History WhateleyUniverse / TropesAToI

* FreshmanFears: Almost every protagonist has an origin story involving their mutant PubertySuperpower and getting enrolled into the boarding school of Whateley Academy as a freshman, getting a LoveInterest, and forming a group of friends to stand against the superpowered bullies of their new school.

* EatTheDog: Sara/Carmilla sucks the souls from dogs and other animals with her tentacles, for most meals. Yes, she's one of the good guys, at least at the moment... But the way she eats cause her tons of grief, especially early on. She very blatantly had puppies in her box at least once. And a lot of times old, worn out dogs who suffered more by living, and seemed to want a release from it. Right from the local pound in Dunwich.
** For that matter, the school cafeteria, having to deal with the dietary needs and occasionally odd tastes of hundreds of mutant teenagers, seems generally able to provide pretty much anything if given sufficient notice in advance. In one Heyoka story, one Jerk Jock is forced to literally eat dog (though not a live one) in front of all the other students in order to break a curse he's brought on himself.

* BabyFactory: Played with. In order to increase the number of children with the Bloodline trait (a type of heritable [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Psychic Vampirism]] which is a variation of the Mutant Metagene), and increase the number of mutants in their families overall, [[BreedingCult the Bloodline]] set up a PeopleFarm project... but instead of kidnapping women for the breeding program, they hire Exemplar women between the ages of 18 and 25 as surrogate mothers, paying them well and covering all of their medical expenses (there is even talk of offering college scholarships), and they only stay at the facility until their child is born (they only have to have a single child). The children are then fostered to Bloodline members and given the best treatment and education available. While the protagonists still find the idea repulsive, the women they talk to insist it was a good deal for them, as they were generally in desperate financial straits before the offer came along, the facilities at the Baby Farm are lavish, and the pay is excellent.

* BackStory:

* BrokenAesop: Sara has a speech on how she doesn't understand why humans are so possessive of the people they love and uses branding as a metaphor, no one points out that she has branded people she loves with a [[ClaimedByTheSupernatural demon mark]], irreversible marks of ownership. If you have one, the demon owns your soul and can control you almost utterly any time they want. However, as said [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/content_page/9/443 Insanity Prerequisite (Part 1)]]:
--> you have to be willing to accept it on some subconscious level for the mark to appear."

“Oh. THIS again,” Abra grumped.\\

* DropTheHammer:
** The superpowered mutant Sledge wields a big sledgehammer, and as fits the trope, is a ScaryBlackMan.
** Donner is Swedish, has trouble with English, and wields a warhammer much like Thor, right down to the Creator/MarvelComics trick of hurling it (well, using Energizer powers to move it through the air) and letting it pull him after.

I haven’t investigated, but anecdotal evidence is that mutants, as a group, are healthier, smarter, and more graceful. To scientifically prove that they’re more beautiful as well? Sounds like a recipe for hatred to me.”

* CoolLoser: All of Team Kimba, even though the group contains some of the hottest girls([[GenderBender -ish]]) on the entire campus. One of them is regarded as possibly the hottest girl on the ''planet'' (she's part Sidhe and has a Faerie glamour). They live in the dorm that's regarded as the campus loonybin (it's not). Before their mutant manifestations, many of them were 'losers' for one reason or another. Part of their isolation is that they seem to live up to the dorm's reputation, particularly Generator and Shroud. Tennyo has the stigma of being a Section 33 (fighting her is an automatic expulsion for anyone involved), so people are afraid of her. The group as a whole attacked the Alphas (who are supposed to be the best, most popular kids on campus)for no apparent reason early in their first term, and they're the only non-Hawthorne students who actually enjoy going over to Hawthorne to visit the students there.

* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Belfry first meets Icejack when he abducts Peter from the Smithsonian Institute for a bounty. Months later, Peter's showstopping Combat Final draws criminal attention back home. That leads Benjamin to dress him up in police uniform to help investigate [[FakedKidnapping his own disappearance]].

* CosplayOtakuGirl: There is a whole club/training team of anime fans on the campus of the eponymous Superhero School, called the Power Rangers, and both male and female members tend to wear cosplay as their daily clothes. Most of them have powers and/or appearances which are remarkably similar to one or another anime characters. Amusingly, they think that Tennyo is the real Ryoko somehow, and demand she take them to other worlds in her starship.

Thuban continued. “And whenever that topic comes up-"

* FlashbackBPlot: "Be-Wildered" starts with Wilder the day after he mutated, and then jumps back and forth between his time at Whateley Academy and post-mutation, but not at Whateley.

* CharacterFocus: There's around a [[SharedUniverse dozen canon authors]], all of whom write about different characters. Has generally mellowed out to focus on Ayla and through Ayla, Team Kimba, along with whatever Bek is working on.

** Seraphim's SuperheroOrigin OriginEpisode took place at that time as well.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Given the ensemble cast, a number of minor characters such as Aquerna, or even antagonists such as Don Sebastiano, get their own stories.
* AFatherToHisMen: A very rare ''supervillain'' example is Dr. Leonides Diabolik. Some other supervillains gripe to each other that he's completely ruined the market for henchmen, because everyone who works for him is treated so well.

* ExcitedShowTitle:
** [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/content_page/9/365 It's All In The Timing!]]
** [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/content_page/9/378 The Boston Brawl II - This Time It's Personal!]]
** [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/content_page/9-original-canon/884-hank-6-to-companions-new-and-old Hank 6: To Companions, New and Old!]]

** The story "There's an Angel in Father John's Basement" reveals that there are multiple such ''genii locorum'' in New York City, ranging from 'Street Life' and 'The Thug' to 'Show Biz' and 'The Firefighter', all spirits representing important aspects of the city.

%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * GirlPosse: What, you were expecting something set in high school without at least one of these?