitude when fighting All For One, who is significantly stronger than him. He uses the debris including the stuff All For One is throwing at him as weapons, moves slowly but with calculated motions to conserve energy, etc.
• Comical Overreacting: Youichi tells Izuku to tell something to All For One in his stead. It's the poor little meow meow meme. All For One freezes up and becomes completely non-responsive to everything.
• Composite Character:
  • All For One is Midoriya Hisashi.
  • It's heavily implied that Izuku's pediatrician is Dr. Garaki.
  • The League of Villains is made up of the Villain Factory from My Hero Academia: Vigilantes and a few canon members of the League of Villains, minus those who are affiliated with Anyone (All For One, Kurogiri, Dabi, and Mr. Compress), as well as Shigaraki Tomura (who never became a villain).
• The Con: Izuku's plan to steal One for All. Having already met All Might earlier and shown his heroic spirit by rescuing Bakugou, all Izuku needs to do in order to get All Might to hand his quirk over is make him think he's dying, which Izuku does with help borrowed from members of Anyone and some rather convincing acting.
• Conflicting Loyalty: Kurogiri originally was a part of All For One's organization, but after his supposed death he joined Anyone. However, ever since All For One broke out, his loyalty towards him very often results in relaying information about Anyone that put them in an increasingly difficult position. For example, he's the one who told All For One about All Might's presence during the Harbor Disaster, and he actively hinders Izuku when he requests to be wrapped to the UA Summer Camp by sending him outside the fire perimeter.
• Conspiracy Theorist: Shouto. Dabi as well so apparently it runs in the family.
• Contrived Coincidence: Izuku dyes his hair white, not knowing it's the same color as his father's hair.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment:
  • When All For One hides all of Izuku's hero merch, he retaliates by burning his suits.
  • Nana Shimura is a Terrible Artist and she knows it, so her idea of punishment/torture is to play the trombone while ensuring the other person can't do anything about it.
  • A far less humourous variant is how Anyone retaliates when Shinsou lures them into the Hero Commission's trap. Instead of deleting his account or attacking him, they instead post his username to everyone on the server and describe what he did (though somewhat censored so they don't reveal his personal information). Shinsou ends up assaulted with countless messages that range from death threats to people sharing their stories with him and explaining that because he cried wolf, now Anyone won't be able to help people who need it.
• Cool Car: Dabi has a special fondness for them, and he's always enthusiastic about the armored car robberies. Unknown if he actually has a driving license. Eventually an actual cool car enters the picture when Shouto steals Hanabata's car. Dabi dyes it black with blue flames.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Izuku tells Shouto that if he sat through his power point regarding his quirk, he wouldn't have to beat the shit out of him to get him to use his flames.
• Cover-Blowing Superpower: Shouto was part of the operation to steal One For All, using his ice quirk to simulate death; as such, he takes care of how he uses his ice when he meets All Might again out of concern he'll realize that.
• Crazy Enough to Work: Dabi and Izuku's plan to stop All Might and All For One's fight. It involves Izuku dropping a several-ton cargo crane on the two of them, and then playing dead so All For One comes to check on him (distracting him from All Might), and finishing with Izuku screaming at All For One's face.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Outside of their Exemplars and Paragons, the Hero Commission seems to only want people with flashy combat-oriented Quirks to be heroes. Tensei notes how many people with Quirks well suited to support, information gathering, or even healing are simply denied the opportunity to become heroes.
• Cruel and Unusual Death:
  • All For One kills a money launderer by dropping him times off a skyscraper several times.
  • Nightmare's death isn't pretty. The description doesn't go into details but the glimpses of it involve pieces of him sticking to the wall and ceiling, leaving behind only enough clues to identify him. And from what All For One tells him, his death is neither quick nor brutal but methodically dragging long enough for the victim to wish for death.
• Cruel Mercy: After being paralyzed from the waist down, Stain is confronted by the mother of Tensei and Tenya who admits she originally wanted to murder him. But after realizing how horrible the rest of his life will be while her sons will recover, she decides she wants him to live a very long and painful life instead.
• Cuteness Proximity: Izuku knows he loses all his dignity when he's around cute animals but he doesn't care.
• Darker and Edgier: The summer training camp raid as a whole. The League of Villains is far more competent this time around. They waited several days before attacking the camp so everyone would be exhausted, and the casualties among the students are far more severe; Shinsou and Bakugou are crippled and several other students are severely injured.
• Death Glare: One of Izuku's classmates, Hebisuga, is particularly adept at these. It helps that she has snake hair that will also stare down whoever she's glaring at. It takes a slightly more literal turn when it's revealed that she also has the ability to (temporarily) petrify people she makes eye contact with, though it blurs her vision for a while afterward.
• A Day in the Limelight: A mini-arc that takes place during Izuku's vacation in Dubai focuses on the girl who electrocuted him Inazuma, and her rival Naru. Particularly, Naru's point of view as, unbenknownst to her, All For One subtly feeds into her resentment for Inazuma until she kills her out of frustration.
• Death by Adaptation: Izuku kills Muscular instead of just knocking him out.
• Declaration of Protection: Izuku makes it perfectly clear to All For One that if he tries to kill any Anyone members or All Might, there'll be hell to pay.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: Middle Eastern countries are far more tolerant towards vigilantism because all of them have some form of Good Samaritan laws.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • Dabi knows that nobody will recognize him as Todoroki Touya and he has no legal identity, so he never bothers hiding his face when doing jobs for Anyone. This backfires on him hard when Hawks tracks him down. Izuku assigns Dabi to be Hawks's handler in the group as punishment for being an idiot.
  • Hawks made sure that the only way to access his apartment was via the windows so his handlers couldn't bother him. Then All For One burns his wings so Hawks can no longer get to his apartment and has to crash at Dabi's place.
• Disappeared Dad: As far as Izuku knows, his father ran out on him and his mom after it came out that Izuku was Quirkless. He's actually All For One and disappeared because he got beat by All Might and tossed into the local version of The Alcatraz.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • One of Izuku's classmates electrocuted him because she was annoyed by his muttering.
  • Because Ingenium allows people the Hero Commission considers undesirables to work at his agency and become heroes, they hire Stain to kill him for them.
• Dissonant Serenity: Izuku and All For One watching extremely gory horror movies "like it's Disney".
• Distinction Without a Difference: "I didn't stab him, he ran into [the knife]."
• Don't Think, Feel: During his fight against Gran Torino, Izuku does far better once he simply moves on instinct rather than trying to predict where the elderly hero will attack from.
• Doting Parent: All For One adores Izuku, there're no questions about it. Outside of his "work", All For One spends most of his time taking care of him while constantly expressing his pride at Izuku's intelligence and accomplishments. Even strangers who don't know their actual relation could see how much love the crime boss has for the child.
• Dramatic Irony:
  • Izuku has no idea that All For One is his father.
  • All Might, Gran Torino, and Nighteye are operating under the fairly reasonable assumption that All For One is not fighting fit after a decade in Tartarus with minimal medical care. Otherwise, he would have surely already come after All Might for revenge. Readers know that he's actually back at full strength, rebuilding his organization, and spending time with his son while he waits for All Might to lose power.
  • Tenya believes he wasn't made an exemplar like his brother because he's "not heroic enough". In reality, it's the Hero Commission putting pressure on Tensei for acting contrary to their beliefs, such as helping people pass the hero exam that the Hero Commission doesn't want to be heroes.
  • When Tenya relays the conversation between Izuku and Stain to All Might, he mentions how Izuku said that he's the one who destroyed All Might's legacy. All Might tells Tenya that his legacy are people like him and "Young Todoroki". Young Todoroki being the guy who helped steal All Might's quirk.
• The Dreaded: All For One. Completely justified given no one he's encountered since being restored to full strength has put up any meaningful resistance against him.
• Don't Ask, Just Run: While sneaking around the same building All For One and Kurogiri broke into, Izuku notices the tracker he planted on the former moving at inhuman speed. Izuku's already sprinting for the exit with One For All active before his brain acknowledges that anything that can make All For One flee is bad news.
• Easily-Overheard Conversation: One scene takes place from the point of view of a person whose quirk gives him Super-Hearing; he specifically goes to cinemas to listen in to the conversations and reactions of the moviegoers, akin to watching a live reaction video. Unfortunately for him, one of those conversations is Izuku and All For One discussing the realism of gore in horror movies.
• Elephant in the Living Room: Dabi and Shouto do not talk about Endeavor. The reasoning - at least from Shouto's part - is that he doesn't want to sour his reunion with his brother by bringing up an unpleasant topic. However, this somewhat backfires on him as Dabi never finds out that Shouto refuses his flames until the UA sports festival, and he's pissed.
• Enemy Mine: The vestiges in One For All save Izuku from Shinso because they refuse to be chained or stolen again.
• Entertainingly Wrong:
  • Ashido thinks that the person Shouto was talking to prior to the UA Sports festival was a significant other. It was actually his best friend, Izuku.
  • After Izuku and Shouto's brutal beatdown in Dagobah beach, half the area gets completely cleared of all the trash just from their destructive power. The police and the pro-heroes assume the incident was the result of several extremely power villains fighting each other instead of two teenagers.
  • At one point Kurogiri warps Hawks into his bar while he and All For One are talking about finding Gigantomachia. They never mention him by name, so Hawks is left with the impression that they're talking about finding a cat.
  • Endeavor thinks that Izuku is Shouto's secret boyfriend and hopes that he's not in the Support department because all these kids are crazy. Not only they are not actually dating, Izuku is arguably crazier than the entire support department combined.
• Enigmatic Minion: From the viewpoint of All Might and his allies, at first they think that the Thief and All For One are allies, but they start doubting it because Izuku stopped All For One from killing All Might during the Harbor Disaster and saved the rest of the pro heroes and Shinso too.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
  • All For One genuinely loves his family, including his long-dead little brother.
  • Dabi cares about his family, except Endeavor, and regularly asks Shouto how their siblings are doing.
• Evil Is Petty:
  • Izuku's stated reason for stealing One For All.
  • All For One's revenge on All Might is this too. Instead of fighting the weakened All Might when he is at 100% All for One simply disappears knowing that All Might will be both consumed with terror and work himself to death trying to find him.
• Face Doodling: Dabi attempts to draw on Izuku's face while he's asleep as retaliation for making him return Hanabata's stolen car, but All For One stops him.
• Face of a Thug:
  • The main reason why Dabi had such a hard time finding a job - any kind of job - prior to joining Anyone is because he looks like a Villain regardless of what his "alignment" is. Who the hell would hire the guy who staples his burnt skin in place?
  • On a more general note, Izuku notes that people with vicious-looking mutations have difficulty finding jobs, so Anyone offers job-finding services to them.
• Failed a Spot Check:
  • When All For One first breaks free, most of the guards are so focused on him, that they do not even realize that Izuku is standing next to him.
  • Inko fails to notice that Izuku's hair is the wrong shade of green even though everyone else did and she's his mother. Granted, they hadn't seen each other in such a long time that he got taller than her between meetings.
• Fake Kill Scare: All Might. Izuku's plan to steal One For All relied on All Might believing he was dying. Somewhat deconstructed by Tenko, who points out how traumatic something like that is, even to a man like All Might, and that it's a cruel thing to do, even if it was physically harmless.
• Fantastic Ableism: The plight of the Quirkless is far, far worse here than it is in canon, with Quirkless individuals not only subjected to horrible treatment but also blocked from good schools or jobs at every level of society; it's stated that most commit suicide. It's also implied it wasn't nearly as bad when All Might was young, as he never suffered such discrimination before receiving One For All, and is utterly unaware of how bad things have gotten since then.
  • Quirkless individuals are even generally forgotten by those fighting for equality. One such organization didn't even realize until recently that they should be fighting for Quirkless people too.
  • Mutant Quirks are treated better than the Quirkless, but still poorly enough to have large events where people march for equality.
  • Those in the know have noted that the tests to become a Pro Hero are "mysteriously" far easier for people who have flashy combat-oriented Quirks.
• "Fawlty Towers" Plot: When Katsuki lies to All Might about knowing Izuku, his father explains that he can never let anyone know he lied. Because Katsuki is an exemplar, he's held to a far higher standard and such a thing could ruin his career at a minimum.
• Finger Gun: Played for drama. Izuku uses this gesture to remind All For One that he promised to destroy him if he ever attacked All Might. All Might thinks that the gesture would normally look ridiculous, but under the circumstances, he appreciates the sheer Refuge in Audacity in it.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: At one point All For One comments that he's glad that they stopped using CGI in movies due to Special Effects Failure. A person overhearing the conversation thinks that this change happened 150 years ago.
• Flashy Teleportation: The main clue that All For One isn't lying about not being involved in the USJ attack. All For One's teleportation Quirk of choice has a shadow effect. And Kurogiri's has his trademarked black mist. The Quirk used by the villains at USJ was composed of a foul-smelling liquid.
• Food as Bribe: All For One bribes Izuku with cookies to stay out of trouble while he's gone.
• Formally-Named Pet: The Random Guy has a pet cat named Sergeant Whiskers.
• Foul First Drink: Seeking a way to contact the vestiges, Izuku resorts to alcohol after meditation fails, and Shouto joins him. They both regret it immediately.
• Framing the Guilty Party:
  • In one of Anyone's "help someone escape their abusive boyfriend/girlfriend" operations, the abusive boyfriend attempts to run over the volunteers with their car. They suggest reporting this to the police, but the ex-girlfriend reveals he's a pro. So the volunteers from Anyone decide to deal with this by planting drugs in his car that they acquired from a previous "abusive girlfriend" operation and have the police arrest him for that.
  • The Hero Commission blames All For One for the attacks on the USJ and Hosu because the multi-quirked Nomu's make them think that he's allied with the League of Villains when in reality he's hunting them down. He's certain that he'll get blamed for the attack on the UA summer camp as well.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Tenko explains that Izuku's life was likely far worse than Toshinori realized but also admits that it doesn't justify what he's done, specifically stating that lots of people have hard lives without becoming villains.
• Friend or Foe?: Invoked by Shouto. In order to save Izuku, who's currently battling a hero on a nearby roof, Shouto shouts to his father that he saw something up there, causing the man to attack, thinking it was another villain.
• From Bad to Worse:
  • The Hosu attack. Just like canon, Endeavor takes care of the Nomu while Izuku and Shouto are chasing Iida, who went after Stain. However, unlike canon, since Izuku is a vigilante here, the situation completely devolves when Gran Torino shows up and suddenly he and Izuku are fighting on the rooftops causing a lot of property damage in the process. On top of that Shouto has to hide the fact he knows Izuku so instead of everyone cooperating like canon, he tricks Endeavor into attacking Gran Torino.
  • The Harbor Disaster. It starts with Izuku supposedly going to rescue someone, then Shinshou brainwashes him, One For All snaps, Aizawa and Gang Orca get involved, Dabi shows up and suddenly the whole harbor is on fire, Lemillion attacks Dabi while Izuku is trying to calm everyone down, All Might shows up to attack Izuku, and then All For One attacks All Might, leading to Izuku trying to break them up. The whole incident led to millions if not billions in damage, everyone except Shinsou and All For One leaving worse for the wear, a bunch of people discovering All Might's secret, and the existence of Anyone being revealed to the public.
• Future Imperfect: Izuku had to google what the Yakuza is after they got in trouble with them for freeing Eri.
• Gilded Cage: Eri is put in one in Tartarus once the Government discovers her Quirk. Fortunately, Izuku breaks her out.
• Greek Chorus: The Vestiges become this after awakening at the Harbor Disaster, though their appearances are sporadic.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: Izuku ends up as the Bowser in the equation when he goes to play video games with Nagisa's college friends, and one of them is Shimura Tenko. He only realizes this trope is in play when Gran Torino shows up with cookies. Later he asks Nagisa why she didn't do any background checks on her friend group.
• Happily Adopted: Eri adores her new family, who loves her in return. The moment Izuku returns her to them, they immediately move abroad to protect her.
• Henpecked Husband: All For One isn't reunited with Inko yet, but the fact that his first reaction to hearing her voice on the phone is to dive for cover behind a couch, it's easy to see who wears the pants in the relationship.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • Nana receives a massive one when she realizes All For One has found and married her daughter, Inko, and Izuku is her grandchild.
  • The Second suffered one when All For One told him that since he now has Youichi's Quirk, they are technically in-laws.
• Heroic RRoD / Villainous RRoD:
  • As per canon, Dabi burns himself alive while using his powers, and Izuku has to be 100% concentrated every time he uses One For All so he doesn't break all his bones. Dabi thinks this makes them kindred spirits.
  • After Shouto manages to recreate his brother's blue flames during the exam fight against All Might, he ends up with burns all over that need both the Recovery Girl's aid and extra treatment. This is despite Shouto having heat resistance and ice powers to cool him down.
  • All For One says that the reason he doesn't just hand out quirks like candy is that the human mind is not usually equipped to handle more than one Quirk at a time. Simply slipping a heat resistance quirk to Dabi - which is just a passive thing - is enough to knock him out for a while, and even so, it's a miracle that his brains didn't turn into mush. He mentions that there's only one instance of someone handling more than two quirks at the time (said person peaking at seven), but that's only because his original quirk is endurance.
• Hero Insurance: Izuku references this concept, noting how important it is given some heroes, such as Mt. Lady, cause a lot of property damage when they fight.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Midnight may be known as the "R-rated heroine", but she and her Midnight Boys are looking for runaway minors and orphans and help place them in good, functional families away from their abusive environments.
  • Hanabata is portrayed almost exclusively as a manipulative bitch for the Hero Commision, speaking carefully and dressed as the perfect image of a professional, up until the aftermath of the Harbor Disaster. She shows up for the next day's meeting in jeans and an old rock band t-shirt, clearly too tired to care, and tells everyone else not to bother dressing up either. She's still a manipulative bitch but she very much has her limits.
• Higher Understanding Through Drugs: The only times Izuku manages to get in contact with the vestiges in One For All is either under the effects of brainwashing or through drugs. Meditation completely fails. He briefly considers taking pills before deciding that alcohol is a better solution. However, alcohol does not work either.
• Honor Before Reason: After the Harbor Incident, All Might has to go to a meeting where every person knows about his true form. He tries to talk himself into going there in his true form as he knows he really shouldn't be pushing himself and his power and time are both rapidly running out so he has to get used to walking around in his true form... and yet he can't bring himself to walk two steps out of his door without going back to his muscle form.
• Horrible Housing: Dabi's apartment is in the bad part of town in a place that only accepts cash payments and according to Izuku is only held together by the Fates and good will.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: After his win at the UA Sports Festival and the duel with Izuku at Dagobah Beach, Shouto decides to reveal to Katsuki that he can also use fire. Katsuki's response was the loudest scream he ever made.
• I Am What I Am: Izuku is a villain. He knows it. The readers know it. However, when he says it, those moments are always extremely important and poignant.
  • When Nightmare tortures him with his quirk, Izuku sees a hallucination of All Might mocking him and asking if he thought he was really a hero. Izuku replies that he never pretended to be a hero.
    Nightmare: Oh? Then what are you?
    Izuku: I'm a Villain. [Cue No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]
  • When Nana Shimura lashes out at him for stealing One For All, Izuku is not apologetic at all.
    Izuku: I’m a villain. I have no answer to offer you. No justification. I was powerless. I needed a quirk in order to have the power to change things. And in the end, I chose to steal that power from a good man because I couldn’t live anymore with my weakness.
• I Have Many Names:
  • Izuku has numerous aliases for different roles, and only Shohto and All For One call him by his real name:
    • "Anyone" is his official villain name, which he uses to address his server as the leader of the group.
    • "SmallMight1541" is his "civilian" user name in the Anyone servers, posing as someone who helps with quirk analysis.
    • "Akatani Mikumo" is the public identity he crafted to enroll in school.
    • "Yami" is the name he goes by when talking to Dabi and Kurogiri.
    • The "vigilante of Hosu" is a title given to him by the authorities, as they are not aware that the person who stopped Stain and Anyone are one and the same.
    • "Thief" is how All Might and his allies call him, as they are focused on the "stole One For All" aspect.
  • All For One similarly has many aliases he goes by.
    • His original first name is Hisashi.
    • He went by Midoriya Hisashi when married with Inko.
    • During the Naru/Raika arc, he went by Nisena Hajime when talking to Naru and uses Dumas as his internet handle when talking to Raika.
  • Dabi's original name is Todoroki Touya, he goes by Yukihama Kaname for legal stuff (renting), and his forum handle is "Inferno more Inferyes".
• Im Dying Please Take My Macguffin: Exploited; Izuku kicks off the plot by making All Might think he's been fatally injured - using a combination of weakening, illusion, and ice quirks of people who were part of Anyone - and thus hand off One For All to the first person who just "coincidentally" shows up, Izuku, (having already met him as in canon and recognizing his heroic spirit, but not knowing his name) rather than let the quirk die with him.
• Implacable Man: Rokuro, a.k.a. Number 6, thanks to his Healing Factor. Stabbed? He absorbs the knife. Being Half the Man He Used to Be due to a Portal Cut? He regenerates the other half.
• Imprinting: Discussed by Dabi when he says that All For One has "ducky syndrome" and latched on Izuku.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: While not seen on-screen, all the adult members of the inner circle (including Hawks on one occasion), have reached out behind Kurogiri's bar after missions. Izuku, having never tasted anything alcoholic before, is under the impression that alcohol is a satisfying beverage, if everyone is using it to calm their nerves.
• In Spite of a Nail: Even though All For One has been out of action for over a decade and Tenko never joined him, there's still a group using Noumus and causing the attacks on both the USJ and Hosu. Later the UA Summer camp gets attacked as well.
• Instant Sedation: All For One isn't above lacing a drink with drugs if he wants someone he cares about to get a decent shuteye. Yoichi admits that until he was fifteen, he seriously thought that hot chocolate was the kind of beverage that instantly made you fall asleep.
• In the Hood: Izuku's standard look when doing work as Anyone. His comes specially outfitted with a built-in veil that creates the obligatory "face concealed in shadow" look.
• Invisible Parents: Izuku's father simply disappeared one day, while Inko works overseas as a chef, often gone for months at a time.
• Ironic Echo: Discussed. After Izuku unlocks the sixth electricity quirk and immediately gets issues with it due to his past trauma, Shouto asks him if it's too soon to tell him "it's your Quirk", which is a Call-Back to Izuku giving Shouto a similar speech regarding his Quirk.
• Irony:
  • All Might is known for saying that "Anyone can be a hero", yet he told someone that can can't, with said someone being the founder of an illegal organization that according to Shimura Nana is the tangible proof that anyone can indeed be a hero.
  • Stain thinks he's getting rid of corrupt heroes, while in reality, the Hero Commission is using him to keep the corrupt system intact.
  • Likewise, after Stain is arrested there's merchandise of him popping around, even though Stain hates the concept of Hero merchandise.
• It's All My Fault: All Might admits that he feels responsible for all of the Thief's actions as he knows his tactless handling of Izuku and his ignorance of the current plights of the quirkless led to him becoming a villain. Tenko reminds him that Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Aizawa is very much against Shinso interning with the HSPC and makes clear that the boy is not only missing out on training but valuable social interaction. While Shinso blows off such things, insisting experience is more important, the narration makes clear that the HSPC is grooming him as an attack dog rather than a hero.
• Just Here for Godzilla: In-Universe. According to Word of God, the main reason many UA students have Anyone accounts is for the memes.
• Killing Intent: All For One's aura when annoyed, let alone actually angry, makes everyone nearby feel like a small prey animal in front of a hungry predator.
• The Lancer: Shouto is indisputably Anyone's second in command, and Izuku's closest friend. While he's not directly involved in many of the major incidents (except for the operation to steal One For All), he knows all the secrets of the group and everything about Izuku's personal life, he's Izuku's best friend, and Izuku admits that he and Gwen are perfectly capable of running Anyone. He also keeps Izuku sane by assisting him in all sorts of things.
• Land Down Under: It's mentioned a few times that in Australia there are now sharks with quirks that can talk to people and pick locks.
• Land Shark: While never actually seen, a few sharks in Australia have developed quirks that let them leave the sea, talk to tourists, and break into houses.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Stain is paralyzed from the waist down, the same disability he inflicted on his last victim.
• Last-Name Basis: Izuku and Shouto call each other by their last names, despite their very close friendship. Then again, that's normal in Japan.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: The fic makes absolutely no effort to hide that Dabi is Todoroki Touya, even though he's never actually called that.
• Laughing Mad: Izuku's reaction when Stain told him that the reason he killed all those people with parasitic Quirks was for All Might's sake. Iida Tenya describes it as something filled with despair, sadness, and insanity.
• Lawful Stupid: Death Arms happens across Nightmare's wife and daughter very blatantly running away from home and tries to stop them, simply because Nightmare is a hero and his wife "Can't just take his daughter away" despite said daughter very clearly stating she wants to leave too. Just before knocking him out, Izuku criticizes Death Arms for this, asking him when he forgot that he's supposed to protect people.
• Locked Out of the Loop:
  • Inko has absolutely no idea what her son is up to and he'd rather keep it that way. When Shouto asks him what he'll do when his mother comes back, he replies that she'll kill him so he doesn't have to worry about that.
  • Likewise, All For One has absolutely no intention of alerting Inko of his presence if him hiding behind the couch while she's on the phone is any indication.
  • Hawks has no idea that Yami and Anyone are the same person even though he's the only outsider who's ever met the inner circle of the organization.
• Logical Weakness:
  • Aizawa's quirk doesn't work too well when visibility is low because he needs to have the correct target in his line of sight.
  • Gran Torino's quirk focuses on his legs, so injuring them is a sure way to stop him from using it.
• Manipulative Bastard:
  • All For One doesn't act very often, but when he does this trope is in full force. Best highlighted when he subtly manipulates Naru into killing the girl that electrocuted Izuku.
  • Hanabata from the Hero Commission, who has a minor Brainwashing quirk - far more subtle than Shinsou's - and is slowly grooming him into becoming the Hero Commission's attack dog, all while telling him the things he wants to hear.
• Man of Kryptonite: Lemillion functions as one for Izuku due to his permeation quirk allowing him to bypass all of Izuku's attacks.
• Meaningful Name: At one point Izuku asks All For One why so many people have surnames that allude to their Quirks. All For One says that back in the early days many people changed their names to match their abilities, and since quirks are inherited their descendants now have awfully appropriate names.
• Metaphorically True: All Might tells the Hero Commission that due to the actions of one teen (Izuku), he's losing power while said teen gains his power. As such, the Hero Commission believes Izuku has some sort of parasite Quirk, not knowing about One For All.
• Midas Touch: Inko's boss has a quirk that allows him to turn anything into gold, as demonstrated on a limited edition All Might bust that he gifted to Izuku.
• Minor Living Alone: Izuku, at the beginning of the fic, until All for One moves in.
• Mistaken for Gay: Endeavor's first thought upon seeing Izuku sneaking into his house and hugging Shouto is that they're dating. Unlike many other instances of this trope, his main thought is hoping that it was a student from Gen. Ed since the Support department students were insane and Izuku wasn't in either of the Hero courses.
• Mistaken for Related: Shouto is absolutely certain that Izuku is All For One's son, and even made an excessively long PowerPoint presentation on the subject. Dabi on the other hand thinks Izuku is related to All Might. Averted from Shouto's side when a one-shot from All For One's point of view reveals that he really is Izuku's father.
• The Mole:
  • Dabi is working as one for All For One in Izuku's organization. He made no effort to hide it; in fact, he straight up told Izuku via text.
  • More seriously, Hawks is one, acting on behalf of the Hero Commission. And of course, Izuku knows it, too.
• Mood Whiplash: In the middle of the Muscular attempting to kill Kouta, Kurogiri warps Izuku right above them...resulting in Muscular bridal carrying Izuku. Muscular and Kouta are so stunned that they don't even question Izuku's presence and resort to being polite when he asks where the UA campsite is.
• Morality Kitchen Sink:
  • Many of the UA students are White, and assume that everything runs on Black-and-White Morality - especially Iida Tenya, who thinks that the reason he's not one of the recommendation students is that he's "not heroic enough".
  • Most pro heroes fall under various shades ranging from white to lighter grey.
  • The pro heroes who are specifically funded by the Hero Commission are usually there to do their dirty work. It ranges all the way from Black-and-White Insanity (Stain) to To Be Lawful or Good to straight-up Black.
  • The Hero Commision is a bunch of Well Intentioned Extremists at BEST, ranging from A Lighter Shade of Black to maybe the worst threat around.
  • Anyone as a group has two distinct moralities. The civilians who make up most of the server range from white to A Lighter Shade of Grey, as they make each other favours with occasionally illegal means, but are mostly good people. The core members however are a mixed villain-vigilante group that has committed several crimes against pro-heroes and villains alike.
  • All For One is Evil Versus Evil, as he targets other morally corrupt groups like the Hero Commision and the League of Villains, while still being a prime Manipulative Bastard.
• More than Mind Control: The Hero Commision's Hanabata has a quirk that makes whoever she's talking to immediately trust her and assume she has their best interests at heart. This is a prime tool for manipulating people.
• Mugging the Monster:
  • Dabi's introduction is him being harassed by some random students from a second or third-rate hero school. One of them even has a weak fire quirk that Dabi considers an insult to all fire quirks.
  • The Random Guy, to the point of a running gag.
    • The first time, Izuku and All For One are casually talking when a man tries to mug them with a knife. The pair actually stop and share a look of confusion that some random thug is trying to mug them. Izuku mentally notes the man's holding the knife wrong and is too far away to properly attack them anyway. He then explains to the would-be mugger that he doesn't have a way to disable him without injuring him, while All For One will give him a quick death if he's feeling merciful. The mugger gives them his money and runs off.
    • Later, Gran Torino is accosted by what seems to be the same man while he's on the phone. Gran Torino hangs up, beats him with his cane, then calls Toshinori back.
    • In a display of Rule of Three, the Random Guy attempts to mug Izuku again (along with Shoto) before realizing who it is. Izuku was just about done with the universe that day so he orders the guy to stop committing crimes or else he'll die.
  • At some point a robber breaks into Izuku's apartment. All For One breaks his arm and then drops him off the window.
• Mundane Luxury: Izuku realizes that All For One considers the ability to live an ordinary life this - for him, being able to do things such as cooking, walking around, or being in contact with other people are the greatest blessings. Izuku concludes that this attitude is the result of All For One spending a decade restrained in complete isolation, which understandably led to psychological damage. He uses this as an ultimatum against All For One to set boundaries regarding his involvement in Anyone.
• Mundane Solution:
  • Shouto initially contacted the Anyone server to get help with his quirk, because overusing his ice side caused him hypothermia. Izuku suggested he wear heat-insulating clothing.
  • When Izuku needs to check the files on a laptop but it's out of power, he tries calling Gwen to see if she has a solution. She irritably tells him to just steal the laptop so they can check it later.
• Mundane Utility: One of Izuku's classmates has a quirk that lets her heat one part of her body at a time. She uses it on her fingers to straighten her hair.
• Must Have Caffeine: Izuku is Not a Morning Person. At all. Get between him and the coffee machine at your own peril.
• My God, What Have I Done?: All For One has a brief moment when he first meets Izuku while in Tartarus. In the dimly lit room, the only thing All For One knows about the stranger who had just arrived is that he has One For All in him, and soon cares about nothing else other than attacking the new holder. As soon as he gets a better look at Izuku's face, All For One is horrified that he almost killed his son.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Izuku's fake identity of Akatani Mikumo is his beta name from the original manga drafts.
  • Several of the members of the League of Villains are from My Hero Academia: Vigilantes.
  • One of the requests at the Anyone website is about cleaning Dagobah Beach.
  • Both here and in canon, Shinsou finds outs that people can resist his quirk when fighting Izuku. That said, the circumstances are completely different.
  • A Tumblr user mentions having ordered Stars and Stripes merch.
• Never Found the Body: Notably averted by All Might, who went to great lengths to track down All For One's body after it was removed from the battlefield after their fateful showdown. Good thing he did, because All For One was most definitely Not Quite Dead. All Might made sure to personally deliver All For One to Tartarus after that. And then it ends up invoked anyway because Tartarus tells All Might that All For One died on the operating table. A decade later, All For One is accidentally broken out by Izuku and Eri.
• Newbie Boom: In-Universe, after the Hero Commision's attempt to trap Izuku led to the existence of Anyone being exposed to the general public, many people decided to join out of curiosity.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • Izuku breaking into Tartarus half-cocked causes him to accidentally break out All For One.
  • All-Might's half-lie about why he's losing his power results in Stain murdering any teenager he can find with a parasite quirk.
    • All the people Stain kills are implied to be either villains or much older than they actually look because they used their Quirks on innocents to live longer but still.
  • Izuku makes it perfectly clear to Shinso that the Harbor Incident is their fault and not Anyone's. Shinso reacts like he's been punched but doesn't deny it.
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: All For One and Izuku are this In-Universe. Random Guy has actual night terrors after his encounter with them, and a number of characters remark that All For One will give them nightmares.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown:
  • Nightmare delivers one to Izuku when he catches up to him and learns he's the one who stole All Might's power, though initially it was about getting back Nightmare's family that he'd terrorized. In turn, Izuku, despite being half dead at the time, utterly brutalizes the hero once he overcomes the man's fear quirk, leaving him "broken and whimpering" in a puddle of blood.
  • Izuku purposefully pushes Shouto to his breaking point to force him to use his flames.
• Non-Indicative Name: Bakugou comments that Sir Nighteye has probably never been knighted.
• Noodle Incident:
  • According to Hawks, breaking into his apartment to leave an offering of his favorite food wouldn't be the craziest thing a fan has ever done.
  • Tenko is very careful about how he places his hands on tables because he doesn't want a repeat of "the Christmas incident".
  • During Izuku's vacation to Dubai, Dabi, Hawks, and Kurogiri somehow obtained a life-sized statue of FatGum and a matching hoodie that could fit the hero. No explanation is given for this.
• Nothing Is Scarier: Random Guy, the mugged Ken, thinks that Izuku is scarier than All For One because of this trope. While with All For One it was clear the man wanted to kill him, he has absolutely no idea what Izuku wants to do with him and he finds the uncertainty far more terrifying than the clear threat.
• Not Me This Time: Hard as it is to believe, All For One claims that he had nothing to do with the USJ attack, with included villains being warped into the building and a monster boosted by multiple Quirks. Also happened twice when Black Whip first showed up.
  • All for One: who said it wasn’t him who gave Izuku Black Whip. No one believed him.
  • Izuku: All for One assumed Izuku stole another quirk, until he realized it was Black Whip, which came from One For All as if he has any right to accuse Anyone of quirk theft.
• Not So Above It All:
  • All Might, when he first sees Black Whip, he amuses himself with the thought that Izuku stole it from All For One.
  • Aizawa feels a fair bit of sadistic glee at the news that the Commission inspector got her car stolen during the Harbor Disaster and asks Nezu not to tell him who did it unless it was Shinsou so he can give him extra credit.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Shouto knows that his classmates think he's dating someone. He's just playing ignorant whenever the subject is brought up.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Shinso has this feeling when Izuku breaks free from his quirk, realizing he's standing mere feet from an exceedingly powerful vigilante who's now extremely pissed.
  • This is pretty much All Might's reaction at the end of chapter 31, as All for One shows up fully healed and is saturating the entire area with 'unholy bloodlust'.
• Old Master: Gran Torino may look like a harmless old grandpa, but as an unfortunate Izuku and the Random Guy find out, he's perfectly capable of kicking ass. At one point he wonders why people don't see the cane for the threat it is.
• Only Sane Man: Dabi and Kurogiri frequently find themselves in this position, which is oft lampshaded. For example, Dabi is shocked to find out that Shouto planted drugs in a pro-hero's car.
• Open Mouth, Insert Foot:
  • Izuku's school friend Yuuto has a noticeable tendency to speak before he thinks, such as asking Hebisuga (who has a mutant quirk) whether it will help her in the long run to march for quirk equality and suggests she focus on getting an internship instead. As the march is specifically for mutant quirks, her response is a Death Glare before very coldly telling him that yes, fighting for equality would help her in the long run.
  • Later Yuuto states he thinks Stain is pretty cool and that he has a point about a lot of heroes being Only in It for the Money. Izuku reminds him Stain murdered several heroes in cold blood, while Hebisuga points out that Yuuto is attending a private school with the intent of landing a high-paying job.
• Original Character: Quite a few:
  • Many prominent members of Anyone, such as Gwen (real name Nagisa) the Hacker, or Ao the healer. There are also a few miscellaneous members that make appearances, but they remain unnamed.
  • An important part of Izuku's backstory is being electrocuted by a girl who did not exist in canon. It is revealed that her name is Inazuma, and she along with another OC Naru receive A Day in the Limelight.
• Papa Wolf: All For One is very protective toward Izuku (and Inko), which means any slights toward them won't go unnoticed by the man.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Shouto's appearance becomes very well-known to the general public after he wins the sports festival, so when outside he disguises himself by wearing a cap to hide his hair. That's it. He explains that it takes a bit more doing (such as adjusting his body language, etc), but it's rather astonishing that this actually works.
• Paranoia Fuel: In-Universe. Technically, Anyone is a support group for people who need help but can't get it through official channels. From the Hero Commission's perspective, they're the largest villain group in Japan and are so dangerous because, as the name implies, they could be anyone.
• Patricide: Like canon, Dabi wants to kill his father and encourages Shouto to hone his flame so he can burn him alive. Izuku isn't entirely sure if Dabi is serious about this.
• Person of Mass Destruction: It's well known that quirks can cause massive damage, but the Harbor Disaster is a true highlight of just how powerful they are. All For One and All Might are called DemiGods, Even Dabi himself is in awe of the insane damage he caused.
  "No wonder the world had almost collapsed when quirks had appeared. No wonder people back then had turned people with powers into gods. Because the alternative was to make them into monsters and the perspective to live in such a world would have been far too scary for a human mind to stay intact."
• Pet Baby Wild Animal: Eri and her adoptive sister try to convince their parents to adopt a dingo. Izuku asks for pictures if they succeed.
• Point of Divergence: Several points, in fact.
  • Izuku's electrocution by a classmate led to him being homeschooled while his mom works away as a chef, which produces the environment needed to cause the events of Anyone.
  • Before that, is All Might and All for One's battle happening earlier than canon, resulting in Tenko not being raised by All for One, the Hero Commission having a larger, corrupting reach, and All for One's own family (Inko and Izuku) suffering until the above-mentioned point eased things.
  • Because All Might and All for One's battle took place earlier and All for One was imprisoned, several of his followers continued to work on Number Six, who now leads this world's League of Villians.
  • The above points combined with Izuku's vacation to Dubai mean that the I-Island incident will never take place in this fic, because the villains involved in it got arrested.
  • Hawks was asked to infiltrate Anyone instead of the League of Villains. Because of that, he was too busy at the time of the Sports Festival to watch it and therefore never took Tokoyami as his intern.
  • While the fight against Stain was very similar to the canon one (though after Stain was taken down it devolved into a Gran Torino vs Izuku match), one of the League of Villains members took a video of the entire confrontation and posted it online immediately afterwards. As a result, the credit for taking down Stain goes to Izuku as opposed to Endeavor.
• Poor Communication Kills:
  • All Might's inability to find Izuku again after the boy tricks him into giving him One For All stems from the fact he barely spoke to the boy when they first met and didn't even get his name. This is further compounded by All Might attempting to find Izuku through Katsuki but not telling him why, or even how critically important it is, causing Katsuki to grow jealous and lie that he'd never met Izuku before.
  • Nobody bothered to inform All Might that All For One is still alive in Tartarus. The only one who knew the details was the nurse, and they died when All For One broke out of prison. This causes a lot of chaos as now the only person who can contain All For One in any meaningful way is Izuku, and let's just say that doesn't always work out.
  • In order to keep the true nature of his quirk a secret from the Hero Commision (which he doesn't trust), All Might resorts to a half-truth, saying that a teenager did something and is now draining his power away. The Commission thinks that it's a parasitic quirk, and as a result, Stain starts attacking people with parasitic quirks on top of his hero hunt.
• Portal Cut: Kurogiri uses his portals to cut Rokuro in half and save Aizawa. Though all that achieves is slow Rokouro down a bit.
• The Power of Hate:
  • Besides logically knowing it isn't real, what helps Izuku break past Nightmare's fear Quirk is years of anger and hatred which he uses to (temporarily) drown out his fear.
  • All Might uses this as his fuel when fighting All For One during the Harbor Disaster so he can extend his time limit.
• Pragmatic Villainy: While he's largely doing it out of petty enjoyment, All For One laying low is also the most pragmatic option as he knows All Might no longer has One For All and will run out of power eventually. And since the current holder isn't a hero or hero in training, he doesn't even have to worry about All Might's successor.
• Psycho for Hire: Even though he views it as "protecting All Might", Stain works for the Hero Commission by killing heroes who cause them problems.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Aizawa is perfectly correct in reminding Hanabata that Shinso is falling behind in his classes and that it's necessary he attends and works out if he wants a Hero career. However, Shinso's frustration with constantly being told either that his quirk is villainous or that he needs to work harder than everyone else leads to his interning with the Hero Commission despite Aizawa's perfectly reasonable doubts.
• Related in the Adaptation:
  • Izuku and All For One, of course.
  • If the One For All Vestiges' reactions are any indication, Inko is the daughter of Nana Shimura... much to Nana's consternation.
• Required Secondary Powers: Invoked; All For One offers Dabi a heat resistance quirk, to make up for the fact that his quirk doesn't come with this, in exchange for reporting back to him on Izuku's activities. Izuku doesn't even mind.
• The Resenter: Hitoshi Shinsou is this just as in canon. The difference here is that he is in class 1-A instead of General Studies, replacing Izuku. Like canon, he is jealous of most of the class due to their more flashy quirks, especially Bakugou and Todoroki, while being determined to become a hero with a "villainous" quirk. This ultimately leads him to intern with the Hero Commission instead of Aizawa.
• Ring of Fire: The League of Villains surrounds the entire UA Summer Campgrounds with fire to prevent anyone from going in or out. Unfortunately for Izuku, he is wrapped out of the flaming perimeter.
• The Runaway: Shouto first meets Izuku when he tries to run away from home. Izuku talks him out of it by pointing out how rash this decision was and how Shouto is not capable of taking care of himself in his current state, and his father is famous so it would create a whole lot of issues.
• Rule of Cool: Initially, the hoodies with specially made veils to hide a person's face in shadows were sold so people could hide mutant-type quirks. Later, people kept buying them because the effect looked so cool.
• Running Gag:
  • Random Guy, a robber named Ken who repeatedly attempts to mug pro heroes and villains with absolutely no success.
  • Izuku and Shouto hiding random stuff in Dabi's apartment, and him finding out only when they pull them out.
• Scars Are Forever: Izuku has a large Lichtenberg figure scar on his back due to being electrocuted when he was younger.
• Secret-Keeper:
  • Katsuki sort of becomes one by pretending not to know who Izuku is after All Might starts asking about him, even though he managed to piece together that Izuku is involved with Anyone.
  • Hawks figures out that Shouto is involved with Anyone but instead of telling he warns Shouto to be careful.
  • Aizawa, Shinso and Gang Orca all find out about All Might's true form after his battle against All For One at the Harbor Disaster.
• Secret Secret-Keeper:
  • Aizawa assumes that Nezu knows who stole Hanabata's car from the UA parking lot during the Harbor Disaster. The thing is, the one who stole it is Shouto, so if Aizawa is right that means that Nezu knows about Shouto's criminal activities.
  • It's all but stated that Hawks has figured out Dabi and Shouto are siblings, but it's unconfirmed if he really has, or has told them that he knows. Not that the two really try to hide their connection.
• Security Blanket: Izuku uses his hero merch as this even though he no longer idolizes them. He admits he feels uncomfortable when not wearing any hero merch.
• Shared Family Quirks:
  • As Dabi points out, both Izuku and All For One are villains who are the shadow leaders of organizations that work by exchanging favours. They also both have great analytical minds, they love analyzing quirks, and they're both the types to talk during movies - they're fond of the horror genre.
  • Dabi is noted by many to have a fighting style similar to Endeavor, and both he and Shouto are conspiracy theorists with a love for manga. Shouto can also use his brother's blue flame when really pushed, as shown in the exam fight against All Might.
  • All For One and his younger brother Youichi share the same penchant for overly affectionate cuddling.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Dabi mysteriously acquires a dark blue three-piece suit that according to Hawks "highlights his eyes".
• Ship Tease: There is a lot going on between Dabi and Hawks.
  • Dabi dresses up in a nice suit to go and pick up Hawks when he's stranded out of the city after All For One burned his wings. He also makes sure to pick up Hawks's favourite food on the way.
  • While other characters notice how unusual it is for Dabi to wear a suit, Hawks takes special notice of how the colour highlights his eyes.
  • Dabi cares enough about Hawks's feelings not to tease him when he's clearly not in the mood or headspace to take it.
  • When Hawks is locked out of his apartment, instead of booking a hotel room (which he can clearly afford), he instead crashes at Dabi's crappy apartment.
  • Dabi only allows Hawks to put his feet on the couch - nobody else. Not even his own brother is allowed to put his feet on Dabi's couch.
  • Hawks buys Dabi an expensive TV.
• Shout-Out:
  • One of the members of Anyone is a woman with a spider Quirk and the screenname Gwen.
  • The shadowed hoods are said to make you look like "a video-game assassin".
  • When Dabi realizes that Izuku and Shouto really weren't joking about accidentally freeing All For One from Tartarus, he goes pale as if "he had just seen a dementor.
  • After fighting Nightmare, Izuku ends up wearing a shirt with the words Cardiac Arrest on it. Given the story's similar habit of having a clingy All For One, it's almost definitely not a coincidence.
  • One of the buildings destroyed during the Harbor Incident is the Japanese DC Comics HQ.
  • One of the members of the League of Villains is based on Michael Shelley.
  • All For One is a Star Wars fan if his Darth Vader t-shirt is any indication.
  • All For One uses the online handle Dumas, referencing the author of The Three Musketeers from where the name of his and his brother's quirks come from.
• Show Within a Show: There's a videogame called Might Kart, which is a Parody of Mario Kart featuring pro-heroes instead of Nintendo characters.
• Skewed Priorities:
  • Izuku was more worried about whether or not Dabi got a good deal to serve as All For One's mole than the actual fact that he was serving as The Mole.
  • Shouto is more worried about Izuku who's safe in his home instead of his classmates being attacked by the League of Villains in the middle of the night. Somewhat subverted in that he knows that Izuku would immediately run over there as soon as he finds out.
• Social Media Before Reason: Izuku just cannot resist taking a selfie with the Kaiju. To his defense, it's cool as hell and it's implied that they were having a rather civil discussion.
• Spanner in the Works: The villain behind the attack on Hosu screws up the police chief's plan to credit Endeavor with Stain's capture by uploading a video of Anyone fighting Stain.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Tenko's father is stated to be alive, and it's implied that the rest of his family is alive too. It's also implied that this did nothing to improve their relationship, even with All Might and Gran Torino actually in the picture.
• Spotting the Thread:
  • Izuku realizes the All Might who attacks him in Ava's home can't be the real deal because he's too powerful. The real All Might is running on fumes and far more vulnerable than the seemingly all-powerful titan attacking him.
  • Hawks realizes that Shouto is a member of Anyone after the Stain's attack in Hosu, because the message sent to the whole server specifically described Iida Tenya and the only one who could have known Iida was after Stain was Shouto.
• Start X to Stop X: Dabi says that literally fighting fire with fire is actually very effective, providing you're the stronger one because the stronger flame essentially steals the oxygen supply.
• Strong Family Resemblance:
  • Izuku realizes that Dabi is Todoroki Toya by spotting how similar his battle stance is to Endeavor's, and then noticing his identical eyes.
  • Izuku looks a lot like his father and when a classmate straightens his hair, he's a dead ringer for his uncle.
• Stunned Silence: Endeavor and his sidekicks' reaction when Shouto takes down a Nomu in just a few seconds before anyone else could react (he instantly froze it and then cut off one of its limbs with a car door). It's implied by the narration that they were shocked by the sheer brutality of the takedown.
• Super-Empowering: All For One's typical method of gaining the loyalty of his followers. Dabi gets a heat resistance Quirk as payment for his reporting on Anyone's activities.
• Supreme Chef: All For One is an amazing chef. The only person Izuku thinks can do better is his mother, who's a professional chef who works all around the world in places like New York City and Dubai. However, that comparison was made early on when Izuku almost refused to eat All For One's cooking.
• Sweet Tooth: Izuku typically adds enough sugar to his coffee to turn it into syrup.
• Terror Hero:
  • Nightmare. His quirk shows people their worst fears, with the people he interrogates often ending up with white hair, and he isn't afraid to use it on a kid or even his own family.
  • Interestingly, All Might is presented as this whenever he fights, because all the fights he participates in with the exception of the one against All For One are narrated from the viewpoint of his opponents. His strength is described as "god-like" several times, he is described as merciless towards his enemies, and all his opponents have personal reasons to be terrified of him, such as Katsuki fearing what'll happen if All Might finds out he lied or Shouto being terrified that All Might will identify him as the ice user the day his quirk got stolen. At one point, even Dabi got paralyzed with fear just from seeing All Might fight.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: The main reason that Anyone is such a source of Paranoia Fuel In-Universe is that it's impossible to tell who is a member - other than Dabi who has a very distinct look, and the Hosu vigilante (who is Izuku in disguise), it's impossible to tell who could be a member because the entire userbase is made up of ordinary people.
  "No offense to OP but Anyone is an AMAZING name for a vigilante group precisely because of how confusing it is. It’s literally a pun on “It could be anyone!” How can you not like that name?"
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: All For One, to the dismay of Izuku. Eventually everyone gets used to him - though Dabi still freaks out from the guy's mere presence.
• Trademark Favorite Food: McDonald's mcnuggets with spicy sauce for Hawks.
• Tranquil Fury:
  • Anytime All For One prepares to kill the ones who hurt his family, he always has a mask of complete calmness and is even affable. But of course, the victims know who he is so that just makes the whole thing all the more terrifying.
  • Izuku also tends to look calm when extremely pissed, while people who know him see just how terrifying he is, just like his father. When Dabi unthinkingly presses one of Izuku's Berserk Buttons, Izuku's reply is described as "Cold enough to be used as Torodoki's right side and vicious enough to be used as All For One's soul".
• Translator Collar: David Shields invented a device that allows people to talk to animals. Including Kaiju.
• Trauma Button:
  • Electricity quirks are this for Izuku because a classmate electrocuted him once while he was in elementary school. This means he has difficulties controlling the Sixth holder's Electricity quirk for a while.
  • Katsuki has lingering mental trauma from the sludge villain attack. Whenever he starts growing upset or panics he feels like the sludge villain's liquid is trying to choke him again.
  • Being alone is this for All For One, as he spent ten years in complete isolation in Tartarus. He's unable to sleep if he doesn't have a line of sight to Izuku's room. In the days Izuku is in vacation in Dubai, he becomes so antsy that all the other inner circle members flee Kurogiri's bar so they don't have to be near him.
• Tyke Bomb: The Paragons. Top tier, exceptional heroes, raised and trained from childhood by the Hero Public Safety Commission. Hawks is one, and the Commission kidnapped Eri to raise her as one as well. They are well-funded and very good at their jobs. Said jobs being whatever the Commission wants, and since the Commission has control of their bank accounts, the Paragon doesn't have much choice in the matter.
• Uncanny Valley: In-Universe, Michael of the League of Villains. This trope is namedropped as he's described as someone who "feels wrong, in ways that are hard to perceive", and that there are thousands of little ways in which his proportions seem wrong but not immediately obvious to the average person.
• Unperson: Izuku asked Nagisa to erase all information regarding "Izuku Midoriya" so that nobody would ever be able to find him or his mother.
• Urban Legend:
  • All For One was one until the Hero Commision confirmed his existence after the USJ attack.
  • Anyone starts as one, as any person who contacts them initially assumes they are an internet rumour. The commission confirms they are real after the Harbor Disaster.
• Villain Protagonist: Izuku really just wants to help people. In the process, he finds himself running a criminal organization, supplements his finances with armored car robberies, stole One For All, and accidentally released All For One from prison.
• Villain Respect:
  • Izuku still respects heroes and the work they do. Despite being on the other side of the law, he appreciates their role in maintaining order.
  • Rokuro seems to be more or less an Anyone fanboy, even though he is in charge of the League of Villains. He also shows strong respect towards Aizawa for being so courageous even in the face of certain defeat.
• Villain Team-Up: What Hawks and All Might see All For One's involvement in Anyone as, with Anyone themself utilizing the Thief sapping All Might's strength in order to ensure All For One has a desire to keep the Anyone group from being stopped.
• Villain's Dying Grace: Muscular is happy to die at the hands of a strong oponent like Izuku.
• Voice with an Internet Connection: Nagisa, aka Gwen, one of Izuku's confidants and Anyone's website administrator; she's also a very talented hacker and puts those talents to use for Izuku at times as well. Justified because she has a mutation quirk that makes her resemble a humanoid spider. Understandably, she doesn't go out much and intentionally developed a skill-set that lets her work from home.
• Waving Signs Around: The march for quirk equity that Izuku, Hebisuga, and a classmate of theirs go to. Manuel is awed when Gang Orca, a Top Ten Hero, also joins in, having brought his own sign along.
• We Help the Helpless: The purpose of Anyone as a whole is to help people who can't get help from official channels. Izuku insists on paying them their due - for example, paying the lawyers they hire for their hours. They also take advantage of Hawks when he tries to infiltrate Anyone - while as a pro-hero this is actually his job, in Anyone many people specifically send him tasks of various severity to ask for help.
• Weirdness Magnet: Izuku. Even when he's on vacation in Dubai, the city gets attacked by a Kaiju.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Nana Smimura tells Izuku that he confuses her, because while the actions of Anyone as a group and their purpose are undoubtedly heroic, the means Izuku uses - stealing One For All, deeply hurting All Might, the crimes - are villainous actions.
  Nana Shimura: Can a hero be born from such a villainous act? Does the fact that you help others balance the fact that you are making Toshinori go through the same experience that almost broke you?
• We Win, Because You Didn't: After Nightmare attacks Ava, a woman who specializes in giving people new identities, the Hero Commission tries to sweep the whole thing under the rug by offering to pay her medical fees. She counters with the idea of suing them for what one of their sponsored heroes did. Ava admits she wouldn't win such a case, but all she has to do is make sure the Hero Commission loses, such as having the man's abused family testify that his actions were completely normal for him.
• Wham Episode: Chapter Thirty-One. Izuku is lured into a trap by the Hero Commission and is forced into a fight with Shinsou, Gang Orca, and Eraserhead. Dabi and Kurogiri attempt a rescue, only for the group to get delayed by Mirio long enough for All Might to arrive. Just as it looks like Izuku is going to be forced into a last stand against the Symbol of Peace, All for One arrives to "save" him, and Izuku can tell violence between the weakened All Might and his fully rejuvenated nemesis is inevitable.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Dabi's furious when he finds out that Shouto refuses to use his flames, and gets into a fight with him over it because he sees it as an insult towards anyone who has difficulties with their quirks, like himself and Izuku.
• What You Are in the Dark: Izuku finds himself the only person in a position to intervene when Hawks, who has just learned an extremely dangerous secret about Anyone and is in a position to reveal it, has his quirk stolen and is about to be killed by All For One. Despite having everything to lose and very little to gain beyond it being the right thing to do, Izuku barely hesitates to square up to All For One and demand the hero's release.
• Who Would Be Stupid Enough?:
  • After the Harbor Disaster, a Tumblr poster wonders who thought it'd be a good idea to rule a dangerous vigilante in a place with "so much expensive shit".
  • The Vestiges are seriously questioning Izuku's sanity when he decides to run through the forest fire.
• White Hair, Black Heart: Izuku dyes his hair white as a disguise (and when it's returned to its normal shade for his visit to his mother in Dubai, it's noticeably lighter) and he's in charge of one of the biggest illegal organizations in Japan —though in this case, he's more Grey-Hearted. All For One plays this a lot straighter.
• Wife-Basher Basher: There's a group in the servers of Anyone that specializes in helping people escape their abusive partners or spouses. Many times this results in fights with those abusers.
• Would Hurt a Child: All For One. His initial plan for the teenagers Inazuma and Naru was to have Inazuma kill Naru, and then air all her dirty laundry, at which point he would kill her once she went to prison after she suffered enough. His plan changes after he meets one of his victims, but it still ends with Inazuma dead.
• Writing Around Trademarks: Izuku's support group is on an app called Clamor, which is obviously Discord with the serial numbers filed off.
• Written by the Winners: All For One is very clear that the history everyone is taught about the early days of Quirks is pure propaganda. Examples include:
  • The first Heroes were members of a group of people who had been fighting for Quirk user rights, who were offered legitimacy by the government. They promptly branded the rest as "villains" and turned on them, hunting them down even though they'd almost achieved victory.
  • A politician who allegedly fought for Quirked rights was actually only interested in using them for cheap labor.
  • A vigilante who killed a deadly villain at the cost of her own life had actually survived and was assassinated by the government while she was being treated.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: When Izuku's stress gets the better of him and he has a breakdown over the phone about his fear that his efforts will be All for Nothing, Nagisa gives him a pep talk, reminding him of all the good things he did, that he's doing an admirable job containing All For One, and even if everything gets destroyed that will not erase the good he did.

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