History FanFic / OriginStory

** In Chapter 18, "Dragged Into the Harsh Light of Day", Alex and the members of the ComicBook/{{Runaways}} are inspired to strike back at Norman Osborn in a way that would truly hurt him: by robbing him. They steal an [=OsCorp=] shipping container from the Port of Los Angeles bonded holding facility, thinking they'd net a few million dollars. When it turns out that the shipping container contains over $10 billion (its not specified how ''much'' over... just that its over) they all have a bit of a freak-out. Alex and Louise's share of the take is never specified at any point in the story, but after the robbery they've gone from being homeless to staying in a $7000 a night hotel suite, driving a brand new Mercedes, and dressing in designer clothing.
** In Chapter 29, its revealed that Alex and Louise have over $700 million tucked away in a Grand Caymanian bank where it can't be touched by the US government.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Lampshaded when Alex points out that her treatment is drastically unconstitutional because its illegal to criminalize the fact that someone exists (or as Alex puts it, “Making it illegal to be a superhuman is like making it illegal to be red-headed; it's not something people can help”). She also points out how wrong throwing people in jail without due process is. Despite this, the U.S. government is doing these things anyway.

* DefiantStoneThrow: Typhoid Mary smacks down Louise first, knowing that its Alex who is the true threat. Mary then proceeds to put a serious hurt on Alex and completely ignoring the fact that Louise is even still in the room. This turns out to be a big, big mistake on Typhoid Mary's part.

* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Played in that Alex's middle name -- since she is a [[ItMakesSenseInContext magically created psychic cross-gender Kryptionian clone]] of [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander Harris]] -- is "Lavelle", just like Xander himself. She still finds it embarrassing, but everyone else shrugs it off because its not ''that'' bad a name if you're female. Which she is.

** Well more like Ethical Porn producers. A couple of porn producer/recruiter do a somewhat high-pressure sell on staring in one of their films to Alex. However the second they learn she's 17 they back off completely, give her the 500 dollars they promised for just talking to them, and point her to a local convent that takes in homeless girls. They do give her their card for when she turns 18 but it's more of an afterthought.

* GenderBender: Averted. Completely and totally averted. This is not a gender-bender story, despite the fact that you don't find that out until 13 or so chapters in. If all you read in those first dozen chapters, however, you'll come away thinking that this is a story about Xander Harris turned into a girl. Except its not. Its about a girl who has a sort of psychotic break and thinks she's Xander Harris. Or, at least, that's what most people think. As it turns out, it's basically a copy of Xander's mind in a copy of Kara's body.

* HowDoIShotWeb: Avoided. Alex has ComicBook/PowerGirl's memories, and thus knows instinctively how to use all of ComicBook/PowerGirl's powers. She still plays around with them occasionally just because its fun.

* IChooseToStay: Alex justifies not fleeing to some other country to Nico Minoru of the Runaways because she's an American, and this is America, and she's not going to be run out of her own country. Besides that, she doesn't know how to speak any other languages. She also justifies finally taking a stand against SHIELD, the Avengers, and the Registration Act itself in Miami because she's tired of running and its time someone stands up to them.

* MundaneLuxury: At one point in the story, Alex is homeless and living in the re-purposed shell of a broken down school bus with Louise. They're getting basic necessities like food and the occasional new piece of clothing from a convent, but otherwise are sleeping on a cardboard mat under scavenged blankets. Its so bad that a trip so the $6 Breakfast Buffet at the Sizzler is considered a treat.
* {{Mutants}}: Its set in the Marvel Universe, so yes, there are mutants. The most notable one is Louise Fulford, Alex's LoveInterest. Her mutant power, the ability to change her hair color (all her hair, not just the stuff on her head) to any shade or combination of shades she wishes) is less than overwhelming.

* MyEyesAreUpHere: The one time Alex pulls this, it's due to Spider-man complimenting her muscles while staring at her tits (and thinking he wouldn't get caught due to the mask).

* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Alex effectively tells the US government that she will be watching their every move, and that if she sees them do something that crosses what she considers a line, she will come down on them, hard. When Tony Stark points out that this is effectively a “terrorist threat”, Alex counters that its actually more akin to a parent telling their children to stop fighting or they'll be sent to their room.

* ObviousCrossoverMethod: At first glance, this story looks like its just a GenderBender version of the run-of-the-mill standard ''{{Series/Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}'' YAHF ("Yet Another Halloween Fanfic") plot. Except it really, really isn't. It goes off of ''those'' rails almost with the first chapter.

* RefuseTheCall: For most of the story, Alex refuses to become a superhero, saying that she only wants to be left alone. Then she catches a helicopter as its falling out of the sky...

* SecretKeeper: Many people think they know Superwoman's SecretIdentity. She gets called "Karen Starr" all the time by various people. Thing is, Superwoman's real name isn't Karen Starr... its Alexandra Harris. Alex's domestic partner Louise and the members of the Runaways function as Alex's {{Secret Keeper}}s.

* WouldntHitAGirl: The Juggernaut muses that while he will fight a girl if forced to, he doesn't enjoy it. When Alex confronts him, he unsuccessfully tries to get her to walk away at first. Its only after she manages to actually slow him down that he decides that playtime is over and takes a swing at her. Not that it helps him much.

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: After Alex gets fed up with receiving nothing but mistrust from [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy and the rest of the Scoobies]], she flees Sunnydale in tears. Needing a moment to think and calm down, she lands on the dock behind the house she shared with Louise. Problem is, in the Buffyverse, its not her house, not her property, and not her dock. The owner quickly asks her to leave, citing all the "No Trespassing" signs he has around the property.

** Of Power Girl. At first, Alex thinks that she is Xander Harris with Kara's memories, but later comes to realize that she's actually a melding of both Xander and Kara, with her own experiences and opinions.

In the aftermath of the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E6Halloween Halloween]], Xander Harris finds himself trapped not only in the body of ComicBook/PowerGirl, but in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse as well during a time in which being an unregistered metahuman is a bad, bad thing. Naturally, given Xander's problems with authority, HilarityEnsues as SHIELD and ComicBook/TheAvengers try and bring him to heel. At least, that's what everyone thinks is going on. The truth is a lot more complicated, not only for Xander, but for the friends he makes, the enemies he provokes, and for the Marvel Universe as a whole. Calling himself "Alex Harris", he strives to find a safe harbor for both himself and the woman he comes to love.

* ActionGirl: Alex doesn't hesitate in the least to rush in and help when people need help, nor does she shy away from fighting when a fight is what is needed. But then, half of her mental makeup is [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander Harris]], and the other half is [[ComicBook/PowerGirl Kara Zor-L]], so its to be expected.

* AllAbusersAreMale: Both played straight and subverted, all at the same time. At one point (during the short period Alex Harris still thinks of herself as "Xander trapped in Power Girl's body"), Alexandra is given a psychological evaluation by Doc Samson, and their talk eventually lands on "her" memories of being an abused child. When Samson asks if her father hit her, Alex reveals that while it did happen occasionally, it was actually "her" mother who was the abusive one, and that for every time "her" dad hit her, "her" mother probably hit "her" a dozen times. When Alex confessed that "her" father was much more of an emotional abuser, Samson responds that emotional abuse is often just as damaging as physical abuse.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Alex "Superwoman" Harris swiftly proves herself to be this for basically every hero and villain in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. It is remarked several times that its going to take power on the level of the Silver Surfer or Doctor Strange to take her out, and neither of those two individuals are interested in the job.

* AmazonChaser: Louise presents a female version of this trope. Louise is no small woman herself (standing 5' 10" tall), but she openly admits that what first attracted her to her partner Alex was the fact that Alex is 6' 2" and is so muscled she looks like you took a male athlete and stuck [[MostCommonSuperpower huge breasts]] onto her

* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: In Chapter 18, "Dragged Into the Harsh Light of Day", Alex and the members of the ComicBook/{{Runaways}} are inspired to strike back at Norman Osborn in a way that would truly hurt him: by robbing him. They steal an [=OsCorp=] shipping container from the Port of Los Angeles bonded holding facility, thinking they'd net a few million dollars. When it turns out that the shipping container contains over $10 billion (its not specified how ''much'' over... just that its over) they all have a bit of a freak-out. Alex and Louise's share of the take is never specified at any point in the story, but after the robbery they've gone from being homeless to staying in a $7000 a night hotel suite, driving a brand new Mercedes, and dressing in designer clothing.

* AssholeVictim: Even taking into account his [[CruelAndUnusualDeath brutal death]] at the hands of Alex Harris, no one is really mourning Bullseye too much after he's killed.

-->'''Alex Harris:''' I am unilaterally declaring Florida a free state. I am defending the Constitution, something you swore an oath to do when you took government office, I might point out.\\

-->'''Alex Harris:''' Marvel, I don't want to fight you. And the last thing you want to do is get into a fight with me. Seriously, you do not want to be on my bad side. If I wanted, I could carve you into pieces like a pig gone to slaughter just by looking at you. I can shatter all your bones merely with the sound of my voice. I can boil your blood, or freeze you in place. And even here, surrounded by our teammates - ''OUR'' teammates, Carol, not just yours, since Tony invited me into this little club - I could do these things to you before anyone else here could even attempt to stop me.

* BerserkButton: Don't even think about harming Louise. Just don't. Remember, half of Alex's memories and attitudes come from Xander Harris, who is quite happy to rip the spines out of those who hurt the people he loves. Now, imagine a pissed off Xander Harris possessing the body of a Kryptonian.

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: The assassin that Hydra sends after John Leslie, once realizing he's up against Alex, realizes he has no chance against her so he tries to shoot himself; becomes an AvertedTrope because, before he can pull the trigger, Alex has already used her SuperSpeed to remove the top half of the gun.

He is fulfilling his promise, and is also not lying about new chapters coming out slowly. Chapter 31 came out on October 9th 2019, nearly two years after the release of Chapter 30 while Chapter 32 was released on April 23rd 2021. Chapter 33, the final chapter, was released on June 21, 2021. Worldmaker hinted that he may make a sequel in the future.

!!This story provides examples of:

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Wonder Man to Tony Stark: “Why are we hunting this girl when she's done nothing wrong?”

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: A variation on the standard trope. In Chapter 31, Carol Danvers is musing over Alexandra Harris calling herself "Superwoman". She thinks its ridiculous for a superhero to be so presumptuous and arrogant as to put the word "super" in their name as if they were the first and best superhero. Alex, of course, is a Kryptonian, so she comes by the appellation "Super" naturally.

* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: In order to rescue Louise from a secure military base, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, ComicBook/SpiderMan, and [[ComicBook/{{Avengers}} The Wasp]] dress up in military uniforms and use forged [=IDs=] and orders to get in. (It turns out that Captain America's uniform is real.)

** As a whole, the entire fic is a massive middle finger to the controversial ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}'' storyline, most particularly to Iron Man's Pro-Registration side. Besides Iron Man and Captain Marvel, several other characters get called out for basically being assholes. It is worth noting that the author is basing these depictions on '''''canon sources''' -- actual issues of Marvel comic books that really depicted these characters as complete {{Jerkass}}es doing {{Jerkass}} things -- and isn't just creating a StrawmanPolitical situation, as several readers have accused him of doing.

** As a whole, the entire fic is a massive middle finger to the controversial ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' storyline, most particularly to Iron Man's Pro-Registration side. Besides Iron Man and Captain Marvel, several other characters get called out for basically being assholes. It is worth noting that the author is basing these depictions on '''''canon sources''' -- actual issues of Marvel comic books that really depicted these characters as complete {{Jerkass}}es doing {{Jerkass}} things -- and isn't just creating a StrawmanPolitical situation, as several readers have accused him of doing.

'''''Origin Story''''' by Worldmaker (found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9801437/1/Origin-Story here]] on FanFiction.net and [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/9106846/chapters/20700256 here]] on Archive of Our Own) is a ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' / ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' crossover story that is set in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse during the ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006''.

* ExcusePlot: The author admits that he wrote this story primarily because he “wanted to give Tony Stark a punch in the mouth” after reading the [[ComicBook/CivilWar original comic book story]].

* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: As in the original ComicBook/CivilWar storyline, the X-Men sit the entire thing out after quietly determining that Alex is ''not'' a mutant after all. Since she isn't a mutant, and isn't attacking mutants (and has, in the past defended them) they don't see it as their problem.

'''''Origin Story''''' by Worldmaker (found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9801437/1/Origin-Story here]] on FanFiction.net and [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/9106846/chapters/20700256 here]] on Archive of Our Own) is a ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' / ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' crossover story that is set in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse during the ComicBook/CivilWar2006.

'''''Origin Story''''' by Worldmaker (found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9801437/1/Origin-Story here]] on FanFiction.net and [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/9106846/chapters/20700256 here]] on Archive of Our Own) is a ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' / ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' crossover story that is set in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse during the ComicBook/CivilWar.

* ChestInsignia: This is played with. Alex's costume has the CleavageWindow of ComicBook/PowerGirl along with the color scheme of Franchise/{{Superman}} because Alex accepts and believes in Kara's reasons for not having one. But she also acknowledges the House of El by including the classic Superman “S” on her belt buckle and on the broaches that hold her cape on. Like Kara, she feels that if people are overly preoccupied or distracted by her boobs that's their problem, not hers.

** The Marvel Universe has a popular comic book superhero team [[CaptainErsatz analogue]] of the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica called ''The Guardians of Freedom''. They consist of [[Characters/{{Batman}} Achilles]], [[Characters/{{Superman}} Ultraman]] (who is regarded as the first comic book superhero and predates the ''real'' superheroes), [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Crossbow]], [[Franchise/WonderWoman Amazon]], and the [[Franchise/GreenLantern Sapphire Sentinel]].
** Creator/JohnByrne wrote a reboot on ''[[Comicbook/TheManOfSteel Ultra-Man]]''.

* NoPeriodsPeriod: At first it seemed as if the story was going to follow this trope (to the point that some reviewers commented on how unrealistic it was that Alex, who at the time was still thinking she was a man turned into a woman, wouldn't have had a complete freak out over getting her period). Turns out that the writer was instead using her period as evidence that while Alex looks human, she's actually a [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kryptonian]], and the two species are ''not'' identical even if they are similar. In the story, female Kryptonians are only fertile (and thus only menstruate) four times a year. Alex eventually ''did'' get her period, on the normal Kryptonian time-scale.

* SuperHeroOrigin: Ultimately, the entire story is the origin tale that explains how Superwoman, a Kryptonian hero in the mold of Franchise/{{Superman}}, came to be in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.

* SuperweaponSurprise: The Avengers are tasked by SHIELD to arrest a girl who escaped from their custody. SHIELD had previously tested the girl's power level, and put her somewhere on the scale between Beast and Franchise/SpiderMan. Well, surprise, surprise, turns out she was a Kryptonian who figured out that maybe hiding just how powerful she really was might be a smart idea. Cue [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] getting the [[CurbStompBattle ass-whipping]] of his life.

* AccusationFic: The story was written specifically as a way to symbolically “punish” Marvel Comics for the entire Civil War story arc.

* BoobsOfSteel: Alex, being a magically created clone of ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' possesses the legendary oversized breasts of the woman she is cloned from. She lives in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, which means that in the universe of ''FanFic/OriginStory'', it is ''Alex'' and not ComicBook/SheHulk who is the bustiest superheroine around. And since she is a [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Kryptonian]] in a world where "super-strength" is measured on a smaller scale, she's also the strongest person on earth, male or female.

** In Chapter 23, "We Know How to Stop Her", being essentially a PhysicalGod has made Alex complacent and so a (by Marvel Universe standards) small-fry fight against ''[[GoldfishPoopGang the Wrecking Crew]]'' ends up with Alex stabbed throught he gut with the Wrecker's crowbar. [[FromBadToWorse To make things even worse, the fight was recorded by the local news, and so Reed Richards and Tony Stark now have empirical proof that magic is the best method to attack her...]]

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Alex is able to ignore the Metahuman Registration Act because, to be blunt, the only beings in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse powerful enough to enforce it just don't give a damn about puny humans and their political squabbles. Or, in the case of Thor, are currently dead.

** [[NamesTheSame Willow Rosenberg]] is considered a "stone cold badass" because of Tony's influence when he makes her one of the highest ranked agents in SHIELD. In particular, her file is "so clean and sterile you could perform surgery with it" which all the agents take to mean she was involved in operations so secret, SHIELD can't have records of them anywhere. Really, she was simply a computer technician and hasn't been involved in ''any'' operations.

* ObviousCrossoverMethod: At first glance, this story looks like its just a GenderBender version of the run-of-the-mill standard ''{{Series/Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}'' YAHF (“yet another Halloween”) fanfic plot. Except it really, really isn't. It goes off of ''those'' rails almost with the first chapter.
* OffingTheOffspring: The actual Karen Starr was murdered by her father when she tried to run away to escape her father's sexual abuse.

** During a discussion about the flaws of the Registration Act, Carol Danvers refers to Louise as a whore '''right in front of Alex''', leading to the other Avengers in the room visibly wincing while Wonder Man utters "Oh shit."

* OnlyInMiami: After falling in love with the beaches in Florida, Alex and Louise decide to settle in South Florida. While Miami becomes “her city” (and she becomes fiercely protective of it), Alex decides that its better for SecretIdentity purposes that they live on Big Pine Key, an island some 70 miles south of the city. The idea that their "hometown superheroine" doesn't actually live in their hometown never occurs to anyone in Miami, because hey, its Miami. Why would anyone live anywhere else?

* OutsideContextProblem: Alex Harris is this to both [[EldritchAbomination Glory the Hell God]] and her demonic worshiper [[FauxAffablyEvil Doc]]. While they were both able enough opponents to face a vampire slayer, they were just horribly outclassed when faced by a pissed off [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Kryptonian]].

-->'''Alex Harris:''' “Tell your bosses to leave me alone, or the next time I’ll visit them in person. I don’t want to fight. I’m not robbing banks and I’m not hurting anyone. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Leave. Me. Alone]].”

'''Tony Stark:''' "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Why. Do. You. Call. Her. A. Thing.]]" Stark spoke slowly, as if to a four-year-old. He grinned when he was done, then caught himself and added, “Norman?”

** Tony Stark, in a strange sense - while he initially pursues Alex, after a little bit of a HeelRealisation, he actively looks out for Alex and Louise, tries to reign in both Gyrich and Norman Osborn, noting the stupidity of their actions, and seems to be looking to get the SHRA repealed.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: Although SHIELD are way off on most of their early assumptions about Alex, they turn out to be (sort of) correct that [[spoiler: she's a girl who's had a (sort of) psychotic episode that results in her believing that she's a boy rather than a boy who has been transformed into a girl, as Alex herself initially believes.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Alex, possessing all the powers of a Kryptonian, gets positively ''medieval'' on the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} after they turn her girlfriend into "collateral damage". She hits Bullseye so hard that the assassin's adamantium-reinforced skull deforms around her fist, backhands Penance through a building, rips Radioactive Man's heart out with her bare hands, rams a forefinger through Songbird's larynx, and burns the Venom symbiote into a puddle of smoking goo with her heat vision. She leaves Moonstone alive and (relatively) unharmed as a “message.”
* RunningGag: Everyone calls Alex “Karen Starr” (which is ComicBook/PowerGirl's real name) despite her never once claiming to be Karen Starr. No one really believes her denials.

** Agent Coulson and two other SHIELD agents leak the exact detail of what happened to Alex. Suddenly she goes from a mentally unstable girl who escapes from treatment, to a scared teenager running from unlawful detention and government assassination. Which means that politically, publicly, and legally she is now untouchable.
** The air force radar monitor who spots Superwoman's return -- and the duty officer in charge of his shift -- decide to reclassify Superwoman's radar track as a "slow burn meteor" because neither one of them agree with the Superhuman Registration Act... or as one of them puts it, "the Nazi-Assed un-American Registration Act."

* SecretKeeper: Many people think they know Superwoman's SecretIdentity. She get's called "Karen Starr" all the time by various people. Thing is, Superwoman's real name isn't Karen Starr... its Alexandra Harris. Alex's domestic partner Louise and the members of the Runaways function as Alex's {{Secret Keeper}}s.
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: A variation on the standard trope. In Chapter 31, Carol Danvers is musing over Alexandra Harris calling herself "Superwoman." She thinks its ridiculous for a superhero to be so presumptuous and arrogant as to put the word "super" in their name as if they were the first and best superhero. Alex, of course, is a Kryptonian, so she comes by the appellation "Super" naturally.

* ShootingSuperman: SHIELD agents try to shoot Alex with “Hulk Buster” bullets (designed to take down the roaring green rage monster himself). They have no effect at all. Alex even lectures them about how they are more likely to hurt themselves with a ricochet than hurt her with them. Even better when a couple of agents try hitting her with batons. One agent had to let go of his baton because it rebounded too hard.

* ChestInsignia: This is played with. Alex's costume has the CleavageWindow of ComicBook/PowerGirl along with the color scheme of {{Superman}} because Alex accepts and believes in Kara's reasons for not having one. But she also acknowledges the House of El by including the classic Superman “S” on her belt buckle and on the broaches that hold her cape on. Like Kara, she feels that if people are overly preoccupied or distracted by her boobs that's their problem, not hers.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: A variation on the standard trope. In Chapter 31, Carol Danvers is musing over Alexandra Harris calling herself "Superwoman." She thinks its ridiculous for a superhero to be so presumptuous and arrogant as to put the word "super" in their name as if they were the first and best superhero. Alex, of course, is a [[{{Superman}} Kryptonian]], so she comes by the appellation "Super" naturally.

* SuperweaponSurprise: The Avengers are tasked by SHIELD to arrest a girl who escaped from their custody. SHIELD had previously tested the girl's power level, and put her somewhere on the scale between Beast and Franchise/SpiderMan. Well, surprise, surprise, turns out she was a [[{{Superman}} Kryptonian]] who figured out that maybe hiding just how powerful she really was might be a smart idea. Cue [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] getting the [[CurbStompBattle ass-whipping]] of his life.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Squirrel Girl boasts to Superwoman thats she's utterly unbeatable and has beaten Dr. Doom in the past. Alex is able to beat her with almost less than minimal effort. Figuring out rather quickly that Squirrel Girl is a joke character who might be 'unbeatable' but only in a humour story rather than a serious one like what they're in.

* ImmuneToBullets: Alex Harris, being a magically created clone of ComicBook/PowerGirl, is as ImmuneToBullets as any other Kryptonian on Earth. It is [[LampshadeHanging specifically mentioned]] that her skin is tough enough to bounce Hulk-Buster Bullets, rail-gun propelled hypersonic adamantium bullets designed to take down the [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Big Green Rage Monster]] himself.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Captain Marvel was always the superhero equivalent of the AlphaBitch, but she mostly spewed hot air until HYDRA gave her the push to start indulging her worst excesses by dosing her with the Puppet Master's mind-control compound. And she's not the only one. On the other hand, the compound costs the brainwashed heroes quite a bit of performance. The heroes that NoSell the drug's effects, like Ares (because of his godly physiology), Wonder Man (TheNeedless who doesn't eat or drink a thing) and Spider-Man (who, surprisingly, can recover from the effects in a short while), either stay with The Registration side willingly or eventually join Cap's side.]]

** Magneto has a very, very discreet one after learning that Alex's powers are ''not'' from being a mutant, but from being an ''[[HumanAliens alien]]'', and there is a ''planet'' (actually ''three'') full of people ''just like her '''or [[UpToEleven STRONGER]]''''' out there. He calms down after Alex tells him that she's the [[MetaphoricallyTrue only Kryptonian on Earth at the time]].

*** Of course, this can only happen because the author repeatedly sexualises the underage protagonist.