Midoriya Izuku is a Quirkless graduate from UA General Education department, working as a Quirk analyst at Endeavour Agency... Or rather, trying to get fired due to the terrible work environment. Keyword: trying.
Not That Kinda Fired
is a My Hero Academia fanfic by Mad_Nimrod, following Izuku's attempts at leaving Endeavour's agency without having to pay an enormous sum of money in penalties. It does not go as he expects at all.
This fanfic contains examples of:
- Actually Pretty Funny: Endeavour ended up liking Izuku showing up at the Agency's costume party dressed as All Might.
- Age-Gap Romance: Burnin is roughly ten years older than Izuku and yet Izuku is the one guy to make a move on her to not do it like a creep, which results in Burnin giving a relationship with him a chance.
- Asshole Victim: Bakugo was Izuku's childhood bully and a major source of misery in the latter's life. When he is hired by Endeavor Agency as part of his Last Chance Application, he tries attacking Izuku with intent to inflict serious injury the moment he spots his old victim, disgusted by how a Quirkless person like "Deku" was hired by a pro-hero. He not only loses his job as quickly as he arrives, but also is subjected to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown that, according to onlookers, knocked out most of his teeth. Despite the brutality of the beatdown, not even Izuku feels sorry for him.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: Izuku's abilities as an analyst are top-notch, and not only restricted to Quirks. Endeavor eventually promotes him to Senior Analyst and tells him at one point that he presented Izuku’s work to Nezu and U.A.'s principal lamented not having learned about his skills sooner. And despite not being officially qualified for it, his analytic skills also made him good at accounting as it does involve numbers; the triplets from Accounting tried exploiting this by making him do their work for them until they were caught, fired, and arrested for financial tampering.
- Barbaric Bully: Like in canon, Bakugo was one to Izuku when they were younger, thanks to his Explosion Quirk and Hair-Trigger Temper. Bakugo was outright disgusted by Izuku's Quirklessness, to the point where his first response to reuniting with Izuku years after graduation is to try violently attack the latter for getting employed by a Pro-Hero agency. The entire reason why Burnin' was able to learn of Bakugo's history with Izuku is because of Izuku's low alcohol tolerance. Needless to say, Bakugo ends up learning the hard way why he's still a sidekick, and a bottom-barrel one at that.
- Beleaguered Assistant: The reason Izuku wants to get fired: the triplets from accounting constantly force him to do their job, leaving him with little time for his actual job. This slows down when Burnin' catches them in the act. It stops completely when, after an investigation, the full severity of the problem is discovered and the triplets are fired and arrested for financial tampering.
- Benevolent Boss: Endeavor. He may have a horrible temper, but he reigns it in on the job, puts his workers' wellbeing over his personal preferences, rewards initiative, and actually demands less work than what he is willing to do.
- Berserk Button: Do not use Quirklessness as an excuse to harass anyone in front of Endeavour. His Quirkless grandfather and great-great-grandfather were heroes, and he takes any insult against them quite personally.
- Bizarre Taste in Food: Endeavour likes coffee with American mayonnaise in itnote . Subverted in that he only likes it when Izuku makes it.
- Blatant Lies: When Endeavour and Burnin' confront the triplets from accounting over them dumping their work on Izuku, the triplets try to claim Izuku volunteered for them even though Burnin' and Endeavour witnessed them doing it several times.
- Bullying a Dragon:
- Burnin' is notably high up on the ladder for Endeavor's agency, yet many interns get fired because they choose to sexually harass her anyway.
- On day 1 at Endeavour Agency with his Last Chance Application, Bakugo is warned that everyone outranks him and he risks getting fired if he disobeys Burnin' or Endeavour or acts out in any way. He hasn't even met Endeavour when he violently assaults Izuku, and when Endeavour calls him out, he picks a fight — as in a full-contact spar. He has to be brought out on a stretcher and needs someone to find most of his teeth.
- The Cameo:
- Dabi shows up for a moment after Izuku discovers the Nomu conspiracy in Rei's hospital, saving him from a mugger and thanking him for helping his mother.
- All Might shows up in The Stinger, when Endeavour goes to scold him for telling Izuku that Quirkless people cannot be Heroes.
- Can't Hold His Liquor: During their first date, Izuku accidentally picks Kamiji's vodka instead of his soda and quickly gets drunk.
- Classical Anti-Hero: Endeavour: he's the Number One Hero because he's just that good at saving people and defeating villains, leads magnificently a crew of capable sidekicks (some of which, like Burnin', could well open their own successful Hero agencies if they wanted), and is actually a supporter of Quirkless rights, but he's also angry, bitter, and too ashamed of himself to supervise his wife's annual mental health evaluations.
- Code Emergency: Crypts of Shuwa, used during the war with the League of Villains, and which Izuku uses to warn Burnin' about the Nomu being recreated in Rei's mental hospital.
- Contrived Coincidence: Ratigan hid the loot he had stolen in Endeavor's Agency, and ends up trying to retrieve it the same day Izuku went into the ventilation system to set up rat traps.
- Crossover Relatives: Here, Endeavor is the great-great-grandson of Hamato Yoshi.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Endeavour gives Bakugou a brutal one-sided beatdown after the latter badmouths Izuku with multiple derogatory Quirkless-based comments. Judging by the narration, it was quite literal, too - one of the agency's sidekicks mentions finding most of Bakugo's teeth for him.
- Deconstruction Fic:
- It is common in fanfics for the Quirkless to be heavily discriminated against universally. This fic points out that Quirks are new enough for people to have had Quirkless relatives they were fond of. Endeavor had a Quirkless grandfather (and great-great grandfather) whom he loved and respected dearly, so prejudice against Quirkless people personally offends him.
- While the story is mostly comedy, there's a dark deconstructive detail briefly tossed out amongst the offhanded office small talk. This relates to two of Aizawa's personal teaching habits: that he uses his Quirk on his students to keep them in line and that he doesn't read his students' files. Through a combination of brief asides in the story and
Word of God, it's told that Aizawa here wound up having a student in his class who needed their Quirk constantly active to stay alive due to past medical hardships. Having not read their file, Aizawa didn't know this, and so unintentionally killed his student on the first day of school. He was subsequently arrested on charges of abuse of authority, quirk discrimination, neglect, and manslaughter. It's not detailed what happened after that, but this incident is brought up in direct relation to a discussion on why Aizawa's no longer a hero.
- Disposable Intern: Endeavour Agency has a High Turnover Rate of interns because they keep sexually harassing Burnin', not realizing the heroine has the authority and mind to end their employment on the spot. The ones who actually act like decent people last much longer and find that the job is quite reasonable... which is why Izuku has so much trouble getting fired. The turnover rate is also what leads to Izuku's first attempt to get fired, since there are none available to make Endeavor's coffee.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: After everything he's gone through, Izuku is getting married to Kamiji, has achieved a high-level position in Endeavor's agency and several achievements, is well regarded by his peers and friends and becomes the Analysis Hero, Balefire, thanks to Endeavor's support.
- Endearingly Dorky: Why Burnin' is attracted to Izuku. Sure, he tries using Mineta's pick-up lines on her, but his nervous presentation (complete with cue cards) and refusal to go too far (such as harassing her while she's working or groping her) make him look more like "sweet kid who just doesn't know how to flirt" than "sexual predator in the making".
- Epic Fail: Bakugo's Last Chance at Endeavor's Agency doesn't even last an hour before he gets himself fired by attacking Izuku just because he's Quirkless.
- Everyone Has Standards:
- Izuku refuses to screw up the assignment of supervising Rei's mental health's evaluation, as someone else's health is on the line.
- Izuku also refuses to actually touch Burnin' inappropriately when he tries to make her think he's sexually harassing her, though that's also because he doesn't want to get literally fired. This, like all of his previous attempts, ends up blowing up in his face when she ends up giving him a chance and gets together with him because she thinks he's just being an awkward flirt instead of a harasser.
- Endeavour has a horrible temper, but does his best to hold it in check at any and all times. The only occasions he actually lost it was when he found that the doctors of Rei's mental hospital were holding her well after she had recovered and used her DNA to try and recreate the Nomu; when the triplets from Accounting, that he was already going to fire and arrest for their stunts, pressed his Berserk Button of insulting the Quirkless, and when Bakugo attacked and threatened Izuku just because of his Quirklessness. Save for the last occasion (in which Endeavor gave a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Bakugo), no one was hurt.
- Fantastic Racism: Deconstructed. Quirkless discrimination is still present like in canon, but in Endeavor Agency, anyone who shows signs of it in the workplace ends up fired and blacklisted. This is because Endeavor has both a grandfather and a great-great-grandfather who helped save the day despite their Quirklessness, and sees Quirkless discrimination as a personal insult. The triplets from accounting and later Bakugo are two examples who end up paying dearly for their bigotry.
- Foreshadowing: Both the fic's title and the tenth chapter's title combine to say "Not that kinda fired; that kinda fired". Izuku has been trying to get himself fired from his own job, but what he really wanted to avoid is being fired in a physical sense — as in, the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Bakugo receives from Endeavor for both his bad attitude and assaulting a valued employees later in the story.
- Genre Deconstruction: Of perversion in anime. Due to Japanese views on sexual harassment, Anime and Manga tend to depict perverts simply being struck for their actions while receiving no legal or professional comeuppance. Because Burnin' is their superior rather than an underling or peer, she fires interns who sexually harass her on the spot. The only intern she doesn't fire is Izuku, who becomes her boyfriend; ironically he was trying to get himself fired at the time by flirting with her using Mineta's raunchy pick-up lines.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Bakugo, like in canon. In a massive deconstruction, his short temper made him a poor student at UA, and once he graduated, none of the pro-hero agencies want to take him in as a sidekick because of his temper. This is compounded by his contempt for the Quirkless; shortly after he is hired by Endeavor Agency as part of his Last Chance Application, he quickly explodes, tries to assault Izuku for the crime of being a Quirkless employee of a pro-hero, and brazenly orders Endeavor to fire Izuku. Endeavor quickly fires him for his insubordination, figuratively and literally.
- Happily Married:
- Surprisingly, Endeavour and Rei get back together once she is removed from the mental hospital. She even convinces him to give her a job at his agency so she has something to do.
- Mineta married his long-distance girlfriend, a European pro-heroine, after graduating from UA and moving to Europe to be with her. It's implied their marriage is working out pretty well, especially since Mineta's wife has a Quirk that's powered by lust.
- In the epilogue, Izuku and Kamiji are set to marry in a couple of weeks.
- Hated by All: We don't know what Bakugou's reputation is among the public, but everyone we see in the story hates him for his Small Name, Big Ego behavior and lack of respect for anything other than power. Even before he directly shows up, his appearance in the narrative is heralded by other heroes gossiping about how notoriously awful he is to work with, how he barely graduated from UA due to his behavioral issues, how he keeps moving from agency to agency due to those same issues, etc. No one wants to be around Bakugou, and when he's brought on to the Endeavor Agency as part of his last chance at being a hero, Burnin' prepares the rest of the staff for his arrival by preemptively telling them that he's a douchebag. The impression Bakugou makes on the rest of the agency only gets worse from there.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Endeavor's great-great-grandfather, Hamato Yoshi, sacrificed himself taking down Ashikage Yobozu, aka "The Shogun of Bloodshed", ending the Quirk Wars that were plaguing Japan at the beginning of the Age of Quirks.
- Hero-Worshipper: Endeavor idolizes his grandfather (a firefighter who risked his life putting out the Kyushu fires) and great-great-grandfather (who died ending the Quirk Wars in Japan by killing the Shogun of Bloodshed). The fact that both men were Quirkless means that he takes Quirkless discrimination rather personally.
- High Turnover Rate: Justified; Endeavor Agency keeps gaining and losing interns because many of them try to sexually harass Burnin' during work hours, not realizing that she is essentially one of their bosses with the authority to legally and physically fire them on the spot. Bakugo gets fired the fastest not only because of his antagonistic, racist attitudes towards Izuku, but also his attempt to make Endeavor fire Izuku for being Quirkless.
- How Is That Even Possible?: Everyone who knows about the mayo-coffee that Izuku makes that Endeavour likes are baffled by the details. If Endeavour just has strange taste, that's one thing, but anyone else who copies what Izuku did and serve that coffee gets a normal reaction from Endeavour over him tasting bad coffee. The possibility of it being Izuku's Quirk is also quickly shot down since Izuku had more than one test proving he is Quirkless. To everyone besides Endeavour, there is no rational explanation for why he likes mayo-coffee when Izuku, and only Izuku, makes it.
- How the Mighty Have Fallen: Katsuki has gone from being Izuku's abuser and a hot-shot hero prospect, confident he was destined to become the next #1 Pro Hero, to barely graduating into being a seemingly eternal sidekick none of the other agencies want, but cannot justify stripping him of his license despite his horrible attitude. In contrast, several of his former classmates have already come to rank amongst the top ten heroes in Japan, and his main bullying victim is now the highest-ranked non-hero member of Endeavor's Agency in spite of his Quirklessness, and highly regarded by the #1 Pro Hero. Katsuki officially loses his final chance when, not even an hour in his employment with Endeavour's agency, he tries to attack Izuku, makes several insults aimed at his Quirkless status, and orders Endeavor to fire Izuku. Needless to say, his colleagues and boss, who didn't want to deal with Katsuki in the first place, are happy to see Bakugo get the boot after Endeavor brutalizes him in a fight.
- I Ate WHAT?!: Shoto's reaction when he learns that the magnificent coffee Izuku serves to his father, and that he also drank, contains mayo.
- In Vino Veritas: It's heavily implied (and later confirmed) that Izuku told Kamiji about Bakugo's bullying after he got drunk by accident. It also turns out Izuku admitted to Kamiji he was trying to get fired and why, and she told Endeavour since it was a work-related issue.
- Irony: The premise of the story involves Izuku trying to get himself fired from his job. Yet thanks to circumstances beyond his control, other people like Bakugo and the triplets from Accounting get fired instead, whether figuratively or literally.
- Mineta's attempts at picking up women (usually with a dose of sexual harassment) almost always got his ass kicked, as well as the disdain of his peers (and the audience). Here, he's long since grown out of it and found a girlfriend just as horny as he is. Instead his bad pickup lines are asked for by Izuku as part of his plan to intentionally get his ass kicked out of the office by Burnin', much to Mineta's bafflement. The lines instead succeeds because it's coming from the nervous Izuku, and charms Burnin' enough to give him a chance, and results in him getting laid.
- Karmic Jackpot:
- While Izuku's attempts to get himself fired go hilariously wrong, his analytic skills, his personality, and work ethics mean that his life changes for the better because of said attempts.
- Endeavor was in a very bad mood thanks to a tense phone conversation, and Izuku essentially cheers him up with a fresh mug of mayonnaise coffee. Cue pay-raise and Izuku being promoted to Endeavour's personal coffee-maker.
- Izuku installing music to play through the building's PA system vastly improves office mood, environment, and productivity, things that are desired in a business. Endeavor, despite explicitly banning music as a distraction, now allows music unless there is an emergency, since he's a Benevolent Boss to his workers, and Izuku gets yet another reward for coming up with the idea.
- Izuku's nervous attempts to flirt with Burnin' succeed partially because he was, in her words, a "perfect gentleman" who respected her personal boundaries and chose to meet her during after-hours instead of during work. It also counts as Sexual Karma because Izuku ends up going on a date with Burnin' that leads to a night of intimacy. Izuku's relationship with Burnin' also prevents the accounting triplets from constantly making him do their paperwork, eventually leading to their termination and arrest.
- Endeavor's grandfather was among those who risked his own life to stay behind and put out the Kyushu Fires, even as many heroes fled to avoid being burned alive. Not only does he survive, but he also meets the woman who would become Endeavor's grandmother.
- While Izuku's attempts to get himself fired go hilariously wrong, his analytic skills, his personality, and work ethics mean that his life changes for the better because of said attempts.
- Laser-Guided Karma: A few instances:
- Any intern who tries to sexually harass Burnin', especially during work hours, end up being fired on the spot. Seeing this happen to one unlucky intern at the start of the story is what inspires Izuku's attempts to get himself fired.
- The Noodle Incident where Eraserhead was arrested for Abuse of Authority, Quirk Discrimination, Neglect, and Manslaughter during Izuku's first year turns out to be an instance of this, as explained by the author in the notes. With Izuku in General Education, his place in the Hero Course was taken by a kid with a body possession Quirk that, after being in a horrific accident, had been possessing his own body to stay alive. This was noted in his file alongside instructions to not cancel his Quirk, but Eraserhead, refusing to read the students' files, didn't know, decided that he was slacking during the Quirk Assessment Test and erased his Quirk to give him a lesson, killing him and causing the investigation that got Eraserhead arrested and stripped of his licence.
- Bakugo's violent temper got him a horrible reputation, and ever since graduation he has been constantly shifted between agencies. As of the story's beginning, he's with Fatgum's agency, and the Hero is waiting for him to screw up a third time to fire him. By chapter 10, he's been fired by Fatgum and transferred to Endeavour Agency, and warned by Burnin' that if he acts out of line once he'll get fired and he'll have his license reviewed by the HPSC, that will either force him to take remedial lessons to maintain it or outright revoke it. He doesn't even get to meet Endeavour when he assaults Izuku, and Endeavour proceeds to give him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown before sending him to the HPSC for review.
- The triplets from accounting who constantly forced Izuku to do their job receive a double-dosage — first, they're caught by Burnin', who throws the pile of accounting papers on Izuku's desk back at the triplets' faces and yells at them to do their own work, causing them to miss out on any potential work parties. Later, when the triplets are called in by Endeavor to explain themselves, they outright admit the reason why they treat Izuku like their slave is because he's Quirkless. Endeavor — who greatly admires his Quirkless grandfather and great-great-grandfather — is furious and proceeds to terrorize the triplets, lecturing them on their bigotry before firing and having the triplets arrested for tampering with the Agency's accounts (Izuku did a better job than them, but he is not an accountant). For extra karma, the entire plot was started because the triplets' harassment led to Izuku trying to get fired.
- All-Might himself receives a dosage of karma at the end of the story when Endeavor, in front of everyone, shows him a newspaper article detailing the exposure of the Nomu plot and slaps All-Might upside the head for telling Izuku that he couldn't be a hero due to being Quirkless. He even admits that he deserved that.
- Meaningful Name: Chapter 10 is called "That Kinda Fired". Fittingly, it's where Bakugo gets exactly the kind of firing Izuku didn't want.
- Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot:
- When Izuku is sent to supervise Rei's annual mental health assessment, he realizes that Rei should have been released already and notices the doctors act fishy. He finds a project to recreate the Nomus, and promptly reports it to Burnin'.
- Downplayed with the triplets from Accounting. Harassing Izuku at work by forcing them to do their work for them is bad enough, but it's later revealed that as accountants, foisting their work onto someone else automatically makes them guilty of account-tampering in a Pro-Hero agency. This gets them fired by Endeavor and arrested.
- Mythology Gag: It takes Izuku calling Shoto out for him to begin using his fire side instead of restricting himself to just his ice side to spite Endeavor and their familial ties.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If the triplets had not harassed Izuku to the point he tried to get himself fired, he wouldn't have found himself in Endeavour's regard or dating Burnin' — and they would have still been working for the agency.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown:
- Bakugo ends up on the receiving end of one at Endeavor's hands after first trying to attack Izuku for being a Quirkless employee of a Pro-Hero agency, then challenging Endeavor to a fight in hopes of getting Izuku fired. While the actual fight was censored to keep the fic's rating low, it was mentioned to have been so brutal that Bakugo lost most of his teeth. It's treated as well-deserved Laser-Guided Karma as Bakugo bullied Izuku as kids, and no one, not even Izuku, felt sorry for him.
- On the other hand, Izuku was trying to avoid this fate in his attempts to get fired from his job, especially when he tried flirting with Burnin' during afterhours. This is referenced by the fic's title and tenth chapter, which combine to say, "Not that kinda fired; that kinda fired".
- Noodle Incident:
- Most of Izuku's time at UA is only referenced in passing, with the only known details being that he befriended Mei, Mineta (who he helped becoming less of a pervert), Setsuna Tokage, and a Business course student called Byakuya Togami, and got in a fight with Shinsou.
- Eraserhead was arrested and lost his Hero Licence for Abuse of Authority, Quirk Discrimination, Neglect and Manslaughter. The author's notes explain that he erased the Quirk of a student who happened to be constantly using their Quirk just to stay alive, resulting in the student dying for good.
- Not a Mask: When Izuku goes as All Might for the costume party, Endeavor is impressed that Izuku's "mask" is actually his face.
- Papa Wolf: The moment he hears that his wife Rei had long since recovered and was secretly being used as a test subject by the mental hospital she was staying at, Endeavor goes on the warpath and heads straight for the hospital's hidden chambers containing the Nomu the higher-ups were trying to recreate using Rei's blood.
- Riddle for the Ages: Why Endeavor likes Izuku's mayo coffee.
- Running Gag: Izuku refuses to acknowledge the mayo coffee he makes for Endeavor as coffee.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Played for Laughs. When Rei shows up asking Endeavor why he keeps hogging the donuts she makes even though there's enough for everyone to have three, Burnin' grabs Izuku and takes off.
- Sexual Karma: While Izuku's attempts to flirt with Burnin' are rather pathetic, and his pick-up lines cheesy, he still becomes Burnin's boyfriend because of his dorky delivery, along with treating her with respect and meeting her during after-hours. It's also mentioned they have a healthy sex life. In contrast, the other interns who try to proposition Burnin' get literally and figuratively fired because they do it during work and try to grope her while at it.
- Shout-Out:
- The three interns that dump work on Izuku are the Pillar Men in all but names.
- Chapter 1 (where Izuku tries to get fired by messing with Endeavor's coffee) is titled "Covfefe".
- On the more obscure end, the abuse of Endeavor's coffee is a shout-out to an FF7 fanfic called Dishonorable Discharge that has a similar plotline (being credited by the author as the inspiration for this story), with Cloud as a lowly trooper trying to be ejected from the Shinra company and getting rewarded for his efforts.
- One of the UA students Izuku remembers was a business course student named Byakuya Togami.
- When Izuku ponders what to wear to the costume party, one of the sidekicks tells him that, if he doesn't have any ideas, he can just dress up normal and claim he's a homicidal maniac, since they look like everyone else.
- The villain in chapter 9 is a human with a mutation Quirk that turned him into a humanoid rat. He's from England, called Ratigan, and his greatest enemy is England's Number One Hero Basil.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Bakugo. After being fired from multiple agencies and ending at Endeavour's on his Last Chance Application, he still thinks he's the best hero around, and even claims he'd be able to easily defeat All Might.
- The Social Darwinist:
- Subverted with Endeavour: he holds Quirkless people in high regard and judges them only for their individual actions and personalities, to the point that after Izuku repeatedly improves his agency as a whole, gets Shoto to start using his fire, and saves Rei at the same times as he discovers an attempt to recreate the Nomus, Endeavour trusts him on the same level as Burnin'. Justified in that he remembers just how many lives were saved by both his Quirkless grandfather (a fireman who stayed behind facing the Kyushu Fires, meeting his wife and almost losing his own life in the process) and great-great-grandfather (who gave his life to kill a dangerous villain and end the Quirk Wars in Japan).
- Played straight with Bakugo, who thinks Izuku has no right to work for Endeavour because he's Quirkless. The moment he sees Izuku working in Endeavor Agency years after graduation, he immediately starts attacking Izuku with intent to kill or at least severely injure. When Endeavor intervenes, Bakugo demands that he fire Izuku for being a "waste of space". Bakugo would soon pay for his actions dearly.
- Soul-Crushing Desk Job: Because All-Might never deemed him his successor in this universe, Izuku winds up attending UA's General Studies and gets employed by Endeavor Agency as a Quirk analyst. At first, Izuku hates his job because the triplets from Accounting constantly force him to do work he isn't qualified to do, and tries to get himself fired to escape their harassment. But this gradually gets subverted as his attempts to get fired ironically improve his standing in the agency's pecking order while getting the triplets fired from their jobs once Endeavor and Burnin' learn of their treatment of Izuku. Afterward, his job becomes much more pleasant and he chooses to stay working for Endeavor in the end; it helps that he has a smoking hot girlfriend and eventual wife in Burnin', who is also one of his bosses.
- Spanner in the Works: Burnin' unwittingly ends up inspiring Izuku's plans to get himself fired when she physically retaliates against an intern for sexually harassing her during work hours, sparking a chain of events that ends up exposing the triplets, who constantly bully and force him to do their accounting work. Once Endeavor finds out, he has the triplets fired, blacklisted, and arrested for tampering with the Agency's accounts.
- Spit Take: Izuku spits out his milk when he reads the pdf that Mineta sent him with his worst and most obscene phrases to flirt with Burnin'.
- Springtime for Hitler: No matter what he tries, Izuku can't get fired:
- His first attempt is to bring Endeavour a coffee with two spoonfuls of American mayo in it. He likes it so much he adds his morning coffee to Izuku's responsibilities and gives him a raise. Once Shoto joins the agency Izuku tries again with him. He also likes it.
- The second attempt has him connect his MP3 player to the agency's PA and rig things so that the next morning it would play not just music, something Endeavour doesn't want to avoid distracting the staff, but starting from Superstar by Toy Box. This gets Endeavour angry... up until he sees everyone's mood and productivity has improved. Now the PA plays music unless there's an emergency, and Izuku got more praise.
- As his third attempt, Izuku decides to get in a verbal fight with Shoto, who has just joined the agency. He gets so much into it that he manages to talk Shoto into using his fire.
- The fourth attempt is something that got multiple interns fired and gave him the idea in the first place, namely flirting with Burnin'... using some of the lines that Mineta used as a teen to make sure he'd get fired, and waiting after hours so he'd be able to escape on his moped without being bodily harmed. Between Izuku refusing to use the worst ones, his nervousness in saying them, and reading them from a cue card, she finds him adorable enough to say yes. By the next morning they're officially dating. It later turns out that what Burnin' hates is when people get handsy, plus people flirting with her during work hours... and Izuku, in fear of being burned alive, had waited for after hours and kept his distance when saying his lines.
- At the fifth attempt, Izuku shows up at the Agency's costume party... dressed as All Might in a padded costume, stilts, and wig, with his impression of All Might replacing a mask. Endeavour was impressed.
- Double Subverted with Shoto and Momo's marriage interview: Izuku decides to not sabotage it while placing mouse traps in the air vents as he now likes working for Endeavour, only to crash it anyway when Ratigan attacks him... and not only earns praise again (from both Endeavour and the police) as it wasn't his fault and captured an A-class Villain and recovered his loot, he gets a large bonus from the latter and a monetary reward from Shoto and Momo as they didn't want to marry each other and he got them out of an arranged marriage.
- The Stinger: Four days after Izuku's discovery of the Nomu plot, Endeavor went to All Might and hit him in the head (literally and metaphorically) over the latter's rejection of Izuku as his successor.
- Tender Tears: When Endeavor tells Izuku that he (and everyone in the agency) considers him a hero after uncovering the attempt to recreate the Nomu through his willingness to go beyond his own remit, Izuku's response is to cry because everyone, even All Might himself, told him for years that he couldn't be a hero due to his Quirklessness.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Izuku's girlfriend and later wife Burnin' is much taller than him. The only instance where this is (temporarily) reversed is when Izuku attends an office costume party dressed as All Might himself.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Like in canon, Mineta was a huge pervert during his UA school days, but mellowed out thanks to Izuku's positive influence. He eventually married a European superheroine with a lust-based Quirk.
- Trademark Favorite Food:
- Endeavor adores Rei's homemade doughnuts and is takes the majority she brings in, earning the title of "Doughnut Hog" from Izuku. She's not amused since she made enough for everyone at the agency to have three.
- Endeavor also likes Izuku's mayonnaise coffee... and only Izuku's. Any attempts from the other interns are treated like really bad coffee.
- Tranquil Fury: While bearing a horrible temper, Endeavor is professional enough to rein it in on the job; the only way to tell how angry he feels is by how hot the room feels, due to his Quirk. The number of times where he does raise his voice are very few, but they're made much more impactful for it.
- Un-Sorcerer: Izuku is Quirkless, as confirmed by genetic testing... leaving everyone baffled about his ability to make mayo coffee taste good. According to the author, they had considered giving Izuku a Quirk to explain this, but chose otherwise because it was funnier.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: Downplayed with Burnin', who becomes protective of Izuku as she learns of the problems he suffers at work, but tries to minimize collateral due to said problems occurring in a workplace. When Burnin' sees the triplets dumping their accounting work on Izuku's desk, she throws the pile of papers back at their faces and roars at them to do their own work. Later, while she is furious with Bakugo for attacking her boyfriend, Burnin' only gets between them to protect Izuku and keep Bakugo occupied until Endeavor arrives to defuse the situation.
- What the Hell, Hero?:
- Izuku does this to Shoto when he learns about him not using his fire side. Initially, he had only planned to do it to get fired, but he eventually becomes invested into it and berates Shoto for wasting his potential while people like Izuku are Quirkless.
- In The Stinger, Endeavour tracks down All Might just to rub in his face how he told that Quirkless people can't be Heroes to someone who just stopped an attempt to recreate the Nomou. All Might admits he deserved it.
- What You Are in the Dark: During the Kyushu Fires, Endeavor's grandfather, a Quirkless firefighter, stayed behind to save lives by putting out the flames despite there being a high chance he'd die, while many heroes fled rather than risk being burned alive themselves. Fortunately, he survived and met his future wife, Endeavor's grandmother, while he was recovering from his injuries.
- Willfully Weak: Endeavor deliberately goes underpowered in his fight with Bakugo so he can stomp him into the curb for his insults and attempt to attack Izuku on the back.
- You, Get Me Coffee: Endeavour likes Izuku's mayonnaise-coffee so much that he promotes the latter to "personal coffee-maker".
