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  • Arc Fatigue: Chapter 11 has this big time. It started in 2016 and is still not resolved as of February 2021. This is largely due to the switch from the comic updating three times per week all the way down to once per month, which has slowed progress down to a crawl.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Zodon.
  • Genius Bonus: The Superman Expy is an Argonian from the planet Argos. Argon is also the name of a chemical element, which belongs to the category of elements known as noble gases — the same category that the element krypton is in.
  • Jerks Are Worse Than Villains: In a series where several villains have appeared and they run the whole gamut from harmless because they are on their time off (Mr. Von Fogg) to outright vile (the Argonians), you won't find any fans who have any love for Mr. and Mrs. Marlocke, who literally want Tyler to get superpowers or die trying and develop a case of Parental Favoritism for Tyler's clone, because he has superpowers, so bad that Toby uses said powers to put a stop to it - and it still only met them halfway.
  • Narm: The lower-teeth-over-upper-lip face Toby keeps pulling when he gets excited doesn't make any sense. If the author was aiming for Creepy Child, he merely hit "dorky". He's probably trying to represent him experiencing something like a seizure.
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • Invoked by the Revenant when discussing Harold's power nullification and enhancement abilities. A lot of supers have a very bad response to the idea of someone messing with their powers.
    • Some of the alternate versions of himself Tyler sees in the mirrors at The Castle Beyond Time and Space are pretty nightmare-inducing. In one he is a powerful telepath who has accidentally linked everybody else together in a hivemind, making him the only lonely person in the world (see Gone Horribly Right in the main page). In another, he is the strongest meta-prodigy at PS238 - and uses his power to harm and bully everybody else. Imagine seeing your friends being bullied - and then imagine that the bully is you.

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