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* BirthdayBeginning: The marking of heroism or villainy happens promptly on one's sixteenth birthday, although powers sometimes develop a few months before or after. The series starts on the eve of Damien's birthday.
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* TheHerosBirthday: The marking of heroism or villainy happens promptly on one's sixteenth birthday, although powers sometimes develop a few months before or after.
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* BabysittingEpisode: The third {{interquel}}, The Persistence of Renegade X, is this as it deals with Damian having to babysit his half-siblings from both sides of his family at once over an increasingly chaotic evening.
* BettyAndVeronica: Damian's villainous ex-girlfriend Kat serves as the Veronica and the MadScientist wannabe Sarah serves as the Betty during the course of the first book. This situation is resolved by the end of the first book when Damian and [[spoiler: Kat]] get together as the OfficialCouple and by the start of the next book [[spoiler: Sarah]] is happily dating [[IconicSequelCharacter Riley]] as the BetaCouple.
* BettyAndVeronica: Damian's villainous ex-girlfriend Kat serves as the Veronica and the MadScientist wannabe Sarah serves as the Betty during the course of the first book. This situation is resolved by the end of the first book when Damian and [[spoiler: Kat]] get together as the OfficialCouple and by the start of the next book [[spoiler: Sarah]] is happily dating [[IconicSequelCharacter Riley]] as the BetaCouple.
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* HalloweenEpisode: The first {{Interquel}}, The Haunting of Renegade X, is this as it takes place between the second and third books in the series and deals with Damian and his former rival turned new best friend Riley having to deal with the ghost of [[spoiler: ,Pete, Damians LAST best friend]] who is possessing an office building and is understandably out for revenge.
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* BrattyHalfPint: Xavier is this in spades.
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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Xavier may be TheScrappy and a SpoiledBrat in the eyes of the other characters, but he is generally harmless (due to his age if nothing else). His alternate dimension self, The Red Demon, is emphatically **not**.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Damian's artificially aged half-brother Xavier is explicitly stated to be his mother's attempt to "do it right this time".
* ReplacementGoldfish: Damian's artificially aged half-brother Xavier is explicitly stated to be his mother's attempt to "do it right this time".
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It was followed by seven sequels in the ''Renegade X'' series covering Damien's attempt to navigate his new status as a tweener.
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* BriarPatching: In the first book, [[spoiler:Pete]] tries to torture Damien by making him torture Kat, and Damien mocks him as a coward who is too scared to hurt Kat himself or kill Damien, even though they are standing right by the ledge of a skyscraper and Damien has a well-known fear of heights. [[spoiler:Pete]] buys it and makes Damien jump off the roof, certain he is subjecting his foe to the cruelest death possible for him. Unfortunately for [[spoiler:Pete]], Damien has recently developed the power of flight.
* ExtremeDoormat: In the fifth book, Kat is initially envious of how her AlternateSelf seems like TheAce, before realizing that she just does everything her parents tell her to (even get engaged) without any reflection of whether it is the right thing to do and/or what she really wants.
* ExtremeDoormat: In the fifth book, Kat is initially envious of how her AlternateSelf seems like TheAce, before realizing that she just does everything her parents tell her to (even get engaged) without any reflection of whether it is the right thing to do and/or what she really wants.
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* GeneHunting: When Damien learns his dad is a superhero, he runs around collecting the hairs of the three most likely candidates for a [=DNA=] test. This becomes unnecessary when he ends up calling his mother with a phone belonging to one of his suspects and his mother thinks he has already found out the truth and goes into a rant about how that guy is indeed his dad.
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* KidnappedScientist: In the first book, Damien's MadScientist mom kidnaps Sarah’s dad to force him to make a hypnotism device for her after reading about how "Dr. Kink" has invented such a device. Actually, Sarah herself is the one who invented that device and her dad has no idea how to duplicate her experiment. Damien points out to his mom that she really should have realized that sooner, as the elder Kink is a biologist and not an engineer.
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* TriggerPhrase: An early attempt at mind control results in the town of Ruthersford turning violent whenever they hear the word "superhero".
* TwoTimerDate: At one point, Damien is simultaneously on a Supervillain date to steal an heirloom ring back from an antique shop and a Superhero date to keep his stepmom's antique shop from being robbed of a priceless trophy that cost her her power. Yes, it's the same job from both angles. Even he's not sure who he wants to win.
* TwoTimerDate: At one point, Damien is simultaneously on a Supervillain date to steal an heirloom ring back from an antique shop and a Superhero date to keep his stepmom's antique shop from being robbed of a priceless trophy that cost her her power. Yes, it's the same job from both angles. Even he's not sure who he wants to win.
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''The Rise of Renegade X'' is a YA novel by Chelsea M. Campbell. Damien Locke is the son of single mother and supervillainess, the "Mistress of Mayhem", Marianna Locke. The book opens on Damien at his sixteenth birthday event, a gala where he will reveal his thumb changing to show a "V" to indicate his villainous heritage. The catch? Instead he gets an "X", which indicates that he has the potential to be heroic or villainous depending on his actions. It seems his mother had a clandestine one-night-stand with a superhero and Damien was the product of that union. Damien figures out who his father is, and reintroduces him to Damien's mother, but his plan for revenge backfires because his mother decides that he'll spend six weeks with his father.
Damien is devoted to the idea of being a villain, and resents his father's attentions, especially since his father is convinced Damien will become a hero like him. Complicating things, he is befriended by a classmate, Sarah Kink, who's convinced that he will become a superhero and that she will be his sidekick. His ex-girlfriend, Kat, wants to reconcile with him after cheating on him with his best friend. Oh, and his mother may be involved in a villainous plot to turn the city's superheroes into zombies... needless to say, he has a lot on his mind.
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!!This book exhibits the following tropes:
* AcademyOfEvil: Damien plans to attend Vilmore, which is restricted to attendance by villains. It apparently includes teaching torture and interrogation.
* EyeBeams: Marianna has laser eyes, a trait that Damien years to develop himself.
* FantasticRacism: Heroes and villains have a massive dislike for each other for obvious reasons, up to one scene where a hero (admittedly in bad shape after saving most of the people in a building fire), states opposition to going back into the burning building to save the one remaining person there because their parents are Supervillains, and the child is likely to grow up evil.
* {{Flight}}: This a stereotypically heroic trait. As of the first book, [[spoiler:this is Damien's only power, inherited from his father, the Crimon Flash]].
* GoodPowersBadPeople: Played with. There are stated to be stereotypically heroic and villainous powers. As Damien puts it at point point, villains don't fly unless it involves a jetpack. He does also bring up at least one (possibly apocryphal) case of a "Hero" with healing powers who it turns out was beating his wife, and then curing her injuries to avoid any evidence.
* MadScientist: Damien's mother is a villainous scientist who focuses on poisons and diseases. Super-science is a trait that appears on both the heroic and villainous spectrums. And, based on [[spoiler:Sarah's]] lack of thumbprint marking and super-science inventions, it appears this may not even be a "super" ability.
* MarkOfTheSupernatural: Many years back, a scientist superhero realized that particular genetic traits associated with villainy could be readily detected, and so he engineered a virus that causes villains to develop a V on their thumbprint on the 16th birthday to ensure they could not hide. The villains took it up as a badge of pride, and created a corresponding virus that tags Heroes with an H thumbprint. Damien, being the son of a hero and a villain, has an X, which may develop to an H or a V depending on how he acts. A minor trend in high school culture is for people to wear gloves on one or both hands to imply that they have powers, and fake thumbprints are available in catalogs for who wish to hide more discreetly. The genetics is also apparently distinct enough that chemical agents can be engineered to only affect heroes or villains, to only affect people without powers, or the like.
* SuperheroSchool: Heroesworth is not elaborated on in the first book other than Damien fearing he'll be forced to attend.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Damien's ex, Kat, has the power to change her form at will. While it's indicating to be an extremely useful power, she's also implied to have identity issues, because she can look however she wishes, and her ability to look older means it's a lot easier to get into trouble.
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''The Rise of Renegade X'' is a YA novel by Chelsea M. Campbell. Damien Locke is the son of single mother and supervillainess, the "Mistress of Mayhem", Marianna Locke. The book opens on Damien at his sixteenth birthday event, a gala where he will reveal his thumb changing to show a "V" to indicate his villainous heritage. The catch? Instead he gets an "X", which indicates that he has the potential to be heroic or villainous depending on his actions. It seems his mother had a clandestine one-night-stand with a superhero and Damien was the product of that union. Damien figures out who his father is, and reintroduces him to Damien's mother, but his plan for revenge backfires because his mother decides that he'll spend six weeks with his father.
Damien is devoted to the idea of being a villain, and resents his father's attentions, especially since his father is convinced Damien will become a hero like him. Complicating things, he is befriended by a classmate, Sarah Kink, who's convinced that he will become a superhero and that she will be his sidekick. His ex-girlfriend, Kat, wants to reconcile with him after cheating on him with his best friend. Oh, and his mother may be involved in a villainous plot to turn the city's superheroes into zombies... needless to say, he has a lot on his mind.
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!!This book exhibits the following tropes:
* AcademyOfEvil: Damien plans to attend Vilmore, which is restricted to attendance by villains. It apparently includes teaching torture and interrogation.
* EyeBeams: Marianna has laser eyes, a trait that Damien years to develop himself.
* FantasticRacism: Heroes and villains have a massive dislike for each other for obvious reasons, up to one scene where a hero (admittedly in bad shape after saving most of the people in a building fire), states opposition to going back into the burning building to save the one remaining person there because their parents are Supervillains, and the child is likely to grow up evil.
* {{Flight}}: This a stereotypically heroic trait. As of the first book, [[spoiler:this is Damien's only power, inherited from his father, the Crimon Flash]].
* GoodPowersBadPeople: Played with. There are stated to be stereotypically heroic and villainous powers. As Damien puts it at point point, villains don't fly unless it involves a jetpack. He does also bring up at least one (possibly apocryphal) case of a "Hero" with healing powers who it turns out was beating his wife, and then curing her injuries to avoid any evidence.
* MadScientist: Damien's mother is a villainous scientist who focuses on poisons and diseases. Super-science is a trait that appears on both the heroic and villainous spectrums. And, based on [[spoiler:Sarah's]] lack of thumbprint marking and super-science inventions, it appears this may not even be a "super" ability.
* MarkOfTheSupernatural: Many years back, a scientist superhero realized that particular genetic traits associated with villainy could be readily detected, and so he engineered a virus that causes villains to develop a V on their thumbprint on the 16th birthday to ensure they could not hide. The villains took it up as a badge of pride, and created a corresponding virus that tags Heroes with an H thumbprint. Damien, being the son of a hero and a villain, has an X, which may develop to an H or a V depending on how he acts. A minor trend in high school culture is for people to wear gloves on one or both hands to imply that they have powers, and fake thumbprints are available in catalogs for who wish to hide more discreetly. The genetics is also apparently distinct enough that chemical agents can be engineered to only affect heroes or villains, to only affect people without powers, or the like.
* SuperheroSchool: Heroesworth is not elaborated on in the first book other than Damien fearing he'll be forced to attend.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Damien's ex, Kat, has the power to change her form at will. While it's indicating to be an extremely useful power, she's also implied to have identity issues, because she can look however she wishes, and her ability to look older means it's a lot easier to get into trouble.
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