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Nightmare Fuel / My Hero Academia Spiderverse

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Whether intentional or not, both My Hero Academia and Spider-Man have been known for putting in some absolutely nightmare inducing imagery. These stories are no different.


  • The Eisley District in general.
    • It's the biggest slum in Musutafu, and is described as "a wretched hive of scum and villainy," with only two or three police precincts in the area that are horribly understaffed (and with some of them on the bad guys' payroll to look the other way or hide evidence.)
    • It's the one place in Musutafu that has absolutely NO Pro Heroes whatsoever, which gives everyone the impression that they think the district is beyond saving.
    • Street gangs, drug dealers, racketeers, arm smuggling, and even human trafficking; name any sort of crime, you're bound to find it in the Eisley District.
      • And those are just the small time crimes. Chapter 2 actually reveals that it's also a hotbed for various types of Human Trafficking: sex trafficking, child trafficking, and even Quirk trafficking.
    • People who "go missing" or get kidnapped in the Eisley District are often never even reported to the police, let alone found. Either because of cops being bribed to look the other way or because the police force is stretched so thin they can't spare anyone to look. That honestly makes you wonder just how many people go missing in a day/month/year and aren't even reported, and the implications are terrifying.
  • Before Izuku saves Ochako as Spider-Man, he hears the four thugs chasing her, all adults, making all kinds of whistles and lewd comments. It's not hard to imagine what they would've done to her if Spider-Man hadn't intervened.
  • Toga Himiko's abduction definitely earns a few Nightmare Fuel points for the subject of Human Trafficking.
    • Toga Himiko has been kidnapped, and has been missing for roughly 7 months. Izuku admits that there's only a slight chance she might be alive and still in Musutafu, and that's IF she was being Quirk Trafficked. If she was being sex or child trafficked, she'd likely be halfway across Japan or out of the country.
    • Even worse, Izuku and DECA find evidence that she was being targeted by someone driving a suspicious looking black van that was parked outside her Grandmother's butcher shop. A van that DECA describes as a total ghost: no plates, no registry, no record it even exists.
    • And then it's revealed that everywhere the van has been, a teenager goes missing in 2-3 weeks. And it's apparently been going on for a few years at the least.
  • Chapter 4 reveals that Aizawa had been involved in the kidnappings.
    • Izuku and DECA come to the conclusion by finding out that 32 of the listed kidnapped teens were all expelled from UA High School, and that all of them had been in Aizawa's class before he expelled them with the excuse of having "no potential." Aizawa had been a teacher there for six years, and of his expelled students 32 of them had ended up being kidnapped. Had Aizawa not been fired a year before the story started, one shudders to imagine how many of the current Class 1-A would have been added to the number.
    • And then Prowler and Spider-Man both discover that Aizawa had medical files for all of the students who got kidnapped, showing that just like Toga they were being targeted. One can only imagine who was targeting them and why...
  • The end of Chapter 4. Nuff said.

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