Mha fanfics, mainly vigilante Izuku AUs are so repetitive, most of them are recycled version’s of cloud’s work from the FTWOAN series. There is no drop of originality in at least 20% of them. This is not a small number, It’s like over 1,400. And even when they aren’t inspired by cloud, they still weirdly follow the same exact plot, always. Like, here’s an example.
Izuku becomes a vigilante at ten years old(Or anything from 8-15). Trains for one week. Can suddenly beat trained pros like Aizawa, who have had years of professional training, learning, and actual experience. Also the man who became a hero through sheer work and pure willpower since his quirk only evened out the playing field, by the way.
Aizawa suddenly supports random kids becoming vigilantes. He adopts everyone. Is also either married to Present Mic or Ms. Joke. There is no other possible relationship for him. It’s either those two, or no one. Or Shirakumo, in rare cases. And in extremely rare cases, Aizawa has a threesome with Shirakumo and Present Mic. WHY DON’T THEY JUST USE KNUCKLEDUSTER WHO IS ALSO QUIRKLESS?
”You basically fight quirkless!” MF if Aizawa had no quirk he’d be dead by now. If he was fighting quirkless, his opponents would have quirks, and he’d be fucking eviscerated in record time. Sure, he’s skilled, he’s trained, he’s built to handle a lot, but without his quirk to even out the playing field? The field becomes uneven and it’s just unrealistic to expect him to win. Not when his opponents are shooting lasers from the palms of their hands with ease or something.
Shinsou has the same comically stupid angst(The muzzle) he has in every story to justify his asshole behavior. Or it’s used as an excuse to tone down his behavior and woobify him into a cute pitiable uwu cat loving sleep deprived little boy. His parents are dead, in jail, or abusive. If they aren’t, then they put him in the foster system because they didn’t want him. And if they didn’t, they give him to an abusive aunt and uncle who beat him everyday and throw him in the basement.
Vigilante Izuku either befriends Shinsou or saves him at one point. The troubled(traumatized) teen is afraid to talk about his quirk because it scared everyone around him. Or because it got him muzzled. Or because he thinks it will scare Izuku.
Bakugou faces consequences by literally only two ways. One, Aizawa expels him out of anger because he bullied Izuku. Two, he goes to therapy, but will genuinely never apologize. He never does apologize either. The author writes one session of therapy and forgets about it. Both are unsatisfying.
Izuku finds Eri when he’s thirteen and adopts her(If his mother is dead or arrested or simply not present). He is somehow a hypercompetent teen that can take care of a child with extensive trauma and a quirk that is a wild card. Without help.
All Might is nearly always portrayed as a meathead with no social EQ nor IQ. He’s just there to be bashed and juxtapose Aizawa, who is apparently the spitting image of a hero, and what every hero should aspire to be. Yeah, he’s just there to glaze the fact that Aizawa exists. There is no other reason.
Izuku having a powerful quirk, but somehow everything still follows canon events. He still gets bullied, but this time, it’s for no reason. Bakugou bullies him to bully him. And he doesn’t say shit about it. This is one of the only routes where Izuku is an actual “vigilante”, since without a quirk, he isn’t one. In MHA laws, it’s stated to be a vigilante is to “commit acts of heroism” without actually being a professional hero. Guess what? There’s a loophole to this. You can only be a vigilante if you have a quirk. Because you can only “commit acts of heroism” through quirk usage.
Everyone becomes incredibly stupid. I am not even joking. Nedzu, principal of UA, the super-genius, the 4D chess player, gets outsmarted by an eight year old who really likes to play woodoku on his computer. Are you kidding me? Are you serious? This rat with an intelligence quirk that automatically makes him much smarter than literally everybody gets outsmarted by a very average kid that’s quirkless? At least give Izuku an intelligence quirk too to make it believable.
Mass murderer Endeavor who loves killing civillians and has the highest mortality rate of every hero ever combined. This guy must have the most overworked, most overpowered PR team if he’s doing that. Guys, do we watch the same MHA? Have we looked through the same source material? Yes, this guy is a horrible fucking father who is neglectful and absent, a terrible husband who did shitty things and piled every problem onto his wife until she couldn’t take it, but that doesn’t mean he’s a bad hero. Certainly not the hero of his family, but you have to face it. He’s a hypercompetent dickhead that’s number 2. If he was a mass murder addicted scumbag he wouldn’t be.
Quirkless discrimination suddenly becoming a whole lot worse, with the population of quirkless people becoming a staggering 2% instead of the 20% in canon. Guys. Are we stupid? Consider this. If MHA has the same amount of people we have in real life(which is pretty plausible), then they have like, what, 1.6 BILLION quirkless population? They’re not going extinct, and quirkless discrimination does exist in MHA, but it’s genuinely not that serious. The teachers don’t beat up Izuku every day and keep lunch away from him. They don’t have secret torture chambers for quirkless people. Aldera is not Hell disguised as a school.
Izuku has a horrific amount of plot armor, and he will never fail. This genuinely just makes his story so boring. What even is the point? Everything goes his way, he never learns anything, we never learn anything. There is no fluff, only moments of success that literally everyone expects. Everything is predictable, flat, disengaging. What’s even the point?
All Might chooses Mirio as his successor. This is almost a given in every MHA fic where he doesn’t give it to Izuku. Why? Because he says it himself. “If I didn’t meet young Midoriya when I did,” and something like “I would’ve given it to Toogata”. And don’t even get me wrong, I love him! I love Tamaki and Nejire and a lot of characters. But dude. There are other choices. What if you gave Nejire OFA??? Tamaki?? Both of them are good decisions. What about Shouji, Kirishima, Ojiro, for goodness sake Hagakure or Uraraka? I suppose women wouldn’t be a choice, because of physical attributes being biologically weaker, but you should understand.
The author, for some random reason, cannot stop sticking to canon. For goodness sake, no, Izuku would not succeed at the entrance exam if he had no rescue points. He would not succeed with 5 villain points. He just wouldn’t.
Why don’t we ever use Gentle or La brava??? Why is it always the exact same formula???
Vigilante Izuku under 16 years old
Disgusting amount of glazing for Aizawa
Muzzled Shinsou/Traumatized Shinsou
Bakugou “faces consequences”
Izuku becomes a single parent under 16 years old
Extreme All Might bashing for more Aizawa glaze
Izuku has a powerful quirk but still gets bullied and hated
Everyone becoming stupid idiots that are dependent creatures on Izuku
Endeavor is a mass murderer who does not care for civilians
Quirkless Discrimination is over-exaggerated
Izuku has way too much plot armor
Mirio always gets One For All
Author is unable to get away from canon
Always the same recycled slop
And don’t worry if you write a story like this! I’ll still read it, because I am an idiot. Please give me Tamaki with One For All stories PLEASE.
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