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* BondOneLiner: Hookwolf sneers at Taylor's warnings that he's making a mistake, and asks her, "So what are you gonna do about it?" [[spoiler:Then a tremendous chunk of blue ice comes in through the roof and carries himself and Kaiser through the floor into the basement.]]
--> '''Taylor:''' Something like that, maybe?
--> '''Taylor:''' Something like that, maybe?
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* LastChanceToQuit: Taylor specifically warns Kaiser and Hookwolf that injuring her while her father listens is a mistake, after Danny already told them that they could let her go and walk away and everyone could just forget about it.
--> '''Taylor:''' You don't want to do this. This is a really bad idea. ''Trust'' me on this.
--> '''Taylor:''' You don't want to do this. This is a really bad idea. ''Trust'' me on this.
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* EvilGloating: Taylor taunts Kaiser when he has her tied up.
--> '''Taylor:''' You're the villain, I'm the hostage, you've got me in your secret lair. Why not indulge in a little gloating? Reveal your master plan to me. Come on, you know you want to.
--> '''Taylor:''' You're the villain, I'm the hostage, you've got me in your secret lair. Why not indulge in a little gloating? Reveal your master plan to me. Come on, you know you want to.
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--> '''Empire 88:''' Mr Hebert, I'd like to point out that I've been authorised to increase the gratuity to ten thousand dollars.\\
'''Danny:''' Go to hell.
'''Danny:''' Go to hell.
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--> '''Empire 88:''' Mr Hebert, I'd like There was a freedom, he found, in being able to point out deny another person something they wanted from you, something that I've been authorised you did not want to increase the gratuity to give. Could he do with ten thousand dollars.\\
'''Danny:''' Godollars? Of course he could. But could he accept the inevitable strings that would slowly, inexorably, invisibly enmesh him into tighter and tighter coils if he allowed this first bribe to hell.go through?\\
The answer, of course, was 'no'.
'''Danny:''' Go
The answer, of course, was 'no'.
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--> '''Empire 88:''' Mr Hebert, I'd like to point out that I've been authorised to increase the gratuity to ten thousand dollars.\\
'''Danny:''' Go to hell.
'''Danny:''' Go to hell.
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* IfIWantedYouDead: When Director Piggot starts to suspect cape involvement in Shadow Stalker's abortive attempt to talk to her, she can tell that someone is hostile to Shadow Stalker, but doesn't actually want her dead.
--> '''Piggot:''' Two feet either way and Aegis would have put her through a wall brace. Broken back, fractured skull, at the very least. She could be ''dead'' right now. But she's only in the hospital.
--> '''Piggot:''' Two feet either way and Aegis would have put her through a wall brace. Broken back, fractured skull, at the very least. She could be ''dead'' right now. But she's only in the hospital.
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* CoverBlowingSuperpower: Sophia could have escaped from the duct tape ball using her powers, but that would have meant outing herself to the four boys with her. Still, she's at the point of just doing it and swearing them to secrecy -- until a dozen more people show up, meaning that if she goes ahead, she's outed to ''everyone''. She chooses to stay put and wait for rescue, even when someone steals her phone and gives her a parting slap on the backside.
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** Taylor tries to keep the giggles down when she sees Sophia and five boys [[spoiler:accidentally getting BoundAndGagged in a big ball of duct tape and unhappy teenager]], but only manages a sentence or two before "I was laughing so hard that my face turned red and my stomach hurt."
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** Taylor tries to keep the giggles down when she sees Sophia and five four boys [[spoiler:accidentally getting BoundAndGagged in a big ball of duct tape and unhappy teenager]], but only manages a sentence or two before "I was laughing so hard that my face turned red and my stomach hurt."
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** Taylor tries to keep the giggles down when she sees Sophia and five boys [[spoiler:accidentally getting wrapped up in a big ball of duct tape and unhappy teenager]], but only manages a sentence or two before "I was laughing so hard that my face turned red and my stomach hurt."
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** Taylor tries to keep the giggles down when she sees Sophia and five boys [[spoiler:accidentally getting wrapped up BoundAndGagged in a big ball of duct tape and unhappy teenager]], but only manages a sentence or two before "I was laughing so hard that my face turned red and my stomach hurt."
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** Taylor tries to keep the giggles down when she sees Sophia and five boys [[spoiler:accidentally getting wrapped up in a big ball of duct tape and unhappy teenager]], but only manages a sentence or two before "I was laughing so hard that my face turned red and my stomach hurt."
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** Taylor ends up in this state twice after two consecutive attempts to bully her by the Terrible Trio [[EpicFail end up backfiring on them]]. When she leaves the bathroom where they attempted to pour juice and soda on her, she's stumbling and weeping and wishing she could hang around longer to watch, and although she's happy to tell people about it afterward, she has to gasp the words out between her fits of laughter.
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** Taylor ends up in this state twice after two consecutive attempts to bully her by the Terrible Trio [[EpicFail end up backfiring on them]]. When she leaves the bathroom where they attempted to pour juice and soda on her, she's stumbling and weeping and wishing she could hang around longer to watch, and although she's happy to tell people about it afterward, she has to gasp the words out between her fits of laughter. At the time, she can't even tell the passersby what's going on, because she's laughing too hard to form words; she can only point back into the bathroom.
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** Assault collapses laughing when Armsmaster takes a SlipperySkid in some spilled oil.
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** Assault bursts into giggles when he sees Taylor politely not allowing Armsmaster to arrest the Undersiders -- and then [[spoiler:Armsmaster is about to turn back and argue, and immediately slips over on cooking oil]], and Assault loses it, having to lean against a food stand because he's shaking with laughter so hard.
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** Assault bursts into giggles when he sees Taylor politely not allowing Armsmaster to arrest the Undersiders -- and then [[spoiler:Armsmaster is about to turn back and argue, and immediately slips over on cooking oil]], and Assault loses it, having to lean against a food stand because he's shaking with laughter so hard.
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* WrongBathroomIncident: Uber isn't comfortable with entering a girl's bathroom in search of luck energy. L33t is unimpressed since [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking they've already broken into the school in the middle of the night]], and the chance of a girl being there is basically zero.
--> '''L33t:''' You want I should protect you from the cooties?
--> '''L33t:''' You want I should protect you from the cooties?
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* NonActionProtagonist: Taylor doesn't have any weapons, training, SuperStrength, or any other direct combat power. What she does have is extreme luck; her power constantly, and without her conscious direction, shifts probabilities in her favour, setting up chains of DisasterDominoes and {{Humiliation Conga}}s for her enemies and deliverance for her friends. Taylor herself is basically a passenger, strolling through life and seeing the world rearranging itself around her.
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* ShowerOfAngst: [[spoiler:Contessa has her FreakOut there after realizing Taylor's Shard has killed Scion and that Cauldron is next if they dare looking at her funny.
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* ShowerOfAngst: [[spoiler:Contessa has her FreakOut there after realizing Taylor's Shard has killed Scion and that Cauldron is next if they dare looking at her funny.]]
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* ScareEmStraight: Coil is terrified into surrendering himself into PRT custody after Butterfly's power delivers a [[LiteralMetaphor literally]] {{Anvilicious}} message. %%InUniverse
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* ShowerOfAngst: [[spoiler:Contessa has her FreakOut there after realizing Taylor's Shard has killed Scion and that Cauldron is next if they dare looking at her funny.
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* ExactWords: A PRT medic announces to Director Piggot that Sophia is awake after Aegis collides with her, slamming her hard into the wall. When Piggot tries to interrogate Sophia about what she was trying to tell her, the response is noncoherent. The medic then points out he said Sophia was ''awake'', he didn't say she was ''lucid.''
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** A PRT medic announces to Director Piggot that Sophia is awake after Aegis collides with her, slamming her hard into the wall. When Piggot tries to interrogate Sophia about what she was trying to tell her, the response is noncoherent. The medic then points out he said Sophia was ''awake'', he didn't say she was ''lucid.''''
** When Director Piggot attempts to make an offer for Taylor to join the Wards, as she is a parahuman with a very useful power, a fly flies right into her throat. Therefore, the director tells Taylor that she is categorically ''not'' asking Taylor to join the Wards, playing it safe due to the nature of said powers.
** A PRT medic announces to Director Piggot that Sophia is awake after Aegis collides with her, slamming her hard into the wall. When Piggot tries to interrogate Sophia about what she was trying to tell her, the response is noncoherent. The medic then points out he said Sophia was ''awake'', he didn't say she was ''lucid.
** When Director Piggot attempts to make an offer for Taylor to join the Wards, as she is a parahuman with a very useful power, a fly flies right into her throat. Therefore, the director tells Taylor that she is categorically ''not'' asking Taylor to join the Wards, playing it safe due to the nature of said powers.
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* PieInTheFace: Contessa runs a Path to find out who is behind Butterfly's power, and has to abruptly terminate the Path when she's about to be hit in the face with a banana cream pie.
--> '''Contessa:''' I can't work around her, because her power's already worked around ''me''!
--> '''Contessa:''' I can't work around her, because her power's already worked around ''me''!
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* MuggingTheMonster: Emma stomps up to try to belittle Taylor and hurt her feelings -- only to be intercepted by ''Tattletale'', who not only makes a specialty of that sort of emotional warfare, but also has a power that makes her superhumanly good at it.
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* MuggingTheMonster: Emma stomps up to try to belittle Taylor and hurt her feelings -- only to be intercepted by ''Tattletale'', who not only makes a specialty of that sort of emotional warfare, but also has a power that makes her superhumanly good at it. And has the rest of the Undersiders standing right behind her, such as Brian, over six feet tall and with muscles on his muscles.
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* MuggingTheMonster: Emma stomps up to try to belittle Taylor and hurt her feelings -- only to be intercepted by ''Tattletale'', who not only makes a specialty of that sort of emotional warfare, but also has a power that makes her superhumanly good at it.
--> '''Lisa:''' Oh, you don't want to see pictures of yourself? Huh. I thought there was no such thing as bad publicity, even for a model. I thought maybe you could sell toilets with this one.
--> '''Lisa:''' Oh, you don't want to see pictures of yourself? Huh. I thought there was no such thing as bad publicity, even for a model. I thought maybe you could sell toilets with this one.
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** Lisa falls off the couch as Grue is relating what happened with [[spoiler:Glory Girl and the dumpster]].
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** Lisa falls off the couch as Grue is relating what happened with [[spoiler:Glory Girl and the dumpster]]. Taylor later hears the story and has to sit down, weak-kneed, gasping, and with tears streaming down her face.
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* ReassignedToAntarctica: After Detective Calhoun's attempt to capture an important witness falls apart, he's assigned to look into a case involving a locker at Winslow High School, which is both minor for someone of his talents, and also a terrible environment.
--> '''Calhoun:''' Is this a punishment detail, sir?\\
'''Reynolds:''' Would I do a thing like that?
--> '''Calhoun:''' Is this a punishment detail, sir?\\
'''Reynolds:''' Would I do a thing like that?
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Taylor is delayed in answering Brian's questions about her power, because she's paying more attention to how his biceps barely fit into his sleeves.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Taylor is delayed in answering Brian's questions about her power, because she's paying more attention to how his biceps barely fit into his sleeves. Alec later mocks her for it, and promptly gets his ice-cream splattered over his own face by a Frisbee.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Taylor is delayed in answering Brian's questions about her power, because she's paying more attention to how his biceps barely fit into his sleeves.
--> ''Did you set this up for me, power? If so, '''nice'''.''
--> ''Did you set this up for me, power? If so, '''nice'''.''
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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Crusader's reaction when [=L33t=]'s Ghostbuster energy trap captures the Siberian.
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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Crusader's reaction when [=L33t=]'s Ghostbuster energy trap captures [[spoiler:captures the Siberian.Siberian]].
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* 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 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.
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** Oni Lee [[spoiler:shoots a festival balloon at point blank range to free Lung. But the balloon turns out to have been filled with ''hydrogen'' instead of helium, and he's blown to smithereens.]]
* 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 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 askedto later why he didn't cut them free, turns out not to have been poking Sophia with a pocketknife after all. Taylor can barely speak for laughing.
* 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 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
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* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: Both Danny and Taylor warn Kaiser that he should let her go and walk away.
--> "You don't want to do this," I stated, a little more boldly than I felt. "This is a really bad idea. ''Trust'' me on this."
--> "You don't want to do this," I stated, a little more boldly than I felt. "This is a really bad idea. ''Trust'' me on this."
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* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Try to bribe Danny Hebert, and he'll rightly show you the door. The Empire 88's attempts to buy him off investigating merely confirm to him that he's stumbled onto something worth stopping. (And then they make the mistake of escalating by kidnapping Taylor -- but he already knows about her power, and trusts it to keep her safer than he could.)
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* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Try to bribe Danny Hebert, and he'll rightly show you the door. The Empire 88's attempts to buy him off investigating merely confirm to him that he's stumbled onto something worth stopping. (And then they make the mistake of escalating by kidnapping Taylor -- but he already knows about her power, and trusts it to keep her safer than he could. Taylor has his back, too, encouraging him not to give in.)
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** Taylor ends up in this state twice after two consecutive attempts to bully her by the Terrible Trio [[EpicFail end up backfiring on them]]. When she leaves the bathroom where they attempted to pour juice and soda on her, she's stumbling and weeping and wishing she could hang around longer to watch.
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** Taylor ends up in this state twice after two consecutive attempts to bully her by the Terrible Trio [[EpicFail end up backfiring on them]]. When she leaves the bathroom where they attempted to pour juice and soda on her, she's stumbling and weeping and wishing she could hang around longer to watch.
---> I would have given my ''soul'' to own a camera, right at that moment.
---> I would have given my ''soul'' to own a camera, right at that moment.
