History Roleplay / CapeAndCowl

%% * BadassFamily: The Franchise/{{Spider|Man}} Family and the Franchise/{{Bat|man}} Family.

%% * DesignatedVictim: [[Literature/SweetValleyHigh Jessica Wakefield]] manages to suffer more than [[{{Transformers}} Waspinator.]]

* YourWorstNightmare: When half the City fell asleep and was trapped in their nightmares.

%% * TheyFightCrime: Basically the premise of the entire game, although many characters do not become superheroes.

* InvoluntaryTransformation: In a FisherKingdom style, the Porter assigns all non-humanoid characters (like Transformers and {{Talking Animal}}s) a human form, sometimes with TransformationTrauma in the meantime. There have also been plots where characters were unexpectedly transformed into animals and robots.

%% * FanNickname: 'Grinbitch' for the Porter AI, which has since started popping up in-character.

%% ** [[Film/ResidentEvil The Red Queen]].

%% * StockSuperpowers: Along with several not-so-stock ones.

%% * CityOfWeirdos: Ditto.

The game concluded on Jan. 12th 2014 and now has a sequel game called ''Mask or Menace'', which is ongoing as of 2019. Can be found [[http://maskormenace.dreamwidth.org here.]]

-->-- '''The Porter's greeting.'''

Superheroes? In MY roleplay? It's more likely than you think. It's set in a metropolis known only as 'The City' which had its entire police force disappear in fall of 2008 (when the game began). Their replacements are characters pulled from other worlds by an advanced machine known as the [[TeleportersAndTransporters Porter]] to serve as 'heroes', with previously-unpowered characters gaining superhuman abilities in the process. Known for being very fast-paced. Found [[http://capeandcowl.dreamwidth.org here.]]

The game concluded on Jan. 12th 2014 and now has a sequel game called Mask or Menace. Can be found [[http://maskormenace.dreamwidth.org here.]]

!!Tropes:

%% * ActionGirl: Most of the female heroes and villains, including [[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Shego]] and [[{{Series/Dollhouse}} Echo]].

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Relations between the [[PlayerCharacter PCs]] or ' Imports ' and ' native ' [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]] tend to be... strained at best. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the amount of chaos the characters' presence has caused in the City. However, Imports have since gained much more acceptance along with legal citizenship in their new home, since they helped save thousands of civilians from the HIVE.

* AlternateHistory: The Cityverse's history deviates from our own in many ways besides the Porter.

%% * AStormIsComing: [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Sarah Connor's]] visions.
%% * AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: The City can be threatened by pretty much anything. It was once attacked by ''pigeons.''

* BigApplesauce: The City is basically a nameless alternate universe counterpart to New York.
%% * BadassAdorable: [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles Cameron Phillips]]. Abby Boylen.

%% * {{Brainwashed}}: A supervillain plot used {{Series/Dollhouse}} technology for this.
%% * BreakTheCutie: [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Dr Zoidberg]]

%% * CardboardPrison: The facility for imprisoning captured supervillains, nicknamed Superjail, is an impregnable high-tech fortress... which bad guys still regularly worm their way out of.

* DeusEstMachina: The Porter's powers seem to be almost limitless- at least when it comes to player characters.

* EnemyWithout: A nasty accident between [[VideoGame/{{Persona 3}} Minako]] and [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Kyoko]] leads to a whole lot of Imports being trapped by their Shadows.

%% * FanNickname: ' Grinbitch ' for the Porter AI, which has since started popping up in-character.

%% * FictionalCountry: five of them, thanks to the Infinity Gauntlet

%% * ManchurianAgent: See Brainwashed.

* MusicalEpisode: Courtesy of a character from ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'', who used his powers to make everyone sing and dance.

%% * PlatonicLifePartners: [[Series/DoctorWho Rory Williams]] and [[ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} Zatanna Zatara]] were this.
%% * PowerNullifier: At one point, depowering guns appeared that could temporarily disable superhuman abilities.

%% * SoapWithinAShow: A Single Potato, complete with ExplainingTheSoap. With the [[{{Transformers}} Decepticons]].

%% * TheSnarkKnight: [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} John Connor]].

* ActionGirl: Most of the female heroes and villains, including [[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Shego]] and [[{{Series/Dollhouse}} Echo]].
* ActionMom: [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Sarah Connor]].
* AIIsACrapshoot: First Iron Suit, then the Porter itself.
** [[Film/ResidentEvil The Red Queen]].
** [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Skynet]], apparently.

* AndIMustScream: Nightmare plot.

* AStormIsComing: [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Sarah Connor's]] visions.
* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: The City can be threatened by pretty much anything. It was once attacked by ''pigeons.''
* BackFromTheDead: Pretty much guaranteed.
* BadassCrew: Most of the superhero teams, as well as the police force, which had [[Film/DieHard John McClane]] as its Chief.

* BadassAdorable: [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles Cameron Phillips]]. Abby Boylen.
* BadassFamily / SuperFamilyTeam: The Franchise/{{Spider|Man}} Family and the Franchise/{{Bat|man}} Family.

* BattleCouple: Batgirl and Darkdevil.
* BigBadassBattleSequence: The larger plots can get truly epic.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: An early plot had a swarm of these released on the City by a mad scientist.
* BlankSlate: [[{{Series/Dollhouse}} Whiskey]]. Usually.
* {{Brainwashed}}: A supervillain plot used {{Series/Dollhouse}} technology for this.
* BreakTheCutie: [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Dr Zoidberg]]
* BreakingOutTheBoss: Done by the Nazis at one point.
* CardboardPrison / TheAlcatraz: The facility for imprisoning captured supervillains, nicknamed Superjail, is an impregnable high-tech fortress... which bad guys still regularly worm their way out of.
* CarMeetsHouse: Two of the X-men went for a drive that did not end as planned.

* ChewingTheScenery: [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors Twoey]].
* CityOfAdventure: The City
* CityOfWeirdos: Ditto.
* CleanUpTheTown: Initially.
* ColdBloodedTorture: This happens. A lot.
* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: Pretty much guaranteed to come up at some point. Right?

* TheCorrupter: Usually takes the form of malignant mentorship: Daken (with Electro), Norman Osborn (Reilly Tyne, Rose Lalonde), Edward Nygma (Katurian Katurian, April Ludgate, Eridan Ampora), Boyd Langton (Midii).

* CrusadingLawyer: Several including Miles Edgeworth, Callie Maggotbone, Jennifer Walters and Matt Murdock -- who was training his [[HappilyAdopted daughter]] [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Terezi Pyrope]] and [[LegacyCharacter protege]] [[ComicBook/SpiderGirl Reilly Tyne]] in this career path.

* DeadPanSnarker: [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles Cameron Phillips]], [[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Shego]].
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: The Porter resurrects most killed characters.

* DefaceOfTheMoon: To the point where it's almost a RunningGag.
* DesignatedVictim: [[Literature/SweetValleyHigh Jessica Wakefield]] manages to suffer more than [[{{Transformers}} Waspinator.]]

* DiscountLesbians: A RunningGag with Zatanna and Wonder Woman.
* DysfunctionJunction: Where to start.

* EmotionlessGirl: Subverted with [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles Cameron Phillips]].

* ExplosiveBreeder: An attempt at allowing characters to return home instead caused a plague of [[Franchise/StarTrek Tribbles]].
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: When it comes to finding a way home or a way to shut down/take control of the Porter.
* FakeAmerican: The Master, while pretending to be Adon Tierney.
* FakeMemories: The Brainwash Plot.

* FanNickname: ' Grinbitch ' for the Porter AI, which has since started popping up in-character.
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[Series/{{Dollhouse}} Alpha]], [[Series/DoctorWho The Master]].
* FictionalCountry: five of them, thanks to the Infinity Gauntlet
* FightClubbing: courtesy of the characters from Film/FightClub.
* FishOutOfWater
* FlightStrengthHeart: Due to bizarre Porter-granted powers. One character combined infinite ammunition with deductive tap dancing.
* FountainOfYouth: when most of the City was turned into children by a magic spell
* FutureBadass:
** Characters who weren't already badass sometimes become these in 2020.
** [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} John Connor]].
* GovernmentConspiracy: Vulcanus, which seeks to mass produce superhumans.

* IfItsYouItsOkay

* KidHero: Awesome Force and the Teen Titans.
* KillerRobot: Partially averted, since most robots are turned mostly human when brought into the City.
* LegionOfDoom: The Coalition, a loose grouping of the City's villainous characters.

* LivingShadow: The Kashira Players. [[EpilepticTrees Possibly.]]

* MageInManhattan

* ManchurianAgent: See Brainwashed.
* MegaCrossover
* {{Mook}}: Ordinary criminals don't stand much of a chance against most player characters.

* MythologyGag: The President in this superhero-themed game looks an awful lot like Creator/StanLee.
* NebulousEvilOrganization / TheSyndicate: The HIVE, the City's sinister [[UsefulNotes/LosAngeles West Coast]] counterpart.
* NGOSuperpower: The HIVE tried to act like one of these when it defied the US government. [[KillItWithFIre It ended poorly.]]

* NotHimself: The Polymorph and timeswitch plots.
* OddFriendship: As customary for a panfandom game, CNC has produced some epic ones.
* PlayingWithSyringes: Standard procedure for the City's thriving mad scientist community. Vulcanus has gotten in on the action as well to copy characters' superpowers.
* PlatonicLifePartners: [[Series/DoctorWho Rory Williams]] and [[ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} Zatanna Zatara]] were this.
* PowerNullifier: At one point, depowering guns appeared that could temporarily disable superhuman abilities.
* QuirkyHousehold: MANY.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]], [[Series/DoctorWho Rory Williams]], [[Manga/TowardTheTerra Soldier Blue]], and others.
* RedShirt / RedShirtArmy: Ordinary cops, soldiers and civilians stand almost no chance against most Import supervillains.

* ShowWithinAShow: Iron Man: [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments The Musical.]]
* SoapWithinAShow: A Single Potato, complete with ExplainingTheSoap. With the [[{{Transformers}} Decepticons]].
* StageMagician: Zatanna Zatara.

* StockSuperpowers: Along with several not-so-stock ones.

* {{Superhero}}

* SuperheroTropes

* TheSnarkKnight: [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} John Connor]].
* TheyFightCrime: Basically the premise of the entire game, although many characters do not become superheroes.
* TheyWalkAmongUs: "They" in this case being metahumans.
* TrashTheSet: Godzilla's final assault leveled most of the financial district, although most of it has since been rebuilt.
* TrueCompanions: Many.
* VagueAge: It's kind of unclear how old some of the under-twenties are.
* ViceCity: The HIVE, and the City on a bad day.
* WarArc: Three rounds with the HIVE, and then the War of Four Walls.
* WashingtonDCInvasion: A supervillain attempt to nuke the National Mall.
* [[{{WaveOfBabies}} Wave of]] [[{{CuteKitten}} Kittens]]: [[Literature/HarryPotter Luna]] almost drowned the Major in one. [[MagicMisfire Accidentally]].

* WretchedHive: The HIVE.
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Many characters, particularly during the Renaissance Faire.

* YouDoNotWantToKnow: This often comes up.

* ZombieApocalypse: More than one.

* ShowWithinAShow: Iron Man: [[CrowningMomentOfFunny The Musical.]]

* DesignatedVictim: [[SweetValleyHigh Jessica Wakefield]] manages to suffer more than [[{{Transformers}} Waspinator.]]

* CivilianVillain: Many supervillains have managed to forge successful and lucrative 'legitimate' careers through their 'reformations.'

* MusicalEpisode: Courtesy of a character from HighSchoolMusical, who used his powers to make everyone sing and dance.