History GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse / TropesAToH

* UsefulNotes/{{The Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}}: The aim of the game world was to replicate the feel of this comic-book era.

* CoolHelmet: The helmet worn by Barnstormer, a jetpack-wearing [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] hero, has an art-deco fin on it that doubles as a rudder, helping him steer as he flies.

* UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks: This was generally avoided, with a single exception: the Night Life in the Big Easy campaign was built on this trope.
* DarkAgeOfSupernames: Oh my, were there several. Some players just couldn't get over the fact that the games were supposedly running under UsefulNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}} ideals and not [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] ideals. Ballistic, Ambush, Battlecat, Twilight, Recoil, Fracture, Fusillade, Shift, Flux, and Ablaze are just a random ten, and those are the ''heroes''.
* DarkerAndEdgier: While most of the campaigns in the setting were standard [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] fare, the ''Night Life In The Big Easy'' campaign, which featured a solo 1980s-style vigilante facing off against a voodoo-themed criminal empire that had been built on drugs, prostitution, and white slavery.

* {{Excalibur}}: Wielded by legendary [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] hero Excalibur, and his son, UsefulNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}} hero Pendragon.

* UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks: The Golden Age campaign was made of this.

* CycleOfRevenge: Ultr-Man and Baron Malthus have been battling each other since World War II. It stopped being about "preventing injustice" (for Ultra-Man) or "committing a crime" (for Baron Malthus) a long, long time ago... no, these days [[ItsPersonal its strictly personal]].

* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: The Blood Red King, the AnthropomorphicPersonification of anger, cruelty, violence, and fear, has been killed numerous times since he first appeared in the late 1970s. But as long as there are people being angry or cruel, causing violence or causing fear, he always springs back up shortly thereafter, fresh as a daisy.

* AnimeHair: Ani-Mae has AnimeHair. Then again, she's the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification living incarnation]] of a Japanese cartoon character. Her hair is often neon cornflower blue, and spikey in the usual gravity-defying manner. And of course, she's got the [[Angst]]-fringe that always covers one eye.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: There are several of these, most visibly the Neuman Family, who are pretty obviously a combination of the Franchise/FantasticFour and the Power Pack.

* CaptainErsatz: Many. A short listing includes: Ultra-Man (Franchise/{{Superman}}), Bungie (ComicBook/PlasticMan), Guardsman (Franchise/GreenLantern), Achilles (Franchise/{{Batman}}), Arachne (ComicBook/SpiderMan), The Damocles Directive (The ComicBook/SuicideSquad), Quantum (ComicBook/CaptainAtom), Golden Marvel (Golden-Age Franchise/{{Superman}}), Morningstar (ComicBook/PowerGirl), and Jock (The ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}}).

* ClassicalElementsEnsemble: Gaea's Children, a supervillain team themed after the four classic elements, was made up of [[PlayingWithFire Flame]], [[DishingOutDirt Mountain]], [[MakingASplash River]], and [[BlowYouAway Wind]].

* FourElementEnsemble: Gaea's Children, a supervillain team themed after the four classic elements, was made up of [[PlayingWithFire Flame]], [[DishingOutDirt Mountain]], [[MakingASplash River]], and [[BlowYouAway Wind]].
* FragileSpeedster: Generally [[AvertedTrope averted]], as most speedsters in the Global Guardians Universe have some sort of damage resistance as a [[RequiredSecondaryPowers side-effect of their velocity]].

* AcceptableReligiousTargets: The worshipers of the [[EldritchAbomination Old Ones]] were AlwaysChaoticEvil, and thus no one blinked about attacking them on sight.

* GreenLanternRing: Guardsman's suit allows him to manipulate "solid energy shapes". Whatever that means.

* GiantWaistRibbon: Psychic superhero Oracle combines a bright red GiantWaistRibbon with a Playboy bunny-esque bustier and fishnet stockings as her crimefighting costume.

* AnAxeToGrind: Byelobog is the [[PhysicalGod Russian God of the Sun and Daylight]]. In addition to SuperStrength and NighInvulnerability, he wields a big battleaxe that returns to him when he throws it.

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Baltimore heroine Tao has skin the color of mahogany and platinum blonde hair. And its her natural color.
* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Texan hero Firedrake is a black man with pumpkin-orange hair. Its a side-effect of his powers.

* CaffeineBulletTime: Mister Excitement was a member of the Crimestoppers a team of [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway superhero wannabe's]]. Excitement had honest to God super-strength and SuperSpeed... except he gained the super-strength by way of adrenalin rushes, and there was never a guarantee he was going to have one. Mister Excitement was hyper-active, fidgeted, and his team instinctively knew that whatever they did, giving this man caffeine was a bad thing because who knew what would happen. But when the chips were down and they were captured by a real supervillain, they consciously invoked this trope, allowing Mister Excitement to save the day.