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9	''The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy'' is a three-part book series written by William Boniface parodying comic book superheroes.
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11	The story takes place in [[CityOfAdventure Superopolis]], where everyone has a superpower with the exception of the main character and narrator, Ordinary Boy. He is a member of a team of superheroes (read: five fifth graders) called the Junior Leaguers who want to one day join the League of Ultimate Goodness and fight beside OB's hero and idol, the Amazing Indestructo.
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13	The books are: ''The Hero Revealed'', ''The Return of Meteor Boy?'', and ''The Great Powers Outage''.
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16	!!''The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy'' provides examples of:
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18	* TheAdjectivalSuperhero: The Amazing Indestructo.
19	* AlliterativeName: '''C'''omrade '''C'''runch.
20	* BadassNormal: Ordinary Boy is indeed an ordinary, unpowered boy. However, he is still a badass GuileHero.
21	* BroughtDownToNormal: The plot of ''The Great Powers Outage'' involves [[spoiler: The Red Menace]] taking everyone's powers by [[spoiler: depriving them of the potato chips that empower everyone.]]
22	* CityOfAdventure: In Superopolis, everyone has superpowers, resulting in this.
23	* ChekhovsGun: The machine in the Multiplier's lair whose purpose is unknown in the first book.
24	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The Commune for Justice, a group of villainous hippies.
25	* ComicallyOversizedButt: Major Bummer's [[MeaningfulName name is a double meaning]]; he is not only [[TheEeyore constantly gloomy]], but his bum is enormous.
26	* CorporateSponsoredSuperhero: Played straight with nearly everyone. It is explained that every successful superhero has to have a corporate sponsor of some kind, which is often heavily limiting. Amazing Indestructo is largely more concerned with appeasing his sponsors than saving the city.
27	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The New New Crusaders.
28	* DisabilitySuperpower: Lobster Boy, who has lobster claws instead of hands.
29	* DirtyCommies: The Red Menace is an open communist who wants to remove everyone's powers in the name of equality.
30	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ordinary Boy makes a few wild guesses in the first chapter as to where everyone's power comes from. His guesses are radiation from a meteor or something in the water, after which he points out that everyone in Superopolis eats a lot of potato chips, but doubts that has anything to do with it. [[spoiler:The cause of the superpowers? Potato chips fried in water containing radiation from a meteor.]]
31	* EveryoneHasStandards: The Amazing Indestructo is an utterly craven and cowardly CorporateSponsoredSuperhero, but he's genuinely very guilty over Meteor Boy's apparent death at his hands, and he refuses to create merchandise for him out of respect for a very long time.
32	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Inverted, as Ordinary Boy wants to be the ''opposite'' of normal.
33	* InnocentBystanderSeries: Unsurprisingly, as OB has no superpower and is effectively helpless.
34	* KidSidekick: Went out of style with the death of Meteor Boy.
35	* LargeHam: AI and, to a lesser extent, the Tycoon. Professor Brain Drain has his moments of hamminess as well.
36	* NonPoweredCostumedHero: [[spoiler: OB as Meteor Boy]] has a jetpack but no powers.
37	* OnePersonOnePower: Stated in the first chapter.
38	* PowersForADay: In the second book, Ordinary boy gets his hands on a jet pack, allowing him to fly for three days.
39	* SelfMadeMan: AI, who actually started his own company with the Tycoon to fund his heroic exploits.
40	* SomethingPerson:
41	** Ordinary Boy
42	** Plasma Girl
43	** Fuzz Boy
44	* SuperheroTrophyShelf: the Junior Leaguers use an empty aquarium as this.
45	* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Typically, characters' powers will be similar to their parents' but not identical. Ordinary Boy guesses that his lack of powers comes from his dad's heat power and his mom's cold power "canceling out."
46	* TallPoppySyndrome: This is [[spoiler: The Red Menace's]] motivation to remove everyone's powers; this will make everyone equal.
47	* TimeTravel: Brain Drain builds a time machine in book 2. It works ''way'' differently than it should. Instead of causing the user to alter the past, the user is and always has been part of the timeline. [[spoiler:So Ordinary Boy was Meteor Boy the entire time.]]
48	* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: Although the idea that Ordinary Boy may have superpowers after all is teased, it is never elaborated upon.]]
49	* YouWillBeBeethoven: Ordinary Boy goes back in time to warn Meteor Boy about Professor Brain-Drain's plot, but instead he actually ''becomes'' Meteor Boy. This means he was a part of the timeline all along.

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