A 2012 multi-player Web Game / CCG created by Fifth Planet Games. It is a flash game that can be played on several flash games platforms. Sadly the game was taken down by the end of 2013
Each player is a Super Hero and has to fight other heroes or villains. The main storyline is divided in several issues, like a Comic Book. The first volume contains the first six issues, and other volumes contain 3 issues. Each volume/arc introduce a playset of cards ("Genesis" for volume 1, "Tempus" for volume 2 and "Vengeance" for volume 3).
The player starts as a student of the Phaeton Project and can choose one of the 4 archetypes:
- Firesculptors can sculpt fire and sometimes other elements.
- Strongharms have Super-Strength and Super-Toughness.
- Non-stops have Super-Speed and/or can teleport.
- Acolytes have Psychic Powers.
However, a few years later, the characters were revamped for a new comic book series and trading card game called Emergents.
This game provides examples of the following tropes:
- All of Them: According to the Moxie: Empowered flavor text, When Moxie was asked how much she benches, she replied "everything".
- It is unclear whether she was joking.
- Armor-Piercing Attack: Unstoppable attacks ignore enemy shields when it comes to dealing damage.
- Back-to-Back Badasses: Crime Blotter and Devastatrix, during their date night.
- Big Bad: Daddy-0, the Hat.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: in issue #5 and #6, Daddy-O controls your schoolmates and professors, so you have to fight them before facing Daddy-O.
- Bribing Your Way to Victory: It is a Freemium.
- Brought Down to Normal: Zeroth, after issue #9.
- Catchphrase: Dimetrodon, one of the super powered wrestlers, has one.'DIMETRODON FIGHT !'
- The Chessmaster: The Hat is the evil one, Zeroth is the good one
- Chest Insignia: Billy Stopless and Iso-Man have one.
- Codename:Sidekick is the sidekick of Codename:Soldier.
- Colon Cancer: Because of Time Travel and Time Skip, the player encounters several characters at different time. So there are several cards for the same character, for example Quickhit, Quickhit:Protector and Quickhit:Far from Home. And we have Codename:Soldier:Meanwhile.
- Damsel in Distress: subverted by Coax in issue #14.
- Dark Messiah: Daddy-O. He was the head of a cult that worshipped himself and is one of the greatest supervillains in the world.
- Death from Above: Zeroth's favorite attack.
- Demolitions Expert: Little Susie Homewrecker.
- Differently Powered Individual: They are called "Emergents".
- The Dragon: Ixnay to the Hat. In issue #14 there is also a real dragon, Zeva who acts as The Dragon to Coax.
- Evil Twin: Absolute Zeroth. He is an evil version of Zeroth that wore an inverted color version of Zeroth's suit.
- The Faceless: The Abyss, Pesticide, ...
- Forced Tutorial: Issue #1.
- Glory Days: This is the name of a card
(referring to the glory days of the Upstarts). - Great Offscreen War: The battle with the quiskerians and the killing of Phaeton
- Grievous Harm with a Body: Moxie's missiles.
- Hospital Hottie: The Protector. She's so attractive, some students pretend to be injured/sick or intentionally get themselves hurt so that they can see her.
- Hulk Speak: Dimetrodon speaks this way, demonstrating his lack of intellect.
- Imagination-Based Superpower: Skilled sculptors start doing this, to which that Helios has made clones, medieval catapults, and a working bulldozer, all out of fire.
- Leotard of Power: Moxie's beauty queen swimsuit... I mean her costume. Coax's costume also counts.
- Let's You and Him Fight: You have to fight almost all other superheroes at least once (for training or testing or some silly reason).
- Masked Luchador: The Form and the Function.
- Meta Game: Whenever a strategy becomes too powerful, new cards are introduced to counter said strategy.
- Megaton Punch: Alot of cards, when you get down to them, consist of a picture of some super powered hero or villain punching real hard and the move itself is implied to be the same thing.
- Monster Modesty: Dimetrodon, similar to how the Hulk always has pants.
- Mooks: the henchmen: sunderlings, gingerhaired men, ...
- Most Common Super Power: All female characters have this 'power'.
- Ms. Fanservice: Moxie, Little Suzie, the Protector, Coax. All of them are example of beautiful women in the game.
- Only Six Faces: And since there are very few interesting pieces of equipment, players' avatars are very similar.
- Patriotic Fervour: Zeroth cares only about three things, the world, America, and himself, nothing more
- Post-Climax Confrontation: After the events of volume 1, you have to fight a minor vilain, Sunder, who gathers henchmen and storms the city while the most experienced heroes are still recovering from the fight with the Big Bad.
- Power Armor: Johnny Tinker's flying suit.
- Puberty Superpower: Many emergents gain their powers when they are teenagers or young adults.
- Shout-Out: Many. They are discussed here.
- Sibling Rivalry: Between Bantam and Bookworm, to the point there is a card named after this trope.
- The Smurfette Principle: Moxie is the only female member of the genesis squadron. Other teams avert this trope.
- Something Person: Almost averted. Iso-man is the only example.
- Super Hero School: You start as a student in a school called "the Phaeton Project"
- Super Power Lottery: Zeroth is the first Emergent, and also the most powerful. At least when he is an adult.
- Super Team: Several, including the Genesis Squadron, the Meanwhile Squadron, the Upstarts, the Homeschool, the Whom, the Drama Club, ...
- Time Police: the Chronarchivist and her Meanwhile squadron.
- Time Skip: Between most issues.
- Time Travel: During the Tempus arc. Shimmerstorm can also travel through time, and bring other people with her. Zeroth and the Hat have this power too.
- Time-Travel Tense Trouble: Shimmerstorm speaks exclusively in this.Shimmerstorm: "Like I'll tell you yesterday, I was ready."
- Tragic Villain: Absolute Zeroth and Dr. Tessera, He fell in love with her, but when the Schism started to give her nightmares, she turned herself into a monster to stop them, because of this Absolute Zeroth tried to make the Schism destroy the world and every bad memory in it.
- Tron Lines: the dimensional armor
- Worthless Yellow Rocks: Bucks can become this late in the game, however with the addition of the sealed issues, they now have a lot of use. Now ironically the legacy coins thanks to the end of the game.
