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- Berserk Button: Midnight. Do not. Touch. The HAT.
- Building Swing: Midnight, courtesy of a Grappling-Hook Pistol.
- Chrome Champion: Redbird's default form is a shiny metal egg.
- Civvie Spandex: Midnight II inherited his Coat, Hat, Mask costume from his grandfather, notably including a hat.
- Cool Bike: Trevor inherited, and favors, the original Midnight's Nightcycle. Trevor's grandfather, the original Midnight, also had a The Memobile, the Night Cruiser.
- Cool Mask: The Faceless variety, a pitch-black version of The Question's, with glowing red eyes. It is the same mask worn by Trevor's grandfather.
- Crazy-Prepared: If you can think of it, then Midnight either has it in his Utility Belt, or he can build it from the contents thereof.
- Grease Monkey: Trevor has a natural aptitude for working with engines of all types.
- Innate Night Vision: Midnight, including the ability to see through Smoke Outs.
- Legacy Character: Trevor's grandfather was the original Midnight.
- Must Have Caffeine: As his name suggests, Midnight keeps unusual hours, and drinks a lot of coffee to make up for the lack of sleep.
- Psychic Block Defense: Psychics have a hard affecting Midnight, or even perceiving him.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Midnight's Cool Mask is designed to intentionally invoke this trope.
- Secret Identity: It is not public knowledge that Trevor or his grandfather are/were Midnight.
- Smoke Out: The original Midnight used chemicals for this. Thanks to his years of exposure to those chemicals, his grandson Trevor comes by it naturally.
- Superpowerful Genetics: Midnight II's powers are the result of his grandfather's prolonged exposure to his "Midnight Mist."
- Super Smoke: Midnight's Smoke Out power eventually evolved into this.
- Technicolor Eyes: Midnight has non-evil black eyes, specifically.
- Technopath: Redbird. Among other things, she can act as an Amplifier Artifact/Nitro Boost for Cool Cars, making them Cooler Cars.
- Utility Belt: Midnight has a variety of modular gadgets stored in both his belt and jacket, which he can combine to make just about anything.
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: Unlike the original Britannia, Agnes is of African descent.
- Ambiguously Brown: Mixed Afro-Carribean and Caucasian descent.
- The Rock Star: She used to be a stereotypical British Rock Star, but she mellowed out after her Super-Empowering Near-Death Experience.
- Basement-Dweller: Gina's severe agoraphobia was the driving force behind her construction of the Miss Americana robot.
- Cool Crown: Miss Americana's costume includes one of these instead of a Cool Mask.
- Genius Bruiser: The Miss Americana robot is effectively this when Gina is technopathically remote-controlling it.
- Secret Identity: It is not public knowledge that Miss Americana is a robot, or that it is an inanimate object when not being technopathically remote-controlled by Gina.
- Sexbot: The Miss Americana robot averts this trope. Under her clothes, she looks like a Barbie doll.
- Aliens Steal Cable: Transmissions from Earth taught her that Humans Are Special.
- Hurricane of Puns: The list of Complications on her character sheet - "Grue Are You?", "Grue The Looking Glass," "Hide & Grue," "Grue The Best!", and "Congrueity."
- Psychic Powers: Including Telepathy, and Invisibility (by means of a Perception Filter).
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Including Sizeshifting, Intangibility (with Flight as a Required Secondary Power), Stout Strength, and Combat Tentacles.
- Civvie Spandex: Nick wears black, rockabilly-style clothes, a leather jacket, and white face makeup.
- Death by Origin Story: Nick Cimitiere's origin story began with his own Super-Empowering Near-Death Experience, involving a guided tour of the various Underworlds.
- Expy: Harry Dresden as a reluctant rockabilly Necromancer.
- Functional Magic: Specifically, Necromancy.
- Hollywood Voodoo: Nick (and his player) try to avert this trope as much as possible.
- Must Have Caffeine: Nick usually works very late hours trying to help ghosts resolve their business. There's a reason he works at a coffee shop.
- My Suit Is Also Super: Nick's leather jacket was bathed in the waters of the River Styx. It is stronger than steel.
- Steven Ulysses Perhero: Nick Cimitiere's civilian ID is Eric LaCroix. Baron Cimitiere and Baron LaCroix are both ghede, or death gods, in Voudoun.
- Super-Senses: Nick Sees Dead People.
- White Mask of Doom: Nick achieves this look with makeup.