History Fanfic / YesterdayUponTheStair

An AudioAdaptation of ''Yesterday Upon the Stairs'' was completed by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/GeminiWishes/pseuds/GeminiWishes GeminiWishes]] in March of 2024. It can be found [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/34955995/chapters/87054052 here]] on Platform/ArchiveOfOurOwn and [[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ6xXQBcBvUJunRe_jnDHII6gwnDXpuv5&si=74UDFV58hi0SrQQv here]] on Platform/YouTube.

* AdaptationalHeroism: [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]]. [[spoiler: All for One is still the shadow leader of the League and responsible for the same actions in Canon. Whereas in Canon Horikoshi implied he is responsible for turning Tsubasa into a Noumu, in this story, he expressly states he would not harm a child. Whether this is true or not is up to interpretation as Tsubasa is still made into the Noumu, so whether it's a lie or Tsubasa had an Origin Change is unknown. [[SubvertedTrope Revealed to be a lie]] in Chapter 39, when it's revealed he knew about Rei (who was 9) being in the Noumu project, and ordered her euthanized when the experiments rendered her brain dead.]]

* AttackItsWeakPoint: As befitting his [[CombatPragmatist mindset]], Izuku takes full advantage of [[BrokenAce Todoroki]]'s weaknesses and insecurities during their match. He hates it and explicitly compares himself to a bully. He does the same in his fight with Muscular, going for a GroinAttack and [[spoiler: breaking both his cybernetic eye as well as gouging out his good eye]] since those places don't have muscle he can augment.

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Izuku manages to pull one of these on All For One and the Villain Alliance during the kidnapping arc]].

* BreakingSpeech: All for One is very fond of these. [[spoiler: Midoriya takes advantage of this by tricking him into thinking it's working.]]

* DeathAmnesia: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. [[spoiler: Aizawa learns Midoriya can see ghosts when he's pseudo-ghost during the USJ arc]], but he forgets once he recovers. [[spoiler:Chapter 55 has Aizawa finally remember it.]]

** [[spoiler: All For One]] is rendered brain dead [[spoiler: from his life support system malfunctioning due to One For All strengthening Midoriya's ISeeDeadPeople Quirk enough to allow the ghosts following him to damage it during his final battle against All Might.]]

* DisappointedByTheMotive: After having to deal with Sir Nighteye being frosty and condescending towards him throughout his internship, Midoriya finally learns that the main reason he's been such a prat is that [[spoiler: he presumes that Ghost Sense has made him indifferent towards death]]. Suffice to say, he's far from impressed.

** During their match, [[spoiler: Todoroki punches Midoriya with an ice-encrusted fist right in the eye, hard enough to draw blood]].
** Midoriya effectively wins his fight against Muscular by [[spoiler: smashing his mechanical eye into his face and then '''''gouging out his real one.''''']]
* ForWantOfANail: A lot of events in canon are altered due to either Izuku's Quirk or his different personality.
** YUTS!Izuku fights a lot more pragmatically, so his fight with Todoroki during the Sports Festival goes a lot further and gets Izuku labelled a [[AxCrazy madman]].
** [[spoiler: Tensei's DeathByAdaptation only makes Tenya's hatred of Stain even larger, causing him to be even more unstable later on when confronting him.]]
** In canon, Izuku and Bakugou ultimately had to pull an EnemyMine to get past All Might during the Final Exams, which also slightly mended their relationship. [[spoiler:The exact opposite happens here. Izuku's unwillingness to put up with Bakugou gets him a beating from Bakugou. Izuku drags himself to the exit while Bakugou preoccupies All Might, pissing off Bakugou further, and forcing All Might and Aizawa to realize just how messed up Izuku and Bakugou's relationship really is. It also forces Aizawa to start keeping a closer eye on Bakugou, outright telling him that such behavior will no longer be tolerated.]]
** The above situation with [[spoiler: Izuku and Bakugou]] causes Aizawa to start paying more attention to the class. As such, [[spoiler: when Mineta attempts his antics with the girls in the Training Camp Arc and shows a complete lack of remorse over the repercussions of his actions (which includes nearly getting Kouta seriously injured while further distressing the girls), Aizawa believes that Mineta lacks the proper character or the desire to improve said character needed to be a hero and expels him.]]
** Izuku's talk with Shigaraki greatly changes the events of the story compared to canon thanks to Izuku's much bolder personality. This time around, [[spoiler: Shigaraki takes a liking to him, and decides to make Izuku the second target in the Camp Raid instead of Tokoyami. And they succeed.]]
** At the training camp, [[spoiler: Aoyama doesn't hide in the bushes; instead, he's told to take Jirou back. As a result, his Naval Laser isn't what breaks off Compress' mask. Instead, Rei has to leap in and try to free Bakugou and Izuku, but she and Todoroki ultimately fail.]]
** The canon fight with Muscular causes Izuku to utterly wreck his body, pissing Recovery Girl off enough for her to refuse to heal him anymore. This time around, [[spoiler: Izuku is aided by Rei, Tensei, the Water Horse Duo, and all the ghosts following Muscular in distracting him, while Izuku proceeds to break Muscular's false eye, [[EyeScream gouge out his real one]], and then lure him into [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Mustard's gas]]. In the end, he only gets a dislocated shoulder and a few crushed ribs for his troubles, and the shoulder is easily reset by Aizawa. And as he didn't wreck his body this time around, Recovery Girl will still be willing to heal him in the future.]]
** The Villain Alliance's goals have shifted so that [[spoiler: on top of going after Bakugou, they target ''Izuku'' instead of Tokoyami. And not only do they succeed in grabbing both boys, they snatch Izuku literally right in front of Todoroki]].
** [[spoiler: Since Izuku was captured, this gives Uraraka enough motivation to join the rescue team that plans to go to save the two boys themselves. And because of her guilt of not being able to do anything, she and Iida visit Inko and learn from the ghosts that the place they were about to go to is a decoy and that they should go to Kamino Ward.]]
** Thanks to his One for All amplifying his ISeeDeadPeople Quirk and having an early-warning system for danger, [[spoiler: Izuku is able to successfully rescue Eri after she escapes from Overhaul by having Rei act as a decoy for him to follow.]] He even mentions how obvious his cover story was due to having met [[spoiler: children that have died from similar circumstances, averting the CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot in canon.]]
---> '''Mirio:''' He wouldn't kill her. He said it himself--if she's his daughter, then--\\
'''Izuku:''' Of course she isn't his daughter! He's a villain. You think that's not what every kidnapper and trafficker says when they're walking off with someone else's kid? "Oh, don't worry, she's just my daughter or my niece or my cousin, I'm just babysitting for the day, don't mind her, she has such a wild imagination, doesn't she?" I mean come on, she doesn't even look like him!\\
'''Nighteye:''' That's enough, Midoriya. Mirio, Bubble Girl should be arriving soon. Tell her to report to me when she arrives, then get started on your report.\\
'''Izuku:''' I'm sorry, [b]ut it's true. I've met kids like that before, and it's always the same story. It's the easiest lie in the world, it always works, and for once, I'd rather not have to listen to [[spoiler: another dead kid tell me where she's buried.]]

* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: A portion of 1-A believe Midoriya and Todoroki are an item, due to their habit of sharing a bed after moving into the dorms. Both deny it as it's more of a developing queer-platonic relationship than a romantic one.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Midoriya briefly thinks this about himself when he berates Todoroki for not using his full Quirk, while secretly being guilty of the same thing. He realizes this after [[spoiler: the battle with Stain]] and starts to find ways to incorporate his [[ISeeDeadPeople original Quirk]] into his tactics as well.

--> '''Ragdoll:''' [[ThirdPersonPerson Ragdoll ]]''[[ThirdPersonPerson likes ]]''[[ThirdPersonPerson this one.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After the practical exams, Toshinori and Aizawa realize they not only failed to recognize Bakugou and Midoriya's relationship as abusive but that they had dismissed concerned warnings from students who ''had'' realized. Further, as they were working under the assumption that Izuku's and Bakugou's relationship was a mutual animosity rather than the victim-bully dynamic it really was, Aizawa admits this means they paired up a bully with his victim solely for the sake of giving the bully a chance to grow, putting the onus on Izuku to endure until Bakugou possibly changed.

* RelationshipLabelingProblems: Shouto and Izuku have a very close relationship, being affectionate with each other and sleeping together, but without any sexual intimacy. Their classmates think they're in a homosexual romantic relationship, but after a discussion, they don't think that fits either, and neither of them can figure out what to call their relationship other than "closer than friends". Eventually with some outside help, Izuku figures out that it's a queerplatonic relationship.

* SeenItAll: Midoriya's seen so much BodyHorror thanks to JacobMarleyApparel that he's outright forgotten how to be bothered by it. [[spoiler: This is actually played with in Chapter 55 - while Izuku is used to seeing ghosts in horrifying states, it does not make him any less sympathetic to their plights, something he vehemently points out to Sir Nighteye, who had been acting like a jerk towards him due to the belief that Izuku's Quirk made him indifferent to death.]]

* TheStationsOfTheCanon: The fic takes great efforts to abide by each canon arc, but with its own twists on it thanks to alternate canon motivations.
** [[spoiler: Poor Tensei]]'s DeathByAdaptation naturally makes the situation even worse, with [[spoiler: his grief-stricken brother being even more driven to go after Stain]].

** During the License Exam, [[spoiler: Camie is eliminated during the first round, and Toga disguises herself as ''Inasa'', harassing Shouto throughout the following test and stealing his blood]].

* AdaptationalBadass: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. While Izuku's Quirk isn't much use in a fight, living with ghosts his whole life and having opportunities to help people that nobody else can have helped to put some extra steel in his spine even before Izuku inherits One For All. The difference is demonstrated by his handling of Shigaraki during the USJ arc; while canon Izuku was almost too petrified to even try to fight him, this version is able to keep his wits together enough to pull off a ScheherezadeGambit, keeping Shigaraki distracted until All Might shows up.

* AdaptationalHeroism: [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]]. [[spoiler: All for One is still the shadow leader of the League and responsible for the same actions in Canon. Whereas in Canon Horikoshi implied he is responsible for turning Tsubasa into a Noumu, in this story, he expressly states he would not harm a child. Whether this is true or not is up to interpretation as Tsubasa is still made into the Noumu, so whether its a lie or Tsubasa had an Origin Change is unknown. [[SubvertedTrope Revealed to be a lie]] in Chapter 39, when it's revealed he knew about Rei (who was 9) being in the Noumu project, and ordered her euthanized when the experiments rendered her brain dead.]]

** {{Zigzagged|Trope}} with Bakugou. His character hasn't changed drastically, but his overall destructive and abusive behavior towards Izuku is even worse than in canon, with Izuku having much more obvious symptoms of trauma from what Bakugou has done to him due to a particularly scarring incident when they were in second grade. The toxic nature of their relationship is so bad [[spoiler:that during the Final Exams Arc, Aizawa and All Might's plan to make Izuku and Bakugou work together [[GoneHorriblyWrong backfires horribly]], resulting in the two teachers realizing that they not only misinterpreted abuse as mutual animosity, but [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone only made it worse]]. This does eventually lead to a far more thorough reconciliation attempt later on, and Aizawa and All Might do end up taking a far bigger role in keeping Bakugou's negative traits in check, as well as helping Izuku overcome the issues he had bottled up over the years.]]

* AmplifierArtifact: One For All is the Quirk version of this, making Izuku's ISeeDeadPeople strong enough that it not only passively makes ghosts around him stronger, he can actively use it to empower ghosts and allow them to interact with much larger physical objects [[spoiler: such as making Rei able to push a large chunk of concrete off its original trajectory so it didn't crush All Might]]. He's eventually able to use a technique similar to Full Cowl to [[spoiler: make ghosts visible and tangible to the living for a short period of time. He's able to do this for the deceased Tensei, so that he can have a heart-to-heart with Tenya, and to Nana Shimura, so that she can reunite with All Might. He weaponizes this against Chisaki by creating a vertable ghost army to take him down]].

* ApatheticTeacher: Aizawa begins to avert this trope after [[spoiler: the events of the Finals Exams arc, as he recognizes that he failed to realize exactly how toxic the relationship between Bakugo and Izuku is beforehand]] and makes a point to pay close attention to not just them, but also to the rest of 1-A. In addition, he made an apology to Izuku and states that pairing the two was unprofessional from Aizawa’s part.

** Nana and Tensei hold bigger roles narrative wise thanks to Izuku's [[ISeeDeadPeople Quirk]], acting as allies to him and guardians to All Might and Tenya.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Most of the ghosts Izuku meets do what they can to help him because of his attemps to help them. [[spoiler:Several poltergeists stop Magne from "snitching on Deku" to Shiragaki because of his efforts]].

* BestServedCold: Ghosts of various villains' victims tend to hang around them waiting for them to die to extract their revenge.

* BilingualDialogue: Izuku sometimes slips into speaking sign language, often either due to stress or surreptiously speaking to a ghost with the person he's "talking" to understanding and speaking Japanese back.

* BrokenMasquerade: In chapter 38, [[spoiler:the Midoriya household ghosts talk to Inko about him while Iida and Ochako are around, prompting then to start suspecting the truth about his Quirk]].

** Izuku's father died when he was a baby. His mother's first clue as to the nature of his Quirk is when he mentions his father tucking him in when he's three.

* DidntSeeThatComing: Because every ghost he's met has been at-minimum opposed to and very often outright hostile towards their killer, Izuku doesn't consider that [[spoiler: one of Overhaul's victims, a former subordinate, might remain loyal to him and feed Izuku false information.]]
* DidYouThinkICantFeel: Or rather, [[spoiler:"Did you think that because I can see dead people that I don't care that they died, or ''how'' they died in the first place?"]] Sir Nighteye learn the hard way that, yes, Izuku cares very, ''very'' much.

** Midoriya ''weaponizes'' this during [[spoiler: the End of Term Exam]], banking on the fact that [[spoiler: All Might would never expect him to do something that would risk letting down his idol]].

* EvilUncle: {{Inverted|Trope}} for [[spoiler: Hino. He's Todoroki's maternal uncle and stuck around to protect his sister.]]

* ForWantOfANail: A lot of events in canon are altered due to either Izuku's Quirk, or his different personality.
** YUTS!Izuku fights a lot more pragmatically, so his fight with Todoroki during the Sports Festival goes a lot farther and gets Izuku labelled a [[AxCrazy mad man]].

** In canon Izuku and Bakugou ultimately had to pull an EnemyMine to get past All Might during the Final Exams, which also slightly mended their relationship. [[spoiler: The exact opposite happens here. Izuku's unwillingness to put up with Bakugou gets him a beating from Bakugou. Izuku drags himself to the exit while Bakugou preoccupies All Might, pissing off Bakugou further, and forcing All Might and Aizawa to realize just how messed up Izuku and Bakugou's relationship really is. It also forces Aizawa to start keeping a closer eye on Bakugou, outright telling him that such behavior will no longer be tolerated.]]

** The canon fight with Muscular causes Izuku to utterly wreck his body, pissing Recovery Girl off enough for her to refuse to heal him anymore. This time around, [[spoiler: Izuku is aided by Rei, Tensei, the Water Horse Duo, and all the ghosts following Muscular in distracting him, while Izuku proceeds to break Muscular's false eye, [[EyeScream gouge out his real one]], and then lure him into [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Mustard's gas]]. In the end he only gets a dislocated shoulder and a few crushed ribs for his troubles, and the shoulder is easily reset by Aizawa. And as he didn't wreck his body this time around, Recovery Girl will still be willing to heal him in the future.]]

** [[spoiler: Since Izuku was captured, this gives Uraraka enough motivation to join the rescue team that plans to go to save the two boys themselves. And because of her guilt of not able to do anything, she and Iida visit Inko and learn from the ghosts that the place they were about to go to is a decoy and that they should go to Kamino Ward.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: Midoriya briefly thinks this about himself when he berates Todoroki for not using his full Quirk, while secretly being guilty of the same thing. He realizes this after [[spoiler: the battle with Stain]], and starts to find ways to incorporate his [[ISeeDeadPeople original Quirk]] into his tactics as well.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After the practical exams, Toshinori and Aizawa realize they not only failed to recognize Bakugou and Midoriya's relationship as abusive, but that they had dismissed concerned warnings from students who ''had'' realized. Further, as they were working under the assumption that Izuku's and Bakugou's relationship was a mutual animosity rather than the victim-bully dynamic it really was, Aizawa admits this means they paired up a bully with his victim solely for the sake of giving the bully a chance to grow, putting the onus on Izuku to endure until Bakugou possibly changed.

* NervesOfSteel: Deconstructed. Midoriya's determination not to emote and calmness born from dealing with nastier ghosts all his life comes off as really creepy.

* PapaWolf: Both Aizawa and All Might have this toward the students of 1-A, Midoriya in particular to All Might. [[spoiler: Learning that Midoriya was kidnapped by the League of Villains (who are lead by [[TheDreaded All For One]]), All Might has to keep himself from hunting them down and making them regret they ever heard his students' names.]]

* RelationshipLabelingProblems: Shouto and Izuku have a very close relationship, being affectionate with each other and sleeping together, but without any sexual intimacy. Their classmates think they're in a homosexual romantic relationship, but after a discussion they don't think that fits either, and neither of them can figure out what to call their relationship other than "closer than friends". Eventually with some outside help, Izuku figures out that it's a queerplatonic relationship.

* ScrewDestiny: Variant. Nighteye's Quirk is famous for creating a perfect, unchangeable vision of the future. When a vision ''does'' get changed (due to Eri's Quirk), Izuku theorizes that Nighteye is subconsciously selecting a possible future and making it happen. This is better in Izuku's mind, because he has no idea where to even start fighting fate or destiny, but he can handle fighting one person's Quirk.

** At one point Deku mentions meeting a quirk counselor, "[[PunnyName Karasu-sensei]]", who helped him see ghosts as people who need help instead of scary monsters. The twist is that this conselor was dead and didn't know it. [[Film/TheSixthSense Sound familiar?]]

* TheStationsOfTheCanon: The Fic takes great efforts to abide by each canon arc, but with its own twists on it thanks to alternate canon motivations.

* TroubledChild: Aizawa knew that Midoriya would be a problem child the moment they meet, something that is only confirmed more and more as time goes on.

* VengefulGhost: Midoriya often sees the ghosts of those killed by villains following them around, waiting for them to die so they can get their revenge. [[spoiler:All For One in particular had ''hundreds'' of such spirits following him around, waiting for their chance at him. One For All strengthening Midoriya's Quirk allows them to help Midoriya escape from All For One, as well as help All Might win their final clash and finally kill All For One.]] [[spoiler:Overhaul is the same way, and Midoriya uses this not only to get information, but also create himself a veritable ghost army in their fight.]]

-->”[[CannotTellALie Yes.]] I’m scared. I’m so, so scared [[spoiler:[[DontMakeMeDestroyYou of what I’m going to have to do to you.]]]]”

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Midoriya has convinced at least one teacher that he has some secret DarkAndTroubledPast to explain his semi-illegal skills and odd behavior. It's {{deconstructed|Trope}} though - he lies about his Quirk, can pull out {{Breaking Speech}}es at the drop of a hat, is a {{Stoic}} with NervesOfSteel, and has a rather...''unique'' relationship with death. Seeing all of these traits before any of his more altruistic ones ends up convincing [[spoiler: Nighteye]] that Midoriya is completely unfit to be a hero, much less the holder of One For All. Even after proving himself a hero, though, [[spoiler: Nighteye still feels Midoriya's disposition makes it impossible for him to take up All Might's position as the Symbol of Peace. However, he finally changes his mind after the fight with Overhaul.]]

* StockholmSyndrome: [[spoiler: During the kidnapping arc, Midoriya is very aware when he starts to develop symptoms.]]

** {{Zigzagged|Trope}} with Bakugou. His character hasn't changed drastically, but his overall destructive behavior and horrible relationship with Izuku is noticeably worse than in canon, due to Izuku being much more afraid of him, and due to a past incident that left Izuku severely traumatized. The toxic nature of their relationship is so noticeable [[spoiler:that during the Final Exams Arc, Aizawa and All Might end up seeing the plan to make Izuku and Bakugou work together [[GoneHorriblyWrong backfire horribly]], resulting in the two teachers realizing just how bad the situation really was, and how [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone they made only it worse]]. This does eventually lead to a far more thorough reconciliation attempt later on, and Aizawa and All Might do end up taking a far bigger role in keeping Bakugou's negative traits in check, as well as helping Izuku overcome the issues he had bottled up over the years.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After the practical exams, Toshinori and Aizawa are both upset when they realize how they not only failed to realize that Bakugou and Midoriya's relationship is ''just that toxic'', but they had dismissed concerned warnings from students who ''had'' realized.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Quirks have near unlimited ways of manifesting, allowing their users to do otherwise impossible things like fly, reverse death, alter reality, defy gravity, turn back time, and see the future, alongside other equally amazing feats. Some quirks even have sentience on their own. Yet nobody excdpt Inko believed Izuku when he said he could see things others couldn't.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Quirks have near unlimited ways of manifesting, allowing their users to do otherwise impossible things like fly, reverse death, alter reality, defy gravity, turn back time, and see the future, alongside other equally amazing feats. Some quirks even have sentience on their own. Yet nobody believed Izuku when he said he could see things others couldn't.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Quirks have near unlimited potential, allowing their users to do otherwise impossible things like fly, alter reality, defy gravity, turn back time, and see the future, alongside other abilities. Some quirks even have sentience on their own. Yet nobody believed Izuku when he said he could see things others couldn't.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Several details not heavily focused on in the Canon series are treated with heavy realism here.
** Just because Todoroki has reconnected with his mother and made friends, doesn't mean Endeavor is any less physically or verbally abusive.
** Even though Todoroki was sabotaged during the Provisional License Exam, he still technically failed because the proctors don't have accurate test results for him, requiring Todoroki retake the exam in April.
** [[spoiler:Overhaul claiming Eri is his daughter doesn't change Midoriya's attitude towards getting her away from him, and he later points out to Mirio that what Overhaul did is a rather common excuse for villains regarding hostages. Nighteye further points out that even if Eri were indeed his daughter, her battered state would leave Overhaul little wiggle room in getting her back legally.]]
** According to Doctor Tsubasa, the random nature of Quirks means some people go their whole lives without ever discovering what theirs is because it's either too subtle or requires some specific circumstance to activate.

* MagneticHero: Like in Canon, Midoriya easily makes friends and gains the respect of both his peers and heroes. It's taken UpToEleven here though in that he gains the respect of several antagonistic ghosts, and even manages to make ''Shigaraki'' of all people like him! Best showcased when he first talks with Ragdoll. She's barely talked with him for five minutes before deciding:

* FusionFic: ''Yesterday Upon the Stair'' is essentially ''My Hero Academia'' if Izuku Midoriya had [[Film/TheSixthSense Cole Sear's life]] as his backstory. The Sixth Sense is now a Quirk called "Psychopomp" (though Ixuku is still considered Quirkless because few believe it's real), the bullying incident at the birthday party in the film is translocated to Izuku's elementary school (with Bakugou as the perpetrator), and Dr. Malcolm Crowe becomes the [[spoiler: [[ItWasHisSled deceased]]]] Quirk counselor [[PunnyName Karasu]]-sensei.

* FusionFic: ''Yesterday Upon the Stair'' is essentially ''My Hero Academia'' if Izuku Midoriya had [[Film/TheSixthSense Cole Sear's life]] as his backstory. The bullying incident at the birthday party in the film is translocated to Izuku's elementary school, with Bakugou as the perpetrator, and Dr. Malcolm Crowe becomes the Quirk counselor [[PunnyName ''Karasu'']]-sensei.

''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/8337607/chapters/19098982 Yesterday Upon The Stair]]'' by [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/PitViperOfDoom/pseuds/PitViperOfDoom PitViperOfDoom]] is a ''{{Manga/My Hero Academia}}'' AlternateUniverse Fanfic with elements of ''Film/TheSixthSense''.

* AdaptationExpansion: Thanks in part to the fact that the author isn't constrained to the tight schedule and page allowance of a weekly manga, they do a lot to explore elements of the setting and characters the manga glossed over. See RealityEnsues below.

* RealityEnsues: Several details not heavily focused on in the Canon series are treated with heavy realism here.

** Izuku may not object to the way Bakugou treats him, but this does ''not'' make it okay. When some adults figure out how toxic it is, they are horrified. This in turn makes Bakugou look even ''less'' like a hero because treating people who can't/won't fight back the way he treats Izuku is generally a mark of a villain, or at least, someone like [[{{Jerkass}} Endeavor]].
** Expanding on this, Aizawa notes that everyone, even the nicest person in the world, has a limit, and Midoriya will only take so much crap from him before abandoning him completely. Seeing as Midoriya is one of the nicer members of the human race in general, Bakugou continuing to treat everyone as beneath him could very well get him killed, as his "allies" decide they aren't going to help him. Again, Aizawa explicitly points this out.
** Mineta's perverted actions are not heroic traits or PlayedForLaughs; instead they are borderline sexual harassment. And while he may have the grades and skills to be a hero, he doesn't have the mindset. This catches up to him when [[spoiler: he's caught trying to peep at the training camp. Despite Kouta being hurt due to his actions, Mineta shows no remorse – and when Aizawa overhears him muttering darkly, blaming the kid for his getting caught, he decides that he's given him enough leeway and expels him]]. In addition, the rest of 1-A isn't particularly broken up about this, [[spoiler: with the discomfort he caused still lingering after his expulsion]].

** [[spoiler: Overhaul claiming Eri is his daughter doesn't change Midoriya's attitude towards getting her away from him, and he later points out to Mirio that what Overhaul did is a rather common excuse for villains regarding hostages. Nighteye further points out that even if Eri were indeed his daughter, her battered state would leave Overhaul little wiggle room in getting her back legally.]]