History Fanfic / TheSupermen

* FantasticallyIndifferent: the unnamed woman at the newsstand who Wesker speaks to right after arriving in the DC universe. Wesker has just fallen out of the sky, and she just attempts to make small talk with him as he buys a newspaper. She also accepts the events described by the newspaper (articles about Franchise/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/TheJoker, for instance) as everyday and uneventful.

* SomeNuttyPublicityStunt: played with. Wesker has this reaction to seeing the newspaper after arriving in the DC universe.

* AntiRegeneration: the PhlebotinumOverdose poisoning means that Wesker's healing factor isn't working for the first chapter, and only starts working again once he takes an antidote for the poison.

* LastNameBasis: Wesker is generally called by his surname, and is annoyed by Superman constantly calling him "Albert". Considering the narration is in third person and usually from Wesker's point of view, it comes across as if Wesker is on LastNameBasis with [[UpToEleven himself.]]

* ShoutOut: As well as obviously referencing the fact that the fic is about superheroes (including Superman), and Wesker (who has superpowers and sees himself as TheUbermensch), the title is a ShoutOut to Creator/DavidBowie.

** Also one to either [[Film/ResidentEvil the Resident Evil films]] or VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica: when Wesker is planning to break into STAR Labs and is researching their security, he thinks "No laser hallway. Amateurs."

* ArbitrarySkepticism: subverted. Wesker, as a scientist, is ''very'' uncomfortable with the idea of magic existing in the DC universe, but he doesn't try and deny its existence. And he adapts to the science-fiction technology very easily.

* CityOfWeirdos: every city in the DC universe probably counts as this. In Chapter 3, Wesker arrives in the DC universe by flying a plane through a wormhole, jumps out of the plane, and lands in the middle of a busy street in Washington DC, while the plane crashes into the river behind him. People just step out of his way, then go on with their lives like nothing happened. Wesker is quite confused by this.

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* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Wesker spends the first chapter and a half poisoned, concussed, blinded by an explosion, and with serious burns from lava. He needs an antidote for the poison, but the other injuries heal after a couple of hours' sleep on the floor of a plane (after getting the antidote, since the poisoning was [[AntiRegeneration stopping his healing factor working properly.]]

* ClothingConcealedInjury: Wesker attempts this in Chapter 2 before trying to get to another Tricell base, since [[NoHonourAmongThieves he is very aware that his "allies" as Tricell would]][[TheStarscream turn on him]] if they realised he was seriously injured. It would probably be less obvious than most examples of the trope, since he isn't dressed [[ConspicuousGloves any differently]] [[SunglassesAtNight to usual]]. It ends up partially deconstructed, since putting clothes on over unhealed third-degree burns is incredibly painful (including quite a bit of skin coming off.)

* ClothingConcealedInjury: Wesker attempts this in Chapter 2 before trying to get to another Tricell base, since [[NoHonourAmongThieves he is very aware that his "allies" as Tricell would]][[TheStarscream turn on him]] if they realised he was seriously injured. It would probably be less obvious than most examples of the trope, since he isn't dressed [[ConspicuousGloves any differently]][[SunglassesAtNight to usual]]. It ends up partially deconstructed, since putting clothes on over unhealed third-degree burns is incredibly painful (including quite a bit of skin coming off.)

* AntiRegeneration: the PG67A/W overdose poisoning means that Wesker's healing factor isn't working for the first chapter, and only starts working again once he takes an antidote for the poison.

* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Wesker spends the first chapter and a half poisoned, concussed, blinded by an explosion, and with serious burns from lava. He needs an antidote for the poison, but the other injuries heal after a couple of hours' sleep on the floor of a plane.

* TheFightingNarcissist: Aside from the whole [[AGodAmI god complex thing]], Wesker apparently takes quite a bit of care over his appearance. For instance, when he thinks the FantasticallyIndifferent bystanders have mistaken him for an actor in a superhero film, he thinks "he had the good looks for it, after all", as well as thinking of himself as "taller, better-looking, and better-dressed" than most people in a later scene. He also occasionally complains about getting blood on his clothes or his boots, although mostly not out loud. As for the fighting part...well, he's Wesker, and he shows off his superhuman abilities and martial arts expertise at the slightest opportunity. He's very confident in his fighting abilities, to the point of thinking that "no matter how powerful his opponent was, Wesker was always better", and thinks of killing normal humans as too easy to be interesting to him.

** However, he also assumes that the bystanders' lack of reaction to him is an example of this trope, when actually they're just used to superhumans.