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* DistractedByTheSexy: Amidst the chaos of someone attacking her base in 76, Taylor gets an eyeful of Brian and his father without their shirts on. She has trouble thinking for a moment, though they thankfully don't notice.


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* NGOSuperpower: Taylor officially becomes this after making her T1 Engineer. Within hours of starting production, [[spoiler:she's able to launch ''800'' single-use fighters at the Simurgh. Congress actually meets to discuss how to respond to such a action (thinking the fighters were missiles).]]
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* BigFancyGun: Shotgun Wesley uses a weapon that Taylor compares to "the mutant offspring of an elephant gun and a double barrel shotgun that then spent a few years on steroids." He calls it Big Susan.

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* BigFancyGun: Shotgun Wesley uses a weapon that Taylor compares to "the mutant offspring of an elephant gun and a double barrel shotgun that then spent a few years on steroids." He has to make his own ammunition for it, since it doesn't take anything like standard calibres, and calls it Big Susan.Susan. The report is uncomfortably loud even from a street away.
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* BigFancyGun: Shotgun Wesley uses a weapon that Taylor compares to "the mutant offspring of an elephant gun and a double barrel shotgun that then spent a few years on steroids."

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* BigFancyGun: Shotgun Wesley uses a weapon that Taylor compares to "the mutant offspring of an elephant gun and a double barrel shotgun that then spent a few years on steroids."" He calls it Big Susan.
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* BigFancyGun: Shotgun Wesley uses a weapon that Taylor compares to "the mutant offspring of an elephant gun and a double barrel shotgun that then spent a few years on steroids."
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* PummelingTheCorpse: Upon hearing that [[spoiler:Coil was responsible for the death of half the Undersiders and his body is just outside the door]], Grue steps outside to kick him several times.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Armsmaster may be quite prideful, have NoSocialSkills, and very stubborn, but he does mean well. [[spoiler:When they are forced to unmask Taylor by removing her suit to heal her, he stops by later and reveals his identity to her as an apology. And while he is rather rude and blunt when trying to get her to obey the various rules while she is trying to help people after Leviathan's attack, Dragon manages to calm him down, and he explains that he's trying to keep her safe from any potential legal issues ''and'' trying to keep the public safe in case there is an issue with her tech. He also tells her that, as a fellow Tinker, he is forced to abide by the same rules, understands they are a hassle, but points out it is the only way for the government to protect the public from potential issues with tinker tech should it go haywire]].



** [[spoiler:Regent and Bitch are killed by Lung in retaliation for the Casino Heist before Taykor ever meets them]].

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** [[spoiler:Regent and Bitch are killed by Lung in retaliation for the Casino Heist before Taykor Taylor ever meets them]].

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* DoNotCallMePaul: Taylor does not appreciate it when people call her Livewire or Terawatt, both cape names given by Coil.

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* DoNotCallMePaul: Taylor does not appreciate it when people call her Livewire or Terawatt, both the cape names given by Coil.Coil and the PRT, respectively.



* KilledOffscreen: Word of God confirmed that [[spoiler:the Slaughterhouse Nine]] were collateral damage of [[spoiler:Scion's rampage.]]

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** [[spoiler:Regent and Bitch are killed by Lung in retaliation for the Casino Heist before Taykor ever meets them]].
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Word of God confirmed that [[spoiler:the Slaughterhouse Nine]] were collateral damage of [[spoiler:Scion's rampage.]]]]
* MeaningfulRename: To show that they are leaving their past as villains and members of the Undersiders behind, Tattletale and Grue change their cape names to AWACS and Blackout, respectively.



* ThatManIsDead: With her links to her old life dead, Taylor rejects her birth name.

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* ThatManIsDead: With her links to her old life dead, Taylor rejects her birth name.name, instead going by Seraph.
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* Shoutout: Lisa and Brian joke about various names Taylor could take, and one of them is The Techno Queen.

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* Shoutout: ShoutOut: Lisa and Brian joke about various names Taylor could take, and one of them is The Techno Queen.

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* ThatManIsDead: With her links to her old life dead, Taylor rejects her birth name.

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* ThatManIsDead: With her links to her old life dead, Taylor rejects her birth name.RunningGag: "This chair is really comfortable."


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* Shoutout: Lisa and Brian joke about various names Taylor could take, and one of them is The Techno Queen.
** When Lung starts residing in the refugee camp that Seraph built, his musings on how the balance of power in Brockton Bay has shifted dramatically are interrupted twice by his thoughts on how comfortable his new chair is, a shoutout to the popular fan meme of Lung enjoying a Laz-E Boy armchair.
* ThatManIsDead: With her links to her old life dead, Taylor rejects her birth name.
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* MundaneUtility: Taylor initially builds a miniature D gun to use as a cleaning tool.

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* MundaneUtility: Taylor initially builds a miniature D gun to use as a cleaning tool.She also uses her fabricator to construct extremely comfortable chairs that adjust to every motion of the body, something the Protectorate heroes and even Lung note.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Scion is killed, but not before he makes Earth uninhabitable from the collateral damage of his trying to kill Taylor and co. All the remaining parahumans who weren't killed in the fighting were {{De Power}}ed as a result. Abaddon and the Seraphim are on their way to Earth with most likely hostile intentions. However, Taylor did manage to get a few thousand people off the planet, meaning humanity will endure, and with 10 years of prep time they just might be able to beat the incoming threats.]]
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This fanfic was completed on December 7th, 2016

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* {{Anticlimax}}: [[spoiler:Scion/Zion is KilledOffscreen by Taylor's army.]]
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* ForcedToWatch: [[spoiler:The three words Scion/Zion tells Contessa and Doctor Mother before dragging them through devastated Earths are "You will watch."]]


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* SequelHook: [[spoiler:The Seraphim are watching Taylor's progress with intent to visit in 11 years, while Abaddon is also returning to the solar system in 10.]]
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* AdultsAreUseless: Averted. Mr Laborn is the only adult on Taylor's team and the TokenNormal at that, but his experience and maturity serve a vital role by giving much-needed perspective.

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* AdultsAreUseless: Averted. Mr Laborn is the only adult on Taylor's team and the TokenNormal TheTeamNormal at that, but his experience and maturity serve a vital role by giving much-needed perspective.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Averted. Mr Laborn is the only adult on Taylor's team and the TokenNormal at that, but his experience and maturity serve a vital role by giving much-needed perspective.
* AscendedExtra: Mr Laborn, Aisha and Brian's father.
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* GameChanger: Taylor finally finishing a T1 Engineer in 76 obsoletes everything she's done up to that point and what follows afterwards very quickly pushes her from playing around at street level with the riffraff to international superpower.

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* GameChanger: Taylor finally finishing a T1 Engineer in 76 obsoletes everything she's done up to that point and what follows afterwards very quickly pushes her from playing around at street level with the riffraff to international superpower.becoming the planetary-level superpower a ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander'' faction is supposed to be. Also applies in the meta sense as this also made the fic the first ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander[=/=]Literature/{{Worm}}'' crossover where Taylor actually operates at strategic level.
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* DoNotCallMePaul: Taylor does not appreciate it when people call her Livewire or Terawatt, both cape names given by Coil.


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* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: [[spoiler:In the backstory, an Entity found a way to access the Quantum Realm and destroyed a Seraphim settlement, prompting the Seraphim to retaliate with extreme prejudice. Both sides want each other dead. Scion/Zion is a descendant of many generations of Entities that have survived Seraphim attacks. His reaction to seeing Taylor's [=ACUs=] is to go into killing mode and forget about the collateral damage his attacks will inflict on the cycle and mankind.]]


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* ThatManIsDead: With her links to her old life dead, Taylor rejects her birth name.
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* KilledOffscreen: Word of God confirmed that [[spoiler:the Slaughterhouse Nine]] were collateral damage of [[spoiler:Scion's rampage.]]
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''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/playing-with-legos-worm-supcom.377328/ Playing with Lego's]]''[sic] is a ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander[=/=]Literature/{{Worm}}'' crossover fanfic by Potato Nose.

In response to the bullying, Taylor gets the idea to build the perfect cleaning device, but she's not long into using it when a mysterious supervillain kidnaps her, convinced she can do so much more.

He's right.

By the time her ordeal is over, she has become convinced that the only way to fix the system is to become a Seraph...

And yes, unlike the rest of the competition, she does get her ACU.

!This fanfic contains examples of:

* AndIMustScream: In 78, Taylor and Armsmaster rescue [[spoiler:Alabaster from 11 days of regenerating, drowning, regenerating, drowning again...]]
* GameChanger: Taylor finally finishing a T1 Engineer in 76 obsoletes everything she's done up to that point and what follows afterwards very quickly pushes her from playing around at street level with the riffraff to international superpower.
* MundaneUtility: Taylor initially builds a miniature D gun to use as a cleaning tool.
* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: In 8, Coil makes Taylor join him for dinner.
* WhamEpisode:
** 6, where Taylor gets abducted.
** 90. [[spoiler:Taylor's powers don't come from a shard, but from Seraphim nanites.]]
** 94. [[spoiler:Scion destroys an ACU after seeing it and proceeds to begin Gold Morning ahead of schedule.]]

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