Holiday Heroes
is an original fictional story written by gelefant.
It features Jermaine hanging out with holiday-themed superheroes.
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Tropes A to D
- Alliterative Title: Holiday Heroes.
- Baby New Year: Kia's superheroine codename is Baby New Year, and her costume includes a white banner or sash reading "New Year" across her chest.
- Barrier Warrior: Annette can create force fields made from Christmas magic.
- Bespectacled Cutie:
- Annette is a Big Beautiful Woman who wears large, red, square glasses.
- Lin is a Big Beautiful Woman who wears large, round glasses.
- Best Friend: Annette and Jermaine are this to each other.
- Big Beautiful Woman: As mentioned above, Annette and Lin are chubby but no less beautiful because of it.
- Black Magic: This is how Colden Frost and Evergreen were brought to life.
- Cardiovascular Love: Lin's superheroine costume is emblazoned with a red heart, her arrows are tipped with hearts, and her powers are themed around love.
- Casting a Shadow: Evergreen and Jillian can control dark energy.
- Chest Insignia:
- Annette's superheroine costume is emblazoned with a green Christmas tree.
- Jillian's superheroine costume is emblazoned with a blue snowflake symbol.
- Lin's superheroine costume is emblazoned with a red heart.
- Christmas Episode: "Lost Joy" and "Christmas Chaos."
- Cuddle Bug: Annette, Jermaine, and Lin like hugs.
- Cupid's Arrow: Lin's basically a superheroine version of Cupid since she can make people fall in love by using a bow and love arrows. Her codename is even Miss Cupid.
- Deadpan Snarker: Adam, Evergreen, and Hazel are described as having a talent for delivering biting sarcasm.
Tropes F to N
- Fainting: Annette and Jillian pass out after combining their energy to defeat Evergreen.
- Flight:
- Annette has this as one of her superpowers.
- Lin can also fly thanks to having a pair of cherub wings.
- Forced Sleep: Jillian combines her Casting a Shadow, An Ice Person, and Lunacy powers to create a powder that puts Colden Frost to sleep in order to defeat him.
- Gasp!: Jillian and Lin gasp when Jermaine tells them he used to have a crush on Annette.
- Girlish Pigtails: Kia and Lin wear their hair like this.
- Girls Love Chocolate: Kia and Lin gorge on chocolates in "All Love is Unrequited."
- Halloween Episode: "Halloween Horrors."
- Hand Blast:
- Annette can fire energy blasts made of Christmas magic from her hands.
- Jillian can fire blasts of dark energy, lunar energy, and spectral energy from her hands.
- Adam, Dolores, Hazel, and Stitches can fire spectral energy blasts from their hands.
- Holiday Motif: Each member of the Holiday Heroes is themed around a certain holiday: New Year's for Baby New Year, Valentine's Day for Miss Cupid, Halloween for Halloween Man, Day of the Dead for La Calavera, and Christmas for Christmas Girl.
- Holiday Personification: Each Holiday Hero is considered In-Universe to be the embodiment or personification of their respective holiday. Baby New Year is this for New Year's, Miss Cupid is this for Valentine's Day, Halloween Man is this for Halloween, La Calavera is this for Day of the Dead, and Christmas Girl is this for Christmas.
- Ice Crystals: Jillian gives an ice crystal imbued with lunar energy to Jermaine as a Christmas gift.
- Icy Blue Eyes: Jillian has ice blue eyes and is An Ice Person.
- An Ice Person: Annette, Colden Frost, Evergreen, Jillian, and Krampus all have ice powers.
- Just Friends: Jermaine had romantic feelings for Annette in the past. When he confessed these feelings, she just wanted to remain friends.
- The Krampus: Annette and Jillian battle a female version of Krampus at the beginning of "Christmas Chaos." They win.
- Luminescent Blush: Jermaine blushes after Kia gives him a New Year's Kiss at the end of "New Year Has Come."
- Lunacy: Jillian can control lunar energy.
- Missing Time: At the end of "Christmas Chaos," Annette and Jillian only remember bits and pieces of their three fights with supervillains the previous night. Thankfully, Jermaine fills in the missing pieces for them.
- Most Common Superpower: Annette is a superheroine with big breasts.
- New Year Has Come: The aptly named "New Year Has Come" takes place on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Additionally, Kia's powers are themed around the holiday.
- New Year's Kiss: When the ball drops on New Year's Eve, Kia grabs Jermaine by the cheeks and kisses him square on the lips. He's so flustered that he blushes afterwards.
- New Year's Resolution: Jermaine's is to continue creating artwork and writing short stories. Annette, Jillian, and Kia all share the new year's resolution of being the best superheroines they can be.
- Nice Girl: Annette, Dolores, Hazel, Jillian, Kia, and Lin are caring, friendly people.
- In "True Friends," Annette goes out of her way to drop gifts (a handwritten letter, a Scooby-Doo plushie, and snack cakes) off for Jermaine during his stay at a mental hospital, visits him when he's discharged, flies him back to his dorm, helps him gather up his belongings, and drives him back to his hometown.
- In "Lost Joy," Annette and Jillian go above and beyond trying to reignite Jermaine's love for Christmas. They combine their ice powers to make it snow on Christmas Eve, play in the snow with him, take him to a Christmas festival called Enchant Christmas (which is an actual thing in Real Life), and give him presents on Christmas morning.
- At the end of "All Love is Unrequited," Annette, Jillian, and Lin reassure Jermaine he's a great guy who'll find that special someone someday.
- No-Sell: Annette, Colden Frost, Jillian, and Krampus are all immune to each other's ice powers.
Tropes P to W
- Pink Is Feminine: The main part of Lin's superheroine costume is a pink shirt. Between her Girlish Pigtails and tendency to wear makeup, she definitely qualifies as feminine.
- Platonic Valentine: Annette, Jermaine, Jillian, Kia, and Lin all make valentines for one another in "All Love is Unrequited."
- The Power of Love: Lin's abilities are themed around this.
- Prehensile Tail: Krampus has one.
- The Quiet One:
- Colden Frost is described as a creature of few words. Indeed, he only has one line of dialogue during his fight with Annette and Jillian in "Christmas Chaos."
- Dolores and Hazel are also described as never saying much.
- Red/Green Contrast: Annette's superheroine costume is a red dress emblazoned with a green Christmas tree Chest Insignia.
- Red Is Heroic:
- Annette's superheroine costume includes a red hair bow, a red dress, and red heels.
- Lin's superheroine costume is emblazoned with a red heart.
- Scary Scarecrows: Stitches is a female scarecrow who was brought to life by magic and uses her powers to make people experience their worst fears.
- Shout-Out:
- In "True Friends," Annette brings Jermaine a Scooby-Doo plush while he's in a mental hospital.
- During his snowball fight with Annette and Jillian in "Lost Joy," Jermaine remembers the Dexter's Laboratory episode "Snowdown" and the snowball fight scene from Elf.
- In "Christmas Chaos," Colden Frost's comment about Annette and Jillian being "cold women" is a reference to Captain Cold saying the exact same thing to Killer Frost in the DC Super Hero Girls episode "Fortress of Solidarity."
- Annette and Jillian fighting living Christmas trees in "Christmas Chaos" is a reference to the eponymous character of Danny Phantom doing the same in his own Christmas special.
- Most of the fight between Stitches and the Holiday Heroes plays out similarly to the fight between Batman and Scarecrow in the Batman Cold Open for the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Trials of the Demon."
- Sinister Scythe: Stitches uses a scythe during her fight with the Holiday Heroes.
- Snowball Fight: Annette, Jermaine, and Jillian have one about halfway through "Lost Joy."
- Snowlems: Colden Frost is an evil snowman brought to life by Black Magic.
- Soul Power: Jillian can control spectral energy.
- Speak in Unison: Annette and Jermaine say "Yes" at the same time when Lin asks if Jermaine ever told Annette about his crush on her.
- Supernatural Fear Inducer: Stitches has the power to make people experience their worst fears via physically manifesting them with magic.
- Tail Slap: Krampus can do this with her Prehensile Tail.
- Teleportation: Annette can teleport. At the end of "Christmas Chaos," she teleports herself, Jillian, and Jermaine back to the Holiday Heroes' headquarters after defeating Evergreen.
- Treants: About halfway through "Christmas Chaos," all the Christmas trees in the area come to life and attack people. Their leader is a sentient Christmas tree named Evergreen.
- Valentine's Day Episode: "All Love is Unrequited."
- Valentine's Day Vitriol: Near the end of "All Love is Unrequited," Jermaine tells Annette, Jillian, and Lin that he hates Valentine's Day. The reason is that he's never been on a date or had a girlfriend.
- When Trees Attack: About halfway through "Christmas Chaos," all the Christmas trees in the area come to life and attack people. Their leader is a sentient Christmas tree named Evergreen.
