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  • In The Boys: Real Justice, when The DCU makes contact with the universe of The Boys (2019), obviously many of the character in Boys are put out to realise that they just don't compare to the heroes and villains of the other reality. While Homelander and A-Train are particular examples of this, Billy Butcher also tends to fall victim to this as he spends time in Gotham, assuming that he can basically match these villains as Batman is another Badass Normal, never comprehending that Batman has training and experience that Butcher just cannot match as he is handicapped by his own prejudices and ego. In the opening alone, Homelander and Stormfront are easily beaten by Faust, who is then quickly beaten by the Justice League.
  • Child of the Storm:
    • Cornelius Fudge doesn't seem to realise that he's a pawn of smarter and more powerful players in the great Gambit Pile Up until he's forcibly confronted by it. Dumbledore, Lucius Malfoy, Nick Fury, Loki, and Peter Wisdom a.k.a. Regulus Black inwardly or openly consider him to be nothing more than a useful/irritating idiot. By the sequel, it's made clear that the only reason he's still Minister is because no one else in the crippled Ministry wants to deal with Wisdom - who, for his part, regards terrorising Fudge as one of his few forms of entertainment.
    • Chapter 6 of the sequel, Ghosts of the Past, introduces Mr Danvers, Standard '50s Father to Carol Danvers, who is blissfully unaware of the fact that he's not the master of all he surveys in respect to his family. Until, like Fudge, he's forcibly confronted by reality. He tries, among other things, to force his brash, tomboyish Action Girl daughter into a more traditionally feminine mould, and when this fails, tries to get Harry to use his Psychic Powers to 'make her take the right path', which predictably causes Harry to erupt with rage. He really strays into this, though, when he tries to intimidate an infuriated Harry into backing down. Harry is, by this point, a Person of Mass Destruction, with grand scale Psychic Powers that Danvers knows about, and who's faced down Demons, Dark Lords, and Dark Gods without blinking. For a middle aged man who doesn't even have the skills to qualify as a Badass Normal to think that he can scare someone like that into backing down takes world class levels of self-delusion.
      • And when his mother-in-law, Alison Carter, the original Agent 13, the formerly retired Deputy Director of SHIELD, and the daughter of Steve Rogers by Peggy Carter with the associated Super-Soldier abilities and decades of espionage and combat experience, finds out about what he asked Harry to do in chapter 20, she confronts him. After finding out just what she used to do for a living, and being put in an effortless wrist-lock, he still tries to bluster his way out. It fails miserably.
  • In Contact at Kobol, the Colonies all regard the 'reunion' with their cousins as the biggest event to have ever happened in their history and believe that Earth is just as excited as they are. However, the Tau'ri don't consider it that big a deal, regarding the Colonies as just another culture to make contact with, with news of alien tech being used to search for Bigfoot attracting more interest back on Earth then the contact with the Colonials.
    • The sequel, Contact of Races, presents the Race as an even worse example of this. While the Race think they're the most advanced race in the universe and demand that the Tau'ri adjust the galactic map to accommodate their existence, the Tau'ri make it clear that the Race lack the technology to be a truly advanced race and are just lucky more violent cultures didn't find them first.
  • Bakugo in Cursed Blood. In the scenario built in his mind, he's destined to become the Number One Hero and stop future supervillain Deku. In reality, he's a Barbaric Bully with delusions of grandeur whose main target is Izuku, who is the victim of Bad Powers, Good People.
  • Calder the Cockless in A Discordant Note calls himself a sorcerer and thinks he can stand against Harry the Sorcerer of Dol Guldur. In reality, the man's insanity makes it easier for him to listen to the minor nudges sent by the Old Gods, giving him an uncanny ability to find food and shelter. Beyond that, he has no magical ability.
  • The Initiative in Dragon Knight likes to boast about their effectiveness compared to the Scoobies, citing that their best operative has seventeen kills to his name. Giles and Buffy both laugh at it as not only has Giles killed more than that each year, despite being a support fighter, the entire Initiative together has killed less than Buffy did in her first year of Slaying, back when she was actively avoiding her calling. Even Xander did better in his first year slaying and he was an untrained high schooler with no powers.
  • In “eXtra power twin”, this basically applies to Harry’s twin brother Aiden, who has been raised as the Boy Who Lived while Harry was abandoned by their parents before being taken in by the X-Men. After both start at Hogwarts, it becomes clear that while Harry has received training from the X-Men in how to use his magic and his mutant ability in a fight, along with assorted hand-to-hand skills, Aiden has been relying on his reputation and received only basic lessons from Dumbledore, with the result that he is easily killed by Voldemort when he actually tries to confront him.
  • Fates Collide: Edmond Dantes is legitimately powerful and skilled, but acts more important than he really is and makes up titles for himself that he did not earn. As a result, hardly anyone takes him seriously.
  • In Frozen Turtles, when Baxter Stockman first appears in Arendelle, he tries to present himself as the Turtles’ arch-nemesis, but they can’t even get his name right and Michaelangelo muses that they have nemeses ‘way more archer than him’.
  • Princess Azula heavily suffers from this in The Saga Of Tanya The Firebender; where Tanya Degurechaff reincarnated into the Fire Nation and due to Tanyas' nature, managed to swiftly ascend the ranks of success within the Fire Nation Army to become "The Devil Of The South Sea" that had served as a Wake-Up Call Boss for Team Avatar, and a Hopeless Boss Fight for the entire world, and later her titles' been promoted to "The Devil Of The North" when she conquered the Northern Water Tribe; earning Tanya an Admiralty within the Fire Nation and a position as Firelord Ozais' Right Hand for his future Air Fleet. When Azula first encounters Aang in Omashu and says that she was the Crown Princess of The Fire Nation; Aang asked Azula if she was working for Tanya too.
  • In The Story to End All Stories, Chuck Cunningham feels ignored by the people who created him and other characters so he decides to take revenge by destroying all of fiction.
  • Downplayed in the There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton universe. According to this Word of God post, Horde Prime was still an incredibly deathly threat to any who opposed him, but thanks to his near incalculable arrogance, he heavily overestimates the scope of his empire and believed himself to be the absolute ruler of the entire universe when in actuality he barely held control of a small portion of it. When the Paladins of Voltron stumble onto Etheria in Eternity in Promise and learn about Prime, they explain that there's actually plenty of warlords just like him across the universe, filling in gaps left by the Galra Empire's overextension.
  • Thy Good Neighbor: Melisandre of Asshai visits Winterfell in an attempt to check on the reason for the recent inability of the Lord of Light's priests to see the future, and conjures gouts of fire and a glamour to demonstrate her power. Unknown to her, her host, Rickard Stark, also welcomed Lord Cyril Fairchild, who has many magical feats of his own, so when Melisandre attempts to show her power, Rickard pays much more attention to the costs she is incurring - even with something as fast and showy as her fire, she is clearly getting exhausted even if she's used to covering it; by comparison, he has never seen Lord Fairchild as much as being winded with the continuous magic feats he casually displays. When Rickard asks her opinion on making fallow fields bloom with magic, one of Cyril's least impressive tricks, her response convinces him whatever league Cyril plays in, it's well beyond anything the Lord of Light's adherents can produce.
  • Ultimate Video Rumble: Thanks to previously having only each other for comparison, the fighters of certain universes (e.g. World Heroes, War Gods) tend to think they're hot stuff. Then they face someone from Street Fighter, The King of Fighters, or Marvel Super Heroes... Once they're done peeling themselves off the mat, some leave humbler; others continue to insist they're the best and accuse their opponent of being lucky or cheating.
  • Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse: Nabiki Tendo's biggest weakness is definitely her ego. Early on, she clearly believes she's the single smartest member of the Kamikaze Pirates, failing to realize that she got away with a lot of what she did in Nerima due to either the moral codes of those she tricked or her connections to Akane Tendo, neither of which applies as a pirate in the Grand Line. This arrogance takes a new form after she first gets her Devil Fruit, a Mythic Zoan that gives her a Healing Factor almost on par with a Logia, causing her to start boasting about how she's now invincible before an annoyed Shampoo puts her in her place.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Bleach

  • In A Protector's Pride, Zommari is Resurrected for a Job and boasts how his power is one feared by even the King of Hell. While he's fairly powerful as an Espada, both of the other two combatants are strong enough to kill him from proximity alone. In fact, while boasting about how incredible his power is, the other two share a look of incredulity and exasperation at his sheer ego.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

  • Lestat in Xendra thinks of himself as a badass master vampire to be feared by all. In reality, he's an overweight fledgling that's only a few months old, which puts him at the bottom of the vampire hierarchy. Only his still human friends following his orders convinces other vampires he's an ancient master vampire to hold so many humans in his thrall.
    • Kennedy believes herself far superior to Buffy due to both her wealth and martial arts training. However, Buffy's been a Slayer for three years and fought horrors Kennedy could barely imagine. Furthermore, vampires sired on the Hellmouth are shown to be far more dangerous than in other placesnote .

Calvin and Hobbes

  • Aside from Calvin himself, this is Downplayed with Hobbes in Calvin & Hobbes: The Series:
    "Hello, my name's Hobbes. I'm a tiger."
    "Yes, I know, You're just dazzled that the legendary tiger is actually speaking to you."

Code Geass

  • OC Tetsuya in Code Geass: The Prepared Rebellion is basically Tamaki with all his negative attributes cranked up. Besides being a total slob and rather useless in combat both in a knightmare and on foot, he's also shown to be a Refrain dealer. Despite all that, he thinks of himself as the biggest badass ever and challenges Zero to a fight for "stealing his glory" by defeating Cornelia in Saitama. Particularly noteworthy is that Tetsuya isn't even a high ranking member in his resistance cell, but a grunt stuck on guard duty.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

  • Irreversible Damage: Rowley has a decidedly overinflated sense of how skilled he is at fighting; he's convinced that his martial arts classes have made him a competent fighter, but he's even worse at physical activity than Greg is. In particular, he decides to settle his issue with Greg with a fight, and when the latter arrives at his house he finds Rowley dressed in his martial arts uniform and greeting him with "So you have chosen your destiny, mortal." The fight ends a moment later when Greg pushes Rowley over.

Fallout

  • Better to Reign in Heaven elaborates on the history of Doctor Stanislaus Braun, which culminates in a "The Reason You Suck" Speech that makes it clear he isn't as smart or as dangerous as he thinks he is; while he committed several murders when he was alive, most of these were covered up by others without his knowledge because his technical genius was too useful for them to lose it. When put in an environment where everyone knows what he is and he has no means of asserting his power, Braun is constantly outmanoeuvred and his schemes stopped before they can truly start, culminating in him being reduced to a submissive child in a virtual environment who can only do what he's told and doesn't have the will to do anything more.

Godzilla

  • Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): MaNi insists that he's still part of Ghidorah as the right head after he's separated from Ghidorah's body, but Ghidorah's attached middle and left heads point out that he's no different than the other "shed skins" that Ghidorah's ability to regrow clones of its severed heads from its own body have produced: subhuman in the real Ghidorah's eyes.

Harry Potter

  • In "Disrespect Authority", when Ginny has to attend detentions with Umbridge, she reflects that Umbridge has a very inflated opinion of herself if she thinks making Ginny write lines with a blood quill will break her, as that experience doesn't compare to being used by Riddle's diary.
  • Draco in For Love of Magic is noted by Harry as having "an ego completely disproportionate to his mediocre abilities and an inability to accept any facts that contradicted said ego".
  • Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: During the first 34 chapters it is implied that Lucius Malfoy is one of the best masterminds of magical Britain, an excellent manipulator and a "beautiful killing machine." Then, Professor Quirrell shoots it to hell in one sentence in front of hundreds, stating that Lucius was incompetent enough to let the Death Eaters implode at the brink of victory and had to return with his tail between his legs. That had to hurt.
  • Draco Malfoy in the Princess of the Blacks series makes his opinion of himself quite clear when he declares that Jen defeating ten students at once doesn't make her a match for him. Though he later undergoes Character Development and becomes a rather skilled schemer, enough to capture Danny Potter and make Voldemort rethink his judgement of the boy.
    • Several members of the Order of the Phoenix not only think they could take the DMLE if it came down to it, despite being outnumbered five to one, but think they're the ones doing all the work in the war. In reality, they get in the way of the DMLE's investigations more often than they truly help and most are completely untrained in combat.
  • Amusingly, in A Year Too Soon, Draco believes that being "Heir to the Malfoy fortune" means he can't be given detention, even after being warned that the word mudblood would no longer be tolerated.

How to Train Your Dragon

  • In For Milady, Camicazi tries to establish herself as a senior figure in the Dragon Riders as she is engaged to Hiccup due to an old deal between their parents, but none of the Riders acknowledged her ‘authority’ even before Hiccup fled the engagement. While Snotlout acts as interim leader after Hiccup leaves Berk, he is willing to acknowledge that Hiccup makes a better leader when he finally returns, Snotlout claiming himself to be a great warrior but acknowledging that he’s not qualified to make large-scale decisions.
  • Snotlout in Lost Boy has a particularly large ego being Stoick's heir, believing he has the right to anyone and anything on such grounds alone. The only people who have any real faith in him is his own parents, who go out of their way to bully the rest of the tribe into verifying their son's non-existent prowess. This is even believed to be one of the reasons why Spitelout made a deal with Ivar Hofferson to marry his daughter to Snotlout. Because they all know that Astrid is the superior warrior, they try to force her to be his housewife so he would be the next contender for their generation's champion for Berk.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

  • The rogue Avengers in Balance believe they could have taken Thanos's five generals when the other Avengers couldn't, ignoring that not only does the current team have more than twice as many members as the roguesnote , anything the rogues can do, they can do better and in greater numbers (more flyers, more size shifters, etc).
    • Steve is later rather upset that he's not being shown "the respect he deserves", especially from Carol Danvers, blissfully ignoring that not only is he a convicted terrorist but that as a colonel, Carol Danvers outranks Steve from a military standpoint.
  • In What if… Wanda Cast the No Way Home Spell, Doctor Strange confronts Jameson over how his involvement escalated the situation so that Wanda’s attempt to help Peter caused the current crisis. When Jameson continues to try and dismiss Peter and Wanda as criminals and praise himself for “exposing” them, Strange makes it clear that normally the kind of problems a man like Jameson could cause shouldn’t even be on Strange’s radar, so the mere fact that Strange is even talking to him is a sign that Jameson has really screwed up even if the reporter refuses to acknowledge it.
  • Maya Hansen in Your Mental Health Matters is quite put-out to be labelled a botanist and complains as such to Pepper Potts, citing that she's a biological DNA coder running a team of forty out of a privately funded think-tank. Pepper fires back that Maya is someone Tony Stark had a one night stand with twelve years ago; she should be happy Tony remembered her full name and that she was working with plants.

Miraculous Ladybug

  • Recommencer: Thanks to Lila's influence, Alya's Ladyblog has come to be regarded as a 'satire site', as she's filled it with articles parroting Lila's various claims as 'Ladybug's best friend' and rants about 'LadyNoir can still win' despite Chat Noir's retirement. Alya herself doesn't seem to recognize that her reputation has grown so tarnished, and brags about her blog's supposed popularity.
  • Truth & Journalism applies this to Andre the Ice-Cream Man, who buys so deeply into his own hype that he legitimately thinks he can dictate the love lives of his customers. When Marinette and Luka visit his cart, he outright refuses to serve the pair while telling Marinette that she should dump her boyfriend and look for somebody that fits the profile of the Sweetheart Ice Cream he'd previously made for her. This winds up costing him business after word of the incident spreads; sadly, Andre blames Marinette and Luka for his souring reputation.

My Hero Academia

  • Bakugo in Not That Kinda Fired. After just barely passing his last year at U.A. and getting bounced between multiple hero agencies as he keeps getting in trouble due to his abhorrent behaviour and entitlement, he arrives to his Last Chance at Endeavour's Agency thoroughly convinced that he's going to become the Number One Hero, that he's stronger than All Might and that he can order Endeavour around when he demands him to fire Izuku. Endeavour disabuses him of this by handing him a thorough Curb-Stomp Battle and sending him to the Hero Public Safety Commission so they will review his hero license, with the possibility of terminal revocation.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

  • The Clockwork Consequence has Rarity. She's just a seamstress, (albeit Nightmare Moon's personal one) but she acts like she's just as if not more important as Nightmare Moon's Co-Dragons. That said, she seems to show signs of being an Almighty Janitor.
  • In the essay-fic Equestria: A History Revealed, the Lemony Narrator sees herself as a better historian than any other pony, despite still being a student at the University of Canterlot. Although apparently she has sold some of her previous essays as books, but they're obviously not doing too well, given she has to blatantly advertise them in-essay. (Or she went with Vanity Publishing - it's not absolutely clear.)
  • In Friendship Prevails, there is Talon Ted, who is described as "having pride in nothing, which matters more to him than the pride he could have in something", and lives up to it.

Naruto

  • If a story has in its summary that it's a bashing fic, then 90% of the time Sasuke falls under this trope:
    "I'm an UCHIHA Elite, no ONE is better than ME!"
    "How can a clanless loser, Naruto, beat me, an ELITE UCHIHA!"
  • Ino in Black Flames Dance in the Wind: Rise of Naruto is certain she's completely superior to the other female genin (especially Sakura) and boasts to Sakura how her team has almost qualified for a B Rank mission and has completed more missions than Sakura's team. Not only has Team 7 completed an A Rank mission, but they just completed an S Rank one as well. Furthermore Sakura is hailed as a village hero and, unlike Ino, actually takes her training very seriously these days. It shows when they spar and Sakura not only easily blocks or dodges every attack, her single attack knocks Ino out and fractures several bones.
    • Earlier Sasuke had an over-inflated ego as well but it was beaten out of him by his trainer Genma, who headbutted Sasuke every time he got uppity.
    • Naruto is a downplayed example. He's definitely incredibly powerful, but his ego is out of control, to the point he challenges a being that the Kyuubi is terrified of. Just like Sasuke, he undergoes a Break the Haughty though his is much more severe.
  • The Fourth Apprentice portrays and has Sakura call out Neji in his introduction on actually being this. In his eyes, he's an elite ninja who's head and shoulders above everyone else in The Chunin Exams. To everyone else, he's just an easily replaceable member of The Branch Family with an overinflated opinion of himself and asks him what has he ever done or accomplished that makes him believe he can look down upon others.
  • In God of War, Naruto mentions how pretty much everyone he fights thinks they're "worth the axe". Not only is Naruto literally superhuman even before chakra is taken into account (having basically become a physical clone of Angron, Primarch of the World Eaters), but his training for the last three years was fighting on the frontlines of a war. So when he fights the other rookies again after he returns, they get frustrated that he doesn't take them seriously, not realizing how much he has to hold back to avoid killing them.
  • Justified in The Last Prayer when it comes to Atsui. He was part of a project later dubbed the Monster Study (for how horrific the experiments were) and was part of the group that was praised regardless of what they did. Having spent a good deal of his childhood being praised for absolutely everything left him with a massively inflated ego and the inability to ever realize he might be wrong. Notably, he can't comprehend that Mabui isn't remotely interested in him because he was never told "No" before.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

  • Advice and Trust: Chihiro Tanaka believes she is the smartest and most beautiful girl in the school, ergo she will win Shinji's affection, and will not lose to Asuka or Rei -whom she looks down on and frequently puts down-. In reality she is not the best at anything and there is no chance that she will take Shinji away Asuka or he would choose her rather Rei.

Pokémon: The Series

  • In Ash's Adventure: Girls' Hunter Edition, Misty immediately forms this opinion of Gary, who arrogantly brags about his skills when he only has one Pokemon so far and already has a group of PokeGirls as 'cheerleaders'. Misty privately reflects that Gary is the type of trainer who sleeps in expensive tents and eats the best canned goods, but will fall apart when facing a trainer with true grit and blame everyone else for the loss.
  • Challenger: Vermillion city's Pokémon Trainer Academy in general and its top students in particular feel they're far better than they actually are. The school is often called the "School of Hard Knocks" to show how difficult the course is, but Surge comments it's just a fancy prep school for rich kids. The top ten students (minus Courtney) boast of how Ash is just a rookie who doesn't have a prayer against them because they earned more badges in their virtual simulator. In response, Ash utterly trounces nine of the ten, half of them barely putting up a fight. The only one he doesn't beat outright is Courtney, who forfeits when she realizes she won't win.
    • Giselle in particular calls Surge an oaf and questions if he really is a gym leader while mockingly asking if Ash even has a full team. She also boasts about almost having her Volcano badge. Ash beats her with Duskull, one of his newest pokemon.
  • Pokémon Reset Bloodlines discusses this trope in the Clair Interlude sidestory. The titular Gym Leader believes that you shouldn't have an ego bigger than you can back up, and she's very fond of knocking this kind of people down a peg or two when they come to challenge her for a badge.
  • Pokemon: Shadow of Time makes it clear that this applies to Paul when he arrogantly challenged Ash for all of his existing badges in his first appearance. As a result, Paul's entire team is defeated, and the circumstances of his challenge mean that he is now banned from competing in any other League contests for the next year and a half.
  • Traveler:
    • Ash's Golduck is both a Jerkass and has a remarkably overinflated opinion of its power. While it is very powerful when it's caught in the Seafoam Caverns, that's because the nearby slumbering Articuno passively empowers all the water and ice types within. Away from Seafoam, it possesses middling power at best.
    • Daisy's Gardevoir insists that she is powerful enough to end Ash and his team if necessary and can easily circumvent the brands left on Ash by various Legendary Pokémon. Not only is Ash somewhat surprised Mewtwo doesn't smite her on the spot for it, noting the Legendary uses more power in an instant than Gardevoir has in its whole body, but he actually throws off her psychic link himself.

Power Rangers

  • Crimson Rising:
    • The Operation Overdrive villains were a problem for the Overdrive Rangers on their own, but they are swiftly reduced to little more than cannon fodder in Ooze’s army
    • Malcolm Renaldi, Kat’s ex-husband, is a dangerous crime boss, but with Kat and her son now protected by no less than twenty active Power Rangers he fails to recognise that he doesn’t really have a leg to stand on when trying to threaten the Rangers.

Psychonauts

  • Later, Traitor takes Vernon Tripe's existing characterization (he thinks he's a much better storyteller than he actually is) and runs with it. Inside his mind, he's a wise storyteller who casts himself as the top agent of the Psychonauts. His mind serves as the introduction for the Ego enemy, a tiny goblin-like creature that grows bigger and bigger the longer it goes unchecked. A Memory Vault shows that the reason Vernon is like that is because of a desire to live up to his family's storytelling legacy, going on to overcompensate by writing longer and wordier stories, too absorbed in his work to accept any criticism or care about the fact that the other kids hate his rambling tales. Frazie notes that Vernon does have some actual talent, but said talent hardly ever shows itself because of how much he overcompensates while writing.

RWBY

  • Roman Torchwick during the first half of Roman's Empire. Roman wasn't always an infamous criminal. He started as a low-level mob enforcer and even then had a huge ego. In his narration, he boasted about how he was going to become the biggest mob boss in Vale. However, even when he tried to tell some other workers that he was important to the current top-boss, Kincaid, the guard didn't even give him the time of day until Kincaid could come out and vouch for him. Later, when he tries to start up his business after Kincaid moves her main business out of Vale, he continually got hassled by the other bosses every time he tried to step into their business. However, he maintained the belief that he was going to make it big — so much so that he decided to marry a woman to be a queen for his (at the time) non-existent criminal empire. Justified since the writer said that Roman was written with narcissistic personality disorder in mind. Obviously, his ego would be indomitable against all odds.
  • The Crimson Devils in Service with a Smile certainly think they're hot shit, but they're low level thugs at best. Miltia and Melanie even laugh at their name, comparing it to something an edgy teenager would come up with while crying in his room. Worse (for them) is that they not only tried to pick up the Malachite Twins, Junior's top enforcers, like they were hookers, they robbed and beat Jaune, who has the protection of Junior, Roman Torchwick, and Cinder Fall.

Stargate-verse

  • In What You Already Know, after Daniel acquires powerful mental abilities most of the SGC's foes are less of a serious threat to Earth, but special mention goes to Soren of the Rand Protectorate on the planet Tegalus. He's still The Fundamentalist who triggered a war on his world, but with Daniel's powers to turn the tables against him, Soren has less chance to show off his own tactical abilities. When Jack O'Neill comes to the planet, he dismisses Soren as an idiot despite his demonstrated tactical skills, particularly given Soren's fanatical devotion to 'gods' who don't even know he exists and wouldn't care about him even if they did.

Worm

  • Price of Blood: Carol in regards to New Wave. She certainly thinks their team is a big deal, but Sarah spells out that the team as a whole is completely irrelevant in most people's eyes. They have had zero notable successes since their formationnote  and most of them don't even do anything cape related. The adults are all semi-retired and only do PR events while Crystal and Eric focus on their schooling to the exclusion of heroing, leaving Vicky the only member who actually does patrols and fights criminals while Amy is the most famous healer in the world. So far as everyone is concerned, New Wave is "Panacea, Glory Girl, and etc." in that order.


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