Line #34 FanFic/DoctorShikigamisMonster


1	The Avengers' Chicago Branch has been established and the crisis of the Fourth of the July is in the past. Chicago is slowly getting back to normal, but being a hero in the Windy City is still busy work. And that's also the case for Michiru "Dr. Shikigami" Kururugi.
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3	Dr. Shikigami has been given a special assignment by Mari "Captain America" Makinami; to grow a [[{{Franchise/DragonBall}} senzu plant]] for the Extraordinary Avengers. However, even for someone bearing the title of Sorcerer Supreme, growing one of these mystical plants is easier said than done.
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5	''[[http://orionpax09.deviantart.com/art/Dr-Shikigami-s-Monster-640660190 Dr. Shikigami's Monster]]'', is part of the ''Fanfic/CoreLine'' SharedUniverse.
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7	Currently under construction. Please add tropes as you see them!
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9	Warning! Contains '''''massive''''' spoilers for the climax of ''Rise''.
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13	!!This story has the following Tropes:
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15	* AirventPassageway: It's tried, but the Monster filled them first.
16	* AppropriatedAppellation: The titular name for the Senzu plant is just something that Sokka said sarcastically in passing while the Avengers were dealing with its infestation. The name just happened to stick, to Michiru's annoyance.
17	* BackgroundMagicField: Xanth has one of significant strength, boosting Michiru's powers beyond his control.
18	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Mari made it clear to Dr. Shikigami that she wanted him to grow a big senzu plant that would produce lots of beans. [[spoiler: He succeeded.]]
19	* ChickMagnet: Michiru mentally lampshades how alts of him tend to have a lot of feminine attention. In addition to his relationship with Nova Sango and a more humanoid Kirara, his musing has him citing an alt of him that was granted the powers of [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] who married his world's [[Manga/AhMyGoddess Urd, Peorth, and Lind]], and his Shikigami Ranger alt's ''massive'' harem.
20	* ClothingDamage: Washu's clothes are rags by the time the battle with the Monster is over.
21	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Yamcha/Werewolf By Night's past is extremely bad, to the point that Korin instantly changes his mind about the senzu plant after seeing what happened in his world when they lost it and didn't have a backup.
22	* DayInTheLimelight: This story focuses entirely on Michiru "Dr. Shikigami" Kururugi and his efforts to grow a senzu plant.
23	* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: When in {{Literature/Xanth}}, the BackgroundMagicField means that Michiru's already prodigious magical strength is amplified to the point that when a shadow clone of him casts his ''weakest'' attack spell, it becomes an incredibly destructive blast that blows up and ''melts'' a group of trees.
24	* {{Expy}}[=/=]ShoutOut: The moment where Mari screws up the spell completely wouldn't look out of place in an episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory Dexter's Laboratory]]''.
25	* GoneHorriblyRight: Trope invoked by name when Mari sees the results of Michiru's experiment [[spoiler:that she had accidentally tampered with]].
26	* GreenThumb: Turns out the Michiru has considerable talent for plants, and has a garden filled with all sorts of unusual ones gathered from across the Core Timeline.
27	* HeelFaceTurn: Michiru goes to meet a Poison Ivy alt who had one in Gotham, but a villainous alt takes her place.
28	* HulkingOut: Washu uses some Franchise/{{Popeye}} 'verse spinach to do this when the Monster erupts.
29	* LateArrivalSpoiler: Mari's conversation with her Uncle Steve drops several large spoilers for "Rise".
30	* MesACrowd: Michiru knows the Shadow Clone Jutsu, which he uses to gather what he needs all at once.
31	* NoKillLikeOverkill: Michiru travels all over Coreline to find the perfect fertilizers for the senzu plant, then combines them into one mix. He lampshades this later, asking Mari to stop him in the future if he ever tries throwing his most powerful stuff at a new plant he's trying to grow right from the start.
32	* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Lampshaded with the senzu plant. Despite how useful the beans were, only two existed, both alternate versions of the same plant.
33	* PlaceOfPower: Xanth. Even a shadow clone, with a fraction of his full strength, is so boosted that Michiru's ''least'' powerful attack spell obliterates a copse of trees.
34	* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Michiru is doing his best to avert this, though the trope name is mentioned.
35	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Mana and Michiru vamoose when an ogre shows up while they're collecting dragon dung in {{Literature/Xanth}}. This for good reason. Not only are Michiru's powers too boosted to be controllable (see DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength entry), but the typical Xanthian ogre is [[SuperStrength incredibly strong,]] [[DumbMuscle extremely stupid,]] [[MirrorCrackingUgly ugly enough to curdle milk by scowling at it,]] [[OurOgresAreHungrier and has a nasty habit of crunching the bones of any monsters]] [[ImAHumanitarian or people he might find.]]
36	* SpannerInTheWorks: When Mari gets too close to the newly sprouted senzu plant, her shield causes the spells on the senzu plant to boost out of control.
37	* SquishyWizard: Turns out that Michiru is an aversion, as he uses his magic to exercise his muscles and is thus in good shape. And if that isn't enough, especially if he's facing super-humanly tough enemies, just look at the SuperStrength entry below.
38	* SuperStrength: Michiru knows a variation of the binding spell, ''Crimson Bands of Cyttorak''. This allows him to temporarily take on the power of Cyttorak. As in the same entity whose ruby empowers ''Juggernaut''. A Poison Ivy alt and her Bane puppet find this out to their dismay when he visits Gotham.
39	* TakeThat: A meta reason for the senzu plant being grown is the author's dislike for how no one's ever grown more than one plant despite how ''insanely'' useful they can be.
40	* UnderestimatingBadassery: A Poison Ivy alt expects Michiru to be another SquishyWizard. Oh, how wrong she is...
41	* YouDontWantToKnow: In order to convince Korin to teach them how to grow senzu plants, Yamcha demands that Korin read his mind to see what happened when they lost the senzu plant in his native universe. After Korin does so, he is so horrified that Yajirobe demands to know just how bad it could possibly be. Korin tells Yajirobe that he should pray he never finds out how bad.

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