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{{quote| ''Whatever you would make of it, a new era was beginning, and whether you want to participate in it or not, that will not stop it from coming. For the Misfits are about to emerge from their collective cocoons... As the greatest of all heroes to ever live...'}}
'''''[http://misfittechstudios.netii.net/Misfits The Misfits]''''' is a [[Fan Fiction]] story by Jack Walker, also known as ''Lord Misfit'' in certain circles. It is a [[Mega Crossover]], combining elements from [[Real Life]] circa 2001 and beyond, ''[[
The story of The Misfits begins on August 29, 2001, in Shibuya-ku (ward) of Tokyo, Japan, where eight high-school students are on an all-expenses-paid vacation to Japan because their friend [[Self Insert|Clint Walker]] won an art contest sponsored by [[Toonami]], allowing him to take seven of his friends with him. All but one of them are socially miffed goofballs. For example, one of them is a former [[Throwing Off the Disability|Cerebral Palsy]] patient, cured through magical means, and has a large ego. Although the eight find some fun and adventure in the land of the rising sun, their lives (as well as the fate of the entire world) soon change when their presence causes a barrage of strange portals to open up around the world, dumping them temporarily into various places thought to be fictional, including the worlds of [[
Upon being forcibly returned to their own world, the eight original "Misfits" learn the people and characters they met came back with them, in what is first believed to be just the [[Real Life|Real World]]; however, it is soon learned that the previous events have merged the real world with the above-mentioned universes in some form or another, and the rules have been rewritten. Naturally, this opens the doors to the original eight characters getting the potential to start their own versions of [[My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours]], among other things.
Of course, the events of the merger have their [[Cursed
The current version of ''The Misfits'' contains 11 and a half parts, spanning three sagas, and is nearly 300,000 words long. The story contains elements of comedy, mixed with a healthy dose of serious action and drama.
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=== This work contains examples of: ===
* [[Acrofatic]]:
** Mr. Buu retains his pudgy/fat build from the ''[[
** Devin and Virgil are also examples of this trope, although Virgil is far less skilled at learning things and shows more of the "unexercised fat person" part, whereas Devin is particularly clever and sometimes [[Genre Savvy]] to a scary degree, not letting his weight discourage him (and, in fact, he working to lose some of his weight).
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Most notably done with some of the ''Dragonball'' elements in the story.
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** Teresa showed up in Part 6 as a minor character, but ends up playing a critical role in defeating Oyatsu!Dan.
** A segment in Part 11 indicates that Mr. (Christopher) Bergert, an art teacher previously seen only in Part 6, will have more appearances and might even become a more major character.
* [[As Long
* [[Badass]]: Nina in Part 6: She dashes in from off-screen and GUTS an Al-Quaida operative who had downed and was trying to kill Paula, Dan, and Devin. Nina even takes the full brunt of a suicide-vest bomb from the dying operative at ''point blank range'' and only gets a couple of bruises and [[Incredibly Lame Pun|a few ruffled feathers]].<br /><br />A few scenes later, she nearly kills [[Jerkass|Jackson McCarakins]] by smashing him against the wall and nearly strangulating him, as she yells in his face about the crap she had to endure in her life, and that, compared to her, he's gone through nothing. Luckily for him, Paula stops Nina from going too far, and she releases Jackson to run away in terror.
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Oyatsu!Dan appears the morning after Dan's possession wearing a shiny longcoat.
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* [[Berserk Button]]:
** Vernon does not like being called worthless. When #17 calls him that, Vernon gains his Super Saiya-jin form.
** Nina does not appreciate those who insult the victims of the [[The War
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Nina is usually nice and modest, but becomes extremely violent if her temper is triggered.
* [[Big Bad]]: The mysterious (and still unnamed) daemonlord from [[Hell]] seen in the prologue.
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* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Goku, the same as in ''Dragonball''.
* [[Curse]]: In Part 10, Oyatsu!Dan creates a temporary curse known as the "Durty Durt Dur Curse", based off of one of Jason and Alex's joking prods at people in high school. The curse's effects are that any person that hears or speaks the words "Durty Durt Dur" during the duration of the curse are locked out of any Super Saiya-jin related forms they might have for 12 hours. If any Saiya-jin attains the original Super Saiya-jin transformation for the first time ''after'' the curse is invoked, they will be exempt from the effects of the curse.
* [[Cursed
** Nina. Not only does she possess a pair of large, bird-like wings, but she's also very tall (6 ft, 6 in, or 200 cm) compared to most women ''and'' men in the [[Real Life]] version of Earth. This causes most normal people to see her as a mutant freak (although she is actually not human).
** The "merger of worlds": Even though the merger rewrites certain rules of physics that make the normal Real World boring, it also introduces the possibility of serious, world-destroying threats.
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** Teresa's "Spirit Body" ability allows her to summon [[Ki Attacks|ki-created]] [[Hard Light]] duplicates of herself, although the duplicates are slightly less powerful than her. These duplicates can appear as mere ki spirits (like the original Kamikaze Ghost Attack in the Buu Saga) or appear humanoid (although they have no innards, as shown in Part 10 when Oyatsu!Dan guts an energy clone). Once finished, the spirits return to energy form and Teresa re-absorbs them back into herself. A side effect of this is that right after she re-absorbs them, she receives a boost to her powerlevel.
* [[Emergency Energy Tank]]: Sensu Beans from ''Dragonball'' carry over into the story, and Radditz even tries to grow a sensu ''plant'' with a bean he had received. So far he has only had minimal success.
* [[The Force Is Strong
** However, Nina and Buu can additionally sense a character's ''magic'' energy level.
** Paula can also sense a person's ''psychic'' energy level as well.
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** She actually uses it on Clint in Part 1 when they first meet [while the portals are throwing the original characters around], literally '''throwing it at him''' and smacking him dead in the face for a one-hit KO. This was because people were panicking to her that Clint seemed to be a possible threat to them due to how he suddenly appears resembling how aliens from [[Earthbound]] appeared out of thin air. She apologizes to him later when everyone returns to Tokyo and he recovers, but Clint is still for a while left secretly afraid of her doing it to him again.
*** Unfortunately for Clint and Jason, Paula has to smack them over the heads as punishment for a prank they played on Alex, Vernon and Devin in early Part 5, leaving a voice-changing serum in their soft drinks, giving the latter three the voices of chipmunks for roughly an hour. Again she apologized to Clint and later Jason off-screen, but warned them not to get caught up in such stupid pranks anymore unless they have a damn good reason for it.
* [[Functional Magic]]: Nina is touted off as being the main "magic" user in the story thus far. She has an array of magic spells, but most of them are attack-based and elemental, while a couple are healing (Renew X used in Part 12 to bring back Clint and Devin to consciousness after a heated battle) her "Hokaku" spell, allowing her to temporarily shrink down people to minimize their [[Power Level|PowerLevels]] or to put the fear of God into them. Then most recently is her "Gravity Wave", which allows Nina to set a gravity-aura in the vein of [[
** Additionally, In Part 9 Radditz learns a half-magic, half-[[Ki Attacks|ki]] ability called the Atomic Ray, which is a powerful blast which also has a honest-to-god Fire-elemental attribute [in Misfits, Ki Attacks on their own are considered Non-Elemental and tear enemies apart on a kill instead of burning them up].
** Also in Part 9, Vernon learns a pure magic ability called the [[Super Mario RPG
* [[Gang-Bangers]]: Introduced in Part 11 are Rowan, Harry and Morgan, three members representing [[Real Life|the Crips]]. A member of the Bloods is named [Jose] as well by Rowan. It turns out Oyatsu visited with Rowan long back at the beginning of the merger [between Part 2 and Part 3's timeframe] and revealed the implications of the merger and all the changes to the rules of physics and whatnot it brought. Due to this, Rowan reveals he can both use [[Ki Attacks|ki]] ''and'' [[Functional Magic|some magic]], thanks to a strange jade-gemmed ring that seems to grant him limited control of wind-elemental magic. Also, Part 11 reveals that the Crips are using various abandoned houses in Clint's original neighborhood, including his first house, to store away supplies and other things to assist them in what might be an incoming gang war. Items found in Clint's house include some money in a small metal case, the aforementioned jade ring Rowan obsessed over, and several bottles of a strange drug later identified by Vegeta in Part 12 as "Destronic Powder", a powder which can be converted into gas or vapor that can cut off most beings' access to ki-usage and cause their powerlevels to become erratic. Vegeta assumes this drug is meant to be used with the wind-elemental magic Rowan used to spread chaos in some form, but how it would be used is not yet known.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Clint, Alex, Jason, Vernon, Devin, Dusty and Dan have in their original version of the [[Real Life|Real World]] watched the Dragonball series on multiple occasions, with Clint and Alex [and sometimes Devin] vying for who knows the absolute most on the subject. Due to this, they tend to know what will come when the Z-characters do specific things in front of them. In one example, Devin lampshades the annoyance of various characters getting into a "constipated"-looking stance when powering up or transforming [much like when Virgil first tries to use his ki to fly in Part 8].
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* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Radditz, a minor villain in the first saga of [[Dragonball Z]] [Goku's evil older brother], has chosen the path of redemption after 20 years of being dead and watching his brother and Vegeta pave a path to the future for the remaining Saiya-jin. Thanks to Nina's trip through the strange portals in Part 1 of the story, he is taken back to the living world by fluke of nature [or was it...?] and resurrected for free, giving him a chance to redeem himself for his mistakes. Thanks to Goku and even Vegeta, they give him that second chance. Ever since then, Radditz geniunely tries his best to help his brother and former prince train their new students/friends, and even gets a part-time job at a McDonalds in Canton Townshop in order to try to raise money to support their train efforts. Among other efforts is training Dan and then Teresa to be better fighters and also trying to plant a Sensu ''plant'' to stem off the problem of limited sensu beans, although the plan's been stagnated to a degree.
* [[Helium Speech]]: Although it can't be directly heard due to being in story form, Part 5 has Jason and Clint playing a practical joke on Alex [which then spreads to Devin and Vernon as well], where Jason develops [somehow] a "voice serum" which 'chipmunkifies' the voice of a person for 30 minutes to an hour, and slip it into some of their drinks. Cue Alex and Vernon having a half-verbal spat with their voices slowly increasing in pitch, and then Devin screaming "What the fuck?!" in a chipmunk voice. The chipmunkified voices also get Vegeta to almost bust a gut in laughter at them, something that doesn't happen too often for Vegeta [or so he probably wants us to think].
* [[Hell]]: In the prologue, Part 1 and Part 4 thus far, parts of Hell [or a dimension at least like it] are seen, varying from the 'center' of Hell [based off The Divine Comedy's interpretation of Hell], a random area with pools or lakes of blood, ala [[
** Additionally, it is implied by the daemonlord in the prologue and Part 4 that Hell was a prison dimension set up not for ''[[Satan]]'', but the daemonlord himself, by an unknown brother of the daemonlord, and that he is equalivical to a [[Sealed Evil in
* [[High School]]: 7 of the original 8 Misfits are high-school age, and actively attended their High School, a place called "Canton South High School", before the events of the story start. Nina is the only original Misfit who's not high-school aged [a bit older than such], but she still hangs around with them as a impromptu teacher's assistant to keep an eye on her friends.
** Part 6 is in fact a combination of a [[The War
** Clint also shows to be friendly with a good number of teachers, and even the principal of the school, having been the only to tell the principal and two of his own guidance counselors about the events since August 29 and how it's affected at least his own life, and that things will be hectic for them for a while.
*** On an additional note, Part 11 has Clint accidentally bumping into his art teacher, Mr. (Christopher) Bergert, at a video store he would visit when he still lived in the main city of Canton. After a small conversation, Mr. Bergert tells Clint they'll probably meet up again in a couple of week from them, to Clint's delayed confusion, leading to the possibility Mr. Bergert might become an [[Ascended Extra]] or so.
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**** In fact, when Oyatsu attacks Clint, Devin, Dusty, [[Dwayne Johnson|Dwayne]] and [[Stone Cold Steve Austin|Steve]], Clint realizes the nature of the gun this way and tries to reflect the shrinking beam with a broken piece of mirror [the Duke Nukem 3D gun's shots will reflect off mirrors], unfortunately, Oyatsu is [[Crazy Prepared]] and his overcoat is made of a reflective material which re-reflects the shot back and shrinks Clint anyways. Bleh.
* [[Invisibility Cloak]]: In Part 10, Oyatsu!Dan learns of an ability buried in Dan's subconscious potential known as ''Sculptor Curtain'' that when used, heals him for about 30% of his [[Hit Points|HP]] and renders him invisible to both sight and normal ki-sensory [although Nina proves to him magic-sensory isn't masked during a later battle and gets him by surprise]. This ability allows him to get the drop of the majority of his enemies, except for Mr. Buu and as mentioned, Nina, both of whom can sense magic powerlevels and energy.
* [[Jerkass]]: Jackson McCarakins, nicknamed "Jackass" by most of the Original Misfits, is pretty much a neutral variant of this. Whether he's just a jerk or really more evil is unknown, but he has done many things that put him on this list. He was once Alex's good friend when both were children, but when Alex's Cerebral Palsy [which he was magically cured of a couple of months before the story started] reared it's head, Jackson turned on him and started making him out as a disabled freak, much to Alex's anger, also getting Vernon and Devin turned against Jackson as well. Later on, when Nina appearantly started going to the original characters' high school, Jackson targeted her for her wings, which by normal [[Real Life]] standards would label her a type of mutant [even though she's not even human to begin with], and she is frequently given trouble for it. Later, Nina is revealed to have healed Alex of his Cerebal Palsy by using her magic to cure various synaptics in his brain. When Alex flaunts the sudden change in Jackson's face, it increases the jerk's anger at both of them, Alex specifically because Jackson believed once you're deemed useless, you remain useless always and can never bounce back, and Nina because her healing of Alex destroyed a significant part of Jackson's credibility with his yesmen and mooks and made some of them defect from him. Even after Nina nearly comes to killing him out of rage for his disregard of the [[The War
* [[Ki Attacks]]: Duh, duh, and Ultra-Duh.
** However, [[Functional Magic|Magic]] exists as a separate form of power from Ki, used mainly by Nina and Buu, although Vernon and Radditz also prove to have at least one magically-powered attack later in Parts 8 and 9.
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**** In fact, Part 9 establishes that Ki, Magic and PK all have their own separate [[Power Levels]] from one another, and that in a theoretical battle, Nina can one-shot Goku with a well placed magic attack if she sneaks up on him since his "magicpowerlevel" is very low compared to Nina's, but that Goku could also one-shot Nina with most of his stronger ki attacks at that point if he's not holding back.
* [[Kiai]]
* [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]: Main example: In the original [[Real Life|Real World]] pre-merger, [[
** Additionally in Part 12, Vegeta, using a computer given to him and Goku by Vernon as a welcoming present, he discovers of the [[Dragon Ball GT]] franchise, which is considered non-canon to the original characters, and it completely baffles Vegeta, since none of the events depicted in GT have even started happening to them yet, but it does raise alarm bells about some things [the possiblity that the "Black Star Dragonballs" exist, the possiblity of the original Dragonballs overloading on evil energy from the wishes, and especially of the Super Saiya-jin 4 transformation, which has not been attained officially by any of the actual characters yet]. With the knowledge of a possible future in his mind, Vegeta of all people doesn't want to take too many risks, and even more so believes the Super Saiya-jin 4 level is still possible despite thinking like most [[Real Life|Real World]] fans of the series that most of GT is crap and not to be taken seriously.
** In Part 11, it's also discovered that at least Clint seems to recognize both Nina and Paula as each having thought to have been just 'video-game characters', and accidentally blurts something in Paula's earshot that makes her eventually force him to tell her about the existance of the [[Earthbound]] video game, and of the events it depicts. Paula is at the least a bit surprised.
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* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: In Part 12, it's suggested that the merger has combined hundreds of not '''thousands''' of universes into a single mega-universe, so the chances of seeing more popular characters from other mediums is basically all but guaranteed if the story continues anytime soon.
* [[Master Apprentice Chain]]: Goku/Vegeta/Piccolo/#17/Mr. Buu > Alex/Jason/Vernon, Radditz > Dan/Teresa, Nina ? Paula [goes either way depending on the situation].
* [[Mega Crossover]]: [[Real Life]] mixed with [[
** There also seems to be suggestions in Part 12 that the merger has likely merged hundreds of not '''thousands''' of various realities and mediums into the same mega-universe, meaning it's likely the crossover-ness has yet to really begin.
* [[My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours]]: Oh dear god, the cycle will continue as long as [[
* [[Nakama]]: Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, #17, Mr. Buu tend to quite often team up to help Alex, Jason and Vernon learn, being some of the strongest members of the newer Misfits so far.
* [[New Job Episode]]: In Part 9, Radditz find a job at a McDonalds not to far away from his current training spot in order to try and raise some money to support the team and their training efforts. It leads to a scene at the end of the part where the rest of the Misfits so far visit Radditz at the McDonalds on his first day, with a few humorous antics. This is placed under this trope name right now since it's unknown if Radditz will end up keeping his job, or discarding it at a latter time due to circumstances.
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** Clint, Alex, Jason, Devin, Vernon, Dusty, Dan and Virgil are the [[Self Insert|Self Inserts]], with Clint being somewhat of an [[Author Avatar]]. However all of these characters have faults and are far from [[Gary Stu|Gary Stus]] [at least at the moment]. In fact, some of them tend to get themselves in over their head in spars and fights at this point, needing to be bailed out by the veteran non-OC characters.
** Teresa, Rowan, Harry, Morgan and Oyatsu/Ryokucha however are fully Original Characters with no real-life people of basis aside from some archtypes [Rowan, Harry and Morgan are based off types of gang members, Oyatsu is a scheming shapeshifter type, and Teresa is a good-hearted delivery-woman who just wants to help others out and joins the Misfits becauses of it].
* [[Power Floats]]: Like in [[
* [[Power Levels]]: Revived extensively in the story compared to DBZ, where Power Levels dropped off the map after the Frieza saga. This is also expanded on by having ''multiple'' types of powerlevels, one for ki, another for Magic, another for PK/PSI, and a '''fourth''' and unknown type that hasn't been indentified yet. See [[Ki Attacks]] above for more information.
** Also, scouters make a return, first in the form of a scouter Radditz brought back to life with him, and later in the form of the upgraded "OverClocked Scouters", which allow powerlevels of even Super Saiya-jin 3 Goku or a "Kaioken x21" Goku to be accurately scanned [well, depending on the colored-lens and model anyways], and also ''do not'' explode like the ones on the original show.
* [[Practical Joke]]: Part 5 is devoted to these. First off is Jason and Clint's "voice serum" joke, which ends up giving Alex, Devin and Vernon a [[Helium Speech]] moment. Unfortunately for them, Paula is able to sense their location via ki sensory, and punished them via her [[Frying Pan of Doom]] for it. Later on in Part 5, it's revealed, Virgil [in his storyline debut] called Alex, Vernon, Devin, Radditz, Steve, Dwayne and Paula through phone-call and impersonated various random individuals, an ACME businessman, an ogre from HFIL, a WWE fan, and finally a newspaper reporter. Virgil is found by them and gets a decent beatdown from everyone with the exceptions of Vernon [who secretly admires Virgil's bravery and would rather kick the crap out of Alex instead of him anyday], and Paula [who actually telekeneticly places Virgil back on his couch at home and gives him half of a sensu bean, but warning him not to pull such a trick again.
** Dan mentally references a past joke of his in Part 6, remincising on a prank where he put a loaded water-balloon Alex's wheelchair just as Alex is sitting in it, getting pants soaked. Note, this was the previous year before Alex was healed of his Cerebal Palsy when this happened.
* [[Professional Wrestling]]: [[Dwayne Johnson|Dwayne]] and [[Stone Cold Steve Austin|Steve]] [aka "The Rock" and "Stone Cold Steve Austin" of WWE fame] appear as more main characters in Part 1, meeting Dusty when he's grabbed by the strange portals. The story tends to reference the two in their real-life personas for the most part, in which the two wrestlers are actually best friends, although Part 12 has an actual wrestling event in their honor which shows off some various Wrestling-related bravado on their part, and introduces the real-life counterparts of many other wrestlers. They too are techincally [[Real Life]] characters, but like the rest of the [[Real Life]]-based cast, learn most of the same [[
** Also, there's the fact most of the original characters are big-time wrestling fans, although Dusty and Dan are by far two of the biggest fans of the original eight starter characters, to the point Dusty is even seen training with [[Stone Cold Steve Austin|Steve]] and [[Dwayne Johnson|Dwayne]] often.
** Also of course, there's the Gund Arena event in Part 12, which also introduces the main characters to many other wrestlers and even [[Vince McMahon]] himself.
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** Hell, the trope name is a near-direct reference to the story's '''title'''.
* [[Readings Are Off the Scale]]: Done once with Radditz's original scouter in Part 10 when Oyatsu!Dan powers up intentionally to overload it. Averted later in the above explaination under [[Power Levels]] with the OverClocked Scouters.
* [[Reincarnation]]: So far averted, as Uub [the reincarnation of Majin Buu at the end of DBZ] was suggested to have never appeared according to Goku's exposition of his life to Paula in Part 12. It's unknown if Uub's appearance is just delayed or another example of [[Fanon Discontinuity]] between the events of the original [[
* [[Real Life]] / [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: So far the majority of the story has taken place in the town of Canton, Ohio in the United States. [This is Clint, Alex, Jason, Vernon, Devin, Dusty and Dan's hometown, which is probably the main reason]. Many locations in Canton have been touched upon, including the homes of most of the native characters, and even all three of Clint's houses [the first which is now abandoned and used as a storage place for gangs, the second house which Paula has ironically moved into, and then his current house in the area called Fohl Village]. Also shown is Nina's house, Dan's house, Alex's house [who also has a house next door that Goku and Vegeta have rented out, owned by Alex's Dad], Vernon's house as well is shown.
** Additionally, the Prologue puts the orginal eight starter characters on a plane bound from California which arrives in Tokyo, Japan [Shibuya-ku ward] which becomes the backdrop for Parts 1 and 2. The Shibuya-ku areas are not 100% accurate to the real life location, but the 4-way scramble crossing called the Shibuya Crossing is featured at the beginning of Part 1.
** Only during the trips through the mysterious portals so far have characters ended up in ''non''-Real Life locations, like the [[
** Most importantly to the current revision of the story in terms of real life and it's events, Part 6 of the story is centered around [[The War
* [[Ring of Power]]: Nina's "physical" weapon is one of these, called the "Immortal Ring" [according to the on-site bios]. These types of rings are her original type of weapon in [[Breath of Fire|Breath of Fire 2]] and work by shooting a magic blast similar to a small-medium sized [[Ki Attacks|Ki Blast]] at the enemy. She uses it once in Part 10 to catch an otherwise cloaked Oyatsu!Dan by total surprise, as Nina could still feel Oyatsu!Dan's ''magic[[Power Level]]'' and he was unaware until then of that shortcoming. Unfortunately it doesn't alone help her escape Oyatsu's trap and only Teresa and #18's intervention save Nina from an ultimate fate a few scenes later.
* [[Satan]]: The daemonlord seen in both the Prologue and Part 4 is compared as a creature ''higher'' than Satan, and that the original fallen-angel probably does exist in some form, somewhere. Whether we'll ever see Satan, or if the main characters ever meet him is completely unknown at this point.
* [[Self Insert]]: In total so far, Clint, Alex, Jason, Vernon, Devin, Dusty, Dan, Virgil, [[Dwayne Johnson|Dwayne]], [[Stone Cold Steve Austin|Steve]] all the teachers and most of the NPC students at Canton South High School and Ted ElFaye are based on real-life versions of themselves, with Clint being additionally a type of [[Author Avatar]], albiet one without [[Gary Stu]] qualities. In fact, none of the Self Inserts so far are of any kind of Gary Stu level, each of them having faults and in some characters' cases, rough childhoods or pasts, especially characters like Alex with his former Cerebal Palsy.
* [[Stat
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Sinister Silhouettes]]: The daemonlord first "seen" in the prologue, and later at the end of Part 4 is the main example so far, only his eyes, which completely glow a blood red, can be seen.
** Additionally, accompanying the daemonlord in his appearance in Part 4 to Dodoria are two other sillhouettes, one of medium size, and one of smaller size. The smaller sized one speaks directly to Dodoria, indicating they know each other from the past, and it's assumed Dodoria can see who the small mystery person is just fine, and that only ''we'' can't really see them that well. Go figure.
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* [[Team Chef]]: Dusty seems to be this, as he is often referenced as a good cook, and even works as his school's resturant, the ''Heritage Room'' as a job he's had for half his high-school tenure. The story has not actually had anyone eating his food specfically thus far [or identifying any foods he's made specfically], but still, the constant references by both the author and the other characters seem to not be lying.
* [[Team Title]]: The original 8 characters at the beginning of the story are sometimes called "The Misfits" in synch with the story title. The title also extends to the later characters who join the group [Goku, Vegeta, Paula, etc, etc]. The title's origin is actually Nina's suggestion for the original eight, since they in their own ways stand out in what seems to be a more 'normal' society in the [[Real Life|Real World]], Nina for her wings and abnormal height, Clint for his erratic bouts of knowledge, Alex for his former cerbal palsy [he's sometimes more remembered for having a wheelchair than as a normal person], Jason's tendacy to help Alex taunt random high-school students, and the other characters assumabily for other reasons that might not yet be specified.
* [[The Multiverse]]: To an extent utilized so far in that the story seems to center around the mergering of multiple universes, including the [[Real Life|original real world we live in]], the [[
* [[The Reveal]]: In Part 4, Alex and then later Vernon discover that they are in fact at least part-''Saiya-jin'' after each one achieves the basic Super Saiya-jin transformation, Alex while sparing realistically with Vegeta, and Vernon while sparring realisticly with #17.
** Part 7 also has a reveal that not only is Jason ALSO at least part-Saiya-jin, but that #17, using his interal scouter/bio-scanner, knew the entire time from the moment he met them that Alex, Jason and Vernon had Saiya-jin DNA in them but chose not to tell them [or anyone else for that matter] for the lawls of everyone's reactions later.
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