History Literature / ConfessionsOfADListSupervillain

* BadBoss: The Overlord [[spoiler: Kills a staggering number of his henchmen when he activates the self-destruct mechanism inside his home base while they're still inside.]]

* 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.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Rodentia and Gunk have an amazing ability to be just about everywhere important despite both being HarmelessVillain types.

* OddFriendship: Cal and Andy Droid. Cal treats Andy the same way he treats... [[DeadpanSnarker Well, everyone.]] Andy is ridiculously polite and helpful to everyone.
** Not so odd when you remember Andy Droid is the only one who remembers clearly Cal [[spoiler: saved the world and the heroes in particular]]. Everyone else had their memories erased and only knows about it second hand.

* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: Aphrodite, unsurprisingly, is this.

* 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.

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Overlord and General Devious both have a grudge against Mega because they wanted to be the ones to kill Ultraweapon.

* TookALevelInBadass: Aphrodite gets a haircut, a suit of armor, and toughens up considerably. [[spoiler: Which Ultraweapon reverses with a memory eraser gun.]]

** Ditto [[spoiler: executing Lazarus Peterson in the middle of a terrorist attack.]]

!! Secrets of a D-List Supervillain contains the following tropes:

Note: This book features details from the first book, Confessions, so spoilers are everywhere.

* TookALevelInBadass: Aphrodite gets a haircut, a suit of armor, and toughens up considerably. [[spoiler: Which Ultraweapon reverses with a memory eraser gun. Thankfully, she gets better.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Aphrodite gets a haircut, a suit of armor, and toughens up considerably. [[spoiler: Which Ultraweapon reverses with a memory eraser gun.]]

* LipstickLesbian: In-universe, many supervillains are fascinated by Velocity's provocative sex life.

* OddFriendship: Cal and AndyDroid. Cal treats Andy the same way he treats... [[DeadpanSnarker Well, everyone.]] Andy is ridiculously polite and helpful to everyone.

* BelligerantSexualTension:

* InferredHolocaust: Half-a-''billion'' people die due to the events of ''Confessions.'' You'd never know it from the rest of the series.

* BettyAndVeronica: Aphrodite and Wendy. Aphrodite is the

* DespairEventHorizon: Cal has a brief one [[spoiler: where he plans to kill himself after being unable to free Stacy after seventeen days.]]

* BettyAndVeronica: Aphrodite and Wendy.

* 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.

* 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.]]

* {{Magitek}}: Aside from the prequel, Cal incorporates [[spoiler:magic dinosaur teleportation crystals]] into his armor.

* 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.