History Fanfic / GreatGrandUncleSchimmelhornsToolbox

* {{Troll}}: After bringing Coil out of {{Hammerpace}} and telling Coil to sit in a particular chair, every time Coil tries to get rid of it, she either puts it back in the same place or (if he breaks it) replaces it with an identical chair.

** [[spoiler:When the PRT find the location of Coil's base after Taylor steals it, they're baffled, as the fact that the hidden doors are still there makes it clear that ''something'' is supposed to be there, and all the mercenaries corroborate that, but they can't find a single other trace. Their best current theory, given how ridiculous stealing the ''entire base'' would normally be even '''with''' multiple parahumans working on it, is that Coil somehow obscured his base's ''real'' location from his mercs, even if they admit that it doesn't fully fit, and given Coil's VillainousBreakdown he's currently unable to say anything one way or another.]]

* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:After discovering a homeless man that had been kidnapped by Coil for his sadistic urges, Taylor gets the man out and gives him a briefcase with several thousands of dollars so he can make a better life.]]

* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Amy heals and feeds an injured raven, but no matter how many times she lets him outside he keeps coming back into the Dallon house whenever he can. Eventually they just give up on trying to make him leave.

* TooCleverByHalf: It's noted that while Coil, while smart and cunning, was far from the genius he thought himself as being, and wasn't nearly as clever with his power as he thought, as otherwise the deep scan Armsmaster did wouldn't have exposed him so easily. They even say that they're lucky that someone ''truly'' competent didn't get his power, otherwise he would have been almost impossible to stop.

** The UNION, though the name isn't known, is assumed by the [=PRT=] to be a very old agency with vast resources and very careful planning in every operation. While the Dockworkers Union is as old as the city, the UNION is only a few months old, they have almost no monetary resources (though they have a lot of odds and ends they keep just in case), and only half of their notable operations so far weren't spontaneous.

-->'''Emily Piggot''': Then, as the latest little entertainment in this sick operation, you decide that it would be a fantastic idea to plant enough drugs on the girl to get the cops to arrest her for possession and probably dealing, exactly as happened to you. But you can’t even do that properly and get caught in your own trap. Which on one level is about the funniest thing I’ve heard in years, but on every other level has opened a can of worms that makes me wonder if I should simply arrange to have you shot while trying to escape and say ‘whoops.’

* HeKnowsTooMuch: As an example of Coil's ruthlessness and heartlessness, [[spoiler:[[ShootTheBuilder he murdered the people who built his escape tunnel so that only he would know where it was]]]].

* INeedAFreakingDrink: When Taylor tells her father how her latest experiment with her HammerSpace pocket has gone, he decides he needs food before dealing with the latest craziness in his life.

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Danny uses Anton's trick to blow Oni Lee with the very grenades he was using to terrorize Brockton Bay]].
* KleptomaniacHero: Taylor's power allows her to engage in thefts, although she mainly sticks to small-scale stuff, and even ends up calling herself Agent Gimme. [[spoiler:She half-jokingly suggests keeping Coil's cash for herself, much to Danny's consternation. But she's completely serious about stealing his base.]]

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler:When Danny uses Anton's trick to steal the pins of two of Oni Lee's grenades and cause the cape to blow up, the PRT eventually assumes that he either botched the timing or used a faulty grenade, because there's no evidence of any other parahumans involved. It's even noted that Lung can't go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge because as far as anyone can tell Oni Lee did it to ''himself''.]]

** [[spoiler:The PRT are rather baffled when Coil's base isn't where his mercs say it should be, even though the hidden doors are still there. Their best theory is that Coil somehow hid his base's ''real'' location, but even they admit that it's a bit of a stretch. Later, when Armsmaster and Dragon figure out that the base was somehow stolen, they're baffled at how it was done.]]

** Despite his neglect, once Taylor reveals to Danny the Hell she's endured at Winslow, Danny immediately helps her patch up the flute and helps her take her bullies down.

* ProperlyParanoid: When the Dockworkers use repairing the potholes on the street by his base as a cover, Coil is deeply suspicious of them. It's largely a RightForTheWrongReasons type of scenario given how freaked out he is by how his mercs vanished, but they ''are'' out to get him.
* PunnyName: Amy names the raven she saved (and which keeps getting in the Dallons' home) "Edgar Dallon Poe".

** Taylor and the DWA acting out the idea that they are a spy agency (U.N.I.O.N.) and Danny's sighing when he has to deal with that.

* TimeStandsStill: When Taylor puts something in her HammerSpace pocket, it essentially pauses the passage of time for the object or creature in question. She [[MundaneUtility uses this to keep food warm]].
* TooCleverByHalf: It's noted that while Coil, while smart and cunning, was far from the genius he though himself as being, and wasn't as clever with his power as he thought, as otherwise the deep scan Armsmaster did wouldn't have exposed him so easily. They even say that they're lucky that someone ''truly'' competent didn't get his power, otherwise he would have been almost impossible to stop.

* {{Troll}}: After bringing Coil out of HammerSpace and telling Coil to sit in a particular chair, every time Coil tries to get rid of it, she either puts it back in the same place or (if he breaks it) replaces it with an identical chair.

* UnintentionalEncryption: Taylor mentions that Schimmelhorn's notes are extremely difficult to read due to being written in a mixture of German, English, and a whole bunch of terminology that he made up himself because the words to describe what he was doing either didn't exist, or he didn't know them.

* WowingCthulhu: [[spoiler:Lisa's shard and the Queen Administrator are amazed by Taylor and company, not just by Papa's tech and Anton's trick (though that's a big part of it), but Taylor's intelligence and capability to use aforementioned things to get new and interesting data, as well as managing to figure out key aspects of the shard network, including Taylor even managing to notice the QA shard ''before'' triggering. QA even ''actively interferes with Contessa and the rest of Cauldron'' to keep her from harming Taylor and company and cutting off said data, and is genuinely impressed and eager to see what else she does.]]
* WrongContextMagic: Papa's mechanical creations and Anton's trick are ''not'' Shard-based like the usual powers of the setting. Besides the fact that they can be understood and even ''taught'', [[spoiler:when Lisa's power gets its first look at the latter after Taylor uses it to rescue her from Coil's recruitment attempt, Lisa gets the mental impression that it's gaping like a fish in astonishment at something it's never seen before, and is ''very'' eager for Lisa to try and learn it herself. When Taylor tells her some of the theory behind it, as well as showing her several other tricks she's come up with, the Shard suffers a BlueScreenOfDeath because what Taylor is doing is seemingly impossible even by their standards, and implies that the Shard's understanding of the universe is incomplete or flawed and has to reset]]. Taylor also manages to successfully plant the narcotics on Sophia because the [=PRT=] can't think of a way Taylor could have done that, since Taylor hasn't had any kind of Trigger they could detect.

** [[spoiler:The PRT are rather baffled when Coil's base isn't where his mercs say it should be, even though the hidden doors are still there. Their best theory is that Coil somehow hid his base's ''real'' location, but even they admit that it's a bit of a stretch.]]

** Later, [[spoiler:The QA shard expresses a low opinion of Scion and his mate's data-gathering methods, noting that cooperation, namely with Taylor, is providing ''much'' more useful information.]]

* WowingCthulhu: [[spoiler:Lisa's shard and the Queen Administrator are amazed by Taylor and company, not just by Papa's tech and Anton's trick (though that's a big part of it), but Taylor's intelligence and capability to use aforementioned things to get new and interesting data, as well as managing to figure out key aspects of the shard network, including Taylor even managing to notice the QA shard ''before'' triggering. QA even ''actively interferes with Contessa'' to keep her from harming Taylor and company and cutting off said data, and seems genuinely impressed and eager to see what else she does.]]

* EntertaininglyWrong: The UNION, though the name isn't known, is assumed by the [=PRT=] to be a very old agency with vast resources and very careful planning in every operation. While the Dockworkers Union is as old as the city, the UNION is only a few months old, they have almost no monetary resources (though they have a lot of odds and ends they keep just in case), and only half of their notable operations so far weren't spontaneous.

* EntertaininglyWrong: The UNION, though the name isn't known, is assumed by the [=PRT=] to be a very old agency with vast resources and very careful planning in every operation. While the Dockworkers Union is as old as the city, the UNION is only a few months old, they have almost no monetary resources (though they have a lot of odds and ends they keep just in case), and only one of their three notable operations so far wasn't spontaneous.

* KleptomaniacHero: Taylor's power allows her to engage in thefts, although she mainly sticks to small-scale stuff, and even ends up calling herself Agent Gimme. [[spoiler:She half-jokingly suggests keeping Coil's cash for herself, much to Danny's consternation.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Queen Administrator keeps Contessa from going after Taylor by using its network control to make her forget when she thinks about going after anything in the Bay.]]

* HeKnowsTooMuch: As an example of Coil's ruthlessness and heartlessness, [[spoiler:he murdered the people who built his escape tunnel so that only he would know where it was]].

* SpitTake: Taylor times the reveal that she put [[spoiler:Victor]] in her hammerspace pocket just right to make Danny spit his coffee.

** Sophia tries get Taylor arrested by planting drugs in her locker and having the cops brought in, but thanks to Anton's trick she not only removes the drugs just in time, but plants them on ''[[FramingTheGuiltyParty Sophia]]'' in time for the drug dog to detect. This not only gets her arrested for possession, but leads to Sophia's misdeeds being discovered by the PRT.
* {{Hypocrite}}: After he's released from Taylor's pocket, Coil tries to claim that they're violating the Unwritten Rules. After the reasons that they are ''not'' doing so are listed (that they're ''not'' parahumans, for example), it's pointed out that since they know that Coil has been violating the rules ''himself'' on a major scale, he doesn't have a leg to stand on there.

* {{Blackmail}}: Lisa is able [[spoiler:to get her shard to get its restrictions loosened by the administrator so it can give her more information it normally couldn't by threatening to cut it off from Taylor and the data she's producing for it through Anton's trick and Papa's inventions, which it desperately wants more of.]]
* BrickJoke: When Coil is captured by Taylor in both timelines, his narration gets cut-off mid-sentence - with the second half of the sentence appearing when he's pulled out from ''between'' seven chapters later.

* DePower: Thanks to the fact that [[spoiler:it's a Cauldron-bought power, and thus "dead", Coil's shard is unable to properly reconnect to him after he's brought out of Taylor's pocket like Lisa's did (and said connection is in fact likely to fail entirely soon), thus rendering him unable to use his powers for the first time after having been using it constantly for ''years''. Taylor even suggests she may be able to use her skills to sever the connection permanently herself, or maybe even ''steal'' it for her own use.]]

* GoodIsNotNice: Danny uses Anton's trick to [[spoiler:stealthily pull on two grenade pins in Oni Lee's supply, killing the serial bomber while he's in a rampage. He notes that living in a town like Brockton Bay, he has to be tough to keep his head above water.]].

* NothingIsScarier: Part of what freaks Coil out so much about what happened to his mercs is that by the time he could get someone else out there, they had simply vanished without a trace. There was ''no'' sign of who could have done it and how, no trace of any fight, and no evidence of any parahumans with similar powers in the Bay. [[spoiler:And then it starts happening in his secret base...]]

* ObviouslyEvil: Amy and Victoria discuss how it is not surprising that Sophia, with her history of violence and general unpleasantness, would find herself the victim of a lawsuit.

* GermanicEfficiency: Schimmelhorn was a German-Swiss engineer and brilliant enough to challenge the laws of science.

* {{Hypocrite}}: After he's released from Taylor's pocket, Coil tries to claim that they're violating the Unwritten Rules. After the reasons that they are ''not'' doing so are listed, it's pointed out that since they know that Coil has been violating the rules ''himself'', he doesn't have a leg to stand on there.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Emily Piggot. She brings the hammer down on Sophia when she learns about her criminal behavior and plans to pin Sophia's handler and Winslow's inept staff to the wall for letting Sophia's bullying get out of control. During the meeting with the Heberts and the Barnes to settle their case, she agrees with them and accepts a deal that both gets her what she needs (keeping news of Sophia's involvement in the entire kerfuffle silent) in exchange of a reasonable set of demands.

* RunningGag: Taylor and the DWA acting out the idea that they are a spy agency (U.N.I.O.N.) and Danny's sighing when he has to deal with that.

* UnintentionalEncryption: Taylor mentions that Schimmelhorn's notes are extremely difficult to read due to being written in a mixture of German, English, and a whole bunch of terminology that he made up himself because the words to describe what he was doing didn't exist.

*** [[spoiler:And again when his mysterious captors not only demonstrate very in-depth knowledge of his organization, but also when the chair he's trying to get rid of keeps reappearing no matter what he does.]]