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* BewareTheSillyOnes: From the perspective of Sunniva, and the tribe Harry spent some time with, exchanging hunting skills and labour for a bit more education in survival skills (not that he really needs them - it's implied that he just wanted to some company), Harry is mostly an enthusiastic dork who happens to be a very capable hunter and have some odd powers, and frequently gets tripped up by his inexperience in comical fashion. Then a rival tribe summoned a demon bear. The bear was swiftly destroyed, the [[DwindlingParty guilty parties in the other tribe slowly whittled away]] entirely [[StealthExpert unseen]], with their fate being pointedly unknown, while the rest were banished with a warning to make something of their second chance - for they would not get another.
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** Harry resurrects this habit, in the style and [[VoluntaryShapeshifting physical form]] of [[spoiler: Obi-Wan Kenobi]], against Lobo. Given that he's a MasterActor and knows the role pretty damned well thanks to [[spoiler: Carol "force-feeding" him the films]], it's both uncanny and hilarious.
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** Harry resurrects this habit, in the style and [[VoluntaryShapeshifting physical form]] of [[spoiler: Obi-Wan Kenobi]], against Lobo. Given that he's a MasterActor and knows the role pretty damned well thanks to [[spoiler: Carol "force-feeding" him the films]], it's both uncanny and hilarious. It gets even funnier when he's first fighting, then working with, [[spoiler: ''Anakin Skywalker'']] of all people, who finds the imitation creepily true to life.
* DwindlingParty: When the tribe that Harry was hosting was attacked by a demonic bear summoned by another tribe, looking to take their territory, this was inflicted upon them with all those he deemed guilty being slowly and methodically picked off by something they could not see, even in ''broad daylight''. A reminder, early on, that while Harry has mellowed out, this only goes so far.
* RasputinianDeath: As Harry complains, it is ''incredibly'' hard to make the Grandmaster stay dead. It eventually takes [[spoiler: one of his bodies being atomised by a Mortis-mode Anakin Skywalker, the Phoenix fire of a HiveMind billions strong (power on a scale normally capable of blowing up ''multiple universes'') exploding in his face and scouring Sakaar, a Phoenix fire trap inside his next would-be host, Sunniva yanking him out, and finally feeding him to Galactus]].
* ShapeshifterSwanSong: The Grandmaster goes through two of these, thanks to his thoroughly RasputinianDeath.
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* StealthPun: Bor was [[spoiler: transformed by Malekith]] into someone obnoxious, cruel, rude, and nasty--in other words, a ''boor.''
* StoryArc: ''Following Yonder Star'': A (relatively) young Sunniva tracks down Harry in the distant past, meeting him in K'un L'un after he's spent several months decompressing, exploring, and learning from Shou-Lao, before teaching him what it means to be a Phoenix as they jointly confront the Annihilation Wave and [[spoiler: go to Sakaar, partway into the Negative Zone, to find the Silver Surfer]].
* StoryArc: ''Following Yonder Star'': A (relatively) young Sunniva tracks down Harry in the distant past, meeting him in K'un L'un after he's spent several months decompressing, exploring, and learning from Shou-Lao, before teaching him what it means to be a Phoenix as they jointly confront the Annihilation Wave and [[spoiler: go to Sakaar, partway into the Negative Zone, to find the Silver Surfer]].
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* StealthExpert: One of the narratives that Sunniva encounters of what her many times removed nephew has been getting up to reveals that Harry is one of these, and capable of putting it to [[DwindlingParty horrifying use]] - unsurprising from the former Red Son.
* StealthPun: Bor was[[spoiler: transformed by Malekith]] Malekith into someone obnoxious, cruel, rude, and nasty--in other words, a ''boor.''
* StoryArc: ''Following Yonder Star'': A (relatively) young Sunniva tracks down Harry in the distant past, meeting him in K'un L'un after he's spent several months decompressing, exploring, and learning from Shou-Lao, before teaching him what it means to be a Phoenix as they jointly confront the Annihilation Wave and[[spoiler: go to Sakaar, partway into the Negative Zone, to find the Silver Surfer]].Surfer. Everything, inevitably, spirals out of control from there.
* StealthPun: Bor was
* StoryArc: ''Following Yonder Star'': A (relatively) young Sunniva tracks down Harry in the distant past, meeting him in K'un L'un after he's spent several months decompressing, exploring, and learning from Shou-Lao, before teaching him what it means to be a Phoenix as they jointly confront the Annihilation Wave and
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** [[spoiler: Hal Jordan]] was last mentioned at the end of ''Child of the Storm'' as an AcePilot with a mischievous sense of humour. He finally reappears on Sakaar as a grizzled veteran space cop armed with a Green Lantern gauntlet powered by sheer [[HeroicWillpower stubbornness]], unafraid to face down a [[ComicBook/BlueBeetle Scarab Warrior]] and someone else with power that's off the charts, who's just effortlessly curbstomped some of Sakaar's biggest and baddest, and tell them to knock it off or answer to him. Then his batteries are fully charged for the first time by Harry.
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** [[spoiler: Hal Jordan]] was last mentioned at the end of ''Child of the Storm'' as an AcePilot with a mischievous sense of humour. He finally reappears on Sakaar as a grizzled veteran space cop armed with a Green Lantern gauntlet powered by sheer [[HeroicWillpower stubbornness]], unafraid to face down a [[ComicBook/BlueBeetle Scarab Warrior]] and someone else with power that's off the charts, who's just effortlessly curbstomped some of Sakaar's biggest and baddest, and tell them to knock it off or answer to him. Then When his batteries are fully charged for the first time by Harry.Harry, he demonstrates just why the original Green Lantern had such a rep on Earth.
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* BatmanGambit: Midnight's involvement is all about playing the Grandmaster and Harry against each other in just the right way to scour Sakaar.
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* BatmanGambit: Midnight's involvement in ''Following Yonder Star'' is all about playing the Grandmaster and Harry against each other in just the right way to scour Sakaar.Sakaar, so that his master can step in to take over the dimensional space afterwards.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: Midnight's currently unidentified master, who sends him in to manipulate events on Sakaar to his advantage.
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* BatmanGambit: Midnight's involvement is all about playing the Grandmaster and Harry against each other in just the right way to scour Sakaar.
* FadingAway: As part of [[spoiler: Harry's]] ObiWanMoment, though more in the style of MCU Odin's. It's temporary, and partially a fakeout - though he really did get gutted by Midnight.
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* FieryStoic: The ideal state of a Phoenix host, and what Harry has been drifting towards for a long time, solidified by first Shou-Lao's training, then Sunniva's.
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* FieryStoic: The ideal state of a Phoenix host, and what Harry has been drifting towards for a long time, solidified by first Shou-Lao's training, then Sunniva's. He hurriedly passes on this rough lesson to [[spoiler: Anakin Skywalker]].
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* ObiWanMoment: [[spoiler: Harry]] has one in chapter 14, but it's decidedly impermanent - just as planned.
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* PsychicStrangle: When coldly angry and impersonating [[spoiler: Obi-Wan Kenobi]] - ItMakeSenseInContext, Harry pulls this on Lobo, lifting him off the ground. Since [[NighInvulnerable Lobo is Lobo]], this mostly just annoys him and deprives him of his ability to use his SuperStrength, buying time for Harry to 'explain' why his cover is cutting loose.
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* PsychicStrangle: When coldly angry and impersonating [[spoiler: Obi-Wan Kenobi]] - ItMakeSenseInContext, ItMakesSenseInContext, Harry pulls this on Lobo, lifting him off the ground. Since [[NighInvulnerable Lobo is Lobo]], this mostly just annoys him and deprives him of his ability to use his SuperStrength, buying time for Harry to 'explain' why his cover is cutting loose.
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* It also has a Discord - per WordOfGod, it's relatively easy to find because he uses the same penname everywhere.
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* FusionDance: Forced by the Grandmaster on [[spoiler: Johnny Storm with his mutable light-form, and the soul of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader fresh from burning on Mustafar]]. Neither of the participants is at all happy about it once they twig to what's happened, while Harry is driven to the edge of a berserk rage.
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* SecondPersonNarration: When the story shifts to [[spoiler: Anakin Skywalker's]] perspective, it shifts into this in the style of [[spoiler: Matthew Stover's novelisation, ''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith'']], because they were picked out more or less right when their story in that book finished.
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* ArcVillain: ''Following Yonder Star'': The Grandmaster, MadGod and DimensionLord of Sakaar, who drags in beings from across time and space to torment and feed upon for his amusement.
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* {{Angrish}}: Harry spends a considerable chunk of chapter 13 inciting [[spoiler: Anakin]] into this both for his own amusement and to make him question what is going on.
* ArcVillain: ''Following Yonder Star'': The Grandmaster, MadGod and DimensionLord of Sakaar, who drags in beings from across time and space ([[spoiler: and across the multiverse, when he can]]) to torment and feed upon for his amusement.
* ArcVillain: ''Following Yonder Star'': The Grandmaster, MadGod and DimensionLord of Sakaar, who drags in beings from across time and space ([[spoiler: and across the multiverse, when he can]]) to torment and feed upon for his amusement.
* CooldownHug: In a further demonstration of Harry's proclivity to extend care and sympathy to people in bad situations, reaching goodness they never knew they had/outright denied, in chapter 13, while in the guise of [[spoiler: Obi-Wan Kenobi]], he delivers one of these to [[spoiler: an immediately post-Mustafar Anakin Skywalker - or rather, the soul of Anakin Skywalker spliced onto Johnny Storm by the Grandmaster because his mutable light-form made it possible and the Grandmaster wanted to re-enact the Battle of the Heroes]]. The person in question is not immediately receptive, being enraged, terrified, confused, and DrunkOnTheDarkSide. Harry, however, has a very tight grip. The Grandmaster is ''not'' happy.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: The newly arrived 'Midnight', who's a) dressed up as [[spoiler: Darth Revan]] to match Harry's disguise and the presence of [[spoiler: Anakin-spliced-onto-Johnny]], revealing worrying foreknowledge and a warped sense of humour, b) capable of manipulating the Grandmaster into putting them into the ring next, c) capable of shocking Julie out of her controlled amusement and bringing out her first serious worry. Whoever they are, they are absolutely ''not'' working for the Grandmaster, no matter what he might think.
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* EldritchLocation: Sakaar qualifies as this, being a mish-mash pocket reality made of a mixture of reality and the Outside which has somehow not exploded, and ruled by a mad god. It both bends and outright defies logic and the laws of physics, with vari-coloured skies, countless differing layers of the world, stars on sticks that splinter into drifting comets, Dyson Spheres, Ringworlds, connections between worlds, with countless planets and civilisations literally fused together... and it's all the size of a dwarf galaxy. Oh, and even more than brushing it with cosmic senses makes Harry throw up. And it turns out that the whole place is an [[GeniusLoci extension of the Grandmaster]], with everyone trapped there slowly being drained of their life force to feed him.
* FedToTheBeast: The fate of Dax-Ur, a Kryptonian scientist who ended up in the arena on Sakaar, befriended Ben Grimm, then had his powers stripped by blue kryptonite and was trapped in a labyrinth with a super-sized lab mouse by the Grandmaster as his warped idea of a joke - which everyone else expected to find funny.
* FedToTheBeast: The fate of Dax-Ur, a Kryptonian scientist who ended up in the arena on Sakaar, befriended Ben Grimm, then had his powers stripped by blue kryptonite and was trapped in a labyrinth with a super-sized lab mouse by the Grandmaster as his warped idea of a joke - which everyone else expected to find funny.
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* EldritchLocation: Sakaar qualifies as this, being a mish-mash pocket reality made of a mixture of reality and the Outside which has somehow not exploded, and ruled by a mad god. It both bends and outright defies logic and the laws of physics, with vari-coloured skies, countless differing layers of the world, stars on sticks that splinter into drifting comets, Dyson Spheres, Ringworlds, connections between worlds, with countless planets and civilisations literally fused together... and it's all the size of a dwarf galaxy. Oh, and even more than brushing it with cosmic senses makes Harry throw up. [[spoiler: Anakin isn't too happy about it, either]]. And it turns out that the whole place is an [[GeniusLoci extension of the Grandmaster]], with everyone trapped there slowly being drained of their life force to feed him.
* FedToTheBeast: The fate of Dax-Ur, a Kryptonian scientist who ended up in the arena on Sakaar, befriended Ben Grimm, then had his powers stripped by blue kryptonite and was trapped in a labyrinth with a super-sized lab mouse by the Grandmaster as his warped idea of a joke - which everyone else was expected to find funny.
* FedToTheBeast: The fate of Dax-Ur, a Kryptonian scientist who ended up in the arena on Sakaar, befriended Ben Grimm, then had his powers stripped by blue kryptonite and was trapped in a labyrinth with a super-sized lab mouse by the Grandmaster as his warped idea of a joke - which everyone else was expected to find funny.
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** Harry might have regained a lot of his prior [[TookALevelInKindness niceness]], to the point where his darker side is pretty much invisible to extremely experienced cop Hal Jordan, and avoids killing wherever possible, that doesn't mean it isn't there, when he decides to show it - and when he does, it's as scary as ever.
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** Harry might have regained a lot of his prior [[TookALevelInKindness niceness]], to the point where his darker side is pretty much invisible to extremely experienced cop Hal Jordan, and avoids killing wherever possible, even delivering a CooldownHug to [[spoiler: Anakin Skywalker/a newly minted Darth Vader]], that doesn't mean it isn't there, when he decides to show it - and when he does, it's as scary as ever.
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** Julie Maupin leaves Harry in jaw-dropped ''awe''. Given who she really is and who she's taught, this isn't remotely surprising.
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** Julie Maupin a.k.a. [[spoiler: the Lady Knight]] leaves Harry in jaw-dropped ''awe''. Given who she really is and who she's taught, this isn't remotely surprising.
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** Julie, for her part, has Harry pegged as one of these in the making and spends the drive to the Future Foundation "teaching class", in [[spoiler: Hal's]] words. She later discusses this in more detail, noting the physical and mental attributes that make him this, and adds that he's "at least as talented as [[Myth/KingArthur Arthur]] [[{{Series/Merlin2008}} [Pendragon].]] And Arthur was ''brilliant''." That's one hell of an accolade.
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** Julie, for her part, has Harry pegged as one of these in the making and spends the drive to the Future Foundation "teaching class", in [[spoiler: Hal's]] words.class". She later discusses this in more detail, noting the physical and mental attributes that make him this, and adds that he's "at least as talented as [[Myth/KingArthur Arthur]] [[{{Series/Merlin2008}} [Pendragon].]] And Arthur was ''brilliant''." That's From [[spoiler: the greatest swordswoman of all time]], that's one hell of an accolade.
* NiceGuy:
** Harry has evolved back into this thanks to having learned how to process his emotions and traumas, being instinctively kind to everyone he meets, charming, and friendly, and considerably more merciful than most would expect him to be. Sure, the old ruthlessness and fury is still there, but it's so well concealed that you'd never know it was present until he briefly shows it - and it's entirely under his control. He even delivers a CooldownHug to [[spoiler: Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, fresh from burning on Mustafar, whose soul was {{Fusion Dance}}d with Johnny Storm]], despite knowing ''exactly'' what he has done - something that would once have elicited just righteous wrath.
** Sunniva is a SociallyAwkwardHero to say the least, being uncomfortable with people as a whole, and not used to interacting with them much beyond what is needed to solve the problem. She's also a little bit of a NobleBigot towards humans at first (and to be fair, these are literal cavemen deep in the Stone Age - even modern humans look down on them), but she is polite and respectful and sees protecting them as a duty that ''must'' be adhered to. And she ''rapidly'' readjusts her attitudes when she realises how wrong she was. More to the point, while she's still stilted around most people, she's kind in an awkward sort of way, and very supportive to/protective of Harry, her distant nephew, whose every achievement she celebrates as she mentors him and who she gives a YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre speech as he wrestles with the guilt of [[spoiler: slaughtering the Red Army]].
** The Future Foundation is composed of these, with Sue being the NiceGirl she was when we last saw her despite a decade and a half on Sakaar with her little brother as the Grandmaster's CourtJester, and immediately inclined to be concerned for Harry (and justifiably disturbed by [[TraumaCongaLine all he's been through]] in the - for him - technical year and literal two years since she last saw him). [[spoiler: She's also an excellent mother, by all indications, despite perhaps the most challenging environment in the multiverse]].
** Adam Brashear is TheFace of the Future Foundation, having been on Sakaar for the equivalent of ''eighty years'' and never given up hope, having first devoted himself to mitigating its effects, then to trying to free everyone else. Despite all he's endured, including the Grandmaster perverting his technology, he remains hopeful and friendly, happily engaging in a technical discussion of magic with a slightly out of his depth Harry.
** Julie is a fundamentally kind and compassionate woman who, as [[spoiler: the Lady Knight]], has spent ''millennia'' loving and losing people thanks to the cruelties of time and the enemies she fights in Doctor Strange's time war, with a number explicitly being people that only she remembers after they were erased from history. She has every reason to be deeply embittered, yet she's still fun-loving, determined to do good, and kind to all she meets.
** Harry has evolved back into this thanks to having learned how to process his emotions and traumas, being instinctively kind to everyone he meets, charming, and friendly, and considerably more merciful than most would expect him to be. Sure, the old ruthlessness and fury is still there, but it's so well concealed that you'd never know it was present until he briefly shows it - and it's entirely under his control. He even delivers a CooldownHug to [[spoiler: Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, fresh from burning on Mustafar, whose soul was {{Fusion Dance}}d with Johnny Storm]], despite knowing ''exactly'' what he has done - something that would once have elicited just righteous wrath.
** Sunniva is a SociallyAwkwardHero to say the least, being uncomfortable with people as a whole, and not used to interacting with them much beyond what is needed to solve the problem. She's also a little bit of a NobleBigot towards humans at first (and to be fair, these are literal cavemen deep in the Stone Age - even modern humans look down on them), but she is polite and respectful and sees protecting them as a duty that ''must'' be adhered to. And she ''rapidly'' readjusts her attitudes when she realises how wrong she was. More to the point, while she's still stilted around most people, she's kind in an awkward sort of way, and very supportive to/protective of Harry, her distant nephew, whose every achievement she celebrates as she mentors him and who she gives a YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre speech as he wrestles with the guilt of [[spoiler: slaughtering the Red Army]].
** The Future Foundation is composed of these, with Sue being the NiceGirl she was when we last saw her despite a decade and a half on Sakaar with her little brother as the Grandmaster's CourtJester, and immediately inclined to be concerned for Harry (and justifiably disturbed by [[TraumaCongaLine all he's been through]] in the - for him - technical year and literal two years since she last saw him). [[spoiler: She's also an excellent mother, by all indications, despite perhaps the most challenging environment in the multiverse]].
** Adam Brashear is TheFace of the Future Foundation, having been on Sakaar for the equivalent of ''eighty years'' and never given up hope, having first devoted himself to mitigating its effects, then to trying to free everyone else. Despite all he's endured, including the Grandmaster perverting his technology, he remains hopeful and friendly, happily engaging in a technical discussion of magic with a slightly out of his depth Harry.
** Julie is a fundamentally kind and compassionate woman who, as [[spoiler: the Lady Knight]], has spent ''millennia'' loving and losing people thanks to the cruelties of time and the enemies she fights in Doctor Strange's time war, with a number explicitly being people that only she remembers after they were erased from history. She has every reason to be deeply embittered, yet she's still fun-loving, determined to do good, and kind to all she meets.
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* PsychicStrangle: When coldly angry and impersonating [[spoiler: Obi-Wan Kenobi - ItMakeSenseInContext]], Harry pulls this on Lobo, lifting him off the ground. Since [[NighInvulnerable Lobo is Lobo]], this mostly just annoys him and deprives him of his ability to use his SuperStrength, buying time for Harry to 'explain' why his cover is cutting loose.
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* PsychicPowers:
** All the usual suspects, naturally, plus Sunniva. It's a Phoenix thing.
** During ''Following Yonder Star'', Sunniva encounters a nascent HiveMind formed from a tribe of low level psychics. When it detects the absolute ''leviathan'' in its midst, it's described as fluffing itself up like a kitten, and Sunniva has to try very hard not to coo at how ''adorable'' it is.
** The Grandmaster is explicitly ''not'' a psychic, but what he does is arguably psionics approached from a typically warped perspective.
** [[spoiler: Anakin Skywalker]], naturally, by means of cosmic powers - [[spoiler: the Force]].
* PsychicStrangle: When coldly angry and impersonating [[spoiler: Obi-WanKenobi Kenobi]] - ItMakeSenseInContext]], ItMakeSenseInContext, Harry pulls this on Lobo, lifting him off the ground. Since [[NighInvulnerable Lobo is Lobo]], this mostly just annoys him and deprives him of his ability to use his SuperStrength, buying time for Harry to 'explain' why his cover is cutting loose.
** All the usual suspects, naturally, plus Sunniva. It's a Phoenix thing.
** During ''Following Yonder Star'', Sunniva encounters a nascent HiveMind formed from a tribe of low level psychics. When it detects the absolute ''leviathan'' in its midst, it's described as fluffing itself up like a kitten, and Sunniva has to try very hard not to coo at how ''adorable'' it is.
** The Grandmaster is explicitly ''not'' a psychic, but what he does is arguably psionics approached from a typically warped perspective.
** [[spoiler: Anakin Skywalker]], naturally, by means of cosmic powers - [[spoiler: the Force]].
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* EatenAlive: Going by the mention of screams, this is implied to have been the fate of Dax-Ur when the Grandmaster, in a moment of spectacularly bad taste, stripped him of his powers, and put him in a labyrinth with a super-sized lab mouse. Ben Grimm recalls being expected to find it funny by the Grandmaster... and the screams.
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* FedToTheBeast: The fate of Dax-Ur, a Kryptonian scientist who ended up in the arena on Sakaar, befriended Ben Grimm, then had his powers stripped by blue kryptonite and was trapped in a labyrinth with a super-sized lab mouse by the Grandmaster as his warped idea of a joke - which everyone else expected to find funny.
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** Sunniva is very professional, quite serious, and not good with people on the whole. When she can be persuaded to loosen up and open up, however, she's just as willing to laugh at her distant nephew's shenanigans and pratfalls as anyone else, and she's bubbling with delight when he finally figures out the lesson she's trying to teach him against the Annihilation Wave.
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** Sunniva is [[SociallyAwkwardHero very professional, quite serious, and not good with people on the whole. whole.]] When she can be persuaded to loosen up and open up, however, she's just as willing to laugh at her distant nephew's shenanigans and pratfalls as anyone else, and she's bubbling with delight when he finally figures out the lesson she's trying to teach him against the Annihilation Wave.
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* NotGoodWithPeople: Sunniva is somewhat awkward around people, being less naturally sociable than Harry and as a Phoenix, her style is to travel from problem to problem, resolving them as efficiently as possible.
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** Sunniva is very professional, quite serious, and NotGoodWithPeople not good with people on the whole. When she can be persuaded to loosen up and open up, however, she's just as willing to laugh at her distant nephew's shenanigans and pratfalls as anyone else, and she's bubbling with delight when he finally figures out the lesson she's trying to teach him against the Annihilation Wave.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Harry's pretty nice again - a few months being cut loose and training with Shou-Lao to deal with his emotions ensured he TookALevelInKindness - and has largely shaken off his former shadows. However, he is still capable of being every bit as terrifying as he was before, when given sufficient incentive, and it's all the more disturbing for the sudden contrast.
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* CasualDangerDialogue: Harry and Sunniva maintain this habit, though a fair amount of it is Harry complaining - and lampshading how his usual FlirtingUnderFire isn't an option because Carol isn't around and he can't [[YouFightLikeACow snark at his enemies because they're eldritch horrors that won't appreciate his remarks]].
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** Harry and Sunniva maintain this habit, though a fair amount of it is Harry complaining - and lampshading how his usual FlirtingUnderFire isn't an option because Carol isn't around and he can't [[YouFightLikeACow snark at his enemies because they're eldritch horrors that won't appreciate hisremarks]].remarks]]. Sunniva, for her part, is teaching class while fighting Annihilus.
** Harry resurrects this habit, in the style and [[VoluntaryShapeshifting physical form]] of [[spoiler: Obi-Wan Kenobi]], against Lobo. Given that he's a MasterActor and knows the role pretty damned well thanks to [[spoiler: Carol "force-feeding" him the films]], it's both uncanny and hilarious.
** Harry and Sunniva maintain this habit, though a fair amount of it is Harry complaining - and lampshading how his usual FlirtingUnderFire isn't an option because Carol isn't around and he can't [[YouFightLikeACow snark at his enemies because they're eldritch horrors that won't appreciate his
** Harry resurrects this habit, in the style and [[VoluntaryShapeshifting physical form]] of [[spoiler: Obi-Wan Kenobi]], against Lobo. Given that he's a MasterActor and knows the role pretty damned well thanks to [[spoiler: Carol "force-feeding" him the films]], it's both uncanny and hilarious.
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* CosmicEntity: The Phoenix, natch. Also one of Her aspects, [[spoiler: Galactus]].
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** Also, the Grandmaster, [[spoiler:Galactus]]. a literal miniature universe incarnate - and not a nice one.]]
** The Phoenix, natch. Also one of Her aspects, Galactus.
** Also, the Grandmaster, [[spoiler:
* FieryStoic: The ideal state of a Phoenix host, and what Harry has been drifting towards for a long time, solidified by first Shou-Lao's training, then Sunniva's.
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** Harry might have regained a lot of his prior [[TookALevelInKindness niceness]], to the point where his darker side is pretty much invisible to extremely experienced cop [[spoiler: Hal Jordan]], and avoids killing wherever possible, that doesn't mean it isn't there, when he decides to show it - and when he does, it's as scary as ever.
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** Harry might have regained a lot of his prior [[TookALevelInKindness niceness]], to the point where his darker side is pretty much invisible to extremely experienced cop [[spoiler: Hal Jordan]], Jordan, and avoids killing wherever possible, that doesn't mean it isn't there, when he decides to show it - and when he does, it's as scary as ever.
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* TheJuggernaut: Shou-Lao, who effortlessly shrugs off more or less everything Harry throws at him in their final testing duel and is barely even wounded, with Harry frankly admitting that unless he went Phoenix or really tried to kill him, there's absolutely ''no way'' he could win.
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* TheJuggernaut: TheJuggernaut:
** Shou-Lao, who effortlessly shrugs off more or less everything Harry throws at him in their final testing duel and is barely even wounded, with Harry frankly admitting that unless he went Phoenix or really tried to kill him, there's absolutely ''no way'' he couldwin.win.
** Lobo is both this and a LightningBruiser with a stupidly powerful HealingFactor, to the point where despite the fact that he's going bareknuckle with someone (Harry) armed with a Phoenix-imbued sabre [[spoiler: that's currently functioning as a lightsabre]] capable of lopping off limbs, who's repeatedly going for a GroinAttack, he just keeps going, to the point where their fight is characterised as "unstoppable force versus immovable object." It takes Ben Grimm's sucker-punch to give Harry the necessary opening to end it.
** Shou-Lao, who effortlessly shrugs off more or less everything Harry throws at him in their final testing duel and is barely even wounded, with Harry frankly admitting that unless he went Phoenix or really tried to kill him, there's absolutely ''no way'' he could
** Lobo is both this and a LightningBruiser with a stupidly powerful HealingFactor, to the point where despite the fact that he's going bareknuckle with someone (Harry) armed with a Phoenix-imbued sabre [[spoiler: that's currently functioning as a lightsabre]] capable of lopping off limbs, who's repeatedly going for a GroinAttack, he just keeps going, to the point where their fight is characterised as "unstoppable force versus immovable object." It takes Ben Grimm's sucker-punch to give Harry the necessary opening to end it.
* NotGoodWithPeople: Sunniva is somewhat awkward around people, being less naturally sociable than Harry and as a Phoenix, her style is to travel from problem to problem, resolving them as efficiently as possible.
* NotSoStoic:
** While Harry has, thanks to learning from Shou-Lao, more or less completed his transformation into a FieryStoic and is generally good at handling his emotions, there are still moments. For instance, the capacity for nightmare inspiring softly spoken rage is very well hidden, but not gone, as is revealed when he promises that if the Grandmaster's treatment of Johnny Storm involves [[SexSlave a particular kind of enslavement]], he'll "make an Elder God scream." In some ways it's even more disturbing because that side of him is now so well hidden that even experienced cop Hal Jordan doesn't spot it until Harry chooses to show it.
** Sunniva is very professional, quite serious, and NotGoodWithPeople on the whole. When she can be persuaded to loosen up and open up, however, she's just as willing to laugh at her distant nephew's shenanigans and pratfalls as anyone else, and she's bubbling with delight when he finally figures out the lesson she's trying to teach him against the Annihilation Wave.
* NotSoStoic:
** While Harry has, thanks to learning from Shou-Lao, more or less completed his transformation into a FieryStoic and is generally good at handling his emotions, there are still moments. For instance, the capacity for nightmare inspiring softly spoken rage is very well hidden, but not gone, as is revealed when he promises that if the Grandmaster's treatment of Johnny Storm involves [[SexSlave a particular kind of enslavement]], he'll "make an Elder God scream." In some ways it's even more disturbing because that side of him is now so well hidden that even experienced cop Hal Jordan doesn't spot it until Harry chooses to show it.
** Sunniva is very professional, quite serious, and NotGoodWithPeople on the whole. When she can be persuaded to loosen up and open up, however, she's just as willing to laugh at her distant nephew's shenanigans and pratfalls as anyone else, and she's bubbling with delight when he finally figures out the lesson she's trying to teach him against the Annihilation Wave.
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* OldCopYoungCop: Sunniva and Harry play with this, given the nature of the Phoenix as an enforcer of the laws of nature, with her relative stoicism, professionalism, and deep technical experience combined with his heart-on-sleeve emotions and creative approach.
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** Sunniva and Harry play with this, given the nature of the Phoenix as an enforcer of the laws of nature, with her relative stoicism, professionalism, and deep technical experience combined with his heart-on-sleeve emotions and creativeapproach.approach.
** Hal and Harry briefly enjoy this dynamic on Sakaar, with Hal being a DeterminedDefeatist worn down by a decade and a half of relative time on [[EldritchLocation Sakaar]] but damned if he'll give in to despair, and Harry blithely (and rightly) certain that this is all a problem that can be solved, with work.
** Sunniva and Harry play with this, given the nature of the Phoenix as an enforcer of the laws of nature, with her relative stoicism, professionalism, and deep technical experience combined with his heart-on-sleeve emotions and creative
** Hal and Harry briefly enjoy this dynamic on Sakaar, with Hal being a DeterminedDefeatist worn down by a decade and a half of relative time on [[EldritchLocation Sakaar]] but damned if he'll give in to despair, and Harry blithely (and rightly) certain that this is all a problem that can be solved, with work.
* PsychicStrangle: When coldly angry and impersonating [[spoiler: Obi-Wan Kenobi - ItMakeSenseInContext]], Harry pulls this on Lobo, lifting him off the ground. Since [[NighInvulnerable Lobo is Lobo]], this mostly just annoys him and deprives him of his ability to use his SuperStrength, buying time for Harry to 'explain' why his cover is cutting loose.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Harry's big plan to distract the Grandmaster while his allies enact a mass escape from Sakaar? Enter the Contest of Champions while disguised as [[spoiler: Obi-Wan Kenobi]]. The entire rationale is that while it's utterly ridiculous, it's ridiculous enough that the Grandmaster, who's fascinated by narrative, should play along. It's noted by an amused [[spoiler:Hal Jordan]] that they'll likely get sued if anyone ever finds out about this.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Harry's big plan to distract the Grandmaster while his allies enact a mass escape from Sakaar? Enter the Contest of Champions while disguised as [[spoiler: Obi-Wan Kenobi]]. The entire rationale is that while it's utterly ridiculous, it's ridiculous enough that the Grandmaster, who's fascinated by narrative, should play along. It's noted by an amused [[spoiler:Hal Jordan]] Jordan]], once he finally stops laughing long enough to breathe, that they'll likely get sued if anyone ever finds out about this.
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* SpaceIsNoisy: If you're a Phoenix host like Harry or Sunniva, it is. This is Lampshaded on the grounds that when you're a Phoenix, you can do more or less what you like.
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* SpaceIsNoisy: If you're a Phoenix host like Harry or Sunniva, it is. This is Lampshaded on the grounds that when you're a Phoenix, a) you're operating on very different senses, b) you can do more or less what you like.
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* StudentMasterTeam: Sunniva and Harry are a textbook example, as she teaches him about mastering the Phoenix and the cosmic big picture, and he - directly and indirectly - ends up teaching her about taking a more grounded perspective and actually mixing with the people they're protecting.
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* StudentMasterTeam: StudentAndMasterTeam: Sunniva and Harry are a textbook example, as she teaches him about mastering the Phoenix and the cosmic big picture, and he - directly and indirectly - ends up teaching her about taking a more grounded perspective and actually mixing with the people they're protecting.
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* TranquilFury: Shou-Lao makes a distinction between Harry dealing with his anger by turning it cold and actually controlling his anger. The degree of emotional control is shown later on when Harry [[spoiler: as Obi-Wan]] goes toe to toe with Lobo, who has profoundly pissed him off by killing [[spoiler: Miek]] just to make a point - the rage is most definitely there, but he is using it as fuel and not letting it control him.
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** Julie, for her part, has Harry pegged as one of these in the making and spends the drive to the Future Foundation "teaching class", in [[spoiler: Hal's]] words. She later discusses this in more detail, noting the physical and mental attributes that make him this, and adds that he's "at least as talented as [[Myth/KingArthur Arthur[[ [[{{Series/Merlin2008}} [Pendragon].]] And Arthur was ''brilliant''." That's one hell of an accolade.
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** Julie, for her part, has Harry pegged as one of these in the making and spends the drive to the Future Foundation "teaching class", in [[spoiler: Hal's]] words. She later discusses this in more detail, noting the physical and mental attributes that make him this, and adds that he's "at least as talented as [[Myth/KingArthur Arthur[[ Arthur]] [[{{Series/Merlin2008}} [Pendragon].]] And Arthur was ''brilliant''." That's one hell of an accolade.
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* AssholeVictim: Lobo, a bully, jerk, and casual murderer who enjoys the fact that no one can really stand up to him and kills more or less for fun and in the case of [[spoiler: Miek]] just to make a point... gets put in his place and humiliated with varying degrees of brutality by both Sunniva and Harry. The latter actually ''decapitates'' him - not that it'll do anything permanent - and hurls him into orbit. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
* DarkAndTroubledPast:
** Harry's is touched on a few times, with more than one person (''particularly'' [[MamaBear Sunniva]]) being utterly appalled by the scale of his traumas, and it's shown that while he's done a great deal of healing, some things are still a bit raw.
** Julie and [[spoiler: Buri]]. Both are time-travellers and implicitly agents of Doctor Strange. One is compassionate and loving and has spent much of her life being constantly yanked through time without warning and away from the people she was with, dedicating her life to protecting the time stream so as to protect them from being erased - something that is implied to have happened, repeatedly, and she's the only one who remembers them. The other is [[spoiler: the former King of Asgard, TheGoodKing by any metric, and a good father, too. Then Malekith came along, used the Aether to corrupt his son and by proxy all of Asgard's history which Buri only ''barely'' managed to mitigate, which still set his people back ''hundreds of thousands of years'', and Bor got the worst of it, turning into something of a monster. Worse still, he tried to kill Buri when the latter tried to help him]].
** Harry's is touched on a few times, with more than one person (''particularly'' [[MamaBear Sunniva]]) being utterly appalled by the scale of his traumas, and it's shown that while he's done a great deal of healing, some things are still a bit raw.
** Julie and [[spoiler: Buri]]. Both are time-travellers and implicitly agents of Doctor Strange. One is compassionate and loving and has spent much of her life being constantly yanked through time without warning and away from the people she was with, dedicating her life to protecting the time stream so as to protect them from being erased - something that is implied to have happened, repeatedly, and she's the only one who remembers them. The other is [[spoiler: the former King of Asgard, TheGoodKing by any metric, and a good father, too. Then Malekith came along, used the Aether to corrupt his son and by proxy all of Asgard's history which Buri only ''barely'' managed to mitigate, which still set his people back ''hundreds of thousands of years'', and Bor got the worst of it, turning into something of a monster. Worse still, he tried to kill Buri when the latter tried to help him]].
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** Shou-Lao is the stern but fair protector and lord of K'un L'un, who trains his people to protect themselves in the Way of the Iron Fist - those protectors being led by ''the'' Iron Fist, who's significantly further empowered if they pass an UnwinnableTestSimulation by learning the appropriate lesson. If they don't, he can kill them and implicitly, has.
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** Shou-Lao is the stern but fair protector and lord of K'un L'un, who trains his people to protect themselves in the Way of the Iron Fist - those protectors being led by ''the'' Iron Fist, who's significantly further empowered if they pass an UnwinnableTestSimulation UnwinnableTrainingSimulation by learning the appropriate lesson. If they don't, he can kill them and implicitly, has.
* GoodParents:
** [[spoiler: Sue]] and [[spoiler: Reed]] are this within their inevitable limitations of existing in the nightmarish EldritchLocation that is Sakaar, and while [[spoiler: keeping the fact that they had a child secret]]. Despite everything against them, their son is an improbably well-adjusted and good-natured child.
** As it turns out, [[spoiler: Buri]] was one of these, despite Harry's entirely justified scepticism and bone to pick over a matter of GenerationalTrauma. Unfortunately, factors outside his control warped his son's personality in ways he couldn't heal (mostly because [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide he didn't want to be healed]]).
** [[spoiler: Sue]] and [[spoiler: Reed]] are this within their inevitable limitations of existing in the nightmarish EldritchLocation that is Sakaar, and while [[spoiler: keeping the fact that they had a child secret]]. Despite everything against them, their son is an improbably well-adjusted and good-natured child.
** As it turns out, [[spoiler: Buri]] was one of these, despite Harry's entirely justified scepticism and bone to pick over a matter of GenerationalTrauma. Unfortunately, factors outside his control warped his son's personality in ways he couldn't heal (mostly because [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide he didn't want to be healed]]).
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* MythologyGag: Chapter 6 has Harry, channelling the power of a cosmic entity, encourage a world to "Look to the skies... and let hope burn bright." [[Characters/GLBlueLanternCorps Bro'dee Walker would approve]].
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* MythologyGag: Chapter 6 has Harry, channelling the power of a cosmic entity, encourage encourages a world to "Look to the skies... and let hope burn bright." [[Characters/GLBlueLanternCorps Bro'dee Saint Walker would approve]].
* UnwinnableTrainingSimulation: The Last Test of the Iron Fist is one of these, because no one, not even Harry, is going to overpower Shou-Lao in a straight fight. The entire point is that it's not just about strength, skill, or willpower, but also judgement. People who don't get that fail, and sometimes even end up dying.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Bor, of all people, with a few berserker tendencies at worst. Unfortunately, he took the brunt of [[spoiler: Malekith playing TheCorrupter to Asgardian history to turn them all into barbarians]], ended up DrunkOnTheDarkSide, and decided he liked it.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Bor, of all people, with a few berserker tendencies at worst. Unfortunately, he took the brunt of [[spoiler: Malekith playing TheCorrupter to Asgardian history to turn them all into barbarians]], ended up DrunkOnTheDarkSide, and decided he liked it.
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* BreakTheCycleOfBadParenting: It's revealed that the House of Frey's GenerationalTrauma, which Harry initially calls [[spoiler: Buri]] on, is actually because of [[spoiler: Bor being warped by Malekith and embracing the personality change]]. It's made clear that Odin has tried to do this, but thanks to his own issues and therefore met with limited success, with Thor arguably being the clearest success (and possibly because he takes after his mother).
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* BreakTheCycleOfBadParenting: BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting: It's revealed that the House of Frey's GenerationalTrauma, which Harry initially calls [[spoiler: Buri]] on, is actually because of [[spoiler: Bor being warped by Malekith and embracing the personality change]]. It's made clear that Odin has tried to do this, but thanks to his own issues and therefore met with limited success, with Thor arguably being the clearest success (and possibly because he takes after his mother).
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* BreakTheCycleOfBadParenting: It's revealed that the House of Frey's GenerationalTrauma, which Harry initially calls [[spoiler: Buri]] on, is actually because of [[spoiler: Bor being warped by Malekith and embracing the personality change]]. It's made clear that Odin has tried to do this, but thanks to his own issues and therefore met with limited success, with Thor arguably being the clearest success (and possibly because he takes after his mother).
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* GenerationalTrauma: The House of Odin's is discussed by a somewhat narked Harry with [[spoiler: Buri]]. The source of it (or at least, the circumstances) is somewhat unexpected and rightly on the nightmare fuel page. [[spoiler: Bor UsedToBeASweetKid, but took the brunt of Malekith's Reality Stone fuelled corruption of Asgard, and decided he liked it]].
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* BadassFamily: The House of Frey/Royal House of Asgard continues to produce badasses, with of course Harry; Sunniva, who has been a Phoenix host for ''decades'' without losing control, something practically unprecedented, and capable of curbstomping eldritch horrors while bantering with her distant nephew/walking him through using his powers on a grander scale; and [[spoiler: Buri, God of Time, who's neatly been hiding under everyone's noses as Julie Maupin's a.k.a. the Lady Knight's barman/chauffeur and TimeCop partner, and it takes some time for either Harry or Sunniva to twig to what exactly he is - though they figure it out, and Harry even figures out ''who'' he is. As it turned out, he managed to prevent Malekith from entirely rewriting Asgard's history with the Reality Stone and survived a spirited attempt at murder by his son]].
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* TheCorrupter: Malekith with the Reality Stone was this for all of Asgard, attempting to rewrite it in his warped perception of what Asgardians were/had to be to fit his narrative - hairy barbarians, thieves, with no higher mentality than RapePillageAndBurn. While this was mitigated by the Stone's instability and [[spoiler: Buri]] and Strange working upstream and downstream in time, Asgard was still set back by hundreds of millennia into a cultural hole that Odin's still trying to haul them out of (we get hints of what it used to be like from Sunniva and [[spoiler: Buri]]). Furthermore, [[spoiler: Bor]] was the conduit and took the brunt of it, turning from [[UsedToBeASweetKid a decent guy with a berserker streak]] into TheBrute and a NominalHero ''at best'', one who revelled in his transformation.
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* TheGoodKing: [[spoiler: Buri]] ''was'' this, as a BenevolentMageRuler, and despite Harry's not unjustified suspicions, [[GoodParents a good dad too]]. Unfortunately, thanks to factors outside his control that he did his best to mitigate, his legacy was profoundly screwed up.
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* OldCopYoungCop: Sunniva and Harry play with this, given the nature of the Phoenix as an enforcer of the laws of nature, with her relative stoicism, professionalism, and deep technical experience combined with his heart-on-sleeve emotions and creative approach.
* {{Patricide}}: Previously attempted by [[spoiler: Bor against Buri]], as previously speculated, after [[spoiler: Malekith]] corrupted him. The father in question still has the scar.
* {{Patricide}}: Previously attempted by [[spoiler: Bor against Buri]], as previously speculated, after [[spoiler: Malekith]] corrupted him. The father in question still has the scar.
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* InstantExpert:
** As Sunniva explains, a limited degree of this is part of the standard Phoenix package, which basically runs off the instincts of self-preservation and threat elimination. The next steps have to be more or less figured out by yourself.
** Harry, to a degree - and being a Phoenix makes it substantially easier. As shown in ''Ghosts'' he can telepathically copy skills to a certain degree of competence with frightening speed (though learning how to use them properly is another matter). This gets expanded, as it turns out it's less just absorbing technique, but how it actually feels to use the skill - anything intuitive, he can pick up terrifyingly quickly. As a result, he picks up the ability to shift between physical and spiritual relatively easily when Sunniva flat out states he ''should not have been able to'' so soon, and according to [[spoiler: Julie/the Lady Knight]] if he applied the same technique more broadly with Sif and Fandral, he'd be a MasterSwordsman by human standards by 17 and by [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Asgardian]] ones by ''30'', rather than their estimates of early 20s and 100 respectively.
** As Sunniva explains, a limited degree of this is part of the standard Phoenix package, which basically runs off the instincts of self-preservation and threat elimination. The next steps have to be more or less figured out by yourself.
** Harry, to a degree - and being a Phoenix makes it substantially easier. As shown in ''Ghosts'' he can telepathically copy skills to a certain degree of competence with frightening speed (though learning how to use them properly is another matter). This gets expanded, as it turns out it's less just absorbing technique, but how it actually feels to use the skill - anything intuitive, he can pick up terrifyingly quickly. As a result, he picks up the ability to shift between physical and spiritual relatively easily when Sunniva flat out states he ''should not have been able to'' so soon, and according to [[spoiler: Julie/the Lady Knight]] if he applied the same technique more broadly with Sif and Fandral, he'd be a MasterSwordsman by human standards by 17 and by [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Asgardian]] ones by ''30'', rather than their estimates of early 20s and 100 respectively.
* OddlyCommonRarity: Sunniva isn't entirely surprised by encountering another Phoenix host - the fact he's around the Nine Realms and everything else about him is what raises questions. As she explains to a very surprised Harry, she's ''met'' other Phoenixes before, because the Phoenix is Life and like Death, Life is happening everywhere and the universe is a big place. As a result, even if only an infinitesimal fraction of Life requires the intervention of a Phoenix host, there can be several - in the case of during their conversation, there are another three. As she also explains, Phoenix work can be very brief.
* PowerCopying: As Harry notes, he's a good mimic, which is how (as a Phoenix) he picks up shifting from physical to spirit and back. Both Shou-Lao and Sunniva are appalled and impressed, with the latter flatly informing him that knack for mimicry or not, he ''should not have been able to do that''. As he explains, it mostly works because he telepathically links with them, getting a feel of the feelings, impressions, instincts, and intuitions.
* PowerCopying: As Harry notes, he's a good mimic, which is how (as a Phoenix) he picks up shifting from physical to spirit and back. Both Shou-Lao and Sunniva are appalled and impressed, with the latter flatly informing him that knack for mimicry or not, he ''should not have been able to do that''. As he explains, it mostly works because he telepathically links with them, getting a feel of the feelings, impressions, instincts, and intuitions.
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* GoodIsNotSoft:
** Shou-Lao is the stern but fair protector and lord of K'un L'un, who trains his people to protect themselves in the Way of the Iron Fist - those protectors being led by ''the'' Iron Fist, who's significantly further empowered if they pass an UnwinnableTestSimulation by learning the appropriate lesson. If they don't, he can kill them and implicitly, has.
** Phoenix hosts are this as a simple result of being cosmic trauma surgeons - they save what they can, but destroy what they must. Sunniva is willing to destroy all of Sakaar to protect the main reality, though she is profoundly embittered by the prospect and thinks of it as a MercyKill compared to what the Grandmaster is slowly doing to people (and she's hinted to be right), though she'll very gladly TakeAThirdOption.
** Harry might have regained a lot of his prior [[TookALevelInKindness niceness]], to the point where his darker side is pretty much invisible to extremely experienced cop [[spoiler: Hal Jordan]], and avoids killing wherever possible, that doesn't mean it isn't there, when he decides to show it - and when he does, it's as scary as ever.
** Shou-Lao is the stern but fair protector and lord of K'un L'un, who trains his people to protect themselves in the Way of the Iron Fist - those protectors being led by ''the'' Iron Fist, who's significantly further empowered if they pass an UnwinnableTestSimulation by learning the appropriate lesson. If they don't, he can kill them and implicitly, has.
** Phoenix hosts are this as a simple result of being cosmic trauma surgeons - they save what they can, but destroy what they must. Sunniva is willing to destroy all of Sakaar to protect the main reality, though she is profoundly embittered by the prospect and thinks of it as a MercyKill compared to what the Grandmaster is slowly doing to people (and she's hinted to be right), though she'll very gladly TakeAThirdOption.
** Harry might have regained a lot of his prior [[TookALevelInKindness niceness]], to the point where his darker side is pretty much invisible to extremely experienced cop [[spoiler: Hal Jordan]], and avoids killing wherever possible, that doesn't mean it isn't there, when he decides to show it - and when he does, it's as scary as ever.
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* MasterSwordsman: Julie Maupin leaves Harry in jaw-dropped ''awe''. Given who she really is and who she's taught, this isn't remotely surprising.
* TheMentor: Harry collects three in ''Following Yonder Star'' in Shou-Lao, Sunniva, and Julie Maupin. Shou-Lao teaches him control and judgement, Sunniva teaches him Phoenix lessons on a cosmic scale, and Julie takes it upon herself to give him a few quick lessons in swordsmanship.
* TheMentor: Harry collects three in ''Following Yonder Star'' in Shou-Lao, Sunniva, and Julie Maupin. Shou-Lao teaches him control and judgement, Sunniva teaches him Phoenix lessons on a cosmic scale, and Julie takes it upon herself to give him a few quick lessons in swordsmanship.
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* MasterSwordsman: MasterActor: Harry, again, who demonstrates it by flawlessly impersonating [[spoiler: Obi-Wan Kenobi]]. Though it has to be said, the VoluntaryShapeshifting helps.
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** Julie Maupin leaves Harry in jaw-dropped ''awe''. Given who she really is and who she's taught, this isn't remotely surprising.
** The Scarab also qualifies, as while Julie blatantly outclasses it, Harry realises very abruptly that it blatantly outclasses ''him''.
** Julie, for her part, has Harry pegged as one of these in the making and spends the drive to the Future Foundation "teaching class", in [[spoiler: Hal's]] words.
* TheMentor: Harry collects three in ''Following Yonder Star'' in Shou-Lao, Sunniva, and JulieMaupin.Maupin/[[spoiler: the Lady Knight]]. Shou-Lao teaches him control and judgement, Sunniva teaches him Phoenix lessons on a cosmic scale, and Julie takes it upon herself to give him a few quick lessons in swordsmanship.
* MasterSwordsman:
** Julie Maupin leaves Harry in jaw-dropped ''awe''. Given who she really is and who she's taught, this isn't remotely surprising.
** The Scarab also qualifies, as while Julie blatantly outclasses it, Harry realises very abruptly that it blatantly outclasses ''him''.
** Julie, for her part, has Harry pegged as one of these in the making and spends the drive to the Future Foundation "teaching class", in [[spoiler: Hal's]] words.
* TheMentor: Harry collects three in ''Following Yonder Star'' in Shou-Lao, Sunniva, and Julie
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* Book 2: ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12046648/1/Ghosts-of-the-Past Ghosts of the Past]],'' follows on from the FinalBattle of ''Child of the Storm'' with Harry starting to assert himself as a Power in his own right, but one still vulnerable thanks to his nature as a GlassCannon and [[UnskilledButStrong his inexperience]], and dealing with the reverberations of the events of the previous book. Meanwhile, a number of separate villains are all, for one reason or another, out to either control him or to destroy him. It is Complete. The first ([[https://archiveofourown.org/works/30345153/chapters/74804949 Prelude]]) and second ([[http://www.archiveofourown.org/works/31828876 Forever Red]]) arcs can also be found on [=AO3=] [[note]] owing to its length and the convenient arc structure, it's being divided up to make it more manageable and avoid spoilers in the tags. [[/note]]
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* Book 2: ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12046648/1/Ghosts-of-the-Past Ghosts of the Past]],'' follows on from the FinalBattle of ''Child of the Storm'' with Harry starting to assert himself as a Power in his own right, but one still vulnerable thanks to his nature as a GlassCannon and [[UnskilledButStrong his inexperience]], and dealing with the reverberations of the events of the previous book. Meanwhile, a number of separate villains are all, for one reason or another, out to either control him or to destroy him. It is Complete. The first ([[https://archiveofourown.org/works/30345153/chapters/74804949 Prelude]]) and Prelude]]), second ([[http://www.archiveofourown.org/works/31828876 Forever Red]]) and third ([[https://archiveofourown.org/works/47567584/chapters/119884378 Recovery]]) arcs can also be found on [=AO3=] [[note]] owing to its length and the convenient arc structure, it's being divided up to make it more manageable and avoid spoilers in the tags. [[/note]]
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* StoicWoobie: [[spoiler: Buri's]] generally pretty calm and steady, even philosophical. However, his story is pretty miserable, having been unable to prevent his son's transformation from [[UsedToBeASweetKid sweet kid]] to a brutal borderline monster who didn't ''want'' to be saved.
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Been waiting ages for that one.
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* StealthPun: Bor was [[spoiler: transformed by Malekith]] into someone obnoxious, cruel, rude, and nasty--in other words, a ''boor.''
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* ChekhovsGun: Harry discovers in passing that with the Phoenix, he can shapeshift on a fundamental level, and is initially just a little curious about it. Fast-forward to chapter 11, and he's using it to hold the Grandmaster's attention by flawlessly disguising himself as a new competitor in the Contest of Champions - [[spoiler: Obi-Wan Kenobi]]. [[RefugeInAudacity And yes, everyone thinks he's gone mad]].
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* RefugeInAudacity: Harry's big plan to distract the Grandmaster while his allies enact a mass escape from Sakaar? Enter the Contest of Champions while disguised as [[spoiler: Obi-Wan Kenobi]]. It's noted by an amused [[spoiler:Hal Jordan]] that they'll likely get sued if anyone ever finds out about this.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Harry's big plan to distract the Grandmaster while his allies enact a mass escape from Sakaar? Enter the Contest of Champions while disguised as [[spoiler: Obi-Wan Kenobi]]. The entire rationale is that while it's utterly ridiculous, it's ridiculous enough that the Grandmaster, who's fascinated by narrative, should play along. It's noted by an amused [[spoiler:Hal Jordan]] that they'll likely get sued if anyone ever finds out about this.
* StoicWoobie: [[spoiler: Buri's]] generally pretty calm and steady, even philosophical. However, his story is pretty miserable, having been unable to prevent his son's transformation from [[UsedToBeASweetKid sweet kid]] to a brutal borderline monster who didn't ''want'' to be saved.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Harry had been defrosting over the course of ''Ghosts'', but he is notably ''much'' nicer than he was prior to his WalkingTheEarth.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Harry had been defrosting over the course of ''Ghosts'', but when he turns up again here, he is notably ''much'' nicer than he was prior to his WalkingTheEarth.
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** Harry, meanwhile, discovers that this is an artefact of Phoenix powers more or less by accident.
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** Harry, meanwhile, discovers that this is an artefact of Phoenix powers more or less by accident. He later uses this to flawless impersonate [[spoiler: Obi-Wan Kenobi]].
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* ArcVillain: ''Following Yonder Star'': The Grandmaster, MadGod and DimensionLord of Sakaar, who drags in beings from across time and space to torment and feed upon for his amusement.
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** The Grandmaster, as all of Sakaar is an extension of him [[spoiler: including, to a very large extent, the people in it]]. [[spoiler: Hal]] states that he could wipe out billions and entire civilisations with a mere tantrum.
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** The Grandmaster, as all of Sakaar is an extension of him [[spoiler: including, to a very large extent, the people in it]]. [[spoiler: Hal]] states that he could wipe out billions and entire civilisations civilizations with a mere tantrum.tantrum.
* RefugeInAudacity: Harry's big plan to distract the Grandmaster while his allies enact a mass escape from Sakaar? Enter the Contest of Champions while disguised as [[spoiler: Obi-Wan Kenobi]]. It's noted by an amused [[spoiler:Hal Jordan]] that they'll likely get sued if anyone ever finds out about this.
* RefugeInAudacity: Harry's big plan to distract the Grandmaster while his allies enact a mass escape from Sakaar? Enter the Contest of Champions while disguised as [[spoiler: Obi-Wan Kenobi]]. It's noted by an amused [[spoiler:Hal Jordan]] that they'll likely get sued if anyone ever finds out about this.
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* UnexpectedCharacter: The appearances of first Sunniva, then Shou-Lao, [[spoiler: Hal Jordan]], ''Lobo'', of all people, Adam Brashear (who'd previously only gained a passing mention), [[spoiler: The Fantastic Four and Sue and Reed's son Francis]], and, oh yes, [[spoiler: ''the Lady Knight'']], in the first arc of ''The Phoenix and the Serpent'' were all cited as big surprises.
