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'''Basic Trope''': A [[Refuge in Audacity|ludicrously over-the-top]] [[Gary Stu|perfect]], [[The Cape (trope)|heroic]], [[Large Ham|overacting]], [[Testosterone Poisoning|manly]] [[Played for Laughs]] supporting character, better than the protagonists at everything.
* '''Straight''': Adam McAwesome is physically perfect, has a [[Leitmotif]] that sounds like a national anthem on steroids and a perfectly glinting set of teeth. He enters the scene to save the main characters from the [[Big Bad]]'s [[Death Trap]] and absconds with [[The Baroness]] (who has instantly fallen for him) after suplexing the villain's entire supply of [[Elite Mook]] bodyguards all at once [[Made of Explodium|so they explode]]. As Adam [[Riding Into the Sunset|rides off into the sunset]] he delivers a final and epic [[Kirk Summation]] that leaves everyone present swooning after him.
* '''Exaggerated''': [[Foe Yay|...Including the villain]].
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* '''Parodied''': This trope is, by definition, a parody of the [[Marty Stu]].
* '''Deconstructed''': Adam turns out to be a [[Broken Ace]]: The perfection is only a facade used to compensate for and hide the emptiness and crippling mental issues inside.
** Adam is a [[Telepathy|Telepathic]] [[Master of Illusion]] who uses his powers to create a "perfect" image of himself in order to hide the fact that he's an [[Gonk|incredibly ugly]] [[Self-Deprecation|loser with huge self-esteem issues]].
** ... [[Evil All Along|Or]] [[Ultimate Evil|the]] [[Big Bad]], [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|using his incredible power to win the trust of the land and conquer the world without being]] [[Obviously Evil]] [[Genre Savvy|about it]].
* '''Reconstructed''': After getting therapy that cures the mental issues, Adam is back at work saving the day with his mind cleared of pesky distractions.
** Adam decides to do away with the illusions, puts himself through [[Training From Hell]], gets a makeover and starts living up to his idealised self-image.
** Adam ends up [[Becoming the Mask]] and pulls a [[Heel Face Turn]], becoming [[The Good King]].
* '''Zig Zagged''': Adam shows up and heroically rescues the cast in a dramatic over-the-top fashion, only to reveal after the fact that he was really scared crapless of the whole ordeal and only acted that way to one-up the villain. He then leaves the rest of the cast to their ordeals, stating that his heart won't take much more... Then, the moment the heroes are out of sight, Adam immediately leaps off to save someone else in a similar fashion. He only acts weak and insecure after the fact because he doesn't want the rest of the cast to feel inferior and unneccessary.
* '''Averted''': There's no Ace in the cast. The heroes are the most heroic people around.
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* '''Discussed''': "Is this guy for *real*?" "You tell me; I'd hate to think of what we're in for if he turns out to be a deranged hallucination."
* '''Conversed''': "This show can't expect me to take someone that perfect seriously."
* '''Played For Laughs''': The default state of the trope.
* '''Played For Drama''': [[Broken Ace]] again.
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