Line #19 Fanfic/ABadName


1	''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/a-bad-name-worm-oc-the-gamer.500626/#post-32256937 A Bad Name]]'' is a crossover fic written by Potato Nose and posted on Website/SpacebattlesDotCom.
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3	It starts when Peter Gardner - some homeless bum trying to make a living by helping the Merchants - triggers with [[Webcomic/TheGamer the Gamer]]'s power after being shot down by the cops. In the purest Literature/{{Worm}} style, everything starts going downhill for him afterwards.
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5	Unfortunately for the world, our protagonist is not ready to bend.
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7	!Contains the following tropes:
8	* AndIMustScream: Spurt spends six hours keeping Crawler occupied in the only way he could think of: playing off the similarity between Spurt's adaptive defenses and Crawler's adaptive mutations. This involves, among other things, being eaten alive, dissolved, and at one point nearly decapitated. Not to mention, [[RunningGag the continued attack on Spurt's privates.]]
9	* AtrociousAlias: Skidmark christened his newest subordinate Spurt because blood had squirted on his shirt. The [=PRT=] temporarly nicknames him Stoner, which isn't much better.
10	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Peter decided to stick with the Merchants because they were ready to give him some way of subsisting while he still was on the streets.
11	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Up til [[spoiler:the Slaughterhouse Nine come to Brockton Bay,]] Spurt has done his best to not hurt anyone if he could help it. [[spoiler:He's killed two of them, and seems dead set on killing the rest by whatever means possible.]]
12	* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Peter really would like a quiet life. Chevalier dismisses this as a pipe dream - a cape always find themselves dragged within conflict.
13	* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[spoiler:Skidmark flat-out refuses to bow down to Contessa, telling her HE found Spurt and he's going to KEEP him. And he perfectly knows she's [[TheDreaded the Boogeyman]], he just don't give a flaming fuck.]] A reviewer was amazed his balls hadn't collapsed into a pair of singularities.
14	* EntertaininglyWrong: Of course Spurt is a druggie, he's a Merchant, and a Merchant can't possibly ''be'' firing on every cylinder due to be doped up, right?
15	** The more Spurt displays his array of powers, the more the Protectorate thinks he's actually a grab-bag cape - someone who gained different abilities by virtue of triggering in a cluster. [[spoiler:"Brandon Gammer" appearing only comforted them it was the right answer.]]
16	* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Following his victory over the Slaughterhouse Nine, Spurt goes completely catatonic as the sheer weight of the trauma he has experienced catches up to him.]]
17	* HeroWithBadPublicity: Spurt surprises very much the people he interacts with by being actually decent for a [[SuperLoser Merchant]]. [[spoiler:Being framed for Battery's murder didn't diminish his fundamental humanity.]]
18	* HoldingOutForAHero: Civilians fell very deep in this mindset. Brandon manages to shake them down enough when they are trapped in a quickly flooding Endbringer shelter for making them save themselves.
19	* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Assault was so enraged by his wife's murder he was ready to murder the man he thought responsible for it in a public space.]]
20	* ObfuscatingStupidity: Everyone looks down on the Merchants because they're loud and dumb. Which is perfect as a facade for subtler operations.
21	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: ''Piggot'' is this. Not only she's ready to offer Spurt a chance to join the Protectorate, [[spoiler:she believes him when he denies having murdered Battery.]]
22	* SirSwearsALot: Skidmark is apparently unable to say more than three words without cussing. Peter also manages to turn the air blue on some occasions.
23	* ThereIsAnother: [[spoiler:Circus]] also gained the Gamer's ability. Peter finds it very weird since powers aren't supposed to be perfectly the same.
24	* TransparentAlias: Brandon ''Gammer''.
25	* WhatTheHellHero:
26	** Spurt went monkey-poo on Alpine - a fresh independent hero - when dude tried to sneer at Skidmark, brutally shattering his BlackAndWhiteMorality. Alpine took Spurt's words very strongly and worked to improve himself as a person since.

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