History Webcomic / GrrlPower

* ServantRace: The entire succubus species. [[spoiler:They initially started out as little more than {{Flesh Golem}}s [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-994-one-upmageship/ created by bored/lonely mages to be ambulatory sex dolls]]. After generations of improving and one-upmanship between the various arch-mages, their creation was refined to their more physically appealing level, and they were instilled with actual consciousness to fulfill normal servant duties (in addition to satisfying their master's sexual desires). However, despite obtaining their "freedom" and magically evolving themselves into a viably reproductive species, the [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-997-deadlock/ nature of their origins and the "fail-safes" their creators built into them thousands and thousands of years ago require all succubae to have a master to literally not die]]. Consequently, every adult succubus (full or hybrid) is a slave to some master, even if only technically.]] Fortunately, [[spoiler:the majority of "masters" [[SympatheticSlaveOwner don't abuse this aspect of their bonded succubae]], either due to their own code of ethics/morality, or as result of the [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-998-alls-well-that-succs-well/ very real threat of horrifically violent consequences]] it would trigger from the Succubus Matriarch Council.]]

* GeekyTurnon: After challenging Leon to showcase his knowledge of nerdery, [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-124/ Sydney turns "The List" upside-down and writes his name in it]], with a CrushBlush to boot.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} after Parfait’s lust aura spreads through ARCHON. While Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal is played straight, unfortunately Heatwave was away at the time, so Mr. Amorphous ends up sleeping with Jiggawatt. This causes him to ask for the lust aura to be used on her when she came back. He then nervously explains to a furious Maxima that he cheated on his girlfriend and experiencing the aura is the only way she would be able to understand why. Even then, Maxima only agrees to let it happen if Dabbler makes an unbreakable vow that she would go through a month of abstinence if she uses anything remotely approaching mind control to convince Heatwave.

%%* EvilDesiresInnocence: A succubus named Parfait (sister to main character Dabbler) is asked by her sister about any buts she’s interested in a relationship with that are more equal to her than her current master. We then see her imagining being bonded to a hitherto unseen [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1202-the-one-that-got-away/ angel]]. In the text below the comic, the author muses briefly on the source of an attraction to a pure individual for a succubus.

* KamehameHadoken: {{Invoked|Trope}} by Sydney when testing out her [[WaveMotionGun orange]] [[EnergyWeapon orb]] for the press.

* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: After a M/F/M threesome with [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue-Skinned Space Babe]] Cora ([[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-748-sharing-is-scaring/ heavily implied in the strip,]] confirmed by the author's comments), Math and Hiro mutually agree to never speak of this again... to Dabbler's frustration, since she'd like to know every little detail.

* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: Discussed after Parfait’s lust aura spreads through ARCHON. Seneca needs a HealingPotion after she, Ren and Peggy slept together, and when it wore off, she stated that she would be walking crooked for the next few days. Not that she was complaining.

** Stalwart: Can increase his own mass (and concomitantly, his strength). At one point, he pins down an opponent by stepping on his foot while weighing "as much as the space shuttle." (If he means just the shuttle, empty, that's 185,000 pounds; if he means the shuttle, boosters, et al ready to launch, that's 4,400,000 pounds.)

** Sydney admits to Peggy that she mistook Peggy for a lesbian due to her short pink hair and lack of makeup, and was surprised when Peggy happily watched some of the men going shirtless. Peggy isn't offended, and in fact replies that she can find things to (dis)like about both genders.
*** It's hinted that Peggy is firmly Bi as she has on multiple occasions demonstrated a keen interest in the shirtless boys as well as an implied hookup with Cora during their off-world travels.

* NavelDeepNeckline: Referenced in the second-to-last panel of [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-770-reactions-are-mixed/ "Grrl Power #770 – Reactions are… mixed"]], with a magazine cover showing a woman with a neckline that goes all the way to her belt, and the only other thing covering that area are two thin straps that presumably are to hold the left and right sides of her suit to her body. The caption is:

*** Before that Vehemence goes to [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-255-the-arc-wrestling-federation/ punch who he assumed was Maxima, only to realize too late that he just hit Anvil]], who absorbs kinetic energy to get stronger.

* STDImmunity: Dabbler confirms that as a succubus, [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-731-heres-the-windup-and-its-a-triple/ she is immune to pretty much all disease]].
** Presumably Decolette, Tammatha and Parfait are similarly uber-immune to disease.

** ARCHON also has no issues adding captured former enemies to its combat/field roster and support staff (Jabberwocky, Detla, [[spoiler:Vehemence eventually]], etc.).

* FailedAttemptAtDrama: [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-213-a-manxome-foe/ Jabberwokky introducing herself]]; she tries to make a badass entrance by challenging Math to a duel, only for her foot to slip on some broken glass, causing her to fall on her ass.

** Presumably, Parfait (Dabbler's half-sister).

-->'''Sydney:''' God! It would be just like humanity to try and mug Earth's first alien tourists. How's that going to look on Space Yelp? Humans suck.\\
'''Cora:''' Take heart Sydney. '''Every''' species suck.

* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: After a mfm threesome with [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue-Skinned Space Babe]] Cora ([[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-748-sharing-is-scaring/ heavily implied in the strip,]] confirmed by the author's comments), Math and Hiro mutually agree to never speak of this again. To Dabbler's frustration, since she'd like to know every little detail.

* MagicIsEvil: Kat asks if magic has a bias towards evil. Dabbler is at first offended but can't offer a rebuttal when Kat asks why there is no such thing as "good" dungeons (Ones that produce harmless and peaceful plants and animals instead of hostile monsters).

* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: Discussed after Parfait’s lust aura spreads through ARCHON. Seneca needs a HealingPotion after she, Ren and Peggy slept together, and when it wore off, she stated that she walking crooked for the next few days. Not that she was complaining.

** Inverted with Heatwave, and also combined with ComicallyMissingThePoint and DelayedReaction. After a bank robbery, Harem pulled a prank on Maxima that made everyone think she played kissy face with Mr. Amorphous. Later Heatwave mentions that since Maxima's lips are naturally red, she doesn't wear lipstick so she couldn't have left kiss marks on anybody.

** Maxima snarks that "[[[http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/630 Their glamor]]]'s the ''only'' thing [[ReallyGetsAround about a Succubus that's designed to be impenetrable]]", which Arianna replies to with this trope.

* TheAirNotThere: An aversion -- Sydney's shield does not permit air to permeate, causing her to become dizzy after a few minutes of continuous use. Sound (which involves the transfer of vibrations, rather than of physical air molecules) seems to get through just fine.
** Later when dealing (poorly) with PTSD, [[spoiler:resulting from being trapped for 2 months alone on a planet forced to constantly fight with literal [[EldritchAbomination building sized Lovecraftian horrors]]]] Sydney [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-747-physical-training-snooze-dont/ literally duct tapes the shield and environment orbs to each of her hands]] so that she can attempt to sleep with the shield active to feel "safe", and with the environment ball active to not suffocate in her shielded sleep.

** [[spoiler:After Krona's SaveScumming brings Sydney back after she gets shanked in the stomach]], she's a bit shaken for a few seconds before gleefully invoking this, though [[spoiler:Krona clarifies that it might not have been the case in the next page]].

** {{Averted|Trope}} after Maxima digs out of being [[http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2355 buried from a bomb blast]].

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} after Parfait’s lust aura spreads through ARCHON. While Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal is played straight, unfortunately Heatwave was away at the time, so Mr. Amorphous ends up sleeping with Jiggawatt. This causes him to ask for the lust aura to be used on her when she came back. He then nervously explains to a furious Maxima that he cheated on his wife and experiencing the aura is the only way she would be able to understand why. Even then, Maxima only agrees to let it happen if Dabbler makes an unbreakable vow that she would go through a month of abstinence if she uses anything remotely approaching mind control to convince Heatwave.

Sydney quickly becomes a unique asset to the team, her encyclopedic knowledge of superhero tropes making her surprisingly adept at navigating this new world she finds herself in. While working with a demonic succubus who wishes Sydney would stop being such a prude, a single-minded harem of beautiful woman (yes, singular), and the gold-skinned superheroine who must manage them all, Sydney discovers ways to balance her new life, her old life, and her hobbies, all while saving the world.

* EvilDesiresInnocence: A succubus named Parfait (sister to main character Dabbler) is asked by her sister about any buts she’s interested in a relationship with that are more equal to her than her current master. We then see her imagining being bonded to a hitherto unseen [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1202-the-one-that-got-away/ angel]]. In the text below the comic, the author muses briefly on the source of an attraction to a pure individual for a succubus.

* CapsLockNumLockMissilesLock: Deus, [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1055-lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-eccentric/ trying to open the hidden weapons cache in his office]], accidentally presses the button to drop the meeting table into a pit. [[LampshadeHanging Musing that he should probably label his buttons]], he ends up activating an art display and a collection of BDSM toys before finding the button he's looking for.

** Peggy often [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-431-manual-censorship/comment-page-1/ has to take on this duty]] when Maxima isn't around.

** [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1197-succubus-wrangler/ She also breaks a chunk of her pulpit]] after the [[spoiler:succubus lust aura incident, when Mr. Amoprhous suggests that Heatwave ought to experiment it too -- but he doesn't mean it in a bad way]].

* AGlassInTheHand: Maxima is usually ''very'' in control of her SuperStrength, but the adolescent-level antics of her subordinates can sometimes upset her enough that [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-70-punked/ she'd crush her cellphone.]]
-->'''General Faulk:''' Do not break another phone, Colonel.

* PowerIncontinence: A spectacular and slightly unusual case is demonstrated by Parfait; see her entry in [[Characters/GrrlPowerOther the characters page]] for details.

* PowerIncontinence: Unlike Dabbler, who is very much in control of her succubus nature, Parfait is young and still in Succubus Finishing School (Suc U). As such, she can have trouble keeping a lid on her lust aura if she has too much sexy thoughts. [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1189-sydney-and-parfait-sitting-in-a-tree/ Which Sydney unexpectedly finds out, up close and personal.]] [[spoiler:As well as everybody else in the whole ARCHON building.]]

* PretentiousLatinMotto: Archon's motto (notably seen on Maxima's shirt at the [[http://wwwgrrlpowercomic.com/archives/1159 beginning]] of the parking lot fight, and also in the background during press conferences or graduations) is "Cum Amplus Potentia Venit Amplus Onus" -- "With Great Power ComesGreatResponsibility". [[note]]In Latin that Google Translate doesn't care for; it prefers "Cum Potestate Magna Venit Magnus Responsabilitate"[[/note]]

** [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-936-whats-blue-horny-and-wet-all-over/ "What's blue, horny, and wet all over?"]] Answer: Detla in a skimpy bikini swimsuit, thanks to Achilles.

** [["https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-936-whats-blue-horny-and-wet-all-over/ What's blue, horny, and wet all over?"]] Answer: Detla in a skimpy bikini swimsuit, thanks to Achilles.

* InconvenientSummons: [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1183-smng/ Sydney's first attempts at summoning Parfait]] (Dabbler's half-sister) is a resounding success, since it results in the young succubus popping out... straight out of the bath, naked save for a few soap buds. Parfait isn't much bothered by it, though.

* FacelessGoons: The Ascenders, their cannon fodder are all copies of a duplicator who goes by Goon Squad and all wear the same full body armor with mirrored face masks. While the higher-ups wear the same suit, cloak, and domino mask. In [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1072-guard-dood-dee-duty/ both]] [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1111-costume-quest/ cases]] this makes them vulnerable to [[DressingAsTheEnemy infiltration]].

* ServantRace: The entire succubus species. [[spoiler:Initially starting out as little more than {{Flesh Golem}}s [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-994-one-upmageship/ created by bored/lonely mages to be ambulatory sex dolls]]. After generations of improving and one-upmanship between the various arch-mages, their creation was refined to their more physically appealing level and instilled them with actual consciousness to fulfill normal servant duties (in addition to satisfying their master's sexual desires). However, despite obtaining their "freedom" and magically evolving themselves into a viably reproductive species, the [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-997-deadlock/ nature of their origins and the "fail-safes" their creators built into them thousands and thousands of years ago, require all succubae to have a master to literally not die]]. Consequently, every adult succubus (full or hybrid) is a slave to some master, even if only technically.]]
** [[spoiler:Fortunately, the majority of "masters" [[SympatheticSlaveOwner do not abuse this aspect of their bonded succubae]], either due to their own code of ethics/morality, or as result of the [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-998-alls-well-that-succs-well/ very real threat of horrifically violent consequences]] it would trigger from the Succubus Matriarch Council.]]

** [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-333-my-golden-angel-of-destruction-is-the-centerfold/ When Maxima's photoshoot finally happens]], she's assigned a female photographer who notes that there are sleazy guys in the business. She does offer to take racy photos once the official shots are done, but in a well-defined manner with clear boundaries. Max seems to consider it, especially when the photographer mentions Hiro among the famous people who took her up on the offer, but decides to politely decline due to the risks of having such materials just lying around for someone with superpowers to steal (with an ImagineSpot of that happening).