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There was a failed [[Pilot]] for television series version, but it was never aired in the US, though it did appear on overseas channels and has circulated as a bootleg among fans for years. As of now, Marvel's new owner, [[Walt Disney Pictures]], is wondering if this kid team would be an obvious property to develop for a film.

 

 

Not to be confused with a type of battery, or with the Matrix in the [[Blind Idiot Translation|very poor dub]] of ''[[Transformers Headmasters]]''.

* [[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.

** [[My Suit Is Also Super]]: Functionally bottomless pockets, can (apparently) self-repair when switched off and back on, connected to a, um, pocket dimension...

* [[Morality Pet]]: Katie is this to, of all people, [[Wolverine]].

* [[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.

* [[Parental Obliviousness]]: At one point late in the story, enforced by mental blocks.

* [[Puberty Superpower]]: Averted; the oldest of them was 12.

* [[Redheaded Hero]]: Julie

* [[Super Family Team]]:

* [[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.}}

* [[Translator Microbes]]: It's implied that the kids' costumes have universal translators built in.

* [[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.

* [[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.

** Among other things, this includes Kofi's uncle essentially tricking the Power Pack--who are a bunch of primary-school children--into fighting against fully-trained adults in a gladiatorial arena without any form of defined limits or even actual ''consent''.