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* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]: {{spoiler|Siphon chooses this when she realizes she can't stop AIQ Squared from killing the Pantheon from inside its deathtrap.}}
* [[Beware the Superman]]: {{spoiler|Siphon}} is arrested for involuntary manslaughter, and held in suspicion by a portion of the public throughout her career.
* [[Big Brother Is Watching]]: Being a [[Digitized Hacker]], AIQ Squared is able to monitor all the main characters on a steady
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Siphon dies and no-one gets their powers back.}} However, a flash-forward shows that the heroes and villains do eventually move on and find closure.
* [[Black Screen of Death]]: A Black Page of Death is used moments after {{spoiler|Portia steps off the roof of her apartment building.}}
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* [[Didn't See That Coming]]: {{spoiler|AIQ Squared's}} plot falls apart when he fails to plan ahead for {{spoiler|Siphon's Death Activated Super Power.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Dies Wide Open]]:}} Sophie's last panel.
* [[Digitized Hacker]]: {{spoiler|AIQ Squared}} proves a very capable
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: Portia defiantly bears this for most of the story.
* [[Downer Beginning]]: The story begins with heroes and villains dropping out of the sky to their deaths.
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* [[News Broadcast]]: Used in-universe a few times.
* [[Not Afraid to Die]]: With her last words, {{spoiler|Siphon}} proves she is this.
* [[
* [[Power Crystal]]: Count Von Deadly uses one of
* [[Power Glows]]: Siphon exhibits this to a blinding degree {{spoiler|shortly before she dies.}}
* [[Power Nullifier]]: Sophie is a walking one, and IQ Squared designed a device to do this to super-powered villains in prison... including his father.
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* [[Super Intelligence]]: Both IQ and IQ Squared were world-class inventors in their prime.
* [[Supernatural Angst]]: Heroes and villains experience this after losing their powers and suffering various physical and/or emotional trauma as a result.
* [[Superpower Lottery]]: As Siphon, Sophie Mitchell has this in
* [[Super Speed]]: Pronto had this {{spoiler|before his accident}}. Later, so does the Modern Prometheus.
* [[Super Team]]: We have the Pantheon, a group of A-listers named Portia, Paradigm, Pronto, Phylum and Plymouth.
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* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: "Nothing *on Earth* is unlawful about what's taking place."
* [[Suspiciously Specific Sermon]]: Father Hector delivers a sermon on remaining strong in the face of adversity, intercut with a [[Flash Back]] to the Pantheon duking it out with the Order of Despots on the moon.
* [[Tears of Fear]]: Portia weeps at the
* [[Tell Me Again]]: Pronto requests a recap of the Pantheon's plan in the flashback in chapter two.
* [[This Cannot Be!]]: {{spoiler|AIQ Squared}} says something to this effect moments before his downfall.
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