History ComicBook / IAmNotStarfire

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Mandy clearly has no idea what she wants to do with her future, as thinks she can just move to France and relax there for the rest of her life.

* AccidentalTruth: Mandy scares Claire's {{beta bitch}}es by claiming that instead of going to college, she's going through a Tamaranean passage of initiation in which she finally gets her powers and has to fight a terrifying monster. Then Blackfire shows up with her own idea of "initiation", which is essentially as Mandy described.

17-year-old Mandy is the daughter of ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, but how she looks and acts is nothing like her - she's chubby, she's a goth, she hates the world and she doesn't have super powers. As Starfire wants Mandy to have a better life and pushes her to go to college, Mandy has a secret of her own -- she walked out on her [=SATs=] and is planning to run off to France to live her own life away from her mother and anything superheroic.

17-year-old Mandy is the daughter of ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, but how she looks and acts is nothing like her - she's overweight, she's a goth, she hates the world and she doesn't have super powers. As Starfire wants Mandy to have a better life and pushes her to go to college, Mandy has a secret of her own -- she walked out on her [=SATs=] and is planning to run off to France to live her own life away from her mother and anything superheroic.

!!Tropes in this graphic novel include:

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: It's Blackfire attempting to kill Mandy and allowing her and Starfire to be together in a makeshift prison that eventually allows the two a heart to heart and for Mandy to realize that Starfire's life was far from glamorous and that she hasn't been fair to her mother. [[spoiler: Likewise when Blackfire puts Mandy's life in danger, her powers awaken and she proceeds to defeat Blackfire with them.]]

** Blackfire grabs Mandy and tosses her across the football field into a soccer goal, knocking her out. Her friends, Lincoln and Claire, see this and yell for her to get up, Claire especially. [[spoiler: It's hearing her that Mandy's powers awaken.]]

* ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler: Blackfire utters this verbatim when Mandy finally unlocks her superpowers and proceeds to save her mother with them.]]
* WhosYourDaddy: Mandy's biological father is apparently a touchy subject that neither she or Starfire want to talk about, not that Mandy knows who it is... although she claims she has an idea. The public popularly speculates in-universe that it's Nightwing, though Mandy debunks this, and for anyone familiar with his character, it would seem rather odd that he wouldn't want to be more involved with his kid's life if he's still close with Starfire.

* AccidentallyAccurate: In-universe. Mandy scares Claire's {{beta bitch}}es by claiming that instead of going to college, she's going through a Tamaranean passage of initiation in which she finally gets her powers and has to fight a terrifying monster. Then Blackfire shows up with her own idea of "initiation", which is essentially as Mandy described.

%%* BigBad: Blackfire.

Oddly for a young adult book, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj10S5oqSOU DC released a promotional trailer for it]].

17-year-old Mandy is the daughter of ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, but how she looks and acts is nothing like her - she's fat, she's a goth, she hates the world and she doesn't have super powers. As Starfire wants Mandy to have a better life and pushes her to go to college, Mandy has a secret of her own -- she's failed her [=SATs=] and is planning to run off to France to live her own life away from her mother.

* AdaptationalNameChange: Beast Boy eventually started going by Beast, probably because the name stopped working when he became an adult.
* AdaptationalSkimpiness: Blackfire in the normal comic continuation usually wears full body outfits. In this comic she wears an outfit that exposes more of her skin.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Starfire. Her older sister Blackfire was meant to inherit the throne, but because she was a late bloomer for her powers and Starfire was already stronger than her, their father wanted to make Starfire his new heir. Out of anger and jealousy, Blackfire left and assembled an army to kill her parents and imprison her sister. Starfire later managed to escape and fled to Earth to hide from her sister, though she eventually found her ''and'' her daughter...

* HeroicBastard: Mandy's biological father is not in the picture and neither she or Starfire want to talk about who it is. Apparently, it's not Nightwing, and Mandy is definitely sure that it's not Beast.
* HollywoodGenetics: Mandy does not look anything like her mother, even with her hair un-dyed and in its natural orange color.
* KidsAreCruel: Mandy's classmates see as her as a loser for not having powers like Starfire, furthered when she became a grumpy fat goth as a response to years of being treated this way. Heck, in the climax when Starfire is fighting Blackfire to give Mandy a chance to escape, one of the jeers "[[Film/ForrestGump Run Forrest!]]" as she does so. Luckily he's reprimanded by Mandy's crush, but still...

* TiredOfRunning: In this rendition, Starfire fled Tamerian when Blackfire killed their parents and took over the planet, having been in hiding on Earth for most of her life. When Blackfire finds her and threatens Mandy's life, she proclaims she won't run from her again and engages her in battle.

* SelfInsertFic: One of the main criticisms about the comic. As there have been comparisons between both Mandy and its author Mariko Tamaki looking similar, as evidenced [[https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/dc-comics-embarrassing-daughter-of-starfire-ya-book.4150656/ here]].