Fanfic / Metal Gear: Green

Big Boss was the head of the MSF and was tasked with getting into the enemy complex, grabbing the tanks, and getting out. A simple task. He didn't account for the wormhole that opened up over the base, nor did he and the others account for being transported into a new world where "Quirks" make up the power base. Nor did he expect himself to be fostering a kid that a corrupt government had kidnapped and horrifically experimented on.

But one thing was for sure: he would bring down the corrupt society, and end the corruption going on across the globe.

Metal Gear: Green is a crossover between My Hero Academia and Metal Gear, written by TheDarkKnight2707. After being transported into another universe alongside his army, Snake finds himself as the figurehead leader for those forgotten and abandoned by society, enslaved by the warlords and terrorist leaders that run this world, used by the HPSC.

The fic can be found here and here.

Metal Gear: Green contains examples of:

• Actually Pretty Funny: All of Class 1A find Bakugou's struggles to get out of zip ties (failing in the process) hilarious.
• Adaptational Badass: Izuku is combat capable with both guns and hand-to-hand, able to pick off all of Class 1A with ease in the battle trial, and then trounce Bakugou when he tried to fight him again, zip tying the idiot's arms in a way he can't get free without blowing himself up.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: The UA staff appear far earlier than their respective canonical appearances.
  • Best Jeanist shows up when Madam President congratulates him for his rapid climb in the hero ranks in Chapter 2 when he would've shown up as one of Bakugou's intern picks.
  • Lady Nagant appears during Chapter 12 of the story when she would've been hired by All for One to kill Izuku in the Tartarus escapees Arc.
  • All For One appears in the Tyrant Arc when he would've shown up at Kamino.
  • David Shield appears at the end of the Tyrant Arc when Night Owl inspects I-Island when he appears in Two Heroes.
    • Likewise, his daughter appears after the USJ attack when All Might calls her up with the intent to offer One for All.
  • Hawks shows up during the Showstoppers Arc when he would've shown up at the Hero Billboard arc.
  • Spinner appears during the UA arc when he would've shown up after the Stain Arc.
• Adaptational Explanation: Mera's extreme tiredness is due to being constantly overworked, but the reason isn't given. Here, the HPSC has been interlocked in a nearly 10-year-long proxy war with the MSF, causing them to blow through billions of dollars in money, weapons, and equipment. Word of God confirms that the JSDF will not be mobilized to fight the MSF due to major arms depletions without the public becoming suspicious.
• Adaptational Heroism:
  • Lady Nagant is busted out of Tartarus by Snake, giving the former heroine a second chance at life.
  • Likewise, Spinner joins the MSF after being fired from his last job.
• Adaptational Late Appearance: Bakugou shows up at the UA entrance exam when he shows up as one of Izuku's 'childhood' friends.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul:
  • In canon, Lady Nagant was an assassin hired by All for One to hunt down and kill Izuku in the Tartarus Escapees Arc. Here, after being busted out by Snake and given a position in the MSF, she is Izuku's training instructor when Snake is on assignment and cares for the kid.
  • On the flip side, Izuku's canonical relationships with the students and staff of 1A and UA do not occur since Izuku is on Mother Base, the exception being Nezu. This starts to change in Chapter 62.
    • He becomes fast friends with Rody Soul after the latter's family was rescued from Humarise.
    • He also becomes fast friends with Mei and wishes to see more of her inventions.
    • This is inverted with Bakugou, as Izuku never saw Bakugou in 10 years. Despite this, he still acts like an overentitled dickhead, which makes Izuku very much unappreciated of him.
  • Class 1A's relationship with Bakugou slowly but surely begins to deteriorate when it becomes clear Bakugou is not only full of himself, but is an idiot.
  • Spinner's canonical relationships with the League of Villains do not happen due to him joining the MSF.
• Adaptational Villainy: The HPSC is far worse than canon, showing no care towards the lives of people they ruin, give the green light to have Izuku's family killed off and Izuku kidnapped and experimented on.
• Adapted Out: Bakugou's bullying of Izuku is largely removed after Izuku's abduction and experimentation by the HPSC.
• All for Nothing: Despite spinning the Nigeria clusterfuck into a Pyrrhic Victory, in reality, it was an attack that netted them over 10,000 dead heroes, thousands more defecting when it became clear rescue wasn't coming for them, and even more being permanently crippled, with the losses being around a third, in exchange for nothing.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse:
  • Snake gives the offer of free passage of the remaining heroes to Madam President as long as the heroes stand down. At first, she was going to refuse and send All Might down there, but Snake points out that if she does, it would result in thousands more heroes senselessly dying and some of them brought students along. Her options were to either take Snake's offer and spin it in a Pyrrhic Victory, or double down and risk Night Owl's experiments coming to light and have the HPSC dissolved on the spot. She accepts Snake's deal.
  • Madam President offers the African Warlords loads of cash, equipment, weapons, and even more power in exchange for destroying Outer Heaven and killing everyone who is a citizen of Outer Heaven. Otherwise, she will have them all assassinated before sunrise. She also adds that Outer Heaven expands by the day, so sooner or later, they'll come for them and it's best to take her help. The warlords comply.
  • Ocelot gives Bakugou, Kirishima, and Todoroki the punishment offer of cleaning the entire campus for three months thanks to All Might convincing him to not blacklist their asses on the spot for their idiotic approach at the USJ. If they refuse, he will walk back on All Might's request and blacklist their asses on the spot. They have no choice but to accept it.
• Appeal to Force: Madam President gets 60,000 heroes in on a mission to destroy the MSF by using Malicious Slander and manipulations to ensure that they could defeat the force that was 1/24th the size of the force. It fails horribly as despite the heroes having flashy and powerful Quirks, it is effectively useless against battle-hardened soldiers who outgun them, have air superiority, and the attacking force is ill-equipped for a prolonged battle.
  • In the Outer Heaven Arc, she hires all the African Warlords to kill everyone who is a member of Outer Heaven. Some were eager, others were skeptical, and a few viewed it as suicide. They all ended up joining, but after five years, they have nothing to show for it, Luan and Razak have pulled out of the fight for the time being, and Madam President is becoming more and more unhinged as time goes on.
• Arms Dealer: The Broker is this.
• Arms Fair: Most of, if not all of, the Broker's weapons being sold are army-grade weapons.
  • The HPSC gifts the African Warlords and many major crime groups as many weapons as possible without giving them a Weapon of Mass Destruction.
  • Much to the UA staff and Naomasa's worry, Ocelot reveals that he got all of his weapons from a JSDF armory that the soldiers were practically selling weapons to whoever got a fuckload of cash. Ocelot got his and used the old HPSC badge to get them for free.
  • The warehouse Snake investigates is used by Night Owl to house all the broken and useless weapons, equipment and vehicles. Night Owl lambasts how much of the JSDF weapons in this warehouse don't work when he paid a good fortune on them and offers it to Snake as a Consolation Prize for going so far to stop him.
• Ascended Extra: Lady Nagant and the HPSC get more of a spotlight compared to canon, where the former was only in one arc and the latter was viewed from the Hero Billboard arc up to the MLA arc.
  • To a lesser extent, this applies to Spinner as well.
• Assassination Attempt: Madam President sends Magnetic to Colombia to kill Sainz, then be defeated by Infini Leap in a staged battle. Instead, Snake defeats Magnetic before Infini Leap arrived, and Madam president is left enraged.
  • She later threatens to have the Polish president killed for hiring the MSF and revealing that the Poles were cutting ties with the HPSC. Nowak tells her to Bring It.
  • Class 1A is tasked with protecting a VIP bot in their class exercise against Akatani. Akatani snipes the bot from a distance and successfully knocks out the bulk of them from a distance.
• Assassin Outclassin': Snake successfully subdues Magnetic, an Australian villain sent to kill Sainz by the HPSC. Unfortunately, before they could get any answers, Infini Leap arrives, cuffs, and takes the villain away.
• Asshole Victim: The Showmaster, Tyrant, and the Brothers are a few prominent examples of people who got what they deserved.
  • Fudaki's death at the USJ is largely seen as this. Between threatening Ochako, acting like he's the superior one and blatantly ignoring orders from both teachers and students alike in a life or death situation, means very few people will miss him.
• Attack! Attack! Attack!: This is a common problem amongst hero and hero students who believe the best course of action is to disregard plans or orders, resulting in high casualties from the hero and civilian side, often with the fool doing this killed as well. Fudaki tries it three times, and dies on the third try against the USJ Nomu.
• Attack Backfire: Todoroki's freezing of an entire building during his trial against Akatani ends with him sniped. Akatani tells them in the next chapter that had Todoroki not done such an idiotic attack, he'd be a higher threat than Ashido.
• Attention Whore: A lot of heroes are this, alongside many hero students such as Bakugou.
• Awesome, but Impractical: The HPSC's approach to heroes is to have flashy, powerful quirks, extremely colorful costumes, and loud, over-the-top personalities. Great for market appeal, but in an actual warzone, these heroes would be at a major disadvantage against an enemy force that is better equipped, better trained, has a simple and effective strategy against powerful heroes, and locked down air superiority. The African disaster was a key example of this mess.
• Badass Army: The MSF. With probably a few million soldiers at their disposal, all the advanced blueprints for weapons, ships, planes, and tanks, and a stable economy, they have shown their worth.
• Bait-and-Switch: The locals of a town end up panicking when MSF planes drop their payloads from their cargo holds, expecting them to be bombed. When one of them investigates, all of them find that it's crates of food and water, and a promise to give them more of the same in exchange for not engaging the MSF. The locals eagerly round up the Warlords who control their town and offer them to the MSF.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Mina and Toru have long been fans of the Heart Star-Freezer Boy shipping gossip and upon Mina finding out Freezer Boy is on campus, brings Toru and Momo along to get her answers. She gets her wish... and the three of them are left with horrible realizations that they've been donating money to a money laundering scheme (Momo) or had been tricked into believing this was a lover's quarrel when in reality, it was Grizzly exposing her money laundering scheme (Mina and Toru).
• Big "WHAT?!":
  • Bakugou, Kirishima, and Todoroki give this when told they have to clean the entire campus of UA for three months.
  • Ochako, Iida, and Tsuyu give this when finding out Akatani is Quirkless...and they lost to the kid in a single battle trial.
• Bilingual Dialogue: The conversation with Mina, Momo, Toru, and Grizzly's team is this, with the former three and Iguchi capable of speaking Japanese, while the latter three, Momo and Iguchi can speak English.
• Black-and-White Morality: Deconstructed. Because the HPSC has enforced such a worldview across the first world, this makes it very easy for people who are discriminated or mistreated all their lives to turn to crime and be labeled a villain because of it. Snake views this as genuinely moronic as a petty bread thief and a war criminal are two different criminals, yet painted in the same manner. To him, this becomes less like Black-and-White Morality and more Black-and-White Insanity.
• Blinded by Rage: Bakugou after losing to Akatani. When he tries to confront him, Akatani proceeds to effortlessly beat him and zip-tie him in a way he can't get out of without blasting himself or anything other than his restraints or Akatani.
• Boring, but Practical: The Polish government's approach to how heroes operate and look is viewed negatively by the HPSC, which largely focuses on powerful, flashy, and awesome-looking Quirks. Three out of five MSF casualties came from the Polish heroes in the doomed raid.
  • The Tyrant's approach how to handling the territories he had, in the beginning, was to seize all goods, strip them of their parts, and repurpose them while his cities were turned into massive death traps that an experienced warlord would view as a pointless meat grinder. As Ocelot realizes, the Tyrant focused on logistics instead of seizing territory, eventually becoming the most dangerous warlord in Africa.
• Bound and Gagged: More bound, but when Bakugou's attempts to fight Akatani end with his ass kicked and tied up in a way that he can't hit Akatani or his restraints, but can hit himself and everywhere else, Bakugou spends all of the next scene trying in futility to get out of the zip ties.
• Both Sides Have a Point:
  • When Snake was captured by the Brothers, Diego immediately wanted to kill Snake on the spot, knowing the man will come back for him if he gets out. However, his brother refuses, pointing out that if they do, the 40 million promised would never be delivered. When Diego makes this clear to the HPSC rep, he ignores it. All while hiding the fact that they need to find their Base of Operations, and a dead man can't tell any tales.
  • When Iida and Tsuyu discuss Aizawa's Misplaced Retribution on Ochako for Fudaki's failure, Iida is right in pointing out that heroes have to back each other up. However, Tsuyu is also right in that there's a difference between helping a companion and avoiding a suicide charge. After Fudaki is brutally killed by the USJ Nomu, it becomes a very dark topic where Tsuyu was right.
  • When discussing the MSF and their tanks (granted, none of them know that the MSF have a Mark three variant of the Abrams), All Might points out that they know nothing about the MSF, which means they could've taken any contract from anyone, up to and including All for One. Midnight points out that despite everything, they are more morally grey, which is better than them being villains, something both All Might and Present Mic can't refute.
• Break Out the Museum Piece: Grizzly's team throughout the campaign in Africa had picked up a Lugar, some SKS rifles, a few Mosin-Nagants, Lee Enfields, and a MAS-36. Weapons from either the Second World War or the Cold War. This was a sign the Warlords were getting desperate to stop the MSF. Even Grizzly couldn't believe the desperation.
  • Earlier before, the President of the HPSC asked what the hell happened to the 100 Type 99s she sent to the Warlords. Her subordinate told her they were either destroyed, captured, or lacked the parts to repair them, with some using the World War II and Cold War-era weaponry at the earliest to War on Terror weapons at the latest.
• Bring It: Nowak tells Madam President to try her attempts to assassinate him. Another with similar views will take his place, so unless she wishes to explain why the whole Polish government is killed, she can't do shit about it.
• Broken Pedestal: When heroes or hero students start to realize how corrupt things had gotten under the HPSC, they end up joining the MSF, ranging from being abandoned by corrupt heroes, or finding out heroics is not all it was cut out to be.
  • For the Polish government, the fact that Russia and Belarus refused to do a damn thing about the Showstoppers even after Nowak's daughter was abducted by them caused the Polish government to lose all faith in the Hero system, going to the MSF to stop the Showstoppers.
  • Mina, Momo, and Toru are left horrified and devastated at the realization that Heart Star was a backstabbing bitch who was running a money laundering scheme that Grizzly had on tape for the past few years.
• Bullying a Dragon: Bakugou attacks Akatani for using tricks instead of charging head-on. When Bakugou finds out he's held at gunpoint, then beaten senseless, bound in a way that keeps him from using his Quirk on his restraints or Akatani, beaten up and the next scene has Bakugou struggling to even get out of the restraints, much to 1A's amusement.
• The Cavalry Arrives Late: When discussing the defeat of Magnetic, Grizzly explains to Momo that Infini Leap never defeated Magnetic, but Snake was the one who defeated Magnetic shortly before Infini Leap arrived.
  Momo: Wait, if it wasn’t Infini Leap that stopped the assassin, then why did he get a medal?
  Grizzly: Beats me. I’m pretty sure the Colombians were forced to give it to him though, cause a whole lot of them looked pissed off at the ceremony.
• Canine Companion: DD, Izuku's dog, is this.
• Cannon Fodder: Madam President sends 60,000 low-level heroes to get rid of the MSF instead of the battle-hardened heroes like All Might, knowing that the low-level ones are Glory Hounds while the battle-hardened heroes know to ask questions first and attack later. It fails.
  • In the class trials in Chapter 68, several officers and Akatani exploit the students over-reliance on All Might and have him and the heavy hitters swarmed with Cannon Fodder while having the experienced villains defeat the weaker heroes, escape quickly and whatnot.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: More like 'can't fire you, still need you', but the reason Aizawa was able to get away with what he's done for so long is due to the fact that if he is fired, then he goes to the HPSC, as Erasure is a Quirk that rivals All Might. The other was that he hoped Aizawa would open up about why he turned like this. While Ocelot agrees with the first one, he views the second one as a foolish endeavor.
• Cassandra Truth:
  • When labeling the MSF as villains, Nezu counters it by asking if the press has any proof to back it up. Madam President does have proof to back it up, but it implicates them in even worse crimes, even with mild evidence tampering.
  • Grizzly had video evidence of Heart Star running a money laundering scheme, which the press viewed as a lover's quarrel. When he shows it to Momo, Mina, and Toru, the three are left devastated at the truth behind the donations.
• Caught on Tape: When explaining to Momo, Mina, and Toru that Heart Star was doing a money laundering scheme masquerading as a charity and used his attempts to expose her to make it seem like a lover's quarrel, they think it's not possible.
  Grizzly: A crappy hero. Do you know that international charity she’s running? Not a single dollar goes to those in need. The entire thing is nothing but a massive laundering scheme,
  Momo: That, that can’t be true. My family has donated to that charity for years, as have hundreds of other well-known heroes. How could that money not reach those in need? How could you know that?
  Grizzly: Because little miss bitch bragged about it in class all those years ago. Hell, I’ve got the entire thing on camera!
• Cheap Costume: Many costumes hero students make, from the sex-appealing female costumes to the genuinely stupid costume designs male students have, all seem to be very cheap. Grizzly explains to Momo, Toru and Mina that his hero costume was genuine shit and when Snake saw this costume, told him to get a costume change becuase this will get him killed.
• Chekhov's Gift: Night Owl had a nuclear bomb gifted to him from the Congo Tyrant. He uses it as a means of blackmail to keep Snake from killing him.
• Chekhov's Gun: As the MSF build their positions around UA, one of which is an airfield. It is heavily implied when the first world collapses due to their overreliance on heroes, it will be used to evacuate civilians from Japan when it inevitably becomes a warzone.
• Child Soldier: During the 60,000 hero attack, some of the heroes doing the attack are hero students, much to the disgust of the MSF soldiers who encounter them. Unlike villains, however, they were willing to help them avoid a premature death.
  • The warlords in Africa use children as soldiers or workers because no one is going to help them... until the MSF arrived.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: The HPSC applies this to all captured MSF soldiers in a bid to get whatever information they can get. As time goes on, it becomes more and more difficult for the warlords to gain any prisoners while they're running out of the ones they have. Not only that but the prisoners promise to save the HPSC leaders a spot in Hell for them.
• Consolation Prize: When investigating the warehouse Night Owl was using to store all of the broken JSDF equipment he and the Ninth Circle have been buying, he offers this to Snake as a form of consolation for showing up to Japan to play his game. After all, unlike the JSDF, they'll pretty much scrap them and use the scrap for better purposes.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: As punishment for their stupidity that endangered them, the Ocelot Unit and All Might, Bakugou, Kirishima, and Todoroki are punished by being ordered to clean the entire campus for three months. The school, training grounds, new guard barracks, everything on campus. If they refuse, Ocelot will walk back on All Might's request to not blacklist those three and blacklist their asses on the spot.
  • When they fail to address Ocelot properly, they get an extra week added to their punishment.
• Corrupt Bureaucrat: More like an organization, but the HPSC is effectively this. Ranging from kidnapping a child and murdering his entire family, illegal human experimentation, arming African Warlords for their own amusement, and destroying the MSF, to creating a propaganda campaign against the MSF. This is coming back to bite them in the ass, as they've been forced to cut the pay of several HPSC agents, causing a few to quit and some areas of the HPSC to be understaffed. Like intel gathering, which has caused them to find out their shipments are being sunk by the MSF's navy through Igwe calling them.
  • Jan Kowalczyk is a Polish Diplomat with ties to the Showstoppers, having been tasked by the Showmaster to lure Snake into his game. While it worked, both Snake and Nagant going 'off-script' causes the Showmaster to become agitated and flay his ass alive.
• Crapsack World: Despite looking pristine and beautiful, the MHA world is marred in massive amounts of corruption and scandals. Most heroes act and behave like criminals when not on duty or given assignments by the HPSC, Africa is a massive war-torn continent except for HPSC-controlled cities kept pristine alongside a 50-mile circle where no battles take place, human and drug trafficking are rampant, and crime is strictly controlled by the HPSC. Not out of the goodness of their hearts, but to better keep hero society in line. Too little crime and heroes seem like a pointless expenditure. Too much and they seem ineffective. So the HPSC makes deals with large criminal organizations, in exchange for the organizations following their orders. People with Mutation Quirks, 'Villainous' Quirks or no Quirks are discriminated against so immensely that many of them end up becoming villains. The ones that don't either join the MSF or are already Driven to Suicide. Is it any wonder many disgruntled heroes and civilians join the MSF?
  • It's practically bad enough that the Broker was collecting naval ships that were stolen. And since the armed forces across the world except for a few nations are nonexistent, it meant that these ships are sold on the Black market at dirt cheap prices or for free.
  • Grizzly mentally remarks when Eagle reveals he's Quirkless that if he hadn't joined the MSF and fought on the front, he'd probably be no different than the heroes who claim Quirkless people can't do anything.
    Narration: War didn’t give a fuck on what your quirk was, all of them were dying to the mortar shell.
  • When Ocelot goes to a JSDF armory to get some weapons, he finds that 70 tanks are missing and the rest have their parts stripped, all artillery pieces were either missing or had their parts stripped, and many of the guns were either rusted from disuse or likely gone.
• Crippling Overspecialization: The Hero Support Item industry makes support items for heroes. In a discussion between Ocelot, Snake, Nezu, and Miller, Ocelot explains how the Hero's support item is tailor-made to a specific hero, while they are versatile with their weapons and equipment.
  • Likewise, when many heroes fight, all of them are largely melee combat heroes, which against the MSF's guns, leaves them at a major disadvantage. Multiple characters lampshade how they expect a hero to win against an F-16 or a well-tuned army.
  • In Chapter 68, many 1A students created plans that over-relied on All Might, making it clear to the MSF that if they had to come up with a plan without the use of All Might, they would be in for a very nasty time.
• Critical Staffing Shortage: Because the war between the HPSC and the MSF has been going on for nearly a decade, budget cuts have been made. Unfortunately for the HPSC, it also makes intel gathering difficult, with the existence of the MSF's navy not being revealed until Igwe called them to ask what's taking their shipments so damn long to arrive.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Fudaki has his head slammed into the ground by the Nomu so many times that at the last slam, brain matter was leaking out.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Akatani vs. 1A. Akatani not only manages to outstealth but outmaneuver them and pick them all off after executing the VIP bot.
  • Bakugou tries to attack Akatani as payback for losing to him in the battle trial, despite the fact he's on thin ice already. This ends with Akatani kicking his ass and zip-tying him in a way he can't use his Quirk to get out of without blasting himself or anything other than his intended target or the restraints.
• Cutting Corners: Being in a proxy 9-year war with the MSF has forced the HPSC to cut the pay of numerous agents, a few quitting in anger. It got so bad that Mera was complaining about staffing shortages. Techno tells her that the intel gathering is hindered due to the budget cuts, resulting in them finding out about the MSF's navy when Igwe called them up to ask where the fuck their tanks are.
• Dead Man's Switch: Snake cannot kill Night Owl lest the gifted nuke from the Tyrant detonates.
• Deadpan Snarker: Night Owl, Ocelot, and Izuku.
• Death by Adaptation: Inko and Hisashi are killed off by Night Owl's servants and the four elemental heroes while kidnapping Izuku for Night Owl's experiments.
  • Tesla's attempt to take Kaminari hostage ends with him getting a bullet into the skull by one of Ocelot's men.
  • All the villains where Tokoyami and Koda are were killed off by the Ocelot Unit when they chose to fight them.
• Death Faked for You: During the Tartarus escape, Snake is given a pill that makes one appear dead to the world. Once he's given the antidote, he escapes in a firefight with Ocelot, busting Lady Nagant out in the process.
• Death Glare: When Akatani picks up the Idroid and Victoria asks if he's all right, she glares at Bakugou. The explosive blond is left dumbstruck at the glare the AI gave him.
  • Many of the MSF soldiers assigned to UA security give heroes these, with Present Mic noting they're even worse than the glares some of the Ocelots gave Aizawa.
• Deconstruction Fic: Of the reliance on Hero Society in general.
  • To start with, the first world nations are heavily over-reliant on heroes, to the point where police, rescue, and even the military have their funding cut. This makes Night Owl and the MSF's acquirement of whatever weapons they need from various depots very easy, as no one keeps track of the guns or even ships.
  • While heroes are popular in the first world and some second world nations, in the other second world nations and the third world, heroes are flat-out despised because they left them at the mercy of the Warlords, or the discrimination that many, especially those with mutant or 'villainous' Quirks face. It's the deciding factor when the refugees attack the heroes attacking the MSF, viewing this as pouring salt on all the suffering they experienced.
  • Aizawa's Sink or Swim Mentor status is heavily deconstructed, with Ocelot being introduced as a pseudo-teacher for Aizawa whenever the man does what he usually does. The result is that Aizawa's teaching capabilities are viewed very negatively with Fudaki's death, while Recovery Girl points out that Ocelot's teaching mannerisms had a decline in injuries compared to his. It's revealed that before Ocelot ended up being a frequent visitor to UA, Aizawa was a good teacher, but something happened that made him who he is today.
• Defiant to the End: A captured MSF soldier is given Cold-Blooded Torture by the HPSC's agents in a bid to find the MSF's Base of Operations. When he says for them to kill him, the HPSC president complies with his wish to break him. Instead, he tells her he'll save her ass a spot in Hell.
• Destroy the Evidence: After the USJ attack, Night Owl destroys the building he had once done dimensional exploration in while the HPSC President is distracted with the desire to get UA under her heel. Given that Naomasa is investigating the MSF's origins, destroying it was the good option.
• Destroy the Security Camera: Shigaraki dusts the camera in the classroom while he is collecting what he needs for his grand plan.
• Didn't See That Coming: Madam President was expecting three things for Nezu to do: Increase security by having more heroes hired, preferably on HPSC payroll, get a bunch of vigilantes or heroes not on HPSC payroll, or fold to the HPSC. She didn't expect him to hire the MSF to be school security.
  • Likewise, Iida, Tsuyu, and Ochako are surprised at the presence of Victoria, the exoskeleton suits MSF soldiers are wearing and the IVAS assigned to numerous MSF personnel, and they are surprised an unheard-of mercenary force has loads of technological advancements that would revolutionize the world.
  • And all of 1A and Ocelot is shocked and surprised Kaminari was the top scorer of the simulation all of them went through.
• Didn't Think This Through: Has its own page.
• Disproportionate Retribution: So, two of the warlords in your Proxy War against the MSF have withdrawn their forces because it's utter suicide to fight the MSF now? Don't bother asking why they pulled back, send assassins to whack them!
• Doesn't Trust Those Guys: Barring Nezu, the UA staff and most of the student population do not trust the MSF security personnel, with the feeling being mutual for many MSF personnel. While it is somewhat chipping apart, the world is left to wonder what the hell this mercenary company is doing in Japan.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?:
  • The heroes enter Africa with colorful costumes, arrogant and overconfident that the MSF were going to fold. Instead, it turned into a massive disaster. This is eerily familiar to when the British wore redcoats and often had high casualty rates due to how impractical they were in the field combined with an arrogance and confidence that was overinflated, such as the battle of Isandlwana.
  • Likewise, the HPSC's actions and behaviors against the MSF and everyone who oppose them is reminiscent of how the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany treated their political prisoners and POWs before offing them.
• The Dog Bites Back: Many of the African locals under Warlord rule would gladly stab their warlord superiors in the back if it meant they weren't going to die. For the locals of one town, being offered food, water, and amnesty by MSF is more than enough for them to turn on the warlords and hand the bastards to them.
• Don't Celebrate Just Yet: Madam President's celebration on the USJ attack and her plans to force UA under her heel is interrupted by Night Owl casually mentioning a swarm of unidentified aircraft approaching the mainland. Something that both Techno and Madam President quickly realize are MSF personnel.
• Door Stopper: With almost 350,000 words and 68 chapters.
• Down the Rabbit Hole: Upon finding out there's nothing on the Japanese servers about the MSF, let alone proof it exists, Naomasa has his fellow officers look internationally as All Might is not sure what the MSF is. It's heavily implied they will not like what they find.
• Dramatic Irony: Most of the UA staff dismiss the MSF taking up contracts with governments because 'what hero supporting government would hire villains'? In actuality, most of their funding does come from contracts with other nations, mainly second and third world, with both Colombia and Poland being two prime examples.
• The Dreaded: Snake, better known as Big Boss, becomes this to the criminals and terrorists. When Luan points out that they're going to go up against Big Boss (aka, the leader of Outer Heaven), several of the Warlords are about ready to abandon their meeting.
• Driven to Villainy: The HPSC loves this trope as by forcing people they have discriminated against, they create the villains the heroes are supposed to beat, at least the ones who don't get Driven to Suicide. The MSF's existence is basically Take a Third Option to many like Iguchi, which is something the HPSC doesn't want.
• Easy Logistics: Viciously averted throughout the fic, with it being clear that logistics are key to winning any wars and entering one without any logistics at play could easily be a catastrophic disaster - the doomed hero attack on the MSF being a prime example of this.
  • As the Proxy War with Outer Heaven rages on, many of the weapons, tanks and aircraft promised to the African warlords were sunk before they could reach them, and the ones that did reach them weren't enough. Some of the warlords become desperate and started using centuries old equipment from the World Wars while the ones who weren't willing to go to war or were aware this is a suicide mission pull their forces out for fortifying their lands for potential and inevitable invasion by the MSF.
• Enemy Civil War: Shortly after the Tyrant's death, some of his men began turning against other groups, causing infighting that eventually dissolved his organization, with some members defecting to the MSF.
  • Despite the HPSC's efforts to get the warlords to unify against the MSF, they constantly find themselves at war over territorial disputes or who should be leading the war against Big Boss.
• Engineered Heroics: This is very common throughout the fic.
  • The HPSC springs Magnetic out and has him sent to Colombia to kill Sainz, then be conviently taken down by Infini Leap. This fails because Snake subdued Magnetic before Infini Leap even arrived.
  • Likewise, her second attempt, having a dozen heroes take down a powerful radiation villain in Nigeria to cover up the Congo Tyrant getting his hands on nukes while sending 60,000 heroes to crush the MSF forces in Nigeria goes horribly sideways, resulting in around 20,000 heroes being killed, captured or crippled, the HPSC losing a lot of political capital and Madam President being forced to make a deal with Snake, lest Night Owl's experiments come to light and she be facing the barrels of a firing squad.
  • Madam President decides to get villain groups to do attacks near any MSF personnel, in the hopes to frame them for vigilantism so that they can be arrested by HPSC controlled heroes, or boost hero reputation for the new ones.
• The Enemy Weapons Are Better: Inverted. As the MSF continued its war against the African warlords, they advanced and evolved their armaments to better counter the enemy forces. In contrast, the African Warlords have to receive tanks and ammunition from the HPSC. Within those five years, many arms depots across Japan were largely depleted, and the HPSC could not tell the Japanese government to start mass producing tanks and guns without them getting suspicious. It's also implied to be the same across the globe.
• Even Evil Has Standards: When one villain proposes eating both Tsuyu and Mineta, another villain calls it disgusting. The first villain snaps back that he raped a four-year-old, and has the gall to draw the line at cannibalism. The man's response was a Blunt "Yes".
• Everybody Has Standards: The MSF is a competent mercenary force, with their leader having killed off four extremely dangerous threats. Upon finding sixteen-year-old hero students fighting a war, they instantly have Grizzly go down there and offer surrender and medical aid for two of the injured students while showing immense disgust at the HPSC's actions. Snake also orders his men to infiltrate the hero ranks and get the hero students out of the warzone.
  • Even though she hates it, Lady Nagant has refugees choose between work when entering their lands due to massive resource strains. Many took up arms for the MSF as they were the true heroes who helped them when society abandoned them.
  • Despite being disgusted at being forced to bid on a kid, Miller does so to rescue the girl being sold off as well as capture their teleporting servant.
  • The students of 1A and the Ocelot Unit knew Fudaki was both an asshole and an arrogant prick, but they didn't want him dead.
  • Despite everything, the MSF will not take any contracts that offer no benefit to them or is viewed as genuine suicide for them.
  • Snake genuinely hates the Black-and-White Morality the HPSC enforces, as labeling a petty thief as evil as Adolf Hitler not only sounds absurd, but downright idiotic.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When looking at the numbers for the Ninth Circle, Snake notices that it's only fifteen members for the past few years... until he and Miller quickly realize that the HPSC hadn't bothered to keep tabs on the Ninth Circle for years, which is combined with Ocelot's intel on the JSDF selling their own guns to whoever offered the biggest amount of cash to them. Their shock and frustration sums it up thusly.
  Snake: Those idiots... They weren’t keeping tabs on the Ninth Circle. They haven’t been for years!
• Failed a Spot Check:
  • Techno explains to Madam President how the Ocelot Unit's involvement at the USJ is covered up, the Nomu is locked up by the police and can't hand it over, the warlords lost a bunch of tanks because the MSF's navy had been sinking the cargo shipments... and that's that. Night Owl casually mentions the unidentified helicopters coming into the mainland, which Techno didn't see due to being overworked.
  • Bakugou's confrontation with Akatani, as well as his usual threatening demeanor goes sideways when Akatani tells him he had a gun pointed at his stomach the whole time. Bakugou is left wondering how he missed that before being beaten up and zip-tied in a way that keeps him from using his quirk on his restraints or Akatani.
  • During her strategy tactics, Momo fails to notice that the villains could escape via the sewers. When she does, most of the villains have escaped, though Ocelot gently tells her that no sound strategy works first time.
• Fake Town: Upon finding the city of N'ụlọ, Bison sends a drone out to see what's in the city. It doesn't take long for him to realize it's a fake city for tourism. After all, Africa is a pristine area for tourism, and it would be difficult for the HPSC to explain when every flight to Africa disappears. It also paints a dark picture if a Warlord like the Tyrant wanted to seize total control of Africa, millions of innocent people would be slaughtered to prop up a lie.
• Fake Ultimate Hero: The Colombian Government is forced to award Infini Leap with the medal. Grizzly explains to Momo that a lot of the Colombian people were pissed at what was essentially a mockery of an award that would've rightly gone to Snake.
• Fantastic Racism: Enforced. The HPSC creates a society where people that end up on the shit end of the genetic lottery are screwed over by society, eventually becoming the villains that the heroes are to stop, not bothering to fix the errors in society as it brings in the money.
  • Spinner has spent his entire life discriminated against because of his mutation Quirk, ranging from dead lizards pinned to walls, hurling bricks through his window to the point he didn't bother replacing the window because it'll get broken again, and could barely get any job because of people viewing him negatively. Had it not been for him finding the MSF logo, he would've been Driven to Villainy.
  • Fudaki views rescue heroes as pointless and absolutely pathetic, going as far as to try to bully Ochako (whose family suffers immensely from financial issues and lives in poverty) to drop out or else.
  • Averted for the MSF, as to them, quirk or no quirk, war comes for them all.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Alejandro suffers from greed. While his brother suggested putting a bullet into his skull and be done with it, Alejandro points out that if they do that, they cannot get the bounty they were promised. This greed comes back to bite him in the ass, ending with both him and his brother being killed by a drone with C4 duct taped to it.
  • Fudaki's is pride, It's All About Me and Suicidal Overconfidence. During the USJ, he believed he was going to be the one who takes down the Anti-All Might Nomu like a seasoned pro, even though A: He was a first-year student. And B: The boy was way out of his depth. His inability to comprehend that ends with him being killed by the Anti-All Might Nomu.
  • Bakugou: Pride, It's All About Me and Hair-Trigger Temper. Despite Izuku being on Mother Base for ten years, Bakugou still believes himself to be the future Number One Hero, possesses so many Berserk Buttons and believes that he's the main character while everyone else, including MSF personnel, are extras or Cannon Fodder and easy to beat. The result? An easily manipulated and utterly easy to provoke dumbass who will attack or insult the source of his ire without considering the consequences of his actions, even if doing so will ruin a well thought-out plan, get him expelled and blacklisted for attacking a TA or get himself and his class killled. It's heavily implied that if Bakugou doesn't receive the help he needs to snap out of these flaws, that he will be setting himself up for a hard fall.
• Final Solution: Madam President's plan to deal with Outer Heaven, Big Boss, and whatnot? Hire all the African Warlords, arm them with everything they want in exchange for slaughtering everyone who is a member of Outer Heaven. Five years in, and she's gotten little results other than more lost ground, armory depletions, Critical Staffing Shortage issues, and a very strong MSF.
• Fingore: When interrogating Tidal Wave and Fireball, Snake breaks their fingers when they refuse to comply, then breaks more of their fingers to both get more information and to punish them for what Izuku went through.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Being displaced 300 years into the future was a massive shock for both the MSF and the soviet spies they captured. But the MSF quickly adapted and soon became the most powerful force in Africa by the time the UA arc came forth. Many of the recruited soldiers were shocked to hear that their boss and his at the time small organization were from the 1970s.
• Flayed Alive: Jan Kowalczyk is flayed alive by the Showmaster after Snake and Nagant go 'off-script'. Given who he was working for, he deserved it.
• Foil: Both Aizawa and Ocelot are foils to each other. Both are teachers at UA, but Ocelot is an HPSC rep sent to UA and is more of a substitute teacher while Aizawa is on UA staff. However, while Ocelot gives helpful advice and helps the students of 1A, Aizawa refuses to do the bare minimum in teaching, expelling anyone for the most petty and abysmal reasons.
  • Both Izuku and Bakugou prove to be massive foils to each other. Both are teens who have spent ten years of their lives training to reach where they are, but while Bakugou has Explosion, has massive Black-and-White Insanity, an Inferiority Superiority Complex, prefers to do an Attack! Attack! Attack! approach and when things don't go his way, act like a manchild and view everyone but himself as extras, Izuku is Quirkless, skilled in firearms, stealth, hand-to-hand combat, strategy, uses any trick in the book to win and spent ten years training from a powerful mercenary company that he views as family.
• Food as Bribe: What the MSF offers to the locals of one town under Warlord rule alongside amnesty. The locals took the food and the offer of amnesty as it was better than being in a fight with the MSF, even handing the warlords in charge of their town to them.
  • Izuku offers Ochako a MRE in exchange for information about her and her classmates' Quirks. One MRE, one Quirk info. She reluctantly takes it.
• Forced to Watch: Aizawa, badly injured, his arms broken, is left helpless and forced to watch as the USJ Nomu slams Fudaki's head into the ground until the boy's brain was leaking out of what remains of his head. He refuses to accept Fudaki was dead, lest he admits he had another student end up like Oboro.
• Genre Savvy: Diego was aware that the moment Snake escaped HPSC custody, this was going to go south for them even faster than it was and demanded his death immediately. His brother focused on the bounty instead.
  Diego: When it happens, he’ll be back before we're ready or see him coming. This isn’t some damn hero who thinks they're hot shit 'cause they have a powerful quirk. This is a trained killer, whose specialty is killing us when we don’t know he's there!
• Godzilla Threshold: The Polish government approaches Snake to both apologize for their actions against the MSF and disband the Showstoppers after the Polish President's daughter was kidnapped by them. Subverted in the fact the representative who told him this was hired by the Showstoppers to lure Snake to their base for a grand show.
  • Upon finding direct evidence of human experimentation done by the Showmaster, upon getting the kids out and at a safe distance, Snake orders the base bombed to oblivion.
• Gone Horribly Right: Madam President's attempts to create a PR nightmare to force Nezu to take action in defending UA ends with Nezu getting a contract with the MSF, much to her anger.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: The HPSC's African plan turned into a catastrophic PR nightmare. The original plan was to use sheer overwhelming force against the MSF while framing the nuclear attack as a Villain with a radiation Quirk, believing it would last a day. Instead, it turned into a four-day nightmare where over 10,000 heroes were killed, several thousand more were taken prisoner and left for dead, and the HPSC was forced to make a deal with Snake.
  • Likewise, her second attempt to get rid of Snake via the Moscow Wolves failed when Poland's Hussars arrived, convincing Nowak that at best, the HPSC wasn't going to do shit about his daughter's abduction and at worst, they, Russia and Belarus had ties to it and profited off their actions.
• Great Escape:
  • Snake busts Lady Nagant out while escaping Tartarus, leading her to have a second chance at life.
  • As Shigaraki was detained, All for One was forced to break into the prison he and Kurogiri are in, kill all the guards and bust him out.
• Happily Adopted: Izuku is taken in by Snake, in part because the HPSC killed off his entire family, and putting him in foster care could easily result in the HPSC capturing him for experimentation again.
• Heroic BSoD: The 1A students become traumatized over the death of Fudaki, even if they are hiding it. A few end up forgetting it by the time they return to class.
• Hidden Depths: Kaminari shows himself to have an amazing knack for strategy due to gaming.
• Hide the Evidence: The HPSC's efforts to keep the MSF unknown from the first world make it very difficult for any hero or cop in the first world to find evidence of them. As such, using the first world news databases would be pointless.
  • This eventually culminates in Chapter 67, where a week of investigation and all Naomasa had gotten were two photos, one of which from a fellow officer who thought seeing helicopters leave a power plant was 'cool', while the other was with Sainz.
• Human Shield: Luan decides to use all the warlords fighting the MSF as human shields to build up his defenses in South Africa. However, he notes that it's likely they won't last long.
• Human Traffickers: The Showstoppers would kidnap children and teens and force them to take part in extremely dangerous games for the depraved public's sick amusement. The Polish government approaches Snake to disband it when it was clear that Russia and Belarus weren't going to do it.
• I'll Kill You!:
  • Madam President threatens to have Nowak killed for his insubordination. Nowak tells her to Bring It.
    Nowak: If we lose you, we simply fall back to the military,
    Madam President: I’ll have you killed for this,
    Nowak: Go ahead. The vast majority of my administration agrees with me. So if you kill me, then one of them will replace me.
  • When Bakugou does this to Akatani, he asks All Might if Bakugou is serious or not.
    Akatani: He isn’t actually going to try and kill me, right?
    All Might: No, that’s just something he says unfortunately.
• Immoral Journalist: Grizzly couldn't walk three feet without someone asking for an autograph or the press swarming him during his short career as a hero. Grizzly tells Momo and her two classmates that one time, they blocked him from stopping a mugging for interviews. By the time he got there, the mugger was gone and the victim had their skull caved in and was left in a permanent coma.
• In Spite of a Nail: All Might still suffers the serious injuries given to him by All for One while the MSF and Snake are fighting the Congo Tyrant's forces.
  • Bakugou is still an arrogant dickhead when he arrives at UA thanks to his school inflaming his ego.
  • Despite being captured, Shigaraki still escapes thanks to All for One.
  • There will be heroes guarding the Sports Festival as well, but due to Madam President's Malicious Slander tactic working.
  • Izuku still attends UA, but under a different name, disguise and as the TA for UA.
• Interdimensional Travel Device: The HPSC gives Night Owl the green light for interdimensional exploration, seeing the money rolling in. In 9 years, the only reason the project wasn't discontinued wasn't due to it being highly profitable, but due to the fact the HPSC would end up dissolved if how it was powered for the first five months came out.
• Internal Reveal: Ocelot reveals to both Aizawa and Nezu that the man who broke in was Tenko Shimura. However, to Ocelot, this makes no sense as Tenko died fifteen years ago. It's also a bad sign that All for One is probably still breathing.
  • All Might is forced to reveal his skeletal form to Ocelot, and later the MSF security force. He had them sign NDAs, not that it would matter, as they wouldn't use this against him or use it to help him.
  • He reveals this form to Melissa and explains that her father knows as well while offering up One for All to her. She declines the offer.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • When arguing with his brother over cutting their losses when fighting the MSF, Diego is correct in that they can't win wars with empty rifles if the enemy keeps using suicide drones on their supply depots.
  • While Bakugou is as abrasive as he is in canon, he is right in that most villains would not do what Iida did in the Battle Trials and just blitz at their opponent.
  • While Ocelot was already fed up with Aizawa's stubbornness, he's not entirely wrong to call Aizawa's teaching methods in question, as the HPSC rep gave more advice in one week than Aizawa's done in years, and Aizawa does nothing but sleep, laze about, give expulsion scares for shits and giggles and refuse to rein in the more problematic students, resulting in Fudaki's death.
• Jurisdiction Friction: The main issue preventing All Might and the UA staff from investigating Snake meeting with Sainz is this. Excluding other issues, including the HPSC not wanting anyone to know this.
• Know When to Fold 'Em:
  • When Diego finishes his Rage Breaking Point spiel, it is replaced with resignation and suggests to his brother to cut their losses and leave. Alejandro initially refused until he realized Diego was right in the end, anyway.
  • The USJ villains immediately surrender when the Ocelot unit brings out heavy guns such as Browning M2s, knowing they won't stand a chance against an armed unit. Well, the smart ones surrender. The dumb ones, on the other hand...
  • Igwe orders his men to pull out of Cameroon, viewing even fighting the MSF as nothing more than a suicide mission upon finding out they've nearly liberated half of Cameroon and Razak was nowhere in the vicinity.
• Leeroy Jenkins:
  • Fudaki and Bakugou both charge at their respective opponents. Bakugou's quirk is far more versatile than Fudaki's, resulting in the 1v1 going in Bakugou's favor.
  • Likewise, Fudaki tries it again with the USJ Nomu, with both Tsuyu and Mineta wondering if the kid was suicidal or that fucking dumb. Regardless of the answer, the USJ Nomu kills him.
  • Bakugou against Akatani when the latter goes Cold Sniper. He's knocked out by an anesthetic bullet the MSF makes. He's not happy he lost.
• Let No Crisis Go to Waste:
  • Night Owl exploits the Tyrant's death by making the HPSC VP at the time The Scapegoat, before subtly eliminating the competition and becoming the VP around the time Outer Heaven was formed.
  • With Fudaki's death, the HPSC plans to exploit the USJ tragedy with the intent to force UA under their thumb, while Nezu will exploit it to get the MSF on UA soil, allowing them to more easily track Night Owl's positions in Japan.
• Locked Out of the Loop:
  • Kowalczyk intentionally gives little information about the Showstoppers to Snake and Nagant with the intent to get them into the game the Showmaster wants. This backfires on him when the Showmaster proceeds to have him Flayed Alive.
  • No one is aware of Nezu's ties to the MSF until Chapter 62. When this comes out, the staff are surprised and for some, pissed.
  • Likewise, when Izuku shows up as Mikumo, only Nezu knows they are one and the same, due to wanting to keep the HPSC from knowing their main Dimensional Constant is back in Japan.
• Lured into a Trap: Kowalczyk was tasked by the Showstoppers to lure Snake into a trap. His part worked, but when Miller and Nowak found out that they were baiting Snake into a death trap, it became clear that this was an attempt to kill Snake. Luckily, it failed, and Kowalczyk was Flayed Alive by the Showmaster.
• Malicious Slander: The HPSC is left with this against the MSF once they make themselves known to the world. Part of it is because they are basically an unheard-of mercenary company... and the main reason is that any evidence of the MSF committing war crimes would implicate the HPSC in even worse crimes. It does work in getting heroes to guard the Sports Festival, though Nezu knows that it's a powder keg waiting to ignite.
• Militaries Are Useless:
  • The JSDF and many armies in the First World is viewed as a massive dead-end job with rampant corruption and massive armory depletions due to the soldiers selling the guns to anyone with a fuckload of cash (last inspection for one armory was 60 years ago), ranging from guns, explosives, tanks, artillery, helicopters and up to and including naval ships. It's heavily implied that the only ones who do any inspections on any weapons are nuclear based, as a missing nuke will cause a massive crisis.
  • Averted for the MSF, which is one of, if not the, leading armies in both combat potential and technological advancements.
• Modern Stasis: Despite being displaced 300 years into the future, the MSF finds that technology is forty years ahead of them. Nezu explains that since Quirks came to fruition, technology had largely stagnated unless it's in the support item industry. As such, they are able to catch up technologically and begin advancing past the modern world.
  • It's also taught to all in the first world that complexity equals superiority, while ignoring practicality. As such, a hero like All Might would falsely assume the MSF is still below the threshold of serious threat, which would be a serious error of judgement if he was an HPSC puppet.
• The Mole:
  • Ocelot is the mole in the HPSC, giving information about the HPSC's actions to Nezu while acting as an observer for UA.
  • The Showstoppers had several moles in the Polish Government with the intent to lure Snake into a deadly game. It fails to kill Snake and their organization is disbanded.
• My Greatest Second Chance: Many of the ex-villains who joined the MSF joined because the MSF didn't care about their status. After all, they were given a chance to prove their worth, not be cast into the mold the HPSC wanted them to be.
• Never My Fault: Aizawa refuses to accept that his inability to teach is what causes Fudaki's death, even when Ocelot and Recovery Girl both spell it out to him. He still refuses to accept it.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Shoto, Bakugou and Kirishima's interference made it more difficult for All Might and the Ocelot unit to handle the USJ Nomu, with the former successfully getting the USJ Nomu unpinned.
  Shoto: We were trying to help,
  Ocelot: It would have helped if you ran to the stairs! You are not heroes, you are not licensed to deal with villains. You are civilians training to become heroes. Your interference Todoroki, allowed the monster to escape when we had it pinned down. So I’m going to make myself clear, you do something like that ever again, without a license, and I will ensure you never even see a license in your lifetime. Capisce?
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: All for One's attack on the USJ has allowed Nezu to bring the MSF into Japan, causing a giant amount of headaches for the HPSC and making any attempts for All for One to get rid of All Might in UA more difficult than anticipated.
  • In fact, the basis of this fic is based on Night Owl's experiments being authorized by the HPSC, meaning the same organization trying to destroy the MSF is responsible for bringing the MSF here in the first place.
• Noodle Incident: When Mineta whines about being expelled because there is so much he has yet to see, Ocelot is brought back to the time Snake took out two guards with nothing but a cardboard box and a bikini model poster.
  • Whatever happened that resulted in Aizawa's teaching methods degrading.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Snake and Nagant both become alarmed when they find out the Congo Tyrant is building nukes.
  • The two also become alarmed when the Polish diplomat tricks them into a deadly game.
  • When Miller explains that Kowalczyk gave them next to nothing, Nowak explains that Kowalczyk was facing corruption charges, which results in a collective realization that Snake and Nagant were led into a trap and calls up as many available hands to get to the Showstoppers' base.
  • Ocelot and Nezu become alarmed when they figure out Night Owl is aiming to be the HPSC vice president.
  • Likewise, Aizawa becomes horrified when the USJ Nomu smashes Fudaki's head into paste in front of him.
  • And all the staff and Detective Naomasa become alarmed when Ocelot reveals that he got all the guns and explosives from a JSDF vault that was half-empty.
  • Snake becomes alarmed when he realizes the Congo Tyrant gifted Night Owl a nuclear bomb.
  • The officer giving the update to Luan is terrified given the man is very pissed and looks like he would cut his throat from the bad news he was delivering.
  • Power Loader is left with frustration and fear when he finds out Mei not only stole and upgraded an MSF exoskeleton, but Akatani is interested in seeing what else Mei can do.
  • When All Might asks Melissa where her plane's landing, she explains it's the airfield in UA... the same airfield Nezu had Cementoss build for the MSF, leaving him with little time to explain his request.
  • All of 1A collectively panics when Bakugou calls Snake a villain while in the MSF Command post.
• Open Mouth, Insert Foot:
  • The heroes tell the refugees to go back home. The same refugees the MSF were helping while the heroes were A: Posing for autographs. B: Many of the refugees lost their homes, some of which are permanently unable to go back home. And C: The heroes were utterly oblivious to how pissed the refugees were. This resulted in the refugees attacking the Heroes in rage while freeing the captured MSF members.
  • Shoto's attempts to say they have it under control ends with him, Bakugou, and Kirishima getting in even hotter water, as Ocelot was not in the mood to deal with dumbasses.
  • Bakugou calls Snake and the MSF villains, which could've easily gotten him and his classmates killed if the MSF were villains. Ocelot threatens to add another week of cleaning to his punishment.
• Out-Gambitted: Ocelot claims that Nezu had Out-Gambitted him when he struck the deal with the MSF to Madam President. In reality, he was the one who helped Nezu secure a deal with the MSF.
• Perpetual Poverty:
  • Many of the refugees under Warlord rule live in perpetual poverty due to the warlords effectively enslaving them by controlling the food market. When they are liberated, they are very relieved that they don't have to live under tyrannical rule forever.
  • Ochako is a unique case where Izuku is able to deduce that she wants to have food, but doesn't want it to be viewed as charity, as it would mean she cannot handle her situation.
• Pocket Dimension:
  • A pocket dimension was accidentally discovered by Izuku and Victoria. This pocket dimension through quirk manipulation acts as a pseudo supercomputer. Any device that connects to the pocket dimension runs more effectively than those off, not even needing to be connected to satellite networks. It is also its own digital world, one where AIs can have a physical form that can feel, taste, and smell. Because of this, the MSF's A.I.s treat the pocket dimension as their defacto home when not working.
  • How did Reaper and the Ninth Circle get all the weapons and vehicles from JSDF armories without so much as a look of confusion? Why, one of Reaper's men had a pocket dimension Quirk, which made the transfer far easier than it would've been.
• Point of Divergence: Given the story starts nine years before canon begins, a lot of diverging points are done.
  • Izuku's entire family, bar Izuku himself, is killed off by the HPSC, while he is abducted and used for dimensional exploration experimentation. This eventually results in the MSF being transported to the MHA world and Snake rescuing Izuku.
  • Upon Ocelot coming out of the portal, Night Owl has him put in place as a member of the HPSC, much to the man's confusion. He then uses his position to become The Mole for Nezu and Snake.
  • Lady Nagant is rescued from Tartarus due to a Fake Death Gambit by Snake, and later becomes one of the MSF's top officers and chief assassin.
  • The Soul family is rescued by the MSF before Humarise can abduct their father Eddie Soul. Because they will likely get abducted if they are spotted anywhere, the Soul family joins the MSF.
  • Because Africa is a massive war-torn continent and the Tyrant's lands would be swarmed after Snake axed the man, the MSF permanently occupies Nigeria, calling it Outer Heaven while establishing trade agreements with nations the MSF has done contract work with, expanding to include Ukraine and a Venezuelan state.
  • Since Izuku is on Mother Base for most of his life, the Sludge Villain incident never happens - or if it did, it played out very differently.
  • Spinner joins the MSF after being fired from his last job as he has no other options by this point, other than a rooftop plunge.
  • While Aizawa is trigger-happy about his expulsions like in canon, here, many of the students he expelled end up joining the MSF, with Ocelot using some of them to re-create the Ocelot unit.
  • Because Izuku isn't there to stop the Zero Pointer, Ochako ends up stopping the Zero pointer by stripping the gravity of a three-pointer and hurling it in a way that jams the robot's right tracks, forcing it to spin in donuts.
  • Izuku's place in 1A is taken by a boy named Fudaki.
  • The QAT has Mineta dead last, since Izuku isn't here, hasn't met All Might as of yet, and is still on Mother Base. Aizawa then lies about the expulsion, but Ochako, Iida, and Tusyu all find out Aizawa wasn't bluffing about expelling them, making them nervous around him.
  • The battle trials for Ochako, Bakugou, and Iida play differently, as without Izuku, Ochako is left with an unreliable partner who loses the entire battle exercise, the victory going to Bakugou and Iida.
  • Because Izuku is on Mother Base and hasn't met All Might in person yet, Dagobah beach is so littered with trash that Iida, Ochako, and Asui are left dumbstruck at this mess, with the former having been cleaning up trash for the past hour.
  • Shigaraki is identified as Tenko Shimura before the USJ attack, instead of when All for One brags about it to All Might at Kamino.
  • The USJ is delayed for a week due to Shigaraki's break-in, while the attack is also delayed due to Shigaraki getting shot four times. Ocelot decides to establish arms caches all over UA in the event of a villain attack, but from JSDF arsenals, as getting guns from the MSF would be very suspicious.
  • The USJ plays out immensely differently, with Fudaki being killed when he pulls a Leeroy Jenkins approach, just before All Might shows up.
  • The USJ ends with both Shigaraki and Kurogiri captured, as Ocelot knocks Kurogiri out with a tranquilizer round, meaning that unless Shigaraki can run across campus, he was either leaving here unconscious or surrendering. He still escapes to become a recurring threat, but only because All for One had to bust him and Kurogiri out, causing All Might to realize All for One isn't dead.
  • Because Izuku hasn't met All Might before UA, he offers One for All to Mirio on Sir Nighteye's request. Mirio turns it down under the basis of needing to control Permeation. Due to this, he calls up Melissa with the intent to offer One for All to her.
  • When Izuku arrives at UA, it's under a different name, with Ocelot taking over for Aizawa due to his injuries.
  • In canon, Bakugou, Kirishima, and Todoroki's help was viewed as warranted. Here, because All Might has the Ocelot unit helping him, their help amounted to more of being in the way at best and downright hindering at worst. As such, all three of them are punished by being forced to clean the entirety of UA grounds for three months. Should they refuse, then they will lose any chance of getting a hero license.
  • When giving a review on who the biggest threat was, Izuku deduces them based on the quickest to locate him (Jiro, Koda, and Shoji), those who could reach him the quickest (Mineta, Iida, Momo, Ochako, Sero, Ashido, Hagakure and Tsuyu) and then the utterly easiest to remove threats (Bakugou, Todoroki and those who had very disadvantaged quirks in their exercise).
  • Momo, Mina, and Toru's faith in heroics is shaken due to Grizzly's explanation of why he joined the MSF and how Heart Star was running a money laundering ring.
  • Because Ocelot is taking over for Aizawa's classes, he has the 1A students take part in strategy and tactics via an exercise. Kaminari is one with the highest score, while those who did horribly over-relied on All Might to win.
  • When All Might offers Melissa One For All, she declines due to it being something she didn't think would benefit her dream of being a successful inventor.
• Powered by a Forsaken Child: Night Owl's experiments required a Dimensional Constant, in order to ensure a dimensional portal's stability while exploring the dimensions. Izuku, at the time nearly seven, was the Dimensional Constant, much to Snake, Miller, and the rest of the MSF's disgust.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • Madam President refuses Night Owl's requests for a nuclear reactor for the interdimensional experiments, mostly to avoid the Japanese government asking questions or finding out what they really planned it for.
  • Upon capturing Snake, Diego immediately wants to have Snake executed immediately for draining their resources. His brother points out that if he does that, they will never be reimbursed for the war he waged upon them, nor will they receive the 40 million the HPSC promised. When Snake escaped and ended up destroying their operations, Diego pretty much looked at Alejandro and practically said 'I told you so'.
  • Nezu points out that while they would arm Warlords with weapons, they wouldn't arm them with nukes. After all, why give a war criminal nuclear weapons if you know they will use them on you first? It's a sign that someone has been diverting funds for projects the HPSC would never approve of in the first place.
  • The South African Warlord Luan Igwe was initially not going to go up against Outer Heaven or Big Boss, given that they axed the Tyrant and that attacking them would be tantamount to suicide. The HPSC president points out that he can sit out of it, but eventually, they will show up on his doorstep.
  • When looking at the photo of the USJ Nomu in restraints, she is amazed by it but decides not to pursue it due to the current budget not having the funds needed for this, being immensely difficult to control, and not screaming hero-friendly material.
  • Upon finding out the MSF has nearly liberated half of Cameroon in a 15 km advance, causing 30,000 casualties to their forces, combined with the revelation that Razak had pulled his forces back, Luan immediately orders the officer giving the report to pull their forces back, viewing any more attempts to send backup as an utter waste of time and a further loss of power.
• Price on Their Head: Madam President sets a $40 million bounty on Snake alive. She ups it to $100 million after the failed Assassination Attempt on Seinz, then $1 billion from what the Tyrant said.
  • By Chapter 68, she's upping the price because she is now getting more and more frustrated with the MSF's refusal to die.
• Propaganda Machine: The HPSC controls the vast majority of what the first world sees, even blocking out information to ensure nobody knows of the MSF. Despite their efforts, sometimes it fails.
• Proxy War: The HPSC funds the African Warlords with loads of cash, weapons, and equipment in a bid to get rid of the MSF. After five years, the HPSC is suffering from severe budget cuts and numerous amounts of equipment sent have either been destroyed, captured, or lack parts to repair.
  • It's bad enough that Igwe has effectively removed himself from the MSF attacks for the time being, viewing any further offensives on MSF forces as utter suicide.
  • Beforehand, Langa had pulled his forces back, viewing it as suicide, like Igwe did.
• Pyrrhic Victory: What Madam President spins the disaster at Africa as after her deal with Snake. In reality, it was the slaughter of over 10,000 heroes, with thousands more captured and abandoned as well as a massive loss of political capital, in exchange for nothing.
• Rage Breaking Point:
  • Diego flips a table over the moment he finds out Snake escaped the HPSC's clutches, knowing they were screwed.
  • The refugees the MSF were helping attack the Heroes while screaming at them the MSF were helping them when the heroes abandoned them. The Heroes telling them to go back home only highlighted how oblivious they were to the plight of these refugees.
  • Ocelot becomes frustrated with Aizawa's incompetence in teaching, his refusal to accept reality, even when it's pointed out at him, and is rightly called out for his incompetence and inability to teach, resulting in Fudaki's death.
  • Upon finding out Razak's forces were not seen in the vicinity of the MSF's most recent offensive, Igwe flips the table, destroys it and then orders the officer giving the report to do a pullback of all his forces.
  • Upon finding out Razak and Luan have pulled out their forces, Madam President becomes pissed and orders Techno to send assassins after them.
• A Rare Sentence: Eagle said that he expected many things in his life. The Bikini Brigade was not one of them.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Ocelot and Recovery Girl both give a scathing one to Aizawa, pointing out how his teaching methods did more harm than good.
  Aizawa: The alternative is letting him be in charge though,
  Ocelot: Please, you didn’t do much to begin with. Half the time I popped into your class I found you napping away,
  Aizawa: It’s to make them independent. If they have to rely on me to get anything done, then they’ll never make it on the field,
  Ocelot: As if that's better. You’re having them figure it out themselves, and that means turning to the internet for advice. The famously trustworthy internet,
  Aizawa: If that’s where they turn to, then it just shows their lack of common sense,
  Ocelot: Or your lack of credibility.
  Aizawa: Why do you even care?
  Ocelot: I don't! And that's the problem! I don’t care because I barely know these kids! I’m the HPSC rep that pops in randomly, and yet I’ve given better advice to them in their first week than you’ve given to a class in years.
  Aizawa: As if.
  Recovery Girl: Well... There was a drastic drop in wounded students whenever Ocelot took over your classes.
  Aizawa: You’re seriously siding with him?
  Recovery Girl: Aizawa, half of the injuries that come here are from your class. Almost all of those are self-inflicted accidents,
  Aizawa: All that means is that they need to do better-
  Ocelot: Damn it Aizawa, Fudaki died because of your teaching methods! Because you refused to set him straight on day one, he charged in thinking he could defeat them by himself. How the hell can you still say your methods work, after all that?
  Aizawa: W-What? No, Fudaki isn’t dead… I would know if he was dead, I was there,
  Ocelot: Aizawa, he died right in front of you. The police have the body to prove it,
  Aizawa: Ocelot if this is another one of your damn pranks, I’ll strangle you with my scarf,
  Recovery Girl: This isn’t a prank, he’s dead,
  Aizawa: N-no… he’s… we were by the plaza, and… Recovery Girl, I don’t know why you’re helping him in this, but this is illogical. Why you think it's funny to try and convince me a student has died, I’ll never know.
  Ocelot: And this is why you are unfit to teach. (turns to Recovery Girl) I’m going to start a lesson plan for tomorrow,
  Aizawa The hell you are-(gets shot by one of Ocelot's tranq rounds).
• Refusal of the Call: Mirio turns down One for All when All Might offers it. All Might can respect that. Nighteye, on the other hand...
  • Melissa also declines One for All.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Kowalczyk is Flayed Alive by the Showmaster when Snake and Nagant go 'off-script' in this show of his.
• Riddle for the Ages: The UA staff (bar Nezu) are left wondering how much money is needed for the MSF to even have the exoskeletons, tanks, attack helicopters, C-17s and whatnot, with All Might pointing out that unless every known villain group pooled their funds together, the MSF wouldn't be this big.
• Rule of Escalating Threat: During their preview in Chapter 65, Akatani lists the 1A students off based on their threat level, with Jiro, Shoji, and Koda based on them being able to pinpoint him the fastest and use animals, with Ochako, Momo, Asui, Iida, Ashido, Sero, Hagakure and Mineta being a second level of threat because they could use their quirks to reach him more easily, while the rest are classed as low-level threats because for some like Tokoyami and Kirishima, their quirks do not offer any benefit. For others like Bakugou and Todoroki, they go for loud or very noticeable attacks.
• Sadist Teacher: Aizawa intentionally does his expulsion scare tactics like in canon. Many of Ocelot's group are students Aizawa expelled who later went on to join the MSF. When Ochako, Tsuyu, and Iida overhear Ocelot's group talking about Aizawa's "logical ruse" idea, they wonder how the hell he's still a teacher while inadvertently telling the three that Aizawa wasn't bluffing.
• Same Face, Different Name: When arriving in UA, Izuku goes by the name Mikumo Akatani to both hide his identity and to prevent the HPSC from trying to abduct him once he's back in Japan. Only Nezu and Ocelot are aware that Mikumo is actually Izuku.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Fudaki outright tells Ochako that he comes from a family of pro heroes, while she was a pathetic girl who has pathetic dreams of being a rescue hero. He orders her to drop out or he would make sure she had an "accident". Too bad the USJ Nomu got rid of him before he could try anything.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Luan and Razak pull their forces out, the former after the latter had done so, knowing this war was not only pointless, but to their power base, utter suicide.
• Seeking Sanctuary: Outer Heaven is considered a second chance at life for heroes, villains, refugees... everyone who wants a new lease on life.
• Serious Business: The Tyrant is an adamant supporter of Deep Dish Pizza, which is why when Night Owl insults Deep Dish Pizza, he becomes very defensive of it and refuses to nuke Chicago. They agree to nuke Detroit when Night Owl snaps that out.
• Seven Deadly Sins:
  • Bakugou suffers from Pride, Wrath and Envy, much like canon.
  • Madam President suffers from Greed, Wrath and Pride, but as the fic progresses, she starts to suffer from Envy.
• Shipper on Deck: Mina and Toru have been fans of the Freezer Boy-Heart Star relationship scenario for years... and find out that Heart Star weaponized this trope to keep her money laundering scheme intact, even though he had video evidence of her bragging about it.
• Side Bet:
  • Ape, Grizzly, and Eagle make a bet on whether the Bikini Brigade dresses like Grizzly claims. Grizzly wins $40 while Eagle and Ape are left stunned.
  • Likewise, Ocelot's team makes bets on when Aizawa expels his first student.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Fudaki was set in as a student of UA with an electric Quirk, an ego similar to Bakugou, and arrogant to the point he would disobey instructors, resulting in his death. However, his death will be the catalyst for the HPSC to try and use it to force Nezu to heel, and Nezu to use it as a means to get MSF personnel to his school as security.
• Sore Loser: Bakugou. After being KO'd by a MSF tranquilizer bullet from Akatani, he immediately confronts him and threatens to pulverize him for using tricks. Akatani's response causes Bakugou to look down and see a gun pressed to his stomach. He is then beaten, bound up and for the next chapter, can't get free from zip-ties. When he tries to boast his superiority, Akatani tells him he still hasn't gotten out of the zip ties, causing 1A to laugh.
  • The second time, he argued that they Nerfed All Might. In actuality, the program was designed to be as realistic as possible, and Bakugou's over-reliance on All Might is what cost him the exercise.
• Suicidal Overconfidence:
  • The doomed attack on the MSF facility in Africa by the heroes. Over 10,000 heroes were killed, severely injured, or captured out of 60,000 in the span of three days, with it being likely that the losses were around a third of what they sent.
  • Fudaki versus the USJ Nomu. The USJ Nomu reduces the boy's skull to paste by the time All Might arrives.
  • Bakugou believes that with all the heavy hitters on his side in the simulation exercise, he would win. As his defeat shows, brute force means nothing if you don't have the brains to back it up.
• Surrounded by Idiots:
  • During Madam President's meeting with the African warlords, Luan mentally remarks that it's a miracle the Tyrant hadn't seized total control of Africa if all of his competition are complete and utter idiots. This reaches a point where after five years of war with the MSF, he pulls his forces out, planning to use said idiots as human shields while he bolsters his defenses.
  • When the HPSC wants UA students to fight on live TV and refuse to have the students send in an audition tape (even though it would deny villains the chance to study their quirks on live TV), Nezu mentally remarks that it's a miracle Ocelot hadn't gone insane from the HPSC's sheer idiocy.
• Suspiciously Small Army: During the Polish-Russian-Belarusian arguments, Russia threatens to invade Poland for hiring the MSF to stop the Showstoppers. Madam President knows that Russia has a larger army than what they report.
• Story Arc: Chapters 1-5 are dubbed New World. Chapters 6-16 are dubbed The Brothers. 16-34 is dubbed The Tyrant. 35-48 is dubbed The Showmaster. 49-53 is dubbed Outer Heaven and 54 to the current chapter is dubbed UA.
• Talk About That Thing: When All Might finds out Ocelot's men got a bunch of guns and an AT rocket launcher, he tells them they'll talk about this after the USJ. Ocelot agrees with this as the guns were ridiculously easy for him to acquire, causing All Might to worry.
• There Are No Therapists: Averted for the MSF. Many of them have to see therapists due to severe psychological damage from war. Izuku also sees a therapist due to being abducted and tortured for five months by the HPSC.
  • Nezu intends to force Aizawa through therapy to fix him when it becomes clear Aizawa is more of a liability than before. Ocelot warns him that if this doesn't work, then he must do something about Aizawa.
• This Is Gonna Suck: Both Nezu and Ocelot are aware that Fudaki's death will be a PR nightmare for UA, and that the HPSC will likely exploit it to force UA to heel. They end up turning it around and make it a PR nightmare for the HPSC.
• Time Skip: From Outer Heaven to UA, five years have passed. Since then, the MSF has liberated most of Nigeria and parts of Cameroon.
• Too Desperate to Be Picky: Spinner was immensely desperate for the cash when he joined the MSF. To join a unit that was about to be sent off to battle in an hour surprised him immensely and made him think he made a mistake.
• Too Dumb to Live: Fudaki decides to stupidly fight the USJ Nomu on his own, even though he had no evidence on how it worked, Aizawa and 13 both telling students to stick together, which he disobeyed and that said Nomu had already incapacitated Aizawa. This results in his gruesome death.
  • The villains in the downpour sector of the USJ decide to fight the Ocelot Unit, a group well-armed with a variety of guns. End result? All the villains killed off.
  • Bakugou decides to call Snake and the MSF villains, which caused the rest of Class 1A to become very nervous. Ocelot threatens another week of cleaning duty to Bakugou to shut him up, but it doesn't hide the fact that if the MSF were Villains, Bakugou would've condemned himself and his class to death.
• Tranquil Fury: All Might never gets pissed. When he does, expect someone or something to get pulverized until they surrender or get brutally knocked out.
• Trouble from the Past: The MSF is this to the HPSC, as their experiments displaced them all 300 years into the future and they began to quickly adapt to their world.
• Unwanted Assistance: Bakugou, Todoroki, and Kirishima's attempts to help did more to endanger everyone in the USJ than save. Ocelot rightly calls them out on this and has them clean the entire campus for three months. The school, Campus Security positions, walls, training grounds... everything.
• Unwanted Rescue: While the African refugees were in dire need of help, the heroes never helped them. When the MSF gave help to them, the heroes instantly intervened, believing that the MSF were terrorists, despite the fact they were offering food and medical supplies to them. The heroes then tell the refugees to go back home, despite the fact they live in an active warzone. The refugees, predictably, attack the heroes.
• Villain Has a Point: When sneaking into the old school Los Hermanos are using as a FOB, several members are watching the announcement of I-Island by David Shield. One of them rightly points out that the idea of a floating city that anyone can take hostage is a bad idea waiting to happen. All someone has to do is put a well-placed bomb, and it's sinking to the bottom of the ocean.
  Los Hermanos Thug: Heh, a floating island. What kind of bullshit idea is that?
  Los Hermanos Thug 2: Bullshit? Man are we even seeing the same thing, that is the city of the future!
  Los Hermanos Thug: City of the future my ass. One well-placed bomb on that thing and it’s sinking to the bottom of the ocean.
  Los Hermanos Thug 2: Well… I mean…
  Los Hermanos Thug: And second, how the hell are they going to make sure that thing handles the waves of the fucking ocean. I mean have they seen the Pacific!
  Los Hermanos Thug 2: Since when were you an engineering major?
  Los Hermanos Thug: Since never! This is just basic common sense, they keep going on about villains, and then they announce the most vulnerable city concept known to man. I can’t think of anyone more excited about the idea of an entire city you can hold hostage, by threatening to ram it aground. I swear it’s like they want it to get taken over.
  • When Madam President requests that the warlords work together to destroy Outer Heaven and kill everyone there, Igwe refused when he points out the leader of Outer Heaven is Big Boss. AKA, the man who axed the fucking Congo Tyrant. Many of the warlords, Razak included, were aware Igwe was right in that this was suicide. Madam President tells them it's either do as she says, or else.
• Villain Respect: Despite losing everything, both Diego and the Tyrant can't help but respect Snake for being the one to bring them down.
• Villainous Breakdown: All for One has a breakdown when one of his servants tells him that the Tyrant just nuked an area in Nigeria. He decides to take his anger out on All Might when the hero shows up.
  • As time goes on and the MSF gets stronger, Madam President begins to become more and more enraged and unhinged.
• Violation of Common Sense: Aizawa's demands to Class 1A when dealing with an unknown sniper violates so much common sense that it makes Ocelot wonder why Aizawa was a teacher in the first place.
• War Refugees: During the Tyrant campaign, the MSF were helping those who survived the nuclear blast or were fleeing other warlords for a better life. When the heroes intervened, beat up the MSF soldiers delivering medical supplies (destroying the medical supplies in the process) and tell the refugees to go home, the refugees attack the heroes, capturing a good chunk of them while freeing the captured MSF soldiers.
• Wham Episode:
  • The very first Chapter has Night Owl explain that Agent Matter's Quirk allows for the transfer of things from other worlds to theirs and vice versa. He explains that for this to work, he needs a nuclear power plant (though a few smaller power plants would suffice when Madam President refused), and explains that he needs a Dimensional Constant, AKA Izuku Midoriya. When the HPSC approve of it, the entire Midoriya family is killed by the Elementals and Izuku is kidnapped for experimentation. Later on, one of the experiments had transferred the MSF and Snake into the MHA world, where Izuku is rescued by Snake and the MSF have found themselves making an enemy of the HPSC.
  • Chapter 22: The Congo Tyrant reveals that the HPSC saboteur has given him the means to build a nuclear bomb. He has built 13, and presses the button. All of MSF in Africa saw the nuclear bomb detonate where Gecko's group is, beginning a Race Against the Clock.
  • Chapter 23: The Congo Tyrant has ordered Madam President to pull all her HPSC personnel back in 48 hours. Refusal or retaliation will result in another nuke detonating. On the Japanese side, All for One finds out about the nuke detonating and has a Villainous Breakdown, but before he could do anything about it, All Might intervenes and begins the fight that would put the Symbol of Peace on the path he is on now.
  • Chapter 59 is this. When Ocelot's team arrives at a JSDF depot to find most weapons and munitions missing, they soon realize that either someone has been buying these things in bulk, over the years, and that the public is blissfully unaware of a possible insurgency within Japan's own borders. On the UA side, the League of Villains make their debut and kill Fudaki, moments before All Might shows up.
  • Chapter 62 has the MSF arrive in their combat helicopters to UA, with the HPSC seething mad. Not only had they found out the MSF has a navy due to severe intel gathering delays, but Nezu has made a deal with the MSF, meaning that unless she can get all the villains in Asia to storm UA, she was effectively screwed at the situation, not unless how they came to exist comes out and the organization gets dissolved on the spot.
  • Chapter 67 has a few wham moments. Momo's attempts to search up the MSF causes her to realize someone is covering their tracks, something Naomasa (investigating the MSF origins), is aware of, only having two photos, one from an abandoned power plant 9 years ago and one of Snake with Sainz seven years ago. Meanwhile, the MSF has nearly liberated half of Cameroon while Igwe pulls his forces back from this disaster. As All Might debates how to talk to Melissa about One for All, he finds out she's coming to UA... and landing at the airfield Cementoss had to build for the MSF.
  • Chapter 68 has several wham moments. Melissa has refused the call of One for All while explaining that there's a Exoskeleton suit built by Russia, but she mentally notes the MSF exoskeletons and Russian Exoskeletons are completely different. On the HPSC front, Madam President has ordered assassins to be sent after Igwe and Langa because the two warlords had pulled out of the war for the time being, all while hopelessly oblivious to the growing danger of the Ninth Circle.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • The refugees the MSF were helping attack and scream at the Heroes. Justified as 1: Many of them have been under warlord rule for their entire lives. 2: Many of them do not have a home to return to, and the ones that do know the warlords controlling it would kill them for running away. 3: The heroes didn't care about them since several war-torn villages where the residents live in perpetual poverty wouldn't be good hero marketing. And lastly: The MSF have been helping the refugees and the heroes attacked them out of the blue for no reason.
  • Nowak chews out both the Russian President and the HPSC president for their refusal to do anything about the Showstoppers, reaching a point where both Russia and Poland were threatening to go to war with each other because Poland approached the MSF for help. If it wasn't for the MSF, his daughter would be dead or sold off to God knows what depraved individual.
  • The UA staff call out Nezu for hiring the MSF without their permission or consent, with All Might pointing out that he could hire more heroes. Nezu shuts their arguments down by pointing out that virtually all the heroes are under HPSC control, and the ones that aren't are too few to protect UA.
  • Ocelot and Recovery Girl both call out Aizawa for his pathetic teaching methods, with Recovery Girl pointing out Ocelot's training had resulted in a drop of injuries, and Fudaki's death was his own damn fault because Aizawa never bothered to put in any effort in teaching. Recovery Girl points out that he is a better teacher than Aizawa is.
    Aizawa: Why do you even care?
    Ocelot: I don't! And that's the problem! I don’t care because I barely know these kids! I’m the HPSC rep that pops in randomly, and yet I’ve given better advice to them in their first week than you’ve given to a class in years.
  • Likewise, he calls out Bakugou, Kirishima and Todoroki for being genuine dumbasses and not only sabotaging Ocelot and All Might's efforts to control the situation, but actively endangered their class. Had it not been for All Might's intervention, Ocelot would've had all three of them barred from ever getting a license. However, that doesn't mean that the three were getting off, punishing them by having them clean the entire campus for three months. And since the campus is very big, that means they have a lot of ground to cover.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?:
  • Diego requests his brother put a bullet in Snake's skull to be done with this man. His brother refused to get the 40 million prize. When the HPSC arrives to take Snake away, Diego requests they kill Snake immediately, but they refuse (partly to find their base). Sure enough, by the end of the Brothers' arc, the Brothers lose everything and Diego wonders why no one listened to him when he said 'Shoot the bastard immediately'.
  • A heroic version in that Snake is forced to not kill Night Owl for all the shit he's done. Unlike the above, it's because Night Owl has a Dead Man Switch on a nuclear bomb, meaning that until they can find that damn nuke and disarm it, he is untouchable for the time being.
• Would Hurt a Child:
  • The HPSC had no qualms about using Izuku for interdimensional experimentations, nor did they have any qualms about sending hero students to fight on a battlefield that they were utterly unprepared for.
  • Likewise, Shigaraki (Tenko Shimura) made it clear he came to kill All Might and as many hero students as possible, with Fudaki's death being a key example.
• You Can't Go Home Again:
  • A very dark variant in that Izuku's new home is on Mother Base due to his entire family being butchered by the HPSC's orders, and the MSF knowing that putting Izuku in an orphanage or foster care will result in the HPSC re-abducting him for experimentation again.
  • The Soul family finds their home on Mother Base and cannot leave under the justified fear Humarise will abduct them into their Cult.
  • Many of the African refugees during the Tyrant Arc couldn't go back home because it was either a radiated wasteland or the warlords controlling their lands would kill them on the spot. The heroes telling them to go back home causes them to attack the heroes and free the captured MSF soldiers.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness:
  • Madam President makes mental notes that after Outer Heaven and the MSF are destroyed to axe two of the warlords who openly mocked the catastrophic defeat of the heroes by the MSF after their leader axed the Tyrant.
  • Night Owl kills off Akira after using his research to get the results he desired.
  • Night Owl kills off Agent Matter, as by that point he has no need for the man anymore, nor does he need Izuku for Dimensional Exploration.
  • Upon finding out both Luan and Razak have withdrawn their forces from the war against the MSF, she orders Techno to get assassins on those two and replace them with yes men.

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