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* AssholeVictim:
** Tensen's powers as Justice means that while he's a murderous madman, he's one that only targets evildoers. His first victim is a serial killing nurse who weakly justifies his actions as mercy killings.
** Subverted with Kenneth's first usage of his powers against a group of cops beating him up. While it's self-defense, the cops only attack him first because they think he murdered an innocent woman and then because he's making things melt and explode with his mind and they're predictably terrified. Kenneth is traumatized and feels awful about it afterwards.
** Tensen's powers as Justice means that while he's a murderous madman, he's one that only targets evildoers. His first victim is a serial killing nurse who weakly justifies his actions as mercy killings.
** Subverted with Kenneth's first usage of his powers against a group of cops beating him up. While it's self-defense, the cops only attack him first because they think he murdered an innocent woman and then because he's making things melt and explode with his mind and they're predictably terrified. Kenneth is traumatized and feels awful about it afterwards.
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* BenevolentBoss: Voight is a cold-blooded WellIntentionedExtremist who WouldHurtAChild (and did), but he won't ask his team to do anything he wouldn't do himself. He insists on personally assassinating Magniconte to demonstrate this point - which means he walks into a room with a superhuman who’s just [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe torn someone in half]], and hopes his cover holds up. And he does all of this knowing that one of Magniconte's predecessors could read minds.
* BewareTheSuperman: Played with. The events of the 1950s have left the NSA's Project Spitfire with some of these assumptions about superhumans, which may or may not be true. Either way, they are determined to kill superhumans to ''stop'' it becoming true.
* BewareTheSuperman: Played with. The events of the 1950s have left the NSA's Project Spitfire with some of these assumptions about superhumans, which may or may not be true. Either way, they are determined to kill superhumans to ''stop'' it becoming true.
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* BenevolentBoss: Voight is a cold-blooded WellIntentionedExtremist who WouldHurtAChild (and did), but he won't ask his team to do anything he wouldn't do himself. He insists on personally assassinating Magniconte to demonstrate this point - which means he walks into a room with a superhuman who’s just [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe torn someone in half]], and hopes his cover holds up. And he does all of this knowing that one of Magniconte's predecessors could read minds. \n The man is a monster, but not a coward.
* BewareTheSuperman: Played with. The events of the 1950s have left the NSA's Project Spitfire with some of these assumptions about superhumans, which may or may not be true. Either way, they are determined to kill superhumans to ''stop'' it becoming true. Voight in particular is a zealous field agent-turned-director who believes that superhumans are [[TranshumanAbomination transhuman abominations]] that don't even think like normal people and will inevitably start trying to take over the world out of some darwinistic drive.
* BewareTheSuperman: Played with. The events of the 1950s have left the NSA's Project Spitfire with some of these assumptions about superhumans, which may or may not be true. Either way, they are determined to kill superhumans to ''stop'' it becoming true. Voight in particular is a zealous field agent-turned-director who believes that superhumans are [[TranshumanAbomination transhuman abominations]] that don't even think like normal people and will inevitably start trying to take over the world out of some darwinistic drive.
* CassandraTruth: Jenny very quickly and logically pieces together that the White Event is likely a paranormal event that randomly selects people to bless with powers, as well as that Kenneth Connell was acting in self-defense when he violently broke out of prison, and tells her boss such. Unfortunately, Voight is too blinded by his TheoryTunnelVision to accept it.
* FlatEarthAtheist: Deconstructed. Voight's unwillingness to accept that there's anything supernatural about the White Events and the powers they bring is a major factor in him becoming a monstrous KnightTemplar, leading to him utterly misunderstanding the situation simply because [[IRejectYourReality he refuses to acknowledge anything that contradicts his hard materialist view]]. He blows up into an utter rage when Jenny dares to mention the possibility of something divine happening.
* HealingFactor: Kenneth discovers that his Starbrand powers come with healing powers when he tries to smash his branded hand off with a rock, only for it to immediately fix itself.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Called out and complained about by Izanami, who understandably despises being called Chinese when she's Japanese.
* MassSuperEmpoweringEvent: The White Event, the moment a planet locks into their place in the Superflow, marking a major paradigm shift for the inhabitants of that world. Not all such Events are perfect, however, and Earth has gone through three failed White Events prior to the semi-success in 2006 that kicks off the plot.
* MercyKill: Tensen's first victim is a nurse who occasionally murders his own patients as an "angel of death" serial killer, justifying his acts as ones of mercy preventing unnecessary suffering. Said nurse was intending to do this to the comatose Tensen before the White Event heals and empowers him.
* MercyKill: Tensen's first victim is a nurse who occasionally murders his own patients as an "angel of death" serial killer, justifying his acts as ones of mercy preventing unnecessary suffering. Said nurse was intending to do this to the comatose Tensen before the White Event heals and empowers him.
* NotHisSled: Tony Stark goes through his classic origin story of being kidnapped by terrorists and inventing the Iron Man armor to escape… then gets murdered by Voight to keep the existence of superhumans secret before he can become a superhero.
* PowerIncontinence: Magniconte doesn't initially realize he's gained superpowers and learns he has when he accidentally kills an opposing player with his unbridled super-strength right in the middle of a football game.
* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: A number of characters from the mainstream Marvel Universe show up in radically different roles. Mary Jane Watson is a movie producer and drug addict, John Jameson serves in the military, Jim Braddock is an archeologist, and Tony Stark is an underachiever who ''almost'' becomes Iron Man but is murdered before he can. Amusingly subverted with General Ross, though, who's still a general in the army.
* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: A number of characters from the mainstream Marvel Universe show up in radically different roles. Mary Jane Watson is a movie producer and drug addict, John Jameson serves in the military, Jim Braddock is an archeologist, and Tony Stark is an underachiever who ''almost'' becomes Iron Man but is murdered before he can. Amusingly subverted with General Ross, though, who's still a general in the army.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Voight possesses a hyper-darwinistic view of the world that leads to him believing superhumans are an emergent new species evolving into existence that will try to kill and subjugate normal humans out of survival of the fittest. He also views his fellow humans who don't share this view as "weak".
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* StableTimeLoop: Played with. When the four Starbrands meet in the Wichita mountains, two of the visitors are from alternate universes and the third is an older version of Ken, from fifty years in the future. All three of them ''believe'' it's a stable loop. But then Nightmask teleports the younger Ken away, and his older self certainly doesn't remember ''that''.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In the ''1959'' one-off, after considering Veronica Kelly's abilities, the NSA decides that the best way to kill her is by poisoning a meal when she eats at a local restaurant. It works.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In the ''1959'' one-off, after considering Veronica Kelly's abilities, the NSA decides that the best way to kill her is by poisoning a meal when she eats at a local restaurant. It works.
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* StableTimeLoop: Played with. When the four Starbrands meet in the Wichita mountains, two of the visitors are from alternate universes and the third is an older version of Ken, from fifty years in the future. All three of them ''believe'' it's a stable loop. But then Nightmask teleports the younger Ken away, and his older self certainly doesn't remember ''that''.
''that'', clearly indicating that the old Ken is just another alternate (fitting with the rules of time travel in Marvel; namely that it doesn't exist and that you just jaunt to or create a CloseEnoughTimeline).
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In the ''1959'' one-off, after considering Veronica Kelly's abilities, the NSA decides that the best way to kill her is by poisoning a meal when she eats at a local restaurant. Itworks.works, but not before she realizes she's been poisoned and kills several NSA agents.
* TheoryTunnelVision: Voight's certainty in his (extremely incorrect) interpretation of how the White Events and those they empower function that he will not tolerate any alternate suggestions. He blackmails the initial director of Project Spitfire into resigning simply because said director questions his brutal treatment of supers and later screams his head off over Jenny idly speculating that he may not understand as much as he thinks he does.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In the ''1959'' one-off, after considering Veronica Kelly's abilities, the NSA decides that the best way to kill her is by poisoning a meal when she eats at a local restaurant. It
* TheoryTunnelVision: Voight's certainty in his (extremely incorrect) interpretation of how the White Events and those they empower function that he will not tolerate any alternate suggestions. He blackmails the initial director of Project Spitfire into resigning simply because said director questions his brutal treatment of supers and later screams his head off over Jenny idly speculating that he may not understand as much as he thinks he does.
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** ''conqueror'' ends with Starr and Baneth discovering Trull's treachery and murder, with the framing text suggesting that he must flee or face Starr's wrath. It doesn't reveal what happened next, though.
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** ''conqueror'' ends with Starr and Baneth discovering Trull's treachery and murder, with the framing text suggesting that he must flee or face Starr's wrath. It doesn't reveal what happened next, though.next… though, given Trull was standing directly next to Starr when this reveal happened, things don't look good for the former.
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* WhamLine: For most of the first issue, you're led to believe that Earth-555 is LikeRealityUnlessNoted, just like your typical superhero universe. Than we overhear a news report about how it's Music/JohnLennon's birthday… and the reporter casually mentions that [[AlternateHistory the still-alive Lennon therefore has given a speech asking that people remember his dearly departed friend, Paul McCartney, who was murdered decades prior]].
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Voight's evil actions are motivated near entirely by his laughably wrong assumptions of how the White Events and superpowers work, like thinking that superhumans don't think like humans and will instinctively try to dominate humans (when they're actually meant to protect and help them) and angrily dismissing any suggestion that the process may be something other than mundane evolution (it's a divine cosmic process that all planets go through).
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The first issue of ''newuniversal'' was released December 6 2006. The last issue (#2) of ''newuniversal: shockfront'' was released June 11 2008.
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The first issue of ''newuniversal'' was released December 6 6, 2006. The last issue (#2) of ''newuniversal: shockfront'' was released June 11 11, 2008.
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* CanonWelding: Starr the Slayer, Trull and Len Carson were characters from a one-off fantasy story in ''Chamber of Darkness'' with no clear connection to the shared Marvel Universe, unlike the ''newuniversal'' versions.
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* CanonWelding: Starr the Slayer, Trull and Len Carson were characters from a one-off fantasy story in ''Chamber of Darkness'' with no clear connection to the shared Marvel Universe, unlike the ''newuniversal'' versions.
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* CanonWelding: Starr CrusadingWidow: In the Slayer, Trull and Len Carson were characters from ''1959'' one-off, Veronica Kelly is the widow of a one-off fantasy story police officer who was secretly murdered by a crooked colleague. Once she gets the Justice powers she can see the crime in ''Chamber of Darkness'' the culprit's mind. And she can cut him to pieces with no clear connection to the shared Marvel Universe, unlike the ''newuniversal'' versions.energy blades.
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* CrusadingWidow: In the ''1959'' one-off, Veronica Kelly is the widow of a police officer who was secretly murdered by a crooked colleague. Once she gets the Justice powers she can see the crime in the culprit's mind. And she can cut him to pieces with energy blades.
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* VengefulWidow: In the ''1959'' one-off, Veronica Kelly is the widow of a police officer who was secretly murdered by a crooked colleague. Once she gets the Justice powers she can see the crime in the culprit's mind. And she can cut him to pieces with energy blades.
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* VengefulWidow: CrusadingWidow: In the ''1959'' one-off, Veronica Kelly is the widow of a police officer who was secretly murdered by a crooked colleague. Once she gets the Justice powers she can see the crime in the culprit's mind. And she can cut him to pieces with energy blades.
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* BenevolentBoss: Voight is a cold-blooded WellIntentionedExtremist who WouldHurtAChild (and did), but he won't ask his team to do anything he wouldn't do himself. He insists on personally assassinating Magniconte to demonstrate this point - which means he walks into a room with a superhuman with SuperStrength, who’s just [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe torn someone in half]], and hopes his cover holds up. And he does all of this knowing that one of Magniconte's predecessors could read minds.
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* BenevolentBoss: Voight is a cold-blooded WellIntentionedExtremist who WouldHurtAChild (and did), but he won't ask his team to do anything he wouldn't do himself. He insists on personally assassinating Magniconte to demonstrate this point - which means he walks into a room with a superhuman with SuperStrength, who’s just [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe torn someone in half]], and hopes his cover holds up. And he does all of this knowing that one of Magniconte's predecessors could read minds.
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* AdaptationalWimp: In the original ComicBook/NewUniverse, Philip Nolan Voigt was one of the most powerful paranormals in the world, the BigBad of ''ComicBook/DP7''. In ''newuniversal'' he appears to be a normal human.
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* AdaptationalWimp: In the original ComicBook/NewUniverse, [[ComicBook/TheNewUniverse New Universe]], Philip Nolan Voigt was one of the most powerful paranormals in the world, the BigBad of ''ComicBook/DP7''. In ''newuniversal'' he appears to be a normal human.
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* AdaptationalWimp: In the original ComicBook/NewUniverse, Philip Nolan Voigt was one of the most powerful paranormals in the world, the BigBad of ''ComicBook/DP7''. In ''newuniversal'' he appears to be a normal human.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: He only appears briefly, and it may have been averted later if the series wasn't CutShort, but Emmett Proudhawk avoids his MentorOccupationalHazard from the original ''ComicBook/PsiForce'' series.
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* AdaptedOut: The condensed and CutShort nature of the series means that many, many New Universe characters never appear (although almost all of the original titles are represented in some way). Among the most significant examples:
** Marc Hazzard, star of the eponymous ''ComicBook/MarkHazzardMerc'' plays no part in the series.
** Dr. Emmett Proudhawk, mentor to ''ComicBook/PsiForce'', appears - but none of the Psi-Force team do.
** Charlotte Beck comes from ''ComicBook/DP7'' (as does antagonist Philip Voight), but none of the other team members appear.
** Marc Hazzard, star of the eponymous ''ComicBook/MarkHazzardMerc'' plays no part in the series.
** Dr. Emmett Proudhawk, mentor to ''ComicBook/PsiForce'', appears - but none of the Psi-Force team do.
** Charlotte Beck comes from ''ComicBook/DP7'' (as does antagonist Philip Voight), but none of the other team members appear.
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* AlternateUniverse: The series is explicitly set in one of the many alternate worlds linked to the Marvel Universe. Marvel's usual Earth ID numbers are quoted in-universe at one point, and several supporting characters are variants of existing characters. Additionally, two of the extra Starbrands at the end of the first arc are said to be visiting from alternate worlds.
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* AlternateUniverse: The series is explicitly set in on Earth-555, one of the many alternate worlds linked to the Marvel Universe. Marvel's usual That Earth ID numbers are number is quoted in-universe at one point, and several supporting characters are variants of existing characters. Additionally, two of the extra Starbrands at the end of the first arc are said to be visiting from alternate worlds.
