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* LostInTranslation: An in-universe example, combined with a VisualPun. In issue #17 of ''Über: Invasion'', [[spoiler:Siegmund]] is told he'll be participating in a decapitation attack. He pauses, then asks, "We're not actually beheading someone, right?" [[spoiler:Later that issue, Battleship Yamato is killed via a focused halo blast to the neck, and his head removed.]]
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* LostInTranslation: An in-universe example, combined with a VisualPun. In issue #17 of ''Über: Invasion'', [[spoiler:Siegmund]] is told he'll be participating in a decapitation attack. He pauses, then asks, asks his translator, "We're not actually beheading someone, right?" [[spoiler:Later that issue, Battleship Yamato is killed via a focused halo blast to the neck, and his head removed.]]
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* SuperWeight: The "tank" Übers are Level 3: they have moderate super-strength, cannot be killed by anything less than an anti-tank missile, and fire "disruption halo" EyeBeams powerful enough to melt tank armor at close range. The rarer "battleship" Übers are easily Level 4: they're nigh-invincible, can tear tank-class Übers apart with their bare hands, and their eye beams can demolish entire buildings from thousands of yards away. "Cruiser" and "Destroyer" class Übers are later developed, with greater strength and halo powers than "tanks" but less than "battleships"; they're midway between 3 and 4. The two known "exotic" classes, [[spoiler:Zephyrs and Geltmensch]], have extremely specialized powers and the latter has a basic halo effect, but neither have physical powers, which puts them between a class 2 and 3.
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** The cover of issue #3, pictured above, reenacts the famous car-trashing Franchise/{{Superman}} cover of ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #1 with a tank, complete with Allied soldiers fleeing in the background and the lower corner.
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** The cover of issue #3, pictured above, reenacts the famous car-trashing Franchise/{{Superman}} ComicBook/{{Superman}} cover of ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #1 with a tank, complete with Allied soldiers fleeing in the background and the lower corner.
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* HeroUnits: Rare non-video game example. The various Übers–especially the Battleship class–are larger than regular human soldiers, with strength, durability, and Halo Effects that make them so powerful and dangerous that entire new military doctrines need to be developed to accommodate them.
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* HeroUnits: HeroUnit: Rare non-video game example. The various Übers–especially the Battleship class–are larger than regular human soldiers, with strength, durability, and Halo Effects that make them so powerful and dangerous that entire new military doctrines need to be developed to accommodate them.
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* HeroUnits: Rare non-video game example. The various Übers–especially the Battleship class–are larger than regular human soldiers, with strength, durability, and Halo Effects that make them so powerful and dangerous that entire new military doctrines need to be developed to accommodate them.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The Übers are described as being "like tanks in more than just their power" – like real weapons, they need support and maintenance, and can be worn down by the clever use of weaker forces. More brutally, in a subversion of old superhero tropes, courage and fighting spirit counts for very little against the raw power of the superhumans.
** General Sankt explains to Hitler that while the first Übers became active as early as 1944, he held back on unleashing the Nazis' new ''Wunderwaffen'' until he was certain of delivering victory from the jaws. Hitler however is less than pleased, given that said ''Wunderwaffen'' came into play just as the Reich is in shambles.
** The earnest, heroic [[spoiler:H.M.H. Colossus]] is deployed against the much more experienced and powerful Sieglinde near the beginning of the story. Convention says that his pluck and smarts would have him triumph. [[spoiler:[[CurbStompBattle He doesn't.]]]]
** [[spoiler: The intervention of the Ubers may have reversed Germany's military position but the economic and infrastructure damage hasn't gone anywhere. Furthermore, the sheer devastation of "the Great Burn" has caused the occupied territories to all but collapse - even the (relatively) untouched England is barely able to drip-feed resources to Germany. This results in mass starvation throughout much of Europe during 1946.]]
** [[spoiler: Maria uses her newfound power and status to openly defy and mock the Soviet authorities and becomes something of a hero to the people in the process. However, her lack of political experience and insight means it's quite trivial for Stalin to place students loyal to him close to her and they're able to betray and apparently kill her with ease.]]
** The three German Übers are codenamed Siegfried, Siegmund and Sieglinde. While that sounds cool, it's noted the similarity of the names easily causes confusion in battlefield communications.
** General Sankt explains to Hitler that while the first Übers became active as early as 1944, he held back on unleashing the Nazis' new ''Wunderwaffen'' until he was certain of delivering victory from the jaws. Hitler however is less than pleased, given that said ''Wunderwaffen'' came into play just as the Reich is in shambles.
** The earnest, heroic [[spoiler:H.M.H. Colossus]] is deployed against the much more experienced and powerful Sieglinde near the beginning of the story. Convention says that his pluck and smarts would have him triumph. [[spoiler:[[CurbStompBattle He doesn't.]]]]
** [[spoiler: The intervention of the Ubers may have reversed Germany's military position but the economic and infrastructure damage hasn't gone anywhere. Furthermore, the sheer devastation of "the Great Burn" has caused the occupied territories to all but collapse - even the (relatively) untouched England is barely able to drip-feed resources to Germany. This results in mass starvation throughout much of Europe during 1946.]]
** [[spoiler: Maria uses her newfound power and status to openly defy and mock the Soviet authorities and becomes something of a hero to the people in the process. However, her lack of political experience and insight means it's quite trivial for Stalin to place students loyal to him close to her and they're able to betray and apparently kill her with ease.]]
** The three German Übers are codenamed Siegfried, Siegmund and Sieglinde. While that sounds cool, it's noted the similarity of the names easily causes confusion in battlefield communications.
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** The three German Ubers are codenamed Siegfried, Siegmund and Sieglinde. While that sounds cool, it's noted the similarity of the names easily causes confusion in battlefield communications.
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** The three German Ubers Übers are codenamed Siegfried, Siegmund and Sieglinde. While that sounds cool, it's noted the similarity of the names easily causes confusion in battlefield communications.
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** The three German Ubers are codenamed Siegfried, Siegmund and Sieglinde. While that sounds cool, it's noted the similarity of the names easily causes confusion in battlefield communications.
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* AntiHero: Stephanie takes part in brutal experiments as part of being undercover in the German Über program. And to successfully escape and deliver information vital for the Allies to have a chance in the war, she uses an Allied tank crew as bait for an Über.
* AntiVillain:
** Siegmund is a type one, being decidedly disgusted by the carnage he sees and partakes in and utterly despises Siegfried for his cruelty, brutality, and fanaticism. He also attempts to console and guide Sieglinde as best he can, and overall appears as an honest soldier trying to defend his country. However, he is still a Nazi soldier fighting for a regime that he knows to be pretty much pure evil [[spoiler: or so it seems... In fact, his plan from the start was to gain an audience with Hitler and secretly kill him for his tactical incompetence which caused so many of Siegmund's friends to die on the Ukrainian Front.]]
** Sieglinde is a type two, being obsessed with revenge for the death of her disabled husband in the Dresden Bombings and everyone else who died in said bombings. To this end she seeks revenge on Britain (and Churchill) in particular, which is granted when [[spoiler: she is sent on a suicide mission to attack London and kill Churchill]]. She has an enormous kill-count from her battles in Berlin, Paris and London, but objects to the mass slaughter of prisoners by Siegfried; unlike him, she takes no pleasure in her work.
* AnyoneCanDie: There is no main protagonist because of this trope. Anybody who looks as if they might be developing into an audience-identification figure will almost certainly die horribly very quickly. Even [[spoiler:Churchill and Hitler]] are killed off by the end of the first plot arc.
* AntiVillain:
** Siegmund is a type one, being decidedly disgusted by the carnage he sees and partakes in and utterly despises Siegfried for his cruelty, brutality, and fanaticism. He also attempts to console and guide Sieglinde as best he can, and overall appears as an honest soldier trying to defend his country. However, he is still a Nazi soldier fighting for a regime that he knows to be pretty much pure evil [[spoiler: or so it seems... In fact, his plan from the start was to gain an audience with Hitler and secretly kill him for his tactical incompetence which caused so many of Siegmund's friends to die on the Ukrainian Front.]]
** Sieglinde is a type two, being obsessed with revenge for the death of her disabled husband in the Dresden Bombings and everyone else who died in said bombings. To this end she seeks revenge on Britain (and Churchill) in particular, which is granted when [[spoiler: she is sent on a suicide mission to attack London and kill Churchill]]. She has an enormous kill-count from her battles in Berlin, Paris and London, but objects to the mass slaughter of prisoners by Siegfried; unlike him, she takes no pleasure in her work.
* AnyoneCanDie: There is no main protagonist because of this trope. Anybody who looks as if they might be developing into an audience-identification figure will almost certainly die horribly very quickly. Even [[spoiler:Churchill and Hitler]] are killed off by the end of the first plot arc.
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* AntiHero: Stephanie takes part in brutal experiments as part of being undercover in the German Über program. And to successfully escape and deliver information vital for the Allies to have a chance in the war, she uses an Allied tank crew as bait for an Über.
* AntiVillain:
** Siegmund is a type one, being decidedly disgusted by the carnage he sees and partakes in and utterly despises Siegfried for his cruelty, brutality, and fanaticism. He also attempts to console and guide Sieglinde as best he can, and overall appears as an honest soldier trying to defend his country. However, he is still a Nazi soldier fighting for a regime that he knows to be pretty much pure evil [[spoiler: or so it seems... In fact, his plan from the start was to gain an audience with Hitler and secretly kill him for his tactical incompetence which caused so many of Siegmund's friends to die on the Ukrainian Front.]]
** Sieglinde is a type two, being obsessed with revenge for the death of her disabled husband in the Dresden Bombings and everyone else who died in said bombings. To this end she seeks revenge on Britain (and Churchill) in particular, which is granted when [[spoiler: she is sent on a suicide mission to attack London and kill Churchill]]. She has an enormous kill-count from her battles in Berlin, Paris and London, but objects to the mass slaughter of prisoners by Siegfried; unlike him, she takes no pleasure in her work.
* AnyoneCanDie: There is no main protagonist because of this trope. Anybody who looks as if they might be developing into an audience-identification figure will almost certainly die horribly very quickly. Even [[spoiler:Churchill and Hitler]] are killed off by the end of the first plot arc.
* AntiVillain:
** Siegmund is a type one, being decidedly disgusted by the carnage he sees and partakes in and utterly despises Siegfried for his cruelty, brutality, and fanaticism. He also attempts to console and guide Sieglinde as best he can, and overall appears as an honest soldier trying to defend his country. However, he is still a Nazi soldier fighting for a regime that he knows to be pretty much pure evil [[spoiler: or so it seems... In fact, his plan from the start was to gain an audience with Hitler and secretly kill him for his tactical incompetence which caused so many of Siegmund's friends to die on the Ukrainian Front.]]
** Sieglinde is a type two, being obsessed with revenge for the death of her disabled husband in the Dresden Bombings and everyone else who died in said bombings. To this end she seeks revenge on Britain (and Churchill) in particular, which is granted when [[spoiler: she is sent on a suicide mission to attack London and kill Churchill]]. She has an enormous kill-count from her battles in Berlin, Paris and London, but objects to the mass slaughter of prisoners by Siegfried; unlike him, she takes no pleasure in her work.
* AnyoneCanDie: There is no main protagonist because of this trope. Anybody who looks as if they might be developing into an audience-identification figure will almost certainly die horribly very quickly. Even [[spoiler:Churchill and Hitler]] are killed off by the end of the first plot arc.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Germans killed 3.3 of the 4 million Soviet POW they captured during the war, yet the comic treats the massacre of another million (captured during the Berlin Uber Counter-Offensive) as uniquely heinous. This is likely because a) it escapes mention in most Cold-War accounts of the war (which focus on German and Western Allied suffering [[DirtyCommies to avoid engendering sympathy for Communists]]) and b) only Polish and Soviet POW were killed deliberately through neglect and accidentally through overwork, so many English-language historians fall into the trap of assuming that they were treated just like French and Anglo-American POW.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Germans killed 3.3 of the 4 million Soviet POW they captured during the war, yet the comic treats the massacre of another million (captured during the Berlin Uber Counter-Offensive) as uniquely heinous. This is likely because a) it escapes mention in most Cold-War accounts of the war (which focus on German and Western Allied suffering [[DirtyCommies to avoid engendering sympathy for Communists]]) and b) only Polish and Soviet POW were killed deliberately through neglect and accidentally through overwork, so many English-language historians fall into the trap of assuming that they were treated just like French and Anglo-American POW.
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* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:Hitler, first by a Geltmensch, then by an altered Goebbels.]]
* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:Hitler, first by a Geltmensch, then by an altered Goebbels.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Many characters get sudden and unexpected deaths.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Many characters get sudden and unexpected deaths.
* EyepatchOfPower: HMH Dunkirk has a spiffy green one underneath his mask.
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* EyepatchOfPower: HMH Dunkirk has a spiffy green one underneath his mask.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters:
** Increasingly, the Allies are forced to resort to more brutal and dehumanizing tactics to fend off the Übers. Stephanie in particular was perfectly willing to commit crimes against humanity to maintain her cover as a Nazi scientist. Even then however, the Allies at large seem to be aware of this trope as they still refuse to go all the way in the same manner the Nazis have.
** The Allied "heavy" Übers, designed to destroy "tank"-class Übers at close range, are described as literally monstrous to look at. [[spoiler:Leah Cohen, the first Heavy Battleship, looks even worse. She is still humanoid, but her limbs and torso are misshapen and horribly disproportionate due to massive muscle growth.]]
** [[spoiler:Leah is disgusted by her own actions in overseeing the activation of the barely-teenage battleship potential Tamara, and says that if things had gone wrong, she would have killed everyone involved including herself.]]
** Increasingly, the Allies are forced to resort to more brutal and dehumanizing tactics to fend off the Übers. Stephanie in particular was perfectly willing to commit crimes against humanity to maintain her cover as a Nazi scientist. Even then however, the Allies at large seem to be aware of this trope as they still refuse to go all the way in the same manner the Nazis have.
** The Allied "heavy" Übers, designed to destroy "tank"-class Übers at close range, are described as literally monstrous to look at. [[spoiler:Leah Cohen, the first Heavy Battleship, looks even worse. She is still humanoid, but her limbs and torso are misshapen and horribly disproportionate due to massive muscle growth.]]
** [[spoiler:Leah is disgusted by her own actions in overseeing the activation of the barely-teenage battleship potential Tamara, and says that if things had gone wrong, she would have killed everyone involved including herself.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters:
** Increasingly, the Allies are forced to resort to more brutal and dehumanizing tactics to fend off the Übers. Stephanie in particular was perfectly willing to commit crimes against humanity to maintain her cover as a Nazi scientist. Even then however, the Allies at large seem to be aware of this trope as they still refuse to go all the way in the same manner the Nazis have.
** The Allied "heavy" Übers, designed to destroy "tank"-class Übers at close range, are described as literally monstrous to look at. [[spoiler:Leah Cohen, the first Heavy Battleship, looks even worse. She is still humanoid, but her limbs and torso are misshapen and horribly disproportionate due to massive muscle growth.]]
** [[spoiler:Leah is disgusted by her own actions in overseeing the activation of the barely-teenage battleship potential Tamara, and says that if things had gone wrong, she would have killed everyone involved including herself.]]
** Increasingly, the Allies are forced to resort to more brutal and dehumanizing tactics to fend off the Übers. Stephanie in particular was perfectly willing to commit crimes against humanity to maintain her cover as a Nazi scientist. Even then however, the Allies at large seem to be aware of this trope as they still refuse to go all the way in the same manner the Nazis have.
** The Allied "heavy" Übers, designed to destroy "tank"-class Übers at close range, are described as literally monstrous to look at. [[spoiler:Leah Cohen, the first Heavy Battleship, looks even worse. She is still humanoid, but her limbs and torso are misshapen and horribly disproportionate due to massive muscle growth.]]
** [[spoiler:Leah is disgusted by her own actions in overseeing the activation of the barely-teenage battleship potential Tamara, and says that if things had gone wrong, she would have killed everyone involved including herself.]]
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* LaResistance: [[spoiler:After Britain's capitulation to the Nazis, Stephanie and Turing continue their research in secret and keep on testing for Uber candidates. One such test is disrupted by a German patrol with a Uber just as Stephanie discovers a whole family of superhuman candidates, killing everyone but her and the youngest candidate. The Uber gets very close to killing her as well before several resistance fighters [[HeroicSacrifice show up to distract him]].]]
* TheLostLenore: Sieglinde's wartime life is defined by seeking revenge for her lost husband Leon, who was brain-damaged in the war and then killed in the bombing of Dresden.
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* TheLostLenore: Sieglinde's wartime life is defined by seeking revenge for her lost husband Leon, who was brain-damaged in the war and then killed in the bombing of Dresden.
* PunchAWall: Vernon nearly does this in frustration at Yamato's failure to face him in open battle, then restrains himself on realising that the shrapnel created as a result could kill any nearby unaugmented human.
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* PunchAWall: Vernon nearly does this in frustration at Yamato's failure to face him in open battle, then restrains himself on realising that the shrapnel created as a result could kill any nearby unaugmented human.
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* RevengeBeforeReason: Surprisingly, [[spoiler: Sieglinde refuses to surrender to the Russians and end the war as she refuses to forgive the Russians. Maria later chastises Sieglinde for continuing to serve the Nazis despite hating them.]]
* LaResistance: [[spoiler:After Britain's capitulation to the Nazis, Stephanie and Turing continue their research in secret and keep on testing for Uber candidates. One such test is disrupted by a German patrol with a Uber just as Stephanie discovers a whole family of superhuman candidates, killing everyone but her and the youngest candidate. The Uber gets very close to killing her as well before several resistance fighters [[HeroicSacrifice show up to distract him]].]]
* RevengeBeforeReason: Surprisingly, [[spoiler: Sieglinde refuses to surrender to the Russians and end the war as she refuses to forgive the Russians. Maria later chastises Sieglinde for continuing to serve the Nazis despite hating them.]]
* RunningGag:
** Men refusing to use swear words with Leah Cohen present.
** Whenever somebody's plans turn out incredibly badly for them, the narration describes them as irrelevant.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: It's mentioned that at least one "Miyoko" and a Japanese submarine crew decide not to return to Japan, possibly heading to Allied shores.
** Men refusing to use swear words with Leah Cohen present.
** Whenever somebody's plans turn out incredibly badly for them, the narration describes them as irrelevant.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: It's mentioned that at least one "Miyoko" and a Japanese submarine crew decide not to return to Japan, possibly heading to Allied shores.
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* RunningGag:
** Men refusing to use swear words with Leah Cohen present.
** Whenever somebody's plans turn out incredibly badly for them, the narration describes them as irrelevant.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: It's mentioned that at least one "Miyoko" and a Japanese submarine crew decide not to return to Japan, possibly heading to Allied shores.
** Men refusing to use swear words with Leah Cohen present.
** Whenever somebody's plans turn out incredibly badly for them, the narration describes them as irrelevant.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: It's mentioned that at least one "Miyoko" and a Japanese submarine crew decide not to return to Japan, possibly heading to Allied shores.
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* SlidingScaleOfAlternateHistoryPlausibility: A strange mixture of Type I and Type X – it's a realistic, carefully-researched portrayal of the bloody final days of World War 2... with armies of bulletproof superhumans.
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* SlidingScaleOfAlternateHistoryPlausibility: A strange mixture of Type I ZigZagged between realistic and Type X – it's fantastic. It's a realistic, carefully-researched portrayal of the bloody final days of World War 2... with armies of bulletproof superhumans.
* StrongAndSkilled: Siegmund is the V1 Battleship most skilled with his Halo Effect, as he practices with it by sculpting when he is off-duty. [[spoiler: It turns out this is so he can precisely warp Hitler's flesh.]]
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* StrongAndSkilled: Siegmund is the V1 Battleship most skilled with his Halo Effect, as he practices with it by sculpting when he is off-duty. [[spoiler: It turns out this is so he can precisely warp Hitler's flesh.]]
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* SuperSoldier: The Übers.
* SuperSpeed:
** Leah Cohen is the fastest character in the series, capable of running 200mph even in pain and before being completely enhanced. Sieglinde and HMH Dunkirk also exhibit similar capabilities, but theoretically would be slower than a fully-activated Leah.
** [[spoiler:The fourth major type of über, the "Zephyr" introduced in ''Invasion'', move so fast that time seems to stand still as they suddenly appear from over the horizon. However, their incredible speed comes with major limitations, which General Patton outlines when he meets one: they can't interact with anything other than enhanced human flesh (so they can't build tanks or dig latrines in a fraction of the time), they require a full day's rest after activating (so they can only be used sparingly), and most crucially, they only activate for approximately two minutes at a time (which feels subjectively like ''two weeks'' to them). So they can murder any enhanced soldiers within a few hundred meters of their starting point, but are then completely helpless for the next 24 hours. Patton is unimpressed when he discovers all this.]]
* SuperStrength: Every enhanced human that we have seen so far has this power to some degree. The "tank" Übers are strong enough to punch through walls and dismember normal humans; the "battleships" can casually fling actual tanks around. Leah Cohen is the strongest of all, and at full power should be able to tear "normal" Battleships apart with her bare hands; during tests, she throws a tank ''twenty miles'' when she tries her hardest.
* SuperToughness: After a few physical enhancements an Über can easily withstand bullets. Battleships can endure naval shell bombardments. Leah Cohen seems nigh-invulnerable, requiring a focused application of the halo effect for several minutes to even break her skin; she's dropped several miles from a plane with no parachute, and survives without a scratch. [[spoiler:Siegmund survives an ''atomic bomb at point-blank range''—though from the degree of mutilation he appears to suffer, he probably wishes he hadn't.]]
* SuperWeight: The "tank" Übers are Level 3: they have moderate super-strength, cannot be killed by anything less than an anti-tank missile, and fire "disruption halo" EyeBeams powerful enough to melt tank armor at close range. The rarer "battleship" Übers are easily Level 4: they're nigh-invincible, can tear tank-class Übers apart with their bare hands, and their eye beams can demolish entire buildings from thousands of yards away. "Cruiser" and "Destroyer" class Übers are later developed, with greater strength and halo powers than "tanks" but less than "battleships"; they're midway between 3 and 4. The two known "exotic" classes, [[spoiler:Zephyrs and Geltmensch]], have extremely specialized powers and the latter has a basic halo effect, but neither have physical powers, which puts them between a class 2 and 3.
* SuperSpeed:
** Leah Cohen is the fastest character in the series, capable of running 200mph even in pain and before being completely enhanced. Sieglinde and HMH Dunkirk also exhibit similar capabilities, but theoretically would be slower than a fully-activated Leah.
** [[spoiler:The fourth major type of über, the "Zephyr" introduced in ''Invasion'', move so fast that time seems to stand still as they suddenly appear from over the horizon. However, their incredible speed comes with major limitations, which General Patton outlines when he meets one: they can't interact with anything other than enhanced human flesh (so they can't build tanks or dig latrines in a fraction of the time), they require a full day's rest after activating (so they can only be used sparingly), and most crucially, they only activate for approximately two minutes at a time (which feels subjectively like ''two weeks'' to them). So they can murder any enhanced soldiers within a few hundred meters of their starting point, but are then completely helpless for the next 24 hours. Patton is unimpressed when he discovers all this.]]
* SuperStrength: Every enhanced human that we have seen so far has this power to some degree. The "tank" Übers are strong enough to punch through walls and dismember normal humans; the "battleships" can casually fling actual tanks around. Leah Cohen is the strongest of all, and at full power should be able to tear "normal" Battleships apart with her bare hands; during tests, she throws a tank ''twenty miles'' when she tries her hardest.
* SuperToughness: After a few physical enhancements an Über can easily withstand bullets. Battleships can endure naval shell bombardments. Leah Cohen seems nigh-invulnerable, requiring a focused application of the halo effect for several minutes to even break her skin; she's dropped several miles from a plane with no parachute, and survives without a scratch. [[spoiler:Siegmund survives an ''atomic bomb at point-blank range''—though from the degree of mutilation he appears to suffer, he probably wishes he hadn't.]]
* SuperWeight: The "tank" Übers are Level 3: they have moderate super-strength, cannot be killed by anything less than an anti-tank missile, and fire "disruption halo" EyeBeams powerful enough to melt tank armor at close range. The rarer "battleship" Übers are easily Level 4: they're nigh-invincible, can tear tank-class Übers apart with their bare hands, and their eye beams can demolish entire buildings from thousands of yards away. "Cruiser" and "Destroyer" class Übers are later developed, with greater strength and halo powers than "tanks" but less than "battleships"; they're midway between 3 and 4. The two known "exotic" classes, [[spoiler:Zephyrs and Geltmensch]], have extremely specialized powers and the latter has a basic halo effect, but neither have physical powers, which puts them between a class 2 and 3.
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** More exotic alternatives to physical and halo effects are later discovered: [[spoiler: Geltmensch impersonators and Zephyr speeders]].* SuperSoldier: The Übers, superpowered soldiers that handily alter the course of World War 2 and irrevocably change the makeup of modern warfare.
* SuperSpeed:
** Leah Cohen is the fastest character in the series, capable of running 200mph even in pain and before being completely enhanced. Sieglinde and HMH Dunkirk also exhibit similar capabilities, but theoretically would be slower than a fully-activated Leah.
** [[spoiler:The fourth major type of über, the "Zephyr" introduced in ''Invasion'', move so fast that time seems to stand still as they suddenly appear from over the horizon. However, their incredible speed comes with major limitations, which General Patton outlines when he meets one: they can't interact with anything other than enhanced human flesh (so they can't build tanks or dig latrines in a fraction of the time), they require a full day's rest after activating (so they can only be used sparingly), and most crucially, they only activate for approximately two minutes at a time (which feels subjectively like ''two weeks'' to them). So they can murder any enhanced soldiers within a few hundred meters of their starting point, but are then completely helpless for the next 24 hours. Patton is unimpressed when he discovers all this.]]
* SuperStrength: Every enhanced human that we have seen so far has this power to some degree. The "tank" Übers are strong enough to punch through walls and dismember normal humans; the "battleships" can casually fling actual tanks around. Leah Cohen is the strongest of all, and at full power should be able to tear "normal" Battleships apart with her bare hands; during tests, she throws a tank ''twenty miles'' when she tries her hardest.
* SuperToughness: After a few physical enhancements an Über can easily withstand bullets. Battleships can endure naval shell bombardments. Leah Cohen seems nigh-invulnerable, requiring a focused application of the halo effect for several minutes to even break her skin; she's dropped several miles from a plane with no parachute, and survives without a scratch. [[spoiler:Siegmund survives an ''atomic bomb at point-blank range''—though from the degree of mutilation he appears to suffer, he probably wishes he hadn't.]]
* SuperWeight: The "tank" Übers are Level 3: they have moderate super-strength, cannot be killed by anything less than an anti-tank missile, and fire "disruption halo" EyeBeams powerful enough to melt tank armor at close range. The rarer "battleship" Übers are easily Level 4: they're nigh-invincible, can tear tank-class Übers apart with their bare hands, and their eye beams can demolish entire buildings from thousands of yards away. "Cruiser" and "Destroyer" class Übers are later developed, with greater strength and halo powers than "tanks" but less than "battleships"; they're midway between 3 and 4. The two known "exotic" classes, [[spoiler:Zephyrs and Geltmensch]], have extremely specialized powers and the latter has a basic halo effect, but neither have physical powers, which puts them between a class 2 and 3.
* SurgicalImpersonation: [[spoiler:Josef Goebbels has the Über surgeon Anita Scheele use her disruption halo to reshape his features into Hitler's, to provide a permanent replacement after Hitler's death, as Geltmenschen can't appear on film.]]
** Leah Cohen is the fastest character in the series, capable of running 200mph even in pain and before being completely enhanced. Sieglinde and HMH Dunkirk also exhibit similar capabilities, but theoretically would be slower than a fully-activated Leah.
** [[spoiler:The fourth major type of über, the "Zephyr" introduced in ''Invasion'', move so fast that time seems to stand still as they suddenly appear from over the horizon. However, their incredible speed comes with major limitations, which General Patton outlines when he meets one: they can't interact with anything other than enhanced human flesh (so they can't build tanks or dig latrines in a fraction of the time), they require a full day's rest after activating (so they can only be used sparingly), and most crucially, they only activate for approximately two minutes at a time (which feels subjectively like ''two weeks'' to them). So they can murder any enhanced soldiers within a few hundred meters of their starting point, but are then completely helpless for the next 24 hours. Patton is unimpressed when he discovers all this.]]
* SuperStrength: Every enhanced human that we have seen so far has this power to some degree. The "tank" Übers are strong enough to punch through walls and dismember normal humans; the "battleships" can casually fling actual tanks around. Leah Cohen is the strongest of all, and at full power should be able to tear "normal" Battleships apart with her bare hands; during tests, she throws a tank ''twenty miles'' when she tries her hardest.
* SuperToughness: After a few physical enhancements an Über can easily withstand bullets. Battleships can endure naval shell bombardments. Leah Cohen seems nigh-invulnerable, requiring a focused application of the halo effect for several minutes to even break her skin; she's dropped several miles from a plane with no parachute, and survives without a scratch. [[spoiler:Siegmund survives an ''atomic bomb at point-blank range''—though from the degree of mutilation he appears to suffer, he probably wishes he hadn't.]]
* SuperWeight: The "tank" Übers are Level 3: they have moderate super-strength, cannot be killed by anything less than an anti-tank missile, and fire "disruption halo" EyeBeams powerful enough to melt tank armor at close range. The rarer "battleship" Übers are easily Level 4: they're nigh-invincible, can tear tank-class Übers apart with their bare hands, and their eye beams can demolish entire buildings from thousands of yards away. "Cruiser" and "Destroyer" class Übers are later developed, with greater strength and halo powers than "tanks" but less than "battleships"; they're midway between 3 and 4. The two known "exotic" classes, [[spoiler:Zephyrs and Geltmensch]], have extremely specialized powers and the latter has a basic halo effect, but neither have physical powers, which puts them between a class 2 and 3.
* SurgicalImpersonation: [[spoiler:Josef Goebbels has the Über surgeon Anita Scheele use her disruption halo to reshape his features into Hitler's, to provide a permanent replacement after Hitler's death, as Geltmenschen can't appear on film.]]
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* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler:Stalin is transformed into a Woden's Blood statue by Maria]].
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* WeHaveReserves: With the Germans back in central Ukraine, and every expectation that they will attempt to finish their work there (they razed ''everything'' west of eastern Ukraine on their way out), Stalin takes this approach to developing superhumans. [[spoiler:We don't have time to test hundreds of soldiers to see which of them is capable of adjusting to super-serum! Just give it to all of the soldiers that surrendered at Berlin, and would otherwise be assigned to the now-obsolete 'Penal Battalions', and if we're lucky we'll get enough Übers to save the Ukrainian people - even if 4,999 out of every 5,000 die after instantly spraying blood from all their orifices.]]
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* FragileSpeedster: [[spoiler:The Zephyr-Class Ubers possess superhuman speed, but normal strength and durability.]]
* FramingDevice: It appears that the text boxes that appear in the comic are excerpts from a history written after the war. Significant events in Über history such as Sieglinde's crossing of the Rhine are dated and noted, and issue 21 refers to scholarly debate about the war and study of halo architecture.
* FramingDevice: It appears that the text boxes that appear in the comic are excerpts from a history written after the war. Significant events in Über history such as Sieglinde's crossing of the Rhine are dated and noted, and issue 21 refers to scholarly debate about the war and study of halo architecture.
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* FramingDevice: It appears that the text boxes that appear in the comic are excerpts from a history written after the war. Significant events in Über history such as Sieglinde's crossing of the Rhine are dated and noted, and issue 21 refers to scholarly debate about the war and study of halo architecture.
* FragileSpeedster: [[spoiler:The Zephyr-Class Ubers possess superhuman speed, but normal strength and durability.]]
* FragileSpeedster: [[spoiler:The Zephyr-Class Ubers possess superhuman speed, but normal strength and durability.]]
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* AGodAmI: After Maria becomes incomparably stronger than any other character as far as the halo effect is concerned, toys with the idea, calling herself the atheist god, never letting people know for sure if she's joking or serious. Then [[spoiler:when she annihilates the Kremlin, dissolves the Soviet Union and declares its former territory an anarchist land with herself as protector of the civilians, a horrified Leah asks her not to play god. Her response? "Do not worry. There is no play."]]
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* AGodAmI: After Maria becomes incomparably stronger than any other character as far as the halo effect is concerned, toys with the idea, calling herself the atheist god, never letting people know for sure if she's joking or serious. Then [[spoiler:when she annihilates the Kremlin, dissolves the Soviet Union and declares its former territory an anarchist land with herself as protector of the civilians, a horrified Leah asks her not to play god. Her response? "Do not worry. There is no play."]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: During the Battle of Calais, repeated halo blasts from Siegmund and Sieglinde manage to snap only a single ligament in Leah Cohen's knee. Without the ligament to balance them out, her remaining ultra-strong muscles nearly tear the lower leg clean off. ]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: During [[spoiler:During the Battle of Calais, repeated halo blasts from Siegmund and Sieglinde manage to snap only a single ligament in Leah Cohen's knee. Without the ligament to balance them out, her remaining ultra-strong muscles nearly tear the lower leg clean off. ]]
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* HopeSpot: ''Über: Invasion 004'' has one for the first part of its issue; Stephanie finds a Destroyer and tankman-class Über among the British resistance [[spoiler: but an occupying patrol interrupts them and both candidates are killed]]. [[spoiler: ''004'' as a whole may turn out to be one of these (although it really is too early to tell, remember that the series is barely half-over at this point) with Stephanie discovering a new Battleship-potential and Turing identifying a new type of Über.]]
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* HopeSpot: ''Über: Invasion 004'' Invasion'' #4 has one for the first part of its issue; Stephanie finds a Destroyer and tankman-class Über among the British resistance [[spoiler: but an occupying patrol interrupts them and both candidates are killed]]. [[spoiler: ''004'' [[spoiler:#4 as a whole may turn out to be one of these (although it really is too early to tell, remember that the series is barely half-over at this point) with Stephanie discovering a new Battleship-potential and Turing identifying a new type of Über.]]
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* InSpiteOfANail: In spite of the far worse strategic position in Europe, the atomic bombs are still planned to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in part because of the German blockade of the Atlantic fleet.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Stephanie seems to change the story of her "first memory" every time she tells it.
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* EasyLogistics: The entire German train fleet and network was destroyed in May 1945. Worse, everything east of Germany and Austria proper was converted to Soviet-gauge. Yet the Germans seemingly have no problems operating hundreds of kilometers outside Germany itself, even as far as eastern Ukraine. Moreover the Soviets could hardly be expected to let the Germans take the oilfields of Balaton and Ploesti intact, but the Germans have no trouble finding enough petrol for another five months of ground operations and enough diesel to [[spoiler: sail a fleet of a hundred U-boots to the eastern coast of the USA]].
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* EasyLogistics: The entire German train fleet and network was destroyed in May 1945. Worse, everything east of Germany and Austria proper was converted to Soviet-gauge. Yet the Germans seemingly have no problems operating hundreds of kilometers outside Germany itself, even as far as eastern Ukraine. Moreover the Soviets could hardly be expected to let the Germans take the oilfields of Balaton and Ploesti intact, but the Germans have no trouble finding enough petrol for another five months of ground operations and enough diesel to [[spoiler: sail [[spoiler:sail a fleet of a hundred U-boots to the eastern coast of the USA]].
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Dunkirk. When he's about to parachute from a plane with Leah, he swears, then immediately apologizes for using poor language in front of a lady. (And this just before he admits to fighting in wars "the better part of [his] life" and that killing doesn't bother him as much as he thinks it should!) [[spoiler: Later, when he throws the injured Leah from the field, turns back to the Nazis who were attacking her and:]]
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** [[spoiler: Sieglinde is exhausted by the war and battle, and yet she refuses to surrender to the Soviets and end the war.]]
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: In Uber Invasion #17, [[spoiler:the death of Yamato prompts Emperor Hirohito to announce the unconditional surrender of Japan, ending the war in the Pacific]].
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* KilledMidSentence: In the final issue of the main series, Stephanie is packing up a large number of catalyst tests [[spoiler:so she can continue testing potentials even after Britain falls to the Nazis. Duncan comes in and she tells him what she's doing, and then asks him whether he's going to report her. He gets as far as "Of course I—" before Stephanie shoots him in the head. It's genuinely ambiguous whether he would have said he would or wouldn't report her; Duncan was an unlikable asshole, but he was still firmly on the same side as Stephanie.]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: InUber Invasion ''Über: Invasion'' #17, [[spoiler:the death of Yamato prompts Emperor Hirohito to announce the unconditional surrender of Japan, ending the war in the Pacific]].
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** Zephyrs operate at incredible speeds and a timeframe drastically lengthened compared to normal humans'. Therefore their energy reserves are used up within two minutes of constant fighting, while most Ubers can operate for hours at a time. Additionally using their powers is incredibly psychologically taxing- they have to push against air resistance, so even from their perspective they feel as if they're moving slowly through treacle for weeks on end in silence.
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** Zephyrs operate at incredible speeds and a timeframe drastically lengthened compared to normal humans'. Therefore their energy reserves are used up within two minutes of constant fighting, while most Ubers can operate for hours at a time. Additionally Additionally, using their powers is incredibly psychologically taxing- taxing: they have to push against air resistance, so even from their perspective they feel as if they're moving slowly through treacle for weeks on end in silence.
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* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: V1 battleships can only have sex with other V1 Battleships, since intercourse with ordinary humans would end badly. Tank men, and those who don't receive physical enhancements, [[spoiler: such as Geltmensch]], can still have sex with normal people.
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* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Averted. The Americans deliberately withhold full activation from their black battleship potentials to keep them from being too troublesome if they demand Civil Rights, the British never test their non-white colonial subjects because they might oppose British Imperialism, and no-one even raises the possibility of helping Chiang Kai-shek's Republic of China develop Ubers.
** The US discovers new type of activation with unknown effects, which kills the first men to undergo it. Naturally, they test it on African-Americans.
** The [[spoiler: five Zephyrs who killed Battleship Siegfried]] and saved the critical industrial hub of Detroit are posthumously given the USA's second-highest award for courage. They qualified for the highest, but didn't get it because they were black.
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** The [[spoiler: five Zephyrs who killed Battleship Siegfried]] and saved the critical industrial hub of Detroit are posthumously given the USA's second-highest award for courage. They qualified for the highest, but didn't get it because they were black.
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* HollywoodTactics: It's never really quite explained why all the Übers rely mainly on GoodOldFisticuffs (when they're not using their exhausting Halo effect) to kill each other, considering that their strength could easily let them carry artillery pieces (specifically established early on as a viable means of killing Übers) like rifles to shoot each other with. It's understandable why the Germans don't do this, considering that their entire war machine has been destroyed, but the fact that the Allies do it too is a tad baffling. A bunch of Übers with handheld 128mm cannons firing at each other from tens of kilometers away would have been a far better use of their super strength.
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* ContinuitySnarl: The reveal that [[spoiler:Markus is 14 does have some timeline issues. It's established that he kills a Jew at age 12, which would put the year he did it at 1943. What kind of blatantly Jewish man can walk the streets of Germany unharassed in 1943?!]]
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* ContinuitySnarl: The reveal that [[spoiler:Markus is 14 does have some timeline issues. It's established that he kills killed a Jew at age 12, as a child, which would put puts the year he did it at 1943. in the early-to-mid-40s. What kind of blatantly Jewish man can walk the streets of Germany unharassed in 1943?!]]during those years?!]]
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* HollywoodTactics: It's never really quite explained why all the Übers rely mainly on GoodOldFisticuffs (when they're not using their exhausting Halo effect) to kill each other, considering that their strength could easily let them carry artillery pieces (specifically established early on as a viable means of killing Übers) like rifles to shoot each other with. Imagine Übers with handheld 128mm cannons, firing at each other from tens of kilometers away.
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* HollywoodTactics: It's never really quite explained why all the Übers rely mainly on GoodOldFisticuffs (when they're not using their exhausting Halo effect) to kill each other, considering that their strength could easily let them carry artillery pieces (specifically established early on as a viable means of killing Übers) like rifles to shoot each other with. Imagine It's understandable why the Germans don't do this, considering that their entire war machine has been destroyed, but the fact that the Allies do it too is a tad baffling. A bunch of Übers with handheld 128mm cannons, cannons firing at each other from tens of kilometers away.away would have been a far better use of their super strength.
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* HollywoodTactics: It's never really quite explained why all the Über rely mainly on GoodOldFisticuffs (when they're not using their exhausting Halo effect) to kill each other, considering that their strength could easily let them carry artillery pieces (specifically established early on as a viable means of killing Über) like rifles to shoot each other with. Imagine Übers with handheld 128mm cannons, firing at each other from tens of kilometers away.
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* HollywoodTactics: It's never really quite explained why all the Über Übers rely mainly on GoodOldFisticuffs (when they're not using their exhausting Halo effect) to kill each other, considering that their strength could easily let them carry artillery pieces (specifically established early on as a viable means of killing Über) Übers) like rifles to shoot each other with. Imagine Übers with handheld 128mm cannons, firing at each other from tens of kilometers away.
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* ContinuitySnarl: The reveal that [[spoiler:Markus is 14 does have some timeline issues. It's established that he kills a Jew at age 12, which would put the year he did it at 1943. What kind of blatantly Jewish man can walk the streets of Germany unharassed in 1943?!]]
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* HollywoodTactics: It's never really quite explained why all the Über rely mainly on GoodOldFisticuffs (when they're not using their exhausting Halo effect) to kill each other, considering that their strength could easily let them carry artillery pieces (specifically established early on as a viable means of killing Über) to shoot each other with.
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* HollywoodTactics: It's never really quite explained why all the Über rely mainly on GoodOldFisticuffs (when they're not using their exhausting Halo effect) to kill each other, considering that their strength could easily let them carry artillery pieces (specifically established early on as a viable means of killing Über) like rifles to shoot each other with.with. Imagine Übers with handheld 128mm cannons, firing at each other from tens of kilometers away.
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* HollywoodTactics: It's never really quite explained why all the Über rely mainly on GoodOldFisticuffs(when they're not using their exhausting Halo effect) to kill each other, considering that their strength could easily let them carry artillery pieces (specifically established early on as a viable means of killing Über) to shoot each other with.
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* HollywoodTactics: It's never really quite explained why all the Über rely mainly on GoodOldFisticuffs(when GoodOldFisticuffs (when they're not using their exhausting Halo effect) to kill each other, considering that their strength could easily let them carry artillery pieces (specifically established early on as a viable means of killing Über) to shoot each other with.
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* HollywoodTactics: It's never really quite explained why all the Über rely mainly on GoodOldFisticuffs(when they're not using their Halo effect) to kill each other, considering that their strength could easily let them carry artillery pieces (specifically established early on as a viable means of killing Über) to shoot each other with.
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* HollywoodTactics: It's never really quite explained why all the Über rely mainly on GoodOldFisticuffs(when they're not using their exhausting Halo effect) to kill each other, considering that their strength could easily let them carry artillery pieces (specifically established early on as a viable means of killing Über) to shoot each other with.
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* LaResistance: [[spoiler:After Britain's capitulation to the Nazis, Stephanie and Turing continue their research in secret and keep on testing for Uber candidates. One such test is disrupted by a German patrol with a Uber just as Stephanie discovers a whole family of superhuman candidates, killing everyone but her and the youngest candidate. The Uber gets very close to killing her as well before several resistance fighters [[HeroicSacrifice show up to distract him]] and help her to escape.]]
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* LaResistance: [[spoiler:After Britain's capitulation to the Nazis, Stephanie and Turing continue their research in secret and keep on testing for Uber candidates. One such test is disrupted by a German patrol with a Uber just as Stephanie discovers a whole family of superhuman candidates, killing everyone but her and the youngest candidate. The Uber gets very close to killing her as well before several resistance fighters [[HeroicSacrifice show up to distract him]] and help her to escape.him]].]]
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* HollywoodTactics: It's never really quite explained why all the Über rely mainly on GoodOldFisticuff (when they're not using their Halo effect) to kill each other, considering that their strength could easily let them carry artillery pieces (specifically established early on as a viable means of killing Über) to shoot each other with.
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* HollywoodTactics: It's never really quite explained why all the Über rely mainly on GoodOldFisticuff (when GoodOldFisticuffs(when they're not using their Halo effect) to kill each other, considering that their strength could easily let them carry artillery pieces (specifically established early on as a viable means of killing Über) to shoot each other with.
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* HollywoodTactics: It's never really quite explained why all the Über rely mainly on GoodOldFisticuff (when they're not using their Halo effect) to kill each other, considering that their strength could easily let them carry artillery pieces (specifically established early on as a viable means of killing Über) to shoot each other with.
