Content & Trigger Warnings for My Hero Academia (2016)

The quirkless are treated as lesser members of society which parallels disability discrimination

Discrimination against those with villainous quirks or mutations parallels real prejudice

Young heroes die or are critically injured in the war; Shigaraki killed his sister and family as a child

Dabi's tragic childhood is fully explored; Endeavor believed his son Toya died as a child from his quirk

Shigaraki's backstory reveals he accidentally killed his entire family including his parents with his awakening quirk

Todoroki's mother was institutionalized after a breakdown caused by Endeavor's abuse; she poured boiling water on Todoroki's face

Midoriya's journey from being quirkless and bullied to becoming a hero involves emotional hardship and isolation

All Might's declining power and legacy create emotional weight; Midoriya grieves the image of his invincible hero

A major character dies during the raid; the loss deeply affects Midoriya and his classmates

The Todoroki family arc deals with intergenerational trauma and grief; characters process years of abuse

Heroes die in the war; the aftermath leaves society and individual characters devastated

Society mourns the fallen heroes; Midoriya isolates himself in grief and guilt; classmates grieve his absence

Characters face the potential end of everything; sacrifices and losses accumulate throughout the final battle

Villain All For One manipulates and psychologically controls others for his agenda

Bakugo is kidnapped by the League of Villains in a major arc; his abduction drives a rescue mission

Full-scale war between heroes and the Paranormal Liberation Front; military-style combat with mass casualties

The aftermath of the war leaves society in ruins; continued conflict and rebuilding

All-out final war between heroes and villains; the fate of society hangs in the balance with massive casualties

Midoriya repeatedly injures himself using One For All; broken fingers and arms with visible blood and swelling

Stain's quirk requires ingesting blood; combat scenes feature more blood than season 1

Significant blood in the raid on Overhaul's compound; characters sustain serious injuries

Endeavor's fights leave him severely injured with visible scarring and blood

Intense blood during war sequences; major characters sustain severe injuries

Midoriya is shown bloodied and exhausted in the Dark Deku arc; combat injuries are prominent

Heavy blood throughout the final battles; major characters sustain devastating injuries

Some villain quirks cause disturbing body transformations; Nomu creatures are unsettling biological weapons

Nomu creatures continue to appear with their unsettling bio-engineered bodies; Stain's appearance is disturbing

Overhaul disassembles and reassembles human bodies; characters are fused together and bodies are grotesquely manipulated

High-End Nomu are more disturbing than previous versions; they can speak and transform in grotesque ways

Shigaraki's decay quirk disintegrates people on touch; Gigantomachia's rampage causes mass destruction; grotesque villain transformations

Midoriya's body deteriorates from overuse of multiple quirks; villains display disturbing physical forms

Shigaraki/All For One's final form is extremely grotesque; body transformations reach their most disturbing

Medical experimentation on Eri involves needles and medical procedures; the drug-creation plotline centers on medical horror

The Overhaul arc centers on a drug that can destroy quirks; drug trafficking and the drug trade are major plot elements

Student heroes are placed in extreme danger during training exercises and villain attacks; UA's approach to education borders on negligent

Todoroki's backstory reveals his father Endeavor physically and emotionally abused him to create the perfect hero

Eri is tortured and experimented on by Overhaul to harvest her quirk; a young girl subjected to horrific ongoing abuse and medical experimentation

Todoroki's childhood abuse is revisited in detail as the family confronts their past

Teen heroes are on the front lines of a war; Shigaraki's childhood abuse and neglect flashbacks are shown

Midoriya essentially becomes a child soldier operating alone; his physical and mental state deteriorates

Teen heroes fight the most dangerous villains in existence; the series addresses that they should never have been soldiers

Endeavor's abuse of his family is revealed; he drove Todoroki's mother to a mental breakdown through sustained domestic abuse

Endeavor's past domestic abuse is confronted directly; his family struggles with whether to forgive him

The Todoroki family drama continues with the Dabi revelation and its connection to Endeavor's abuse

Dabi vs Endeavor confrontation directly addresses the cycle of domestic abuse; Dabi was driven to villainy by his father's abuse

Endeavor's domestic abuse of his wife and children is explicitly shown and addressed

Superhero combat violence throughout; characters sustain injuries with blood though less graphic than many battle anime

The Hero Killer Stain arc features more intense violence; Stain's attacks draw significant blood and he licks it to activate his quirk

Overhaul arc features intense combat with blood and injury; Overhaul's quirk allows him to disassemble and reassemble matter including people

Endeavor vs. High-End Nomu features intense combat; Heroes Rising movie-tie-in content includes significant action violence

The war arc begins with large-scale battles featuring increased violence and casualties on both sides

Dark Deku arc and continued war aftermath feature intense combat; Midoriya pushes himself to physical breaking points

The final war arc features the most intense violence in the series; climactic battles with severe injuries and deaths

Some villains use firearms; the USJ attack features armed villains attacking students

A character's backstory involves an implied suicide attempt

Eri is repeatedly subjected to painful experiments; Overhaul kills her and brings her back to life to extract her power