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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Judgment TheDreaded (an unseen but frequently mentioned character) one of the causes of the CrapsackWorld in the BackStory, or were his KnightTemplar activities a response to that world? His victims include the ominous MadScientist Plague, supervillains who made perverted comments to the hero Marvelous, and Deadly Flame (who had just killed two hundred people and was about to kill dozens more when Judgment shot him). He also made a failed attempt at killing NiceGuy Bull shortly before the short story "Summer of Lob" and is said to kill anyone the cops can't catch, regardless of how evil they are. However, given how Bull was a major BloodKnight whose powers had incredible destructive potential, it is possible to read Judgment as either a murder addict or a WellIntentionedExtremist with a "better safe than sorry" mindset toward villains who were too powerful for the cops to bring in. One of the most morally upstanding heroes of the 1970s has no hesitation in denouncing Judgment as a monster and agreeing with a proposal for Mourning Dove to kill Judgment, but Judgment isn't mentioned among the AxCrazy anti-heroes who try to violently stop Spider's rules from being implemented and is still alive decades later. Did Mourning Dove try to kill him and fail, or (like with the Inscrutable Machine) did she have a chance to kill Judgment but rightly or wrongly decide he was less bad than people thought?
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: ''Literature/IDidNotGiveThatSpiderSuperhumanIntelligence'' could have shown Penny's parents and a lot of their core peers at a low point in their lives while dealing with the CrapsackWorld of a pre-Spider's rules Los Angeles, but almost all of the heroes and villains to appear in that book (minus Goodnight, Mourning Dove, Delicious, and NominalHero and TheGhost Judgment) are new characters, few of whom are even seen or mentioned in subsequent books written in the main era.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: ''Literature/IDidNotGiveThatSpiderSuperhumanIntelligence'' could have shown Penny's parents and a lot of their core peers at a low point in their lives while dealing with the CrapsackWorld of a pre-Spider's rules Los Angeles, but almost all of the heroes and villains to appear or get mentioned in that book (minus a few like Goodnight, Mourning Dove, Bull, Delicious, and NominalHero and TheGhost Winnow, Judgment) are new characters, few of whom are even seen or mentioned in subsequent books written in the main era.
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* GrowingTheBeard: Some fans feel that, as solid as the first book is, the series really begins to pick up with either the third book (which sees the Superkids Club formed), or the fourth book (a DarkerAndEdgier prequel about Spider and Goodnight), due to the new characters, perspectives, and world building in them.
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--> '''Remmy''': After they fawned over you as the greatest mechanic ever, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion how could you not know that messing with Puppeteers would get people killed?]]
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--> '''Remmy''': After they fawned over you as the greatest mechanic ever, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion how could you not know that messing with Puppeteers would get people killed?]]killed?]]
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: ''Literature/IDidNotGiveThatSpiderSuperhumanIntelligence'' could have shown Penny's parents and a lot of their core peers at a low point in their lives while dealing with the CrapsackWorld of a pre-Spider's rules Los Angeles, but almost all of the heroes and villains to appear in that book (minus Goodnight, Mourning Dove, Delicious, and NominalHero and TheGhost Judgment) are new characters, few of whom are even seen or mentioned in subsequent books written in the main era.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: ''Literature/IDidNotGiveThatSpiderSuperhumanIntelligence'' could have shown Penny's parents and a lot of their core peers at a low point in their lives while dealing with the CrapsackWorld of a pre-Spider's rules Los Angeles, but almost all of the heroes and villains to appear in that book (minus Goodnight, Mourning Dove, Delicious, and NominalHero and TheGhost Judgment) are new characters, few of whom are even seen or mentioned in subsequent books written in the main era.
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* ShipSinking: In ''Giant Monster'', Claire and Penny's future is revealed to be platonic due to IncompatibleOrientation.
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* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Marcia is an AlphaBitch and HeroWithAnFInGood for the first two-and-a-half books and does nothing but cause trouble and behave insufferably. Then, she touches some magic artifacts that cause her to become an EmpoweredBadassNormal and a CombatSadomasochist who is less quick to judge people and becomes one of the best-liked members of the cast in and out of universe.
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* ShipSinking: In ''Giant Monster'', Claire and Penny's future is revealed to be platonic due to IncompatibleOrientation.
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* NightmareFuel: The Red Panacea clinic. A perfectly normal clinic, except that it's floating in space, completely abandoned, and covered in some sort of living red biomass. There are no survivors, but there are traps that ''look'' like survivors, complete with begging for help to trick people close enough to grab. You'd think the random goat heads would push it over to {{Narm}}. They don't.
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** ''Moon'', Claire seems to enjoy the communal gender-segregated showers on Callisto a bit too much.
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** In ''Moon'', Claire seems to enjoy the communal gender-segregated showers on Callisto a bit too much.much.
** ''Henchmen'':
*** Claire spends a lot of time hugging Penny, laying her head on her shoulder, and staring deeply into her eyes. Penny remains completely oblivious.
*** Cassie, likewise, uses every excuse to get close to Penny, though it's not as obvious because Penny avoids her for being a loony fan. [[spoiler:She gets the message when Cassie kisses her, though]].
*** Sue and Marcia get some, especially when Marcia's powers go haywire and Sue rushes to help her up.
*** Rage and Ruin actually get basically none, despite the fact that they live together and are raising a child together. Doesn't stop everyone from assuming they're a couple.
* MoralEventHorizon:
** The Bad Doctor crosses this multiple times across ''Spider'', but the ultimate action there may well be the revelation that not only is he responsible for kidnapping and experimenting on children [[spoiler: he has no intention to stop and worked on Bluejay, a healer barely into her teens, which he turned into Mourning Dove. Further emphasized by making Bluejay a minor supporting character.]]
** Mammon stops being a HarmlessVillain when he reveals he fully intends to sacrifice Palooka Joe's wife and child. He almost succeeds too.
** ''Henchmen'':
*** Claire spends a lot of time hugging Penny, laying her head on her shoulder, and staring deeply into her eyes. Penny remains completely oblivious.
*** Cassie, likewise, uses every excuse to get close to Penny, though it's not as obvious because Penny avoids her for being a loony fan. [[spoiler:She gets the message when Cassie kisses her, though]].
*** Sue and Marcia get some, especially when Marcia's powers go haywire and Sue rushes to help her up.
*** Rage and Ruin actually get basically none, despite the fact that they live together and are raising a child together. Doesn't stop everyone from assuming they're a couple.
* MoralEventHorizon:
** The Bad Doctor crosses this multiple times across ''Spider'', but the ultimate action there may well be the revelation that not only is he responsible for kidnapping and experimenting on children [[spoiler: he has no intention to stop and worked on Bluejay, a healer barely into her teens, which he turned into Mourning Dove. Further emphasized by making Bluejay a minor supporting character.]]
** Mammon stops being a HarmlessVillain when he reveals he fully intends to sacrifice Palooka Joe's wife and child. He almost succeeds too.
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** Penny makes one too many comments about how pretty Claire looks, even before Claire's powers have kicked in.
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** Penny makes one too many comments about how pretty Claire looks, even before Claire's powers have kicked in.in.
** ''Moon'', Claire seems to enjoy the communal gender-segregated showers on Callisto a bit too much.
* NightmareFuel: The Red Panacea clinic. A perfectly normal clinic, except that it's floating in space, completely abandoned, and covered in some sort of living red biomass. There are no survivors, but there are traps that ''look'' like survivors, complete with begging for help to trick people close enough to grab. You'd think the random goat heads would push it over to {{Narm}}. They don't.
* {{Sequelitis}}: While the second book is not bad by any means, taking the story into space created a very strong sense of disconnect with the events of the first book.
* TearJerker: In ''Moon'', Penny's gradual descent into HeroicBSOD as it becomes ever more apparent that [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone her presence and interference]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero was responsible for most of the conflict in the book]]. It starts with this exchange between Penny and Remmy, following the disaster on Callisto, and only gets worse from there.
--> '''Penny''': Fixing things isn't my specialty, but if there's anything I can do to help, I will.
--> '''Remmy''': Why would I want help from a meat puppet?!
--> '''Penny''': I only wanted to help.
--> '''Remmy''': Like you helped everyone on Callisto? By infesting the system with the monsters YOU made, so the Puppeteers could use our weapons against us?
--> '''Penny''': I didn't want that to happen any more than you did.
--> '''Remmy''': Oh, yeah? I knew those people, Bad Penny! I lived with them after your Puppeteer masters took over Io, until Calvin and I couldn't live with the automatons' stupid, inflexible rules anymore. Do you want the names of the people I saw blasted and set on fire because of you?
--> '''Penny''': I'm sorry. If I'd known my inventions would turn on people, I'd have destroyed them myself.
--> '''Remmy''': After they fawned over you as the greatest mechanic ever, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion how could you not know that messing with Puppeteers would get people killed?]]
** ''Moon'', Claire seems to enjoy the communal gender-segregated showers on Callisto a bit too much.
* NightmareFuel: The Red Panacea clinic. A perfectly normal clinic, except that it's floating in space, completely abandoned, and covered in some sort of living red biomass. There are no survivors, but there are traps that ''look'' like survivors, complete with begging for help to trick people close enough to grab. You'd think the random goat heads would push it over to {{Narm}}. They don't.
* {{Sequelitis}}: While the second book is not bad by any means, taking the story into space created a very strong sense of disconnect with the events of the first book.
* TearJerker: In ''Moon'', Penny's gradual descent into HeroicBSOD as it becomes ever more apparent that [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone her presence and interference]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero was responsible for most of the conflict in the book]]. It starts with this exchange between Penny and Remmy, following the disaster on Callisto, and only gets worse from there.
--> '''Penny''': Fixing things isn't my specialty, but if there's anything I can do to help, I will.
--> '''Remmy''': Why would I want help from a meat puppet?!
--> '''Penny''': I only wanted to help.
--> '''Remmy''': Like you helped everyone on Callisto? By infesting the system with the monsters YOU made, so the Puppeteers could use our weapons against us?
--> '''Penny''': I didn't want that to happen any more than you did.
--> '''Remmy''': Oh, yeah? I knew those people, Bad Penny! I lived with them after your Puppeteer masters took over Io, until Calvin and I couldn't live with the automatons' stupid, inflexible rules anymore. Do you want the names of the people I saw blasted and set on fire because of you?
--> '''Penny''': I'm sorry. If I'd known my inventions would turn on people, I'd have destroyed them myself.
--> '''Remmy''': After they fawned over you as the greatest mechanic ever, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion how could you not know that messing with Puppeteers would get people killed?]]
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* {{Adorkable}}: The Expert. In 1980, he was just a mechanic who had recently decided to call himself "the Expert." He occasionally got his hands on super-tech, but was too shy and awkward to be a real player in the community. Goodnight notes to herself that once his acne clears up and his voice stops cracking, he'll be able to pull off the "serious businessman" look very well. Apparently, she was right.
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* FirstInstallmentWins: More than one reviewer has commented that the first book was by a wide margin the best.
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* LesYay: There are a few scenes where Claire is clearly trying not to look at Penny when she's changing. Penny doesn't seem to notice, and Claire's super-cuteness makes it one-sided anyway.
** It might be because the author is a male, but Penny makes one too many comments about how pretty Claire looks, even before Claire's powers have kicked in.
** It might be because the author is a male, but Penny makes one too many comments about how pretty Claire looks, even before Claire's powers have kicked in.
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* LesYay: LesYay:
** There are a few scenes where Claire is clearly trying not to look at Penny when she's changing. Penny doesn't seem to notice, and Claire's super-cuteness makes it one-sided anyway.
**It might be because the author is a male, but Penny makes one too many comments about how pretty Claire looks, even before Claire's powers have kicked in.
** There are a few scenes where Claire is clearly trying not to look at Penny when she's changing. Penny doesn't seem to notice, and Claire's super-cuteness makes it one-sided anyway.
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* LesYay: There are a few scenes where Claire is clearly trying not to look at Penny when she's changing. Penny doesn't seem to notice, and Claire's super-cuteness makes it one-sided anyway.anyway.
** It might be because the author is a male, but Penny makes one too many comments about how pretty Claire looks, even before Claire's powers have kicked in.
** It might be because the author is a male, but Penny makes one too many comments about how pretty Claire looks, even before Claire's powers have kicked in.
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* IncestSubtext: Lucyfar claims that Gabriel is her brother (which he denies). She also claims they're dating (which he also denies).
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* IncestSubtext: Lucyfar claims that Gabriel is her brother (which he denies). She also claims they're dating (which he also denies).
* LesYay: There are a few scenes where Claire is clearly trying not to look at Penny when she's changing. Penny doesn't seem to notice, and Claire's super-cuteness makes it one-sided anyway.
* LesYay: There are a few scenes where Claire is clearly trying not to look at Penny when she's changing. Penny doesn't seem to notice, and Claire's super-cuteness makes it one-sided anyway.
