History Fanfic / TheReasonWhyTheSecondMetaLiberationWarIsGoingToBeWeird

Midoriya Inko is furious. Her husband, well, ''ex''-husband, All for One, took two of their kids in order to raise them into villains. She was not going to take that lightly and decides to make him pay. But first, she needs to keep Izuku safe and asks Rikiya Yotsubashi to take care of him without giving him a chance to explain that he, the CEO of Detnerat, is the Grand Commander of the Meta-Liberation Army.

** Endeavour is a complicated example. He is a bad father, and drove Shouto very hard in training, but he was never outright physically abusive. It doesn't change the fact he had a hand in the family's downwards spiral with his obsession with becoming Number One, but the situation isn't black and white.

* ArmourPiercingQuestion: Izuku ends the sibling-rivalry between Geten and Hypothermia by asking each of them pointed questions that reveals the majority of their issues are because they suck at communicating with each other.

* ColdBloodedTorture: Inko's preferred method involves using her Quirk to remove every non vital part of a person's body she can such as teeth, eyes, and the small bones within their joints then leaving her victims for the heroes to find, just to insure they'll live a very long life in prison as helpless cripples. Dr. Garaki in particular fears such a fate, noting that his longevity Quirk means he'd be in prison for a ''very'' long time before he finally died.
* CovertPervert: No one except Soma knows that Ko is a ''massive'' pervert. Her very first thoughts on Izuku was how she planned to "break his pelvis like a twig". She also has quite a few {{imagine spot}}s about him involving some form of kinky sex or other.

** Re-Destro, in an early chapter, reveals that he has started entertaining "the most ridiculous theories he can think of" due to how insane things have already become after only a few weeks around Izuku. Absolutely all of them turn out to be true, to the point where after a slew of them are revealed in once, he holds off asking for confirmation of his craziest theory (All For One being his stepfather, while All Might is his biological father) because he just doesn't want to handle that much insanity at once.

* TheDreaded: Despite officially being just a thief, basically the entire villain community is terrified of Inko. A few organizations flat out refuse to even consider taking a job against her.

** Rikiya's daughter, Ko, whom he'd do absolutely anything for.

* FantasticLegalWeirdness: There's a whole set of laws that governs Quirk use that Izuku finds stupid. Japan already has laws for criminal acts. To him, adding another set for when crimes involve Quirk-use is completely redundant (especially in the era when almost EVERYONE has a quirk) and the licensing system to let a Quirk-user use their Quirk for anything other than Heroics is nigh-impossible to pass if they're neither rich or have the "right" Quirk. This is why he's sympathetic to the MLA's cause. An example is provided with [[spoiler: Toxicity, a member of the MLA. Her quirk makes her body to a various degree poisonous, however it also makes her breath into a combination of sleeping gas, sedative and a painkiller that doesn't cause allergic reaction. However, since she came from a poor and troubled family she couldn't hope to become a hero or obtain a quirk license. This led to her falling into a bad crowd, accidentally killing someone and de facto being set into villainy for life, despite being a 'walking anesthesiologist miracle' that could easily earn a living legally with her quirk.]]

* FreudianExcuse: Invoked. Aldera Middle School being the hell-hole it was is due to All for One making it that way in the hope that it'd either drive Izuku to villainy, or suicide, in which case it'd hopefully turn his younger siblings to villainy.

* MamaBear: Even before Re-Destro understands exactly how dangerous Inko is, she threatens that if anything happens to her son, she will "violently revoke his testicle privileges." Inko then proves ''why'' she is not someone to be messed with by singlehandedly demolishing All for One's criminal empire in the course of ''months'' where the heroes together couldn't manage that in the ''decades'' they had.

** Geten being reduced to StunnedSilence when hearing Izuku's [[AwesomenessByAnalysis analysis]] of his abilities and immediately trying them out the new ideas Izuku comes up with, which often leads to the aforementioned ThereWasADoor moments.

* SneezeCut: Played with. All for One doesn't sneeze, but gets the feeling he ''should'' at the same time as when Re-Destro asks who turned Aldera Middle School into a hell-hole and wonders if even the legendary Quirk Thief was that evil.

* SuckySchool: Aldera Middle School is an exaggerated example, being a school that encourages bullying and Quirk Supremacism that shocks even the Meta Liberation Army executives at how over-the-top bad they are. It is quickly revealed that Aldera is like that because All for One made it that way in an attempt to drive Izuku to villainy through him being bullied for being Quirkless.

--> '''Re-Destro:''' [[spoiler:Notebook]], my boy. When it comes to creating support equipment, one has to consider not just "how good something is" but also whether it's economically feasible and whether the designs can work, as simplicity is important. Making things more complicated makes them more likely to be damaged in combat or malfunction.\\

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Eri calling Re-Destro “Dr. Destroshmirtz” in chapter 9 causes Ko to fall out of her wheelchair from laughter while Izuku and Re-Destro almost crash into each other in their rush to get Ko back into her wheelchair.

[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/42394362/chapters/106462740 The Reason why the Second Meta-Liberation War is going to be Weird]] by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/Mirrond/pseuds/Mirrond Mirrond]] is a fanfiction of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' that focuses on the Meta Liberation Army.

* AdaptationalDiversity: The MLA goes from an organization of Quirk Supremacist extremists to a movement with a broad range of viewpoints that all fit under the general category of not liking Quirk control laws. There are still Quirk Supremacists, but these radicals make up a minority of the party; the vast majority are centrists and moderates who simply feel that the current laws are overly restrictive and prevent people from doing useful things with their Quirks without a Hero License and wants them overhauled so that the average person can use their Quirk in other lines of work, so long as they don't violate any other laws. In fact, not only does Izuku find himself agreeing with the opinion of the moderate wing, but so does [[spoiler:pretty much every Pro Hero that hates the Hero Public Safety Commission, which includes a good chunk of the teachers at UA, as well as ''All Might'']].

* DramaticIrony: Re-Destro, in an early chapter, reveals that he has started entertaining "the most ridiculous theories he can think of" due to how insane things have already become after only a few weeks around Izuku. Absolutely all of them turn out to be true, to the point where after a slew of them are revealed in once, he holds off asking for confirmation of his craziest theory (All For One being his stepfather, while All Might is his biological father) because he just doesn't want to handle that much insanity at once.

* AdaptationalDiversity: The MLA goes from an organization of Quirk Supremacist extremists to a movement with a broad range of viewpoints that all fit under the general category of not liking Quirk control laws. There are still Quirk Supremacists, but these radicals make up a minority of the party; the vast majority are centrists and moderates who simply feel that the current laws are overly restrictive and prevent people from doing useful things with their Quirks without a Hero License and wants them overhauled so that the average person can use their Quirk in other lines of work, so long as they don't violate any other laws. Izuku finds himself agreeing with the opinion of the moderate wing.

* DramaticIrony: Re-Destro, in an early chapter, reveals that he has started entertaining "the most ridiculous theories he can think of" due to how insane things have already become after a few weeks around Izuku. Absolutely all of them, including All For One being his stepfather, All Might being his biological father, and Mirko having an affair with Stain, are true.

* BlackmailBackfire: The HPSC tried to blackmail Mirko over the fact she's having an affair with Stain by sending her a recording of one of their encounters. Her response was first to tell them their camera work was so bad that she couldn't even get off to the sex tape, before stating that threatening to leak the footage would only serve as incentive for her to join up with her lover's cause and help him take down other heroes. The HPSC quietly backs down.

* BlackmailBackfire: The HPSC tried to blackmail Mirko over the fact she's having an affair with Stain by sending her a videotape of one of their encounters. Her response was to tell them their camera work was so bad that she couldn't even get off to the sex tape and that they clearly want her to remain a hero rather than quit to join her lover. The HPSC quietly backs down.

* ForWantOfANail:
** [[spoiler:Izuku telling Re-Destro that Overhaul could cure his daughter's disabilities leads to them meeting Overhaul, who did heal her, but also them discovering that Overhaul is abusing Eri, and that he's working on a viable Quirk-Erasing drug, which leads to them saving Eri and stealing Overhaul's research]].
** [[spoiler:Izuku outing Endeavour as a terrible father starts a long chain of events that eventually results in Hawks deserting the HPSC and joining the MLA and giving the latter organisation extremely compromising evidence of the former]].

* AdaptationalDiversity: The MLA goes from an organization of Quirk Supremacist extremists to a movement with a broad range of viewpoints that all fit under the general category of not liking Quirk control laws. There are Quirk Supremacists, but there are also people who simply feel that the current laws are overly restrictive and prevent people from doing useful things with their Quirks without a Hero License and wants them overhauled so that the man on the street is free to use his Quirk so long as he doesn't use it to violate an unrelated law. Izuku finds himself agreeing with the opinion of the moderate wing.

* DeconstructionFic: The fandom idea of Aldera Middle School being an MLA-Indoctrination facility is taken apart here, at least when done by a competent MLA-leadership. Never mind that Aldera Middle School is close to UA High School and therefore, ''Nedzu'', it coming out that a middle school practiced free-use of Quirks ''and'' used that to ''also'' practice Quirk Supremacism would cause a nation-wide outrage that actually ''hurts'' the MLA's cause.

* DramaticIrony: Re-Destro throws out "the most ridiculous theories he can think of" due to how insane things are around Izuku. All of them, including All For One being his stepfather, All Might being his biological father, and Mirko having an affair with Stain, are true.

** The idea of Aldera being a Meta Liberation Army recruiting site is ruthlessly mocked by Re-Destro, citing that not only is it far too close to both U.A. and Nedzu, but the school faculty are more extreme than several of the MLA's actual extremist and the students are completely untrained. At ''best'', such a school would get them some untrained cannon fodder. At worst, it'd reveal them to the whole of Japan. If they were going to use a school as a recruitment center, they'd use a hero school so they'd at least get trained soldiers out of it.

** Dabi being a victim gets mocked when Endeavor's crimes come to light. Dabi's psychotic ranting in response is broadcasted and all of Japan "sees him for the psychotic murderer he is rather than a victim".

* RunningGag: Geten using windows instead of doors for entering and exiting buildings.
** Geten being reduced to StunnedSilence when after hearing Izuku's [[AwesomenessByAnalysis analysis]] of his abilities and immediately trying them out, which often leads to the aforementioned ThereWasADoor moments.

* MamaBear: Even before Re-Destro understands exactly how dangerous Inko is, she threatens that if anything happens to her son, she will "violently revoke his testicle privileges." Inko then proves ''why'' she is not someone to be messed with by singlehandedly demolishing All for One's criminal empire in the course of ''days''.

* LoneSurvivor: [[spoiler:Kendo Rappa is the only survivor of the Shie Hassakai's defeat due to not being present for the battle]].

* MamaBear: Even before Re-Destro understands exactly how dangerous Inko is, she threatens that if anything happens to her son, she will "violently revoke his testicle privileges."

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Eri calling Re-Destro “Dr. Destroshmirtz” in chapter 9 causes Ko to fall out of her wheelchair from laughter while Izuku and Re-Destiny almost crash into each other in their rush to get Ko back into her wheelchair.

** Zigzagged. [[spoiler:Nedzu turns out to be a former SSS-rank Villain from the Dawn of Quirks that did human experimentation. And then he got experimented on himself, which gave him enough empathy to become a legitimate hero. Then, he joins the Meta Liberation Army, but they're not monsters here; they want to change a system perpetuated by the HPSC that keeps creating new villains]].

* {{Deconstruction}}: The fandom idea of Aldera Middle School being an MLA-Indoctrination facility is taken apart here, at least when done by a competent MLA-leadership. Never mind that Aldera Middle School is close to UA High School and therefore, ''Nedzu'', it coming out that a middle school practiced free-use of Quirks ''and'' used that to ''also'' practice Quirk Supremacism would cause a nation-wide outrage that actually ''hurts'' the MLA's cause.

* DidNotSeeThatComing:

* GroinAttack: Inko warns Rikiya that if he fails to take care of Izuku properly, his testicle privileges will be revoked.