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Superheroes? In MY roleplay? It's more likely than you think. It's set in a metropolis known only as 'The City' which had its entire police force disappear in fall of 2008 (when the game began). Their replacements are characters pulled from other worlds by an advanced machine known as the [[Teleporters and Transporters|Porter]] to serve as 'heroes', with previously-unpowered characters gaining superhuman abilities in the process. Known for being very fast-paced. Found [http://capeandcowl.dreamwidth.org here.]
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* [[Action Girl]]: Most of the female heroes and villains, including [[Kim Possible|Shego]] and [[Dollhouse|Echo]].
* [[Action Mom]]: [[Terminator|Sarah Connor]].
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** [[Terminator|Skynet]], apparently.
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Relations between the [[Player Character|PCs]] or ' Imports ' and ' native ' [[Non
* [[And I Must Scream]]: Nightmare plot.
* [[Alternate History]]: The Cityverse's history deviates from our own in many ways besides the Porter.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Thanks to the Porter's tendency to [[First Law of Resurrection|bring people back]]. Unfortunately, this means when people do die, it's usually in the most painful way possible. For maximum resurrection trauma.
* [[Arms Dealer]]: An early source of income for the Coalition was selling advanced battle mechs to North Korea. Jack 'Weasel' Hammer fulfilled this function on a smaller level in the City.
* [[A Storm Is Coming]]: [[Terminator|Sarah Connor]]'s visions.
* [[Attack of the Killer Whatever]]: The City can be threatened by pretty much anything. It was once attacked by ''pigeons.''
* [[Back
* [[Badass Crew]]: Most of the superhero teams, as well as the police force, which had [[Die Hard
* [[Big Applesauce]]: The City is basically a nameless alternate universe counterpart to New York.
* [[Badass Adorable]]: [[Terminator|Cameron Phillips]]. Abby Boylen.
* [[Bad Future]]: The CNC2020 spinoff, set in a future where ImPorts are persecuted by the government.
** [[Future Badass]]: Characters who weren't already badass sometimes become these in 2020.
* [[Battle Couple]]: Batgirl and Darkdevil
* [[Big Badass Battle Sequence]]: The larger plots can get truly epic.
* [[Big Creepy
* [[Blank Slate]]: [[Dollhouse|Whiskey]]. Usually.
* [[Brainwashed]]: A supervillain plot used [[Dollhouse]] technology for this.
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* [[Clean Up the Town]]: Initially.
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: This happens. A lot.
* [[Come
* [[The Commissioner Gordon]]: Standard policy for the understaffed police force, which has little choice but to cooperate with vigilantes in order to keep the City safe.
* [[Cosmic Retcon]]: The 'Running the Gauntlet' plot saw the reality of the Cityverse rewritten to introduce new elements like ghosts, aliens, and fictional countries.
* [[Cryptic Conversation]]: It is notoriously difficult to get a straight answer out of NPCs like Grinbitch and the Kashira Players, on the few occasions that it is even possible to communicate with them.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: [[Terminator|Cameron Phillips]], [[Kim Possible|Shego]].
* [[Death Is a Slap
* [[Deus Est Machina]]: The Porter's powers seem to be almost limitless- at least when it comes to player characters.
* [[Deface of the Moon]]: To the point where it's almost a [[Running Gag]].
* [[Designated Victim]]: [[Sweet Valley High|Jessica Wakefield]] manages to suffer more than [[Transformers|Waspinator.]]
* [[Die Hard
* [[Differently-Powered Individual]]: Most player characters are referred to as 'Imports' or 'metahumans.' And now artificially-created native superhumans are called 'Metamen.'
* [[Discount Lesbians]]: A [[Running Gag]] with Zatanna and Wonder Woman.
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* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Subverted with [[Terminator|Cameron Phillips]].
* [[Empty Quiver]]: One plot revolved around the theft of a nuclear warhead by supervillains, and an attempt to use it on Washington D.C.
* [[Explosive Breeder]]: An attempt at allowing characters to return home instead caused a plague of [[Star Trek
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: When it comes to finding a way home or a way to shut down/take control of the Porter.
* [[Fake American]]: The Master, while pretending to be Adon Tierney.
* [[Fake Memories]]: The Brainwash Plot.
* [[Fan Nickname]]: ' Grinbitch ' for the Porter AI, which has since started popping up in-character.
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: [[Dollhouse|Alpha]], [[Doctor Who
* [[Fictional Country]]: five of them, thanks to the Infinity Gauntlet
* [[Fight Clubbing]]: courtesy of the characters from [[Fight Club]].
* [[Fish Out of Water]]
* [[Flight, Strength, Heart]]: Due to bizarre Porter-granted powers. One character combined infinite ammunition with deductive tap dancing.
* [[Fountain of Youth]]: when most of the City was turned into children by a magic spell
* [[Future Badass]]: [[Terminator|John Connor]].
* [[Government Conspiracy]]: Vulcanus, which seeks to mass produce superhumans.
* [[Hate Plague]]: Cylon-Nazi nerve gas that slowly drove people into conflict with each other.
* [[Holding Out for
* [[If It's You It's Okay]]
* [[Involuntary Transformation]]: In a [[Fisher Kingdom]] style, the Porter assigns all non-humanoid characters (like Transformers and [[Talking Animal|Talking Animals]]) a human form, sometimes with [[Transformation Trauma]] in the meantime. There have also been plots where characters were unexpectedly transformed into animals and robots.
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* [[Like Reality Unless Noted]]: The game's setting is almost exactly like the real world, except for details like having Superior Purchase instead of Best Buy and a different President. And of course all the superhumans.
* [[Living Shadow]]: The Kashira Players. [[Epileptic Trees|Possibly.]]
* [[Love Is in
* [[Mage in Manhattan]]
* [[Magnetic Plot Device]]: The Porter. Between the AI's twisted sense of humour and plain old malfunctions, as long as it's running the City's bound to be an exciting place.
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* [[Mythology Gag]]: The President in this superhero-themed game looks an awful lot like [[Stan Lee]].
* [[Nebulous Evil Organization]] / [[The Syndicate]]: The HIVE, the City's sinister [[Los Angeles|West Coast]] counterpart.
* [[NGO Superpower]]: The HIVE tried to act like one of these when it defied the US government. [[Kill It
* [[No FEMA Response]]: New York City has lost its police force? Don't expect the federal government to do anything about it! Possibly justified by the fear that anyone they sent in would just disappear as well.
* [[Not Himself]]: The Polymorph and timeswitch plots.
* [[Odd Friendship]]: As customary for a panfandom game, CNC has produced some epic ones.
* [[Playing
* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: [[Doctor Who
* [[Power Nullifier]]: At one point, depowering guns appeared that could temporarily disable superhuman abilities.
* [[Quirky Household]]: MANY.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: [[Doctor Who
* [[Red Shirt]] / [[Redshirt Army]]: Ordinary cops, soldiers and civilians stand almost no chance against most Import supervillains.
* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: Averted. The presence of so many super-geniuses and advanced technology users Ported in has already begun to have impacts on health, technology, and international politics.
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* [[Show Within a Show]]: Iron Man: [[Crowning Moment of Funny|The Musical.]]
* [[Soap Within a Show]]: A Single Potato, complete with [[Explaining the Soap]]. With the [[Transformers|Decepticons]].
* [[Stage Magician]]: Zatanna Zatara.
* [[Status Quo Is God]]: To a certain extent. The City will always have enough crime to keep the heroes busy, but will never be wrecked too badly to recover, and the Porter will always continue bringing in new characters.
* [[Stock Super Powers]]: Along with several not-so-stock ones.
* [[Storming the Castle]]: At one point a large number of characters launched a massive attack on the HIVE. It succeeded, but the HIVE remained a threat for a while longer. Two years later, a Vulcanus base in Greenland was assaulted in order to prevent the creation of a superhuman army.
* [[Superhero]]
* [[Super
* [[Superhero Tropes]]
* [[Superpower Lottery]]: Many of the powers granted by the Porter are ''bizarre,'' such as generating teacups at will, making it rain baseballs and extremely good apple pie, and extreme sandwich-making skills.
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* [[Vice City]]: The HIVE, and the City on a bad day.
* [[War Arc]]: Three rounds with the HIVE, and then the War of Four Walls.
* [[Washington,
* [[Wham! Episode]]: The revelation of Iron Suit, the introduction of the HIVE and their subsequent assault on the City, the disposal of the Iron Suit by the Porter, and the entry of [[Government Conspiracy|Vulcanus]] were big game-changers.
* [[Wretched Hive]]: The HIVE.
* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]: Many characters, particularly during the Renaissance Faire.
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* [[You Do NOT Want to Know]]: This often comes up.
* [[Your Worst Nightmare]]: When half the City fell asleep and was trapped in their nightmares.
* [[Zeppelins
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: More than one.
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