History Webcomic / JupiterMen

''Jupiter-Men'' is a webcomic written by Actionkiddy that began serialization in August 2nd, 2022. It's currently running as a Website/{{Webtoon}} Original and can be read for free [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/jupiter-men/list?title_no=3757 here]].

* ItMakesSenseInContext: Subverted. Arrio tells Lavani that he plans to stuff his face with junk food until his heart almost gives out while nursing an injured arm. [[HumanThroughAlienEyes Lavani]] asks if there's some kind of Prime context that she's missing because of how troubling that sounds. Arrio says no, it sounds equally troubling with context.

* PhysicalMysticalTechnological: Jackie, Arrio, and Nathan have this relationship regarding their roles in combat.
** Jackie is the Physical, as her powers grant her SuperStrength and SuperToughness, making her the go-to girl for tackling the problem head-on and protecting her much more vulnerable teammates.
** Arrio is the Mystical. He's the TokenWizard capable of using powerful magic to assist and defend.
** Nathan is the Technological. His experience and mastery of his father's advanced technology allow him to provide technical solutions and lead while aiding Jackie on the front lines.

* MaliciousMisnaming: Victoria misnames Arrio, calling him "Allan" while they're passing each other in the hallway. Arrio mentions that she's done it enough times that she has to be doing it on purpose. In Episode 41, she calls ihm "Mario", upon which he shouts that they have four classes together so she ought to have it right by now.

* KeystoneArmy: Downplayed. Bea mentions that the Titans, a gang that runs in Jupiter City, have gotten a lot less dangerous now that the police have arrested the the gang's leader, Cronus. But the gang refuses to surrender even though they're running around like headless chickens compared to the more organized crime they did before.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The revelation that Arrio's mother was a Magite who entered Prime in violation of interdimensional treaties brings the subject of immigrants illegally crossing a country's border to mind. This image is only strengthened when Nathan threatens to deport Arrio for being part-Magite despite him living his whole life on Prime. The introduction of Lavani triples down on this, as she interrogates him on his ties to Magi and continues to believe that he doesn't have clearance to be on Prime despite explicitly promising Nathan that she wouldn't push the issue.

* InstantlyProvenWrong:
** While demonstrating his growing mastery of his powers to Jackie, Quintin declares that he's pretty much mastered his abilities right before accidentally reeling a soda can into his head.
** Quintin asks if it's really okay for Nathan's aunt Binny to be living in the same penthouse as him, as she could potentially find his ElaborateUndergroundBase. Nathan says that's impossible because of the safeguards in place to keep people out and shows the video footage on his phone to prove it. That's when Jackie compliments Binny's hair, revealing that Binny had somehow gotten past all those safeguards.

* WhamShot: Panels of the Titans carrying vials of cosmic goo like that emitted by starstruck creatures imply that they have plans involving cosmic energy down the line.

* AchievementsInIgnorance: Nathan's aunt Binny somehow manages to get into Nathan's lair, bypassing all of its security measures, despite being unaware of what it actually is.
* AgonyBeam: Nathan's training drones shoot a beam that causes a painful jolt on contact but leaves no lasting harm. He has these drones chase Quintin and shoot at him to improve his manueverability and creativity with his powers.

* {{Animesque}}: The art is soft and rounded with large eyes and animesque expressions. The art style of the comic greatly resemble's Guruhiru's work on ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' and ''ComicBook/SupermanSmashesTheKlan''.

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Arrio's failsafe spell, "Disipar a Cenizar" isn't actual Spanish. It's supposed to read as "Dispel to Ashes", but "cenizar" isn't a real word. The grammatically correct phrase would be "Disipar a Cenizas".

* BigFancyHouse: Nathan lives in his father's mansion, which is built into the side of a seaside cliff. Its modest lobby belies the sprawling complex only accessible by elevator, leading to an elaborate penthouse with a large kitchen, multiple bedroom, and a huge living room/break room. Even deeper into the mansion is Jupiter-Man's ElaborateUndergroundBase, complete with a DeadlyTrainingArea, a medical bay, and a tech room for building gadgets.

* BladeBrake: When Nathan is flung off a building by the starstruck raven's [[SuperScream sonic cry]], he saves himself from plummeting to his doom by creating a sword and diggint it into the side of the building to slow his descent.
* BodyHorror: Downplayed on account of both the artstyle and the tone of the story, but when Quintin uses his powers, his stretched out bones can be seen through his goo body. It's not instantly horrific, but it can be mildy disconcerting. Jackie is also creeped out when Quintin stretches his neck to inhuman lengths to peer through a warehouse window.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Each part of Jupiter-Man's lair is predominantly one color. The containment bays are red, break room is orange, the tech room is green, the training room is blue, the medbay is pink, and the main hub is purple. This makes it easy to tell where in the facility the characters are and doubles as a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/PowerRangers''.

* CrystalPrison: The second Star Struck monster the Avalon twins face is a ManEatingPlant that's able to turn its petals into flying bee-like drones. These bees are able to shoot their "stingers" as projectiles. Anyone whose skin is penetrated by them is encased in crystal and rendered helpless as the monster drags them into its maw to be digested.

* CutenessProximity: Nathan warns Jackie to detox all star struck creatures as they're all dangerous no matter what they look like. But she decides to keep a rabbit-shaped one because it's just too cute for her to resist. Nathan's warnings prove true when the rabbit-like creature starts multiplying out of control while the Jupiter-Mens' attempts to contain them without Nathan's expertise wind up doing even more harm than good.

* DangerousSixteenthBirthday: Arrio becomes the target of the first supervillain attack in the story on his sixteenth birthday because of the spell book and ring he got as a memento from his mother the previous day. Even before the supervillain comes knocking, Arrio gets into a heated argument with the twins over their constant absences because he's worried they'd gotten involved with a gang. Arrio then has to defend himself from Rick, a super popular jock who only has eyes for Jackie, and gets three weeks detention for the CrimeOfSelfDefense.

* DeepCoverAgent: Lavani believes Arrio is this, as she can't fathom the idea that a Magite would be allowed on Prime wihout authorization from the Star Guardian. She starts needling Arrio with questions in an attempt to prove that he's lying in convoluted attempt to take the Star Seed, but her prejudices refuse to let her believe he's telling the truth about being born on Prime.

** When Quintin manages to stretch his arm for the first time, he looks on in a state of shock as he gets pulled toward the wall he accidentally stuck his hand to. It takes him a few seconds before he starts screaming and fleeing out the door with a half-empty sleeve from the slime he left behind.

* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Mrs. Jones, a social worker for child services, places Binny as Nathan's interim guardian after Daejung's disappearance. Nathan immediately pins Binny as a BitchInSheepsClothing and a GoldDigger who wants nothing more than to gain access to the Mun fortune, but child services does not. In the end, Nathan is only able to get Binny off his back by bribing her with his personal funds to stay out of his life and not touch his family's finances.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Quintin picks a fight with Rick who is twice his size. Quintin hopes that he could stand a chance of Rick's victim teams up with him, but said victim instead flees for the hills, leaving Quintin to face Rick alone. Quintin admits that this situation played out a lot differently in his head. Rick even says this trope verbatim while pushing Quintin's head against the wall.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Jackie is furious with Quintin for getting them both in hot water when their mom texts that she'll be home early while they're defying Quintin's grounding to go looking for his camera. Quintin then points out that it's Jackie's fault for following him as he'd planned to go alone. She shuts him up by pulling his hoodie shut, after which he appeases her by saying he knows a shortcut.
* DisappearedDad: Quintin's notes say that his father is one of the most influential figures in his life. But he's nowhere to be seen in the first four chapters. Quintin's mom seems to be the only one raising him and Jackie, asking Jackie to look after her brother because there's no one else around to. Quintin also treasures the camera his dad commissioned for him, taking it everywhere he goes and defying his mom's grounding order to go retrieve it. That said, both twins still talk about their dad in the present tense and as if he's still present, meaning that he's likely away for work-related reasons.

* DistinctionWithoutADifference: When Nathan first shows a picture of cosmic energy to the twins, Quintin instantly calls it a cloud. Nathan denies it, calling it a gathering of cosmic energy that builds up until it dissipates by falling to the ground. Jackie then point out how it sounds exactly like a cloud, after which Nathan drops the subject.

* DoubleTake: Arrio pats Quintin on the back and says that he loves Quintin's child-like wonder and positivity. Quintin thanks him before stopping and realizing that Arrio just called him childish.

* EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: The planet known today as Earth was once known as "Prime", a planet overflowing with cosmic energies. The denizens of Prime, the Primari, left for other dimensions in search of new and powerful ways to utilize their connection to Prime's energies. But in time, this separation severed their ability to connect to Prime, resulting in these ex-Primari trying their best to return to Prime by force, starting a Great War that threatened to destroy Prime. During this time, a powerful Primari known as Mother Nature created the Star Seed to control Prime's cosmic energies, free her captured Primari brethren, and beat back the foreign invaders.

* EnsembleCast: The story focuses on the titular Jupiter-Men in their efforts to stop rampaging starstruck creatures and extradimensional villains. While Quintin and Jackie have the important task of detoxing starstruck creatures, focus on the heroes varies from arc-to-arc.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first two chapters serve as this for Quintin and Jackie. Quintin's meticulous presentation about Jupiter-Man for his social studies project and his confidence in his assertions that the hero has superpowers illustrates Quintin's obsession with him. He then instantly rushes to the aid of a bullied kid, but is blindsided when the kid runs to save his own skin from Rick who's ready to pummel Quintin. That's when Jackie walks in and calmly talks Rick down while he invites her to go to a party he's hosting. This demonstrates how she's much more sociable than Quintin is as well as her more normal teen priorities.

* HeadTurningBeauty: The Doll Set is a GirlPosse of perfectly groomed and dressed girls who are the talk of Jupiter High. As their title implies, they're dressed almost like dolls, and the sight of them sparks gossip, hushed whispers, and flirtatious comments from passerby.
* HollywoodAcid: The inside of the ManEatingPlant has channels that emit burning stomach acid. Quintin later has to plug a hole of it with his slime arms to buy time for Jackie to break them free as she strains to reach Nathan's drone for a recharge.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The ManEatingPlant monster the twins face repeatedly attacks them with a FlechetteStorm of projectiles. Quintin gives it a taste of its own medicine by using a slime arm as a slingshot to shoot one of the monster's own projectiles back at it to knock down the pod containing its Toxic Star.

* InertiaIsACruelMistress: Jackie makes a point of catching the crook that flies out of the truck [[PedestrianCrushesCar she stops]] with her SuperStrength. She even lampshades it, noting that he can't have her dying on him from her actions lest her hero card get revoked.

** Quintin asks if it's really okay for Nathan's aunt Binny to be living in the same penthouse as him, as she could potentially find his ElaborateUndergroundBase. Nathan says that's impossible because of the safeguards in place to keep people out and shows the video footage on his phone to prove it. That's when Jackie compliment's Binny's hair, revealing that Binny had somehow gotten past all those safeguards.

* JawDrop: This is Nathan's reaction when he learns that Binny had somehow gotten past all of Jupiter-Man's safeguards to access his ElaborateUndergroundBase. It says a lot about Nathan's shock and disbelief given that he's usually TheStoic.

** Quintin passes out at his desk after rushing home to avoid getting busted for sneaking out of the house and to work on his makeup project. Jackie is similarly exhausted and collapses on his bed helping him. Nevermind how both of them were at the epicenter of an explosion that would give them superpowers that same night.

** When Quintin laser-focuses on a photo of Daejung Mun, whom he just learned is Jupiter-Man, the text in the subsequent bubbles is blurred to emphasize that he's not paying attention to everything around him. The text returns to normal when he's snapped out of it by a news report on the destruction caused by the latest starstruck.

** Nathan is the Technological. His experience and mastery of his father's advanced technology allow him to provide technical solutions and lead while aiding Jackie on the frontlines.

* PowerIncontinence: When Quintin and Jackie first get their powers, their abilties activate in their sleep. Quintin's hand starts melting into slime while Jackie drains power from her phone next to her bed. The following school day, Quintin starts sticking to everything involuntarily and flinging slime around while trying to make the stickiness stop. Meanwhile, Jackie suffers from being [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength unable to control]] her SuperStrength, making one volleyball pop, burying another one in the ceiling, and crushing her phone in her hands.

* RapidFireNo: The first thing Quintin sees when he wakes up from the explosion that gives him his powers is seeing his hands melt into slime. He panics and shuts his eyes while whispering, "No...! No! No! No..." When he opens his eyes, his hands are back to normal, which he attributes to being all in his head.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: A notable and troublesome gang known as the "Titans" run around in Jupiter-City. They were led by a man named "Cronus" until he was arrested and taken into custody. This is in stark contrast to the name of Jupiter City and its hero, Jupiter-Man, who are named after the Roman counterpart of Zeus, who overthrew the Titans and Cronus in Greek mythology.

** [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/creator/v88bb/posts/500-v88bb-van The author has stated]] that Nathan's design was inspired by comic book heroes like [[Franchise/GiJoe Snake Eyes]], ComicBook/GreenArrow, and ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}. Nathan being forced to lead and discipline newer, younger superheroes also mirrors the aftermath of ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', in which Nightwing is forced to take on the mantle of Batman and mentor the rowdy new Robin, [[TykeBomb Damian]], after Bruce Wayne was seemingly killed by Darkseid's Omega Beams.

* SillyMeGesture: When Jackie ribs Arrio over his struggles in Spanish class, he points out that she's a Straight-C student. Jackie responds by knocking herself on the head while saying "tee-hee" with a blush sticker.

* SpitTake: Nathan is drinking water when he gets the news of flaming rabbits all over Jupiter-City, resulting in him spitting his drink out. The rest of the Jupiter-Men are then caught on camera and Nathan screams when he realizes who's responsible.

* SweetAndSourGrapes: Quintin's stint as a solo vigilante on top of his duties as a Star Guardian quickly wear him out as a TripleShifter. He gets chewed out by all of his teammates for a nearly catastrophic mistake and [[spoiler:nearly loses his SecretIdentity when his mom catches onto him]]. But Quintin's actions convince Jupiter-City to trust the Jupiter-Men, with the police helping to evacuate the area when a starstruck monster hits. In addition, Nathan acknowledges that there's no stopping Quintin from trying to help people, compromising with him by offering to help him go after crime they encounter while acting as Star Guardians instead of letting Quintin get himself hurt seeking out crime himself.

* TakingTheBullet: Jackie is ambushed by one of the crystal-producing wasps while trying to get to some electronics to activate her powers. Arrio dives in the way to protect her and gets encased in crystal instead. This is the breaking point for Jackie, who sheds BerserkerTears as she absorbs as much power as she can from nearby appliances before tearing out a lightpole and declaring, "You messed up."

** In Episode 9, the twins enter a werehouse damaged by the monster they're looking for, turning on the lights and walking around without permission.

** While sightings of Jupiter-Man tend to elicit enormous buzz among young people, no one seems to realize that the remnants of the scene are more than just a mere crime bust. For instance, claw-shaped gouges in concrete and a tree ripped up by enormous scratch marks larger than any animal's elicits less of a response than how Jupiter-Man was in the area until recently.
** When Quintin accidentally covers his entire math class with slime, the teacher mistakes it all for snot and demands he visit the nurse's office. The next person to use the restroom Quintin was in thinks little of him fleeing out the door screaming. Similarly, Jackie's classmates in gym are largely indifferent to how she made a volleyball pop and bumped another one into the ceiling, calling the ball and the ceiling "flimsy".

* HandsLookingWrong: Quintin examines himself for injuries after he and Jackie are at the epicenter of the Star Seed's explosion. He soon finds that his hands have [[ImMelting completely melted away into green slime]], the rest of his arms slowly following suit. He panics and shuts his eyes while trying to convince himself it's all in his head, finding relief when he opens his eyes to find his arms and hands intact. This is just the prelude to him discovering his ElementalShapeshifter powers.