History Fanfic / TheEmeraldPhoenix

* FreudianExcuse:
** Sam's reasoning for stealing David's quirk amplifier is that he's been working for the man for six years and has no inventions or anything to his name because David allowed the one device they ''were'' working on to be locked away.

* GodzillaThreshold:
** The USJ attack forces several students to go beyond and pull off moves they would normally not use.
*** Aoyama fires his Navel Laser even though he's already damaged himself in order to save Kuroiro and Tokoyami.
*** Bakugo uses a grenade gauntlet in order to overwhelm the Dazzler expy.
*** Mina busts out her most powerful acid - so strong that it completely overwhelms her acid resistance and causes the Noumu's flesh to ''slough off'' - in an attempt to put down the Noumu.
*** When that doesn't work, Momo puts everything she has into a minigun with armor piercing and later explosive bullets. And after that stops working, she unleashes a flamethrower, which burns the Noumu - and also her.
*** Izuku rips the Noumu to pieces and throws it into water. When that doesn't work, Momo uses her last reserves to create C4, and Izuku throws it into the water, turning the Noumu to LudicrousGibs.
*** And when even ''that'' is not enough to put the monster down, Izuku uses [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Inferno Overdrive]], which ''finally'' kills the Noumu by burning it to ashes and then burning the ashes.

* GoodThingYouCanHeal: The USJ Noumu gets sliced, shot, melted with acid, set on fire with napalm, blown up, and finally completely incinerated before it's put down for good.

* CrazyPrepared: The League of Villains have several Noumu attack UA during their attack on the USJ as a distraction.

** Averted. The students in the Conflagration Zone note they have to find a way out or they'll die of heatstroke without the villains having to do anything. Likewise, the heat of the flames messes with Inasa's control as his attacks keep rising.
** Also averted against the USJ Noumu twice. Momo burns herself when using a flamethrower against it as she didn't cover herself with fireproof material. Later she designs her materials with fire-proofing in mind so she will not suffer the slightest inconvenience from it.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Aizawa actively discourages this behavior, telling his students to focus on their goals rather than get distracted by every little thing. In his words, "Catching a thief when you were trying to save a child isn't a success."

* AdaptationalVillainy: Sam from I-Island was greedy in canon, but here it was more extreme. Including a desire for glory, and feeling that after having worked for David Shield for six years on a project which was now to be discarded would ruin his career.

** The trip to I-Island is happening before the Sports Festival, as opposed to after.

*** Several of the obstacles in the UA Sports Festival Obstacle Course are based on the trials from the Skypiea Arc, down to the very name. When Izuku realizes this, Present Mic says the name alone should have given it away.

* GroinAttack: When Yui attacks the mercenaries by controlling the room's walls and floor, one of them is mentioned to be hit several times in the jewels.

** All for One modifies Tomura's plans for the USJ Attack, telling him to start with killing the students ti break All Might, ''then'' kill the Symbol of Peace himself. The end result is that the stakes are a lot higher for the students with several coming close to death and others being severely injured.

* InadequateInheritor: Mirio is recommended by Nighteye and Nedzu as a potential successor to All Might as a wielder of One for All, but All Might is wary of choosing him for several reasons. One is that he is worried Mirio is ''too much'' like him and All Might himself made many mistakes, so we wishes for someone more different from him. Another is that Nedzu himself advises wariness due to the potential of Quirk Incompatibility. All Might also believes Mirio doesn't strictly need the Quirk. Finally, and All Might admits to this being a personal problem, is that he has issues with Nighteye whom he feels is acting as if One for All is for ''Nighteye'' to give away, not All Might himself.

** Jirou can produce simple sounds besides just her heartbeat, such as Morse code.

* BoringButPractical: Shoji's go-to move is to sneak up behind people and grab them in a hug with his multiple arms so they cannot escape. Not at all flashy, but with his superior strength, it gets the job done. Nejire even counts it a win against her during her [[CurbStompBattle 'spar']] against 1-A, even if she shortly proves she could break out easily.

* OhCrap:
** Inasa when Blazing-chan absorbs so much fire that the temperature in the Conflagration Zone starts noticeably dropping.
** Inasa again as he realizes Blazing-chan is about to launch a stream of plasma at him.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** Nedzu takes the safety of his students very seriously, with none of his usual joviality. Given the scope of the situation at the USJ, he and All Might share all they know with the other teachers so they can plan accordingly.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** After they spar, Momo calls out Shoto for continuing to refuse to use his fire, lambasting him for not only actively crippling himself but not even wanting to be a hero. He just wants to prove his father wrong and is trying to be a hero out of spite.

** One of the reasons Izuku is so popular with his classmates, is because of his efforts to help everyone become even more powerful. At the Battle Trials, he points out how effective Koji would have been if he had unleashed rats against his opponents. At their group sessions, he leads similar conversations, which helps several of his peers make more progress with their Quirks in minutes than they have managed in ''years''.

* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood:
** Inasa tries to tell Blazing-chan she could have been a great hero, but she disagrees, stating she can only manipulate and absorb pre-existing fire. In her words, she can't be a hero if she's the one starting fires.
** Kirishima tries the same with the [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Tubalcain Alhambra]] {{expy}}, only for the villain to laugh at the very idea, saying he enjoys killing people far too much.

* AnArmAndALeg:
** A [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Tubalcain Alhambra]] {{expy}} also gets his knee completely shattered by a kick from Unbreakable Kirishima.
** In order to kill the Nomu, Izuku unleashes his DangerousForbiddenTechnique, which [[spoiler:leaves him with a blackened husk of an arm that's more akin to charcoal than anything else. In the following chapter, his arm is gone entirely, and he cannot regenerate it. It takes learning anatomy to fully regenerate it, whkc he does at the Sports Festival]].
** Shigaraki loses his left arm and right leg at the USJ when Bakugo uses an explosion on him while his leg is trapped on Todoroki's ice.

* EntertaininglyWrong: All for One thinks that [[spoiler:Izuku has One for All]].

** In order to kill the Nomu, Izuku unleashes his DangerousForbiddenTechnique, which [[spoiler:leaves him with a blackened husk of an arm that's more akin to charcoal than anything else. In the following chapter, his arm is gone entirely, and he cannot regenerate it]].

* DramaPreservingHandicap:
** Kurogiri's Quirk prevents Izuku's teleportation from working, keeping him from simply teleporting out of the USJ and alerting the faculty to the attack.

* ShipTease: Mina frequently cuddles Izuku, even referring to him as her "cuddle buddy" at one point, on top of him being one of only two people she's nicknamed. Meanwhile, Izuku and Momo tend to make eye contact and then look away while blushing. After the USJ, this evolves to crushing him with hugs, her unconsciously holding his hand for comfort, and outright acknowledging she has a crush on him. Camie also gets in the game, pouting that Mina got "first kiss" when she pecks him on the cheek. Setsuna uses her Quirk to [[spoiler:"heal" Izuku's arm by attaching her own to his stump]]. It's acknowledged as adorable.
** As of chapter 9, this ship teasing has resolved [[spoiler:into a polycule]].
** Itsuka and Inasa are shown to at least be interested in each other.

* TheGadfly: Toru plays up her InvisibleStreaker status to mess with her classmates. In reality, she has a costume made using her DNA. The gloves and shoes are there so people can see her while being easy to remove.
* GatlingGood: Momo creates a minigun from her body against the USJ Noumu. Sadly, it does little more than keep it pinned down for a while.

** Toru somehow hid a glass cutter on her person even though she's nude. Later averted when it's revealed she actually does have a costume and just likes to mess with her friends.
* HealItWithFire: When caught by the security bots' taser cables on I-Island, Kaminari simply grins and drains them of all their electricity, revitalizing himself.

** Yui shows off how powerful "growing things" is during the attack on I-Island, taking out an entire group of mercenaries in a brutal beatdown by growing parts of the room to smash into them repeatedly.

* HeroicSacrifice: When stuck in the middle of the Flood Zone and with no more platforms to jump to, Kaminari deliberately jumps towards the water, intending to pull a TakingYouWithMe against the villains to save his classmates. Thankfully, Manga gets his Quirk working again in time to save him.

* InASingleBound: Kanga-chan, due to having a kangaroo Quirk, can jump incredible distances.

* KamehameHadoken: While in her SuperMode, Blazing-chan fires off a beam of plasma and is explicitly stated as taking the same stance as the Kamehameha wave.

* KickChick: Due to her Quirk greatly enhancing her legs, Kanga-chan fights predominantly with kicks and stomps, though she also uses her tail at times.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: At the USJ, one of the Flood Zone villains is a RubberMan, which Kaminari comments on.
-->'''Kaminari:''' Dude, if they wasted rubber on some throwaway villain, I'm going to be pissed.
* LimitBreak: Blazing-chan can fire what amounts to a KamehameHadoken made of concentrated fire, but apparently needs to be in her SuperMode to do so.

** Beros can't create arrows for her quirk to use, so when the students make a point of destroying the arrows she shoots at them, she's forced to use [[PsychoSerum Trigger]] on herself.
** Flect Turn's quirk, which reflects attacks back the way they came, and support equipment have multiple weaknesses that make him especially vulnerable to group attacks.
*** He can't (or rather, doesn't know how to) turn off his Quirk, meaning that he injures Leviathan when the latter is tricked into attacking him.
*** Without his support equipment, his Quirk can't be aimed, only ever reflecting each attack back in the exact direction it came from.
*** Flect still needs to breathe, making him vulnerable to Camie's [[{{Glamour}} gas-based quirk]].
*** Because his support equipment works off mirrors that reflect attacks at certain angles, it needs time to properly orient the mirrors in place, allowing the students to destroy said mirrors and/or dodge.

* NoSell: Kaminari amusedly ignores Flect Turn reflecting his electrical attack back at him, due to being immune to electricity.

* RageBreakingPoint: Once Kinoko is saved from Boarus, she quickly sprays her fellow students with an anti-fungal spray then promptly covers the entire Downpour Zone in mushrooms, taking out every remaining villain.

** Unlike canon, when Aizawa comes to class to start teaching, his injuries are not nearly as bad as canon, and he insists his students get therapy. He also is quick to crack down on bigotry, failing to fully apply yourself, sexual harassment, etc.

* SympathyForTheDevil: When Kanga-chan rants about how a cowardly pervert like Mineta was allowed in the hero course but she was expelled, Itsuka admits that she understands where the older woman is coming from, even if she doesn't agree with her.

** Kaminari is far more vulnerable to water, including rain, to the point it is a major health risk for him.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Kinoko is terrified of flying, something which complicates the plan to potentially fly outside the tower at I-Island to skip several floors.

** The UA students point out how Flect Turn's ability would be invaluable for heroism, provoking a rant from the fanatic over how his Quirk is a curse.

** Class 1-B is introduced during the USJ instead of shortly before the Sports Festival.

** Kaminari no longer produces electricity as an offensive weapon but instead stores and manipulates electricity (and magnetism to an extent), including using electricity to boost his healing. His weakness is also changed to having significant amounts of water shorting him out and causing painful electric shocks, even having to ground himself to take a shower. Kaminari is also not allowed inside cars lest his electricity accidentally ignites the gasoline. These are essentially the powers and weaknesses the protagonist of the first two ''VideoGame/InFamous'' games has.

* BlessedWithSuck: Blazing-chan can control and absorb fire, the latter of which makes her stronger and tougher. However, she can't create fire and constantly feels like she's freezing unless she absorbs a large amount of fire. She apparently went to prison for arson when she burned a building to escape the constant cold.

* CombinationAttack: Yui and Nirengeki have a combination move where he kicks several pebbles at an opponent then they each use their Quirks on the rocks, turning them into boulders flying at much higher speeds than before.

** During the attack on I-Island, Kinoko doesn't have her fungicides with her. Unfortunately, Momo can't simply make her some as she doesn't know the chemicals needed and her new suit's database is unavailable due to the villains controlling every satellite.

* FeelNoPain:
** While in her SuperMode, Blazing-chan can't feel her body literally falling apart due to having burnt out her pain receptors.
** The Nomu at USJ showed no reaction to the frankly horrific damage being inflicted upon it.

** Blazing-chan became a villain because her Quirk causes her to feel like she's freezing whenever she's not absorbing fire, resulting in her becoming an arsonist.
** Kanga-chan was expelled by Aizawa, implied to be on the first day, and grew bitter over it.

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse:
** Itsuka sympathizes with Kanga-chan but tells the woman that she should have either tried again or applied to a different hero school, rather than becoming a villain.
** After the USJ attack, Aizawa makes clear to Shouto that he doesn't care what the boy's issue with his father is; if Shouto doesn't start using both halves of his Quirk, he'll be expelled from U.A. and blacklisted from every hero school in Japan. His peers can also tell there are some 'daddy issues', at minimum involved, but also refuse to give him any slack for it.
** Nejire calls out Flect Turn for using his problematic Quirk as an excuse to "throw himself a pity party" and using an unproven hypothesis to create a doomsday cult to feel better about himself.

* AdaptationalVillainy:
** While Shigaraki was already villainous in canon, here the attack on the USJ was specifically to torture and kill as many students as possible, and ''then'' kill All Might, rather than just to kill All Might. He was also delighting in the beating Izuku initially received from the Nomu.
** Sam from I-Island was greedy in canon, but here it was more extreme. Including a desire for glory, and feeling that after having worked for David Shield for six years on a project which was now to be discarded would ruin his career.

** Shigaraki loses both an arm and a leg at the USJ. The former by an AP shot from Bakugou and the latter because his leg was encased in ice when the former happened. The arm is destroyed beyond retrieval, and the leg is abandoned.

* ContrivedCoincidence:
** While (most) of the villains at the USJ are placed in zones where they'll be at their best, the hero students are completely random in their placement. Inasa, Manga, Kaminari, and Mineta are nearly crippled by the zones they land in but Tsuyu, Kuroiro, Kinoko, and Tokoyami are all sent to the ideal zones for their Quirks. When brought up by the group in the Flood Zone, it's eventually decided that it was pure chance who got sent where.
** Shigaraki's severed arm lands in a puddle of molten rock caused by Izuku's Inferno Overdrive, instantly burning it beyond recovery or repair.

* DeadlyUpgrade: Blazing-chan gains a massive power boost from absorbing almost all the fire nearby in the Conflagration Zone, but doing so starts burning her alive from the inside. Even after she's knocked out of her SuperMode, her right arm has been completely burnt off.

* DistractedByTheSexy: Mineta - a DirtyOldMan in a teenager's body - disregards Sero Hanta entirely when attempting to "capture" Camie during their Battle Trial, not-so-secretly hoping to cop a feel. Camie rightfully hits him where it hurts after dodging, and an embarrassed Sero wraps him up.
** At the USJ, he's distracted by the very voluptuous Kanga-chan and nearly gets himself killed.
* DontCreateAMartyr: All For One warns Shigaraki that merely killing All Might will turn him into a martyr. Instead, they first have to destroy All Might's legacy: by killing all the first-year hero students.

* DynamicEntry: Kanga-chan reappears after Mineta "defeated" her by leaping onto the scene and kicking him hard enough to send the teen flying.

* ElementalAbsorption: Blazing-chan can absorb fire to grow stronger and tougher, though absorbing too much is lethal for her.

* EliteMooks: While most of the USJ villains are weak enough for the various students to effortlessly plow through, several are actually highly dangerous in their own right. The [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Konan]] and [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Tubalcain Alhambra]] expies are particularly powerful as, unlike other villains, they don't need a specific environment for their Quirks nor are they only dangerous against particular students.

* MegatonPunch: At the USJ, Itsuka enlarges her fist until it's several times the size of her entire body to punch a villain who injured Reiko.
* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Flect Turn freaks out when Kaminari's electricity actually harms him, due to having never felt pain in his entire life before.

* PsychicBlockDefense: Flect Turn's reflect Quirk prevents Izuku from being able to read his mind.

** Nejire gives one to Flect Turn when the latter rants about how his Quirk should be impossible to defeat.
-->'''Flect:''' What have you DONE TO ME?! My- My Quirk! WHY DID IT NOT WORK?!\\
'''Nejire''': We overwhelmed it! Just like every Quirk can be! No Emitter Quirk is permanently active. They all take energy to use! To control! They have to be trained and refined! Something you never did! You gave up on your Quirk! You never bothered to learn everything there was to know about it! You gained it and didn't like what it did, so you threw yourself a pity party because of it! You never tried to overcome its weaknesses! You just gave up! You allowed IT to control YOU, and used your own fear to stoke the fear in others! You peddled an unproven theory as fact to feel better about yourself!

* ReflexiveResponse: When Mineta runs into Reiko and Sen during the attack on the USJ, he reflexively gropes Reiko once he's close enough.

** Blazing-chan is almost immune to fire. Absorbing enough will overload her resistance and cause her to start cooking from the inside.

* SexIsViolence: During their fight, Blazing-chan asks if Inasa wants to have sex when they're done due to how worked up she's getting.

* UnskilledButStrong: While fast and possessing an extremely powerful Quirk, Shigaraki has no actual combat ability beyond "Use my Quirk to disintegrate them." While it's all he needs against most enemies, Izuku can use his telekinesis to prevent Shigaraki from touching him, resulting in a CurbStompBattle.

* VolcanicVeins: Blazing-chan's veins glow like fire when in her SuperMode.

* AmusingInjuries: While apologizing for almost outing Toshinori as All Might, Inasa bows so forcefully that his forehead dents a mini-fridge, leaving his face bloody. Izuku is trying to break his friend of this ongoing habit of self-harm.

* CassandraTruth: Nobody believes Mineta when he truthfully insists he didn't mean to grope Reiko.

* FreudianSlip: Upon seeing Kanga-chan, Mineta declares his wish to be crushed by her thighs.

* HeadDesk: Kyoka bangs her head on the table when Momo's suggestion of plugging one of her jacks into her phone so she has more sound options proves viable, [[WhyDidntIThinkOfThat being upset that she never thought of that herself]].

* LaserGuidedKarma: Mineta is expelled from U.A. after Aizawa decides he wasn't making any actual effort to improve himself.

** Mineta's sticky balls share some traits with rubber and thus don't function properly at high temperatures.
*** His sticky balls are also good for trapping someone but if they're strong enough, they'll just rip away whatever they're stuck to. Kanga-chan gets stuck to the road after landing on several of Mineta's balls but simply rips herself free, leaving her with bits of asphalt stuck to her body.

* MurderousThighs: After Mineta has a FreudianSlip, Kanga-chan attempts to crush him between her thighs.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** Mineta twice in chapter 5, both of which get him expelled.
*** First, his reflexive groping of Reiko distracts her and Sen long enough for a villain to crack her ribs.
*** Second, trying to help capture a villain instead causes all the debris Reiko is pelting him with to stick together, giving the villain an ImprovisedWeapon.
** During the USJ attack, Shouto's insistence on only using his ice merely makes a pair of villains more powerful, something Aizawa calls him out on.

** Mineta at the USJ when he sees Kanga-chan jump into the side of a building and ''tilt'' it.

* PervertRevengeMode: After Mineta gropes Kanga-chan's butt while fighting her, she stops joking around and becomes completely serious about murdering him.

* [[invoked]]{{Squick}}: Kyoka is grossed out by a villain who fires his finger bones at her.

* ThanksForTheMammary: At the USJ, Mineta accidentally gropes Reiko on reflex.

** Mineta is chewed out by Inasa, Itsuka, and Sen for groping Reiko in the middle of a life-or-death situation, especially because her distraction got her injured by a villain.

* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Kirishima gives a textbook German Suplex to a villain at the USJ. Sadly, it was a decoy.