History Literature / ConfessionsOfADListSupervillain

** The Olympians are in-universe ones for the actual Green Gods, possessing powers and personalities very similar to them.

* BadassGay: Chain-Charmer is one of these. He and his husband used to be HappilyMarried.

* 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.

* BadassGrandpa: The Bugler, though not exactly a grandpa, is still one of the older characters in the book.

* HeroicSacrifice: Mechani-Cal seemingly gives his life to save the world from Ultraweapon.

* PettingZooPeople: Amy-Dillo is described as, "Looking like a cross between a pin-up and an armadillo. Kind of hot and kind of weird."

* 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: Maxine Velocity 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.

* ItsPronouncedTropay: It's not "Mechanical," it's "Mechani-Cal"! Wendy keeps getting it wrong. The Bugler, FriendlyEnemy as he is, actually takes care to pronounce it the right way.

* WorfHadTheFlu: Cal is forced to abandon the Megasuit and rely on his weak magic in order to infiltrate General Devious' compound.

* LamePunReaction: Cal on finding out that [=MindOver=]'s real last name is [[MindOverMatter "Mather."]] This from [[HypocriticalHumor "MechaniCal".]]

* RapeByProxy: Done to Cal and [[spoiler:Wendy]] in by her [[StalkerWithACrush psychic stalker]]. When he brags about this afterwards, [[spoiler:Cal kills him.]]

* LamePunReaction: Cal on finding out that [=MindOver=]'s real last name is [[MindOverMatter "Mather."]]

* KickTheDog: Ultraweapon gets one when [[spoiler: he brainwipes Aphrodite of her romance with Cal.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted. [[spoiler: Ultraweapon doesn't love Stacy because he can only view her as a possession. Likewise, the same for Wendy's stalker.]]
* [[spoiler: FirstGirlWins: Aphrodite and Mechani-Cal are together at the end of the book.]]
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: Mechani-Cal seemingly gives his life to save the world from Ultraweapon.]]
** [[spoiler: He gets better.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Athena, Ultraweapon.

* [[spoiler: LawOfInverseFertility: Cal and Wendy conceive a kid during their mind-control.]]

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Only in a superhero universe does [[spoiler: Cal's execution of Wendy's stalker]] end up evil after the man [[spoiler: used his superpowers to force Cal and her to have sex.]]

** Athena is a jerk.
* RichBitch: Subverted by Wendy. Despite being richer than God, she's the sweetest character in the book.
** Oddly, this seems to have been Aphrodite's old personality.

* 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.]]

%%* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Velocity dies fighting Ultraweapon.]] --ZCE

* 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 87% chance Cal would have if it came to it.

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Velocity dies fighting Ultraweapon.]]

* ItsPronouncedTropay: It's not "Mechanical," it's "Mechani-CAL"! Wendy keeps getting it wrong. The Bugler, FriendlyEnemy as he is, actually takes care to pronounce it the right way.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Cal and... all his friends. Though it's one-sided with AndyDroid, who never openly mocks anyone.

'''''Confessions of a D-List Supervillain''''' is an independent superhero seriesl. 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?

'''''Confessions of a D-List Supervillain''''' is an independent superhero fiction novel. 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?

It now has a prequel, '''''Origins of a D-List Supervillain''''', which explains most of the backstory hinted at in the original novel.

A third book in the series has been released, '''''Secrets of a D-List Supervillain''''', which mostly fills in a lot of things glossed over in the first book and clear up the hard work that went into the climax of the book. Unlike the other two, it is not a stand-alone book. It does provide some hints to the conflict that will be present in the fourth book in the series, '''''Rise of a D-List Supervillain''''', which the series writer Creator/JimBernheimer has tentatively suggested will have a May 2016 release, following a short novella giving Hillybilly Bobby ADayInTheLimelight.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Literally, when [[spoiler: Maxine Velocity's plan to kill Lazarus Patterson with [[NoKillLikeOverKill lots and lots of C-4]] backfires. Also literally.]]

** Mechani-Cal has some similarity to the Spider-man villain, the Beetle. Who, coincidentally or not, became a hero in the {{Thunderbolts}}.

* 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.

* HighDiveEscape: One of Cal's preferred methods for evading pursuit after a crime is to seal up his suit and dive into a river to swim away unseen.

A third book in the series has been released, '''''Secrets of a D-List Supervillain''''', which mostly fills in a lot of things glossed over in the first book and clear up the hard work that went into the climax of the book. Unlike the other two, it is not a stand-alone book. It does provide some hints to the conflict that will be present in the fourth book in the series, '''''Rise of a D-List Supervillain''''', which is not out as of January 2015.

The series is written by Creator/JimBernheimer.

* PosthumousCharacter: Vicky plays an extraordinary role in Cal's life even if she's introduced as his LostLenore.

'''''Confessions of a D-List Supervillain''''' is an independent superhero fiction novel by Creator/JimBernheimer. 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?

'''''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?