Fanfic / Kill Them All

All Taylor Hebert wanted was a simple Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the local Nazis for killing her father in front of her. Unfortunately, this is Brockton Bay of Worm fame and that means she can't have nice things without tripping over endless violence, corruption, conspiracies, and eldritch stupidity. Fortunately, she's a Gamer, which means being able to develop the power to do something about all that!

This now-complete story by ShayneT can currently be found on the SpaceBattles forum HERE.

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Kill Them All (Worm-Gamer) provides examples of:

A-C

• A God I Am Not: She asserts this after accidentally convincing a lot of people that she is. The fact she can later raise the recently dead causes people to draw even more parallels. Not helping things is when she gains a power that increases all her abilities based on the number of people who worship her (though those who merely idolize or admire her also count, but not as much).
• Acquired Poison Immunity: Taylor's power rapidly gains resistance to any attack type used on her. Depending on the type, it might either reach 100% resistance and make her fully immune, or it might just hit 99.9% and start stacking more nines afterward. This frequently leads her to knowingly start fights with powerful foes and then strike a balance between letting them hit her hard enough to level up her resistance, vs dodging or blocking enough attacks to let her heal. She also gains actual poison immunity from a power, although it works on each poison after a single exposure, much to Mannequin's frustration.
  Taylor: I'm going to need you to stab me like that a few more times...A lot.
• All for Nothing: Cauldron puts in a lot of effort to not let Taylor get near enough to them to read their secrets out of their members' minds, and then Taylor accidentally (later revealed to be caused by Q) mis-jumps in time back to the Echidna fight and gets it all off the mind of an Alexandria clone. She then proceeds to go to Cauldron Earth via a door, and begin loading up on powers there, starting with Doormaker and Clairvoyant.
• Amazing Freaking Grace: Taylor picks this as one of the songs she uses to give humanity purpose of unity against Samael during the Final Battle.
• And Then What?: Played with. Initially Taylor assumed her crusade against the Empire would end with her dead so there was no need to plan for anything after it. When she realizes Danny could potentially be revived, she takes this as a goal. By the time she's preparing to fight Scion, Taylor states she has plenty of things to do afterwards.
• Appetite Equals Health: Literally, given the act of eating heals her HP. She doesn't otherwise need to eat, however, and once her regeneration scales up far enough, she only eats for enjoyment.
• Always a Bigger Fish: Taylor is usually the strongest being in any universe she visits. However, even after she defeats Leviathan she finds she can still be taken by surprise by vastly stronger beings. Such as when she met The Q. Or when she was sent to New Earth and realized that the top tier superbeings there are far more powerful than anything she's ever seen. She then arrives in the DC Universe during the fight against Doomsday and gets killed.
• Alternate Self: Thanks to Planeshifting between universes Taylor encounters several alternate versions of people, including The New Earth's version of herself, Adelaide Brooke's parents whose Hellsing versions died in the vampire invasion of London, and Carol Danvers from both the MCU and 616.
• A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Since gaining telepathy Taylor had noticed that what people say and what people want to say are rarely the same thing, that people tend to be two-faced and have an outer self that they show the world and an inner self where they keep the less pleasant aspects of their personality. She's noted that out of every mind she's ever read, only four people are as good on the inside as they are on the outside. Steve Rogers, Thomas Whitemore, Clark Kent and Fred Rogers.
• Arbitrarily Large Bank Account: Using her powers Taylor was able to find more and more ways to generate income. Including acquiring bounties and mining asteroids. She has access to at least two different Earths where gold and money has been rendered worthless and thus hers for the taking quite literally, giving her all the money in the world twice over. By the time she's simply able to create gold and other valuable resources out of thin air ^note like Latinum when dealing with a Ferengi she's more concerned about injecting too much gold into whatever world she's on's economy than she is about running out of funds.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: Despite everything she's gone through throughout the story, Taylor still remains skeptical of the idea of souls and the afterlife. Until her power starts giving her resistance to soul attacks.
• Armour-Piercing Question: Taylor launches several of these at the still rather racist parahuman known as Purity that gets the woman to seriously think about her past. Particularly when she asks her what she would have done if her beloved baby had been black.
• As Long as There Is Evil: Alessa claims that Samael is the primordial fear of the unknown inherent to all humans, and as such it can never be truly destroyed. Taylor rebuts this noting that ideas can be killed, it just requires a different approach.
• Assassination Attempt: Attempted by the Protectorate when Taylor was healing Bakuda's victims. Has also been attempted by The Fallen, and Nazi Vampires in Hellsing Ultimate.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: She really admired Alucard's look, and really taken to replicating it since realizing how good she looks in the red Armani suit she was given on Earth Het. Requesting multiple copies of the suit and a fedora to go with it in case they are destroyed during combat]. Which them becomes pointless when she gains transmutation and can just create new clothes out of nothing.
• Bait-and-Switch Comment: Taylor looms over Dennis' father in his hospital bed, and says menacingly, "This is for your son." Then heals him, grins, and says, "He's pretty cool, isn't he?"
• Berserk Button: Taylor has a small number of them. Harming anyone she considers her family or friends is the easiest way to send her into a homicidal rage, but attempting to harm children or innocent bystanders is another thing that will set her off. Several characters note that she's much more laid back about attacks on herself, possibly because she gets stronger from it.
  • She enrages Father Anderson to make him sloppy during their fight, by talking about the thing that South Park frequently makes fun of concerning priests. Unlike the other times she pushes someone's anger button, she later apologizes to him profusely, saying she didn't mean any of it.
  • Taylor pokes The Master's inferiority complex hard enough that she can get past his mental defenses.
  • She makes The Sentry sloppy by saying he's worthless. That he doesn't deserve the power he has. That he's just a drug addict living out a power fantasy who implanted memories of how awesome he was into the people that mattered rather than erase the memories of the world of him and uses a phony Superpowered Evil Side as an excuse to shift blame away from himself whenever he screws up.
• Big Bad: It's first thought that like most other Worm stories, canon included that the end goal would be taking out Scion. Which is true until Samael/Incubus, the God of Silent Hill takes control of him.
• Big Damn Heroes: Taylor's actions against the Alien Invasion are seen this way by the peoples of Earth Het.
• Blessed with Suck: Taylor's powers are not without their downsides.
  • Her power will occasionally inform her of changes in herself with biting sarcasm. Particularly her wisdom score.
  • She has no organs except a stomach and lungs. She worries about how human she is and worries if she's just a mass of skin all the way through.
  • Her Gamer's Mind gives her the same level of detachment as someone controlling a character on a screen. Muting her emotions to the point she worries she's a functional sociopath.
  • The Growth power increases her Strength and Constitution but reduces Dexterity, and unlike most such powers in fiction, the penalty increases rather than decreases with level. Since Dexterity governs not just speed but also reaction time, and almost all the truly powerful opponents are Lightning Bruisers, this is a problem if it goes on long enough.
• Blood Knight: Taylor herself counts as this, though she's mellowed a bit since the story started.
• Bloodless Carnage: Taylor's gamer body means she has no blood. No organs save for a pair of lungs she has all but made redundant. She has essentially become a solid mass all the way through. When Zoom punches a hole through her it's as bloodless as when it happened to characters in old cartoons.
• Both Sides Have a Point: As far as Taylor can tell, both the king of Tamaran and the leader of the rebellion are essentially honest and sincere in their fairly reasonable aims, so instead of taking a side in the civil war, she intimidates everyone into entering peace talks. (Even the Duke's Assassination Attempt on her has understandable motives.)
• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: When Madison asks Taylor how many people she's killed, Taylor asks whether she counts Nazis, vampires, or vampire Nazis.
  Taylor: Well, actually I think all the vampires I killed were Nazis actually, so no non-Nazi vampires.
• Break Them by Talking: The Sentry outclasses Taylor in almost every way for way too long a period of time before her escalation catches up for her liking. However, when she finds out his powers are tied to his confidence, she wastes no time verbally tearing him down until he's so sloppy that he forgets about how easily he could kill her until it's too late.
• Bribing Your Way to Victory: When Taylor comes across someone whose powers she wants but doesn't want to beat up, she'll offer them something they want in exchange for letting her copy their powers. Usually in the form of money but she'll gladly offer other forms of payment. She'll also offer such things in order to have villains give up a life of crime.
• Brick Joke:
  • After the ABB kills Kurt and Lacey, Taylor gets a quest to destroy the ABB. When she finally kills Lung after months of fighting, traveling between parallel universes and getting more and more powers, she gets the "Quest Complete!" message for that quest.
  • When Taylor lands in a dimension where it's still 1993, she idly wonders if Fred Rogers is still alive in this dimension. Skip forward several chapters and she finds herself being asked to heal a terminally ill girl in hospital, who just so happens to be being visited by Mr. Rogers.
• Bulletproof Human Shield: On two occasions, Taylor grabs the Juggernaut and uses him as a shield to block attacks she can't currently tank. He isn't amused.
• Bullying a Dragon: Anyone who knows what Taylor can do and deliberately attacks her anyway is guilty of this, but this also applies to the people who attacked the so-called cultists who were merely innocent civilians caught in the crossfire between Taylor and Mama Mathers. Yes, attack the not-quite-followers of a nascent godling who can see through the senses of those who have laid eyes on her and grant power. The attackers were lucky she was feeling merciful that day.
  • Defied in 'Coattails', which takes place after Taylor singlehandedly destroys Mars (by accident) and kills Behemoth. The President decides to rescind Taylor's Kill Order and drop all federal charges against her, and cautions his cabinet against doing anything against her. Save for one of them, they all agree with his suggestion.
• Buried Alive: Alabaster can't be killed by normal means. Taylor digs a grave in advance, then handcuffs him, throws him in, covers his legs with heavy rocks, and fills the grave with concrete, leaving him to Go Mad from the Isolation.
• The Bus Came Back: When Taylor fights Scion, she summons the help of every friend and ally she's made across all her travels that's able to assist her. Every hero. The Daleks, The Doctor, her Supergirl clone daughters and the Enterprise. With Alucard to strike the final blow.
• Calling Your Attacks: Loki calls Taylor out on this, but it appears to be a requirement for some of her powers.
• Canon Welding:
  • Taylor speaks with a Harvester Queen and learns the species lost their homeworld to an Entity and view destroying inhabited worlds as a means of denying them resources.
  • The Maltusians are an off-shoot of the Gallifreyans who chose to settle in a different universe.
• Cardboard Prison: Taylor was given a Kill Order because her ability to teleport between dimensions means she couldn't be trapped in the normally inescapable Birdcage. She even tells them that if they even tried all they'd be doing is showing her where she could acquire dozens of new powers all in the same place by killing every prisoner inside.
• Chekhov's Boomerang: Taylor inventories Helena's Nail from Father Anderson when they meet. Several jumps later when trying to figure out how to dispose of a demon's remains, Taylor pulls out the Nail, which destroys the remains completely. It then goes back into her inventory, emerging a second time to destroy Samael.
• Chekhov's Gunman: During the war between the Empire and the ABB, Lung goes missing. It later turns out that the Yangban managed to capture him as part of their plan to force Taylor into the Yangban.
• Clothing Damage: This happens now and then to Taylor, though she only gets upset about it when it happens to her Armani clothing.
• Cloudcuckoolander: What many who hang around Taylor suspect her to be.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Before Taylor gains Telepathy, she relies heavily on this and her healing abilities to get answers and information from gang members. It's one thing to threaten death, but it's another to break someone's bones and heal them over and over.
• Combat Pragmatist: Taylor buys a book about knife-fighting techniques, but her main takeaway from it is that knife-fighting as such doesn't really exist, not in the way that martial arts do.
  If someone used a knife on you, they didn't want to fight you. They wanted to kill you. Knife fights were brutal and they tended to be short. Legally, they were attempted murder at best.
  If you were going to use a knife, it meant that you should use any dirty trick to stay alive.
• Combo Platter Powers: Taylor has an ever-increasing array of ever-strengthening skills and powers by virtue of taking powers from her opponents with their defeat, absorbing Skill Books, and using those abilities in combat.
  "What’s her rating now?" Battery asked.
  "Does it matter?" Tagg asked, exhausted. "Once you have Shaker, Mover and Trump ratings in in the 9+ range, there isn’t any point in regular PRT agents participating at all."
  • Adaptive Ability: Every time she gets injured her resistance to that certain kind of damage goes up, requiring more damage as a consequence to be able to hurt her at all. She also loses her need for air by staying in a vacuum for extended periods of time.
  • Armor-Piercing Attack: Phantom Weapon lets Taylor's attacks increasingly ignore resistances. She gained this from the Siberian, or technically William Manton.
  • Back from the Dead: If she dies she has a nearly fifty percent chance of reviving. She gained the initial power from Schrodinger and later enhanced it when she took out The Butcher. Gaining powers from a Time Lord like the Master also gives her the option to resurrect with a new appearance and personality if she so choses.
  • Bad with the Bone: Her Bone Garden ability is an Area Of Effect attack that causes the skeleton to turn into a macabre flower that kills them from the inside out. Gained from killing a Silent Hill monster version of Marquis.
  • Bloody Murder: The power to manipulate an increasing quantity of blood within a certain range of herself, and the ability to sense blood at ten times the range she can manipulate it.
  • Breath Weapon: Taylor can breathe fire. She gots the power from killing a Sundancer clone.
  • Brown Note: Mama Mathers' powers can be considered this if put to a more benevolent use. She is aware of anyone who sees her, and if she wishes and they let her, can also allow others to use some of her powers.
  • Dishing Out Dirt: A superhuman named Petra's defeat grants Taylor the power to literally move mountains once she's leveled it enough.
  • Elemental Powers: Taylor gains the ability to control all forms of energy after effortlessly killing Behemoth.
  • Energy Absorption: Touching Major Force's equivalent of blood gave her the ability to absorb energy.
  • Energy Weapon: Beating up Purity gave her powers similar to them.
  • Flying Brick: Taylor has become this due to her Flight, high Stats, and damage reduction abilities all working together.
  • Gathering Steam: All her powers and abilities temporarily grow a level every four seconds while she's fighting. She gets this power after killing Lung.
  • Good with Numbers: Beating Number Man lets her see the math behind everything without needing to do the actual math.
  • Gravity Master: Tapping Graviton with super strength granted her the power over one of the fundamental powers of the universe.
  • Hammerspace: Her Inventory counts as this. She can even pull in people into it, the time depending on how strong they are. She got the first part from the beginning, while she got the second half after touching Myrddin's blood during the Noelle fight.
  • Healing Factor: Taylor has the ability to regenerate her HP every four seconds. The amount healed depends on how high the level of her Regen is. She originally gained it from defeating Alabaster and it has been leveled by defeating others who also have a healing factor like Crawler or Captain Jack.
  • Healing Hands: Taylor has the ability to heal other people's injuries and diseases, as well as regrow missing limbs. She gained it from killing Othala, which was then expanded to be able to cure 'any' condition after helping heal an injured Panacea.
  • An Ice Person: Taylor has the ability to create and manipulate ice. She gained it from killing Frost Giants in the MCU.
  • The Immune: Taylor doesn't actually have biology anymore beyond a pair of lungs. She's immune to all forms of sickness and disease and can't transport any when she jumps between worlds.
  • Instant Armour: This ability gives Taylor a much more armored form of her own that reduces damage taken, at the cost of reducing Dexterity. She gains it from killing a Titan, then upgrades it to remove the dexterity penalty by killing Hookwolf.
  • Invisibility: Killing One of the Yangban gives her the power to turn invisible. Combined with her gas form she can turn into an invisible poison mist.
  • It Only Works Once: After killing Doomsday Taylor now gains a large percentage of resistance upon resurrection to whatever killed her.
  • Long-Range Fighter: Her "Far Strike" ability is an invisible ranged hit most used for when she wants to take down a single target at a distance rather than a crowd. Gained from trying to combine two different powers together.
  • Mad Scientist: Taylor has unchained Tinker abilities that allow her to create a lot of neat and terrifying things when she wishes to do so, and each individual specialty she has grows stronger with each new specialty she acquires much like when multiple tinkers work together on a single project. It's not solely limited to tinkers as she gains levels as long as the target has knowledge of suitably advanced technology, and if they have a specialty she already possesses she gains a generic level to all her tinkering. She gained it from defeating or killing Bakuda, Squealer, Manequinn, Blasto, Cask, Leet, four members of Toybox, The Master, a Dalek, Davros, a Psion, and a Dominator.
  • Making a Splash: Taylor has the ability to manipulate, create, and direct water within her radius, as well as pull water out of living people. She gained it from killing a member of The Fallen named Dagon, and improves enormously after she kills Leviathan.
  • Master of Illusion: Taylor acquires the power to create immersive illusions from killing Zorin Blitz.
  • Master of None: Leet's power gives allows her to do any form of tinkering she doesn't have a specialty in, but at one level lower than the forms she 'does' have a specialty in.
  • Matter Replicator: She copies the most useful ability of the Firestorm matrix and can now transmute one form of matter into another. She demonstrates by turning glass into gold. It later becomes useful when, after killing Leviathan, she goes to the Star Trek verse and transforms moon dust into latinum to buy a ship.
  • Mind Manipulation: Her raid on Heartbreaker and some of his children granted her the ability to manipulate emotions and plant posthypnotic suggestions in others ^note  Up to a year at a range, or permanently while in physical contact.
  • Mind over Matter: Taylor's telekinesis has been used in some manner since she gained the ability. She often uses it to carry people along with her, but she's used it to distract, disarm, and even kill. She gained it from killing Rune.
  • My Significance Sense Is Tingling: The Master gives her the ability to sense fixed points in time and Time Lords if they're in the'universal' radius of her teleport range.
  • The Needless: Her Gamer Body could only be considered human in the loosest sense. She doesn't need to eat, barely needs to sleep, and later on, loses her need to even breathe.
  • No-Sell: The Gamer's Mind ability makes her immune to all forms of mental corruption and influence.
  • Our Werewolves Are Different: This ability allows Taylor to transform into a quicker and stronger wolf form. She gained it from killing the Nazi Werewolf Captain.
  • Playing with Fire: Taylor has the ability to create and control fire for miles. She originally gained the ability from killing Burnscar. She later gets an upgrade to hellfire, by beating a demon.
    It was an abomination against the very fabric of the universe, but I had to admit that it was useful.
  • Portal Door: Beating Doormaker improves her blink and plane shift to allow her to create portals to anywhere in her teleport range or between dimensions she has a full affinity for. As of the latest chapters she can open a portal two million miles wide
  • The Power of Glass: Taylor has the ability to manipulate glass at will within her radius. She gained it from killing Shatterbird.
  • The Power of Friendship: Sort of literally. Gaining power from Brother Blood gives all of Taylor's abilities a boost in relation to how many people worship her. While gaining less of a boost from people who merely idolize or look up to her.
  • The Power of the Sun: Taking a drop of blood from Cyborg-Superman gives her a massive boost to all her physical stats, flight, energy-based powers, and escalations effect in relation to everything effected by this power go from doubling to quadrupling, all as long as she's spent enough time in sunlight. A drop of Starfire's blood doubles this effect.
  • Reality Warper: Beating down Sentry physically and mentally gave her the power to alter the fabric of the universe to suit herself within a one-foot radius.
  • Rubber Man: While fighting some rather underwhelming bad guys she gets an ability to stretch her limbs she isn't very impressed by.
  • Seeing Through Another's Eyes: Taylor has the ability to create literal floating eyes she can see through. Amusingly, she can also use Telepathy as well to do this, but it's not as useful as the floating eyes are. She gained it from killing Crusader, and then got an upgrade via killing Mama Mathers, one of the leaders of The Fallen.
  • Shock and Awe: Taylor finally gains the ability to fire bolts of electricity in chapter Trust.
  • Sizeshifter: With this ability, Taylor can grow taller depending on how leveled the power is, and it increases her strength while lowering her speed. She gained it from killing a Titan. Its negatives were reduced by defeating Giganta and later enhanced with the ability to grow further by absorbing pollution and radiation after defeating Chemo.
  • The Sleepless: Taylor technically doesn't need to sleep, but it's been noted that she does make better decisions when she takes time to rest. She has gained resistance to this need and needs only half the amount of time she did previously to feel refreshed.
  • Speak of the Devil: The power she gains from Clairvoyant gives her the ability to hear anybody saying her name within her now intergalactic teleport range, or see and hear anything she focuses on within it.
  • Spider-Sense: Taylor can grant others a Danger Sense that warns the recipient of incoming attacks and providing additional Dexterity while debuffing attackers' Dexterity. She later becomes able to benefit from it herself. She gained it from killing a member of the Fallen.
  • Stealthy Teleportation: Taylor can appear anywhere, anytime she feels like it without warning, and her speed makes this insanely effective in combat and spying the few times she's used it as such.
  • Storm of Blades: Taylor has the ability to summon knives and other sharp objects to injure and kill her opponents. She gained it from killing Kaiser.
  • Super-Empowering: Taking out Null lets her divide her powers among others. Rather than seeing this as a negative, she realizes she could use this to continue gaining resistance by weakening them instead of having to find increasingly more dangerous ways to hurt herself, and it also becomes useful in letting her give those powers she's not using to those that could need them.
  • Super-Intelligence: Beating up The Master causes her gives her the ability to think twice as fast as before with each level. It also unlocks her Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma stats allowing her to now upgrade them much like she does strength and constitution.
  • Super-Scream: Taking out Banshee lets her use her voice as a deadly weapon.
  • Super-Senses: Created originally from a Kelpian Borg and enhanced by several species of zombie birds Taylor gained enhanced vision. Increases her ability to make out details many times farther than she originally could, lets her see in low light clearly, and see further into the color spectrum than human vision normally can.
    • She later gains enhanced smelling from a Zombie guard dog. Though handy, a room full on dead bodies and rotting flesh was not the best place to suddenly be able to smell things better.
  • Super-Strength: Her physical strength doubles with every five points she gets in the stat. Thanks to the ability she gained from Cyborg Superman she gains +20, a sixteen times multiplier on top of her current base strength as long as she is or has recently been in direct sunlight.
  • Supernatural Fear Inducer: Dealing with Asylum left her with the power to pull others into a supernatural dimension that induces fear.
  • Taken for Granite: Taking down The Marvel Villain Gorgon gave her the classic 'stone stare'.
  • Telepathy: Taylor has been using this ability nonstop since she got it to get an idea of what people are truly planning and whether she can trust them. She gained it from killing alien invaders.
  • Teleportation: Her Blink ability started off nearly useless, but after her time in the Independence Day universe now she can report from Earth to Mars in only a few jumps, and now between stars in what it would have taken to move between Earth and Mars. She originally gained it from killing insane clones of Vista, but has gained improvements to it via practice and other defeated and killed enemies with teleportation powers - as of harvesting Warp, her range now exceeds the borders of the universe and defeating any further similar enemies levels her portal creation instead.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: Swiping some of Martian Manhunter's blood allows her to control her body's form and density.
  • Weather Manipulation: Defeating Storm of the X-men granted her the power to directly control the weather. Rather than just move clouds about via hydrokinesis
  • X-Ray Vision: A Yangban member gives her the ability to see through objects.
• Comedic Underwear Exposure: Armsmaster is in a meeting with Piggot and Clockblocker after his failed assassination attempt on Taylor when she shows up to kidnap him. She leads by inventorying his armor, revealing that he wears Dragon-branded boxers.
• Comically Missing the Point: When Loki makes a quip about Taylor trying to appease her father for making a mountain of corpses so she wouldn't be grounded for life, she starts to respond that it would only be a 'small hill' before stopping and realizing that it likely would be a literal mountain of corpses given the alien invaders she killed.
• Could Say It, But...: When a Corrupt Cop and his scared rookie partner try to interrupt Taylor's healing, she makes it clear that she hasn't threatened to "explode your head, turn your genitals into mush, or make bones explode out of your inside to turn you into a weird living bone structure."
• Creative Sterility: Other species have already learned to overcome the entropy the entities hope to overcome themselves by ascending to higher forms and planes of existence. The entities however aren't creative enough to even consider that possibility and focus on the physical universe.
• Cruel Mercy: Taylor promises not to kill two ABB thugs, in return for giving her information. She keeps that promise when she finds them dismembered and crucified in Silent Hill, choosing not to Mercy Kill them.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Many, but her fights with the Slaughterhouse Nine, the Harvesters and Behemoth are especially notable.
• Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: Taylor warns Loki to keep her mind reading confidential, "Or I will cut your brain out of your head, keep it in a jar, and try to put a computer in your brain to run your body."
  Loki: That’s oddly specific.
  Taylor: Well, I can manage a brain transplant. But the computer thing will be the real challenge.
• Cutting the Knot: Taylor prefers to take the most direct route to solve her problems. Once she gains telepathy and teleportation she uses them to solve most of the problems she encounters as quickly as possible.

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• The Dead Have Names:
  • In "Interlude: Eidolon", the Internal Reveal sprang on Eidolon causes him to start recalling the parahumans who died fighting the Endbringers who had blurred together in his mind previously.
  • Taylor knows she can't save the victims of Pompeii, but she makes herself listen to their minds and learn their stories.
• Deadpan Snarker: Loki and Vista tend to be this for Taylor as they travel about.
• Defiant to the End: General Wei Chen can't stop Taylor, he just screams out, "May your ovaries explode and cause you a long and agonizing death!" Taylor is bemused.
  Taylor: I don't have any, and I’m not sure that would kill me anyway, even though internal attacks do a lot more damage. I wonder if that’s something I could try on someone else?
• Deity of Human Origin: After defeating Samael and the Simurgh and thus gaining their powers, Taylor becomes this.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: The world's reaction to Taylor removing the Simurgh from Earth Bet and later killing Leviathan.
• Dirty Mind-Reading:
  • Taylor is mildly put off by all the smut she sees in people's minds. She blames the internet for making things worse after seeing a few pre-internet worlds.
  • Clockblocker spends a significant amount of time worrying about this. Having seen Taylor fighting in the nude and now knowing she can read minds, he's worried he'll think about her butt when he sees her and then she'll read his mind and see he's thinking about her butt. Shadow Stalker, of all people, reassures him, by pointing out that if Taylor was upset by it, he would already know.
• Doomed New Clothes: Taylor tanks an attack she knows can't hurt her, realizing too late that she's still wearing her brand new Armani.
• Dramatic Irony:
  • Upon first finding herself a home base, Taylor resolves to clean the place up, because she hates bugs.
  • She initially uses the pseudonym "Emma Hess" when applying for a part-time job, chosen because it's "the two worst people I knew" and would therefore help her not to get too comfortable. The restaurant manager, working in Empire territory, is pleased with "Hess" being a good strong German name. Double irony points because Sophia Hess is dark-skinned.
  • Contessa is actually aware that Eidolon has self esteem problems, but hasn't bothered running a Path to fix them.^note Unbeknownst to her, those problems are what has created the Endbringers.
  It didn’t seem important as long as he was able to do his job.
• Dynamic Entry: After Taylor defeats Chemo on Mercury, Lobo blindsides her.
• Dying Race: Scion's species. Their cycles don't actually work all that often, since there is an unusually high risk of encountering something that can kill them.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Taylor really didn't mean to punch Behemoth so hard that she shattered Mars into a thousand pieces, honest.
• Emotion Eater: Samael feeds on the fear of its victims and subjects. Its apparent "tests" are just ways of torturing them to garner more fear and kill those who might disrupt its plans.
• Even More Omnipotent: It is implied that whoever or whatever empowered Taylor (later revealed to be Gaia) is this, because even Q with all his power says that turning her into an amoeba won't Depower her.
• Everyone Has Standards: Taylor is appalled at how the CUI put a Tinkertech nuke in the same region where they have been forcing their minorities to live, planning to use it as an excuse to go to war against Russia or India.
• Everything Sensor: The sensors on the small spaceship Taylor got from The Federation have an extremely large range that she uses to scan for survivors in some of the post-apocalyptic worlds she visits, along with finding criminals and those she wants to "Harvest".
• Exact Words:
  I saw two familiar figures crucified on one of the metal fences. They were Asian, and somehow, they were still alive. It looked as though their bodies had been ripped apart from the waist down, and I could see part of both of their spines.
  I floated down to where they could see me.
  “It’s really too bad you got me to promise not to kill you,” I said. “You wouldn’t be wall decorations at least.”
• Fate Worse than Death: Since Alabaster is kind of hard to kill due to his power (which regenerates him completely every few seconds), Taylor ties him down and throws him into a pitch that she later fills with concrete.
  • Taylor has twice promised villains that she would set their bodies to float through space. Crawler to put in an And I Must Scream situation, and Lung when she pokes what little faith in a higher power he has by promising he will never meet his ancestors in the afterlife.
• Fiction 500: If wealth had a power rating Taylor's would say "Yes". Due to her sole access to asteroids she can mine for precious metals, access to other worlds where hundreds of thousands of tonnes of gold has been rendered worthless and free for the taking and the power to turn anything into any precious material she needs in the off chance they don't use gold, Taylor basically has access to infinite money.
• First-World Problems: When The New Earth version of Taylor Hebert retorts that she has problems just like her, Taylor points out that a wishing she was shorter or having a boy she likes dating someone else is not exactly on the same level as having both her parents dead or her world slowly dying.
• Flat-Earth Atheist: Taylor does not believe in magic or souls. It actually doesn't help that she's encountered nigh-omnipotent, almost omniscient extra-dimensional beings that could very well be gods. When confronted with the idea that souls and an afterlife might actually exist at least in some dimensions, it nearly makes her freak out.
• Flat "What":
  • Taylor's casual mentions of mass murders, dimension-hopping, and zombie plagues that totally weren't her fault tend to draw double-takes.
    Everyone seemed to have that response to things I said. It was weird.
  • She can sometimes be on the other side, though, such as when she learns that there is an alternate Taylor Hebert in the DC universe — with living parents.
• Flipping the Bird:
  • Taylor's is unimpressed by Alucard implying that her being a teenage American makes it unlikely she's a virgin.
  • She's also rather surprised when Loki flips her off; she didn't realise that he even knew that gesture.
• Foreshadowing: Eidolon angrily showing his jealousy of Taylor after she single-handedly destroys the CUI and takes over China foreshadows Leviathan's attack on China.
• Fountain of Youth: When using energy absorption to drain off the temporal energy of Grey Boy bubbles, the energy overflows her ability to store it and it ends up splashing out randomly de-aging some PRT agents several years. To drain it away safely she starts visiting the elderly and, after using telepathy to decide who wouldn't waste a second chance, de-ages hundreds of seniors back into the prime of their life (give or take. She has a give or take ten years level of control. One senior wanted to be thirty again and she ended up twenty.)
• From Bad to Worse: Events on Earth Bet and the zombie world would be easy examples of this, though it should be noted that Taylor had no hand in the events that happened on the zombie world.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Taylor was an afterthought in her father's death; soon enough she's feared by the entire city, then the world. Multiple universes by the end.
• Full-Frontal Assault: Taylor's body is much tougher than her clothes so she frequently ends up fighting in the nude after having her clothes blasted, burned, or otherwise destroyed. She eventually finds a solution in her Reality Warper ability which lets her reverse any damage her clothes take.
• Gods Need Prayer Badly: Samael, the god of Silent Hill, came into existence from the fear of humans and is completely reliant on that fear to exist. Taylor is able to severely weaken it by restoring hope and courage to its victims.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Eidolon becomes very jealous of Taylor as her power grows. Foreshadows Leviathan's attack on China (which Taylor has taken over in the aftermath of her destroying the Chinese Union-Imperial.
  • It goes both ways between Taylor and a girl who is another version of herself. On one side the girl is jealous that Taylor is a super-powered hero, while Taylor is jealous that this other version of her has both her parents still alive and not poor, multiple friends who care about her, and she lives in a world that isn't slowly dying because the heroes almost always win. If Taylor could give up her powers in exchange for what this Taylor has in life, she'd probably do it.
• Groin Attack: Taylor has stabbed gang members in the groin, healed them, and then did it again for the information.
• Heel–Face Turn: Blasto has a pretty chequered history, but he can't resist an offer from Taylor to put him in charge of reviving a world, with her supplying the resources he needs to get started, and carte blanche on what he builds. By the end of the story, he's taken a nuclear-winter wasteland populated by cannibals and turned it into a green paradise.
• Heel Realization: Taylor has a habit of trying to cause these by showing people different versions of themselves from different worlds. Whether it's showing Carol Dallon a younger version of herself who never got kidnapped, or showing Captain Marvel (2019) Carol Danvers the 616 version of herself. It fails to really impact Carol Dallon in any meaningful way while Carol Danvers is so disgusted with the other version of herself that it really opens her eyes to the kind of person she could have become if she decided she knew better than anyone else.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Taylor's reputation in her homeworld is... less than positive. It's far better in most of the worlds she's visited, particularly Harvester Earth and Cannibal Earth.
• Hijacked by Ganon: Once Taylor learns about Scion, defeating him becomes her main goal. Things go sideways when Samael, the sleeping god in Silent Hill, uses Alessa and the Simurgh to first tempt Scion and then consume his dying shards to spread the mists across every universe.
• Hive Mind: Taylor has dealt with hostile invading aliens multiple times, and three times they've all had some form of hive-mind. By the time she encounters a fourth, albeit benevolent hive-mind, she lampshades how common they are in the alien races she encounters.
  • Subverted when Alucard reveals that the Butcher is not truly possessed by all the previous Butchers' souls, but rather they are all Shard created simulations of the past hosts.
• Holy Water: Blessed water can harm vampires.
• Hot Pursuit: Taylor's stolen and bullet-ridden car attracts police attention, but she's able to shake them off by getting briefly out of sight (around a corner) and then sending it to her inventory.
  He was expecting to be following a car; if he saw an empty car, he’d expect a fleeing fugitive, but as it was, he sped down the street without looking up.
• Humans Are Flawed: Taylor eventually comes to realize this, though even until the end of the story she can still be amazed at just how much good there is in even the most flawed human.
• Hypocrite: Alexandria calls Harvester a mass murderer and a crazy bitch, which is amusingly hypocritical and myopic given what Cauldron and Alexandria have been doing for several decades already.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Taylor does try to avoid genocide when reasonably feasible, but on the frequent occasions that she decides it's necessary, she doesn't apologise for it, even with billions of casualties.
  Taylor: Hard choices have to be made sometimes. And somebody has to make them.
• I Gave My Word: While Taylor seeks ever more powers to let her fight the Endbringers, she will not take by force from heroes or neutrals who don't consent to let her have them, even though she could easily use her illusion powers to make them think nothing's wrong while beating them up and immediately healing them afterward.
• Ignored Epiphany: Taylor keeps teetering on the edge of self-awareness regarding her actions and attitude towards others, often by comparison with someone else also driven by revenge, only to end up failing to join the dots.
• I Have Many Names: Taylor Hebert. Harvest. Oh God, it's her. The Tailor.^note Her Time-Lord moniker
• I Meant to Do That: According to The Doctor the reason that the Maltusians are short, bald, and blue is because of an error they made while becoming immortal, and they were too prideful to admit they didn't mean to do it.
• In Spite of a Nail: When Taylor seeks out the Doctor and the Master for help with a crisis in DC, she finds that they have regenerated into Eleven and Missy despite things going differently from canon.
• Internal Reveal: Taylor tells Eidolon he's the one that indirectly created the Endbringers due to his desire for strong opponents, and just as in canon, he's horrified. However, she actually wants him to send more of them, so that she can train up her resistances and absorb their powers.
• Irony: Taylor hates bugs.
• It's Personal:
  • The Empire chose to make it personal by killing Danny and trying to kill Taylor. Most of their capes only lived long enough to learn why they were being killed.
  • The ABB tries to hold Kurt and Lacey hostage and then kill them, which prompts Taylor to add this gang to her naughty list too.
  • At a later point, the Chinese Union-Imperial decides that the best way to force Taylor into the Yangban is to torture and kill the Dockworkers' Union. Cue Taylor becoming a mercenary for India in their war against China so she can legally massacre the Yangban and China's armies and military bases.
• Jailbait Taboo: Captain Marvel is weirded out by meeting the Supergirl clones.
  He was wondering if it was creepy that he was attracted to them when they were only a few days old, while he was a fifteen year old boy in the body of a thirty year old man.
• Jerkass Has a Point: After spending some time in 616-Marvel, Taylor realizes that as ham-handed as the PRT has been, there are good reasons for why they do what they do.
• Just Following Orders: Tagg invokes this to clear blame from Clockblocker, for freezing Harvest in the middle of healing people, resulting in two hundred preventable deaths. It's not very convincing.
  Dennis: I don't think that's been a defense for more than seventy years.
• Kangaroo Court: Clockblocker is quite upset about procedures being thrown out the window to obtain a kill order for Harvest.
  Piggot: There was a trial.
  Dennis: They signed off on it in less than six hours. That's not a trial, that's a lynching.
• Kill and Replace: The parents of Adelaide Brooke, who had been forced to let their universe think they were dead in order to save a fixed point in time, are taken to the Hellsing universe where versions of themselves died in the Vampire invasion and left behind another version of their daughter. Integra says she'll help them take over their counterparts' identities, daughter, and all while claiming trauma as the reason they look a different age.
• Kill Steal: On several occasions, Taylor is annoyed by external interference blowing up her fights and killing all her opponents. Even if she can easily survive the attack, it means missing out on the chance to harvest each one, and to level up her resistances. Bonesaw is a particularly egregious example, deliberately executed and the body burned before Taylor could get there, to deny her the extra power.
• Kneel Before Zod:
  • Contessa claims that any outcome of Harvest fighting the CUI is a win. Alexandria points out that if the Yangban manage to control her and share her powers with their entire team, they'd be more dangerous than the Endbringers. But Doctor Mother reminds her of Cauldron's true goal.
    Doctor Mother: If it would help the survival of humanity, we’d kneel to them. After all, once the Endbringers and Scion were dead, we’d have an eternity to overthrow them.
  • After Taylor destroys both Behemoth and the planet Mars, the president of the United States takes a similar view, figuring that he'd much rather give her anything she asks for than risk her wrecking the country, and she probably won't want anything he's unwilling to give anyway (eg he doesn't mind if she wants to kill and harvest the entire Birdcage).
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Killer Frost takes one look around at the majority of the Justice League plus Harvest, and promptly forms ice handcuffs around her own wrists.
• Large Ham: Loki full stop. Taylor had him distract a mob while non-lethally taking them all down. The following occurs:
  For some reason, he had me wearing my hoodie, and he had it covered in blood.
  “Minions!” he shouted. “As much as I would love to murder you all, none of you have any powers that are worth bothering with. Leave and I won’t murder your families!”
  Great.
• Let's You and Him Fight: Loki manipulates Taylor into fighting a group of Frost Giants, intending to escape in the distraction. He didn't realise just how efficient she would be, however; she doesn't get into a melee, she just flies above them and summons a massive fire.
• Level Grinding: Taylor's powers both native to her Gamer body and the ones she acquires all double in strength with every level they gain, which happens the more she uses them.
• Living Lie Detector: Taylor uses some of her powers for this effect, though Loki has figured out how to subvert them to an extent.
• Logical Weakness: One of the Yangban can connect all the members and give them a reduced version of everyone else's powers. Of course, they cannot access said powers if whoever had that power suffers an extreme case of death - or if the guy with the sharing power bites it.
• Loophole Abuse: Taylor can get powers from anyone who has just been defeated - it doesn't need to be her. That's one of the ways she can gain powers from heroes.
• Magic A Is Magic A: It's revealed in 'Workout' that Taylor's powers unlike everybody else from Earth Bet are derived from magic rather than one of the entities.
• Malicious Slander: The PRT has been running their own spin on events since the start of things, allowing them to create the narrative they want, even when they haven't lied. This has not been to Taylor's benefit, especially as she's either off-world, doesn't feel like bothering with disputing anything they've said, or is unaware of the danger of it due to her low wisdom and youth.
• Massive Multiplayer Crossover: After Taylor gets Planeshift, she semi-regularly ends up in other worlds/franchises in between dealing with villains. Examples thus far:
  • Silent Hill.
  • Resident Evil the film series.
  • Attack on Titan.
  • Hellsing Ultimate.
  • The Road.
  • Independence Day.
  • The Avengers.
  • Star Trek.
  • Arrowverse.
  • Doctor Who.
  • The DCU New Earth.
  • Post-Civil War Earth-616.
  • Wizards.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
  • And a currently-unnamed radioactive world strongly believed to be Fallout.
• Meaningful Name: Taylor tries to associate her name 'Harvest' with reaping the bounty of hard work. However, by everyone else, it's associated with her ability to gain powers from other parahumans.
• A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: After Taylor gains mind reading she gets an extra layer of disillusionment due to seeing how petty and dirty most people's private thoughts are. This makes encountering genuinely good and noble people like Steve Rogers and Fred Rogers a breath of fresh air.
• Mind over Manners: Taylor doesn't believe in asking permission before using mind reading on others, something that other characters have called her on to no effect.
• Mirror Match: Mimic has the powers of any superhuman in his range, and was brought out by the government of the Earth Taylor was on at the time to counter her. However, this doesn't last, as unlike Taylor he has a limit to how much power he can have at any one time, and after a certain point has to increasingly rely on Heroic Willpower to prevent himself from exploding. (Plus, since he copies her telepathic abilities, allowing him to read her mind and Norman Osborn's, it doesn't take long for him to swap sides and start helping her.)
• MockGuffin: Taylor and the Doctor need to fake a Dalek attack on Earth to prevent the timeline collapsing. For a plausible motive, they plant what appears to be a fancy alien artifact. It's actually a Judoon "marital aid".
• Mood Whiplash: When Taylor visits Clockblocker's father, she tells him "This is for your son," in a menacing voice, then smiles at him and heals his cancer.
  Taylor: He's pretty cool, isn't he?
• Morton's Fork: Samael could win by taking over Scion and using him as a stepping stone to other dimensions. But if the heroes beat Scion, then every shard death is something Samael can absorb to get stronger.
  I hated villains like that, beings who had plans so that even if they lost they won.
• Mugging the Monster: As Taylor's power grows, anyone attempting to attack her is pretty much doing this. Anyone who knows exactly who she is and what she can do but still proceeds goes straight to Bullying a Dragon.
• Mundane Utility: Taylor routinely uses her powers for building people's homes, solar panel setups, and much more. When she becomes a Reality Warper, her first act is to restore her clothes to pristine condition so she won't end up fighting in the nude again.
• My Greatest Second Chance: Harvest World, the setting of The Road and formerly Cannibal Earth, is viewed by Taylor as a sort of passion project and a chance to prove to herself and to others she's more than just a violent sociopath.
• Mythology Gag: In "Interlude: Eidolon", the perspective character notes how bug control is ridiculous, unheroic and not photogenic, all complaints raised in canon regarding Taylor there.

N-Z

• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If the local President Evil of the Earth she was visiting at the time wanted to keep his resident power copying superhuman asset in line to remain useful to him, then maybe he shouldn't have sent him up against a parahuman with globe encompassing telepathy. It doesn't take long for said power-copier to switch sides and arrest the president.
• Negated Moment of Awesome: From her initial meeting with Alice onwards, Taylor repeatedly takes the spotlight and kill-steals enemies Alice was going to take care of.
• Never My Fault: Taylor insists that the Zombie Apocalypse was not her fault. She may not have unleashed it, but she did bring it over from Resident Evil film series.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The PRT seem to be a fan of this trope:
  • The PRT discover Shadow Stalker and Vista are infected with the T-Virus. After curing them, they keep samples of it for future study. This allows Bonesaw to get her hands on the Virus and unleash it upon Brockton Bay.
  • The PRT has placed a Kill Order on Taylor, which is proving difficult to rescind. It finally gets rescinded after Taylor kills Behemoth.
  • Tagg and the PRT kill Bonesaw to prevent Taylor from getting her power, which Taylor wants as it would allow her to bring back her father, but which the PRT fears she would use to bring more misery, death, and destruction to Earth Bet.
    • Though it's hinted that Bonesaw may still be alive due to Cauldron shenanigans.
• Not So Above It All: Integra might have shrugged off the offer for immortality through Vampirism but once she hears about Panacea's ability to reverse her age she's very interested.
• Offscreen Inertia: Averted with regards to the other universes Taylor plane shifts to. In Resident Evil, Taylor returns thereafter two months and finds it's seemingly been entirely infected and depopulated. In The Road, there has been progress made by the settlement of survivors she's helping.
• One-Man Army: Talor has faced enemy armies four times so far, with the second onwards incidents notable for being very quick events.
• Only Mostly Dead: Taylor's father dies in the first chapter of the Fic. However, Taylor inventoried him within minutes of his death. One of the driving plot points after she destroys the E88 is gaining the ability to revive/clone him.
• Outside-Context Problem: Taylor's abilities do not behave like a normal parahuman's, and her ability to grow her powers make her one of the most dangerous people on the planet. As 'Workout' states her abilities are magical in origin.
  • She even becomes this across the various worlds she travels between. Even when those other worlds have people with powers none of them operate quite as Harvest does.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: One of Taylor's specialties is going after villains and bad people and pummelling them.
  • During her fight with Lung in front of the Chinese Imperial Palace, she uses her Master of Illusion powers to trick the party members behind many of the atrocities the Chinese people have suffered into staying behind so they will die as collateral damage.
• Pedestrian Crushes Car: Taylor stops a fleeing Kyle Nimbus by teleporting in front of his car and using her flight to hold still. (By this point, she's not just Immune to Bullets, she's capable of walking on the sun, so the car doesn't scratch her.)
• Pet the Dog:
  • Taylor's powers allow her to communicate with people whose uncontrollable powers have isolated them from others, like Ash Beast.
  • Even raging as she is after the Yangban tortures and kills several Dockworkers Union members, Taylor's rampage through China is only aimed at the Yangban and China's military bases, leaving all the cities and innocent civilians untouched.
• Planet Destroyer: Taylor's power eventually reaches the point that she's able to destroy Mars with raw strength alone.
• Plausible Deniability: Theoretically, a doctor allowing a stranger to walk into a child's hospital room and apply an untested unregulated treatment could be grounds for losing one's medical licence. However, after Taylor completely cures a boy who was riddled with metastasized tumours, she and the doctor in question politely agree that there was nothing he could have done to stop her and that they were probably having difficulties with their phones when trying to call the police.
• Plethora of Mistakes: The PRT's handling of anything regarding Taylor, though this is more due to Emily Piggot, the former Director of the PRT for Brockton Bay. Taylor herself also tends to make mistakes due to her lack of wisdom and youth.
• Poor Communication Kills: Making less assumptions and asking more questions might have saved Oni Lee, and by extension, the entire ABB. He saw Taylor infiltrating Empire events, assumed that she was a member, and attacked her, starting a Cycle of Revenge that ultimately gives Taylor a quest to destroy the entire organisation.
• Price on Their Head: A Kill Order allows people to post bounties for their death, and the villains Hookwolf and Lung have put money down towards Taylor's Kill Order Bounty. It gets awkward when Taylor is going through a hospital healing people, while anyone is authorised to shoot her in the head without penalty. Of course, once she has high enough resistance to physical attacks, it would be hard to make it stick.
• Promoted to Parent: Taylor at one point finds several super-powered shapeshifting clones and after a little reprogramming they behave like teenage girls, who see her as their mother despite looking to be the same age as her.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Taylor gives one to Lung during their fight in the Yangban Arc, calling him a coward for being unwilling to actually prove himself strong, choosing instead to settle and never fighting an Endbringer.
• Required Secondary Powers: Taylor thinks about how as amazing as her teleportation has become, the sensory powers needed for her to know where to teleport to have not kept up.
• Rich Boredom: Q explains that his people suffer from this. As an immortal species with the power to do whatever they please, they've reached the point where there is simply nothing left for them 'to' do and are slowly starting to die out of sheer boredom. Taylor admits she's starting to feel like that as well as she slowly becomes more powerful.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge:
  • As in the title, after Danny's death all Taylor wants to do was avenge him, by killing ALL members of the Empire 88. She eventually succeeds, but it causes a lot of collateral damage and casualties from the gang war she inadvertently caused in her pursuit of revenge.
  • In order to attract Taylor into a trap, the CUI decided to send the Yangban to attack the Dockworkers Union. Cue Taylor razing China's military bases and destroying all the Yangban she can find.
    "A really good guy once told me that everybody deals with grief differently, and there's no way that's better than others."
    "How...did you deal with it?"
    "I murdered the people who did it, and the people who they worked with, and their bosses, and everybody in their organization. Then when a different group killed the only family I had left, I killed them all too."
• Running Gag:
  • Taylor calling people she dislikes (and/or want to kill her) assholes.
  • Taylor's go-to suggestion for a prank or minor punishment: Persistent genital itching.
• Serial Escalation: Just like in the author's other Worm fics, there a lot of this. Her early actions in-story had her going after the E88 to avenge her father. As she's grown in power, she has killed entire alien invasions. Taylor herself has noted that she's comparable to the Endbringers in terms of the sort of damage she can do at this point in time if she felt like it. As of 'Coattails', she's clearly surpassed the Endbringers and maybe slightly below Scion. By the end, she's surpassed Scion and after the epilogue and seventeen-year time skip it's not shown but implied shes became a full blown Physical God.
• Ship Tease: Between Loki and Canary, no less.
• Shoot the Medic First: When Taylor sees Othala at a gang fight, she's immediately tempted to make a move, knowing that taking out the Empire's healer will have a large impact on their ability to operate going forward. It works; Victor dies without Othala's invulnerability, and even Hookwolf is incapacitated for weeks.
• Skewed Priorities: Ash-Beast is more concerned about seeing Taylor's bare arm than the fact she can stick her hand in his power without visible injury.
• Smug Super: Sometimes, Taylor lets a fight go on for longer than she could make it for the sake of becoming stronger.
• The Sociopath: Due to her Gamer mind keeping her calm regardless of the situation Taylor can appear to be a sociopath to others.
  Taylor: Most people seem worried that I'll kill them for no reason.
  Loki: People can be unreasonable. She can always come up with a reason to kill people.
• Spanner in the Works: Taylor becomes one to The Master, and possibly to Rassilon and his Time Lord faction when she wrecks his plan.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • Taylor's intervention saves the life of the Man from The Road.
  • Taylor prevents the death of the Master by Lucy Saxon.
• Split-Personality Takeover: When Rogue from the X-men tries to incapacitate Taylor by draining her powers, all she succeeds at doing is making Taylor half as powerful, which is still more powerful than anybody in the room at the time, and getting Taylor's stronger will to overpower hers and essentially turn her into a second Taylor.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Taylor only needs to make Kurt look the other way for a second, to let her climb a wall and vanish.
  He got out of the car and looked around. Like most people, he didn’t look up, and by the time he did, I was already on the roof out of sight.
• Stuff Blowing Up: Bakuda is the living embodiment of all these associated explosive tropes, all at once.
• Suicide Mission: Due to how weak her power appeared at first, Taylor assumed her war against the Empire would be this and didn't really care as she had nothing left to lose anyway.
• Summon Bigger Fish: Taylor becomes the Bigger Fish getting Summoned when her aid is called by the MCU to repel Thanos, who is attacking early.
• Super-Empowering: Null has the power to share powers between others. This means every member of the Yangban potentially has the powers of every other member of the Yangban at their disposal. He enacts his plan to acquire Taylor for the Yangban so that they can add her ability to make powers permanently grow stronger the more they are used to make themselves invincible, making it easy for the CUI to take over the world. To catch her they capture Lung, whose own ability to grow more powerful as long as he's in combat also causes the powers of the other Yangban members to grow stronger as well. Unfortunately for them, Taylor quickly cottons on this and puts Lung in her Hammerspace, cutting off the link between Lung and Null and depriving the Yangban of Lung's powers. Of course, this becomes academic when Taylor kills Null.
• Super-Power Meltdown: The hero Mimic has the ability to copy the powers of whatever supered individuals are within a certain range of him. He copies Taylor and is almost floored when he finds himself with more than a hundred new powers. However, unlike Taylor, he can't handle it and as soon as they start escalating and she starts rapidly collecting more powers, his power threatens to overwhelm him and cause him to explode. Despite being her mirror match he breaks away from her to use her healing powers on the others or risk his own death.
• Take That!:
  • When Taylor devours a book on how they created a socialist utopia in Star Trek the prompt text reads that she "Knows how to change society for the better.....as far as (she) is concerned".
  • In "Delegating", the Doctor finds absurd the idea of someone trying to punch time itself.
  • Also in "Delegating", when Batman asks why the TARDIS looks like a police box rather than a phone booth, Missy snarkily points out that it'd be a human to design a time machine in a phone booth and that one might as well use a hot tub.
  • When Taylor hears about Gorilla Grodd being an actual gorilla, she calls it weird and remarks, "Next thing you’ll tell me is that there's a legion of super pets or something."
    Lex Luthor: Nothing so idiotic as that.
• Taking You with Me: Bakuda is big on failsafes and Dead Man Switches. When she's trapped by Taylor, she uses a false tooth to set off every bomb she has planted anywhere, devastating the city.
• Talk to the Fist: Taylor gets into the Master's mind, who manages to block her after a few seconds and taunts her, saying her mind tricks don't work on him. Taylor teleports next to him and breaks his leg.
• A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Even if it's dangerous to be out and about, Taylor wants to hear the gossip, in hopes that the Empire will be hurting and afraid, like they did to her and her father.
• These Hands Have Killed: After her first few kills, Taylor reflects that she would expect to be much more affected, but Gamer's Mind is altering her reactions, keeping her level-headed. She's not sure whether or not she would have felt guilty otherwise.
  Staring at my hands, I wondered why they weren't shaking. They were supposed to shake after killing someone.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: HA! Nope. This is so very averted that the title of the story is almost the direct contrasting trope. Taylor kills so, so many 'assholes' that when told about a theoretical mountain of corpses she has piled up she pauses to seriously consider if the amount really could be piled up into a mountain. As she becomes more powerful and gains other methods of dealing with 'assholes' and using telepathy to check their real character however she stops being so quick to murder all of her problems. It doesn't stop her from killing those who she knows deserves it but it's lessened. Other more traditional heroes try to impress upon her that she can't just kill, but as she points out she's able to see into people's minds and check if they're truly irredeemable before passing judgment and her homeworld has been at the mercy of the merciless for so long that people from 'lighter' worlds don't really have the right to judge her.
• Time Bomb: Bakuda made one for Taylor. Taylor of course shoved her into it instead. Taylor has also used more normal time bombs against the alien invaders in Earth Het.
• Took a Level in Kindness: While she still wavers, Taylor slowly regains her sense of humanity and becomes more empathic.
• Tragic Dream: Once Taylor becomes powerful enough, she realizes the Entities could never achieve their plan of eternal expansion. The realities they can access are all imperfect echoes formed from the castoff energy of higher levels of existence, ultimately doomed to burn away into nothing. The only way to survive that ending would be to transcend to one of those higher levels but the Entities never even considered the possibility.
• Trapped in Another World: Taylor routinely uses alternate worlds as prisons for those she doesn't want to kill, yet still needs to trap for whatever reason.
• Tricked Out Time: After Taylor gains control over her time travel skills, she uses this to save her mother, Kurt and Lacey.
• Uncanny Valley: Taylor reads as something not human to Alexandria, whose thinker ability note that the girl lacks any micro-expressions or unconscious movements. All thanks to her Gamer-Body making turning her more into a projection of herself than a human being. After taking out The Master she is now more like a Time Lord than a human being. Then later again when she takes future sight from Ziz and stops making 'any' expressions whatsoever. She outright admits that she needs to learn how to pretend to be human again after that.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
  • Eidolon gets incredibly jealous of Harvest for her growing power and actions in China, which through his connection to the Endbringers he unknowingly causes Leviathan to attack the country soon afterwards.
  • Taylor leaving the Simurgh in Silent Hill ends up being a major problem much later as Samael subverts the Simurgh and uses it to go after Scion so it can appear on all parallel Earths.
• Useless Superpowers: Not useless per se, but Q points out that in order to be able to harvest his powers, she'd need to be strong enough that gaining his powers would be pointless.
• Vain Sorceress: Taylor uses her shapeshifting to change her look so people don't mistake her for Her powerless counterpart on New Earth and cause the poor girl trouble. Though as it pointed out, she just had to make herself look different. She didn't have to make herself more conventionally attractive and more endowed. Though it's downplayed as she managed to hold back on making herself as good looking as she was tempted to after seeing Wonder Woman.
• Victor Gains Loser's Powers: Taylor acquires powers by either killing or simply beating other powered individuals. She doesn't actually have to do all that much harm to her opponent for them to be considered beaten by her power (nor do it herself).
• Villain Ball: Null attracts Taylor to a trap with forty Yangban members, all of them sharing Lung's power due to one Yangban's power. All the readers agreed that, at best, he was giving Taylor a free power buffet. Turns out that Taylor manipulated him into doing it with her powers.
• Villain Ball Magnet: Taylor gains powers from killing/injuring others, doesn't like hurting heroes if she can help it, and has a Kill Order on her head, so she often ends up in conflict with various villains.
• Villains Act, Heroes React: Half the reason Taylor is a vigilante is because she can't just stand back and choose not to help when she sees problems.
  Taylor: Anyway, I've got hurricanes to deflect, dying children to save, cities to protect...the usual villain stuff. I haven't been doing the usual hero thing of sitting in my ivory tower collecting royalties while going out to smile and write autographs.
• "Wanted!" Poster: The PRT has gotten a "Kill Order" issued on Taylor Hebert due to the fears of Taylor's ability to travel to other realities allowing her to bring diseases to Earth Bet being an unacceptable danger to world safety, along with the fact that Taylor's abilities make her able to escape the Birdcage with ease.
• Wham Episode:
  • 'Clever': as Taylor is about to teleport Doomsday to a safe location he grabs her before she can and easily kills her, forcing her first use of her resurrection.
  • 'Thing': the Simurgh returns (changed) from the Silent Hill 'verse, the mists cover an entire city and Alyssa becomes possessed.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Even by the end, we never get definitive closure on Noelle and the world she was dumped in. Presumably it doesn't matter that they Never Found the Body.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • This has been a thing with multiple people and groups, from the story's protagonist Taylor giving people mercy kills to the PRT and Protectorate's actions pretty much from the story start.
  • Clockblocker is convinced to pretend to be a wounded patient so he can freeze Taylor, supposedly as part of a capture operation. He is disgusted with Piggot and Armsmaster when it turns out to be an assassination attempt while Taylor is in the middle of healing people.
• Wilfully Weak: Taylor is keen to have Null's power, not primarily to share powers with other people, but to reduce her resistances to the point where she can take damage, so that she can keep levelling them up.
• The World Is Just Awesome:
  • Once Taylor levels up her enhanced vision to level two, she's able to see the world in a hundred times the detail and more of the color spectrum than a human eye normally could. She becomes so enraptured by the sheer beauty of what she's seeing that she ignores zombie birds attacking her.
  • The Cannibal Earth people watch with wonder at the rainbow that appears after Taylor makes it rain for the first time in years. Their children in turn are entranced by growing plants.
  • When Taylor temporarily gifts Emma Frost half her telepathy, the recipient falls back into a chair overwhelmed by what the global reach of the power lets her witness.
• You Are Already Dead: When harvesting those who she doesn't want to kill, Taylor will use her illusions, telepathy and healing so she can harm them enough to copy their power them heal them up fast enough that they don't even realize she's already beaten them up until she tells them.
• You Can't Go Home Again: When Taylor messes with a fixed point in time and accidentally prevents Adelaide Brooke from becoming an orphan, she's forced to use her illusion powers to make it look like the parents died before spiriting them away to live in one of her safer dimensions without their daughter. The couple are clearly upset but relent once they hear how important it is to everything that their little girl grows up without them.
• You Cannot Kill An Idea: Subverted. When Samael says you cannot kill an idea, Taylor says you can. You just have to kill everyone who knows about it.
• You Will Be Spared: Taylor only really intended to go after the Empire. But the ABB wouldn't leave her alone, and after they kill Kurt and Lacey in retaliation for her killing Oni Lee in self defence, she promises Lung that he will be the last to die.
  Taylor: I'm going to kill your people; all of them and when I'm done, no one will remember your name. Everything you build will be dust.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: When she doesn't want to risk the chance that her Gamer's Mind ability won't make her immune to the Butcher's ability to possess those who kill them, she has Alucard devour the Butcher instead. Since the vampire king has untold numbers of souls inside him all under his absolute control, the Butcher can't drive him insane. The souls in the Butcher, including The Butcher's Shard, can do nothing but scream in terror as they are consumed.
• Zeppelins from Another World: Taylor ends up facing off against the Nazi Vampires of Hellsing Ultimate as they attack London with zeppelins.
• Zombie Apocalypse: Bonesaw gets ahold of the T-Virus. and unleashes a scaled-down Zombie Apocalypse upon Brockton Bay.

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