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* SuperpowerLottery: Superpowers shown range from all the power of a Greek god to... phlegm that dries really hard.
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* HalfHumanHybrids: "Manglermals" are the result of a failed SuperSoldier project (and later, black-market creations) of Doc Mangler. Several appear throughout the series, each with a different set of apparently animal-based powers.
* SuperSoldier: General Devious, Maxine Velocity, and all of the Manglermals are the results of failed super soldier projects. The Government has also raised five children unkowingly fathered by [[spoiler:Imaginary Larry]], presumably as part of another one.
* SuperSoldier: General Devious, Maxine Velocity, and all of the Manglermals are the results of failed super soldier projects. The Government has also raised five children unkowingly fathered by [[spoiler:Imaginary Larry]], presumably as part of another one.
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** Also, both sides of the Maxine Velocity/Ultraweapon fight. Both are [[ItsAllAboutMe supremely self-centered]] jerkasses who care nothing about the collateral damage of their fight, with Maxine taking hostages to lure Ultraweapon into a fight, while Patterson [[spoiler: kills them when he detonates the explosive charges around them along with the ones Maxine is holding by spamming radio detonator transmissions when she was about to kill him.]] Ultraweapon is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who never lets morals get in the way of personal gratification, while Maxine is a murderous serial rapist. The fact that they may be [[spoiler: half-siblings]] just makes it more messed up.
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** Also, both sides of the Maxine Velocity/Ultraweapon fight. Both are [[ItsAllAboutMe supremely self-centered]] jerkasses who care nothing about the collateral damage of their fight, with Maxine taking hostages to lure Ultraweapon into a fight, while Patterson [[spoiler: kills them when he detonates the explosive charges around them along with the ones Also, Maxine is holding by spamming radio detonator transmissions when she was about to kill him.Velocity.]] Ultraweapon is an asshole and Cal obsesses over what a CorruptCorporateExecutive dick he is, so the narration is more-or-less sympathetic to the death of someone who never lets morals get in the way of personal gratification, while Maxine is a murderous serial rapist. The fact that they may be tried to kill him, but [[spoiler: half-siblings]] just makes it more messed up. she was still a murderous, serial-rapist whackjob.]]
* EvilVersusEvil: The Maxine Velocity/Ultraweapon fight. Both are [[ItsAllAboutMe supremely self-centered]] jerkasses who care nothing about the collateral damage of their fight, with Maxine taking hostages to lure Ultraweapon into a fight, while Patterson [[spoiler: kills them when he detonates the explosive charges around them along with the ones Maxine is holding by spamming radio detonator transmissions when she was about to kill him.]] Ultraweapon is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who never lets morals get in the way of personal gratification, while Maxine is a murderous serial rapist. The fact that they may be [[spoiler: half-siblings]] just makes it more messed up.
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* ContinuityNod: Maxine Velocity gets name-dropped once or twice.
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* ContinuityNod: Maxine Velocity gets and Amydillo get name-dropped once or twice.
* NoodleIncident: Amydillo, a Manglermal who was mentioned in ''Origins'' but never appeared, apparently died fighting a sea monster at some point between that book and this one.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: Cal and... all his friends. Though it's one-sided with AndyDroid, who never openly mocks anyone.
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* FramingDevice: About half of the story is an {{Interquell}} filling in the gaps between Cal's [[spoiler: faked death]] and the ending of the first book, framed as Cal recounting those events to Aphrodite. The rest of the story takes place after the end of ''Confessions'', but its more of a long SequelHook leading up to the confrontation with [[spoiler:The Evil Overlord]] that will presumably make up the plot of the fourth book.
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* EvilTwin: [[Spoiler: Joseph Ducie, a.k.a. the Merchant of Death,]] manages to serve as this for both Promethia engineer Joe Ducie and Cal, in a way. [[spoiler: A clone of Joe Ducie, he serves as the Evil Overlord's head engineer, he designs weapons to combat the original Ducie's employer, and occasionally impersonates the original to steal information from his team. And when Joseph is left dying after the destruction of the Overlord's Omega Base, he convinces a drunk Cal to sign over his suit for a forty-eight hour bucket list run, during which the clone murders numerous people, blows up the original Ducie's house, and kidnaps his mother, among other drunken shenanigans.]] All of which gets blamed on Cal.
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* EvilTwin: [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: Joseph Ducie, a.k.a. the Merchant of Death,]] manages to serve as this for both Promethia engineer Joe Ducie and Cal, in a way. [[spoiler: A clone of Joe Ducie, he serves as the Evil Overlord's head engineer, he designs weapons to combat the original Ducie's employer, and occasionally impersonates the original to steal information from his team. And when Joseph is left dying after the destruction of the Overlord's Omega Base, he convinces a drunk Cal to sign over his suit for a forty-eight hour bucket list run, during which the clone murders numerous people, blows up the original Ducie's house, and kidnaps his mother, among other drunken shenanigans.]] All of which gets blamed on Cal.
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* BigMessedUpFamily: The Patterson/Davros family. Lazarus Patterson's Father is involved with a super-soldier project experimenting on the Davros sisters, who also happen to be Air Force pilots. He proceeds to have an affair with and possibly [[spoiler: knock one up]], puts her through the experiment anyway. Afterwards, one of the sisters develops psychic powers, while the other shows no evidence of powers. She does, however suddenly go through an entire pregnancy in a month before dying while giving birth to the [[SuperSpeedster fifth fastest woman in the world.]] Patterson Senior lies to the surviving Davros, telling her that the child died as well. [[CaptainObvious Lying to a psychic proves ineffective.]] [[StartOfDarkness Davros starts calling herself General Devious, murders old man Patterson, and becomes one of the world's leading supervillains]], taking young [[spoiler: MaxineVelocity along for the ride.]] Lazarus Patterson, meanwhile, grows up to be the Jerkass that everyone knows and hates, with an ongoing enmity with Devious and her niece.
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* BigMessedUpFamily: BigScrewedUpFamily: The Patterson/Davros family. Lazarus Patterson's Father is involved with a super-soldier project experimenting on the Davros sisters, who also happen to be Air Force pilots. He proceeds to have an affair with and possibly [[spoiler: knock one up]], puts her through the experiment anyway. Afterwards, one of the sisters develops psychic powers, while the other shows no evidence of powers. She does, however suddenly go through an entire pregnancy in a month before dying while giving birth to the [[SuperSpeedster fifth fastest woman in the world.]] Patterson Senior lies to the surviving Davros, telling her that the child died as well. [[CaptainObvious Lying to a psychic proves ineffective.]] [[StartOfDarkness Davros starts calling herself General Devious, murders old man Patterson, and becomes one of the world's leading supervillains]], taking young [[spoiler: MaxineVelocity along for the ride.]] Lazarus Patterson, meanwhile, grows up to be the Jerkass that everyone knows and hates, with an ongoing enmity with Devious and her niece.
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* CapeBusters: Or Armor Busters anyway, when Patterson decides to [[spoiler: test out his Armored Suit Hunters on Cal.]]
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** Also, both sides of the Maxine Velocity/Ultraweapon fight. Both are [[ItsAllAboutMe supremely self-centered]] jerkasses who care nothing about the collateral damage of their fight. Ultraweapon is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who never lets morals get in the way of personal gratification, while Maxine is a murderous serial rapist. The fact that they may be [[spoiler: half-siblings]] just makes it more messed up.
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* BigMessedUpFamily: The Patterson/Davros family. Lazarus Patterson's Father is involved with a super-soldier project experimenting on the Davros sisters, who also happen to be Air Force pilots. He proceeds to have an affair with and possibly [[spoiler: knock one up]], puts her through the experiment anyway. Afterwards, one of the sisters develops psychic powers, while the other shows no evidence of powers. She does, however suddenly go through an entire pregnancy in a month before dying while giving birth to the [[SuperSpeedster fifth fastest woman in the world.]] Patterson Senior lies to the surviving Davros, telling her that the child died as well. [[CaptainObvious Lying to a psychic proves ineffective.]] [[StartOfDarkness Davros starts calling herself General Devious, murders old man Patterson, and becomes one of the world's leading supervillains]], taking young [[spoiler: MaxineVelocity along for the ride.]] Lazarus Patterson, meanwhile, grows up to be the Jerkass that everyone knows and hates, with an ongoing enmity with Devious and her niece.
* BigMessedUpFamily: The Patterson/Davros family. Lazarus Patterson's Father is involved with a super-soldier project experimenting on the Davros sisters, who also happen to be Air Force pilots. He proceeds to have an affair with and possibly [[spoiler: knock one up]], puts her through the experiment anyway. Afterwards, one of the sisters develops psychic powers, while the other shows no evidence of powers. She does, however suddenly go through an entire pregnancy in a month before dying while giving birth to the [[SuperSpeedster fifth fastest woman in the world.]] Patterson Senior lies to the surviving Davros, telling her that the child died as well. [[CaptainObvious Lying to a psychic proves ineffective.]] [[StartOfDarkness Davros starts calling herself General Devious, murders old man Patterson, and becomes one of the world's leading supervillains]], taking young [[spoiler: MaxineVelocity along for the ride.]] Lazarus Patterson, meanwhile, grows up to be the Jerkass that everyone knows and hates, with an ongoing enmity with Devious and her niece.
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: Lazarus Patterson and Maxine Velocity.]]
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* EvilTwin: [[Spoiler: Joseph "Merchant of Death" Ducie]] manages to serve as this for both Promethia engineer Joe Ducie and Cal, in a way. [[spoiler: A clone of Joe Ducie, he serves as the Evil Overlord's head engineer, he designs weapons to combat the original Ducie's employer, and occasionally impersonates the original to steal information from his team. And when Joseph is left dying after the destruction of the Overlord's Omega Base, he convinces a drunk Cal to sign over his suit for a forty-eight hour bucket list run, during which the clone murders numerous people, blows up the original Ducie's house, and kidnaps his mother, among other drunken shenanigans.]] All of which gets blamed on Cal.
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* EvilTwin: [[Spoiler: Joseph "Merchant Ducie, a.k.a. the Merchant of Death" Ducie]] Death,]] manages to serve as this for both Promethia engineer Joe Ducie and Cal, in a way. [[spoiler: A clone of Joe Ducie, he serves as the Evil Overlord's head engineer, he designs weapons to combat the original Ducie's employer, and occasionally impersonates the original to steal information from his team. And when Joseph is left dying after the destruction of the Overlord's Omega Base, he convinces a drunk Cal to sign over his suit for a forty-eight hour bucket list run, during which the clone murders numerous people, blows up the original Ducie's house, and kidnaps his mother, among other drunken shenanigans.]] All of which gets blamed on Cal.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: The Biloxi Bugler is an extremely mild version. He's been in the hero business for decades (he retires during the course of the story), based out of Biloxi, Mississippi. So of course his original cape was a Confederate Flag while his motorcycle's paint job was the design of the Mississippi State Flag. By the time of the story, he's ditched the Confederate Cape, but stubbornly holds onto the State Flag paint job.
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* AssholeVictim: Barton, the guy who deliberately ruins Cal's career just to scare other engineers into compliance.
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** Also, both sides of the Maxine Velocity/Ultraweapon fight. Both are [[ItsAllAboutMe supremely self-centered]] jerkasses who care nothing about the collateral damage of their fight. Ultraweapon is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who never lets morals get in the way of personal gratification, while Maxine is a murderous serial rapist. The fact that they may be [[spoiler: half-siblings]] just makes it more messed up.
** Also, both sides of the Maxine Velocity/Ultraweapon fight. Both are [[ItsAllAboutMe supremely self-centered]] jerkasses who care nothing about the collateral damage of their fight. Ultraweapon is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who never lets morals get in the way of personal gratification, while Maxine is a murderous serial rapist. The fact that they may be [[spoiler: half-siblings]] just makes it more messed up.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Literally, when [[spoiler: Maxine Velocity's plan to kill Lazarus Patterson with [[NoKillLikeOverKill lots and lots of C-4]] backfires. Also literally.]]
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* PsychoLesbian: Maxine Velocity: speedster, villainess, lesbian. Her dilated perception of time means she needs multiple partners and/or high-performance "aids" to get off, which she apparently deals with by kidnapping groups of women off Florida beaches (if Cal's offhand comment is accurate). She's also obsessed with killing Lazarus Patterson who may or may not be [[spoiler: her half-brother.]]
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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Lazarus Patterson was, at best, a CorruptCorporateExecutive [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk heart of jerk]] to begin with, but his money and [[VillainWithGoodPublicity good publicity]] allowed him to remain one of the world's premier superheroes, with widespread popularity, influence, and a pretty freaking luxurious life. Since we only ever see him for quick KickTheDog moments through Cal's eyes, we don't see what was going on with his character beyond his feud with Cal. So we don't know what was going through his head when he [[spoiler: decided to build his giant, illegal atomic robots. By the time he escapes from custody after his sentencing in the climax, he's apparently decided to go full supervillain. But we never find out at what point he made that decision, or if that was his plan for the atomic robots all along. Even the other superheroes comment in-story that he's changed to go so completely off the deep end.]]
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* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Most of the first book is presented as Cal's memoir, released [[spoiler: "posthumously."]]. ''Secrets of a D-List Supervillain'' goes into more detail about how he arranged its publication.
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* VillainBall: Lazarus Patterson was incredibly rich and well-connected, which allowed him to remain one of the world's leading superheroes despite his incredible {{Jerkass}}-ness. His power from within the system even put him in a perfect position to deal with Cal, what with [[spoiler: the ability to launch assassination attempts pretty much with impunity like he did with the C-Class Bots, ruin Cal's business ventures as he did by destroying the robots Cal had leased to Florida, and ruin his personal life as he did by egging on Mind Over Mather's MindRape SnuffFilm plan.]] As things stood just before the fight in Los Angeles, Paterson could have continued to strike at Cal pretty much with impunity, while living the life of a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob and a new beautiful woman every week... if he hadn't [[spoiler: built gigantic, advanced, super-illegal atomic-powered warbots. It's never really explained what he originally planned to do with them, since he couldn't possibly sell them to the government or any other legitimate buyer, and the only two supervillains who seem to have the resources to buy them are also mortal enemies of Patterson. In any case, the mere existence of these robots is enough to turn the government, Superheroes, and many of his own employees against him, leading to his downfall.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Not that Cal thinks he's a real hero, but his attempt to augment his magical abilities comes to this when he suspects the Voodoo priestess he's paying to help him will use an enchanted item for her own gain. [[spoiler: He's right, and she nearly defeated Swamp Lord in his own element because of it, making her one of the strongest mages on the planet.]]
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* GameMod: Cal and Stacy discover that their copy of a superhero fighting game has had some rather...[[LesYay interesting]] [[Dominatrix mods]] made to it.
* Hypocrite: The same politicians and supers that want to arrest Wendy for Child Endangerment because she's working with an unlicensed team had no problem sending her out into the middle of a hurricane while seven months pregnant.
* OptionalSexualEncounter: It's speculated that Cal would have slept with Chain Charmer so he could borrow his power-granting necklace. Andydroid helpfully does the math and comes up with a 63% chance Cal would have.
* Hypocrite: The same politicians and supers that want to arrest Wendy for Child Endangerment because she's working with an unlicensed team had no problem sending her out into the middle of a hurricane while seven months pregnant.
* OptionalSexualEncounter: It's speculated that Cal would have slept with Chain Charmer so he could borrow his power-granting necklace. Andydroid helpfully does the math and comes up with a 63% chance Cal would have.
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* GameMod: Cal and Stacy discover that their copy of a superhero fighting game has had some rather...[[LesYay interesting]] [[Dominatrix [[{{Dominatrix}} mods]] made to it.
*Hypocrite: GayMoment: It's speculated that Cal would have slept with Chain Charmer so he could borrow his power-granting necklace. Andydroid helpfully does the math and comes up with a 63% chance Cal would have if it came to it.
* GracefulLoser: Though Cal has reason to like Grand Vizier less than his protege, he seems to respect that the Vizier handled failure far more gracefully than Mystigal.
* {{Hypocrite}}: The same politicians and supers that want to arrest Wendy for Child Endangerment because she's working with an unlicensed team had no problem sending her out into the middle of a hurricane while seven months pregnant.
*OptionalSexualEncounter: It's speculated that RobotMaster: One idea Cal would have slept with Chain Charmer so he could borrow has for how to stay effective as a hero without his power-granting necklace. Andydroid helpfully does the math and comes up with a 63% chance Cal would have.suit.
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* GracefulLoser: Though Cal has reason to like Grand Vizier less than his protege, he seems to respect that the Vizier handled failure far more gracefully than Mystigal.
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Overlord and General Devious both have a grudge against Mega because they wanted to be the ones to kill Ultraweapon.
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Note: This book features details from the first book, Confessions, so spoilers are everywhere.
*BrainBleach: Mentioned in the title of the chapter expanding on the aftermath of the Tyrannosorcerer Rex fight, all the former dinosaur transformees were changed back and left naked.
*ChildByRape: Implied with Imaginary Larry, courtesy of government agents playing his high school girlfriend in order to breed powerful psychics. That's one of the reasons he doesn't want to submit to government supervision.
*DumbassHasAPoint: As usual, Hillbilly Bob stumbles over obvious solutions for Cal's problems.
*GameMod: Cal and Stacy discover that their copy of a superhero fighting game has had some rather...[[LesYay interesting]] [[Dominatrix mods]] made to it.
*Hypocrite: The same politicians and supers that want to arrest Wendy for Child Endangerment because she's working with an unlicensed team had no problem sending her out into the middle of a hurricane while seven months pregnant.
*OptionalSexualEncounter: It's speculated that Cal would have slept with Chain Charmer so he could borrow his power-granting necklace. Andydroid helpfully does the math and comes up with a 63% chance Cal would have.
*SuperRegistrationAct: Due to events depicted in Cal's memoirs, WhirlWendy's father is now attempting to greatly increase the scrutiny and supervision placed on supers, to the extent that he has Federal Marshals issue a warrant for his own daughter being involved with unsupervised vigilantism.
*TakeUpMySword: The Biloxi Bugler sincerely suggests Cal following in his footsteps as the next Biloxi Bugler.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Occurs for the Merchant of Death who roofies Cal, has him sign a rental agreement written up in a drunken haze, and steals Cal's armor to go on bucket list bender through Vegas that includes challenging an animatronic dragon to a fight, destroying a famous sign, and having sex with a building, all of which winds up online with people thinking Cal did it. In the end, Cal has to fetch him from the Grand Canyon, but he also requests clothes, burritos, and more scotch.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Occurs for the Merchant of Death who roofies Cal, has him sign a rental agreement written up in a drunken haze, and steals Cal's armor to go on bucket list bender through Vegas that includes challenging an animatronic dragon to a fight, destroying a famous sign, and having sex with a building, all of which winds up online with people thinking Cal did it. Also, a couple murders. In the end, Cal has to fetch him from the Grand Canyon, but he also requests clothes, burritos, and more scotch.
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* BigBad: General Desire, the Evil Overlord, and [[spoiler: Ultraweapon.]]
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* DestructoNookie: When [[spoiler:Wendy and Cal]] are [[spoiler:mind-controlled into]] having sex. [[spoiler:Cal]] has bleeding scratches on his back and a black eye. [[spoiler:Wendy]] has a broken nose. [[spoiler:Mather]] intended to change it from a sex tape to a snuff film before he was stopped.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Cal risks one when Ultraweapon is given credit for saving the world instead of him. Then Ultraweapon has one of his own soon after.
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!! The entire series contains the following tropes:
* AntiHero: Ultraweapon. The Olympians as a whole, it's soon obvious.
* AntiVillain: Mechani-Cal is a disgruntled engineer and uninterested in hurting people other than Ultraweapon.
* BigBad: General Desire, the Evil Overlord, and [[spoiler: Ultraweapon.]]
* CapePunk: One of the best examples thereof.
* AntiHero: Ultraweapon. The Olympians as a whole, it's soon obvious.
* AntiVillain: Mechani-Cal is a disgruntled engineer and uninterested in hurting people other than Ultraweapon.
* BigBad: General Desire, the Evil Overlord, and [[spoiler: Ultraweapon.]]
* CapePunk: One of the best examples thereof.
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* AntiHero: Ultraweapon. The Olympians as a whole, it's soon obvious.
* AntiVillain: Mechani-Cal is a disgruntled engineer and uninterested in hurting people other than Ultraweapon.
* AntiVillain: Mechani-Cal is a disgruntled engineer and uninterested in hurting people other than Ultraweapon.
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* BigBad: General Desire, the Evil Overlord, and Ultraweapon.
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* FreudianExcuse: It turns out a LOT of supervillains had their lives ruined by Ultraweapon.
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* LipstickLesbian: In-universe, many supervillains are fascinated by Velocity's provocative sex life.
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* BigBad: General Desire, the Evil Overlord, and Ultraweapon.
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* CurbStompBattle: A series of them throughout the book. The Bugler delivers one to Cal, Cal returns the favor, and [[spoiler: Ultraweapon stomps Cal in the end.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Cal suffers one [[spoiler: after Vicky dies]] and [[spoiler: when Ultraweapon effortlessly defeats him]].
* DespairEventHorizon: Cal suffers one [[spoiler: after Vicky dies]] and [[spoiler: when Ultraweapon effortlessly defeats him]].
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* HeroAntagonist: Ultraweapon appears to be this. The Biloxi Bugler is a more straightforward example.
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* BlessedWithSuck: This is a common feature of superpowers, it turns out.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Barton ruins Cal's career, destroys any possibility of his getting another job elsewhere, and otherwise destroys his life due to Cal resigning for wanting credit for his work on Ultraweapon's armor. He doesn't even let Cal withdraw his resignation.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: The Biloxi Bugler has one, though he was never in danger of execution. It ruins Cal's moment.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Barton ruins Cal's career, destroys any possibility of his getting another job elsewhere, and otherwise destroys his life due to Cal resigning for wanting credit for his work on Ultraweapon's armor. He doesn't even let Cal withdraw his resignation.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: The Biloxi Bugler has one, though he was never in danger of execution. It ruins Cal's moment.
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* AccidentalAesop: Prisons don't make criminals rehabilitate. They make criminals into better criminals.
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[[folder: Confessions of a D-List Supervillain]]
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* AntiVillain: Mechani-Cal.
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* AntiVillain: Mechani-Cal.Mechani-Cal is a disgruntled engineer and uninterested in hurting people other than Ultraweapon.
* AssholeVictim: Virtually everyone Cal hurts is this to one extent or another.
* AssholeVictim: Virtually everyone Cal hurts is this to one extent or another.
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* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Ultraweapon is apparently this. He made part of his original armor but used a core of engineers to make the rest of it and now coasts on the profits from his work.
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* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Ultraweapon is apparently this. He made part of his original armor but has since used a core of engineers to make the rest of it and it. He now coasts on the profits and prestige from 'his' work.[[/folder]]
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!!''Origins of a D-List Supervillain'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AccidentalAesop: Prisons don't make criminals rehabilitate. They make criminals into better criminals.
* AssholeVictim: Barton, the guy who deliberately ruins Cal's career just to scare other engineers into compliance.
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Velocity dies fighting Ultraweapon.]]
* CoolOldGuy: The Biloxi Bugler turns out to be one of these guys.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Cal delivers one of these to the Biloxi Bugler in revenge for hiswork.
earlier defeat. It makes him feel unclean.
* StartOfDarkness: This is more or less what this story is all about.
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[[folder: Origins of a D-List Supervillain]]
!!''Origins of a D-List Supervillain'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AccidentalAesop: Prisons don't make criminals rehabilitate. They make criminals into better criminals.
* AssholeVictim: Barton, the guy who deliberately ruins Cal's career just to scare other engineers into compliance.
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Velocity dies fighting Ultraweapon.]]
* CoolOldGuy: The Biloxi Bugler turns out to be one of these guys.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Cal delivers one of these to the Biloxi Bugler in revenge for his
* StartOfDarkness: This is more or less what this story is all about.
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It now has a prequel, '''''Origins of a D-List Supervillain''''', which explains most of the backstory hinted at in the original novel.
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->''“Being a supervillain means never having to say you’re sorry … Unless it’s to the judge or the parole board. Even then, you don’t really have to. It’s not like it’s going to change the outcome or anything.”''
Those are the words of Calvin Matthew Stringel, better known as Mechani-Cal. He’s a sarcastic, down on his luck armored villain. Follow his exploits as he gets swept up in a world domination scheme gone wrong and ends up working for the weak willed, mercy loving heroes. Immerse yourself in his epic battles and see what it’s like to be an outsider looking in at a world that few have ever experienced.
''[[{{ConfessionsOfAD-ListSupervillain}} Confessions Of A D-List Supervillain]]'' is an independent superhero fiction novel by Jim Bernheimer. It chronicles the efforts of a minor armored supervillain in his efforts to save the world from mind-controlling bugs lest he join the ranks of the Evil Overlord's many slaves. At the end of the day, we have to ask, what is heroism?
Those are the words of Calvin Matthew Stringel, better known as Mechani-Cal. He’s a sarcastic, down on his luck armored villain. Follow his exploits as he gets swept up in a world domination scheme gone wrong and ends up working for the weak willed, mercy loving heroes. Immerse yourself in his epic battles and see what it’s like to be an outsider looking in at a world that few have ever experienced.
''[[{{ConfessionsOfAD-ListSupervillain}} Confessions Of A D-List Supervillain]]'' is an independent superhero fiction novel by Jim Bernheimer. It chronicles the efforts of a minor armored supervillain in his efforts to save the world from mind-controlling bugs lest he join the ranks of the Evil Overlord's many slaves. At the end of the day, we have to ask, what is heroism?
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Those are the words of Calvin Matthew Stringel, better known as Mechani-Cal.
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!!This book contains the following tropes:
* AfterTheEnd: A typical supervillain mind-control plot goes horribly, horribly, horribly wrong.
** [[spoiler: It gets better.]]
* AfterTheEnd: A typical supervillain mind-control plot goes horribly, horribly, horribly wrong.
** [[spoiler: It gets better.]]
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* AfterTheEnd: A typical supervillain mind-control plot goes horribly, horribly, horribly
** [[spoiler: It
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* RichBitch: Subverted by Wendy. Despite being richer than God, she's the sweetest character in the books.
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* RichBitch: Subverted by Wendy. Despite being richer than God, she's the sweetest character in the books.book.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Only in a superhero universe does [[spoiler: Cal's execution of Wendy's stalker]] end up evil after the man [[spoiler: used his superpoers to force Cal and her to have sex.]]
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Only in a superhero universe does [[spoiler: Cal's execution of Wendy's stalker]] end up evil after the man [[spoiler: used his superpoers superpowers to force Cal and her to have sex.]]
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Those are the words of Calvin Matthew Stringel, better known as Mechani-Cal. He’s a sarcastic, down on his luck armored villain. Follow his exploits as he gets swept up in a world domination scheme gone wrong and ends up working for this weak willed, mercy loving heroes. Immerse yourself in his epic battles and see what it’s like to be an outsider looking in at a world that few have ever experienced.
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Those are the words of Calvin Matthew Stringel, better known as Mechani-Cal. He’s a sarcastic, down on his luck armored villain. Follow his exploits as he gets swept up in a world domination scheme gone wrong and ends up working for this the weak willed, mercy loving heroes. Immerse yourself in his epic battles and see what it’s like to be an outsider looking in at a world that few have ever experienced.
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TEO is by and large blameless. His active contribution to the plot is helping Cal to piss off Ultraweapon.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The Evil Overlord.]]
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* AliensMadeThemDoIt: [[spoiler: Wendy and Cal have sex under the influence of a psychic empath. This torpedoes any developing attraction between them... or so it seems.]]
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* AliensMadeThemDoIt: [[spoiler: Wendy and Cal have sex under the influence of a psychic empath. psychic. This torpedoes any developing attraction between them... or so it seems.them.]]
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* BadassGrandpa: The Bugler.
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* BadassGrandpa: The Bugler.Bugler, though not exactly a grandpa, is still one of the older characters in the book.
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* BigBad: The Evil Overlord.
** For Cal, it's [[spoiler: Ultraweapon.]]
* CaptainErsatz: Ultraweapon is one of the 'Iron Dick' version of Tony Stark.
** Mechani-Cal has some similarity to the Spiderman villain, the Beetle. Who, coincidentally or not, became a hero in the {{Thunderbolts}}.
** For Cal, it's [[spoiler: Ultraweapon.]]
* CaptainErsatz: Ultraweapon is one of the 'Iron Dick' version of Tony Stark.
** Mechani-Cal has some similarity to the Spiderman villain, the Beetle. Who, coincidentally or not, became a hero in the {{Thunderbolts}}.
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* BigBad: The Evil Overlord.
** For Cal, it's[[spoiler: Ultraweapon.]]
* CaptainErsatz: Ultraweapon is one of the 'Iron Dick'version versions of Tony Stark.
** Mechani-Cal has some similarity to theSpiderman Spider-man villain, the Beetle. Who, coincidentally or not, became a hero in the {{Thunderbolts}}.
** For Cal, it's
* CaptainErsatz: Ultraweapon is one of the 'Iron Dick'
** Mechani-Cal has some similarity to the
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. Mechani-Cal is a villain but he's not evil by any stretch of the imagination.
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* [[spoiler: Heroic Sacrifice: Mechani-Cal seemingly gives his life to save the world from Ultraweapon.]]
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* [[spoiler: Heroic Sacrifice: HeroicSacrifice: Mechani-Cal seemingly gives his life to save the world from Ultraweapon.]]
