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The Paranormal Mystery Squad
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- Dark Is Not Evil: The Squad Consists of a Goth, Werewolf, Wiccan and Dhampyr and they have a Bat as the Team Pet
- Ms. Fanservice: Stephanie, Charlotte and Katie (this last after a taunt by Lita) take their turns with this role doing "nerd burlesque" as JC puts it.
Stephanie Kane
- Expressive Accessory: Her hairpin
was a gift from Layla Delacroix. It reflects her thinking, at times "winking" as well.
- Irony: In the possibly non-canon Vampire Cheerleaders In Space And Time Steph not only becomes a cryptid herself she cheerfully embraces her new role producing scores of cryptid eggs as the new Hive Queen of the moth men.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Very rarely comes up. But she does try to keep innocents out of the crossfire and looks out for her teammates if nothing else.
- Mercy Kill: How She views slaying monsters that were born human. She initially plans to do this with her sister, but is talked down by JC and Charlotte.
- Ms. Fanservice: She channels Samus Aran in an effort to help break the hold the Vampire Cheerleaders have over Leonard. And she rubs her bosom in his face to weaken him further.
- He Who Fights Monsters: Her hatred of cryptids has some unfortunate levels.
- Van Helsing Hate Crime: She who believes all cryptids are evil roughly stemming what happened to her parents. Things gets complicated when her sister is turned into a werewolf and the newest member of their team is revealed to be a Dhampyr.
Katie Kane
- Emergency Transformation: Somewhat, she gets infected with lycanthropy but Charlotte manages to use a spell so she doesn't become a mindless creature.
- Idiot Hair: She has one sticking up in the back. Reflects her tendency to act without thinking.
- The Load: Initially in the first chapter, as she didn't have as much combat experience as Steph or Charlotte and mostly just carried around equipment. Steph insisted on bringing her on the cryptid hunts anyway. The second big case of which she wound up wandering off and getting bitten by a werewolf. After she herself became a werewolf, she put her new monster strength to good use.
- Ms. Fanservice: She channels Slave Leia to aid the others after Lita taunts her. JC does a Double Face Palm when he sees Katie. But it seems to have worked as he "responds to her" doing a hula in that outfit more than the others.
- Near-Rape Experience: What Theodore tried to do to her twice, with his father's encouragement.
- No Periods, Period: Averted. Katie seems to delight and using her teenaged PMS as an excuse to ignore diplomacy (and propriety).
- When Charlotte opens her purse for smelling salts and out come lots of tampons, Katie snarks "Heavy flow month?" Stephanie tells her "It's the whole team's supply, you dingbat!" before giving her a fist upside the head.
- When Charlotte opens her purse
Charlotte Roth
- Cute Wiccan
- Ms. Fanservice: Channels Vanille of Final Fantasy XIII before summoning Sexy Shiva, Mighty Isis and Ominous Oya, the last who seems a Shout-Out to the late-80's Storm.
J.C. Summerfeild
- Sixth Ranger: Joins up in the first volume on behalf of PETM. Second volume he's quit the organization to work with PMS full time. In the third volume, he's rejoined with PETM but still prefers to work with PMS.
Babs
Associated tropes:- Evil Detecting Bat: When Lita made her way to PMS's hotel room in the second volume, it started screeching.
Lita/Lilita
- Demonic Possession: The body she has isn't her real one (in fact its the corpse of a recently deceased woman), her true form is a black mist.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: She somehow bonded to Katie after her defeat and now stuck as a spirit haunting the group.
PETM
Marcy O'Keeffe
- Artificial Limbs: Marcy wears high-tech prosthetic legs. Steph speculates they have something to do with her pro-cryptid sympathies but J.C. can't confirm it
- Lawful Stupid: Is more concerned about an "innocent cryptid" than the thousands of people said cryptid's actions are going to put at risk.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: With some overlap of Too Dumb to Live - seeing as she contacted offices in Washington to confirm that K'AAN'NGUA is protected by the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Effectively making it impossible for the military to do anything to stop it. You know, despite the fact that it will probably kill everyone.
- Straight Gay: Was a surprise to them too but J.C. confirms it.
Cryptids
Tropes that Cryptids have in common:
- Always Chaotic Evil: Least that's what Stephanie thinks. Time will tell if this'll get subverted.
- Big Bad: Each major story arc had a Cryptid as such.
- Volume One has Theodore Campbell.
- Volume Two has Lita/Lilita.
K'AAN'NGUA/The Great One
Associated tropes:Sea Monster
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General Briggs
Associated tropes:- Four-Star Badass: Apparently ready to lead an attack on K'aan'ngua from the front lines. His moment of glory gets stolen by O'Keefe when she gets the President to order him to retreat. He gets even by having the PMS team cleared of their community service much to O'Keefe's chagrin.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He is put in charge the incident in Volume 2 comes off sympathetic to the PMS crew, and most definately does not like O'Keefe's presence and interfeerence.
