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Tropes common to the Superhero genre, be it comics, film, TV, or radio drama.
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Adaptive Armor
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Alliterative Name
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Alternate Company Equivalent
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Alternate Continuity
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Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome
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Animal-Themed Superbeing
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Anti-Climactic Unmasking
B
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Badass Cape
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Badass Normal
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Bat Signal
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Beware the Superman
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Boxing Lessons for Superman
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Brought Down to Badass
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Brought Down to Normal
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Brought to You by The Letter "S"
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Bruce Wayne Held Hostage
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Building Swing
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Burning Building Rescue
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Bus Full of Innocents
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By the Power of Grayskull
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The Cape (trope)
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Cape Busters
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Captain Ersatz
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Captain Ethnic
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Captain Geographic
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Captain Patriotic
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Captain Superhero
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Charles Atlas Superpower
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Chest Insignia
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Chrome Champion
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Civvie Spandex
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Clark Kenting
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Clingy Costume
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Coat, Hat, Mask
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Code Name
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Color Character
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Comes Great Responsibility
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Comic Book Movies Don't Use Codenames
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Corporate-Sponsored Superhero
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Costumed Nonsuper Hero
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Create Your Own Villain
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Cut Lex Luthor a Check
D
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Dark Age of Supernames
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Dating Catwoman
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Deadly Training Area
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Death-Activated Superpower
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Differently-Powered Individual
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Disability Superpower
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Disposable Superhero Maker
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Domino Mask
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Dork Age
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H
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Heart Is an Awesome Power
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Hero with Bad Publicity
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Heroic Build
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Heroic Fatigue
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Heroic Host
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Heroic Vow
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Holding Out for a Hero
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I Believe I Can Fly
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I Just Want to Be Normal
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I'm Not a Hero, I'm X
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Identity Impersonator
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Idiosyncrazy
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Imagination-Based Superpower
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In a Single Bound
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Innocent Bystander Series
K
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Keep the Home Fires Burning
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Kid Sidekick
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Kryptonite Factor
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Kryptonite Is Everywhere
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Kryptonite Ring
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Kryptonite-Proof Suit
L
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Lamarck Was Right
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Legacy Character
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Legacy Implosion
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Legacy Launch
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Leotard of Power
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Lighthearted Rematch
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Magic Pants
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Magical Girl Warrior
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Man of Kryptonite
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Marked Change
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Mass Super-Empowering Event
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Meta Origin
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Military Superhero
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Monster Modesty
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Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate
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Movie Superheroes Wear Black
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My Significance Sense Is Tingling
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Never Be a Hero
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New Powers as the Plot Demands
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Nineties Anti-Hero
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Not the Fall That Kills You
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Not Wearing Tights
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P
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Personality Powers
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Phlebotinum Battery
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Power Creep, Power Seep
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Power Nullifier
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Premature Empowerment
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Psychic Nosebleed
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Psychic Radar
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Psychosomatic Superpower Outage
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Puberty Superpower
R
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Randomly-Gifted
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Re-Power
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Reckless Sidekick
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Reed Richards Is Useless
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Required Secondary Powers
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Rich Idiot With No Day Job
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Rogues Gallery
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Rogues Gallery Showcase
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Rogues Gallery Transplant
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Run the Gauntlet
S
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Samaritan Syndrome
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Secret Identity
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Secret Identity Change Trick
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Secret Identity Identity
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Category:Secret Identity Tropes
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Secret Keeper
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Secret Public Identity
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Secret-Chaser
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Semantic Superpower
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Shooting Superman
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Sidekick
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Sidekick Glass Ceiling
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Sidekick Graduations Stick
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Single-Power Superheroes
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Slave to PR
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Something Person
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Spandex, Latex, or Leather
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Category:Standard Superhero Suits
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Star-Spangled Spandex
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Steven Ulysses Perhero
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Stock Superhero Day Jobs
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Strong as They Need to Be
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Super Empowering
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Super Human Trafficking
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Super Registration Act
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Super Rug Pull
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Super Serum
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Super Villain
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Super-Hero Gods
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Super-Hero Origin
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Superhero Packing Heat
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Superhero Paradox
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Superhero Prevalence Stages
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Superhero Sobriquets
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Superhero Trophy Shelf
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Superheroes Stay Single
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Superheroes Wear Capes
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Superheroes Wear Tights
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Superhuman Transfusion
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Superman Stays Out of Gotham
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Superpower Lottery
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Superpower Silly Putty
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Superpowers for A Day
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Swiss Army Superpower
T
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The Cape
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The Commissioner Gordon
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The Cowl
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The Jailer
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The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life
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The Unmasking
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Thematic Rogues Gallery
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Thememobile
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
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Trainstopping
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Traumatic Superpower Awakening
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Trick Arrow
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Triple Shifter
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Two First Names
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