History Fanfic / TaylorIsDoomed

* TranquilFury: At some point, Taylor's utter rage turns into this. It makes her lethally efficient.

* FailedASpotCheck: After first arriving on Mars, Taylor spends hours working on the PowerArmor so she can use it to move a heavy crate blocking the door's control panel, citing she won't be getting any food or water unless she can get out of the room. It's only afterwards that she inspects the various crates and find one absolutely filled with [=MREs=].

* 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 Herberts.

** She pulls one off against the Empire 88 for trying to kill her father, leaving their power base broken, their headquarters destroyed, and all but four members dead (one of whom defected).

* TheSleepless: After a while, Taylor stops needing to sleep altogether, which was useful in her near-constant battle to return home.

* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Piggot makes it extremely clear that ''no one'' is to aggravate the Heberts in any fashion, outright telling them she will personally shoot anyone stupid enough to attempt it. Twice, she singles out Armsmaster in particular due to both his NoSocialSkills and that he tries to suggest finding a weakness in her PowerArmor, something that'd require fighting Taylor.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Hookwolf thinks that Taylor, being (apparently) a new Trigger, should be easy to cow. Taylor turns him into slag before he begins to fight. When Kaiser makes the mistake of sending more people after her, they barely last a few seconds.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: It's pretty much Taylor's MO, to the point that the PRT makes "Overkill" her codename.. When Hookwolf tried to forcibly recruit her, she shot him with a plasma rifle, countless times with her rotary cannon, and (even though either of those likely killed him) shot him again with one of her larger weapons that left nothing but a molten crater behind. When Kaiser tries to get retribution, Taylor and her father wipe out the Empire 88 except for Kaiser, Othala, and Stormtiger[[labelnote:*]]And Rune, who was smart enough to spill her guts metaphorically so Taylor wouldn't spill them literally[[/labelnote]], which she considers a warning.

* NoKillLikeOverkill: The PRT assigns Taylor the codename "Overkill", partially because of her ''insane'' firepower, and partially because she has no qualms using it with ''extreme'' lethality if provoked.

* {{Determinator}}: It takes close to ''five years'' of near constant combat against various demonic entities, but Taylor finally manages to get back to Brockton and her dad.

** It only takes Taylor twenty-four hours to become the most terrifying Cape in all of Brockton Bay - and the only reason she has not gained this status worldwide is because no one outside the city knows about her. Even [[spoiler:''the Shards'']] are scared out of their wits by her presence.

** Also, the Empire thugs and Cricket believed Danny Hebert would be an easy target. Danny breaks one thug's arm, knocks that one and another with the butt of the shotgun he just took from them and double-taps Cricket so fast that it sounded like one shot (and he actually shot thrice in that time, he just failed one shot). And, during the Medhall assault, he manages to carry out feats like sniping a ganger with a shotgun, kill several of them ''mid-jump'' and generally being stealthy enough that Kaiser thinks he has to be a Stranger parahuman.

** Demons' voices are prone to make people scared out of their wits.

* TheDreaded: It only takes Taylor twenty-four hours to become the most terrifying Cape in all of Brockton Bay - and the only reason she has not gained this status worldwide is because no one outside the city knows about her. Even [[spoiler:''the Shards'']] are scared out of their wits by her presence.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Seems to be a Hebert trait. They are all nice and good - until they get pushed past the RageBreakingPoint, upon which moment they will go '''volcanic'''.

** According to Danny, Annette would not only ''not'' stop them from going on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, she would have likely been the first through the door.

* BulletCatch: Taylor does this to a .50 caliber round that Victor fires at Danny. [[OhCrap Hookwolf doesn't take it well]].
* BullyingADragon: The Empire tries to force Taylor into working for them. It ends ''very'' badly for them.
* ChainsawGood: One of Taylor's favorite weapons. In one of the runs, she actually gets through the entire Mars UAC facility using only this.

* HowDidYouKnowIDidnt: Danny managed to deduce that Sophia is Shadow Stalker through logical deductions, but he wasn't 100% certain until he saw how Armsmaster reacted to the name, prompting this at the end of his explanation of how he figured it out to Piggot.

* PersonOfMassDestruction: Taylor arrives back on Earth Bet with enough weaponry to win World Wars Three and Four on her own. She promptly (and single-handedly) kills Moord Nag and the Three Blasphemies, scares the Sleeper and turns Ellisburg and Eagleton into smoking craters before doing the same to Winslow, and then almost effortlessly destroys the Empire 88, all in less than twenty four hours. If an omake's description of her firepower is accurate to canon, she can destroy ''stars''.

** Also, the Empire thugs and Cricket believed Danny Hebert would be an easy target. Danny breaks one thug's arm, knocks that one and another with the butt of the shotgun he just took from them and double-taps Cricket so fast that it sounded like one shot (and he actually shot thrice in that time). And, during the Medhall assault, he manages to carry out feats like sniping a ganger with a shotgun, kill several of them ''mid-jump'' and generally being stealthy enough that Kaiser thinks he has to be a Stranger parahuman.

* AdultFear: What Danny goes through for the two weeks, his time, that Taylor is gone.

* BadassNormal: Danny has no powers at all. Doesn't make him any less dangerous, though. He kills Cricket with a shotgun easily, and that's just the start of his feats.

** Danny takes out Cricket with a shotgun easily, and his stealth skills in the assault on Medhall are so great that he's actually assumed to be a Stranger parahuman.

** When Brian records one of Lisa's prophetic fits in his mobile phone, the phone can only run the audio file ''once'' before it melts.
* BulletCatch: Taylor does this to a .50 caliber round that Victor fires at Danny.

* TheDreaded: It only takes Taylor twenty-four hours to become the most terrifying Cape in all of Brockton Bay. Even [[spoiler:''the Shards'']] are scared out of their wits by her presence.

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Taylor dies about four hundred times in her attempt to get through Mars and then Hell.

** She travels to the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' universe to take a trip into the Hellmouth, with her demons go to town on vampires and other native supernatural threats.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Taylor nonchalantly shows Assault and Dauntless some of the things she's seen in her five-year-long fight against the forces of Hell. Both heroes promptly realize they are going to have nightmares about it.

* NothingIsScarier: As Taylor's influence begins to appear in Earth Bet, Coil starts to die every time he tries to use his power. The worst is not that his alternate self dies, it's that he doesn't know what's killing him.

* PersonOfMassDestruction: Taylor arrives back on Earth Bet with enough weaponry to win World Wars Three and Four on her own, which she proves by destroying Moord Nag and the Three Blasphemies, scaring the Sleeper and rendering Ellisburg and Eagleton into craters before doing the same to Winslow and almost effortlessly destroying the Empire 88, all in less than twenty four hours. If an omake's description of her firepower is accurate to canon, she can destroy ''stars''.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Hookwolf thinks that Taylor, being (apparently) a new Trigger, should be easy to cow. Taylor turns him into slag before he begins to fight.
** Also, the Empire thugs and Cricket believed Danny Hebert would be an easy target. Danny breaks one thug's arm, knocks that one and another with the butt of the shotgun he just took from them and double-taps Cricket so fast that it sounded like one shot. And, during the Medhall assault, he manages to carry out feats like sniping a ganger with a shotgun, kill several of them ''mid-jump'' and generally being stealthy enough that Kaiser thinks he is a Stranger parahuman.

* YearInsideHourOutside: Taylor spends roughly five years from her perspective trying to get back to her dad, but he and the rest of Earth-Bet only experienced about two weeks.