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My Hero Abridged is an Abridged Series by JoyRide Entertainment based on the manga My Hero Academia. It follows Izuku Midoriya, an aspiring hero with cancer. He meets the hero All Might, but his idol is not all he's cracked up to be. Overall, My Hero Abridged is an average series with the dark humor, hilariously sadistic cast, and well-treaded anime plotlines always found in an abridged series—

Except not. After season one, the story becomes much darker and more serious (though the comedy is still there). The world becomes morally grey and scenarios that are often Played for Laughs in other abridged series are played dead seriously here. Do not expect a funny retread of MHA in this tale...

My Hero Abridged is complete. Its sequel series My Hero Alternative is in the works. The prologue is available on JoyRide's Patreon. A preview was released in February 2020 and the first episode was released on Youtube on April 10, 2020.

The series' playlist can be found here.

Not to be confused with My Hero Academia: Abridged by Something Witty Entertainment.

For the stealth prequel, watch Spy x Family Abridged.

Beware of unmarked spoilers.

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My Hero Abridged

My Hero Abridged provides examples of:

• Abhorrent Admirer: Yomama considers Chili to be this after he revealed that he has a fantasy about raising a family with her. He doesn't really do anything beyond that admission, but it weirded her out enough to make her act passive aggressive anytime he's near by, and was openly happy to learn that he was leaving UA. in My Hero Alternative
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade:
  • Midoriya is diagnosed with cancer at age four. He grows up knowing he'll be lucky to get the chance to follow his dreams and is quite bitter about it.
  • Bakugo as well to a lesser extent. His Quirk was only seen as good for destruction and inviting conflict. As a result he felt like an outcast when Midoriya never got his Quirk and yet was still treated like a decent human being. Then he ended up being manipulated by Uraraka which led to him giving his best friend cancer and as such he not only became much more of an outcast than before but he had to live with the guilt of giving his best friend cancer.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • All For One has a Quirk that allows him to possess anyone anywhere at any time, racking up his threat level by quite a bit. Fortunately he doesn't use it much except for adding to his fear factor.
  • Considering Zapper was on Jiro and Koda's team and it's explicitly stated that the only people who failed the exam was Bakugo and Scott, this means Larose (Mina Ashido) managed to beat Nezu all by herself, which is quite a lot considering she failed even with Kaminari helping her in canon.
• Adaptational Heroism: In a weird kind of way... All For One. He's still a villain, make no mistake, but whereas his canon-counterpart was in it For the Evulz, and gleefully admitted it, this All For One is a grief-driven Anti-Villain, and a Well-Intentioned Extremist: he's the one who originally gave the first-generation of quirk users their powers, only to see those powers horribly abused. Even after he failed to take those powers back, he mostly resigned himself to his failure; it wasn't until his daughter, Nana Shimura, was emotionally broken by the hero society she founded, and died defending it, that he apparently decided to go full on villain, and destroy quirks and hero society himself. And even then, he was apparently giving the heroes one last chance at redemption in the form of Stain; once they failed that by killing him, all bets were finally off, and he was ready to fix his mistake, and avenge his daughter.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Pretty much everyone except Bakugo, Aizawa, and Rusty (Kirishima).
  • All Might is willing to let the slime villain kill a few Quirkless people to teach them about "real hardship" and is much more insulting towards Midoriya. He also blackmails Midoriya into being his friend. Not to mention he is the real reason why Dagobah Beach is covered in garbage
  • Downplayed with Midoriya. He has become quite cynical since being diagnosed with cancer but it's because of this cancer, that he's just as eager to throw his life away in acts of heroism. He also lets go of his grudge with Bakugo later on in the season. Of course that doesn't stop him from taking a level in jerkass later on in the series when he comes back from the dead.
  • Uraraka insults and pepper sprays Midoriya during their first meeting while ranting about the patriarchy. Then she tries to sue him for saving her life during the entrance exam. She also is the one who goaded Bakugo into attacking Midoriya in the flashback by claiming Midoriya bullied her. That incident caused Midoriya's cancer.
  • John Cena refuses to come to poor dying Midoriya's school.
  • Shiozaki is a devout Christian in canon, who is disgusted at the thought of killing someone and doesn't like lying. Here, she's a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who manipulates Zapper's desperation for kindness just to beat him. Considering Zapper is much weaker here than in canon, she could've just overpowered him in a fair fight but chose the option which would emotionally hurt him the most. She also threatens Present Mic for similar reasons.
  • Downplayed with Kota/Mikey. He still despises Heroes like in canon but this time around, he has no Freudian Excuse to justify his behavior and fully agrees with Stain's ideals. He's also harsher towards Midoriya, even when the latter is in the middle of saving his life.
• Adaptational Job Change: In canon, Tsukauchi is a police officer. In the abridged series he is a lawyer named Mr. Lawyer.
• Adaptational Name Change: Several characters go by different names.
  • Kirishima goes by Rusty. Which is actually his hero name. His real name is still Kirishima.
  • Todoroki goes by Chili.
  • Kaminari goes by Zapper.
  • Sero goes by Scott Tape, which is possibly a Pun on scotch tape.
  • Overhaul's name is Yuri Yaoyorozu.
  • Yaoyorozu goes by Yomama though given that later on in the series, her last name is still shown to be Yaoyorozu this may just apply to her nickname, Yaomomo.
  • Tokoyami is Levity Chicken.
  • Thirteen is Sandra Bullock.
  • Tomura Shigaraki is Hands All Over, Hands for short.
  • May just apply to her Hero Name but Tsuyu is Froggy instead of Froppy.
  • Aoyama is Pierre. His Quirk is also named Laser Dick instead of Naval Laser.
  • Ashido is Larose.
  • Shiozaki is Vine.
  • Kota goes by Mikey.
  • In canon, All For One's real name is revealed to be Shigaraki; here it's Shimura. Justified, considering All For One's real name was unknown by the time it was revealed in the abridged series.
  • Tsukauchi is Mr. Lawyer.
• Adaptational Nationality:
  • Endeavor is English, Momo is Russian, as is her father Yuri, aka Overhaul, Mina is French, Aoyama is fake-French, and Dabi is Australian. Everyone else is American instead of Japanese except Ojiro.
  • Characters from One-Punch Man get their nationalities changed as well. Child Emperor is American, Flashy Flash is British, Watchdog Man is Canadian, and Metal Bat is Russian and also Vasily Yaoyorozu.
• Adaptational Nice Guy:
  • Bakugo speaks civilly with Midoriya and feels guilt for giving him cancer. He also apologizes when he makes Midoriya uncomfortable and vows to carry his will after he dies.
  • Endeavor is an overbearing and not-abusive parent who becomes friends with All Might again the moment he asks.
  • Surprisingly enough All Might is this along with Adaptational Jerkass though it is often overtaken by the latter. He's somewhat more amicable to Midoriya in this universe and even opens up the possibility for him to be a Hero instead of shutting him down in canon. Ends up as a subversion when it's eventually revealed that the only reason he gave Midoriya a chance was because One For All is essentially a homing beacon for All For One and he wanted to take the target off his back. Things get a bit more complicated when you consider that the reason canon All Might crushed Midoriya's dreams was to protect him from the dangers that Pro Heroes often face.
  • Mineta has none of the perverted traits his canon counterpart is infamous for (he claims he's saving himself for marriage).
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • Iida may have been strict in canon but he genuinely wanted what was best for Class 1-A. Here he's The Mole and indirectly participates in villainous activities that can and have gotten people killed to say nothing of the time he built a nuclear bomb just because he didn't like his teachers.
  • Todoroki may have been fairly aloof but he never directly harmed people unlike Chili who tortures Scott into forfeiting by burning him. He also killed his mother, albeit accidentally. Dabi teases that he led to Chili killing their mom.
  • In a downplayed example, Kirishima/Rusty becomes a Punch-Clock Villain following his internship. Chili even lampshades it, separating him from the League of Villains.
• Adaptational Wimp:
  • Midoriya during season one. Granted he's still got the same amount of power as in canon but he is significantly less impressive during the USJ, with all of his feats either Adapted Out or done by someone else entirely and it all culminates with him dying at the end of it.
  • Played painfully straight with Zapper (Kaminari). In canon, he had one of the most powerful Quirks in the class, to the point where he could easily take out entire groups. His problem was lack of control over said Quirk and the fact that he would short himself out. Here his Quirk is Static, which essentially allows him to deliver a mildly uncomfortable electric shock. Like Midoriya, many of his feats are Adapted Out. He's so weak that when the Final Exam arc came up, he was added on an already complete pairing because the teachers thought he was that much dead weight.
• Adapted Out: Aizawa's Quirk Assessment Test is completely omitted.
• Alternate Universe: Unlike most abridged versions series, this one diverges so much from the anime that it can hardly be compared to canon. This is acknowledged by the fifth season's title: My Hero Alternative.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: Uraraka prepares to reprimand Pierre about one of his/their comments on feminism, saying that Pierre "isn't a woman." But Pierre butts in that he's/they're "neither a woman nor a man." When Uraraka frustratingly asks "What ARE you?", Pierre replies "Bitch, I'm FABULOUS!"
• Ambiguously Related: Tomura and Momo are either half or full siblings.
• The Anti-Nihilist: Midoriya during season one. He's already living on borrowed time so he decides he might as well use every second he has doing heroic behavior.
• Armor-Piercing Question: Bakugo gives a surprisingly effective one towards All Might after calling him out. All Might tries to use his status to defend himself, only for Bakugo to respond with this:
  All Might: You can't talk to me like that! I'm All Might! I'm-
  Bakugo: Who?
  (All Might lets Bakugo go as the latter walks off telling All Might that he'll personally scrub All Might from the history books with the torch Midoriya passed onto him)
• Art Shift: Usually the show will just edit characters in and out of scenes but in certain cases like with Nana Shimura, they will have to completely animate the scene from scratch, which obviously is not on par with professional animation done for a shonen series. To a lesser extent, they also do this for some characters' facial expressions.
• Ass Shove: Midoriya gets his cancer by Bakugo fisting him when they were kids and cauterizing the colon shut from the inside.
• Attention Whore: Present Mic cackles about having the microphone and demands everyone listen to him during orientation (and everywhere else).
• The Atoner: All Might. While he starts out being a huge ass, after Season 1, it's clear he's trying to be a better person.
• Back from the Dead:
  • Midoriya dies in the season 1 finale but Recovery Girl brings him back in season 3. Although, he may have actually died as early as episode 3, with him falling to his death and Uraraka vomiting at the sight of his corpse.
  • Played for Laughs in Mei Hatsume's case, where she dies in the middle of the obstacle course but comes back during the tournament round.
• Bait-and-Switch: It looks like All Might's going to die after his fight with the Noumu. Nope! Instead Midoriya ends up Taken for Granite.
• Berserk Button: Levity Chicken's is mistaking him for a bird of prey to the point where he drowns villains for doing so.
• Bittersweet Ending: The Movie ends with both All Might and All For One coming to an understanding of their past mistakes during their Final Battle. Unlike the manga, All Might dies, and hero society begins shifting to a new future.
• Black Comedy: Episode one opens with the tale of the Glowing Baby... which was promptly thrown out into the street. Also, Midoriya has a Quirk!... It's cancer. That's his Quirk. That should say enough about the series' tone at least at first. The tone becomes much more serious after All For One shows up.
• Blackmail: All Might blackmails Midoriya into being his friend by threatening to tell everyone Midoriya stole his powers and get him expelled.
• Blatant Lies: When Rusty is trying to calm Bakugo down in episode seven, he gives us this gem:
  Bakugo: I'VE NEVER BEEN CALMER. IN FACT I'M THE MOTHERFUCKING KING OF CALM!
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Present Mic directly talks about the voice actors as their names come up during the credits. He tries to cover it up as Leaning on the Fourth Wall but his subtitle a few seconds later literally mentions that his Quirk is loud enough to break the forth wall.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Scott Tape is this. The narrator claims that he would be top of the class if he wasn't so lazy. Season 3 eventually backs up this claim with him becoming the president of the United States.
• Brutal Honesty: Dabi frequently drops major plot twists about himself and his family with an incredibly blasé attitude. He outright introduces himself to the League and to Chili as a Todoroki.
• Call-Forward:
  • All Might's final attack against the Noumu is called the United States of Smash.
  • Hawks is name-dropped at the World Hero Meeting as a possible replacement for All Might.
• Came Back Wrong: No matter how you see it, there's something off about Midoriya after he's been resurrected. He's harsher to Bakugo, the person he'd made amends with and has reverted to something of a Hero-Worshipper, seeing nothing wrong with Hero Society. Contrast this with him at the start of the series where he was cynical but was also someone who acknowledged the flaws in Hero Society and wanted to change it for the better. It's telling that his Character Development in the last two seasons essentially amounts to him ending up right back where he started.
• Cerebus Syndrome: The series begins as the usual Black Comedy Abridged series. Then Midoriya dies, and stays dead for almost two seasons. Much of the comedy is toned down and things that were once funny become a lot less so in hindsight, such as Iida's threat to blow up UA.
• Cliffhanger:
  • Season one ends with Midoriya getting dusted by Shigaraki.
  • The movie ends with Re-Destro introducing himself to All For One and Shigaraki meeting with a family member: Overhaul aka Yuri Yaoyorozu.
• Character Development:
  • Midoriya and it's rather complicated. He starts out well aware of the flaws in society and wants to change it for the better, gets diagnosed with cancer causing him to take a level in cynic but decides that he wants to do as much heroic acts as he can before he dies. In doing so he learns to forgive Bakugo and then dies. He gets better but in doing so he also Came Back Wrong; his personality is both more idealistic in terms of Hero Society and selfish in terms of his personal relationships. The fourth season essentially develops him in a way that he ends up more akin to his personality in season one. Finally The Movie develops him further by teaching him self-preservation and not to give up just because he has cancer, finally shedding the nihilistic nature he's had since the start of the series.
  • Surprisingly, Uraraka. After she reveals her obsession with Bakugo and hatred for Midoriya in the Sports Festival, everyone except Bakugo stops trusting her, and he tells her to her face he doesn't love her. Then Iida tells her the truth behind his traitor status, knowing that nobody will believe her and the stress of this pushes her to start becoming a better person, in the hopes that people will find her more trustworthy. But thanks to her very public reveal of her crimes, everyone she tries to prove herself to keeps pointing out her negative attributes (with the exception of Froggy, who only shows interest in Uraraka's body). This forces her to confront those failings and she slowly begins genuinely improving. Then she starts developing a crush on Midoriya, because without her jealousy there's nothing to fuel her hatred and she can't help but start seeing his positive traits, and ultimately realizes she was only ever in love with the ideas of Bakugo and Midoriya, not who they are as people.
• Chekhov's Gun: The nuclear bomb Iida makes in episode four comes back in the last season.
• Chekhov's Skill: As it turns out Iida really did manage transport the team to another dimension in the Cavalry Battle. This becomes very important in season four, when he needs to do the same thing to move a nuclear bomb to King Kai's planet.
• Children Are Innocent: This series is decidedly nicer with its interpretation of children than canon. Midoriya isn't ostracized for not having a Quirk because the kids are focusing more on his personality than a superficial power. While Bakugo is shown fighting because of his destructive Quirk, he also seems to have genuine friends as opposed to canon, where they were only friends because he had a powerful Quirk.
• Comically Missing the Point: When Midoriya says he only hangs around All Might because he was promised superpowers, All Might thinks the way to get friends is to bribe people.
• Cry Laughing: After his diagnosis, kid Midoriya laughs along with a video of All Might and keeps laughing as he sobs.
• Dark and Troubled Past:
  • Aizawa was promised One For All by Nana Shimura but she ditched him in favor of Toshinori. This caused Aizawa to turn his back on UA and become a villain. During an attack, he erased Nana's Quirk, which caused the deaths of several people. He has worked to atone ever since.
  • Chili's (Todoroki) reluctance to use his fire quirk has a very different source than in canon: due to his own irresponsibility in using his flames, he accidentally killed his mother, tore their family apart, and is implied to be the source of (his brother) Dabi's scars.
  • Yomama (Yaoyorozu) is the daughter of a Russian spy; in Russia, rather than participating in Hero Society, children with quirks are forcibly recruited into the military to become human weapons, so her father Yuri took her and fled the country to keep her safe when her quirk manifested. Or maybe not; she's later revealed to be spying on UA for the Russians. Also said father is Overhaul.
• Dark Horse Victory: Episode 6 spends so much time focusing on the race between Bakugo and Todoroki. Episode 7 reveals that it's not either of them but rather Iida who wins the race.
• Darker and Edgier: All Might is a fraud, Hero society is corrupt with heroes fighting over territory, Midoriya has cancer, multiple characters die that survive in the anime and Iida becomes disillusioned with society and joins All For One.
• Deadpan Snarker: Everyone has their moments but especially Midoriya and Bakugo.
• Death by Adaptation:
  • Midoriya is killed by Shigaraki at the end of season one. He gets better in season 3.
  • Tensei Iida is killed by Stain instead of crippled.
  • Rei Todoroki was accidentally killed by Chili when he was too young to control his powers, though Dabi teased that he was responsible for it.
  • Stain is killed by Todoroki. He is supposedly revived by All For One at the start of My Hero Alternative, and is residing in Tartarus Prison with him.
  • Six students from Class 1B die during the attack on the training camp.
  • Recovery Girl passes away after bringing Midoriya back to life.
  • All Might defeats All For One like in canon. Unlike canon, he still takes enough damage to die in Midoriya's arms hours later.
• Deconstruction: Where My Hero Academia dealt with the realism of its world, primarily hero society, heroes, and what is expected of them. This Abridged version cranks the deconstruction up to eleven, signifying the adage much sooner than the source manga/anime that no one is perfect, and no human can shoulder society alone. Both Nana and All Might break under the weight of society's expectations of them, leading the former to give up her power and the latter to become bitter and self-loathing. The sequel series My Hero Alternative blurs the line between hero and villain, and the society itself tries to change for the better after All Might passes away.
• Decoy Protagonist: Midoriya is a zigzagged case. From the start, he acts like a fairly normal protagonist before he dies in the season one finale. After that point Bakugo takes over and we see his perspective on things. Then late into season three, Midoriya comes Back from the Dead. However, even after that, he feels more like a supporting character and though he's at the foreground, it is still Bakugo who sends things in motion and deals with Bakugo's problems with Midoriya being Locked Out of the Loop for a good portion of his screen time. Midoriya gradually ends up gaining more relevance as time goes on but The Movie seems to come to a compromise with both characters sharing the protagonist position.
• Delayed Narrator Introduction: The narrator of the series is All For One, who we are introduced to on-screen in the season two finale.
• Demonic Possession: One of All For One's Quirks allows him to take over the body of anyone he chooses. He uses it on Stain's corpse to send a message to the heroes and possesses Midoriya to scare All Might. He admits this Quirk is too OP but says that destroying the world that way isn't the point. He wants people to believe.
• Did Not See That Coming: All Might is genuinely caught off guard when Midoriya decides to risk his life to save Bakugo, the reason he's living on borrowed time.
• The Dog Bites Back: During the movie, Tomura has enough of his grandfather belittling him and throwing him under the bus. He recruits the League on the spot and abandons All for One in his fight against All Might.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: All Might's response to Midoriya trying to help him in episode five though to be fair, Midoriya had also just given him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech and reacted to his death with "good riddance"
• Downer Ending: The "Series Finale" ends with Bakugo captured by the League of Villains as Midoriya screams in anguish. All For One appears after the credits and claims the story of how he won is over. When the viewer sticks around he says they need to finish this right and the logo for the movie appears.
• Dr. Jerk: Subverted with Midoriya's doctor in the final episode. He acts like a jerk because he's overworked and his patient is crowded by visitors who are stressing him out. Once he and Midoriya are alone, he's much calmer and tries to give Midoriya a Hope Spot by telling him that with quirk-related research, they might find a cure for Midoriya's cancer before it's too late.
• Easily Forgiven: Hands hasn't forgiven All Might for the death of his mother until The Movie, fed up with being belittled by All For One.
• Everyone Knew Already: Several people outside of UA and All Might's inner circle already knows about One For All, including Iida.
• Everyone Has Standards: Midnight may be a complete pervert who wants to watch students wrestle for each other's underwear but she is completely disgusted by the fact that Pierre doesn't wash his hands.
• Fanboy: Aizawa is a major fan of the Star Wars franchise, and will reference and quote lines every chance he gets. He has some tolerance for the Prequel trilogy, but none for the Sequels.
  Vlad Blood: I like The Last Jedi. Is perfect in every way.
  Aizawa: You're a lost cause.
• Fantastic Racism: In the past, the Quirkless majority hated those with Quirks and acted violently towards them. In present day it's the opposite: many with Quirks are prejudiced against those without Quirks, though some Quirkless still call those with Quirks "Quirky"s.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Despite being an extreme feminist towards Midoriya and using it to justify how badly she treats him, Uraraka notably doesn't treat any of the other male characters this way, hinting that her feminism is a farce and that her grudge with Midoriya goes far deeper.
  • In episode four, Uraraka shows noticeable discomfort at the fact that Midoriya and Bakugo are paired together and even uses the word "always" despite this being the first time All Might paired them together. It's eventually revealed that in a fit of jealousy at their relationship, Uraraka purposefully manipulated Bakugo into giving Midoriya cancer in an attempt to break them up.
  • Despite his idiocy, Iida somehow manages to build a nuclear bomb out of kitchen utensils hinting that he's a lot smarter than he lets on.
  • In episode five Iida runs the wrong way to go get help but luckily he finds All Might. This turns out to be very much intentional on Iida's part.
  • Lampshaded in episode 14, when the Lawyer explains that the only way that class 1-A could get back into school would be if an executive order overturned the school's terms and conditions. Sure enough, giving said order winds up being one of Scott's last acts as president.
  • Speaking of, in episode 11 Scott makes a joke about going into politics and asks if Midnight wants to be his first lady. A few episodes later...
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: The narrator, aka All For One addresses the viewers directly while warning them they will squirm as they watch the heroes they trusted fall.
• Friendship Moment: Midoriya and Bakugo have in episode four as they repair their broken friendship, with Midoriya forgiving Bakugo for giving him cancer and Bakugo standing up to All Might for the latter's misdeeds towards Midoriya.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: After the Dark Horse Victory in episode 7, two sentences flash across the screen. #IDAB and "How could my husbando not win the foot race he has the Super-Speed?! What secrets are you keeping from us Kohei?!"
• Gratuitous French: Ashido says a good portion of her lines in French. She and Bakugo even have a conversation in episode 7.
• Greater-Scope Paragon: An unintentional example but as it turns out All For One is this, with him being the source of all Quirks and thus Hero Society. By the time he regretted giving humanity Quirks, it was already too late and Hero Society had formed.
• Hated by All: Unlike in canon where he's beloved by all, All Might is firmly this. His cynicism and bullying catch up to him and not even saving three children's lives is enough for other people to want to associate themselves with him.
• The Hero Dies: Midoriya dies at the end of the first season. Recovery Girl brings him back to life in season three.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Giving Midoriya cancer messed Bakugo up so much his self worth is even lower than canon Midoriya's. His first instinct is always to sacrifice himself, something which the teachers try to address during the final exam. Their attempt fails.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: Parodied in episode three. They are told to go outside and fight monsters, only to find none in sight. Present Mic then announces that the real monsters were themselves and commands them to destroy everything in sight. Only Midoriya hesitates, lamenting that he thought they were better than this considering they were applying for a Hero School.
• Hypocrite: Bakugo accuses the audience of this for supporting the Sports Festival to watch kids fight despite them condemning All Might of the same thing, two episodes prior.
  Bakugo: As much as I despise the guy, he was at least honest about his vices.
• Hypocritical Humor: Sandra Bullock angrily comments about how the Minions is the reason actors like her are out of work, only for Aizawa to point out that she starred in the Minions film.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: It's implied by Bakugo's reaction Monoma's speech that this is his sentiment when it comes to Midoriya's death in season one.
• Ignored Epiphany: In episode three, Present Mic pepper sprays Uraraka for trying to sue the boy who saved her life and the following dialogue ensues:
  Uraraka: Ah! Is this what being pepper sprayed feels like? If I had known, I would have sprayed a lot more men with it.
• Irrational Hatred: See also, Jerkass to One. Urararaka hates Midoriya in this timeline for stealing Bakugou's attention from her when they were young. Going as far as manipulating Bakugou into attacking Midoriya, leading to the latter's cancer (and ruining Bakugou's reputation in the process) in the first place. And when she admits to these things, not only is she not remorseful, but she even gloats about it, even after Midoriya has already died. Though, unlike most examples of this trope, this one is deconstructed with Urararaka becoming a pariah among her peers. Turns out, when you do something that awful to someone for such an unbelievably petty reason, and boldly proclaim years later that you aren't the least bit sorry for it, of course the people around you are all going to think something is just seriously wrong with you.
• Ironic Echo: After Midoriya is revived, he and Iida perform an lengthy Trust Password to prove that he is the real deal and not a clone, all while fighting Stain. Later, Iida and All For One performs this to reveal the former's true loyalty as The Mole.
• It's All About Me:
  • Midoriya spends so much time feeling sorry for himself he fails to see others (primarily Bakugo) are suffering too until it’s spelled out for him.
  • To an even greater degree is Uraraka. Her Establishing Character Moment is trying to sue Midoriya for saving her life. In season two, it's revealed that she was the one who set off the events that lead to Midoriya getting cancer all because she was jealous of his relationship with Bakugo.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Though Blackmail was taking it too far, All Might does bring up some valid points towards his successor. Specifically it was All Might's power that got him in, Midoriya still has no idea to use it, there's no one else that can teach him how to use said power and the only reason Midoriya is even able to go to U.A. in the first place is not through his own personal merit but through All Might's connections. Even then being All Might's friend isn't exactly a high price to pay for being able to follow through on your childhood dreams.
• Knight of Cerebus: All For One possesses the dead body of Stain to warn the heroes they failed his final test and he is coming for them. After this, a significant chunk of the comedy from the series is dropped and the story becomes much darker.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Uraraka pepper sprays Midoriya when they first meet in episode two for no other reason than because he's male. She later ends up pepper sprayed herself after trying to sue Midoriya for saving her life.
• Magnetic Hero: Bakugo. His speech about the corruption of hero society rallies Kirishima and other students to his side for the cavalry battle.
• The Mole: Iida Tenya works with All For One after becoming disillusioned with the corrupt hero system.
• Moment Killer: In episode nine, Bakugo and Uraraka are having a heartfelt conversation about their relationship over the phone, which is promptly ruined when Iida somehow manages to join the call and interrupt them.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg:
  • This is how everyone treats Zapper. Whenever he's on a team, people comment about the team and then mention Zapper as an after thought.
  • Uraraka starts getting this treatment after she reveals her role in the incident that gave Midoriya cancer. Everyone except Bakugo thinks she's crazy, and nobody is willing to believe a word she says anymore. It tones down as she gets Character Development.
• My God, What Have I Done?: We don't see the initial reaction but the years of shame and guilt have really gotten to Bakugo, once he realized that he essentially gave Midoriya a death sentence because of an impulsive decision he made when they were kids.
• Mythology Gag: Bakugo's personality is closer to his unused concept as a Nice Guy than the Jerkass Bakugo of the manga.
• Negated Moment of Awesome:
  • Iida does his last-ditch Recipro Burst move as in canon. Problem is that in canon, he was going after Midoriya's team which doesn't exist for obvious reasons. So it goes from a spectacle of a move to Iida being a moron, accomplishing nothing and rendering himself completely useless to his team. Becomes a subverted example when it turns out he actually did tear a hole in space and time while doing so.
  • Bakugo and Todoroki's final confrontation in the Cavalry Battle is set up to be this big epic moment but ends with time running out and Bakugo falling onto his face.
• Never Speak Ill of the Dead: Averted. Uraraka has absolutely no problems insulting Midoriya after he 's died and blaming him for things that weren't his fault like Bakugo comparing himself to Midoriya. Then she gleefully proclaims how she helped Bakugo end him.
• No Indoor Voice: Iida shouts most of his lines. This voice is fake. He uses his real (much quieter) voice after the Stain fight and his real allegiances are revealed.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Uraraka claims that she manipulated Bakugo to help him stop comparing himself to Midoriya and that she only wanted to help him. Perhaps that was true but her claims ring a little hollow when during their fight, Uraraka creates an attack that will kill him (as well as some members of the audience).
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome:
  • Scott somehow becomes President of the United States after leaving UA. Tsu lampshades this trope while talking to him. He would later resign after his return to school upon realizing the restrictions of power that go with the position.
  • In episode 19, Bakugo is mentioned to be absent from the bus trip to the provisional exam bootcamp, which is located hours away in mountainous woods. When the class is pinned against a giant rock monster, Bakugo comes to save them just in time, proudly proclaiming "Yeah I walked here!"
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Even years later, people are still not willing to let go of the fact that Bakugo was the one who gave Midoriya cancer.
• Once More, with Clarity: The first episode has a flashback where Bakugo attacks Midoriya and says he had this coming. In season two, the audience is shown the flashback again with the additional context that Uraraka put Bakugo up to it by claiming Midoriya bullied her, called her an inferior Quirky, and said Smash Mouth would go out of style in a few years.
• Rage Breaking Point: Uraraka manages to push two people to this for the price of one with her gleeful proclamation that Midoriya's finally dead, meaning Bakugo is better than him before trying to kill him (and the audience)
  • Bakugo has spent years regretting his part in giving Midoriya cancer so revealing that she deliberately manipulated him into doing it isn't going to make him love her.
  • For Aizawa in a more indirect way. Uraraka exposing her and Bakugo's roles in Midoriya getting cancer is quite disrespectful to Midoriya because he died sacrificing his life in an attempt to save Aizawa's. Regardless of the fact that Midoriya had cancer, his death was caused by no one else but himself and Hands, though Aizawa may blame himself for putting Midoriya in that position in the first place. Uraraka's speech was the last in a long line of offences illustrating exactly what is wrong with UA and Hero Society and the fact that no one is doing anything to solve it.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • Aizawa gives one to Class-A, sans Midoriya and Yomama, for destroying the city and putting others in danger. It's also revealed that those are the only two students not currently failing, which really puts into question how truthful All Might was being when he informed Midoriya of his failure, the previous episode.
  • Midoriya gives a scathing one to All Might in episode 5, after All Might informs him that he's on the "final lap" as it were.
  • Bakugo gives one to the audience for supporting the Sports Festival, despite the fact that it does nothing to benefit the students.
  • Present Mic gives one to All Might, blaming him for Aizawa becoming a villain in the past and being arrested under suspicion of orchestrating the villain attack on the training camp.
  • Poor Zapper gets these a lot because of his apparent uselessness, particularly in episode seven.
    • He gets one from Mic in episode 11, but unlike other instances, it's to get Zapper to realise that the only one holding him back is himself.
• Related in the Adaptation:
  • Nana Shimura is All For One's daughter, and Tomura Shigaraki is her son, making him All For One's biological grandson. Overhaul is also the father of Tomura and Momo. It's unclear if Momo is Nana's daughter, but at the very least this makes her Tomura's half-sister.
  • Zigzagged with Mikey (Kota). He's not biologically related to Mandalay but she still adopts him. However in this universe he is also Stain's younger brother.
  • In a mentor-student sort of way, Nana Shimura was the mentor to every teacher at UA except for Snipe.
• Rhetorical Question Blunder: In episode 6, Uraraka asks Bakugo "Who died and made you our moral compass?" completely forgetting, or possibly deliberately ignoring considering who this is, that Midoriya did.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!:
  • All Might isn't actually a teacher at U.A, he's just exploited his status so that he can 'teach' Class 1-A.
  • Midoriya failed the Entrance Exam just like in canon but there are no Rescue Points this time around. Instead All Might uses his status to get Midoriya accepted (as well as protecting him from a lawsuit).
  • The reason Midoriya's costume emulates All Might's style so much is because All Might handcrafted it himself.
• Seen It All: Chili is completely unfazed when Touya Todoroki (aka Dabi) reveals his identity as Chili's long-lost brother. Even the ensuing conversation about how their mother was an Evil Matriarch and Dabi tricked Chili into killing her doesn't spark an emotional response from him.
• Status Quo Is God: Averted. The series takes advantage of the preconception that Abridged series will generally follow canon events and instead goes off the rails into its own plotline. Case in point, Midoriya dies in the season one finale and stays dead until season three, with Bakugo becoming the protagonist for season two.
• Super-Empowering: All Quirks come from the Glowing Baby, aka All For One.
• Take That!:
  • In episode 6, Present Mic cites the overuse of the "Morning Wood" joke in other MHA abridged series as sadder than Midoriya's death.
  • Episode 7 has one aimed at YouTube with him/it not caring about whether or not Midnight actually is as "family friendly" as she claims. To compound matters, this happens right in front of it as well. Then there's its Quirk's description:
    Quirk: Largest multimedia platform. Will throw Pewdiepie under the bus at the very sight of a newspaper but thinks child abuse is A-Okay.
  • In the movie, Yomama tells Chili that he needs to get professional help after it's revealed that he's fantasized about raising kids with her, all because of a single conversation they had during their exam with Aizawa, all but blatantly taking a dig at the TodorokixMomo ship sparked by the canon equivalent of that moment.
• Take That, Audience!: All For One rants at the heroes and viewers that they expect the shining, morally righteous heroes they looked up to from canon. He calls them out for wanting and anticipating the same-old repetition and archetypes when the series has clearly moved past that by this point.
• Tempting Fate: After Todoroki has just managed to expose UA for being sellouts, Present Mic remarks "this couldn't possibly get any worse". Cue Mei Hatsume who, like in canon, uses the Sports Festival to advertise her products. After, which Present Mic remarks "At least we still have our TV deal". Cue Larose pantsing Pierre on live television, which results in them being pulled off air.
• Took a Level in Cynic: One that is easy to overlook considering he takes it about two minutes through the first episode but Midoriya genuinely was an idealistic boy who wanted to change what was wrong with the world when he grew up. Then he got diagnosed with cancer and realized he would be lucky to grow up at all.
• Transplant: Characters from One-Punch Man appear as members of the world's Hero Society Association. Among them is Drive Knight (a Japanese Hero), Child Emperor ("American Boy"), and Metal Bat, who is the Russian Vasily Yaoyorozu.
• Third Line, Some Waiting: There's just enough information about the tragic backstory of the Todoroki family to understand that they're a Big, Screwed-Up Family with some very dark secrets. But since the mastermind of the family is dead and Endeavor is the head of the family, it's not really relevant to the plot and all information about them is given through Endeavor's drunken and public declaration of love for his son, or through Dabi/Touya's nonchalant exposition.
• Ungrateful Bitch:
  • Uraraka's response to someone saving her life? Try to sue them because she didn't consent to being saved by a male.
  • Slightly downplayed with Midoriya. Sure All Might is a massive Jerkass who put him in fatal danger and abandoned him because he wasn't useful anymore. That being said, he didn't even say thank you to All Might for bestowing upon him Super-Strength and getting him into UA, which All Might didn't have to do.
• The Unintelligible: Aizawa briefly turns into this during the Sports Festival.
• Vocal Dissonance:
  • The Glowing Baby has a deep giggle.
  • Both Recovery Girl and Vine have voices that are far too deep for them.
  • The manly Tiger has a high-pitched, girlish voice.
  • Toga chose [1]'s voice while she wore her mask because she thought it was "cute".
• Wacky Sound Effect: A stock cartoon running sound is played when Midoriya hastily crawls away from All Might.
• Wangst: Parodied In-Universe. Midoriya spends much of his time whining about his terrible lot in life and often mentions he has cancer, much to the annoyance of some characters (mostly Uraraka).
• Wham Episode:
  • Episode 5: Midoriya is killed by Shigaraki.
  • Episode 16: Stain is killed by Todoroki. All For One possesses his body to tell the heroes they failed his final test and they are now at his mercy, which he has very little left of.
• Wham Line:
  • Near the end of the movie, All For One's jailer introduces himself. His name: Re-Destro.
  • Though there was some foreshadowing for this one, episode 11 has one due to both what is said and who is saying it to whom:
    Midoriya, while punching Bakugo: Leave All Might alone, you Villain!
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Stain, which puts him at odds with the League of Villains due to Hands' role as Midoriya's murderer. It's also why he doesn't go all-out against Iida, Midoriya, and Todoroki during their fight which gets him killed.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Froggy gives a rather aggressive one to Scott in episode 17.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: A non-fatal example but All Might decides that he doesn't need to interact with Midoriya anymore after realizing he can just bribe people to be his friends. It backfires and by the next episode he resorts to blackmailing Midoriya so that he has at least one person who's his friend even if unwillingly.
• Younger than She Looks: It's lampshaded that Yomama looks way too old to be a mere freshmen.

Warning: All spoilers for My Hero Abridged are unmarked in this folder.

My Hero Alternative

The sequel to the first series.

My Hero Alternative provides examples of:

• Adaptational Job Change: In canon, Overhaul is a Yakuza boss. In Alternative, he is a licensed Pro Hero.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: In terms of Gentle Criminal and La Brava, the canon has La Brava falling in love with him. However, Joyride completely changes them into a Father-Daughter duo to make their relationship more platonic. Though it would be revealed that La Brava is not blood related after all.
• Age Lift: In the manga, Overhaul is 20. In Abridged and Alternative, he is much older considering he is the father of Hands (Shigaraki) and Yomama (Yaoyorozu).
  • His youthful apperance is justified as he's not actually Yuri Yaoyarozu.
• Atrocious Alias: In the manga, Midoriya wanted to subvert the degrading nickname "Deku", which Bakugo gave him since childhood, into something heroic, making it his official hero name. Ever since Abridged, however, he never even considered a hero name yet. Instead, Togata gives him the "Deku" name while talking to Overhaul to conceal his identity, which is translated to "idiot". And...
  Midoriya:"Deku"?! Are you for real?!
  Togata: You were kind of being a lame brain.
  Midoriya: Ugh. Sorry. You're right. Hopefully, it doesn't catch on...
• Back from the Dead: Stain is somehow alive, but in Tartarus with All For One. All For One implies he brought him back, though he doesn't explain why.
• Boomerang Bigot: Rusty used to be an anti-quirk supremacist despite having a quirk himself.
• Caught Monologuing: Mr. Aizawa tends to be a monologuer and plenty of people comment on it. In episode 25.1, Ms. Joke catches him monologuing exposition in his sleep.
  Chili: (to Yomama) Run! While he's still monologuing!
• Character Check: Just in case you thought Uraraka had finally gotten over her hatred of Midoriya, her reaction to Midoriya being blown up will convince you that she really hasn't. At the time of the Provisional License Exam storyline, she starts to respect Midoriya for putting other people's issues first before his own and plans to train and become his equal.
• Deliberately Monochrome: The scenes an unmasked Twice narrates are in black and white. When he puts his mask on, everything becomes colored again.
• Dude, Not Funny!: When Iida offers to use his No Indoor Voice like old times. Midoriya shoots down the suggestion, stating it "borders on the disturbing and offensive".
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Dabi briefly ditches the League of Villains for Detnerat , saying he worships them and their miserable 170 hour work weeks. The second Toga mentions that Deterat's factories supply heroes like Endeavor, he switches back to the League without a second of hesitation.
• Lampshade Hanging: The cast occasionally calls out manga plot points.
  • Episode "100" has [the "actor" of] Bakugou arguing with [the "actor" of] Midoriya about the latter's professional acting (or lack of) and warns him that he shouldn't be so arrogant when the show finally catches up on the manga's recent canon.
  • In episode 33, while Midoriya confronts Pierre/Aoyama about brining Toga to UA, Pierre reveals that he is the actual traitor. Midoriya doesn't really believe him, or not entirely surprised because of Iida (working for All For One), Yomama (a spy) and Rusty (a Punch-Clock Villain). Upset about being accused of being "basic evil", Pierre vows to a Heel–Face Turn... at least until they finally reach the more recent manga plot. ^note  This scene was set up immediately after the manga finally revealed that Aoyama is indeed the U.A. Traitor because All For One forcing his family to spy on the school.
• LOL, 69: Whereas the manga/anime had 100 participants of the Provisional Licensing Exam allowed to pass the first phase, the staff in this version decides to limit the number to 69 because they were feeling "spicy".
  Everyone: NICE!
  Scott: Hold up a minute! That's not "nice"! It's stricter than before!
• Loophole Abuse: The heroes are justified in confronting Overhaul because, while he is a licensed Pro Hero, he doesn't answer to the Hero System.
• Mythology Gag: The Big Three teases the following subjects that foreshadow their moments in the manga/anime and, by extension, the abrided series.:
  • Gun Safety: In the Work Studies arc, Mirio takes a bullet that one of Overhaul's Quirk-Erasing Bullets that was aimed at Eri, robbing him of his Quirk.
  • Drugs: Tamaki temporarily loses his Quirk in the Work Studies Arc, from one of the prototype Quirk-Erasing Bullets.
  • Sex Ed: Nejire wins the beauty pageant at the end of the Culture Festival Arc.
• Reformed, but Rejected: With the exception of Mineta, Rusty, and Yomama, nobody in 1A is particularly happy about having Iida around, despite his Heel–Face Turn in the previous season and his help saving Bakugo in the movie. Midoriya is especially hurt, refusing to do their Trust Password, on the grounds that he and Iida "were never bros to begin with".
• Screaming at Squick: The League of Villains all scream loudly in horror at Magne's explosive death, which left a huge splatter of blood on the floor.
• Shipper on Deck: Ochako is this for Mei/Izuku after the former lands chest-first on the latter. Especially notable as she still hates Izuku.
• Swapped Roles: Reformed, but Rejected Tenya's first conversation with Izuku is interrupted by Bakugo, mirroring Bakugo's first conversation with Izuku at U.A. Lampshaded by Tenya, himself:

  Crap! Am I the Bakugo now?

• Tempting Fate: Twice claims things are about to change for the better. It immediately cuts to the League of Villains screaming in horror over Magne's death.
• The Multiverse: Midoriya mentions the existence of this, though Sir Nighteye tells him that it takes time for that "plot point" to happen and must hold off on it.
• Two-Teacher School: Lampshaded; after the events of the previous seasons, most of the U.A. staff quit, leaving the newly promoted Principal Aizawa in the position of running the school, teaching 1A, and even being the only one who can drive them to their license exam. He's forced to rely on student-assistants to keep things running.
• Unrelated in the Adaptation: In My Hero Academia, Dabi is Touya Todoroki, making him the son of Endeavor and brother of Shouto. Dabi claims the same thing here, but the truth is he's actually a crazed fan with delusions of being Endeavor's son. He briefly comes to his senses at the end of "Endeavor and the Hawks", where he exclaims "Oh that's right, I don't have a family!"
• Wham Episode: The aftermath of the Overhaul arc has Midoriya and the other heroes recovering. However, a doctor checking on him drops this bombshell: his cancer is completely gone! Deku realizes Eri reversed it to non-existence thanks to her quirk while fighting Overhaul, but decides to hide her involvement so she doesn't have to suffer anymore.
• Wham Shot: Overhaul throws something on the ground in front of Shigaraki as he leaves the hideout. It's a Hero License. Overhaul is a Pro Hero in this world.
• You're Not My Father: Hands refuses to consider Overhaul his father and calls him a stranger to his face.
  • It's later shown that Overhaul really isn't his father. He simply took Yuri Yaoyarozu's identity when he either died or became too feeble to stop him.

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