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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: ''[[SuperZeroes Illumina]]'', [[DumbBlonde of all people]]. When she meets [[FallenHero Sparkle]], the [[HeelFaceTurn sidekick who betrayed her]], the first thing she does? Punch Sparkle really hard in the face. [[RulesLawyer She even learned the rules in regard to this sort of thing, to put her in the legal clear]].
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: ''[[SuperZeroes Illumina]]'', [[DumbBlonde of all people]]. When she meets [[FallenHero Sparkle]], the [[HeelFaceTurn [[FaceHeelTurn sidekick who betrayed her]], the first thing she does? Punch Sparkle really hard in the face. [[RulesLawyer She even learned the rules in regard to this sort of thing, to put her in the legal clear]].
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* MomentOfAwesome: Everyone, please rise to give a standing ovation to Illumina, who, when she met her traitor sidekick, knocked her out with one punch. This is ''[[DumbBlonde Illu]][[SuperZeroes mina]]'' we're talking about here, so extra awesome.
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*CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: ''[[SuperZeroes Illumina]]'', [[DumbBlonde of all people]]. When she meets [[FallenHero Sparkle]], the [[HeelFaceTurn sidekick who betrayed her]], the first thing she does? Punch Sparkle really hard in the face. [[RulesLawyer She even learned the rules in regard to this sort of thing, to put her in the legal clear]].
*MomentOfAwesome: Everyone, please rise to give a standing ovation to Illumina, who, when she met her traitor sidekick, knocked her out with one punch. This is ''[[DumbBlonde Illu]][[SuperZeroes mina]]'' we're talking about here, so extra awesome.
*MomentOfAwesome: Everyone, please rise to give a standing ovation to Illumina, who, when she met her traitor sidekick, knocked her out with one punch. This is ''[[DumbBlonde Illu]][[SuperZeroes mina]]'' we're talking about here, so extra awesome.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Poison, verbatim, after [[spoiler: murdering The Coroner.]]
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* TheUnfavourite: Mack/Illumina is the unfavourite compared to her dead brother Declan, Who had the actually useful powers out of the two. Her parents are two highly successful and prominent heros who wanted a grand legacy of super heroics, when Declan died so did their dream since now all they had was Mack who cant float higher than she can stand. Whenever they are in town all they seem to do is tell her to do better and mope that Declan isn't alive. Making her feel like they would have preferred she had died instead of him.
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* TheUnfavourite: Mack/Illumina is the unfavourite compared to her dead brother Declan, Who had the actually useful powers out of the two. Her parents are two highly successful and prominent heros heroes who wanted a grand legacy of super heroics, when Declan died so did their dream since now all they had was Mack who cant float higher than she can stand. Whenever they are in town all they seem to do is tell her to do better and mope that Declan isn't alive. Making her feel like they would have preferred she had died instead of him.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Illumina wants to make her parents proud of her, and feels like they are disipointed that she can't replace their dead son as their legacy since he had 'real' powers while all she can do is glow and float slightly.
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* InformedAttribute: Val is supposed to be a genius mechanical engineer, good enough to have been offered a full scholarship to MIT. She has yet to do anything with that talent.
* LaserGuidedKarma: What happens to Dr.Wright.Wright (A MadScientist obsessed with purging left-handedness from the world). The surgeons have to amputate his right arm. This causes him to snap and he is now in an insane asylum.
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: The Villain Agency supervisor is named Agent Black. The Hero Agency, which falls short of making effective crimefighting its top priority and comes down hard on crimefighters who don't play by its artificial rules has an Agent named not White, but Grey.
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* HollywoodHomely: Val. She may not be up to Superhero School standards but given her RapunzelHair and well toned physique she's hardly plain. This possibly makes the joke even better since it reinforces the satire since even very attractive people are considred to 'plain' for the job.
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* {{BFG}}: Val's ''other'' weapon of choice. [[http://sidekickgirl.comicgenesis.com/d/20070620.html Doesn't have a name]], [[MoreDakka doesn't need one.]]
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** [[http://sidekickgirl.comicgenesis.com/d/20110209.html Apparently]],it. Apparently, sidekicks can go through a process to become full heroes if their mentors vouch for them.
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* SelectiveObliviousness: Illumina and Maelstrom are lovers in their civilian [=IDs=]. Neither knows the other's superhero ID - despite Val dropping hint after hint to them (and outright telling Illumina). [[http://sidekickgirl.comicgenesis.com/d/20081210.html Val eventually gets through.]]
* ShowerOfLove: [[http://sidekickgirl.comicgenesis.com/d/20110112.html With bonus]] GodivaHair.
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->''Who hasn't wanted to be a superhero? Everyone's fantasized about donning a costume and using their powers to uphold justice (or make mischief). In Metro City, superheroing isn't a daydream, it's a career path. The hard part isn't acquiring powers, it's getting through all of the red tape in the superhero industry. And it all looks so easy in the movies...''
''Sidekick Girl'' is a webcomic by Lore Cascos & Erica Wagner. The main character is Valerie Upton, a fledgling professional sidekick, assigned to the heroine Illumina. The comic deals mainly with Val and her fellow sidekicks as they fight together and commiserate about their assigned heroes together.
[[http://sidekickgirl.comicgenesis.com/ Updates on Wednesdays.]]
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!!SidekickGirl contains examples of the following tropes
* AmbiguousGender: Chris
** As it turns out, this is part of his power: He causes confusion in others.
* BadassPreacher: Not only is Mark pretty well built for a priest, but he also takes out a goon offscreen.
* BastardUnderstudy: Isauro/Coldfire, technically.
* BatterUp: Val's weapon of choice, [[ICallHerVera "Mr. Bat"]].
* {{BFG}}: Val's ''other'' weapon of choice. [[http://sidekickgirl.comicgenesis.com/d/20070620.html Doesn't have a name]], [[MoreDakka doesn't need one.]]
* BlessedWithSuck: Val is TheAgeless; [[RequiredSecondaryPowers mercifully, she can heal from any injury at a normal rate.]]
* DatingCatwoman: Val's budding relationship with villain sidekick, Isauro.
* DroppedABridgetOnHim: How Jasper found out Chris's real gender.
* DumbBlonde: Illumina. Her boyfriend, Maelstrom, is supposedly even dumber.
* ForScience: The Coroner's MO. He's dissecting anyone with powers to see how they work.
* FreakyFridayFlip: Ilumina and Sidekick Girl end up with one of these. Sidekick Girl turns out to be able to accomplish more with Ilumina's powers than Ilumina ever did with maybe a week of practice.
* GeniusBruiser: Val. Skipped on a full-ride scholarship to MIT to go to superhero school, and "Bruiser" is pretty much her job. ''Especially'', when compared to Illumina.
* GroinAttack: Isauro deals one to a goon for no particular reason, [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Mark.
* HeroicBuild: Not just a cliché, but one deciding factor of whether a person is a hero or a sidekick is whether or not [[MostCommonSuperpower she looks good in spandex and fills a D-cup bra]] (for women), or are tall, thin, and well-built (for men). Skill, power and/or [[BeleagueredAssistant intellectual superiority]] is not a determining trait, though an interesting origin story helps.
* HitMeDammit: Shield asks that Val hit him hard so that his powers kick in and make him smarter so he can [[spoiler:figure out how a bunch of Hibernation pods work to get the kidnapped heroes out of them]].
* HypercompetentSidekick: Val
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Poison, verbatim, after [[spoiler: murdering The Coroner.]]
* ICallHerVera: Mr Bat, and its successor, Mr Bat II.
* LaserGuidedKarma: What happens to Dr. Wright. The surgeons have to amputate his right arm. This causes him to snap and he is now in an insane asylum.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Isauro is a pretty nice guy who [[spoiler:is a wanted man for unintentionally allowing a villian to kill a lot of people, and has to be a villian to keep from getting deported to his home country]].
* NeverLiveItDown: Invoked in-universe. Illumina has a rep for getting her sidekicks killed. Only one — Val's predecessor — actually died.
** And that death was due to a voluntary HeroicSacrifice on Marina's part, not anything Illumina did.
* NighInvulnerability: Shield's powers. He can take any hit and not only avoid damage but also use that energy to make himself stronger, faster, tougher and smarter. He still doesn't know how that last one happens.
* NotGrowingUpSucks: Forever Boy, another of Illumina's former sidekicks. The strain of being a 40-something (with an active sexual appetite) stuck in the body of a 12-year old eventually drove him insane.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Shield just plays the NintendoDS while Sword does all the work. This is because Sword just got a power upgrade and is doing all the work himself.
* PunchClockHero[=/=]PunchClockVillain: Most of the main cast. Granted, the heroes and sidekicks are in it for more than just the paycheck.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Poison carving his way through the criminal underworld, searching for The Coroner, who murdered his sister.
* SidekickGlassCeiling: If you don't look the superhero part, you're a sidekick. You can ''sometimes'' compensate for it with an interesting origin story, but that's it.
** [[http://sidekickgirl.comicgenesis.com/d/20110209.html Apparently]], sidekicks can go through a process to become full heroes if their mentors vouch for them.
** One minor character signed up as sidekick to an aging hero with the understanding that the hero would sponsor the sidekick to become a hero when he retired (And the expectation that that Thunder would retire in 5 years or so). Twenty years later, Thunder is still on active duty, meaning that Lightning Lad is stuck working for him as a sidekick (Thunder won't even let him choose a more mature alias).
* SelectiveObliviousness: Illumina and Maelstrom are lovers in their civilian [=IDs=]. Neither knows the other's superhero ID - despite Val dropping hint after hint to them (and outright telling Illumina). [[http://sidekickgirl.comicgenesis.com/d/20081210.html Val eventually gets through.]]
* ShowerOfLove: [[http://sidekickgirl.comicgenesis.com/d/20110112.html With optional]] GodivaHair.
* SuperheroOrigin: One of two deciding factors for whether you're a superhero or a sidekick. Val is a sidekick because she looks like a fighter instead of a porn star and her origin story amounts to "I was hit by a car as a child and realized I could survive anything and eventually heal from it", despite being competent, being a great fighter and having a power that's incredibly useful despite its BlessedWithSuck elements.
* SuperheroSchool: Essentially college. (Val went to the equivalent of a community college, as she was paying her own way.)
* SuperZeroes: Brains aren't required to look good in spandex. In fact, Haze's hero, Impact, is the only one we've heard about who's even competent.
** However, Illumina's first sidekick, Sparkle, was a girl who met the rather shallow requirements for being a hero but did so badly in SuperheroSchool that she was demoted to sidekick. Given some of the people who made hero, that's quite an accomplishment.
* TakingTheBullet: The fate of Illumina's late sidekick Marina.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Val and Illumina, for a certain interpretation of "girly".
* TooDumbToLive: Clockwork gets killed because he stared down the barrel of his malfunctioning ray gun.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Dr. Wright's plan to create the perfect world by eliminating left-handedness.
** The stupidity gets better. He himself is left handed.
* WeirdTradeUnion: The Superhero Agency and its unnamed EvilCounterpart.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway[=/=]HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Illumina's only powers are hovering and creating light -- not even lasers or anything, just regular light. However -- as Val demonstrates when they switch bodies -- in the hands of someone competent, this allows her to fall from any height safely and act as a living flashbang grenade.
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->''Who hasn't wanted to be a superhero? Everyone's fantasized about donning a costume and using their powers to uphold justice (or make mischief). In Metro City, superheroing isn't a daydream, it's a career path. The hard part isn't acquiring powers, it's getting through all of the red tape in the superhero industry. And it all looks so easy in the movies...''
''Sidekick Girl'' is a webcomic by Lore Cascos & Erica Wagner. The main character is Valerie Upton, a fledgling professional sidekick, assigned to the heroine Illumina. The comic deals mainly with Val and her fellow sidekicks as they fight together and commiserate about their assigned heroes together.
[[http://sidekickgirl.comicgenesis.com/ Updates on Wednesdays.]]
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!!SidekickGirl contains examples of the following tropes
* AmbiguousGender: Chris
** As it turns out, this is part of his power: He causes confusion in others.
* BadassPreacher: Not only is Mark pretty well built for a priest, but he also takes out a goon offscreen.
* BastardUnderstudy: Isauro/Coldfire, technically.
* BatterUp: Val's weapon of choice, [[ICallHerVera "Mr. Bat"]].
* {{BFG}}: Val's ''other'' weapon of choice. [[http://sidekickgirl.comicgenesis.com/d/20070620.html Doesn't have a name]], [[MoreDakka doesn't need one.]]
* BlessedWithSuck: Val is TheAgeless; [[RequiredSecondaryPowers mercifully, she can heal from any injury at a normal rate.]]
* DatingCatwoman: Val's budding relationship with villain sidekick, Isauro.
* DroppedABridgetOnHim: How Jasper found out Chris's real gender.
* DumbBlonde: Illumina. Her boyfriend, Maelstrom, is supposedly even dumber.
* ForScience: The Coroner's MO. He's dissecting anyone with powers to see how they work.
* FreakyFridayFlip: Ilumina and Sidekick Girl end up with one of these. Sidekick Girl turns out to be able to accomplish more with Ilumina's powers than Ilumina ever did with maybe a week of practice.
* GeniusBruiser: Val. Skipped on a full-ride scholarship to MIT to go to superhero school, and "Bruiser" is pretty much her job. ''Especially'', when compared to Illumina.
* GroinAttack: Isauro deals one to a goon for no particular reason, [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Mark.
* HeroicBuild: Not just a cliché, but one deciding factor of whether a person is a hero or a sidekick is whether or not [[MostCommonSuperpower she looks good in spandex and fills a D-cup bra]] (for women), or are tall, thin, and well-built (for men). Skill, power and/or [[BeleagueredAssistant intellectual superiority]] is not a determining trait, though an interesting origin story helps.
* HitMeDammit: Shield asks that Val hit him hard so that his powers kick in and make him smarter so he can [[spoiler:figure out how a bunch of Hibernation pods work to get the kidnapped heroes out of them]].
* HypercompetentSidekick: Val
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Poison, verbatim, after [[spoiler: murdering The Coroner.]]
* ICallHerVera: Mr Bat, and its successor, Mr Bat II.
* LaserGuidedKarma: What happens to Dr. Wright. The surgeons have to amputate his right arm. This causes him to snap and he is now in an insane asylum.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Isauro is a pretty nice guy who [[spoiler:is a wanted man for unintentionally allowing a villian to kill a lot of people, and has to be a villian to keep from getting deported to his home country]].
* NeverLiveItDown: Invoked in-universe. Illumina has a rep for getting her sidekicks killed. Only one — Val's predecessor — actually died.
** And that death was due to a voluntary HeroicSacrifice on Marina's part, not anything Illumina did.
* NighInvulnerability: Shield's powers. He can take any hit and not only avoid damage but also use that energy to make himself stronger, faster, tougher and smarter. He still doesn't know how that last one happens.
* NotGrowingUpSucks: Forever Boy, another of Illumina's former sidekicks. The strain of being a 40-something (with an active sexual appetite) stuck in the body of a 12-year old eventually drove him insane.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Shield just plays the NintendoDS while Sword does all the work. This is because Sword just got a power upgrade and is doing all the work himself.
* PunchClockHero[=/=]PunchClockVillain: Most of the main cast. Granted, the heroes and sidekicks are in it for more than just the paycheck.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Poison carving his way through the criminal underworld, searching for The Coroner, who murdered his sister.
* SidekickGlassCeiling: If you don't look the superhero part, you're a sidekick. You can ''sometimes'' compensate for it with an interesting origin story, but that's it.
** [[http://sidekickgirl.comicgenesis.com/d/20110209.html Apparently]], sidekicks can go through a process to become full heroes if their mentors vouch for them.
** One minor character signed up as sidekick to an aging hero with the understanding that the hero would sponsor the sidekick to become a hero when he retired (And the expectation that that Thunder would retire in 5 years or so). Twenty years later, Thunder is still on active duty, meaning that Lightning Lad is stuck working for him as a sidekick (Thunder won't even let him choose a more mature alias).
* SelectiveObliviousness: Illumina and Maelstrom are lovers in their civilian [=IDs=]. Neither knows the other's superhero ID - despite Val dropping hint after hint to them (and outright telling Illumina). [[http://sidekickgirl.comicgenesis.com/d/20081210.html Val eventually gets through.]]
* ShowerOfLove: [[http://sidekickgirl.comicgenesis.com/d/20110112.html With optional]] GodivaHair.
* SuperheroOrigin: One of two deciding factors for whether you're a superhero or a sidekick. Val is a sidekick because she looks like a fighter instead of a porn star and her origin story amounts to "I was hit by a car as a child and realized I could survive anything and eventually heal from it", despite being competent, being a great fighter and having a power that's incredibly useful despite its BlessedWithSuck elements.
* SuperheroSchool: Essentially college. (Val went to the equivalent of a community college, as she was paying her own way.)
* SuperZeroes: Brains aren't required to look good in spandex. In fact, Haze's hero, Impact, is the only one we've heard about who's even competent.
** However, Illumina's first sidekick, Sparkle, was a girl who met the rather shallow requirements for being a hero but did so badly in SuperheroSchool that she was demoted to sidekick. Given some of the people who made hero, that's quite an accomplishment.
* TakingTheBullet: The fate of Illumina's late sidekick Marina.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Val and Illumina, for a certain interpretation of "girly".
* TooDumbToLive: Clockwork gets killed because he stared down the barrel of his malfunctioning ray gun.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Dr. Wright's plan to create the perfect world by eliminating left-handedness.
** The stupidity gets better. He himself is left handed.
* WeirdTradeUnion: The Superhero Agency and its unnamed EvilCounterpart.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway[=/=]HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Illumina's only powers are hovering and creating light -- not even lasers or anything, just regular light. However -- as Val demonstrates when they switch bodies -- in the hands of someone competent, this allows her to fall from any height safely and act as a living flashbang grenade.
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