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* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Many of Miriam's lines.
* [[He's Back|He/She's Back]]: Candi obviously gets this treatment. The first time around, she comes back with an actual suit, arsenal, and alias. The second time this happens to her, she seems less concerned with restoring her dignity and more concerned with merely finishing what she started. Donte also has this happen twice. Miriam has it happen, in a cyberspace sort of way, once.
* [[How Do I Shot Web?]]: Subverted. Candi [[Possession Implies Mastery|has always instinctively known]] how to use her powers, but learns that they are much more difficult to use when she's pregnant. Other Centhuen Prototypes are also weakened by pregnancy, but to a much lesser extent.
* [[Large Ham]]: Too many to list here. But basically anyone who isn't [[The Stoic]] or [[Deadpan Snarker]] will be a [[Large Ham]] instead. Villains often combine this with [[Monster Misogyny]], as it [[Kick the Dog|makes them look]] [[Villain Ball|extra evil]].
* [[Mad Scientist]]: The Phaelites and the Meethlites, but the Hebbleskin Gang and Insila Murtillo (Ploribus' mother) in particular. The only reason that Centhuens, Centhuen Prototypes, Milthuens, Milthuen Prototypes, AI-possessed homocidal maniacs, werewolves, and other types of monster are even possible. That, and Zeran Holes.
* [[Morning Sickness]]: Averted. Apparently, losing one's superpowers (and a general sense of fatigue and loss of courage) is punishment enough.
* [[Named After Somebody Famous]] / [[Shout
** In the Fox animated series ''[[Where On Earth Is Carmen Sandiego]]''?, one of the villains is named ''Gunnar Maelstrom''.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Nearly [[Can't Get Away With Nuthin'|everyone has this feeling at least once]].
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* [[From a Certain Point of View]]: What Donte tells Merle to protect Candi's secret identity. [[Swiss Cheese Security|How she was able]] to fool security is another matter.
** Suffice to say, she needs a far more elaborate plot to escape in the book, as no [[Real Life]] modern police station would build the city jail to look like a medieval dungeon.
* [["Get Out of Jail Free" Card]]: [[Crazy Survivalist|Dolly]] and Lindsay use dynamite as one.
* [[Grandpa God]]: Sort of. Rev. Wilbur Brocklyn is a kindly preacher (who [[Shout
{{quote| "Would ''you'' kill Mary? Then why pick on Viron students? (Indirectly indicting Pete and Nolle [[My Girl Is Not a Slut|for persecuting Candi]].)}}
** While not God, he is an effective mouthpiece.
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* [[Magical Abortion]]: Sort of. Angie is born live, but dies a few hours later while battling Kimiyato's evil powers [[The Power of Love|and destroying them]]. This leads to [[It's Personal|a very pissed off]] Kimi, who vows revenge on Candi.
* [[Marquee Alter Ego]]: Candi spends most of the story (the first 23 chapters) without her iconic costume. Even after getting it, she only spends five of the remaining chapters in it at any point in time. It gets a little more use in the sequels, where the suit is now able to be worn in pieces [[So Last Season|instead of all at once]].
** Thankfully, her official costume is only [[No
* [[Meaningful Funeral]]: For Candi and Donte, Denny and Angie's funeral is a matter of closure and a chance to move to the next phase of their lives. It also keeps them from getting insane about each other too soon. They don't seem able to get many others to want to attend a funeral for Candi's fallen family, suggesting that:
## Viron is [[Apathetic Citizens|made of cold fish]] and
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** Jack [[Comforting the Widow|attempts to be this]] in the book. Candi decides her feelings for Donte are so genuine, that Jack should accept what he got from her as little more than a one night's stand. (And considering her frame of mind at the time, it almost counts as rape.) She does help him find another girl, so he takes her rejection of him surprisingly well.
* [[Screaming Birth]]: Angie is about to be born, right after Candi loses Denny (and her house)!
* [[Shout
* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]] / [[A Million Is a Statistic]]: Musaran's victims are possibly in the hundreds.
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* [[Minion With an F In Evil]]: Teal Hog. He ends up rescuing Miriam from a thug that was about to rape and possibly kill her, and then sets her loose on the street, completely oblivious to the fact that she was the girl he was sent to capture!
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: In an abstract sense, Miriam's Sniperbadger persona had to be hijacked and destroyed before Miriam could set her life straight. Played with in a particularly cruel manner in which, for her to find redemption for having gotten involved with a porn site, the site's webmaster ends up being the one who dies!
* [[Take That]] / [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: Chapter 5 is a gruelingly [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche|satirical parody]] of ''[[Titanic]]''.
{{quote| Denny: "Wahoo! Call me a viceroy, [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Jones]]! [[Bad News, Irrelevant News|It's the end of your world; but I fixed the ship's engine!]] [[Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?|And I'm STILL not a greasemonkey!]]"}}
* [[Yellow Peril]]: Subverted. Black Rat, Tin Dragon, and Stung Hornet turn out to be [[Anti-Villain|not such bad fellows]] after all. And [[My Friends and Zoidberg|Teal Hog]], for some reason, [[Minion With an F In Evil|can't even figure out that he's a designated villain]].
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