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* NoodleImplements: Victory Anna became a dimensional traveler as a result of an unexplained accident involving a broken time machine and a blackcurrant trifle.
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* AppliedPhlebotinum: Starting with irradiated maple syrup and going from there with one bizarre origin story after another. Velveteen's powers came from a latent mutation that was activated when she slept with a radioactive bunny plushy too many times.
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* AppliedPhlebotinum: Starting with irradiated maple syrup and going from there with one bizarre origin story after another. Velveteen's powers came from a latent mutation that was activated when she slept with a radioactive bunny plushy too many times.while suffering from an exotic strain of chicken pox.
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* InfantImmortality: Averted, roughly half of all Junior Super Patriots don't live to get an offer to become full Super Patriots (who have an average lifespan of 35). Part of the reason Vel wanted out was having to attend the funerals of half a dozen teammates.
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* TrustPassword: Teams are required to come up with one to check if they've ended up in an alternate dimension. [[spoiler:Then Action Dude ends up in one where his counterpart isn't allergic to blueberries, and thus his wife in that dimension didn't understand that his asking for some was a password.]]
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* SlaveToPR: SPI forces their heroes to live their lives to maximize their marketability. Thus Action Dude was forced to hide his faith because Marketing didn't think a Jewish superhero would sell action figures. [[spoiler:Yelena]] was forced to pretend to a different sexuality for similar reasons, and Velveteen was forced to break up with her first boyfriend because Marketing ruled that support heroes weren't allowed to date front-liners.
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* BaconAddict: Jackie loves bacon. She loves teasing Yelena (Who can't eat bacon for fear of not being able to fit into her costume anymore) about the bacon even more.
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* BaconAddict: BaconAddiction: Jackie loves bacon. She loves teasing Yelena (Who can't eat bacon for fear of not being able to fit into her costume anymore) about the bacon even more.
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* BaconAddict: Jackie loves bacon. She loves teasing Yelena (Who can't eat bacon for fear of not being able to fit into her costume anymore) about the bacon even more.
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* PaintedOnPants: The costumes designed by Marketing tend to be form-fitting, forcing the people who wear them to adhere to strict diets.
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* ConservationOfNinjitsu: Apparently applies to animi supers, so [[spoiler:Supermodel]] murdering every animus other than Vel and Tag in their generation is part of the reason why Vel is so powerful.
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* ConservationOfNinjitsu: Apparently applies to animi animus supers, so [[spoiler:Supermodel]] murdering every animus other than Vel and Tag in their generation is part of the reason why Vel is so powerful.
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Supermodel]], CEO of Super Powers, Inc.
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* FlyingBrick: One of the more common power sets, apparently caused by a batch of irradiated maple syrup (just go with it). Given examples include Majesty, Action Dude, and SuperCool.
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* FlyingBrick: One of the more common power sets, apparently caused by a batch of irradiated maple syrup (just go with it). Given examples include Majesty, Action Dude, and SuperCool.Super Cool.
* FrivolousLawsuit: Vel's parents sue her for financial support. A lawyer provided by the Governor of Oregon gets the case thrown out, stating that the contract (Which was made when Vel was eleven, and thus not old enough to sign legally binding contracts) specified that her family was entitled to a percentage of her income while she worked for SPI, not while she was a superhero, and Velveteen now worked for the State of Oregon, not Super Patriots, Incorporated.
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* LastOfHisKind: Vel and Tag are the only supers with animus powers in their generation, because [[spoiler:Supermodel]] murdered all the others. They were spared because the inherit limits to their powers (Vel can only control inanimate objects that have faces, Tag can only create objects from things he painted) made them appear too weak to be a threat.
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** Vel and Tag are the only supers with animus powers in their generation, because [[spoiler:Supermodel]] murdered all the others. They were spared because the inherit limits to their powers (Vel can only control inanimate objects that have faces, Tag can only create objects from things he painted) made them appear too weak to be athreat.threat.
** Victory Anna (a refugee from a distant and now-destroyed alternate universe) has no multi-verse counterparts. When the team walks through the Hall of Mirrors, while everyone else sees the people they could have been had their lives turned out differently in the mirrors, she just sees her reflection.
** Vel and Tag are the only supers with animus powers in their generation, because [[spoiler:Supermodel]] murdered all the others. They were spared because the inherit limits to their powers (Vel can only control inanimate objects that have faces, Tag can only create objects from things he painted) made them appear too weak to be a
** Victory Anna (a refugee from a distant and now-destroyed alternate universe) has no multi-verse counterparts. When the team walks through the Hall of Mirrors, while everyone else sees the people they could have been had their lives turned out differently in the mirrors, she just sees her reflection.
** LesYay: A lot of that porn paired her with her teammate Sparkle Bright, [[spoiler:who actually is gay and really did have a crush on Vel when they were teammates.]]
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* RetGone: [[spoiler:Jackie acts against her nature to help Vel survive her year of service in Winter, and ends up getting rewritten, becoming Jacqueline Claus, adopted daughter of Santa.]]
* SecondLove: [[spoiler:Tag for Velveteen. AlsoYelena Sparkle Bright and Victory Anna for each other.]]
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* SuperRegistrationAct: After SPI's leadership is taken down, the government passes a law requiring all supers with animus powers to register, claiming that SPI's CEO being an animus is why the company was able to get away with its criminal actions for so long. Nobody objected because there were only three known animi supers, one of whom was dead and the other two missing. Then the government slowly started expanding the legal definition of an animus...
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* ConservationOfNinjitsu: Apparently applies to animi supers, so [[spoiler:Supermodel]] murdering every animi other than Vel and Tag in their generation is part of the reason why Vel is so powerful.
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* NoMoreForMe: Something a river rat would swear after seeing amassed crayfish
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* NoodleImplements: Victory Anna became a dimensional traveler as a result of an unexplained accident involving a broken time machine and a blackcurrant trifle.
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* ThemeNaming: Chapters are usually named "Velveteen vs. <Something>", unless she doesn't appear in that chapter, in which case the name is "Velveteen Presents <Focus Character> vs. <Something>".
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* WithGreatPowerComeGreatPerks: Some supers have abilities that are mainly only of use in mundane tasks, like being impossibly good bakers and gardeners, and as such are able to pass unnoticed by SPI.
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* WithGreatPowersComeGreatPerks: Some supers have abilities that are mainly only of use in mundane tasks, like being impossibly good bakers and gardeners, and as such are able to pass unnoticed by SPI.
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* BoobWindow: Velveteen's costume shows a lot of cleavage. Superheroines often do this as a way of keeping people from paying to much attention to their faces.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: Inverted. It ends with Princess declaring that the story DOES end here.]]
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: Inverted. The second book ends with Princess declaring that the story DOES end here. And then the sequel came out.]]
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Jory]]. [[spoiler: Victory Anna]] and [[spoiler: most likely Tag, off screen]].
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Supermodel]], CEO of Super Powers, Inc.
* {{Brainwashed}}: All the people in SPI with mind control powers are used to brainwash the official heroes of SPI during their "counseling sessions". Velveteen managed to break free because her trips to the worlds of Autumn and Winter with Hailey and Jackie, and the fact that time flows differently there, meant that she spent more time between sessions than SPI's higher ups thought, so it wore off. Tag broke free because he kept creating graffiti doppelgangers to attend the sessions for him.
* ConservationOfNinjitsu: Apparently applies to animi supers, so [[spoiler:Supermodel]] murdering every animi other than Vel and Tag in their generation is part of the reason why Vel is so powerful.
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* HospitalityForHeroes: A mechanic doesn't take her money.Vel's money after she saves his town from a cult of evil baristas.
* InformedJudaism: Action Dude was raised Jewish before developing FlyingBrick powers, but Marketing decided that he'd look better to the public as a Christian, so they forced him to not do any culturally Jewish actions while in public.
* LastOfHisKind: Vel and Tag are the only supers with animus powers in their generation, because [[spoiler:Supermodel]] murdered all the others. They were spared because the inherit limits to their powers (Vel can only control inanimate objects that have faces, Tag can only create objects from things he painted) made them appear too weak to be a threat.
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* SuperRegistrationAct: After SPI's leadership is taken down, the government passes a law requiring all supers with animus powers to register, claiming that SPI's CEO being an animus is why the company was able to get away with its criminal actions for so long. Nobody objected because there were only three known animi supers, one of whom was dead and the other two missing. Then the government slowly started expanding the legal definition of an animus...
* TimeyWimeyBall: [[spoiler:After learning that spending three years repaying her debt to the seasons, Vel returns to discover that the government was taking over all of America's supers, and it was too late to stop them. So she finds a way to contact some supers in an alternate dimension with the power to alter time to rewrite history so that those three years in Season Country only lasted six days in Calendar Country, so she could try to stop it when it first began.]]
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* {{Transgender}}: When asked their real names, one of Velveteen's friends announces the name their parents called them is adifferently genderered from the one by which we currently know them.
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* UpToEleven: The superhero power scale goes from one to five. Time control is level '''ten'''.
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* AlchoholInducedIdiocy: The official power level scale was invented by a group of government workers while on a drinking binge, and has never been revised. This makes some of the key classification criteria rather vague.
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* AlmightyJanitor: In ''Velveteen vs. The Junior Super Patriots, West Coast Division'', it's pointed out that Velma is ranked as a support hero "at best" (on the official "power level" scale, she is apparently rated at 2 out of 5). [[spoiler:This does not stop her from wiping the floor with the nine-hero team sent at her, a whole three of which officially rank at the highest power level, 5. Elsewhere in the same chapter, the narration states that her real demonstrated power level would be 4, and that she had yet to fully reach her limits.]]
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* AlmightyJanitor: In ''Velveteen vs. The Junior Super Patriots, West Coast Division'', it's pointed out that Velma is ranked as a support hero "at best" (on the official "power level" scale, she is apparently rated at 2 out of 5). [[spoiler:This does not stop her from wiping the floor with the nine-hero team sent at her, a whole three of which officially rank at the highest power level, 5. Elsewhere in the same chapter, the narration states that her real demonstrated power level would be 4, and that she had yet to fully reach her limits. Some have even theorized that if somebody managed to put a large enough pair of googly eye glasses on it, she could ''shift the orbit of the moon''.]]
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* SelfFulfillingProphecy: SPI claims that people with non-trivial powers who don't have "proper guidance" (Which in most places can only be provided by SPI) tend to go supervillain. They try not to mention that most of their examples only qualify because SPI harassed them until they were DrivenToVillainy in self-defense.
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The series is available to be read off [[http://seananmcguire.com/velhome.php the author's site]] as well as more recent updates on her LiveJournal. There are also two published compilations, ''Velveteen vs the Junior Super Patriots'' and ''Velveteen vs the Multiverse''
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The series is available to be read off [[http://seananmcguire.com/velhome.php the author's site]] as well as more recent updates on her LiveJournal. There are also two three published compilations, ''Velveteen vs the Junior Super Patriots'' and Patriots'', ''Velveteen vs the Multiverse''Multiverse'', and ''Velveteen vs. the Seasons''.
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* CynicismCataclyst: The Governor of Oregon had an older sister who was taken in by Super Patriots Inc and died fighting a supervillain she was nowhere near ready to fight... at the age of twelve. This is why she's willing to grant sanctuary to supers who try to break away from SPI.
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* CynicismCataclyst: CynicismCatalyst: The Governor of Oregon had an older sister who was taken in by Super Patriots Inc and died fighting a supervillain she was nowhere near ready to fight... at the age of twelve. This is why she's willing to grant sanctuary to supers who try to break away from SPI.
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The series is available to be read off [[http://seananmcguire.com/velhome.php the author's site]] as well as more recent updates on her LiveJournal. The first anthology in the series, ''Velveteen Vs The Junior Super Patriots,'' has also just been published, and the second was released in August 2013.
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* FlyingBrick: Majesty's power set, Action Dude's, and one of the more common ones.
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* CastFromHitPoints: How Velveteen's powers work; sustaining an animation takes energy from Vel. A little for things like animating a plush toy to get her a Diet Coke from the fridge, a LOT for [[spoiler:reanimating her boyfriend for two months solid.]]
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* TheOneGuy: Tag is the only guy on Vel's team.
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* ParentalIssues:
** ParentalAbandonment: Velveteen's team of the Junior Super Patriots West Coast Division was, except for the Claw, composed of kids who were sold by their parents to Super Patriots Inc.
** MissingMom [=/=]DisappearedDad: Velveteen's were abusive when she lived with them, and only cared about her as a meal ticket once her powers manifested.
** ParentalAbandonment: Velveteen's team of the Junior Super Patriots West Coast Division was, except for the Claw, composed of kids who were sold by their parents to Super Patriots Inc.
** MissingMom [=/=]DisappearedDad: Velveteen's were abusive when she lived with them, and only cared about her as a meal ticket once her powers manifested.
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**ParentalAbandonment: Velveteen's team of the Junior Super Patriots West Coast Division was, except for the Claw, composed of kids who were sold by their parents to Super Patriots Inc.were abusive when she lived with them, and only cared about her as a meal ticket once her powers manifested.
**MissingMom [=/=]DisappearedDad: Velveteen's team of the Junior Super Patriots West Coast Division was, except for the Claw, composed of kids who were abusive when she lived with them, and only cared about her as a meal ticket sold by their parents to Super Patriots Inc.
** The Princess was forced into it; once her powersmanifested. manifested, the universe insisted that she not have parents, so she cut all ties with them rather than see them have an "accident".
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: Velveteen, and pretty much anyone who leaves SPI under bad terms is declared either a washout or a super-villain by SPI, and therefore, by the media as well.
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* OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs: Velveteen is disgusted by some of hers.
-->''"After the fifth piece of pornographic fan art and the real-person slash fanfic novella where she liked to "do it like a rabbit," she figured the strategy tips were sort of like protection money: as long as they stayed semi-useful, she wouldn't feel compelled to wipe them off the face of the planet."''
-->''"After the fifth piece of pornographic fan art and the real-person slash fanfic novella where she liked to "do it like a rabbit," she figured the strategy tips were sort of like protection money: as long as they stayed semi-useful, she wouldn't feel compelled to wipe them off the face of the planet."''
