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[[In-Universe]] works which affect the plot in one way or another:
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Like many other works listed below, this show seems to have been created and broadcast a decade or more earlier than it appeared in our timeline.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': At one point Alex is watching the show and complaining about how [[Genre Blindness|Genre Blind]] the characters are.
* ''[[Dune]]''
* ''[[Hackers]]'': Willow deliberately lifts her handle as Terawatt's hacking expert -- "Acid Burn" -- from Angelina Jolie's character in this movie. Several characters notice and comment on it.
* ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'': Appears to have made it to the air a couple years earlier than in our timeline, as one of the SRI's original pair of hackers goes by "captainmal".
* ''[[The Herculoids]]'': Source of codenames for the India op, after a much-earlier joking threat by Jack to do so.
* ''[[The Incredible Hulk (TV series)|The Incredible Hulk]]'': The first time Alex really comprehends what Willow can do with a computer, and what she might have done to Larry Ellison and Oracle had she wanted to get revenge, she mutters the classic line "Don’t make me angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry" to herself.
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* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' makes multiple appearances in the story, most notably an episode featuring a sketch that stars Azure Crush and [[Pamela Anderson]] as Terawatt.
* ''[[The Shadow]]'': Danielle Atron uses characters from ''The Shadow'' as metaphors for the identities of Alex and Terawatt.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': Jack O'Neill is a major fan and has appropriated Mr. Burns' [[Catch Phrase]], "Eggggggscellent".
* ''[[Transformers]]'': More code names, plus Jack gets the term "[[Hate Plague]]" from it.
 
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* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: What the SRI in general think of Alex -- a sweet, innocent kid who you'd think would run home crying if you were mean to her, but who is actually an unstoppable force of nature -- and who doesn't quite realize just how impressive she is.
* [[Bi the Way]]: Willow. And Azure Crush's best friend Didi.
* [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]]: The giant tarantula and its offspring.
* [[Big Eater]]: Alex, although she does her best to hide it around people who don't know she's Terawatt, and she has far better manners than the usual example of this trope. Because she burns a huge amount of calories even when she's ''not'' using her powers, she needs to eat three or more times as much as a normal human.
* [[Big Stupid Doodoo Head]]: "Jerkhead" seems to be about the worst thing Alex is capable of calling someone -- with one notable exception.
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== K-O ==
* [[Sir Swearsalot|Lady Swears-A-Lot]]: Azure Crush.
* [[Large Ham]]: Trish's friend "Nature" (real name: Wendy) is described this way in-universe.
* [[Latex Perfection]]: [[Invoked Trope|Invoked, briefly,]] when Willow confirms that Riley and his men are who they say they are when they first meet Terawatt -- she offers "''[[Mission Impossible]]''-level disguises" as a reason they might not be.
* [[Leet Lingo]]: P$ychon4ut and S4l1x480.
* [[Literally Fearless]]: Hanna "Action Girl" Heller is a genetically-engineered [[Super Soldier]] who is incapable of experiencing (or understanding) fear by deliberate design. She eventually learns caution and how to rationally evaluate enemies vis-à-vis her own abilities, and her inability to feel fear comes in handy as a defense against at least one psychic attack.
* [[MacGyvering]]: [[Stargate SG-1|Samantha Carter]] kitbashes a maser weapon using only found hardware on the International Space Station. Made a bit easier in that Alex was the power source, but even so, not exactly a simple task.
* [[Male Gaze]]: Despite explicitly designing her superhero identity with a much larger bust than she possesses, Alex still complains about the attention men pay to it.
* [[Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex]]: Charlie O'Neill encounters this trope when his girlfriend Hanna "Action Girl" Heller involuntarily injures his hand with her thighs when he manually stimulates her to orgasm.
** Hearing about this, Alex wonders how other superstrong people, specifically Azure Crush, manage to have sex with their partners without hurting them.
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* [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]
* [[Master of Illusion]]: The supervillain who tried to rob Comic-Con could project full-sensory illusions, although with a limited range.
* [[May-December Romance]]: Jack O'Neill and Willow Rosenberg.
* [[Me's a Crowd]]: Played with. When a supervillain tries to rob Comic-Con, Terawatt is aided in catching him by just about every Terawatt cosplayer attending the convention that day.
* [[The Merch]]: Thanks for her friend Louis and his father, there is a company (Driscoll Enterprises) which creates and sells licensed Terawatt merchandise. Even so, the existence or Terawatt merch makes Alex a little uncomfortable -- especially when she encounters another superheroine wearing a Terawatt T-shirt.
* [[Meta Origin]]: Hypothesized at one point by Alex's father, who suspects the existence of a master "can acquire powers" gene that not everyone possesses, along with other genes that influence the powers a person might gain; if they have the master gene and are exposed to the right kind of biochemical or other agent, they gain powers.
** On a different level, a large number of superhumans and monsters directly owe their existence to [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Dr. Margaret Walsh]] and/or her research.
* [[Metaphorgotten]]: From chapter 127:
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* [[Older Than They Look]]: {{spoiler|Terawatt in the final epilogue, when we learn that Alex's powers apparently include arrested aging, and that 71 years later she still appears to be in her mid-twenties.}}
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]s: The Collective is an entire organization of these, planning to kill off 99% of the world's population. However, at least some of them are doing so [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|to prevent what they see as an inevitable Malthusian catastrophe]]. After which they will rule what is left.
* [[Online Alias]]: Has a self-aware mix. Willow Rosenberg consciously lifts "Acid Burn" from ''[[Hackers]]'' to use when she becomes Terawatt's online support, but when she was younger she used "S4l1x480" (which cleverly points back to her, as ''salix'' is the genus of all willows, and 480 references a wavelength of light in the red portion of the visible spectrum). There was also P$ychon4ut, a [[The Cracker|villainous, misogynistic hacker]] she helped get sent to jail.
* [[One Steve Limit]]: When the Macks take in [[Firestarter|Charlene "Charlie" McGee]], they start calling her "Shar"; within the story this is part of hiding her identity from Shop agents who might still be hunting her, but on the meta level it's probably as much because there was already a character named "Charlie" in play.
** Averted with the probably-inevitable collision between Dr. Samantha Carter and Dr. Samantha Finn.
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