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* RunningGag: Pretty much every character born past the Millennial generation has no idea what a cassette player is. Most obvious with Lunella and kids her age. But even young adults like Odessa Drake fail to recognize one on sight.

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Pretty much every character born past the Millennial generation has no idea what a cassette player is. Most obvious with Lunella and kids her age. But even young adults like Odessa Drake fail to recognize one on sight.sight.
** Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur just can't seem to catch Rockit Rudy.

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* AutobotsRockOut: This trope appears in pretty much every episode, with Moon Girl usually fighting villains while playing music from the cassette player her mother gave her.



* SecretKeeper: Casey is the only human who knows about Lunella's double life as Moon Girl. While she occasionally uses Moon Girl's fame to her advantage, she is very good with keeping her best friend's secret safe. [[spoiler: By the end of "OMG", it's revealed that Mimi has been this from the start, as she was the first in Lunella's family to figure out Lunella's identity. Not only did she keep it from everyone else, but not even ''Lunella'' realized that she knew.]]



* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: ComicBook/TheAvengers ''do'' exist in this continuity, but they tend to be busy with bigger threats and Mimi questions if "they even go below 14th Street". Moon Girl occasionally references calling Comicbook/{{SHIELD}} to arrest defeated villains, but they're never seen. [[spoiler:When Captain America does make an appearance in Episode 12, he's seen only from the back.]]
* TeenGenius: Lunella is smart enough to modify a security system to blast intruders with blue goo. The trailer has her boast that she’s the world’s smartest thirteen-year-old.

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* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: ComicBook/TheAvengers ''do'' exist in this continuity, but they tend to be busy with bigger threats and Mimi questions if "they even go below 14th Street". Moon Girl occasionally references calling Comicbook/{{SHIELD}} to arrest defeated villains, but they're never seen. [[spoiler:When Captain America (Sam Wilson) does make an appearance in Episode 12, he's seen only from the back.]]
* TeenGenius: Lunella is smart enough to modify a security system to blast intruders with blue goo. The trailer has her boast that she’s the world’s smartest thirteen-year-old. Moon Girl's also gained enough notoriety in the superhero/scientist community that people like Dr. Foster treat her with respect.
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** Brooklyn's little brother has a resemblance to [[WesternAnimation/DextersLab Mandark]].

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** Brooklyn's little brother has a resemblance to [[WesternAnimation/DextersLab [[WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory Mandark]].
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** Brooklyn's little brother has a resemblance to [[WesternAnimation/DextersLab Mandark]].

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* {{Homage}}: Lunella has a hack pack that looks like a SuperDeformed version of her Moon Girl face. It looks like Lunella might have seen [[Anime/CowboyBebop Radical Edward]] on video with her nerdy dad at some point.

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Lunella has a hack pack that looks like a SuperDeformed version of her Moon Girl face. It looks like Lunella might have seen [[Anime/CowboyBebop Radical Edward]] on video with her nerdy dad at some point.
** In the "Mane" episode, the titular villain steals Lunella's wig and boils it, a la [[Film/FatalAttraction a certain bunny boiling]] madwoman from film.
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* {{Homage}}: Lunella has a hack pack that looks like a SuperDeformed version of her Moon Girl face. It looks like Lunella might have watched [[Anime/CowboyBebop]] with her nerdy dad at some point.

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* {{Homage}}: Lunella has a hack pack that looks like a SuperDeformed version of her Moon Girl face. It looks like Lunella might have watched [[Anime/CowboyBebop]] seen [[Anime/CowboyBebop Radical Edward]] on video with her nerdy dad at some point.
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* {{Homage}}: Lunella has a hack pack that looks like a SuperDeformed version of her Moon Girl face. It looks like Lunella might have watched [[Anime/CowboyBebop]] with her nerdy dad at some point.
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* RunningGag: Pretty much every character born past the Millennial generation has no idea what a cassette player is. Most obvious with Lunella and kids her age. But even young adults like Odessa Drake fail to recognize one on sight.
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* DramaticAmmoDepletion: Well, gravity goo. Gravitas is overly reliant on his gravity fluid as a weapon against Moon Girl. So she calculates the volume of the cylinder used to supply the fluid and spends an extended sequence dodging until he runs out. Just when it looks like he has her cornered, he hears an empty click as he'd spent it all.
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* BaitAndSwitch: When Lunella grabs a ton of food from the fridge to feed Devil, Mimi stops her and tells Lunella that she can't be eating all that food... without some pie too. Mimi then puts a slice of pie on the stack that Lunella gives to Devil.
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* SourceMusic: OnceAnEpisode the third act climax has attention drawn to the background music with shots of Moon Girl inserting a tape and playing it on her cassette. Some episodes play with the formula by having other sources for the backing soundtrack, like an actual band being called on to play or someone else otherwise playing their own music.

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* CreateYourOwnHero: Aftershock is indirectly responsible for Lunella becoming Moon Girl, as Aftershock's constant draining of the Lower East Side spurs Lunella to create the temporal portal generator in an attempt to fix the power issue. This in turn brings Devil Dinosaur to the present and Casey subsequently convinces Lunella to become Moon Girl and investigate the constant blackouts.



* EpicFail: In her first outing as a superhero, the crooks Lunella comes across mock her over the fact that she doesn't even have a name yet. Plus, Devil the dinosaur has left to go eat garbage. As Lunella attempts to get Devil under control, the crooks just pack up their car and leave. Lunella tries to fire a boxing glove at the crooks, which misses wide, ricochets off a light pole, and knocks Casey's phone out of her hand while the crooks just drive off. If not for Casey finding out the robbers with her phone, they would have gotten away scot-free.

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* EpicFail: In her first outing as a superhero, the crooks Lunella comes across mock her over the fact that she doesn't even have a name yet. Plus, Devil the dinosaur has left Dinosaur leaves to go eat garbage. As Lunella attempts to get Devil under control, the crooks just pack up their car and leave. Lunella tries to fire a boxing glove at the crooks, which misses wide, ricochets off a light pole, and knocks Casey's phone out of her hand while the crooks just drive off. If not for Casey finding out the robbers with her phone, they would have gotten away scot-free.
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* {{Bookends}}: Season 1 begins and ends with [[spoiler:the VillainOfTheWeek having a personal connection to Lunella and figuring out her identity as Moon Girl (Aftershock was Lunella's science teacher, Morlak was Mimi's lab partner). Both even suffer an UncertainDoom [[DeathByIrony by Irony]] (Aftershock was pulled into the LES power grid, which she used to charge her electricity powers; Morlak was pulled into Mimi's portal generator, which he wanted to use to summon an army of interdimensional monsters).]]
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* BottomlessMagazines: Lunella has way more boxing gloves than she should be able to carry. Lampshaded by Aftershock.

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* BottomlessMagazines: Lunella Moon Girl always has way more boxing gloves than she should be able to carry.carry. Yet, she keeps firing them repeatedly without ever running out of them. Lampshaded by Aftershock.

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** When Lunella briefly travels decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence", the WantedPoster behind her shows a bunch of lesser known Avengers-related characters like [[Characters/AdamLegendOfTheBlueMarvel Blue Marvel]], [[Characters/PatsyWalker Hellcat]], Comicbook/{{Deathlok}}, [[Characters/ThunderboltsOriginalSeriesMembers Jolt]], Jocasta, Moondragon, Swordsman, D-Man, Characters/{{White Tiger|Marvel Comics}}, Nighthawk, Stingray, Darkhawk, Comicbook/{{Sleepwalker}}, Paladin, Triathlon and Smasher.

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** When Lunella briefly travels [[ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast decades into the future future]] during "Skip This Ad...olescence", the WantedPoster behind her shows a bunch of lesser known Avengers-related characters like [[Characters/AdamLegendOfTheBlueMarvel Blue Marvel]], [[Characters/PatsyWalker Hellcat]], Comicbook/{{Deathlok}}, [[Characters/ThunderboltsOriginalSeriesMembers Jolt]], Jocasta, Moondragon, Swordsman, D-Man, Characters/{{White Tiger|Marvel Comics}}, Nighthawk, Stingray, Darkhawk, Comicbook/{{Sleepwalker}}, Paladin, Triathlon and Smasher.


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* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:"OMG Issue #1" reveals that the original Moon Girl is none other than Lunella's grandma Mimi.]]
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** When Lunella briefly travels decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence", the WantedPoster behind her shows a bunch of lesser known Avengers-related characters like [[Characters/AdamLegendOfTheBlueMarvel Blue Marvel]], [[Characters/PatsyWalker Hellcat]], Comicbook/{{Deathlok}}, [[Characters/ThunderboltsOriginalSeriesMembers Jolt]], Jocasta, Moondragon, Swordsman, D-Man, Characters/{{White Tiger|Marvel Comics}}, Nighthawk, Stingray, Darkhawk, Sleepwalker, Paladin, Triathlon and Smasher.

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** When Lunella briefly travels decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence", the WantedPoster behind her shows a bunch of lesser known Avengers-related characters like [[Characters/AdamLegendOfTheBlueMarvel Blue Marvel]], [[Characters/PatsyWalker Hellcat]], Comicbook/{{Deathlok}}, [[Characters/ThunderboltsOriginalSeriesMembers Jolt]], Jocasta, Moondragon, Swordsman, D-Man, Characters/{{White Tiger|Marvel Comics}}, Nighthawk, Stingray, Darkhawk, Sleepwalker, Comicbook/{{Sleepwalker}}, Paladin, Triathlon and Smasher.
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** When Lunella briefly travels decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence", the WantedPoster behind her shows a bunch of lesser known Avengers-related characters like [[Characters/AdamLegendOfTheBlueMarvel Blue Marvel]], [[Characters/PatsyWalker Hellcat]], Comicbook/{{Deathlok}}, [[Characters/ThunderboltsOriginalSeriesMembers Jolt]], Jocasta, Moondragon, Swordsman, D-Man, Characters/{{White Tiger|Marvel Comics}}, Nighthawk, Stingray, Paladin, Triathlon and Smasher.

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** When Lunella briefly travels decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence", the WantedPoster behind her shows a bunch of lesser known Avengers-related characters like [[Characters/AdamLegendOfTheBlueMarvel Blue Marvel]], [[Characters/PatsyWalker Hellcat]], Comicbook/{{Deathlok}}, [[Characters/ThunderboltsOriginalSeriesMembers Jolt]], Jocasta, Moondragon, Swordsman, D-Man, Characters/{{White Tiger|Marvel Comics}}, Nighthawk, Stingray, Darkhawk, Sleepwalker, Paladin, Triathlon and Smasher.
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** When Lunella briefly travels decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence", the WantedPoster behind her shows a bunch of lesser known Avengers-related characters like [[Characters/AdamLegendOfTheBlueMarvel Blue Marvel]], [[Characters/PatsyWalker Hellcat]], Comicbook/{{Deathlok}}, [[Characters/ThunderboltsOriginalSeriesMembers Jolt]], Jocasta, Moondragon, Swordsman, Characters/{{White Tiger|Marvel Comics}}, Nighthawk, Stingray, Paladin, Triathlon and Smasher.

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** When Lunella briefly travels decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence", the WantedPoster behind her shows a bunch of lesser known Avengers-related characters like [[Characters/AdamLegendOfTheBlueMarvel Blue Marvel]], [[Characters/PatsyWalker Hellcat]], Comicbook/{{Deathlok}}, [[Characters/ThunderboltsOriginalSeriesMembers Jolt]], Jocasta, Moondragon, Swordsman, D-Man, Characters/{{White Tiger|Marvel Comics}}, Nighthawk, Stingray, Paladin, Triathlon and Smasher.



** The brief shot where Lunella is sent decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence" is an [[HomageShot homage]] to the legendary cover of ''Comicbook/DaysOfFuturePast'', but with the members of the Comicbook/XMen replaced by [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] characters.

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** The brief shot where Lunella is sent decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence" olescence" is an [[HomageShot homage]] to the legendary cover of ''Comicbook/DaysOfFuturePast'', but with the members of the Comicbook/XMen replaced by [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] characters.
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** The brief shot where Lunella is sent decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence" is an [[HomageShot homage]] to the legendary cover of ''Comicbook/DaysOfFuturePast'', but with the members of the Comicbook/XMen replaced by [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] characters.

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** The brief shot where Lunella is sent decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence" olescence" is an [[HomageShot homage]] to the legendary cover of ''Comicbook/DaysOfFuturePast'', but with the members of the Comicbook/XMen replaced by [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] characters.



* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: ComicBook/TheAvengers ''do'' exist in this continuity, but they tend to be busy with bigger threats and Mimi questions if "they even go below 14th Street". Moon Girl occasionally references calling S.H.I.E.L.D. to arrest defeated villains, but they're never seen. [[spoiler:When Captain America does make an appearance in Episode 12, he's seen only from the back.]]

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* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: ComicBook/TheAvengers ''do'' exist in this continuity, but they tend to be busy with bigger threats and Mimi questions if "they even go below 14th Street". Moon Girl occasionally references calling S.H.I.E.L.D. Comicbook/{{SHIELD}} to arrest defeated villains, but they're never seen. [[spoiler:When Captain America does make an appearance in Episode 12, he's seen only from the back.]]
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** [[spoiler:[[Comicbook/TheFalcon Captain America]] appears at the very end of "Today, I Am a Woman" to apprehend Odessa Drake after she's defeated by Lunella.]]

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** [[spoiler:[[Comicbook/TheFalcon Captain America]] America (Sam Wilson)]] appears at the very end of "Today, I Am a Woman" to apprehend Odessa Drake after she's defeated by Lunella.]]



** The brief shot where Lunella is sent decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence" is an [[HomageShot homage]] to the legendary cover of ''Comicbook/DaysOfFuturePast'', but with the members of the Comicbook/XMen replaced by [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] characters.

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** The brief shot where Lunella is sent decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence" olescence" is an [[HomageShot homage]] to the legendary cover of ''Comicbook/DaysOfFuturePast'', but with the members of the Comicbook/XMen replaced by [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] characters.
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** When Lunella briefly travels decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence", the WantedPoster behind her shows a bunch of lesser known Avengers-related characters like [[Characters/AdamLegendOfTheBlueMarvel Blue Marvel]], [[Characters/PatsyWalker Hellcat]], Comicbook/{{Deathlok}}, [[Characters/ThunderboltsOriginalSeriesCharacters Jolt]], Jocasta, Moondragon, Swordsman, Characters/{{White Tiger|Marvel Comics}}, Nighthawk, Stingray, Paladin, Triathlon and Smasher.

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** When Lunella briefly travels decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence", the WantedPoster behind her shows a bunch of lesser known Avengers-related characters like [[Characters/AdamLegendOfTheBlueMarvel Blue Marvel]], [[Characters/PatsyWalker Hellcat]], Comicbook/{{Deathlok}}, [[Characters/ThunderboltsOriginalSeriesCharacters [[Characters/ThunderboltsOriginalSeriesMembers Jolt]], Jocasta, Moondragon, Swordsman, Characters/{{White Tiger|Marvel Comics}}, Nighthawk, Stingray, Paladin, Triathlon and Smasher.



** The brief shot where Lunella is sent decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence" is an [[HomageShot homage]] to the legendary cover of ''Comicbook/DaysOfFuturePast'', but with the members of the Comicbook/XMen replaced by [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] characters.

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** The brief shot where Lunella is sent decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence" olescence" is an [[HomageShot homage]] to the legendary cover of ''Comicbook/DaysOfFuturePast'', but with the members of the Comicbook/XMen replaced by [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] characters.
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** When Lunella briefly skips ahead into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence", the WantedPoster behind her shows a bunch of lesser known Avengers-related characters like [[Characters/AdamLegendOfTheBlueMarvel Blue Marvel]], [[Characters/PatsyWalker Hellcat]], Comicbook/{{Deathlok}}, [[Characters/{{Thunderbolts}} Jolt]], Jocasta, Moondragon, Swordsman, Characters/{{White Tiger|Marvel Comics}}, Nighthawk, Stingray, Paladin, Triathlon and Smasher.

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** When Lunella briefly skips ahead travels decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence", the WantedPoster behind her shows a bunch of lesser known Avengers-related characters like [[Characters/AdamLegendOfTheBlueMarvel Blue Marvel]], [[Characters/PatsyWalker Hellcat]], Comicbook/{{Deathlok}}, [[Characters/{{Thunderbolts}} [[Characters/ThunderboltsOriginalSeriesCharacters Jolt]], Jocasta, Moondragon, Swordsman, Characters/{{White Tiger|Marvel Comics}}, Nighthawk, Stingray, Paladin, Triathlon and Smasher.



** The brief shot where Lunella is sent decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence" is an [[HomageShot homage]] to the legendary cover of ''Comicbook/DaysOfFuturePast'', but with the members of the Comicbook/XMen replaced by [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] characters.

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** The brief shot where Lunella is sent decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence" olescence" is an [[HomageShot homage]] to the legendary cover of ''Comicbook/DaysOfFuturePast'', but with the members of the Comicbook/XMen replaced by [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] characters.
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** The brief shot where Lunella is sent decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence" is an HomageShot to the legendary cover of ''Comicbook/DaysOfFuturePast'', but with the members of the Comicbook/XMen replaced by [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] characters.

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** The brief shot where Lunella is sent decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence" olescence" is an HomageShot [[HomageShot homage]] to the legendary cover of ''Comicbook/DaysOfFuturePast'', but with the members of the Comicbook/XMen replaced by [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] characters.

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** Silhouettes of Black Panther, Shuri, and M'Baku are glimpsed in Lunella's ImagineSpot during "The Beyonder".

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** Silhouettes of Black Panther, Comicbook/BlackPanther, Shuri, and M'Baku are glimpsed in Lunella's ImagineSpot during "The Beyonder".Beyonder".
** When Lunella briefly skips ahead into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence", the WantedPoster behind her shows a bunch of lesser known Avengers-related characters like [[Characters/AdamLegendOfTheBlueMarvel Blue Marvel]], [[Characters/PatsyWalker Hellcat]], Comicbook/{{Deathlok}}, [[Characters/{{Thunderbolts}} Jolt]], Jocasta, Moondragon, Swordsman, Characters/{{White Tiger|Marvel Comics}}, Nighthawk, Stingray, Paladin, Triathlon and Smasher.
** [[spoiler:[[Comicbook/TheFalcon Captain America]] appears at the very end of "Today, I Am a Woman" to apprehend Odessa Drake after she's defeated by Lunella.]]



** At one point, Casey refers to Aftershock as "being like living ligthning", referencing the superhero Living Lightning, pobably best known as a West Coast Avenger.

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** At one point, Casey refers to Aftershock as "being like living ligthning", lightning", referencing the superhero Living Lightning, pobably probably best known as a West Coast Avenger.Avenger.
** The brief shot where Lunella is sent decades into the future during "Skip This Ad...olescence" is an HomageShot to the legendary cover of ''Comicbook/DaysOfFuturePast'', but with the members of the Comicbook/XMen replaced by [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] characters.
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** Lunella herself becomes this in "Skip This Ad...olescence", when she invents a phone app that allows her to use MentalTimeTravel to skip past all the boring parts of life. Unfortunately, using the app so many times causes it to start automatically skipping through life without her approval, based on her prior actions.

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** Lunella herself becomes this in "Skip This Ad...olescence", when she invents a phone app that allows her to use MentalTimeTravel to skip past all the boring parts of life. Unfortunately, using the app so many times causes it to start automatically skipping through life without her approval, input, based on her prior actions.
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* WhatAreRecords: In "Moon Girl Landing", Casey spots an old tape recorder in Lunella's room and asks what it is. Lunella just responds that her mom gave it to her and she has no idea what it does.

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* WhatAreRecords: In "Moon Girl Landing", Casey spots an old tape recorder in Lunella's room and asks what it is. Lunella just responds that her mom gave it to her and she has no idea what it does. However, she eventually becomes acquainted with it and uses it as part of her superhero kit.
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* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: ComicBook/TheAvengers ''do'' exist in this continuity, but they tend to be busy with bigger threats and Mimi questions if "they even go below 14th Street".

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* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: ComicBook/TheAvengers ''do'' exist in this continuity, but they tend to be busy with bigger threats and Mimi questions if "they even go below 14th Street". Moon Girl occasionally references calling S.H.I.E.L.D. to arrest defeated villains, but they're never seen. [[spoiler:When Captain America does make an appearance in Episode 12, he's seen only from the back.]]
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** At one point, Casey refers to Aftershock as "being like living ligthning", referencing the superhero Living Lightning, pobably best known as a West Coast Avenger.
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* WhatAreRecords: In "Moon Girl Landing", Casey spots an old tape recorder in Lunella's room and asks what it is. Lunella just responds that her mom gave it to her and she has no idea what it does.


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** In "Goodnight, Moon Girl", Lunella responds to the volleyball team's invitation to their slumber party with VisibleSilence; Brooklyn, the team leader, sees the speech bubble and moves it aside.

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