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* ShowWithinAShow: Madison and Dennis bond over a book series called 'Seventh Reach' early on. The books stay in the background for the most part, to the extent that no information about the series beyond its title is revealed to the audience until 15.5 when Dennis complains that the film adaptation's casting choices are completely unfaithful to the original work.
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* ShowWithinAShow: Madison and Dennis bond over a book series called 'Seventh Reach' ''Seventh Reach'' early on. The books stay in the background for the most part, to the extent that no information about the series beyond its title is revealed to the audience until 15.5 when Dennis complains that the film adaptation's casting choices are completely unfaithful to the original work.
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* ShowWithinAShow: Madison and Dennis bond over a book series called *Seventh Reach* 'Seventh Reach' early on. The books stay in the background for the most part, to the extent that no information about the series beyond its title is revealed to the audience until 15.5 when Dennis complains that the film adaptation's casting choices are completely unfaithful to the original work.
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* MindRape: Dinah does this to Emma during the latter's Interlude- see MyGodWhatHaveIDone below.
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* MindRape: Dinah does this to Emma during the latter's Interlude- see MyGodWhatHaveIDone below. More specifically she's shown video footage of all the times she and Taylor hung out and were sickeningly close, than she's bombarded with memories of how she was cruel, before being relentlessly questioned on who is really her best friend. Emma completely breaks down crying when she realizes her action.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Emma experiences this after Dinah forces her to relive the times she was Taylor's best friend, juxtaposed with her crimes, before forcing her to face what she's done. It leads to Emma's trigger event and the kick-off of her CharacterDevelopment.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Emma experiences this after Dinah forces her to relive the times she was Taylor's best friend, friend (including video footage of Taylor promising to give Emma her eyes if needed because "you're my best friend", juxtaposed with her crimes, before forcing her to face what she's done. It leads to Emma's trigger event and the kick-off of her CharacterDevelopment.
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**[[spoiler:For everyone but Glastig Uaine, getting out requires crazy Tinker shenanigans or a hyperspecialized power. The Fairie Queen just waltzes in and out as if it was her house.]]
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A [[{{Literature/Worm}} Worm]] fanfic by Cerulean. Can be found [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/atonement-worm-au.312449/ here]]
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A [[{{Literature/Worm}} Worm]] fanfic by Cerulean. Can be found [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/atonement-worm-au.312449/ here]]
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As Atonement is a fast-moving fanfiction with a lot of content and plenty of [[WhamEpisode WhamEpisodes]], most, if not all spoilers below are unmarked. YouHaveBeenWarned.
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As Atonement is a fast-moving fanfiction with a lot of content and plenty of [[WhamEpisode WhamEpisodes]], Wham Episodes]], most, if not all spoilers below are unmarked. YouHaveBeenWarned.
* AscendedExtra:
** Madison was an extremely minor character in the original story, having little-to-no characterization aside of being a NumberTwo to Emma and Sophia.
** Rune was a largely one-off villain and member of E88, while here she not only has an actual name (Cassie Herren), but she gets to make a HeelFaceTurn and join the Wards.
** Calling Laserdream/Crystal a major character would be stretching it, but she definitely puts in a lot more appearances then in ''Worm'', and actually gets some characterization as New Wave's OnlySaneMan.
** Madison was an extremely minor character in the original story, having little-to-no characterization aside of being a NumberTwo to Emma and Sophia.
** Rune was a largely one-off villain and member of E88, while here she not only has an actual name (Cassie Herren), but she gets to make a HeelFaceTurn and join the Wards.
** Calling Laserdream/Crystal a major character would be stretching it, but she definitely puts in a lot more appearances then in ''Worm'', and actually gets some characterization as New Wave's OnlySaneMan.
* HumanoidAbomination: Pandora is technically human (albeit an [[CloningBlues Echidna clone]]), but she definitely has aspects of this trope, as her VoluntaryShapeshifting abilities, BlueAndOrangeMorality, and [[NoSocialSkills utter lack of social capability]] definitely make her act like this, at least until CharacterDevelopment makes her a little more human.
* TakingUpTheMantle: [[spoiler: In a meta sense, Emma does this- she inherits Taylor's Administrator shard at the same time she admits to being responsible for Taylor's death and all the other crap she put her through, essentially ''becoming'' Taylor.]]
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** Madison and Cassie [[DiscussedTrope discuss this trope]] when they're interrogating a Slaughterhouse Nine cultist. Cassie asks why they can't just kill them (To be fair, the cultists as a whole are established as being utter bastards, while Madison responds that ''not'' killing the villains is what makes them better than said villains.
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** Madison and Cassie [[DiscussedTrope discuss this trope]] when they're interrogating a Slaughterhouse Nine cultist. Cassie asks why they can't just kill them (To be fair, the cultists as a whole are established as being utter bastards, bastards), while Madison responds that ''not'' killing the villains is what makes them better than said villains. villains.
* ToThePain: How [[spoiler: Amy]] kills [[spoiler: Crawler]]. Observe:
--> "Through the next several seconds, [[spoiler: Crawler's]] body literally attacked itself. His claws retracted backwards into his paws, shattering once they were inside. His spine tore itself apart in more than a dozen places, ripping downwards and into his internal organs, which themselves were liquefying. His armored skin grew soft before melting as parts of it were converted to be acidic on the inside. Every pain receptor that he had was flipped on and turned as high as possible, shoving the beast into a state of agony that even his pain resistance and love of what little could harm him couldn't have prepared him for. Parts of his skull tore inward to rip through his brain, slicing and paring away bits of it away like ice in a blender. Reaching deeper, the monster's very cells began to attack each other under [[spoiler: Amy's]] direction. His body tore itself apart right down to the molecular level, as she ordered every part of his biology to '''kill''' everything else around it."
* ToThePain: How [[spoiler: Amy]] kills [[spoiler: Crawler]]. Observe:
--> "Through the next several seconds, [[spoiler: Crawler's]] body literally attacked itself. His claws retracted backwards into his paws, shattering once they were inside. His spine tore itself apart in more than a dozen places, ripping downwards and into his internal organs, which themselves were liquefying. His armored skin grew soft before melting as parts of it were converted to be acidic on the inside. Every pain receptor that he had was flipped on and turned as high as possible, shoving the beast into a state of agony that even his pain resistance and love of what little could harm him couldn't have prepared him for. Parts of his skull tore inward to rip through his brain, slicing and paring away bits of it away like ice in a blender. Reaching deeper, the monster's very cells began to attack each other under [[spoiler: Amy's]] direction. His body tore itself apart right down to the molecular level, as she ordered every part of his biology to '''kill''' everything else around it."
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** Madison and Cassie [[DiscussedTrope discuss this trope]] when they're interrogating a Slaughterhouse Nine cultist. Cassie asks why they can't just kill them (To be fair, the cultists as a whole are established as being [[CompleteMonster Complete Monsters]]), while Madison responds that ''not'' killing the villains is what makes them better than said villains.
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** Madison and Cassie [[DiscussedTrope discuss this trope]] when they're interrogating a Slaughterhouse Nine cultist. Cassie asks why they can't just kill them (To be fair, the cultists as a whole are established as being [[CompleteMonster Complete Monsters]]), utter bastards, while Madison responds that ''not'' killing the villains is what makes them better than said villains.
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Pandora]] manages to pull this, more than once.
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* BigDamnHeroes: BigDamnHeroes:
** During the Leviathan fight, Madison comes ''very'' close to getting squashed by Leviathan after she pisses him off enough, only for a Pandora who's recently acquired the power of {{Flight}} to swoop in ([[IncrediblyLamePun har har]]) and save her.
** The Brockton Bay Wards as a whole pull this off to save the pinned-down Maine Wards during the Anubis fight.
** When Tether and Reach are cornered by [[spoiler:Pandora]] manages to pull this, more than once.Horde's]] minions in Arc 27, [[spoiler: Ruin appears out of nowhere and kills Horde, saving both girls in the process.]]
** During the Leviathan fight, Madison comes ''very'' close to getting squashed by Leviathan after she pisses him off enough, only for a Pandora who's recently acquired the power of {{Flight}} to swoop in ([[IncrediblyLamePun har har]]) and save her.
** The Brockton Bay Wards as a whole pull this off to save the pinned-down Maine Wards during the Anubis fight.
** When Tether and Reach are cornered by [[spoiler:
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** Later on, [[spoiler: Jack Slash]] tries to perform a combined one on Madison, Dinah, and Riley by confronting them with their past mistakes [[spoiler: and having Hatchet Face kill two of the Pandora's,]] but all three resist him in one of the series' most impressive AwesomeMoments.
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** Later on, [[spoiler: Jack Slash]] tries to perform a combined one on Madison, Dinah, and Riley by confronting them with their past mistakes [[spoiler: and having Hatchet Face kill two of the Pandora's,]] but all three manage to resist him in one of the series' most impressive AwesomeMoments.him.
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* TheCavalry: [[spoiler: Pandora, the walking Cavalry]].
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* TheCavalry: Pandora is a fan of this trope, since her [[SendInTheClones small army of clones]] and shared HiveMind means she can be in lots of different places at once. [[spoiler: Pandora, the walking Cavalry]].Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work out during Arc 25, which gets Pandora-Eta and Pandora-Rho KilledOffForReal by Hatchet Face.]]
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** Amy moves out from under her sister's shadow, [[GrewASpine grows a spine]], and drifts away from her pointless ActualPacifist tendencies to become a much more useful CombatMedic.
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** Madison stands up to Sophia and Emma and grows out of her shallow popular-girl tendencies- most notably, when she stops disregarding Missy and Mika's opinions just because the latter two are younger.
** Victoria loses some of her infamous HairTriggerTemper, loses her BlackAndWhiteMorality, and manages to become a surprisingly competent leader for the Brockton Bay Wards- [[spoiler: Unfortunately, she's KilledOffForReal by Anubis shortly after she manages to achieve all of this.]]
** Cassie manages to outgrow her racist upbringing, stop being such an asshole for no legitimate reason, and learn to trust and work with others. She remains a DeadpanSnarker, though.
** Amy moves out from under her sister's shadow, [[GrewASpine grows a spine]], and drifts away from her pointless ActualPacifist tendencies to become a much more usefulCombatMedic. CombatMedic.
** Theo stops being a ShrinkingViolet ExtremeDoormat, becomes a lot more assertive and out-spoken, and develops from a pudgy out-of-shape kid into a competent GadgeteerGenius who's more muscle than fat.
** Victoria loses some of her infamous HairTriggerTemper, loses her BlackAndWhiteMorality, and manages to become a surprisingly competent leader for the Brockton Bay Wards- [[spoiler: Unfortunately, she's KilledOffForReal by Anubis shortly after she manages to achieve all of this.]]
** Cassie manages to outgrow her racist upbringing, stop being such an asshole for no legitimate reason, and learn to trust and work with others. She remains a DeadpanSnarker, though.
** Amy moves out from under her sister's shadow, [[GrewASpine grows a spine]], and drifts away from her pointless ActualPacifist tendencies to become a much more useful
** Theo stops being a ShrinkingViolet ExtremeDoormat, becomes a lot more assertive and out-spoken, and develops from a pudgy out-of-shape kid into a competent GadgeteerGenius who's more muscle than fat.
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* ExpendableClone: [[spoiler: Pandora's clones, while not as expendable as most examples of this trope, still fit.]] [[spoiler:Until they don't]]
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* ExpendableClone: [[spoiler: Pandora's clones, while not as expendable as most examples of clones start out this trope, still fit.]] [[spoiler:Until way, since she can just reform them with spare biological matter- then Pandora-Prime, master of her HiveMind, is killed off, which removes the "Expendable" part of it, as it prevents the remaining Pandoras from creating any more bodies- and if any existing ones are KilledOffForReal, they don't]]stay that way. [[spoiler: Which is exactly what happens to Pandora-Eta and Pandora-Rho in Arc 27, courtesy of Hatchet Face.]]
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* HyperAwareness: Tether has a form of this. It lets her see when others are in danger.
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* HyperAwareness: Tether has a form of this. It lets her see when others are in danger.danger, but not herself.
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* MindRape: Dinah does this to Emma- see MyGodWhatHaveIDone below.
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* MindRape: Dinah does this to Emma- Emma during the latter's Interlude- see MyGodWhatHaveIDone below.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler: Pandora won't kill innocents or anyone Dinah asks her not to kill. Villains and serious criminals, on the other hand, she kills without hesitation.]]
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler: Pandora won't kill innocents or anyone Dinah (and, on occasion, Madison) asks her not to kill. Villains and serious criminals, on the other hand, she kills without hesitation.]]
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* ShoutOut: Many shout-outs to Spiderman.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Many shout-outs toSpiderman.''Spiderman'', thanks to Madison's very similar powers. Commentators on the fic haven't ignored said similarities.
** For just about any scene [[RobotBuddy Jalopy]] is in, you can expect him to start playing a well-known song custom-fit for the occasion- anything from "Love is a Battlefield" by Pat Benatar (Making friends with Jess) to "Another One Bites The Dust" by Queen (Kicking the crap out of the ''very'' unfortunate VillainOfTheWeek).
** As the FinalBattle with [[spoiler: Jack Slash]] is about to begin, Madison initiates by [[DynamicEntry blowing down the doors to the room he's in with her power]] and shouting [[Series/ILoveLucy "Luuucy! You got some 'splainin to do!"]]
** Many shout-outs to
** For just about any scene [[RobotBuddy Jalopy]] is in, you can expect him to start playing a well-known song custom-fit for the occasion- anything from "Love is a Battlefield" by Pat Benatar (Making friends with Jess) to "Another One Bites The Dust" by Queen (Kicking the crap out of the ''very'' unfortunate VillainOfTheWeek).
** As the FinalBattle with [[spoiler: Jack Slash]] is about to begin, Madison initiates by [[DynamicEntry blowing down the doors to the room he's in with her power]] and shouting [[Series/ILoveLucy "Luuucy! You got some 'splainin to do!"]]
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* SuperPowerLottery: [[spoiler: Pandora]] gets herself a very nice superpower, including [[spoiler: the ability to take the powers of others into her hivemind]].
* ThouShaltNotKill: [[spoiler: Pandora, as part of a truce agreement, agrees not to kill innocents.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: Pandora. Her very existence, while revealed fairly early, spoils a large chunk of the early story. The same goes for Defiant, whose identity is not revealed until fairly late.]]
* ThouShaltNotKill: [[spoiler: Pandora, as part of a truce agreement, agrees not to kill innocents.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: Pandora. Her very existence, while revealed fairly early, spoils a large chunk of the early story. The same goes for Defiant, whose identity is not revealed until fairly late.]]
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* SuperPowerLottery: SuperPowerLottery:
** Pandora gets VoluntaryShapeshifting cranked up to its LogicalExtreme [[UpToEleven and then some]], an extremely strong HealingFactor that allows her to walk off any wound short of BoomHeadshot, [[MesACrowd self-cloning]], PowerCopying, SuperStrength, and a slew of miscellaneous minor abilities and RequiredSecondaryPowers.
** Aisha is a borderline case- her [[TheParalyzer paralyzing touch]] can be removed simply by touching the victim, but other than that, there's no way of removing it, and it lasts indefinitely otherwise, and unlike Dennis' similar ability, it doesn't make the target NighInvulnerable for the duration, which bites Leviathan in the ass when Aisha gets the bright idea of using it on ''him''. [[spoiler:Pandora]] gets herself a very nice superpower, including [[spoiler: Aisha wins the lottery full-scale when she second-triggers, retaining her freezing power while also gaining the ability to take assume the forms and powers of others into capes who have died since she's used her hivemind]].
* ThouShaltNotKill: [[spoiler: Pandora, as part of a truce agreement, agrees not to kill innocents.power on them.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: ** Emma inherits [[spoiler: Pandora. Her very existence, Taylor's administrator shard, except she [[{{Technopath}} controls machines]] instead of insects.]] If you've read ''Worm'' in its entirety, that alone should tell you how powerful she is, and Madison happily refers to Emma's power as "complete BS."
* {{Technopath}}: Emma's power. [[spoiler: It's actually the Administrator shard inherited from Taylor, and includes the MultiArmedMultitasking and SuperReflexes that were part of the original bundle.]]
* ThouShaltNotKill: As part of a peace agreement with Dinah, Pandora refuses to kill innocents.
** Madison and Cassie [[DiscussedTrope discuss this trope]] when they're interrogating a Slaughterhouse Nine cultist. Cassie asks why they can't just kill them (To be fair, the cultists as a whole are established as being [[CompleteMonster Complete Monsters]]), while Madison responds that ''not'' killing the villains is what makes them better than said villains.
* WalkingSpoiler:
** At her introduction, Pandora spoils a lot of what's been going down for the fic's first few arcs, and details about her continue to serve as spoilers for quite a few arcs to come. [[spoiler: Then it's revealedfairly early, spoils a large chunk that Pandora-Prime is still alive, and has gained none of the early story. The same goes for Defiant, whose identity is not revealed morality and/or conscience of any of her clones.]]
** Defiant as well, to the point that untilfairly late.]]recently every single detail about him was covered by spoiler tape.
** Pandora gets VoluntaryShapeshifting cranked up to its LogicalExtreme [[UpToEleven and then some]], an extremely strong HealingFactor that allows her to walk off any wound short of BoomHeadshot, [[MesACrowd self-cloning]], PowerCopying, SuperStrength, and a slew of miscellaneous minor abilities and RequiredSecondaryPowers.
** Aisha is a borderline case- her [[TheParalyzer paralyzing touch]] can be removed simply by touching the victim, but other than that, there's no way of removing it, and it lasts indefinitely otherwise, and unlike Dennis' similar ability, it doesn't make the target NighInvulnerable for the duration, which bites Leviathan in the ass when Aisha gets the bright idea of using it on ''him''. [[spoiler:
* ThouShaltNotKill: [[spoiler: Pandora, as part of a truce agreement, agrees not to kill innocents.
* {{Technopath}}: Emma's power. [[spoiler: It's actually the Administrator shard inherited from Taylor, and includes the MultiArmedMultitasking and SuperReflexes that were part of the original bundle.]]
* ThouShaltNotKill: As part of a peace agreement with Dinah, Pandora refuses to kill innocents.
** Madison and Cassie [[DiscussedTrope discuss this trope]] when they're interrogating a Slaughterhouse Nine cultist. Cassie asks why they can't just kill them (To be fair, the cultists as a whole are established as being [[CompleteMonster Complete Monsters]]), while Madison responds that ''not'' killing the villains is what makes them better than said villains.
* WalkingSpoiler:
** At her introduction, Pandora spoils a lot of what's been going down for the fic's first few arcs, and details about her continue to serve as spoilers for quite a few arcs to come. [[spoiler: Then it's revealed
** Defiant as well, to the point that until
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In an AlternateUniverse of ''Worm'', the locker prank goes a little too far, and Taylor dies in the locker, leaving from a heart attack. Wracked with guilt, Madison wracked falls out with guilt. Newly triggered, Sophia and Emma, and triggers with MindOverMatter powers and a DangerSense. Calling herself Tether, she seeks a way sets out as an independent hero before ultimately joining the Wards, determined to atone make up for her crime- to become past mistakes.
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* AffectionateNickname:
** Madison's parents and Marissa all call her "Mads". Ethan calls her "Ewok", and Madison returns the favor for Marissa with "Mars".
** Dinah and Riley call Pandora "Panda", the justification for which being that it makes her feel more human. Emma and Amy also start calling her this after CharacterDevelopment.
** Madison's parents and Marissa all call her "Mads". Ethan calls her "Ewok", and Madison returns the favor for Marissa with "Mars".
** Dinah and Riley call Pandora "Panda", the justification for which being that it makes her feel more human. Emma and Amy also start calling her this after CharacterDevelopment.
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* AndIMustScream: Shadow Stalker/Sophia ends up subject to this, courtesy of a bomb made by Bakuda and surgically implanted in her head by Coil. [[spoiler: This also happens to Browbeat, courtesy of Regent's PeoplePuppets ability- fortunately, he's set free when the latter is killed by Leviathan]].
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* AlternateUniverse: ''Atonement'' is primarily a WhatIf fanfic, but this trope also pops up from time to time.
** Madison, Emma and Danny are parahumans.
** Aisha and Theo trigger earlier, and with different powers. [[spoiler: Aisha also gets a second trigger later on.]]
** Noelle's cloning powers are used by Coil twice in the early story, resulting in the creation of Pandora and Defiant.
** The fourth Endbringer appears a lot earlier, and rather than Khonsu, it's an original one, codename Anubis, who radiates a fear aura and can AnimateDead.
** Cherish never joins the Slaughterhouse Nine, but Valefor and original character Horde do.
** Kaiser [[spoiler: had an illegitimate daughter no one knows about, who goes on the become the supervillain Clepsydra.]]
* AndIMustScream: Shadow Stalker/Sophia ends up subject to this, courtesy of a bomb made by Bakuda and surgically implanted in her head by Coil.[[spoiler: This also happens to Browbeat, courtesy of Regent's PeoplePuppets ability- fortunately, he's set free when the latter is killed by Leviathan]].Leviathan.
** Madison, Emma and Danny are parahumans.
** Aisha and Theo trigger earlier, and with different powers. [[spoiler: Aisha also gets a second trigger later on.]]
** Noelle's cloning powers are used by Coil twice in the early story, resulting in the creation of Pandora and Defiant.
** The fourth Endbringer appears a lot earlier, and rather than Khonsu, it's an original one, codename Anubis, who radiates a fear aura and can AnimateDead.
** Cherish never joins the Slaughterhouse Nine, but Valefor and original character Horde do.
** Kaiser [[spoiler: had an illegitimate daughter no one knows about, who goes on the become the supervillain Clepsydra.]]
* AndIMustScream: Shadow Stalker/Sophia ends up subject to this, courtesy of a bomb made by Bakuda and surgically implanted in her head by Coil.
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** Ruin thinks she's this. No one but her thinks she has anything to atone for.
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** Ruin Ruin/Hunter thinks she's this. No one but her thinks she has anything to atone for.for.
** After triggering and coming to terms with the things she's done, Emma becomes this, trying her hardest to help out Dinah and see her plan for the future to completion.
** After triggering and coming to terms with the things she's done, Emma becomes this, trying her hardest to help out Dinah and see her plan for the future to completion.
* BattleCouple: Madison and Marissa, Cassie and Theo, Sam and Ethan, Carlos and Mariko, Dennis and Hunter ([[UnresolvedSexualTension sorta]]).
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* BreakTheCutie: Many have tried, but Tether remains unbroken.
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* BreakTheCutie: Many have tried, BreakTheCutie:
** Coil tries to do this to Madison by blackmailing Sophia into killing Mads' parents, butTether remains unbroken.all it does is [[NiceJobFixingItVillain get Madison angry enough to come after and take him down]].
** Later on, [[spoiler: Jack Slash]] tries to perform a combined one on Madison, Dinah, and Riley by confronting them with their past mistakes [[spoiler: and having Hatchet Face kill two of the Pandora's,]] but all three resist him in one of the series' most impressive AwesomeMoments.
** Coil tries to do this to Madison by blackmailing Sophia into killing Mads' parents, but
** Later on, [[spoiler: Jack Slash]] tries to perform a combined one on Madison, Dinah, and Riley by confronting them with their past mistakes [[spoiler: and having Hatchet Face kill two of the Pandora's,]] but all three resist him in one of the series' most impressive AwesomeMoments.
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* CheapCostume: Tether starts out with a costume she put together out of her closet.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Defiant]].
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** Amy moves out from under her sister's shadow, [[GrewASpine grows a spine]], and drifts away from her pointless ActualPacifist tendencies to become a much more useful CombatMedic.
* CheapCostume: Tether starts out with a costume she put together out of hercloset.
closet. She eventually earns an actual costume after joining the Wards.
* ChekhovsGunman: Defiant starts out as a minor character who's mentioned to be a low-level Tinker and independent hero in Brockton Bay. Turns out he's actually a clone of Trickster, and all the alleged "hero" work he's been doing is setting up events for [[spoiler:Defiant]].[[TheManBehindTheMan Teacher]] to escape from the Birdcage.]]
* CheapCostume: Tether starts out with a costume she put together out of her
* ChekhovsGunman: Defiant starts out as a minor character who's mentioned to be a low-level Tinker and independent hero in Brockton Bay. Turns out he's actually a clone of Trickster, and all the alleged "hero" work he's been doing is setting up events for [[spoiler:
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* CloningBlues: [[spoiler: Defiant]].
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* CloningBlues: Poor, poor Defiant. He desperately wants to be his own person, but the brain conditioning that comes with being one of Echidna's clones causes him to do some nasty (not to mention [[AxCrazy crazy]]) things.
** Pandora [[ZigzaggedTrope zigzags]] this trope. She's able to avoid going crazy by using her [[TheAssimilator brain-absorbing]] ability to rewrite her mind and erase the conditioning, but in the process loses nearly all social function and gains a good deal of BlueAndOrangeMorality. She's working on this, but still struggles to function socially.
* CombatMedic: Panacea starts out as a straight {{Medic}}, much like in canon, but CharacterDevelopment eventually makes her into this, most notably when she [[spoiler:Defiant]].converts the sweat on an ABB goon who's holding her hostage into sleeping gas to knock out his buddies and buy some time for the Wards in Arc 21]], and when she [[spoiler: ''kills Crawler'' by reversing his AdaptiveAbility to attack his own body in Arc 26.]]
** Pandora [[ZigzaggedTrope zigzags]] this trope. She's able to avoid going crazy by using her [[TheAssimilator brain-absorbing]] ability to rewrite her mind and erase the conditioning, but in the process loses nearly all social function and gains a good deal of BlueAndOrangeMorality. She's working on this, but still struggles to function socially.
* CombatMedic: Panacea starts out as a straight {{Medic}}, much like in canon, but CharacterDevelopment eventually makes her into this, most notably when she [[spoiler:
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* CuteAndPsycho: Bonesaw, even moreso than in canon- it's helped along by the fact that the readers see her experiments in a lot more detail that in canon, and [[{{Narrator Madison]] is a lot more squeamish than Taylor. Riley gradually outgrows this trope with the power of CharacterDevelopment as time passes.
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* CuteAndPsycho: Bonesaw, even moreso than in canon- it's helped along by the fact that the readers see her experiments in a lot more detail that in canon, and [[{{Narrator [[TheNarrator Madison]] is a lot more squeamish than Taylor. Riley gradually outgrows this trope with the power of CharacterDevelopment as time passes.
* CursedWithAwesome: Ruin's power. Her voice creates a WaveMotionGun whenever she so much as produces a whisper, and she has no control over it. In fact, her trigger event [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone killed an entire mall full of people, including her mother]]. She's underwent training courtesy of Glaistig Uaine to minimize any possible noise she might create, but still struggles from a great deal of angst over her condition.
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* GraveMarkingScene: Madison often visits Taylor's grave.
* GroinAttack: Tether is capable of making people do this to themselves.
* HeelFaceTurn: Tether is fond of convincing people to pull these. [[spoiler: As is Dinah]]. She has a pretty good success rate too. [[spoiler: It is currently being implied that this may in fact be one of her powers]].
* HeroicSacrifice: By [[spoiler: Pandora. Of course, her power makes it less of a sacrifice than it would be for most, and lets her do it more than once.]]
* HiveMind: [[spoiler: Pandora operates as one.]]
* GroinAttack: Tether is capable of making people do this to themselves.
* HeelFaceTurn: Tether is fond of convincing people to pull these. [[spoiler: As is Dinah]]. She has a pretty good success rate too. [[spoiler: It is currently being implied that this may in fact be one of her powers]].
* HeroicSacrifice: By [[spoiler: Pandora. Of course, her power makes it less of a sacrifice than it would be for most, and lets her do it more than once.]]
* HiveMind: [[spoiler: Pandora operates as one.]]
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* FightsLikeANormal: Ruin's power is potentially [[StoryBreakerPower story-breaking]] when used right, but she hates using it unless it's absolutely necessary. Even without it, she's still an incredibly capable fighter- during the Birdcage riot, Madison notices her taking down a fellow Birdcage inmate with nothing but her feet and fists.
* GoodCostumeSwitch: Kayden switches from her WomanInWhite attire to a green getup after becoming Penance. Cassie initially keeps her robes (minus the swastikas) after she joins the Wards, but eventually takes to wearing a faux-SpyCatsuit.
* GraveMarkingScene: Madison often visits Taylor'sgrave.
grave, not unlike Taylor's visits to her own mother's grave in ''Worm''. Madison also starts visiting her parents' graves after they're killed during the Leviathan attack.
* GroinAttack: Tetheris capable of making people do does this to themselves.
an unfortunate ABB goon during her first night out in costume, by [[MindOverMatter attaching a line]] between a ring he's wearing and his crotch, and tugging.
* HeelFaceTurn: Tether is fond of convincing people to pullthese. [[spoiler: As these, as is Dinah]]. She Dinah. Tether has a pretty good success rate too. rate, too, [[spoiler: It is currently being implied and Glaistig Uaine has dropped hints that this may in fact be one of her powers]].
*HeroicSacrifice: By [[spoiler: Pandora. Of course, her power makes it less of a sacrifice than it would be for most, and lets her do it more than once.]]
*HiveMind: [[spoiler: Pandora operates on one- initially. After Pandora-Prime is killed off by Ballistic in Arc 5, the various Pandoras remain able to communicate telepathically and share feelings and emotions, but no longer act and think as one.]]one person, and start diversifying into individual personalities and appearances.
* GoodCostumeSwitch: Kayden switches from her WomanInWhite attire to a green getup after becoming Penance. Cassie initially keeps her robes (minus the swastikas) after she joins the Wards, but eventually takes to wearing a faux-SpyCatsuit.
* GraveMarkingScene: Madison often visits Taylor's
* GroinAttack: Tether
* HeelFaceTurn: Tether is fond of convincing people to pull
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The villains Tether manages to convert]] have so far been getting off pretty light given their past attrocities.
* KickTheDog: Coil manages to pull one off even worse than what he did in canon.
* KickTheDog: Coil manages to pull one off even worse than what he did in canon.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The ZigZagged by the villains Tether manages to convert]] have so far been getting converts. Examples:
** Purity/Kayden and Rune/Cassie both get off prettylight given their past attrocities.
lightly, considering they're formerly members of [[ThoseWackyNazis Empire Eighty-Eight]], but Kayden ''did'' help the Protectorate stop Coil, and Cassie is still just a teenager.
** Riley [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs this trope]]. Many people want her to reform for her actions as Bonesaw, despite all the good she's been doing after her HeelFaceTurn, and she suffers from a lot of angst over it. [[spoiler: Most of the criticism goes away after she helps Madison kill Jack Slash, but it never fades entirely.]]
** PlayedStraight by Emma and Sophia, who never actually face any punishment for accidentally killing Taylor- Madison at least gets a good deal of community service as punishment. It's later ZigZagged by Emma later on, who feels utterly worthless for what she's done (and still suffers from crippling self-esteem issues as a result even many story arcs later) but never actually gets any corporeal punishment.
* KickTheDog: Coil manages to pull one off even worse than what he did incanon.canon, by using Shadow Stalker to kill Madison's parents, as well as using a BrainwashedAndCrazy Browbeat to frame Danny for being Coil, even after all the things Danny has gone through.
** Purity/Kayden and Rune/Cassie both get off pretty
** Riley [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs this trope]]. Many people want her to reform for her actions as Bonesaw, despite all the good she's been doing after her HeelFaceTurn, and she suffers from a lot of angst over it. [[spoiler: Most of the criticism goes away after she helps Madison kill Jack Slash, but it never fades entirely.]]
** PlayedStraight by Emma and Sophia, who never actually face any punishment for accidentally killing Taylor- Madison at least gets a good deal of community service as punishment. It's later ZigZagged by Emma later on, who feels utterly worthless for what she's done (and still suffers from crippling self-esteem issues as a result even many story arcs later) but never actually gets any corporeal punishment.
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* MindRape: Dinah does this to Emma.Emma- see MyGodWhatHaveIDone below.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Emma experiences this after Dinah forces her to relive the times she was Taylors best friend, juxtaposed with her crimes, before forcing her to face what she's done.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Emma experiences this after Dinah forces her to relive the times she was Taylors Taylor's best friend, juxtaposed with her crimes, before forcing her to face what she's done.done. It leads to Emma's trigger event and the kick-off of her CharacterDevelopment.
* TheNapoleon: Call Madison short, and you'll be ''lucky'' if the only payback is a MegatonPunch.
* TheNapoleon: Call Madison short, and you'll be ''lucky'' if the only payback is a MegatonPunch.
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* OddFriendship: Tether and [[spoiler: Pandora]].
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* OddFriendship: Tether Pretty much anyone who's friends with [[HumanoidAbomination Pandora]], at least until she starts becoming more human and [[spoiler: Pandora]].friendly.
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* OpeningACanOfClones: Several Noelle Clones are prominent characters, including [[spoiler: Pandora And Defiant.]]
* OutGambitted: Tether out-gambits [[spoiler: Coil in a magnificent way]].
* PatrickStewartSpeech: Tether.
* OutGambitted: Tether out-gambits [[spoiler: Coil in a magnificent way]].
* PatrickStewartSpeech: Tether.
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* OpeningACanOfClones: Several Noelle Clones are prominent characters, including [[spoiler: Pandora And Defiant.]]
Defiant.
* OutGambitted:Tether An EnemyMine between Tether, Purity, the Undersiders and the Travelers out-gambits [[spoiler: Coil in a magnificent way]].
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* PatrickStewartSpeech:Tether.Tether has a tendency to give these to capes [[TheAtoner she's trying to reform]].
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* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler: Tether and Sundancer.]]
* SadisticChoice: Tether gets one when forced to choose between [[spoiler: Letting a block worth of people die or going to the Birdcage.]]
* SadisticChoice: Tether gets one when forced to choose between [[spoiler: Letting a block worth of people die or going to the Birdcage.]]
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* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler: Tether and Sundancer.]]
Sundancer in Arc 9.
* SadisticChoice:Tether The villains of the story ''love'' to put Madison through these.
** In Arc 7, when he gets tired of her saving all of the capes fighting him, Leviathan forces Madison into onewhen forced of these, requiring her to choose between [[spoiler: Letting saving a block group of civilians (which include her parents) that are trapped in a flooding shelter, or protecting a group of unsuspecting heroes (which include her best friend and girlfriend) that Leviathan is about to attack. Fortunately, Pandora [[TakeAThirdOption makes the choice for her]] by executing a BigDamnHeroes and saving the civilians while Madison protects the capes.
** In Arc 12, Defiant hits Madison with one, forcing her to choose between going into the Birdcage or allowing the explosive device he's rigged up to destroy a city block's worth ofpeople die or going people. Madison chooses to go the Birdcage.]]Birdcage, though she's able to get out thanks to Emma's intervention in the following arc.
* SadisticChoice:
** In Arc 7, when he gets tired of her saving all of the capes fighting him, Leviathan forces Madison into one
** In Arc 12, Defiant hits Madison with one, forcing her to choose between going into the Birdcage or allowing the explosive device he's rigged up to destroy a city block's worth of
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* AdultsAreUseless: With few exceptions, the kids drive the story and handle the important things.
* TheAlcatraz: The Birdcage
* AndIMustScream: Shadow Stalker is again subject to this, though from a different source. [[spoiler: Browbeat as well]].
* AssholeVictim: Quite a few of them.
* TheAtoner: A whole lot of them: Madison trying to atone for her role in Taylor's death is the premise.
** [[spoiler: Purity/Penance and Rune/Reach both pull {{HeelFaceTurn}}s and try to atone after the destruction of Empire Eighty-Eight.]]
** [[spoiler: Bonesaw/Riley is currently trying this thanks to Dinah.]]
** [[spoiler: Ruin thinks she's this. No one but her thinks she has anything to atone for.]]
* {{Badass}}: Tether has taken on some very powerful capes and come outon top, quipping all the way.
* BigBad: Coil takes on this role.
* TheAlcatraz: The Birdcage
* AndIMustScream: Shadow Stalker is again subject to this, though from a different source. [[spoiler: Browbeat as well]].
* AssholeVictim: Quite a few of them.
* TheAtoner: A whole lot of them: Madison trying to atone for her role in Taylor's death is the premise.
** [[spoiler: Purity/Penance and Rune/Reach both pull {{HeelFaceTurn}}s and try to atone after the destruction of Empire Eighty-Eight.]]
** [[spoiler: Bonesaw/Riley is currently trying this thanks to Dinah.]]
** [[spoiler: Ruin thinks she's this. No one but her thinks she has anything to atone for.]]
* {{Badass}}: Tether has taken on some very powerful capes and come outon top, quipping all the way.
* BigBad: Coil takes on this role.
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* AdultsAreUseless: With few exceptions, the kids drive the story ActionGirl: As in ''Worm'' canon, it's a WorldOfBadass, with just as many capable girls as men, notable examples including Flechette, Battery, and handle the important things.
* TheAlcatraz: The Birdcage
* AndIMustScream: Shadow Stalker is again subject to this, though fromReach. Madison herself starts out as an ActionSurvivor, but with a different source. little experience (and some BoxingLessonsForSuperman) she graduates into this trope properly, fighting with (and winning against) heavyweights such as Lung and [[spoiler: Browbeat as well]].
* AssholeVictim: Quite a few of them.
* TheAtoner: A whole lot of them: Madison trying to atone for her role in Taylor's death is the premise.
** [[spoiler: Purity/Penance and Rune/Reach both pull {{HeelFaceTurn}}s and try to atone after the destruction of Empire Eighty-Eight.''Jack Slash himself''.]]
* AdultsAreUseless: With few exceptions, the kids drive the story and handle the important things. Madison [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it often.
* TheAlcatraz: The Birdcage, as in canon. [[spoiler: ''Unlike'' in canon, however, a few people can manage to get in and out- namely, Defiant and Glaistig Uaine, and the former even manages to bring a few others with him, albeit accidentally.]]
* AndIMustScream: Shadow Stalker/Sophia ends up subject to this, courtesy of a bomb made by Bakuda and surgically implanted in her head by Coil. [[spoiler: This also happens to Browbeat, courtesy of Regent's PeoplePuppets ability- fortunately, he's set free when the latter is killed by Leviathan]].
* AssholeVictim: Quite a few of them:
** The Merchants as a whole end up subject to this courtesy of Pandora, who systematically wipes them out not long after being "born"- by the mid-teen arcs, they're more-or-less a non-factor in Brockton Bay's crime hierarchy.
** [[spoiler: Marquis]] might have been a NobleDemon and generally a DotingParent to [[spoiler: Amy,]] but there's no denying the fact that he's a terrible person who's committed tons of crimes and killed lots of people, which makes [[spoiler: his death during a fight with Crawler]] somewhat less sad.
* TheAtoner: A whole lot of them- As the title of the fanfic will tell you, it's sorta the CentralTheme. Examples:
** Madison herself trying to atone for her role in Taylor's death is the premise. Most of the other heroes forgive her pretty quickly, given all the good she's done since becoming a hero.
** Purity/Penance and Rune/Reach both pull [[HeelFaceTurn Heel Face Turns]] and try to atone after the destruction of Empire Eighty-Eight. Nowadays, it's almost hard to remember they were ever villains.
** Dinah manages to talk down Bonesaw/Rileyis currently trying into doing this. [[spoiler: By the time the Nine come into town, she's solidly in "hero" territory.]]
** Ruin thinks she's this. No one but her thinks she has anything to atone for.
* {{Badass}}: Tether has taken on some very powerful capes and come out on top, quipping all the way.
* BigBad:
** Coil takes on thisthanks role in the early arcs, until an EnemyMine between the Wards, Travelers, and Undersiders takes him down. [[spoiler: When the Nine attack, he escapes and starts re-building his empire, but has yet to Dinah.make any major moves.]]
** For a while, Defiant plays this role, though he's initially more of a HiddenVillain, and by the time readers see him as he truly is, he's been revealed as TheDragon to [[spoiler:Ruin thinks she's this. No one but her thinks she has anything to atone for.]]
* {{Badass}}: Tether has taken on some very powerful capes and come outon top, quipping all the way.
* BigBad: Coil takes on this role.[[TheManBehindTheMan Teacher]]]].
* TheAlcatraz: The Birdcage
* AndIMustScream: Shadow Stalker is again subject to this, though from
* AssholeVictim: Quite a few of them.
* TheAtoner: A whole lot of them: Madison trying to atone for her role in Taylor's death is the premise.
** [[spoiler: Purity/Penance and Rune/Reach both pull {{HeelFaceTurn}}s and try to atone after the destruction of Empire Eighty-Eight.
* AdultsAreUseless: With few exceptions, the kids drive the story and handle the important things. Madison [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it often.
* TheAlcatraz: The Birdcage, as in canon. [[spoiler: ''Unlike'' in canon, however, a few people can manage to get in and out- namely, Defiant and Glaistig Uaine, and the former even manages to bring a few others with him, albeit accidentally.]]
* AndIMustScream: Shadow Stalker/Sophia ends up subject to this, courtesy of a bomb made by Bakuda and surgically implanted in her head by Coil. [[spoiler: This also happens to Browbeat, courtesy of Regent's PeoplePuppets ability- fortunately, he's set free when the latter is killed by Leviathan]].
* AssholeVictim: Quite a few of them:
** The Merchants as a whole end up subject to this courtesy of Pandora, who systematically wipes them out not long after being "born"- by the mid-teen arcs, they're more-or-less a non-factor in Brockton Bay's crime hierarchy.
** [[spoiler: Marquis]] might have been a NobleDemon and generally a DotingParent to [[spoiler: Amy,]] but there's no denying the fact that he's a terrible person who's committed tons of crimes and killed lots of people, which makes [[spoiler: his death during a fight with Crawler]] somewhat less sad.
* TheAtoner: A whole lot of them- As the title of the fanfic will tell you, it's sorta the CentralTheme. Examples:
** Madison herself trying to atone for her role in Taylor's death is the premise. Most of the other heroes forgive her pretty quickly, given all the good she's done since becoming a hero.
** Purity/Penance and Rune/Reach both pull [[HeelFaceTurn Heel Face Turns]] and try to atone after the destruction of Empire Eighty-Eight. Nowadays, it's almost hard to remember they were ever villains.
** Dinah manages to talk down Bonesaw/Riley
** Ruin thinks she's this. No one but her thinks she has anything to atone for.
* {{Badass}}: Tether has taken on some very powerful capes and come out on top, quipping all the way.
* BigBad:
** Coil takes on this
** For a while, Defiant plays this role, though he's initially more of a HiddenVillain, and by the time readers see him as he truly is, he's been revealed as TheDragon to [[spoiler:
* {{Badass}}: Tether has taken on some very powerful capes and come outon top, quipping all the way.
* BigBad: Coil takes on this role.
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* BreatherEpisode: Several updates consist of little more than characters hanging out and having fun, until things go wrong in the following update.
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* BreatherEpisode: Several updates arcs consist of little more than characters hanging out and having fun, until things go wrong often after a WhamEpisode. [[WordOfGod Cerulean himself]] has stated that he believes in breather arcs like this because they lighten up the following update.tension- the notable lack of breather episodes like these in ''Worm'' itself is one of the series' most common criticisms.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Madison in particular given her quick growth from the person she was in canon, but otehr characters as well.
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* CuteAndPsycho: [[spoiler: Bonesaw, even more so than in canon]].
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* CreepyGood: Going along with CuteAndPsycho below, Bonesaw/Riley starts out as this initially after making her HeelFaceTurn. She gradually ditches the "creepy" part courtesy of CharacterDevelopment, but remains firmly good.
* CuteAndPsycho:[[spoiler: Bonesaw, even more so moreso than in canon]].canon- it's helped along by the fact that the readers see her experiments in a lot more detail that in canon, and [[{{Narrator Madison]] is a lot more squeamish than Taylor. Riley gradually outgrows this trope with the power of CharacterDevelopment as time passes.
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* MindRape: Dinah does this to Emma.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Emma experiences this after Dinah forces her to relive the times she was Taylors best friend, juxtaposed with her crimes, before forcing her to face what she's done.
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** [[Spoiler: Horde has one of these a split-second before she dies as she realises that Ruin just decided to kill her and there is absolutely nothing she can do.]]
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** [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: Horde has one of these a split-second before she dies as she realises that Ruin just decided to kill her and there is absolutely nothing she can do.]]
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** [[spoiler: Ruin vs Horde. Two words, and the Slaughterhouse Nine member dies with no chance to fight back.]]
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** [[Spoiler: Horde has one of these a split-second before she dies as she realises that Ruin just decided to kill her and there is absolutely nothing she can do.]]
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* ExpendableClone: [[spoiler: Pandora's clones, while not as expendable as most examples of this trope, still fit.]]
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* ExpendableClone: [[spoiler: Pandora's clones, while not as expendable as most examples of this trope, still fit.]]]] [[spoiler:Until they don't]]
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A fanfic by Cerulean. Can be found at http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/atonement-worm-au.312449/
Taylor dies in the locker prank and Madison triggers instead.
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A [[{{Literature/Worm}} Worm]] fanfic by Cerulean. Can be found at http://forums.[[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/atonement-worm-au.312449/
312449/ here]]
Taylor dies in thelocker prank and locker, leaving Madison triggers instead.
wracked with guilt. Newly triggered, she seeks a way to atone for her crime- to become a hero and make right.
Taylor dies in the
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* TheCorrupter: Tether inverts this trope, preferring to covert villains to good rather than taking them down. She has a pretty impressive track record.
* CuteandPsycho: [[spoiler: Bonesaw, even more so than in canon]].
* CuteandPsycho: [[spoiler: Bonesaw, even more so than in canon]].
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* TheCorrupter: Tether inverts this trope, preferring to covert convert villains to good rather than taking them down. She has a pretty impressive track record.
*CuteandPsycho: CuteAndPsycho: [[spoiler: Bonesaw, even more so than in canon]].
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* MoodWhiplash: The story switches between {{BreatherEpisode}} and {{WhamEpisode}} with frightening frequency.
* OCStandIn: Madison, although a very wwell executed example.
* OCStandIn: Madison, although a very wwell executed example.
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* MoodWhiplash: The story switches between {{BreatherEpisode}} [[BreatherEpisode Breather Episodes]] and {{WhamEpisode}} [[WhamEpisode Wham Episodes]] with frightening frequency.
* OCStandIn: Madison, although a verywwell well executed example.
* OCStandIn: Madison, although a very
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* WhatAnIdiot: Trickster in general, as usual. More specifically, [[spoiler: making a plan that assumes Genesis is still crippled despite being on a team with Panacea, and also requires kidnapping Pandora.]]
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* MagneticHero: Tether is pretty good at making friends, and even reforms a couple of villains. [[spoiler: Glastig Uaine hints that this is part of Madison's power.]]
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* SternTeacher: [[spoiler: Contessa ends up teaching for Madison's history class, under the name [[RealNameAsAnAlias Ms. Fortune]]. As a teacher, she's strict, but also clearly committed to doing what she needs to do. It's vaguely implied that Contessa is being directed by her power to learn from Madison.]]
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* TheAtoner: A whole lot of them: Madison trying to atone for her role in Taylor's death is the premise.
** [[spoiler: Purity/Penance and Rune/Reach both pull {{HeelFaceTurn}}s and try to atone after the destruction of Empire Eighty-Eight.]]
** [[spoiler: Bonesaw/Riley is currently trying this thanks to Dinah.]]
** [[spoiler: Ruin thinks she's this. No one but her thinks she has anything to atone for.]]
** [[spoiler: Purity/Penance and Rune/Reach both pull {{HeelFaceTurn}}s and try to atone after the destruction of Empire Eighty-Eight.]]
** [[spoiler: Bonesaw/Riley is currently trying this thanks to Dinah.]]
** [[spoiler: Ruin thinks she's this. No one but her thinks she has anything to atone for.]]
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* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: Pandora. Her very existence, while revealed fairly early, spoils a large chunk of the early story. The same goes for Defiant, whose identity is not revealed until fairly late.]]
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* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: Pandora. Her very existence, while revealed fairly early, spoils a large chunk of the early story. The same goes for Defiant, whose identity is not revealed until fairly late.]]
* WhatAnIdiot: Trickster in general, as usual. More specifically, [[spoiler: making a plan that assumes Genesis is still crippled despite being on a team with Panacea, and also requires kidnapping Pandora.]]
* WhatAnIdiot: Trickster in general, as usual. More specifically, [[spoiler: making a plan that assumes Genesis is still crippled despite being on a team with Panacea, and also requires kidnapping Pandora.]]
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* BreaktheCutie: Many have tried, but Tether remains unbroken.
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* EatingtheEyeCandy: Trevor enjoys commenting on the attractiveness of heroes. Including Tether.
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* KicktheDog: Coil manages to pull one off even worse than what he did in canon.
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* KicktheDog: KickTheDog: Coil manages to pull one off even worse than what he did in canon.
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* Badass: Tether has taken on some very powerful capes and come outon top, quipping all the way.
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* Expy: To quote a commenter: "Spidermads, Spidermads, does whatever a Spidermads does." Many other characters end up in situations mirroring those from the Spiderman mythos as well.
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* Expy: {{Expy}}: To quote a commenter: "Spidermads, Spidermads, does whatever a Spidermads does." Many other characters end up in situations mirroring those from the Spiderman mythos as well.
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* Hivemind: [[spoiler: Pandora operates as one.]]
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler: Pandora won't kill innocents or anyone Dinah asks her not to kill. Villains and serious criminals, on the other hand, she kills without hesitation.]]
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* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: Glastig Uaine kills everyone in the Birdcage who worked for Teacher while the heroes were confronting him. Without hurting the PRT people keeping an eye on them. With such trivial ease that no one realises that there was a fight until she mentions she killed them.]]
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* OCStandIn: Madison, although a very wwell executed example.
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* OpeningACanOfClones: Several Noelle Clones are prominent characters, including [[spoiler: Pandora And Defiant.]]
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* Badass: Tether has taken on some very powerful capes and come out on top, quipping all the way.
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* Badass: Tether has taken on some very powerful capes and come out on outon top, quipping all the way.
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* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: Her very existence, while revealed fairly early, spoils a large chunk of the early story. The same goes for Defiant, whose identity is not revealed until fairly late.]]
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* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: Pandora. Her very existence, while revealed fairly early, spoils a large chunk of the early story. The same goes for Defiant, whose identity is not revealed until fairly late.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: By [[Pandora. Of course, her power makes it less of a sacrifice than it would be for most, and lets her do it more than once.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: By [[Pandora.[[spoiler: Pandora. Of course, her power makes it less of a sacrifice than it would be for most, and lets her do it more than once.]]
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* CloningBlues: [[spoiler: Defiant]].
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* ExpendableClone: [[spoiler: Pandora's clones, while not as expendable as most examples of this trope, still fit.]]
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* GraveMarkingScene: Madison often visits Taylor's grave.
* GroinAttack: Tether is capable of making people do this to themselves.
* HeelFaceTurn: Tether is fond of convincing people to pull these. [[spoiler: As is Dinah]]. She has a pretty good success rate too. [[spoiler: It is currently being implied that this may in fact be one of her powers]].
* HeroicSacrifice: By [[Pandora. Of course, her power makes it less of a sacrifice than it would be for most, and lets her do it more than once.]]
* Hivemind: [[spoiler: Pandora operates as one.]]
* HyperAwareness: Tether has a form of this. It lets her see when others are in danger.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The villains Tether manages to convert]] have so far been getting off pretty light given their past attrocities.
* KicktheDog: Coil manages to pull one off even worse than what he did in canon.
* MoodWhiplash: The story switches between {{BreatherEpisode}} and {{WhamEpisode}} with frightening frequency.
* OddFriendship: Tether and [[spoiler: Pandora]].
* OhCrap: People's reactions to several episodes, such as when [[spoiler: Tether tells Thomas Calvert about the infiltrator in the PRT]]. The next update tends to fix it.
* OutGambitted: Tether out-gambits [[spoiler: Coil in a magnificent way]].
* PatrickStewartSpeech: Tether.
* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler: Tether and Sundancer.]]
* SadisticChoice: Tether gets one when forced to choose between [[spoiler: Letting a block worth of people die or going to the Birdcage.]]
* ShoutOut: Many shout-outs to Spiderman.
* SuperPowerLottery: [[spoiler: Pandora]] gets herself a very nice superpower, including [[spoiler: the ability to take the powers of others into her hivemind]].
* ThouShaltNotKill: [[spoiler: Pandora, as part of a truce agreement, agrees not to kill innocents.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: Her very existence, while revealed fairly early, spoils a large chunk of the early story. The same goes for Defiant, whose identity is not revealed until fairly late.]]
* GroinAttack: Tether is capable of making people do this to themselves.
* HeelFaceTurn: Tether is fond of convincing people to pull these. [[spoiler: As is Dinah]]. She has a pretty good success rate too. [[spoiler: It is currently being implied that this may in fact be one of her powers]].
* HeroicSacrifice: By [[Pandora. Of course, her power makes it less of a sacrifice than it would be for most, and lets her do it more than once.]]
* Hivemind: [[spoiler: Pandora operates as one.]]
* HyperAwareness: Tether has a form of this. It lets her see when others are in danger.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The villains Tether manages to convert]] have so far been getting off pretty light given their past attrocities.
* KicktheDog: Coil manages to pull one off even worse than what he did in canon.
* MoodWhiplash: The story switches between {{BreatherEpisode}} and {{WhamEpisode}} with frightening frequency.
* OddFriendship: Tether and [[spoiler: Pandora]].
* OhCrap: People's reactions to several episodes, such as when [[spoiler: Tether tells Thomas Calvert about the infiltrator in the PRT]]. The next update tends to fix it.
* OutGambitted: Tether out-gambits [[spoiler: Coil in a magnificent way]].
* PatrickStewartSpeech: Tether.
* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler: Tether and Sundancer.]]
* SadisticChoice: Tether gets one when forced to choose between [[spoiler: Letting a block worth of people die or going to the Birdcage.]]
* ShoutOut: Many shout-outs to Spiderman.
* SuperPowerLottery: [[spoiler: Pandora]] gets herself a very nice superpower, including [[spoiler: the ability to take the powers of others into her hivemind]].
* ThouShaltNotKill: [[spoiler: Pandora, as part of a truce agreement, agrees not to kill innocents.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: Her very existence, while revealed fairly early, spoils a large chunk of the early story. The same goes for Defiant, whose identity is not revealed until fairly late.]]
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A fanfic by Cerulean. Can be found at http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/atonement-worm-au.312449/
Taylor dies in the locker prank and Madison triggers instead.
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!! This series provides examples of:
* AdultsAreUseless: With few exceptions, the kids drive the story and handle the important things.
* TheAlcatraz: The Birdcage
* AndIMustScream: Shadow Stalker is again subject to this, though from a different source. [[spoiler: Browbeat as well]].
* AssholeVictim: Quite a few of them.
* Badass: Tether has taken on some very powerful capes and come out on top, quipping all the way.
* BigBad: Coil takes on this role.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Pandora]] manages to pull this, more than once.
* BreaktheCutie: Many have tried, but Tether remains unbroken.
* BreatherEpisode: Several updates consist of little more than characters hanging out and having fun, until things go wrong in the following update.
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler: Pandora, the walking Cavalry]].
* CharacterDevelopment: Madison in particular given her quick growth from the person she was in canon, but otehr characters as well.
* CheapCostume: Tether starts out with a costume she put together out of her closet.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Defiant]].
* CliffHanger: Virtually every chapter ends in a way that has posters ranting, only for the next update to explain why it made perfect sense.
* TheCorrupter: Tether inverts this trope, preferring to covert villains to good rather than taking them down. She has a pretty impressive track record.
* CuteandPsycho: [[spoiler: Bonesaw, even more so than in canon]].
* EatingtheEyeCandy: Trevor enjoys commenting on the attractiveness of heroes. Including Tether.
* Expy: To quote a commenter: "Spidermads, Spidermads, does whatever a Spidermads does." Many other characters end up in situations mirroring those from the Spiderman mythos as well.
Taylor dies in the locker prank and Madison triggers instead.
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!! This series provides examples of:
* AdultsAreUseless: With few exceptions, the kids drive the story and handle the important things.
* TheAlcatraz: The Birdcage
* AndIMustScream: Shadow Stalker is again subject to this, though from a different source. [[spoiler: Browbeat as well]].
* AssholeVictim: Quite a few of them.
* Badass: Tether has taken on some very powerful capes and come out on top, quipping all the way.
* BigBad: Coil takes on this role.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Pandora]] manages to pull this, more than once.
* BreaktheCutie: Many have tried, but Tether remains unbroken.
* BreatherEpisode: Several updates consist of little more than characters hanging out and having fun, until things go wrong in the following update.
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler: Pandora, the walking Cavalry]].
* CharacterDevelopment: Madison in particular given her quick growth from the person she was in canon, but otehr characters as well.
* CheapCostume: Tether starts out with a costume she put together out of her closet.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Defiant]].
* CliffHanger: Virtually every chapter ends in a way that has posters ranting, only for the next update to explain why it made perfect sense.
* TheCorrupter: Tether inverts this trope, preferring to covert villains to good rather than taking them down. She has a pretty impressive track record.
* CuteandPsycho: [[spoiler: Bonesaw, even more so than in canon]].
* EatingtheEyeCandy: Trevor enjoys commenting on the attractiveness of heroes. Including Tether.
* Expy: To quote a commenter: "Spidermads, Spidermads, does whatever a Spidermads does." Many other characters end up in situations mirroring those from the Spiderman mythos as well.
