Don't do drugs unless it gives you superpowers.
Note: The sandbox is a massive overhaul for the works page as it needs major rewrites and organisation. Feel free to edit.Power-Pills is a superhero webcomic written and illustrated by Natalie Sullivan (Bookfangeek). It was first released on ... In the quiet town of Potridge, Wisconsin
The comic can be found on multiple platforms such as Tumblr
, Webtoons and tapas.
The webcomic contains the following tropes:
- Alliterative Title: Power Pills
- Art Evolution:
- Art Shift:
- Colour-Coded for Your Convenience:
- Caleb - Yellow
- Dan - Green
- Merri - Blue
- Kristy - Orange
- Tate - Red
- Sybil - Grey
- Dramatic Irony: Travis
- Early-Installment Weirdness:
- The first of the character profiles give out their middle names
- Shout-Out:
- Quickwit quips "I used to be a bad guy, but then I took an arrow to the knee" when she sniped her first baddie.
- Speech Bubbles:
- Webcomic Time: ongoing for eight years ...still set in the year 2014 (around five months)
Characters Page
Power Pills
In General
From Left to Right: Caleb, Dan, Merri, Kristy, Tate, [Unknown], [Unknown], [Unknown] and [Unknown]
The eight superhero candidates chosen for Project S.- Boxing Lessons for Superman:
- Colour-Coded Characters: Each of their colour represents their corresponding Power Pills
- Celeb/Soul Seer - Yellow (Telepathy and Mind Control)
- Dan/Wax Guise - Green (Shapeshifting)
- Merri/Bulletproof - Blue (Teleportation and Flight)
- Kristy/Quickwit - Orange (Super-Senses)
- Tate/Streamline - Red (Super-Strength and Super-Speed)
- Sybil/The Web - Grey (Electrokinesis and Technopathy)
- There are the Pink and Black Power Pills but have yet to be assigned to a person. They respectively grant their potential user love manipulation and precognition.
- The Faceless: wears masks that entirely covered their face
- Healing Factor:
- No Mouth: ...in costume
- Power Incontinence:
- Celeb suffered Sensory Overload when reading everyone's minds simultaneously
- Dan ...Involuntary Shapeshifting
- Merri couldn't stop teleport spamming and floating
- Kristy Sensory Overload and Power-Strain Blackout
- Tate is the only one to avert this since she already knew what her powers were beforehand and
- Required Secondary Powers: The pills gave its users enhanced strength (Except Tate who has Super-Strength) and heal faster (Around six times the normal pace) to give them an edge over normal baddies and on par with supervillains.
Caleb/Soul Seer
- Celibate Hero: He's canonically Asexual and greyromatic after realizing he never had a crush on anybody ever and looked it up afterwards. ...still kicks ass
- Forced Sleep:
- Handwraps of Awesome: as the finishing touch to his superhero costume
- Healing Factor:
- Kung-Fu Wizard: ...taking karate lessons, Ninja-themed
- The Leader: the first superpowered individual, most experienced (by one month)
- Mind Control: direct eye contact
- Ninja: His superhero theme
- Sensory Overload: reading everybody's minds at once
- Snowball Lie: He decides to not tell Travis he's Soul Seer the first time as he only met the guy at the party two weeks ago. However, ....this becomes less and less of an excuse
- No Social Skills:...
- Telepathy: ...thought speech bubbles are highlighted yellow instead of black
Dan/Wax Guise
[Continued] Persuaded by his friends (Mainly Jason) and the money it brings,... Waxguise
- Animal Motif: Cats
- Animorphism:
- Expressive Mask:
- Humanshifting:
- Involuntary Shapeshifting: ...extreme emotions
- The Lancer: second to join
- Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: Subverted in his animal forms where his civilian/superhero outfit merged , played straight when he turns into other humans
- Took Alevel In Cheerfulness: After joining forces with Caleb,
- Voluntary Shapeshifting:
Merri/Bulletproof
western-themed hero Bulletproof
- Kick Chick: her ballet background... almost exclusively uses her legs for combat
- Love at First Sight: ...locks eyes with Travis
- Refusal of the Call:
- Rescue Romance:
- Teleportation:
- Teleport Spam: panicking
- Token Flyer: ...grants directly
Kristy/Quickwit
....Quickwit
- Exhausted Eyebags:
- Fights Like a Normal: Since her abilities only gave her Super-Senses and the standard Healing Factor and enhanced strength....combat advantage, only one who uses weapons
- The Insomniac:
- Sensory Overload: faint spells
- Starving Artist: She was not doing well financial-wise ...Lightbringer
- Super-Senses:
- Toast of Tardiness: late for Gemma's art gallery show...collided into Dan
Tate/Streamline
...but there's more than meets the eye
- Awesome by Analysis: realises the pills are associated with the superheroes and their powers
- Badass Handicapped:
- Early-Bird Cameo: She was seen at Kristy's new year's party on the spread page.
- Expressive Mask:
- Genre Savvy:
- Handicapped Badass: she wears hearing aids
- I Just Want to Have Friends:
- Mundane Utility: manually crank her sewing machine faster than electric
- Occidental Otaku: ....gets along really well with Jason
- Red Is Heroic: main colour scheme
- Super-Speed: ...Streamline
- Title Drop: Power Pills
Sybil/The Web
Matt
An douchey, arrogant quarterback star
Secondary Cast
Project S.
Lightbringer
At the beginning of each month, he gives one of these Power pills to a worthy candidate
- The Aggressive Drug Dealer:
- All Your Powers Combined:
- Anti-Hero:
- Does This Remind You of Anything?:
- just screams drug dealer ...The Aggressive Drug Dealer
- speaking of drugs, addiction to the pills
- Madness Mantra: ...The analysis portion of Jason's profile just reads "I'm still upset. I'm still upset. I'm still upset." over and over again
- Mysterious Past: ...had something to do with Jason
- No Name Given:
- No Sense of Personal Space: ...He might as well be called "Super Stalker"
- Power Copying: His actual power ...as long as he's in contact with the Power Pills or empowered individuals, compatible with all powers
Caleb's Friends
Guy
- Big "WHAT?!": His reaction when
- Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship:
- Demoted to Extra:
Kate
Kate Porsha Dhanani
A feisty, black-belt karate expert who is overprotective of her friends. Kate is the gang's personal trainer- Awesome by Analysis:
- Badass Normal:
- Genius Bruiser:
- Spit Take: coffee ...kristy...$10,000 cheque
Travis
- Break the Cutie: Nearly dying eleven days straight, Exhausted Eyebags
- Dramatic Irony:
- Keet:
- Laser-Guided Amnesia:
- Locked Out of the Loop:
Avery
- Earn Your Happy Ending:
- Emo Teen: He dresses like one but doesn't act like one
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: A case of both. At first,
- Happily Adopted: Under the loving care of Julia and Reed
- Hero with Bad Publicity:
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: fell onto a metal pole
- The Pardon: Lightbringer pull some strings
- Unwitting Pawn: ...nearly had the life sentence
Dan's Friends
Jason
Jason Kendi
- Asian and Nerdy: Jason ...Japanese
- Otaku:
- Wing Ding Eyes:
Lucy, Max and Nico
In General
Dan's roommates- Out of Focus: Outside of Dan's chapter/book,...
Lucy Cipher
Max Armigo
- Meaningful Name: Max's last name is one letter away from "Amigo", the Spanish word for "friend". His main role in the story is to be one of Dan's longtime friends.
- Mellow Fellow:
Nico Hyland
Merri's Friends
Percy and Amber
Kristy's Friends
Jake and Gemma
In General
Gemma Voss
Jake Westlake
- Giving Up the Ghost: Jake... Funny Background Event... watching Kristy and Lightbringer's sparring match
- Token Minority:
Sybil's Acquaintances
London
Relatives
Dan's Mom
Dan's overbearing mother who is disappointed in his life choices and kicks him out of the house as a result.
Julia and Reed
Avery's adopted parents
Villians
Future Tech
In General
Living Scarecrow
Shady Figure
Future Tech Underlings
