Fanfic / All For Luz

"A power of the Chosen One… yeah, if they’re a villain…"

"With Great Power, comes great responsibility" so goes the quote. And for what it's worth, that quote couldn't be more true. But, for Luz Noceda, after waking up one morning, i.e. the day before she was supposed to go to Reality Check Summer Camp, with two holes in the palms of her hands, the quote "What's yours is mine, and what's mine is also mine" would fit her like a glove.

— Story's summary

All For Luz is a story by Deathly Jazz Hands 55 in a universe where people are just beginning to develop superpowers, and Luz Noceda's is seemingly useless, giving her holes in her hands. Unknown to her, in another universe her power was known as All For One, and it comes with a surprising mental guest as well...

This fanfic can be read here on FanFiction.Net, here on Wattpad, Quotev here and here on Archive of Our Own. It is currently on hiatus and undergoing a rewrite.

There is as another fanfiction, All For Luz Reaction, about The Owl House cast and All For One, watching this story.

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General Trope Examples:

• Ability Mixing
• Asshole Victim
• Cruel And Unusual Death
• Deconstruction Fic
• Foil
• Hate Sink
• Irony
• Logical Weakness
• Shout Out
• Villain Has A Point

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All For Luz provides examples of:

A-E

• Above Good and Evil:
  • When Counsellor Johnson laments that the Death Camp Evil Plan isn't right, Governor Maxwell simply just shrugs and tells him what's right and what's wrong doesn't matter in the end, when learning how to serve your nation.
  • All For One doesn't believe he or Luz should be bound by society's laws and morality due to their power.
• Absolute Xenophobe:
  • The Big Bad for the first season of All For Luz, Governor Rodger Maxwell, is this, seeing as he set up an entire death game one day after people started showing up with superpowers. Not only that, but he did so with the expressed intention of wiping all of the super-powered kids off of the map, or at least, from his State of Connecticut.
  • The next Big Bad, Tyler Wittebane, is even worst. Not only does he have Fantastic Racism views towards superhumans, witches and demons, but also the lgbt community and non-whites. Not even his own daughter is exempt. He gets this from Emperor Belos, his ancestor.
• Abusive Parents:
  • Julia Wittebane's Parents, being the Christian extremists that they were, were not very accepting of their daughter being a lesbian, as well as someone who liked to do things outside of their religion, so they ostracized her, locking her to one specific part of the house that she was not allowed to leave. When her superpowers came in, they kicked her out of the house and sent her away to Reality Check Summer Camp just to get rid of her. They didn't even bother to go to her funeral. If that wasn't bad enough, they helped the Governor with his plans for the Death Camp, effectively sending her off to her death.
  • Riley's father was physically abusive to her and her little brother up until she gained her Quirk in the Mass Super-Empowering Event and accidentally blew him to pieces.
• Accidental Murder:
  • Luz Noceda's first confirmed kill is Cody Johnson, which was unintentional, who died from brain damage after Luz took his Quirk.
  • In chapter 22, Luz also accidently kills a teenaged boy while stealing his "Flamethrower" Quirk. Also many civilians get killed in the crossfire of her fights against the Wittebane assassins in the Battle of Gravesfield.
  • In the Underdark Tournament, Amity accidently kills her opponent in the first round with her Super-Strength, much to her horror.
• Action Girl: As the main protagonist of the story and wielder of All For One, its no surprise Luz winded up being this by default.
• Activist-Fundamentalist Antics: The Wittebane family is NOT making Luz's or anyone else's lives better.
• Adaptational Badass:
• In this story,Luz Noceda is the new bearer of All For One in this universe, giving her a level of inherent power that she never had canonically being a more direct threat in combat, thanks to all the Quirks she steals.
  • Unlike his canon counterpart, this version of All Might was able to put down All For One in their fight where he was just severely injured in the manga.
  • Thanks to All For One, Hunter has been gifted with 4 powerful Quirks: Lightbringer, Super Regeneration, Selective-Gigantism, and Overclock. This makes him much more powerful than he ever was in the show and a Person of Mass Destruction, too.
  • Eda has been working on controlling the Owl Beast rather than supressing it, since 24 years before the story began. So far it has gained her a Healing Factor and can temporarily control the One-Winged Angel form for a limited time without losing her mind.
  • In the show, King isn't much of a fighter due to his small size and young age. Here in this story, due to being in his mid-20s, he much bigger and more powerful, having access to to Titan Magic that he had yet to develop throughout the show. He's also strong enough that he's regularly tasked with physically restraining Eda when she loses control of her Owl Beast curse.
  • In the show, Gus's dad, Perry Porter, is just a news reporter. Here he's a Rebel Leader against Belos that managed to build and design an entire Underground City right underneath Bonesborough, which its roughly the same size, without The Emperor or his coven noticing for 14 years.
• Adaptational Nice Guy:
  • Surprisingly, Odalia seems a much more better parent than her canon counterpart, caring for Amity’s mental and emotional health.
  • Downplayed for All For One. He claims he locked up his brother not out of cruelty, but to in a misguided attempt to protect him from the outside elements, due to his poor immune system. All For One was genuinely distraught when La Résistance busted him because Yoichi died not long afterwards, due to exposure to the elements and lack of blood clotting. He flat out admits to himself that he didn’t care about the power that claiming One For All would give him, only that it was his brother's Quirk. He also made a genuine effort to comfort Luz when she had an emotional breakdown after the Battle of Gravesfield.
• Addictive Magic: All For One claims that his Quirk gives the bearer an inherent addiction to stealing Quirks, but it's implied that he is outright lying to encourage her to start gaining Quirks, attributing to the Quirk something inherent to him, or both. In chapter 16, its confirmed to be a lie.
• Adults Are Useless: In chapter 12, Luz seems to have gained this opinion that anyone who was over the age of 18 is untrustworthy to her. Luckily, its she's soon proven wrong as the three soldiers she comes into contact with have come to save her and her friends.
• Agony of the Feet: At the climax of chapter 12, Luz proceeds to stab Kennedy in the ankles with "Spear Fingers" to prevent him from escaping her wrath.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg:
  • Emilia does this to Luz during her Roaring Rampage of Revenge claiming she didn't personally kill anyone and was never on board with the slaughter of Luz's team in the first place. Fortunately for the former leader, Luz believes her and lets her escape with her life.
  • Kennedy, the ringleader of the massacre, does this when he's at Luz's mercy in chapter 12. Unlike Emilia, he gets no second chance.
• All According to Plan: Shigaraki on his influence on Luz to get him back to his world.
• All for Nothing:
  • The Heaven's Devils and Foxtrot are wiped by a rampaging Luz (sans Emilia), the one they were promised $15 billion if they killed. Even if Kennedy and his alliance did manage to defeat her, the governor was never gonna pay up, he'd just have them killed too. In fact, he wanted this outcome to happen.
  • Subverted for Luz. Just as she hits her Heroic RRoD and is mortally wounded in front of what appears to be the governor's armed men, its revealed they're the army sent to save her, her friends and have just arrested the Arc Villain.
  Good… then all of what she did wasn’t for nothing…
• All of the Other Reindeer:
  • Julia Wittebane's whole community in Gravesfield abandoned her to live on the streets all because she awakened a superpower.
  • Luz was this before the events of the story but even more so after the Death Camp thanks to Fantastic Racism and the manipulations of a Dirty Cop.
• All Your Powers Combined: Luz's Quirk combines this with Power Parasite and Super-Empowering. She's able to steal others' Quirks for herself, allowing her to combine several Quirks together.
• Ambiguously Brown: Stanley, Theodore and Ronny all have tan skins but there's no indication what their ethnicity are.
• Ambition Is Evil:
  • Upon discovering The Multiverse is a thing, All For One has expanded his Taking Over The World Evil Plan for his realm to becoming essentially a Multiversal Conqueror, adding The Boiling Isles and Luz's home world to his conquest. After taking over the girl's body, first.
  • Just like in the show, Belos spent centuries engineering the full-blown genocide of witchkind and plans on using that feat to earn praise and approval from humanity and be rewarded by being labeled a famous hero in history. He's also working with his descendant Tyler to kill all Quirk users, too
• Ancestor Veneration: Tyler Wittebane holds his witch hunter ancestors in the highest regard and wants to try and bring back their lifestyle only substituting witches for Quirk users instead in their honor. This makes it all the more ironic that he hates having to work with Emperor Belos due to believing him to be a witch and wants to kill him personally just for that, not knowing he’s not only their ancient ancestor that started, alongside his older brother, the Wittebanes' whole witch hunting profession but arguably hates witches and demons even more than his descendant.
• And I Must Scream: All but name dropped for the mouth-less vestiges in pain residing in Luz's mind-scape. Quirks were fragments of people, meaning they are soul pieces unable to move on until Luz wills it.
• And Show It to You: Luz has occasionally killed her enemies like this.
  • In chapter 12, Luz kills Daniel by ripping out his still beating heart after he his attempt to kill her for the prize money fails thanks to her Super-Toughness and crushes it with her bare hands with her newly acquired Super-Strength, then stealing his Quirk.
  • In chapter 21, she also kills Charlie by tearing out her heart from behind and crushes it with her bare hands as the Wittebane assassin is Forced to Watch in horror, then stealing her Quirk not long after the assassin expires.
  • During the climax of the Ten-Year War for the Boiling Isles, Eda was on the receiving end of this, courtesy of All For One. Luckily, he didn't crush it, which allowed her her curse's Healing Factor to save her from certain death.
• And That's Terrible: Luz mentally notes anybody who lets anyone sleep with shoes on after kidnapping them is a sick freak.
• Animorphism: Carla Tsunata's Quirk is Black Cat that.. allows her to turn into a black cat. Unfortunately, she does not survive the Death Camp, being killed by the opposing team.
• Antagonistic Governor: Governor Rodger Maxwell is blatantly played out to be a massive douchebag and a morally bankrupt character, seeing as he put 33 children of varying ages into a literal death game for his sick kicks and hatred toward those with powers.
• The Antichrist: Tyler Wittebane believes Luz to be this with her Quirk to take, use and give powers.
• Anti-Hero: Luz develops a more ruthless personality after her experience at the Death Camp, becoming willing to do whatever is necessary to protect the ones she cares about and avenge them.
• Anyone Can Die: Not just Original Characters can die in this fic, as shown when Camila gets murdered in chapter 19.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: Luz is willing to accept The Multiverse as a thing but initially doesn't believe in parallel worlds in her own dimension until Shigaraki dryly points out this flawed logic.
• Arc Villain: Governor Rodger Maxwell is the first of many villains that will show up throughout the course of All For Luz, as he is NOT the main villain of the fanfic, but rather the villain of the arc he is contained in.
• Are We There Yet?: Ronny whines this to his team as they search for supplies in the scorching heat. Judy threatens to hurt him with her Quirk if he doesn't stop complaining, but luckily Luz breaks up the fight before it begin to get physical.
• Armor-Piercing Question: After explaining what her Quirk does, Luz vehemently makes it clear to All For One she would never take another person's powers, Addictive Magic or not, until the supervillain stops her in her tracks with one question.
  All For One: What if you end up attacking Julia?
• Aristocrats Are Evil: Julia's father, Tyler Wittebane, looks down on and laughs at the poor calling them beneath him and his family.
• Ass Kicking Pose: Luz and her scouts do this at the climax of chapter 9 by summoning their Quirks before taking on Cody.
• At Least I Admit It: Despite initially hating his Brutal Honesty, Luz does gain a level of respect in All For One because of this attitude of his supervillain status compared to the Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist foes she fights. Though its more because he's a Card-Carrying Villain than a case of Even Evil Has Standards.
• The Atoner: Camila vows to improve her parenting of Luz, with her realizing just how much of a mistake it was to try and encourage Luz to suppress her nerdy tendencies, which got her involved in the Death Camp.
• Attack Its Weak Point: Kennedy's Quirk, Pain Assurance, is this. This doesn't save him from Luz's revenge.
• Attack on the Heart: Luz kills Thomas with her Vibration Manipulation power to make his heart explode.
• Aura Vision: Luz's power includes the ability to see black strings above the heads of other superhumans that are invisible to others. Touching them causes small sparks.
• Authority in Name Only: Emilia admits to Luz she became this after a coup happened in her own team as they wanted to go along with Kennedy's plan to wipe out The Alpha Squadron.
• Awesome, but Impractical: By the end of Chapter 12, Luz had 28 different Quirks she could use for Mass Quirk combinations similar to Shigaraki's 'ultimate combination of Quirks'. However, this far more than her body could handle and ends up suffering a bloody Heroic RRoD.
• Backstab Backfire: When Riley makes the mistake of trying to murder her cousin Luz with her Bomb Quirk she was paid to do by Tyler Wittebane, Luz survives with her Healing Factor, and the would-be assassin barely escapes her Unstoppable Rage with her life.
• Bad Powers, Good People: Being a Power Parasite isn't usually a power that you would associate with a Nice Girl like Luz, is it? Luz especially hates the idea of having such a power, partly because she's always wanted to be special, and All for One revolves taking what makes other people special.
  Luz: All For One. A power of The Chosen One… yeah, if they’re a villain…
• Badass in a Nice Suit:
  • All For One, his world's oldest and the most powerful supervillain, is never seen without an impeccable black business suit in Luz's mindscape. She notes how it's almost like a metaphor, how his appearance and reputation projects the image as if he were seemingly spotless.
  • Luz wears one as part of her vigilante costume.
• Bait the Dog: Shigaraki's one semi-redeeming quality seems to be his relationship with Luz, his Quirk's successor. When his soul is put in her head, he acts as an Evil Mentor of sorts giving his centuries worth of advice on how to use her Quirk, telling her she's The Chosen One, reassuring her that she shouldn't feel guilty about killing her enemies when they tried to kill her first and letting her know she doesn't have to turn out like him. In reality, she sees her as his ride back to his world and hopes Luz continues her Trauma Conga Line until she believes he's the only she count on so he can pull a Villain Override on her.
• Barrier Warrior: Forcefield Projection allows Luz to create a near-invincible forcefield in front of her that can withstand almost any kind of attack. However, it can only protect in front of the user but create up 2 of them. Multiple powerful blows will slowly chip away at its absorption, like most absorbing Quirks. Alternatively, Luz can shoot these forcefields at a target, and the more power they have absorbed, the more devastating the blows from the forcefields become in the form of explosions.
• Battle Amongst the Flames: With Cody's Flame powers, his fight with Luz's team turns into this due to setting the surrounding area on fire in chapter 10.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: Luz notes that Julia Wittebane is very pretty and she just so happens to be a kind-hearted girl.
• Berserker Tears: After discovering bodies of her summer camp friends, Luz's tears of sorrow soon turns to tears of rage under All For One's sway.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Pastor Domenico is nice man of god, however, the Wittebanes deliberately sending their daughter to their death makes angry enough to ask Luz avenge Julia for him, something the girl is willing to oblige.
• Big Bad Ensemble: As of chapter 16, the main Big Bads are Tyler Wittebane, Emperor Belos and Rikitatsu Shigaraki. The first 2 are working together, and the last 2 fought each other in the past. They're all Hate Sink characters to varying degrees.
• Big Brother Instinct: Stanley has shades of this for Luz, as she reminds him of his little sister. He refuses to give her up to his former friend Kennedy.
• Big Damn Heroes: Luz recuses a girl after being kidnapped by 2 armed robbers in chapter 14.
• The Big Guy: Stanley is described as having massive muscles large enough to make some professional bodybuilders cry. Its mentioned he can punch hard despite not having Super-Strength.
• Bigot with a Badge: Luz and Camila had to deal with one over suspected speeding that ended with Luz punching him into a telephone pole.
• Bitch Slap: Stanley sends Kennedy flying into a tree with one of these after the latter tries to attack him. Its enough to draw blood.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: Theodore Jackson with his Arm Blades Quirk which allows him to manifest a giant black steel blade out of his forearms. He doesn't survive the camp.Jean Pierce's Quirk is Sword which is similar, except over other parts of his body too. He's one of the 6 survivors.
• Blood from the Mouth: All For One coughs blood before he dies to All Might.
• Blood Magic: Titan's Blood. All For One has used it as a key ingredient for his experiments, including Gigantomachia. He needs it as a means to get back home.
• Body Backup Drive: Although more of a Body Replacement Drive in this case, is All For One's ultimate purpose for Luz, if he can't get to Tomura.
• Book Burning: Being an religious extremist, Julia's father burned her books because they were about magic.
• Boom, Headshot!: This is how Camila is assassinated.
• Boring, but Practical: Luz's main method of killing her enemies involves first using her Power Parasite Quirk to neutralise them before giving them a Head Crushing not long after with her Super-Strength Quirk. Its a brutal but effective end by her literal hands.
• Break the Cutie: Let's see... Luz is forced to go through with reality check camp. Only instead of that, she's forced into a war game by a xenophobic governor. Begged to hurt her new friend who wants her power taken away. Sees said new friends killed before her very eyes. She has the voice of a complete psychopath in her mind wanting her to let loose. And becomes a killer herself. To say Luz gets put through the wringer here is the understatement of the decade.
• Break Them by Talking: Shigaraki gets under Luz's skin with his theory why she thinks her power is wrong preying on her fears with a brutal Villain Has a Point Hannibal Lecture with a barrage Armor Piercing Questions that leaves the poor girl wondering if her own mother doesn't love her for who she is.
  Shigaraki: Now I know why you don’t like the idea of taking away people’s powers. You find it to be abhorrent because you see it as taking away someone’s individuality, and not only that, but you see it as a form of projecting your pain onto others when you don’t want anyone else to experience that level of loneliness.
  Luz: B-But that’s—!
  Shigaraki: And not only do you not want others to feel that way, if I were to take an educated guess, if you could you’d also go back to being the normal, plain, no power-having Luz so that you don’t have to live with the burden of knowing that with just a simple shake of the hand you can take that person’s power. Am I correct?
  Luz: Y-You…! You don’t know that!
  Shigaraki: (Psychotic Smirk) Oh…? Am I not correct? Does this perhaps mean that, secretly, deep down in your heart of hearts, you like the idea of stripping away power from others?
  Luz: (Stunned Silence)
  Shigaraki: Don’t lie to yourself, Luz. You enjoy that idea, don’t you? Even if you’d never willingly admit it, the idea of taking away power from those who you believe don’t deserve it is something that you’ve always liked. After all, everyone who you ever met who had a modicum of power over you, even your own mother, has discredited your creativity to some degree, calling it a waste of time, or worse, something that you should strip from your very being! ... Look around you, Luz! This very situation you’re in is because of those who had power over you saw your creativity, and saw it as a blight on your very soul! So, instead of helping you direct that creativity into something positive, what do they suggest to your mother?! They suggest taking you to a conversion camp meant to make you fit in line with those around you. And the worst part? Your mother agreed with them.
  Luz: (Visibly struggling to avoid shedding any tears)
  Shigaraki: Your mother, someone who was meant to care and love you, agreed with those who said that you were “too weird” or you were “too obnoxious” for polite society. How devastating is that? To know that your mother doesn’t love you for the way you are, and would rather have you change into someone else so that HER life is easier!
  Luz: B-But that’s-
  Shigaraki: “But that’s not true!” you say?! Oh, really! Is that the case? Then why did she send you here? Hm? What, let me guess, she said that “this is an opportunity to make new friends,” right? But what was the real reason? Do you even know what the real reason was? You don’t know, now do you? [...] Well, allow me to make an educated guess, speaking from experience. Your mother caved into peer pressure, and sent you away, instead of standing up for you and making it known that she’d stick by you to the bitter end, falsely believing that what she was doing was the right thing, right? That sounds to be in line with how your mother operates, am I wrong?
  Luz: (Suppressed Rage)
  Shigaraki: My point is, Luz, is that those around you who have had power over you used it to make you feel small, weak, and little. And in the back of your mind, you’ve always wanted to strip that power from them. Now that you have the means to, are you really going to try and tell me that you would never do such a thing? That now that you have the means to point back at the world, and tell them for once that they’re wrong, that you won’t?
  Luz: ...No.
• Breather Episode: Compared to previous and next chapter, nothing too big or dark happens in chapter 6.
• Broken Bird: Having gained PTSD from the Death Camp and going through even more suffering when she came back home from her community has made Luz a very cynical and violent girl.
• Brought Down to Normal: Having a Power Parasite Quirk, Luz can do this to any Quirk user.
• Brutal Honesty: When Luz goes over What Ifs on how she could've prevented her camper friends murders to herself, All For One bluntly tells her nothing she could have done would have saved them, causing the poor girl great pain and to hit her Rage Breaking Point.
• Buses Are for Freaks: Downplayed. The Reality Check Camp bus itself isn't bad, with the strange part are the passengers being teenagers with superpowers who are at least behaving well.
• Bullying a Dragon: All For One considers those that try to pick a fight with Luz to be Too Dumb to Live. So far he hasn't been proven wrong.
• Bury Your Gays: Julia, a confirmed lesbian, is brutally killed off half way through the first Arc.
• Butterfly of Doom: All For One briefly mentions to Luz that the Butterfly Effect is a thing.
• Cain and Abel: The Shigaraki brothers were this like in the manga.
• Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Luz is thrown to learn that the term for someone with superpowers in All For One's world is "Quirk user", rather than the more generic term "superhuman" in her world. The supervillain is amused by the culture shock.
• Calling the Old Man Out: After coming out of her coma, Luz intended to give this to Camila for forcing her to go to summer camp and ended up being dragged into a Death Game. However, she decided against this later after remembering her mother didn't know that would happen and spent the week after she came out of hospital tearfully apologising to her.
• The Cavalry: The three soldiers that Luz encounters at the end of the chapter are part of the military that came here to rescue her and her surviving friends, as well as have Governor Rodger Maxwell in their custody to answer for his crimes. [[The Cavalry Arrives Late: Had only the army arrived 2 days earlier, perhaps all 33 lives of the Death Camp could've been spared a grisly fate.]]
• Campfire Character Exploration: Luz and her team introduce and start to get to know each other around the camp fire outside their base.
• Cassandra Truth: When Luz tries to tell her mother she's got holes in her hands, Camila initially believes she just drew them on and tells her to clean them off. Its only after being clean with a cloth and could feel the holes does realise her daughter is telling the truth.
• Casting a Shadow: Judy Valentina's Quirk is Darkness, it allows her to create a black, fiery substance from her hands. She can hide in it, as well as shoot it out of her hands like projectiles. She's one of the 6 survivors of the Death Camp.
• The Cavalry: The military comes to rescue Luz and the surviving kids at the Death Camp, as well as arrest The Governor at the end of chapter 12.
• The Chessmaster: All For One is very much this.
  Narrator: Rikitatsu Shigaraki was a man of planning. He never did anything without a plan, a backup plan should that original plan fail, and another backup plan if that backup plan fell through. Some people would call him meticulous to a fault, and perhaps that was his downfall prior to his death, but he had plans in place should he ever die before his plan with Tomura would see through.
• Child Prodigy: Shigaraki sincerely considers Luz to be this with her Quirk as the vestiges could not degrade her mind as tried to do with him, due to not seeing them as human.
• The Chosen One: Shigaraki calls Luz this for being his Quirk's successor. This excites Luz until he explains what her power is.
  Luz: A power of The Chosen One… yeah, if they’re a villain….
• Church Militant: Tyler Wittebane runs a secret anti-superhuman militia with strong Christian/fundamentalist undertones, that consists of his church followers and teenagers with Quirks as Child Solider assassins.
• Clothing Damage: This happens quite often in intense fights.
• Complexity Addiction: Tyler Wittebane claims to have had this ever since he was a kid. All For One is also this when it comes to his mind games.
• Composite Character: Julia can be seen as the human version of Willow and Amity from the show. For Willow, she shares her spot of being Luz’s first real friend who is the same age as her, as well as having plant based powers and has a nice and kind personality. With Amity, she shares her background of being from a rich family whose parents are corrupt and abusive who wanted to control her entire life just like Odalia did.
• Consummate Liar: All For One mixes just enough truth in his lies to make him sound believable to Luz.
• Content Warnings: The author gives one before chapter 12 starts.
  Deathly Jazz Hands 55: A-hem, anywho, before I get too sappy, I want to give everyone a heads-up, plus maybe a content warning…? I mean, if you don’t like excessive violence then this chapter isn’t gonna be for you. ‘Cause, let me tell you… if you’ve ever heard of the term: “Black Air Force Activity”, then you may or may not know what is gonna happen in this chapter.
• Cop Killer: Luz becomes this in chapter 18, wiping out over a dozen of them when Blinded by Rage.
• Corrupt Church: The Wittebane family run a far-right Mega Church in Gravesfield that are anti-lgbt while declaring that the children with superpowers were “demons that had replaced our children”. They secretly helped the Governor orchestrate the Death Camp and also hired said powered kids as Child Solider assassins to eliminate their enemies in exchange for money and a roof over their head.
• Corrupt the Cutie: Shigaraki is trying to do this to Luz, something she has figured out already.
• The Corrupter: All for One is this to Luz, with some success. This includes getting her to get more powers, Gaining the Will to Kill, and having some resentment towards her mother.
• Critical Hesitation Blunder: Thomas's moment of indecision whether to be the one to kill Luz or not costs him his life as she strikes first.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Those kids that killed Luz's team mates didn't stand a chance against her. Hell, Luz did more damage to herself than any of her foes did to her.
  To call what happened next a “battle” would be like calling the initial beginnings of D-Day to be a siege.
• Cure Your Gays: Julia's father tried to do this by making her read bible verses over and over again about how sex with the same-sex was wrong. It didn’t change the fact that she liked girls.
• Curiosity Is a Crapshoot: Luz blames her ADHD for being hyper-fixated on something as dangerous as trying to get information from All For One about their Quirk. Fortunately, it appears he means the girl no harm and wants make Luz his successor.
• Cynicism Catalyst: As she is about to kill Kennedy, the last victim of her carnage, Luz tells the boy that because him she's lost her faith in other people and would've preferred it if they all worked together to take down the Arc Villain instead.
  Luz: And here I thought diplomacy would’ve worked… My faith in humanity plummeted when I got here, but maybe, just maybe you and the other team would’ve been more humane than the bastard running this cruel joke. Guess I was wrong.
• Dark Action Girl: Luz has become a Anti-Hero version of this during the Deadly Game at summer camp. Sophia and Darlene play this straight.
• Dark and Troubled Past:
  • Luz has been bullied and excluded for being weird, Latina and having ADHD her entire life. She also lost her beloved father at a young age in a car crash when on the way to daycare and believes that her antics are a burden to others.
  • Raised in an abusive household, Riley wanted nothing more than to escape her parents but she never thought she'd be able to due to being financially dependent on them until Riley gained a Quirk from the Mass Super-Empowering Event, the power to turn anything she touched with her bare hands into bombs. This includes people, as she found out first-hand while having a fight with her abusive father and turning him into bloody chunks, losing her right eye in the explosion. The next day, she was then kicked out of her house by her mother for that, not believing he abused her. After a while of couch surfing, Riley was taken in by the Wittebane Mega Church, but they didn't save her from homelessness out of a Pet the Dog moment, instead there's the catch of turning her into their personal assassin. She didn't see any other option than homelessness or ending up dead in a ditch by the Church Militant.
  • Amity is bullied by her older siblings and neglected by her father, due to having a Quirk from an experiment by All For One. This is also the reason she has few friends in her life.
  • Eda was cursed as a child and unintentionally led All For One to the Boiling Isles where he and Belos fought a war for control of the land many of her people dying to the process.
  • Even All For One has one. The flashback in chapter 27 shows us how bleak his childhood was with his younger brother in the Mutant Realm. They were 12-year old street urchins that wore nothing but rags and where forced to shelter in rundown houses with no adults to look after them. They often went without food for a week with Yoichi getting excited at getting fed an un-moldy but stale loaf of bread instead of half-eaten or rotten meals.
• Dark Is Evil: All For One wears dark clothes, exists in the dark void of Luz's Mental World, and was the most powerful villain in his world.
• Darker and Edgier: This is a seriously grim story.
• Deadly Game: Maxwell has the 33 kidnapped teenagers, including Luz, all compete in a Death Game where they are split into 3 teams and are force to kill each other, with the last team left standing. Luz refers to it as "murder with extra steps".
• Death by Adaptation: Camila is murdered in Chapter 19 by a Wittebane assassin.
  • Jacob gets killed in the crossfire in Luz's fight with the Wittebanes' assassins.
• Deer in the Headlights: Kennedy mentally berates his colleagues for doing this when fighting Luz.
• Defiant to the End: All For One laughs at All Might telling him he'll be back to destroy everything he loves, before the Symbol of Peace kills him.
  Rikitasu: Did... I... really? Ehehe... no... I did not lose... I will live on... In a different place... In a different time... I have supporters in places you could never reach... You... have not won this day... You will never win...
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: Invoked by Shigaraki to Luz. He points out while his actions to her might seem detestable he emphasises know that they grew up in different situations.
• Detectives Follow Footprints: While not a detective, Cody Johnson claims he found the Alpha Squadron by following their footsteps.
• Determinator: All For One is STILL completely obsessed with claiming One For All for himself (as it houses the spirit of his younger brother whom he had always wanted by his side in his schemes) even after dying to it at All Might's back in his world. Not even experiencing death can dissuade him.
• Diabolical Mastermind: All for One was this in his world at the height of his power before being put down by All Might years before the start of the series. He ruled the criminal underworld with an iron fist and snuffed out any potential threat to his rule. In the present day, he's refocused his efforts to stealing One For Fall in the Boiling Isles, turning his successor Luz Noceda to be his new vessel, getting back to his home world and re-establishing his criminal empire in both his world and the Boiling Isles. In that order.
• Die Laughing: All For One does this before being killed by All Might.
• Didn't Think This Through: When Stanley refuses to betray Luz for him, Kennedy punches him... forgetting his former friend has Super-Toughness and No Sells. Stanley lampshades that out he should've known that wouldn't have worked.
• Dirty Coward: When the Heaven's Devils and Foxtrot realize Luz, their target, is more powerful than expected, most try to pull a Screw This, I'm Outta Here. They don't get far.
• Disappointed by the Motive. After everyone attending Reality Check Summer Camp is forced into a Deadly Game, Kennedy forms an alliance calling themselves "Heaven's Devils" and winds up slaughtering Luz's new friends. But this wasn't simply some scared teenagers trying to survive; the monster behind the Deadly Game was offering a bounty on Luz's head, and Kennedy wanted all that money for himself, much to Luz's disgust and outrage, so she decides to kill them all in revenge.
  Money…? This was all for money…? Her friend… allies… dead for extra cash…?
• Dissonant Serenity: Luz is only mildly grossed out after ripping out Daniels's heart and crushing it, before taunting his comrades like a Giggling Villain.
• Ditzy Genius: Most people she knew didn’t want to acknowledge the fact that Luz was smart. Sure, she's aware she's had her dumb moments, but most of the time, she's wicked sharp when it came to problem solving. She just happened to focus too much of it on her creativity. But with no creative outlet in the Death Camp to hone that one, all she had to focus that intellect on was the situation at hand.
• Do Wrong, Right: Tyler Wittebane believes The Governor had the right idea, but the wrong approach, believing Luz can't be controlled.
• The Dog Bites Back: Discussed. Luz admits to All For One that deep down she likes the idea of taking power away from those she believes don’t deserve it, especially those that discredited her creativity and wrote her off as a weirdo.
• Don't Go in the Woods: Luz, seeing too many horror movies based in the woods, views the forest she and her team in as this, despite it being beautiful. Though this case its enemy teams in a Death Game that they need to be worried about.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Downplayed. Luz notes there was a part of her that hated seeing someone was worried about her. Though she's more polite than most examples, instead just telling them she's fine.
• The Dreaded: All For One became this in his world that it got to the point where there was a resistance force created solely to try and kill him.
• Drunk on the Dark Side: Luz does when she steals more Quirks and goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge of the 2 teams that killed her new friends, constantly giving a Psychotic Smirk.
• Dude, Not Funny!: Dr. Rodriquez jokingly calls Luz a weapon of war and Super-Soldier after talking about footage of her killing twenty people her age in self-defence. This didn't make Camila happy in the slightest.
• Egocentrically Religious: Tyler Wittebane is such a massive insanely self-absorbed Narcissist, that he's convinced himself that he was chosen by God to rid the world of super-powered people after the Mass Super-Empowering Event. He also believes that if he kills Luz, directly or indirectly, it would earn him a spot in heaven and boasts that she should be proud to meet death at his hands.He inherited this trait from his ancestor, Phillip.
• Elemental Shapeshifter: Cody, Jonah and Hunter are this.
• Enemy Within: Shigaraki is ultimately this to Luz in the end, being aware of what she does even when she's not in her Mental World and what's happening around her.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Luz notes that the 20 murderous kids were never going to see their parents thanks to her killing them in her rampage.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: All For One has no issues making witches and demons his followers. A useful pawn is a useful pawn regardless of their race, after all.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Tyler orders the assassins he hired to try and kill Luz to spare her mother, not wanting (in his mind) innocent casualties on his consciousness. Though this is most likely due to believing her to be a Un-Sorcerer, unaware that Camila was the first person Luz gave a Quirk to.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Counsellor Johnson is shocked and disgusted by what Rodger Maxwell plans to do with the superhuman children. He's not happy at all about being forced to go along with it.
  • Emilia claims to be the only one out the 2 enemy teams that wanted nothing to do with billions offered by the Antagonistic Governor.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Seemingly played straight then chillingly averted with All For One in regards to why Luz doesn't like the idea of taking other people's Quirk's.
• Evil Is Bigger: All for One is over 7 ft. tall, easily dwarfing Luz, an average-sized teenage girl.
• Evil Is Petty: Tyler Wittebane admits to himself he doesn't care if its considered petty playing mind games with the assassins he hired by not telling them All For One's identity, due to them having superpowers despite making it harder for them to find their target for him.
• Evil Laugh: Shigaraki does this as Luz reaches her Rage Breaking Point upon discovering her murdered teammates and about to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, waiting for something like this to happen to corrupt her.
• Evil Mentor: All For One acts as this to Luz, teaching how to use her powers while subtly trying corrupt her.
• Evil Pays Better: As much as Riley hates the Wittebane’s for their supposed connections with what happened at The Death Camp, they pay her good money for each assassination she does for them. Really good money. Like, seriously, 100K per job and because it was a "church job", it was tax-exempt.
• Evil Red Head: Cody, Darlene and Riley are these.
• Evil Sounds Deep: All For One's voice is described by Luz and All Might as deep and baritone like a true demon.
• Evil Versus Evil: All For One and Emperor Belos once had a confrontation a decade ago that nearly ruined the latter's plans as the former raised hell in the Boiling Isles.
• Explaining Your Powers to the Enemy: Cody does this in chapter 10 with his Quirk. Luz (while Holding in Laughter) lampshades how he's acting like a stereotypical bad guy that tells the heroes their abilities that makes it easier for them to win. This arrogance costs Cody his Quirk.
  Cody: HA! Nice try! I can morph my entire body into flames! There ain’t no way you can get me with weak-ass attacks like that!
  Luz: (Thinking) Thanks for the info dump.
• Exposed to the Elements: Inverted and Defied. Luz and were being beat down by the 45 degrees summer heat, with Judy seemingly to had it the worst, wearing a thick leather jacket. Though Luz, being more used to the hot summers without AC, is least affected.
• Eyes Always Averted: Luz notes that making eye contact with anyone was hard enough for herself as it was when she's in a good mood, let alone when she's upset.

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• Facepalm Of Doom: Luz does this a lot with lethal results.
• Fan Art: One of the reviewers, CMR Rosa, commissioned a whole gallery folder for character pictures from this story here.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • After the Mass Super-Empowering Event, a lot of super-powered kids suffer from this like the mutants from X-Men, with Luz being the prominent example.
  • Maxwell refers to the superhuman teenagers as "biological weapons" and Luz as "the parasite".
  • All For One admits to Luz that he was shunned by his peers for having Quirk in his youth. His people were seen as monsters, were culled for it, and it was even worse with those who had mutations.
  • Despite willing to work with them under her emperor's orders, Millie considers humans to be pathetic in comparison to witches.
• A Fate Worse Than Death: Luz believes being rendered brain dead by her Power Parasite Quirk counts as this. Which is why she decides to give Derreck a Mercy Kill.
• Faux Affably Evil:
  • All For One is almost always polite and cordial towards Luz and his incredible charisma allowed him to amass a following of devoted servants when he ruled Japan and gain some level of trust from Luz despite knowing he's a bad guy. That said, he often laces his politeness with barbs and jabs when talking about others and views everyone as beneath him. Luz notes she can practically hear the fake smile on his face.
  • Darlene mock apologizes for "crashing the party" as Julia lies bleeding out from the fatal stab wounds she just gave her.
• FBI Agent: Governor Maxwell is described as looking like the stereotype, minus the sunglasses and wiretap connected to his ear.
• Feel No Pain: Pain Nullification is Quirk that allows Luz to completely nullify any and all pain of any kind.
• Fiery Redhead: A literal example. Cody has red hair, a hot temper and actual fire powers.
• Final Solution: Maxwell, Tyler and Belos want to achieve this on superhumans.
• Finger-Tenting: All For One does this quite a bit.
• Finishing Move: She does one against Kennedy, combining Springlike Limbs, Kinetic Force, Super-Strength, Force Multiplier, Shock Absorption, Sword and Vines into her giant right arm for a devastating blow to crush Kennedy to death.
• First Friend: Julia Wittebane becomes this to Luz. Which is why she takes her murder so hard.
• Flies Equals Evil: Flies begin to swarm the bodies of Luz's deceased friends as she waits for their killers to come back with a Slasher Smile.
• Forced Out of the Closet: Julia's parents found out was that was a lesbian. How? Well, they caught her kissing a girl, and that sent them over the moon with anger.
• Forced to Watch: In Chapter 21, Luz kills the Wittebane assassin Charlie by ripping out their heart. She then shows it to them, crushing it before their eyes.
• Foreshadowing: Luz's role in "The Massacre of Fools" is glimpsed 2 chapters earlier.
• Freak Out: Not long after she wakes up from her coma, Luz has a panic attack after having flashbacks of all the horrible things she witnessed at the Death Camp. This occurs in front of her distressed mother as she is hurried out of her hospital by the doctors trying to sedate her.
• Freudian Excuse: Kennedy claims his family is dirt-poor, barely surviving off of scraps, and killing Luz for the governor was the perfect opportunity for a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme. This doesn't justify his actions at all.
• Freudian Excuse Denial: Shigaraki tells Luz he'd most likely still be a tyrannical monster on purpose with his Quirk even if he didn't suffer from the Fantastic Racism in in youth, much to the girl's annoyance.
• Friend or Foe?: Luz would've attacked the three men, believing them to be working for the governor, if her body hadn't given out, due to "Quirk Overload". Fortunately, they're on Luz's side and are going to save her and the rest of the teens.
• From Bad to Worse: Julia's parents became verbally and emotionally abusively towards when they found out she was a lesbians, then they out right disowned her and kicked her out of their house when she gained a Quirk from the Mass Super-Empowering Event.
• The Fundamentalist: The Wittebane Clan is an Ultra-Conservative Christian family that holds a strong conviction that the existence of LGBT, witches, demons, and super-humans are an unholy abomination against God. The family also banned television within the household, and any mention of witches, often preventing Julia's friends from coming over because they would "taint her mind with devil worship."
• The Gambler: The Governor sees himself as one, with him creating the Death Camp being his biggest gamble. He loses big time in the end.
• Gas Station of Doom: Subverted. Nothing bad happens at the gas station the bus stops at (besides buying overpriced snacks).
• Generation Xerox: Tyler Wittebane is essentially a richer, modern-day version of Phillip Wittebane being a superstitious human who believes that witches and demons are inherently evil and wants to wipe them out for the good of humanity..
• Genre Savvy:
  • The moment Luz laid eyes on Shigaraki, she could tell he was evil in all CAPS and would try to manipulate her. She also figures that Governor Maxwell doesn’t plan to give any money to the victor.
  • Stanley tells Kennedy he's a fool if he thinks the governor is gonna pay up the money after he hands Luz to him. Stanley's right on the money.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: All For One gives a non-violent one to Luz when she believes she just been tricked into accidently killing her own mother with her Deadly Force Field and they're still in a fight to the death that's far from over. Not that he could slap her even if he wanted to.
  Shigaraki: Calm yourself. Focus… You can grieve later. Channel that anger and despair you are feeling, and use it against your enemies. Push past this, and bring your wrath down on your foes!
• The Glomp: Luz does this to Julia when thanking her for offering to be her Number Two. Julia returns the hug.
• Good Is Not Soft:
  • All Might proved this to All For One when he finally killed him.
  • Despite not wanting to kill anyone in the Deadly Game set up by the Governor, Team Alpha Squadron are more than willing to the their Quirks to fight back against enemy teams attacking them.
    • Luz might be trying to be a good person, but make her angry or be stupid enough to try and kill her and her loved, and you'll soon realize that's a really bad idea as she's not afraid to use lethal force and steal your powers with All For One.
    • The normally Gentle Giant Stanley repeatedly slams Cody's head into a tree until he's unconscious for trying to kill him and his new camper friends, once he gets his hands on him.
    • Judy, in particular, is more than prepared to fire a lethal attack to defend herself and her team. In the original draft, she's also the only one who advocates killing the unconscious Cody in a form of Paying Evil Unto Evil before agreeing with the others to let Luz De-power him instead.
  • King maybe a chill guy when you get to know him, however, he's still a giant, powerful demon that can match Toshiko blow for blow and can be very dangerous when enraged.
• Grand Theft Me: Shigaraki's Evil Plan for Luz then get back to his world.
• Greed: Luz believes that the All For One Quirk is the symbol of Greed. She also doubts that she could sue for peace with the other teams because the prize money promised by The Governor would make them cave in and kill one another for his sick amusement.
• Gratuitous Spanish: Luz and Camila often slip into this from time to time, particularly in moments of intense emotion for them. Most notably when Luz gives her mother a Quirk and didn't want the doctors to know.
• Gravity Master: Zero Gravity is a Quirk that originally belonged to a girl by the name of Juniper, someone who was caught in the crossfire during the battle between Luz and Sophia, a Wittebane Assassin. This Quirk allows Luz the ability to remove the gravity of anything that Luz comes into physical contact with using her hands. This Quirk is an exact replica of Ochako Uraraka's Zero Gravity from My Hero Academia.
• Greater-Scope Villain:
  • Emperor Belos, the tyrannical ruler of the Boiling Isles, serves as this during Arc 2. He's working with his descendant Tyler Wittebane to kill off people with super powers, including All For One who he even takes a personal interest in having fought her predecessor a decade before the story started.
  • Gravesfield, Luz's and the Wittebane's hometown, is revealed to be the reason why Luz has so much self-doubt about herself and why Belos is a genocidal witch-hating maniac. Gravesfield's modern society sees Luz as a weirdo that needs to conform to society by any means necessary, namely forcing her to go to a special summer camp, which the Governor of the state turned into a Death Camp for supers and allows All For One to start molding her against the world. Gravesfield is also revealed to have an unsavory history of being a Sundown Town and witch-hunting during the 17th century, which is referred to as the town's favorite tradition. This time period is where Belos originally came from and his Villainous Lineage starts.
• Grew a Spine: Before gaining her powers, Luz admits she never stood up to her bullies at school. After the Death Camp Incident, she now has no quarrels about threatening them or getting physically violent with them if they start shit with her.
• Growling Gut: Luz gets this at the end of the chapter 6 and decides to have some hotdogs at the campfire before going back to bed.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Luz narrowly becomes after nearly imploding with the blowback of having too many Quirks, she only survives thanks to her Healing Factor.
• Having a Blast: Bomb Touch is a Quirk originally belonged to Riley Stewardson, Luz's cousin and an assassin for The Wittebane Mega Church. The Quirk allows her to blow up anyone from the inside out, so long as she feels a deep hatred for them, and so long as she comes into physical contact with them. Otherwise, it is completely useless.
• Head Crushing: Nearly all of Luz's kills involve doing this with her Super-Strength. It's quick but brutal.
• Healing Factor: Super Regeneration is a Quirk that allows Luz to recover from life-threatening wounds, up to and including missing limbs, missing chunks of organs or entire organs, bones, muscles, and skin. The process is quite painful though, and often leaves scars behind, but nothing too damaging. It's only because of this power that allows Luz to survive the blow back from too many Quirks and the mortal injuries she gains from her fights. Shigaraki implores her to keep this power no matter what.
• Hearing Voices: Even when she's wake, Shigaraki can still talk to Luz, while causing her headaches.
• Heroic Build: Stanley has the body build, height, and posture of an Olympic track runner and is a Nice Guy.
• Heroes Love Dogs: Luz tells Julia puppy dogs are her favourite pet animals.
• Heroic BSoD: Camila became shell-shocked when she hears about Luz's experience at the Death Camp.
• Heroic Safe Mode: Luz appears to like this in the Mental World as she comes to terms with fact she's a killer now. She comes out of it not long after she wakes up and has a panic attack.
• Heroic RRoD: Luz has at the climax has gained immense strength and power of 28 Quirks but this amount is more than her body is capable of handling. As she starts to fight some soldiers suddenly a gory stream of blood appears over her diagonally chest. Fortunately for Luz, she has a strong enough Healing Factor to survive and the soldiers that arrived are there to rescue her.
  As she went to use the power, however, for a split second, her body writhed in pain.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: The beginning of the chapter 7 reveals Luz having doubts on her ability to be The Leader of her team due to her having No Social Skills and a Friendless Background.
• Hero's Evil Predecessor: Luz is the new holder of the All For One Quirk, who has a much stronger moral compass. Unfortunately, the Quirk also comes with Shigaraki's spirit who intends to Corrupt the Cutie.
• Heteronormative Crusader: Tyler Wittebane to a T, being sick at the very thought of same-sex relationships. Not even his own daughter is exempt from his homophobia.
• Hiding Behind Religion: What Tyler Wittebane is really doing underneath the claim that superhumans are demonic abominations to justify his excuse for killing them.
• Hidden Eyes: Luz has these when she's about to take the Quirks from her recently murdered friends.
• Hidden in Plain Sight: Belos has at least one witch infiltrating the Wittebane Child Soldier group, in the guise of a superhuman, with Tyler's permission.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Shigaraki admits to Luz that creating One For All was the beginning of his downfall that would eventually lead to All Might killing him. He notes in hindsight he shouldn't have given his little brother a Quirk.
• Home Base: The Alpha Squadron's team base is widen in the forest with moat surrounding it and a draw bridge for a door. It gets destroyed by the enemy teams.
• Honor Before Reason: Julia gives her Quirk up to Luz, seeing them as thing that ruined her life, despite the fact she's in the middle of a Death Game and needs protection. She gets killed not long after.
• Horrifying the Horror: One side-effect of Luz's Quirk-stealing ability is that she also gains black, shadowy vestiges shaped like the original holders, that include echoes of their personalities. These are incomplete so long as the person Luz stole the Quirk from is still alive. Both she and Shigaraki are unnerved by their existence, finding them to be creepy.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Downplayed. Luz admits right know the only person she trusts now, besides herself, is Shigaraki, but not that much.
• Human Shield: Luz uses one of the hitman paid to kill her as a meat shield from a hail of bullets fired by his comrades, going right through his bullet-proof vest, killing him.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: In a story that has super humans, witches, and demons, Tyler Wittebane and Rodger Maxell, a church owner and a state governor are Luz's most despicable villains.
• The Hunter Becomes the Hunted:
  • The 2 teams at the Death Camp target Luz after being promised billions to kill her ...she quickly turns the tables on them.
  • This also happens with the assassins hired by Tyler Wittebane to kill Luz.
• Hypocrite:
  • Kennedy believes that having half of Luz's team killed on his orders was just playing the rules of the Deadly Game that they were in, even if he admits it was overboard. Yet, he Ain't Too Proud to Beg in he's at Luz's mercy. He also mentally berates his comrades for being too scared to fight Luz, despite the fact he doesn't either.
  • Despite hating the idea of witchcraft and superpowers as a whole, Tyler Wittebane is not above hiring such users if it benefits him, especially to assassinate others of their kind. A trait he shares with Belos his still living ancestor, though unlike him he doesn't care if he's called out on this.
• I Have No Son!: Julia notes she's not the only case of this in Gravesfield. Hundreds of kids from around her town were being kicked out of their homes by their parents because of their “demonic powers” and “unholy appearances".
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Luz, at Julia's request, takes her Quirk so that the latter can have a chance of her parents taking her back, seeing her powers as a curse.
• Imagination Destroyer: Shigaraki paints the real Reality Check Camp as this, noting that stripping away creativity isn't the answer to Luz's behavior problems but needed better guidance and direction instead. He goes as far as to compare it to a conversion camp.
• Immigrant Parents: Camila is mentioned to be an immigrant from The Dominican Republic of Spain.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice:
  • In chapter 1, All Might's injury was caused by All For One's Spearlike Bone in their Final Battle.
  • In chapter 10, while trying to warn her other teammates they're under attack, Julia meets her end like this at the hands of Darlene's Spear Fingers Quirk In the Back. She later does this to Luz but not only does she power through it thanks to her Repair Quirk but steals it from Darlene before killing her and uses the power to kill some of the enemy's team members.
  • In chapter 20, this is how Sophia meets her end by Luz's hands with Spear Fingers enhanced by Multiplier Quirk through her vitals, including her neck, her heart, her lungs, her legs and her arms. All the things a person needs to live.
  • In chapter 23, as her fight with the Golden Guard continues, Luz at one point gets skewered by Hunter's light spears but heals from it thanks to her Healing Factor and carries on battling.
  • In chapter 25, Toshiko responses to Gilbert attempted assault on her by giving him a does of this with her Spear Fingers faster than the witch father could react. His injuries include a stabbed shoulder, stomach, right eye, left knee, and right through his fist. Luckily for him, Toshiko decides to show mercy and and use her Healing Hands Quirk to restore him to full health.
  • In chapter 27, King uses his Ice Magic to summon several icicle spears from the ground to skewer Toshiko in their fight. But thanks to her "Super Regeneration" "Pain Nullification" Quirks, this barely slows the girl down.
• In the End, You Are on Your Own: Before Luz plans to wait for the 2 enemy teams to fight them, she orders the remainder of her team to flee for their lives and not come back. What's left of new camper friends are hesitant to leave her to fight alone but comply.
• Incompatible Orientation: No matter how many male suitors Julia was given by her parents to marry for the rich clout, she refused them all. She didn’t like men, and that was final.
• Indy Ploy: The Governor admits to himself that the Death Camp he arranged is a half-baked plan. This was all sprung at him with no sudden warning, including Luz’s power. This whole thing was slapped together in a matter of hours.
• Innocence Lost: Luz Noceda's innocence died along with her camper friends.
• Innocently Insensitive: Ronny, one of Luz's teammates, makes a joke to Luz that their parents must hate them if they sent them here to some shoddy education camp. A depressed Luz, who Shigaraki put in her head that Camila is a Resentful Guardian, says he might be right, making the boy grimace and immediately takes it back telling her not to take him seriously.
• Instant-Win Condition: When Luz reveals her Power Parasite ability to her entire team, instead of being afraid of her like she thought they'd be, Johnny points out how incredibly useful that's going to be in this Deadly Game and consider her The Ace in the hole for the Alpha Squadron to De-power the other teams if they try to kill them.
• Instant Wristwatch: The Governor looks at his wrist watch every now and again as the kidnapped teenagers collect their composure.
• Internal Reveal:
  • In chapter 6, Luz reveals to her team that her Quirk is All For One and allows her to give and take Quirks from others. They take this better than she expected.
  • In chapter 13, Camila finds out what happened to Luz at summer camp. She doesn't take it well that it was turned into a Death Camp run by her State's governor.
  • In the same chapter, Pastor Domenico reveals to Luz that Julia's parents disowned her for being a lesbian and having superpowers, much to their disgust.
• It Can Think: Luz's "Super Regeneration" seemed to know what the doctor's performing surgery on her were doing and avoided getting in our way while healing.
• It's All About Me: Kennedy planned to keep the $100 billion prize money to himself after he and his alliance wins the game. Even if they had survived the Death Camp, the Governor was never gonna pay up.
• It's All My Fault:
  • As Luz breaks down in tears, she believes she has failed her fallen comrades.
  • Stanley has this reaction when he discovers that Kennedy had half his team killed because he refused to hand Luz over to him. Despite being mad at him for not speaking up sooner, Luz reassures him it's Kennedy and his followers that are to blame for the slaughter.
  • Camila has this reaction when she hears what happened to Luz at summer camp. Doctor Rodriquez tries to assure her it isn't and she couldn't have foreseen this happening.
• It's Quiet… Too Quiet: Julia thinks this after three whole days of no attacks from the enemy teams before she and the rest of her team are ambushed.
• Jerk Jock: Kennedy was part of the same soccer team with Stanley for years, and enjoyed playing basketball. He's also willing to take part in the Deadly Game for money.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Shigaraki fully admits to being a bad guy and owning up to his crimes as wrong, which surprises Luz as most supervillains don't do that. He tells Luz she is destined for greatest, points out that Luz's creativity shouldn't be stripped but cultivated in a more constructive manner, lets her know he's glad she survived the blow-back from having too many Quirks and advises which ones to keep. Shigaraki also teaches her how to strengthen her body to hold more Quirks, reassures her that she was not in the wrong when killing the kids that murdered her friends, entrusts her with the task of finding One For All in the Boiling Isles and lets her know that just because she has his power doesn't she has to turn out like him if she doesn't want to. This could be seen as a heartwarming, if twisted, student/teacher relationship. Don't let that fool you for a second; in later chapters, it's revealed he's perfectly fine with hijacking Luz's body and using her like a puppet which would cause a Death of Personality if successful to get back to his home world to continue his reign of terror.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While she was a bit rude, Julia concedes Luz is right that the governor that kidnapped them wants them all dead. So why would he provide them a doctor if they got sick?
• Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Luz concludes that she and the rest of the kidnapped superpowered teens were all expected to be this to each other in the Death Game.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: The Governor is arrested for creating the Deadly Game at the Summer Camp in chapter 12 and is sentenced to life in prison.
• Kick the Dog: Luz, we understand you needed a new shirt and pants due to the Clothing Damage you suffered from, but did you really have to knock out a random bystander and steal it from her, leaving the poor girl in her underwear?
• Killed Mid-Sentence: This happens to All For One before All Might puts him down.
  Rikitasu: Oh... you'll see soon enough.... I will return. And when I do... it will not be in a form you recognize. And when I find you.... I will kill everyone you ever loved. I will paint this world red with your blood! I will make sure that everything you ever cared about will be destroyed. I. WILL. COME. BAC-
• Kindly Vet: Luz's mother Camila works as a veterinarian. Because of her job Luz gives her Healing Hands powers that allow her to run her own animal hospital.
• Knight Templar: Tyler is convinced of his own moral and spiritual superiority in God's eyes, despite disowning and sending his daughter to her death for being gay and having powers. He also claims that he just wants to protect Gravesfield from the "demons" and "monsters" that threaten his town; but has no problems sending, in his own words, murderous psychopaths after a teenage girl.
• Knocking on Heathens' Door: When asked to Julia Wittebane knocked on doors to spread the word of her God and Jesus Christ.
• Lack of Empathy: As in the show, whatever praise or concern he shows for others is false, because ultimately, All For One sees his followers as a means to an end and is utterly devoid of any genuine compassion towards others.
  • Luz is no exception for him too, as it's Double Subverted. While at first, he may have some fondness for her as his successor, it's eventually revealed Luz is nothing more than a vessel to become his 'Next Me' and he sees her as a potential extension of his will and means to return to his own realm. IE, any care he shows for Luz is only caring about himself.
• Large Ham: Shigaraki gets like this when hyping up their Quirk to Luz, something she wishes he'd stop doing.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Darlene gets her wrists broken by Luz when using Vines, which was originally Julia's Quirk, who she killed.
• The Leader: Their names chosen at random, Luz Noceda, Kennedy Jennkins and Emilia Worstoch are made the team leaders of The Alpha Squadron, Heaven's Devils and Foxtrot, respectively.
• Lean and Mean: Kennedy is described as being thin as a stick, and has no quarrels masterminding murders.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Daniel tries to do this on Luz after witnessing her kill Thomas... Unfortunately for him, the leader of The Alpha Squadron is able to No-Sell it with her Super-Toughness.
• Legalized Evil: Governor Maxwell tells the superhuman kids that any crimes they commit the Death Camp will be swept under the rug. And he does mean any crime.
• Let No Crisis Go to Waste:
  • When a Mass Super-Empowering Event hits Gravesfield, Tyler Wittebane decides to declare that he's on a Mission from God to eradicate all of the newly Quirked populace in order to seize even more power and prestige for himself.
  • All For One is more than happy to take advantage of any opportunity that arises to twist matters to his own selfish ends. Hell, he was the one who accidentally caused the Mass Super-Empowering Event and kicked off the plot in the first place! When something goes wrong, he's right there whispering poisonous thoughts to Luz. Most notably when Luz discovers the mangled corpses of her camper friends, he encourages the distraught girl to brutally kill their murderers and steal their Quirks.
• Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Shigaraki pretty much tells Luz this after seeing her cringed reaction for using the phrase "spill the tea".
• Life Isn't Fair: Luz realized this pretty quickly at school, especially with people making fun of her for being "weird" or "crazy", or stole her lunch money.
• List of Transgressions: When Governor Maxwell is arrested he's charged with enough crimes land him in prison for a life sentence.
  Dr. Rodriquez: Governor Rodger Maxwell was arrested by the Military for, and I quote: Human Trafficking, Child Trafficking, Serial Murder, Domestic Terrorism, Endangerment of Children, first-degree manslaughter, Kidnapping, Money Laundering, Embezzlement, Fraud, and the list goes on for a country mile, so to save myself from reading a literal novel worth of crimes, I'll cut it short there.
• Locked Out of the Loop: The Wittebanes made sure their disowned daughter, Julia, knew nothing about their connection with Governor Rodger Maxwell, so that she would die in the Death Camp.
• Long-Lived: The Longevity Quirk triples the user's lifespan. For example, if Luz’s lifespan is 89 years, then with this Quirk, their lifespan jumps to 267 years. Shigaraki tells Luz this is a must-have power.
• Lovable Jock: Stanley was part of the same soccer team with Kennedy since childhood, and liked playing basketball. He also refuses to sell out Luz to his Evil Former Friend and is an all-around genuine Nice Guy.
• Lovecraftian Superpower: When killing Kennedy to avenge Julia's murder, Luz uses a mass combination of Quirks to transform her entire right arm into an elephant-sized grotesque sight of hypertrophied flesh, wrapped with thorny vines with blades sticking out, almost similar to what All For One uses to fight All Might in their Final Battle.
  • Luz's enhanced Healing Factor can be described as this.
• Loves the Sound of Screaming: Shigaraki considers hearing the painful moans of the vestiges one thing that was keeping him entertained being stuck in Luz's Mental World when not speaking to the girl.
• Ludicrous Gibs: Luz is reduced to this by her cousin Riley's Quirk in chapter 17 when she betrays her... luckily she uses her Quirks in Pulling Themselves Together move.
  • The sheriff and his squad are reduced to this after getting caught in the epicentre of an explosion caused by Luz's Deadly Force Fields. Unlike The Hero, there's no coming Back from the Dead for the Boys in Blue here.
  • This is what happens to Camila's corpse when the assassins teleport it in the way of Luz's exploding Deadly Force Fields, horrifying the girl.
• Luminescent Blush: Luz has this when she realises she just hugged Julia without asking and apologises. Luckily, for her Julia doesn't mind at all.
• Madness Mantra: Emilia keeps saying "I'm sorry" over and over, while cowering to Luz to get her to spare her life. The All For One user let's her live to successfully pull a Screw This, I'm Outta Here.
• Magic Mirror: Emperor Belos and Tyler Wittebane are able to communicate with each across realms with this.
• Manipulative Bastard: A specialty of All For One's who manipulates people and events around him without ever getting directly involved. Luz accuses Shigaraki of being this from the beginning and she's not wrong, forcing him to be more subtle with a More than Mind Control and Villain Has a Point approach.
• Many Spirits Inside of One: A side effect of her stealing Quirks is that Luz inherits black, human-like shaped vestiges of their personalities. When Luz gives that Quirk to someone else, she loses those traits as well. They are incomplete when the person who Luz took the Quirk from is still alive. Both Luz and Shigaraki find them to be creepy to look at.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!":
  • The 20 teenagers, led by Kennedy Jenkins, have this reaction when Luz easily kills one of their comrades, making clear that she's on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge for how they slaughtered her friends at summer camp and makes it clear she can and will kill the rest of them.
  • Everyone attacking Luz at the supermarket have this expression when her cousin Riley goes in for the kill... only for Luz to demonstrate just how strong her Healing Factor is when she puts herself back together again after being blown up and hits her Rage Breaking Point.
• Mass Super-Empowering Event: The story starts after Luz's universe goes through what All For One calls a "Quirk Awakening", with 10,000s of people developing powers, including Luz. A month later, The World Health Organization dubbed it “The Mass Power Awakening Event or, the MPAE. Shigaraki was actually the one that caused it after his death at the hands of All Might and his soul was put into the body of Luz. He notes it's more advanced than the one that happened in his world, which will lead to more devastating consequences.
• Meaningful Name:
  • The story gives All For One the full name of Rikitasu Shigaraki , meaning "A multitude of splendid powers of death", which is quite fitting for a man with Power Parasite abilities who is also a dangerous Card-Carrying Villain.
  • Ronny's last name is Armstrong and he a has Super-Strength Quirk.
  • Jean's last name is Pierce and has a Quirk produces sword-like blades all over his body.
• Meaningful Rename:
  • Julia goes through a posthumous one. Her surname is changed from Wittebane to Delmisso, her mother's maiden name, signalling her parents have disowned her, even after her death.
  • In chapter 25, :All For One renames Luz Noceda as Toshiko Shigaraki, meaning "Clever Child of Death" due seeing her as a Child Prodigy with his power that has racked up a body count..
• Mental World: Shigaraki resides in Luz's after his death in his own world. Luz is not at all happy to have the spirit of a Card-Carrying Villain in her head that can drag her here anytime she falls asleep.
• Messianic Archetype: Julia views Luz as this she takes away her Quirk at her request.
• Militaries Are Useless: Averted. The soldiers that arrive have arrested the Arc Villain and come to rescue the surviving children of the Death Camp.
• Mission from God: Tyler Wittebane is firmly convinced that God has tasked him with killing all of those that have super powers, with Luz his main target.
• The Mole: Shigaraki has some in Emperor Belos's ranks, including his Elite Coven, waiting for him to return and bring them to his home world in hopes of a better life.
• Moment of Weakness: Played for Drama. As much as Camilla loves her daughter, she also wishes that she was better at fitting in so that she didn't have to deal with being socially outcast. This fuels her decision to send Luz to Reality Check Summer Camp, even though she didn't actually want to see her Blithe Spirit crushed. Not only does the camp turn out to be far worse than she'd imagined, Shigaraki suggests to Luz this "proves" that her mother is actually a Resentful Guardian.
• Mook Horror Show: Luz puts the Heaven's Devils and Foxtrot alliance through this.

  Narrator: Catch, kill, steal, repeat. Ignore their pain, ignore their suffering. It was not worth her time to hear it. They brought this unto themselves. She knew it, they knew it, so why bother trying to change it? This was their fate, to die by her hand, and she was damn well gonna follow through with it. No more begging, no more pleading, none of it. This was her playground, and everyone else was fodder.

• Mugging the Monster: Lots of people do this to Luz, the holder of All For One.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Multiplier originally belonging to Derreck, an assassin hired by the Wittebanes, this is the first Quirk Luz steals after the Death Camp. It allows the user to grow multiple arms from their body. They can also merge the many hands to together into Giant Hands of Doom. Being a power that Shigaraki had when he was alive, he egged Luz on to take it before she kills the hitman. It especially comes in good use not long later as it saves her life.
• Multiversal Conqueror: All For One's Evil Plan is to essentially become this, taking over his realm, Luz's realm and the demon realm.
• The Multiverse: There 3 confirmed worlds in the story: The Human Realm (Where Luz lives), The Demon Realm (aka The Boiling Isles), and the Mutant Realm (aka MHA World) with the Boiling Isles "The hub world of the Realms" between the other 2. Shigaraki himself has been to the Demon Realm to collect Titan's Blood as key ingredient for his human experiments and plans to take over the Boiling Isles.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: Luz concluded the only way to stop Tyler Wittebane from killing her and her mother is to kill him first.
• Muscles Are Meaningful: Stanley has got a Heroic Build and is strong enough to overpower Kennedy who's Lean and Mean.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Riley breaks down into tears when the full weight of her actions (not only betraying her own cousin but putting her Aunt Camila on Tyler Wittebane's hitlist, sending his most brutal assassin after them) hits her.
• Mythology Gag:
  • The Quirk that Camila's friend's son has been described as Fire Breath, the same power as Izuku's father.
  • All For One mentions to Luz he already had a successor in mind as to whom would receive his power. That person was Tomura Shigaraki.
  • He also mentions he's been called a demon before. This suits him just fine as he wants to emulate Maou the Demon King.
  • In addition, he lets Luz know he can call him sensei. Just like what Tomura calls him in canon.
• Julia's Quirk has the same name and is similar to Ibara Shiozaki's Quirk from Class 1-B, except she can't grow it from her hair, but instead her hands. They're also both devout Christian girls.
  • Luz's final move is very similar to the attack All For One used on All Might in their Final Battle in Kamino Ward, albeit not as powerful. Unlike Shigaraki, this proves successful in killing her target.
  • After pushing her body past its limits from "Quirk Overload", Luz's body starts to break down, leaving her with a huge gash across her chest much like Tomura in the anime did after due to him prematurely awakening from his medical procedure.
• Narcissist: All For One is a narcissistic sociopath who only cares about power, himself, and what people could do for him, including his family. His immense desire to claim One for All, can be seen as him trying to retrieve an extension of himself that refuses to comply with his wishes. He also sees Luz as an extension of himself, becoming overjoyed as he sees the events she goes through similar to his own past.
  Luz’s life was playing mirror to his own. That was good. First persecution based on how one simply existed both in the past and the present. Now, there was seemingly a potential betrayal in the family. So long as this continued, and so long as enough tragedy strikes her, she’d be willing to listen to damn near anything he requested of her. It was only a matter of time before she gave way to her truest self. The truest self that All For One grants its user.
• Near-Villain Victory: With nearly all the superpowered teens dead and Luz suffering from a Heroic RRoD, Governor Maxwell would've got exactly what he wanted had the military not pulled a Big Damn Heroes and arrest him, while saving the survivors.
• Never My Fault: Surprisingly averted with All For One. He freely admits that it was wrong for him to take advantage of the Mass Super-Empowering Event situation and become a tyrant. However, don't think that means he's sorry for any of it.
• Nerves of Steel:
  • Stanley Richardson shows this, being one of the first of the kidnapped kids to calmly question the Antagonistic Governor that orchestrated the whole thing, while most were too afraid to say anything at all.
  • Julia, to Luz's surprise, can be this, too.
• News Travels Fast: Camera footage of Luz's Roaring Rampage of Revenge leaked online and has gone viral on many social media websites.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: All Might may have done his world a favour putting down All For One in their Final Battle before the story events of My Hero Academia starts, he unintentionally caused a Mass Super-Empowering Event in Luz's world when All For One's Quirk transferred into the girl, setting off the story's bloody events.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
  • Luz was seconds away from peacefully surrendering to the police, where the Dirty Cop chief was most likely planning on arresting her on trumped up charges to put her away for a long time, when Riley chooses to go in for the kill with her Bomb Touch power. Not only does this fail to murder her cousin but makes her decide to fuck self-control and goes into a murderous blind rage.
  • Tyler Wittebane sending Quirk user assassins after Luz only succeeds in making her stronger, thanks to her Power Parasite ability stealing their Quirks, but more willing to kill him.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: An Anti-Hero example. Luz prefers to win fights as quickly as possible, going for the kill when seeing her chance to do so, as well as stealing their Quirk.
• No One Could Survive That!:
  • One of the doctors stated that, by all accounts, Luz should be dead after being ripped in half, including her heart. He chalks it up due to her miracle Healing Factor.
  • Everyone has this thought when they witness Luz get blown to pieces... until her Healing Factor kicks in.
  Luz should have died. By all rights, Luz’s life should have ended right then and there. But Shigaraki knew better. He had come back from worse before, and so he knew how this was going to go. Because… Luz. Didn’t. Die.
• Not Enough to Bury: Many of the dead kids remains from the summer camps had to returned to their families in urns because the damage to their bodies was so severe that it wouldn’t have been right to show them.
  • The Dirty Cops that tried to gun down Luz ended up becoming this.
• Not Hyperbole: When Camila's friend, Racheal, tells her that her son is breathing fire over the phone she thinks her friend is just being hysterical. Turns out a Mass Super-Empowering Event just happened.
• Not Quite the Right Thing: Camila agrees to send her daughter to "Reality Check Summer Camp", and Luz is forced to go believing it would be for her daughter's own good... only for the camp to be a front for a Deadly Game where the campers are forced to fight each other to the death. Shigaraki later gives Luz a Breaking Speech about this that leaves Luz questioning whether her mother even loves her.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: While Tyler Wittebane believes himself to be an agent of God, simply trying to save humanity from the plague of super-powered people, he is actually just a classically delusional Knight Templar, and since he considers them the children of the Devil, including his own daughter, he will do anything to wipe them out and assert his Fantastic Racism. In short, he's an extremist who only thinks he has good intentions.
• No Sympathy: Downplayed. While Luz does have brief moments of These Hands Have Killed, she's quick to remind herself that the people she killed tried to murder her first so it wasn't unwarranted.
• Not Enough to Bury: Julia's funeral was a closed casket, for obvious reasons. In fact, it's later revealed that not all the dead kids came back in body bags, but urns because the condition of their bodies was so severe that it wouldn’t have been right to show the parents that.
• Not Quite Flight: Airwalk gives Luz the ability to float upward infinitely. However, she can't move in any other direction. She can, however, move downward. Propulsion using any other ability can be used to allow her to move in any direction she wishes. But aside from that, it is only used to scale high surfaces.
• Number Two: Julia offers to be Luz's second-in-command on her team, so that Luz doesn't feel too pressured. The Leader is so happy she hugs her for it.
  Julia: Every good leader has someone to fall back on if they're heavily wounded or tired, right? King Arthur had Sir Geraint. So you can have me? Why not? Besides, I don't mind. It's not like you're forcing me to take up this role, in the first place.
• Obliviously Evil: From Tyler Wittebane's perspective, he is fighting a holy war to save all humanity from a non-human and, indeed, literally Satanic threat. He believes his side are the good guys, despite his said containing homophobes, Child Soldiers, assassins, psychopaths, and kid killers.
• Obligatory Earpiece Touch: The Wittebanes' assassins do this when they need retreat, require back up or succeed in their objective.
• Obviously Evil: Before Luz even said 2 words to Shigaraki, he set off her "Warning: This man is clearly EVIL" alarm the moment she lays eyes on the scary-looking man.
• Off with His Head!: Giovanni meets this end. Kennedy gives a post-mortem one to Julia for his sick kicks.
• Offing the Offspring: Not directly. Julia's parents send her to Reality Check Camp despite working with The Governor to turn it into a Deadly Game for the kids with superpowers. they effectively sent her to her death.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Luz's murderous actions in the Death Camp are this to Gravesfield.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Luz realises that Shigaraki might not be lying about the Addictive Magic her Quirk causes, when she talks usually cold to Julia.
• Open-Minded Parent:
  • Despite being a religious woman, Camila didn't have Luz baptized as a baby, much to her own mother's chagrin, because she wanted Luz to make that choice when she tgrew up, and not force her to go to church.
  • Pastor Domenico is a grandparent version of this. He doesn't discriminate against gay people (even though he admits understand or know much about them.) He also sees children gaining Quirks as a gift from God, with his own grandson being one of them.
• Original Character: There are more than a few of these in the story.
• Otaku: Who would have thought a Card-Carrying Villain like All For One would be an avid manga reader?
• Out-of-Character Alert: Kennedy is the first to notice there was something… off about The Leader of The Alpha Squadron Gaining the Will to Kill. He didn’t know what, and he did not want to find out.
• Paint the Town Red: When Luz comes across the remains of her murdered summer camp friends, blood is described to be all over the ground like a carpet, and some of the buildings at their Home Base had giant splatters of it against the walls, haphazardly.
  Blood… There was so… much… blood.
• Parental Abandonment: All For One was especially angry that his deadbeat dad left him and his little brother to live on streets by themselves. He tracked him down and killed him for that.
• Parents as People: Camilia is a Struggling Single Mother who was pressured to send her daughter to "Reality Check Summer Camp", unaware that it was even worse than she realized — instead of a program meant to teach Luz how to conform to society's expectations of it, it was a front for a Deadly Game. Shigaraki exploits her ignorance to convince Luz that her mother never truly cared about her; not enough to fight for her daughter's sake, anyway... when in reality, Camilia does care for Luz, and she desperately tries to correct her mistakes by standing up for her even as things go increasingly to hell.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: With Shigaraki's encouragement, Luz avenges her murdered teammates' deaths, including her first friend Julia, by brutally slaughtering their killers. Afterwards, she's quite troubled by her lack of remorse for killing twenty people.
• Pensieve Flashback: One is shown in Luz's Mental World of All For One forcibly giving a Quirk to his younger brother, which made Luz sick to her stomach as he was clearly in a lot of pain.
• Perpetual Smiler: Shigaraki's habit of this gives Creepy Uncle vibes to Luz.
• Person of Mass Destruction:
  • All Might's fight with All For One destroyed an entire city with many casualties caught in the crossfire.
  • Luz can destroy a whole building with an massive explosion caused by one of her Deadly Force Field. Later she can level an entire street with her new Quirks that have been awakened.
  • Hunter's laser blasts can destroy several city blocks. The Golden Guard's Finishing Move turns what's left of Gravesfield in a giant crater.
  The resulting blast could’ve been felt from the nearest city all the way to the edges of New York. It physically shook the southern part of The United States of America and left destruction for hundreds of thousands of kilometres.
• Personality Powers:
  • Shigaraki is a megalomaniacal kleptomaniac with a devil complex. His power lets him steal other people's Quirks to empower himself or those who serve him.
  • At first glance Luz having the same Power Parasite ability doesn't seem to fit her, having a completely different personality to the previous user. Shigaraki speculates that the reason Luz received this Quirk was due to her subconscious desire to take power away from those who had power over her and made her feel small, weak and powerless.
  • Camila has Healing Hands which goes well with her Kindly Vet job and Nice Girl nature. She also wants to "Repair" her relationship with her daughter.
  • Stanley has Nerves of Steel so its fitting he has Shock Absorption, giving him an equally tough body.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Despite part of her wanting to blame him for the slaughter of their friends, Luz can't find it in herself to do that and instead tells Stanley its Kennedy and his team that are responsible, not him.
  • In a brief moment of lucidity, Luz let's Emilia live.
• Point of Divergence: Due to Shigaraki's brief meddling in The Boiling Isles over 10 years before the start of the story, Belos somehow has the means talk to other humans on Earth from his castle via mirror after meeting him. In this case, his relatives in the 21st century.
• Police Brutality: The Gravesfield cop squad tried to gun down Luz when she was about to surrender peacefully. This proved to be a fatal mistake.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: The first "Arc" of All For Luz's main villain is the fictional Governor of Connecticut, Rodger Maxwell. To make a very long story short, Rodger's main motivation for putting 33 superpowered kids into a Battle Royale-style Deadly Game is so that he can get rid of those with superpowers, due to his personal disdain for them. He is very open about his hatred for them while thinking over his plans for the future in S1 - Ep 9: Search And Steal - Part 3, that being making Luz take all of the powers of those in Connecticut while contained in the forest, before then bombing the area with Luz still inside; all because of his disdain for superpowers.
  • Not only does Tyler Wittebane hate superhumans, demons and witches, he has also made speeches against the lgbt community and non-white people having equal rights.
  • Emperor Belos isn't much better.
• Power Echoes: Sometimes Luz's voice becomes this when using her Quirk and losing her self-retraint.
• Power High: Luz admits she gets this when she steals a Quirk with All For One, which explains why she has a Psychotic Smirk when she does it.
• The Power of Friendship: Johnny mocks this, saying that this isn't gonna save anyone in a Deadly Game.
• The Power of Hate:
  • Its the one emotion that All For One seems to have faith in is hatred, and encourages Luz to utilize to channel this to kill her teammate's murderers. It appeals to the young girl.
  Shigaraki: Yes, Luz! Show them the real you. The one that you had buried for so long! You allowed them to control you for years, allowed them to tell you that you cannot be, or who you want to be! Let that anger boil to the top and flow over! Let it be one with you, let it become you. Unleash it! Unleash your true self upon those that took, and took, and took from you! You are above them all, and will forever be! They toyed with you, made you their plaything, and when they were done playing with you they discarded you and threw you into this camp and left you to rot! I’ve told you this before, so it bears not repeating, but you should not allow them to get away with this! This is all their fault! Let the anger you’ve let sit for years rise. Here, in this domain, you are free to do whatever you please! Do unto them what they did to you! Show them how they messed up! Show them what happens when you toy with God! Luz Noceda, do what you know you have to, and KILL THEM ALL!
  • Shigaraki also invokes this to Luz to use this after witnessing her mother get blown up, who laments that hate and revenge are all she has left now that her mother is dead.
  This anger… This despair… this hatred she felt. She would never let it go.
  • Riley's Bomb Touch Quirk is powered by this. It only works so long as she feels a deep hatred for them, and so long as she comes into physical contact with them. Otherwise, it is completely useless.
• Power Palms: Luz has holes in her hands that give her the Power Parasite ability.
• Power Parasite: All For One allows the user, in this case, Luz, to give and take Quirks from others and give them away. The process is painful for the person getting the Quirk/energy drained from them. It can also be used to steal magic after she awakens her Quirk.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • When an angry Luz believes Shigaraki is implying she should kill Julia after taking her Quirk, he quickly corrects her he isn't, as it would make her quality of life worse. Though its most likely he doesn't want to lose what little trust girl has in him.
  • Shigaraki strongly recommends that it would be better for Luz if she didn’t kill anyone she took the Quirk of if it can be helped. Otherwise, they'll be bombarded by the voices of those who Luz has stolen the Quirks of. This cahnges its proven not to be the case.
• Prayer of Malice: When Camila prays for her daughter's recovery, she also prays for the governor that orchestrated the Deadly Game to suffer for the rest of his life in prison.
• Precision F-Strike: The Pastor refers to Julia's Abusive Parents as "damnable bastards".
• Prematurely Grey-Haired: Luz's hair starts to turn white like Shigaraki's due to the stress and PTSD of the Deadly Game she survived. By the end of chapter 23, her hair turns completely white.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Luz gives a chilling one before she goes on her Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
  Luz: (Red Eyes, Take Warning) I have no sympathy for cruel, heartless monsters such as yourselves. (Power Echoes) The moment you came here and needlessly slaughtered my friends… Your powers…. Your lives… they became forfeit.
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: Shigaraki is hoping that this will happen to Luz.
• Psycho Psychologist: He's not an actual doctor but the way All for One can read Luz truly speaks to his vast experience and intelligence, especially the fact that he was so easily able to read into Camila's thought process with such huge accuracy, despite having never met the woman.
• Punctuated Pounding: Stanley does this to Cody by repeatedly slamming his head into a tree until he's unconscious for trying to kill him and his team.
  Stanley: HOW! ABOUT! YOU! SHUT! UP!
• Pulling Themselves Together: After being blown to pieces by her cousin Riley, Luz does this with a combination of her Healing Factor and recently aquired Multi-Armed and Dangerous power, much to the shock of the enemies that witnessed the scene.
• Pyrrhic Victory: While All Might managed to kill All For One, not only does he receive is canon Career-Ending Injury but a whole city was destroyed in the process with numerous deaths caused in the process.

Q-Z

• The Quiet One: Luz becomes this after the traumatic events of the first arc.
• Rage Breaking Point:
  • In chapter 12, Luz reaches hers after she discovers the brutal deaths of her teammates, including her First Friend, Julia. This leads to her committing a near Total Party Kill in her Roaring Rampage of Revenge on the two enemy teams.
  Of all the years of being bullied. Of all the years of being called a loser. Of all the years of being treated as an outcast. Of all the years of being told to be “normal” by everyone around her, including her mom. All of it came to a boiling point. And it was all because of this… bloodbath. Her tears were no longer of sadness but of rage. Pure, unadulterated, rage. Something that she never thought she had in her.
  • In chapter 17, she gives into her rage again after her cousin Riley tried to assassinate her.
  Luz could barely see anything. That was how furious she had been. That was how angry she had been. And thus… She gave in to her hate.
• Randomly Gifted: As one of the first people in her world to gain a Quirk, Luz is this by necessity. It is especially notable as she has arguably the greatest Quirk to ever exist, able to take, use and give any superpower that she wants at will.
• Rebellious Spirit: Julia had a rebellious phase towards her fundamentalist parents and it was because of that she was sent to Reality Check Summer Camp.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Shigaraki has these. Luz gains these during her Roaring Rampage of Revenge and become permanently this in chapter 21.
• Resentful Guardian: As part of his attempt to break Luz, Shigaraki suggests that her mother Camila secretly despises her. As evidence, he harps on how Camila forced her to attend Reality Check Summer Camp, which was intended to crush her Blithe Spirit and force her to conform to what's considered "normal". However, this isn't the case, being more of a Moment of Weakness that Camila regretted and loves her daughter like any mother would.
• Returning to the Scene: Luz being Genre Savvy as always believes the perpetrators always came back to the scene of the crime. She's proven as her friends killers come back two days later.
• The Reveal:
  • Chapter 7 unveils that Julia's parents didn't send her to Reality Check Camp for her protection, but instead to get rid of her because she developed superpowers, seeing her as a devil spawn. Now she wants Luz to take them away.
  • In Maxwell's POV, its reveals his Death Camp wasn't sanctioned by the government and is running it illegally out of fear and Fantastic Racism, as a test run. He also plans to make Luz take all of the powers of those in Connecticut while contained in the forest, before then bombing the area with Luz inside.
  • Pastor Domenico informs Luz that the Wittebanes not only knew about the Deadly Game that Governor Maxwell set up but actively helped him and plan to bring back their witch hunting ways across the country, using superhumans as scapegoats.
• Revenge Before Reason: Part of herself realises she could stop her rampage and try escape the Death Camp with all her new Quirks. Instead Luz carries on with her Mook Horror Show until all but one is dead and she suffers a Heroic RRoD, nearly killing her.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: Luz considers the possibility that All For One could a stalker towards her. She soon dismisses the notion because no one would want to prey on her, not because she (initially) thinks All For One isn't guilty of those sort of crimes against minors.
• Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: The Wittebanes are secretly running an anti-superhuman militia to eliminate those with Quirks, with Luz being a top target.
• Robbing the Dead: Luz feels some regret for taking the Quirks from her recently deceased camper friends with her Power Parasite ability, but she rationalizes it with the idea of needing their powers, especially since she plans to get revenge for them all.
• Sadist:
  • Despite finding them to be creepy, Shigaraki describes the moans of pain from the vestiges in Luz's Mindspace to be musical and wonderful to his ears. It's also revealed that he lied to Luz about the "Quirk Addiction" because of this, enjoying watching her kill her friends' murderers and steal their Quirks He only holds off on tormenting Luz not out of any compassion but by Pragmatic Villainy.
  • Darlene seems to enjoy hearing Julia screaming in pain as she's stabbing her. Her voice is described as being filled with nothing but pure bliss, almost as if she revelled in killing people.
• Sanity Slippage: If it couldn't be any clearer, poor Luz is definitely going insane due to everything happening.
• Sarcastic Clapping: Cody does this when Jean points out he's an enemy calling him a smarty.
• Scars Are Forever: After imploding from having too many Quirks, Luz gains a minor scar over her eye and larger lightning scar across her torso.
• Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: When Kennedy approaches Stanley at night and attempts he tries to get him to betray Luz for a cut of the huge prize money. Stanley all but tells him to piss off.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Maxwell tells the Johnson that he paid off his bosses with extra funding for Reality Check Camp to allow him to carry out his project.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: The Governor is described as wearing a black two-piece suit, with a white dress shirt underneath, and a black tie. All For One and Tyler Wittebane also dress similarly.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: When Kennedy accuses Stanley of having a crush on Luz when he refuses to betrayal, the unamused boy denies it, claiming she reminds him of his sister back at home.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Luz is this after experience at the Death Camp, with diagnosed PTSD. She occasionally hallucinates blood on her hands.
• Shout-Out: The amount of Fantastic Racism Luz goes through is not too dissimilar from the X-Men mutants.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: All Might's response to All For One's We Will Meet Again speech and Evil Laugh is to completely crush his skull completely, killing him.
• Sinister Minister: Tyler Wittebane is a good example of this trope: a fanatic that runs a mega church who believes that God wants him to wipe out every super-powered person in the world under the idea that they were created by Satan. He has an army of fanatical mercenaries to carry out his will.
• Sinister Surveillance: Governor Maxwell witnesses Luz's Power Parasite Quirk in action via this.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Luz in the story is noticeably more prone to profanity than she is in the show. Considering all the crap she goes through, it's hard to blame her.
• Slasher Smile: Shigaraki constantly cracks wide, toothy grins whenever he's getting particularly emotionally worked up, smug, or satisfied with his results, which helps sell to Luz when they first meet there's something off about him. Luz does during her slaughter showing her gone off the deep end.
• The Sleepless: Shigaraki mentions to Luz that at one point in his life he stole a Quirk that made it so he didn’t have to sleep, so that he didn't have to deal with the vestiges haunting his dreams.
• Slouch of Villainy: All For One does this on his chair in the Mental World in his Establishing Character Moment to Luz. She notes he acts like a king on his throne looking down on a peasant.
• Smug Snake: Kennedy Jennkins acts cocky and tough when things seem to be going his way, with his team backing him up outnumbering his enemies and barking orders at them. However, he gets easily angry and scared when things start to go south for him. He honestly believes The Governor intends to honor his agreement to pay him billions for killing Luz, with no intention of sharing any of it with any of his teammates, when reality the Arc Villain doesn't intend to let any of kids live out of Fantastic Racism. When Luz starts wiping out his 22 strong team one-by-one in her Blood Lust fuelled Roaring Rampage of Revenge while stealing their Quirks for herself, he has a complete Villainous Breakdown and tries to pull a Screw This, I'm Outta Here abandoning his comrades to to try and save himself. He spends his last moments begging for his life, as Luz finishes him off.
• Space Master: Limitless is Quirk originally belonged to Sophia Humbolt of The Wittebane Church, an assassin sent to kill Luz. It allows her to create orbs of blue and red energy. Red is a purely offensive move, whereas Blue is mostly defensive, as shone off by its original user. Only one can be used at a time.
• Spirit Advisor:
  • Ever since he died at All Might's hands, All For One presents himself as an Evil Mentor version of this to Luz, since he's literally stuck in her head.
  • Yoichi is shaping up to be this to Amity.
• Spring Coil: Originally belonging to Darwin, "Springlike Limbs" allows user to coil their bones and muscles like springs, giving them heightened resistance to drawback, knock-back, or kickback to any of their attacks. They can also launch her limbs outward around 5 feet from her body, and recall them back. It can also be used to jump high altitudes, easily covering small skyscrapers In a Single Bound. [[spoiler:Luz steals this Quirk after killing him.
• Starter Villain: Cody's first superhuman enemy Luz fights and has her team back her up.
• Story Arc: All For Luz is split up into different Story Arcs.
  • Season 1: Summer Camp Saga
    • The "Not-So-Dull" Summer Camp Arc - Chapter 1-4
    • Search and Steal Arc - Chapter 5-10
    • The Hunt Begins Arc - Chapter 11-13
  • Season 2: Hunt for the Wittebanes Saga
    • Summer Break Shenanigans Arc - Chapter 14-18
    • Death To Normality Arc - Chapter 19-21
    • AFO versus The Golden Guard Arc - Chapter 22-23
  • Season 3 Part 1: The Boiling Isles Saga
    • A Late Start To A Wacky World Arc - Chapter 24-28
    • Truth, Lies, and The Inbetween Arc - Chapter 29-TBA
• Strong and Skilled: Unlike the humans in Luz's realm that have had their Quirks for only over a month at most, Hunter has trained with his Quirks for about a decade and is powerful enough to challenge Luz as a serious Wake-Up Call Boss.
• Stunned Silence: The superpowered teenagers are scared into silence as the Antagonistic Governor explains why he kidnapped them.
• Sucky School: Luz sees her high school as this, or rather her fellow students made it that way for her.
• Super-Empowering: Luz has this ability and does a lot after the Death Camp ordeal to reduce the number of Quirks in body to a safe level.
  • Repair: Originally belonging to Arla Thatcher, this allows the user to Heal Thyself and other living beings. Luz takes her Quirk after her demise. As soon as Luz gets out of her coma she gives it to Camila, improving her skills as a vet to the point where she now runs her own Animal Hospital.
  • Vines: This quirk originated from Julia Wittebane and the Quirk Luz takes (from a willing donor). It grants the user controllable, thorny green vines grown from their hands Luz later gives it to some kid who liked Spider-Man as it reminded her too much of Julia's Cruel and Unusual Death.
  • Hyper Intellect: This allows the user to temporarily enhance their intellect at the cost of stripping away their emotions. Its because of this draw, Luz gives it away to a scientist as well wanting to be herself instead of super smart, though later wishes she kept it.
  • Flame: This Quirk originated from the Pyromaniac Cody Johnson and second taken by Luz. It lets the user morph their body parts into fire and launch Fireballs or be used as a flamethrower. Luz later gives this to a chain smoker to light his cigarettes.
• Super-Persistent Predator: Luz was prepared to wait for over 48 hours with little sleep in-between and forgoing food and water for her friends' killers to return to the scene of the crime.
• Superpower Lottery: All For One can steal Quirks from others, dead or alive, and wield them as their own. Luz can also combine the Quirks she has for stronger attacks. She can also give the Quirks to others. As Shigaraki explains, in a world where Everyone Is a Super, the one who can steal powers and give them to other people is the king.
• Super-Strength:
  • The "Super Strength" Quirk originally belonging to Thomas. It gives the user superhuman levels of strength, relative to their own physical body’s strength. The stronger they were before having the Quirk, the stronger they are with the Quirk. This will of course continue to grow as the user becomes stronger, and has no set limit. This the first Quirk Luz steals from after killing the original via Attack on the Heart with Vibration Manipulation.
  • Ronny Armstrong also has a similar Quirk, too.
• Super-Toughness: Shock Absorption originally from Stanley Richardson. This Quirk allows the user to tank great force without any drawback to the person’s physical body in a single blow. However, it can be worn down by the use of repeated, constant action applied at a constant rate, I.E. fire. Stanley gives his power to Luz out of guilt for not stopping Kennedy murdering their teammates.
• Supervillain: Luz correctly pegs All For One as one before he admits it.
• Survivor Guilt: Luz has shades of this after living through The Massacre of Fools. Especially since she killed most of them.
• The Svengali: Shigaraki is ultimately planning to groom Luz to carry out his will, as well as to make the girl her next vessel that's more resistant to the Quirk Singularity, as he tried with Tomura in canon.
• Take Over the World: All For One admits to Luz this was his purpose in life. And even after death he still plans to do so as well as adding the Boiling Isles to his list of conquest.
• Take That!:
  • In chapter 1, it shows Tucker Carlson on Fox News was freaking out, saying the Mass Super-Empowering Event is some sort of secret conspiracy. Luz notes he's not someone to take seriously.
  • Chapter 2 refers to CNN and Fox News as hacks.
• Taking the Bullet: As the rest of the Alpha Squadron scatter away from Cody's flamethrower attack, Stanley pushes Jean, who couldn't get away from the flames, and takes the full blast... only to No-Sell it being no worse for wear due to his Super-Toughness.
• Talk to the Fist: All For One is Killed Mid-Sentence by All Might's punch while monologing.
• Talking to Themself: Luz does during her Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
  Rational!Luz: Look at what you’re doing!? You’re killing people! T-This isn’t right! N-None of this is right!
  Angry!Luz: Who cares if it’s wrong! I know exactly what I am doing, and that’s giving these monsters a taste of their own medicine!
  Rational!Luz: B-But… their families, w-what about-
  Angry!Luz: They should’ve thought about that when they killed our friends. When they killed Julia. When they butchered everyone else.
  Rational!Luz: That still doesn’t make it right!
  Angry!Luz: It makes it right to us, they were willing to kill us. And besides, we said that this would happen if they did something similar. We’re keeping to the rules we made for our group. Why the sudden change of heart?
  Rational!Luz: Two wrongs don’t make a right! Didn’t our mother tell us that!?
  Angry!Luz: I don’t give a shit what that bitch taught us. She spat in our faces, betrayed us, kicked us to the curb and left for us to fend for ourselves in this hell hole! NOW BE QUIET!
• Tap on the Head: Luz felt a sharp and sudden pain in the back of her head, before being knocked out at nighttime. The same thing happened to the other kids and they all wake up during daylight no worse for wear.
• Tears of Joy: Julia does this while hugging Luz, thanking for taking her powers away.
• The Teaser: The beginning chapter 8 foreshadows with an injured, superhuman, teenaged boy who happened to be a survivor of a Total Party Kill on the enemy teams crawling for his life in a forest fire before being brutally killed by his vengeful assailant. Said attacker is Luz that has finally snapped and out for revenge for her fallen comrades.
• Teens Are Monsters: Many children all over the world that got superpowers have essentially become supervillains that rack up high body counts.
  • The Heaven’s Devils and Foxtrot teams that slaughter 6 of Luz's teammates out of Greed also qualify with Kennedy, the ringleader, being the most notable.
  • Defied; Luz's team soon prove to be perfectly nice to each other despite the dangerous situation they're in and pointing out how her Power Parasite Quirk can help them live.
• Teleportation with Drawbacks: Warping is a Quirk Luz steals from Charlie. While useful it has drawbacks as all quirks do. Warping can only bring people to and away from the user, and in the case of the latter, only to people the user knows. It can also cause a severe case of tonsillitis to the user, and the slime produced while using it is noted to stink like hell. However, the user doesn't need to know anyone's exact location to use it.
• Terror Hero: Luz aims to be this: A Symbol of Justice and Fear.
• There Are No Therapists: Averted. Luz has been seeing a counsellor, offscreen, for her PTSD after the Death Camp experience.
• There's No Kill like Overkill: Kennedy admits to himself that killing off half of Alpha Squadron was overboard. Luz's Finishing Move on the boy can be considered this.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Luz notices that all the superhuman kids on the Reality Check Camp bus don't have any visible powers like gills, bug eyes, or any sort of mutations like she's heard on the news.
• This Is Unforgivable!!:
  • As far as Luz was concerned, every evil act that Shigaraki did in his life as a villain is this.
  • Luz sees the slaughter of half her team as this.
  She was angry—no, she was beyond that. She was livid. Someone was to blame for this, she knew that much.
  • Luz also heartbreakingly considers Camila to be sent to Reality Check Camp in order to convert her into a "normal" person to be this. No matter how she sliced it or diced it, that was something that only someone who hated a part of that person would do, even if peer pressure was involved.
• Thou Shall Not Kill: Luz tries to abide by this in the Death Camp along with the rest of her team. She discards this after at the end of chapter 11.
• Too Dumb to Live: Shigaraki believes the kids and anyone else killed by Luz to be fools who thought themselves to be any match for the collective power that was All For One, and their punishment of eternal slavery within the confines of the Quirk—forever to have their power used for the sole purpose of progressing his goals to be fitting.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Originally, Luz could only safely hold 10 Quirks at a time before it started damaging her body. In chapter 17, All For One informs her that she now holds up to 15 after training her body up.
  • In chapter 23, Luz goes through a Quirk Awakening that not only allows her to hold more powers but enhances them, too.
• Torso with a View:
  • An ice shard shot by the enemy leaves a giant hole blasted through Johnny's body.
  • Luz receives one of these from Millie the Witch's magic laser beam in chapter 17. Fortunately, it's nothing her Healing Factor can't fix, albeit with some scarring on her stomach.
• Tournament Arc: Amity takes part in one during the first half of Season 3 in The Underdark City to win enough money to get her mother a birthday present she sought. Its also a Deadly Game where you can literally get away with murder, with the corpses being used to create Nomu.
• Total Party Kill: Not a single member of Heaven's Devils is left alive after Luz is through with them.
• Tranquil Fury:
  • Camp Counsellor Johnson is described as one point looking like wanting to scream his face off at the governor, he's able to compose himself, not wanting to continue to let the Smug Snake to get a rise out of him anymore.
  • Julia is depicted with eyes glimmering in anger, repulsion, and fury; yet has a ever-calm expression that did not display any of that. Luz envies hat characteristic.
• Trying Not to Cry: After discovering the grisly remains of her friends, Luz told herself that she wasn’t going to cry repeatedly, over and over again. But… it didn’t work.
• Turbulent Priest: Pastor Domenico has no problems calling out Wittebanes for disowning Julia, not coming to their daughter's funeral for being gay, and their Fantastic Racism. He sees the Mass Super-Empowering Event as a blessing from God, as his grandson was one of them, and lets Luz know even if she isn't religious, as a friend of her mother, she is always welcome at his church, as well as giving his blessings to avenge Julia's death.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: Governor Maxwell takes control of the Reality Check Camp from the original counsellor and turns it into a Death Camp.
• The Unapologetic: When Luz asks Shigaraki if he regrets becoming a Card-Carrying Villain, he replies that the only thing he'd change if given the chance is his approach, tweaking things here and there to make his plans more effective out of Pragmatic Villainy.
• Underestimating Badassery: Kennedy honestly thought he and his entire team could still take down Luz when she revealed herself to be a Power Parasite that has been Gaining the Will to Kill. The Curb-Stomp Battle ends in a near Total Party Kill with him not being the Sole Survivor.
• Undying Loyalty: Julia's last thoughts were even if she did know where Luz was she wouldn't betray her friend and saviour, taking her secrets to the grave.
• Unreliable Expositor: It's made clear that Luz should take anything that All For One says with a grain of salt. For example, he claims that his Quirk is unique in The Multiverse, but even disregarding the Nine incident his plan canonically involved copying his Quirk and passing the original on to Tomura, which would have been made impossible to even attempt by this if what he's saying is true, and his brother having a similar Quirk that would become One For All proves that the All For One Quirk isn't an exception to Quirks having a genetic basis. He also claims that his Quirk comes with a built-in craving to steal Quirks, but it's entirely possible that he's just trying to push Luz into starting to steal powers, especially given how he seems to show concern to her despite being canonically The Sociopath that doesn't care about anyone besides himself, though it's possible that self-preservation is also a factor, given that his vestige's existence is tied to hers now.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
  • Camila may have been the one to send Luz to Summer Camp, but she knew nothing about it being turned into a Death Camp for superhumans. There Luz witnesses the murders of her new friends and kills both in self-defence and revenge with her, causing the deterioration of Luz's mental state and becomes more easily influenced by All For One.
  • All Might may have done his world a favour putting down All For One in their Final Battle before the story events of My Hero Academia starts, he unknowingly caused a Mass Super-Empowering Event in Luz's world when All For One's Quirk transferred into the girl, setting off the story's bloody events.
  • 24 years before the start of the story Eda discovered the Mutant Realm aka the My Hero Academia world. While there King was captured by All For One and got his hands on his Titan Blood. Even after she rescued him and returned to their home world, the supervillain acquired the means to follow her back to the Boiling Isles and waged a 10-year long war for control of the land that resulted in many casualties of her people, something that haunts her to this day.
  • Tyler Wittebane sending his assassins to try and kill Luz ends up escalating the Collateral Damage in Gravesfield to the point that it ends up being turned into a giant crater after only 4 hours, destroying his ancestral home and killing off nearly all his people. Though, he considers it to be Worth It, Not knowing that Luz survived al that and is now coming for him in the Demon Realm..
  • Aiya Kagurami ended up giving birth to Yoichi and Rikitasu Shigaraki, the latter of whom would grow up to be none other than All For One - which might not have been so bad if she hadn't died in childbirth, leaving him and his brother to grow up on the streets.
• Unwitting Pawn: Killing and stealing the Quirks of the other team was exactly what the governor wanted Luz to do.
• Useless Bystander Parent: Rather than defending her daughter from those who painted her as a problem for her differences, Camila signed her up for Reality Check Summer Camp, a place that was supposed to force Luz to conform to what others deemed "normal". Shigaraki exploits this to convince Luz that her mother is actually a Resentful Guardian who won't even care about the fact that said camp turned out to be a death camp. After learning of what Luz went through, Camila vows to herself to try her absolute best to make this an Averted Trope in regards to herself.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: While All Might knows he had to kill All For One, he couldn't help but feel had been played, like villain planned for his demise.
• Vibration Manipulation: Johnny Marshal's quirk is this. He gets killed by an ice shard to the heart.
• Victory by Endurance: Stamina Negation is Quirk that allows Luz to negate all Stamina depletion, and essentially allow her to do this in her fights. She can never grow tired, although this doesn’t negate the need for sleep.
• Vigilante Man: Luz becomes one under the name "All For One" putting her on the cops' radar.
• Villain Override: All For One's Long Game Evil Plan involves doing this to Luz.
• Villain Respect: Averted. All For One is NOT happy about the fact that someone he views as an "oaf" like All Might killed him.
• Villain Takes an Interest: Governor Rodger Maxwell readjusts his plans as soon as he witnesses Luz use All For One viewing her as the perfect solution to contain the power boom that occurred which is leaving the government in shambles.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Tyler Wittebane leads a conservative mega-church that's popular enough to indoctrinate people in his Fantastic Racism "crusade" and has many supporters. This makes it more difficult for Luz to bring him down by legal means.
• Villainous Face Hold: A rare Anti-Hero version, done by Luz to Emilia enquiring on why she should let her live.
• Villainous Lineage: The Wittebane Clan, descendants of Emperor Belos, are a family of Witch Hunters during Salem Times. After the Mass Super-Empowering Event, they're trying to get all the families in Gravesfield who were once families of witch hunters together to start "hunting those who were cursed by the devil." Unfortunately, Token Good Teammates like Julia and Caleb don't last long.
• Villains Never Lie: As much of a Manipulative Bastard he is, All For One has rarely outright lied to Luz, especially if it concerns an Awful Truth, simply out of delight with her trying to deny the awful revelations whilst he's being completely honest and forthright with her. Despite hating this, Luz does gain a level of trust in All For One because of this trait. Unfortunately for her, 'doesn't lie' does not mean All For One still isn't any less manipulative, villainous, and deceitful.
  Wake-up call after wake-up call was something that [Luz] was used to, but not with the bluntness that Shigaraki provided. Most people danced around every subject, but Shigaraki didn’t. He went straight to the heart of the problem and ripped the bandage off with a pair of pliers each and every time. First, it was about using her power, then it was about the reality of the situation she was in, and recently it was about her mother and her actions.
• Villains Want Mercy: Kennedy, the ringleader of the Alpha Squadron massacre, does this when he's when Luz is about to kill him in chapter 12. He gets no mercy what so ever.
  Kennedy: N-No! P-Please! I-I-I’ll do anything! Anything at all! J-Just please, please don’t kill me!
  Luz: Funny… I bet that’s what Julia said, too. Then you killed her and desecrated her corpse with that power of yours. A power you don’t deserve… And while I’d normally take it like I did everyone else's, yours revolts me. So, keep your power… it’s not like you’ll be using it for much longer, anyway.
• Voice of the Legion: Luz has this sometimes when under the influence of All For One.
• Was It Really Worth It??: Luz asks Shigaraki if he regrets becoming a Card-Carrying Villain, his response is a bit of yes and no, but mostly no.
  Shigaraki: Do I regret my actions? [...] Hardly. The only thing I regret doing is going about it in the way I did. I made a lot of errors back then, and if I were given a second chance, I would do it again, only perhaps with a less violent approach, and perhaps I wouldn’t have created One For All with my future knowledge. To give a very short version of my answer. No. No, I do not. But if I could change small bits and pieces of what I did to make for a more healthy outcome, then I would. Otherwise, I’d keep things the same.
• We Can Rule Together:
  • In the past, All For One offered this to O'clock, who recently graduated. After the young hero refused, All For One killed him and stole his Quirk.
  • All For One also offered this to his brother who also naturally refused. He even intended to give him a copy of the Life Force Quirk to make their rule over Japan long lasting.
• We Used to Be Friends: Kennedy is this to Stanley for wanting to kill Luz for money.
• Wham Episode:
  • In chapter 3, Rodger Maxwell, the governor of Luz's state, has her and 32 other kids going to Reality Check Summer Camp kidnapped to be put in a Deadly Game with, as far as anyone could tell, is supported by the government, and under the threat of being gunned down if they try to escape.
  • At the end of the chapter 4, Luz meets All For One himself, her Quirk's predecessor, in her Mental World after she fell asleep and he knows her name.
  • Luz takes Julia's Quirk at her request in chapter 7... unfortunately this is witnessed by the governor that kidnapped them.
  • In second half of chapter 10, more than half of Luz's team gets massacred at their Home Base, the first characters to be Killed Off for Real in the story. They're murdered by the other 2 teams, the Heaven’s Devils and Foxtrot, working together and trying to find The Leader to win the promised $15 billion from the governor. Even Julia, Luz's First Friend isn't spared.
  • * In chapter 11, Luz's kills her first person under All For One's influence and she isn't going to stop there.
• Wham Line: Not to Luz, but to the readers who have seen The Owl House and are familiar with Julia's last name knows who's related to her.
  Luz: Names Luz! Luz Noceda, nice to meet ya, uh…?
  Julia: Oh, right! Julia, Julia Wittebane of the former English noble family of the Wittebanes.
• White Hair, Black Heart: All For One has white hair and he's definitely one of the most evil characters in the story. Luz's hair starts to turn white but is more of a ruthless Anti-Hero at that point.
• What Is This Feeling?: It takes a moment for Luz to realise that what she's now feeling after discovering the massacre of summer camp friends is a level of rage she's never thought she was capable of.
• White Sheep: Julia was this in the Wittebane family, sans a remark or two for those who believed in witchcraft and magic, before they disowned her.
• Who's Laughing Now?: All For One admits to Luz, he eventually got fed up with the Fantastic Racism from those around him, and I acted upon his Power Parasite urges. He started to amass power, steal from those who I thought didn’t deserve it, and redistributed it to those who he believed knew would never lay a finger on him and his younger brother. Eventually he became Japan's most powerful supervillain.
• Why Won't You Die?: As he reaches his Villainous Breakdown, Cody screams this to the Alpha Squadron.
  Cody: Just. DIE. ALREADY!
• With Friends Like These...: All of Julia's friends, who had been made at the church and several meetings as well as at Sunday School abandoned her after she gained superpowers and was disowned by her parents.
• With Great Power Comes Great Perks: All For One tries to sell this to Luz. She would prefer to follow With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility instead, even she finds to be cheesy.
• Wolverine Claws: Spear Fingers originally belonging to Darlene. A Quirk that allows the user to turn her fingers sharp and pointed like spears, and fire them toward people like extendable pole-arms from a distance of 25 meters. Luz steals this Quirk before killing her, avenging Julia's murder by her hands.
• Worth It: Julia considers having her Quirk taken away to be this, despite how painful and dangerous the process is for her.
• Would Hurt a Child:
  • Tyler Wittebane has no problems hiring hitmen to go after Luz because she has superpowers who were all willing to try and kill the 14-year old, for $10 billion. "Try" being the key word here as Luz kills them first and steals most of their Quirks.
  • Sheriff Johnson tried to have Luz gunned down even when she was surrendering. Big mistake as she finally snaps and wipes him and his squad out.
  • A 24 year-old King has no problems throwing down with Toshiko, a teenaged girl, even before he knew she had powerful Quirks that allowed her to contend with his might.
  • Aiya was just 16 years old when Tamashiki Shigaraki sexually assaulted her.
  • When Hindter hears his opponent, Amity Blight, is a teenager, it doesn't make him pause or even consider going easy on the child.
  Hindter: I’m gonna rip out ya insides, little brat. Easiest 100 Snails I’ll ever make.
  • All For One's canon grooming of Tenko and turning him into Tomura qualifies as this, as any chance Tenko had at a normal life was taken from him the second the Big Bad found him. He also intends to use Luz as his own personal Soul Jar, if he can't reach Tomura back in his world quick enough. Its also revealed that he did Quirk experiments on witch children when he invaded the Boiling Isles.
• Year Outside, Hour Inside: Downplayed. In Luz's dreamscape, 5 minutes here, is 50 minutes in the real world. Shigaraki wonders if that applies to his world and Luz's.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are:
  • All For One remembered his brother's Last Words to him was that there was some good in him and that he only needed to act on it to change the world for the better. He disagreed with that.
  Yoichi: I’ve known, since the very beginning, that deep down there is a spark of good in you. It’s just buried deep within that hateful soul of yours. I know you’re better than this, Brother. We can both be better than this. So please, stop this! Stop doing what you’re doing. Stop hurting people, and help out! Don’t be cruel to the world just because it was cruel to us!
  • Odalia gives this speech to Amity who is nervous about going to school with her magical peers.
  Odalia: Amity. You need to have more faith in yourself. You might not be able to use Magic, but you have a Gift. A Gift that, while it was forced upon you by That Man, at the very least you’ll be stronger than all the rest. Magic can only take a Witch so far when they’re restricted to only one thing. You’re Unique. Don’t forget about that.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Luz realises this when people witness her become a Cop Killer.
• You Got Guts: Stanley has this opinion on Luz for admitting that's she's super nervous to actually be leading a team, but will try her best to be a good leader. He tells her made the right call joining her team.
• You Remind Me of X:
  • When Luz calls their Power Parasite Quirk evil and wrong, Shigaraki muses she sounds just like his younger brother did.
  • Luz's mannerisms and overall behaviour reminds Stanley of his sister, Marie, back home. Because of this he vowed he was going to do everything in his power to make sure she was safe.
• You Will Be Spared: After hearing her apologise over and over, as well as seeing no falsehood in her words, Luz decides to leave Emilia as the Sole Survivor of her carnage.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Luz initially is unable to feel remorse for killing the 20 kids that slaughtered half her team and tried to murder her first until All For One hums in approval of her actions.
• Your Head Asplode:
  • How All For One dies courtesy of All Might.
  • Many kids at the Death Camp meet this fate.
• Your Mom: This exchange in chapter 10.
  Cody: (After being repeatedly kicked in the face) That was a cheap shot, asshole!
  Jean: It was cheap for you to jump us, asshole!
  Cody: Touché. However, counter-argument, YOUR MOTHER!
• You Monster!: Luz sees All For One as this through and through, and there was nothing he could say, do, or change about himself in his vestige form to make her think otherwise. Most of the witches on the Boiling Isles don't disagree.

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