History Literature / PleaseDontTellMyParentsIWorkForASupervillain

* IncompatibleOrientation: ''Possibly'' Cassie and Penny Ak.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Magenta is a mad ALCHEMIST not scientist who is a high schooler, not a junior high student. She is, however, also training to be a supervillain while being mostly a good person. {{Justified}} as she's a Penny Akk fangirl.

* BlessedWithSuck: Magenta has two powers: Natural alchemical knowledge (which she loves, even if it's useless in combat) and an uncontrollable PerceptionFilter that makes it utterly impossible for anyone to ever recognize her. She spends the first part of the book being constantly asked by teachers if she wandered into the wrong classroom.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Magenta is a mad ALCHEMIST not scientist who is a high schooler, not a junior high student. She is, however, also training to be a supervillain while being mostly a good person. {{Justified}} as she's a Penny Ak fangirl.

This book contains the following tropes:

** Tyrant terrifies both superheroes and supervillains alike.

* KnightOfCerebus: The Tyrant is a villain who doesn't obey any rules because he's not from LA and genuinely is capable of conquering the world.

* SlasherSmile: This is Marcia's default expression these days.

* AloofBigBrother: Kay keeps his distance due to fear of misusing his power.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Kay's power lets him find the easiest answer to any question. Unfortunately, "easiest" is not the same as "best." He mentions that sometimes the easiest way to jam a doomsday device is to shove his own arm into the gears, and later Cleric points out that the easiest way to free someone from mind control is to kill them, or rip out the mind control implants (which will likely kill them).

* BornLucky: Kay has this as his power. It's something he loathes given it can have horrible side effects on other people.

* WithGreatPower: Kay's power could get him literally anything he wanted. He uses it ''only'' for hero work, and absolutely refuses to use it for anything selfish. There was apparently an incident in his past that scared him out of using it selfishly, but even Magenta doesn't know the details.

* PerceptionFilter: No one can remember what Magenta looks like. End of story. Once she gets out of sight for thirty seconds, even her best friends find themselves completely unable to recognize her. They remember Magenta herself (and Marcia icily tells her "this seat is taken" when Magenta tries to sit in her own seat), but simply cannot connect this pink-haired girl with their pink-haired friend. Not even her family is immune; they get around it by expecting the "stranger" in their house to be Magenta. Cleric is experienced enough to muscle through it, Tonika is smart enough to identify when Magenta's power is working on her, and Aikamieli can usually figure it out because all his love spells point at her.

* WithGreatResponsibility: Kay's power could get him literally anything he wanted. He uses it ''only'' for hero work, and absolutely refuses to use it for anything selfish. There was apparently an incident in his past that scared him out of using it selfishly, but even Magenta doesn't know the details.

* BlessedWithSuck: Magenta has a vast array of awesome alchemical abilities that are pretty useless in combat.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Joked about with the fact that everyone expects Sue to be evil despite the fact she's a superhero. Its just because she has shadow powers.

* PerkyGoth: Marcia has become this with her constant dangerous punk girl look but it has made her much happier than she ever was as an AlphaBitch.

* IncompatibleOrientation: ''Possibly'' Charlotte and Penny Ak.

** Kay is happy that [[spoiler:he's lost his powers because their only purpose was to be a superhero, and being a superhero puts him and those around him in constant danger]]. Moreover, said power never told him what would happen, only what actions to take.

* CursedWithAwesome: It is impossible for anyone to recognize Magenta from moment to moment, even among her family. It is, however, useful for keeping a secret identity.

* KidSidekick: Cleric offers to make Magenta is squire and teen henchman, which she accepts.

* MeaningfulNames: Pawn for Magenta. Because of Tyrant's chess motifs. [[spoiler: She also doesn't realize Tyrant is really-really evil.]]

* AffablyEvil: Cleric is a kind, compassionate, and pleasant mentor to Magenta. [[spoiler So much so that she forgets that while affable, he really is ''evil.'']]

* WrongGenreSavvy: Magenta assumes that Upper High is a X-men style school for superheroes. It's just a high school with a lot of powered kids.

* TheDreaded: Mourning Dove remains this among supervillains.

''Please Don't Tell My Parents I Work for a Supervillain'' is another entry into the ''[[Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImASupervillain Please Dont Tell My Parents]]'' Young Adult {{Capepunk}} series by Creator/RichardRoberts. It stars a new protagonist and several minor characters from the original series.