All Fall Down: Difference between revisions

* [[All Your Powers Combined]]: The protagonist, Sophie, experiences this with every superpower on Earth. Permanently.

* [[An Arm and A Leg]]: {{spoiler|Pronto}} suffers this when he loses both legs in the first chapter.

* [[Antagonistic Offspring]]: Subverted. IQ is a retired supervillain, his son, IQ Squared, is a successful software tycoon.

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: A major theme of the book.

* [[Burning Building Rescue]]: Siphon performs one of these in the course of her duties... {{spoiler|moments before she's arrested for Super-Manslaughter.}}

* [[C List Fodder]]: Any number of characters killed in their first appearance, mainly the first chapter.

* [[The Cape]]: The superhero veteran, Paradigm. Of all the victims of the Fall, he handles it best.

* [[Cape Snag]]: Subverted. Wearing a cape is what saves Paradigm's life.

* [[Energy Beings]]: {{spoiler|Siphon}} briefly becomes one of these before the end.

* [[Establishing Series Moment]]: In chapter one, a news vendor comforts a small boy by telling him "Nothin' bad ever lasts in the comics. Death, doom, disaster? There's nothin' they can't fix." Moments later, a superhero plummets out of the sky, destroying the news stand and dying instantly.

* [[Evil Costume Switch]]: {{spoiler|Pronto}} gets one of these in his new identity as the Modern Prometheus.

* [[Evil Gloating]]: {{spoiler|AIQ Squared}} lays out his entire scheme to the confused and outraged IQ Squared.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Pronto}} undergoes this in exchange for new legs as fast as his old ones.

* [[Faceless Goons]]: The Order of Despots has a small army of them on their moon base.

** Used again in chapter three. What appears to be a flashback to the end of chapter two is actually a holodeck recreation for IQ Squared to work out some frustration with his father.

* [[Fallen Hero]]: {{spoiler|Pronto}} will do *anything* to get his powers back.

* [[False Reassurance]]: "Nothing *on Earth* is unlawful about what's taking place."

* [[Fist of Rage]]: When he hears about Siphon, Pronto has one of these that is so intense he makes his palm bleed.

* [[Five Stages of Grief]]: The central theme of the book.

* [[Flashback Echo]]: Chapter Two revolves around heroes (and Sophie) remembering the last time the Pantheon was truly heroic, involving a mission on the moon.

* [[How Do I Shot Web]]: Sophie suffers from this at first, using several powers by accident until she learns to bring them under control.

* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]: Virtually everyone that lost their powers wants them back.

* [[Impossible Genius]]: Both IQ and IQ Squared are these. The former built doomsday weapons, the latter created a software empire worth billions.

* [[In Medias Res]]: The story begins with superheroes already falling out of the sky.

* [[Its Always Sunny At Funerals]]: Both funerals are held on bright, sunny days.

* [[Just Between You and Me]]: {{spoiler|AIQ Squared}} delivers this in the final chapter, explaining how and why Siphon was manipulated into a position where {{spoiler|she would be helpless to prevent her powers being stripped from her, killing her in the process.}}

* [[Legion of Doom]]: The Order of Despots is this to the Pantheon.

* [[Living Battery]]: The Order of Despots kidnaps the superhero Isotope to use him for this very purpose.

* [[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.

* [[Powers in The First Episode]]: This is Sophie, at first. She has stolen every power on Earth, with no idea at first how to use them.

* [[Pride]]: This blinds Portia for the majority of the story.

* [[Prison]]: {{spoiler|IQ Squared and Pronto}} end up here at the finish.

* [[Tears of Fear]]: Portia weeps at the climax--not for her own sake, but for what {{spoiler|the Modern Prometheus}} could do to her friends.

* [[Tell Me Again]]: Pronto requests a recap of the Pantheon's plan in the flashback in chapter two.

* [[Three Laws Compliant]]: AIQ Squared, the AI model of his inventor, is designed to be this. {{spoiler|It finds a loophole--Sophie Mitchell is no longer human.}}

* [[Tragic Dream]]: Any hopes the heroes or villains have about ever getting their powers back.

* [[Unable to Cry]]: Portia is this in spades, {{spoiler|before breaking down in the Ghoul's arms after he averts her attempted suicide.}}

* [[The Unmasking]]: Used twice: once to reveal to the reader who {{spoiler|the Ghoul}} really is, and again when {{spoiler|Sophie reveals her identity to her best friend, Grace.}}

* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: The Reducto-Beam, a colossal shrink ray on the moon that runs on Living Batteries.

* [[We Can Rebuild Him]]: {{spoiler|Pronto}} goes through this, becoming the brainwashed and crazy Modern Prometheus who nearly kills Siphon.

* [[We Used to Be Friends]]: The Pantheon tries to reason with {{spoiler|Pronto}} this way. They don't quite succeed.

* [[Writing for The Trade]]