History Series / NoOrdinaryFamily

* ShoutOut: Jim discovers his jumping ability while experimenting to see if he can fly, likely a reference to the original version of Franchise/{{Superman}} who could only "leap tall buildings in a single bound" rather than fly.

** This may be reaching, but did anyone else notice the [[Franchise/FantasticFour number]] on Daphne's basketball jersey?

** Which allows JJ to recover from Daphne's [[spoiler: mind control]] faster than everyone else eventually does.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Some might call them ''[[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles incredible]]'' or simply ''[[Series/{{Heroes}} heroic]]''.]]

** In "No Ordinary Accident", the next episode, Daphne attempts to get JJ to do the same thing when she lies to her LoveInterest about loving sushi [[WhatAnIdiot and being fluent in Japanese]]. He refuses since he has [[IncrediblyLamePun "better fish]] ''[[IncrediblyLamePun not]]'' [[IncrediblyLamePun to fry"]].

-->'''JJ:''' She's cool.
-->'''Daphne:''' And old enough that she would go to jail [[JailbaitTaboo for doing]] what you're thinking.
-->'''JJ:''' Stop reading my mind!
-->'''Daphne:''' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Like it takes a mind reader.]]

* HotScientist: Stephanie Powell, played by Creator/JulieBenz, and Katie Andrews, played by Autumn Reeser. [[spoiler: Also, Mrs. X as played by Creator/LucyLawless.]]

* ShoutOut: Jim discovers his jumping ability while experimenting to see if he can fly, likely a reference to the original version of {{Superman}} who could only "leap tall buildings in a single bound" rather than fly.
** The connection is enhanced when George, later discussing Jim's abilities, mentions that he can go over buildings with one leap. Jim prods him until he [[InsistentTerminology changes the word 'leap' to 'bound']] (as in "[[{{Superman}} able to leap tall buildings with a single bound]]!")

** In "No Ordinary Animal", a medical examiner finds a mysterious chemical substance in a victim's bloodstream and tells George that he's made a discovery that George needs to say but there isn't time to describe it on the phone. George and Jim arrive to find out that the VillainOfTheWeek has killed the medical examiner and stolen the body.

* LoanShark: [[spoiler: Jim]]'s brother borrows [[WhatAnIdiot $150,000]] from the biggest loan shark on the West Coast.

* HollywoodNerd: Katie, her favorite X-Man is Kitty Pride, and she is constantly bringing up SuperHeroTropes.
--> '''Katie:''' Interesting tidbit, most superheroes [[MissingMom don't even have mothers]]. Most are either dead, or back on their homeworld, or something.
** Brought up in "No Ordinary Mobster" where Stephanie goes to Katie to tutor JJ and mentioned as a reason she's HollywoodDateless.

* ShootingSuperman: Applied to Jim, along with a realistic application of what happens [[RealityEnsues when bullets ricochet uncontrolled]].

* NotWearingTights: Goes through several stages. First, despite all their talk about super heroes Jim, George, Stephanie, and Katie never even consider Jim or Stephanie wearing masks. Then George considers it, but Jim shoots him down. He wears a ski mask in 'No Ordinary Mobsters' but promptly loses it, and as of 'No Ordinary Friends', Jim has embraced masks and gloves. [[NotSoDifferent Which make him look no different from the thief he was trying to stop.]] So he drops them again.

** Brother Mike brings up George and Jim being [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire heroes for hire]].

*** Beyond simply the name drop, it also works well as ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}} shares similar powers to Jim. One can only wonder George will end up with powers of his own that are similar to Iron Fist.