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* [[Kid Hero]]: The whole premise, played mostly realistically.
* [[Klingons Love Shakespeare]]: Whitey's fondness for Lewis Carroll.
* [[Last of His Kind]]: Friday is the first Smartship to be upgraded to the latest, newest smartship technology a few issues before the facilities to make smartships are destroyed and their creators swear off technology. Presumably Friday isn't ''the'' last of Smartships in general (though part of the few remaining) as they are faster than light capable and their creators survived their last planet's destruction by being away when it happened.
* [[Learnt English From Watching Television]]: The all-ages version has Whitemane learning English this way. It helps that he gets to be [[Klingons Love Shakespeare|something of a movie buff]].
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: The out-of-normal-continuity stories are unashamedly "all-ages." They're not bad, actually.
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* [[Magic Pants]]: The costumes are made of "unstable molecules" (or "[[Mythology Gag|pseudoplasm]]" in the all-ages comics), which allows for [[Powers as Programs|whoever has the density power at the moment]] to not have to worry about losing their clothes when they enter cloud form... as long as they are actually wearing the costume and not normal clothes as Julie forgets before winding up naked in the Avenger's mansion.
** [[My Suit Is Also Super]]: Functionally bottomless pockets, can (apparently) self-repair when switched off and back on, connected to a, um, pocket dimension...
** Issue 47 shows the group wears underwear under their outfit. Given we don't see this when they are given them, apparently the costume's powers somehow extend to the underwear beneath it.
* [[Morality Pet]]: Katie is this to, of all people, [[Wolverine]].
** This is par for the course for Wolverine, though.
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* [[Mother Nature, Father Science]]
* [[Mundane Utility]]: As with many less known heroes, the Powers demonstrate their abilities at the start of most issues. Most of the time this means an issue has a [[Cold Open]] or, more commonly, starts with the siblings doing things around the house with their powers. The most common is using the mass to energy power to dispose of trash.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Everywhere in the rebooted series, both for the Power Pack itself (their costumes are made of pseudoplasm, a substance introduced in the final issue of the original series) and those they team up with (Wolverine goes to, [[Your Costume Needs Work|and loses]], a costume contest where ''everyone'' is dressed as a different version of Wolverine. Tony Stark opens a museum exhibit on Iron Man.).
* [[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.
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* [[She's All Grown Up]]: In the ''Avengers'' crossover mini-series with the future story, future Katie has traded her cuteness for smoking [[Hot Amazon]].
** Gone through and out the other side when a ''much'' older Katie is encountered in the ''Days of Future Past'' future, where she's a plump little white-haired lady (and the last survivor of the Pack, with all four powers).
* [[Shout-Out]]: The Snarks are so named by Whitey (or Julie in the reboot) after the [[Lewis Carroll]] poem "[[The Hunting of the Snark]]" because their actual racial name, "Z'nrx", is
* [[Sibling Team]]
** [[Bash Brothers]]
* [[Sixth Ranger]]: Franklin, and later Kofi.
* [[Super Family Team]]
* [[Technology Marches On]]: The reboot gives the kids cell phones which would stop a number of plots from the original series cold.
* [[Temporal Paradox]]: Happens in the new all-ages series, specifically in ''Avengers & Power Pack Assemble'' #4. {{spoiler|The Pack are thrown 10 years into the future by Kang the Conqueror who goes on to defeat The Avengers and other heroes and conquer the world. The Pack meanwhile encounter none other than their future selves 10 years older.}}
* [[Touched by Vorlons]]: An alien gives the kids their special powers in the first issue.
* [[Translator Microbes]]: The kid's costumes are capable of translating at least the language spoken by the Kymellians and Snarks. These are apparently ''not'' [[Universal Translator]]s, being incapable of translating Japanese in both continuities.
* [[Trial Balloon Question]]: Seeking assurance from her mother, Julie (who has super-speed and flight [[Powers as Programs|at the time]]) is told she would still be loved "even if you grew wings and flew". This avoids suspicion because she asks it while the two view a news report on super powered children.
* [[Vague Age]]: While the group has official ages, the plots would often ignore them as needed. Jack, Katie and eventually Franklin could act anywhere from just above toddler to near puberty while Julie and Alex could be anywhere south of 18. Once the original series was over and [[Comic Book Time]] got even weirder from their lack of an ongoing this came into full effect.
* [[Very Special Episode]]: The Pack starred in one special anti-child-abuse comic book.
** As well as another with Cloak and Dagger centering on runaways.
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