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* SkippingSchool: [[InvertedTrope inverted]] when Danny sneaks back ''into'' school when, one week after her transition, her parents still want to keep her home until she's "cured".
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* SkippingSchool: this is [[InvertedTrope inverted]] when as Danny sneaks back ''into'' school when, one week after her transition, her parents still want to keep her home until she's "cured".
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* SkippingSchool: [[InvertedTrope inverted]] when Danny sneaks back ''into'' school when, one week after her transition, her parents still want to keep her home until she's "cured".
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-->'''Danny''': "Any I needed to know I could trust you. All of you."
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-->'''Danny''': "Any "And I needed to know I could trust you. All of you."
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* TheScream: Danny does this after her first meeting with the Legion turns first into a discussion of whether she should be allowed to join, and then into a shouting match about whether she should be "allowed" to keep the mantle of Dreadnought at all.
-->'''Doc Impossible''': "[Carapace] just needs time." (to come around to letting Danny join)
-->'''Danny''': "Any I needed to know I could trust you. All of you."
-->'''Doc Impossible''': "[Carapace] just needs time." (to come around to letting Danny join)
-->'''Danny''': "Any I needed to know I could trust you. All of you."
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* AllThereInTheManual: In-universe, there is mention of an ''ethics manual'' specifically for dealing with Dreadnought's powers, and a general orientation guide for young metahumans. The latter seems like a reasonable thing for a long-standing superteam like the Legion Pacifica to have on hand, but the former definitely overlaps with CrazyPrepared.
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* TwoRoadsBeforeYou: Doc Impossible makes it abundantly clear to Danny that becoming a superhero is a life-long commitment with little chance of turning back (for you are likely to make enemies), that it's gonna cost her her chance of ever leading a normal life, and that the decision is hers alone to make.
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* DistinctionWithoutADifference: in-universe, "superpowers" and "special abilities" are essentially the same thing, but the word "superpowers" is heavily coded for the superhero/supervillain lifestyle, whereas people with "special abilities" just lead normal lives.
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* FriendsAreChosenFamilyArent: a recurring theme. '''Dreadnought''' in particular is about the contrast between Danny's home life with her AbusiveParents and her interactions with her new-found friends.
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* FriendsAreChosenFamilyArent: a recurring theme. '''Dreadnought''' ''Dreadnought'' in particular is about the contrast between Danny's home life with her AbusiveParents and her interactions with her new-found friends.
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* HomeBase: Legion tower, a skyscraper in downtown New Port City, is where the Legion Pacifica resides.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Notably [[AvertedTrope averted]] for the most part: while superpowers are basically magic, their interaction with the real world pays attention to physical realities: flyers need to worry about wind resistance and atmospheric oxygen levels (as well as G forces when they're carrying baseline humans), metahumans that can shrug off artillery shells will still suffer significant injuries when hit with space debris at orbital velocities, etc.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Notably [[AvertedTrope averted]] averted]], for the most part: while part. While superpowers are basically magic, their interaction with the real world pays attention to physical realities: flyers need to worry about wind resistance and atmospheric oxygen levels (as well as G forces when they're carrying baseline humans), metahumans that can shrug off artillery shells will still suffer significant injuries when hit with space debris at orbital velocities, etc.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Notably [[AvertedTrope averted]] for the most part: while superpowers are basically magic, their interaction with the real world pays attention to physical realities: flyers need to worry about wind resistance and atmospheric oxygen levels (as well as G forces when they're carrying baseline humans), metahumans that can shrug off artillery shells will still suffer significant injuries when hit with space debris at orbital velocities, etc.
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Notably [[AvertedTrope averted]]: flyers need to worry about wind resistance and atmospheric oxygen levels (as well as G forces when they're carrying baseline humans), metahumans that can shrug off artillery shells will still suffer significant injuries when hit with space debris at orbital velocities, etc.
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* HerosFirstRescue: For Danny, it's one of the classics - saving a crashing plane.
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* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Meet Doctor Impossible: physician, scientist, creator of numerous hypertech devices, hacker, pilot.
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* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Meet Doctor Impossible: physician, scientist, creator of numerous hypertech devices, GadgeteerGenius, hacker, pilot.
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* {{Animesque}}: Doc Impossible appears to be fond of using Anime-style characters in the UI for her hypertech devices.
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* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: The BigBad is a cyborg (or possible android?) GadgeteerGenius. So true to form, there's a big battle of five ColorCodedForYourConvenience mecha vs. Dreadnought in the climax, and it's awesome.
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** It's worth noting that the Legion's bylaws ''specifically'' try to avoid this by forbidding minors from holding full memberships. But Danny is forced into her role when [[spoiler:almost the entire Legion's active roster is wiped out, leaving Danny the sole A-list heavy hitter in the Pacific Northwest]].
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* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: [[spoiler:Doc Impossible]] is an android.
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* ChildSoldiers: Sarah and (as of Book 2) Danny qualify as this, being 15-year olds that regularly participate in combat engagement, and there's plenty of evidence of it really messing with their heads.
** Sarah doesn't really seem to have a social life outside of going caping, and is completely desensitized to violence. There's a scene where Danny and Sarah interview a henchman with Sarah repeatedly assaulting and verbally threatening the subject that culminates in this exchange that's equal parts [[BlackComedy funny]] and deeply disturbing:
** Sarah doesn't really seem to have a social life outside of going caping, and is completely desensitized to violence. There's a scene where Danny and Sarah interview a henchman with Sarah repeatedly assaulting and verbally threatening the subject that culminates in this exchange that's equal parts [[BlackComedy funny]] and deeply disturbing:
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* ChildSoldiers: Sarah and (as of Book 2) Danny qualify as this, being 15-year olds that regularly participate in combat engagement, engagements, and there's plenty of evidence of it really messing with their heads.
** Sarah doesn't really seem to have a social life outside of going caping, and is completely desensitized to violence. There's a scene where Danny and Sarah interview a henchman with Sarah repeatedly assaulting and verbally threatening the subject that culminates in this exchange that's equal parts [[BlackComedyfunny]] hilarious]] and deeply disturbing:
** Sarah doesn't really seem to have a social life outside of going caping, and is completely desensitized to violence. There's a scene where Danny and Sarah interview a henchman with Sarah repeatedly assaulting and verbally threatening the subject that culminates in this exchange that's equal parts [[BlackComedy
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* ChildSoldiers: Sarah and (as of Book 2) Danny qualify as this, being 15-year olds that regularly participate in combat engagement, and there's plenty of evidence of it really messing with their heads.
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--->'''Danny''': That was nice good cop, bad cop we did there.
--->'''Sarah''' (blank and confused): We were doing what now?
** Sarah doesn't really seem to have a social life outside of going caping, and is completely desensitized to violence. There's a scene where Danny and Sarah interview a henchman with Sarah repeatedly assaulting and verbally threatening the subject that culminates in this exchange that's equal parts [[BlackComedy funny]] and deeply disturbing:
--->'''Danny''': That was nice good cop, bad cop we did there.
--->'''Sarah''' (blank and confused): We were doing what now?
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* PlantPerson: ChlorophyllChlorophyll. Has a super-powered sister, "Aloe", that judging by her name also seems to be this.
* RealityWarper: Dreadnought, once again. Her flight, super strength etc. derive from her being able to manipulate the "lattice", described as "the underside of reality". Beyond just her "stock" superpowers, Danny practices manipulating the lattice directly, and appears to be much more adept at this than at least her immediate predecessor, if the finale is any indication.
* RealityWarper: Dreadnought, once again. Her flight, super strength etc. derive from her being able to manipulate the "lattice", described as "the underside of reality". Beyond just her "stock" superpowers, Danny practices manipulating the lattice directly, and appears to be much more adept at this than at least her immediate predecessor, if the finale is any indication.
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* ComingOutStory: Danny starts the first book as a closeted, pre-transition transgender female and ends with her publicly coming out as transgender and lesbian. Several of the major story beats are about her gender and superhero identities being outed; see ForcedOutOfTheCloset below.
* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Happens to Danny no less than three times in the first book.
** The first time is when Doc Impossible makes the results of Danny's medical scan available to all Legion members, accidentally outing Danny to the trans-hating Graywytch.
** The second time, it's Graywytch outing Danny's superhero identity to her parents.
** The third and final time, it's when a photo of Danny with her [[ClothingDamage mask shredded]] makes the rounds after a large battle, exposing her secret identity to the public. After this, Danny's had enough, and publicly comes out as both transgender and lesbian in her first press interview as Dreadnought.
** The first time is when Doc Impossible makes the results of Danny's medical scan available to all Legion members, accidentally outing Danny to the trans-hating Graywytch.
** The second time, it's Graywytch outing Danny's superhero identity to her parents.
** The third and final time, it's when a photo of Danny with her [[ClothingDamage mask shredded]] makes the rounds after a large battle, exposing her secret identity to the public. After this, Danny's had enough, and publicly comes out as both transgender and lesbian in her first press interview as Dreadnought.
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* WickedWitch: Gray Wytch is somewhere between this and a SociopathicHero. In-story, we never actually see her do anything but make Danny's life hell, but seeing as she's a Legion Pacifica member in good standing, presumably she has done good at some point.
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* WickedWitch: Gray Wytch Graywytch is somewhere between this and a SociopathicHero. In-story, we never actually see her do anything but make Danny's life hell, but seeing as she's a Legion Pacifica member in good standing, presumably she has done good at some point.
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* AbusiveParents: Danny's father is bigoted and extremely verbally abusive, to the point where she has permanent hearing damage from always being screamed at. Her mother is either unable or unwilling to intervene, and tries to "buy off" Danny by way of apology after particularly bad outbursts.
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* WickedWitch: Gray Wytch is somewhere between this and a SociopathicHero. In-story, we never actually see her do anything but make Danny's life hell, but seeing as she's a Legion Pacifica member in good standing, presumably she has done good at some point.
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** Legion-affiliated superheroes recommend that minors with superpowers use "throwaway colors" (basically gray camouflage) for their suits, to declare themselves unpartisan until they become of age. Literally everyone else in the story points out that ''only'' Legion-affiliated minors do this, so throwaway colors are a dead giveaway.
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** Legion-affiliated superheroes recommend that minors with superpowers use "throwaway colors" (basically gray camouflage) for their suits, to declare themselves unpartisan until they become of age. Literally everyone else Almost every non-Legion cape in the story points out that ''only'' Legion-affiliated minors do this, so throwaway colors are a dead giveaway.
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* BigBad: In the first book, we have Utopia, a cyborg-themed supervillain.
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* FlyingBrick: Dreadnought's powerset.power set.
* GoodIsDumb: The Legion can be this, sometimes.
** Legion-affiliated superheroes recommend that minors with superpowers use "throwaway colors" (basically gray camouflage) for their suits, to declare themselves unpartisan until they become of age. Literally everyone else in the story points out that ''only'' Legion-affiliated minors do this, so throwaway colors are a dead giveaway.
* GoodIsDumb: The Legion can be this, sometimes.
** Legion-affiliated superheroes recommend that minors with superpowers use "throwaway colors" (basically gray camouflage) for their suits, to declare themselves unpartisan until they become of age. Literally everyone else in the story points out that ''only'' Legion-affiliated minors do this, so throwaway colors are a dead giveaway.
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* SuperTeam: The Legion Pacifica, the most accomplished superhero team in Northern America.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Sarah's powers are hereditary, thanks to the super-serum her grandfather was injected with, but they come with about a 50% chance of dying from leukemia within ten years of exposure. Two of Sarah's brothers didn't make it, and Sarah herself had leukemia as a child, although the cancer now seems to be in remission.
* DisintegratorRay: Utopia's inversion beam flat-out unmakes reality.
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* OminidisciplinaryScientist: Meet Doctor Impossible: physician, scientist, creator of numerous hypertech devices, hacker, pilot.
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* WorldsStrongestMan: Pretty much whoever happens to be Dreadnought at the time.
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* WorldsStrongestMan: Pretty much whoever happens to be Dreadnought at the time.
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* FlyingBrick: Dreadnought's powerset.
* HealingFactor: Dreadnought has one; while not Wolverine-level, she recovers from internal organ damage that would kill a normal human while feeling not much worse than sore, and broken bones completely heal within a few days.
* HealingFactor: Dreadnought has one; while not Wolverine-level, she recovers from internal organ damage that would kill a normal human while feeling not much worse than sore, and broken bones completely heal within a few days.
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* MustHaveNicotine: In ''Dreadnought'', Doc Impossible is always either smoking or (when in her lab) consuming disturbing amounts of nicotine gum.
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* OminidisciplinaryScientist: Meet Doctor Impossible: physician, scientist, creator of numerous hypertech devices, hacker, pilot.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Doc Impossible, Valkyrja and Magma fit the bill.
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* AchillesHeel: Dreadnought is incredibly resilient to physical attacks and extreme temperatures, and can hold her breath for hours at a time, but doesn't have much more resistance to electricity than a baseline human. [[spoiler:She is also vulnerable to magic.]]
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* ''Dreadnought'' (January 2017) deals with Danny adjusting to her new life while trying to stop Dreadnought's murderer.
* ''Sovereign'' (July 2017) meets Danny, now an established superhero, about 9 months later, facing a new threat.
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Dreadnought is the first book in the superhero novel series Nemesis by April Daniels.
Before dying Dreadnought, the world's greatest superhero, passes on his powers to a young closeted transgirl named Danny Tozer. As a byproduct of the transfer Danny is transformed into her ideal self, making it impossible to hide her gender anymore.
The first book deals with Danny adjusting to her new life while trying to stop Dreadnought's murderer.
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!!Dreadnought contains examples of:
* BadassGay: Danny and Chlorophyll, a core member of Legion.
* BequeathedPower: How Dreadnought's powers are passed on.
* CoatHatMask: Sarah as Calamity wears a coat, hat, and face covering bandana.
* DoomedProtagonist: Dreadnoughts tend to be the first line of defense against whatever world ending threat may pop up. No Dreadnought has ever died of natural causes, and Danny doesn't expect to be the exception.
* EldritchAbomination: Nemesis seems to be some sort of phenomenon that unmakes reality and may, or may not, be sentient.
* {{Expy}}: Like other Superhero novels there are a lot of references to both Marvel and DC.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Doc Impossible has tried to date Valkyrja, who is, unfortunately, straight. To a lesser degree, Danny has a celebrity crush on Valkyrja.
* {{Kaiju}}: They exist in this world, and there was some sort of crisis of them in the past.
* LatinoIsBrown: Sarah
* LegacyOfTheChosen: Danny is the latest in the line of Dreadnoughts.
** [[spoiler:Valkyrja]]'s powers seem to be passed on through a combination of possession and reincarnation.
* LipstickLesbian: Danny is very much one. So much so, that even though being naturally beautiful is part of her powers she still likes applying makeup just for the sake of it.
* NecessaryDrawback: [[spoiler:Danny]] can heal herself, but it causes other injuries, and it is a slow process. It's only really useful when trading a life threating injury for several nonlethal ones.
* PaperThinDisguise: Sarah is very obviously Calamity, and Danny figures it out on their third meeting.
* PlantPerson: Chlorophyll
* SuperSerum: Sarah's grandfather was unwillingly used as a lab rat for one. It worked, and the effects can be inherited, but the government doesn't know that, and Sarah's family is planning on keeping it that way.
* SuperSoldier: Sarah and her family.
* TakeUpMySword: Dreadnought to Danny at the start.
* TheNotLoveInterest: Sarah to Danny.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Sarah (tomboy) and Danny (girly girl).
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Sarah gets her equipment from an underground Technopath with money she takes from drug dealers.
* WorldsStrongestMan: Pretty much whoever happens to be Dreadnought at the time.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:Sarah]] has leukemia.
Before dying Dreadnought, the world's greatest superhero, passes on his powers to a young closeted transgirl named Danny Tozer. As a byproduct of the transfer Danny is transformed into her ideal self, making it impossible to hide her gender anymore.
The first book deals with Danny adjusting to her new life while trying to stop Dreadnought's murderer.
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!!Dreadnought contains examples of:
* BadassGay: Danny and Chlorophyll, a core member of Legion.
* BequeathedPower: How Dreadnought's powers are passed on.
* CoatHatMask: Sarah as Calamity wears a coat, hat, and face covering bandana.
* DoomedProtagonist: Dreadnoughts tend to be the first line of defense against whatever world ending threat may pop up. No Dreadnought has ever died of natural causes, and Danny doesn't expect to be the exception.
* EldritchAbomination: Nemesis seems to be some sort of phenomenon that unmakes reality and may, or may not, be sentient.
* {{Expy}}: Like other Superhero novels there are a lot of references to both Marvel and DC.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Doc Impossible has tried to date Valkyrja, who is, unfortunately, straight. To a lesser degree, Danny has a celebrity crush on Valkyrja.
* {{Kaiju}}: They exist in this world, and there was some sort of crisis of them in the past.
* LatinoIsBrown: Sarah
* LegacyOfTheChosen: Danny is the latest in the line of Dreadnoughts.
** [[spoiler:Valkyrja]]'s powers seem to be passed on through a combination of possession and reincarnation.
* LipstickLesbian: Danny is very much one. So much so, that even though being naturally beautiful is part of her powers she still likes applying makeup just for the sake of it.
* NecessaryDrawback: [[spoiler:Danny]] can heal herself, but it causes other injuries, and it is a slow process. It's only really useful when trading a life threating injury for several nonlethal ones.
* PaperThinDisguise: Sarah is very obviously Calamity, and Danny figures it out on their third meeting.
* PlantPerson: Chlorophyll
* SuperSerum: Sarah's grandfather was unwillingly used as a lab rat for one. It worked, and the effects can be inherited, but the government doesn't know that, and Sarah's family is planning on keeping it that way.
* SuperSoldier: Sarah and her family.
* TakeUpMySword: Dreadnought to Danny at the start.
* TheNotLoveInterest: Sarah to Danny.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Sarah (tomboy) and Danny (girly girl).
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Sarah gets her equipment from an underground Technopath with money she takes from drug dealers.
* WorldsStrongestMan: Pretty much whoever happens to be Dreadnought at the time.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:Sarah]] has leukemia.
