Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 90 (click to see context) from:
** When Agent Understone asks Doc Samson for a diagnosis of Alex's mental state, Samson says, “She's a loon”, a reference to ''Film/{{Teminator}}''.
to:
** When Agent Understone asks Doc Samson for a diagnosis of Alex's mental state, Samson says, “She's a loon”, a reference to ''Film/{{Teminator}}''.''Film/{{Terminator}}''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 62 (click to see context) from:
* IWarnedYou: Tony Stark to Henry Peter Gyrich, after Alex's utter annhihilation of the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}.
to:
* IWarnedYou: Tony Stark to Henry Peter Gyrich, after Alex's utter annhihilation annihilation of the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** Likewise, when the Thing is cornered by SHIELD agents, he nonchalantly hands over a folder proving he's got diplomatic immunity as a French ambassador. While one of the agents freaks out, his superior orders him to proceed with the arrest. A few chapters later, Tony receives a phone call from an infuriate French official, and the US is slapped with major economic repercussions, with Stark Industries being the first targeted.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 78 (click to see context) from:
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: The Thing mutters on the trope about the man himself, mentioning he doesn't care about the consequences of his actions, ''as long as they don't come back to bite him''.
to:
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: The Thing mutters on the trope about the man himself, mentioning he doesn't care about the consequences of his actions, ''as long as they don't come back to bite him''.him back''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 78 (click to see context) from:
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: The Thing mutters on the subject about the man himself, mentioning he doesn't care about the consequences of his actions, ''as long as they don't come back to bite him''.
to:
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: The Thing mutters on the subject trope about the man himself, mentioning he doesn't care about the consequences of his actions, ''as long as they don't come back to bite him''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: The Thing mutters on the subject about the man himself, mentioning he doesn't care about the consequences of his actions, ''as long as they don't come back to bite him''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 1,2 (click to see context) from:
'''''Origin Story''''' by Chef Jack Butler (found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9801437/1/Origin-Story here]] on FanFiction.net and [[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30582/ChefJackButler+Origin+Story.htm here]] on Twisting the Hellmouth) is a ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' / ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' crossover story that is actually set in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse during the ComicBook/CivilWar.
to:
'''''Origin Story''''' by Chef Jack Butler (found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9801437/1/Origin-Story here]] on FanFiction.net and [[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30582/ChefJackButler+Origin+Story.htm here]] on Twisting the Hellmouth) net) is a ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' / ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' crossover story that is actually set in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse during the ComicBook/CivilWar.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* TheJuggernaut: In Chapter 23, entitled "Look! Up in the Sky!" Alex encounters... well... the Juggernaut. Using her full strength she is actually able to hold him motionless for five whole seconds... before his power (described as "once in motion, he stays in motion) overcomes her and she's pushed backward. She's also able to stop him by flying into him at Mach 10, a feat that results in Alex laying dazed at the Juggernaut's feet while he wonders how the hell he got that huge dent in the armor over his chest.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: It is Alex's acceptance of the fact that she's not merely a copy of ComicBook/PowerGirl, not merely the memories of [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander Harris]], but a person in her own right made from many, many parts that allows her to stop running and be the hero she was always meant to be.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 58 (click to see context) from:
* IChooseToStay: Alex justifies not fleeing to some other country to Nico Minoru of the Runaways.
to:
* IChooseToStay: Alex justifies not fleeing to some other country to Nico Minoru of the Runaways.Runaways because she's an American, and this is America, and she's not going to be run out of her own country. Besides that, she doesn't know how to speak any other languages. She also justifies finally taking a stand against SHIELD, the Avenvers, and the Registration Act itself in Miami because she's tired of running and its time someone stands up to them.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* CheapCostume: Alex's "super-suit" is actually a one-off Halloween costume she bought for a party.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 64 (click to see context) from:
* LetsGetDangeros: Alex and Louise are attacked by the telepathic assassin Typhoid Mary. Mary knocks down Louise, then turns her attention to Alex and proceeds to use her mental powers (against which Alex has no defenses) to ''wreck'' Alex. Turns out ignoring the normal, untrained girlfriend was a mistake when Louise proceeds to clock Typhoid Mary from behind with a bottle of sparkling grape juice, then continues to beat the assassin with it until Mary is unconscious and bleeding on the floor.
to:
* LetsGetDangeros: LetsGetDangerous: Alex and Louise are attacked by the telepathic assassin Typhoid Mary. Mary knocks down Louise, then turns her attention to Alex and proceeds to use her mental powers (against which Alex has no defenses) to ''wreck'' Alex. Turns out ignoring the normal, untrained girlfriend was a mistake when Louise proceeds to clock Typhoid Mary from behind with a bottle of sparkling grape juice, then continues to beat the assassin with it until Mary is unconscious and bleeding on the floor.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* LetsGetDangeros: Alex and Louise are attacked by the telepathic assassin Typhoid Mary. Mary knocks down Louise, then turns her attention to Alex and proceeds to use her mental powers (against which Alex has no defenses) to ''wreck'' Alex. Turns out ignoring the normal, untrained girlfriend was a mistake when Louise proceeds to clock Typhoid Mary from behind with a bottle of sparkling grape juice, then continues to beat the assassin with it until Mary is unconscious and bleeding on the floor.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Deleted line(s) 25 (click to see context) :
** After Bullseye almost kills Louise in an assassination attempt that is actually directed at Alex, Alex punches Bullseye in the forehead so hard his adamantium skull is dented, his eyes explode out of his skull, and his brain liquifies.
Added DiffLines:
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: After Bullseye almost kills Louise in an assassination attempt that is actually directed at Alex Harris, Alex punches Bullseye in the forehead so hard his adamantium skull is dented, his eyes explode out of his skull, and his brain liquifies. Just goes to show that it doesn't pay to piss off a Kryptonian.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* AssholeVictim: Even taking into account his [[CruelAndUnusualDeath brutal death]] at the hands of Alex Harris, no one is really mourning Bullseye too much after he's killed.
Added DiffLines:
* SympatheticMurderer: Alex Harris becomes a SympatheticMurderer after her RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}, during which she kills Venom, the Radioactive Man, and Bullseye. Several members of the law enforcement community state outright that they're not sure about prosecuting her because if anyone [[AssholeVictim deserved a good killing]] is was Bullseye.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* FingerPokeOfDoom: Alex thumps several mooks into unconciousness, and during her RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}, she takes out Songbird by jamming her index finger through the supervillain's larynx.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 34 (click to see context) from:
* ChronicHeroSystem: Alex Harris ''cannot'' not help people who need helping. And she considers helping people who are in danger, or who even just need a friendly shoulder to cry on, to be much more important than stopping criminals.
to:
* ChronicHeroSystem: ChronicHeroSyndrome: Alex Harris ''cannot'' not help people who need helping. And she considers helping people who are in danger, or who even just need a friendly shoulder to cry on, to be much more important than stopping criminals.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ChronicHeroSystem: Alex Harris ''cannot'' not help people who need helping. And she considers helping people who are in danger, or who even just need a friendly shoulder to cry on, to be much more important than stopping criminals.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* CatchAndReturn: When Marvin, Louise's pimp, shoots Alex in the mouth from point blank range, Alex spits the bullet out (mentally commenting that the taste of cordite and gunsmoke is "the most disgusting thing she ever tasted") and hands it back to Marvin. [[OhCrap This has the appropriate psychological effect on Marvin]].
Added DiffLines:
** Also Marvin's reaction when he shoots Alex in the mouth at point blank range, after she spits the bullet out and hands it back to him.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* GangBangers: Marvin, Louise's one-time pimp, is a member of the Crips.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 26 (click to see context) from:
* BreathWeapon: Alex uses her “super-breath” on Reed Richards to nullify his stretching capabilities. He compliments her on her creative thinking.
to:
* BreathWeapon: Alex uses her “super-breath” on Reed Richards to nullify freeze him, thus nullifying his stretching capabilities. He compliments her on her creative thinking.
Added DiffLines:
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Louise Fulford, Alex's partner, is a mutant with the power to change her hair color. She can change it to any range of color she can imagine, and even can change it to a rainbow-like combination of colors. Alex at one point jokingly assigns her the superhero code name "Lady Clairol." Louise actually calls herself Lady Clairol at one point as a matter of pride.
** A lot of the residents of the homeless camp at which Alex and Louise take shelter fall under this trope. Aaron's power is to see infrared light, Oz can shapeshift, but only to the five primary characters of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' (Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, and the Cowardly Lion), without actually gaining any of their abilities. Jan was a teenager with oversized jaw muscles and superhumanly strong teeth. And Debby's skin is transluscent. The Avengers these people aren't.
** A lot of the residents of the homeless camp at which Alex and Louise take shelter fall under this trope. Aaron's power is to see infrared light, Oz can shapeshift, but only to the five primary characters of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' (Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, and the Cowardly Lion), without actually gaining any of their abilities. Jan was a teenager with oversized jaw muscles and superhumanly strong teeth. And Debby's skin is transluscent. The Avengers these people aren't.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 33 (click to see context) from:
* ClarkKenting: Toward the end of the story, Alex starts wearing a paid of glasses and a dark colored wig, but mostly relies on the fact that people are too busy staring at her CleavageWindow to notice her face.
to:
* ClarkKenting: Toward the end of the story, Alex starts wearing a paid pair of glasses and a dark colored wig, but mostly relies on the fact that people are too busy staring at her CleavageWindow to notice her face.face when she's in costume to keep her SecretIdentity.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 20 (click to see context) from:
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Alex points out that her treatment is drastically unconstitutional because its illegal to criminalize the fact that someone exists (or as Alex puts it, “Making it illegal to be a superhuman is like making it illegal to be red-headed; its not something people can help”). She also points out how wrong throwing people in jail without due process is. However, a SHIELD agent counters that Alex and the other metahumans are no longer legally considere people: they are walking, talking weapons of mass destruction, and thus have no civil rights.
to:
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Alex points out that her treatment is drastically unconstitutional because its illegal to criminalize the fact that someone exists (or as Alex puts it, “Making it illegal to be a superhuman is like making it illegal to be red-headed; its not something people can help”). She also points out how wrong throwing people in jail without due process is. However, a SHIELD agent counters that Alex and the other metahumans are no longer legally considere considered people: they are walking, talking weapons of mass destruction, and thus have no civil rights.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* HotWitch: Jennifer Kale, a witch whose power and ability is one the same scale as ComicBook/DoctorStrange, works as an exotic dancer in Miami when she's not protecting the earth from supernatural evil.
Changed line(s) 97 (click to see context) from:
to:
* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: Jennifer Kale performs for Alex and Louise while simultaneously giving them information. The fact that she was tipped $100 helped, but one gets the feeling she would have been happy to do so anyway.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 77 (click to see context) from:
** When Agent Understone asks ComicBook/DocSamson for a diagnosis of Alex's mental state, Samson says, “She's a loon”, a reference to ''Film/TheTeminator''.
to:
** When Agent Understone asks ComicBook/DocSamson Doc Samson for a diagnosis of Alex's mental state, Samson says, “She's a loon”, a reference to ''Film/TheTeminator''.''Film/{{Teminator}}''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 11 (click to see context) from:
* AchillesInHisTent: For most of the story, Alex RefusesTheCall. She's possibly the most powerful superhuman on Earth, and has the right attitude to be an effective force for good, but all she wants is to be left alone. Eventually, she comes around.
to:
* AchillesInHisTent: For most of the story, Alex RefusesTheCall.[[RefuseTheCall refuses the call]]. She's possibly the most powerful superhuman on Earth, and has the right attitude to be an effective force for good, but all she wants is to be left alone. Eventually, she comes around.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 1,2 (click to see context) from:
'''''Origin Story''''' by ChefJackButler (found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9801437/1/Origin-Story here]] on FanFiction.net and [[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30582/ChefJackButler+Origin+Story.htm here]] on Twisting the Hellmouth) is a ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' / ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' crossover story that is actually set in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse during the ComicBook/CivilWar.
to:
'''''Origin Story''''' by ChefJackButler Chef Jack Butler (found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9801437/1/Origin-Story here]] on FanFiction.net and [[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30582/ChefJackButler+Origin+Story.htm here]] on Twisting the Hellmouth) is a ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' / ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' crossover story that is actually set in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse during the ComicBook/CivilWar.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
'''''Origin Story''''' by ChefJackButler (found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9801437/1/Origin-Story here]] on FanFiction.net and [[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30582/ChefJackButler+Origin+Story.htm here]] on Twisting the Hellmouth) is a ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' / ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' crossover story that is actually set in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse during the ComicBook/CivilWar.
In the aftermath of the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode “Halloween”, Xander Harris finds himself trapped not only in the body of ComicBook/PowerGirl, but trapped in the Marvel Universe as well during a time in which being an unregistered metahuman is a bad, bad thing. Naturally, given Xander's problems with authority, HilarityEnsues as SHIELD and ComicBook/TheAvengers try and bring him to heel. At least, that's what everyone thinks is going on. The truth is a lot more complicated, not only for Xander, but for the friends he makes, the enemies he provokes, and for the Marvel Universe as a whole. Calling himself “Alex Harris”, he strives to find a safe harbor for both himself and the woman he comes to love.
----
!!This story provides examples of:
*AcceptableBreaksFromCanon: The story has Tony Stark as Director of SHIELD during a period in which the actual Director was still Maria Hill. Very few of the fans of the story have ever noticed, and even fewer cared when they did.
*AccusationFic: The story was written specifically as a way to symbolically “punish” Marvel Comics for the entire Civil War story arc.
*AchillesInHisTent: For most of the story, Alex RefusesTheCall. She's possibly the most powerful superhuman on Earth, and has the right attitude to be an effective force for good, but all she wants is to be left alone. Eventually, she comes around.
*ActionGirl: Alex doesn't hesitate in the least to rush in and help when people need help, nor does she shy away from fighting when a fight is what is needed. But then, half of her mental makeup is [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander Harris]], and the other half is [[ComicBook/PowerGirl Kara Zor-L]], so its to be expected.
*AffablyEvil: Magneto, in the appropriately titled Chapter 21: “Breakfast With Magneto”.
*AirborneAircraftCarrier: SHIELD's Helicarrier makes an appearance in Chapter 23: “Look, Up in the Sky!”, as SHIELD tries to enforce the “work for us or go to prison” provisions of the Metahuman Registration Act on Alex.
*TheAlcatraz: The Gulag, Reed Richards prison, is specifically mentioned. One SHIELD agent hopes that they don't have to send Alex there for the rest of her life.
*AlternateSelf: Of Power Girl. At first, Alex thinks that she is Xander Harris with Kara's memories, but later comes to realize that she's actually a melding of both Xander and Kara, with her own experiences and opinions.
*AlternateUniverseFic: A Kryptonian comes to the Marvel Universe.
*AmazonianBeauty: It is remarked on that Alex is 6' 2” tall and is muscled like a bodybuilder. Louise, her girlfriend, is of average height and weight for an American woman, and is seen as “tiny” when standing next to Alex.
*ArmorPiercingQuestion: Wonder Man to Tony Stark: “Why are we hunting this girl when she's done nothing wrong?”
*ArtisticLicenseLaw: Alex points out that her treatment is drastically unconstitutional because its illegal to criminalize the fact that someone exists (or as Alex puts it, “Making it illegal to be a superhuman is like making it illegal to be red-headed; its not something people can help”). She also points out how wrong throwing people in jail without due process is. However, a SHIELD agent counters that Alex and the other metahumans are no longer legally considere people: they are walking, talking weapons of mass destruction, and thus have no civil rights.
*AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Alex is able to ignore the Metahuman Registration Act because, to be blunt, the only beings in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse powerful enough to enforce it just don't give a damn about puny humans and their political squabbles.
*TheBadGuysAreCops: The Thunderbolts. Alex points out the idiocy of making the Radioactive Man, Venom, and Bullseye a part of law enforcement.
*BerserkButton: Don't even think about harming Louise. Just don't. Remember, half of her memories and attitudes come from Xander Harris, who is quite happy to rip the spines out of those who hurt the people he loves. Now, imagine a pissed off Xander Harris possessing the body of a Kryptonian.
** After Bullseye almost kills Louise in an assassination attempt that is actually directed at Alex, Alex punches Bullseye in the forehead so hard his adamantium skull is dented, his eyes explode out of his skull, and his brain liquifies.
* BigFancyHouse: The house that Alex and Louise buy in Chapter 25: “She's Good People", is a mansion overlooking the Gulf of Mexico on Big Pine Key. And its on stilts.
*BreathWeapon: Alex uses her “super-breath” on Reed Richards to nullify his stretching capabilities. He compliments her on her creative thinking.
*BrokenBird: Alex, as revealed by her conversation with Doc Samson.
** Louise also. The pair of them help each other heal.
*CharacterDevelopment: Alex starts out frightened, alone, and desperate to get home, but eventually grows into the idea of being the hero the Marvel Universe so desperately needs.
-->'''Alex (as Superwoman):''' “You people call yourselves heroes, but all you're doing is running around fighting each other! When was the last time you fed the hungry? When was the last time you helped irrigate a desert? When was the last time you were there for someone who just needed a friend? That's what being a hero is all about. You're all like children, throwing temper tantrums.”
*CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: After a diplomatic incident involving the illegal arrest of a French ambassador, President GeorgeWBush specifically points out that while they might joke about how the French are weak sisters, everyone knows that the ''truth'' is that a war between France and the United States would most likely end up in a PyrrhicVictory for the US.
*ChestInsignia: This is played with. Alex's costume has the CleavageWindow of PowerGirl along with the color scheme of {{Superman}} because Alex accepts and believes in Kara's reasons for not having one. But she also acknowledges the House of El by including the classic Superman “S” on her belt buckle and on the broaches that hold her cape on. Like Kara, she feels that if people are overly preoccupied or distracted by her boobs that's their problem, not hers.
* ClarkKenting: Toward the end of the story, Alex starts wearing a paid of glasses and a dark colored wig, but mostly relies on the fact that people are too busy staring at her CleavageWindow to notice her face.
* CleavageWindow: When Alex finally decides to stop running and become a superhero, she commissions a costume that is mostly an homage and tribute to ComicBook/Superman's look (and she feels unworthy to wear his colors), but includes ComicBook/PowerGirl's CleavageWindow because Alex knows the reasoning behind it and accepts it.
*{{Crossover}}: Of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''ComicBook/PowerGirl''... but its set in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.
*CurbStompBattle: Pretty much every time Alex gets into a fight, its a CurbStompBattle simply because she's a Kryptonian and the MarvelUniverse doesn't have much in the way of people able to handle a Kryptonian outside of Galactus and his Heralds. Even Sentry, Ares, and Thor get their asses handed to them on a plate.
** The fight with Typhoid Mary is the closest Alex comes to being beaten, and that's because Mary is a telepath able to manipulate her target's perceptions. Mary is actually ''winning'' against Alex when she's suddenly cold-cocked from behind by Louise, who beats Typhoid Mary down from behind with a bottle of sparkling grape juice.
*DayInTheLife: Chapter 19, entitled “Things to Do in California When You're On Vacation”, for the most part is all about Alex and Louise going on their honeymoon after being “married' in a Domestic Partnership ceremony.
*DestinationDefenestration: In Chapter 17, “This Might Sting a Little”, Alex tosses Sentry through the bedroom sliding glass door of of Hawkeye's old house. It actually turns into an involuntary FastballSpecial, as she uses Sentry's body as a way to knock Thor out of the air.
*DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Alex and Louise have what is effectively a business meeting with Magneto over breakfast at a Bob Evans. There are several other supervillains present, but they are very polite because Alex scares the living daylights out of them.
*DynamicEntry: The reason Alex gets to toss Sentry through a sliding glass door is because he crashes through the roof of her bedroom. Too bad for him she saw him coming.
*ExcusePlot: The author admits that he wrote this story primarily because he “Wanted to give Tony Stark a punch in the mouth” after reading the original comic book story.
*EyeBeams: Alex uses her heat vision multiple times, most notably to disable ComicBook/CaptainMarvel.
*GeniusBruiser: Alex is very intelligent. She's just not used to thinking of herself that way.
*GenreSavvy: Xander Harris was a comic book geek. Alex has all of his memories. She is thus often able to predict what the various Marvel Comics heroes will do before they think of doing it. She also knows a lot of secret identities.
*HeelRealization: The slow realization that the government is now chasing a teenage girl solely because she is as powerful as she is, and not because she violated the law, causes Tony Stark to have one of these.
*HelloNurse: Francisco and Sanchez recognize that Alex is sex on two legs even when she's in badly fitting clothing, her hair is a wreck, covered in grime, and barefoot.
*HeroAntagonist: Most of the “bad guys” Alex fights are the well-known superheroes of the Marvel Universe.
*HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Louise was trapped in prostitution by her pimp, and took the first opportunity to escape the life that was given to her.
*HowDoIShotWeb: Avoided. Alex has PowerGirl's memories, and thus knows instinctively how to use all of PowerGirl's powers. Though she still plays with them occasionally just because its fun.
*IChooseToStay: Alex justifies not fleeing to some other country to Nico Minoru of the Runaways.
*IdiotBall: Everyone who reacts to Alex escaping from SHIELD and defeating the Avengers handily with the idea that throwing more guys at her is a good idea is carrying this.
*IntellectuallySupportedTyranny: Tony Stark's justification for shredding the US Constitution when it comes to superhumans.
*InterspeciesRomance: Alex is a Kryptonian. Louise is human. They love each other and are even talking about becoming parents.
*IWarnedYou: Tony Stark to Henry Peter Gyrich, after Alex's utter annhihilation of the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}.
*KilledOffForReal: Bullseye, the Radioactive Man, Venom, and Pennance. Because they hurt Louise, and no one hurts Alex's loved ones and walks away.
*LesserOfTwoEvils: Stark's initial justification for the Registration Act. Toward the end of the story, he no longer really believes this, and has come to the idea that it was a choice that should never have been made.
*LivingLieDetector: Alex can do this by way of being able to monitor changes in a person's body heat and heartbeat.
*TheMole: From the beginning, Wonder Man isn't as supportive of the hunt for Alex as Tony Stark thinks.
** Phil Coulson helps Alex escape from SHIELD's clutches again and again without her ever knowing he's doing it.
* MostCommonSuperpower: Of course. And they are remarked upon several times, not only by other people, but by Alex herself and (especially) Louise, who really, really appreciates them.
*{{Mutants}}: Its set in the Marvel Universe, so yes, there are mutants. The most notable one is Louise Fulford, Alex's LoveInterest. Her mutant power, the ability to change her hair color (all her hair, not just the stuff on her head) to any shade or combination of shades she wishes) is less than overwhelming.
** There is an entire community of homeless, low-powered mutants living under an overpass in Los Angeles. Alex and Louise take shelter with them for a while, and look after them afterward.
*NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Alex effectively tells the US government that she will be watching their every move, and that if she sees them do something that crosses what she considers a line, she will come down on them, hard. When Tony Stark points out that this is effectively a “terrorist threat”, Alex counters that its actually more akin to a parent telling their children to stop fighting or they'll be sent to their room.
*ObviousCrossoverMethod: When boiled down to its essentials, this story is a ''[[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' YAHF (“yet another Halloween fic”) story. Except it really, really isn't. It goes off of ''those'' rails almost with the first chapter.
* OhCrap: Moonstone's reaction when Alex attacks the Thunderbolts.
* OnlyInMiami: After falling in love with the beaches in Florida, Alex and Louise decide to settle in South Florida. While Miami becomes “her city” (and she becomes fiercely protective of it), Alex decides that its better for SecretIdentity purposes that they live on Big Pine Key, an island some 70 miles south of the city.
*RefuseTheCall: For most of the story, Alex refuses to become a superhero, saying that she only wants to be left alone. And then she catches a helicopter as its falling out of the sky...
*RelationshipUpgrade: That moment in Chapter 14 where Alex reveals that she's had an epiphany about her awkward relationship with Louise:
-->'''Alex Harris:''' "So anyway, uh, after I sort of figured out I loved you, I started asking myself if this was for real. I mean, uh, are our feelings for each other real? Are we really falling in love, or are we just desperate? I feel love for you. I love you. I know I love you. I can feel it. But… but… you were in a really crap place, and I was in a really crap place, and maybe we just, uh, I don’t know, latched on each other, you know? I was just sort of wondering. Just wondering if we, you and me, if we hooked onto the only people we know who gave a shit. You know? I’ve been thinking about it, I mean. The whole desperation thing. About whether our feelings are real. And it’s why I’ve come to a decision about leaving you behind and hiding to keep you safe and whether or not we’re just being desperate. I’ve come to a decision about all of it. And what I’ve decided is, I don’t care. I love you, Louise. I know we’re not to the in love stage, but I want to be there. And I’m not running away from you. I’m not going anywhere unless you’re going with me."
*RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Alex possessing all the powers of a Kryptonian, gets positively ''medieval'' on the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} after they turn her girlfriend into "collateral damage". She hits Bullseye so hard that the assassin's adamantium-reinforced skull deforms around her fist, rips Radioactive Man's heart out with her bare hands, rams a forefinger through Songbird's larynx, burns the Venom symbiote into a puddle of smoking goo with his heat vision, and pitches Penance into outer space. She leaves Moonstone alive and (relatively) unharmed as a “message”
* RunningJoke: Everyone calls Alex “Karen Starr” (which is ComicBook/KarenStarr's real name) despite her never once claiming to be Karen Starr. And no one really believes her denials.
* SecretIdentity: Louise demands that Alex start using one when Alex formally decides to stop running from her destiny and become a superhero.
* ShootingSuperman: SHIELD agents try to shoot Alex with “Hulk Buster” bullets (designed to take down the roaring green ragemonster himself). They have no effect at all. Alex even lectures them about how they are more likely to hurt themselves with a ricochet than hurt her with them.
* ShoutOut: A bunch.
** The casting used in the ''Franchise/MarvelComics'' version of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' includes actors who were called to audition but didn't make the cut, and to actors that only appeared in ''Buffy's'' unaired pilot.
** When Agent Understone asks ComicBook/DocSamson for a diagnosis of Alex's mental state, Samson says, “She's a loon”, a reference to ''Film/TheTeminator''.
** The title of Chapter, 12, “Dark Side of the Moon: Side 2, Song 2” is a reference to a single line of dialog from an episode of ''Series/GeneralHospital'' that broadcast back in 1985.
** When she finally decides to become a superhero, she takes her look directly from ComicBook/Superman, but tosses in a dash of ComicBook/PowerGirl for good measure. And the name she uses, Superwoman, is a direct ShoutOut to honor the man she's hoping to emulate in the Marvel Universe.
** Alex and Louise run into actor Nicholas Brendon and his twin brother, Kelly Donovan. Notable, in the MarvelUniverse, Brendon was never cast as Xander Harris and spends his time talking more about ''Kitchen Confidential”.
** The computer tech who helps Phil Coulson distribute the truth about Alex's treatment at the hands of SHIELD to the general public was named Willow Rosenberg. Coulson, who knew the truth about Alex's origins, found it “poetically appropriate”.
*{{Sidekick}}: At one point, Alex specifically refers to Louise as “my sidekick, Lady Clairol”. It was meant as a joke, but Louise occasionally refers to herself as Lady Clairol off and on for the remainder of the story.
*SlashFic: Justified in that Alex's mind is made up of half [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander Harris]], who is a strictly heterosexual male, and [[PowerGirl Kara Zor-L]], who is a bisexual female. Thus, she has a natural tendency to view women as sexually attractive.
*StatuesqueStunner: Alex just has that effect on people.
*SuperHeroOrigin: Ultimately, the entire story is the origin tale that explains how Superwoman, a Kryptonian hero in the mold of Superman, came to be in the Marvel Universe.
*SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: As in the original ComicBook/CivilWar storyline, the X-Men sit the entire thing out after quietly determining that Alex is ''not'' a mutant after all. Since she isn't a mutant, and isn't attacking mutants (and has, in the past defended them) they don't see it as their problem.
*SuperweaponSurprise: The Avengers are tasked by SHIELD to arrest a girl who escaped from their custody. SHIELD had previously tested the girl's power level, and put her somewhere on the scale between Power Man and SpiderMan. Well, surprise, surprise, turns out she was a [[{{Superman}} Kryptonian]] who figured out that maybe hiding just how powerful she really was might be a smart idea. Cue [[IronMan Tony Stark]] getting the [[CurbStompBattle ass-whipping]] of his life.
*SwitchingPOV: The writer is pretty good about switching the POV of the story without making it seem awkward. Most of the story is told from Alex's point of view, but other charactrs, including Tony Stark, Happy Hogan, Henry Peter Gyrich, and even Typhoid Mary get a chance to tell the tale from their perspective.
*ToBeLawfulOrGood: At one point Wonder Man asks Iron Man why they're chasing down a teenage girl who isn't likely to be hurting people or being a menace to anyone. Tony's answer is “Because the law says we have to.”
*ToCatchHeroesHireVillains: The ComicBook/Thunderbolts are sent after Alex, but end up hurting her girlfriend instead. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge This turns out to be a grave error]].
*TomatoInTheMirror: For most of the story, Alex believes that she is actually [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander Harris]] who has been somehow trapped in PowerGirl's body. Turns out, she's actually a magically created copy of PowerGirl who just happens to have Xander's memories.
*TransplantedCharacterFic: The story is a ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' / ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' {{crossover}}, and yet it takes place in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.
*UngratefulBastard: The entire United States government. Alex prevents an oil tanker from breaking up, and thus stops it from dousing the Florida coast in crude oil, and their response is to call SHIELD and the Avengers down on her head. Again.
*VerticalKidnapping: How Alex removes the problem that is Henry Peter Gyrich. She leaves him in space.
*WhamEpisode: Chapter 13, appropriately entitled "Ragnarok!", reveals that Alex, who had up until then thought that she was a male-to-female gender-swapped [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander Harris]], finds out that she is actually a magically created copy of [[PowerGirl Kara Zor-El]] who merely ''thought'' she was Xander Harris. She was never gender-swapped at all. The stress of this revelation was one of the spurs behind her RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}''.
*WhosLaughingNow: This was basically Alex's reaction to Tony Stark wanting to be nice and conciliatory ''after'' Alex put most of the Avengers and about a hundred SHIELD agents in the hospital.
----
In the aftermath of the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode “Halloween”, Xander Harris finds himself trapped not only in the body of ComicBook/PowerGirl, but trapped in the Marvel Universe as well during a time in which being an unregistered metahuman is a bad, bad thing. Naturally, given Xander's problems with authority, HilarityEnsues as SHIELD and ComicBook/TheAvengers try and bring him to heel. At least, that's what everyone thinks is going on. The truth is a lot more complicated, not only for Xander, but for the friends he makes, the enemies he provokes, and for the Marvel Universe as a whole. Calling himself “Alex Harris”, he strives to find a safe harbor for both himself and the woman he comes to love.
----
!!This story provides examples of:
*AcceptableBreaksFromCanon: The story has Tony Stark as Director of SHIELD during a period in which the actual Director was still Maria Hill. Very few of the fans of the story have ever noticed, and even fewer cared when they did.
*AccusationFic: The story was written specifically as a way to symbolically “punish” Marvel Comics for the entire Civil War story arc.
*AchillesInHisTent: For most of the story, Alex RefusesTheCall. She's possibly the most powerful superhuman on Earth, and has the right attitude to be an effective force for good, but all she wants is to be left alone. Eventually, she comes around.
*ActionGirl: Alex doesn't hesitate in the least to rush in and help when people need help, nor does she shy away from fighting when a fight is what is needed. But then, half of her mental makeup is [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander Harris]], and the other half is [[ComicBook/PowerGirl Kara Zor-L]], so its to be expected.
*AffablyEvil: Magneto, in the appropriately titled Chapter 21: “Breakfast With Magneto”.
*AirborneAircraftCarrier: SHIELD's Helicarrier makes an appearance in Chapter 23: “Look, Up in the Sky!”, as SHIELD tries to enforce the “work for us or go to prison” provisions of the Metahuman Registration Act on Alex.
*TheAlcatraz: The Gulag, Reed Richards prison, is specifically mentioned. One SHIELD agent hopes that they don't have to send Alex there for the rest of her life.
*AlternateSelf: Of Power Girl. At first, Alex thinks that she is Xander Harris with Kara's memories, but later comes to realize that she's actually a melding of both Xander and Kara, with her own experiences and opinions.
*AlternateUniverseFic: A Kryptonian comes to the Marvel Universe.
*AmazonianBeauty: It is remarked on that Alex is 6' 2” tall and is muscled like a bodybuilder. Louise, her girlfriend, is of average height and weight for an American woman, and is seen as “tiny” when standing next to Alex.
*ArmorPiercingQuestion: Wonder Man to Tony Stark: “Why are we hunting this girl when she's done nothing wrong?”
*ArtisticLicenseLaw: Alex points out that her treatment is drastically unconstitutional because its illegal to criminalize the fact that someone exists (or as Alex puts it, “Making it illegal to be a superhuman is like making it illegal to be red-headed; its not something people can help”). She also points out how wrong throwing people in jail without due process is. However, a SHIELD agent counters that Alex and the other metahumans are no longer legally considere people: they are walking, talking weapons of mass destruction, and thus have no civil rights.
*AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Alex is able to ignore the Metahuman Registration Act because, to be blunt, the only beings in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse powerful enough to enforce it just don't give a damn about puny humans and their political squabbles.
*TheBadGuysAreCops: The Thunderbolts. Alex points out the idiocy of making the Radioactive Man, Venom, and Bullseye a part of law enforcement.
*BerserkButton: Don't even think about harming Louise. Just don't. Remember, half of her memories and attitudes come from Xander Harris, who is quite happy to rip the spines out of those who hurt the people he loves. Now, imagine a pissed off Xander Harris possessing the body of a Kryptonian.
** After Bullseye almost kills Louise in an assassination attempt that is actually directed at Alex, Alex punches Bullseye in the forehead so hard his adamantium skull is dented, his eyes explode out of his skull, and his brain liquifies.
* BigFancyHouse: The house that Alex and Louise buy in Chapter 25: “She's Good People", is a mansion overlooking the Gulf of Mexico on Big Pine Key. And its on stilts.
*BreathWeapon: Alex uses her “super-breath” on Reed Richards to nullify his stretching capabilities. He compliments her on her creative thinking.
*BrokenBird: Alex, as revealed by her conversation with Doc Samson.
** Louise also. The pair of them help each other heal.
*CharacterDevelopment: Alex starts out frightened, alone, and desperate to get home, but eventually grows into the idea of being the hero the Marvel Universe so desperately needs.
-->'''Alex (as Superwoman):''' “You people call yourselves heroes, but all you're doing is running around fighting each other! When was the last time you fed the hungry? When was the last time you helped irrigate a desert? When was the last time you were there for someone who just needed a friend? That's what being a hero is all about. You're all like children, throwing temper tantrums.”
*CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: After a diplomatic incident involving the illegal arrest of a French ambassador, President GeorgeWBush specifically points out that while they might joke about how the French are weak sisters, everyone knows that the ''truth'' is that a war between France and the United States would most likely end up in a PyrrhicVictory for the US.
*ChestInsignia: This is played with. Alex's costume has the CleavageWindow of PowerGirl along with the color scheme of {{Superman}} because Alex accepts and believes in Kara's reasons for not having one. But she also acknowledges the House of El by including the classic Superman “S” on her belt buckle and on the broaches that hold her cape on. Like Kara, she feels that if people are overly preoccupied or distracted by her boobs that's their problem, not hers.
* ClarkKenting: Toward the end of the story, Alex starts wearing a paid of glasses and a dark colored wig, but mostly relies on the fact that people are too busy staring at her CleavageWindow to notice her face.
* CleavageWindow: When Alex finally decides to stop running and become a superhero, she commissions a costume that is mostly an homage and tribute to ComicBook/Superman's look (and she feels unworthy to wear his colors), but includes ComicBook/PowerGirl's CleavageWindow because Alex knows the reasoning behind it and accepts it.
*{{Crossover}}: Of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''ComicBook/PowerGirl''... but its set in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.
*CurbStompBattle: Pretty much every time Alex gets into a fight, its a CurbStompBattle simply because she's a Kryptonian and the MarvelUniverse doesn't have much in the way of people able to handle a Kryptonian outside of Galactus and his Heralds. Even Sentry, Ares, and Thor get their asses handed to them on a plate.
** The fight with Typhoid Mary is the closest Alex comes to being beaten, and that's because Mary is a telepath able to manipulate her target's perceptions. Mary is actually ''winning'' against Alex when she's suddenly cold-cocked from behind by Louise, who beats Typhoid Mary down from behind with a bottle of sparkling grape juice.
*DayInTheLife: Chapter 19, entitled “Things to Do in California When You're On Vacation”, for the most part is all about Alex and Louise going on their honeymoon after being “married' in a Domestic Partnership ceremony.
*DestinationDefenestration: In Chapter 17, “This Might Sting a Little”, Alex tosses Sentry through the bedroom sliding glass door of of Hawkeye's old house. It actually turns into an involuntary FastballSpecial, as she uses Sentry's body as a way to knock Thor out of the air.
*DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Alex and Louise have what is effectively a business meeting with Magneto over breakfast at a Bob Evans. There are several other supervillains present, but they are very polite because Alex scares the living daylights out of them.
*DynamicEntry: The reason Alex gets to toss Sentry through a sliding glass door is because he crashes through the roof of her bedroom. Too bad for him she saw him coming.
*ExcusePlot: The author admits that he wrote this story primarily because he “Wanted to give Tony Stark a punch in the mouth” after reading the original comic book story.
*EyeBeams: Alex uses her heat vision multiple times, most notably to disable ComicBook/CaptainMarvel.
*GeniusBruiser: Alex is very intelligent. She's just not used to thinking of herself that way.
*GenreSavvy: Xander Harris was a comic book geek. Alex has all of his memories. She is thus often able to predict what the various Marvel Comics heroes will do before they think of doing it. She also knows a lot of secret identities.
*HeelRealization: The slow realization that the government is now chasing a teenage girl solely because she is as powerful as she is, and not because she violated the law, causes Tony Stark to have one of these.
*HelloNurse: Francisco and Sanchez recognize that Alex is sex on two legs even when she's in badly fitting clothing, her hair is a wreck, covered in grime, and barefoot.
*HeroAntagonist: Most of the “bad guys” Alex fights are the well-known superheroes of the Marvel Universe.
*HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Louise was trapped in prostitution by her pimp, and took the first opportunity to escape the life that was given to her.
*HowDoIShotWeb: Avoided. Alex has PowerGirl's memories, and thus knows instinctively how to use all of PowerGirl's powers. Though she still plays with them occasionally just because its fun.
*IChooseToStay: Alex justifies not fleeing to some other country to Nico Minoru of the Runaways.
*IdiotBall: Everyone who reacts to Alex escaping from SHIELD and defeating the Avengers handily with the idea that throwing more guys at her is a good idea is carrying this.
*IntellectuallySupportedTyranny: Tony Stark's justification for shredding the US Constitution when it comes to superhumans.
*InterspeciesRomance: Alex is a Kryptonian. Louise is human. They love each other and are even talking about becoming parents.
*IWarnedYou: Tony Stark to Henry Peter Gyrich, after Alex's utter annhihilation of the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}.
*KilledOffForReal: Bullseye, the Radioactive Man, Venom, and Pennance. Because they hurt Louise, and no one hurts Alex's loved ones and walks away.
*LesserOfTwoEvils: Stark's initial justification for the Registration Act. Toward the end of the story, he no longer really believes this, and has come to the idea that it was a choice that should never have been made.
*LivingLieDetector: Alex can do this by way of being able to monitor changes in a person's body heat and heartbeat.
*TheMole: From the beginning, Wonder Man isn't as supportive of the hunt for Alex as Tony Stark thinks.
** Phil Coulson helps Alex escape from SHIELD's clutches again and again without her ever knowing he's doing it.
* MostCommonSuperpower: Of course. And they are remarked upon several times, not only by other people, but by Alex herself and (especially) Louise, who really, really appreciates them.
*{{Mutants}}: Its set in the Marvel Universe, so yes, there are mutants. The most notable one is Louise Fulford, Alex's LoveInterest. Her mutant power, the ability to change her hair color (all her hair, not just the stuff on her head) to any shade or combination of shades she wishes) is less than overwhelming.
** There is an entire community of homeless, low-powered mutants living under an overpass in Los Angeles. Alex and Louise take shelter with them for a while, and look after them afterward.
*NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Alex effectively tells the US government that she will be watching their every move, and that if she sees them do something that crosses what she considers a line, she will come down on them, hard. When Tony Stark points out that this is effectively a “terrorist threat”, Alex counters that its actually more akin to a parent telling their children to stop fighting or they'll be sent to their room.
*ObviousCrossoverMethod: When boiled down to its essentials, this story is a ''[[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' YAHF (“yet another Halloween fic”) story. Except it really, really isn't. It goes off of ''those'' rails almost with the first chapter.
* OhCrap: Moonstone's reaction when Alex attacks the Thunderbolts.
* OnlyInMiami: After falling in love with the beaches in Florida, Alex and Louise decide to settle in South Florida. While Miami becomes “her city” (and she becomes fiercely protective of it), Alex decides that its better for SecretIdentity purposes that they live on Big Pine Key, an island some 70 miles south of the city.
*RefuseTheCall: For most of the story, Alex refuses to become a superhero, saying that she only wants to be left alone. And then she catches a helicopter as its falling out of the sky...
*RelationshipUpgrade: That moment in Chapter 14 where Alex reveals that she's had an epiphany about her awkward relationship with Louise:
-->'''Alex Harris:''' "So anyway, uh, after I sort of figured out I loved you, I started asking myself if this was for real. I mean, uh, are our feelings for each other real? Are we really falling in love, or are we just desperate? I feel love for you. I love you. I know I love you. I can feel it. But… but… you were in a really crap place, and I was in a really crap place, and maybe we just, uh, I don’t know, latched on each other, you know? I was just sort of wondering. Just wondering if we, you and me, if we hooked onto the only people we know who gave a shit. You know? I’ve been thinking about it, I mean. The whole desperation thing. About whether our feelings are real. And it’s why I’ve come to a decision about leaving you behind and hiding to keep you safe and whether or not we’re just being desperate. I’ve come to a decision about all of it. And what I’ve decided is, I don’t care. I love you, Louise. I know we’re not to the in love stage, but I want to be there. And I’m not running away from you. I’m not going anywhere unless you’re going with me."
*RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Alex possessing all the powers of a Kryptonian, gets positively ''medieval'' on the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} after they turn her girlfriend into "collateral damage". She hits Bullseye so hard that the assassin's adamantium-reinforced skull deforms around her fist, rips Radioactive Man's heart out with her bare hands, rams a forefinger through Songbird's larynx, burns the Venom symbiote into a puddle of smoking goo with his heat vision, and pitches Penance into outer space. She leaves Moonstone alive and (relatively) unharmed as a “message”
* RunningJoke: Everyone calls Alex “Karen Starr” (which is ComicBook/KarenStarr's real name) despite her never once claiming to be Karen Starr. And no one really believes her denials.
* SecretIdentity: Louise demands that Alex start using one when Alex formally decides to stop running from her destiny and become a superhero.
* ShootingSuperman: SHIELD agents try to shoot Alex with “Hulk Buster” bullets (designed to take down the roaring green ragemonster himself). They have no effect at all. Alex even lectures them about how they are more likely to hurt themselves with a ricochet than hurt her with them.
* ShoutOut: A bunch.
** The casting used in the ''Franchise/MarvelComics'' version of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' includes actors who were called to audition but didn't make the cut, and to actors that only appeared in ''Buffy's'' unaired pilot.
** When Agent Understone asks ComicBook/DocSamson for a diagnosis of Alex's mental state, Samson says, “She's a loon”, a reference to ''Film/TheTeminator''.
** The title of Chapter, 12, “Dark Side of the Moon: Side 2, Song 2” is a reference to a single line of dialog from an episode of ''Series/GeneralHospital'' that broadcast back in 1985.
** When she finally decides to become a superhero, she takes her look directly from ComicBook/Superman, but tosses in a dash of ComicBook/PowerGirl for good measure. And the name she uses, Superwoman, is a direct ShoutOut to honor the man she's hoping to emulate in the Marvel Universe.
** Alex and Louise run into actor Nicholas Brendon and his twin brother, Kelly Donovan. Notable, in the MarvelUniverse, Brendon was never cast as Xander Harris and spends his time talking more about ''Kitchen Confidential”.
** The computer tech who helps Phil Coulson distribute the truth about Alex's treatment at the hands of SHIELD to the general public was named Willow Rosenberg. Coulson, who knew the truth about Alex's origins, found it “poetically appropriate”.
*{{Sidekick}}: At one point, Alex specifically refers to Louise as “my sidekick, Lady Clairol”. It was meant as a joke, but Louise occasionally refers to herself as Lady Clairol off and on for the remainder of the story.
*SlashFic: Justified in that Alex's mind is made up of half [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander Harris]], who is a strictly heterosexual male, and [[PowerGirl Kara Zor-L]], who is a bisexual female. Thus, she has a natural tendency to view women as sexually attractive.
*StatuesqueStunner: Alex just has that effect on people.
*SuperHeroOrigin: Ultimately, the entire story is the origin tale that explains how Superwoman, a Kryptonian hero in the mold of Superman, came to be in the Marvel Universe.
*SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: As in the original ComicBook/CivilWar storyline, the X-Men sit the entire thing out after quietly determining that Alex is ''not'' a mutant after all. Since she isn't a mutant, and isn't attacking mutants (and has, in the past defended them) they don't see it as their problem.
*SuperweaponSurprise: The Avengers are tasked by SHIELD to arrest a girl who escaped from their custody. SHIELD had previously tested the girl's power level, and put her somewhere on the scale between Power Man and SpiderMan. Well, surprise, surprise, turns out she was a [[{{Superman}} Kryptonian]] who figured out that maybe hiding just how powerful she really was might be a smart idea. Cue [[IronMan Tony Stark]] getting the [[CurbStompBattle ass-whipping]] of his life.
*SwitchingPOV: The writer is pretty good about switching the POV of the story without making it seem awkward. Most of the story is told from Alex's point of view, but other charactrs, including Tony Stark, Happy Hogan, Henry Peter Gyrich, and even Typhoid Mary get a chance to tell the tale from their perspective.
*ToBeLawfulOrGood: At one point Wonder Man asks Iron Man why they're chasing down a teenage girl who isn't likely to be hurting people or being a menace to anyone. Tony's answer is “Because the law says we have to.”
*ToCatchHeroesHireVillains: The ComicBook/Thunderbolts are sent after Alex, but end up hurting her girlfriend instead. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge This turns out to be a grave error]].
*TomatoInTheMirror: For most of the story, Alex believes that she is actually [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander Harris]] who has been somehow trapped in PowerGirl's body. Turns out, she's actually a magically created copy of PowerGirl who just happens to have Xander's memories.
*TransplantedCharacterFic: The story is a ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' / ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' {{crossover}}, and yet it takes place in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.
*UngratefulBastard: The entire United States government. Alex prevents an oil tanker from breaking up, and thus stops it from dousing the Florida coast in crude oil, and their response is to call SHIELD and the Avengers down on her head. Again.
*VerticalKidnapping: How Alex removes the problem that is Henry Peter Gyrich. She leaves him in space.
*WhamEpisode: Chapter 13, appropriately entitled "Ragnarok!", reveals that Alex, who had up until then thought that she was a male-to-female gender-swapped [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander Harris]], finds out that she is actually a magically created copy of [[PowerGirl Kara Zor-El]] who merely ''thought'' she was Xander Harris. She was never gender-swapped at all. The stress of this revelation was one of the spurs behind her RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}''.
*WhosLaughingNow: This was basically Alex's reaction to Tony Stark wanting to be nice and conciliatory ''after'' Alex put most of the Avengers and about a hundred SHIELD agents in the hospital.
----
