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** Hilariously, Volt is perfectly aware he's an [[Alternate Company Equivalent]]. As a black man with electrical super-powers, he's all too conscious that he's one of maybe a half dozen other people with that exact description (Static, Black Vulcan, Black Lightning), and frequently bemoans it.
** The superhero Qubit is a rather unusual case of this, being based on a non-comics, non-superhero character. He's clearly based off of the [[Doctor Who|Tenth Doctor]] (admittedly, with some similarities to Mr. Fantastic).
** Modeus is an [[Expy]] of [[Lex Luthor]] with a little bit of [[
** Max Damage seems to be a loose [[Expy]] of Metallo.
** Orian is an Expy of, of all people, Myxztplk, though not played for laughs. A touch of Lobo is thrown into the mix as well, also not played for laughs.
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* [[Teleporters and Transporters]]: Quibit has built several devices that seemingly produce wormholes. {{spoiler|The Vespa, having had access to his technology, weaponize them and defeat Plutonian with them. Seemingly out of action as of Plutonian's escape from the prison-planet}}
* [[Throwaway Country]]: Averted. {{spoiler|The destruction of Singapore}} is shown in full, and is just as horrifying as it should be. {{spoiler|And although not shown, the death of tens or ''hundreds'' of millions in Australia and India is treated with equal horror.}}
* [[Took a Level
* [[Unskilled but Strong]]: While practically a [[Physical God]], the Plutonian turns out to have next to no hand-to-hand combat skill due to never really needing to learn how to fight.
* [[Unwilling Roboticization]]: what Qubit threatens Encanta with to make her reveal what she knows about Modeus.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]
* [[Walking Wasteland]]: Minor, background villain Dekay melts everything he touches.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: The Plutonian, thanks to his pathological need to be loved and admired by everybody, is really bad at handling being called out on his [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|stupid mistakes]] and [[Super Dickery|dick moves]], which finally makes him snap. On the other hand, between {{spoiler|Qubit building a bunch of perfect ([[
** {{spoiler|Hornet would get one if he was alive. In issue #18, it's been revealed that he gave interstellar teleportation and coordinates to inhabited planets to conquering aliens in exchange for them leaving Earth alone, as well as fighting Plutonian on the off-chance that he turned on humanity.}}
*** {{spoiler|Hornet had reason to believe it wasn't an off-chance. Though everyone knew the broadstrokes of each other's lives, and trusted Tony with their secret identities, Hornet never mentioned his wife's name. Tony name-dropped it anyway, tipping Hornet off that the Plutonian was spying on them all.}}
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* [[Lolicon]]: Max Damage likes 'em young: he met sidekick/girlfriend [[Jail Bait]] in a brothel when she was fifteen and he was 28-30. She's now sixteen, but his [[Heel Face Turn]] drove him to break up with her for a [[Jail Bait Wait]].
* [[Morality Pet]]: Max adds Lois Lane and Jim Gordon analogues to his posse to invoke this trope. And boy, does he need it - it is horrifyingly subverted by Jailbait and Headcase, both of whom do their cute girl best to drag Max back down (Jailbait is a sixteen-year-old he saved from sex slavery... who became a bloodthirsty adrenaline junkie and daily ''begged'' Max not to keep being heroic, while Headcase is apparently 22 but looks just like Jailbait, and after the murder of her whole family, has become a truly frightening [[Death Seeker]] [[Yandere]] who would ''kill'' anyone that threatens her warped worldview or her relationship to Max).
* [[
* [[Noodle Incident]]: [[Ms. Fanservice|Jailbait's]] [[Fetish Fuel|cage match]] against the [[Hentai]] [[Fan Service|Brothers]]. {{spoiler|Jailbait won.}}
** And it was hot.
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