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Grrl Power (Webcomic)
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Grrl Power is a webcomic by Dave Barrack about a superheroine who works in a comic shop.Sydney Scoville Jr. lives in a world where superhumans have finally revealed themselves to the public. There was no public accident or major incident; one day all the evidence added up and it was impossible to deny it any longer. People aren't quite used to the idea of superheroes yet, but they're getting there, and the fact that all superhumans are ridiculously photogenic likely won't hurt.At least, most supers are ridiculously photogenic. In a world where the average superhero is over six foot, has zero percent body fat, and the ladies have D-cup chests, Sydney is short, flat-chested, and angry about it. She's also sarcastic, caustic, a huge nerd, and is bonded to seven floating orbs that give her superpowers. After foiling a bank robbery (or being nearby when the strongest super in the world foils a bank robbery), Sydney is invited to reveal her powers and join ARCHON, the new American super-response team.Sydney quickly becomes a unique asset to the team, her encyclopedic knowledge of superhero tropes making her surprisingly adept at navigating this new world she finds herself in. While working with a very quirky group that includes a demonic succubus who wishes Sydney would stop being such a prude, a single-minded harem of beautiful woman (yes, singular), and the gold-skinned superheroine who must manage them all without going insane from their hijinks, Sydney discovers ways to balance her new life, her old life, and her hobbies, all while saving the world.Currently updates Mondays and Thursdays.Not to be confused with the Supergirl storyline Girl Power. | |
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Artistic License – Gun Safety | |
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Artistic License – Gun Safety: Averted; gun-using ARCHON members are given extensive training in gun use and safety, and until they prove that they understand the safety rules and can strip, clean and reassemble their weapons, they aren't allowed to handle ammunition. Maxima's regulations are a bit more relaxed (which is lampshaded in the script), but that's mainly because she can catch a bullet she accidentally fires before it hits anyone. She is, in any case, a serving regular with combat experience who presumably already has full training and plenty of experience. Played with by Peggy, who (in her capacity as Range Master) allows Sydney to attempt to fire a BFG minigun (with bayonets!) knowing that Sydney isn't even able to lift it, much less fire it. Sydney hilariously inverts this on one page. She's running through a gun course and takes the time to switch on the safety and holster it between every target. The end result is a very frustrated Peggy, and Sydney taking more than ten minutes to run through a course that she needs to clear in less than four minutes. (Sydney isn't told about the time limit until after the first run-through. Peggy wanted to see if she could complete it at all, which isn't guaranteed with Sydney.) | |
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Villain: Exit, Stage Left | |
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Telegraphing your intention to Villain: Exit, Stage Left isn't the smartest thing to do when facing a foe with Super-Speed, Hench Wench. | |
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Visible Silence | |
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Visible Silence: From page 819, in the second to last panel, Sydney says "..." before "I'm scared." | |
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Strip Poker | |
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Strip Poker: Maxima banned this game at ARC-SWAT's HQ because of an unspecified incident involving Dabbler (who else?). So, when Max is away and Sydney walks in on a game, everyone assures her that it's not strip poker, they're doing the laundry. | |
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Comic-Book Fantasy Casting | |
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Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Instead of using a generic-looking male face for the senator, the artist based him on Michael Peña. | |
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Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal | |
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Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal: Zig-zagged when Parfait loses control of her lust aura and jumps Sydney. Sydney manages to fight Parfait off and tell her that succubus or not, no means no. However, this is more of a matter of Sydney being able to fight off the effect better than Parfait. Luckily Maxima and Dabbler came in before things could continue. It turns out that Parfait's aura was so strong that it spread to all of ARCHON. While Maxima thought this was going to be a HR disaster since everyone was either by themselves or with someone they liked, she was surprised that no one was upset about what happened. | |
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Goodbye, Cruel World! | |
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Goodbye, Cruel World!: After Lapha is forced out of Sydney's body and onto the floor, she realizes that her flame is fading and gives the universe a final "fuck you," telling it that it was not worth the price of admission, before Dabbler yoinks her into a containment vessel. And she doesn't seem too happy about surviving to go to prison. | |
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Success as Revenge | |
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Success as Revenge: Referenced. Deus is quite possibly the richest man in the world (he is personally one of the strongest economies in the world), handsome, charismatic, and has an impressive dating history. When Sydney mentions his impressive accomplishments, he claims that he is "getting revenge on many, many people" (by living really, really well). | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism: Averted when Maxima asks Sydney why she isn't surprised that not only do aliens exist but Dabbler is one. Sydney replies that Maxima is a giant golden superheroine. | |
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Scenery Censor | |
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Scenery Censor: Pixel pulls off her clothes before changing from her hybrid form to animal form. Her team is treated to a full view, but our gaze is blocked by the angle or by various body parts, including her tail. | |
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Negated Moment of Awesome | |
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Negated Moment of Awesome: Lampshaded by Deus after delivering a genuinely badass line, and then mentioning that he almost botched it because he'd thought of a Last-Second Word Swap that sounded better, but the first one almost came out instead. | |
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Blind Without 'Em | |
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While it's not only a comic trope, Blind Without 'Em also gets deconstructed, as Sydney notes that a person who needs glasses does not instantly become unable to see just because the glasses are knocked off. Especially when the target is less than four feet away. | |
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Dimensional Cutter | |
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Deus rigged a magical Dimensional Cutter to a motorized, circular track to create a stargate for quick and easy interstellar travel. | |
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Godiva Hair | |
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Godiva Hair: Brook apparently already lost her top and bra at Strip Poker when Sydney walks on them, as her hair is all that's covering her chest. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: Deliberately invoked for a positive result. | |
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Hulking Out | |
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Another character with breakaway clothing is Ray Cosmos, the sleazy alien tour guide. However, in his case it's more justified, in that him preparing for a fight involves Hulking Out, so his shirt wouldn't survive anyway. | |
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"It" Is Dehumanizing | |
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"It" Is Dehumanizing: Sydney objects to Arianna calling their new friend Trent "it". | |
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No Biochemical Barriers | |
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No Biochemical Barriers: Invoked and examined; alien eating establishments have a on-the-spot genetic scanner capable of determining exactly what a customer can and can not consume. Though Sydney proceeds to freak the hell out of dozens of alien species by stuffing her face with something spicy enough to dissolve silverware (although they might be more concerned with her ability to withstand it when it comes out of her). | |
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The Worf Effect | |
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The Worf Effect: Concretia makes an entrance, complete with stats, and immediately blows away Mr. Amorphous and Achilles to show how bad-arsed she is. Then in the very next page she is taken down by Math to show just how bad-arsed normal he is. She made a new body (there was plenty of concrete about), but got promptly taken out by another bad-arsed normal with an anti-materiel rifle. It took a claymore mine to make her decide to just stay down. (A concrete body may sound like a great super-power, but it's actually overrated: even bone is four times stronger...) This seemingly happens to Dabbler when Sydney hits her in the back, but she turns out to be sandbagging a bit. | |
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Global Currency Exception | |
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Global Currency Exception: Sydney realizes that her $17 are probably not going to help her on an alien space station. Conversely, alien tourists on Earth are familiar that humans value Worthless Yellow Rocks, and come prepared. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: The cast page has a great deal more information about the Arc-SWAT team members, their powers, and their roles in the team than has yet been revealed in the comic. | |
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Underwear Swimsuit | |
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Underwear Swimsuit: Done by Math, when visiting the rooftop pool at ARCHON HQ. He claims he didn't have time to switch. | |
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Imagine the Audience Naked | |
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Imagine the Audience Naked: Invoked and averted when Sydney is about to be (politely) interrogated by a fairly scary panel of people here. | |
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Alt Text | |
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Lampshaded in the author commentary at the bottom of a Math-focused strip. | |
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Wrong Context Magic | |
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Wrong Context Magic: Krona's (apparently unique) Rewriting Reality abilities are magical in nature, but she is not a regular mage or super, to the point she's given her own category. | |
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The Glomp | |
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The Glomp: Name-dropped via Unsound Effect. | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: Dabbler casts a heat spell on Sydney — which has the unfortunate side-effect of also heating her kitty. Prior to this, Arianna advises that fliers not wear skirts or dresses, with the wall displaying a censor label over a cat in a box. | |
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Epic Battle Boredom | |
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Epic Battle Boredom: Sydney minors in ass-kicking, but she has "THE LIST". When interviewed by the leaders of ArcLIGHT/ArcSWAT, the first thing she does is dramatically take out a pen and "THE LIST". During the restaurant fight, Math starts complaining about not having enough of a challenge. While three or four super-powered individuals are trying to get him. Referenced in the title. | |
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No Self-Buffs | |
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No Self-Buffs: One rant reveals that Succubi cannot produce tantric energy through self-stimulation. | |
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The Merch | |
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The Merch: In-Universe, Arianna has multiple spreadsheets predicting merchandising sales, and was especially happy when Sydney signed on, as her seven orbs spell out the three most wonderful words in marketing. | |
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Masochist's Meal | |
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Masochist's Meal: Sydney intentionally offends the waitress of a restaurant specializing in spicy food, and then signs a legal waiver, just to make sure she gets sufficiently spicy food. | |
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Playing with Fire | |
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Heatwave: Playing with Fire. | |
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Marshmallow Hell | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1ce83c47 | comment |
Marshmallow Hell: Sydney accidentally puts herself in one when hugging Anvil. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1ce83c47 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1d3c92da | type |
Failsafe Failure | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1d3c92da | comment |
Failsafe Failure: An aspect of the spell that upholds The Masquerade that allows communication spells to piggyback on it is disabled to help reduce the strain to the Sigils that power it, allowing a vault to be breached because the alarm spells can't tell anyone that the vault's been compromised. Sydney actually snarks that it sounds like something she would do. And of course, they sent out a notice before shutting off, so Sciona knew exactly when to strike. She then suborned the defense system so it would attack any investigators. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1d3c92da | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1e39757d | type |
Servant Race | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1e39757d | comment |
Servant Race: The entire succubus species. They initially started out as little more than Flesh Golems created by bored/lonely mages to be ambulatory sex dolls. After generations of improving and one-upmanship between the various arch-mages, their creation was refined to their more physically appealing level, and they were instilled with actual consciousness to fulfill normal servant duties (in addition to satisfying their master's sexual desires). However, despite obtaining their "freedom" and magically evolving themselves into a viably reproductive species, the nature of their origins and the "fail-safes" their creators built into them thousands and thousands of years ago require all succubae to have a master to literally not die. Consequently, every adult succubus (full or hybrid) is a slave to some master, even if only technically. Fortunately, the majority of "masters" don't abuse this aspect of their bonded succubae, either due to their own code of ethics/morality, or as result of the very real threat of horrifically violent consequences it would trigger from the Succubus Matriarch Council. Demand for one is high, to the point that Thothogoth gaining a second has pissed some people off. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1e39757d | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1e5df5 | type |
Heh Heh, You Said "X" | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1e5df5 | comment |
Heh Heh, You Said "X": Maxima asking Harem if she can "hump the Barrett". Invoked by Dabbler, who keeps a "make Maxima say..." bingo card of inappropriate or ridiculous words and phrases. | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1e5df5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1e5df5 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1e669b8e | type |
Humanoid Aliens | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1e669b8e | comment |
Humanoid Aliens: When asked why so many aliens look so human, Dabbler explains that a humanoid form is evolutionarily efficient. More limbs or organs might be better than two arms, two legs and two eyes but it is a diminishing return. Also, more limbs means that your body requires more calories to sustain its extra mass. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1e669b8e | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1e7487cd | type |
Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1e7487cd | comment |
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Sydney tries to do this, but looks in the wrong direction. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1e7487cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1e7487cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1e7487cd | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1e7c47ab | type |
Stealth Pun | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1e7c47ab | comment |
Stealth Pun: Sydney grabs her teammate Anvil out of the sky and flings her down onto a super-tough thug. She just dropped an anvil on him. She imitates the Road Runner right after. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1e7c47ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1e7c47ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1e7c47ab | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1f250372 | type |
I Need a Freaking Drink | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1f250372 | comment |
I Need a Freaking Drink: Arianna sees a sudden surge of social media hits about the Mighty Halo on her computer. She glances at a bottle of roast coffee rum under a cloche, then takes a deep breath and follows the media alert. Upon seeing a picture of Sydney apparently kissing a demon (when she's actually him giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation) and the flood of social media messages to that affect, she pours herself that drink. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1f250372 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1f250372 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1f250372 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1f7c89f6 | type |
Nigh-Invulnerability | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1f7c89f6 | comment |
Later, Achilles is fine after standing in Maxima's fallout, but his clothing... not so much. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1f7c89f6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1f7c89f6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1f7c89f6 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1f9fac06 | type |
You Know I'm Black, Right? | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1f9fac06 | comment |
You Know I'm Black, Right?: When Harem is poking fun at Sydney's wetsuit, Sydney purposely interprets it as an anti-nerd thing, calling it racist... right in front of Anvil, Varia, and Jiggawatt, correcting herself to say "clique-ist". | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1f9fac06 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1f9fac06 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1f9fac06 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1fbee9cb | type |
Tricked into Escaping | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1fbee9cb | comment |
Tricked into Escaping: Maxima purposefully lets Cooter escape so they can track him via a spell of Dabbler's and find his boss. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1fbee9cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1fbee9cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_1fbee9cb | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2044af1 | type |
Faceless Goons | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2044af1 | comment |
Faceless Goons: The Ascenders' cannon fodder are all copies of a duplicator who goes by "Goon Squad" and all wear the same full body armor with mirrored face masks. Meanwhile, the Ascenders' higher-ups all wear very similar suit, cloak, and domino mask get-ups. In both cases this makes them vulnerable to infiltration. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2044af1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2044af1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2044af1 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_205812ac | type |
"Kiss the Cook" Apron | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_205812ac | comment |
"Kiss the Cook" Apron: The succubus Dabbler doesn't settle for merely kissing the cook. Her apron reads [blurred] the cook. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_205812ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_205812ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_205812ac | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_20860a0e | type |
Punch-Clock Villain | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_20860a0e | comment |
Punch-Clock Villain: One of the bad guys at the restaurant fight offers to surrender after watching Dabbler and Jiggawatt take out Glowbug, saying he only came because some of his friends came and he's just a hairdresser. Considering Vehemence's violence aura... He's later used as Dabbler's "take-home meal". | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_20860a0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_20860a0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_20860a0e | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_209e7eb6 | type |
Rubber Orifice | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_209e7eb6 | comment |
Rubber Orifice: Sydney, a fairly petite human, is dating Frix, who is basically the alien equivalent of a Lycan and is implied by Sydney to be equipped to a degree that would make it very painful at best and injurious at worst for them to try to get busy. Dabbler gives her a dose of a potion that will allow her body to accommodate him, noting that she had it ready to go as soon as she found out they were a couple. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_209e7eb6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_209e7eb6 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_20a14df0 | type |
Wrong Genre Savvy | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_20a14df0 | comment |
Wrong Genre Savvy: Normally Genre Savvy Sydney doesn't know where the fourth wall is. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_20a14df0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_20a14df0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_20a14df0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_21bde5e8 | type |
The Tooth Hurts | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_21bde5e8 | comment |
The Tooth Hurts: Math kicks a knife into a bad guy's mouth, where it gets lodged between his teeth and draws blood. The guys freaks out for a couple of seconds until Math knocks him out and yanks the knife out. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_21bde5e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_21bde5e8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_21bde5e8 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_21e5b9c7 | type |
Failed a Spot Check | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_21e5b9c7 | comment |
Failed a Spot Check: When Varia tries out her Gestalt power by touching Sydney, she's puzzled that there is no obvious power gain from the contact. Both she and Halo completely miss out the fact that the orbs usually floating around Sydney's head expanded their orbit to the two of them. This has led to plenty of speculation from the readers, but the most probable meaning is that Varia might be able to use the orbs herself. Sydney manages to do this mid-press conference, by forgetting there are journalists watching her antics. During the villain fight, Vehemence forgets to check his target, and instead of landing a Megaton Punch on the Flying Brick, he lands it on the kinetic absorber, who promptly returns the favor. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_21e5b9c7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_21e5b9c7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_21e5b9c7 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_21ec9741 | type |
Exploited Trope | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_21ec9741 | comment |
Later exploited by ARCHON when the Lapha-possessed Sydney is incarcerated: not only are her hands secured to the chair she's bound to, they're in mitten-like gloves. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_21ec9741 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_21ec9741 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_21ec9741 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_21fd09a7 | type |
How Do I Shot Web? | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_21fd09a7 | comment |
How Do I Shot Web?: Sydney only learns about what the various nodes in the orb's skill tree represent after selecting an upgrade and randomly experimenting to see what changed. She has absolutely no clue what two of the orbs do at all for quite some time, and one is still a mystery. Krona, having apparently unique Rewriting Reality abilities, has had to teach herself everything about her own abilities. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_21fd09a7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_21fd09a7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_21fd09a7 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_225d8ff9 | type |
Ambiguously Human | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_225d8ff9 | comment |
Ambiguously Human: There are a few hints that Vehemence may not be human, especially after we find out that the only other users of vehemic energy that Dabbler knows about are demonic. Vance claims to be a Hive Mind of intelligent, superpowered spiders in a Mobile-Suit Human "skin", though he may just be a Troll and hazing Sydney. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_225d8ff9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_225d8ff9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_225d8ff9 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_22cf536c | type |
Chekhov's Gun | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_22cf536c | comment |
Chekhov's Gun: A two-fer during the super-brawl, where Sydney takes information gained in two conversations at the restaurant and applies them to the fight, ending it shortly afterward. Deus mentioned an item Wyrmil was looking for in the vault. He uses it to fuse with Coot, saving both their lives. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_22cf536c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_22cf536c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_22cf536c | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_22ecc839 | type |
Kryptonite Factor | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_22ecc839 | comment |
Kryptonite Factor: Semi-jokingly invoked by Sydney when she states "mittens are my kryptonite" when explaining that she has to hold the orbs to use them. Later exploited by ARCHON when the Lapha-possessed Sydney is incarcerated: not only are her hands secured to the chair she's bound to, they're in mitten-like gloves. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_22ecc839 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_22ecc839 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_22ecc839 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_243cbd0d | type |
Dope Slap | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_243cbd0d | comment |
Dope Slap: Anvil seems to like the "closed fist on top of the skull" variant. She does it to Harem for teasing Zeph. Of note, she bonks one of Harem's bodies for another one teasing Zeph, but they're the same person anyway. And later, again to the same Harem's body. Dabbler gets a dope slap from Anvil (on Arianna's request) during a press conference, even with a "GIBBS" Unsound Effect! | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_243cbd0d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_243cbd0d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_243cbd0d | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2497e5b8 | type |
Atomic F-Bomb | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2497e5b8 | comment |
Atomic F-Bomb: Uttered by Sydney when she becomes stranded on Sciona's homeworld. She even goes through a $10,000 exhibition with the swear jar at her welcome back party due to the massive amount of cursing during her months spent stranded on the above-mentioned world fighting Lovecraftian horrors. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2497e5b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2497e5b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2497e5b8 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_24b88e85 | type |
Unwanted Assistance | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_24b88e85 | comment |
Unwanted Assistance: Sydney cheerleading while Dabbler is doing some quite complex mathematics isn't welcomed. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_24b88e85 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_24b88e85 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_24b88e85 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_25524784 | type |
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_25524784 | comment |
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Sydney was once arrested for aggravated assault, which was dismissed as self-defense due to the fact that the person was trying to mug her. The only thing on the police report was "Oh the humanity!" | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_25524784 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_25524784 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_25524784 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_25fd37c3 | type |
Cleavage Window | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_25fd37c3 | comment |
Cleavage Window: After Maxima suffers some Clothing Damage, she has to borrow Harem's jacket... which cannot fully zip up on her, resulting in this. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_25fd37c3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_25fd37c3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_25fd37c3 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_26203f22 | type |
Covered in Kisses | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_26203f22 | comment |
Covered in Kisses: Harem uses this against Maxima as payback for unintended effects resulting from Maxima lifting an ambulance with Harem inside. As far as the public was concerned, Maxima was alone with two bank robbers who were strapped in gurneys. Harem's presence was clandestine to help obtain and wipe a video recording. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_26203f22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_26203f22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_26203f22 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_26d2817c | type |
Russian Reversal | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_26d2817c | comment |
Russian Reversal: Sydney is discussing vampiric thirst with a vampire she insists on miscategorizing as Russian, thanks to his accent. It turns out that if a vampire does not feed his thirst gradually overwhelms his rational mind until (as as Sydney says), "in mother Russia hunger eat you!". | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_26d2817c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_26d2817c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_26d2817c | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_26eb6287 | type |
Funny Background Event | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_26eb6287 | comment |
Funny Background Event: Gwen's mystical scan power includes tweeting capabilities. And a weather forecast feed. Also a biorhythm chart and a tarot reading panel. Achilles gets used as a human bullet in the background of the 2nd-to-last panel. During Vehemence's Oh, Crap! moment, the shockwave from his punch sends one of the Harems flying. In the last panel Sydney says "Seems like it would take more than an hour by bus"; over her shoulder, we can see the busses being flown in on the backs of superheroes. When Sydney is trying to fly to the comic store, the blonde jogger and her dog can be seen in the background as a Brick Joke. The flashback panel to Dabbler's classroom shows her in the background as a classmate uses her lust aura to prank a different classmate — and right next to Dabbler is the demon she'd fought. During the karaoke scene at the birthday party, Maxima can be seen in the background changing colors as her camouflaging choker is being worked on. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_26eb6287 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_26eb6287 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_26eb6287 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_270c1778 | type |
Blood Magic | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_270c1778 | comment |
Blood Magic: The Mage Killer mannequins are powered by a piece of a blood-drinking sword. When the shards absorb blood, they return to the lead one and enhance it with extra parts from the fallen ones. There could be up to twenty more. Sciona is actually unusual in how she uses her talents; most use it for Vampiric Draining to heal themselves and restore their reserves. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_270c1778 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_270c1778 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_270c1778 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_29ad1d69 | type |
Facial Dialogue | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_29ad1d69 | comment |
Facial Dialogue: Sydney and her mother Laura have an entire discussion (over six panels) consisting solely of arched/furrowed eyebrows, eye moves, stares, shrugs and nods, subtitled for the audience's sake. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_29ad1d69 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_29ad1d69 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_29ad1d69 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_29c480a3 | type |
Good News, Bad News | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_29c480a3 | comment |
Good News, Bad News: As Cora explains during a press conference, the good news about the revelation that Earth isn't alone in the universe is that nobody actually cares about them — no alien with any sense wants to steal Earth's air or water or women or whatever, and if some alien without any sense does decide to do it anyway there's space cops to stop them. The bad news is... nobody cares about them. There will be no Technology Uplift from the benevolent aliens. As making scientific progress goes, Earth is still on its own. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_29c480a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_29c480a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_29c480a3 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2af0378f | type |
Mayincatec | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2af0378f | comment |
Mayincatec: The trope itself is used here, when Sydney cracks a joke about wishing Varia had four older siblings, so she could be "Cinco de Mayan." Varia quickly points out that she's Aztec — Sydney realizes she'd already been told that, but was so excited at the chance at the pun that she forgot. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2af0378f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2af0378f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2af0378f | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2b45a335 | type |
Next Stall Shenanigans | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2b45a335 | comment |
Next Stall Shenanigans: During Sydney's introduction to ARCHON's higher-ups, she makes a couple of comments while talking to one Harem that crack up another Harem who's currently using the restroom and "overhears" the conversation. Unfortunately for Sandy, Arianna's assistant in the next stall, Harem's first laughing outburst startles her enough that she drops her phone in the toilet. | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
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Bland-Name Product: When Sydney is exhausted after running laps, her training officer gives her a bottle of "Joule Juice". (Not PowerAde, nope, totally different.) | |
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Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2b8295a1 | comment |
Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce: Sydney's love of spicy foods turns her breath into something resembling tear gas. It turns out that her love of spicy food is partially because of her vegetarianism. Exaggerated at Ms. B's diner, one of Sydney's favorites. Featuring such brands as "Masochism" (I'll make you cry), "Ring of Fire" (invokedGuaranteed to make you feel like the prettiest boy in prison), and "Volcano Blood" (You literally might die. Consult your physician). And now added to the list is... The Unmaker. It's rated at roughly 3 million Scoville, twice that of the Carolina Reaper (the hottest pepper known to man as of 2015), and 1 million higher than law enforcement-grade pepper spray. Before you're allowed to eat it, you have to sign a legal waiver. The bowl has warning stripes on it, indicating it is hazardous to approach, and no-one will handle The Unmaker or the finished product without metal tongs. It's kept inside a specially made box that is, itself, locked in a box lined with asbestos. Said larger box contains Hydrogen Bitters, Old Panther, and Cobra Fang Juice. And the cook has to wear a hazmat suit in order to work with it while treating it as a living, wrathful being. Even Sydney admits that it's really, really hot... before asking for some "pure capsaicin" to spice it up. It does end up hurting her though, when a spiced noodle flicks up into her eye. And when on an alien planet, Sydney partakes of Grakz, an ultra-spicy delicacy that has others gathered around to watch a human eat it. When she later dismisses Cora's surprise by remarking how it wasn't that spicy, Cora reveals that it's not going down that's the problem. The following page reveals that a visual side effect of the... exit is one's backside radiating light, with additional 'embers' of light filling the environment. | |
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Grave Humor | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2b88a383 | comment |
Grave Humor: Upon seeing many roleplaying dice in her new store, Sydney confesses being tempted to go Pooled Funds with them, but then admits that "death by d4 lacerations" would be a pretty dumb way to die. Next panel shows a tombstone reading "SYDNEY SCOVILLE, JR — SHE DUMB". | |
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Beat Panel | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2bf267a9 | comment |
Beat Panel: Many. Five of them when Sydney finds out what Maxima uses for Sydney's specific ring-tone. When Sydney realizes she just made her third faux pas in a row. When Dabbler asks Sydney "Do you know that show Star Trek?" That pretty much requires a beat panel with Sydney glaring at the fourth wall. Fortunately Sydney is in a forbearing mood, and her response is impressively restrained. When Leon threatens to wipe out some teammates' bank accounts out of annoyance, then implies that he's actually the most powerful team member. | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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Sophisticated as Hell: Ray Cosmos, upon meeting Maxima, drops a very eloquent line about the sights he's seen (complete with "Tears in Rain" reference)... | |
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I Know You Know I Know | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2d4d16d9 | comment |
I Know You Know I Know: Taylor suggests that Sciona did this with the vault to lure the Council members into a trap. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2db90f77 | type |
Contemplative Boss | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2db90f77 | comment |
Contemplative Boss: Deus, who loves his villain tropes, naturally indulges. Probably often, too, given that even a recent hire calls it his "staring imperiously out of the window" time. | |
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Our Werebeasts Are Different | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2f41cac1 | comment |
Our Werebeasts Are Different: For starters, it's possible to end up a different type of were than the one that sired you. | |
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Statuesque Stunner | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_2fb61faa | comment |
Statuesque Stunner: Maxima and most of the other female supers. Not Sydney, which is openly lampshaded. Maxima's looks are apparently part of the reason for her feminism. Getting checked out so much makes her feel like many men only see her as an "exotic blow up doll", according to Word of God on the cast page. Literally, in the case of Concretia, one of the baddies in the restaurant brawl, seeing as she's made of stone. Math even mentions it. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_302730a | type |
Fusion Dance | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_302730a | comment |
Wyrmil uses an artifact to perform a Fusion Dance with Cooter, reviving the exploded redneck, to survive Sciona's betrayal. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_303079ba | type |
Phallic Weapon | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_303079ba | comment |
Phallic Weapon: Played With. One magic user at a summit of supernaturals has a Book Safe of Holding with built-in indexing; Mana Potions and Magic Antidotes are stored in cut-outs accessed by looking up the relevant word. When she looks up "assault rifle", the book flips to a rifle butt sticking out of a hole shaped like a penis and testicles — but it turns out the "testicles" are just the silhouette of the Beta C-Mag. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_30509b6d | type |
Shapeshifter Baggage | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_30509b6d | comment |
Shapeshifter Baggage: The various "Were" creatures are (mostly) significantly bigger in 'Were' form than human form. But the prize has to go to Pixel who is fairly tiny and around the same height as Sydney in human form (5 foot), but is described as 'gigantic' (7 foot tall) in 'Were' form. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_30c40e9a | type |
Deconstructor Fleet | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_30c40e9a | comment |
Deconstructor Fleet: The comic has hit quite a few tropes and mainstays of superhero comics; as Sydney herself put it: The idea of a mutant gene causing not only powers but Heroic Build and/or Most Common Superpower. Though it is lampshaded that there are other possibilities still around like alien interference or human guinea pigs for science or magic. Maxima and Sydney discuss Hero Insurance and how ARCSWAT doesn't have it. No hero has it, so each hero has to work every day to prevent his or her powers from causing millions (if not billions) of dollars in structural damage, medical bills from civilian casualties, and other forms of collateral damage. It's further discussed in #202, where Maxima admits that if a super-fight starts somewhere like in a steakhouse, they will at the very least write off the room it started in as acceptable damage, since it's a super-fight and things will get broken. Minimizing damage is a must, but avoiding it altogether is an impossibility. The traditional superhero costumes are banned from the ground up at ARCHON. Thus far the team wears military clothes with personalized chokers, due to practical and traditional concerns (the latter due to ARCHON being a branch of the U.S. military). While it's not only a comic trope, Blind Without 'Em also gets deconstructed, as Sydney notes that a person who needs glasses does not instantly become unable to see just because the glasses are knocked off. Especially when the target is less than four feet away. While not an exact trope, many comics have superheroes goofing around or horse-playing with their powers in public spaces. Peggy makes it clear that members of ARCSWAT cannot do this in uniform while in public, just like anyone else in the military. They are heavily discouraged from doing anything of the sort out of uniform too, because they are famous celebrities and any incident caused by them will inevitably cause issues for ARCHON. Forensic science means masked vigilantes have a very hard time staying anonymous since they can't risk leaving a hair or any other potential samples. The Marble Maiden is one of the few exceptions, since she transforms into a petrakinetic golem and doesn't leave DNA behind. However, since she catalogs her own exploits on Instagram, it's pretty easy to start closing a net around her. Math being a Lovable Sex Maniac gets him in trouble because it distracts him in a fight. Seeing Jabberwokky's rack froze him up so much that she takes him out easily. Max calls him on it during the full debriefing. There's no such thing as a "power inhibitor", so more creative methods must be undertaken to jail criminals. Vehemence must be kept in isolation but also from acting violently himself, so he is kept high as balls and given unlimited video games to occupy him. Opal, the dangerous portal maker, is kept in a pressurized cell where making a portal will cause explosive decompression that will kill her. There is also no easily escapable super prisons at play due to the aforementioned methods, but designing said prison cells to be escape proof takes up time and resources. Given that the big fight with Vehemence was essentially just a brawl with superpowers, the non-ringleaders are immediately released from ARCHON custody unless they have outstanding warrants, with some put on probation, pending the trial. Vehemence's "violence aura" power is also complicating the prosecution process immensely, since they can argue that they were forced by a superpower to attack law enforcement. Dabbler and other succubi are incredibly attractive, lustful, have all sorts of powers based around sex, and are overall just sex on legs. Unlike most works that have succubi as Cute Monster Girls, this comic points out how improbable such a race naturally evolving into its present state is and reveals that all succubi are the result of thousands of years of trying to build perfect sex slaves from the ground up by wizards, only for them being weaponized by their masters giving an opening to take their independence. The Elaborate Underground Base of one group of villains is noted to actually be poorly guarded in The Rant because the large amounts of guards, cameras, and physical fortifications required to make it properly secure would draw attention to it. The base accordingly relies more on its inconspicuous location to protect itself, and swiftly falls to a coordinated super assault. Hellish Pupils gets a deconstruction when Sydney's eyes change back to normal after Lapha leaves her body. Many works tend to overlook the fact that it would be very painful for eyes to undergo radical physical changes. It is also shown to have altered her eyeglass prescription. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_316194d2 | type |
Hyperventilation Bag | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_316194d2 | comment |
Hyperventilation Bag: Sydney has to use one when her mouth gets her into trouble, or when she learns that in real life, some things don't follow the rules fiction made for them. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_317629db | type |
Embarrassing Nickname | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_317629db | comment |
A variant. Leon clearly enjoys coming up with Embarrassing Nicknames on the HUD for villains that haven't bothered to name themselves. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_31bd1ba1 | type |
Twin Threesome Fantasy | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_31bd1ba1 | comment |
Twin Threesome Fantasy: Tony and his half-sister/cousin Olivia are the results of someone's fantasy coming true. He ended up living with the two and their mother. Their grandmother seems to have fun with it to the point of keeping a tape recorder with a laugh track on it around. And, as noted under Power Perversion Potential, Harem could absolutely fulfill this trope. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_31cd5fe7 | type |
Apologetic Attacker | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_31cd5fe7 | comment |
Apologetic Attacker: Harem apologizes to Sydney, now possessed by Lapha, before doing "something that everyone who's ever met you has wanted to do at one time or another." Then two of Harem's doubles teleport in to restrain Sydney, and the first Harem tazes her. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_31da1e24 | type |
Shipper on Deck | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_31da1e24 | comment |
Shipper on Deck: Anvil ships Hiro and Max, and rather forcefully at that. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_323e47e2 | type |
Chain of Corrections | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_323e47e2 | comment |
Chain of Corrections: Stalwart and Mr. Amorphous have some confusion over Labyrinth and Pan's Labyrinth. | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_323e47e2 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_324e2fcf | type |
Power Levels | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_324e2fcf | comment |
Power Levels: Shown from a 1-9 scale on the cast page. Maxima is the most powerful (9), then Dabbler, Hiro and Math (7), then Sydney, Jiggawatt, Stalwart and Mr. Amorphous (6), and then everyone else is a 5 except Peggy who rates a 3. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_330105a3 | type |
Move in the Frozen Time | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_330105a3 | comment |
Move in the Frozen Time: When a mercenary tries to trap Maxima in a stasis field, Max manages to move using her super-speed, draining the device's power source in a matter of seconds. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_330a3b9c | type |
Differently Powered Individual | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_330a3b9c | comment |
Differently Powered Individual: Usually called "Supers" here. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_331e80a0 | type |
Disapproving Look | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_331e80a0 | comment |
Disapproving Look: Sydney gives one to Detla upon hearing her suggestion for Ren's superhero name ("He Who Punch His Foes"). Detla admits that it doesn't sound good in English. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_33db913f | type |
Open Mouth, Insert Foot | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_33db913f | comment |
Open Mouth, Insert Foot: A more literal example than most, as she keeps sticking it in her mouth in the presence of a teammate that lost her leg at the calf. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_33f1c576 | type |
Not Helping Your Case | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_33f1c576 | comment |
Not Helping Your Case: As Maxima gives Thothogoth a Facepalm Of Doom in response to him calling Dabbler a "slave", Dabbler tries to calm Max down by confirming she actually is his slave. Maxima starts crushing Thothogoth's head instead. | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_33f1c576 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_3441859b | type |
Rank Scales with Asskicking | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_3441859b | comment |
Rank Scales with Asskicking: Higher-powered characters often have higher ranks. Maxima is a Lt. Colonel, Hiro is a Major, and Anvil is a 1st Lieutenant. However, Peggy is also a 1st Lieutenant despite not having superpowers, being rather an expert marksman, skilled pilot, and professional soldier. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_3456f3c5 | type |
Good Thing You Can Heal | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_3456f3c5 | comment |
Good Thing You Can Heal: Discussed when Sydney mentions how supers with regeneration always get hurt a lot in comics, and that she wouldn't want that power if it came with that kind of baggage. Maxima points out that it's just bad writing; supers need to show off their powers a lot, and you can only heal after you've been hurt. However, a few "real-world" instances happen at some points; during the restaurant fight, the villain Concretia (who can just form a new body if her current one is damaged or destroyed) gets crushed by Math and, directly after returning, headshotted by Peggy. As Sydney points out in that conversation, those with this ability would be more likely to take risks because the consequences of it are significantly lower. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_356b1efb | type |
Hammerspace | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_356b1efb | comment |
When Sydney sees Dabbler pull something out of Hammerspace, complete with "Dolly Zoom" Unsound Effect. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_364b9be6 | type |
Flipping the Bird | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_364b9be6 | comment |
Flipping the Bird: Maxima goes for the subtle approach with Arianna. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_3684532f | type |
Never Heard That One Before | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_3684532f | comment |
Never Heard That One Before: After they learn that she's a vegetarian, this is Sydney's reaction to Harem's joke. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_36de2703 | type |
Superheroes Wear Capes | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_36de2703 | comment |
Superheroes Wear Capes: While none of them wear them as day wear, ARCHON's mess dress includes a very awesome cloak. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_37d94ed9 | type |
Agony of the Feet | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_37d94ed9 | comment |
Agony of the Feet: With the weight of a space shuttle, no less. Heatwave wound up getting a knife embedded in her foot during the same fight, actually losing a toe in the process. | |
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Death Is Cheap | |
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Death Is Cheap: Parodied to hell and back when Sydney accidentally triggers a "checkpoint". | |
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Boring, but Practical | |
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Boring, but Practical: Deus's method of bypassing a security system that only allows living things through, but kills them in the process, is to use a potted plant with a long trunk. This is in comparison to Sciona, who sacrifices a minion to do so. Concretia can remotely animate bodies for herself out of concrete. It is later revealed that she can animate bodies out of a wide variety of substances, such as marble or quartz, but softer substances lead to less durable bodies, and harder substances are more difficult to animate. Concrete is near the "sweet spot", and you can find it pretty much anywhere. Grappling is noted as being this. Hiro and Vehemence grappling gets so boring that Dabbler gets bored watching them grapple shirtless for a few minutes. The Author notes in The Rant under one strip that a good maintenance employee is worth twenty guards. If the doors don't lock and the cameras don't work, the guards may as well be patrolling a shack. The strip in question shows that an evil organization still has completely normal maintenance personnel when the first person to stumble across the heroes is a handyman. | |
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Late to the Realization | |
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Late to the Realization: Sydney's too excited about finally using her powers openly to register what Maxima says. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Digit (a member of the support staff after a Noodle Incident involving some of her "quirkier" inventions in the field) is a more traditional variant. She creates amazing technology, but any applicability outside of whatever esoteric corner she's painted herself into with previous inventions (and their side-effects) is purely coincidental. Example: she's shown considering inventing a frequency-hopping directional ultrasonic scanner... because she forgot where she left her random ultrasonic whistle generator... which she only remembered she'd invented because she noticed someone who seemed to be listening to a sound Digit couldn't hear. | |
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Mundane Solution | |
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Mundane Solution: Discussed with regards to aliens. Why invade a planet armed with nuclear technology instead of mining ice from undefended low-gravity comets? | |
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Flat "What" | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_3c88d6c2 | comment |
Flat "What": Maxima's reaction to the reveal of Sydney's source of superpowers. Vehemence throws a full-power punch which Maxima calmly takes to the face. He succeeds only in breaking her nose and making her take a step back. | |
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*Click* Hello | |
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*Click* Hello: Lampshaded; the energy weapons brandished by Cora, Frix and Slyvyrnus have no reason to make any sound, but when pointed at Garamm all three still go "CHAK". | |
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Rhetorical Question Blunder | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_3d038b36 | comment |
Rhetorical Question Blunder: Leon threatens to make Maxima's and Harem's bank accounts disappear if they don't knock off the rivalry in his office. | |
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Humans Are Bastards | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_3d4d3dc9 | comment |
Humans Are Bastards: Subverted. As Cora explains to Sydney, humans are in like company. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_3d699462 | comment |
Curb-Stomp Battle: The Fel Collective's incursion. They probably believed a backwater planet like Earth would have no defense... except when they attack Cora's ship, it is parked right next to superhero central. The ground troops don't last long against them, especially once Dabbler finds out how to disable their shields. Then Maxima pulls the big gun on the capital ship. (And Halo isn't even there; if she had, it could very well have been shorter.) | |
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Perma-Shave | |
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Perma-Shave: Those with natural super powers, in addition to being physically perfect, are also incapable of growing body hair below the neck. Sydney is a little disappointed to find that this includes the men. | |
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"Yes"/"No" Answer Interpretation | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_3eba1249 | comment |
"Yes"/"No" Answer Interpretation: After finding out that Jabberwokky is still influenced by Dabbler's charm kiss, Maxima has some strict orders: Upon meeting Sydney's parents, Maxima muses that she must take after her father. Sydney is too distracted to give a straight answer when Mr. Scoville Sr grabs her in his arms and excitedly babbles how proud he is she'd become a superhero fighting bad guys. | |
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Every Car Is a Pinto | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_3ec7c277 | comment |
Every Car Is a Pinto: Lampshaded, Justified, and thus somewhat Parodied in this strip and the attached sketch. Shawn is a former Navy SEAL, now employed as an armorer by Arc-SWAT. Thus: | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_3ed23024 | comment |
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Half the point of the comic is to examine some of the realistic consequences of superpowered beings coming into existence. Jiggawat's positron generation (used to counter another Shock and Awe super, Glowbug) makes a lot of gamma radiation when they and the electrons annihilate each other. Dabbler has to stop her battle so she can make sure no-one dies from radiation poisoning! On the firing range, Sydney begs to try out the minigun, which Peggy allows over Maxima's objections. It's soon revealed why Peggy was so confident. Given modern forensic science, the idea of a secret identity is nearly laughable. Why would aliens invade planets for water, especially ones with nuclear civilizations that would put up a fight, when undefended comets are a dime a dozen? Sydney's flight orb can only reach about Mach 4, which is not fast enough to get into space from Earth or a similarly sized planet. Also, the moon is really far away. Kinda subverted when she updates it to going really fast, possibly even faster than Maxima, but the Moon is still a bit far. Hyperspace is an option, though. Turns out that being stranded on an apocalyptic hellscape still in the process of being destroyed is likely to give someone PTSD. After returning to Earth, Sydney requires therapy to deal with her nightmares. The Truth Serum scene, unlike many uses of this trope in fiction. Although blamed on Sydney's ADHD, the result is what you should expect from a lot of so-called "truth serums" in real life: it gets the subject talkative, but in a fully incoherent way, with the signal-to-noise ratio preventing any hope of getting useful information. Telegraphing your intention to Villain: Exit, Stage Left isn't the smartest thing to do when facing a foe with Super-Speed, Hench Wench. In a sparring match against Vehemence, Max wants Ren to "tag in", but he reasonably points out that Vehemence is already powered up, while Ren will need an adrenaline spike to activate his abilities. So what does Max do? Kick him over the side of a cliff. | |
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Captain Obvious | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_3eee0728 | comment |
Captain Obvious: Sydney's wristband gives her a lot of helpful information. | |
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DestructiveSavior | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_3f4ec001 | comment |
Destructive Savior: Maxima points out to Sydney that the artwork of most superhero comics has the heroes completely ignoring the possibility of collateral damage. | |
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Delayed Reaction | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_3fb6b526 | comment |
Delayed Reaction: After the portal to the Alari world closes, leaving Sydney stranded, Maxima is so deathly worried for the recruit that it's only after a rant at Dabbler (and a Beat Panel) that she realizes a little detail... that a good chunk of the mountain where Sciona's lair was hidden just got entirely blown up. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_40bb59d0 | comment |
Blatant Lies: Strip poker is banned at ARC-SWAT's HQ, because Max knows Dabbler, so when Max is away and Sydney walks in on a game, everyone assures her that it's not strip poker, they're doing the laundry. Of course, being the Cloudcuckoolander, Sydney initially buys this but then challenges the story because this isn't a laundry room. | |
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Leg Cling | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_41186a50 | comment |
Leg Cling: The trope is referenced for comedy purposes when Sydney's lawyer mother reminds her artist father about some work that she landed for him. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_411a35bd | type |
Body Surf | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_411a35bd | comment |
Body Surf: Sciona can apparently do this as after her death on the Alari homeworld, her spirit takes over the recently killed body of another woman. While this may just be due to her abilities as a blood magician, she had a large container full of Alari souls stashed away to be reborn/reincarnated, and two of her former lieutenants were similarly resurrected in the bodies of the men who killed the woman whose body she now inhabits. It isn't really clear whether this is an ability only she possesses (thanks to being a powerful blood sorceress/necromancer), or something that other Alari can do naturally or voluntarily when they die. She's also done it literal decades before the events of the comic since the first time she appears, we see her in a patchwork form consisting of the top of her own original head (from the top of her mouth up) stitched to the very male body of an unknown orc-like being (from the lower jaw down). | |
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Non Sequitur, *Thud* | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_41feb209 | comment |
Non Sequitur, *Thud*: A villainous Super Speedster, after being sedated by Harem, falls down and mumbles, "... but I'm not fast in bed, baby..." After being shocked by a villain with electrical powers, and saved from the fall by a teammate, Heatwave mumbles "This little piggy went to pain town." (She had just had a lightning blast channeled through a knife stuck in one of her toes, so not a complete non sequitur.) | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_422b699 | type |
Catching Some Z's | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_422b699 | comment |
Catching Some Z's: From #529 – She is not getting her security deposit back: The first panel has Halo sleeping, with conjoined Z-s rising up. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_431e9b2d | type |
Crystal Weapon | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_431e9b2d | comment |
Crystal Weapon: Dabbler uses a sword made of "Auracite. Crystallized Aether taken from an Aetheon throne," which is very good at letting her channel magic during fights. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_437820dc | type |
Villainous Crush | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_437820dc | comment |
Villainous Crush: Deus is rather blatantly obvious and surprisingly up-front about his romantic/sexual interest in Maxima. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4446c4e0 | type |
Dungeon-Based Economy | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4446c4e0 | comment |
Dungeon-Based Economy: Dungeon cores produce a "low-pressure" mana field, or, something, that raises a planet's general mana level but summons or produces monsters in the immediate area. Said monsters do have alchemically useful parts though, so ARCHON starts making plans to seed a dungeon for Healing Potion ingredients, and Maxima has to be talked out of seeding a high-level dungeon someplace where she might not be able to contain it. | |
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Hypnotic Eyes | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_454e6cf5 | comment |
This works against her when facing the Super Husk. As the commentary explains, Maxima can stop 95% of her foes in battle easily when it comes to physical force, but when an enemy has other tricks, like Hypnotic Eyes.... | |
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Wardrobe Malfunction | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_45a559cf | comment |
Wardrobe Malfunction: After growing significantly in size, Vehemence's pants burst under the strain. Dabbler hacks Cora's hard light, resulting in Cora being clothed in nothing but two strategically placed thunder clouds. While this may be more accurately an example of a Pants-Pulling Prank, since Cora uses her hardlight emitter to generate her armor clothing (and is literally naked underneath the forcefield/holo-projection it emits), Dabbler's hack is literally a malfunction of Cora's wardrobe. | |
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I'll Be in My Bunk | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_470442c8 | comment |
I'll Be in My Bunk: Invoked word for word in the margin sketch, by Harem predictably enough, after Sydney promises to introduce Arianna to Hentai. | |
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Sexy Soaked Shirt | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_47b152f9 | comment |
Sexy Soaked Shirt: This strip focuses on when the supervillain Glowbug finds out her white costume becomes see-though when wet. She notes that's something she should have tested before going into battle. | |
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Always Chaotic Evil | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4832a3bb | comment |
Always Chaotic Evil: The Fel race. As soon as they're sighted, Cora says that they're "a collective corrupted by Stygian energy" that forcibly recruit everyone they can and kill anyone they can't, and that they cannot get their hands on the artifact she has in her ship's cargo hold. As Dabbler describes it, they are irredeemable slavering fanatics. | |
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Gory Discretion Shot | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_49f20c6a | comment |
In "Maximum Trauma!", Cora shoots the leader of the team that kidnapped and drugged Sydney with something on a time-delay detonation that basically juliennes him off-panel, leaving Sydney drenched in blood and decorated with a chunk of his torso and an ear, among other things. The comments note that the effect is reminiscent of a bolt round mixed with a Harlequin's Kiss. | |
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Combat Pragmatist | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_49fb5ccb | comment |
Combat Pragmatist: Basically the sign of a dangerously smart character in this comic. Maxima and Peggy show off how a mortal sniper and a high-level super can work together to defeat a powerful enemy. Other examples come from fighters such as Vehemence. Sydney is no slouch either, as demonstrated when she tricks a villain by pretending to be blind without her glasses, and follows up with a Groin Attack with her orbs. During a staged fight against Vehemence, several members of the team fail to take him down through raw strength or technical moves. Maxima takes him down with what's essentially a super-powered Pressure Point strike. | |
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Rebus Bubble | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4a5cf754 | comment |
Rebus Bubble: Deus calculates the root of greed during an interview. Most of a page's worth for Sydney, despite getting Distracted by the Sexy. | |
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Explaining Your Power to the Enemy | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4af26a14 | comment |
Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: Invoked. Sydney quickly gets fed up with the confusion of the first fight, and declares "Silver Age rules": every villain needs to state their name and powers, or else the ARCHON PR department will give them stupid names like "Stick Chick". Vehemence indulges too, and Sydney lampshades it, but he's doing this after a thorough fight that has supercharged him in vehemic energy, so he's convinced it's way too late for ARCHON to do much of anything with the information. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4be5a85d | type |
Superhuman Trafficking | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4be5a85d | comment |
Superhuman Trafficking: Deconstructed when aliens try to kidnap Maxima. She is uber-tier powerful and would be worth so much to so many people, but their attempt to capture her using a small team and specialized technology fails because she is so powerful.How powerful?They bring a portable stasis field generator. Maxima runs the battery down by turning her head. By the end, several of them have been arrested and one has nearly died. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4be5a85d | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4c24a9ed | type |
Power Copying | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4c24a9ed | comment |
Power Copying: Sciona can use blood from supers to replicate powers. Hench Wench can copy the powers of supervillains hiring her. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4c24a9ed | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4c798fd5 | type |
Shock and Awe | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4c798fd5 | comment |
Jiggawat's positron generation (used to counter another Shock and Awe super, Glowbug) makes a lot of gamma radiation when they and the electrons annihilate each other. Dabbler has to stop her battle so she can make sure no-one dies from radiation poisoning! | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4c798fd5 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4cb0192 | type |
Utility Belt | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4cb0192 | comment |
Utility Belt: ARCHON members design their own. They then have to go through PT while wearing them as a test to see whether or not they have the sense to only load up on gear that is practical to carry with them all the time. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4cb0192 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4cb0192 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4cc0c6f2 | type |
TruthSerum | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4cc0c6f2 | comment |
When Sydney is rambling under the effect of a Truth Serum, her speech bubbles cover more of the whole page than the actual pictures. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4cc0c6f2 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4cecb933 | type |
Signs of Disrepair | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4cecb933 | comment |
Signs of Disrepair: Halo accidentally hitting a billboard sporting a jewelry ad turns the slogan from "TREAT YOUR GIRL RIGHT" to "EAT YOUR GIRL RIGHT". | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4cecb933 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4cecb933 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4d070ee3 | type |
Power Perversion Potential | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4d070ee3 | comment |
And, as noted under Power Perversion Potential, Harem could absolutely fulfill this trope. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4d070ee3 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4e1d9178 | type |
Tailor-Made Prison | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4e1d9178 | comment |
Tailor-Made Prison: Since there's no such thing as a universal superpower dampener, every supervillain needs to be kept in a cell designed to neutralize or counteract their specific powers. Two examples are shown: a portal-based teleporter being kept in a pressurized cell, such that creating a portal and stepping through would give the bends, and a super (or possibly a demon) who derives power from violence being pacified with marijuana-laced air in his cell, and a steady supply of Doritos and Kirby cartoons. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4e1d9178 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4e7c4536 | type |
Wham Line | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4e7c4536 | comment |
Wham Line: When Deus is asked how Galytn defends itself from its larger neighbors, he casually says "Did you know that Galytn has roughly ten times the super population per capita? Must be something in the water." | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4e7c4536 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4e7c4536 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4f6d87f7 | type |
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4f6d87f7 | comment |
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Sydney and Frix (referenced regularly for comedic effect, usually at Sydney's expense). Leon and Krona as well. It's implied that Leon might have a thing for petite ladies. Garamm and Lapha. Even with his naturally hunched posture, Garamm is easily 1-2 heads taller than Lapha, and his frame is wide enough that you can barely see her if she's standing on the other side of him. Subverted with Dabbler and Thothogoth, as the latter can alter his size down from the usual building level height. Inverted to Tiny Guy, Huge Girl with the vast majority of men interested in Anvil. Prinrin (a goblin who is somewhere between 3 and 3&1/2 feet tall) propositions the well over 6-foot tall Frix while he is volunteering to help Arc-SPARQ with some tech work. Frix only turns down said proposition due to it being the last day he'll be on Earth for a while and wanting to spend it with Sydney, who is still not fully comfortable with being in a potentially open/poly relationship (despite her insistence otherwise and it generally being her idea). | |
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-0.3 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4f6d87f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4f6d87f7 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4f88342a | type |
Smug Super | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4f88342a | comment |
Smug Super: Maxima takes her sweet time stopping a bank robbery despite having enough speed to catch bullets. When one of the civilians she rescued protests her behavior Maxima brushes him off ("You were never in any danger"), finally cracking her knuckles to scare him away. Sure, the hostages were safe especially since the "bank robbers" were agents of ARC carrying out a publicity stunt on PR manager Arianna's orders, but they must have also been stressed and terrified, seeing as how they were at the mercy of men with guns for several minutes. This works against her when facing the Super Husk. As the commentary explains, Maxima can stop 95% of her foes in battle easily when it comes to physical force, but when an enemy has other tricks, like Hypnotic Eyes.... | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_4f88342a | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5009999d | type |
Painting the Medium | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5009999d | comment |
In a bit of Painting the Medium, Dabbler uses her ability to make portals to make her speech bubbles easier for readers to see. | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5009999d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5009999d | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5027a6d5 | type |
The Swear Jar | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5027a6d5 | comment |
The Swear Jar: Sydney uses one, and it apparently got full enough that she put a down payment on a car with it. After her trip to space, she started up Swear Jar II, and drops ten grand in it to compensate for everything she said while in space. Swear Jar II was started within about two weeks (personal time) of starting her job with ARCHON, so she may not have made the adjustment yet from "$5 per tirade" (being cheaper for Sydney than "$1 per word"; she had still sometimes ran low on money per month). Again, Swear Jar II is inaugurated... with $10,000. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5027a6d5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5027a6d5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5027a6d5 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_50295b7e | type |
Nerd Action Hero | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_50295b7e | comment |
Nerd Action Hero: Sydney, the comic-book store owner with a nerd's physique and outlook on life, who becomes one of Maxima's team of supers. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_50295b7e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_50295b7e | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_50c23153 | type |
Cave Behind the Falls | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_50c23153 | comment |
The Secret Entrance sign here is meant to discourage anybody who finds it by accident. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_50c23153 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_50c23153 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_50c23153 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_51d8f2e3 | type |
Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_51d8f2e3 | comment |
Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: The Twilight Council tends to act like this when not putting on airs for visitors. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_51d8f2e3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_51d8f2e3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_51d8f2e3 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_52d1f46e | type |
Not What It Looks Like | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_52d1f46e | comment |
Not What It Looks Like: During the incident at ARCHON where a young succubus' lust aura go haywire, after Maxima and Dabbler barge into Sydney's room to find the half-naked recruit covered in kiss marks with a naked Parfait atop of her, Sydney tries to invoke the trope with, "This isn't what it looks like?" The interrogation mark makes it clear she doesn't sound that convinced herself. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_52d1f46e | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53224e46 | type |
Bookends | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53224e46 | comment |
Bookends: The comic's first book starts and ends with a discussion about lasers being blocked by transparent shields. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53224e46 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53224e46 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53224e46 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_535865be | type |
I Resemble That Remark! | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_535865be | comment |
I Resemble That Remark!: Sydney is confused why Peggy doesn't ask about the orbs, and she points out that supers usually can't wait to brag about such information, comparing them to Vegans in that respect. After a meandering conversation about others that engage in such behavior (a hypothetical Vegan super who had just lost weight on a fad diet after coming back from vacation while pregnant), Sydney immediately blurts out which orb lets her fly. Which is followed on by her asking Peggy what dietary supplements she uses in the bonus panel. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_535865be | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5369c081 | type |
Invisible Parents | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5369c081 | comment |
Invisible Parents: Mostly not relevant, since even the youngest characters are over eighteen, and thus old enough that there's no need to mention their parents. During the dinner after the press conference, however, Sydney realizes that she revealed her powers on live international television before she told her parents about them. Later rendered moot by the actual introduction and extended interactions between parents and the members of ARCHON at the recruit graduation ceremony. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5369c081 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5369c081 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53c37297 | type |
Flash Step | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53c37297 | comment |
Flash Step: Maxima is fast enough to pull these off. So is Harem, although she's using actual teleportation... and Maxima is faster. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53c37297 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53c37297 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53c9fc92 | type |
Flashback | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53c9fc92 | comment |
Flashback: The author likes to illustrate Noodle Incidents with Flashback Cuts, usually Played for Laughs and frequently combined with some lighthearted Mood Whiplash. note It's possible that in some cases the flashbacks as shown may not be entirely accurate, or may be more illustrative than literal, but the comic never actually makes an explicit claim either way, leaving viewers to speculate. Maxima references some classified activities in the fifth panel of this page. One wonders if they were all like that? Sydney discusses her powers. Cut to... oops. Zeph mentions Marble Maiden, and we see one of her selfies. Arianna gets overwhelmed. Who can blame her? | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53c9fc92 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53c9fc92 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53d302c | type |
Vertigo Effect | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53d302c | comment |
Vertigo Effect: When Sydney sees Dabbler pull something out of Hammerspace, complete with "Dolly Zoom" Unsound Effect. Played straighter when Sydney discovers that holding her flight orb suppresses her vertigo (and letting go of it brings her vertigo back in full force). | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53d302c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53d302c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53d302c | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53fe2316 | type |
Bridge Bunnies | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53fe2316 | comment |
Bridge Bunnies: Gender-inverted. Cora, Dabbler's alien friend, is the female captain of a ship staffed with sexy male aliens. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53fe2316 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53fe2316 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_53fe2316 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_54eceae6 | type |
Magic Is Evil | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_54eceae6 | comment |
Magic Is Evil: Kat asks if magic has a bias towards evil. Dabbler is at first offended but can't offer a rebuttal when Kat asks why there is no such thing as "good" dungeons (ones that produce harmless and peaceful plants and animals instead of hostile monsters). | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_54eceae6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_54eceae6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_54eceae6 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_55f4dd10 | type |
What Are You in For? | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_55f4dd10 | comment |
What Are You in For?: Alluded with one Alt Text. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_55f4dd10 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_55f4dd10 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5619ea34 | type |
Blowing a Raspberry | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5619ea34 | comment |
Blowing a Raspberry: Halo sticks her tongue out at Harem after the latter says that the prospect she'd want to be an officer is "a horrifying thought". During a press conference. Sydney forgot they were there. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5619ea34 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5619ea34 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5619ea34 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_561dab6b | type |
Mistaken for Gay | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_561dab6b | comment |
Mistaken for Gay: Sydney admits to Peggy that she mistook Peggy for a lesbian due to her short pink hair and lack of makeup, and was surprised when Peggy happily watched some of the men going shirtless. Peggy isn't offended, and in fact replies that she can find things to (dis)like about both genders. It's hinted that Peggy is firmly Bi as she has on multiple occasions demonstrated a keen interest in the shirtless boys as well as an implied hookup with Cora during their off-world travels. In regard to minor and probably accidental villain the Barberian, who not only has a slightly camp two-tone Mohawk hairstyle, but does rather provoke a mistaken guess in other ways. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_561dab6b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_561dab6b | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_56691220 | type |
Even the Girls Want Her | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_56691220 | comment |
One of Dabbler's many superpowers — a succubus's body is literally hypnotic, although she's attractive enough that it's usually just written off as being mundane distraction. Sydney actually tries to put this to good use against Vehemence by making use of Dabbler's hypnotic breasts, but unfortunately, those supposed to act while he's distracted are also distracted. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_56691220 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_56691220 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_56691220 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5768d31 | type |
Super-Speed | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5768d31 | comment |
Super-Speed: One of the known powers, exhibited by both Maxima and the supervillain Silent Shadow (and indirectly by Sydney using the Flight Orb). However, it's fairly rare, because the writer considers it to be, logically, a very powerful ability. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5768d31 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5768d31 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_57b80b45 | type |
Fantastic Racism | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_57b80b45 | comment |
Fantastic Racism: When Sydney insensitively assumes that Thothogoth should be chaotic because his people are, he tells her she's being "very hurtful". There is a race known as the ætholiths who are essentially magic AIs in the form of small flames who have gained rights. They can partially or fully control an unwilling person by jumping onto their body, but the majority refuse to do this to avoid proving anti-ætholith sentiments correct. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_57b80b45 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_57b80b45 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_58019946 | type |
Anvil on Head | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_58019946 | comment |
Anvil on Head: Done with Anvil the person rather than an actual anvil, by Sydney. Sydney even makes the Roadrunner sound and does the tongue flip as a direct reference to the joke. The scene is later referenced by Harem after a similar situation occurs, prompting her to want to call the maneuver the Acme Special. The comic even shows Harem having a flashback to finally "get the joke" of Sydney doing the Roadrunner reference when it was originally done. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_58019946 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_58019946 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_58019946 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_59f5238 | type |
D-Cup Distress | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_59f5238 | comment |
D-Cup Distress: A minor case, but Maxima dislikes her bust size for reasons both personal (she's a feminist who doesn't like being objectified) and practical (it interferes when she draws or holsters her pistol). | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_59f5238 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_59f5238 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5a4ae281 | type |
Hellish Pupils | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5a4ae281 | comment |
Hellish Pupils gets a deconstruction when Sydney's eyes change back to normal after Lapha leaves her body. Many works tend to overlook the fact that it would be very painful for eyes to undergo radical physical changes. It is also shown to have altered her eyeglass prescription. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5a4ae281 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5b6e57e | type |
Required Secondary Powers | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5b6e57e | comment |
Required Secondary Powers: Discussed briefly by Deus. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5b6e57e | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5c389eaf | type |
The Air Not There | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5c389eaf | comment |
The Air Not There: An aversion — Sydney's shield does not permit air to permeate, causing her to become dizzy after a few minutes of continuous use as the carbon dioxide she exhales begins to replace oxygen. Sound (which involves the transfer of vibrations, rather than of physical air molecules) seems to get through just fine. Later when dealing (poorly) with PTSD resulting from being trapped for 2 months alone on a planet forced to constantly fight with literal building sized Lovecraftian horrors, Sydney literally duct tapes the shield and environment orbs to each of her hands so that she can attempt to sleep with the shield active to feel "safe", and with the environment ball active to not suffocate in her shielded sleep. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5c389eaf | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5c389eaf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5c389eaf | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5cb9b6b2 | type |
Gag Censor | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5cb9b6b2 | comment |
Gag Censor: When Dabbler wears an extremely form-fitting one-piece swimsuit, the crotch area is covered with a bubble saying how tight it is. There a very few, if any, censor jokes more amusing than this strategically placed thought bubble from Sydney when Hiro has all of his clothes destroyed in a fight with the rest of the ARCHON crew looking on. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5cb9b6b2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5cb9b6b2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5cb9b6b2 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5cfeb43f | type |
Save Scumming | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5cfeb43f | comment |
Save Scumming: Krona can do this with her powers. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5cfeb43f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5cfeb43f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5cfeb43f | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5d1eca88 | type |
Awesome McCoolname | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5d1eca88 | comment |
Awesome McCoolname: Sydney is quite upset to find out that Aurelius Shrapnel is only a financial adviser without any superpowers. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5d1eca88 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5d1eca88 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5d1eca88 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5db59a03 | type |
Brown Note | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5db59a03 | comment |
Brown Note: One of the sightseeing aliens says, in a garbled way, that looking at its true form will cause the beholder to throw up, which another alien confirms. This gets a practical demonstration when that alien reveals its form to eat Lapha. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5db59a03 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5db59a03 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5db59a03 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5e53eaaa | type |
Sunken Face | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5e53eaaa | comment |
Sunken Face: When the villain Hench Wench punches Mister Amorphous (a hero with stretching abilities) in the back of the head, he gets a face sunk outwards. This grosses out everyone around, not the least of which is his girlfriend. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5e53eaaa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5e53eaaa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5e53eaaa | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5efd4d9c | type |
Glasses Curiosity | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5efd4d9c | comment |
Glasses Curiosity: In the last panel, Dabbler keeps Sydney at bay with a hand on the latter's face after stealing her glasses and fooling around with them. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5efd4d9c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5efd4d9c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5efd4d9c | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5fc117f5 | type |
Fantastic Measurement System | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5fc117f5 | comment |
Fantastic Measurement System: "Ferret Balls: New standard unit for measuring surprise". | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5fc117f5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5fc117f5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_5fc117f5 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_60fa92ac | type |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_60fa92ac | comment |
And now added to the list is... The Unmaker. It's rated at roughly 3 million Scoville, twice that of the Carolina Reaper (the hottest pepper known to man as of 2015), and 1 million higher than law enforcement-grade pepper spray. Before you're allowed to eat it, you have to sign a legal waiver. The bowl has warning stripes on it, indicating it is hazardous to approach, and no-one will handle The Unmaker or the finished product without metal tongs. It's kept inside a specially made box that is, itself, locked in a box lined with asbestos. Said larger box contains Hydrogen Bitters, Old Panther, and Cobra Fang Juice. And the cook has to wear a hazmat suit in order to work with it while treating it as a living, wrathful being. Even Sydney admits that it's really, really hot... before asking for some "pure capsaicin" to spice it up. It does end up hurting her though, when a spiced noodle flicks up into her eye. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_60fa92ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_60fa92ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_60fa92ac | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_61c7d589 | type |
Bigger Is Better in Bed | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_61c7d589 | comment |
Bigger Is Better in Bed: Or at least Sydney and Krona think so in a bonus panel after seeing Hiro's "attributes". Deconstructed when Sydney asks Dabbler if she has anything to help with a certain issue, showing her pictures of large objects trying to fit where there's not enough room. Dabbler immediately produces a certain potion, saying she had it ready as soon as she knew Sydney and Frix were a couple. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_61c7d589 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_61c7d589 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_61c7d589 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_620475f4 | type |
Tastes Like Purple | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_620475f4 | comment |
Tastes Like Purple: According to Parfait, the potion that binds up tantric energy "tasted like abstinence." Needless to say, this is extremely unpleasant for a succubus. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_620475f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_620475f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_620475f4 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_62c556bf | type |
X-Ray Vision | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_62c556bf | comment |
X-Ray Vision: Averted (to the relief of all the female supers), and also discussed: if a perverted superhero wanted to use X-ray vision to peep in on women in the shower... what's stopping him from using X-ray vision when they're not in the shower? And even then, all he's going to see is the woman's skeleton, since this is X-ray vision. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_62c556bf | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_62c556bf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_62c556bf | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6315dd44 | type |
I Think You Broke Him | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6315dd44 | comment |
I Think You Broke Him: When Sydney discovers that one of the lycanthropes present is a were-hare, and she changes before her, Sydney gets into cuteness overload and start foaming at the mouth. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6315dd44 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6315dd44 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6315dd44 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6376ae9c | type |
Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6376ae9c | comment |
Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs: The possibility is discussed after it's revealed that Halo's orbs were found in the Chicxulub crater, but ARCHON concludes there's insufficient evidence and they don't want to contemplate the possibility of Halo having that kind of power. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6376ae9c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6376ae9c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6376ae9c | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6411dac8 | type |
BadassNormal | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6411dac8 | comment |
Math: Master of precision striking. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6411dac8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6411dac8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6411dac8 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_643659d4 | type |
Spit Take | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_643659d4 | comment |
Spit Take: Lampshaded by the name on the soda can in the last two panels of this page. Also doubles as a Shout-Out to Not a Villain. Maxima triggers one from Deus with 40-year-old scotch on a $3000 suit with a well-timed quip. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_643659d4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_643659d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_643659d4 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_649b0880 | type |
Background Magic Field | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_649b0880 | comment |
Background Magic Field: One gets established as a physical law of the universe that fuels all magic. Deus elaborates it in a physics model of overlapping quantum fields that for magic is specifically called Thaumion. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_649b0880 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_649b0880 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_649b0880 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6627695f | type |
Author Appeal | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6627695f | comment |
Author Appeal: The author admits that "the majority of this comic is just me transcribing my daydreams." The same goes for the Unsound Effect, as he's very fond of "nonomatopoeia". And a third time when discussing No Man Wants an Amazon — he's quite fond of the build, and admits to regularly posting "Insane Lady-Abs" on his Twitter account. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6627695f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6627695f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6627695f | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_66d4d0e6 | type |
Defeat by Modesty | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_66d4d0e6 | comment |
Defeat by Modesty: Inverted. Math tears off Jabberwokky's jacket and is immediately Distracted by the Sexy, which allows Jabberwokky to get the upper hand. Invoked and subverted. Brüt blows Maxima's clothes off with grenades to force her to cover herself. Maxima demonstrates that Super-Speed lets her change clothes faster than they are damaged. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_66d4d0e6 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_66d4d0e6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_66d4d0e6 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_680f950 | type |
Gilligan Cut | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_680f950 | comment |
Gilligan Cut: Sydney runs afoul of it when being invited to the nightclub. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_680f950 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_680f950 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_680f950 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_68424916 | type |
Eating the Eye Candy | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_68424916 | comment |
Eating the Eye Candy: Beefcake and cheesecake alike abound in this comic, and more than a few people enjoy the feast. That said, the men have to be careful with their ogling, as doing it wrong could bring the wrath of an angry golden-skinned feminist down upon their heads. The only one who isn't shy is Math. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_68424916 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_68424916 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_68424916 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_689ad255 | type |
At Arm's Length | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_689ad255 | comment |
At Arm's Length: Dabbler keeps Sydney at bay with a hand on her face after stealing her glasses and fooling around with them. Besides Sydney being short, Dabbler is advantaged by having four arms. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_689ad255 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_689ad255 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_689ad255 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_692c48c4 | type |
Navel-Deep Neckline | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_692c48c4 | comment |
Navel-Deep Neckline: Referenced in the second-to-last panel of "Grrl Power #770 – Reactions are... mixed", with a magazine cover showing a woman with a neckline that goes all the way to her belt, and the only other thing covering that area are two thin straps that presumably are to hold the left and right sides of her suit to her body. The caption is: | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_692c48c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_692c48c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_692c48c4 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6a1a1f8a | type |
Glasses Pull | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6a1a1f8a | comment |
Glasses Pull: Maxima in the mini-comic after this page. Complete with Quip To WAAAAaaaa! General Faulk apparently carries glasses only for pulling at dramatic moments. Lampshaded. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6a1a1f8a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6a1a1f8a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6a1a1f8a | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6a6760fa | type |
The Power of Hate | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6a6760fa | comment |
The Power of Hate: Vehemence gains strength from vehemic energy; good old-fashioned violence. He mentions the LA Race Riots as being particularly strengthening for him. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6a6760fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6a6760fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6a6760fa | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6a696742 | type |
The Power of Love | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6a696742 | comment |
The Power of Love: A variant. Dabbler, as a succubus, gains strength from tantric energy; that is to say sex, lust, and lovemaking. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6a696742 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6a696742 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6a696742 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6b05b601 | type |
Jerkass Has a Point | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6b05b601 | comment |
Jerkass Has a Point: Azilus's demands that supers not be allowed to be seated at the Council is bluntly stated but logical. While the Council has usually had good relations with the US Government, supers aren't protected by the Veil. This, combined with their recently achieved global fame, means that their mere presence at the meeting endangers the very existence of the Council and its member races. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6b05b601 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6b05b601 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6b05b601 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Varia is prone to take-that'ing towards comic characters who take the idea of a Meaningful Name so far it gets ridiculous. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6bda9a30 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6cdd9ea8 | type |
Variant Power Copying | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6cdd9ea8 | comment |
Variant Power Copying: Varia gets powers that are similar, but not identical to those whom she touches. For instance, Harem allows her to teleport alongside her (while ignoring Harem's "weight limit" for carrying passengers), while Jiggawatt has lightning abilities but gives Varia magnetic control instead. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6cdd9ea8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6cdd9ea8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6cdd9ea8 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6d7026fa | type |
Punny Name | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6d7026fa | comment |
Super Hiro: The cast page lists him as "Superman-lite". | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6d7026fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6d7026fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6d7026fa | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6e27397 | type |
Missed Him by That Much | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6e27397 | comment |
Missed Him by That Much: Sydney and Deus (along with Vale) do this a few times when on an alien space station. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6e27397 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6e27397 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6e27397 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6e9c18a5 | type |
Speech-Bubble Censoring | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6e9c18a5 | comment |
Speech-Bubble Censoring: Anvil sports a very detailed one when discussing her assets — pay close attention to the exact shape of her speech bubble. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6e9c18a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6e9c18a5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6e9c18a5 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6eb4e408 | type |
Artistic License – Military | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6eb4e408 | comment |
Artistic License – Military: ARCHON has an interesting command structure, as lampshaded by the author. A large portion of ARCHON's roster (Maxima, Hiro, Peggy, Anvil, the vast majority of new recruits, eventually Sydney, etc.) are enlisted military personnel. However, they also employ a wide assortment of non-commissioned civilian specialists (Dabbler, Arianna, Leon, Pixel, etc.) for combat/field work and general logistics. ARCHON also has no issues adding captured former enemies to its combat/field roster and support staff (Jabberwokky, Detla, Vehemence eventually, etc.). | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6eb4e408 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6eb4e408 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6eb4e408 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6edd96b8 | type |
Making a Splash | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6edd96b8 | comment |
Making a Splash: Sydney was hoping that one of the unknown orbs would have this power. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6edd96b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6edd96b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6edd96b8 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6ef09297 | type |
Masquerade | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6ef09297 | comment |
Masquerade: Averted; ARCHON holds a press conference both to confirm that yes, supers exist and have existed for so long they may have inspired some myths and folklore, and also to announce the new government "super police" Arc-SWAT, who are not permitted to use false identities. Played straight later when Sydney discovers a couple of non-humans in disguise at Club OONTZ. Dabbler explains that Earth actually has a decent-sized alien population. Coupled with her earlier comments about humanity's xenophobic tendencies, it seems that there's probably nothing sinister involved, just immigrants/tourists who really know how to blend in. Having supers be public knowledge actually helps by allowing supernatural events to be attributed to supers. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6ef09297 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6ef09297 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6ef09297 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6feeef5c | type |
Censor Box | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6feeef5c | comment |
Censor Box: Dabbler's apron is screen-printed "____ THE COOK", where the blank is a box of digitized noise. In the commentary, Dave B. notes that Dabbler did that on purpose to let people's minds wander. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6feeef5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6feeef5c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_6feeef5c | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_7095c87e | type |
TheMasquerade | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_7095c87e | comment |
The spell that upholds The Masquerade is global, so the Council made modifications to the Sigils that support it to allow other spells, especially communication ones, to piggyback on it. This bites them in the butt when the function is disabled to buy more time for repairs, as a vault is breached but the alarm spells can't reach anyone. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_7095c87e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_7095c87e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_7095c87e | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_70b840b6 | type |
Giving Them the Strip | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_70b840b6 | comment |
Giving Them the Strip: Can easily be missed because there's no focus on it, but Ray Cosmos removes his glove to escape Maxima's grip before she breaks his wrist, leaving it in her hand. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_70b840b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_70b840b6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_70b840b6 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_720e28a4 | type |
Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_720e28a4 | comment |
Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Also an Alliterative List, when Sydney is low on sleep: "Deficit? Debt, debficit?" | |
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Invoked Trope | |
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Everyone around is grossed out to some degree when Hench Wench punches Mr. Amorphous hard enough to basically turn his head inside out. | |
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Heroic Build | |
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Heroic Build: Almost all the females that have appeared so far are surprisingly toned (in fact, it seems to be a recognized side-effect of having super-powers in the setting), but the two that stand out are Maxima and Anvil. It's easier to count the aversions: Sydney, Peggy, Sandy (Arianna's assistant), Arianna, Pixel unless in were-jaguar form and Gwen (none of whom have innate powers as such). | |
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Growling Gut | |
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Growling Gut: The increasing volume of Sidney's growling stomach is used as a gag. It starts off as a humble chihuahua growl, before progressing to a more imposing bear growl. After it continues to a Godzilla growl, Sydney states "At least it can't get any louder than..." before being interrupted by a full-blown Fus Ro Dah! | |
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Military Superhero | |
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Military Superhero: Maxima, Anvil, Peggy and several other members of Arc-SWAT have military backgrounds, and retain their rank. | |
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Kamehame Hadoken | |
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Kamehame Hadoken: Invoked by Sydney when testing out her orange orb for the press. | |
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Fun T-Shirt | |
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Fun T-Shirt: The "take out meal" Dabbler picked up after the first brawl sports one reading "I fought Arc-SWAT and all I got was [blank] and [blank] and my [blank BLANK] by Dabbler." Similarly, Vehemence sports the "I fought ARC-SWAT" version of the T-shirt gag. "My milkshake brings all sapient species to the yard irrespective of orientation or gender" While not a shirt, Harem's pants. "This is my human costume. I'm actually an alien." Sydney's shirt in the last 2 panels of this page | |
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Time-Travel Tense Trouble | |
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Time-Travel Tense Trouble: Sydney and Krona have a bit of trouble after the latter's "checkpoint" has activated. | |
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Distracting Disambiguation | |
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Distracting Disambiguation: Happens very shortly, because Maxima is too professional to get easily distracted (unlike Sydney), especially when it Takes Ten to Hold Vehemence. | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension: Between Maxima and Deus. At the point that Sydney says they should just get a room. Exaggerated with this page, given the Alt Text. | |
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Played for Laughs | |
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Sydney and Frix (referenced regularly for comedic effect, usually at Sydney's expense). | |
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DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength | |
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Does Not Know Her Own Strength: Maxima sometimes forgets things have weight. The text at the bottom of the comic also mentions that she "forgets things can be hot, sharp or fast" as well. | |
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Yin-Yang Clash | |
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Yin-Yang Clash: A minor supervillain claims to be both irresistible force and immoveable object in this strip. It doesn't end well. | |
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Sweat Drop | |
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Sweat Drop: Rather common for Sydney, along with other exaggerated anime effects. A notable case for "Budget Halo", who acquires one, then three on the on the back of her head, when she realizes that her "Buster Buddies™" beams are doing absolutely nothing to Maxima, except drawing her attention. Another triple when Brüt finds himself threatened with a high-caliber Groin Attack from Maxima. | |
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STD Immunity | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_77a8fd8a | comment |
STD Immunity: Dabbler confirms that as a succubus, she is immune to pretty much all disease. Presumably Decolette, Tammatha and Parfait are similarly uber-immune to disease. | |
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Phrase Catcher | |
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Phrase Catcher: Dabbler's mere presence has a tendency to make all straight women repeat "Not a lesbian!" in their heads like a mantra. | |
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My Significance Sense Is Tingling | |
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The debut of her "Porno-sense" had the author muse on whether Spider-Man had ever incorporated his Spider-Sense into foreplay. | |
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Prosthetic Limb Reveal | |
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Prosthetic Limb Reveal: Sydney is taking a tour of the Arc-SWAT superhero facility, given mostly by Peggy the sniper. They are already friends at that point, and Sydney has reached the stage of being fitted for her uniform by the time she spots a couple spares of Peggy's prosthetic leg in a corner of the workroom. It isn't treated as a big deal in the story, although Sydney winds up having a panic attack because she can't stop accidentally making one-leg jokes. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_78c895c8 | type |
Amusing Injuries | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_78c895c8 | comment |
Amusing Injuries: Usually averted. Most injuries in the comic, even relatively minor ones, are treated as serious and potentially devastating. Heatwave gets taken out of the fight when a dagger cuts into her foot (cutting off one of her toes in the process) and nearly passes out from the pain and blood loss, while Jiggawatt continues fighting after being deafened by a sonic attack that ruptures her eardrums, and nearly kills everyone when she can't hear an order to stand down. The super-powered doctor on their staff who treated them afterward is able to heal most of Jiggawatt's injury, but it's expected she will still have some permanent upper-range hearing loss, and Heatwave's toe couldn't be saved because it had already started to necrotize before it could be reattached. The only time it's remotely played straight is with Achilles, who is shown to be beyond Nigh-Invulnerability to the point that his hair can't be cut and he's even The Ageless. He even once ate a vial of Super Ebola with no ill effects. Even when injuries are played for laughs, they are still handled in a mostly realistic manner. One example is when Cora's crewmates comedically put their heads next to Sydney when looking at the Aetherium Causeway capabilities of the navigation/transport orb, Sydney's ear is punctured by the horns on Altus' temples. This could have easily just been a single panel throw away joke. However, on the next page you can actually see blood on the lapel of her shirt, and the page after (though primarily serving to set up her relationship with Frix more) is entirely her visiting the med bay to have the wound dealt with. | |
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Boxed Crook | |
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Boxed Crook: The official stance of the government is that a superpowered vigilante is still a vigilante, so ARCHON has been tasked to track them all down and give them the option of joining ARCHON or facing charges for vigilantism. That said, it's the vigilantism that's the crime, not being superhuman. Using superpowers to aid in a career doing something legal is legal, and people who do so are not required to join ARCHON. This eventually happens to Jazza Ng/Jabberwokky. The Rant on one of her appearances says she's essentially under house arrest at ARCHON until she's finished training, and 90% of her at-least-five-digit paycheck is being garnished to pay bills associated with her former crimes — mostly medical bills and a few cop cars. Vehemence is also given work release privileges to spar with the ARCHON crew and recruits for training purposes and to sustain his requirement for vehement/violent energies. | |
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Taking the Fight Outside | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_79c9199d | comment |
Taking the Fight Outside: Sciona and Vale start shoving each other. Deus shoos them outside before they can scuff up his detailed marble. | |
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White Guilt | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_7aa228ff | comment |
White Guilt: Sydney's white guilt is lampshaded after she insensitively assumes Thothogoth should be chaotic because his people are. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_7ac5c1de | type |
Unishment | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_7ac5c1de | comment |
Unishment: After the fight, Maxima calls out Math for losing to Jabberwokky after she flashed him, telling him to "...go get on the internet and stare at boobs until you're bored of looking at them." | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_7b448838 | type |
Human Hammer-Throw | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_7b448838 | comment |
Human Hammer-Throw: Vehemence grabs Anvil by the hair and then starts spinning her around, before tossing her upward. | |
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Armor-Piercing Question | |
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Armor-Piercing Question: Maxima chews out Cora for gibbing a bad guy unnecessarily, but Cora insists that since Sydney's life was in danger, she had no choice. Maxima seems to relent, then asks if Cora "squeegeed enough of him up into a ziplock bag for us to question". Cora gets halfway through explaining that even her technology can't do that before realizing that this was exactly Maxima's point. | |
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And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_7d3227a5 | comment |
The "take out meal" Dabbler picked up after the first brawl sports one reading "I fought Arc-SWAT and all I got was [blank] and [blank] and my [blank BLANK] by Dabbler." | |
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Let Us Never Speak of This Again | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_7d4a47d1 | comment |
Let Us Never Speak of This Again: After an M/F/M threesome with Blue-Skinned Space Babe Cora (heavily implied in the strip, confirmed by the author's comments), Math and Hiro mutually agree to never speak of this again... to Dabbler's frustration, since she'd like to know every little detail. | |
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Spy Speak | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_7dbfa45b | comment |
Spy Speak: Spoofed with the mini-comic below the main one. | |
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Sweeping Laser Explosion | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_7e4627c5 | comment |
Sweeping Laser Explosion: Sydney demonstrates a move she calls "The Robotech" by slicing a huge fleet of alien fighter ships with a laser, which then explode in unison the next panel. | |
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Hide Your Otherness | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_7e8ffd0d | comment |
Hide Your Otherness: Maxima is given a choker that magically changes the color of her skin and hair. Unfortunately, it can't change their metallic lustre, which leads to some experimenting. Dabbler uses glamour magic to appear as a normal (though insanely attractive) human when out in general public or on covert missions in the field. Decolette and Tamatha use glamour magic to hide their succubi features in public. | |
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Lame Comeback | |
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Lame Comeback: "For Whom the Death Tolls" explains his name as a "phrasic portmanteau!" | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_80251be3 | type |
How We Got Here | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_80251be3 | comment |
How We Got Here: Per Word of God, the first four pages are a Flash Forward. The rest of the comic is in current time. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8042e814 | type |
Actually Pretty Funny | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8042e814 | comment |
Actually Pretty Funny: Peggy's reaction to the start of Sydney's Open Mouth, Insert Footnote (insert foot... hah hah, see what we did there?) sequence. Sydney tends to create a lot of these, such as her presumed weakness, which elicits three Facepalms and two belly laughs. Maxima snarks that "Their glamor's the only thing about a succubus that's designed to be impenetrable", which Arianna replies to with this trope. When Ingsol asks if Sydney projects some kind of "stupidity aura", Maxima bursts out laughing before suddenly regaining composure before saying no, but it would explain a lot. Maxima tells Sydney about Dabbler getting distracted by her skin's reflectiveness and, as Sydney laughs herself to tears, tries to chide her for laughing at sexual assault but eventually admits this. (Though the invokedauthor's comments make it clear Maxima was more laughing at the resulting punching of Dabbler through a wall than the sexual assault.) | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The Secret Entrance sign here is meant to discourage anybody who finds it by accident. Deus has an impressive list of accomplishments. He made a fortune during the financial crash, owns a country which he's lifted out of poverty, has plans to give away $500 million in charity (just to see what happens), and his hair is... just astonishing. The sign next to Sydney where she's signing autographs at her new store warns against touching the balls in her halo thusly: | |
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Cuteness Proximity | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_80d55f20 | comment |
Cuteness Proximity: Sydney meets a werewolf. He did not anticipate her reaction. She later meets Kat the wererabbit, and starts foaming at the mouth on the verge of a seizure when one of Kat's ears flops over adorably. When Pixel reveals herself to be a were-jaguar, she can do nothing but Squee. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_81c4faa3 | type |
Entertainingly Wrong | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_81c4faa3 | comment |
Entertainingly Wrong: During his fight with Maxima, Vehemence concludes that electricity must be her weak spot after pinning her, since the constant shocks he's sending seem to be weakening her. The truth is a bit more complicated: Maxima's power is to "maximize" some of her attributes (Flight, Super-Strength, Hand Blast, etc.) at the cost of weakening other powers, and by constantly electrocuting the heroine he's forcing her to put everything in shielding, leaving her with not enough strength to break the hold. Of course, Maxima's exact powers are a well-kept military secret, so it's not surprising people would get it wrong. It does get a call-back in a different fight; Sciona starts using electric attacks in an attempt to stop Maxima from chasing her, and is confused when it doesn't seem to work. (One difference in this fight is both are flying and avoiding grapples for most of it.) | |
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1.0 | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_81c4faa3 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_82518cf7 | type |
Motor Mouth | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_82518cf7 | comment |
Sydney's Motor Mouth moments. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_82518cf7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_82518cf7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_82518cf7 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_82f5ced1 | type |
Conservation of Ninjutsu | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_82f5ced1 | comment |
Conservation of Ninjutsu: Implicitly invoked by Vehemence, and then lampshaded (in slightly distorted form, as "Inverse Ninja") by Sydney. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_82f5ced1 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8344209e | type |
BFG | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8344209e | comment |
Played with by Peggy, who (in her capacity as Range Master) allows Sydney to attempt to fire a BFG minigun (with bayonets!) knowing that Sydney isn't even able to lift it, much less fire it. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8344209e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8344209e | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_83641c73 | type |
Logical Weakness | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_83641c73 | comment |
Logical Weakness: Because Succubi glamour is designed to be sexy for a variety of reasons, Succubi tend to be very bad at disguising themselves as anything other than absolute bombshells. This actually made finding one out easy because women like that stick out like a sore thumb. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_83641c73 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_83856158 | type |
Worthless Yellow Rocks | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_83856158 | comment |
Worthless Yellow Rocks: A group of alien tourists came prepared. | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_83856158 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_83856158 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_83997339 | type |
Accent Interest | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_83997339 | comment |
Accent Interest: During the press conference making ARCHON's existence public, a reporter who's feeling the effects of Dabbler's presence describes her accent as lovely and asks where she's from. She vaguely replies that she's from lots of different places, some he can't even imagine. | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_83997339 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_83997339 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8476f757 | type |
Film the Hand | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8476f757 | comment |
Film the Hand: The picture on Arianna's phone when Maxima is calling is of her angrily reaching for the camera. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8476f757 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_851dda8f | type |
Humanoid Abomination | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_851dda8f | comment |
Humanoid Abomination: Vale turns out to be a humanoid shell full of something with lots of dark tendrils and eyes. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_851dda8f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_851dda8f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_851dda8f | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_85c0061a | type |
Wrong Turn at Albuquerque | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_85c0061a | comment |
Wrong Turn at Albuquerque: Invoked by Sydney the first time she tries flying to the comic store and has trouble orienting herself. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_85c0061a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_85c0061a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_85c0061a | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_85e7c12f | type |
Puppy-Dog Eyes | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_85e7c12f | comment |
Puppy-Dog Eyes: Anvil, of all people, is able to pull it off on Maxima, though the latter is a little perturbed by her ability to do so. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_85e7c12f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_85e7c12f | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_867f06de | type |
Duck Season, Rabbit Season | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_867f06de | comment |
Duck Season, Rabbit Season: Lampshaded by the author after Maxima cajoles Sydney into revealing what's in the tube. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_867f06de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_867f06de | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_867f9f5c | type |
Alien Non-Interference Clause | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_867f9f5c | comment |
Alien Non-Interference Clause: Played With. Casual interplanetary travel is restricted solely to planets that have developed FTL, but though measures are taken to keep pre-FTL and immature civilizations unaware of the greater intergalactic community, there is no law against visiting less advanced planets — proper disguises are recommended, but the Veil existing on Earth means such disguises are absolutely essential. What the universe at large is really worried about is preventing technological paradigm shifts: "Don't give a caveman a space gun." Oddly enough, Sydney's orbs are one such Outside-Context Problem — enough so that when she's stranded off-world, not only can she not use the Portal Network to get back, she actually is in danger of being snapped up like she originally feared. Cora mentions that one of Earth's biggest defenses is that they produce a lot of entertainment. Conquering them would give any advanced race basically nothing, and would disrupt their entertainment industry, so no one will really bother. Cora also mentions the impracticality of high-tech cultures invading less technologically advanced planets for resources. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_867f9f5c | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_86f4f393 | type |
Stating the Simple Solution | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_86f4f393 | comment |
Stating the Simple Solution: When discussing how to track Cooter, Sydney says that it's too bad that, since they were sure that the other end was booby-trapped, they couldn't go through themselves, and that it sucked that Dabbler couldn't have put a tracking spell on a rock and sent that through. Cue awkward silence. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_86f4f393 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_86f4f393 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_870bbf64 | type |
Show, Don't Tell | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_870bbf64 | comment |
Show, Don't Tell: Invoked when Maxima demonstrates why ARC-SWAT carries firearms rather than just relying on their powers. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_870bbf64 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_870bbf64 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_870bbf64 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8774fb47 | type |
Eldritch Abomination | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: While they may not be so woefully incomprehensible from the perspective of a lot of the more extraplanar knowledgeable members of ARCHON, the race which decimated and is currently squatting on the Alari home world look like something straight out of Lovecraft. Deus' right hand "woman"/bodyguard, Vale. Vale is blatantly "something" that has literally stuffed itself into a hollow human woman shell. Even the brief partial up-close glimpse of what Vale is inside of "her" shell is unnerving enough to give the psychopathic homicidal blood magic/necromancy-wielding Sciona pause. Then of course, there's Trent. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8774fb47 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8774fb47 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8774fb47 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_87c62ade | type |
Deadly Dodging | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_87c62ade | comment |
Deadly Dodging: During a superhero free-for-all, Math the martial artist dodges a super attacking him with Eye Beams, the ray hitting another brawler behind him. Hench Wench manages to catch Maxima briefly off-guard, getting her in a headlock by controlling both her real body and a concrete body. But Maxima is still too strong and fast, moving her head away when the golem attempts to punch her, resulting in a (doubly) broken nose for Hench Wench. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_87c62ade | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_87c62ade | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_87c62ade | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8967e17f | type |
Back from the Dead | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8967e17f | comment |
Back from the Dead: When Krona's Save Scumming brings Sydney back after she gets shanked in the stomach, she's a bit shaken for a few seconds before gleefully invoking this, though Krona clarifies that it might not have been the case in the next page. Wyrmil uses an artifact to perform a Fusion Dance with Cooter, reviving the exploded redneck, to survive Sciona's betrayal. Pretty much a constant theme with Sciona since her spirit can simply possess a new body when her current one is destroyed. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8967e17f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8967e17f | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_898d0f32 | type |
Teeth Flying | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_898d0f32 | comment |
Teeth Flying: Stalwart getting the first punch on Vehemence results in a tooth flying. Vehemence is far from being at full power yet, though, and he later regenerates the tooth. Hench Wench trying to grab Maxima from behind results in a reverse headbutt that costs her a tooth from both her upper and lower jaws. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_898d0f32 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_898d0f32 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8a677d70 | type |
Naked Apron | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8a677d70 | comment |
Naked Apron: To take her mind off Sydney being stranded on Sciona's world, Dabbler makes cookies... at 3:00AM... in nothing but an apron and lacy panties. Maxima notices that she's drawn a crowd. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8a677d70 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8a677d70 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8a800d36 | type |
Bilingual Dialogue | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8a800d36 | comment |
Bilingual Dialogue: There is an example of a trilingual conversation here (involving one African and two extraterrestrial languages). Apparently, this alliance has involved a lot of efficient linguistic exchange in its short existence. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8a800d36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8a800d36 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8aa0f76 | type |
Deconstructed Trope | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8aa0f76 | comment |
Deconstructed when Sydney asks Dabbler if she has anything to help with a certain issue, showing her pictures of large objects trying to fit where there's not enough room. Dabbler immediately produces a certain potion, saying she had it ready as soon as she knew Sydney and Frix were a couple. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8aa0f76 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8aa0f76 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8b221a63 | type |
Reed Richards Is Useless | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8b221a63 | comment |
Reed Richards Is Useless: Deliberately so. Dabbler has set up her tech so that most of her equipment cannot be separated from her for more than a few seconds without teleporting away to a secure facility, so that nobody can reverse-engineer it and release the technology out into the world. The intergalactic community has some Prime Directive-like rules, and Earth hasn't advanced technologically or socially to the point where humanity can be trusted with Dabbler's tech. Digit (a member of the support staff after a Noodle Incident involving some of her "quirkier" inventions in the field) is a more traditional variant. She creates amazing technology, but any applicability outside of whatever esoteric corner she's painted herself into with previous inventions (and their side-effects) is purely coincidental. Example: she's shown considering inventing a frequency-hopping directional ultrasonic scanner... because she forgot where she left her random ultrasonic whistle generator... which she only remembered she'd invented because she noticed someone who seemed to be listening to a sound Digit couldn't hear. On a meta-level, this is to avoid a tech spiral that would leave the world nearly unrecognizable, so Gadgeteer Genius supers are rare in the Grrl-verse. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8b221a63 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8b221a63 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8ba5e417 | type |
Refugee from TV Land | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8ba5e417 | comment |
Refugee from TV Land: The crossover with Wearing the Cape has Astra be this from the Grrl-verse's perspective, since the characters there are part of a fictional TV show, with Astra being pretty much identical to her character's actor. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8ba5e417 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8ba5e417 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8c30c2ac | type |
Rewriting Reality | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8c30c2ac | comment |
Rewriting Reality: Krona, a magic user (not a proper mage or super), can do this to a degree, though it's easier to alter existing objects, like defusing grenades or changing her hair color, than doing things like creating fireballs, and it's a lot like programming apparently. Her abilities are also apparently entirely unique. She later demonstrates predictive text that literally predicts the future by a few seconds, and hacks Sydney's bladder so she can wait on going to the bathroom. She can use Save Scumming in real life. This leads Maxima to bring her into ARCHON so they can make sure that she can't cause a Reality-Breaking Paradox by accident. Viewing Sydney's orb skill tree, Krona discovers that she could potentially change what gravity is rather than what it does, had she full access to Sydney's orbs. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8c30c2ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8c30c2ac | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8d0785d5 | type |
Didn't Think This Through | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8d0785d5 | comment |
Didn't Think This Through: Glowbug tries to cool off from Heatwave's attack with a stream of water, only to realize that the completely white outfit she's wearing turns see-through when wet. She blames Heatwave for it and shoots lightning at her... while still standing in water. She lampshades this immediately afterward. Sciona's Evil Is Petty attitude leads her to storm off in a huff and forget something in the Vault, and then leads her to start a fight with Vale. Hench Wench portals herself and Maxima underwater so she can escape Maxima's grasp, but then she floods her apartment because she jumped home directly, which she admits was something that she really shouldn't have done in hindsight. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8d0785d5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8d0785d5 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8e92e125 | type |
Lawyer-Friendly Cameo | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8e92e125 | comment |
Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: Does this scientist remind you of any world-famous, poor dad, scientists? This page just got 20% cooler. There's a Finding Nemo reference on the underwater portion of Sydney's Back Story regarding her Applied Phlebotinum. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8e92e125 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8e92e125 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8e92e125 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8f050175 | type |
Only the Knowledgable May Pass | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8f050175 | comment |
Only the Knowledgable May Pass: Sydney will test you if you claim to be a nerd. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8f050175 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8f050175 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8f050175 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8fb11f42 | type |
You Answered Your Own Question | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8fb11f42 | comment |
You Answered Your Own Question: Sydney in one "talking head", post-strip part: | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8fb11f42 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8fb11f42 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_8fb11f42 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_904bf4e | type |
Wasn't That Fun? | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_904bf4e | comment |
Wasn't That Fun?: Anvil jumps from a height of several stories high with Halo in her arms, who's screaming all the way down. Despite this, the first thing Sydney does after they land unharmed is saying "Let's go again!" while jumping back in Anvil's arms. The latter is so nonplussed that she doesn't even catch her, and Sydney lands hard on her tush. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_904bf4e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_904bf4e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_904bf4e | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_90965cc7 | type |
Hive Mind | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_90965cc7 | comment |
Harem is clearly aware what any relationship with her would mean. A bonus panel involving "paralytic cunnilingus" implies that Harem may have used it in a different way. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_90965cc7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_90965cc7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_90965cc7 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_9136471a | type |
Our Goblins Are Different | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_9136471a | comment |
Our Goblins Are Different: Prinrin is an attractive goblin, working for in the Arc-SPARQ tech division. Presumably, her small (she only comes up to the average human's waist in height) but curvaceous physique (her bust-waist-hip ratios would be impressive even on a super-human woman) and very human-like face is typical of goblins In-Universe. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_9136471a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_9136471a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_9136471a | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_921d06e8 | type |
This Explains So Much | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_921d06e8 | comment |
This Explains So Much: When Ingsol asks if Sydney has a "stupidity aura" or something, Maxima briefly bursts out laughing before regaining composure and saying no, but it would explain a lot. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_921d06e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_921d06e8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_921d06e8 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_929328d7 | type |
Improbably Female Cast | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_929328d7 | comment |
Improbably Female Cast: Eventually averted when Peggy shows Sydney that there are guys at ARCHON other than Math, the General, and Zephan. The comic simply doesn't focus on them so much. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_929328d7 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_929328d7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_929328d7 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_93b39134 | type |
Training the Gift of Magic | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_93b39134 | comment |
Training the Gift of Magic: The concepts behind this trope are strongly implied. Zeph, a highly experienced scholar/adventurer, knows a lot about the occult, but apparently has to leave actual spell-casting to Gwen, who freely admits to being a bit of a novice — even when it's a matter of life and death. Evidently, she has a gift that he lacks. She's described as basically self-taught, but she had to acquire the right reference books to accomplish this. | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_93b39134 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_93b39134 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_93b39134 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_950329d8 | type |
Dynamic Entry | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_950329d8 | comment |
Maxima doing a Dynamic Entry to a supervillain lair wouldn't be complete without the superhero landing. | |
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Caps Lock, Num Lock, Missiles Lock | |
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Caps Lock, Num Lock, Missiles Lock: Deus, trying to open the hidden weapons cache in his office, accidentally presses the button to drop the meeting table into a pit. Musing that he should probably label his buttons, he ends up activating an erotic art display and a collection of BDSM toys before finding the button he's looking for. The News Post implies that the art, at least, may not have been as accidental as Deus is acting. | |
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Not So Above It All | |
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Maxima has an Imagine Spot of what might happen if she allowed some "racy pictures" of her to be taken. | |
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Moral Guardians | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_96e5792c | comment |
Moral Guardians: Invoked by Arianna when attempting to get Sydney to temper her behavior around the media. It even includes a Shout-Out to the current page image. | |
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Gray Is Useless | |
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Gray Is Useless: In "#499 ? Inopportunity", Sydney notices that a new function has activated: | |
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There Are No Therapists | |
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There Are No Therapists: Averted, as Sydney's experiences off-world wind up giving her nightmares, and Peggy immediately offers (and Sydney accepts) the services of a counselor to help her through it. | |
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Chirping Crickets | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_97ba2567 | comment |
Chirping Crickets: Sydney tries (and fails) to invoke one as a Look Behind You during the press conference, but enforces it later. | |
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Ominous Adversarial Amusement | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_9822620e | comment |
During Cora's very first interaction with Sydney, a group of alien muggers (with extremely poor victim selection instincts) decides to rob them. The encounter goes from Sydney and Cora laughing at the absurdity of random muggers robbing probably the two most dangerous/powerful people on the entire planetoid to a smash cut of a carnage-filled street and alley, where the local authorities are literally recovering melted bone fragments of Cora and Sydney's would-be assailants. It was apparently gruesome enough to leave Sydney completely pale and shaking at Cora's level of violence. | |
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Sleazy Photoshoot | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_989d66e6 | comment |
Sleazy Photoshoot: Invoked twice: Right after ARCSWAT are announced to the world, they are assigned to do photoshoots to generate good PR. Maxima, being an Amazonian Beauty and a feminist who dislikes the attention her figure gets her, says that if her photoshoot turns out to be like this, they'll never find the photographer's body. When Maxima's photoshoot finally happens, she's assigned a female photographer who notes that there are sleazy guys in the business. She does offer to take racy photos once the official shots are done, but in a well-defined manner with clear boundaries, and mentions a few celebrities she's done such work for, including Hiro. Max seems to consider it, especially when the photographer mentions Hiro, but decides to politely decline due to the risks of having such materials just lying around for someone with superpowers to steal (with an Imagine Spot of that happening). | |
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Head Desk | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_99156d7e | comment |
Head Desk: Dabbler starts bonking her head on Zeph's desk after Sydney points out there was a much simpler solution to a problem "the most intelligent being on the planet" was overthinking. | |
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Henshin Hero | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_991ae060 | comment |
Henshin Hero: Pixel is a were-jaguar and a super, and has different power-sets in her hybrid and animal forms (Laser Blade claws and Invisibility, respectively). | |
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Atrocious Alias | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_9a91603e | comment |
Everyone making fun of "For Whom the Death Tolls"' name. | |
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Van Helsing Hate Crimes | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_9b3c14cb | comment |
Van Helsing Hate Crimes: One of the reasons for the Veil is to prevent this, but it works against the Council when the Weirdness Censor allows one of Sciona's allies to get one "Coot" to help them in their plans. | |
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Chainmail Bikini | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_9bfbf9f3 | comment |
Chainmail Bikini: Dabbler dislikes how covering the sentient suit of platemail is, so she uses her illusion powers to make it look like a revealing bikini with no loss of protective value... much to said armor's displeasure. | |
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Lovable Sex Maniac | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_9cdef1ef | comment |
Math being a Lovable Sex Maniac gets him in trouble because it distracts him in a fight. Seeing Jabberwokky's rack froze him up so much that she takes him out easily. Max calls him on it during the full debriefing. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: The last panel; it turns out she was telling the truth. Dabbler's flashback here, as well as this villain montage foreshadow Thothogoth's appearance over 800 pages later. During the big super brawl, several of the attacking supers question why they agreed to come along in the first place, hinting at Vehemence's "violence aura" amping up their aggression. And with a blink-and-you-miss-it example, For Whom the Death Tolls' level of power is hinted at in the second-to-last panel of a strip early in the fight. An off-hand joke from Dabbler about how nice fur can be on a sexual partner, especially Sydney's reaction, was oddly prescient about Frix's arrival. While we've yet to find out for sure, Zephan's reaction to the news that Sydney was going to a nightclub indicates that ARCHON is probably aware of vacationing aliens on Earth. Remember that new power for the Comm-Ball Sydney got? Yeah, it allows her to teleport to the place Holo-Sydney is at. | |
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Barbie Doll Anatomy | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_9d1cc720 | comment |
Barbie Doll Anatomy: Used for the visual of Sydney describing to Maxima how it felt to fire the PPO. | |
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This Is Reality | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_9d3b4703 | comment |
This Is Reality: Sydney points out that a mutation of a single gene, while a good explanation for a comic, can't really account for everything with superpowers. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: During her interview with Suzie Wen, Sydney says "So I says to Mabel, I says..." before being cut off by Maxima. Nearly 700 strips later, Maxima cuts off Dabbler while she's in the middle of saying the same phrase at a press conference. In Grrl Power #74, Maxima flies Sydney to ARCHON. Sydney enjoys the trip so much she says "Let's go again!" and tries to jump into Maxima's arms; Maxima declines to catch her, so she falls to the ground, landing on a rock. In Grrl Power #940, Sydney gets a similar ride from the top of a building, this time with Anvil, with the same result. | |
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Tiny Guy, Huge Girl | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_9df812ad | comment |
Inverted to Tiny Guy, Huge Girl with the vast majority of men interested in Anvil. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_9e0c3153 | comment |
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Multiple examples. Sydney takes nerding seriously: And Arianna is serious about merchandising: Always. Another here. Take all the time you need. Why indeed? Maybe they were just deceived. | |
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Three-Point Landing | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_9eaf2be0 | comment |
Three-Point Landing: In a superheroes comic? What are the chances? For example, Maxima defying For Whom the Death Tolls. Ren lands this way before Vehemence after Maxima kicks him down the quarry to jumpstart his adrenaline powers. Maxima doing a Dynamic Entry to a supervillain lair wouldn't be complete without the superhero landing. | |
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Cut Lex Luthor a Check | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_9fbf8969 | comment |
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Dave B. goes into a detailed rant about this trope in Strip #368, which mentions a geokinetic who used his powers to isolate gold out from the planet's mantle, selling off limited amounts to maintain his comfortable lifestyle without disrupting the economy. One man has the ability to refill any liquid, including his own blood, which he mainly uses to get the attention of vampire ladies. Sydney lampshades this by bringing up how oil companies would pay him a lot for that power, but he apparently can't fill that kind of volume, and she points out that there's probably some rare liquid someone would pay him well for, but he cares more about the vampire ladies than money. | |
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Sarcastic Confession | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_a036d3df | comment |
Sarcastic Confession: After offering multiple implausible reasons why she's carrying a poster tube everywhere, Sydney tries this: | |
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Alien Abduction | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_a05522e3 | comment |
Alien Abduction: Due to centuries of aliens abducting small numbers of pre-industrial humans, there are a few million humans living among the wider galactic community. Cora mentions that most of the abductions were probably voluntary, though of course she can't be sure. | |
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Succubi and Incubi | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_a0f3c6a0 | comment |
Dabbler is described as a succubus, complete with lust aura power. She also has something called a "mummy missile," which ties people up. The Alt Text also calls it "the bondage bullet, the stop shot, the SubMissile, and a fun Saturday night". | |
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Rock–Paper–Scissors | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_a129cb19 | comment |
Rock–Paper–Scissors: Maxima and Peggy quickly (and wordlessly) play the game in one panel (Maxima wins) to determine which of them will demonstrate to Sydney why superheroes with Hand Blast powers should still carry firearms. | |
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Imagine Spotting | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_a19e0be1 | comment |
Imagine Spotting: Hench Wench, upon having her LLC officially dissolved and losing her powers, taunts Maxima by suggesting that putting her "in the gen-pop down at the super-super-max" would just result in her having access to powerful supers she could get powers from, specifically imagining setting something up with Vehemence. Maxima points out that none of the fantasy depicted is an accurate representation of how super-super-max prisons work. | |
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Revealing Cover-Up | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_a1b0c1c2 | comment |
Revealing Cover-Up: Why the supernatural races never wrote in supers; they were afraid it might draw more attention to them. (Of course, now that supers are public, there's some Plausible Deniability for anything that leaks through; "Oh that? Umm... would you believe I'm a superhero?") | |
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_a220d528 | comment |
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Lampshaded when Arianna asks Maxima if she's considered everything Sydney might do as an Arc-SWAT member. | |
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Murderous Mannequin | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_a25b0db9 | comment |
Murderous Mannequin: The mage-slayer mannequins, equipped in SWAT-style gear with equipment to deal with mages, aliens and supernatural entities. Their fake bodies are also utilized with several features to make them difficult to dispose of permanently; their fake and reinforced bodies are fairly durable and can reconstruct themselves if the limbs aren't completely destroyed. Furthermore, attempting to fight them with magic results in a Mana Drain counterattack which consequently fuels them for a potential Action Bomb right there. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_a2b38d3b | type |
Eye Scream | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_a2b38d3b | comment |
Eye Scream: Three millions Scoville noodle, directly to the eye. "Medic..." Dabbler pulls out her cybernetic eye to show off. We don't see her face when she does so, but it causes a nearby waiter to freak out and drop everything. The trope is deliberately invoked by Achilles as a way of psyching out Heavenly Sword. Maxima does not fight fair. And again! Peggy goes for a repeat. Maxima knows that Dabbler has a camera in her cybernetic eye and has told her that this is what would happen if she tried to get footage of Maxima in the buff... to her good eye. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_a448674 | type |
Gratuitous Latin | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_a448674 | comment |
Gratuitous Latin: Averted. The Ever Vigilant are called that instead of the official "Semper Vigilantis". | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: Sydney has a brief Heroic BSoD after realizing she might have died prior to Krona's reset, hugging Maxima for comfort. Maxima, being Maxima, is at a loss for words, eventually reassuring Sydney they have on-base counselors to help her... and getting cut short when the bladder snooze alarm goes off and Sydney races away with a shouted "I have to pee!" | |
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Glad You Thought of It | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_a4c8e609 | comment |
Glad You Thought of It: Vehemence personally organized the attack by a group of supervillains on the ARCHON team a few days after the superheroes revealed themselves to the public, but let Vekter, a powerful telekinetic, think it was his idea and lead the charge... until the moment of Vehemence's inevitable betrayal, of course. | |
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Phoneaholic Teenager | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_a5ff4294 | comment |
Phoneaholic Teenager: When Tamatha disappears, it's immediately obvious to Sydney she's been kidnapped, because: | |
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Gratuitous Ninja | |
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Gratuitous Ninja: Invoked by Sydney in her television interview after the bank holdup: Gets a Call-Back when she meets Ashleigh and his assistants. | |
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Imagine Spot | |
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An Imagine Spot from Maxima about the risks of having boudoir photos of herself around takes the cake. | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname: To various degrees. Dabbler, Harem, Anvil, Math, Mr. Amorphous, Achilles, Jiggawatt, and Varia all primarily use their superhero identities in common conversation, but Brook (Heatwave), Adrian, and Vance all use their civilian names more. Maxima and Hiro's superhero names are taken from their real names (Maximilia-> Maxima, Hiro-> Super Hiro). And of course, none of them have secret identities. Sydney falls somewhere in the middle, with the press generally referring to her as "Ms. Scoville," her coworkers referring to her as Sydney, and her fans using Halo. Maxima usually refers to Anvil by her actual name (Kenya) in casual and private conversations outside of the field. | |
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Casanova Wannabe | |
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Casanova Wannabe: Ray Cosmos, an alien sleazeball so skeevy that Dabbler and Cora both completely cover up when he starts checking them out. That said, both of them end up begrudgingly getting it on with him anyway. The implication being they did so simultaneously. | |
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Super-Strength | |
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Maxima is usually very in control of her Super-Strength, but the adolescent-level antics of her subordinates can sometimes upset her enough that she'd crush her cellphone. | |
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Doctor's Orders | |
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Doctor's Orders: The EMT tries to argue with Maxima — though it's about another patient. | |
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Heart Beat-Down | |
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Heart Beat-Down: Dabbler. She is basically an alien succubus, with powers that mostly relate to inspiring lust, and she can draw power from lust or sex in her general vicinity, especially if she is personally involved. Tammatha and her guardian Decolette obviously, since they are full succubi. Parfait (Dabbler's half-sister) as well, though given her youth she doesn't have as much control. | |
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Hero Insurance | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_a9667a3b | comment |
Maxima and Sydney discuss Hero Insurance and how ARCSWAT doesn't have it. No hero has it, so each hero has to work every day to prevent his or her powers from causing millions (if not billions) of dollars in structural damage, medical bills from civilian casualties, and other forms of collateral damage. It's further discussed in #202, where Maxima admits that if a super-fight starts somewhere like in a steakhouse, they will at the very least write off the room it started in as acceptable damage, since it's a super-fight and things will get broken. Minimizing damage is a must, but avoiding it altogether is an impossibility. | |
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Snark Ball | |
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Snark Ball: All the senior officers. No audience surrogates or characters with an excessive sense of humor are in the scene, so as The Rant explains, the normally serious people are the ones carrying the jokes. It works because, in the absence of their subordinates, they don't have to maintain the appearance of being consummately professional. | |
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Covert Distress Code | |
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Covert Distress Code: The hero team is organized enough to arrange these. | |
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No-Sell | |
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If Anvil, Queen of the No-Sell, warns you off of getting hit by someone, you know it's bad. | |
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Weirdness Censor | |
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Weirdness Censor: It turns out there is one — dubbed "The Veil" — and it's artificial; created by a consortium of supernatural entities to ward off torch-waving Muggles. And someone is organizing attacks on the sigils that power it in order to eliminate it. | |
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Slippery Swimsuit | |
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Slippery Swimsuit: Sydney makes Harem lose her bikini top in the pool after pranking her with the recently discovered air-generating orb. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: For Vehemence, after he punches Maxima at full strength... and only manages to make her take one step back and break her nose, but she won't let him know that. Before that, Vehemence goes to punch who he assumed was Maxima, only to realize too late that he just hit Anvil, who absorbs kinetic energy to get stronger. If Anvil, Queen of the No-Sell, warns you off of getting hit by someone, you know it's bad. Later, when Dabbler realizes that Vehemence gains power from violence... after he's been fighting the team for a couple intense minutes. A group of construction workers are talking about the female team members while they're taking over in helping get the overpass back on track, doing the stereotypical conversation construction workers do when they see an attractive lady. Sydney, who saw one of them make the "boob heft" hands (in addition to her ability to read lips a bit), asks them how they know none of the Arc ladies have enough super hearing to hear them. Cue horrified realization. Sydney gloats after defeating a giant alien single-handedly... until she becomes aware of more approaching. | |
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Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_ad54ff39 | comment |
Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure: "What it does to a tank" is apparently the standard unit of damage. Lampshaded by the last bit of text in the cited comic. During the actual demonstration, the Author's Note remarked that Maxima's big finish was "like a C minus on the Dragon Ball Z scale". | |
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P.O.V. Cam | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_ad7a381d | comment |
P.O.V. Cam: Dabbler notes that she's using her cybernetic eye to record Maxima fighting Vehemence, with the last panel showing the perspective as she sees it, including a very generous bit of decolletage. | |
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Through the Ceiling, Stealthily | |
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Through the Ceiling, Stealthily: In "Path Finding", Sydney sneaks her hologram form inside an underground room by moving its ball-of-light form through a grate on its ceiling. | |
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Takes Ten to Hold | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_af7aa10 | comment |
Takes Ten to Hold: This is the conclusion of the fight against Vehemence, thanks to Sydney's planning. Since the villain gains power from violence, they instead pile up on him and maintain his head under water so he'd waste energy on staying alive rather than fighting. But with his level of power, it takes all the superheroes, some with extreme Super-Strength or density control, along with energy absorption to deal with his electric shocks, to actually keep him down. | |
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_afc52a86 | comment |
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: During a chat with Dabbler over her nature, Sydney imagines a Bee-Vampire-Fish-Succubus. | |
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Unsound Effect | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_afe75982 | comment |
The same goes for the Unsound Effect, as he's very fond of "nonomatopoeia". | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_b2d8059f | type |
Innocent Aliens | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_b2d8059f | comment |
Innocent Aliens: While the alien tourists that come with prior approval are presumably taught what to do and what not to do, a later emergence has them hailing a random driver asking for a tour — he tries clarifying that he's not a cab, but one offering of Worthless Yellow Rocks later and he's asking his children to scooch over. | |
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Quizzical Tilt | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_b30dd522 | comment |
Quizzical Tilt: Sydney sports one when trying to figure out Death Toll's ability, complete with lampshade hanging. | |
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Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_b34ae206 | comment |
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex: Discussed after Parfait's lust aura spreads through ARCHON. Seneca needs a Healing Potion after she, Ren and Peggy slept together, and when it wears off, she states that she would be walking crooked for the next few days. Not that she is complaining. | |
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Your Days Are Numbered | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_b43dfc8d | comment |
Your Days Are Numbered: Dabbler's explanation of why succubi are slaves reveals that, to keep them from killing their masters, they were (eventually) engineered to be mana-negative. They constantly leak mana, and for innately magical beings, that leads to a very short lifespan as without a mana source they can tap from, they begin converting life force into mana. Hence, succubi learned to become life-bound to other beings so mana can be shared between them. | |
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Space "X" | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_b46f4237 | comment |
Space "X": When Sydney and Cora get mugged off-world, The Rant alludes to this trope, saying that alley was where Space Batman's space parents were space killed. | |
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Squick | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_b486877f | comment |
Squick: Everyone around is grossed out to some degree when Hench Wench punches Mr. Amorphous hard enough to basically turn his head inside out. Sydney is usually pretty good at rolling with Dabbler's Double Entendres, but there are exceptions. | |
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Take That! | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: Obviously the author isn't a huge fan of Fox News — as is shown even more explicitly here. Varia is prone to take-that'ing towards comic characters who take the idea of a Meaningful Name so far it gets ridiculous. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_b5914444 | type |
Noodle Implements | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_b5914444 | comment |
Noodle Implements: In the aftermath of an encounter with alien Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce, Sydney requests a bathtub of ice cream to sit in; when that turns out to be unavailable, she asks for the services of a poet, a medic, and a priest. | |
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Confusion Fu | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_b59f6070 | comment |
Confusion Fu: According to Maxima, this is legitimately the best way to defeat someone with Super-Speed, as they can't counter what they can't predict. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: Peggy says that superheroes are like vegans — you don't have to ask them, because they will volunteer more than you need to know. Cue the bonus panel where Sydney asks her what supplements she uses. | |
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Facepalm of Doom | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_b71fe734 | comment |
Facepalm Of Doom: When Thothogoth happens to call Dabbler a "slave" in front of Maxima, she grabs his demonic face in her super-strong hand. Dabbler then tries to clarify that she is indeed his slave, prompting Maxima to start crushing with her fingers, cracks appearing over Thothogoth's cheek and horns. | |
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Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_b7bc7d28 | comment |
On the firing range, Sydney begs to try out the minigun, which Peggy allows over Maxima's objections. It's soon revealed why Peggy was so confident. | |
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Emotion Bomb | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_b7fea698 | comment |
Emotion Bomb: Vehemence's aggression aura can range from low-powered manipulation to making everyone angry enough to lose reason and attack even their own teammates. | |
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Can't Un-Hear It | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_b80214db | comment |
Can't Un-Hear It: invoked"One explanation later", on a green, tiki-styled background. The author defies you to read that in your head without using a pseudo-Cousteau voice. | |
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Metaphorically True | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_b8e38fc5 | comment |
Metaphorically True: Sydney insists that she didn't lie when she stated that she found the orbs "around the Florida Keys". Well, on a planetary scale, the Yucatan peninsula might be indeed close to the Florida Keys. She later calls it a "G.P.S. rounding error". | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_b91be405 | type |
Dyson Sphere | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_b91be405 | comment |
Dyson Sphere: The Fracture appears to be one built around a neutron star, which it uses to power a massive array of stargates. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_ba0a370c | type |
Color Failure | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_ba0a370c | comment |
Color Failure: When Varia (the super whose power varies depending on whom she's in contact with) accidentally touches Scarlett (a vampire) and turn into a demonic-looking form, Olivia (a normal) becomes entirely white in shock, with hair going straight up, eyes widened and round as well as jaw hanging. Then she orders six rounds of alcoholic shots. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_ba0e3912 | type |
Power Nullifier | |
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There's no such thing as a "power inhibitor", so more creative methods must be undertaken to jail criminals. Vehemence must be kept in isolation but also from acting violently himself, so he is kept high as balls and given unlimited video games to occupy him. Opal, the dangerous portal maker, is kept in a pressurized cell where making a portal will cause explosive decompression that will kill her. There is also no easily escapable super prisons at play due to the aforementioned methods, but designing said prison cells to be escape proof takes up time and resources. | |
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Classified Information | |
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Classified Information: ARCHON inevitably has its share of secrets and security concerns, and the subject is sometimes Played for Laughs, as when Harem (presumably jokingly) notes that questions of which restaurant to use for a team dinner are "all shadowy at that level". | |
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Sensual Spandex | |
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Sensual Spandex: Dabbler goes to ARCHON's pool wearing a wetsuit that leaves nothing to the imagination, and her groin is covered — front and back — with speech bubbles reading "This thing is really tight" and "Seriously you guys". Note that this isn't a case of Superheroes Wear Tights because they're about to spend a fair amount of time underwater, and it's not their usual clothing. | |
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Putting on the Reich | |
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Putting on the Reich: Literally, in the case of Luftwaffles Restaurant. | |
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_bce16d24 | comment |
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Often averted: Peggy takes advantage of the fact that many supers are only annoyed by bullets in the restaurant fight, especially with Concretia. Maxima tends to go for quick takedowns in fights. When Sydney asks why the Twilight Council would be unable to destroy the artifacts in the vault, Maxima and Dabbler tell her that some artifacts can only be destroyed under certain conditions, might require more energy than they can control to destroy, or serve some other function that necessitates keeping them around, like containing a magical virus. | |
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[Trope Name] | |
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[Trope Name]: Sydney and Dabbler play with a variant of this here where they anticipate each other's next remarks, but in the form of "Something" followed by a general description. It goes South when they do it to Maxnote and the page title is "Something about interrupting a Colonel". | |
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The Magazine Rule | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_bee9473c | comment |
The Magazine Rule: Dabbler is seen reading the Pornews Journal at several points. There is apparently an A-Cup Aficionado Quarterly publication, which voted Sydney "Sexiest Superheroine". Though given that she's the only non-Badass Normal heroine in the series who doesn't have the Most Common Superpower, that sort of makes winning an Overly Narrow Superlative for the magazine's demographic. | |
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Comical Coffee Cup | |
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Comical Coffee Cup: Blink and you'll miss it, but Sciona has a "World's Greatest Blood Mage" cup in her lair. Probably leans into Overly Narrow Superlative too. | |
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Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_bfaff026 | comment |
During the restaurant fight, Math starts complaining about not having enough of a challenge. While three or four super-powered individuals are trying to get him. Referenced in the title. | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c007c53 | comment |
Invoked. Sydney quickly gets fed up with the confusion of the first fight, and declares "Silver Age rules": every villain needs to state their name and powers, or else the ARCHON PR department will give them stupid names like "Stick Chick". | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c1c29f00 | type |
Character Level | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c1c29f00 | comment |
Character Level: Everyone knew Sydney would learn to improve her power. They probably didn't think it would be through a literal leveling system, however. Anvil even lampshades it. Bonus points for its similarities to the Sphere Grid. | |
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Cutting the Knot | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c2299d6e | comment |
Cutting the Knot: Deus uses bamboo to knock artifacts out of a field that only allows living matter to pass through, but kills what does. | |
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Superheroes Wear Tights | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c255cc72 | comment |
Superheroes Wear Tights: Partially averted. The members of ARCHON wear military uniforms, since it's a military organization. (Civilian contractors Math and Dabbler don't; Math wears street clothing, and Dabbler... well, dresses about like a succubus would be expected to.) Vigilante/unaffiliated superheroes and supervillains sometimes do. The subject simply never comes up, despite the trope being common in the in-universe comics. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c2676b00 | type |
Jurisdiction Friction | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c2676b00 | comment |
Jurisdiction Friction: Addressed and largely avoided, given the stunned reactions of the various Alphabet Agencies. Played straight and reasonably addressed in these three pages after Maxima's dinner meeting with Deus. | |
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Double Standard Rape: Female on Male | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c289826f | comment |
Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Deconstructed after Parfait's lust aura spreads through ARCHON. While Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal is played straight, unfortunately Heatwave was away at the time, so Mr. Amorphous ends up sleeping with Jiggawatt. This causes him to ask for the lust aura to be used on her when she came back. He then nervously explains to a furious Maxima that he cheated on his girlfriend and experiencing the aura is the only way she would be able to understand why. Even then, Maxima only agrees to let it happen if Dabbler makes an unbreakable vow that she would go through a month of abstinence if she uses anything remotely approaching mind control to convince Heatwave. | |
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Neck Lift | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c2c80ef | comment |
Neck Lift: When Hench Wench tries to say "Sayonara!" to Maxima by revealing she has still a portal power, she ends up caught in a neck lift before she can finish jumping through it. Reminder: Maxima has Super-Speed, so it's a bad idea to telegraph your intentions with her. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c2d978fe | type |
Car Fu | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c2d978fe | comment |
Car Fu: Deconstructed here, as are other tropes. If you can lift it, it's safe to guess that you can hit harder. | |
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Alien Blood | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c2f7db18 | comment |
Alien Blood: While not actually an alien (so far as we know), Maxima apparently bleeds blue. | |
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Foo Fu | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c30a1170 | comment |
Foo Fu: Martial Artist Jabberwokky has the power to copy any animal-based kung fu style, including some made up on the spot. The Alt Text calls it "Menagerie Fu". After Sydney finally completes a live fire course in under 4 minutes (which takes her all day) the Alt Text ranks her: "Shoot-Fu: C+. Reload-Fu: D-" | |
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Let's You and Him Fight | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c3bdfbb9 | comment |
Given that the big fight with Vehemence was essentially just a brawl with superpowers, the non-ringleaders are immediately released from ARCHON custody unless they have outstanding warrants, with some put on probation, pending the trial. Vehemence's "violence aura" power is also complicating the prosecution process immensely, since they can argue that they were forced by a superpower to attack law enforcement. | |
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Squee | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c3c245f2 | comment |
When Pixel reveals herself to be a were-jaguar, she can do nothing but Squee. | |
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Cringe Comedy | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c5ef2d50 | comment |
Cringe Comedy: Tends to crop up whenever Sydney's involved. But her barging in on a meeting to tell off Maxima for interfering with her day-job takes the cake. | |
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Karaoke Box | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c629ecec | comment |
Karaoke Box: The combined Sydney/Maxima/Glen birthday party has a karaoke setup, which reveals that Harem not only is a really good singer, she can take advantage of her power to sing multi-part harmonies. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c63e7d67 | type |
Invoked | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c63e7d67 | comment |
Invoked by Sciona. Upon regaining her original form, she takes the opportunity to add "+2 (at least)" to her chest. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c66245e9 | type |
Inconvenient Summons | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c66245e9 | comment |
Inconvenient Summons: Sydney's first attempts at summoning Parfait (Dabbler's half-sister) is a resounding success, since it results in the young succubus popping out... straight out of the bath, naked save for a few soap buds. Parfait isn't much bothered by it, though — like her sister, she's a Shameless Fanservice Girl. She later specifies she can't be summoned against her will and guessed it was Sydney. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c6695a49 | type |
Mêlée à Trois | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c6695a49 | comment |
Mêlée à Trois: The "situation" in Manhattan starts with alien bounty hunters trying to capture Maxima and tangling with the rest of her team, but it soon gets complicated by the meddling of local supervillains that are after the alien tech, and also inside intel on ARCHON. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c6b38794 | type |
Censored for Comedy | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c6b38794 | comment |
Censored for Comedy: Aside from Sydney's Cluster Bleep-Bomb on-air, the intern reporter, Suzie Wen, introduces herself as "Suzie News", prompting the manager to ask if they could bleep that. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c70fc0a2 | type |
Pretentious Latin Motto | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c70fc0a2 | comment |
Pretentious Latin Motto: ARCHON's motto (notably seen on Maxima's shirt at the beginning of the parking lot fight, and also in the background during press conferences or graduations) is "Cum Amplus Potentia Venit Amplus Onus" — "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility". note In Latin that Google Translate doesn't care for; it prefers "Cum Potestate Magna Venit Magnus Responsabilitate" | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c72876b9 | type |
Identical Panel Gag | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c72876b9 | comment |
Identical Panel Gag: Played with — the series of Flashback panels where Sydney gives Joel various silly made-up explanations for the presence of the poster tube on her back are happening on different days, which is expressed by the both of them wearing different clothes, but their poses and Sydney's movement are strictly identical every time. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Jiggawatt: Electricity-based powers. That's not a misspelling, "That's how Doc Brown said it." | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c83751cb | type |
Description Cut | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c83751cb | comment |
Description Cut: Math is convinced that the women are having sexy-times in the shower. He's right about the shampoo fight, but so, so wrong elsewise. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c919e48d | type |
Stimulant Speedtalk | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c919e48d | comment |
Stimulant Speedtalk: Played with. The villains inject a captured Halo with a truth serum to get inside information on ARCHON, except it backfires spectacularly. As it happens, using a truth serum on a Motor Mouth Cloudcuckoolander with ADHD only results in an absolutely non-stop blabbering, stream-of-consciousness run-on sentence devoid of any useful intel (except maybe for the dating status of some members)... which threatens Sydney with passing out from lack of oxygen, and possibly worse judging by her independently dilating pupils. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c949edd4 | type |
Magic Pants | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c949edd4 | comment |
After Vehemence's lack of Magic Pants results in him flashing the team after growing huge, Sydney wishes that one of her orbs would allow her to un-see things. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c9597a03 | type |
Self-Deprecation | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c9597a03 | comment |
Self-Deprecation: The author is fond of self-directed snark in the page titles and footer remarks.note He also often offers self-criticism in the commentary after the comic proper, but this is less about humor and more about honest evaluation. #125, which features a discussion of the Standard Police/Superhero/Celebrity Contract, is titled "Action packed document review". | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c95d04f2 | type |
It Can Think | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c95d04f2 | comment |
It Can Think: The fight with the rogue blood mage's creation shows that it can strategize to a degree, and even talk, and it surviving its apparent destruction and leaving shows it has self-preservation instincts. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_cc247b2d | type |
Unsatisfiable Customer | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_cc247b2d | comment |
Unsatisfiable Customer: Sydney sometimes has to deal with such customers at her comic shop. One example is Brad, who insists she orders a comic that was a limited run only available at the SDCC because it's mentioned in an article. Sydney knows to not let them get away with such crap, though, and she's not even above making death threats. | |
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Fire-Breathing Diner | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_cce5bf0f | comment |
Fire-Breathing Diner: Finding a place that serves food hot enough to induce this is one of Sydney's favorite things. She eventually succeeds. Referenced visually in Air(borne) Travel where Anvil takes a nip from Sydney's flask before learning too late that it's hot sauce. She does a Spit Take, misting the bright red fluid, and the "PFFFFFFFFT" sound effect has a fire design. | |
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Angels, Devils and Squid | |
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Angels, Devils and Squid: Demons (and possibly angels) are more-or-less humanoid beings with comprehensible if dangerous motivations who may just be Sufficiently Advanced Aliens. But then, our heroes encounter a distinctly squid-like being who doesn't seem interested in communication and may be connected to a recent planetary-scale genocide. Worryingly, it also acts like it knows something about Halo's enigmatic items of power. | |
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My Eyes Are Up Here | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_cd8c578c | comment |
My Eyes Are Up Here: Not spoken but Maxima's reaction to Harem checking out her rack is every bit this trope, by pushing her face upward with a finger under her chin. Cora does this with one of the local Press when she initially lands on Earth having "rescued" Sydney. | |
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Nosebleed | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_cd8d5b02 | comment |
Nosebleed: Sydney gets a massive one when Harem pranks her. Even Maxima is freaked out by it. | |
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Side Bet | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_cdb1c635 | comment |
Side Bet: Surprisingly common given ARC-Swat's Mildly Military structure. | |
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Dude, Not Funny! | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_cdd835ce | comment |
Dude, Not Funny!: Sydney makes a Planet of the Apes reference while watching Sciona react to the apparent destruction of her homeworld. Maxima invokes this trope, and even Sydney concedes the point. | |
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Mage Killer | |
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Mage Killer: The supernatural meeting is attacked by magic mannequins designed to kill mages and other supernatural beings like weres. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_ce22183 | type |
Super Registration Act | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_ce22183 | comment |
Super Registration Act: Played with. As noted in the press conference where ARCHON is officially announced, this isn't in effect — empowered individuals in the private sector aren't required to register with the government at all, and are protected by Second Amendment rights. On the other hand, they don't get any special protection, either. ARCHON is there to provide accountability and training to those who want to put those powers to use in crime-fighting or otherwise helping people, but "superheroes" who attack villains without sanction are vigilantes, and thus may be treated as criminals. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_ce555c91 | type |
Post-Modern Magik | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_ce555c91 | comment |
Post-Modern Magik: Deus rigged a magical Dimensional Cutter to a motorized, circular track to create a stargate for quick and easy interstellar travel. Some magic users treat spells like programming language for magic. Dabbler at one point calls over Leon and Krona for their experience in coding to make adjustments to the glamour charms on a gift to Maxima. She goes on to describe enchanting systems with names comparable to typical programming language that simplify the process of enchanting an object. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_ce9f550c | type |
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_ce9f550c | comment |
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: While their English is nowhere near that bad, an alien's "GlibGlorb to English Translator" name-drops the trope. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_ced06d48 | type |
Instant Cosplay Surprise | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_ced06d48 | comment |
Instant Cosplay Surprise: Downplayed when Harem Teleport Spams with her Hive Mind to coordinate taking off Halo's glasses, switching her shirt for another and putting a wig on her, which is shown in three quick panels, though it's still too fast for Sydney to resist it. | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_ced06d48 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_cf27e1d1 | type |
Doppelmerger | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_cf27e1d1 | comment |
Doppelmerger: Harem has the ability to split herself into up to five duplicates. By merging together, she increases her strength and durability to superhuman levels, but she dislikes doing this because her brain is set to process sensory input from multiple sources so she feels like she's half-blind if she doesn't have at least two of her active at once. | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_cf27e1d1 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_cf5335c | type |
Energy Absorption | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_cf5335c | comment |
Energy Absorption: Anvil's power allows her to absorb kinetic energy from attacks, before releasing it all at once. Heatwave can absorb heat in addition to emitting it, but doesn't like the feeling it gives her. | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_cf5335c | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_cffd71bd | type |
Most Common Super Power | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_cffd71bd | comment |
Most Common Superpower: Subverted, played straight and discussed. Sydney is a short, average-looking young woman with mild A-Cup Angst. Most supers, however, are either curvy females with not a B-Cup among them or perfectly muscled Adonis-class men. It's discussed in-comic that it can't be mere coincidence that all supers with innate powers look like ideal human beings. Later, Sydney deconstructs the idea of this being a result of supers' divergent evolution. Invoked by Sciona. Upon regaining her original form, she takes the opportunity to add "+2 (at least)" to her chest. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d028e0da | type |
An Arm and a Leg | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d028e0da | comment |
An Arm and a Leg: When Maxima is attempting to overload Vehemence's "Vehemic energy"-based resilience, she goes for a high-powered limb shot. The Super Husk loses a limb at one point, but it turns out that it can regenerate. Sciona has a leg shot off by Dabbler in their initial fight. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d1522cf | type |
Tongue Trauma | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d1522cf | comment |
Tongue Trauma: Narrowly averted when Sydney grabs a robber by the tongue and slams him to the ground. It's averted because the "robber" is another super-powered being in disguise. His power just happens to be extreme stretchiness. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d1547031 | type |
HA HA HA—No | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d1547031 | comment |
Hahaha No: Maxima exhibits one when Ingsol asks if Sydney projects a "stupidity aura". | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d1547031 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d21a93f4 | type |
Hand Gagging | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d21a93f4 | comment |
Hand Gagging: Maxima has sometimes no other choice but to resort on covering Sydney's mouth to contain her verbal logorrhea. Peggy often has to take on this duty when Maxima isn't around. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d31da2e3 | type |
If It's You, It's Okay | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d31da2e3 | comment |
If It's You, It's Okay: Although the spell Dabbler put on Jabberwokky by kissing her has long since worn off, the attraction is still obvious as of #910, even though the latter insists she's straight. This probably has something to do with Dabbler being the best kisser on Planet Earth. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d397657d | type |
Hoist by His Own Petard | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d397657d | comment |
Hoist by His Own Petard: Sydney got a little too cocky after an accidental sucker-punch on Math. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d3a4af1e | type |
Sympathy for the Devil | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d3a4af1e | comment |
Sympathy for the Devil: Even Maxima's expression softens a bit for Sciona when they see the remains of her civilization's city. | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d3a4af1e | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d442f9d1 | type |
ToiletHumor | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d442f9d1 | comment |
Toilet Humor: When Sydney explains that her pants are loud, Ren replies with "My pants are loud when I eat cabbage." After Lapha merges herself with Garamm to avoid dying by being eaten by the Umbrivion, they have to navigate the awkwardness of a female entity sharing the body of a male alien... including the issue of errant pee streams. Sydney being told of and later going through the physically unpleasant (but visually beautiful) aftereffects of eating grakz. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d4bb4e51 | type |
Walking Shirtless Scene | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d4bb4e51 | comment |
Walking Shirtless Scene: Well not walking per se, but definitely counts with a number of well-toned guys standing around an entertainment hall all tricked out of their shirts by Harem. Hiro is especially prone to this, in spite of having a Limited Wardrobe that consists of the same style of black, skintight T-shirts. | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d4bb4e51 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d4f5426 | type |
Absence of Evidence | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d4f5426 | comment |
Absence of Evidence: Inverted with Heatwave, and also combined with Comically Missing the Point and Delayed Reaction. After a bank robbery, Harem pulled a prank on Maxima that made everyone think she played kissy face with Heatwave's boyfriend Mr. Amorphous. Later Heatwave mentions that since Maxima's lips are naturally red, she doesn't wear lipstick so she couldn't have left kiss marks on anybody. The thing that keyed everyone in that Sydney is a super is the carrying tube for her orbs, which is "A little too empty, if that makes any sense." | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d525f857 | type |
Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d525f857 | comment |
Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Pointedly averted here, when Sydney tries flying to an alien moon — she gets out of the planet's atmosphere pretty quickly, but the moon doesn't seem to get closer despite her going Mach 4. | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d525f857 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d53d0080 | type |
Vampiric Draining | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d53d0080 | comment |
Sciona is actually unusual in how she uses her talents; most use it for Vampiric Draining to heal themselves and restore their reserves. | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d53d0080 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d68762ef | type |
Weapon for Intimidation | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d68762ef | comment |
Weapon for Intimidation: The reason why even team members who can cut tanks into "blowed up ribbons" are still issued firearms — even if your finger is much deadlier than any Hand Cannon, it can't compete for sheer visual menace. | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d68762ef | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d6e495b2 | type |
Undisclosed Funds | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d6e495b2 | comment |
Undisclosed Funds: While the exact number was not given, at first glance Sydney assumed that her first biweekly paycheck was an annual paycheck. Which probably makes it mid-five digits at a minimum. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d7531233 | type |
You Need a Breath Mint | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d7531233 | comment |
You Need a Breath Mint: Sydney's love of spicy food has given her weapons-grade halitosis. The ARCHON medical staff has prescribed her breath mints. | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d7531233 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d7639dba | type |
Achilles' Heel | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d7639dba | comment |
Achilles: Invulnerability (though this excludes the heel). | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d7639dba | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d80e9526 | type |
Sex for Services | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d80e9526 | comment |
Sex for Services: By Deus towards Sciona, who needs a MacGuffin but can't afford to buy it with money.note Now, if Sciona wasn't so impatient that she wanted the MacGuffin essentially immediately, then presumably she could raise the money eventually. But then this trope wouldn't occur. It is framed as both getting something out of the deal as Sciona is being said to "not have been a woman in a long time" and Deus gets to add some kind of Drow-Expy to his list of conquests. | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d80e9526 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d820f28 | type |
Reaction Shot | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d820f28 | comment |
Reaction Shot: The entirety of page #739 is dedicated to Sydney flipping money into her swear jar II for all the swearing she did in deep space, as Maxima slowly realizes the implications of what she's saying. | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d820f28 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d94ff9b3 | type |
Wall of Text | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d94ff9b3 | comment |
Wall of Text: When Sydney is rambling under the effect of a Truth Serum, her speech bubbles cover more of the whole page than the actual pictures. Again after Sydney leaves a voicemail for Maxima about their latest misadventures in Africa. A twenty-seven-minutes-long voicemail of ADHD rambling. The strip is aptly titled "Anti-concision". | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d94ff9b3 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d9563969 | type |
Failed Attempt at Drama | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d9563969 | comment |
Failed Attempt at Drama: Jabberwokky introducing herself; she tries to make a badass entrance by challenging Math to a duel, only to slip on some broken glass, causing her to fall on her ass. | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d9563969 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d9719c42 | type |
Paper-Bag Popping | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d9719c42 | comment |
Paper-Bag Popping: A flashback panel shows that a younger Maxima discovered her power to shoot blasts of energy with her hand when her brother woke her up by popping a paper bag as a joke, resulting in a large, burning hole in the wall of their house, missing said brother by inches, if that. | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d9719c42 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d9723630 | type |
In My Language, That Sounds Like... | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d9723630 | comment |
In My Language, That Sounds Like...: A joke that is used and played with when Sydney, after getting, umm, friendly with hot canine furry alien Frix, thinks to ask what his species are called — and learns that he's a "Woof". Then she tells him that she's a human, and discovers that's a funny word in his language. | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d9723630 | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d9cc408b | type |
Gravity Master | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d9cc408b | comment |
Gravity Master: Super Massive is a supervillain with an extremely precise control of gravity, to the point he can give trouble to Maxima, despite her Flight, Super-Speed and Super-Strength powers, even diverting her Hand Blast around himself. Stalwart, who can control his own mass and density, fares better against him, and Super Massive is finally taken out by teamwork. | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d9cc408b | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d9e946ae | type |
Cute Monster Girl | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d9e946ae | comment |
Dabbler and other succubi are incredibly attractive, lustful, have all sorts of powers based around sex, and are overall just sex on legs. Unlike most works that have succubi as Cute Monster Girls, this comic points out how improbable such a race naturally evolving into its present state is and reveals that all succubi are the result of thousands of years of trying to build perfect sex slaves from the ground up by wizards, only for them being weaponized by their masters giving an opening to take their independence. | |
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Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d9e946ae | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d9fe8277 | type |
I'm Standing Right Here | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_d9fe8277 | comment |
I'm Standing Right Here: Maxima and Sydney take offense when they find out their alien friends are actually betting on what will most probably cause human extinction, with "antibiotic-resistant superbug", "runaway anthropogenic climate change" and "rampant A.I." in the running. | |
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Cross-Popping Veins | |
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Cross-Popping Veins: Maxima sports a set when her attempts to keep Sydney benched until she can undergo training get immediately undercut. | |
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A Glass in the Hand | |
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A Glass in the Hand: Maxima is usually very in control of her Super-Strength, but the adolescent-level antics of her subordinates can sometimes upset her enough that she'd crush her cellphone. She also breaks a chunk of her podium after the succubus lust aura incident, when Mr. Amorphous suggests that Heatwave ought to experiment with it too — but he doesn't mean it in a bad way. | |
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Elaborate Underground Base | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_daef39ee | comment |
The Elaborate Underground Base of one group of villains is noted to actually be poorly guarded in The Rant because the large amounts of guards, cameras, and physical fortifications required to make it properly secure would draw attention to it. The base accordingly relies more on its inconspicuous location to protect itself, and swiftly falls to a coordinated super assault. | |
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Animesque | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_db08a39d | comment |
Animesque: There's some visible manga influence here. | |
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Ludicrous Gibs | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_db33bc7e | comment |
Ludicrous Gibs: During Cora's very first interaction with Sydney, a group of alien muggers (with extremely poor victim selection instincts) decides to rob them. The encounter goes from Sydney and Cora laughing at the absurdity of random muggers robbing probably the two most dangerous/powerful people on the entire planetoid to a smash cut of a carnage-filled street and alley, where the local authorities are literally recovering melted bone fragments of Cora and Sydney's would-be assailants. It was apparently gruesome enough to leave Sydney completely pale and shaking at Cora's level of violence. In "Maximum Trauma!", Cora shoots the leader of the team that kidnapped and drugged Sydney with something on a time-delay detonation that basically juliennes him off-panel, leaving Sydney drenched in blood and decorated with a chunk of his torso and an ear, among other things. The comments note that the effect is reminiscent of a bolt round mixed with a Harlequin's Kiss. Honestly, pretty much any combat situation involving Cora will result in this. Unless she is specifically told/threatened to restrain herself, she will enthusiastically use weaponry and ordinance specifically designed to spaghettify her targets. | |
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Pillar of Light | |
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Pillar of Light: Some sort of alien probe sends a red beam into the sky after scanning Sydney's orbs. It seems to be a kind of beacon, since not long after that a gigantic spaceship appears right over the beam. | |
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Naughty Tentacles | |
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Naughty Tentacles: The Wyrmil/Cooter fusion summons some to cover their escape. Though they're only naughty because that's what they're usually summoned to be. Actually, they're quite affable, and apologize when they realize the situation. Played straight regarding The "Tentacle Closet" Dabbler had installed on Cora's ship. | |
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Ear Worm | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_dc335a04 | comment |
Ear Worm: After Sydney activates her "Super ADHD Brain", she comments that Batman singing "I'm the Bat-Man! Ski bi di bi di do bap do..." is totally stuck in her head now. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_dcb9c541 | type |
Ship Tease | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_dcb9c541 | comment |
Ship Tease: A couple have been hinted at. Leon's displayed nerdiness has been shown as a Geeky Turn-On to Sydney, mulling over whether his name would fit well with hers after sporting a Luminescent Blush. After the nightclub visit, Sydney loses track of the time chatting with him. Maxima and Hiro has been teased a few times, such as Sydney claiming (perhaps falsely) that he would be Maxima's "minimum bar", dating-wise. Anvil also ships them. Notably, Maxima herself mistook Hiro's pantomiming for hitting on her, which was the first major indication of this trope. A later strip has Maxima commenting on Hiro's facial injury, suggesting that he could do with a little scar. | |
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Celebrity Cameo | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_dcc35bb | comment |
Celebrity Cameo: After her stint in outer space, during an autograph session the Mighty Halo gets to meet Neil deGrasse Tyson. | |
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Tradesnarkâ„¢ | |
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Tradesnarkâ„¢: Hex's "Buster Buddies" are always appended to a "â„¢" inside her speech bubbles, and also in her summary outside the comic. | |
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The Nudifier | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_ddac33c8 | comment |
The Nudifier: Dabbler knows a "declothesifying spell", natch. | |
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Pulling Themselves Together | |
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She made a new body (there was plenty of concrete about), but got promptly taken out by another bad-arsed normal with an anti-materiel rifle. | |
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Green-Skinned Space Babe | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_de085a36 | comment |
Green-Skinned Space Babe: Dabbler takes the form of the original. Courtesy of her Truesight, Sydney gets to see another one while at the club. While being blue, Cora and Detla fall solidly into this category. Pretty much every female Alari. So much so that Deus takes great pleasure in being able to check Alari off of his sexual conquest list after "negotiating" with the recently restored Sciona. | |
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Stock Scream | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_de0df7a0 | comment |
Stock Scream: Achilles makes the Goofy Holler when punched through the ceiling by Concretia. A mook literally shouts "Wilhelm!" as he is pushed over a railing by an explosion. | |
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Poke in the Third Eye | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_de98d218 | comment |
Poke in the Third Eye: Raised as a possibility; Dabbler explains how she detected the invisible X, and describes what she could in principle do about him. | |
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Pooled Funds | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_dee1124e | comment |
Pooled Funds: Sydney wants to do this with dice, and is super disappointed that the geokinetic who mined a swimming pool-sized cache of gold keeps it as gold bars rather than in "Scrooge McDuck form," to be dived into. | |
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For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_df33a778 | comment |
For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: Sydney does this to avoid drawing undue attention at a convention in the crossover story, acting like she's dressing up as Halo, complete with wire holders for her orbs. Unfortunately, she forgets to swap out her ARCHON jacket and at least one person ID's her before things go south. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_dfa71e43 | type |
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_dfa71e43 | comment |
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: One of the villains in the massive brawl politely waits because Dabbler asked him to. Though not wanting to die from the sudden gamma radiation threat she was trying to solve probably contributed to his passivity. | |
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Freudian Threat | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e12670cd | comment |
Freudian Threat: Maxima delivers one by pressing her Hand Cannon against a mercenary Super's banana-hammock. He quickly surrenders. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e135b3de | type |
Pass the Popcorn | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e135b3de | comment |
Pass the Popcorn: After Leon gets a copy of the robbery footage, Peggy, Dabbler, Anvil and Harem are eating popcorn while watching. Happens again during Math and Anvil's fight, with The Rant pointing out that "ARCHON must go through popcorn like civilian cops go through donuts". Decolette is also eating popcorn while watching Dabbler seduce Cooter through one-way glass. She would have done it herself, but she lost the coin toss. Dabbler, Sydney, and the other ladies break out popcorn while watching Maxima fight Vehemence in the quarry. It happens often enough that the author eventually lampshades it. One advantage of having a teleporter on the team is that you can get popcorn anywhere, anytime. | |
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Know When to Fold 'Em | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e16cd24e | comment |
It took a claymore mine to make her decide to just stay down. (A concrete body may sound like a great super-power, but it's actually overrated: even bone is four times stronger...) | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e1ff8ff6 | type |
Fantasy Kitchen Sink | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e1ff8ff6 | comment |
Fantasy Kitchen Sink: #443 reveals that in addition to demons, vampires and werewolves (the latter two introduced in the last few pages), the Grrlverse has a large variety of supernatural beings. | |
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Gangsta Style | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e2cbeee9 | comment |
Gangsta Style: Mocked mercilessly in the cadet handbook. | |
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Yiddish as a Second Language | |
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Yiddish as a Second Language: An offhand comment from Sydney was "I'm not religious, but if I was, I'd go Jewish because they have the funniest words." | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e43c66bd | type |
Art Evolution | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e43c66bd | comment |
Art Evolution: Compare Joel's first appearance to his second one the next day (actually five years later). Similarly, Brad, the obnoxious customer, in his first appearance versus his appearance the next day (also nearly five years later). | |
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Fascinating Eyebrow | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e4b82f6f | comment |
Fascinating Eyebrow: Hiro gives Sydney one when she accidentally calls him "Super handsome". | |
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Disaster Dominoes | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e4ba33fc | comment |
Disaster Dominoes: Setup: One character that has one mind spread between five bodies. Anything that happens to one, the rest will feel. Pitch: A super-strong teammate gives one an atomic wedgie. Homerun: This causes the other four bodies, wherever they are, to jerk around and stumble, each one accidentally taking another Amusing Injury from the previous one's reflex. | |
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Jaw Drop | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e4f05faa | comment |
Jaw Drop: In any comic where you have supers mixing with normals, you expect them. Then there's the one that occurs when Sydney eats a second bite of 3-million-Scoville noodles. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e61d9a3c | type |
Clothing Damage | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e61d9a3c | comment |
Clothing Damage: Occurs on several occasions. Achilles is Nigh-Invulnerable minus the nigh, but his powers have no effect on his clothes. When the Super Husk explodes, Hiro is rendered naked and Maxima has what remains of her clothes in such tatters she might as well be. Maxima tends to be the primary victim of this trope in the comic. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e621b159 | type |
A-Cup Angst | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e621b159 | comment |
Subverted, played straight and discussed. Sydney is a short, average-looking young woman with mild A-Cup Angst. Most supers, however, are either curvy females with not a B-Cup among them or perfectly muscled Adonis-class men. It's discussed in-comic that it can't be mere coincidence that all supers with innate powers look like ideal human beings. Later, Sydney deconstructs the idea of this being a result of supers' divergent evolution. | |
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InfoDump | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e63228a7 | comment |
Info Dump: Word of God admits the press conference is essentially this. | |
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Ignore the Disability | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e6382176 | comment |
Ignore the Disability: Sydney can't stop referencing Peggy's prosthetic leg. No matter how much she wants to. | |
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Don't Sneak Up on Me Like That! | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e71d66e | comment |
Don't Sneak Up on Me Like That!: Sydney reacts badly to the resident teleporter. Later on, she's gently encouraged to respond to surprises by putting her shield up rather than by socking people in the face. Later reacts badly in a more humorous manner. | |
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| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e75614db | type |
Odd Reaction Out | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e75614db | comment |
Odd Reaction Out: "What else would you do with two invisible arms?" has mental reactions to a hot woman revealing that Harem is attracted to females, while the other two women in the room aren't. | |
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Accidental Truth | |
| Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_e784bb8c | comment |
Accidental Truth: To get an annoying customer to stop lusting after Max, Sydney (unbeknownst to anyone in ARCHON, much less Maxima or Hiro themselves) tells him that Hiro represents Maxima's minimum physical standard, dating-wise. This eventually leads to a public rumor developing that the two supers are in a Secret Relationship. They're not — by military regulations, Maxima would not be allowed to date a subordinate officer under her direct command — but later events show that there's some attraction. In fact, even without the constant heavy-handed matchmaking attempts by Anvil, Max and Hiro have so many examples of flirting while alone, and more than just the basic friend/comrade level of care and concern for one another, that it's almost sad that they can't get together.note It doesn't help that various battle shenanigans often result in the two of them being put into exceedingly racy situations involving destroyed clothing and close proximity. Maxima pretty much outright says that she's 100% onboard with hooking up if they are ever the same rank. | |
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Mildly Military | |
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Mildly Military: Played with. Arc-SWAT is a military organization, and members are given ranks and expected to act appropriately befitting those ranks. They're even given basic training including firearms, despite the fact that most of them are more lethal than the average tank. That being said, supers are incredibly rare, so the team is forced to take what they can get. It seems like ninety percent of them spend half their time in remedial PR courses. On the plus side, dress code is relaxed. | |
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Brain Bleach | |
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Brain Bleach: Almost a running gag for Sydney. After Vehemence's lack of Magic Pants results in him flashing the team after growing huge, Sydney wishes that one of her orbs would allow her to un-see things. Invoked by name when Sydney first sees Cooter in the Vault. After Cora ignores Maxima's advice regarding using non-lethal ammo and reduces the leader of the people who kidnapped Sydney to chunky body salsa, Sydney, now thoroughly covered in said salsa, reaches out for the syringe containing a memory-erasing drug said bad guy planned to use on her, despite the possibility of it reacting badly with her ADHD and turning her into a vegetable, so she can wipe her mind of the whole scene. Good thing she can't reach it. Still, the experience causes her to puke until her ribs hurt. | |
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Steven Ulysses Perhero | |
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Steven Ulysses Perhero: Aside from Hiro himself, Varia takes a shot at the convention in a bonus panel. | |
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PlayedWith | |
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Played With. Casual interplanetary travel is restricted solely to planets that have developed FTL, but though measures are taken to keep pre-FTL and immature civilizations unaware of the greater intergalactic community, there is no law against visiting less advanced planets — proper disguises are recommended, but the Veil existing on Earth means such disguises are absolutely essential. What the universe at large is really worried about is preventing technological paradigm shifts: "Don't give a caveman a space gun." Oddly enough, Sydney's orbs are one such Outside-Context Problem — enough so that when she's stranded off-world, not only can she not use the Portal Network to get back, she actually is in danger of being snapped up like she originally feared. | |
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Aside Glance | |
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Aside Glance: Played with during Max's dinner with Deus. As he's trying to calm down Lorlara, Max looks from him to her in consecutive panels. However, in said panels the view is on Max's face, and said change of looks means she's now also looking at the reader, with her look of barely-surpressed amusement working both in and out of universe. | |
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The Rant | |
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Author's Note: This page would have played out very differently if the comic was behind an age gate. | |
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Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth | |
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Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Sydney creates a literal example when possessed by Lapha. She orders a dish so spicy she's one of the very few people who likes it, and while she can tolerate the heat, Lapha can't, and is so overwhelmed by the burn that she vacates Sydney's body rather than try to build a tolerance or keep Sydney from eating any more of it. | |
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Space Travel Veto | |
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Space Travel Veto: Discussed as why the galactic community will not help Earth reach the stars. | |
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Webcomic Time | |
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Webcomic Time: The story's first day ended with strip #294, posted roughly four and a half years after the first (23rd August 2010). Strip #500 is set on the night of day three. Since the main story is a flashback of several months from page one, without a time-skip, the author looked likely to die of old age before returning to the story's present day. Fortunately perhaps, in "A Timely Prank", it turns out that a time-skip has happened, in the form of the portal to Sciona's home planet, which propelled Sydney two months into the future as a side-effect of its instability — though it only felt like two days to her, as that's how long it took her to return to Earth after the portal closed. | |
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Dramatic Gun Cock | |
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Dramatic Gun Cock: After Maxima's initial Freudian Threat, she cocks her firearm at Brüt's banana-hammock. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: EQUALIZER KICK! Homerun! Vehemence barely avoids one from Maxima. Apollo 13! Stalwart's toughness and ability to change weight saved him from damage. Maxima threatens Brüt with one from her Hand Cannon at point-blank range. After remembering what that thing did to his knee (even with super toughness), he surrenders. | |
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Crossover | |
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Crossover: The characters from the webcomic appear in a crossover story in the "Team-Ups and Crossovers" novel of the Wearing the Cape series. It's lampshaded of course, especially since the Wearing the Cape characters are fictional there and Astra looks just like the actor portraying her character. | |
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Stupid Sexy Flanders | |
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Stupid Sexy Flanders: Dabbler shows here that she loves seducing and confusing the new recruits◊. | |
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Technology Levels | |
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Technology Levels: The basic division is between pre and post-FTL civilizations, but there's a third category that's extremely advanced but mostly keep to themselves. Sydney's orbs might be the first real evidence of a fourth, even more advanced, "Nth" tier civilization. | |
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Moment Killer | |
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Moment Killer: A non-sexual one when Sydney sucks the wind out of Maxima's sails. | |
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Vomit Discretion Shot | |
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Vomit Discretion Shot: Sydney pukes after almost getting shot, when Maxima shows her the bullet. Much later, the combo of stress, adrenaline withdrawal, and whatever Cora gave her to counter the Truth Serum she was given have Sydney puking to the point that her ribs hurt, although her head is off-screen. The sound effects are inserted into her speech bubbles, though, which blunts the discretion. The female alien throws up after seeing the Umbrivion's true form, but her head is behind a trash can so all that's depicted is the sound. | |
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Late to the Punchline | |
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Late to the Punchline: That Visual Pun of Sydney dropping Anvil on Vehemence's head? Harem finally got it two nights later. | |
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Geeky Turn-On | |
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Leon's displayed nerdiness has been shown as a Geeky Turn-On to Sydney, mulling over whether his name would fit well with hers after sporting a Luminescent Blush. After the nightclub visit, Sydney loses track of the time chatting with him. | |
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Boobs-and-Butt Pose | |
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Boobs-and-Butt Pose: This page with Pixel's were-jaguar form comes complete with "Dabbler Approved T&A Pose". | |
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Mundane Utility | |
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Mundane Utility: Heatwave uses her powers to pop a bag of popcorn. The spell that upholds The Masquerade is global, so the Council made modifications to the Sigils that support it to allow other spells, especially communication ones, to piggyback on it. This bites them in the butt when the function is disabled to buy more time for repairs, as a vault is breached but the alarm spells can't reach anyone. An Imagine Spot from Maxima about the risks of having boudoir photos of herself around takes the cake. After Sydney realizes her green orb generates an air bubble, she quickly puts it to pranking use. In a bit of Painting the Medium, Dabbler uses her ability to make portals to make her speech bubbles easier for readers to see. Several pages of the comic show the ARC-Swat crew doing basic cleanup and construction work on a local overpass due to the damage from their previous battles delaying progress on the normal boring city infrastructure project. | |
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Early-Bird Cameo | |
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Early-Bird Cameo: Ren and Vance are first seen during the "Hot beefcake injection", but aren't properly introduced until just over 200 strips later. | |
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Offhand Backhand | |
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Offhand Backhand: The setup of the strip doesn't make it obvious at first, but you can deduce from her final position that Maxima is knocking out a hulking brute without even watching at the beginning of the superhero free-for-all (and the strip's title, "Backhands and Commands", spells it out). She's also doing that while giving orders, making it a case of Excuse Me While I Multitask. Shortly after, Math throws a knife at Heavenly Sword (who barely deflects it with her shinai) without looking and while talking to Maxima on the coms. | |
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Insignificant Little Blue Planet | |
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Insignificant Little Blue Planet: Cora lays this out perfectly clear during the first contact press conference. The Earth is at almost zero risk of invasion, because it's not yet a space-faring world. It has nothing any race could want that they couldn't get elsewhere. Which also means that nobody is going to come to uplift the human race to "become" a space-faring race, as it's generally accepted it's healthier for a race to develop their own means to leave their world rather than be handed one. However, this gets somewhat inverted less than 20 pages later when Cora gets a demonstration of what Earth's supers are capable of in the form of ARCSWAT ripping through the Fel infantry and Maxima one-shotting their ship. | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
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Distracted by the Sexy: One of Dabbler's many superpowers — a succubus's body is literally hypnotic, although she's attractive enough that it's usually just written off as being mundane distraction. Sydney actually tries to put this to good use against Vehemence by making use of Dabbler's hypnotic breasts, but unfortunately, those supposed to act while he's distracted are also distracted. Math, all the time, to the point that it causes a problem during the team's first battle. Maxima's solution is creative: When Vehemence grows in size, losing his pants in the process, most female members of ARCHON are definitely distracted and male members go green with envy (and one of them does a George Takei-esque "oh myyyy!"). | |
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Unskilled, but Strong | |
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Unskilled, but Strong: While not actually super strong, Achilles is invulnerable, so never learned much about fighting. He's most likely to insert himself between friends and foes, or simply act as a distraction. note But he has been learning to grapple.Lampshaded here. Vehemence. During a training exercise Detla complains about his lack of skill; but once he powers up, he's very, very strong. | |
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Too Much Information | |
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Too Much Information: Name-dropped by Sydney when Dabbler's openly discussing her "activities" last night. Harem, on the other hand, thinks there's not enough information. | |
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Breast Expansion | |
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Sciona as well, pre-Breast Expansion at least. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: It's partially obstructed, but Maxima apparently drinks Guinness Black. Also, Monster. | |
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Verbal Backspace | |
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Verbal Backspace: As Dabbler, Leon, Cora, and Krona are tinkering with Max's disguising choker, one tweak causes her hair and eyebrows to match her skin tone. Leon notes that it's turned her hair flesh colored, then hastily corrects himself to "Caucasian colored" when Anvil gives him the stink eye. | |
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Insult Backfire | |
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Insult Backfire: Deus's impervious ego No-Sells Maxima's snarky dismissal of Deus's relative importance. | |
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Battle Strip | |
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Maxima goes for a double-facepalm when she realizes a new villain she's facing is wearing a breakaway business suit just to make a dramatic Battle Strip. | |
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Ow, My Body Part! | |
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Ow, My Body Part!: Parodied after Sydney punches Dabbler in the lower back for an earlier (sexual) prank. | |
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Laser Blade | |
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Laser Blade: Pixel's power as a super is laser claws, which she can only use in her were-jaguar hybrid or animal forms. The Super Brawl features Heavenly Sword (no, not that one), who can form energy barriers around wielded weaponry, including whips. | |
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Facepalm | |
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Facepalm: The Alt Text of one strip is "Triple facepalm and a sidebutt", unsurprisingly thanks to Sydney. Suffice to say, Sydney inspires a lot of these in her more straitlaced coworkers, with the cake getting taken when she manages to send Maxima into the Troubled Fetal Position. Dabbler's pervy antics can also inspire this reaction to Maxima. For example, during the "interrogation" of Cooter, upon realizing that yes, he's that stupid. Maxima is not the only one to suffer from embarrassing underlings, though. Deus himself cannot help but facepalm at times from Lorlara's over-eagerness. Jabberwokky facepalms when Sydney deduces they're not doing laundry but playing Strip Poker... because they're not in a laundry room. Maxima goes for a double-facepalm when she realizes a new villain she's facing is wearing a breakaway business suit just to make a dramatic Battle Strip. In a flashback panel, Thothogoth is seen holding his claw to his face as Parfait shows him the result of her attempt to wish for a bar of gold: one doubloon... and an audit. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: There's been several of varying lengths. Everyone making fun of "For Whom the Death Tolls"' name. "Make Maxima Say..." Bingo. The exchange of sexy pictures between the heroes on the team — for any beefcake the women get to enjoy, cheesecake must be given in return, and vice-versa. Sydney's Motor Mouth moments. Popcorn — literally. Harem's oddly-named soft drinks describing impending events. Attack of the 50-Foot Ex-Boyfriend, anyone? Hiro's shirts either being removed or destroyed, even when doing non-combat relatively mundane things. Who, or whatever Dabbler's latest "Take Home Meal" (aka date she's sexed into unconsciousness the previous night) being found by the other ARC-Swat members on the couch in the rec room the following morning. | |
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Gadgeteer Genius | |
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On a meta-level, this is to avoid a tech spiral that would leave the world nearly unrecognizable, so Gadgeteer Genius supers are rare in the Grrl-verse. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: Deus invokes this trope deliberately. "Oh no, there's air conditioning." Starting from the last three panels on this page through the next page. | |
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Gun Stripping | |
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Gun Stripping: One of the requirements for Sydney to achieve to be approved for gun use. | |
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Impact Silhouette | |
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Impact Silhouette: An impact of Aranea's six-armed silhouette is left through a boarded window after Tamatha uses her power to defenestrate her kidnapper. | |
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Fun with Subtitles | |
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Fun with Subtitles: PLEASE MAKE THIS GIRL STOP CURSING. I feel like I'm playing Diablo with the censor button. And really, all the comments the news ticker displays throughout the course of the comic, acting similarly to The Colbert Report's "The Word" segment. Now the news scroll during the press conference showing America' reaction to ARCHON being essentially military police. A variant. Leon clearly enjoys coming up with Embarrassing Nicknames on the HUD for villains that haven't bothered to name themselves. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Sydney forgot her own advice — always expect Ninjas. Also: | |
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished | |
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Despite being seemingly burned all over by Heatwave's attacks, Glowbug's skin merely looks blotchy. However, Heatwave's attack may have been based on heat exhaustion rather than outright combustion. Averted after Maxima digs herself out of being buried from a bomb blast. | |
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Evil Is Petty | |
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Sciona's Evil Is Petty attitude leads her to storm off in a huff and forget something in the Vault, and then leads her to start a fight with Vale. | |
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Buffy Speak | |
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Buffy Speak: While trying to describe the entities that could have created the source of supers, Deus gets distracted mentally chasing rabbits, gives up, and resorts to such a description. | |
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SufficientlyAdvancedAliens | |
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Sufficiently Advanced Aliens: Discussed by Dabbler as an explanation for artifacts like Sydney's spheres, believed to be so elusive that they're considered myths. Deus has reason to believe the same or similar beings constructed an artificial law of physics overlaid on the universe that the human genome structure can tap into for superpowers. The question is whether or not it was intended for humans to have that capacity. | |
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Talking Is a Free Action | |
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Talking Is a Free Action: Lampshaded in the author commentary at the bottom of a Math-focused strip. Averted: Icon covers Dabbler; she stops to make adjustments, turns to fight, and... Maxima is standing over a pile of disassembled enemies. | |
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