Funny / Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain

aka: Please Dont Tell My Parents I Work For A Supervillain

Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain

• Claire's mom is the only adult who gets a look at Penny's lair and the things she's built. She's impressed, but...
  "Amazing. Look at all those levers. It's not a joke that the only thing a stranger can operate on most mad-science inventions is the self-destruct."
  "That's over—" I clapped my hands over my mouth. Ohmygod. I'd built a self-destruct lever into my smelter.
• Lucyfar's reaction to Penny refusing to tell her the full details of their toys, noting that they'll eventually have to use them on her one day.
  Lucy clasped her hand to her chest, eyes wide in shock. "How could you say such a completely accurate thing? Who wouldn't trust me, the Princess of Lies?"
• When Cybermancer almost drops a curse grenade in the middle of the group, Lucyfar yells at him, since most of them didn't have their shields up. Chimera points out that neither did Cybermancer.

Please Don't Tell My Parents I Blew Up The Moon

• After she defuses the electro-trap in the computer lab, a messenger jogs up and hands Penny a telegram. An actual telegram, from Spider. It comes completely out of nowhere, and Penny is just as bewildered as the audience.
• Penny mentions that during mad science, self-destructs "just happen." Remmy doesn't see anything weird about someone asking where the station's self-destruct is, and when Penny asks Harvey if the Puppeteer base has one, he is initially offended... before sheepishly admitting that yes, it does.
  Penny: Mad science was truly the same everywhere.

Please Don't Tell My Parents I've Got Henchmen

• Polly, Bull's plastic robot sister, combines Adorkable and Captain Obvious in hilarious ways.
  Polly: Have any of you seen Bull? He would be very obvious. A hundred people would be carrying him and his daughter.
• In this universe, Mark Twain had superpowers. Specifically, a super-powered mustache.

Please Don't Tell My Parents I Have a Nemesis

• The sheer audacity of Marcia's plan. She walks right into Spider's office, looking for She Who Wots. When Abigail appears, Marcia punches through her chest, breaking the truce right in front of Spider. Just as her friends are trying to get her out of there, Abigail's blood attacks, forcing Marcia to defend herself, and Sue to help (the others can't help because the shadows are only solid to people with shadow powers). Then Entropy comes in, annoyed his meeting is being delayed, and tries to shut down the fight using his own powers, only for Sue to hold him off. When Barbara comes in and gets her sister to stop ("Does anything you're doing make sense? No? It's not real. You've just tricked the universe into thinking this is happening, and that's ridiculous."), the fight ends. Then Marcia reveals she planned the whole thing to show Sue how powerful she could be; after all, Sue just held off two of the most powerful shadow-users in the city with no trouble. When everyone asks how Marcia could have possibly planned out something so convoluted, she reveals that she just asked the fortune-teller machine if her plan would work.
  From the pocket of her battered jeans, Marcia pulled out a card. I’d seen them before, white card stock with elegant ink calligraphy. The fortuneteller machine upstairs dispensed them, and they were always true.
  This one said:
  Yes.
  I gaped at it. Then I gaped at Marcia, who deserved some gaping.
  And then I laughed. "Ha! HA HA HA HA HA! AH HA HA HA HA HA HA!"
• Mammon being called a weenie is now full-on Phrase Catcher territory. It's not just Irene anymore, everyone calls him that, even his clones.
• At one point after a day out with her friends, Penny comes home and just wants to hide in her room and play computer games for a good while. Mrs. Akk makes a comment along the lines of this being "a perfectly healthy reaction for a socially-inclined introvert."

Please Don't Tell My Parents You Believe Her

• Robot Penny sics Gerty Goat on Mech. Gerty Goat asks him "Who's a Gerty Boy?" resulting in his immediately jumping in her arms and declaring "I'm a Gerty-Gerty Boy!"

I Did Not Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence

• Goodnight's Signature Move is dropping something heavy on her opponent. Whenever someone sees her, they immediately look up.
• Goodnight gets tired of referring to the friendly cyborg zombies by their experiment number, and names a cyborg bird "Thunderwing Skylord" and a cyborg cat "Whiskers Fluffypants." They don't react in any way that Goodnight can see. Spider, however, can see, and says with exasperation that she can't do anything about them liking those names. For the rest of the book, she uses those names in casual conversation.

Please Don't Tell My Parents I Work For A Supervillain

• Magenta's friends try to introduce her to Claudia. Claudia dodges by saying "I have to feed my shark."
  No one treated this as a joke.
• Marcia tells a story about how her dad is trying to sue Mourning Dove to try to prevent her from attacking him. This, of course, does nothing.

Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm Queen Of The Dead

• Sue's method of flirting is best summarized as "we're dating now, and you're cute when you're flustered." It takes Avery a while to get used to Sue randomly kissing her.
• When Avery makes contact with her necromantic ancestors, all of whom have been haunting her her entire life, she is informed she has little time before danger appears, so they need to be quick. Then they proceed to lecture her on the dangers of using her powers to disrupt her monthly cycle. The oldest, gruffest one also suggests she resolve her love triangle by claiming both of her suitors, which everyone immediately agrees with.

Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Giant Monster

• Entropy starts the book by getting his ass kicked by a new superhero with bubble powers. He spends the entire book getting increasingly angry about losing to her.
• Every time Mirabelle and her friends forget who Magenta is. The phrase "some pink-haired girl I didn't know was sitting with us" shows up multiple times.
• Penny gets a magic circle from Mirabelle that she uses as the core of an airship. First off, the airship is blatantly an old fishing boat that she stuck the levitation on. Second, Marcia steals the boat the second Penny is off it so that Mirabelle can be a pirate captain for a day. And third, they get attacked by a supervillain in an airship who complains their boat isn't flashy enough, because apparently airships are the new trend amongst supervillains.