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==Stories==
{{examples|As of
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* ''[[The Secret Return of Alex Mack]]'', which unintentionally launched the 'Verse.
* ''[[Hermione Granger and the Boy Who Lived]]'' by Diane Castle
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20160924003114/http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30169/Speakertocustomers+The+Lion+the+Walsh+and+the+Laboratory.htm The Lion, the Walsh, and the Laboratory]'' by Speakertocustomers
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30473/fpb+As+the+general+saw+it.htm As the general saw it...]'' by fpb
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30493/Zeviz+Refusing+the+Call.htm Refusing the Call]'' by Zeviz
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* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30739/batzulger+Flyover+Country.htm Flyover Country]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30765/batzulger+MINUSCULE.htm MINUSCULE]'' by batzulger
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20160924213533/http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30809/Speakertocustomers+The+First+Cut+is+the+Deepest.htm The First Cut is the Deepest]'' by Speakertocustomers
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30812/batzulger+Hunter+s+Moon.htm Hunter's Moon]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30901/hysteriumredux+Clouless.htm Clouless]'' by hysteriumredux
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* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33046/EllenBrand+Follow+Up.htm Follow Up]'' by EllenBrand
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33136/hysteriumredux+AcquaFuoco.htm AcquaFuoco]'' by hysteriumredux
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* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33147/JoshuAB+Ultraman+Year+One.htm Ultraman Year One]'' by JoshuAB
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33158/hysteriumredux+Insensitive.htm Insensitive]'' by hysteriumredux
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* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33575/hysteriumredux+Say+it+with+flowers.htm Say It with Flowers]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33595/hysteriumredux+Rope+a+Dope.htm Rope a Dope]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33641/hysteriumredux+Dead+Ringer.htm Dead Ringer]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33649/batzulger+Spoiled+Meat.htm Spoiled Meat]'' by batzulger
*'' [https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33648/batzulger+Rogue.htm Rogue]'' by batzulger
*'' [https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33665/EllenBrand+Bootleg+Lizards.htm Bootleg Lizards]'' by EllenBrand
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33667/Manchester+The+Mystery+Man+and+The+Detective.htm The Mystery Man and The Detective]'' by Manchester
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33681/EllenBrand+Shuffle+Time.htm Shuffle Time]'' by EllenBrand
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33730/hysteriumredux+Lobster+to+go.htm Lobster To Go]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/zimniye-soldaty-winters-soldiers.977965/ Zimniye Soldaty Winter Soldiers]'' by batzulger
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33769/batzulger+Emerald.htm Emerald]'' by batzulger
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33794/EllenBrand+Proteus.htm Proteus]'' by EllenBrand
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33814/EllenBrand+Post-Processing.htm Post-Processing]'' by EllenBrand
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33880/hysteriumredux+Not+zebras.htm Not Zebras]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33898/Manchester+Not+leprechauns.htm Not Leprechauns]'' by Manchester
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/story-33916/hysteriumredux+Ask+Not.htm Ask Not]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33939/hysteriumredux+Ladies+Night.htm Ladies Night]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33983/hysteriumredux+Debriefings.htm Debriefings]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33989/hysteriumredux+Word+s+Out.htm Word's Out]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33994/hysteriumredux+Consultants.htm Consultants]'' by hysteruimredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33998/batzulger+Garden+of+Stone.htm Garden of Stone]'' by batzulger
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34004/hysteriumredux+False+I+D.htm False I.D.]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34017/batzulger+B+E+---+The+Al+Mundy+Way.htm B&E---The Al Mundy Way]'' by batzulger
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34046/batzulger+So+It+s+All+Gone+South.htm So It's All Gone South]'' by batzulger
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33893/EllenBrand+Icebergs.htm Icebergs]''by EllenBrand
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34072/batzulger+Professional+Quality.htm Professional Quality]'' by batzulger
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34067/hysteriumredux+Belisarius.htm Belisarius]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34122/hysteriumredux+Position+Filled.htm Position Filled]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34124/batzulger+Badlands.htm Badlands]'' by batzulger
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34195/batzulger+More+Than+They+Could+Chew.htm More Than They Could Chew]'' by batzulger
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34202/CaptainBoulanger+Christmas+and+Easter.htm Christmas and Easter]'' by CaptainBoulanger
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34224/EllenBrand+Revenants.htm Revenant]'' by EllenBrand
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34304/hysteriumredux+Clean+Living.htm Clean Living]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34305/batzulger+Wildlife.htm Wildfire]'' by batzulger
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In addition to the sources already incorporated into ''[[The Secret Return of Alex Mack]]'', the Teraverse also includes elements and/or characters from the following works:
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* ''[[The Accountant]]''
* ''[[The Adventures of Hiram Holliday]]''
* The ''[[Amelia Peabody]]'' novels
* ''[[Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy]]''
* ''[[Angel]]''
* ''[[Agent Cody Banks]]''
* ''[[Archie Comics]]''
* ''[[The Assassination Bureau]]''
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* ''[[Banacek]]''
* ''[[Banlieue 13]]''
* ''[[The Beast of Yucca Flats]]''
* ''[[Ben Casey]]''
* ''[[Big Trouble in Little China]]''
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* [[w:Bonk Business|Bonk Business]]
* ''[[Boondock Saints]]''
* ''[[Borat]]''
* ''[[Boston Legal]]''
* ''[[The Bourne Series (film)|The Bourne Legacy]]''
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* ''[[Bubba Ho-Tep]]''
* ''[[Bert & I]]''
* ''[[Canterbury's Law]]''
* ''[[Carmen Sandiego]]'' both as in-universe and as an influential work.
* ''[[Carnosaur]]''
* ''[[Cast Away]]''
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* ''[[Drop the Dead Donkey]]''
* ''[[Dumbo]]''
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* ''[[The Eiger Sanction]]'' and ''[[The Loo Sanction]]''
* ''[[Eisenhower and Lutz]]''
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* ''[[G-8 and his Battle Aces]]''
* ''[[The Game Plan]]''
* ''[[Gamera]]''
* ''[[Galaxy Quest]]''. A case which straddles the line between in-universe and not. The TV series from within the film exists in the Teraverse, and alongside ''Babylon 5'', largely takes on the same relative significance in the Teraverse's pop culture, as ''[[Star Trek]]'' does in our own.
* ''[[GI Jane]]''
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* ''[[The Great Pursuit]]'' by [[Tom Sharpe]]
* ''[[Green Acres]]''
* ''[[Green Arrow]]''
* ''[[Green Hornet]]''
* ''[[Green Lama]]''
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* ''[[wikipedia:Herbie Popnecker|Herbie, the Fat Fury]]''
* ''[[Hitman (video game series)|Hitman: Codename 47]]''
* ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]''
* ''[[Hooper]]''
* ''[[Horse Feathers]]'': Harmony Kendall was awarded a honorary degree from Huxley College, indicating this school was rebuilt in 1932 after burning down during President Wagstaff's legendary administration.
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''
* ''[[Hunter (Australian series)|Hunter]]''
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* ''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]''
* ''[[In the Heat of the Night]]''
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* ''[[Jerry Maguire]]''
* ''[[Jesse Stone]]''
* ''[[John Wick]]''
* ''[[Jonathan Creek]]''
* ''[[The Karate Kid]]''. Both Daniel LaRusso and Julie Pierce are the current grandmasters of the Miyagi-Ryu. Daniel wrote a set of books that went on to inspire the in-universe version of the original ''Karate Kid'' movie series in the 1970s (which was only three films long -- there was no in-universe version of ''The Next Karate Kid'').
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* ''[[The Long Kiss Goodnight]]''
* ''[[Lou Grant]]''
* ''[[Ma and Pa Kettle]]''
* ''[[Madame Fatal]]''
* ''[[Man from Atlantis]]''
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* ''[[Manly Guys Doing Manly Things]]''
* ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]''
* ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]''
* ''[[The Master (1984 TV series)|The Master]]''
* ''[[Matt Helm]]''
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* ''[[The Mechanic]]''
* ''[[Men in Black]]''. Agent K has a counterpart in the Teraverse, but there are no aliens, so he was never a MIB. Oddly enough, there was still a ''Men in Black'' movie.
* ''[[The Mentalist]]''
* ''[[The Mighty Ducks]]''. "Real-life" Ducks player Connie Moreau decided to move to L.A. and pursue an acting career as an adult; she wound up being interviewed in ''I Do My Own Stunts'', regarding her portrayal of the titular character in the ''Sister Marie'' biopic.
* ''[[Modesty Blaise]]''
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* ''[[The Mouse That Roared]]'': The Duchy of Grand Fenwick is a real country in the Teraverse, and produces wine -- including a cheap sangria-like product called "Pink Muscati Pinot Grand Fenwick".
* ''[[My Mother the Car]]''
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* ''[[National Treasure]]''
* ''[[NCIS]]''
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* ''[[Rizzoli and Isles]]''
* ''[[Rude Awakening]]''
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* ''[[Sabotage (1996 film)|Sabotage]]''
* ''[[The Sea Wolves]]''
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* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': One of the convenience stores hit by a robber in ''The Mobstah Lobstah'' is Apu's Kwiki Mart, and the Simpsons (their yellowish skin suggesting jaundice to someone watching a security video of the robbery) are in the store at the time. Ned Flanders walks in as the robber leaves. (This conflicts with ''[[The Secret Return of Alex Mack]]'', where it's very clearly an in-universe fictional work.)
** Nelson Muntz appears, posthumously, as a high school quarterback in ''Bone Deep''. Several other ''Simpsons'' characters also make brief appearances in that story.
* ''[[South Park]]'': In the story ''In his image.'', a group of cloned boys includes some named Kyle, Stan, Eric and Kenny. Naturally, Kenny dies.
* ''[[Spenser|Spenser: For Hire]]''
* ''[[Spring-heel'd Jack, The Terror of London: A Romance of the Nineteenth Century]]''
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* ''[[West Side Story]]''
* ''[[The West Wing]]''
* ''[[White Shark]]''
* ''[[Worm]]''
* ''[[The Zeta Project]]''
* ''[[Zorro]]''
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* Finally, in an unusual case, characters from ''[[Ah! My Goddess]], [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]], [[Bubblegum Crisis]]'' and ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' (among others) briefly appear in a metaphysical realm attached to the Teraverse to {{spoiler|[[Psychopomp|lead Shar into Heaven (or Valhalla, or both]])}}.
Some of these may be thoroughly transformed and not obvious. For instance, the Universal monsters are more [[Derivative Differentiation|homages]] than direct imports.
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* ''[[The Addams Family]]''
* ''[[The Big Sky]]'' Toby Peters met Jason Ward on the set during the filming of the Howard Hawks movie.
* ''[[Carmen Sandiego]]'': series of educational computer games which spawned a PBS game show (both about a fictional globe-trotting thief); Sister Marie and others in her age group can be expected to be quite familiar with them, and she has, at least once, made a joke about Carmen's propensity for completely impossible heists. These may be based on the exploits of the real thief named Carmen Sandiego.
* ''[[Cheers]]'': As noted above, while ''Cheers'' exists as a TV show [[In-Universe]], Carla Tortelli works at the Jolly Redcap in Boston.
* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]''. Including portions of ''Life's a Beach'' and one scene of ''Incubation Period'' being set aboard a yacht actually named ''Dawn Treader,'' and the afterlife shown in ''Beyond the Veil'' looking like it was ripped from the pages of ''The Last Battle''.
* ''[[Disney Ducks Comic Universe]]'': A group of cloned boys raised in remote Canada called themselves the "Beagle Boys" after coming across a few issues of the comics.
* ''[[Downton Abbey]]''. Lady Jacqueline Dacre (Spring-Heel'd Jackie) uses the spoken phonemes of Lady Sybil Crawley as the basis of her synthesized voice.
* ''[[w:The Durango Kid (film)|The Durango Kid]]'': One of the inspirations for Martin Kent's 1950s-era "mystery man" persona of "Braveheart".
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* ''[[Kim Possible]]''. Despite this being an [[In-Universe]] work, the Teraverse has a dimensional counterpart to Shego in Siobhan Bri, and one to Kim in Trish Chabot.
* ''[[H.P. Lovecraft]]''{{'}}s works are mentioned in passing in ''The Mobstah Lobstah'' and ''Mayfly'', but there seem to be differences between the Teraverse's version and that from our timeline; among other things, Illyria from ''[[Angel]]'' and Arsgomor from the ''[[Illyria: Haunted]]'' comic book are listed alongside Cthulhu, Shub-Niggurath and other creatures from the Mythos. Someone also bioengineered a knockoff of Cthulhu and set it on New York in ''Hell's Nanny''.
*
* The [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] appears to have started ten years earlier in the Teraverse than it did in our timeline.
* ''[[Mary Poppins]]''. Provides the public identity of a vigilante working out of New York in a story set [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]].
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* ''[[Stripes]]'': In ''Hermione Granger and the Swiss Tournament'', mention is made of a large truck-like military vehicle designed by Willow Rosenberg and Ted Kord. Jack O'Neill calls it the "EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle"; the context makes it clear this is not its official designation but another pop culture reference by O'Neill.
* ''[[Super Mario Brothers]]''
* ''[[Terminator]]''. Popular film series starring [[Jean-Claude Van Damme]] as the T-800 assassin. One factor in the Brane is that the lead characters of Reese and the T-800 are played by different actors in every version.
* ''[[Ultraman]]'' and the other [[Ultra Series]] shows would appear to exist, as suggested by [[Stargate Atlantis|Rodney McKay]] [[Freudian Slip|accidentally namechecking]] ''[[Ultraman Tiga]]'' in JoshuaAB's ''Ultra Shorts'' while demonstrating various armors provided to [[My Secret Identity|Andrew "Ultraman" Clements]] by the Canadian government. Not to mention that these armors all tend to be in the colors of the various Ultramen.
* ''[[Unbreakable]]''. There is mention in chapter 8 of ''Bone Deep'' of a movie with a villain whose bones were abnormally fragile, which may be an in-universe version of this film.
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* [[2-D Space]]: Invoked (at one remove) by Sister Marie in ''Incubation Period'', although in regards to atmospheric flight rather than spaceflight. According to Maddie Sabatino-Taylor:
:* Justified, as Sister Marie was referring to gravity-bound pedestrians, as compared to telekinetic fliers (such as herself). The quote comes from a scene in which Sister Marie arrives at Maddie's house, unobserved by the LDS missionaries at her door ''because they failed to look up'' when Maddie told them she was expecting a nun.
* [[Acrofatic]]: Alistair Wilson.
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{{quote|''Oh, and Alex looked like she'd just gotten out of the shower, done her hair, and put on a new uniform. Alee needed to learn to do that.''}}
* [[BFG (weapon)|BFGs]]
* [[Big Eater]]: This is a common story element, affecting just about anyone who has been exposed to GC-161. Though in one scene in ''Incubation Period'', an unaware character jokes that in Sister Marie's case, it's just that "French girls don't get fat".
* [[Big Brother Mentor|Big Sister Mentor]]: Rinkin Mueller is this to Cate Baltimore.
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* [[Combat Pragmatist]]s: Many of the non-metas with two stand-outs being Wanderer and the Equalizer. Either one will use whatever they have to to win.
* [[Compound Interest Time Travel Gambit]]: Jonathan Lowe accidentally benefits from this when she discovers her bank account still exists after spending 170 years in [[Suspended Animation]].
* [[Contemporary Caveman]]: Clarence Gaffney, AKA The Savage. Unlike the usual examples of the trope, he made it into the modern era the ''long'' way, being [[Immortality|immortal]], and had more than enough time to acquire a veneer of civilization and proficiency with dozens of languages.
* [[Conversational Troping]]: In ''The Secret Collocation of Alex Mack,'' Harry Dresden describes a tactic used by Terawatt and Stormburst as "[[Summon Bigger Fish]]", and actually makes a comment in his narration about explanations for the "trope-deficient".
* [[Consummate Liar]]: WO1 Stewart Scott is one of the best for survival reasons, seeing as he had to go undercover in the [[The Mafiya|Russian Underworld]] for almost a year and a half and not get killed. Argyle Garrett qualifies as long as the person he's lying to is law enforcement. If he tries lying to anybody else, he's a [[Bad Liar|ridiculously bad liar]]. All of the Mundy Family learned this skill as they grew up, they couldn't help it.
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** [[Averted]] in ''Operation Eternal Flame'', in which critical information was intentionally kept offline.
** Also averted in ''Speedloader Dynamite Dance Party'', because Roanapur's entire telecommunications infrastructure is built on electromechanical equipment from the 1930s.
* [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French|Everything Sounds Menacing in German]]: In the in-universe fantasy film ''Amazon Warrior DeeDee'', the evil troll Helga Headbanger speaks with a thick German accent, despite there being no German ethnic group in the film's imaginary universe.
* [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French]]: Jay Jones the Merman learns Italian in an attempt to sound more romantic.
* [[Evil Overlord]]: Pierre L’Grenouille-Dévoreur has ambitions to be one -- but possesses neither the skills nor the minions (nor the competence) to actually accomplish his goal.
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** ''The Chronicles of Thomas Banacek'', a series of expensive limited edition volumes of Banacek's greatest insurance investigation cases, written by Frankie Dagustino under a pen name.
** ''The Fuzzy Family'', a children's program mentioned several times in ''The Secret Return of Alex Mack''.
** ''Miyagi and Me'', a non-fiction book by Daniel LaRusso about growing up and training under Mr. Miygai, which inspired the in-universe versions of the ''Karate Kid'' movies.
* [[First-Name Basis]]: Sister Marie is (emphatically) known as "Sister Marie" to everyone else, but her mother and five or so of her closest associates can get away with addressing or referring to her as ''just'' "Marie". In ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32106/ Up In Smoke]'', ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32283 Over The Line]'', and ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32318/ Incubation Period]'', it's often a textual clue that the scene is being narrated by her best friend, Maddie.
** Maddie herself is a newspaper reporter, and when interviewing Sister Marie for the newspaper, will pointedly ''add'' the "Sister" as a verbal hint that the current conversation is "on the record".
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* [[Former Child Star]]: Harmony Kendall, as well as her friend and former co-star Allegria Kuzma.
* [[Full Name Ultimatum]]: Several examples; perhaps most plot-prominently, one of the teenage protesters in ''The Hornet's Nest'' chapter one.
* [[Fun
** The Coalition for the Liberation from Ichthyo-Terrorism (CLIT).
** Mentioned in passing in ''Incubation Period'': an "architecture-and-engineering" firm called Brown, Uchida, Ingraham, Lister, Tankersley, and Associates (BUILT).
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* [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress]]: Acknowledged (and very carefully ''not'' invoked) by Seth Pevsner in chapter 17 of ''The Lady and the Detective'' when he finds himself in a position which ''should'' -- but ''doesn't'' -- result in him plummeting to his death.
* [[Gun Porn]]: The stories that batzulger writes are littered with this.
* [[Hackette]]: Willow Rosenberg. Zoe Carter.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: In addition to the products of Nazi weird science, there are also Lord Deathstrike's lizard-men and wolf-men.
** The Merman.
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* [[Honorary Uncle]]: Since he ''does'' have the same last name as her deceased father (and herself), Jack O'Neill invited Sister Marie to call him Uncle Jack. He's often referred to her as his niece. Since their marriage, Willow has adopted the usage as well, and upon meeting Sister Marie, immediately got called 'Aunt Willow'.
** In ''Incubation Period'', Sister Marie's best friend, Maddie, found it ''particularly'' surprising when Marie introduced her 'Aunt Willow':
** In ''Awaiting Confirmation'', we find out that Maddie's children refer to Sister Marie as 'Aunt Marie'.
* [[Hot Chick in a Badass Suit]]: Spring-Heel'd Jackie in her white silk shirt and "ivory" mask, black leather vest and pants, and red swallow-tailed morning coat is one form of this.
** Marcie Ross and Trish Chabot when they are in their 'Field Service' uniforms. These being the black suits popularized by the [[The Men in Black|Men in Black]] Conspiracy theories.
* [[Humanoid Aliens|Humanoid Alien]]: What Spring-Heel'd Jackie claims to be. Even then, she also claims it is just [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]] because her people are [[Energy Beings]] with no physical existence.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Warren Mears' "April 2" units. Schubert's Deep Water Combat and Construction units.
* [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]]: The Savage.
* [[Hyperactive Metabolism]]: "Princess" Awqasisa is basically a mummy afforded animation by a bizarre fungus, who when injured "heals" by consuming large quantities of carbohydrates and water for the fungus to use as raw materials for repairing her.
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{{quote|“I see that you have noticed Ronda's tireless work in international relations,” Minerva said from behind her.
Hermione turned and gave Minerva a raised eyebrow. “International relations? Is that what they're calling it now?”}}
* [[The Jersey Devil]]: In chapter 1 of ''Almost Heaven But Not Quite'', a character argues that the Jersey Devil is no less likely than the real creatures -- like Gojira! -- which have appeared since Terawatt went public.
* [[Kaiju]]: Cthulhu, Gojira, Kraken.
* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|For Pierre L’Grenouille-Dévoreur and his flunkies in ''The Lady and the Detective'' -- transformed into centipedes and eaten by frogs the moment they escape from the cave in which they had been trapped. In L’Grenouille-Dévoreur's case, it's also [[Death by Irony]] -- see ''Meaningful Name'', below.}}
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* [[Last Rites (trope)|Last Rites]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]] ''and'' [[Discussed Trope|discussed]] in ''It's Just A Habit''. At the start of the story [[Narrator|POV character]] Marie O'Neill is a Catholic Eucharistic minister -- a variety of Catholic lay-clergy with a very limited remit -- and in one chapter she remarks on the difference between the movies and reality when it comes to the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick.
* [[Leet Lingo]]: In ''The Hornet's Nest'', General O'Neill intentionally schedules a videoconference for 13:37, then includes Acid Burn in it.
* [[Legacy Character|Legacy Hero]]: Spring-Heel'd Jackie claims to be a descendant of (or at least the heiress of sorts to) the figure of Victorian folklore known as [[w:Spring-heeled Jack|"Spring-heel'd Jack"]].
** Shade from the story of the same name is the latest in a long line of [[Batman|Bats]] protecting New York City.
** The British "Double-Ohs" have a lineage which includes traditional code names.
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** Waylon "Croc" Jones
** The Professional Alligator Wrestler (and sometime hero) James "Leatherback" Collins.
** Woody, close associate of Max Steel
* [[Lovable Rogue]]: Jonathan Lowe is an ethical criminal with an exceptionally strong moral compass.
* [[Lower Deck Episode]]: Several stories shift the focus to the less-prominent members of the SRI, and let us see just how badass they can be on their own. And one plotline in ''Incubation Period'' follows Sister Marie's best friend, intrepid reporter Maddie Sabatino-Taylor.
* [[Loyal Phlebotinum]]: Inverted. Anyone can use the [[Death Ray]]s created by Lord Deathstrike on any target they like -- but they are keyed to his DNA and will blow up if they are turned on him. (Harry Potter had a sample of Deathstrike's DNA injected into him as an infant, which was unfortunate for Deathstrike...)
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** [[Truth in Television]], in that California adds a colored stripe for drivers under the age of 21, for alcoholic beverage control purposes. Young drivers' licenses are usually set to expire on their 21st birthday, and the renewal license is then issued without the stripe. Marie's birthday has been cited as February 11, 1979, so she would have turned 21 in 2000.
* [[Mind Control]]: Lord Deathstrike developed and used a mind control system composed of two parts -- a [[Mind Control Device|bulky "chair" in which the actual mind control is accomplished]], and a coin-sized disk which is implanted behind the ear of the controlled victim and is basically a radio receiver for verbal commands from a handler. The "chair" is large enough that it requires a good-sized van or truck to transport it, and it takes several hours to subdue and subvert a victim.
* [[Mind Over Matter]]: Telekinesis is one of the classic abilities granted by exposure to [[Super Serum|GC-161]]. Of the five most powerful characters who possess it (Terawatt, Samantha Carter, Sister Marie, Dani Atron, and BeeDazzle) there is a significant difference in strength, range, and versatility in the manifestations. And late in ''The Secret Return of Alex Mack'' it's shown that many of the other "standard" GC-161 powers -- even the silver morph -- are actually variations on telekinesis.
* [[Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot]]: Frequently used in batzulger's caper-based stories.
* [[Mistaken for An Imposter]]: During a visit to the bar which inspired ''[[Cheers]]'' in ''Buckeroo Bonsai'', Daniel LaRusso is mistaken for a [[w:John L. Sullivan|John L. Sullivan]] impersonator, and Peter Valentine for a "Cliff Clavin" celebrity look-alike.
* [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]: Winged monkeys in Vermont
* [[Mr. Smith]]: The agents of [[The Men in Black|ISERB]] use boring and anonymous names as their cover IDs constantly.
* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: Orangutan Suzanne MacGregor is addicted to coffee, and also feels guilty for supporting coffee plantations that replace her native habitat.
* [[My Card]]: Spring-Heel'd Jackie actually says this line while giving an actual physical card to a thug at the door of a criminal hideout she and Batwoman are about to crash in ''Bat by the Bay''. In case you're curious, it reads:
{{quote|<span style{{=}}"text-align: center;">Lady Jacqueline Dacre
''[[Lady of Adventure|adventuress]]''
[[Hell|Jahannum]], [[London]], [[San Francisco]]</
** Zoe "3UrēK@!" Carter has cards for her hacker identity, plain white card stock with a [[Iconic Logo|"eureka!" lightbulb]] one one side, and an IP address in invisible ink on the other.
* [[The Name Is Bond, James Bond]]: "The name is Donne, Alicia Donne."
* [[Named After Somebody Famous]]: A [[Theme Naming|regular practice]] of the Black family from the British Intelligence Community, in ''Hermione Granger and the Boy Who Lived''. Where their counterparts in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books named their children after constellations and celestial bodies, the Teraverse Blacks name their children after a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|different kind of star entirely]].
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** She also tends to use diminutive forms of first names, particularly when she's dealing with people younger than herself.
** She's also gone to significant lengths in choosing appropriate custom ringtones for all her incoming cellphone contacts, which could ''themselves'' be considered a form of nickname.
* [[Ninja]]: In the Teraverse, the ninja consist of a loose group of clans that provide specialized shadow war agents for Japan in the place of a government-run set of [[Spy School|academies]] as most other major powers have. They function as spies primarily, and most of the rest of the world (including those same elite intelligence academy graduates) believes that that the modern day continued existence of''"Ninja"'' is a creation of comic books and the movies. Named clans include: the Osaki Clan based in Salt Lake City (having Rinkin Mueller and Cate Baltimore as genin) and thought by the other clans to have been completely destroyed; the Phoenix Arizona off-shoot of the Imura Clan
* [[No Conservation of Energy]]: A consequence of anyone or anything that taps Bendix Space for power, because doing so is essentially stealing energy from one universe for use in another.
** [[Averted Trope|Averted]], at least partially, for those characters like Terawatt and Sister Marie whose powers impose a sometimes drastically increased caloric intake on them. (The "partially" comes from it being unclear whether they are actually taking in as many calories as their powers expend; in many cases, there appears to be a rather significant shortfall which has to be made up from ''somewhere''.)
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* [[Of Corsets Sexy]]:
** Faith Delabruzzi and Carla Fiori wear corsets as needed for their current... [[If You Know What I Mean|assignments]].
** Debbie Thornberry generates a telekinetic corset for herself as part of her "Mary Poppins" persona.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: There are strong hints that retarded aging is one of the common effects of GC-161 exposure: we know for a fact that Terawatt looks like a twenty-something well into her 70s (plus stories set in the distant future note that she was an active hero for over a century), and Daniel LaRusso's first impression of Beatrice "Wink in Pink" Thompson is that she looks too young to be the mother of a teenager.
** In stories set in the far future, Cate Baltimore, Jack Ryder, Sebastian Haff, and Eddie Tyrgyvssen are known to be hale and hearty well into their fourth century of life.
* [[One Riot, One Ranger]]: Recognized in-story by anybody who's met Cesca Santana.
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted several times over, especially in ''Incubation Period'', in which there are several cases of it being averted by minor characters appearing within the same chapter.
** Averted ''twice'' in ''The Hornet's Nest'' chapter 5, in which Sister Marie rescues a small child who has the same name (Maisie) as her custom-made phone AI (which keeps responding every time Marie addresses her). The second aversion is that the story also contains two recurring characters named Shannon.
* [[Online Alias]]: Has a self-aware mix. [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Willow Rosenberg]] 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. Then there's "3UrēK@!", aka Zoe Carter, originally a specialist in identity theft who seems to be transitioning to a "white hat" as part of Ultraman's team. Another white hat on his team, Zane Donovan, takes the handle "Crash Override" from ''Hackers'' in conscious imitation of Willow. The SRI also has a pair of staff hackers who use decidedly un-military handles online.
* [[Only One Name]]: Lampshaded, as Faith ('just Faith' in the BuffyVerse) is clearly named Delabruzzi to conceal herself.
** And inverted with actress Cherilyn Sarkisian (Cher) who uses her full name when playing Marci Castrati, Gunther Shtepple's ex-wife.
** Various nuns in ''It's Just A Habit'' and ''Incubation Period'' are mentioned as having temporarily used (or are seen while temporarily using) one name only, when they first entered the convent as a 'postulant' (a trainee-like status), later earning the right to augment it with the title of 'Sister'. This also applies to Marie-Therese for {{spoiler|almost}} the entirety of ''Operation Eternal Flame'' and portions of ''Incubation Period'' {{spoiler|(but ''not'' the other stories in which she appears)}}.
* [[Opera Gloves]]: Several women in the setting wear long formal-style gloves to hide practical functions: the modern Madam Fatale to control her psychometric power, Spring-Heel'd Jackie to deliver electric shocks, and Black Scorpion to disguise her armor.
* [[The Order]]: The Order of Sainte Jeanne d'Arc.
* [[Our Angels Are Different]]: Sword of Glory believes she is a holy yet still mortal entity that has been sent to [[Miami]] by the Zoroastrian Supreme Being Ahuru Mazda.
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* [[Phony Psychic]]: The modern Madam Fatale pretends to have psychic powers for her clients. Lampshaded in that her psychic powers are actually real but not supernatural in origin and require no ritual or cold reading. Fatale is a closeted meta with psychometric power.
* [[Pinkerton Detective]]: Sherman 'Scut' Willoughby is a retired Pinkerton agent.
* [[
* [[Playful Hacker]]: Zane Donovan (AKA "Crash Override" once he joins up with Ultraman).
* [[Posse]]: "Jackie's Boyz" AKA San Francisco's "Bay Area Meta Operations Task Force", who have fallen into a comfortable partnership with Spring-Heel'd Jackie, and hover somewhere between the classic use and the modern use of the term.
* [[Potent Pheromones]]: Alicia Tavares from the Boston-area storylines is a former criminal, now member of the Massachusetts Metahuman Investigations Unit, with the ability to generate custom pheromones at will.
* [[Powered Armor]]: Numerous examples, ranging from the powered diving hard suits employed by Schubert's goons; to the Black Scorpion's mix of armor and magnetic fields; to Spring-Heel'd Jackie's convincing but bogus alien guise. After biochemical manipulation, this is the number two way of becoming "super" in the Teraverse.
* [[Power Incontinence]]: The modern Madam Fatale can't turn off her Psychometric ability.
* [[Psychic Link]]: [[The Champions]] possess one of these between the three of them.
* [[Psychic Powers]]: [[Mind Over Matter|Telekinesis]], [[Playing With Fire|Pyrokinesis]], [[An Ice Person|Cryokinesis]], and [[Shock and Awe|Electrokinesis (Fulgurkinesis for the pedants)]] are powers frequently granted by GC-161 exposure. In addition; [[Telepathy]], Empathy, [[Psychic Link]], [[Living Lie Detector]], [[Mind Manipulation|Illusion and Mind Control]], [[Clairvoyance|Remote Viewing]] and even limited [[Precognition]] have been manifested.
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** Averted as the high-tech firms run by various geniuses are actively marketing their advanced technologies. This has resulted in the entire 'verse being almost a decade or more ahead of our own in the available technology of all kinds.
* [[Reformed Criminal]]: Various. [[Hired Guns|Kaji]], [[Delinquents|Azure Crush]], [[Assassin|Aidos, Wanderer, Orhidei]], and the entire [[Loveable Rogue|Mundy Family]] for example.
* [[Reincarnation (trope)|Reincarnation]]: Apparently happens, but is not universal or automatic, given one line in ''Ye Shall Not Die Alone'' which suggests that after sufficient time in Heaven, Shar may be offered a chance to return to mortal life.
* [[Rent-A-Zilla]]: The series of [[Kaiju]] that ''someone'' is creating (starting with a [[Cthulhu Mythos|Cthulhu]] knockoff in ''Hell's Nanny'') and setting loose on various targets around the world.
* [[Ripped from the Headlines]]: ''Up In Smoke'' is explicitly based upon real-world events which took place in San Diego County, California on Sunday, October 26, 2003, though in slightly modified form (to include the story's fictional characters). Several chapters of ''Incubation Period'' detail the days surrounding October 26, including a continuation of the same incident.
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** Several chapters of ''Incubation Period'' include postings from various Internet sites or blogs, including users identified by screen names.
* [[Secret War]]: A subset of the stories deals with the organizations and people that allowed something like Harworts and the other intelligence academies to be created, and in fact necessary. Due to the nature of a multi-author megacrossover, elements of this story arc are leaking into other plotlines in the Teraverse.
* [[Seers]]: Drusilla and Pyre occasionally gained flashes of futures.
* [[Separated at Birth]]: Charani and Hanna.
* [[Shared Universe]]
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* [[Super Speed]]: Both Sister Marie and BeeDazzle have telekinetic flight and [[Required Secondary Power|shields]] allowing them to travel at supersonic speeds in atmosphere.
** Wink in Pink, Ultraman, and Konneycha can all run at well over 100 kph.
* [[Human Popsicle|Suspended Animation]]: Jonathan Lowe and Drusilla Keeble survived for 170 years deep beneath London thanks to immersion in a liquid created by [[Fu Manchu|the man who would later be known as "David Lo Pan"]].
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: Performed by Wanderer in her "Strannik" ID and BeeDazzle as her "Mr. Unknown" persona. Wanderer is good enough and has practiced this identity so thoroughly that she has currently been able to fool {{spoiler|[[Great Detective|the World's Greatest Detective]]...[[Batman]]}}...so far.
** Jonathan Lowe has lived most of her life as a man.
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* [[Teen Superspy]]: Graduates of Harworts (or any of the other [[Spy School|academies]]) all qualify as they will be still in their teens at the time of the graduation ceremony.
** Others that qualify for this trope are "Homeschooled" or "Independent" types such as Dana Tasker, Marcie Ross to some extent, Alexi Mundy or any of the Mundy children, and of course Cate Baltimore. The Kid from Department Six is also one of these at the start of his career.
* [[That Mysterious Thing]]: The unspoken 'Mr. Potato Head' incident at the Hasbro Factory that made gregarious teen Pisces Caldwell into the laconic 'Silent Piss'.
* [[Theme Naming]]:
** [[In-Universe]], the [[Our Zombies Are Different|cyborgs]] Tucker Wells has created are all named after classical Greek gods in ''Speedloader Dynamite Dance Party'', and the later models are named after Shakespearean villains.
** The Tyrgyvssen family (from ''It's Just A Habit'' and other stories) intentionally named their four children after the Pevensie children in ''The Chronicles of Narnia'', ''and'' they're somehow in the correct age order. The family also owns a yacht named - what else? - the ''Dawn Treader''.
** Most of the devoutly Catholic characters have first names taken from Catholic saints. In ''Up In Smoke'', two nuns are identified as having been encouraged to take on unofficial assumed names in order to ''intentionally'' align themselves with this theme.
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* [[There Is a God]]: At ''least'' one. {{spoiler|Odin and Thor are name-dropped when Valhalla is offered to Shar in ''Ye Shall Not Die Alone'', and presumably "the Heaven you learned of in church" is overseen by the Abrahamic God, if He's not just the same entity as Odin wearing a different face. And the one doing the namedropping? Skuld of the Norns.}}
* [[They Walk Among Us]]: Invoked in-universe by Spring-Heel'd Jackie, who claims to be an extradimensional exile. (But really isn't.)
* [[Thirty Pieces of Silver]]: In ''Amends'', Daniel Larusso describes the money he made with the [[In-Universe]] versions of the ''[[The Karate Kid|Karate Kid]]'' movies and the book which inspired them as a betrayal of Miyagi-sensei, saying "I had taken the thirty pieces of silver, and denied Sensei three times".
* [[Time Skip]]: ''It's Just A Habit'' summarizes multiple years during chapter 46, and then abruptly skips again between the last two chapters.
** 170 years from 1837 to 2007 in ''East and West''.
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** Some of it is even older. There's the work of Hugo Danner's father in the very early years of the 20th century, and Lord Deathstrike's efforts in the 1970s were based on Salazar's alchemical experiments some ''centuries'' earlier with the radioactive meteorite he found.
* [[Weirdness Censor]]: In the course of ''Buzz Kill'' two characters discuss the possibility that several WWI projects to develop biological weapons produced such bizarre and outrageous designs solely to invoke this trope and provide a measure of security from people dismissing them as wild stories.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]s: The Coalition for the Liberation from Ichthyo-Terrorism (CLIT), John Sunlight.
* [[Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?|Where Do They Get All Those Wonderful Toys?]]:
** As of the events of ''Bat by the Bay'', the BAMF in San Francisco is getting equipment from KORD Industries and Kane Weapon Systems.
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