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An unofficial fan webcomic by Page Branson wherein [[Stephen Colbert]], [[The Daily Show|Jon Stewart]], and many other 'fake news' corespondents [[Superpower Lottery|receive superpowers]], receive a magical [[MacGuffin]], or just happened to have had superpowers all along and they've just come in handy today, because today's the day that Dick Cheney reveals himself as an [[Evil Overlord|Evil Alien Overlord]] bent on destroying our planet, stealing Stephen's magical [[MacGuffin]], and drinking the blood of pandas. Our heroes fight their way through monsters, possessed comrades, [[Evil Twin]]s and mountains of tropes on various [[Fetch Quest]]s and rescue missions.

 

 

See also: [[The Colbert Report]] and [[The Daily Show]]

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* [[Alternate Universe]]: All the villains so far came from one, as well did Tek Jansen. To make things better, each universe contains some version of of Stephen and Jon.

* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]]: Tek Jansen.

* [[Art Evolution]]: The waiting periods between updates provides time for this.

* [[Celebrity Power]]: What the comic runs on. Everyone in conjunction with [[The Daily Show]] or [[The Colbert Report]] has superpowers, or something that gives them superpowers.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: [[Genre Savvy|Just tell me this line isn't going to be relevant later]]:

* [[Chromatic Arrangement]]: Played with, since Stephen is red, Jon is blue and Steve is green, even though Jon seems to be [[The Hero|the protagonist]], Steve acts like [[The Smart Guy]] and Stephen... Well, Colbert seems to be [[The Lancer]] if anything. He wishes he was [[The Hero]], though.

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Almost everyone, especially the bad guys.

* [[Flash Step]]: Stephanos and Anderson Cooper can both do this, and John Oliver can as well when he can get his time travelling screwdriver to work.

* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Anyone possessed by Cheney.

* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20141227145428/http://www.star-crossedcomic.com/fnr/fnr_7_8.html Jon says this almost verbatim to] {{spoiler|Stephen.}}

* [[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...|If You Ever Do Anything To Hurt Him]]: A [http://www.star-crossedcomic.com/fnr/fnr_11_35.html frankly scary one] from Jon to {{spoiler|Stephanos and Yonatan}} regarding Stephen’s trust to ensure that {{spoiler|their [[Heel Face Turn]] ''stays'' turned}}.

* [[Insult Backfire]]: Stephanos ''enjoys'' being evil.

* [[One-Winged Angel]]: [[Evil Twin|Stephanos]] gives the speech almost verbatim [http://www.star-crossedcomic.com/fnr/fnr_7_19.html here]

* [[Our Presidents Are Different]]: Bush is a classic President Buffoon as shown at the begining of the story.

* [[Power Gives You Wings]]: Kinda-sorta [https://web.archive.org/web/20100401053301/http://www.star-crossedcomic.com/fnr/fnr_1_26.html here] when Stepehen gets his [[Blade on a Stick|spear.]]

* [[Sand in My Eyes]]: “And for the record, there’s dust in my eyes. Manly dust.” ([http://www.star-crossedcomic.com/fnr/fnr_11_31.html Spoilers])

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: Steve seems to have enough money to do this to the laws of physics via some sort of wealth-related magic.

{{quote|{{spoiler|Riggle: I mean, who needs all those silly rules about time and paradoxes when apparently you can simply choose to ignore them?}}

{{spoiler|Colbert: That is a frighteningly good point.}} }}

** [https://web.archive.org/web/20100309205531/http://www.star-crossedcomic.com/fnr/fnr_2_7.html The thing behind the gate] {{spoiler|A.k.a. Steve Carell}} looks like the prison for the [[Naruto|nine-tailed fox]].

* [[Speak of the Devil]]: [http://www.star-crossedcomic.com/fnr/fnr_11_25.html Tek Jansen really should have known better.]

* {{spoiler|[[Taking the Bullet]]}}: {{spoiler|Yonatan does this for Stephanos, although it's [[Dissimile|less of a bullet and more tentacle-claw things]]}}.

* [[Technicolor Eyes]]: Everyone. No, seriously, just about everyone with any sort of super powers has this in order to showcase their powers and alignments due to the [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|color coding]] that will match their similarly colored [[Battle Aura|battle auras.]] The only exceptions are the characters who get their powers from items, and even then some of said characters still have it.

 

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