History FanFic / TheMisfits

* ProfessionalWrestling: [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne]] and [[StoneColdSteveAustin Steve]] [aka "The Rock" and "Stone Cold Steve Austin" of WWE fame] appear as more main characters in Part 1, meeting Dusty when he's grabbed by the strange portals. The story tends to reference the two in their real-life personas for the most part, in which the two wrestlers are actually best friends, although Part 12 has an actual wrestling event in their honor which shows off some various Wrestling-related bravado on their part, and introduces the real-life counterparts of many other wrestlers. They too are techincally RealLife characters, but like the rest of the RealLife-based cast, learn most of the same {{Dragonball}}-equse abilities and fighting styles. However as always, they tend to incorporate their own styles into it. When Heero is dismissive of wrestling moves being used in real fights, the two of them as well as Dusty and Devin explain that wrestling moves used on a realistic basis can deal devastating damage to a real opponent [i.e. [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne]] performing a Rock Bottom on an airborne enemy can deal serious neck-damage and possible kill them in one move if used correctly].
** Also, there's the fact most of the original characters are big-time wrestling fans, although Dusty and Dan are by far two of the biggest fans of the original eight starter characters, to the point Dusty is even seen training with [[StoneColdSteveAustin Steve]] and [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne]] often.
** Also of course, there's the Gund Arena event in Part 12, which also introduces the main characters to many other wrestlers and even VinceMcMahon himself.

* AdultChild: Son Goku is STILL a rare ''positive'' example of this trope, as in the original ''Dragonball'' series.

* NotSoHarmless: Oyatsu. In frackin' spades, man. Although in Part 10 when he first appears as a cat, he seems harmless until Dan picks up him and Oyatsu possesses him via direct contact. It's then learned Oyatsu was not only shadowing most of the Misfits since Part 2, but that he's also sown other seeds of discourse, including somehow getting his hands on Goku's original space ship from the Dragonball series' Namek Saga, and starting Rowan on a path of MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours as well, in order to possibly rival the Misfits later on.

* ButYourWingsAreBeautiful: In Part 11, Nina explains to Paula that [[JerkAss Jackson]] seems to hate her and calls her a freak because of her wings. Paula then calls Nina's wing's beautiful, and Nina remarks that her friend Katt/Rinpoo (from ''[[BreathOfFire Breath of Fire 2]]'') said almost exactly the same thing to her once.

* {{Nakama}}: Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, #17, Mr. Buu tend to quite often team up to help Alex, Jason and Vernon learn, being some of the strongest members of the newer Misfits so far.

'''''[[http://misfittechstudios.netii.net/Misfits The Misfits]]''''' is a FanFiction story by Jack Walker, also known as ''Lord Misfit'' in certain circles. It is a MegaCrossover, combining elements from RealLife circa 2001 and beyond, ''{{Dragonball}}'', ''GundamWing'', ''{{Earthbound}}'', ''[[BreathofFire Breath of Fire 2]]'', and many other media of various types, although the main focus is on Real Life mixed with the Dragonball elements. It was first developed in August-September of 2001, and although has been on hiatus for a number of years due to Walker's focus on other {{game mod}}-related projects, it has not been completely abandoned.

** The story disavows the actual events of ''{{Dragonball GT}}'', while maintaining a couple of its concepts. Additionally, Uub has not appeared yet, although he would have by now in the canon ''Dragonball'' continuity.

A few scenes later, she nearly kills [[JerkAss Jackson [=McCarakins=]]] by smashing him against the wall and nearly strangulating him, as she yells in his face about the crap she had to endure in her life, and that, compared to her, he's gone through nothing. Luckily for him, Paula stops Nina from going too far, and she releases Jackson to run away in terror.

** Goku, maintaining his mentor-like qualities from the end of ''Z'', is this to Alex, Jason, and Vernon in particular, especially from Part 5 onwards.

* DemonLordsAndArchDevils: The cloaked 'human'-like demon in both the prologue and Part 4 seems to be one of the main daemonlord's chief generals, or at the very least he's above most of the rest of the {{Legions of Hell}} that serve the daemonlord. It is also implied that the unnamed daemonlord might be a creature above the level of {{Satan}} himself and that Satan would piss himself in fear in the guy's presence.

* FryingPanOfDoom: Paula's melee weapon is one of these, taken straight out of {{EarthBound}}. However ''which'' type of frying pan from that game she wields at the current moment isn't specified (be it a normal Frying Pan or the rare-drop Magic Frying Pan). Sources seem to indicate it's one of the weaker variations.

** She actually uses it on Clint in Part 1 when they first meet [while the portals are throwing the original characters around], literally '''throwing it at him''' and smacking him dead in the face for a one-hit KO. This was because people were panicking to her that Clint seemed to be a possible threat to them due to how he suddenly appears resembling how aliens from {{EarthBound}} appeared out of thin air. She apologizes to him later when everyone returns to Tokyo and he recovers, but Clint is still for a while left secretly afraid of her doing it to him again.

* HardWorkHardlyWorks: See {{Cant Catch Up}} above.
* HeelFaceTurn: Radditz, a minor villain in the first saga of {{Dragonball Z}} [Goku's evil older brother], has chosen the path of redemption after 20 years of being dead and watching his brother and Vegeta pave a path to the future for the remaining Saiya-jin. Thanks to Nina's trip through the strange portals in Part 1 of the story, he is taken back to the living world by fluke of nature [or was it...?] and resurrected for free, giving him a chance to redeem himself for his mistakes. Thanks to Goku and even Vegeta, they give him that second chance. Ever since then, Radditz geniunely tries his best to help his brother and former prince train their new students/friends, and even gets a part-time job at a [=McDonalds=] in Canton Townshop in order to try to raise money to support their train efforts. Among other efforts is training Dan and then Teresa to be better fighters and also trying to plant a Sensu ''plant'' to stem off the problem of limited sensu beans, although the plan's been stagnated to a degree.

** Additionally, it is implied by the daemonlord in the prologue and Part 4 that Hell was a prison dimension set up not for ''{{Satan}}'', but the daemonlord himself, by an unknown brother of the daemonlord, and that he is equalivical to a {{Sealed Evil In A Can}}, with Hell being the massive "can".

*** On an additional note, Part 11 has Clint accidentally bumping into his art teacher, Mr. (Christopher) Bergert, at a video store he would visit when he still lived in the main city of Canton. After a small conversation, Mr. Bergert tells Clint they'll probably meet up again in a couple of week from them, to Clint's delayed confusion, leading to the possibility Mr. Bergert might become an {{Ascended Extra}} or so.

** In The Misfits, it's stated that being shrunken down decreases the victim's {{PowerLevel}} by a factor depending on size. Oyatsu builds a gun of sorts that shrinks it's targets even more effectively [further reducing powerlevel to about 1/1000th of it's normal amount for the victim], which he uses successfully to defeat almost all the major characters with exception to Mr. Buu, Nina, Teresa and #18 [the latter two of which finally help to bring down Oyatsu in that conflict].
*** Footnotes suggest the shrinking gun is based off {{Duke Nukem}} 3D's Shrinker weapon. Makes sense considering the author says he plays that particular game.
**** In fact, when Oyatsu attacks Clint, Devin, Dusty, [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne]] and [[StoneColdSteveAustin Steve]], Clint realizes the nature of the gun this way and tries to reflect the shrinking beam with a broken piece of mirror [the Duke Nukem 3D gun's shots will reflect off mirrors], unfortunately, Oyatsu is {{Crazy Prepared}} and his overcoat is made of a reflective material which re-reflects the shot back and shrinks Clint anyways. Bleh.

* JerkAss: Jackson [=McCarakins=], nicknamed "Jackass" by most of the Original Misfits, is pretty much a neutral variant of this. Whether he's just a jerk or really more evil is unknown, but he has done many things that put him on this list. He was once Alex's good friend when both were children, but when Alex's Cerebral Palsy [which he was magically cured of a couple of months before the story started] reared it's head, Jackson turned on him and started making him out as a disabled freak, much to Alex's anger, also getting Vernon and Devin turned against Jackson as well. Later on, when Nina appearantly started going to the original characters' high school, Jackson targeted her for her wings, which by normal {{Real Life}} standards would label her a type of mutant [even though she's not even human to begin with], and she is frequently given trouble for it. Later, Nina is revealed to have healed Alex of his Cerebal Palsy by using her magic to cure various synaptics in his brain. When Alex flaunts the sudden change in Jackson's face, it increases the jerk's anger at both of them, Alex specifically because Jackson believed once you're deemed useless, you remain useless always and can never bounce back, and Nina because her healing of Alex destroyed a significant part of Jackson's credibility with his yesmen and mooks and made some of them defect from him. Even after Nina nearly comes to killing him out of rage for his disregard of the [[TheWarOnTerror 9/11]] victims and their losses, he still has the venom to accuse Nina of already being a murderer, to her shock.

*** Also, {{Psychic Powers}} exist in the form of PK/PSI, although at this point in time only Paula can use them, although Clint is aware of their existence as well. Thes are also separate from both Ki and Magic.
**** In fact, Part 9 establishes that Ki, Magic and PK all have their own separate {{Power Levels}} from one another, and that in a theoretical battle, Nina can one-shot Goku with a well placed magic attack if she sneaks up on him since his "magicpowerlevel" is very low compared to Nina's, but that Goku could also one-shot Nina with most of his stronger ki attacks at that point if he's not holding back.

** Additionally in Part 12, Vegeta, using a computer given to him and Goku by Vernon as a welcoming present, he discovers of the {{Dragonball GT}} franchise, which is considered non-canon to the original characters, and it completely baffles Vegeta, since none of the events depicted in GT have even started happening to them yet, but it does raise alarm bells about some things [the possiblity that the "Black Star Dragonballs" exist, the possiblity of the original Dragonballs overloading on evil energy from the wishes, and especially of the Super Saiya-jin 4 transformation, which has not been attained officially by any of the actual characters yet]. With the knowledge of a possible future in his mind, Vegeta of all people doesn't want to take too many risks, and even more so believes the Super Saiya-jin 4 level is still possible despite thinking like most [[RealLife Real World]] fans of the series that most of GT is crap and not to be taken seriously.
** In Part 11, it's also discovered that at least Clint seems to recognize both Nina and Paula as each having thought to have been just 'video-game characters', and accidentally blurts something in Paula's earshot that makes her eventually force him to tell her about the existance of the {{EarthBound}} video game, and of the events it depicts. Paula is at the least a bit surprised.

* MegaCrossOver: {{Real Life}} mixed with {{Dragonball}}, {{Earthbound}}, {{Gundam Wing}}, and {{Breath of Fire}}? Check.

* NotSoHarmless: Oyatsu. In frackin' spades, man. Although in Part 10 when he first appears as a cat, he seems harmless until Dan picks up him and Oyatsu possesses him via direct contact. It's then learned Oyatsu was not only shadowing most of the Misfits since Part 2, but that he's also sown other seeds of discourse, including somehow getting his hands on Goku's original space ship from the Dragonball series' Namek Saga, and starting Rowan on a path of {{My Kung Fu Is Stronger than Yours}} as well, in order to possibly rival the Misfits later on.

** Clint, Alex, Jason, Devin, Vernon, Dusty, Dan and Virgil are the {{Self Insert}}s, with Clint being somewhat of an {{Author Avatar}}. However all of these characters have faults and are far from {{Gary Stu}}s [at least at the moment]. In fact, some of them tend to get themselves in over their head in spars and fights at this point, needing to be bailed out by the veteran non-OC characters.

* PowerLevels: Revived extensively in the story compared to DBZ, where Power Levels dropped off the map after the Frieza saga. This is also expanded on by having ''multiple'' types of powerlevels, one for ki, another for Magic, another for PK/PSI, and a '''fourth''' and unknown type that hasn't been indentified yet. See {{Ki Attacks}} above for more information.

* PracticalJoke: Part 5 is devoted to these. First off is Jason and Clint's "voice serum" joke, which ends up giving Alex, Devin and Vernon a {{Helium Speech}} moment. Unfortunately for them, Paula is able to sense their location via ki sensory, and punished them via her {{Frying Pan of Doom}} for it. Later on in Part 5, it's revealed, Virgil [in his storyline debut] called Alex, Vernon, Devin, Radditz, Steve, Dwayne and Paula through phone-call and impersonated various random individuals, an ACME businessman, an ogre from HFIL, a WWE fan, and finally a newspaper reporter. Virgil is found by them and gets a decent beatdown from everyone with the exceptions of Vernon [who secretly admires Virgil's bravery and would rather kick the crap out of Alex instead of him anyday], and Paula [who actually telekeneticly places Virgil back on his couch at home and gives him half of a sensu bean, but warning him not to pull such a trick again.

* ProfessionalWrestling: [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne]] and [[StoneColdSteveAustin Steve]] [aka "The Rock" and "Stone Cold Steve Austin" of WWE fame] appear as more main characters in Part 1, meeting Dusty when he's grabbed by the strange portals. The story tends to reference the two in their real-life personas for the most part, in which the two wrestlers are actually best friends, although Part 12 has an actual wrestling event in their honor which shows off some various Wrestling-related bravado on their part, and introduces the real-life counterparts of many other wrestlers. They too are techincally {{Real Life}} characters, but like the rest of the {{Real Life}}-based cast, learn most of the same {{Dragonball}}-equse abilities and fighting styles. However as always, they tend to incorporate their own styles into it. When Heero is dismissive of wrestling moves being used in real fights, the two of them as well as Dusty and Devin explain that wrestling moves used on a realistic basis can deal devastating damage to a real opponent [i.e. [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne]] performing a Rock Bottom on an airborne enemy can deal serious neck-damage and possible kill them in one move if used correctly].

** Also of course, there's the Gund Arena event in Part 12, which also introduces the main characters to many other wrestlers and even {{Vince McMahon}} himself.

** Additionally, Paula has a somewhat-empathic form of {{Mind Reading}} which is automatic and will pick up on the thoughts of various characters if fate deems it so. She cannot usually control this and the people in question are never usually aware she can even hear their thoughts since she is not actively trying to read them when this kicks in. It helps her initally avoid falling for one of Oyatsu's traps in Part 10.
** Oyastu!Dan also shows some ability to use direct {{Mind Reading}} on Radditz in Part 10 as well. It's not known if Oyatsu can do it without possessing someone or not yet.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: And how? So far the majority of the series is centered around the more veteran characters [Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, etc] training the greenhorn, newer characters [Alex, Clint, Jason, Vernon, etc, etc] and trying to teach them to get along better with one-another, and to not hold back information from each other, and even the veteran characters are being exposed to things they're complete newbies at. The kicker is that according to {{The Voice}} in Part 1, a great evil is mobilizing and out to tear the universe itself asunder [or at least we assume], and it's looking likely the daemonlord from the prologue is said 'darkness' the voice is talking about.

* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: Done once with Radditz's original scouter in Part 10 when Oyatsu!Dan powers up intentionally to overload it. Averted later in the above explaination under {{Power Levels}} with the [=OverClocked=] Scouters.
* {{Reincarnation}}: So far averted, as Uub [the reincarnation of Majin Buu at the end of DBZ] was suggested to have never appeared according to Goku's exposition of his life to Paula in Part 12. It's unknown if Uub's appearance is just delayed or another example of {{FanonDiscontinuity}} between the events of the original {{Dragonball}} series and the universe of it used in the story.

* SelfInsert: In total so far, Clint, Alex, Jason, Vernon, Devin, Dusty, Dan, Virgil, [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne]], [[StoneColdSteveAustin Steve]] all the teachers and most of the NPC students at Canton South High School and Ted [=ElFaye=] are based on real-life versions of themselves, with Clint being additionally a type of {{Author Avatar}}, albiet one without {{Gary Stu}} qualities. In fact, none of the Self Inserts so far are of any kind of Gary Stu level, each of them having faults and in some characters' cases, rough childhoods or pasts, especially characters like Alex with his former Cerebal Palsy.

* SuperMode: Super Saiya-jin 1/2/3.

* SuperpoweredEvilSide: See Nina's mention in {{Super Mode}} and {{Bad Ass}} above.

* TheMultiverse: To an extent utilized so far in that the story seems to center around the mergering of multiple universes, including the [[RealLife original real world we live in]], the {{Dragonball}} universe, the {{Gundam Wing}} universe, the {{EarthBound}} universe, and possibly the {{Breath of Fire}} universe. Part 12 goes further and states that some characters think a lot more universes [hundreds to thousands more] might have merged together into one "Super-Universe" or sorts.

** Part 6 has a reveal of it's own for Clint, when he's trying to save his friends from the experimental {{Time Bomb}} Al-Queda made Teresa wear as a final measure for killing Dan. He unconsciously achieves Super Saiya-jin as well during his upward ascent into the outer atmosphere to throw the bomb harmlessly into space, but after the direct reveal is shown, it's also learned Clint is '''not''' Saiya-jin in any known or visible way. #17's scanners, which show the Saiya-jin DNA of Alex, Jason and Vernon, ''don't'' show any foreign DNA samples in Clint [aka he's still human as far as the characters are currently concerned], and Clint's hair as an [=SSJ=] also has a slight tinge of green. It's not yet known what the deal is with Clint's real heritage, except that he recalls seeing Alex and Vernon become [=SSJ=]s in Part 5 while waiting with Jason to play their voice-serum prank.

* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Alex lived the majority of his life before the story begins with Cerebal Palsy, a condition which can have a varying level of effect on the mind's capability to manipulate various limbs and also their muscular strengths. In Alex's case, it was his legs that were the most affected. It manifested uglily for him in grade school, causing former friend [now {{Jerk Ass}}] Jackson [=McCarakins=] to betray him and try to frame him as a freak, and additionally forcing him to use a wheelchair to get around on extended trips [he could still most of the time walk around (albeit a bunch hunched over) when at home, but got tired easily]. Later on in his life, after Nina arrives to his High-School, she discovers she possesses the curative ability to heal his synapses enough to break the crippling disability from Alex's life once and for all, even though Alex must rehabilite his legs himself in order to truly regain their strength. He is still somewhat in the middle of the rehabilitation process at the beginning of the story, causing his movement speed to be a bit lower than some characters expect, and Vegeta and Goku are aware of it, but they realize he could've been in a far worse situation where he might not have been able to train to fight at all.
* TimeBomb: In Part 6, the Al-Queda operative watching Teresa's forced attempt to kill Dan managed to arm a special experimental bomb attached to her as he kills himself with his own bomb. The bomb is supposed to have a power capable of hitting a 12 mile area with the explosion [a sort of nuke, but with no radiation effects]. Teresa rips it off in defeat, thinking everyone's screwed, but Clint decides to grab it and flies straight up into the sky like a rocket, to the protest of the others, intending to make a {{Heroic Sacrifice}} to save his friends. The bomb is armed to detonate in 30 seconds, and the final 10 or so seconds are shown ticking down in the story as Clint suddenly gets a boost to his power and it allows him to both throw the bomb to a safe spot where it won't hurt anyone, and him to clear the explosive radius in time, although it still knocks him out of flight mode and almost gets him killed anyways.

* UnstoppableRage: See Nina's moments above with Jackson in Part 6. [under {{BadAss}}, {{SuperMode}} and {{SuperPoweredEvilSide}}]

* WingedHumanoid: Nina is one of these, being from a different world than Earth, and in a {{Real Life}}-like environment, most normal people on the street consider Nina a freak of nature for her wings, and secondarily her height (Nina is 6 feet, 6 inches in the story, well taller than most other people on Earth). She get bonus scorn from most of the students at her friends high-school, the hate being directed by [[JerkAss Jackson McCarakins]], who has a special place in his black heart for hating her, for some unknown reason. Most of the main characters themselves think Nina's wings are actually pretty cool, and Paula thinks their beautiful.
* WouldntHitAGirl: In part 10, Paula asks Alex if they want to have a small friendly spar to test each other's strength. Alex muses over in his head that he probably shouldn't because his mother drilled it into his head when he was young that he shouldn't physically fight with women. Luckily for him, the problem with Oyatsu diverts Paula's attention before he can answer her question, although there is a possiblity she might have unintentionally overheard his thoughts via her uncontrollable {{Mind Reading}} ability, but she hasn't said anything about it.

* RealLife: So far the majority of the story has taken place in the town of Canton, Ohio in the United States. [This is Clint, Alex, Jason, Vernon, Devin, Dusty and Dan's hometown, which is probably the main reason]. Many locations in Canton have been touched upon, including the homes of most of the native characters, and even all three of Clint's houses [the first which is now abandoned and used as a storage place for gangs, the second house which Paula has ironically moved into, and then his current house in the area called Fohl Village]. Also shown is Nina's house, Dan's house, Alex's house [who also has a house next door that Goku and Vegeta have rented out, owned by Alex's Dad], Vernon's house as well is shown.

** There also seems to be suggestions in Part 12 that the merger has likely merged hundreds of not '''thousands''' of various realities and mediums into the same mega-universe, meaning it's likely the crossover-ness [[FanficChopSuey has yet to really begin]].

[[http://misfittechstudios.duke4.net/Misfits/Series1/ Here]] is a link to Series 1 of ''The Misfits'' (with powerlevel pages and a link to characters bios).

[[http://misfittechstudios.netii.net/Misfits/Series1/ Here]] is a link to Series 1 of ''The Misfits'' (with powerlevel pages and a link to characters bios).

* GangBangers: Introduced in Part 11 are Rowan, Harry and Morgan, three members representing [[RealLife the Crips]]. A member of the Bloods is named [Jose] as well by Rowan. It turns out Oyatsu visited with Rowan long back at the beginning of the merger [between Part 2 and Part 3's timeframe] and revealed the implications of the merger and all the changes to the rules of physics and whatnot it brought. Due to this, Rowan reveals he can both use [[KiAttacks ki]] ''and'' [[FunctionalMagic some magic]], thanks to a strange jade-gemmed ring that seems to grant him limited control of wind-elemental magic. Also, Part 11 reveals that the Crips are using various abandoned houses in Clint's original neighborhood, including his first house, to store away supplies and other things to assist them in what might be an incoming gang war. Items found in Clint's house include some money in a small metal case, the aforementioned jade ring Rowan obsessed over, and several bottles of a strange drug later identified by Vegeta in Part 12 as "Destronic Powder", a powder which can be converted into gas or vapor that can cut off most beings' access to ki-usage and cause their powerlevels to become irratic. Vegeta assumes this drug is meant to be used with the wind-elemental magic Rowan used to spread chaos in some form, but how it would be used is not yet known.
* GenreSavvy: Clint, Alex, Jason, Vernon, Devin, Dusty and Dan have in their original version of the [[RealLife Real World]] watched the Dragonball series on multiple occasions, with Clint and Alex [and sometimes Devin] vying for who knows the absolute most on the subject. Due to this, they tend to know what will come when the Z-characters do specfic things in front of them. In one example, Devin lampshades the annoyance of various characters getting into a "constipated"-looking stance when powering up or transforming [much like when Virgil first tries to use his ki to fly in Part 8].

* GlorySeeker: Alex, Vernon and Jason are the most common canidates of this. Alex wants to be viewed as a hero, loved by all, and at times be a rule-breaking hero to be exact. Vernon want's to both improve himself and become more available to the ladies, and Jason is more just seeking to be seen as a hero, not so much to get attention, or so he says. Their want for this is even told to Teresa by Radditz in Part 8 as a reason they took to the call as Misfits.

* HighSchool: 7 of the original 8 Misfits are high-school age, and actively attended their High School, a place called "Canton South High School", before the events of the story start. Nina is the only original Misfit who's not high-school aged [a bit older than such], but she still hangs around with them as a in-promptu teacher's assistant to keep an eye on her friends.

** Clint also shows to be friendly with a good number of teachers, and even the principal of the school, having been the only to tell the principal and two of his own guidence councilers about the events since August 29 and how it's affected at least his own life, and that things will be hectic for them for a while.
*** On an additional note, Part 11 has Clint accidentally bumping into his art teacher, Mr. (Christopher) Bergert, at a video store he would visit when he still lived in the main city of Canton. After a small conversation, Mr. Bergert tells Clint they'll probably meet up again in a couple of week from them, to Clint's delayed confusion, leading to the possbility Mr. Bergert might become an {{Ascended Extra}} or so.
* HugeSchoolgirl: First and formost is Nina, being '''6'6"''' [6 feet, 6 inches, or exactly 200 centimeters tall], although part of her size can be explained that her species ([[HumanAliens is not fully human]]) and they are usually anywhere from 6 to 14 inches taller than a human. This is the smaller of the two reasons she's considered to be a freak in the main characters' high-school (besides the fact [[JerkAss Jackson]] leads the charge here), her main being the more noticably huge purple black bird-like wings on her back.

**** In fact, when Oyatsu attacks Clint, Devin, Dusty, [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne]] and [[StoneColdSteveAustin Steve]], Clint realizes the nature of the gun this way and tries to reflect the shrinking beam with a broken piece of mirror [the Duke Nukem 3D gun's shots will refect off mirrors], unfortunately, Oyatsu is {{Crazy Prepared}} and his overcoat is made of a reflective material which re-reflects the shot back and shrinks Clint anyways. Bleh.

* JerkAss: Jackson [=McCarakins=], nicknamed "Jackass" by most of the Original Misfits, is pretty much a neutral variant of this. Whether he's just a jerk or really more evil is unknown, but he has done many things that put him on this list. He was once Alex's good friend when both were children, but when Alex's Cerebal Palsy [which he was magically cured of a couple of months before the story started] reared it's head, Jackson turned on him and started making him out as a disabled freak, much to Alex's anger, also getting Vernon and Devin turned against Jackson as well. Later on, when Nina appearantly started going to the original characters' high school, Jackson targetted her for her wings, which by normal {{Real Life}} standards would label her a type of mutant [even though she's not even human to begin with], and she is frequently given trouble for it. Later, Nina is revealed to have healed Alex of his Cerebal Palsy by using her magic to cure various synaptics in his brain. When Alex flaunts the sudden change in Jackson's face, it increases the jerk's anger at both of them, Alex specfically because Jackson believed once you're deemed useless, you remain useless always and can never bounce back, and Nina because her healing of Alex destroyed a signficant part of Jackson's credibility with his yesmen and mooks and made some of them defect from him. Even after Nina nearly comes to killing him out of rage for his disregard of the [[TheWarOnTerror 9/11]] victims and their losses, he still has the venom to accuse Nina of already being a murderer, to her shock.

** However, [[FunctionalMagic Magic]] exists as a seperate form of power from Ki, used mainly by Nina and Buu, although Vernon and Radditz also prove to have at least one magically-powered attack later in Parts 8 and 9.
*** Also, {{Psychic Powers}} exist in the form of PK/PSI, although at this point in time only Paula can use them, although Clint is aware of their existance as well. Thes are also seperate from both Ki and Magic.
**** In fact, Part 9 establishes that Ki, Magic and PK all have their own seperate {{Power Levels}} from one another, and that in a theoretical battle, Nina can one-shot Goku with a well placed magic attack if she sneaks up on him since his "magicpowerlevel" is very low compared to Nina's, but that Goku could also one-shot Nina with most of his stronger ki attacks at that point if he's not holding back.

* DemotedToExtra: Nina lampshades this in Part 8, noting that, because they're female, they'll they'll be at a disadvantage compared to the other characters over time.

* DemonLordsAndArchDevils: The cloaked 'human'-like demon in both the prologue and Part 4 seems to fall under as one of the main daemonlord's chief generals, or at the very least he's above most of the rest of the {{Legions of Hell}} that serve the daemonlord. However it's slightly implied the unnamed daemonlord might be a creature above the level of {{Satan}} himself and that Satan would piss himself in fear of the guy's presence.
* DemotedToExtra: So far seems to be being avoided, although Nina lampshades this at one time to Paula in Part 8, thinking that being female that they'll suffer a disadvantage compared to the other characters over time. So far it's not known if her words will ring true or not.
** Teresa is doing her damndest to avoid this herself, having [at least for now] surpassed Heero after a heated spar between him and her in Part 12, although some think her 'Spirit Body' technique is partially responsible in a recent upsurge in power she received recently.
* DoppelgangerAttack: First variation is seen in Part 12, a {{Mes A Crowd}} type which is actually Piccolo Split-Form Technique which he uses to divide himself into as many as ''seventeen'' selves, the original Piccolo having half his usual {{powerlevel}} while the other 16 divide the remaining half of his powerlevel among themselves. The technique is used to sic 6 on Alex, 5 on Vernon and 5 on Jason as a special type of multi-on-one training-excercise/punishment.
** Mr. Buu does this in the same scene as Piccolo does in Part 12, using his strange, putty-like body and divides into two halves for the purpose of sparring between both sides.
** A {{Hard Light}} example appears with Teresa's "Spirit Body" ability, first introduced in the early half of Part 9. This ability allows Teresa to summon a [[KiAttacks ki-created]] duplicate [or more than 1] of herself that works in a slight vein to the above split-forms, but with only a slight loss of powerlevel between Teresa and any of her created duplicates (only a 10% loss of overall powerlevel for each duplicate, instead of the powerlevels being evenly divided). These duplicates can appear as mere ki spirits [like the original Kamikaze Ghost Attack in the Buu Saga], or be spawned with a realistic color scheme [but not innards, as shown in Part 10 when Oyatsu!Dan guts an energy clone, only for it to have no insides). Once finished, the spirits will return to energy form and Teresa and re-absorb it back into herself. Also a peculiar technique in that after this final action, Teresa's powerlevel actually ''increases to a random % past what she had before she created the duplicates in the first place'', and such allows her to suddenly experience a near 35% boost to her {{powerlevel}} once in Part 12 during a spar with Heero, bringing her from struggling against him to being able to defeat him comfortably. Also, the energy duplicates can use '''Kaioken''' and do their own attacks [based off Teresa's own knowledge] in addition to all of this.
* EmergencyEnergyTank: Sensu Beans from {{Dragonball}} carry over into the story, and Radditz even gets an idea to take a bean he receives and has tried to grow a sensu ''plant'' with it. So far he appears to be only have minimal success, but only time will tell...

* WouldntHitAGirl: In part 10, Paula asks Alex if they want to have a small friendly spar to test each other's strength. Alex muses over in his head that he probably shouldn't because his mother drilled it into his head when he was young that he shouldn't physically fight with women. Luckily for him, the problem with Oyatsu diverts Paula's attention before he can answer her question, although there is a possiblity she might have unintentionally overheard his thoughts via her uncontrollable {{Mind Reading}} ability, but she hasn't said anything about it.

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* {{Reincarnation}}: So far averted, as Uub [the reincarnation of Majin Buu at the end of DBZ] was suggested to have never appeared according to Goku's exposition of his life to Paula in Part 12. It's unknown if Uub's appearance is just delayed or another example of {{Discontinuity}} between the events of the original {{Dragonball}} series and the universe of it used in the story.

* CallingYourAttacks: In some situations in the story, it's played straight with [[KiAttacks ki-based attacks]], but Paula's PK/PSI abilities don't require her to shout or call out the names before use, making it a nasty surprise for some of her enemies. Nina can also shift between this and not calling out names for her [[FunctionalMagic Magic Attacks]].
* [=~Can't Catch Up~=]: Not fully known if the story intends to avert this or not, but suggestions from a mysterious voice in Part 1 that speaks to [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne]], Dusty and [[StoneColdSteveAustin Steve]] seems to suggest the possiblity [at least in Dan's mind] that the old 'limits' of humans [and Saiyans] can be broken out of. Dan even goes as far as to call the Z-fighter humans 'weak of will', to Piccolo's amusement, leading to a bet that if any pure human can reach of Power level of 45,000 or higher in one month, he'll teach them some of his more reserved techniques. Piccolo soon finds out that his bet is not going in his favor as the story progresses on.
** In Part 4, Piccolo actually realizes Paula is already '''well''' beyond 45,000, having a starting powerlevel of almost ''one million'' [which still rises over the story to about 3 million-somthing in Part 12], and appearing to possess not a shred of Saiyan blood or any non-human DNA, although her situation isn't officially held against Piccolo, it still leading to the suggestion this trope might end up being averted in the long run.
* CharlesAtlasSuperPower: In the later half of Part 12, the story actually seems to touch somewhat on the subject of how characters who had only {{powerlevel}}s of 8 to 12 (or 100ish in the case of [[StoneColdSteveAustin Steve]] and [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne]]) are able to reach {{powerlevel}}s of 1,000 to 10,000 within anywhere from 1 day to a full week of training: ''Unlocking access to one's ki directly allows training that normally only marginally increases {{powerlevel}} to substantially increase it due to the freed ki being able to allow the body's ability to grow quickly.'' Appearantly this explains how the original characters [sans Nina] at the level of a normal human can grow to {{powerlevel}}s beyond Saiya-jin Saga Vegeta within less than a week's time. Oh, that and the teachers/masters training them also helps a lot too, along with said teacher/master's experience and knowledge. Go figure.
* ChunkyUpdraft: Not quite as used in the story compared to the original {{Dragonball}} series though. It's explained by some that a possible reason is that the merged 'Earth' is far ''far'' '''''far''''' stronger and durable compared to Dragonball's original version of Earth, which is like a wet paper-towel in durability.
* CrazyPrepared: Oyatsu takes this and runs with it. In his first major move against the Misfits in Part 10, not only does he possess Dan to mask his presense, but he has a Shrinking ray to reduce the {{powerlevel}}s of the heroes if needed, he also has a {{Static Stun Gun}} to restrain and paralyze enemies, specialized "[=Overclocked Scouters=]" to gauge the {{powerlevel}}s of his enemies ahead of time, a reflective overcoat to deflect attempts to redirect his shrinking ray back at him, sunglasses in case one of the heroes attempts the Taiyoken [Solar Flare] technique, a specialized curse that will seal and lock out the use of any Saiya-jin's Super Saiya-jin levels for 12 hours at once, confining them to their normal forms, but also has a ton of knowledge of the strongest of the heroes he must take down and knows how to manipulate some of their feelings and intentions [using Dan's possessed body to discourage the much-stronger Goku and Vegeta from attacking him out of risk of killing Dan and psyching them out], and a {{Dangerous Forbidden Technique}} [the Mafuba/Evil Containment Wave] to deal with Mr. Buu, who cannot be shrunken down or paralyzed by the above. The only reasons Oyatsu's plan fail is because he didn't consider Teresa a full-blown Misfit, and was not aware of #18's impending arrivial on the scene, both of which end up bringing his plans to a halt.
** But even then, Oyatsu easily escapes by using Kibitokai's instanteous movement to teleport to safety. It's also later learned in Part 11 he found other people and informed them of the implications of the merger, specfically Rowan, who has accquire a taste for {{My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours}} as well, now knowing how to use [[KiAttacks Ki]] and [[FunctionalMagic Magic]] as well. The shapeshifting cat-thing still has much steam left in his engine to show, and it's all but certain the Misfits will confront him again later.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Goku, the same was as in {{Dragonball}}
* {{Curse}}: In Part 10, Oyatsu!Dan creates a temporary curse known as the "Durty Durt Dur Curse", based off of one of Jason and Alex's joking prods at people in High-School. The curse's effects are that any person that hears or speaks the words "Durty Durt Dur" in their earshot during the duration of the curse will lock out any Super Saiya-jin related forms they might have for 12 hours, reverting back to their base/normal forms on force. A loophole to it though is that if any Saiya-jin then attains the original Super Saiya-jin transformation for the first time ''after'' the curse is invoked will be exempt from the effects of the curse, as Oyatsu!Dan demonstrates by forcing Dan to his first Super Saiya-jin level '''after''' invoking the curse, rendering it useless on him.
** One note is that Clint's strange version of Super Saiya-jin does not ''completely'' fade away from use when he's affected by the curse directly in the battle with Oyatsu!Dan, but it '''does''' weaken his powerlevel by more than 50% of it's maximum and it's still enough for Dan to overcome and defeat him.
** The curse is so potent that even ''Super Saiya-jin 3 '''Goku''''' is taken all the way down to base form, along with Vegeta at Super Saiya-jin 2 level.
** It's generally accepted that without the curse, Oyatsu!Dan would've probably been defeated long back at the start of his plan, as Radditz's SSJ was stronger than Oyatsu!Dan's, and even getting past him, Paula and a fully powered up Alex [who's assistance was minimized in the actual fight due to the curse] would probably taken him down through teamwork. Even getting past that, Clint, Devin and the others in that group would've outnumbered him and Clint would have a major advantage especially when Devin would've gone into his desperate [[SuperPoweredEvilSide shadow-based powerup]] mode.
* CursedWithAwesome: Nina is the best example so far of this. Not only does she possess a pair of large, bird-like wings, but she's also very tall compared to most women ''and'' some men in the {{Real Life}} version of Earth. [To put it into perspective, she's 6 feet, 6 inches tall (or 200cm exactly)]. This gives her a problem with most normal people, since they see things from a {{Real Life}} perspective even now, and see her wings as a sign of being a mutant freak, and her height as just an extra factor to it [truth is, Nina's obviously [[HumanAliens not a human]], but a Fae, or Windian from the {{Breath of Fire}} series, but most others don't know it]. Additionally, even in her own original world, her wings, being a purplish-black, were propheized to be a bad omen of diaster when in fact they help her in saving her world from a {{Big Bad}} in the past.
** The entire "merger of worlds" can be considered this in a way. As even though the merger destroys or rewrites certain rules of physics that make the normal [[RealLife Real World]] boring, they bring the possibility of serious, world-destroying threats and of course, the possibility of seeing the daemonlord from the prologue and Part 4, among other things.
* CuteBruiser: Teresa seems to fit under this so far. Although she joins the team a bit late [appears first in Part 6 and starts training in Part 7], she shows a quick ability to learn and adapt to the [[AirJousting DBZ-like fighting prowess]] of the other characters, developing a few unique moves to even the veteran characters, and shows an above-average level of natural-physical strength compared to most of the other characters.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The Mafuba from the original old-school Dragonball shows up as one of Oyatsu's techniques that he uses while in possession of Dan's body. He uses it first to trap a squirrel in a small glass jar, and then later uses it against Mister Buu. '''And it friggin' WORKS''' despite the massive difference in powerlevels. However the move only tires Oyatsu!Dan out, and doesn't kill him.
** In Part 11, being under the affects of a curse that seals the Super Saiya-jin transformations of all characters except Dan [who invokes it while under Oyatsu's control], Goku decides to dust off the Kaioken technique, which attracts the attention of Alex and Vegeta, and prompting a part where damn near EVERY available character at least learns the basics of the Kaioken and how to use it, with Radditz and Paula reaching the 2x and 3x levels respectively within a few hours of use.
*** Hell, the story takes it further and actually tries to EXPLAIN how Kaioken is actually utilized and debunks a few myths about it's negative effects, and North Kaio appears to help Goku and the others understand the full nature more, now having ''mastered a move he once was unable to master despite creating it'', explaining he didn't have the right requirements himself at the time in the original Dragonball series to use it, but has since then developed and matured enough to use it like a master [Kaioken times ''Twenty-Five'', anyone?].

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Part 7 features a side-story where Goku and Vegeta are inspecting the original characters' home city of Canton, Ohio and Vegeta, angry in his own way at the events of [[TheWarOnTerror 9/11]] (which had just happened earlier '''that day'''), wants to get drunk to the point of stupidness. Goku reluctantly agrees to let him have his moping, and they find a bar in which Nina happens to also be there also depressed about the day's events and gets to witness Goku and Vegeta getting into a Vodka-drunking contest, in which Goku wins by a hair [although it's implied by both Goku and Vegeta that Goku simply '''cannot''' get drunk for some reason, while Vegeta can]. {{Hilarity Ensues}}, including a part where Goku and Nina sneak into Goku and Vegeta's rented out house only to find a agitated Piccolo waiting for them in the same way an angry parent waits for their child to get home from being late. Again some {{hilarity ensues}}.
** Part 8: Piccolo and #17 are now taking their turns exploring the city of Canton, when #17, being the fun lover he is, wants to try to get Piccolo, the stoic, serious guy he is, to lighten up and have a bit of fun. #17 takes them to a motor lot and buys a pair of motorcycles, in which he goads Piccolo into riding on. This leads to both #17 and Piccolo ''racing each other down the streets of Canton'', with #17 constantly heckling Piccolo to enjoy fun and not to feign being a sourpuss. Piccolo then decides to challenge #17 in a way by having them ki-levitate themselves and their motorcycles onto the roof of a nearby building [a tall one], and have them fly through the air on just a single forward thrust of ki alone and see where they end up. #17 accepts, and the two end up reaching an abandoned stadium where Goku, Vegeta and Mr. Buu are trying to train Alex, Vernon and Jason. Piccolo and #17 land and almost run down Alex, Jason and Vernon and accident before taking back to the skies via ki, still on their motorcycles. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensued]].
** In Part 9, Radditz ends up with a part-time job at a [=McDonalds=] in the southern township of Canton. Some of the characters probably held in some laughter at seeing a [=McDonalds=] cap in his long, lufty hair at the end of the part, and laughs are played when he takes orders and one specfic order made by the character is blindly guessed [correctly] to be Goku's, to his feigned dismay.
** The story loves to go out of the usual [[StatusQuoIsGod Status Quo]] for Dragonball-based stories and make some of the Dragonball characters face some hiliarious real-life situations in general. The author was very fond of the driver's test fillar episode for one, and has read other stories about DB characters doing more mundane things in life like drinking and playing sports, and likes mixing it up with these kinds of elements.

* ItWasHisSled: It's recommended you know at least {{Dragonball}} pretty well before reading this.)

* NightmareFuel: Some of the explaination of {{Hell}} in the prologue as the mysterious daemonlord is introduced. Flesh eating plants that bleed out of their roots anyone?
** Another variant is a small bit where Clint has a small daydream/vision in the middle of a training session in Part 12, where he sees Alex, disfigured and forcibly transformed into a different entity, thinking he is possessed by [[EarthBound Giygas]], whom Clint learned from Paula might potentially some day make a return from death. This triggers a semi-transformation to Super Saiya-jin 3 which he only holds onto for a split second.
** In the same vein, Part 12 also has Goku explain the origins of his Super Saiya-jin 3 transformation: The Saiya-jin in question must appearantly induce a form of nightmarish visions on themselves. Goku claims in his visions he saw Vegeta, Nappa and Radditz become Super Saiya-jin 2s and start murdering various characters, good guys and villains alike, even describing some of the more horrific ends the villains meet, and then of his own horrifying killing of them, fused into one being when he first becomes Super Saiya-jin 3 in the vision. Also, the strange and unknown voice whispering to Vegeta, Nappa and Radditz in his vision "OBLITERATE, SPREAD, PERSPIRE" over and over is just plain unnerving to Goku, who somehow could also hear it despite it being directed at the other three Saiya-jin.

* WingedHumanoid: Nina is one of these, being from a different world than Earth, and in a {{Real Life}}-like environment, most normal joes/janes on the street consider Nina a freak of nature for her wings, and secondarily her height [Nina is 6 feet, 6 inches in the story, well taller than most other women and even men on Earth]. She get bonus scorn from most of the students at her friends high-school, the hate being directed by [[JerkAss Jackson [=McCarakins=]]], who has a special place in his black heart for hating her, for some unknown reason. Most of the main characters themselves think Nina's wings are actually pretty cool, and Paula thinks their beautiful.
* WouldntHitAGirl: In part 10, Paula asks Alex if they want to have a small friendly spar to test each other's strength. Alex muses over in his head that he probably shouldn't because his mother drilled it into his head when he was young that he shouldn't physically fight with women. Luckily for him, the problem with Oyatsu diverts Paula's attention before he can answer her question, although there is a possiblity she might have unintentionally overheard his thoughts via her uncontrollable {{Mind Reading}} ability, although she hasn't said anything on it. However there's no guarantee this trope will stick to Alex, as Paula is so far the only female character who has asked to have any kind of sparring match or fight with him so far.

'''''[[http://misfittechstudios.netii.net/Misfits The Misfits]]''''' is a {{FanFiction}} story made by Jack Walker, also known by some as ''Lord Misfit'' in certain circles, who also created a {{GameMod}} for [[DukeNukem Duke Nukem 3D]] called ''[[GameMod/NaferiasReignInvasionOfTheDarkMistress Naferia's Reign: Invasion of the Dark Mistress]].'' It is a {{Mega Crossover}}, combining elements from {{Real Life}} circa 2001 and beyond, {{Dragonball}}, {{Gundam Wing}}, {{Earthbound}}, [[BreathofFire Breath of Fire 2]] as well as many other media of various types, although for now the main focus is on the Real Life mixed with the Dragonball elements, with smaller mixes of the other stuff. It was first developed in August-September of 2001, and although has been in hiatus for some years due to Walker's focus on other {{game mod}}-related projects, it has not fully lost it's battle to make a comeback yet.

The story of The Misfits begins on August 29, 2001, in Shibuya-ku (ward) of Tokyo, Japan, where 8 high-school students are on a paid vacation to Japan since their friend [[SelfInsert Clint Walker]] won an art contest sponsored by {{Toonami}}, allowing him to take seven of his friends with him. All but one of them are a bunch of socially miffed goofballs in one form or another, one of which being a former [[ThrowingOffTheDisability Cerebal Palsy]] patient, cured of magical means, and sporting something of an ego trip, just to name an example. Although the eight find some fun and adventure in the land of the rising sun, their lives [as well as the fate of the entire world] soon change when their presense causes a barrage of strange portals to open up around the world, dumping them temporarily into various places thought to be fictional, incluing the worlds of {{Dragonball}} and {{Gundam Wing}}, and even [supposedly] the realm of {{Hell}} briefly [they don't stay long though, thankfully], but meet various characters from said worlds or realms in their travels.

Upon being forcibly returned to their own world, the eight original "Misfits" learn the people and characters they met came back with them, now in what is first believed to be just the [[RealLife Real World]] again, however it is soon learned, the events of previous have merged the real world with the above mentioned universes in some form or another, and the rules have been rewritten. Naturally this opens the doors to the original 8 characters getting the potential to start their own versions of {{My Kung Fu is Stronger Than Yours}}, among other things.

Of course, the events of the merger have their [[CursedWithAwesome downsides]] as the prologue mentions of a terrifying daemonlord from the center of Hell has set his sights on the merged universe and has plans to lay waste to the physical universe... somehow. All this appearantly to just get back at a 'brother' of his or so. Naturally, some of the daemonlord's minions, monitoring the events of the merger, have seen the Misfits and their aspirations to become above the ordinary as a possible threat, and even as things start off, one particular shapeshifting villain seems to have his/her eyes set on destroying the ragtag team before they can bloom from the ground.

The current revision of The Misfits is only 11 and a half parts so far, spanning three 'saga's, but the total word count for a mere twelve parts is nearly 300,000 words long already. The story contains elements of comedy, mixed with a health dose of serious action and drama. A good chunk of scenes so far are either grouped into categories of exposition between two or more characters, school-time segments, general real-life type activities, and finally of course as with any {{Dragonball}}-based story... training segments, not all of them quite {{Training from Hell}}, but still hard on the newbie fighters at times. All the many newer characters and the less experienced Dragonball-style fighters learning from their own experiences and more experienced teachers.

A quick link to Series 1 of the Misfits (with powerlevel pages and a link to characters bios) can be found [[http://misfittechstudios.netii.net/Misfits/Series1/ here]].

* {{Acrofatic}}: Mr. Buu retains this pudgy/fat build from the {{Dragonball}} series, but is still one of the top 3 strongest fighters in the story so far [only Goku and on rare occasions Vegeta are stronger than him thus far].
** Most of the original eight characters from Part 1 [excluding Nina, who's pretty fit, and Vernon, who is a track-runner at his high-school], are in some way overweight or at the least not too properly exercised, but in total, Devin and Virgil are the best alternate examples in their builds of this trope, although Virgil is far less skilled at learning things thus far and shows the "unexercised fat person" part off right now, whereas Devin is particularly clever and sometimes {{Genre Savvy}} to a scary degree, not letting his bigger weight really discourage him, and in fact he is slightly toning down some of his weight at this point.
* AdaptationExpansion: Most notably done with some of the {{Dragonball}} elements in the story.
** The Kaioken technique, an ability that canonically is no longer used after the Frieza saga of the original series, is not only revived, but is taught to about 80% of the current cast [only Vegeta, Piccolo, Mr. Buu, #17 and #18 refuse for now to learn it]. Not only that, North Kaio even comes to visit Goku as he teaches the other characters, with his own information, and revealing that the finally figured out how to successfully perform ''his own technique''. He explains that the dangers of Kaioken and the damage done to a user's body is based on two seperate things, an "upsurge" of energy that is first experienced when activating the Kaioken or increasing it a level, and then a "constant but lesser drain" which slowly weakens the user further. According to Kaioken, only the ''upsurge'' can deal potentially fatal damage to someone, and the "constant drain" will cease when the user is on the brink of death and fade away automatically, to prevent causing death.
*** Additionally, he also explains that the original reason he couldn't use the technique in the past was that his {{Powerlevel}} was a little too low to use it (in the story, you have to have a powerlevel of 5,000 or greater, where Kaio was around 4,000 roughly in the series, and that now he's about 15-20 million in powerlevel, and can use Kaioken up to '''twenty-five''' times). He also explains that the other requirements to use of the Kaioken are both extensive knowledge of how to both sense ''and'' mask one's ki energy, being able to sense one's own energy in order to know when to make the right judgement of when to stop cranking it up, and being able to mask energy to know the principal of reversing the concept of pushing one's powerlevel down and doing the reverse, and shoving it beyond normal amounts consistantly [which is what the Kaioken actually does].
** Another thing expanded on is exactly how Goku was able to become a Super Saiya-jin 3 in the first place during the seven-year period between the Cell Saga and the Buu Saga, when he reveals it to Vegeta and Paula in early Part 12. He explains that the first step is to induce a type of nightmare-like vision or daydream on yourself, and live out the visions to the end, experiencing varying degrees of {{Nightmare Fuel}}. In Goku's case, he had to watch a possessed Vegeta, Nappa and Radditz, all three of them Super Saiya-jin 2s (somehow...), and then being commanded by a creepy voice to "OBILTERATE, SPREAD, PERSIRE", and witnesses them killing both Goku's friends, family, and even his enemies [and some of their enemies as well], until Goku gains some control of his dream-form to engage them in battle, eventually becoming a Super Saiya-jin 3 after being mentally overwhelmed for a long time. After killing them, he faces an avatar in the fat Majin Buu's image, and manages in the middle of the battle to divide it into Mr. Buu and Kid Buu, the former half representing Buu's good and the latter half his evil [like in the actual series]. However Goku at the time has lost enough of his rational mind to not be able to differaniate the two and destroys both halves before being awakened by North Kaio and almost attacking him, only to realize his transformation occured physically as well.
*** Vegeta later does this to himself and faces Frieza as the representation of what is holding him back. The dream Frieza is about to destroy his dream form, and Vegeta stops caring about being the strongest of all time and merely wants to drive forward for the sake of the remaining Saiya-jin he knows [Goku, Radditz, Alex, Vernon, Jason, etc], and becomes Super Saiya-jin 3, and kill the Frieza avatar, which was actually Vegeta's ''fear'' given a different form. Vegeta then fights a Super Saiya-jin 3 version of his ''Saiyan Saga'' counterpart, winning a comfortable victory against him, since the current Vegeta has far more cunning and patience than his younger counterpart, not wasting energy needlessly and destroys him fast, returning to reality in the Super Saiya-jin 3 form, to his major content [he still had been unable to attain the form during the 10 years between the Buu Saga and the story because he didn't know what the do since Goku never told him his own experiences].
* AdultChild: Son Goku is STILL a rare ''positive'' example of this trope, as with in the original {{Dragonball}} series.
* AirJousting: Just like in Dragonball, fights tend to take place both on the ground and up in the air via Ki energy. The story occasionally has a pair of sparring fighters adapt some interesting variations on this as well.
* AlternateUniverseFic: At least on terms of the {{Dragonball}} content, the story disavows the actual events of {{Dragonball GT}}, while seeming to carry on a couple of it's concepts [the level of Super Saiya-jin 4 has not been achieved or original even ''thought of'' by Goku or Vegeta yet, but after learning about it Vegeta believes somehow it can be done with the right requirements]. The timeline in the Dragonball universe used in The Misfits seems to be about 1 month after the final Tenkaichi Budokai at the end of Z. Additionally, Uub has not appeared yet, despite the fact he would have by now in normal Dragonball continutity. Additionally a whole bunch of other things are suggested to be different about the Dragonball-type universe in question used in the story.
** Part 12 reveals a flashback communicated to Goku, Vegeta and Paula by North Kaio that explains how Oyatsu got his hands on Goku's once-thought-destroyed spaceship on Namek, revealing that Zarbon somehow ''survives'' his fatal wound from Vegeta earlier and eventually denounces Frieza's rule and escapes the dying planet in it's final minutes by using Goku's spaceship, left abandoned when everyone was taken from Namek except Goku and Frieza. Eventually, Zarbon meets with Oyatsu, under the alias of "Ryokucha" and sells the spaceship to him for a hefty sum.
* AscendedExtra: Teresa seems to be the first straight example, being a character who showed up in Part 6, and the first few parts of the story she's in seem to indicate she's still deciding whether she plans to be a "full-time Misfit" or not. Oyatsu's plan to use Dan as a puppet to defeat the other Misfits goes sour half because he took too much consideration that Teresa would wimp out and NOT decide to become a Misfit and ignores her as a threat. Big freakin mistake... he loses his cool "OverClocked Scouters" as one of many drawbacks for this, and Teresa holds off Oyatsu!Dan for enough time for #18 to arrive and quickly beat the snot out of Oyatsu!Dan.
** A segment in Part 11 seems to give a minor indication that Mr. (Christopher) Bergert, an art teacher seen only in Part 6 previous to this point will have more appearances, or might even become a higher-ranking character in the story.
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: In Part 11, Paula explains to Clint that she believes Giygas, despite his appearant demise in {{EarthBound}} (partially at her own hands even), will eventually regenerate from nothingness over a unknown period of time and attempt to send all into eternal darkness once again. The reason she believes this is because of Giygas's link to the corruption in the hearts of not just humans, but all creatures, and that their evil will always prevent his total and utter annhilation and eventually revive him from a mindless and formless being into one capable of cognitively acting [even if in a mindless manner like before]. Whether Giygas will actually appear in the story yet hasn't been established, but it seems the idea might be being played with...
* BadAss: Nina in Part 6, where she dashes in from off-screen [although she was vaugely aware something was amiss prior] and GUTS an Al-queda operative who had downed Paula, Dan and Devin, and was trying to kill all of them. She even takes the full brunt of a sucide-vest bomb from the dying operative at ''point blank range'' and only gets blasted against the ground a few inches away with less than a couple of bruises and a few [[IncrediblyLamePun ruffled feathers]].
** She takes another level in such only a few scenes later when she nearly kills [[JerkAss Jackson [=McCarakins=]]] by smashing him against the wall and nearly strangulating him, as she yells in his face about the crap she had to endure in her life, and that compared to her, he's gone through nothing in comparison. This is karma for Jackson as the story suggests that he has been constantly harassing Nina as a freak due to her wings since she first appear in the main characters' school [which in a {{Real Life}} setting would certainly put her in a 'mutant' category]. Luckily for him, Paula stops Nina from going too far, and she releases Jackson to run away in terror.
* BadassLongcoat: Oyatsu!Dan appears the morning after Dan's possession wearing an outfit consisting of a shiny longcoat, and dark sunglasses. The longcoat has a bunch of capsules stored in their pockets, including ones for a Shrinking gun, a Stun cannon, and a new type of scouter known as "[=OverClocked=] Scouters".
** Each item ends up having some use. The sunglasses prevent Oyatsu!Dan from being affected by the Taiyoken [Solar Flare] technique [although no one actually ends up using it AGAINST him, he only uses it against a couple of characters himself]. The Stun Gun is used to restrain and weaken #17 and later restrain Nina as well. The Shrinking gun is used on all the major characters with the exceptions of Mr. Buu, Nina, Teresa and #18. The Scouters are used to allow Oyatsu to scan {{powerlevel}}s on characters ahead of him to help him plan ahead. And most importantly, the coat is designed to ''reflect'' the very same shrinking bolts his own gun fires (Clint tries a {{Genre Savvy}} tactic and bounces a shot off a mirror, only for the shot to re-reflect off the coat and hit him back, shrinking him anyways.)
* BeamOWar: Part 5 has a small version of this between Alex and Vernon during a sparring session gotten slightly too serious. Both of them end up firing off Kamehamehas into this situation. However both of them expend their remaining ki energy and the beams dispiate without either getting hit as they pass out and require Goku and Piccolo to relocate them to Alex's couch inside his house.
* BerserkButton: The events that lead to Vernon's transformation into a Super Saiya-jin and {{The Reveal}} of his Saiya-jin blood in general during Part 4 might have been one of these. #17 is sparring with Vernon using a somewhat more realistic amount of his power [enough that Vernon really can't "win" in the end and has to play defensive 90% of the time]. The battle ends with #17 downing Vernon, and then deciding to be a bit goofy and play around with Vernon's feelings by pretending to call him worthless and stating he'll finish off Vernon for real. Vernon in his injured haze seems to take this seriously, and he literally goes feral and heals, leading to an upsurge of berserker power and rage that triggers his Super Saiya-jin form. He actually manages to land a decent blow on #17 [at his restrained {{powerlevel}} at least], and almost goes on a rampage until Nina manages to arrive and knocks him out of his anger with a surprise blow over the head. Vernon then actually ''thanks'' #17 for the "you suck" talk, for triggering his [=SSJ=] level.
** Then there's what [[JerkAss Jackson [=McCarakins=]]] says about the victims of the [[TheWarOnTerror 9/11]] attacks, calling them worthless pigs who wouldn't amount to anything anyways, just after insulting Teresa for choosing her family's lives over Dan's life originally when she had to choose who lived or died, and constantly harassing Alex about his former disability and Nina for her wings. Nina (who generally just ignores Jackson in public) finally snaps on him at last (to Alex's smug content, not liking Jackson either), and almost kills him by smashing him against a wall and nearly strangulating him, screaming at him about the toughness of her past compared to his pampered upbringing, telling him if he wants to hate her, than it should be for something that matters, like perhaps ''killing him''. Luckily, Paula manages to talk sense into Nina before she can go any further, and she releases him to run away like a coward, even as Jackson claims Nina is already a murderer anyways. No one has any clue what he means, but Alex thinks it's just Jackson taking one final shot at Nina as he runs away.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Nina in a way is usually nice and modest, hating to be egotistical and mean for mean's sake, but look above for examples of what she can do when push comes to shove.
* BigBad: The mysterious [and unnamed still] daemonlord from {{Hell}} seen in the prologue. Seems to be in command of Oyatsu, who tried his own attack on the Misfits in Part 10, and only marginally failed due to Teresa and #18's interference.
* BigDamnHeroes: #18 in Part 10. She arrives just in time [also her first appearance in the story] to save Nina and Teresa from Oyatsu!Dan's psychotic attempt to wipe them out completely. She three-shots him easily and knocks out Dan's body, forcing Oyatsu to flee Dan's unconscious form and run away. It's almost a {{Deus Ex Machina}} moment, except that a small clue is dropped to her possible appearance earlier when Oyatsu is fighting #17 and Piccolo. #17 grumbles out as he passes out from electrical-overload that a female of some form will soon arrive and Oyatsu would go down. #18 and #17 later reveal they had recently established contact with each other as Oyatsu was making his plans, and that #18 was going to be arriving soon.
* BigEater: All the Saiyans, including Alex and Jason. Seen specifically at the end of Part 9 for one example.
* BigGood: Goku, maintaining his 'mentor' like qualities from the end of Z, is this specfically to Alex, Jason and Vernon in particular, especially from Part 5 and on, especially after 9/11 happens.
** Vegeta and Piccolo also fall in this category for the same three goofballs as above.
* BoobsOfSteel: Currently still pretty inverted. Paula is a modest B-C size [according to the bios], #18 is still the same as in the show, and Teresa is also about the same B-C modest size as Paula. Nina on the other hand is currently the largest size [C to D size], but at the same time isn't [at least YET] big on physical combat [but then again, neither is Paula yet, though still a bit more than Nina].
* ButtMonkey: Although there really isn't a butt monkey in the story, sometimes Alex likes to think he is such due to the way things don't like to go his way. Of course, being a Saiya-jin with a pride similar to old-series Vegeta makes him think he's unbeatable against most of his friends anyways.
* ButYourWingsAreBeautiful: In Part 11, there is a part where Nina, Paula and #18 are at the local mall of Canton. #18 is off shopping for clothes, leaving Nina and Paula to roam the mall on their own. Paula asks Nina about [[JerkAss Jackson's]] past with her, and she explains the whole issue to her about how he seems to hate her and call her a freak about her wings. Paula proceeds to call Nina's wing's beautiful, and Nina remarks her friend Katt/Rinpoo (from [[BreathOfFire Breath of Fire 2]]) said almost exactly the same thing to her once.

* {{Discontinuity}}: GT does not occur in this story, as it begins [in Dragonball's time frame] about one month after the tournament that ends DBZ, but that Uub is strangely absent for some reason and that appearantly according to Vegeta and Goku in Part 12, Mirai Trunks has returned to the main timelime and even can use the Super Saiya-jin '''3''' form, where the original series didn't even have him make it to [=SSJ2=] prior. Also, the 'universe' from which the Z-Warriors came from in relevance to the Misfits universe seems to have other differences. Paula was [somehow] Goku's best childhood friend instead of Kuririn [who isn't acknowledged as having existed yet], among other things. Goku has been seen thinking that the original characters [most of whom watched the anime form of DBZ and think they know all there is to know about the DBZ characters] will be in for some rattling surprises down the road.
** Also in Part 12, it's revealed that Zarbon survived his battle with Vegeta on Namek due to a unanticpated healing factor and manages to use Goku's abandoned space ship to escape Namek not long before it explodes. Due to this, it's assumed he's alive even now at this point in the story, out there somewhere. In fact, it's suggested Zarbon was the one who gave Oyatsu the space ship via a deal for money, not with any evil intent though, as Zarbon seemed to have throw aside his loyalty to Frieza after recovering from near death on Namek. In fact, the story seems to suggest Zarbon has a wife/mate of unknown origin out there as well.

* FryingPanOfDoom: Paula's melee weapon is one of these, taken straight out of {{EarthBound}}. However ''which'' type of frying pan from that game she wields at the current moment isn't specfied [be it a normal Frying Pan or the rare-drop Magic Frying Pan]. Sources seem to indicate it's one of the weaker variations.

** Also in Part 9, Vernon learns a pure magic ability called the [[SuperMarioRPG Willy Wisp]], a Thunder-elemental orb of energy that shows potential to deal a good amount of damage, although it's yet to be used on an actual enemy to see it's effects.

* NimbusPrivileges: The Nimbus or 'Kintoun' as it would be properly called, shows up in Parts 1 and 2, but instead of Goku using it, ''Paula'' uses it, sitting on it perfectly, and indicating she is of pure intent [once she learns to finally fly, she stops using it], while Jason tries to get onto it and falls right through in comedic fasion. Alex s challenged to get on it, but Alex flat out admits he's probably not of pure heart or intent and doesn't bother to try.

* AlternateUniverseFic: At least on terms of the {{Dragonball}} content, the story disavows the actual events of {{Dragonball GT}}, while seeming to carry on a couple of it's concepts [the idea of Super Saiya-jin 4 has not be achieve be even Goku or Vegeta yet, but Vegeta believe somehow it can be done with the right requirements]. The timeline in the Dragonball universe used in The Misfits seems to be about 1 month after the final Tenkaichi Budokai at the end of Z. Additionally, Uub has not appeared yet, despite the fact he would have by now in normal Dragonball continutity. Additionally a whole bunch of other things are suggested to be different about the Dragonball-type universe in question used in the story.

* JerkAss: Jackson [=McCarakins=], nicknamed "Jackass" by most of the Original Misfits, is pretty much a neutral varient of this. Whether he's just a jerk or really more evil is unknown, but he has done many things that put him on this list. He was once Alex's good friend when both were children, but when Alex's Cerebal Palsy [which he was magically cured of a couple of months before the story started] reared it's head, Jackson turned on him and started making him out as a disabled freak, much to Alex's anger, also getting Vernon and Devin turned against Jackson as well. Later on, when Nina appearantly started going to the original characters' high school, Jackson targetted her for her wings, which by normal {{Real Life}} standards would label her a type of mutant [even though she's not even human to begin with], and she is frequently given trouble for it. Later, Nina is revealed to have healed Alex of his Cerebal Palsy by using her magic to cure various synaptics in his brain. When Alex flaunts the sudden change in Jackson's face, it increases the jerk's anger at both of them, Alex specfically because Jackson believed once you're deemed useless, you remain useless always and can never bounce back, and Nina because her healing of Alex destroyed a signficant part of Jackson's credibility with his yesmen and mooks and made some of them defect from him. Even after Nina nearly comes to killing him out of rage for his disregard of the [[TheWarOnTerror 9/11]] victims and their losses, he still has the venom to accuse Nina of already being a murderer, to her shock.

** Another varient is a small bit where Clint has a small daydream/vision in the middle of a training session in Part 12, where he sees Alex, disfigured and forcibly transformed into a different entity, thinking he is possessed by [[EarthBound Giygas]], whom Clint learned from Paula might potentially some day make a return from death. This triggers a semi-transformation to Super Saiya-jin 3 which he only holds onto for a split second.

** The entire "merger of worlds" can be considered this in a way. As even though the merger destroys or rewrites certain rules of physics that make the normal [[RealLife Real World]] boring, they bring the possibility of serious, world-destroying threats and of course, the possibility of seeing the daemonlord from the prolouge and Part 4, among other things.

* DemonLordsAndArchDevils: The cloaked 'human'-like demon in both the Prolouge and Part 4 seems to fall under as one of the main daemonlord's chief generals, or at the very least he's above most of the rest of the {{Legions of Hell}} that serve the daemonlord. However it's slightly implied the unnamed daemonlord might be a creature above the level of {{Satan}} himself and that Satan would piss himself in fear of the guy's presence.

* {{Hell}}: In the Prolouge, Part 1 and Part 4 thus far, parts of Hell [or a dimension at least like it] are seen, varying from the 'center' of Hell [based off The Divine Comedy's interpretation of Hell], a random area with pools or lakes of blood, ala {{Dragonball}}'s HFIL, and another unknown area on top of a very high alter.
** Additionally, it is implied by the daemonlord in the Prolouge and Part 4 that Hell was a prison dimension set up not for ''{{Satan}}'', but the daemonlord himself, by an unknown brother of the daemonlord, and that he is equalivical to a {{Sealed Evil In A Can}}, with Hell being the massive "can".

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: And how? So far the majority of the series is centered around the more veteran characters [Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, etc] training the greenhorn, newer characters [Alex, Clint, Jason, Vernon, etc, etc] and trying to teach them to get along better with one-another, and to not hold back information from each other, and even the veteran characters are being exposed to things they're complete newbies at. The kicker is that according to {{The Voice}} in Part 1, a great evil is mobilizing and out to tear the universe itself asunder [or at least we assume], and it's looking likely the daemonlord from the Prolouge is said 'darkness' the voice is talking about.

* SinisterSilhouettes: The daemonlord first "seen" in the prolouge, and later at the end of Part 4 is the main example so far, only his eyes, which completely glow a blood red, can be seen.

*** There's possible speculation the voice is trying to warn them of the daemonlord from the Prolouge and Part 4, and some think it could be the unknown brother of the daemonlord who sealed him in {{Hell}} trying to guide the characters to defeat or stop the daemonlord.

* WouldntHitAGirl: In part 10, Paula asks Alex if they want to have a small friendly spar to test each other's strength. Alex muses over in his head that he probably shouldn't because his mother drilled it into his head when he was young that he shouldn't physically fight with women. Luckily for him, the problem with Oyatsu diverts Paula's attention before he can answer her question, although there is a possiblity she might have unintentionally overheard his thoughts via her uncontrollable {{Mind Reading}} ability, although she hasn't said anything on it. However there's no guarantee this trope will stick to Alex, as Paula is so far the only female character who has asked to have any kind of sparring match or fight with him so far.
* YouShouldKnowThisAlready: It's recommended you know at least {{Dragonball}} pretty well before reading this.)

* DemonLordsAndArchDevils: The cloaked 'human'-like demon in both the Prolouge and Part 4 seems to fall under as one of the main daemonlord's chief generals, or at the very least he's above most of the rest of the {{Legions of Hell}} that serve the daemonlord. However it's slightly implied the unnamed daemonlord might be a creature above the level of {{Satan}} himself and that Satan would piss himself in fear of the guy's presence. {{So Yeah}}.

* YouShouldKnowThisAlready: It's recommended you know at least {{Dragonball}} pretty well before reading this.)