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  • Just how effective of a villain Izuku Midoriya can be? Deadly.
    • Even before he got the Infinity Gauntlet, he's already helping criminal gangs in enacting robberies, taking part in murdering heroes and later joining the League of Villains where he provided ingenious plans that'll help them throw the heroes off the loop.
    • Once he dons the Infinity Gauntlet, he begins tearing apart buildings, flinging cars off into the air and knocking down heroes to submission. And this is just done by a snap of his fingers. Thankfully, he doesn't do all these on civilians.
    • What Izuku did to Kamui Woods and Edgeshot are straight up horrifying: Kamui Woods is the first to try and stop Izuku but the boy uses his Infinity Gauntlet to not only slicing Kamui Woods's branches but also mutilating Kamui Woods, leaving severe gashes all over his body. Edgeshot is next and his attempts in stopping Izuku results in him being crumpled up like paper.
  • Like in canon, Izuku gains One For All except....it's not played in a heroic manner. After years of One for All being used as a tool to bring Japan to an age of peace, after years of All for One trying and failing to get it back, it has fallen in the hands of an intelligent, ruthless supervillain, and it may never be able to be returned. All Might can only react in complete horror as his worst fears come true before his eyes.
  • So much fears at the Raxus Junkyard, teen heroes are about to go up against the villain that is equal and obviously surpasses All Might.
    • Most notable is the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Izuku gave onto Katsuki Bakugou and boy, Izuku certainly doesn't back on his former bully. He punches, kicks, blasts him, breaks his arms and even throws a building right at him. Once he has Bakugou at his mercy, Izuku uses him as a bargaining chip to force Yaoyorozu to give him the Soul Stone lest she wants to see Bakugou's body splatter all over the place. Even if it was all a lie, Izuku was eerily convincing about his threat and probably is genuine about doing it. Bakugou could only scream as Izuku is slowly ripping him apart, molecule by molecule.
    • How convincing is Izuku? Even Bakugou himself, the normally prideful, iron willed hero, was completely shocked and horrified when Izuku threatened to tear him apart.
    • However, Bakugou isn't totally a victim there as he willingly uses his super-charged attacks to severally harm, if not kill Izuku after the latter points out his self-centeredness and inadequacies.
  • Some of the Pro Heroes can be just as monstrous as the villains they fought. Endeavor abused his family and caused massive property damage with his quirk and Weather Dominator using his abilities to ruin businesses. Even worse that the Hero Public Safety Commission is complicit in all of this by covering up all their heroes' messes.
    • Izuku theorizes that the reason UA is tolerant towards Bakugou despite his unheroic behavior is due to the potential of him becoming a villain if they were to expel him. The only reason UA is finally putting their foot down is because of Bakugou's role in creating an even worse villain than himself, Apotheosis.
  • Other than the Infinity Gauntlet, Izuku also created the Titan robots which Word of God confirms to be the expies to the Sentinels from X-Men. If he later developed them to their X-Men: Days of Future Past version - as in the one that the heroee could only defeat by stopping them from being created in the first place? - then the heroes are screwed.
  • Izuku reveals his new Soul Stone and it's All For One that has the ability to take quirks. The villain didn't waste time in removing quirks of heroes like Endeavor and Mt. Lady. Just the thought that the powerless Pro Heroes are left at the mercy of their hundred of enemies who'll come at them in full force.
  • Following the beatdown he suffered, Bakugou starts to suffer Sanity Slippage as he hallucinates Izuku taunting and diminishing him in every way possible, including him repeating the "swan dive" line Bakugou used right back at him.
    • And THAT was only the start of Bakugou's plight. Izuku is monitoring his every move just to screw with him, furthering his already diminished mental stability. This is somewhat lessen due to Bakugou deserving that fate after years of being an awful bully to Izuku.
    • When Izuku gives that Death Glare to him, Bakugou is genuinely terrified because this is not the same Quirkless boy he knew but a monster who is dedicated in making his life totally miserable till his death. Naturally, Bakugou flees.
  • The no-win situation All Might has to go through when facing Izuku one final time at Coruscant Stadium.
    • If he is defeated by Izuku, he'll possibly be arrested and thrown into Tartarus prison alongside All For One. Or even worse, he'll possibly be executed. And there'll be no one that is able to oppose the villain.
    • If All Might does defeats and arrests Izuku, he still loses because All Might will lose One For All and with the greatest defender gone, Japan will fall prey to the villains. Not only that, All Might's actions will cause the public to finally turn against the heroes and the government. All of this cuminating in all-out war that bring the country to ruin.
      • If things hadn't gotten worse, then this will. Izuku's Infinity Gauntlet still exists and it'll will be an incredible prize for the quirkless and villains, especially the villains who unlike Izuku, don't share his moral code. And if the latter were to happen, the government will have no choice but to turn to Izuku for help in creating counter measures against such a threat and in return, they'll most likely pardoned the boy of his crimes and be released from prison. Then everything All Might and the other heroes had to go through will be All for Nothing.
  • Another example of Izuku's Kick the Dog moments, the boy almost threatened to take Nezu's quirk, fully willing to let the principal to be reduced to a mindless animal. Nezu is understandably terrified at this and fully submits to the boy.
  • Izuku inflicting A Fate Worse than Death on Kendou Rappa by giving him a quirk that flattens his body into paper, leaving him unable to stand and barely able to move. Given that Izuku could have easily just beaten him down, this comes off as extremely cruel.
    • Hell, the fact that it's Rappa, an Affably Evil Noble Demon, that gets easily the worst fate out of all of the Eight Bullets, and only second to Overhaul himself, seemingly just because Izuku thought he was another Muscular, make one wonder what other horrible fates Izuku could inflict upon undeserving villains in the future.
  • Remember when Izuku wondered if he could use the Infinity Gauntlet to turn somebody inside out thanks to an offhanded remark from Kirishima? Well after defeating Overhaul and stealing his quirk, he gets to put this theory into practice with extreme prejudice and Overhaul himself is the lucky recipient. The formerly smug villain, already broken after his plans were completely destroyed is reduced to a crying wreck after the third time. Izuku puts him through this one hundred times.
    • On the one hand, Overhaul is receiving all of the treatment that he'd put Eri through for who knows how long. On the other hand, Izuku nearly becomes completely unhinged in torturing the man, projecting all of his past helplessness and hatred onto him, reducing him to a literal smear on the floor.
  • An offhanded comment that Izuku makes at the Hero ranking ceremony implies that the Heroes Commission and Hawks are on his hitlist. Granted, the Commission likely deserves it, but Hawks sure doesn't, and given how Hawks is treading a very thin line right now by actively interrogating Izuku's Knights, one has to worry for him.
    Hawks "And I would like to thank you for that note "
    Izuku, under his breath "Enjoy it while it lasts."
  • It’s one thing for Izuku’s Nemesis robot prototype to go up against All Might, who can defeat them with little effort. It’s entirely another thing when the much less powerful Gentle Criminal and La Brava are being down hunted by the machine. It’s basically a damn Terminator expy, and nothing that the two criminals throw at it stop it, only slow it down.
    • The duo have a Hope Spot, thinking they’ve escaped…and find themselves facing Izuku himself in front, and Nemesis itself catches up behind them. The gauntlet wielding isn’t kidding when he states that it’s the very definition of being “between a rock and a hard place.”
    • Crosses with Tear Jerker, but with how near impossible it is to root for Izuku during Gentle and La Brave's attempted escape from the HRD headquarters, seeing Nemesis and eventually Izuku himself hunt the two down and defeat them comes as extremely horrifying. Adding to this, the fact that the duo have multiple Hope Spot throughout the battle, only to have them shot down one by one only further make Izuku and Nemesis come off as unstoppable monsters.
  • The fact that Chapter 43 just ends immediately after Gentle and La Brave's capture, with no word on what Izuku plans on doing to them. Granted, it's more than likely that Izuku will just have the two arrested, and there's a tiny chance of him offering the two positions in the HRD, but given that Izuku has no idea what the two villains saw when they broke in, combined with how Izuku letting the world know that two random villains broke into his headquarters would likely result in a ton of villains and heroes trying the same thing, well.... let's just say that that Gentle and La Brave are nowhere near safe.

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