YMMV / Amazing Fantasy

• Adorkable:
  • Izuku is a shy, easily flustered, embarrassingly polite and sweet young man. He's a bit of a Nervous Wreck who's easily startled and simply alluding to the effects of puberty, namely growing hair in unfamiliar places, is enough to make him turn bright red. The thought of having a "Quirk" at all makes him want to dance on his desk from joy and excitement (which would have been similar to Peter's infamous dance in Spider-Man 3). He's also a Hero nerd to the nth degree and can't help but Squee when he meets a cool Hero. When he's finally speaking with All Might face-to-face, the first thing that comes out of Izuku's mouth is "I love you!" to Izuku's mortification.
  • Taishiro is a round yet friendly guy who tries to get along with everyone, including Sir Nighteye and Snatch. He also spends most of his time with Tamaki trying to bring up the guy’s spirit.
  • After Iida gives 1-A a Rousing Speech to snap them out of the haze of the aftermath of the deaths of Sir Nighteye and the other heroes, he has a goofy little grin and a blush when (most of) the class applauds him.
  • Martin Li's stupid-looking Hero costume, almost relentless energy and cheer, and his constant attempts to puff up his ego make him as endearing as he is annoying.
• Broken Base:
  • Izuku's willingness to forgive Bakugou for years of bullying and torment sparked some controversy on the Spacebattles thread. On one hand, Values Dissonance is at work, as bullying is considered an internal matter in Japanese culture because blame is placed on the victim for their "otherness". From this perspective, Izuku's insistence that Bakugou is just a product of their society is validated. Western readers are more inclined to feel that Izuku should fight back now that he's more than strong enough to do so, a viewpoint that's parroted by Peter after he trips up Bakugou while picking up Izuku.
  • Peter's and MJ's divorce. While their relationship has been on the rocks in the comics before and being depicted on the big screen in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the One True Pairing belief among fans has spurred this response from readers. This is echoed in the appearance of MC2 Mayday in a non-canon sidestory, who is equally stunned at the idea that a version of her mother would have ever divorced her father for being Spider-Man.
  • The sidestories. Some readers find them a fun way for the author to explore other genres and flesh out the multiverse before him. Others find them an uninteresting waste of time and would much rather see him work on the main story.
  • Issue 15, “The Enforcers!” is a big one to readers due to the deaths of Sir Nighteye, Snatch, Fat Gum, and Centipeder. Some view the chapter as to be overly edgy with tons of overly descriptive pieces regarding the injury and death of the Heroes. However, others appreciate how it highlights the threat Mysterio and the Enforcers represent while taking a big risk at killing off two characters who were essential to arcs in the manga’s future.
• Friendly Fandoms: With the readerbases of Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku! and Thieves Can Be Heroes!. The authors are professed fans of each others' work and the three of them went so far as to reference each other as being part of the same multiverse. It's perhaps best shown by this fanart of the stories' respective Izukus together.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The negative portrayal of Disney, with lawyers on their behalf trying to "convince" Izuku to reconsider using the Spider-Man identity becomes this in light of the falling-through of the deal between Marvel, which is owned by Disney, and Sony. Marvel Studios, who was previously not getting anything out of the films they helped produced, asked to receive 50% of profits. Sony declined, and as a result Spider-Man, which Sony has the rights to, was "outed" from the MCU.
  • However, this is somewhat alleviated by the fact that Disney and Sony coming up with a new deal to create one more MCU film to complete the trilogy. Though the entire debacle seems to prove the scene’s point that Disney, like any other corporation, cares more for profit than bringing people entertainment or respecting what the characters stand for.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Stan Lee's cameo, who sells superhero memorabilia and comments he always liked the "old school" heroes when Izuku buys a Spider-Man costume from him. It feels like the perfect goodbye to the Man.
    • Mixing with Tear Jerker, this is because of Lee's death that the author took the little plot bunny about Izuku as Spider-Man and created a full-blown fanfic of it, dedicating the story to the late writer.
  • After the fight with Prowler, All Might visits Izuku and tells him he's going to be an amazing Hero. No buts, no yets or maybes, just pure faith that the kid has what it takes to be great.
  • Inko finds her son snoring into a textbook at 2:00 a.m. and gently reminds him to back to bed before draping some covers over him. All the while, she's admiring just how hard he's working to chase his dreams and supporting him to make up for all the times she couldn't.
• I Knew It!: The Secret Identity of the Prowler, Mitsuki Bakugou, has been long suspected by readers due to a mix of Foreshadowing and matching personality traits. Readers were only thrown off by her possession of multiple Quirks and a handful of Red Herring details.
• It Was His Sled: The reveal of Prowler's Secret Identity as Mitsuki Bakugou is supposed to be a pretty big reveal. But since the author brainstormed on a public Spacebattles thread before actually writing up the story, numerous readers knew about the twist in advance and in some cases spoiled it to others. This is even lampshaded with mock surprise in the author's notes at the end of the official reveal, as it ultimately came with little fanfare due to much of the readerbase learning about it in advance.
• Nightmare Fuel: Chapter 13....hoo boy. Toga being involved already is a portend, but even she can be on the receiving end when her Quirk reacts horrifically to Peter's irradiated blood and she exhibits symptoms of radiation poisoning, including her face half-melting. Toga being Toga, though, she jumps back into being the source rather than victim, as she mutates and develops spider-powers of her own and massacres the EMTs treating her. Not only that, she's absorbed Peter's memories and personality... and is obsessed with 'uniting' with him even moreso now.
• Older Than They Think: Some readers took offense to the depiction of Peter as older and fat, calling it disrespectful to the character and too much of a riff off Peter B. from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Little do they know that this wasn't the first time Peter is old and fat with a daughter.
• Take That, Scrappy!: On top of being humiliated by Izuku in public twice, Bakugou loses most of his social clout from his Comical Overreacting and the fact that he's no longer untouchable, eliciting this response from his detractors. It goes further in issue 10, "Bakugou Strikes Back". When pushed into a corner, Izuku snaps and reveals all of his buried feelings of resentment to him before ripping apart his worldview. Then, with a willing sacrifice from Jirou, Izuku manages to incapacitate Bakugou with a Venom Strike.
• Tear Jerker:
  • On the meta level, the reason why the story was written. That was just a silly little plot bunny to begin with, and the author didn't think it would lead anywhere. Then Stan Lee died only a few months after Steve Ditko, and something needed to be done so as to honour his passing away, so the author took this silly idea about their most iconic superhero, wrote a story, and dedicated it to the late writer and artist.
  • Not only is Peter’s life a trainwreck, but being Trapped in Another World means he's separated from his beloved daughter Mayday.
  • When Peter is talking about Civil War and the events that led to it, he remembers Stamford after the New Warriors formed a reality show, went after a bunch of experienced supervillains thinking it would be good for television, and Nitro exploded, killing a lot of people including a bunch of kids: The charred buildings and bones beneath the rubble. The smell of smoke and burnt ozone in the air as Spider-Man and the first responders, Avengers, and X-Men helped with the rescue efforts.
  • Mitsuki Bakugou being forced to acknowledge her son is actually The Bully.
  • Peter still feels immense guilt over letting the robber who would kill Ben Parker get away. And, unlike his cinematic counterparts, he didn’t do this because he was stiffed by his manager or anything. He didn’t act because he didn’t see the situation as worth his time. Despite the many years that passed by and regularly going to therapy, Peter still blames himself for the death of his father figure.

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