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* [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]]: Despite the fact that they could eventually end up with one that consists of absurdly powerful people, this is averted. When Tyler got elected Class President, the faculty had yet to figure out what responsibilities the Class President was supposed to have. So far, said duties have consisted entirely of participating in a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

* [[Competence Zone]]: Averted; the kids' teachers are presented as intelligent, competent, and perfectly aware of what's going on around them. This being a comic about the kids, though, the kids still do most of the day-saving. ''Most of.''

* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]: Cecil Holmes. He actually gets pretty close to figuring out the truth about PS238, but Tyler derails him with alien stuff.

* [[Contagious Powers]]

** Tyler's parents are sending him to the school based on the theory that eventually this trope will kick in.

* [[From a Certain Point of View]]: When Cranston used to be president he was accused of using a telepath to read his opponent's minds, and he swore that he had no telepaths of any kind on his payroll. He didn't. He wasn't on his own payroll after all.

* [[Fun Personified]]

** Also [[Rubber Man|Poly Mer]]: "If I inflate myself, I can make a fart noise that lasts for an hour!"

* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]

* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]:

{{quote|'''[[Wil Wheaton]]:''' ...and I'm even writing a story for a comic book about a character I played on television. Neat, huh?}}

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]

* [[Look Ma, No Plane]]: Captain Clarinet starts out with a pathological fear of flying, due to having repeated nightmares of being sucked into a jet-engine. It doesn't particularly improve matters when Zodon "helpfully" reminds him that his invulnerability ensures that, should that happen, he'd come out on the other side unscattered... while the plane plummets to the ground in flames with the passengers aboard.... And then Zodon plays a "practical joke" on him that results in it happening in real life. It backfires spectacularly in that it ends up curing the good captain of his phobia instead of compounding it when is forced to use his flight to put the damaged plane down safely.

* [[Nosy Neighbor]]: Cecil Holmes, who doesn't know the school secretly has superhero students, so is convinced it's being infiltrated by aliens in disguise. {{spoiler|Latter, it's been established that Cecil can detect metahumans. He's very disappointed that "the aliens were a lie."... But not for long.}}

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Tyler, regarding [[Paper-Thin Disguise]].

* [[Overlord, Jr.]]: Victor Von Fogg

* [[Papa Wolf]]: You do not kidnap the daughter of Mister Extraordinary (the first recorded metahuman). He will rip your car apart then beat you over the head with the largest part left.

** {{spoiler|Toby being simultaneously bossed about by order and chaos}} is represented by him as [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Captain Kirk]] -- complete with [[Star Trek Shake]].

** Bernard has a [[PvP (webcomic)|Skull]] doll.

** Tyler uses the [[Stargate Verse]] to convince Cecil that one of the "aliens" is on their side.

** Tyler finds himself in a ''[[Tron]]'' costume from his clone's superpowers leaking out.

* [[Stage Mom]]: Tyler's parents are utterly convinced they can micromanage their son into becoming the World's Greatest Super Hero (when they aren't [[Parental Obliviousness|ignoring him]]).

{{quote|"To even ''think'' otherwise is to defy the ''will'' of the ''Universe''."}}

* [[Suddenly Fluent in Gibberish]]: Angie can somehow understand what Prospero is saying. Nobody knows how.

* [[Super-Hero School]]: Naturally, [[Captain Obvious|the eponymous school]].

* [[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.)

{{quote|'''Zodon:''' I'm going '''{{smallcaps|caroling}}''' ape'''{{smallcaps|beans}}'''!}}

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: The Rainmaker