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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 &
* [[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.
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* [[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
* [[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.
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** 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
* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: Queen-Mother Maraud of the Snarks.
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Alex and Katie
* [[How Do I Shot Web?]]: Power swaps allow this to be reused throughout the series. Alex's slower mastery of his current power is often a source of personal frustration for him. According to the Kymellians the kids have learned to shoot web faster and more creatively in a
* [[Improbable Age]]: While the characters are definitely childlike and think and act like actual children most of the time (a rarity in [[Kid Hero]] stories), they sometimes do things that are, at least, several years older than their age. Such as 5-year-old Katie's belief at one time that because she seriously hurt someone else, she didn't deserve to live (or something almost as dramatic).
* [[Instant Costume Change]]: The kids' costumes are stored in the alternate dimension of "Elsewhere"; saying "Costume on/off" instantly switches them with street clothes. (Conveniently, Elsewhere also cleans and repairs them.)
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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
* [[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.
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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]]
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