History Roleplay / MySuperheroUniversity

* NamesTheSame: Saint's former ArchEnemy and Lily's father are both 'Leon'.

[[folder: An Age of Heroes...]]
[--It is an age of heroes. From the day the Saint was first seen in newsreels back in '39 all those years ago, there have always been heroes. For decades they've protected the world from superpowered criminals, mad scientists, nazi nitwits, alien invaders, and even the odd incursion from other dimensions. Regardless of their origins — whether they received their powers in some sort of accident, were born with their abilities, used tech to get by, or relied purely on their training and hard work — they have long vowed to protect the world and make it a better place.--] \\\

[--However, in recent years, things have changed. In times gone by, most heroes began their careers well into adulthood, with only the occasional sidekicks being the exception. But as the decades went on, more and more young heroes began receiving their powers or beginning their careers younger and younger, often without the proper training or maturity to properly use them or not get themselves hurt. Or worse. And so a solution was reached. Founded by Saint Solutions, a series of schools for young heroes in training was established across the globe. Now any young whippersnapper who wishes to become a hero or even just learn to control their powers goes to one of these schools. Staffed largely by experienced, older heroes, they're the best place to go for anyone who wishes to hone their skills and truly learn what it takes to become a hero.--] \\\

[--But the best of them all was none other than Saint Academy, located right in Super City, California. And it's President was none other than the original Superhero himself, The Saint. Blessed with great strength and speed as well as extended longevity, he still had a reputation as the world's greatest hero despite retiring long ago, but he nonetheless did his best to make the world a better place in his own way. And that included molding brave new heroes that could help continue to protect the world in his absence.--] \\\

[--Sadly, Saint's goal proved in a way to be prophetic. Several months ago, Saint fought valiantly to help protect Super City from a last desperate assault by Gaea, an organization dedicated to tearing the world apart by sparking anti-superhuman and non-human bigotry amongst the general population until a valiant group of students managed to stop them. But their efforts proved costly. Gaea lashed out in retaliation, and while they were stopped, Saint lost his life in the process.--] \\\

[--Without their greatest hero, the world is at a loss. Supervillains have started popping up out of the woodwork, eager to take advantage of the void left by Saint's absence. Some heroes have begun adopting a rougher, more violent approach, convinced that the Saint's more lenient methods won't cut it anymore. And while the destruction of Gaea has helped repair relations between humans and nonhumans, the loss of the world's premier symbol of peace is threatening to put them at odds once again.--] \\\

[--Thankfully, Saint had an answer to just that. Before he died, he was working on a means to give the many promising students at Saint Academy a means to further hone their experience and skills, as well as give older would-be heroes a chance to show what they were made of. In honor of his memory, the school staff did as he wished, rebranding the school Saint University and opening their doors to anyone wishing to learn how to be a hero. Little did Saint know just important Saint University would be. Because more than ever, the world is in need of heroes.--] \\\

[---quoth the [[strike: Game God]] Game Master himself!-]
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* CastFullOfCrazy: The cast speaks for itself.

* ChekhovsGun: Somehow, no one has touched Ryuu's scale.
* TheClan: Lily's Aquatos clan

* [[SugarWiki.CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning Moment Of Funny]]: ''To Wash Away What Happened Last'' is a sort of comic breather. [[spoiler: Leaving aside S2 talking about the hostage incident and Sally's dismemberment then becoming the Six Million Dollar Woman again and Dante's ongoing abuse at the beginning, Mahvash's bot being metaphorically stillborn in the middle, and Clankybottoms threatening to commit mass ''murder-suicide''. [[GrimDark Its that kind of series]]. [[InnocuouslyImportantEpisode And The Iridium Wonders Lay the Foundations for future operations]].]]

* FantasticRacism: The effects of the Gaea campaign in year two didn't just vanish when Gaea fell.

* SuperTeam: The cast 1 is split into 4. Each squad can handle general threats (muggers, kaiju, etc.) and 2 are capable with investigation.

* DarkerAndEdgier: No one may have intentionally shifted the work's tone, but MSU went dark quickly. The first season has the bad guys on a winning streak and three student heroes are [[CharactersDroppingLikeFlies knocked out in short order]]. Further, the meta world takes Saint's death as a sign to do the opposite of what he worked for while yet another group has tearing down his legacy as an explicit objective. Among the students and staff the mental instability has far more serious consequences [[spoiler: between two suicide attempts, one [[LetsYouAndHimFight inner-student clash]], and the apathy of the staff and instability of students contributing to a string of Guardian and Terran victories.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: No one may have intentionally shifted the work's tone, but MSU went dark quickly. The first season has the bad guys on a winning streak and three student heroes are [[CharactersDroppingLikeFlies knocked out in short order]]. Further, the meta world takes Saint's death as a sign to do the opposite of what he worked for while yet another group has tearing down his legacy as an explicit objective.

* ShooOutTheClowns: It went unnoticed at first but as the episodes descended into darkness, Floofy Yoko and Cheery Zach were among the first to bite the dust. Ash does not return to the fight, only appearing in omakes. Clankybottoms and other [=NPCs=] like him stay out of focus [[spoiler: until Clankybottoms tries to commit murder-suicide by BFB]] and Bozo's drinking and the teachers' apathy stops being played for humor (mostly).

* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Zach [[note]](formerly human then [[MadeOfMagic ink magic shaped as a human]])[[/note]] and Yoko [[note]]Kitsune Yokai[[/note]] have a couple of kids when the series starts. Mikael's existence is evidence that humans and demons can reproduce. His and Ellie's constant offers seem to imply that they can couple with no more risk than any given pair of humans. [[spoiler: And so far, Martin has not [[OutWithABang died]] even before being empowered by 'Love'. That said, he doesn't talk about what happens...]]

* FightingForAHomeland: One could call the efforts of Class one, self-defense, duty, or this. Pure self preservation would also be satisfied by leaving for the Abyss (Mikael's friends and allies); another dimension (they've visited plenty); or TheLastFrontier and leaving Terra Firma to its fate. Some of the class feel duty as a hero to stabilize things

* DuringTheWar: The whole MythArc. The students blunt one Gaea offensive in Super City only for the Gaea conflict to feed directly into two insurgencies. No one said 'mission accomplished'.

* ThereAreNoGlobalConsequences: Averting this is one of the main themes of the rp. Saint's order collapsed. Saint himself is dead. Gaea's legacy is a long campaign of divisive politics reminiscent of post-2016 USA...

* TheCutie: Wren plays a rather feral version of this as soon as she's introduced.

* CrapsackWorld: The 14 year old student hero is a war veteran. And the students are in the middle of two more insurgencies with omnicidal ambitions. The public is slowly heading down the stages of genocide and well, see below.

** The Iridium Wonders - SupernaturalTeam

* SoLastSeason: A trend among the characters, as several are given midseason powerups even when they're prior power set remain effective.