Zodiac is a furry superhero comic. Those who have "Extraordinary Powers and Abilities" are required to register with the government; these persons are then often hired by major corporations to protect their interests, with the caveat that they must also perform public service.The New Dawn corporation is one such business, who are branching out into hiring supers for the first time. Lead by an enigmatic, probably insane board, Zodiac is a team still learning to work together, while many of the established heroes are finding that going public only has drawn their old enemies to them once more.Also branches off into two other comics, Quetzalcoatlus featuring the Zodiac team and Second Chance featuring Saurus.
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Action Girl: Scorpio, Taurus, Aquarius and Sagittarius on the hero side. On the villain side, the female ones are more crafty and seem to prefer to act behind the lines (such as Slaver and Legion), but Nightmare, Basilisk and Razor are straight examples.
Addiction Displacement: Lesonne, one of the board members of New Dawn, who acquired a sweet tooth after he quit smoking.
Affably Evil: Jigsaw. He's one of the villains with the more monstruous appearance, but also very polite and suave, and he praises his foes while fighting them.
A God Am I: Nightmare considers herself and other superpowered whasnames to be gods because of their powers.
Appendage Assimilation: Jigsaw is an interesting case, as he doesn't particularly have to do this - he simply wants to.
Ascended Extra: Leo's daughter Imani was very popular in her first visit.
Chekhov's Gun: Cancer puts a hidden camera on Libra's sunglasses as part of an elaborate scheme to get a... erm... "look," at Taurus. It's how he eventually discovers that a group of super-villains is attacking Chops' club.
Ghoul totally dominated Aquarius during all their fight, until he was distracted by the stars. Aquarius managed to rip off his left arm, and punched through his body, but he didn't seem worried at all, and left, having other business to attend to.
Distressed Damsel: Imani in the current arc, being one of the hostage of the villains.
Disproportionate Retribution: Ghoul's big on these. According to his bio, he's killed more people for doing something he considered rude than he has from them attacking him. In the actual comic, he killed one of the bouncers at Chops' bar for making a pass at Nightmare.
Eldritch Abomination: Pisces. Turns out the DNA he gained doesn't really belong to a "prehistoric sea creature". It is more likely that it came from an alien origin. And, slowly but steadily, this DNA is beginning to take over him, Pisces having troubles controlling his powers.
Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: The "Quetzalcoatlus" side comic introduced geneticaly modified species, which are all dinosaurs. As for Jenna Martinez, she became a Quetzalcoatlus (winged snake) and embraced the career of Super Hero.
Evil Is Petty: The primary reason Nightmare decided to attack Zodiac ahead of schedule was because Taurus stole a guy she was flirting with.
For the Evulz: By his own admission, pretty much the only reason Hell Hound killed a bunch of bystanders during the fight between Zodiac and the bad guys.
Four is Death: The team can be split up into four "elemental" teams (Earth, Air, Fire, and Water). Leo hates the fact that this makes no sense.
Fragile Speedster: Scorpio, thanks to her teleportation powers. However, if she happens to be grabbed by someone and under pressure (as Jigsaw guessed), her powers fail her.
The Fundamentalist: Virgo. Played quite seriously - Virgo has a hard time dealing with the fact that her powers do not come directly from God, and she has a harder time working with her teammates, who range from agnostic to anti-religious, but she has so far shown no signs of becoming a Straw Man, even admonishing herself at one point for being overly judgmental of the others' choices.
Libra: Dude! I mean I know he's got regeneration but did you have to break his arm?!
Gemini: He can regenerate?
Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have: Libra immediately takes quite a liking to Natalia. Learning she is Cancer's grandmother does little to stop him.
Heart Is an Awesome Power: Leo's main supernatural ability is to "heal" his cybernetic implants like they were actual flesh and push them beyond their normal limits; besides this and a few Required Secondary Powers that stem from it, he's basically a Badass Normal.
Heel Face Turn: Saurus. It hasn't happened yet in the main comic, but it's in the works in his own spinoff.
Leo: One more like that, Morris, and I will end you.
I Cannot Self-Terminate: Pisces' main reason for joining Zodiac is this; in case he ever loses control of his powers, he's surrounded by a team capable of taking him down.
Immune to Bullets: Nightmare. Notably, the Chest Shots Only rule is averted, as Saggitarius shoots her in the face.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Aquarius managed to do this to Ghoul with her own arm... Though Ghould didn't seem that much annoyed by this.
Jack-of-All-Stats: Jigsaw is big, cunning, powerful, and seems to be quite fast, as Cancer observes. Word Of God mentions that while he is not the strongest, fastest or toughest of the villains, his performances in all those categories are above-average, and he seems to have some hidden abilities up his sleeve.
Loads and Loads of Characters: Twelve main characters, their co-workers at the New Dawn corporation, and each one of them has their own family, friends, and rivals, and a twelve person villain team.
Nightmare to Taurus. Though others team members have a rough time, this is nothing compared to the humiliation Taurus is suffering, who is completly unable to protect herself from Nightmare, and is so paralyzed in fear that the idea to fight back or flee Nightmare doesn't even cross her mind.
One of Us: Eggplantman, the author, acknowledged the existence of TV Tropes, giving direct links to this page in his deviantART commentary, and provided the current image.
Oh Crap: The Celsius phantasm in Second Chance #3, and Saurus in Second Chance #17.
Aquarius did not expect Ghoul to talk back at her after she punched him through his body.
Slaver when she discovers that Gemini's multiples personalities are more complicated that she thought, and that she unwillingly released the one personality which should have been left asleep.
Libra, upon seeing Cancer’s robot, but before anyone else knew that’s what it was:
Aries: Is there a problem bud? Libra: Could be… There is a damn big robot in the hallway. Is that a problem? ‘Cause if it is, I’m totally prepared to start freaking out anytime.
Pyro Maniac: Hell Hound in spades. He's even called a pyromaniac in his official bio.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: In this case, the justification is subverted: Gemini, being an albino, would naturally have red eyes, but he's also the kind of character where this trope takes full effect. Especially when his true evil side is released by Slaver: his pupils and iris disappears, and his eyes become completly red.
Stock Superhero Day Jobs: Subverted; many were government agents, some worked for New Dawn in a non-powered capacity, one was military (Pisces), and one was a graphic artist (Libra). Played straight with the career superhero Aquarius and the student Cancer.
Super Registration Act: As mentioned above. So far it hasn't been portrayed in a negative way at all aside from Nightmare's probably biased description.
Western Zodiac: The team theme. For all characters who know their birthdays, their team insignia is also their birth sign. Virgo and Sagittarius find this highly suspicious.
What the Hell, Hero?: While the team is out at Chops' bar, Gemini and Sagittarius argue and Gemini yells at her. A drunk college student jumps to her defense.
is a furry superhero comic. Those who have "Extraordinary Powers and Abilities" are required to register with the government; these persons are then often hired by major corporations to protect their interests, with the caveat that they must also perform public service.The New Dawn corporation is one such business, who are branching out into hiring supers for the first time. Lead by an enigmatic, probably insane board, Zodiac is a team still learning to work together, while many of the established heroes are finding that going public only has drawn their old enemies to them once more.Also branches off into two other comics, Quetzalcoatlus featuring the Zodiac team and Second Chance featuring Saurus.
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