History FanFic / Webwork

* EvilIsSexy: In-universe, Jade is stated to be quite attractive in her human glamour form, even more-so than her alternate future self. Elizabeth Hartman claims that her human form looks like it did when she was younger, only to retract that claim by saying she was never as good looking as she is now.

* BalefulPolymorph:
** Jade's initial transformation back into a Shadowkhan. Subverted with her secondary transformation into a Jorogumo, which is voluntary and a slow process.
** Jade forcibly transforms her new minions into Gumo like herself, though only Widow is having trouble adapting.
** Part of Jade's conflict with the J-Team is the appearance of a BalefulPolymorph caused by the YearInsideHourOutside nature of the Emptiness leads them to view her Jorogumo transformation as a condition when Jade views it as her greatest accomplishment.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10166959/1/Webwork Webwork]]'' is a ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' fanfic by Trackula and Eduard Kassel, and a part of FanFic/ProjectDarkJade.

* AmazonBrigade: The Gumo tribe of Shadowkhan that Jade learns to make after her transformations are all female. Tarakudo is impressed.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Ms Hartman asks Jackie several of these in relation to how he has handled Jade's condition, as well as his belief in good and evil. [[spoiler: It ultimately causes him to let her keep her Oni powers.]]

* AttackItsWeakPoint: Tohru figures out a way around Jade's tolerance of pain by targeting her leg joints, figuring that even if she ignores the pain, the instinctive reaction will topple her. [[spoiler: It works... but she ends up crashing into El Toro.]]

* BalefulPolymorph: Jade's initial transformation back into a Shadowkhan. Subverted with her secondary transformation into a Jorogumo, which is voluntary and a slow process.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Tarakudo wanted Jade to do more evil of her own accord, but [[spoiler:when she betrays Origami after he threatens her position among the Oni, Tarakudo worries that she'll realize that she's a DragonInChief and throw him aside as well]].

* BigWhat[=/=]FlatWhat: Uncle and Tohru's respective reactions to Valmont calling them to ask for a cure for his latest transformation.

* BlessedWithSuck: Liz Hartman feels this way about her SuperSenses.

* BodyHorror: Jade's fingers getting torn up during an escape, the "surgery" to implant the Vessel into her body, and the subsequent transformation into a Jorogumo.

* BreastExpansion: Mrs Hartman notices while putting on a bra Jade made for her that the transformation has increased her bust slightly.

* BrickJoke: The "butt bra" Jade makes to support her developing abdomen, and then throws into a lake once its no longer needed, pops up later, now being used as a hat by a kappa.

* CallBack / ContinuityNod: Wong at one point brags about his various accomplishments, with Jade countering by pointing out how they all blew up in his face.

* ChekhovsGun: Jade's initial violent transformation reacted with the remaining traces of Hsi Wu's demon chi in Ms Hartman, resulting in the Bat Khan essence choosing her as its host despite not being evil.

* ContrivedCoincidence: That Uncle just happens to have an antique bellows, which Tohru is able to convert to the purpose of draining the Essences. {{Justified|Trope}}, as OTHER engineered this; such incidents are apparently in violation of the rules of its balance with IT, however, so IT gets a penalty move to advance its own agenda.

* CoolShades: Jade steals a pair from Chow... who has a whole closet full of them, for some reason.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Jackie claims that much of these events could have been avoided if they hadn't been hostile to Jade since she returned.

* CurbStompBattle: Jade's second battle against the J-Team goes a little like this once she decides to stop pulling her punches against them. Jackie only manages to get away with his life because Jade wasn't willing to finish him when she had the opportunity to.

* [[DarkIsNotEvil Dark Is Not Always Evil]]: Elizabeth Hartman was chosen to be an Oni general despite not meeting the evil requirements the Essence looks for in a host, since being near Jade during her initial transformation caused the traces of Hsi Wu's chi in her to react, essentially tricking the Essence into choosing her. [[spoiler: She also ultimately chooses to keep the power but ''not'' to join Jade, feeling there's a third option.]]

* DePower: The Essence Bearers the Chans defeat are stripped of their power, Jade even uses the term depower at one point.

* DespairEventHorizon: Valmont has hit this as part of his VillainousBSOD, barely even reacting at his transformation. [[spoiler:He finally gets angry enough to move past it after Jade's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to him]].

* DidntSeeThatComing: Drew admitting that he went too far and that he's sorry for what he did completely throws Jade for a loop.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: The Yokai races fled into the Emptiness to escape humanity's growing dominance of the world, but without humans as a food source or a way out, they quickly turned on each other.

* DirtyOldMan: Tarakudo has shades of this trope. For example, after Jade wakes from her slumber in a cocoon, she marvels at her grown breasts, touching them. After the Queen makes her stop that, Tarakudo reveals himself to have watched the entire time.

* DotingParent: Jade goes from seeing herself as the eggs' babysitter to their mother over the years in the Emptiness, often referring to them as her "sweeties". The Queen finds this odd as her kind don't really show so much affection towards their young.

* DragonInChief: As Ms Hartman points out, the fact that Tarakudo is sealed away means that he needs Jade a lot more than she needs him.

* EldritchAbomination: The entities that sit in judgement and control over the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil, which are referred to only as IT (evil) and OTHER (good), which have existed since the dawn of time (if not predating it completely). No descriptions are ever given of them, but IT is powerful enough that merely being in its presence ''terrifies'' Tarakudo.

* EnemyMine: The Mexican crime boss known as the Old Colonel convinces the J-Team to protect him from Chang and help take him down, by pointing out that it's [[LesserOfTwoEvils better than]] letting Chang kill him, take over his assets, and go to ground with it all. [[spoiler: They do help, but set up the Colonel to be arrested by the Mexican police.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Jade. In addition to residual affections towards Jackie and the rest of the J-Team (and her parents), is genuinely motivated by a desire to protect her unborn eggs. Ms. Hartman even tells Tarakudo that Jade's motivation being love makes her less evil than he is despite her goals.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Jade, even after her LetsGetDangerous moment, still can't bring herself to harm her family (to Tarakudo's annoyance). On a smaller note, she also refuses to eat people's pets, preferring to do her hunting in the wild.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Jade can't seem to wrap her head around why her family and friends aren't happy about the changes in her life.

* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Subverted. As Viper points out to Jackie, just because Daolon Wong has been possessed by one of the Essences, it's unlikely that he and Jade will be willing to work together. And she turns out to be right, as they're quickly at each other's throats.

* EvilIsPetty: Subverted when Jade comes face to face with Drew after her Gumo transformation. Even after all he did to her, and her feeling that he needs to be punished somehow, she doesn't feel he's really important enough to DESERVE her hatred.

* EyeScream: Widow has a scarred left eye.

* FullyEmbracedFiend: Part of the breakdown between Jade and the J-team is that Jade sees her new form as her greatest accomplishment and never wants to be human again.

** Leston apparently jumped the slippery slope very quickly and tries to be as much of an Eldritch Abomination as possible.

* GenreSavvy: Jackie is quick to realize that [[spoiler: the scattering of the Oni Essences]] means a new world-trotting quest.

* GlamourFailure: Jade has trouble using the glamour spell. Her human disguise has her fur pattern as tattoos and she has a miniature abdomen unless she concentrates. It is stated she has such difficulty because she is reluctant to be human again.

* HeroicBSOD: All the heroes in reaction to Jade's transformations, but Jackie is hit the worst.

* HorrorHunger: The Leech-khan essence seems to give the bearer extreme hunger, a trait the Essence itself shares. Luckily, Nivor was never able to follow through on his goal of [[ImAHumanitarian eating the J-Team]] once he fully transformed (though he did find the taste of the shadows of everybody but Jade and Viper enjoyable). Jade also mentions how his desire to eat endangered creatures borders on being a fetish.

* HowDoIShotWeb: Literally, as it takes Jade some time to learn how to use her new web silk powers effectively.

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Tarantula uses her transformation as an excuse to let her sadism and act out her deepest, darkest fantasies that she had well before her change, even eating people, and is furious when Jade reigns her in.

* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Jade has trouble going back to a normal life after Drago's defeat. Part of how Tarakudo was able to get her to help him.

* ImAHumanitarian: After Jade recruits Nivor, he expresses an interest in eating the J-Team.

* InadequateInheritor: Tarakudo admits Wong isn't worthy of the Oni Essence, being too prideful and stubborn to suit his goals, and planned to take the Essence from him to give to someone more deserving.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Widow, upon finding out that magic was real and Jade is an EldritchAbomination rather than the result of science gone wrong, decides to raid a liquor store.

* {{Irony}}: Jade finds herself falling into some of the same problems previous villains had; she gets especially frustrated when she realizes she of all people underestimated Paco because he was a child.

* LightningBruiser: Jade turns out to be one of these during her fight with the J-Team. Is physically powerful, has great speed with her legs and has a high enough pain threshold to ignore pain from magic attacks.

* LikeASonToMe: The Queen admits on her deathbed that Jade is everything she would have wanted in a daughter.

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: When Chang cuts off one of Jade's appendages, her only complaint is how much growing it back will itch.

* MamaBear: Jade turns deadly serious when she sees Daolon Wong being relieved of his Shadowkhan Essence, and demands to know from Tarakudo what would happen to her young if it was used on her. And then she decides to stop holding back when [[spoiler: Paco almost kills them trying to cure her.]]

* ManChild: Due to her isolation in the Emptiness with the only other beings around who weren't trying to eat her being vastly older than her who had other other plans for her besides developing her social skills, Jade frequently acts like she's still a young pre-teen, or adult in the way a young child thinks adults act like.

* MetaMorphosis: Uncle explains that Jade's change is likely permanent, because it altered her true form, unlike past changes where her true form was simply disguised with magic. They ''can't'' turn her back because there is nothing for her to turn back into.

* MistakenForProstitute: When disguised as a human again, not being used to clothes anymore Jade makes the mistake of only wearing a long coat over her body leading people to think she is a prostitute.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Jade has a brief moment of this when she realizes that her agreement to become a Jorogumo has {{retgone}}d her future self from the J-2 episodes.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The attempt to capture Jade in Section 13 ruins any chance at reconciliation with her family, and [[spoiler: Paco's well-meaning attempt to cure her, which harms her eggs,]] convinces her that they're playing dirty, so she will too.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Jade escapes from the trap in Section 13 by [[spoiler: shattering Tarakudo's mask]], using the resulting chi explosion to dissolve the trap. As a side effect, however, she [[spoiler: kills the Generals and scatters their Essences]], setting Tarakudo's plans back significantly.

* NoodleIncident: We never see what happened to the Enforcers when they were recovering the statue.

* OnlySaneMan: While Taranee quickly embraces being a Gumo, and Jumper just as quickly latches onto Jade as her new leader, Widow is deeply disturbed and angered over being forcibly transformed and press-ganged by Jade.

* PainfulTransformation: Jade's transformation into a Jorogumo, with the Queen needing to restrain her during the worst points.
** As a side effect from this, Jade has gained an incredible tolerance to pain.

* PersonalityPowers: The essences tend to be drawn to compatible people.

* PowerIncontinence: Literally, as when Jade starts developing a spinnerette, and until it forms fully, she keeps releasing gobs of webbing silk at the most embarrassing of times. Like when trying to give Tarakudo a dressing down.

* PregnantBadass: After the Vessel is implanted into her body, Jade becomes the future mother of hundreds of Jorogumo soldiers. And thanks to the Queen's training, she's a very dangerous threat indeed.

* RageBreakingPoint: Jade's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Valmont, and the knowledge that that she's right, finally gets him angry enough to get past his VillainousBSOD.

* RapidAging: Subverted with Jade. While it may appear she aged to adulthood in less than half a day, she actually aged in real time in the Emptiness.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Tarakudo, believe it or not, can be this towards Jade. While he does give her more than his share of sarcastic critique, he doesn't get all that mad at her failures and communicates the problems he has with her. He doesn't expect Jade to go full on evil in record time and even praises her when she does something well. At least some of this appears to be manipulation, however.

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Jade lampshades this by asking why Origami can still see and hear in paper form despite needing to be in a PartialTransformation (as he needs lungs) to talk. He can't answer her.

* SpiderPeople: The Jorogumo. Jade becomes one herself. Very slowly and painfully.

* StockholmSyndrome: Ms Hartman realizes that Jade has developed this in regards to the Old Queen and Tarakudo after eight years alone with them and everything they've done to her.

* SuperSenses: Jade's post-transformation senses are enhanced to the point that once she is back in the human world, she finds the sounds and smells nearly intolerable. This works against her when she walks into a cloud of perfume.

* TemptingFate: Jackie does this when he says that hopefully it will take the Essences long enough to find hosts that Uncle and Tohru will be able to find a reversal for it. Cue one of the Essences possessing Daolon Wong. Everyone glares at him, and Paco calls him out for being GenreBlind enough to do this.

* ThatManIsDead: Jade says this about her old identity as Yu.

* TheyJustDontGetIt: Jade doesn't understand why Widow isn't adapting to her change as quickly as Jumper or Tara, not even considering that Widow feels like a monster as a reason since she and her other new minions love their spider forms. She has a similar reaction to her family's desire to return her to normal.

* VillainousBreakdown: Wong loses it after Uncle [[DontYouDarePityMe says he pities him]].

* VillainousBSOD: Widow has trouble coping with her new state, and combined with her realizing that she can't deny magic exists any longer, has led her to start [[DrowningMySorrows Drowning Her Sorrows]].

* WakingNonSequitur: When Tarakudo shouts Jade awake from a nap, she shouts "the burger crocodile" as she does so. Tarakudo isn't sure whether he wants to know or not.

* WeightWoe: One of Tarantula's taunts towards Widow's drinking is to stroke her abdomen and comment about how swollen it's getting from the liquor, similar to getting a beer belly.
** She gets more when she realizes she's thicker built after her molt.
* WeirdnessCensor: Ms Hartman believes this about the man she saved when he tells the press he was saved by Batman, as he chose to believe that a man in a bat-themed costume saved him rather than a demonic bat monster.

* WhatTheHellHero: Neither Jackie nor Black feel as sick about Jade being with young than they do when Uncle explains that Paco [[spoiler:trying to cure Jade may have unintentionally harmed her young. Which he compares to hitting a pregnant woman in the stomach.]]

* WithUsOrAgainstUs: When Chang refuses to ally with Jade, Tarakudo orders her to eliminate him.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Paco is convinced that Tarakudo is controlling Jade, and that they just have to defeat him to save her. The adults don't have the heart to tell him that her change is almost certainly permanent.

** [[spoiler: Leston]], the new General of the Squid Khan, essentially becomes one after the Essence bonds with him, being described as a writhing mass of tentacles and growths, with a misshapen, eyeless face buried in it.

* FullyEmbracedFiend: Moreso than even Jade, Tara relishes in her transformation, taking it as an excuse to be an amoral monster.

* NotSoDifferent: When Jade talks about how eight years of intensive training in a cave still doesn't cover everything, she's confused when Uncle nods in agreement.

** Nivor, whose prime sin is {{Gluttony}} gets the Leech khan essence, which amplifies it to HorrorHunger.

** BilingualBonus: In Chinese, ''yù'' (玉) means jade.

* UltimateEvil: IT is implied to be this, being the entity in charge of maintaining the Dark half of the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil. The fact that we never see or get a description of IT helps with this status.
* UnexpectedCharacter: Nivor was a oneshot VillainOfTheWeek in the show's first season. Who expected him to show up here?

Now with a [[Characters/{{Webwork}} Character Sheet]] that NeedsWikiMagicLove.

** When Daolon Wong escapes jail, he slaughters all the guards ForTheEvulz. Apparently it’s the Oni Essence making his emotions more intense.

* {{Chupacabra}}: Apparently they’re minor demons that can either be brought into our world using SummonMagic or slip through the cracks on their own, with the one that attacked El Toro in canon being the result of a summoning attempt by Luz that was botched.

* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Tara makes a deal with the Gumo Queen’s ghost that involves killing Jade and becoming even more inhuman than she already is]].

** [[spoiler:Because of the way his PaperMaster magic interacted with the Razor Khan Essence, when Origami is stripped of the latter, the former comes with it… and latches onto Viper]].

* DidntSeeThatComing: Drew admitting that he went too far and that he’s sorry for what he did completely throws Jade for a loop.

* EvilIsPetty: Subverted when Jade comes face to face with Drew after her Gumo transformation. Even after all he did to her, and her feeling that he needs to be punished somehow, she doesn’t feel he’s really important enough to DESERVE her hatred.
** Jade lampshades how petty Origami’s motivation for stealing art (he doesn’t feel anyone else deserves to see it) is.

* GambitPileup: There are several plans and schemes starting to emerge. There’s Tarakudo’s plan to keep Jade under his metaphorical thumb, Jade’s desire to protect her kits, [[spoiler:whatever Chang is up to,]] the plans of Black’s superiors to reduce their dependence on contractors (namely the J-Team), [[spoiler:and Tara planning to overthrow Jade with the help of the Gumo Queen’s ghost]].

** Widow/Jessie feels that everything that’s happened to her since meeting Jade and getting transformed is karma for what she did before

** Origami’s entire motivation for stealing art is that he feels that no one else deserves to look at said artwork.

** BilingualBonus: In Chinese, ''yù'' (玉) means jade.

* MysteriousWatcher: ''Something'' is watching Jade's lair via her mirrors. [[spoiler:It’s apparently the ghost of the Gumo Queen, who isn’t happy that Jade isn’t acting the way she thought she would]].

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:It turns out that the Gumo Queen’s ghost is still hanging around…]]

** [[spoiler:Viper gaining Origami’s paper powers isn’t very pleasant either]].

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Jade lampshades this by asking why Origami can still see and hear in paper form despite needing to be in a PartialTransformation (as he needs lungs) to talk. He can’t answer her.

* SummonMagic: Apparently many magicians summon minor demons to aid their spellwork. Azan’s Essence Detector uses an imp of some kind (with the wizard bemoaning how Jones wouldn’t let him summon a more powerful demon), and the {{Chupacabra}} that the J-Team fought was summoned by Luz.

* SycophanticServant: Jumper, who Widow actually refers to as a sycophant at one point (and a "chronic ass kisser" at another) quickly changes loyalty from Widow to Jade when the latter forcibly recruits and transforms them. She apparently did something similar when Widow beat the leader of her old group. Even Jade is slightly unnerved by how much attention Jumper pays to her, and wishes the girl would show at least some level of independent thought. [[spoiler:Since Jade isn’t quite living up to her expectations, she’s starting to shift to Tara]].

*** Viper even [[LampshadeHanging points out]] after Origami’s escape from prison that they've been acting like there was a pattern and set amount of time they could remove the essence's despite the evidence that proves otherwise.

** As a result of her transformations, desire never to have a normal life, subsequent isolation in the Emptiness and Tarakudo and the Gumo Queen's manipulations, Jade is perfectly willing to fight against humanity to provide a future to her unborn kits, though she does have residual affection towards her human family, and it’s commented several times that she isn’t really that monstrous in personality.

** Origami also believes this, mentally citing it as the reason he hadn’t gotten caught before he encountered Jackie, even when he was seen people rationalised it away.

** Jade is surprised when she manages to get the upper hand on Jackie after beating Section 0, until she realises he’s distracted because he’s worried about Viper.

* CombatPragmatist: Jade quickly comes up with the idea of having her Gumo-Kahn simply jump into their target's shadows to attack or capture them without warning, causing paranoia and forcing the J-team to adapt. She also makes frequent use of traps and ambush tactics at different times

* DrowningMySorrows: After the events of Innsmaw, Tohru helps himself to a ''lot'' of sake.
** Widow's use of alcohol to cope with the situation she's in quickly becomes outright self-destructive

** [[spoiler:Tarakudo lampshades how ForTheEvulz OmnicidalManiac types like Leston tend to end up on the receiving end of such alliances]].

** She also doesn't feel comfortable when Tarakudo tells her to kill Chang when he refuses to join them. Not only does she convince Tarakudo to give him another chance to sign up, she even explicitly tells him that she won't enjoy killing him if he refuses again.
** Jade [[TheyJustDontGetIt can't understand why]] Widow is having so much trouble adjusting to her new form, but does genuinely seem to want to help her. She also apologizes for not being able to restore Widow's bad eye after Widow comes out of the cocoon.

** When Tara tries to eat a Section 13 agent, Jade stops her and gives her a brutal telling off.

** [[spoiler:Jade recognizes how psycho Leston is, and takes him out permanently]].

** [[spoiler: The queen's spirit is dissatisfied with Jade for clinging to the last traces of human compassion, and seeks to replace her with Tara who wants nothing to do with humanity.]]

* PowerIncontinence: Literally, as when Jade starts developing a spinnerette, and until it forms fully, she keeps releasing gobs of webbing silk at the most embarressing of times. Like when trying to give Tarakudo a dressing down.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Tarakudo, believe it or not, can be this towards Jade. While he does give her more than his share of sarcastic critique, he doesn't get all that mad at her failures and communicates the problems he has with her. He doesn't expect Jade to go full on evil in record time and even praises her when she does something well.

* SquishyWizard: Azan, as Jade lampshades, is specialized for casting spells, not withstanding punches, allowing Jumper to take him down easily.

* TheStarscream: Tara is showing hints of becoming this after Jade stops her from eating a Section 13 agent, especially with her beliefs about Jade not deserving her power. [[spoiler:After the spirit of the Gumo Queen contacts her, viewing Jade as an InadequateInheritor due to her not acting in the way the Queen had hoped she would, she full on plots to take Jade out]].

** Origami also believes this, mentally citing it as the reason he hadn’t gotten caught before he encountered Jackie, even when he was seen people rationalized it away.

** Jade is surprised when she manages to get the upper hand on Jackie after beating Section 0, until she realizes he’s distracted because he’s worried about Viper.
** Jade is able to beat Origami because she’s more skilled with her Oni abilities than he is.

** Tohru realised they made the mistake of treating the new Squid general like Paco when he wore the mask. Paco was flashy, out to prove himself and lacked any form of subtlty when using the demon powers. [[spoiler: Leston]] was a timid pharmacist who lacked a warriors or wizards pride who had no problem using underhanded tactics to get the upper hand.
** [[spoiler: Mrs Leston thought she could [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight reach her son's inner goodness]] by talking him down. Not realising that the essence choose him because he was this evil to begin with. Paying for her faith in her son with her life.]]

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: After Widow gains control of her glamour she tries going to the bar Jade took her from. Only to realize that even looking human she doesn't have anything to go back to, dropping the glamour and letting Jade take her back to their lair.

* AbandonedWarehouse: Jade develops a fondness for these as her lairs.

* AbusiveParents: Averted. Unlike other PDJ fics (''FanFic/QueenOfAllOni'' especially), Jade's parents are not portrayed this way, instead just being described as bland and out of touch.

* AdaptationalBadass: Like in ''FanFic/QueenOfAllOni'', the Samurai Khan are made as tough and powerful as they look, rather than {{Fake Ultimate Mook}}s they were in canon. Tohru gives an explanation for this: because Ikazuki wasn't properly bonded to Finn, the Samurai Khan's power was halved, in addition to being poorly managed.

** Origami also changed most of the way physically in a few hours, which seems to have been, at least partly, a result of the Razor-khan Essence reacting with his (possibly unique) paper magic, which was also affected by the change, becoming more like tinfoil.

** As a result of her transformations, subsequent isolation in the Emptiness and Tarakudo and the Gumo Queen's manipulations, Jade is perfectly willing to fight against humanity to provide a future to her unborn kits, though she does have residual affection towards her human family, and it’s commented several times that she isn’t really that monstrous in personality.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Ms. Hartman tells Tarakudo that the fact that Jade is ultimately motivated by love, despite her evil goals, puts her ahead of him.

*** Tarakudo even lampshades the Essences going through the J-Team RougesGallery after Valmont gets the Crab Essence, asking if Jade and her family have any forces of evil on Earth that they ''aren't'' on a first name basis with.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Jade. In addition to residual affections towards Jackie and the rest of the J-Team (and her parents), is genuinely motivated by a desire to protect her unborn eggs. Ms. Hartman even tells Tarakudo that Jade's motivation being love makes her less evil than he is.

** After recruiting Nivor as the new Leech-khan General (which in itself is something she isn't exactly happy with), he expresses an interest in [[ImAHumanitarian eating the J-Team]]. Jade doesn't intend to let him do so, but doesn't say anything directly against it to keep him talking and give Jackie a chance to escape from him.

*** Viper even [[LampshadeHanging points out]] after Origami’s escape from prison that they've been acting like their was a pattern and set amount of time they could remove the essence's despite the evidence that proves otherwise.

** [[spoiler:Leston, the new Sumo General, is a full blown MisanthropeSupreme and OmnicidalManiac]].

** [[spoiler: Mrs Leston thought she could [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight reach her son's inner goodness]] by talking him down. Not realising that the essence choose him because he was this evil to begin with.]]

* AdaptiveAbility: Jade ponders the idea of the Gumo tribe adapting through molts at one point after Weaver's molt turns her into a MightyGlacier, reflecting her lack of activity.

* AdaptiveAbility: Jade ponders the idea of the Gumo tribe adapting through molts at one point.

** Jade calls in her girls when trying to deal with Valmont, only to realize there's no room in the extremely small apartment they're in. And then the J-Team shows up and distracts her before she can reverse the order. Things get ''really cramped'' in there pretty fast.

* DramaticIrony: While lamenting on a defeat, Uncle tells Tohru that if light always won then the world would be a different place. It is ''because'' the forces of light won so much that all the chaos of the story has happened.

** [[spoiler: Leston]], the new General of the Squid Khan, essentially becomes one after the Essence bonds with him, being described as a writing mass of tentacles and growths, with a misshapen, eyeless face buried in it.

* FailedASpotCheck: Valmont fails to notice his change until he looks in the mirror.

* HorrorHunger: The Leech-khan essence seems to give the bearer extreme hunger. Luckily, Nivor was never able to follow through on his goal of [[ImAHumanitarian eating the J-Team]] once he fully transformed (though he did find the taste of the shadows of everybody but Jade and Viper enjoyable). Jade also mentions how his desire to eat endangered creatures borders on being a fetish.

** Jones of Section 0 was involved in one on a former mission, and he ''really'' dislikes it being brought up.

* OurNudityIsDifferent: Jorogumo molting is considered private, and Jade blows up at Tarakudo when he calls her from the mirror where Widow is molting, which she had specifically warned him not to do.

** [[spoiler:Leston]], who gets the squid essence, is a big fan of Lovecraftian horror, and wants to become an OmnicidalManiac.

** Valmont transformed into the Crab Khan general near totally in one night's sleep. Jade initially thinks it's because he wore that general's mask before, and went through the experience of SharingABody with Shendu, the strongest of the Demon Sorcerers, for a few weeks, before coming to the conclusion that Valmont's become so beaten down from his fall from power that his soul didn't even ''try'' to resist the change.

* DramaticIrony: While lamenting on a defeat Uncle tell's Tohru that if light always won then the world would be a different place. It is 'because' the forces of light won so much that all the chaos recently has happened.

* NeckSnap: Tohru tried to do this to [[spoiler: Leston]] but [[AvertedTrope averted]] since [[spoiler: Leston's]] new squid body didn't have any bone's in his neck to break.