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* CoolMask: Her supervillain outfit has a black mask with a white spiral on it, a slight change to the bullseye shape of the comic Onomatopoeia's mask. When she's about to use her sound powers [[MakeSomeNoise concussively]], the spiral morphs into on ominous cubic pattern.

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* CoolMask: Her supervillain outfit has a black mask with a white spiral on it, a slight change to the bullseye shape of the comic Onomatopoeia's mask. When she's about to use her sound powers [[MakeSomeNoise concussively]], the spiral morphs into on an ominous cubic pattern.

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* CoolMask: Her supervillain outfit has a black mask with a white spiral on it, a slight change to the bullseye shape of the comic Onomatopoeia's mask. When she's about to use her sound powers [[MakeSomeNoise concussively]], the spiral morphs into on ominous cubic pattern.



* InNameOnly: While she has the name and a very similar costume, this version of Onomatopoeia is a substantially different character to the one in the comics, who is [[TheSpook a nameless, faceless spook]] with a quiet shtick of SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud in lieu of actual dialogue. Peia, meanwhile -- on top of being a different [[GenderFlip gender]] and [[RaceLift race]], is a fleshed-out character whose civilian identity is a subject of drama, and she also features voice-based superpowers the original Onomatopoeia lacks, ditching the SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud gimmick in the process ([[PragmaticAdaptation though this was a necessity due to the gimmick not translating from comic books to live-action very well]]).

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* InNameOnly: While she has the name and a very similar costume, this version of Onomatopoeia is a substantially different character to the one in the comics, who is [[TheSpook a nameless, faceless spook]] with a quiet shtick of SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud in lieu of actual dialogue. Peia, meanwhile -- on top of being a different [[GenderFlip gender]] and [[RaceLift race]], race]] -- is a fleshed-out character whose civilian identity is a subject of drama, and she also features voice-based superpowers the original Onomatopoeia lacks, ditching the SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud gimmick in the process ([[PragmaticAdaptation though this was a necessity due to the gimmick not translating from comic books to live-action very well]]).



* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Onomatopoeia is usually a Green Arrow villain. Here, she's a Superman villain.
* VoiceChangeling: One aspect of her powers is the ability to perfectly imitate the voices of others.

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* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Onomatopoeia is usually a Green Arrow villain. Here, she's villain, but she only makes her first appearance in the Arrowverse as a Superman villain.
villain. The showrunners of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' intended to use him back in that show, but weren't able to figure out a way to translate him to live-action at the time.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Onomato''poeia'', whose civilian identity is ''Peia'' Mannheim.
* SuperpowerMeltdown: [[spoiler:Using her powers too long strains her, which gets even worse as her health deteriorates from her condition. The experimental cure for her cancer [[FromBadToWorse ends up making things even worse]] with her [[PowerIncontinence becoming completely unable to contain her powers as they blast everything apart around her]]. Superman tries to save her, but in the end, she dies in an explosion of her own sounds.]]
* VoiceChangeling: One aspect of her powers is the ability to perfectly imitate the voices of others.others, which is helpful for luring Superman into a trap by thinking Lois is around, or [[spoiler:doctoring recorded audio evidence of Lex Luthor]].
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* InNameOnly: While she has the name and a very similar costume, this version of Onomatopoeia is a substantially different character to the one in the comics, who is [[TheSpook a nameless, faceless spook]] with a quiet shtick of SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud in lieu of actual dialogue. Peia, meanwhile -- on top of being a different [[GenderFlip gender]] and [[RaceLift race]], is a fleshed-out character whose civilian identity is a subject of drama, and she also features voice-based superpowers the original Onomatopoeia lacks, ditching the SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud gimmick in the process ([[PragmaticAdaptation though this was a necessity due to the gimmick not translating from comic books to live-action very well]]).
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* PragmaticAdaptation: Onomatopoeia is a character whose comic book gimmick of [SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud speaking through the onomatopoeia of his murder weapons]] only really works as intended in the medium of comic books, which is why he was passed up in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' (it's simply next to impossible to make a guy saying "swish", "woosh", and "blam" look like a scary serial killer in live-action). Onomatopoeia finally makes an appearance in ''Superman & Lois'', but with a reworked, more technically feasible gimmick where she can [[VoiceChangeling perfectly imitate any sound]], making it an actual superpower she can use [[MasterOfIllusion to trick people]] or [[MakeSomeNoise use concussively to devastating effect]].

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* PragmaticAdaptation: Onomatopoeia is a character whose comic book gimmick of [SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud speaking through the onomatopoeia of his murder weapons]] only really works as intended in the medium of comic books, which is why he was passed up in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' (it's simply next to impossible to make a guy saying "swish", "woosh", and "blam" look like a scary serial killer in live-action). Onomatopoeia finally makes an appearance in ''Superman & Lois'', but with a reworked, more technically feasible gimmick where she can [[VoiceChangeling perfectly imitate any sound]], making it an actual superpower she can use [[MasterOfIllusion to trick people]] or [[MakeSomeNoise use concussively to devastating effect]].
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* MasterOfIllusion: A rare non-visual example: Onomatopoeia can use her VoiceChangeling abilities to imitate ''any'' sounds and seemingly from any direction, which she can use to trick and deceive people. During her first encounter with Superman, he -- not knowing what she can do -- suddenly hears the sounds of explosions, gunfire, and people screaming all around him. He flies up into the sky to investigate, only to see nothing happening, giving Onomatopoeia the time to run.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Onomatopoeia is a character whose comic book gimmick of [SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud speaking through the onomatopoeia of his murder weapons]] only really works as intended in the medium of comic books, which is why he was passed up in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' (it's simply next to impossible to make a guy saying "swish", "woosh", and "blam" look like a scary serial killer in live-action). Onomatopoeia finally makes an appearance in ''Superman & Lois'', but with a reworked, more technically feasible gimmick where she can [[VoiceChangeling perfectly imitate any sound]], making it an actual superpower she can use [[MasterOfIllusion to trick people]] or [[MakeSomeNoise use concussively to devastating effect]].
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* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: The comics version of Onomatopoeia doesn't have any powers, but instead features a gimmick where all the dialogue he speaks is [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud the onomatopoeia of whatever he's about to kill his victims with]]. Due to this gimmick being being pretty much impossible to portray outside of the realm of comic books, this concept was rebuilt, with Onomatopoeia instead having the superpower to [[VoiceChangeling perfectly replicate sounds and other peoples' voices]].

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* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: The comics version of Onomatopoeia [[BadassNormal doesn't have any powers, powers]], but instead features a gimmick where all the dialogue he speaks is [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud the onomatopoeia of whatever he's about to kill his victims with]]. Due to this gimmick being being pretty much impossible to portray outside of the realm of comic books, this concept was rebuilt, with Onomatopoeia instead having the superpower to [[VoiceChangeling perfectly replicate sounds and other peoples' voices]].
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* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: The comics version of Onomatopoeia doesn't have any powers, but instead features a gimmick where all the dialogue he speaks is [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud the onomatopoeia of whatever he's about to kill his victims with]]. Due to this gimmick being being pretty much impossible to portray outside of the realm of comic books, this concept was rebuilt, with Onomatopoeia instead having the superpower to [[VoiceChangeling perfectly replicate sounds and other peoples' voices]].

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