History Fanfic / OfQuirksAndMagic

Izuku Midoriya has no idea what he's getting into when his former ChildhoodFriend and bully, Katsuki Bakugo, pressures him into creeping into an abandoned, dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of town. He doesn't chicken out like his bully anticipates, instead finding his way into a library. There, Izuku is compelled to swipe a brilliant red book written in a strange language from the shelf before darting out. That's when a freak storm blows in and drags Izuku away in a rush of muddy water. Clinging to a log for dear life, the poor, Quirkless kid thinks he's finished as he's swept beneath the churning stream.

He comes to in the hospital, having been tended to by one [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange Doctor Stephen Strange.]] Unfortunately, Strange had not saved Izuku in time, as the boy's hands had been crushed in the accident, leaving them trembling and nearly useless. Now legally a cripple, Izuku thinks his dreams are kaput until the day he's to be released from the hospital when Strange offers him an alternative: become a hero with magic in place of a Quirk. And so one powerless boy takes his first steps towards becoming a Master of the Mystic Arts to protect his dimension and all others.

** In-canon, the Nomus are humans that have been altered irreparably through mad-science and All For One's Quirk. Here, they are Mindless Ones ({{Humanoid Abomination}}s made from humans corrupted by Dormammu's power) enhanced by All For One, turning the Nomus designed to kill All Might as a bigger juggernaut than in-canon, All Might needing a power boost by Doctor Strange's magic just to fight on an even playing field.
* AdaptationalBadass: While Izuku was impressive in-canon with the power of "One For All" and the HeroicWillpower to wield it, the Izuku here possesses powers that much better compliment his analytical mind. Having been taught by the greatest sorcerer in this dimension for 18 months (one that encourages a JackOfAllTrades skillset and the flexibility to use them all in any practical situation), Izuku has become a ChildProdigy in the use of a power that no Quirk-user in his class can properly comprehend or anticipate, experience to danger that allows him to adapt quickly when the class has their first encounter with the League of Villains and has since met with various high-ranking pros ranging from All Might to Iron Man and Spider-Man. This results in Izuku becoming one of the top-three on the Entrance Exam's score-board with [[SuperpowerLottery an impressive, powerful and extremely versatile "quirk"]], a positive personality that endears him to nearly all of his classmates and "TheAce" status in his class and possibly the rest of the Hero-Course.

** Ryou's "Ghost Body" Quirk allows him to enter the astral plane full-bodied. Since he is unfamiliar with sorcery, not only does he have a different name for the astral plane, but he assumes Izuku's ability to astral-project is just a Quirk similar to his own.

* TheCameo: When Izuku visits the stands for Stark Expo, he meets Generalissimo, the Grandfather of modern Pro Heroes - also known as Creator/StanLee. Fittingly, his Quirk is about making his words reality, and he gives Izuku good counsel when he is in doubt.

* CentralTheme: The coping of trauma. Stephen repeatedly mentions that while pain is an inevitability, it is how people process and deal with hardship that defines them. While the likes of Ikiji and Kaecilius give in to their pain and use sorcery for selfish purposes, it is Izuku's desire to learn magic to prevent and alleviate the suffering ''of others'' in-spite of his hard life and crippling injury that led to Stephen choosing Izuku to be his apprentice.

* DoesNotLikeMagic: Tomura possess and knee-jerk dislike for Ikiji and his contributions to the League, with Kurogiri being more tolerant but still uneased by him. Tomura describes this as compared magic to "cheat codes", taking out [[VictoryIsBoring the satisfaction of victory by making it arbitrarily easier]].

** In this story, many of Marvel's heroes are active in America and highly-ranked, with Iron Man as America's Number Two Hero and Spider-Man as the Number 10 Hero. The characters themselves seem to be primarily based on their depictions in the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse''.

** Izuku's adoration for heroes is one of his defining traits. He knows nearly everything about all but the most obscure heroes off the top of his head and rattles it off without a second thought. His first response to the arrival of any hero is to {{Squee}} and he's an especially hardcore fan for All Might.

** Power Loader chastises Hatsume for trying to produce an AI-based on Izuku's brain patterns, listing Ultron as an example of the potential danger such a thing could cause and forces her to dismantle it. [[spoiler:His worry is based on experience: he helped create Ultron.]]

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: To convince Aizawa that what he and Izuku really ''can'' do magic, Strange grabs him and vanished, Nedzu assuming that he took him on a brief trip through the multiverse. They reappear only moments, Aizawa shaken but otherwise convinced. Considering [[TimeMaster Stephen has mastery over the Eye of Agamotto and over time magic]], it is very likely that they were gone much longer than from Izuku, Nedzu and All Might's perspective.
--> '''Doctor Strange''': Have you ever seen ''that'' in a talent show before?

* OutsideContextProblem: As versatile and unpredictable the world of Quirks [[spoiler: and aliens, if WordOfGod is to be believed in the case of Thor]] can be, magic is still kept a secret to the rest of the population. Since most superpowers in this world are something one is born with and is usually relegated to a single ability that requires training and imagination to be used productively, magic being something that anyone can learn with an open mind, imagination and the right kind of teachers and the ''ridiculous'' number of applications that can come from it by comparison, any pro-hero that does not have prior knowledge of magic can easily be overwhelmed by the concept alone, much less when encountering a sorcerer with a villain's intent, and even then their best chance is to have a magic-user on their side.

* PerceptionFilter: The Sanctum Sanctorum is protected with a spell that makes it appear as a rickety old abandoned house and preventing those who aren't magically-attuned from interacting with its contents. The fact that Izuku could proves he has an innate talent for magic.
* ThePowerOfHate: Izuku is apprehensive in learning the Bolts of Bedevilment because it requires him to tap into his negative emotions like anger and hatred, having personally met Ikiji and worried that he will turn out like him if he allows himself to dwell on such emotions. Stephen assures him that Izuku has the HeroicWillpower that makes him different from Ikiji, something he is proven right about as Izuku learns how to use the spell and uses it to fight evil.

* ProperlyParanoid: Power Loader refuses to let Mei create an AI-based on Izuku's brain patterns, pointing out the destruction a similar AI, Ultron, wreaked in the past.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: Stephen intentionally leaves the Eye of Agamotto out in the open at the library and has Wong called away when Izuku would be there, [[BatmanGambit knowing that Izuku would be curious enough about it to look into the Book of Cagliostro and would try to use the Eye himself with Wong no longer there to supervise him]] just to see what would happen. The results reveal to the others that Izuku is smart and gifted enough in sorcery to comprehend the instructions and activate the Eye despite only being a disciple. When confronted for why he would do something as reckless as dabble in [[TimeMaster time-magic]], Izuku admits to having thought of many different applications for such power in the case of saving lives and averting disasters.
* ShockAndAwe: By the time he attends U.A., Izuku's most powerful offensive spell is the Bolts of Bedevilment, which shoots a burst of high-voltage electricity comparable to Kaminari's in intensity. Kaminari notices this during the Entrance Exam and becomes mildly jealous, his own Quirk electricity-based, but also a danger to his allies due to his inability to aim it like Izuku can.

* SupportPartyMember: When paired with All Might, Doctor Strange takes on this role, using his magic to protect and provide a boost to the already near-unstoppable All Might. This makes more sense in present-day, All Might's injury and passing his Quirk onto Kirishima making him much weaker and more vulnerable.

** Izuku winds up becoming this to Class 1-A (and the U.A. student body in-general), being regarded as the first sorcerer in U.A.'s history of enrollment, with implications that he will be the first pro-hero who's powers are magical instead of Quirk or [[ScienceHero science]]-based. Of course, since [[{{Masquerade}} the existence of magic (and the psychological baggage that comes with it) is kept a secret from a majority of the population]], Izuku is seen more as TheAce for [[SuperpowerLottery having a "Quirk" with an unusually high number of different applications to it]].

* TranquilFury: While Stephen is usually a TricksterMentor at his best and a SinkOrSwimMentor at his worst, he is usually an affable man that forgives the antics of his mentors. Whenever someone tries to harm his students or if they do something especially careless, his rage is described as "like a cold yet righteous fury", something Izuku sees first hand [[spoiler:when he [[CurbStompBattle single-handedly dispatches the League of Villains when they invade Kamar-Taj]]]].

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: After the Kamar-Taj weathers the League of Villains' attack on it, Izuku wonders if he'll ever end up like Ikiji: corrupted and consumed by a lust for power. Strange assures him that this will never happen, as Izuku's heart and desire to be a hero are too strong.

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Wong asks Strange what makes Izuku different from Strange's previous pupil, who became an evil follower of Dormammu. Strange responds that Izuku's heroic heart is too strong for him to succumb to those kinds of dark influences, even as Izuku worries about Wong's concerns.

* OnlyThePureOfHeart: When Stephen explains to Wong that Izuku's [[IncorruptiblePurePureness indomitable heart]] is why he chose him to be his apprentice, Wong decides to put him through the Test of Heart to be sure. Izuku is tasked with closing the lid of the Flaming Foo Furnace of Fujian, a powerful relic that summons foo dogs composed of fire. Along with the foo dogs, Wong uses the Stygian Sceptre of Seamless Shadow to conjure illusions that take the form of Izuku's guilt and insecurities. [[spoiler: Izuku manages to do it when Stephen's Cloak of Levitation carries him out of the scepter's smoke and above the foo dog's range, proving himself both worthy by completing the test and revealing that the notoriously fickle Cloak had chosen him as an alternate wielder.]]

* SecretTestOfCharacter: Stephen intentionally leaves the Eye of Agamotto out in the open at the library and has Wong called away when Izuku would be there, [[BatmanGambit knowing that Izuku would be curious enough about it to look into the Book of Cagliostro and would try to use the Eye himself with Wong no longer there to supervise him]] just to see what would happen. The results reveal to the others that Izuku is smart and gifted enough in sorcery to comprehend the instructions and activate the Eye despite only being a disciple. When confronted for why he would do something as reckless as dabble in [[TimeMaster time-magic]], Izuku admits to having thought of many different applications for such power in the case of saving lives and averting disasters, further proving his IncorruptiblePurePureness.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13051044/1/Of-Quirks-and-Magic Of Quirks and Magic]]'' is a ''Franchise/MarvelComics''/''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' FusionFic written by [=MysticMartyr=] that combines the Marvel Universe and the Quirk-filled world of My Hero Academia into one. It follows Izuku's perilous journey to become a spell-slinging savant and defender of humanity from both villains and the forces beyond.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Aizawa is known for being a ProperlyParanoid PragmaticHero, so when someone as young as Izuku, who is repeatedly referred to as a "late-bloomer" with [[StrongAndSkilled an unusually versatile emitter Quirk and the skill to wield it as such]], becomes his student, he is of-course suspicious from the get-go. Add on the fact that his own Quirk - a Quirk designed to effect emitter Quirks without fail - does not affect Izuku's performance one bit and Aizawa takes it up with the principal as a big priority.
** After the USJ incident, Stephen confesses that he intended on telling all of Class 1-A at one point the truth about the nature of Izuku's "Quirk" regardless of the circumstances. When it is asked of him if that is a good idea, more people knowing the truth risking the [[ToUnmasqueTheWorld Unmasquing the World]], Stephen points out that he would be revealing it to 19 teenagers in a {{Masquerade}} of ''millions'' and it would not make much of a difference.
** When the world takes a MightMakesRight opinion towards Quirks and does little to instill ComesGreatResponsibility at a young age (like, say, a kindergarten teacher allowing students who had just discovered their Quirks to use them all they like), only to try and enforce regulations only on children with "inconvenient" Quirks like Kizuka, they just might feel like the system has failed them and just might rebel out of spite.
** Accuse someone who lost the SuperpowerLottery and [[AntagonistAbilities received a face-value scary Quirk]] as "evil" long enough and enough times, [[ThenLetMeBeEvil they might just come out believing it and develop great resentment towards their more well-liked peers]], as is the case with Club Fear.

* FingerlessGloves: Izuku wears these to cover and protect his scars while leaving his fingers free for intricate movements.

* ALoadOfBull: Rintrah is a green minotaur-like sorcerer at Kamar-Taj that teaches Izuku how to use {{Outside The Box Tactic}}s when wielding combat-magic. No word on whether or not he is a sorcerer from another dimension like his comic book counterpart or if his physiology is the product of a mutation Quirk though.

* BlueIsHeroic: Izuku's hero costume is designed to match Strange's, wearing his blue disciple's tunic before adding all of the other accessories.

** Ryou's "Ghost Body" Quirk allows him to enter the astral plane full-bodied. [[RealityEnsues Since he is unfamiliar with sorcery, not only does he have a different name for the astral plane, but he assumes Izuku's ability to astral-project is just a Quirk similar to his own.]]

* RealityEnsues:
** Aizawa is known for being a ProperlyParanoid PragmaticHero, so when someone as young as Izuku, who is repeatedly referred to as a "late-bloomer" with [[StrongAndSkilled an unusually versatile emitter Quirk and the skill to wield it as such]], becomes his student, he is of-course suspicious from the get-go. Add on the fact that his own Quirk - a Quirk designed to effect emitter Quirks without fail - does not affect Izuku's performance one bit and Aizawa takes it up with the principal as a big priority.
** After the USJ incident, Stephen confesses that he intended on telling all of Class 1-A at one point the truth about the nature of Izuku's "Quirk" regardless of the circumstances. When it is asked of him if that is a good idea, more people knowing the truth risking the [[ToUnmasqueTheWorld Unmasquing the World]], Stephen points out that he would be revealing it to 19 teenagers in a {{Masquerade}} of ''millions'' and it would not make much of a difference.
** When the world takes a MightMakesRight opinion towards Quirks and does little to instill ComesGreatResponsibility at a young age (like, say, a kindergarten teacher allowing students who had just discovered their Quirks to use them all they like), only to try and enforce regulations only on children with "inconvenient" Quirks like Kizuka, they just might feel like the system has failed them and just might rebel out of spite.
** Accuse someone who lost the SuperpowerLottery and [[AntagonistAbilities received a face-value scary Quirk]] as "evil" long enough and enough times, [[ThenLetMeBeEvil they might just come out believing it and develop great resentment towards their more well-liked peers]], as is the case with Club Fear.

** Aizawa is known for being a ProperlyParanoid PragmaticHero, so when someone as young as Izuku, who is repeatedly referred to as a "late-bloomer" with [[StrongAndSkilled an unusually versatile emitter Quirk and the skill to wield it as such]], becomes his student, he is of-course suspicious from the get-go. Add on the fact that his own Quirk - a Quirk designed to effect emitter Quirks without fail - does not affect Izuku's performance one bit and Aizawa takes it up with the principle as a big priority.

* ALoadOfBull: Rintrah is a green minotaur-like sorcerer at Kamar-Taj that teaches Izuku how to use OutsideTheBoxTactic[=s=] when wielding combat-magic. No word on whether or not he is a sorcerer from another dimension like his comic book counterpart or if his physiology is the product of a mutation Quirk though.
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Doctor Strange had taken on one apprentice before Izuku named Ikiji Kokotsu. Like Izuku, he was a vulnerable boy who desperately craved power and attention. Ikiji was eventually lured in by Kaecilius' promise of salvation through Dormammu and turned to the dark arts for greater power.

There is also a prequel titled ''My Hero Academia: The Ultron Imperative'', detailing Power Loader's [[spoiler:role in creating Ultron]]. It can be found booth on [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13208353/1/My-Hero-Academia-The-Ultron-Imperative FanFiction]] and [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17798120 AO3]].

* ShoutOut: When Izuku tries to use the Eye of Agamotto to retrieve the Book of Cagliostro after it was stolen, he winds up trapped in a timeless void where he catches brief glimpses of himself from various alternate timelines. Such examples include a timeline where [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia he accepts Toshinori's offer to take "One For All"]], [[Fanfic/SoonIShallBeIndestructible he is technologically augmented by Mei]], [[Fanfic/ErasedPotential he is being trained by Aizawa to become a Quirkless hero]], he is an agent for Quirk Intelligence, is an oni-masked serial killer, [[Fanfic/{{Daymare}} he possesses a Lovecraftian Quirk]], is engulfed in impenetrable shadow where dark hands are crawling over him possessively and various timelines where he was just dead.

** In-canon, the Nomus are humans that have been altered irreparably through mad-science and All For One's Quirk. Here, they are Mindless Ones (HumanoidAbomination[=s=] made from humans corrupted by Dormammu's power) enhanced by All For One, turning the Nomus designed to kill All Might as a bigger juggernaut than in-canon, All Might needing a power boost by Doctor Strange's magic just to fight on an even playing-field.
* AdaptationalBadass: While Izuku was impressive in-canon with the power of "One For All" and the HeroicWillpower to wield it, the Izuku here possesses powers that much better compliment his analytical mind. Having been taught by the greatest sorcerer in this dimension for 18 months (one that encourages a JackOfAllTrades skillset and the flexibility to use them all in any practical situation), Izuku has become a ChildProdigy in the use of a power that no Quirk-user in his class can properly comprehend or anticipate, experience to danger that allows him to adapt quicker when the class has their first encounter with the League of Villains and has since met with various high-ranking pros ranging from All Might to Iron Man and Spider-Man. This results in Izuku becoming one of the top-three on the Entrance Exam's score-board with [[SuperpowerLottery an impressive, powerful and extremely versatile "quirk"]], a positive personality that endears him to nearly all of his classmates and "TheAce" status in his class and possibly the rest of the Hero-Course.

* AntagonistAbilities: Deconstructed through Club Fear. Club Fear are a group of general studies students who were born with Quirks described by others as "Evil", something that has negatively effected them psychologically, leaving them open to being manipulated by [[spoiler:Nightmare]].

** Ryou's "Ghost Body" Quirk allows him to enter the astral plane full-bodied. [[RealityEnsues Since he is unfamiliar with sorcery, not only does he have a different name for the astral-plane, but he assumes Izuku's ability to astral-project is just a Quirk similar to his own.]]
* BadWithTheBone: Ikiji was born with the Quirk "Bone Spurs", giving him powers related to weaponizing and regrowing his own bones. At first [[RequiredSecondaryPowers it caused his body great harm whenever he used it considered it teared through his skin and muscles whenever he uses it]], but after training in sorcery he learned how to control it properly, being able to create weapons and armor using his bones.

* ChekhovsGun: The book that Izuku tried to obtain back in the prologue because of Bakugou's dare makes it's return... [[spoiler:under the hands of General Education student Kizuka Yuuku [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds who wants to use it to prove the world wrong]]]].

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Stephen Strange is a powerful magic user who is on a first-name basis with the world's top pro-heroes and has saved the multiverse more times than he could mention while being ''Quirkless'', having [[EnlightenmentSuperpowers learned his powers through practice and esoteric knowledge]]. Same can apply to Izuku, being a Quirkless boy with a natural affinity to the art just like him.

** Power Loader chastises Hatsume for trying to produce an AI based on Izuku's brain patterns, listing Ultron as an example of the potential danger such a thing could cause and forces her to dismantle it. [[spoiler:His worry is based on experience: he helped create Ultron]].

-->'''Inko:''' Just how much more hope can you stand to endure, Izuku...?

* LivingClothes: Izuku's Cloak of Levitation is alive and sentient, [[SilentSnarker silently snarking at its owner]] and beating him over the head when it's annoyed, but loving and protecting its owner all the same.

* OutsideContextProblem: As versatile and unpredictable the world of Quirks [[spoiler: and aliens, if WordOfGod is to be believed in the case of Thor]] can be, magic is still kept a secret to the rest of the population. Since most superpowers in this world are something one is born with and is usually relegated to a single ability that requires training and imagination to be used productively, magic being something that anyone can learn with an open-mind, an imagination and the right kind of teachers and the ''ridiculous'' number of applications that can come from it by comparison, any pro-hero that does not have prior knowledge of magic can easily be overwhelmed by the concept alone, much less when encountering a sorcerer with a villain's intent, and even then their best chance is to have a magic-user on their side.
* PapaWolf: Strange grows protective of Izuku as the months pass, to the point that his first question while arriving as TheCavalry at USJ is to ask where Izuku is. He's also fully willing to kill Ikiji, his former pupil, if it means protecting Izuku.

* ProperlyParanoid: Power Loader refuses to let Mei create an AI based on Izuku's brain patterns, pointing out the destruction a similar AI, Ultron, wreaked in the past.

** Aizawa is known for being a ProperlyParanoid PragmaticHero, so when someone as young as Izuku, who is repeatedly referred to as a "late-bloomer" with [[StrongAndSkilled an unusually versatile emitter Quirk and the skill to wield it as such]], becomes his student, he is of-course suspicious from the get-go. Add on the fact that his own Quirk - a Quirk designed to effect emitter Quirks without fail - does not effect Izuku's performance one bit and Aizawa takes it up with the principle as a big priority.

* AdaptationOriginConnection: Power Loader is said to have provided support items for the founding members of the Avengers. [[spoiler:He's also deeply troubled by his part in producing Ultron.]]

* AntagonistAbilities: Deconstructed through Club Fear. Club Fear are a group of general studies students who were born with Quirks described by others as "Evil", something that has negatively effected them psychologically, leaving them open to being manipulated by [[spoiler: Nightmare]].

** [[spoiler: Shoto Todoroki joined the club out of a mix of psychological manipulation by Kizuka and his own hatred for his father's Quirk, hoping the ritual they intend to do will purge him of [[PlayingWithFire his father's Quirk.]]]]

* CentipedesDilemma: Izuku struggles to learn how to tap into magic at first due to his constant attempts to control it rather than letting it flow through him. He only gets even more frustrated when Strange tells him to surrender control if he wishes to control magic. Then Strange takes a page out of the Ancient One's book to teach it to Izuku [[DieOrFly the hard way.]]

** Power Loader chastises Hatsume for trying to produce an AI based on Izuku's brain patterns, listing Ultron as an example of the potential danger such a thing could cause and forces her to dismantle it. [[spoiler:His worry is based on experience: he helped create Ultron.]]

* SlaveToPR: Tony Stark, AKA Iron Man, doesn't report how some of his tech was recently stolen because of the panic that would ensue if the public learned of it. [[spoiler:This lets Brigand get away with an entire Iron Legion and the Hulkbuster Armor.]]

* TokenWizard: Izuku winds up becoming this to Class 1-A (and the U.A. student body in-general), being regarded as the first sorcerer in U.A.'s history of enrollment, with implications that he will be the first pro-hero who's powers are magical instead of Quirk or [[ScienceHero science]]-based. Of course, since [[{{Masquerade}} the existence of magic (and the psychological baggage that comes with it) is kept a secret from a majority of the population]], Izuku is seen more as TheAce for [[SuperpowerLottery having a "Quirk" with an unusually high number of different applications to it]].

* TranquilFury: While Stephen is usually a TricksterMentor at his best and a SinkOrSwimMentor at his worst, he is usually an affable man that forgives the antics of his mentors. Whenever someone tries to harm his students or if they do something especially careless, his rage is described as "like a cold yet righteous fury", something Izuku sees first hand [[spoiler: when he [[CurbStompBattle single-handedly dispatches the League of Villains when they invade Kamar-Taj.]]]]

** In-canon, the Nomus are humans that have been altered irreparably through mad-science and All For One's quirk. Here, they are Mindless Ones (HumanoidAbomination[=s=] made from humans corrupted by Dormammu's power) enhanced by All For One, turning the Nomus designed to kill All Might as a bigger juggernaut than in-canon, All Might needing a power boost by Doctor Strange's magic just to fight on an even playing-field.
* AdaptationalBadass: While Izuku was impressive in-canon with the power of "One For All" and the HeroicWillpower to wield it, the Izuku here possesses powers that much better compliment his analytical mind. Having been taught by the greatest sorcerer in this dimension for 18 months (one that encourages a JackOfAllTrades skillset and the flexibility to use them all in any practical situation), Izuku has become a ChildProdigy in the use of a power that no quirk-user in his class can properly comprehend or anticipate, experience to danger that allows him to adapt quicker when the class has their first encounter with the League of Villains and has since met with various high-ranking pros ranging from All Might to Iron Man and Spider-Man. This results in Izuku becoming one of the top-three on the Entrance Exam's score-board with [[SuperpowerLottery an impressive, powerful and extremely versatile "quirk"]], a positive personality that endears him to nearly all of his classmates and "TheAce" status in his class and possibly the rest of the Hero-Course.

* AntagonistAbilities: Deconstructed through Club Fear. Club Fear are a group of general studies students who were born with quirks described by others as "Evil", something that has negatively effected them psychologically, leaving them open to being manipulated by [[spoiler: Nightmare]].
** Kizuka's quirk "Fearmonger" allows her to read the fears of others and manifest them as illusions only the person affected can see. Her own parents disowned her when they could not handle her abilities and has been a ward of the system ever since. Her resentment for getting a powerful quirk that everyone hates her for using in a world that encourages people to show them off has given her a rather sociopathic apathy towards others, repeatedly using her quirk on innocent people out of rebellion. She only wanted to be a hero because she didn't want to be outdone by Jiro rather than any heroic motives and ended up allying herself with [[spoiler: Nightmare]] at the expense of others, making her both the founder of Club Fear and its TokenEvilTeammate.
** Ryou and Hyou possess the quirks "Ghost Body" and "Hijack" respectably, allowing them to [[AstralProjection enter the Astral-plane]] full-bodied and [[TwoBeingsOneBody take possession of another person through fusion]] respectably. On top of being seen as scary to other people, their quirks were useless to the Entrance Exam and thus they failed to make it into the Hero Course.
** [[BadPowersGoodPeople Shinso's]] "Brainwashing" quirk is seen as villainous because his abilities rob others of their free will. While bitter that his abilities were useless in the Hero Course Entrance exam, he is the only member of the club who does not let his bitterness blind him to Kizuka's sadistic personality, [[TokenGoodTeammate having only joined so that he can thwart them]] and [[PragmaticHero be seen as worthy of entering the Hero Course before the U.A. Festival]].
** [[spoiler: Shoto Todoroki joined the club out of a mix of psychological manipulation by Kizuka and his own hatred for his father's quirk, hoping the ritual they intend to do will purge him of [[PlayingWithFire his father's quirk.]]]]

* ALoadOfBull: Rintrah is a green minotaur-like sorcerer at Kamar-Taj that teaches Izuku how to use OutsideTheBoxTactic[=s=] when wielding combat-magic. No word on whether or not he is a sorcerer from another dimension like his comic book counterpart or if his physiology is the product of a mutation quirk though.

** Ryou's "Ghost Body" quirk allows him to enter the astral plane full-bodied. [[RealityEnsues Since he is unfamiliar with sorcery, not only does he have a different name for the astral-plane, but he assumes Izuku's ability to astral-project is just a quirk similar to his own.]]
* BadWithTheBone: Ikiji was born with the quirk "Bone Spurs", giving him powers related to weaponizing and regrowing his own bones. At first [[RequiredSecondaryPowers it caused his body great harm whenever he used it considered it teared through his skin and muscles whenever he uses it]], but after training in sorcery he learned how to control it properly, being able to create weapons and armor using his bones.

* ClarkesThirdLaw: Inverted. Since magic is still a secret to most people, Izuku gets away with using sorcery in U.A. by explaining it away as [[SuperpowerLottery an extremely versatile energy-manipulating emitter quirk]].

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Stephen Strange is a powerful magic user who is on a first-name basis with the world's top pro-heroes and has saved the multiverse more times than he could mention while being ''quirkless'', having [[EnlightenmentSuperpowers learned his powers through practice and esoteric knowledge]]. Same can apply to Izuku, being a quirkless boy with a natural affinity to the art just like him.

* GuiltComplex: Kaminari's quirk allows him to discharge a high-voltage of electricity, but unlike Izuku's Bolts of Bedevilment, it is indiscriminate and he has accidentally harmed his friends and allies with it, something he feels immense guilt over.

* OutsideContextProblem: As versatile and unpredictable the world of quirks [[spoiler: and aliens, if WordOfGod is to be believed in the case of Thor]] can be, magic is still kept a secret to the rest of the population. Since most superpowers in this world are something one is born with and is usually relegated to a single ability that requires training and imagination to be used productively, magic being something that anyone can learn with an open-mind, an imagination and the right kind of teachers and the ''ridiculous'' number of applications that can come from it by comparison, any pro-hero that does not have prior knowledge of magic can easily be overwhelmed by the concept alone, much less when encountering a sorcerer with a villain's intent, and even then their best chance is to have a magic-user on their side.

** Aizawa is known for being a ProperlyParanoid PragmaticHero, so when someone as young as Izuku, who is repeatedly referred to as a "late-bloomer" with [[StrongAndSkilled an unusually versatile emitter quirk and the skill to wield it as such]], becomes his student, he is of-course suspicious from the get-go. Add on the fact that his own quirk - a quirk designed to effect emitter quirks without fail - does not effect Izuku's performance one bit and Aizawa takes it up with the principle as a big priority.
** After the USJ incident, Stephen confesses that he intended on telling all of Class 1-A at one point the truth about the nature of Izuku's "quirk" regardless of the circumstances. When it is asked of him if that is a good idea, more people knowing the truth risking the [[ToUnmasqueTheWorld Unmasquing the World]], Stephen points out that he would be revealing it to 19 teenagers in a {{Masquerade}} of ''millions'' and it would not make much of a difference.
** When the world takes a MightMakesRight opinion towards quirks and does little to instill ComesGreatResponsibility at a young age (like, say, a kindergarten teacher allowing students who had just discovered their quirks to use them all they like), only to try and enforce regulations only on children with "inconvenient" quirks like Kizuka, they just might feel like the system has failed them and just might rebel out of spite.
** Accuse someone who lost the SuperpowerLottery and [[AntagonistAbilities received a face-value scary quirk]] as "evil" long enough and enough times, [[ThenLetMeBeEvil they might just come out believing it and develop great resentment towards their more well-liked peers]], as is the case with Club Fear.

* ShockAndAwe: By the time he attends U.A., Izuku's most powerful offensive spell is the Bolts of Bedevilment, which shoots a burst of high-voltage electricity comparable to Kaminari's in intensity. Kaminari notices this during the Entrance Exam and becomes mildly jealous, his own quirk electricity-based, but also a danger to his allies due to his inability to aim it like Izuku can.
* ShoutOut: When Izuku tries to use the Eye of Agamotto to retrieve the Book of Cagliostro after it was stolen, he winds up trapped in a timeless void where he catches brief glimpses of himself from various alternate timelines. Such examples include a timeline where [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia he accepts Toshinori's offer to take "One For All"]], [[Fanfic/SoonIShallBeIndestructible he is technologically augmented by Mei]], [[Fanfic/ErasedPotential he is being trained by Aizawa to become a quirkless hero]], he is an agent for Quirk Intelligence, is an oni-masked serial killer, [[Fanfic/{{Daymare}} he possesses a Lovecraftian quirk]], is engulfed in impenetrable shadow where dark hands are crawling over him possessively and various timelines where he was just dead.

* SupportPartyMember: When paired with All Might, Doctor Strange takes on this role, using his magic to protect and provide a boost to the already near-unstoppable All Might. This makes more sense in present-day, All Might's injury and passing his quirk onto Kirishima making him much weaker and more vulnerable.

* TokenWizard: Izuku winds up becoming this to Class 1-A (and the U.A. student body in-general), being regarded as the first sorcerer in U.A.'s history of enrollment, with implications that he will be the first pro-hero who's powers are magical instead of quirk or [[ScienceHero science]]-based. Of course, since [[{{Masquerade}} the existence of magic (and the psychological baggage that comes with it) is kept a secret from a majority of the population]], Izuku is seen more as TheAce for [[SuperpowerLottery having a "quirk" with an unusually high number of different applications to it]].

He comes to in the hospital, having been tended to by one [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange Doctor Stephen Strange.]] Unfortunately, Strange had not saved Izuku in time, as the boy's hands had been crushed in the accident, leaving them trembling and nearly useless. Now legally a cripple, Izuku thinks his dreams are kaput until the day he's to be released from the hospital, when Strange offers him an alternative: become a hero with magic in place of a Quirk. And so one powerless boy takes his first steps towards becoming a Master of the Mystic Arts to protect his dimension and all others.

* RealityEnsues: Aizawa is known for being a ProperlyParanoid PragmaticHero, so when someone as young as Izuku, who is repeatedly referred to as a "late-bloomer" with [[StrongAndSkilled an unusually versatile emitter quirk and the skill to wield it as such]], becomes his student, he is of-course suspicious from the get-go. Add on the fact that his own quirk - a quirk designed to effect emitter quirks without fail - does not effect Izuku's performance one bit and Aizawa takes it up with the principle as a big priority.

* AbledInTheAdaptation: Inverted. Izuku's hands were crushed by the rocks, churning waters, and the log before Doctor Strange could save him. As a result, he can barely grip anything, much less move it, and his hands are always shaking. He isn't able to feed or dress himself and his heart sinks when he realizes he won't be able to help others in this state. More than a year of training with Strange has restored some of Izuku's ability to use his hands, but he's still lacking in some dexterity and strength, barely managing to produce 10 kg of force during Aizawa's Quirk Apprehension Test.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: Power Loader is said to have provided support items for the founding members of the Avengers. [[spoiler:He's also deeply troubled by his part in producing Ultron.]]

!!Of Quirks and Magic contains examples of:

* TheCameo: When Izuku visits the stands for Stark Expo, he meets Generalissimo, the Grandfather of modern Pro Heroes - also known as Creator/StanLee.

* ShoutOut: When Izuku tries to use the Eye of Agamotto to retrieve the Book of Cagliostro after it was stolen, he winds up trapped in a timeless void where he catches brief glimpses of himself from various alternate timelines. Such examples include a timeline where [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia he accepts Toshinori's offer to take "One For All"]], he is technologically augmented by Mei, [[Fanfic/ErasedPotential he is being trained by Aizawa to become a quirkless hero]], he is an agent for Quirk Intelligence, is an oni-masked serial killer, [[Fanfic/{{Daymare}} he possesses a Lovecraftian quirk]], is engulfed in impenetrable shadow where dark hands are crawling over him possessively and various timelines where he was just dead.

* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Doctor Strange had taken on one apprentice before Izuku named Ikiji Kokotsu. Like Izuku, he was a Quirkless boy who desperately craved power and attention. Ikiji was eventually lured in by Kaecilius' promise of salvation through Dormammu and turned to the dark arts for greater power.

* ShockAndAwe: By the time he attends U.A., Izuku's most powerful offensive spell is the Bolts of Bedevilment, which shoots a burst of high-voltage electricity comparable to Kaminari's in intensity. Kaminari notices it and becomes mildly jealous, his own quirk electricity-based, but also a danger to his allies due to his inability to aim it like Izuku can.

* TokenWizard: Izuku winds up becoming this to Class 1-A (and the U.A. student body in-general), being regarded as the first sorcerer in U.A.'s history of enrollment, with implications that he will be the first pro-hero who's powers are magical instead of quirk or [[ScienceHero science]]-based. Of course, given that [[{{Masquerade}} the existence of magic and the eldritch baggage it comes with is a secret to a majority of the population]], Izuku is seen more as TheAce for [[SuperpowerLottery having a quirk with an unusually high number of different applications to it]].