YMMV / Grrl Power

• Adorkable: Sydney, with her big round glasses, superhero shirts, and annoying-yet-oddly-charming personality.
• Arc Fatigue: More than a few people have complained about the length of the fight with Vehemence, a fact exacerbated by some pacing issues and a twice-a-week update schedule. The author is aware of this however, and intends to avert this in the future.
• Awesome Ego: Deus is entertainingly egomaniacal. To give an idea, he prefers "megalomaniac" to "narcissist" because "It just sounds cooler" — while denying that either applies to him, because he can back up his claims.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Deus is either loved for being both Crazy-Prepared and being highly skilled at Xanatos Speed Chess, or seen as annoyingly favored by the narrative. His Awesome Ego is either a huge plus or the worst thing about him.
  • Maxima. Some are sick of her and believe her power level makes fights boring (although even Max has been challenged from time to time), while others love her interactions with Sydney and the rest, and see the super battles as beside the point since her influence on Syd's character development is more important.
• Crazy Is Cool: Achilles abusing his invulnerability to do things like block swords with his eyeball just to shock the villain into dropping her sword.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Deus has attracted a cheering section who seem to believe that he's not really a supervillain, what with building up his chosen nation's economy and infrastructure, eliminating corruption, and immeasurably improving his subjects' standard of living. Deus having eliminated the previous king, who would not cede power to him, is portrayed as entirely reasonable, since the guy was an awful ruler. His fans also regard cutting a path to the sea through a neighboring country as "the ends justify the means", somewhat ignoring that he's declared war on a sovereign nation. Now that he has explained his plan to take over the continent of Africa via forming a compulsory economic union, using his armies as leverage on those who might not want to join, his fans are somehow even more enthusiastic.
• Evil Is Cool: Those who didn't succumb to Arc Fatigue over their respective involvements with the story find Vehemence and Sciona to be awesome villains.
• Fanfic Fuel: One of the masked vigilantes that Archon is looking for to invite to the team looks a lot like Spinnerette, leading to the suggestion that they might be part of the same universe.
• Heartwarming Moments: Has its own page.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In-Universe, as the alien tourist sporting a Human Disguise is doing so because "Such beauty am I that all undigest", presumably meaning he considers himself so lovely that others vomit at the sight of him. When his tour group is accosted by the alien smugglers that are fleeing the Supers, he lets down his disguise, and as his similarly-English-challenged companion puts it...
  Purple Alien: So beauti- *<Glorf>*
• Iron Woobie: Before she Took a Level in Badass, Maxima was just a frightened teenage girl going through physiological changes that nobody understands.
  • It rises again when she's given a chance to look more normal.
• Les Yay:
  • Dabbler, being a succubus, cause this merely by being in the same scene as other women.
    Sydney: Not a lesbian. Not a lesbian. Not a lesbian.
  • Suzie News/Wen gets very excited when talking about Maxima.
  • When pointing out why she's insecure about her body, Sydney points to Anvil's breasts, Varia's abs, and Jiggawatt's butt in turn. Jiggawatt starts to take offense, but Sydney tells her not to try the false modesty, as she knows "your butt looks like a delicious chocolate peach."
    The Rant: Now HR has to add the specific phrase "Delicious Chocolate Peach" to the manual.
  • Upon first meeting Deus' assistant, Maxima responds to her gloating by getting up and introducing herself, smiling. Considering how the date had gone, it comes across as Maxima starting to flirt with Deus' assistant.
• Nausea Fuel:
  • Hench Wench punching Mr. Amorphous in the back of the head leads to his head distorting horribly from the mouth on out. Shudder
  • Cora makes a criminal explode into Ludicrous Gibs. Sydney is understandably disgusted and finds herself throwing up for some time. Even Concretia is uncomfortable with it.
    Concretia: I'll admit I've imagined slowly crushing that guy's skull until his eyes burst [...] But I still have to ask: what is wrong with you?
• Nightmare Fuel: Has its own page.
• Spoiler: The cast page originally showed two extra powers of Sydney's, but these were changed to "two she doesn't know about" to preserve a plot point. Later, superpower details were removed entirely.
• Squick: Steak knife. Kicked into someone's mouth. It lodges between their teeth and in their gums. Aaaaaaaauuuuuuuugh.
• Tearjerker: While it only lasts one page Lapha's backstory is pretty rough. She's essentially from a race of magical Artificial Intelligence that can reproduce...with risks. Usually when it's only two being reproducing, like with her parents, it's safe...but something went wrong anyway. Lapha spent the first two weeks or so of her life watching her parents "slowly glitch into oblivion" in front of her, dying while she could do nothing but call out for "Mama" and "Papa" from within the creation matrix. After that? A life on the streets in a cruel universe. Yikes. No wonder Sydney started bawling.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Two-fold in the crossover with Wearing the Cape.
  • The first is that it firmly establishes that Ranma ½ is fictional in this universe which not only eliminates many interesting opportunities given Math, but this also means there can't be any expies.
  • The second was that we never got to Maxima's reaction to the Art Initiates Life version of Happōsai.
  • Played with as Word of God states there is still a possibility as up until the crossover Wearing the Cape was fictional in the Grrl Power universe.

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