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* [[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 he's a [[Super Smoke|cloud-boy]] floating next to an alien spaceship.
* [[Badass Normal]]: In contrast to his mainline-Marvel counterpart, in the all-ages series, Franklin Richards has no superpowers (save perhaps for an intellect on par with his dad's and a whole lot of gadgets).
* [[Back From the Dead]]: Happens to Thomas "Toro" Raymond via ''Marvel forgetting he was supposed to be dead'' (this problem used to be surprisingly common for the big two before the internet came along). Apparently the editors realized this and just dropped the plot thread and "Mr. Raymond" is never mentioned when Thomas Raymond is actually brought back from the dead for real.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Julie since her appearance in ''Runaways''.
* [[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.
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* [[Continuity Snarl]]: The ''Shelter From the Storm'' PSA comic was released in 1989, but can't be fit in continuity anywhere from issue 22 (1986) to the end of the series (1992) because {{spoiler|the Power Pack has the wrong powers}}. The trade compilation places it next to issue 17, but this creates a small issue where the group's mom mentions Nintendo games as though Jack had a long obsession with them, but it's placed with comics where the latest came out when the NES had only been released for a few months.
* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Katie
* [[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 fiberoptics, 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.
* [[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|retconned]] 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.
* [[Friends Rent Control]]: The ability for Dr. and Mrs. Power to afford a 3 bedroom New York apartment while feeding and clothing 4 kids as a college professor and artist is hand waved as part of a deal by the college, but their ability to live in a nice beachfront property in Maine at the start is never explained.
** Averted in the reboot where Dr. Power holds a much more prestigious job at a space elevator.
* [[Gender Equal Ensemble]]:
* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: Queen-Mother Maraud of the Snarks.
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* [[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]].
* [[Left Hanging]]: While the Holiday Special does a good job of clearing up all remaining threads, two are left unresolved. Why Mysterio wanted an apartment building and what the deal with the firepowered "Mr. Raymond" was.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: The out-of-normal-continuity stories are unashamedly "all-ages." They're not bad, actually.
* [[Lonely Together]]: In the original series, at one point the kids' mother is badly injured, and their father spends Thanksgiving with her at the hospital. Figuring being lonely together is better than being lonely separately, Katie contacts a number of people the kids have met up to that point (Kitty Pryde and Wolverine, Cloak and Dagger, Leech and Annalee of the Morlocks, even Spider-Man) and invites them to Thanksgiving dinner. Though Spidey never shows up (and [[Continuity Nod|apologizes for it in a later issue]]), everyone else does.
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* [[Sapient Ship]]: The group had a sentient "smartship" called Friday.
* [[Sapient Cetaceans]]: In a particularly [[Anvilicious]] [[Green Aesop]] story, the Powers run into a whole pod of these.
* [[Scooby-Doo Hoax]]: Tried by [[Badass Decay|Mysterio]] to buyout the Power family's apartment. It's implied he has a greater reason behind this, but this thread was just abandoned.
* [[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).
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