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Chum

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Chum	comment	Chum by pseudonymous author BSTDev is a Web Serial Novel that tells the story of Samantha "Sam" Small, a young superhero living in Philadelphia in an alternate 2023, where heroes and villains have been a fact of daily life for the past twenty years.Chum takes place in an alternate history that begun diverging in the early 1980s with the arrival of the "Genesis Births" - children that begin developing unnatural powers during difficult childbirths. Soon thereafter, it becomes recognized that certain people with the potential will spontaneously develop superpowers when faced with certain death, giving them "what they need" to survive. Although the timeline generally trundled along as normal, with all these new super-babies slowly growing into adults, at the beginning of the 2000s, the earliest superhumans began really butterflying the world up. Obviously, this has lead to a 2023 that's quite different - Jazz is back in style, the internet is still in a Web 1.0-like state, Marvel and DC have sold off most of their properties, and of course, Superheroes are real.The story follows Sam in the aftermath of a fishing accident that left her with shark powers: sharp, constantly regrowing teeth, enhanced bite strength, the ability to sense bleeding organisms around her, and, unbeknownst to her, the ability to regenerate from even near-lethal wounds. After a chance encounter with Liberty Belle, Philadelphia's top dog in the hero hierarchy, Sam discovers with her blood sense that Philly's #1 hero is dying of stomach cancer, and, a day later, is invited by Belle to join the Young Defenders, the city's new up-and-comers.She accepts, becoming the superhero-in-training known as... Bloodhound?Chum has been lauded by many readers for the intricacy of its Worldbuilding, the realism of its characters, and the brutality of its fight scenes. Despite starting the story as a 14 year old, in the first arc alone Sam has been disemboweled, shot at, pistol-whipped, and had several bone-breaking run ins with unpleasant fists, among other injuries - and the up-close nature of her own powers require her to dish it out just as bad on her opponents. The story began in July 2023 and is currently updating frequently, with guaranteed updates on Wednesdays and "sporadic extra updates as I feel fit" quoth the author, which translates to about 2-3 updates per week. Additionally, gaps between updates are filled with "World of Chum" articles that detail the lore and worldbuilding of the story's version of 2023.
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Chum / int_161f1ebf	type	Relationship Upgrade
Chum / int_161f1ebf	comment	Relationship Upgrade: Sam starts dating Gale midway through the story. Jordan starts dating Spindle after he switches sides.
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Chum / int_16e0fcc7	type	Transhuman Abomination
Chum / int_16e0fcc7	comment	Transhuman Abomination: 'Visually-Apparent Metahumans' or 'Complex-Condition Metahumans' are metahumans whose powers have changed their bodies so that they don't look recognisably human. They range from Sam herself, who looks almost entirely normal as long as she doesn't expose her teeth, to people like Chrysalis (who has wings, compound eyes and chitin instead of skin) and Pumice (whose skin is made of stone), and then to people like Miasma and Chernobyl, whose bodies produce harmful substances and need to wear suits to contain them.
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Chum / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Chum / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The "World of Chum" side-chapters, which detail everything from fashion to media to politics in the alternate timeline of Chum.
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Chum / int_19b6f396	type	Alternate Timeline
Chum / int_19b6f396	comment	Alternate Timeline: While superhumans began appearing in the early 1980s, it took about two decades for the oldest superhuman newborns to mature and begin affecting the world, putting the point of major divergence around 2001.
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Chum / int_1b3b48f3	type	David Versus Goliath
Chum / int_1b3b48f3	comment	David Versus Goliath: Most fights with Sam against people not her age turn into this, given her petite stature.
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Chum / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
Chum / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: Sam says in chapter 11 that while she knows that her parents love her, her father is cold sometimes and her mother only cares about Sam getting into a good college, and nobody seems to care about what Sam actually wants.
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Chum / int_28104b90	type	Bag of Spilling
Chum / int_28104b90	comment	Bag of Spilling: After spending two weeks in a coma, recovering from near-fatal injuries, Sam loses most if not all of her physical strength and prowess.
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Chum / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
Chum / int_2d363f63	comment	Frame-Up: Miasma breaks into an NSRA office to find some files, without the intention of hurting anyone. The Kingdom then kills several security guards and frames him for the deaths.
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Chum / int_2ee59bb1	type	Never Be a Hero
Chum / int_2ee59bb1	comment	Never Be a Hero: Multiple characters try to talk Miss Mayfly out of being a hero, mostly because she doesn't have any powers. Miss Mayfly ignores this, but Sam manages to get through to her a bit by pointing out that what she's doing is actually illegal- you need a license to legally fight crime, and Miss Mayfly can't get one because she doesn't have powers, so if she was ever arrested, she'd be considered a criminal regardless of her actions or intentions.
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Chum / int_2fd1d68a	type	Cool-Down Hug
Chum / int_2fd1d68a	comment	Cooldown Hug: Sam gives Chernobyl one after she breaks through his suit, and that's how she gets through to him.
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Chum / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Chum / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Overlapping with Pragmatic Villainy, despite many superheroes having their names and faces be public information, most professional supervillains refuse to assassinate them outside of a designated fight. As Mr. Nothing says in Chapter 12:
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Chum / int_322d19f4	type	Abandoned Warehouse
Chum / int_322d19f4	comment	Abandoned Warehouse: As with many superhero stories, a frequent occurrence. Chapters 12-13 take place in a real abandoned warehouse in Philly, while the Delaware Valley Defenders' headquarters is in what appears to be an abandoned warehouse.
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Chum / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Chum / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Dr Xenograft's specialty- she's a bioscientist whose creations range from a greyhound that's twice the size of a normal dog and has a long lifespan, to a raccoon thing with eight eyes.
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Chum / int_455f6a91	type	Long-Lost Relative
Chum / int_455f6a91	comment	Long-Lost Relative: Sam's maternal grandmother, Camilla, abruptly turns up during the 4.5 arc.
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Chum / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Chum / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Members of The Kingdom are more than willing to try and kill Sam and Jordan, both of whom are minors. The pair's first interaction with the gang lands both of them in the hospital. Later, the Kingdom tells Aaron McKinley that he can join them if he kills Sam, which he's more than willing to try doing.
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Chum / int_48212bac	type	Weather Manipulation
Chum / int_48212bac	comment	Weather Manipulation: One of the Kingdom's villains, Ms Zenith, has this power.
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Chum / int_483152c4	type	The Resenter
Chum / int_483152c4	comment	The Resenter: Chapter 85 reveals that Kate is really angry about how Sam got powers, went to a fancy school and left her friends behind- and worse, that she wanted Kate to give up being a hero. There's also a lot of resentment about how Sam has two parents who have good jobs, while Kate only has her father and is much worse off, socioeconomically.
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Chum / int_4c24a9ed	type	Power Copying
Chum / int_4c24a9ed	comment	Power Copying: This is Deathgirl's power, but her copies are stronger and less controlled than those of the person who has them.
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Chum / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Chum / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Sam's powers cause her to constantly be growing new teeth, much like a shark. Her medical exam in Chapter 14 indicates that this might also include growing teeth on her skeleton. When Deathgirl copies Sam's powers, her bones grow spikes. In Chapter 52, Sam discovers that she is indeed growing teeth inside of her body, and can force them to the surface much like Deathgirl. A large part of Chapter 62 consists of very detailed descriptions of Sam's near-fatal injuries and radiation poisoning, and how she's recovering after the Chernobyl fight. The blood of people who take Fly or Jump turns orange. Sam also describes it as 'feeling' like it's carbonated to her blood sense. Sam and Rampart fight a man who took a variant or tainted form of Jump and mutated into a thing that created and launched metal projectiles from his body.
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Chum / int_52600ad6	type	Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu
Chum / int_52600ad6	comment	Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: The finale of Arc 4 has Sam fighting Chernobyl to a standstill and actually convincing him to surrender... but at the cost of putting her in the hospital for her accumulated injuries, including a gunshot to the gut, microwave burns to her internal organs and Acute Radiation Syndrome from absorbing a hideous 10 Gy of hard radiation.note As the story puts it, '8 Grays represents a sufficient dosage of radiation to result in lethal outcomes for more than 99% of full grown adults.'
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Chum / int_53a7089a	type	Pint-Sized Powerhouse
Chum / int_53a7089a	comment	Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Sam is a tiny teenage girl, but her teeth, her training and her regeneration makes her a serious threat in a physical fight.
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Chum / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Chum / int_571bfe2	comment	Super Serum: One starts turning up in the form of the street drugs 'Jump' (powers for only a few hours) and 'Fly' (powers for much longer, possibly permanent).
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Chum / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Chum / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Sam and Safeguard's relationship after their first fight, until they end up becoming Vitriolic Best Buds.
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Chum / int_5a365ed2	type	Incompatible Orientation
Chum / int_5a365ed2	comment	Incompatible Orientation: Part of why Jamila and Sam break up is because Jamila's asexual and Sam isn't.
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Chum / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Chum / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: During their confrontation in Chapter 44, Chernobyl and Liberty Belle address each other by their first names and converse in an almost cordial manner, with Chernobyl repeatedly trying to talk her out of attacking him.
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Chum / int_5b6e57e	type	Required Secondary Powers
Chum / int_5b6e57e	comment	Required Secondary Powers: Subverted with Aaron McKinley- his power lets him create and control fire, but it doesn't give him immunity to the smoke that's created as a result. When he starts really exploring the depth of his powers, he breathes in so much toxic gas that his doctor tells him that in the space of two weeks, his lungs have gone from healthy to sounding like he's been smoking for decades. Also subverted with minor villain Ricochet, who takes Jump and gets super strength, but he isn't immune to his own power, and his body starts breaking itself.
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Chum / int_5c8ad7af	type	With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Chum / int_5c8ad7af	comment	With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: When Jordan asks Sam why she became a hero, Sam admits that she doesn't know, but her best answer is that it's the right thing to do. Jordan proceeds to defy the trope by telling Sam that she doesn't have to be a hero if she doesn't want to be one, she could still contribute to society by using her powers as a paramedic, and that if she wants an out, here it is.
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Chum / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Chum / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: There's a few over the course of the 4.5 arc- Sam is in a coma for two weeks, and there's more skips as her condition progresses.
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Chum / int_65c49e05	type	The Villain Knows Where You Live
Chum / int_65c49e05	comment	The Villain Knows Where You Live: After Sam and Jordan infiltrate their club, the Kingdom's response is to send a couple of members to trash Sam's house as a message.
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Chum / int_66cbad71	type	School Idol
Chum / int_66cbad71	comment	School Idol: Much to her surprise, Sam becomes one after word gets out at her school that she survived a supervillain fight- not that she's a hero, but that she happened to be in the vicinity of a metahuman fight and made it out. She also gets a reputation as a Bully Hunter for reasons she isn't sure about, but is happy to go along with it.
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Chum / int_6b6556ee	type	Mentor Occupational Hazard
Chum / int_6b6556ee	comment	Mentor Occupational Hazard: As mentioned above, Liberty Belle is dying from cancer, and is shown to be frustrated that she has so little time left to help her team and mentor the younger members.
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Chum / int_714741cc	type	Like Reality, Unless Noted
Chum / int_714741cc	comment	Like Reality, Unless Noted: Most locations mentioned in the story, from cities and towns down to individual locations such as the Dobson Mills Warehouse and Sam & Jordan's headquarters in the Tacony Music Hall are real locations in the Delaware Valley area.
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Chum / int_7175cb16	type	Clark Kenting
Chum / int_7175cb16	comment	Clark Kenting: Averted - Registered Superhuman Entities in the US have their identities accessible as a matter of public record through FOIA requests, as being a superhero is their full-time job.
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Chum / int_7a87fa80	type	Animal-Themed Superbeing
Chum / int_7a87fa80	comment	Animal-Themed Superbeing: Sam herself has explicitly shark-themed powers, and takes on the bloodhound-themed persona of, well, Bloodhound, and later the vigilante persona called the Big Bad Wolf.
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Chum / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Chum / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Puppeteer snaps and gives Sam one out of stress, resentment and jealousy. Aaron McKinley's second interlude is one long one, with the Phreaks and his doctor making it clear that he's a jumped-up thug who isn't cut out to be a supervillain. He eventually realises that they're correct. Sam cops another one from Kate, who is really mad about Sam leaving her friends behind.
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Chum / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Chum / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: Frequent and often, typically featuring Sam's friends from middle school or interacting with her family.
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Chum / int_88fa3225	type	Partial Transformation
Chum / int_88fa3225	comment	Partial Transformation: Elias/Chimera takes Fly and gets the ability to partially transform his body into the corresponding parts of various animals.
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Chum / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Chum / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: The Ricochet fight thoroughly deconstructs Miss Mayfly's view of herself as a competent hero by showing all the ways she completely fucked it up: Crossroads and Playback had a plan, but Miss Mayfly randomly inserting herself into the fight prevented them from carrying it out. Her stink bombs did incapacitate Ricochet, but they also incapacitated everyone else, which just made things worse because nobody could act on the opportunity. She then attacked Ricochet with her baton, which was worse than useless against an enemy who can redirect force. Everything she tried was either ineffective or just led to him fighting back even harder, so they would have been much better off if she hadn't been there.
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Chum / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Chum / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Chapter 45: Liberty Belle (with Sam's assistance) vs Chernobyl. Chernobyl wins and Liberty Belle dies.
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Chum / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
Chum / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Played with at first and then averted: in the early part of the story, Sam has a counsellor at her school, but she intentionally avoids being honest with them. When Sam ends up in hospital after the Chernobyl fight, she gets a lot of therapy.
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Chum / int_9718a22a	type	You Remind Me of X
Chum / int_9718a22a	comment	You Remind Me of X: Inverted in Chapter 61, when Sam guesses that part of why Chernobyl doesn't want to fight her is that she reminds him of his daughter.
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Chum / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Chum / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: After four arcs involving the Kingdom, who are explicitly only around to make money, arc 5 introduces Rogue Wave, a mysterious new faction responsible for making and selling the Super Serum street drugs 'Jump' and 'Fly'.
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Chum / int_9d61fd2c	type	Traumatic Superpower Awakening
Chum / int_9d61fd2c	comment	Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Universal for the setting. The Activation Events which result in a superhuman gaining their powers are the result of a near-death experience, and result in powers related to the event in question. Sam got her shark powers when she fell off her grandfather's boat and got disemboweled by the propeller.
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Chum / int_9fbf8969	type	Cut Lex Luthor a Check
Chum / int_9fbf8969	comment	Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Averted - it's mentioned that there is an entire segment of the global economy known as the "Metahuman Economy" that use their powers to cash a check. Additionally, CGI never took off in the setting since superhumans could produce practical versions of many effects we'd need CGI for in our world. Chernobyl claims that he struck a deal with the US Government- they supply him with what he needs, and in return, he uses his radiation powers to help their power plants.
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Chum / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Chum / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: In 21, Aaron attempts to burn Sam's eyes out, but only successfully ignites her eyelids.
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Chum / int_a2b998a0	type	Wouldn't Hurt a Child
Chum / int_a2b998a0	comment	Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Chernobyl doesn't want to fight or hurt a kid, even if the kid attacks him.
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Chum / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
Chum / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: Sam has a pretty high level of regeneration, which is one of her most valuable assets- later in the story, it's revealed that Sam's regeneration actually gets stronger the worse her injuries are. Patches is also a regenerator, but hers is one of the strongest on record.
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Chum / int_aacc7ea6	type	Tyke-Bomb
Chum / int_aacc7ea6	comment	Tyke-Bomb: Deathgirl is one, and her interlude reveals that the people who trained her (presumably the Kingdom) are doing experiments with multiple other children.
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Chum / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Chum / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Jordan's mother treats them like dirt, deadnames them, acts as if she deserves praise and thanks for being a parent, thinks that they owe her money they earned themselves, and, upon discovering that Jordan has powers, calls them a freak. Sam's maternal grandfather was bad enough that Sam's grandmother and mother agree that they don't want him anywhere near Sam's life.
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Chum / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Chum / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Spindle defects from his team because the Kingdom are encouraging Patches to do worse and worse things, and he doesn't want to be part of that.
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Chum / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Chum / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Sam, as the story progresses, comes to realize that she really loves fighting.
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Chum / int_bc1a0bb1	type	The Last Dance
Chum / int_bc1a0bb1	comment	The Last Dance: Liberty Belle, who's dying of cancer, attempts to kill Chernobyl. She gets some good hits on him, but he wins the battle and kills her.
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Chum / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Chum / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Aaron McKinley teams up with the remaining members of the Phreaks to kill Sam. Their first attempt would have worked- Chrysalis knocked her out on the rooftop and they could have killed her there- but instead they took her back to their base. Even then, they still could have killed her- they tied her to a chair- but Aaron wanted to torture her before killing her, which gave Sam the opportunity to escape.
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Chum / int_bd188274	type	Description in the Mirror
Chum / int_bd188274	comment	Description in the Mirror: Done by Sam in chapter 2.
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Chum / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Chum / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: As part of the main cast, Safeguard, with Sam taking on some antiheroic traits as she learns under their tutelage.
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Chum / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
Chum / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: Jordan and their mother mutually disown each other in Arc 4.
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Chum / int_c3473e28	type	Chrome Champion
Chum / int_c3473e28	comment	Chrome Champion: Kate becomes one after taking Jump.
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Chum / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Chum / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Chernobyl quotes I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream from memory. When Sam asks a member of the Kingdom what she does, the villain replies "I make it rain on them hoes."
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Chum / int_ca1f9429	type	Boxing Lessons for Superman
Chum / int_ca1f9429	comment	Boxing Lessons for Superman: Frequent throughout the setting - it's mentioned that most superheroes have knowledge in at least one form of martial art, ranging from boxing to aikido to eskrima.
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Chum / int_cb9aeb6a	type	Vigilante Man
Chum / int_cb9aeb6a	comment	Vigilante Man: Sam and Jordan become vigilantes (besides Sam's job as a hero), taking on gangs and minor criminals. Kate becomes a vigilante as 'Miss Mayfly', despite not having powers.
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Chum / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Chum / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Chapter 61 shows Chernobyl to be a decent man who wound up with shitty powers he can't really control and wound up in a bad situation because of them.
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Chum / int_d5522f3a	comment	Non-Powered Costumed Hero: Miss Mayfly, who uses drones, pepper spray, stink bombs, noisemakers and a baton as her weapons.
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Chum / int_d7639dba	type	Achilles' Heel
Chum / int_d7639dba	comment	Achilles' Heel: Chernobyl's suit is very strong and resilient, but it has a noticeable input lag. Sam uses that to defeat him.
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Chum / int_e6c88e42	type	Old Shame
Chum / int_e6c88e42	comment	Old Shame: Sam's Pop-Pop Moe's engineering firm was involved with the construction of Daedalus, the first superhuman prison in America. In an in-universe interview, he said that he knows it would have been done regardless of their involvement, but he wishes he hadn't been involved and feels that their having been involved is a stain on his firm's legacy.
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Chum / int_e75d4959	type	Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World
Chum / int_e75d4959	comment	Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World: Sam has to balance being a hero with going to school. Later in the story, she's juggling going to school, being a hero and being a vigilante.
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Chum / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
Chum / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: When Sam and Jordan infiltrate a club that villains own and pretend to be waiters, one of the villains note that Sam's wearing the wrong shoes for a waiter. They manage to talk their way out of it, only for the villains to see the stamps on their hands that show that they're minors and realize that they can't be waiters because the club doesn't employ minors.
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Chum / int_edeafb2e	type	Malicious Misnaming
Chum / int_edeafb2e	comment	Malicious Misnaming: The US Government gave Illya Myronovych Federov the codename 'Chernobyl'. Illya understandably loathes this name and hates being addressed by it - comparing it to him being called Hiroshima if he were Japanese - but there's not much he can actually do about it.
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Chum / int_f8b3fa5d	type	Our Werewolves Are Different
Chum / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: Derek got werewolf powers- he turns into a wolf every night, and keeps himself locked up to avoid hurting anyone else.
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Chum / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Chum / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Sam is a sweet kid, but can get downright vicious in battle or when otherwise provoked. When a skinhead walks into a metal concert she's at, tries to pull her girlfriend's hijab off and calls her a 'dyke bitch', Sam beats the shit out of him until some bigger guys pull her off him.
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Chum / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Chum / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: The Kingdom's members are all called 'Mr/Mrs [letter]', with there presumably being a member for every letter of the alphabet.
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