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* GiveMeAReason: Theo [[spoiler:openly invites Bianca to "'''Go ahead. Give me another order. Please.'''" Meanwhile, he's aiming a massive glowing plasma cannon at her.]]
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* JustInTime: Atropos' portal opens with so little margin to spare that [[spoiler:Emma's skin is pricked by the incoming knife before she's pulled away.]]
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* GodzillaThreshold:
** Dragon would really rather go through proper legal channels to rescue Paige Mcabee from her sham trial and railroading into the Birdcage. But when all her other avenues fail and it's clear that the system is determined to make an example of Paige, Dragon is willing to make a deal with Atropos and bring under-the-table threats to bear.
** Riley [[spoiler:doesn't like her memories of being Bonesaw, and hates to dip into them. They're faded, too, due to Panacea's efforts. But they aren't gone, and they include a wealth of experience in dealing with larger opponents, from deliberately vomiting as a distraction, to [[GroinAttack groin strikes]], to incapacitating someone through impromptu surgery.]]
---> She just had to hope that there was a way back for her after all this was over and done.
** Dragon would really rather go through proper legal channels to rescue Paige Mcabee from her sham trial and railroading into the Birdcage. But when all her other avenues fail and it's clear that the system is determined to make an example of Paige, Dragon is willing to make a deal with Atropos and bring under-the-table threats to bear.
** Riley [[spoiler:doesn't like her memories of being Bonesaw, and hates to dip into them. They're faded, too, due to Panacea's efforts. But they aren't gone, and they include a wealth of experience in dealing with larger opponents, from deliberately vomiting as a distraction, to [[GroinAttack groin strikes]], to incapacitating someone through impromptu surgery.]]
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* GodzillaThreshold:
** Dragon would really rather go through proper legal channels to rescue Paige Mcabee from her sham trial and railroading into the Birdcage. But when all her other avenues fail and it's clear that the system is determined to make an example of Paige, Dragon is willing to make a deal with Atropos and bring under-the-table threats to bear.
**TheGlovesComeOff: Riley [[spoiler:doesn't like her memories of being Bonesaw, and hates to dip into them. They're faded, too, due to Panacea's efforts. But they aren't gone, and they include a wealth of experience in dealing with larger opponents, from deliberately vomiting as a distraction, to [[GroinAttack groin strikes]], to incapacitating someone through impromptu surgery.]]
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* GodzillaThreshold: Dragon would really rather go through proper legal channels to rescue Paige Mcabee from her sham trial and railroading into the Birdcage. But when all her other avenues fail and it's clear that the system is determined to make an example of Paige, Dragon is willing to make a deal with Atropos and bring under-the-table threats to bear.
** Dragon would really rather go through proper legal channels to rescue Paige Mcabee from her sham trial and railroading into the Birdcage. But when all her other avenues fail and it's clear that the system is determined to make an example of Paige, Dragon is willing to make a deal with Atropos and bring under-the-table threats to bear.
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* GodzillaThreshold: Dragon would really rather go through proper legal channels to rescue Paige Mcabee from her sham trial and railroading into the Birdcage. But when all her other avenues fail and it's clear that the system is determined to make an example of Paige, Dragon is willing to make a deal with Atropos and bring under-the-table threats to bear.
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* GiveMeASword: Before entering the city of Flint, Atropos asks the PRT guard contingent for the loan of a rifle and a spare magazine, "if that's not too much trouble." They're incredulous about taking on the whole city, containing thousands of capes, with just a rifle and sixty bullets, but knowing her reputation, they're quick to comply.
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** A petty criminal and his small gang decide to mug a group of young women, thinking them to be defenseless. As he learns too late, all but one of them is a cape, and the former [[CurbStompBattle go down like a house of cards]].
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** A petty criminal Stanley and his small gang decide to mug a group of young women, thinking them to be defenseless. As he learns too late, all but one of them is a cape, the girls are capes, and the former thugs [[CurbStompBattle go down like a house of cards]].cards]]. Bonus points because even after one of the girls levitates six feet off the ground and announces that she's Laserdream, Stanley still thinks his boys have the upper hand.
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** Director Piggot has another chance to exercise her least-bad-choice muscles when she works out the true background of Badaboom's situation, but decides not to take action.
---> '''Piggot:''' I'd rather a Ward or hero who started out with sketchy motives but who's trying to make something of herself, as opposed to a villain on the run.
---> '''Piggot:''' I'd rather a Ward or hero who started out with sketchy motives but who's trying to make something of herself, as opposed to a villain on the run.
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*** She can also use it to put a set of billiard balls in place for a game without using a triangle - by hitting three of the balls with a cue in quick succession.
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* NeverBringAGunToAKnifeFight: Riley [[spoiler:sees that her captor carries a gun and a knife, and immediately recognises that the gun would be useless to her, since she's small and untrained, while the knife, on the other hand, gives her all sorts of options. A few minutes later, the guard is undergoing involuntary surgery.]]
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* NeverBringAGunToAKnifeFight: Riley [[spoiler:sees that her captor carries a gun and a knife, and immediately recognises that the gun would be useless to her, since she's small and untrained, while the knife, on the other hand, gives her all sorts of options. A few minutes later, the guard is undergoing involuntary surgery.]]surgery]].
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Emma getting Blackwell to clean up the mess from the trio's "prank" on Taylor and fix their lockers means that no one in a position of power can actually link Taylor to Sophia's death.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Emma getting Blackwell to clean up the mess from the trio's "prank" on Taylor and fix their lockers means that no one in a position of power can actually link Taylor to Sophia's death.death (at least, not before she sets up her position as TheDreaded).
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* NotEnoughToBury: After Atropos kills him, Skidmark has to be cleaned up with a squeegee and a bucket [[spoiler:due to being left smeared across 200-ish meters of asphalt.]]
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* NotEnoughToBury: After Atropos kills him, Skidmark has to be cleaned up with a squeegee and a bucket [[spoiler:due to being left smeared across 200-ish meters of asphalt.]]asphalt]].
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* LaserGuidedKarma: When a pair of ABB gangers decide to murder the prostitutes they're guarding and pin it on Atropos, she promptly shows up and cuts their throats. Their comrade, who objected to doing so, is left with a stark warning to improve himself lest Atropos return for him.
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** When a pair of ABB gangers decide to murder the prostitutes they're guarding and pin it on Atropos, she promptly shows up and cuts their throats. Their comrade, who objected to doing so, is left with a stark warning to improve himself lest Atropos return forhim.him.
** When Atropos pulls [[spoiler:Teacher]] out of the Birdcage for a plan, the villain just can't help but to attempt to use his power on Atropos. Because of that (and the thousands of people he ruined in the process), Atropos arranges it so [[spoiler:when Teacher powers up Damsel of Distress and Scopegoat, the latter passes all the mental issues he and Damsel suffer into Teacher, whom Atropos tricks into running through a portal that takes him back to the Birdcage]].
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** When Atropos pulls [[spoiler:Teacher]] out of the Birdcage for a plan, the villain just can't help but to attempt to use his power on Atropos. Because of that (and the thousands of people he ruined in the process), Atropos arranges it so [[spoiler:when Teacher powers up Damsel of Distress and Scopegoat, the latter passes all the mental issues he and Damsel suffer into Teacher, whom Atropos tricks into running through a portal that takes him back to the Birdcage]].
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* OriginalPositionFallacy: When one of Earth Shin's inhabitants claims they should treat capes the same way they treated normal people during Goddess' tyranny, Atropos points out that ''anyone'' could become a Parahuman, and if that happened to them, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion would they just submit to the same rules they so vociferously supported in the past, or would they fight back against what they now see as injustice?]]
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* HereWeGoAgain: Atropos was managing to slowly get Emma to stop considering her some kind of deity. Then [[spoiler:the Fallen attack]], and due to the role she played, Emma goes back even harder into worship, much to Taylor's chagrin.
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* HereWeGoAgain: Atropos was managing to slowly get Emma to stop considering her some kind of deity. Then [[spoiler:the Fallen attack]], and due to the role she played, [[spoiler:Goddess kidnaps Emma goes and Atropos saves her in the nick of time]], which causes Emma to go back even harder into worship, much to Taylor's chagrin.
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** A senior Gesellschaft representative survives Atropos' attack on his warehouse, but she shoots him in the knee before leaving so he won't be able to escape the authorities.
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* GottaKillThemAll: When Taylor first asked her power for a Path to end the threat and legacy of Heartbreaker, it blithely offered ways to kill all his children, until she steered it more toward gathering information on her options.
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* KidsDrivingCars: Since it's going to be a very late night, Taylor does most of the driving back from New York, running a Path to Ending This Journey Safely at Home. Danny has seen too much of her capabilities at that point to doubt her.
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* HereWeGoAgain: Atropos was managing to slowly get Emma to stop considering her some kind of deity. Then [[spoiler:the Fallen attack]], and due to the role she played, Emma goes back even harder into worship, much to Taylor's chagrin.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Eidolon wants to be the greatest hero in the world, which has resulted in the Endbringers appearing for him to fight. [[spoiler: Atropos exploits this desire by presenting him with the opportunity to remove the Endbringers, not by exercising his powers, but by relinquishing them. He struggles with it, but ultimately accepts the deal, putting the survival and well-being of all their potential victims ahead of his own power.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: Eidolon wants to be the greatest hero in the world, which has resulted in the Endbringers appearing for him to fight. [[spoiler: Atropos [[spoiler:Atropos exploits this desire by presenting him with the opportunity to remove the Endbringers, not by exercising his powers, but by relinquishing them. He struggles with it, but ultimately accepts the deal, putting the survival and well-being of all their potential victims ahead of his own power.]]
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* LieDetector: Armsmaster arranges for Brian's interview to be examined by both his own voice analysis software and Gallant's ability to see emotions, to ensure Brian's sincerity.
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* HopeSpot: Coil's power means that Atropos' terrifying assault on his base was AllJustADream; upon dying, he wakes up in his other timeline, breathing hard. [[spoiler:To find Atropos sitting next to his bed, repeating the same PreMortemOneLiner she used in the other timeline.]]
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** After Sophia's death, a thoroughly shaken Emma and Madison agree that they need to stop everything that would hurt Taylor and never go near her again.
---> '''Madison:''' We're alive, right? That's because we didn't go with Sophia. Because we didn't go after Taylor again. She told me ''that's two'', right? If we step over the line one more time, we're dead. All we have to do is never step over the line.
---> '''Madison:''' We're alive, right? That's because we didn't go with Sophia. Because we didn't go after Taylor again. She told me ''that's two'', right? If we step over the line one more time, we're dead. All we have to do is never step over the line.
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** [[spoiler:Bianca aka "Goddess", ruler of Earth Shin,]] becomes a VisualPun, with Atropos stating that she started the day with three shins and will go all the way to zero if she doesn't cooperate. (She ends up with one.)
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* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: Coil gets killed by Atropos in one timeline, and the shock wakes him up in his other timeline -- to see her standing over his bed. He promptly yanks the pistol out from under his pillow and shoots her repeatedly, only to have her open her hand and reveal the pile of cartridges that she took from the gun before he woke up.
--> There was one dry ''click'', followed by a lot of useless trigger pulls.
--> There was one dry ''click'', followed by a lot of useless trigger pulls.
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* NoiselessWalker: Atropos manages to walk up behind Uber unnoticed, even though she's wearing knee-high hard-soled boots.
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** Uber bursts into panicked profanity, interrupting L33t's game and dragging him to the computer to read PHO, when he sees that Atropos has called out the two of them and wants to have a chat.
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