Awesome / An ordinary life

• In the first chapter, during the Where Are They Now part, we are told where each member of Class 1-A ended after graduating… and Bakugo/Grenadier is already in the Billboard Chart, ranking at Number 7 with his rise being described as "meteoric". Sero is close behind, being in the Top 15.
• After Izuku goes into a Heroic BSoD when he notices Aizawa, Ochako and All Might showing up, his students take things in their own hands and set an ambush for the Pros. They are successful.
• Izuku proves his cred as a teacher by figuring Eri's Quirk goes further than Rewind. With proper training, she can age people as well. All in all, it takes him all of one month to teach her complete control, something U.A. couldn't achieve in five years.
• Izuku and his students pulling an Assassin Outclassin' during Mirio's wedding. Izuku, Akira and Kishun all notice the sniper aiming at Mirio. The moment they try to shoot, Izuku summons Shelter to block the bullet while Akira and Kishun neutralize the sniper. Then Kishun uses her enhanced smell to literally sniff out the other two clones, who are summarily killed by Eiko and Jiyu.
  • A little bit of Fridge Brilliance: Izuku and Kirishima were the best men of Mirio and Tamaki respectively. Both have one thing in common: a durability Quirk. Izuku got Shelter. Kirishima has Hardening. Originally, a best man was meant to be the groom's bodyguard in case of a Nasty Party… and this is exactly he role Izuku ended fulfilling.
• Mei doesn't take Power Loader's death well, at all. Mei being Mei, she gets her revenge by gearing Izuku's students, even revealing her newest creation: the Nightingale Cloaking System. Kishun uses it to stealthily kill Granny Goodness and Vandal in retaliation for the assassination attempt.
• Kishun successfully killing two Front advisers is one thing. Izuku finally displaying his powers against an out-of-control Dark Shadow is another. At last, we get to see what All Might's Heir can do, four years after being expelled from U.A. Aside from headbutting the abomination to protect Akari, he also uses a move called Yamato Smash, which generates a squall powerful enough to smack the entity in the pavement where Akari can successfully restrain it.
• In order to help a kid whose Compelling Voice was an inherent property, Izuku taught him sign language. Upon joining U.A's Hero course, the kid taught the skill to his classmates… who spent the following month using sign language to cheat at exams right under the teachers' nose! Izuku finds the whole situation equally hillarious and awesome.
• As Phantom Thief, Neito Monoma is the Number Ten Hero. That doesn't stop him from wishing for a new pair of pants after finding himself face to face with an angry Izuku. When his students say "Don't", it means "Don't".
• The Strays' Defiance: eight teens aged from twelve to sixteen against fourteen fully-trained Pros, both Heroes and Sidekicks. Even though Izuku's students have macro-scale Quirks, they are both outnumbered and out-experienced. They still manage to win courtesy of a massive amount of Combat Pragmatism, including Home Field Advantage, Hit-and-Run Tactics and Outside-the-Box Tactic that keep catching the Pros with their pants down.
• Chapter 22 finally describes the Battle of Coruscant Ward. Feeling in a position of power, the Front decided to go after the Heroic Safety Public Commission, whose headquarters were located in Coruscant Ward. They massed themselves and surrounded the Ward... only for underground Pros to harrass them with hit-and-run tactics to buy time for the other Pros to arrive, all the while creating a distraction to evacuate the HSPC staff. It worked better than expected when the Front went after the underground Pros and broke the encirclement. When the rest of the Pros arrived, fighting caught up in earnest and devolved into urban warfare. According to Tenya, the Front outnumbered the League of heroes 10 to 1. The Heroes fought so fiercely they killed five Front soldiers for each of them who died, the battle lasting from dawn to dusk. In the end, it was a Pyrrhic Victory... but it was still a victory.
• Izuku's classmates agree to play hide-and-seek against Kishun, but they all choose to climb a tree so Kishun cannot tag them. Kishun proceeds to bring out her bow. She captures nearly everyone.
  Kishun: Change the game, uh? How about we play Hide-and-Hunt, for once?
  • Izuku sends a message to everyone to warn them about the change. Ojiro gets the message a second before he gets struck.
  • Hayate complains because he had picked that day to climb a tree as opposed to his usual tactic.
  • Jiyu manages to jump at the "haven" stump... only for Kishun to shoot him just before he can touch it.
  • Eiko uses her Quirk to keep her balance while Kishun fires an arrow barrage at her. She is the first to reach "haven" - by landing on the stump back first.
• Yuga and Akari go to Nishimeya to buy groceries when four thugs block them. Akari immediately knows that they must be new in town and gives them one warning. When they mock her and Yuga, she pulls out a light saber and tickles one of the thugs' Adam's apple. The thugs get the message.
• Equally awesome and funny: fed up with being stuck as the Lurkers' No Respect Sidekick, Denki decides to leave and join the Treetop Agency. He does it by waltzing in Edgeshot's office to give him his resignation, then have Ochako and Tsuyu come with the admission papers he signs with one of Edgeshot's pen, high-five the girls and waltz out together as Redbone's ''Come and get your love'' plays in the speakers. Izuku is waiting outside with their Cool Bike so the whole group can ride away together. Pulling a Chargebolt becomes a Hero idiom for Take This Job and Shove It.
• Izuku and Akira find Dabi when they are coming out of the public pool. Akira soon puts the fear of God on the pyrokinetic villain, who begs Izuku to stop the kid.
• Someone slips Trigger to Akira's dad, making him so strong that Ingenium II (Tenya) and Coldfire (Shoto) are unable to stop him, so the cops request Akira's mother to take Trigger and call Izuku in. Akira's mother holds the man off until Izuku arrives... accompanied by Akira, who proves how powerful water control can be by draining all the moisture out of the man's body, instantly killing him.
• The Front would rather face an entire army of superpowered professionals than an angry teacher and his students. Granted, Izuku and the Strays are People of Mass Destruction...
  • The mere thought of angering Izuku is enough to make the Front drop whatever they are doing and bail out. When Shoto intervenes during their attack in Kamino, Shigaraki decides to cut his losses and leave rather than getting him caught in the crossfire, something that will definitely displease Izuku.
    • Not only that, when Re-Destro asks him how he would deal with the Front, Shigaraki outlines exactly how a fight between the Front and the Foyer would happen. The Strays would deal with the army. Izuku would deal with the top brass.
• Izuku offhandedly mentionned in a previous chapter that he had only used One for All's full strength exactly once. In Chapter 27, Skipper tells Shoto what happened: a Villain known as Kagutsuchi the Flame Titan, a giant Wreathed in Flames, had left a trail of destruction across Tohoku and was passing by Nishimeya. Desperate to stop him, the authorities asked Izuku for help... and Izuku answered. Hayate generated a storm that weakened Kagutsuchi's flames, Akira controlled the rain to harm the giant and douse the forest fires, Akari used the sunlight from the eye of the storm to counter the fire blasts and Izuku engaged the Flame Titan head on. According to a Pro who was watching through a drone, the shockwaves were powerful to shred Akira's watery mount and leave massive bruises all over Kagutsuchi's body. Eventually, Izuku killed the Titan by delivering an uppercut that snapped its neck... and was so powerful the rain fell upward.
• When the story began, Bakugo was Seventh in the rankings. Twenty-eight chapters later, he is Number Five, having dethroned his former mentor Best Jeanist. There are bets on whether Hawks or Edgeshot are next.
  • First Billboard Chart since Shoto became an independant Hero. He is already in Tenth place.
• Skipper telling the Hero Public Safety Commission off for the monumental screw up that was their getting Deku kicked out of school and revealing that Aomori is pretty much going rogue on them.
• Nezu attempts to make the HSPC President see reason by showing her the Strays' Defiance, but she doesn't listen and declares all of Aomori's Heroes vigilantes unless they surrender Izuku to the Commission. The unanimous answer from all of Aomori's Heroes?
  Make us.
• Endeavor goes to Nishimeya to attempt to arrest Izuku. Izuku politely tells him that he's not going to let himself get taken away. Endeavor threatens to burn the Foyer and everyone that supports Izuku if he doesn't surrender.
  (Izuku gives Endeavor a Groin Attack and punches his scarred left eye, throwing Endeavor down.)
  Izuku Midoriya: Big. Mistake. Ever since I became a teacher, my sole motivation has been to provide for my family and to protect my students. This is why I fought despite the label of vigilante, because I don’t give a damn, so long as they are safe. Make no mistake: I am perfectly fine being just a teacher. But threaten me and mine and all bets are off. Now, what did you just do? (a spark runs through Izuku) You threatened my students. You threatened my family. You threatened my home. I don’t care you are a Pro. You are going down.
  (cue Curb-Stomp Battle - without using One for All's Super-Strength)
  Izuku Midoriya: What the hell do you think you’re doing, Endeavor!? You come to my town, threaten my home and my people, threaten to reduce to ashes the men, women and children I swore to defend, and you think I will take it without batting an eye? That I won’t fight to protect them? When you threaten what people hold dear, they fight back. Everyone is like that. Heroes, Villains, civilians. They fight, no matter how desperate, because these things, they value more than their life. This town and the people inside, they are what I treasure, and you just threatened to destroy it all! Did you think I wouldn’t react!? Are you so bereft of parental instinct that you cannot comprehend a father protecting his children? You. Made. A. Mistake. Endeavor! Now, pay the price!”
  (Endeavor gets on the wrong side of a Metronomic Man Mashing)
  • And, after this, Izuku calls out the Heroes because, for all that he's a Villain, Shigaraki was right in that Heroes often ignore the actual plight of those who cannot defend themselves, even revealing on live television how he was Quirkless and was mistreated by society (even throwing one huge dig at Bakugo, who bullied and even suicide-baited Izuku and yet has become a Pro-Hero) and the entire secret behind One for All, before sending Endeavor off.
    Izuku Midoriya: So, to answer your question: yes, I believe I can stand up to you and yes, I believe we can make our own laws. Because the laws you are abiding to hurt people, which is the opposite of what a law should do.
• The aftermath of Izuku's declaration:
  • Nezu and the other headmasters are so incensed by the Commission's idiocy that the League of Heroes decides to finally dissolve the Commission. And they do so by walking in the HPSC's headquarters and arresting their leadership. Live on TV.
  • A solid half of 1-A joins Izuku's side in Aomori. The others stay with the League, but it's only so they could deal with the Front and most of them are still supportive of Izuku.
  • Mei nonchalantly hacks into Hawks' bank account to unfreeze his funds and puts them in a safe place. In seconds. About that, Tokoyami convincing Hawks to switch sides in the first place and asking Mei to do the hacking.
    • In the next chapter, it turns out that Mei hacked the accounts of all the heroes siding with the Commission at the same time. Several of them took the chance to bail and leave the Commission hanging to dry.
• The fight against the monster in Tsugaru Strait. If anyone needed a reminder why you shouldn't mess with Izuku or Aomori, you got it.
  • The monster is a thirty-plus Kaiju that spits pressurized water balls and is big enough to swallow an average Hero whole. Its roar is so hellish the Heroes have goosebumps and nearly drop their Quirks. Akira's reaction?
  “Alright, it’s big, ugly and angry. We’re still gonna kill it. Right, Dad?”
  • The Heroes unleash everything they have against it. While it doesn't kill the monster, it does damage it, and Akira manages to throw back its water balls to its face at least twice.
  • Izuku decides to engage the monster up close, with only Akira to watch his back. Izuku is 1.85m. The monster is bigger than Kagutsuchi. He still manages to manhandle it, to the awe of everyone watching.
  • Akira, through his water-sensing, figures out the monster's anatomy and decides to attempt lifting it out of the water to asphyxiate it. With Jiyu's help, the pair succeeds. Izuku himself, who notes he taught the kids and has a solid idea of what they can do, is taken aback and amazed by the display of strength.
  • Still, even with Akira's help, Jiyu is well over his weight limit. Knowing that, Izuku decides to take over the two kids, binds the monster with Blackwhip and uses One for All's strength boost to carry it to shore. The sheer display of strength leaves the U.A. staff awed and the Front leadership absolutely terrified, with Shigaraki fearfully reminding them to leave Aomori alone. All Might is especially proud of Izuku and calls the deed impressive.
• Izuku and Bakugo agree to have a spar for old times' sake. Izuku doesn't even need One for All's Super-Strength to wipe the floor with Bakugo, even warning him that just using 1% of One for All could kill Bakugo.