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* FiveTokenBand: Being that the Progeny are based on ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', this was bound to happen, with June being Chinese-American, Maya being Indian-American (and a Jain), Niccolo being black and disabled, Billie being Latina, and Sasha being hearing-impaired.

* ShoutOut: The name "Queenshead" is a riff on "Kingsport", Creator/HPLovecraft's version of Marblehead.

* AlternateHistory: The play takes place in a universe where instead of the Yugoslav Wars, there was the Slavic-Lytonian War. It's also mentioned that the Cold War ended in a stalemate.

* DealWithTheDevil: June made a deal with the Queen in Flames in order to gain superhuman abilities. Unfortunately for her, the contract was open-ended, and the Queen keeps coming up with new demands.

* InconvenientSummons: The Queen In Fire and Her associates have an annoying habit of calling upon June when she's talking to her friends, which doesn't do her sanity any favors.

* {{Mutants}}: Maya is an Abnormal, which is essentially this universe's version of a mutant.

* CameBackWrong: The Palimpsest used to be more human, but after his death, Ackerman used him as a vessel for one of the Lytonian gods.

* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Played with. Dr. Ackerman helps Sasha save Billie's life for free, asking only that she remember that he helped her the next time they meet. It's left unclear what he will ask in return.]]
* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler:In the end, the other kids finally accept Sasha as one of them - after she's secretly agreed to betray them.]]
* EmptyShell: According to Ackerman, this is what has become of Paulie; his body's intact, but there's nothing inside.

* LovecraftCountry: The play takes place in Iron Hill, a small North Shore town in Massachusetts with a creepy fortress that houses an ancient evil... thing.

* StressInducedMentalVoices: All the other Breakouts think that June's claims that she's receiving orders from a god are just hallucinations from the stress of trying to lead a team.
* TownWithADarkSecret: Iron Hill is the home of a creepy fortress with something evil inside it.

* InconvenientSummons: The Pyre and Her associates have an annoying habit of calling upon June when she's talking to her friends, which doesn't do her sanity any favors.

* BlessedWithSuck: As a side-effect of the treatment that saved his life, Niccolo has heightened sensitivity to electricity.

* CameBackWrong: Polisare.

* StressInducedMentalVoices: All the other Breakouts think that June's claims that she's receiving orders from a god are just hallucinations from the stress of trying to lead a team.

* AlternativeHistory: The play takes place in a universe where instead of the Yugoslav Wars, there was the Slavic-Lytonian War. It's also mentioned that the Cold War ended in a stalemate.

* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler:In the end, the other Breakouts finally accept Sasha as one of them - after she's secretly agreed to betray them.]]

* BlessedWithSuck: Niccolo has the ability to re-task his brainpower away from things like emotions or motor skills to boost his own intelligence. He is constantly forced to remind himself how to walk.

* {{Mutants}}: Maya is an Abnormal, which is essentially this universe's version of a mutant.

In a small North Shore town in Massachusetts, teenage loner Sasha spends her time trying desperately not to be noticed, especially by her abusive grandmother. But then, one day, a impulsive act causes her to come on the radar of a group of other teenagers like herself, setting in motion a chain of events with dire consequences.

* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Played with. Dr. Ackerman helps Sasha save Billie for free, asking only that she remember that he helped her the next time they meet. It's left unclear what he will ask in return.]]

* HatesBeingTouched: Sasha is a profound haphephobe, the consequence of years of abuse.