History Fanfic / AShadowOfTheTitans

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler: Although Jade vetoes it, being GenreSavvy on the Joker's [[JokerImmunity ability to cheat death]], and not wanting him to come after her seeking revenge, the Queen suggests getting out of their internship with the Joker by killing him by using their telekinesis to get him hit by a train or something.
* ManipulativeBastard: Blood's stock in trade.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Once Kitten revives from Killer Moth's EmergencyTransformation, she immediately decides to go looking for Jade to get revenge, after knocking her father out and leaving him on th floor]].
* RunningGag: There's apparently an offscreen one about Jade's potions exploding.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Susano and his team try to corner Jade for a beating at one point, only for Gadjo to show up and curbstomp one of them. The other teammate runs off, and Susano wisely leaves too after a few parting insults.

** Defied. [[spoiler:The Queen suggested killing the Joker to get out of their internship to him, but she vetoed it, pointing out that with his JokerImmunity, he'd probably survive and seek revenge.]]

* ManipulativeBastard: Blood's stock in trade.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Once Kitten revives from Killer Moth's EmergencyTransformation, she immediately decides to go looking for Jade to get revenge]].

** Also, Jinx has asked Jade multiple times if she's part goat (because of her ExtremeOmnivore tendencies).
** People getting annoyed by Beast Boy insisting Jade is his ArchEnemy, and reminding him of "[[NoodleIncident the bubbles]]" to shut him up. Also, Jade getting annoyed when others insist the same thing.

* ShearMenace: After [[spoiler: Jade's chi is reunited]], Jinx gives her a pair of scissors that she's magically enhanced as a new weapon. At a spoken command, they grow to garden shear size, and the blades can [[DualWielding separate]].

* ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil: Using the Talisman of Hwan, Jinx boosts her powers many fold, but is left highly unstable and paranoid. And on top of that, her physical status deteriorates significantly.
* TimeSkip: There's an in-universe two month gap between Chapters 11 and 12.

** [[spoiler:Jade tells Queen that trying to murder Joker would only end with their own death, like some GuestEpisode villain that thinks they are safe until their diver turns out to be the main antagonist.]]

* MadScientist: Gizmo, obviously. Also Georgia Sivanna, daughter of ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'s ArchEnemy.
* MagicVersusScience: Gizmo and Jade seem to be quickly developing a rivalry based on this (the fact that they hate each other and are forced to share a lab space doesn't help).

** In another similarity to ''FanFic/QueenOfAllOni'', Tarakudo is manipulating Jade from the shadow realm via her subconscious.
-->"I will make the bird [[MoreThanMindControl want to sing]]."

** Jade feels an odd quality to Gotham's shadows, and she's not sure if it's in her head or if there's something else messing with them.
** Jade seems to feel Scarface's gaze when infiltrating Arkham...

** Susano is implied to be the same individual as the character of the same name from the author's other Titans fic, ''Fanfic/JewelOfDarkness''.

* OddFriendship: Jinx and Jade seem to be forming one.

* {{Original Character}}s: Gadjo, Machete, Susano (who also appears in ''FanFic/JewelOfDarkness''[[note]] references to ''Jewel'''s MissingEpisode actually suggest that Susano and this one are ''the same'' individual[[/note]]), the Cackler.

** Jade when interning for the Joker. She refuses to eat or drink anything that he gives her, sleeps as little as she can on the road trip from Jump back to Gotham, shoots down the Queen's suggestion of killing him, pointing out that [[JokerImmunity others have tried before, and he'd probably survive and seek revenge]], and uses telekinesis to avoid the booby-traps in his lair.
** Arkham, in contrast to its CardboardPrison reputation, actually takes its security, at least for the "living weapon" level inmates, rather seriously. Jade mainly gets Harley out by being audacious enough to use her shadow powers to go in with the food and exploiting a failsafe designed to let the less dangerous inmates out in a situation where the RouguesGallery members would kill them if they stayed in their cells.

* PsychicBlockDefense: According to WordOfGod, Jade, being a higher-level Shadowkhan, has a natural resistance to mental powers that, combined with her willpower and a third factor (apparently Tarakudo's presence in her mind), make Blood's MindControl nearly a NoSell on her.
* RapidHairGrowth: While fighting the Sumo Khan general, Gadjo is able to force a fully formed handlebar moustache to grow instantly.

--> "Yeah, because you stack the deck. And brag about beating up a girl who has already fought hard while you sit on the sidelines. I know real badasses, and you don't even come close to the list," Zhu Chan taunted.
--> "Enough of your impudence!" he commanded, firing a starbolt at her. She burst it with an optic blast.
--> "Sloppy. You may have a lot of power, but you didn't earn it. They may not have been smart, but at least they know their own power, idiot," Jade shook her head.

* RealDreamsAreWeirder: Tarakudo uses this to keep Jade from realizing she's stumbled onto him messing around with her subconscious -- he conjures multicolored mushrooms and ducks in top hats, then turns himself into a basketball with a mustache. This works against him in the following chapter, as he tries to communicate with Jade, who's distracted by a dream of building a wall of sheep (using peanut butter as mortar) to stop a tidal wave of jelly.

--> "It won't be easy, but I'm Jade Chan. I do the impossible and make it look easy!"
* BadGuyBar: The HIVE has one (apparently, being villains, they don't care much about age limits).

** [[spoiler:According to the Oni Generals, this only affects Oni that haven't developed at least 2 sets of horns]].

** Jade had the Rooster, Dragon, and Pig talismans on her when she was sent across dimensions, and after the Cackler's interference, they end up fused into her body. [[spoiler: Until she ends up TakingTheBullet for Jinx, and Raven's spell violently expels them from her body.]]

* ClothingDamage: During Jade's first fight with the Titans, Robin hits one of the Talismans (presumably the Dragon), which causes an explosive release of energy that -- among other things -- fries most of her clothes. This leads Jade to make sure her new costume is fire retardant and otherwise durable, to avoid any repeats of such an event.

** [[spoiler: And ''again'' after the chi transfer from Starfire to remove Tarakudo's influence from her.]]

** The Queen compares herself to Tiger (Jackie's dark half brought to life by the Tiger talisman) when trying to convince Jade she's not so bad.

** In ''FanFic/JewelOfDarkness'', some of Susano's comments in regards to the MissingEpisode of that story implies that the Susano from that story and ''this one'' are the same individual (he mentions a gypsy and an "Oni spawn", which likely refers to Gadjo and Jade, respectively).

* {{Cthulhumanoid}}: One briefly cameos in a video as one of Gadjo's previous employers. He apparently tried to summon an EldritchAbomination (presumably the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos big C]] himself), but was killed by Gadjo when the latter realized this would [[ItMakesSenseInContext mean no more pies]].

** Tarakudo easily kicks Blood out of Jade's mind.

-->'''HIVE student''': [[LampshadeHanging Can she do that]]?

** When interning for Joker and forced to bust Harley out of Arkham, having entered by sneaking in as a shadow with the food delivery, she decides that she needs to cause a distraction by causing a jailbreak. When trying to figure out which RoguesGallery member would be the least dangerous, she realizes that she can just release the ''regular'' inmates.
** Earlier, The Queen suggested killing the Joker to get out of their internship to him, but she vetoed it, pointing out that with his JokerImmunity, he'd probably survive and seek revenge.
* DarkIsNotEvil[=/=]LightIsNotGood: Jade's villain persona (a Shadowkhan dressed in black and red) is contrasted with Brother Blood, who wears gold and white (Jinx comments at one point that rather than the traditional light and purity, Blood's colors seem to represent greed and death).

** Raven is recruited for the Tournament of Villainesses, and constantly complains about it (though her demon side does briefly take over).

* DoNotAdjustYourSet: Joker does this to broadcast that he's going to be busting Harley (or rather, Jade is on his orders, but he doesn't mention that), much to Jade's shock.

* DreamWalker: Jade learns the spell for doing this via astral projection and uses it to enter the dreams of her teammates, Gadjo, and Brother Blood (Jinx and Gadjo's are odd but good, Mammoth is having a nightmare, and Jade turns Gizmo and Blood's into nightmares). She then tries to see what happens if she enters her own unconscious body, and ends up in her subconscious, where she finds Tarakudo messing with her mind. Fortunately for him, she thinks it's just another dream.

* EitherOrTitle: Most of the chapters have these.

* EldritchLocation: There are a couple of these. First, there was that pocket dimension with the twisting, multicolored sky (which caused a BrownNote reaction in Jade, making her nauseous). Then there's the shadow realm of the TT world, with floating islands, some covered in forests and mountains, filled with twisting shadows that seem to switch between a liquid-like and an air-like state.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: From Raven's perspective, Jade, who never actively causes trouble, seeks peaceful alternatives, and doesn't take advantage of Raven being unconscious to hurt her, saying it wouldn't be right.

* EvilerThanThou: Blood finds that he is outclassed by Tarakudo when he tries to take Jade’s mind. And earlier in the same chapter, Slade subtly shows that Blood is his inferior as well.

* FailsafeFailure: Jade busts Harley out of Arkham for the Joker by using her shadow-walking and telekinesis to take advantage of an emergency failsafe that lets the comparatively ''less'' dangerous inmates, who don't warrant a place in Batman's RoguesGallery, out of their cells so the ones that ''do'' warrant a place don't kill them in a breakout, using it as a distraction for Batman.

* JokerImmunity: Lampshaded by Jade when the Queen suggests killing the Joker to get out of their internship to him, pointing out that people more skilled at killing have tried and failed, and he'd probably end up NotQuiteDead and come after them.

* LamePunReaction: At one point Jade makes a bet with Gizmo about what kind of pun the Titans will open the fight with (and she guessed correctly).

* MythologyGag: Jinx says she would never fall for some jerky hero who's always getting in her way. In the show, she did end up in a relationship with Kid Flash after he spent his whole introductionary episode getting in her way and messing with her.

* OminousMessageFromTheFuture: After Starfire's trip into the BadFuture depicted in the "How Long Is Forever?" episode, Nightwing sends her back with a letter to the present-day Robin, warning of some unspecified incident involving Jade that caused the Titans (already unstable following Starfire's disappearance) to fall apart completely. While the letter doesn't give details, Nightwing does imply that there's a moral quandary involved, and implores Robin to do the right thing. Initially, Robin thought the message referred to the "Star Chan" debacle - whether the Titans should leave a brainwashed-through-Starfire's-chi Zhu Chan to remain as she was - until Cyborg pointed out that Starfire would not have been available in Nightwing's timeline, having been sent to the future instead, so whatever he wanted to warn Robin about, it's a different situation that yet has to play out.

* OminousMessageFromTheFuture: After Starfire's trip into the BadFuture depicted in the "How Long Is Forever?" episode, Nightwing sends her back with a letter to the present-day Robin, warning of some unspecified incident involving Jade that caused the Titans (already unstable following Starfire's disappearance) to fall apart completely. While the letter doesn't give details, Nightwing does imply that there's a moral quandary involved, and implores Robin to do the right thing. Initially, Robin thought the message referred to the "Star Chan" debacle - whether the Titans should leave a brainwashed-through-Starfire's-chi Zhu Chan to remain as she was - until Cyborg pointed out that Starfire would not have been available in Nightwing's timeline, so whatever he wanted to warn Robin about, it's a different situation that yet has to play out.

* OminousMessageFromTheFuture: After Starfire's trip into the BadFuture depicted in the "How Long Is Forever?" episode, Nightwing sends her back with a letter to the present-day Robin, warning of some unspecified incident involving Jade that caused the Titans (already unstable following Starfire's disappearance) to fall apart completely. While the letter doesn't give details, Nightwing does imply that there's a moral quandary involved, and implores Robin to do the right thing. Initially, Robin thought the message referred to the "Star Chan" debacle - whether the Titans should leave a brainwashed-through-Starfire's-chi Zhu Chan to remain as she was - until Cyborg pointed out that Starfire would not have been available in Nightwing's timeline, so whatever he wanted to warn Robin about, it's a different situation that may yet play out.

* OminousMessageFromTheFuture: After Starfire's trip into the BadFuture depicted in the "How Long Is Forever?" episode, Nightwing sends her back with a letter to the present-day Robin, warning of some unspecified incident involving Jade that caused the Titans (already unstable following Starfire's disappearance) to fall apart completely. While the letter doesn't give details, Nightwing does imply that there's a moral quandary involved, and implores Robin to do the right thing.

* TheChewToy: Minor HIVE student Evil Dick seems to exist only to get his ass kicked. In his first appearance, he ticks off Gadjo, who puts him in a full body cast. In his second, he's easily removed from the Titans rematch with Super Jinx by Cyborg, who doesn't even remember his name. His third appearance is basically an afterthought to the scene he's in, and you can guess how it works out for him. And while his fourth appearance is a NotSoHarmless moment, he's ''still'' presented as utterly incompetent.

* TheChewToy: Minor HIVE student Evil Dick seems to exist only to get his ass kicked. In his first appearance, he ticks off Gadjo, who puts him in a full body cast. In his second, he's easily removed from the Titans rematch with Super Jinx by Cyborg, who doesn't even remember his name. His third appearance is basically an afterthought to the scene he's in, and you can guess how it works out for him.

* ClothingDamage: During Jade's first fight with the Titans, Robin hits one of the Talismans (presumably the Dragon), which causes an explosive release of energy that -- among other things -- fries most of her clothes.
** This leads Jade to make sure her new costume is fire retardant and otherwise durable, to avoid any repeats of such an event.

* ShearMenace: After [[spoiler: Jade's chi is reunited]], Jinx gives her a pair of scissors that she's magically enhanced as a new weapon.

* SlasherSmile: Due to her now pointy teeth, Jade tends to do this by default. Raven wonders if she's even aware of it.

* StealthHiBye: Jade, naturally, now with the added help of her ability to hide in shadows.

* SummonBiggerFish: When Jade is sent to break Machete out of prison, only for it to turn into a fight with Raven and Starfire, Jade lets [[spoiler: Cinderblock]] out of his cell in order to keep the Titan girls busy.

* TakeThat: Gadjo eating, and badly digesting, the pie containing Mother Mae Eye, reflects how the author despised both the character and her whole episode.

* TemptingFate: [[spoiler:Brother Blood uses the classic "YouAndWhatArmy" line, only for the Oni to summon their Shadowkhan...]]

* WhamEpisode: "Super Jinx!" [[spoiler:It ends with Jade adrift in the Shadow Realm and Tarakudo ready to make his move]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: So far, Jackie and the rest of the JCA gang haven't been seen (except in the interlude, where we see El Toro and the Demon Sorcerers along with the Immortals) at all, and have only been mentioned in passing.
** [[spoiler:Jade's light side has apparently vanished entirely as of chapter 12]].

** When she sets up her magic lab, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking she has some basic supplies and a "needlessly creepy paperweight"]] that she say reminds her of Tarakudo.

** [[spoiler: She stops Evil Dick's machine by pulling the plug]].

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: After the TimeSkip, Evil Dick actually manages to capture Starfire off-screen.

* YouExclamation: Jade's reaction to Beast Boy the first time she runs into him after he hit her with an onion.

** Georgia, the daughter of {{Shazam}}'s ArchEnemy, is another contestant of that same event.

** Susano appears to hate Jade based solely on him being partially divine and her being part Oni.

** Jade lampshades the inconsistency at one point, asking why ''blue'' skin was such a big deal while ''grey'' skin was fine.

* GenreSavvy: Jade, though it hasn't yet been shown as much compared to her counterpart from ''FanFic/QueenOfAllOni'' (due to her comic book knowledge).
** Within ''minutes'' of finding out that the HIVE is a school for villains, she realizes that there has to be a large force of heroes that justifies such a school.
** She also realizes that crossing Brother Blood would NOT be a good idea (he's the headmaster of a school for SUPERVILLAINS, after all, and you would have to be dangerous to get a position like that), which is a major part of the reason she hasn't left the HIVE yet.
** She also realizes that while failure at the HIVE would ''not'' end well, A-listing would probably not be very good either.
** At one point, while the Titans are busy with Gadjo, she just goes and gets the thing they were supposed to steal.
** She's also pretty much the only one (save Raven to a somewhat lesser degree) who feels that something is up with the Master of Games' tournament (but she still goes along with it, since she wants to return home and hoped the prize would help her).
** She sees through Cyborg's "Stone" PaperThinDisguise pretty much instantly, and is surprised that no one ''else'' can see it.
** [[spoiler:After Jade is sent into the Shadow Realm, Jinx believes she's dead. Gadjo knows otherwise]].
** [[spoiler:Jinx is smart enough to recognize that the Queen isn't Jade]].
** [[spoiler:Tarakudo denies the Queen's request to find her light side and rejoin it to her. He explains his decision in universe by saying that the fusion might result in a chaotic good AntiHero]].
** [[spoiler:Gizmo weaponizes the Oni KryptoniteFactor, and joins up with Jinx in fleeing the Oni because he knows that the Queen won't like him]].
** [[spoiler:The Queen is quick to recognize Batman as a threat, even if the Oni Generals don't]].

* GenreSavvy: Jade, though it hasn't yet been shown as much compared to her counterpart from ''FanFic/QueenOfAllOni'' (it's partly due to her past experiences, partly due to her comic book knowledge).

* ShoutOut:
** Jade makes a few references to DC characters via {{Captain Ersatz}}es (to avoid any complications).
** Gizmo at one point mockingly tells Jade to conjure up [[TheWizardOfOz flying monkeys]].
** A flashback to Jade fighting another student in an arena for a private lab space is highly based on a similar scene in ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''.
** There are quite a few references to ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' (the author's a big fan, evidently).
** "[[WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs Well ain't that cute. But it's wrong!]]"
** Jade's conversation with the Queen is based on a similar scene in ''FanFic/{{Kage}}'', another JCA crossover fic.
** When Jade is sent into herself in the tournament, her dark side says to be careful not to hit the mirror frame on the way out, a reference to "Through the Looking Glass".
** The Queen's goal to be free to act on her desires, but with Jade's cunning is similar to the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/QueenOfAllOni'' (by the same author), in which this DOES occur.
*** Tarakudo tries to communicate with Jade in her dreams, only to be stymied by said dreams' weirdness, much like in the same story.
*** [[spoiler:After Jade's TakingTheBullet for Jinx, the Queen takes on a serpentine from in the Shadow Realm, like in the same story (though Tarakudo feels that a cat would fit her better]].
** During Blood's dream of killing all his students, he tells Gadjo that "[[VideoGame/{{Portal}} the pie was a lie]]" before setting him on fire.
** Jade realizing that Mammoth's bright, happy dream is actually a nightmare is taken directly from an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee''.
** [[spoiler:The Queen makes a move that is specifically compared to the symbiote from ComicBook/SpiderMan]].
** Gadjo apparently erased WesternAnimation/PinkyElmyraAndTheBrain from existence.

* TheChewToy: Minor HIVE student Evil Dick seems to exist only to get his ass kicked. In his first appearance, he ticks off Gadjo, who puts him in a full body cast. In his second, he's easily removed from the Titans rematch with Super Jinx by Cyborg, who doesn't even remember his name.

* GenreSavvy: Jade, though it hasn't yet been shown as much compared to her DangerouslyGenreSavvy counterpart from ''FanFic/QueenOfAllOni'' (it's partly due to her past experiences, partly due to her comic book knowledge).

* GuileHero: Jade, just like in canon, is intelligent and cunning (just look at the CuttingTheKnot, GenreSavvy, and SummonBiggerFish tropes on this page). At one point, when Gadjo -- who had ''no'' plan, only wanting to fight the Titans -- is telling them about the way he thinks relationships work, she just goes and steals the artifact they were after.

* {{Cthulhumanoid}}: One briefly cameos in a video as one of Gadjo's previous employers. He apparently tried to summon an EldritchAbomination (presumably the [[CthulhuMythos big C]] himself), but was killed by Gadjo when the latter realized this would [[ItMakesSenseInContext mean no more pies]].

* HannibalHasAPoint: After the JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind mentioned below, Jade is forced to admit that the Queen has a point or two in regards to how much she's changed (like eating metal and wood, preferring less light, etc.), and decides to step up her game (as she refuses to accept the changes the Queen has in mind, even if she admits to them).