History Literature / Heroics

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: If the implications and jokes are any indication, Cass and AJ have a ''lot'' of sex.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are twenty-eight listed on the character page here alone, and the series is only halfway through.

* RealityEnsues: Arguably the whole point of the series, even if the good guys do still win and come out relatively unscathed in the long run.

** Tess Cassidy is named after Tess Mercer (as played by Cassidy Freeman) from ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. [[WordOfGod Alex Kost]] has been adamant that [[{{Expy}} similarities]] between the characters themselves were completely coincidental, in fact the character was created nameless and then given the name long before Kost even realized how many things they had in common.

A series of young adult {{Superhero}} novels by [[OneOfUs Alex Kost]] that follows a team of vigilantes living in a CityOfAdventure that might just be a little bit [[CrapsackWorld awful]] too, depending on your interpretation.

* CarreerEndingInjury: [[spoiler: Rowan]], who is tortured into [[spoiler: a permanent heart injury]].

* ''Legion'', [[TimeSkip a few more years after]] ''Vigilance'', set to come out June 2016.

* ''Legion'', [[TimeSkip a few more years after]] ''Vigilance'', set to come out September 2016.

* ActionGirl: Too many to list. It's a series full of female heroes and [[BadassNormal Badass Normals]].

* OnePersonOnePower: Everyone has only one power except for Kara (who has both flight and strength). Jay has both speed and endurance, but that endurance might just be a [[RequiredSecondaryPowers Required Secondary Power]]. WordOfGod states that a person can only have a power their parent actively had, and even if two parents had different parents, it's rare for both to pass down.

The series is set to have an unidentified number of books in it, but the confirmed titles so far are:

* ''Vigilance'', [[TimeSkip set several years later]], in which the main vigilantes are all adults. No release date has been set yet.

!!Tropes Featured:
* AbusiveParents: [[BigBad Wechsler]] absolutely is. Alice is as well if you consider the clones to be her children. Stephanie is probably at least emotionally abusive.
* ActionGirl: Kate, Lori, Kara, Cass, and Alix are the main examples.

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Despite no one supposedly knowing where the Heroics base is, there sure are an awful lot of people in it.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Casey and Zach have it in spades. WordOfGod says that [[spoiler: they were [[IntroductionByHookup introduced by hookup]] before]] Zach became the liaison.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: What happens to anyone [[spoiler: with a control band put on them by Wechsler and Cage]]. The worst part is that [[spoiler: [[AndIMustScream they're perfectly aware of the fact that they're trying to kill fellow heroes, but they can't stop themselves]]]].

* DeadpanSnarker: [[WorldOfSnark Pretty much everyone]], but especially [[StepfordSnarker Cass]].

* KidHero: All of the Heroics heroes are between 13 and 17 years old.
* OnePersonOnePower: Everyone has only one power except for Kara (who has both flight and strength). Jay has both speed and endurance, but that endurance might just be a [[RequiredSecondaryPowers Required Secondary Power]].

* ShoutOut: All of the Alumni and Heroics field team members are named after comic book superheroes with similar powers. [[spoiler: This was done on purpose in-universe.]]
** Casey and Stephanie Cabot are named after Casey Novak and Alex Cabot (played by Stephanie March), both of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''. [[spoiler: This was also done on purpose in-universe.]]
** Tess Cassidy is named after Tess Mercer (as played by Cassidy Freeman) from ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. [[WordOfGod Alex Kost]] has been adamant that [[{{Expy}} similarities]] between the characters themselves were completely coincidental, in fact the character was created nameless and then given the name long before Kost even realized how many things they had in common.
* {{Superhero}}
* WorldOfSnark

** Casey and Stephanie Cabot are named after Casey Novak and Alex Cabot (played by Stephanie March), both of ''LawAndOrderSVU''. [[spoiler: This was also done on purpose in-universe.]]

** Tess Cassidy is named after Tess Mercer (as played by Cassidy Freeman) from ''{{Smallville}}''. [[WordOfGod Alex Kost]] has been adamant that [[{{Expy}} similarities]] between the characters themselves were completely coincidental, in fact the character was created nameless and then given the name long before Kost even realized how many things they had in common.

* ''Heroics'', in which all of the main character vigilantes are [[ChildSoldier teens]] dealing with anti-vigilante [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Corrupt Corporate Executives]] who are also [[CompleteMonster Complete Monsters]].

A series of young adult {{Superhero}} novels by [[OneOfUs AlexKost]] that follows a team of vigilantes living in a CityOfAdventure that might just be a little bit [[CrapsackWorld awful]] too, depending on your interpretation.

A {{superhero}} young adult novel by [[OneOfUs Alex Kost]] that follows a team of teenage superheroes dealing with anti-vigilante [[CorruptCorporateExecutive businesspeople]] who begin kidnapping people with powers.

Three characters represent three sections of the plot:
* [[TheArcher Kate Oliver]], the leader of the superhero team, who has to worry about the disappearances.
* [[MissionControl Tess "Cass" Cassidy]], the daughter of the BigBad who works for the Heroics team, who has a plot involving [[OfficialCouple the team's medic]] as well as dealing with her [[OffingTheOffspring attempted-murderer]] father.
* [[CastingAShadow Alix Tolvaj]], a fairly mysterious [[spoiler:clone]] of the [[BigBadDuumvirate second Big Bad]], who struggles with both of the above issues as well as dealing with hostility from the Heroics kids, who don't trust her.

The book is actually the first in a series of novels set in the same universe, the rest of which have no set release date yet.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Literally everyone in the story comments on Cass/AJ. They are perfectly aware of this since they're already together, but they [[SecretRelationship won't admit it]].

A {{superhero}} young adult novel that follows a team of teenage superheroes dealing with anti-vigilante [[CorruptCorporateExecutive businesspeople]] who begin kidnapping people with powers.

* [[CastingAShadow Alix Tolvaj]], a fairly mysterious [[spoiler:clone]] of the second Big Bad, who struggles with both of the above issues as well as dealing with hostility from the Heroics kids, who don't trust her.

* SuperHero