Izuku’s Second Shield Design (UA)
After 150 years in ice, Izuku Midoriya finds himself in a new world where meta-abilities or "Quirks" are the norm. His journey to becoming a modern Pro Hero will have its challenges keeping his old heroic identity a secret, facing old and new foes, and learning to let go of the past. All while asking himself the question, does the world even need a Captain America anymore? Or is he just too old-fashioned?
Izuku's First Shield Design (UA)
The Man Out Of Time is a MHA/Marvel crossover written by Ultimate10
where Izuku Midoriya became the world's first superhero, Captain America. After being frozen for over 150 years, he now has to adapt to living in the future world he helped create.
Can be found here on Fanfiction.Net and here at AO3.
This story contains examples of:
- Adaptational Badass:
- Izuku is a war veteran with more skill and experience in fighting than his class combined.
- Thanks to their Izuku's advice and training, Momo, Ochako, Denki, Pony, Eijiro, Mina, Tsuyu, Setsuna, Kyouka, and Tenya all have pushed their Quirks farther than their canon counterparts (at the time) and have the equipment to help them.
- Hatsume is able to put in the inventions and determination to nearly defeat Todoroki during their fight.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: Momo Yaoyorozu and Ochako Uraraka appear during Izuku's ten-month training instead of at U.A.
- Adaptational Name Change: Many of U.A.'s naming policies are changed due to U.A. being a college instead of a high school.
- Nezu is known as the Dean instead of the Principal.
- The classes are differently named. Ex: Class 101-A instead of Class 1-A
- The Sports Festival is called the All-Star Games.
- Adaptational Nationality: Downplayed. Izuku was born in Japan but has lived most of his life in the United States.
- Adaptational Relationship Overhaul:
- Izuku, Momo, and Ochako are best friends (and each others' love interests), as are Denki, Pony, and Kyouka.
- Setsuna Tokage and Pony Tsunotori swap places with Toru Hakagure and Mashiro Ojiro between Class 101-A and 101-B.
- Mina and Eijiro are a couple.
- Katsuki does not know Izuku until the Sludge Villain Incident. Still doesn't like him, though.
- All Might and Izuku have a different relationship due to Izuku being Captain America (and All Might being a huge fan).
- Adaptational Superpower Change: Izuku doesn't have a Quirk. He has the Super-Soldier Serum to act in its place. He does, however, accept One For All after the All-Star Games.
- Age Lift: Everyone is older due to U.A. (and hero schools in general) being a university instead of a high school. Izuku's even older since he lived all the way to adulthood before getting trapped in the ice. Add to the time he spent on the ice, Izuku is 172 years old.
- Battle Strip: After getting Todoroki to start using his fire, Izuku rips his undershirt to make makeshift bandages, allowing everyone to see his well-toned upper body. Ochako starts drooling and has a Nosebleed at the sight.
- Both Sides Have a Point: When Izuku discovers that SHIELD kept a dose of a virus called Zodiac (which apparently affects Quirked humans only, and with what's implied to be horrible effects), he tells Fury off for preserving it and demanding its destruction. However, Fury points out that they don't know if it's the last of it that exists, and points out that they need to keep it in case they need to find a cure should someone else release that or a similar virus.
- Break His Heart to Save Him: Peggy kept trying to keep Izuku out of the Army (and later drum him out of the Super-Soldier Program) in an attempt to keep him safe which she had promised to his mother.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Zak Powers, Izuku's high school bully, reappears in the story as a pitcher during the World Series, which leads to Izuku's debut as Captain America.
- Logan, one of Izuku's old army mates, comes to Japan after seeing Izuku's performance at the Sports Festival.
- Clueless Chick-Magnet: Subverted. Izuku is fully aware of his crush on Momo and Ochako and theirs on him, but feels too guilty about lying to them to pursue it.
- Composite Character:
- Izuku Midoriya and Captain America.
- All For One and Red Skull.
- Mei Hatsume and Iron Man.
- The Cuckoolander Was Right: Downplayed, but when Mei Hatsume says that Endeavor's "encouraging words" during Shoto's fight with Izuku makes him sound like a lunatic, she's dead on since he almost blatantly says he will use Shoto to fulfill his own dream of surpassing All Might.
- Dare to Be Badass: When Mei mentions that she doesn't want to be a hero due to the uselessness of her Quirk, Izuku spends the following rounds impressing on her the capability of her Support Gear to make her one, from adding her to his team during the second round and encouraging her to beat a Hero Student with her babies in the combat rounds. After she wins against Kaibara, she starts to give his ideas more thought.
- Death by Adaptation: The USJ Nomu was killed by Izuku, due to the vibranium in his shield absorbing all of its blows and then returning the energy all at once, sufficient to reduce its head to Ludicrous Gibs.
- Decomposite Character: Bucky Barnes isn't Captain America's Childhood Friend - that role belongs to Peggy Yamamoto, Peggy Carter's equivalent.
- Determinator:
- Being the Composite Character of two of fiction's greatest Determinators, there was no way Izuku "Captain America" Midoriya couldn't be one as well.
- Bakugo tries to be this in his and Izuku's match; even with a broken arm and trapped in an unbreakable hold, he tries to blast his way out even though it might injure him further and render him too tired to win, even with Recovery Girl's healing. Izuku, noticing this, finally knocks him out by applying Bakugo's head to the concrete.
- Entertainingly Wrong: Izuku wonders how Endeavor could have found out his secret of being Captain America, but All Might, who'd also had a conversation with him, knows that Endeavor had latched onto the same theory that his son had about him and Izuku being biologically related.
- Entitled Bastard: Zak Powers, Izuku's main bully at high school, thought Izuku would readily accept his demand to become his economic adviser and threw a tantrum when Izuku told him "no".
- Flashback B-Plot: Izuku flashes back to moments of his life before he went under in the ice.
- Generation Xerox: After waking up from being frozen, Izuku meets several people that remind him of their ancestors he knew in the past.
- Momo Yaoyorozu is as strong and nice as Peggy Yamamoto.
- Mei Hatsume has a similar Quirk and penchant for Mad Scientist ideas as Teruko Hatsume.
- Howard Shield's engineering skills came back with David and Melissa Shield.
- Hero-Worshipper: Partially Played for Laughs. A lot of the people Izuku knows are fans of Captain America.
- All Might. The instant he realizes Izuku is the actual Captain America, he faints.
- Coulson, just like in the MCU. Has the cards and all.
- Momo. One of her ancestors (implied to be Peggy Yamamoto) knew Captain America, and her family has been fans for generations (to the point that they have a painting of the man in their mansion). She herself is writing a historical fanfiction featuring him.
- Ochako. Her great-grandparents were saved by Captain America from Meta-Human concentration camps. She idolizes Captain America as he's seen as the first ever Rescue Hero. She also does the illustrations for Momo's Captain America fanfic.
- Golden Snitch: In the All-Star Game's Risk Trifecta event, there is a destroyable castle in enemy territory that allows the student who destroys it an automatic pass to the next round. Bakugo is the one to destroy it and get the bye, and Aizawa makes it clear after the event that if he hadn't managed it, the judges wouldn't have let him pass.
- Hidden Depths: Romanoff, SHIELD agent and spy extraordinaire, is a fan of Momo's fanfiction of Captain America.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Izuku uses the debris and ice Todoroki created to protect himself from the latter's huge blast, and then sneak behind him to knock him out.
- Hypocrite: When, after their fight, where Kendo busted Bakugo's nose and knee, Kendo offers to help him get to Recovery Girl's office, Bakugo shouts that he's not weak and that he doesn't need help - because All Might never needs help. Itsuka quickly points out that, if he doesn't need help, then he doesn't need to visit Recovery Girl.
- Hypocritical Humor: Hatsume says that Endeavor sounds like a lunatic.
- If Only You Knew: Many characters not in the know about Izuku's identity remark on his similarities with Captain America. Midnight has a particular ironic example when she advises Izuku that no-one can replicate the First Hero's example and that he should instead try to form his own hero identity.
- In Spite of a Nail: Izuku uses the same reasoning to convince Todoroki to use his fire side as in canon.
- Keeping Secrets Sucks: Izuku always has on his shoulders the weight of his identity as Captain America, and hates that he has to keep it secret from his friends.
- Kidnapped Scientist: Teruko Hatsume agreed to work for All For One to perfect the Super-Soldier Serum in order to save her friend Yoichi's life, and was later rescued by American Marines.
- Know When to Fold Them: When Momo shows up to her fight with Shinso with ear mufflers, Shinso realizes he doesn't have a chance to win and forfeits immediately.
- Leeroy Jenkins: During the three-team Risk Trifecta event, both Bakugo and Todoroki refuse to listen to their respective teams' leaders and go off guns blazing against the third team (which has Izuku in it), only to be taken over by Shinsou's Quirk.
- Mistaken for Romance: When Izuku goes to check on Mei Hatsume, Mina says she thinks it's because he's falling for the Support Course student, when he's actually interested in checking up with the descendant of the sister of Teruko Hatsume, the doctor behind the project that turned him into Captain America.
- Mythology Gag:
- The camp where Izuku trains before getting the Super-Soldier Serum is called Camp Erskine.
- Several of Izuku's partners in the Super-Soldier Program are people that got it in the comics as well.
- Izuku keeps a list of media to check out as he tries to get used to the modern world.
- Izuku's father still lives on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, but here he lives in Japan while it is Izuku and his mother who move to the US.
- During his first fight as Captain America, Izuku uses a car door as an improvised shield.
- Brock Rumlow's Quirk allows him to create bone surfaces, a reference to his "Crossbones" alias.
- No-Sell: Shigaraki's Decay Quirk does absolutely nothing against Izuku's shield. It's implied to be the adamantium in it, given its ineffectiveness against Logan's claws as well.
- One Degree of Separation: Izuku and All Might are connected in one other way than in canon: Teruko Hatsume, the counterpart of Dr. Erskine, was friends with Yoichi Shigaraki and had a possible crush on him, and started working on the serum as an attempt to heal him, only for All for One to kidnap her and force her to make a proper Super-Soldier Serum.
- Operation: Jealousy: By proxy. While Izuku doesn't mean anything by it, Mina needles Momo and Ochako with the idea that Izuku might be interested in Mei to push them to act in moving forward with getting involved with Izuku.
- Parental Abandonment: Izuku's mother died while he was in high school, while his father was working as a politician in Japan.
- Reincarnation Romance: Variation. It's heavily implied that Momo (one of Izuku's Love Interests) is a descendant of Peggy Yamamoto, Izuku's Childhood Friend Romance.
- Ship Tease:
- Everyone recognizes Izuku, Momo, and Ochako's feelings for each other except them.
- Same applies to Denki, Kyouka, and Pony.
- When Mei shows a lot of interest in Tenya's engines, he becomes embarrassed.
- Shout-Out: A lot of media is used as a reference to show just how old Izuku is.
- Izuku gets his friends to watch the original Jurassic Park (there was a remake during the 2100s).
- Pokémon.
- Super Mario Bros.
- Izuku mentions Superman several times - and is dismayed to learn no one has heard of him.
- After Present Mic calls Izuku a "GI Wonder Boy" due to his military training, the stadium starts a chant of "Yo Joe".
- Showdown at High Noon: How Present Mic describes Yaoyorozu and Todoroki's All-Star Game match, with both of them going for a finishing blow as fast as possible. Unfortunately for Yaoyorozu, her rapidly-generated oversized beanbag cannon misses by an inch and Todoroki freezes her to the wall, though Todoroki is still shaken by how close it was.
- Smug Snake: Monoma spends his entire fight with Shinso grandstanding about the superiority of his class and showing off their copied Quirks instead of just throwing Shinso out and winning the match - only to fall for Shinso accidentally pressing his Berserk Button, allowing Shinso to trap him with his Quirk and win himself.
- Spotting the Thread: It doesn't take much for Aizawa to suspect something is off with Izuku's records, and starts snooping into any potential discrepancies.
- There Are No Therapists: Averted. After the USJ, all of Class 101-A are offered therapy from the school for any trauma they may have, with the first one being obligated. If they are deemed mentally unfit, they won't be allowed to participate in the All-Star Games.
- Tough Act to Follow: In-Universe, Izuku ends up becoming one to himself due to his decision to make his hero costume resemble the uniform he used as Captain America - as the Captain is such an icon that few have dared try to imitate his image.
- Two Lines, No Waiting: The story is split in two, with Plot A following Izuku's revival and entrance into U.A. in the present day, while Plot B is set in the past and follows how Izuku became Captain America, the world's first superhero.
- Villainous Breakdown: Shigaraki suffers one after Captain Midoriya manages to kill his anti-All Might Nomu, and charges for him determined to at least destroy his prized weapon. He can't even manage to do that.
- Underestimating Badassery:
- Bakugo and Todoroki repeatedly underestimate their rivals in the tournament (Tokage and Kendo for the former, Hatsume for the latter) only to find themselves forced to put their everything into the fight to avoid losing.
- Many of the All-Star Game spectators, like most of the Quirk-centric populace, favor the flashy-Quirked Bakugo and Todoroki over Izuku and his Boring, but Practical boosted physicality, and are flummoxed when he comes out on top in every event.
- Whole Episode Flashback: Several chapters are set entirely in the past before Izuku was trapped in the ice.
- Chapter 5 The Flagman details how Izuku met his original squad mates.
- Chapter 12 Rebirth shows Izuku's transformation into a Super Soldier.
- Chapter 24 The Star-Spangled Man has Izuku's first appearance as Captain America.
- Chapter 28 The Campaign features Izuku's propaganda work as Captain America, the effect he has on public opinion and the SSR moving to Japan.
- You Remind Me of X:
- Katsuki reminds Izuku of his old bully Zak.
- Many characters note that Izuku looks and acts a lot like Captain America, unaware that he IS Captain America.
- Young Future Famous People: One of Izuku's neighbors in his Fresno apartment is pre-teen Isaiah Bradley.
