One For All and New Order: the worst case scenario for the bad guys.
Tropes:
- Bittersweet Ending: Shigaraki successfully kills Star & Stripe but she prevents him from harnessing her New Order quirk, which self-destructs and destroys numerous quirks within him. While her death forces the call for all international heroes to be put on hold, his reported crippling from her squadron reaches U.A's hero courses. They, and other heroes, are given time for preparation before they have to strike back.
- Brought Down to Normal: While Star's final command of New Order doesn't do this to Shigaraki entirety, he loses a few quirks in AFO that made him truly unstoppable if he woken up completely.
- Godzilla Threshold:
- While Star is the threshold, considering how powerful she and her quirk are, it's her authority of launching a set of hypersonic "Tiamat" missles that also count here. She decides this is a necessary tactic and doesn't care how much trouble she gets into if she survives and Shigaraki doesn't.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Star's sacrifice deals a heavy blow on Shigaraki but, being the number one hero in the USA and strongest hero in the world next to All Might, her death causes a ripple effect in her and other countries, forcing their delegates to postpone in sending their top heroes to aid Japan.
- No-Sell: Shigaraki's Regeneration quirk is in full effect during his battle against Star, so he can come back even after being reduced to bones and muscle by condensed laser fire and multiple nukes.
- No MacGuffin, No Winner: While Shigaraki obtains New Order in the end, Star gives a command that causes it to attack him and AFO from within, destroying as many stolen quirks as it can. Because All For One can only give and take quirks but not throw them away, he escapes and attempts to pass New Order to a random villain for storage after taking his original quirk away. Unfortunately for him, New Order is already destroyed in its "rampage", leaving him with nothing.
- Pyrrhic Victory: Star is killed, but Shigaraki loses most of the quirks stockpiled by AFO, thanks to Hero l's rampaging quirk, and is left in agonizing pain. The Heroes in Japan now have a bit more time to prepare for the final battle.
- Story-Breaker Power: New Order is possibly one of the most powerful quirks to date, being a Reality Warper that can literally change the rules on anything or anyone when touched. As such, the plot demands it gets taken out by the end of the arc.
- Villainous Breakdown: The All For One in Shigaraki displays a rare case of rage after being denied an opportunity to use New Order, losing some of his best quirks and, to top it off, seeing a "spectre of All Might" in Star and Stripe.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: We only knew Star was influenced by All Might to become a great hero. Unfortunately, her arc ends with this and the previous episode and she is permanently taken out of the picture.
