History Fanfic / TurningANewLeaf

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Izuku (in his disguise as Flint Ironstag) gets to lay one on Rikiya Yotsubashi for how his company refuses to make products for Quirkless people. Yotsubashi then mocks "Flint"'s appearance, and Izuku unleashes his inner tanuki and returns the favor.

When Bakugo is held hostage by the Sludge Villain, Izuku Midorya rushes in to save him. In one universe, he's just a quirkless kid fruitlessly clawing at the Sludge Villain.

Here, Izuku suddenly manifests a quirk: a mutation that gives him the characteristics of a {{Tanuki}}. Not only does he get cute ears and a tail, but he can stretch his arms and make himself look like anyone, and it seems that's just the tip of the iceberg. He also has a group of animal-themed heroes tailing him and are ''very'' interest in what he can do.

* {{Tanuki}}: Izuku's Quirk is a mutation Quirk that manifests as a pair of animal ears and a raccoon tail. He also capable of shapeshifting, being able to transform into other people and even animals using a leaf. [[spoiler:Izuku learns later that he is the genuine article.]]

* MortonsFork: Before his internship with Endeavor, Shoto informs him that, per U.A.'s rules, Endeavor must only refer to him by his hero name, Himura's Warmth... and Endeavor reviles anything to do with Himura, which was Rei Todoroki's maiden name. So, either Endeavor uses it all the time, or Shoto does his internship week with someone else. Whichever choice he makes, Endeavor will have to do something he hates.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Many things hinted at Amaterasu's true identity [[spoiler:as Fuyumi Todoroki. Chapter 3 states she has a particular hatred of a certain man, which turns out to be Endeavor, implying Amaterasu has personal reasons to hate him. In wolf-woman form, Amaterasu has white fur with red streaks, just like how Fuyumi has white hair with red streaks. Amaterasu has powerful ice and fire abilities, just like Fuyumi's brother Shouto. She desires to save Shouto from Endeavor, implying she somehow knows about what Shouto's suffering through]].
* TheGadfly: Due to his nature as a Tanuki, Izuku loves to cause funny events, and if they humiliate someone who really needs it, all the better. For example, when Endeavor harasses Todoroki about him finally using his fire, Izuku interrupts, takes Todoroki away while closing the door on Endeavor's face, and gets Nezu to "glitch" the fire detectors in that corridor - leaving Endeavor covered in fire-supression foam.

* MistakesAreNotTheEndOfTheWorld: Kaibara is upset he couldn't make it past the second round of the Sports Festival after promising All Might he'd show the world he was here, but All Might assures him that it's not his fault and that even ''he'' fell for tricks in the past. Besides, Nighteye is still being an ass about his choice of successor and if he ''had'' made it to the third round and showed off One for All, Nighteye will know who All Might picked and start harassing Kaibara.

** The very next chapter reveals the true nature of her and Izuku’s Quirks, [[spoiler:namely that the two of them are now actually youkai, and no longer entirely human.]]

* {{Tanuki}}: Izuku's Quirk is a mutation Quirk that manifests as a pair of animal ears and a raccoon tail. He also capable of shapeshifting, being able to transform into other people and even animals using a leaf.

** All for One figures that Izuku would have turned into a hero during the sports festival if he could, so he must be limited to animals.

* {{Irony}}: Nighteye believes that Ochako is the one who was given One for All because she made it to the finals, but he is also certain she is unworthy because she didn't win.

* NotSoSimilar: Aizawa sees a bit of himself in Hitoshi, but Nedzu points out the similarities are only on the surface level. During their respective entrance exams, Aizawa managed to get a few Villain points with {{Improvised Weapon}}s, Hitoshi just plain gave up. Aizawa was genuinely beaten down because of his Quirk, Hitoshi's claims of bullying is an overreaction from a few people saying he would make a scary Villain if he decided to be one. Finally, Aizawa has good motivations for being a hero. Hitoshi only has spite.
* ParentalNeglect: Endeavour does not care much for Fuyumi and pays little attention to her as a result. [[spoiler:Because of this, he hasn't noticed Fuyumi is moonlighting as the Underground Hero Amaterasu]].

* SignatureMove: Izuku loves to use his shapeshifting to become dinosaurs. Shoto briefly forgets that Izuku can turn into other things during the sports festival.
* SitcomArchnemesis: Izuku and Aizawa have this relationship. Izuku retaliates against Aizawa’s “logical ruses” with pranks that leave him coated with glitter and doing things like jump-scaring Aizawa by waiting in the faculty office…transformed into a horse. Aizawa retaliates by not telling Izuku he’s expected to make a speech before the Sports Festival, to which Izuku retaliates during the speech by promising to have so much fun that he’ll make Aizawa facepalm at least seven times before the day is over.

* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Normally a person's Quirk kicks in around the age of four. Here Izuku's quirk doesn't kick in until his early teens when he sees Bakugo being held hostage by the Sludge Villain.

** Nighteye thinks Ochako is All Might's chosen successor, but it's actually Kaibara.

** Nighteye thinks Ochako is All Might's chosen successor, but it's actually Kaibara

* WhatTheHellHero: Aizawa indirectly calls out Shouto for not using his fire at all during the Quirk Apprehension Tests.

* NotSoSimilar: Aizawa sees a bit of himself in Hitoshi, but Nedzu points out the similarities are only on the surface level. During their respective entrance exams, Aizawa managed to get a few Villain points with ImprovisedWeapons, Hitoshi just plain gave up. Aizawa was genuinely beaten down because of his Quirk, Hitoshi's claims of bullying is an overreaction from a few people saying he would make a scary Villain if he decided to be one. Finally, Aizawa has good motivations for being a hero. Hitoshi only has spite.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Thanks to his shapeshifting abilities, Izuku has the ability to turn into ''All Might'', powers and all. But due to All Might's sheer power, Izuku can only hold his form for a few minutes before transforming back, making it impractical to rely on it. Slightly downplayed as Izuku still uses it sometimes with very good results, either by not using All Might's power, relying just on the Number One Hero's looks and reputation for the task at hand, or as a last resort in combat, as he did against the [[LivingWeapon Nomu.]]

* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Normally a person's quirk kicks in around the age of four. Here Izuku's quirk doesn't kick in until his early teens when he sees Bakugo being held hostage by the Sludge Villain.

* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Instead of being a quirkless kid who gains "One For All", Izuku instead manifests his own quirk that gives him {{Tanuki}} characteristics.

* DeadpanSnarker: After his quirk manifests, Izuku suddenly develops an attitude that even ''he'' didn't know he had.

* DetrimentalDetermination: By the time of the Sports Festival, Sir Nighteye still insists All Might's successor should be Mirio ''in spite of'' Mirio in no uncertain terms rejecting it over a year prior. At best, it just annoys All Might and further alienates him.
* DirtyCop: One of the reasons why the abuse happening in Aldera went on for so long is because some of local law-enforcement are either members of [[spoiler:the Meta Liberation Army]] or were payed off to look the other way.

* ForWantOfANail: After Izuku's quirk manifests, he is taken to a doctor by Mt. Lady. Because of this, All Might doesn't get the chance to ask him to take his quirk.

** When Izuku pulls a prank on Bakugo and his minions, it involves a lot of goats and dunking them in glitter.

* PowerCopying: When Izuku learns how to take other people's forms, he inadvertently discovers that he can copy their quirks too. If the Quirk is strong enough, it eats through his stamina and he transforms back in a few minutes.
* PowerMisidentification: [[spoiler:Aizawa using Erasure on Izuku and realising it is not working reveals that his Tanuki powers isn't a Quirk at all like so many believe]].

* SadistTeacher: Aldera's teachers tend to fall into the same quirkist bullying as the students, Izuku's teacher telling him that "even a pathetic quirk like that is better than no quirk" after his quirk manifests. [[spoiler:The school being a means of indoctrinating kids for the [[FantasticTerrorists Meta Liberation Army]] makes a lot of sense with this in mind.]]
* ScoobyDooHoax: Izuku's pranks have culminated in the student body believing that Aldera is haunted.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Endeavor wants Amaterasu to agree to a quirk marriage with his son once he comes of age, in the hopes that any children they produce would have very powerful quirks, and tries to entice her with access to the family fortune should she agree. [[WhatTheHellHero She very quickly makes it clear what he can do with his offer.]]

** While Izuku is running through theories why he suddenly manifested a quirk, one of the reject theories is [[ComicBook/SpiderMan being bitten by a radioactive raccoon]].
** Bakugo refers to Izuku's quirk manifesting as him turning into a Toys/{{Furby}}.

* {{Tanuki}}: Izuku's quirk is a mutation quirk that manifests as a pair of animal ears and a raccoon tail. He also capable of shapeshifting, being able to transform into other people and even animals using a leaf.
* TooDumbToLive: The moment Aizawa walked into Principle Ozeru's office, he identifies him as a member of the Meta Liberation Army and correctly presumes that the rest of the staff is in on it. How? He had a copy of ''Meta Manifesto'' on display in his bookshelf.

* WrongContextMagic: Whatever Izuku's quirk is, quirk-science and associated medical machinery can't seem to pinpoint ''what'' exactly it is. As the fic goes on, there are various interested parties -- all of which have [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing animal-based quirks]] -- who are keeping a close eye on him, implying that there is more to Izuku's quirk than what it seems. [[spoiler:Aizawa uses his Erasure on Izuku and it did not work at all. Even if Izuku's heteromorphic traits cannot be negated, if his Tanuki powers were a Quirk at all, all his emitter and transformation powers should still have stopped working]].

* AwesomeButImpractical: Thanks to his shapeshifting abilities, Izuku has the ability to turn into ''All Might'', powers and all. But due to All Might's sheer power, Izuku can only hold his form for a few minutes before transforming back, making it impractical to rely on it.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Dinosaurs are Izuku’s favorite transformations, and his go-to in many situations.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: After figuring out the basics of his shapeshifting, Izuku visits a paleontology museum specifically in order to gather information on dinosaurs and see if he can turn into them. Then he drags some museum workers into pulling a prank faking a live Utahraptor rampaging through the halls.