History Characters / AstroCityHeroes

-->'''Rex:''' "Where... IS... '''MY DAUGHTER?!'''"
* ParentalNeglect: Natalie tended to leave most of Astra's childhood education to a computer program, and was often too busy super-heroing to notice her daughter's growing discontent and social isolation. JustifiedTrope in that Natalie realizes after Astra's running away that she herself had nothing resembling a normal childhood and very much needed to give her daughter a chance to taste one, so made arrangements for her to continue attending a real school and associate with non-super friends.

* {{Expy}}: He contains elements reminiscent of ComicBook/GreenArrow. Mainly as a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob who later developed a social conscience and wanted to better his community while maintaining some showboating qualities and taking in a young sidekick. [[spoiler: Hidalgo's fall from grace shows what would've happened if Green Arrow's ego got the better of him, and his falling out with Bravo can be considered a parallel to how Green Arrow's falling out with Speedy happened due to his failures as a mentor and how they affected the young man.]]

* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Averts this in his civilian identity, sinking tons of his money into charity and neighborhood improvement and working as a community organizer.

* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: Everyone loved them. Their funeral and wake was attended by superheroes from all over the world.

* Expy: One could assume he borrows elements from the Silver Age ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} with a dose of ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} in terms of cocky attitude.

* Expy: One could assume he borrows elements from the Silver Age [[Daredevil]] with a dose of [[Hawkeye]] in terms of cocky attitude.

* UncannyValley:[[invoked]] She works hard to frame the appropriate responses to subvert this.

* NamesTheSame: In-universe. Appears to bear no relation to the 1940's hero of the same name.

* PinocchioSyndrome: While never expressly stated, it's clear Beautie desperately wishes she were human.

* AlienLunch: Implied on at least one occasion:
-->"I was in one of the Enfolded dimensions. I calmed an ifrit. There was a celebration, it went late. But there was sushi. Amazing, fantastic sushi. At least I think it was sushi..."

* PoisonousFriend: In her college years, Astra dated a normal young man. The relationship began as a chance for her to feel 'normal' for once... [[spoiler: but he was so eager for celebrity status that he started taking money to provide tabloids with gossip. When he took to wearing hidden recording devices in hopes of getting racy footage for them, she caught him by detecting the batteries.]]

* PiousMonster: [[spoiler:Confessor is a vampire who was a Catholic priest and now acts a superhero. The cross her wears on the front of his costume constantly burns him, [[DeliberatelyPainfulClothing which he regards as form of penance]].]]

* HeroismAddict: Tried to pull this off and failed. [[spoiler: Twice.]]

%% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. * Berserk Button: Understandably reacts ''really'' badly when Steeljack brings up El Hombre.

* BadassNormal: Like his mentor.

* BerserkButton: Understandably reacts ''really'' badly when Steeljack brings up El Hombre.

* LoneSurvivor: Rally was the only one left, because the others sent him to get back-up. He only got there just as the others died.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Blue Knight is notably not an {{Expy}} of The Punisher in general, but is rather closer to Gerry Conway's original version of the character, a broken man who has made himself a monster because society had failed him, and a symbol of that failure. He exists "because the dance failed. It's as simple and complex as that".

* BalefulPolymorph: She finds herself slowly metamorphosing.

* TheArchmage: She apparently learned magic after becoming Greymalkin, and she's the person Hummingbird consults about her BalefulPolymorph.

* Expy: One could assume he borrows elements from the Silver Age ComicBook/Daredevil with a dose of ComicBook/Hawkeye in terms of cocky attitude.

The daughter of the original Hummingbird, Barbara grew up relatively normal, though raised by a cadre of super-powered honorary aunts and uncles. When she was old enough, she leaped into superheroics without pause, and became estatic when her meta-abilities manifested -- at least, until the price of those powers became known...

*** To be exact, she is an expy of the ''comicbook'' version of Agatha, and not the Wandavision version, who is a ''very'' different character.

* AmbiguousDisorder: He looks and talks like an adult human being, but is emotionally underdeveloped. It's implied that this is because he is YoungerThanHeLooks.

* {{Expy}}: [[{{Franchise/Superman}} An alien being with powers beyond those of mortal men, fending off the advances of a woman who's trying to reveal his secret identity.]]

* BattleBolas: Uses bolas as his WeaponOfChoice.

* {{Irony}}: Wishes Simon Says many more birthdays. [[spoiler: Neither [[GenderBender "Simon"]] nor [[HeroicSacrifice Chet]] would get them.]]

* GenderBender: [[spoiler: As mentioned above.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Moved by Starbright's aka Chet's kindness and belief, Simon Says transitions into the second Starbright (and becomes a young woman as well]]

*** To be exact, she is an expy of the 'comicbook' version of Agatha, and not the Wandavision version, who is a 'very' different character.

* {{Expy}}: Of the [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Savage Hulk]] - a violent, destructive creature of great strength that lashed out at anything that threatened it, created by an experiment with unintended consequences. Also like the Hulk, if you take the time and just not fight it, it has a heroic spirit underneath that scary exterior.

* NiceHat: A white top hat.

* NiceHat: A jaunty little number with a feather in it.

* NiceHat: Wears a beret, which never gets dislodged no matter how much the Beatnik bounces around.

* NiceHat: Although Busiek isn't sure what it's called. He apparently decides to ditch it as an adult.

* {{Expy}}: To the ComicBook/FantasticFour. Even the initials are the same. Kurt has noted that the team are inspired by the Jack Kirby and Gardner Fox type science heroes of the 50s and 60s in general, showing how such adventurers would naturally develop into an FF style super-team... then beyond, as they're allowed to age and change. (He tried to find another name just so the "FF" connection wouldn't be ''quite'' so explicit, but couldn't figure out a better one than "First Family.")

* {{Fangirl}}: Julie was a big admirer of Glamorax back in the 70's, even asking them for an autograph when they asked the First Family for help.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Astra has a variation -- she enjoys being a world-saving powerful EnergyBeing, but she wants to be treated as if she were normal, hanging out with her peers from time to time.

* EnergyBeing: Could shift into one of these.

* EnergyBeing: Can shift into one, like Starbright I. As she's shown using energy blasts, unlike him, it's possible that [[spoiler:Simon]] made some improvements.

* EnergyBeing: Astra Furst of the First Family is a member.

* AdultFear: When Astra goes missing, the entire Family tears apart a number of villainous legions across time and space to find her.

* AdultFear: Zachary meets three alternate versions of his unborn son; two of them became ruthless vigilantes after his death, the third was willing to throw away a successful scientific career just to see his father for a few minutes, and this causes him to realize that he might leave his son to grow up without a father just as he had.
** When his son Ike reached puberty, he tried to become a sidekick to his "uncle" Roscoe, calling himself Jackie Justice, which caused Zachary no small amount of panic. Luckily, Ike's superhero career ended when he busted his kneecap on one of his first outings in the costume, and he wisely decided to become a doctor instead.