History Characters / GrrlPowerArchon

* NavelDeepNeckline: After her clothing got destroyed in a battle, Harem let Maxima use her jacket. Due to her BoobsOfSteel, the jacket could not zip up past her sternum.

* BoobsOfSteel: Possibly bigger than Maxima's, and she's no pushover.
-->'''Sydney:''' At least you, uh... how do I put this? You don't have to worry about anyone mistaking you for a man.\\
'''Anvil:''' [[SpeechBubbleCensoring There is that]].

* BoobsOfSteel: Averted for Pixel, which makes her rather unusual among supers. [[spoiler: Played straight when in her were-cat form.]]

* MorphicResonance: Dabbler can take many appearances thanks to her glamour, but she tends to keep her blue eye and green eye.

-->'''Dabbler:''' I find [[LesYay complex women arousing]].\\

** And best exemplified [[http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2320 by the sigil Icon gains when Dabbler wears him]] - before she alters him into a ChainmailBikini, anyway.
*** Even after she turns it into fantasy "armor" that looks like a Creator/BorisVallejo project, that design remains on the belt buckle.

* ForbiddenFruit: Part of why she's a bit fixated on Maxima - she's one of the few people that's shown zero interest in her.

* ShapeShifting:
** Via glamor-based illusions -- according to her cast page she lacks a doppelganger's true shapeshifting ability.
** During the scene where she's introduced, while she's in human guise, a pair of invisible hands grope Maxima in one panel. They're probably Dabbler's secondary hands.
* StupidSexyFlanders: Dabbler shows her that she loves [[http://www.grrlpowercomic.com/comics/2012-07-23-GP0100.jpg seducing and confusing the new recruits.]]

--> '''Waitress''' Can I sue the supervillains for lost wages?
--> '''Arianna''': Yes... yes you ''can! And '''I''' will '''HELP YOU!''' ''

* HeWhoMustNotBeHeard[=/=]TheVoiceless: Goose has never been known to speak on screen. There's no suggestion that he's TheSpeechless; it appears that he's just not a big talker.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Her true form has hooves and thus does not need them. Even glamored into a human-looking image, she takes them off when she gets a chance.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Only seen wearing flip flops, and will kick them off to go barefoot when indoors. [[spoiler:This makes more sense after she's revealed to be a were-jaguar: when she shifts her feet become digitigrade like a cat's and would prevent her from wearing shoes, so it would be convenient for her to wear something easy to remove.]]

%%* PeekABangs: Her falling bangs frequently cover her right eye. At least when she's not in a fight, where the wind of her fast moves usually uncovers it.

* ShorterMeansSmarter: He's a little person and ACRHON's premiere data analyst.

* TheSpook: An entire organizational version. We know the name, a single agent who gives away practically nothing, and nothing else.

The classified handler Archon has watching Dabbler, just in case she was serving as the vanguard of an invasion force, or something similar. He's laconic and pragmatic, suiting his job as a spy; he evidently uses a high-tech invisibility/stealth suit, which may be his own design. The only member of ARC-Dark so far seen (or possibly acknowledged).

A fabrikinetic who works in ARC-Sparc designing uniforms and body armor, in addition to developing several fashion lines.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: the base invasion demonstrates that he can control someone who's sufficiently covered, using a mook's sleeve and glove to make him shoot another mook.
* MindOverMatter: Exclusively with cloth or cloth like-materials.

* CardboardPrison: Despite an ImagineSpot by Hench Wench it’s so far averted, with a total lack of General Population to enforce the aversion. Prisoners are kept in their specialized cells that specifically counter their abilities. The only people to "get out" are Vehemence on supervised release to essentially to give him enough regular doses of violence not to ''die'' and Opal and Vektor, who are paroled by Deus.

--> '''Arianna''': Yes...yes you ''can! And '''I''' will '''HELP YOU!''' ''

* MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours: She ends up getting the better of [[spoiler:Hench Wench, since she can suspend her LLC on ethical grounds, pending review by the New York secretary of state]].
* NotMeThisTime: Since she arranged the fake bank heist, Maxima apparently assumes that Arianna may also have staged the first supervillain attack. In a wordless conversation of expressions and gestures across the room, Ariana emphatically insists otherwise.

A super-strong, energy-absorbing powerhouse. Anvil is good friends with Maxima and is the only one of the three African-American members of the team we've been introduced to thus far.

* DrillSergeantNasty: Downplayed, as she's laid-back enough in almost all social situations, but if she needs to shake a bit the recruits (especially Sydney), Sergeant Kenya Cassidy can do the stern, yelling part all right.

* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: During the first super brawl, [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-211-battle-royale-boredom/ Math contact Maxima to complain about how he's not feeling challenged.]]

* ThoseTwoGuys: Ironically, he seems to have this relationship with Harem off duty. He is usually shown alongside her, and she [[http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/625 tolerates]] his LovableSexManiac antics more than the other women on the team.

* MistakenForBadass: By Detla. She became his student to learn his techniques, but because she didn't know that Super Powers were a thing. She believed that he was an extremely skilled warrior, and is stunned to learn that he's actually not a very good fighter, merely completely invulnerable.

* StockScream: Lets lose the [[WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} Goofy Holler]] when punched through a roof.

* HeelFaceBrainwashing: Downplayed. She was briefly {{Charm|Person}}ed by Dabbler to get some extra firepower in the brawl, but the effect has long since worn of. Doesn't stop Jazza from blaming her crush on Dabbler on the Charm.

* PeekABangs: Her falling bangs frequently cover her right eye. At least when she's not in a fight, where the wind of her fast moves usually uncovers it.

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* BadassAdorable: She's only slightly taller than Sydney and she looks like an anime character, but to be a member of ARCON then by definition you qualify as a badass.

* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: [[spoiler: Unbeknownst to most of ARCHON, Pixel is a werecat, specifically a were-jaguar, almost doubling in height (and growing in [[BreastExpansion other ways]]) when transformed. Plus has laser claws]]

* PeekABangs: How she wears her hair, a bit ironic given her vision-based powers.

** A Downplayed example later in the comic. After being caught in a stasis beam, she displays the ability to still move, albeit very slowly, while under the effects due to her SuperSpeed.

* OhCrap: When Sydney casually reveals, as she's filling up Swear Jar II, that she 1) openly engaged a Calaramian in battle, 2) killed it in a straight-up fight, dancing on its flaming corpse, and then 3) survived battle when three more landed nearby, Maxima's face goes from a bemused "you engaged it?" to a near panic-stricken "DEBRIEFING! NOW!"

* BerserkButton: Dabbler's usually pretty easygoing and rarely loses her temper. But when she finds out that Decolette's adolescent protégé has been kidnapped by a suspected DemonHunter... she gets ''pissed.''

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: The general public and lower-ranked Archon agents are not allowed to know that she is an alien succubus. Sydney was supposed to be in this group, but her true sight led to her figuring out on her own. (Of course it also allowed Sydney the chance to find out She had True Sight in the first place.)
* LovableSexManiac: Comes with the territory of being a succubus. WordOfGod states the author finds it slightly annoying that so many succubus characters don't really act like sex demons, and so pulls as few punches as he can for an SFW comic when it comes to Dabbler's ...healthy sexuality.

* MorphicResonance: Dabbler can take many appearance thanks to her glamour, but she tends to keep her blue eye and green eye.

* PrecisionFStrike: Let's loose one in [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-810-dabblers-mighty-steed/ this page]] (Warning: Link is somewhat NSFW). The author initially said that he intended for Dabbler to never swear because he thought it would be funny if the sex-maniac succubus with the highest body-count out of anyone on the team never swore.

** Given a more hilarious callback [[http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2780 here]] when one copy is having a [[TheImmodestOrgasm mind-blowing orgasm]] and another copy, currently in a meeting with her superiors, is doing everything she can to NOT scream in pleasure. A third copy, currently relaxing in a cafe, has no such restrictions.

* MundaneUtility: She sometimes sends one copy to study something while the others are taking care of other things; she has a lot more skills at her disposal than it first seems. Understandable, because while she's only her early-twenties, so are each of her other four bodies, which adds up to a collective 80+ years of life experience.

** Sydney's orbs are a ClingyMacGuffin, and cannot be separated from her by more than five feet or so. Even Maxima -- who can lift ''thirty-five tons'' without noticeable effort -- can't overcome that. Oddly, she can't drag Syd around by yanking on them, either. This allows Sydney a little bit of gloating at Max (especially when she falls on her butt), but is perhaps her one glaring weakness -- if they're pinned under something she can't lift, she's trapped. [[spoiler:Concretia exploits this weakness by encasing the orbs in concrete, pinning down Halo.]]

* NoPokerFace: Sydney is terrible at poker, because she gets exuberant whenever she thinks she has a good hand, making the others fold.

* NoSell: Her orbs are immune to any and all forms of scanning, from magical to technological. Several functions (most notably the skill tree) are only visible to organic eyes. Dabbler theorizes it's some sort of illusory or psychic light that is masking itself, but she isn't able to confirm it. Krona was able to see the "source code" of the orbs when the skill tree pops up, but Krona's magic is so unique that she's considered an entire faction of magic all by herself.

** Although ''she'' is nowhere near strong enough to lift a small car, the Light hook can without putting any strain on Sydney. It is eventually revealed that the light hook can lift somewhere around 16 tons before Sydney starts to feel the strain.

* SuperStrength: Can lift 16 tons via the Light hook, which is also not yet fully powered up.

* TeleportersVisualizationClause: In [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-499-inopportunity/ "#499 – Inopportunity"]], she discovers the ability to teleport [[spoiler:to the place her illusion version is]]. Has a visual effect at her origin, going to her destination.

** Sort of. Her ability to "max out" her stats gives her an incredible amount of versatility, but it does mean she has to sacrifice other stats for the one she is increasing. The easiest way to render her helpless is to hit her with so much power that she is forced to dump everything into armor, rendering her [[NighInvulnerability Nigh Invulnerable]] but barely superhuman in every other way. Of course, that's not something that just anyone can do, but this weakness is why her ability to shift her stats around is top-secret. Even her teammates don't know about it (except Dabbler, who figured it out on her own). Vehemence manages to achieve this with a powerful and sustained electric attack, but both he and onlookers misunderstand what's really happening. This starts a rumor that she has a ''different'' Achilles Heel: that electrical attacks will sap her strength.

* ClothingDamage: In theory Averted as her protective shield is a bit above her skin and protects her clothing.

* SuperheroesStaySingle: Averted. At least two of the team's members are explicitly noted to be dating.

!!Halo [=/=] Sydney Trouble Scoville

** The blue one lets her [[{{Flight}} fly]]. An upgrade she bought while fighting [[spoiler:giant tentacle kaiju]] she gains the ability to open [[spoiler:Aetherium causeways. A sort of [[WarpWhistle Fast Travel]] that normally requires enormous ships or a mass sacrifice of psychics to open.]]

** The green one was unknown to her until well after she joined ARCHON -- it provides [[spoiler:[[RequiredSecondaryPowers life support]] -- in its [[http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2560 reveal strip]], it creates a bubble of breathable air]].

* AwesomeByAnalysis: When Sydney deliberately crosses her GenreSavvy with her ADHD ability to come at problems from angles nobody would usually expect by throwing the kitchen sink at them and seeing what might stick, awesome can, in fact, ensue. As Vehemence found to his cost. [[AllThereInTheManual According to her entry in the cast page]], one of Sydney's advantages is that [[RulesLawyer she can come up with more power stunts]] than the people whose powers they are. This is demonstrated in the opening pages, where she proves how her attack in a superhero tabletop game actually worked despite the villain's force-field.

* BarrierWarrior: When using the indigo orb. Not only can she change the size of the force field to cover large groups of people, it's strong enough to take some of Maxima's most powerful attacks without difficulty. It even gives her immunity to some non-physical attacks [[spoiler:like Vehemence's aggro aura.]] It also protects the ''ground'' at her feet, as evidenced when Maxima hit someone -- at the time anchoring himself to the ground -- [[SuperStrength hard enough]] to ''[[MegatonPunch lift the street]]''... and Sidney's shield kept the ground at the same level it was when she shielded herself, making a hole on the raised portion.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: She's usually not all that threatening, but [[MuggingTheMonster she put a robber in the hospital when he tried to rob her]], and the police report only read "Oh the humanity". She was also able to knock out a full-on super ''without'' the use of her orbs, and [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-898-ball-jail/ when Concretia managed to disable said orbs]], Sydney reacted immediately by ''emptying her entire magazine into Conretia's skull.'' Do not mess with Sydney Scoville.

* ClingyMacGuffin: Sydney and her power-spheres ''cannot'' be separated by more than a certain distance. Although Sydney won't be dragged along if there's a pull on the spheres; instead the spheres will just stop moving at all -- even Maxima's SuperStrength is unable to pull them an inch further.

* DrillSergeantNasty: Downplayed, as she's laid-back enough in almost all social situations, but if she needs to shake a bit the enlisted (especially Sydney), Sergeant Kenya Cassidy can do the stern, yelling part all right.

* HasTwoMommies: [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1021-the-family-tree-contains-several-mobius-branches/ Due to how doppelganger reproduction works]], she has two mothers and a father.

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Something of an inversion, in that he doesn't have full SuperStrength but he’s functionally somewhat stronger than a normal human because his invulnerability means he can't injure himself by straining too hard.

* StoneWall: He's [[NighInvulnerability Nigh Invulnerable]] minus the nigh. The problem being, he's otherwise basically just a normal person (albeit 1.5 times as strong as most, since he doesn't have to worry about tearing muscles or anything). He also seems to have some rooting effect for things that strike him, no matter how strong, though he can just be picked up to negate that.

* AmbiguouslyBi: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. While she shows interest in men, Dabbler seems to treat her as bi. This is, of course, [[AnythingThatMoves Dabbler]], so it's unclear how much of it is just her wanting to sleep with her.

* DCupDistress: Maxima is specifically annoyed with her bust because it [[http://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/320 interferes withdrawing and holstering her gun.]]

* IAmNotLeftHanded: {{Implied|Trope}}. After her extremely impressive and devastating show of power, Peggy asks her if it was necessary for her to go full power.

* ShapeShifting

An inventor for ARC-Sparq, pulled from field duty after a few incidents involving untested inventions.

* AnythingThatMoves: By virtue of [[SuccubiAndIncubi her nature as a succubus]]. [[http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2730 One strip]] had her sporting a [[FunTShirt Fun Tanktop]] reading "My milkshake brings all sapient species to the yard irrespective [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer of orientation or gender]]."

* ExtremeOmnisexual: Men, women, living suits of armor...

* CovertPervert: Sydney usually keeps her libido downplayed, but she can let it slip sometimes. For example: she has an [[Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist Edward Elric]] dakimakura that she uses for [[ADateWithRosiePalms Rosie Palms purposes]], says that she's had "dreams" involving a writhing mass of tentacles, and implies that the only reason that she wouldn't want to watch Maxima and Hiro have sex is that she knows them personally, and feels like that would make it weird. As for her later relationship with Frix, her openness to the pairing was shown a good [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-342-predenuded/ four years beforehand]], when she readily agrees with Dabbler about the appeal of a furred sapient partner.

* SuperStrength: Ren implies that his "super adrenaline" also boosts his strength.

* CardboardPrison: Despite an ImagineSpot by Hench Wench it is so far averted, with a total lack of General Population to enforce the aversion. Prisoners are kept in their specialized cells that specifically counter their abilities. The only people to "get out" are Vehemence on supervised release to essentially to give him enough regular doses of violence not to ''die'' and Opal and Vektor, who are paroled by Deus.

* PersonOfMassDestruction: Sydney doesn't look like it, but she is one of the most powerful and potentially destructive supers in ''the world'', and she is not even ''close'' to her hypothetical limit. Her Pew-pew orb alone can destroy capital ships in a single strike, take down enormous {{Kaiju}}, and turn an entire desert to glass, all with no particular strain on Sydney herself.

* BareYourMidriff: It's pretty much a guarantee that her shirts are going to be short enough to do this to some degree. In addition, in one battle the lower part of her shirt and jacket get burned off, creating this effect.