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* AfraidOfDoctors: Due to the circumstances of his creation and the horrific childhood he endured, Shift is terrified of anything that reminds him of the Assessor's lab. He struggles and flails when [=EMTs=] try to bring him to the hospital for treatment, convincing Miles to finally [[spoiler:bring Shift home to the Morales family, as Rio is a nurse who can look after him.]]



* CommonalityConnection: Shift quickly strikes up a friendship with Ms. Marvel, a fellow shapeshifter. Shift is clearly excited to be friends with someone with powers like his while Kamala works with Shift to better control his physical state. [[spoiler:By Issue #18, she teaches Shift to be able to speak short sentences after he was previously TheUnintelligible.]]
* DisneyDeath: Shift's heart stops after taking a souped-up blast from Scorpion during the climax fight of ''Miles Morales: Spider-Man #18''. This terrifies his friends and family, convincing Miles to stop trying to talk Rabble down and instead bring her in. The heroes manage to recusitate him before the end of the fight, much to Miles' relief.



* HomelessHero: Due to Shift's condition and appearance, Miles struggles with finding a way to introduce Shift to his family. This leads Shift to hide out in various locales around Brooklyn, such as inside tunnels or underneath Brooklyn Visions, instead of a proper home.
* HumanWeapon: Shfit is a clone of Miles created to be sold to the highest bidder. Shift's creation was imperfect and turned much of him into an amorphous blob, rendering him incapable of speech. However, he would later be tortured into learning how to manipulate this for his benefit, allowing him to freely shapeshift.

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* HomelessHero: Due to Shift's condition and appearance, Miles struggles with finding a way to introduce Shift to his family. This leads Shift to hide out in various locales around Brooklyn, such as inside tunnels or underneath Brooklyn Visions, instead of a proper home.
home. [[spoiler:This ends at the end of Issue #19 of Ziglar's run, when Miles introduces him to Jefferson and Rio.]]
* HumanWeapon: Shfit is a clone of Miles created to be sold to the highest bidder. Shift's creation was imperfect and turned much of him into an amorphous blob, rendering him incapable of speech. However, he would later be tortured into learning how to manipulate this for his benefit, allowing him to freely shapeshift.shapeshift parts of his body into additional limbs.



* TheUnintelligible: Shift's constantly amorphous biology makes it impossible for Shift to maintain vocal cords to enunciate words, resulting in all of his attempts to speak coming out as a "Glurp" sound. Shift is forced to communicate mostly through gestures as a result, though he continues to try to speak. Miles reacts and speaks to him with implicit understanding as a sign of their closeness.

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* TheUnintelligible: Shift's constantly amorphous biology makes it impossible for Shift to maintain vocal cords to enunciate words, resulting in all of his attempts to speak coming out as a "Glurp" sound. Shift is forced to communicate mostly through gestures as a result, though he continues to try to speak. Miles reacts and speaks to him with implicit understanding as a sign of their closeness. [[spoiler:After working with Kamala, a fellow shapeshifter, [[SubvertedTrope Shift begins learning to speak in short sentences.]]]]
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: While Titana is initially introduced as an [[AntiHero Anti-Heroic]] {{Foil}} to Miles who he would clash with over their [[HeadbuttingHeroes ideological differences]] when it comes to crimefighting, that dynamic was essentially resolved the second they decided to [[RelationshipUpgrade start dating]]. Now whenever Titana shows up in Miles' books, a majority of her contributions to the narrative revolves entirely around their relationship, with anything about her own personal life (such as her interests, ambitions, exploits, etc.) receiving [[FlatCharacter little to no developments]] similar to Barbara Rodriguez before her.

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* FaceOfAThug: Shift's naturally grotesque proportions and inability to express himself through words tends to scare the people he's trying to help. He's dismayed to see others screaming in terror at his approach and fleeing even as he's saving their lives.

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* FaceOfAThug: Shift's naturally grotesque proportions and inability to express himself through words tends tend to scare the people he's trying to help. He's dismayed to see others screaming in terror at his approach and fleeing even as he's saving their lives.



* GoodIsNotSoft: Due to being raised as a HumanWeapon, Shift's turn to superheroics comes with some growing pains as he threatens to tear the heads off the Assessor's armed guards. Miles has to talk Shift out of it and explain that superheroes don't kill or maim people. Even after this, Shift is more than willing to terrifies his foes with his ability to shapeshift and slams supervillain's heads against the pavement hard enough to crack concrete.

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* GoodIsNotSoft: Due to being raised as a HumanWeapon, Shift's turn to superheroics comes with some growing pains as he threatens to tear the heads off the Assessor's armed guards. Miles has to talk Shift out of it and explain that superheroes don't kill or maim people. Even after this, Shift is more than willing to terrifies terrify his foes with his ability to shapeshift and slams supervillain's heads against the pavement hard enough to crack concrete.



* RedemptionEqualsLife: Shift is the first of Miles' clones to balk at Selim's plans and rebels against Selim to protect Billie. This, combined with an accident that leads Miles to accidentally stabilize Shift's biology enough to stop his RapidAging and cellular death problem, makes Shift the only one of Miles' clones to survive.



* TheUnintelligible: Shift's constantly amorphous biology allows him to shapeshift, but makes it difficult for him to remain completely solid for any period of time. This makes it impossible for Shift to maintain vocal cords to enunciate words, resulting in all of his attempts to speak coming out as a "Glurp" sound. Shift is forced to communicate mostly through gestures as a result, though he continues to try to speak with Miles reacting with implicit understanding.

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* TheUnintelligible: Shift's constantly amorphous biology allows him to shapeshift, but makes it difficult for him to remain completely solid for any period of time. This makes it impossible for Shift to maintain vocal cords to enunciate words, resulting in all of his attempts to speak coming out as a "Glurp" sound. Shift is forced to communicate mostly through gestures as a result, though he continues to try to speak with speak. Miles reacting reacts and speaks to him with implicit understanding.understanding as a sign of their closeness.

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* BigLittleBrother: Shift is at least a head taller than Miles and twice as wide but is less than a year old due to being a rapidly-grown clone.

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* BigLittleBrother: Shift is at least a head taller than Miles and twice as wide but is less than a year old due to being a rapidly-grown clone. Shfit looks up to Miles as a big brother too, seeing him as a role model to become a superhero.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: In the "Empire of the Spider" storyline, the Shift who remained under Selim's command has grown additional faces on his shoulders, back, and chest, complete with additional eyes and teeth.



* GentleGiant: Shift is a naturally kind and gentle soul who wants to follow Miles' example and help others. Shift is also much bigger than Miles, standing a least a head taller and being twice as wide while Shift has his body contracted into a roughly HeroicBuild.

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* GentleGiant: Shift is a naturally kind and gentle soul who wants to follow Miles' example and help others. Shift is also much bigger than Miles, standing a least a head taller and being twice as wide even while Shift has his body contracted into a roughly HeroicBuild.



* ShapeshifterBaggage: Shift is significantly larger than Miles even when fully contracted. This makes it difficult for him to compress himself the way Ms. Marvel can or shrink himself to a smaller, more humanoid state that could more easily pass in normal society.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Shift's default state is similar to Miles' in appearance but with folds of additional flesh in areas that are constantly shifting around, making him look like Spider-Man who got "stung by bees". He gradually learns to tighten up his body to look more like someone with Hulk-like HeroicBuild proportions, but his physique is often lop-sided, such as having one arm bigger than the other.



* SuperheroSpeciation: Shift has spider-like agility, strength, and durability likes Miles, but lacks his ability to produce bio-electricity. Instead, Shift's unstable biology allows him to freely expand and contract his body, enabling him to shapeshift at will. This ranges from squeezing into spaces too small for him to fit to becoming a full-on HumanoidAbomination.
* TheUnintelligible: Shift's constantly amorphous biology allows him to shapeshift, but makes it difficult for him to remain completely solid for any period of time. This makes it impossible for Shift to maintain vocal cords to enunciate words, resulting in all of his attempts to speak coming out as a "Glurp" sound.

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* SuperheroSpeciation: Shift has spider-like agility, strength, and durability likes Miles, but lacks his ability to produce bio-electricity. Instead, Shift's unstable biology allows him to freely expand and contract his body, enabling him to shapeshift at will. This ranges from squeezing into spaces too small for him to fit simply sprouting extra arms to becoming a full-on HumanoidAbomination.
* TheUnintelligible: Shift's constantly amorphous biology allows him to shapeshift, but makes it difficult for him to remain completely solid for any period of time. This makes it impossible for Shift to maintain vocal cords to enunciate words, resulting in all of his attempts to speak coming out as a "Glurp" sound. Shift is forced to communicate mostly through gestures as a result, though he continues to try to speak with Miles reacting with implicit understanding.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: In the short story "The Day Shift", a hungry Shift is drawn to the smell of an Afghan kebab seller's cart. The owner of the cart sees Shift and offers him a free kebab that Shift happily eats. Soon afterward, the kebab seller is harrassed by a group of racist teenagers. Shift quickly grows extra arms and roars at the teenagers to scare them off. The kebab seller doesn't fear Shift's abilities, assuming he's just an android, or a mutant, or some other super being and thanks him with another kebab.


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* GoodIsNotSoft: Due to being raised as a HumanWeapon, Shift's turn to superheroics comes with some growing pains as he threatens to tear the heads off the Assessor's armed guards. Miles has to talk Shift out of it and explain that superheroes don't kill or maim people. Even after this, Shift is more than willing to terrifies his foes with his ability to shapeshift and slams supervillain's heads against the pavement hard enough to crack concrete.
* HomelessHero: Due to Shift's condition and appearance, Miles struggles with finding a way to introduce Shift to his family. This leads Shift to hide out in various locales around Brooklyn, such as inside tunnels or underneath Brooklyn Visions, instead of a proper home.
* HumanWeapon: Shfit is a clone of Miles created to be sold to the highest bidder. Shift's creation was imperfect and turned much of him into an amorphous blob, rendering him incapable of speech. However, he would later be tortured into learning how to manipulate this for his benefit, allowing him to freely shapeshift.

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