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PS238 (Comic Book)

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PS238 is a comic book series about the eponymous first public school for metaprodigies — super-children, in other words. That is, if you can call a top-secret underground school "public".Created by Aaron Williams, who is also known as the maker of Nodwick and Full Frontal Nerdity — all of which can be viewed on Nodwick dot com — it has been described as "Take the kids from Springfield Elementary, give them X-Men powers, and send 'em to Hogwarts."Basically concerned with the general, superpowered going-ons of a school filled with superpowered children (most of whom are the children of Lawyer Friendly Cameos of various well-known Marvel and DC heroes), PS238 follows a small core cast of about ten to twelve kids, with plenty more who make cameos. The closest thing the series has to a protagonist is Tyler Marlocke, the notably only non-superpowered student on campus.Needless to say, the series thrives on Super Hero-related tropes, and indeed, tropes in general. Several characters are openly Genre Savvy, including Tyler at times — though he would probably prefer if those tropes weren't there.Originally a print comic, Aaron has followed the example of Phil Foglio and released it as a webcomic. The online version has now caught up to the print version and new content is being released. In 2008, a licensed Role-Playing Game using the Hero System was published.Not to be confused with PS135.
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A Form You Are Comfortable With
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A Form You Are Comfortable With: Anything to do with Order and Chaos.
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Secret Identity
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Secret Identity: All superpowered students at the school are required to practice having a secret identity (those that end up going into hero work are expected to discard this "practice identity" when they start their careers.) They must appear as normal humans aboveground, and wear their costumes in the secret underground classrooms. Moon Shadow subverts it by being a normal human with a secret identity to hide who he is from the supers.
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Retired Badass
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Retired Badass: Most of the PS238 teachers are former superheroes. They're more than capable of getting their hands dirty to protect their students, although they tend to suffer from The Worf Effect to allow the students to shine.
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My Friends... and Zoidberg
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My Friends... and Zoidberg:
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Heroic BSoD
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Heroic BSoD: Captain Clarinet suffers one — preceded by a quick bout of What Have I Done — after punching out Charles.
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Badass Adorable
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Badass Adorable: Many of the children are cute little ten-year-olds with the associated mindset, with powers similar to Superman, Green Lantern or Plastic Man, to name a few.
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Your Head A-Splode
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Your Head Asplode: Tyler's clone has a bomb inside the control device that lets Tyler uplink with it. Victor's immediate response to hearing that the clone is no longer needed is to trigger it — fortunately the device was outside the clone's head at the time.
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Not-So-Harmless Villain
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Zodon. He would count as Not-So-Harmless Villain as he has both a will and potential to cause a lot of carnage, but events usually conspire to keep his malicious acts in check.
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Genre Savvy
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Genre Savvy: Many of the heroes and the villains. One even notes at one point that he has read the Evil Overlord List.
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"Well Done, Son" Guy
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Tyler, possibly. His parents are pretty much in denial about him not having powers for a long time, and when his clone brother Toby gets powers, they completely ditch Tyler by the wayside to focus all their attention on Toby. A later scene implies that they FORGOT TYLER'S NAME. This might make up at least SOME of his reasoning in training under the Revanent.
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The Worf Effect
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The Worf Effect: The teachers often suffer this to allow the kids to take center stage. Partly justified if one of the kids has a power far better suited to a situation. Also justified in that the teachers are all former famous superheroes whose powers were well known, so villains who've done their research know what to expect from them. The students, however, are mostly complete unknowns and therefore aren't as easy to predict.
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Comic-Book Time
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Comic-Book Time: It's been running since 2001 without any of the characters aging more than a few months. Chapter 11 is in danger of going on longer than the canon age of some of the students, having started in 2016 and still ongoing in 2021.
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Gone Horribly Right
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Gone Horribly Right: An alternate universe version of Tyler with powerful telepathy tries to "touch" every mind on Earth. He succeeds, but ends up permanently linking everyone's mind together except for his own in a Hive Mind. The effects seem to be positive, with wars abolished, and everyone working together for the betterment of all. The only truly unfortunate effect we see is Tyler being lonely, as there is no single other person to talk to anymore.
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The Ghost
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The Ghost: A metahuman-hating Senator Durvin, who apparently was a political opponent of Cranston, is mentioned several times during the comic without ever appearing. Turns out he's The Headmaster.
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The Slow Path
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The Slow Path: Zodon takes it to get back to the present day from ~10,000 years ago, Human Popsicle style.
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Papa Wolf
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Papa Wolf: You do not kidnap the daughter of Mister Extraordinary (the first recorded metahuman). He will rip your car apart then beat you over the head with the largest part left.
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Stealth Pun
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Stealth Pun: When we first meet the Revenant (the series' Batman Expy), he's perched on top of a light pole with two captured villains on either side of him. The one hanging on his left side (panel right) is a clown, and we find out a bit later that Rev's a huge fan of classic rock. All together now: "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, Stuck In the Middle With You..." Rev gets a lot of mileage with classic rock puns throughout the series. When he first takes Tyler on a mission, Rev gives his new sidekick the name "Moonshadow". When Tyler asks what it means, Rev just says he's been listening to a lot of Cat Stevens lately. And the opening lyrics to Stevens's song "Moon Shadow"? Being a Batman Expy, Revenant spends a lot of time swinging through the city and looking over the area from the rooftops. The logo on his uniform is a stylized R, combined with the logo from an old Alan Parson's Project album. The name of said album? Eye in the Sky.
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Girls Have Cooties
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Girls Have Cooties: This is NOT just a conspiracy theory.
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For Great Justice
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For Great Justice: "To the cafeteria... for Justice!"
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Crimefighting with Cash
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Crimefighting with Cash: The Revenant
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Food-Based Superpowers
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Food-Based Superpowers: Uther Brown is a student in the Rainmaker program who can transmute anything into tasty, and nutritious food. Oddly, it still looks like the original object, but it's completely edible. For example, Uther once made a flowerpot taste like waffles, and ate it for breakfast.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Averted; one of the main problems for the Revenant is that many of his wealthy cover identities have problems with tax evasion charges.
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Baseball Episode
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Baseball Episode: The No Child Left Behind! collection contains a bonus story about the PS238 students playing baseball (minus Tyler, who refs from the sidelines for his own safety).
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Patriotic Fervor
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Patriotic Fervor: Parodied with "American Eagle" and "USA Patriot Act".
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Only Sane Man
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Only Sane Man: Tyler, regarding Paper-Thin Disguise.
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Fire-Forged Friends
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Fire-Forged Friends: A variant on this with Argonaut (Ron) and Moon Shadow (Tyler), since Ron always was one of Tyler's closest friends — it's just Moon Shadow he can't stand, always snapping at and belittling him. After having gone through a particularly harrowing adventure together, though, they seem to have made their peace.
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Hurl It into the Sun
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Hurl It into the Sun: Issue #40 revolves around an installation that uses this method of disposing of dangerous super-gadgets.
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Captain Ersatz
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Almost every character who is not an outright Captain Ersatz is an expy of a known superhero comics archetype, without blatantly referencing any one single comics character. An example would be Herschel Clay, who turns out to be an expy of Iron Man.
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Special Guest
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Special Guest: In a very bizarre but hilarious situation, Wil Wheaton guest stars in the comic about superpower career day, as the representative of meta-humans who go into the Entertainment industry. In the PS238 universe, he not only played Wesley but single-handedly used his psychokinetic superpowers to do most of the special effects for Star Trek: The Next Generation, which apparently helped cancel out some of his character being a Creator's Pet in this universe. Zodon still hates him, though.
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Non-Indicative Name
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Non-Indicative Name: Or at least, counter-intuitive.
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Stage Mom
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Stage Mom: Tyler's parents are utterly convinced they can micromanage their son into becoming the World's Greatest Super Hero (when they aren't ignoring him).
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Guile Hero
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Guile Hero: Tyler. Whatever you do, don't take his business card.
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Bring My Brown Pants
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Bring My Brown Pants: Here:
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Also the subject of a story arc, when Von Fogg starts using (uninhabited) alternate universes as fuel sources for a machine that basically makes him omniscient (and at full capacity, omnipotent), while destroying universes in the process. Von Fogg targets a universe that Zodon had disguised as uninhabited, due to the fact that Zodon hid his birth parents there. Despite using the system on that universe regardless, this isn't a subversion of Even Evil Has Standards, as said omniscience enabled Victor to obtain full godhood within a limited area using parts of the universe specifically targeted for being uninhabited and at a rate that in astronomy terms is basically next to nothing (see Writers Have No Sense of Scale for the commonality of works where the rate of usage would be in relatively significant portions). Though apparently Victor's standards don't have an issue with transforming a Mayor into a lamp but do have enough of an issue with And I Must Scream to make it painless and said Mayor to like it.
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Kinda Busy Here
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Kinda Busy Here: The Revenant, every time Tyler calls him for advice. But he's so badass he can whomp supervillains and give career counselling simultaneously without breaking a sweat.
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Mass Super-Empowering Event
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Mass Super-Empowering Event: It is revealed that Ultimate Powers can do that, for a number of people. And did, for everyone without powers, and a De-power for every powered person. Then reversed it.
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Weird Trade Union
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Weird Trade Union: The Flying Brick heroes, following Julie's example of pride in her power set, are in the early days of what looks like one of these organizing. At the least, some of them are starting to spread the social and political consciousness seen in the early days of real trade unions as they realize their value as the workhorse of the meta community, providing an excellent base of power that the other metas have gotten used to taking for granted.
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Stable Time Loop
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Stable Time Loop: Vashti "Spell Siryn" Imperia's origin story. She was kidnapped by a witch as a little girl (in the era of Nodwick), and eventually stole the witch's spellbook and used it to become a powerful mage. Thousands of years later, she ended up going back in time, where she kidnapped her younger self, and deliberately left a copy of her early spellbook lying around to be stolen.
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Mutant Draft Board
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Mutant Draft Board: Averted, as PS238 is just a superhero-flavoured school and is, if anything, less sinister than the regular kind. Praetorian Academy, meanwhile, is not an aversion.
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Boring, but Practical
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Boring, but Practical: The problem that FISS have. Every super team has one and no one doubts that they are useful, but without flashy powers it can be hard to build a solid career or get noticed.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_39b8d3d6
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_39b8d3d6
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_39b8d3d6
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_3c3f28a5
type
Blessed with Suck
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_3c3f28a5
comment
Blessed with Suck: Lyle can't turn off his ability to "see patterns in things" and he spends most of his time in a featureless white room to keep his brain from overloading. On the other hand, he is effectively omniscient and at one point he begins to set into motion a complicated scheme to allow himself and his classmates to escape unharmed from a pair of dangerous kidnappers several issues before the kidnappers have even decided to show up.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_3c3f28a5
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_3c3f28a5
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_3c3f28a5
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_3cf44d4b
type
High-Class Glass
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_3cf44d4b
comment
High-Class Glass: Victor Von Fogg's headgear comes with a lens giving the effect of a monocle. Just like his father. The Headmaster of Praetorian Academy also has a lens over one eye as part of his cyborg gear.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_3cf44d4b
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_3cf44d4b
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_3cf44d4b
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_3eae625
type
Absurdly Powerful Student Council
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_3eae625
comment
Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Despite the fact that they could eventually end up with one that consists of absurdly powerful people, this is averted. When Tyler got elected Class President, the faculty had yet to figure out what responsibilities the Class President was supposed to have. So far, said duties have consisted entirely of participating in a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_3eae625
featureApplicability
-1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_3eae625
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_3eae625
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_40fb48af
type
Stealthy Teleportation
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_40fb48af
comment
Stealthy Teleportation: Charles, as seen in "Down With Gravity", there's no visual or audible effect when he teleports things.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_40fb48af
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_40fb48af
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_40fb48af
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_420c50b7
type
A.I. Is a Crapshoot
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_420c50b7
comment
A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Averted. Human AIs, like Doctor Positron, exist and they're all perfectly nice. The only exception was Prospero's robot companion, which was implied to have gotten damaged in the crash. The Singularity is pretty nice too, for an omnipotent extradimensional AI. Think of it as a sort of omnipotent schoolteacher with a somewhat quirky sense of humour. Inverted in Zodon's space-station "son" and the Argosian starship. Both were built by outright jerkasses but turned out to be quite amiable and willing to help, and they generally just keep themselves out of the way whenever they aren't needed.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_420c50b7
featureApplicability
-1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_420c50b7
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_420c50b7
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_42cfbfc6
type
2D Visuals, 3D Effects
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_42cfbfc6
comment
2D Visuals, 3D Effects: Quite intentional with the Determinant and the Balagan, Entity of Order and Aspect of Chaos respectively, hinting at You Cannot Grasp the True Form. Later depictions are just drawn, rather than being CG'ed onto the page. Whether this is supposed to represent something or is just a cost-cutting measure is unknown.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_42cfbfc6
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_42cfbfc6
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_42cfbfc6
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_46b3ec7c
type
Fun Personified
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_46b3ec7c
comment
Fun Personified: Flea, who is probably a collective Expy of similar characters Deadpool and Ambush Bug. (He also has elements of Spider-Man, The Tick, and the most recent Blue Beetle — there's a whole big arthropod-themed hero mashup going on here.) Also Poly Mer: "If I inflate myself, I can make a fart noise that lasts for an hour!"
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_46b3ec7c
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_46b3ec7c
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_46b3ec7c
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a
type
Would Hurt a Child
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a
comment
Would Hurt a Child: Mr. Griffen was apparently willing to hurt Naomi, Mr. Extraordinary's daughter, to get what he wanted.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4852f325
type
I Just Want to Be Normal
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4852f325
comment
I Just Want to Be Normal: Captain Clarinet. Or so you'd think. Subverted.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4852f325
featureApplicability
-0.3
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4852f325
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4852f325
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_485eb589
type
Sealed Evil in a Can
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_485eb589
comment
Sealed Evil in a Can: Aurora, one of the former members of the Union of Justice, "haunts" the school's basement as a ghost made of Nanomachines. She's kept in there by solid-steel walls with EM fields. It's currently unknown why she's locked in there, though judging by her current personality she underwent a Face–Heel Turn at some point.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_485eb589
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_485eb589
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_485eb589
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_48b9731f
type
Paper-Thin Disguise
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_48b9731f
comment
Paper-Thin Disguise: In the PS238 universe, a simple mask can fool your best friends and family into thinking you're a completely different person. Tyler is highly worried by the implications this has. Notably, it only seems to work on people who are part of the whole "superhero" shtick — even teachers and super-intellects are fooled by it, but Cecil isn't. Cecil has jokingly suggested that Tyler's inexplicable ability to not be recognized by any of his metahuman acquaintances when dressed as Moon Shadow is his superpower.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_48b9731f
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_48b9731f
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_48b9731f
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4a3e547f
type
Leaning on the Fourth Wall
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4a3e547f
comment
Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4a3e547f
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4a3e547f
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4a3e547f
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4a41c3dc
type
Invisible to Adults
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4a41c3dc
comment
Invisible to Adults: The angels of Order and Demons of Chaos, seen here, where Suzie also mentions "Pixie-Flutters" that she read about that have the same quality.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4a41c3dc
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4a41c3dc
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4a41c3dc
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4af26a14
type
Explaining Your Power to the Enemy
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4af26a14
comment
Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: Accidentally done by Power while fighting the Flea. He certainly doesn't expect just mentioning the name of the nanotech armor he is wearing to be any risky, but when you're facing a super with psychic control over insects...
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4af26a14
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4af26a14
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4af26a14
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4ef92d0b
type
The Atoner
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4ef92d0b
comment
The Atoner: Cranston is attempting this but Toby may have inadvertently messed this up for him as a side-effect of his Reality Warper powers. Depending on how closely you're reading, the scene is either an Oh, Crap! moment or a moment of Fridge Brilliance, because neither Toby nor Tyler realize the significance of the exchange demanded by Toby's powers, and thus Toby's statement passes without comment. Later lampshaded by Cranston as he is unable to reveal Durvin's identity as the Headmaster because Durvin knows his headband is non-functional and threatens to reveal that. Cranston wonders aloud if that would have been his "atonement" for his Presidential bid.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4ef92d0b
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4ef92d0b
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4ef92d0b
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4f773434
type
Wise Beyond Their Years
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4f773434
comment
Wise Beyond Their Years: Most of the children super-intellects, like Victor and Zodon. Tom Davidson. Murphy straddles the line between this and Cloudcuckoolander.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4f773434
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4f773434
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_4f773434
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_504a1991
type
Body Horror
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_504a1991
comment
Zodon attempts to adjust his personal hologram to impersonate an adult, so that he can play blackjack in Vegas. Instead, he retains his "kid" form, but stretches his face until it's four feet high. Hilariously, he doesn't seem to notice until someone points it out to him.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_504a1991
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_504a1991
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_504a1991
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_50f66629
type
Crazy-Prepared
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_50f66629
comment
Crazy-Prepared: The Revenant. He has a box under the seat in his jet just in case he suddenly needs to go into space. And Tyler is learning from the best. As of the Rainmaker story he's gotten pretty good at thinking ahead and is getting better. Exaggerated the first time Tyler teams up with the Revenant, as he deliberately loads himself with equipment to the point that he can barely move in an attempt to avoid having to actually fight crime.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_50f66629
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_50f66629
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_50f66629
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_51561f43
type
Hurricane of Euphemisms
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_51561f43
comment
Hurricane of Euphemisms: You know one is supposed to be happening when Zodon starts singing "Oklahoma!".
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_51561f43
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_51561f43
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_51561f43
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_524904cd
type
Pensieve Flashback
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_524904cd
comment
Pensieve Flashback: While mentally linked to Principal Cranston, Tyler relives the latter's memories of his short tenure as President of the USA, while seeing himself in Cranston's spot.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_524904cd
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_524904cd
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_524904cd
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_55ccbea5
type
Mystery Meat
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_55ccbea5
comment
Mystery Meat: According to Prospero, the food in the cafeteria is evolving. According to Malphast, it's amazing how readily it animates into a homunculus.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_55ccbea5
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_55ccbea5
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_55ccbea5
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_56a6d9d5
type
One-Way Visor
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_56a6d9d5
comment
One-Way Visor: Emerald Gauntlet; Patriot Act
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_56a6d9d5
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_56a6d9d5
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_56a6d9d5
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_571a3c67
type
Power Incontinence
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_571a3c67
comment
Power Incontinence: After Principal Cranston's headband is damaged and removed, a hex to punish removal kicks in. Instead of him being able to hear other's thoughts, now his thoughts are projected out. The one who placed the hex has to help control this, as the removal of the limiter was justified at the time. The Rainmaker can invoke this in other metahumans.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_571a3c67
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_571a3c67
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_571a3c67
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_57b80b45
type
Fantastic Racism
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_57b80b45
comment
Fantastic Racism: Between metahumans and normal people. According to Revenant, Tyler's own parents have expressed the (frankly rather ugly) opinion that non-metas have no business trying to change the world, despite making up the majority of the world. It puts their relationship to their son in an uncomfortable light, and comes to a head when they not only completely neglect him, but FORGET HIS NAME in favor of his clone-slash-brother, Toby. On the flip side, metahumans are apparently forbidden from holding higher political office in the US. Though given that the only time this comes into play was when dealing with a telepath, it might just be that certain powers, such as telepathy and mind-control, disqualify you. They're also not allowed to serve in the armed forces while they maintain a superhero identity, though this is more pragmatism than prejudice (the army needs to know the superpowered being in their midst is a soldier first and everything else second). Argosians look down on everyone who does not have Flying Brick powers. Normal humans are treated as an inferior underclass; other metahumans as outright threats.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_57b80b45
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_57b80b45
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_57b80b45
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_57c25438
type
Green Thumb
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_57c25438
comment
Green Thumb: As seen in the 03272009 comic, Orchid can make trees grow.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_57c25438
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_57c25438
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_57c25438
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_5aa5145
type
Rubber Man
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_5aa5145
comment
Also Poly Mer: "If I inflate myself, I can make a fart noise that lasts for an hour!"
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_5aa5145
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_5aa5145
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_5aa5145
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_5b351f0d
type
IntercontinuityCrossover
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_5b351f0d
comment
Intercontinuity Crossover: Sort of — the Revenant was created by Michael Stackpole for the Tabletop Game Champions and was "donated" to the PS238-verse. The Stackpole version also appears in the short story "Peer Review" and in In Hero Years, I'm Dead. The Revenant mentions this role-playing game to Tyler in passing.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_5b351f0d
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_5b351f0d
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_5b351f0d
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_5f41f8b2
type
Space Base
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_5f41f8b2
comment
Space Base: The Earth Defense League has a moon base.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_5f41f8b2
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_5f41f8b2
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_5f41f8b2
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_5fc3ab7f
type
Implied Love Interest
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_5fc3ab7f
comment
Implied Love Interest: Julie "84" Finster to Tyler Marlocke. Though, as both of them are eleven, it's more like "implied childhood crush". After the Mister Extraordinary issue, it's implied from dialogue from Naomi's father that Tom keeps going back to the past to visit Naomi, leaving her gifts and even taking her to other time periods, and, much later, it's heavily implied that they will be married or at least in a relationship as adults.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_5fc3ab7f
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_5fc3ab7f
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_5fc3ab7f
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_60c0d584
type
Objectshifting
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_60c0d584
comment
Objectshifting: Victor Von Fogg transforms the mayor into a lamp; to his credit, he makes it so the transformation is completely painless and avoids the expected And I Must Scream elements by making it enjoyable for the mayor.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_60c0d584
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_60c0d584
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_60c0d584
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_611a1a5e
type
Nosy Neighbor
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_611a1a5e
comment
Nosy Neighbor: Cecil Holmes, who doesn't know the school secretly has superhero students, so is convinced it's being infiltrated by aliens in disguise. Later, it's been established that Cecil can detect metahumans. He's very disappointed that "the aliens were a lie."... But not for long.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_611a1a5e
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_611a1a5e
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_611a1a5e
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_62f9ee25
type
Nanomachines
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_62f9ee25
comment
Nanomachines: The "ghost" of Aurora. Several pieces of super-technology, including some programmed by Clay Industries for quick construction which were stolen by the Headmaster to build Praetorian Academy, and which fused with him to make him a cyborg.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_62f9ee25
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_62f9ee25
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_62f9ee25
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_64b303c0
type
Drunk with Power
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_64b303c0
comment
Drunk with Power: Subverted. Victor von Fogg obtains a machine that grants ultimate power over the shape of the universe, but it also grants him perspective. He is frustrated that he is incapable of doing anything evil with it.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_64b303c0
featureApplicability
-0.3
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_64b303c0
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_64b303c0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_655d406a
type
Instrument of Murder
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_655d406a
comment
Instrument of Murder: Captain Clarinet's clarinet.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_655d406a
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_655d406a
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_655d406a
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_661d7909
type
Maligned Mixed Marriage
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_661d7909
comment
Maligned Mixed Marriage: Malphast's parents, an angel and a demon who have kept their relationship, and particularly the fact that it has issue, secret because they expect unpleasant consequences if they're found out. It turns out that their superiors had known all along.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_661d7909
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_661d7909
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_661d7909
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_69fb91e8
type
Chewing the Scenery
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_69fb91e8
comment
Chewing the Scenery: Von Fogg junior is especially prone to this in his first appearances, and would probably count as a Large Ham if he didn't eventually mellow down in later issues. American Eagle and Patriot Act also act like this on-camera. Off-camera, however, Patriot Act is surprisingly reserved and thoughtful.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_69fb91e8
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_69fb91e8
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_69fb91e8
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_6b05b601
type
Jerkass Has a Point
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_6b05b601
comment
Jerkass Has a Point: For all Praetorian Academy's jerkishness, their actual goals (training metahumans to behave With Great Responsibility and averting the potential of a Goo-Goo-Godlike scenario leading to an Earth-Shattering Kaboom) are highly desirable. Another example is with USA Patriot Act and American Eagle pulling a Rules Lawyer to get Tyler removed from the class presidency and even attempt to get him kicked out of PS238. Their reasons are completely selfish... that said, Tyler really shouldn't be there, and the fact that he is there because of pressure from his extremely powerful parents (albeit because nobody can tell them no, not because of bribes or others kissing up to them) is inherently unfair.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_6b05b601
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_6b05b601
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_6b05b601
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_6b35bdff
type
Serious Business
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_6b35bdff
comment
Serious Business: Foursquare.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_6b35bdff
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_6b35bdff
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_6b35bdff
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_6d7026fa
type
Punny Name
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_6d7026fa
comment
The kids with combat-related powers also manage to find ways to put their various strengths to mundane use. For example, whenever Poly Mer gets bored, she can use her tongue as chewing gum.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_6d7026fa
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_6d7026fa
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_6d7026fa
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_6ef09297
type
Masquerade
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_6ef09297
comment
Masquerade: The presence of PS238.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_6ef09297
featureApplicability
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_6ef09297
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Jerkass Woobie
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Tyler sees a few alternate versions of himself in the Castle Beyond Time and Space. One is a Jerkass Woobie who is one of the most powerful people on the planet but has a hair-trigger temper, another is more along the lines of what his parents wanted (but lives in a world conquered by aliens), and the third is a ridiculously powerful telepath who accidentally turned the human race into a benevolent Hive Mind he himself is unable to join, making him the last individual on Earth.
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Wrench Wench
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_71038217
comment
Wrench Wench: Angie
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_71038217
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_720e28a4
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: From here, talking about a brain frying bit of a neural inhibitor:
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_720e28a4
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_722171e7
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Straw Character
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_722171e7
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Straw Character: Jenny (American Eagle) and Dillon (USA PATRIOT Act) both sound like they learned how to speak from political sound bites and 24-hour news channels. Neither one's backing party is explicitly identified, though Dillon's dialogue would fit comfortably with a conservative Republican, while Jenny reads like a conservative Democrat. It's implied that this is completely an act for the cameras, though; when out on his own, Dillon is quiet, reserved and thoughtful.
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_722171e7
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Mugging the Monster
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Mugging the Monster: The school bullies above ground have the bad habit of picking on the wrong metahumans.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_7276d0de
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1.0
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_7276d0de
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Similar Squad
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_73470774
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Similar Squad: A trip "sideways to the seconds, underneath the third and fifth dimensions" takes Malphast and Cecil to a school occupied by tentacled aardvark-snouted children... two of whom, arguing about who will kneel before the other's intellect, are the bowler-hatted Von Phtago and the thick-spectacled Zodthulu.
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_73470774
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_74e27fbe
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Magnetic Medium
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_74e27fbe
comment
Magnetic Medium: Satori Deacon, one of the Excelsior kids who turns out to have a power, can see ghosts and other supernatural phenomena. She hates it, because as soon as any given ghost figures this out, they will bug the living crap out of her with requests from beyond the grave. And Cecil, the conspiracy theorist who thinks the PS238 kids are (all) aliens, turns out to be able to sense metahumans. This being the series that it is, he gets what he sees, which sparks the conspiracy theories, presumably because he gets some sort of "otherness" feeling when the sense goes off. Notably, he doesn't seem to recognize Prospero, the actual alien. Most likely because, while Prospero is an alien, he's a normal alien and not a meta-alien.
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 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_751bd286
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Is This Thing Still On?
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_751bd286
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Is This Thing Still On?: Doctor Von Fogg's pre-recorded gloating in issue #10.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_751bd286
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_751bd286
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_7587e97d
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Mistaken for Superpowered
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_7587e97d
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Mistaken for Superpowered: Tyler Marlocke still doesn't have any superpowers, unlike the rest of his family, but his Moon Shadow alter-ego is commonly believed to have a wide array of powers due to his creative use of gadgets and magic artifacts from other heroes.
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_7587e97d
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_77922c8c
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Batter Up!
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_77922c8c
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Batter Up!: The supervillain The Sinister Shortstop was armed with a baseball bat that caused whatever was hit with it to explode. It recently came into the hands of one of PS238's students, who's held onto it because it complements her existing powers, which are entirely defensive.
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 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_7913eb6f
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Healing Hands
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_7913eb6f
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Healing Hands: Multiple users, but the one not on the Characters page is Vern, a Rainmaker kid, who, as said in the 04132009 comic, is accelerating someone's healing factor.
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_7913eb6f
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_79d3af43
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Look Ma, No Plane!
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_79d3af43
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Look Ma, No Plane!: Captain Clarinet starts out with a pathological fear of flying, due to having repeated nightmares of being sucked into a jet-engine. It doesn't particularly improve matters when Zodon "helpfully" reminds him that his invulnerability ensures that, should that happen, he'd come out on the other side unscattered... while the plane plummets to the ground in flames with the passengers aboard.... And then Zodon plays a "practical joke" on him that results in it happening in real life. It backfires spectacularly in that it ends up curing the good Captain of his phobia instead of compounding it when he is forced to use his flight to put the damaged plane down safely.
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_79d3af43
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_7c9933de
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Laughably Evil
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_7c9933de
comment
Laughably Evil: Zodon and Von Fogg again.
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_7c9933de
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_7d88c452
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Academy of Evil
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_7d88c452
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Academy of Evil: Praetorian Academy is a private school for metahumans that's not publicly traded, looks regimented and militaristic, dresses its students up in uniforms and faceless masks and gives them ominous-sounding codenames, and its headmaster is a shadowy, enigmatic figure. Subverted, as the intent behind it involves anything but releasing more supervillains into the wild.
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_7d88c452
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_7e38c1a7
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Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue"
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_7e38c1a7
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Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": When the pupils are reading their creative writing assignments, Dylan's story features a very handsome and powerful version of himself defeating Victor's father and saving the world, while his rival Jenny is completely useless. It ends abruptly when Jenny and Victor set his essay on fire.
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 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_808cbaeb
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_808cbaeb
comment
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: A telepath exposed while holding political office, admits that he's used his telepathic abilities to defeat opponents, win elections, and get good deals on cars.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_808cbaeb
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_808cbaeb
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_823c6e3e
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Large Ham
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_823c6e3e
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Von Fogg junior is especially prone to this in his first appearances, and would probably count as a Large Ham if he didn't eventually mellow down in later issues.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_823c6e3e
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_823c6e3e
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8430699a
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Alternate Universe
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8430699a
comment
Alternate Universe: Tyler sees a few alternate versions of himself in the Castle Beyond Time and Space. One is a Jerkass Woobie who is one of the most powerful people on the planet but has a hair-trigger temper, another is more along the lines of what his parents wanted (but lives in a world conquered by aliens), and the third is a ridiculously powerful telepath who accidentally turned the human race into a benevolent Hive Mind he himself is unable to join, making him the last individual on Earth. Also the subject of a story arc, when Von Fogg starts using (uninhabited) alternate universes as fuel sources for a machine that basically makes him omniscient (and at full capacity, omnipotent), while destroying universes in the process. Von Fogg targets a universe that Zodon had disguised as uninhabited, due to the fact that Zodon hid his birth parents there. Despite using the system on that universe regardless, this isn't a subversion of Even Evil Has Standards, as said omniscience enabled Victor to obtain full godhood within a limited area using parts of the universe specifically targeted for being uninhabited and at a rate that in astronomy terms is basically next to nothing (see Writers Have No Sense of Scale for the commonality of works where the rate of usage would be in relatively significant portions). Though apparently Victor's standards don't have an issue with transforming a Mayor into a lamp but do have enough of an issue with And I Must Scream to make it painless and said Mayor to like it.
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8430699a
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_85ac41e1
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Grappling-Hook Pistol
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_85ac41e1
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Grappling-Hook Pistol: Tyler's still getting the hang of it. Hilarity Ensues. Interestingly, it's about the size of the MythBusters model, and thus is worn as a sizeable forearm bracer rather than sitting in the utility belt. The winch on that thing is incredibly powerful, able to pull creatures that outmass Tyler by at least 100:1 — by the tooth (Which also implies a lot about how strong the tooth was).note It's possible that the winch isn't quite that strong. Any extended tooth like the one the winch grabs is going to be very sensitive to being pulled on, not matter how well anchored it is. The dragon, feeling a sharp tug on a sensitive spot, instinctively jerks his head in that direction to relieve the pressure, and ends up putting his head through the wall.
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_85ac41e1
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8774fb47
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Eldritch Abomination
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8774fb47
comment
Cecil goes for a "trip" with Malphast and ends up with a pair of wings (plus a lot of other Eldritch Abomination traits that are suppressed as long as he's in the human world).
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8774fb47
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8774fb47
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_89f50aaa
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Restraining Bolt
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_89f50aaa
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Restraining Bolt: Zodon's "Barry Ween" chip to prevent swearing. Cranston's headband. Also an Explosive Leash.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_89f50aaa
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_89f50aaa
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8a9979ed
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Immunity Disability
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8a9979ed
comment
Immunity Disability: Guardian Angel suffers from this. She's never experienced the feeling of rain until Harold neutralizes her power. Due to her power protecting her from everything, she's never developed any immune system and she essentially dies due to a common cold, which is made worse by the fact that when her power comes back, it prevents her from being injected with anything that might cure her.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8a9979ed
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8a9979ed
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8c23b321
type
Harmless Villain
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8c23b321
comment
Harmless Villain: Zodon. He would count as Not-So-Harmless Villain as he has both a will and potential to cause a lot of carnage, but events usually conspire to keep his malicious acts in check. Victor Von Fogg probably counts for this as well.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8c23b321
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8c23b321
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8c52a76f
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Combat Uninterruptus
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8c52a76f
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Combat Uninterruptus: Happens all the time with the Revenant and Tyler.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8c52a76f
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8c52a76f
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8c681acc
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Third-Person Person
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8c681acc
comment
Third-Person Person: Tyler slips into this once, when confirming that he, as Moon Shadow, is going to stop Charles. It marks his transition from being an Action Survivor to a Badass Normal.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8c681acc
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 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8c681acc
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8c681acc
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8c9cad1e
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Psychic Static
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8c9cad1e
comment
Psychic Static: The Revenant is fond of using The Alan Parsons Project music. He specifically mentions "Sirius", the instrumental lead-in to "Eye in the Sky", which featured the repeated line "I can read your mind". (And the album, also called Eye in the Sky, had a mystic symbol on the album cover which looks suspiciously similar to the Revenant's Chest Insignia.)
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8c9cad1e
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8c9cad1e
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8d23f3a7
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Timey-Wimey Ball
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8d23f3a7
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Timey-Wimey Ball
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8d23f3a7
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8e20979
type
Wham Episode
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8e20979
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Wham Episode: Issues 25-27 (Invasion Day, Quarantine, and Remember When I Was President?). Several major plot threads come together as: aliens openly invade Earth with a "bioforming" retrovirus; Tyler is infected as Patient Zero to spread it to the rest of humanity and has to be quarantined in stasis; one of Zodon's plots comes to fruition; we learn the secrets of PS238's faculty and how (and why) the school was founded; the school is heavily damaged and nearly destroyed; and we even get to see Revenant's face (...maybe). A lot of important new plots, character developments, and changes to the world arise from the fallout of this story. It remains one of the biggest climaxes the series has had.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8e20979
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 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8e20979
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_8e20979
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_90965cc7
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Hive Mind
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_90965cc7
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Hive Mind: The Commonality, created by an alternate universe version of Tyler. He had such powerful telepathy, he decided to see if he could touch every mind on Earth at once. It worked, but he was unable to stop the link once he made it. It's also a rare (at least relatively) positive example of the trope — the Commonality seems entirely benevolent, and has made rapid strides toward improving not only people's lives, but the planet itself.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_90965cc7
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_90965cc7
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_90984c54
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Glamour Failure
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_90984c54
comment
Glamour Failure: Zodon attempts to adjust his personal hologram to impersonate an adult, so that he can play blackjack in Vegas. Instead, he retains his "kid" form, but stretches his face until it's four feet high. Hilariously, he doesn't seem to notice until someone points it out to him. Zodon has problems with this earlier; at first, his hologram is calibrated incorrectly, making it look like he is putting food down his shirt while he is eating.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_90984c54
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_90984c54
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_912b24c4
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Art Shift
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_912b24c4
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Art Shift: One issue contains school reports from the superkids that are drawn by children of the same age.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_912b24c4
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 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_912b24c4
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_912b24c4
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_94e89d31
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Suddenly Fluent in Gibberish
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_94e89d31
comment
Suddenly Fluent in Gibberish: Angie can somehow understand what Prospero is saying. Nobody knows how. It might be because she's a super-intellect who is smart enough to build rocket ships out of scrapped cars in her spare time. She spends a lot of time with him, and picked up the language quickly.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_94e89d31
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_94e89d31
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_94eb5311
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Geometric Magic
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_94eb5311
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Geometric Magic: Alec, who ends up being able to do magic with scribbled runes after some exposure to Malphast.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_94eb5311
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 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_94eb5311
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_94eb5311
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_950bbfa7
type
Take a Third Option
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_950bbfa7
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Take a Third Option: "We want a hamburger, I mean, another option!"
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_950bbfa7
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1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_950bbfa7
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_950bbfa7
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_953c92eb
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Beware the Superman
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_953c92eb
comment
Beware the Superman: The Revenant mentions early on how metahumans often tend to dismiss baseline humanity, and it eventually comes into view that humanity has developed several checks and balances in an attempt to curb metahuman domination of society. The Headmaster claims it's not going to be enough and that evolution of powers will see metahumanity grow beyond human control, which is why he founded Praetorian to try and do something about it. When Tyler views alternate realities, one of the realities he views has this specifically related to him - that alternate Tyler is a Jerkass that apparently permanently injured Suzie, destroyed Ron's Unobtainium clarinet, and could only be taken down by a coalition of adult supers led by his own parents.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_953c92eb
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_953c92eb
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_969bc7d9
type
*Drool* Hello
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_969bc7d9
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*Drool* Hello: When Malphast accidentally summons a tentacled thing, it naturally drools on Tyler.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_969bc7d9
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_969bc7d9
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_97d575f9
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Guardian Entity
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_97d575f9
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Guardian Entity: Ambriel's power. She talks to her force field and treats it as if it were a living thing, but initially there was no sign that it's anything but a force field that automatically intercepts anything harmful. However, after she dies and comes back, the field seems to be more selective. When one of her classmates insults her, the guardian angel throws something at them in retaliation. It also makes her and her companions invisible to surveillance systems whenever it would benefit her to not be seen.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_97d575f9
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_97d575f9
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_97dc1c6d
type
Outsourcing Fate
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_97dc1c6d
comment
Outsourcing Fate: The Powers That Be, with the time-traveler Tom acting as their agent, need to decide whether humans should continue to gain Metahuman Powers, or if superpowers should gradually fade and disappear into myth — until next time the choice has to be made. But Tom isn't the one who'll make the choice — he merely chooses who gets to choose, and he picks Tyler Marlocke, the only normal boy in the "School for Metaprodigies". In the end, while he gets to summon various acquaintances to get their opinion of the issue, it's up to Tyler to decide whether superpowers should continue to exist. This has happened many times in the past, explaining why myths and legends are so full of impossible magic and heroes. Spell Syrin is from one of those older eras.
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555
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555: As seen in the 08062012 comic, the PS238 phone number ends in 555-1234.
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Time Abyss
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Time Abyss: The Singularity.
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Beehive Barrier
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Beehive Barrier: When Aurora's "ghost" attacks Ambriel, her Deflector Shield is briefly visible as a geodesic crystalline dome.
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Exposition Beam
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Exposition Beam: Tyler learns of Principal Cranston's backstory when his headband is damaged by reliving his memories.
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Evolutionary Levels
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Evolutionary Levels: Discussed and sort of justified. In one of the "Science Corners", Dr. Positron hypothesizes that the relatively high frequency of the Flying Brick powers may indicate a more stable metahuman gene complex that will eventually provide the baseline for all humanity. Given later developments that unarguably demonstrate a cosmic force of some sort influencing the development of powers, evolution may actually be set with levels and goals.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: The alternative universes Tyler glimpses in the mirrors at the Castle Beyond Time and Space foreshadow later events, such as the alien virus that turns humans into aliens and Tyler (or rather his clone) becoming the most powerful meta-prodigy at PS238.
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: That. Was. AWESOME!!!.
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Landslide Election
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Landslide Election: Tyler becomes Class President in one of these, despite the fact that he wasn't running. This is because nobody in the class liked either of the actual candidates, so they voted for him as a write-in candidate.
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Cut Lex Luthor a Check
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Cut Lex Luthor a Check: The Crystal Skull, an ex-supervillain, has since turned his intellect to taking money from people legally, and runs one of the higher-class casinos in Las Vegas. A minor supervillain known as The Headmaster (no connection to the Headmaster of Praetorian Academy), who had the power to detach his head and throw it at people, retired from a fairly unsuccessful life of crime to become the spokesman for a chain of bowling alleys.
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The Dog Was the Mastermind
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The Dog Was the Mastermind: The leader of the plot against the Masquerade casino was Beryl, the desk clerk.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: There are some surprisingly dark and serious elements to the series, which is also more thoughtful than you might expect, based on the description at the top of the page.
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Flying Brick
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The first new story since moving online focuses strongly on Julie, a.k.a. 84, and is busily reconstructing the "generic good guy" attitude around the F.I.S.S. (Flying Brick) types, though it's been building up to this for a while now. As the most common super type, many of them are very social and supportive partially to spite the low opinion others have of their power set, partially because they've gotten over the self-importance found in so many other supers, and are really just good people. They're also starting to fall prey to When All You Have Is a Hammer… less often as a result.
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Parental Neglect
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Parental Neglect: Tyler. His parents largely ignore him for the majority of the plot, later forgetting about him completely in favor of his actually super-powered clone-slash-brother, Toby. Toby is the only one who actually cares for Tyler at all, and actually attempts to help him at several points, including when Tyler was stuck on the Argosian starship millions of lightyears from home. Toby replaced Tyler with a construct that was implied to be barely anything like Tyler, and acted "Odd". The worst part? HIS PARENTS NEVER NOTICED. Sadly, and unsurprisingly, this seems to apply to many super-heroes and their children, with the only exceptions being Julie, whose parents are just normal people, and the Emerald Gauntlet family, who apparently makes a point NOT to be. Particularly egregious is Atlas towards his son, Ron, which leads to Ron's parents divorcing, which he believes is his fault.
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And I Must Scream
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And I Must Scream: A child-friendly version. The nameless ghost on Excelsior's front lawn was bound in place there by a curse, unable to move, die, nor remember anything he was proud of in life (hence he can't remember his name or much of anything of his life): Only performing an act of pure altruism that saves someone's life can save him. He's long since resigned himself to his fate, but obviously not very happy about it.
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Remote Body
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Remote Body: Toby was originally one for Tyler.
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Little Professor Dialog
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Little Professor Dialog: From Gadgeteer Genius kids, supernatural kids, and politically backed kids.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Several characters are prone to this, even the Singularity:
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Technically Naked Shapeshifter
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Technically Naked Shapeshifter: Poly Mer, much to 84's disgust.
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Fate Worse than Death
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Fate Worse than Death: Zodon manages to convince the otherwise mild-mannered and rather cowardly Flying Brick, Forak, to guard a dimensional portal while he's on the other side with some of the other kids. The threats he makes are spoken of only in whispers, but Forak is terrified enough to even stand against the Creepy Child Alexandria Von Fogg when she shows up to disrupt matters. Towards the end, Hershel convince him to tell him what was said. Turns out that Zodon threatened to delete all his X-Box Achievements if he didn't do as he was told. Terrifying!
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Tracking Device
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Tracking Device: Moon Shadow has some to stick onto things, given by the Revenant, and Zodon has a homing beacon in his floating chair that he's in, all the time. Actually, the homing beacon is in Tyler's decoder ring. The school's techno-wiz just wants Zodon to go nuts trying to find it.
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Loophole Abuse
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Loophole Abuse: The Crystal Skull weasels out of giving Zodon $100,000 by giving him store credit instead of cash, since his lawyers noted that they never specified what form the payment would take. Technically this would actually be more expensive due to the way casino gift shops work, but the Crystal Skull was probably worried about 1) not giving a budding super-villain a leg up, and 2) staying in the Revenant's good graces, because this put hard restrictions on what sort of things Zodon would be able to buy with that money.
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Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
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Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex: Apparently averted with Atlas and Lisa Larson. Implied with 84 and Moon Shadow when she gives him a hug.
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Spoof Aesop
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Spoof Aesop: In the Nodwick crossover.
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Caught Up in the Rapture
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Caught Up in the Rapture: What one kid thinks after his walking companion's been teleported away.
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Transforming Mecha
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Transforming Mecha: Prospero's spaceship.
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Metaphorically True
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Metaphorically True: When Cranston used to be president he was accused of using a telepath to read his opponent's minds, and he swore that he had no telepaths of any kind on his payroll. He didn't. He wasn't on his own payroll after all.
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Turbine Blender
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Turbine Blender: Captain Clarinet is afraid of this happening to him if he flies. That is, until Zodon points out that he'd be the one blending the turbines. (It doesn't make him feel better, mostly because Zodon goes on to describe what happens to the people on the plane.)
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Power Nullifier
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Power Nullifier: Harold Cranston's headband is also supposed to be one of these, but it doesn't work completely — he can still lift pens and push buttons while wearing it. (Telekinetically, that is — his hands work just fine either way.) It still visibly hurts him to do even that much, though.
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Cool Gate
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Cool Gate: As seen in the 04/13/2007 comic, the Earth Defense League has such a teleporter linked, among other places, to the principal's office of PS238.
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: Don't rip Julie Finsters' cape. Justified in that due to the way it's made, once broken it can't be repaired, and her family can't afford another one (another part of it is that her mother apparently worked very hard to earn the money to buy the first one). As for Victor Von Fogg:
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Shrouded in Myth
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Shrouded in Myth: Moon Shadow gains a near-mythical reputation amongst the PS238 students.
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Translator Microbes
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Translator Microbes: Argosians have universal translator nano-thingie[s] in their brains.
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When All You Have Is a Hammer…
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When All You Have Is a Hammer…: A lot of adult supers outside the school are extremely full of themselves, even the good guys. Those with flashy or mystical powers are especially bad. Put a problem in front of them and a lot only think of throwing their powers at it. The ability to think around others' powers have allowed normal humans like Revenant to stay competitive.
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Wingdinglish
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Wingdinglish: Alien tongues are in strange font, but otherwise readable. Prospero's walls of text in his introductory chapters starts off with "If you can read this" and goes on with Monty Python quotes, a recipe, etc, to avoid heavy spoilers. In the rest of the series, his utterings are actually apropos to the conversation, but are still often hilarious. (some of them are available here.)
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Pimp Duds
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Pimp Duds: As a practical joke, some tampering with Zodon's holographic disguise makes him look like he's wearing Pimp Duds.
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Academy of Adventure
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Academy of Adventure: They try to keep the super-trouble away, but the administrators seem to accept that it's inevitable.
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Stranger in a Strange School
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Stranger in a Strange School: Tyler doesn't pretend to be anything else, but between the fact that both his parents are legendary superheroes and the school being a constant Weirdness Magnet, he has no choice but to become an Action Survivor in order to, well, survive. Currently in training to become a Badass Normal.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Has its own page.
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Magic Pants
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Magic Pants: Funny in-universe example, with a dash of Late to the Punchline:
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Cloudcuckoolander
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Murphy straddles the line between this and Cloudcuckoolander.
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Super Registration Act
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Super Registration Act: Averted. None is enforced, though many superheroes choose to anyhow. One of the early comics, a mock advertisement, indicates that "full disclosure gains access to scholarships, grants, and placement assistance".
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Superhero School
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Superhero School: Naturally, the eponymous school. Praetorian Academy is a privatized version, as well has having heavy military-school overtones.
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Incoming Ham
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Incoming Ham: Since it's set in a school for the children of superheroes and supervillains, the comic is stuffed full with delicious hams who love huge dramatic entrances, no matter what their age: Zodon, a bald, quadriplegic, supergenius supervillain who looks lik a baby in a floating egg, makes his first grand entrance by hacking into the school's infomercial broadcast: "BEHOLD YOUR FUTURE MASTER AND TREMBLE, YOU WHO CALL YOURSELVES HEROES!!" He's five. The school tries to rein in his profanity-laden hamminess with an implanted microchip that auto-censors his outbursts with random words and Broadway showtunes — which makes Zodon's ham even bigger: A couple issues later, another new supervillain-in-training child, Victor Von Fogg, strolls into a classroom for the first time with "Acknowledge your FUTURE LORD AND MASTER!! YOU WILL ALL KNEEL BEFORE VON FOGG!!!" The teacher promptly sits him next to Zodon.
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Smoke Out
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Smoke Out: Moonshadow improves this trick with a smoke rocket, making Argosians believe he took flight — while he legs it.
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Magical Profanity Filter
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Magical Profanity Filter: Zodon, a foul-mouthed kid genius, has a "Barry Ween chip" that censors his swearing. Individual swearwords are replaced by random words, long rants by show tunes.
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MostCommonSuperpower
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Most Common Superpower: Averted. The one character who could probably conform to this trope is revealed to have had "work" done to look that way. Of course, most of the cast is grade-school age. Then again, Spell Siryn certainly looks to be in very good shape, especially since her powers are magical, not physical (of course, it's not like the right magic couldn't help keep her in shape). Micro-might seems to have a normal, even slightly stocky build, though her power (becoming smaller and denser) might be partly responsible, and we never see her wearing anything but loose dresses except for times when she is using her powers.
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Competence Zone
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Competence Zone: Averted; the kids' teachers are presented as intelligent, competent, and perfectly aware of what's going on around them. This being a comic about the kids, though, the kids still do most of the day-saving. Most of.
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This Page Will Self-Destruct
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This Page Will Self-Destruct: Von Fogg's message to Zodon: This message will self-destruct by dissolving into vanilla Ovaltine powder.
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What the Hell, Hero?
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What the Hell, Hero?: Satori almost becomes violent when confronting the healer who brought Ambriel back to life. She claims "how would you feel if after being born, you were dragged back to where you were before you were born?", but Satori was talking to Ambriel before and at the moment of her resurrection, and knows this is not true, at least in this case. She knows perfectly well that Ambriel was very unhappy with her situation and will be overjoyed to come back to life. No explanation is given for Satori being so furious that the teacher actually has to physically pull her away from the healer, who kind-of has a moment of Heroic BSoD.
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Comes Great Responsibility
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For all Praetorian Academy's jerkishness, their actual goals (training metahumans to behave With Great Responsibility and averting the potential of a Goo-Goo-Godlike scenario leading to an Earth-Shattering Kaboom) are highly desirable.
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I Have Many Names
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I Have Many Names: How Murphy introduces himself.
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Holographic Disguise
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Holographic Disguise: Those PS238 students who can't just change into normal clothes (because they're part-machine, or bright blue, or whatever) get image emitters to help them blend in with the oblivious above-ground muggles.
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Magic Map
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Magic Map: From a strip set the past, doubling as a Nodwick crossover, such maps are made by companies, and some of them aren't that good at it.
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Equivalent Exchange
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Equivalent Exchange: The basis of Toby's Reality Warper powers. Doing things much more complicated than flight creates an after-effect to balance out what he did, for better or worse.
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Unusual Euphemism
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Unusual Euphemism (mixed with Tongue-Tied): Whenever Zodon tries to cuss, the chip in his head causes him to say a random innocuous word instead. If he goes on a rant-length obscenity crawl, it switches into "Showtunes Mode"... "Oklahoma!", for example. Or "Man of La Mancha"... Or "The Music Man". Lampshaded by Victor Von Fogg once."And you swear like a G-rated sailor."
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The Singularity
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The classic definition of an Expy as being reusing elements of your own characters applies to The Singularity, who's a high-tech version of the Powers What Is from Nodwick.
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Puppy Love
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Julie "84" Finster to Tyler Marlocke. Though, as both of them are eleven, it's more like "implied childhood crush".
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Follow in My Footsteps
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Follow in My Footsteps: Tyler is expected to do this, despite the fact that he didn't inherit his parent's superpowers. Ron feels pressure of this nature as well.
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Superpowerful Genetics
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Superpowerful Genetics: Well, duh. The school's full of children of superheroes who have one or more of their parents' powers, alongside a few "first-generation" metahumans (whose parents were normal), and Tyler, a subversion by being the only non-powered child of metahumans known to exist. This gets deconstructed later by "Big Bad" The Headmaster, an anti-metahuman Well-Intentioned Extremist, who considers superheroics a form of courtship display meant to showcase the superpowers of the individuals involved. He argues that eventually, competition for mates, evolution of powers and crossbreeding of metahuman with metahuman will lead to the piling on of powers over several generations, creating more and more powerful superpowered children until eventually a Goo-Goo-Godlike scenario and the probable destruction of planet Earth.
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What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?
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What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Beautifully averted. The children in the Rainmaker program are all in possession of powers that are pretty much useless when it comes to things like fighting crime or saving the world. However, the purpose of the program is to give them an opportunity to explore using their powers in the private sector. A perfect example is a kid who can make any object as edible and nutritious (and tasty) as he wants; he won't be fighting any supervillains any time soon, but several restaurant chains are already lined up to headhunt him. Not to mention the job offers from Hollywood for the one who can change the distribution of body fat in people. Wil Wheaton used a modest telekinetic talent (think "can lift a trashcan" level, not "stop bullets with his mind") to allow models to remain competitive in the special effects department.
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Precision-Guided Boomerang
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Precision-Guided Boomerang: Patriot Act's discs.
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Casual Danger Dialogue
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Casual Danger Dialogue: The Revenant is perfectly able to take calls while in the middle of fighting bad guys, and has been known to make them as well.
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Write Who You Know
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Write Who You Know: In-universe. Every one of the class' "creative writing" exercises is a story that is rather transparently about the person who wrote it (though Tyler's classmates don't see this in his story about Moon Shadow). Most of them are describing events that actually happened.
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Fantasy Kitchen Sink
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Fantasy Kitchen Sink: As usual for a Superhero setting, they have Mutants, magic, aliens, gods, beings from Another Dimension, time travellers, and Schizo Tech galore.
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Last of His Kind
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Last of His Kind: Atlas. Or so he thinks...
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Reconstruction
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_e50987a9
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Reconstruction: As much as Williams enjoys deconstructing superhero tropes, his affection for them shows through and he often follows up by quickly reconstructing them all over again. Not everything is rosy for the heroes and often backfires because of their powers and experiences, and some have rather shallow motives and fairly Jerkass-ish behavior (such as within the Finster extended family). Yet at the same time they remain firmly committed to doing the best they can as well as they know how, and remain heroes that they and their families and friends can respect. The first new story since moving online focuses strongly on Julie, a.k.a. 84, and is busily reconstructing the "generic good guy" attitude around the F.I.S.S. (Flying Brick) types, though it's been building up to this for a while now. As the most common super type, many of them are very social and supportive partially to spite the low opinion others have of their power set, partially because they've gotten over the self-importance found in so many other supers, and are really just good people. They're also starting to fall prey to When All You Have Is a Hammer… less often as a result.
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Expy
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Being a Batman Expy, Revenant spends a lot of time swinging through the city and looking over the area from the rooftops. The logo on his uniform is a stylized R, combined with the logo from an old Alan Parson's Project album. The name of said album? Eye in the Sky.
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Suspiciously Specific Denial
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: Zodon, after being caught red-handed cheating at blackjack. The Flea, as to why he was kicked out of a team within five minutes.
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Contagious Powers
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Contagious Powers: Tyler's parents are sending him to the school based on the theory that eventually this trope will kick in. Cecil goes for a "trip" with Malphast and ends up with a pair of wings (plus a lot of other Eldritch Abomination traits that are suppressed as long as he's in the human world).
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Cloning Blues
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_e91a2f04
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Cloning Blues: Averted. Tyler's clone gets a name (Toby), develops cosmic powers, and is adopted by his parents, who are delighted — to the point where Tyler is worried they'll like his new "brother" better. However, Cecil rejects Toby, though he remains close friends with Tyler. It also helps that Toby feels BAD for Tyler, and attempts to assist Tyler whenever he can. Possibly played straight, however, given that Toby implies he had to use his reality warper powers to ensure that their parents wouldn't favor him over Tyler, with the equivalent exchange being any possible friendship with Cecil.
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Crossover
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Crossover: In issue 39 it was revealed that the events of Nodwick take place in the distant past of PS238. Thanks to some time-travelling and a Predestination Paradox, some of the characters from PS238 briefly meet the main characters from Nodwick.
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Rules Lawyer
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Another example is with USA Patriot Act and American Eagle pulling a Rules Lawyer to get Tyler removed from the class presidency and even attempt to get him kicked out of PS238. Their reasons are completely selfish... that said, Tyler really shouldn't be there, and the fact that he is there because of pressure from his extremely powerful parents (albeit because nobody can tell them no, not because of bribes or others kissing up to them) is inherently unfair.
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Jerkass
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_eb8ec7c8
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As much as Williams enjoys deconstructing superhero tropes, his affection for them shows through and he often follows up by quickly reconstructing them all over again. Not everything is rosy for the heroes and often backfires because of their powers and experiences, and some have rather shallow motives and fairly Jerkass-ish behavior (such as within the Finster extended family). Yet at the same time they remain firmly committed to doing the best they can as well as they know how, and remain heroes that they and their families and friends can respect.
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Space Elevator
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Space Elevator: Victor wanted to make one.
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Mundane Utility
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Mundane Utility: Inverted with the original Project Rainmaker, which was meant to find military uses for the powers of metaprodigies who don't have combat-oriented powers. The project got its name for its original subject, who could make it rain (or stop raining) at will. The modern Project Rainmaker has been brought in line with the rest of PS238, teaching kids with non-combat powers to handle their powers responsibly. They're still separated from the other students, because they rarely have powers that allow them to handle the sort of punishment that the regular students deal with on a daily basis. The kids with combat-related powers also manage to find ways to put their various strengths to mundane use. For example, whenever Poly Mer gets bored, she can use her tongue as chewing gum.
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Pompous Political Pundit
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Pompous Political Pundit: Jenny (American Eagle) and Dillon (USA PATRIOT Act) both sound like they learned how to speak from political sound bites and 24-hour news channels. Neither one's backing party is explicitly identified, though Dillon's dialogue would fit comfortably with a conservative Republican, while Jenny reads like a conservative Democrat. It's implied that this is completely an act for the cameras, though; when out on his own, Dillon is quiet, reserved and thoughtful.
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Last-Second Word Swap
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Last-Second Word Swap: In comic 04222009, when Tyler almost calls his dad, "Dad", when he's trying to be anonymous, so he swaps it out for Ultima at the last second.
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Spider Limbs
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Spider Limbs: A supervillainess that the Revenant is fighting while mentoring Cecil.
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Bad "Bad Acting"
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Bad "Bad Acting": When Zodon sarcastically "acts" to keep up the illusion of being a normal child: "Oh, ow, ow, ow. My innards. I fear I shall never recover." Cue Face Palm from Ms. Kyle. Justified in that he really isn't trying, and is deliberately being bad to express his contempt for the whole thing.
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Mind over Matter
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Mind over Matter: From the 04062009 comic, one of the Rainmaker kids can repair things with the ability to move molecules around with her power and concentration.
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Too Much Information
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_f332d990
comment
Too Much Information: Doctor Newby's "I get it", to Zodon's explanation to why he had tested his chair's survival system. The kids' reaction to the explanation of the toilet facilities during their field trip to the moon. EEEEEEWWWW!
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1.0
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featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_f332d990
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_f8e7ac96
type
Overlord Jr.
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comment
Overlord Jr.: Victor Von Fogg
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1.0
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featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_f8e7ac96
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_f945dff4
type
Facepalm
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_f945dff4
comment
Facepalm: Frequently used by Ms. Kyle and the other teachers.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_f945dff4
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1.0
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featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_f945dff4
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_f9f2c33
type
Running Gag
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_f9f2c33
comment
Running Gag: Whenever anyone new shows up, Zodon and Von Fogg will hand them minion application forms sooner rather than later.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_f9f2c33
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1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_f9f2c33
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_f9f2c33
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fa0984a1
type
Bonus Material
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fa0984a1
comment
Bonus Material: "Dr. Positron's Science Corner" in some of the print issues, written as an in-universe educational message expositing on some of the alternate history or superscience of the world.
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1.0
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featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fa0984a1
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fa73ee9d
type
Explosive Leash
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fa73ee9d
comment
Cranston's headband. Also an Explosive Leash.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fa73ee9d
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1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fa73ee9d
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fa73ee9d
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fbba5e98
type
Gadgeteer Genius
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fbba5e98
comment
Gadgeteer Genius: Herschel Clay/Mantium Angie
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fbba5e98
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1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fbba5e98
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fbba5e98
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fd4f8299
type
Well-Intentioned Extremist
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fd4f8299
comment
Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Rainmaker. And The Headmaster.
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fd4f8299
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1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fd4f8299
featureConfidence
1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fd4f8299
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fe0330fb
type
Brick Joke
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fe0330fb
comment
Brick Joke: A really weird one across two of the creator's comics, Full Frontal Nerdity and this. In FFN, the gamers play a supers game and end up getting metaphorically clotheslined by the discovery that a lot of the "Muggle" NPCs have been developing powers in reaction to living in a world of supers, including abilities like sensing supers and subtle mind-control of supers as a kind of camouflage. Then in PS238, Cecil turns up with the "sensing supers" power and one starts wondering what other of these abilities joked about in FFN will also turn up. And Cecil has joked that Tyler's superpower is to make other supers incapable of recognizing him as Moon Shadow...
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fe0330fb
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1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fe0330fb
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1.0
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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PS238 (Comic Book) / int_fe0330fb
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ItemName
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1.0
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1.0
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PS238 (Comic Book)

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 PS238
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PS238 (Comic Book)
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PS238 (Comic Book)
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Absurdly Powerful Student Council / int_5f89c8b8
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Academy of Adventure / int_5f89c8b8
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Acrophobic Bird / int_5f89c8b8
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Aliens in Cardiff / int_5f89c8b8
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All Elections Are Serious Business / int_5f89c8b8
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Alternative-Self Name-Change / int_5f89c8b8
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Ambiguous Syntax / int_5f89c8b8
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Angel/Devil Shipping / int_5f89c8b8
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Animal Eye Spy / int_5f89c8b8
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Animal-Themed Superbeing / int_5f89c8b8
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Assimilation Plot / int_5f89c8b8
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Atomic Superpower / int_5f89c8b8
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Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity / int_5f89c8b8
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Bad Liar / int_5f89c8b8
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Badass Fingersnap / int_5f89c8b8
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Badass Teacher / int_5f89c8b8
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Barehanded Bar Bending / int_5f89c8b8
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Barrier Warrior / int_5f89c8b8
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Baseball Episode / int_5f89c8b8
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Batman Parody / int_5f89c8b8
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Battle in the Center of the Mind / int_5f89c8b8
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Bee-Bee Gun / int_5f89c8b8
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Beehive Barrier / int_5f89c8b8
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Betrayal Insurance / int_5f89c8b8
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Bigger on the Inside / int_5f89c8b8
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Born of Heaven and Hell / int_e8b7ec98
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Both Order and Chaos are Dangerous / int_5f89c8b8
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Brought Down to Normal / int_5f89c8b8
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Brought to You by the Letter "S" / int_5f89c8b8
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Canon Welding / int_5f89c8b8
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Cape Snag / int_5f89c8b8
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Cape Wings / int_5f89c8b8
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Caption Humor / int_e8b7ec98
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Cast of Expies / int_5f89c8b8
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Casual Danger Dialog / int_5f89c8b8
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Casual Danger Dialogue / int_5f89c8b8
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Celebrity Power / int_5f89c8b8
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Chaos Is Evil / int_5f89c8b8
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Clone Angst / int_5f89c8b8
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Clones Are People, Too / int_5f89c8b8
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Comes Great Responsibility / int_5f89c8b8
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Conspiracy Theorist / int_5f89c8b8
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Contagious Powers / int_5f89c8b8
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Cool and Unusual Punishment / int_5f89c8b8
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Cosmic Plaything / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Dark Horse Victory / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Death by Depower / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Derivative Differentiation / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu? / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Differently Powered Individual / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Digital Piracy Is Evil / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Doctor Whomage / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Doesn't Know Their Own Child / int_e8b7ec98
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Dork Horse Candidate / int_5f89c8b8
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*Drool* Hello / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Easily Elected / int_5f89c8b8
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Egopolis / int_5f89c8b8
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Elaborate Underground Base / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Equivalent Exchange / int_5f89c8b8
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Et Tu, Brute? / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Every Episode Ending / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Everyone Is a Super / int_5f89c8b8
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Evil Genius / int_e8b7ec98
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Excuse Me While I Multitask / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Explaining Your Power to the Enemy / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Extradimensional Power Source / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Extranormal Institute / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Eye of Horus Means Egypt / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Facepalm / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Fake Boobs / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Fantastic Caste System / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Fantastic Legal Weirdness / int_e8b7ec98
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Fantastical Social Services / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Fauxtivational Poster / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Female Angel, Male Demon / int_e8b7ec98
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Field Trip to the Past / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Fights Like a Normal / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Flight / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Flying Brick / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Follow in My Footsteps / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
For Great Justice / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Forced Sleep / int_e8b7ec98
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Forgot About His Powers / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Friend of Masked Self / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Fun Personified / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Gadgeteer Genius / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Gas Leak Cover-Up / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Geek Physiques / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Genius Cripple / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Ghost Amnesia / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Glamour Failure / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Goo-Goo-Godlike / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Good Angel, Bad Angel / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Graceful Loser / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Grappling-Hook Pistol / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Great Gazoo / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Guardian Angel / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Guardian Entity / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Hair Antennae / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Hates Being Nicknamed / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Hates My Secret Identity / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Healing Hands / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Heart Is an Awesome Power / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Help Yourself in the Future / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue" / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Hidden Backup Prince / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
High-Class Glass / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Holographic Disguise / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
HULK MASH!-Up / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Human Mom, Non-Human Dad / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Hurl It into the Sun / int_5f89c8b8
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Hurricane of Euphemisms / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Hybrid Monster / int_5f89c8b8
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Iconic Sequel Character / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Ideal Illness Immunity / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Immunity Disability / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Implied Love Interest / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Improvised Umbrella / int_5f89c8b8
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Incoming Ham / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Innocent Bystander Series / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Instrument of Murder / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Intelligible Unintelligible / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Internal Reformist / int_5f89c8b8
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Interspecies Adoption / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Inverse Law of Utility and Lethality / int_5f89c8b8
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Invisible to Adults / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Ironic Fear / int_e8b7ec98
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hasFeature
It's All My Fault / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
It's the Only Way to Be Sure / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Jerk with a Heart of Jerk / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Justice Will Prevail / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Kill Sat / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Kinda Busy Here / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
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Knowledge Broker / int_5f89c8b8
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Lamarck Was Right / int_5f89c8b8
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Landslide Election / int_5f89c8b8
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Lawyer-Friendly Cameo / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Lethal Harmless Powers / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Literal Surveillance Bug / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Little Professor Dialog / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Living Clothes / int_e8b7ec98
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hasFeature
Living Ship / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Look Ma, No Plane! / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Lovecraftian Superpower / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Lower-Deck Episode / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Magnetic Medium / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Meanwhile, in the Future… / int_e8b7ec98
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hasFeature
MegaCorp / int_5f89c8b8
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Me's a Crowd / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Millennium Bug / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Misapplied Phlebotinum / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Mistaken for Superpowered / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Mister Seahorse / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Mooning / int_5f89c8b8
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Most Definitely Not a Villain / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Mr. Fixit / int_5f89c8b8
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Muggle Best Friend / int_5f89c8b8
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Muggle Born of Mages / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Muggle Power / int_5f89c8b8
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Mundanization / int_e8b7ec98
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My Blood Runs Hot / int_5f89c8b8
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My Brain is Big / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
My Card / int_5f89c8b8
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My Favorite Shirt / int_e8b7ec98
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My Friends... and Zoidberg / int_5f89c8b8
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My Future Self and Me / int_5f89c8b8
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My Skull Runneth Over / int_5f89c8b8
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No Party Given / int_5f89c8b8
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No Such Thing as Wizard Jesus / int_e8b7ec98
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Non-Idle Rich / int_5f89c8b8
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Non-Powered Costumed Hero / int_5f89c8b8
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Non Sequitur Causality / int_5f89c8b8
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Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid / int_e8b7ec98
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Nuclear Family / int_5f89c8b8
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Objectshifting / int_5f89c8b8
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Odd Job Gods / int_5f89c8b8
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Omniscient Morality License / int_5f89c8b8
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Order Versus Chaos / int_5f89c8b8
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Outsourcing Fate / int_5f89c8b8
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Overlord Jr. / int_5f89c8b8
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Pardon My Klingon / int_5f89c8b8
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Parental Neglect / int_5f89c8b8
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Parents as People / int_5f89c8b8
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Patient Zero / int_5f89c8b8
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Patriotic Fervor / int_5f89c8b8
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Pest Controller / int_5f89c8b8
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Pieces of God / int_5f89c8b8
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Pimp Duds / int_5f89c8b8
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Place Beyond Time / int_5f89c8b8
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Planet Looters / int_5f89c8b8
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Playing with Syringes / int_5f89c8b8
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Power Limiter / int_5f89c8b8
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Power Nullifier / int_5f89c8b8
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Powers via Possession / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Psychic Static / int_5f89c8b8
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Puberty Superpower / int_5f89c8b8
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Rainmaking / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Random Effect Spell / int_5f89c8b8
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hasFeature
Rapid Hair Growth / int_e8b7ec98
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Re-Power / int_e8b7ec98
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Reality Is Out to Lunch / int_5f89c8b8
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Remote Body / int_5f89c8b8
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Rhetorical Request Blunder / int_5f89c8b8
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Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony / int_5f89c8b8
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Ridiculously Average Guy / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Sabotage to Discredit / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Sacred Hospitality / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Safety Worst / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Sapient Ship / int_e8b7ec98
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
School Stories / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Screw the Rules, I Have Money! / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Secret Chaser / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Sensory Overload / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Shapeshifter Baggage / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Shrouded in Myth / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Silent Partner / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Sir Swears-a-Lot / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Sizeshifter / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Snake Oil Salesman / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Southern-Fried Genius / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Speak in Unison / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Speaks Fluent Animal / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Speech Bubbles / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Spider-Man Send-Up / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Square-Cube Law / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Stage Mom / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Starfish Language / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Stealth Pun / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Stranger in a Strange School / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Straw Character / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Student Council President / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Sudden Name Change / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Super Family Team / int_e8b7ec98
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Super Registration Act / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Super-Strong Child / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Super Wheelchair / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Super Zeroes / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Superhero Prevalence Stages / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Superhero School / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Superhuman Transfusion / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Superman Substitute / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Supernatural Suffocation / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Superpowerful Genetics / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Supreme Chef / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Symbol Swearing / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Technically Naked Shapeshifter / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Teleportation / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
The Call Put Me on Hold / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
The Cape / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
The Chooser of the One / int_e8b7ec98
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
The Cowl / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
The Jinx / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
The Role-Playing Game / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
The Slow Path / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
The Swarm / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
There Is Another / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
There Was a Door / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
They Would Cut You Up / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
This Is the Part Where... / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Time Machine / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Totalitarian Utilitarian / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Touched by Vorlons / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Tracking Device / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Translator Buddy / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Traumatic Superpower Awakening / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Tricked-Out Gloves / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Tropaholics Anonymous / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Troperiffic / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Tuckerization / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Turbine Blender / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Twilight of the Supers / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Two-Person Love Triangle / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Undisclosed Funds / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Villainous Rescue / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Visions of Another Self / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Wardrobe Wound / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Weaponized Teleportation / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Weather-Control Machine / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
White-Collar Crime / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Why Couldn't You Be Different? / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Wingdinglish / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Wise Beyond Their Years / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Wizarding School / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Words Do Not Make The Magic / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
You Answered Your Own Question / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
You Cannot Grasp the True Form / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
You Know I'm Black, Right? / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5f89c8b8
 Nodwick (Webcomic)
seeAlso
PS238 (Comic Book)
 Nodwick (Webcomic)
seeAlso
PS238 (Comic Book)
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
I See Dead People / int_5f89c8b8
 PS238 (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Mutant Draft Board / int_e8b7ec98