History Fanfic / MyHeroPlaythrough

** Tsu has been telling her parents that the money she brings home is from a part-time job Izuku lined for them, which is a creative but not factually incorrect way to describe going in DungeonCrawling runs into Reflective Dungeons.

* BaitAndSwitch: After the Sports Festival, there's talk of having a particular student transferred from Gen Ed into the Hero Course... Mitsuko Kongou, not Hitoshi Shinso who blatantly sabotaged his fellow competitors.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13243522/1/My-Hero-Playthrough My Hero Playthrough]]'' is a {{Harem}} {{Fanfic}} by Creator/XavonWrentaile, combining ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' and ''Webcomic/TheGamer'' with [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover a sprinkling of characters and ideas from other franchises for good measure]].

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13243522/1/My-Hero-Playthrough My Hero Playthrough]]'' is a {{Fanfic}} by Creator/XavonWrentaile, combining ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' and ''Webcomic/TheGamer'' with [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover a sprinkling of characters and ideas from other franchises for good measure]].

** One time Izuku accidentally made Tsuyu briefly [[GoingCommando go commando]] when testing the [[ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction Equip function]] of his [[{{Hammerspace}} Inventory screen]] on her. Not even his Gamer's Mind spared him from a LuminescentBlush when he realized what just happened.
** Izuku learns by accident that Clairvoyance allows him to SeeTheInvisible, such as Hagakure who's standing nearby in her [[InvisibleStreaker Hero costume]]. He also learns she's ''gorgeous'', as in she "would make most models jealous" gorgeous, and can't help but remark on the {{Irony}} of that.

** The Gamer quantifies Izuku's learning potential like this. Upon Level Up, he gets three Skill Points that he can use to make himself instantly more proficient at any of his Skills. Talent Points are scarcer and even more valuable, as they allow him to give himself a trait that people normally had to be born with in order to be able to manifest, as he did for {{Ki|Manipulation}} and {{Psychokinesis}}.
** DungeonCrawling progress in a given person's Reflective Dungeon – usually marked by defeating a certain number of {{Mooks}} in it – unlocks Affinity points that he or she can use to improve an entire group of related Skills at once.

** "Pony" is simply a nickname here rather than Tsunatori's given name. Before she can say her real name, [[PlotBasedVoiceCancellation a plane flying overheard obscures what she says]].

** In canon, Bakugo viewed Izuku as nothing more than a stepping stone for his own future as a hero, and consistently bullied him in response to Izuku's unwillingness to stop pursuing his own dream. In here, Bakugo ends up being a source for Izuku to use as a motive to push himself forward (for the sake of Mitsuki's wishes more than anything) as a hero after Bakugo's death.

One morning, [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku Midoriya]] woke up to find a [[Webcomic/TheGamer floating box reporting that his accidental injuries from the previous day had healed]]. After struggling through a day full of similar pop-ups, Izuku rushes home to examine this new ability. [[ForWantOfANail As a result, he does not meet All Might and Sludge]]...

* FirstEpisodeTwist: Izuku gets The Gamer and he doesn't meet Toshinori. [[ForWantOfANail As a result of both changes]], Bakugou isn't rescued in time and dies during the Sludge Villain Incident (with Sludge also dying at Endeavor's hands).

* ForWantOfANail:

* BeautifulSingingVoice: Jiro, like canon. Though here her voice is complimented by **Mozart**, who wishes he was still alive to compose songs specifically for Jiro to sing.

* AdaptationalBadass: Rather than getting caught on Kurogiri's trap, Thirteen uses their power to lock Kurogiri's portal in place, preventing him from defending himself and allowing Momo to plant an explosive charge on him.

** Pony's Horn Cannon is slightly different. Canonically, she could control at least four of them at once and had no limit to how many she could fire. Here, she can only fire ten at once, and can only control the three most recently fired. In addition, whereas canon!Pony has two horns on either side of her head resembling gazelle horns, here she has a single horn on her forehead, bringing to mind a unicorn. Possibly justified with the number of horns she can use, as Pony's Quirk isn't canonically introduced until the Joint Training Arc – it may just be that this Pony hasn't trained herself up to that point yet.

** Rikido Sato and Minoru Mineta don't make it into U.A. WordOfGod is that Sato just barely missed the cut and decided to take it as a sign to go to cooking school instead, intending to take over the family bakery. Mineta, on the other hand, got caught trying to sneak into the girl's locker room after the practical exam and was "escorted" out the door. Finding this behavior to be inappropriate for a hero, the teachers then double-checked and found he cheated on the written exam, and failed the practical. They decided to wash their hands of him and reported his perverted antics to the police.[[invoked]]

** Aizawa's Quirk prevents people within his eyesight from activating theirs. It, however, doesn't work on Irregulars like Izuku, which raises concerns amidst the staff initially.

* AssuranceBackfire: Done silently. Izuku is mildly upset when he is described as 'twisting' his classmates' ways of thinking. Tsuyu pats him on the shoulder, but also refuses to look at him, because she can't keep from grinning.

'''Thirteen:''' Well, let's say you were sent to search a partially-collapsed house, and along the way you saw someone under a beam. So you decide to rescue that person instead. This might be the right move, the house could be empty. Or it could be the wrong choice, your team leader knows there is someone in the house, and already have someone else rescuing the person under the beam. By ignoring orders, the person in the house might not make it. Ideally you would report it in. Find out what your leader knows and has planned. Unfortunately, there also might not be time for that.

** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] for Tokiwadai Middle School. While there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with the prestigious [[OneGenderSchool all-girls']] school in itself, and their reputation for producing powerful Quirk users is genuinely well-deserved, their alumnae (specifically their recommendation students) have a suspicious tendency to either become famous heroines or else marry very young and soon after disappear from the public eye. The implication is that getting a recommendation from Tokiwadai basically ''brands'' a girl as prime breeding stock for [[SuperBreedingProgram Quirk Marriages]] and that they're sought after for this very reason when they're older. Todoroki's mother, for example, was a Tokiwadai recommendation recipient and had ''this exact thing'' happen to her. However, there's no evidence suggesting Tokiwadai is doing this deliberately.

** Interestingly {{Averted|Trope}}. In the story's world, Franchise/MarvelUniverse is explicitly fictional, but a few characters from Franchise/TheDCU are confirmed to exists like [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra and David Cain]], and [[spoiler:Harley Quinn]] is a member of the League of Villains. This even affects InUniverse ConversationalTroping – for example, the tropes "DatingCatwoman" and "BoxingLessonsForSuperman" are instead called "Dating ComicBook/BlackCat" and "Karate Lessons for ComicBook/TheTick", respectively.
** Also played with. The Superman March still exists even though Superman is a real person not a fictional character. But he saved Music/JohnWilliams and the Boston Pops from a Villain, so Williams was inspired to write it as a tribute.

** In Chapter 31, Izuku idly notes that the UA gym uniforms come with a hood to keep off rain, marking them as waterproof. In Chapter 36, he uses his jacket to capture roughly two thirds of Ami's water supply and hurl it out of her range.

** The bandages Eri was wearing when she met Izuku, and which he took after Recovery Girl took them off. [[spoiler:Izuku uses them to create a Dungeon and trap Overhaul inside, and the Dungeon is so deep that it isn't until seventeen years later that Overhaul can escape.]]

* CombatPragmatist: During the Heroes vs Villains exercise, Izuku manages to get the capture tape around one of Tsuyu's wrists but is running out of time to deal with the bomb. Rather than continue fighting until he can bind her other wrist, he tapes her arm to a steel pillar because he realized she isn't strong enough to break the metal and would be disqualified if she breaks the tape. He is praised for keeping his mind on the actual goal.

* CoolHelmet: Momo's new hero costume has one. Other than serving as protective headwear, it has built-in containers for protein shakes intended she can use to restore her reserve of lipids for her Quirk in a hurry. It also boasts a complex HeadsUpDisplay connected to a computer loaded with schematics and chemical formulas she can use to create objects with her Quirk that she's yet to memorize.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Tsu's relationship mores are a bit strange, which makes her wonder if it's because she's part frog. For example, when Kyoka mentions in a group chat with the girls that she once jokingly asked Izuku if he was an HaremSeeker given that he hangs out with a lot of their female classmates and none of the guys, Tsu [[DroppingTheBombshell casually admits]] that she wouldn't particularly mind if he does have a harem as long as she's in it. The girls were quite taken aback by her admission.

* DevelopersForesight: The Gamer is an InUniverse example whose mechanics seems designed against typical gamer shortcuts and exploits:

** Trying to start Izuku's dungeon with his usual party triggers a warning him that doing so will forfeit the Quest to clear it with other people, forcing Izuku to do the entire dungeon with Ami, Mikoto, Momo and Ochako instead of doing only the final boss as he first intended.

** Aizawa tells Shinso that leaving his brainwashed bodyguards Ojiro and Hagakure behind was a dumb move, because they wouldn't have been able to help him if he ran into trouble.

* DissonantSerenity: Izuku thanks to the calming effect of The Gamer's Mind, enhancing his already remarkable capacity to keep his wits about himself in an emergency and to think a solution on his feet. It doubles as MundaneUtility by keeping him from panicking when talking to girls... mostly.

** Also a DiscussedTrope. Tsuyu and Ami posit the likely correct hypothesis that Izuku just never learned to trust in guys due to the relentless bullying he suffered from other boys, male teachers that encouraged said bullying, and a father that basically moved out because he's Quirkless – all in comparison to female classmates that mostly ignored him, female teachers that at least tried to stop the bullying, and a mother that was always there for him.

** After Aizawa brings up that he couldn't shut down Izuku's "Quirk", the other teachers suggest that either Izuku wasn't using it at the time, was using it at such a low level as to not be tripped up by its absence, or that Izuku's Quirk is just naturally immune to Aizawa's. Present Mic even brings up that either of them are far more likely than something like All For One giving away a Quirk that'd make him immune to Aizawa's. [[spoiler:Except for Toshinori, who has to play dumb so as not to expose the existence of "Irregulars", AKA people who have powers without Quirks, as a) they value their privacy, and b) they have the power and ability to enforce that, and c) he's a nice guy who's trying to keep it a secret.]]

*** Their first theory is that their improvements is because Izuku's using his tactile telekinesis to directly improve their muscles. Then it devolved into theories about him giving the girls "empowering massages".

** Trying to hold a conversation while performing psychic surgery on a pig carcass results in Izuku accidentally fusing it's gallbladder and heart.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Overhaul would kill a man for little to no reason, to the point that one of his underlings feared [[YouHaveFailedMe death]] if he didn't look after Eri properly. When Hekiji fails to recapture Eri due to [[HopelessBossFight All Might showing up]], not even Overhaul can hold it against him, and notes that what matters is that Hakiji escaped.
* EverythingExceptMostThings: Izuku ponders why All Might stress that the class should stick to constructive criticism since none of them were likely to do otherwise. Then he rattles off several who might do just that and realizes it's probably a good idea.
* EvilDoppelganger: The first level boss of Inko's Dungeon is a dark version of Inko, before she started working out.

** Lampshaded during the match between Izuku and Hitoshi. While Izuku manages to NoSell it due to the Gamer Mind, it's suggested that Hitoshi's order was too specific to work. He ordered Izuku to "walk out of the ring" but rings are ciruclar and the fighting area is square, so the order might not have worked.

* FakeBoobs: Mina notes that Ami seems considerably bustier in her hero outfit than in her underwear. Ami reveals she's got a layer of water underneath her costume to act as armor and backup fuel for her hydrokinetic powers, though it wasn't her choice for there to be more water in her chest than elsewhere. Inko, who was involved in the design, noted that whoever made the costume took a few liberties with it during manufacturing time and offered to get it fixed, but Ami declined after realizing the carrying more water on her ''is'' an advantage when using her Quirk.

** Eraserhead and Harley Quinn. He's a Pro Hero, she's a Villain. He's rational to almost TheSpock levels but has a ComicallySerious side, she's PerkyFemaleMinion [[BunnyEarsLawyer but can be dangerously rational and resourceful when the situation calls for it]]. They both have Quirk-cancelling powers, but with opposed activation conditions – that is, whereas Aizawa's Erasure [[PowerNullifier keeps others' Quirks from activating]] as long as he stares at their users, Harley's "Scrubs" [[AntiMagic unravels any superpower that touches her]]. Also, since that neither of them has a superpowered mean of attack, they [[FightsLikeANormal rely heavily on martial arts]], CombatPragmatism, and psychological trickery to get the upper hand in combat, [[spoiler:which is why their fight at the USJ was a long-drawn affair as neither could easily get an edge on the other.]]
** Izuku and Harley too, unexpectedly enough. Both are supportive of their respective teams, have a knack to suggest creative ways others can use their powers more effectively, and they inspire others to use their heads rather than just rely on their Quirks. The difference is that they're both on opposite sides of the law, and Harley is more of an "improve as I say ''or else''" kinda mentor if you aren't the object of her affections.

** After recognizing his new power, Izuku rushes home to study it. As a result, he is not there to slow down Sludge or inspire All Might and Bakugou dies.

** In the ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' manga, 13's gender was originally obfuscated but later confirmed [[spoiler: to be female]]. In this story Harley reveals that 13 is non-binary (specifically stated as gender neutral).

* GoingCommando: An accidental example. When Izuku tries to equip Tsuyu with her workout outfit via The Gamer's user interface for the first time, things didn't go exactly to plan. Unlike when he uses Equip on himself, the action instantly swapped ''all'' of Tsuyu's current clothes with the set stored in his Inventory. Given that the latter ''didn't'' include undergarments, this left an unusually sheepish Tsuyu rather uncomfortable and asked him to switch them back. Izuku [[DelayedReaction didn't get it at first]], but when he realized what just happened, not even his Gamer's Mind could keep him from going [[LuminescentBlush red as an apple]].

* GoldenSnitch: Name dropped by Izuku. Much like canon, whoever gets first place in the first Sports Festival event is worth more points than everyone else combined. Though unlike canon, Izuku is only worth slightly more than everyone else combined rather than a ludicrous amount like ten million.

** One can make a case that ''Tsuyu'' is the real HaremSeeker of the story, albeit one by proxy. She has no real objection with the idea of Izuku getting himself a harem as long as she's in it and none of his hypothetical other girlfriends are "terrible evil bitches". Curiously enough, Tsu seems to be more against the idea of Izuku playing the field than him having long term, ''actual'' relationships with other women.

** Inko, Kyoka and Ochako manage to use Inko's Dungeon's boss' (a double of Inko, made of her regrets and darker thoughts) weapon against it: while Inko engages in a tug-of-war with the boss over the weapon (which Ochako has used her Quirk on) Kyoka shatters it, and Inko lets go while Ochako undoes her Quirk. This causes the boss to stab itself with the pieces.

* IKnowMortalKombat: Mikoto adapts very quickly to the peculiarities of The Gamer thanks to her experience playing videogames.

** The Gamer can turn Izuku into this if he's willing to burn through his increasingly valuable Skill Points to do it. One time he panicked when an irate girl (Cassandra) ranted at him via [[UsefulNotes/SignedLanguage sign language]] and he immediately dumped points into his ASL and JSL Skills in order to converse with her and hopefully calm her down... only to find out seconds later that she can hear him just fine. Not really wasted points in his opinion, however, as that they both ended up as classmates.

** Two [[TheBully bullies]] in Tsuyu's middle school were twin sisters with similar Quirks that allow them to {{Charm|Person}} people of either gender that looks at them in the eye. Unfortunately for their chances to easily get a date, the sister that can only charm boys at a glance only likes girls and vice-versa, and neither is particularly enthused with the idea of [[IncompatibleOrientation hitting on people outside their preference]] with her Quirk for the other's sake.

* KungFuWizard: Izuku is learning unarmed combat through The Gamer, and also longer ranged attacks and personal enhancements via Ki and Psionic powers.

** PlayedWith. While plenty of adults attended Katsuki's funeral, only two kids his age showed up despite the fact Aldera Junior High officially suspended classes so the students could go to the service. Of course, Izuku was one of them, and the other was a girl later revealed to be Ami Mizuno.
** It gets even sadder in Chapter 19 when Ami reveals that she actually hated Katsuki, and only attended to his funeral because he was still a schoolmate and she at least respected all the work he put into his studies. Her words make it very clear, however, that her main concern was Izuku and she wanted to be there for him just in case giving Katsuki a last goodbye would prove too much for him.

** Usually abused heavily by Izuku. He continually gets around the intent of the Lions and Gazelles game and his teachers have to let it through in the first instance since it wasn't forbidden. They try to block future attempts but Izuku just finds new ways around it. All Might was relieved that during the Heroes vs Villains exercise, Izuku was placed on the ''Heroes'' team where there is less opportunity to invoke a loophole. But inspired by Izuku, Kirishima has his partner maneuver the bomb to the attack path of their opponents, causing them to destroy it and netting his team the win since that was an explicit disqualification condition (Kirishima and his partner were placed on the ''Villains'' team). That loophole is since forbidden.

* LuckBasedMission: {{Invoked|Trope}} as part of the first joint training exercise in UA Hero Course, based on how frequently Pro Heroes have to team up with others that they barely know, if at all, in an emergency. The simulation consists in a pair of students playing as the heroes try to stop another playing the villains while making sure each pair is composed by one student from Class 1-A and another from 1-B to prevent previous knowledge of the other's Quirk and skills from being a factor while encouraging each to communicate and plan against their classmates in the opposite team. Izuku was lucky to draw Tsu as his class's member of the duo he went up against.

** [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Ichiraku Noodle Shop]] exists as a modern ramen place located nearby Inko and Izuku's apartment. It's still being run by Teuchi (although he's semi-retired) and his daughter Ayame, the latter possessing a Quirk that lets her cut edible meat better than any knife without tools.

** Pony has a single, spiral horn sprouting from her forehead that she can shoot off and control. Seems fairly normal, for a Quirk. In Lesson 58, she reveals that when she was younger, her grandmother told her "our family was unicorn ranchers in France and Austria, long time ago." Pony has dismissed this as a lie to help her feel better. Except supernatural beings without Quirks do exist, so....

* MindOverMatter: The first supernatural power Izuku gains via The Gamer is Telekinesis. He make Tactile Telekinesis his goto power and his supposed Quirk, due to it covering for a lot of things he can do. And given what Inko's Quirk is, he has an extra defense via the common case of Quirk inheritance.

** [[invoked]] Also a DiscussedTrope, in Chapter 8. Izuku's Party wondered about several pieces of FridgeLogic involved in this trope, such as "is the money a forgery?" and "if not, where does it come from?" Based on the dates stamped on the cash – often old but still-valid bills and coins in any odd combination, rather than the most efficient – they arrive to the hypothesis that Reflective Dungeons simply bring back money that was physically lost or destroyed in the real world. To verify the authenticity of their Dungeon-obtained money, Inko put a relatively large sum of it in a paper bag and handed it over to the police, claiming she found it in the trash. Two weeks later, the police returned it to them (after deducting for taxes, of course), which they took as a strong indication that the bills were neither forgeries nor traceable to a real source.

** Cassandra's match with Hatsume went more or less the same way Iida's match with her did in canon. She did not take it any better than Iida did at Hatsume using their match to show off her inventions than fight properly.

** Kirishima is commended for tricking Shishida into breaking the fake bomb, but then told to never do it again because it's too unreliable in the real world, especially against an opponent with an unknown or not fully-understood Quirk.

** Implied to have happened a ''lot'' to Izuku in middle school, explaining why Ami explicitly apologizes to Izuku (via Guild Chat) for not picking him first for her team at the USJ. She explains she couldn't openly justify picking him before Ochako, as the latter's gravity-defying Quirk makes for an obvious choice for an unknown rescue training scenario when compared to his ''publicly known'' skills. Ami reassures Izuku that she would have picked him in a heartbeat were it not for the need of secrecy about The Gamer, but Izuku instead reassures her that she doesn't need to worry about that.

* PlausibleDeniability: Izuku is very fond of this, trying to set up plausible (in universe) explanations for his implausible (in universe) abilities. Referenced by name in Lesson 28, when Izuku jumps high enough to get a view of a maze from above, when he is actually going to use his clairvoyance to have a top down view or peek ahead as needed.

* ReadTheFreakingManual: Averted and played with. After deciding to be a Hero, the first thing Izuku does is go into the menu and read the entire manual. He gets a bunch of stat buffs for doing so, along with a sarcastic message that "who reads the manual?". Then it turns out the manual has deliberate missing parts for elements Izuku didn't have access to at the time. Complaining about it gives another bonus with a message that "real life doesn't come with a complete manual."

** Tsuyu is naturally immune to the poisonous oils she secretes. Although when asked, she doesn't know if that still applies if she ingests them.

** The Boss Fight of the first level of Izuku's own Reflective Dungeon takes place in the rooftop of a representation of Aldera Junior High.
** The Boss Fight of the first level of Cassandra's Reflective Dungeon takes place in the rooftop of a representation of the Wayne Tech skyscraper in Gotham City.

* SchoolIdol: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Mikoto feels that her Tokiwadai schoolmates put her on a pedestal and only her friend Kuroko being the exception (which is not quite a good thing because this is ''[[LovableSexManiac Kuroko]] Shirai'' we're talking about). Dropping this label and making real friends who treat her as an equal are a big part of her reason to join UA.

* SeenItAll: After everything Inko has seen since her son got The Gamer, [[spoiler:Overhaul]] doesn't rank that high in the "scary" scale.
* SeeTheInvisible: Izuku learns his Clairvoyance can function as this when he gets an eyeful of [[{{Invisibility}} Hagakure]] in her hero costume, which consists in [[InvisibleStreaker gloves, boots, and nothing else]].
* SenselessSacrifice: In the non-canon omake where Izuku and Shigaraki end up in a MutualKill, the narration makes it painfully obvious that retribution for Tsuyu's death is the only thing that came out of it. Shigaraki was completely redundant to All For One after All Might's death, and without him or Izuku around, his plans are likely to come into fruition unopposed.

** Izuku's Ki Detection skill serves to a similar purpose. Due to this, he can use Cassandra's power as an excuse to justify his findings while keeping his real powers a secret. [[spoiler:This falls apart when Kurogiri's forced teleportation separates him for Cassandra and the need to track down Villains hiding in the snow outweighs his need for secrecy, as Mordred [[SpottingTheThread didn't fail to notice]].]]

* ShipSinking: Izuku's parents. Their marriage has been one existing only on paper for a while, but Inko finally files for divorce in chapter 12.

* SnowballFight: In Chapter 23, Izuku not-so-fondly remembers one time back in elementary school when they could have an actual snowball fight after an unusually large snowfall and Katsuki and his group put rocks in some of the snowballs. [[spoiler:Izuku borrows the idea and puts lots of rocks in a five-meter-tall snowman made by Ami's powers to both catch Villains off-guard when they predictably blasted at it, and to ease the strain the stunt had on her powers by reducing the amount of snow she had to manipulate at once.]]

* TheSpeechless: One half of Cassandra's hybrid Quirk gives her CombatClairvoyance, but renders her completely mute as a side-effect, unable to produce any sound even while laughing or crying. She's fluent with [[UsefulNotes/SignedLanguage ASL/JSL]], but at the start only Midoriya (thanks to The Gamer), Shoji and All Might can understand her in Class 1-A, so the former tends to act as her mouthpiece when he's around. For other times, she carries a pad and a pen. In Chapter 19, being able to speak telepathically thanks to the Guild Chat feature reduces her to TearsOfJoy.

** When Izuku, Cassandra, and Mo-chan arrive at Gran Torino’s for their internship, the enigmatic hero having come out of semi-retirement to make his offer to them, Gran Torino reveals that he not only knows Izuku is an Irregular, but also that he’s a Gamer, despite All Might having never told him about Izuku. This is because Gran Torino was able to watch playback from the USJ attack, and was able to spot things like Izuku’s line of sight slipping off to the side, and him addressing someone or something not present through his lip movements, as well as hand-gestures that all indicate that Izuku is responding to some form of interface that only he can see. This is partly because Gran Torino has met Gamers before, and was particularly close to one of them, so he’s aware of how their powers work, and what signs to spot.

* StagingAnIntervention: {{Subverted|Trope}}. When Kyoka is brought to Izuku and Inko's apartment to get the InternalReveal about The Gamer, she asked to sit to the head of the table with the two of them, plus other six of her classmates, all of them with serious expressions on their faces. Kyoka tries to joke away how nervous the arrangement makes her feel by pointing it looks like an intervention before Izuku explains to her why they asked her to come over.

* StealthHiBye: The Flash does this to Izuku after the first day of the Sports Festival. Izuku chases [[GenderFlip Berri]] to get her autograph, until they reach the Pacific Ocean. He stops, and she vanishes into the distance. Then she makes him jump when she asks from behind why he stopped.

* SuperpowerLottery: Izuku's power as The Gamer that allows him to treat reality as an RPGMechanicsVerse. This includes the ability to see himself as an RPG character and control his stat growth, heal almost anything with a good night's sleep, resist most mental attacks, store a limited number of items in an [[BagOfHolding extra-dimensional space]]. He also can invite people into his party, giving them a limited version of the first power and the ability to make sure other party members are in good shape. And that's before he starts getting Quests to improve those powers or unlock new game-like abilities (like one resembling Item World from the ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' series), or using the first power gain Telekinesis and Ki powers. The main things keeping him from being overpowered is that he started so far behind his universe's power curve to begin with and that The Gamer follows game conventions to a T – that is, grinding and good resource/time management how-to are a must.

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Upon reaching the end of the first level of [[Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun Mikoto's]] Dungeon, the Heroes in training are confronted by the boss, [[TheDreaded the Tokiwadai Dorm Supervisor]]. Mikoto freezes in fear. The others prepare to fight. [[Franchise/SailorMoon Ami]] calmly points out to the boss that Mikoto has graduated from Tokiwadai and is a UA student. As such Mikoto doesn't have a curfew, and even if she did, the Dorm Supervisor no longer has the authority to enforce it. When the Dorm Supervisor argues that they are in Tokiwadai uniforms, Ami explains that it is an illusion (Izuku having already confirmed that their tracksuits were unchanged on his Inventory screen), and she might want to check if one of the Tokiwadai student is trying to distract her. This ends the illusion, at which point the boss congratulates Mikoto and leaves.

* ThemeMusicPowerUp: Izuku narrates what he is doing in time to the theme music playing in his head. Namely lifting the miniature iceburg Todoroki trapping him in, and then cutting/tearing it in half. Except in this case the theme music he is hearing isn't his own. [[AwesomeMusic/{{Superman}} It is Superman's]].

** In Chapter 21, both Aizawa and All Might advise Class 1-A to go straight home and rest in preparation for some unspecified "special training" the next day. Given how hard regular training in UA already is, the fact they were forewarned like this told the entire class that the "special" in special training can be read as ''specially grueling''.

* TricksterMentor: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. After the reveal of the multi-layered SecretTest under the Quirk Assessment Test, a good portion of the 1-A student openly questioned if Aizawa was fit to be their teacher. It took the widely-respected All Might stepping in and explaining Aizawa's methods for them to settle down. Further deconstructed in that UA's staff had told Aizawa that he wasn't allowed to do that anymore, so he actually gets into some trouble over it.

* VigilanteMan: {{Discussed|Trope}}. As in canon, performing heroics using one's Quirk without a Hero License (nor the permission of a Pro Hero who will take responsibility for their actions) is illegal and [[ToBeLawfulOrGood whether or not this is a good thing]] gets similarly explored. For example, in Chapter 21, Izuku stopped an armed robbery without using his powers because he was worried about getting charged with Vigilantism. Mikoto definitively didn't like the fact he knowingly risked getting shot just to follow the law and thinks he should have used his powers regardless in order to make things safer for everybody involved. While Izuku was right that martial arts were more than enough to properly deal with such a low-level threat, the unvoiced question of what would he do in a similar situation but against Villains too powerful to be stopped by BadassNormal means went unanswered.

* VillainRespect: The League of Villains to Aizawa during the USJ incident, similarly to canon.

* WhatIf: Some chapters are ended with non-canonical omakes showing what could have happened if events would have taken a different course.
** The "BadEnding #1" omake. If Izuku hadn't make it to the Hero Course, he would've lost The Gamer, kept his KiManipulation and MindOverMatter skills, and made it into UA's General Course in hopes of one day moving into the Hero Course by his own merits. However, his absence from Class 1-A would have turned the USJ Incident into a ''disaster'' resulting in the death of several Pro Heroes, including All Might and Eraserhead, and at least five students including Tsuyu. Then Izuku would have JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope, and after three months of insane training sharpening his skills with the single-minded purpose of exacting bloody vengeance for her death, he would have found Shigaraki and ''vaporized'' his head and torso without a care for [[MutualKill his own lethal wounds claiming his life soon afterwards]]. What's worse is that it would've been AllForNothing: All For One openly states that since All Might was dead, he didn't need Shigaraki anymore, and was planning to get rid of him anyway, so other than avenging Tsuyu's death, all Izuku really accomplished was to remove himself from the equation and leave All For One with no real opposition.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: The state of Izuku and Tsu's relationship after they got into U.A. This is something of a {{Deconstruct|edTrope}}ion. For his side of things, Izuku has no romantic experience and not even a good model for a working relationship due to his parents' failing marriage and lacks even secondhand experience as a result of his FriendlessBackground. In Tsu's case, she partially got a PromotionToParent helping raising her little siblings due to [[WhenYouComingHomeDad her parents' work constantly keeping them away from home]], which gave her a perhaps excessively pragmatic and conciliating personality. This combined with her already unusual sense of values and her consideration for other girls similarly interested in Izuku – especially Ami who has the most obvious crush on him – prompted her to refrain from defining her relationship with him as a way to not discourage them from [[{{Polyamory}} getting together with Izuku alongside herself]]. Again, an [[DeliberateFlawRetcon unusual sense of values]].

* WorkplaceAcquiredAbilities: Cassandra thinks that Ojiro's unexpected leadership skills come for his experience directing martial arts classes at a dojo.

* YouDoNotWantToKnow: One time Izuku noticed the anticipatory looks he was getting from the girls in a study group, including Ami and Ochako sporting blushes on their faces. He really wanted to ask what they were talking about before he arrived, but he decided against it. The Gamer rewarded his wisdom with a point to his Intuition stat. A later chapter reveals they were brainstorming possible explanations for Cassandra's sudden improvement after becoming friends with Izuku and arrived to the theory he was giving her and Tsuyu "empowering massages" with his tactile telekinesis.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Referenced by Aizawa, who states Shinso's actions during the first round of the Sports Festival[[note]]Using Ojiro and Hagakure to get through the maze then forcing them to remain in place for several minutes so they couldn't finish on time[[/note]] were no different than a villain shooting his minions because he didn't need them any more.

* {{Zeerust}}: Momo's MadScientistLaboratory, Izuku describes it as looking like the movies from the 2170s that tried to look like the films of 1950s.[[note]]The story takes place an unspecified time in the 2200s, implied to be the 2220s or 2230s[[/note]]

* DatingCatwoman: {{Discussed|Trope}} among All Might's fans as a possible explanation among all the InUniverse EpilepticTrees about why he went to college in America rather than staying in Japan. [[ConversationalTroping The trope itself is named]] by Izuku, however, due to at least part of Franchise/TheDCU being non-fictional here, it's called "Dating Black Cat" instead after the [[ComicBook/BlackCat eponymous character]] from ''Franchise/SpiderMan''.

* HomeBase: Izuku, Inko, and Tsuyu turn the first Dungeon they clear – a very nice U.A.-brand mechanical pencil given to Izuku as a birthday present – into one of these. The kids continue to use it to train physically, and they all load it up with furniture and other amenities. Izuku even calls it "[[ShoutOut The]] [[PunnyName Pencil]] [[Franchise/{{Superman}} of Solitude]]". It has the added advantage that he can carry it around, and when he enters it, anyone currently in his party is pulled in as well. A later upgrade grants Izuku the ability to create a "Guild Hall" out of such cleared Dungeons, provided they meet certain size criteria and that [[MoneySink they pony up one billion yen]].

* PocketDimension: Just like in the manhwa, The Gamer allows Izuku to create Instant Dungeons with enemies to grind, but not quite in the same way. Unlike the originals that are anchored to a location, Izuku's "Reflective Dungeons" are created from an object or a person in a way similar to the Item and Chara Worlds in ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}''. He also uses the first Reflective Dungeon he and his party cleared – based on a high-end mechanical pencil he got for his 15th birthday that he always carries with him – as a portable HomeBase that they later furnished with a table, chairs, a bookshelf, and other odds and ends. He calls it "[[ShoutOut The]] [[PunnyName Pencil]] [[Franchise/{{Superman}} of Solitude]]".

** [[invoked]] Also a DiscussedTrope. Izuku's Party wondered about several pieces of FridgeLogic involved in this trope, such as "is the money a forgery?" and "if not, where does it come from?" Based on the dates stamped on the cash – often old but still-valid bills and coins in any odd combination, rather than the most efficient – they arrive to the hypothesis that Reflective Dungeons simply bring back money that was physically lost or destroyed in the real world. To verify the authenticity of their Dungeon-obtained money, Inko put a relatively large sum of it in a paper bag and handed it over to the police, claiming she found it in the trash. Two weeks later, the police returned it to them (after deducting for taxes, of course), which they took as a strong indication that the bills were neither forgeries nor traceable to a real source.

Even [[InvisibleMan Hagakure]], whose eyes I couldn't see.

** Izuku's plan to defeat Overhaul relies on the Villain's pride, anger, and agression. It goes off without a hitch.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Tomura Shigaraki. [[spoiler:Is he just as crazy and delusional as in canon, or is he another Gamer?]]

* OutOfTheFryingPan: [[spoiler:Overhaul escapes the zombie apocalypse Dungeon Izuku trapped him in, he finds he is trapped in a tiny room and to survive he will need to use his Quirk on his own waste.]]

* SpottingTheThread: Mo-chan notes during the USJ attack that Izuku displayed abilities that definitely don't fit with his alleged "Tactile Telekinesis" Quirk. She keeps her observations to herself because a) she realizes that Izuku is putting the safety of their classmates and teachers over whatever reason he has to keep his real powers secret, b) they ''are'' in a life-or-death situation so anything not immediately relevant to solve it will have to wait for later, and c) she knows from experience that TheyreCalledPersonalIssuesForAReason.

* InterfaceSpoiler: A curious example where the interface in question is an InUniverse one. In the "'Best' route" non-canonical WhatIf omake, the description of the "Grand Harem Route" Mandatory Quest ([[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer really]]) includes the names [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Tohsaka Rin and "Penryu" Saber]], which has interesting implications considering that "Penryu Modura" aka [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha Mordred Pendragon]] has been adapted as a first-year U.A. student.

** [[LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex Mikoto]] [[Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun Misaka]] is in Tsuyu's group for the entrance exam's practical, and another Class 1-A member. She also attended Tokiwadai, in this universe a heroine preparatory middle school. She also mentions her friend/AbhorrentAdmirer Kuroko – which makes her shake.

** [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha Mordred Pendragon]], here having her name adapted as [[ButNotTooForeign Penryu Modura]][[labelnote:*]]Though chapter 24 reveals that "Penryu Modura" is the Nihonized version of her original name of Mordred Pendragon[[/labelnote]], is mentioned in the practicals as well and interacts with Cassandra. She becomes the fourth and final Class 1-A substitution.

* MutuallyFictional: Canon!Izuku and Bakugou appear as Bosses in a Reflective Dungeon. An Omake in the same chapter has canon!Izuku experiencing the fight as a dream, commenting on the oddness of seeing Momo wearing "biker's leathers and a helmet", and fighting [[Franchise/SailorMoon Sailor Mercury]] and a girl wielding electromagnetic powers that Shoto (of all people) identified as Mikoto Misaka from the [[LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex RailDex]] series. Canon!Bakugou subsequently mentally wonders how he and canon!Izuku had the same dream.

* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: With a sprinkle of PunnyName. Modura Penryu is based on [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha Mordred Pendragon]], where "Mordred" is usually pronounced as "Modoreddo" in Japanese, and "ryu" is Japanese for "dragon".

* ConversationalTroping: There's a reason they named their Guild "The Knights of the {{Meta|Guy}}". [[spoiler:They initially considered Meta Knights]], but decided against it to avoid potential backlash from Nintendo.]]

* MysteriousWoman: The unnamed owner of the bookstore in Chapter 21. She's a RavenHairIvorySkin StatuesqueStunner with long hair in a HimeCut. She wears a CostumePorn-worthy silk {{kimono|Fanservice}} to work. Her store carries everything from typical second-hand novels to some valuable antique pieces, including more than a few that Izuku can use as Skill Books [[spoiler:and a real SpellBook for actual magic that he can't use but still bought in order to research it]]. And right out of the gate, she's proved immune to The Gamer's Analyze function, prompting the interface to suggest [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane she's either ridiculously powerful or has a really, really good information-obfuscating Quirk]]. She tellingly seemed to focus more on Izuku than on Tsuyu or Ami when deciding whether or not to grant the latter's request to see the store's restricted section. Given that the character seems to be based on (or actually be) [[HotWitch Yuuko]] [[MysteriousPast Ichihara]] from ''Manga/XxxHolic'', this trope isn't really a surprise.