History Recap / MyHeroAcademiaSportsFestivalArc

* BreatherEpisode: After the intense USJ battle against real-life Villains, the UA student take part in a more public event to make themselves known to various Hero Agencies. While there is some drama involving Shoto Todoroki and his father Endeavor, the arc overall is Lighter and Softer.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** So, you're being a WarriorTherapist to TheAce of your class whose WillfullyWeak because he's spiting his father for his inherited powers, while you yourself haven't mastered the Quirk and are in fact beating yourself up just to have a fighting chance? You're going to lose. This is, however, [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstructed]] after the fight, saying that while Midoriya lost, he's still a true hero for actually giving a damn about Todoroki's fate.
** This leads to another case: One single pep talk isn't going to erase years of trauma. Todoroki is ultimately unable to conjure his flames again during the tournament, and he loses his final match with Bakugo as a result. On the other hand, Izuku's words maintain a profound impact on Shoto and Shoto begins working on overcoming his trauma, which includes visiting his mother. While the talk may not erase the trauma, it did inspire him to move forward to overcome it.

* RealityEnsues:
** So, you're being a WarriorTherapist to TheAce of your class whose WillfullyWeak because he's spiting his father for his inherited powers, while you yourself haven't mastered the Quirk and are in fact beating yourself up just to have a fighting chance? You're going to lose. This is, however, [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstructed]] after the fight, saying that while Midoriya lost, he's still a true hero for actually giving a damn about Todoroki's fate.
** This leads to another case: One single pep talk isn't going to erase years of trauma. Todoroki is ultimately unable to conjure his flames again during the tournament, and he loses his final match with Bakugo as a result. On the other hand, Izuku's words maintain a profound impact on Shoto and Shoto begins working on overcoming his trauma, which includes visiting his mother. While the talk may not erase the trauma, it did inspire him to move forward to overcome it.

** The second is that if you don't give it your all, you're insulting your competitors and disrespecting their efforts. Todoroki holds back on his devastating potential and half of his quirk, which results in a lot of people coming to dislike him. Despite having his own reasons to do so, Midoriya eventually reaches out to him and convinces him that his father's "quirk" is his own.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: {{Deconstructed}}. During his fight with Todoroki, Izuku forces himself to break already broken fingers for the sake of simply keeping up competitively to the best of his ability, and comes away from the fight with a permanently disfigured right hand.
* CurbStompBattle: Todoroki does this again, using the full power of his ice side in his battle against Sero after being triggered by [[AbusiveParents Endeavour]].

* DoubleStandard: During Bakugo and Uraraka's fight, many spectators start booing Bakugo for not going easier on a girl. It immediately gets called out by Aizawa; this is the same audience that was fine with the three other male vs female matches, including a boy who could shoot lasers against a female opponent. The only difference is that Bakugo is an [[{{Jerkass}} unlikable jerk]], therefore the audience just assumes everything he does is to bully his opponent.[[note]]Unlike Tokoyami and Iida (who beat Yaoyorozu and Ibara cleanly) Bakugo ''doesn't'' go for a quick ring-out with minimal damage, which also makes him look more unlikable. Of course, this is only because he's on guard against Uraraka, and not because he was being particularly spiteful.[[/note]]

* FamedInStory: Because of its large national audience, students of U.A. have the chance of making their name known across the whole nation at the U.A. Sports Festival.

* ThePerilsOfBeingTheBest: The final hurdle in the Sports Festival obstacle race is a mine field, which means whoever was in first place is at disadvantage -- they have the maximum chance of encountering one of the mines.

* RealityEnsues: So, you're being a WarriorTherapist to TheAce of your class whose WillfullyWeak because he's spiting his father for his inherited powers, while you yourself haven't mastered the Quirk and are in fact beating yourself up just to have a fighting chance? You're going to lose. This is, however, [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstructed]] after the fight, saying that while Midoriya lost, he's still a true hero for actually giving a damn about Todoroki's fate.

* WarriorTherapist: Deconstructed. One good pep talk while battling will hardly solve years of internalized issues, such as what happened between Midoriya and Todoroki. While the former did help the latter overcome some issues with his AbusiveParents, he still has a long way to go to actually overcome them, is still dealing with trauma, and comparing him to his father is still his BerserkButton.

The class is introduced to students from other classes, including Class 1-B, their sister and rival class and Shinsou, a boy who wants to joining the Hero course, but is stuck on General Studies.

Midoriya takes a large metal plate from one of the defeated robots to use later. At the end of the course, a large expanse of minefields are the final obstacle, Todoroki has a noticable lead, with Bakugou closing in fast. Midoriya gets together a large amount of mines and explodes them with the metal plate, resulting in a large explosion that send him to the front, and after he uses Bakugou and Todoroki as further propulsion, he lands first place, with Todoroki on the second and Bakugou on third.

Several teams fight along each other, and Midoriya is targeted by almost everyone, with Todoroki targeting him in particular. Monoma, a member of 1-B with a grudge against 1-A, meanwhile attacks Bakugou.

In the end, Todoroki snatches the 10 million points, but Midoriya's team still ranks among the top 4 along with Bakugou's and Shinsou's team.

The first fight, between Shinsou and Midoriya, ends with Midoriya winning over the former's mind control powers and having a vision related to One For All, but Shinsou ends up having a more positive outlook in life and respecting him. The fight between Bakugou and Uraraka is drawn out when she turns out to be a formidable opponent to him, but he still manages to win. Midoriya tells him that the whole plan was hers alone.

The final fight, between Todoroki and Bakugou, ends with Bakugou as the victor, but only because Todoroki wouldn't use his fire powers like he did against Midoriya which infuriates him. He is tied down to a pole and forced to receive a victor medal from All Might.

[[caption-width-right:350:''Shouto Todoroki: Origin'']]

Midoriya realizes he needs to learn how to control his powers quick after learning his mother fainted several times watching him compete. Uraraka meets her parents at home as they wanted to congratulate her on her performance. Shouto, motivated by a newly formed friendship with Midoriya, goes to see his mom and start connecting with her again to the surprise of his sister. Iida learns that something terrible happened to his brother during the festival.

* AbusiveParents: We learn that Shouto's father, the hero Endeavor is this. Beyond his unpleasant personality, he views Shouto as an extension of his efforts and disregards the rest of his children. This along with a bad marriage led to Shouto's mother snapping due to her inability to handle the stress and Shouto growing to resemble Endeavor to where she retaliated by throwing boiling water on his face. The incident led to Endeavor sending his wife to an institution and Shouto's hatred for his father and fire powers.

** This leads to another case: One single pep talk isn't going to erase years of trauma. Todoroki is ultimately unable to conjure his flames again during the tournament, and he loses his final match with Bakugo as a result. On the other hand, Izuku's words maintain a profound impact on Shouto and Shouto begins working on overcoming his trauma, which includes visiting his mother. While the talk may not erase the trauma, it did inspire him to move forward to overcome it.

** Reconstructed in the sense that it still provided the push Shouto needed to begin overcoming his trauma. He even notes that he now considers working under Endeavor as despite his hatred of his dad, he acknowledges that Endeavor is the #2 Hero for a reason.

* GreekChorus: Commentary on the matches for the benefit of the audience switches between the official commentators (Present Mic and Eraserhead), the other students, and the visiting heroes.

* DoubleStandard: During Bakugo and Uraraka's fight, many spectators start booing Bakugo for not going easier on a girl. It immediately gets called out by Aizawa; this is the same audience that was fine with the three other male vs female matches, including a boy who could shoot lasers against a female opponent. The only difference is that Bakugo is an [[{{Jerkass}} unlikable jerk]], therefore the audience just assumes everything he does is to bully his opponent.[[note]]Unlike Tokoyami and Iida (who beat Yaoyorozu and Ibara cleanly) Bakugo ''doesn't'' go for a quick ring-out with minimal damage, also makes him look more unlikable. Of course, this is only because he's on guard against Uraraka, and not because he was being particularly spiteful.[[/note]]

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: {{Deconstructed}}. During his fight with Todorokoi, Deku forces himself to break already broken fingers for the sake of simply keeping up competitively to the best of his ability, and comes away from the fight with a permanently disfigured right hand.

** This leads to another case: One single pep talk isn't going to erase years of trauma. Todoroki is ultimately unable to conjure his flames again during the tournament, and he loses his final match with Bakugo as a result. On the other hand, Izuku's words maintain a profound impact on Shouto and Shouto begins working on overcoming his truama, which includes visiting his mother. While the talk may not erase the truama, it did inspire him to move forward to overcome it.

** Reconstructed in the sense that it still provided the push Shouto needed to begin overcoming his truama. He even notes that he now considers working under Endeavor as despite his hatred of his dad, he acknowledges that Endeavor is the #2 Hero for a reason.