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* TalkingApplianceSidekick: Dr Spooky has Otto the [[http://magellanverse.com/?p=2236 demon possessed hearse.]]

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* TalkingApplianceSidekick: Dr Spooky has Otto the [[http://magellanverse.com/?p=2236 com/comic/otto/ demon possessed hearse.]]
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* LiteralGenie: [[http://magellanverse.com/?p=2280 I wish I were younger]]

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* LiteralGenie: [[http://magellanverse.com/?p=2280 com/comic/djinn/ I wish I were younger]]
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* BadassGrandpa: Ken Spence, Mary Jemmas, Gola Beh — heck, pretty much the entire Advisory Council is one of these.
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* ForWantOfANail: The Magellan-verse's timeline seemed to line up with the real world (save for the presence of superheroes), up until the Q'Arth invasion in 1972. It functionally destroyed the Soviet Union and the dominoes fell from there.
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* NewBodyOldAbilities: [[spoiler:Related to the above when Gola Beh is aged down she can still [[http://magellanverse.com/comic/scoot/ access her old abilities]] in a raw and untrained form.]]
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* ArtEvolution: Forn Demons originally started out with normal black pupils and white sclera, no tails, and normal feet. When Jenna became more of a focus, it was revealed they have yellow pupils and red sclera, cloven hooves, and forked tails. For a good comparison, note the way Jenna is drawn on [[http://magellanverse.com/2-39x/ this page]] as opposed to one drawn [[http://magellanverse.com/5-13/ five years later.]]

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* ArtEvolution: Forn Demons originally started out with normal black pupils and white sclera, no tails, and normal feet. When Jenna became more of a focus, it was revealed they have yellow pupils and red sclera, cloven hooves, and forked tails. For a good comparison, note the way Jenna is drawn on [[http://magellanverse.com/2-39x/ com/comic/top2/ this page]] as opposed to one drawn [[http://magellanverse.com/5-13/ com/comic/aggrievous/ five years later.]]
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* DeathByDeaging: a woman who obtained deaging powers from a genie nearly does this to hero Gola Beh. While she's stopped before Gola de-ages into non-existence, Gola still winds up as a teenager from it.
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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Evil Weevil managed to pull it out...without even appearing! We first see him in Brian's PowerFantasy, where he seems to be a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]-style HarmlessVillain. Then we get to know that he was an arch-nemesis of Victory Man, world's first superhero and the one behind his DePower. And then there's an exam involving fighting his robot duplicate and trying to stop his evil plan, copy of one original Weevil once pulled out. And it aint pretty.

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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Evil Weevil managed to pull it out...without even appearing! We first see him in Brian's PowerFantasy, where he seems to be a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]-style HarmlessVillain. Then we get to know that he was an arch-nemesis of Victory Man, world's first superhero and the one behind his DePower. And then there's an exam involving fighting his robot duplicate and trying to stop his evil plan, copy of one original Weevil once pulled out. And it aint pretty.ain't pretty. Among the known casualties is Montana-Rose's aunt, as revealed during ''Lock(e)down''.
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** Also discussed in a substrip involving candidates who are from other worlds, in that they don't have superpowers from their perspective, as they simply have the abilities of their race.
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* AbsoluteCleavage: Averted. Most of the superheroines' outfits are designed with practicality in mind. The teacher Jaqi who runs the class where the cadets design their outfits points out to a student that if she designs her superhero outfit like this, her breasts are going to [[ThisIsReality fall out.]]


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* GenderIsNoObject: The cadets share both a dorm and even ''showers'' regardless of what gender they are. One reader theory is that this inoculates them to the sight of any form-fitting or skimpy costumes they may wear later on once they start their superhero career. Hard to be distracted by CleavageWindow or {{Stripperific}} outfit when you've already seen that person naked for six years.
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* Notably, Kaycee's year is an exception. They've only had [[spoiler: one person die]], leaving the class with still twenty-three people in their third year. Dialogue suggests that there is at least one other cadet who is considering quitting.

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* ** Notably, Kaycee's year is an exception. They've only had [[spoiler: one person die]], leaving the class with still twenty-three people in their third year. Dialogue suggests that there is at least one other cadet who is considering quitting.



* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The image at the top of the page only shows the first year cadets - there's also the other five years of cadets, the other teachers, Force Magellan, Oz Magellan, solo superheroes like Go!Anna...

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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The image at the top of the page only shows the first main focus is just on ''one'' year of cadets - there's also the other five years of cadets, the other teachers, Force Magellan, Oz Magellan, solo superheroes like Go!Anna...



* WebcomicTime: ''Bad Karma'', an arc that takes place mostly over a single day, took two and a half '''years''' to complete. Also of note is the fact the comic started in March 2004. The writer clearly didn't anticipate how long it was going to take to tell the story, for the main character and her schoolmates are the class of 2015, indicating they were supposed to graduate roughly in double real time. They're still only juniors as of this writing.

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* WebcomicTime: ''Bad Karma'', an arc that takes place mostly over a single day, took two and a half '''years''' to complete. Also of note is the fact the comic started in March 2004. The writer clearly didn't anticipate how long it was going to take to tell the story, for the main character and her schoolmates are the class of 2015, indicating they were supposed to graduate roughly in double real time. They're still only juniors in their third year as of this writing.

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Embracing and parodying superhero tropes in good measure, Magellan is currently telling a chapter entitled "Lock(e)down". Has a character page that needs a lot of love.

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Embracing and parodying superhero tropes in good measure, Magellan is currently telling a chapter entitled "Lock(e)down".''The Things That Matter'' with a side story called ''Legacy'' being used as a voting incentive. Has a character page that needs a lot of love.



* ADayInTheSpotlight: The arcs ''Reckless Hero'' and ''Buying The Stairway To Heaven'' are this for Gifford and Rochelle, respectively.

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* ADayInTheSpotlight: The arcs ''Reckless Hero'' and ''Buying The Stairway To Heaven'' are this for Gifford and Rochelle, respectively. The side stories, used as a reward for voting on a webcomic rating site, tend to focus on one or two characters as well.
* AlliterativeName: A lot. Billy Banks, Chang Chong, Freya Foster, Lin-Lin Lo, and Morgana Maxwell, just to name a few. Possibly a homage to Creator/StanLee, who was fond of giving his many character alliterative names to make them easier to keep track of.



** Noticeable in the side story ''The Olaf Mystery.'' [[spoiler: Svetlana]] dies during what is supposed to be a simple training exercise, showing that cadets can die even when they're not being attacked by a BigBad. Fortunately, [[spoiler: Olaf]] brings her back to life.



* ArtShift: The art styles in each side story tends to be different from the main story. Grace has said this depends on how much time she's able to put into them while working on the main comic pages.



* DwindlingParty: Usually, the cadet classes are so tough that they have people drop out, be [[CareerEndingInjury too injured to continue]], be expelled, or [[AnyoneCanDie die]] every year, leaving the original class of twenty-four to thirty with only ten or so in the final year.
* Notably, Kaycee's year is an exception. They've only had [[spoiler: one person die]], leaving the class with still twenty-three people in their third year. Dialogue suggests that there is at least one other cadet who is considering quitting.



* HeroOfAnotherStory: There will often be [[NoodleIncident noodle incidents]] dropped by older superheroes or those that are on other missions while the comic is focused on a different part of the cast.



* ItsAllAboutMe: A common theme is that what separates the heroes from the villains is that the heroes think about helping other people instead of themselves with their powers, while the villains use their powers only to fuel their own selfish desires.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Again, the Master Assassin, given he's a fourth wall observer and GenreSavvy. He will sometimes talk to the audience that he's certain is watching the events unfold i.e. the webcomic audience. Everyone else assumes he's just insane for thinking this.
** Grace is also aware of TV Tropes and will sometimes make note of tropes in her commentaries beneath the strip.



* LongRunner: The webcomic has been running for over fifteen years as of March 2019. While there have been some significant pauses, it's never stopped production entirely for any length of time.



* MagicAIsMagicA: It appears this is what most of the world's magic runs on. Spells tend to be extremely literal, so careful wording is needed.



* OutOfFocus: Many of the characters tend to drop off the radar for pages at a time, due to the humongous cast size. A notable example are the cadets of Kaycee's year, who tend to only get spotlighted during training exercises. Three (Fabian, Hugh, and Jesus) have never even ''spoken'' on-panel.

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* OutOfFocus: Many of the characters tend to drop off the radar for pages at a time, due to the humongous cast size. A notable example are the cadets of Kaycee's year, who tend to only get spotlighted during training exercises. Three (Fabian, Hugh, and Jesus) have never even ''spoken'' on-panel.in the main story.



* PowerPerversionPotential: Mostly among the cadets, who are still getting used to some of their powers. They end up finding ''interesting'' ways to use them.
* PunnyName: There are quite a few of them. Since it ''is'' a superhero comic, these were a given.



* TookALevelInBadass: After Vostok [[spoiler: fuses the minds together of the class of 2015, when they are unfused, many who had problems with their powers find that they are now gone.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: Related to the above, after [[spoiler: being fused, some of the rudest and most unlikable cadets become much nicer thanks to residual effects. It's most noticeable in Charisma.]]



* WebcomicTime: ''Bad Karma'', an arc that takes place mostly over a single day, took two and a half '''years''' to complete. Also of note is the fact the comic started in March 2004. The writer clearly didn't anticipate how long it was going to take to tell the story, for the main character and her schoolmates are the class of 2013, indicating they were supposed to graduate roughly in double real time. They're still only sophmores as of this writing.

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* WebcomicTime: ''Bad Karma'', an arc that takes place mostly over a single day, took two and a half '''years''' to complete. Also of note is the fact the comic started in March 2004. The writer clearly didn't anticipate how long it was going to take to tell the story, for the main character and her schoolmates are the class of 2013, 2015, indicating they were supposed to graduate roughly in double real time. They're still only sophmores juniors as of this writing.



* YouCantGoHomeAgain: It's unclear if Gifford is [[spoiler: stranded from his home dimension for good or if he just decided to stay at Magellan because he has a HeroComplex. His dialogue during his support group meeting leans towards the latter.]]

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* YouCantGoHomeAgain: It's unclear if Gifford is [[spoiler: stranded from his home dimension for good or if he just decided to stay at Magellan because he has a HeroComplex. His dialogue during his in the support group meeting leans towards supports the latter.]]latter, but his nightmares make it seem like the former.]]
** Many of the Forn demons, Jenna among them, that are on Earth came to escape a religious conflict that is tearing their world apart. They've become permanent refugees.


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* YourWorstNightmare: The entirety of Locke Island, heroes, villains, and staff alike, are subject to this when [[spoiler: what's left of [=DragonKlaw's=] spirit]] uses Montana-Rose as a conduit to separate their physical bodies from their astral selves. They all become trapped in mindscapes of their worst nightmares.
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Set on the eponymous island, ''[[http://www.magellanverse.com Magellan]]'' (NSFW) is a SuperHero [[{{Webcomics}} webcomic]] by Grace Crowley (aka xmung) that starts with the arrival of Kaycee Jones and a score of new cadets to [[SuperheroSchool the Academy]], for many years of training in order to become an accredited SuperHero in her own right.

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Set on the eponymous island, ''[[http://www.magellanverse.com Magellan]]'' (NSFW) is a SuperHero [[{{Webcomics}} webcomic]] {{webcomic|s}} by Grace Crowley (aka xmung) that starts with the arrival of Kaycee Jones and a score of new cadets to [[SuperheroSchool the Academy]], for many years of training in order to become an accredited SuperHero in her own right.
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Bloody meddling kids. Always ruin the fun.

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* YouMeddlingKids: Invoked by name by [[http://magellanverse.com/meddlesome/ Brainspike]], though paraphrased.
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* UpToEleven: [[DiscussedTrope Mentioned]] by name [[http://magellanverse.com/eleven/ here]] by Twilight and turned up to one hundred eleven. Also referred to by the page link, which names the page "eleven".
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* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Averted with Premonitia who retired from superheroing to play the stock market and work as a philanthropist.
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* TragicMonster: Several villains are themselves victims.
** Malice was once a normal woman, but was kidnapped by a MadScientist and fused with multiple spiders and alien DNA. The resulting MindHive has attempted to discard its human identity.
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* ArtEvolution: Forn Demons originally started out with normal black pupils and white sclera, no tails, and normal feet. When Jenna became more of a focus, it was revealed they have yellow pupils and red sclera, cloven hooves, and forked tails. For a good comparison, note the way Jenna is drawn on [[http://magellanverse.com/2-39x/ this page]] as opposed to one drawn [[http://magellanverse.com/5-15/ five years later.]]

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* ArtEvolution: Forn Demons originally started out with normal black pupils and white sclera, no tails, and normal feet. When Jenna became more of a focus, it was revealed they have yellow pupils and red sclera, cloven hooves, and forked tails. For a good comparison, note the way Jenna is drawn on [[http://magellanverse.com/2-39x/ this page]] as opposed to one drawn [[http://magellanverse.com/5-15/ com/5-13/ five years later.]]
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Brainspike. Proportioned like a child with a huge head, with a courteous speech pattern littered with GratuitousFrench. Also, uses telepathic his as a ConflictBall for fun. Amongst other things.

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* FauxAffablyEvil: Brainspike. Proportioned Brainspike is proportioned like a child with a huge head, with a courteous speech pattern littered with GratuitousFrench. Also, he uses telepathic his telepathy as a ConflictBall for fun. Amongst other things.



* FourthWallObserver: The Master Assasin, who responds by knowing/believing they are in the fictional universe by trying to find and kill the protagonist and assume control of the fictional universe.
* FunctionalMagic:

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* FourthWallObserver: The Master Assasin, Assassin, who responds by knowing/believing they are in the fictional universe by trying to find and kill the protagonist and assume control of the fictional universe.
* FunctionalMagic:FunctionalMagic: Several cadets and faculty are wizards and witches.



* InverseLawOfUtilityAndLethality: Pointed out during a combat exercise between the students. The fire-breathing student can threaten all she wants, but since her power can't be used for anything but a lethal takedown, she can't actually use it on her fellow students.

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* InverseLawOfUtilityAndLethality: Pointed out during a combat exercise between the students. The fire-breathing student can threaten all she wants, but since her power can't be used for anything but a lethal takedown, take-down, she can't actually use it on her fellow students.



** Notably despite not thinking through her first two wishes at all, the results aren't entirely bad.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The image at the top of the page only shows the first year cadets- there's also the other five years of cadets, the other teachers, Force Magellan, Oz Magellan, solo superheroes like Go!Anna...

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** Notably Notably, despite not thinking through her first two wishes at all, the results aren't entirely bad.
bad. The third one did not work out too well for her, however.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The image at the top of the page only shows the first year cadets- cadets - there's also the other five years of cadets, the other teachers, Force Magellan, Oz Magellan, solo superheroes like Go!Anna...
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* AlphaBitch: Charisma qualifies in spades. Freya also mentions channeling her inner "alpha bitch" to properly get Brelvis to listen to her. Though she literally means "top dog".

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* AlphaBitch: Charisma qualifies in spades. Freya also mentions channeling channelling her inner "alpha bitch" to properly get Brelvis to listen to her. Though she literally means "top dog".



* ArtEvolution: Forn Demons originally started out with normal black pupils and white sclera, no tails, and normal feet. When Jenna became more of a focus, it was revealed they have yellow pupils and red sclera, cloven hooves, and forked tails. For a good comparison, note the way Jenna is drawn on [[http://magellanverse.com/2-39/ this page]] as opposed to one drawn [[http://magellanverse.com/5-15/ five years later.]]

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* ArtEvolution: Forn Demons originally started out with normal black pupils and white sclera, no tails, and normal feet. When Jenna became more of a focus, it was revealed they have yellow pupils and red sclera, cloven hooves, and forked tails. For a good comparison, note the way Jenna is drawn on [[http://magellanverse.com/2-39/ com/2-39x/ this page]] as opposed to one drawn [[http://magellanverse.com/5-15/ five years later.]]



* {{Crossover}}s: Webcomic/{{Mindmistress}} tutors Rochelle, Hoodoo is currently in ''Webcomic/{{Crossoverkill}}''.

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* {{Crossover}}s: Webcomic/{{Mindmistress}} tutors Rochelle, Hoodoo is currently participated in ''Webcomic/{{Crossoverkill}}''.
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Set on the eponymous island, ''[[http://www.magellanverse.com Magellan]]'' is a SuperHero [[{{Webcomics}} webcomic]] by Grace Crowley (aka xmung) that starts with the arrival of Kaycee Jones and a score of new cadets to [[SuperheroSchool the Academy]], for many years of training in order to become an accredited SuperHero in her own right.

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Set on the eponymous island, ''[[http://www.magellanverse.com Magellan]]'' (NSFW) is a SuperHero [[{{Webcomics}} webcomic]] by Grace Crowley (aka xmung) that starts with the arrival of Kaycee Jones and a score of new cadets to [[SuperheroSchool the Academy]], for many years of training in order to become an accredited SuperHero in her own right.
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* ShootTheDog: Vostok decides to kill Montana-Rose, because her body is hosting a psychic parasite that threatens the entire planet, and killing her, and by extension the parasite, is the most expedient solution available.

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* SassyBlackWoman: Maya and [[spoiler: her older, alternate universe villainous self Miasma]] sometimes fall into this.



* TalkingApplianceSidekick: Dr Spooky has Otto the [[http://magellanverse.com/?p=2236 demon possessed hearse.]]
* TeleportationMisfire: When Gifford got separated from the magical MacGuffin that allowed him to teleport through dimensions, he ended up in smack in the middle of Magellan's council table.



* ToiletTeleportation: Vostok does this. It backfires when, due to the pounding the island is taking, the sewage treatment center is basically pulverized and he almost dies.



* SassyBlackWoman: Maya and [[spoiler: her older, alternate universe villainous self Miasma]] sometimes fall into this.
* TalkingApplianceSidekick: Dr Spooky has Otto the [[http://magellanverse.com/?p=2236 demon possessed hearse.]]
* TeleportationMisfire: When Gifford got separated from the magical MacGuffin that allowed him to teleport through dimensions, he ended up in smack in the middle of Magellan's council table.
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* AllInTheManual: Subverted. There used to be many more [[EasterEgg notes,]] both under the individual comic pages and in the cast pages, especially regarding the original heroes like The Victorious and International Justice Force. At some point, in between moving websites and re-tooling the site, these notes were either lost or taken out.

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* AllInTheManual: AllThereInTheManual: Subverted. There used to be many more [[EasterEgg notes,]] both under the individual comic pages and in the cast pages, especially regarding the original heroes like The Victorious and International Justice Force. At some point, in between moving websites and re-tooling the site, these notes were either lost or taken out.
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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Evil Weevil managed to pull it out...without even appearing! We first see him in Brian's PowerFantasy, where he seems to be a SilverAge-style HarmlessVillain. Then we get to know that he was an arch-nemesis of Victory Man, world's first superhero and the one behind his DePower. And then there's an exam involving fighting his robot duplicate and trying to stop his evil plan, copy of one original Weevil once pulled out. And it aint pretty.

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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Evil Weevil managed to pull it out...without even appearing! We first see him in Brian's PowerFantasy, where he seems to be a SilverAge-style [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]-style HarmlessVillain. Then we get to know that he was an arch-nemesis of Victory Man, world's first superhero and the one behind his DePower. And then there's an exam involving fighting his robot duplicate and trying to stop his evil plan, copy of one original Weevil once pulled out. And it aint pretty.
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* ArtEvolution: Forn Demons originally started out with normal black pupils and white sclera, no tails, and normal feet. When Jenna became more of a focus, it was revealed they have yellow pupils and red sclera, cloven hooves, and forked tails. For a good comparison, note the way Jenna is draw on [[http://magellanverse.com/2-39/ this page]] as opposed to one drawn a [[http://magellanverse.com/5-15/ five years later.]]

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* ArtEvolution: Forn Demons originally started out with normal black pupils and white sclera, no tails, and normal feet. When Jenna became more of a focus, it was revealed they have yellow pupils and red sclera, cloven hooves, and forked tails. For a good comparison, note the way Jenna is draw drawn on [[http://magellanverse.com/2-39/ this page]] as opposed to one drawn a [[http://magellanverse.com/5-15/ five years later.]]



* FanService: Charisma gets her clothes burnt off of her an awful lot- you'd have thought she'd have invested in sturdier clothing by now…

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* FanService: Charisma gets her clothes burnt off of her an awful lot- lot -- you'd have thought she'd have invested in sturdier clothing by now…
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* {{Crossover}}s: {{Mindmistress}} tutors Rochelle, Hoodoo is currently in ''Webcomic/{{Crossoverkill}}''.

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* {{Crossover}}s: {{Mindmistress}} Webcomic/{{Mindmistress}} tutors Rochelle, Hoodoo is currently in ''Webcomic/{{Crossoverkill}}''.
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