Line #35 Roleplay/MySuperheroUniversity


1	My Superhero University is a PlayByPost game started on TV Tropes in April 2019 by {{Tropers/kkhohoho}}. It is a {{Superhero}} / CapePunk story starring the colorful students of Saint University. The school is open to all who want to better control their powers or learn how to be a hero. \
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3	Below, find the links to the:
4	* [[Roleplay/MySuperheroSagas Overarching Series Page]]
5	* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15541615770A48361400&page=1 Signup Thread]] for player characters
6	* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15426016490A80811200 Discussion Thread]] for information on the world, [=NPCs=], and some background on the player characters
7	* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15545854260A54253200&page=1#1 Game Thread]] for the Game itself.
8	* [[{{RolePlay/MySuperheroAcademy}} First Year Page]] for the trope page of the first year at Saint Academy.
9	* [[Roleplay/MySuperheroAcademyCrisisOfInfiniteReboots Second Year Page]] for the trope page of the second Year at Saint Academy.
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11	!Tropes
12	* AbusiveParents: A disturbing number of the students of Class One have horrible parents.
13	* AlwaysOnDuty: The students of Class 1, particularly since the university is now a popular site for villain attacks. The stress contributes to alot of the cast dropping like flies.
14	* AntiHumanAlliance: One villain faction, although, it might just be the leader. [[FlockOfWolves Every single member of the group has other goals, perchance including the leader.]]
15	* TheCutie: Wren plays a rather feral version of this as soon as she's introduced. Perry as always is on cutie duty, but the setting's [[CerebusSyndrome increasing]] [[BloodSpatteredInnocents darkness]] limits these moments.
16	* CapePunk: The setting is not just supers beat up bad guys. The 'how' and things like ethics and image heavily affect play.
17	%%* CastFullOfCrazy: The cast speaks for itself.
18	* CastHerd: The Class acts in 4 distinct groups.
19	%%* ChekhovsGun: Somehow, no one has touched Ryuu's scale.
20	%%* TheClan: Lily's Aquatos clan
21	* CrapsackWorld: The 14 year old student hero is a war veteran. And the students are in the middle of two more insurgencies with xenocidal ambitions. The public is slowly heading down the stages of genocide and well, see below.
22	* DarkerAndEdgier: No one may have intentionally shifted the work's tone, but MSU went dark quickly. The first season has the bad guys on a winning streak and three student heroes are [[CharactersDroppingLikeFlies knocked out in short order]]. Further, the meta world takes Saint's death as a sign to do the opposite of what he worked for while yet another group has tearing down his legacy as an explicit objective. Among the students and staff the mental instability has far more serious consequences [[spoiler: between three suicide attempts, one [[LetsYouAndHimFight inner-student clash]], and the apathy of the staff and instability of students contributing to a string of Guardian and Terran victories.]]
23	* DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs: A major motivation for the rank and file in both movements. The Guardians draw people who witnessed the Gaea War in vivid detail, watched their unflinching public support, and decided that they wouldn't let it happen to them again. The Terrans inherit the Gaea supporters who grew on SuperDickery episodes and an increased feeling of powerlessness before the [[BewareTheSuperman increasingly prominent and apparently unfettered supers]].
24	* DuringTheWar: The whole MythArc. The students blunt one Gaea offensive in Super City only for the Gaea conflict to feed directly into two insurgencies. No one said 'mission accomplished'. [[HopelessWar And more of the public comes around to either group of insurgents' points of view every update...]]
25	* DysfunctionJunction: Just like last the previous year, though much more prevalent this time. Every member of the class has some sort of issue or baggage associated with them, some of which is carried over from last year and some being new issues that cropped up in this year. Not even the new students are safe from this.
26	%%* FantasticRacism: The effects of the Gaea campaign in year two didn't just vanish when Gaea fell.
27	* FightingForAHomeland: One could call the efforts of Class one, self-defense, duty, or this. Very few of the current class are native to the USA, the heart of the Gaea and Guardian movements, or Earth. Pure self preservation would also be satisfied by leaving for the Abyss (Mikael's friends and allies); another dimension (they've visited plenty); or [[SpaceWestern the last]] [[SettlingTheFrontier frontier]] and leaving Terra Firma to its fate. Some of the class feel a duty as a hero to stabilize things, some are too stubborn, but all are fighting for a homeland.
28	* HeroicFatigue: One big effect of modern hero work. [[spoiler: The Guardians accidentally exploit it to eliminate Zach and Yoko.]] The teachers only accelerate [[TheParagon Martin's]] fatigue, even while he's determined to remain a hero.
29	* InTheirOwnImage: Martin, Mahvash, and Clay begin to build up a parallel super force.
30	* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Zach [[note]](formerly human then [[MadeOfMagic ink magic shaped as a human]])[[/note]] and Yoko [[note]]Kitsune Yokai[[/note]] have a couple of kids when the series starts. Mikael's existence is evidence that humans and demons can reproduce. His and Ellie's constant offers seem to imply that they can couple with no more risk than any given pair of humans. [[spoiler: And so far, Martin has not [[OutWithABang died (permanently anyway)]] even before being empowered by 'Love'. That said, he doesn't talk about what happens...]]
31	* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Saint died in the prior year after his legacy was smashed to bits by some bad news cycles. Kind of showing it was never there to begin with. [[TheParagon Martin]] wants to rebuild a whole new superhero structure and the [[SuperTeam Protectors]] are adrift.
32	* NotWearingTights: While most of the class has codenames and some even have costumes, many don't bother with super names or Spandex. 'costumes' consist of everything from white tie suits to robot armor.
33	* ShooOutTheClowns: It went unnoticed at first but as the episodes descended into darkness, Floofy Yoko and Cheery Zach were among the first to bite the dust. Ash does not return to the fight, only appearing in omakes. [[AdorableAbomination Wren]] never finds herself in the setting, and [[spoiler: most tragically, Dante suffers an [[FreakOut acute breakdown]] which his [[StepfordSmiler clown behavior]] directly fed into and attempted suicide]]. Clankybottoms and other [=NPCs=] like him stay out of focus [[spoiler: until Clankybottoms tries to commit murder-suicide by BFB]] and Bozo's drinking and the teachers' apathy stops being played for humor (mostly).
34	* SoLastSeason: A trend among the characters, as several are given midseason powerups even when their prior power set remain effective.
35	* SuperHeroGods: The group has an ascended yokai/'Guardian of the Earth', the pupil of a trickster god and a daeva.
36	* SuperTeam: The cast 1 is split into 4. Each squad can handle general threats (muggers, kaiju, etc.) by raw power of their members. They differ mainly in how they're organized and how they interact.
37	** Squad 1 - [[{{Sentai}} Team Anime]]
38	** The Iridium Wonders - [[SupernaturalTeam Supernatural]] [[TrueCompanions Companions]]
39	** Squad 3 - AntiHeroTeam
40	** Squad 4 - HufflepuffHouse
41	* SuperheroesStaySingle: Oh so averted. Mikael and Ellie have been lovers for years, and Zach and Yoko show up on their first day with their children.
42	* ThereAreNoGlobalConsequences: Averting this is one of the main themes of the rp. Saint's order collapsed. Saint himself is dead. Gaea's legacy is a long campaign of divisive politics reminiscent of post-2016 USA... And with every GM post, the world spins further into darkness between increased (and increasingly lethal) superhero violence and constantly increasing tension between [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Gaea-style groups and Guardian supporters]]. Interestingly enough, the students are aloof from this world getting closer and closer to midnight but the momentum from the Gaea campaign has kept on without anyone to stop it.

Context Roleplay / MySuperheroUniversity