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3 | Jay Faerber's homage to SuperHero {{comic books}} and {{soap opera}}s. The series revolves around the Noble family, a wealthy, famous family of superheroes. In addition to fighting supervillains, the heroes face such challenges as infidelity, unplanned pregnancies, and the tabloids. |
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5 | The main family members are: |
6 | * Dudley "Doc" Noble: A GadgeteerGenius who is more interested [[ForScience in working on inventions in his lab than spending any time with his family.]] |
7 | * Gaia: The matriarch of the family, who does everything she can to make herself and her family look good in the public eye. Currently divorced from Doc and serving a prison term. |
8 | * Rusty: The oldest son, a Super-Strong hero with a bad temper who had his consciousness transferred into a robotic body after nearly being beaten to death. In years since, he's struggled with his humanity, and, evidently, given in. He now speaks in a harsh monotone, doesn't use contractions, and rarely indicates emotion. [[spoiler: He's faking it.]] |
9 | * Frost: Gaia's son from an extra-marital affair with [[spoiler:The Doc Noble of an AlternateUniverse]]. Has ice-based powers and [[AntiHero a huge chip on his shoulder]]. |
10 | * Race: The middle child. He has SuperSpeed and seems to be the nicest and most well-adjusted member of the family. [[WeHardlyKnewYe No wonder they killed him off at the end of the first issue...]] |
11 | * Zephyr: The youngest child. A teenage girl who sleeps around. This results in her getting knocked up by [[spoiler:Draconis, her father's archenemy]]. |
12 | * Liz Donnely-Noble: A [[{{Muggle}} normal girl]] who runs a bookstore. Her good looks and unpretentious nature caused Race [[SoHappyTogether to fall in love with her and marry her.]] She continues to live in the Noble Family mansion after Race's death. |
13 | * Krennick: Race's best friend, and the son of Draconis, Doc Noble's ArchEnemy. A demon who [[MadLove holds unrequited feelings for Zephyr.]] |
14 | * Celeste: A publicity-hungry heroine with stellar energy powers who was married to Rusty, but had a long-standing affair with Frost. |
15 | * Olympia: Doc's second wife, a superstrong beauty queen with two children from a previous marriage. |
16 | * Surge: Olympia's son, and the youngest of the Nobles. In need of a serious attitude adjustment; gets on poorly with just about everyone due to his explosive temper. |
17 | * Minutae: Olympia's daughter. Extremely introverted and removed from social interactions, she strikes a quick friendship with Doc due to her love of science. |
18 | * Amy: Surge's girlfriend, who accused Frost of raping her after he resisted her advances. [[spoiler:The real Amy had actually been killed and replaced by a shapeshifting assassin before her introduction in the comic]]. |
19 | * Slate Blackthorne: The youngest of the villainous Blackthorne family, who can turn into a gigantic rock-man and eventually abandoned his family to marry Zephyr. |
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22 | !!This comic book series provides examples of: |
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24 | %% * ADayInTheLife |
25 | * AbortedArc: The ongoing series seemed to end a bit abruptly, as the plot thread of Slate intentionally helping two supervillains escape the Nobles’ custody wasn’t followed up on. |
26 | * AIIsACrapshoot: ([[spoiler:Icarus, Doc Noble's Robotic Assistant, sees himself as Doc's firstborn and makes attempts on the lives of all of his "siblings", since they were such a disappointment to Doc]].) |
27 | * BackForTheFinale: The resurrected Race and Liz were conspicuously absent after the TimeSkip until the final issue, which reveals why: Race is a little busy because [[spoiler:he's the President of the United States.]] |
28 | * CliffHanger: one of the series' biggest strengths; it even finally ends on one [[spoiler:regarding whether Doc will stay with Olympia or go back to Gaia]]. |
29 | * CliffhangerCopOut: Some of the cliffhangers are resolved in ways that nullify the suspense; one issue ends with Gaia asking Olympia [[spoiler:how Doc will feel if he hears that Olympia only married him because Gaia paid her to.]] The next issue opens with Olympia outraged because [[spoiler:she's never even met or spoken to Gaia before this moment; that is, Gaia is threatening to lie to ruin Olympia's marriage]] |
30 | * ConvenientMiscarriage: ([[spoiler:Subverted with Zephyr. Supervillains faked a miscarriage and abducted the baby]].) |
31 | * CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Rusty seemed to have lost all his emotions and even the ability to inflect his voice at some point during the time skip. [[spoiler:He’s faking, he’s withdrawn into himself after a [[TraumaCongaLine difficult breakup a few years in jail]].]] |
32 | * FlashBack: Usually used to cast character's actions in a more sympathetic light. |
33 | %% * GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke The source of Celeste's powers. |
34 | * HomePornMovie: The source of a scandal around Zephyr; [[spoiler:A gun was held to a little girl's head in order to coerce her into participating.]] |
35 | * GrandTheftMe: Gaia's LoonyFan switches bodies with Doc |
36 | * HairTriggerTemper: Surge's entire character revolves around this. |
37 | %% * IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim (subverted when [[spoiler:Doc Noble killed Draconis]]) |
38 | %% * LoveRedeems: Celeste once she starts dating Dawn. |
39 | * MayDecemberRomance: After the time skip, Celeste is now married to an elderly man, retired superhero Gus “Colonel Comet” Geyer. |
40 | * MeaningfulName: Everyone in the Noble and Blackthorne families has a name that alludes to their powers, and as such they don't even use codenames like most heroes or villains. |
41 | %% * MirrorUniverse: |
42 | * TheRealHeroes: Frost gets an award for saving a bunch of firefighters and says they're the real heroes. |
43 | * RidiculouslyHumanRobot: ([[spoiler:Cosmic Rae]], secretly created by Doc to comfort [[spoiler:Rusty]], who didn’t know she was a robot until… |
44 | * RoboticReveal: A couple of these. A fake Liz is revealed when [[spoiler: a protective energy field around Zephyr's baby]] blasts off its skin; more disturbingly with [[spoiler:Cosmic Rae getting her face cut on the "space" mission.]] |
45 | * SharedUniverse: ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' and ''ComicBook/SavageDragon'' have made appearances in the comic; Zephyr was even a member of a team with Invincible, ComicBook/{{Shadowhawk}}, and ComicBook/{{Firebreather}}. |
46 | * ShrinkingViolet: Minutiae, appropriately given her shrinking powers, is very shy and retiring. |
47 | * {{Soaperizing}}: To the point it's more like a SoapOpera with occasional superpowers. |
48 | * SympathyForTheDevil: At times, Draconis seems more sympathetic than Doc Noble. |
49 | * CanonWelding: The "Faerberverse" consists of this comic, ''ComicBook/{{Dynamo5}}'', ''Venture'' & ''Firebirds''. |
50 | * ThemeTwinNaming: The Blackthorne family includes the twins Dawn and Dusk. |
51 | * TimeSkip: Issue #32 takes place five years after the previous issue and wouldn’t you guess, a lot has happened. |
52 | * TimeTravelRomance: This is the answer to the mystery of [[spoiler:why Celeste married Gus]]; they met and fell in love in the 1950s — she had to return to her own time and he had to [[TheSlowPath just wait for her]]. |
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