And here's another one, this time a little different than you would expect.

Instead of a Shounen, suddenly we've got a detective drama/crime investigation!

Revelations

(Inspired by Captain America: Civil War and Andor)

One morning, on a day that should be like any other, a document is released into the wild. A classified document.

A document containing multiple events and incidents that had been covered up by the HPSC, relating to the students of U.A., all of them about said students either being the victims of bullies or being bullies themselves.

The heroes of the HPSC and U.A. go to work in the face of a massive scandal as public trust in them as institutes takes a massive hit, and all evidence in their case points to the League of Villains as the culprits of the cyberattack, though the attack itself doesn't fit their M.O..

Meanwhile, the League of Villains themselves are confused by the sudden release of documents, as they were not behind it, but the villain that was seems to be more than content with allowing the League to take the credit for it, which is not something that ordinary villains would want.

However, the police and heroes put all of their attention into finding the League of Villains, diverting many of their resources and efforts into chasing as many leads as possible as they try to anticipate the next attack and outthink this new stratagem supposedly being conducted by the League.

But soon enough, the next attack comes, and another document is released.

This time, it is a list of casualty reports.

The casualties? The people that All Might failed to save.

All Might's image takes a very serious blow. Over the years, the media has placed much emphasis on All Might as an invincible hero, as someone who never loses no matter what, as someone who saves anyone and everyone.

But in order to keep this image afloat, the media has made a point of covering up his failures and keeping them hidden from the public, and now that these failures have been cast out into the open, faith in the trustworthiness of the media has taken a heavy blow as well.

Soon, another casualty list is released to the public, and it is one that details the fatalities of innocent people in the countless battles between heroes and villains. As the public becomes more riled up, even the students are getting involved with the investigation as more faith in hero society is lost with each passing day.

An effort is made to contact the people who have lost friends and family members during the events covered up above, and Izuku is met by a woman named Haruma Koketsu, a Kindergarten schoolteacher with a weak quirk - flexible fingers - who lost a bus full of children - her previous class - to a villain attack a few years ago. She is a deeply troubled woman, and Izuku feels compelled to help her with her problems. Surprisingly though, Haruma reveals that she remembered Izuku from the Sludge Villain incident, as she had been there to witness it, and admired his bravery for jumping in when no one else would.

Not too long later, more documents are released into the wild, this time being the crimes of Lady Nagant and how the HPSC used her as their triggerman and assassin against perceived threats to hero society. Not too long later, a slipup on the part of the villain behind this plot allows them to trace their location to an internet café and realise that they had been in contact with someone within the HPSC who had leaked them much of the documents that had been released.

The heroes come down on the corrupt HPSC member, but he refuses to spill on who he is working with, though he does sprout the words of Stain to them, revealing his own motivations. However, he does adamantly deny having any connection to the League of Villains, and says that the person who contacted them was outside of the League of Villains.

With his testimony, the heroes and police investigators realise that while they might be a believer in Stain, whoever is behind the cyberattacks is attempting to frame the League of Villains for their crimes, and has no interest in fame or taking the spotlight whatsoever.

And that's when much of the story's true purpose is revealed: this story is a deconstruction of many of the Shounen genre's tropes, in that the villain of the story defies many of those tropes. Because the heroes and police have been living in a world defined by comic book and Shounen story tropes, they expect villains to act in the usual way that many of the MHA villain organisations due: hungry for infamy and recognition, acting out of respect for their opponents, and demanding upfront fights, calling out their attacks, and doing whatever they want.

Because of this, the heroes are woefully unprepared for a villain that wants nothing to do with respect or gives any sort of a damn about being known, and is more than willing to let others take the credit for their crimes. They label the villain as Mastermind: The hacker Villain, but in the next cyberattack ,this time relating to the activities of the League of Villains and their casualty rates (seemingly knowing that they have been outed as not part of the League), the villain includes a label stating that they hate the name, and that they hate being labelled by any sort of alias as well, deconstructing yet another Shounen trope in that the villain refuses to operate under a codename and chooses to keep themselves anonymous.

Before long, the attacks stop, and for a good while the heroes believe that the worst has come to pass.

However, their hopes are dashed when Mastermind releases a new document, hijacking U.A.'s own servers to transmit it.

It is of Izuku and Bakugo's time in Aldera, and it is CCTV footage of the latter telling the former to kill himself.

The public goes up into arms, and Class 1-A turns against itself. This is after the Kamino Incident, and so U.A. has put much emphasis in protecting Bakugo's reputation and credibility as a potential hero. Now his shared past with Midoriya has been blown out of the water, and U.A. look like fools for ever supporting such a bully.

As the consequences begin to pile up and hero society begins to suffer, the heroes rush to find Mastermind, desperate to try and find them and stop another attack from taking place.

And that's when Mastermind makes their next, and biggest mistake, accidently revealing their location in releasing their latest attack and allowing the heroes to narrow down their location to a few city blocks, where the League of Villains supposedly had a warehouse filled with gestating Nomu being grown. Coming to the conclusion that Mastermind wants to use the Nomu to enact the finale of whatever their grand plan was. As hero society begins to fall apart from the constant revelations, and Class 1-A begins to turn against itself, All Might and the heroes, including the students, track down the warehouse filled with Nomu and make their way inside...

Only to find the Nomu dead, their vats drained, their bodies devoid of life and lying limply on the ground.

The heroes are confused, and that's when they see Mastermind before them, calming speaking to them and not at all intimidated by All Might's presence. They call them Mastermind.

They revoke that name, hating it. They would rather be called Haruma Koketsu, her actual name.

The heroes wonder why she killed the Nomu, and Haruma reveals that she had never wanted to use them at all. She hates villains with as much passion as she does heroes, and the Nomu were tortured souls, unwilling in their change and suffering. They deserved peace.

The heroes declare that Haruma is under arrest, and that her plans have been foiled, but Haruma denies this.

After all, she released the last set of documents half an hour ago.

All over the internet, a hundred classified files relating to All Might, the rivalry between One for All and All for One, the secrets behind the Nomu as known by the HPSC...

And a single video file of All Might telling a quirkless Izuku that he cannot be a hero without a quirk.

And then we see Haruma's backstory.

In the past, Haruma had been on a field trip with her class, and had been herding them onto the bus home when they got caught up in a fight between a hero and villain. The bus was caught in the crossfire and all the children aboard were trapped.

Haruma had a chance to save them, though, and she tried to, but a pair of heroes held her back, telling her not to get involved in the fight, and that All Might would be there soon to save them.

But All Might didn't show up until the fight was over, and the hero and villain had beaten each other into submission. The bus burnt down, and all the children aboard died.

All Might tried, in his best effort, to comfort her, paraphrasing his catchphrase to try and calm her, but Haruma rails on him in anger, shouting at him as to the fact that he wasn't there when those children needed him the most, how she could've saved them if the heroes hadn't held her back, all ending in her spitting in All Might's face and storming off, tears streaking down her face.

And the next day, she would be harassed by the media for spitting at All Might, and is horrified to discover that the deaths of an entire bus of children was swept under the rug, all to maintain All Might's perfect image.

Haruma is a walking deconstruction of the aftermath of a hero's battle. We see the flashy explosions and the cool action scenes and the iconic special moves on each side, but we never hear about the people caught in the middle of the battle. We never hear about the collateral damage, and we never hear about the survivors in their aftermath.

Not only that, but her sheer existence takes apart All Might's image as a perfect hero, and therefore hero society itself, as the media and HPSC are fanatical in keeping up this persona and refuse to air any of his mistakes in favour of maintaining his public image as a hero that can save everyone, as to maintain the peace of hero society and keep the status quo in place.

In Haruma's words, the stories about All Might talk about the ones he saved, and never about the ones that he didn't. To even think of such a thing is heretical.

So Haruma wasn't surprised when, as she was watching the Sludge Villain incident play out at Aldera, no one stepping in to save the boy that was trapped in the monster. Everyone was more than content to stand back and wait for All Might to show up.

Except for one.

Haruma wouldn't learn the boy's name until much later, but she saw him rush in to save his friend when no one else was willing to, and she seemed to be the only one who heard All Light's words to him about inspiring him. That single lonely boy had been the one to make a true difference in that fight, and no one else. That boy was the truest hero that day, and no one else.

But the admiration that Haruma felt for the boy was swallowed up by the distain that she felt as the boy who risked his life was harangued and bullied by the heroes for his actions, whilst the boy who screamed 'Die', was taken hostage by the villain, and acted bullyish towards both his saviour and the heroes themselves, was praised by said heroes - who had refused to do anything - for his quirk and his quirk alone.

All Might disappeared, as always, and the heroes left, leaving the ordinary people to toil and trouble themselves with the aftermath of the latest battle in the endless war between heroes and villains.

And as many of the forgotten injured and wounded were pulled out of the wreckage of Aldera, abandoned by the heroes and villains that came before, Haruma's admiration was replaced by a steely resolve.

Heroes, villains, they were all the same in the end. Nothing more than power-hungry tyrants constantly whetting themselves against each other, fighting and murdering each other, all without a care in the world to the people that they hurt along the way.

She wouldn't allow it.

She wouldn't allow anymore people to die for this endless war.

She wouldn't allow anymore children to be killed in this endless conflict of powers and egos.

For the good of all, hero society, and the very concept of heroes and villains, must be erased.

She couldn't kill All Might though. Stronger men than her had tried and failed, and to kill him, despite how much she hated him, would make him a martyr.

But if she could destroy him, ruin his legacy, and reveal the rot behind his golden image by simply revealing the bloody truth behind his victories, then everything that he had worked so hard to build would fall apart.

It would take her an entire year to amass the information that she had procured, finding the funds to complete such a plan, learning the technical skills that she needed to pull it off, posing as a dozen different identities and aliases - a school board inspector for Aldera, a police detective for the League of Villains investigation, etc. - as well as making contact with as many people as she could whom she could trust with her plan, eventually making contact with a man whom shared Stain's ideology, who she met with in the HPSC's main building. All she had to do was sprout some of Stain's ideals to him, and he fell in line immediately.

When Haruma is asked by the heroes as to what trick she had used to get into the HPSC's headquarters, Haruma just shrugs and says that there is no trick. She just walked in like she belonged.

And that is the final deconstruction of MHA's particular brand of Shounen storytelling: so many of the villains of Shounen stories are big and bombastic, able to put up one hell of a fight with their incredible powers, and they had easily been able to content with heroes and make themselves out as obvious enemies of the state.

Haruma is the opposite of that. She is not strong and cannot put up a fight. She had a weak quirk and had no chance of going up against any kind of hero in a 1v1 battle. All she had was her intelligence and computer skills, and even then she still made mistakes.

And yet she still succeeded.

This is because of the arrogance of hero society. They have become fat and slow from living in the Shounen genre, and cannot anticipate any kind of villain that does not fall into the lines of the villains that they have faced before.

Really, Haruma was only able to succeed because of a lot of luck, and because of the preconceived notions of hero society.

Haruma is arrested in the end, but she has still won. Hero society has taken a massive blow, confidence in both heroes and the League of Villains has taken a massive blow to the point of being non-existent, many from both sides are beginning to defect and desert, and dozens of vigilantes are beginning to rise up in the aftermath.

But in her cell, Haruma is approached by All Might, and he reveals a few truths of his own to her:

He had himself been appalled by the lack of mention in the news about the deaths of those children, but had been stopped from talking about it by the HPSC, who were always desperate to keep a leash on his public image and had paid off the families of the deceased to keep quiet (or even moved them elsewhere) and placed a gag order on All Might himself, because if he were to go public with the event, the perfect image of hero society would be damaged. Not only that, but he had been stopped from visiting her to try and properly comfort her by Sir Nighteye, who had told him that talking to a woman that hated him would only seem like empty pity to her and make her hatred worse, not to mention all the people that constantly needed him to save them.

Haruma tells him that it's not an excuse, and All Might sighs and agrees.

The heroes win in the end, and yet they also lose. Hero society is damaged irrepairably, friendships have been damaged and destroyed, and everyone is left with a bitter taste in their mouths.

In the end, it is hard to decide who won...