History Fanfic / ConversationsWithACryptid

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There is a planned sequel called ''Woes of a Cryptid'' in the works.

* WhyAreYouNotMySon: All for One makes it clear that he admires Izuku's intelligence and cunning and wants him as his own successor. All for One doesn't even consider [[PsychoticManchild Shiragaki]] as his child despite Izuku pointing out at multiple occasions that All for One is effectively Shiragaki's adoptive father since he raised him since childhood. [[spoiler: Which is doubly ironic considering that Izuku is his biological son.]]

* DrinkOrder: When All for One takes Izuku home for the first time, he makes Izuku coffee with plenty of cream. Which details his rather invasive knowledge of Izuku since he knows this without asking.

* NecessaryEvil: The Tartarus prison complex is a huge human rights violation on par with Guantanamo Bay, but its the only way to prevent villains like All for One or Stain from going large.

* DeadpanSnarker: Izuku[[ShrinkingViolet of all people]].

Months have passed since the defeat of All For One by All Might's hands at Kamino Ward, but any further investigation involving anything about him was quickly proven to be futile.

[[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Enter Midoriya Izuku]], with brimming determination, thinking that perhaps interrogating the supervillain himself would benefit the betterment of society and hey, maybe he could learn something interesting about the guy to satisfy his curiosity in the process as well. So it's pretty much a win-win situation, right? Well, except for All For One, but nobody cares about him.

Unfortunately, he isn't quite prepared to face what his research would cause to everyone, and what role he ultimately would play as in the near future.

** Inko doesn't divorce her husband despite his abandonment of his family because she has no way of supporting herself due to being out of the workforce as long as Izuku had been alive. She has no family to turn to due to having no parents and had aged out of the foster system.
** The story makes clear of the vicious discrimination Izuku had to deal with growing up. It hits close to home that Izuku had classmates, teachers and total strangers disgusted with him for his Quirklessness and constantly putting him down for something completely out of his control.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: This is still the colorful, superhero-filled world of the canon, but the government is amazingly corrupt and dystopian. People are detained without trial, hero support tech isn't allowed to be sold on the free market for prosthetics or other reasons, media censorship is rampant, and discrimination and hate crimes are a notable concern for those with inhuman appearance, "villainous" quirks, or the quirkless. These ideas apply to the whole series but are made much more obvious in the second installment.

** ''Conversations with a Cryptid'': Izuku attempts to help to a stalled investigation of All for One by interrogating the villain himself. While in the short term, Izuku gets valuable intel in the long, it proves to be Izuku's undoing.

** Hisashi Midoriya owns several magazines that All for One likes, knows a doctor who was in All for One's inner circle, and it's suspected that he was involved with the League of Villains. He also acted older than he looked (Okay, except when Inko was involved) and despite being a fourth generation quirk user, his child ended up quirkless. He still communicates with his employees, but his handwriting recently took a dive, as if he'd had to re-learn it. [[spoiler: Almost as if he ''was'' All for One, founded the League of Villains, had received nasty injuries recently, and was actually a first generation quirk user.]]

* ImportantHaircut: Izuku gets his curls trimmed so he could pull his hair back for a black tie event. The haircut gives him a striking resemblance to his father. [[spoiler: Which freaks out All Might and Shigaraki, who catch the resemblance to All for One.]]

** Formal wear and business wear is this to Inko since her husband only wore suits and they painfully remind her of her husband's unexplained abandonment.

* WeWillNotHaveAppendixesInTheFuture: Hisashi joked that he was a mutant since he still had the extra jointed toe despite having a quirk. [[spoiler: Makes sense since he was a first generation quirk user.]]

--> ''It wasn’t the job of the school to teach the students how to be decent human beings after all, that was preliminary knowledge and if young Midoriya had turned out to be to an excellent human being then absolutely no one had an excuse.''

* EvilIsPetty: All for One rules the underworld, is a 2-century old SerialKiller and uses his great power to skip to the front of lines.

* FantasyForbiddingFather: Hisashi Midoriya is strongly against his son Izuku from being a superhero. One as the top supervillain, Hisashi wants Izuku to avoid people from finding out their relation, which could destroy Izuku's life. Two, he justifiably thinks that Izuku will get himself maimed or killed. Third, he knows how smart Izuku is and believes that Izuku could be more successful in other careers.

-->'''Hisashi''': I heard that Monoma’s family marched down to the school after you implied that baboons wielding kitchen implements would have greater competence in raising children than whatever methodology they turned to for child rearing. And would produce children with better manners to boot.

** One of the main reasons Deku can't just run to the cops about how [[spoiler: his dad is a mass murdering supervillain]] is that it getting out would ruin his mother's life despite her complete ignorance to the whole thing. On a related note, All Might and Tsukauchi can't get him because [[spoiler: All for One in a legal sense didn't kidnap Deku or hold him against his will. As far as the law is concerned, Hisashi Midoriya decided to reenter his son's life after he nearly died and help him recover from major surgery. And aside from talking about his double life and nearly killing people who've wronged his family, All for One treats Deku like any loving father would treat his son.]]

-->'''Hisashi''': You haven’t noticed, Bakugou? You’re the most disliked person in your class. One of the best achieving, yet they have nothing but contempt for you. For your attitude, for your mannerisms, for your complete lack of social skills(....)For your lack of control and temper. You’re a liability, which is why you failed and they succeeded.

Has a planned sequel called ''Woes of a Cryptid'' in the works.

** ''Kidnapping of a Cryptid'': The legal thing for Tsukauchi and Toshinori to do is report the entire truth to their superiors. Which will utterly destroy Izuku's and Inko's lives and careers, due to All for One being Hisashi Midoriya. So that forces them to use more indirect methods.

* DeadpanSnarker: Izuku, [[ShrinkingViolet of all people]], tends to get snarky with All For One.
-->'''All For One:''' How are you still alive? You haven’t even had access to [your Quirk] for a full year.\\

* LovableSexManiac: Deconstructed with Mineta. Its shown that his perversion is an attempt to self-medicate his unrecognized depression. While he enjoys oogling girls, even he was disgusted that no adult bothered to stop him. He becomes significantly less perverted once he starts attending therapy.

** After Recovery Girl is froced to step down, teachers are forced to step in more often to prevent injuries because Yuuei no longer has a quick fix on hand. Aizawa is noted as using his [[PowerNullifier Quirk]] more often to keep students from crippling themselves or others.

-->'''Hisashi''': What an excellent view. We must be on, what, the tenth storey? I know plenty Bakugou. I know that your father was so worthless that your mother had to chase him. That he’s a spineless, pathetic wimp that’s at the beck and call of his emotionally abusive wife. That not once in all your years has he ever defended you from her stupidity about strength and weakness, as though she were a chimpanzee frolicking about in the jungle as opposed to a functional human being raising a vulnerable child.

-->'''Hisashi''': Oh? Is that why my son beat you in your first combat simulation? Is that why he had his provisional licence before you? My disadvantaged boy, so new to the world of violence, still surpassed you. It’s almost like there’s more to life than having a Quirk and money. For all that my son once lacked, he still had more than enough substance to his personality to utterly destroy you in all the ways that matter.

** The fact that Toshinori doesn't have any family is what lead All for One tracking down Nana's surviving family like her grandson [[spoiler: and her daughter.]]

* SupernaturallyYoungParent: Hisashi Midoriya is over 200 years old, has a 16-year old kid and looks like a "stupid twenty-five year old."

* TallPoppySyndrome: Bakugou and his former cronies hate Izuku with the implication they're unconsciously afraid of him. Despite Izuku's quirklessness, Izuku's observation gave him intimate knowledge of their quirks which it includes their weakness. All for One verifies that Izuku could have maimed Bakugou even when he was quirkless had Izuku been driven to do so.

** Averted for Mineta, whose mental health improves once he sees a therapist to point that he willingly stops being a pervert.
** Hokkaido's mental health institutions are being shut down due to a corrupt administrator stealing all the budget. As a result, Hokkaido becomes a hellhole due to mentally unstable quirk users being let out with no where else to go.

* YouAreGrounded: Izuku is on medical leave from Yuuei due to his kidnapping but in spirit, he's grounded. Izuku is forbidden to do any hero work due to his impending surgery and his parents fully intend him a long recovery due to Izuku's previous neglect of his health.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Due to Izuku's article being released to the public, the injustices of the [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard Japanese Government]] were made public. However, this comes at the cost of society completely collapsing. The government has entered a shut down, the Hero System is under massive scrutiny placing it in jeopardy, funding has been cut for all Hero Schools like U.A., forcing Class 1-A to disband, riots are erupting all over Japan, and criminals in Tartarus like Stain are at risk of escaping justice due to improper handling of their crimes. The world as Izuku knew it is effectively over.]]
* DrinkOrder: When All for One takes Izuku home for the first time, he makes Izuku coffee with lots of cream. Which details his rather invasive knowledge of Izuku since he knows this without asking.

* ExactWords: When Hisashi expresses surprise that Izuku didn't help with a hostage situation at an elementary school, Izuku claims he helped as best he could but he's not in the best shape at the moment (due to a broken arm and months of inactivity). Izuku defused the entire situation himself but could've done it in half the time if not for his broken arm.

* FantasyForbiddingFather: Hisashi Midoriya is strongly against his son Izuku from being a superhero. One as the top supervillain, Hisashi wants Izuku to avoid people from finding out their relation which could destroy Izuku's life. Two, he justifiably thinks that Izuku will get himself maimed or killed. Third, he knows how smart Izuku is and believes that Izuku could be more successful in other careers.
* {{Foil}}: Endeavor to All for One. Both are extremely powerful men in both society and actual physical power with families they abuse and/or neglect. However Endeavor is eugenicist who sees his wife as a brood mare, treats his unfavored children like disposable pawns and treats his favored son like a trophy. All for One sees Inko as the love of his life and loves Izuku dearly and neglects/abuses Izuku out of a sense of over-protectiveness.
* ForYourOwnGood: Inko and Hisashi force their son to go on medical leave due to Izuku's previous disregard of his health. They decide to keep Izuku out of Yuuei until the school gives in to their demands of increased security, proper adherence to medical procedure and for Izuku to make a full recovery despite the fact that Izuku could fall behind his studies or get kicked out.
* FrameUp: Mei Hatsume was framed so that one of her inventions destroyed part of the school. She's furious because she's banned from her labs and was suspended from school.

* GivenNameReveal: Izuku finds out that Hisashi Midoriya really is All for One's true name when Izuku finds his name on the list of First Generation Quirk users.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Mineta had to get caught groping Tsuyu as part of a ZanyScheme to get suspended. To Mineta's horror, it took so long for him to actually get in trouble that he become desensitized to sex.
* GossipEvolution: Toshinori tells Mononma's parents off for their poor handling of Monoma's entitlement issues. When Hisashi hears it...:

* HenpeckedHusband: All for One is over 200 years old and has been terrorizing Japan and ruling its underworld for that long. Inko Midoriya is sweet and fiercely intelligent {{Housewife}}. When they reunite again, All for One does what he can to stay on Inko's good side and bows to her demands. Which is rather justified since she's understandably furious with him abandoning their family and returning without a word and All for One is trying to get her to not divorce him.

** Japan took the common law approach to accelerate court resolution of superhero cases. It bit them in the ass when Inko successfully sues Yuuei which causes a massive scandal and knee-capped the hero industry.

** Recovery Girl already made things bad for herself by refusing to allow other medical professionals heal her patients, but she shot herself in the foot when Izuku reveals to Hisashi and Doctor Yuasa that she outright refused to heal him anymore after Izuku crippled his arms. They are both disgusted by Recovery Girl's unethical behavior and have her banned from school premises along with her getting disbarred from practicing medicine period.
** [[spoiler: Due to the government favoring a controlled populace over human rights, all anti-quirk laws, the apprehension of villains, censorship rules and the pro-hero system had skip the judicial and legislative process. The regulations even contradicts the Japanese Constitution and no evidence that the current government had followed Parliamentary procedures. Which means everything they had done was illegal. When Izuku's article reveals these facts to the media and general populace the government's hold immediately broken down. That has led to mass riots and a government shut down.]]

* HostageSituation: On paper, Izuku is spending time with his dad pending surgery to get his arm fixed. It's technically true but misses the fact that his dad is holding him hostage to prevent Izuku and Toshinori from acting.
* HourglassPlot: At first Endeavor is the abusive and powerful ControlFreak of a parent that trapped Shouto through his physical might and his media dominance that Izuku sees right through. Then Izuku is kidnapped by his own father, All for One who keeps him trapped through his power and media dominance. Shoto even notes it during their temporary rescue of Izuku that he and Izuku have similar sperm donor problems.
* IRejectYourReality: Bakugou refuses to admit that Izuku is a geniune threat to him and refuses to recognize that he wronged him through his horrific bullying. [[spoiler: When Izuku gives Bakugou his quirk back, Bakugou recognizes Izuku's strength but not the bullying.]]

* IncrediblyLamePun: Hisashi makes one about how he was the awful one and his brother was wonderful aka All For One and One For All. [[LamePunReaction Izuku asks to go back to his mother when he figures it out]].

* InsultBackfire: Izuku is advised to use a penname reflective of someone he doesn't like and chooses A41. All for One considers it a compliment.

* KangarooCourt: It is discovered by Izuku and Shu that neither All for One, Stain or any apprehended villain in Tartarus were given a trial. There was no warrant or real evidence linking them to their arrests. The fact that charges were never brought has also wasted time as limitation statutes approach. By the time new laws and regulations were put in place, most crimes would be too old to be prosecuted, a large amount of evidence considered illegally gained, and one cannot be charged for a crime retroactively if there was not already a law for it. The one exception to this is most likely murder charges, which never have time limitations.

** [[spoiler: A complicated example. On one hand, plenty of readers were glad to see Endeavor wind up a literal dumpster fire, and Toshinori suspects All For One thought Izuku would get a kick out of it, too. On the other hand, it's very bad news for our heroes because All For One just proved definitively that he can swat their very best like a fly.]]

* MundaneUtility: All For One uses one of his quirks to skip to the front of the line at grocery store check-outs without people noticing. Two hundred years have not taught him the virtue of patience, it seems.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: Doctor Yuasa treated one of Recovery Girl's former patients but it was too late for the patient. As a result, Doctor Yuasa spend years campaigning to draw attention to Recovery Girl's medical malpractice and Yuuei's shady handling of their students. When he gets to treat Izuku, its a chance to save someone from Recovery Girl before its too late.

* OpenHeartDentistry: Recovery Girl's hero license only allows her to give first aid on crime scenes. Despite that she practices surgery, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, physiotherapy, sports medicine, pediatric medicine and general practice, all without licenses or schooling for any of them. Subverted that it's implied that Izuku's crippled right arm is due to her and several students died due to improper medical treatment.

** One of the main reasons Deku can't just run to the cops about how [[spoiler: his dad is a mass murdering supervillain]] is that it getting out would ruin his mother's life despite her complete ignorance to the whole thing. On a related note, All Might and Tsukauchi can't get him because [[spoiler: All for One in a legal sense didn't kidnap Deku or hold him against his will. As far as the law is concerned, Hisashi Midoriya decided to rejoin his son's life after he nearly died and help him recover from a major surgery. And aside from talking about his double life and nearly killing people who've wronged his family, All for One treats Deku like any loving father would treat his son.]]
** A lot of the kids are traumatized from the USJ and the Training Camp attack and Toshinori has to convince the faculty to hire actual mental health professionals.
** All for One explains at one point that if he didn't have a number of regenerative Quirks, being completely immobile for months as he was in Tartarus would've likely killed him via blood clot.

** ''Kidnapping of a Cryptid'': The legal thing for Tsukauchi and Toshinori to do is report the entire truth to their superiors. Which will utterly destroy Izuku's and Inko's lives and careers due to All for One being Hisashi Midoriya. So that forces them to use more indirect methods.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Hisashi Midoriya owns major news outlets such as the Heroes Mirror, Heroes Weekly, Quirk Focus and darkweb conspiracy website [[ShapedLikeItself the Conspiracy]]. He's also a massively fishy character implied to be working for the League of Villains.

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Hisashi Midoriya is revealed to have understandable reasons for not contacting Inko and Izuku for 8 years. [[spoiler: Being All for One, he had to clean up lose ends for his criminal empire. After his fateful fight with All Might, he stayed away so his numerous enemies wouldn't find his family.]]

** During the ride to Tartaurus, Izuku hears a radio report about a villain with a liquid body.

* GeekyTurnOn: Luckily for Hisashi, Inko geniunely enjoyed Hisashi's complaining about legal violations and liberal political views.

* GlassyPrison: To monitor All for One at all times, the Tatarus staff have him in a cell with a clear reinforced glass panel.
* GoLookAtTheDistraction: Zach distracts a mob of paparazzi away from Izuku's hospital release by yelling that a hero's sex tape is on sell online.

* MadnessMantra: In his search of All For One's wrongdoings, Izuku stumbles upon one story about an eldery man who was driven into madness by losing his Quirk. The only thing he could do until his dying days was repeatedly saying "He took it".

** Midoriya notes to [[spoiler: All for One]] that his mother's limited Telekenesis can be used to pull on a person's organs.

* TheMole: How All For One managed to escape further post-mortem examination after his battle against All Might despite being pronounced dead at the scene. He has allies inside the medical field and police departement to cover up his survival.

** Dr. Tsubasa considering his cruel BrutalHonesty to Izuku and the fact he most sold his own grandson to become a Noumu.

* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: When pressed about his feelings over his father, Izuku completely dismisses his father's influence. When All for One attempts to make Izuku reconsider, Izuku shuts him down by pointing out the mostly negative impact his father had on both himself and his mother. [[spoiler: He has no idea that he's being so [[BrutalHonesty brutally honest]] with Hisashi himself.]]

* PreNupBlowup: Shu, who's Hisashi's subordinate and lawyer, recommends to his boss that he get a pre nup before his marriage to Inko. To his surprise, Hisashi not only refuses but has it explicitly written that Inko is entitled to half of his wealth.

* RagsToRiches: It happened to someone who's heavily implied to be Kurogiri. Born Quirkless, but somehow managed to develop a Warp Quirk and becoming filthy rich in the process by some assistance from All For One.

* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler: The Sludge Villain attempts to kill Izuku after All for One kills his friends rescuing the kid. The guy fails to consider that ''maybe'', All for One wanted Izuku alive, and that attacking someone protected by the man who just invoked the ChunkySalsaRule on all your co-conspirators is a ''bad idea''. All for One promptly sears him to death with a firebreath quirk.]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[spoiler: After realizing the potential of Izuku's intelligence and cunning , All for One briefly considers what would have happened had he brought Izuku into supervillainy with him. Something which also terrifies Toshinori.]]

* AMistakeIsBorn: Izuku is result of an unplanned pregnancy due to All for One not realizing that he was still virile despite his advanced age.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In response to a reporter asking him if Hisashi really is a supervillain:
--> '''Izuku:''' He murdered all of my friends, used their corpses for cannon fodder and then tried to strangle the one that got away and he won't stop hugging me.
* BaitTheDog: For 4 chapters, All for One shows genuine love and affection to Izuku despite his rather stifling protectiveness and made rather valid points. Then Chapter 5, All for One shows that he still a horrible person [[spoiler: when he assaults Bakugou in broad daylight in front of Izuku, Todoroki and Shishou.]]

** In Conversations With A Cryptid, All for One jokes that he and All Might should switch apprentices. By the final chapter of Kidnapping of a Cryptid, they did. Shiragaki starts to help All Might out of sheer spite and Izuku unintentionally helps All for One take down the government.

* BrutalHonesty: When Monoma's parents attempted to have Toshinori contest Monoma's arrest for trespassing. Toshinori replied that its Monoma's own entitlement that made him think he would have gotten away with trespassing, which is a result of their poor parenting.

* BullyingADragon: [[spoiler: When All for One visits Bakugou in the hospital, Bakugou persists in calling Izuku useless even ''after'' the guy had warned him that doing so again would lead to Consequences, and proving that he was indeed willing and able to badly injure him (this being why Bakugou was in the hospital in the first place). All for One follows through on his threat by stealing Bakugou's quirk.]]
* CallingParentsByTheirName: Izuku refuses to call All for One dad and pointedly calls him by his given name. All for One is ok with it as its still better than what Endeavor gets from his own family.
* CantGetInTroubleForNuthin: In order to rig his odds of ending up Izuku's project partner, Mineta needed to get himself suspended. So Mineta and Tsuyu decide to have Mineta get caught groping her so he would get suspended. Unfortunately they underestimated how many {{Apathetic Teacher}}s Yuuei had, who flat out didn't care or encouraged it. It took months for Mineta to get caught and suspended.
* CantStopTheSignal: [[spoiler: Izuku unintentionally reveals the government's injustice to the world when his article is published and leaked to the media and the populace. This breaks people's faith in the government and proheroes.]]
* ChekhovsBoomerang: In ''Conversations of a Cryptid'', the early proof of All for One's existence is a video of him teleporting into a bank that had a list of all the First Generation Quirk Users and stealing the list. Izuku slows down the recording to see the list. The list confirms that Hisashi Midoriya is All for One's true name and the only outside connection to All for One's true identity.
* ChekhovsGun: Toshinori decides to make a cross-division group assignment for student to investigate various new outlets in hopes of having a distracting the Heroes Mirror and other news outlets. This ends up leads to Izuku discovering the massive government corruption.

* InherentInTheSystem: The current Quirk-based society sees that talented people like Izuku are at the bottom if they're born Quirkless, or with the wrong 'kind' of quirk. People like Gang Orca or Shu have limited job opportunities and face discrimination for their appearances. Flashy Quirks are put at the top of society whereas people with subtle or dangerous quirks can be treated as potential supervillains.
* JustifiedTitle: The title ''Conversations with a Cryptid'' refers to Izuku's prison interviews with All for One, the titular cryptid whose existence and two-hundred year history is disputed and gradually uncovered for most of the story. [[spoiler: Izuku is also the cryptid due to being All for One's son.]]

** ''Conversations with a Cryptid'': Izuku attempts to uncover One for All's [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld long, long]] criminal history → Discovery of two-century long and ongoing conspiracy.
** ''Kidnapping of a Cryptid'': Izuku, Mineta and Mei investigate why it's illegal for pro-heroes to use their own Support items for private use as prothestics. Which reveals the government's massive human rights violations and corruption and how the anti-quirk laws are actually extremely unconstitutional.

** ''Conversations with a Cryptid'': How does Eri finally gain control over her powers so dangerous that professional heroes and doctors couldn't help her?[[spoiler: All for One teaches her how to internalize a sense of time by grounding it to a tv schedule or important milestones in her life so she doesn't go to far back.]]
** ''Kidnapping of a Cryptid'': When Mineta has PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage, does he have a TrainingMontage or a YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre speech to get his powers back? Nope. He just sees a therapist to better cope with his mental health issues.

** ''Conversations with a Cryptid'': Izuku attempts to help to stalled investigation of All for One by interrogating the villain himself. While in the short term Izuku gets valuable intel in the long, it proves to be Izuku's undoing.

** ''Kidnapping of a Cryptid'': [[spoiler: Katsuki breaks out of the hospital he was forcibly institutionalized in and heads to Yuuei to tell the faculty of Hisashi Midoriya's true identity with the intention of rescuing Izuku. Izuku's article on the two century-long abuses of the Japanese Government, specifically how quirk laws and the pro-hero system never went through proper legislative processes are technically both unconstitutional and illegal, causes their frail society to fall apart. Riots break out in the streets with people attacking pro-hero agencies, government offices and police stations. The government is forced to shut down and review and revise two centuries of law. All heroes schools are shut down as their legality is reviewed. Izuku unintentionally fulfills his father's goal of having the populace turn against heroes.]]

** ''Conversations with a Cryptid'': All for One had many children experimented on or horrifically killed. [[spoiler: So Izuku thinks its extremely hypocritical that All for One would rather have Izuku leave the heroing and investigating to the adults.]]
** ''Kidnapping of a Cryptid'': At one point Hisashi and Bakugou come face to face. [[spoiler: He nearly strangles Bakugou to death,]] right in front of Shinso and Todorooki. That last part prompts All Might and Tsukauchi to inform Endeavor, as Todorooki has to talk to the police about the incident. Endeavor demands to know [[spoiler: why such a violent man has any form of custody over Midoriya.]] All Might then tells him [[spoiler: that Hisashi feels the exact same way about Endeavor and Todorooki.]]

** The true spanner is the [[spoiler: Sludge Villain, as his attack of Izuku is what drives All for One to escape prison.]]

*** Izuku was fully willing to destroy his own reputation and chance of being the future Symbol of Peace by planning to go public with the information he gathered which implicates his own father for being part of All for One's inner circle. Despite the impending destruction of his own future, Izuku refused to allow All for One to continue getting away with his crimes.
*** Class 1-A had this dilemma [[spoiler: when Izuku is kidnapped.]] With the scars of Bakugou's kidnapping, everyone of them want to help search for Izuku. But Yuuei threatened expulsion if they did so. [[spoiler: Inko solves this by suing Yuuei for criminal negligence and one of her demands was for Class 1-A to give additional assistance in the search.]]
** ''Kidnapping of a Cryptid'':The legal thing for Tsukauchi and Toshinori to do is report the entire truth to their superiors. Which will utterly destroy Izuku's and Inko's lives and careers due to All for One being Hisashi Midoriya. So that forces them to use more indirect methods.

** Izuku, to the point of being almost painful, or even hilarious, to read. Justified though, considering that he mainly couldn't see the [[spoiler:"dad-shaped figure"]] sitting right in front of him.

* VillainHasAPoint: All for One is a horrible person, but he's an extremely perceptive one. A big part of this story, especially the sequel, is how much this trope applies to All for One, as he is in no small part motivated by the most unjust elements of hero society.

** All for One isn't wrong when he points out that Hero society in Japan discriminates against people with stereotypically "villainous" Quirks and that U.A. is effectively "a military academy disguised as a high school."

** All for One's final opinion of the anti-government riots in the finale of ''Kidnapping of a Cryptid''

** Izuku is absolutely mortified that his expose on the government incited the populace into rioting. Hisashi is so proud that his son succeeded in six months [[spoiler: what Hisashi couldn't in 200 years.]]

* BadassBureaucrat: Inko was a fearsome corporate executive who worked with several different hero law firms and time has not made her lose her touch as she effortlessly takes over Ashido and Yaoyorozu's budding fashion line [[spoiler: and sues Nedzu and Yuuei to do her biding.]]

* BankRobbery: One of the early evidence of All for One's existance was the bank robbery of all the names of the First Generation Quirk holders through teleportation. The only proof of the robbery being a security camera recording.

* ChekhovsSkill: All for One mentions missing an elemental Quirk he has which he can't use due to his oxygen mask. [[spoiler:It's the firebreath quirk that Hisashi Midoriya was known to have. After being restored to full health by Eri, he uses it to kill the Sludge Villain and save Izuku.]]

** Izuku is kidnapped after a job interview and was missing for a week! By the time he is rescued, they are almost too late.

** All for One to Shiragaki: Shiragaki reveres his "Sensei" as a kind, anti-establishment rebel, and his ParentalSubstitute. Shiragaki begins grow more unhinged and self-harms when Izuku verbally deconstructs All for One's modus oprendai and details All for One's more horrific atrocities. Izuku correctly pegs Shiragaki being due for a mental collapse when he realizes his Sensei's fallacies and what Sensei actually sees him.
** Stain to the general public: Stain is revered as a "vigilante" willing to stand up to the corrupt and decadent pro-hero systm. Stain unintentionally inspired many people to join the League of Villains in protest. Izuku notes that the League of Villains would have a crippling publicity crisis if it was revealed that Stain was originally a PsychoForHire and ProfessionalKiller for a drug lord.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: This is still the colorful, superhero-filled world of canon, but the government is amazingly corrupt and dystopian. People are detained without trial, hero support tech isn't allowed to be sold on the free market for prosthetics or other reasons, media censorship is rampant, and discrimination and hate crimes are a notable concern for those with inhuman appearance, "villainous" quirks, or the quirkless. This applies to the whole series, but is made much more obvious in the second installment.
* DarkerAndEdgier: While not a DarkFic, the story goes into darker territory than the source material, particularly [[spoiler:when Izuku is kidnapped and tortured]], albeit off-camera.

** For a supervillain who spent around two hundred years spreading terror all across the nation, All For One seems content that he never used his own relatives as part of a eugenics experiment, unlike a certain hero. Izuku contemplates it probably isn't a good sign for Endeavor that even someone like All For One refused to be in the same category as him.

** Shigaraki is genuinely horrified when he founds out what Noumu are [[PoweredByAForsakenChild actually made of]] and what All for One intended for [[FateWorseThanDeath Bakugou.]]

** Having subversive and/or "dangerous" Quirks is practically a mark of Cain. Poor Shishou was discriminated fiercely for having a Brainwashing Quirk. Eri didn't receive any true help in learning how to control her powers as the doctors were more focused on containing her and then there's [[spoiler: All for One. He was originally a vigilante fighting to protect his family and he didn't take being made illegal standing down.]]
** Having Quirks that make you look non-human can make life very difficult. Gang Orca gets malicious comments from children and adults and is prevented from rising in the Hero Rankings due to his appearance. Shu, who looks like he came from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, has limited work options due to his frightening appearance.

** Bakugou warns Izuku to watch out for himself and named dropped this trope. All of Bakugou's cronies have vanished and all they had in common was their association with Bakugou.
** In the past if one person had a quirk then their entire family would become targets.

* InherentInTheSystem: The current Quirk-based society sees that talented people like Izuku are at the bottom if they're born Quirkless. People like Gang Orca or Shu have limited job opportunities and face discrimination for their appearances. Flashy Quirks are put at the top of society whereas people with subtle or dangerous quirks can be treated as potential supervillains.

[[caption-width-right:350:The man was over a century old. There had to be more to it. In hindsight, it hadn’t been one of Izuku’s better ideas. [[note]]Used with Permission by [[https://thefruitloop-chan.tumblr.com/post/182451340311/meeting-i-do-like-the-conversations-with-a the fruitloop-chan]] [[/note]] ]]

[[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Enter Midoriya Izuku]], with brimming determination, thinking that perhaps interrogating the supervillain himself would benefit the betterment of society and hey, maybe he could learn something interesting about the guy to satisfy his own curiosity in the process as well. So it's pretty much a win-win situation, right? Well, except for All For One, but nobody cares about him.

** After a few happy years of marriage, Inko is abandoned by her husband without a word and receives no emotional support to deal with Izuku's ostracization. She has no idea why Izuku was born Quirkless but she believes it was her fault for marrying Hisashi.
** Inko doesn't divorce her husband despite his abandonment of his family because she has no way of supporting herself due to being out of the workforce as long as Izuku had been alive. She has no family to turn to due having no parents and had aged out of the foster system.
** The story makes clear of the vicious discrimination Izuku had to grow up with. It hits close to home that Izuku had classmates, teachers and total strangers disgusted with him for his Quirklessness and constantly putting him down for something completely out of his control.
** Several of Bakugou's former friends are missing without a trance. One of his former friends was abducted by his own grandfather and unrecognizable due to horrific experimentation.

** Izuku is kidnapped after a job interview and was missing for week! By the time he is rescued, they are almost too late.
** [[spoiler: All for One]] is genuinely enraged and horrified at the idea that Izuku could have been killed by a random villain [[spoiler: or have been bullied into suicide]] while he was away.

** All for One to Shiragaki: Shiragaki reveres his "Sensei" as a kind, anti-establishment rebel and his ParentalSubstitute. Shiragaki begins to slowly go more unhinged and self-harms when Izuku verbally deconstructs All for One's modus oprendi and details All for One's more horrific atrocities. Izuku correctly pegs Shiragaki being due for a mental collapse when he realizes his Sensei's fallacies and what Sensei actually sees him.

* KangarooCourt: It is discovered by Izuku and Shu that neither All for One, Stain or any apprehended villain in Tartarus weren't given a trial. There was no warrant or real evidence linking them to their arrests. The fact that charges were never brought has also wasted time as limitation statutes approach. By the time new laws and regulations were put in place, most crimes would be too old to be prosecuted, a large amount of evidence considered illegally gained, and one cannot be charged for a crime retroactively if there was not already a law for it. The one exception to this is most likely murder charges, which never have time limitations.

** All for One is a lot more talkative with Izuku than anyone else, and doesn't take the chance to go [[HannibalLecture Hannibal Lecter]] on him. He's also very concerned with Izuku's health, despite Izuku being a One for All holder and thus supposedly his new archnemesis.
** All for One can follow Izuku with his 'Search' quirk, despite not having met him, and has been tracking him with it for some time. Medical devices also showed that he got stressed when Izuku was in dangerous situations, and his mood improved when talking to Izuku.

* DisproportionateRetribution: As mentioned above, All For One experimenting on kids who'd bullied a quirkless child. [[spoiler:The fact that said quirkless child is his own doesn't make it any less disproportionate.]]
* DistressedDude: Izuku is kidnapped and it ends very badly for him.

** Izuku finds out that the magazines and the companies All for One enjoys are all owned by his estranged father Hisashi Midoriya. Inko and Izuku moved to their neighborhood at Hisashi's insistence with turns out to be monitored by All for One. Hisashi knew and recommended Dr.Tsubasa as Izuku's pediatrician and Dr.Tsubasa sold his son to All for One. Izuku makes the correct conclusion that his father is secretly a criminal but wrongly concludes that he's a high-ranking member of All for One's inner circle. [[spoiler: He is not. He's All for One himself.]]

* ChekhovsSkill: All for One mentions missing an elemental Quirk he has which he can't use due to his oxygen mask. [[spoiler: Guess which quirk Hisashi has and what All for One uses to save Izuku.]]

** Izuku finds out that the magazines and the companies All for One enjoys are all owned by his estranged father Hisashi Midoriya. Inko and Izuku moved to their neighborhood at Hisashi's insistence with turns out to be monitored by All for One. Hisashi knew and recommended Dr.Tsubasa as Izuku's pediatrician and Dr.Tsubasa sold his son to All for One. Izuku makes the correct conclusion that his father is secretly a criminal but wrongly concludes that he's a high-ranking member of All for One's inner circle.

** When Shiragaki sees Izuku in a suit, he has a meltdown in sheer terror and confusion.

** Chapter 3: Motivations of a Cryptid. Izuku finds out that he lived through one of All for One's atrocities when he discovers the fate of childhood bully Tsubasa. Unlike canon InfantImmortality is nonexistent here.

* DramaticIrony: The story hints that All for One [[spoiler: is Izuku's father]] from the beginning, something that Izuku fails to realizes despite finding out every other avenue of All for One's life.

* RelatedIntheAdaptation: [[spoiler: All for One is Izuku's father while in canon, Izuku's father is only described as being overseas.]]