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* IronicEchoCut: Taylor gleefully leaps into a cavern larger than Brockton Bay and filled with demons, cheering how she "Loves a target rich environment." The very next scene starts with her fleeing a horde of demons while shouting how much she "hates a target rich environment."
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* BigFancyGun: Being a Doom crossover, this is of course inevitable. When Taylor sees a gun large enough to slide a soda can into the barrel, and heavy enough to strain her armor's servos, her first reaction is avarice.

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* BigFancyGun: {{BFG}}: Being a Doom crossover, this is of course inevitable. When Taylor sees a gun large enough to slide a soda can into the barrel, and heavy enough to strain her armor's servos, her first reaction is avarice.
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Not a trope. Also, it was Mugging The Monster, not Bullying The Dragon as Kaiser et al thought Taylor was a newly Triggered Tinker, not realizing she's someone who kills gods.


* BullyingADragon: The Empire tries to force Taylor into working for them. It ends ''[[{{Understatement}} very]]'' badly for them.



* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Two Empire-88 thugs decide to rob a pizzeria armed with melee weapons, only to see the annoyed seven foot tall woman in PowerArmor beginning to stand up from her table. Both immediately leave rather than try to take her.



* MuggingTheMonster: The Empire tries to force Taylor into working for them. It ends ''[[{{Understatement}} very]]'' badly for them.



* OffTheTable: The demonic lord/god Taylor fights before finally returning home refuses her offer to surrender and fights her instead. When he's nearly dead, he tries to surrender, only to earn a "Tough" in reply before she kills him.



* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: A pair of unnamed men try to rob a pizza shop while Danny and Taylor are eating there. One barely steps inside with a baseball bat in hand before spotting Taylor standing up, seven feet tall in her power armor, and promptly runs outside and convinces his partner they should leave.

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
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A pair of unnamed men try to rob a pizza shop while Danny and Taylor are eating there. One barely steps inside with a baseball bat in hand before spotting Taylor standing up, seven feet tall in her power armor, and promptly runs outside and convinces his partner they should leave.



* ShockedSober: Skidmark's close encounter with a demon (which he only survives because the demon didn't bother with him) shocks him out of the drug-induced stupor he usually inflicts on himself.
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** Skidmark, after encountering some demons, decides to do this along with Squealer. The moment the sun dawns, of course - he ain't gonna risk it in the middle of the night!
* ShockedSober: Skidmark's close encounter with a demon (which he only survives because the demon didn't bother with him) shocks him out of the drug-induced stupor he usually inflicts on himself.
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* PreferJailToTheProtagonist: After Taylor and Danny destroyed the Empire, the survivors (Kaiser, Othala, and Stormtiger) gladly turned themselves over to the PRT to stay far as possible from the Heberts.

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* PreferJailToTheProtagonist: After Taylor and Danny destroyed the Empire, the survivors (Kaiser, Othala, and Stormtiger) gladly turned themselves over to the PRT to stay far as possible from the Heberts.Heberts, "somewhere safe, like the moon."
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* DestinationDefenestration: Moments after Taylor smashes into the Medhall building through a window, someone else comes flying back out -- or rather, since she's using her chainsaw, half of someone else.
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* LaughingMad: Taylor's sense of humour has perhaps been somewhat warped by five years of non-stop ultraviolence. She frequently breaks out into giggles while mowing down her enemies.
--> Was that someone… ''laughing?''\\
He felt a chill go down his back. There was something very ''wrong'' about that sound.
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* HorrifyingTheHorror: After Dinah's power senses Taylor's impending arrival, it's unusually helpful for some time afterward; she even stops getting headaches.

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* HorrifyingTheHorror: After Dinah's power senses Taylor's impending arrival, it's unusually helpful for some time afterward; she even afterward. She stops getting headaches.headaches, and if she ever gets annoyed by not having enough information, the mere suggestion of going to ''HER'' makes it scream and hide away.
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* HorrifyingTheHorror: After Dinah's power senses Taylor's impending arrival, it's unusually helpful for some time afterward; she even stops getting headaches.
--> Like it had seen something it didn't enjoy and was more or less hiding while being as cooperative as possible in the hopes that whatever was coming would leave it alone.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: Armsmaster is sure that Taylor must have a weakness somewhere, but Director Piggot immediately shuts him down, insisting that even if he's right, which is uncertain, she doesn't want to be on the same ''planet'' with him testing the theory.
--> '''Armsmaster:''' There is almost always a hard counter to any Parahuman ability. Logically Overkill has a weak point that we should be able to locate and...\\
'''Piggot:''' ''No.''
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--> '''Director Piggot:''' Overkill's rules of engagement, as far as we can determine, are basically ‘If you make me come over there you’re dead.’
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* BringMyBrownPants: When Lisa makes a prophecy of DOOM about Taylor (and promptly forgets having done it), even Bitch's dogs wet the floor.

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--> The fifty fourth time it was because she ran around a corner firing back over her shoulder at something she still couldn't actually come up with a good description of and found that the end of that corridor was an open elevator shaft. One that seemed to go to the core of the planet, based on how long she was falling for. Of course, she’d discovered this by running right into it…\\
It gave her quite a long time to work on her vocabulary.

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--> The fifty fourth time it was because she ran around a corner firing back over her shoulder at something she still couldn't actually come up with a good description '''Taylor:''' After you've died the first couple of and found hundred times, you sort of lose track of it. Stops being all that the end of that corridor was an open elevator shaft. One that seemed to go to the core of the planet, based on how long she was falling for. Of course, she’d discovered this by running right into it…\\
It gave her quite a long time to work on her vocabulary.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Hookwolf manages to annoy Taylor right when she's freshly arrived home. She promises him that if he annoys her any further, she will end "you, your entire gang, and anyone who ever even smiled at you, you hear me, Hookwolf the Nazi?"

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* DisproportionateRetribution: Hookwolf manages to annoy Taylor right when she's freshly arrived home. home, but also when she's just had a meal with her dad at last, so she's generous enough to give him a chance. She simply promises him that if he annoys her any further, she will end "you, your entire gang, and anyone who ever even smiled at you, you hear me, Hookwolf the Nazi?"
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Hookwolf manages to annoy Taylor right when she's freshly arrived home. She promises him that if he annoys her any further, she will end "you, your entire gang, and anyone who ever even smiled at you, you hear me, Hookwolf the Nazi?"
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* DeadmanSwitch: Danny is smart enough to make arrangements before confronting Director Piggot, ensuring that everything he knows about Taylor's situation -- including Shadow Stalker's secret identity and the ways she's been violating her probation without consequence -- will be leaked to the media if he's not allowed to walk out.
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* SirSwearsalot: Until she returns to her Earth, Taylor has a tendency to swear so violently that it ''kills nearby birds''. Even when she's less angry, she still curses frequently.

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* SirSwearsalot: Until she returns to her Earth, Taylor has a tendency to swear so violently that it ''kills nearby birds''.birds'', complete with trailing smoke as they fall from the sky. Even when she's less angry, she still curses frequently.

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