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* [[Face Palm]]: Frequently used by Ms. Kyle and the other teachers.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: {{spoiler|Argonians look down on everyone who does not have [[Flying Brick]] powers. Normal humans are treated as an inferior underclass; other metahumans as outright threats.}}
* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]: As usual for a Superhero setting, they have [[Mutants]], [[Functional Magic|magic]], aliens, [[Physical God|gods]], beings from [[Another Dimension]], [[Time Travel|time travellers]], and [[Schizo
* [[Fastball Special]]: Rockslide and Micro Might.
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Zodon manages to convince the otherwise mild-mannered and rather cowardly [[Flying Brick]], Forak, to guard a dimensional portal while he's on the other side with some of the other kids. The threats he makes are spoken of only in whispers, but Forak is terrified enough to even stand against the [[Creepy Child]] Alexandria Von Fogg when she shows up to disrupt matters. Towards the end, Hershel convince him to tell him what was said. Turns out that Zodon threatened to {{spoiler|delete all his Achievements}} if he didn't do as he was told. Terrifying!
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{{quote| '''Dylan:''' I consider this an assault on my basic freedoms and liberty.}}
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Captain Clarinet suffers one -- preceded by a quick bout of [[What Have I Done]] -- after {{spoiler|punching out Charles.}}
* [[High
* [[Hive Mind]]: The Commonality, created by an alternate universe version of Tyler. He had such powerful telepathy, he decided to see if he could touch every mind on Earth at once. It worked.
* [[Holographic Disguise]]: Those PS238 students who can't just change into normal clothes (because they're part-machine, or bright blue, or whatever) get image emitters to help them blend in with the oblivious above-ground [[Muggle|muggles]].
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** Moon Shadow subverts it by being a normal human with a secret identity to hide who he is from the supers.
* [[Serious Business]]: Foursquare.
* [[Shout
** Zodon's human disguise makes him look like a character from ''[[The Far Side (Comic Strip)|The Far Side]]''.
** The time-traveller Tom Davidson is named after two of the stars of ''[[
** In another issue, Murphy quotes Leela in "The Robots of Death".
** One humorous two-panel joke has the Revenant decrypting the names "Wayne, B" and "Grayson, D".
** [[Phil Foglio]] and his family appear as supervillains. He gets another [[Shout
** Revenant's Alfred [[Captain Ersatz|Ersatz]] is named Cranston, most likely a reference to Lamont Cranston, a.k.a. [[The Shadow (Radio)|The Shadow]]. The Revenant also uses the alias Kent Allard, which happens to be another secret Identity of The Shadow.
** {{spoiler|Toby being simultaneously bossed about by order and chaos}} is represented by him as [[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|Captain Kirk]] -- complete with [[Star Trek Shake]].
** Bernard has a [[
** Spell Syrin tells off her magic students for trying to start a [[Harry Potter (Franchise)|Quidditch]] game.
** Tyler uses the [[Stargate Verse (Franchise)|Stargate Verse]] to convince Cecil that one of the "aliens" is on their side.
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* [[Stranger in A Strange School]]: Tyler doesn't pretend to be anything else, but between the fact that both his parents are legendary superheroes and the school being a constant [[Weirdness Magnet]], he has no choice but to become an [[Action Survivor]] in order to, well, survive. Currently in training to become [[Badass Normal]].
* [[Suddenly Fluent in Gibberish]]: Angie can somehow understand what Prospero is saying. Nobody knows how.
* [[Super
* [[Super Registration Act]]: Averted. None is enforced, though many superheroes choose to anyhow. One of the early comics, a mock advertisement, indicates that [http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ps238/comics/index.php?date=2006-12-10 "full disclosure gains access to scholarships, grants, and placement assistance"].
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: Zodon, after being caught red-handed cheating at blackjack.
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* [[Transforming Mecha]]: Prospero's spaceship.
* [[Turbine Blender]]: Captain Clarinet is afraid of this happening to him if he flies. That is, until Zodon points out that ''he'd'' be the one blending the turbines. (It doesn't make him feel better, mostly because Zodon goes on to describe what happens to the people on the plane.)
* [[Unusual Euphemism]] (mixed with [[Tongue
{{quote| '''Zodon:''' I'm going '''{{smallcaps|caroling}}''' ape'''{{smallcaps|beans}}'''!}}
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: The Rainmaker
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: Beautifully averted. The children in the Rainmaker program are all in possession of powers that are pretty much useless when it comes to things like fighting crime or saving the world. However, the purpose of the program is to give them an opportunity to explore using their powers in the private sector. A perfect example is a kid who can make any object as edible and nutritious (and tasty) as he wants; he won't be fighting any supervillains any time soon, but several restaurant chains are already lined up to headhunt him. Not to mention the job offers from Hollywood for the one who can change the distribution of body fat in people.<br />And even then... Hestia, for one, will break you if you break the customs of ancient Greek-ish hospitality, xenia. Sure, that was usually Zeus's baliwick, but Hestia always needed to be more badass. Several of the others... sure, they aren't classical badass fighters, but they could fuck you up. Assuming they didn't go insane or something in the interim.
** Pays off when {{spoiler|a supervillain trapped in a robot uses their combined powers to make himself a super-powered body}}.
* [[Wingdinglish]]: Alien tongues are in strange font, but otherwise readable. Prospero's walls of text in his introductory chapters starts off with "If you can read this" and goes on with [[Monty Python]] quotes, a recipe, etc, to avoid heavy spoilers, but in the rest of the series, his utterings are often hilarious. (some of them are available [http://forcesinbalance.livejournal.com/651.html here].)
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