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Andrea Vernon and the Corporation for UltraHuman Protection is a series of humorous superhero novels by Alexander C. Kane set in a world where superhero work has been privatized to corporations, who are contracted by various counties for protection. The novels focus on the Corporation for UltraHuman Protection (or CUP for short), specifically its NYC branch, which has a contract to protect the Bronx from supervillains and alien invasions. The New York branch Super Team consists of King Tiger (a man-tiger mutant from Mumbai with enhanced strength and sharp claws), Señora Fuego (a Hispanic woman who can throw fire), Rabbi Diamond (The Last of His Kind from a planet of diamond people with Mind over Matter powers, who was raised by a Jewish family), Lightning Hwang (can turn into lightning, but spends much of his time either running Hwang's Hardware or doing crossword puzzles), Inspector Well Actually (a super genius with enhanced senses, who can only exhibit his power when correcting someone), The Big Axe (an 8-foot tall man with a magical axe), and Kitchen Sink (a Romanian gymnast in Power Armor). In book 2, Rabbi Diamond's place on the team is taken by Glare (who continuously projects blinding light from every pore).Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The titular Andrea Vernon is a young second-generation Haitian-American, who has always dreamed of discussing art and literature on the banks of the Seine while sipping on coffee. Instead, she finds herself in debt and out of work, with her high-achieving siblings (State Senator Vernon, Dr. Vernon, and Professor Vernon-Blanchard) looking down on her at family dinners. One day she is hired as an administrative assistant for CUP's New York office, which is run by Ms. Persephone Oh. Ms. Oh loves to spout farming idioms in her Georgia twang and reminding everyone about her origins in Faro County of that state. Andrea's one condition of employment is that she must never ask questions.So far there are two books in the series: Andrea Vernon and the Corporation for UltraHuman Protection and Andrea Vernon and the Superhero-Industrial Complex.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal: Andrea mentally calls supervillains "malevolent mustachioed misanthropes". | |
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Artistic License – Politics | |
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Artistic License – Politics: In the second book, Never More basically writes a new bill for the US Senate to pass, even scrawling in margins that any senator who votes against it or abstains will be arrested on charges of treason. Despite the ridiculousness of this being legal, the bill passed 99 to 1 (Andrea's brother is the only one to vote "nay" and has to flee DC immediately). May be justified by Never More either bribing or blackmailing pretty much everyone in government, so even the courts won't declare the new law unconstitutional. | |
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Alien Invasion: Sparnaxian invasion is the primary conflict of the first novel. They actually came to Earth by accident, as one of them messed up when creating the wormhole, intending to go to planet Juvnta to deliver a gift to King Hrodshnur. Once they realize they're not on Juvnta, they decide they might as well slaughter humanity since they're here. | |
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