The Secret Return of Alex Mack: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.