Basic Trope: A character is mystical in some way due to their Native heritage of the Americas.
- Straight: Alice Wildflower has nature powers passed down from her Lakota mother.
- Exaggerated: Alice has godlike control over all things in nature, including animals... like humans.
- Downplayed:
- Alice is mundane, but is otherwise an excellent gardener. When asked what her secret is, she says that her family taught her how to sow the land.
- Alice's inborn magical talent isn't intrinsically different from Bob the Paladin or Claire the Lady of Black Magic. Her training was highly traditional, however, so her skillset is focused on "nature" magic.
- Justified:
- Alice's village sits on a wellspring of magic.
- His father's culture rejects magic, while his mother's culture accepts it as part of everyday life.
- Alice's ancestry is full of witch doctors and tribal shamans whose powers have transfered to her.
- The magic rituals were from Pre-Columbian times, before the Europeans colonized the new world.
- Alice has always been interested in Native American mysticism, and has incorporated it into her preexisting powers.
- Inverted:
- Alice is the only Native American character in the cast. She's also The Team Normal.
- In a team full of non-Native magical characters, Alice is instead highly technological and scientific.
- Subverted:
- Alice's nature powers don't come from her Lakota mother, but from her Christian father.
- The secret of Alice's healing is revealed to be hereditary herb lore that others take to be magical.
- Double Subverted: But her Lakota grandmother later teaches her how to hone her Super-Senses.
- Parodied:
- Alice finds out she is half-Lakota, and instantly gains Native powers.
- When a baby is born, tribe elders throw darts to pick which vaguely nature-inclined power to bestow upon the baby.
- Alice doesn't actually have magical powers but will pretend to in order to troll people.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Where Alice's powers come from, and whether she actually has powers at all, are ambiguous.
- Native American tribes are shown to be very non-homogenous in their relationships to magic, even within groups of allied tribes such as the Iroquois or Sioux. The Lakota may be deeply tuned to magic, while the Navajo are not, etc.
- Averted:
- There is no in-story link between Native American heritage and magic powers.
- There is no magic nor are there Native Americans.
- Enforced: Alice didn't originally have powers, but the editors wanted positive discrimination.
- Lampshaded: "Alice is In Harmony with Nature? That's kind of typical..."
- Invoked: The series is set in a world where people can choose superpowers. Alice chooses nature powers because her ancestors were In Harmony with Nature.
- Exploited: Alice uses her knowledge of Native Americans to quickly uncover her enemies.
- Defied: Alice refuses to use her powers because she thinks they perpetuate stereotypes, and instead relies on combat.
- Discussed: "Alice is In Harmony with Nature? That's just like all the Native shamans in movies..."
- Conversed: Apropos of nothing, Bob asks, "Why is it that Native Americans in movies always have some mystical power?"
- Implied: When asked where her powers come from, Alice merely touches her tribal jewelry.
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