Fanfic / Paragons of Virtue and Glory

Paragons of Virtue and Glory is a crossover fic between My Hero Academia and RWBY.

After a training session at the USJ, Class 1-A, along with teachers Aizawa and All Might, find themselves unexpectedly warped to Remnant. Now, with the help of Beacon Academy's staff, plus Teams RWBY and JNPR, they seek to adapt to this new world of bloody evolution, while seeking a way back home.

It can be read here on Archive of Our Own.

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This work contains examples of:

• Academy of Adventure: Beacon Academy and U.A., of course.
• Accidental Innuendo: When Ochako sees the Amity Colosseum, she exclaims "It's so huge!". Mineta pinches his mouth to avoid making the obvious answer.
• Adaptational Badass: The students of 1-A, Aizawa, and All Might all have their Auras unlocked after Ozpin and Glynda make the offer.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: As this fic takes place during the second half of Volume 1 of RWBY, Taiyang and Zwei appear before their respective debuts in Volumes 3 and 2 when the former is brought to Beacon by Ozpin to be Gale’s guardian, bringing the latter along.
  • A series of flashbacks showing Weiss’s past in Chapters 7 and 8 show Winter, Willow, Jacques, Whitley and Klein before their own debuts in later volumes.
  • Neo shows up at the docks battle, whereas she first appeared in Volume 2.
  • Both General Ironwood, and Pietro Polendina arrive in Vale, well ahead of their canonical appearances.
• Added Alliterative Appeal: Aizawa calls his equivalent of the Quirk Assessment Test for Beacon's students "Aura Ability Assessment Test". Some of his students wonder if he did it just to make it sound like a triple A battery.
• Always Someone Better: Yang has started to realize that Katsuki, Pyrrha, Izuku, and Aizawa are much stronger and combat pragmatists than she is. While at Signal, Yang was the best fighter at the school, but at Beacon she's only in the top ten and even then, only of the freshman class. This is leading her to rethink her fighting style much earlier than in the show.
• Appropriated Appellation:
  • Izuku's Semblance Legacy Avatar gets its name from a comment by Jaune that Izuku likes.
  • Weiss is the one who coins the term "Soul Shock" for the way that the Earthlings pass out when their Aura first breaks.
• Artificial Limbs:
  • The Hunters who have prosthetic replacements have limbs that are made with advanced Atlesian technology which function like their missing limbs and also incorporate their style of fighting to ensure they can still function as Huntsmen.
  • Mercury's legs are cybernetic from the knees down. How he lost his original legs has yet to be revealed, although his origins episode with Cinder and Emerald heavily suggests he had them amputated and replaced after he killed his abusive father, since it was shown that his legs were seriously injured and he could barely stand on them, the aura also has limits to how much it can heal because it only accelerates the natural healing processes therefore it cannot regenerate lost limbs.
  • James Ironwood takes this trope to an extreme: his right arm, right leg, and a good chunk of the right side of his torso are cybernetic. He really is more machine than man. Like Mercury, no word at the moment on what led to this.
• Awful Truth: Like in the original time line, Ozpin considers Salem's immortality to be this and something he has to keep secret or else his followers would lose hope and desert him.
• Benevolent Conspiracy: Just like in the main RWBY canon, Ozpin runs this to protect humanity from the Grimm and other evil forces that are on the horizon. Known members of the conspiracy thus far include Ozpin, Glynda, Ironwood, Theodore and Qrow. Same can be said for All Might, Izuku and Katsuki keeping One for All and its history a secret, until Izuku's Quirk evolves and his Semblance awakens, leading to said secret being revealed to everyone in the main cast.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Like in canon, Izuku is still the All-Loving Hero we all know and love. Push him too far though, well... the results are not pretty. Adam learns this the hard way.
• Blood Knight: Katsuki enjoys fighting and hates it when people stop him from doing so, such as by stealing his kills of Grimm.
• Break the Haughty: Aizawa delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle at Team CRDL to force them to accept that they need to improve both as Hunters and as people if they want to survive in the future.
• Calling Your Attack: Discussed. While both groups call out attacks, the Hunters tend to do so for co-ordination with prepared manoeuvres where everyone knows their role, while Class 1-A are yet to have the canon lesson with Mt Lady about why Pro-Heroes call out their attacks. While the Hunters advise not yelling out their moves for the stakeout at the docks, a few still do so out of habit. But Team RWBY and JNPR do still think the names are cool, with both Nora and Yang coming up with ideas for ultimate moves, even if they only call them out in their heads.
  Yang: New move, Daybreak!
• Challenge Seeker: One of the reasons that Pyrrha came to Beacon was that there were no fighters at Haven that could beat her and she was hoping to find fighters that would test her skills. She is overjoyed to find out that Momo, Deku and Katsuki are strong enough to give her the first real challenge she's had in years.
• Cliffhanger: Chapter 10 ends with Izuku triggering Blackwhip for the first time.
• Career-Ending Injury: This is actually a very real danger that all heroes and hunters face.
  • Sometimes Stain the Hero-Killer deliberately spares the life of his victims. On such occasions he sees to it that they can't be a pro-hero any more For example, Tenya Iida's beloved brother Tensei.
  • The reason why All Might passed the One for All to Izuku is that he got one years ago; as said below, he can't fully use them or he'll either be severely injured or even die
• Colourful Theme Naming: The vast majority of characters in Remnant are named after a color or something associated with a color after the Great War nearly destroyed all artistic expression. If it isn't in their given names, their surnames will provide a color reference or team’s name.
  • Class 1-A adopts colourful team names when they move into Beacon, specifically, MOAT (moat), BEAS (bees), MMAT (matte), STRM (storm), and MJKK (magic).
• Combat Stilettos: Glynda, Pyrrha, Weiss, and Blake all wear them.
• Commonality Connection: Todoroki reveals his past and his issues with his father, making Weiss feel a connection as she realizes her own issues with her father are quite similar.
• Creature-Hunter Organization: The Huntsman Academies are a system of combat schools that are designed to train students to become the next generation of Hunters to battle the Grimm. Huntsmen aren't just trained to fight with Dust and highly customised weapons, they're also trained to manipulate their Auras and unlock Semblances, effectively making them "super-soldiers" when compared to ordinary people and standard military. The job of Huntsmen is to protect the people from the Creatures of Grimm that swarm the world and try to destroy humanity's existence. A Huntsman's first duty is to the people, so they're expected to remain free of Kingdom allegiance or politics.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Mineta manages to defeat Cardin in seconds.
  • Aizawa challenges CRDL to a four on one fight against him, and when they accept, he proceeds to demonstrate why you don't underestimate a Pro.
• Cuteness Proximity: Gale is a Faunus girl around Eri’s age that all of the students in Class A, along with Teams RWBY and JNPR, can’t help but fawn over. Even Bakugo takes a liking to her, finding the nicknames she gives the others to be funny, and loving the fact that she calls him by his original hero name choice, “King Explosion Murder”. Weiss (who has a marked dislike of Faunus in general) even name drops the trope when talking about Gale.
• A Day in the Limelight: Some chapters pay special focus on particular members of the cast, such as Yaoyorozu and Pyrrha, Koda and Ojiro. The latter has a Hero of Another Story adventure alongside Sun Wukong.
• Death World: Outside of four heavily protected Kingdoms and a number of smaller locations blessed with strong natural barriers, Remnant is a world where Humans and Faunus struggle to survive against the dominance of the Creatures of Grimm. As monstrous beings that are attracted to negative emotion, Grimm appear to be consumed by the need to destroy people and their creations. Trained by elite Academies, only Huntsmen possess the combat skills, enhanced Aura and trained Semblances to fight back, so it's their job to protect humanity and Faunus from the Grimm. If people can't defend themselves, they hire those that can, and all transport — from ocean ships to airships — are armed with guns. Even those who survive the Grimm will have bandits to contend with, whose raids inevitably create heightened spikes of negativity that attract even more Grimm.
  • When the heroes discover that Remmant is more dangerous than Earth due to the large Grimm populations spread across the world, they decide that everyone must unlock their auras to have a better chance of surviving on Remmant.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: A lot of clashing values occur as a result of the settings of the two series being very different from one another. My Hero Academia is set on Earth in a somewhat futuristic Japan, and while having slightly more individualistic beliefs than modern day Japan, is still one based on Eastern values like collectivism, rule following, respect for authority, privacy, and functions on what is largely Black-and-White Morality.^*The series does slowly shift to a more Grey-and-Gray Morality later, but at the point in time the fic occurs, this has yet to happen. RWBY, while set on the fantasy world of Remnant, largely adheres to more Western values like individualism, prioritizing what is right over the rules or privacy, calling out what is seen as wrong, and functions largely on Grey-and-Gray Morality.
  • When Bakugo ends up pissing off the Hunters, Coco in particular, with his behavior coming across as racist, 1-A as a whole is prepared to apologize for his actions, as per the belief that his actions reflect on the class as a whole. Coco however quickly stops them before they can, following the more Western mindset that his actions are not their responsibilities, and the only apologies CFVY will require have to come from him.
  • When Blake reveals her past as a White Fang member, Tsuyu and Tokoyami point out that, from their perspective, even if she had sympathetic reasonings, her actions would make her a Villain from their perspective, and that Aizawa would likely not approve of her having hidden her Faunus nature nor remaining at Beacon. Ruby and Yang however point out that Blake is not his student, she had no obligation to disclose her Faunus nature to him since he's a guest at Beacon, and that even if Ozpin doesn't offer his help to her, the two of them would be more than willing to go to bat for Blake regardless. The latter idea in particular shocks Tokoyami and Tsuyu, as opposing an authority figure like Ozpin is considered highly disrespectful from an Eastern standpoint.
  • Izuku and Ochako largely subvert this, as while they do still follow some Eastern values, even in canon the two were shown to lean more towards Western-styled values in their willingness to help/sympathize with Villains rather than just view them as Villains, go against the rules if it means doing what is right, and even acknowledging themselves that the two of them are likely "weird" to the rest of their contemporaries as a result.
• Detonation Moon: The moon was partially shattered by an unknown force in the ancient past.
• Double Standard: When Jaune takes off his armor before the assessment test and accidentally flashes his abs, the girls are left Eating the Eye Candy (Pyrrha and Yaoyorozu look away while blushing), and Mineta grumbles about the double standards.
• Dynamic Entry: Izuku re-enters the fight with Adam with a powerful kick combined with Blackwhip.
• Enhanced Archaic Weapon: The majority of the cast use medieval-style weapons that are upgraded and outfitted for the modern era like Ruby's Crescent Rose, a scythe with a massive built-in sniper rifle.
• Enlightenment Superpowers: Downplayed; Aura can be unlocked with sufficient meditation and focus by a desired user, but can also be unlocked by either sufficient mental/emotional stress and turmoil or through the magical aid of another Aura user.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Junior likes dogs, and repeatedly told one of his men 'no' when approached about a dog fighting racket. When he finds out that they started one anyway and ran it behind his back, he is livid, and willing to co-operate with Yang and the heroes in order to clean house, shutting the operation down.
• Extraordinary World, Ordinary Problems: Even when almost everyone has special powers and Impossibly Cool Weapons to deal with hordes of monsters intent on wiping out humanity, people still have to deal with ordinary problems like burglaries, racism, high school, and navigating their social lives.
• Extranormal Institute: Beacon Academy is the most prestigious of the four Huntsmen Academies. Students are admitted by being flung into a forest full of bloodthirsty monsters with orders to eliminate everything in their way after retrieving an artifact. Should they pass, they then have to handle Port's inundating speeches and monster-filled live exercises, survive sparring with lethal weaponry, and listen in on lightning-quick history lectures. Then there's the criminals seeking to undermine the world's peace and stability.
• Fairy Tale Motifs/Mythical Motifs: As per RWBY canon, virtually all of the most important characters that make Remnant their home are inspired by (in at least some way) by a character/plotline from a fairy tale, myth or famous story throughout Earth history.
  • Earth's heroes mention how several of the RWBY characters remind them of several of the most popular stories, tales, and myths due to their similarities to them.
• Fantastic Racism: The bitter distrust and hatred between the native humans of Remnant and the Faunus is unfortunately still alive and well.
• Fictional Disability: 20 percent of the human population in MHA’s Earth is born Quirkless, meaning that they don't possess any kind of superpowers. For people like protagonist Izuku Midoriya, this can be humiliating and the source of scorn and bullying, especially since he wants to become a superhero more than anything. Luckily for him, his sheer heroic spirit and willingness to throw himself into danger for the sake of others inspired his idol All Might to pass down his unique Quirk to him.
• Floating Continent: The city of Atlas levitates on a massive plot of land over the city of Mantle on Solitas.
• Foil: It's noted that Yang and Bakugo are quite similar (arrogant Blood Knight blondes with a penchant for close quarters combat and a love of explosions), but that their different circumstances mean that the characters are a lot more different than what it looks at first glance.
• Foreshadowing: When the group encounters Sun at the docks, Izuku has a flash of a bald guy with a bandoleer, and his right arm flares in pain. Two chapters later, Izuku unlocks Blackwhip during the fight with White Fang.
• Forever War: The humans and Faunus of Remnant have had to fight against the Grimm for longer than recorded history just to ensure their continued survival.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: While they can easily bond with the students of 1-A, the Hunters don't particularly like Bakugo thanks to his perpetual foul-mood and poor temper, not helped by their thinking he's a racist and The Bully. He's successfully managed to gain the ire of Blake, Yang, and Yatsuhashi in particular.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Weiss' dislike of Faunus comes from the multiple attacks on her family and friends, but she admits that she shouldn't treat all Faunus the same way.
• Functional Magic: Aura is effectively "weaponized" Soul Power, and its understanding is surprisingly well-understood and intricate in terms of Remnant scholarship.
• Healing Factor: While a person's Aura is active, it can be used to quickly heal someone from minor injuries. It's not perfect, though, and can't do much (if anything) against otherwise lethal attacks.
• Healing Hands: Ochako's Semblance, unlocked when Blake gets gravely hurt during the fight with Adam.
• Here We Go Again!: Teams MOAT and RWBY groan when Weiss, after the mess in hashing out the reveals of her past and Blake's backstory, asks again if Blake's certain White Fang isn't behind the previous day's Dust robbery.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Team RSTR's Richie Fields's Semblance is Nerf, which reduces the damage and impact of a person's weapons and attacks. When he uses it on Bakugo, the latter realizes it actually allows him to go full-out with no worries, and promptly pummels Fields, before finishing him with one of Richie's own grenades.
• How We Got Here: Chapter 1 begins with Class 1-A returning with Mr. Aizawa and All Might, and apparently several others, in desperate need of medical attention. Detective Tsukauchi and Principal Nezu visit Izuku in Recovery Girl's office to ask what happened, and the story shows what they went through on Remnant.
• Hypocritical Humor: When Jaune says he's too busy with school work and training to even bother considering to ask Weiss out again, Izuku asks if he isn't working himself too hard - which prompts Weiss to point out that Izuku is only second to Todoroki on how much training he does.
• Indignant Slap: Ochako gives one to Weiss (along with a What the Hell, Hero?) when the latter keeps implying that the Faunus that ran from the boat (Sun Wokong) is a White Fang member, just because he's a Faunus.
• In Medias Res: The story begins with Izuku being interviewed by Nezu regarding the events that led Class 1-A to Remmant and how they returned to Earth after the events of volume 3 of RWBY.
• Internal Reveal:
  • By time everyone gets back to Earth and he talks with Tsukauchi and Nezu, Izuku reveals that all of 1-A and Aizawa have been told about the existence of One For All, as they all agreed to there being no more secrets between them. The secret gets partially uncovered when Izuku not only gets Blackwhip, but also unlocks his Semblance, causing him to create a projection of Daigoro Banjo. Izuku decides to fully reveal it in the aftermath, with all of 1-A, Aizawa, Ozpin, Goodwitch, and teams RWBY and JNPR being let in on the secret.
  • Downplayed as they lack the context at the point, but when Ozpin unlocks Izuku's Aura, Ozpin learns of One For All and the origins behind it, while Izuku learns of Ozpin's past incarnations as Ozma.
  • Blake reveals she's a Faunus and that she was a member of White Fang.
  • Todoroki tells Weiss about his past.
  • Ruby discovers Penny is actually a Robot Girl when the fight with Torchwick causes the paint on her arm to crack.
• Jet Pack: Ochako gets one named Apollo, which uses Combustion and Gravity Dust to propel its user. It only works for bursts of three seconds, but Ochako can combine that with her Quirk to make great use of it.
• Ki Manipulation: All living things generate Aura. Huntsmen are trained to manipulate and amplify their Aura, giving them a Healing Factor and an invisible, defensive forcefield that prevents injury. With mastery, a Semblance can be unlocked, which gives each individual a single superpower such as Super-Senses, Super-Strength, area-effect barriers, telekinesis, and so on. Aura is finite and depletes with active use until it breaks, leaving a person vulnerable and unable to use Semblance.
• Insistent Terminology: Bakugo insists on calling his team "Murder Justice Squad". He's the only one, with everyone else calling it "Team BEAS".
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
  • The heroes (both teachers and students) note the similitudes between the people they have met in Remnant and popular stories from their own world.
  • Mineta makes up the excuse of having flashbacks to Emerald, citing Izuku and Shoto having them on the regular. While Mineta is technically lying, he doesn't realise just how true that actually is.
• Mage Species: Downplayed with the Remnantians, who all can "unlock their souls" to gain access to Aura and Semblances, but it is typically only Huntsmen and Huntresses who ever need to do so.
• Magic A Is Magic A: Both the worlds of My Hero Academia and RWBY have their own inherent power systems, Quirks and Aura/Magic respectively, as neither world has access to the others. That isn't to say they can't affect the other though, as students of 1-A, Aizawa, and All Might all have their Auras unlocked, Ozpin in particular unlocking Izuku's. This causes Izuku to have a massive Aura reserve however, as One For All carries imprints of the souls of its previous eight users, and Aura is the manifestation of the soul, giving Izuku nine times as much Aura as a normal person.
• Magitek: As in the original RWBY, the vast majority of technology in the story is powered by Dust, including the Huntsmen and Huntresses' various weapons.
• MegaCorp: The Schnee Dust Company dominates the Dust industry. It's so big that it has its own security force and fleet of airships. Mines all over the world belong to the SDC, and everyone who buys Dust, buys SDC Dust. Under Nick's leadership, it built up a reputation for honesty, integrity and quality. Under Jacques' leadership, those aspects are losing their shine; while the company's become even more powerful under him, it's on the back of poor working conditions and a reputation for cut-throat business practices. It used to be run in an ethical way, but became much more exploitative of its workers after Jacques Schnee took over such as forcing them to work in unsafe conditions and its mistreatment of Faunus workers. Among its victims were Illia Amitola's parents, who died in a mining accident, and Adam Taurus, who has his face branded with the company logo, which eventually led to both of them joining the White Fang.
• Mistaken for Racist: Bakugo maintains his habit of being The Nicknamer rather than bothering to remember the names of anyone he doesn't respect (which is pretty much everyone). Problem is, since he usually defaults to a physical trait, his nicknames get him considered a racist by the people of Remnant, Blake reacting negatively to when he calls Mina "raccoon eyes". This reaches a boiling point when on patrol with Yatsuhashi and Velvet, as his attitude combined with calling Velvet "bunny ears" causes Yatsuhashi to confront him, and forces Velvet to call off the patrol, with Glynda and Aizawa putting Bakugo on three days house arrest as punishment.
• Mundane Utility: Kaminari acts as a portable phone/scroll charger for his classmates, much to his chagrin.
• Mutually Fictional: While at first, it's just the subject of a few jokes, like Sun having the same name as the Monkey King, later chapters make it increasingly clear that a number of individuals from Remnant have clear parallels to myths, legends, and fairy tales from Earth, while heroes and villains from Earth (even All For One and his brother) have parallels in comic books and the like on Remnant. Aizawa is worried that the full knowledge of the parallels that he and the others have discovered could cause an existential crisis in the students, and worries about Jaune and Pyrrha due to their parallels not having happy endings.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: Played for Laughs by Ruby.
  Ruby: Let’s call it something meant to further unify us as the team we are. (points to Yang) Sisters. (points to Blake) Friends. (points to Weiss). Weiss.
  Weiss: Hey!
• Mythology Gag: When Jaune explains what Aura is, Kaminari says it sounds like a force field with extra powers - which, as Jaune replies, is almost the same thing he said back then.
• Narnia Time: When Izuku talks with Nezu and Tsukauchi in Chapter 1, he learns that however much time he spent in Remnant with his friends and teachers, only an hour passed on Earth.
• Not So Similar: Aizawa, Yagi and the students of 1-A are learning that the professions of Huntsman and Hero are very similar but also have key differences, one being that Heroes are taught that killing an opponent is an option of last resort, while Huntsmen and Huntresses are taught to kill Grimm on sight, and are more willing to use lethal force when dealing with human foes.
• One Person, One Power: Virtually all Semblances are unique to a single person. There are exceptions, most notably the Schnee family's hereditary semblance of Glyphs, but they are the exception that proves the rule (so to speak).
• On the Next: Each chapter ends with a preview for the next in the style of My Hero Academia, usually with at least one person from each world collaborating (or bickering) as they give at least a little hint of what to expect and the next chapter title.
• Our Souls Are Different: An In-Universe example, apparently there are some differences in how souls work on Earth versus Remnant. When the Aura of someone from Earth is awakened, the structure of their soul changes, and until it finishes adjusting their Auras will be less efficient at recharging or fueling Semblances than normal, and the first time it breaks they'll faint.
• Properly Paranoid: When Bakugo meets Emerald and Mercury, he immediately pegs them as very much not what they claim to be, and warns his classmates about them - something that Team WLLW agrees with. Given that they are at Beacon to spy on the school and help destroy it for Salem, Bakugo's very right in assuming they are trouble.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Blake calls out Adam spectacularly during the dockside battle on his delusions of being a hero for the Faunus, with Yang getting a few barbs in herself.
  Adam: You want to play 'hero' with these frauds? Is that it, Blake? What makes them that? Huh? What have they done that's heroic? I've fought and bled for our people Blake, while you, your father, and mother fled and ran from the fight...!
  Yang: Oh, shut the hell up!
  Blake: You want an answer, Adam? My friends, both Huntress and Heroes-in-Training, they actually think about others when they fight. They stand up for one another, and for those who need help. You fight for yourself. You ask others to believe in you, and fight for you. You made yourself the cause so you could play the hero for the Faunus. Feeding your own ego, whilst taking out revenge for what was done to you!
  Yang: And don't ever call her a coward, bastard! Because she's one of the bravest people I know!
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: Mineta realizes that Emerald is trying to pump him for information on his class - but he thinks it's because she wants that info to use it during the upcoming Vytal Tournament.
• Running Gag:
  • Nora replicating Iida's hand-chopping or trying to do All Might's "muscle out" flexing.
  • People from Earth reacting to Sun's full name, something Sun ends up lampshading.
• Scare 'Em Straight: 1-A decides to do an intervention to prevent Mineta from acting out on his Hormone-Addled Teenager urges. Team JNPR aids by showing their preparations to deal with him.
• Schizo Tech: Remnant's reliance on Dust and the Forever War with the Grimm has resulted in them having a very eclectic technology base. On one hand, Remnant doesn't have artificial satellites since Dust doesn't work in outer space, but their weaponry in general is insanely advanced, consisting of different forms of Swiss Army Weapons that easily implement various forms of traditionally obsolete weapons into their design while also using Dust to punch far above their normal weight class. Additionally, Remnant also has access to humanoid combat robots, at least one Humongous Mecha, floating battleships and tilt-jet aircraft.
• Series Fic: The author announced on his Fanfiction account that there will be 6 planned seasons to the fic, with Season 1 focusing on Class 1-A adapting to Remnant and facing the villains there.
• Ship Tease: There's quite a bit between the cast. Aside from the canon ship teases like Izuku and Ochako, Kyoka and Denki, Nora and Ren, or Yang and Blake, Jaune receives ship tease from both Pyrrha and Momo, while Weiss appears to be gaining interest in Shoto.
• Shipper on Deck: Sun notices that Ojiro gets flustered around Hagakure, so he and Aoyama try to act as "wingmen" while on patrol.
• Shout-Out:
  • Gale, the young dog-like Faunus Class 1-A rescues from a herd of Grimm, is named after Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, and her dog features are clearly based off of Toto. Her Quirk/Semblance to bring people from other worlds may also be a reference to the twister that brought Dorothy to Oz. All Might actually points this out when he learns that a Remnant comic book has two heroes he personally knows as main characters, which leads to the reveal of both worlds being Mutually Fictional.
  • RWBY Chibi gets several:
    • When Mina and Toru are checking one of Blake's books, Toru exclaims "Now that's a katana!" like Ruby did in "Ninjas of Love"
    • Weiss once attempted to help Ruby make a cake by adjusting the dials - and somehow set the kitchen on fire, as in "Butler of Cakes".
    • In the Paragons of Chibi sidestory It was just a suggestion!, Ruby attempts to do Bedtime Brainwashing on Bakugo so he will become Izuku's BFF, the same way she did with Weiss in "Super Besties".
  • After Team MJKK (Magic) is formed, Kaminari suggests they form an agency with magic-inspired outfits, complete with an introduction like the Wild Wild Pussycats. An unimpressed Bakugo accuses him of ripping off Team Rocket, complete with calling him Pikachu.
  • When Class 1-A creates their own Huntsman weapons, Momo's choice is a bow that shoots specialized Dust arrowheads. At Kaminari and Sero's suggestion, she calls it "Kagome".
  • During the fight at the docks, Yang trash talks some White Fang members with dialogue pulled from one of the Dragonball Z Abridged movies. Kaminari lampshades it by calling it four star wordplay.
  • Todoroki compares Izuku's Semblance (which allows him to create solid projections of the Vestiges) to a Stand.
  • The Vale police mentions how Wyndglade and Team BEAS caught a gang of thieves in the corner of Liberty and Andreas.
  • Nomad of Nowhere is mentioned among the graphic novels in Chapter 18.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: After arriving in Remnant, Momo and Hagakure get new costumes which covers up more of their bodies. For Momo she changes into a crop top with shorts that cover more of her chest but leave her middle and back bare. Hagakure, due to her costume just being gloves and boots, gets a mask and tinted goggles to show her face, a reversible cloak for camouflage, a sleeveless top, and leggings.
• Skewed Priorities: When Izuku unlocks his Semblance during the fight at the docks, Bakugo naturally gets angry that Izuku did it before him.
• Soul Power: Aura is defined as a physical manifestation of a person's soul, and can be used for a wide variety of uses.
• Space-Filling Empire: Subverted with the Kingdoms of Remnant. While each of them claims ownership over large swathes of the surface of their planet, the Grimm make it so that most of the Kingdoms consist of uninhabited Wild Wilderness interrupted by assorted city-states.
• Stating the Simple Solution: When Sun suggests staking out the docks for a potential dust robbery, Tsuyu objects on account of that making them vigilantes. Izuku replies by suggesting to tell the teachers so they can make it an official mission.
• Story-Breaker Power:
  • The Big Bad of Earth, All for One's quirk is able to take, steal, mix, give, amplify and force others to use their quirks, virtually making him almost invincible besides the implications that he is also partially immortal. Among that, there are the side effects of stocking all quirks he ever stole, being able to use various quirks at the same time to enhance their effects, including if he has more than one of the same quirk, and forcing others to activate their quirks which seems to make people fall in a state similar to a coma.
  • The Big Bad of Remmant, Salem is a being who combines the powers of Creation and Destruction to achieve the threat level she now poses to the Remmant's world. Cursed with infinite life by the Pool of Life, Salem tried to drown herself in the Pools of Annihilation. However, waters of infinite destruction cannot destroy a being of infinite life. Instead of dying, she emerges as an unkillable force of pure destruction. Wielding magic from her mortal life and now able to control the Grimm, she is unstoppable by both mortal and magical means.
  • All Might was this before his injury. His Quirk pretty much put him on the same level as Superman. Izuku will be even worse when he finally masters his Quirk, because not only will he be physically stronger than All Might ever was, he'll also have all six Quirks of his predecessors at his disposal, and those Quirks will also be further empowered by One For All.
• Superhero School:
  • The characters from My Hero Academia attend U.A., considered Japan's best hero academy and one of the best in the world. U.A. is one of the most prestigious, although given that 80% of people in the world have Quirks, most schools devote at least some time to handling and training Quirks.
  • Beacon Academy is one of the four Huntsmen Academies dedicated to train students on how to use their weapons, Aura, and Semblances to hunt Grimm and protect people.
• Super-Reflexes: As Huntsmen and Huntresses train and improve their control over their Auras, they become incredibly agile and skilled in terms of quickly reacting to changes in combat. This lets sufficiently skilled Huntsmen be able to perform Nonchalant Dodges in the midst of combat, easily dancing around the blows of their enemies.
• Super-Senses: As one's skill over their Aura grows, their sight, hearing, and other tactile senses are enhanced, significantly aiding them in combat (i.e., allowing a Huntsmen to easily fire their weapon with the skill of a professional marksman even in unfavorable, murky weather). Additionally, Faunus with animal traits that augment certain senses have said senses operate on a superhuman level (i.e., a cat Faunus with an additional set of cat ears has superhuman hearing and is far more adept in picking out individual sounds than even the most highly skilled human tracker).
• Super-Speed: Iida's Engine Quirk lets him move much faster than any other student barring Ruby, who wins thanks to her Semblance. Her data statistics even label her speed as 6/5.
• Taking the Bullet: When Adam tries to stab Weiss, who is stunned from seeing the SDC logo branded on his face, Blake pushes her out of the path and is run through instead. Thankfully, Ochako manages to save her with her Semblance.
• Terminally Dependent Society: All of the Remnant world's technology runs off a single type of Applied Phlebotinum: Dust, magic-like elemental crystals that do everything from power everyday machines to enhancing ammunition. This causes any disturbance to Dust production to be felt everywhere.
  • The Heroes become baffled at Remnant's overreliance in one unique energy source, as opposed to Earth, where alternative energy sources have been developed.
• Technology Levels: Both satellites and ships capable of space travel, even as a mere concept with nothing more than stories to tell by the 1-A class is something beyond Remmant's current technological capability due to its dependence on Dust as the only source of energy for its technology, because Dust becomes inert the moment it leaves the planet's atmosphere.
• Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Seeing a Beowolf advancing on Yaoyorozu, Jaune throws his sword. While this doesn't kill the Grimm outright, it does injure and distract it.
• The Paragon: Toshinori's example as an exemplar of strength, hope, and optimism has inspired entire generations of Heroes to try to follow in his footsteps.
• The Spartan Way: As in the original RWBY, Initiation at Beacon starts with launching prospective students into a dense forest full of bloodthirsty monsters.
  • In one, the initiation follows a similar theme, only that the aspiring students of the heroes course must face several robots of different levels of danger in a scenario that simulates a city, something that the students and teachers agree on is that Nezu must never find out about Beacon's initiation method.
• Trapped in Another World: Through unknown means, all of Class 1-A find themselves in the world of Remnant with Eraserhead and All Might, and must find a way to get back.
• Trauma Conga Line: Downplayed for Koda. He and his classmates are now lost in another reality without warning, and during their first encounter with Grimm, he is the first person to be injured, and the only person who can understand what the Grimm are saying. He does choose not to let his fear stop him being a good hero, and is supported by his classmates. When at the docks, he is horrified when Adam Taurus kills the birds and bats he had summoned to help. By the end of Chapter 11, he is openly mourning their loss, and Chapter 17 is all about him trying to regain his mental strength.
• Warfare Regression: Thanks to older Grimm usually being tough enough to close the distance provided by ranged weapons and then engage humans/Faunus in melee, virtually all weapons on Remnant utilized by Huntsmen and Huntresses are constructed with mechashift technology to incorporate melee weapon forms (i.e. swords, spears, knives, and scythes) that would normally be obsolete on a modern battlefield.
• Weird Moon: The Remmant's moon is partially shattered, causing bits to be scattered but held in orbit by the moon's remaining gravity. It's seeing this that finally nails home to Aizawa and later the students that they are no longer on Earth.
• Wham Episode: Chapter 11. Not only does Izuku unlock Blackwhip, but he also gets his Semblance, which allows him to create solid projections of the past users of One for All, starting with Daigoro Banjo. Ochako also unlocks her Semblance as well, which allows her to heal injuries. In the aftermath, Izuku decides to finally reveal the secret of One for All to Class A, Aizawa, Teams RWBY and JNPR, and Sun.
• Wham Line: In chapter 13's Omake, All Might sees Izuku reading a comic book, and Jaune mentions the title, "X-Ray and Vav". When All Might correctly guesses what the characters' powers are, much to everyone's shock, he drops in a bomb:
  All Might: I know those details… Young Arc, Young Midoriya… I know because I’ve met those Heroes in person.
• Wham Shot:
  • Izuku unlocks his Semblance - allowing him to create a solid projection of Daigoro Banjo in the middle of the fight with White Fang.
  • Jaune glows white during the Aura Ability Assessment Test. While no one makes much of it, it's how Aura Amp shows.
• What If?:
  • Blake, instead of accidentally exposing her Faunus status and running away, is accidentally revealed to be a Faunus by Penny and shares her past as a White Fang member with her friends.
  • Due to Team MOAT being with Team RWBY at the docks, Sun is actually caught thanks to Tokoyami and Tsuyu, allowing him to explain why he stowed away on the boat. This in turn allows the others outside of Blake to form a connection with him early on, Weiss even coming to have a slightly more favorable impression of him after her own bit of self-reflection. Conversely, it also means he gets a tongue lashing from Glynda and the stink eye from Aizawa, an extra warning to not cause any trouble or rule breaking.
  • As a result of both Blake coming clean with her friends and Sun revealing that he overheard a plan to rob an SDC shipment from the docks, Teams RWBY and MOAT decide to talk with Aizawa about setting up a stakeout at the docks instead of going off on their own.
  • Blake ends up confronting Adam again earlier than in canon when the latter shows up at the docks.
  • Izuku unlocks Blackwhip during the fight at the docks.
  • After the fight at the docks, Izuku reveals the secret of One for All to his classmates.
  • Because the fight at the docks is more extreme here, Penny suffering minor damage to her arm causes Ruby to learn of her robotic origins earlier.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Downplayed, but Glynda doesn't have a good word for Aizawa after hearing him call Izuku "Problem Child".
  • After learning about One for All, Aizawa chews out All Might for keeping him Locked Out of the Loop, as he thought Izuku's initial lack of control over his Quirk was out of arrogance, and not due to it being a recently acquired power with little proper training.
• Wild Wilderness: Thanks to the Grimm, the vast majority of Remnant is unpopulated, virginal wilderness, meaning that most of the planet still has yet to be truly explored and numerous sources of natural resources have been left untouched by humanity and the Faunus.
• World of Badass: Remnant is filled with bloodthirsty Grimm, insanely badass Huntsmen and Huntresses with crazy Mix-and-Match Weapons, ninjas, and beast people. Even dogs can be trained to hunt monsters and defeat Mini Mechas.
• Wrecked Weapon: During the dock battle, Adam destroys one of the sticks to Izuku’s Dagobah weapon and even slices up Aizawa’s Capture Scarf. Izuku later returns the favor when he breaks Adam’s sword with his foot.
• Wrong Context Magic: Quirks are genetic superpowers that can be made stronger through physical training, but generally function within a very limited framework. The semblances are something of a soul-based powers, growing more versatile the more their focuses on their mental growth.

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