History Literature / Ward

* ZergRush: In a rare non-villainous example, [[spoiler:Victoria and the Wardens]] recruit thousands of unpowered humans to employ this tactic [[spoiler:for an invasion of shard-space]] during the Radiation arc.

* YourCheatingHeart: From Within reveals that [[spoiler:Carol had an affair with Neil Pelham decades before the story starts, meaning that Victoria might actually be Eric and Crystal's cousin ''and'' half-sister.]]

** In Valkyrie's interlude, [[spoiler:Jessica, Riley and Rinke were all confirmed to have survived. Jessica later rejoined the story, but Riley and Rinke didn't, and no explanation was given. In From Within 16.12, Victoria sees a vision in a crystal of Jessica strangling an attacking Riley, implying that she died some time ago.]]

* ArrestedForHeroism: [[spoiler: After disrupting Teacher's operations in Shardspace, which would have caused catestrophic damage to reality itself if they had succeeded, minutes or hours away from such a sucess, Defiant essentially blcackmails Breakthrough and the Chicekn 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 wih each other, and ultimately Vicky hersel 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 egregarious becuase Defiant's reasoning for forbidding them from tampering with Shardspace an arc earliar included his belief that Teacher's operations in Shardspce were not a sufficient threat to beworth immediately working towards and when confronted with evidence that his reasoning was wrong her says that he "wouldn't say that it was the right thing" for Breakthrough to ignore his flawed order.]]

* AbusiveParents: More than a few. Amy was neglected by Carol and Mark, Victoria was abandoned all but in name while inside the Asylum, [[spoiler: Dean’s parents threatened to disown him if he didn’t take his father’s position in the company, Rain’s parents sold him off to some Fallen relatives, Ashley’s father would beat his wife and her because of any perceived slight, and Kenzie’s parents would beat and poison her for much the same reasons]]. The less said about Heartbreaker, the better.

* BankRobbery: Bad Apple attempting one leads to a miscarriage [[spoiler: and the beginnings of her turning away from villainy]].

* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Victoria has spent two years without any superheroics and only working with relief efforts across reality, hiding her powers. The call comes for her when a bus full of villains [[spoiler: organized by Tattletale]] targets one of her job sites.

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: In Eclipse x.6, there's a scene that could be read as either J having given Ashley oral sex, or J and Ashley having simply fallen asleep on the same bed, and there's no clear indication as to which it is. [[spoiler: 16.11 confirms that they did in fact have sex.]]

* EatingTheEyeCandy: Chastity verbalizes her appreciation for Precipices... proportions.

* FlyingBrick: Victoria’s power-set via forcefield and flight. The emotion aura is a bonus. [[spoiler: With the Wretch’s mobile limbs, she can pull off a decent telekinesis impression as well]].

** Even in terms of powers, Taylor was a first gen cape with a long range mental power, whereas Victoria is a second gen with a suite of in-your-face physical powers.

** Tatteltale practicaly gives one every time that she meets with Victoria, or Breakthrough.

** In the first chapter, Daybreak 1.1, there is already one with the reveal of who the protagonist is: Victoria Dallon who was previously Brockton Bay's Glory Girl.

** In the next chapter Flare 2.4 the heroes try to contain the broken triggers, but while they succeed none of the new parahumans survive. Later Jessica Yamada ask for Vicky's help teeling her she commited a huge mistake with a group of her patients.

** [[spoiler:In Interlude 2 is revealed that one of the more stronger candidates to become the new mayor of the megalopolis is Jeanne Wynn CEO of Morthary, one of the newest and most important compaines in the city, and the ex-villain Citrine from Accord's Ambassadors in Worm. She's following his previous plans to win and stabilize the city and is now married to the Number Man from Cauldron, of all people. Is also revelead that several citizens from an allied Earth(Chiet) died in the broken trigger incident, and that Earth is treathening war because of that.]]

*** [[spoiler:In Pitch the heroes capture Valefor and Mama Mathers, but a branch of the Fallen manage to escape and scatter to other settlements forcing Vicky and Tattletale to collaborate to capture them. The latter also reveals the she helped Rain's cluster in the hopes that one of them can become a counter to Goddess a very powerful villain from Earth Shin that '' conquered'' her Earth. She is stranded in Gimel since ''Worm'' thanks to Khepri and wants a way out to her home. While the therapy team and heroes called by the Undersiders has success in capturing the Fallen, their succeed in their plan and manage to deform and expand the portals that connect the diferent Earths by using tinkertech from Teacher. This causes an untold amount of damage to the infrastructure of the City and a lot of people go missing, lost in other worlds, including the Wardens and their headquarters, and the people working in them at that moment like Jesicca Yamada. On an more individual level Rain kills Snag and absorbs his powers but is almost killed by Craddle. The team saves him but he decides that after recovering he's going to deliver himself to the authorities to atone for his deeds while he was with the Fallen. Damsel as well decides to go to jail in order to atone for killing Beast of Burden and stays a hero.]]

*** [[spoiler:A few chapters later, Interlude 12.f has a few sections from the perspective of Grasping Self, Cradle's primary shard.]]

** [[spoiler:Interlude "all" takes place from the perspective of the ''the powers themselves'' (aka the shards/passengers/agents), in particular Victoria's shard and the Three Faces cluster consisting of March, Foil, and Homer.]]

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: In Eclipse x.6, there's a scene that could be read as either J having given Ashley oral sex, or J and Ashley having simply fallen asleep on the same bed, and there's no clear indication as to which it is.

* IronicHell: Amy's power forced Victoria to spend two years in love with her, while knowing just how wrong it was to feel this way for her sister, and feeling nothing but heartbreak because she knew that they couldn't be together. This is actually what continuous exposure to Victoria's Awe Aura throughout their youth did to Amy, making her fall in love with Victoria and hating herself for it, knowing that they could never be together. This, coupled with Amy's PowerIncontinence after intense psychological trauma, leads to her power acting upon her subconscious desires and changing Victoria's brain.

** As of ''Dying'', we discover the source of the instability of the portals... [[spoiler: killing Scion/Zion may have actually made things worse in the long run, as the death of a multi-dimension spanning EldritchAbomination means that the shards he left behind are either malfunctioning (the [[BodyHorror Broken Triggers]]) or ''coalescing'' of their own accord, threatening to break reality itself apart in the process.]]

*** [[spoiler:In Pitch the heroes capture Valefor and Mama Mathers, but a branch of the Fallen manage to escape and scatter to other settlements forcing Vicky and Tattletale to collaborate to capture them. The latter also reveals the she helped Rain's cluster in the hopes that one of them can become a counter to Goddess a very powerful villain from Earth Shin that '' conquered'' her Earth. She is stranded in Gimel since ''Worm'' thanks to Kephri and wants a way out to her home. While the therapy team and heroes called by the Undersiders has success in capturing the Fallen, their succeed in their plan and manage to deform and expand the portals that connect the diferent Earths by using tinkertech from Teacher. This causes an untold amount of damage to the infrastructure of the City and a lot of people go missing, lost in other worlds, including the Wardens and their headquarters, and the people working in them at that moment like Jesicca Yamada. On an more individual level Rain kills Snag and absorbs his powers but is almost killed by Craddle. The team saves him but he decides that after recovering he's going to deliver himself to the authorities to atone for his deeds while he was with the Fallen. Damsel as well decides to go to jail in order to atone for killing Beast of Burden and stays a hero.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played with; whole not every villain is a monster, they aren’t exactly quick to stop the worse villains from actually committing those crimes. That being said, when pushed on the matter, some like [[spoiler:Prancer]] will help out the heroes.

** [[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.]]

* ExactWords: In Eclipse x.8, Jack Slash tells Ashley that as part of the Slaughterhouse Nine, if she ever sees anything she wants or doesn't want, she only has to say the word... and not only did Bonesaw take her voice, her hands were turned into blades, making her unable to write, either.

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Citrine and various other Heroes from the Mega-City prevent Cradle from getting away from Antares.]]

* CombatPragmatist: Victoria may be a hero, but she has no issues using makeshift knives or even guns as distractions when in a tight spot.

* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:Even after gaining a power-up via Love Lust and Colt, Cradle still runs away when faced with Victoria and Sveta.]]

* EnemyMine: More than once, Victoria has had to work together with less than scrupulous characters; most commonly Tattletale.