History Manga / VigilanteMyHeroAcademiaIllegals

* HypocriticalHumor: After Makoto Tsukauchi shows up to help Kouichi study, Pop (who had been hiding the whole time) starts bad-mouthing her for barging in and having no sense of personal space despite her own PrettyFreeloader status.

* {{Prequel}}: Set some time before the start of the main story, around 5 to 6 years prior. To wit, Ingenium is Iida's brother, Tensei, who hasn't been injured yet and [[spoiler: All Might still has his powers, and Stendahl is a younger Stain before he started targeting heroes.]] Midnight and Aizawa are also shown to not yet be teachers at U.A., with Midnight saying she would begin in the following year.

* {{Prequel}}: Set some time before the start of the main story. To wit, Ingenium is Iida's brother, Tensei, who hasn't been injured yet and [[spoiler: All Might still has his powers, and Stendahl is a younger Stain before he started targeting heroes.]] Midnight and Aizawa are also shown to not yet be teachers at U.A., with Midnight saying she would begin in the following year.

* BloodKnight: Knuckle Duster ''loves'' to fight and mostly hunts down criminals in the hopes that they can give him a challenge.

19 year old Haimawari Kouichi always dreamed of being a hero, but didn't think he had a good enough Quirk. Instead he spends his free time sliding around town doing basic good deeds like picking up litter, or helping lost children find their parents. Content with his lot in life Kouichi never expected to be thrown into the world of heroes, but an unexpected run in with the Vigilante, or illegal hero, Knuckle Duster changes his life forever.

* VigilanteMan: Stendahl, a killer vigilante who attacks villains with lethal force in contrast to the main trio. [[spoiler:Soon after his introduction, it's confirmed that this is an earlier identity of Stain before he lost his nose and started targeting heroes.]]

* LowerDeckEpisode: Rather an entire series of it, not only does it focus on new characters but heroes whose careers are only briefly touched upon in the main series are given more spotlight.

** During a brief panel in Chapter 2, a background Quirk user is [[Manga/OnePiece a stretchy-limbed fellow in a straw hat]].
** Also in Chapter 2, a couple of middle-school punks get into a brawl; one has a very hairy face and the other shoots EyeBeams from a special visor. ([[Comicbook/XMen It's Wolverine and Cyclops]]).

* TheCameo: Many of the known heroes are seen throughout the series.

See it's [[Characters/MyHeroAcademiaIllegals character page]] for more.

* BloodKnight: Knuckle Duster ''loves'' to fight and mostly hunts down criminals in the hopes they can give him a challenge.
* TheCameo: Many of the heroes are seen throughout the series.

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: [[spoiler: Turns out Kouichi actually had met Pop Step before a long time ago when he rescued her after she fell into a storm drain and even gave her one of his prized All Might hoodies before leaving her. However he doesn't remember her and when recounting the story, thinks she was actually a boy. She likewise has yet to reveal this to him.]]
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Kouuchi mentions he wanted to be a registered hero but figures his Quirk was unsuitable for it. [[spoiler: Least that what were initially told, rather he just never reached the hero exam in time due to rescuing a young Pop Step on the way there.]]
* LowerDeckEpisode: Rather an entire series of it, not only does it focus on new characters but heroes that mostly touched upon in the main series are given more spotlight.
* {{Prequel}}: Set some time before the start of the main story. To wit, Ingenium is Iida's brother, Tensei, who hasn't been injured yet and [[spoiler: All Might still has his powers.]] Midnight and Aizawa are also shown to not yet be teachers at U.A., with Midnight saying she would begin in the following year.
* PsychoSerum: Most of the series is spent with our heroes trying to find the maker of a Quirk enhancing drug that causes it's victims to go berserk and grow to monstrosities when they use it. A known sign of it's use is dis-colorization of the tongue.
* RealityEnsues: At one point Kouchi meet Tensei and the two hit it off with Tensei offering advice to on how to use his Quirk more effectively and even giving him a card to his hero office. Kouchi more then ecstatic for it...until he reveals he's a vigilante when he helps stop a speed-based villain. When Tensei is more then happy for the help and doesn't report him, he ends up asking for the card back since he can't endorse what is essentially a lawbreaker, much to Kouchi's dismay.

* WorldBuilding: The comic focuses a lot more on the law towards quirks and what happens to a person arrested for illegal use of a quirks. Also several characters from the main series get cameos that offer a lot of background info on them such as Tensei.

* Foreshadowing: A rather roundabout example. The first shot of the chapter where [[spoiler:the masked vigilante is revealed as a younger Stain who still has his nose]] is a manhole cover. This is foreshadowing because [[spoiler:future Stain is visually very similar to the ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', specifically the original Mirage Comics version.]]

* Foreshadowing: A rather roundabout example. The first shot of the chapter where [[spoiler:the masked vigilante is revealed as a younger Stain who still has his nose]] is a manhole cover. This is foreshadowing because [[spoiler:future Stain is visually very similar to the ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', if edgier.]]

* SpinOff: Focus on the side of heroism that isn't considered legal in the [=MHA=] world.

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: [[spoiler: Turns out Kouichi actually had met Pop Step before a long time ago when he rescued her after she into a storm drain and even gave her one of his prized All Might hoodies before leaving her. However he doesn't remember her and when recounting the story, thinks she was actually a boy. She likewise has yet to reveal this to him.]]

* {{Prequel}}: Set some time before the start of the main story. To wit, Ingenium is Iida's brother, Tensei, who hasn't been injured yet and [[spoiler: All Might still has his powers.]]

* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Kouuchi mentions he wanted to be a registered hero but figures his Quirk was suitable for it. [[spoiler: Least that what were initially told, rather he just never reached the hero exam in time due to rescuing a young Pop Step on the way there.]]

* SpinOff: Focus on the side of heroism that is considered legal in the [=MHA=] world.

My Hero Academia: Illegals is a spin-off series of the popular Manga/MyHeroAcademia. Made by a different author and artist, this manga, set some time shortly before the events of the main series, details the story of a group of unlicensed heroes.

19 year old Haimawari Kouichi always dreamed of being a hero, but didn't think he had a good enough Quirk. Instead he spends his free time sliding around town doing basic good deeds like picking up litter, or helping lost children find their parents. Content with his lot in life Kouichi never expected to be thrown into the world of heroes, but an unexpected run in with the Vigilate, or illegal hero, Knuckle Duster changes his life forever.

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