King Explosion Murder the Shield Hero (alternate link to Archive of Our Own here) by BKL777 is a The Rising of the Shield Hero Crossover with My Hero Academia, with Katsuki Bakugou as the main character.

Taking place in between Seasons 3 and 4 of the anime, Katsuki Bakugou studies at U.A's library for his history test and to think about the extra courses he will be forced to take to be able to retake the Hero Licensing Exam. But on that fateful day, he finds a single book on the ground, titled "The Four Cardinal Weapons".

After reading through most of it, he was starting to lose interest in the book, until he got to the section about the Shield Hero - when he is suddenly sucked into the book. The next thing Bakugou knew, he was in another world with a magical shield stuck on his arm but still with his Quirk. He was there along with three other Japanese teens, Motoyasu, Itsuki, and Ren, all of whom had been summoned from other worlds to save the one they were in now from evil inter-dimensional forces.

Despite his reluctance and having no choice in the matter, in order to get back home, Katsuki will have to save this world from destruction, going on many journeys, meeting new enemies and allies, and eventually becoming the world's greatest hero.

Author has also made a Isekai Quartet spin-off that involves this version of Bakugou. Can be read here: Isekai Quintet, featuring King Explosion Murder Fanfiction.net or Archive Of Our Own.

Tropes with their own pages:

Asshole Victim

King Explosion Murder the Shield Hero provides examples of:

Abhorrent Admirer: Zenra, the prized botanist and former castle gardener, wanted Queen Mirella to be his wife despite the Queen already being married with two daughters. When she rejected him, he snapped and destroyed the castle gardens, resulting in him losing his job. Even years later, he is still obsessed with her, planning to create an army of mutant plant monsters by combining the Miracle Seed and his magic to create a plant monster army to take over Melromarc and force her to be his wife after executing the rest of her family. Fortunately, Bakugou and his sidekick, Neia, put an end to his twisted plans. When Bakugou visits his house, his bedroom walls are filled with pictures, posters, and paintings of the Queen, and he even has a life-sized doll of her with what appears to be her actual hair on it, which Bakugo immediately destroys, not as a sign of disrespect towards the queen, but rather out of disgust towards the madman's obsession.
Adaptational Early Appearance: Ost Horai is introduced before the awakening of the Spirit Tortoise, while currently just the concubine of the still living King of the Tortoise Kingdom.
Adaptational Heroism: Ren was already the Token Good Teammate in the source material, but here is substantially more heroic in his actions trying to stick up for Bakugou at his trial before the King intimidates him into silence, sparing Gaelion's life, and banning Demi-human slavery when he takes over Mirso. It's noticeable that he's the only hero Bakugou has any respect for.
Adaptational Jerkass: Unlike the beginning of the light novel, Itsuki begins to hide less of his true colors after chapter 7 when Bakugou stops his assassination attempt on the King of Tervein. As a result, Itsuki is humiliated, judged, and punished for the assassination attempt, leaving him broke and with a ruined reputation. Since then, Itsuki no longer hides his egotistical nature and begins to hate Bakugo wholeheartedly.
Adaptational Late Appearance: Since Bakugou never bought any slaves from the start, Raphtalia’s fate was left to be unknown. It wasn’t until the start of Chapter 15 long after the second wave (to the cardinal heroes) had past when we’re introduced to Raphtalia along with a still living Rifana., now as freed protege’s of Lord Reichnott.
Adaptation Expansion:
- The nation whose king was assassinated by Itsuki gets a lot more attention and detail, with Bakugou personally meeting said king (and saving him from being killed), and spending a whole chapter in the nation.
- Siltvelt also gets more attention (in comparison to the manga and anime), with the Shield Hero's Party finding out that the country and the Shield Hero Church are incredibly corrupt. The group spends multiple chapters there, dealing with the Wave while trying to reform the government.
Animal Jingoism: Just like in the original story, Dragons and Filolials do not get along, seeing each other as rival animals competing for dominance or as food, both intelligent and unintelligent ones alike. Especially with Kirishima and Scarlet, who like to growl, intimidate, and mock each other all the time even when they are supposed to be on friendly terms.
Arbitrarily Large Bank Account: Bakugou pretty much has one after all the time he spent in Siltvelt. First, he received a lot of gifts and bribes from nobles all over Siltvelt, either because he's their god or just to get on his good side. Then, after putting the entire government and the Shield Church's head, Patriarch Ozsan, under a sleeping potion, he not only takes control of the church, but of its large treasury as well. A good part goes to the new nobles he pardons and gives land to, but he keeps a large amount for himself. By the time Queen Mirellia offered him a monetary reward, he refused it, considering it chump change.
Ascended Extra: Rino didn’t exist in the original web novel and never became relevant in the light novel until way later into the story to get her revenge against Myne/Bitch. But here, she becomes one of Bakugou's sidekicks after he saved her and multiple other girls' lives from traffickers. And, as his sidekick, she gets in all the action Bakugou gets involved in, even getting revenge on Motoyasu and Myne a lot sooner than her counterpart.
Attempted Homewrecker: Zenra, the prized botanist and former castle gardener, wanted Queen Mirella to be his wife despite the Queen already being married with two daughters. When she rejected him, he snapped and destroyed the castle gardens, resulting in him losing his job.
Beam-O-War: Near the end of the Pope fight in chapter 18, Balmus, using all his power, fires a giant powerful magic beam attack referred to as “Holy Rapture” at the Cardinal Heroes and their teammates. Bakugou with the Wrath Shield manages to hold it back, but at the same time, everyone else, including the other cardinal heroes and Bakugou's sidekicks, all fire their own magic beam attacks at the Pope's beam around the Shield Hero. With Bakugou acting as the medium, the beam struggle goes back and forth, but once it seems the Pope has the upper hand, Bakugou fully embraces the Wrath Shield's corrupt influence once again, and with an upgraded Wrath Shield, he along with everyone else’s beam attacks finally overpower the Pope's beam. Once Bakugou makes it up to the Pope still firing his attack, a large explosion from Bakugou and the combined beam attacks blow up right on the Pope, sending Balmus flying through a hole in his magical Cathedral and making him lose his replica weapon, allowing Bakugou and crew to win the intense beam struggle.
Beauty to Beast: Happens with Princess Malty. In chapter 18, she fights against her former teammate Rino which eventually leads to a close struggle in which Myne attempts to permanently scar Rino for leaving a big cut across her face, but when the princess attempts to blast fire into Rino's face, the latter dodges just in time and the attack backfires on Myne, burning off half of her face in the process. Afterwards, Myne attempts to hide her disfiguration by covering it with her long hair, but then her punishment for her crimes against the Crown and the Shield Hero consisted of, among other things, getting her hair permanently shaved off, leaving her bald and with a burn scar.
Butt-Monkey: Motoyasu is one in this story, more so than he already was in canon. Motoyasu is usually insulted, mocked, humiliated, and/or gets hurt badly in most of the scenes he is in, especially if Bakugou, Ren, and their crews are involved.
Canon Character All Along: In chapter eight, Bakugo and his party run into Ren and his new filolial Scarlet, whose human form is a young girl with black hair, red eyes, and pale skin like Ren. Word of God confirms that Scarlet is the story's version of Naofumi's filolial Filo, albeit having her personality and appearance changed since Ren hatched her.
Career-Ending Injury: Welt, Bakta and Tersia all lose limbs fighting the Spirit Tortoise, forcing them to retire from Ren's party and adventuring as a whole. However, the three of them are granted a large monetary reward as well as titles of nobility for their sacrifice, allowing them to comfortably retire.
Clothing Damage: In Bakugou and Motoyasu’s duel in chapter 5, once Bakugou started using his quirk he was quickly kicking the Spear hero’s ass and blasted off parts of his armor. This climaxed once Bakugou blasts him with a huge howitzer impact explosion that basically obliterated the rest of Motoyasu’s armor, leaving the injured spear hero with only his scorched underwear left.
- Just prior to that Bakugou tricked Motoyasu into accidentally blasting Myne (who was already blatantly cheating blasting her fire magic at Bakugou) away with a powerful lightning attack that not only blasted her across the arena, but left a nasty mark on her body that ruined her own armor as well.
Composite Character: Katsuki Bakugou becomes one with Naofumi Iwatani, taking the latter's role as the Cardinal Shield Hero.
Corrupt Church:
- The Three Heroes Church. Just like canon, it's a human-supremacist and racist religious organization under the control of the power-hungry and fanatical Pope Balmus, who continuously demonizes the Shield Hero and intends to maintain Melromarc's current status quo, no matter what it takes. This includes attempting to kill the Crown Princess, encouraging a major war, convincing Aultcray to try to enslave the Sword Hero for their own benefit, and killing off all the nobles that support Aultcray.
- The Grand Holy Shield Church is basically the Three Heroes Church with a completely different belief system and name. They are a demi-human supremacist church that is racist against humans, worships the Shield Hero, and demonizes the other Cardinal Heroes, and their religious head, the Patriarch, is all too willing to take bribes from nobles or the government for whatever they need of the church, no matter if it is immoral or against the Church's beliefs. They will also excommunicate and brand anyone who criticizes the Siltvelt government or their own church as heretics.
The Coup:
- A violent rebel group called the Red Hand attempts to kill and overthrow the King of Tervein before taking over the kingdom under the leadership of the King's Evil Advisor, Qine, and with the aid of Itsuki, the cardinal bow hero. Their coup fails thanks to the efforts of Bakugou and his crew.
- By chapter 15, most of Melromarc's nobility are sick of King Aultcray's flagrant abuse of his power, such as trying to start a war with Siltvelt in the middle of the Wave crisis with little evidence, threatening to imprison and execute them all for not going along with it, and attempting to arrest and enslave the cardinal Sword Hero, Ren Amaki. With support from the military and the Queen, they enact their coup under the leadership of Lord Reichnott and successfully overthrow the king, banishing him along with Motoyasu, Itsuki, and Myne afterwards.
Cruel Mercy:
- In Chapter 7, Bakugo convinces King Kardrum not to execute his treacherous advisor Qine for his role in the attempted assassination of the king, and instead let him rot in the dungeon for life with his tongue cut off. The last that's heard of Qine is him in the dungeon, unable to say anything without his tongue.
- During the fight in Chapter 18, Bakugo gives the Pope a minor fire resistance protection so he can survive getting burned alive by Kirishima, and then heals him before putting him through the Iron Maiden.
Curse: In the battle with Larc and Therese during the Cal Mira wave, Daven stabs Therese in the back with his Sai’s that inflict a curse of her. It took a few minutes to take full effect but eventually the curse made her gem purple and filled it up with dark magic that stopped her from conducting any magic or use her gem accessories. This curse continued to be in effect long after the Cal Mira battle even in her home world, and because of this curse she has unable to be involved in anymore of Larc’s and Glass’s adventures including the one with the Spirit Tortoise. It’s been implied Daven can easily lift the curse, but he will only do so if Bakugou gives his approval and as of Chapter 24 Bakugou has said no, still not trusting the heroes who were planning on destroying his sidekicks' world.
Dark Is Not Evil: Daven’s magical affinity is Dark Magic and is describe to have black hair and fur, not to mention was a former spy and assassin. However, despite this, he is a moral and decent person - unlike the rest of the corrupt Siltvelt government, the nobles associated with them like his father and stepmother. He wants to help people (demi-humans and humans alike) and only kills monsters and people who are truly evil themselves and deserve it.
Dartboard of Hate: Bakugo is shown to have them set up in his office at the Grand Holy Shield Church in Chapter 14. They have Motoyasu, Itsuki, Malty, and Aultcray's pictures on them, and he targets specific areas in the pictures such as Motoyasu's crotch and Malty's eye.
Death or Glory Attack: Ren’s sword of Light is a very powerful sword that can cut through anything, including the massive Spirit Tortoise’s entire head. Unfortunately for him, the Sword takes forever to power up and it is a very painful experience, with it being even more painful when he actually used it. Ren became unconscious and injured after only using the sword a few seconds and had to receive immediate medical attention afterward. According to Grilaroc who taught him that ability, Ren could’ve easily rip his limbs off if he wasn’t careful with this powerful sword.
Decadent Court: Siltvelt's government in a nutshell. The demi-human-run nation is under the control of a Council that consists of the four major tribes of Siltvelt (the Hakukos, the Genmus, the Shusakus, and the Aotatsus) who only care about advancing themselves and their own tribes'/races' interests and ignore the rest of the demi-human civilians. The nation’s church, the Grand Holy Shield Church, and its religious head, Patriarch Ozsan, are also highly corrupt and use religion to pacify the citizens and spout teachings that support the corrupt and repressive government, the broken caste system, and the bigotry towards and enslavement of humans. Prime Minister Trinock is just as greedy as the rest and seeks to exploit those that will benefit him and his country and has no care for lesser demi-humans. Lastly, their current king Janio is a lazy and rotten Spoiled Brat who is little more than a Puppet King to Trinock and the council.
Demonization:
- As per canon, the Shield Hero is seen as the devil in Melromarc, which is encouraged by the racist Three Heroes Church due to the Shield Hero's association with demihumans making it a convenient outlet for the kingdom's collective racism towards demi-humans.
- This is inverted in Siltvelt, while the Shield Hero is worshiped as a God there with the Grand Shield Hero Church, while the bow, sword, and spear heroes are all seen as evil demon lords from hell that seek to conquer and take over the mortal world. Ren learns about this the hard way when he revealed himself and his identity in Siltvelt.
- In the kingdom of Tervein, they used to demonize the Shield Hero due to sharing the same religion as Melromarc, but they dispense with that after the Shield Hero saves their king from a coup of a rebel group and instead demonize the Bow Hero for his part in the coup.
De-power:
- More or less happens to Bakugou in chapter 15 when Siltvelt’s Prime Minister Trinock traps him and his party in a freezing below zero room. Bakugou was no longer able to produce his explosive sweat or it just freezes up on him preventing the shield hero from making use of his explosion quirk. He had to rely on the sweat he had stored up in his gauntlets for a bit, but once he ran out he was pretty much quirkless and powerless other then his defensive shield abilities. Afterward Trinock kept this up by keeping most of Bakugou’s body frozen to keep him pretty much powerless.
- As part of her punishments after the trials, Malty had her levels reduced back to 1 and the slave crest placed on her would now prevent the former Princess from using her wind and fire magic, with the only “weapon” she has now is a rusty old shield.
Dies Differently in Adaptation:
- Idol Rabier in chapter 13 doesn't die to the dino-dragon he summons this time. Instead, Gaelion breaks Idol’s legs after killing the knights who were with him in Mirso, leaving him unable to stand or run away, leaving him at the mercy of his victims and their loved ones, who decide to exact revenge via two days of Cold-Blooded Torture on their captor. In chapter 14, his mangled corpse was later reported to be found at an old creek.
- In Chapter 18, Pope Balmus does not die to the Blood Sacrifice. Instead, Bakugo, consumed by the Power Of Hate from his Wrath Shield, overpowers the Pope's attack and then takes the replica legendary weapon before destroying it, killing all the Church members that try to stop him, leaving the Pope for last. First, he gives the Pope a minor fire resistance buff so that he can endure Kirishima's fire breath, without making it any less painful. Then finally, Bakugo feeds him to the Iron Maiden, healing him during this so that his suffering will continue before he finally decides to let the corrupt churchman die.
Dreaded Kids' Party Entertainer Job: When they finally get to Cal Mira, Motoyasu and Itsuki struggle to find any good work to earn money since Ren and Bakugou took all the good quests since getting to the island chain a couple days before them. The only job they could get was an entertainer job for a noble’s kid’s birthday party. And according to the two it was a miserable experience, Motoyasu had to do an awful flaming juggling ball balance act and Itsuki was basically turned into a Piñata with the kids hitting him with sticks.
Egopolis: Bakugou will pretty much take any opportunity he can to add his name on something he creates or owns. Examples include naming a fruit he created with the miracle seed calling it Katsuki fruit and a new revised Shield hero Bible he titled “Katsuki Bakugou's Holy Shield Hero Bible” with his smug face on the cover. And once he became the Lord of his own region, he renames it to Bakcadia, and according to Princess Melty he also suggested to name it Katsuki Baktopia or Katsukistan until his sidekicks were able to talk him out of them.
Enemy Mine: In the battle against Kyo inside the Spirit Tortoise, despite hating both of them, Bakugou was willing to work together with Larc and Glass to stop a worse threat. Once Kyo and the Tortoise was defeated though this alliance just as quickly ended.
Energy Absorption: Bakugou gains this ability when corrupted by the Wrath Shield. When hit with magical attacks, he absorbs their power instead of taking damage, until he hits a threshold and lets out a huge explosion from the combination of the energy and his corrupted anger - powerful enough to blow up a whole castle.
Evil Chancellor: Qine, Tervein’s King Kardrum's advisor, constantly acts hostile towards Bakugou, not trusting him, his dragon, or his sidekick despite his offer to help, and butts heads with him even though he's working to protect the King. He's also bigoted against demi-humans and hates dragons, including Bakugou's. As it turns out, he's in league with the rebel group known as the Red Hand, aiming to have them kill the King so he and his group can take over the kingdom, and he also hired Itsuki to carry out the assassination, even admitting that he killed Kardrum's father to facilitate his plots.
Evil Is Not a Toy: King Ransha desired to rule the world by awakening the Spirit Tortoise and lay waste to most of it. When it gets free, the first thing the abomination does is beam the king to death.
The Exile: Neia Varon had been exiled and banished by her own family and people, the water elves. The reason why it's not known yet is that Neia's not willing to talk about it to anyone, including Bakugo, out of shame and embarrassment from it. Whatever the reason was, Neia was basically given nothing but the clothes on her back and some of her people's currency, which is completely worthless to the rest of the world.
Experienced Protagonist: Unlike the other Cardinal Heroes, Bakugou has already had combat experience since before high school and has fought against legitimate threats from villains before coming to the new world, making him much more experienced in fighting than any of the three.
Facial Horror: When Rino got the upper hand on Malty, she wastes no time using her spear to deliver a diagonal scar to the evil princess's face then tricked the princess into burning half her face. While this did result in Malty using her hair to cover this disfigurement, but Neia humiliates her by having her hair shaved off and cursed to keep it from growing back along with keeping her from wearing anything to cover her disfigurement and baldness.
Fantastic Racism:
- Just like the original story, Melromarc is a human supremacist nation with bigotry against demi-humans prevalent throughout the country, and most Demi-humans being slaves.
- Siltvelt is a Demi-human supremacist nation and Melromarc’s counterpart, a nation ruled by Demi-humans with extreme bigotry against humans seeing most of them as stupid slow creatures and would constantly refer to them as “monkeys”, with the majority of humans in Siltvelt being enslaved just like Demi-humans are in Melromarc.
Fat Bastard:
- Lord Smi of Mirso is an obese and drunk Jerkass who could barely care about his job and likes to constantly insult people or his own town. He is also extremely greedy and corrupt, offering a reward to whoever kills off an innocent dragon that lives around the town's area to not only profit from his corpse as a tourist attraction, but plans with his equally morally corrupt associates to later loot his den after the dragon is dead, and also capture and sell his adoptive daughter Wyndia off to slavery.
- Lord Idol Rabier qualifies as usual. In chapter 13, he attempts to take over Mirso with a unit of knights under his command after Smi’s death and Ren’s takeover of the town to make himself the new lord and enslave any free demi-humans there. That is until Gaelion shows up to kill off the raiding knights and cripple Rabier.
Fluffy Tamer: In Chapter 6, Bakugou finds a bright orange orb inside a rock golem monster in the miracle seed cave that turns out to be a dragon egg that hatches a baby dragon. Bakugou ends up keeping it without hesitation after the dragon imprints on him as his father and names it after his friend back at home, Kirishima. He starts out small, but with some leveling up and time, grows up to the size of a house cat at the beginning of Chapter 7 before growing again to the size of a large horse, and by the end of Chapter 8, he finally grows into his adult size and gains the ability to change between any of these three sizes at will or by command. Despite his growth in size and power, Kirishima is completely loyal to his adoptive father, who reciprocates by treating him well in return.
For Want Of A Nail: Because Ren ended up trying the Slave Trader's monster egg lottery instead of Bakugo, he ends up getting the Filolial egg and the resulting Filolial has a different appearance from her canon counterpart. In addition, Ren names her Scarlet.
Fugitive Arc:
- Ren is forced to go through one after he refused to get involved in Aultcray’s planned war with Siltvelt. The King orders Itsuki and Motoyasu to force Ren to join his war and if he still refuses, they along with Myne will capture Ren as a prisoner and then enslave him. After fighting off the Bow and Spear Heroes along with the small armies that were with them, Ren, along with Scarlet, manage to escape their grasp, but the rest of Ren’s team gets captured and taken prisoners after sacrificing themselves to allow the Sword Hero to escape. Ren is now wanted by the current law of Melromarc with the King’s forces actively searching and hunting him down to still try to capture and enslave him. Ren and Scarlet are forced to stay away from civilization to find the Queen to help rescue his team and stop Aultcray and Malty’s tyrannies for good.
- Ironically, by the end of chapter 16, Aultcray, Myne, Itsuki, and Motoyasu ended up in the same position as Ren. They were forced to flee the capital and hide after Reichnott, with permission from the Queen, conducted a coup against them. With Aultcray’s supporters dead and with no means of amassing a loyal army to take back the kingdom, the group had to remain away from civilization to avoid capture by the authorities. Their only plan from then was to head toward Siltvelt and “rescue” a supposedly kidnapped Melty from Bakugou's grasp to get her to clear their names to take back the kingdom.
Gold Digger:
- Daven’s father Allen was one, seducing Loria Serita at a young age so he could marry her and become a nobleman through marriage. After several years and a son, he found that it wasn't enough for him, and decided to advance further in society, considering Loria to be a dead end. He then allied with Mellia, so he could gain a high position among Siltvelt's elite through Mellia's family connections and her race being of the council races, which would allow him to take pretty much everything from Loria in the divorce, including all of her land, money, titles, and their own son.
- Mellia is one herself: being the youngest child of many siblings, she knew she wouldn’t inherit much, so she resorted to seducing anyone with land of their own for her to take it all when she has the chance. Then she "met" Allen, and the two allied with each other so they could take over Loria's lands and noble titles.
Grievous Harm with a Body: After Bakugou activates and goes on a rampage in Siltvelt Castle after unlocking the Wrath Curse series he specifically goes after King Janio of Siltvelt over his torture of him. Once Bakugou catches up to Janio he beats the living crap out of the king, and during the beat down he first rips his tail off, then he rips one of Janio’s whole arms off and started beating him with it. Despite the Shield penalizing him for technically using the severed limb as weapon with his menu also spamming messages of the same warning of Cardinal hero not permitted to use weapon but there own message over and over again, Bakugou ignored them along with the painful electric penalty until he bashes Janio through a wall and finally blows up the arm.
Groin Attack: Motoyasu is on the receiving end of many of these, with a few from Bakugou fighting him in a duel, one from Neia after his and Bakugou's duel, one from Rino right before scolding him for being an awful leader, a few from Itsuki during a bar fight with him, and a big one from Ren's Filolial Scarlet during a major fight.
Hero with Bad Publicity:
- Happens in the beginning with Bakugou after Myne accused him of sexually assaulting her on the second night he and the others arrived, with his general Bakugou attitude not helping matters either. While he manages to make people like Ren doubt the accusation after pointing out the holes in Myne's testimony, Aultcray still continues to smear his name while on the throne. This dramatically changes over time though as Bakugou's heroic actions made the public view him more and more like a true hero despite the crowns best efforts to do the opposite.
- This ends up happening with Motoyasu and Itsuki, but unlike Bakugou, instead of the crown deliberately smearing their names, it is their incompetence and terrible actions that cause the public to view the two in a bad light as awful heroes, such as Motoyasu's embarrassing defeat in his duel with Bakugou or Itsuki being involved in a coup with an immoral rebel group.
Hidden Depths: Bakugo is surprisingly perceptive about people, despite being a teenager with breathtaking anger issues. Unlike Naofumi, he isn’t fooled by Malty for a second and rebuffs her when she tries to join. He still gets the False Rape Accusation, just in a different way, and he doesn’t wind up stripped of everything.
Human Traffickers: Bakugo and his squad learn about a trafficking ring specializing in shipping women off to Faubrey as Sex Slaves for the nobles there, after interrogating a group of thugs that blabbed about it in a bar they were in. Using this information, they manage to stop the ship the ring is using for that purpose and rescue all the captives trapped onboard, inadvertently recruiting Rino in the process.
Humiliation Conga:
- In Chapter 5, after Bakugo stops holding back against Motoyasu, he quickly overwhelms the latter and even tricks him into attacking Malty who was cheating to help Motoyasu. Then, after he's forced Motoyasu to surrender, Bakugo makes him not only admit defeat but also call himself degrading nicknames in front of the large crowd gathered.
- The trial in Chapter 19, is nothing but this for Malty, Aultcray, Motoyasu, and Itsuki. First, Malty gets repeatedly shocked every time she lies, which is to say, almost every time she spoke. Second, for the king, he gets drilled on how his prejudice against the Shield Hero and his rash actions nearly caused the ruin of the kingdom and the lives of his family, along with other crimes he committed against the innocent demi-humans and those that tried to defend them, and when he refuses to take responsibility for his actions, the Queen repeatedly slaps him over and over again until his face is red and swollen. Lastly, for Motoyasu and Itsuki, they are told straight to their faces in detail, how they were doing a bad job as Cardinal Heroes, ranging from stuff like acting out on rumors to vigilantism. And then there are also their punishments. Like in canon, there are name changes but takes this further with the renamed all getting their new names branded upon their foreheads.
- And that's not even taking into account their individual punishments:
  - Malty is renamed "Bitchwhore" (and "Whorebitch" for her Myne alias), gets exiled from the castle, with all her items such as fancy clothes, jewelry, and money confiscated, forbidden to have any servants or slaves to help her, not even the Spear Hero party (Queen Mirellia even declares that helping her in any way will result in capital punishment), her stats reduced back to Level 1, her magic banned, forbidden from owning any property or slaves, prevented from insulting anyone or calling them by something other than their true names by her slave crest, and forced to only eat Motoyasu's cooking all until she pays back a 10,000 gold fine, which she has to do with only a shield (an old, rusting, hunk-of-junk one courtesy of Erhard). In addition, she has all her hair removed with a curse that prevents the hair from growing back or her from covering herself with headwear.
  - Aultcray is renamed "Piece of Shit" and gets to stay in the castle, but he's sent to the lowest of the hierarchy as a maid complete with the uniform, forced to do whatever backbreaking and menial jobs that people order him to do, all the while being paid minimum wage and forced to sleep in a dirty jail cell in the dungeon until he pays off the same 10,000 gold fine and only having Motoyasu's cooking to eat just like his daughter. In addition, he's kept under 24/7 surveillance by guards who will electrify him if he says anything racist against demi-humans or slanders against the Shield Hero, or if he's not doing a proper job as a maid. Lastly, all his heroic accomplishments for Melromarc are completely erased, with the Staff Hero being recorded nameless to remove his association with said title, and all that remains of his name are his deeds as a mad tyrant that nearly led to the ruin of the kingdom.
  - Motoyasu gets renamed "Ponytail Slut", has his hair dyed bright pink, is forced to give up his best items to Ren's party, forced to wear an enchanted chastity belt with itching powder applied to his crotch, and is made to pay back all the money that Malty has swindled from the royal treasury and guilds, and lastly, along with Itsuki, loses privileges like monthly funding and rewards, right to own property or slaves, animal companions, invitations to parties, and right to leave the country unless given permission; they also have to declare Katsuki the greatest hero in the world while they are weak losers and failures that don't deserve the title of heroes.
  - Itsuki is renamed "Bow Bitch", gets shaven bald and can't grow it back or cover it up like Malty, has to pay for funeral costs to the families of the nobles he's killed, and has to give back to Tervein whether through monetary costs for the damages while he worked with the Red Hand or by helping to fend off Waves there under the Shield Hero's direct supervision. And of course, there are also the punishments he's sharing with Motoyasu.
  - In addition to the aforementioned name change and branding, Elena and Lesty; renamed "Bitch" and "Bigger Bitch" respectively; also get the balding punishment, and the latter has her noble title stripped from her.
  - As for the Bow Hero team, they have to give up items to the Sword Hero team, and Mald and Rishia get their noble titles stripped.
Hydra Problem: Bakugo and Neia run into a hydra in chapter 3 after killing off a group of trolls in a swamp. After they seemingly kill it, they realize that it can regenerate its heads, forcing them to kill it by slicing it open before pulverizing its organs with a well-placed Howitzer Impact through the wound.
Interrupted Suicide: After being kicked out of the Bow Heroes party and a big fight erupting between him and the other Cardinal heroes and there teams, Rishia felt utterly sad and depressed and decided to ran off to commit suicide with the Sword and Shield hero groups following to stop her. She finally finds a high ledge to jump off, but before she could could completely fall to the ground Daven pops in just below the ledge with his teleporting magic and grabs the girl by her leg as she began falling. He teleports the both of them back into the hallway safely, though Rishia still upset tries to run back, but this time she gets blocked off from one of Bakugou’s airstrike shield. Neia finally just electrifies her and knock Rishia out, thankfully after she wakes back up in another room with them Rishia finally calmed down.
I Owe You My Life: This is Rino's reason for joining Bakugo after he rescued her from becoming a Sex Slave.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sure, Bakugo's the Jerkass we all know from My Hero Academia, but he also looks out for his own team and helps out others whenever he can.
Just Following Orders: Itsuki makes this excuse for his actions at the trials in chapter 19, claiming he was only following orders from King Aultcray. The Queen wasn’t buying it though, with her even pointing out that Itsuki had before plotted with Malty to mutiny and capture Aultcray for his own gain, so his excuse rings hollow to her and everyone else in the throne room. Bakugou even compared the excuse to the ones used in the Nuremberg trials in his head.
The Kingslayer:
- Bakugou, under the corruption of the Wrath Shield, ends up becoming one after he kills the King of Siltvelt Janio, with the Iron Maiden execution power. Being the one who helped fuel his rage to unlock the corrupt shield in the first place after torturing him while imprisoned.
- Aultcray was also one long ago before he became Melromarc’s King. During the Siltvelt-Melromarc over 20 years ago, he fought King Rohaw, Siltvelt’s king at the time and Janio’s father. After a long and fierce battle between each other and their armies, Aultcray came out victorious after paralyzing King Rohaw with his Vassal Weapon and then decapitated the giant Lion-man. The death of their king became the ultimate turning point against Siltvelt, allowing Melromarc to eventually win the war. Aultcray even kept Rohaw’s head as a trophy and had it stuffed and hung up in his own closet.
- Itsuki tried to be one with the king of Tervein, only to be foiled by Bakugou's efforts.
Laser-Guided Karma: During their trial, Lesty and Elena try to rope Rino into their crimes for her previous affiliation with Motoyasu which fails, then when the time comes to suggest their punishments, Rino states that she was willing to overlook their unawareness of her kidnapping, but since they tried to drag her down with them, has them renamed along with having their heads shaved.
Lethal Chef: Motoyasu is one to anyone unfortunate enough to be on his team or forced to eat his food. Malty and the other girls in his team usually throw away the food when he isn’t looking and act as if they ate it to make him feel better and suck up to him, with Rino openly stating her distaste for his cooking after joining Bakugou. Itsuki and his team are extremely blunt about their opinion of Motoyasu's food when they take a single bite of his beef stew, and King Aultcray himself can’t stand his food either. Later, his awful cooking is used as punishment for Malty and Aultcray; they're forbidden from eating anything else until they pay off their fines.
Living Battery: Dragon Kirishima was basically one when he was still an egg, being used to provide power and life to a stone golem guardian of the miracle seed cave whose master died centuries ago and laid dormant since it prevented Kirishima from ever developing and hatching until the golem was destroyed by Bakugou.
Logical Weakness: Bakugou's Quirk relies him on sweating out his explosive sweat to be collected in his palms for explosions, this can be a problem when he is in an extremely cold environment without any heavy winter clothing on making him unable to produce sweat or the sweat just freezes up. Trinock exploits this by setting up a freezing cold room to trap Bakugou and his party in. Though despite not producing anymore sweat, Bakugou always still has sweat stored up in his gauntlets to use, but when he runs out, Bakugou is pretty much Quirkless with just a shield that's only good for defense.
Megaton Punch: This is a result when Bakugou combines a punch with his explosion quirk. Larc was sent flying by one when he shook the hand of a pissed-off Bakugou.
Mistaken for Disease: Whilie in Glass’s world, Neia gets odd looks from everyone due to her blue skin. They assume she’s one of the Grass people, the closest thing to elves in Glass’s world who all had normal human skin tones. They think Neia either has some sort of mutation or she had a skin disease that makes her unnaturally blue like that.
The Mutiny: In chapter 17, Itsuki is growing sick and tired of following Aultcray’s lead, after spending a week in the woods following the exiled King to seemingly nowhere, then being told they may have to wait yet another week just to get through the bordering wall into Siltvelt. While Motoyasu's teammates distract Motoyasu (who is still loyal to Aultcray) away from the group (with Myne planning to abandon him in the dark woods when she has a chance), Itsuki starts his mutiny, successfully capturing Aultcray. While they were planning to use him as a hostage and sell him to either Melromarc (to gain pardons) or an enemy nation like Faubrey (for money, prestige, and titles), when Rishia sees Bakugou flying back in Melromarc with his team Itsuki decides to let Aultcray free so they, along with Motoyasu, can fight their common enemy and clear their names.
My God, What Have I Done?: Ren has a variation of one after Bakugou's trial in the beginning. At first, he fully believed Myne’s claim of Bakugou trying to rape her like with Naofumi in canon, until Bakugou started pointing out holes in the testimony which now made Ren start to doubt the whole event especially after now seeing how unfair the trial really was. He then wanted to at least hear Bakugou's side of the story until Aultcray threatens him with the same punishments as Bakugou. Despite it not sitting right for him, Ren eventually backed down not big on the idea of getting punished for a guy he didn’t like to begin with and allowed the trial to continue as normal in which Bakugou eventually gets convicted guilty for. After the trial itself was over, Ren now felt a lot of guilt knowing he allowed this joke of a trial to continue with an innocent victim suffering because he refused to help him, even doubting his role as a hero. This guilt continued on since then until chapter 17 when he eventually makes peace with Bakugou.
Mythology Gag: One of the punishments Bakugo suggested prior to revealing that he thinks death is too easy is Malty and Aultcray being tied to stakes and burned. In the original Shield Hero webnovel, Malty gets executed for good by being burned at the stake.
Named by the Adaptation: Rino is given a last name here, amking her full name "Rino Lidera."
Never My Fault: Can all be applied to Motoyasu, Itsuki, Malty, Aultcray, and most of the spear and bow heroes companions, made especially apparent at the trials, usually with them trying to say everything was all Bakugou and Ren’s faults. Motoyasu refuses to believe his teammates are just taking advantage of him and did terrible things behind his back, he’ll believe them over anyone else in spite of logic and clear evidence against them. Itsuki is to prideful to admit he was ever in the wrong and always believes he’s in the right of everything while enacting “justice”. Malty is a pathological liar trying all she can to get out of punishment for her evil deeds, even under a slave crest. Aultcray is also to prideful to admit he was wrong especially anything to do with the shield hero and Demi-humans, though in the trials he did admit he made the mistake of trusting Pope Balmus to easily that lead to his attempted to murder him and the heroes, but tries to make the excuse that Bakugou had “clouded his mind” to see Balmus through, but no one including Mirelia buys it. And the Spear and Bow companions follow there leaders leads making up whatever excuse they can to get out of trouble, Rishia is the only one of them willing to admit that they were in the wrong.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
- Zenra the botanist sends the Shield Hero team on a sham of a quest to retrieve a special seed with a trap. Not only do Bakugo and Neia survive the trap and leave the evil botanist to his fate after he comes to take the seed himself, but Bakugo also ended up getting a dragon egg out of the ordeal which hatches into Kirishima.
- After Rino stands up for Neia's defense after she was accused of stealing Malty's "precious" ring, Malty decides to get rid of Rino and sets her up to be kidnapped by sex traffickers. However, due to the same guys that Myne gave Rino to carelessly mentioning the former's name while in earshot of Bakugo, he correctly deduces that anything that she's involved in can't be good, and goes off to confront the traffickers, rescuing Rino and all the other girls, with the former even joining Bakugo's party. Rino later mocks Myne when they meet up again during a wave.
- Lord Trinock introduces the Sons of Siltvelt, the "best of the best" that the nation had to offer, to Bakugo in hopes of having them replace his current sidekicks. Not only do the majority of them fail miserably, but the only one that is accepted is Daven, who hates the corrupt higher-ups of Siltvelt's hierarchy, including Trinock and the Council, and goes on to help Bakugo weed out some corruption in the government.
- To eliminate Aultcray's supporters as part of his church's plot to take over the kingdom, Pope Balmus has them all gathered up in Idol Rabier's castle and then unleashes a massive beam that vaporizes the castle and all the people onside. However, this also ends up freeing Rabier's slaves, who even after being freed from enslavement following his death, were still trapped in their cages and were unable to leave: when the Pope's attack vaporized the castle, it ends up damaging the cages and prison cells in the cellar below, allowing the ex-slaves to finally escape.
- As Neia and Rino are about to face execution while Bakugo is Forced to Watch from his icy prison, King Janio decides to cut the feed to make the Shield Hero suffer more while being unable to help them. But this only works for a short while as Bakugo starts being consumed by anger and hate, unlocking the Wrath Shield which allows him to break free of the ice to hunt down the king and eventually kill him.
The Nicknamer: As usual, Bakugou refers to almost everyone by a nickname even when he knows their actual name. Those he considers allies or just people he tolerates, Katsuki gives out more descriptive names like Neia being nicknamed Blue and Rino nicknamed Brown Hair, while those he hates get more insulting ones like Ponytail Slut and Bow Bitch for Motoyasu and Itsuki respectively. The only person for a long time he says their proper name is his Dragon Kirishima that he named himself when he hatched. Though by the end of chapter 21 after all the time he has spent with them and had earned his respect, he finally starts referring to his sidekicks by their names.
Non-Human Sidekick: Bakugou's group of sidekicks consists of Neia who is a water elf, Daven who is a cat demi-human, and Kirishima who is a dragon. Averted with Rino and Melty though, they are both normal humans with magic.
Not a Game: Surprisingly unlike the manga or anime at this point pre-Sprit Tortoise arc, Ren eventually stopped viewing the world as a video game like Brave Star Online and sees it as a living world he has to watch and be careful of his actions. After spending time with Scarlet, his Filolial, as well as noticing what his actions nearly did to Gaelion and Wyndia, he starts taking the world more seriously and becomes more open to things that were clearly not in Brave Star Online.
Off the Rails: Because Bakugo does things differently than Naofumi, several events simply don’t happen, mostly related to the actions of the Three Cardinal Stooges:
- Since he isn’t robbed by Malty, and can fight for himself, he has no reason to acquire slaves, so he doesn’t have Raphtalia or Filo.
- He also doesn’t have the Two-Head Dog Shield, since he went to the swamp instead. He gets the Hydra Shield for a roughly similar function.
- Because he stops Ren from killing the dragon, the plague never happens, and he doesn’t have the Zombie Dragon Emperor fragment trying to induce him to succumb to the Wrath Shield.
- Because he dealt with the Bioplant himself, instead of stupidly planting it like Motoyasu, the village is never endangered by it.
- Because he stopped Itsuki from assassinating the neighboring king, the kingdom doesn’t suffer under the rebel government.
Official Couple: Defied; unlike Raphtalia, Neia is not in love with the Shield Hero, but simply has respect for him as a Hero. Also codified by the fact that Bakugo is singularly focused on heroism to the point of aromanticism, as in canon. Not to mention, she admits that Katsuki's not her type.
Only Sane Man: Ren feels like this is the case for him when he is forced to deal with the short-tempered Bakugou, the gullible and simple-minded Motoyasu, and the egomaniac Itsuki.
Outside-Context Problem: Bakugo’s Explosion Quirk continues to work after he is Isekaied, which throws people who expect the Shield to have no offense ability for a loop. They continuously ask about the “strange fire magic” he’s using.
Papa Wolf: Ren and Gaelion are both this for Scarlet and Wyndia.
Post-Victory Collapse: After Bakugou overcomes the Wrath Shield the first time and revert back to normal, he collapses and becomes unconscious for a day from the overwhelming mental strain after resisting the Cursed Shield’s influence.
Produce Pelting: After her trial in chapter 19 and receiving all her punishments, former Princess Malty (now called “Bitchwhore”) was kicked out to the streets in front of a mob of mad looking citizens who are now aware of her true self and what she and her father did, which included trying to start a major war in the middle of the wave crisis, just to get a chance to kill her little sister and claim the throne for herself while basically leaving them to die from the waves. They weren’t amused about all of that along with her other crimes and started throwing rosary’s of the now heretical 3 heroes church and eventually rotten fruit at her.
Protection Racket: Most of the low caste citizens in the town of Edvie in Siltvelt are victims of a double racket. They are forced to pay “protection taxes” to their corrupt sheriff and the guards under his pocket and are also forced to pay protection to the local gang, the Scar Crafters, led by the sheriff’s own son. After Bakugou and his crew dealt with them, the villagers of Edvie were more than happy to kill their exploiters.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech:
- After Bakugou's victory in his duel with Motoyasu after the first wave they encountered, Neia gives Malty, Motoyasu, and King Aultcray a serious roasting for all the horrible acts they did; Malty for tricking and manipulating her to frame Neia for a crime she didn’t commit, Motoyasu for not questioning Malty and going along with her sentence of enslavement and dueling Bakugou over it, and Aultcray for sentencing her with little evidence or hear her side of the story and turning a blind eye to his daughter's blatant manipulations.
- Rino gives Motoyasu a brutal tongue-lashing just a day before the second wave, repeatedly hitting and yelling at her former team leader after she was nearly shipped off into sexual slavery by human traffickers when under his leadership because of Malty and chewing him out for never knowing about her situation nor doing anything to save her.
- Neia roasts Motoyasu again during the trial he and Princess Malty were being judged in by the true ruler of Melromarc, making a long-winded speech on how hypocritical his points in opposing Malty's (deserved) conviction were and that she (Neia) never got a fair trial when the evil princess framed her for theft and tried to have her enslaved. She concludes it by dealing him a huge slap and a Groin Attack.
Reconstruction: Bakugou demonstrates how treating the world like a video game can work where the other three heroes fail. While the other three put in the bare minimum as heroes to "win", Bakugou plays RPG video games to 100% Completion, so he spends his first day as the Shield Hero looking for "side quests" by asking everyone he meets if they have any problems he can help them solve. These odd jobs endear him to the commoners despite his abrasive attitude, earning him a stellar rep among the people.
Related in the Adaptation: The lord of Mirso and Lord Idol Rabier are cousins here. He uses this as a justification for going along and attacking the town when Ren is forced to go on the run.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Bakugo goes on one when he unlocks the Wrath Shield after being imprisoned along with his team by Trinock and his cronies. It gets so destructive that Ren and the others have to Beat the Curse Out of Him before things go out of hand.
Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Bakugo essentially takes control of his own church after drugging Patriarch Oszan and all of Stiltvelt's nobility with a sleep potion in Chapter 14, reforming it from the ground up and purging it of its worst aspects. By the time Oszan wakes up, he can't do a damn thing since Bakugo is effectively his god and can do whatever the hell he wants with his church.
Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: After Ren refuses to get involved in Aultcray’s planned war with Siltvelt, he attempts to remain neutral and stay out of it. When the nobles led by Lord Reichnott make their anti-war stance clear, Aultcray threatens to label them all as traitors and have them arrested but holds himself back in fear of an immediate revolt from such action. After the war meeting, a civil war between the king and the nobles threatens to erupt, with Ren attempting to flee Melromarc with his team to avoid getting caught up in the chaos. Unfortunately for him, Myne, Motoyasu, and Itsuki caught up to him while he was resting in an inn with an army at their side to force Ren to work with Aultcray and join his planned war, whether he wants to or not.
Secret Identity: For a while in Melromarc, whenever Bakugou took up a job or headed toward a location not familiar with him or his face, he would refer to himself as Kacchan, Izuku's old childhood nickname for him. He would also change his shield into its book form to no longer resemble a shield, similar to what Naofumi does in canon.
Shock and Awe: Neia’s main magic affinity is lightning and electricity, allowing her to use her mana to produce thousands or millions of volts of electricity in her body and channel it as a single powerful surge or multiple smaller bolts against enemies in combat. Bakugou directly compares it to Kaminari’s Quirk, but unlike his Quirk, Neia's mental capabilities are unaffected by the amount of electricity she produces.
Sir Swears-a-Lot: Bakugou makes himself a fast reputation as a foul-mouthed cur of a Shield Hero.
Slave Liberation: Bakugo enacts this in chapter 14 after drugging Siltvelt's higher-ups with a sleep potion, utilizing the kingdom's resources to gather and liberate all of Siltvelt's human slaves before sending them to Melromarc.
Spared by the Adaptation:
- Gaelion survives his encounter with Ren after Bakugou and Kirishima are able to stop the Sword Hero, and because of this, neither the zombie dragon plague nor Wyndia's enslavement occurs.
- The foreign king Itsuki kills in the light novel survives here thanks to Bakugou's efforts in stopping Itsuki's assassination attempt.
- Rifana survives her torture from Idol Rabier and recovers thanks to Lord Reichnott and one of the Queen's shadows.
- Ren’s original teammate’s all survive the battle against the Spirit Tortoise. Welt, Bakta, and Tersia though ended losing some of their limbs so they were forced to retire from adventuring, but hold no ill will against Ren for it and are thankful to him for allowing them the opportunity to all be heroes that helped saved the world. Farrie though still has all her limbs and continues to remain a part of Ren’s party.
Taken for Granite: The Wave Boss of Siltvelt’s Wave turns out to be a giant Gorgon Queen who had numerous minor Gorgon minions that set themselves up in a large quarry. And like any Gorgons, they have the ability to turn any living thing into stone: the Shield group destroys any of their intact heads to not take any chances with the dead ones. Bakugou also inserts a normal Gorgon thing who looks directly at their eyes into stone, forcing Bakugou and crew to attack blindly at the monsters or awkwardly through mirrors. After killing the Gorgons and their Queen, the Wave ends, and Bakugo stores its head in his Cardinal Shield, gaining a shield that makes him immune to petrification and gives him the ability to cure petrification, which is helpful to those whose statues remain intact, not so much to those whose statues were already shattered.
Too Dumb to Live: Pope Balmus and his minions, even after the Wrath-corrupted Bakugo destroys their trump card, still foolishly believe they can still kill him and throw everything they've got, with the Pope even gloating about triumphing over the "devil", only for Bakugo to retaliate, wiping out a lot of churchmen, and eventually the Pope himself.
Tunnel Network: The Tortoise Kingdom’s capital turns out to have a large series of natural underground tunnels that stretch for miles and are hundreds of feet below the earth. And within this huge network lies the Spirit Tortoise’s resting place.
Ungrateful Bastard: In Chapter 18, even after all Bakugo and his party did to save Aultcray and his bitchy daughter, Malty, from Pope Balmus's forces, Aultcray tries to double-cross them the moment Bakugo is exhausted from expending a lot of energy. Ren calls him out on it while Bakugo's team just rolls their eyes, not surprised or threatened.
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Actually averted for Bakugo. Unlike the other Cardinal Heroes, in his world, people with odd skin and hair colors, animal features, or crazy powers, are quite common. It’s just that they're Quirks rather than races of people.
Unwanted Harem: Not long after he first arrived in Siltvelt’s capital, Prime Minister Trinock has Bakugou isolated in a room to learn more about the nation he's in. When Bakugou realizes what kind of room Trinock locked him into, a mass of Demi-human noble girls swarms at him en masse with the intent to have sex with him with or without his consent. Bakugou does all he could to avoid them, including blasting himself up to the ceiling while trapped in the room with magic barriers on all sides until he's able to break out and escape from his unwanted suitors.
Villainous Breakdown: In chapter 23 after Bakugou and his team kill the Spirit Tortoise, Kyo was mildly annoyed that his enslaved pet was killed, but was satisfied enough that he at least gotten himself thousands of souls in hands he plans to later experiment with.Before he could escape though Kyo gets stabbed in the back by Daven, and Bakugou crushes the vial containing the souls freeing them. After that Kyo completely loses his smug arrogance and composure and starts to loudly cry and whine like a toddler when months of planning got instantly ruined. When Bakugou finally mocks him for it, that whining turns into rage with Kyo yelling and threatening to make Bakugou suffer for what he did, but before he could do anything Neia stabs Kyo in the back and then beheads him.
Walking Shirtless Scene: Bakugou's first and default outfit he wears all the time is Barbarian armor which is pretty much his fantasy au outfit that he gets from Erhard. It leaves him constantly shirtless and with an exposed chest. But despite his exposed chest the cape he is always wearing with the outfit provides special protection magic that acts like invisible armor, protecting his whole torse even when it looks like he is wearing nothing.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Just like in the original story Ren is deathly afraid of going into the water, having a panic attack when he is thrown in 4 feet of water he could’ve stood up from. Bakugou wasn’t going to let him avoid the Cal Mira wave because of it and forced him to do swimming lessons with his sidekick Neia. They barely helped break Ren’s phobia, though the lessons did help him be more active in the Cal Mira wave than his canon counterpart, though being near or around water still stressed him out, and was extremely exhausted after the wave was over because of it.
Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: When Bakugou’s dragon hatched, he originally wanted to call him “Prince Explosion Murder”, but Neia managed to talk him out of it, saying that he wouldn’t call a child or pet that. Eventually Bakugou names the baby dragon Kirishima, after his friend back at his homeworld.
Wrong Context Magic: While not magic and is an actual part of his biology, Bakugou's Quirk more or less applies here. Despite the Shield Hero usually never having any means of attack with their magic mostly being support base, Bakugou can still use his Quirk and is still effective in hurting and killing opponents. It flummoxes the other Cardinal Heroes who are so used to seeing Shielders in their games not having such powers and are mostly useless tanks. Motoyasu and Itsuki in particular are convinced Bakugou somehow cheated to get such “fire powers”.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: After unlocking the Wrath Shield, Bakugou goes on a corrupted anger induced rampage, however after he severely injured his sidekick Neia as well as seeing the harm he’s done with the rest of his sidekicks and Ren, he kneels in utter despair thinking that he now has become exactly what those in Melromarc and back in his homeworld thought of him, a devil, a villain, and a monster. However Ren, then Bakugou’s sidekicks including injured Neia all started to talk what they truly think of him, reminding Bakugou of all he accomplished since coming to this world, beating the odds with his shield weapon, saving many lives, defeating evil people, and many other heroic accomplishments. To them he was a true hero and nothing would change it. Hearing all of that finally cheered Bakugou up, giving him the willpower to overcome the Wrath shield’s corrupting influence.
You Shall Not Pass!: Two of the Pope's bodyguards tries this against the Wrath Shield-influenced Kirishima, only for Kirishima to crush them under his foot.