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''Joshua Dread'' is a series of middle grade superhero novels written by Lee Bacon.
Joshua Dread tries to keep a low profile. Not even his best friend, Milton, knows his secret---that his parents are the Dread Duo, two of the world’s most infamous supervillains. Things get complicated when he develops a superpower of his own---namely, [[StuffBlowingUp making things explode]]---and when he discovers that the new girl in school, Sophie, is the daughter of his parents’ archnemesis, Captain Justice. Worse, strange smoke monsters are kidnapping supervillains, and Joshua’s parents might be next.
The original book has three sequels:
* ''A Mutant Named Mizzie'' is a short e-book [[ADayInTheLimelight starring Captain Justice]], who must figure out what to do with a baby {{Mook}} that he finds after a battle.
* ''Joshua Dread: The Nameless Hero'': Joshua, Milton, Sophie and a new friend named Miranda go off to Gyfted and Talented, supposedly a summer camp for training superpowered kids. They soon find themselves as part of a superhero team called the Alliance of the Impossible, all while the villain of the first book is seeking revenge.
* ''Joshua Dread: The Dominion Key'': Joshua and his friends are still in danger, so their parents send them to Alabaster Academy, a SuperheroSchool located far from civilization. While there, they learn that one of their teachers is also instrumental to the villain’s plan for world domination.
!!The books contain examples of:
* ADayInTheLimelight: ''A Mutant Named Mizzie'' is this for Captain Justice.
* AndThenWhat: In the first book, Joshua asks his parents what they would have done if Captain Justice hadn’t stopped their potentially world-ending plan. They hem and haw a bit, insisting that the government would have given into their demands before anything ''bad'' actually happened.
* AscendedFanboy: Milton, a huge superhero fan who gets to become one alongside his superpowered friends.
* BadassNormal: Milton becomes a pretty effective superhero in the second book, despite not having powers. [[DorkKnight He's still a massive dork, of course]].
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Phineas Vex]] turns out to be behind the smoke monsters in the first book, and returns in the sequels to try and capture Joshua.
* CardCarryingVillain: Joshua’s parents, and really all villains in this setting. They even have conventions.
* CloneDegeneration: Multiplier’s clones get less intelligent the farther removed from him they are. A clone from the real Multiplier is basically normal, but a clone of that clone is a bit stupid, a clone of ''that'' one is a stupider and so on.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Dread Duo don't like the idea of using humanoid mutants as {{Mooks}}, because the only way to get them properly bloodthirsty is to abuse them so much that they lose any sense of their (partial) humanity. Zombies are apparently more ethical.
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Gavin]], in the second book, but that's almost a CaptainObviousReveal; the only revelation is that he was working for the BigBad, not that he was bad himself. Also [[spoiler:Dr. Fleming]] in the last book.
* ExpendableClone: Joshua cringes a bit when the Multiplier's clones [[OtherMeAnnoysMe start killing each other]], but tells himself that they don't count as real people.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:[[=nFinity=]]]].
* FanOfUnderdog: During the Alliance of the Impossible’s fifteen minutes of fame, Cassie was a fan of Supersonic (Milton) and thought that the Nameless Hero was overrated. Joshua agrees with that last point.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Captain Justice went to Alabaster Academy with Josh’s parents. Scarlett Flame was a few years younger than them.
* GreenEyedMonster: In the second book, Milton becomes jealous of Joshua for becoming the most famous member of their group, though he gets over it eventually. [[spoiler:[=nFinity=]...doesn’t]].
* HeroesWantRedheads: Captain Justice winds up dating Scarlett Flame, an attractive RedheadedHeroine.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Joshua.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Joshua, Sophie and Miranda all have this to some extent, having moved around a lot and thus been unable to keep any long-term.
* LivingMacGuffin: [[spoiler:Joshua, whose powers The Device can harness for world domination]].
* MadScientist: Both of Joshua’s parents, though they also have superpowers. His father is a GadgeteerGenius while his mom is a botanist.
* MesACrowd: Multiplier.
* MonumentalDamage: The M.O. of the second book’s side-villain, Multiplier.
* NatureVsNurture: ''A Mutant Named Mizzie'' reveals that the half-shark mutants, while naturally a bit bloodthirsty, only become crazed monsters because villains raise them in extremely abusive circumstances. [[spoiler:The story ends with Captain Justice opening a rehabilitation center for Mizzie and the other young ones that he rescues from Abominator]].
* NoEnding: The final book resolves approximately none of the ongoing arcs, with the villains "defeated" in a way that gives Joshua a twenty-hour hour head start in running away from them. ([[ShaggyDogStory Which is basically how the book begins]].) It feels like there was supposed to be another book that just never got released.
* OnlyChildSyndrome: Neither Joshua nor Sophie have any siblings, and nothing indicates that Milton or Miranda do, either.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Captain Justice, Scarlett Flame and [[=nFinity=]] are the most notable examples.
* PlayingWithFire: [[=nFinity=]]. Presumably also Scarlett Flame, though we never actually see her in a fight.
* PowerGlows: Sophie starts to glow whenever she activates her SuperStrength, which makes it hard to use with any sort of subtlety.
* RobotMaid: Sophie and Captain Justice have Stanley, a robot butler who is smooth, capable and friendly. Josh’s dad is jealous of him, so he makes his own robot butler, Elliot, who cooks inedible food and regularly eats household appliances.
* StageMom: Miranda moves around the country so that she can train and show off her powers at competitions. She comments that her mom seems to be living out her own dream of becoming a superhero.
*SuperheroSchool: Alabaster Academy, featured in the third book. Interestingly, the school seems to be TrueNeutral, with teachers openly stating that their pupils will likely become heroes ''or'' villains.
** The second is set at a superhero summer camp, though it turns out to be less “campy” than advertised.
* SuperMode: Occasionally, Joshua’s powers do a weird thing where TimeStandsStill (though everyone affected is still conscious) and a band of light will slowly come out of Joshua’s hand, which causes an explosion much more powerful than he can usually do.
* StuffBlowingUp: Joshua’s power is to make things spontaneously combust by touching them. This includes the ability to “charge” something so that it will explode after he throws it.
* TimeStandsStill: Happens when Joshua’s powers suddenly go into SuperMode. [[spoiler:This is the power that Vex actually wants to harness for world domination]].
* UnholyMatrimony: Joshua’s parents, obviously.
Joshua Dread tries to keep a low profile. Not even his best friend, Milton, knows his secret---that his parents are the Dread Duo, two of the world’s most infamous supervillains. Things get complicated when he develops a superpower of his own---namely, [[StuffBlowingUp making things explode]]---and when he discovers that the new girl in school, Sophie, is the daughter of his parents’ archnemesis, Captain Justice. Worse, strange smoke monsters are kidnapping supervillains, and Joshua’s parents might be next.
The original book has three sequels:
* ''A Mutant Named Mizzie'' is a short e-book [[ADayInTheLimelight starring Captain Justice]], who must figure out what to do with a baby {{Mook}} that he finds after a battle.
* ''Joshua Dread: The Nameless Hero'': Joshua, Milton, Sophie and a new friend named Miranda go off to Gyfted and Talented, supposedly a summer camp for training superpowered kids. They soon find themselves as part of a superhero team called the Alliance of the Impossible, all while the villain of the first book is seeking revenge.
* ''Joshua Dread: The Dominion Key'': Joshua and his friends are still in danger, so their parents send them to Alabaster Academy, a SuperheroSchool located far from civilization. While there, they learn that one of their teachers is also instrumental to the villain’s plan for world domination.
!!The books contain examples of:
* ADayInTheLimelight: ''A Mutant Named Mizzie'' is this for Captain Justice.
* AndThenWhat: In the first book, Joshua asks his parents what they would have done if Captain Justice hadn’t stopped their potentially world-ending plan. They hem and haw a bit, insisting that the government would have given into their demands before anything ''bad'' actually happened.
* AscendedFanboy: Milton, a huge superhero fan who gets to become one alongside his superpowered friends.
* BadassNormal: Milton becomes a pretty effective superhero in the second book, despite not having powers. [[DorkKnight He's still a massive dork, of course]].
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Phineas Vex]] turns out to be behind the smoke monsters in the first book, and returns in the sequels to try and capture Joshua.
* CardCarryingVillain: Joshua’s parents, and really all villains in this setting. They even have conventions.
* CloneDegeneration: Multiplier’s clones get less intelligent the farther removed from him they are. A clone from the real Multiplier is basically normal, but a clone of that clone is a bit stupid, a clone of ''that'' one is a stupider and so on.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Dread Duo don't like the idea of using humanoid mutants as {{Mooks}}, because the only way to get them properly bloodthirsty is to abuse them so much that they lose any sense of their (partial) humanity. Zombies are apparently more ethical.
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Gavin]], in the second book, but that's almost a CaptainObviousReveal; the only revelation is that he was working for the BigBad, not that he was bad himself. Also [[spoiler:Dr. Fleming]] in the last book.
* ExpendableClone: Joshua cringes a bit when the Multiplier's clones [[OtherMeAnnoysMe start killing each other]], but tells himself that they don't count as real people.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:[[=nFinity=]]]].
* FanOfUnderdog: During the Alliance of the Impossible’s fifteen minutes of fame, Cassie was a fan of Supersonic (Milton) and thought that the Nameless Hero was overrated. Joshua agrees with that last point.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Captain Justice went to Alabaster Academy with Josh’s parents. Scarlett Flame was a few years younger than them.
* GreenEyedMonster: In the second book, Milton becomes jealous of Joshua for becoming the most famous member of their group, though he gets over it eventually. [[spoiler:[=nFinity=]...doesn’t]].
* HeroesWantRedheads: Captain Justice winds up dating Scarlett Flame, an attractive RedheadedHeroine.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Joshua.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Joshua, Sophie and Miranda all have this to some extent, having moved around a lot and thus been unable to keep any long-term.
* LivingMacGuffin: [[spoiler:Joshua, whose powers The Device can harness for world domination]].
* MadScientist: Both of Joshua’s parents, though they also have superpowers. His father is a GadgeteerGenius while his mom is a botanist.
* MesACrowd: Multiplier.
* MonumentalDamage: The M.O. of the second book’s side-villain, Multiplier.
* NatureVsNurture: ''A Mutant Named Mizzie'' reveals that the half-shark mutants, while naturally a bit bloodthirsty, only become crazed monsters because villains raise them in extremely abusive circumstances. [[spoiler:The story ends with Captain Justice opening a rehabilitation center for Mizzie and the other young ones that he rescues from Abominator]].
* NoEnding: The final book resolves approximately none of the ongoing arcs, with the villains "defeated" in a way that gives Joshua a twenty-hour hour head start in running away from them. ([[ShaggyDogStory Which is basically how the book begins]].) It feels like there was supposed to be another book that just never got released.
* OnlyChildSyndrome: Neither Joshua nor Sophie have any siblings, and nothing indicates that Milton or Miranda do, either.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Captain Justice, Scarlett Flame and [[=nFinity=]] are the most notable examples.
* PlayingWithFire: [[=nFinity=]]. Presumably also Scarlett Flame, though we never actually see her in a fight.
* PowerGlows: Sophie starts to glow whenever she activates her SuperStrength, which makes it hard to use with any sort of subtlety.
* RobotMaid: Sophie and Captain Justice have Stanley, a robot butler who is smooth, capable and friendly. Josh’s dad is jealous of him, so he makes his own robot butler, Elliot, who cooks inedible food and regularly eats household appliances.
* StageMom: Miranda moves around the country so that she can train and show off her powers at competitions. She comments that her mom seems to be living out her own dream of becoming a superhero.
*SuperheroSchool: Alabaster Academy, featured in the third book. Interestingly, the school seems to be TrueNeutral, with teachers openly stating that their pupils will likely become heroes ''or'' villains.
** The second is set at a superhero summer camp, though it turns out to be less “campy” than advertised.
* SuperMode: Occasionally, Joshua’s powers do a weird thing where TimeStandsStill (though everyone affected is still conscious) and a band of light will slowly come out of Joshua’s hand, which causes an explosion much more powerful than he can usually do.
* StuffBlowingUp: Joshua’s power is to make things spontaneously combust by touching them. This includes the ability to “charge” something so that it will explode after he throws it.
* TimeStandsStill: Happens when Joshua’s powers suddenly go into SuperMode. [[spoiler:This is the power that Vex actually wants to harness for world domination]].
* UnholyMatrimony: Joshua’s parents, obviously.
