Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving: They get chewed out regularly after their little adventures. Whateley Academy is not a 'superhero school', but a school for mutants to learn to control their powers, and as such mutants are not supposed to be fighting crime until they are eighteen (and legally deputized in their chosen city or region).
A Shared Suffering: the original six characters (plus Bladedancer, Carmilla, and Heyoka) are all transgendered in some way, some of them because of their powers, so they have a commonality.
Author Appeal: oh definitely. Most of the canon authors have written other TG fiction.
Back Story: Every main character except Lancer has a novella or novel for this.
Badass Crew: high school freshmen who have already fought The Necromancer and his Children of the Night? And won? Very badass.
Mundane Utility: she's constantly using her Ki powers to do things like dry off after a shower, or mop the floor faster.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome and Noodle Incident. Her fall combat final, against a brick, a giant, and a deviser/wizard, with a tornado and an earthquake thrown in for good measure.
Polyamory: She's dating Thunderbird (male) and also Riptide (female). Thunderbird doesn't know about Riptide yet. Riptide is lesbian and not happy about Thunderbird.
Power Fist: that's what the Christmas present is for.
Red Oni: To Chou's Blue, as well as to Nikki's — except when Nikki loses her temper.
Arbitrary Skepticism: Fey is possessed with the spirit of an incredibly old Faerie, and yet she consistently pooh-poohs Phase's idea that some of the (far younger) Greek Gods have come back and are now at Whateley Academy.
Pardon My Klingon: she sometimes curses in languages that haven't been spoken in millennia.
Playing with Fire: She once seduced the element of fire and had it do her bidding. She doesn't do this again, since the process is pretty embarrassing and the one time was an extreme emergency.
So Beautiful, It's a Curse: it's literally a curse, since Word Of God says her glamour is due to the ancient Faerie wards that still provide protection.
Superpower Lottery: oh, yeah. She's one of the most powerful Wizard-type mutants on earth, and she has the spirit of an ancient Faerie Queen to teach her spells.
Weaksauce Weakness: To cold iron and, to a lesser degree, synthetic materials. Yes, she can be defeated by lingerie. Now that's a Kryptonite Factor.
Hank Declan (Lancer)
Absurdly Sharp Blade: He can create these by covering paper swords with his PK field.
Deal with the Devil: she has a demon mark from the Star Stalker, and its implied this has something to do her new regeneration ability. Interestingly neither Jade nor Tennyo know about this, though Sara has figured it out and told Fey. The upshot is that she'll literally do anything for Tennyo, to the point that she's thought that if Tennyo killed her the thing she'd be most worried about is making sure Tennyo didn't feel guilty.
Grand Theft Me: a variant when Tansy used her avatar powers to steal one of the copies of Jade. Since she can cast herself into living things as well, it's likely that she could also do this to people.
Happy Fun Ball: Her Kitty Compact. Shroud is also somewhere between this and Swiss Army Weapon: she looks like a girl, who suddenly sprouts chains blades and liquid nitrogen.
Healing Factor: She gets this from Tennyo -or rather, the Star Stalker- while they're inside the BIT-Splicer together. Along with a demon mark from Tenyo that neither of them know about.
Interspecies Romance: With Thuban, who usually looks like a humanoid dragon. As she will readily tell you, his scales are soft when they kiss.
Japanese Honorifics: She uses these sometimes, addressing Tennyo as 'oneesama' for instance, or Chaka as 'Chaka-sempai'.
To clarify, most characters who have had to kill someone were upset about it to Heroic BSOD levels. Jade has killed dozens of people using a telekinetic lawnmower blade, by literally chewing through them in Killer Rabbit mode, and by raising an army of telekinetic zombies. And...she's fine with it. She also has a rather worrying fondness for weaponry and routinely carries dozens of varieties of high explosives.
Tagalong Kid: She's actually the same age as most of the others, but naturally comes across as one of these, especially since she lacks raw power and usually plays supporting roles in combat (not counting her 'other selves' like Shroud, since they pretend that they're completely separate beings).
Technical Pacifist: Also referred to as 'NRA pacifism': She alternates between wearing a pacifist armband and an ultraviolent armband. Randomly. Her point is that you should avoid violence whenever you can. But if you can't, deploy overwhelming force. She considers it Mama Bear training.
All of the Other Reindeer: She's ostracised because people hear 'Section 33' and think 'dangerous, homicidal, wantonly-murdering psychopath'. Those who get to know her usually quite like her.
Anime Hair: It literally follows its own personal gravity. Her flight powers work on a similar principle.
Glowing Eyes of Doom / Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her irises sometimes go red when she's very angry. But actually, it's when they glow green that you really need to start worrying — that's when she's channeling the Star Stalker.
Person of Mass Destruction: Her higher end powers generate hard radiation as a side effect. And if the Star Stalker starts to come out, just existing causes her to start damaging reality.
Reality Warper: While most of her powers are ultimately based in this (for example, flying by ignoring gravity and manipulating her acceleration), they don't normally go into reality-rending territory unless she loses control of them.
The Woobie: In 'Ayla and the Great Shoulder Angel Conspiracy, Part 5/6', her memories of being the Star Stalker are unlocked. As a result, she remembers the millions of people the Star Stalker killed, and because she's got it stuck in her, she ends up believing that she, Billie, killed them.
Ayla Goodkind (Phase)
All of the Other Reindeer: A huge number of people ostracise him for being a Goodkind, or for being intersexed.
'Ayla and the Mad Scientist' has even more people ostracise him after rumours spread that he personally kicked Chou off the team.
Characterization Marches On: A variation. There's the Ayla before Diane Castle started writing for him and the Ayla after. Chronologically though, they exist simultaneously, due to the fact that the Diane Castle version is basically a Retcon via Alternate Character Interpretation.
Laser-Guided Karma: Has incredibly harsh things to say about his sister's choice to transition. About five minutes later he takes off the jumpsuit he was imprisoned in and finds out he's on the same path.
Never Live It Down: Fireball. Phase turned her into a monster by trashing her BIT (accidentally), and keeps thinking about it despite the fact that he never intended to do it and despite the number of Exemplars he did the same thing to, none of them got their BI Ts trashed.
He likes Brass Monkey (an alternative band) that the majority of other characters hate. They never stop bitching at him about it.
The One Guy: Him and Hank, but Hank is the only one who actually looks male.
Self-Deprecation: Ayla constantly puts himself down, especially in the field of fighting- the rest of Team Kimba are so good he feels he's at a major disadvantage. Never mind the fact that he beat Chaka, nearly beat Lancer, beat Tennyo, and has managed to either win, get even if he didn't win, or get out of every fight he's been in. He's also one of the most potentially destructive members of Team Kimba.
Uncle Pennybags: He thinks nothing of spending money on his friends (when they allow it), or on anything he sees as a good cause. Justified, especially after 'Ayla and the Birthday Brawl', when he's the richest teenager on the planet minus some who are going to inherit fortunes.
Ki Attacks: She mostly uses her Ki for mobility: moving a great distance with a single stride, jumping, and sometimes Wall Crawling. She's starting to use it for healing, and once she used it to induce a heart attack.
Hollywood Nerd: Dressed up like a Type 2 in an attempt to look more professional for the Weapons Fair. Phase lampshaded the whole concept and speculated that she'd draw in a larger crowd if she just wore her super-suit.
Never Live It Down: In-universe, every time she blows something up. Phase doesn't want to fund her because of this.
Stuff Blowing Up: Happens a lot with her. Her creations are known for going spectacularly wrong, earning her the nickname "Explosion Queen" around the Workshop.
Half-Human Hybrids: Genetically, she's all demon, but her mother was human. Okay, her mother is actually a Deep One, but she was human when she gave birth to her.
Lesbian Vampire: Technically not a vampire, or a lesbian for that matter, though she does seem to prefer girls. She's clearly meant to evoke this, though; her codename is an obvious reference to thatCarmilla.
Super Speed: Via time-slowing. At first it appeared to just be enhanced reflexes experienced through a Bullet Time-like effect, but it turned out she could move at 'normal' speed while everything else was slowed down.
Vampiric Draining: She drains the blood and life force from the creatures she eats, which reduces them to ashes.
Impossibly Tacky Clothes: He intentionally dresses in the most hideous combination of clothes that he can find, to the point that it's a weapon. That poor, poor mook.
Berserk Button: Sharisha insulting Chaka and Fey and carelessly outing them in the process was enough to make her cross the room and slap her before either of the other two could pull themselves together enough to react.
Split Personality: Ryan and Sandra both cooperate, and claim that it's more like a "dual processor" than an actual case of this trope. However, they do have notably different mannerisms.
"Okay. We’re the kids of some of the biggest villains in the world. Wealth and power undreamt of by mortal man. And so far our ambitions include solving roommate problems, patent development, the possible destruction of the world, and covering the campus in concrete to turn it into a giant skate park."
In the Blood: She's constantly harassed by people who believe that she's a supervillain because her father is, or who blame her for the death of a loved one.
Psychic Block Defense: Her father bound a devil to her soul, which influenced her PK shield. It's also proven to be an effective defense against psychics- one tried to read her and freaked out.
Rules Lawyer: As the daughter of Dr Diabolik, she knows damn well that the law will get her on anything wrong she does, so she learns all the laws so she knows her rights in any circumstance. It's helped her out a few times.
Affably Evil: Sometimes. He may be one of the least likeable people on campus, but he does try, in his own condescending way, to be polite and reasonable. Of course, since he's lacking in empathy, his good intentions are seldom well-received.
Ayla: You think that he’d try to cheat me and screw me over?
Jadis: No, I think that he would screw you over in complete honesty and sincerity.
Badass Bookworm: More so after his transformation, which boosted his physical attributes.
Baleful Polymorph: He's suffering from this himself due to the lab accident mentioned below, but aside from that, he's notorious for having done this to other students.
Code Name: More or less the only aversion: His official code name is simply "Jobe Wilkins" (he doesn't need one, nobody's going to go after his family).
Faux Affably Evil: On a couple of occasions, when he's lectured people who were being affected by Body Horror he caused himself.
Geek Physique: Despite having received martial arts training from a young age, his original body was not in the best of shape.
Pet the Dog: He defended his old roommate, Oak, a few times.
Ayla also noted that he created an effective vaccine for dysentery that was estimated to save nearly a million lives a year and donated it to the Gates Foundation for free.
Unreliable Narrator: Due to his ego, his viewpoint can be highly slanted at times. One memorable scene in "The Second Book of Jobe" had him convinced that Jadis was madly in love with him, and interpreting everything she did or said accordingly.
Malachi "Mal" Diabolik (Techno-Devil)
Affably Evil: He is planning to join the villain business...
Crowning Moment of Funny: When she gets psychically whammed by Bliss, who induces happiness, her reaction is to scream 'I'm happy! The bitch must DIE!'
Bishōnen: He claims that one of the reasons his girlfriends always break up with him is because "They don't like not being the pretty one in the relationship."
Five Stages of Grief: The other Bad Seeds have their own set of these for him getting over a breakup. They're more or less the same ones, but in a slightly different order.
Token Good Teammate: While the Bad Seeds are not (for the most part) actually bad people, she's the only one that would never be mistaken as the villainous sort. This is partially due to her sweet nature, and partially to a protective charm her father placed on her that keeps people from making the mental connection between "girl who hangs out with the Bad Seeds" and "daughter of a supervillain".
Really Was Born Yesterday: She's a cloned drow, so while she appears 16 and is treated as such by the administration, staff and students; chronologically she's 0.
Code Name: To date, the second aversion, together with her "mother" Jobe. On the other hand, this is probably because she's still working out who she is...
Ascended Extra: Sort of. She gradually grew in importance, until she eventually got her own one-shot, and then a very lengthy solo story that's actually fairly important to the main plot (As opposed to the early Lit Chix stories, which could be skipped without the reader missing anything of importance).
Conspiracy Theorist: Is convinced that Team Kimba has a long thought-out plan for taking over campus.
Familiar: A young silver fox named Boots (short for Slyboots).
Ms. Exposition: In "The Clue of the Unseen Switch". This is apparently a thing of hers; in "The Big Idea", she commented on Reach's speech with: "Wow, and I thought that I loved exposition!"
Man Behind the Man: She actually does a lot of the Don's work. In fact, The Don isn't the one who put Cavalier and Skybolt under mind control. She did that, using a thrall spell.
Power Incontinence - He lies about this to get out of trouble with enraged females (aside from those in authority, who presumably already know), but his X-ray vision is always on.
He Who Fights Monsters: During the Halloween fight, he killed a lot of attackers in the form of a giant monster. A lot of people were worried that he'd play the trope straight.
Never Live It Down: In-universe. In his freshman year, some guy tried to bully him. He responded by turning into a giant blob and consuming him. After security forced him to spit the guy out, he said - jokingly - that he was 'tasty'. Now people think he's a cannibal.
Sadist Teacher: Well, school administrator, anyway. Carson briefly mentioned her having actual clinical sadism, in such a way that it was difficult to tell if she was joking.
Doesn't Like Guns: Being a martial artist, he used to not use guns. Then one of his sparring partners beat him by pulling a gun on him in the training room and shooting him with a paint round. He got over his aversion to guns real fast, after that.
Base Breaker: Try asking the fanbase whether they think Englund should have expected the Syndicate to go back on their deal and invade the school. Half of them think that he couldn't have possibly seen it coming, and the other half think he should be crucified for letting them into the school.
Villain Decay: It's kind of hard to take the man seriously when he's lost to the same group of teenagers. Twice. May be Averted with the latest story. Only time will tell. Well, he's starting to get better, anyway.
Not helping is the recent introduction of Mimeo, Mephisto, and to a lesser extent Lady Jettatura, all villains much more competent and interesting than him.
Xanatos Gambit: He claims that his losses in Boston were him pulling these, but it comes off as a weak attempt to keep himself from looking bad. However, the Birthday Brawl features him masterfully executing several of these, making out like a bandit and only failing one of his many objectives — albeit, the most important ones.
The Smart Guy: Jadis also mentions that he has no patience with idiots.
Visionary Villain: He follows Timothy Leary's 'SMILE' concept (Space Migration, Increased Intelligence, Life Extension) and everything he does goes toward that aim.
Unreliable Narrator: We learn about him through a story that he's telling to an Intrepid Reporter. It's obvious from the beginning that he's biasing the narrative in his favor. Then at the end, he reveals that most of what he said was made up, with enough of it true that it will pass scrutiny should someone like Doctor Amazing dig the details out of said reporter's mind.
Xanatos Gambit: More or less every scheme he's ever pulled.
Captain Ersatz: It's made blatantly obvious from the moment he's introduced that he's a Superman equivalent. "Razzle-Dazzle" makes it even more obvious, revealing that he started out only with super strength and the ability to jump really far, but gained powers like flight and heat vision as he absorbed more power from his enemies — in other words, he followed the same progression the real Superman did.
Kryptonite Factor: The original Champion believed that his powers could be negated by a substance called "Tartareum." No such substance exists; his reaction to "Tartareum" (That is to say, any black chunk of rock that he thought was actually Tartareum) was purely psychosomatic. Unfortunately, this was only discovered after his death, and his first successor (who learned everything he 'knew' about his powers from the original) shared this weakness; later ones do not, although we still have to meet the modern Champion in an actual story.
Legacy Character: Champion's powers come from "The Champion Force," which can be passed on to someone else should he die. This has happened multiple times.
Weaksauce Weakness: See "Kryptonite Factor" above. Pretty much anyone who could convince the original Champion that a chunk of rock was tartareum could take advantage of his one weakness. He was finally killed with nothing more than a glass knife, because it was carved from black volcanic glass and both he and his nemesis were convinced that it was made of tartareum.
