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General
- Conveniently an Orphan: The reason why Basil and Amy don't need to worry about any parental interference.
- Fighter, Mage, Thief: Our three heroes, with Brennus as the Fighter, Hecate as the Mage and Tyche as the Thief.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Brennus, Tyche and Hecate meet each other while trying to defeat the Snow Queen, and only manage it due to each others' assistance.
- Free-Range Children: They are all surprisingly free to do what they want. Basil's an orphan and Dalia suffers Parental Neglect, but Vasiliki has a giant family and a job that never seem to get in the way of her heroing.
- History with Celebrity: They are close friends with the international superstar Polymnia, though only Hecate really cares.
- The Team Without A Title: They never gave their team a name.
Basil/Brennus
- Alliterative Name: Basileus Bartholomew Balthasar Brant-Blake. His sister is Amanda Blake, so it seems she was spared. Basil then picks the codename Brennus.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: Brennus is a more subtle example of an animal themed alias. He's themed after ravens, and he named himself after Brennus
, which was the title of a real life ancient chieftain who wore a raven-themed helmet. Obviously, Brennus decides very early on that having robotic ravens to assist him is an awesome idea. - Anti-Hero: He's firmly on the side of good, but he's stolen money from the mob, frequently hacks into the United Heroes database and doesn't seem to have any problem interacting with villains who haven't hurt him or his loved ones.
- It's frequently pointed out by Gloom-Glimmer that he has a lot of the same philosophies as the Dark and the Dark himself once said there is a fifty-fifty chance of a Face–Heel Turn.
- BFG: He made one with Polymnia.
- Consummate Liar: Basil has shown great skill in lying or deceiving others. The only people he can't lie to are Gloom Glimmer and Amy.
- The Cracker: Frequently hacks the accounts of criminals for money. He also hacks into the United Heroes System, but that is usually for less harmful purposes.
- Establishing Character Moment: When his sister reveals that she's a supervillain in the prologue, Basil asks questions about her job and costume, to her surprise, establishing him as the kind of person who stays calm and focuses on the details.
- Gadgeteer Genius: He's one of these.
- Give Geeks a Chance: Brennus is close to and regularly spends time with five girls explicitly stated to be extremely if not inhumanly gorgeous. Out of those five, at he is in a relationship with 1, has had two express mild romantic feelings or flirtation with him, and the last two get along with him better than any of the other guys they regularly hang with.
- Homemade Inventions: He builds a supercomputer and a small electromagnetic power generator in two days and is working on a "remote detonator for inorganic, rigid matter" when his sister catches him. She'd been away for three days: the first one was spent writing scripts to buy things without being tracked and waiting on express shipping.
- Ignore the Fanservice: Basil got used to scantily-clad attractive women while growing up with his sister, and now barely notices it except to ask them to Please Put Some Clothes On.
- Lightning Gun: He develops one of these as a Static Stun Gun, although it takes quite a bit of power to use.
- Missing Time: This has been happening to both Amy and Basil, although neither of them have told the other. It doesn't help that they tend to forget they've forgotten things.
- No Social Skills: Word of God: `Brennus has a negative social rating. In a system where there are no negative ratings.'
- Omnidisciplinary Scientist: He seems to be this, which is unusual for a gadgeteer.
- Powered Armour: Brennus would never be able to engage in combat without his suit.
- Single-Target Sexuality: He ignores Tyche's naked antics with ease, doesn't bat an eye at working with a naked Hecate, and never shows attraction to Polymnia or Gloom Glimmer, yet he has a very healthy libido around his girlfriend after she manifests a gorgeous body.
- Swiss Bank Account: A more neutral example, but Basil puts money he stole from the mob in Underbank, a neutral organization for superhumans.
- Team Chef: He's a really good cook and has on at least one occasion cooked for Vasiliki and Daalia.
- Teen Genius: Basil is naturally smart, and his Gadgeteering power kicked it up with respect to certain things. He has to build a custom computer with processing power measured in petaflops just to keep up with the calculations he can do in his head.
- Thicker Than Water: Basil doesn't like that Amy is a supervillain, but she's still his sister.
- Vibroweapon: Brennus develop one of these after looking at some of Polymnia's tech.
Vasiliki/Hecate
- Bag of Holding: One of her most useful contrivances.
- Clothing Damage: A Running Gag is that she almost always comes away from a major fight with her costume in ruins.
- Placebotinum Effect: Contrivers run off this.
- Spell Construction: Hecate is an enchantress-type contriver, who works this way to imbue items with powers.
- Straight Man: Aside from the standard Contriver delusions, she's probaby the most normal of all three team members and it shows when she reacts to the people around her. Sometimes it's Played for Laughs (Dalia and her Shameless Fanservice Girl behavior) and sometimes it's Played for Drama (Basil and his memory troubles).
- Stupid Sexy Friend: Struggles with emerging feelings for Basil.
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Hecate is a big fan of Polymnia. She actually Squees.
- You Killed My Father: The reason she became a vigilante rather than joining the United Heroes. Mindstar killed her cousin, who was a superhero, and she wants revenge, something she knows the UH wouldn't condone.
Dalia/Tyche
- Dumbass Has a Point: She can be very perceptive.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Type B. She greatly appreciates her friendship with Basil and Vasiliki despite how often she tries to annoy them.
- Le Parkour: Dalia loves to run and jump and often moves like this while Roof Hopping.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: Tyche manifested the Adonis power, and often wants to Show Off The New Body.
- Sensual Spandex: Her dragonskin suit is partially transparent, and perfectly skin-tight.
- Stripperiffic: Tyche wanted a suit that would bare her midriff or cleavage, so to get around the problem of this making her vulnerable, Brennus subverted the trope by creating armour with transparent areas so that it could still actually protect her as well as revealing her.
- Support Party Member: Her powers aren't offensively geared. She still takes part in fights, but she can be taken out easily if her luck and armor doesn't protect her.
- Winds of Destiny, Change!: Tyche's power is heavy-duty probability manipulation, at the cost of her mother having terrible luck.
Prisca/Gilgul
- Can't Have Sex, Ever: Afflicted by a supervillain-crafted disease that caused massive organ failure and attacked her nervous system, among other things, Prisca suffers from this. To make it worse, the disease enhanced her libido.
- Dirt Force Field: her manifested form can not get dirty
- Eye Scream: Prisca stabs her eyes out to prevent Hastur from mutating her
- Knight of Cerebus: Downplayed. She isn't a dark person herself and the story isn't lighthearted to begin with, but her appearance is the first sign of Basil's memory problems and she's a fairly good indicator early on of just how scary the world they live in can be for Muggles.
- Nerves of Steel: she's kidnapped by a supervillain, stuck in a bed horribly ill and how does she respond? By building a trap, with a box of scraps!
- Photographic Memory: The disease she was afflicted with also gave her this.
- Traumatic Superpower Awakening: after the above Eye Scream Prisca gains powers.
Eudocia
- Artificial Intelligence: Eudocia is an Artificial General Intelligence that Brennus recovered and initialized.
- Don't Call Me "Sir": Eudocia calls Brennus 'Father'. Even when she's agreeing not to.
- Machine Monotone: She speaks with this, apparently by vibrating her casing (when she's not tapping into nearby technology).
Amy/Mindstar
- Arsenal Attire: Mindstar wears high-heels. One of the heels is a knife, the other is a communication device.
- Clothing Damage: Mindstar does this to her opponents, because the association of nudity to helplessness makes them more susceptible to her telepathy.
- Combat Stilettos: The second question Basil asks Mindstar is how she manages this. She uses her telekinesis to help herself manouevre when she's not outright flying.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Dalia, a gorgeous Adonis herself, is basically frothing the first time they meet face-to-face.
- For the Evulz: Admits that she became a villain because she wanted to, viewing it as an escape from her crappy personal life.
- Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She's hyper aggressive when acting as a villain, but aside from that she giggles often, patterns her clothes based on My Little Pony, and in general is very feminine.
- Even as a villain, she can be very girly, but it usually serves to make her actions even more jarring.
- I Am Not Left-Handed: For a while after her debut, she was just considered an A-Class threat with powerful telekinesis. After the incident with Amazon revealed her telepathic powers, she was quickly promoted to S-Class.
- Journey to the Center of the Mind: Amy looks inside Basil's head, with permission. Even so, Basil's mind doesn't let her wander around freely, and eventually forcefully ejects her.
- Knight Templar Big Brother: Amy is very protective of Basil.
- Mind Control: Mindstar is an apex-tier universal telepath, which makes her capable of this. The world only found out when it turned out that Amazon didn't have a Face–Heel Turn, but was under Mindstar's control.
- Missing Time: This has been happening to both Amy and Basil, although neither of them have told the other. It doesn't help that they tend to forget they've forgotten things.
- Out with a Bang: When Mindstar kills Switchbitch. The sex was more Mindstar enjoying torture way too much.
- Power-Strain Blackout: Amy has one of these after her delve into Basil's mind.
- Promoted to Parent: Amy is Basil's older sister and guardian since their parents died about a year before the story started. She used her powers to convince the judges.
- Serial Rapist: Amy raped Amazon, both in body and in mind, several times, as well as an entire sorority. Despite this, she remains sympathetic for some reason. Subverted however, when The Dark reveals that he did some investigating after discovering that Amy and Basil's memories were altered, that includes Amy's sexual escapades. Both she and her willing and unwilling partners have complete memories of the events, including Amazon, but none of them ever took place. He even confirms that Amy is in fact, still a virgin. Amy remains completely unaware of this
- Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Mindstar did this to her ex-boyfriend and ex-best friend.
- Shapeshifting: Amy has a low-grade Morphing power, able to change herself cosmetically. She uses it to change her natural colouration (leading Eye Colour Change and Kaleidoscope Hair) and slightly shift her facial structure to enhance her Clark Kenting.
- Superpower Lottery: At one point, Basil outright say she won it. Although her powers are technically only Apex-tier, she has some sub-powers that increase her flexibility, including using her telekinesis for invisibility and a localized clairvoyance that allows her to use her telekinesis or telepathy without line-of-sight.
- Triple Shifter: Villainous example. She has to play supervillainess, big sister, and legitimate corporate manager so her days are frequently busy. She once laments that villainy was a lot more freeing before she joined the Dark Five.
