History Blog / Feedbackverse

* DistressedDamsel: K2, and later Mnemonic, to the point where it's a RunningGag.

* HurtingHero: Pretty much everyone at some point or another. This multiverse ''runs'' on angst.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Mnemonic's weapon of choice, which she's used against both [=ReBoot=] (''Ryuami Rising'') and Sparrow ("K2's Bright Idea"). K2 gets a good one in on Blackthorn at the end of ''Conspiracy Cola.''

A multiverse known for its LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters (over 40 at last count), most of which are {{AuthorAvatar}}s of some sort. You can find the group behind the multiverse [[http://www.kamikazekomics.com here]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: We know, we know.

* LuckilyMyPowersWillProtectMe: Just about every single one of the audio dramas. Considering there are LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters to keep track of, it's kind of a necessity.

* FiveManBand: Tech Support as an organization can be seen as this:
** TheHero: Feedback. Duh.
** TheLancer: Blackthorn, possibly Beta Flight.
** TheSmartGuy: Research and Development, Information Technologies, Medical.
** TheBigGuy: Search and Rescue, Recon, Base Security.
** TheChick: Creative Arts. Forthright and all the other 'executives' work in the "holding the team together" sense.
** SixthRanger: Any department that wasn't in TS from the beginning. Maintenance/Transportation, Beta Flight again.

* WomanInWhite: Silly Con's late wife Rosalind, Mnemonic (especially during "The Wolfram Mission" and the beginning of ''Mindtheft''). Dr. Quarters is a male example.

* AndThisIsFor: [[spoiler:ReBoot]] "This" being a bullet to [[spoiler:Favor]]'s brain, courtesy of Pre-Fetch, in the audio episode "Eyes on the Sparrow, Conclusion"
* ArmorPiercingSlap: Mnemonic's weapon of choice, which she's used against both Reboot (''Ryuami Rising'') and Sparrow ("K2's Bright Idea"). K2 gets a good one in on Blackthorn at the end of ''Conspiracy Cola.''

* BadassNormal: Pre-Fetch, Reboot, Drive, Blackthorn, Back-up...if they're in Tech Support and don't have powers, chances are they go here.

* DeadpanSnarker: Archive, in the audio series. Dragonryder, Reboot, and Sparrow in the fiction-verse.

* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: In the audio-verse episode ''Eyes On The Sparrow Part 3: Conclusion'', [[spoiler:ReBoot gets one just before having his neck snapped:"Favor - I'm no bargaining chip. It - it doesn't matter - what you do to me - Feedback - will - still - stop you!"]]

* GoodIsNotNice: Sparrow. He isn't by any means the only example, but he's definitely the most extreme. ''Conspiracy Cola'' is a one-stop shop of reasons why you really shouldn't piss people like Pre-Fetch, Drive, K2, AutumSnow, and Reboot off. In a nutshell - don't hurt children, don't help terrorists, and for the love of God, ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking do NOT]]'' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking insult the great Freddie Mercury.]]

** While there are still shades of this in the audio series, it's really Pre-Fetch and ''Reboot'', as evidenced in the the first installment of "Cover of Darkness" (reminiscing about their days in the military together) and the last installment of "Eyes on the Sparrow" (Pre-Fetch's [[spoiler:reaction to [=ReBoot=]'s death]]).

* MildlyMilitary: Tech Support. Mostly an organization full of civilians, parts of it are run by ex-military personnel (CPU = Chief of Operations, Pre-Fetch = Director of Recon, Reboot = Medical second-in-command).

* NumberTwo: One for nearly every department of Tech Support. Dragonryder to Arc, [=PiperMage=] to Back-up, [=AutumSnow=] to Pre-Fetch, Reboot to K2. Most of them have actually had to be acting directors of their divisions at one point or another.

* ThemeNaming: Most of the early members of Tech Support chose names based on computer parts or functions - CPU, Router, Drive, Pre-Fetch, Back-up, Reboot, Console, etc.

* WonderfulLife: There are a few elements of this in the ''Group Project'', where Feedback gets to see just how screwed up Tech Support would be without him (and the story even takes place around Christmastime, too! Not that that effects the story in the slightest).

* TheSimpsonsDidIt: Summed up perfectly by Console and Schiz in a character-development discussion - "That name is actually taken by Marvel, I think." / "''Everything'' is taken by Marvel, methinks."

* FiveBadBand: The villain group from the June 13, 2009 event:
** TheBigBad: Fragment
** TheDragon Jett Contrail
** EvilGenius: Lethe
** TheBrute: Nergal
** TheDarkChick Loviatar
** ''Beta Flight'' Also has:
*** TheBigBad: Xanatos
*** TheDragon: Gridlock
*** EvilGenius: Genzo the Harpist
*** TheBrute: Devil Lash
*** TheDarkChick: Steel Wing

* ChekhovsGun: ''KingdomHearts'' in the audio episode ''What Was Lost''.

* CharacterBlog: Several group members (Arc, Blue Streak, Jitter, Mach5) have MySpace accounts for their heroic personas. Mnemonic, Defrag, and Wraith have Gaia Online accounts.

The various parts of the Feedback-verse provide examples of:
* ActingForTwo: Matthew Atherton has spent two episodes of ''A Hero's Calling'' doing scenes as both Feedback and Spectre, often TalkingToHimself.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Oh-so-many. Take a shot every time one Caith Donovan wrote one of these:
** '''Feedback''': One for pretty much every story he's featured in.
** '''Archive''': Facing down a zombie armed with nothing but a ''Guitar Hero'' controller. (from ''Late Night Double Feature'')
** '''[=AutumSnow=]''': Capturing Daryl Matson at the end of ''Conspiracy Cola'' - "I want you to live long enough to fear the end before it finally comes for you."
** '''Back-up''': Taking out the 'Witch Wolf' during the climax of ''The Reverb Papers.''
** '''Blue Streak''': "Like I said... you're under arrest, courtesy of the Blue Streak PD." (from ''Dreams and Memories'')
** '''Dark Enforcer''': "My heart may be dark, but my fists are still made... of ''iron''!" (from ''Cover of Darkness'')
** '''Drive:''' The "Hollaback Girl" sequence from ''Conspiracy Cola.''
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: "And NO FOAM!"
** From the first audio installment of Eyes on the Sparrow, "If you break out in song, Console, I'm going to punch you unconscious."
** Same episode: "John Blackthorn and I are romantically involved." [[RecordNeedleScratch *RECORD SCRATCH*]]
* CrowningMomentofHeartwarming: the beginning of Jitter and Tribunal's relationship in ''ADSR''. Bonus heartwarming (and awesome) comes when you take into account that the two met and fell in love through Tech Support ''[[RealLifeWritesThePlot in real life.]]''
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: All of David Krause's scores for the audio dramas. All of them.
** Feedback's theme song, "My Calling". Listen to it and just try not to rock out.
** See Drive's CMOA above. Never has Gwen Stefani been so badass.

* TheDanza: Most characters in Tech Support are named either partially or entirely after their creators, to the point where listing the exceptions (Kim Gianopoulos as Krystle Karroux/K2, Mike Winters as Kyle Jensen/Mach5, Toby Krause as Michael Barton/Tribunal, Caith Donovan as Kevin Green/Sparrow, Krystle Eve as Trista Morain/Defrag) is far easier to do.
** Sparrow gets two brief bouts of Danza-dom. At one point in ''Conspiracy Cola'', he introduces himself as Leif... the creator's given name before he changed it. Much later on, in ''Avatar'', we learn that Sparrow has been using Caith Donovan as a pen name.

* EvilIsSexy: Darc. Oh so much.
** Fragment and Lethe, especially when [[LesYay together]] according to [[YuriFan Blue Streak]] .

* FakeNationality: A LOT in the audio-verse. Aaron Einhorn (American) as Favor (Haitian).
** FakeAmerican: Devil Lash from "Beta Flight". His voice-actor, Dave [=MacIver=], sums it up nicely: "Gotta love audio. Where else can a scrawny Scotsman play a big American nutter?"
** FakeBrit: Opus, Surge, and the random coffeehouse barista from the audio dramas are played by Americans (Robin Carlisle, Steven Jay Cohen, and Mike Winters, respectively).

* FanNickname: Many. Since 'the fans' and 'the writers' are generally the same people, most of these end up being mentioned in-canon.
** [=FicBoot/AudioBoot=], Schroedinger's Medic, Ken Aicheewawa (Reboot)
** Little Mnemo, Mnemo-fish (Mnemonic)
** Flyboy, Speedy (Mach5)
** Streaky, Little Boy Blue (Blue Streak; second one doubles for Arc)
** K2saurus Rex (alter!K2, as has been said elsewhere)
** Dragonryder Barbie, Sailor Robin, Bubblegum Carlisle (alter!Dragonryder)
** Team Evil, the Demon String Quartet (Fragment, Contrail, Lethe, and Loviatar)

* NamesTheSame: Feedback shares a name with a minor Marvel character. Providing a double-whammy and confusing things even more, the Marvel guy was part of a super-team called Beta Flight.
** There have been several instances of random people wandering into Thursday-night chats, thinking they had found the channel for technical support.
** Blue Streak (or Bluestreak) is apparently a really, really popular code name. Tech Support's got one, Marvel's got four. One of those is a supervillain, and another one is a woman.
** Tech Support's Mainframe is a speedster and a technopath. Marvel's Mainframe is an android built by Tony Stark (presumably [[MemeticMutation in a cave!]] ''[[MemeticMutation With a box of scraps]]!'')
** There's a Marvel villain named Reverb, although he's very, very different from the one Tech Support has faced.
** Marvel's got a Power Princess, and so does Tech Support. The latter [[NonHumanSidekick is a cat]]. (And knowing the cat's owner, this could very well have been [[ShoutOut intentional.]])
** Pulse shares a name with another Marvel character (and a really awful horror movie).
*** Skin has a Marvel counterpart as well, although they probably don't know each other at all.
** Depending on what you're reading, Silver is either a cook (Tech Support) or a mutant (Marvel).
** Don't confuse Leslie "Wraith" Meadows with any of the three Marvel guys who go by the same nickname.
** Schiz was right: everything really is taken by Marvel.

* {{Narm}}: [[DullSurprise "Chills just exploded down my back!"]] There are zombies tearing people apart. I should not be laughing this hard. ("Eyes on the Sparrow, part 1")
** A certain line of Back-up's from "Eyes on the Sparrow, part 2" became [[NarmCharm genuinely funny]] when the actor quickly ad-libbed a couple good lampshadings of the narm...
-->'''Back-up''': Like a monkey on a cupcake! ...''what''? Lord Jesus, I've lost my affinity for snappy comebacks.
-->'''Back-up''': Like a monkey on a cupcake! ...''what'' did I say? Oh my Lord. I've lost... I can't... ''someone kill me now.''
** And one semi-in-character rant of an outtake could be considered a CrowningMomentOfFunny all by itself.
-->'''Back-up''': Like a monkey on a cu - whuh? I can't - I'm sorry. [[BreakingTheFourthWall Can I... can I get a writer down here to fix this, please?]] What? I can't - I can't ''say'' this! What - 'monkey on a...' - what is that? I'm not ''trying'' to be a prima donna here, but come on. Who says that? Has anybody in this ''entire room'' ever heard that line before? ''Ever''? Has anybody said that in casual conversation, or, has anybody said that ''period'', if they're not high? ''I'm'' not high. Are ''you'' high? [[TakeThat Were the writers high when they wrote this?]] Come ''on'', people, we can do better than this garbage! What the ''heck'', man! [a few seconds of incoherent stammering] Did you write - did ''you'' write this? Come see. I want you to get him - I want you to get him out of here. Get him ou - don't talk back to me. Don't talk back to me. I don't wanna hear it. We are ''done'' professionally! ''Done'', you hear me? Get him off the set. Get him off the set, ''now!''
*** And then he just goes quiet for a second and calmly continues with his lines, which just adds to it somehow.
*** A good third or so of this actually [[ThrowItIn made it into the episode]], too.

* TheOtherDarrin: In the third episode of ''Beta Flight'', Router's usual voice-actor Tanner Karns was suddenly replaced by Mike Sims, who sounds significantly older and speaks with a slightly different accent. The result was... incredibly jarring, and hopefully the switch is only temporary.
** This is actually the second time Router has been Other-Darrin'd. One of his lines in the ''Beta Flight'' pilot had to be re-dubbed, so for about three seconds he's voiced by Alan White.
** Steven Jay Cohen replaced Scott Hinze as Firewall in the second-season premiere of ''A Hero's Calling''.
** Lyn Cullen is also temporarily replacing Rachel Steiner as Angelus.
** The first audio installment of "Eyes on the Sparrow" is ''full'' of this. Alan White replacing Oliver Tull as OutSource (yay), Steven Orr as Back-up (meh, but thankfully temporary), Lyn Cullen as Angelus as mentioned before, and a new character, Ms. Eng, gets Other Darrin'd ''mid-episode''.
** As of the second installment of "Eyes", Matt Burden has replaced Andrey Kuznetsov as Reboot.

* ReverseFunnyAneurysm: There's a small mention in ''The Reverb Papers'' of Jitter ogling some college girls while out on a mission. A few months after the story was published, the real-life Jitter announced to the group that he and the very male Tribunal had fallen in love.
** In the same vein (and from the same story), the fact that Tribunal never took his female lawyer friend out to dinner makes a lot more sense.

* {{Shipping}} Much more than you might think. [[OfficialCouple Feedback/Sarah is simply fact]], and always has been. K2/Blackthorn has been around nearly as long, as has [=OutSource=]/Lemuria.
** It's taken off more in the last year or so, too. We now have [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Jitter/Tribunal]], Mnemonic/Pulse, [[DatingCatwoman Blue Streak/Opus]] and then [[SlapSlapKiss Blue Streak/Defrag]], Dragonryder/Hellion, [[ThemePairing Router/Fritz]], with lots of [[ShipTease hints]] at Sparrow/Lechara (and, in the Group Project, there are the alternate versions of [[MayDecemberRomance Back-up/Lechara]], [=PiperMage=]/Pulse, Major Victory/Amber, and possibly Defrag/Reboot).
** And then there's Upload, who for some reason has decided that it is absolutely essential that Arc get himself a girlfriend, even though pretty much all of her suggestions have been vocally and repeatedly vetoed by the characters' [[WordOfGod creators]].

* TearJerker: Oh so many:
** Matt's speech to Sarah in "What Was Lost" - especially the very last, "he'll have killed me without striking a single blow".
** The last several scenes of ''Cover of Darkness'' in all versions, particularly the audio-verse.
** The last few lines of ''System Crash'' caused the gal ''writing them'' to mist up a little.
-->"You don't know what the last two weeks have been like. That damned sickness already took my little girl from me... I couldn't bear it if it had gotten you too, Tanner."
-->Router shifted awkwardly in his chair, and turned to look up at his grandfather. "It's okay. I promise, I'm not going anywhere."
** The epilogue of "Struck Twice" has reportedly made at least three readers cry.
** [[spoiler:Recon's death and, later, Admin's attempted suicide]] in Family.
** If you didn't at least sniffle at the aftermath of [[spoiler:[=ReBoot=]'s death]] in the last audio installment of "Eyes on the Sparrow", you have ''no soul''.

The Feedback-verse refers to a multiverse based around the winner of season 1 of WhoWantsToBeASuperhero, Feedback.

* ShowWithinAShow: ''WhoWantsToBeASuperhero'' is still a television show in the Tech Support 'verse, but with a few differences, the main one being that the contestants were all actual superheroes wearing power-inhibitor bracelets.

* {{Badass}}: Several; see below as well as the character sheet.
** BadassCrew: Tech Support, natch.
*** Alpha Squad qualifies as well.
** BadassFamily: The Perkinses. Grandma and the latest generation are pretty normal, but Mickey, James, [[BadassDriver Frank and Bobbi]]? ''Dang.''
** BadassLongcoat: Dragonryder and Sparrow.
** BadassNormal: Pre-Fetch, Reboot, Drive, Blackthorn, Back-up...if they're in Tech Support and don't have powers, chances are they go here.

** Any nickname Mnemonic is given is usually one of these. So far we've had [[ComicStrip/LittleNemo Little Mnemo]], [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Mnemo-fish]], and [[Creator/JulesVerne Captain]] [[LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen Mnemo]].

* EatenByASnake: Done in a spectacularly brutal fashion to Router and Arc in ''System Crash'' and ''Conspiracy Cola'', respectively.

** LiveInHeaven, while one of the first to join the team, consciously [[OddNameOut broke the pattern]] - in his first appearance in the audio series, he gleefully notes that his name "has nothing to do with computers or tech support".