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The kids, from oldest to youngest, and their (original) powers are:
* Alex -- age 12 original version, age 13 all-ages version -- 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 -- age 10 original version, age 12 all-ages version -- who could fly (leaving a colored trail behind) called herself '''Lightspeed'''
* Jack -- age 8 original version, age 10 all-ages version -- who could increase his body's density (thus shrinking down) or decrease it (becoming a living cloud) named himself '''Mass Master'''
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* [[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 & Cnematography"), 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 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.
* [[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).▼
* [[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]].
▲* [[Badass Normal]]:
* [[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''.
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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 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.
* [[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|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.
* [[Fail O'Suckyname]]: Alex drops the Gee moniker upon realizing how stupid it sounds and becomes Zero-G instead when he gets his powers back years latter. Julie says she would rather have used "Starstreak" over "Lightspeed" when got her initial powers, though unlike Alex she keeps her original name when getting her powers back.
* [[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 for the
** Averted in the reboot where Dr. Power holds a much more prestigious job at a space elevator and their mom is prominent enough to be featured in a New York art gallery.
* [[Gender Equal Ensemble]]:
* [[Growing With the Audience]]: Starting with Snark Wars the series gets progressively darker, fleshing out both of its alien species from their [[Black and White Morality|exclusively good and evil nature]] and [[Planet of Hats|simple one sentence cultures]], forcing the kids to confront problems they can't solve just by beating them up and witness New York being turned into <s>hell</s> "limbo".
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