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* LowerHalfReveal: In the story ''A Dose of Reality'', a reclusive female doctor that has been indocrinated by her bigoted, [[FantasticRacism anti-wild card family]], goes to work in the Jokertown Clinic initially just so she could get her hands into research that would allow her to craft a virus to kill all wild carders. When she first meets Dr. Bradley Finn, she sees him behind a counter and is attracted to this handsome stranger. He comes from behind the counter, and is revealed as a centaur, causing her to be appalled. The whole point of the story is how she [[DefrostingIceQueen gradually realizes]] Finn really is the marvellous, handsome man she initially thought he was.
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* TheFirstSuperheroes: The premise of the series is to present a realistic world where superhumans and deformed mutants exist. The first stories in the first volume describe the MassSuperEmpoweringEvent: the release of an alien virus in New York City in 1946. The first half of the book details the exploits of the Doctor Tachyon, the Four Aces, and the Sleeper, the first generation of superhumans in a world not yet used to their ilk. However, even some later material also has shades of this trope. Superhumans go into hiding due to the RedScare of the TheFifties, and the origin story of the Great and Powerful Turtle in the TheSixties marks the reintroduction of the public superhero. A later volume in the series shows how the Wild Card virus affected the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom, and we get this trope again, as 1940s Britain deals with superhumans for the first time.
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* RoadkillForDinner: This is part of the schtick of [[TheCoroner Gordon the Ghoul]], the forensic pathologist of the police station in the Fort Freak trilogy. Half the cops of the police station in Jokertown are wild carders, but Gordon is actually a normal human who is weird enough in both physical appearance and behaviour to be commonly mistaken for a joker (someone with physical or mental deformities due to the virus). Part of that image comes from his obsession with roadkill, that he will defend at all times with speeches about this great source of nutrition that America is overlooking.
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** Sculptress, whose Ace was the power to shape solid materials on touch. After the Turtle brought her in, she started working for the government.
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** Sculptress, {{Sculpt|ors}}ress, whose Ace was the power to shape solid materials on touch. After the Turtle brought her in, she started working for the government.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Mark Meadows is one of the sweetest characters in the entire series, but he's got some serious inner darkness thanks to being a CosmicChewToy which can manifest in dangerous ways. The most prominent examples are his rampaging persona Monster and [[spoiler: the CameBackWrong version of The Radical.]]
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Mark Meadows is one of the sweetest characters in the entire series, but he's got some serious inner darkness thanks to being a CosmicChewToy which can manifest in dangerous ways. The most prominent examples are his rampaging persona Monster and [[spoiler: the CameBackWrong version of The Radical.]]
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** [[spoiler: The Radical]], starting in ''Black Trump'' and explored further in the Committee arc. [[spoiler: In his very first appearance, The Radical is presented as Mark's most noble persona, so much so that he spends decades trying to get him back. When The Radical finally does return, it seems like a relief as Mark ''finally'' breaks out of his TraumaCongaLine and becomes his most powerful self. However, he soon becomes Mark's dominant personality and slowly degrades into a villain with a healthy does of SanitySlippage over the following years.]]
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** Golden Boy for the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Franchise/{{Superman}}.
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** Gimcrack is a kind-hearted {{Manchild}} who is LiteralMinded and naive to the point of believing everything he sees in ads. However, as a result of his Wild Card mutation, his specialized RealityWarper powers causes this stuff to come true for him: for instance, his powers make it so the present he asked Santa Claus for actually appears on Christmas morning. It's also impossible to convince him that he is a superhuman: if you point out that penis enlargement products only work for him and nobody else, he'll just say that's because other people can't follow the instructions properly.
** Dr. Cody Havero, Creator/ChrisClaremont's main character in ''Wild Cards,'' is heavily implied to be a superhuman unaware of her own power. While ostensibly a BadassNormal, she seems to have a sort of [[BornLucky superhuman luck]] that only kicks in when she is shot at, causing the bullets to miss her: even when she walks into a veritable rain of bullets, the worst that can happen is that she will have OnlyAFleshWound. Wild Card powers are manifestations of subconscious desires, and Cody was a CombatMedic in the Vietnam War, so being able to [[ImmuneToBullets ignore bullets]] to help people seems to have been her heart's desire.
** Gimcrack is a kind-hearted {{Manchild}} who is LiteralMinded and naive to the point of believing everything he sees in ads. However, as a result of his Wild Card mutation, his specialized RealityWarper powers causes this stuff to come true for him: for instance, his powers make it so the present he asked Santa Claus for actually appears on Christmas morning. It's also impossible to convince him that he is a superhuman: if you point out that penis enlargement products only work for him and nobody else, he'll just say that's because other people can't follow the instructions properly.
** Dr. Cody Havero, Creator/ChrisClaremont's main character in ''Wild Cards,'' is heavily implied to be a superhuman unaware of her own power. While ostensibly a BadassNormal, she seems to have a sort of [[BornLucky superhuman luck]] that only kicks in when she is shot at, causing the bullets to miss her: even when she walks into a veritable rain of bullets, the worst that can happen is that she will have OnlyAFleshWound. Wild Card powers are manifestations of subconscious desires, and Cody was a CombatMedic in the Vietnam War, so being able to [[ImmuneToBullets ignore bullets]] to help people seems to have been her heart's desire.
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* OnePersonOnePower: Zig-zagged in the setting. Many Aces (and Joker-Aces) play this straight, but there are notable exceptions like Fortunato (a powerset), The Radical (a case of AllYourPowersCombined) and Cameo (channeling powers of others) to name a few.
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* OppressiveImmigrationEnforcement: In this series of superhero novels, there is a great example in the novel "Mississipi Roll". In an early novel, Kazakhstan suffered an extradimensional incursion from Lovecraftian horrors. Kazach "jokers" (as the mutated victims of the wild card virus are called) are scapegoated and a lot of them flee to the US. The immigration policy of the Conservative US administration is very callous, and the ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents are among the villains of the novel. It is remarkable that long-standing protagonist Carnifex (he's been a superhuman agent for the Department of Défense since the 1980s) finally resigns in disgust, taking other heroic agents with him, instead of continuing to cooperate with the immigration agents tasked with rounding up the Kazach jokers.
* OppressiveImmigrationEnforcement: In this series of superhero novels, there is a great example in the novel "Mississipi Roll". In an early novel, Kazakhstan suffered an extradimensional incursion from Lovecraftian horrors. Kazach "jokers" (as the mutated victims of the wild card virus are called) are scapegoated and a lot of them flee to the US. The immigration policy of the Conservative US administration is very callous, and the ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents are among the villains of the novel. It is remarkable that long-standing protagonist Carnifex (he's been a superhuman agent for the Department of Défense since the 1980s) finally resigns in disgust, taking other heroic agents with him, instead of continuing to cooperate with the immigration agents tasked with rounding up the Kazach jokers.
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* SelfHarmInducedSuperpower: The Hero Twins are a pair of Mayan Native Americans with superpowers that need to be activated by shedding a bit of their own blood.
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* ''Wild Cards: Now and Then A Graphic Novel'' (2023) - An original graphic novel.
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Herne the Hunter from ''Dealer's Choice''. The character page on Wiki/TheOtherWiki describes it as English/Welsh/Scottish/Jamaican, and it's never stated exactly where he's from.
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* StockDinosaurs: [[strike:Dinosaur Kid]] ''Kid Dinosaur'' is able to shapeshift into any dinosaur he knows. He knows a lot of them and is bugged by people who know only T-Rex and Pteranodon.
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* AncestorVeneration: Every upper-class Takisian is selectively bred for superior beauty and ability, so they revere their ancestors for providing them with quality genetic material.
