Fanfic / Venality

"A Blog for those suffering under saviours"

This is the tagline of Venality, a seemingly mundane blog website that any average person would look over. This was the intention of the sites creator Izuku Midoriya, aka Usagi, who only wished for those who suffered like he did to discover this website and share their stories. And soon enough, a group of likeminded individuals would gather on this site with one goal in mind, to tear down the current system and expose it's true face.

Venality is a My Hero Academia fanfiction created by DeltaPhazon. It follows Izuku Midoriya and several of his canonical friends and classmates as they work together with the League of Villains to destroy hero society and get revenge for how much they suffered under it.

Venality provides examples of:

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• Adaptational Badass: The League is much more of a threat to Heroes and society as a whole in this story. Not only are there many more members of the group, up to two times in fact, all of them are deathly competent, intelligent, and dangerous. Many of the fights that were either Curb-Stomp Battle for the heroes are evened out, and sometimes even flipped here, the League gains many more victories, and they are able to perform many more attacks, such as one on the Provisional License Exam. This attitude is felt by the heroes, who see the League as much more of a present threat than in canon.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Dabi and Toga are members of the League before the USJ attack here. In canon, they wouldn't appear until after the Hosu raid.
  • Mirko and Hawks would start making regular appearances during the Internship arc instead of the Pro Hero arc.
• Adaptational Nationality: Toru is half Indian, half Japanese instead of fully Japanese.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Due to his regret over how he treated Izuku, Bakugou, while still somewhat of a prideful Jerkass, is more approachable and genuinely heroic. This is best shown with his conviction of saving Izuku from the League and himself when the latter outs himself as Usagi, overall portraying Bakugou as much more mature at that point than in canon.
  • In canon, Dabi doesn't at all care about his family or how they suffered under Endeavor, and only wants to get back at his father for what he did to him. In fact, Dabi outright wants to kill Shoto, his little brother, and is implied to be willing to kill his other family members as well, if only to make Endeavor suffer more. Here, the exact opposite is true. Touya's main goal is to save his family from his father and is overall very kind to them, particularly Shoto, who he is very protective of.
  • Shigaraki isn't as much of a psychopathic manchild here and outwardly expresses his friendship and pride with the other members of the League, especially Izuku.
  • Possibly with All For One, who doesn't seem to want to take over Shigaraki's body anymore and is more than happy to have his successor lead the charge against Hero Society. Of course, given that this is All for One we are talking about, whether or not this sticks is up in the air. It helps that All For One seems to actually value his close allies, while in canon he couldn't care less about them.
• Adaptational Villainy: Izuku Midoriya, Shoto Todoroki, Toru Hagakure, Hitoshi Shinsou, Mina Ashido, Ochako Uraraka, Denki Kaminari, Momo Yaoyorozu, and Mei Hatsume are all directly involved with Venality and the League.
  • Kyoko Jiro, while still set on becoming a hero here, is still an overall good person in canon that lacks any less than heroic traits or actions. Here, Jiro is revealed to be an ace hacker who has several connections and dealings with the underworld and various villains, and is even working with Momo to take down the Hero Commission. While she still seems to disapprove of the League and Momo's actions, this is a far cry from the completely heroic Jiro in canon.
  • For the most part, it's left ambiguous as to just how right the League is in their presumptions about most of the Heroes they go after, such as Mt.Lady, Endeavor, and Midnight, and if said heroes are truly as evil as the League assumes. However once the evils of the Heroes Commission are exposed this gets played brutally straight with Midnight, who is actually shown to be a repeat sex offender. Needless to say, almost none of her co-workers or students respect her anyone after this revolution, with most of her students even refusing to join her class.
  • Like her brother, Hana Shimura would end up becoming a villain after being saved and adopted by Kyudai Garaki, and seemingly has no intentions of abandoning the League and Shigaraki after regaining her memories.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Due to multiple students making Face–Heel Turn in this story, many characters who are canonically arch enemies, such as Izuku and Shigaraki, Shoto and Dabi, and Ochako and Toga are all either on friendly or outright brotherly terms with each other. Similarly, several characters who are close allies with each other in canon, such as Izuku and Bakugou, Mina and Kirishima, and Momo and Iida are arch enemies here.
  • Izuku, in canon, heavily admires Bakugou and his drive to become a hero, while Bakugou shows a clear dislike of Izuku, at least at first. Here, the roles are reversed. Izuku despises Bakugou for his past actions of being an abusive bully, while Bakugou regrets what he did to Izuku much sooner and wants to find and make it up to him.
  • Izuku lost all of his respect for All Might after the latter crushed his dreams, to the point of hating him just as much as Bakugou. In turn, All Might no longer has his mentor-student friendship with Izuku, and in fact doesn't even remember his initial encounter with Izuku.
  • While Izuku and Ochako are still close friends here, their Twice Shy crush on each other is removed completely. Instead, Izuku is shown to be in love with Toru, while Ochako hasn't shown any interest in anyone.
  • Toga doesn't have her "crush" on Izuku and Ochako here, and is instead in genuine love with Mina.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Mostly thanks to the fact that she had a large presence in the story before her quirk was revealed in the official manga, Prisoner C-46 (Canonically Lady Nagant) doesn't have her Arm Cannon Quirk here, and instead has a Quirk revolved around hacking.
• Adapted Out: The mall incident never happens here both due to Stain never becoming as popular as he was and Izuku being on Shigaraki's side.
  • The Culture Festival and the battle with Gentle and La Brave is also completely skipped over. Justified in that the allegiances of the main characters make it hard for them to participate in said Festival.
  • Uniquely, the month-long fight with Gigantomachia never happens, seemingly thanks to Kurogiri getting in contact with Gigantomachia without being captured.
• Ambiguously Related: Haru Garaki is very similar to Tomura's long-dead sister Hana Shimura. She has brown hair with silver highlights and her quirk has the same activation as Tomura's decay, though with opposite effects. Her being in an accident years ago, while vague, lines up with Tomura's quirk activation incident, and her injuries, which include a lost arm and damage to her throat and torso line up with the canonical fatal injuries Hana received. Haru also very quickly forms a bond with Tomura, expressing concern for his neck-scratching habit. The fact that The Doctor was ordered, by All for One, to keep Haru away from Tomura out of worry that she would regain her memories doesn't help these comparisons. Chapter 46 would end up confirming that Haru is actually Hana.
• An Arm and a Leg: Endeavor ends up losing an arm during the Kamino Ward battle thanks to Shoto and Touya.
  • Both Magne and Shoto suffer this after the meeting with Overhaul, Magne losing her right hand while Shoto loses his entire right arm.
  • Re-Destro would lose one of his arms as a consequence of his fight against Shigaraki and Haru.
  • Ryukyu gets one of her legs brutally tore off by Muscular during the first assault against the League, putting her out of action for a period of time.
• Anti-Villain: Deconstructed with Momo Yaoyorozu. Out of every member of Venality, and later the League, Momo comes off as the most inherently "good", wanting to weed out the corruption within the Hero system instead of destroying it outright. While she does so by forcing dirty secrets out in the open and killing corrupt heroes, all of her victims are portrayed unsympathetically. Adding to this, Momo is also the most doubtful about the League's goals and plans, and disapproves of a good amount of their actions, such as attacking a police station or killing the various Mooks of the Meta Liberation Army. However, while this does shine Momo in a better light than her comrades, several characters point out that she is still siding and working with Ax-Crazy serial killers and, even if she disapproves of them, is still allowing these actions to happen. While Momo is able to brush these comments off, once she confronts the President of the Heroes Commission, the latter uses her quirk to point out how much of a massive Hypocrite Momo is, and that, in spite of her claims to make a world a better place, she was still protecting a group of villains who murdered innocents and wish to destroy Japan all in the vague hope to create something better, and that Momo working with them makes her just as much as a villain as them. Momo, in turn, comes to realize her hypocrisy, and revolves to shed her convictions to support the League, if only because she is too far gone to stop now.
• Anyone Can Die: And they do. A lot. So far, of the canonical characters present in the story, Native, Stain, The Chainsaw Noumu, Mt.Lady, Spinner, Tengai, Tabe, Mimic, Snatch, Slide'N'Go, Skeptic, Curious, Moonfish, Gang Orca, Wash, Yoroi Musha, Manual, Gran Torino, Kamui Woods, Endeavor, and Naomasa Tsukauchi have bit the dust.
• Arch-Enemy: Aside from the canonical ones such as All Might and All for One, Izuku and Bakugou, Mina and Kirishima, and Momo and Iida are all set up as main rivals to each other.
• Ascended Extra: Mustard and Magne. In canon, Mustard is a one-off villain, getting captured during the Training Camp attack, whose character never gets much spotlight and backstory is completely unknown, while Magne is an ultimately minor villain who never shows off much in the way of personality before getting killed by Overhaul. In this story, both of them have far more focus, as Mustard is given a proper backstory and manages to escape the Training Camp, while Magne is arguably the most focused on League member who joined after Hosu, actively participates in several attacks such as the Provisional License battle. It helps that she also survives the meeting with Overhaul here.
  • Toru Hagakure and Hitoshi Shinso are a part of the main cast here, with Toru arguably being the main female character. In canon, Toru is infamous for being largely Out of Focus in comparison to everyone in 1-A not named Ojiro, Koda, and Sato, while Hitoshi was only relevant during the Sports Festival, barring a few cameos here and there after that.
  • Among the prisoners that join up with the League after the nationwide prison breakouts include Nine and his crew and Number Six, both of whom have little, if any, presence in the main story.
• The Atoner: Bakugou is quickly revealed to be one by his first appearance. Izuku's disappearance caused him to have a massive Jerkass Realization, resulting in Bakugou swearing to become a hero, find Izuku, and bring him back home. Later, when Izuku outs himself as being part of the League, Bakugou then switches his goals to save Izuku from the League and stop him before he is too far gone.
  • Endeavor is eventually revealed to have had a similar Jerkass Realization after Shoto ran away, and wants to make up his years of abuse to the family he has left. Needless to say, none of them give him the chance.
• Ax-Crazy: Mina starts to become this after spending more time with Toga and the League. She loves a good fight, and, out of the entirety of Venality, she is the most willing to murder.
  • The fact that Shoto, Toru, and Ochako were stated to be elated at the idea of killing hero students at the Provisional License exam definitely qualifies them for this trope.
  • Speaking of Ochako, the battle against the Meta Liberation Army seemed to give a few hits towards her sanity and showed just how horrifying she could be when you threaten her parents. She not only kills a ton of unnamed Mooks but she is responsible for two of the three named deaths in the battle, one of whom, Curious, is implied to have been tortured to death offscreen in a completely agonizing way.
• Badass Normal: Neito Monoma, after losing his quirk, becomes one of these. Despite the cards being stacked against him and his teachers not believing in him, Monoma still plans to prove them wrong and become a hero, using support equipment to even the playing field.
• The Bad Guys Win: The Training Camp attack ends with the League not only completing all of their objectives, but they also manage to escape with almost all of their members uncaptured and alive, the only exception being the Chainsaw Noumu.
  • The Kamino Ward battle also ends with the villains gaining a decisive victory, despite losing All for One and Momo's identity as a traitor being unveiled. To wit, they injure and even kill several high-ranking heroes, destroy Sir Nighteye's Hero agency and multiple tributes to All Might, expose All Might's weakened form and force him into retirement. Even the Hero's Commission considered the battle a loss.
  • The Tartarus raid is an overwhelming victory for the League. Thanks to Izuku, the League catches the entire prison off guard and launches a sudden and brutal attack with the Heroes unable to properly respond. By the end of the raid, Tartarus has fallen, its staff, Wash, and Gang Orca are dead, and villains such as All For One, Number Six, Prisoner C-46, Muscular, and Nine are free and join up with the League. The only loss the League had was allowing Overhaul and Chronostasis to escape.
• Bad Powers, Bad People: Characters like Mustard and Toga have typically villainous quirks, and are a part of the League.
  • Mina Ashido has the ability to produce Acid from her body, and Hitoshi Shinsou has the ability to brainwash people. Both are on the side of evil.
• Bait-and-Switch: Chapter 17, Steam, followed the usual format of a heroic character making a Face–Heel Turn and joining Venality, in this case being Tenya Iida, who is given a reason to turn against the heroes, makes an account on Venality, and even discovers that Momo is working with the League. Despite this buildup, however, Iida is ultimately still on the side of the heroes by the end and actively disapproves of Venality, making this the first Subversion of the stories Face–Heel Turn format.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: Every member of Venality were once prospective heroes who, in another life, would have succeeded in their dreams. Here, however, all of them are the villains that they once swore they would protect the citizens of Japan from.
• Berserk Button: Anything to do with Bakugou is enough for Izuku to nearly completely lose his mind in anger.
  • Suggesting that Izuku needs to be saved from the villains or that he isn't happy in his current life is another way to piss him off. Mirio suggesting this was enough for Izuku to get even colder and more insulting towards the hero.
  • In the case of Ochako, do not threaten her family or use her family's likeness against her unless you wish to be on her kill list. The former made Ochako wish to personally kill Curious and go on a warpath against the Meta Liberation Army, and the latter, well, just ask Skeptic if that was a good idea.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: Rather than risk being captured and tortured to reveal U.A's plans to defeat the League once and for all Tsukauchi chooses to shoot himself in the head to deny the League this information.
  • Once her ploy of disguising as Tsukauchi is exposed, it's implied, despite what she says otherwise, that Toga was more than willing to kill herself to avoid being captured by the Heroes. This ends up failing thanks to Hawks.
• Beyond Redemption: At first, Kirishima and Iida clearly wished to save Mina and Momo from the League, believing that the two were being manipulated and that it wasn't too late to turn back. By the Kamino War battle, however, the two have seemingly given up, recognizing that Mina and Momo are too devoted to the League to redeem. As a result, Iida reveals Momo's involvement with the League, and by the next time Kirishima encounters Mina, he is completely focused on taking her down.
  • Despite trying his best, Endeavor gives up on redeeming his sons when they refuse to surrender to him. This is even more clear when the brothers kill Kamui Woods, at which point Endeavor refuses to see the two as his sons anymore, just a couple of villains that needed to be brought down.
• Both Sides Have a Point: The meeting between Mirio and Izuku in Chapter 31 has both sides make fairly accurate points that the other cannot counter. To wit...
  • Mirio: Mirio was right in saying that Izuku was manipulated by All for One to turn into a villain, even if Izuku isn't shown to care. He was also fairly accurate in pointing out that Izuku isn't happy in his current life and that, deep down, he just wants to be saved and respected by the heroes he once looked up to, and that he, and his friends, deserve a second chance.
  • Izuku: Izuku was more than right in pointing out that Mirio was deflecting a lot of the faults of heroes and All Might onto All for One (something that All Might himself later did again when he deflected most of his guilt of turning Izuku into a villain onto his arch nemesis), and that the heroes would only respect him now that he had a powerful quirk. He also points out that Mirio attempting to save him and his friends was laughable given that none of them had any intention of going back to a world that did nothing but hurt and abuse them.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: How does Endeavor enter his final fight against Touya and Shoto? By borrowing the catchphrase of the man who he so desperately wanted to surpass, the man that he abused his family and drove his sons to villainy for.
  Endeavor "Touya. Shoto. I am here. To stop you."
• Breaking the Fellowship: The remaining upper members of the Shie Hassaikai, as of the nationwide prison breaks, have split off into two groups: Those that remain loyal to Overhaul (Chronostasis, Nemoto, Katsukame, Setsuno, and Hojo), and those who joined the League (Rappa and Sakaki).
• Break the Haughty: Endeavor suffers this twice. Firstly, Shoto running away makes him realize how much of a fool he was, though he is unable to seek any forgiveness. Then, an even bigger one happens during the Kamino Ward battle, when Shoto and Touya reveal themselves as villains, blaming their father for making their lives miserable. This destroys Endeavor, to the point where he hardly puts up a defense when Shoto and Touya launch a powerful attack at him, robbing Endeavor of an arm. He's even noted to be subdued and unusually somber in the hospital afterwards.
• Bring It: How does Izuku respond to Bakugou stating that he will save him from the League?

  "Come on then. Save me."

  • Hawks gives one to the League when he is announced as the Number One hero, encouraging the Heroes to step up their game and indirectly challenging the League to step up theirs.
• Broken Pedestal: Izuku's admiration for All Might and hero society in general shattered completely after the former crushed his dreams and after discovering just how corrupt the system is.
  • This is a common theme with the members of Venality. All of them had admiration for heroes at some point, only for something to break that illusion, leaving them disgruntled by society.
  • Momo had a clear admiration for Midnight, as she helped Momo with becoming a hero and her self-confidence before U.A. One discovery of a history of sexual abuse and possibly witnessing her about to sexually assault a man later, Momo angrily drops her admiration of Midnight and beats her within an inch of her life.
  • It's heavily implied that Hawks completely lost his admiration of Endeavor after Shoto and Touya revealed themselves as part of the League. Notably, he doesn't seem to Endeavor in any positive regard after this and is the only Hero at the Hero Rankings ceremony who believes that Touya and Shoto are Dabi and Crucible.
• Brother–Sister Team: Between Shigaraki and Haru, aka Tenko and Hana Shimura. This is best shown in their fight against Re-Destro, in which their quirks, working together, managed to overcome their limits and turn a somewhat close fight into a Curb-Stomp Battle.
• Brought Down to Normal: In response to his refusal to join the League, Monoma has his quirk taken away by All for One and given to Hitoshi.
  • During the battle against the Heroes Commission, Mustard would shoot a quirk erasing bullet at Best Jeanist, taking his quirk away and mostly neutralizing him as a threat.
• The Bus Came Back: Both Overhaul and Chronostasis return to the story during the Tartarus breakout, escaping the prison and the League with the possible intention of rebuilding the Shie Hassaikai. The next few chapters after this have the entirety of the Shie Hassaikai return alongside their boss, though Sakaki ends up deflecting.
• Cool Old Lady: Teruko Matsunaga, the President of the Heroes Commission, is portrayed as a stone-cold, terrifying Well-Intentioned Extremist who hides the crimes of heroes for the sake of maintaining peace. Not only does she refuse to run when the League is knocking on her door, she then uses her quirk to attempt to Mind Rape Momo and break her.
• Corrupt Bureaucrat: If the reports Izuku and Momo read are to be believed, the Hero's Commission is this, big time. They actively bury stories criticizing heroes and drive the companies publishing them out of business, and protect Heroes when they break the law, whatever that be through massive amounts of property damage, breaking petty thieves and criminals beyond repair, or even straight up murdering innocents suspected of being villains. All of this is eventually revealed to be completely true.
• Corrupt the Cutie: Mina Ashido, in middle school, was a friendly, cheerful, but inwardly depressed child who just wanted to be accepted despite her quirk. Cue Himiko Toga entering the scene and becoming Mina's Only Friend and eventual girlfriend, resulting in Mina turning into an Ax-Crazy, murdering psychopath.
• Cruel Mercy: When all is said and done, Overhaul is left with his ambitions destroyed, his quirk taken away by the group he thought he could subjugate, and failed his father and the Shie Hassaikai. Despite begging for Shigaraki to kill him, the latter only gives him an evil grin before leaving him for the Heroes to lock away.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: The battle against the Heroes Commission gives us Mustard vs Best Jeanist. Mustard isn't even able to touch the hero, who completely outthinks and outmaneuvers him at every term. Had it not been for Hitoshi, Mustard would have been captured.
• Darker and Edgier: Let's see. The main character and several of his classmates are murdering villains, the organization they belong to is a much more massive threat, many more characters are killed in cold blood, and Hero society is shown to be deeply flawed and led by a morally bankrupt Commission. To say the least, Venality is a lot more bleak than canon, at least at the current part of the story.
• Deadpan Snarker: Mustard almost always has some kind of sarcastic remark on his tongue, no matter what situation he is in.

  To Momo and Shoto "If you two are done flirting, you've got incoming."

• Defeat Means Friendship: After being defeated by the Himura brothers, Geten ends up better understanding their motives and seems to form a truce with them. Dabi and Shoto, in turn, spare Geten and even offer him a place in the League, although the latter refuses.
• Defiant to the End: While she doesn't die, Ochako, in Chapter 52, is outplayed by Nezu and the U.A. staff and left in a hopeless situation with no chance of the League backing her up. She spends her last moments of freedom telling the heroes and their attempts to make her see reason off, and would have fought to the bitter end if Edgeshot didn't immediately knock her out.
  • Endeavor spends his last moments alive attempting to give either of his sons a Heel Realization, and calming telling them to take their revenge once that failed.
• Demoted to Extra: Minoru Mineta is a part of 1-B in this story, and as such hardly gets mentioned. He has only made a single appearance during the Sports Festival before being eliminated in the first round.
  • Muscular and Moonfish never make a physical appearance here, due to Izuku finding them too violent and unstable for the League. As of The Tartarus breakout, Muscular has been given some relevancy, due to him being forced to work for All For One, leading to him joining the League and playing a large part in the first Heroes Assault against the group. This is still the case with Moonfish, however, as he is killed before he could really do anything.
  • Spinner, in comparison to the other members of the League and his role in canon, is far less important here, making very few appearances over the course of the Training Camp and Kamino Ward battles. He also ends up taking Magne's place as a Mauve Shirt, being killed by Overhaul when the Leagues meeting with the Shie Hassaikai turns south.
  • Gentle and La Brave only receive a passing mention due to the story skipping over the Culture Festival. Subverted as of the nationwide prison breaks, as both Gentle and La Brave start making consistent appearances after Gentle broke out of prison, assisting Momo in her efforts to bring down the Heroes Commission
  • The "fight" against the Creature Rejection Clan also happens entirely offscreen.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Native, who managed to make it to the Paranormal Liberation War in canon, dies during the Hosu raid by Momo.
  • Snatch, in canon, would die after he was compressed into a marble by Mr.Compress alongside Dabi's fire, burning to death inside of the marble. Snatch's death is far less cruel here, as he is simply dusted by Shigaraki.
  • Curious is Killed Offscreen by Ochako instead of dying during the fight against Toga.
• Disappointed in You: While it's never outright said, one can tell that Aizawa is extremely disappointed in Izuku and Momo for choosing to be villains. It's to the point where Aizawa refuses to acknowledge that the two were once his students.
• The Dragon: Izuku is this to Shigaraki, being the League's main strategist and one of Shigaraki's closest friends. All for One, when talking about the League as if they were a game of chess, compares Izuku to the Queen, a powerful and essential piece, but not one that would end the game if captured.
  • Ochako also serves as this to Giran, as she follows him and helps with almost every deal he makes, on top of acting as a bodyguard.
• Dwindling Party: Once the war between Hero Society and the League starts, the top ten heroes begin to drop like flies. Gang Orca and Wash are killed in the Tartarus Breakout, and Kamui Wood and Endeavor are killed during the battle against the Heroes Commission. With Ryukyu suffering a near-fatal injury and Best Jeanist quirkless, only Hawks, Mirko, Crust, and Edgeshot remain on duty.
• Enemy Mine: Despite having every reason to fight and turn him in, Mirio decides to form a truce with Izuku and the League so that they could take down the Shie Hassaikai together. This truce ends up extending to all of the Heroes during the fight with Overhaul, as both parties see the man as the more present threat.
• Even Evil Has Standards: In general, most of the League and Venality appear to hate hypocrites, likely due to their belief that the entire hero system was founded on hypocrisy. The reason Momo and co went after Stain in the first place was due to his refusal to see that his "crusade" was hurting just as many people who deserved to be heroes as those who didn't, all while looking up to All Might as the ideal hero, when he is no less clean that some of the heroes Stain had killed. Ironically, it's later pointed out that the League are as hypocritical as Stain.
  • It says a lot about how violent and unstable Muscular and Moonfish are that the entire League, including people like Shigaraki, Mina, and Toga, were disturbed by their brutality. Absolutely no one objected when Izuku rejected their requests to join the League and tipped their location off to the police. Even All For One was disgusted by Moonfish's brutality, enough to crush his head during the Tartarus Breakout.
  • Izuku, being someone who suffered under abuse as a child, is understandably not happy when Toru tells him that Overhaul was using his quirk on Eri to produce Quirk-erasing bullets. This soon extends to the entire League and Rappa when Izuku informs them of Eri.
    • As of the nationwide prison breaks, it's shown that other members of the Shie Hassaikai, specifically Katsukame, Hojo, and Setsuno, are horrified once they learn of Eri. While this isn't enough to get them to join the League, thanks to a combination of loyalty and Tabe's death still being fresh in their minds, it does still rattle all three men.
  • Momo may be the unofficial successor to Stain and has a ton of blood on her hands, but she will avoid harming or killing random villains or civilians if she can. Also, despite being a member of the League, Momo admits to not being the biggest fan of some of their actions.
  • While the League is far more willing to kill once they start their all-out war against Hero Society, they do attempt to spare "good" heroes if they get the chance. Hitoshi and Mustard end up sparing Best Jeanist once they rendered him quirkless and, mostly, neutralized him as a threat.
• Exact Words: Nemoto, during Toga, Twice, and Hitoshi's introduction into the Shie Hassaikai, asks them if they were here to betray the Shie Hassaikai, to which the trio said no. After all, you can't betray someone you weren't allied to in the first place...
• Eye Scream: The fight between Bakugou and Izuku in the Sports Festival was so extreme that Izuku would go blind in one eye. He would eventually get a mechanical eye, however.
• Fatal Flaw: Several characters have individual flaws that cause no storage of problems over the course of the story.
  • Izuku Midoriya has Wraith. Despite his intelligence and ability to calmly plan around and act in most situations, Izuku is very emotionally unstable due to his past experiences. As such, when dealing with problems that cause him to lash out, such as anything to do with Bakugou, Izuku abandons any rationality and throws himself, full force and fists swinging, into the problem with little reason, to the point where people like Shigaraki come off as more stable by comparison. This has very nearly led to Izuku being defeated and/or captured on multiple instances, a good example being his battle with Bakugou at the Sports Festival, in which Izuku's sloppiness and rage results in not only Bakugou and Inko discovering his identity but Nezu as well, who also puts together that Izuku is connected with the League. It's only thanks to All for One pulling Izuku out of the hospital he was sent to that Izuku wasn't arrested by the police.
  • Of course, Katsuki Bakugou isn't much better in this regard. Bakugou's lack of a filter and horrendous temper end up setting the story in motion, and even when he slightly mellowed out, his inability to control his rage at pivotal moments constantly either makes things worse for the heroes or destroys potential leads to defeating the League.
  • All Might has insensitivity. His blunt rejection of Izuku's dreams without any consideration of how Izuku would take it ends up creating one of the worst villains Japan has ever seen.
    • All Might also has his blindness to the flaws of both himself and hero society. When confronting All for One about why Izuku and friends turned to the side of evil, he immediately pins all the blame onto All for One and refuses to believe for a second that either he or the heroes could have been mostly responsible for creating villains, even when All for One outright tells him that he had nothing to do with them.
• First-Name Basis: All of the members of Venality are on this with one another, showing how much they trust and rely on each other. This is played with with the newer members^note  Ochako, Denki, and Momo. , however, as more formal characters like Shoto refer to them by their last names.
  • Certain members of Venality are also shown to be on this with some of their former friends, notably Mina with Kirishima and Momo and Shoto with Iida.
• Foreshadowing: Whenever Momo brings up her work on compiling the data Toru stole on the Heroes Commission, she never refers to it as her work, but instead uses plural words such as "our" and "we". While this may have been referring to Toru, it's revealed that Momo has had someone outside of the League helping her sort through and collect this information, that person being Kyoko Jiro.
  • After the Attack on the Heroes Commission, Naomasa Tsukauchi begins acting a bit odd, calling everyone by their first names, giving All Might a nickname and never just calling him "Toshinori", and is extremely shocked when Gigantomachia was revealed to be captured. Sure enough, it's soon revealed that this Tsukauchi is actually Himiko Toga, and the real Naomasa is long dead.
• For Want Of A Nail: The entire story started because Izuku decided to stay on the rooftop All Might left him on instead of investigating the nearby villain fight.
  • All of the characters who encountered Venality before U.A ^note  Shoto, Toru, Hitoshi, and Mina. would end up becoming disillusioned with hero society due to various instances of this trope. To wit...
    • Shoto reconciling with his brother Dabi and seeing him get heavily injured in a fight against Endeavor.
    • Izuku helping Toru with her self-identity issues and giving her the ability to turn visible.
    • Mt.Lady being reckless in a villain fight and killing Hitoshi's father.
    • Mina encountering and becoming friends with Toga and accidentally killing a hero.
  • Due to Izuku being much stronger at that point, he sweeps the Entrance Exam and steals points that would have gone to other participants, and never needs to be saved from falling to death. One of these participants, Ochako Uraraka, would fail to gain enough points to make it into the Hero course as a result, leading her down a life of crime.
  • Because Shoto, Toru, Mina, Ochako, and Mineta never join 1-A in this story, they are replaced by members of 1-B, those being Reiko Yanagi, Shihai Kuroiro, Kinoko Komori, Yosetsu Awase, and Yui Kodai.
  • Because Izuku never proved himself worthy for One for All, Mirio would end up becoming All Might's successor.
  • Dabi's identity as Touya Todoroki is exposed during the Kamino Ward battle off the back of Shoto's identity being exposed, instead of being unveiled during the Paranormal Liberation War.
  • Bakugou ends up passing the Provisional License exam here, likely due to his increased maturity and willingness to help people.
  • Thanks to Izuku's quick thinking, Magne manages to make it away from the meeting with Overhaul alive, though she is missing a hand.
    • Related to the above, the fight with Overhaul lasts a bit longer, which results in Spinner losing his life.
  • Thanks to Hojo breaking his ribs during the Shie Hassaikai raid, Twice's Drama-Preserving Handicap is gotten over a lot sooner than in canon.
  • Eri is taken and adopted by the League after the Shie Hassaikai raid due to being with Kurogiri when he warped several members out of the battlefield.
  • Kurogiri manages to evade being captured by Gran Torino thanks to Twice making clones of him.
  • Because of the events of the Kamino Ward and Shie Hassaikai battle, the order of the Top Ten Heroes is different than in canon. In particular, Mirko ends up taking the number 4 spot, Endeavor drops down to number 3 after being missing in action for an intended period after the Kamino Ward battle, and Hawks ends up at number 1.
  • Because of the intervention of Kyudai Garaki, Hana Shimura just barely survived Tenko's quirk awakening incident, and went on to become Garaki's assistant and daughter.
  • All Might managed to take out Nine and his crew on a completely unknown mission years ago, both preventing Heroes:Rising and Nine's attempts to hijack Shigaraki's place as All For One's successor, while also keeping Nine as a loyal follower of All For One.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: At first played straight, then Subverted with Mt.Lady. Despite dying during the Kamino Ward battle, she is only mentioned as a footnote after the fact, and we never see how her close friends, such as Kamui Woods, reacted to her death. This is Subverted once the new hero rankings are announced, as it's revealed that Edgeshot, Kamui Woods, and Death Arms formed a team with the sole purpose of bringing Mt.Lady's killer to justice, with Kamui Woods using his speech to promise to take the killer (who they think is Momo) down.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: During his "The Reason You Suck" Speech, Monoma points out that he knows everyone in the League was slighted in life. He then proceeds to call them all children throwing a tantrum while blaming the world for their problems, making it clear that he doesn't care.
• Freudian Slip: After the quirk assignment test, Izuku, who was under the fake name Mikumo Akatani, talks to the class about his interest in analyzing heroes and quirks as small talk, referring to his analyzation as a "creepy hobby". This would end up tipping off Bakugou to Mikumo's true identity, as Izuku had often referred to his hobby as such.
  • During the climax of their battle at the Sports Festival, Izuku calls Bakugou "Kacchan" when dealing the final blow. Given that Bakugou was able to identify Izuku based on his scars, it hardly mattered at that point.
• Grey-and-Gray Morality: While the series does veer into Black-and-Gray Morality on occasion, this is how the story sets up its main conflict. On the one hand, the villains are shown to be right on numerous points, are fighting for a better world, and are deeply sympathetic, but are still shown to be cruel puppy kickers at quite a few moments and use extreme acts of terrorism to accomplish their goal, resulting in many deaths. The heroes, meanwhile, are mostly portrayed as well-meaning, if somewhat incompetent, with many of their bad deeds being covered up by an amoral Commission. However, it still is noted that they unknowingly allowed corruption to seep into their ranks, and, while they promise to fix the corruption "the right way", they likely wouldn't have the ability to do so, not helped by their starch refusal to understand why the members of the League are who they are.

Tropes H-W

• Hate Sink: The story tends to subvert this a lot, often portraying the heroes that were responsible for turning people like Hitoshi and Shoto into villains as either deeply remorseful or completely ignorant of their crimes thanks to the Commission covering for them, as well as making it clear that even the most assholish of villains have friends and allies that look up to and trust them. With that said, there are a few examples.
  • Muscular and Moonfish, unlike in canon, are not allowed into the League because of how unlikeable they are, being villains with no convention except for killing anyone and everyone they want to. None of the League shed tears they intentionally send police to the two of them. Later on, Moonfish is killed with no fanfare, by All for One, no less, and while Muscular is allowed into the League, it's made clear that, with the exception of Chimera, nobody liked him. As such, when he is captured during the first hero raid against the League, no one cares, in sharp contrast to how broken up the League is about Re-Destro, Trumpet, and Gigantomachia.
  • The Heroes Commission is eventually revealed to be a corrupt organization that covers the crimes of various heroes and allows innocents to suffer to maintain a thin veil of peace. Once the truth about the Heroes Commission comes out, nobody is shown to defend them, not even their agent, Hawks. Of the dozens of still-alive named heroes, only five — Endeavor, Burnin, Kamui Woods, Edgeshot, and Best Jeanist — show up to fight the League when they raid the Commission, and none of them are fighting to keep the Commission as is, Best Jeanist even admitting that, after the League, the Commission would be the very next target. When overall good heroes such as Hawks and Mirko decide to ignore your calls for help, you know you did something wrong.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: Despite recognizing that Giran was likely a villain and still willingly working for him, Mei Hatsume, in her debut chapter, only really wanted to make a name for herself and get her inventions out there, and didn't show any real interest in becoming a villain or joining with the League. It was even unknown if she knew that her inventions were being used by League members, or if she was just being kept in the dark by Giran. This gets completely Subverted by her later appearances, however, as Mei not only knows about her inventions being used by the League and is trusted enough by Ochako to know of her identity as Singularity, but she also expressed interest in joining the League, making it very clear that she pulled a Face–Heel Turn.
• Hero Killer: Momo ends up becoming one of these after her Face–Heel Turn, memorizing the crimes of every hero and killing the ones who committed too many to redeem themselves.
  • Stain, of course, is one of these too, though he proves to be far less efficient at choosing who to go after than Momo.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Endeavor, during his final battle against his two sons, holds back throughout the fight due to his guilt. When Kamui Wood is killed, however, Endeavor immediately goes all out, and while he is still killed, he leaves both Dabi and Crucible half-dead.
• Ironic Name: The second half of Mustard's family name is "yoshi", meaning good and respectful in Japanese. This, in terms of alignment and personality, is the exact opposite of Mustard. This gets Zigzagged a bit given that the first half of Mustard's family name, "Naga", means snake, which is fitting for him.
  • Toru's villain name is Violet, which is, In-Universe, an intention Shout-Out to The Incredibles. This is despite the fact that Violet is a heroic character within the movie. Downplayed in that the official Police callsign for Toru is the far more generic but more appropriate "Ghost", which ends up catching on with both the Heroes and public.
• In Spite of a Nail: Despite Stain dying by the hands of the League, Spinner still joins up with them. This is Justified, however, in that the media spun the story so it seemed that the heroes were responsible for killing Stain.
  • Like in canon, the League attempts to recruit a blonde, arrogant, Jerkass member of a first-year heroes course due to believing that they had a legitimate beef with the world, only to be told to screw off. Here, however, it's Neito Monoma instead of Katsuki Bakugou.
  • The fight between All Might and All for One still happens with the same outcome as it did in canon, despite the League being prepared for the heroes this time.
  • Like in canon, the meeting with Overhaul goes south, resulting in a member of the League losing an arm and another dying. Here, instead of this being Mr.Compress and Magne, respectively, it's Shoto^note  and Magne as well, though her injury was far less severe. and Spinner.
• I've Come Too Far: Several members of the League, specifically Shoto, Ochako, and Momo, eventually come to regret just how far they'd fallen during the war against Heroes Society, and believes that the League had lost sight of its original goal. However, all of them recognize that they are too deep in the League to just give up, and as such fight in the hope that whatever comes of the war will be better.
• Join or Die: Quoted word for word by Re-Destro when threatening the League, telling them to either join the Meta Liberation Army or be killed by them.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Some of the members of Venality, before the Sports Festival, had sets of standards that prevented them from being completely loyal to the League. For example, Toru hated the idea of killing, Hitoshi only wanted to kill Mt.Lady, and neither Ochako nor Denki were that involved with the League, and even had doubts about its goals. When Izuku was severely injured during his fight against Bakugou and then blamed for the fight when Bakugou gave him deeper injuries, all of these standards were dropped, and everyone in Venality swore to bring down Hero Society with the League.
• Kick the Dog: While they do come across as agreeable tragic villains, all the members of Venality do participate in unnecessary cruelty.
  • Hitoshi's killing of Mt.Lady arguably comes off as this. The woman very clearly regretted killing Hitoshi's father and was scared out of her mind when at his mercy. Add on the fact that her death was heavily implied to be long and brutal, and any triumphantly at seeing Hitoshi getting his Revenge is robbed.
  • Mina and Toga torturing an innocent police officer, threatening to go after his wife and child if he didn't speak, killing him after getting the information they needed, and making fun of him for playing Gacha games definitely comes off as a bit too far.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After assisting his brother with destroying one of Endeavor's arms, Shoto would end up getting one of his arms obliterated by Overhaul.
• Mama Bear: Toru forms this kind of relationship with Eri, becoming very protective of her and promising to save her from Overhaul. She is even willing to take on Mirio when it appeared that he would take Eri away from her.
  • Related to the Papa Wolf entry down below, Ms.Joke ends up joining Aizawa and Present Mic in tracking down the League and Venality after some of her students are injured in the Provisional License attack.
• Manipulative Bastard: Even if he didn't intend to be one, Izuku fits this to a tee. While every member of Venality had doubts about Hero society, it was Izuku, through helping people like Toru, Denki, and Ochako with their problems, or offering people like Mina, Shoto, and Hitoshi a place to stay where they wouldn't be judged or abused, that caused these doubts to bloom into a full-on hatred of heroes. Izuku seems to embrace this role more over the course of the story, however, as he deliberately asked for Rappa and Setsuno^note  though he would get Rappa and Tengai instead due to Overhaul predicting this. to work with the League during their "alliance" with the Shie Hassaikai, knowing full well that they were the least loyal to Overhaul and the most likely to turn if given the chance, which proves to be completely right in the case of Rappa.
• Mauve Shirt: During Chapter 28, we are introduced to two members of the Shie Hassaikai, Walter and Maseo, both of whom are given a decent amount of characterization and backstory.^note  Walter being an American who was disgruntled by life, caught in a romanticized view of the Yakuza, and went to Japan to join them, while Maseo was a loyal member of the Shie Hassaikai who was in love with Setsuno Neither are alive after their introduction.
  • Spinner ends up being one of these, his backstory and character being featured enough over the chapters he was in, but mostly remaining in the background and being less important than other members of the League. He would end up being killed by Overhaul not long after his introduction into the story.
• Meaningful Rename: After revealing himself to Endeavor and nearly killing him, Touya begins to use his mother's maiden last name, Himura, signifying his full abandonment of his father's name and legacy. Shoto would end up following his big brother in doing this a few chapters later.
• The Medic: Haru Garaki, The Doctor's adopted daughter, serves as this to the League. Her quirk, Repair, allows her to heal all wounds, external or internal, by placing all five of her fingers on the subject, though she cannot regrow limbs doing this.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Overhaul severely limited Rappa's opportunities to fight despite the latter's protests, treated him like a joke, and was said to have forced him into the Shie Hassaikai. As such, when the League gave Rappa both friendship, respect, and good fights, he very quickly abandoned the Shie Hassaikai and joined the League.
• The Mole: Izuku, Ochako, Denki, and Momo are all stationed in U.A. and actively feeding information about the school to the League. Following the Kamino Ward incident, only Denki and Ochako remain in the school, and as of Chapter 52, Denki is the only traitor to have let to be exposed.
  • As it turns out, some of the Shie Hassaikai Mooks that Rappa recruited into the League were members of the Meta Liberation Army. This is presumably how the MLA found out about the League's location and the allegiances of Denki, Ochako, and Mei.
• Mook Horror Show: Twice in Chapter 28, Trojan Horse, in which Dabi, Mina, and Toga hunt down two members of the Shie Hassaikai for information. Neither ends up making it out alive. Of note is Masao, who is quite literally hunted down by Toga and Mina in a sequence that wouldn't be out of place in a horror movie.
• Morality Pet: Eri becomes this to Izuku and Toru once they learn of her existence. This soon extends to the entirety of the League when Izuku briefs them on the situation.
• Named by the Adaptation: Instead of being a completely unnamed middle schooler, Mustard is given the name "Hiiro Nagayoshi" here.
  • Eri's caretaker is given the name "Walter."
  • Nine and Prisoner C-46 are given the names Kirei Watanabe and Akari Minamimoto, respectively.
• Never My Fault: This is one of All Might's fatal flaws. He completely refuses to consider that the current hero system has any major faults, and will often pin the consequences of said faults, such as several promising teenagers turning to evil, onto manipulation from villains such as All for One. This is best shown when All Might finally remembers his initial encounter with Izuku and how his words were likely the straw that broke Izuku and turned him into a villain. Despite recognizing this, and even feeling guilty about saying those words to Izuku, he nearly immediately pins most of the blame onto All for One's manipulations instead of himself and the years of bullying and abuse Izuku suffered under.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: During the Shie Hassaikai battle, Hojo managed to land a rather serious blow to one of the people he was fighting, breaking their ribs and nearly taking them out of the fight. The problem? That person was Twice, who quickly realized that he was not a clone and got over his Drama-Preserving Handicap. What happens next shouldn't come as a surprise.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Haru Garaki may be a crippled medic and surprisingly kind for a villain, but she is still dangerous if backed into a corner. It's eventually revealed that she has a rifle built into her prosthetic arm, and she is more than willing to use it if she needs to. Later on, Haru's quirk, when used in tandem with her brother's, not only allows them to No-Sell any attack, but gives Shigaraki the chance to use his quirk to the fullest, literally creating an area of death around the two.
• Occam's Razor: Despite Dabi and Crucible identities as Shoto and Touya Todoroki being a well-known fact by the time of the new Hero Rankings, a good majority of heroes are shown to either doubt the brother's claims (Mirko) or dismiss them outright (Best Jeanist), bring up theories such as Crucible being a Noumu that was designed after Shoto or Dabi being a delusional villain that has a similar Quirk to Touya, ignoring the simple solution of the two just being the Todoroki brothers. This is lampshaded by Hawks, who quotes Occam's Razor to Best Jeanist and tells him that he is likely overthinking it.
• Official Couple: Sometime during their crime spree and Toga's attempts to shape Mina to be more like her, Mina and Toga end up getting together.
  • After Izuku wakes up from his injuries from the Sports Festival, Toru confesses her attraction to him, which results in the two becoming a couple.
• Outlaw Couple: Mina and Toga end up gaining a repetition as being one of these. Izuku and Toru are also this, though this isn't known to the public.
• Papa Wolf: After the attack on the Provisional License exam, Aizawa makes it his main goal to find and take down the League and Venality, refusing to allow any of his students to die as Oboro did. Yamada also ends up joining Aizawa in his endeavor.
• Power Trio: Between Shoto Aizawa, Present Mic, and Ms.Joke. The three have sworn to bring the League down and have each other's backs in every major battle they fight in.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Monoma gives a massive one to Venality, the League, and Izuku in particular, not only calling them spoiled children for wanting to destroy the hero system because of their own problems and thinking that he would be swayed to their side but also calling Izuku pathetic because he just wants to prove himself better than someone, something that Izuku is unable to retort against.
  • Just before their final battle against him, Touya and Shoto completely pick apart Endeavor and his past actions, stating that he didn't deserve their forgiveness after all that he had done. Endeavor, in turn, gives his sons a minor one before his death, asking if all of the death and horror they had wrought, on top of basically repeating what he did on a much worse scale for their ambitions, was worth it.
  • Monoma gives another one to Izuku during the attack on U.A. Calling him a hypocrite who proved that society was right and that he did need a quirk to succeed. And that he gave up and obeyed the system, instead of fighting to overcome it like Monoma did.
• Rejected Apology: Endeavor attempts to apologize to Shoto and Touya during his final battle against them ultimately fall flat. Neither brother wants to forgive Endeavor for his years of abuse, and the latter comes to realize that no sorries would get them to stand down.
• Senseless Sacrifice: Kamui Woods ends up taking a blow meant for Endeavor during the latter's fight against Dabi and Crucible, resulting in his death. While Endeavor does manage to heavily injure his sons, Kamui's sacrifice is ultimately pointless when the two brothers manage to beat and kill Endeavor anyway.
• Ship Tease: As of the Shie Hassaikai raid, Momo and Shoto are shown to be very close, often complementing each other and their accomplishments. Characters like Mustard are more than willing to point this out.
• Shout-Out: Toru's name on Venality and her villain name is Violet.
  • Dabi, after seeing the USJ Noumu, promptly calls it "an ugly motherfucker."
  • Izuku's quirk, being a leg-based ability that allows him to control wind, shoot air bullets, and propel himself through the air, is very similar to Vinsmoke Sanji's "Black Leg Style".
  • Chapter 43 is named A Song of Ice and Lightning.
  • Similarly, Chapter 44 is named Rhinestone Eyes. Given that Skeptic is fought in this chapter, it's not really surprising.
• Smug Super: Most of the League and Venality portray themselves as arrogant in their battles with the heroes, and almost always have some kind of taunt to rile them up. The fact that none of them have been captured and they have always managed to put up a fight shows that their confidence isn't at all unfounded.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Magne manages to survive the meeting with Overhaul here thanks to Izuku's quick thinking.
  • Sir Nighteye makes it out of the Shie Hassaikai raid here, mostly thanks to his injuries leaving him unable to directly fight Overhaul.
  • Hana Shimura managed to survive Tenko's Quirk awakening, albeit just barely, and was adopted by The Doctor to serve under All for One and her brother.
• Token Good Teammate: Momo is this for the League. Unlike the rest of the League who consider all heroes scum, she acknowledges that some of them are worthy of the title such as Tensei Iida, the Wild Wild Pussycats, and numerous members of the top ten. Additionally, she makes it clear she doesn't enjoy fighting her former classmates or the various Mooks of the Meta Liberation Army.
• Tragic Keepsake: After successfully getting their Revenge for his death, Spinner's sword is preserved by the League in his honor, and several of the knives used by Spinner are kept by various members of the League for battle.
• Tragic Villain: Aside from the canonical ones such as Shigaraki, Dabi, Toga, and Twice, every member of Venality qualifies for this trope.
  • Izuku Midoriya, from birth, wanted nothing more than to be a hero in spite of being quirkless. Years of bullying and abuse that accumulated in his personal idol All Might crushing his dreams without a second thought broke Izuku, leading him to the League. Had Izuku just gotten any support or encouragement, the events of this story could have been avoided.
    Aizawa What do you want, Midoriya?
    Izuku Me? Respect. A friend who didn't burn me three out of seven days a week. To feel wanted for once.
  • Shoto Todoroki was heavily abused by his father, the number two Hero Endeavor, for years, all due to Endeavor’s ambition to surpass All Might. A chance reencounter with his brother, Touya, would stroke the flames of hatred in Shoto, causing him to become a villain.
  • Toru Hagakure was abandoned by her peers due to her quirk and suffered from massive self-identity issues. Izuku and co being the only ones who attempted to help her with her problems resulted in Toru joining the League.
  • Hitoshi Shinso was bullied for his "villainous" quirk, his only desire being to become a hero to prove these bullies wrong. However, when his father is killed by the Pro Hero Mt.Lady, Hitoshi snaps and decides to take his vengeance out on the world.
  • Mina Ashido was ostracized by her peers due to her quirk, and no matter what she did Mina couldn't get rid of the idea of her quirk being unstable. The only person who didn't treat Mina like a walking biohazard was Himiko Toga, an infamous villain. After accidentally killing a hero, Mina is slowly corrupted by Toga into becoming a deranged psychopath.
  • Ochako Uraraka wanted to be a hero to give her parents a comfortable life. However, after failing the U.A. entrance exam, a desperate Ochako turns to helping the broker Giran to make money. After several deals, Ochako finds herself becoming more and more used to villainy, if only because doing so would help her parents when others didn’t.
  • Denki Kaminari, like Toru, suffered from his quirk causing him to be treated like a joke, the cause of this being his overloads, or "blackouts". After finally getting a solution to this problem by Izuku, Denki is slowly corrupted into villainy.
  • Momo Yaoyoruzu was lied to by her parents and mentors their actions, something that breaks Momo when she discovers that her parents may be the biggest criminals of all, covering up the crimes of Heroes that abuse their titles. All of this cumulated in Momo becoming a Hero Killer in vengeance for everyone who suffered because of them.
    • Geten was born into a wealthy family whose business was destroyed by Endeavor. Because neither parent wanted to quit their lifestyles, Geten was sold into slavery to play off their debts, eventually ending up in the hands of Re-Destro. This eventually led Geten to becoming a Lieutenant of the MLA and dedicating his life to killing Endeavor and destroying his legacy.
• True Companions: The League of Villains, being comprised of societal rejects, those who had a bad hand in life, and those who seek to destroy the current hero system, all trust and care about each other to an immense degree. It gets to the point where when one of their members gets killed, everyone in the League gets pissed off and swears to make the perpetrator suffer.
• Uncertain Doom: During the battle between the Meta Liberation Army and the League, Slide'n'Go is stabbed in the throat by Toru while Skeptic is dropped off the main MLA tower by Ochako. Neither is confirmed dead after this, but given that both injuries are likely severe, and, in the case of Skeptic, something that outright killed Curious in canon, the chance for either living is very low. Ultimately Subverted, as both are confirmed dead after the battle.
• Undying Loyalty: The entirety of Venality is this to Izuku, due to him helping them at their lowest and giving them a place in the world. Izuku being heavily injured during his fight with Bakugou during the Sports Festival and being slandered as the sole aggressive party in the fight is enough for everyone on the team to drop their morals and fully submit to the League's cause.
• Unknown Rival: Mt.Lady is completely unaware of the fact that she killed Hitoshi's father, and as such doesn't know that Hitoshi is planning to kill her. Needless to say, the Kamino Ward attack makes her fully aware of what she did.
• Villain Protagonist: The story mainly follows the members of Venality and the League, with the point of view switching constantly between each member.
• We Used to Be Friends: Played with for Mina and Kirishima. While she notes they were merely classmates rather than friends, she did appreciate that he was less cautious around her than others due to his quirk and he admired her for standing up to Gigantomachia. When they meet each other again during the USJ attack she expresses resentment towards him for having everything she wanted and only being less cautious around her due to his quirk. She has since expressed the desire to kill him at multiple points. However, when encountering him again during the attack on the training camp, she refers to him as her old friend.
  • Subverted with Momo and Jiro. While Jiro doesn't approve of her actions, the two are still friends and are even working with each other to take down the Heroes Commission.
• What the Hell, Hero?: After the two encounter Overhaul and a runaway Eri and watched as the former took her back, a very rightfully pissed off Izuku calls Mirio out for abandoning Eri to Overhaul and deliberately holding him back from rescuing the girl just because doing so would ruin Sir Nighteye's plan, despite Mirio knowing full well that Eri was being abused. Mirio, in turn, recognizes how bad the situation looked, though he stands by the idea of it being the best choice.
• Wham Episode: After a string of uncontested victories, chapter 27, Overhaul, would raise the stakes of the story when Spinner is Killed Off for Real by Overhaul, firmly introducing the fact that the League isn't immune to losing members.
  • Chapter 40, Declaration of War, has the Meta Liberation Army enter the story by capturing Giran and Haru, severely injuring Ochako, and revealing that they known of the League's identities and location, threatening to reveal everything if the League didn't submit to them.
  • Chapter 52 ends off with Ochako being completely outplayed by Nezu, exposed as a traitor, and captured, making her the first member of Venality to be taken out of the story (though it is implied that this won't stick, and she is later rescued by the League.)
• Wham Line: Chapter 47 ends off with a massive one, both potentially changing the dynamic of the story and signaling that Izuku’s plan to destroy Hero Society has begun.
  News Report: League Strategist Usagi apprehended
• Worthy Opponent: Rappa and Mirko, in a callback to their canonical teamup, are very complementary of each other's talents and accomplishments, and are very friendly to each other even on the battlefield. Rappa even calls his first fight with Mirko the best one he had in years.
• Would Hurt a Child: It's heavily implied that Re-Destro is more than willing to use Eri as leverage against the League should he need to. It's for this reason that Izuku takes a risk and trusts his mom to protect her without turning her into the Heroes.

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