History Webcomic / GrrlPower

** Dabbler and other succubi are incredibly attractive, lustful, have all sorts of powers based around sex, and are overall just sex on legs. Unlike most works that have succubi as {{Cute MonsterGirl}}s, this comic points out how improbable such a race naturally evolving is and [[spoiler:reveals that all Succubi are the result of thousands of years of trying to build perfect sex slaves from the ground up]].

** Dabbler and other Succubi are incredibly attractive, lustful, have all sorts of powers based around sex, and are overall just sex on legs. Unlike most works that have Succubi as CuteMonsterGirls, this comic points out how improbable such a race naturally evolving is and [[spoiler:reveals that all Succubi are the result of thousands of years of trying to build perfect sex slaves from the ground up]].

** The idea of a [[Franchise/XMen mutant gene]] causing not only powers but HeroicBuild and/or MostCommonSuperpower. Though it is lampshaded that there are other possibilities still around like alien interference or human guinea pigs for science or magic.

---> '''Detla:''' Are you mocking me? This fool has no martial prowess!
---> '''Max and Sydney:''' Wait for it.

* UnskilledButStrong: While not actually super strong, Achilles is invulnerable, so never learned much about fighting. He's most likely to insert himself between friends and foes, or simply [[http://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1358 act as a distraction]]. [[note]]But he has been [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-879-immovable-grapple/ learning to grapple]].[[/note]][[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-940-aegis-beskar-adamantine-mlem/ Lampshaded here]].

* IdenticalPanelGag: Played with -- the series of {{Flashback}} panels [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-21-i-can-tell-you-whats-not-in-there-the-truth/ where Sydney gives Joel various silly made-up explanations]] for the presence of the poster tube on her back are happening on different days, which is expressed by the both of them wearing different clothes, but their poses and Sydney's movement are strictly identical every time.
* IfItsYouItsOkay: Although the spell Dabbler put on [[spoiler:Jabberwokky]] by kissing her has long since worn off, the attraction is still obvious as of #910, even though the latter insists she's straight. This probably has something to do with Dabbler being the best kisser on Planet Earth.
* IgnoreTheDisability: Sydney can't stop referencing Peggy's prosthetic leg. [[http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/925 No matter how much she wants to.]]

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Arianna sees a sudden surge of social media hits about the Mighty Halo on her computer. She glances at a bottle of roast coffee rum under a cloche, then takes a deep breath and follows the media alert. Upon seeing a picture of Sydney apparently kissing a demon (when she's actually him giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation) and the flood of social media messages to that affect, she pours herself that drink.

* IResembleThatRemark: Sydney is confused [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-110-superheroes-are-like-vegans/ why Peggy doesn't ask about the orbs]], and she points out that supers usually can't ''wait'' to brag about such information, comparing them to Vegans in that respect. After a meandering conversation about others that engage in such behavior (a hypothetical Vegan super who had just lost weight on a fad diet after coming back from vacation while pregnant), Sydney immediately blurts out which orb lets her fly. Which is followed on by her asking Peggy what dietary supplements she uses in the bonus panel.

* IThinkYouBrokeHim: When Sydney discovers that one of the lycanthropes present is a were-hare, [[http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2205 and she changes before her,]] Sydney gets into cuteness overload and start foaming at the mouth.
-->'''Katrina:''' Uh... Ms. Maxima? I think I broke your sidekick.\\
'''Sydney:''' ''Sidekick?! I'' am an ''apex heroine'' in training!\\
'''Katrina:''' Oh, never mind, she's fixed now.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Arianna sees a sudden surge of social media hits about the Mighty Halo on her computer. Arianna glances at a bottle of roast coffee rum under a cloche. Arianna takes a deep breath and follows the media alert. Arianna witnesses a picture of Sydney giving mouth-to-mouth to a demon, and the messages uproar that ensues. Arianna pours herself a drink.

* StimulantSpeedtalk: The villains inject a captured Halo with a {{truth serum|s}} to get inside information on ARCHON, except it [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-910-jabber-blabber/ backfires spectacularly]]. As it happens, using a truth serum on a MotorMouth {{Cloudcuckoolander}} with ADHD only results in an absolutely non-stop blabbering, stream-of-consciousness run-on sentence devoid of any useful intel (except maybe for the dating status of some members)... which threatens Sydney with passing out from lack of oxygen, and possibly worse judging by her independently dilating pupils.

* TruthSerums: The villains inject [[spoiler:a captured Halo]] with a truth serum to get inside information on ARCHON, except it [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-910-jabber-blabber/ backfires spectacularly]]. [[spoiler:As it happens, using a truth serum on a MotorMouth {{Cloudcuckoolander}} with ADHD only results in an absolutely non-stop blabbering, stream-of-consciousness run-on sentence devoid of any useful intel (except maybe for the dating status of some members)... which threatens Sydney with passing out from lack of oxygen, and possibly worse judging by her independently dilating pupils.]]

* NoSelfBuffs: [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1222-afterglow-escapologist/ Obe rant]] reveals that Succubi cannot produce tantric energy through self-stimulation.

* NoSelfBuffs: The rant reveals that Succubi cannot produce tantric energy through self-stimulation.

** The Author notes in TheRant under one strip that a good maintenance employee is worth twenty guards. If the doors don't lock and the cameras don't work, the guards may as well be patrolling a shack.

* StockScream: Achilles makes the Goofy Holler when [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-208-arc-light-earns-their-keep/ punched through the ceiling by Concretia.]]

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Fel race. As scoon as they're sighted, Cora says that they're "a collective corrupted by Stygian energy" that forcibly recruit everyone they can and kill anyone they can't, and that they ''cannot'' get their hands on the artifact she has in her ship's cargo hold. As Dabbler describes it, they are irredeemable slavering fanatics.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Fel race. As soon as they're sighted, Cora says that they're "a collective corrupted by Stygian energy" that forcibly recruit everyone they can and kill anyone they can't, and that they ''cannot'' get their hands on the artifact she has in her ship's cargo hold. As Dabbler describes it, they are irredeemable slavering fanatics.

---> '''Leon:''' That's right, who's REALLY the most powerful member of this team?
---> '''Maxima:''' (glares at Leon while Peggy looks on dubiously)
---> '''Leon:''' (sweating) I mean, obviously it's you. Here's a new phone.

** When Leon threatens to wipe out some teammates' bank accounts out of annoyance, then [[[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-73-operation-lets-get-this-story-moving/ implies that he's actually the most powerful team member]].

* BeatPanel:

** [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-907-menage-a-deux-et-demi/ Hench Wench manages to catch Maxima shortly off-guard,]] getting her in a headlock by controlling both her real body and a concrete body. But Maxima is still too strong and fast, moving her head away when the golem attempts to punch her, resulting in a (doubly) broken nose for Hench Wench.

* TheAirNotThere: An aversion -- Sydney's shield does not permit air to permeate, causing her to become dizzy after a few minutes of continuous use as the carbon dioxide she exhales begins to replace oxygen. Sound (which involves the transfer of vibrations, rather than of physical air molecules) seems to get through just fine.

---> '''Sydney''' I think I landed on that same rock.

* DCupDistress: A minor case, but Maxima dislikes her bust size for reasons both personal (she's a feminist who doesn't like being objectified) and practical (it interferes when she draws or holsters her pistol).

* ContinuityNod: During her interview with Suzie Wen, [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-73-operation-lets-get-this-story-moving/ Sydney says]] "[[Literature/TheGreatGatsby So I says to Mabel, I says]]..." before being cut off by Maxima. [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-763-its-an-evil-spaceship-not-a-death-dreidel/ Nearly 700 strips later]], Maxima cuts off Dabbler while she's in the middle of saying the same phrase at a press conference.

* BuffySpeak: Deus gets distracted mentally chasing rabbits, gives up, and resorts to this in [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1036-the-unseen-tentacle/ panel 8 of this page]].
--> '''Deus''' It's impossible to say without confronting the architects of this phenomenon, and they are as elusive as...
--> '''Deus''' ...a very elusive thing.