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Worm

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Worm	comment	Worm by John McCrae, a.k.a. Wildbow, is a Web Serial Novel centered around Taylor Hebert, a teenager with a superpower enabling her to control bugs. It is the first novel in the Parahumans series.Worm takes place in an alternate universe known as "Earth Bet". The history of Earth Bet very closely resembles that of our own Earth, but things rather drastically changed when a naked man with golden skin, going by the name "Scion", was suddenly found hovering in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in 1982. Following Scion's appearance, a fraction of the human population found themselves suddenly gaining superpowers, usually a result of being faced with an extraordinary traumatic and stressful event in their lives; these incidents became known as "trigger events" and the superpowered people that resulted from them became formally known as "parahumans", informally as "capes". In the beginning, the sudden influx of these parahumans gave birth to the brief era that became known as the "Golden Age of Heroism", as many of them started using their powers in name of public good and helping people. But in the late 1980s and early 1990s, this Golden Age gradually faded out, as a growing number of the parahumans instead started using their powers to commit crimes, something which presented an increasingly serious challenge to the parahumans who stayed on the path of heroism. In addition, the growth of the superpowered criminal element and the brutality of their crimes, resulted in widespread concern and discontent amongst the regular human population, resulting in several of the world's governments founding agencies to counter parahuman criminals.Things would, however, seriously change again in 1992, with the sudden arrival of the "Endbringers"; giant monsters with cataclysmic powers. The activities of the Endbringers lead to serious destruction, causing the loss of millions of lives, as well as catastrophic and irreversible economic and geographic damage. As the powers of parahumans are desperately needed in the attempt to beat back the Endbringers and limit the damage they can do, the agencies meant to police the supervillains are forced to grant them varying degrees of leniency in return for their assistance in combating the threat.The story follows Taylor as she quickly gets swept up in the chaos and complexities of the "cape" community of Brockton Bay by joining with a group of villains known as the Undersiders. Cape politics, factions, rivalries, information warfare, and the individual problems of the people beneath the costumes put even the heroes in something of a gray area. Taylor's actions in the midst of this leave her in a situation where she's forced to make some hard choices, facing the reality of having to do the wrong things for the right reasons.Bullying has also been featured as a major element in the plot and character development of the main character. Over the first few plot arcs, though, the story shifts away from the hellish landscape that is contemporary high school towards the more uplifting setting of a bombed out city at the mercy of a roving band of psychopaths.Worm launched in June 2011 and updated regularly on Tuesdays and Saturdays (and some Thursdays) until the final chapter was posted in November 2013. The story has earned much praise, with reviewers citing the creativity of individual powers, flow of writing, detail and action scenes as selling points of the work. In the blog post discussing the completion of the story, the author has expressed intent to re-edit the story and try to get it published.Something of a bonus feature, if you're into story analysis, is the staggering amount of stuff in the comments to each episode. They span from meta-analysis, wild mass guessing from spot on to crackpot, Dark Comedy, to short stories in their own right. Since it's all jumbled up and not indexed, Archive Panic does not even begin to describe it.Worm has several character sheets for the tropes applying to specific characters. A memes page can be found here.Soon after Worm's conclusion in November 2013, Wildbow began a second serial, Pact. He eventually returned to the Wormverse with a interquel known as Glow-Worm, beginning on October 21, 2017, before starting the proper sequel Ward, on November 11, 2017.Not to Be Confused with Team17's Turn-Based Strategy game about warfare earthworms.Spoiler Warning: Worm is heavy on Wham Episodes, and has a fast moving Godzilla Threshold. Both this and the cast page are heavily masked by spoiler tape; WMG, Quotes, and the Moment pages (Funny, Heartwarming, Awesome, Nightmare Fuel and Tearjerker) are not. Open them at your own risk.
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Worm / int_11c70cd6	type	The Man in Front of the Man
Worm / int_11c70cd6	comment	The Man in Front of the Man: Doctor Mother appears to be in control of Cauldron and does all of the talking, with Contessa being her bodyguard. It is later revealed that Doctor Mother is nothing more than a manager and of rather little importance, while Contessa is the one who makes decisions based on her power to know the way to victory.
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Worm / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Worm / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: The Wormverse is a dangerous place. Supervillains play for keeps, and the Endbringers are guaranteed to have a huge bodycount every time they show up. During the Extermination arc, Wildbow literally rolled dice to determine who would live and who would die amongst those fighting Leviathan, with not even Taylor herself being safe had her dice roll come up wrong.
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Worm / int_12628662	type	The Call Knows Where You Live
Worm / int_12628662	comment	The Call Knows Where You Live: The Travellers leave the story for a very long time, mostly putting their cape lives behind them, but are dragged back into events when Khepri!Taylor has need of their powers.
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Worm / int_12b045	type	Winds of Destiny, Change!
Worm / int_12b045	comment	Winds of Destiny, Change!: The parahumans multiverse of Worm contains a number of straight up probability warpers, enough that it is a well known power set along with "speedster" and "the Alexandria package" and others. Given the author's style no such simple version features in the story proper. Instead we see Shamrock who appears to have this power but in fact just has a whole host of smaller powers which effectively do the same thing and Coil, who can achieve this as one effect of his ability to predict and then act out one of two parallel timelines.
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Worm / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Worm / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Never onscreen, but referenced a couple of times: Tattletale mentions a cape deciding his defeated enemy "isn't in a position to say no" as being one of the violations of the unwritten rules that cause capes on both sides to stop playing cops and robbers, and bring down someone who's genuinely dangerous. She ranks it alongside an unmasked cape's family being targeted. It is very strongly implied that Charlotte was subjected to some sort of sexual abuse during her captivity by the Merchants, and equally strongly implied that this would have happened again at the hands of Skitter's traitorous ex-ABB thugs if Skitter had gotten back a minute later.
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Worm / int_12ed845c	type	Heal It with Blood
Worm / int_12ed845c	comment	Heal It with Blood: Sanguine, a Case 53, is a blood manipulator and while seen useing it offensively he can also transform a subject's leaking blood into scabs and antibiotics to seal wounds and prevent infections.
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Worm / int_132d93f1	type	Human Shield
Worm / int_132d93f1	comment	Skitter pulls one when she escapes from an ambush by recruiting her fellow high school students to act as Human Shields against Dragon, Defiant, and Clockblocker.
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Worm / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
Worm / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism: In a world where huge numbers of people have powers that flat-out defy the laws of physics, everyone still thinks the capes who interpret their powers as magical are completely bonkers. While they're technically correct to dismiss magic, this still bites them in the ass — aside from a very thin coating of supernatural interpretation, Glaistig Uaine was one of the few people who knew exactly what was going on, and everybody ignored her solely because she used the word "fairy" instead of "alien". This is discussed by Tattletale when claiming to be psychic during the bank robbery when Glory Girl calls out her claim to be a mind reader on the basis that true Psychic Powers are literally impossible, as intercepting, deciphering and meaningfully interpreting someone's neural activity in real time would require far more computing power than can be obtained from a human brain. Tattletale replies that, in a world where people can and do manifest powers that allow them to warp space and time, ignore the conservation of mass and energy or shoot lasers that can turn corners, claiming that something is flatly impossible because it goes against the known laws of physics is a little less than logical. However, this it's subverted since Tattletale isn't actually psychic, just inhumanly good at reading people.
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Worm / int_143c3e01	type	Heroic Host
Worm / int_143c3e01	comment	Heroic Host: It turns out that many parahumans get their powers by entering a relationship with some kind of interdimensional being — these are often referred to in story as "passengers". These beings are later discovered by readers to be fragments of a larger being.
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Worm / int_1440584e	type	Heroic RRoD
Worm / int_1440584e	comment	Heroic RRoD: This is what happened to Taylor after she asks Panacea to overclock her power to control insects, becoming Khepri. This gives her the power to control human beings within 16 feet of her, but also burns up her ability to read, speak, and at the end even comprehend anything other than conflict.
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Worm / int_145babc0	type	Expendable Clone
Worm / int_145babc0	comment	Expendable Clone: Crucible, a hero who would normally never kill, has absolutely no compunction about incinerating a trapped clone while she begs for her life during the SH 9 fight.
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Worm / int_14607695	type	Super-Intelligence
Worm / int_14607695	comment	Thinker - Capes whose powers deal with the mind, allowing for Awesomeness by Analysis, Sherlock Scan, or Precognition abilities.
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Worm / int_149605c1	type	Ambiguous Innocence
Worm / int_149605c1	comment	Ambiguous Innocence: Bonesaw in a nutshell. She's one of the worst serial killers in the Wormverse, but she doesn't necessarily do what she does because of malice. Rather, she feels the idea of a concrete moral system is absurd and doesn't apply to her, and she does what she does because she finds it fun and interesting. Also played with in that it's revealed in her POV chapter that Jack purposefully manipulated and mentally broke her to give her the moral compass she has now by continuously mortally wounding her parents for her to save over and over again, until she was so tired that she had no choice but to give up. How much of this excuses her behaviour is left up to discussion.
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Worm / int_149f34b6	type	Pretty Butterflies
Worm / int_149f34b6	comment	Pretty Butterflies: Invoked by Taylor when she sends a single butterfly to contact her father for possibly the last time. Invoked again when Weaver is informed that a black, amorphous swarm doesn't sell the right image.
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Worm / int_149ff4b0	type	HilarityEnsues
Worm / int_149ff4b0	comment	"Is it lunchtime already?" Started when Taylor notes that Hilarity Ensues around lunchtime — by the end of that chapter she has had to deal with encounters with bullies, her recruitment into the Undersiders, the bank robbery, and the Empire Eighty-Eight thugs attacking Bitch at her dog shelter between the hours of eleven and two, and it doesn't stop there.
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Worm / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Worm / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: After recruiting her first minions and beating the Merchants, Taylor thinks things are finally looking up and nothing can go wrong. Cue the Slaughterhouse Nine. Averted in Arc 24, wherein Regent monologues about how all the goodbyes everyone else is saying to one-another is Tempting Fate, and is the only person to not start practically writing his will. Cue Heroic Sacrifice.
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Worm / int_15c4ab3e	type	Mysterious Employer
Worm / int_15c4ab3e	comment	Mysterious Employer: The Undersiders are employed by a mysterious person who orders them to do various dramatic crimes. Taylor tries to stay with them as a spy long enough to find out who it is and report back to the heroes. It turns out to be Coil.
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Worm / int_161f1ebf	type	Relationship Upgrade
Worm / int_161f1ebf	comment	Relationship Upgrade: When Brian realizes his feelings for Taylor are more than simple friendship. Defiant and Dragon have one mostly off-screen following Mannequin's attempt to recruit Armsmaster. invoked Assault and Battery apparently had one between the beginning of Battery's interlude and that of the main story. Parian and Flechette (later Foil) get one when the latter makes her Hazy-Feel Turn.
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Worm / int_164bd5fd	type	Hulking Out
Worm / int_164bd5fd	comment	On her first night out, when she was trying to take down Lung before his Hulking Out reaches a point where she can't hurt him, she sent her flying insects to attack his face and the crawlers (including her spiders) to attack "other vulnerable areas".
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Worm / int_169d22e6	type	Villain Team-Up
Worm / int_169d22e6	comment	Villain Team-Up: The villains in the city are smart enough to temporarily set aside their differences against common threats.
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Worm / int_16e17035	type	Patrick Stewart Speech
Worm / int_16e17035	comment	Patrick Stewart Speech: Taylor gives such a speech to a man about to unleash an energy blast that would kill the heroes fighting Behemoth and likely destroy India, convincing him to cooperate with them, instead.
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Worm / int_171ef47c	type	Not-So-Harmless Villain
Worm / int_171ef47c	comment	Not-So-Harmless Villain: In-Universe, Skitter is widely considered to be one of the less dangerous supervillains in town, or indeed in the Undersiders — both because "bug control" sounds weak and because her distaste for hurting people means she doesn't have a track record of mayhem like a lot of the others. This is part of what contributes to an entire series of enemies underestimating her, climaxing with Alexandria not realizing Skitter could kill her singlehandedly. However, it's not that they underestimate her power as that they fail to understand exactly what "scales up in power with the number of bugs in the area" means. Taylor's power is one of the few that has a fuel... sure, that's a limitation that's pretty harsh in the first few minutes when a can of Raid can cripple her, but it also means that, given a moment, she can essentially gather more power, more effectively the more trapped she feels. Alexandra thought it was a good interrogation technique to lock her in a small room for hours... that's a lot of bugs.
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Worm / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
Worm / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: Among the many capes killed by Leviathan is Aegis, whom specifically had survivability as his most prominent power.
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Worm / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Worm / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The cast page describes the powers of several characters who haven't been seen much in the story. Things such as the salary of Protectorate and Wards members, as well as what the number classifications actually mean can be found on this document for PRT Quest.
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Worm / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Worm / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: On several occasions, such as whenever Imp is using her power, when Bonesaw unleashed her agnosia plague, whenever Nice Guy is around, and when Taylor's shard starts to take over.
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Worm / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
Worm / int_18ce8f1d	comment	The Siberian (an invincible woman who goes around naked) is really a projection created by Dr. William Manton as a reference to Dr. William Marston who created a well-known scantily clad superpowered woman.
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Worm / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
Worm / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: When Lisa and Taylor disguise themselves to infiltrate the Merchants.
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Worm / int_1994263e	type	Hates My Secret Identity
Worm / int_1994263e	comment	Hates My Secret Identity: Superhero Shadow Stalker sides with Emma in a fight with the person she has been bullying for the last few years, Taylor. Unbeknownst to Shadow Stalker, Taylor is actually Skitter, a supervillain she has fought in costume before, and unbeknownst to Taylor, Shadow Stalker is actually her other bully, Emma's close friend Sophia, which is why Shadow Stalker takes the side she does.
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Worm / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Worm / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Taylor gets Panacea to break her usual 'no-brain tampering' rule because she feels useless in the Scion fight. She regrets it very quickly, but it does eventually save the world.
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Worm / int_19b6f396	type	Alternate Timeline
Worm / int_19b6f396	comment	Alternate Timeline: Scion and other powered individuals started to show up during the early 80s, and the Endbringers' presence in particular has caused some major changes. Japan isn't a world power due to a past attack, several parts of the world are simply gone, and the US has a lot of Asian immigrants from devastated parts of the world. On a more positive note, it's also hinted that thanks to Scion the events of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina were averted. Perhaps on a more mixed level, comics in the Wormverse never quite got to the bronze age, likely due to the presence of parahumans. Betamax is implied to have won out over VHS.
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Worm / int_19df659c	type	Gone Horribly Wrong
Worm / int_19df659c	comment	Gone Horribly Wrong: The Slaughterhouse Nine come to Brockton Bay because there's only eight of them and they want a ninth member. By the end of their stay, there's three of them left, not that it seems to bother the survivors all that much.
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Worm / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
Worm / int_1a8dc238	comment	"Meh, I could take her." (for the comments section, anyway)
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Worm / int_1b3b48f3	type	David Versus Goliath
Worm / int_1b3b48f3	comment	David Versus Goliath: Taylor — a skinny fifteen-year-old girl with control over insects of all things — has her first fight against a regenerating fire-throwing villain who literally transforms into a dragon as you try to fight him and, we later learn, has previously walked away from a mano-a-mano fight with a Hero Killer Kaiju. Said villain almost certainly fails to make the top ten list of her opponents.
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Worm / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
Worm / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: Used by Skitter to take down Triumph with an ambush of bugs falling from the roof over the steps out of his house. She noticed from being ambushed by Mannequin that humans almost never look up. Later used when she comes across a cape that has a PowerNullifier ability. She ties a string of silk to the handle of a nano-knife and has her bugs carry it to where she estimates the center of the effect to be. After swinging it through a few blind passes, the effect (and presumably the cape generating the field) drops.
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Worm / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Worm / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Defied in 19.2 when Skitter realizes Weld is telling Miss Militia what an evil clone told him — that Skitter killed their boss, Thomas Calvert — and goes to set the record straight.
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Worm / int_1c7cc36d	type	Welcome Back, Traitor
Worm / int_1c7cc36d	comment	Welcome Back, Traitor: Skitter is allowed to rejoin the Undersiders after being outed as a mole — though it took Grue and (especially) Bitch a while to forgive her.
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Worm / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
Worm / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Playing with Fire: Spitfire deconstructs this in Faultline's interlude. As she points out there are basically two types of opponents: people that burn, so you can't use your power on them without killing or horribly maiming them, and people who don't burn, against whom your power is useless. On the other hand, if you shed those pesky moral qualms like Burnscar, fire becomes a lot more useful. Reconstruction?
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Worm / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Worm / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: This comes up a few times during the story with regard to Regent's use of his power to control people's bodies: First, when the Undersiders need to take over a member of the Wards, they target Shadow Stalker, whom Skitter knows to be a violent sadist from the horrifying bullying campaign Shadow Stalker's civilian identity perpetrated on Skitter's civilian identity. Second, Regent and Tattletale justify the creepy stuff done to Shatterbird on the grounds that she has been a mass murderer and torturer for years. Third, Tattletale justifies taking Victor to Skitter by explaining that he is just as bad a human being as Shadow Stalker.
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Worm / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Worm / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Sophia of all people admits that she resents Taylor at least in part because Taylor has a father who loves her (even going so far as to state she was more pissed off that Taylor's dad was there at the meeting than the fact that she was in trouble).
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Worm / int_1dd14f5a	type	I Surrender, Suckers
Worm / int_1dd14f5a	comment	I Surrender, Suckers: Skitter lures Echidna/Noelle into a trap this way. Later, several characters think Skitter is pulling this when she surrenders to the PRT. She isn't.
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Worm / int_1e8b0711	type	Grenade Tag
Worm / int_1e8b0711	comment	Grenade Tag: Skitter uses a belt of grenades to help save the Wards from Mannequin.
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Worm / int_1f19f198	type	Back-to-Back Badasses
Worm / int_1f19f198	comment	Back-to-Back Badasses: Skitter, Weld, and Atlas vs. Echidna clones of several Wards.
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Worm / int_1f7c89f6	type	Nigh-Invulnerability
Worm / int_1f7c89f6	comment	Brute - Capes who are extremely durable and/or have above average strength, either through Super-Toughness or an incredibly effective Healing Factor.
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Worm / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Worm / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Anyone who makes a deal with Cauldron for Super Serum powers. Taylor's very first "employee" has this in mind when she asks her to find her brother and hurt the merchants responsible for taking him. Taylor has one with Coil, first unknowingly, then knowingly, as she attempts to free Dinah.
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Worm / int_203141e3	type	Cute and Psycho
Worm / int_203141e3	comment	Cute and Psycho: Both Bonesaw and Imp fit this in different ways. Bonesaw because she looks like a 12-year-old girl with golden ringlets, who performs horrifying biological experiments on her victims, and Imp because she is described as a pretty teenage girl who shows great enthusiasm for walking up to people and stabbing them under the cover of her power.
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Worm / int_208c4494	type	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
Worm / int_208c4494	comment	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Labyrinth, of Faultline's crew. She has a shaker rating of 12, but her reality-altering powers come with the side-effect of her mind constantly wandering around various parallel dimensions, effectively giving her autism. It's later revealed that a lot of capes suffer from this to some extent; Labyrinth is just an extreme case. Of particular note is Khepri. Panacea messes with her brain to remove the inherent limitations on her power. She ends up more powerful than almost anyone else in the setting, but the rush of information from her power quickly begins overloading her and destroying her memories, ability to communicate, and more.
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Worm / int_20e7ed4f	type	Adaptive Ability
Worm / int_20e7ed4f	comment	Adaptive Ability: Crawler's power. He obsessively seeks destructive powers strong enough to hurt him despite his own now-ridiculous durability, so that he can become stronger.
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Worm / int_217e6723	type	Heroes "R" Us
Worm / int_217e6723	comment	Heroes "R" Us: The Protectorate, the Wards, and the New Wave are organizations of superheroes; the former two are backed up by the PRT, which is a non-parahuman organization.
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Worm / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Worm / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Let's count the ways: Due to how trigger events work, villains greatly outnumber the heroes, with the imbalance getting worse as more heroes are killed trying to limit the damage of the Endbringers. Many of them have quite a few mental issues and have very dangerous powers. Mass killings, attacks against civilians, killing heroes, and large amounts of destruction are treated as shockingly common things. In other parts of the world, things are even worse with some places being true hellholes run by parahuman warlords. Trickster states that buildings in the Wormverse are built to be much tougher than normal because everyone is expecting an attack of some kind. There is a vast, and powerful conspiracy of people that can give people powers and are committing large crimes against humanity on a regular basis. They claim they are doing it to save the world and have been doing it virtually unopposed/in secret for almost thirty years. They have had a hand in creating some of the worst monsters in the series, have potentially tens of thousands of victims they have killed, kidnapped, brainwashed, and worse. Despite it all, their efforts might have been for nothing. The head of the main government hero organization is under the aforementioned conspiracy's control and have carefully controlled its leadership with the top three heroes in on the conspiracy. The last three PRT directors in Brockton Bay were a racist, secretly a murderous super villain, and a Knight Templar warmonger who was willing to cross any line, respectively. The other directors seen have not been much better. The organization itself has displayed numerous examples of needless stupidity, short sightedness, and questionable morals in its decisions. A few of the "heroes" aren't much better than many of the villains they fight. The fringe elements that in our world are effectively powerless are much more dangerous in the wormverse if they can recruit parahumans. Cults, hate groups, even random drug dealers are much more powerful and influential. The Birdcage has been called a monstrous, unfair, and terrible place by its creator, other PRT Directors, and many readers. You are not given a chance of parole and are at the mercy of the inmates. Many prisoners do not deserve to be there but are sent there because it is the only place that can hold parahumans. As Taylor explains when she infiltrates Nilbog's territory, the people in the Wormverse have to always wonder if this is the day someone terrible gets a terrible power and a lot of people get killed. Nilbog is so dangerous that he got away with killing thousands of people because the government is afraid of provoking him into expanding from his small town, the Nine have been in operation for at least a decade and have killed thousands, including children, without ever being stopped, and then there are the many other S class threats in the world which are exceptionally horrifying and powerful. The Endbringers are slowly, systematically, and inevitably destroying the world piece by piece. They have killed tens of millions of people, and caused an unbelievable amount of destruction, pain, and suffering. All without putting any serious effort with their attacks. When the world begins to celebrate when one of them is finally killed, many people fall into despair as three more show up. And it's heavily implied they were accidentally created by one of the world's most powerful heroes as a byproduct of his power. It's all but stated that the Endbringers specifically target anyone who could make the world a better place in any meaningful way. Sphere, who was about to solve world hunger and the world's energy problems was corrupted into the serial killing Mannequin, Dragon's father was killed before he could make more AI like her or ease her restrictions, and Panacea was silenced before she could get the word out about the passengers and what Scion would ultimately do. Not only is Brockton Bay, a Rust Belt city, in an economic death spiral, the rest of the world is far poorer economically than our own. Three to four major cities are heavily damaged every year, to the point that even the United States considers it acceptable to abandon a large chunk of Los Angeles rather than rebuild. The People's Republic of China was replaced by a xenophobic isolationist state, meaning hundreds of millions of its citizens were never raised out of poverty. Western Europe suffered from the Swiss population becoming Manchurian Agents for the Simurgh, and France in particular had a major nuclear plant disaster at Lyon. Australia has even sealed off the ruins of Canberra with a giant dome. Many survivors of the Simurgh's attacks, civilians and trusted heroes alike, will either spend the rest of their lives quarantined from society and treated as pariahs, or they'll be executed. All out of fear that they may have been selected to make things worse. Not that it matters, since the quarantine procedures have been incorporated into her plans as well. The "passengers" granting parahuman abilities seem to be intelligent and actively promote conflict as a worldwide "proving ground" for passenger shards. All that up above and it actually gets worse. Scion, the only being who could fight off the Endbringers is actually the source of half of the world's parahumans and his goal all along was the destruction of the world. He decides to try and kill humanity off early thanks to Jack and starts blowing things up left and right. Billions of people are killed by his rampage, and many of the major factions went into hiding or started to fight one another believing that nothing can stop Scion.
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Worm / int_21e3e4d6	type	Panacea
Worm / int_21e3e4d6	comment	Panacea: There is a hero literally called Panacea. She is able to cure any injury or disease not of the brain. She can also cause other types of physical changes in organisms, up to and including bugs which improve the range of Skitter's power, a giant beetle, and, to Panacea's horror, changing the way people think about her.
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Worm / int_21ec9741	type	Exploited Trope
Worm / int_21ec9741	comment	When the PRT send Dragon and Defiant to capture Skitter in a cafeteria full of people, part of their reasoning is that by using this trope to drive Skitter to threaten the lives of hostages, they will undermine the Undersider's good will among the people of Brockton Bay.
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Worm / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Worm / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good is Not Nice: Several of the good guys showcased thus far have not actually been genuinely good people. It doesn't help that most people acquire powers by going through an incredibly traumatic event. The heroes who gain powers from Cauldron fall even harder into this trope.
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Worm / int_21fd09a7	type	How Do I Shot Web?
Worm / int_21fd09a7	comment	How Do I Shot Web?: While most parahumans have a learning curve for their power, this comes into play most when people with powers like Grue's or Regent's are trying to use someone else's.
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Worm / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
Worm / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: In 3.4, it's mentioned that Professor Haywire created a portal to an alternate Earth through which they exchange DVDs, but the alternate version of the Star Wars prequels are still disappointing. Initially it seems like a throwaway joke but in arc 17 it actually becomes important to the plot.
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Worm / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Worm / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Doctor Mother mentions that one of Cauldron's capes can De-power parahumans. It gets used on Taylor at the end of story. In Flechette's Interlude, she mentions that a supernatural sense of timing is one of her secondary powers. She uses it later on to fool the vaunted Gray Boy into lowering his guard.
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Worm / int_23153741	type	Suddenly Significant City
Worm / int_23153741	comment	Suddenly Significant City: Brockton Bay becomes this, following the Portal opened up during the Echidna fight turned to an empty alternate earth replete with natural resources and totally free of Endbringers. It causes a massive economic revival for the city.
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Worm / int_2332661d	type	Extranormal Prison
Worm / int_2332661d	comment	Extranormal Prison: The Birdcage was specifically designed to be proof against escape even by the most powerful parahumans.
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Worm / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Worm / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: Leviathan's arrival and the Anyone Can Die dice rolls to decide the survivors end up rendering the build-up to Kaiser as the next big local villain once the Endbringer threat is over completely moot.
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Worm / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Worm / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Skitter repeats Armsmaster's boast of the fight being over the minute they stepped into the room when she ambushes him at a PRT event. Done by Skitter again in a similar fashion towards Alexandria. Curbstomping ensues. Done by Skitter again to herself when she figures out that Dragon survived their fight. Skitter had always said "Fucking Tinkers" out of frustration as they send yet another weapon to harass the Undersiders. This time it's out of relief, that Taylor hadn't killed her favorite surviving person to get at the resources she was guarding.
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Worm / int_237569e4	type	Ironic Hell
Worm / int_237569e4	comment	Ironic Hell: Shadow Stalker survives but will have to live for the rest of her life with the knowledge that Taylor was stronger than her and did more to save the world than she will even if she lives to old age.
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Worm / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
Worm / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: Played with for Sophia, whose name comes from the Greek word for "wisdom", but is depicted as a thug and a bully who wouldn't know wise decision-making it if bit her. However, "soph" can also mean "skill" in Greek, and she has plenty of that in both her civilian and cape identities.
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Worm / int_243cbd0d	type	Dope Slap
Worm / int_243cbd0d	comment	Dope Slap: Grue subjects Regent to a few of these when he won't stop wisecracking during the fight against Behemoth, partly because many of them are about how Grue is going to die.
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Worm / int_24fa0857	type	Line in the Sand
Worm / int_24fa0857	comment	Line in the Sand: Director Piggot offers this to the Wards when discussing the plan to deal with the Slaughterhouse Nine.
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Worm / int_25101d1a	type	Post-Victory Collapse
Worm / int_25101d1a	comment	Post-Victory Collapse: After the Undersiders rescue Grue from Bonesaw and make it back, the next chapter opens with Taylor's narration:
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Worm / int_251bce7c	type	Cardboard Prison
Worm / int_251bce7c	comment	Cardboard Prison: "The amusing but relatively harmless villains get a regular jail cell, they inevitably break out before the trial concludes, and the cat and mouse game starts again." The reason for this is that the safe villains are popular, entertaining, and occasionally helpful against the Endbringers and other threats. However, the actually evil villains get sent to The Alcatraz.
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Worm / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Worm / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: Scarab 25.4 opens with Taylor desperately dialing Glenn — with her reason only revealed after she gets off the phone and joins the rest of the Chicago Wards walking onto the set of a morning chat show.
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Worm / int_25b4ad2f	type	Surprisingly Happy Ending
Worm / int_25b4ad2f	comment	Surprisingly Happy Ending: The final Interlude reveals that both Taylor and her father survived. Or does it? Word of God points out that there are enough hints in the narrative to make it clear that Taylor's actually in a coma and is dreaming that her father is still alive.
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Worm / int_2630ef75	type	Emergency Transformation
Worm / int_2630ef75	comment	Emergency Transformation: Taylor uses Lab Rat's device to undergo a temporary transformation into a monstrous, insectoid form after suffering lethal injuries at Scion's hands.
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Worm / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Worm / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: When the Nine attack a hospital, nursery first. Taylor shoots Aster. Though at that point it's more like Toddler Immortality that's being averted.
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Worm / int_272e80c9	type	Whatevermancy
Worm / int_272e80c9	comment	Whatever Mancy: Some Powers in Worm fall under this, but their applications are as varied as the individual who wield them and are categorized as such. This often makes for mismatches between categories and the actual nature of the powers: for example, of two capes with telekinesis, one that uses it to pick up parts of their environment and kludge it together into a golem would be called a Master, while one that uses it to effectively pick up and throw themself around would be called a Mover.
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Worm / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Worm / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: Weaver shoots Aster in an attempt to prevent Jack's Slaughterhouse Nine from causing the end of the world. Somewhat strangely this isn't really treated as a Shoot the Dog moment, as it's blink and you'll miss it quick and it never comes up again. Even worse Aster has nothing to do with the end of the World, although arguably leaving her alive with the Slaughterhouse Nine is worse.
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Worm / int_273af360	type	The Stations of the Canon
Worm / int_273af360	comment	The Stations of the Canon: The vast majority of Worm fanfics that switch out Taylor's power for something else inevitably have to go through the stations of Taylor being stuck in her locker, going through the motions of testing out her power, finding information about parahumans on PHO, her meeting and subsequent victory over Lung, her recruitment with the Undersiders, the bank robbery, dealing with Coil, Leviathan's (and later, the Slaughterhouse 9's) arrival to Brockton Bay, etc.
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Worm / int_286c4020	type	Gravity Sucks
Worm / int_286c4020	comment	Gravity Sucks: Bakuda fires off a grenade that creates a miniature (but thankfully temporary) black hole.
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Worm / int_2881d45e	type	Gaining the Will to Kill
Worm / int_2881d45e	comment	Gaining the Will to Kill: Skitter first uses lethal force to try and kill Coil, though she admits that he likely has an antidote to her spiders' venom. Later, however, she does end up executing him.
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Worm / int_2882c8c1	type	Career-Ending Injury
Worm / int_2882c8c1	comment	Type -1: Director Piggot, Glory Girl, Gray Boy's victims.
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Worm / int_28c502f6	type	Tactical Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors
Worm / int_28c502f6	comment	Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: Complicated by the highly individual nature of powers, but in general capes that use their powers to gain information and create tactical plans beat those who employ raw force, those that employ raw force easily power through the surprises pulled out by those who use their powers creatively to alter the field of battle, and creative capes can use their absurdly large bag of tricks and ability to completely change the context of the problem to overcome tactical power-use. The fact that the Undersiders are extremely heavy on tactical and information-gathering powers and attitudes is a running theme in the story and both helps and hinders them. Helps: In terms of sheer power, there is no way they should have been able to take on the Slaughterhouse Nine or any of the Neo-Nazi villains, let alone their evil clones, who use their powers far more brutishly. Hinders: Tinkers are continually the bane of Skitter's existence, since they can pull the rug out of the tactical situation by essentially violating all sensible laws of combat, physics, etc.
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Worm / int_28d73447	type	Regional Redecoration
Worm / int_28d73447	comment	Regional Redecoration: Earth Bet has taken quite a few hits since Parahumans first appeared: Leviathan has sunk islands and shattered coastlines with relative ease, including Kyushu and Newfoundland. After his attack on Brockton Bay, he leaves behind a fairly sizable lake in the downtown region. A narrowly averted case with Phir Se, who was planning to unleash an attack on Behemoth that had the potential to shatter the Indian subcontinent. When Jack Slash convinces Scion to destroy the human race, Scion first experiments by destroying Great Britain with relative ease. The island is described as crumpling like paper in a fist. Deciding that he likes the feeling, he then bombards the east coasts of America and Canada, killing tens of millions of people. By the end of his rampage, entire landmasses have been destroyed and whole alternate Earths rendered uninhabitable.
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Worm / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Worm / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Bakuda's tinker specialty is bombs. Baku is Japanese for explosion. Lung is Cantonese for dragon. Guess what the guy named Lung turns into.
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Worm / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Worm / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: Unsurprisingly, given Taylor's analytical bent, she hangs quite a few lampshades through the course of the story. For example, after Lung coats himself in a wreath of flames to kill Taylor's bugs.
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Worm / int_2a542c7d	type	Beam Spam
Worm / int_2a542c7d	comment	Blaster - Capes with a ranged attack, such as emitting laser beams, Hard Light, or Elemental Powers.
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Worm / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Worm / int_2ae29c0d	comment	In turn, it demonstrates just how severely The Dreaded the Sleeper is that, even with human extinction across all known Earths on the line, still no one dares to try bringing him into the fight.
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Worm / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Worm / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Shadow Stalker's time under Regent's power. Emma has one when she learns Taylor's identity.
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Worm / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
Worm / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: Taylor mentions that Glory Girl's fear inducing aura caused her to nearly wet herself. She then follows up by saying she probably would've still had that reaction regardless.
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Worm / int_2b9affed	type	Dirty Business
Worm / int_2b9affed	comment	Dirty Business: A running theme of the story. A straightforward example occurs when Triumph wants to point out that Defiant is Armsmaster, a known criminal and fugitive from justice, but is convinced to pretend he didn't notice in order that Defiant can fight the Nine.
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Worm / int_2bfb1856	type	Beard of Evil
Worm / int_2bfb1856	comment	Beard of Evil: Discussed by Regent.
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Worm / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Worm / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: It becomes easier and easier for Taylor to commit violence over the course of the time she spent in the Undersiders; readers were shocked at how vicious she was when she beat Triumph.
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Worm / int_2d2e3275	type	Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!
Worm / int_2d2e3275	comment	Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!: The Merchants weren't afraid of Skitter's bugs. They laughed and joked as they invaded the Boardwalk. Then they start screaming.
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Worm / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Worm / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: In the latter chapters, Imp expands her vocabulary quite a bit, but she still has absolutely no tact, which leads to this. Even earlier, before the Leviathan fight Taylor drops one: Sophia averts this trope, speaking like a thug with very little sophistication despite being nominally a hero, which is probably intentional on Wildbow's part, given her characterization as Taylor's primary bully. It's also ironically amusing, given her name.
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Worm / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
Worm / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: We learn about an operation in which Coil used a young child solider and a device made by Leet to fake a betrayal of the Undersiders by Skitter, thereby allowing him to both kill Skitter and keep Dinah, whom Skitter wanted freed. Unfortunately for his plans, Skitter survived.
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Worm / int_2df4fa08	type	Omniglot
Worm / int_2df4fa08	comment	Omniglot: One of the capes from the Birdcage has this ability, and he can bestow it unto others.
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Worm / int_2e528f4e	type	What Measure Is a Non-Cute?
Worm / int_2e528f4e	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Taylor has become so used to Bitch's dogs that she forgets how scary they are to normal people.
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Worm / int_2e90b7fb	type	TheBadGuysWin
Worm / int_2e90b7fb	comment	The Bad Guys Win: The Undersiders do succeed in taking over Brockton Bay, although they are the Villain Protagonists. Jack Slash convinces Scion to basically destroy the world. Successfully. Scion is ultimately beaten but not before he does a lot of damage.
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Worm / int_2f94135c	type	Thou Shalt Not Kill
Worm / int_2f94135c	comment	Thou Shalt Not Kill: One of several lines most supervillains (and for that matter, heroes) avoid crossing with their powers. As Lisa explains to Taylor:
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Worm / int_2fd1d68a	type	Cool-Down Hug
Worm / int_2fd1d68a	comment	Cooldown Hug: When Skitter is trapped in the agnosia fog and deeply paranoid about trusting anyone, Jack Slash (impersonating Grue) gives her one.
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Worm / int_30a0067b	type	Supervillain Lair
Worm / int_30a0067b	comment	Supervillain Lair: Most of the villains in the series have them — the first we see being the Undersiders' abandoned factory and the most Troperiffic being Coil's underground base.
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Worm / int_30b6f084	type	Canis Major
Worm / int_30b6f084	comment	Canis Major: Bitch's power makes these out of normal-sized dogs.
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Worm / int_30c40e9a	type	Deconstructor Fleet
Worm / int_30c40e9a	comment	Deconstructor Fleet: Worm could basically be called Everything You Like About Superheroes is Bad, and You Should Feel Bad, with the entire genre savaged. Heroic and villainous organizations, the effect constant super powered fights have on society, character archetypes, binary moralities, and ultimately, why there are superpowers, are given very thorough, cynical explanations for their existence and consequences. For specific examples see the trope page.
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Worm / int_31033156	type	Chest Insignia
Worm / int_31033156	comment	Chest Insignia: A few superheroes and supervillains. Every member of New Wave has their own stylized one.
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Worm / int_3166227d	type	The Drag-Along
Worm / int_3166227d	comment	The Drag-Along: After the Undersiders rescue Panacea from Siberian, she decides to come with them — but is very uncooperative during the fight against the Nine.
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Worm / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Worm / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Many supervillians have a certain code of honour (not killing civilians, not harming children, respecting their given word), and tend to support the superheroes if they are in a fight against real monsters and serial killers. Just to see how much of a Crapsack World it is, a gang of Neo-Nazis is among the nicer villans (especially their subgoup led by Purity, who is more of a Well-Intentioned Extremist than being truly evil), in comparison to the many omnicidal maniacs plaguing the setting.
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Worm / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Worm / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Imp discusses all the possible girls Taylor could end up with, including herself, with some squicky details thrown in for good measure. Then again she might just have wanted to mess with Canary after she failed to realize why Parian and Foil wanted to go someplace alone.note This happens after Canary did time in the militant lesbian terrorist section of the prison
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Worm / int_323f135b	type	Sorting Algorithm of Evil
Worm / int_323f135b	comment	Sorting Algorithm of Evil: Not followed strictly, but overall the threats get bigger over the course of the story. They go from dealing with the relatively minor villains initially in Brockton Bay and work their way up to Gold Morning, when Scion goes Omnicidal Maniac on Brockton Bay and the rest of the world.
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Worm / int_324e2fcf	type	Power Levels
Worm / int_324e2fcf	comment	Power Levels: Along with a classification, every parahuman's powers are rated numerically in terms of strength, with the Endbringers having a 10 in at least one classification. That said, it is possible for a parahuman to be rated above a 10; some parahumans have rankings as high as 12. These classifications indicate the necessary precautions heroes should take when fighting them, with 10+ meaning few, if any, countermeasures will work at all. Some individuals are also classified with other specifications outside of their power due to their sheer capacity for mayhem, including Taylor.
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Worm / int_326a44a1	type	Create Your Own Villain
Worm / int_326a44a1	comment	Create Your Own Villain: The bullying campaign that Sophia spearheaded is what caused Taylor to both have a trigger event and, later, to target her when Regent needed to take over a member of the Wards. Cauldron has this as a service. They will kidnap someone, turn them into a case 53, wipe their memories, and program them to lose to a specific person. An innocent gets sent to the birdcage/killed so a client can look like a good hero.
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Worm / int_3298415e	type	Magic from Technology
Worm / int_3298415e	comment	Magic from Technology: Superpowers turn out to be alien biotechnology that the titular worms reverse engineered and expanded from the technology and innate abilities of the many alien species they used as guineae pigs over the eons.
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Worm / int_330a3b9c	type	Differently Powered Individual
Worm / int_330a3b9c	comment	Differently Powered Individual: People with powers in general are known as "parahumans," while those who put on a costume and try to become a villain or hero are referred to as "capes." Parahumans who try to use their power for neither crime nor crime-fighting (e.g. Parian, who takes paying jobs animating cloth mascots as promotional stunts) are referred to as "rogues."
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Worm / int_334b7f3a	type	Cryptic Background Reference
Worm / int_334b7f3a	comment	Cryptic Background Reference: Many are explained, receive interludes, or become the source of later story arcs. Some, like The Sleeper, remain cryptic.
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Worm / int_337b9528	type	The Worf Barrage
Worm / int_337b9528	comment	The Worf Barrage: While Phir Sē's time bomb is incredibly impressive, it completely fails to handicap Behemoth in any way despite stripping off more than 70% of its "flesh".
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Worm / int_33981caf	type	Street Urchin
Worm / int_33981caf	comment	Street Urchin: Rachel, Lisa, and Alec have all at one time or another spent time living on the street and committing crimes to survive after running away from their nasty home situations.
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Worm / int_33f89198	type	Blade Brake
Worm / int_33f89198	comment	Blade Brake: To avoid being sucked into Bakuda's black hole explosion, she stabs the extremely high quality combat knife she was given into the side of a derelict shipping container.
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Worm / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Worm / int_34579385	comment	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: A recurring theme, starting when the villains of the town (excepting the Merchants) ally to take down the Azn Bad Boys after the ABB starts its bombing spree. The fact that the Undersiders and the Travelers do so much to defend the city from the Merchants and the Slaughterhouse Nine in the wake of Leviathan's attack ends up becoming a major plot point when a large fraction of the highschoolers of the town ally with Skitter over the Protectorate when the latter try to capture the former at Arcadia High.
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Worm / int_3496b29a	type	Heart Is an Awesome Power
Worm / int_3496b29a	comment	Heart Is a Terrifying Power: to give an example, one of the most scary serial killers of the setting has the super power of... being a really nice guy. Bystanders would consider him really nice even while he was disembowelling people left and right. A literal example with the villain "Heartbreaker" who is one of the parahumans in the "too dangerous to fight" category, and his daughter, Cherish, who is part of the Slaughterhouse Nine. Taylor herself. At the beginning, many people laugh at the ability to control bugs. By less than a third of the way through the story, she's considered one of the most dangerous villains in the world.
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Worm / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Worm / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Bakuda does this twice in short succession. She detonates a bomb she implanted in the head of one of her (involuntary) Evil Minions during a bout of Evil Gloating, because he wouldn't shoot one of the protagonists at her command. Then, to drive home a point about unpredictability and fear being an effective tool, she detonates another such bomb in the midst of her minions with no justification or warning at all.
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Worm / int_34e89418	type	A Birthday, Not a Break
Worm / int_34e89418	comment	A Birthday, Not a Break: Leviathan's attack on Brockton Bay happens to take place on Vista's 13th birthday.
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Worm / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Worm / int_352151a3	comment	Recursive Reality: The reason precogs interfere with one another is that the powers are biological supercomputers building simulated models of anticipated events, so if additional precogs become relevant to the prediction, their models will also need to be simulated.
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Worm / int_352def2a	type	Burn the Witch!
Worm / int_352def2a	comment	Burn the Witch!: It is mentioned that there are more trigger events in third world countries — witch burnings in Africa are mentioned by a professor giving a lecture on them.
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Worm / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
Worm / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: Tattletale outmaneuvers Coil/Calvert in order to catch him in a trap he couldn't escape with his power.
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Worm / int_3678fbfa	type	Mad Bomber
Worm / int_3678fbfa	comment	Bakuda is an unrepentant Mad Bomber. In her backstory she held her university hostage for giving her a less than perfect grade. She goes on to implant bombs in innocents and carry out an indiscriminate Brockton Bay-wide bombing spree. When she meets her end, no one weeps.
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Worm / int_36de2703	type	Superheroes Wear Capes
Worm / int_36de2703	comment	Superheroes Wear Capes: Averted — few parahumans wear them. Taylor explains how awkward they can make you look, and only a few people have the right body type to pull it off.
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Worm / int_36ed3e1e	type	Ascended Meme
Worm / int_36ed3e1e	comment	Ascended Meme: Not so surprising, given the abundance of comments each episode. The author even takes time to address minor points that get asked a lot (e.g.: how does the invincible Alexandria cut her invincible hair?) when it does not break the flow of the story. One of the recurring jokes in the comments section is random posters pretending they do not remember who Imp is. Cue an interlude, with an In-Universe forum, where a poster (himself a cameo of an actual poster for added recursion) forgets Imp's name. Another recurring meme: the worst possible way to tempt fate In-Universe is saying "meh, I could take her" when confronted with Taylor. No matter how overpowered you are it's a guaranteed curb stomp. And then a Big Bad — Jack Slash — says "Eh, I can take you" to her face.
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Worm / int_371e0e27	type	Chekhov's News
Worm / int_371e0e27	comment	Chekhov's News: The day after the Undersiders rob the bank, that event is pushed off the front page of the local paper, the Bulletin, by a report of a kidnapped child — specifically, Dinah Alcott, targeted by Coil for her precognitive abilities.
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Worm / int_37263fea	type	Magic-Powered Pseudoscience
Worm / int_37263fea	comment	Magic-Powered Pseudoscience: How Tinker-tech works, as presented initially. Their gadgets only work because the shard responsible for it is active and connected, exerting its influence. As a result, tinkers have to spend a lot of time maintaining their equipment if they want it to work and are basically incapable of explaining how it actually works, with only Dragon seeming to be able to create things that other people can actually maintain and use. Arguably subverted in some minor Continuity Drift; Tinker powers are revealed to be technological knowledge gleaned from alien civilizations and bestowed on the host in isolation, so the technology isn't directly fueled by the shard, but the shard doesn't share knowledge of how to make it durable and explainable to non-Sufficiently Advanced Aliens.
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Worm / int_3754b680	type	Temporary Blindness
Worm / int_3754b680	comment	Temporary Blindness: Taylor i.e. Skitter is blinded by a bomb denotation. Because of her bug-sense, very few people realize she's blind, and the total end result of the blindness is just pissing Taylor off.
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Worm / int_38317f87	type	Evil Is One Big, Happy Family
Worm / int_38317f87	comment	Evil Is One Big, Happy Family: Averted, villains fight each other as much as they fight the heroes.
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Worm / int_3840c533	type	Heist Episode
Worm / int_3840c533	comment	Heist Episode: Arc 3 features the Undersiders robbing a bank, and arc 6 features a heist on a huge event with all the Protectorate heroes and wealthy people in Brockton Bay attending.
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Worm / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Worm / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Director Piggot pulls one on Crawler — fooling him into remaining in the path of the Bakuda-bomb bombardment that would kill him by the simple expedient of telling him it was coming. Skitter's I Surrender, Suckers gambit depended on Echidna charging her personally. Skitter pulls one when she escapes from an ambush by recruiting her fellow high school students to act as Human Shields against Dragon, Defiant, and Clockblocker.
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Worm / int_38e64c1a	type	Only Flesh Is Safe
Worm / int_38e64c1a	comment	Only Flesh Is Safe: Faultline can split apart any object she touches by tracing lines on it with her fingers, in effect creating her own shatterpoints. It doesn't affect living organic material, be it flesh, leaves or wood. Many other Worm characters share that limitation such as Vista ("the Manton Effect" in-universe), who can only bend space unoccupied by biological life and Rune, whose telekinesis only works on inanimate objects. This is because of the Manton effect, which is theorized to be a psychological block that prevents some capes from using offensive powers directly on living targets, and later revealed to be the shards keeping their host parahumans from accidentally harming themselves with their powers. Also, it encourages innovative uses of powers by said hosts. As a result, capes with offensive powers that don't fall under the Manton effect tend to be extremely dangerous to fight. Dangerous like instead of throwing a fireball at you, they just create one in your brain.
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Worm / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Worm / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Shards deliberately limit the scope of the powers they bestow to avoid burning through their collective's energy reserves too quickly and to minimize the chance of the host hurting themselves with the power. Second trigger events convince the shard to reconsider where it has drawn those boundaries, and are usually more powerful as a result. Similarly, shards nudge their hosts away from Boring, but Practical strategies out of a belief that risky individual conflict is the best way to gather the data they need, even if the boring approach would be the more powerful one.
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Worm / int_3a95b3cf	type	Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy
Worm / int_3a95b3cf	comment	Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy: Tattletale performs one on herself after Perdition attacks her.
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Worm / int_3ab4530c	type	Crisis Crossover
Worm / int_3ab4530c	comment	Crisis Crossover: Despite being a stand-alone series in its own closed continuity, the major fights against the Endbringers (and to a lesser degree other S-Class threats) give off this vibe. This is partly because of the many interludes that show us brief glimpses into the lives of Heroes of Other Stories and the large amount of worldbuilding being done.
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Worm / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Worm / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Many characters change over the course of the story. Among the main cast: The insecure, nervous, near-suicidal girl aspiring to be a hero that Taylor was at the beginning is very different from the supervillain who calmly executed Coil and felt bad for not feeling any guilt over it ... who is in turn different from the antiheroic loose cannon of a superhero that Weaver becomes, who is little like the omni-controlling borderline insane entity that Khepri ends up as. Bitch has noticeably improved in social situations, by her standards, thanks to Taylor's friendship. Theo Anders changes from a pudgy kid abandoned by his Neo-Nazi family to the superhero Golem capable of fighting toe to toe with the Slaughterhouse Nine.
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Worm / int_3b7ba342	type	Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy
Worm / int_3b7ba342	comment	Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy: The supervillain Coil has quietly gained control of various villains, criminals, and politicians to gain control of the city.
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Worm / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Worm / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: In his interlude, Brutus recalls that he and the other dogs only receive the kill command for "squirrels and raccoons and once a horse". A darker example is made mention of much later, as we are offhandedly told about a war of some kind that happened with China due to Perdition's attack.
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Worm / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Worm / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: While being a parahuman grants you extraordinary abilities, you have to have something truly awful happen to you to get them, many have nasty side effects, they can turn you into a target or resource to exploit for others, there is massive societal pressure for you to fight the Endbringers, and it's been revealed that the entities that grant abilities are intelligent and might be exerting some negative mental influence on your actions. The majority of parahumans shown seem to have quite a few issues.
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Worm / int_3d59c9a0	type	Powered Armor
Worm / int_3d59c9a0	comment	Skitter is cornered by five superheroes, two of whom are wearing Powered Armor, without her armor or weapons and with her superpower effectively neutralized. Then she realizes that her opponents are still leery of attacking. Cue grin.
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Worm / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Worm / int_3d699462	comment	Done by Skitter again in a similar fashion towards Alexandria. Curbstomping ensues.
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Worm / int_3d897748	type	Do Not Go Gentle
Worm / int_3d897748	comment	Do Not Go Gentle: The Undersiders decide to do this after failing to stop the end of the world. They talk over their priorities a little first.
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Worm / int_3e01fd7	type	Arrow Catch
Worm / int_3e01fd7	comment	Arrow Catch: Flechette manages one when her arrival catches Shadow Stalker off-guard. Scion returns the favor much later.
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Worm / int_3e95582f	type	The Greatest Story Never Told
Worm / int_3e95582f	comment	The Greatest Story Never Told: Echidna's attack becomes this, with a common refrain of people wanting to know what the hell happened on June 20, 2011, and most not involved having no idea who or what "Echidna" even is.
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Worm / int_3ea462d7	type	Take That, Audience!
Worm / int_3ea462d7	comment	Take That, Audience!: Clockblocker complains that "[s]ome dingbats online speculated that I had a thing for Weaver, and it took off." This is, of course, a direct jab at the substantial Shipping contingent among the fans who insist these two characters would be awesome together.
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Worm / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
Worm / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title: The In-Universe talk show "Mornings with O, J and Koffi".
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Worm / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Worm / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: An ABB member tries to intimidate and take on Skitter, who controls a giant swarm of insects, with a sword. What the hell did he think was going to happen? Glory Girl tends to use extreme force in dealing with thugs. The results are not pretty, and it's strongly implied that she would have gotten into trouble a long time ago if not for Panacea putting her victims back together. Speaking of Panacea, driving herself to heal others day-in, day-out due to her own Samaritan Syndrome has had bad effects on her own psyche, and by the time the story proper starts she's already past the point of burnout. The story in general has a healthy respect for conventional weapons and quite a few named characters that lack Super-Toughness are wounded or even killed by them. While there is no shortage of genuinely malicious characters, a fair number of problems are also caused by people being, well, people, in all their ass-covering, fearful, me-first, selfish "glory". When getting superpowers involves a Traumatic Superpower Awakening, demographics are skewed towards females (more than in traditional superhero media) or the disaffected and the resultant capes are screwed up in the head. The majority go villain, and even among the heroes there are many skewed towards Anti-Hero. When just about everyone with powers has issues, daily life is far more dangerous than it would be in real life. The heroes aren't a team of vigilantes a la the Justice League; they work for the United States government. Attacks from the Endbringers aren't simply shrugged off and rebuilt, but usually result in whole regions being abandoned. After every attack, maps have to be redrawn, casualties typically exceed the four digit range and countless more are left homeless. Just one of the Endbringers was able to reduce Japan to a third-world nation. With their current rate of attrition, humanity will be extinct in just a few decades. As Taylor finds out, the heroes are stuck with the need to uphold their reputations as heroes, meaning that they're not allowed to use attacks or tactics that make them look less than heroic... which leads to their losing battles that they could have easily won if they'd been allowed to use all their attacks. After Coil gives a wealth of information (including real names, addresses and so on) about Empire Eighty-Eight to the media, social services take Purity's baby daughter into care while Purity is at work. So what happens when a super villain finds out that the media knows everything about her and her daughter was taken from her? She snaps, rallies her team and starts blasting the shit out of everything she can until Tattletale helps her get her baby back. New Wave deliberately goes without masks out of a belief that they can bring accountability to supers. In the backstory, this resulted in one of their members getting murdered in her civilian identity, which killed the movement from expanding beyond the two founding families.
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Worm / int_405b0c46	type	Armed Blag
Worm / int_405b0c46	comment	Armed Blag: When the Undersiders are contemplating a Bank Robbery, Alec asks why they don't hit an armored car instead. Tattletale points out that it's no easier than just knocking over the actual bank since it would be protected by capes.
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Worm / int_40c686c1	type	Xenofiction
Worm / int_40c686c1	comment	Xeno Fiction: Brutus, one of Bitch's dogs gets a chapter from his point of view. The final Interlude 26 is this for the Entities, one of which is Scion's true form. First part of interlude 28 is the Simurgh.
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Worm / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
Worm / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: After the attack by Leviathan, large parts of the city became this. Imagine New Orleans right after Katrina, but filled with super powered criminals and psychos who regularly steal supplies and worse. This is before the Slaughterhouse Nine comes to town. Things get so bad that the government considers condemning the whole area. Las Vegas is also known as this due to the sheer number of villains, its heavy hitters made up mostly of thinkers, tinkers, and strangers, where even the local heroes are far grayer than in other places.
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Worm / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Worm / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Scion's attack was devastating, but humanity is shown to be well on its way to rebuilding. And Taylor wins — and even seemingly survives — but she has to give up almost everything to do so, including her powers and all her friends.
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Worm / int_4108bb3e	type	Doomed Hometown
Worm / int_4108bb3e	comment	Doomed Hometown: Defied — Brockton Bay sure gets more than its fair share of trouble, but those invested in the city go to great lengths to save it from being destroyed. That is, until Scion razes most of it to the ground, along with much of the rest of the area.
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Worm / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Worm / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Golem to Jack Slash in Sting Interlude 26a.
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Worm / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
Worm / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: Either Contessa disabled Khepri's powers and Taylor is alive with her father in another world, or Contessa actually just put her in a coma and Taylor's epilogue is All Just a Dream. Wildbow discusses it here.
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Worm / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
Worm / int_423f5a19	comment	Killed Offscreen: The author has claimed/threatened to have a certain fondness for this trope and the body count to back it up: Battery, Siberian, Raymancer, and Rime among others all died offscreen. But the worst one was probably Grue.
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Worm / int_4294909e	type	Superman Substitute
Worm / int_4294909e	comment	Superman Substitute: Scion fills this niche within the setting; a caped paragon with powers head-and-shoulders above every other superhero, who devotes one hundred percent of his time and energy to doing good works around the world. He's also an amoral, extraterrestrial, multidimensional monster who chose to do good because it was the first thing someone suggested he do, and he wasn't creative enough to come up with a better idea.
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Worm / int_43f2f606	type	Annoying Arrows
Worm / int_43f2f606	comment	Annoying Arrows: Not so annoying, in fact: Shadow Stalker, a former vigilante hero in Brockton Bay, became a probationary member of the Wards after nearly killing someone by pinning him to the wall with one of her crossbow bolts, and as such restricted to using nonlethal bolts. (That said, as such, she didn't always obey said restriction, and she had as a vigilante and was willing to as a Ward kill with her bolts.) Flechette's superpower allows the bolts from her arbalest (and the throwing-knives which inspired her hero name, and anything else) to pass through or embed themselves in anything, up to and including Endbringers and Scion.
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Worm / int_43fe061e	type	Agony Beam
Worm / int_43fe061e	comment	Agony Beam: Bakuda turns the tables on Taylor and her team using a pain grenade that has this effect. It's also one of Butcher's attacks, relying on line of sight.
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Worm / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Worm / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Invoked by Victor when Tattletale suggests that his feelings for his partner Othala are a lie. Taylor presents herself as a ruthless criminal and warlord to cow people into surrendering/not attacking to avoid hurting them too badly. As the story progresses she becomes more and more ruthless, even if her intentions are still pure.
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Worm / int_446c5792	type	Villainous Rescue
Worm / int_446c5792	comment	Villainous Rescue: Arguably, the uber-trope of the entire story. The Endbringer attacks are always opposed by heroes and villains working together, with the villains often accomplishing more than the heroes. Lung, a particularly nasty villain, is the only parahuman shown to have fought and driven off an Endbringer single-handed, although his victory didn't happen in time to prevent it from being the single most destructive attack by that Endbringer ever, sinking the entire island of Kyushu and killing almost ten million people. Other threats like Bakuda's reign of terror and the Slaughterhouse Nine are stopped by the Undersiders and other villains at least as often as by the Protectorate and Wards, and Cauldron's experiments on non-consenting human subjects and sale of powers to anyone who can pay their rates, no matter how immoral their intentions are all done for the purpose of saving the world when Scion inevitably turn against humanity.
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Worm / int_44e6fde4	type	The Sleepless
Worm / int_44e6fde4	comment	The Sleepless: A number of parahumans develop this trait after their trigger event. Tattletale refers to them as 'Noctis' cases. Known examples include Miss Militia, Doormaker and Contessa. Strangely it often seems to have nothing to do with their primary powers, mostly just being a random bonus.
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Worm / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Worm / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Discussed when Grue i.e. Brian is talking to Taylor i.e. Skitter:
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Worm / int_45d0c643	type	Intimidation Demonstration
Worm / int_45d0c643	comment	Intimidation Demonstration: An ABB member whips his katana around to try to intimidate Skitter. It doesn't work.
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Worm / int_466ccbb4	type	Gayngst
Worm / int_466ccbb4	comment	Gayngst: Very deliberately averted. According to Word of God, Wildbow made Taylor straight to avoid the "angsty gay character" trope, which he considered overused. This can also be seen in the novel's other gay characters: Legend is Happily Married and generally optimistic, Parian and Foil angst a bit but get over it quickly and enjoy a healthy and stable relationship, and Regent isn't prone to angsting in the first place. That said, Panacea unfortunately plays this trope straight, though in her case the angst is as much because the object of her affection is her adopted sister, (who does consider their relationship close enough for the attraction to be incestuous,) as because of their genders.
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Worm / int_4712bc4f	type	Exact Eavesdropping
Worm / int_4712bc4f	comment	Exact Eavesdropping: Subverted when Taylor hears Lung ordering his followers to murder children and attacks, only to discover that what she heard was Lung laying out the rules of engagement for a fight with a gang of teenage villains.
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Worm / int_4783acfa	type	Bait the Dog
Worm / int_4783acfa	comment	Bait the Dog: Taylor is initially so persuaded by Coil's cool Pragmatic Villainy and his commitment to running the city better than it has been run before, even if he admits he's just doing it because of his pride, that she makes the final decision to work for him as one of the Undersiders rather than betraying them. Then she, and the audience, find out that Coil has kidnapped a child and is drugging her in order to use her future prediction powers.
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Worm / int_47e9e5c6	type	Smart People Know Latin
Worm / int_47e9e5c6	comment	Smart People Know Latin: Cherish mocks Coil for letting down his cultured-supervillain image by not knowing the language.
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Worm / int_48346d2e	type	Public Service Announcement
Worm / int_48346d2e	comment	Public Service Announcement: Weaver gives one to some middle schoolers on not being a supervillain.
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Worm / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
Worm / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: Members of the Travelers like Noelle and Sundancer wish they had a nice, normal life without their powers. Presumably this holds true for many others of those who gained powers from trigger events.
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Worm / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
Worm / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: On a couple occasions: When a subset of the Undersiders and the Travelers have to rescue the rest of their teammates from the PRT's carpet-bombing of the Slaughterhouse Nine. When Phir Sē gives Weaver a fifteen-minute time limit before he attacks Behemoth with his time bomb. Coil gives Skitter a time limit to defeat Dragon's suits, agreeing to release Dinah if she can accomplish it.
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Worm / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Worm / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: So many get broken in this setting. Parian is probably one of the more prominent examples.
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Worm / int_4bfcfa7c	type	Kansas City Shuffle
Worm / int_4bfcfa7c	comment	Kansas City Shuffle: Coil's plan to take over Brockton Bay incorporates one of these: he arranges for Coil to "die" attempting to take over the mayor's job, and steps into the PRT Director job during the aftermath as his Secret Identity Thomas Calvert.
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Worm / int_4bfe435c	type	Lobotomy
Worm / int_4bfe435c	comment	Lobotomy: It is heavily implied that Contessa gave Taylor a double bullet lobotomy at the end of the story because Taylor more or less became an insane demigod, well, that or a coma, which says something about the story since this actually might be considered to be a good ending for Taylor.
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Worm / int_4d070ee3	type	Power Perversion Potential
Worm / int_4d070ee3	comment	Power Perversion Potential: Quite a few powers have obvious potential in this way; Heartbreaker's use of his power to form a harem is a fairly obvious example.
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Worm / int_4d3827ef	type	Not Quite Saved Enough
Worm / int_4d3827ef	comment	Not Quite Saved Enough: While many of the members of the Nine are dead or worse, Jack is still alive, and Dinah has made the prediction that should he survive, he will be the catalyst for the end of the world. And he eventually delivers .
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Worm / int_4dd42a04	type	Self-Surgery
Worm / int_4dd42a04	comment	Self-Surgery: Tattletale is forced to perform a self-tracheotomy when Perdition attacks her.
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Worm / int_4e3f6d57	type	What Would X Do?
Worm / int_4e3f6d57	comment	What Would X Do?: Golem asks himself what Weaver does, and gives it a shot.
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Worm / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Worm / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: When Bonesaw, who was impersonating Tattletale, drops an Out-of-Character Alert line that Skitter doesn't recognize because of the effect of the fog. When Taylor is reading some paperwork, she sees her address listed as 911 Incoming St., alternate address 9191 Escape Ave., because she's been made and the superheroes are coming. Dinah's notes: 1. Cut ties. 2. I'm sorry. Interlude 27b is nothing but a single Wham Line, from Scion to Eidolon. It counts as one both in and out of universe, because that one statement completely shuts down Eidolon and lets Scion casually kill him while he's locked in a Heroic BSoD. Taylor, talking about her latest plan:
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Worm / int_4ebd9efb	type	Spree Killer
Worm / int_4ebd9efb	comment	Spree Killer: The Slaughterhouse Nine are a particularly horrifying, superpowered version of this trope. Actively travelling around the United States, the collective group has a body count well into the thousands, killing multiple victims in each rampage, most prominently women, children and babies. This has come to bite them in the ass at points, as they have lost a fair number of past members they've had to replace, and less evil supervillains will team up with the superheroes to take them down out of sheer disgust.
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Worm / int_4ee61c1f	type	Liar Revealed
Worm / int_4ee61c1f	comment	Liar Revealed: After the Leviathan battle, Armsmaster reveals to the Undersiders that the protagonist Taylor was only pretending to be on their side in order to betray them to the heroes. It turns out Tattletale already knew this, though, and thought correctly she could get her on their side for real anyway, though the other Undersiders feel appropriately shocked and betrayed.
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Worm / int_4f3e5420	type	Biomanipulation
Worm / int_4f3e5420	comment	Panacea is an exceptional healer who can repair things with a simple touch in minutes that would take even Bonesaw (arguably the world's scariest biotinker) hours and a lot of equipment to fix (if she felt like just doing a fix-up job, that is). In truth, she has enormous control over organic matter in general.
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Worm / int_4f7a35f4	type	Schlubby, Scummy Security Guard
Worm / int_4f7a35f4	comment	Schlubby, Scummy Security Guard: The Brockton Bay Boardwalk enforcers have a reputation for beating and raping people for being poor. When Coil press-gangs Lisa into his service, he has some of his mercenaries disguise themselves as enforcers so they can catch Lisa attempting to pickpocket another mercenary posing as a rich customer, thus giving them an excuse for dragging her away.
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Worm / int_4ff6f484	type	Trash the Set
Worm / int_4ff6f484	comment	Trash the Set: Gold Morning is this on a massive scale. It begins with Scion obliterating Great Britain with a single blast and escalates from there.
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Worm / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Worm / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: There are quite a few sources of this in the Wormverse. Biokinesis and biotech tinker powers tend to result in this fairly often if in the hands of the less than scrupulous, but other powers can easily react to living tissue in... less than pleasant ways as well. When Bitch transforms her dogs into their monstrous forms, their bodies grow faster than their skin can keep up with. They essentially burst from their hides like sausages splitting open, their engorged musculature calcifying and hardening as it goes and growths of bone bursting forth from beneath it. Once at full size, their surfaces become patchworks of torn skin, exposed flesh, bony spikes and plates, and patches of hardened, partially ossified muscle. Bakuda's two-twenty-seven bomb is a spatial warper that only affects organic substances, stretching, compressing, bending and twisting any living tissue within three feet of itself. Because this is purely a change in proportions — the affected tissue still connects and functions as before — it's never directly lethal, forcing its victims to live with their horribly distorted bodies. Bakuda likes to plant it inside people's bodies before setting it off, in order to maximize the disfigurement.
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Worm / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Worm / int_50f66629	comment	Armsmaster is the Wormverse's version of Batman- someone with no exceptional physical powers who relies on gadgetry (his tinker specialty is the ability to miniaturize so much that he can carry a ridiculous breadth of gear at once), extreme physical training and martial arts, being Crazy-Prepared (again, see his specialty) and on predicting the moves of his opponents (though using tactical software rather than intuition) to make himself the 7th-most influential cape in the protectorate. He also has the dark, ruthless, unfettered Anti-Hero thing down pat along with a major injection of Jerkass.
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Worm / int_51616227	type	Power Born of Madness
Worm / int_51616227	comment	Power Born of Madness: Well, psychological trauma, really. Most parahumans have their latent powers activated during a "trigger event" or a time of extreme stress that pushes the person to the breaking point. This may explain why there are more villains than heroes in the Wormverse, and even the heroes usually have a lot of psychological baggage. However, those who had their powers artificially induced by Cauldron do not need a trigger event, a feature which Cauldron claims results in more heroes. Slightly more literal in the case of Labyrinth, mixed with a dash of With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: her mental disorder has good days and bad. The worse her mental illness is at any given time, the stronger her powers are, and vice-versa. In other words, the madder she is, the more powerful she is. Inverted with Burnscar who has control over and teleportation through fire. As there is more fire in her range - meaning stronger and versatile powers - she mentally grows increasingly more distant, unfeeling and violent. She's a rather broken, sad individual when there are no flames. When half the street is burning she becomes a sadistic psychopath. Taken even further for capes that go through second trigger events. The alterations to their powers typically make them even more powerful, but at the price of being another order of magnitude more traumatized.
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Worm / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Worm / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: Imp's killing of Nice Guy is accompanied by one.
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Worm / int_519f108a	type	Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Worm / int_519f108a	comment	Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Foil uses her power to throw her sword into Hookwolf's core. Justified in that Foil has secondary powers that increase her accuracy.
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Worm / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Worm / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: The phrase gets thrown out by Trickster, when the Wards come across the Travelers at the site of a multiple murder committed by the Slaughterhouse Nine.
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Worm / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Worm / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The last thing we see Jack Slash doing is also one of the first things we saw him doing on screen: talking about how he doesn't like blank slates.
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Worm / int_5318f34d	type	Conveniently Coherent Thoughts
Worm / int_5318f34d	comment	Conveniently Coherent Thoughts: Justified as Scanner, a member of Teacher's Group, has this as his power. He's one of the few Telepathic thinkers who can interpret a targets thoughts into an understandable narrative form.
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Worm / int_539a54d	type	Ending Memorial Service
Worm / int_539a54d	comment	Ending Memorial Service: After the attack on Brockton Bay, and some of the epilogues have these.
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Worm / int_53ecf83f	type	Lensman Arms Race
Worm / int_53ecf83f	comment	Skitter's distaste for tinkers is made explicit and referenced again and again thereafter as they show up with more devices. The sentiment is apparently a common one, even among tinkers, thanks to their penchant for turning everything into a Lensman Arms Race and creating annoyingly clever devices that go wrong in the most fascinating ways.
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Worm / int_54616909	type	Cavalry Betrayal
Worm / int_54616909	comment	Cavalry Betrayal: Trickster when he sides with Noelle and gets several members of the Undersiders absorbed by her.
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Worm / int_5541da8c	type	Lotus-Eater Machine
Worm / int_5541da8c	comment	Lotus-Eater Machine: When things actually go right for a short time for our main character, she is so confused by the unfamiliar experience that she suspects this might be going on and mentally goes through a list of enemies who might have this sort of power.
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Worm / int_55473bc9	type	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable
Worm / int_55473bc9	comment	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: It is actually shown realistically by Taylor with a overweight cape who was seriously injured by Leviathan. She gurgles up the water and everything. Later discussed when Imp attempts CPR and it's mentioned that it doesn't work like in the movies.
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Worm / int_5571b706	type	I Work Alone
Worm / int_5571b706	comment	I Work Alone: The lack of a strong support network is a big predictor of trigger events and most parahumans are loners by nature. Taylor believes this is the reason that parahumans are so screwed up as a community. Despite this, very few heroes and only slightly more villains actually do work alone. When the Undersiders first speak with Taylor about recruiting her, they briefly mention an attempt to recruit Circus, who made it very clear that this trope was her reason for giving them a firm "no".
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Worm / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Worm / int_558f5da6	comment	Cryptic Conversation: Taylor has one with Glaistig Uaine.
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Worm / int_5664dbe4	type	Hesitation Equals Dishonesty
Worm / int_5664dbe4	comment	Hesitation Equals Dishonesty: When describing his trigger event, Grue pauses and looks at Taylor before proceeding with a story where he beat up his abusive step-father and rescued his sister in a Tranquil Fury where his emotions didn't even register to him, only discovering his power shortly afterward. Given that powers tend to "solve" the problem that a person finds overwhelming during their trigger event, it can be inferred that Grue actually triggered while trying to hide, which was confirmed by Word of God.
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Worm / int_56d5b88f	type	Divided We Fall
Worm / int_56d5b88f	comment	Divided We Fall: Following Scion killing off half the world's population and everyone's efforts being incapable of stopping him, various groups decide to fight amongst themselves believing it's hopeless to resist.
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Worm / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Worm / int_571bfe2	comment	Super Serum: Cauldron specializes in creating these.
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Worm / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Worm / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: Taylor and Alexandria both wear darker colors despite their heroic intentions. Although Taylor becomes a villain and Alexandria's interlude casts some doubt on her 'not evil' status.
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Worm / int_5793fdbb	type	Meta Power
Worm / int_5793fdbb	comment	Trump - Capes with powers that copy or interfere with other powers, or which give them access to many different powers in some other way. Includes those whose power gives them an Adaptive Ability, Power Copying, variable power loadouts, and Power Nullification.
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Worm / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
Worm / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Faultline and her crew, without a doubt. Wildbow has stated that the Guild, Las Vegas Protectorate, and Thanda regularly battle S-class threats too subtle or panic-inducing to be publicised. Most of the Parahuman capes are this, hero or villain.
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Worm / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
Worm / int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality: The protagonists are (morally grey) supervillains while the main heroes are working for a mysterious and unethical organisation (also grey, as it does create superheroes) and plenty of other superheroes are seriously messed up. However, although these heroes and villains fight, they all are willing to team up against the really evil threats like the monstrous Endbringers and mass murderers like the Slaughterhouse Nine.
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Worm / int_59103508	type	Deadly Environment Prison
Worm / int_59103508	comment	Deadly Environment Prison: The Birdcage isn't hard to escape because it is filled with strong defenses, but because its defenses are fragile, trying to break free will just lead to you suffocating in the surrounding vacuum.
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Worm / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Worm / int_5989e3b6	comment	Comes up again and again in the story, flexible alliances, Enemy Mine and the Godzilla Threshold being core themes of the series. The rough breakdown switches from arc to arc: Start of the story (Pre-Leviathan): The Undersiders, Faultline and maybe the Travelers are ''good''; The Protectorate, Empire 88 and Coil are bad; the ABB is evil. (From the Heroes perspective, The Protectorate, Wards and New Wave are good, all villains except the ABB are bad, and the ABB is evil). From Leviathan to the defeat of the Slaughterhouse 9: The Undersiders and Travelers are good, the S9 is evil, everyone else is some form of bad. From S9 to Echidna arc: Undersiders and Dragon are good (though opposed to each other), Protectorate and Travelers are bad, Coil is evil. From then on: Undersiders and non-Cauldron heroes are good, Cauldron and most other villains are bad, The Endbringers, Slaughterhouse 9 and Scion are evil.
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Worm / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Worm / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Before Leviathan attacked, the heroes and the police couldn't do any meaningful damage to the villains. After, many villains are doing more to help their (new) territories within the city than they are. As Skitter explains to Miss Militia and Clockblocker, she sees the PRT as one part The Fettered, one part Dirty Cop.
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Worm / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Worm / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: During Skitter's first bank robbery, Tattletale is described as wandering off to the bank manager's office, ostensibly to use the computer systems there to monitor the response of the authorities and the security cameras. She's even able to give the Undersiders some warning when the Wards are scrambled. We find out later that she had also used the opportunity to skim a portion of the robbery's take and bank assets to her own personal funds. Just one of many such instances she used to build a financial powerbase that would rival Coil's.
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Worm / int_5b6e57e	type	Required Secondary Powers
Worm / int_5b6e57e	comment	Required Secondary Powers: During the Endbringer arc, it was strongly implied that some parahumans don't have them. Most parahumans seen on screen seem to have them, though, or have figured out some way to compensate. In some cases, the secondary powers are actually as useful or even more potent than the powers they enable. Taylor's power to control insects, for example, turns her into someone who has the multitasking and mental processing capability to control, detect, and receive input from literally hundreds of thousands of individual creatures at once. Without this power, she wouldn't be able to pull off many of her most spectacular stunts. Later it is revealed during Scion’s interlude that Taylor has the Administrator shard, meaning that her ‘secondary’ power is actually the primary one, and the bug control is how the shard interpreted its function in this world through Taylor’s eyes. With that in mind, one has to wonder how many of the supposedly secondary powers some capes have are the actual power itself.
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Worm / int_5b96128d	type	Helping Would Be Killstealing
Worm / int_5b96128d	comment	Helping Would Be Killstealing: Part of the Nine's survival game. They each take turns trying to kill the different candidates, until Skitter and Piggot change the rules.
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Worm / int_5c53c410	type	Scry vs. Scry
Worm / int_5c53c410	comment	Scry vs. Scry: Precognitives (and certain classes of Thinker) can interfere with the abilities of other precogs. Including the Simurgh. It eventually can be reasoned that this is due to Recursive Reality. While powers that muck with time do exist, precogs function by constructing simulations of potential futures. If another precog is a relevant factor, their model would have to be modeled, setting up a recursive loop that the power has to simplify or ignore.
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Worm / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Worm / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Averted. More women than men have trigger events.
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Worm / int_5dca2bb	type	Kill on Sight
Worm / int_5dca2bb	comment	Kill on Sight: The Slaughterhouse Nine have a Kill On Sight order because they are incredibly and horrifyingly destructive supervillains. Unfortunately it is easier said than done.
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Worm / int_5e2f5ad2	type	You Kill It, You Bought It
Worm / int_5e2f5ad2	comment	You Kill It, You Bought It: Whenever someone kills Butcher, they become Butcher themselves, getting all of the previous Butcher's powers but also having all of their voices in the killer's head, which often drives them mad.
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Worm / int_5eb92325	type	Declaration of Protection
Worm / int_5eb92325	comment	Declaration of Protection: When Skitter took over the docks, she openly declares that she will deal with anyone who hurts her people.
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Worm / int_5f6c6cc1	type	Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
Worm / int_5f6c6cc1	comment	Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Weaver talks to a group of middle schoolers about how the use of this trope in Drugs Are Bad PSAs is stupid, because (contrary to the trope) drug abuse is initially enjoyable — it destroys your life over time, not right away. She segues from this into her explanation of why being a supervillain isn't worth it.
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Worm / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Worm / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	And again after the Time Skip. This time versus the Slaughterhouse Nine and then Scion.
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Worm / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Worm / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Bonesaw has a dramatic one when influenced by Contessa.
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Worm / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
Worm / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: The Simurgh's song. The longer you listen, the more influence she has over you, until she can turn you into a Manchurian Agent. Or simply something like The Heartless, exactly like a normal member of society save for a desire to kill as many 'uninfected' people as possible. It's a mental effect that can't be muffled or drowned out and can a large part of a city.
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Worm / int_62c1f9a9	type	Evil Versus Oblivion
Worm / int_62c1f9a9	comment	Evil Versus Oblivion: When the Endbringers and eventually Scion attack the heroes and villains will call a truce to fight against them. While Jack Slash is excited about the possibility that he could end the world, Bonesaw is skeptical because she thinks living in the world is fun.
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Worm / int_62df92d4	type	Involuntary Charity Donation
Worm / int_62df92d4	comment	Involuntary Charity Donation: White-hat hacker Andrew Richter — a computer-based tinker responsible for creating Dragon among other things — wrote computer programs to do this to criminal organizations.
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Worm / int_63cf9a3	type	Rage Against the Mentor
Worm / int_63cf9a3	comment	Rage Against the Mentor: While he wasn't her mentor Taylor's hatred for Armsmaster outing her fits this.
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Worm / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Worm / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Coil's mercenaries and the PRT, all of whom fight alongside and against capes with only training and (relatively mundane) technology. Special mention goes to one of Coil's snipers who is pushed off a three story building and breaks his leg, but still manages to follow Skitter's directions and snipe the teleporting bastard that did it to him. Theo Anders prevents Jack Slash from murdering his half-sister and mother several months before he gets powers. Jessica Yamada, being a parahuman therapist, gets put in rooms alone with individuals who are dangerous by their very nature. On purpose. She psychoanalyzes patients while they're trying to crush her to death, and becomes the third person to save the world, after Contessa and Khepri, by talking Glaistig Uaine out of killing everyone. Jack Slash's power subtlety predicts and manipulates parahumans, so he is finally defeated by an unnamed, unpowered Dragon's Tooth soldier.
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Worm / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Worm / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Regent steps out of cover to draw Behemoth's attention away from Imp.
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Worm / int_6486a1a9	type	Shoot the Dangerous Minion
Worm / int_6486a1a9	comment	Shoot the Dangerous Minion: Coil decides to kill Skitter after she helped his plan to conquer Brockton Bay reach fruition, as he knows that she would oppose his continuing to hold Dinah Alcott prisoner.
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Worm / int_65e33518	type	Lethal Harmless Powers
Worm / int_65e33518	comment	Lethal Harmless Powers: Worm loves this trope. A lot. Anyone on-camera with a seemingly odd or overspecialized power (such as Taylor herself) can be relied upon to do something clever with it. The trope is explicitly discussed by Miss Militia when the Echidna battle forces various capes to rethink how effective or dangerous seemingly harmless powers can be when utilized by individuals with nothing holding them back. Superpowered intuition sounds as harmless as it gets, until the little girl in question starts talking about punching a hole in the universe. The author was answering a few questions about power classifications and was presented with a hypothetical parahuman with the power of making words appear on any surface. He immediately proposed a way to turn said parahuman into a hitman (Interlude 16 (Donation Bonus #1)).
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Worm / int_65efc6dc	type	Appeal to Force
Worm / int_65efc6dc	comment	Appeal to Force: Somewhat played with. Skitter likes to resort to threats because she does not really like to hurt people, and hopes that scaring them off would avoid lethal consequences. For example, when she finds three ex-ABB gang members threatening her deputies:
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Worm / int_66cdb21b	type	Gag Penis
Worm / int_66cdb21b	comment	Gag Penis: The male members of the Chicago Wards decide to prank Taylor as the superhero Weaver by stuffing their tights in the crotch area and wearing gigantic codpieces.
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Worm / int_67677940	type	Giant Flyer
Worm / int_67677940	comment	Giant Flyer: Atlas may not be as large as most examples, but he's still a four-hundred-pound Hercules beetle capable of carrying Taylor around.
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Worm / int_68148dc	type	Militaries Are Useless
Worm / int_68148dc	comment	Militaries Are Useless: The ubiquity of Parahumans makes Conventional military forces a lot less effective. They basically don't even appear when it comes time to try and stop S-Class threats. The Endbringers, for example: their extreme durability means that even most parahumans abilities are ineffective. Conventional weapons and troops are generally not powerful enough to do meaningful damage and not mobile enough to actually get where they're needed or survive any length of time in the fight. Even things like aircraft or artillery, which might be powerful enough to do at least some damage, really aren't meant for targeting individual enemies like that. Plus the powers and maneuverability of the Endbringers often make even attempting such things pointless or outright dangerous. The only time they are ever mentioned directly combating an Endbringer is so throwaway one can easily overlook it. Conventional militaries also have trouble fighting the Slaughterhouse Nine due to simply catching them. The ones who they are likely to be able to get in a fight like Siberian or Crawler are basically impossible to harm, and the rest simply take advantage of the general chaos they create and use highly effective guerrilla tactics to combat both capes and conventional forces that try to catch them. It's inverted with Jack Slash, whose secondary ability allows him to understand capes, but leaves him flat-footed against non parahumans. Sending in the ordinary military once the rest of Slaughterhouse Nine is neutralized turns out to be the best response against him. Conventional militaries might be able to destroy Nilbog, but the potential costs would be too high and he's content to stay in his village.
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Worm / int_68424916	type	Eating the Eye Candy
Worm / int_68424916	comment	Eating the Eye Candy: Taylor is very aware of Brian's well toned body when she helps him put together furniture.
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Worm / int_6860368a	type	Mook Horror Show
Worm / int_6860368a	comment	Mook Horror Show: When Taylor completely annihilates the 28 merchants who attack her territory. She scares the crap out of them as they are brutally mauled by creepy, humanoid, figures made out of bugs. She could have beaten them in an instant, but takes her time to freak them out so that they'll spread the word about what happens to anyone stupid enough to attack her territory.
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Worm / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
Worm / int_697b5232	comment	Empire 88 are an offshoot of a more established German organisation called Gesellschaft, who sometimes send cape assistance over but are never confronted directly by Taylor.
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Worm / int_6a47a1e2	type	Knight of Cerebus
Worm / int_6a47a1e2	comment	Knight of Cerebus: Leviathan; while its hardly sunshine and rainbows beforehand, the staggering intensity and cost of the first Endbringer fight shows exactly what kind of threats superheros have to face in this setting.
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Worm / int_6a993504	type	Audio Adaptation
Worm / int_6a993504	comment	Audio Adaptation: The work has spawned two fan audiobook adaptations thus far; the now-complete Rein audiobook found here and the full-cast audiobook found here. The latter is very new but of high production quality, while the former is complete with only a single narrator handling each entire chapter. Both had wildbow give his blessing.
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Worm / int_6b22aace	type	Not So Invincible After All
Worm / int_6b22aace	comment	Not So Invincible After All: Tattletale figures out the weaknesses to both Glory Girl and Siberian's powers. The Undersiders use it to great effect. Later, Skitter learns Alexandria's weakness.
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Worm / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Worm / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Taylor figures out the reason Coil paid so well for the bank job was to distract local heroes while he kidnapped Dinah. Sophia Hess (one of the bullies) is Shadow Stalker, a member of the Wards and this is probably why no action was taken over the bullying incidents at school. Coil is Thomas Calvert, the new director of the local PRT. For the first sixteen entire story arcs, the main motivation for Tattletale's actions was to save Taylor from committing suicide. Scion is the avatar of a Sufficiently Advanced Alien, and the source of parahuman powers.
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Worm / int_6b510ace	type	Hopeless War
Worm / int_6b510ace	comment	Hopeless War: Humanity's losing the fight against the Endbringers.
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Worm / int_6b8b122b	type	The Good, the Bad, and the Evil
Worm / int_6b8b122b	comment	The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: Comes up again and again in the story, flexible alliances, Enemy Mine and the Godzilla Threshold being core themes of the series. The rough breakdown switches from arc to arc: Start of the story (Pre-Leviathan): The Undersiders, Faultline and maybe the Travelers are ''good''; The Protectorate, Empire 88 and Coil are bad; the ABB is evil. (From the Heroes perspective, The Protectorate, Wards and New Wave are good, all villains except the ABB are bad, and the ABB is evil). From Leviathan to the defeat of the Slaughterhouse 9: The Undersiders and Travelers are good, the S9 is evil, everyone else is some form of bad. From S9 to Echidna arc: Undersiders and Dragon are good (though opposed to each other), Protectorate and Travelers are bad, Coil is evil. From then on: Undersiders and non-Cauldron heroes are good, Cauldron and most other villains are bad, The Endbringers, Slaughterhouse 9 and Scion are evil.
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Worm / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Worm / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Alexandria makes a speech about the inevitability of her actions. Skitter echoes this speech after suffocating Alexandria by coating her lungs with a layer of insects and spider glue.
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Worm / int_6c62b1a8	type	Covered in Gunge
Worm / int_6c62b1a8	comment	Covered in Gunge: The three bullies dump juice and soda all over Taylor when they find her hiding in a bathroom stall. Echidna leaves many of her opponents coated in vomit.
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Worm / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Worm / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Defied by Tattletale when she saw that Taylor was on that road thanks to the bullies. Turns out the reason Tattletale was so intent on defying this with Taylor was because her brother had committed suicide. She'd noticed he was acting differently before he died but didn't know why and, as they weren't particularly close, didn't really care about finding out. She got her powers from the stress of trying to figure out why he died, what she could have done, and her parents blaming her for not speaking up when she noticed how her brother was acting. May have been played straight with Emma.
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Worm / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Worm / int_6d7026fa	comment	Assault and Battery apparently had one between the beginning of Battery's interlude and that of the main story.
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Worm / int_6dafc69d	type	Decoy Getaway
Worm / int_6dafc69d	comment	Decoy Getaway: The Slaughterhouse Nine confuse attacking heroes and villains by forcing plastic surgery on civilians to make them resemble members of the Nine. Taylor covers herself in bugs frequently, so she can create Taylor-shaped clouds as decoys. Many capes have the ability to create duplicates or illusions to such an effect.
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Worm / int_6f572188	type	Another Dimension
Worm / int_6f572188	comment	Another Dimension: The story takes place on Earth Bet, which has a certain amount of communication with Earth Aleph since 1988 thanks to a cape named Haywire — limited to data, but enough to transfer (among other, more important things) the alternate-universe versions of the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Episodes 1 and 2 of which the Undersiders watch.
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Worm / int_703b2f20	type	Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance
Worm / int_703b2f20	comment	Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Averted, almost everyone with powers starts as a physically normal person, while the others have monstrous appearances typically unrelated to their powers. While some change appearance later or due to their power(s) most don't even go that far, instead faking stuff like fancy hair as part of their disguise.
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Worm / int_70dc3a86	type	Had to Be Sharp
Worm / int_70dc3a86	comment	Had to Be Sharp: When Taylor visits the high school, she instantly notices how different the people who stayed in town during the events of the prior sixteen or so story arcs were from people who did not — a difference reflected in (for example) their attitude towards weapons.
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Worm / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
Worm / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: The last epilogue shows the Undersiders gearing up to kick Teacher in the balls, metaphorically and probably literally as well.
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Worm / int_7175cb16	type	Clark Kenting
Worm / int_7175cb16	comment	Clark Kenting: The government keeps the identities of heroes secret to protect them and their families from retribution from villains. Averted by New Wave, who have gone public with their identities, though they seem to be the only ones for the foreseeable future due to the unbelievably terrible luck they have experienced since going public.
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Worm / int_71bd62b9	type	Calling Your Attacks
Worm / int_71bd62b9	comment	Calling Your Attacks: Skitter briefly toys with the idea of categorising her abilities with phrases such as: 'Firebug attack, go!' or 'Silkwrap Strike!', but ultimately decides against it.
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Worm / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
Worm / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: Something that makes Skitter annoying to Flechette when she calmly states that the world isn't so black and white and the heroes have made more than their fair share of mistakes.
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Worm / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Worm / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: The trio of bullies would probably reconsider what they're doing if they knew about Taylor's powers. Luckily for them, she does not reveal her power to them, or even use it to get revenge at any point.
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Worm / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Worm / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: The Endbringers have caused so much death and destruction in the world that, according to Word of God, nukes have been used against them. It didn't work. To defeat Scion all the inhabitants of the Birdcage are released. It doesn't work. Taylor decides to attempt talking to the Simurgh. It works. In turn, it demonstrates just how severely The Dreaded the Sleeper is that, even with human extinction across all known Earths on the line, still no one dares to try bringing him into the fight.
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Worm / int_72b0dfd2	type	Being Good Sucks
Worm / int_72b0dfd2	comment	Being Good Sucks: The heroes are outnumbered and are restricted in how they use their powers. Taylor laments that things would be so much easier if she didn't have a moral compass.
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Worm / int_72e0023f	type	Invoked Trope
Worm / int_72e0023f	comment	Invoked by Taylor when she sends a single butterfly to contact her father for possibly the last time.
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Worm / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
Worm / int_73733868	comment	Also played with as part of Worm's deconstruction/reconstruction of superhero archetypes. Rather than just personal training, powers/tech that grant Awesomeness by Analysis, such as the software in Armsmaster's helmet or the powers of Number Man, Contessa, Jack Slash, and the Harbinger clones, can allow them to perform seemingly supernatural feats of strength, agility, and stamina.
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Worm / int_74ef476c	type	Kneel Before Zod
Worm / int_74ef476c	comment	Kneel Before Zod: Taylor imagines a future Regent in this role.
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Worm / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Worm / int_74f57438	comment	Cell Phones Are Useless: Shatterbird's scream destroys all the electronics in the city, including cell phones. This makes Brockton Bay even more dangerous since no one can call for help in the city, and it's much harder to get news about where villains/gangs are.
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Worm / int_7518df99	type	The Power of Legacy
Worm / int_7518df99	comment	The Power of Legacy: Imp is undertaking a variation of this with the help of the Heartbroken. Anyone who is impinging on Taylor's (and by extension the Undersiders') schtick after the Scion War in a negative way gets restrained, declawed, humiliated, and then left to their own devices.
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Worm / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
Worm / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: Lamp-shaded and justified when Taylor is teleported into a burning building, shot and left for dead while gunmen surround the building to make sure she doesn't get out. Afterwards, Taylor wonders why the villain responsible went to all that trouble when he could have just teleported her to a bomb and detonated it. Justified in that when she asks Coil why he didn't do this, he admits that he tried to use a bomb repeatedly, and even teleporting her into a vat of acid, but the teleporter was built by Leet and went wrong whenever a bomb or acid was involved due to Leet's power actively sabotaging him, forcing Coil to keep changing the parameters of the scenario until he found a combination that wouldn't set off the inbuilt malfunction of the teleporter, and then Coil ran out of time due to the narrow window of opportunity and had to go with the burning building plan.
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Worm / int_7583ecbf	type	Morality Kitchen Sink
Worm / int_7583ecbf	comment	Morality Kitchen Sink: Villains range from mass murdering psychopaths (some of whom even redeem themselves) to basically good people who just happen to be on the wrong side of the law. The heroes also include many people who are far from good, and while they tend not to go into the "murderous psychopath" range, but they're still responsible for some truly awful things. Of course they also contain a whole load of mostly good people just doing their best to help.
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Worm / int_765345f6	type	Slumming It
Worm / int_765345f6	comment	Slumming It: Taylor gains quite a bit of money through her actives as Skitter, but never spends any of it. Justified with keeping her cape life secret from her father and her guilt at how she earned the money.
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Worm / int_76d167c0	type	Hazy-Feel Turn
Worm / int_76d167c0	comment	Parian and Flechette (later Foil) get one when the latter makes her Hazy-Feel Turn.
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Worm / int_777baed3	type	Out-of-Character Alert
Worm / int_777baed3	comment	When Bonesaw, who was impersonating Tattletale, drops an Out-of-Character Alert line that Skitter doesn't recognize because of the effect of the fog.
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Worm / int_7789df57	type	Healing Shiv
Worm / int_7789df57	comment	Healing Shiv: When the Simurgh stabs Leviathan with a black, serrated sword, and he drops from one blow it was surprising enough for the assembled capes. But then he stands up again, with power upgrades.
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Worm / int_77aedc5c	type	Horse of a Different Color
Worm / int_77aedc5c	comment	Horse of a Different Color: The Undersiders use Bitch's giant monster dogs as their main form of transportation. In case that wasn't different enough, Atlas serves as such to Taylor, while many of Parian's creations are used as transportation.
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Worm / int_783aee25	type	Power Misidentification
Worm / int_783aee25	comment	Power Misidentification: Because of the nature of superpowers in Worm and how poorly they are understood, there is a lot of this, as well as the fact that many capes lie or mislead people about their powers, either to keep an ace up their sleeve or to bluff people into running/surrendering. Flechette can empower projectiles to pierce most anything and ignore wind, with a secondary power granting perfect aim. In actuality, she is causing the projectile to exist across the multiverse, ignoring any force that stops only one or a million of its counterparts. Scrub makes things disappear, but is actually swapping their places with alternate Earths, which is later exploited to create portals. Tinkers are mentally plugged into technological databases that only leak information a little at a time; precognition is sophisticated modelling of the most probable future(s), etc. Coil is given as an example of a man who both misidentifies his power, and lies about how it works according to his understanding. He tells people that he can manipulate reality and probability so that events favor him. He thinks that he has the power to create two realities, make different choices in each, and then choose whichever favors him the most and destroy the other. But what his power actually does is show him two hyper-accurate visions of possible futures based on his choices, and allows him to choose which to act out (with perfect faithfulness to the vision). Panacea is an exceptional healer who can repair things with a simple touch in minutes that would take even Bonesaw (arguably the world's scariest biotinker) hours and a lot of equipment to fix (if she felt like just doing a fix-up job, that is). In truth, she has enormous control over organic matter in general. Gallant pretends to be a Tinker by wearing power armour and passing off his emotion-affecting lasers as technology rather than an innate ability to mess with people's emotions, as most people are frightened of powers that mess with the mind. Tattletale uses her hyperintuition to figure out incredible details from tiny clues, and pretends to be psychic so nobody can figure out what her power really is. Regent can cause muscle spasms in people, but hides the fact that if he uses his power on somebody enough, he can map out their nervous system and work their body like a puppet. He hides this to avoid drawing too much attention to himself, especially from his father, who he ran away from. Grue edits his PHO wiki page to hide certain aspects of his power. Glory Girl deliberately spreads the story of her being invulnerable, to hide the fact that her invincible force-field goes down for a few seconds after every strong hit.
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Worm / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Worm / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Taylor and Brockton Bay can not catch a break. The most dramatic examples for the latter are the Leviathan attack followed by the Slaughterhouse Nine. Another dramatic example occurs when the defeat of Jack Slash leaves him in a position to talk Scion into turning against humanity.
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Worm / int_7990856a	type	Arrogant God vs. Raging Monster
Worm / int_7990856a	comment	Arrogant God vs. Raging Monster: Armsmaster helps in the fight against the Endbringer Leviathan and seems to be beating him singlehandedly despite his great power, bragging all the while about how the Endbringer is too dumb to be able to fight back against Armsmaster's strategy. However Leviathan turns out to be smarter than he seems and turns the fight around.
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Worm / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
Worm / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser: Taylor escapes a cage made of cutting edge nano robots using a lighter.
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Worm / int_79da90f4	type	MindManipulation
Worm / int_79da90f4	comment	Master - Capes whose powers allow them to control others or create minions.
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Worm / int_79f9249	type	Horrifying the Horror
Worm / int_79f9249	comment	Horrifying the Horror: We get to ride along with the supervillain Crusader as he watches his teammates Night and Fog ritually pantomime the mannerisms of a happily married couple — something they do day after day in a routine so fixed he can predict their lines before they speak them.
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Worm / int_7a87fa80	type	Animal-Themed Superbeing
Worm / int_7a87fa80	comment	Animal-Themed Superbeing: Averted in the present day but Taylor mentions that in the past many heroes went the easy route and stuck -hawk or some other bird of prey on the end of their names (e.g. Laserhawk, Flame Falcon, Steel Eagle, Cockatoo, etc.) before it became unfashionable. There are still a couple examples, the most prominent being Canary.
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Worm / int_7ac5c1de	type	Unishment
Worm / int_7ac5c1de	comment	Unishment: Taylor argues that giving her bullies a two-week suspension for their campaign of abuse against her constitutes this. To her surprise, she discovers that Sophia, one of the three bullies, was suspended from the track team as well and hates her for it.
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Worm / int_7ad2ca1b	type	Container Maze
Worm / int_7ad2ca1b	comment	Container Maze: The Undersiders' fight with Über and Leet in Shell 4.5 is at the Docks amongst the shipping containers, apropos given that they're a duo of video game themed villains. Their ambush of the Undersiders fails so their backers, the ABB led by Bakuda, start an actual chase through the maze.
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Worm / int_7b3352a9	type	Heroic Safe Mode
Worm / int_7b3352a9	comment	Heroic Safe Mode: Skitter drops into this when she realizes the Protectorate has co-opted Dinah to use against her, after everything she went through to make sure her powers would not be abused by anyone.
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Worm / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Worm / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Emma uses one of these on Taylor as part of her bullying campaign. An Armor-Piercing Statement is later used to defeat Eidolon, courtesy of Scion Also one of the the primary weapons in Tattletale's arsenal.
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Worm / int_7bc8c453	type	Origins Episode
Worm / int_7bc8c453	comment	Origins Episode: The Migration arc for the Travelers.
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Worm / int_7bcdd204	type	Good Powers, Bad People
Worm / int_7bcdd204	comment	Good Powers, Bad People: The story uses this along with all the various related tropes to drive home its divorce between powers and the person's moral nature. Probably best seen in Bonesaw of the Slaughterhouse Nine who is young, cute and has implausible science powers in seemingly any biological field. She can perform impossible surgeries and even bring the dead back to life if their body is intact. Unfortunately she has no apparent sense of morality and her idea of fun and interesting ranges from bad to very bad. Panacea is terrified that she is doomed to become this despite or perhaps because of the psychological strain of her massive healing powers.
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Worm / int_7bd8307f	type	The Infiltration
Worm / int_7bd8307f	comment	The Infiltration: Taylor's reason for joining the Undersiders.
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Worm / int_7c7589af	type	Earth-Shattering Kaboom
Worm / int_7c7589af	comment	Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Doesn't actually happen, but it's part of the entities' life cycle, and it's what Scion and his counterpart planned to do to Earth in every possible reality.
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Worm / int_7cdfe326	type	Cosmic Retcon
Worm / int_7cdfe326	comment	Cosmic Retcon: When Buzz 7.9 was rewritten, wildbow said the previous version was "canon in many respects" ... because the previous version was an alternate universe that Coil terminated. invoked
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Worm / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Worm / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Tattletale excels at using breaking speeches to gain an advantage over opponents and talk them to death: Tattletale gives a mild one to Panacea to stop her and Glory Girl during the bank robbery, but its long-term consequence end up driving Panacea to a nervous breakdown, and leads to Panacea mutating Glory Girl and voluntarily going to the Birdcage for what she did to Glory Girl. Tattletale's deconstruction of Armsmaster — which leads to him immediately attacking her. Taylor delivers more than one over the course of the series: She gives one to Emma in Arc 20, tossing in one for Sophia as well. Emma grows increasingly angry over the course of their conversation, which culminates in physical violence; unfortunately for her, she isn't nearly strong enough for Taylor to feel threatened.
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Worm / int_7dbfa45b	type	Spy Speak
Worm / int_7dbfa45b	comment	Spy Speak: A couple examples turn up: Tattletale comes up with the following (which doubles as a source of Trust Passwords on a few occasions): Skitter has developed an open code so that she and her minions can covertly exchange information via text message without raising any flags if someone sees their text messages. The teams fighting the Slaughterhouse Nine clones start using password systems to protect against Stranger-type enemies.
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Worm / int_7e8ce096	type	Raised by Rival
Worm / int_7e8ce096	comment	Raised by Rival: Amy Dallon (Panacea) is revealed to actually be the daughter of the villain Marquis. She was adopted by the superheroes Brandish (Carrol Dallon) and Flashbang (Mark Dallon) after they defeated and captured Marquis. He was sentenced to the Birdcage, an inescapable, life-sentence-only prison for villains, so this was tantamount to orphaning the infant Amy and they felt responsible. However, her presence in the Dallon family, combined with Mark and Carol's personality issues, led over time to major drama, heartbreak, and disaster.
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Worm / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Worm / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Several villains who have done disgusting and horrible things have some truly shitty backstories such as how Riley became Bonesaw, Bitch's entire life till the point she met Taylor, and the things Heartbreaker forced Regent to do as a kid. Poor Scion. And what Taylor does to herself and everyone else to stop him.
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Worm / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Worm / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: A lot of heroes do this, but the most important example, storywise, is Armsmaster screwing over Skitter and turning a possible hero into a definite villain. Another case occurs when Tattletale arranges for Noelle to be subjected to constant irritating noise as part of her plan to keep Coil distracted so she can take him down. Jack Slash being frozen by Gray Boy leaves him in the perfect position to convince Scion to end the world.
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Worm / int_8077793f	type	Open Secret
Worm / int_8077793f	comment	Open Secret: It's fairly obvious that everyone in the Brockton Bay Protectorate and PRT knows instantly that Defiant is Armsmaster. Triumph is the only one who attempts to say anything.
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Worm / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Worm / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: Between the action the Undersiders just hang out and shoot the breeze with each other.
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Worm / int_812ee32b	type	Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards
Worm / int_812ee32b	comment	Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards: Unlike other para-humans, who are limited by their inherent power (sometimes augmented by a second trigger event or experience), Tinkers can usually find ways to accomplish almost any effect given time to work and invent. The single best example is, of course, Dragon, the Omnidisciplinary tinker. Some of the more versatile powers can be similar to this in effect. The best examples in the main story are Skitter herself and Vista, who constantly develop new uses of their powers as the story progresses.
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Worm / int_81c4faa3	type	Entertainingly Wrong
Worm / int_81c4faa3	comment	Entertainingly Wrong: The events of June 20th (Arcs 18 and 19) end up being classified because the evil clone of Eidolon created by Echidna revealed the truth about Cauldron to everyone. Then Interlude 19 (Donation Bonus #2) shows us a thread from the In-Universe Parahumans Online forum, where from the sketchy data they have they come up with theory which is not only false, but leads them to specifically rule out the existence of evil duplicates of prominent superheroes.
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Worm / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Worm / int_820ac3c5	comment	When just about everyone with powers has issues, daily life is far more dangerous than it would be in real life.
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Worm / int_82f5ced1	type	Conservation of Ninjutsu
Worm / int_82f5ced1	comment	Conservation of Ninjutsu: The Slaughterhouse Nine are an S-class threat. Several of them individually sustain entire chapters as terrifying threats. The several hundred cloned Slaughterhouse Nine die in groups in a single sentence. Justified and even Discussed in-universe in that the reason the S9 were such a threat was that they were essentially terrorists, picking their fights to be in favorable conditions, and often evading straight up battle. The clone army, however, is sent to slow down the heroes chasing Jack, and can never fully exploit what made them such a nightmare while they were in the S9. Also factor in that nearly all of the clones were fought with the full knowledge of their weaknesses and how the original was taken down, and that their memories were cobbled together by Bonesaw instead of having years of real experience developing skills and building a connection with their powers. Of particular note is the Nigh-Invulnerable members that featured earlier: the Crawler clones are killed relatively easily due to not having a chance to build up their Adaptive Ability, and Jack sends all but one of the Siberian clones to a single location in such a tactically poor move the heroes muse it's specifically to have them killed off because they're boring to him.
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Worm / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
Worm / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License – Law: Criminal defendants in the US, even those with public defenders, are allowed to request a different attorney if they feel the one they have is not working in their best interest. Ignoring electronic communication from a client is not only a breach of contract, but evidence of incompetence or willful negligence; and if this incompetence resulted in a nonviolent first offender appearing in court restrained in a way that would bias the jury against her, the defendant could petition the judge to declare a mistrial. The client would then be retried with a competent attorney and a new jury. Defendants in the US are also entitled to a trial by a jury of one's peers, which is commonly interpreted as a mandate that a jury include members reflective of the community's demographics, and multiple members of the defendant's demographic group. Meaning that a jury for the trial of a civilian parahuman would have to include a parahuman at the very least, preferably another civilian. Many American schools don't have "rules and regulations about the maximum travel times a student was allowed to have between home and a given school." So long as a student and their parents/guardians fill out the proper forms at both schools, they're usually able to transfer with very little hassle. If a student were bullied so severely she had to be admitted to the psychiatric ward and drugged to calm down, her bullies would likely face criminal charges. It's unlikely they would be tried as adults, but they might face time in the local juvenile detention center. Sending a victim to the hospital is serious business in the US. The general implication to Emma being able to get away with bullying is "she's rich", and Sophia being Shadow Stalker.
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Worm / int_83fb6177	type	First-Episode Twist
Worm / int_83fb6177	comment	First-Episode Twist: Taylor joins a team of supervillains, instead of becoming a superhero like she sets out to do.
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Worm / int_8430699a	type	Alternate Universe
Worm / int_8430699a	comment	There's a twist on the Alternate Universe. Unlike in a lot of fiction, where the alternate universe is filled with the same people, only slightly different, the alternate realities have the same people up to a very clear point of divergence. Immediately after that point of divergence, any person conceived is distinctly different from that in another timeline, simply because of the butterfly effect.
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Worm / int_844b6779	type	Super Mode
Worm / int_844b6779	comment	Breaker - Capes that "break" the laws of nature for themselves, sometimes used when dealing with an Elemental Shapeshifter (how one can breathe if they're made of fire) or the Required Secondary Powers for a Super-Speed type cape (like altering how friction applies to them).
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Worm / int_84609623	type	If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...
Worm / int_84609623	comment	If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: Aisha has acknowledged that she doesn't know how to help Brian, so she is trusting Taylor to do it instead. But warns that she will make her life a living hell with her powers if she screws it up.
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Worm / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
Worm / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Based on the weather and geography, Brockton Bay is on the Atlantic Coast, in the general vicinity of Cape Cod.
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Worm / int_87572663	type	Wrong Side of the Tracks
Worm / int_87572663	comment	Wrong Side of the Tracks: Before the attack by Leviathan, the town was relatively evenly divided between the prosperous, tourist-friendly Boardwalk and the ghettos of the Docks.
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Worm / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Worm / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Several heroes, especially Shadow Stalker who is a straight up sociopath who is outright stated to have killed people before, and — BIG SPOILER — The Triumvirate, who are actually working with Cauldron. Coil aka Thomas Calvert after the attack on the mayoral debate.
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Worm / int_87c62ade	type	Deadly Dodging
Worm / int_87c62ade	comment	Deadly Dodging: Contessa uses it to great effect against Weaver and the Chicago Wards.
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Worm / int_87d45053	type	On a Scale from One to Ten
Worm / int_87d45053	comment	On a Scale from One to Ten: When Noelle breaks out of her cell:
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Worm / int_88088476	type	Cheap Costume
Worm / int_88088476	comment	Cheap Costume: Since anything bought can be tracked, those parahumans who do not join the government superhero organizations have put their own costumes together, with varying results. Taylor is one of the exceptions — she uses spiders to weave one out of spider silk. She plays this trope to an extent when she needs to have a completely different costume due to joining the Wards. The new costume is essentially made out of spare costume parts they had on hand; Taylor eventually makes a new spider-silk costume, however.
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Worm / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
Worm / int_8878f3be	comment	Badass Army: The Dragon's Teeth. The best PRT soldiers armed with the best of Dragon and Defiant's gear.
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Worm / int_88ebc539	type	Always a Bigger Fish
Worm / int_88ebc539	comment	Always a Bigger Fish: Before the events of the story, one of Glaistig Uaine's victims was Gray Boy. During the events of Gold Morning, the remaining Endbringers assist in the battle against Scion. It doesn't work.
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Worm / int_8941750b	type	Willfully Weak
Worm / int_8941750b	comment	Willfully Weak: The Endbringers haven't been putting any serious effort into trying to destroy mankind. If they did, the world would've already ended. Rather, it may be that they've been trying to give Eidolon a challenge. Shards deliberately limit the scope of the powers they bestow to avoid burning through their collective's energy reserves too quickly and to minimize the chance of the host hurting themselves with the power. Second trigger events convince the shard to reconsider where it has drawn those boundaries, and are usually more powerful as a result. Similarly, shards nudge their hosts away from Boring, but Practical strategies out of a belief that risky individual conflict is the best way to gather the data they need, even if the boring approach would be the more powerful one.
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Worm / int_8966382e	type	Bank Robbery
Worm / int_8966382e	comment	Bank Robbery: Taylor's first crime and superhero fight happens during one.
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Worm / int_89838bc2	type	Land, Sea, Sky
Worm / int_89838bc2	comment	The three Endbringers who seem to represent the earth, sea, and sky.
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Worm / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Worm / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Although arguments could be made to classify Skitter anywhere from Anti-Villain to Anti-Hero.
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Worm / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Worm / int_8a817c2a	comment	Tattletale mentions a cape deciding his defeated enemy "isn't in a position to say no" as being one of the violations of the unwritten rules that cause capes on both sides to stop playing cops and robbers, and bring down someone who's genuinely dangerous. She ranks it alongside an unmasked cape's family being targeted.
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Worm / int_8b221a63	type	Reed Richards Is Useless
Worm / int_8b221a63	comment	Reed Richards Is Useless: In the universe of Worm, several factors contribute to this: The way Tinker powers work in the universe make it so much of a pain to make Tinker-tech compatible with mass production and maintainable by ordinary human beings that most Tinkers don't try. Every few months, massive Kaiju with superpowers emerge and attack a major population center, often resulting in millions of casualties. Most science and gadget heroes are understandably focused on this issue. There are strong suggestions that the Endbringers actually target people who try to avert this trope, as in the case of Mannequin. Accord, a supervillain, attempts to avert this trope using his superhuman planning skills — he has a plan that could end world hunger within twenty-three years — but generally fails despite this. More than that, shards (the source of powers) themselves feed on conflict to grow stronger, which means that using powers for peace or stability actually flies in the face of their intended purpose; it's likely that people's own powers actively sabotage them to some extent where this trope is concerned, a la Leet's shard trying to kill him for being too careful with his Tinkering.
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Worm / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Worm / int_8b67aba7	comment	Cerebus Retcon: Uber and Leet are initially presented as comic relief due to their Awesome, but Impractical Crippling Over Specialization, with Uber's power to automatically master any one skill while he focuses on it undermined by his natural incompetence with anything that skill doesn't cover, and Leet being able to build any device he sets his mind to but the results blowing up in his face if it's too similar to something he's done before. It's later retconned that this isn't a limitation of Leet's power. His shard thinks he's not being violent and innovative enough, so it is subtly mind-controlling him into introducing these backfires in an attempt to either push him to behave more to its liking or to kill him and move on to a more suitable host, which it eventually succeeds in doing.
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Worm / int_8bf19707	type	No Dead Body Poops
Worm / int_8bf19707	comment	No Dead Body Poops: Averted. When Marissa's friend Chris dies, Krouse notes that his bowels had released, and even corrects Luke when he assumes that the smell outside was from a broken septic pipe and not all the dead bodies created by the Simurgh. In a fit of boredom, Jack Slash offers a deal to one of his soon-to-be victims:
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Worm / int_8dff7e48	type	Stealth Expert
Worm / int_8dff7e48	comment	Stranger - Capes whose powers can be used for stealth purposes, be it an Invisibility Cloak, Perception Filter, or inflicting Laser-Guided Amnesia.
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Worm / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Worm / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Frequently. The Bonus interlude of Chapter 14: The top heroes in the world may actually be villains controlled by Cauldron, the Endbringers are going to destroy the world in a few decades if the world doesn't end first, and Brockton Bay might be turned into a No Man's Land condemned by the government. Imago 21.7: Skitter surrenders to the PRT. Cell 22.4: Alexandria seemingly kills one of the Undersiders, and in return Taylor uses her bugs to kill Tagg and Alexandria herself by filling her throat with them. It bears repeating, Taylor killed one of the most powerful capes on Earth Bet. And again, when a relatively light chapter ends with Behemoth attacking. In Interlude 26a, Gray Boy traps Scion in one of his time loops. Interlude 26. After thinking about what Jack said about being predators, Scion — previously known as "the first and greatest superhero in the universe" — destroys England. And decides he likes the feeling.
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Worm / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Worm / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The first large group of people attacked onscreen by the Slaughterhouse Nine are the Merchants, who are drug dealers and general scum of the earth. Your heart bleeds. Bakuda is an unrepentant Mad Bomber. In her backstory she held her university hostage for giving her a less than perfect grade. She goes on to implant bombs in innocents and carry out an indiscriminate Brockton Bay-wide bombing spree. When she meets her end, no one weeps. Shadow Stalker's extended Break the Haughty can also evoke this feeling, given its being welcome comeuppance for all the torment she's unrepentantly inflicted on certain characters.
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Worm / int_8f37640a	type	Lies to Children
Worm / int_8f37640a	comment	Lies to Children: Tattletale describes the supervillain Night's powers to Skitter.
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Worm / int_8f764e60	type	Magnetic Plot Device
Worm / int_8f764e60	comment	Magnetic Plot Device: Powers are granted by a passenger, which seems to be some kind of alien being with a will of its own that subtly drives superhumans to conflict with each other, explaining in part why most people with powers become superheroes or supervillains getting into conflict instead of just living normal lives. The other reason for this is societal pressure for people with powers to become heroes and initially treating "rogues", people who don't use their powers for fighting, as undesirable.
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Worm / int_901dbf9a	type	Cliff Hanger
Worm / int_901dbf9a	comment	Cliffhanger: More than a few chapters end with one.
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Worm / int_904f86a7	type	Enigmatic Institute
Worm / int_904f86a7	comment	Enigmatic Institute: Cauldron is an institution with access to a secret formula to give people superpowers, which they sell for exorbitant prices to people regardless of whether they want to use it for good or evil, justifying this by saying having even villains with powers is necessary for when they all team up against the Endbringers' attempts to slowly destroy humanity. They stay secret, with their headquarters unknown and in an alternate dimension that one of their capes is capable of providing access to. It later turns out they are also experimenting on people they kidnap from alternate universes with new versions of the formula which often horribly mess with their bodies, and are planning this all out to mitigate the effect of Scion's upcoming rampage.
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Worm / int_90984c54	type	Glamour Failure
Worm / int_90984c54	comment	Glamour Failure: Brian mentions in his interlude that Taylor acts more confident than a normal person does due to her power. For example she never looks around when the wind hits her or when she crosses the street because she knows everything that is happening in a several block radius.
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Worm / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Worm / int_9099c21c	comment	GPS Evidence: Tattletale is able to use to prove Armsmaster's guilt during the Endbringer attack using Dragon's armbands.
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Worm / int_909e4bc3	type	Speed Blitz
Worm / int_909e4bc3	comment	Mover - Capes whose powers let them move great distances at a time. Includes flyers, Teleporters and speedsters.
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Worm / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Worm / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Sierra is told to pick having her hand or knee being shot by a former member of Lung's gang. When Skitter rescues them, she asks the gang member the same question but with a bug whose venom causes your skin to rot off. Emma is forced to realize that the reason Taylor never nuked her with her powers was because she wanted to be merciful/she just didn't see Emma as worth the trouble, thereby rendering Emma's entire philosophy hollow (since she's one of the weak).
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Worm / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Worm / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: The world is in the process of a protracted Class 2 at the hands of the Endbringers. Each attack kills massive amounts of people, sometimes millions, causing significant distruption on a global level. Toward the end, Scion also inflicts varying levels of devastation on the alternate Earths he attacks, ranging from Class 2 to Class 4, except the destruction is caused over the course of a few days rather than 20-odd years. Additionally, at the end of their cycle, The Entities inflict Class X apocalypses on the worlds they go to.
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Worm / int_926304e4	type	Morality Chip
Worm / int_926304e4	comment	Morality Chip: Dragon has one. This bothers her because she wants to do the right thing and be good, but can't see herself as a hero when she has no choice to be evil. Ironically it also prevents her from doing the right thing on more than on occasion, as she's locked out of certain decisions or behaviors
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Worm / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Worm / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Faultline's crew decided to leave and look for answers on Cauldron after the Endbringer attack. Although they're featured in several interludes, they're absent from the main story for several arcs before they return and assist in banishing Echidna.
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Worm / int_934937b2	type	Bluff the Impostor
Worm / int_934937b2	comment	Bluff the Impostor: The fact of Regent's People Puppets power leads to Weld subjecting Shadow Stalker to this test when she shows up with several members of the Undersiders in custody.
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Worm / int_945dd99a	type	Cape Busters
Worm / int_945dd99a	comment	Type 1: The PRT, Coil's mercenaries, Saint.
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Worm / int_94be6b61	type	Coordinated Clothes
Worm / int_94be6b61	comment	Coordinated Clothes: The Travelers all dress in black and red, New Wave dresses in similar white and their preferred color costumes, and the Wards wear identical concealing body suits to help surprise the 9.
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Worm / int_94c1e2f7	type	Grave-Marking Scene
Worm / int_94c1e2f7	comment	Grave-Marking Scene: Taylor visits her mother's grave to talk to her about what she's done as Skitter.
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Worm / int_952d21ec	type	Bus Crash
Worm / int_952d21ec	comment	Bus Crash: Grue, who hadn't made it off the oil rig. We only find out way, way after the fact.
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Worm / int_953c92eb	type	Beware the Superman
Worm / int_953c92eb	comment	Beware the Superman: The presence of parahumans has been a bit of a mixed bag at best for the world at large, but Scion definitely takes the cake for going omnicidal and trying to destroy every Earth.
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Worm / int_9633f14b	type	Badass Bystander
Worm / int_9633f14b	comment	Badass Bystander: When Skitter is fighting Mannequin, a then-unnamed man runs over and helps drag away and smash his head. That took major guts to do. The guy later gets a major rank in Skitter's organisation just because of it.
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Worm / int_96e01893	type	Bodyguard Babes
Worm / int_96e01893	comment	Bodyguard Babes: The twins Menja and Fenja fulfill this role for Kaiser. Until Leviathan shows up and Kaiser and one of them die.
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Worm / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
Worm / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Averted by the Brockton Bay Wards thanks to their new leader Weld; apparently played straight under most circumstances, especially for non-heroes.
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Worm / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Worm / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Scion, the world's first superhero, is truthfully an alien Eldritch Abomination that introduced superpowers to Earth as part of his species' life cycle, making him indirectly responsible for every major conflict in the story. The cycles usually end in the destruction of all life on the planets the entities inhabit, but the death of Scion's partner leaves him unable to complete the process and stranded without a purpose. Cauldron committed all of their atrocities in the hopes of stopping Scion when he inevitably tires of the superhero role he adopted to pass the time and decides to wipe out all life anyway, which happens when Jack Slash convinces him to return to his vicious, primal roots.
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Worm / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
Worm / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: The Irregulars fall into this when they successfully attack Cauldron. Noelle and Trickster once attempts to save Noelle have failed. She knows she has to die, but refuses to cooperate unless they let her kill the Undersiders first.
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Worm / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
Worm / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": This is the reaction to the realization that the Slaughterhouse Nine have arrived in the city by any teams that have found out before they announce their presence. Afterwards, it is the reaction of the rest of the city. The reaction of the Merchants who invaded the Boardwalk, once they realized what they were dealing with. The Chicago Wards have this reaction in front of a live audience when they are informed of the appearance of Khonsu, the fourth Endbringer.
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Worm / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Worm / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Mannequin implies this when he tries to recruit Armsmaster into the Slaughterhouse Nine. Shadow Stalker claims Taylor is just like her when the latter tries to recruit her.
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Worm / int_99385626	type	Once for Yes, Twice for No
Worm / int_99385626	comment	Once for Yes, Twice for No: Skitter has a conversation this way with Bonesaw. Glory Girl communicates with her therapist this way. Averted by the divers using a buzzer device in Sting 3. Once is for an accidental press, twice is for a confirmation, and three is a negation.
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Worm / int_99779e5a	type	Superpower Lottery
Worm / int_99779e5a	comment	Super Power Lottery / Superpower Russian Roulette: Worm fits both tropes, in two forms. There's the standard unpredictable trauma-induced trigger events, which grant powers that vary in their strength and usefulness, but so far there haven't been any particularly negative-for-the-possessor trigger event powers. The Super Serum also has a Super Power Lottery, as each serum has a general theme (e.g. Balance, Division, Jaunt, Robin — whatever any of those mean) but the actual power that you get varies greatly within that theme. While most are fairly average, you could become one of the most powerful people on the planet or become a deformed monster. Or, as does happen, both. The early Super Serums were particularly bad in terms of physical changes...
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Worm / int_99c08028	type	Grin of Audacity
Worm / int_99c08028	comment	Grin of Audacity: Tattletale always has one of these on. Skitter is cornered by five superheroes, two of whom are wearing Powered Armor, without her armor or weapons and with her superpower effectively neutralized. Then she realizes that her opponents are still leery of attacking. Cue grin.
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Worm / int_99dfd4fc	type	Nothing Is the Same Anymore
Worm / int_99dfd4fc	comment	Nothing Is the Same Anymore: The result of Leviathan's attack on the city.
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Worm / int_9a68179	type	Holding the Floor
Worm / int_9a68179	comment	Holding the Floor: Skitter strikes up a conversation to try to give Parian time to ambush Bonesaw.
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Worm / int_9aa3d869	type	Creative Sterility
Worm / int_9aa3d869	comment	Creative Sterility: Not only did Scion become a hero just because it was suggested to him and he didn't have a better idea of what to do with himself, the Entities' plan as a whole is based on this. They possess god-like power and are biological supercomputers capable of modeling the events of entire planets decades in advance, but they foster these planet-wide conflicts because they believe that violence breeds innovation and that outsourcing to a host planet provides a better chance of finding a way to beat entropy than what they could come up with on their own.
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Worm / int_9ae0ead1	type	Villains Out Shopping
Worm / int_9ae0ead1	comment	Villains Out Shopping: Taylor spends some time alternating between her role as a supervillain and being a troubled teenage girl, taking runs and even shopping on occasion.
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Worm / int_9ae5a580	type	Razor Floss
Worm / int_9ae5a580	comment	Razor Floss: Skitter uses Clockblocker's power to make one of these suspended in air for her opponent to crash into.
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Worm / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
Worm / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: The rule, rather than the exception.
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Worm / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Worm / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Empire 88 are an offshoot of a more established German organisation called Gesellschaft, who sometimes send cape assistance over but are never confronted directly by Taylor. Cauldron is this for a large part of the story. Long before they directly come into the picture, they indirectly aid and abet a lot of the antagonists.
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Worm / int_9be2ef69	type	Rule 34
Worm / int_9be2ef69	comment	Rule 34: Discussed by Imp:
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Worm / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Worm / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: The majority of the story is told in the first person from Taylor's perspective, but each arc includes at least one third-person-limited Interlude chapter following another character's perspective on the situation, and a few arcs (9, "Sentinel"; 17, "Migration") are told entirely from the perspectives of other characters.
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Worm / int_9cb3e22e	type	Interface Spoiler
Worm / int_9cb3e22e	comment	Interface Spoiler: Worm was published as a series of blog posts, with each post tagged with the characters appearing in it. However, the character tags sometimes include minor spoilers, such as revealing Atlas's name before he's named in story, or revealing the identity of Golem early. Subverted with the Echidna clones, which each have their own, named character tags despite only appearing briefly and never being named in story. The table of contents also lists which character each interlude is from the perspective of. While the most spoiler-y ones are obscured it still gives away who is writing when it would not be immediately obvious.
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Worm / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Worm / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The Travelers stand when Legend tells everyone who faced an Endbringer before to do so. We later find this is because they are victims of the Simurgh. When Scion looks at Eidolon, he emits a strong sense of disgust — understandably, given that Eidolon is a thrall of Cauldron, and his shard comes from Scion's counterpart. A young man 'wins' a vial of Super Serum from the Merchants. He asks if he can share the contents between his friends. The Merchant's leader laughs at him like he's an idiot. Tattetale speculates that Siberian is actually a projection of a real person. It turns out to be true. The conversation between Skitter and Triumph's dad about the need to breathe becomes relevant when she suffocates Alexandria. This is also foreshadowed by the fact that Leviathan tries to kill Alexandria by drowning her, and nearly succeeds, revealing that despite her invulnerability she needs to breathe to live. Skitter outwits Dragon's latest suit by using its AI's restrictions against it. This eventually comes back to bite everyone in the butt at a bad time. Kevin Norton mentions that Scion reacted when he heard the word "Zion". Discussed by Skitter: Tattletale tells Skitter that there are many powers whose owners aren't fully leveraging their potential. It looks like a straightforward jab at Misapplied Phlebotinum at first but later it turns out that Skitter's power is one of those because with aid from Panacea it gets expanded from only controlling bugs to controlling capes. Also from there, Skitter hopes that "Cauldron had the clout to silence a few angry voices." Except we've already seen what their definition of "silencing" is... Some time later, cue a visit to her from Contessa. Earth Bet deviated from Earth Aleph 30 years ago, when Scion appeared in Bet but not in Aleph. The foreshadowing here is two-fold: The fact that Haywire couldn't find anything closer speaks to Scion deleting excess timelines, and the fact that Scion is the only difference at the time speaks to his involvement in the world's powers. Glory Girl's appearance after getting altered by Panacea turns out to be based on Panacea's vision of Eden during her trigger event. In arc 19 Interlude 2 one poster fears an Endbringer attack on the UK. Except it's not an Endbringer he needs to worry about... In Chrysalis 20.5 Skitter wonders if she's become able to control humans. In arc 21 Interlude 1 the Number Man suspects that Jack Slash couldn't have gotten so far on luck and instinct alone. Scarab 25.1: Extinction 27.3: In Legend's Interlude he states that he can turn into light, which also degrades his ability for conscious thought while he's "under" until he reverts to normal. That's how he survives and comes out sane from being caught in one of Khonsu's time-dilation bubbles. A listing of recent Endbringer attacks has one by the Simurgh, listing target/consequence as "The Woman in Blue" and "United Capes". During the final battle, Kephri finds a world controlled by parahumans, led by a woman wearing blue Upon Taylor discovering that Bitch is one of the two members of the Undersiders who is a murderer, she wonders to herself who the other might be. The very next line is Alec walking up and joining the group. Peter mentions that people who trigger due to drug overdoses tend to have powers closely related to their emotional state. This foreshadows the circumstances of Lung's trigger event in his Interlude.
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Worm / int_9d61fd2c	type	Traumatic Superpower Awakening
Worm / int_9d61fd2c	comment	Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Everyone who has powers and didn't get their powers from Cauldron. Part of the reason why more capes manifest in bad parts of the world.
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Worm / int_9dc3f2ef	type	Evil Takes a Nap
Worm / int_9dc3f2ef	comment	Evil Takes a Nap: The Endbringers spend most of their time between attacks in a dormant state. Unfortunately for everyone, they take these naps in the mantle or the mesosphere, so simply attacking them during this period isn't an option. As of the sequel Ward, they seem to be in this dormant state permanently, though the fear that they'll wake up remains a looming threat.
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Worm / int_9eaf2be0	type	Three-Point Landing
Worm / int_9eaf2be0	comment	Three-Point Landing: Victoria/Glory Girl starts her interlude with one. The narration then comments that she'd been practicing it for weeks.
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Worm / int_9eb71c7c	type	Super-Toughness
Worm / int_9eb71c7c	comment	The story in general has a healthy respect for conventional weapons and quite a few named characters that lack Super-Toughness are wounded or even killed by them.
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Worm / int_9ee7ff42	type	No Conservation of Energy
Worm / int_9ee7ff42	comment	No Conservation of Energy: At first it seems to be played straight: superpowers do not follow the laws of physics. Later, as more about the powers is learned, it turns out conservation of energy is being obeyed: each superpower ("shard") has a finite amount of energy in it, and if it runs dry its associated powers will cease working. That well of energy is enormous, such that most superpowers will conceivably keep working for thousands of years, but it is still finite. Furthermore, many of the shards that appear to "produce" new matter are in fact drawing raw material from parallel timelines rather than generating it out of their energy.
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Worm / int_9f4a47f2	type	Competitive Balance
Worm / int_9f4a47f2	comment	Competitive Balance: Lampshaded by the PRT, who break down powers into a number of categories as a shorthand for their combat advantages. Capes tend to fall under at least 1-2 (or more) classes, with the associated numerical ratings defining the threat level they pose to a PRT team. The PRT classifications are the following: Mover - Capes whose powers let them move great distances at a time. Includes flyers, Teleporters and speedsters. Shaker - Capes that can affect their surroundings in some way. Includes capes capable of bending or compressing space or creating forcefields. Brute - Capes who are extremely durable and/or have above average strength, either through Super-Toughness or an incredibly effective Healing Factor. Breaker - Capes that "break" the laws of nature for themselves, sometimes used when dealing with an Elemental Shapeshifter (how one can breathe if they're made of fire) or the Required Secondary Powers for a Super-Speed type cape (like altering how friction applies to them). Master - Capes whose powers allow them to control others or create minions. Tinker - Capes capable of highly specialized technological/biological creations years ahead of their time: from building laser beams or a Hover Board, to growing Mix-and-Match Critters. They're separated into two types, with specialty tinkers having a specific type of thing they build, while method tinkers are unique in how they tinker. Wide-scope method tinkers theoretically can create anything but with a catch such as Leet's inability to create the same thing perfectly twice, while narrow-scopes like Armsmaster are more limited but can create extra effects with what they do have. Blaster - Capes with a ranged attack, such as emitting laser beams, Hard Light, or Elemental Powers. Thinker - Capes whose powers deal with the mind, allowing for Awesomeness by Analysis, Sherlock Scan, or Precognition abilities. Striker - Possible subgroup of Breakers. Capes with the ability to apply an effect at point-blank range, whether it be an Elemental Punch or Healing Hands. Changer/Shifternote According to Word of God, the two terms are interchangeable. - Capes who can change or shift forms. Effects range from utilizing a Shapeshifter Weapon to Swiss-Army Hero abilities. invoked Trump - Capes with powers that copy or interfere with other powers, or which give them access to many different powers in some other way. Includes those whose power gives them an Adaptive Ability, Power Copying, variable power loadouts, and Power Nullification. Stranger - Capes whose powers can be used for stealth purposes, be it an Invisibility Cloak, Perception Filter, or inflicting Laser-Guided Amnesia. Invoked Trope by the shards, which moderate the strength of the powers they grant their hosts to foster innovative conflict. Cauldron capes don't have such limits built in, which is why the likes of Contessa, the Triumvirate, the Travelers, and Case 53s make up the bulk of the setting's most powerful capes.
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Worm / int_9f63a591	type	Guilt-Induced Nightmare
Worm / int_9f63a591	comment	Guilt-Induced Nightmare: Taylor's guilt about Dinah and her father leads to her having a dream where she fails to save Dinah and her father turns out to be Coil.
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Worm / int_9fbf8969	type	Cut Lex Luthor a Check
Worm / int_9fbf8969	comment	Cut Lex Luthor a Check: It is almost impossible in the wormverse, because Tinkers are the only ones who can create and repair their own equipment and they have a very specific area of expertise. While in the past a few did nothing but build their devices and play tech support for them, it didn't work out due to severely limiting their ability to innovate and come up with more useful/powerful equipment and they just couldn't build enough of them by themselves to really change things. With a few exceptions such as the Guildnote Who have Masamune, a cape whose power lets him redesign tinker-tech to not require tinker maintenance, as well as a few tinkers., mass production is all but impossible.
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Worm / int_a031ff7b	type	Noblewoman's Laugh
Worm / int_a031ff7b	comment	Noblewoman's Laugh: Done by Clockblocker as an attempt to imitate Skitter when discussing how she knew so much about his powers during the Fight with Echidna.
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Worm / int_a0a005d1	type	Protagonist Journey to Villain
Worm / int_a0a005d1	comment	Protagonist Journey to Villain: The first nineteen or so arcs describe how Taylor went from a bullied schoolgirl with dreams of being a superhero to Queen of the Brockton Bay underworld. That said, the trope is subverted after that, when Taylor quits the Undersiders to join the Wards, believing, based on Dinah's predictions, that this is the best way to save the world.
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Worm / int_a1b76006	type	Nerves of Steel
Worm / int_a1b76006	comment	Type 0: Jessica Yamada, Kevin Norton, Doctor Mother.
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Worm / int_a211849	type	Life Energy
Worm / int_a211849	comment	Life Energy: Averted, and intelligently so. Powers actually behave in a way that is consistent with an absence of this.
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Worm / int_a2836be5	type	Identity Amnesia
Worm / int_a2836be5	comment	Identity Amnesia: "Case 53s" are people with powers, no memory of their pasts, and tattoos in the shape of a stylized U or an upside-down Omega.
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Worm / int_a29a7058	type	Not Quite Flight
Worm / int_a29a7058	comment	Not Quite Flight: Played straight with Bitch's dogs. Taylor comments that jumping from building to building on their backs, is "almost flight". Subverted with Flechette's attempts to travel through The City, which sadly does not feature an architecture like New York.
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Worm / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Worm / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Some of the most disturbing acts Taylor has committed fall into this category: After Taylor and Lung's second fight, the latter's eyes are cut out of his head. Skitter and Valefor's fight ends with the latter being blinded when his eyes are filled with live maggots. In 26.5 Chevalier gets stabbed in the eye by a Harbinger clone.
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Worm / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
Worm / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: What would have been when a Noelle-clone of Tattletale managed to manipulate Shatterbird, Vista, Weld, Shamrock, and Gully to escape the ruins of Coil's base and gain a management position in Weld's Case-53 mercenary group as a fake Case-53) was pulled a couple hours after it was posted when, after seeing the decidedly equivocal reaction of the fanbase, the author found himself dissatisfied with it.
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Worm / int_a3746dc1	type	Different States of America
Worm / int_a3746dc1	comment	Different States of America: The United States has had many changes both with and even without adding superheroes to the mix: Ellisberg, NY was turned into the personal fiefdom of the supervillain Nilbog following his trigger event, with his creations attacking any and all outsiders. Madison, WI was one of the cities that was walled off and quarantined following a Simurgh attack in 2009. Dollar coins are used as the primary legal tender instead of dollar bills and pennies have been phased out. 9/11 didn't happen because of Scion's influence. A side-effect of Leviathan sinking Kyushu is a much larger percentage of Japanese immigrants.
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Worm / int_a4878b81	type	It's Not You, It's My Enemies
Worm / int_a4878b81	comment	Very painfully, Taylor's own father wants to help her, but due to a variety of reasons including It's Not You, It's My Enemies, failing to beat the school bureaucracy, and his own heavy handed attempts to reach Taylor, he's never able to help her when she needs it.
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Worm / int_a4916876	type	Blown Across the Room
Worm / int_a4916876	comment	Blown Across the Room: Leet is blown so hard into a wall by one of his own light bombs that Taylor briefly thinks he died.
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Worm / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Worm / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: A particularly vivid (and spoilerish) example comes here: the chapter goes from lighthearted drama (Weaver making an emergency phone call to Glenn) to comedy (the Chicago Wards appearance on a stupid morning talk show) to horror (an entirely new Endbringer appearing).
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Worm / int_a51b63ed	type	Flying Brick
Worm / int_a51b63ed	comment	Type 4: Alexandria, Legend, Lung, Crawler, Echidna, Nilbog, Moord Nag, Phir Sē, Siberian, Dragon, Gray Boy.
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Worm / int_a5a6d7b3	type	Mutants
Worm / int_a5a6d7b3	comment	Mutants: The Case 53s, amnesiac parahumans with monstrous appearances who are people used as test subjects for Cauldron. invoked
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Worm / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
Worm / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: The Endbringers have one, allowing them to recover from their many fights, and it accelerates greatly the deeper the damage is, allowing Behemoth to regenerate visibly after being de-legged and having 80% of his mass blasted off. Regenerators have one too, of course, like Lung.
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Worm / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
Worm / int_a6123b72	comment	The story uses this along with all the various related tropes to drive home its divorce between powers and the person's moral nature. Probably best seen in Bonesaw of the Slaughterhouse Nine who is young, cute and has implausible science powers in seemingly any biological field. She can perform impossible surgeries and even bring the dead back to life if their body is intact. Unfortunately she has no apparent sense of morality and her idea of fun and interesting ranges from bad to very bad.
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Worm / int_a62dca03	type	Year Inside, Hour Outside
Worm / int_a62dca03	comment	Year Inside, Hour Outside: Khonshu actually weaponises this. He can create fields of speeded-up time. Anyone caught inside is trapped and experiences decades in the space of seconds, inevitably starving and dying. Those outside get to watch their friends' desperate struggles on fast-forward.
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Worm / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Worm / int_a675997a	comment	Lung is Cantonese for dragon. Guess what the guy named Lung turns into.
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Worm / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Worm / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: In addition to Power Trio above, there are three beings, Eidolon, Glaistig Uaine, and Tohu, with the power to manifest any power, but only three at any one time.
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Worm / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Worm / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Many superheroes are guilty of major crimes which are then covered up in the name of good. Madison, the third bully who picked on Taylor, is not punished for her crimes (though given that she was the least malevolent of the three it's not as glaring).
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Worm / int_a8238745	type	"Hell, Yes!" Moment
Worm / int_a8238745	comment	"Hell, Yes!" Moment: There's been a few (The portal and Calvert's death among them) but among the least ambiguous thus far is Chevalier's interlude, number 24. Behemoth down, bitches. And of course, The End.
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Worm / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Worm / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: What Shadow Stalker must have been feeling when Regent had control over her. Grue, Cherish, and Blasto after being variously caught by Bonesaw. When we see Gray Boy's power, we see that it is obviously suited to the purpose. Aside from the fact that his victims can still technically scream. Most of the surviving cast experience this once Taylor's power is jailbroken, as they're all controlled by her against their will, at least for a while.
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Worm / int_a8b5a55e	type	Welcome Episode
Worm / int_a8b5a55e	comment	Welcome Episode: The first arc sees Taylor being invited to join the Undersiders, a supervillain group which already has four members.
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Worm / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Worm / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Played straight with Mr. Gladly and Taylor's head teacher. It's played with in regards to the other adult characters. It's tragically telling that when Taylor finally meets a genuine Reasonable Authority Figure, she suspects she's under some mental compulsion. Very painfully, Taylor's own father wants to help her, but due to a variety of reasons including It's Not You, It's My Enemies, failing to beat the school bureaucracy, and his own heavy handed attempts to reach Taylor, he's never able to help her when she needs it.
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Worm / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
Worm / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: When Skitter first met Bitch, Bitch set her dogs on Skitter and Skitter retaliated by knocking her down and then kicking her in the head. In spite of this, and in spite of later incidents between them as bad or worse, they end up being as much friends as Bitch's No Social Skills would allow her to be with anyone.
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Worm / int_a96c2803	type	Space Master
Worm / int_a96c2803	comment	Many other Worm characters share that limitation such as Vista ("the Manton Effect" in-universe), who can only bend space unoccupied by biological life and Rune, whose telekinesis only works on inanimate objects. This is because of the Manton effect, which is theorized to be a psychological block that prevents some capes from using offensive powers directly on living targets, and later revealed to be the shards keeping their host parahumans from accidentally harming themselves with their powers. Also, it encourages innovative uses of powers by said hosts. As a result, capes with offensive powers that don't fall under the Manton effect tend to be extremely dangerous to fight. Dangerous like instead of throwing a fireball at you, they just create one in your brain.
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Worm / int_a9e14a3b	type	Flying Firepower
Worm / int_a9e14a3b	comment	Flying Firepower: Usually referred to as "flying artillery", this is another standard role that parahumans in the setting — such as Legend, Alexandria's teammate in the Triumvirate — fulfill.
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Worm / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Worm / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: During the Behemoth battle, Regent doesn't stop wisecracking about how Grue is going to die. Guess who's the only one of the Undersiders that dies in the battle?
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Worm / int_abf19ef6	type	Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!
Worm / int_abf19ef6	comment	Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!: Dragon's dragon-themed battle suits.
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Worm / int_ac320c0e	type	Nuke 'em
Worm / int_ac320c0e	comment	Nuke 'em: Miss Militia uses her ability to create any weapon to hit Scion with Fat Man.
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Worm / int_ac4c677f	type	De-power
Worm / int_ac4c677f	comment	De-power: In Battery's Interlude, Doctor Mother mentions that someone in Cauldron can permanently remove parahuman powers. This is done by Contessa shooting through the cape's Corona Pollentia without killing them, only possible through the insane precision allowed by her power. It gets used on Taylor at the end of the story.
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Worm / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Worm / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The ABB are very guilty of this, even if unknowingly. They are directly responsible for starting a convoluted series of events, ending in Taylor's trigger event; Lung in particular is directly responsible for Skitter joining the Undersiders. They did get some "help" from other villains (Coil and Shadow Stalker), but ultimately it's because of Skitter that they get wiped out. Karma works in very convoluted ways.
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Worm / int_ad0bd5ee	type	Pet Gets the Keys
Worm / int_ad0bd5ee	comment	Pet Gets the Keys: Taylor uses cockroaches to steal a cop's keys and get out of handcuffs.
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Worm / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Worm / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: In the ending of Plague 12.3, when the Undersiders spot the Slaughterhouse Nine barring their exit. Tattletale gets one when she figures out that Scion is the one who will destroy the world.
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Worm / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Worm / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	The trope arises again in the Crushed arc. This one goes slightly better.
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Worm / int_ada439c0	type	Opt Out
Worm / int_ada439c0	comment	Opt Out: When Director Piggot draws a Line in the Sand prior to the confrontation with the Slaughterhouse Nine, Chariot and Kid Win don't step over it for different reasons. Kid Win's mother wouldn't forgive him if he went into that fight, while Chariot is The Mole.
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Worm / int_adf1dcc2	type	Promoted Fanboy
Worm / int_adf1dcc2	comment	Promoted Fanboy: The posters in Interlude 19 (Donation Bonus #2) (which consist mostly of a slice of an In-Universe web forum), are thinly disguised versions of regular posters in the comments section of the serial.
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Worm / int_af9552ce	type	Super Weight
Worm / int_af9552ce	comment	Super Weight: The levels work out like this: note Tinkers, due to the nature of their ability, are difficult to place on the scale Type -1: Director Piggot, Glory Girl, Gray Boy's victims. Type 0: Jessica Yamada, Kevin Norton, Doctor Mother. Type 1: The PRT, Coil's mercenaries, Saint. Type 2: Jack Slash, Grue, Über, Victor, Faultline. Type 3: Skitter, Flechette, Clockblocker, Imp, Regent, Tattetale, Vista, Bitch. Type 4: Alexandria, Legend, Lung, Crawler, Echidna, Nilbog, Moord Nag, Phir Sē, Siberian, Dragon, Gray Boy. Type 5: Endbringers, Scion, Contessa, Eidolon, Glaistig Uaine, Khepri, probably Sleeper. Type 6: The Passengers (including Scion) in their mature form.
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Worm / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Worm / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: Taylor does whatever she can to help innocent people and tries to stick to her morals no matter what the circumstance. Her actions during the latter part of the Leviathan arc demonstrate this.
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Worm / int_afc8ddc7	type	Armor-Piercing Attack
Worm / int_afc8ddc7	comment	Flechette's superpower allows the bolts from her arbalest (and the throwing-knives which inspired her hero name, and anything else) to pass through or embed themselves in anything, up to and including Endbringers and Scion.
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Worm / int_b06186c2	type	RoofHopping
Worm / int_b06186c2	comment	Roof Hopping: Flechette mentions that Brockton Bay isn't as well suited to this as her native New York because of the varying building heights. That doesn't stop both Shadow Stalker and the Undersiders from traveling this way on occasion, however, as both of them have the ability to perform superhuman jumps — Shadow Stalker in her shadow form, and the Undersiders when riding Bitch's dogs.
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Worm / int_b097493c	type	Madonna-Whore Complex
Worm / int_b097493c	comment	Madonna-Whore Complex: Defiant recalls having invoked this trope in a discussion of gender roles with Dragon, suggesting that she was the feminine ideal because, as an AI, she could be both. He is subsequently bewildered by the fact that she found this offensive.
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Worm / int_b0a0108d	type	All Up to You
Worm / int_b0a0108d	comment	All Up to You: Taylor is forced to take the initiative and lead the fight against Behemoth as everyone else who could lead is either dead or incapacitated as the fight grows increasingly desperate.
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Worm / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Worm / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Rachel's mother abandoned her, Aisha/Brian's mom is negligent and uncaring, Alec's dad turned him into a sociopath, Panacea's adopted parents never wanted her, and Lisa ran away from a rich background to live on the streets just to get away from her father due to him exploiting her for her powers ever since her brother committed suicide. Taylor is the only Undersider who had caring parents, and it shows in how she acts.
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Worm / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Worm / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: What happens to Cherish and Blasto, along with virtually anyone else who gets captured by Bonesaw. Also what Shadow Stalker and Shatterbird must have felt while under Regent's control. Then there's Grey Boy's victims, and arguably what happened to Glory Girl also counts.
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Worm / int_b21ddb6b	type	Content Warnings
Worm / int_b21ddb6b	comment	Content Warnings: The author warns that this is a dark story and not your typical superhero setting.
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Worm / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Worm / int_b2280b66	comment	In the interludes for Dinah and Coil, she sees the numbers change when he splits universes, putting the alternative outside of her view and allowing him to ask how the numbers change depending on the actions he intends to take in the universe he's in. Later on, she is able to incorporate his power into her predictions just fine. This is because the author later solidified how alternate universes work, and his power was in contradiction of that. The Retcon of his power into a Thinker power that's only creating simulations he thinks are real and the general principle that's later established of Thinker powers often interfering with one another help smooth over the change, but that contradiction remains.
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Worm / int_b2ad812d	type	So What Do We Do Now?
Worm / int_b2ad812d	comment	So What Do We Do Now?: When Lisa i.e. Tattletale realizes that she has successfully given Taylor the self-confidence she needs (see The Reveal), her actions become more and more reckless (like trying to expose Cauldron right in front of the Triumvirate) as she seeks a new goal. She gets diagnosed with this in Scourge 19.7.
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Worm / int_b3da67e5	type	Sentai
Worm / int_b3da67e5	comment	Sentai: Japan had a team of heroes that dressed like them pre-Leviathan.
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Worm / int_b3e3b9af	type	Playing Cyrano
Worm / int_b3e3b9af	comment	Playing Cyrano: The non-romantic version of the trope is downplayed — Dragon gives Defiant a few cues, rather than feeding him lines.
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Worm / int_b3eecaae	type	Colony Drop
Worm / int_b3eecaae	comment	Colony Drop: One of the Thanda uses this as his primary means of attack.
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Worm / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Worm / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: Played for drama more often than comedy. This is the specific weakness of Thinkers - when their enhanced mental powers are operating off incomplete information, they tend to get things disastrously, spectacularly wrong. It’s how Alexandria, one of the most powerful parahumans on Earth, met her end.
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Worm / int_b52a20be	type	Take Five
Worm / int_b52a20be	comment	Take Five: When Weaver mentions the defection of the Vegas capes, Glenn Chambers sends everyone else out of the room so they can talk privately.
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Worm / int_b55e8979	type	Science Hero
Worm / int_b55e8979	comment	Science Hero: Many Tinker-class heroes.
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Worm / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
Worm / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: The double standard between heroes and villains really pisses Skitter off when she argues with Flechette about how people dismiss the many mistakes the heroes have made (to say nothing of their occasional but outright crimes) while dismissing most villains' good deeds as for some underhanded purpose. It's turned around on Taylor several times. She's willing to do terrible things in the name of the greater good but generally refuses to accept the same excuse from other people.
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Worm / int_b6d3e6fc	type	Smokescreen Crime
Worm / int_b6d3e6fc	comment	Smokescreen Crime: Coil uses the Undersiders gang to rob a bank on a day the only available local heroes in Brockton Bay available were the teenaged Wards. With the Wards distracted and no other major heroes available to respond, Coil is able to complete his true objective — kidnapping a young and powerful precognitive only he is aware of.
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Worm / int_b79ff7b1	type	Forced Addiction
Worm / int_b79ff7b1	comment	Forced Addiction: After kidnapping Dinah Alcott, Coil has a doctor administer carefully selected drugs until Dinah will do whatever he asks in exchange for more "candy". He then pumps her for information from her precognition power, using disposable timelines to push her to her limits over and over again in finding out everything he can. For extra villain points, Dinah is just twelve years old.
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Worm / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Worm / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Many parahumans seem to become these after triggering; there is In-Universe speculation that this is because the power grants the entities influence.
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Worm / int_b905c10c	type	The Alcatraz
Worm / int_b905c10c	comment	The Alcatraz: The Birdcage, a prison fitted into a mountain where a hole in a wall creates a deadly vacuum. It is designed to only have people go in and not come out. Despite the powerful people it holds, no one has ever escaped. Until Khepri got around to breaking people out using Doormaker's powers.
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Worm / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Worm / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Rachel's dogs are named Brutus, Judas, and Angelica. Justified, as they were named by different people.
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Worm / int_b9e8ad28	type	The Multiverse
Worm / int_b9e8ad28	comment	The Multiverse: Numerous, maybe infinite, other realities and earths exist, some human inhabited, and others not. There are a few instances of characters crossing universes at various times in the story. These other Earths include the various other stories Wildbow previewed, including the one he actually began, Pact.
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Worm / int_ba0e3912	type	Power Nullifier
Worm / int_ba0e3912	comment	Later used when she comes across a cape that has a PowerNullifier ability. She ties a string of silk to the handle of a nano-knife and has her bugs carry it to where she estimates the center of the effect to be. After swinging it through a few blind passes, the effect (and presumably the cape generating the field) drops.
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Worm / int_ba76806f	type	War Arc
Worm / int_ba76806f	comment	War Arc: This is pretty much the Extermination arc in a nutshell. Heroes and Villains from all over join forces to try and fight off Leviathan. It doesn't go so well. The trope arises again in the Crushed arc. This one goes slightly better. And again after the Time Skip. This time versus the Slaughterhouse Nine and then Scion.
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Worm / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Worm / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Bitch is given one by Burnscar: kill her teammates, or fail the test and have Burnscar kill her friends and her dogs. She refuses, but Burnscar isn't able to kill them.
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Worm / int_bacf8e98	type	Preserve Your Gays
Worm / int_bacf8e98	comment	Preserve Your Gays: Parian, Foil, Panacea and Legend ALL survive to the end, and from the latter's optimistic behavior in the epilogue we can even infer that his husband survived too.
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Worm / int_bb98e39a	type	Shiny New Australia
Worm / int_bb98e39a	comment	Shiny New Australia: This pretty much sums up Coil’s approach to recruiting. Especially in his offer to Taylor that he will help improve the city districts her father has long tried to restore.
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Worm / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Worm / int_bbfaa837	comment	The head of the main government hero organization is under the aforementioned conspiracy's control and have carefully controlled its leadership with the top three heroes in on the conspiracy. The last three PRT directors in Brockton Bay were a racist, secretly a murderous super villain, and a Knight Templar warmonger who was willing to cross any line, respectively. The other directors seen have not been much better. The organization itself has displayed numerous examples of needless stupidity, short sightedness, and questionable morals in its decisions. A few of the "heroes" aren't much better than many of the villains they fight.
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Worm / int_bc281366	type	Costume Copycat
Worm / int_bc281366	comment	Costume Copycat: Coil replaces Skitter with a highly convincing body double as part of his plot to keep Dinah over Skitter's objections.
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Worm / int_bc452029	type	Strapped to an Operating Table
Worm / int_bc452029	comment	Paralysed on an Operating Table: Taylor, courtesy of Bonesaw.
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Worm / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Worm / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Many, Many capes are powerful, but only a handful are bulletproof. This doesn't seem to occur to anybody.
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Worm / int_bd188274	type	Description in the Mirror
Worm / int_bd188274	comment	Description in the Mirror: Done by Taylor in the first chapter.
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Worm / int_bd50ec63	type	Battle in the Rain
Worm / int_bd50ec63	comment	Battle in the Rain: Leviathan attacks in the middle of a raging storm, that he might have actually caused.
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Worm / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Worm / int_be6c0705	comment	Streisand Effect: There is a hint that an In-Universe example is happening in Interlude 19 (Donation Bonus #2), where one of the posters on the Parahumans Online forum mentions posts with the word "Cauldron" being automatically hidden if the word isn't censored (by, for example, inserting an * in the middle).
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Worm / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
Worm / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: Taylor operates within New York City under her new identity as Weaver.
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Worm / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Worm / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Something of a rule, given the setting — examples can be found somewhere among the cast of every subtrope.
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Worm / int_beca6919	type	Empty Chair Memorial
Worm / int_beca6919	comment	Empty Chair Memorial: In the epilogue, Tattletale arranges the seating at the meeting to include extra chairs for Alec, Brian, and Taylor.
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Worm / int_bf110089	type	Break Them by Talking
Worm / int_bf110089	comment	Tattletale excels at using breaking speeches to gain an advantage over opponents and talk them to death: Tattletale gives a mild one to Panacea to stop her and Glory Girl during the bank robbery, but its long-term consequence end up driving Panacea to a nervous breakdown, and leads to Panacea mutating Glory Girl and voluntarily going to the Birdcage for what she did to Glory Girl. Tattletale's deconstruction of Armsmaster — which leads to him immediately attacking her.
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Worm / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
Worm / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: After a few thugs hurt a Japanese couple in her territory, Skitter introduces them to the wonderful anatomy of bullet antsnote The common name is because their sting is so painful, it feels like being shot.
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Worm / int_c1105f41	type	Hold the Line
Worm / int_c1105f41	comment	Hold the Line: This is mentioned as a typical tactic for Endbringer attacks when the target can stand it: Stop the Endbringer from destroying too much until Scion arrives. In Arc 8 (Extermination), after Clockblocker freezes Leviathan, Armsmaster explains that Plan A (winning the fight on their own) is no longer feasible, and all they can do now is hang back and try to minimize the damage until Scion arrives. Skitter's plan to tie up Mannequin with spider silk relies on doing this. Exalt orders the surviving capes to make a stand at the temple to gain enough time to evacuate the wounded.
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Worm / int_c26e2b1	type	New Powers as the Plot Demands
Worm / int_c26e2b1	comment	New Powers as the Plot Demands: If a cape goes through a second intensely traumatic event, they can potentially trigger a second time, altering their powers in a way that typically makes them stronger. This happens because the shard reconsiders the boundaries it set to make the granted power competitively balanced and less likely to harm the wielder, so it "recalibrates": We witness Grue's power go from dampening other powers to a degree that's negligible for almost all of them to dampening them much more heavily while allowing him to copy them, with the downside that it spreads more slowly, especially vertically. This is the only time in the story that a second trigger event saves the day, and the emotional toll is given heavy emphasis. Other characters sometimes wish for a second trigger event to get them out of scrapes or prepare for looming danger, but they're even less predictable than first ones and the superstition is that even thinking of the possibility eliminates it. It turns out Taylor got this immediately, as the confusion and sensory overload from her bugs immediately overwhelmed her, so her shard gave her an amplified ability to multitask and strategize to better accommodate the input.
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Worm / int_c271fe08	type	Machiavelli Was Wrong
Worm / int_c271fe08	comment	Machiavelli Was Wrong: Skitter's entire approach is based on this trope. She outright tells Charlotte that she doesn't want to be that type of bad guy, and almost all those she recruits are attracted by her unfailing determination to fight for them. (That said, she is, in fact, a living embodiment of "both feared and loved".)
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Worm / int_c287be68	type	Family-Values Villain
Worm / int_c287be68	comment	Family-Values Villain: Marquis is old-fashioned or honorable enough to stick to the classic "no harming women or children", and avoided harming innocents... and was straight up badass enough to uphold those values despite living in the Wormverse. Not even Jack Slash was able to make him break his self-imposed rules.
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Worm / int_c2d5b652	type	Playing Both Sides
Worm / int_c2d5b652	comment	Playing Both Sides: Villain Coil aka PRT Commander Thomas Calvert. Cherish attempted this with the Slaughterhouse Nine and everyone else.
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Worm / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
Worm / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: How Skitter kills a clone, using spidersilk tied around his throat.
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Worm / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
Worm / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: Contessa's power allows her to employ these with impunity, although she doesn't know anything about the plan other than its end result. Scion also has this power.
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Worm / int_c34a1799	type	Kaiju
Worm / int_c34a1799	comment	Attacks from the Endbringers aren't simply shrugged off and rebuilt, but usually result in whole regions being abandoned. After every attack, maps have to be redrawn, casualties typically exceed the four digit range and countless more are left homeless. Just one of the Endbringers was able to reduce Japan to a third-world nation. With their current rate of attrition, humanity will be extinct in just a few decades.
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Worm / int_c37fb907	type	Walk, Don't Swim
Worm / int_c37fb907	comment	Walk, Don't Swim: Discussed as one avenue for Weld to escape during 27.5.
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Worm / int_c3b51bb3	type	You Are Better Than You Think You Are
Worm / int_c3b51bb3	comment	You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Tattletale and Skitter try to convince Panacea of this, unsuccessfully.
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Worm / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Worm / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The heroes defeat most of the Slaughterhouse Nine and Jack Slash is trapped in an infinite time loop ... right before Jack convinces Scion to wipe out humanity in the next chapter.
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Worm / int_c40ac4d9	type	Weaponized Teleportation
Worm / int_c40ac4d9	comment	Weaponized Teleportation: The specialty of the Thanda.
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Worm / int_c4c4004a	type	Treachery Cover-Up
Worm / int_c4c4004a	comment	Treachery Cover Up: The fact that Armsmaster is actually under arrest for violating the truce is kept secret. Later on, the trope is inverted with Alexandria's death.
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Worm / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Worm / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: Eidolon's interlude.
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Worm / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Worm / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The Protectorate, Wards, and PRT taking down Bakuda during her last stand. For several arcs after the remnants of the Slaughterhouse Nine have left Brockton Bay, we're told that Dragon and Defiant are hunting them. Their pursuit produces a pair of offscreen awesome moments: After Defiant examines the scene of a massacre looking for clues. Dragon kills Siberian offscreen. Contessa defeats Faultline's crew in 20 seconds. During the timeskip, Imp murdered Heartbreaker. From Sting 26.3:
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Worm / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
Worm / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: In Scourge 19.5 the gathered heroes are surprised to learn that Director Costa-Brown, head of the PRT, and Alexandria are the same person.
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Worm / int_c69ae9b2	type	Self-Destruct Mechanism
Worm / int_c69ae9b2	comment	Self-Destruct Mechanism: Coil's base has a phone-activated system for demolishing the building. Tattletale activates it in order to trap Noelle/Echidna.
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Worm / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Worm / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Right in the first chapter, Taylor thinks about how easy it would be to go Carrie on Emma, Sophia, and Madison. Taylor hates tinkers. Including tinkers with jetpacks and exploding guitars. At the end of Plague 12.3 Jack Slash says, "This is not an exit." Plague 12.4 opens with Tattletale congratulating him on the reference (presumably to American Psycho). Remarkably, the vagrant named Kevin Norton who describes himself as the most powerful man in the world was not intended to allude to Emperor Norton. When held hostage by Azazel, Dragon's most advanced suit, Skitter tries to confuse it with a paradox, only for it to reply "I’ll go with true. There, that was easy." Skitter notes that Dragon must have a liking of popular culture that she wasn't aware of. On Tattletale's brainstorming wall, one of the Trigger Events mentioned involves 'Jadeite: Post-brainwashing dissonance' "Come out and plaaaaay". A subtle and possibly unintentional one. Before they became the Triumvirate, the team that would become the Triumvirate had a fourth member, Hero, who died before canon, and his loss is strongly felt. By the end of the story, the only one of the team still alive is Legend. "Remember kid..." The Siberian (an invincible woman who goes around naked) is really a projection created by Dr. William Manton as a reference to Dr. William Marston who created a well-known scantily clad superpowered woman.
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Worm / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Worm / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Most of the Undersiders' missions begin with them forming one of these. They do, in fact, usually work.
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Worm / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Worm / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Due to the nature of Trigger events, nearly every villain is like this. Bitch was abused by her last foster family and goes on the run after accidentally killing them. Regent and Cherish were both abused by their father. Emma bullied Taylor because she thought that it would make her stronger.
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Worm / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Worm / int_c9868780	comment	Playing Possum: Foil uses her power to pretend to have been hit by one of Gray Boy's time loops until Gray Boy's back is turned. Earlier, Skitter does this to Mannequin, after he attempted to slit her throat, unaware of her spider-silk armor.
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Worm / int_ca04edd6	type	Charles Atlas Superpower
Worm / int_ca04edd6	comment	Charles Atlas Superpower: Defied Trope. During Brian's combat training with Taylor, he notes that training can help with fighting ability, but an enemy's greater strength or reach could still be insurmountable obstacle without resorting to weapons or superpowers. Also played with as part of Worm's deconstruction/reconstruction of superhero archetypes. Rather than just personal training, powers/tech that grant Awesomeness by Analysis, such as the software in Armsmaster's helmet or the powers of Number Man, Contessa, Jack Slash, and the Harbinger clones, can allow them to perform seemingly supernatural feats of strength, agility, and stamina.
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Worm / int_ca0796c7	type	Fandom-Specific Plot
Worm / int_ca0796c7	comment	Fandom-Specific Plot: 99% of all Worm fanfics involve Taylor obtaining a different power than in canon. This also doubles as an Obvious Crossover Method.
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Worm / int_ca1f9429	type	Boxing Lessons for Superman
Worm / int_ca1f9429	comment	Boxing Lessons for Superman: Members of the Wards are required to take lessons (e.g. in the theory of parahumans) as well as do patrols. Many villains train or research to improve their powers as well. Brian teaches Taylor physical combat so she can be more useful at a close range without relying on her powers. It turns out to be helpful when she fights foes like Mannequin who can No-Sell a lot of what her insects can do.
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Worm / int_ca85e684	type	Power Trio
Worm / int_ca85e684	comment	Power Trio: Several prominent ones exist in the wormverse. The three Endbringers who seem to represent the earth, sea, and sky. The Triumvirate consisting of Alexandria, Eidolon, and Legend are the most powerful heroes in the world, though they used to have a fourth member (a tinker named Hero). Bonesaw, Jack Slash, and Siberian make up the unchanging core of the Slaughterhouse Nine. Shatterbird is another such long-term member, but her special contributions are mainly in the recruiting department and she gets captured by the Undersiders and Travelers fairly early in the Slaughterhouse Nine arc, taking her out of the story much earlier than the others. Skitter, Grue, and Tattletale are called the trio by Imp because they tend to make all the plans for the Undersiders' operations. The three Blasphemies that plague Europe, though little is known about them.
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Worm / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Worm / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Behemoth attempts to pull it off via radiation bombing. Fortunately, he fails.
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Worm / int_cafdaf4e	type	Trust Password
Worm / int_cafdaf4e	comment	Tattletale comes up with the following (which doubles as a source of Trust Passwords on a few occasions):
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Worm / int_cb11543c	type	Cosmic Horror Reveal
Worm / int_cb11543c	comment	Cosmic Horror Reveal: It is revealed late into the story that the thing giving all of the superheroes and supervillains in the setting their powers is an Eldritch Abomination, part of a whole species of them that ranges throughout the universe giving sapient species some of their own powers to get ideas for what they are capable of before killing everyone on the planet, and the identity of this being is Scion, the enigmatic golden man who was seen as the world's greatest hope.
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Worm / int_cb2df71e	type	The Magic Touch
Worm / int_cb2df71e	comment	Striker - Possible subgroup of Breakers. Capes with the ability to apply an effect at point-blank range, whether it be an Elemental Punch or Healing Hands.
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Worm / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
Worm / int_cc1bd54d	comment	Oliver, the Non-Action Guy of the Travelers, turns out to be the key to defeating Scion.
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Worm / int_cc3c365f	type	Goofy Print Underwear
Worm / int_cc3c365f	comment	Goofy Print Underwear: When Taylor meets Armsmaster for the first time, she's reminded of the fact that she used to have a pair of underpants with his emblem on the front.
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Worm / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Worm / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Or does it? Word of God points out that there are enough hints in the narrative to make it clear that Taylor's actually in a coma and is dreaming that her father is still alive.
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Worm / int_cc5b625b	type	Surgical Impersonation
Worm / int_cc5b625b	comment	First, when Bonesaw uses Surgical Impersonation to make a host of Innocent Bystanders into copies of them.
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Worm / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
Worm / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: The titular worms always intended to destroy the world in the end, after using it as a testing ground for powers. When that's no longer possible one becomes an Omnicidal Maniac.
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Worm / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
Worm / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: The antagonists that Taylor faces go from bullies at her school to local gang leaders to city-killing monstrosities ... and worse. In some cases it's even a direct result of previous events, such as when the Slaughterhouse Nine appear specifically to capitalize off the chaos caused by Leviathan's attack.
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Worm / int_cf3966e6	type	Suspicious Spending
Worm / int_cf3966e6	comment	Suspicious Spending: The aversion is discussed; Taylor never spends her money, and Lisa says banks only flag things if their spending habits change and she always does a lot of expensive shopping.
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Worm / int_cf57aca1	type	Orwellian Retcon
Worm / int_cf57aca1	comment	Orwellian Retcon: Wildbow has gone back and revised Worm several times when he later decided that it improved the story in some way, and has not always announced that he has done so. Most edits are fairly minor, correcting grammar and spelling mistakes and the like, but some actually do change plot details and a few are very significant; in one case an entire chapter was re-written.
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Worm / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Worm / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Skitter and the Undersiders are greatly distrusted by the heroes when trying to inform them about greater threats. Perhaps justified as the heroes see them as somehow corrupting various people or using disasters to further their own powerbase.
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Worm / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Worm / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: The Undersiders and the Travelers. In some ways, Cauldron.
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Worm / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Worm / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: It's seeming presumably named for Taylor's ability to control earthworms although she mainly uses insects, but in actuality it refers to the true from of the entities that grant powers, which are said to look like a giant worm.
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Worm / int_d240ffa	type	Captain Patriotic
Worm / int_d240ffa	comment	Ms. Militia is a reconstruction of the Captain Patriotic.
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Worm / int_d2cf1dce	type	Hyper-Awareness
Worm / int_d2cf1dce	comment	Hyper-Awareness: Possibly because she spent so long avoiding bullies, and partly because of her power, Taylor doesn't miss much that happens around her; a good example of this comes when she notices that Bakuda's jeep didn't have any dent on it from hitting Grue. A variation of this is one of the secondary powers of Jack Slash, and this subconscious ability to sense the actions and mental weaknesses of parahumans around him is how he maintains control of the Slaughterhouse Nine and can fight alongside them despite arguably being their weakest member. Working out that this awareness does not extend to unpowered humans lets them turn the tables on him. Theo has always been observant (fully realising that Kayden is incapable of loving him because of his resemblance to his father, something that Kayden herself doesn't seem aware of,) but he seems to have developed the non-superpowered version of this post-timeskip, as, out of all the people who've spent time with Taylor, he's the only one to notice the eerie similarities in how she and Jack Slash avoid trouble on the battlefield, an observation that proves crucial to defeating him when they work out that Jack's subconsciously receiving information on all powered humans around him.
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Worm / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Worm / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Taylor calls out Dragon and Defiant for breaking the unspoken superhero/supervillain rules by outing her secret identity in front of a cafeteria full of high school students. Taylor also calls out Miss Militia and the PRT for protecting Shadow Stalker (which Miss Militia all but admits is legitimate). Later chapters (e.g. Weaver's first session with Yamada) have this being done to Taylor herself, due to some of her more questionable decisions.
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Worm / int_d3a4af1e	type	Sympathy for the Devil
Worm / int_d3a4af1e	comment	Sympathy for the Devil: Taylor is rather surprised to find herself feeling sorry for Bonesaw.
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Worm / int_d563a53c	type	Batman Grabs a Gun
Worm / int_d563a53c	comment	Batman Grabs a Gun: Skitter deliberately violates her no-kill rule when she executes Coil (with an actual gun) in order to prevent his return. Amy violates her rule of not using her power on people's brains, at first due to being forced by Bonesaw, and later using it on Glory Girl.
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Worm / int_d5abf14c	type	Animal Eye Spy
Worm / int_d5abf14c	comment	Type 3: Skitter, Flechette, Clockblocker, Imp, Regent, Tattetale, Vista, Bitch.
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Worm / int_d5ca97d	type	Dream-Crushing Handicap
Worm / int_d5ca97d	comment	Dream-Crushing Handicap: Before triggering, Prism was an olympic level gymnast before suffering one of these. However, her siblings were still gymnasts, and she triggered from slowly losing touch with the rest of her family.
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Worm / int_d609b01a	type	Carnival of Killers
Worm / int_d609b01a	comment	Carnival of Killers: The Slaughterhouse 9 used to act as this for gangs such as the Teeth. By the current story they seem to have abandoned these side jobs in favor of straight mayhem.
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Worm / int_d71d51fd	type	The End of the World as We Know It
Worm / int_d71d51fd	comment	Taylor crosses it after failing to prevent The End of the World as We Know It, rendering all the sacrifices she has made for the past two years meaningless, and learning of her father's death. She would have killed herself if not for Tattletale.
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Worm / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Worm / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Piggot is a rotund normal in charge of supers who doesn't like her charges. In other words, a Race Lift of Amanda Waller.
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Worm / int_d87ba943	type	Combat Sadomasochist
Worm / int_d87ba943	comment	Director Piggot pulls one on Crawler — fooling him into remaining in the path of the Bakuda-bomb bombardment that would kill him by the simple expedient of telling him it was coming.
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Worm / int_d89e305a	type	Area of Effect
Worm / int_d89e305a	comment	Shaker - Capes that can affect their surroundings in some way. Includes capes capable of bending or compressing space or creating forcefields.
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Worm / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Worm / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The choice taken by Genesis, Sundancer, and Ballistic.
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Worm / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Worm / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: Just when it looks like Mannequin is about to crush the immobilized Wards, Skitter rides to the rescue on a flying beetle bearing grenades.
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Worm / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
Worm / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: PRT: Department Sixty Four, an RP started by wildbow that follows the lives of Protectorate and Wards members in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Worm / int_da1211b4	type	Security Cling
Worm / int_da1211b4	comment	Security Cling: Dinah refuses to be separated from Taylor after being rescued. This would probably be justified just by the situation on it's own, but her precognitive power also indicates that Taylor was her best chance she had for being rescued.
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Worm / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
Worm / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: Brockton Bay gets completely destroyed by Scion, along with a large segment of the world.
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Worm / int_da38c13f	type	Lamarck Was Right
Worm / int_da38c13f	comment	Lamarck Was Right: The justification is a major part of the setting. The Superpowerful Genetics in The 'Verse do not actually work on genetics, but by being a Cosmic Plaything — meaning that simply being adopted by a parahuman can cause the development of related superpowers, such as in Aidan's case.
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Worm / int_dbd2c15e	type	Everyone Can See It
Worm / int_dbd2c15e	comment	Everyone Can See It: It is obvious to all the other members of the Undersiders—even Alec, who doesn't pay any attention to such things, and Rachel, who is literally as blind to such things as a human being can be—that there is something between Taylor and Brian.
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Worm / int_dc2c2968	type	Superpowerful Genetics
Worm / int_dc2c2968	comment	Superpowerful Genetics: Played with — children and siblings of parahumans have trigger events more easily, but adopted children also have trigger events more easily, making it more a case of Lamarck Was Right.
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Worm / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Worm / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The leader of a contingent of kid heroes brought in to fight Leviathan is "a shirtless, muscled boy with metal skin, eyes and hair" whose name is never given. The tags on the bottom of the entry, however, confirm that this is Weld, who is brought in to lead the Wards. Fletchette is also present during the Endbringer fight. Thomas Calvert is introduced in the first bonus chapter of arc 16 (told from Piggot's Point of View) as the second survivor of the failed Nilbog mission. Cue another, later chapter of same arc which reveals that Coil's civilian name is Thomas Calvert. Inverted/Brickjoked With Noelle and her (apparent) Alternate Universe counterpart, who is only mentioned in passing by Eidolon. Oliver, the Non-Action Guy of the Travelers, turns out to be the key to defeating Scion. Coil's accountant is a supervillain banker by the name of The Number Man. He is later revealed to be Harbinger.
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Worm / int_dcdde3b	type	Inherent in the System
Worm / int_dcdde3b	comment	Inherent in the System: Canary's "trial" showcases why there are probably more than a few villains/parahumans who refuse to surrender or work with the authorities because they know they won't be treated fairly.
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Worm / int_dd3272bb	type	What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?
Worm / int_dd3272bb	comment	What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Worm runs the entire gamut between this and Heart Is an Awesome Power. At the low end of the spectrum is Leet, who can build anything once. Skidmark can lay down low-level force fields, but with a little time and prep, they can become something to be reckoned with. Faultline can disintegrate things, but only non-organic material, and only in small amounts, unless she has multiple points of contact. At one point, she drills through a wall by spreading her arms and legs out, and touching the all with both arms, both feet, and her nose.
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Worm / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Worm / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Cherish passed hers not long after being trapped in a life-support unit with her negative senses cranked up to the max and forces anyone who comes near her prison to feel it too. Taylor crosses it after failing to prevent The End of the World as We Know It, rendering all the sacrifices she has made for the past two years meaningless, and learning of her father's death. She would have killed herself if not for Tattletale.
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Worm / int_de86b894	type	Continuity Drift
Worm / int_de86b894	comment	Continuity Drift: Exactly how some superpowers work changes slightly as story progresses and the worldbuilding solidifies. In the interludes for Dinah and Coil, she sees the numbers change when he splits universes, putting the alternative outside of her view and allowing him to ask how the numbers change depending on the actions he intends to take in the universe he's in. Later on, she is able to incorporate his power into her predictions just fine. This is because the author later solidified how alternate universes work, and his power was in contradiction of that. The Retcon of his power into a Thinker power that's only creating simulations he thinks are real and the general principle that's later established of Thinker powers often interfering with one another help smooth over the change, but that contradiction remains. In their first encounter, Tattletale claims Armsmaster's Tinker knack for miniaturizing technology only works in his immediate vicinity (one of the examples of Magic-Powered Pseudoscience), and is clearly implied to be on the mark. Later, after other justifications for Tinkers not sharing their toys are established (see Reed Richards Is Useless below), he is able to gift a small number of items with no issues about distance from him and no comment from him or Weaver about any such limit or lack thereof. In the same scene, Armsmaster has his helmet equipped with "psychic and empathic shielding," which doesn't do anything to stop Tattletale's power from working since she's not actually "psychic", but does block Regent's power and give him notification that Regent is trying and failing to affect him. This technology never appears or is mentioned again, and when Weaver wants to fight the Simurgh it's implied that there's still no defense against her genuine telepathy.
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Worm / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
Worm / int_e0040f41	comment	Start of Darkness: An interlude from Emma's perspective shows how and why Emma went from Taylor's best friend to her bully, starting the day Emma first met Shadow Stalker.
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Worm / int_e031b7ef	type	Slave to PR
Worm / int_e031b7ef	comment	As Taylor finds out, the heroes are stuck with the need to uphold their reputations as heroes, meaning that they're not allowed to use attacks or tactics that make them look less than heroic... which leads to their losing battles that they could have easily won if they'd been allowed to use all their attacks.
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Worm / int_e0684058	type	Sexy Dimorphism
Worm / int_e0684058	comment	Sexy Dimorphism: Of the original Endbringers, the two male ones Behemoth and Leviathan look like very inhuman monsters, while the female Simurgh looks humanlike. Given that they are shown to not be like normal biological lifeforms, Wildbow has said that the gender is arbitrarily applied to them, and they might fall into this trope due to their design taking into account Eidolon's knowledge of mythology, religion, and typical monster design tropes.
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Worm / int_e0c470a1	type	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
Worm / int_e0c470a1	comment	One of the recurring jokes in the comments section is random posters pretending they do not remember who Imp is. Cue an interlude, with an In-Universe forum, where a poster (himself a cameo of an actual poster for added recursion) forgets Imp's name.
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Worm / int_e0ecc959	type	Changed My Mind, Kid
Worm / int_e0ecc959	comment	Changed My Mind, Kid: When Leviathan has just left the shelter and knocked Skitter — at that instant the only cape in position to track Leviathan's movements — face-down into the water with a broken back, Bitch turns up with a pack of empowered dogs, rescues Skitter, and keeps Leviathan tied up fighting on the street long enough for Scion to arrive.
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Worm / int_e19e68	type	Cruel Mercy
Worm / int_e19e68	comment	Cruel Mercy: Skitter mentions how Shatterbird and Cherish probably wish that they were dead.
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Worm / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Worm / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Several characters are clearly inspired by pre-existing comic book superheroes or villains, most often in a deconstructive way.: Armsmaster is the Wormverse's version of Batman- someone with no exceptional physical powers who relies on gadgetry (his tinker specialty is the ability to miniaturize so much that he can carry a ridiculous breadth of gear at once), extreme physical training and martial arts, being Crazy-Prepared (again, see his specialty) and on predicting the moves of his opponents (though using tactical software rather than intuition) to make himself the 7th-most influential cape in the protectorate. He also has the dark, ruthless, unfettered Anti-Hero thing down pat along with a major injection of Jerkass. Mannequin is inspired by Mister Freeze- a visionary scientist who turns to evil because of an attack on his family and now requires a sealed suit in order to survive. Snowmann, one of the hybrid villains Bonesaw created before Slaughterhouse Nine Thousand arc, even uses ice-based technology. Alexandria's basic powerset mirrors that of Superman with the addition of superintelligence. She also shares his vulnerability to suffocation. In terms of personality however, she seems to be inspired by Ozymandias from Watchmen- A physically and mentally superior Uber Mensch who becomes convinced that they alone know how to save to world and whose unfettered pursuit of that goal causes them to become a monster. Her name may be a Shout-Out (Ozymandias mentions the Library of Alexandria in his Character Focus episode near the climax of Watchmen). Legend is quite like Apollo from The Authority. A fast flyer with laser beams, is gay and Happily Married, and later adopts a child. They are also the respective Token Good Teammate of their teams. Ms. Militia is a reconstruction of the Captain Patriotic. Dragon is initially framed as an answer to Iron Man, but ultimately turns out to be a lot like a good version of Ultron. Piggot is a rotund normal in charge of supers who doesn't like her charges. In other words, a Race Lift of Amanda Waller. Velocity is a vastly scaled-down version of the Flash, complete with the predominantly red color scheme. Jack Slash is pretty clearly inspired by The Joker, especially The Dark Knight Trilogy version. Bonesaw's relationship with him in some ways mirrors Harley Quinn, though Bonesaw herself takes after Franken Fran. He also has literal Joker Immunity in the form of a secondary power that simultaneously feeds him information about the psychology of his parahuman opponents, and influences the decisions of capes who are opposed to him so that they never quite manage to follow through and kill him for good.
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Worm / int_e5507f60	type	Truce Zone
Worm / int_e5507f60	comment	Truce Zone: Somer's Rock acts as this for the villains of Brockton Bay. The Travelers' remarks imply that most cities have such.
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Worm / int_e5d8460d	type	Unexplained Recovery
Worm / int_e5d8460d	comment	Unexplained Recovery: In the final chapter, Taylor is shown to be alive and perfectly well, save for a prosthetic arm, despite having lost her ability to communicate with other people in any way, most of her ability to think clearly, and then shot in the head by Contessa twice, and with her powers mysteriously gone. Taylor even remarks that she isn't sure how this happened, though she has suspicions.
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Worm / int_e640b487	type	Infodump
Worm / int_e640b487	comment	Infodump: Happens a lot since capes tend to be in groups. Also very bad in Endbringer fights for obvious reasons.
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Worm / int_e663d3ef	type	Only a Flesh Wound
Worm / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: Somewhat averted. Brutes are usually much harder to hurt than everyone else, and those with powers that can heal work very fast. But healing is a very complicated process and thus true healers are very rare in the Wormverse. There are also clear and hard limits on what they can accomplish. Many injuries and healing times are handled realistically and even Brutes' recoveries can be long and grueling. Still, major injures characters sustain go from being mentioned to simply never coming up again in fairly short time spans. Sometimes the exact amount of time passing is unclear, but characters regularly bounce back from major injuries without much trouble
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Worm / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Worm / int_e7022a49	comment	Talking to the Dead: Taylor describes what she's done as Skitter to her mother's grave, and talks about what she needs to do.
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Worm / int_e75d4959	type	Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World
Worm / int_e75d4959	comment	Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World: The story appears to start out like this in the very beginning and then deconstructs it hard. Although the Wards are enrolled in a program where they go to the best high school in the city, which has an agreement with the city government that helps protect their identities and lets them out when needed in a heroic capacity, other capes do not have such a great school experience. Taylor starts out using the superhero life as an escape from the bullying she puts up with at school, and later on stops going to school at all. Brian, the oldest of the team, already graduated and takes care of his younger sister, Lisa tested out early using her power to cheat on the GED test, and Alec and Rachel never went to school regularly due to their unstable, extremely dysfunctional home lives. Later on, when their hometown is ravaged by monsters and supervillains, all the schools are pretty much shut down, and school doesn't really seem to matter anymore when everyone is just struggling to survive on a day-to-day basis.
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Worm / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
Worm / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: Technically agnosia, rather than amnesia; Bonesaw's miasma causes everyone in it to lose the identities of everyone they know. They can remember the history and experience of people, but not what they look like. Every parahuman has a vision of two massive entities when they or somebody nearby triggers but, aside from Miss Militia, they immediately forget the vision ever happened. This is a safety measure installed by Scion to keep humans ignorant of their power's true nature.
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Worm / int_e7db27c7	type	Sympathetic P.O.V.
Worm / int_e7db27c7	comment	Sympathetic P.O.V.: Discussed with regard to Uber and Leet, who in fact make most of their income by selling subscriptions to their Internet TV show.
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Worm / int_e82d261b	type	Prime Timeline
Worm / int_e82d261b	comment	Prime Timeline: zigzagged. Earth Bet is the primary one but not the original one; Earth Aleph has that dignity.
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Worm / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Worm / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: While fighting the Slaughterhouse Nine. Also Defiant.
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Worm / int_e8b0f099	type	Dark Is Evil
Worm / int_e8b0f099	comment	Dark Is Evil: Legend states that most heroes wear brighter colors as per this trope.
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Worm / int_e8bf967	type	Shoot the Mage First
Worm / int_e8bf967	comment	Shoot the Mage First: Supplementary material mentions that, all parahuman threat ratings being equal, PRT operatives are to target Thinkers first. Thinkers have abilities like Super-Senses or precognition, which can impact the outcome of fights far more than more straight forward offensive abilities. A powerful tinker is enough to turn an otherwise relatively weak group of capes into an enormous threat capable of taking down apparently much more powerful threats. It is telling that, in a world with so many superpowers, two of the most feared parahumans are otherwise physically normal people who are top-tier Thinkers.
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Worm / int_e993da98	type	Equal-Opportunity Evil
Worm / int_e993da98	comment	Equal-Opportunity Evil: Unlike the ABB which only accepts Asians, and Empire Eight Eight which only accepts whites, both Coil and the Merchants only care about how useful you are.
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Worm / int_e99f2959	type	Webcomic Time
Worm / int_e99f2959	comment	Webcomic Time: The first chapter was posted on June 11th, 2011, covering story events on the morning of April 8th, 2011. Monarch 16.7, posted on December 15th, 2012, covers the morning of June 19th.
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Worm / int_e9f08193	type	Enhanced Punch
Worm / int_e9f08193	comment	Enhanced Punch: Acidbath's punches turn into splashes of Hollywood Acid as they connect.
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Worm / int_e9fb13	type	The Take
Worm / int_e9fb13	comment	The Take: While trying to convince Parian to truly commit to the cause, Tattletale mentions engaging in intimate moments as part of said commitment. This prompts Parian to look at her as if she just grew a second head.
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Worm / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Worm / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Skitter used these prominently on a couple occasions: On her first night out, when she was trying to take down Lung before his Hulking Out reaches a point where she can't hurt him, she sent her flying insects to attack his face and the crawlers (including her spiders) to attack "other vulnerable areas". The above encounter, she used insects and arachnids including black widows, fire ants, and brown recluse spiders, spiders that cause flesh necrosis with even single bites. The way Tattletale put it in their meeting afterwards was telling as to how damaging the attack was. Second, during the assault on the dinner post-ABB, she aimed her baton at this point on a speedster — who, as she found out to her dismay, had opted not to wear a cup to minimize friction.
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Worm / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Worm / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Taylor first meets the Undersiders when they attack Lung before he recovers from being pepper-sprayed enough to be able to see her. A group of ex-ABB thugs are about to attack some of Skitter's other minions when Skitter arrives and drives them off.
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Worm / int_eba57b3f	type	Cornered Rattlesnake
Worm / int_eba57b3f	comment	Cornered Rattlesnake: When Empire Eighty-Eight's members have their secret identities outed and Purity has her baby taken, they go on a massive rampage that the city's defenders are ill-equipped to handle on their own. Tattletale argues that this is why secret identities are respected in the cape community; parahumans are capable of far more destruction when they have nothing left to lose. When the PRT send Dragon and Defiant to capture Skitter in a cafeteria full of people, part of their reasoning is that by using this trope to drive Skitter to threaten the lives of hostages, they will undermine the Undersider's good will among the people of Brockton Bay. Their reasoning is actually solid, but in a way that they didn't expect: the rattlesnake, cornered, strikes out using PR instead of powers by publicly accusing them of putting civilians in intentional danger. On camera. Then it happens again to the same group of people, who apparently aren't capable of learning from their mistakes. In an effort to get her to break and give them intel on the Undersiders, the Protectorate trick Taylor into thinking that they had killed one or several of her friends. Instead of giving up, she lashes out and in her rage kills both Alexandria and PRT Director Tagg by suffocating them with thousands of bugs.
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Worm / int_ec02c97e	type	Defied Trope
Worm / int_ec02c97e	comment	Skitter defies this trope when Bonesaw takes apart Grue.
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Worm / int_ec68faa	type	Aerosol Flamethrower
Worm / int_ec68faa	comment	Aerosol Flamethrower: Skitter creates one of these by hitting someone trying to light a Molotov Cocktail with pepper spray.
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Worm / int_ecf510f4	type	Puberty Superpower
Worm / int_ecf510f4	comment	Puberty Superpower: Most parahumans appear to get their powers in their teenage years. Justified as this is the sweet spot where people are emotionally volatile but lack the coping mechanisms to process trauma. Thus triggers.
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Worm / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
Worm / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: Unsurprisingly, given the body count, a few cape organizations undergo severe attrition: The Brockton Bay Wards — which only had seven members to start with — is possibly the clearest example: Even before the Time Skip, Aegis, Browbeat, and Gallant are killed by Leviathan, Shadow Stalker ends up in juvie after Regent gets through with her, Chariot (their only recruit) was a traitor to start with and vanishes in the aftermath of Coil's arc, Flechette (transferred in from another branch) undergoes a Hazy-Feel Turn and joins the Undersiders, and Weld (transferred in to lead them) leaves the Wards altogether when the truth about Cauldron comes out. Clockblocker is killed in the oil rig battle by Scion, but is possibly resurrected later. And finally, Scion kills Kid Win in a later battle. By the end of the story, Vista is the last member of the original group who didn't leave and/or die. Legend is the only member of the Triumvirate that survives the story.
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Worm / int_edbb1357	type	List of Transgressions
Worm / int_edbb1357	comment	List of Transgressions: Played for Drama at the meeting to discuss the bullying of Taylor by Emma, Madison, and Sophia. Taylor later has a rather impressive list of her own read to her. To summarize:
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Worm / int_edf68f1a	type	Flash Forward
Worm / int_edf68f1a	comment	Flash Forward: After the appearance of a new Endbringer, the story skips to almost two years later, when Taylor is just turning 18 and about to be inducted into the Protectorate.
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Worm / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Worm / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted; there are two Alans, Barnes (Emma's father) and Gramme (now known as Mannequin), as well as two Emilys, Director Piggot and Spitfire, two Jamies, Rinke (Nilbog) and Batterynote Though Battery's use of it is as a pseudonym, so it might not count, and two Sarahs, Pelham (Lady Photon) and Livsey (Tattletale's birth name before she changed it to Lisa Wilbourn when she ran away from her family).
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Worm / int_eece05cd	type	Never Say Goodbye
Worm / int_eece05cd	comment	Never Say Goodbye: Established as a rule between Tattletale and Skitter after she left the team for the first time.
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Worm / int_ef0f881b	type	Trick Arrow
Worm / int_ef0f881b	comment	Shadow Stalker, a former vigilante hero in Brockton Bay, became a probationary member of the Wards after nearly killing someone by pinning him to the wall with one of her crossbow bolts, and as such restricted to using nonlethal bolts. (That said, as such, she didn't always obey said restriction, and she had as a vigilante and was willing to as a Ward kill with her bolts.)
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Worm / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Worm / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: While being held captive, Weaver uses her powers to delouse the prison in the name of hygiene.
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Worm / int_f165cf2c	type	Last-Second Word Swap
Worm / int_f165cf2c	comment	Last-Second Word Swap: When Taylor and the Boston Wards are talking with some middle schoolers and Taylor mentions how much money she made as a villain, one of the heroes almost drops an S-bomb.
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Worm / int_f2b365c1	type	Libation for the Dead
Worm / int_f2b365c1	comment	Libation for the Dead: In the last chapter, Imp, Cozen, and Tattletale each pour one.
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Worm / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Worm / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Skitter defies this trope when Bonesaw takes apart Grue. The only reason Sundancer was capable of killing Noelle was because it was this. Weaver killing Aster was another example. She was captive by The expanded Slaughterhouse 9, rescue was impossible, and while Weaver had no idea what would happen leaving her with the Nine, she assumed that at best it would be awful, and at worst it would literally help bring about the end of the world.
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Worm / int_f3cbaf48	type	Misapplied Phlebotinum
Worm / int_f3cbaf48	comment	Tattletale tells Skitter that there are many powers whose owners aren't fully leveraging their potential. It looks like a straightforward jab at Misapplied Phlebotinum at first but later it turns out that Skitter's power is one of those because with aid from Panacea it gets expanded from only controlling bugs to controlling capes.
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Worm / int_f4045892	type	Fighting Across Time and Space
Worm / int_f4045892	comment	Fighting Across Time and Space: During the battle between Eidolon and Scion, the former proves to be powerful enough to force the latter to flee to a parallel Earth. He proceeds to chase him through multiple (and increasingly inhospitable) universes, including one without air and one where Earth is covered in volcanoes. Eidolon's sheer determination ultimately forces Scion to come up with a new tactic: he reveals that Eidolon's need for worthy opponents was what brought the Endbringers to Eidolon's world. This news utterly breaks Eidolon, and he allows Scion to kill him.
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Worm / int_f482b431	type	Razor Wind
Worm / int_f482b431	comment	Type 2: Jack Slash, Grue, Über, Victor, Faultline.
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Worm / int_f5a6baa5	type	Assurance Backfire
Worm / int_f5a6baa5	comment	Assurance Backfire: Weaver's attempt to reassure Cuff that wearing metal won't make her vulnerable to Behemoth's lightning attacks doesn't come out so well.
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Worm / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Worm / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Dear God yes. Especially Defiant and Dragon.
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Worm / int_f651b980	type	Forbidden Zone
Worm / int_f651b980	comment	Forbidden Zone: Many places are so badly damaged or affected by villains or other unpleasant forces that the PRT has established quarantine zones. Gary, Indiana- evacuated and abandoned after riots and established villain presence. Freedom, California- evacuated after Pastor event. Eagleton, Tennessee- evacuated after Machine Army event. Ellisburg, New York- evacuated and sealed after Nilbog event, guards. Flint, Michigan- [Redacted] Gallup, New Mexico- evacuated and abandoned after established villain presence. Madison, Wisconsin- evacuated and sealed after Simurgh event, all measures in effect.
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Worm / int_f74022ea	type	Magic Cauldron
Worm / int_f74022ea	comment	Magic Cauldron: The Super Serum manufacturer Cauldron has named itself after this trope, though its actual method is stranger.
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Worm / int_f7b32015	type	Sufficiently Advanced Alien
Worm / int_f7b32015	comment	Type 6: The Passengers (including Scion) in their mature form.
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Worm / int_f7cee9b	type	Last Stand
Worm / int_f7cee9b	comment	Last Stand: The capes in New Delhi are prepared to do this against Behemoth's retaliatory strike.
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Worm / int_f8f3711c	type	Shapeshifting
Worm / int_f8f3711c	comment	Changer/Shifternote According to Word of God, the two terms are interchangeable. - Capes who can change or shift forms. Effects range from utilizing a Shapeshifter Weapon to Swiss-Army Hero abilities. invoked
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Worm / int_f909b16b	type	Dark Secret
Worm / int_f909b16b	comment	Dark Secret: When Cherish offers to help the Undersiders and the Travelers fight the Slaughterhouse Nine in exchange for being given two minutes to air their dirty laundry first, it becomes clear that someone in the Travelers has one.note Later chapters suggest that this is probably Trickster covering up for Noelle's Horror Hunger.
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Worm / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Worm / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: The supervillain Coil attempts this as part of his plan to take power in his other identity, Thomas Calvert. Foil uses a similar tactic to get the drop on Gray Boy. The Simurgh also employs it in the final battle against Scion.
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Worm / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Worm / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Noted and adopted into minor memes by the comments section. "Is it lunchtime already?" Started when Taylor notes that Hilarity Ensues around lunchtime — by the end of that chapter she has had to deal with encounters with bullies, her recruitment into the Undersiders, the bank robbery, and the Empire Eighty-Eight thugs attacking Bitch at her dog shelter between the hours of eleven and two, and it doesn't stop there. Skitter's distaste for tinkers is made explicit and referenced again and again thereafter as they show up with more devices. The sentiment is apparently a common one, even among tinkers, thanks to their penchant for turning everything into a Lensman Arms Race and creating annoyingly clever devices that go wrong in the most fascinating ways. "Meh, I could take her." (for the comments section, anyway)
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Worm / int_faa2e847	type	Shatterpoint Tap
Worm / int_faa2e847	comment	Faultline can split apart any object she touches by tracing lines on it with her fingers, in effect creating her own shatterpoints. It doesn't affect living organic material, be it flesh, leaves or wood.
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Worm / int_fada6ffa	type	Lost in a Crowd
Worm / int_fada6ffa	comment	Lost in a Crowd: The Slaughterhouse Nine attempt this twice: First, when Bonesaw uses Surgical Impersonation to make a host of Innocent Bystanders into copies of them. Second, when Bonesaw uses her plague to render almost everyone in town unable to identify people by looks or mannerisms.
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Worm / int_fb8e9cf4	type	Samaritan Syndrome
Worm / int_fb8e9cf4	comment	Speaking of Panacea, driving herself to heal others day-in, day-out due to her own Samaritan Syndrome has had bad effects on her own psyche, and by the time the story proper starts she's already past the point of burnout.
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Worm / int_fba4c0aa	type	Driven to Villainy
Worm / int_fba4c0aa	comment	Driven to Villainy: Once the system had decided that Taylor was a villain, most of the heroes and the PRT became incapable of seeing her as anything else, and refused to consider the possibility that some of the things that she did might be because of good intentions. This pretty much forced her to continue being a villain.
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Worm / int_fbba5e98	type	Gadgeteer Genius
Worm / int_fbba5e98	comment	The way Tinker powers work in the universe make it so much of a pain to make Tinker-tech compatible with mass production and maintainable by ordinary human beings that most Tinkers don't try.
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Worm / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Worm / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Multiple characters in the story, to the point that the evil things people are willing to do for what they believe is a good cause is a running theme. Taylor herself justifies her often ruthless actions in varying ways - first wanting to keep her cover as a spy for the heroes, then needing to be in Coil's good graces to save Dinah, then protecting the people in her territory because she thinks the heroes are running things so badly that she can do better, and finally trying to save the world at any cost. Cauldron, meanwhile, has a more consistent goal - they are kidnapping and horribly mutating the case 53s, among other horrible actions, in order to have a chance at defeating Scion and stopping him from killing everyone in every alternate earth. It helps that they have Contessa, a parahuman with the power to know the correct path to achieve a planned goal, to ensure they are doing the right thing, though it may not be so cut and dry since her power doesn't seem to work when Endbringers or Scion are around.
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Worm / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Worm / int_fe0330fb	comment	Inverted/Brickjoked With Noelle and her (apparent) Alternate Universe counterpart, who is only mentioned in passing by Eidolon.
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Worm / int_fe10cf42	type	Alien Space Bats
Worm / int_fe10cf42	comment	Alien Space Bats: Worm is set in a world that was originally our own, but diverged with the real world thirty years or so before the time the story was written due to people developing superpowers. "Our world" exists as an alternate universe that can be traveled to. However the existence of the city of Brockton Bay where most of the city is set, which does not exist in the real world, has led to a lot of Wild Mass Guessing about why it is there.
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Worm / int_fe6c146e	type	The Corrupter
Worm / int_fe6c146e	comment	The Corrupter: Flechette considers Skitter one after she convinces Parian to work with her. Several of the Slaughterhouse Nine seem proficient in this to some extent or another, most notably Jack Slash, at least partially because of his hidden Thinker power that lets him spot weaknesses and communicate with other parahumans' passengers.
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Worm / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
Worm / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Just about everyone with powers in the setting. There's a reason for this, however. For a character to unlock their latent powers in the first place, they need to have what's termed as a 'trigger event' in the setting. As Alec phrases it, "For your powers to manifest, you're going to have to have something really shitty happen to you." The only real exceptions come for children or siblings of parahumans and Cauldron's clients.
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Worm / int_fed93e1b	featureConfidence	1.0
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Worm / int_ff369faa	type	Symbiotic Possession
Worm / int_ff369faa	comment	Symbiotic Possession: Alec/Regent has the power of controlling a person's body. Aisha/Imp lets him do this willingly, her power—to be completely forgotten by everyone if she stops concentrating on being remembered—to lets her have control over the situation, and there is strategic value in being controlled for fights. They form a close emotional bond in addition to the body-sharing.
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Worm / int_ff369faa	featureConfidence	1.0
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Worm	hasFeature	Everyone Is Armed / int_1367cea0
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Worm	hasFeature	Female Gaze / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Feral Villain / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Fictional Geneva Conventions / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Fighting a Shadow / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Fighting Across Time and Space / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Fights Like a Normal / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	First Rule of the Yard / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Five Stages of Grief / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Fix Fic / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Flash Step / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Flaw Exploitation / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Flight / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Flying Brick / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Flying Firepower / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Foe-Tossing Charge / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	For the Evulz / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Forced Addiction / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Forced into Evil / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Forensic Accounting / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Forgettable Character / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Former Friend of Alpha Bitch / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Fragile Speedster / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Friend to Bugs / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	From a Single Cell / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Fuel Meter of Power / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Full-Frontal Assault / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Fuzz Therapy / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Gadgeteer Genius / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Gaining the Will to Kill / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Gambit Roulette / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Gathering Steam / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	General Ripper / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Generic Doomsday Villain / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Generic Ethnic Crime Gang / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Genetic Memory / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Genius Bruiser / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Genre Roulette / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	"Get Out of Jail Free" Card / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Getting High on Their Own Supply / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Giant Equals Invincible / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Girl Posse / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Girl with Psycho Weapon / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Glad He's On Our Side / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Glamour / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Glass Weapon / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Glory Hound / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Glory Seeker / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Go Mad from the Apocalypse / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	God Never Said That / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	God of Good / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Going Native / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Gold and White Are Divine / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Good All Along / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Good Costume Switch / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Good Morning, Crono / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Good Needs Evil / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Good Parents / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Good Powers, Bad People / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Good Thing You Can Heal / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Good Wears White / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Good with Numbers / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Government Agency of Fiction / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Grappling-Hook Pistol / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Gravity Master / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Greater-Scope Villain / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Greek Chorus / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Grenade Hot Potato / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Grew a Spine / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Grin of Audacity / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Grooming the Enemy / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Ground-Shattering Landing / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Had to Be Sharp / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hair-Trigger Temper / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Half-Breed Discrimination / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Half the Man He Used to Be / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hands-Off Parenting / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hannibal Lecture / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hard Light / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hate Plague / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hates My Secret Identity / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hates Small Talk / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Having a Blast / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hazy-Feel Turn / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	He Who Fights Monsters / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Healing Hands / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Healing Magic Is the Hardest / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Heart Is an Awesome Power / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	"Hell, Yes!" Moment / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hellhole Prison / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hero Antagonist / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hero Insurance / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hero Killer / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hero of Another Story / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hero with an F in Good / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Heroes "R" Us / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Heroic Build / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Heroic Bystander / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Heroic Fatigue / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Heroic Heelization Speech / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Heroic Host / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Heroic RRoD / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Heroic Sacrifice / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Heroism Incentive / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hidden Depths / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hiding Behind the Language Barrier / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	High Turnover Rate / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hive Queen / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hold the Line / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Holier Than Thou / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hollywood Acid / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hollywood Hacking / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Honor Among Thieves / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hope Bringer / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hope Crusher / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hope Is Scary / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hope Spot / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hopeless War / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Horrifying Hero / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Horror Hunger / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hostage Situation / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	How Dare You Die on Me! / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	How Do I Shot Web? / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Huge Schoolgirl / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hulking Out / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Human Resources / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Humanoid Abomination / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Humans Are Bastards / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Humanshifting / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Humongous Mecha / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hyper-Awareness / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hypocrisy Nod / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	I Am a Monster / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	I Am Not Left-Handed / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	I Am What I Am / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	I Didn't Mean to Turn You On / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	I Just Want to Be Free / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	I Just Want to Be Normal / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	I Just Want to Have Friends / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	I'll Kill You! / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	I Miss Mom / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	I Should Have Been Better / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	I Surrender, Suckers / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Identically Powered Team / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Identity Amnesia / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Idiosyncratic Ship Naming / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her... / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Imagination-Based Superpower / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Immigrant Patriotism / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Immortal Life Is Cheap / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Immortality Hurts / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Immune to Fate / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Implacable Man / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Implied Death Threat / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Impossible Genius / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Improbable Aiming Skills / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Improbable Infant Survival / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Improvised Golems / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Improvised Lightning Rod / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	In a Single Bound / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	In Medias Res / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	In Mysterious Ways / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Increasingly Lethal Enemy / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Indy Ploy / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Inherent in the System / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Insanity Immunity / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Instant Expert / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Intangibility / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Intimidation Demonstration / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Inverse Law of Utility and Lethality / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Invisible Streaker / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Invisible to Normals / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Invulnerable Knuckles / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Is That a Threat? / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	It Has Been an Honor / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	It Only Works Once / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	It's Snowing Cocaine / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Jade-Colored Glasses / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Jedi Mind Trick / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Jerk Jock / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Jerkass Has a Point / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Jerks Are Worse Than Villains / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Joker Immunity / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Junkie Parent / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Just a Kid / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Just Between You and Me / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Just Hit Him / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Just Toying with Them / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Justified Criminal / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Kaleidoscope Hair / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Karmic Protection / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Keeping Secrets Sucks / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Keeping the Enemy Close / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Keystone Superpower / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Kicking Ass in All Her Finery / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Kid Hero / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Kid with the Leash / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Kill on Sight / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Killed Offscreen / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	King of the Homeless / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Knight in Shining Armor / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Knight of Cerebus / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	"L" Is for "Dyslexia" / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Lack of Empathy / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Lady in a Power Suit / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Lady of War / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Land, Sea, Sky / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Lantern Jaw of Justice / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Laser-Guided Amnesia / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Lawful Neutral / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Legacy Character / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Let No Crisis Go to Waste / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Lethal Harmless Powers / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Liar Revealed / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Lie Detector / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Lies to Children / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Light 'em Up / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Light Is Good / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Like Father, Unlike Son / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Line in the Sand / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Liquid Assets / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	List of Transgressions / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Literal Surveillance Bug / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Little Miss Badass / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Living Lie Detector / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Living Shadow / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Locked Out of the Loop / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Locked Up and Left Behind / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Logging onto the Fourth Wall / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Logic Bomb / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Long Game / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Looks Like Jesus / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Loss of Identity / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Lost in a Crowd / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Lovable Alpha Bitch / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Lovable Rogue / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Love Makes You Evil / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Lovecraft Lite / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Lovecraftian Superpower / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Ludicrous Precision / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Machiavelli Was Wrong / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Machine Monotone / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mad Bomber / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mad Doctor / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Made of Iron / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Madonna-Whore Complex / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Magic A Is Magic A / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Magic from Technology / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Magic Plastic Surgery / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Magic-Powered Pseudoscience / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Magical Girl Warrior / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Magnetic Plot Device / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Major Injury Underreaction / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Make Some Noise / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Making a Splash / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Malevolent Architecture / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Man, I Feel Like a Woman / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Manchurian Agent / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Manipulative Bastard / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mass "Oh, Crap!" / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mass Super-Empowering Event / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Master of Illusion / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Master of Threads / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Master Race / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Master of Your Domain / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Meaningful Background Event / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Meaningful Echo / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mercy Kill / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Me's a Crowd / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Meta Origin / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Meta Power / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Miko / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Miles to Go Before I Sleep / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Militaries Are Useless / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Million to One Chance / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mind over Matter / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Minor Major Character / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Misapplied Phlebotinum / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Misery Builds Character / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Missing White Woman Syndrome / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mission Control / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mix-and-Match Man / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mix-and-Match Weapon / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Modern Major General / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Modesty Shorts / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mole in Charge / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Monstrous Mandibles / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mook Horror Show / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mook Maker / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Morality Chip / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Morality Kitchen Sink / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	More Deadly Than the Male / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	More than Mind Control / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Morph Weapon / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mother of a Thousand Young / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Motivational Lie / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Motive Misidentification / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mouth-to-Mouth Force-Feeding / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mugging the Monster / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Muggle Best Friend / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Multi-Armed and Dangerous / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mundane Solution / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Murderous Mannequin / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Must Make Amends / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mutants / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	My God, You Are Serious! / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	My Own Grampa / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	My Skull Runneth Over / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	My Suit Is Also Super / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mysterious Backer / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mysterious Employer / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Myth Arc / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Named by Democracy / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Nebulous Evil Organisation / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Nerves of Steel / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Neutral No Longer / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Never Say Goodbye / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	New Powers as the Plot Demands / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Next Tier Power-Up / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	'90s Anti-Hero / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	No "Arc" in "Archery" / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	No Conservation of Energy / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	No Dead Body Poops / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	No Saving Throw / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	No-Sell / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Nominal Hero / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Non-Idle Rich / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Non-Powered Costumed Hero / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Nonchalant Dodge / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Not a Game / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Not Blood Siblings / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Not Even Human / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Not Evil, Just Misunderstood / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Not Quite Flight / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Not Quite Saved Enough / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Not So Invincible After All / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Not So Stoic / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Not That Kind of Doctor / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Not Wearing Tights / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Nothing Is the Same Anymore / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Now That's Using Your Teeth! / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	O.C. Stand-in / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Obvious Crossover Method / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Odd Friendship / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Offscreen Romance / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Ominous Mundanity / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Omnicidal Maniac / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Omniglot / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Omniscient Morality License / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	On a Scale from One to Ten / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	One Bad Mother / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	One Extra Member / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	One Hero, Hold the Weaksauce / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	One-Man Army / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	One-Paragraph Chapter / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Only Flesh Is Safe / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Only the Leads Get a Happy Ending / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Open Secret / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Oracular Urchin / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Orbiting Particle Shield / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Original Flavour / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Our Hero Is Dead / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Out of the Inferno / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Outside-Context Problem / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Outside-Genre Foe / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Outside Man, Inside Man / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Outside-the-Box Tactic / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Outsourcing Fate / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Overpopulation Crisis / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Parental Obliviousness / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Past Experience Nightmare / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Peer Pressure Makes You Evil / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	People Puppets / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Perception Filter / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Perpetual-Motion Monster / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Perpetual Smiler / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Personality Powers / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Pest Controller / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Pet Gets the Keys / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Pineapple Surprise / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Planet Eater / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Planetary Parasite / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Planimal / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Play-Along Meme / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Playing Cyrano / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Playing Possum / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Playing with Fire / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Playing with Syringes / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Plot Armor / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Plot Technology / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Plunder / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Poisonous Friend / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Poisonous Person / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Poke the Poodle / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Politically Correct Villain / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Politically Incorrect Hero / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Pop-Culture Isolation / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Pop-Cultured Badass / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Portal Cut / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Post-Climax Confrontation / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Post-Injury Desk Job / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Post-Victory Collapse / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Power Born of Madness / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Power Copying / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Power Fist / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Power Levels / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Power Nullifier / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Power of Trust / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Power Parasite / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Power Perversion Potential / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Power Profit Potential / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Power Stereotype Flip / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Power Tattoo / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Powered Armor / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Powerful and Helpless / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Practically Joker / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Pragmatic Hero / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Pragmatic Villainy / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Prank Gone Too Far / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Pre-Mortem One-Liner / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Prescience by Analysis / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Present Company Excluded / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Preserve Your Gays / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Pretty Butterflies / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Primal Fear / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Prime Timeline / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Production Throwback / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Promoted Fanboy / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Prophetic Names / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Protagonist-Centered Morality / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Proud to Be a Geek / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Psychic Nosebleed / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Psychic Static / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Psycho Knife Nut / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Psycho Lesbian / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Psycho Supporter / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Psychoactive Powers / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Puberty Superpower / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Pungeon Master / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Pure Is Not Good / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter" / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Putting the Band Back Together / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Pyromaniac / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Quarantine with Extreme Prejudice / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Questionable Consent / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Quirky Miniboss Squad / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Race Against the Clock / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Rage Against the Mentor / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Raised by Rival / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Rank Inflation / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Rank Scales with Asskicking / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Razor Floss / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Razor Wind / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Re-Power / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Readings Are Off the Scale / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Recoil Boost / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Reconstruction / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Recruit Teenagers with Attitude / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Recursive Fanfiction / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Redemption Demotion / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Reed Richards Is Useless / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Reformed Bully / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Reformed, but Rejected / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Reformed Criminal / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Regional Redecoration / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Relationship Upgrade / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Religion of Evil / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Reluctant Psycho / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun? / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Remote Body / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Renaissance Man / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Resurrective Immortality / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Retconning the Wiki / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Right for the Wrong Reasons / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Ring of Power / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Roaring Rampage of Rescue / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Robosexual / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Robot Wizard / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Rock Beats Laser / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Rummage Sale Reject / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Run or Die / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Running Both Sides / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Sad Clown / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Sadist / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Sadistic Choice / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Safety in Muggles / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Samaritan Syndrome / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Sanity Slippage / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Sanity Strengthening / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Save the Villain / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	"Save the World" Climax / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Scaled Up / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Scarily Competent Tracker / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Scars are Forever / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Scary Black Man / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Scary Stinging Swarm / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Schlubby, Scummy Security Guard / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Science Hero / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers! / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Screw This, I'm Outta Here / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Scry vs. Scry / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Secret Identity / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Secret-Identity Identity / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Secret Public Identity / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Secret Secret-Keeper / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Security Cling / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Seen It All / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Self-Destruct Mechanism / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Self-Duplication / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Self-Harmâ€“Induced Superpower / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Self-Insert Fic / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Self-Restraint / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Send in the Clones / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Sensor Character / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Serial-Killer Killer / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Shapeshifter Weapon / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Shatterpoint Tap / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Sherlock Scan / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Shock Stick / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Shockwave Clap / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Shoot the Dangerous Minion / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Shoot the Hostage / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Shoot the Mage First / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Showy Invincible Hero / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Significant Wardrobe Shift / int_1367cea0
Silencio	seeAlso	Worm
Worm	hasFeature	Silent Snarker / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Single-Power Superheroes / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Single Substance Manipulation / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Sinister Silhouettes / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Sizeshifter / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Skilled, but Naive / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Skull for a Head / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Slave to PR / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Slowly Slipping Into Evil / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Smart People Wear Glasses / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Smokescreen Crime / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Smug Super / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	So Bleak, It's Boring / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Socially Awkward Hero / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Sociopathic Hero / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Sock Puppet / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Soft Water / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Sorting Algorithm of Evil / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Space Master / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Space Whale / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Spell My Name with a "The" / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Spider-Man Send-Up / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Spider-Sense / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Spider Swarm / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Spiteful Spit / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Split Timelines Plot / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Spontaneous Weapon Creation / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Spree Killer / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Spy Speak / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Squee / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Stage Mom / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Stages of Monster Grief / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Stalker Shrine / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Stat-O-Vision / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Status Quo Is God / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Stepford Smiler / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Stepford Snarker / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Story-Breaker Power / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Straight Gay / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Strapped to an Operating Table / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Strong as They Need to Be / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Stuffed into a Locker / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Stupidity-Inducing Attack / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Sucky School / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Suddenly Ethnicity / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Sufficiently Advanced Alien / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Suicide by Cop / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Summon Bigger Fish / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Super-Empowering / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Super Hero Origin / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Super-Intelligence / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Super Loser / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Super-Reflexes / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Super-Senses / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Super Serum / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Super Smoke / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Super-Speed / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Super Spit / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Super Team / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Super-Toughness / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Superhero Horror / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Superhero Packing Heat / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Superhero Paradox / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Superhero Prevalence Stages / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Superheroes Wear Capes / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Superman Stays Out of Gotham / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Superman Substitute / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Superpower Disability / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Superpower Lottery / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Superpower Russian Roulette / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Superpowerful Genetics / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Surgical Impersonation / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Surprisingly Happy Ending / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Survivor Guilt / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Swap Teleportation / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Swiss-Army Superpower / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Switching P.O.V. / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Sword Beam / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Symbiotic Possession / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Sympathetic P.O.V. / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Synchronized Swarming / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Synthetic Plague / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Tagalong Kid / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Tailor-Made Prison / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Take Five / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Taken for Granite / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Talk to the Fist / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Talking Down the Suicidal / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Talking Is a Free Action / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Talking Your Way Out / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Taught by Experience / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Tautological Templar / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Teasing Creator / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Teeth Flying / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Teleport Spam / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Teleportation / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Teleportation with Drawbacks / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Tell Me About My Father / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Temporary Blindness / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Terrible Trio / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Terror Hero / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Test Kiss / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	That Man Is Dead / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Alcatraz / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Beastmaster / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Butcher / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Call Put Me on Hold / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Cape / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Commissioner Gordon / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Conqueror / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Corrupter / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Cracker / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Cuckoolander Was Right / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Empath / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The End of the World as We Know It / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Fake Cutie / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Fatalist / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Fettered / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Gadfly / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Good, the Bad, and the Evil / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Greatest Story Never Told / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Hunter Becomes the Hunted / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Imp / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Juggernaut / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Magic Touch / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Man Behind the Man / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Minion Master / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Multiverse / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Needless / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Needs of the Many / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Nondescript / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Nose Knows / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Notable Numeral / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Omniscient / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Pen Is Mightier / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Power of Glass / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Power of the Sun / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Queenpin / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Resenter / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Runaway / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Sleepless / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Social Expert / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Spark of Genius / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Speechless / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Stations of the Canon / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Straight and Arrow Path / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Swarm / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Take / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Tokyo Fireball / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Un-Favourite / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Unfettered / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Unmasking / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Worf Effect / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Worm That Walks / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Then Let Me Be Evil / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Therapy Is for the Weak / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	There Are No Therapists / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	There's No Place Like Home / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Think Nothing of It / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Thinking Up Portals / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Those Wacky Nazis / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Three Plus Two / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Three-Point Landing / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Throw-Away Country / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Throwing Your Sword Always Works / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Time Loop Trap / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Time Master / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Time Skip / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Tiny-Headed Behemoth / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	To Win Without Fighting / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Token Evil Teammate / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Too Clever by Half / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Toxic Friend Influence / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Tragic Monster / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Trap Master / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Trauma Button / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Trauma Conga Line / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Traumatic Superpower Awakening / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Travel Transformation / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Treachery Cover-Up / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Trick Arrow / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Trick Bomb / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Triple Shifter / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Truce Zone / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	True Companions / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Trumplica / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Trust Password / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Tuneless Song of Madness / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Twinmaker / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Twitchy Eye / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Two Girls to a Team / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Tyke-Bomb / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Unblockable Attack / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Understanding Boyfriend / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Undying Loyalty / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Unholy Matrimony / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Uninhibited Muscle Power / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Unintentionally Notorious Crime / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Unishment / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Unluckily Lucky / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Unscrupulous Hero / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Unskilled, but Strong / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Unspoken Plan Guarantee / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Unstable Powered Child / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Unwanted Healing / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Unwitting Instigator of Doom / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Unwitting Test Subject / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Urban Fantasy / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Used to Be a Sweet Kid / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Useless Bystander Parent / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Utility Belt / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Utopia Justifies the Means / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	V-Formation Team Shot / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Vagueness Is Coming / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Variable-Length Chain / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Variant Power Copying / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Vein-o-Vision / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Victor Gains Loser's Powers / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Vigilante Man / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Villain-by-Proxy Fallacy / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Villain Episode / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Villain Has a Point / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Villain Override / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Villain Protagonist / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Villain Team-Up / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Villain with Good Publicity / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Villainous Friendship / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Villainous Rescue / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Visionary Villain / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Voice Changeling / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Voice of the Legion / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Voice with an Internet Connection / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Waif Prophet / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Walk, Don't Swim / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Walking Wasteland / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Wall Crawl / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	War Arc / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Warrior Therapist / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Was It Really Worth It? / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Was Once a Man / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Wave-Motion Gun / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	We Can Rebuild Him / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	We Do the Impossible / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	We Used to Be Friends / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Weak, but Skilled / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Weaponized Teleportation / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Wearing a Flag on Your Head / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Weather of War / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Web Serial Novel / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Webcomic Time / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Welcome Back, Traitor / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Welcome Episode / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Weredragon / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Wetware Body / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway? / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	What Measure Is a Non-Cute? / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	What the Hell Is That Accent? / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	What Would X Do? / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	What You Are in the Dark / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Whatevermancy / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Where the Hell Is Springfield? / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	While Rome Burns / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	White Sheep / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Who Would Want to Watch Us? / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Who's Laughing Now? / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Wicked Cultured / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Winds of Destiny, Change! / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Winged Humanoid / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	With Great Power Comes Great Perks / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Wonder Woman Wannabe / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Workaholic / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	World of Jerkass / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	World's Strongest Man / int_1367cea0
Worm	seeAlso	Worm
Worm	hasFeature	Wound That Will Not Heal / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Wretched Hive / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Writer Conflicts with Canon / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Wrong Side of the Tracks / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Xanatos Gambit / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Xenofiction / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Year Inside, Hour Outside / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	You Are Better Than You Think You Are / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	You Are Number 6 / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	You Can Barely Stand / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good! / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	You Do NOT Want to Know / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	You Kill It, You Bought It / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	You Owe Me / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	You Said You Would Let Them Go / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Your Costume Needs Work / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Your Soul Is Mine! / int_1367cea0
worm	sameAs	Worm
Worm	hasFeature	Appeal to Audacity / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Dark Age of Supernames / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Goal in Life / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Holding the Floor / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Hurting Hero / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Lipstick Lesbian / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Mutant Draft Board / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Not Good with People / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	The Infiltration / int_1367cea0
Worm	hasFeature	Would You Like to Hear How They Died? / int_1367cea0

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