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* HurtingHero: Ellis, though ey start off as a StepfordSmiler with a good case of AngstWhatAngst until ey is forced to face er demons.
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* BadassBiker: Rosie is introduced as such, but this is not explored. This also makes her a BikerBabe.
* TheBait: [[spoiler: Rosie for Mind Melter.]]
* BattleCouple: [[spoiler: Ellis and Rosie.]]
* BecomingtheMask: [[spoiler: Rosie]] admits to this while being interrogated by Ellis.

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TheBait: [[spoiler: Rosie for Mind Melter.]]
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* %%* BecomingtheMask: [[spoiler: Rosie]] admits to this while being interrogated by Ellis.



* BizarreBabyBoom: The explanation given for the Supers.

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* %%* BizarreBabyBoom: The explanation given for the Supers.



* ByronicHero: [[spoiler: Rosie, once she joins the side of good.]]

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* %%* ByronicHero: [[spoiler: Rosie, once she joins the side of good.]]



* TheChessmaster: Mind Melter.
* DarkActionGirl: Rosie. Brawn [[spoilers: turns into this shortly before her death.]]

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* %%* DarkActionGirl: Rosie. Brawn [[spoilers: turns into this shortly before her death.]]
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Ellis' entire family.
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* PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler: Rosie's powers stop working consistently for a while.]]

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* PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler: Rosie's powers stop working consistently for a while.while. This is important because [[spoiler: this is key to how Mind Melter dies.]]
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* BizarreBabyBoom: The explanation given for the Supers.


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* LetsGetOutOfHere: Several times the characters have to quickly retreat and regroup.


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* OnePersonOnePower: A rule of this universe.


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* ProtectThisHouse: Ellis tries this. It doesn't work.
* PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler: Rosie's powers stop working consistently for a while.]]


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* StealthHiBye: Ellis does this to Lynn a few times.


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* UnstoppableRage: Ellis, especially during er fight with Mind Melter. [[spoiler: Mind Melter uses that to his advantage.]]


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* VillainousRescue: Void rescues [[spoiler: Rosie.]]

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* DamselInDistress: Rosie. It's implied this has happened multiple times to her, and each time she gets free she gets her revenge.
* DeliberatelyDistressedDamsel: [[spoiler: Rosie uses this to get Mind Melter.]]



* EmpathicHealer: Carys brings back the dead, but it's killing her.



* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Rosie claims to have been this before the plot started.



* INeedAFreakingDrink: [[spoiler: Rosie and Ellis, after Mind Melter's death.]]
* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Rosie doesn't age, and her blood prevents others from aging as well. She looks to be in her twenties.



* MoralityPet: It's implied that Rosie has kept several, including Dr. Crane, and Tara, though only her attachment to like-minded Ellis is enough to make her HeelFaceTurn.



* PapaWolf: Void towards Rosie.



* RoaringRampageofRevenge: Ellis' plans.



* SoleSurvivor: Ellis, and that was part of Mind Melter's plan.
* TheSmartGuy: Dan and Tara for their respective teams.



* TheSmartGuy: Dan and Tara for their respective teams.

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* TheSmartGuy: Dan and Tara for their respective teams.StuffedIntoTheFridge: Ellis' entire family.



* TroubledButCute: Rosie.



* WasItAllALie: Ellis asks [[spoilers: Rosie]] if it was real from her perspective.

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* WasItAllALie: Ellis asks [[spoilers: [[spoiler: Rosie]] if it was real from her perspective.
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* NonActionBigBad: Mind Melter. He gets directly involved with the action, but relies on his mind control powers to make sure he comes out unscathed.



* PerkyFemaleMinion: Rosie, at first.



* WasItAllALie: Ellis asks [[spoilers: Rosie]] if it was real from her perspective.

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* WasItAllALie: Ellis asks [[spoilers: Rosie]] if it was real from her perspective.perspective.
* WalkingSpoiler: Rosie and Lynn.
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* BecomingtheMask: [[spoiler: Rosie]] admits to this while being interrogated by Ellis.



* DepravedBisexual: Rosie, though arguably her bisexuality has nothing to do with her evilness.



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Rosie and Void genuinely care about each-other. Rosie was even going to make sure Void didn't get any of the backlash from her actions [[spoiler: until it is revealed he was her target all along.]]
* EvilOrphan: Rosie, though this is enforced and encouraged.



* HappilyAdopted: Rosie and Void are a really happy family. At first.
* FalseFriend: [[spoiler: Lynn to Ellis.]]



* InsaneEqualsViolent: Rosie deliberately invokes this.



* MoralEventHorizon: Mind Melter manages to cross this in the first chapter, and nearly takes Rosie with him. In the eyes of many characters, Rosie has crossed it too.



* SlaveMooks: It's implied that Mind Melter's entire empire is built from these.



** Brawn is also an example. Brawn also [[spoiler: tortures Rosie.]]

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** Brawn is also an example. Brawn also [[spoiler: tortures Rosie.]]]]
* WasItAllALie: Ellis asks [[spoilers: Rosie]] if it was real from her perspective.

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* BattleCouple. [[spoiler: Ellis and Rosie.]]

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* BattleCouple. TheBait: [[spoiler: Rosie for Mind Melter.]]
* BattleCouple:
[[spoiler: Ellis and Rosie.]]


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* ButNowIMustGo: In the final chapter, [[spoiler: Rosie, Ellis, and Impulse leave the dome.]]


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* TheChessmaster: Mind Melter.
* DarkActionGirl: Rosie. Brawn [[spoilers: turns into this shortly before her death.]]
* DeathSeeker: Rosie claims to be this, to the amusement of Ellis.


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* EvilRedhead: Rosie.


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* IJustWantToBeNormal: The only Mundane in the story [[spoiler: is Rosie in disguise.]]
* ImplacableMan: Rosie and Ellis.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Rosie in her second fight with Ellis, to Ellis' horror. Turns out there's a reason for that.
* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: [[spoiler: Rosie, upon killing Seer, reveals that she knows the heroes won't let her go, that she has limited time left. She just wants to defeat Mind Melter first.]]
* NighInvulnerability: Rosie. Though she can still feel pain, it's implied that regeneration is fairly painful, and she tends to purposely deaden her nerves before a big fight, leading to MajorInjuryUnderreaction.


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* OnlySaneMan: Dan. It is Lampshaded in a conversation between Ellis and Rosie at the end of the book, where Rosie postulates Dan has a dark secret.


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* PersonofMassDestruction: Ellis could have been this at any time in the Underdome, due to it almost always being completely dark.


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* ShrinkingViolet: Lynn.
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* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Ellis and Lynn. until it's revealed that Lynn was Rosie all along.

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* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Ellis and Lynn. until [[spoiler: Until it's revealed that Lynn was Rosie all along.]]
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* AffablyEvil: Void is a sophisticated man who tried to give his adopted daughter her best chance. That doesn't stop him from encouraging Rosie's terrorizing of the Dome, or planning on blowing up Charma.


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* ForgivenButNotForgotten: It's implied Rosie feels this way towards Ellis.


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* ReformedButRejected: Rosie. [[spoiler: except by Ellis.]]


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* TheSmartGuy: Dan and Tara for their respective teams.
* TerrorHero: Ellis has shades of this. The room breathes with em when engulfed in darkness.
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* UnscrupulousHero: Ellis is working for the heroes for er own reasons, has no issue with killing the villains, and [[spoilers: tortures er girlfriend when ey discovers she is a villain.]]

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* UnscrupulousHero: Ellis is working for the heroes for er own reasons, has no issue with killing the villains, and [[spoilers: [[spoiler: tortures er girlfriend when ey discovers she is a villain.]]

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* BattleCouple. Ellis and Rosie.
* BroodingBoyGentle Girl: Ellis and Lynn. until it's revealed that Lynn was Rosie all along.

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* BadassBiker: Rosie is introduced as such, but this is not explored. This also makes her a BikerBabe.
* BattleCouple. [[spoiler: Ellis and Rosie.
Rosie.]]
* BroodingBoyGentle Girl: BigGood: Dan fills this role, giving Ellis information, managing the heroes, and being a genuinely nice guy while doing it. [[spoiler: when it comes to the final battle, however, he takes an offscreen role.]]
* BrotherSisterTeam: Dan and Tara were implied to be this before Tara was captured by Mind Melter.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl:
Ellis and Lynn. until it's revealed that Lynn was Rosie all along.



* Deuteragonist: Rosie, though she is behind the scenes for a good portion of the story, the story is arguably as much hers as it is Ellis'.
* ExaultedTorturer: Brawn believes she is this. [[spoiler: Ellis actually is.]]
** Charma also does this, though is notable by the total absence of physical torture.



* NominalHero: Impulse's ChaoticNeutral nature makes her this. She is consistently helpful to the heroes, but it is never clear exactly why.

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* GoodIsNotSoft: In spades. Nearly every character hits this, to the point where one of the most sympathetic characters are one of the villains.
* GeniusBruiser: Brawn is implied to be this.
* HurtingHero: Ellis, though ey start off as a StepfordSmiler with a good case of AngstWhatAngst until ey is forced to face er demons.
* NominalHero: Impulse's ChaoticNeutral nature makes her this. She is consistently helpful to the heroes, but it is never clear exactly why. why.
* PayUntoEvil: a given, considering this is, at its core, a revenge story.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Dan. He falls into PragmaticHero upon occasion, by nature of the world he exists in, but he seems to know exactly where the line is.

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It is Twenty MinutesIntoTheFuture. Cosmic radiation has forced humanity underground, except for the residents of the Dome. The Domeheads live in either the Upper-Dome is constantly sunny, while the Under-Dome runs on a "day" and "night" cycle, where one is lighter and one is darker.

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It is Twenty MinutesIntoTheFuture.TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture. Cosmic radiation has forced humanity underground, except for the residents of the Dome. The Domeheads live in either the Upper-Dome is constantly sunny, while the Under-Dome runs on a "day" and "night" cycle, where one is lighter and one is darker.



* TheAtoner: Rosie, who makes sure Ellis doesn't fall to Mind Melter's plot.
** [[spoiler: she keeps it up long after her initial act, eventually helping the heroes take down all of her coworkers.]] Nobody accepts her, though, likely due to her other characteristics.



* UnscrupulousHero: Ellis is working for the heroes for er own reasons, has no issue with killing the villains, and [[spoilers: tortures er girlfriend when ey discovers she is a villain.]]

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* UnscrupulousHero: Ellis is working for the heroes for er own reasons, has no issue with killing the villains, and [[spoilers: tortures er girlfriend when ey discovers she is a villain.]]
** Brawn is also an example. Brawn also [[spoiler: tortures Rosie.
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''Super Evil'' is a deconstruction-reconstruction of the superhero genre. Ellis, an agender shadow manipulator, is targeted by a mind controller and his web of Supers.

It is Twenty MinutesIntoTheFuture. Cosmic radiation has forced humanity underground, except for the residents of the Dome. The Domeheads live in either the Upper-Dome is constantly sunny, while the Under-Dome runs on a "day" and "night" cycle, where one is lighter and one is darker.

The Dome is policed by three groups: Forward Scouts, the exclusively-Super military force which protects the Dome, Peacekeepers, brave mundanes who handle lesser cases, and Superheroes, exclusively made of Supers.

'''Super-Evil contains the following tropes:'''

* ActionGenreHeroGuy: Played with. Ellis fits a lot of the tropes, being an ex-Forward Scout, having a dead-family, and insisting upon working alone. But the entirety of the story involves Ellis learning to work with other people.
* ActionDuo: Rosie and Mind Melter, [[spoiler: then Ellis and Rosie.]] It is implied Brawn and Phoenix were this.
* ActionGirl: Nearly every girl, excluding those who are a Dark Action Girl.
* BattleCouple. Ellis and Rosie.
* BroodingBoyGentle Girl: Ellis and Lynn. until it's revealed that Lynn was Rosie all along.
* ByronicHero: [[spoiler: Rosie, once she joins the side of good.]]
* CaptiveAudience: Ellis' family is murdered in front of em, and they're held in place by Mind Melter's control.
* EvilDuo: Mind Melter and Rosie. It doesn't go well.
* NominalHero: Impulse's ChaoticNeutral nature makes her this. She is consistently helpful to the heroes, but it is never clear exactly why.
* SociopathicHero: While not a true sociopath, [[spoiler: Rosie]] becomes this. While she seems to show genuine guilt over some of her actions, during a BreatherEpisode after the climax, [[spoiler: she laughs over some of the people she killed.]]
* UnscrupulousHero: Ellis is working for the heroes for er own reasons, has no issue with killing the villains, and [[spoilers: tortures er girlfriend when ey discovers she is a villain.]]

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