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* BrokenAesop:
** Ward is initially presented as a story about overcoming the hardships of the past in order to pursue a better tomorrow, exemplified both through the initial setting being a city being constructed in the aftermath of the end of the world and the main cast all being members of a therapy group all wrestling with their own mental issues. What seems like a strong foundation for these themes however gradually crumbles away further and further as arcs progress. The heroes rarely outright win, the City collapses into starvation and anarchy and is eventually abandoned entirely while the main cast either die or backslide mentally until they're even ''less'' in control of their mental issues than they were at the start. This comes to a head in the Last arc, wherein a final act of desperation against Titan Fortuna and the Simurgh, the superpowered cast intentionally infects themselves with a virus that is guaranteed to ''kill them'' while giving them twisted and unpleasant dreams, in order to screw up the data that the entities are collecting and irreparably damage the cycle. What was ostensibly a story about overcoming trauma ended up looking like "sometimes you simply can't change yourself or your situation for the better, and then the next best thing you can do for the world and everyone you know is give up and die". Many readers did not take it well, risking a BrokenBase...
** ...However, it was later revealed that all the capes could be revived should the unpowered citizens of the world choose to revive them in time, which everyone appears to have known going in, meaning that the actual intended lesson was something more like "sometimes in order to change yourself or your situation for the better, you have to place your faith and hope in others and rely on their help and support". Indeed, the epilogues support this: the characters who have reached out for help and support are the best off mentally and physically by the end (e.g. Victoria), while those who push others away are doing the worst (e.g. Chris). This is much closer to a standard [[AnAesop family-friendly Aesop]]...
** ...But it's also clear that there was a real risk that the unpowered would choose to let them die anyway and many of the more cynical capes believed that this would happen, but accepted the virus anyway, so for them, it may as well have been suicide. Not helped by the fact a large part of the story portrayed the overall relationship between normal people and parahumans as decidedly distrustful and negative; as well as all the characters themselves going about things as if it were suicide. So between the ending flying in the face of how people as a whole were largely portrayed throughout the story, combined with the author having characters avoid mentioning or reacting to the finer details of the plan, there's some argument about whether the original message of recovery stands strong, or if the "they always knew they would be revived" argument is an AuthorsSavingThrow.
** A number of plot points were dropped by the wayside either to speed the plot up or due to the author's real life unhappiness with writing the story and wanting it finished, and do so in a way that is worse than if they weren't raised in the first place.
*** The anti-parahuman's very legitimate criticism of parahumans receiving blatant favoritism and disproportionate power are brushed aside at the end and the group mocked and marginalized before being strawmanned by a literal child, which unintentionally proved them right on almost every count.
*** The central theme of becoming a better person is side-stepped when the protagonists help the Wardens set up an interdimensional gulag with inhumane conditions, with the specific intention of 'disappearing' troublesome villains into it, to make the other villains more afraid of stepping out of line. Beyond some initial doubts, the morality of this is never questioned, and it is ultimately abandoned for being impractical. In particular, Sveta's journey to self-actualization never made as much progress through her own efforts or bonds as it did when Victoria got frustrated and made a DealWithTheDevil with a villain to solve her problems for her in exchange for better conditions in the gulag.
** Ward is initially presented as a story about overcoming the hardships of the past in order to pursue a better tomorrow, exemplified both through the initial setting being a city being constructed in the aftermath of the end of the world and the main cast all being members of a therapy group all wrestling with their own mental issues. What seems like a strong foundation for these themes however gradually crumbles away further and further as arcs progress. The heroes rarely outright win, the City collapses into starvation and anarchy and is eventually abandoned entirely while the main cast either die or backslide mentally until they're even ''less'' in control of their mental issues than they were at the start. This comes to a head in the Last arc, wherein a final act of desperation against Titan Fortuna and the Simurgh, the superpowered cast intentionally infects themselves with a virus that is guaranteed to ''kill them'' while giving them twisted and unpleasant dreams, in order to screw up the data that the entities are collecting and irreparably damage the cycle. What was ostensibly a story about overcoming trauma ended up looking like "sometimes you simply can't change yourself or your situation for the better, and then the next best thing you can do for the world and everyone you know is give up and die". Many readers did not take it well, risking a BrokenBase...
** ...However, it was later revealed that all the capes could be revived should the unpowered citizens of the world choose to revive them in time, which everyone appears to have known going in, meaning that the actual intended lesson was something more like "sometimes in order to change yourself or your situation for the better, you have to place your faith and hope in others and rely on their help and support". Indeed, the epilogues support this: the characters who have reached out for help and support are the best off mentally and physically by the end (e.g. Victoria), while those who push others away are doing the worst (e.g. Chris). This is much closer to a standard [[AnAesop family-friendly Aesop]]...
** ...But it's also clear that there was a real risk that the unpowered would choose to let them die anyway and many of the more cynical capes believed that this would happen, but accepted the virus anyway, so for them, it may as well have been suicide. Not helped by the fact a large part of the story portrayed the overall relationship between normal people and parahumans as decidedly distrustful and negative; as well as all the characters themselves going about things as if it were suicide. So between the ending flying in the face of how people as a whole were largely portrayed throughout the story, combined with the author having characters avoid mentioning or reacting to the finer details of the plan, there's some argument about whether the original message of recovery stands strong, or if the "they always knew they would be revived" argument is an AuthorsSavingThrow.
** A number of plot points were dropped by the wayside either to speed the plot up or due to the author's real life unhappiness with writing the story and wanting it finished, and do so in a way that is worse than if they weren't raised in the first place.
*** The anti-parahuman's very legitimate criticism of parahumans receiving blatant favoritism and disproportionate power are brushed aside at the end and the group mocked and marginalized before being strawmanned by a literal child, which unintentionally proved them right on almost every count.
*** The central theme of becoming a better person is side-stepped when the protagonists help the Wardens set up an interdimensional gulag with inhumane conditions, with the specific intention of 'disappearing' troublesome villains into it, to make the other villains more afraid of stepping out of line. Beyond some initial doubts, the morality of this is never questioned, and it is ultimately abandoned for being impractical. In particular, Sveta's journey to self-actualization never made as much progress through her own efforts or bonds as it did when Victoria got frustrated and made a DealWithTheDevil with a villain to solve her problems for her in exchange for better conditions in the gulag.
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* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:The shards themselves, even after the deaths of Scion and Eden render the process futile, remain on course to complete the life cycle of the Entities that will end in the destruction of all Earths across the multiverse. Without Scion to safely guide them, "broken" second triggers see the shards merge with and overwhelm their parahuman hosts, transforming them into Endbringer-esque Titans; [[TheHeavy Teacher]] works to expedite this process for around four-fifths of the story, but is [[DiscOneFinalBoss taken out]] before he can gain control of the crisis. Contessa's Titan--dubbed Fortuna by the heroes--proceeds to become the most dangerous of them all and the most successful at taking over other Titans in an effort to become a new Entity, but the Simurgh returns to combat her in the climax with its own plan to co-opt the Titan networks and restructure society into a dystopian nightmare of torture and conflict for maximum data collection.]]
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* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:The shards themselves, even after the deaths of Scion and Eden render the process futile, themselves remain on course to complete the life cycle of the Entities that will end in the destruction of all Earths across the multiverse. Without multiverse, and without Scion or Eden to safely guide them, "broken" second triggers see the shards merge with and overwhelm their parahuman hosts, transforming them into hosts to create Endbringer-esque Titans; Titans. Once [[TheHeavy Teacher]] works Teacher]]'s scheme to expedite this process for around four-fifths of and usurp the story, but is cycle [[DiscOneFinalBoss taken out]] before he can gain control of falls through]] about four-fifths into the crisis. story, Contessa's Titan--dubbed Fortuna by Fortuna--emerges as the heroes--proceeds to become face of the most dangerous of them all ensuing Titan apocalypse and the most successful at begins taking over control of other Titans in an effort a bid to become a new Entity, but Entity. However, the Simurgh returns to combat poses an equally prominent and far more malevolent threat through her in the climax with its own plan machinations to co-opt the Titan networks and networks, which would allow her to restructure society into a dystopian nightmare of torture and conflict for maximum data collection.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: When [[Spoiler:Victoria]] loses her patience with [[spoiler:Etna]] and ragdolls her into a hillside, it invokes DefeatMeansFriendship; when next they meet, [[spoiler:Etna]] is now a hero.
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* HeelFaceTurn: When [[Spoiler:Victoria]] [[spoiler:Victoria]] loses her patience with [[spoiler:Etna]] and ragdolls her into a hillside, it invokes DefeatMeansFriendship; when next they meet, [[spoiler:Etna]] is now a hero.
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* HeelFaceTurn: When [[Spoiler:Victoria]] loses her patience with [[spoiler:Etna]] and ragdolls her into a hillside, it invokes DefeatMeansFriendship; when next they meet, [[spoiler:Etna]] is now a hero.
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* SignificantWardrobeShift: After a period of experimentation, Victoria ditches her old gold and white costume as Glory Girl for the Black and Gold armor of Antares. The shift from a white MiniskirtOfPower to a much more practical and covering black hooded shirt and pants, and from unarmored to a [[ClothingCombat spiked] golden breastplate, greaves, bracers, and pauldrons represent both her greater maturity but also her trauma and desire for protection from the world.
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* SignificantWardrobeShift: After a period of experimentation, Victoria ditches her old gold and white costume as Glory Girl for the Black and Gold armor of Antares. The shift from a white MiniskirtOfPower MinidressOfPower to a much more practical and covering black hooded shirt and pants, and from unarmored to a [[ClothingCombat spiked] spiked]] golden breastplate, greaves, bracers, and pauldrons represent both her greater maturity but also her trauma and desire for protection from the world.
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* RecoilBoost: How the Ashley's use their blaster power for high speed movements and limited gliding.
* RecurringDreams: The Ashley clones have reoccurring dreams of red crystal landscape and memories that aren't their own.
* RecruitTheMuggles: [[spoiler:Victoria makes a appeal for civilian help during the Titans crisis, the volunteers are able to damage the Shard's space and force the Titans onto a defensive footing which gives the heroes times to win.]]
* RiddleForTheAges: [[spoiler:What was the message that Fortuna left in the Shard network?]]
* ThemeNaming: The names of the story arcs all relate to light or darkness in some way.
* RecurringDreams: The Ashley clones have reoccurring dreams of red crystal landscape and memories that aren't their own.
* RecruitTheMuggles: [[spoiler:Victoria makes a appeal for civilian help during the Titans crisis, the volunteers are able to damage the Shard's space and force the Titans onto a defensive footing which gives the heroes times to win.]]
* RiddleForTheAges: [[spoiler:What was the message that Fortuna left in the Shard network?]]
* ThemeNaming: The names of the story arcs all relate to light or darkness in some way.
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** When [[spoiler:Kenzie]] loses her patience with [[spoiler:Chris]] in [[spoiler:the prison in Earth Shin]], she hits him with a double-barreled attack.
---> “You never got that,” [[spoiler:Chris]] said. “That I don’t get lonely.”\\
“You do, though. Because ever since we showed up all you’ve done is be angry and push and prod, like you’re trying to prove something. The world’s moved on and you’re stuck being whatever you are and it doesn’t matter how much you change on the outside because on the inside? You’re still a miserable little fucknugget.”\\
It was, in any other circumstance, the kind of line that would have seen [[spoiler:Chris]] guffaw, laugh, say something.\\
Silence followed.\\
“Um. Haha, my heart’s beating so fast, because I’m angry, and I’m angry because you missed out, you know. Because even now? Even if I might get tortured, I’ll be happier than you are [[spoiler:Chris]]. You missed out and you deserve to. There were glimmers of good in you like when you helped Rain, but you didn’t stick to that and you didn’t try. You were super cool when you stopped trying to be uncool, and I kind of loved you and now I kind of don’t. You’re being shitty by pushing us away and making something hard even harder and suckier because you’re scared and resentful and whatever. I know whatever happens next for you is going to be ten times as hard and sucky as what I have to deal with. You’re going to be just as alone and even more frustrated because you’re never going to be able to take a drug that changes you deep down inside and makes you any less of a pathetic miserable fucknugget.”
* RecoilBoost: How the Ashley's use their blaster power for high speed movements and limited gliding.
* RecurringDreams: The Ashley clones have reoccurring dreams of red crystal landscape and memories that aren't their own.
* RecruitTheMuggles: [[spoiler:Victoria makes a appeal for civilian help during the Titans crisis, the volunteers are able to damage the Shard's space and force the Titans onto a defensive footing which gives the heroes times to win.]]
* RiddleForTheAges: [[spoiler:What was the message that Fortuna left in the Shard network?]]
---> “You never got that,” [[spoiler:Chris]] said. “That I don’t get lonely.”\\
“You do, though. Because ever since we showed up all you’ve done is be angry and push and prod, like you’re trying to prove something. The world’s moved on and you’re stuck being whatever you are and it doesn’t matter how much you change on the outside because on the inside? You’re still a miserable little fucknugget.”\\
It was, in any other circumstance, the kind of line that would have seen [[spoiler:Chris]] guffaw, laugh, say something.\\
Silence followed.\\
“Um. Haha, my heart’s beating so fast, because I’m angry, and I’m angry because you missed out, you know. Because even now? Even if I might get tortured, I’ll be happier than you are [[spoiler:Chris]]. You missed out and you deserve to. There were glimmers of good in you like when you helped Rain, but you didn’t stick to that and you didn’t try. You were super cool when you stopped trying to be uncool, and I kind of loved you and now I kind of don’t. You’re being shitty by pushing us away and making something hard even harder and suckier because you’re scared and resentful and whatever. I know whatever happens next for you is going to be ten times as hard and sucky as what I have to deal with. You’re going to be just as alone and even more frustrated because you’re never going to be able to take a drug that changes you deep down inside and makes you any less of a pathetic miserable fucknugget.”
* RecoilBoost: How the Ashley's use their blaster power for high speed movements and limited gliding.
* RecurringDreams: The Ashley clones have reoccurring dreams of red crystal landscape and memories that aren't their own.
* RecruitTheMuggles: [[spoiler:Victoria makes a appeal for civilian help during the Titans crisis, the volunteers are able to damage the Shard's space and force the Titans onto a defensive footing which gives the heroes times to win.]]
* RiddleForTheAges: [[spoiler:What was the message that Fortuna left in the Shard network?]]
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* ThemeNaming: The names of the story arcs all relate to light or darkness in some way.
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* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:The shards themselves, even after the deaths of Scion and Eden render the process futile, remain on course to complete the life cycle of the Entities that will end in the destruction of all Earths across the multiverse. Without Scion to safely guide them, "broken" second triggers see the shards merge with and overwhelm their parahuman hosts, transforming them into Endbringer-esque Titans; [[TheHeavy Teacher]] works to expedite this process for around four-fifths of the story, but is [[DiscOneFinalBoss taken out]] before he can gain control of the crisis. Fortuna, Contessa's Titan, proceeds to become the most dangerous of them all and the most successful at taking over other Titans in an effort to become a new Entity, but the Simurgh returns to combat her in the climax with its own plan to co-opt the Titan networks and restructure society into a dystopian nightmare of torture and conflict for maximum data collection.]]
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* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:The shards themselves, even after the deaths of Scion and Eden render the process futile, remain on course to complete the life cycle of the Entities that will end in the destruction of all Earths across the multiverse. Without Scion to safely guide them, "broken" second triggers see the shards merge with and overwhelm their parahuman hosts, transforming them into Endbringer-esque Titans; [[TheHeavy Teacher]] works to expedite this process for around four-fifths of the story, but is [[DiscOneFinalBoss taken out]] before he can gain control of the crisis. Fortuna, Contessa's Titan, proceeds Titan--dubbed Fortuna by the heroes--proceeds to become the most dangerous of them all and the most successful at taking over other Titans in an effort to become a new Entity, but the Simurgh returns to combat her in the climax with its own plan to co-opt the Titan networks and restructure society into a dystopian nightmare of torture and conflict for maximum data collection.]]
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* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:The shards themselves, even after the deaths of Scion and Eden render the process futile, remain on course to complete the life cycle of the Entities that will end in the destruction of all Earths across the multiverse. Without Scion to safely guide them, "broken" second triggers see the shards merge with and overwhelm their parahuman hosts, transforming them into Endbringer-esque Titans. Fortuna, Contessa's Titan, becomes the most dangerous of them all and the most successful at taking over other Titans in an effort to become a new Entity, but the Simurgh returns in the climax with plans to co-opt the Titan networks and restructure society into a dystopian nightmare of torture and conflict for maximum data collection.]]
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* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:The shards themselves, even after the deaths of Scion and Eden render the process futile, remain on course to complete the life cycle of the Entities that will end in the destruction of all Earths across the multiverse. Without Scion to safely guide them, "broken" second triggers see the shards merge with and overwhelm their parahuman hosts, transforming them into Endbringer-esque Titans. Titans; [[TheHeavy Teacher]] works to expedite this process for around four-fifths of the story, but is [[DiscOneFinalBoss taken out]] before he can gain control of the crisis. Fortuna, Contessa's Titan, becomes proceeds to become the most dangerous of them all and the most successful at taking over other Titans in an effort to become a new Entity, but the Simurgh returns to combat her in the climax with plans its own plan to co-opt the Titan networks and restructure society into a dystopian nightmare of torture and conflict for maximum data collection.]]
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* Wedgie: In Radiation 18.5, Victoria rescues Tattletale by grabbing her belt. Tattletale then complains about Victoria giving her a wedgie, and asks to be put down. Once Tattletale is on the ground she takes a pause to adjust her clothes, which Victoria assumes she did in order to fix the wedgie.
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* Wedgie: {{Wedgie}}: In Radiation 18.5, Victoria rescues Tattletale by grabbing her belt. Tattletale then complains about Victoria giving her a wedgie, and asks to be put down. Once Tattletale is on the ground she takes a pause to adjust her clothes, which Victoria assumes she did in order to fix the wedgie.
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* Wedgie: In Radiation 18.5, Victoria rescues Tattletale by grabbing her belt. Tattletale then complains about Victoria giving her a wedgie, and asks to be put down. Once Tattletale is on the ground she takes a pause to adjust her clothes, which Victoria assumes she did in order to fix the wedgie.
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* PaletteSwap: Victoria ditches her old gold and white costume as Glory Girl for the Black and Gold armor of Antares.
* SignificantWardrobeShift: After a period of experimentation, Victoria ditches her old gold and white costume as Glory Girl for the Black and Gold armor of Antares. The shift from a white MiniskirtOfPower to a much more practical and covering black hooded shirt and pants, and from unarmored to a [[ClothingCombat spiked] golden breastplate, greaves, bracers, and pauldrons represent both her greater maturity but also her trauma and desire for protection from the world.
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** The Hollow Point villains have little cohesion and don't work together well, despite being big in number and having lots of firepower, because that's what generally happens when a group of mostly strangers form a team under someone who doesn't have much experience at leading and can't keep control of his people.
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** The Hollow Point villains have little cohesion and don't work together well, despite being big many in number and having lots of firepower, because that's what generally happens when a group of mostly strangers form a team under someone who doesn't have much experience at leading and can't keep control of his people.
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* RecruitTheMuggles: [[spoiler:Victoria makes a appeal for civilian help during the Titans crisis, the volunteers are able to damage the Shard's pace and force the Titans onto a defensive footing which gives the heroes times to win.]]
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* RecruitTheMuggles: [[spoiler:Victoria makes a appeal for civilian help during the Titans crisis, the volunteers are able to damage the Shard's pace space and force the Titans onto a defensive footing which gives the heroes times to win.]]
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** The first part of Arc 7, Torch, is this compared to the other two. There's no big enemies to confront but rather this arc focus on the team regaining their footing in the new unstable situation generated from the events in the two previous arcs, Shadow and Pitch. The only big event in this arc is [[spoiler:Rain's trail for his acts as a Fallen.]] While the team isn't showed to be completely relaxed, the stakes are lower and not life-threatening. [[spoiler:Subverted with the latter half, after the Eclipse Arc, where we learn the truth about Kenzie's family and the Interlude shows us an attack from a enemy Earth to the portal zone and give us a hint of its consequences.]]
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** The first part of Arc 7, Torch, is this compared to the other two. There's no big enemies to confront but rather this arc focus on the team regaining their footing in the new unstable situation generated from the events in the two previous arcs, Shadow and Pitch. The only big event in this arc is [[spoiler:Rain's trail trial for his acts as a Fallen.]] While the team isn't showed to be completely relaxed, the stakes are lower and not life-threatening. [[spoiler:Subverted with the latter half, after the Eclipse Arc, where we learn the truth about Kenzie's family and the Interlude shows us an attack from a enemy Earth to the portal zone and give us a hint of its consequences.]]
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'''This page contains unmarked spoilers for the previous series, you have been warned.'''
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'''This page contains unmarked spoilers for the previous series, series; you have been warned.'''
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* BrokenAesop:
** Ward is initially presented as a story about overcoming the hardships of the past in order to pursue a better tomorrow, exemplified both through the initial setting being a city being constructed in the aftermath of the end of the world and the main cast all being members of a therapy group all wrestling with their own mental issues. What seems like a strong foundation for these themes however gradually crumbles away further and further as arcs progress. The heroes rarely outright win, the City collapses into starvation and anarchy and is eventually abandoned entirely while the main cast either die or backslide mentally until they're even ''less'' in control of their mental issues than they were at the start. This comes to a head in the Last arc, wherein a final act of desperation against Titan Fortuna and the Simurgh, the superpowered cast intentionally infects themselves with a virus that is guaranteed to ''kill them'' while giving them twisted and unpleasant dreams, in order to screw up the data that the entities are collecting and irreparably damage the cycle. What was ostensibly a story about overcoming trauma ended up looking like "sometimes you simply can't change yourself or your situation for the better, and then the next best thing you can do for the world and everyone you know is give up and die". Many readers did not take it well, risking a BrokenBase...
** ...However, it was later revealed that all the capes could be revived should the unpowered citizens of the world choose to revive them in time, which everyone appears to have known going in, meaning that the actual intended lesson was something more like "sometimes in order to change yourself or your situation for the better, you have to place your faith and hope in others and rely on their help and support". Indeed, the epilogues support this: the characters who have reached out for help and support are the best off mentally and physically by the end (e.g. Victoria), while those who push others away are doing the worst (e.g. Chris). This is much closer to a standard [[AnAesop family-friendly Aesop]]...
** ...But it's also clear that there was a real risk that the unpowered would choose to let them die anyway and many of the more cynical capes believed that this would happen, but accepted the virus anyway, so for them, it may as well have been suicide. Not helped by the fact a large part of the story portrayed the overall relationship between normal people and parahumans as decidedly distrustful and negative; as well as all the characters themselves going about things as if it were suicide. So between the ending flying in the face of how people as a whole were largely portrayed throughout the story, combined with the author having characters avoid mentioning or reacting to the finer details of the plan, there's some argument about whether the original message of recovery stands strong, or if the "they always knew they would be revived" argument is an AuthorsSavingThrow.
** A number of plot points were dropped by the wayside either to speed the plot up or due to the author's real life unhappiness with writing the story and wanting it finished, and do so in a way that is worse than if they weren't raised in the first place.
*** The anti-parahuman's very legitimate criticism of parahumans receiving blatant favoritism and disproportionate power are brushed aside at the end and the group mocked and marginalized before being strawmanned by a literal child, which unintentionally proved them right on almost every count.
*** The central theme of becoming a better person is side-stepped when the protagonists help the Wardens set up an interdimensional gulag with inhumane conditions, with the specific intention of 'disappearing' troublesome villains into it, to make the other villains more afraid of stepping out of line. Beyond some initial doubts, the morality of this is never questioned, and it is ultimately abandoned for being impractical. In particular, Sveta's journey to self-actualization never made as much progress through her own efforts or bonds as it did when Victoria got frustrated and made a DealWithTheDevil with a villain to solve her problems for her in exchange for better conditions in the gulag.
** Ward is initially presented as a story about overcoming the hardships of the past in order to pursue a better tomorrow, exemplified both through the initial setting being a city being constructed in the aftermath of the end of the world and the main cast all being members of a therapy group all wrestling with their own mental issues. What seems like a strong foundation for these themes however gradually crumbles away further and further as arcs progress. The heroes rarely outright win, the City collapses into starvation and anarchy and is eventually abandoned entirely while the main cast either die or backslide mentally until they're even ''less'' in control of their mental issues than they were at the start. This comes to a head in the Last arc, wherein a final act of desperation against Titan Fortuna and the Simurgh, the superpowered cast intentionally infects themselves with a virus that is guaranteed to ''kill them'' while giving them twisted and unpleasant dreams, in order to screw up the data that the entities are collecting and irreparably damage the cycle. What was ostensibly a story about overcoming trauma ended up looking like "sometimes you simply can't change yourself or your situation for the better, and then the next best thing you can do for the world and everyone you know is give up and die". Many readers did not take it well, risking a BrokenBase...
** ...However, it was later revealed that all the capes could be revived should the unpowered citizens of the world choose to revive them in time, which everyone appears to have known going in, meaning that the actual intended lesson was something more like "sometimes in order to change yourself or your situation for the better, you have to place your faith and hope in others and rely on their help and support". Indeed, the epilogues support this: the characters who have reached out for help and support are the best off mentally and physically by the end (e.g. Victoria), while those who push others away are doing the worst (e.g. Chris). This is much closer to a standard [[AnAesop family-friendly Aesop]]...
** ...But it's also clear that there was a real risk that the unpowered would choose to let them die anyway and many of the more cynical capes believed that this would happen, but accepted the virus anyway, so for them, it may as well have been suicide. Not helped by the fact a large part of the story portrayed the overall relationship between normal people and parahumans as decidedly distrustful and negative; as well as all the characters themselves going about things as if it were suicide. So between the ending flying in the face of how people as a whole were largely portrayed throughout the story, combined with the author having characters avoid mentioning or reacting to the finer details of the plan, there's some argument about whether the original message of recovery stands strong, or if the "they always knew they would be revived" argument is an AuthorsSavingThrow.
** A number of plot points were dropped by the wayside either to speed the plot up or due to the author's real life unhappiness with writing the story and wanting it finished, and do so in a way that is worse than if they weren't raised in the first place.
*** The anti-parahuman's very legitimate criticism of parahumans receiving blatant favoritism and disproportionate power are brushed aside at the end and the group mocked and marginalized before being strawmanned by a literal child, which unintentionally proved them right on almost every count.
*** The central theme of becoming a better person is side-stepped when the protagonists help the Wardens set up an interdimensional gulag with inhumane conditions, with the specific intention of 'disappearing' troublesome villains into it, to make the other villains more afraid of stepping out of line. Beyond some initial doubts, the morality of this is never questioned, and it is ultimately abandoned for being impractical. In particular, Sveta's journey to self-actualization never made as much progress through her own efforts or bonds as it did when Victoria got frustrated and made a DealWithTheDevil with a villain to solve her problems for her in exchange for better conditions in the gulag.
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** [[spoiler:When Crock O' Shit, a lie detector, is trying to figure out how Armstrong got tipped-off about the assassination attempt, Cryptid replies that Breakthrough does not currently have electronics and that if they had any, it's all gone by now. Cryptid is not lying here, and does not set off Crock's lie detector. In fact, he knew that they did have electronics before, and that Ashley had destroyed them later.]]
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** [[spoiler:When Crock O' Shit, a lie detector, is trying to figure out how Armstrong got tipped-off about the assassination attempt, Cryptid replies that Breakthrough does not currently have electronics and that if they had any, it's all gone by now. Cryptid is not lying here, and does not set off Crock's lie detector. In fact, he knew that they did have electronics before, and that Ashley had destroyed them later. Armstrong also attempted ExactWords about Master-Stranger protocols depending on context, but she was able to pick up on that, suggesting Cryptid's success was helped by his inhuman psychology or form.]]
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* AbortedArc: One of the AndTheAdventureContinues setups at the end of ''Worm'' was the Simurgh attempting to clone Eidolon. In ''Ward'' there's no indication that she ever tried again.
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* AbortedArc: One of the AndTheAdventureContinues setups at the end of ''Worm'' was the Simurgh attempting to clone Eidolon. In ''Ward'' there's no indication that she ever tried again.again after the attempt seen there was thwarted. By the time of ''Ward'' she's dormant like the other Endbringers [[spoiler:until the emergence of Kronos]].
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* TheMagicGoesAway: Implied via the Broken Triggers [[spoiler:and outright confirmed in Heavens 12.all. With Scion/Zion dead, all of the remaining shards can no longer connect to the "Warrior Hub" or draw power from him, only each other. Victoria's shard (Waste/this waste) likens it to glowing coals slowly burning out while March's cluster (these three faces) desires the exchange of information and hints that [[HumanoidAbomination Kronos]] may be capable of fueling them again...]]
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* TheMagicGoesAway: Implied via the Broken Triggers [[spoiler:and outright confirmed in Heavens 12.all. With Scion/Zion dead, all of the remaining shards can no longer connect to the "Warrior Hub" or draw power from him, only each other. Victoria's shard (Waste/this waste) likens it to glowing coals slowly burning out while March's cluster (these three faces) desires the exchange of information and hints that [[HumanoidAbomination Kronos]] may be capable of fueling them again...again]]. As of the ending, [[spoiler:Fortuna has unified the Titan network under her and is leveraging Path to Victory to ensure the network remains intact for the next few billion years, probably subverting this trope for some or all powers.]]
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* IAmNotLeftHanded: Surprisingly averted with the Simurgh. Despite the implications in Worm that all the Endbringers had tricks up their sleeves that they were saving for later, she doesn’t pull out anything new when she’s fighting for the culmination of her EvilPlan. She genuinely does have a Manton limitation that keeps her from using telekinesis directly on people, though the distance it covers is so narrow that Antares’ [[ToughSpikesAndStuds armor spikes]] are outside it.
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* IAmNotLeftHanded: Surprisingly averted subverted with the Simurgh. [[spoiler:the Simurgh]]. Despite the implications in Worm that all [[spoiler:all the Endbringers had tricks up their sleeves that they were saving for later, later]], she doesn’t clearly pull out anything new when she’s fighting for the culmination of her EvilPlan. Victoria speculates that [[spoiler: maybe she started psychically messing with people before her scream became consciously audible]], but that's just a guess without much to back it up. She genuinely does have a Manton limitation that keeps her from using telekinesis directly on people, though people (though the distance it covers is so narrow that Antares’ [[ToughSpikesAndStuds armor spikes]] are outside it.it), and her confidence that she could [[spoiler: predict people's behavior well enough that creating ScryVsScry blind spots wasn't the effective countermeasure the heroes thought it was]] proves to be misplaced.
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* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:The shards themselves, even after the deaths of Scion and Eden render the process futile, remain on course to complete the life cycle of the Entities that will end in the destruction of all Earths across the multiverse. Without Scion to safely guide them, "broken" second triggers see the shards merge with and overwhelm their parahuman hosts, transforming them into Endbringer-esque Titans. Fortuna, Contessa's Titan, becomes the most dangerous of them all and the most successful at taking over other Titans in an effort to become a new Entity, but the Simurgh returns in the climax with plans to co-opt the Titan networks and restructure society into a dystopian nightmare of torture and conflict for maximum data collection.]]
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** In Valkery's interlude, she encounters multiple capes on Earth Bet whose trigger auras look remarkably similar to each other and concludes that a group has developed a method to reliably induce trigger events. In Purity's second interlude in ''Worm'', her narration revealed that Night and Fog were the result of Gesellschaft's program to trigger parahumans.
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** In Valkery's Valkyrie's interlude, she encounters multiple capes on Earth Bet whose trigger auras look remarkably similar to each other and concludes that a group has developed a method to reliably induce trigger events. In Purity's second interlude in ''Worm'', her narration revealed that Night and Fog were the result of Gesellschaft's program to trigger parahumans.
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* NoOntologicalInertia: It's mentioned that the physical materials summoned or grown by some powers will suddenly vanish again an arbitrary amount of time later, which limits the utility of powers in being used for infrastructure - there's no telling if it would collapse for no reason years down the line. Given that powers have thus far demonstrated conservation of energy (e.g., pulling mass from other dimensions, fueling active effects from an enormous but finite supply of energy) this implies an InvokedTrope by the shards to encourage power usage for conflict and instability rather than MundaneUtility.
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* AntiClimax: The FinalBattle against the Simurgh ends with [[spoiler: her being punted into Sleeper’s area of effect, incapacitating her. [[TheUnreveal What this does is STILL not explained]], but the heroes regard her role in the conflict as concluded]]. The Titan network is then [[spoiler: cowed into standing down for the next few billion years by the parahumans threatening to taint their data with a mass of [[DyingDream Dying Dreams]].]]
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* AntiClimax: The FinalBattle against the Simurgh ends with [[spoiler: her [[spoiler:her being punted into Sleeper’s area of effect, incapacitating her. [[TheUnreveal What this does is STILL not explained]], but the heroes regard her role in the conflict as concluded]]. The Titan network is then [[spoiler: cowed [[spoiler:cowed into standing down for the next few billion years by the parahumans threatening to taint their data with a mass of [[DyingDream Dying Dreams]].]]
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** [[spoiler: Goddess easily subverts Breakthrough's defenses.]]
** [[spoiler: Teacher's army holds off the combined might of the Wardens and many other hero/villain teams at once.]]
** [[spoiler: {{Played With}} in regards to Titan Fortuna and the Simurgh. Fortuna notes that she is far more powerful than the Simurgh, but the latter has had years to rig the game against her, leaving her with limited options. Time will tell who's Precognitive powers will come out on top.]]
** [[spoiler: Teacher's army holds off the combined might of the Wardens and many other hero/villain teams at once.]]
** [[spoiler: {{Played With}} in regards to Titan Fortuna and the Simurgh. Fortuna notes that she is far more powerful than the Simurgh, but the latter has had years to rig the game against her, leaving her with limited options. Time will tell who's Precognitive powers will come out on top.]]
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** [[spoiler: Goddess [[spoiler:Goddess easily subverts Breakthrough's defenses.]]
**[[spoiler: Teacher's [[spoiler:Teacher's army holds off the combined might of the Wardens and many other hero/villain teams at once.]]
**[[spoiler: {{Played [[spoiler:{{Played With}} in regards to Titan Fortuna and the Simurgh. Fortuna notes that she is far more powerful than the Simurgh, but the latter has had years to rig the game against her, leaving her with limited options. Time will tell who's Precognitive powers will come out on top.]]
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** The many unconscious victims of Nursery's power. [[spoiler: Victoria suffers from being nearly impregnated, saving herself at the last second and forcing herself to fight, lest she break down then and there.]]
** [[spoiler: Most of those who go Titan are forced to exist inside an alien body that barely listens to them and fight to retain their awareness]]
** [[spoiler: Most of those who go Titan are forced to exist inside an alien body that barely listens to them and fight to retain their awareness]]
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** The many unconscious victims of Nursery's power. [[spoiler: Victoria [[spoiler:Victoria suffers from being nearly impregnated, saving herself at the last second and forcing herself to fight, lest she break down then and there.]]
**[[spoiler: Most [[spoiler:Most of those who go Titan are forced to exist inside an alien body that barely listens to them and fight to retain their awareness]]awareness]].
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* ArrestedForHeroism: [[spoiler: After disrupting Teacher's operations in Shardspace, which would have caused catastrophic damage to reality itself if they had succeeded, minutes or hours away from such a success, Defiant essentially blackmails Breakthrough and the Chicken Tenders into agreeing to letting the Wardens oversee them which then in turn leads to them all being put on a Harsh probation, including being forbidden to have any contact with each other, and ultimately Vicky herself being benched. The other members are put back into active duty in less than a day, but there's very little to suggest that they aren't still on probation. It's particularly egregious because Defiant's reasoning for forbidding them from tampering with Shardspace an arc earlier included his belief that Teacher's operations in Shardspce were not a sufficient threat to be worth immediately working towards and when confronted with evidence that his reasoning was wrong says that he "wouldn't say that it was the right thing" for Breakthrough to ignore his flawed order.]]
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* ArrestedForHeroism: [[spoiler: After [[spoiler:After disrupting Teacher's operations in Shardspace, which would have caused catastrophic damage to reality itself if they had succeeded, minutes or hours away from such a success, Defiant essentially blackmails Breakthrough and the Chicken Tenders into agreeing to letting the Wardens oversee them which then in turn leads to them all being put on a Harsh probation, including being forbidden to have any contact with each other, and ultimately Vicky herself being benched. The other members are put back into active duty in less than a day, but there's very little to suggest that they aren't still on probation. It's particularly egregious because Defiant's reasoning for forbidding them from tampering with Shardspace an arc earlier included his belief that Teacher's operations in Shardspce were not a sufficient threat to be worth immediately working towards and when confronted with evidence that his reasoning was wrong says that he "wouldn't say that it was the right thing" for Breakthrough to ignore his flawed order.]]
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** Other notable examples include Citrine, who in ''Worm'' was just TheDragon for minor villain Accord. In ''Ward'' she [[spoiler: becomes one of several sucessors to Cauldron and wins the first elections for Mayor of The City. This in turn makes her effectively the main character's boss.]]
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** Other notable examples include Citrine, who in ''Worm'' was just TheDragon for minor villain Accord. In ''Ward'' she [[spoiler: becomes [[spoiler:becomes one of several sucessors to Cauldron and wins the first elections for Mayor of The City. This in turn makes her effectively the main character's boss.]]
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** Teacher was just one of several Birdcage inmates. He took relevance near the end of ''Worm'', but in ''Ward'' he's perhaps the main villain for most of the series, with his actions driving almost everyone. Due to his habit of recruiting people with interesting powers a similar spike in relevance happens to Ingenue, fellow Birdcage inmmate that joined him in the end of ''Worm'' and [[spoiler: Scapegoat, a semi-GagCharacter that healed Taylor during the attack on Echidna. He goes through a FaceHeelTurn and becomes "The Black Goat".]]
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** Teacher was just one of several Birdcage inmates. He took relevance near the end of ''Worm'', but in ''Ward'' he's perhaps the main villain for most of the series, with his actions driving almost everyone. Due to his habit of recruiting people with interesting powers a similar spike in relevance happens to Ingenue, fellow Birdcage inmmate that joined him in the end of ''Worm'' and [[spoiler: Scapegoat, [[spoiler:Scapegoat, a semi-GagCharacter that healed Taylor during the attack on Echidna. He goes through a FaceHeelTurn and becomes "The Black Goat".]]
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** This can also happen for regular triggers that happen in the presence of other parahumans. Turns out the reason parahumans pass out and re-experience a trigger vision when a trigger happens nearby is that the triggering shard "pings" the other shards for ideas or resources to potentially use. [[spoiler: This is how Victoria got her aura power. Dean was in the audience, and Fragile One received the ability from his shard.]]
** It can ''also'' happen when multiple shards bud and those buds combine into a single shard. [[spoiler: Victoria's shard was composed of buds from both her parents, though in her case their powers were too similar to really result in combo-platter powers from that.]]
** It can ''also'' happen when multiple shards bud and those buds combine into a single shard. [[spoiler: Victoria's shard was composed of buds from both her parents, though in her case their powers were too similar to really result in combo-platter powers from that.]]
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** This can also happen for regular triggers that happen in the presence of other parahumans. Turns out the reason parahumans pass out and re-experience a trigger vision when a trigger happens nearby is that the triggering shard "pings" the other shards for ideas or resources to potentially use. [[spoiler: This [[spoiler:This is how Victoria got her aura power. Dean was in the audience, and Fragile One received the ability from his shard.]]
** It can ''also'' happen when multiple shards bud and those buds combine into a single shard.[[spoiler: Victoria's [[spoiler:Victoria's shard was composed of buds from both her parents, though in her case their powers were too similar to really result in combo-platter powers from that.]]
** It can ''also'' happen when multiple shards bud and those buds combine into a single shard.
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** After [[spoiler: Skitter removed Valefor’s HypnoticEyes]], his power adapted by giving him [[spoiler: a CompellingVoice]] instead.
** Victoria has Mr. Bough use his biokinesis to [[spoiler: give Sveta VoluntaryShapeshifting between a human body and her bundle-of-CombatTentacles form]]. He comments that if he didn’t leave the previous power still accessible, her power would have ruined his work to make it that way, similar to the previous example.
** During the fight with the Titans, [[spoiler: damage to Shardspace causes swathes of capes to have the parameters of their powers altered]], such as Tristan gaining to ability to launch the stone he creates like Byron used to be able to with his water, while Byron’s water has been replaced by a gas that then solidifies into ice. Unfortunately for her, this also impairs the previous example.
** And to bring up Capricorn again, [[spoiler: Tristan dying increases the options available to Byron]].
* DoWellButNotPerfect: When being subjected to the Simurgh’s scream, Breakthrough sets up a system to rank their mental stamina on a numeric scale. Too low means they’re getting close to the DespairEventHorizon and need to retreat to avoid become a danger to themselves or others. Too high is ALSO a problem because it could mean the Simurgh is on the verge of turning them sociopathic and AxCrazy. Since Antares [[spoiler: recently had a mutual LoveConfession with Fragile One in shardspace and is now receiving new expressions of her power because Fragile One finally has the resources to provide them]], she’s in a surprisingly good mental space and the others find the situation suspicious.
* EasyLogistics:
** Averted with the main characters. All of them except Rain live around the city, but the city is so big that just getting together takes several hours of travelling.
** Also averted or at least downplayed with the infrastructure of the city. They quickly erected a MegaCity with skyscrapers, fast food chains, and train networks such the Brockton Bay's preparations to last AfterTheEnd only put it about on par, but much of that relied on aid from alternate earths, the legal system is strained to non-existent (with the cape community's pardon of villains who participated in Gold Morning being strongly motivated by the fact they couldn't prosecute them all even if they wanted), and mass starvation in the coming winter is a looming concern that different [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned extremists]] debate how they'll handle.
** Victoria has Mr. Bough use his biokinesis to [[spoiler: give Sveta VoluntaryShapeshifting between a human body and her bundle-of-CombatTentacles form]]. He comments that if he didn’t leave the previous power still accessible, her power would have ruined his work to make it that way, similar to the previous example.
** During the fight with the Titans, [[spoiler: damage to Shardspace causes swathes of capes to have the parameters of their powers altered]], such as Tristan gaining to ability to launch the stone he creates like Byron used to be able to with his water, while Byron’s water has been replaced by a gas that then solidifies into ice. Unfortunately for her, this also impairs the previous example.
** And to bring up Capricorn again, [[spoiler: Tristan dying increases the options available to Byron]].
* DoWellButNotPerfect: When being subjected to the Simurgh’s scream, Breakthrough sets up a system to rank their mental stamina on a numeric scale. Too low means they’re getting close to the DespairEventHorizon and need to retreat to avoid become a danger to themselves or others. Too high is ALSO a problem because it could mean the Simurgh is on the verge of turning them sociopathic and AxCrazy. Since Antares [[spoiler: recently had a mutual LoveConfession with Fragile One in shardspace and is now receiving new expressions of her power because Fragile One finally has the resources to provide them]], she’s in a surprisingly good mental space and the others find the situation suspicious.
* EasyLogistics:
** Averted with the main characters. All of them except Rain live around the city, but the city is so big that just getting together takes several hours of travelling.
** Also averted or at least downplayed with the infrastructure of the city. They quickly erected a MegaCity with skyscrapers, fast food chains, and train networks such the Brockton Bay's preparations to last AfterTheEnd only put it about on par, but much of that relied on aid from alternate earths, the legal system is strained to non-existent (with the cape community's pardon of villains who participated in Gold Morning being strongly motivated by the fact they couldn't prosecute them all even if they wanted), and mass starvation in the coming winter is a looming concern that different [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned extremists]] debate how they'll handle.
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** After [[spoiler: Skitter [[spoiler:Skitter removed Valefor’s HypnoticEyes]], his power adapted by giving him [[spoiler: a [[spoiler:a CompellingVoice]] instead.
** Victoria has Mr. Bough use his biokinesis to[[spoiler: give [[spoiler:give Sveta VoluntaryShapeshifting between a human body and her bundle-of-CombatTentacles form]]. He comments that if he didn’t didn't leave the previous power still accessible, her power would have ruined his work to make it that way, similar to the previous example.
** During the fight with the Titans,[[spoiler: damage [[spoiler:damage to Shardspace causes swathes of capes to have the parameters of their powers altered]], such as Tristan gaining to ability to launch the stone he creates like Byron used to be able to with his water, while Byron’s water has been replaced by a gas that then solidifies into ice. Unfortunately for her, this also impairs the previous example.
** And to bring up Capricorn again,[[spoiler: Tristan [[spoiler:Tristan dying increases the options available to Byron]].
* DoWellButNotPerfect: When being subjected to the Simurgh’s scream, Breakthrough sets up a system to rank their mental stamina on a numeric scale. Too low means they’re getting close to the DespairEventHorizon and need to retreat to avoid become a danger to themselves or others. Too high isALSO ''also'' a problem because it could mean the Simurgh is on the verge of turning them sociopathic and AxCrazy. Since Antares [[spoiler: recently [[spoiler:recently had a mutual LoveConfession with Fragile One in shardspace and is now receiving new expressions of her power because Fragile One finally has the resources to provide them]], she’s she's in a surprisingly good mental space and the others find the situation suspicious.
* EasyLogistics:
** Averted with the main characters. All of them except Rain live around the city, but the city is so big that just getting together takes several hours of travelling.
** Also averted or at least downplayed with the infrastructure of the city. They quickly erected a MegaCity with skyscrapers, fast food chains, and train networks such the Brockton Bay's preparations to last AfterTheEnd only put it about on par, but much of that relied on aid from alternate earths, the legal system is strained to non-existent (with the cape community's pardon of villains who participated in Gold Morning being strongly motivated by the fact they couldn't prosecute them all even if they wanted), and mass starvation in the coming winter is a looming concern that different [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned extremists]] debate how they'll handle.suspicious.
** Victoria has Mr. Bough use his biokinesis to
** During the fight with the Titans,
** And to bring up Capricorn again,
* DoWellButNotPerfect: When being subjected to the Simurgh’s scream, Breakthrough sets up a system to rank their mental stamina on a numeric scale. Too low means they’re getting close to the DespairEventHorizon and need to retreat to avoid become a danger to themselves or others. Too high is
* EasyLogistics:
** Averted with the main characters. All of them except Rain live around the city, but the city is so big that just getting together takes several hours of travelling.
** Also averted or at least downplayed with the infrastructure of the city. They quickly erected a MegaCity with skyscrapers, fast food chains, and train networks such the Brockton Bay's preparations to last AfterTheEnd only put it about on par, but much of that relied on aid from alternate earths, the legal system is strained to non-existent (with the cape community's pardon of villains who participated in Gold Morning being strongly motivated by the fact they couldn't prosecute them all even if they wanted), and mass starvation in the coming winter is a looming concern that different [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned extremists]] debate how they'll handle.
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* LoveConfession: [[spoiler: Victoria does this to Fragile One once she realizes that her Shard has loved her since she was born, seeing it through the eyes of the hosts who also loved Victoria.]]
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* LoveConfession: [[spoiler: Victoria [[spoiler:Victoria does this a platonic variant to Fragile One once she realizes that her Shard has loved her since she was born, seeing it through the eyes of the hosts who also loved Victoria.]]
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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: [[spoiler: After ventures into Shardspace strengthen Victoria's connection to Fragile One and its connection to the network's power supply, in parallel with her improving self-image, she gradually acquires more flexibility with her force-field and then with her aura.]]
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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: [[spoiler: After [[spoiler:After ventures into Shardspace strengthen Victoria's connection to Fragile One and its connection to the network's power supply, in parallel with her improving self-image, she gradually acquires more flexibility with her force-field and then with her aura.]]
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** Mike, aka [[spoiler: Lightstar]] mentions that until he started patrolling again, his powers felt like they would go off with a hair trigger.
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** Mike, aka [[spoiler: Lightstar]] [[spoiler:Lightstar]] mentions that until he started patrolling again, his powers felt like they would go off with a hair trigger.
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* RiddleForTheAges: [[spoiler: What was the message that Fortuna left in the Shard network?]]
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* RiddleForTheAges: [[spoiler: What [[spoiler:What was the message that Fortuna left in the Shard network?]]
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** Tattletale practicaly gives one every time that she meets with Victoria, or Breakthrough.
* ScryVsScry: Two different forms with [[spoiler: The Simurgh]].
* ScryVsScry: Two different forms with [[spoiler: The Simurgh]].
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** Tattletale practicaly gives one speeches on how Victoria/Breakthrough suck practically every time that she meets with Victoria, or Breakthrough.
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** [[spoiler: Dinah Alcott uses her precognition during the Wardens meeting and Victoria's fight with the Mathers giant not just to help identify a course of action, but to create a blind spot for the Simurgh so it can't spy on the meeting or anticipate what Victoria is about to do, respectively.]]
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** [[spoiler: Dinah [[spoiler:Dinah Alcott uses her precognition during the Wardens meeting and Victoria's fight with the Mathers giant not just to help identify a course of action, but to create a blind spot for the Simurgh so it can't spy on the meeting or anticipate what Victoria is about to do, respectively.]]
