History Webcomic / Magellan

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The 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...

* BaldOfAwesome: Features numerous bald characters - Olaf, Tom Bass, Brainspike and Biff Zots amongst others - but it is Rochelle Kwan who qualifies for this label. Although she does have a braided ponytail, the rest of her head - containing her [[SuperIntelligence mega IQ brain]] is always shaved and she frequently kicks serious ass.

* 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.

* LiteralGenie: [[http://magellanverse.com/comic/djinn/ I wish I were younger]]
** Notably, despite not thinking through her first two wishes at all, the results aren't entirely bad. The third one did not work out too well for her, however.

** A corrupt staff member tries to blackmail Maya, only to be MindRaped into transferring elsewhere. In her new post, she sells alien DNA to Brian's father, making it possible for him to delve into his MadScientist pursuits which likely never happened in the previous timeline.
** Two scientists who worked for Magellan suffered PTSD due to [=DragonKlaw's=] attack and decided to quit, averting ReedRichardsIsUseless by selling their expertise in super advanced technology to a private company. Thanks to their help, said company is able to create a highly advanced spaceship and travel to Jupiter, not knowing that hostile aliens have claimed Jupiter for themselves. Their intrusion results in the Rarg attacking Earth much earlier than in the previous timeline.

** A corrupt staff member tries to blackmail Karma, only to be MindRaped into transferring elsewhere. In her new post, she sells alien DNA to Brian's father, making it possible for him to delve into his MadScientist pursuits which likely never happened in the previous timeline.

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Averted with Premonitia who retired from superheroing to play the stock market and work as a philanthropist.

* AbsoluteXenophobe: The Rarg mostly keep to themselves, but it doesn't take much to set them off at all. Any perceived "attack" or intrusion on what they consider their territory will result in them attempting genocide, even if it means [[RevengeBeforeReason every single last one of them dying with their enemeis]].

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

* TheWorldIsNotReady: The reason Magellan has futuristic tech, while the world at large is only a little further than the real world. A lot of Magellan's tech is banned from public use because they believe that it is too dangerous to be widespread. Notably, Prometheus Genesis Corp strongly disagrees and resents them as elitists for keeping their toys to themselves, believing that they are holding the world back. This results in a disaster when they not only accidentally tick off an alien race while testing new tech, but also get in the way of Magellan's attempts to help due to paranoia towards their real intentions.

** Also, we see that the lack of training and experience Red Vlad and Comrade Katya received (being used by the Communist Party more for propaganda purposes than for fighting real threats) left them with no real chance against a true threat the Q'Arth.

** Also, we see that the lack of training and experience Red Vlad and Comrade Katya received (being used by the Communist Party more for propaganda purposes than for fighting real threats) left them with no real chance against the Q'Arth.

* AlternateHistory[=/=]ForWantOfANail: The Magellenverse's past seems to have mostly equated to the real world (allowing for the existence of super humans), up until the Q'Arth invasion of 1972 - a Class One ApocalypseHow event that basically destroyed the Soviet Union 20 years early and paved the way for global acceptance of super humans.

Set on the eponymous island, ''[[http://www.magellanverse.com Magellan]]'' (NSFW) is a SuperHero {{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.

* AlternateHistory[=/=]ForWantOfANail: The Magellenverse's past seems to have mostly equated to the real world (allowing for the existence of super humans), up until the Q'Arth invasion of 1972 - a Class One ApocalypseHow event that basically destroyed the Soviet Union 20 early and paved the way for global acceptance of super humans.

* DoomedByCanon: The Soviet heroes Red Vlad and Comrade Katya. The "Families/Cемьи" side comic tells their story. Anyone who's read the "History" arc of the main comic knows their tragic fate.

* AlternateHistory: The Magellenverse's past seems to have mostly equated to the real world (allowing for the existence of super humans), up until the Q'Arth invasion of 1972 - a Class One ApocalypseHow event that basically destroyed the Soviet Union 20 early and paved the way for global acceptance of super humans.

* 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.

* HomoeroticSubtext: Fatima, providing Kaycee with an [[KissOfLife oxygen supplying kiss]]. Of course, another
character [[LampshadeHanging calls attention to it]]...

* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Charisma's powers are very similar to her father Epoch's.

Embracing and parodying superhero tropes in good measure, Magellan is currently telling a chapter entitled PaRARGdox with a side story called ''Families'' being used as a voting incentive. Has a character page that is more up to date than it used to be but still needs some love.

Embracing and parodying superhero tropes in good measure, Magellan is currently telling a chapter entitled ''PaRARGdox'' with a side story called ''Families'' being used as a voting incentive. Has a character page that is more up to date than it used to be but still needs some love.

Embracing and parodying superhero tropes in good measure, Magellan is currently telling a chapter entitled ''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.

* HomoeroticSubtext: Fatima, providing Kaycee with an [[KissOfLife oxygen supplying kiss]]. Of course, another character [[LampshadeHanging calls attention to it]]...