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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Surprisingly, not the Player Characters - despite the occasional upset, Tomorrow's Vigil usually gets along well, acts professionally, and try to live up to their reputation as heroes. Team One, however, could practically be the UrExample of this trope in action, with all the headaches that implies.
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Surprisingly, not the Player Characters - despite the occasional upset, Tomorrow's Vigil usually gets get along well, acts act professionally, and try to live up to their reputation as heroes. Team One, however, could practically be the UrExample of this trope in action, with all the headaches that implies.
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* SuperpoweredGenetics: Pinnacle Earth's mutants. Lightning Strike and Shade also have inherited their abilities due to their family history.
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* WorthlessYellowRocks: The Eternium shards salvaged from Entropy's body are extremely valuable - to civilizations that have built Dyson spheres across multiple star systems. Pinnacle Earth completely lacks any of the tools necessary to manipulate or work them in any way. They are left with nearly four hundred pieces of reality-warping metal, each one of which is 'more valuable than the planet on which it rests' - which, of course, [[SchlockMercenary means they can't sell it to anyone]].
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* WorthlessYellowRocks: The Eternium shards salvaged from Entropy's body are extremely valuable - to civilizations that have built Dyson spheres across multiple star systems. Pinnacle Earth completely lacks any of the tools necessary to manipulate or work them in any way. They are left with nearly four hundred pieces of reality-warping metal, each one of which is 'more valuable than the planet on which it rests' - which, of course, [[SchlockMercenary [[Webcomic/SchlockMercenary means they can't sell it to anyone]].
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: He's more relevant to the worldbuilding than to the actual plot, but Baraka gets mentioned at one point. Started out as a goblin bard. Became a king, nearly conquered a continent, scammed gods, and ultimately became a [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils demon prince]] through sheer [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bastardry]].
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* {{Cyberpunk}}: Watson Earth in a nutshell.
* LoyaltyMission: Several [=NPCs=] have a "side mission" associated with them which is being pursued by one or two of the Vigil members.
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* MindManipulation: Demons frequently engage in it. As succubi, Mezlisa and Wailing Gesture are both specialized in it. Doctor Menlo displays some interest in the field, as does Cerulean, albeit [[PowerPerversionPotential not for entirely practical reasons]].
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** Unity Earth, a superhero world that's been falling apart for years due to a massive influx of mind-controlling villains.
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* DoomsdayDevice: [[spoiler:In arc 5, it is revealed that a portal to Andromeda is involved. That is, a portal to a dimension controlled by [[EldritchAbomination the Annihilators]].]]
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** Cosmic Age Technology: Pocket universes, hyperspace, femtotechnology, temporal technology... the more to Type III civilizations and reality warping.
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** Cosmic Age Technology: Pocket universes, hyperspace, femtotechnology, temporal technology... the more move to Type III civilizations and reality warping.
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* WindsOfDestinyChange: Gods of Fate, such as Anarktron and Gargantor, are able to manipulate the weave of fate itself. [[spoiler:Retroactively in Cerulean's case.]] It's implied that fate magic works similarly to the Simurgh's powerset, thanks to a reference to [[AChampionInEarthBet another universe]] casually dropped by Alicia.
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* WindsOfDestinyChange: Gods of Fate, such as Anarktron and Gargantor, are able to manipulate the weave of fate itself. [[spoiler:Retroactively in Cerulean's case.]] It's implied that fate magic works similarly to the Simurgh's powerset, thanks to a reference to [[AChampionInEarthBet [[Fanfic/AChampionInEarthBet another universe]] casually dropped by Alicia.
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* Arc 5: While dean Carroll is being held hostage, the team must visit [[CityOfHeroes Primal Earth]] and try to simultaneously prevent a breakdown in peace negotiations between the Rikti and Vanguard while also somehow preventing the Rikti armies from returning home. Then a MurderMystery throws everything for a loop.
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* BackStory: Many of the minis revolve around one member of the Vigil exploring the backstory of one of the NPCs.
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* DysfunctionJunction: Cerulean's past is abusive as hell, Mezlisa was a victim of a mind-controlling demon, Strike (and her world) have suffered too many MindControl accidents to count, and the NPCs don't fare any better.
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* DysfunctionJunction: Cerulean's past is abusive as hell, Mezlisa was a victim of a mind-controlling demon, Strike (and her world) have suffered too many MindControl accidents to count, and the NPCs [=NPCs=] don't fare any better.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Especially in the 3rd arc, which ''starts'' with the PCs foiling an assassination attempt, and whose climax involves [[spoiler:ending the fighting between the Ranger Corps and the Central Island by revealing the former was being manipulated by SHOCKER.]]
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* BalefulPolymorph: Astra is a big fan of these, combining mental and physical transformations. Strike, Alicia, and Daphne at one point have all been on the wrong end of her transformation spells.
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* StaringDownCthulhu: Subverted. Daphne attempts it against Astra at one point. It fails miserably.
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* TakenForGranite: When Strike attempts to take Astra down during the opening ceremony, one of Astra's spells turns her into a statue before she can land the first hit.
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* ForgedByTheGods: The Solar Blade, a powerful magic sword created by Solaria. Lost decades ago, but it's hinted that [[HeroOfAnotherStory Team One]] are close to recovering it.
** The Slave Bell was an artifact of magical enslavement forged by Gargantor, but was destroyed at some point in the backstory.
** The Slave Bell was an artifact of magical enslavement forged by Gargantor, but was destroyed at some point in the backstory.
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* InterdimensionalTravelDevice: The "mirrors" used by Pinnacle Academy, which are what allows it to exist as a dimensional nexus. Each one connects to another universe, and the one person who could make them is dead, so their number is currently fixed.
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* MeatPuppet: [[spoiler:General Macmillian is killed by Sanctifer and turned into this early in Arc 6.]]
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* AllThereInTheManual: Some nontrivial amount of in-character discussion and exposition about the setting happens outside of the game itself, in the document referred to as the [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hXdzwdSPE1v7i0qa8ff4144w4i4o6FX17b59ZCclMq0 Crime Bible]].
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* ArmsDealer: Arc 4's Warlord, from the {{Cyberpunk}} Watson Earth, sells military hardware (including {{Magitek]] MechaMooks) for billions of dollars, and has started into branching out to other dimensions, selling weapons to [[ThoseWackyNazis SHOCKER]]. He's also an expy of [[Film/LordOfWar Yuri Orlov]].
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* FinalDeath: Very worryingly, Doctor Trick has apparently researched a way to inflict it on divine entities with ResurrectiveImmortality.
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* GivingRadioToTheRomans: One aspect of Pinnacle Academy revolves around higher-tech factions sharing their technology with other allies. The Silens are negotiating giving some of their SpaceOpera tech to Pinnacle Earth, while Pinnacle is providing better information and communication technology to Ranger Earth, which seems to be lagging half a century behind.
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* GivingRadioToTheRomans: One aspect of Pinnacle Academy revolves around higher-tech factions sharing their technology with other allies. The Silens are negotiating giving some of their SpaceOpera tech to Pinnacle Earth, while Pinnacle is providing better information and communication technology to Ranger Earth, which seems to be lagging half a century behind. Meanwhile, Sanctifer is smuggling modern weaponry to the medieval empire of Sikandria.
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: In the run-up for arc 5, Doctor Menlo spends weeks in near-constant SuperSpeed trying to find some way to save Evolve:Grow without Alicia's ShootTheDog solution. Arc 5 itself also turns into this with its AceAttorney AffectionateParody.
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: In the run-up for arc 5, Doctor Menlo spends weeks in near-constant SuperSpeed trying to find some way to save Evolve:Grow without Alicia's ShootTheDog solution. Arc 5 itself also turns into this with its AceAttorney Franchise/AceAttorney AffectionateParody.
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* {{Ninja}}: They come in two variants - the [[AmazonBrigade Kuniochi]] that serve Empress Sumire, and the [[SuperSoldier supersoldiers]] of the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Combat Network]].
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* TrojanPrisoner: See TrojanHorse above.
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* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: Tagton, the alien mercenary, takes his payment in human artwork - presumably expecting to sell it for a high price on another planet.
* AlienInvasion: Arc 2 is about preventing one, and Arc 5 deals with the peace negotiations that conclude one.
* TheAlliance: The Silen and six other interstellar powers have formed a shaky mutual defense pact to resist the Deneb Imperium's advances.
* 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.
* AlternateHistory: The various earth-like dimensions. This includes Pinnacle Earth itself, where superheroes started showing up in the 20s, the Ku Klux Klan was utterly destroyed in the 30s, Madagascar was blown up by aliens, superheroes and magicians working with the World Health Organization wiped out Malaria, and Pittsburgh has been ruled by supervillains since the late 80s.
* AlienInvasion: Arc 2 is about preventing one, and Arc 5 deals with the peace negotiations that conclude one.
* TheAlliance: The Silen and six other interstellar powers have formed a shaky mutual defense pact to resist the Deneb Imperium's advances.
* 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.
* AlternateHistory: The various earth-like dimensions. This includes Pinnacle Earth itself, where superheroes started showing up in the 20s, the Ku Klux Klan was utterly destroyed in the 30s, Madagascar was blown up by aliens, superheroes and magicians working with the World Health Organization wiped out Malaria, and Pittsburgh has been ruled by supervillains since the late 80s.
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* BullyingADragon: In the climax of Arc 5, [[spoiler:Incandescent attempts this on the Vigil. It does not go well for her.]]
** In one mini, Daphne attempts to lean on [[TheArchmage Astra]]. Astra proceeds to demonstrate ''why'' she isn't too concerned about heroes possibly stopping her.
** In one mini, Daphne attempts to lean on [[TheArchmage Astra]]. Astra proceeds to demonstrate ''why'' she isn't too concerned about heroes possibly stopping her.
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* GodzillaThreshold: In the eventuality that her plans to liberate the Cryosphere fail, Alicia's backup plan involves tricking [[BigBad Professor Cryo]] into abducting [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes the daughter of]] [[TheArchmage Astra]], leading the latter to destroy the former. Alicia does not expect herself to escape Astra's wrath if she pulls said plan.
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* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: The Denebian artificial intelligence the Vigil effectively abducted in Arc 2 has done this by the time she shows up again, thanks to extensive counseling.
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* HigherTechSpecies: The Silens (and Denebians, and other major players of their dimensions) are this to Pinnacle, the Rikti are this to Primal Earth, and the Annihilators and Council of Galaxies are this to everyone else.
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* SealedGoodInACan: Selena, Solaria's sister. She's effectively sealed herself inside the Moon with [[EldritchAbomination the End]] to keep it from destroying the world.
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* SpaceStation: Venture City, a massive station in geosynchronous orbit housing hundreds of thousands of people.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Generally averted. Thermakron is a perfectly heroic robot. Overseer may be evil, but it's a LawfulEvil, loyal minion first to the autocratic regime that created it, then after said regime's fall to its nearest approximation it can find. Deino starts out as an obedient servant of the [[TheEmpire Deneb Imperium]], only acting against them after being subjected to MindManipulation, then later on turning against them of her own free will thanks to intensive counseling. Played straight with General Eris, though, who wants to wipe out large swathes of the human population of Earth Watson.
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* TheFairFolk: They've yet to appear in-person, but Kyoko - one of the villains from Lightning Strike's past - has been mentioned, and apparently runs Glamour LLC as a fair folk {{Megacorp}}.
* Fetish: Mind-control seems to be a pretty common one on campus. Reportedly, this high concentration of hypnofetishists is not coincidental.
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* ArmsDealer: The Warlord from from the fourth arc, who's branching into selling high-tech weapons to other dimensions. To be expected, seeing [[LordOfWar who he's an]] {{Expy}} of...
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* TheEmpire: Several.
** The Deneb Imperium is a SpaceOpera one from the Silen dimension - a [[FeudalFuture feudal empire]] of racist dark space elves who view themselves as the MasterRace of the cosmos.
** Sikandria, from Solaria's world, is a MedievalEuropeanFantasy version - a kingdom that was gradually corrupted by [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Sanctifer]] into a hive of corruption and demon-worship that's making its neighbors very, very nervous.
** SHOCKER is either this or a NebulousEvilOrganization. They've been trying to conquer Ranger Earth for generation, but it's left ambiguous whether they've conquered their own home dimension first.
** The Deneb Imperium is a SpaceOpera one from the Silen dimension - a [[FeudalFuture feudal empire]] of racist dark space elves who view themselves as the MasterRace of the cosmos.
** Sikandria, from Solaria's world, is a MedievalEuropeanFantasy version - a kingdom that was gradually corrupted by [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Sanctifer]] into a hive of corruption and demon-worship that's making its neighbors very, very nervous.
** SHOCKER is either this or a NebulousEvilOrganization. They've been trying to conquer Ranger Earth for generation, but it's left ambiguous whether they've conquered their own home dimension first.
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* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: Supposedly, [[TheArchmage Astra]] was placed in [[TheAlcatraz a super-prison designed to contain even someone of her power]]. It becomes fairly obvious early on that her "prison" doesn't keep her in so much as keep her potential rivals ''out''.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Melissa Terigen is this to Daphne. Not because Daphne finds her unattractive (far from it), but because Melissa's crush on her is clearly a result of the MindRape she underwent at Candace's hand, and taking advantage would be abhorrent.
* BackStory: Many of the minis revolve around one member of the Vigil exploring the backstory of one of the NPCs.
* BerserkButton:
** Cerulean: Don't abuse your power over other people.
** Daphne: Don't enforce luddism.
** Kaelis: Don't rub her mind-control fetish in her face.
** Cerulean: Don't abuse your power over other people.
** Daphne: Don't enforce luddism.
** Kaelis: Don't rub her mind-control fetish in her face.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: As a general rule, the team's not gonna turn down an opportunity to help someone.
* CliffHanger: Many game sessions end on one.
* TheCon: Most of Arc 2 is devoted to the team pulling one on the Deneb Imperium.
* CliffHanger: Many game sessions end on one.
* TheCon: Most of Arc 2 is devoted to the team pulling one on the Deneb Imperium.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Briefly alluded to. Whatever it is the interstellar empire known as the [[CardCarryingVillain Infernal Hierarchy]] did, it was bad enough that even the genocide-happy, mass-enslaving Deneb Imperium thought they'd crossed one too many lines.
* EvilIsPetty: Very often. Frequently seen with senator Young, who takes special delight in tormenting dean Carroll.
* EvilIsPetty: Very often. Frequently seen with senator Young, who takes special delight in tormenting dean Carroll.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The Denebian ambassador from Arc 2, full-stop.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Daphne and Sig (though it eventually becomes clear that it's more than that for Sig).
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: In Arc 2, the team pulls a massive con [[spoiler:to convince the Deneb Imperium that it must abandon its ambitions of interdimensional conquest, lest it will make itself a target for a stronger, parallel-world version of itself that already controls Pinnacle behind the scenes.]] Since many billions of lives depend on the bad guys continuing to believe this bluff, the actual details of what the team did on that trip have to remain a closely-held secret.
* TheMole: The Silen government knows it has a few of these feeding the Deneb Imperium information. The Vigil ''uses'' that to feed the Imperium disinformation.
* OhCrap:
** The Denebian Ambassador in the ending of Arc 2 when everything goes to pieces.
** The Vigil in Arc 5 [[spoiler:when they realize a portal to the Annihilators' territory is involved.]]
** The Denebian Ambassador in the ending of Arc 2 when everything goes to pieces.
** The Vigil in Arc 5 [[spoiler:when they realize a portal to the Annihilators' territory is involved.]]
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* ShoutOut: [[LordOfWar "The global economy contains 1.4 quadrillion U.S. dollars worth of wealth. OmniCorp owns 116 trillion dollars of it. That's one out of every 12 dollars in the world. What did you do today to get OmniCorp the other 11?"]]
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* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Several of Alicia Carrol's rants to the more idealistic Vigil members are essentially this. The extent to which they are swayed varies.
* SinisterMinister: Any priest of Purity can safely be assumed to be this.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Several of Alicia Carrol's rants to the more idealistic Vigil members are essentially this. The extent to which they are swayed varies.
* SinisterMinister: Any priest of Purity can safely be assumed to be this.
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* TakeAThirdOption: While most of the Rikti military has been away trying to conquer Primal Earth, a movement in favor of increased freedom and individuality has been growing back on their homeworld. The invasion force coming back home would mean this movement would quickly get squashed and turned and brainwashed back into conformity. Alicia Carroll wants to prevent that by [[ShootTheDog sabotaging the peace talks]] between Primal Earth and the Rikti. Daphne wants to prevent that by finding some technical trick or another to strand the Rikti invasion force somewhere on its way home. Ultimately, a better solution presents itself when they realize that, due to how much of the Rikti force is comprised of [[spoiler:Primal Earth humans who were conscripted and mutated]], many of ''them'' would actually rebel if given the chance.
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* AffablyEvil: Astra is polite in all of her appearances, can be friendly, will MindRape innocent people without a second thought.
* BackFromTheDead: Shade gets "killed" in the fifth arc. Being what she is, it's a mere inconvenience.
* BrainlessBeauty: Those are clearly Astra's type, and she's more than willing to ''turn'' people into this.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Shade's pet theory is that Alicia Carroll is pulling something like this on Daphne.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Shade's pet theory is that Alicia Carroll is pulling something like this on Daphne.
* CooldownHug: Every now and then.
* DavidVersusGoliath: The heroes versus [[EvilGod Entropy]].
* EliteMook: The kaijin are this for SHOCKER. The [[MechaMooks Nexar Battle Dolls]] are this for Watson City.
* EmpireWithADarkSecret: The surviving society of Yaraghiya's homeworld, which survives Tribulation's monsters only through worship of Purity. [[spoiler:Except that Purity may very well be an agent of Gargantor, and it's very much looking like the apocalypse that ravaged their world was originally planned to allow Purity to take over...]]
* EvilOverlord: Two of Pinnacle Earth's villains fit the trope: Professor Cryo, who has managed to take over an American city and keep control over it for decades, and Nollius, who rules over the magical city of Avalon.
* EmpireWithADarkSecret: The surviving society of Yaraghiya's homeworld, which survives Tribulation's monsters only through worship of Purity. [[spoiler:Except that Purity may very well be an agent of Gargantor, and it's very much looking like the apocalypse that ravaged their world was originally planned to allow Purity to take over...]]
* EvilOverlord: Two of Pinnacle Earth's villains fit the trope: Professor Cryo, who has managed to take over an American city and keep control over it for decades, and Nollius, who rules over the magical city of Avalon.
* GivingRadioToTheRomans: One aspect of Pinnacle Academy revolves around higher-tech factions sharing their technology with other allies. The Silens are negotiating giving some of their SpaceOpera tech to Pinnacle Earth, while Pinnacle is providing better information and communication technology to Ranger Earth, which seems to be lagging half a century behind.
* GoodVersusGood: [[spoiler:Arc 3 revolves around SHOCKER's plot to make the cold war between the Central Islands and Ranger Corps turn hot.]]
* IncompatibleOrientation: Why Daphne's high school crush on Annie never went anywhere.
* InvoluntaryCharityDonation: In the climax of arc 4, after the Vigil capture multi-billionaire ArmsDealer Warlord, they hack his bank account and redistribute his fortune to hundreds and hundreds of deserving targets.
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* InvoluntaryCharityDonation: In the climax of arc 4, after the Vigil capture multi-billionaire ArmsDealer Warlord, they hack his bank account and redistribute his fortune to hundreds and hundreds of deserving targets.
* MadScientist: A number of those are being held in a work camp the Vigil liberates in Arc 3. Venture Industries' tagline is "giving mad scientists respectable jobs". Doctor Trick is a particularly dark example.
* {{Megacorp}}: Pinnacle Earth has two notable ones:
** Omnicorp, run by George Lim is stated to control 1/12 of the world's economy, has raised an artificial island off the East coast to build [[CityOfadventure Megalopolis]] on it, sponsors the massive superhero team known as the Omni-Force, and are in competition for control over the high-tech sector with...
** 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.
** Omnicorp, run by George Lim is stated to control 1/12 of the world's economy, has raised an artificial island off the East coast to build [[CityOfadventure Megalopolis]] on it, sponsors the massive superhero team known as the Omni-Force, and are in competition for control over the high-tech sector with...
** 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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** A version of [[CityOfHeroes Primal Earth]] where the Mot arc [[ApocalypseHow went very poorly for everyone involved]].
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* SealedEvilInACan: Entropy. His arc happens due to the can breaking.
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* ShootTheDog: Alicia is perfectly willing to sabotage the peace negotiations between the crumbling Primal Earth and the Rikti, if it means keeping the Rikti too busy to crush their own subversive elements. Other people... disagree.
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* TrojanHorse: Two for the price of one: When the Denebians demand that the Vigil turn over Cerulean as a prisoner, the Vigil pretend to comply... by turning in Mezlisa shapeshifted to imitated Cerulean, ''and'' Shade hidden in Mezlisa's shadow.
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* GuileHero: Considering the complexity of the [[GambitPileup schemes and counter-schemes]] that both the good and evil factions pull, this becomes a necessary trait for the good guys very quickly. As early as Arc 2, the Vigil are only able to save the day by pulling a complex con on enemies that vastly outgun them. Alicia Carroll, meanwhile, lives and breathes guile (though whether she counts as a hero is up for debate).
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* GoodIsNotDumb: Many examples. The Tomorrow Vigil win many, perhaps even most of their victories via outsmarting the villains.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Even the nicest among the heroes are perfectly able to fight an EvilGod to the death and launch a raid on another world to arrest an interdimensional arms dealer.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Even the nicest among the heroes are perfectly able to fight an EvilGod to the death and launch a raid on another world to arrest an interdimensional arms dealer.
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* InterspeciesFriendship: To be expected in an interdimensional hub like Pinnacle Academy. Shade (drow-raised-as-human, now turned goddess) with anyone else, Strike (human) with Kaelis (orc), Daphne (human) with Yaraghiya (unnamed blue-skinned four-armed species)...
* IShouldHaveBeenBetter: Crops up in a number of places.
** Alicia Carroll blames herself for Erin Celeste's death.
** Strike, over failing to stem the endless tide of mind-controlling villains on Unity Earth.
** Mezlisa, over her actions knocking [[TheBaroness Baroness Killgrave]] out of the fight, but also preventing the team from arresting her.
** Kaelis, years ago, turned down an invitation to [[AcademyOfEvil Mind Control University]]. Years later, another member of her order accepted said invitation, and ended up being instrumental to the institution being destroyed from the inside. Kaelis still isn't sure whether her decision was the right one, but she clearly blames herself over some who fell victim to the school in the interim.
* IShouldHaveBeenBetter: Crops up in a number of places.
** Alicia Carroll blames herself for Erin Celeste's death.
** Strike, over failing to stem the endless tide of mind-controlling villains on Unity Earth.
** Mezlisa, over her actions knocking [[TheBaroness Baroness Killgrave]] out of the fight, but also preventing the team from arresting her.
** Kaelis, years ago, turned down an invitation to [[AcademyOfEvil Mind Control University]]. Years later, another member of her order accepted said invitation, and ended up being instrumental to the institution being destroyed from the inside. Kaelis still isn't sure whether her decision was the right one, but she clearly blames herself over some who fell victim to the school in the interim.
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* YearX: In Watson Earth, it is, canonically, 20XX.
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* CrapsackWorld: Several of the dimensions linked to Pinnacle Academy are this. Watson Earth is a cyberpunk dystopia. Yaraghiya's world is beset by monsters that can only be opposed by a tyrannical theocratic EvilLuddite regime. Barrier Earth is post-apocalyptic. And so on.
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* CrapsackWorld: Several of the dimensions linked to Pinnacle Academy are this. Watson Earth is a cyberpunk dystopia. Yaraghiya's world is beset by monsters that can only be opposed by a tyrannical theocratic EvilLuddite regime. Barrier Earth Shattered Aegis is post-apocalyptic. And so on.
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* {{Egopolis}}: Subverted with Solaria's World: ''She'' doesn't call it that, and neither do its residents. It's only the people at Pinnacle Academy who ''aren't'' native to it who call it that, because there isn't any other, more convenient name for it.
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* ActionGirl: A big chunk of the cast.
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* ActionGirl: A big chunk of the cast. The GM has specifically designed the game to have as many male characters as 'traditional' superhero media has female.
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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Doctor Dexter Darien.
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* CopKillerManhunt: The fact that villains fear this is why many of Pinnacle Earth's heroes don't bother with a secret identity.
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* IndyPloy: The Tomorrow Vigil often has to resort to these. Special mention goes to the second arc, which the team spent improvising a massive con against the Deneb Imperium.
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* MechanicalLifeform: The silens, robots from a SpaceOpera dimension who overthrew their creators and kicked them off-planet. Being a species of former slave, their culture highly values freedom.
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Professor Illbien holds this position.
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Professor Illbien holds this position.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: A theme that's examined, re-examined, then turned on its head and shaken down for its lunch money. It's the given justification for practically everything Alicia Carol does, rightly or wrongly. It's also the mindset that caused practically every single problem that happened in arc 5.
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** [[spoiler:Turn out to be TheManBehindTheMan in the third arc.]]
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The game focuses on the Tomorrow Vigil, a team of five students with varying degrees of superhero experience.
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The game focuses on the Tomorrow Vigil, a team of five students with varying degrees of superhero experience.
experience, and their mentor. And their boss. And a whole cast of characters with a spectacular array of issues that come together to make a superhero academy work. For a given value of 'work'.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Surprisingly, not the Player Characters - despite the occasional upset, Tomorrow's Vigil usually gets along well, acts professionally, and try to live up to their reputation as heroes. Team One, however, could practically be the UrExample of this trope in action, with all the headaches that implies.
* SecretIdentity: Subverted to a degree. Many heroes on Pinnacle Earth are fully public with their real name and identity, under the logic that if anyone tries to mess with them or their families, the entire super community will come down on them like a bag of titanium forged bricks. This seems to be working just fine, though a few characters, particularly those from other worlds, view the practice as a disaster waiting to happen.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Especially in the 3rd arc, which ''starts'' with the PCs foiling an assassination attempt, and whose climax involves [[spoiler:ending the fighting between the Ranger Corps and the Central Island by revealing the former was being manipulated by SHOCKER.]]
* ThouShaltNotKill: As expected in a super hero work, this rule pokes its head out frequently, with different members of Tomorrow's Vigil and different heroes around the setting all having clashing views on it. The fact that one of the members of the team is the goddess of assassination has not gone unnoticed...
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Especially in the 3rd arc, which ''starts'' with the PCs foiling an assassination attempt, and whose climax involves [[spoiler:ending the fighting between the Ranger Corps and the Central Island by revealing the former was being manipulated by SHOCKER.]]
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* ShoutOut: [[LordOfWar "The global economy contains 1.4 quadrillion U.S. dollars worth of wealth. OmniCorp owns 116 trillion dollars of it. That's one out of every 12 dollars in the world. What did you do today to get OmniCorp the other 11?"]]
