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XP4 Heroes Coalition (Fanfic)
"I'm not really good of being a leader, sure there are times I can say decent orders but how I execute it, is my flaw. But that doesn't mean that I can't correct it, like a friend of mine said, choosing a leader is easy but creating a leader is much better, and I'm doing just that... I'm learning to become leader from experience whether in success or failure, as long as I can learn then I know I can become a good leader."
— Marcus to Xyrielle "XY Girl" Yona about his path to leadership.
XP4 Heroes Coalition, formerly simply known as Heroes Coalition, is a series of Massive Multiplayer Crossover/Slice of Life fanfics released by XP4Universe.

Featuring an Ensemble Cast of heroes in Neo-Earth, the XP4 Heroes Coalition series stars the namesake heroic organisation as hero groups within Neo-City protect the multiverse from otherworldly threats by lending a helping hand to others in need.

Once titled as just Heroes Coalition (note the importance of the title itself), the first and original iteration of the series was released back on 16 April 2017, with its run lasting until 11 May 2018, comprising of 28 stories in total. Originally, the story is set in the same universe as Dimensional Heroes, Jexi the Hunter's work, but due to Creative Differences, personal issues from the author's end and being taken advantage ofNote, the original iteration was cancelled before the author himself announced that the whole series would be rebooted from scratch.

What comes next is a reboot. Enter the second and current iteration of the series, XP4 Heroes Coalition. It was soon birthed on 19 May 2018, just eight days after the May 11 controversy. Considered as a semi-Continuity Reboot of the entire Heroes Coalition series, the XP4 Heroes Coalition series was entirely overhauled from the ground up, retaining some of the original elements by XP4Universe and fixing various issues within the original iteration, while setting in an entirely different universe completely independent of the Dimensional Heroes storyline. Unlike the original version, this version of the series would garner a slow but modest success.

Compare and contrast All Worlds Alliance (the Genre Popularizer), its Spiritual Antithesis.

    The Works 
There are currently a total of 26 works running (listed in order of release date):


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  • 20 Minutes into the Future: The entire setting resembles a civilisation from the future with the existence of futuristic buildings and technologies, but the story itself takes place in the modern time.
  • Accidental Child-Killer Backstory: Geraldo Axel, as revealed by a backstory that Vaas narrated in Neo-City Diaries' Chapter 52, killed a child by accident, which drove him to guilt. This incident eventually led him to throw his life of crime away for good, leading him to travel from place to place until ending up in Neo-City with Vaas and Needles.
  • Adaptational Badass: Normal humans who didn't have powers in their source material like the Eds are superpowered heroes here in the story.
  • Adaptational Heroism:
    • Unlike the completely cruel Jerkass that Eddy's brother was portrayed in the original who never redeemed himself, Eddy's brother, known as Terry, is much, much kinder in this fic than he is in the original, who regretted his actions of abusing his younger brother. While he seldom makes a physical appearance in the story, him seeing Eddy adopting the amnesic Marcus was what fully cemented his complete Heel–Face Turn.
    • Esdeath is this after her Redemption Equals Death moment, who was an Ax-Crazy General supporting Prime Minister Honest's vile actions in the Empire, where her talk with Mario during Neo-City Stories' Chapter 22 finally allowed her to reconcile with the rest of the Jaegers.
  • And I Must Scream: The Emotionless are creatures made of tortured human souls, who were formerly humans before they were subjected to torture by The Summoner, whom in all of their forms they have no mouth.
  • Ascended Extra: Xyrielle "XY Girl" Yona, one of the members of Bullet Kingdom, is an original character who was based off of the Fanfiction reviewer and later fanfic writer XYGirl2019 (erstwhile XY Kid).
  • Big Bad Ensemble: Several antagonistic factions in the series actively hound the Heroes Coalition on every given opportunity, despite working independently to one another.
    • The main antagonistic factions include: The Dark Forces, the de facto Big Bads of the story are a mysterious group of villains who have the ability to summon destructive creatures known as Emotionless, but they are a Generic Doomsday Villain whose only intention is to cause havoc across the multiverse. The Dolan Faction, on the other hand, involves Dr. Dolan Danger's gang stealing countless artifacts in his goal to Take Over the World. There's the secondary antagonistic factions include the Lantern Familia/Cult of Lady Adele and the Joker Family, albeit their influence is overshadowed by the big two factions.
    • On a more individual scale, there's three main antagonists: The Summoner and Shinsuke Miyamoto are the respective leaders of their sub-faction within the Dark Forces, respectively, but they have a separate agenda with each other; and Dr. Dolan Danger wants to steal and use artifacts in his endgame to conquer the multiverse for his own benefit. There's the secondary antagonists including Green Lantern (no, not this one), a renegade ex-student of Canterlot High turned cult leader of the Cult of Lady Adele, who is planning to awaken Lady Adele to destroy all worlds, dimensions and universe alike to ashes; and also the Joker, who like the usual wants to cause chaos and trouble for their own agenda.
  • Big Fish in a Bigger Ocean: Heroes Coalitions, along with the Dimensional Defense Union, are revealed to be on the lowest rung of the influence scale after the ALL-STAR JUSTICE, the Royal Maidens Frontiers, the Secret Force and the Honorary Darkness are slowly introduced in the story.
  • Big Good: Mario Martinez, the President of Neo-City Heroes Coalition, is the overarching good guy of the series.
  • Black-and-Gray Morality: While the antagonists in the series like Green Lantern all fall to the black scale of morality, others like The Summoner are on the grey side as she's an Anti-Villain driven by her tragic past. On the heroes side, the Heroes Coalitions as a whole have shades of grey. Neo-City HC branch is practically a Utopia, but other branches are not so much, as the Mega-Tokyo, New-New York and Elemental City branches are filled to the brim with strict Dystopian Edicts. Mario Martinez is perhaps the closest purely good guy in the series, as other Coalitions leaders like Donald White and Sherri Mortem are draconian, heavy-handed despots who impose arbitrary rules within their own Coalitions branch for their own benefit.
  • Cast Herd: Due to the enormity of the characters appearing in the series, the heroes in Heroes Coalition are split into various groups.
  • Chekhov's Gag: In Tales in Mega-Tokyo Chapter 23, Eddy Skipper McGee, Subaru Natsuki and Willie Simons break the fourth wall by reading "a certain fanfiction", which turns out to be Tales in Mega-Tokyo. In a Five-Second Foreshadowing moment, it is revealed that Rui indeed kidnaps Nanase into her house as shown in Chapter 23, while the said act was offscreen.
  • Child Soldiers: Errors are genetically modified, superpowered children who were raised in an an underground orphanage, which is a front for the facility, by a Mad Scientist, using them as means to defeat invaders from the multiverse; and they also get stronger as they age. But they are, on the other hand, revealed to be used as part of their Red Shirt Army by the scientist and attempted to dispose of them once they are done for. The second batch of Errors including Marcus eventually throw a bloody mutiny against the staff of the facility, killing everyone else including the staff and the scientist in a form of revenge.
  • Composite Character: Akiharu Hino, the main protagonist of Ladies versus Butlers!, takes the Tenth Doctor's role from Doctor Who, down to even saying his very famous catchphrase "Allons-y".
  • Create Your Own Villain: Due to Mega-Tokyo's Heroes Coalitions, as well as Heartcross Academy's heavy-handed female-only policies, the remaining males who are ostracised from the city have since resorted to criminality like The Molotov Stalker.
  • Culture Chop Suey: Two of the main cities mentioned in the story are inspired after real-life cultures (i.e. Mega-Tokyo is Tokyo in future Japan; New-New York is New York in future United States), but Neo-City takes the trope to a T, as it is a fusion of Tokyo (Japanese), Paris (French) and Las Vegas (American). Elemental City, on the other hand, is a fusion of modern age and steampunk.
  • A Day in the Limelight: The Kick-Off!, Mission Chronicles, Tales in Mega-Tokyo and Heroes of the Multiverse stories focus on various heroes from Heroes Coalition, while the latter story focuses on multiversal heroes.
  • Deconstructor Fleet: See the page here.
  • Differently Powered Individual: Blessed, the In-Universe name of superheroes in this story, are humans who gained powers that originally belonged to Dolph and Floyd who accidentally killed themselves in their own Divine Conflict a long time ago before the story starts. The Blessed who obtain abilities are called as "Gifts", rather than superpowers, though it's a case of Irony as the Blessed are not actually gifted these powers by the Gods themselves.
  • Fair Cop: What most of Mega-Tokyo Police Department's officers are comprised of, being that all of them are female.
  • The Federation: The Multiversal Government, with its Commander-in-Chief serving as the head of state of the multiverse and the Council of High Authority having the highest power who are the overseers of its groups including Heroes Coalitions, being in charge of multiversal affairs. It is a Deconstruction (see Deconstructor Fleet for more info) as the Council of High Authority often looks down at the Heroes Coalitions and Dimensional Defense Union as they are actually lesser-known to the general public, unlike the ALL-STAR JUSTICE, the Royal Maidens Frontiers, the Secret Force and the Honorary Darkness who are leagues much higher in terms of influence and are well-known.
  • Graying Morality: At the start of All-Stars Adventures Chapter 39, the Wham Episode of all Heroes Coalitions, after Sherri Mortem imposes new rules for Elemental City's Heroes Coalitions. The resulting event slowly shows the fact that Heroes Coalitions aren't just dealing with a vanilla Black-and-White Morality conflict between countless villainous factions, they are also dealing with more complex internal conflicts from within like obstructive bureaucracy and corruption. In short, Heroes Coalitions aren't just a perfect organisation, but rather being divided in a slowly increasing way. Mega-Tokyo's Heroes Coalitions branch runs on a failed matriarchal society that only causes up-and-coming male heroes to alienate them and jump-ship to Neo-City, with the others being less fortunate like the Bite Gang as they devolve into a life of crime. New-New York's Heroes Coalitions has Donald White who rules his branch with an iron-fisted dictator due to his low tolerance to failures. But Sherri rips the band-aid apart completely, where she becomes the President of Elemental City's Heroes Coalitions, after Rebecca Ryder's resignation, who now runs the branch like a Teenage Wasteland with her as a sociopathic, totalitarian dictator. Chapter 130 of Neo-City Stories shows Louie and Mario aren't just simply dealing with villains, but also internal conflicts gradually brewing within Coalitions branches mainly tied to bureaucracy.note  The non-existence of Gods from the other three Coalitions branches have resulted in their respective leaders doing things on their own, making them the metaphor of a godless society.
    Louie: Ugh... are we the only Heroes Coalitions with limited and light rules! The Heroes Coalitions from Mega-Tokyo only accepts females, New-New York has this no injury or your out rule, and now Elemental City now only accepts younger people!
    Mario: Well... without a God like you to look after the other Heroes Coalitions, they'll pretty much do things on their own.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Various villains who died in the past are given a second chance who eventually redeemed themselves in the long run including Vaas Montenegro, Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez, Needles Kane, etc. To hammer that point, some members of Team Redemption comprise of redeemed villains like Crona, Ban, Ira Gamagoori, Nonon Jakuzure, Satsuki Kiryuin and Seryu Ubiquitous.
  • Heroes "R" Us: Of course, as Heroes Coalition is a hero organisation comprising of heroes from various parts of the multiverse.
  • Internal Deconstruction: The idea of Heroes "R" Us, which is one of the work's signature tropes, becomes a deconstruction with the introduction of other HC branches including Mega-Tokyo, New-New York and Elemental City branches who are not as equal as they seem, unlike the Neo-City branch which are fair and liberal in their policies. Mega-Tokyo's branch bars males from joining due to being an all-girl group, New-New York's branch is riddled with draconian rules where termination is immediate and Elemental City's branch bars adults from joining in an attempt to make it youthful.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: The resident Jerkass Dan Mandel during Chapter 14 of Neo-City Stories goes into his usual wild, vitriolic rant about Wesley Bryan's distracted nature when he tied his shoelace in the middle of his training, criticising it as a bad habit as a trainee. Of course, Dan is not entirely wrong at all, as anyone agreed that it is a Fatal Flaw that could eventually kill him in a moment, of which he could die no differently from a Red Shirt.
    Dan: Bad habit? Sure bad habits are hard to get rid off but "that" is not a bad habit, that is flaw, a fatal flaw that more or else will become the reason of his demise! And why did I say that? Picture this. What if Wesley is in the middle of an intense battle to death by a powerful individual then all of a sudden he got distracted by his untied shoelaces, then boom! he got his head blown up, shing! He got his head slice off by a sword and another boom! his entire body got obliterated by a Kamehameha-like beam. Let's face it! Sooner or later, he'll be promoted as a hero without getting rid of his flaw, sure, we all our flaws but we know how to fix our flaws, but this guy, he's been here for so long that he can't even fix his pathetic flaw, I know that he works hard but for God's sake can he at least work hard fixing his flaw, if not, he'll be the first member in the Coalition to die in a mission because of getting distracted by his shoelaces!
  • Lady Land: Mega-Tokyo is entirely populated by females, with Heartcross Academy being an all-girls school and the Mega-Tokyo Police Department comprising of, you guess it, female police officers. See Deconstructor Fleet as to how this trope is deconstructed.
  • Named In The Adaptation: Several minor, unnamed characters from the original are named here, with examples including Belle Lavitz and Sayuri Momoka. Other characters like Ed, Edd, Eddy, Rolf, Duncan, etc. are named as Edwin Horace Williams, Eddward Marion Smith, Eddy Skipper McGee, Rolf Yrmi, Duncan Nelson, respectively. Eddy's brother is also named Terry Matthew McGee.
  • NO INDOOR VOICE: Major Richard Stronghold, being the Large Ham he is, is an extreme example of this trope as he is seldom seen speaking in a low tone, with most of the time speaking loudly that is equivalent to a horn loudspeaker.
    Major Stronghold: I JUST WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW THAT I'M NOT FORCING YOU TO DO THIS AND I'M ALLOWING YOU ONCE TO BACK OUT NOW AND NEVER RETURN IN THIS CAMP! I SEE THE WARRIORS INSIDE EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU AND I WILL DO THE BEST I CAN TO MAKE SURE YOU DEVELOP INTO GREAT HEROES THAT THE PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT UNIVERSE WILL LOOK UP TO!
  • Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: In spades, as many hero teams of Heroes Coalition comprise of various members with starkly different personalities and backgrounds.
  • Shout-Out: Dr. Dolan Danger is named after the YouTuber Danger Dolan, later renamed as Planet Dolan.
  • Spiritual Antithesis: XP4 Heroes Coalition is this to All Worlds Alliance. Both works are superficially similar in many areas, with both involving a heroic organisation where heroes are sent to the multiverse on a mission, as well as having them reporting to the higher-ups akin to a Mission Control. But both works execute very differently on the inside:
    • The All Worlds Alliance uses a class number system (Class One, Two, Three, etc.) when it comes to its hero groups, while Heroes Coalitions operate on a title system where instead of class numbers, hero groups are custom named (Bullet Kingdom, The Dream Express, DAN ARMY, etc.).
    • The primary contrast between All Worlds Alliance and Heroes Coalitions is that All Worlds Alliance is independently founded and run by The Author and AWA Academy's Grand Headmaster Lelouch Lamperogue, where government influence is absent, making it akin to a decentralised organisation. On the other hand, Heroes Coalition, while it was founded by the World God Louie, is far more centralised as they directly work under the Multiversal Government, with heroics being treated as a profession or a means of living. And unlike the All Worlds Alliance who are mostly a singular organisation, Heroes Coalition has multiple branches, but only the Big Four (Neo-City, Mega-Tokyo, New-New-York and Elemental City) are allowed to partake on multiversal missions.
    • Another contrast is how the two organisations operate when it comes to missions: whereas the All Worlds Alliance heroes complete their mission and nothing else, the Heroes Coalition heroes have to report their mission results to the higher-ups of the namesake organisation, irrespective of the results of their mission.
    • While All Worlds Alliance is a Lighter and Softer take of the genre, XP4 Heroes Coalitions is a Darker and Edgier take of the genre. This includes the fact that the other three Heroes Coalitions branches within the Big Four are run by its respective leaders who impose strict rules, which led to various heroes jumping ship to Neo-City Heroes Coalitions branch due to it being a true Utopia and a safe haven for heroes who were displaced from other branches.
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial:
    • Neo-City Stories Chapter 14. In a case of Blatant Lies, Chris claims to Dan that Wesley's bad habit of getting distracted is hard to get rid of. Of course, Dan isn't having any of it, as he knows Wesley has been doing it for two years.
    • Ditto from the same chapter, Dan criticises Wesley's lack of focus where people actually listened for him, but at the end he actually decides to throw a ball at him, only this time with his usual jerk moment.
  • Tomato in the Mirror:
    • Marcus McGee is revealed to be the long-lost adopted child of the Sakurada royal family and simply not just Eddy's adopted brother. Due to his amnesia, Marcus spends the majority of the story being Eddy's adopted brother while unbenknowst to himself that he is the long-lost prince until Arinah plans a family meeting in Neo-City Stories's Chapter 89, which causes Marcus to completely re-evaluate anything about his past as he goes to the Sakurada Kingdom.
    • Rainbow Dash is revealed to be an Error all along, with her being unaware of it, and not just a hero with superpowers.
  • Transplant: Taro Yamada, a character originally from damnlastword's DAMNIverse stories (and other stories including All Worlds Alliance, The Icon of Kiyosumi, Girlfriends x Boyfriends BETA, Of Eds, Riders and MLP: Battle of Equestria), makes an appearance here in the Heroes Coalition series as a member of Bullet Kingdom.
  • The Unpronounceable: Miki Sayaka's true name is Ayeyatsukhanka Filifittiouyeg, which is difficult to be pronounced by any normal human, hence her using a false name.
  • Wham Line:
    • In Chapter 6 of Canterlot High Nightmares, the Big Bad Green Lantern says this.
      Green Lantern: What do you mean not me at all... Flash... my miserable friend... this is what I'm truly am to begin with.
    • During Chapter 117 of Neo-City Stories, Bow Hothoof has this to his daughter Rainbow Dash.
      Bow: And I, myself, is an Error.
    • Ditto from the same chapter, he throws this revelatory line to Rainbow:
      Bow: That's right, you're an Error as well.

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