History ChildOfTheStorm / TropesQToZ

** Carol's pretty free with [[PrecisionFStrike dropping f-bombs]], probably mostly to annoy her [[StayInTheKitchen father.]] As it turns out, her uncle Jack and her grandmother Alison taught her most of them specifically for that purpose. This is rendered HilariousInHindsight by the reveal that [[spoiler: she's the great-granddaughter of Captain Steve 'Language!' Rogers]].

** In chapter 60 [[spoiler: Pepper gets an exhausted Harry to sleep by plonking him down in between Carol and Diana and Uhtred and Jean-Paul. He spends a few minutes acting as a sentinel, then sleep gets the better of him. But not before he hugs both pairs close, morphing it into a giant cuddle pile]].

* StupidSexyFriend: while Carol and Harry are pretty firm about being JustFriends, there are persistent mild shippy undertones to their friendship, and it's implied that while Harry's fairly new to the whole sexual attraction thing (he's thirteen when the story starts), he wouldn't mind if they got a RelationshipUpgrade. As it is, however, he seems equally happy with being JustFriends, since Carol has about two actual guy friends who aren't trying to get in her pants and very few friends full stop.

** Erskine's original serum in Steve [[spoiler: and his descendants, as it turns out - as Carol Danvers demonstrates, it just requires a sufficient kick in the genetic pants to do more than slow ageing and give a very slightly enhanced condition]]. On more than one occasion, it is observed that almost every attempt to replicate it has failed, however, there have been a few successes.

--->'''Tony''': His best friend is a brunette brain box.
--->'''Loki''': Who he is about as sexually attracted to as he is to mould.

* {{Superweight}}
** Type -1: [[ButtMonkey Peter]] [[TeenGenius Parker]] (at least for now).
** Type 0: Muggles, [[TeenGenius Gwen Stacy,]] [[NonActionGuy Fitzsimmons,]] [[PlayfulHacker Skye.]]
** Type 1: [[MagnificentBastard Nick]] [[FourStarBadass Fury]], [[BadassNormal Agent]] [[MemeticBadass Coulson]], Agent Ward, Agent May, SHIELD/[=MI13=] Field Agents, [[spoiler: Bruce Wayne]], Tony Stark (out of armour), Carol Danvers, [[BadassNormal James Rhodes (out of armour)]].
** Type 2: [[LivingWeapon Natasha]], [[ImprobableAimingSkills Clint]], [[SuperSoldier Steve]], [[OneManArmy the]] [[TheDreaded Winter]] [[ColdSniper Soldier]], younger Hogwarts Students, [[GuileHero Harry Thorson]] [[TookALevelInBadass (prior to Chapter 60)]], Ron and Hermione, [[TheAgeless the]] [[MasterSwordsman Lady]] [[BadassTeacher Knight]] (bordering Type 3), [[FragileSpeedster Jean-Paul Beaubier]], T'Challa, [[spoiler: Carol Danvers when aged up and after chapter 69]].
** Type 3: [[FullContactMagic Harry]] [[PsychicPowers Thorson]] [[TookALevelInBadass (after Chapter 60)]], Adult Wanded Witches and Wizards, to varying degrees, [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles most members of the White Council]], [[HeroOfAnotherStory Harry Dresden,]] [[spoiler: [[TheDreaded the veidrdraugar]]]], [[SuperiorSpecies Asgardians]], [[spoiler: average Kryptonians under a Yellow Sun]], [[MagnificentBastard John Constantine]], [[PoweredArmour Iron Man]], [[PoweredArmour War]] [[MilitarySuperhero Machine]], [[WarGod Sif]], [[PhysicalGod the Warriors Three]], [[spoiler: Clark Kent]], [[spoiler: Betsy Braddock/Psylocke]], [[spoiler: Peter Wisdom/Regulus Black]], [[PsychicPowers Jean Grey]] [[spoiler: until [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength Strange explains how powerful she really is]]]], Scott Summers, Metallo, [[MakeSomeNoise Sean Cassidy]], [[RazorWings Warren]] [[FlyingBrick Worthington III,]] [[spoiler: Uhtred and [[FragileSpeedster Jean-]][[HealingFactor Paul]] upon being aged up]], the Winter and Summer Ladies.
** Type 4: [[PhysicalGod Thor, Loki, Hercules]], Doctor Strange, Wanda Maximoff, [[TheJuggernaut the Juggernaut]], [[FlyingBrick Count Nefaria]], Gravemoss (pre Darkhold), Frigga, [[PsychicPowers Charles Xavier]], the Shadow King, [[spoiler: Jean Grey [[TookALevelInBadass from chapter 75 onwards]]]], [[spoiler: Maddie Pryor]], [[DealWithTheDevil Grindelwald (during WWII)]], [[spoiler: [[FlyingBrick Kryptonians from one of the 13 Houses under a Yellow Sun]]]], [[spoiler: [[PhysicalGod Harry and Diana]]]] when aged up, [[note]] though both are implied to be able to push it up to Type 5. [[/note]]
** Type 5: Thor and Loki (when [[IAmNotLeftHanded able]] [=/=] [[GodzillaThreshold forced]] to cut loose), the Hulk, [[ArtifactOfDoom the]] [[TomeOfEldritchLore Darkhold]] and its owner, Magneto, [[spoiler: Alan Scott or Carol Danvers with the Green Lantern Ring]], Charles Xavier [[spoiler: or Jean Grey]] with Cerebro, Mab, Titania, [[spoiler: Kal-El I. Possibly touching Type 6]].
** Type 6: [[BigGood Odin]], Other Skyfathers, [[GodOfEvil Chthon]] (the latter being considerably more powerful than any Skyfather, but not quite able to warp the narrative), The Phoenix Force, [[spoiler: Lily Potter as the White Phoenix of the Crown]], and presumably the other Endless.

** It's also suggested that Jack O'Neill and his sister, Mrs Danvers (mother of Carol Danvers) are nothing alike - he's the MilitaryMaverick DeadpanSnarker he's always been, something he apparently gets from his mother and from his aunt [[spoiler: actually grandmother]] Peggy Carter. She, by contrast, is apparently something of an ExtremeDoormat, at least according to her HotBlooded and [[{{Determinator}} absurdly stubborn]] teenage daughter, who is not likely to appreciate nuance. When we finally meet her, it's clear that she has significant HiddenDepths. She is also a bit of a {{Troll}}, and has the DeadpanSnarker tendency that runs in the rest of her family.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** When you're exhausted and beaten to a pulp, defiant last stands don't last very long. [[spoiler: Thankfully for Carol, the [[TheDreaded Winter]] [[SuperSoldier Soldier]] is a FriendToAllChildren and has her back.]]
** Charging headlong into a fight with a lot of people armed with bullets, lasers, knives and WolverineClaws when you lack superhuman durability isn't a bright idea either.
** Manages to deconstruct the DracoInLeatherPants cliche in regards to Snape. Despite his protection of Harry his other actions aren't ignored. Like how he uses his past grudge towards James as an attempt to torment Harry and the fic clearly points out how petty and vindictive Snape is because of it. Justified as the author is going by early novel portrayals rather than Alan Rickman's version of Snape.
** When Harry and his friends have gone through one intense moment after another they aren't going to magically forget about what they've been through. In the Red Room Arc it left Harry so traumatized that he had to get counseling and the events of that arc still sticks with him.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: {{LovePotion}}s are re-imaginated as this. In the [[AuthorTract Author's note]], the author says that he doesn't view love potions as romantic, but instead legalized tools of rape and manipulation. After learning of their existance, Tony purchases the potions' store and goes on a campaign to get rid of them.

** Asgardians, [[spoiler: Gravemoss, the Flamels]] and, on a smaller scale, Natasha and the Winter Soldier.

* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: for Harry. It's the basic premise of the fic.
* RealMenHateAffection: The story goes out of its way to discuss and reject this trope, with Thor (formerly James Potter. It's that kind of story) early on gently telling Harry that there is no shame in tears, and they don't make you weaker or more childish - indeed, [[ManlyTears he is known to shed them himself]]. Asgardians as a whole are much less uptight about such things, while human men tend to be a little more awkward about it. In any case, Harry takes this lesson onboard when coming out of his emotional repression, and becomes notably more openly affectionate, welcoming hugs and gestures of affection, becoming considerably better adjusted as a result. However, as is noted in chapter 48 of the sequel, Harry is distinctly unusual among his peers in this respect, with Sean Cassidy noting that the kind of shoulder clasp or hug that Harry would appreciate would be firmly rejected by Ron, and most other teenage boys, precisely because of this mentality.

** Odin, who takes significantly more lip from his grandson (admittedly justified by the circumstances) than one would expect from an ancient and powerful God-King.

** Harry/Ginny, as well-Ginny still has, or at least had, her crush on Harry from canon, but there's been absolutely no ShipTease, and WordOfGod again has it that Harry will end up with someone else. As he notes in the sequel when the possibility comes up, she ''does'' have a lot of personality traits that attract him, he's just not interested and she has way too much baggage where he's concerned thanks to his PsychicPowers.

** Doctor Strange, as he is practically omniscient, insanely powerful, and a TimeAbyss with MysteriousPast.

** Doctor Strange is a well, [[IncrediblyLamePun strange]] example. Until chapter 47, we don't see more than glimpses of him. We know very little about his actions, and, where they are shown, his motivations for them. He appears and disappears at will, with those who know him indicating that he routinely drops off the face of the Earth for a decade or three.

** Type 3: [[FullContactMagic Harry]] [[PsychicPowers Thorson]] [[TookALevelInBadass (after Chapter 60)]], Adult Wanded Witches and Wizards, to varying degrees, [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles most members of the White Council]], [[HeroOfAnotherStory Harry Dresden,]] [[spoiler: [[TheDreaded the veidrdraugar]]]], [[SuperiorSpecies Asgardians]], [[spoiler: average Kryptonians under a Yellow Sun]], [[MagnificentBastard John Constantine]], [[PoweredArmour Iron Man]], [[PoweredArmour War]] [[MilitarySuperhero Machine]], [[WarGod Sif]], [[PhysicalGod the Warriors Three]], [[spoiler: Clark Kent]], [[spoiler: Betsy Braddock/Psylocke]], [[spoiler: Peter Wisdom/Regulus Black]], [[PsychicPowers Jean Grey]] [[spoiler: until [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength Strange explains how powerful she really is]]]], Scott Summers, Metallo, [[MakeMeWannaShout Sean Cassidy]], [[RazorWings Warren]] [[FlyingBrick Worthington III,]] [[spoiler: Uhtred and [[FragileSpeedster Jean-]][[HealingFactor Paul]] upon being aged up]], the Winter and Summer Ladies.

* WouldHitAGirl: Harry is too much of a CombatPragmatist to let an enemy's gender bother him overmuch. However, this is somewhat downplayed in that, while he includes Cho Chang in "The Match of the Raining Ravenclaws," he feels a bit bad when he sees the sizable lump on her head.

** Gravemoss is solidly Level VIII - on paper, he's got classically elven good looks, albinism aside. Lucius Malfoy explicitly notes, however, that once you realise it's there, there's [[UncannyValley a sense of fundamental wrongness about him.]] It doesn't help that he's a SoftSpokenSadist and an OmnicidalManiac.

* RationalFic: As surprising as this might be, the fic is written at least partially in this style (it helps that the magic is drawn heavily from ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''), with [[Creator/NimbusLlewelyn the author]] noting that his main interest was in exploring the consequences of mixing worlds, with the reactions to the premise (Thor was James Potter, as part of a first run at the whole humility thing), and the reactions to those reactions, driving the plot. Additionally, it ticks most of the rest of the boxes for a fic along these lines; {{Foreshadowing}} and, to a lesser extent, FridgeBrilliance, abound, the most successful characters deploy out-of-the-box thinking, and the most successful character of all, resident MagnificentBastard Doctor Strange, practically redefines CrazyPrepared and takes a very coldly rational approach to matters (despite, or even because of, being at least slightly mad). However, we say 'partially', because the author also repeatedly emphasising that he writes characters as people, and they are therefore as prone to doing stupid, irrational things, because that's what people do - however, they always have some personal reason for such actions, meaning that generally ItMakesSenseInContext.

** From chapter 60 onwards, it's subsumed by Dresden/Wanda Maximoff, the latter of whom slyly notes that he 'wears the hell out of a leather duster' and has a history of dating DeadpanSnarker members of the TrenchcoatBrigade. The two-shot spinoff takes the flirting (and ship teasing) UpToEleven. [[spoiler: By the end of it, they're an official couple.]]

By the time of the story, he's become the FourStarBadass of the films and comics, having risen to the Directorship in less than twelve years, [[HandicappedBadass after losing an eye]] to [[ArchNemesis Lucius]] [[ItsPersonal Malfoy]] and [[KillItWithFire leaving him to die in his burning home]] (which Fury set alight with [[UpToEleven napalm]]) with a broken wand and a permanently damaged leg, and [[HeartbrokenBadass losing the closest thing to family he'd ever had.]] He's clever enough to play mind games with [[MagnificentBastard Lucius Malfoy]] and manipulate [[GoodIsNotSoft Albus]] [[MagnificentBastard Dumbledore]], [[SmugSnake Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker]] and [[TheAgeless Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel]] into doing/saying things they otherwise wouldn't wish to, leaving people who once knew him ([=McGonagall=], for example) [[UsedToBeASweetKid stunned at the change]]. He's trained [[EmpoweredBadassNormal Peter Wisdom]] a.k.a. [[spoiler: Regulus Black]], Agent, then [[FourStarBadass Director]], of [=MI13=] (SHIELD's British equivalent), who has 'a carefully cultivated and well earned reputation for being extremely dangerous to cross' who clearly learned all about being a ManipulativeBastard from his mentor. [[note]] Making this all the more impressive is that, he's explicitly mentioned as a young Agent when he first met Lily. Even accounting for time in the Marines, considering that he was hanging out and drinking with John Constantine and Sirius Black rather than older members of the Order, he can't have been older than Wanda when Lily was killed (31), and was likely closer to 25. This means that, at most, he's 43, and at least, he's 37. Not only that, but he'd been Director for at least two years, as (''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' was roughly two years or more before the events of the story) and likely for at least a year or three before that if he can get away with what he does during the film. That means he rose to the Directorship at the age of between 32 and 39. To put this in perspective, Robert Gates was 48 when he was confirmed as head of the CIA and no chief of [=MI6=] has been younger than 49 on appointment. [[/note]]

** Darcy being warped to strange places by Jane's machines. This includes [[ComicBook/TheSandman Death's domain]], the Upper Jurassic and [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking New Jersey]]. [[TakeThat Apparently, she liked New Jersey the least.]]

%%** Nick Fury.

%%* StraightGay: [[spoiler: Uhtred]], though he's technically bisexual]. When he responds to Jean-Paul's flirting, everyone is surprised.

%%* TallDarkAndHandsome: Thor (as James)
%%** Sirius
%%** Jean-Paul Beaubier
%%** Loki
%%** Harry is well on the road to getting this way.
%%* TallDarkAndSnarky:
%%** Loki
%%** Snape

%%* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Harry uses this in chapter 34.
* UnstoppableRage: Deconstructed. As Harry and later Nimue in ''Unfinished Business'' discover the hard way, going into a blind rage when you're a GlassCannon is a ''really'' bad idea if you're up against an opponent who's WeakButSkilled, especially if they have a HealingFactor to tank your hits. Unless you're disciplined enough to channel your anger, you'll just trade in all of your advantages for vulnerabilities someone skilled can exploit.
%%* UnstuckInTime: The Lady Knight.

%%* WhamEpisode: Chapters 9 and 21.
%%** Arguably, Chapter 50.
%%** And Chapter 60.
%%** And Chapter 68.
%%** Chapter 70.
%%** Chapter 74. Chapters 75 and 76 have their moments too.
%%** Chapter 78 beats them all.

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Harry uses this in chapter 34.

* SkunkStripe:
** [[spoiler: Doctor Strange]], as per usual.
** [[spoiler: Harry develops one after being possessed by Chthon.]]

** Prince T'Challa, who's both the Black Panther, going after HYDRA personally for [[spoiler: attacking Wakanda, stealing Vibranium, and killing his father]], but also leading negotiations to [[spoiler: get as much Vibranium back as possible after Wisdom swipes most of it from HYDRA's London base as reparations]]].

* WhatAnIdiot: InUniverse, Snape's reaction to the civilians that did not evacuate from London with everyone else, and were hiding in the Tate Modern.

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Played Straight with [[spoiler: Arthur Weasley]] in a RareMaleExample, with WordOfGod hinting that his death will shape [[spoiler: Ron's]] character development. And, since he was killed by [[spoiler: the Winter Soldier, even though it was out of mercy]], the next book is largely about waiting for the other shoe to drop.
** PlayedWith in regards to [[spoiler: Luna Lovegood]]. While her death catalyses Harry's development, she's shown [[spoiler: becoming the new Delirium/Delight of the Endless]] and WordOfGod has said that she'll be involved later on, in her own way.

** The Winter Soldier. A played with example. People know that he exists all right... but beyond that, nothing. One or two characters know more about him, but they don't reveal many of the details. He is, until he resurfaces, also believed to have been dead for nearly twenty years, having disappeared during [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp the fall of the Soviet Union.]]

** [[spoiler:Nimue]] is Doctor Strange's EvilCounterpart in this regard. Like him, she's foreseen Thanos coming for the Infinity Stones, and wants to prepare Earth for it by means of ensuring that TheMagicComesBack. Unlike Strange, however, she doesn't care who or how many she has to hurt to do it.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Harry has latent tendencies along these lines, and is regularly compared to Magneto. As of chapter 61, he's aware of them, and they worry him (and with good reason). As of chapter 70 and 74, everyone else is aware of them and worried by them (for ''very'' good reason).
%%** Magneto.
%%** Arguably, Nick Fury.

* SuperStrength: As one of the StockSuperpowers, it naturally crops up a lot to varying degrees, with examples including:

%%* RisingConflict: A constant theme.
%%* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The Asgardian royal family.
%%** Harry.
%%** [[spoiler: Diana]].
%%** Prince T'Challa.

* ScaryBlackMan: T'Challa, if you piss him off, albeit in a TranquilFury sort of way.
%%** Nick Fury.

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: time travel in this 'verse seems to work on this principle along with the StableTimeLoop, as suggested in Chapter 67. Then again, Strange does seem to be changing things, but the rules don't seem to apply to him.

*** Additionally, while absolutely nothing comes of it, or even looks like coming of it, it's worth noting that in the sequel, Rita Skeeter floats Betsy as one of Harry's potential dates to the Yule Ball, and Betsy stops her prior gentle teasing of Harry, explaining that when he was younger, it was very clear to all concerned that that was all it was. Now, he's older (14 and a half mentally, 15 physically, thanks to some temporal shenanigans, and he looks closer to 18), and looking at girls as romantic partners in earnest, meaning that even harmless teasing could quite easily be interpreted as something more serious (including, by implication, by Harry himself).

** Harry/Ginny, as well-Ginny still has, or at least had, her crush on Harry from canon, but there's been absolutely no ShipTease, and WordOfGod again has it that Harry will end up with someone else.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Starts off firmly on the Idealistic side, then, after a bout of CerebusSyndrome and the odd KnightOfCerebus, is leaning towards the cynical side.

** Darcy explicitly relies on this. No one ''expects'' a curvy pop culture obsessed brunette to be smart, let alone carry a taser. She is in fact very smart.

* RelationshipWritingFumble: This happens with Carol and Harry, who were intended to be JustFriends and PlatonicLifePartners. Despite that, there's some quite obvious [[{{UST}} chemistry]] between the two and WordOfGod (a dicey thing in an author well known for changing his mind) has admitted that Harry, for his part, is potentially interested in a RelationshipUpgrade, but more than happy for things to remain as they are, making it an AnchoredShip. It has also been hinted that they will get together at some point in the future, but it probably won't last. As it is, though, they're still young teens, so it's not going anywhere. Yet.