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* '''Officer Prometheus''', a [[SuperCop policeman with fire powers]] ala [[Franchise/FantasticFour The Human Torch.]]
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* '''Officer Prometheus''', a [[SuperCop policeman with fire powers]] ala [[Franchise/FantasticFour [[ComicBook/FantasticFour The Human Torch.]]
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* DeathIsCheap: Averted. When characters die in the setting, they almost always stay dead. Played straight with the [[ResurrectiveImmortality Reincarnation Attribute]].
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* DeathIsCheap: Averted. When characters die in the setting, they almost always stay dead. Played straight with the [[ResurrectiveImmortality Reincarnation Attribute]]. The setting relies on NeverFoundTheBody for returning heroes instead (see FishOutOfTemporalWater below).
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* FishOutOfTemporalWater: First Edition had Magistrate and Tokkotai, who spent decades separated from society through different means. Second Edition adds Doc Redsmith and Earthseal. They even have a support group.
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* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Taken UpToEleven with Ursus Caesar ''(10'6")'' and Princess Grimalkin (5'5").
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* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Taken UpToEleven Exaggerated with Ursus Caesar ''(10'6")'' and Princess Grimalkin (5'5").
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* KatanasAreJustBetter: Tokkotai has a vibro-katana he can [[UpToEleven set to stun]].
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* KatanasAreJustBetter: Tokkotai has a vibro-katana he can [[UpToEleven set to stun]].stun.
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* MisplacedRetribution: Mister Matthews hates superheroes because Lady Starbright and Mother Raven failed to save his mother. Taken UpToEleven by his desire to murder ''all'' superheroes for the failures of two -- one of whom he has already helped kill.
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* MisplacedRetribution: Mister Matthews hates superheroes because Lady Starbright and Mother Raven failed to save his mother. Taken UpToEleven Exaggerated by his desire to murder ''all'' superheroes for the failures of two -- one of whom he has already helped kill.
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* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: Downplayed and jistified example. Both Sentinel and the Haud are vulnerable to extreme cold. When the [[AlienInvasion Haud invaded]], the world's super-scientists mass-produced cold-based weaponry. [[spoiler: The Artificer prefers not to have his tech used to kill Sentinel (for free),]] so [[spoiler: he]] built in sabotage systems that shut most of it down after the war, but the designs are still out there.
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* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: Downplayed and jistified justified example. Both Sentinel and the Haud are vulnerable to extreme cold. When the [[AlienInvasion Haud invaded]], the world's super-scientists mass-produced cold-based weaponry. [[spoiler: The Artificer prefers not to have his tech used to kill Sentinel (for free),]] so [[spoiler: he]] built in sabotage systems that shut most of it down after the war, but the designs are still out there.
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* MisplacedRetribution: Mister Matthews hates superheroes because Lady Starbright and Mother Raven failed to save his mother. Taken UpToEleven by his desire to murder ''all'' superheroes for the failures of two -- one of whom he has already helped kill.
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* CrisisCrossover: Second Edition adds two. The Haud Crisis is the break between the old Silver Age Sentinels and Absolute Power. The more recent Endless Night offers GMs an opportunity to perform their own reboot.
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* CrisisCrossover: Second Edition adds two. The Haud Crisis is the break between the old Silver Age Sentinels and Absolute Power. The more recent Endless Night offers GMs Game Masters an opportunity to perform their own reboot.
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* AchillesHeel: Mimicked by the Vulnerability Attribute. Sentinel is vulnerable to extreme cold.
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Green Ronin is a villainous example. [[spoiler: At least until her HeelFaceTurn in Absolute Power, at which point she becomes a traditional heroic version.]]
* BadassInANiceSuit: Janus prefers this to costumes and masks. He [[HeroKiller collects those]] instead.
* BearsAreBadNews: Downplayed. Ursus Caesar is a brilliant and personally formidable conquerer, but he's also urbane and patient. [[spoiler: He's also decided to back off on conquering the world for the time being, satisfied with the empire he has.]]
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Green Ronin is a villainous example. [[spoiler: At least until her HeelFaceTurn in Absolute Power, at which point she becomes a traditional heroic version.]]
* BadassInANiceSuit: Janus prefers this to costumes and masks. He [[HeroKiller collects those]] instead.
* BearsAreBadNews: Downplayed. Ursus Caesar is a brilliant and personally formidable conquerer, but he's also urbane and patient. [[spoiler: He's also decided to back off on conquering the world for the time being, satisfied with the empire he has.]]
* CatGirl: Princess Grimalkin (formerly "Kitty Kat") is a super-spy version of this.
* CorporateSponsoredSuperhero: The Five Shields are, in-universe, an obvious attempt to create a Guard-lite. The sponsorship of [[EvilutionaryBiologist Matthews Gentech]] is our first clue that they are literally not as advertised.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: The Baron raised Doc Cimitière from the dead to punish him, and has [[MyGreatestFailure regretted it ever since]].
* CrisisCrossover: Second Edition adds two. The Haud Crisis is the break between the old Silver Age Sentinels and Absolute Power. The more recent Endless Night offers GMs an opportunity to perform their own reboot.
* DeathIsCheap: Averted. When characters die in the setting, they almost always stay dead. Played straight with the [[ResurrectiveImmortality Reincarnation Attribute]].
* DeathTrap: Rarely used by most supervillains, but Janus is fond of them.
* {{Determinator}}: Many characters qualify, but Caliburn stands out as a BadassNormal who has kept up the fight for 60 years through sheer determination. He did need to start wearing low-level PoweredArmor after age weakened his body enough that no amount of willpower could let him continue.
* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: Absolute Power adds three AlternateUniverse versions of [[SacrificialLion Lady Starbright]]. Since they're all heroes, denizens of the primary Earth tend to view her with reverence and seek to protect her.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Most other supervillains refuse to work with Kreuzritter after he [[TheQuisling sold Earth out to the Haud]]. He wasn't well-liked even before that, what with the whole [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi supervillain father]] thing.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: The Baron raised Doc Cimitière from the dead to punish him, and has [[MyGreatestFailure regretted it ever since]].
* CrisisCrossover: Second Edition adds two. The Haud Crisis is the break between the old Silver Age Sentinels and Absolute Power. The more recent Endless Night offers GMs an opportunity to perform their own reboot.
* DeathIsCheap: Averted. When characters die in the setting, they almost always stay dead. Played straight with the [[ResurrectiveImmortality Reincarnation Attribute]].
* DeathTrap: Rarely used by most supervillains, but Janus is fond of them.
* {{Determinator}}: Many characters qualify, but Caliburn stands out as a BadassNormal who has kept up the fight for 60 years through sheer determination. He did need to start wearing low-level PoweredArmor after age weakened his body enough that no amount of willpower could let him continue.
* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: Absolute Power adds three AlternateUniverse versions of [[SacrificialLion Lady Starbright]]. Since they're all heroes, denizens of the primary Earth tend to view her with reverence and seek to protect her.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Most other supervillains refuse to work with Kreuzritter after he [[TheQuisling sold Earth out to the Haud]]. He wasn't well-liked even before that, what with the whole [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi supervillain father]] thing.
* HeroicSacrifice: The first Lady Starbright's death saved much of the Pacific Northwest and inspired the formation of the Guard. There are several others throughout the setting's history as well.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Taken UpToEleven with Ursus Caesar ''(10'6")'' and Princess Grimalkin (5'5").
* HumanAliens: The Parousians play this trope straight. Zig-zagged with the solid energy Kosangent; they default to a humanoid form, but can reshape themselves at will.
* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: The first and second Lady Starbright, appropriately enough.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Taken UpToEleven with Ursus Caesar ''(10'6")'' and Princess Grimalkin (5'5").
* HumanAliens: The Parousians play this trope straight. Zig-zagged with the solid energy Kosangent; they default to a humanoid form, but can reshape themselves at will.
* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: The first and second Lady Starbright, appropriately enough.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Tokkotai has a vibro-katana he can [[UpToEleven set to stun]].
* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: Downplayed and jistified example. Both Sentinel and the Haud are vulnerable to extreme cold. When the [[AlienInvasion Haud invaded]], the world's super-scientists mass-produced cold-based weaponry. [[spoiler: The Artificer prefers not to have his tech used to kill Sentinel (for free),]] so [[spoiler: he]] built in sabotage systems that shut most of it down after the war, but the designs are still out there.
* MagiciansAreWizards: The Golden Age [[TheArchmage Mystic Transcendent]] Master Mandragora was a stage magician before becoming a super-wizard. Averted with his successors.
* MirrorUniverse: Largely played straight -- right down to evil Sentinel having a goatee and good Kreuzritter being clean-shaven -- but there are a few exceptions to the straight mirroring of good and evil.
* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: Downplayed and jistified example. Both Sentinel and the Haud are vulnerable to extreme cold. When the [[AlienInvasion Haud invaded]], the world's super-scientists mass-produced cold-based weaponry. [[spoiler: The Artificer prefers not to have his tech used to kill Sentinel (for free),]] so [[spoiler: he]] built in sabotage systems that shut most of it down after the war, but the designs are still out there.
* MagiciansAreWizards: The Golden Age [[TheArchmage Mystic Transcendent]] Master Mandragora was a stage magician before becoming a super-wizard. Averted with his successors.
* MirrorUniverse: Largely played straight -- right down to evil Sentinel having a goatee and good Kreuzritter being clean-shaven -- but there are a few exceptions to the straight mirroring of good and evil.
* MultiversalConqueror: The Dark Queen, because UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans and VictoryIsBoring (she conquered her own universe centuries before discovering TheMultiverse).
* NGOSuperpower: Second Edition adds several, some benevolent, others villainous.
* NGOSuperpower: Second Edition adds several, some benevolent, others villainous.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Kreuzritter, and to some extent, the rest of the White Rooks. Kreuzritter genuinely believes he is [[TheSocialDarwinist making humanity strong through conflict]], but he's also driven by ego, hatred, and envy. Mister Matthews is somehow this but ''worse.''
* OmnicidalManiac: The godlike metahuman Requiem's sole purpose is to MercyKill the multiverse. Since he genuinely wishes to avoid suffering, Requiem avoids killing heroes when "possible", since he believes that instantaneous annihilation is the only way to avoid increasing pain to others.
* OmnicidalManiac: The godlike metahuman Requiem's sole purpose is to MercyKill the multiverse. Since he genuinely wishes to avoid suffering, Requiem avoids killing heroes when "possible", since he believes that instantaneous annihilation is the only way to avoid increasing pain to others.
* PietaPlagiarism: The mock comic book cover depicting [[TearJerker Lady Starbright's death]]. Also a ShoutOut to the death of Supergirl.
* PuttingOnTheReich: Organisation(sic) Wotan. Ironically averted by Kreuzritter, who knows how bad this looks in the present day.
* RealityWarper: Magic basically works like this in the setting. It does have some [[NecessaryDrawback required limitations]] to balance its versatility.
* RealityWarper: Magic basically works like this in the setting. It does have some [[NecessaryDrawback required limitations]] to balance its versatility.
* {{Retraux}}: All of the in-universe comic book covers are designed to look like they came from the eras they are supposed to represent.
* ShoutOut: Too many to list. The entire game is based on a love of comics and heroism, and both editions are replete with hat tips to classic characters and stories.
* ShutUpHannibal: [[TheArchmage Witchlight]] hands one such line to [[TheConqueror Kreuzritter]] in one of Second Edition's short stories:
--->“You traded enlightenment for power, and now you understand neither.” (cue smackdown)
* ShutUpHannibal: [[TheArchmage Witchlight]] hands one such line to [[TheConqueror Kreuzritter]] in one of Second Edition's short stories:
--->“You traded enlightenment for power, and now you understand neither.” (cue smackdown)
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Unlike [[CardCarryingVillain Kreuzritter]], Silver Age conqueror Zulfiqar really believes the world would be better off under her rule. Her ego gets in the way more in terms of compromising with others rather than being a good monarch
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Second Edition adds several new characters that have "always" been major figures in the setting. This includes a brilliant EmperorScientist with her own micro-city nation and a "[[TheArchmage Mystic Transcendent]]" role that has been filled by no less than three entirely new characters.
* {{Revision}}: Absolute Power doesn't just update the setting to the end of 2020, but adds characters, organizations, and events to the setting's history.
* {{Revision}}: Absolute Power doesn't just update the setting to the end of 2020, but adds characters, organizations, and events to the setting's history.
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* NeverLiveItDown: In-universe. One of the biggest reasons people are distrustful of Kreuzritter? His father, the original Kreuzritter, was a Nazi. People tend to automatically lump him in with all that mischegas rather than judge him on his own merits. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by the fact that he's actually the original Kreuzritter [[MyGrandsonMyself pretending to be his own son]], so he's actually much worse than most people realize.]]
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: One of the biggest reasons people are distrustful of Kreuzritter? His father, the original Kreuzritter, was a Nazi. People tend to automatically lump him in with all that mischegas rather than judge him on his own merits. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by the fact that he's actually the original Kreuzritter [[MyGrandsonMyself pretending to be his own son]], so he's actually much worse than most people realize.]]
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* SuperCop: Officer Prometheus is essentially Johnny "The Human Torch" Storm with Captain America's mentality (quite HilariousInHindsight [[Creator/ChrisEvans nowadays]]) and has refused a Guard membership because he considers himself a cop first and a superhero second -- and his fellow policemen extend the same brotherhood back with no problem, covering each other's back during supervillain attacks.
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* SuperCop: Officer Prometheus is essentially Johnny "The Human Torch" Storm with Captain America's mentality (quite HilariousInHindsight [[Creator/ChrisEvans nowadays]]) and has refused a Guard membership because he considers himself a cop first and a superhero second -- and his fellow policemen extend the same brotherhood back with no problem, covering each other's back during supervillain attacks.
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** '''Kreuzritter''' (GratuitousGerman for "Crusader"), a Nazi villain with armor giving him ElementalPowers; basically the game’s Doctor Doom.
** '''Janus''', a British serial killer who scarred Caliburn; possibly a [[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]] stand-in.
** '''Alice, Queen Of Hearts''', a psychopath with [[{{Telekinesis}} telekinetic]] powers;
** '''Mister Matthews''', a MadScientist with a grudge against Raven;
** '''Iron Duke''', a superstrong magical robot with connections to Red Phoenix.
** '''Janus''', a British serial killer who scarred Caliburn; possibly a [[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]] stand-in.
** '''Alice, Queen Of Hearts''', a psychopath with [[{{Telekinesis}} telekinetic]] powers;
** '''Mister Matthews''', a MadScientist with a grudge against Raven;
** '''Iron Duke''', a superstrong magical robot with connections to Red Phoenix.
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* ''Jade Naga'', leader of a reptilian race of alien invaders (and personal foe of Slipstream).
* ''Lady of the Lantern'', a female Chinese hero with illusion powers.
* ''General Winter'', the living embodiment of Russian Winter.
* ''Bloody Mary'', who is the person the Urban Legend is based on.
* ''Officer Prometheus'', a policeman with fire powers ala [[Franchise/FantasticFour The Human Torch.]]
* ''The Baron'' , a hero with Voodoo powers, and his enemy Doc Cimitiere, a zombie master;
* ''Muzhik'' (Russian for "peasant"), a Soviet hero with gravity based powers and a former rival of Sentinels'.
* ''Pan and Belle'', two mystical beings that protect children and appear to be based on the Literature/PeterPan characters... except that [[DistaffCounterpart Pan is female]].
* ''Lady of the Lantern'', a female Chinese hero with illusion powers.
* ''General Winter'', the living embodiment of Russian Winter.
* ''Bloody Mary'', who is the person the Urban Legend is based on.
* ''Officer Prometheus'', a policeman with fire powers ala [[Franchise/FantasticFour The Human Torch.]]
* ''The Baron'' , a hero with Voodoo powers, and his enemy Doc Cimitiere, a zombie master;
* ''Muzhik'' (Russian for "peasant"), a Soviet hero with gravity based powers and a former rival of Sentinels'.
* ''Pan and Belle'', two mystical beings that protect children and appear to be based on the Literature/PeterPan characters... except that [[DistaffCounterpart Pan is female]].
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* ''Jade Naga'', '''Jade Naga''', leader of a reptilian race of alien invaders (and personal foe of Slipstream).
*''Lady '''Lady of the Lantern'', Lantern''', a female Chinese hero with illusion powers.
*''General Winter'', '''General Winter''', the living embodiment of Russian Winter.
*''Bloody Mary'', '''Bloody Mary''', who is the person the Urban Legend is based on.
*''Officer Prometheus'', '''Officer Prometheus''', a [[SuperCop policeman with fire powers powers]] ala [[Franchise/FantasticFour The Human Torch.]]
*''The Baron'' , '''The Baron''', a hero with Voodoo powers, and his enemy Doc Cimitiere, '''Doc Cimitiere''', a zombie master;
*''Muzhik'' '''Muzhik''' (Russian for "peasant"), a Soviet hero with gravity based powers and a former rival of Sentinels'.
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