History Webcomic / JupiterMen

* CoveredInGunge: When attacked by an enormous starstruck raven, Arrio is covered in cosmic spit when Jackie holds the raven back from snapping at Arrio. Arrio is appropriately disgusted and hopes that it won't mutate him or anything while wiping it off.

* HeadTurningBeauty: The Doll Set is a GirlPosse of perfectly groomed and dressed cheerleaders 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.

* BladeBrake: When Nathan is flung off a building by the starstruck raven's [[MakeMeWannaShout 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.

* CurbStompBattle: Rick picks a fight with Arrio after Arrio refuses to help Rick try to woo Jackie. The fight lasts just a few panels and it's clear that Arrio beats the snot out of Rick. In the aftermath, Arrio is untouched while Rick is busy holding an ice pack to his eye in the principal's office.

* KidHero: The story revolves around first-year high schoolers Quintin and Jackie Avalon, who gain superpowers and become Jupiter City's protectors in place of Jupiter-Man.

* 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.
* ManEatingPlant: The second Star-Struck creature the heroes face is a mutated flower that has gained the ability to turn its roots into VineTentacles and its petals into flying bee-like creatures who can encase anyone they "sting" in a layer of crystal. This plant then drags its victims into its maw to be digested. Worse still, the Toxic Star that the twins need to detox is ''inside'' its digestive system.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When Nathan is thrown off a building by a monster's sonic attack, he catches himself by digging his sword into the wall as a BladeBrake. But the sudden deceleration trying to support his body weight with one arm injures his shoulder, leaving him clutching it in pain as he barks orders at the other Jupiter-Men.

* OutOfTheFryingPan: Jackie's suffers from CutenessProximity to a rabbit-shaped starstruck monster bringing it home against her better judgement. It then multiplies out of control, filling the entirety of her house with bunnies. Arrio comes up with the idea of trying to use one of his spells to destroy as many of them as he can in one fell swoop. While this works on some of them, the remainder are still jumping around and multiplying... only now they're on fire. Worse still, this fire won't go out even when water is splashed on them. Then the rabbits escape into the rest of Jupiter City and start lighting things on fire.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While Jackie talks down Rick from beating Quintin, Quintin starts chewing Rick's hand. Rick doesn't seem to notice at all and continues speaking as though nothing is happening.

* NoOntologicalInertia: The only thing keeping the Magitte supervillain on Prime is the magical flower on his chest. When Quintin douses that flower with acid to destroy it, the supervillain is quickly sent back to his own dimension.

* PlotTriggeringBook: Arrio is given a SpellBook and a RingOfPower for his sixteenth birthday as mementos from his late mother. Touching them awakens Arrio's magical abilities and marks him as a target for an invading Magitte who would like to take the book and ring for himself.

* SecretIdentity: Deconstructed. Nathan tells the twins to keep their role as Star Guardians a secret from even their closest friends and family to hold up TheMasquerade as much as possible to prevent panic. This puts a serious strain on Quintin's and Jackie's normal lives. Arrio comes to the mistaken conclusion that they'd gotten caught up in gang activity and Bea is beside herself with worry when Arrio tells her about the twins' strange behavior. This comes to a head when Arrio gets into a heated argument with the twins over their refusal to tell the truth. Later on, Quintin tries to protect Arrio as Gusher. But Arrio refuses to trust "Gusher" because he doesn't know anything about him. [[spoiler:That's when Quintin makes the decision to unmask himself to Arrio to finally remove this barrier of dishonesty.]]

** [[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 alkso mirrors the aftermath of ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', in which Nightwing is forced to take on the mantle of Batman after Bruce Wayne was seemingly killed by Darkseid's Omega Beams.

** 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 ''Series/PowerRangers''.

** The differently-colored rooms of Jupiter-Man's lair are inspired by the differently-colored ''Series/PowerRangers''.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Quintin is strongly associated with bright green colors to match his slime powers and excitable personality. Jackie is associated with baby blue colors, reflecting her [[BlueIsCalm relatively down-to-earth]] personality and [[TrueBlueFemininity femininity.]]

** [[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]]l, ComicBook/GreenArrow, and ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}. Nathan being forced to lead and discipline newer, younger superheroes alkso mirrors the aftermath of ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', in which Nightwing is forced to take on the mantle of Batman after Bruce Wayne was seemingly killed by Darkseid's Omega Beams.

* BladeBrake: When Nathan is flung off a building by the starstruck raven's [[MakesMeWannaShout 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.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When Nathan is thrown off a building by a monster's sonic attack, he catches himself by digging his sword into the wall as a Bladebreak. But the sudden deceleration injures his shoulder from trying to support his body weight with one arm, leaving him clutching it in pain as he barks orders at the other Jupiter-Men.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Quintin and Jackie bicker over Nathan trying to recruit them into being Jupiter-Man's replacements. On one hand, Quintin is right that these situations involving Star Struck monsters are going to keep happening and they're the only ones able to stop them. On the other, Jackie is understandably furious with Quintin for not respecting her feelings in the matter and pulling her into one life-threatening crisis after another. They reconcile during the ManEatingPlant attack at the mall, with both twins apologizing for their earlier mistakes.

* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Jackie grows tired of Quintin dragging her into one life-threatening situation after another and [[RefusalOfTheCall refuses to be a stand-in for Jupiter-Man]]. It's not until Star Struck bee-like creatures attack the mall she was hanging out in after cheerleading that she realizes that she can't stand on the sidelines.

* ForcedTransformation: Animals and plants that come into contact with cosmic energy from other dimensions are "star struck", mutating them into monsters with superhuman abilities. They then go on a rampage, attacking anything and everything in sight. Only the wielder of the Star Seed is able to "detox" these creatures by draining the cosmic energy from the "Toxic Star" located on the monster's body.

* TheMasquerade: Jupiter-Man has been trying to keep knowledge of the supernatural a secret from the general populace of Earth/Prime. Furthermore, all ex-Primari are banned from returning to Prime. With his disappearance, Nathan has been trying to pick up the slack and threatens to wipe Quintin and Jackie's memories of having superpowers to maintain it. Unfortunately, the ManEatingPlant was caught on camera, revealing the existence of star struck creatures to the rest of Jupiter City.

* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: As the bearers of the Star Seed, the Avalon twins are able to get a vague sense of concentrations of cosmic energy to locate star struck monsters and supervillains. Quintin gets a runny nose and sneezes as his response to feeling this out.

* OutOfTheFryingPan: Jackie's suffers from CutenessProximity to a rabbit-shaped star struck monster bringing it home against her better judgement. It then multiplies out of control, filling the entirety of her house with bunnies. Arrio comes up with the idea of trying to use one of his spells to destroy as many of them as he can in one fell swoop. While this works on some of them, the remainder are still jumping around and multiplying... only now they're on fire. Worse still, this fire won't go out even when water is splashed on them. Then the rabbits escape into the rest of Jupiter City and start lighting things on fire.

** 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 Star Struck.

* {{Sizeshifter}}: The monster chasing Quintin and Jackie in the opening scene is the size of a bus. Later scenes show that it has the abiltiy to shrink down to a size that lets them fit through the flaps of a grate. It's the size of a komodo dragon when the twins encounter the monster for the first time.

* VineTentacles: In addition to its petal bee {{Attack Drone}}s, the star struck ManEatingPlant is able to use its roots as tentacles to lash at and entangle its foes.

* WonderTwinPowers: Quintin and Jackie possess Jupiter-Man's ability to remove the cosmic energy that mutates star struck creatures into monsters, but only while they're both touching it. Nathan needs both twins on board with becoming superheroes because of this, as there's no other way to permanently neutralize a star struck monster.

** When Jackie explains how she and Quintin got their powers, she says it's a long and convuluted story. The audience, [[spoiler:her friend Arrio who recently discovered his magical powers]], says it can't be that long and convoluted. The next panel shows him concluding that yes, it was long and convoluted.

** When Jackie explains how she and Quintin got their powers, she says it's a long and convuluted story. Arrio says it can't be that long and convoluted. The next panel shows him concluding that yes, it was long and convoluted.

* HoistByHisOwnPetardne: 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.

* OutOfTheFryingPan: Jackie's suffers from CutenessProximity to a rabbit-shaped star struck monster bringing it home against her better judgement. It then multiplies out of control, filling the entirety of her house with bunnies. Arrio comes up with the idea of trying to use one of his spells to destroy as many of them as he can in one fell swoop. While this works on some of them, the remainder are still jumping around and multiplying... only now they're on fire. Worse still, this fire won't go out even when water is splashed on them. Then the rabbits escape into the rest of Jupiter-City and start lighting things on fire.

** When Jackie explains how she and Quintin got their powers, she says it's a long and convuluted story. The audience, [[spoiler:her friend Arrio who recently discovered his magical powers]], says it can't be that long and convoluted. The next panel shows him concluding that yes, it was long and convoluted.

* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: 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.
* TelephonePolearm: Jackie rips up the lighting poles at the mall both as a source of electrical power and to use as a weapon against the petal bees.