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The kids, from oldest to youngest, and their (original) powers are:
 
* Alex—ageAlex — age 12 original version, age 13 all-ages version—whoversion — who could control gravity by touch; he called himself '''Gee'''. Eventually, [[Fail O'Suckyname|deciding this name is stupid in-universe]] he quietly renames himself '''Zero-G''' (or has that name at the start in latter incarnations).
* Julie—ageJulie — age 10 original version, age 12 all-ages version—whoversion — who could fly (leaving a colored trail behind) called herself '''Lightspeed'''
* Jack—ageJack — age 8 original version, age 10 all-ages version—whoversion — who could increase his body's density (thus shrinking down) or decrease it (becoming a living cloud) named himself '''Mass Master'''
* Katie—ageKatie — age 5 original version, age 8 all-ages version—whoversion — who could turn matter into energy, called herself '''Energizer'''
 
They would later find out that they could switch their powers around—or even give them all to a single person—as well.
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Not to be confused with a type of battery, or with the Matrix in the [[Blind Idiot Translation|very poor dub]] of ''[[Transformers Headmasters]]''.
 
 
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* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: The kids argue early on if Smartship Friday is "him" or "her" (according to their own gender).
* [[And Now for Something Completely Different]]: Issue 47 of the original comic is entirely about Katie entering a cartoon bizarro universe straight out of ''[[Little Nemo]]'' and trying to escape. The credits page using TV style credits (For example: Writer Jon Bogdanove is credited as "Script & Cinematography"), events in "Elsewhere" being rendered in landscape instead of portrait (accomplished by turning the book sideways) and comments in the ''Peer Pressure'' miniseries (saying that everyone sees "Elsewhere" differently) all suggest this is supposed to be Katie watching ''way'' too much TV. Katie learns a new power the group's costumes have during this adventure, causing it to be referenced several times.
* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: All over the first few issues. News of a UFO is readily dismissed despite several alien invasions of Earth by that point. Also, perhaps most [[Egregious]], is the fact that at one point Jack dismisses the idea that his newfound ability to understand the Snarks' language must mean Friday built translators into their costumes as "[[This Is Reality|too much like science fiction]]"—while — while he's a [[Super Smoke|cloud-boy]] floating next to an alien spaceship.
** Franklin's guardians have a bad habit of knowing full well that his dreams [[Dreaming of Things to Come|foretell the future]] and ''still'' passing them off as just normal dreams.
* [[Astral Projection]]: In a change from the [[Deus Ex Machina]] Batman <s>Wizard</s> Psion he was normally used as, ''Power Pack'' consistently limited Franklin Richards' power set to this and [[Dreaming of Things to Come]].
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* [[Baseball Episode]]: Nearly an entire issue of the original series takes place at or near Shea Stadium, and a baseball game [[Writing Around Trademarks|the "Mecs" vs. the "Clubs"]]) figures into the plot.
* [[Bequeathed Power]]:
* [[Non Sequitur Episode]]: Issue 34 of the original series. Not only is it never spoken of again, with Katie and Franklin (who feature prominently) wildly [[Out of Character]], [[Canon Discontinuity|it's officially declared non-canon in the letters page of a later issue.]]▼
* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: Alex/Katie, Jack and Julie.
* [[Blue Eyes]]: The Power children.
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* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: Averted by Dragon Man's creator [[Kidnapped Scientist|Professor Gilbert]]. After a cop mentions his robots far exceed those he saw at his recent Disneyland vacation, Gilbert quits his professorship and gets a happy job at Disney.
** Played straight in one late issue has Mysterio try to buy the apartment building the family lives in while getting them to leave via [[Scooby-Doo Hoax]]. This scheme requires not only expensive fiber optics, but also the money to buy an entire building of classy 3 bedroom apartments in New York in the first place. There's an implication there's something special about this building in particular, but this plot thread was never resolved.
* [[Early Teen Hero]]: Alex in both versions, and Julie in the all-ages version.
* [[Exclusively Evil]] and [[Always Lawful Good]]: The Snarks and Kymellians are shown this way at first. It's eventually revealed most Snarks stick to their own planet and don't try to raid other planets for weapons to use in local power struggles, while the kids learn Whitemane was the last Kymellian to actually uphold the virtues the species was supposedly about.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Even though ''Power Pack'' always took itself seriously and wasn't afraid to portray its young heroes realistically and even put them in violent danger, apparently this wasn't enough for some people. At one point, the comic took an angsty turn and started shoving [[Body Horror]] and [[Nightmare Fuel]] all over the place, which was ultimately [[retcon]]ned out of existence by the original creators in a "holiday special", which returned the stories to the "not too dark, not too light" mood it originally had.
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* [[Never My Fault]]: Carmody refuses to accept any responsibility for the converter not being ready and nearly blowing up the planet, instead blaming the Pack and carrying out a vendetta against them that is implied to have destroyed his career and even his marriage.
* [[Never Wake Up a Sleepwalker]]: Invoked. The children bring Franklin back to Avengers Mansion after witnessing the Morlock Massacre. When the adults find out about this, Franklin claims he was sleepwalking, and the other children say that they didn't wake him because it would be dangerous.
▲* [[Non Sequitur Episode]]: Issue 34 of the original series. Not only is it never spoken of again, with Katie and Franklin (who feature prominently) wildly [[Out of Character]], [[Canon Discontinuity|it's officially declared non-canon in the letters page of a later issue.]]
* [[One Person, One Power]]: Played straight for the whole main series, with the kids getting one power each. However, it turns out that someone could easily [[All Your Powers Combined|hold all four at once]], just like Whitemane did.
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted. Professor (James) Power exists in the same universe as Professor (Anthony) Power, though they've never met.
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** As well as another with Cloak and Dagger centering on runaways.
* [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World]]
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: The original series leaves open the question if smartships are truly alive and, being made to serve tilluntil death, should really be mourned.
** In the reboot, in a reference to her problem with the [[Inverse Law of Sharpness and Accuracy]], Katie hates robots. This means not only is it acceptable for her to destroy them, she jumps at the chance to.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Whitemane's entire race gets this when the Power Pack discovers what was done to their parents, in addition to discovering certain... glaring moral deficiencies in their society.
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