- [Dorrie] Now that
everyone's favorite shounen is starting to get a little darker, it's high time we chronicle the events that have brought us to this
spot with a full timeline. There will be spoilers for events up through the end of the
fourth season of the anime. So don't say I didn't warn ya. (soft rhythmic music) In the world of "My Hero Academia," it can be hard to track
some of the earlier events, since there aren't exact years. For the dates we do have,
we'll be marking them as BUA, or Before Midoriya enters UA. But years before UA is even established a luminous baby is born in Keikei, China. This is the first recorded
quirk in human history. Eventually, 80% of the
population will have quirks. The other 20% not so lucky. The Vigilante Era: All
for One and One For All. With quirks popping up all over the place, everything's absolute chaos. Society is forced to reshape itself to accommodate humanity's new powers. The first person to become
something of a unifier is a man named Shigaraki. His hyper-powerful quirk, All for One, allows him to steal several
other peoples' quirks. Shigaraki uses his powerful
quirk to manipulate Japan from the shadows amidst all the confusion. All For One sways people to his side by giving them powerful
quirks, or, you know, just turning them into mindless puppets by giving them overly powerful quirks that their bodies can't exactly handle. On the other hand, All For
One's brother is sickly, small, and seemingly quirkless, but opposes his brother's evil deeds. Whether out of kindness
or, well, just pity, All For One gives him a quirk that allows him to stockpile power. However, the stockpile quirk awakens the brother's actual
quirk, which had been latent. His quirk can be passed down
from one person to another. The two quirks fuse to create One for All. The younger brother
tries to stop All For One with his cool new Quirk, but finds that he's still not powerful enough. And so, he passes One For
All down to a successor, creating a chain of heroes who cultivate and pass down the power, all in the hopes that someone, someday, will
be able to defeat All For One. Nonetheless, with the help of a quirk that stops him from aging, All For One continues to pursue his dream of becoming the king of evil. Creation of the Hero System. As quirk-enhanced crime begins to rise, groups of vigilantes show
up to keep the peace. Countries around the world
begin to pass legislation regulating the usage of Quirks. And this is where professional
heroes come into the picture. Rhode Island institutes the
very first Licensed Hero System, but of the 189 active vigilantes, only seven become recognized
by the state as heroes. Everyone else, sorry, you're
immediately classified as a villain, tough luck. The Age of Nana Shimura,
approximately 50 BUA to 35 BUA. Seven generations after the
creation of One For All, the modern-day society of
heroes is in full swing. Among these heroes is Nana Shimura, the seventh host of One For All. However, despite all the
pro-heroes running around, villains are thriving thanks
to All For One's influence. Nana eventually meets
a quirkless teenage boy named Yagi Toshinori. He's got a strong sense of
justice, a great head of hair and he yearns to become a Symbol of Peace for people to rely on and look up to. Nana decides to mentor this quirkless boy and make him her successor. Some time later, Nana's
husband is tragically killed. To spare her son from the same fate, Nana places him into foster
care and keeps her distance. She also asks Toshinori
and her BFF Gran Torino to do the same. Nana's son grows up with, of course, a strong hate of heroes
and a violent streak. When Toshinori is 18, All
For One tracks him and Nana to finally snuff out One for All. In the ensuing battle,
Nana sacrifices herself so her successor can get away, and entrusts Gran Torino with
the rest of his training. The Age of All Might,
approximately 35 BUA to six BUA. After graduating from UA,
a grief-stricken Toshinori hones his skills on the
streets of Los Angeles with his new hero name: All Might. When he returns to Japan,
his rise is meteoric. A video of one of his early
rescues blows up online, and All Might quickly
becomes the Number One Hero. The world comes to know
him as the Symbol of Peace. Thanks to the influence All Might wields, Japan's crime rate drops below 6%. But All Might's rise
isn't great for everyone. One hero, Endeavor, rises
to the number two spot when he's just 20 and bitterly stays there for the next 25 years, jealous of All Might's
spotlight (murmurs). All Might takes on one
of his biggest fans, Mirai Sasaki, hero name: Sir
Nighteye, as his sidekick. Nighteye's quirk allows
him to see the future, so he becomes the analytical mastermind behind their missions. But All For One also
takes in a new apprentice, Tomura Shigaraki, AKA Tenko
Shimura, Nana's grandson. All For One takes Shigaraki under his wing after finding him wandering the
streets all by his lonesome. He feeds into Shigaraki's
increasing disillusionment with hero society and hatred of All Might. Nighteye is All Might's number one fan, but Izuku Midoriya is pretty close second. This adorable four-year-old
has tons of All Might merch and loves to play pretend as All Might. He even watches that early video of him on repeat constantly. No shame, I watched Talking
Heads' "Stop Making Sense" on repeat constantly, because I feel the same way about that, and I am in my 20s. Izuku wants nothing more than to be a hero just like All Might, but when his mother takes him to the doctor, they find out that,
surprise, he's quirkless. That's like pretty sad,
but Akaguro Chizome's story kinda takes the cake in terms of tragedy. He's deeply inspired by All Might, but drops out of his
high school hero course once he realizes that his classmates are in it for money and personal gain. After a disillusioned, chaotic stint as a vigilante named Stendahl, Akaguro will eventually rebrand himself as Hero Killer Stain and start preaching the Revival of Heroics. All Might versus All For One, six BUA. After years of clashing,
All Might finally becomes the first successor of One
For All to defeat All For One. All Might doesn't kill
him, but he does manage to completely decimate his
head, which is pretty bad. All For One is forced to retreat even deeper into the shadows. He eventually creates
the League of Villains and places Tomura at its head, grooming him to become his successor. However, All Might is also
gravely wounded in the battle; his injuries put a sudden time limit on how long All Might can use One For All, but he conceals his fate. Nighteye insists that All
Might pick a successor and retire as soon as possible, especially after foreseeing a
grizzly death in store for him in six or seven years' time. But All Might feels that
the world still needs him as the Symbol of Peace. Nighteye can't stand to watch
All Might destroy himself, so they, unfortunately, decide
to go their separate ways. Elsewhere, a failed aspiring
hero named Danjuro Tobita starts posting videos online under the villain name Gentle Criminal. These videos aren't especially popular, but they do catch the attention of a depressed, genius teenage
hacker named Manami Aiba. She begs Tobita to let
her join his operation and takes on the codename La Brava. Izuku meets All Might, one BUA. Izuku Midoriya, now
14-years-old, is a bright-eyed, bushy haired middle school student. He still loves superheroes
and takes obsessive notes on each and every one of them. You know his whole
mutter-mutter-mutter-mutter thing. One day, All Might saves
Izuku from a sludge villain. Izuku is like beyond excited to meet him, but when he sees All
Might's secret injury, he feels just a little bit crushed. But, when that same sludge
villain attacks his classmate and personal bully, Katsuki Bakugo, Izuku rushes in before the heroes do, even though he's got like no
chance of saving his, friend? Frenemy? Rival? Boyfriend? Whatever; he can't save Bakugo on his own. Luckily for our quirkless
boy, All Might shows up and rescues the both of them. That evening, moved by
Izuku's heroic spirit, All Might reveals to Izuku that he has been looking for
a successor for One For All, and had agreed to teach at
UA for that very purpose. But he picks Izuku to be a successor, right then and there. Oh, so shounen! UA Entrance Exam, zero UA. 10 months go by, it's February
26th, and Izuku is now 15! He's been training hard,
you know, cleaning beaches, dragging tires, and inheriting One For All by ingesting All Might's hair. That sentence is still
so goddamn weird to say. Mere hours after getting his new quirk, Izuku takes the entrance exam for UA, the most prestigious high school for churning out pro heroes. While Izuku doesn't get tons of points, his inaugural use of One for All saves one of the other test
participants, Ochako Uraraka. Ochako, in turn, saves him
from crashing to the ground. She also charms him into
loving his nickname, Deku. Unfortunately, Izuku
kinda learns the hard way that his body isn't quite
ready to handle All For One. His performance in the
entrance exam leaves his arm and both of his legs completely shattered. Yikes, poor unsuspecting Inko. However, one week later, Izuku discovers that even though he got zero points for taking down decoy
villains in the exam, his heroic rescue of Ochako
earned him acceptance into UA. Also, sometime early in this year, the Yazuka organization Shie Haasaikai falls into inner turmoil, because of the boss's young
apprentice, Kai Chisaki. Chisaki wants to use the quirk of the boss's granddaughter, Eri, to create quirk-erasing bullets. When the boss refuses, because
Eri is like a little kid, Kai secretly puts him into a coma, makes himself the acting boss of the gang, starts recruiting pawns, and begins performing
horrible experiments on Eri. And I will never forgive him for it, because poor sweet little baby Eri, God, I love her so much, ugh, can't get over it. First Semester at UA,
April to June, zero BCE. Izuku begins his classes in April, where he meets his fellow 1A classmates and their homeroom teacher Shota Aizawa, AKA Eraser Head AKA Daddy. In a grueling first day of classes, Izuku successfully attempts
to harness One For All in just one finger, but
his finger still breaks. Izuku soon picks his hero name: Deku. Sorry, I just had to say it
like Bakugo, it's so much fun! Once news hits that All
Might is a teacher at UA, the media enters a frenzy
and the villains take notice. In a matter of days,
Deku and his classmates are suddenly attacked by villains while practicing rescue training at the Unforeseen
Simulation Joint, or USJ, with Space Hero: Thirteen. Shigaraki's League of Villains
have chosen this opportunity to make their glorious debut, mirroring the likes of Team Rocket, and, hopefully, killing
All Might in the process. Tomura's accompanied by Kurogiri, along with some small fry villains, and a strange being called a Nomu, a reanimated super-soldier
corpse modified especially for the League to hold multiple Quirks. Class 1A is forced to fight the villains until more pro heroes arrive. All Might dutifully shows up
and pushes past his new limits to defeat the Nomu, and then
Deku intercepts Shigaraki and Kurogiri from charging at All Might. Luckily, other pro heroes
show up just in time to handle the situation. Even though the USJ incident ended up as a humiliating defeat
for the League of Villains, All For One orders Shigaraki
to take the time he needs to build up a stronger,
more fearsome group. Just over two weeks later,
Deku and his classmates are still reeling from the USJ incident. I mean, it's kinda traumatizing
for a bunch of teenagers when you think about it. Thankfully, they can turn their attention to the UA Sports Festival as
a much-needed distraction. Best arc, IMO. The highly-anticipated,
televised annual event serves as a recruiting
tool for UA students. Events include the obstacle
course race, which Deku wins, the cavalry battle, where Deku gains the highest point value, and the finals, which are tournament
style, one-on-one matches. Deku faces off against fellow
classmate Shoto Todoroki, the son of the still-bitter
Number two Hero, Endeavour. Todoroki wins, but only
after Deku convinces him that his flame abilities are his own power and not his (bleep) dad's. ♪ Life is your own, get ready ♪ ♪ Wake your psyche up, Mob ♪ Sorry, wrong anime, but I
always have to reference Mob. Everyone's favorite hothead Katsuki Bakugo ends up winning the whole damn festival and he's really pissed off about it. However, during the Festival,
1A Class Rep Tenya Iida gets word that his
brother, the hero Ingenium, has been badly wounded in a
battle against a new threat, Hero Killer: Stain. Ingenium becomes paralyzed
from the waist down, and Iida takes up the
mantle of the Ingenium name. One week later, Deku and his
class start their internships. Deku works under the
now senile Gran Torino, who helps him to the next level of using One for All, Full Cowling! Now, Deku can evenly
distribute a small percentage of One For All's power
throughout his body! Meanwhile, Shigaraki meets with Stain, hoping to recruit him to the League. However, Stain's ideology proves different from the League's: he wants to purge society of
false heroes, and villains, who use their quirks selfishly and vainly. He dislikes needless bloodshed,
even though his whole quirk is like about eating blood. Yeah, there's a bit of a complex there. While Stain and Shigaraki come to blows, Stain allows the League
of Villains to continue because he sees promise in Shigaraki. Still, Shigaraki's
annoyed by Stain's whole holier-than-thou attitude. So, after dropping him back off in Hosu, Shigaraki orders three
Nomu from All For One to destroy Stain and have some
fun wreaking havoc on Hosu. It's a party in Hosu,
and not the good kind. Pros like Endeavor flock to
the city to deal with the Nomu. And just three days
into their internships, Deku, Iida, and Todoroki find themselves facing off against Stain. Iida encounters Stain first,
hoping to avenge his brother. The three students manage to defeat Stain, but since they're unlicensed,
the credit goes to Endeavor. Stain is whisked away to Tartarus, a super high-security prison. The Hosu Incident is huge news, with Stain's role and ideology
totally outshining the Nomu. Stain's ideology begins
to spread like wildfire, influencing a new wave of villains. Sure enough, the whole criminal
underworld gets Stain Fever, and ironically enough,
the League of Villains gets a sudden surge of cred. Shigaraki reluctantly takes
advantage of the situation in order to build up the League. At the end of June, he also takes time to hash out his ill feelings towards Stain in a creepy little chat
with Deku at the mall. Deku is understandably pretty freaked out, but he has to focus. It's final exam season! Class 1A's practical
exam pits two students against one of the pro-hero staff. For the first time, Deku and
Bakugo kinda work together against All Might! Though not everyone passes,
they're all sent off to summer training camp. Kidnapping and the Kamino
Ward Incident, July, zero BCE. The UA first-years head
off to their training camp with the Wild, Wild Pussycats;
it's all to help the students earn their provisional hero licenses. However, on the third night of the camp, while the first years are all scattered taking a test of courage, surprise! The League of Villain's brand new Vanguard Action Squad attacks. Nobody saw this coming! The 10-person elite team
includes new recruits like Dabi, best girl Himiko Toga, Twice, Mister Compress, Spinner, and Magne. There's also another Nomu. Their mission: Capture Bakugo! The hero-in-training is on their radar thanks to his performance
at the Sports Festival. With everyone split up around
the forest, chaos ensues. Deku wrecks his body to save a child from a villain literally called Muscular. Ew, oh God, that villain
was so disgusting! Even thinking about him
just makes me (gags). In the end, despite
everyone's best efforts, the villains successfully
make off with Bakugo, as well as Ragdoll, one of the Pussycats. Deku's injuries are so severe
that that at the hospital, the doctor warns him that if he keeps injuring
his arm ligaments, he will lose the ability
to use his arms at all. About three days after
the Vanguard attack, Deku's friends visit him in the hospital. They break the news that
real MVP Momo Yaoyorozu put a tracking device on the
Nomu, which the police and pros are using to uncover the League's hideout. The students also realize that Momo could make another device to help 1A go after Bakugo themselves. The proposal creates a
rift between the students, since they were explicitly ordered to leave the matter to the pros. But this is shonen after
all, so Deku, Todoroki, Momo, Kirishima, and Iida
throw caution to the wind and decide to go anyway. UA issues a solemn televised apology for allowing one of their
students to get kidnapped. The broadcast is widely watched, even by the League of Villains, who are trying to convince
Bakugo to join them. Bakugo is totally not convinced
and attempts to fight back. That night, Deku and team
follow Momo's tracker to a warehouse filled with Nomus, but there's no sign of
the League or Bakugo. Around the same time, a
team of heroes and police led by All Might, break into
the League's main hideout, fighting them off to save Bakugo! Meanwhile, the remaining
heroes follow Momo's tracker and round up the Nomus. However, All for One
appears at the warehouse and takes out all the pro heroes present. He transports a fresh
batch of Nomu to All Might, and transports the
League members and Bakugo away from All Might and
over to the warehouse. All Might quickly tracks them down, and has another showdown with All for One. Meanwhile, Team Deku
successfully escape with Bakugo while All For One
forcibly transports Tomura and the League away. Now, everyone is out of the way. Six years after their first fight, All For One and All Might
have an explosive rematch on live television. After trading a couple of blows, All for One exposes All
Might's weakened form after the hero blocks a powerful attack to save a trapped citizen. All for One also takes this opportunity to inform All Might that Tomura
is Nana Shimura's grandson. Ugh, that tactical sonofabi-- (bleep). As other pros show up
to help clear the scene of remaining citizens and injured heroes, All Might gets a burst of energy. He defeats All for One with
a final, massive punch: the United States of smash! It's a devastating attack
that puts All for One down, but it also uses up the
final reserve of One For All. Addressing the public, All
Might passes his message on to Deku, and everyone
listening: "Now, it's your turn." All for One is locked up under
maximum security in Tartarus. However, the unexpected early retirement of the Symbol of Peace gives
everyone some serious anxiety. And with the League of Villains
still very much around, new villains are popping up all over the place like hot cakes. On top of that, Chisaki Kai, AKA Overhaul, of the Shie Hassaikai
deems All Might's fall to be the perfect moment
to enact his plan. Overhaul and his goons take to the streets and sell the quirk-enhancing drug Trigger to fund their plans. Provisional Hero Licenses,
August, zero BCE. Between Bakugo's kidnapping
and the Kamino Ward incident, UA has no choice but to take
heightened security measures. All students must live in dorms that are quickly built
inside the UA campus. And since the training camp
was so rudely interrupted, students must continue working towards their provisional
hero license test. To that end, a day after moving in, Deku and his classmates work
on developing Ultimate Moves. Four days in, Deku develops
his Full Cowling, Shoot Style! Meanwhile, the members
of the League of Villains are keeping a low profile
and working separately to avoid being tracked down and captured. Three days before the
provisional license exam, Himiko infiltrates Shiketsu
Academy and disguises herself using her Quirk as a student named Camie. She then takes the exam
and hits on Deku and Ochako in Camie's place. Best girl has got her priorities straight. Once the exam starts, all
the nearby hero schools honor the yearly tradition and
gang up on the kids from UA. But of course, everyone from
class 1A passes the test and receives their provisional licenses, well, except for Todoroki and Bakugo. Oh, and Himiko Toga walks away
with a drop of Deku's blood, without anyone ever
discovering her true identity. I know, this is like the
fourth time I'm saying it, but guys, best girl! The night after the license
exam, Bakugo confronts Deku; he suspects that Deku gained
his Quirk from All Might. Hm, I wonder what gave him that idea. Years of tension finally come to a head, and the two fight so hard that All Might himself
has to break them up. Both boys walk away with a
newfound respect for each other, both inspired by the other
to become a better hero. And God was that fight (bleep) awesome. Shie Hassaikai Raid, September, zero UA. The League of Villains
try to recruit Overhaul, but once they meet up, Chisaki
tries to absorb the League into the Hassakai instead. After all, Chisaki and
Shigaraki both see themselves as the future king of the underworld. Just one big-old (bleep) contest. The tense in meeting results
in Chisaki killing off Magne and blowing Mister Compress's arm off, while Shigaraki kills one
of Overhaul's cronies. Days later, the situation
defuses and Shigaraki agrees to lend Himiko and Twice to the Yakuza, of course, it's just to secretly keep tabs on the organization. Meanwhile, Deku manages to
secure a work study position under Sir Nighteye, thanks to
Mirio Togata, AKA Lemillion, an upperclassman who's
one of UA's Big Three. And looks like a beefy vault boy. Nighteye's agency happens
to be investigating Overhaul and his gang. During a routine patrol, Deku and Mirio coincidentally run into a
fleeing Eri, who is being pursued by her so-called father. You can't see it but I was
doing air quotes over father. Well, it's Chisaki himself. Deku and Mirio can tell something's wrong, but they let Overhaul go so
they don't raise a suspicion. Days later, as run-ins
with the drug Trigger and temporary quirk-erasing
bullets increase, Nighteye calls a secret meeting of heroes to share intel about the Hassaikai. The heroes come to the conclusion that Chisaki must be using
Eri to develop bullets that could destroy quirks permanently. They plan to storm the Hassaikai's hideout and save sweet lil' baby Eri
once they find the location. Only a couple of days later, the heroes raid the Hassaikai HQ. While Chisaki escapes with
Eri, the heroes rush in, splitting up so others
can keep moving forward with the rescue. Thanks to his quirk, Mirio
goes ahead of all of them. With all the chaos, Himoko
and Twice take the opportunity to betray the Yakuza. Later, as they ditch the scene, Himiko even disguises herself as Deku to tell the heroes where Overhaul is. Mirio catches up to Chisaki and fights to get Eri out of his grasp, but is shot by a permanent
quirk-erasing bullet. However, even without his quirk, he holds Overhaul off for 15 minutes, until Deku, Aizawa, and Nighteye show up. In the ensuing battle, Mirio
tries to escape with Eri, and Chisaki impales Nighteye. Now, Deku alone is left to face off against a freakishly fused Overhaul. I'm talking the stuff of nightmares here. With the help of Eri's Rewind quirk, Deku uses 100% of One For All's power, changing the future Nighteye
saw and defeating Chisaki! But as the police are bringing Chisaki in, Shigaraki and the rest
of the League of Villains attack his prison transport. Shigaraki snags the supply
of quirk-erasing bullets, destroys Chisaki's hands, and robs him of his quirk
with his own bullets; brutal! And within seconds Eri
gets taken to the hospital with much of the rescue team. After reconciling with All
Might, Nighteye passes away from his injuries at the hospital. Moment of silence for Nighteye. School Festival, October
to November, zero UA. As work studies end, classes resume, and the time for the UA
school festival nears. Class 1A decides to put on a
concert and dance performance. To help with Eri's
recovery and cheer her up, Deku and Mirio convince
Aizawa and Principal Nezu to allow Eri to attend the festival. Meanwhile, Deku begins
to work with All Might in order to develop a
long-range air blast attack. The festival has UA on ultra-high alert. Unfortunately, Gentle
Criminal and La Brava plan on infiltrating
UA during the festival and causing a spectacle
to increase traffic to their video channel. (sighs) Classic influencer BS. We should know, we're on YouTube. Fortunately, Deku runs into them as he's running last-minute errands on the morning of the festival. He recognizes Gentle from his videos, and they recognize Deku
from the Sports festival. And they fight! And Deku wins! As the police take them away, Gentle tries to place
all blame on himself, for La Brava's sake. And Deku goes on to
perform, for Eri's sake. And good God, that little girl's smile could create world piece, she's just so mother-- (bleep) cute! Not long after, Eri moves
into the faculty dorms at UA, under Aizawa's - and Mirio's
- constant supervision. That day, the first Hero
Billboard Chart JP rankings of the post-All Might era are
announced and broadcast live. And Endeavor is finally number one. The next day, Hawks and
Endeavor team up to battle an extremely powerful black nomu. It's got a familiar face,
and it can talk, regenerate, create clones, and it can fly! Endeavor reveals that he too can fly, and the two heroes take
their battle into the air. Hawks uses his feathers
to protect civilians, but when his wings are depleted, Endeavor is forced to take the lead. Endeavor unleashes a
firey inferno on the Nomu, but it isn't enough to keep the Nomu down. Finally, Endeavor pushes
himself beyond what he thought he was capable of and hop
skip a punches the Nomu into the stratosphere. So begins the era of
a new number one hero. And that's the timeline
for "My Hero Academia"! Well, so far, anyway. Let us know what your favorite moment from the series has been. And as always, I'm Dorrie. Thank you so much for
watching Get in the Robot, your anime explainer. Stay safe and healthy, everybody. (gentle rhythmic music)
