History Webcomic / Spinnerette

* VampireVannabe: Cal's fangirls.

* BadassLabcoat: Dr. Universe

** In Issue 4, Dr. Universe tried to form an alliance of convenience with the Columbus superheroes in order to catch a rogue werewolf. It didn't take, as he wanted the werewolf to be captured for experimentation, while the heroes wanted to save it.
** [[spoiler:Spinnerette teams up with Dr. Universe and Greta to rob a US Army convoy. Because off the powerswap, he points out that Spinnerette [[RequiredSecondaryPowers no longer has the DNA needed to keep her body from rejecting her new anatomy.]] And seeing as it might take months if not years to get the Army to cough up the needed equipment, she goes with them.]]

** Mentioned by name [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/11-28-2014 here]].

* NotSoDifferent: Dr. Universe says this word for word after he gets Spinnerette to admit that maybe she is a little selfish by not volunteering to die for the greater good.

* RealityEnsues: A major theme of the comic, although not played with to outright {{Deconstruction}} levels -- Heather keeps trying to invoke tropes but they just don't work that way in real life -- for example, she jumps a car burglar, only to get her ass kicked since even with SuperStrength and [[MultiArmedAndDangerous multiple arms]]... she doesn't know basic self defense. Also, while laws have been passed to accommodate the fact that superheroes and villains exist (for example, heroes don't have to disclose their real identities to testify in a trial), they still have to follow legal procedure in the trials and conviction of villains.

* ShirtlessScene: Tiger gets a nice one [[https://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/02-18-2011 here]] and [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/05-13-2011 here.]] Doctor Universe shows his muscular body a [[https://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/issue-34-07-2 few]] [[https://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/issue-34-08 times]] in [[https://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/issue-34-cover Issue 34]].

* ShirtlessScene: Tiger gets a nice one [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/02-18-2011 here]] and [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/05-13-2011 here.]]

** Greta Gravity is [[TeacherStudentRomance very close]] to Dr. Universe, as he was once her professor and is now her boss. There are hints in the main comic that she harbors (and conceals) romantic feelings toward him, which come to a head in one of the NSFW tie-in comics [[spoiler:where an experiment to amplify her powers has the side effect of making her uncontrollably aroused]].

** '90s Spinnerette towers over both the 2010 and Silver Age versions, with an even more... [[MostCommonSuperpower pronounced...]] SuperPhysique. 2010 Heather [[LampshadeHanging comments on this,]] to which '90s Spinnerette replies, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "This just became incredibly awkward."]]

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/10-01-2010 He would have been]], if the comic had been published a few years earlier. Now it's averted, since we have the vampires from the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series for him to resemble[[note]][[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments He has a horde of fangirls, too]][[/note]].

** Look at Buzz Rickard's (that security guard that Sahira tries to seduce) uniform sleeve. Did you notice the [[VideoGame/HalfLife Black Mesa logo]]? How about his [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Cyberdyne-Systems]] laptop? His jacket with [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome CMOA]] on the back?

* [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength Does Not Know Her Own Strength]]:
** Heather's still getting used to having six arms and SuperStrength, as seen when she bear hugs Sahira at one point.
** Also when she broke down a door while trying to pick a lock.

* GratuitousGerman: Played with at the beginning of the arc in which Benjamin Franklin travels through time into the Third Reich. Hitler's spoken German is correct. Krakow actually asked his German-speaking fans for help beforehand. However played straight with the name plate on Hitler's desk reading "Das Führer, Duden!" which is German gibberish for "The Führer, Dude!" and a coffee mug on the floor with the words "Mein Coffee" written on it.
** [[BilingualBonus Especially funny for Germans]] because "Duden" is actually the name of Germany's most common dictionary.

* [[MarkedBullet Marked Missile]]: Mecha Maid's missiles have taunts and phrases written on them, such as "Mine is bigger!" or "From M.M With <3"

* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision S-Strike]]:

* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler:Mecha Maid]]
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Dr. Universe's real name is Dr. Ulysses N. Verde.
** Doubles as MeaningfulName: When he still called himself that, he was working on a nonpolluting free energy source, the ultimate "green technology".

* SuperpowerMeltdown: [[spoiler:Heather, in Issue 12]]

* [[SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage Surprisingly Good German]]: When Creator/BenjaminFranklin travels back in time UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, Hitler's German looks rather decent (The author either asked a German speaker to translate it or he is one himself).

** Doctor Universe claims to have became a supervillain after reading an Creator/AynRand novel. Everybody accepts this as a perfectly valid reason.
*** {{Subverted}} since [[spoiler:this was the first book he read when he and his assistant were arrested by the government for accepting aid from Chinese government.]]

** And [[spoiler:the aforementioned AnguishedDeclarationOfLove]]

* BeachEpisode: Issue 34 takes place at a superhero resort and includes a beach volleyball game with the characters in revealing swimsuits.

* BeachEpisode: Issue 34 takes place at a superhero resort and includes a beach volleyball game with the characters in [[Fanservice fanservice-ready]] swimsuits.

* BeachEpisode: Issue 34 takes place at a superhero resort and includes a beach volleyball game with the characters in [[Fanservice]] -ready swimsuits.

* OhCrap: Sahira's reaction to Rick rumbling her. [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/11-24-2010 Guess that guy wasn't as clueless as she thought, was he?]]

* AdaptationDyeJob: In-universe. The alternate Spinnerette arc reveals that Spinerette's hair has gone from strawberry blonde to brunette to dirty blonde with a brunette wig over the years.

* ParodySue: Delta, who combines as many harem anime as inhumanly possible [[spoiler:along with dream manipulating powers]].

* OutOfGenreExperience: Issue 19 suddenly, [[BizarroEpisode apropos of nothing,]] becomes an [[HighSchoolAU anime-style romantic comedy taking place in high school.]] And there's suddenly a new character named Delta at the center of it all.
** [[spoiler:Ends up being not-so-AU and not quite Out-Of-Genre as Spinnerette eventually remembers what her world should be like and figures out that something's wrong.]]

%%* CleanPrettyReliable: [[spoiler:[[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/09-30-2011 Alexis and Heather.]] ]]

* InSpiteOfANail: Both Silver Age Spinnerette and Modern Spinnerette got their powers from a machine created by Dr. Universe, with the difference being that Silver Age Dr. Universe deliberately turned Silver Age Spinnerette into a superhuman to recruit her while Modern Spinnerette had a FreakLabAccident.

** In the NSFW comics, Mecha Maid's armor is on full display, showing that it is very much inspired by [[Manga/Gunnm Alita's Berserker Body]].

** [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/08-10-2011 Here]], Spinnerette is holding an issue of Comicbook/{{Empowered}}, a comic hers has often been compared to.

** During the HighSchoolAU arc, when Spinny starts to fight back against the villain, suddenly everyone is dressed like Poison from ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' -- not just the women, but the men.

** Tiger, who is very sensitive about being seen primarily for his skin color.
** Subverted when he's not being sensitive about that: he's the one to teach Spinnerette the detective side of things, while Mecha Maid is the black belt/hand to hand expert. Brings him right down from scary territory nicely.

* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr. Universe.
** A bit of an odd case: he considers himself to be perfectly morally consistent. However, the moral philosophy he ascribes to is UsefulNotes/{{Objectivism}}, which is ''very'' different from the more traditional forms of morality that are championed by the heroes of the comic.

* PerpetualFrowner: Tiger is never happy. He frowns even when his team succesfully brings in a criminal.

* PunchClockVillain: Dr. Universe and Greta Gravity in issue 11. Creating a clone of Hitler for an old Nazi, or of General Lee for his descendant ? Eh, sure, if the money is good. They only get passionate when the two try to start a fight in their lab. Plus, the chapter starts with Greta preparing a cake and a 'Thank you for rescuing me from a shadowy government lab'-card (with a happy smiling picture of Greta on it) for her boss.
** Later on, after the Nazis and Lee were defeated, Universe states that he only agreed to work with them because he knew their plans would fail. Besides the fact that believing the future of humanity lies in a strand of DNA is laughable, even if the clone (which as an Objectivist he believes would have free will) were to grow up to become a dictator there is no way that the German people would let history repeat itself. In the case of Lee, he tells her that most of the people who fly the Confederate flag are not actually racists (And for that matter, neither was Robert E. Lee).

%%* PutOnABus[=/=]TheBusCameBack: Tiger, [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/09-03-2012 going]] and [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/07-03-2013 reappearing]].

** Greta's terrible wisecracks

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:Mecha Maid to Spinnerette]], while badly injured and considering euthanasia. The latter's reaction? [[spoiler:She ran out of the room and left her alone at the hospital.]] Ouch. (Things [[spoiler:[[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/04-13-2012 improved after that]], though.]])

* AppliedPhlebotinum: The source behind most superpowers in the ''Spinnerette'' universe is a nuclear-powered phenomenon called the Cherenkov-Kirby Reaction.
** [[spoiler:Which is an example of HumanResources. Apparently all Cherenkov-Kirby reactors are made from the pineal gland of Ultra, who was killed by his government to make them. Or so claims the [[UnreliableNarrator supervillain.]] ]]

** Heather ''wanted'' to do this to show off her girl abs, but [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/05-12-2010 was shot down by Sahira]].

* BreatherEpisode: The brief, lighthearted "Anime Dreamworld" story that came after the Colonel Glass Saga, an epic [[ArcFatigue yearlong]], [[CerebusSyndrome deathly serious]] arc whose BigBad was a [[KnightOfCerebus sadistic, murderous monster]].

* ImagineSpot: Colonel Glass gets one briefly after being honked at by a car while in America, though it's not revealed to be one till the next page.

* ItsProbablyNothing: Heather seems to think that the security guards at the lab suffer from this. "They'll probably just assume they have giant spiders or something."
** This is actually a case of RealityIsUnrealistic as the Darwin Bark Spider [[http://www.clevescene.com/images/blogimages/2010/09/17/1284748488-big-freaking-spider-web.jpg can make webs that big or even bigger.]]

* [[LifeOrLimbDecision Life Or Limbs Decision]]: [[spoiler:Doctor Universe was forced to amputate all of Heather's extra arms since her heart couldn't keep up due to the increased need in bloodflow.]]

* WhatWouldXDo: This is what Spinnerette wonders when [[spoiler:[[LetsYouAndHimFight the Canadian Superheroes and Mecha Maid went berserk courtesy of rage toxins from the rogue Captain Alberta.]]]]