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* RedEyesTakeWarning: In this case, the ''[[JustifiedTrope justification]]'' is subverted: Gemini, being an albino, would naturally have red eyes, but he's ''also'' the kind of character where this trope takes full effect. [[spoiler:Especially when his ''true'' evil side is released by Slaver: his pupils and iris disappears, and his eyes become completly red.]]

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* RedEyesTakeWarning: In this case, the ''[[JustifiedTrope justification]]'' is subverted: Gemini, being an albino, would naturally have red eyes, but he's ''also'' the kind of character where this trope takes full effect. [[spoiler:Especially when his ''true'' evil side is released by Slaver: his pupils and iris disappears, and his eyes become completly completely red.]]
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* OneOfUs: Eggplantman, the author, acknowledged the existence of TvTropes, giving direct links to this page in his DeviantArt commentary, and provided the current image.

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* BigDamnHeroes: Leo showing up to save Capricorn from Basilisk.



* GenreSavvy definitely Jigsaw, who may even go as far as being DangerouslyGenreSavvy in the future if isn't already there



* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Leo's main supernatural ability is to "heal" his cybernetic implants like they were actual flesh and push them beyond their normal limits; besides this and a few RequiredSecondaryPowers that stem from it, he's basically a BadassNormal.



* PubertySuperpower



* WhatTheHellHero: While the team is out at Chops' bar, Gemini and Sagittarius argue and Gemini yells at her. A drunk college student jumps to her defense and gets beat up by Gemini for his trouble (and drunkenly mouthing off), while Chops and even Aries watch and do nothing, believing the kid and his friends who try to defend him deserve to be beat up.

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* BigNo: [[spoiler: Id]] in Second Chance.

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* BigNo: Id in Second Chance, [[spoiler: Id]] in Second Chance.prior to his death]].



* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Saurus]]. It hasn't happened yet in the main comic, but it's in the works in his own spinoff.
** [[http://eggplantm.deviantart.com/art/DEMIGODS-COVER-01-106681601 This]] seems pretty conclusive.

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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Saurus]]. It hasn't happened yet in Saurus, after the main comic, but it's events in Second Chance. This is an interesting example since Saurus was originally trying to stop Id because his evil plan would result in Saurus' cessation of existence; however by the works in his own spinoff.
** [[http://eggplantm.deviantart.com/art/DEMIGODS-COVER-01-106681601 This]] seems pretty conclusive.
end, he has earned the respect of three supers willing to help him become a full-time superhero. The very end implies that Saurus is about to happily accept the offer.]]



** She also played with the trope more directly, as she casually mentioned selling the rights to her previous identity as a superhero called Tempest, meaning that somebody else is now Tempest while she became Aquarius.



* LoadBearingHero: [[spoiler: Saurus during Second Chance.]]

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* LoadBearingHero: [[spoiler: Saurus Saurus, during Second Chance.]]



* LovecraftLite: [[spoiler: Id, the antagonist of Second Chance.]]

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* LovecraftLite: [[spoiler: Id, the antagonist of Second Chance.]]


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* TwinMaker: Invoked [[spoiler: in Second Chance. Id's EvilPlan boils down to him making a dark twin of Saurus]].

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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Aquarius managed to do this to Ghoul with her ''own arm''... Though Ghould didn't seem that much annoyed by this.

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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Aquarius managed to do this to Ghoul with her ''own arm''... Though Ghould Ghoul didn't seem that much annoyed by this.



* MesACrowd: Gemini and Bi-Polar.

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* MesACrowd: Gemini. Bi-Polar as well, who incidentally could have been Gemini and Bi-Polar.as revealed in a flashback.



Libra: Could be… There is a damn big robot in the hallway. Is that a problem? ‘Cause if it is, I’m totally prepared to start freaking out anytime.

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Libra: Could be… There is a damn big robot in the hallway. Is that a problem? ‘Cause if it is, [[FearIsTheAppropriateResponse I’m totally prepared to start freaking out anytime.anytime]].


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** [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/johnmann/zodiac/series.php?view=single&ID=121777 And later]] [[BrickJoke does it herself]].

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* SelfMadeOrphan: Capricorn. Her biological parents involved her in a occult ritual, and [[SarcasmMode shockingly]] [[GoneHorriblyWrong it apparently didn't go too well.]] Some foster parents are also suggested to have met a similar fate.

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* SelfMadeOrphan: Capricorn. Her biological parents involved her in a occult ritual, and [[SarcasmMode shockingly]] [[GoneHorriblyWrong it apparently didn't go too well.]] Some foster parents are also suggested to have met a similar fate.
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...unless it turns out to be a Disney Death....

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* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: Hellhound, at the hands of Virgo.]]

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* LetsGetDangerous: [[http://my.deviantart.com/messages/#/d5g2sgj Taurus gonna whoop some ass.]]



* MostCommonSuperpower: Taurus.

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* MostCommonSuperpower: Taurus. Lampshaded by Nightmare, who's quite busty herself.



* MySuitIsAlsoSuper: Saurus' pants.

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* MySuitIsAlsoSuper: Saurus' pants.pants can grow along with him and shrink when he returns to normal size.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Nightmare talks a good game, but she makes no secret of the fact that she's a psychotic bitch who thinks she's a god compared to {{Muggles}}.

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** Nightmare to Taurus. Though others team members have a rough time, this is nothing compared to the humiliation Taurus is suffering, who is completly unable to protect herself from Nightmare, and is so paralyzed in fear that the idea to fight back or flee Nightmare doesn't even cross her mind.

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** Nightmare to Taurus. Though others team members have a rough time, this is nothing compared to the humiliation Taurus is suffering, who is completly completely unable to protect herself from Nightmare, and is so paralyzed in fear that the idea to fight back or flee Nightmare doesn't even cross her mind.mind.
** Ghoul's magical abilities severely outclass Aquarius'. Good thing for her he buggered off to do something else.



** Slaver when she discovers that Gemini's multiples personalities are more complicated that she thought, and that she unwillingly released the ''one'' personality which should have been left asleep.

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** Slaver when she discovers that Gemini's multiples multiple personalities are more complicated that she thought, and that she unwillingly released the ''one'' personality which should have been left asleep.
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* WhatTheHellHero: While the team is out at Chops' bar, Gemini and Sagittarius argue and Gemini yells at her. A drunk college student jumps to her defense.

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* WhatTheHellHero: While the team is out at Chops' bar, Gemini and Sagittarius argue and Gemini yells at her. A drunk college student jumps to her defense.defense and gets beat up by Gemini for his trouble (and drunkenly mouthing off), while Chops and even Aries watch and do nothing, believing the kid and his friends who try to defend him deserve to be beat up.
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* LegacyHero: Sort of. Aquarius is a shaman who inherited her powers from her parents when they died and her successor(s) will inherit them when she goes. It's implied this is a pretty old tradition.
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** Leo says he can see this role for Aries in the future.
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* CainAndAbel: Part of Ghoul's backstory.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Nightmare has shades of this. Her primary reason for attacking Chops' in the main comic was that Taurus had stolen a guy from her. It's suggested that Ghoul also used to have this attitude in the past, but not anymore.
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* BilingualBonus: [[http://eggplantm.deviantart.com/art/VENGEANCE-OF-INCUBUS-PG7-299784980 Near the end of the Vengeance of Incubus]] mini-arc thingy-jobber the "magic chant" Imani recites evidently translates to "This is a bunch of nonsense written just to fill up space."

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* GeniusBruiser: Jigsaw and Nightmare.
* GenkiGirl: Taurus.



* GenkiGirl: Taurus.
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Cehck again. In the very first page he says he went to Hades prison for a short time.


** The end result of ''Second Chance'' is [[spoiler: a Heel Face Turn from Saurus, meaning that he also escaped the fight]].

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** The end result of ''Second Chance'' is [[spoiler: a Heel Face Turn HeelFaceTurn from Saurus, meaning that he also escaped the fight]].loses his fight with Aries]].

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* ForegoneConclusion: Reading any of the spinoff comics can result in one:
** In ''Quetzalcoatlus'', [[spoiler: the Zodiac team enlists Jigsaw's expertise to get some info on the BigBad. He's been imprisoned, meaning that the Zodiac team defeated the other villains in the bar, and that all of them except Jigsaw were either captured or managed to escape]].
** The end result of ''Second Chance'' is [[spoiler: a Heel Face Turn from Saurus, meaning that he also escaped the fight]].



* Muggles: All non-supers.

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* Muggles: {{Muggles}}: All non-supers.



* SuperSenses: Pisces can ''smells'' fear in others.

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* SuperSenses: Pisces can ''smells'' ''smell'' fear in others.



* WalkingShirtlessScene: Saurus.

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* WalkingShirtlessScene: Saurus.Saurus, though his first appearance is NoShirtLongJacket.

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* FullFrontalAssault: The reason Saurus hid his SizeShifter powers was because his clothes don't grow with the rest of him. Luckily Nightmare knows people who make MagicPants for supers.

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* FullFrontalAssault: The reason Saurus [[DefiedTrope hid his his]] SizeShifter powers was because his clothes don't grow with the rest of him. Luckily Nightmare knows people who make MagicPants for supers.


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* GoodGuyBar: ''Deconstructed''. The BigBadEnsemble attack Chops' club essentially ''because'' the Zodiac Team happened to be there.

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* OneOfUs: Eggplantman, the author, acknowledged the existence of TvTropes, giving direct links to this page in his DeviantArt commentary, and provided the current image.


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* FullFrontalAssault: The reason Saurus hid his SizeShifter powers was because his clothes don't grow with the rest of him. Luckily Nightmare knows people who make MagicPants for supers.


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* MySuitIsAlsoSuper: Saurus' pants.
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* TeleFrag: Scorpio's way of attacking people. Sadly for us, it's useless against Jigsaw, who doesn't have a "normal" body, so to speak.

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* TeleFrag: Scorpio's way of attacking people. Sadly for us, her, it's useless against Jigsaw, who doesn't have a "normal" body, so to speak.
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* FragileSpeedster: Scorpio, thanks to her teleportation powers. However, if she happens to be grabbed by someone and under pressure (as Jigsaw guessed), her powers fail her.


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* JackOfAllStats: Jigsaw is big, cunning, powerful, and seems to be quite fast, as Cancer observes. WordOfGod mentions that while he is not the strongest, fastest or toughest of the villains, his performances in all those categories are above-average, and he seems to have some hidden abilities up his sleeve.


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If beating up the kid wasn\'t called out by the others, then it doesn\'t seem to be an example.


* WhatTheHellHero: While the team is out at Chops' bar, Gemini and Sagittarius argue and Gemini gets rough with her. A drunk college student jumps to her defense, and also hits on her afterwards but is turned down. Moments later, outside the bar, Gemini's good personality tries being nice to the drunk college kid, who gets mouthy with Gemini in return, including an insult to Sagittarius. Then Gemini's violent personality takes over and he breaks the kid's jaw, and proceeds not only to beat him up, but also beat up the kid's friends who came to his defense. The kid's only mistake was to get mouthy while drunk after seeing Gemini being rough with a woman and now trying to play nice, plus also Sagittarius being ungrateful for his trying to help, and the kid's friends do nothing wrong and are just trying to defend their friend from a violent guy, but the comic seems to want to make it look like Gemini was in the right in this situation.
** Worst part is that while all this is going on, Chops and Aries are looking on, letting it happen and doing nothing about it, and in fact condoning it. Chops is initially worried that a fight will bring trouble to his bar, but when Aries tells him the kid said something bad about Sagittarius, Chops is fine with letting the beating continue. While the readers don't know Chops well enough at this point, Aries has been established as being one of the nicest and most responsible characters overall, so to see him not only allow one of his teammates to beat up innocent civilians, but actually condone it and think the civilians deserve it, makes him look really bad.

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* WhatTheHellHero: While the team is out at Chops' bar, Gemini and Sagittarius argue and Gemini gets rough with yells at her. A drunk college student jumps to her defense, and also hits on her afterwards but is turned down. Moments later, outside the bar, Gemini's good personality tries being nice to the drunk college kid, who gets mouthy with Gemini in return, including an insult to Sagittarius. Then Gemini's violent personality takes over and he breaks the kid's jaw, and proceeds not only to beat him up, but also beat up the kid's friends who came to his defense. The kid's only mistake was to get mouthy while drunk after seeing Gemini being rough with a woman and now trying to play nice, plus also Sagittarius being ungrateful for his trying to help, and the kid's friends do nothing wrong and are just trying to defend their friend from a violent guy, but the comic seems to want to make it look like Gemini was in the right in this situation.
** Worst part is that while all this is going on, Chops and Aries are looking on, letting it happen and doing nothing about it, and in fact condoning it. Chops is initially worried that a fight will bring trouble to his bar, but when Aries tells him the kid said something bad about Sagittarius, Chops is fine with letting the beating continue. While the readers don't know Chops well enough at this point, Aries has been established as being one of the nicest and most responsible characters overall, so to see him not only allow one of his teammates to beat up innocent civilians, but actually condone it and think the civilians deserve it, makes him look really bad.
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** The band at Chop's club, Guns 'n Rodents, is practically a ShoutOut to a [[GunsNRoses similar-sounding band]]. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin They are indeed rodents. All that's missing are the guns]].

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** The band at Chop's club, Guns 'n Rodents, is practically a ShoutOut to a [[GunsNRoses [[Music/GunsNRoses similar-sounding band]]. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin They are indeed rodents. All that's missing are the guns]].
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* TheChick: Imani.


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* TheHeart: Imani, as [[http://eggplantm.deviantart.com/art/ZODIAC-240-295342648 comic 240]] shows.


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* MoralityChain: Imani is one for Pisces.


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* Muggles: All non-supers.
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** [[http://eggplantm.deviantart.com/art/DEMIGODS-COVER-01-106681601 This]] seems pretty conclusive.
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** Libra, upon seeing Cancer’s robot, but before anyone else knew that’s what it was:
---> Aries: Is there a problem bud?\\
Libra: Could be… There is a damn big robot in the hallway. Is that a problem? ‘Cause if it is, I’m totally prepared to start freaking out anytime.


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* SymbolSwearing: “No #@$%&’n way!” which about as close as it gets to a PrecisionFStrike from Sagittarius.
** Leo then proceeds to echo it ''on the same page.''
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* ChekhovsGun: Cancer puts a hidden camera on Libra's sunglasses as part of an elaborate scheme to get a... [[ExtravertedNerd erm... "look," at Taurus.]] [[spoiler: It's how he eventually discovers that a group of super-villains is attacking Chops' club.]]


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* ExtravertedNerd: Cancer.

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