History Fanfic / MyHeroPlaythrough

** Rikido "Sugar Man" Sato and Minoru "Grape Juice" Mineta don't make it into UA. The [[WordOfGod author]] specifies that Sato just barely missed the cut and decided to take it as a sign to go to cooking school instead, in order to take over the family bakery. [[DirtyKid Mineta]] got caught trying to sneak into the girl's locker room after the practical half of the entrance exam, and was "escorted" out the door. The teachers found his behavior inappropriate for a hero, so they looked more closely into the exam footage and discovered that he also cheated on the written test, so [[PutOnABus they simply washed their hands on him]] and even reported his trespassing and sexual harassment to the police.
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Shihai "Vantablack" Kuroiro, canonically a Class 1-B student. Here, he only barely missed out from the Hero Course, and while he still got into UA, it was as part of the General Course. WordOfGod says he's NOT happy about it.
** Denki Kaminari doesn't exist – not just in Class 1-A, but "in reality as a whole". WordOfGod states that Mikoto Mikasa is his "replacement", but what exactly this means is yet to be explained.

** [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha Mordred Pendragon]] (here having her name adapted as [[ButNotTooForeign Penryu Modura]]) is mentioned in the practicals as well and interacts with Cassandra. She becomes the fourth and final Class 1-A substitution.

** Izuku's father considered to send him to a boarding school for Quirkless children in order to spare him the SuperSupremacist bullying, but his mother got a real bad feeling of the place and shot down the idea. Years later, it was discovered that the BoardingSchool was a cover for a project involving illegal human experimentation that gathered Quirkless kids as guinea pigs.
** Tokiwadai Middle School is a borderline example. While there's nothing wrong about the prestigious [[OneGenderSchool all-girls']] BoardingSchool in itself, and their reputation for producing powerful Quirk users is well-deserved, their alumnae have a suspicious tendency to either become famous heroines, or else marry very young and disappear from the public eye. The implication is that a Tokiwadai diploma basically ''brands'' a girl as prime breeding stock for Quirk Marriages, and that they're sought after for this very reason when they're older. The only reason why this isn't quite a straight example or a DoubleSubversion of the trope is that there's no evidence so far suggesting that Tokiwadai is doing this on purpose.

* KiManipulation: The third talent Izuku buys. It is a package deal with EnergyBall, [[TheForceIsStrongWIthThisOne Sensing]], RegeneratingHealth, and [[MagicEnhancement Self-Enhancement]]. The second level upgrades RegeneratingHealth to HealingHands and split EnergyBall into blunt and sharp versions.

* CuttingTheKnot: During a training exercise in Hero Fundamentals class based on a game of tag, the rules were 1) a "Gazelle" only get tagged out if a "Lion" (pursuer) touches them anywhere with their hands, and 2) stepping out of bounds disqualifies either party. When it was Mina and Izuku's turn and a Lion and a Gazelle, respectively, he simply manoeuvred around her, grabbed her by the back of her PE uniform, and carried and dropped her off the designated area. The surprised teacher had to disqualify Ashido despite Midoriya ignoring the point of the exercise because he didn't break the rules and his argument about taking out a Villain when it's safer and simpler that running away is entirely valid. All Might did warn that [[ObviousRulePatch they're going to close that loophole for subsequent exercises]] though.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Bakugou Katsuki and the Sludge villain both die offscreen in the first chapter. Without Izuku there to buy time and inspire All Might, Katsuki ends up suffocated and partially digested. Endeavour ends up defeating Sludge, and kills the Villain in the process.]]

* DiscontinuityNod: All Might comments that the first Hero Fundamentals class was supposed to be a Heroes vs Villains simulation exercise in an urban environment, but the training area is still being repaired after the entrance exam practicals. He gave Mikoto and Ami [[YouKnowWhatYouDid a look]] when he said the last bit.

* GenderEqualEnsemble: Class 1-A now consists in 10 girls and 10 boys, unlike canon where boys outnumber the girls more than twice over.

** [[Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun Mikoto Misaka]] is in Tsuyu's group for the entrance exam's practical, and another class 1-A member. She also attended Tokiwadai, in this universe a heroine preparatory middle school.
** [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]] and Izuku meet during the practical exam. She is also assigned to class 1-A.
** [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha Mordred Pendragon]] (here having her name adapted as [[ButNotTooForeign Penryu Modura]]) is mentioned in the practicals as well and interacts with Cassandra. She's the fourth class 1-A substitution.
** It's very likely that another crossover character took Shihai Kuroiro's place in class 1-B after he didn't make it into the Hero Course, but this remains unconfirmed so far.

** Also a DiscussedTrope. Izuku's Party wondered about several pieces of FridgeLogic involved in this trope, such as "is the money a forgery?" and "if not, where does it come from?" Based on the dates stamped on the cash – often old but valid bills and coins in any odd combination, rather than the most efficient one – they arrived to the hypothesis that Reflective Dungeons brings money that was physically lost or destroyed in the real world back to an usable condition. To verify the authenticity of their Dungeon-obtained money, Inko put a relatively large sum of it in a paper bag and handed it over to the police claiming she found it in the trash. Two weeks later, the police returned it to them (after taking out taxes, of course), which they took as a strong indication that the bills were neither forgeries nor traceable to a real source.
** Grinding for money in a Reflective Dungeon is also very, very profitable. Especially when {{Boss Battle}}s are cleared. For reference, one time on a good Dungeon run, a level-6 party with two combatants made almost ''one and half million yen'' (around 13,400 USD) in just under 4 hours. In fact, [[spoiler:one of the reasons why Inko took the risk of filing for divorce and looking for a job she could actually enjoy doing was because Izuku agreed to support them this way, just in case it took her too long to become financially self-reliant.]]
* MultinationalTeam: Class 1-A, unlike canon, now including Cassandra Cain (half-American, half-Chinese) and Modura Penryu (British descent) in its roster.
* MutuallyExclusiveMagic: Ki and Psionics are this. Using them together provides an amazing boost of power, but dangerous feedback. As in, "just moving around causes damage" feedback.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Izuku takes striving to become an IdealHero very seriously. However, he's not above attending his last days in middle school – despite the teachers allowing him to skip them after passing his high school entrance exams – simply because he wanted to see the expressions on his bullies' faces, after hearing that he was accepted into the prestigious Hero Course at UA. He didn't rub their noses on it, nor said a word to them, but the righteously smug satisfaction was indeed there.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Cassandra's father David Cain, while still an assassin, is stated to be a vigilante rather than a straight-up villain. Not only that, but he is the one who suggested that Cass try out for UA, after she showed she wasn't really cut out for his particular brand of heroism.

** Mikoto and Ami have roughly the same powers, but they are metahuman Quirks, instead of ESP or magic, respectively.
** Cassandra has her canon body reading, but here it is part of her Quirk, instead of the result of TrainingFromHell. She also can detect movement like a radar at short range.

* TheSpeechless: One half of Cassandra's hybrid Quirk gives her CombatClairvoyance, but renders her completely mute as a side-effect, unable to produce any sound even while laughing or crying. She's fluent with [[UsefulNotes/SignedLanguage ASL/JSL]], but currently only Midoriya (thanks to The Gamer) and Shoji can understand her in Class 1-A , so the former tends to act as her mouthpiece when he's around. For other times, she carries a pad and a pen.

** Izuku has the power of The Gamer, instead of no power or One for All. Though he gets it at the same time.

** Denki Kaminari doesn't exist – not just in Class 1-A, but "in reality as a whole". WordOfGod states that Mikoto Mikasa is his "replacement", but what exactly this means is yet to be explained.

* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Sometimes "Mandatory Quest" alerts pop up that {{Railroad|ing}} Izuku into a course of action related to his dreams to become a hero. On the bright side, they're stuff he would want to do on his own if he can, and completing them comes with amazing rewards. On the not-so-bright side, the penalties for failure are ''severe'' and the Quest content can be a WhamLine all of its own. For example, the first Mandatory Quest would have taken away The Gamer if Izuku didn't make it into the Hero Course (although a WhatIf omake shows that his other skills would have remained), and the second one revealed that [[spoiler:All Might is SecretlyDying and that Izuku has until the end of the first term (less than four months) to prevent his death – made worse because they barely know each other this time around.]]

* EarlyBirdCameo: Ami Mizuno appears at [[spoiler: Bakugou's funeral]] in chapter 2 and Izuku sees her at a bookstore in chapter 3, and her name and class rank are mentioned in chapters 5 and 6. She officially meets Izuku in chapter 8.

* GutFeeling: When Izuku begun to [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer suffer serious discrimination at school for being Quirkless]], his father proposed to send him to a BoardingSchool that exclusively catered to kids like him. Her mother got a real bad feeling about the place and refused to enroll him there, but couldn't provide a better argument than she didn't believe a school filled with bullied kids would lack some of them who would take it out on the rest and complete the ViciousCycle – a decision that made their already strained marriage worse. The FramingDevice set in the far future says that Inko not only had it right about the kids, but also the entire place was in fact a BoardingSchoolOfHorrors and actually a cover for an illegal human experimentation project that used Quirkless children as [[HumanResources guinea pigs]].

* HomeBase: Izuku, Inko, and Tsuyu turn the first Dungeon they clear – a very nice UA-brand mechanical pencil given to Izuku as a birthday present – into one of these. The kids continue to use it to train physically, and they all load it up with furniture and other amenities. Izuku even calls it "[[ShoutOut The]] [[PunnyName Pencil]] [[Franchise/{{Superman}} of Solitude]]". It has the added advantage that he can carry it around, and when he enters it, anyone currently in his party is pulled in as well.

** Also a DiscussedTrope. Izuku's Party wondered about several pieces of FridgeLogic involved in this trope, such as "is the money a forgery?" and "if not, where does it come from?" Based on the dates stamped on the cash – often old but valid bills and coins in any odd combination, rather than the most efficient one – they arrived to the hypothesis that Reflective Dungeons brings money that was physically lost or destroyed in the real world back to an usable condition. To verify the authenticity of their Dungeon-obtained money, Inko put a relatively large sum of it in a paper bag and handed it over to the police claiming she found it in the trash. Two weeks later, the police returned it to them (after taking out taxes, of course), which they took as a strong indication that the bills were neither forgeries nor traceable to a real source.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Izuku takes striving to become an IdealHero very seriously. However, he's not above attending his last days in middle school – despite the teachers allowing him to skip them after passing his high school entrance exams – simply because he wanted to see the expressions on his bullies' faces, after hearing that he was accepted into the prestigious Hero Course at UA. He didn't rub their noses on it, nor said a word to them, but the righteously smug satisfaction was indeed there.
* PocketDimension: Just like in the manhwa, The Gamer allows Izuku to create Instant Dungeons with enemies to grind, but not quite in the same way. Unlike the originals that are anchored to a location, Izuku's "Reflective Dungeons" are created from an object in a way similar to the Item Worlds in ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}''. He also uses the first Reflective Dungeon he and his party cleared – based on a high-end mechanical pencil he got for his 15th birthday that he always carries with him – as a portable HomeBase that they later furnished with a table, chairs, a bookshelf, and other odds and ends. He calls it "[[ShoutOut The]] [[PunnyName Pencil]] [[Franchise/{{Superman}} of Solitude]]".

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Whenever the words "Mandatory Quest Alert" appear.

* SensoryOverload: One half of Cassandra's hybrid Quirk gives her CombatClairvoyance, but is very sensitive to her own voice, creating some sort of overwhelming feedback effect that gives her a migraine if she tries to force herself to produce a vocal sound. This suggests that she wasn't born mute, but rather had to ''unlearn'' to speak since the moment her Quirk manifested.

* TheSpeechless: Cassandra is mute as a side-effect of her Quirk. She's fluent with [[UsefulNotes/SignedLanguage ASL/JSL]], but only Midoriya (thanks to The Gamer) and Shoji can (currently) understand her in Class 1-A , so the former tends to act as her mouthpiece when he's around. For other times, she carries a pad and a pen.

* MultinationalTeam: Class 1-A, unlike canon, now listing Cassandra Cain (half-American, half-Chinese), and Modura Penryu (British descent) in its roster.
* MutuallyExclusiveMagic: Ki and Psionics are this. Using them together provides an amazing boost of power, but dangerous feedback. As in "damage with every step he takes" feedback.

* GladToBeAliveSex: {{Defied|Trope}}. Tsuyu attempts to initiate this when she and Izuku both nearly die and save each other. His response is LetsWaitAwhile.

* LetsWaitAwhile: Done by Izuku when Tsuyu [[GladToBeAliveSex tries to seduce him after paired near-death incidents]]. He gives her a list of reasons why they shouldn't, but also a timetable to discuss it again. She agrees.

** Rikido "Sugar Man" Sato and Minoru "Grape Juice" Mineta don't make it into UA. [[WordOfGod The author]] specifies that Sato missed the cut by a small margin and he took it as a sign to go to cooking school instead, in order to take over the family bakery. [[DirtyKid Mineta]] got caught trying to sneak into the girl's locker room after the practical half of the entrance exam, and was walked to the door. The teachers found his behavior inappropriate for a hero, so they looked more closely into the exam footage and discovered that he also cheated on the written test, so [[PutOnABus they simply washed their hands on him]] and even reported his trespassing and sexual harassment to the police.

** Reversed. Cassandra Cain is usually portrayed as 19 or older. Here she's around 15 years old.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Midoriya meets Tsuyu Asui 10 months before the UA entrance exam because he picked the same place as her to train. They become friends and training buddies, and after a while, his mother starts babysitting Tsuyu's younger brother and sister, in order to give her more time to train.
* AdaptationalWimp: Izuku's version of The Gamer is a lot less broken that in the source material, and ''especially'' so compared to other crossovers following the FandomSpecificPlot of giving The Gamer to a character of another series. For example, the particularly abusable [[{{Hammerspace}} Inventory]] [[BagOfHolding Screen]] has storage limitation and its use depends on an InventoryManagementPuzzle, forcing Izuku to think ahead what to put in there.

** Rikido "Sugar Man" Sato and Minoru "Grape Juice" Mineta don't make it into UA. [[WordOfGod The author]] specifies that Sato missed the cut by a small margin and he took it as a sign to go to cooking school instead in order to take over the family bakery. [[DirtyKid Mineta]] got caught trying to sneak into the girl's locker room after the practical half of the entrance exam, and was walked to the door. The teachers found his behavior inappropriate for a hero, so they looked more closely into the exam footage and discovered that he also cheated on the written test, so [[PutOnABus they simply washed their hands on him]] and even reported his trespassing and sexual harassment to the police.
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Shihai "Vantablack" Kuroiro, canonically a Class 1-B student. Here he barely missed out from the Hero Course, but got into UA as part of the General Course. WordOfGod says he's NOT happy about it.
** Denki Kaminari doesn't exist -- not just in Class 1-A, but "in reality as a whole." WordOfGod states that Mikoto is his "replacement," but what does this mean exactly is yet to be explained.

** Cassandra Cain is usually portrayed as 19 or older. Here she's around 15 year old.
** {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Mikoto is two years older, now a high school freshman rather than a middle school sophomore.
* AnchoredShip: Izuku and Tsuyu decided against dating because they weren't sure that their training for UA entrance exams wouldn't suffer for it. Furthermore, he didn't want to get his hopes up in the eventuality that he failed to make the cut and they would have to go in their separated ways.
* AntiMagic: Aizawa's Quirk prevents people within his eyesight from activating theirs. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} with Izuku, whose [[MindOverMatter Tactile TK]] is ''not'' Quirk-based, so it works unimpeded under Erasure's AreaOfEffect. This is a bad thing because it revealed to UA staff that something truly abnormal is going on with Izuku.]]
* AscendedFanboy: Izuku is one twice over. Not only does The Gamer give him a chance to be a hero, he is also shown to be a gamer (he uses an old game book to try to stat out the heroes and villains he observes, and geeks out when his mom gets him a rare game for his birthday, etc.)
* AugmentedReality: How The Gamer manifest itself. Izuku can also toggle the user interface into a HeadsUpDisplay mode, but he finds seeing his HP bar at the corner of his vision at all times to be kinda morbid.

* BadDreams: Izuku has a nightmare about flunking UA entrance exam and losing The Gamer. The [[TrollingCreator author]] pointedly didn't format the NightmareSequence as a such, so both Izuku and the reader are led to believe he failed until his CatapultNightmare moment.
* BagOfHolding: Izuku's version of The Gamer also comes with an "Inventory" screen where he can store things in {{Hammerspace}}, but his is an InventoryManagementPuzzle. On the bright side, his Inventory space can get upgraded, items forming a whole like his notebooks share grid space, and food stored in there won't spoil because it doesn't technically exist in real space for that to happen. At his mother's insistence, Izuku always carries a fully stocked first aid kit in there.
* BedmateReveal: Izuku exhausted himself to the bone saving Tsuyu's life in chapter 7, passing out next to her the moment she was in condition to be left unattended. Later that afternoon he realized he must have rolled on his side and toward to her in his sleep because a healthy and very much awake Tsuyu was waiting in his arms for an explanation.

** Izuku's father considered to send him to a boarding school for Quirkless children to spare him the SuperSupremacist bullying, but his mother got a real bad feeling of the place and shot down the idea. Years later it was discovered that the BoardingSchool was a cover for a project involving illegal human experimentation that gathered Quirkless kids as guinea pigs.
** Tokiwadai Middle School is a borderline example. While there's nothing wrong about the prestigious [[OneGenderSchool all-girls]] BoardingSchool in itself and their reputation for producing powerful Quirk users is well deserved, their alumni have a suspicious tendency to either become famous heroines, or marry very young and disappear from the public eye. The implication is that a Tokiwadai diploma basically ''brands'' a girl as prime breeding stock for Quirk Marriages and that they're sought after for this very reason when they're older. This only reason why this isn't quite a straight example or a DoubleSubversion of the trope is that there's no evidence so far suggesting that Tokiwadai is doing this on purpose.

** Izuku's one innate Talent is called "Studious", which simply improves the rate his Wit and Intuition attributes increase and hastens a bit the development of Skills related to those two Stats. While not impressive on its own, the overall effect in the long run is more significant and allows him spend his Attribute and Skill Points on something else.

* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Sometimes "Mandatory Quest" alerts pop up that {{Railroad|ing}}s Izuku into a course of action related to his dreams to become a hero. On the bright side, they're stuff he would want to do on his own if he can, and completing them comes with amazing rewards. On the not-so-bright side, the penalties for failure are ''severe'' and the Quest content can be a WhamLine all of its own. For example, the first Mandatory Quest would have taken away The Gamer if Izuku didn't make it into the Hero Course (although a WhatIf omake shows that his other skills would have remained), and the second one revealed that [[spoiler:All Might is SecretlyDying and that Izuku has until the end of the first term (less than four months) to prevent his death -- made worse because they barely know each other this time around.]]

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Bakugou Katsuki and Sludge both die offscreen in the first chapter. Without Izuku there to buy time and inspire All Might, Katsuki ends up suffocated and partially digested. Endeavour ends up defeating Sludge, and kills the Villain in the process.]]

* EarlyBirdCameo: Ami Mizuno appears at [[spoiler: Bakugou's funeral]] in chapter 2 and Izuku sees her at a bookstore in chapter 3, and her name and class rank are mentioned in chapters 5 and 6 She officially meets Izuku in chapter 8
* ExactWords: When Izuku speaks, he has a 'power' not a 'Quirk'.

* GridInventory: Izuku has one as part of his Gamer power. Initially it is a two by five grid, though small and similar items stack. Later he gets an additional row (three by five) as a quest reward.
* GutFeeling: When Izuku begun to [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer suffer serious discrimination at school for being Quirkless]], his father proposed to send him to a BoardingSchool that exclusively catered to kids like him. Her mother got a real bad feeling about the place and refused to enroll him there, but couldn't provide a better argument than she didn't believe a school filled with bullied kids would lack some of them who would take it out on the rest and complete the ViciousCycle -- a decision that made their already strained marriage worse. The FramingDevice set in the far future says that Inko not only had it right about the kids, but also the entire place was in fact a BoardingSchoolOfHorrors and actually a cover for an illegal human experimentation project that used Quirkless kids as guinea pigs.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: "Efficient Sleeper" is a Talent that allows a person to get as much rest in 5 hours as they would get from a 8-hour night of sleep. It may not sound like much compared to stuff like KiManipulation and MindOverMatter powers, but for Tsuyu who has school, training, and her younger siblings to worry about, three extra hours a day just for herself without any drawbacks is truly a ''godsend''.
* HomeBase: Izuku, Inko, and Tsuyu turn the first Dungeon they clear -- a very nice UA branded mechanical pencil given to Izuku as a birthday present -- into one of these. The kids continue to use it to train physically, and they all load it up with furniture and other amenities. Izuku even calls it "[[ShoutOut The]] [[PunnyName Pencil]] [[Franchise/{{Superman}} of Solitude]]". It has the added advantage that he can carry it around, and when he enters, anyone currently in his party is pulled in as well.
* InstantExpert: The Gamer can turn Izuku into this if he's willing to burn through his increasingly valuable Skill Points to do it. One time he panicked when an irate girl (Cassandra) ranted at him via [[UsefulNotes/SignedLanguage sign language]] and he immediately dumped points on his ASL and JSL Skills in order to converse with her and hopefully calm her down... only to find out seconds later that she can hear him just fine. Not really wasted points in his opinion given that they both ended up as classmates.
* IntimateHealing: A PG example. The TraumaInn effect that completely heals Izuku's wounds and replenishes his stamina overnight can propagate to a Party Member if they sleep in close proximity to him. How close they have to be to trigger the effect is yet to be established. Sleeping under the same roof is shown to insufficient given that Inko never noticed anything despite being a party member for months. However accidentally spooning with Tsuyu ([[BedmateReveal long story]]) is confirmed to do the trick.

* IWantGrandkids: Izuku narrates "For a moment, I could have sworn I saw the kanji 孫 in (his mother Inko's) eyes." after he tells her Tsuyu wants the two of them to practice swimming. Alone. In the forest. [[spoiler:孫 means grandchildren.]]

* LetsWaitAwhile: Done by Izuku when Tsuyu [[GladToBeAliveSex tries to seduce him after paired near death incidents]]. He gives her a list of reasons why they shouldn't, but also a timetable to discuss it again. She agrees.

* LonelyFuneral: PlayedWith. While plenty adults attended to Katsuki's funeral, only two kids his age showed up despite the fact Aldera Junior High officially suspended classes so the students could go to the service. Those two were of course Izuku, and a girl that was later revealed to be Ami Mizuno. It's currently unknown why the latter did it, given that she and Bakugou apparently never became acquaintances.
* LuckStat: The Gamer quantifies Izuku's luck (or rather, his [[BornUnlucky lack of it]]) as a number. He isn't quite sure what effect, if any, does his LuckStat has in his life or what the number actually means, but given that no normal activity seems to have any effect on it unlike with other Attributes, he decided to [[StatGrinding spend one Attribute Point on Luck per each Level Up]] just in case.

** Izuku's dungeon power is based on the Item World and Chara Worlds from Franchise/{{Disgaea}}
** [[Franchise/SailorMoon Ami Mizuno]] is one of Izuku's classmate at Aldera middle school and takes the UA entrance exam on Izuku's suggestion.

** [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha Mordred Pendragon (here having her name adapted as Penryu Modura)]] is mentioned in the practicals as well and interacts with Cassandra. She's the fourth class 1-A substitution.

** Also a DiscussedTrope. Izuku's Party wondered about several pieces of FridgeLogic involved in this trope, such as "is the money a forgery?" and "if not, where does it come from?" Based on the dates stamped on the cash --often old but valid bills and coins in any odd combination rather than the most efficient one -- they arrived to the hypothesis that Reflective Dungeons brings money that was physically lost or destroyed in the real world back to an usable condition. To verify the authenticity of their Dungeon-obtained money, Inko put a relatively large sum of it in a paper bag and handed it over to the police by saying she found it in the trash. Two weeks later, the police returned it to them (after taking out taxes, of course), which they took as a strong indication that the bills were neither forgeries nor traceable to a real source.
** Grinding for money in a Reflective Dungeon is also very, very profitable. Especially when {{Boss Battle}}s are cleared. For reference, one time on a good Dungeon run, a level 6 party with two combatants made almost ''one and half million yen'' (around 13,400 USD) in just under 4 hours. In fact, [[spoiler:one of the reasons why Inko took the risk of filing for divorce and looking for a job she could actually enjoy doing was because Izuku agreed to support them this way just in case it took her too long to become financially self-reliant.]]
* MultinationalTeam: Class 1-A unlike canon, now listing Cassandra Cain (half-American, half-Chinese) and Modura Penryu (British descent) in its roster.
* MutuallyExclusiveMagic: Ki and Psionics are this. Using them together provides an amazing boost of power, but dangerous feedback. As in damage every step he takes feedback.
* NameOrderConfusion: The Gamer shows people's names with the given name first, whereas Japan uses the family name first convention. This causes some minor problems for Izuku who got used to the former after little less than a year reading from The Gamer's user interface.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Izuku takes striving to become IdealHero very seriously. However, he's not above attending his last days in middle school -- despite the teachers allowing him to skip them after passing his high school entrance exams -- simply because he wanted to see the expression on his bullies' faces after hearing that he was accepted into the prestigious Hero Course at UA. He didn't rub their noses on it, not he said a word to them, but the righteously smug satisfaction was indeed there.
* PocketDimension: Just like in the manhwa, The Gamer allows Izuku to create Instant Dungeons with enemies to grind, but not quite in the same way. Unlike the originals that are anchored to a location, Izuku's "Reflective Dungeons" are created from an object in a way similar to the Item Worlds in ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}''. He also uses the first Reflective Dungeon he and his party cleared -- based on a high-end mechanical pencil he got for his 15th birthday that he always carries with him -- as a portable HomeBase that they later furnished with a table, chairs, a bookshelf, and other odds and ends. They call it "[[ShoutOut The]] [[PunnyName Pencil]] [[Franchise/{{Superman}} of Solitude]]".
* PointBuildSystem: The Gamer quantifies Izuku's growing as Attributes. They are Strength, Endurance, Agility, and Quickness for physical characteristics, and Wit, Intuition, Charisma, Determination, and Luck for non-physical ones. Izuku's user interface (and the narration) usually uses the first letter of each as a shorthand. Upon each Level Up, Izuku gets seven Attributes Points he can freely spend on them to increase their values, but other than {{Luck|Stat}}, they can be improved by performing activities related to them as with normal training. Sometimes The Gamer rewards Izuku with small but permanent Stat increases for doing something particularly remarkable related to it. For example, increasing his Intuition for making remarkably good deductions, or his Wit for doing something particularly sneaky.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In chapter 9, Izuku, Inko, and Tsuyu test the Dungeon in one of his training weights. The first mook they see is level 21. Izuku was level 6 and Tsuyu level 7. Inko was level 17, but also basically a non-combatant. The description when Izuku scans it is even 'Way above your weight class'. They leave immediately.

** The Quirk Assessment Test from the first day at UA, but differently from canon where the expulsion thing was a MotivationalLie to make them try harder. [[spoiler:Midoriya noticed that their home teacher's whole behavior resembled too much that of a Villain: he used coercion and blackmail to force to compete against each other for survival by threatening to expel the lowest scoring student. Aizawa also dropped an anti-government rant that it was completely at odds with his position, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and there was no rational way to convert the test results into an overall ranking]]. Midoriya passed his observations to others who quickly agreed with him and ganged up on the teacher, managing to safely capture him. Aizawa demanded an explanation, and when they provided it, he (''very'' begrudgingly) congratulated them for being the first class to figure out the secret test in the six years he's been doing it.]]
** PlayedWith for a bit in the above example because the "assessment" part was real and class 1-A still had to complete the tests so their performance data could be recorded in order to measure their improvements later on.

* SensoryOverload: One half of Cassandra's hybrid Quirk gives her CombatClairvoyance, but it's very sensitive to her own voice, creating some sort of overwhelming feedback effect that gives her a migraine if she tries to force herself to produce a vocal sound. This suggests that she wasn't born mute, but rather had to ''unlearn'' to speak since the moment her Quirk manifested.

* TheSpeechless: Cassandra is mute as a side effect of her Quirk. She's fluent with [[UsefulNotes/SignedLanguage ASL/JSL]], but only Midoriya (thanks to The Gamer) and Shoji can understand her in Class 1-A , so the former tends to act as her mouthpiece when he's around. For other times, she carries a pad and a pen.

* SuperBreedingProgram: Quirk Marriages, as in canon. There are some unsavory rumors about it involving Tokiwadai Middle School given how their best graduates either become famous heroines, or end up marrying suspiciously young and disappear from the public eye.
* SuperpowerLottery: Izuku's power as The Gamer. This includes the ability to see himself as an RPG character and control his stat growth, heal almost anything with a good night's sleep, resist most mental attacks, store a limited number of items in an extra dimensional space, and invite people into his party, giving them a limited version of the first power and the ability to make sure other party members are in good shape. And that is before he starts getting quests to improve those powers or unlock new gamer like abilities (like one resembling Item World from the ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' series), or using the first power gain Telekinesis and Ki powers. The main thing keeping him from being overpowered is that he was so far behind his universe's power curve to begin with.

* WrongContextMagic: The Gamer is not a Quirk and doesn't have to follow their rules at all. This is a bad thing for Izuku because there's no way to predict how the government would react to something like that, or what the Villains would do to get their hands on it if they find out. After a few months debating with Inko and Tsuyu how to best hide it, they decided on pass it off as a MindOverMatter Quirk called "Tactile TK" (which is actually the name of one of his Skills) because it won't be suspicious because it's similar to his mother's Quirk, and telekinesis is well known to be a very versatile power that comes in many variations, thus helping him to explain away his other Skills like KiManipulation as an application of it.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Midoriya meets Tsuyu Asui 10 months before the UA entrance exam because he picked the same place as her to train. They become friends and training buddies, and after a while, his mother starts babysitting Tsuyu's little sisters in order to give her more time to train.

* LonelyFuneral: PlayedWith. While plenty adults attended to Katsuki's funeral, only two kids his age showed up despite the fact Aldera Junior Hight officially suspended classes so the students could go to the service. Those two were of course Izuku, and a girl that was later revealed to be Ami Mizuno. It's currently unknown why the latter did it, given that she and Bakugou apparently never became acquaintances.

** Rikido "Sugar Man" Sato and Minoru "Grape Juice" Mineta don't make it into UA. WordOfGod specifies that Sato missed the cut by a small margin and he took it as a sign to go to cooking school instead in order to take over the family bakery. [[DirtyKid Mineta]] got caught trying to sneak into the girl's locker room after the practical half of the entrance exam, and was walked to the door. The teachers found his behavior inappropriate for a hero, so they looked more closely into the exam footage and discovered that he also cheated on the written test, so [[PutOnABus they simply washed their hands on him]] and even reported his trespassing and sexual harassment to the police.

* BedmateReveal: Izuku exhausted himself to the bone saving Tsuyu's life in chapter 7, passing out next to her the moment she was in condition to be left unattended. The next morning he realized he must have rolled on his side and toward to her in his sleep because a healthy and very much awake Tsuyu was waiting in his arms for an explanation.

* BadDreams: Izuku has a nightmare about flunking UA entrance exam losing The Gamer. The [[TrollingCreator author]] pointedly didn't format the NightmareSequence as a such, so both Izuku and the reader are led to believe he failed until his CatapultNightmare moment.

** Izuku's father considered to send him to a boarding school for Quirkless children to spare him the SuperSupremacist bullying, but his mother got a real bad feeling of the place and shot down the idea. Years later it was discovered that the place was a cover for a project involving illegal human experimentation that gathered Quirkless kids as guinea pigs.
** Tokiwadai Middle School is a borderline example. While there's nothing wrong about the prestigious [[OneGenderSchool all-girls]] BoardingSchool in itself and their reputation for producing powerful Quirk users is well deserved, their alumni have a suspicious tendency to either become famous heroines, or marry very young and disappear from the public eye. The implication is that a Tokiwadai diploma basically ''brands'' a girl as prime breeding stock for Quirk Marriages and that they're sought after for this very reason when they're older. This only reason why this isn't a quite /straight example or a DoubleSubversion of the trope is that there's no evidence so far suggesting that Tokiwadai is doing this on purpose.

* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Sometimes "Mandatory Quest" alerts pop up that {{Railroad|ing}}s Izuku into a course of action related to his dreams to become a hero. On the bright side, they're stuff he would want to do on his own if he can, and completing them comes with amazing rewards. On the not-so-bright side, the penalties for failure are ''severe'' and the Quest content can be a WhamLine all of its own. For example, the first Mandatory Quest would have taken away The Gamer if Izuku didn't make it into UA (although a WhatIf omake shows that his other skills would have remained), and the second one revealed that [[spoiler:All Might is SecretlyDying and that Izuku has until the end of the first term (less than four months) to prevent his death -- made worse because they barely know each other this time around.]]

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Izuku gets The Gamer and he doesn't meet Toshinori. [[ForWantOfANail As a result of both changes]], Bakugou isn't rescued in time and dies in the Sludge Villain Incident.

* HomeBase: Izuku, Inko, and Tsuyu turn the first Dungeon they clear (a very nice pencil given to Izuku) into one of these. The kids continue to use it to train physically, and they all load it up with furniture and other amenities. Izuku even calls it the [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Pencil of Solitude]]. It has the added advantage that he can carry it around, and when he enters, anyone currently in his party is pulled in as well.

** [[Manga/{{Gamma}} Hikari Shimooka]] has replaced Shihai Kuroiro in class 1-B.

* PointBuildSystem: The Gamer quantifies Izuku's growing as Attributes. They are Strength, Endurance, Agility, and Quickness for physical characteristics, and Wit, Intuition, Charisma, Determination, and Luck for non-physical ones. Izuku's user interface (and the narration) usually uses the first letter of each as a shorthand. Upon each Level Up, Izuku gets seven Attributes Points he can freely spend on them to increase their values, but other than {{Luck|Stat}}, they can be improved by performing activities related to them as with normal training. Sometimes The Gamer rewards Izuku with small but permanent Stat increases for doing something particularly remarkable related to it. For example,

** The Quirk Assessment Test from the first day at UA as, but differently from canon where the expulsion thing was a MotivationalLie to make them try harder. [[spoiler:Midoriya noticed that their home teacher's whole behavior resembled too much that of a Villain: he used coercion and blackmail to force to compete against each other for survival by threatening to expel the lowest scoring student. Aizawa also dropped an anti-government rant that it was completely at odds with his position, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and there was no rational way to convert the test results into an overall ranking]]. Midoriya passed his observations to others who quickly agreed with him and ganged up on the teacher, managing to safely capture him. Aizawa demanded an explanation, and when they provided it, he (''very'' begrudgingly) congratulated them for being the first class to figure out the secret test in the six years he's been doing it.]]

* ShoutOut: Plenty.

* MoneySpider: Izuku and company are surprised when the first dungeon they enter, the first monster (a kobold) drops Yen bills. Played with, in that non-humanoid enemies like wolves drop money, but noticeably less.

* ShoutOut:

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* Main/AscendedFanboy: Izuku is one twice over. Not only does The Gamer give him a chance to be a hero, he is also shown to be a gamer (he uses an old game book to try to stat out the heroes and villains he observes, and geeks out when his mom gets him a rare game for his birthday, etc.)
* Main/BackToBackBadasses: Cassandra and Mo-chan do this during the UA Entrance Exam, after Izuku inspires Cassandra to be more humble and heroic, and reminds her of her limits (not that she would say that).
* [[DeathByAdaptation/{{FanWorks}} Death By Adaptation]]: [[spoiler: Bakugou Katsuki and Sludge both die offscreen in the first chapter. Without Izuku there to buy time and inspire All Might, Katsuki ends up suffocated and partially digested. Endeavour ends up defeating Sludge, and kills the Villain in the process]].
* [[ForWantOfANail/{{Fanworks}} For Want Of A Nail]]: After recognizing his new power, Izuku rushes home to experiment. As a result, he is not there to slow down Sludge or inspire All Might [[spoiler: and Bakugou dies]].
* Main/GladToBeAliveSex: Averted. Tsuyu attempts to initiate this when she and Izuku both nearly die and save each other. His response is Main/LetsWaitAwhile.
* Main/GridInventory: Izuku has one as part of his Gamer power. Initially it is a two by five grid, though small and similar items stack. Later he gets an additional row (three by five) as a quest reward.
* Main/HomeBase: Izuku, Inko, and Tsuyu turn the first Dungeon they clear (a very nice pencil given to Izuku) into one of these. The kids continue to use it to train physically, and they all load it up with furniture and other amenities. Izuku even calls it the [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Pencil of Solitude]]. It has the added advantage that he can carry it around, and when he enters, anyone currently in his party is pulled in as well.
* Main/IWantGrandkids: Izuku narrates "For a moment, I could have sworn I saw the kanji 孫 in (his mother Inko's) eyes." after he tells her Tsuyu wants the two of them to practice swimming. Alone. In the forest. [[spoiler: 孫 means grandchildren.]]
* Main/LetsWaitAwhile: Done by Izuku when Tsuyu [[Main/GladToBeAliveSex tries to seduce him after paired near death incidents]]. He gives her a list of reasons why they shouldn't, but also a timetable to discuss it again. She agrees.
* [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover/{{Fanworks}} Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] :

* Main/MoneySpider: Izuku and company are surprised when the first dungeon they enter, the first monster (a kobold) drops Yen bills. Played with, in that non-humanoid enemies like wolves drop money, but noticeably less.
* Main/MutuallyExclusiveMagic: Ki and Psionics are are this. Using them together provides an amazing boost of power, but dangerous feedback. As in damage every step he takes feedback.
* [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere/FanFic Screw This I'm Outta Here]]: In chapter 9, Izuku, Inko, and Tsuyu test the Dungeon in one of his training weights. The first mook they see is level 21. Izuku was level 6 and Tsuyu level 7. Inko was level 17, but also basically a non-combatant. The description when Izuku scans it is even 'Way above your weight class'. They leave immediately.
* Main/ShoutOut:

* Main/SuddenGameInterface: The story ''is'' a crossover of the Trope Image Source...
* Main/SuperpowerLottery: Izuku's power as The Gamer. This includes the ability to see himself as an RPG character and control his stat growth, heal almost anything with a good night's sleep, resist most mental attacks, store a limited number of items in an extra dimensional space, and invite people into his party, giving them a limited version of the first power and the ability to make sure other party members are in good shape. And that is before he starts getting quests to improve those powers or unlock new gamer like abilities (like one resembling Item World from the Disgaea series), or using the first power gain Telekinesis and Ki powers. The main thing keeping him from being overpowered is that he was so far behind his universe's power curve to begin with.
* [[TookALevelInBadass/FanWorks Took A Level In Badass]]: Done literally, since Izuku's The Gamer power lets him see people's levels, and arrange special, live fire training in Dungeons. Izuku starts at level 2, and grinds up to level 9 by the time of the entrance exam. As a result, he ends up getting first place in the entrance exam, and thanks to his help/power, Tsuyu places 7th.

*** Tsuyu's middle school is Danchuin Academy.[[note]]Dantooine was formerly the home of a Jedi academy in the Start Wars Extended Universe[[/note]]

A {{Fanfic}} by [[FanFic/AGrowingAffection Xavon]] [[FanFic/BeyondTheOuterGateLies Wrentaile]], combining Manga/MyHeroAcademia and Webcomic/TheGamer with [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover a sprinkling of characters and ideas from other franchises for good measure]].

** [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha Mordred Pendragon (here having her name adapted as Penryu Modura)]] is mentioned in the practicals as well and interacts with Cassandra. She's the fourth class 1-A substitution

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere/FanFic: In chapter 9, Izuku, Inko, and Tsuyu test the Dungeon in one of his training weights. The first mook they see is level 21. Izuku was level 6 and Tsuyu level 7. Inko was level 17, but also basically a non-combatant. The description when Izuku scans it is even 'Way above your weight class'. They leave immediately.

* ForWantOfANail/Fanworks: After recognizing his new power, Izuku rushes home to experiment. As a result, he is not there to slow down Sludge or inspire All Might [[spoiler: and Bakugou dies]].

* TookALevelInBadass/FanWorks: Done literally, since Izuku's The Gamer power lets him see people's levels, and arrange special, live fire training in Dungeons. Izuku starts at level 2, and grinds up to level 9 by the time of the entrance exam. As a result, he ends up getting first place in the entrance exam, and thanks to his help/power, Tsuyu places 7th.

** [[Manga/Gamma Hikari Shimooka]] has replaced Shihai Kuroiro in class 1-B.

** [[WordOfGod]] says [[Manga/Gamma Hikari Shimooka]] has replaced Shihai Kuroiro in class 1-B, but none of that class has appeared on screen yet.