Tales of the Starbuck Avenger



Tales of the Starbuck Avenger!!! is a completed Web Serial Novel and Superhero story by Jeffrey "Channing" Wells (probably best known for writing Skin Horse with Shaenon K. Garrity of Narbonic fame). It is serialized on Livejournal - if you want a quick taste, here are the first three installments.

Tropes used in this work include: "Jeffrey Wells: Is there a TV Trope for "We were sure it was never going to be finished but then it was?""
 * AI Is a Crapshoot: It is implied that the Goffin Robotics factory was taken over by A Is.
 * Artificial Human: Goffin Robotics products, such as the Absolvatron.
 * Buffy-Speak: Trish, the titular Starbuck Avenger.
 * Caffeine Bullet Time: Garuda, to a small extent.
 * Code Name: All supers have them. Starbuck Avenger, Garuda, Corpseflower, ...
 * Doppelganger: Some of the Goffin robots.
 * Kryptonite Factor: Goffin robots can be incapacitated when scratched with needles of a certain semi-metallic selenium alloy.
 * Loophole Abuse: Trish theorizes that this is why the Absolvatron beats its victim's heads against the doors of the church.
 * Masquerade: A feature of the entire world. See Weirdness Censor below.
 * Medium Awareness:.
 * Mega Manning: gains powers by  superpowered individuals.
 * Orphaned Series: Defied Trope.

"Garuda: We call it 'the Coverup'. It's hellaciously efficient and it frequently boggles the mind and we have no clue who or what causes it. It's like a vast conspiracy, orchestrated and executed by the careful hands of reality itself."
 * Paper-Thin Disguise: A feature of the Weirdness Censor, below - simply putting on a Domino Mask activates it.
 * Plausible Deniability: By means of the Weirdness Censor, below.
 * Speech Impediment: Mebby has a bad stutter.
 * Split Personality: At first it seems like a variation of the Good Angel, Bad Angel trope, but as it turns out...
 * Talking the Monster to Death: When Trish is attacked by the Absolvatron, she escapes being beaten unconscious by.
 * Weirdness Censor: