Mortal Kombat: The Quirkless Vigilante is a crossover between My Hero Academia and Mortal Kombat by Hadrian_Kallig2077
. It can be found here on Fanfiction Dot Net and there on Archive of Our Own.
Izuku Midoriya always wanted to save people. Even after being expelled from Class 1-A after failing Aizawa’s test, Izuku never gave up. After becoming a vigilante and stopping the League of Villains, Meta Liberation Army, and Shie Hassaikai, Izuku ends up on the wrong end of a warp quirk and lands in the Mortal Kombat tournament. Now, Izuku must compete in the deadly tournament to save countless lives. How will he fare?
Mortal Kombat: The Quirkless Vigilante contains examples of:
- Accidental Murder: It’s very much implied that Bakugo ended up killing an innocent mother and her daughter by accident in an unspecified incident during his stint as a hero, causing him to lose his Hero license.
- Adaptational Badass:
- Izuku, despite not receiving One for All, is an expert at hand to hand combat and is capable of using a variety of weapons and gadgets.
- Mineta is stronger and more physically fit after he takes time away from UA to build up his physical strength by battling the thugs and lowlifes infesting Tokyo's Kamurocho district.
- Adaptational Heroism:
- Dabi and Toga took up careers as Vigilantes after meeting Izuku, eventually helping him take down Shigaraki by serving as Izuku’s inside agents within the League.
- Mileena joins Kitana in going against Shao Kahn rather than serve as the tyrannical Kahn’s assassin after she finds out the truth behind her origins.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
- In canon, Izuku is enemies with Dabi and Toga. Here, all three of them are as thick as thieves because they met each other in the same orphanage Izuku was living in, befriending each other as they fought to survive in a world that threw them aside.
- Mileena and Kitana enjoy a much closer and friendlier relationship as sisters thanks to Izuku helping Mileena accept herself for who she is.
- Mineta and Momo are a couple in this story, something that doesn’t even appear in canon.
- Shoto and Himiko, whose canon counterparts didn’t even meet each other, are a couple in this story.
- Adaptation Personality Change: Downplayed; while Izuku still retains his desire to help people, his experiences have left him rather jaded towards the idea of Pro Heroes.
- Age Lift: Izuku, along with his former classmates at UA, are aged up to university students.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: Izuku’s greatest asset is his ability to instantly pick apart how his enemies fight, which, combined with his combat skills, allows him to create plans that exploit their weaknesses with ruthless efficiency.
- Back from the Dead: Jerrod returns to life (albeit with some missing memories) after Kenshi exorcises the violent souls within Ermac.
- Badass Normal: Out of all the Kombatants, Izuku stands out due to not having any supernatural powers nor advanced technology, instead using pure human ingenuity to take on foes who, by all accounts, should be able to flatten him with ease with all the powers they have at their disposal.
- Combat Pragmatist: Izuku uses every tool that he can get his hands on to give himself the advantage in combat, and given how he’s going up against opponents who possess superhuman abilities capable of killing him if he’s not careful, it’s very much a necessity.
- Cruel Mercy: Izuku leaves Shigaraki alive but Quirkless so that he can enjoy the karma of Shigaraki’s capture at the hands of the heroes the deranged villain despises so much. Unfortunately, this allows Shiggy to prepare a portal with the last bits of his Quirk to use in an attempt to take down the people who defeated him.
- Death of Personality: Ermac loses his previously wrathful personality after Kenshi exorcises the more violent souls inside him, opening the way for Jerrod’s soul to take control of Ermac's body as its dominant soul.
- Depower: Shigaraki loses all the quirks All for One gave him for good after Izuku hits him with a dart filled with Izuku’s copy of Overhaul’s Quirk destroying drug.
- Exact Eavesdropping: Izuku manages to overhear Cyrax discussing plans with Sektor about the Cyber Initiative while going on a walk on the island the Tenth Mortal Kombat Tournament of Earthrealm is held on.
- Famed In-Story: Izuku is remembered in the MHA world as a person who proved that heroes could come from any walk of life thanks to the deeds he did without even having a Quirk.
- Point of Divergence: Plenty to go around:
- Inko dropping Izuku off at a run-down, underfunded orphanage forces him to fight tooth and nail to survive against a world hostile to those without the powers they held in high regard, giving him a low opinion of Pro Heroes and authority.
- Aizawa expelling Izuku from Class 1-A prompts Izuku to take up a Vigilante career so he can pursue his dream of being a hero outside of the law.
- Since Izuku never meets All Might, he does not receive One for All from him.
- Mileena coming clean to Kitana about her insecurities and possible origins as an artificial Edenian-Takartan hybrid ends up strengthening their bond as sisters to the point that Kitana still sees Mileena as her flesh-and-blood sibling even after Jade reveals Mileena’s origins as a clone of Kitana infused with Tarkatan genes.
- Groin Attack: Shows up fairly often, with Johnny Cage and Izuku Midoriya being the most frequent users of nut-shots in combat.
- In Spite of a Nail: Smoke still gets captured by the Cyber Lin Kuei even after Izuku helped him escape the first time they met.
- I Shall Taunt You: Izuku draws Raiden out by calling him a coward afraid of losing to the mortals he looks down upon.
- It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: Kung Lao confesses to Ermac that he's afraid of failing his family due to how they look up to him as the one who will save Earthrealm from being subsumed by Shao Kahn and avenge their ancestor, and the fact that Liu Kang has managed to achieve the level of success he has without taking a life hasn't helped in that regard either.
- My Greatest Second Chance: Bakugo views raising Eri as the second chance that helped him be a better person.
- My God, What Have I Done?:
- Bakugo is implied to have wanted to rip up his Hero license even before the HPSC revoked it after his powers inadvertently got a mother and her daughter killed.
- Inko was consumed with guilt over abandoning Izuku in an orphanage after Hisashi proved to be a horrible husband and later founds the Morning Glory Orphanage to ensure that no child ever has to experience what her son went through
- My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Most Tarkatans are brutal savages that are all too eager to murder and devour others as they please. Bob, on the other hand, is nowhere near as violent as his brethren are, and is even quite nice towards Kuai Liang and the Sun Do villagers under his watch once they get to know him better.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Inko drops Izuku off at an orphanage in an attempt at finding her son a safe environment after he was found to be Quirkless. Unfortunately, this action shatters any bond between mother and son due to the fact that Izuku's situation in the orphanage was no better (if not even worse) than if he had stayed with his mother.
- Noble Demon: Much like his canon counterpart, Goro demonstrates a strong sense of honor towards his opponents despite serving the tyrannical Shao Kahn, refusing to fight Izuku after the vigilante is exhausted from fighting Raiden and demanding that he be given the chance to rest and recover from his fight.
- Nothing Personal: Erron Black tells Izuku during their fight that him kidnapping Mileena on Shang Tsung's orders was simply business, not that Izuku really cares.
- Older Than They Look: Li Mei, who looks like a young woman, is actually 142 years old. It's justified by her people's Proportional Aging, meaning that she is in her people's equivalent of young adulthood.
- Positive Friend Influence: Izuku befriending Mileena helps her gain a lot of self-esteem that she lacked in canon, preventing her from going insane once the truth of her origins is revealed.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Izuku flat-out tells Aizawa that he’ll be a hero, Hero license be damned, after Aizawa makes good on his threat to expel the person who scores the lowest on his test.Izuku: Eraserhead. I don't know why you hate me so much, but I'll tell you this. Ever since I was a child, I dreamed of saving people, of helping them. I don't care what you tell me, or what you do to me. I will achieve my dream, with or without a license.
- Second Love: Mileena is the second person that Izuku has allowed himself to be romantically close with after his first girlfriend betrayed him in an as-of-yet unspecified incident involving the HPSC.
- Smug Super: Raiden knows that he’s more powerful than everyone else participating in the Mortal Kombat tournament, and he makes sure to rub that into everyone’s face as much as possible before Izuku gives the arrogant god a well-deserved humbling.
- Survivor's Guilt: In chapter 11, Toya still blames himself for letting Izuku get hit with Shigaraki’s last-ditch warp attack.
- Taking the Bullet: Izuku shoves Dabi out of the way before the warp gate Shigaraki throws at him can reach him, resulting in his teleportation into the Mortal Kombat universe.
- The Mole: Dabi and Toga infiltrate the League of Villains to weaken it from the inside and leave it ripe for the Heroes and Vigilantes to dismantle, leading to Shigaraki’s final defeat in the first chapter of the story.
- "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Mileena, for all her bloodthirstiness, just wants to be loved by her family, something that Izuku notices after he defeats her the first time they meet each other. Luckily for her, being around Izuku helps her eventually grow out of this mindset and be her own person.
- "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Chapter 11 serves as one for Izuku’s story in the MHA universe, as it focuses on the impact of Izuku’s actions in his home dimension.
- Momo and Mineta are Happily Married, with Mineta making a name for himself as a Rescue Hero.
- Bakugo, though no longer working as a Pro Hero, is content to be Eri’s surrogate father and supports her Hero career.
- Inko opens up the Morning Glory Orphanage to provide orphaned children of all walks of life a safe space to grow up in.
- Eraserhead retires from teaching to be a full-time Underground Hero, serving as a mentor figure to up-and-coming Underground Heroes and Vigilantes.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Izuku reassures Mileena that she's a lot better than she thinks she is after she reveals that she fears garnering Kitana's disapproval if she reveals her origins to her.
- You Can't Go Home Again: For all intents and purposes, Izuku is stuck in the Mortal Kombat universe for good after Shigaraki’s final warpgate dropped him there, not like Izuku even wants to return to his home universe.
