History Recap / MyHeroAcademiaFinalExamsArc

* FlawExploitation: The End-of-Term practical test is redesigned into this after the incidents involving the Villain Alliance. The teachers pair up students against the teacher who can best force them to deal with their weak areas.

* MookHorrorShow: Midoriya and Bakugo's fight with All-Might has shades of this as they get to experience how terrifyingly overwhelming he can be as an opponent (even past his prime and handicapped).

'''Result''': MINETA PASSES, SERO FAILS

* HeroAntagonist: Technically, U.A. and its [[BadassTeacher teacher staff]] are the main antagonists. Justified with this being a school setting, although some of them did go a bit too far.

* ArcVillain: Technically, U.A. and its [[BadassTeacher teacher staff]]. Justified with this being a school setting, although some of them did go a bit too far.

Class 1-A gets together for a day of shopping, that leaves Midoriya and Uraraka alone together. Remembering Aoyama's words from their battle with Thirteen Uraraka leaves Midoriya alone in embarasment. While Midoriya is confronted by a mysterious young man in a hoodie who is little friendly. However only once he wraps his hand, par one finger, around his throat and tells him that they haven't seen each other since the USJ does Midoriya realizes who it is: Tomura Shigaraki!

Shigaraki tells Midoriya not to move and threatens to kill him and a few civilains if he doesn't comply. He then asks Midoriya what is the difference between him and Stain and why so many people have gravitated towards the Hero Killer. Miroriya admits that, while he can't understand or accept Shigaraki's wanton need for destruction, he can at least understand Stain's ideology twisted though it may be, after all, both him and Stain were inspired by All Might.

* AloneWithThePsycho: Played with since Izuku wasn't entirely alone, but the passerby are still too caught up in their own business to pay attention to his situation, and Shigaraki likely would have followed through with his threat to kill them if Izuku had called for help.

* DenouementEpisode: Following the completion of their final exams, Class 1-A goes to a day at the mall to celebrate and prepare for the up incoming School Trip, however the lightheaded tone is ruined when Shigaraki arrives and confronts Midoriya. After asking Midoriya what the difference between him and Stain is Shigaraki solves his character development problem by finally gaining a concrete goal of his own aside from aimless destruction; destroying All Might and tearing down the society he represents.

* KnightOfCerebus: This episode sets Tomura Shigaraki up as one, as it not only begins to frame him much more seriously as an antagonist than before, but it also heralds his eventual CharacterDevelopment, as well as a marked shift in tone for the following arcs.

** Todoroki and Yaoyorozu vs. Eraser Head is for Yaoyorozu to improve her split-second thinking and action (and by extension her self-confidence) and to challenge Todoroki's tendency to use brute force by having them go against the PowerNullifier close-combat fighter Aizawa.

** Satou and Kirishima vs. Cementoss is supposed to have the students (both of whom are physical bruisers) think of creative ways to defeat a villain who doesn't run out of defenses.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Midoriya and Bakugo spend nearly the entirety of their fight yelling at each other, but they have to work together in order to beat the nigh-unstoppable force that is All Might. This was invoked by Aizawa, who paired them up for this reason.

* VictoryByEndurance: In the end, Midoriya manages to get Bakugo out of the gate because All Might's powered form was running out of steam.

'''Momo Yaoyorozu and Shoto Todoroki vs Eraserhead'''

The pair get off to a bad start when Aizawa is able to capture Shoto, but once Shoto encourages Momo (who's the better tactician of the two, but is suffering from self-esteem issues after her quick loss at the hands of Tokoyami during the Sports Festival), they manage to work out a strategy involving a catapult and a shape-memory alloy copy of Eraserhead's scarf, which they tie him up with. Of course, Momo ''did'' make a mistake, but Aizawa allowed her the victory because he's a total softie at heart.

** Todoroki and Yaoyorozu vs. Eraserhead is for Yaoyorozu to improve her split-second thinking and action (and by extension her self-confidence) and to challenge Todoroki's tendency to use brute force by having them go against the PowerNullifier close-combat fighter Aizawa.

'''Ochako Uraraka and Yuga Aoyama vs Thirteen'''

The students eventually win because Black Hole is ''too'' powerful- when Yuga asks Ochako about her crush on Izuku, she lets go in surprise and begins falling into Thirteen's quirk. Since getting near a black hole is so absurdly lethal that scientists invented a new word for how badly you die ('spaghettification'- LudicrousGibs has ''nothing'' on this), Thirteen cuts off their quirk in fear of her safety, which allows Uraraka an opening to cuff them.

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