History Literature / JackBlank

* {{Hyperspace Is A Scary Place}}: In ''End of Infinitly'', Roka's spaceship is damaged in an escape. Jack uses his technopathic powers to drive the ship through hyperspace ''manually'', noting that a split-second false step could end their journey very quickly.

* {{Supreme Chef}}: Jazen can cook really well. He has thousands of recipes stored in his databank, including flopflips made from Kazellian floovberries and scissor shark steaks.

* {{Everybody Is A Super}}: Not necessarily ''everybody'' in the Imagine Nation, but all people who live there are considered extraordinary in at least one way, not necessarily due to being BadassNormals or {{Badass}} at all. That being said, a large portion of the population is super.

* {{Everbody Is A Super}}: Not necessarily ''everybody'' in the Imagine Nation, but all people who live there are considered extraordinary in at least one way, not necessarily due to being BadassNormals or {{Badass}} at all. That being said, a large portion of the population is super.

* ((Everbody Is A Super)): Not necessarily ''everybody'' in the Imagine Nation, but all people who live there are considered extraordinary in at least one way, not necessarily due to being BadassNormals or {{Badass}} at all. That being said, a large portion of the population is super.

* {{Bavarian Fire Drill}}: [[spoiler: Jazen]] to the head of the orphanage.
* {{BizarreSexualDimorphism}}: Valorians look exactly like silver-skinned humans. However, the male Valorians can fly and shoot energy from their hands, while the female Valorians are [[RubberMan capable of stretching their shape]] and altering their consistency from leaky liquid to diamond solid.

* {{Men Can't Keep House}}: In ''The Secret War'', at the tender age of 13 years, Jack moves into an apartment with a makeshift computer lab in the lower room, all by himself. It's barely furnished, it's disorganized and half the equipment is broken, and moldy takeout is lying around everywhere.

** {{Dishing Out Dirt}}: Along the lines of the Thing from Fantastic Four. He is seen talking to a {{Shock and Awe}} woman on the landing pad.

** {{Me's A Crowd}}: Trea is able to divide herself into three; one is all-brains, one is all-brawn, and the third is all-randomly-decided-trait.

** {{Shock and Awe}}: A woman Jack sees at the landing pad is made from pure lightning.

** Jack's [[spoiler:Rüstov infection]]

* {{EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep}}: Prime is a high-ranking title in the Valorian military, and everyone refers to him as such. If he has a name, it's not mentioned.

** In ''The End of Infinity'', Jonas tells everyone that [[LukeIAmYourFather Clarkston Noteworthy is Jack's father]]. Neither Jack nor Noteworthy believe Smart, but Noteworthy did lose a son around the time Jack was taken away and the Calculans declare that the two must be related. [[spoiler: Jack's right this time. Noteworthy isn't is father, but he is [[Exact Words related to Jack]]; he's Jack's father's ''brother''. Jack's real father is Solomon Roka, who never knew he had a son due to memory loss]].

* {{CommutingOnABus}}: Prime doesn't appear in ''The Secret War'' because he's out appealing to other alien races to unite with Earth against the Rüstov. It pays off in ''End of Infinity''.

** [[TheLancer Skerren's]] parents were infected by the Rüstov and subsequently cut down by his mentor, Hovarth, right in front of him at an age no older than six or seven.

* {{Robot Buddy}}: [[spoiler: Jazen]] is this in the first book.

* {{Sinister Surveillance}}: Everywhere, from flying Smart Cams to Peacemaker teams in the streets. The people of Machina especially have no privacy.

** {{Chekhov MIA}}: [[spoiler:Stendeval is alive, though he had gone missing immediately after the first Rüstov invasion.]]

* {{DeanBitterman}}: Ross Calhoun, the head disciplinarian at St. Barnaby's. He is said to have only smiled four times in his entire life. The news of Jack being sent away causes the fifth.

** [[spoiler:Legend in a vain attempt to stop Revile by [[HeroicSacrifice flying them both into the Infinity Warp Core Engine of the Rüstov flagship]] during [[LastStand the Battle of Empire City]]]].

* {{HeroicSacrifice}}: During the first Rüstov invasion, the hero Legend grabbed Revile and shoved both Revile and himself into the Infinite Warp Core engine of the Rüstov mothership. It was the only way to stop Revile from regenerating.

** [[spoiler:Legend in a vain attempt to stop Revile by [[HeroicSacrifice flying them both into the Infinity Warp Core Engine of the Rüstov flagship]] during [[LastStand the Battle of Empire City]].

** Virtua is not only virtual, but she also preaches and admires virtue.

* {{UnusuallyUninterestingSight}}: Lampshaded in the first book. Jack doesn't know what's more surprising: the constant superfighting outside or that he's actually getting used to seeing them.

Plucked from a crate labeled "Jack," an infant Jack Blank began his life as a lowly orphan. Preferring fantasy to grim reality, he whittles away the ensuing twelve years at St. Barnaby's Home for the Hopeless, Abandoned, Forgotten, and Lost, eagerly exploring comic books. Meanwhile, his real life is dull and boring. His name just about explains it all--blank. Following an attack by a robot, Jack suddenly faces the Imagine Nation, a fantastical land filled with superheroes. As it turns out, he carries a deadly robot virus, causing him to make many enemies along the way. The series chronicles Jack's struggles as he tries to discover his origins and master his new found powers.

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* {{AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome}}: Jonas Smart invented a majority of the high-tech devices in use in Empire City. Played with as Smart apparently owns several front companies outside the Imagine Nation that put out the same toys but not the ones as advanced as the Imagine Nation's.

** Jack's [[spoiler:Rustov infection]]
** [[spoiler:Smart's extra tests on Jack]]
** {{Chekhov MIA}}: [[spoiler:Stendeval is alive as well.]]
* {{Curb Stomp Battle}}: The Rustov against just about every civilization in existence as demonstrated by the sterilization of Mars and the destruction of the [[ProudWarriorRace Valorians]].

** [[spoiler:Legend in a vain attempt to stop [[EldritchAbomination Revile]] by flying [[HeroicSacrifice them both]] [[TakingYouWithMe into the]] [[AppliedPhlebotinum Infinity Warp Core Engine]] of the Rustov flagship during [[LastStand the Battle of Empire City]].]]
** [[TheLancer Skerren's]] parents were [[TheVirus infected]] [[BodyHorror by the]] [[AlienInvasion Rustov]] in [[TroublingUnChildlikeBehavior front of him]]

* {{Dragon Rider}} In the second and third books, Zhi Long is able to control seven mystical Chinese dragons and allows his friends to ride them.
* {{Evil Eye}}/{{Eye Scream}}: The first sign of a Rustov infection. A dark ring forms around the right eye coupled with a line down the cheek.

* {{Last of Their Kind}}: the [[ProudWarriorRace Valorians]] who were the galactic police until a surprise attack by the Rustov wiped out all but the battalion responding to the Rustov decoy signal.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: With aliens zombie robots! How about that?

** {{Flight}}: Apparently very common.

** {{Ki Attacks}}: Most anyone from Karateka.

** {{Shock and Awe}}: a women at the landing pad
** {{Super Intelligence}}: Jonas Smart full stop.

** {{Super Speed}}: Speedrazor who has [[CaptainObvious razors]] for [[LovecraftianSuperpower arms]]
** {{Super Strength}}: Exhibited at the landing pad.
** {{Super Toughness}}/{{Nigh Invulnerability}}: Played straight, zig-zagged, and subverted oh so much at the end.

* {{SinisterSurveillance}}: Everywhere, from flying Smart Cams to Peacemaker teams in the streets. The people of Machina especially have no privacy.
* {{StrawmanNewsMedia}}: Smart News is painted as this. It regularly only tells Jonas Smart's side of the story and uses ManipulativeEditing to make Rüstov-infected Jack look bad.
* {{Sufficiently Advanced Aliens}}: the Rustov and the [[ProudWarriorRace Valorians]].

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* {{Evil Eye}}/{{Eye Scream}}: You get this when infected by the Rustov virus.
* FloatingIsland: Imagine Nation.

* {{InsufferableGenius}}: Jonas Smart tries to remind others of his genius any time he can. He wrote an entire book praising himself. His name is on nearly everything his company makes and still is upset that it's not on Maglev roads.

* {{The Spock}}: Taken {{Up to Eleven}} with Jonas Smart who is heartless [[spoiler: literally]] and is about as calculating as Stendeval is caring.

** {{Lovecraftian Superpower}}: Regeneration is this for Revile
** {{Make Me Wanna Shout}}: Part of the Peacekeepers Alpha Squad.
** {{Mind Over Matter}}: Also very common.
** {{Pure Energy}}: For both the good guys and the [[spoiler:{{AntiVillain}}]] Revile. Implied this happens quite often to Mechas.

* {{SinisterSurveillance}}: Everywhere, from flying SmartCams to Peacemaker teams in the streets. The people of Machina especially have no privacy.
* {{StrawmanNewsMedia}}: SmartNews is painted as this. It regularly only tells Jonas Smart's side of the story and uses ManipulativeEditing to make Rüstov-infected Jack look bad.

* XMeetsY: ''Literature/HarryPotter'' meets ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians''. Kind of.

* {{Artificial Limbs}}: Standard for all androids and Peacekeepers

** Implied with Jack's parents.

* {{Future Me Scares Me}}: Jack with a major villian

** {{Technopath}}: {{The Hero}}
* {{Sufficiently Advanced Aliens}}: the Rustov and the [[ProudWarriorRace Valorians]]

* {{Department of Redundancy Department}}: Jazen claims to work for [[DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment The Department of Departmental Affairs]] the beginning. Bonus points for saying it was part of a [[DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment Division of Divisional Affairs]]

** {{All Your Powers Combined}}: Stendeval who can do anything he can imagine until he runs out of {{Hit Points}}. Also doubles as {{Swiss Army Superpower}}.

** {{Ki Attacks}}: Most anyone from Kartekka.

** {{Shapeshifting}}: Alegra can become [[NighInvulnerability diamond hard]] or a [[MakingaSplash puddle]] as well as being [[TheIncredibles Elastigirl]]