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* [[Batman Gambit]]: Tell Joystick that she can't do something. ''She will do it.'' She frequently [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] just how easy it is to pull this on her.

* [[Becoming the Mask]]: Kind of the point of the original series.

* [[Big Bad Wannabe]]: ''Graviton'' -- a supervillain who is to gravity what Magneto is to magnetism, held back mostly by his personal inadequacies. Became a recurring opponent to the team, mostly because of Moonstone repeately manipulating him -- only for the attempts to backfire.<br /><br />He later becomes a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] villain for [[Iron Man]] and [[Took a Level In Badass]] taken down a number of Avengers and can take blasts hotter than the sun. Arguably he suffered [[Badass Decay]] when he appeared in ''Thunderbolts'' for the first time - in his first appearance he was able to beat all of the Avengers and then avert their [[Hope Spot]] by defeating Thor when he showed up to save the day.

* [[Big Bad Wannabe]]: ''Graviton'' -- a supervillain who is to gravity what Magneto is to magnetism, held back mostly by his personal inadequacies. Became a recurring opponent to the team, mostly because of Moonstone repeately manipulating him -- only for the attempts to backfire.

:He later becomes a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] villain for [[Iron Man]] and [[Took a Level In Badass]] taken down a number of Avengers and can take blasts hotter than the sun. Arguably he suffered [[Badass Decay]] when he appeared in ''Thunderbolts'' for the first time - in his first appearance he was able to beat all of the Avengers and then avert their [[Hope Spot]] by defeating Thor when he showed up to save the day.

* [[Badass Decay]]? He takes out the entire team, with outside reinforcements, ''twice''. They never won a clean fight against Graviton.

* [[Black Like Me]]: Abe (MACH-1) Jenkins was technologically disguised as a black man to cover up the fact he'd been released from prison around the time he upgraded to MACH-'''2'''.

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* [[Evil Plan]]: The first reason for suspicion whenever Baron Zemo comes up with a new plan to "save the world" is that every one looks exactly like a villainous plot to ''take over'' the world. At least Zemo has stylistic consistency.

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]

{{quote|'''Moonstone:''' [[Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?|What does "Growing Man" do]]?~~<br~~ />

{{quote|'''Moonstone:''' [[Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?|What does "Growing Man" do]]?

'''Jolt:''' [[Eureka Moment|He GROWS]]! }}

* [[Executive Meddling]]: Humorously, this was both the reason that Genis-Vell (Captain Marvel/Photon) was added to the team ''and'' the reason he was killed off.

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* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: American Eagle and Shadow-woman(Sepulchre).

* [[Badass]]: While most of the team fit this trope, a special mention goes to Jason Strongbow, AKA American Eagle. He impales Moonstone's arm with his Grapple Gun, fights Venom to a standstill, escapes without a scratch from the entire team, then proceeds to beat the crap out of frickin' ''Bullseye'' without breaking a sweat!

{{quote|'''Strongbow: '''You might do okay with those New York city boys. But you and me are in Phoenix, Arizona. [[Badass Boast|So you take a swing at a real American and see what happens]].~~<br~~ />

{{quote|'''Strongbow: '''You might do okay with those New York city boys. But you and me are in Phoenix, Arizona. [[Badass Boast|So you take a swing at a real American and see what happens]].

'''Bullseye: '''You done?~~<br~~ />

'''Bullseye: '''You done?

'''Strongbow: '''Not till I'm paddling in your blood, little boy. C'mon, first shot's free.~~<br~~ />

'''Strongbow: '''Not till I'm paddling in your blood, little boy. C'mon, first shot's free.

'''Bullseye: '''First shot's all I need.~~<br~~ />

'''Bullseye: '''First shot's all I need.

''Bullseye goes in for said first shot, Strongbow ducks, then beats the hell out of him until he's vomiting [[Blood From the Mouth]].''~~<br~~ />

''Bullseye goes in for said first shot, Strongbow ducks, then beats the hell out of him until he's vomiting [[Blood From the Mouth]].''

'''Bullseye (weakly): '''What happened to the first shot?~~<br~~ />

'''Bullseye (weakly): '''What happened to the first shot?

'''Strongbow: '''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|I lied]]. }}

* [[Bald of Awesome]]: The head shaving of Swordsman marked [[Took a Level In Badass|his new Badassary]]. [[Butt Monkey|It didn't really work, though]].