History Fanfic / ItGetsWorse

* PassThePopcorn: Assault asks to be assigned to follow Taylor around with a video camera. He also requests an advance on his pay to buy a lot of popcorn.

* BornLucky: This is basically Taylor's power ("Triggered Lucky" would be more accurate), to the point nothing can bring harm to her (and, by extension, her loved ones) anymore, and woe to anyone who tries. The story ends with Lisa inviting [[OfficialCouple her and Brian]] to a concert given by a [[SparedByTheAdaptation freshly rehabilitated Canary]], with front row tickets that "basically fell into [her] lap".

** [[spoiler:Once the Simurgh and the other Endbringers start doing good deeds by means of Eidolon getting a new outlook]], the case against Canary falls apart and she is eventually able to perform again.
*** [[spoiler:The victims of Heartbreaker are freed from his influence by the Simurgh and proceed to kill him. Ziz also does Dragon a solid by paying a visit to the base of the late Dragonslayers in Toronto]].

* FlippingTheBird: [[spoiler:The Simurgh does this to Scion right before a ContrivedCoincidence involving Flechette, a L33t [[ThinkingUpPortals portal gun]], the Dragonslayers and a String Theory WaveMotionGun vaporises him. For extra humour, Scion doesn't know what the gesture means, and investigates to determine whether it's an attack.]]

* GoneHorriblyRight: Uber successfully persuades L33t that it's not feasible to claim [[spoiler:Shatterbird's bounty]] unless they can kill off all of the Slaughterhouse Nine, then realises that L33t is already suited up and that he didn't actually want to win that argument.

* HumiliationConga: If Taylor's powers don't leave whoever threatened her dead, it'll have them defeated in a humiliating manner. An early episode that really clues her in to the fact that it's more than coincidence is when Sophia and four track guys chase her with a roll of duct tape, trip into each other, somehow wrap themselves up in the tape, Sophia gets gagged with it, a crowd gathers with cameras and mockery about getting a room, someone steals Sophia's phone, and one of the boys, when asked to cut them free, turns out not to have a pocketknife after all. Taylor can barely speak for laughing.

* SneezeOfDoom: Sort of; when Saint first tries to turn a dial on a found String Theory super weapon off, he sneezes and turns it from "Low" to "Medium". That isn't the "doom" part; it's the fact that he keeps trying to turn it off and only succeeds in turning it higher that is.

* AnArmAndALeg:
** When Burnscar gets thrown off the overpass by the [[FartsOnFire explosion of Crawler's fart]], she manages to get a hold of the railing at the last second, only to lose it from Hatchet Face's flying axe shearing her arm off.
** New York cop Jamie Nightingale lost her left leg to an attack from Garotte (her partner also lost his right arm, but couldn't be rescued in time) five years prior to the events of the story. [[spoiler:Panacea eventually fixes it, using a leg of ham that had been delivered to her apartment by mistake.]]

* AnArmAndALeg: Burnscar might have coped with being thrown backward by Crawler's gas explosion, but Hatchet Face's axe was also thrown in her direction. All that Bonesaw finds of her afterward is an arm.

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* FlippingTheBird: [[spoiler: The Simurgh does this to Scion right before a ContrivedCoincidence involving Flechette, a L33t [[ThinkingUpPortals portal gun]], the Dragonslayers and a String Theory WaveMotionGun vaporises him]].

** Amy has Victoria distract the waiter carrying Jack Slash's order so she can add E. coli to his soup.

* SlipperySkid: During a chicken festival, a stall owner ends up spilling a barrel of cooking oil, and the Undersiders and their giant dogs step right into it.

** The Wards enter a fit of hysterics when they see the photographed aftermath of Taylor's dealings with the Empire: the Fenja/Menja twins stuck headfirst in manholes, Kaiser and Hookwolf flattened by blue ice, etc.

** Lisa falls off the couch as Grue is relating what happened with [[spoiler: Glory Girl and the dumpster]].

* HumiliationConga: If Taylor's powers don't leave whoever threatened her dead, it'll have them defeated in a humiliating manner.

* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: Taylor says that to Jack Slash when he introduces himself after taking her hostage. Bare in mind that in canon Jack is about 6' 6''.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Taylor's power '''loves''' setting these up.

* AttackBackfire: Oh so much. Taylor's power ''will'' take notice of any threat to her well-being or her interests, and it ''will'' preempt you. If you just wanted to embarrass or scare her, you probably won't die, you'll just trip over, or get pooped on by a bird, or have a rogue frisbee splatter your ice-cream cone all over your face. If you're more serious about it, you might find yourself falling in road tar and having feathers blown all over you, or breaking bones. If you intend to kill her, then watch out for falling pianos, lightning strikes, and suddenly helpful ''Endbringers''. The PRT refuses to even give her a threat rating, because ''viewing her as a threat'' is too dangerous.

** Sophia, of all people, manages this while attempting to slander Taylor to Director Piggot after she's concussed. One of the {{Non Sequitur}}s that she drops is, in fact, [[spoiler: the origin of powers in the Worm 'verse]]. Piggot understandably ignores it, given that Sophia is concussed and babbling at that point.
** When Jack Slash wonders why Crawler, Hatchet Face, Mannequin and the Siberian haven't returned yet from Brockton Bay, he comes up with an hypothetical situation for how they could have been defeated - not knowing that it is exactly what happened. Sure enough, when L33t and Uber show up (after taking the Siberian out with their Ghostbusters trap) when he has kidnapped Taylor, Jack becomes dumbfounded.

* ShoutOut: Besides L33t's inventions paying homage to ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' (going so far, for the former, as tuning the humming of their power packs to the theme song), when he and Uber meet Taylor and recognize her as "the lucky girl", they [[Film/WaynesWorld prostrate themselves before her, chanting "We're not worthy!"]]

* {{Trumplica}}: Frederickson is a failed con artist who makes his living by supplying the Merchants with the ingredients for their drugs. He is grossly overweight, wears a terrible fake tan, and has a ridiculous combover hairstyle. During a failed police sting, he receives a massive electrical shock, leaving him unable to say much other than parrot particularly nonsensical altered versions of Trump catchphrases.

* CrazyHomelessPeople: [[spoiler:The depowered Dr. William Manton is reduced to aimlessly wandering and babbling about he can't find his wife and daughter after the Siberian is caught in Uber and L33t's Ghostbusters-style energy trap. Danny calls the cops on him.]]

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: When Eidolon goes to Accord to ask him to come up with a plan to solve world hunger, Accord points out that he'd come up with one six years ago, and only went into villainy because he couldn't get anyone to read it and needed crime to acquire the resources to attempt implementing it on his own. He then hands Eidolon a revised version of the plan, which he had updated that morning.

** The moment Coil gives himself up, a nearby TV showing ''Series/GetSmart'' says: "Smart thinking, 99!"