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* Arc 9: The Vigil race against time to rescue [[spoiler:Alicia Carroll]] from the Denebians before their interrogation can undo their victory from Arc 2. [[spoiler:And then it turns out that Prelate Ochilen's plans don't stop at interdimensional warfare...]]
* Arc 10: The ''complicated'' situation of Unity Earth is coming to an end, just as a subverted Lightning Strike begins abducting Pinnacle Academy students.
* Arc 10: The ''complicated'' situation of Unity Earth is coming to an end, just as a subverted Lightning Strike begins abducting Pinnacle Academy students.
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* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Shade's pet theory [[spoiler:until the reveal of Arc 8]] is that Alicia Carroll is pulling something like this on Daphne.
* CooperationGambit: In the last leg of Arc 8, the Vigil cooperates with Professor Cryo to deny the prize to Nollius, once Cryo no longer has a chance of getting it. That the Professor proceeds to "help" with ways that endanger the Vigil, too, is entirely expected.
* DarkHorseVictory: In Arc 9, [[spoiler:Lianis makes ''very'' good use of behind-the-scene manipulation and the events of the arc to ensure that the Silens [[ThrowTheDogABone become the new interstellar powerhouse]] of their dimension.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: Kellandra, the main villainess of Arc 10, [[spoiler:made one of these with mind-control deity Mesmerra years ago.]] This [[BlessedWithSuck did not work out great]] for either side.
* EthnicGod: [[spoiler:Prelate Ochilen's deeper plot in Arc 9 is to ''create'' a pantheon of gods for the Denebian people, to create a magical basis to support their existing technological power and allow them to conquer even high-magic civilizations.]]
** [[spoiler:In arc 10, when Strike begins abducting students for Kellandra, it's assumed she's under mind-control. As they learn in the arc's epilogue, not only was Strike's situation a lot more complicated than that, but she wasn't even the one abducting students!]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: In Arc 10, Kellandra tries to inflict one on Doctor Menlo, [[AndIMustScream trapping her in her own body]] as a helpless passenger while her body keeps acting like an entirely different person for the rest of her life.
** In [[spoiler:arc 9, the Vigil have to effectively abort an attempt at creating an entire pantheon of gods halfway through the process.]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:Unity Earth, due to cosmological factors, is effectively doomed, and nothing Strike or Alicia can do can change that. Alicia's solution: Create a backup world and evacuate the population there.]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:Unity Earth, due to cosmological factors, is effectively doomed, and nothing Strike or Alicia can do can change that. Alicia's solution: Create a backup world and evacuate the population there.]]
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* MagicVersusScience: Averted. Several magical factions have displayed a willingness to branch out into technology, and [[TheArchmage Causality]] achieved her mastery of sorcery in the first place by researching the physics behind magic.
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* MagicVersusScience: Averted. Several magical factions have displayed a willingness to branch out into technology, and [[TheArchmage Causality]] achieved her mastery of sorcery in the first place by researching the physics behind magic. [[spoiler:And Prelate Ochilen's masterplan involved creating a pantheon of gods who would provide magical power to complement the Deneb Imperium's powerful technology.]]
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* SpaceStation: Venture City, a massive station in geosynchronous orbit housing hundreds of thousands of people. Also Unity Station, which used to serve as the headquarters of Unity Earth's premier superhero team. [[spoiler:Also, a gigantic station able to house billions, to which Alicia decides to evacuate the people of Unity Earth.]]
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Brutally subverted with the [[PathOfInspiration High Priestess of Purity]], who orders the death of her daughter without blinking. See EvilCannotComprehendGood below.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Brutally subverted Subverted with the [[PathOfInspiration High Priestess of Purity]], who orders the death of her daughter without blinking. See EvilCannotComprehendGood below.
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** Interstellar Age Technology: Nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, fusion power, warp drives, representing the gradual move from Type I to Type II on [[AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit the Kardashev scale]].
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** Interstellar Age Technology: Nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, fusion power, warp drives, representing the gradual move from Type I to Type II on [[AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit [[JustForFun/AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit the Kardashev scale]].
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* AlienNonInterferenceClause: A downplayed version. The Silens are not dead-set against intervening in human affairs, but they want to do so in ways that don't result in a diplomatic incident. Naturally, this slows things down.
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* AlienNonInterferenceClause: A downplayed version. The Silens are not dead-set against intervening in human affairs, but they want to do so in ways that don't result in a diplomatic incident. Naturally, this slows things down.
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* KillTheGod: Entropy, pretty much an evil god and [[MyLittlePony Discord]] {{Expy}}, dies in the climax of the first arc. Shade inherited her powers in the backstory because her predecessor was killed by Solaria's agents.
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* KillTheGod: Entropy, pretty much an evil god and [[MyLittlePony [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Discord]] {{Expy}}, dies in the climax of the first arc. Shade inherited her powers in the backstory because her predecessor was killed by Solaria's agents.
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** "Pinnacle Earth" (where the school is actually built), a slightly modified version of the world from which [[FanFic/AChampionInEarthBet the Avatar]] hails.
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** "Pinnacle Earth" (where the school is actually built), a slightly modified version of the world from which [[FanFic/AChampionInEarthBet [[Fanfic/AChampionInEarthBet the Avatar]] hails.
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* YourSoulIsMine: A favored approach of Sanctifer. [[spoiler:And a special power of Mezliza - normally, succubi can only take souls from willing people in fair negotiations - a condition she can entirely ignore.]]]]
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** Alicia Carroll and Madman somehow trigger this in ''each other'' - Alicia is horrified by the FateWorseThanDeath Madman inflicted on a villain who offended him, Madman finds it disturbing that ''Alicia Carroll' of all people thinks he's gone too far.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Brutally subverted with the [[PathOfInspiration High Priestess of Purity]], who orders the death of her daughter without blinking. See EvilCannotComprehendGood below.
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** From Arc 8: [[spoiler: "I need to talk to Daphne Miller. The ''real'' one." Leading to the reveal that Doctor Menlo was effectively created as a GoodTwin of the Neuroqueen.]]
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* Arc 8: The forces of Professor Cryo and Nollius are invading the fae-ruled Glamour City simultaneously, fighting and racing each other to seize the Genesis Device, an energy source powerful enough to upend the balance of power on Pinnacle Earth. [[spoiler:And then it turns out Gargantor is pulling the strings...]]
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* EvilVersusEvil: Arc 8 features the forces of the [[FairFolk Winter Court]], [[DiabolicalMastermind Professor Cryo]] and [[EvilOverlord Nollius]] all fighting each other.
* TheFairFolk:They've yet to appear in-person, but Glamour City is run by these, including Kyoko - one of the villains from Lightning Strike's past - has been mentioned, and past, who apparently runs Glamour LLC as a fair folk {{Megacorp}}.
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* RealityEnsues: The team spends most of Arc 4 being a heroic OutsideContextProblem in the dimension of Watson Earth... until in the climax, Pinnacle Earth's White House explicitly orders them to cut it out because of the potential harmful ramifications of interdimensional incidents.
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** Venture Industries, run by Doctor Dexter Darien, [[CrazyAwesome prides itself]] on "giving [[MadScientist mad scientists]] respectable jobs", has constructed an orbital elevator and a city in geosynchronous orbit, and are fully embracing transhumanism.
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* DeaderThanDead: Very worryingly, Doctor Trick has apparently researched a way to inflict it on divine entities with ResurrectiveImmortality.
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* VillainTeamUp: Crime.NET, in its short but worrying appearance, included [[spoiler:Candace Macmillian, Melissa Terrigen, Baroness Killgrave, Moda, Sanctifer's bodyguard, and an unnamed Denebian operative.]]
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* Arc 7: Solaria and Pinnacle Academy try to put an end to the nuclear winter plaguing the Shattered Aegis world, but the plan to do so involves placing a materialized shard of Solaria's divine power in the field, where it can be targeted. Sure enough, [[spoiler:Lunarians, the Shadow Church, priests of the former Shade, and Radias all attempt to take advantage.]]
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** From Arc 7: [[spoiler:"It's also Annie. Cat ears and all." Revealing that one of the corpses in the Shadow Church listening station is a duplicate of Annie - with ''no explanation given'', leaving the shocked heroes to speculate.]]
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* WaveMotionGun: The Vergelstungskanone-33 used by the SHOCKER mothership [[spoiler:at the battle of the Crossoroads Mall. It's described as firing a beam of plasma and photonic energy powerful enough to "reduce a good chunk of a city to ash into a brief light show". [[NoSell Miss Trial stops it cold.]]]]
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** This is what makes Miss Trial redouble her studies every time she fails.
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** Watson Earth, a dystopian {{Magitech}} {{Cyberpunk}} world.
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