1 | [[quoteright:330:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mebbytrish-small.jpg]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:330:A picture of [[http://chanlemur.livejournal.com/122714.html Trish and Mebby]] (The Starbuck Avenger and Corpseflower) by Shaenon Garrity.]] |
3 | ''Tales of the Starbuck Avenger!!!'' is a completed WebSerialNovel and {{superhero}} story by Jeffrey "Channing" Wells (probably best known for writing ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'' with Shaenon K. Garrity of ''{{Webcomic/Narbonic}}'' fame). It is [[http://jeffreycwells.livejournal.com/tag/starbuck%20avenger serialized on Livejournal]] - if you want a quick taste, here are the [[http://chanlemur.livejournal.com/32575.html first]] [[http://jeffreycwells.livejournal.com/33076.html three]] [[http://jeffreycwells.livejournal.com/46240.html installments]]. |
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6 | !!Tropes used in this work include: |
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8 | * AIIsACrapshoot: It is implied that the Goffin Robotics factory was taken over by AIs. |
9 | %% * ArtificialHuman: Goffin Robotics products, such as the Absolvatron. |
10 | %% * BuffySpeak: Trish, the titular Starbuck Avenger. |
11 | %% * CodeName: All supers have them. Starbuck Avenger, Garuda, Corpseflower, ... |
12 | * {{Doppelganger}}: Some of the Goffin robots. |
13 | * KryptoniteFactor: Goffin robots can be incapacitated when scratched with needles of a certain semi-metallic selenium alloy. |
14 | %% * LoopholeAbuse: [[http://jeffreycwells.livejournal.com/69482.html Trish theorizes]] that this is why the Absolvatron beats its victim's heads against the doors of the church. |
15 | %% * {{Masquerade}}: A feature of the ''entire world''. See Weirdness Censor below. |
16 | %% * MediumAwareness: [[spoiler:Trish, apparently]]. |
17 | * OrphanedSeries: {{Defied|Trope}}. |
18 | -->'''[[WordOfGod Jeffrey Wells]]''': Is there a TV Trope for "We were sure it was never going to be finished but then it was?" |
19 | %% * PaperThinDisguise: A feature of the Weirdness Censor, below - simply putting on a DominoMask activates it. |
20 | %% * PlausibleDeniability: By means of the Weirdness Censor, below. |
21 | * PowerCopying: [[spoiler:The alien]] gains powers by [[spoiler:robbing small items from]] superpowered individuals. |
22 | %% * SpeechImpediment: Mebby has a bad stutter. |
23 | %% * SplitPersonality: At first it seems like a variation of the GoodAngelBadAngel trope, but as it turns out... |
24 | * TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: When Trish is attacked by the Absolvatron, she escapes being beaten unconscious by [[spoiler:[[{{Confessional}} confessing her sins to it]]]]. |
25 | * WeirdnessCensor: |
26 | -->'''Garuda:''' We call it 'the Coverup'. It's hellaciously efficient and it frequently boggles the mind and we have no clue who or what causes it. It's like a vast conspiracy, orchestrated and executed by the careful hands of reality itself. |
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