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* HypocrisyNod: Gary Karkofsky AKA Merciless: The Supervillain without MercyTM is an anarchist supervillain who hates the rich and wants to liberate the masses. He's also someone who is obscenely wealthy due to his various heists by the end of the third book and has frequently mentioned his desire to conquer the world. Several volumes have Gary noting he's aware of the irony and just sort of brushes it off.
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* HypocrisyNod: Gary Karkofsky AKA Merciless: The Supervillain without MercyTM [=MercyTM=] is an anarchist supervillain who hates the rich and wants to liberate the masses. He's also someone who is obscenely wealthy due to his various heists by the end of the third book and has frequently mentioned his desire to conquer the world. Several volumes have Gary noting he's aware of the irony and just sort of brushes it off.
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* HypocrisyNod: Gary Karkofsky AKA Merciless: The Supervillain without MercyTM is an anarchist supervillain who hates the rich and wants to liberate the masses. He's also someone who is obscenely wealthy due to his various heists by the end of the third book and has frequently mentioned his desire to conquer the world. Several volumes have Gary noting he's aware of the irony and just sort of brushes it off.
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* Tradesnark: Gary is ''Merciless: The Supervillain without Mercy™.
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* Tradesnark: TradeSnark: Gary is ''Merciless: The Supervillain without Mercy™.
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** Entropicus is one for Skeletor, Darkseid, Thanos, and Shao Khan all rolled into one.
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** The League of Archvillains is one for the Legion of Doom.
** The Dragon King is one for Fing Fang Foom, Godzilla, and Thulsa Doom.
** Red Sindi is one for Red Sonja, to the point of being a CaptainErsatz.
** The Dragon King is one for Fing Fang Foom, Godzilla, and Thulsa Doom.
** Red Sindi is one for Red Sonja, to the point of being a CaptainErsatz.
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* HollywoodNerd:
** Gary is an enormous geek who references everything from Star Wars to video games to comic books.
** Cindy also qualifies, being a PopCulturedBadass, HospitalHottie, and CuteButPsycho.
** Gabrielle a.k.a Ultragoddess is a DownplayedTrope example as she keeps her nerdier habits confined to her secret identity.
** Gary is an enormous geek who references everything from Star Wars to video games to comic books.
** Cindy also qualifies, being a PopCulturedBadass, HospitalHottie, and CuteButPsycho.
** Gabrielle a.k.a Ultragoddess is a DownplayedTrope example as she keeps her nerdier habits confined to her secret identity.
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* ''Literature/TalesOfSupervillainyCindysSeven''
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* ''Literature/TalesOfSupervillainyCindysSeven'' ''[[Literature/TalesOfSupervillainyCindysSeven Tales of Supervillainy: Cindy's Seven]]''
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** In ''Literature/TheGamesOfSupervillainy'' the Nightmaster is the head of the Brotherhood of Infamy and trying to summon BiggerBad Zul-Barbas who will destroy the world and remake it.
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** In ''Literature/TheGamesOfSupervillainy'' the Nightmaster is the head of the Brotherhood of Infamy and trying to summon BiggerBad Zul-Barbas who will destroy the world and remake it.
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* {{Multiverse}}: Gary's adventures exists in one of these and other universes sometimes come up as plot points or a NoodleIncident. It becomes a focus of the setting with ''The Tournament of Supervillainy'' when we discover that all of C.T. Phipps' books are set in the same multiverse and can interact with one another.
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* {{Multiverse}}: TheMultiverse: Gary's adventures exists in one of these and other universes sometimes come up as plot points or a NoodleIncident. It becomes a focus of the setting with ''The Tournament of Supervillainy'' when we discover that all of C.T. Phipps' books are set in the same multiverse and can interact with one another.
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* YouHaveToHaveJews: Both Gary, Cindy, and all of Gary's family (but Mandy) are Jewish. They also appear to be Jews of Polish descent.
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* DeathIsCheap: Parodied, Deconstructed, and Lampshaded. Gary kills a supervillain in the first chapter only to find them resurrected as a zombie halfway through. This is the lead in to the ZombieApocalypse. He also has to deal with multiple clones of the same group of NinetiesAntiHero antagonists. However, Gary finds it nearly impossible to bring back [[spoiler: his dead wife.]]. Later, this is the subject of ''The Tournament of Supervillainy'' [[spoiler: where it's revealed a PsycopathicManchild god is responsible for most comic book resurrections.]]
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* DeathIsCheap: Parodied, Deconstructed, and Lampshaded. Gary kills a supervillain in the first chapter only to find them resurrected as a zombie halfway through. This is the lead in to the ZombieApocalypse. He also has to deal with multiple clones of the same group of NinetiesAntiHero antagonists. However, Gary finds it nearly impossible to bring back [[spoiler: his dead wife.]]. Later, this is the subject of ''The Tournament of Supervillainy'' [[spoiler: where it's revealed a PsycopathicManchild PsychopathicManchild god is responsible for most comic book resurrections.]]
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* RealityEnsues: Surprisingly happens a few times in the novel. Indeed, these are the basis for ''The Rules of Supervillainy.''
** A lot of Gary's problems stem from the fact that he was traumatized by the execution of his brother at the hands of a {{Antihero}} vigilante in front of him. Even then, it doesn't turn him against regular superheroes or start a RoaringRampageOfRevenge like Batman or the Punisher. [[spoiler: He just tracks down the specific antihero involved and shoots him when he's visiting a prostitute.]]
** FantasticRacism is a result of regular humans being constantly subjected to escaping supervillains, monsters, alien invasions, [[GreenEyedMonster and simple jealousy over not having powers themselves.]] A lot of politicians stoke the fears of the populace while pressuring for more permanent solutions while publicly being on the sides of superheroes.
** Supervillains can and do steal whole fortunes but usually run through them quickly because they have to maintain their lairs, equipment, and armies of henchmen. If they had the psychology to manage their money well they wouldn't be supervillains.
** A {{Antihero}} pretending to be a supervillain and wise-cracking the entire time isn't viewed very fondly by heroes who are irritated as hell by his activities. It makes them look like a joke, still results in a lot of severe crimes, and makes him look like TheSociopath due to his EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor. By ''Literature/TheTournamentOfSupervillainy'', a lot of heroes just want to kick Gary's ass.
** DatingCatwoman comes with a lot of issues as [[spoiler: Gabrielle and Gary]] find out by book 5.
** The books tackle superhumans and violence a great deal.
*** It turns out that superhero combat is a lot more lethal than you'd think. The only way that people don't die all the time is the fact the Society of Superheroes use a lot of magic and specialized technology to make sure casualties are kept to a minimum. Gary, who has access to none of that, kills a bunch of people.
*** Indeed, Gary's power set is fairly modest by the standards of the universe but is extremely dangerous because he uses it in a variety of brutal CombatPragmatist ways. As such, villains who do well against heroes trying NOT to kill them don't do well against Gary at all.
*** Mandy is an incredibly gifted heroine with lots of combat training from her father but only recently someone who has taken up being a superheroine. [[spoiler: She dies saving Cindy's life in a split second combat situation.]]
*** Most superheroes don't actually have a ThouShallNotKill rule. They try ''not'' to kill supervillains whenever possible but whenever it becomes a choice of taking a supervillain alive or saving an innocent life, they move to lethal force.
*** NinetiesAntiHero types only are popular for as long as it takes the public to realize they're causing a huge amount of collateral damage and killing people who might not necessarilly be psychotic killers themselves.
*** Much like as how cops respond to copkillers, a villain who kills a superhero has the entirety of their kind descend on him until he's dealt with.
** A lot of Gary's problems stem from the fact that he was traumatized by the execution of his brother at the hands of a {{Antihero}} vigilante in front of him. Even then, it doesn't turn him against regular superheroes or start a RoaringRampageOfRevenge like Batman or the Punisher. [[spoiler: He just tracks down the specific antihero involved and shoots him when he's visiting a prostitute.]]
** FantasticRacism is a result of regular humans being constantly subjected to escaping supervillains, monsters, alien invasions, [[GreenEyedMonster and simple jealousy over not having powers themselves.]] A lot of politicians stoke the fears of the populace while pressuring for more permanent solutions while publicly being on the sides of superheroes.
** Supervillains can and do steal whole fortunes but usually run through them quickly because they have to maintain their lairs, equipment, and armies of henchmen. If they had the psychology to manage their money well they wouldn't be supervillains.
** A {{Antihero}} pretending to be a supervillain and wise-cracking the entire time isn't viewed very fondly by heroes who are irritated as hell by his activities. It makes them look like a joke, still results in a lot of severe crimes, and makes him look like TheSociopath due to his EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor. By ''Literature/TheTournamentOfSupervillainy'', a lot of heroes just want to kick Gary's ass.
** DatingCatwoman comes with a lot of issues as [[spoiler: Gabrielle and Gary]] find out by book 5.
** The books tackle superhumans and violence a great deal.
*** It turns out that superhero combat is a lot more lethal than you'd think. The only way that people don't die all the time is the fact the Society of Superheroes use a lot of magic and specialized technology to make sure casualties are kept to a minimum. Gary, who has access to none of that, kills a bunch of people.
*** Indeed, Gary's power set is fairly modest by the standards of the universe but is extremely dangerous because he uses it in a variety of brutal CombatPragmatist ways. As such, villains who do well against heroes trying NOT to kill them don't do well against Gary at all.
*** Mandy is an incredibly gifted heroine with lots of combat training from her father but only recently someone who has taken up being a superheroine. [[spoiler: She dies saving Cindy's life in a split second combat situation.]]
*** Most superheroes don't actually have a ThouShallNotKill rule. They try ''not'' to kill supervillains whenever possible but whenever it becomes a choice of taking a supervillain alive or saving an innocent life, they move to lethal force.
*** NinetiesAntiHero types only are popular for as long as it takes the public to realize they're causing a huge amount of collateral damage and killing people who might not necessarilly be psychotic killers themselves.
*** Much like as how cops respond to copkillers, a villain who kills a superhero has the entirety of their kind descend on him until he's dealt with.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Surprisingly happens a few times in the novel. Indeed, these are the basis for ''The Rules of Supervillainy.''
** A lot of Gary's problems stem from the fact that he was traumatized by the execution of his brother at the hands of a {{Antihero}} vigilante in front of him. Even then, it doesn't turn him against regular superheroes or start a RoaringRampageOfRevenge like Batman or the Punisher. [[spoiler: He just tracks down the specific antihero involved and shoots him when he's visiting a prostitute.]]
** FantasticRacism is a result of regular humans being constantly subjected to escaping supervillains, monsters, alien invasions, [[GreenEyedMonster and simple jealousy over not having powers themselves.]] A lot of politicians stoke the fears of the populace while pressuring for more permanent solutions while publicly being on the sides of superheroes.
** Supervillains can and do steal whole fortunes but usually run through them quickly because they have to maintain their lairs, equipment, and armies of henchmen. If they had the psychology to manage their money well they wouldn't be supervillains.
** A {{Antihero}} pretending to be a supervillain and wise-cracking the entire time isn't viewed very fondly by heroes who are irritated as hell by his activities. It makes them look like a joke, still results in a lot of severe crimes, and makes him look like TheSociopath due to his EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor. By ''Literature/TheTournamentOfSupervillainy'', a lot of heroes just want to kick Gary's ass.
** DatingCatwoman comes with a lot of issues as [[spoiler: Gabrielle and Gary]] find out by book 5.
** The books tackle superhumans and violence a great deal.
*** It turns out that superhero combat is a lot more lethal than you'd think. The only way that people don't die all the time is the fact the Society of Superheroes use a lot of magic and specialized technology to make sure casualties are kept to a minimum. Gary, who has access to none of that, kills a bunch of people.
*** Indeed, Gary's power set is fairly modest by the standards of the universe but is extremely dangerous because he uses it in a variety of brutal CombatPragmatist ways. As such, villains who do well against heroes trying NOT to kill them don't do well against Gary at all.
*** Mandy is an incredibly gifted heroine with lots of combat training from her father but only recently someone who has taken up being a superheroine. [[spoiler: She dies saving Cindy's life in a split second combat situation.]]
*** Most superheroes don't actually have a ThouShallNotKill rule. They try ''not'' to kill supervillains whenever possible but whenever it becomes a choice of taking a supervillain alive or saving an innocent life, they move to lethal force.
*** NinetiesAntiHero types only are popular for as long as it takes the public to realize they're causing a huge amount of collateral damage and killing people who might not necessarilly be psychotic killers themselves.
*** Much like as how cops respond to copkillers, a villain who kills a superhero has the entirety of their kind descend on him until he's dealt with.
** A lot of Gary's problems stem from the fact that he was traumatized by the execution of his brother at the hands of a {{Antihero}} vigilante in front of him. Even then, it doesn't turn him against regular superheroes or start a RoaringRampageOfRevenge like Batman or the Punisher. [[spoiler: He just tracks down the specific antihero involved and shoots him when he's visiting a prostitute.]]
** FantasticRacism is a result of regular humans being constantly subjected to escaping supervillains, monsters, alien invasions, [[GreenEyedMonster and simple jealousy over not having powers themselves.]] A lot of politicians stoke the fears of the populace while pressuring for more permanent solutions while publicly being on the sides of superheroes.
** Supervillains can and do steal whole fortunes but usually run through them quickly because they have to maintain their lairs, equipment, and armies of henchmen. If they had the psychology to manage their money well they wouldn't be supervillains.
** A {{Antihero}} pretending to be a supervillain and wise-cracking the entire time isn't viewed very fondly by heroes who are irritated as hell by his activities. It makes them look like a joke, still results in a lot of severe crimes, and makes him look like TheSociopath due to his EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor. By ''Literature/TheTournamentOfSupervillainy'', a lot of heroes just want to kick Gary's ass.
** DatingCatwoman comes with a lot of issues as [[spoiler: Gabrielle and Gary]] find out by book 5.
** The books tackle superhumans and violence a great deal.
*** It turns out that superhero combat is a lot more lethal than you'd think. The only way that people don't die all the time is the fact the Society of Superheroes use a lot of magic and specialized technology to make sure casualties are kept to a minimum. Gary, who has access to none of that, kills a bunch of people.
*** Indeed, Gary's power set is fairly modest by the standards of the universe but is extremely dangerous because he uses it in a variety of brutal CombatPragmatist ways. As such, villains who do well against heroes trying NOT to kill them don't do well against Gary at all.
*** Mandy is an incredibly gifted heroine with lots of combat training from her father but only recently someone who has taken up being a superheroine. [[spoiler: She dies saving Cindy's life in a split second combat situation.]]
*** Most superheroes don't actually have a ThouShallNotKill rule. They try ''not'' to kill supervillains whenever possible but whenever it becomes a choice of taking a supervillain alive or saving an innocent life, they move to lethal force.
*** NinetiesAntiHero types only are popular for as long as it takes the public to realize they're causing a huge amount of collateral damage and killing people who might not necessarilly be psychotic killers themselves.
*** Much like as how cops respond to copkillers, a villain who kills a superhero has the entirety of their kind descend on him until he's dealt with.
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* AmazonianBeauty: A number of women in the series including Guinevere, Ultragoddess, and The Human Tank (who is {{Transgender}}).
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* AmazonianBeauty: A number of women in the series including Guinevere, Ultragoddess, and The Human Tank (who is {{Transgender}}).UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}}).
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: An ongoing joke/theme is the fact no one takes Gary seriously despite the fact he has a body count in three figures as well as having taken down some of the world's most terrifying villains. He's just so non-threatening that even those who actually believe he's dangerous assume he's using ObfuscatingStupidity.
** Averted with Tom Terror and Baba Yaga, both who actually are aware how dangerous Gary is. President Omega also believes Gary is the ''most'' dangerous foe due to the fact he's aware how history turns out. Subverted by Merciless, of all people, who looks down on Gary ''extra'' hard because they're the same person.
** Averted with Tom Terror and Baba Yaga, both who actually are aware how dangerous Gary is. President Omega also believes Gary is the ''most'' dangerous foe due to the fact he's aware how history turns out. Subverted by Merciless, of all people, who looks down on Gary ''extra'' hard because they're the same person.
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* VillainCred: Gary is constantly trying to increase his and running into the fact no one takes him seriously. This despite the fact he has a body count three figures long of other supervillains and has killed a number of '90s Anti-Hero types. Amusingly, he's genuinely surprised when villains avert it and assume he's using Obfuscating Stupidity to appear less dangerous than he is. He isn't. He's just an enormous dork.
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** Gets worse (better?) as the series goes on. All of his books take place in the same TheMultiverse and occasionally have crossovers with each other. However, all of the characters are fictional in the realities they visit so Jane Doe is a popular urban fantasy series in Gary's world even when she drops by and vice versa.
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* InvincibleVillain: Calling him a villain would be questionable but so is The Author's intention on writing Gary off as an underdog, except that he has been having everything given to him with little to no effort of his own. Then there's the fact that the heroes of the series written completely incompetent so Gary would be propped up as the city's only hope in taking down a main villain.
** {{Subverted}} in ''Literature/TheHorrorOfSupervillainy'' is continually beaten within an inch of his life by a enemy who is able to subvert his magic.
** {{Subverted}} in ''Literature/TheHorrorOfSupervillainy'' is continually beaten within an inch of his life by a enemy who is able to subvert his magic.
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* JustLikeRobinHood: Gary Karkofsky a.k.a Merciles: The Supervillain without [=MercyTM=] starts off as a simply disgruntled thief but by ''Literature/TheSecretsOfSupervillainy'' has started donating vast amounts of what he steals to charity in order to rebuild his city. This is because he has ''so much of it'' and [[PragmaticVillainy also because it has the effect of making the locals grateful to him in a way that renders his life significantly easier.]]
** Cindy, despite being ''significantly'' greedier than Gary also runs a free hospital because she hated what the medical industry did to patients (being a licensed Doctor).
** At one point, Gary and company use a flying pirate ship to engage in massive stock fraud against an AssholeVictim to give back money meant to rebuild Falconcrest City that had been embezzled by its contractors.
** Cindy, despite being ''significantly'' greedier than Gary also runs a free hospital because she hated what the medical industry did to patients (being a licensed Doctor).
** At one point, Gary and company use a flying pirate ship to engage in massive stock fraud against an AssholeVictim to give back money meant to rebuild Falconcrest City that had been embezzled by its contractors.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Cindy. Humorous, since Gary's wife Mandy is openly bisexual and put off by Cindy's vague allusions.
** Gary becomes this in ''The Games of Supervillainy'' due to his unwanted attraction to Angel Face.
** Gary becomes this in ''The Games of Supervillainy'' due to his unwanted attraction to Angel Face.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: AmbiguouslyBi:
** Cindy. Humorous, since Gary's wife Mandy is openly bisexual and put off by Cindy's vagueallusions.
allusions. [[spoiler: Becomes unambiguous when she takes up with Mandy and Gary.]]
** Gary becomes this in ''The Games of Supervillainy'' due to his unwanted attraction to Angel Face. [[spoiler: Gary seems to confirm it in ''The Horror of Supervillainy''.]]
** Cindy. Humorous, since Gary's wife Mandy is openly bisexual and put off by Cindy's vague
** Gary becomes this in ''The Games of Supervillainy'' due to his unwanted attraction to Angel Face. [[spoiler: Gary seems to confirm it in ''The Horror of Supervillainy''.]]
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* TheCape: Ultragod is this sort of hero to the world. Gabrielle is viewed as one but she's more a PragmaticHero.
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* TheCape: TheCape:
** Ultragod is this sort of hero to the world. Gabrielle is viewed as one but she's more a PragmaticHero.
** Ultragod is this sort of hero to the world. Gabrielle is viewed as one but she's more a PragmaticHero.
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* ''The Supervillainy Saga vol. 1'' (Books 1-3)
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* LoveDodecahedron: Gary is married to Mandy but used to be engaged to Ultragoddess while being a childhood friends as well as infrequent partners with henchwoman Cindy. Mandy used to be lovers with the Black Witch who is teammates with Ultragoddess. That's just how the story ''starts'' and it gets more complicated from there.
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* TheMissusAndTheEx: Merciless finds himself working with his wife, two of his exes and his wife's ex. Awkward!
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* TheMissusAndTheEx: Merciless finds himself working with his wife, two of his exes and his wife's ex. Awkward!Awkward! Specifically, Gary is married to Mandy but his ex-girlfriend Cindy is his chief henchwoman. It causes only minor friction [[spoiler: until Mandy is killed and resurrected as a vampire, where Gary and Cindy get back together out of grief. They even have a child together. Then Mandy gets her soul back. Oops. That's not even getting into how Ultragoddess and the Black Witch fit into things.]]
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* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: This is the level of hatred that Supers tend to receive from certain segments of the public. The public hates Supers less for the danger they represent and more for the fact that they make them feel inferior simply by existing. Gary notably gets particularly defensive about this due to the fact his sister and daughters are Supers. Gary, amusingly, is not due to being a wizard (i.e. tools and learned magic) rather than possessing inborn powers.
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* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The Foundation for World Harmony is frequently namechecked and appears to be the government agency which deals with all manner of weirdness in the world.
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* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: GovernmentAgencyOfFiction:
** The Foundation for World Harmony is frequently namechecked and appears to be the government agency which deals with all manner of weirdness in theworld.world.
** The Department of Supernatural is a much nastier one that is bigoted against Supers. The Variant Intelligence Collective Enforcement (VICE) is an internment group for them.
** The Foundation for World Harmony is frequently namechecked and appears to be the government agency which deals with all manner of weirdness in the
** The Department of Supernatural is a much nastier one that is bigoted against Supers. The Variant Intelligence Collective Enforcement (VICE) is an internment group for them.
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** ''Literature/TheSecretsOfSupervillainy'' has this as a BigBadDuumvirate with President Omega and [[spoiler: Merciful.]]
** ''Literature/TheScienceOfSupervillainy'' continued with [[spoiler: Merciful]] as the BigBad that has turned Falconcrest City into a PoliceState.
** ''Literature/TheTournamentOfSupervillainy'' has Entropicus, a PhysicalGod that is threatening to destroy the entire multiverse.
** Literature/TheFutureOfSupervillainy'' has MadScientist Tom Terror trying to take over the HollowEarth.
** ''Literature/TheScienceOfSupervillainy'' continued with [[spoiler: Merciful]] as the BigBad that has turned Falconcrest City into a PoliceState.
** ''Literature/TheTournamentOfSupervillainy'' has Entropicus, a PhysicalGod that is threatening to destroy the entire multiverse.
** Literature/TheFutureOfSupervillainy'' has MadScientist Tom Terror trying to take over the HollowEarth.
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* TheCowl: The Nightwalker was one of these. Gary is actually one as well, though he'd never admit it.
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* TheCowl: TheCowl:
** The Nightwalker was one ofthese. these.
** Gary is actually one as well, though he'd never admitit.it.
** Amanda Douglas becomes the second Nightwalker.
** [[spoiler: Mandy becomes Nighthuntress after becoming a vampire.]]
** The Nightwalker was one of
** Gary is actually one as well, though he'd never admit
** Amanda Douglas becomes the second Nightwalker.
** [[spoiler: Mandy becomes Nighthuntress after becoming a vampire.]]
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* DarkChick: Cindy fills this role in most of the supervillain teams she's on. Also qualifies as a NotSoHarmless villain when she reveals she's closer to TheLancer of the group.
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* DarkChick: DarkChick:
** Cindy fills this role in most of the supervillain teams she's on. Also qualifies as a NotSoHarmless villain when she reveals she's closer to TheLancer of thegroup.group.
** [[spoiler: Mandy becomes this by the third book.]]
** Cindy fills this role in most of the supervillain teams she's on. Also qualifies as a NotSoHarmless villain when she reveals she's closer to TheLancer of the
** [[spoiler: Mandy becomes this by the third book.]]
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* TheDragon: Diabloman settles into a combination of this role and TheMentor.
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* TheDragon: TheDragon:
** Diabloman settles into a combination of this role and TheMentor.
** Diabloman settles into a combination of this role and TheMentor.
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* FantasticRacism: A DownplayedTrope example as Supers, robots, and aliens are all said to be discriminated against but one of them was popular enough to be elected President of the United States.
** Becomes less of a DownplayedTrope as the series progresses, starting at about ''The Secrets of Supervillainy.'' President Omega discriminates against Supers as a way to get elected [[spoiler: and then plans their outright genocide.]] [[spoiler: Merciful]] also takes up the mantle of President Omega and becomes a VillainWithGoodPublicity by taking a zero tolerance policy against them.
** [[spoiler: The future ruler of the world, Emperor Merciless]] explains that on his world, the human race eventually turned against Supers and there was a massive race war. As a father of Supers, he proceeded to go PapaWolf and destroyed both sides' extremists.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Tom Terror appears to be a WickedCultured mentor-like figure to Gary. He's not.
** Becomes less of a DownplayedTrope as the series progresses, starting at about ''The Secrets of Supervillainy.'' President Omega discriminates against Supers as a way to get elected [[spoiler: and then plans their outright genocide.]] [[spoiler: Merciful]] also takes up the mantle of President Omega and becomes a VillainWithGoodPublicity by taking a zero tolerance policy against them.
** [[spoiler: The future ruler of the world, Emperor Merciless]] explains that on his world, the human race eventually turned against Supers and there was a massive race war. As a father of Supers, he proceeded to go PapaWolf and destroyed both sides' extremists.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Tom Terror appears to be a WickedCultured mentor-like figure to Gary. He's not.
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** Valkyrie Girl and Viking Boy are this for the Marvel Family.
* FantasticRacism: A DownplayedTrope example as Supers, robots, and aliens are all said to be discriminated against but one of them was popular enough to be elected President of the UnitedStates.
**States. Becomes less of a DownplayedTrope as the series progresses, starting at about ''The Secrets of Supervillainy.'' President Omega discriminates against Supers as a way to get elected [[spoiler: and then plans their outright genocide.]] [[spoiler: Merciful]] also takes up the mantle of President Omega and becomes a VillainWithGoodPublicity by taking a zero tolerance policy against them.
**them. [[spoiler: The future ruler of the world, Emperor Merciless]] explains that on his world, the human race eventually turned against Supers and there was a massive race war. As a father of Supers, he proceeded to go PapaWolf and destroyed both sides' extremists.
*FauxAffablyEvil: FauxAffablyEvil:
** Tom Terror appears to be a WickedCultured mentor-like figure to Gary. He's not.
* FantasticRacism: A DownplayedTrope example as Supers, robots, and aliens are all said to be discriminated against but one of them was popular enough to be elected President of the United
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** Tom Terror appears to be a WickedCultured mentor-like figure to Gary. He's not.
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* HappilyMarried: A first in superhero literature as both Gary and Mandy seem to be quite content in their relationship. [[spoiler: Tragically interrupted by her turn into a vampire.]]
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* HappilyMarried: HappilyMarried:
** A first in superhero literature as both Gary and Mandy seem to be quite content in their relationship. [[spoiler: Tragically interrupted by her turn into a vampire.]]
** A first in superhero literature as both Gary and Mandy seem to be quite content in their relationship. [[spoiler: Tragically interrupted by her turn into a vampire.]]
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* HollywoodNerd: Gary is an enormous geek who references everything from Star Wars to video games to comic books.
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** Ultragod and his wife Polly Perkins. [[spoiler: Her passing is what results in him deciding to stay dead.]]
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** Gary is an enormous geek who references everything from Star Wars to video games to comic books.
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** Gary is an enormous geek who references everything from Star Wars to video games to comic books.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Falconcest City is revealed to be on the other side of Lake Falconcrest which is on the border of Canada.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: WhereTheHellIsSpringfield:
** Falconcest City is revealed to be on the other side of Lake Falconcrest which is on the border ofCanada.Canada.
** Atlas City is located in central Florida, near Cape Canaveral.
** Falconcest City is revealed to be on the other side of Lake Falconcrest which is on the border of
** Atlas City is located in central Florida, near Cape Canaveral.
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* ComicBookTime: Handled in-universe. Gary deals with something called "time compression" where the seven years he spent in prison end up becoming six months despite his daughter remaining the same age. Its apparently a flaw in the universe and a deliberate homage to this trope according to WordOfGod. [[spoiler: Later, it is revealed to also be the work of the TopGod Destruction.]]
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Badass Gay isn't a trope anymore.
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* BadassGay: The series has a number of gay and bisexual superhero and supervillain characters. These include the protagonist's wife, his henchwoman, his wife's ex-girlfriend (one of the strongest supervillains alive), and a Fragile Speedster who is married to an even more famous and powerful Speedster.
