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Your [[Super Team]] is really popular! So popular, in fact, that [[The Powers That Be]] have decided it deserves a [[Spin-Off]]. What to do?

 

 

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** The ''[[Great Lakes Avengers]]'' are a [[Joke Character|joke team]] based in Wisconsin, made of all [[Fun Personified]] characters with powers of ''apparently'' [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|dubious]] value (although they tend to [[Weak but Skilled|use teamwork]] to make the best of their abilities,) seemingly playing off the stereotype that "[[Flyover Country]]" is a boring place in which nothing good and interesting happens. They've also been known as the Lightning Rods, the Great Lakes [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]], the Great Lakes Champions, and the Great Lakes Initiative.

*** Their most iconic member is [[Squirrel Girl]], well-known for defeating Dr. Doom, Thanos and [[Deadpool]] on separate occasions.

** Taking the "[[Great Lakes Avengers]]" gag up a level, there was a one-shot ''Justice League Antarctica'' title. The team was mostly supervillains briefly attempting to reform.

** Justified in that, until recently, the Pride kept everyone else out (except for the aforementioned West Coast Avengers, who apparently don't count) and kept their own actions low-profile (sensible, in a world of superheroes. You kinda wonder why more criminals in comicbook universes don't do this). After {{spoiler|they died}}, other supervillains have been slowly [[Evil Power Vacuum|moving in to take advantage]].

*** Naturally, these supervillains have been getting their asses kicked by the Runaways. The fact that everyone still considers Los Angeles a place where nothing super happens only adds to the series's [[Adults Are Useless]] theme.

* Washington, DC-based ''[[NCIS]]'' spun-off ''[[NCIS: Los Angeles]]''.

* ''[[Law and Order]]'' and its 2010 spin-off ''[[Law & Order: LA|Law and Order LA]]''

 

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