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** [[spoiler:Zach eventually removes ''everyone's'' powers so he can use them to fight Scion]].
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* ExactWords: Piggot is not amused that Taylor healed her without permission, to which Taylor replies that the woman "accepted when Taylor offered to help her". Piggot assumed Taylor meant supporting her in walking, not healing all her old injuries so she could walk on her own.
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* BroughtDownToNormal: Zach can permanently remove someone's powers and creates the IdiotBall out of Animos's scream, which lets Taylor temporarily remove their powers.
** Panacea is the first one to willingly lose her powers.
** Several inmates in the Birdcage accept losing their powers in exchange for the possibility of parole.
** Panacea is the first one to willingly lose her powers.
** Several inmates in the Birdcage accept losing their powers in exchange for the possibility of parole.
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* CatharsisFactor: InUniverse. Piggot is allowed to retake Ellisburg, with help from Zachary's powers, as a gift for how much it will do to end her recurring nightmares.
* TheChessmaster: With help from his sister, the Simurgh, Zach can pull off some fairly impressive plans to manipulate people in such a way that the cease to be a potential threat to Taylor, such as making Glory Girl dislike him so she challenges him to an arm-wrestling competition so he can have a conversation with Amy and put her on the path to asking for her powers to be removed.
* TheChessmaster: With help from his sister, the Simurgh, Zach can pull off some fairly impressive plans to manipulate people in such a way that the cease to be a potential threat to Taylor, such as making Glory Girl dislike him so she challenges him to an arm-wrestling competition so he can have a conversation with Amy and put her on the path to asking for her powers to be removed.
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* IJustWantToBeNormal: Amy Dallon is much happier once she's no longer Panacea and pressured with healing everyone all the time (or dealing with the constant urge to "fix" their brains).
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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Discussed. Amy talks about how she could easily fix someone's brain in a purely beneficial way, such as curing her adoptive father's depression. But maybe someone tries to mug her later and she uses her power to make them a productive member of society. It wouldn't be long before she's changing everyone in whatever manner she deems best, and anyone who tries to stop her would have their minds changed the moment she touches them.
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* MundaneLuxury: For the man who used to be Ash Beast, just the taste of fresh fruits nearly makes him cry in joy as he had been unable to eat or drink anything for years.
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* RelationshipSalvagingDisaster: Amy losing her powers should be a massive disaster for New Wave, but the guarantee that she'll never become a villain like her father allows Carol to truly bond with her adoptive daughter for the first time and saves their relationship.
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** Tagg is ripped a new one by Chief Director Costa-Brown for needlessly escalating a conflict against an extremely powerful but neutral cape, especially when the conflict had been largely resolved by that point.
** After Assault returns from being punched into another state, Piggot chews him out for not only escalating, but doing so in a potentially fatal way against Zachary.
** Tagg is ripped a new one by Chief Director Costa-Brown for needlessly escalating a conflict against an extremely powerful but neutral cape, especially when the conflict had been largely resolved by that point.
** After Assault returns from being punched into another state, Piggot chews him out for not only escalating, but doing so in a potentially fatal way against Zachary.
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* KidWithTheLeash: Zachary will do anything Taylor asks of him, provided it doesn't go against his primary directive of keeping her safe. Notably, he doesn't kill specifically because she tells him not to.
* LuxuryPrisonSuite: The entirety of the Birdcage, thanks to Zach, is turned into a place that feels more like a luxurious (albeit underground) hotel. Even Hookwolf admits that he "could imagine worse ways to spend the next few years" when he arrives. However, every luxury, from drinks to cigarettes can be lost if the prisoner misbehaves.
* LuxuryPrisonSuite: The entirety of the Birdcage, thanks to Zach, is turned into a place that feels more like a luxurious (albeit underground) hotel. Even Hookwolf admits that he "could imagine worse ways to spend the next few years" when he arrives. However, every luxury, from drinks to cigarettes can be lost if the prisoner misbehaves.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: Once they learn about humor, the Endbringers start playing pranks on humanity, such as Leviathan shaping a storm front into a winking smiley face or the Simurgh rick-rolling China.
* OddFriendship: By the time Coil is released from service, he's almost friends with [[ItMakesSenseInContext the corpse of the last man he murdered]] and makes a point of having a drink in his honor after being told that the mercenary wouldn't be brought back to life.
* OddFriendship: By the time Coil is released from service, he's almost friends with [[ItMakesSenseInContext the corpse of the last man he murdered]] and makes a point of having a drink in his honor after being told that the mercenary wouldn't be brought back to life.
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* RunningGag: After Zach turns the Butcher's powers into a jacket and gives it to Taylor, everyone who sees her remarks about how nice said jacket is, including Piggot, Trickster, and Ash Beast.
* SpecialPersonNormalName: Zachary, the fourth Endbringer. Even later when people have an idea of how dangerous he is, they still can only call him "Zach".
* SpecialPersonNormalName: Zachary, the fourth Endbringer. Even later when people have an idea of how dangerous he is, they still can only call him "Zach".
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* TheNeedless: Zachary does not need to eat or sleep, and judging by his immunity to tear gas and knockout gas, probably doesn't need to breathe either.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Zach grapples Scion's true form and flies with it into the Sun, to end the biggest existing threat to Taylor.]]
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* BrickJoke: Oni Lee got kicked into orbit by Zach in Chapter Six. Zach is quick to assure Miss Militia that he is not dead and is in the care of his sister[[spoiler: the Simurgh]]. When Zach summons her to prove his parentage to Eidolon she brings him back.
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* BrickJoke: Oni Lee got kicked into orbit by Zach in Chapter Six. Zach is quick to assure Miss Militia that he is not dead and is in the care of his sister[[spoiler: the sister [[spoiler:the Simurgh]]. When Zach summons her to prove his parentage to Eidolon she brings him back.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Zachary's highest good is the good of Taylor Herbert. All other laws, morals, and standards are subordinate to that.
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* CannotTellALie: Zachary never lies. However, because he also [[PowerOfTrust seems harmless]], when he tells the truth about [[spoiler: being an Endbringer]], Taylor decides that he's joking.
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* IWarnedYou: Zach did try to warn Eidolon that he was in the path of a torrent of filthy water, but Eidolon, who refused to accept being called "Father," was steadfastly ignoring him.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: One of Zach's powers keeps people from noticing when he displays feats of superhuman power. People are still ''aware'' that he has, for example, just chucked a van fifteen hundred miles, but they are unable to register this as something abnormal and worth taking note of.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: One of Zach's powers keeps people from noticing when he displays feats of superhuman power. People are still ''aware'' that he has, for example, just chucked a van fifteen hundred miles, but they are unable to register this as something abnormal and worth taking note of.of, or they quickly forget about it the next time they're assessing how dangerous he is.
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* IdiotBall: {{Invoked}} by Zach to deal with the Teeth.
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* IdiotBall: {{Invoked}} by Zach to deal with the Teeth.
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* BullyingADragon: Surprisingly, it's {{Justified}}. Part of Zach's powerset makes it impossible for people to see him as dangerous or really register just how powerful he is. It's mainly intended to keep him from freaking Taylor out, but it also causes people who really should know better to keep trying to bully him.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: One of Zach's powers keeps people from noticing when he displays feats of superhuman power. People are still ''aware'' that he has, for example, just chucked a van fifteen hundred miles, but they are unable to register this as something abnormal and worth taking note of.
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--> '''Oni Lee''': [["MadnessMantra "[[MadnessMantra take me to jail, please get me away from her, I want to go to jail"]]jail]]"
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* BrickJoke: Oni Lee got kicked into orbit by Zach in Chapter Six. Zach is quick to assure Miss Militia that he is not dead and is in the care of his sister[[spoiler: the Simurgh]]. When Zach summons her to prove his parentage to Eidolon she brings him back.
--> '''Oni Lee''': [[MadnessMantra take me to jail, please get me away from her, I want to go to jail]]
--> '''Oni Lee''': [[MadnessMantra take me to jail, please get me away from her, I want to go to jail]]
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* MetronomicManMashing: [[spoiler: Lung]] is on the receiving end of this from Zach.
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* IfIWantedYouDead: Tagg decides that Zach tried to kill him with a thrown van that flew past his helicopter. Zach countered that the van missed him by a good fifty yards; if he'd been aiming at Tagg, he'd have hit him.
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* SuperStrength: Zachary is strong enough to tear free from containment foam without any real problem, and casually rips through steel doors to get things Taylor needs or get her out of lockers.
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* WhamLine (when addressing Eidolon and ''Chief Director Rebecca Costa-Brown''):
-->“Hello, Alexandria! Hello, Father! It is so good to meet you both at last!”
* WhamLine (when addressing Eidolon and ''Chief Director Rebecca Costa-Brown''):
-->“Hello, Alexandria! Hello, Father! It is so good to meet you both at last!”
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* SuperSpeed: Carrying Taylor, Zach runs several blocks in the time it takes her to say the word "fast".
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* CannotTellALie: Zachary never lies. However, because he also [[PowerOfTrust seems harmless]], when he tells the truth about [[spoiler: being an Endbringer]], Taylor decides that he's joking.
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* PowerOfTrust: Zach ''literally'' has this. People trust him; or rather, they consider that he's not a danger to them.
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* MegatonPunch: Zach has kicked Oni Lee into orbit (!) and backhanded Hookwolf four blocks (into the back of a dog-catcher van).
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: What happens to Hookwolf and Lung when they go up against Zach.
* NoSell: Zach can manipulate the powers of any cape facing him. He can also ''use'' these powers if he feels like it.
* NoSell: Zach can manipulate the powers of any cape facing him. He can also ''use'' these powers if he feels like it.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Zach decides that the Slaughterhouse Nine are an unacceptable danger to Taylor. So he kills them, with a van and a street signpost, from ''fifteen hundred miles away''.
* InASingleBound: Zach has shown himself capable of leaping half a mile or more, without harming his passenger.
* InASingleBound: Zach has shown himself capable of leaping half a mile or more, without harming his passenger.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: When Sophia's mom asks Zachary about his family, the only thing he says is "Behemoth". She naturally concludes that he's suffering TraumaInducedAmnesia from an Endbringer attack. [[spoiler: In reality, Zachary meant that as fellow creations of Eidolon's, Behemoth and he are actually family.]]
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* PlagueOfGoodFortune: Taylor's situation. A random boy just pops up of nowhere and sets about the task of single-mindedly helping her out. The problem is, he seems to have no conception of right or wrong (beyond "good for Taylor" or "bad for Taylor"), and he has at the very least the strength and durability of a extremely high-level Brute. In other words, he is both entirely willing and entirely able to kill Taylor's bullies to stop them from hurting her (luckily, Taylor manages to talk him down before he actually does it).
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* PlagueOfGoodFortune: Taylor's situation. A random boy just pops up of nowhere and sets about the task of single-mindedly helping her out. The problem is, he seems to have no conception of right or wrong (beyond "good for Taylor" or "bad for Taylor"), and he has at the very least the strength and durability of a extremely high-level Brute. In other words, he is both entirely willing and entirely able to kill Taylor's bullies to stop them from hurting her (luckily, Taylor manages to talk him down before he actually does it).it).
* SuperStrength: Zachary is strong enough to tear free from containment foam without any real problem, and casually rips through steel doors to get things Taylor needs or get her out of lockers.
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One night, David (more commonly known as Eidolon) dreams of a girl. A girl who through no fault of her own is subjected to a bullying campaign of staggering viciousness, a girl who is on the brink of losing all hope. He wishes with all his heart that he could do something to help her, and unbeknownst to him, his powers respond...
On the outskirts of Brockton Bay, what appears to be a teenage boy comes into existence. He does not know his name or history, but he does know his purpose. He is here to help Taylor Herbert.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Zachary's highest good is the good of Taylor Herbert. All other laws, morals, and standards are subordinate to that.
* NotHyperbole: Zachary ''literally'' punches Assault into the next state (Assault is fine, thanks to his kinetic energy manipulation).
* PlagueOfGoodFortune: Taylor's situation. A random boy just pops up of nowhere and sets about the task of single-mindedly helping her out. The problem is, he seems to have no conception of right or wrong (beyond "good for Taylor" or "bad for Taylor"), and he has at the very least the strength and durability of a extremely high-level Brute. In other words, he is both entirely willing and entirely able to kill Taylor's bullies to stop them from hurting her (luckily, Taylor manages to talk him down before he actually does it).
One night, David (more commonly known as Eidolon) dreams of a girl. A girl who through no fault of her own is subjected to a bullying campaign of staggering viciousness, a girl who is on the brink of losing all hope. He wishes with all his heart that he could do something to help her, and unbeknownst to him, his powers respond...
On the outskirts of Brockton Bay, what appears to be a teenage boy comes into existence. He does not know his name or history, but he does know his purpose. He is here to help Taylor Herbert.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Zachary's highest good is the good of Taylor Herbert. All other laws, morals, and standards are subordinate to that.
* NotHyperbole: Zachary ''literally'' punches Assault into the next state (Assault is fine, thanks to his kinetic energy manipulation).
* PlagueOfGoodFortune: Taylor's situation. A random boy just pops up of nowhere and sets about the task of single-mindedly helping her out. The problem is, he seems to have no conception of right or wrong (beyond "good for Taylor" or "bad for Taylor"), and he has at the very least the strength and durability of a extremely high-level Brute. In other words, he is both entirely willing and entirely able to kill Taylor's bullies to stop them from hurting her (luckily, Taylor manages to talk him down before he actually does it).
