The Parliament of Heroes is a Round Robin fanfic by Forgo Light (the author of Enchanting Heist) that crosses over DC Comics with Gravity Falls, Amphibia, and The Owl House. In it, the characters of each series inhabit the same world, and one way or another find themselves becoming part of the newest generation of heroes.
The thread and the stories that encompass it can be found and read here
One of the series of snippets for the thread, A Summer Job, can be found here.
The Parliament of Heroes provides examples of:
- Abusive Parents:
- Slade casts an incredibly dark shadow on Rose, who's still haunted by her father's abuse throughout her time in Gravity Falls. To start, he killed Rose's mother, would regularly torment her during training sessions that left her bloody and broken, routinely put her in life-or-death situations, cut out her eye, and subjected her to gaslighting and brainwashing to keep her subservient to him. Suffice to say, Rose has every reason to despise him for all he's done to her.
- As in canon, the Northwest parents to Pacifica, having drilled into her the idea that she has to be perfect in everything.
- Action Mom: Wendy's mother, Catelyn, was this back when she was alive. According to Wendy, she and Dan fought off a crocodile to protect their children.
- Adaptational Badass:
- While Luz and Amity were already strong in their home series, they gain the powers of Stargirl and Wonder Girl respectively in this series.
- Pacifica was just an ordinary, but highly talented, human in Gravity Falls. Here? She's a Kryptonian with all the power being one entails.
- Anne, Sasha, and Marcy not only have their Calamity powers, but also Lantern Rings.
- Mabel in this universe gets random temporary superpowers thanks to her consumption of Smile Dip.
- Adaptational Karma: In Gravity Falls, aside from Wendy breaking up with him, there were no long-term consequences to Robbie's attempt at brainwashing her, with the two becoming friends again by the events of "Love God". Here, Wendy outright cuts all ties with Robbie, making it clear that she never wants to be near him ever again, and Stan makes sure that his parents know what he did.
- Adaptational Nice Guy:
- Rose Worth, who ends up settling down in Gravity Falls, finds herself enjoying her work as a gofer for the Mystery Shack and is overall much nicer than she is in the comics. Of course, when she's angered, she reminds people that she is the daughter of one of DC's most infamous assassins. That said, it's also zig-zagged due to this incarnation of Rose being more in-line with her pre-Infinite Crisis version, where she was a much more put together and stable babysitter to Lian Harper.
- A downplayed case with Wendy. While she was a Nice Gal in her home series, she did have moments where she grabbed the Jerkass Ball, such as in "Boss Mabel", where she takes advantage of Mabel's generosity to let her friends trash the shack and get a paid day off. In the thread's version of the episode, she's instead worried about killing everyone's fun and promises Mabel that she'll help clean their mess.
- While Pacifica still comes off as arrogant and haughty, she's notably far nicer than she was during the events of Season 1 of Gravity Falls, being on (for the most part) friendly terms with the Pines twins.
- Adaptational Sexuality: In the comics, Rose only ever had male love interests. In this series, she develops feelings for Wendy, and the tags on the AO3 version of the A Summer Job snippets confirm that she's a lesbian here.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
- While Dipper starts off with a crush on Wendy like he did in Gravity Falls, a combination of Wendy's crush on Rose, Mabel discouraging him from pursuing his feelings, and seeing just how close Rose and Wendy are, ultimately result in him letting go of his feelings earlier than he did canonically.
- In Gravity Falls, Robbie and Wendy did briefly become a couple. Here, thanks to Dipper and Mabel's intervention (coupled with Wendy's own feelings for Rose), Robbie's never able to ask Wendy out, so the two never date here.
- Pacifica originally started off antagonistic to the Pines twins in canon and remained that way for a good portion of the series. In the snippets, her developing Kryptonian powers forced her to go to them to figure them out, causing all of them to learn to get along at a much faster rate. In addition, while she and Dipper had some Ship Tease in their series, it never went anywhere beyond being an Implied Love Interest. By contrast, the A Summer Job snippets make their feelings much more overt.
- Adaptation Origin Connection: As revealed in the 18th A Summer Job snippet, Slade/Deathstroke was heavily involved in Lex Luthor's rise to power, having been hired by him to kill his parents when he was just eighteen years old, thus allowing him to take over his father's company. In return, Lex helped Slade by providing resources that would allow him to build his criminal empire.
- Adaptation Personality Change: While Rose was well adjusted in the comics prior to her time under Slade, after the fact, she became a temperamental, vulgar-tongued Jerk with a Heart of Gold on her best days and borderline Ax-Crazy on her worst, not to mention outright Unable to Cry due to unhealthy coping mechanisms. Here, while still a bit of a Lady Swears-a-Lot, she's ultimately a Nice Gal who, at her worst, is just socially awkward and aloof, with her being able to shed tears and grieve openly. In addition, Rose in the comics was disturbingly promiscuous for a teenager, while here she's rather oblivious to such concepts.
- Actress Allusion: Amity becomes the latest iteration of Wonder Girl in place of the late Cassie Sandsmark while also taking elements of her pre-New 52 incarnation to essentially become Cassie, befitting how Amity's voice actress also played Wonder Girl in Young Justice.
- Age-Gap Romance: Eda and Stan were married (albeit briefly, since it only lasted a day or two at most), and there is an, at minimum, fifteen-year age gap between the two. Forgo Light has stated that Eda and Stan met and got married when they were in their thirties and forties respectively.
- Age Lift:
- In the comics, Kara Zor-El is usually a teenager when she leaves Krypton. In this series, since Pacifica is Kara, she was sent to Earth as an infant, much like her cousin.
- Courtney Whitemore/Stargirl, usually in her teens, is instead an adult in her thirties here...sort of. She's mentally little different from her teenage years, but she'd been separated from her body for the better part of a decade and a half, with her mind initially being dormant inside the Cosmic Rod.
- Alliterative Name: Wendy reveals to Rose that her mother's name was Catelyn, making her Catelyn Corduroy.
- Amazon Chaser: When Wendy saw Rose kick a Manotaur's ass, she was completely enthralled, realizing she was attracted to her not long after.
- Ambiguously Human: While it's Played for Laughs, Tambry was able to physically overpower Rose to take her shopping for a phone, and she has good enough senses to pick up on the assassin's Killing Intent even when not looking at her. Combined with the revelation that she's the daughter of Leslie Willis/Livewire, it raises the question whether or not Tambry's a Metahuman whose Metagene hasn't activated yet.
- And I Must Scream: When Robbie brainwashes Wendy into going out with him, the latter knows that something is wrong, but still acts in the way Robbie wants her to and can't stop herself.
- Ascended Extra: Downplayed, but noticeable. In Superman's Pal: Jimmy Olsen (2019), the T-Rex mayor was only a one-off gag character with no lines. Here, he still only shows up for a single snippet, but he's given dialogue, a name, and backstory as the mayor of a prehistoric town.
- Ascended Fangirl: Luz was a major fan of superheroes, and now she becomes a Legacy Character to Stargirl, making her a superheroine in her own right.
- Bad Boss: Aside from being viciously abusive to his apprentice/daughter, Slade's a horrible employer in general. His slaughtering of his own men for the sake of manipulating Rose makes it clear working for him is a bad idea in the long run.
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Zig-zagged. Rose's normal outfit includes an orange crop-top that shows off her abs (making her the only character to do this), and it's more so done to emphasize her physicality as opposed to femininity, given how well-built she's described as being. On the other hand, she's still considered exceptionally beautiful and often shows an excitable, cheerful side to her personality when she doesn't let her anxieties get to her, making her more of a Tomboy with a Girly Streak.
- Big Sister Mentor: Rose starts taking up this role to Pacifica after learning about the latter's powers and easing her through them. She even sets up an obstacle course to train her in better managing them during the first A Summer Job interlude.
- Boyish Short Hair: Rose gets her hair cut short to a pixiecut during her time in Gravity Falls, which fits her nature as a tomboyish Action Girl and contrasts her more overtly feminine peers.
- Bridal Carry: Same-sex example. In the 11th A Summer Job snippet, Rose's crush on Wendy (and previously being held by her) causes her to lose all motor functionality in her legs, forcing Wendy to carry her bridal-style downstairs. Cue both of them blushing up a storm.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Rose and Wendy are not good at articulating their feelings for each other at all. When Wendy attempts to confess how she feels to Rose at the Mystery Fair, she's unable to finish. Rose, meanwhile, can barely process her crush, let alone articulate it. The fact that her upbringing under Slade left her ability to comprehend things like love and romance stunted certainly doesn't help.
- Celebrity Crush:
- Wendy once had one on Zatanna after watching a show she performed a year prior to the events of Gravity Falls. While she tries to deny it when Tambry points it out, she ends up getting stuck thinking about how attractive and amazing the magician was, conceding that she did have a crush on her.
- Luz has one on Wonder Woman, openly gushing about how amazing she is. Eda even lampshades it.Eda: Huh, if I didn't know any better, I'd say you had a celebrity crush.
- Closet Key:
- Rose is this for Wendy. While Tambry points out that Wendy had been attracted to girls before, Rose is the first girl she's consciously been attracted to.
- Wonder Woman is this for Luz. Learning/reading about Diana and her exploits led to Luz developing a brief Celebrity Crush on her. In turn, this led to Luz realizing she was bisexual.Luz (blushing): I...may have learned a few things about myself when I first heard about her.
- Combat Clairvoyance: Rose has this power, which she demonstrates for the first time when fighting the raptors in the sap caves.
- Commonality Connection: After they learn that the other has powers, Rose and Pacifica bond a bit over it. Rose also clearly sees signs that the Northwests are less-than-ideal parents from her own experiences with Slade, but Pacifica can't admit it yet.
- Composite Character:
- Luz, thanks to gaining the Cosmic Staff, gets mixed with Stargirl, though Courtney is still around as her mentor due to her mind being in the Staff.
- Amity largely gets combined with Cassie Sandsmark/Wonder Girl III, with her origin as getting her powers through enchanted armor mirroring Cassie's pre-retcon origin.
- Pacifica is in actuality Kara Zor-El, combining the two characters into one.
- Dipper and Mabel have traits of Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen, respectively, as they form a trio with Pacifica, who's the Superman analog. Dipper takes on Lois' attribute of being the snarky Love Interest to the Kryptonian, while Mabel gets Jimmy's nature as a Weirdness Magnet with a propensity for gaining random powers out of nowhere (which here is because of her consumption of Smile Dip).
- Rose Worth/Wilson ends up being a combination of both her pre-Crisis version and Rebirth versions. She has the personality and stability of the former while carrying many backstory elements of the latter (among which includes Slade's direct role in Lillian's death and inheriting his powers as opposed to being given a serum).
- Cooldown Hug: Wendy gives one to Rose after she wakes up from a nightmare following staring into the Gremloblin's eyes. She gives another during the 14th A Summer Job snippet after Rose has a panic attack.
- Conditioned to Accept Horror: In the 14th A Summer Job snippet, Rose has a very nonplussed reaction to all the horror movies she and Wendy's friends watch. It's made clear that her assassin background, coupled with all the gruesome killings she's seen and partook in, have left her with a limited ability to react to anything gory.
- Covert Pervert: While Wendy does her best to hide it due to finding it embarrassing, when she looks at Rose, she has a tendency to...stare. A lot.
- In the third A Summer Job snippet, she wound up staring at Rose's butt a few times, with it taking way more effort to tear her eyes away than she thought it would.
- Also during the third snippet, she walks in on Rose setting up exhibits and gets a very good view of the ex-assassin's exposed and well-defined arms and abs, despite her best efforts to look anywhere else.
- During the sixth snippet, she was completely star-struck at the sight of Rose in a Huntress costume and spent a little too much time admiring the contours of her muscles.
- Crossover Power Acquisition: Considering the premise behind the Round Robin, it isn't too surprising that this trope crops up. Luz gains the Cosmic Staff, granting her the powers of Stargirl. Amity gains armor crafted by Donna Troy that provides her with all Wondergirl's abilities. Anne, Sasha, and Marcy gain a Blue Lantern, Star Sapphire, and Green Lantern ring respectively. And Pacifica gains the powers of a Kryptonian, just to name a few examples.
- Crossover Relatives:
- The Collector and the Archivists are the children of Mother Night in this series, making them cousins/family to the Endless. In fact, Morpheus (aka Dream of the Endless) is implied to have played a role in The Collector's imprisonment at the hands of The Titan.
- Tambry is revealed in the 14th A Summer Job snippet/chapter to be the daughter of Leslie Willis, though it's unclear if she was ever Livewire.
- Crush Blush:
- This happens to Wendy after her first realization that she has feelings for Rose in the third A Summer Job snippet, and it escalates from there. After Rose realizes that she's in love with Wendy as well, she also has a tendency to turn beat-root red whenever she's either around Wendy or thinking about her.
- As Dipper and Pacifica's feelings for each other become more obvious, the two have a tendency to blush when someone brings up their closeness.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: When Darkseid first appears, he makes short work of Anne, Marcy, and Sasha, despite all of them possessing Lantern Rings. The end result leaves Anne near death and thrown into a Boom Tube to the Boiling Isles.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: Rose, in contrast to her father, has nothing but nice things to say about her late mother, Lilian Worth. When thinking about her travels with Lilian across the Indochinese Peninsula before moving to New York, she recollects those times happily. She's also a major Relative Button for Rose when Slade says her name due to his role in her death.
- The Dreaded: Darkseid, who only need show up for everything and everyone to freeze in fear. Andrias is reduced to a stammering mess in his presence, and the Forever people cower at the sight of him. Even Anne is left terrified of him after he utterly annihilates her, Sasha, and Marcy, throwing her into the demon realm and trapping her there.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Tambry has one in the form of "Tamb Lamb", which is used by her mom. Her usual response to it is the scream and complain about it on social media.
- Engineered Heroics: In the 15th A Summer Job snippet, it's revealed that gunmen attacked Rose's home, resulting in the death of her mother before Slade came in and saved her. Turns out, the entire attack was set up by Slade himself to both leave Rose with no one else to turn to and for his daughter to view him as the "savior" she'd feel indebted towards.
- Everyone Can See It: Rose and Wendy's feelings for each other are so blatantly obvious that, as Tambry puts it, anyone with a pulse could tell they're in love. Except each other, of course. Once they finally get together, Stan says that a blind guy could see how obvious their feelings were, and since he has cataracts, he should know.
- Everyone Has Standards: Stan certainly won't be winning any "Boss of the Year" awards anytime soon, but he does genuinely care for the wellbeing of his employees when the chips are down. After seeing Rose actively force herself to work despite her poor health, he orders her to take some time off and get some rest. He's also disgusted with Robbie for trying to brainwash Wendy into dating him, and makes sure that his parents learn about what he did.
- Eviler than Thou: While Andrias is a villain, he's ultimately just a pawn of both the Core and Darkseid, the latter of whom proves far worse than he is with one appearance.
- First Love: Wendy is this for Rose, who'd never been in love with anyone before.
- Gaydar: Tambry knew Wendy was bisexual long before Wendy herself ever realized it, even pointing out the crushes Wendy had on other girls prior to meeting Rose. The same applies to Rose, as Tambry already knew she was crushing on Wendy even before the ex-assassin's feelings became more overt.
- Good Feels Good: When she goes off to save Waddles from the Pterodactyl, Rose notes that it feels weird to actually be the hero for a change. At the same time, she enjoys it, finding it to be a good sort of weird.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Downplayed. When Wendy starts hanging out with Robbie, Rose's POV shows that she's highly envious, but she keeps it to herself. If it's what Wendy wants, she'll put up with it for her sake. When she learns that Robbie brainwashed Wendy, however...
- Handicapped Badass: Missing her left eye doesn't impede Rose's fighting abilities in the slightest, as she can still easily fight off monsters like Manotaurs and the Gremloblin.
- Hate Sink:
- Philip Wittebane/Emperor Belos is just as vile as he is in canon. When Luz despondently laments how she failed to save the day in the A Christmas Carol snippet, she's suddenly submerged into an illusion where Philip mentally tortures her with how she was tricked into assisting him. This results in her having a major emotional breakdown shortly before the vision ends.
- Darkseid is also as vile as usual. The instant he shows up in Amphibia, he establishes that he has no delusions of doing this for a greater good and is just conducting business as usual. He also takes a mug satisfaction in how the Calamity Girls are unable to truly defend themselves against him, and specifically singles Anne out for getting morphed into a Female Fury after she manages to make him bleed.
- Hero of Another Story: In the A Summer Job chapters, Pacifica, Dipper, and Mabel are having their own adventures parallel to Wendy's.
- Hidden Depths: For a phone-addicted teenager, Tambry is surprisingly perceptive, having realized that Wendy was bisexual and crushing on Rose before Wendy herself did. She's also capable of giving good relationship advice and admits that she's dealt with fear of rejection before.
- I Am a Monster: How Rose views herself thanks to having killed so many people under her father's orders. Because of her past actions, she's convinced she'll never be anything more than a reflection of Slade, even admitting as much to Wendy.Rose: Wendy, you need to leave. There are monsters out here.
Wendy: Rose, are you listening to yourself right now? You're not a monster.
Rose: After all I did, I am. - Important Haircut: During the 11th A Summer Job snippet, Rose requests a haircut from Mabel and Pacifica, changing her long hair to a pixiecut to reflect her newfound life and freedom away from Slade.
- Inadequate Inheritor: Amity voices this belief about herself in comparison to both her new mentor, Donna Troy, and the previous Wonder Girl, Cassie Sandsmark. Due to the years of abuse that she suffered under Odalia, Amity's developed the belief that if she can't instantly succeed at something, she must be a failure. She's first seen voicing this to Donna when she struggles to lift a boulder with her newfound Super-Strength that she could've easily thrown aside with her Abomination Magic.Amity: But if the 'best person I can be' isn't flawless then what good am I?! I don't deserve to be called 'Wonder Girl' then if I have to constantly worry that I'm going to screw up in some way!
- Innocently Insensitive: Tambry throughout the 14th A Summer Job snippet. She asks about how Rose vents when it comes to her parents and later has her watch a horror film featuring child abuse, slamming all the former assassin's trauma buttons without realizing it. When she's made aware of how deep Rose's trauma runs, she's left horrified and guilt-ridden by her insensitivity.
- In Spite of a Nail: Despite the fact that they aren't dating here, Robbie still attempts to ask out and brainwash Wendy into hanging out with him.
- Interrupted Declaration of Love:
- During the 15th A Summer Job snippet, Wendy's finally about to confess her feelings to Rose, but it winds up cut short due to a thrown tree (courtesy of Pacifica/Kara Zor-El) that was about to fall on both of them.
- This trope gets lampshaded and defied during the 18th A Summer Job snippet. During her POV, Rose, out of sheer nervousness, silently begs for something to interrupt her love confession. Nothing does, and she winds up asking Wendy out on a date without any outside issues.
- It Never Gets Any Easier: Slade forced his daughter to kill from an early age, intent on making her grow to enjoy it like him. Instead, it only left her traumatized and disgusted with herself to the point where, by the time she arrives in Gravity Falls, she's trying her best to adhere to a Thou Shalt Not Kill policy.
- Legend Fades to Myth: Wonder Woman first appeared during the events of WWII and helped the Justice Society at the time. In the aftermath, she made sparse appearances around the planet, helping where she could, but would later wind up trapped on Themyscira alongside the rest of the Amazons thanks to the machinations of Ares and Circe. As a result, she's considered a fable/fictional character, with the first snippet showing Luz being mocked for writing a history report on her, with the other students mocking Luz by asking her if she is also a Conspiracy Theorist.
- Love Confession: The 18th A Summer Job snippet is largely about Rose building up the courage to finally confess her feelings towards Wendy. While she briefly hopes for it to be interrupted, she goes through with it by asking Wendy out on a date, which the latter accepts, setting them up as an Official Couple.
- Love Confessor: In the 10th A Summer Job snippet, Rose confesses to Tambry that she's in love with Wendy, hoping to get some advice on how to address her feelings. Tambry, aside from snarking at how long it took her to realize said feelings, makes it clear that she wants to help and becomes a wing-woman to both Rose and Wendy.
- Love Makes You Dumb: Wendy, normally calm and level-headed, turns into a nervous, tongue-tied dork around Rose, often tripping over herself like a klutz. After Rose realizes she's in love with Wendy, the same happens to her, as her normally perfect coordination goes down the drain even when she's just thinking about Wendy.
- Mundane Luxury: Since Rose spent much of her life stuck under Slade's thumb and has very little conception of normal social interaction, she enjoys things people would take for granted. One such example is getting a normal haircut rather than use a sword.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When Rose snaps out of her Unstoppable Rage, she's left utterly horrified at how she almost killed Robbie, so much so that she runs away, feeling everyone's better off without her. Thankfully, Wendy finds her and manages to ease her turmoil.
- Mythology Gag: Pacifica accidentally sneezing away Rose's training course (and a good chunk of the forest) is one to Superman sneezing a solar system out of orbit during the silver age. Though it is noted that the gag was accidental.
- Named by Adaptation: In Gravity Falls, Tambry only ever went by her first name, with her full name never being revealed. Here, her last name is revealed to be Willis, as she's the daughter of Leslie Willis (aka Livewire).
- Nom de Mom: Despite having been taken in by him after the death of her mother, Rose refuses to use her father's last name, Wilson, and instead uses her mother's last name, Worth. Considering how much she despises her father, it isn't surprising.
- Not So Above It All: Rose, even though she's an extremely talented assassin, is an utter mess when it comes to her feelings for Wendy.
- Official Couple: By the 18th A Summer Job snippet, Rose finally confesses her feelings to Wendy and the two become a couple from then on out.
- Oblivious to Love: Despite the fact that their feelings for each other are so visible it could be seen from space, the only people who can't see the obvious sparks between Wendy and Rose are...Wendy and Rose. In Rose's case, it's a consequence of her upbringing under Slade, as she has no idea what romance is like, nor how to respond when she finally realizes she's in love with someone. With Wendy, Tambry is left utterly baffled at how her childhood friend can be so blind to something so blatant.Tambry (in text message): Wendy, you are completely and utterly hopeless.
- Phoneaholic Teenager: Tambry as in canon. When she hears that Rose doesn't have a phone, she pretty much drags her to get one immediately.
- Point of Divergence: During the Mystery Fair, Mabel encourages Rose and Wendy to hang out with each other while she heads to win Waddles, with Dipper tagging along with her. Because of this, there are no time paradoxes for Blendin to avert, meaning he never went back and accidentally gave Dipper and Mabel the time machine that caused those paradoxes to begin with. This also means Blendin was never arrested since the crimes he was accused of never happened.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Downplayed with Robbie, as he's really just a jerk and not an out-and-out villain, but his derogatory comments towards Rose about her missing eye (calling her "Cyclops") paint him as rather ableist.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: After learning that Pacifica has powers, Rose mentions several other heroes and villains, like the Justice Society of America and some of their enemies, but Pacifica has no idea who she's talking about. One of the only heroes that she is familiar with is Superman (a relative newcomer and unknown to Pacifica Northwest, her biological cousin).
- Power Incontinence: Since Pacifica only recently started awakening her powers, she naturally struggles to keep them in check. This leads to Dipper, Mabel, and later Rose helping her try to better manage them.
- Power Misidentification: An unintentional example in the 16th A Summer Job snippet. When Pacifica first reveals her powers to Rose and Wendy, naturally, none of them have any idea of Pacifica's Kryptonian heritage. As a result, when Pacifica asks for some clue on what she is, Rose can only assume that she's a Metahuman and tells her as much.
- Purple Prose: Whenever Wendy starts thinking about Rose, her thoughts become more and more flowery the longer they go on, much to her frustration."Her heart felt like a steam engine about to burst. It was like the ground itself wanted to sink her into the void, a punishment for her cowardice. She was trapped in a desert, dying of thirst, and Rose was her oasis, yet the more she tried to reach her, the greater the distance. Fear of rejection, of scaring Rose away, of ruining the friendship they'd built together, held her tongue. If her fear could take form, it would be a dragon, malevolent and unyielding as it locked her feelings away in a pitch-black tower, all while a knight with shining silver hair endlessly clash against it, blade in hand to set those feelings and-"
Wendy (Thoughts): Why the fuck are my thoughts turning into a bad romance novel!? - Romantic Wingman: Mabel, Dipper, and Tambry all function as this to Rose and Wendy, often trying to help them get together. The former two largely help by getting them alone and instigating moments of romantic tension in the hopes that one will confess to the other, though this method didn't pan out. The latter, by contrast, simply provided the best advice she could and encouraged them to be open with their feelings, and it ultimately pays off, as Tambry's encouragement in the 18th A Summer Job snippet gives Rose the push she needed to find an opening to confess.
- Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: Despite all the trauma Slade's Training from Hell caused Rose, it unquestioningly made her one of the deadliest assassins in the entire world. But her time in Gravity Falls shows that, aside from the aforementioned trauma, another trade off of her training was that it left her very socially inept and lacking in any knowledge on basic teenage interactions.
- Sealed Good in a Can: Prior to the beginning of the story, the previous Stargirl, Courtney Whitmore, fought against Vandal Savage while attempting to reform the Justice Society. The battle ended with Courtney severely wounding Savage and forcing him to go incognito for a time, but at the cost of getting her spirit locked away inside the Cosmic Rod. Her still living body became a catatonic husk, away from where Courtney could find it. She, as the Cosmic Rod, eventually falls into the hands of Luz, with whom she develops a sibling-like relationship.
- Shipper on Deck:
- Mabel, Pacifica, and Tambry are this for Rose and Wendy. While Dipper isn't completely on board at first due to his own crush on Wendy, after seeing the latter comfort Rose when she almost kills Robbie, he becomes fully supportive of it as well.
- Mabel is this for Dipper and Pacifica, given how she teases the latter regarding her crush on him.
- Courtney's shown to be one for Luz and Amity, playfully teasing the former regarding her crush on the latter.
- Manly Dan is shown to be one for Superman and Lois Lane, often writing their initials with hearts around them whenever he gets a new copy of the Daily Planet.
- Shout-Out: When Dipper asks how Rose suddenly got to the roof of the shack, Rose's response?Rose: I uh...I jump good.
- Side Bet: At least Dipper and Mabel were betting on who between Rose and Wendy would be the first to confess their feelings. As Rose beat Wendy to the punch on that, Mabel won Dipper's $-12 dollar bill.
- Sleep Cute: Rose and Wendy sleep shoulder-to-shoulder on the Mystery Shack recliner at the end of the 9th A Summer Job snippet. The Pines twins find the whole thing absolutely adorable and get them a blanket to help them sleep.
- Stronger Than They Look: Played for Laughs. Tambry seems the part of the standard teen, yet when told Rose doesn't have a phone, she suddenly gains the strength needed to drag the ex-assassin around. This is in spite of the fact that Rose has blatant Super-Strength and should be much stronger. The fact that her mother is Leslie Willis (better known as Livewire) might have something to do with it.Rose: (thoughts): How the hell is Tambry this strong!?
- Struggling Single Mother: While Lillian raised Rose well enough that her daughter still thinks highly of her, it's made clear that it wasn't easy by any stretch of the imagination. Having a child with powers meant she would accidentally get hurt a lot when helping her daughter try to control them, and her occupation as a sex worker meant money was a constant struggle to maintain. Rose recollects that Lillian would often come home "looking like the walking dead."
- Squee: Soos and Mabel both react in this manner when Wendy and Rose finally get together.
- Superman Stays Out of Gotham: For various reasons, the heroes aren't active outside of their isolated patrol areas. For example, it's confirmed that Superman only recently appeared in public and is just starting his career, while the members of the Justice Society are either retired, deceased, or trapped.
- Teens Are Monsters: Lex Luthor was quite the piece of work even as far back as his late teens, having hired Deathstroke to kill his parents, all so he could take their corporation for himself.
- The Man Behind the Man: As it turns out, The Core wasn't the only one of these to King Andrias and his planned invasion of Earth. At an unspecified point, Darkseid learned of the Calamity Gems and cut a deal with The Core to bankroll its conquest is he was allowed to study the gems. The Core agreed due to it being intrigued by the idea of the Anti-Life Equation, with both figures planning on betraying the other to get access to both commodities. When the Calamity Box was stolen, Darkseid retracted his support of the Amphibians until they rediscovered it. Unfortunately for Anne, Sasha, and Marcy, when the Amphibians do discover the Calamity Gems thanks to the three girls sending themselves to Amphibia, Darkseid decides to see the Box...in person. Naturally, this goes very badly, with Anne getting heavily injured and thrown into a Boom Tube, all while Sasha is forced to watch as Marcy gets hit by an Omega Beam (though it doesn't disintegrate her).
- Tragic Keepsake: Wendy's hat is this, with it having been a gift for her 8th birthday from her mother. It's ultimately the last thing her mother ever gave her, as she died a week later in a car accident.
- Trapped in Another World: Anne was already trapped on Amphibia with no way back to Earth, but then a sudden battle with Darkseid sends her to the Boiling Isles, leaving her stuck in another world once again. Coupled with the trauma of the fight, it causes no end to her grief.
- Trauma Button: Child abuse is a massive one for Rose, as it reminds her too much of what she went through under Slade. When Rose sees a scene in a movie where a girl is abused by her father, she destroys the TV in a violent frenzy. Upon snapping out of it, she flees in tears, locking herself in the bathroom.
- Twofer Token Minority: Rose Worth is this among the Mystery Shack crew and technically a fourfer, as she's a biracial (half Hmong, half white) lesbian who's physically disabled thanks to her father cutting out her eye and is also a Metahuman due to inheriting her powers from him.
- Tyke Bomb: Rose was taken in by her father at the age of 8 and raised for the past several years to serve as his apprentice, killing anyone he orders her to kill. Thankfully, she runs away to Gravity Falls and gains friends, effectively Defusing the Tyke-Bomb.
- What Is This Feeling?: When she starts hanging out with Wendy, Rose develops certain feelings that she's unable to recognize, but enjoys regardless. It's not until the 10th A Summer Job snippet that she finally realizes what she's feeling is love for her newfound friend.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: During the 13th A Summer Job snippet, Rose fights and kills several dinosaurs despite her actively trying to avoid killing anyone. She even ponders about this after the fact, wondering if the reason she has no issues in doing so stems from how they're just non-sapient wild animals.
- You Killed My Father: Among many other reasons, Rose absolutely loathes her father, Slade, due to the fact that he was responsible for the death of her mother, Lillian.
