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The entire series revels in playing with ComicBookTropes and rejecting the DarkAge of comics. WordOfGod even states that early versions were a blatant TakeThat at Marvel's [[Comicbook/CivilWar Civil War]] and that as a whole, it strives to find the sweet spot between the SilverAge and UsefulNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}}.
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Deign. It means to do something that you consider beneath yourself, but Porter uses it to mean didn't all over the place. Also Taunt. It means to provoke or challenge someone with an insulting remarks, but Porter uses it to mean stretched or pulled tightly (Taut).
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[[http://www.descendantsserial.com The Descendants]] is a WebSerialNovel, Written by Landon Porter. It can best be described as an all text [[ComicBookTropes comic book]], as it is presented in the form of issues, annuals, one shots and mini series just as if it was any other comic book universe.
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[[http://www.descendantsserial.com The Descendants]] is a WebSerialNovel, Written written by Landon Porter. It can best be described as an all text [[ComicBookTropes comic book]], as it is presented in the form of issues, annuals, one shots and mini series just as if it was any other comic book universe.
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* Golem: In the issue Emet.
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* InstantRunes: Occult uses these during the 4 arc. Notable in that she has to prepare them ahead of time to get the 'instant' effect.
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* SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX: In Rust Buckets, Juniper points out that it wouldn't make sense for her to be racist against non-descendants being as she's only ever gone out with non-descendants.
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* SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX: In Rust Buckets, Juniper points out that it wouldn't make sense for her to be racist against non-descendants being as because she's only ever gone out with dated non-descendants.
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* SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX: In Rust Buckets, Juniper points out that it wouldn't make sense for her to be racist against non-descendants being as she's only ever gone out with non-descendants.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Whitecoat and Sneak Thief.
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* SixthRanger: Primarily Juniper, but also Lisa, to an extent. [[spoiler: Also Tink, and sort-of with Callie, because even though she's now officially part of the team, whether or not she'll actually become a main character is debatable.]]
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* ShowWithinAShow: ''Malady Place''. Many of the characters are fans and the first act of the pilot is in the extras area.
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: WordofGod describes Cynthia as this.
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** WordOfGod says that originally, Cyn and Warrick ''were'' supposed to get together, but then the author ended up developing Tink, who was originally supposed to be a RomanticFalseLead (along with Liz Von Stoker and presumably a few others who were then cut when Tink became a permanent fixture).
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** WordOfGod says that originally, Cyn and Warrick ''were'' supposed to get together, but then the author ended up developing Tink, who was originally supposed to be a RomanticFalseLead (along with Liz Von Stoker and presumably a few others who others, but they were then cut when Tink became a permanent fixture).
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* GreatBigBookOfEverything: The Book Of Reason, and presumably the rest of The 4 books, spontaneously grow new material. Even in digital copies.
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** Batman has two: Barn Owl who is a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob who [[CrimeFightingWithCash Crime Fights With Cash]] and even has a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Older Guardian]] in New York.
** And Umbrage/Shadow in Chicago, who is a [[{{Antihero}} Antiheroic]] cop on disability after being tortured. He goes after criminals at night and while he uses his powers to torture mobsters who got away with their crimes, he doesn't kill and has a [[KidSidekick sidekick]] who he admits is helping him to pull back from the edge.
** And Umbrage/Shadow in Chicago, who is a [[{{Antihero}} Antiheroic]] cop on disability after being tortured. He goes after criminals at night and while he uses his powers to torture mobsters who got away with their crimes, he doesn't kill and has a [[KidSidekick sidekick]] who he admits is helping him to pull back from the edge.
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* PsychicNosebleed: Discussed by Alloy and Facsimile in issue #67. Alloy transmutes more metal than ever before, the effort does make him weak for a moment but he doesn't get a nosebleed.
-->'''Facsimile''': That’s a lot of metal. You’ve never done this much at once.
---> '''Alloy''': I never tried to push it at all before.” He said, not so certain himself.
---> '''Alloy''': But hey, if I get a nosebleed and faint or something, you’re right here, right?
-->'''Facsimile''': That’s a lot of metal. You’ve never done this much at once.
---> '''Alloy''': I never tried to push it at all before.” He said, not so certain himself.
---> '''Alloy''': But hey, if I get a nosebleed and faint or something, you’re right here, right?
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* CuteMonsterGirl: Freaque, Rehenimaru, and Joy Duvall. If it's female and non-human, it will be one of these.
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* CuteMonsterGirl: Freaque, Rehenimaru, and Joy Duvall. If it's female and non-human, it will be one of these. these.
** Phineas (Xylem) actually thinks it might be a part of descendent powers.
** Phineas (Xylem) actually thinks it might be a part of descendent powers.
* ForWantOfANail: Apparantly according to [[spoiler:George]] if Alexis didn't see the memo and breakout the descendants in stasis the world becomes a [[CrapsackWorld crapsack one]] within six months or so. Since she did, it looks like the world is instead heading to a Golden Age.
** They take 2 hours to create, but the non-instant runes take half an hour. In battle the two hours ahead of time makes them much faster in the moment.
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* GenerationXerox: Played with, ''a lot''. Cyn and Warrick more or less are Alexis and Ian as kids, and thanks to [[HumanPopsicle stasis]] they even have the ''same'' roommate. In the "possible future" issue they even get their own super-group in the future. However it looks like they're not going to end up together, and the more CharacterDevelopment there is, the more what looked like a GenerationXerox at first gets less and less xeroxy.
** WordOfGod says that originally, Cyn and Warrick "were" supposed to get together, but then the author ended up developing Tink, who was originally supposed to be a RomanticFalseLead (along with Liz Von Stoker and presumably a few others who were then cut) when Tink became a permanent fixture).
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* GenerationXerox: Played with, ''a lot''.a lot. Cyn and Warrick more or less are Alexis and Ian as kids, and thanks to [[HumanPopsicle stasis]] they even have the ''same'' roommate. In the "possible future" issue they even get their own super-group in the future. However it looks like they're not going to end up together, and the more CharacterDevelopment there is, the more what looked like a GenerationXerox at first gets less and less xeroxy.
** WordOfGod says that originally, Cyn and Warrick"were" ''were'' supposed to get together, but then the author ended up developing Tink, who was originally supposed to be a RomanticFalseLead (along with Liz Von Stoker and presumably a few others who were then cut) cut when Tink became a permanent fixture).
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* CodeName: Academy students had a tradition of giving themselves these. It's also implied that British psionics working for the government also have them following the pattern of Verbing Noun.
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* GenerationXerox: played Played with, ''a lot''. Cyn and Warrick more or less are Alexis and Ian as kids, and thanks to [[HumanPopsicle stasis]] they even have the ''same'' roommate. In the "possible future" issue they even get their own super-group in the future. However it looks like they're not going to end up together, an and the more CharacterDevelopment there is, the more what looked like a GenerationXerox at first gets less and less xeroxy.xeroxy.
** WordOfGod says that originally, Cyn and Warrick "were" supposed to get together, but then the author ended up developing Tink, who was originally supposed to be a RomanticFalseLead (along with Liz Von Stoker and presumably a few others who were then cut) when Tink became a permanent fixture).
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* KidSidekick: strangely enough, for all the gold and silver age feeling, deconstructed. The whitecoat does not Whitecoat doesn't really want Damascus (Warrick's old prelate name) around, and finally has a chat with his parents to stop him doing reckless things and [[spoiler: after he accidentally slags key evidence]]. This leads them to enroll him at the academy Academy to train.
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* MetaOrigin: Most heroes and a good number of the villains are [[{{Mutants}} psionics]].
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* {{Mutants}}: Called 'psionics' here. An interesting case in that while psionics are born with their powers, those powers are the result of [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke experimentation]] during WorldWarTwo
* MysteriousWatcher: we had to wait for 49 issues before discovering who 'George' was.
* NinetiesAntiHero: deconstructed, any character that has the motivation and personality of one is a straight up villain here. See Samael: His [[TakeThat defining characteristic]]? [[RobLiefeld Pouches]], lots of pouches.
* MysteriousWatcher: we had to wait for 49 issues before discovering who 'George' was.
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WorldWarTwo, hence the name- because they are the descendants of the people experimented on.
* MysteriousWatcher:we We had to wait for 49 issues before discovering who 'George' was.
* NinetiesAntiHero:deconstructed, Deconstructed, any character that has the motivation and personality of one is a straight up villain here. See Samael: His [[TakeThat defining characteristic]]? [[RobLiefeld Pouches]], lots of pouches.
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* GadgeteerGenius: Laurel and Tink, Warrick's non-powered girlfriend.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Zig zags a bit. Reading only the main series is fine, and you get 99% of the stuff. However for all the small trivia about the future world, the prelates, faerie and everything else you need to not only read all the side stories, but the Q&A thread on the forums has stuff in it not answered anywhere. The [[TabletopGames RPG]] played on the forums (and set in the same universe) has some additional information too, but it's already more than [[ArchivePanic 3'000 posts long]].
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* AllThereInTheManual: Zig zags a bit. Reading only the main series is fine, and you get 99% of the stuff. However for all the small trivia about the future world, the prelates, faerie and everything else you need to not only read all the side stories, but the Q&A thread on the forums has stuff in it not answered anywhere. The [[TabletopGames RPG]] played on the forums (and set in the same universe) has some additional information too, but it's already more than [[ArchivePanic 3'000 3,000 posts long]].
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The main series follows a group of [[{{Mutants}} superhumans]] [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual called psionics]] on the run from a the group behind a villainous SuperheroSchool called the Academy. Events conspire from there to turn them from basically a SecretProjectRefugeeFamily into a SuperTeam.
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* Feather Flechettes: Samael launches these with his Magitek wings.
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An ebook was recently released: ''[[http://amzn.to/mMJvbC Welcome to Freeland House]]'', which edits and collects the first eight issues.
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* ShoutOut: Many. Especially the names of Alloy's sentient, metal tentacles, [[SluggyFreelance Isp and Osp]].
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* ShoutOut: Many. Especially the names of Alloy's sentient, metal tentacles, [[SluggyFreelance [[Webcomic/SluggyFreelance Isp and Osp]].
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-->''They are heroes. They are people. This is their story. A comic book universe in prose.''
[[http://www.descendantsserial.com The Descendants]] is a WebSerialNovel, Written by Landon Porter. It can best be described as an all text [[ComicBookTropes comic book]], as it is presented in the form of issues, annuals, one shots and mini series just as if it was any other comic book universe.
The main series follows a group of [[{{Mutants}} superhumans]] [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual called psionics]] on the run from a the group behind a villainous SuperheroSchool called the Academy. Events conspire from there to turn them from basically a SecretProjectRefugeeFamily into a SuperTeam.
Miniseries on the site also follow characters in other corners of the [[TheVerse Descendants Universe]] such as the heroes who live in New York, or the students in a non-evil SuperheroSchool.
The entire series revels in playing with ComicBookTropes and rejecting the DarkAge of comics. WordOfGod even states that early versions were a blatant TakeThat at Marvel's [[Comicbook/CivilWar Civil War]] and that as a whole, it strives to find the sweet spot between the SilverAge and BronzeAge.
Mostly, it sticks to [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld Teen Hero]] books and family themes.
Not to be confused with [[Film/TheDescendants the 2011 film]].
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This series provides examples of:
* AffablyEvil: Most villains. Even the demons are polite. That does not mean they're ''nice'' however.
* AliceAllusion: Vorpal. Besides her CodeName, her friend Mr. Voice calls her Alice for lack of a real name to call her by.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Subverted. One issue actually riffs on the idea in its name, but in the end, the girl decides that she likes the quiet guy.
* AllThereInTheManual: Zig zags a bit. Reading only the main series is fine, and you get 99% of the stuff. However for all the small trivia about the future world, the prelates, faerie and everything else you need to not only read all the side stories, but the Q&A thread on the forums has stuff in it not answered anywhere. The [[TabletopGames RPG]] played on the forums (and set in the same universe) has some additional information too, but it's already more than [[ArchivePanic 3'000 posts long]].
* AlphaBitch: Lily Goldenmeyer and with the new school comes Betty [[PrehensileHair "Rapunzel"]] Sinclair
* AntiVillain: Vorpal, clearly. Liedecker to a lesser degree.
* BadassNormal: Liedecker manages to fight a [[spoiler:freaking demon]] to a standstill. But the cake goes to [[spoiler:George]], who single handedly stops Rehenimaru's plan, and ''without'' any kind of weapon or battle training. Doubles as BadassGrandpa too.
* TheBechdelTest: Lampshaded in one conversation that has been 100% about dating and boys, capped off with a character mentioning that she's probably going to fail the test she's studying for, administered by a Professor Bechdel.
* BigBad: Simon Talbot and Project TOME
** Morganna might yet turn out to be an even Bigger Bad.
* TheChessmaster: Brother Wright
** Simon Talbot is starting to show signs of this too.
** And Thunderhead.
* CityOfAdventure: The fictional city of Mayfield, VA.
* CodeName: Academy students had a tradition of giving themselves these. It's also implied that British psionics working for the government also have them following the pattern of Verbing Noun.
* CrypticBackgroundReference: The characters often reference villains who haven't appeared in the series.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Freaque, Rehenimaru, and Joy Duvall. If it's female and non-human, it will be one of these. Of course, YourMilageMayVary on if they're that cute.
* DarkChick: Shine and to a lesser extent, Impact
* DeathByOriginStory: Whitecoat's favorite professor
* DifferentlyPoweredIndividual: The superheroes are called "prelates" by the media, but many of the heroes (as per the page quote) [[GenreSavvy know exactly what they are]]. At one point, a character asks when it will be okay to call bad guys supervillains.
* {{Eagleland}}: Starts out looking like a Type 1 largely because the series is very US-centric until Volume 5. But FridgeLogic sets in when you realize that none of the core conflict would even exist without massive corruption and/or incompetence in the US government.
* EnemyCivilWar: Most apparent with the Brother Wright/Project TOME split, but [[spoiler:Morganna/demons and demons/demon baboons, too]]. This seems to be a way of life in [[AnotherDimension Faerie]].
* EnemyMine: Even demons intent on hunting down and consuming the emotions of humans don't like Morganna.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Ape Knight and a horde of demon baboons that appear in [[strike:one]] two issues.
* EverythingsBetterWithPlatypi: Morganna keeps one around for the poison.
** And for a GreenDay [[WaxingLyrical reference]].
* {{Expy}}: Liedecker is essentially [[{{DCAU}} Diniverse Luthor played sane]] and much, much more dangerous.
* GadgeteerGenius: Laurel and Tink, Warrick's non-powered girlfriend.
* GenerationXerox: played with, ''a lot''. Cyn and Warrick more or less are Alexis and Ian as kids, and thanks to [[HumanPopsicle stasis]] they even have the ''same'' roommate. In the "possible future" issue they even get their own super-group in the future. However it looks like they're not going to end up together, an the more CharacterDevelopment there is, the more what looked like a GenerationXerox at first gets less and less xeroxy.
* GenreSavvy: Warrick swings between this and WrongGenreSavvy from issue to issue.
* GreatBigBookOfEverything: The Book Of Reason, and presumably the rest of The 4 books, spontaneously grow new material. Even in digital copies.
* IHaveTheHighGround: Warrick, most heroic fliers. During the finale of Volume 1, the heroes call the villains out from a rooftop.
* InstantRunes: Occult uses these during the 4 arc. Notable in that she has to prepare them ahead of time to get the 'instant' effect.
* InTheHood: Occult wears one. It casts magical darkness over her face.
* InvoluntaryTransformation: Seems to happen a lot to tertiary characters: Freaque, Wolf, the poor sod the Mauler [[spoiler:possessed]]...
* IWasJustPassingThrough: Odd heroic sample with Hope 'helping' Vorpal with some smugglers when she just wanted to get to a transceiver.
* KidSidekick: strangely enough, for all the gold and silver age feeling, deconstructed. The whitecoat does not want Damascus around, and finally has a chat with his parents to stop him doing reckless things and enroll at the academy to train.
** Even more deconstructed with Kay and Occult, since they're both kids.
* LaserGuidedKarma: usually done in a positive way. All the people misguided or forced into villainy manage to get an happy end of one sort or another. It does help that most of the antagonists are overall positive characters.
* MagicalGirl: Occult is a MagicWarrior
* MetaOrigin: Most heroes and a good number of the villains are [[{{Mutants}} psionics]].
* MindControl: Both Avatar and Thunderhead's [=MOs=]. Morganna doesn't hesitate to apply it when needed.
* {{Mutants}}: Called 'psionics' here. An interesting case in that while psionics are born with their powers, those powers are the result of [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke experimentation]] during WorldWarTwo
* MysteriousWatcher: we had to wait for 49 issues before discovering who 'George' was.
* NinetiesAntiHero: deconstructed, any character that has the motivation and personality of one is a straight up villain here. See Samael: His [[TakeThat defining characteristic]]? [[RobLiefeld Pouches]], lots of pouches.
** His fandom seems to share his views, in the [[TabletopGames PbP RPG]] they're playing on the website's forums one of the characters comments on a hulking man with tiny feet and, of course, pouches.
** Even [[AliceAllusion Vorpal]], who is the most woobish of the villains, gets a ShutUpHannibal by the ''KnightInSourArmour'' Hope, of all people.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Juniper has moments of this, casually commenting one things like how easily she could simply be shot and killed ''immediately'' after Cyn had a hallucination about all of her friends being killed horribly.
* {{Orichalcum}}: The nearly indestructible metal orihalcite and its refined form, orihalcon.
* OurMonstersAreDifferent: Trolls and Demons especially.
* ParentalAbandonment: Mostly averted. We've met almost all the main characters' parents and know why they're allowed to stay at Freeland House.
** Played straight in Cyn's case. Her family drove her out with their abuse over her BigEater tendencies 'costing too much'.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Morganna. Only not really.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Rare, but all the more grating for it.
** The author has gone back and done a lot of editing, so at least it isn't a case of TheyJustDidntCare.
* SecretIdentity: Played with. The BigBad knew their identities from the start, their families mostly find out early on, but they still maintain their secret identities because of all the ''new'' enemies they've made.
* ShoutOut: Many. Especially the names of Alloy's sentient, metal tentacles, [[SluggyFreelance Isp and Osp]].
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Malady Place''. Many of the characters are fans and the first act of the pilot is in the extras area.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Firmly on the idealism side and consciously taking a stand against cynicism.
* StartOfDarkness: The ''Liedecker: Life and Times'' miniseries is this for Liedecker and ''Rise of Morganna'' shows this for Morganna in flashback.
* SuperHeroSchool: And how! The Academy, the Brunswick School, Voice's School, the Liedecker Institute
* SuperHero
* SuperpowerLottery: Some people control universal forces, some people... are prematurely bald.
* TakeThat: The briefly seen villain Wartorn more or less *is* Mark Millar and paraphrases Millar as a justification of his villainy.
** His real name is 'Mark Miller' in French.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Constantly. It's rare to even have a ''villain'' kill someone. Not for lack of trying on their parts, though. Morganna seems to be immune to this rule.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The 4, each of which contain the source code for the universe's local magical laws. All have their own force of will, are extremely dangerous, and perhaps most worryingly, can be photocopied or digitized with both copies retaining those attributes. One of them is called [[OhCrap the Book Of Madness]].
** The Book of Passions in seems to think it's perfectly okay to sic monsters on its ChosenOne.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Liedecker. He's managed to get the heroes to name a school after him!
** Not him, his father.
* WaxingLyrical: At least once per volume.
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[[http://www.descendantsserial.com The Descendants]] is a WebSerialNovel, Written by Landon Porter. It can best be described as an all text [[ComicBookTropes comic book]], as it is presented in the form of issues, annuals, one shots and mini series just as if it was any other comic book universe.
The main series follows a group of [[{{Mutants}} superhumans]] [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual called psionics]] on the run from a the group behind a villainous SuperheroSchool called the Academy. Events conspire from there to turn them from basically a SecretProjectRefugeeFamily into a SuperTeam.
Miniseries on the site also follow characters in other corners of the [[TheVerse Descendants Universe]] such as the heroes who live in New York, or the students in a non-evil SuperheroSchool.
The entire series revels in playing with ComicBookTropes and rejecting the DarkAge of comics. WordOfGod even states that early versions were a blatant TakeThat at Marvel's [[Comicbook/CivilWar Civil War]] and that as a whole, it strives to find the sweet spot between the SilverAge and BronzeAge.
Mostly, it sticks to [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld Teen Hero]] books and family themes.
Not to be confused with [[Film/TheDescendants the 2011 film]].
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This series provides examples of:
* AffablyEvil: Most villains. Even the demons are polite. That does not mean they're ''nice'' however.
* AliceAllusion: Vorpal. Besides her CodeName, her friend Mr. Voice calls her Alice for lack of a real name to call her by.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Subverted. One issue actually riffs on the idea in its name, but in the end, the girl decides that she likes the quiet guy.
* AllThereInTheManual: Zig zags a bit. Reading only the main series is fine, and you get 99% of the stuff. However for all the small trivia about the future world, the prelates, faerie and everything else you need to not only read all the side stories, but the Q&A thread on the forums has stuff in it not answered anywhere. The [[TabletopGames RPG]] played on the forums (and set in the same universe) has some additional information too, but it's already more than [[ArchivePanic 3'000 posts long]].
* AlphaBitch: Lily Goldenmeyer and with the new school comes Betty [[PrehensileHair "Rapunzel"]] Sinclair
* AntiVillain: Vorpal, clearly. Liedecker to a lesser degree.
* BadassNormal: Liedecker manages to fight a [[spoiler:freaking demon]] to a standstill. But the cake goes to [[spoiler:George]], who single handedly stops Rehenimaru's plan, and ''without'' any kind of weapon or battle training. Doubles as BadassGrandpa too.
* TheBechdelTest: Lampshaded in one conversation that has been 100% about dating and boys, capped off with a character mentioning that she's probably going to fail the test she's studying for, administered by a Professor Bechdel.
* BigBad: Simon Talbot and Project TOME
** Morganna might yet turn out to be an even Bigger Bad.
* TheChessmaster: Brother Wright
** Simon Talbot is starting to show signs of this too.
** And Thunderhead.
* CityOfAdventure: The fictional city of Mayfield, VA.
* CodeName: Academy students had a tradition of giving themselves these. It's also implied that British psionics working for the government also have them following the pattern of Verbing Noun.
* CrypticBackgroundReference: The characters often reference villains who haven't appeared in the series.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Freaque, Rehenimaru, and Joy Duvall. If it's female and non-human, it will be one of these. Of course, YourMilageMayVary on if they're that cute.
* DarkChick: Shine and to a lesser extent, Impact
* DeathByOriginStory: Whitecoat's favorite professor
* DifferentlyPoweredIndividual: The superheroes are called "prelates" by the media, but many of the heroes (as per the page quote) [[GenreSavvy know exactly what they are]]. At one point, a character asks when it will be okay to call bad guys supervillains.
* {{Eagleland}}: Starts out looking like a Type 1 largely because the series is very US-centric until Volume 5. But FridgeLogic sets in when you realize that none of the core conflict would even exist without massive corruption and/or incompetence in the US government.
* EnemyCivilWar: Most apparent with the Brother Wright/Project TOME split, but [[spoiler:Morganna/demons and demons/demon baboons, too]]. This seems to be a way of life in [[AnotherDimension Faerie]].
* EnemyMine: Even demons intent on hunting down and consuming the emotions of humans don't like Morganna.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Ape Knight and a horde of demon baboons that appear in [[strike:one]] two issues.
* EverythingsBetterWithPlatypi: Morganna keeps one around for the poison.
** And for a GreenDay [[WaxingLyrical reference]].
* {{Expy}}: Liedecker is essentially [[{{DCAU}} Diniverse Luthor played sane]] and much, much more dangerous.
* GadgeteerGenius: Laurel and Tink, Warrick's non-powered girlfriend.
* GenerationXerox: played with, ''a lot''. Cyn and Warrick more or less are Alexis and Ian as kids, and thanks to [[HumanPopsicle stasis]] they even have the ''same'' roommate. In the "possible future" issue they even get their own super-group in the future. However it looks like they're not going to end up together, an the more CharacterDevelopment there is, the more what looked like a GenerationXerox at first gets less and less xeroxy.
* GenreSavvy: Warrick swings between this and WrongGenreSavvy from issue to issue.
* GreatBigBookOfEverything: The Book Of Reason, and presumably the rest of The 4 books, spontaneously grow new material. Even in digital copies.
* IHaveTheHighGround: Warrick, most heroic fliers. During the finale of Volume 1, the heroes call the villains out from a rooftop.
* InstantRunes: Occult uses these during the 4 arc. Notable in that she has to prepare them ahead of time to get the 'instant' effect.
* InTheHood: Occult wears one. It casts magical darkness over her face.
* InvoluntaryTransformation: Seems to happen a lot to tertiary characters: Freaque, Wolf, the poor sod the Mauler [[spoiler:possessed]]...
* IWasJustPassingThrough: Odd heroic sample with Hope 'helping' Vorpal with some smugglers when she just wanted to get to a transceiver.
* KidSidekick: strangely enough, for all the gold and silver age feeling, deconstructed. The whitecoat does not want Damascus around, and finally has a chat with his parents to stop him doing reckless things and enroll at the academy to train.
** Even more deconstructed with Kay and Occult, since they're both kids.
* LaserGuidedKarma: usually done in a positive way. All the people misguided or forced into villainy manage to get an happy end of one sort or another. It does help that most of the antagonists are overall positive characters.
* MagicalGirl: Occult is a MagicWarrior
* MetaOrigin: Most heroes and a good number of the villains are [[{{Mutants}} psionics]].
* MindControl: Both Avatar and Thunderhead's [=MOs=]. Morganna doesn't hesitate to apply it when needed.
* {{Mutants}}: Called 'psionics' here. An interesting case in that while psionics are born with their powers, those powers are the result of [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke experimentation]] during WorldWarTwo
* MysteriousWatcher: we had to wait for 49 issues before discovering who 'George' was.
* NinetiesAntiHero: deconstructed, any character that has the motivation and personality of one is a straight up villain here. See Samael: His [[TakeThat defining characteristic]]? [[RobLiefeld Pouches]], lots of pouches.
** His fandom seems to share his views, in the [[TabletopGames PbP RPG]] they're playing on the website's forums one of the characters comments on a hulking man with tiny feet and, of course, pouches.
** Even [[AliceAllusion Vorpal]], who is the most woobish of the villains, gets a ShutUpHannibal by the ''KnightInSourArmour'' Hope, of all people.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Juniper has moments of this, casually commenting one things like how easily she could simply be shot and killed ''immediately'' after Cyn had a hallucination about all of her friends being killed horribly.
* {{Orichalcum}}: The nearly indestructible metal orihalcite and its refined form, orihalcon.
* OurMonstersAreDifferent: Trolls and Demons especially.
* ParentalAbandonment: Mostly averted. We've met almost all the main characters' parents and know why they're allowed to stay at Freeland House.
** Played straight in Cyn's case. Her family drove her out with their abuse over her BigEater tendencies 'costing too much'.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Morganna. Only not really.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Rare, but all the more grating for it.
** The author has gone back and done a lot of editing, so at least it isn't a case of TheyJustDidntCare.
* SecretIdentity: Played with. The BigBad knew their identities from the start, their families mostly find out early on, but they still maintain their secret identities because of all the ''new'' enemies they've made.
* ShoutOut: Many. Especially the names of Alloy's sentient, metal tentacles, [[SluggyFreelance Isp and Osp]].
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Malady Place''. Many of the characters are fans and the first act of the pilot is in the extras area.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Firmly on the idealism side and consciously taking a stand against cynicism.
* StartOfDarkness: The ''Liedecker: Life and Times'' miniseries is this for Liedecker and ''Rise of Morganna'' shows this for Morganna in flashback.
* SuperHeroSchool: And how! The Academy, the Brunswick School, Voice's School, the Liedecker Institute
* SuperHero
* SuperpowerLottery: Some people control universal forces, some people... are prematurely bald.
* TakeThat: The briefly seen villain Wartorn more or less *is* Mark Millar and paraphrases Millar as a justification of his villainy.
** His real name is 'Mark Miller' in French.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Constantly. It's rare to even have a ''villain'' kill someone. Not for lack of trying on their parts, though. Morganna seems to be immune to this rule.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The 4, each of which contain the source code for the universe's local magical laws. All have their own force of will, are extremely dangerous, and perhaps most worryingly, can be photocopied or digitized with both copies retaining those attributes. One of them is called [[OhCrap the Book Of Madness]].
** The Book of Passions in seems to think it's perfectly okay to sic monsters on its ChosenOne.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Liedecker. He's managed to get the heroes to name a school after him!
** Not him, his father.
* WaxingLyrical: At least once per volume.
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