YMMV / Locked In Digital

• Awesome Moments:
  • A lot of the ways Izuku survived the simulation certainly count:
    • Slender: He learns Le Parkour and manages to collect all one hundred pages on his final run, and not even Slenderman tearing off one of his arms is enough to stop him.
    • Five Nights at Freddy's: He uses the notebook he won from Slender to teach himself about the Animatronics' patterns and ends night five by resurrecting Phone Guy as an animatronic, who fights the others; then Izuku causes a gas explosion that destroys most of the animatronics.
    • Alien: Isolation: After programming all the androids to fight the xenomorphs, he works with Marlow to blow the Anisadora and the Sevastopol to kingdom come and escapes from the station by weaponizing Explosive Decompression when the xenomorphs find him just as he's getting away.
    • Bioshock: The "Rapture Massacre" hasn't been directly shown in the fic yet, but it's the moment that made Shigaraki consider Izuku a Worthy Opponent.
  • Izuku fights Stain... and it's a brutal Curb-Stomp Battle in the former's favor. The only reason Stain escapes is because he distracts Izuku by throwing a knife at Native and Iida and later because Shigaraki decides to rescue him and, even then, he leaves gravely injured.
• Moral Event Horizon: Akihiko Sugoh crossed it when it is first revealed that he had turned what was originally supposed to be a benevolent tool to help people into a death run. Worse, he had experimented with animals then later people to perfect it behind his team's back. In fact, Izuku was his ninth human subject and its only survivor.
  • Speaking of, if Sugoh didn't cross it by putting Izuku in the simulation in the first place, he certainly did when he threatens to put Inko into the machine.
• Nightmare Fuel: Good freaking lord, there's a lot of it here.
  • Midoriya himself is this trope in spades. Consider the fact that he went through the simulations of 9 different horror games, and as was confirmed from this in-universe death counter set up, you realize that he technically died at least 700 times. And he felt every. Single. One. He only barely escaped from the hellish experiments by beating all nine games, but even then, his mind is a patchwork of psychological scars that multiple therapists couldn't pin down.
    • Let's go over those deaths, shall we? Most of them were caused by the games themselves as a consequence of failure, but a few of them so far were self-inflicted resets. The only issue is that a run is only reset once the player character dies. In case it wasn't obvious, Midoriya knows how to kill himself, and has done so in the past!
  • Let's add in some Body Horror for a bit, because the death themselves ain't pretty. Poor guy gets practically mutilated from each death, and over time his nerves have been altered to the point that they're functionally 10 times more sensitive than the average person. Eventually, he's just slotted the feeling of pain into mild annoyance at best.