History Literature / Bigtime

%%%%* FiveManBand: The Fearless Five

* TeleportersAndTransporters: Debonair

* ''Nightingale'': The narrator is not a superhero, but has super senses. The story revolves around her encounter with superhero and the love affair and danger that follows
Short Story:

* ''Nightingale'' : The narrator is not a superhero, but has super senses. The story revolves around her encounter with superhero and the love affair and danger that follows

%%%%%%%* FrickinLaserBeams: Prism's weapon of choice.

* YourCheatingHeart: Discovering that her fiance was both a superhero and cheating on her - on their wedding day - is what set Carmen Cole on her quest to out all supers.

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These novels provide examples of::

* ''Jinx'': The narrator is not a superhero, but is from a family of superheroes, and does have a power that she can't make useful.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: ''Any'' member of Slaves for Superhero Sex to ''any'' superhero.

* AlliterativeName: 90% of the cast.
* AnIcePerson: Frost and Wynter

* [[BadassBookworm Badass Fangirl]]: Piper Perez goes up against an ubervillain who had been stealing the superpowers of various retired supers and wins by using her encyclopedic knowledge of supers to know exactly what powers and weaknesses had been stolen and equipping herself with various items to exploit said weaknesses.
* BadassGrandpa and NeverMessWithGranny: Grandpa Belluci (Johnny Angel #1 and [[spoiler: later Grandpa Pain]], Granny Cane [[spoiler: a.k.a. Grace Caleb]].
* BadassNormal: some of the Johnny Angels, Talon, and perhaps Granny Cane?
* BadassLongcoat: Bandit
* BigBad (tons of 'em)
* BigEater: Fiona
* BlackAndNerdy: The Hermit, a computer expert, who wears garish sweater vests, glasses, and polka dot bow ties as his alter ego

* BlowYouAway: Tornado
* ClarkKenting: Far too many characters to conveniently list.
* TheCracker: Lulu
* CrimefightingWithCash: Talon, and to a lesser extent Striker and Fiera.

* ElementalPowers: Fiera, Tornado
* TheEmpath: Karma Girl

* FantasticDrug: Euphoridon
* FiveManBand: The Fearless Five, originally:
** TheHero: Striker
** TheLancer: Fiera
** TheSmartGuy: Hermit
** TheHeart: Mr. Sage
** TheBigGuy: Tornado based on his clothing size being the best for broad chested Johnny Angel III
* FlyingBrick
* FrickinLaserBeams: Prism's weapon of choice.
* GenreBlind: ''everybody.''
* GentlemanThief: Debonair [[spoiler: though he's more of a Gentleman Art Restorer.]]
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Striker, Scorpion
* HackerCave

* {{Invisibility}}: Invisible Ingenues

* MadScientist: Frost

* MindOverMatter: Mr. Sage, Malefica

* ObfuscatingDisability: Hangman

* PersonalityPowers: This should be obvious from the rest of the entries!

* PlainJane: How Abby Appleby views herself compares to pin up models like Fiona Fine
* PlayingWithFire: Fiera

* PsychicPowers: Mr. Sage

* RevolversAreJustBetter: Bandit's weapon of choice
* SavingChristmas: Karma Girl Christmas.

* SixthRanger: Lulu
* SiblingsInCrime: Siren and Intelligal
* SuperSenses: Striker, Abby Appleby, and Bandit
* SuperSpeed: Swifte

* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Lulu with the help a mega-watt lightening ball. Though it isn't an instant cure, it just takes her from permanently crippled to being able to learn to walk again. As of book four she was still undergoing physical therapy and required the use of a cane to walk.
* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Debonair
* WhenEldersAttack: Granny Cane and Grandpa Pain

* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler:Carmen spends a good three years outing supers. She says outright that 1) villains try to threaten her to keep her quiet and 2) villains are not shy about killing people to keep them quiet. How did she make it that long without some villain killing her?]]
** With multiple comments on the pain induced by moderate noises why does Bandit (whose weapon is a revolver) and Abby not fall to their knees when guns go off.
** Fiera eats a ton of food to manage her super metabolism, yet no mention of needing to use the bathroom.
** Many ubervillains are mentioned as having been arrested before, but their identities are still unknown. Why weren't they unmasked and fingerprinted?
** If Bigtime's superheros and ubervillains have really caused half a trillion dollars in property damage, why are they so popular?
* FridgeHorror: Carmen narrates that the Colorful Crusader and other superheroes who suffered unknown fates after there powers became useless in a fight

* HowToGiveACharacterSuperpowers: Various methods. Fiona's CFO Piper has attempted many of them on purpose, including an annual visit to the local nuclear power plant.

Everyone is totally GenreBlind, especially with figuring out that having an AlliterativeName more than likely indicates that person is a SuperHero with a name that starts with that letter. Some characters are dedicated to finding out the identities of superheroes, and have to resort to other means of deduction. This leads to the interesting experience of the GenreSavvy reader knowing long before the characters do who is who.

* ''Fandemic'' : Coming out June 2015

* HowToGiveACharacterSuperpowers: various methods
* InvisibleSubtleDifference: Abby lampshades this trope while shopping for makeup, saying that somewhere in the various cosmetics factories is somebody whose sole job is to think up different names for what is essentially the same shade of red, and the ''really'' disturbing thing is that said person probably makes more than she does.

* JokerImmunity: This gets mentioned in-universe, with superheroes noting that ubervillains frequently return after ending up in NoOneCouldSurviveThat situations. Despite this, the villains in each of the novels always end up either dead or missing, presumed dead, and never return. The villains of the short story are simply captured and sent to prison.

* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Carmen used this trope to find the identities of supers from the identities of those supers she already unmasked. In addition to every member of the Fearless Five being closely associated with at least one other member while unmasked, there are also numerous other examples, including: Fiera dating Johnny Angel 3, Johnny Angel's sister dating Debonair, Johnny Angel's grandfather dating Granny Cane, who was Debonair's former guardian, and Granny's grandson, who is also Debonair's foster brother, the ex-boyfriend of Fiera's CFO, and the owner of ''everybody's'' favorite restaurant, is strongly implied to be Swifte.

* InvisibleSubtleDifference: Abby lampshades this trope while shopping for makeup, saying that somewhere in the various cosmetics factories is somebody whose sole job is to think up different names for what is essentially the same shade of red, and the ''really'' disturbing thing is that said probably makes more than she does.

* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Lulu with the help a mega-watt lightening ball. Though it isn't an instant cure, it just takes her from permanently crippled to being able to learn to walk again. At the end of the series she was still undergoing physical therapy and required the use of a cane to walk.

* MadeOfExplodium: Is sometimes literally true, as explodium is an actual material in this universe.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Many phlebotium items have descriptive names, such as explosives Explodium and Obliteron, sedative Relaxidon and narcotic Euphoridon.

* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Carmen used this trope to find the identities of supers from the identities of those supers she already unmasked. In addition to every member of the Fearless Five being closely associated with at least one other member while unmasked, there are also numerous other examples, including: Fiera dating Johnny Angel 3, Johnny Angel's sister dating Debonair, Johnny Angel's grandfather dating Granny Cane, who was Debonair's former guardian, and Granny's grandson, who is also Debonair's foster brother, the ex-boyfriend of Fiera's secretary, and the owner of ''everybody's'' favorite restaurant, is strongly implied to be Swifte.

* Revolversarejustbetter: Bandit's weapon of choice

* Abnormalammo: Bandit's revolver fires special bullets

* Badasslongcoat: Bandit

** This leaves Tornado, but he doesn't seem too much like TheBigGuy.