History Series / HeroCorp

* CerebusSyndrome: Season 2 is noticeably more serious than 1. (Remember, this is from the family who brought us ''Series/{{Kaamelott}}'', whose name is [[Fr/EffetKaamelott used for the trope in the French version]].) It gets worse in season 3.

* LivingLieDetector: Doug, who freeze solid whenever he hears a lie (or tells one). This has ruined his career as a lawyer (not that he seems to be smart enough to be one anyway). A RunningGag is that absolutely no-one notices or seem to make the connection when he freezes while a plot-relevant lie is spoken in front of him.

* HealingHands: Mary, John's aunt, can heal people with a touch. Her former power is said to be able to bring people back to life, but it deteriorated.

''Hero Corp'' parodies the SuperHero genre, with many of the characters being [[OldSuperhero former heroes whose powers have fallen behind]] ([[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway if they were any good to begin with]]). Following a war in the '80s, the Hero Corp agency was created to maintain world peace. It has several secret sites over the planet, and specifically a rural village in the French departement of Lozère where aging heroes live a quiet, peaceful retirement. But a supervillain that everybody believed was dead, "The Lord", is threathening this village.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: When the village is bombed at the end of season 1, all the characters with dialogue manage to survive except [[spoiler:Allen]], who is revealed to have died offscreen. The same thing presumably happens with [[spoiler:Ron and Eshana]], two unpopular characters who are on the boat when it sinks at the end of season 2 and never reappear or are mentioned again.

* FantasticRacism: The superheroes are quite dismissive of civilians, and don't want any in the village for fear they'd discover their secrets. Their bigotry is constantly portrayed as quite silly (and ironic, considering that for the outside world the villagers would look like a bunch of inbreed morons) and John fight it at every turn.

* FeigningIntelligence: A lot of the {{Super Zeroes}} attempt this. Captain Extreme Sports is probably the worse about it.

* FightLikeANormal: Klaus actually ''does'' have a superpower ([[spoiler:Telekinesis]]), but doesn't like it, so he chooses to instead fight using CharlesAtlasSuperpower.

* HealingHands: Mary, John's aunt, can heal people with a touch. Her former power is said to be able to bring people back to life, but it deteriorated. She can still vanquish The Lord's mind control this way, which comes quite handy.

** Mique can read thoughts, although approximatively, resulting often in BlindIdiotTranslation.

* TheScottishTrope: The cultists never pronounce Hypnos' name outside of ceremonies. Every time John says it, they throw their heads down.

** Mique, [[spoiler:after being bitten by a zombie,]] asks nobody else than Laurence Awkins for help, despite him being neither a doctor or a druid (and not caring). Instead of, say, a long-standing member of their group with a well-known HealingHands power.

* AccidentalTruth: In order to save John from being executed, Klaus and Doug pretend he has a power, and use [[spoiler:Klaus' telekinesis]] to convince everybody he is NighInvulnerable. The masquerade succeeds, but Mique, who knows it is fake, sets a trap for him with the intend to kill and unmask him. Thanks to [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands the nature of his actual power]], John ''does'' become invulnerable and survives the trap.

** Basically John's superpower, period. It is essentially adapting to whatever situation he's in, and has been described as an "antidote". However, John has very little control over this, frustrating him to no end. So far, he's demonstrated becoming invulnerable, intangible, to teleport, [[spoiler:to resist mind control,]] to turn into a werewolf, to survive an explosion, to explode himself and then reform, to [[SpiderSense feel danger]], to return bullets, etc. His family seems rather scared of the prospect he'd develop offensive powers.

!!Tropes:

* AccidentalTruth: In order to save John from being executed, Klaus and Doug pretend he has a power, and use [[spoiler:Klaus' telekinesis]] to convince everybody he is NighInvulnerable. The masquerade succeeds, but Mique, who knows it was fake, sets a trap for him with the intend to kill and unmask him. Thanks to [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands the nature of his actual power]], John ''does'' become invulnerable and survives the trap.

* AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome: The Lord's amulet. He needs it to control his superpower. [[spoiler:Although he's not as helpless without it as the heroes were lead to think.]]

* BiggerBad: The end of season 1 reveals that The Lord [[spoiler:never was the main threat, and worked for Matthew Hoodwink]].

* BullyingADragon: In season 3, the bad guy who's chasing Stève, Stan and Burt for having escaped his [[FightClubbing fighting ring]]. Sure, they're the most inept superheroes around, but still, he's trying to get the drop on a guy who can shoot acid, and another who can shoot fire, with just a gun. [[spoiler:He gets burned.]]
* CaptainPatriotic: Captain Canada (played by Michel Courtemanche)

* TheDitz: About every villager except John. In fact, from the reaction of superheroes coming from outside, the ditziest heroes where indeed gathered in this village to get them out of everybody's hair. Not that the concerned have any clue about this.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: When the village is bombed at the end of season 1, all the characters with dialogue manage to survive except [[spoiler:Allen]], who is revealed to have died offscreen. The same thing presumably happened with [[spoiler:Ron and Eshana]], two unpopular characters who were on the boat when it sank at the end of season 2 and never reappeared or were mentioned again.

* FakingTheDead: Mary pretended to be dead in order to make her nephew John come to the village for her funeral.

* FightLikeANormal: Klaus actually ''does'' have a superpower ([[spoiler:Telekinesis]]), but doesn't like it, so he choses to instead fight using CharlesAtlasSuperpower.

* FreudianExcuse: The Lord has a surprisingly dark one compared to the setting. [[spoiler:His father was a big admirer of a great superhero named Captain Patriot, and one day risked his life to save him from a bunch of supervillains. Captain Patriot repaid his kindness by blaming ''him'' for the agression, causing the father to be taken by the authorities and never be seen again.]]

* HiddenElfVillage: A modern version. The villagers sure weren't much concerned with the outside world, and even tried to chase away any "civilians" who could discover their secret, until the menace of The Lord showed up.

* InstantCostumeChange: Spoofed with Captain Trois-Rivières, who is nowhere instant in changing into or out of his superhero costume.
* {{Invisibility}} / {{Intangibility}}: Laurence Awkins was a scientist searching for the secret of invisibility. He's been a bit too successful, however, also becoming nearly fully intangible and weightless, so much than any gust of wind can send him flying.

** Mique. And he's extermely bad at hidding it, even when trying.

* LaughablyEvil: The Lord ''can'' be genuinely threatening, but for most of season 1, he is trapt in the middle of nowhere with nobody to mind control but [[SurroundedByIdiots idiots who cannot execute his orders right]], so a lot of jokes are made at his expenses.
* LivingLieDetector: Doug, who freeze solid whenever he hears a lie (or tells one). This had ruined his career as a lawyer (not that he seems to be smart enough to be one anyway). A RunningGag is that absolutely no-one notices or seem to make the connection when he freezes while a plot-relevant lie is spoken in front of him.

* MixAndMatchCritters: There's a few weird creatures around, like sheeps with scorpion stinger, or Klaus' hogs with feathers. [[TakeOurWordForIt Rarely ever seen on screen, however.]]

** Doug's power of freezing solid when hearing a lie is ''never'' used to actually function as a lie detector, even when the villagers would need one. Instead, he is occasionnally used as a battering ram once frozen.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands:

* NotSoFinalConfession: Steve, Burt, Stan and Capitaine Extreme Sports enter this when they think [[TheDragon Eraste]] will kill them. Burt in particular confesses "more than friendly" feelings for Stan.
* NotUsingTheZWord: The zombies from season 3 are never called such, only ever refered to as "beasts".

* PoisonousPerson: John, shortly in season 1, accidentally contaminating the food suply.

* SuperStrength: Klaus

* ToServeMan: In season 2 John and Klaus are saved by a hermit after being poisoned. He then pretends to look after them while they're still too weak, but is in fact feeding them in preparation for his meal. As a ShootOut to the [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E89ToServeMan trope namer]], he even reads a book called "ToServeMan" which is, of course, a cookbook.

''Hero Corp'' parodies the SuperHero genre, with many of the characters being [[OldSuperhero former heroes whose powers have fallen behind]] ([[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway if they were any good to begin with]]). Following a war in the '80s, the Hero Corp agency was created to maintain world peace. It has several secret sites over the planet, and specifically a rural village in the French departement of Lozère where aging heroes live a quiet, peaceful retirement. But a super-villain that everybody believed was dead, "The Lord", is threathening this village.

!!''Hero Corp'' provides examples of the following tropes:

** Played staight in season 4 with [[spoiler: Mac Cormack, who is revealed to be immortal after being shot at the end of season 3]].

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Basically John's superpower, period. It is essentially adapting to whatever situation he's in, and has been described as an "antidote". However, John has very little control over this, frustrating him to no end. So far, he's demonstrated becoming invulnerable, intangible, to teleport, [[spoiler:to resist mind control,]] to turn into a werewolf, to survive an explosion, to explode himself and then reform, to [[SpiderSense feel danger]], to return bullets, etc. His family seems rather scared of the prospect he'd develop offensive powers.

* TheDreaded: The villagers are absolutely ''terrified'' of The Lord, due to him having a reputation as a mass-murderer and the most dangerous supervillain in History.

* FertileFeet / WalkingWasteland: [[spoiler:John]] alternates between both, apparently depending on whether his good or bad side is taking over.

* FightLikeANormal: Klaus. See CharlesAtlasSuperpower.

'''''Hero Corp''''' is a French comedic TV series, created and written by Simon Astier and Alban Lenoir and broadcasted on cable channel Comédie+ in 2008. It was produced by CALT, the same company as ''Series/{{Kaamelott}}'', and shares several of its actors as well as a similar humor. The series started out as with DramaticHalfHour episodes with an overreaching story rather than short gag episodes, however. With its season 3, it changes to a Shortcom format of 7-minute episodes (incidentally the inverse of ''Kaamelott'''s evolution).

* BadBadActing: Burt, Stan and Steve attempt to pass themselves as zombies overpowering Captain Extreme Sports in order to convince another zombie to lead them to its leader. They all "act" like this. [[spoiler: It works, but only because they are led into a trap. The zombies' leader even call them on their acting skills]].

* TheDitz: About every villager except John. In fact, from the reaction of superheroes coming from outside, the ditziest heroes where indeed concentrated in this village to get them out of everybody's hair. Not that the concerned have any clue about this.

* BadBadActing: Burt, Stan and Steve attempt to pass themselves as zombies overpowering Captain Sport Extreme in order to convince another zombie to lead them to its leader. They all "act" like this. [[spoiler: It works, but only because they are led into a trap. The zombies' leader even call them on their acting skills]].

* BullyingADragon: In season 3, the bad guy who's chasing Stève, Stan and Burt for having escaped his [[FightClubbing fighting ring]]. Sure, there're the most inept superheroes around, but still, he's trying to get the drop on a guy who can shoot acid, and another who can shoot fire, with just a gun. [[spoiler:He gets burned.]]

** Season 3 makes a point of finishing each 7-minutes episode with a cliffhanger or reveal of sorts. It then ends with [[spoiler: both groups of bad guys apparently winning simultaneously]].

* {{Daywalking Vampire}}s: The heroes fight a group of them at the end of season 2. When called out on the fact that they're vampires and yet out in broad daylight, they are rather upset to be held to such a cliché.

* FeigningIntelligence: A lot of the {{Super Zeroes}} do this. Captain Extreme Sports is probably the worse about it.

* TheMole

* {{Muggles}}: Called "civilians" here.

* NotSoFinalConfession: Steve, Burt, Stan and Capitaine Sport Extreme enter this when they think [[TheDragon Eraste]] will kill them. Burt in particular confesses "more than friendly" feelings for Stan.

* UseYourHead

** The mayor, Cecil, can take the appearance of someone unknown. Useless in a fight, naturally. However he uses it very efficiently to [[spoiler:take control of Hero Corp]] by impersonating [[spoiler: a recently deceased tycoon]] who none of the others knew personally.

* BigBad

* {{Cliffhanger}}

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}

* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: Flying rays in the forest. They taste weird too.
* GenderBlenderName

* {{Jerkass}}

* LukeIAmYourFather

* NighInvulnerability

* OnlySaneMan

* SurroundedByIdiots

* TheVoice

** Maybe also [[spoiler:Cecil]] as well.

** Apparently, [[spoiler:Jennifer]] is a mermaid, which means she gains webbed hands and gills when taking a shower... and can hold her breath underwater for a full 14 seconds.

* FeigningIntelligence: A lot of the {{Super Zero}}es do this. Captain Extreme Sports is probably the worse about it.

** Season 3 makes a point of finishing each 7-minutes episode with a cliffhanger or reveal of sorts.

* GenderBlenderName: The mayor's first name is revealed to be Cecil, which causes him to be mocked by the other villagers. In French Cecil (written Cécile) is mainly a girl name.

** In the tied-in webseries, which is centered on Megan (Jennifer's mother), Kyle and later [[spoiler:The Lord]], it's ''[[CloudCuckooLander Megan]]'' who fills this role.
* PlanetEris: So far, superheroes, mutants, vampires, werewolves and strange animals are known to exist. It seems the DC and Marvel superheroes also exist. Season 3 also features [[spoiler:zombies]].