Fanfic / Izuku the Reincarnated Chef

Troublemakers will be stripped as an example to others.

-Whitey, Izuku's bouncer robot

Izuku has always been a Doom Magnet, which didn't change just because he isekai'd into another world during a coma. After falling from grace thanks to a villain's mind control, Izuku finds himself back home. Can he use the knowledge he gained to once again become the number one chef on the planet? Of course he can, he was Zaus in a previous life, and with his sponsor allowing him to scour the multiverse for ingredients, he will become the next God of Cooking.

Izuku the Reincarnated Chef: Or "How I came back from a Isekai and still can't have a quiet life!" is a My Hero Academia, Toriko, and Gourmet to Another World Crossover by JoySeeker101.

This story uses the following tropes as ingredients...

• The Ace: Izuku is the best chef on the planet and one of the best in the multiverse. Some of the omakes make clear just how rare a candidate for a God of Cooking is because of the high skill level required. Izuku has visited several universes, including omakes, and only the oldest and most well-informed beings know what a God of Cooking even is. During the Dragon Ball omake, Whis remarks that their universe last saw a candidate hundreds of thousands of years ago because of the standards.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Dabi and Himiko appear during the USJ Attack instead of after the Hosu arc.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Mirio ultimately develops into this. Initially, it is largely due the conflict of having to deal with becoming All Might’s successor and developing his control of One For All, which keeps eating into the time he would have normally spent with Nejire. He ultimately demonstrates that he takes their relationship for granted, assuming that Nejire will be willing to always wait for him when he is always putting off dates, with him even going so far as to double up with All Might in accusing her of being selfish and immature for not understanding the importance of a situation that he won’t even tell her about, to the point of it being emotional abuse. He is subsequently upset when Nejire predictably breaks up with him and chooses to pursue Izuku instead, which leads to Mirio expressing hostility towards the young chef.
• Adaptational Karma: Katsuki putting Izuku in a coma results in Inko and Hisashi filing a lawsuit against him and Aldera.
• Adaptational Personality Change: Katsuki being forced to face the consequences of his actions before the start of the story results in him being a better person by the time he first appears in the story.
• Age Lift: While all of the student characters have their age changed from 15-16 to 18 to fit UA being turned into a university instead of a high school at the beginning (and to make the more…raunchier…scenes bearable), Rumi Usagiyama (aka Miruko) is brought down from 26-27 to 18 herself and placed into Class 1-B to fit the main polyamory ship of the fic.
• Anti-Climax: While in the Sci-Fi World, Izuku and Momo are in awe at the giant ship that has lots of children, both humans and aliens alike, extremely excited. And then familiar music starts and they are both disappointed to realize it's just a larger scale version of neighbourhood kids rushing for ice-cream from an ice-cream truck. It's just that ice-cream gets delivered by space ship this time.
• Awesome McCoolname: Parodied in the "Western Fantasy" World Arc. The two "Protagonists" Izuku and Rumi meet have outrageous full names, acting as a nod to bad Self-Insert Fanfiction.
  • John's full name is: "John Hunter Drake Armageddon Hellblaze".
  • Blake's full name is: "Blake Elizabeth Meloarna Dementia Raven Way", with the last three names probably working as a nod to the infamous Harry Potter fanfic My Immortal.
• Bad Review Threat: One critic flashes his status to Izuku, believing this will get him preferential treatment to avoid a bad review. Izuku refuses to be intimidated and stands his ground.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Freeze is the only male Villain to fight for Izuku while he's in Gotham during the events of the DC Comics omake due to Izuku curing his wife's condition.
• Beyond the Impossible: The System is an omnipotent god-like being more powerful than all other shown gods and takes great care to make sure women do not become obsessed with Izuku when he gets sent on his Ingredient-gathering expeditions. This is why it is incredibly baffling to both it and Izuku that the female gender keeps going after him to be their permanent chef anyway.
• Big Eater:
  • Izuku brought his Gourmet Cells with him, and his appetite reflects that: as he reveals in chapter 13, he eats more than a metric ton (for reference, a metric ton is about 1000 kilograms) of food for each meal. This is only enough food to maintain his weight with barely any body fat and his caloric needs will only increase as his cells become more active.
  • Nejire also eats a lot after her sortie with Izuku where she downs huge amounts of food to the shock of Lunch Rush.
  • Momo, Ochako, and Rumi all develop big appetites to Lunch Rush's shock as now four of UA's students need to be fed large meals which he must cook.
• Bigger on the Inside: Izuku's restaurant, specifically the kitchen and storage areas, are much larger than what the exterior's size would suggest.
• Bodyguarding a Badass: Whitey is Izuku's bodyguard on Sorties and his bouncer in the restaurant. While it is understandable that Izuku has him as a guard so he can focus on cooking, Izuku only needed Whitey's guard during his first sortie. After that, Izuku quickly grew to superhuman levels of power.
• Both Sides Have a Point: Momo and Rumi take Mirio to task over OFA and his treatment of Nejire. While they understand his desire to protect a state secret, the three of them and Nejire herself are training to be Heroes, so protecting powerful secrets is part of the job. While he reluctantly admits he should have considered that, he points out controlling OFA and Permeation is way more difficult than it appears given that OFA and Permeation adversely affect each other, leaving him covered with crisscrossing scars and keeping both under control takes most of his physical, mental and emotional energy and time. If he isn’t simply too busy for partners, then he’s often too tired from keeping his Quirks under control.
• Brain Bleach: As well as laughs, most of the time when Whitey strips troublemakers, a lot of people scream in horror and look away, unable to erase the image from their minds.
• Break the Haughty: Any assholes that try to mess with Izuku tend to have their pride shattered:
  • All troublemakers dealt with by Whitey are stripped as an example to others.
  • Endeavour eats a dish so spicy not even he can take it, thus losing his bet and being forced to pay the bills of all the customers at Izuku's restaurant at that time. To add insult to injury, his pain does not end since the stomach ache from eating something so spicy is both painful and humiliating to him.
  • A HPSC official with an over-inflated sense of self-importance demands entry into Izuku's restaurant in spite of clear signs it's closed causes a confrontation with Blackie that escalates into him, his Hero goons, and several other Heroes being humiliated on social media due to how easily Blackie beats them all. To add insult to injury, they are clearly at fault for the escalation, and trying to pin anything on Blackie anyway will draw even more attention to their humiliation.
• Broken Ace: While Izuku, by and large, is shown to have completely embraced his new ambition of being a chef, there are frequent signs that he is still massively bitter about the treatment he used to receive, and the dismissal of his original dream of becoming a hero, particularly at the hands of people like All Might, especially when some of those same people say he could become a hero now only because he’s obtained a massive amount of power (while still technically being Quirkless). This bleeds over into Izuku’s treatment of All Might and Katsuki in particular, whom he is shown to have not fully forgiven, even after they have apologized.
• Bullying a Dragon: Multiple parties refuse to leave Izuku in peace in spite of the powerful factions protecting him for various reasons:
  • Desire to find out more about his powers/Blackie's powers/Whitey's design etc.
  • Pride and refusal to admit that he is better or stronger than them. Typically motivated by Fantastic Racism.
  • Desire to see him ruined, also usually motivated by Fantastic Ableism.
• Cain and Abel: The brothers Lao and Zao have a dynamic where the former was scholarly and forged powerful connections while the latter believed only in strength. In a twist of the trope, the more obvious Cain in Zao turns out to be less evil than Lao, who revealed to his shocked father he was the viler one all along.
• Chick Magnet: As noted in Running Gag below, more than a few times in this story Izuku bring attention to himself from ladies, whether it be from his looks or his cooking. Even goddesses get attracted to him. Although, it is much to his displeasure and Momo's disdain.
• The Chikan: Rumi hates taking public transport because people keep groping her in some way.
• Cliché Storm: Invoked. The worlds visited during sorties are intentionally as cliché as possible, such as overly complex systems in the Wuxia world, ridiculously haughty elves in the medieval world, excessively long and flashy transformation sequences in the Magical Girl world, and hilariously evil/petty villains in all.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Momo hates when other girls try to flirt with her Izuku. Rumi and Ochako also hate it when one of their rivals gets close to Izuku.
• Colliding Criminal Conspiracies: A variation involving one employer accidentally inflicting the trope on themselves. He hired twin chefs to challenge Izuku to beat him in a cooking challenge and then separately hired an assassin to kill him after the twins win so that it'd look like suicide. However, the employer, Gouki, didn't tell them about each other, and the end result is that they got in each other's way and interfered in each other's murder attempts.
• Comically Invincible Hero: Between his Gourmet Cells and having Blackie and Whitey as bodyguards when he first started out, Izuku is so obscenely powerful that he’s nigh untouchable by any force in the MHA world, a fact that frustrates both himself and others to no end, because it draws so much attention and scrutiny, which isn’t what Izuku wants. Him getting more obscenely powerful bodyguards on his sorties just makes him even more unassailable. As Izuku is a chef, this extends to cooking as well. Between his previous life’s experience as the, for a time, Number One Chef in a world completely centered around food and cooking; his access to, literally, otherworldly ingredients; and the support of a system that can completely warp the laws of reality to better enable his cooking; Izuku is nigh unbeatable as a chef. In his first outing in an amateur cooking competition, he drives a three-star chef into an existential crisis and mental breakdown from how absurdly delicious his cooking is.
• Commonality Connection: Part of the reason Ochako loves Izuku after she gets to know him better is due to their similarities. Both had few if any friends growing up, even if the causes are different, and both dreamed of seeing people smile and feel safe and were beaten back by jerks saying they can't achieve it. There also share similar tastes in music and heroes.
• Could Say It, But...: Because of Ego's professionalism as a food critic, he tells Izuku that he cannot reveal that Hidetaka Matoi tried to bribe him into giving him a savage review of his restaurant.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: After their break-up, Mirio gets jealous of Izuku whenever Nejire shows Izuku affection. Nejire is aware of this and deliberately plays up her genuine affection for Izuku out of petty spite.
• Crossover: Aside from Toriko elements from Izuku's past life, Izuku tends to visit other worlds for ingredients. They include:
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
  • Beastars
  • Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
  • RWBY
  • Dragon Ball Super
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Record of Ragnarok
  • DC Animated Universe
  • Pokémon Scarlet and Violet
  • The Owl House
  • Cyberpunk 2077
  • Kingdom Hearts III
  • Mass Effect
  • Splatoon
  • Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL
  • Monster Hunter (2004)
  • Lies of P
  • Persona
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Izuku and his associates steamroll any opponent due to a combination of just how powerful they are and their Wrong Context Magic, whether it be in battle or cooking.
• Cuteness Proximity: Shiro is adored by just about any girl who enters the restaurant.
• Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit: Kristoff gets the idea of pinning Elsa's accidental winter on the conveniently dead Hans, which helped calm the people of Arendelle down.
• Deconstruction Fic: Of the symbol of peace concept. The obligation of the position is so great that All Might never had a family and his social circle consists mostly if not exclusively of the few people he met before he became the symbol of peace, one of which (Gran Torino) is someone he inherited from Nana. When Mirio gets One for All to become the next symbol, he devotes so much time and energy to his training that it drives his girlfriend away.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Many (though by no means all) of the people Izuku defeats in cooking contests are very cordial to him in subsequent encounters. This is largely due to Izuku treating them as Worthy Opponents and praising them for their talents.
• Didn't See That Coming: The ultimate cause of the Inoshiki Assault Arc. In an attempt to force Izuku to close his restaurant, the Rector of Inoshiki Academy sends a squad of students to attack Green Cloud Restaurant. Only problem is they chose the worst possible time, as there just so happens to be a large number of heroes inside eating, including All Might, and they are all very quick to turn their eyes straight at them. No surprise they immediately turn tail and book it before Whitey catches them.
• Differing Priorities Breakup: Nejire breaks up with Mirio because he has been prioritising his training to master One for All and succeed All Might at the cost of neglecting Nejire, and an extended period of him making Nejire wait results in her getting fed up with playing second fiddle.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • The whole issue with the Restaurant and Cooking Industry shunning Izuku is because Samui suffered a nervous breakdown just because Izuku is a better cook. One of Samui's former conspirators even admits their response to Samui's breakdown is completely out of proportion. When Anton Ego hears of it, he is disgusted and has some choice words to say to Matoi about it:
    Anton Ego: ...So you are asking me to throw away my dignity and just march there to review the simple food of a young boy that isn't even a blip on the radar, and destroy him? Just to help your little friend avenge his wounded Primadonna honor?
  • Izuku himself later admits that his own attitude towards All Might after finding out about One For All was similarly unnecessairly vicious when All Might was at worst socially tone-deaf but well meaning in his words and actions, and he was both well within his rights and obligations to carefully pick and choose a successor for the dangerous Quirk he held, nor was he obligated to offer Izuku One for All just because he was Quirkless. They both bury the hatchet later and are seen peacefully interacting.
• Don't Look At Me: Izuku's sponsor, The System, prefers to remain anonymous, and not even other gods are capable of figuring out their identity. Attempts to divine their identity invariably fail, ranging from a Poke in the Third Eye to simply magical artifacts giving error messages.
• Driven by Envy: Many high-profile Chefs cannot stand that Izuku is a far better Chef than them. Samui's hatred for him in particular results in him going to extreme lengths to force him to shut down and never cook again, up to leveraging blackmail he has on others to force them to help.
• Emasculated Cuckold:
  • Defied. Mineta demands to have sex with Momo after learning she and Izuku became an Official Couple in an attempt to prove he's the better man, but this disgusts Momo so much that she brutally slams him into the floor.
  • Played with in the fantasy world sortie with Izuku and Rumi. The other isekai protagonists in that world plan to steal one of the duo that they happen to be interested in, with the female isekai protagonist specifically looking forward to Rumi's despair at her taking Izuku and having sex with him in front of her. The female isekai protagonist never gets the chance to attempt it, but the male isekai protagonist almost rapes Rumi in front of Izuku before The System intervenes and undoes the paralysis for Rumi to beat the would-be-rapist up.
• Entertainingly Wrong:
  • Sun Mu-Cheng, an old man in the Wuxia world, thinks Izuku is actually the lord of some foreign and very powerful clan because of his immense power, skill, and his divinely powerful knife.
  • The inhabitants of the fantasy world believe Rumi is a Viera, which considering her physical traits, is quite understandable when they don't know about Quirks.
• Even More Omnipotent: The System proves more powerful than any other deity Izuku encounters. Lucoa gets a headache trying to divine their identity, Whis is unable to ascertain its identity with his staff due to not having clearance, it overrides the choices of the god and goddess in the fantasy world, and it can revive the people sent to Nifleheim, which should be literally impossible.
• Every Man Has His Price:
  • Tenya protests his fellow students gambling on the outcome of Izuku's challenge against Inoshiki University but lets it slide when Tsuyu gives him a cut of the winnings.
  • Defied by Anton Ego. Matoi invokes the trope word for word, but Anton refuses to compromise his professional integrity no matter what Matoi offers.
• Everyone Has Standards: The System is a largely neutral entity, but they do have morals. It allowed the isekai guy to paralyze Izuku and Rumi when they were in the western fantasy world just to see what would happen, but when they make it clear they will attempt rape, the disgusted System immediately undoes the paralysis to make the bastard suffer punishment.
• Exact Words: Halfway through Chapter 20, an Elven General tries to send his remaining ships to bombard Izuku’s to protect his stash of golden grapes. When Shiro decides to take the mantle of dealing with them, Izuku tells him to not kill them, knowing that Shiro’s power could very easily do so. Shiro complies by restraining his shot to a very small percentage of his power…said shot still managing to have the display power of a nuke, completely blasting away the ships, and leaving all of the elves on the ships (bar one) with, in Shiro’s words, “every bone in their bodies turned to dust and most organs bruised, but alive.”
• Face Palm: The System wishes it had the ability to face-palm when Blackie's attempt to save Momo due to her being a precious person to Izuku results in Ochako developing feelings for Izuku due to Blackie not knowing who he's supposed to protect.
• Fantastic Ableism: Many people don't like and even hate Izuku purely because he is Quirkless. This includes Re-Destro, and he comes off as being one of the more reasonable ones in spite of a murder attempt against Izuku since he is able to have a civil debate with him and leaves believing that even Quirkless can be Liberated, even returning to Izuku's restaurant to enjoy his cooking. There are others that are more hateful and vitriolic in their dislike of Izuku, with Mineta saying Izuku does not deserve Momo because he is Quirkless and Izuku's rival chefs cannot stand that he is better even though he is Quirkless.
• Fate Worse than Death:
  • While not mentioned, many of the thugs and vandals are stripped naked in front of the public, and many of them are so thoroughly humiliated that they wish their suffering would just end instead of being stripped naked.
  • Shiro devours the one Incubator that tries to recruit Ochako so that instead of merely being erased like the rest of its kind, it will suffer being devoured alive for the rest of eternity.
• Flat Character: Whitey is Izuku's bouncer/bodyguard and is an incredibly advanced, or at least powerful robot. He has an incredibly limited personality that consists mostly of guarding Izuku and keeping order. He usually melds into the background unless actively fighting someone.
• Foil: Blackie and Shiro are both supernatural animals that Izuku keeps at the restaurant. Blackie is a large, intimidating, black dog that serves as a guard but sleeps most of the time until bothered. Shiro is a toy-sized Taotie, white in color, cute, and acts as a pet that people fawn over. Blackie is gruff and sees himself as above the pet treatment while Shiro revels in being cute and petted. Blackie never leaves the store while Shiro is always with Izuku/his girls. Both also act as a foil to Whitey. Whitey is a large white automaton designed to be non-threatening while acting as a guard in Izuku's restaurant. Blackie and Shiro both have strong personalities while Whitey appears to be non-sentient. Blackie and Shiro tend to kill or injure enemies while Whitey mostly humiliates them.
• Food Porn: Whenever a chef shows up, whether it be Izuku or anyone else, expect their dishes to get delicious descriptions and a picture for reference.
• Frame-Up: Samui's associates are going to great lengths in trying to frame Izuku for smuggling various goods, but the System makes sure their efforts fail, to the constant frustrations of the real smugglers.
• Gender Is No Object:
  • Subverted with Whitey. In his opinion, ANY troublemaker who harasses Izuku will be stripped as an example to others. During the cook-off at the academy, the girls call him a monster, with Whitey responding back with this gem of a retort.
    Whitey: You're 'respect wahmen' shall be used to wipe this unit's backside.
  • In America, Izuku tells Stars and Stripes that the whole "badass woman that needs no help" trope died out in the 2100s because people realized that gender divisions were completely arbitrary and helped no one in the long run.
• Gold Digger: Momo hears slanderous rumours that Izuku is only with her for the money. She knows he's not, but it doesn't stop the gossip from hurting her.
• Heel Realization: Yamato eventually comes to regret her role in trying to get revenge for her friend Samui for Izuku's excellent cooking driving him to a breakdown, especially as the response is overblown and unjustified and affected her and her university's reputation, though not irrecoverably.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: The efforts of other chefs to destroy Izuku's restaurant not only fails but backfires by making Izuku's restaurant more famous:
  • Yamato tries a direct assault, but this fails and prompts Izuku to do an open challenge against her university, which he wins and the publicity draws people to his restaurant.
  • Hidetaka Matoi's plan to destroy Izuku's restaurant by savage reviews backfires badly. One of the critics he asks, Anton Ego, refuses to compromise his professional integrity and give an accurate, and more importantly, glowing, review of his restaurant while calling out the other bribed critic as a sellout giving a deliberately bad review for personal gain. Since Anton Ego is the more famous and prestigious critic, not only does this destroy any credibility the second critic had but the attention drawn by the glowing review and the controversy of the second critic being bribed raises the profile of Izuku's restaurant.
• Honest John's Dealership: Izuku's party encounters the horse merchant equivalent of less-than-honest car dealers, insisting on upselling them more products than they want or need.
• Hypocrite: One random guy wanted to throw smelly things into Izuku's restaurant to preach against the rich and capitalism. However, he himself was wearing expensive shoes and a designer jacket, which prompts Izuku to declare him a hypocrite.
• I Resemble That Remark!: When Adelia calls out her co-workers as crybabies, they all immediately act in a way that proves the accusation correct.
• The Immodest Orgasm: In one omake, when they have sex, Nejire is so loud from Izuku pleasuring her that no one in Hogwarts Castle all the way to Hogsmeade could sleep.
• Impossibly Delicious Food: Izuku's food often defies human understanding, both due to his skill and his ability to use ingredients from different universes sought for their flavor.
• In Spite of a Nail: Despite Izuku not being a Hero at all, he still encounters Stain and makes a favourable impression on him. Stain, for his part, finds it hilarious that a Chef like Izuku is better at being a Hero than those actually labelled as such.
• In the Blood: Izuku inherited his muttering and notetaking from his father.
• Insanity Defence: Because Himiko is quite provably being deprived of the blood she needs to live and was being drugged first by her parents to hide the symptoms of their deprivation of her needs and later the League of Villains to make her more malleable, Tsukauchi is able to declare her 'legally incompetent' and get her off the hook for whatever crimes she committed. He does note that it helps her case a lot that she didn't actually kill anyone, and that she will still need to seek therapy, be placed under house arrest, and be part of a Villain Reform program.
• Insistent Terminology: Hidetaka Matoi insists he is a chef, not a cook, with his opinion of the latter being that they're lower class.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: In Chapter 29, one self-entitled woman claims no one will visit Izuku's restaurant, especially not prestigious individuals. Cue the Yaoyorozus arriving, then Ryukyu, then several other Heroes, including All Might and the rest of the top twenty, high-ranking police officers, the CEO of Detnerat, actors and actresses, politicians, and even staff members of the greatest Hero Schools. The final two nails in the coffin are Anton Ego and Stars and Stripes arriving to enjoy the food.
• Insult to Rocks: One critic of Izuku's restaurant has such terrible table manners the narration compares him to pigs before asking for forgiveness from pigs everywhere for comparing them to him.
• Insurance Fraud:
  • Matoi's first restaurant burned in a mysterious fire, which was organised by Matoi to collect on the insurance.
  • While in Gotham, the owner of a Patisserie shop lets Izuku manage his restaurant for a week so that Izuku would take the fall in the shop's inevitable destruction so he can claim the insurance. It doesn't work.
• Internal Reveal: Izuku reveals everything about his isekai adventure, Sponsor, and powers to his family, girlfriend, and other friends in Chapter 16.
• The Juggernaut: Whitey is as powerful and unstoppable as Blackie and Shiro, but he gets to shine as this when he chases down a car full of would-be vandals who were hired to attack the restaurant.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Matoi's attempt to cheat in his cooking challenge with Izuku prompts the System to reveal every single detail of his crimes to many different parties, including I-Island, police agencies, and various newspapers.
• Lazy Bum: Blackie never really leaves his sleep spot and only wakes to eat.
• Lethal Chef:
  • Rei Yaoyorozu starts the story bad at cooking. She manages to destroy the kitchen trying to make sushi for her family. The whole reason the Yaoyorozus know the Midoriyas is because her husband Saito reached out to them for Izuku's help in teaching Rei to be a better cook.
  • Vlad King proves to be an atrocious chef after Lunch Rush has him man his kitchen while he's out visiting Izuku's second restaurant, somehow managing to char his fish into things with the consistency of wood and trying to bake a cheesecake inside an oven, only to burn it by accident.
• Living Weapon: Izuku's dragon tooth knife is implied to contain the spirit of/still be "attached" to the ancient Sea Dragon the fang came from. When a man touches it without Izuku's permission, he is faced with a vivid vision of the dragon it was sourced from, which proceeds to scold him for his actions. Aside from that, it never shows any sign of life, simply acting as an Absurdly Sharp Blade.
• Loophole Abuse:
  • In the past, there was an incident where a heroine accidentally stripped the villain she was fighting. Her avoiding being sued created a precedent Whitey takes full advantage of to strip troublemakers and get away with it in the present story.
  • While on a sortie, Izuku asks Nejire if she would have a problem if he does some vigilantism. She responds that another dimension is outside her jurisdiction and she can't legally stop him.
• Magical Girl Genre Deconstruction: The Magical Girl World arc serves as one of the parodic variety by featuring the reactions Izuku and his companions have towards the excessive amount of cliches present in that dimension.
• Malicious Slander: Hidetaka Matoi's plan to destroy Izuku's restaurant is to ask critics to give him savage reviews. Because one of the critics refuses to compromise his integrity and makes it a point to call out the other critic as a sell-out and defends Izuku from his slander, it backfires spectacularly.
• The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life: Mirio puts so much time and effort into trying to be All Might's successor that Nejire leaves him due to his unavailability.
• Medicinal Cuisine: Izuku can cook dishes that can restore a person to full health, even curing missing limbs. In the Cyberpunk 2077 omake, he can even heal mental illnesses using a normal kitchen.
• Misplaced Retribution: After the complete failure of the USJ Operation due to being stopped by Blackie, and the couple of subsequent beatings that were delivered upon him, Shigaraki’s sanity ends up deteriorated to the point where he tries to get some form of satisfaction by killing stray dogs. It just ends up to the point where even he is able to recognize it isn’t the same feeling he would get by killing Blackie.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Himiko discovering that the League of Villains were manipulating her from the start and drugging her for a long time to aid in their manipulations on top of Dabi considering her acceptable collateral damage and not caring about her wellbeing convinces her to leave them.
• Mono no Aware: Chapter 27 has Shiro note that the universe is supposed to end, where it will then be reborn.
• Mugging the Monster: One attempt to destroy Izuku's restaurant had the sheer bad luck of trying it when police and heroes are there, including All Might. Most also tend to just not understand how powerful Whitey is.
• Mundane Utility: The In-Universe view of Izuku's magical tools, like his Sea Dragon Kitchen Knife, by those that can assess such tools. Sun Mu-Cheng views it as blasphemous that a divine tool is used as a kitchen knife and a pair of dwarves view it as ludicrous.
• Never Gets Fat: Izuku eats more than a literal metric ton of food per meal and has rock-hard abs that would usually require a specialized diet. His companion lampshades how they eat one-hundredth of that in a week and subsequently gain five pounds of fat. Izuku teaches the technique to Nejire and she quickly flaunts her ability to eat a lot while maintaining her figure to the jealousy and ire of UA's female population.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Several of Samui's and Co's attempts to force Izuku to close result in Izuku coming out the other end more famous and more likely to achieve his goals and dreams.
• No Sympathy:
  • Anton Ego has no sympathy to offer for Matoi being in trouble since the latter is in trouble for various illegal and immoral actions including, but not limited to, bribery, slander and libel, and conspiracy. Anton outright says it is a good thing Matoi is in trouble for it.
  • Stars and Stripes is of the same opinion as Anton Ego regarding Matoi's troubles. If he really committed crimes, he should face the consequences for it. If he didn't want to be blackmailed over his crimes, he shouldn't have committed them in the first place.
• Noodle Incident: Whatever happened in Los Angeles, it is enough for Cow Lady to be mad at Elecplant even though it was an accident on his part. Cow Lady notes that had it been on purpose, she'd be even more mad.
• Not a Game: A disgusted Izuku tells the female isekai protagonist he meets in the fantasy world that they are in a real world with real people with real stakes and actual chances of dying when she keeps insisting she as protagonist should have people cater to her every whim in the middle of a battle.
• Not Quite the Right Thing: Nejire's solution to solve the love drama with her, Rumi, and Ochako pining for Izuku who already has Momo as a girlfriend is for them to share Izuku in a polycule. Too bad her way of setting it up involved going behind the others' backs, which got the other mad at her. They do admit that the polycule idea itself is an acceptable solution for their drama, and the problem was that Nejire's execution was just plain bad and forgive her eventually.
• Off the Rails: Shiro derails the plot of Harry Potter when he eats Voldemort and several Death Eaters as well as terrify Peter into confessing to his crimes during Harry's Fourth Year.
• Only Sane Man: In the Magical Girl world, Adelia is the only person in the Magical Girl business who understands the Magical Girl tropes are excessive, gaudy, and just plain cliché and wishes to change things. Unfortunately for her, she is outvoted by the traditionalists. She quite understandably hates her job.
• Orgasmically Delicious: In his chef showdown against Inoshiki University, one of Izuku's dishes brings their best student chef so much joy other characters notice she crosses her legs and suspects she literally had an orgasm.
• Our Dwarves Are All the Same: In the Medieval world, the dwarves fit the usual mold of miners/blacksmiths with large beards and stout figures and are typically short but their women also have beards. Two bar workers recognize Izuku's knife as divinely crafted and every dwarf that has a conversation that even breaches alcohol is noted to love it.
• Parrot Pet Position: Shiro is frequently wrapped around Izuku's neck like a scarf.
• Pervert Revenge Mode:
  • When Mineta gets upset after hearing Izuku and Momo get together, he demands to have sex with Momo to prove he's the better man, which prompts Momo to give Mineta a brutal strike so hard he leaves an imprint of himself in the concrete floor and bleeds from the head where Momo struck him with a table. It gets deconstructed a little since under normal circumstances, that was excessive force in self-defence and the only reason the UA faculty lets it slide is that Mineta has a significant string of acts of sexual harassment that they were ignoring in the hope the situation fixes itself only to discover it won't and the demand for sex was the latest act of depravity from him.
  • While in the fantasy world, the male isekai protagonist declares his intention to rape Rumi. This enrages her into kneeing his face before stomping and kicking him several times.
• Planet Eater: Izuku gets a Star-Eating Turtle Wok made from a scute from a species of turtle so big it consumes stars as large as Earth's sun.
• Point of Divergence:
  • Izuku being very powerful, alongside his powerful companions, are able to prevent the League of Villains from kidnapping Ragdoll from the Summer Camp.
  • Because of the System's interference, Aoyama is outed as a spy for the League of Villains to Nedzu after the Summer Camp.
• Poke in the Third Eye: Any attempt by the mystical or divine to identify the System will usually end painfully. Crystal balls will explode, spells will fail, and beings who can divine as an inherent skill will get a headache.
• Polyamory: The omake set in the Dragon Ball universe reveals that at some point, Momo, Ochako, Rumi and Nejire agreed to share Izuku (this happens in the main storyline in Chapter 24). The omake set in the Harry Potter universe shows that Nejire loves flaunting this fact.
• Poor Communication Kills: In the fantasy world, John, the isekai'd man, gives several groups eggs laid by the dragon. While it is clear that he is foolish for not questioning why each group specifically asked for the last egg laid by the dragon, none of them bothered to tell him that all others were decoys that would explode if someone tried to incubate them, when knowing he's a moron, they really should have specified that to drive home the importance of following their instructions.
• Professional Killer:
  • While in America, Izuku has to deal with multiple hired guns trying to either kill or kidnap him.
  • Nagant is forced by All for One to assassinate Izuku.
  • By Chapter 29, Samui's remaining associates resort to sending hitmen after Izuku and the people close to him to get rid of him.
• Rage Breaking Point:
  • Mineta demanding that Momo have sex with him due to him being jealous she's with Izuku proves the last straw of his long string of perversions and she retaliates by smashing him into the ground.
  • Rumi being asked for a kiss in exchange for directions proves to be the last straw for her and she demands Whitey strips the perpetrator as punishment because she's sick and tired of people perving over her.
  • By the events of the Chapter 27 omake, the System is so enraged by the fact that women keep going psychotic to get with Izuku due to his cooking that they barge into where all the deities governing fate reside to get to the bottom of why it keeps happening and erasing the cause, even if the cause is a deity. When the deities of fate do not seem to be responsible, it barges into where the deities of mischief are and does the same thing.
  • In chapter 28, Adelia is so sick and tired of the hypersaccharine madness she's had to endure that she conjures a massive fireball hotter than the sun itself using nothing but pure rage and spite, which she then drops onto her former coworkers when they confront her.
  • In Chapter 32, one of Hawk's fellow heroes punches the president of the HPSC after her deranged rant on Izuku not complying with her demands causes him to snap after years of mistreatment.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • Anton Ego breaks down why chefs like Matoi and Samui hate Izuku: pure envy. He describes pro-heroes with a talent for cooking as some of their greatest enemies because they can use their fame as heroes to draw customers, something Matoi cannot do. Because of that, Matoi sees these pro-hero chefs getting successful with no effort, or as Anton puts it, no effort from the eyes of Matoi and his friends. But Izuku? He's Quirkless and not a hero. Anton theorizes that they can't excuse his successes as lucking it out with a Quirk or leveraging his fanbase. When they compare themselves to Izuku, they can't hide the source of their inferiority behind plausible but ultimately empty lies. Matoi only being able to yell "shut up!" in response proves Anton right.
  • Shiro makes clear to the Incubators that their entire plan of making girls suffer to prolong the life of the universe is completely evil and completely pointless. Shiro tells them that it is natural for the universe to end, and then, the universe will be reborn. Prolonging the life of one universe is a complete waste. Shiro also points out that there is no proof they are actually prolonging the life expectancy of the universe by making human girls suffer. They're just saying it does, acting as if they know better when the omnipotent System knows that's complete bullshit.
• Refusal of the Call: Izuku refuses to be a Hero with his newfound powers after he woke up from his coma because, to him, it would have sent the wrong message that Quirkless people can't be heroes.
• Regional Redecoration: Izuku's retaliation against the League for what they did and planned to do to Himiko, who was one of their own, causes a mountain to lose half its mass.
• Related in the Adaptation: Cow Lady is Pony's aunt in this story.
• Rescue Romance: By proxy. Blackie is ordered by The System to save Momo due to her being a precious person to Izuku. Blackie mentions this, but due to not knowing who he's supposed to save, mentions it to both Momo and Ochako. This results in Ochako developing feelings for Izuku to The System's consternation.
• The Reveal: Chapter 27 reveals that Izuku's sponsor is The Entity of Taste, and Adelia is able to positively identify them because they are the one divine entity to not care about using anything as an ingredient, even demonic beings.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: Shiro is a small, white fox-like being that many women fan over.
• Ridiculously Potent Explosive: Seen in the medieval fantasy world. It turns out that the eggs a dragon lays are this. With the exception of the last one, all of the eggs are spheres of compressed fire magic. A spherical egg a meter across is potent enough to obliterate an empire's capital city.
• Robot Buddy: Despite being based on Baymax, Whitey averts this. He may be cute but he seems to have no actual personality and exists mainly to act as a bodyguard.
• Running Gag: Women falling for Izuku in the omakes because of his divine cooking. He lampshades that this keeps happening in spite of the system, an omnipotent god, taking care to prevent it.
• Samaritan Relationship Starter:
  • Rumi falls in love with Izuku when she realises that while he notices her physical attractiveness, he remains respectful of her boundaries, which is a lot better than so many perverts she had to deal with before.
  • Nejire falls in love with Izuku because he gave her a metaphorical shoulder to cry on over her failed relationship with Mirio and supported her through a particularly bad post-break-up patch.
• Sanity Slippage: Tomura's already tenuous sanity breaks further and further after each humiliating beat down at Blackie's paws.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Adelia of the Magical Girl World gets so fed up with the excesses of the Magical Girl genre that she abandons said world to follow Izuku back to his home world as the manager of his second restaurant.
• Sense Loss Sadness: Monoi's sense of taste, among other things, is taken by the System as punishment for her attempt to cheat, and it leaves her in despair.
• Side Bet:
  • When Izuku challenges the finest chefs of Inoshiki University, there is a large betting pool on the outcome. Winners include Aizawa and Midnight on the teachers' side and Class 1-A's girls on the students' side. Present Mic lost a lot of money on his bet.
  • Troublemakers trying to cause trouble happen often enough that eventually, Izuku sets up a betting pool where behaving patrons get to bet on how far they think Whitey sent them flying.
• Shameful Strip: Whitey often tears the clothing off of troublemakers; people who harass the restaurant or Izuku personally. "Troublemakers will be stripped as an example to others." is his Character Catchphrase.
• Shout-Out:
  • While in the world of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, when Fafnir tries to insult Izuku's chef prowess, Whitey grabs him, slams him into the ground several times, and calls him a puny dragon.
  • In the fantasy world, the dwarves sing Diggy Diggy Hole by Yogscast.
  • When Ms Joke demands a ring from Eraserhead, she preemptively calls it her 'precious' in the same way Gollum calls the One Ring in The Lord of the Rings.
  • The actual Incubators from Puella Magi Madoka Magica appear in the Magical Girls world.
  • One of Giran's spies quotes Mr. Krabs word for word when they bribe the orchestra to play 4/4 Ostinato in D Minor.
  • Kurogiri tells the heroes who arrive at Kamino to deal with the League only to find a lot of explosives about to go off "Sorry, gentlemen, your All for One is in another Castle."
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: During the last day in the Magical Girl world, one of the Dark generals comes and calls Izuku out. But both Ochako and Izuku are so annoyed and worn down by the sheer insanity of the world that rather than reveal themselves, they just have Whitey to strip the idiot and dump him into a bin of fish guts.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Anton Ego has encountered many chefs whose fame is disproportionately big compared to their skills and finds Izuku a refreshing inversion when he discovers his skills exceed his fame.
• Smug Snake: In particular, Professor Monoi from the Inoshiki Assault Arc is especially arrogant about her impending victory, even smugly proclaiming that she will defeat Izuku with…a boiled egg. This was because she met with three of the judges behind the scenes in an effort to coerce them into voting for her dish, regardless of what she and Izuku created, threatening the students with failure and/or expulsion if they did not comply. However, the System intervened and exposed her machinations, to the fury of everyone watching, with her only digging herself deeper with her Quirkist proclamations. However, she is hit with this hard when, not only is she denied the capacity to use her leverage over the judges, she is still forced to compete with a boiled egg, the judges stating that, since that was what she had declared she would do, she would have to go through with it. Needless to say, she is beaten soundly, and after the competition, the System strips her of her ability to cook and her sense of taste as punishment.
• Spanner in the Works: Despite his desire to stay clear of the overarching conflicts of the canon series, mainly the fight between All Might and All For One, Izuku is constantly disrupting the machinations of the latter, mainly due to the fact that the League of Villains are frequently targeting Class 1-A, which his girlfriend is in.
• Stalker with a Crush: Poor Cow Lady has an obsessive stalker called Bronze Bull.
• Sugar Bowl: Probably the best way to describe the Magical Girl World given how ridiculously saccharine everyone and everything there is, and that's putting it mildly. Adelia explains the current state of that world being the result of the Heart of Light trying to forcibly convert that world into being 'pure good'.
• Super-Senses: Anton Ego has a Quirk giving him a sense of taste a hundred times keener than the average human. It allows him to taste the emotion put into a cooked meal and with Izuku's cooking, he can taste the care and love he puts into it.
• Supreme Chef: Izuku is a candidate as a God of Cooking, meaning he is a literally godly talented chef. There is no one alive on Izuku's earth that can match his cooking skill. Lunch Rush, a Supreme Chef in his own right, vastly improves after declaring Izuku a rival and Nejire notes his cooking still isn't as good as Izuku's.
• The Svengali: Izuku notes that one reason Quirks are held in such high regard is that workplaces, schools, and people in general hope that someone they know will become a famous hero and subsequently reflect well on them.
• Sword Beam: Izuku is capable of swinging a knife with such power that it projects a cutting edge that can hit far-away targets. He can do this with mundane blades instead of his personal knife, but the strain on the knife snaps it.
• Take That!:
  • There is one during the Magical Girl Arc against the excessive cliches from that genre present in the setting, with Ochaco taking jabs at the stupid dances, long-winded speeches, gaudy outfits and magical powers, and finally the brainless characters.
  • The story is particularly vindictive against the Incubators and their entire plan of making underage girls suffer to prolong the life of the universe.
• Taught by Experience: By the Chapter 30 omake, Izuku and co have wised up to the fact that no matter what, the female natives of the world will go nuts over his cooking, and they pre-emptively run for it before the chase can start.
• Team Pet: Shiro the Taotie is immensely powerful, ancient, and sapient, but he willingly spends time acting as a mascot for Green Cloud or wrapped around someone's shoulders as a pet.
• Tempting Fate:
  • Izuku and Co have a poor habit of saying or thinking things are going well while on a dimensional sortie which prompts things to go to shit:
    • While in Remnant, Izuku thinks to himself that he is glad no psychotic girls went after him. Immediately after that, Winter goes after him to make him her personal chef, trying to murder Rumi in the process.
    • While in the world of Cyberpunk 2077, Rumi remarks that in spite of the high crime rate, things went relatively well. The next day, Rumi curses herself for jinxing things when she and Izuku come under heavy attack from people after Izuku for his abilities.
  • In Chapter 29, one entitled woman has her ego crushed upon seeing so many prestigious attend Izuku's restaurant and thinks it can't be worse. The universe immediately responds by having Stars and Stripes arrive at that exact moment to attend the restaurant.
• Their First Time: Momo and Izuku do the deed in Chapter 16 after seeing her love rivals refusing to back down and being blatant about their desire to get with Izuku.
• This Is Unforgivable!: While the System is perfectly okay with the opponents Izuku faces in his cooking competitions attempting to cheat by making him work with subpar ingredients or saddling him with other handicaps, as they force Izuku to further draw upon and improve his skills as a chef in order to triumph, they take considerably more umbrage with someone like Monoi, who tried to coerce the judges of her match to declare her the victor, regardless of how well Izuku performed, which would be a truly impossible situation. For this, the System strips away Monoi’s ability to cook and her sense of taste as punishment.
• Through His Stomach: The majority of the many, many women who try to woo Izuku attempt it because of his delicious cooking.
• Toast of Tardiness: Parodied. Izuku is dumbfounded to see a girl actually running to school with a toast in her mouth, with Ochako commenting the fact that it is still in the toaster makes it even more ridiculous.
• Too Much Information:
  • When Nejire rants to Izuku about her frustrations with Mirio, she gives far too much detail about their attempted first time in spite of Izuku's repeated statements that he didn't need to know those things.
  • After the first time Izuku and Momo have sex, Momo's mother asks for details and regrets it when she goes into excruciating detail.
• Top Wife: Momo agrees to share Izuku only when Rumi agrees to let her have the largest share of Izuku's time and be his Number 1 girlfriend.
• Trapped in Another World: This story subverts and toys with Isekai tropes all up and down the spectrum. Izuku is the reincarnation of Chef Zaus from Toriko, recovering the memories of his previous life after being put in a coma by Katsuki. On top of that, Izuku himself routinely makes trips to other worlds to gather ingredients and complete missions set out for him by the System. In the Fantasy World Arc, Izuku even crosses paths with two other Iseikai “protagonists”, who are themselves over-the-top parodies of male and female protagonists who appear in many a light novel.
• Truce Zone: The Green Cloud Restaurant is frequented by Heroes, Vigilantes, and even Villains at the same time where they all don't fight and just enjoy the food, though only the Heroes can be open about the fact they're Heroes. One omake later reveals that it's not just the mortals who put their moral differences aside, but the deities too.
• Utility Magic: Because Izuku is training to become a literal god, he is given many boons to work with that are incredibly powerful in nature.
  • He uses interdimensional travel to gather ingredients and new recipes.
  • People who can truly assess the quality of blades notice that Izuku is using an amazing knife as a kitchen tool. A man in the Wuxia world sees it as a divine treasure and two dwarves in the medieval world are incredulous at the quality.
• Victory Through Intimidation: Izuku's meeting with Re-Destro has him use his intimidation skill on them to such an extent they vividly hallucinate Izuku's Appetite Demon, a behemoth-level giant ape, about to eat him for (fancy) dinner. They are suitably cowed and simply eat their meal, pay, and leave.
• Weapon for Intimidation: The HPSC goons "casually" show their guns to Matoi to get him to comply with their demands.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: One of Izuku's customers is a girl whose only Quirk is that she can change her eye color. In light of her being able to attend Ketsubutsu's hero program, it disgusts Izuku that people try to say Quirkless people can't be heroes since there's no advantage whatsoever her Quirk gives her over the Quirkless besides escaping the Fantastic Racism thrown against Quirkless.
• Willfully Weak: Izuku could be the next symbol of peace if he wanted to at his strength level, but he simply wants to continue being a chef. This applies to him when he takes on cooking competitions as well, as Izuku usually forgoes utilizing the more exotic and potent ingredients he has access to, thanks to his otherworld sorties, in order to compete on the same level as his opponents. During his cooking duel with Matoi, he even allows Matoi to supply him with sabotaged ingredients, deliberately entering the competition at a disadvantage.
• World's Strongest Man: Izuku's Gourmet Cells make him one of the most powerful beings alive in any world and his companions, Blackie, Shiro, and Whitey are so powerful they treat anyone they fight more as a plaything.
• Wrong Context Magic: Izuku brought back both his Gourmet Cells and the various abilities the system provides, which may as well be magic in the My Hero verse.
• What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Izuku decides to take in the Ancestral Taotie as a pet because it is cute, even though The System told him it would make a good ingredient. This is after he has had no issue capturing/killing many different animals and monsters for food.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • Sir Nighteye is not happy with Mirio or All Might for how badly they mishandled the situation with Nejire feeling neglected for all the training Mirio was doing and them keeping One for All a secret from Nejire.
  • Izuku is upset with Nejire for her harem plan since it involved her manipulating everyone involved.
• World Gone Mad: Izuku and co. unanimously agree that the Magical Girl World is just plain nuts by the time they make preparations to leave and are glad to be rid of it once they do get out of there.
• Wrong Context Magic: Izuku's powers are not from Quirks, which tends to throw people off when assholes try to mess with him. All for One notices it is not a Quirk when he realises his own Quirk doesn't feel the pull he should be feeling with actual Quirks.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: The two “protagonists” Izuku and Rumi encounter during their trip to the Medieval Fantasy World are both convinced of their roles, believing they are destined to have harems and gratuitous amounts of sex with anyone they please. However, the System intervenes to make sure the isekai-harem power fantasy genre conventions they expected to apply don't work. The result is that even before they encountered a reality check in the form of Izuku and Rumi, they were already seen as nothing more than unwitting pawns by the forces that be in the world, all of whom were exploiting the pair for all that they were worth.
• Yandere: In the dimensional sorties, some of the women that Izuku attracts get psychotic, if not already there to begin with, and are more than willing to commit murder to get him for themselves.
• Year Inside, Hour Outside: Izuku's and Co's adventures in other dimensions can last days while only one night passes in their home dimension.
• You Are Number 6: The president of the HPSC calls Hawks 'H3271'. Hawks hates it since it shows how much the commission views him and others like him as objects.
• You Have Failed Me: The League has enough of Himiko's failures after her failure at the Summer Camp attack and at Dabi's suggestion, All for One approves taking her Quirk and making a Nomu out of her. They don't get to carry it out though due to Izuku's intervention.

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