History FanFic / Coyote

* LogicalWeakness: [[spoiler: Shigaraki's TouchOfDeath/MakeEmRot Quirk doesn't work on Oobleck because it doesn't have chemical properties, so it can't decay]].

* GenreSavvy: Both Riley and Izuku instantly recognized Shigaraki as the leader of the invading League of Villains because his body language had the confidence of the guy everyone follows, with the lesser members giving him a wider berth despite his scrawny appearance and Noumo following him around like a lost puppy.

** When Tokoyami explains the great difficulty he has controlling Dark Shadow when there's no light, someone yells out "just carry a flashlight!" He facepalms upon the obvious realization.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Riley manages to beat Bakugou and his gang in a fight the first time they meet because he brought along a fire extinguisher.

* CurbStompBattle: The League of Villains vs the Hero and Support Courses' students AND their teachers. The villains stand no chance, with most of them requiring medical attention afterwards, and, while Tomura and Kurogiri manage to escape, it's not until after Riley (whose's suit [[NoSell is immune to his]] TouchOfDeath) easily beats and humiliates Kurogiri.

* CurbStompBattle: The League of Villains vs the Hero and Support Courses' students AND their teachers. The villains stand no chance, with most of them requiring medical attention afterwards, and, while Tomura and Kurogiri manage to escape, it's not until after Riley (whose's suit [[NoSell is immune to his]] TouchOfDeath) easily beats and humiliates him.

* CurbStompBattle: The League of Villains vs the Hero and Support Courses' students AND their teachers. The villains stand no chance, with most of them requiring medical attention afterwards, and, while Tomura and Kurogiri manage to escape, it's not until after Riley (whose's suit [[NoSell is immune to his TouchOfDeath]]) easily beats and humiliates him.

** In Chapter 9, at the USJ attack, Izuku identifies the League of Villains' most dangerous members ([[ArtificialHuman The Noumu]], [[ThinkingOfPortals Kurogiri]] and [[TouchOfDeath Tomura]]), and comes with quick, effective methods to temporarily incapacitate them.

** Oobleck's lack of chemical properties is actually exploited by Riley, who notes things made with it are fire-proof, acid-proof, shock-proof, etc. His hero suit is made of it precisely because of those properties.

'''EMT''': Between the gallons of glue, tape, and those purple sticky ball things we found all over, take your pick. Several have some really unpleasant fungal infections. One fellow had some nasty scratches all over like he’d tackled a rose bush, and another is gonna need to have a horn removed from an awkward location... We had to sedate several. Someone left them floating weightless up on the ceiling, and I don’t know WHAT the hell the ‘spooky white haired girl’ or ‘the creepy bird kid’ did to them, but they were in total hysterics by the time they got down... We had to dig up a couple who were half-buried in solid floor. Oh, and a few animal bites here and there, just to round things out. Oh, and you might tell the Support kids that the net guns, bola shooters, the like were okay but the tasers, stun rays, and sonic cannons might be considered excessive.

* EpicFail: While Bakugo broke Izuku's second egg, the ''first'' one broke because Izuku tripped going out the door (on the doorjam, specifically) almost immediately after getting it.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Aizawa, who expels students on whims rather than for any justified reason, refuses to admit that he's fallible and doesn't care that several students in the class he expelled a few years back were DrivenToSuicide. He's [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech raked over the coals]] and suspended without pay -- all but outright fired -- for his callous attitude.

'''Izuku''': Shut up, Bakugao.\\

* RedOniBlueOni: Riley and Izuku respectively. Riley is manic, extroverted and full of snark, while Izuku is composed, introverted and down to Earth. Both are extraordinarily intelligent, but while Riley's intelligence is based around wit, opportunism and on-the-spot thinking, Izuku is much more methodical and analytical, capable of deconstructing a person's Quirk in a way that the Quirk user themselves did not understand. When it comes to Quirks, Riley's is an ImaginationBasedSuperpower that he [[WeakButSkilled learns to master through years of careful study with Izuku's help]], while Izuku's power gives him SuperStrength of [[UnskilledButStrong unmatched thresholds of power, but lacks the experience to use it]] constructively.

* FantasticRacism: Izuku and Riley have to deal with this from their peers and teachers at school, the former due to being Quirkless and the latter for being a foreigner who also happens to have a physical mutation [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman that makes him look like an animal]].

* DumbassHasAPoint: Mina[[notewho, in canon, has a one out of five in her intelligence stat and had the second lowest score on the midterms[[/note]] makes the very astute observation that the easiest way to get Hagakure a working suit is to make it out of something that shares her invisibility field since, as she has the invisible girl demonstrate to the class, anything covered by something that has said field turns invisible as well. This leads to Support making Hagakure a suit from her hair.

* DumbassHasAPoint: Mina makes the very astute observation that the easiest way to get Hagakure a working suit is to make it out of something that shares her invisibility field since, as she has the invisible girl demonstrate to the class, anything covered by something that has said field turns invisible as well. This leads to Support making Hagakure a suit from her hair.

* MiseryBuildsCharacter: The principal justifies his laissez-faire attitude toward Bakugo bullying Izuku by saying that in Japan, students are expected to endure bullying.

* ShoutOut: Riley Coyote's name and ToonPhysics quirk are an obvious reference to [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote]]. He might also be a reference to Coyote, a TricksterArchetype from Myth/NativeAmericanMythology, especially since he is mentioned being a Native American ethnically.

* EpicFail: While Bakugo broke Izuku's second egg, the ''first'' one broke because Izuku tripped going out the door almost immediately after getting it.

* LaughingThemselvesSick: The usual reaction when Riley is up to his antics.

** Thanks to his class's input, Mineta figures out how to launch his sticky balls at high enough velocity to make the ceiling shake.

** Oobleck's lack of chemical properties is actually exploited by Riley, who notes things made with it are fire-proof, acid-proof, shock-proof, etc.
* IOweYouMyLife: Uraraka joins the class walkout not because of forewarning about Aizawa's methods but because Izuku saved her life during the entrance exam and she can't in good conscience stay if U.A. is willing to treat him so badly.

* TheNicknamer: Riley likes giving {{Embarrassing Nickname}}s to people he deems deserving of it, most often [[TheBully bullies]]. The one that has endured the longest would be Bakugo's nickname "Splodey Dope."

* LuminiscentBlush: Izuku goes tomato red when Ochako shows off her superhero suit and then hugs him. And again when Hagakure hugs him as well.

* SymbolSwearing: Mitsuki once says, "@%@! it, all this @%## nonsense"

---> '''Kamui Woods:''' We're Pro Heroes, young man. We know better about what we do than you. We knew that we didn't have a Quirk suitable for dealing with that villain...
---> '''Riley Coyote:''' A SUITABLE QUIRK? My bloodbrother had NO Quirk, and he STILL dropped Sludgeball on his butt! So I repeat for the peanut gallery, ''[[ArmorPiercingQuestion what was your excuse?]]''
---> '''Kamui Woods:''' Wood burns, kid.
---> '''Riley Coyote:''' [[StatingTheSimpleSolution Wet wood doesn't.]] You have Backdraft right here. If you'd just had Backdraft take a second to douse you first, you could have reached in and grabbed the hostage before the Villain could stop you. Then the rest you could have taken the villain down easily. Or Backdraft could have just ''diluted'' him with a blast of water to the face. Which would have kept Kacchan from firing off any more explosions as well. Or Mount Lady coulda grabbed road salt from one of the stores and dumped it on him. Or-- hell, half a dozen other ideas! Instead you were all-- "Oh noes, my power isn't exactly perfect for slime monsters! What ever shall I doooo?"