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* DeathByDespair: After the destruction of New Delhi, Taylor was entirely willing to die sitting by Lisa's cairn as she felt there was nothing left to fight for. [[spoiler:Phir Sē discovered her corpse resting next to Lisa but used his power to reach her before she died]].
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* InSpiteOfANail: Taylor's attempt to stop Ned being wrongfully sentenced and triggering in jail leads to him encountering Night Terror and triggering as a result.
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* InSpiteOfANail: InSpiteOfANail:
** Taylor carries out the assassination of Heartbreaker relatively early in his career but it's heavily implied that Alec was conceived just minutes earlier.
** Taylor's attempt to stop Ned being wrongfully sentenced and triggering in jail leads to him encountering Night Terror and triggering as a result.
** Taylor carries out the assassination of Heartbreaker relatively early in his career but it's heavily implied that Alec was conceived just minutes earlier.
** Taylor's attempt to stop Ned being wrongfully sentenced and triggering in jail leads to him encountering Night Terror and triggering as a result.
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* TakeThat: [[spoiler: Aster Anders]], the child of white supremacists, is raised in the Jewish faith, and has a close friendship with a black woman.
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* FromBadToWorse: The battle in New Delhi was already devastating, but when Phir Sē hit Behemoth with his attack the Endbringer redirected the power into a blast that leveled the city. And a later interlude reveals that unlike usual Behemoth ''didn't stop'' but instead carved a path of destruction halfway around the planet, hunting down [[spoiler:Aster]].
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* DentedIron: Taylor managed to walk off a lot of major injuries in canon which makes her need to use a cane, even long after the initial injury, much more notable.
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* BrainyBaby: [[spoiler:Aster]] triggered as a one year-old and gained a secondary power that gave her perfect recall of everything she had seen, mentally maturing her enough to handle her primary power.
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* SleepingWithTheBoss: [[spoiler:Aster]] made the mistake of falling for the attentions of a senior doctor and took a contract to work at the same hospital under him. When she learned he only liked her for the easy sex, she dumped him and tried to quit only to be trapped by her contract.
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* ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory: Phir Sē drops Taylor in the ocean right in the middle of a boating accident where two yachts sank with no survivors. With a hasty claim of amnesia, it's assumed she was the only survivor of one of them.
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* FakingAmnesia: Taylor claims to have no memory of her life after arriving in the past.
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* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Aster]] grew up believing her mother was a hero and that [[spoiler:Taylor had a master plan]]. When she meets Taylor, she's shocked to learn her mother was a criminal and that [[spoiler:Taylor is winging it]].
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* UnpleasantParentReveal: [[spoiler:Ruth]] grew up knowing only that [[spoiler:Miss Militia]] had said her mother was a hero. She is horrified when Taylor reveals that her parents were [[spoiler:Kaiser and Purity]].
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* UnpleasantParentReveal: [[spoiler:Ruth]] [[spoiler:Aster]] grew up knowing only that [[spoiler:Miss Militia]] had said her mother was a hero. She is horrified when Taylor reveals that her parents were [[spoiler:Kaiser and Purity]].
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* UnpleasantParentReveal: [[spoiler:Ruth]] grew up knowing only that [[spoiler:Miss Militia]] had said her mother was a hero. She is horrified when Taylor reveals that her parents were [[spoiler:Kaiser and Purity]].
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* BadassNormal: Kinsey has no powers or special mental advantage like Taylor. He is however exceptional in combat and even trains himself to [[spoiler:resist mental influence so well he actually countered ''Mother Mathers and Valefor'']].
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: L33t accidentally kills [[spoiler: Shadow Stalker]] this way after she [[KickTheDog suggests killing an infant for the greater good.]] [[KickTheSonOfABItch Nobody raises any serious objections to it.]]
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: L33t accidentally kills [[spoiler: Shadow Stalker]] this way after she [[KickTheDog suggests killing an infant for the greater good.]] [[KickTheSonOfABItch Nobody raises any serious objections InSpiteOfANail: Taylor's attempt to it.]]stop Ned being wrongfully sentenced and triggering in jail leads to him encountering Night Terror and triggering as a result.
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* LoopholeAbuse: Marquis WouldNotHitAGirl. But [[spoiler:abducting and harming a male comrade to use as leverage?]] Perfectly fine in his book.
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* MiscarriageOfJustice: Ned Hollows became Crawler in the original timeline when he was wrongfully convicted and sentenced for murders carried out by the parahuman Night Terror. This led to his trigger and transformation into Crawler.
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* AboveTheInfluence: Taylor gets smashed and Kinsey has to help her to bed where she admits she's lonely and needs comforting. Kinsey gently stops her from kissing him and lulls her to sleep.
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Taylor is entirely straight, with Andrea even saying she's the straightest girl she's ever met. Despite this she and Andrea end up in a loving relationship based on an emotional connection rather than sexual attraction.
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* LiesDamnedLiesAndStatistics: Taylor puts together a lot of impressive-looking statistics to hide the fact that she's actually using knowledge of the future.
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* RetroactivePrecognition: Taylor takes advantage of her and Lisa's knowledge of the future in order to further her mission. This includes building a secret economic empire to handle affairs outside of the PRT and predicting the appearance of Behemoth to make herself look better.
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* TranquilFury: Taylor fights using this; coldly, scientifically and ruthlessly.
** In Part 1-8, she takes on and handily defeats three would-be bullies, with the side-thought:
--> They were woefully under-equipped for any sort of brawl.
** When the bullies come back with reinforcements at the end of the year (Part 1-9), she is equally unhesitating, but she only uncorks the real whoopass when [[spoiler:one of them destroys the tape she listens to for her self-hypnosis]]:
--> I collapsed the baton. Wrapped my fist around it. And punched her so hard that I broke her jaw in two places.
** In Part 1-8, she takes on and handily defeats three would-be bullies, with the side-thought:
--> They were woefully under-equipped for any sort of brawl.
** When the bullies come back with reinforcements at the end of the year (Part 1-9), she is equally unhesitating, but she only uncorks the real whoopass when [[spoiler:one of them destroys the tape she listens to for her self-hypnosis]]:
--> I collapsed the baton. Wrapped my fist around it. And punched her so hard that I broke her jaw in two places.
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** In 7-0, Taylor shoots a four-year-old child in the head. [[spoiler: It's Valefor, and he's trying to make Kinsey commit suicide.]]
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** In 7-0, Taylor shoots a four-year-old child in the head. [[spoiler: It's Valefor, and he's trying to [[PsychicAssistedSuicide make Kinsey commit suicide.suicide]].]]
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: L33t accidentally kills [[spoiler: Shadow Stalker]] this way after she [[KickTheDog suggests killing an infant for the greater good.]] [[KickTheSonOfABItch Nobody raises any serious objections to it.]]
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** In Part 5-1, Taylor references two movies that Kinsey likes: [[spoiler:''[[WayOfTheDragon Return of the Dragon]]'']] and [[spoiler: ''HeartbreakRidge'']] (the second one only by a single quote).
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** In Part 5-1, Taylor references two movies that Kinsey likes: [[spoiler:''[[WayOfTheDragon [[spoiler:''[[Film/WayOfTheDragon Return of the Dragon]]'']] and [[spoiler: ''HeartbreakRidge'']] (the second one only by a single quote).
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** Sergeant [[KinseyScaleOfTropes Kinsey's]] name was deliberately chosen as a reference to the different ranges of sexual preference in the story.
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* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: Subverted at times. Taylor keeps Kinsey on his toes, and vice versa.
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* TwinSwitch: Taylor uses the fact that she and her alt-mother look almost exactly alike to have Annette serve as her alibi while she [[spoiler:launches a one-woman raid on Marquis' headquarters to rescue Kinsey]].
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--> Part 6-2: When sweet old Deborah Goldstein reveals that [[spoiler: she's a ''Holocaust survivor''.]]
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--> Part 6-2: When sweet old Deborah Goldstein reveals that [[spoiler: she's a ''Holocaust ''[[TheHolocaust Holocaust]] survivor''.]]
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--> Part 6-2: When sweet old Deborah Goldstein reveals that [[spoiler: she's a ''Holocaust survivor''.]]
----> More that that; [[FridgeHorror checking the dates involved]] reveals that [[spoiler: she went through Auschwitz as a ''child'']].
----> More that that; [[FridgeHorror checking the dates involved]] reveals that [[spoiler: she went through Auschwitz as a ''child'']].
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Subverted when the victims of the [[BreedingSlave parahuman breeding]] program of the [[BreedingCult Brotherhood of the Fallen]] decide that some of them don't actually ''want'' to go through with the unwanted [[ChildByRape pregnancies]] resulting from their ordeal. Given that about half of them are [[TeenPregnancy teenagers]], this is actually not unexpected. There is also a HandOnWomb moment.
** MagicalAbortion: Also subverted. The girls are offered transit to a state where abortion is legal, where they can talk to a counsellor and decide what they really want before going through with it (or not).
** MagicalAbortion: Also subverted. The girls are offered transit to a state where abortion is legal, where they can talk to a counsellor and decide what they really want before going through with it (or not).
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* UnexpectedCharacter: Who would've seen [[spoiler: a future Aster Anders]] showing up in this story?
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** Taylor explicitly picks her new surname from GameOfThrones after traveling back in time.
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** In 6-1, Taylor knows she's going to have to [[spoiler:murder Eidolon]] in order to rid the world of [[spoiler:Behemoth]], but she doesn't like it one little bit.
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* IShouldHaveBeenBetter: Taylor saves tens of thousands of lives when she [[spoiler: "predicts" Behemoth's attack on New York ten hours early]]. But people still die, and she feels guilty over that.
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** [[Spoiler: Aster]] has her mother's cheekbones and her father's jaw; Taylor thinks she looks familiar but isn't sure why.
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** [[spoiler: Aster Anders]] from canon, introduced in Part 5-4 as 'Doctor Ruth Goldstein' and then revealed as [[spoiler: Purity's ''one year old daughter'', sent back fifty years from 2011]]. The next four chapters cover what she's been doing since then.
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** [[spoiler: Aster Anders]] from canon, introduced in Part 5-4 as 'Doctor Ruth Goldstein' and then revealed as [[spoiler: Purity's ''one year old daughter'', daughter'']], sent back [[spoiler: fifty years years]] from 2011]].2011. The next four chapters cover what she's been doing since then.
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* AscendedExtra: Mrs Knott from canon [[spoiler: introduced as 'Gladys Harvey', given that she's in high school at the time]].
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* AscendedExtra: AscendedExtra
** Mrs Knott from canon [[spoiler: introduced as 'Gladys Harvey', given that she's in high school at thetime]].time]].
** [[spoiler: Aster Anders]] from canon, introduced in Part 5-4 as 'Doctor Ruth Goldstein' and then revealed as [[spoiler: Purity's ''one year old daughter'', sent back fifty years from 2011]]. The next four chapters cover what she's been doing since then.
** Mrs Knott from canon [[spoiler: introduced as 'Gladys Harvey', given that she's in high school at the
** [[spoiler: Aster Anders]] from canon, introduced in Part 5-4 as 'Doctor Ruth Goldstein' and then revealed as [[spoiler: Purity's ''one year old daughter'', sent back fifty years from 2011]]. The next four chapters cover what she's been doing since then.
* TakeThat: [[spoiler: Aster Anders]], the child of white supremacists, is raised in the Jewish faith, and has a close friendship with a black woman.
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** Andrea mistakes Taylor for her [[FirstKiss on their first meeting]].
** Danny is able to transfer his latent crush from Taylor to [[DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest Anne-Rose]] without a problem.
** She is able to [[TwoTimerDate pass for Taylor]] in a dark movie theatre in order for Taylor to [[spoiler: sneak out and rescue Kinsey]].
** Andrea mistakes Taylor for her [[FirstKiss on their first meeting]].
** Danny is able to transfer his latent crush from Taylor to [[DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest Anne-Rose]] without a problem.
** She is able to [[TwoTimerDate pass for Taylor]] in a dark movie theatre in order for Taylor to [[spoiler: sneak out and rescue Kinsey]].
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* StrongFamilyResemblance: StrongFamilyResemblance
** Taylor looks enough like her alt-mother that
** *** Andrea mistakes Taylor for her [[FirstKiss on their first meeting]].
** *** Danny is able to transfer his latent crush from Taylor to [[DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest Anne-Rose]] without a problem.
** *** She is able to [[TwoTimerDate pass for Taylor]] in a dark movie theatre in order for Taylor to [[spoiler: sneak out and rescue Kinsey]].Kinsey]].
** [[Spoiler: Aster]] has her mother's cheekbones and her father's jaw; Taylor thinks she looks familiar but isn't sure why.
** Taylor looks enough like her alt-mother that
** [[Spoiler: Aster]] has her mother's cheekbones and her father's jaw; Taylor thinks she looks familiar but isn't sure why.
