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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: For the Jacques Canter case, there are two things that the author admits would not happen in reality. The first is the quickness of the pretrial proceedings, which would normally take several months to process. In-universe, it is justified by the fact that American professional sports have ground to a halt as an indirect result of the lawsuit, meaning there is a push for a quick resolution. Secondly, [[spoiler:the judge engages in "additur" (increasing monetary damages rewarded in a lawsuit) in a single instant, where in real life deciding damage takes as long, if not longer, as the actual trial, and occurs very rarely]].
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: When Peter Parker meets Noa in person for the second time, he instantly puts up an air of belligerent defense because he sees her as just another JJJ ally who sees Spider-Man as an illegal vigilante. The defense doesn't last beyond Noa calmly pointing out how she could throw out all of Spider-Man's "crimes" as valid citizen's arrests, as well as saying how JJJ is anything but impartial when it comes to the wall-crawler.
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Averted for the most part, given the author's own knowledge of legal matters. If not, there will be reasons given why things wouldn't go the way they'd go in real-life court.
** For the Jacques Canter case, there are two things that the author admits would not happen in reality. The first is thequickness speed of the pretrial proceedings, which would normally take several months to process. process and not just two. In-universe, it is justified by the fact that American professional sports have ground to a halt as an indirect result of the lawsuit, meaning there is a massive push for a quick resolution. Secondly, [[spoiler:the judge engages in "additur" (increasing monetary damages rewarded in a lawsuit) in a single instant, where in real life deciding damage takes as long, if not longer, as the actual trial, and occurs very rarely]].rarely. In-universe, this is because the judge wants Noa to owe him a favor for a friend of his]].
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Averted for the most part, given the author's own knowledge of legal matters. If not, there will be reasons given why things wouldn't go the way they'd go in real-life court.
** For the Jacques Canter case, there are two things that the author admits would not happen in reality. The first is the
* ChillyReception: Peter Parker gives Noa this response when she shows up to take up [[spoiler: his uncle's]] case against Norman Osborn, because his first impressions of her were a televised court appearance a year prior where she called Spider-Man's actions illegal vigilantism, and him seeing her in J.J.Jameson's office.
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* HumiliationConga: Happens to Boris Becker et al. When Becker loses to a newcomer Jacques Canter at the US tennis open, he accuses Canter of cheating with a mutant power, backed up by the officials, resulting in Canter being stripped of his awards and sponsors and barred from competing. When Canter decides to sue them for defamation, the resulting media attention grinds practically all sporting in the US to a halt as they await the verdict, and then Becker has to suffer through videos of college-age athletes recreating shots that he and several other tennis professionals, officials and analysts agreed were "impossible" being played as evidence. [[spoiler: Losing the case and being forced to pay damages was a given, but then the judge decides that [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney the initial damages were chump change to a company as big as Nike, who could easily foot the bill]], so he ups the amount to a $250k amount that even Nike will feel in the morning.]]
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* HumiliationConga: Happens to Boris Becker et al. When Becker loses to a newcomer Jacques Canter at the US tennis open, he accuses Canter of cheating with a mutant power, backed up by the officials, resulting in Canter being stripped of his awards and sponsors and barred from competing. When Canter decides to sue them for defamation, the resulting media attention grinds practically all sporting in the US to a halt as they await the verdict, and then Becker has to suffer through videos of college-age athletes recreating shots that he and several other tennis professionals, officials and analysts agreed were "impossible" being played as evidence. evidence (as well as having several of his promised experts decline to testify). [[spoiler: Losing the case and being forced to pay damages was a given, but then the judge decides that [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney the initial damages were chump change to a company as big as Nike, who could easily foot the bill]], bill as the cost of doing business]], so he ups the amount to a $250k amount that even Nike will feel in the morning.]]
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* TallPoppySyndrome: The Canter v. Becker et al. case involves a sports star getting a major win and then getting accused of [[TooQualifiedToApply being a mutant]] and barred from competing. While this case is underway, many of the top sports leagues put their major competitions on hiatus, since no athlete would dare to perform their best if it meant they could lose their livelihood. The amount of lost revenue and public pressure is the in-universe reason why this case rockets through the bureaucracy unrealistically fast.
* TooQualifiedToApply: The foundation of Noa's second high-profile case. Jacques Canter is an upcoming tennis star who managed to place four times in major tournaments in only 5 years of professional playing, and just had the best run of his life when he won the US Open outright. Then, his higher-seed [[SoreLoser opponent]] accuses him of being a mutant and cheating because of his supposedly "impossible" win, and [[TallPoppySyndrome he is stripped of his titles and sponsors and banned from playing in any ATP tournament ever again]]. He comes to Noa to help him sue his opponent, the tennis associations, and all his sponsors for defamation, and she helps proves his case by showing off normal college-age players performing all his "impossible" moves.
* TooQualifiedToApply: The foundation of Noa's second high-profile case. Jacques Canter is an upcoming tennis star who managed to place four times in major tournaments in only 5 years of professional playing, and just had the best run of his life when he won the US Open outright. Then, his higher-seed [[SoreLoser opponent]] accuses him of being a mutant and cheating because of his supposedly "impossible" win, and [[TallPoppySyndrome he is stripped of his titles and sponsors and banned from playing in any ATP tournament ever again]]. He comes to Noa to help him sue his opponent, the tennis associations, and all his sponsors for defamation, and she helps proves his case by showing off normal college-age players performing all his "impossible" moves.
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* TallPoppySyndrome: The Canter v. Becker et al. case involves a sports star getting a major win and then getting accused of [[TooQualifiedToApply being a mutant]] and barred from competing. While this case is underway, many of the top sports leagues put their major competitions on hiatus, since no athlete would dare to perform their best if it meant they could lose their livelihood. livelihood from an accusation with minimal evidence. The amount of lost revenue and public pressure is the in-universe reason why this case rockets through the bureaucracy unrealistically [[ArtisticLicenseLaw unrealistically]] fast.
* TooQualifiedToApply: The foundation of Noa's second high-profile case. Jacques Canter is an upcoming tennis star who managed to place four times in major tournaments in only 5 years of professional playing, and just had the best run of his life when he outright won the USOpen outright.Open. Then, his higher-seed [[SoreLoser opponent]] accuses him of being a mutant and cheating because of his supposedly "impossible" win, and [[TallPoppySyndrome he is stripped of his titles and sponsors and banned from playing in any ATP tournament ever again]]. He comes to Noa to help him sue his opponent, the tennis associations, and all his sponsors for defamation, and she helps proves his case by showing off normal college-age players performing all his "impossible" moves.
* TooQualifiedToApply: The foundation of Noa's second high-profile case. Jacques Canter is an upcoming tennis star who managed to place four times in major tournaments in only 5 years of professional playing, and just had the best run of his life when he outright won the US
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---> [[spoiler:'''Judge Nolan:''' Does plaintiff consent to grant this court the power of additur?[[note]]"Additur" is where the judge decides that the jury has not awarded enough damages. The initial amount was $40 million; Nolan increases the total sentence to ''$253.7 million'', reasoning that since one of the defendants is [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Nike]], the original sentence would've been a drop in the bucket for them.[[/note]]]]
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---> [[spoiler:'''Judge '''Judge Nolan:''' Does plaintiff consent to grant this court the power of additur?[[note]]"Additur" [[spoiler:additur?[[note]]"Additur" is where the judge decides that the jury has not awarded enough damages. The initial amount was $40 million; Nolan increases the total sentence to ''$253.7 million'', reasoning that since one of the defendants is [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Nike]], the original sentence would've been a drop in the bucket for them.[[/note]]]]
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* YouOweMe: [[spoiler:Part of the reason that Noa takes up Ben Parker's defense pro bono against Osborne's civil suit. Ben is an old Korean War comrade of Judge Nolan and Noa knows that her improved financial status is the result of Nolan upping the damage claims rewarded to her client Jacques Canter.]]
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* YouOweMe: [[spoiler:Part of the reason that Noa takes up Ben Parker's defense pro bono against Osborne's civil suit. Ben is an old Korean War comrade of Judge Nolan and Noa knows that her improved financial status is the result of Nolan upping the damage claims rewarded awarded to her client Jacques Canter.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: [[spoiler:For the Jacques Canter case, there are two things that the author admits would not happen in reality. The first is the quickness of the pretrial proceedings, which would normally take several months to process. In-universe, it is justified by the fact that American professional sports have ground to a halt as an indirect result of the lawsuit, meaning there is a push for a quick resolution. Secondly, the judge engages in "additur" (increasing monetary damages rewarded in a lawsuit) in a single instant, where in real life deciding damage takes as long, if not longer, as the actual trial, and occurs very rarely.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: [[spoiler:For For the Jacques Canter case, there are two things that the author admits would not happen in reality. The first is the quickness of the pretrial proceedings, which would normally take several months to process. In-universe, it is justified by the fact that American professional sports have ground to a halt as an indirect result of the lawsuit, meaning there is a push for a quick resolution. Secondly, the [[spoiler:the judge engages in "additur" (increasing monetary damages rewarded in a lawsuit) in a single instant, where in real life deciding damage takes as long, if not longer, as the actual trial, and occurs very rarely.]]rarely]].
** Similarly, she either has to deal with pants or skirts not having tail holes, or spend a bundle on custom tailoring for them.
* HumiliationConga: Happens to Boris Becker et al. When Becker loses to a newcomer Jacques Canter at the US tennis open, he accuses Canter of cheating with a mutant power, backed up by the officials, resulting in Canter being stripped of his awards and sponsors and barred from competing. When Canter decides to sue them for defamation, the resulting media attention grinds practically all sporting in the US to a halt as they await the verdict, and then Becker has to suffer through videos of college-age athletes recreating shots that he and several other tennis professionals, officials and analysts agreed were "impossible" being played as evidence. [[spoiler: Losing the case and being forced to pay damages was a given, but then the judge decides that [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney the initial damages were chump change to a company as big as Nike, who could easily foot the bill]], so he ups the amount to a $250k amount that even Nike will feel in the morning.]]
* HumiliationConga: Happens to Boris Becker et al. When Becker loses to a newcomer Jacques Canter at the US tennis open, he accuses Canter of cheating with a mutant power, backed up by the officials, resulting in Canter being stripped of his awards and sponsors and barred from competing. When Canter decides to sue them for defamation, the resulting media attention grinds practically all sporting in the US to a halt as they await the verdict, and then Becker has to suffer through videos of college-age athletes recreating shots that he and several other tennis professionals, officials and analysts agreed were "impossible" being played as evidence. [[spoiler: Losing the case and being forced to pay damages was a given, but then the judge decides that [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney the initial damages were chump change to a company as big as Nike, who could easily foot the bill]], so he ups the amount to a $250k amount that even Nike will feel in the morning.]]
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* RagsToRiches: Noa get a windfall after winning Jacques Canter's lawsuit, mainly because the judge upped the damages to be paid, resulting her cut becoming $75 million. [[spoiler:The judge happened to be one of Noa's old teachers, and he would later ask her a favor to defend Ben Parker, an old war buddy of his, pro bono.]]
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* RagsToRiches: [[spoiler: After getting fired from her old firm]], Noa get gets a windfall after winning Jacques Canter's lawsuit, mainly because the judge upped the damages to be paid, resulting in her cut becoming $75 million. [[spoiler:The judge happened to be one of Noa's old teachers, and he would later ask her a favor to defend Ben Parker, an old war buddy of his, pro bono.]]
* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Jameson jokingly asks why he can't do this very trope when he sends Noa a framed news article collection depicting the LaserGuidedKarma falling on [[spoiler: DA Lou Young after he convicted an innocent mutant boy, including how he was run over by Judge Andrews]].
* {{Squee}}: Noa has this reaction after getting a very sympathetic judge for her case. Sam, who is on the phone with her, complains that he gets enough of that from the wife.
* {{Squee}}: Noa has this reaction after getting a very sympathetic judge for her case. Sam, who is on the phone with her, complains that he gets enough of that from the wife.
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* TooQualifiedToApply: The foundation of Noa's second high-profile case. Jacques Canter is an upcoming tennis star who managed to place four times in major tournaments in only 5 years of professional playing, and just had the best run of his life when he won the US Open outright. Then, his higher-seed [[SoreLoser opponent]] accuses him of being a mutant and cheating because of his supposedly "impossible" win, and [[TallPoppySyndrome he is stripped of his titles and sponsors and banned from playing in any ATP tournament ever again]]. He comes to Noa to help him sue his opponent, the tennis associations, and all his sponsors for defamation. Noa proves his case by showing off normal college-age players performing the exact same moves.
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* TallPoppySyndrome: The Canter v. Becker et al. case involves a sports star getting a major win and then getting accused of [[TooQualifiedToApply being a mutant]] and barred from competing. While this case is underway, many of the top sports leagues put their major competitions on hiatus, since no athlete would dare to perform their best if it meant they could lose their livelihood. The amount of lost revenue and public pressure is the in-universe reason why this case rockets through the bureaucracy unrealistically fast.
* TooQualifiedToApply: The foundation of Noa's second high-profile case. Jacques Canter is an upcoming tennis star who managed to place four times in major tournaments in only 5 years of professional playing, and just had the best run of his life when he won the US Open outright. Then, his higher-seed [[SoreLoser opponent]] accuses him of being a mutant and cheating because of his supposedly "impossible" win, and [[TallPoppySyndrome he is stripped of his titles and sponsors and banned from playing in any ATP tournament ever again]]. He comes to Noa to help him sue his opponent, the tennis associations, and all his sponsors fordefamation. Noa defamation, and she helps proves his case by showing off normal college-age players performing the exact same all his "impossible" moves.
* TooQualifiedToApply: The foundation of Noa's second high-profile case. Jacques Canter is an upcoming tennis star who managed to place four times in major tournaments in only 5 years of professional playing, and just had the best run of his life when he won the US Open outright. Then, his higher-seed [[SoreLoser opponent]] accuses him of being a mutant and cheating because of his supposedly "impossible" win, and [[TallPoppySyndrome he is stripped of his titles and sponsors and banned from playing in any ATP tournament ever again]]. He comes to Noa to help him sue his opponent, the tennis associations, and all his sponsors for
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---> [[spoiler:'''Judge Nolan:''' Does plaintiff consent to grant this court the power of additur?[[note]]"Additur" is where the judge decides that the jury has not awarded enough damages. The initial amount was $40 million; Nolan increases the total sentence to ''253.''$253.7 million dollars'', million'', reasoning that since one of the defendants is [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Nike]], the original sentence would've been a drop in the bucket for them.[[/note]]]]
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: [[spoiler:For the Jacques Canter case, there are two things that the author admits would not happen in reality. The first is the quickness of the proceedings, which would normally take several months to process. In-universe, it is justified by the fact that American sporting events have ground to a halt as an indirect result of the ongoing trial, meaning there is a push for a quick resolution. Secondly, the judge engages in "additur" (increasing monetary damages rewarded in a lawsuit) in a single instant, where in real life deciding damage takes as long, if not longer, as the actual trial, and occurs very rarely.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: [[spoiler:For the Jacques Canter case, there are two things that the author admits would not happen in reality. The first is the quickness of the pretrial proceedings, which would normally take several months to process. In-universe, it is justified by the fact that American sporting events professional sports have ground to a halt as an indirect result of the ongoing trial, lawsuit, meaning there is a push for a quick resolution. Secondly, the judge engages in "additur" (increasing monetary damages rewarded in a lawsuit) in a single instant, where in real life deciding damage takes as long, if not longer, as the actual trial, and occurs very rarely.]]
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* RagsToRiches: Noa get a windfall after winning Jacques Canter's lawsuit, mainly because the judge upped the damages to be paid, resulting her cut becoming $75 million. [[spoiler:The judge happened to be Noa's old teacher, and he would later ask her a favor to defend Ben Parker, an old war buddy of his, pro bono.]]
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* RagsToRiches: Noa get a windfall after winning Jacques Canter's lawsuit, mainly because the judge upped the damages to be paid, resulting her cut becoming $75 million. [[spoiler:The judge happened to be one of Noa's old teacher, teachers, and he would later ask her a favor to defend Ben Parker, an old war buddy of his, pro bono.]]
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** During the last part of Chapter 16 [[spoiler:when Noa learns the name of her next client, who is being sued by Norman Obsorne]]:
---> [[spoiler:'''Judge Nolan:''' My friend’s an old widower from Queens, name of Ben Parker…]]
---> [[spoiler:'''Judge Nolan:''' My friend’s an old widower from Queens, name of Ben Parker…]]
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** During the closing moments of ''Jacques Canter v. Boris Becker et al.'':
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** During the closing moments of ''Jacques Canter v. Boris Becker et al.'':
---> [[spoiler:'''Judge Nolan:''' Does plaintiff consent to grant this court the power of additur?[[note]]"Additur" is where the judge decides that the jury has not awarded enough damages. Nolan increases the total sentence to ''253.7 million dollars'', reasoning that since one of the defendants is [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Nike]], the original sentence would've been a drop in the bucket for them.[[/note]]]]
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: [[spoiler:For the Jacques Canter case, there are two things that the author admits would not happen in reality. The first is the quickness of the proceedings, which would normally take several months to process. In-universe, it is justified by the fact that American sporting events have ground to a halt, meaning there is a push for a quick resolution. Secondly, the judge engages in "additur" (increasing monetary damages rewarded in a lawsuit) in a single instant, where in real life deciding damage takes as long, or longer, as the actual trial, and occurs very rarely.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: [[spoiler:For the Jacques Canter case, there are two things that the author admits would not happen in reality. The first is the quickness of the proceedings, which would normally take several months to process. In-universe, it is justified by the fact that American sporting events have ground to a halt, halt as an indirect result of the ongoing trial, meaning there is a push for a quick resolution. Secondly, the judge engages in "additur" (increasing monetary damages rewarded in a lawsuit) in a single instant, where in real life deciding damage takes as long, or if not longer, as the actual trial, and occurs very rarely.]]
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* RagsToRiches: Noa get a windfall after winning Jacques Canter's lawsuit, mainly because the judge upped the damages to be paid, resulting her cut becoming $75 million. [[spoiler:The judge happened to be Noa's old teacher, and he would later ask her a favor to defend Ben Parker pro bono
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* RagsToRiches: Noa get a windfall after winning Jacques Canter's lawsuit, mainly because the judge upped the damages to be paid, resulting her cut becoming $75 million. [[spoiler:The judge happened to be Noa's old teacher, and he would later ask her a favor to defend Ben Parker Parker, an old war buddy of his, pro bonobono.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: [[spoiler:For the Jacques Canter case, there are two things that the author admits would not happen in reality. The first is the quickness of the proceedings, which would normally take several months to process. In-universe, it is justified by the fact that American sporting events have ground to a halt, meaning there is a push for a quick resolution. Secondly, the judge engages in "additur" (increasing monetary damages rewarded in a lawsuit) in a single instant, where in real life deciding damage takes as long, or longer, as the actual trial, and occurs very rarely.]]
** [[spoiler:Ben Parker was almost charged for assaulting Norman Osborne when the former was protecting Harry from the latter. Even if Ben avoided being charged, Norman is suing Ben.]]
* RagsToRiches: Noa get a windfall after winning Jacques Canter's lawsuit, mainly because the judge upped the damages to be paid, resulting her cut becoming $75 million. [[spoiler:The judge happened to be Noa's old teacher, and he would later ask her a favor to defend Ben Parker pro bono
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Ben Parker is among the living in 1990. However, he is mentioned to be a widower, which basically means [[DeathByAdapation the opposite is true for May Parker]].]]
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* TooQualifiedToApply: The foundation of Noa's second high-profile case. Jacques Canter is an upcoming tennis star who managed to place four times in major tournaments in only 5 years of professional playing, and just had the best run of his life when he won the US Open outright. Then, his higher-seed [[SoreLoser opponent]] accuses him of being a mutant and cheating because of his supposedly "impossible" win, and [[TallPoppySyndrome he is stripped of his titles and sponsors and banned from playing in any ATP tournament ever again]]. He comes to Noa to help him sue his opponent, the tennis associations, and all his sponsors for defamation.
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* TooQualifiedToApply: The foundation of Noa's second high-profile case. Jacques Canter is an upcoming tennis star who managed to place four times in major tournaments in only 5 years of professional playing, and just had the best run of his life when he won the US Open outright. Then, his higher-seed [[SoreLoser opponent]] accuses him of being a mutant and cheating because of his supposedly "impossible" win, and [[TallPoppySyndrome he is stripped of his titles and sponsors and banned from playing in any ATP tournament ever again]]. He comes to Noa to help him sue his opponent, the tennis associations, and all his sponsors for defamation. Noa proves his case by showing off normal college-age players performing the exact same moves.
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* YouOweMe: [[spoiler:Part of the reason that Noa takes up Ben Parker's defense pro bono against Osborne's civil suit. Ben is an old Korean War comrade of Judge Nolan and Noa knows that her improved financial status is the result of Nolan upping the damage claims rewarded to her client Jacques Canter.]]
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It can also be read [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/pound-the-table-an-x-men-self-insert.92380/ here]] and [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/32633056/chapters/80950963 here]].
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It can also be read [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/pound-the-table-an-x-men-self-insert.92380/ here]] and here]], [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/32633056/chapters/80950963 here]], and [[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/pound-the-table-an-x-men-self-insert.15443/ here]].
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** She also extends this to ''scheduling'' trials; during a case for a defamed tennis star, she plans to file the case right before the Australian Open, both so that it'll piggyback off the tournament's media attention, and so that it'll take up all the time the defendants have to prepare and respond to the suit, making mistakes in either more likely.
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* CrimeOfSelfDefense: The impetus of the story's first case. A 16-year-old boy was mugged by 4 fully grown men, took a blow to the head, and still managed to chase them off, with one even breaking his leg as he ran away. So why is the boy being charged with assault? Because the boy is St. John Allerdyce, and he chased them off with his mutant power of pyrokinesis.
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* CrimeOfSelfDefense: The impetus of the story's first case. A 16-year-old boy was mugged by 4 fully grown men, took a blow to the head, head that could've killed him, and still managed to chase them off, with one mugger even breaking his leg as he ran away. So why is the boy being charged with assault? Because the boy is St. John Allerdyce, and he chased them off with his mutant power of pyrokinesis.
* {{Gaydar}}: Noa and her new asssistant Joshua are able to ping that their new client Jacques Cantor is gay, due to how well-groomed he is and who he checks out. This causes their other colleague Sophie to realize a few things about her youngest son.
* GuileHero: In a world of superheroes and mutants, Noa's weapons are her wits, her words and the law.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: After all of Judge Andrews and DA Young's efforts to run St. John Allerdyce into jail, Andrews does one more instance of running after his retirement... running over Young with his car.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: After Noa's case ends with [[spoiler: Young and Andrews successfully getting St. John convicted]], Jameson later sends Noa some framed news articles about [[spoiler: Young getting shellacked in his re-election polls, a newcomer into the DA race becoming an instant front-runner, and [[KarmicDeath Andrews accidentally running Young over with his car]]]], with the frame's plaque titled "Karma".
* LaserGuidedKarma: After Noa's case ends with [[spoiler: Young and Andrews successfully getting St. John convicted]], Jameson later sends Noa some framed news articles about [[spoiler: Young getting shellacked in his re-election polls, a newcomer into the DA race becoming an instant front-runner, and [[KarmicDeath Andrews accidentally running Young over with his car]]]], with the frame's plaque titled "Karma".
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* PyrrhicVictory: The aftermath of the trial ''People of the State of New York v. S.J. Allerdyce'', at least for [[spoiler: Judge Andrews and DA Lou Young; their designated "dangerous mutant" St. John is found guilty, and the opposing counsel Noa Schaefer is outed as a mutant and is forced to resign from her law firm, but Steve Rogers a.k.a. ''Captain America'', who was observing the case incognito, gets the first word to the press and completely ''[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech lambasts]]'' the judicial system for doing to mutants what the Nazis did to minorities, and then a mutant and Auschwitz survivor appears and not only publicly agrees with the Captain, but rescues St. John and spirits him away. Between those two and JJJ having a full head of steam, Andrews' and Young's prospects for re-election (which was the whole reason they railroaded the case in the first place) now look very bleak. Not to mention, Noa has plenty of evidence and briefs filed to bring both of them up on judicial misconduct charges.]]
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* PyrrhicVictory: The aftermath of the trial ''People of the State of New York v. S.J. Allerdyce'', at least for [[spoiler: Judge Andrews and DA Lou Young; their designated "dangerous mutant" St. John is found guilty, and the opposing counsel Noa Schaefer is outed as a mutant and is forced to resign from her law firm, but Steve Rogers a.k.a. ''Captain America'', who was observing the case incognito, gets the first word to the press and completely ''[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech lambasts]]'' the judicial system for doing to mutants what the Nazis did to minorities, and then a mutant and Auschwitz survivor appears and not only publicly agrees with the Captain, but rescues St. John and spirits him away. Between those two and JJJ having a full head of steam, Andrews' Andrews and Young's prospects for re-election Young end up getting shellacked in their re-elections (which was the whole reason they railroaded the case in the first place) now look very bleak.place). Not to mention, Noa has plenty of evidence and briefs filed to bring both of them up on judicial misconduct charges.]]
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* TooQualifiedToApply: The foundation of Noa's second high-profile case. Jacques Canter is an upcoming tennis star who managed to place four times in major tournaments in only 5 years of professional playing, and just had the best run of his life at the US Open, winning the whole thing outright. Then, his higher-seed [[SoreLoser opponent]] accuses him of being a mutant and cheating because of his supposedly impossible win, and [[TallPoppySyndrome he is stripped of his titles and sponsors and banned from playing in any ATP tournament ever again]]. He comes to Noa to help him sue his opponent, the tennis associations, and all his sponsors for defamation.
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* TooQualifiedToApply: The foundation of Noa's second high-profile case. Jacques Canter is an upcoming tennis star who managed to place four times in major tournaments in only 5 years of professional playing, and just had the best run of his life at when he won the US Open, winning the whole thing Open outright. Then, his higher-seed [[SoreLoser opponent]] accuses him of being a mutant and cheating because of his supposedly impossible "impossible" win, and [[TallPoppySyndrome he is stripped of his titles and sponsors and banned from playing in any ATP tournament ever again]]. He comes to Noa to help him sue his opponent, the tennis associations, and all his sponsors for defamation.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: Jameson reveals to Noa that he knows there's no way Peter Parker, a ''teenager'', just ''happens'' to be capable of getting good pictures of Spider-Man when professional photographers with experience in everything from disaster areas to warzones can't. The conclusion he reaches, however, is that Spider-Man is blackmailing a powerless kid into being his personal photographer to aid in his [[GlorySeeker glory seeking]]. Heartwarmingly, though, he has ''also'' opened an account containing all the royalties Peter is unknowingly earning for his photographs, to be paid out when he turns eighteen, so he can "get away from that menace."
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* LookBothWays: [[spoiler:Judge Andrews ends up running DA Young over by accident right after Andrews retires.]]
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* ConsummateProfessional: Despite her reputation for CourtroomAntics, Noa has a sharp air of professionalism about her when it comes to presenting a case correctly, mostly due to the need to be above-par at her job just to be recognised. After she strikes out on her own [[spoiler: after being outed as a mutant and being fired from her firm]], when a woman walks into her office and hands her a resume for the open secretary position [[spoiler: with mutant telekinesis]], Noa firmly tells her to come back in a week for a proper interview with all the proper references, and an actual suit.
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* ChekhovsNews: One chapter where Noa buys a newspaper, she notices but doesn't really acknowledge an article about a tennis star being accused of cheating with suspected mutant powers. The next chapter, the tennis star, Jacques Canter, shows up to ask her to represent him in his lawsuit.
* ConsummateProfessional: Despite her reputation for CourtroomAntics, Noa has a sharp air of professionalism about her when it comes to presenting a case correctly, mostly due to the need to be above-par at her job just to be recognised. After she strikes out on her own [[spoiler: after being outed as a mutant and being fired from her firm]], when a woman walks into her office and hands her a resume for the open secretary position [[spoiler: with mutant telekinesis]], Noa firmly tells her to come back in a week for a proper interview with all the proper references, and an actual suit. She's also not very impressed when her old boss calls in a few of her favours to get his son a job as her paralegal (however sympathetic she might be, she hates {{Nepotism}}).
* ConsummateProfessional: Despite her reputation for CourtroomAntics, Noa has a sharp air of professionalism about her when it comes to presenting a case correctly, mostly due to the need to be above-par at her job just to be recognised. After she strikes out on her own [[spoiler: after being outed as a mutant and being fired from her firm]], when a woman walks into her office and hands her a resume for the open secretary position [[spoiler: with mutant telekinesis]], Noa firmly tells her to come back in a week for a proper interview with all the proper references, and an actual suit. She's also not very impressed when her old boss calls in a few of her favours to get his son a job as her paralegal (however sympathetic she might be, she hates {{Nepotism}}).
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* GlamorFailure: This is a constant worry for Noa, whose hard-light glamor is quite fragile and can be broken if anyone hits her with a solid-enough blow. [[spoiler: When she tries to get Judge Andrews to reverse St. John's guilty verdict, the judge orders the bailiff to remove her, and in the resulting struggle, her horns hit his chest and end up breaking her glamor.]]
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* GlamorFailure: This is a constant worry for Noa, whose hard-light glamor is quite fragile and can be broken if anyone hits her with a solid-enough blow. [[spoiler: When she tries to get Judge Andrews to reverse St. John's guilty verdict, the judge orders the bailiff to remove her, and in the resulting struggle, her horns hit his chest and end up breaking her glamor.]]]] She also avoids the crowds at Rosh Hashanah celebrations for this reason.
--> I was small and huggable, and that congregation was filled to the brim with Jewish mothers. My glamour wouldn't last ten seconds.
--> I was small and huggable, and that congregation was filled to the brim with Jewish mothers. My glamour wouldn't last ten seconds.
* {{Housewife}}: A woman named Sophie Walsh shows up to apply for the job of Noa's secretary, with Noa taking particular interest given that she put "stay-at-home mother" as the largest chunk on her resume. Sophie explains that in addition to previous secretary work, she wanted to work for the notorious [[spoiler: outed mutant]] lawyer because [[EmptyNest she wanted a job almost as interesting as raising triplet teenage boys (who are now in college)]]. Noa is so impressed at the acknowledgement of stay-at-home-motherhood as a full-time job and the chutzpah to put it on her resume that she hires her on the spot.
* MuggleSportsSuperAthletes: Noa's second case involves a tennis star who, after an upset tournament win, was accused of being a mutant and had all his achievements revoked, and now wants to sue his accuser and the association for defamation.
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* OneSuperOnePowerset: Averted. Noa's mutant powers include her draconic features and her hard-light glamor, but she also takes magical lessons from Dr. Strange. Erik has popped in to get some off-the-books magical healing once or twice.
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* OneDegreeOfSeparation: When Noa goes home for Rosh Hashanah, her father introduces her to an old friend and fellow Auschwitz survivor, Max Eisenhardt a.k.a. her old Nazi-hunting buddy Erik Lehnscherr. Both of them are pretty flummoxed at recognizing each other, and Noa isn't impressed when she finds out that Erik is there to pick the brains of his fellow survivors for info, and dredge up bad memories in the process.
* OneSuperOnePowerset: Averted. Noa's mutant powers include her draconic features and her hard-light glamor, but she also takes magical lessons from Dr. Strange. Erik has popped in to get some off-the-books magical healing once or twice.
* OneSuperOnePowerset: Averted. Noa's mutant powers include her draconic features and her hard-light glamor, but she also takes magical lessons from Dr. Strange. Erik has popped in to get some off-the-books magical healing once or twice.
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* PyrrhicVictory: The aftermath of the trial ''People of the State of New York v. S.J. Allerdyce'', at least for [[spoiler: Judge Andrews and DA Lou Young; their designated "dangerous mutant" St. John is found guilty, and the opposing counsel Noa Schaefer is outed as a mutant and is forced to resign from her law firm, but Steve Rogers a.k.a. ''Captain America'', who was observing the case incognito, gets the first word to the press and completely ''[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech lambasts]]'' the judicial system for doing to mutants what the Nazis did to minorities, and then the mutant criminal Magneto appears and not only publicly agrees with the Captain, but rescues St. John and spirits him away. Between those two and JJJ having a full head of steam, Andrews' and Young's prospects for re-election (which was the whole reason they railroaded the case in the first place) now look very bleak. Not to mention, Noa has plenty of evidence and briefs filed to bring both of them up on judicial misconduct charges.]]
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* PyrrhicVictory: The aftermath of the trial ''People of the State of New York v. S.J. Allerdyce'', at least for [[spoiler: Judge Andrews and DA Lou Young; their designated "dangerous mutant" St. John is found guilty, and the opposing counsel Noa Schaefer is outed as a mutant and is forced to resign from her law firm, but Steve Rogers a.k.a. ''Captain America'', who was observing the case incognito, gets the first word to the press and completely ''[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech lambasts]]'' the judicial system for doing to mutants what the Nazis did to minorities, and then the a mutant criminal Magneto and Auschwitz survivor appears and not only publicly agrees with the Captain, but rescues St. John and spirits him away. Between those two and JJJ having a full head of steam, Andrews' and Young's prospects for re-election (which was the whole reason they railroaded the case in the first place) now look very bleak. Not to mention, Noa has plenty of evidence and briefs filed to bring both of them up on judicial misconduct charges.]]
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* TooQualifiedToApply: The foundation of Noa's second high-profile case. Jacques Canter is an upcoming tennis star who managed to place four times in major tournaments in only 5 years of professional playing, and just had the best run of his life at the US Open, winning the whole thing outright. Then, his higher-seed [[SoreLoser opponent]] accuses him of being a mutant and cheating because of his supposedly impossible win, and [[TallPoppySyndrome he is stripped of his titles and sponsors and banned from playing in any ATP tournament ever again]]. He comes to Noa to help him sue his opponent, the tennis associations, and all his sponsors for defamation.
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* BespectacledCutie: Invoked example for both genders; Noa makes both St. John and Katherine wear spectacles in court, the former during ''voir dire'' and the latter during her witness testimony, so that they look less threatening and more sympathetic.
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* ChekhovsGunman: During the trial of St. John, there is made mention of an oversized man in a ConspicuousTrenchcoat and hat in the observer's gallery. When the verdict is finally handed down, the man is the first out of the courtroom to face the reporters, [[spoiler: and after revealing himself as the recently-thawed Steve Rogers, declares how ashamed he is to be a New Yorker if their judicial system can so easily convict a mutant boy for the crime of being different.]]
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* ChekhovsGunman: During the trial of St. John, there is made mention of an oversized man in a ConspicuousTrenchcoat and hat in the observer's gallery. When the verdict is finally handed down, the man is the first out of the courtroom to face the reporters, [[spoiler: and after revealing himself as the recently-thawed Steve Rogers, declares how ashamed he is to be a New Yorker if their judicial system can so easily convict a mutant boy for the crime of being different.]] On another level, when the case first started, Noa read a newspaper article about Cap's recent thawing.]]
* ConsummateProfessional: Despite her reputation for CourtroomAntics, Noa has a sharp air of professionalism about her when it comes to presenting a case correctly, mostly due to the need to be above-par at her job just to be recognised. After she strikes out on her own [[spoiler: after being outed as a mutant and being fired from her firm]], when a woman walks into her office and hands her a resume for the open secretary position [[spoiler: with mutant telekinesis]], Noa firmly tells her to come back in a week for a proper interview with all the proper references, and an actual suit.
* ConsummateProfessional: Despite her reputation for CourtroomAntics, Noa has a sharp air of professionalism about her when it comes to presenting a case correctly, mostly due to the need to be above-par at her job just to be recognised. After she strikes out on her own [[spoiler: after being outed as a mutant and being fired from her firm]], when a woman walks into her office and hands her a resume for the open secretary position [[spoiler: with mutant telekinesis]], Noa firmly tells her to come back in a week for a proper interview with all the proper references, and an actual suit.
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* DraconicHumanoid: Downplayed; Noa's true, mutant form (which she normally hides behind her {{Glamour}} power) is based on the writer's ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' character, who is an Au Ra: humanoids with a few draconic traits like horns, scale patches, and a tail, but are otherwise fairly human-looking. Dealing with a tail she can't let anyone see is, however, difficult...
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* DraconicHumanoid: Downplayed; Noa's true, mutant form (which she normally hides behind her {{Glamour}} power) is based on the writer's ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' character, who is an Au Ra: humanoids with a few draconic traits like horns, scale patches, and a tail, but are otherwise fairly human-looking. Dealing with a tail she can't let anyone see is, however, difficult...[[HumanFurnitureIsAPainInTheTail difficult]]...
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** When [[spoiler: St. John is declared guilty anyway and Magneto ends up breaking him out of the police van]], not only does [[spoiler: Captain America (who was watching the trial in disguise)]] not stop him, but JJJ says on the record that [[spoiler: if Spider-Man had broken been the one to break him out, he'd have shaken the wall-crawler's hand and called him a true hero]].
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* {{Meganekko}}: Invoked example for both genders; Noa makes both St. John and Katherine wear spectacles in court, the former during ''voir dire'' and the latter during her witness testimony, so that they look less threatening and more sympathetic.
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* {{Meganekko}}: Invoked example for MundaneUtility: Thrown back to the 1980s, Noa takes advantage of her future knowledge to both genders; Noa makes both St. John and Katherine wear spectacles in court, the former during ''voir dire'' and the latter during pad her witness testimony, so stock portfolio with companies that they look less threatening will be big in the future, and more sympathetic.also catch Music/FreddieMercury live in concert.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After witnessing the trial and [[spoiler: wrongful conviction of an innocent boy for the "crime" of being a mutant, Steve Rogers]] walks out to the press and rakes the entire city of New York over the coals [[spoiler: for the miscarriage of justice]], including the very poignant statement, "I am ''ashamed'' to be a New Yorker."
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After witnessing the trial and [[spoiler: wrongful conviction of an innocent boy for the "crime" of being a mutant, Steve Rogers]] walks out to the press and rakes the entire city of New York over the coals [[spoiler: for the miscarriage of justice]], including the very poignant pointed statement, "I am ''ashamed'' to be a New Yorker."
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: A DefiedTrope, as Noa's religion is never called into doubt or questioned. She also speaks fluent Yiddish.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: A DefiedTrope, as {{Defied|Trope}}; Noa's religion is never called into doubt or questioned. She also speaks fluent Yiddish.
* TheCameo: TheCameo/StanLee makes his usual Marvel appearance in Chapter 13, as a newsie that Noa buys a paper from.
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** John Jonah Jameson may be a sharp-tongued, hardass reporter with a raging grudge against Spider-Man, but he will not tolerate kids being messed with. After the first day of witness testimony, when he hears that DA Lou Young is railroading 16-year-old St. John Allerdyce into prison, mutant or no mutant, JJJ instantly rakes him over the coals with his next front-page article titled '''"YOUNG IS RECKLESS: UNHINGED DA BULLIES TEEN ARTIST"'''. Noa plans to have that article framed. [[spoiler: When St. John is declared guilty anyway and Magneto ends up breaking him out of the police van, not only does an observing Steve Rogers not stop him, but JJJ says on the record that if Spider-Man had broken him out, he'd have shaken the wall-crawler's hand and called him a true hero.]]
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** John Jonah Jameson may be a sharp-tongued, hardass reporter with a raging grudge against Spider-Man, but he will not tolerate kids being messed with. After the first day of witness testimony, when he hears that DA Lou Young is railroading 16-year-old St. John Allerdyce into prison, mutant or no mutant, JJJ instantly rakes him over the coals with his next front-page article titled '''"YOUNG IS RECKLESS: UNHINGED DA BULLIES TEEN ARTIST"'''. Noa plans to have that article framed. framed.
** When [[spoiler:When St. John is declared guilty anyway and Magneto ends up breaking him out of the police van, van]], not only does an observing Steve Rogers [[spoiler: Captain America (who was watching the trial in disguise)]] not stop him, but JJJ says on the record that [[spoiler: if Spider-Man had broken him out, he'd have shaken the wall-crawler's hand and called him a true hero.]]hero]].
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* FriendOnTheForce: FBI agent Cate Caine, Noa's best friend in NYC and also captain of the local roller derby team. She and Noa have interacted a few times on both a personal and professional basis, [[spoiler: and Noa feels bad about lying to her to protect Erik and St. John, who are both on the run after St. John's conviction]].
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* HangingJudge: Downplayed with Judge Philip Andrews, who is up for re-election and wants a good conviction case on his record, no matter who he has to railroad into jail to do so. He can't look overtly partisan or preside over a KangarooCourt, but he gives quite a bit of leeway to his fellow election-mate DA Lou Young over Noa. [[spoiler: Then he gets really blatant by, right before closing statements, charging an officer with contempt for carrying a cigarette into a room where the defendant is a pyrokinetic mutant (thus reminding everyone of the potential danger of his powers), and over Noa's objections, ''not'' calling a mistrial despite prejudicing the whole jury.]]
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* HangingJudge: Downplayed with Judge Philip Andrews, who is up for re-election and wants a good conviction case on his record, no matter who he has to railroad into jail to do so. He can't look overtly partisan or preside over a KangarooCourt, but he gives quite a bit of leeway to his fellow election-mate DA Lou Young over Noa. [[spoiler: Then he gets really blatant by, right before closing statements, charging an officer with contempt for carrying a cigarette into a room where the defendant is a pyrokinetic mutant (thus reminding everyone of the potential danger of his powers), and over Noa's objections, ''not'' calling a mistrial despite prejudicing the whole jury.]]]]
* HeightAngst: Noa barely reaches five feet in height, which doesn't make it any easier for others to take her seriously. She avoids getting into elevators (often filled with other lawyers with overstuffed suitcases, briefcases and egos) for obvious reasons, and one time, she has to hold back her irritation at another woman who has the luxury of walking around in flats rather than heels.
* HeightAngst: Noa barely reaches five feet in height, which doesn't make it any easier for others to take her seriously. She avoids getting into elevators (often filled with other lawyers with overstuffed suitcases, briefcases and egos) for obvious reasons, and one time, she has to hold back her irritation at another woman who has the luxury of walking around in flats rather than heels.
* LesbianJock: Noa plays UsefulNotes/RollerDerby on her rare days off, and went on a date with the team captain (whom she met at the Stonewall Inn).
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* PyrrhicVictory: The aftermath of the trial ''People of the State of New York v. S.J. Allerdyce'', at least for [[spoiler: Judge Andrews and DA Lou Young; their designated "dangerous mutant" St. John is found guilty, and Noa is outed as a mutant and is forced to resign from her law firm, but Steve Rogers a.k.a. ''Captain America'', who was observing the case incognito, gets the first word to the press and completely ''[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech lambasts]]'' the judicial system for doing to mutants what the Nazis did to minorities, and then the mutant criminal Magneto appears and not only publicly agrees with the Captain, but rescues St. John and spirits him away. Between those two and JJJ having a full head of steam, Andrews' and Young's prospects for re-election (which was the whole reason they railroaded the case in the first place) now look very bleak. Not to mention, Noa has plenty of evidence and briefs filed to bring both of them up on judicial misconduct charges.]]
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* OneSuperOnePowerset: Averted. Noa's mutant powers include her draconic features and her hard-light glamor, but she also takes magical lessons from Dr. Strange. Erik has popped in to get some off-the-books magical healing once or twice.
* PekingDuckChristmas: Noa has a personal tradition of getting Sichuan beef takeout from the same Chinese restaurant every Christmas.
* PyrrhicVictory: The aftermath of the trial ''People of the State of New York v. S.J. Allerdyce'', at least for [[spoiler: Judge Andrews and DA Lou Young; their designated "dangerous mutant" St. John is found guilty, and the opposing counsel Noa Schaefer is outed as a mutant and is forced to resign from her law firm, but Steve Rogers a.k.a. ''Captain America'', who was observing the case incognito, gets the first word to the press and completely ''[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech lambasts]]'' the judicial system for doing to mutants what the Nazis did to minorities, and then the mutant criminal Magneto appears and not only publicly agrees with the Captain, but rescues St. John and spirits him away. Between those two and JJJ having a full head of steam, Andrews' and Young's prospects for re-election (which was the whole reason they railroaded the case in the first place) now look very bleak. Not to mention, Noa has plenty of evidence and briefs filed to bring both of them up on judicial misconduct charges.]]
* PekingDuckChristmas: Noa has a personal tradition of getting Sichuan beef takeout from the same Chinese restaurant every Christmas.
* PyrrhicVictory: The aftermath of the trial ''People of the State of New York v. S.J. Allerdyce'', at least for [[spoiler: Judge Andrews and DA Lou Young; their designated "dangerous mutant" St. John is found guilty, and the opposing counsel Noa Schaefer is outed as a mutant and is forced to resign from her law firm, but Steve Rogers a.k.a. ''Captain America'', who was observing the case incognito, gets the first word to the press and completely ''[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech lambasts]]'' the judicial system for doing to mutants what the Nazis did to minorities, and then the mutant criminal Magneto appears and not only publicly agrees with the Captain, but rescues St. John and spirits him away. Between those two and JJJ having a full head of steam, Andrews' and Young's prospects for re-election (which was the whole reason they railroaded the case in the first place) now look very bleak. Not to mention, Noa has plenty of evidence and briefs filed to bring both of them up on judicial misconduct charges.]]
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* ReligionIsMagic: Downplayed; Noa's Jewish faith doesn't give her any special powers, but she does use a set of ''atezi chaim'' (Torah scroll rollers) as magical foci. Dr. Strange later gives her a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezuzah mezuzah]] he made himself as a better focus.
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* PyrrhicVictory: The aftermath of the trial ''People of the State of New York v. S.J. Allerdyce'', at least for [[spoiler: Judge Andrews and DA Lou Young; their designated "dangerous mutant" St. John is found guilty, and Noa is outed as a mutant and is forced to resign from her law firm, but Steve Rogers a.k.a. ''Captain America'', who was observing the case incognito, gets the first word to the press and completely ''[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech lambasts]]'' the judicial system for doing to mutants what the Nazi's did to minorities, and then the mutant criminal Magneto appears and not only publicly agrees with the Captain, but rescues St. John and spirits him away. Between those two and JJJ having a full head of steam, Andrews' and Young's prospects for re-election (which was the whole reason they railroaded the case in the first place) now look very bleak. Not to mention, Noa has plenty of evidence and briefs filed to bring both of them up on judicial misconduct charges.]]
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* PyrrhicVictory: The aftermath of the trial ''People of the State of New York v. S.J. Allerdyce'', at least for [[spoiler: Judge Andrews and DA Lou Young; their designated "dangerous mutant" St. John is found guilty, and Noa is outed as a mutant and is forced to resign from her law firm, but Steve Rogers a.k.a. ''Captain America'', who was observing the case incognito, gets the first word to the press and completely ''[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech lambasts]]'' the judicial system for doing to mutants what the Nazi's Nazis did to minorities, and then the mutant criminal Magneto appears and not only publicly agrees with the Captain, but rescues St. John and spirits him away. Between those two and JJJ having a full head of steam, Andrews' and Young's prospects for re-election (which was the whole reason they railroaded the case in the first place) now look very bleak. Not to mention, Noa has plenty of evidence and briefs filed to bring both of them up on judicial misconduct charges.]]
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* ShamingTheMob: At the end of St. John's case, [[spoiler: ''Steve Rogers himself'']] emerges to deliver a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the court, the gathered crowd, and the city of New York as a whole for [[spoiler: allowing an innocent kid to be convicted on trumped-up charges just for how he was born, outright comparing them to the ''Nazi's he fought against''. The arrival of mutant criminal and Auschwitz survivor Magneto to break the kid out just punctuates his point]].
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* ShamingTheMob: At the end of St. John's case, [[spoiler: ''Steve Rogers himself'']] emerges to deliver a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the court, the gathered crowd, and the city of New York as a whole for [[spoiler: allowing an innocent kid to be convicted on trumped-up charges just for how he was born, outright comparing them to the ''Nazi's ''Nazis he fought against''. The arrival of mutant criminal and Auschwitz survivor Magneto to break the kid out just punctuates his point]].
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* BaitAndSwitch: When Katherine Pryde is asked to testify at St. John Allerdyce's trial on his behalf, many readers were worried that the stress would activate her mutant gene, reveal her powers on the stand and torpedo Noa's whole case. [[spoiler: Kitty doesn't, but in the kerfuffle after St. John is declared guilty, Noa's [[GlamorFailure glamor is broken]] and her mutant features are revealed for all to see.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: During the trial of St. John, there is made mention of an oversized man in a ConspicuousTrenchcoat and hat in the observer's gallery. When the verdict is finally handed down, the man is the first out of the courtroom to face the reporters, [[spoiler: and after revealing himself as the recently-thawed Steve Rogers, declares how ashamed he is to be a New Yorker if their judicial system can so easily convict a mutant boy for the crime of being different.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: During the trial of St. John, there is made mention of an oversized man in a ConspicuousTrenchcoat and hat in the observer's gallery. When the verdict is finally handed down, the man is the first out of the courtroom to face the reporters, [[spoiler: and after revealing himself as the recently-thawed Steve Rogers, declares how ashamed he is to be a New Yorker if their judicial system can so easily convict a mutant boy for the crime of being different.]]
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* ConvictionByContradiction: An aversion. In St. John Allerdyce's assault case, the prosecution's first witness, one of the victims, is caught in a lie about how the events went down and chooses to invoke his right to remain silent, causing the prosecution to withdraw the other victims from being witnesses. The Allerdyces are ecstatic since it proves that their whole case is built on a lie, but Noa and Matt have to throw cold water on their joy, since that in no way stops the whole case.
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* ConvictionByContradiction: An aversion. In St. John Allerdyce's assault case, the prosecution's first witness, one of the victims, is caught in a lie about how the events went down and chooses to invoke his right to remain silent, causing the prosecution to withdraw the other victims from being witnesses. The Allerdyces are ecstatic since it proves that their whole case is built on a lie, but Noa and Matt have to throw cold water on their joy, since that in no way stops the whole case.trial.
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** John Jonah Jameson may be a sharp-tongued, hardass reporter with a raging grudge against Spider-Man, but he will not tolerate kids being messed with. After the first day of witness testimony, when he hears that DA Lou Young is railroading 16-year-old St. John Allerdyce into prison, mutant or no mutant, JJJ instantly rakes him over the coals with his next front-page article titled '''"YOUNG IS RECKLESS: UNHINGED DA BULLIES TEEN ARTIST"'''. Noa plans to have that article framed.
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** John Jonah Jameson may be a sharp-tongued, hardass reporter with a raging grudge against Spider-Man, but he will not tolerate kids being messed with. After the first day of witness testimony, when he hears that DA Lou Young is railroading 16-year-old St. John Allerdyce into prison, mutant or no mutant, JJJ instantly rakes him over the coals with his next front-page article titled '''"YOUNG IS RECKLESS: UNHINGED DA BULLIES TEEN ARTIST"'''. Noa plans to have that article framed. [[spoiler: When St. John is declared guilty anyway and Magneto ends up breaking him out of the police van, not only does an observing Steve Rogers not stop him, but JJJ says on the record that if Spider-Man had broken him out, he'd have shaken the wall-crawler's hand and called him a true hero.]]
*** [[spoiler: In the ruckus, Noa is revealed to be a mutant in the middle of court]], but before anyone can start shouting imprecations, JJJ declares that anyone who starts spreading baseless rumours about Noa or dragging her through the mud will become the full target of his ire.
*** [[spoiler: In the ruckus, Noa is revealed to be a mutant in the middle of court]], but before anyone can start shouting imprecations, JJJ declares that anyone who starts spreading baseless rumours about Noa or dragging her through the mud will become the full target of his ire.
* GlamorFailure: This is a constant worry for Noa, whose hard-light glamor is quite fragile and can be broken if anyone hits her with a solid-enough blow. [[spoiler: When she tries to get Judge Andrews to reverse St. John's guilty verdict, the judge orders the bailiff to remove her, and in the resulting struggle, her horns hit his chest and end up breaking her glamor.]]
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* HiddenDepths: Schmoel "Sam" Lieberman, senior partner at Noa's law firm and the one who hired her in the first place. At first glance, he seems like the textbook sexist boss who only hired Noa to be the "token female", holds her back because of her gender, calls her a dyke under his breath, and has a beef with her because she has stock in the "iron monger" company of Stark Industries. But later, he tells her that she hasn't been made a partner because her CourtroomAntics piss off too many judges and he's had to placate more than a few of them by throwing several golf games, and he can't risk her getting sanctioned or disbarred. The reason he gives her the pro bono case for Judge Andrews (one of the aforementioned pissed-off judges) is because he needs to know she can handle a high-profile case like this with delicacy, and ''not'' end up on the Bugle's front page again.
* HumanFurnitureIsAPainInTheTail: Noa often has to sit in an odd way on chairs and pass it off as her personal habits, because human chairs are just not built for people with tails.
* KangarooCourt: Avoiding this is one of the goals of the prosecuting Attorney and the Judge of the first act. While there are obvious attempts to sway the jury and the Judge is pretty blatant in his favouritism, nothing illegal happens in the court. After all, you can't make an example if the trial is a sham, not so close to re-election season.
* HumanFurnitureIsAPainInTheTail: Noa often has to sit in an odd way on chairs and pass it off as her personal habits, because human chairs are just not built for people with tails.
* KangarooCourt: Avoiding this is one of the goals of the prosecuting Attorney and the Judge of the first act. While there are obvious attempts to sway the jury and the Judge is pretty blatant in his favouritism, nothing illegal happens in the court. After all, you can't make an example if the trial is a sham, not so close to re-election season.
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* HiddenDepths: Schmoel "Sam" Lieberman, senior partner at Noa's law firm and the one who hired her in the first place. At first glance, he seems like the textbook sexist boss who only hired Noa to be the "token female", holds her back because of her gender, calls her a dyke under his breath, and has a beef with her because she has stock in the "iron monger" company of Stark Industries. But later, he tells her that she hasn't been made a partner because her CourtroomAntics piss off too many judges and he's had to placate more than a few of them by throwing several golf games, and he can't risk her getting sanctioned or disbarred. The reason he gives her the pro bono case for Judge Andrews (one of the aforementioned pissed-off judges) is because he needs to know she can handle a high-profile case like this with delicacy, and ''not'' end up on the Bugle's front page again.
again. He is also regretful that despite two days of arguing and effort, [[spoiler: he couldn't save Noa's job, nor get her a better severance package, after she suffers a GlamorFailure in court, outright saying that she deserves better]].
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: When the jury returns with their verdict, St. John almost collapses with relief when they find him not guilty for assaulting the first three muggers. However, for the assault on the fourth mugger, who broke his leg trying to run away, they '''do''' find him guilty.]]
* HumanFurnitureIsAPainInTheTail: Noa often has to sit in an odd way on chairs and pass it off as her personal habits, because human chairs are just not built for people withtails.
tails. [[spoiler: It's a small touch that when Lieberman calls her into his office after she suffers a GlamorFailure, he gives her a chair with an open back.]]
* KangarooCourt: Avoiding this is one of the goals of the prosecuting Attorney and the Judge of the first act. While there are obvious attempts to sway the jury and the Judge is pretty blatant in his favouritism, nothing illegal happens in the court. After all, you can't make an example if the trial is a sham, not so close to re-election season. [[spoiler: However, Judge Andrews' antics of prejudicing the jury (by charging an officer with contempt for carrying a cigarette into the courtroom and reminding everyone of St. John's pyrokinesis) and not declaring a mistrial make it clear to everyone watching of the prejudice in the courtroom, especially after the jury returns a guilty verdict.]]
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: When the jury returns with their verdict, St. John almost collapses with relief when they find him not guilty for assaulting the first three muggers. However, for the assault on the fourth mugger, who broke his leg trying to run away, they '''do''' find him guilty.]]
* HumanFurnitureIsAPainInTheTail: Noa often has to sit in an odd way on chairs and pass it off as her personal habits, because human chairs are just not built for people with
* KangarooCourt: Avoiding this is one of the goals of the prosecuting Attorney and the Judge of the first act. While there are obvious attempts to sway the jury and the Judge is pretty blatant in his favouritism, nothing illegal happens in the court. After all, you can't make an example if the trial is a sham, not so close to re-election season. [[spoiler: However, Judge Andrews' antics of prejudicing the jury (by charging an officer with contempt for carrying a cigarette into the courtroom and reminding everyone of St. John's pyrokinesis) and not declaring a mistrial make it clear to everyone watching of the prejudice in the courtroom, especially after the jury returns a guilty verdict.]]
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* NaziHunter: Noa and Magneto meet while tracking down a former Nazi, [[spoiler: who turns out to be [=HYDRA=] ]]and form a friendship based on that.
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* NaziHunter: Noa and Magneto meet while tracking down a former Nazi, [[spoiler: who turns out to be [=HYDRA=] ]]and [=HYDRA=]]] and form a friendship based on that.
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* ShamingTheMob: At the end of St. John's case, [[spoiler: ''Steve Rogers himself'']] emerges to deliver a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the court, the gathered crowd, and the city of New York as a whole for [[spoiler: allowing an innocent kid to be convicted on trumped-up charges just for how he was born, outright comparing them to the ''Nazi's he fought against'']].
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* PyrrhicVictory: The aftermath of the trial ''People of the State of New York v. S.J. Allerdyce'', at least for [[spoiler: Judge Andrews and DA Lou Young; their designated "dangerous mutant" St. John is found guilty, and Noa is outed as a mutant and is forced to resign from her law firm, but Steve Rogers a.k.a. ''Captain America'', who was observing the case incognito, gets the first word to the press and completely ''[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech lambasts]]'' the judicial system for doing to mutants what the Nazi's did to minorities, and then the mutant criminal Magneto appears and not only publicly agrees with the Captain, but rescues St. John and spirits him away. Between those two and JJJ having a full head of steam, Andrews' and Young's prospects for re-election (which was the whole reason they railroaded the case in the first place) now look very bleak. Not to mention, Noa has plenty of evidence and briefs filed to bring both of them up on judicial misconduct charges.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After witnessing the trial and [[spoiler: wrongful conviction of an innocent boy for the "crime" of being a mutant, Steve Rogers]] walks out to the press and rakes the entire city of New York over the coals [[spoiler: for the miscarriage of justice]], including the very poignant statement, "I am ''ashamed'' to be a New Yorker."
* ShamingTheMob: At the end of St. John's case, [[spoiler: ''Steve Rogers himself'']] emerges to deliver a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the court, the gathered crowd, and the city of New York as a whole for [[spoiler: allowing an innocent kid to be convicted on trumped-up charges just for how he was born, outright comparing them to the ''Nazi's he foughtagainst'']].against''. The arrival of mutant criminal and Auschwitz survivor Magneto to break the kid out just punctuates his point]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After witnessing the trial and [[spoiler: wrongful conviction of an innocent boy for the "crime" of being a mutant, Steve Rogers]] walks out to the press and rakes the entire city of New York over the coals [[spoiler: for the miscarriage of justice]], including the very poignant statement, "I am ''ashamed'' to be a New Yorker."
* ShamingTheMob: At the end of St. John's case, [[spoiler: ''Steve Rogers himself'']] emerges to deliver a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the court, the gathered crowd, and the city of New York as a whole for [[spoiler: allowing an innocent kid to be convicted on trumped-up charges just for how he was born, outright comparing them to the ''Nazi's he fought
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* SurvivalMantra: After [[spoiler: her [[GlamorFailure glamor is broken]] in the middle of court and she basically suffers a panic attack]], Noa can't do anything more than repeat her motion for [[spoiler: arrest of the judgment (as St. John was found guilty)]].
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* ShamingTheMob: At the end of St. John's case, [[spoiler: ''Steve Rogers himself'']] emerges to deliver a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the court, the gathered crowd, and the city of New York as a whole for [[spoiler: allowing an innocent kid to be convicted on trumped-up charges just for how he was born, outright comparing them to the ''Nazi's he fought against'']].
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* AdaptationalBadass: In our world, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormé_DeLarverie Stormé DeLarverie]] was a patron of the Stonewall Inn, whose supposed fighting words of "Why don't you guys do something?" started a slew of [=LGBTQ=]-fuelled [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots riots]]. In this Marvel world, [=DeLarverie=], after saying that, immediately followed it with "Well if you won’t, ''I will.''", revealed her mutant powers, and turned herself into a martyr that allowed everyone else to go free that night.
* ConvictionByContradiction: An aversion. In St. John Allerdyce's assault case, the prosecution's first witness, one of the victims, is caught in a lie about how the events went down and chooses to invoke his right to remain silent, causing the prosecution to withdraw the other victims from being witnesses. The Allerdyces are ecstatic since it proves that their whole case is built on a lie, but Noa and Matt have to throw cold water on their joy, since that in no way stops the whole case.
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* DisregardThatStatement: A common statement in the courtroom towards the jury, to which Noa usually thinks, "No, they never do."
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* DisregardThatStatement: A common statement in the courtroom towards the jury, both for and against Noa's case, to which Noa she usually thinks, "No, they won't. They never do."
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* DraconicHumanoid: Downplayed; Noa's true, mutant form (which she normally hides behind a {{Glamour}}) is based on the writer's ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' character, who is an Au Ra: humanoids with a few draconic traits like horns, scale patches, and a tail, but are otherwise fairly human-looking. Dealing with a tail she can't let anyone see is, however, difficult...
* ExactWords: During ''voir dire'' of St. John Allerdyce's case, Noa tries to invoke the case of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batson_v._Kentucky Batson vs. Kentucky]] to prevent DA Young from using his peremptory challenges to exclude any mutant from the jury pool. Judge Andrews overrules her on the basis that the case ruling prevented exclusion based on ''ethnicity'' like race, not mutant status or sexual preference. That said, he does prevent Young from doing the same based on sexual preference.
* FantasticRacism: Dealing with this as a mutant, but legally, is one of the selling points of the story. Also, Noa has friendly relations with Magneto.
* HiddenDepths: Schmoel "Sam" Lieberman, senior partner at Noa's law firm and the one who hired her in the first place. At first glance, he seems like the textbook sexist boss who only hired Noa to be the "token female", holds her back because of her gender, calls her a dyke under his breath, and has a beef with her because she has stock in the "iron monger" company of Stark Industries. But later he tells her that she hasn't made a partner because her CourtroomAntics piss off too many judges and he's had to placate more than a few of them by throwing several golf games, and he can't risk her getting sanctioned or disbarred. The reason he gives her the pro bono case for Judge Andrews (one of the aforementioned pissed-off judges) is because he needs to know she can handle a high-profile case like this with delicacy, and ''not'' end up on the Bugle's front page again.
* ExactWords: During ''voir dire'' of St. John Allerdyce's case, Noa tries to invoke the case of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batson_v._Kentucky Batson vs. Kentucky]] to prevent DA Young from using his peremptory challenges to exclude any mutant from the jury pool. Judge Andrews overrules her on the basis that the case ruling prevented exclusion based on ''ethnicity'' like race, not mutant status or sexual preference. That said, he does prevent Young from doing the same based on sexual preference.
* FantasticRacism: Dealing with this as a mutant, but legally, is one of the selling points of the story. Also, Noa has friendly relations with Magneto.
* HiddenDepths: Schmoel "Sam" Lieberman, senior partner at Noa's law firm and the one who hired her in the first place. At first glance, he seems like the textbook sexist boss who only hired Noa to be the "token female", holds her back because of her gender, calls her a dyke under his breath, and has a beef with her because she has stock in the "iron monger" company of Stark Industries. But later he tells her that she hasn't made a partner because her CourtroomAntics piss off too many judges and he's had to placate more than a few of them by throwing several golf games, and he can't risk her getting sanctioned or disbarred. The reason he gives her the pro bono case for Judge Andrews (one of the aforementioned pissed-off judges) is because he needs to know she can handle a high-profile case like this with delicacy, and ''not'' end up on the Bugle's front page again.
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* DraconicHumanoid: Downplayed; Noa's true, mutant form (which she normally hides behind a {{Glamour}}) her {{Glamour}} power) is based on the writer's ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' character, who is an Au Ra: humanoids with a few draconic traits like horns, scale patches, and a tail, but are otherwise fairly human-looking. Dealing with a tail she can't let anyone see is, however, difficult...
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Noa's origin as a SelfInsert is her being inserted into the body of the Marvel universe's native Noa Schaefer, when her soul "vacated the premises". WordOfGod is that the original Noa Schaefer, under the combined stress of being a woman in a high-intensity lawyering profession, the sole woman at her office, talked down to by her coworkers for her gender and her potential sexuality, not to mention her hidden identity as a mutant, eventually cracked under the pressure and added herself to the high suicide rate for female attorneys.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** John Jonah Jameson may be a sharp-tongued, hardass reporter with a raging grudge against Spider-Man, but he will not tolerate kids being messed with. After the first day of witness testimony, when he hears that DA Lou Young is railroading 16-year-old St. John Allerdyce into prison, mutant or no mutant, JJJ instantly rakes him over the coals with his next front-page article titled '''"YOUNG IS RECKLESS: UNHINGED DA BULLIES TEEN ARTIST"'''. Noa plans to have that article framed.
* ExactWords: During ''voir dire'' of St. John Allerdyce's case, Noa tries to invoke the case of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batson_v._Kentucky Batson vs. Kentucky]] to prevent DA Young from using his peremptory challenges to exclude any mutant from the jury pool. Judge Andrews overrules her on the basis that the case ruling prevented exclusion based on ''ethnicity'' like race,not and mutant status or and sexual preference.preference are not ethnicities. That said, he does prevent Young from doing the same based on sexual preference.
* FantasticRacism: Dealing with this as a mutant, but legally, is one of the selling points of the story. Also, Noa has friendly relations withMagneto.
Magneto.
* HangingJudge: Downplayed with Judge Philip Andrews, who is up for re-election and wants a good conviction case on his record, no matter who he has to railroad into jail to do so. He can't look overtly partisan or preside over a KangarooCourt, but he gives quite a bit of leeway to his fellow election-mate DA Lou Young over Noa. [[spoiler: Then he gets really blatant by, right before closing statements, charging an officer with contempt for carrying a cigarette into a room where the defendant is a pyrokinetic mutant (thus reminding everyone of the potential danger of his powers), and over Noa's objections, ''not'' calling a mistrial despite prejudicing the whole jury.]]
* HiddenDepths: Schmoel "Sam" Lieberman, senior partner at Noa's law firm and the one who hired her in the first place. At first glance, he seems like the textbook sexist boss who only hired Noa to be the "token female", holds her back because of her gender, calls her a dyke under his breath, and has a beef with her because she has stock in the "iron monger" company of Stark Industries. Butlater later, he tells her that she hasn't been made a partner because her CourtroomAntics piss off too many judges and he's had to placate more than a few of them by throwing several golf games, and he can't risk her getting sanctioned or disbarred. The reason he gives her the pro bono case for Judge Andrews (one of the aforementioned pissed-off judges) is because he needs to know she can handle a high-profile case like this with delicacy, and ''not'' end up on the Bugle's front page again.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Noa's origin as a SelfInsert is her being inserted into the body of the Marvel universe's native Noa Schaefer, when her soul "vacated the premises". WordOfGod is that the original Noa Schaefer, under the combined stress of being a woman in a high-intensity lawyering profession, the sole woman at her office, talked down to by her coworkers for her gender and her potential sexuality, not to mention her hidden identity as a mutant, eventually cracked under the pressure and added herself to the high suicide rate for female attorneys.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** John Jonah Jameson may be a sharp-tongued, hardass reporter with a raging grudge against Spider-Man, but he will not tolerate kids being messed with. After the first day of witness testimony, when he hears that DA Lou Young is railroading 16-year-old St. John Allerdyce into prison, mutant or no mutant, JJJ instantly rakes him over the coals with his next front-page article titled '''"YOUNG IS RECKLESS: UNHINGED DA BULLIES TEEN ARTIST"'''. Noa plans to have that article framed.
* ExactWords: During ''voir dire'' of St. John Allerdyce's case, Noa tries to invoke the case of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batson_v._Kentucky Batson vs. Kentucky]] to prevent DA Young from using his peremptory challenges to exclude any mutant from the jury pool. Judge Andrews overrules her on the basis that the case ruling prevented exclusion based on ''ethnicity'' like race,
* FantasticRacism: Dealing with this as a mutant, but legally, is one of the selling points of the story. Also, Noa has friendly relations with
* HangingJudge: Downplayed with Judge Philip Andrews, who is up for re-election and wants a good conviction case on his record, no matter who he has to railroad into jail to do so. He can't look overtly partisan or preside over a KangarooCourt, but he gives quite a bit of leeway to his fellow election-mate DA Lou Young over Noa. [[spoiler: Then he gets really blatant by, right before closing statements, charging an officer with contempt for carrying a cigarette into a room where the defendant is a pyrokinetic mutant (thus reminding everyone of the potential danger of his powers), and over Noa's objections, ''not'' calling a mistrial despite prejudicing the whole jury.]]
* HiddenDepths: Schmoel "Sam" Lieberman, senior partner at Noa's law firm and the one who hired her in the first place. At first glance, he seems like the textbook sexist boss who only hired Noa to be the "token female", holds her back because of her gender, calls her a dyke under his breath, and has a beef with her because she has stock in the "iron monger" company of Stark Industries. But
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* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: Inverted example. The day after the trial date for the first arc's case is set, Noa is expecting the media to be all over the story of a "dangerous" mutant being charged for assault, only for the front page to display a much more positive story: Captain America being found, thawed and rescued.
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''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/pound-the-table-an-x-men-self-insert.951637/#post-77387485 Pound]][[https://archiveofourown.org/works/32633056/chapters/80950963 The Table]]'' by ''October Daye'' is, as you may have guessed, a Marvel SelfInsert fic with a rather... unusual take on the genre. Notable for being written by a real-life lawyer, and thus averting ArtisticLicenseLaw, and its use of DeliberateValuesDissonance.
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''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/pound-the-table-an-x-men-self-insert.951637/#post-77387485 Pound]][[https://archiveofourown.org/works/32633056/chapters/80950963 Pound The Table]]'' by ''October Daye'' is, as you may have guessed, a Marvel SelfInsert fic with a rather... unusual take on the genre. Notable for being written by a real-life lawyer, and thus averting ArtisticLicenseLaw, and its use of DeliberateValuesDissonance.
DeliberateValuesDissonance.
It can also be read [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/pound-the-table-an-x-men-self-insert.92380/ here]] and [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/32633056/chapters/80950963 here]].
It can also be read [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/pound-the-table-an-x-men-self-insert.92380/ here]] and [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/32633056/chapters/80950963 here]].
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* TwoferTokenMinority: Noa Schaefer, female, Jewish, lesbian, mutant. Oh, and less than five feet tall. She mentions that it only took her six months to notice that she was hired by her law firm to be the token woman hire, to be seen and not heard.
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* TwoferTokenMinority: Noa Schaefer, female, Jewish, lesbian, mutant. Oh, and less than five feet tall. She mentions that it only took her six months to notice that she was hired by her law firm to be the token woman hire, to be seen and not heard.heard.
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''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/pound-the-table-an-x-men-self-insert.951637/#post-77387485 Pound]][[https://archiveofourown.org/works/32633056/chapters/80950963 The Table]]'' by ''October Daye'' is, as you may have guessed, a Marvel SelfInsert fic with a rather... unusual take on the genre. Notable for being written by a real-life lawyer, and thus averting ArtisticLicenseLaw, and its use of DeliberateValuesDissonance.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: A DefiedTrope, as Noa's religion, is never called into doubt or questioned.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: A DefiedTrope, as Noa's religion, religion is never called into doubt or questioned.questioned. She also speaks fluent Yiddish.
* CrimeOfSelfDefense: The impetus of the story's first case. A 16-year-old boy was mugged by 4 fully grown men, took a blow to the head, and still managed to chase them off, with one even breaking his leg as he ran away. So why is the boy being charged with assault? Because the boy is St. John Allerdyce, and he chased them off with his mutant power of pyrokinesis.
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* DistantPrologue: The fic opens in 1996, where Hank Mccoy is on trial, only for Noa to unexpectedly arrive to represent him. In private, Hank accuses Noa of betraying both the professor and the X-Men. The fic then cuts back to 1987, and Noa's first meeting with Magneto.
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* DisregardThatStatement: A common statement in the courtroom towards the jury, to which Noa usually thinks, "No, they never do."
* DistantPrologue: The fic opens in 1996, where HankMccoy [=McCoy=] is on trial, only for Noa to unexpectedly arrive to represent him. In private, Hank accuses Noa of betraying both the professor and the X-Men. The fic then cuts back to 1987, and Noa's first meeting with Magneto.
* DistantPrologue: The fic opens in 1996, where Hank
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* FantasticRacism: Dealing with this as a mutant, but legally, is one of the selling points of the story. That Noa has friendly relations with Magneto.
* KangarooCourt: Avoiding this is one of the goals of the prosecuting Attorney and the Judge of the first act. While there are obvious attempts to sway the jury and the Judge is pretty blatant in his favouritism, nothing illegal happens in the court. After all, you can't make an example if the trial is a sham.
* KangarooCourt: Avoiding this is one of the goals of the prosecuting Attorney and the Judge of the first act. While there are obvious attempts to sway the jury and the Judge is pretty blatant in his favouritism, nothing illegal happens in the court. After all, you can't make an example if the trial is a sham.
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* ExactWords: During ''voir dire'' of St. John Allerdyce's case, Noa tries to invoke the case of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batson_v._Kentucky Batson vs. Kentucky]] to prevent DA Young from using his peremptory challenges to exclude any mutant from the jury pool. Judge Andrews overrules her on the basis that the case ruling prevented exclusion based on ''ethnicity'' like race, not mutant status or sexual preference. That said, he does prevent Young from doing the same based on sexual preference.
* FantasticRacism: Dealing with this as a mutant, but legally, is one of the selling points of the story.That Also, Noa has friendly relations with Magneto.
* HiddenDepths: Schmoel "Sam" Lieberman, senior partner at Noa's law firm and the one who hired her in the first place. At first glance, he seems like the textbook sexist boss who only hired Noa to be the "token female", holds her back because of her gender, calls her a dyke under his breath, and has a beef with her because she has stock in the "iron monger" company of Stark Industries. But later he tells her that she hasn't made a partner because her CourtroomAntics piss off too many judges and he's had to placate more than a few of them by throwing several golf games, and he can't risk her getting sanctioned or disbarred. The reason he gives her the pro bono case for Judge Andrews (one of the aforementioned pissed-off judges) is because he needs to know she can handle a high-profile case like this with delicacy, and ''not'' end up on the Bugle's front page again.
* HumanFurnitureIsAPainInTheTail: Noa often has to sit in an odd way on chairs and pass it off as her personal habits, because human chairs are just not built for people with tails.
* KangarooCourt: Avoiding this is one of the goals of the prosecuting Attorney and the Judge of the first act. While there are obvious attempts to sway the jury and the Judge is pretty blatant in his favouritism, nothing illegal happens in the court. After all, you can't make an example if the trial is asham.sham, not so close to re-election season.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: With re-election coming up for both Judge Philip Andrews and District Attorney Lou Young, with the latter eyeing a mayoral run, both of them want an eye-catching, decisive conviction case on their records to beef up their reputations. Something like putting a "dangerous" mutant in jail, even if the mutant is a 16-year-old theatre kid.
* {{Meganekko}}: Invoked example for both genders; Noa makes both St. John and Katherine wear spectacles in court, the former during ''voir dire'' and the latter during her witness testimony, so that they look less threatening and more sympathetic.
* FantasticRacism: Dealing with this as a mutant, but legally, is one of the selling points of the story.
* HiddenDepths: Schmoel "Sam" Lieberman, senior partner at Noa's law firm and the one who hired her in the first place. At first glance, he seems like the textbook sexist boss who only hired Noa to be the "token female", holds her back because of her gender, calls her a dyke under his breath, and has a beef with her because she has stock in the "iron monger" company of Stark Industries. But later he tells her that she hasn't made a partner because her CourtroomAntics piss off too many judges and he's had to placate more than a few of them by throwing several golf games, and he can't risk her getting sanctioned or disbarred. The reason he gives her the pro bono case for Judge Andrews (one of the aforementioned pissed-off judges) is because he needs to know she can handle a high-profile case like this with delicacy, and ''not'' end up on the Bugle's front page again.
* HumanFurnitureIsAPainInTheTail: Noa often has to sit in an odd way on chairs and pass it off as her personal habits, because human chairs are just not built for people with tails.
* KangarooCourt: Avoiding this is one of the goals of the prosecuting Attorney and the Judge of the first act. While there are obvious attempts to sway the jury and the Judge is pretty blatant in his favouritism, nothing illegal happens in the court. After all, you can't make an example if the trial is a
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: With re-election coming up for both Judge Philip Andrews and District Attorney Lou Young, with the latter eyeing a mayoral run, both of them want an eye-catching, decisive conviction case on their records to beef up their reputations. Something like putting a "dangerous" mutant in jail, even if the mutant is a 16-year-old theatre kid.
* {{Meganekko}}: Invoked example for both genders; Noa makes both St. John and Katherine wear spectacles in court, the former during ''voir dire'' and the latter during her witness testimony, so that they look less threatening and more sympathetic.
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* ShownTheirWork: Overlaps with WriteWhatYouKnow. In this case, a legal professional is writing courtroom drama.
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* NoBadassToHisValet: Despite his inclinations towards violence and terrorism to promote his pro-Mutant cause, Noa doesn't see Erik "Magneto" Lehnscherr as anything more than a spirited debate partner who constantly [[TrespassingToTalk invites himself into her house]] and eats all her mint chip ice cream.
* ShownTheirWork: Overlaps with WriteWhatYouKnow. In this case, a legal professional is writing courtroomdrama.drama.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Noa Schaefer, female, Jewish, lesbian, mutant. Oh, and less than five feet tall. She mentions that it only took her six months to notice that she was hired by her law firm to be the token woman hire, to be seen and not heard.
* ShownTheirWork: Overlaps with WriteWhatYouKnow. In this case, a legal professional is writing courtroom
* TwoferTokenMinority: Noa Schaefer, female, Jewish, lesbian, mutant. Oh, and less than five feet tall. She mentions that it only took her six months to notice that she was hired by her law firm to be the token woman hire, to be seen and not heard.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: A DefiedTrope, as Noa's religion is never called into doubt or questioned.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: A DefiedTrope, as Noa's religion religion, is never called into doubt or questioned.
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* CourtroomAntics: ZigZagged. Noa at the start of the story is stated to have a reputation for these kinds of things, earning her the vitriol of several judges. That ''said'', Noa also explains that this kind of thing is a lot less common in real-life than on TV, and when she does it it's always well-rehearsed beforehand, and intended to draw a specific reaction from the jury. She ''is'' a theatre kid, after all.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: This version of the Marvel Universe is chronologically in the 1980s when Noa begins her law career, so views on a lot of things like race, homosexuality, ect. are realistically portrayed, with the treatment of mutants being tied into that. Noa is forced to hide both her abilities and her sexuality for the sake of her career.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: This version of the Marvel Universe is chronologically in the 1980s when Noa begins her law career, so views on a lot of things like race, homosexuality, ect. are realistically portrayed, with the treatment of mutants being tied into that. Noa is forced to hide both her abilities and her sexuality for the sake of her career.
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* CourtroomAntics: ZigZagged. Noa at the start of the story is stated to have a reputation for these kinds of things, earning her the vitriol of several judges. That ''said'', Noa also explains that this kind of thing is a lot less common in real-life real life than on TV, and when she does it it's always well-rehearsed beforehand, and intended to draw a specific reaction from the jury. She ''is'' a theatre kid, after all.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: This version of the Marvel Universe is chronologically in the 1980s when Noa begins her law career, so views on a lot of things like race, homosexuality,ect.etc. are realistically portrayed, with the treatment of mutants being tied into that. Noa is forced to hide both her abilities and her sexuality for the sake of her career.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: This version of the Marvel Universe is chronologically in the 1980s when Noa begins her law career, so views on a lot of things like race, homosexuality,
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* FantasticRacism: Dealing with this as a mutant, but in a legal manner, is one of the selling points of the story. That Noa has friendly relations with Magneto.
* KangarooCourt: Avoiding this is one of the goals of the prosecuting Attorney and the Judge of the first act. While there is obvious attempts to sway the jury and the Judge is pretty blatant in his favouratism, nothing illegal happens in the court. After all, you can't make an example if the trial is a sham.
* NaziHunter: Noa and Magneto meet while tracking down a former Nazi, [[spoiler: who actually turns out to be [=HYDRA=] ]]and form a friendship based on that.
* ShownTheirWork: Overlaps with WriteWhatYouKnow. In this case, a legal professional writing courtroom drama.
* KangarooCourt: Avoiding this is one of the goals of the prosecuting Attorney and the Judge of the first act. While there is obvious attempts to sway the jury and the Judge is pretty blatant in his favouratism, nothing illegal happens in the court. After all, you can't make an example if the trial is a sham.
* NaziHunter: Noa and Magneto meet while tracking down a former Nazi, [[spoiler: who actually turns out to be [=HYDRA=] ]]and form a friendship based on that.
* ShownTheirWork: Overlaps with WriteWhatYouKnow. In this case, a legal professional writing courtroom drama.
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* FantasticRacism: Dealing with this as a mutant, but in a legal manner, legally, is one of the selling points of the story. That Noa has friendly relations with Magneto.
* KangarooCourt: Avoiding this is one of the goals of the prosecuting Attorney and the Judge of the first act. While thereis are obvious attempts to sway the jury and the Judge is pretty blatant in his favouratism, favouritism, nothing illegal happens in the court. After all, you can't make an example if the trial is a sham.
* NaziHunter: Noa and Magneto meet while tracking down a former Nazi, [[spoiler: whoactually turns out to be [=HYDRA=] ]]and form a friendship based on that.
* ShownTheirWork: Overlaps with WriteWhatYouKnow. In this case, a legal professional is writing courtroom drama.
* KangarooCourt: Avoiding this is one of the goals of the prosecuting Attorney and the Judge of the first act. While there
* NaziHunter: Noa and Magneto meet while tracking down a former Nazi, [[spoiler: who
* ShownTheirWork: Overlaps with WriteWhatYouKnow. In this case, a legal professional is writing courtroom drama.
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Well, if you're Noa Schaeffer, the answer is neither: you get your law degree, become a legal representative, and fight for the rights of other mutants like yourself from the courtroom.
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Well, if you're Noa Schaeffer, Schaefer, the answer is neither: you get your law degree, become a legal representative, and fight for the rights of other mutants like yourself from the courtroom.
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''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/pound-the-table-an-x-men-self-insert.951637/#post-77387485 Pound]][[https://archiveofourown.org/works/32633056/chapters/80950963 The Table]]'' is, as you may have guessed, a Marvel SelfInsert fic with a rather... unusual take on the genre. Notable for being written by a real-life law student, and thus averting ArtisticLicenseLaw, and its use of DeliberateValuesDissonance.
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''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/pound-the-table-an-x-men-self-insert.951637/#post-77387485 Pound]][[https://archiveofourown.org/works/32633056/chapters/80950963 The Table]]'' is, as you may have guessed, a Marvel SelfInsert fic with a rather... unusual take on the genre. Notable for being written by a real-life law student, lawyer, and thus averting ArtisticLicenseLaw, and its use of DeliberateValuesDissonance.
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* AmoralAttorney: Another DefiedTrope, as the story is written by an actual Law Student, who knows better. Well, Noa is. Time will tell if this gets applied to other characters.
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* AmoralAttorney: Another DefiedTrope, as the story is written by an actual Law Student, lawyer, who knows better. Well, Noa is. Time will tell if this gets applied to other characters.
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* ShownTheirWork: Overlaps with WriteWhatYouKnow. In this case, a law student/legal professional writing courtroom drama.
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* ShownTheirWork: Overlaps with WriteWhatYouKnow. In this case, a law student/legal legal professional writing courtroom drama.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: A DefiedTrope, as Noa's religion is never called into doubt or questioned.
* AmoralAttorney: Another DefiedTrope, as the story is written by an actual Law Student, who knows better. Well, Noa is. Time will tell if this gets applied to other characters.
* AmoralAttorney: Another DefiedTrope, as the story is written by an actual Law Student, who knows better. Well, Noa is. Time will tell if this gets applied to other characters.
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* DraconicHumanoid: Downplayed; Noa's true, mutant form (which she normally hides behind a {{Glamour}}) is based on the writer's ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' character, who is an Au Ra: humanoids with a few draconic traits like horns, scale patches, and a tail, but are otherwise fairly human-looking. Dealing with a tail she can't let anyone see is, however, difficult...
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* DraconicHumanoid: Downplayed; Noa's true, mutant form (which she normally hides behind a {{Glamour}}) is based on the writer's ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' character, who is an Au Ra: humanoids with a few draconic traits like horns, scale patches, and a tail, but are otherwise fairly human-looking. Dealing with a tail she can't let anyone see is, however, difficult...difficult...
* FantasticRacism: Dealing with this as a mutant, but in a legal manner, is one of the selling points of the story. That Noa has friendly relations with Magneto.
* KangarooCourt: Avoiding this is one of the goals of the prosecuting Attorney and the Judge of the first act. While there is obvious attempts to sway the jury and the Judge is pretty blatant in his favouratism, nothing illegal happens in the court. After all, you can't make an example if the trial is a sham.
* NaziHunter: Noa and Magneto meet while tracking down a former Nazi, [[spoiler: who actually turns out to be [=HYDRA=] ]]and form a friendship based on that.
* ShownTheirWork: Overlaps with WriteWhatYouKnow. In this case, a law student/legal professional writing courtroom drama.
* FantasticRacism: Dealing with this as a mutant, but in a legal manner, is one of the selling points of the story. That Noa has friendly relations with Magneto.
* KangarooCourt: Avoiding this is one of the goals of the prosecuting Attorney and the Judge of the first act. While there is obvious attempts to sway the jury and the Judge is pretty blatant in his favouratism, nothing illegal happens in the court. After all, you can't make an example if the trial is a sham.
* NaziHunter: Noa and Magneto meet while tracking down a former Nazi, [[spoiler: who actually turns out to be [=HYDRA=] ]]and form a friendship based on that.
* ShownTheirWork: Overlaps with WriteWhatYouKnow. In this case, a law student/legal professional writing courtroom drama.
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''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/pound-the-table-an-x-men-self-insert.951637/#post-77387485 Pound The Table]]'' is, as you may have guessed, a Marvel SelfInsert fic with a rather... unusual take on the genre. Notable for being written by a real-life law student, and thus averting ArtisticLicenseLaw, and its use of DeliberateValuesDissonance.
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''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/pound-the-table-an-x-men-self-insert.951637/#post-77387485 Pound Pound]][[https://archiveofourown.org/works/32633056/chapters/80950963 The Table]]'' is, as you may have guessed, a Marvel SelfInsert fic with a rather... unusual take on the genre. Notable for being written by a real-life law student, and thus averting ArtisticLicenseLaw, and its use of DeliberateValuesDissonance.
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Finding oneself [[SelfInsert transported into a fictional universe]] is hard enough, especially when it's the [[ComicBook/MarvelUniverse]]. Being thrown into the Marvel Universe decades earlier then you were born is even worse. Add in being a mutant on top of all of that? Not fun.
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Finding oneself [[SelfInsert transported into a fictional universe]] is hard enough, especially when it's the [[ComicBook/MarvelUniverse]]. Franchise/MarvelUniverse. Being thrown into the Marvel Universe decades earlier then than you were born is even worse. Add in being a mutant on top of all of that? Not fun.
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''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/pound-the-table-an-x-men-self-insert.951637/#post-77387485
Pound The Table]]'' is, as you may have guessed, a Marvel SelfInsert fic with a rather... unusual take on the genre. Notable for being written by a real-life law student, and thus averting ArtisticLicenseLaw, and its use of DeliberateValuesDissonance.
Pound The Table]]'' is, as you may have guessed, a Marvel SelfInsert fic with a rather... unusual take on the genre. Notable for being written by a real-life law student, and thus averting ArtisticLicenseLaw, and its use of DeliberateValuesDissonance.
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''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/pound-the-table-an-x-men-self-insert.951637/#post-77387485
951637/#post-77387485 Pound The Table]]'' is, as you may have guessed, a Marvel SelfInsert fic with a rather... unusual take on the genre. Notable for being written by a real-life law student, and thus averting ArtisticLicenseLaw, and its use of DeliberateValuesDissonance.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: This version of the Marvel Universe is chronologically in the 1980's when Noa begins her law career, so views on a lot of things like race, homosexuality, ect. are realistically portrayed, with the treatment of mutants being tied into that. Noa is forced to hide both her abilities, and her sexuality for the sake of her career.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: This version of the Marvel Universe is chronologically in the 1980's 1980s when Noa begins her law career, so views on a lot of things like race, homosexuality, ect. are realistically portrayed, with the treatment of mutants being tied into that. Noa is forced to hide both her abilities, abilities and her sexuality for the sake of her career.
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* DraconicHumanoid: Downplayed; Noa's true, mutant form (which she normally hides behind a {{Glamour}}) is based on the writer's ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' character, who is an Au Ra: humanoids with a few draconic traits like horns, scale patches, and a tail, but are otherwise pretty human looking. Dealing with a tail she can't let anyone see is, however, difficult...
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* DraconicHumanoid: Downplayed; Noa's true, mutant form (which she normally hides behind a {{Glamour}}) is based on the writer's ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' character, who is an Au Ra: humanoids with a few draconic traits like horns, scale patches, and a tail, but are otherwise pretty human looking.fairly human-looking. Dealing with a tail she can't let anyone see is, however, difficult...
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->''"If the facts are against you, pound on the law. If the law is against you, pound on the facts. And if both are against you, pound on the table!"''
-->-- '''Legal aphorism'''
Finding oneself [[SelfInsert transported into a fictional universe]] is hard enough, especially when it's the [[ComicBook/MarvelUniverse]]. Being thrown into the Marvel Universe decades earlier then you were born is even worse. Add in being a mutant on top of all of that? Not fun.
So what do you do? Join the X-Men, and become a protector of the world, trying to change the way people view your kind? Join Magneto, and fight to make the world accept mutants or else?
Well, if you're Noa Schaeffer, the answer is neither: you get your law degree, become a legal representative, and fight for the rights of other mutants like yourself from the courtroom.
''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/pound-the-table-an-x-men-self-insert.951637/#post-77387485
Pound The Table]]'' is, as you may have guessed, a Marvel SelfInsert fic with a rather... unusual take on the genre. Notable for being written by a real-life law student, and thus averting ArtisticLicenseLaw, and its use of DeliberateValuesDissonance.
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!!This Fanfic Contains Examples Of:
* CourtroomAntics: ZigZagged. Noa at the start of the story is stated to have a reputation for these kinds of things, earning her the vitriol of several judges. That ''said'', Noa also explains that this kind of thing is a lot less common in real-life than on TV, and when she does it it's always well-rehearsed beforehand, and intended to draw a specific reaction from the jury. She ''is'' a theatre kid, after all.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: This version of the Marvel Universe is chronologically in the 1980's when Noa begins her law career, so views on a lot of things like race, homosexuality, ect. are realistically portrayed, with the treatment of mutants being tied into that. Noa is forced to hide both her abilities, and her sexuality for the sake of her career.
* DistantPrologue: The fic opens in 1996, where Hank Mccoy is on trial, only for Noa to unexpectedly arrive to represent him. In private, Hank accuses Noa of betraying both the professor and the X-Men. The fic then cuts back to 1987, and Noa's first meeting with Magneto.
* DraconicHumanoid: Downplayed; Noa's true, mutant form (which she normally hides behind a {{Glamour}}) is based on the writer's ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' character, who is an Au Ra: humanoids with a few draconic traits like horns, scale patches, and a tail, but are otherwise pretty human looking. Dealing with a tail she can't let anyone see is, however, difficult...
-->-- '''Legal aphorism'''
Finding oneself [[SelfInsert transported into a fictional universe]] is hard enough, especially when it's the [[ComicBook/MarvelUniverse]]. Being thrown into the Marvel Universe decades earlier then you were born is even worse. Add in being a mutant on top of all of that? Not fun.
So what do you do? Join the X-Men, and become a protector of the world, trying to change the way people view your kind? Join Magneto, and fight to make the world accept mutants or else?
Well, if you're Noa Schaeffer, the answer is neither: you get your law degree, become a legal representative, and fight for the rights of other mutants like yourself from the courtroom.
''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/pound-the-table-an-x-men-self-insert.951637/#post-77387485
Pound The Table]]'' is, as you may have guessed, a Marvel SelfInsert fic with a rather... unusual take on the genre. Notable for being written by a real-life law student, and thus averting ArtisticLicenseLaw, and its use of DeliberateValuesDissonance.
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!!This Fanfic Contains Examples Of:
* CourtroomAntics: ZigZagged. Noa at the start of the story is stated to have a reputation for these kinds of things, earning her the vitriol of several judges. That ''said'', Noa also explains that this kind of thing is a lot less common in real-life than on TV, and when she does it it's always well-rehearsed beforehand, and intended to draw a specific reaction from the jury. She ''is'' a theatre kid, after all.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: This version of the Marvel Universe is chronologically in the 1980's when Noa begins her law career, so views on a lot of things like race, homosexuality, ect. are realistically portrayed, with the treatment of mutants being tied into that. Noa is forced to hide both her abilities, and her sexuality for the sake of her career.
* DistantPrologue: The fic opens in 1996, where Hank Mccoy is on trial, only for Noa to unexpectedly arrive to represent him. In private, Hank accuses Noa of betraying both the professor and the X-Men. The fic then cuts back to 1987, and Noa's first meeting with Magneto.
* DraconicHumanoid: Downplayed; Noa's true, mutant form (which she normally hides behind a {{Glamour}}) is based on the writer's ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' character, who is an Au Ra: humanoids with a few draconic traits like horns, scale patches, and a tail, but are otherwise pretty human looking. Dealing with a tail she can't let anyone see is, however, difficult...
