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* TheSociopath: The Fury of Russia is a low-functioning example. Even as a normal human, he was an impulsively violent and cruel man with a history of assault and rape. After getting powers, he got exponentially worse.
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* TheSociopath: The Fury of Russia is a low-functioning example. Even as a [[SociopathicSoldier normal human, human]], he was an impulsively violent and cruel man with a history of assault and rape. After getting powers, he got exponentially worse.
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* ExplosiveDecompression: Weaponized by Cassie to [[spoiler:kill the Fury. She lures him into a hyperbaric chamber, tricks him into inhaling a lungful of highly pressurized air, then decompresses the chamber, essentially causing his lungs to explode. His super-hard skin actually makes the damage ''worse'', containing the explosion in his chest cavity and tearing apart every organ within.]]
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* UpThroughTheRanks: Greg, aka Cobalt Green, the poster boy for the U.S. Army, is a major who started out as a private and insisted that no one give him any special consideration because of his powers.
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* UpThroughTheRanks: Greg, aka Cobalt Green, the poster boy for the U.S. Army, is a major who started out as a private and insisted that no one give him any special consideration because of his powers. Averted with the Fury, who was promoted directly from sergeant to marshal after he got his powers and hates being called "Sergeant."
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: While Cobalt, her children, and the Fury of Russia all use their personal names on at least a few occasions, the Fury's sons are known ''only'' by their codenames. It's not known if they even have real names other than those.
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* InsufferableGenius: Blaine/Black is almost supernaturally smart, and he’s a huge {{Jerkass}} about it, acting openly disdainful of almost everyone else.
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* InsufferableGenius: Blaine/Black is almost supernaturally smart, and he’s a huge {{Jerkass}} about it, acting openly disdainful of almost everyone else. He implies that this is because he thinks so fast that everyone else seems like an utter simpleton to him.
* LonelyAtTheTop: Cobalt Black’s intelligence is so far beyond that of everyone around him that their thoughts seem slow and predictable, making every conversation a boring chore. Much of his selfish and unpleasant behavior grows out of the deep sense of loneliness and alienation that this causes him.
* LonelyAtTheTop: Cobalt Black’s intelligence is so far beyond that of everyone around him that their thoughts seem slow and predictable, making every conversation a boring chore. Much of his selfish and unpleasant behavior grows out of the deep sense of loneliness and alienation that this causes him.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Fury of Kazan’s only response to an enraged Cobalt realizing he tried to kill her family is an understated “fuck.”
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* InsufferableGenius: Blaine/Black is almost supernaturally smart, and he’s a huge {{Jerkass}} about it, acting openly disdainful of almost everyone else.
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* RedRightHand: The Fury and his sons all have unusually wide, yellow-rimmed eyes. This does not seem to be related to their powers - they just look like that.
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* StarfishAliens: While not described in much detail, the alien that came back with the Venus probe is a penny-sized creature that explodes on contact with Earth’s atmosphere into a gas that gives humans superpowers.
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* TheSociopath: The Fury of Russia is a low-functioning example. Even as a normal human, he was an impulsively violent and cruel man with a history of assault and rape. After getting powers, he got exponentially worse.
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* UpThroughTheRanks: Cobalt-Green/Gary, the poster boy for the U.S. Army, is a major who started out as a private and insisted that no one give him any special consideration because of his powers.
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* UpThroughTheRanks: Cobalt-Green/Gary, Greg, aka Cobalt Green, the poster boy for the U.S. Army, is a major who started out as a private and insisted that no one give him any special consideration because of his powers.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: The first mention of the vice president says that he is asking people to pray for the heroes as they fight the Fury, but later scenes establish him as a narrow-minded {{Jerkass}} and [[spoiler:TheQuisling]].
* BlackSheep: Blaine is the sibling who is most willing to entertain ideas of causing collateral damage in battle, lusts after power, and he is also the only one who was never a CoolBigBro or CoolBigSis to Cassie. Fittingly enough, his codename is Cobalt-Black.
* BlackSheep: Blaine is the sibling who is most willing to entertain ideas of causing collateral damage in battle, lusts after power, and he is also the only one who was never a CoolBigBro or CoolBigSis to Cassie. Fittingly enough, his codename is Cobalt-Black.
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* BlackSheep: Blaine is the sibling who is most willing to entertain ideas DirtyCoward: The Fury of causing collateral damage in battle, lusts after power, Kazan relishes mocking Cobalt's husband and young natural daughter during an assassination attempt (where he is also the only one who was never a CoolBigBro or CoolBigSis has an equally high-powered brother to Cassie. Fittingly enough, his codename is Cobalt-Black.back him up), but quakes like a small child when Cobalt arrives to stop him and get revenge.
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* RunOrDie: Cassie recalls that the last time she saw Blaine, he analyzed how much more high-powered the Fury is than any of the Cobalt half-siblings and told her that the best advice she'd ever get was to "leave before he arrives."
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* TagTeamTwins: Josh and Winnie (Cobalt-White and Cobalt-Purple) are twins and are the only siblings who regularly fight crime side-by-side with their FlyingBrick powers.
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* TagTeamTwins: Josh and Winnie (Cobalt-White (Cobalt-Purple and Cobalt-Purple) Cobalt-White) are twins and are the only siblings who regularly fight crime side-by-side with their FlyingBrick powers.
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* OffWithHisHead: The Fury of Russia loves doing this to those he's defeated...using his bare hands.
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* OffWithHisHead: The Fury of Russia loves doing this to those he's defeated... using his bare hands.hands.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: The children of both superheroes have abilities, but at only half the level of the originals. Naturally, America and Russia ensure that many children are born to them in different ways.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: The children of both superheroes have abilities, but at only half the level of the originals. Naturally, America and Russia ensure that many children are born to them in different ways.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Aside from the Fury favoring manual decapitation, [[his own death is extremely unpleasant: He is basically tricked into vomiting up his internal organs]].
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*CruelAndUnusualDeath: Aside from the Fury favoring manual decapitation, [[his own death is extremely unpleasant: He is basically tricked into vomiting up his internal organs]].
*OffWithHisHead: The Fury of Russia loves doing this to those he's defeated...using his bare hands.
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When America's superhero, Christine Cobalt, dies, her EvilCounterpart, the Fury of Russia, attacks America. Only "Cobalt Blue", Christine's daughter, can stop him.
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''Cobalt Blue'' is a 2022 Australian science fiction novella by Creator/MatthewReilly.
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[[caption-width-right:345:"...In the face of an overwhelming attack, one young woman - unassuming and anonymous - might be America's only hope."]]
''Cobalt Blue'' is a 2022 Australian science fiction novella by Creator/MatthewReilly.
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