Nightmare Fuel / Metal Gear: Green

• The first arc has the HPSC brutally kill off Izuku's entire family and for five months, horrifically experiment on him to open portals to other dimensions to find new worlds to both explore and conquer. The fact the portal is Powered by a Forsaken Child makes it worse. When Izuku is rescued by the MSF, Madam President is not only enraged at their 'potential cash cow' getting away, but makes it clear she never cared for civilian life.
• When investigating the mysterious death of Inko, not only were Miller, Osprey and Death Whale able to deduce that Inko was murdered, but after using the Elemental's phones (due to their equipment being 1970s based), they found out the HPSC killed off every member of Izuku's family, meaning that Izuku was effectively stuck at Mother Base for his own safety.
• Night Owl is this.
  • He has a mysterious past, knows about Snake, and views Snake as a Worthy Opponent.
  • When in need of Trigger due to Izuku disappearing, he goes to the Brothers and offers them money for not only the large quantity of Trigger, but because of his project.
  • He arms the Tyrant with nuclear weapons and after the Tyrant's death, frames the HPSC VP at the time for doing that.
  • When Nezu and Ocelot look through the pieces to figure out why all the people running against Night Owl died, it leads to two disturbing discoveries: 1. They were running for the HPSC VP. And two, Night Owl now has the VP position.
• The Brothers: The heads of a South American drug cartel given loads of territory and manpower thanks to the HPSC. When Snake goes down there tracking Night Owl's movements, he finds himself and the MSF working with the Colombian government in ending the Brothers on an off-the-books operation.
  • When asking how this came to be, Colombian President Cristian Sainz and current head of the police Maria Perez said that the HPSC forced them to call it back and have the heroes do the job. Maria practically said that they forced police to the sidelines and had "glorified brand deals" fight a drug cartel. Most were either incompetent or working for the Brothers, so by the end, the drug war became endless. Goes to show that in organizations, profit comes before safety.
    • According to Maria, the last police chief who went against the HPSC died for it.
  • When the Colombia government got new SAMs, the HPSC tried to order them to give it to them so they could 'put it in storage' (read: Give to the Brothers), showing that they didn't care about civilian safety unless it threatens their bottom line.
  • Upon dismantling the Brothers Cartel, Madam President springs out Magnetic to kill President Sainz, then be 'conveniently' taken down by Infini Leap, a Pro Hero visiting here with a few interns he brought along. It goes to show that if someone goes after something keeping the balance, Madam President will resort to assassination to force others to toe the line. When it fails, Madam President ups the bounty on Snake.
• When Ocelot explains how he came to this world, he also explains how Tartarus is a cesspool of human rights violations, where they throw in all their political prisoners while releasing actual villains every now and then to keep crime statistics the same. Lady Nagant, the former sniper and wetworks agent of the HPSC, is left with the growing realization that all the 'villains' she killed may've been political dissidents, while many of the political prisoners inside were killed off by Night Owl's experiments. Not helping matters was how Tartarus is nothing more than a Cardboard Prison that is essentially a gulag-concentration camp combo.
  Miller: Why? Their entire organization is surrounded by heroics, what does letting criminals get away with crime bring to them?
  Snake: Basic corruption maybe. They are money-hungry, so maybe they’ve been bribed.
  Ocelot: No, see it's not the HPSC helping the criminals, Boss. It's the other way around.
• The Tyrant. A vicious African Warlord who controlled the vast majority of Central Africa. He cruelly killed a father after shooting him in the limbs for shits and giggles before sending his son to fight.
  • As time goes on, it becomes clear that the Tyrant didn't really show any fear to the HPSC. Even before he got nuclear bombs, he knew that the HPSC couldn't really do shit against him unless they wanted to explain why several thousand heroes were killed in Africa.
  • While all that was happening, Night Owl was giving the Tyrant resources needed to manufacture and use nuclear weapons. Once he got the nuclear bombs made, he gave one to Night Owl after his test nuke, meaning that Night Owl has a nuclear bomb that is untracked currently.
  • When the test nuke went off and he reveals to have more, the Tyrant gave the HPSC 48 hours to abandon Africa, a feat that is impossible due to the fact that there's a lot of HPSC personnel on the ground in Africa and not one of them has a teleportation Quirk. Even if they were able to do what he said by the end of the 48 hour period, only 1,000 HPSC personnel would remain. Had Snake not axed the Tyrant and screwed up the next missile launch, the HPSC would be forced to see another city get nuked.
• Shortly after the Tyrant's death, the HPSC decides to do a PR plan while getting rid of the MSF. Have several heroes capture a villain with a radiation Quirk while 60,000 heroes go after the MSF and destroy it. Gone Horribly Wrong doesn't even begin to describe how badly things went.
  • For starters, the HPSC was expecting this to be a one-day battle and expected the MSF to fold. Instead, it turned into a three-day slog that soon became a Hero-MSF-Militant fight, with the heroes underprepared, ill-equipped and with a major disadvantage against militants and MSF (as with the exception of the Polish Heroes, all the other heroes were outgunned and their costumes lacked armor).
  • Many of the refugees had spent literal years under tyrannical rule by the many warlords that run the continent, most of them having lost their homes or loved ones. When the medical supplies (AKA, the supplies the refugees needed) brought in by the MSF were destroyed by the heroes, with said heroes eagerly expecting the refugees to thank them or go back home. The refugees, having lost everything, saw this as the heroes telling them to go fuck off and die like the worthless ants they were, causing the refugees to attack the heroes in a blind rage.
  • Then it gets worse when Eagle's group notices several hero students on the field. When asking what the hell they're doing here, Grizzly, a former hero turned MSF member, explains they may have been brought here on an internship. He did one a few years ago back when he met Snake. Grizzly goes down there to negotiate their surrender as one is impaled with a wooden block and another is facing potential amputation on their leg.
  • Even worse, many of these heroes were low-level Cannon Fodder, completely expendable in the eyes of the HPSC. Madam President was willing to sacrifice thousands of heroes to get rid of the MSF, and only stopped when their stunt went horribly wrong to the point even All Might was wondering what the hell was going on. It took a few lies to get him to accept her reasoning, as saying that she didn't want All Might there to begin with would've been a big red flag.
• The MSF, once entering Mgbaba, discovers the majority of the population has been killed off by chemical weapons used by the warlords. Chemical weapons are also used commonly across the rest of the continent, indiscriminately. It's also highly likely the HPSC has been providing the warlords chemical weapons as a cheaper means to dispose of them. After all, no one will care about chemical warfare if it's in a third-world nation or continent.
  • Earlier before, the Tyrant was using White Phosphorus bombs and munitions, which is considered a deadly weapon. When Night Owl and the Tyrant were seeing these weapons in action, they were wondering if they could cook a steak with it while watching people die from it.
• The Showstoppers. A group of human traffickers that plague Europe by having children kidnapped from across Europe, brought to the Showstopper's lair to engage in horrible games before being sold off to whoever bidded the highest amount, with a five million add-on for same day delivery.
  • Worse, some of the guards and the Showmaster are not human. When Lady Nagant investigates some of the computers, she comes across audio logs that detail experiments on Quirk merging.
    Log 77-202: Log 77-202. After last week's debacle, I had hoped I had gotten somewhere in my experiments. This does not seem to be the case, as even after the revitalization of subject number one, a second quirk still is not present. The gene modifier Dr. Matvei provided seems to be inadequate in its purpose. I am unsure if that is the case, or if something else is needed to give the test subjects a second quirk. To make sure, tomorrow I will personally go over subject number one’s genetic code to see if the quirk factor has been manipulated in any way. If yes, then we are missing some key components. If not, then we will need to redo Dr. Matvei’s formula. Now there is one thing that still perplexes me, the reanimation of the corpse itself. Well, I say reanimation, but subject number one is still in fact deceased. He bears no pulse, no blood in his veins, not even a thought going through his mind. By all definitions he is dead. Yet he can listen and follow basic commands as if he were still alive. It was Dr. Rodion’s idea to inject the corpse, and none of us considered it a plausible idea. But he was the son of the base’s commander, so we went through with it anyway. Boy was this a surprise. However, my colleagues view this as a lost cause, a side effect of the solution’s administration. I beg to differ. We’ll only know for sure tomorrow.
  • What's worse is that as she read through them, it was clear that the Showstoppers were engaging in human experimentation, and the Russian government was aware about this. Once all the kids were rescued and they were at a safe enough distance, Snake ordered the base bombed to oblivion.
  • Despite being a Russian base, the logs are in Japanese and one of them indicates that he has heard of rumors about a man who can give and take Quirks. It becomes clear that many elements of the underground are aware of All for One, even though the reports are over a century old.
  • When Madam President finds out that Snake was in Siberia, she orders the Moscow Wolves to go to where Snake and Nagant are and kill them alongside the other MSF members Miller sent for backup, as well as the children rescued by the MSF, viewing them as completely expendable. This fails when Nowak and the Polish Hussars arrive and help the MSF force the Moscow Wolves back.
  • After the Showstoppers, the Polish government is rendered extremely pissed with the Russian and Belarusian governments because of their refusal to do anything about the Showstoppers while claiming they don't exist, despite Snake bombing their main base to oblivion. As the Russians threaten invasion, Madam President orders Nowak to hand over the MSF personnel who did this raid. Nowak tells both Russia and Madam President to fuck off, reveals the trade agreement he alongside other nations signed with Outer Heaven (called Nigeria in the public eye), and told them to Bring It when threatened with death.
• Throughout this situation, one question was always on the MSF's mind: How the hell did no one notice this endless war in Africa? Well, meet the Fake Town idea. Cities that have no battle zones within 50 miles of the city, transportation specifically designed to be utterly pointless, late and in many cases, unreliable. Roads abruptly ending in construction or closed off, and the best defense for said cities being a few measly police stations. This becomes darker when it's clear that there are dozens of them, and had the Tyrant not been hyper-focused on Snake and the MSF, these towns would be razed to the ground and there was nothing the HPSC could do about it. Millions of people would be either dead or enslaved by the Tyrant or any warlord who wanted total control of Africa, all to prop up a lie.
• Enraged with the MSF's refusal to die and the creation of Outer Heaven, Madam President calls up all the African Warlords and offers them all the weapons, ships and equipment she can give them in exchange for destroying Outer Heaven and killing all who stand with Outer Heaven. She was effectively ordering a genocide campaign against the MSF in a bid to get rid of them once and for all.
  • As time goes on, Madam President begins to suffer from a Sanity Slippage whenever the MSF becomes more and more powerful or when things aren't going her way. Upon finding out Luan and Razak had pulled out of the war for the time being, she orders Techno to send assassins after them.
• The HPSC has been in a 10-year proxy war with the MSF. At first, it seemed to be unnoticeable, due to how small they were. Now, a three million-strong force with all the advanced equipment, versus a bunch of Warlords who are armed and equipped with weapons from various national armories by the HPSC. By the time the USJ arc has arrived, many nations like Japan have a critical weapon shortage, their soldiers selling off guns like they're toys to whoever offers a big wad of cash and leaving the nation vulnerable if an invasion or rebellion occurs that needs to be squashed.
  • When All Might says to Ocelot that they are going to talk about how Ocelot got a bunch of guns and AT weapons, Ocelot agrees by pointing out it was ridiculously easy for him to get these weapons, causing All Might to rightly worry. If the JSDF was selling their guns to whoever had a big wad of cash or the HPSC badge, how many guns were truly missing from the JSDF arsenals, and how many of them were in the hands of villain groups?
  • When the UA staff state that they can handle it, with Vlad King giving assurance to Ocelot that a Quirk is more dangerous than a gun, it's little assurance as A: The Heroes wear no armor, and what armor they wear is utterly useless in a warzone. B: The weapons that are missing range from AT weapons to anti-ship missiles, which can easily destroy a city block if a villain is creative enough. And C: They are utterly unaware of how out of depth they are. Only Ocelot, Nezu and to an extent, Snipe, know this is extremely bad.
    • All Might starts to become aware how out of depth heroes are when it comes to firearms due to the class exercise. He may've been new to teaching, but to see an entire class get sniped from a distance without so much as a fight means that the stolen JSDF weapons are now an even bigger problem than before.
• Upon finding out the USJ Nomu was a bioweapon, Ocelot is heavily alarmed. Now there's another group engaging in human experimentation, and as far as he's aware, they're not under HPSC control.
• While All Might revealing his skinny form to Ocelot was a necessity, Ocelot knows that inevitably, All Might will be forced to retire. And when that happens, society is going to go to hell in a handbasket in the first world alone. While many would view this as a benefit to the MSF, in reality, Ocelot knows that this wouldn't benefit the MSF at all.
• When revealing that Fudaki was killed at the USJ, Aizawa refuses to accept it, despite seeing the USJ Nomu smash Fudaki's head into paste right in front of him. This causes Ocelot no amounts of frustration, and also a decent amount of worry. If Aizawa is acting like this because a student under his care died due to his incompetence, how many heroes refuse to accept the reality and severity of the situation?
• Ocelot's calling out of Bakugou, Kirishima and Todoroki for ruining a well-thought out plan the Ocelot Unit and All Might had was warranted, but it also underlies the fact that a student had died for their own arrogance, and their interference had caused more headaches. While they were lucky their interference didn't get any more people killed, Ocelot made it clear that if they do that again, they ain't getting a hero license.
• Class 1A's trial against Akatani, while it shows Akatani's skills, also reveals how out of depth they are.
  • When they start the mission, protecting the VIP, the seventeen members of 1A (Bakugou and Todoroki having walked off) tried to create a line that would allow them to better protect the VIP. However, it was All for Nothing when Akatani snipes the VIP, then begins picking them off one by one.
  • When looking for Akatani, Jiro mentions something sounding like bees, shortly before she's knocked out. As Momo looks about, she notices a drone in the air, monitoring her every move. Before she could do anything, another drone forces her out of cover enough for Akatani to knock her out.
  • By the end of the battle trial, Momo is left with the dark realization that her plan, as effective as it was, was All for Nothing as it focused on a villain rushing towards them in a bid to take down their target. Not someone from a long enough distance, picking them off like fish in a barrel. Meaning, if this was real life, not only would the VIP be dead, but all of Class 1A would be as well.
• When Snake investigates the area Night Owl is using, he finds it full of unusable JSDF equipment, with Night Owl doing a celebration for his arrival. When Snake asks why he shouldn't just shoot him and be done with it, Night Owl reveals he has a nuke, gifted to him from the Congo Tyrant, meaning that if he dies, gets kidnapped or whatnot, nuke goes boom, forcing Snake to play his game.
• When Aizawa calls out the 1A students, he makes it very clear that he views Bakugou and Todoroki as the powerhouses and constantly neglects the other students, while also chastising them for hiding behind cover. In short, as Aizawa inadvertently told them, they are to do a Leeroy Jenkins approach on the enemy and die. Much like Fudaki did.
  • When Nezu explains why he hasn't fired Aizawa for his subpar teaching methods, despite the fact he was demanding the students ignore all forms of common sense, Ocelot agrees to the conclusion that Erasure is too powerful of a Quirk to fall into HPSC hands, which partly explains why Aizawa got away with this shit for so many years.
• Gizzly telling Momo and her two classmates how Immoral Journalists were everywhere during his time as a hero, which not only made it very difficult for him to even try to uphold the law, but in many cases, had resulted in victims needing help being condemned to death or worse due to the press swarming him. It gives the dark realization that if this was common for him, then how many people were condemned by the Paparazzi seeking a good story.
  • Likewise, Grizzly knew Heart Star was running a money laundering scheme with her international charity, and even has video proof of it. However, Heart Star decided to use it to make it a lover's quarrel, despite the fact he fucking hated her guts, and every time he reported it, she would spin it and get away with her crimes. Mina and Toru are left horrified and heartbroken by the realization that they were used as pawns to hide a money laundering scheme.
• As both Momo and Naomasa search for answers on the MSF, both become aware that someone is blocking any and all attempts to search for answers, with Naomasa only getting two photos while the former has no idea what the hell is going on. The Propaganda Machine the HPSC has built prevents them from searching for answers that could lead them to the HPSC's door with a slew of unpleasant questions.
• Class 1A's second exercise, which is a strategy wargaming scenario, where a student was pitted against a member of the MSF, showcasing how, for most, utterly out of depth the hero students were in strategy.
  • Bakugou's strategy was to use brute force to force his way to victory and have all the heavy hitters attack the cannon fodder. However, the cannon fodder was the decoy attack, allowing Akatani to attack the huminitarian aid trucks (protected by weaker heroes like Aizawa and Ectoplasm). When Bakugou realizes this and tries to send All Might back to the aid trucks, the villains have defeated all the weaker heroes, successfully stole the trucks and ultimately give Bakugou the L.
  • Likewise, Momo and Iida suffer from a lack of adaptability, as while their plans were great, they overlooked one or two key details. For Momo, it's the villains escaping via sewers. For Iida, it's not known.
    • Todoroki also believes in brute force like Bakugou, but unlike Bakugou, he knows not to send them all out at once. However, he overlooked one detail and lost.
  • As Ocelot explains, many over-relied on All Might to win the battles, costing them when they failed to use their current roster to the best of their abilities, which becomes a problem to them. If All Might isn't available or dead, then these people would be in for a nasty time.
• Bakugou's short temper by calling Snake and the MSF villains causes the entirety of 1A to be nervous. After all, they are 19 teens with varying Quirks and the MSF are soldiers armed with guns. While Ocelot threatens another week of cleaning duty to Bakugou, it doesn't hide the fact that if the MSF were villains, Bakugou would've condemned himself and his class to their deaths.
• When Ape and Eagle explain why they were in Colombia in the first place, they reveal how in one battle, they found a mass grave of 30-40 corpses while fighting the Los Hermanos cartel, where some of them were no older than seven, and that some of them were raped and murdered for kicks. When Momo asks why there's no heroes there, Grizzly mentally remarks that those two nations never had heroes to begin with, with Venezuela at that time effectively being in a three-way war between the cartel, government and fascist factions.