History ChildOfTheStorm / TropesIToP

* MySecretPregnancy: crops up a couple of times. [[spoiler: Wanda had one of these during the first war against Voldemort, panicked and had the resultant baby adopted with the help of her best friend, Lily Potter. The kicker is that said baby is Hermione Granger.]] The reasoning behind this was a combination of ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies for both her and the father [[spoiler: John Constantine]] - considering her RoguesGallery and his usual enemies, it's generally accepted that any child she tried to raise would probably have died horribly in short order. As for the father, she considered (not without reason) him to be a GlorifiedSpermDonor and the desire to [[GiveHimANormalLife let her child live a normal life]] and, of course, to keep said child away from her father, who was part way through his HeelFaceTurn (which, in any case, she was and remains sceptical of).

** On top of that, Sirius explains that Lily was pregnant with a second child and had been planning to tell James after Halloween, to make it a surprise, and has since kept it secret for James/Thor's sake.

* NeverMessWithGranny: Frigga is a kind, lovely GrannyClassic and a MedicalMonarch. She also used to be a shield maiden of note and is more than capable of having a quiet talk with [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Hera]] that leaves the [[JerkassGod other goddess]], older and potentially more powerful than her, significantly subdued.

* ParentsAsPeople: does this a lot, though Thor and Wanda, Harry's godmother [[spoiler: and Hermione's biological mother]], are shown to be GoodParents, they're still human. Metaphorically speaking, in Thor's case.

** In the same incident, the narration takes the time to observe this in all the kids, including Diana who, being a pre-teen [[spoiler: Wonder Woman]] has to deal with fairly considerable BreastExpansion, which [[DCupDistress isn't quite as welcome]] as the [[BoobsOfSteel height and muscles that she put on as well.]]

* MagneticHero: Loki notes this about Harry, Thor and Steve.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Sean, which gives him a whole battery of very scary abilities, including a CompellingVoice (the use of which as part of a RoaringRampageOfRevenge still occasionally gives Nick Fury nightmares) and the ability to hit the resonant frequency of anything, whether it be [[GlassShatteringSound glass]], diamond or even [[BodyHorror bone]]. And he's had the best part of fifty years practice....

** Natasha.
** Nick Fury raises this to an art form.
** [[spoiler: Agent Coulson]].

** Needless to say, all of them and many others beside are played by the man who is Usually In On The Joke (Because He Wrote It): Doctor Stephen Strange, MagnificentBastard and Sorcerer Supreme.

** Then Chapter 55 flips it on its head, and explores the ramifications of this, how it might do more harm than good (it's positively expected in Asgard, but everyone there has a HealingFactor and SuperToughness. On Earth, not so much), and really, all Harry was doing was satisfying his anger, with Sean Cassidy, who though he supported it because he knew Luna's mother and is fond of Luna herself, noting that it was [[KickTheSonOfABitch 'straight from Erik's playbook']]. The eventual conclusion is that while it isn't too serious, because of magical medicine, and Harry's intentions were good, the long term effects could be problematic, especially if it's part of a trend. The chapter is appropriately titled 'Not Black And White'.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Krieger]], in a non-lethal variant. While he gets an eyewatering kick in the balls and a brief but effective beatdown by T'Challa, the racist, sexist pervert kind of deserves it.
** This is pretty much all that happens to Gravemoss in chapter 76, and richly deserved it is too.

* PornStash: It is mentioned that Lily once forced James to throw out some [[ADateWithRosiePalms well loved]] copies of ''Playwizard''.

* NoodleIncident: Apparently, Thor and the National Grid do not mix.
** And that time when Wanda told the First Order who her father was, Sirius refused to believe her in extremely tactless fashion and promptly got laid out by Lily. According to Sirius, she [Lily] had a vicious right hook.
** There was, apparently, an incident involving Clint Barton, Hal Jordan, Agent Sitwell and a bungee cord.
** During Jane's building of her Earth based Bifrost, she accidentally warped Darcy into another dimension where she 'did shots with a [[ComicBook/TheSandman1989 hot goth girl called Didi']].
*** This seems to have been a frequent problem, with Darcy having apparently also ended up in what she claims was the Cretaceous. Jane counters that it was the Upper Jurassic. According to Darcy, this doesn't matter because whatever the case, there were dinosaurs all over the place.
*** And then, shortly after this revelation, she ends up as a test dummy for a similar device and being warped to New Jersey. [[TakeThat Apparently, she preferred the Jurassic.]]
** On a darker note, it's never directly specified what [[BewareTheNiceOnes Sean]] [[MakeMeWannaShout Cassidy]] did to the IRA cell that murdered his wife with his CompellingVoice, but it was bad enough that even now, it sometimes gives Nick Fury nightmares.
** Wanda once offered one of the Little Folk a cup of coffee. The results were ugly enough to make her swear not to do it again.
** Coulson implies that he was betrayed by a wizard he thought he knew and could trust, but is sparing with the details.
** How, exactly, did [[spoiler: Regulus Black]] survive the Inferi who killed him in canon and go from renegade Death Eater to protege of Nick Fury and member of [=MI13=]?
** When Harry got christened, James, Sirius, John Constantine and Nick Fury went through six bottles of Firewhiskey and took Sirius' motorbike, a barrel of grease and a herd of enchanted badgers to a Quidditch match.

%%** Harry's ([[NamesTheSame both of them]]) eventual SignatureMove.

* LifeIsntFair: Harry somewhat incredulously says this almost word for word ("Since when life was ''fair''?") at the Battle of London when Carol, wielding the GreenLanternRing, complains that getting [[spoiler: zombified skyscraper sized giants]] on her first day on the job is completely unfair. Carol admits he has a point.

** UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen to Loki. PlayedForLaughs.

* KnightErrant: implied to be a fairly common thing in Asgard, with generalised adventuring and righting of wrongs.

** The Knights of the Cross.

** And the last time that someone kidnapped Pepper 'a domestic terrorist organisation and three blocks of flats got wiped off the map'.

** During the Second World War, [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome Captain America raided Nurmengard.]]

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: During chapter 43, Sif ends a brief POV section facing down a gigantic undead sea serpent. By the next time she's mentioned, she's brought down ''five'', and her next onscreen appearance shows her to be unscathed.
** Peter Wisdom [[spoiler: a.k.a Regulus Black]] has [[spoiler: found and destroyed several horcruxes. Only the diadem and Harry's scar remain. And following Chapter 70, only the latter.]]
** Mar-Vell reveals that during [[Film/Avengers2012 the Chitauri Invasion]], he was responsible for killing many of the Chitauri that the Avengers missed.

* KnifeNut: the Winter Soldier favours a vibranium knife in close quarters and, despite several broken ribs following a fight with Steve, Natasha and Clint, gives as good as he gets in a knife fight with ''Wolverine.''
** T'Challa wields two vibranium knives against [[MasterSwordsman Baron Zemo.]]

* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Asgardians. This, along with their SuperStrength allowed them to survive in a world where [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything really]] ''[[UpToEleven is]]'' [[EverythingTryingToKillYou trying to kill you]].

** Suggested that a lesser degree of this is present in all Asgardians, which, along with their SuperStrength and ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty, allowed them to survive in a world where [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything really]] ''[[UpToEleven is]]'' [[EverythingTryingToKillYou trying to kill you]].

%%** How Fury attempted to deal with Lucius Malfoy. While it failed, he gets points for trying - he used %%''[[UpToEleven napalm]]''

* TheManBehindTheMan: A brief paragraph suggests that Thanos is the man behind Gravemoss (or, rather, behind [[spoiler: Chthon]], who's behind Gravemoss, making him [[UpToEleven The Man Behind The Man Behind The Man.]]

** [[UpToEleven Harry]]. It's one of his defining characteristics, right up to helping little girls he's only just met find their families, taking a precociously smart girl a couple of years his junior completely seriously, immediately standing up for people he barely knows and offering a servant girl who looked tired a drink, among many other things. He even suggests that he, Carol and Jean-Paul go talk to an injured Johnny Storm, about whom he has only heard bad or, at best, fondly exasperated things (and the latter only from Sue).
* NiceGirl: Gwen Stacy. Diana takes it UpToEleven.
** Jane.
** Carol, though it isn't immediately obvious.

* PapaWolf: '''[[UpToEleven THOR]]'''

** Harry is disturbingly good with fire. So much so, in fact, that he astonishes ''Loki'', who refers to him as a prodigy in that particular discipline. [[spoiler: When he's aged up, a 'small' fireblast vaporises a werewolf and wipes out a large portion of the mountain on the other side of the valley. A full on blast launches what is essentially a functioning Destroyer all the way to a potato field in ''[[UpToEleven Russia]].'' And WordOfGod has indicated that he was only ''scratching the surface.'']]
** Harry Dresden, as usual, takes it UpToEleven.

** During Jane's building of her Earth based Bifrost, she accidentally warped Darcy into another dimension where she 'did shots with a [[ComicBook/TheSandman hot goth girl called Didi']].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: So far, the main casts from both ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' and ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', a good portion of X-Men and other Marvel groups, a few from DC, and some from ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''.

** Wanda Maximoff gets a good many moments of this towards Harry. She hasn't always been the best godmother to him, but she loves him dearly and is every bit as terrifying as [[{{Magneto}} her father]] when she wants to be. Also towards [[spoiler: her daughter, Hermione.]]

* OutOfClothesExperience: In ''Unfinished Business'', Carol ends up in the Green after [[spoiler: Nimue turns her into a tree]] and finds herself naked. She's understandably upset about this, and relieved when thinking about her armor causes it to appear on her.

** In the same incident, the narration takes the time to observe this in all the kids, including [[spoiler: Diana]] who, being a pre-teen [[spoiler: Wonder Woman]] has to deal with fairly considerable BreastExpansion, which [[DCupDistress isn't quite as welcome]] as the [[BoobsOfSteel height and muscles that she put on as well.]]

** [[spoiler: The GeniusLoci of the Mountain]] does this to Harry, Carol, [[spoiler: Diana]], Uhtred and Jean-Paul, specifically a PlotRelevantAgeUp, in chapter 59. It's temporary, but spectacular.

* NiceGirl: Gwen Stacy. [[spoiler: Diana]] takes it UpToEleven.

** Jean-Paul serves as a benevolent example to the other teens, occasionally jointly with [[spoiler: Diana]].

** Harry and [[spoiler: Diana]] are [[PlotRelevantAgeUp briefly jacked up]] to this territory at the end of chapter 59. A blast from Harry, one he explicitly intended to be small, vaporised a supercharged werewolf capable of standing up to an [[PhysicalGod Asgardian]] and basically destroyed a mountain on the other side of the valley. A large blast is visible from space, is ''mistaken for a nuke'' by NASA and launches its target [[spoiler: a reverse engineered and remote controlled version of the Destroyer]] from the Rockies to a potato field seventy miles east of Moscow. And both the narration and WordOfGod have hinted that he was only scratching the surface...
*** Even more impressively, said target survives intact, and [[spoiler: Diana]] proves her credentials by ripping it in half with her bare hands.

** To a rather greater extent, [[spoiler: Diana]], being an Empath, leading to her being WiseBeyondTheirYears.

* PsychicNosebleed: [[spoiler: Diana]].

** [[spoiler: Diana of Themyscira]] and Harry to an unknown extent.

* KillItWithFire: An effective way of dealing with the ''veidrdraugar''.
** How Fury attempted to deal with Lucius Malfoy. While it failed, he gets points for trying - he used ''[[UpToEleven napalm]]''
** Harry's ([[NamesTheSame both of them]]) eventual SignatureMove.
* KingArthur: The Lady Knight is mentioned as 'the finest of Arthur's court'.
** Harry, courtesy of Steve, is now reading 'The Sword In The Stone'.
** And Dumbledore's now acquired his own copy.

* ImplacableMan: The Winter Soldier. When Tony was younger, his family's security detail was told that if the Soldier came after them, they were to throw themselves in front of him and die as slowly impossible, in hope that the Starks would have enough time to escape.

* MysteriousProtector / MysteriousWatcher: Strange fits both of these quite neatly. He's occasionally seen keeping an eye on the heroes, then pops up in chapter 45 to pull a DeusExMachina, disappears again, then gives a few words of advice in chapter 48 and disappears again.