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2. ''Each new superhuman is twice as powerful as the previous one.''<br />
3. ''This has been going on for ten years.'' }}
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* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: [http://qntm.org/failure Failure Mode] is interspersed with one.
* [[Area 51]]: Not ''the'' Area 51, but the base where the Power experiments are carried out is certainly the next best thing, a fact of which Ching is quite aware.
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* [[Big Bad]]: Oul, a [[Omnicidal Maniac|mindlessly destructive]] [[Eldritch Abomination]].
** Justified, as he is in fact a weapon and was programmed to do exactly this.
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* [[Clarke's Third Law]]: "[http://qntm.org/indistinguishable Indistinguishable from magic]", in which Mitch makes his first appearance, is named for this.
* [[Comes Great Responsibility]]: Mitch [[Invoked Trope|invokes]] this in his first appearance.
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** Then he proceeds to rob a bank. He returns the money when Seph catches him easily and gives him a scolding.
* [[De-Power]]: Every [[Flying Brick]] is depowered by the cloistering of the solar system from the rest of [[The Multiverse]].
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* [[Teleporters and Transporters]]: Teleportation works by swapping two areas of space. The very first teleportation experiment results in Anne Poole being sealed in a coal seam. The consquences only get worse from there - later, four scientists are simultaneously killed. Finally, an entire building is teleported underground, and ''teleportation is excised from the fabric of the universe''.
* [[The Glasses Gotta Go]]: [[Subverted]]. One minor character, Srin Shapur, is described like this explicitly:
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* [[The Stars Are Going Out]]: In [http://qntm.org/?astronomer The Astronomer's Loss]. This turns out to be a good thing though.
* [[Time Abyss]]: Anne Poole lives around 20,000 years, and experiences every minute of it, including the centuries buried alive.
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I've walked on the Moon barefoot. }}
* [[Time Skip]]: Even disregarding the [[Anachronic Order]], the story spans over 20,000 years and most of that time understandably doesn't get examined in detail. In detail it only really covers from 2000-2020 or so, and a few brief segments in between, before jumping to the end.
* [[Time Travel]]: With automatic anti-paradox protection going backward. Each direction only gets used once. It's used by one of Oul's slaves to blow up Manhattan.
* [[Title Drop]]: In the very first story. A few of the individual chapters do this as well.
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* [[The Atoner]]: Arika, after Jason's death. At that point she's killed or caused the death of 223 people since she got her powers. A few years later, when she loses her powers, she's in the middle of saving her 223rd life.
* [[Unperson]]: The result of applying an anti-memetic weapon to a human being. Such a person cannot be remembered or recorded. As far as anyone is concerned they ''don't exist''. This happens to {{spoiler|}}, and as a result, we, the readers, cannot ever know why<ref>It's implied he realized what Mitch really was and/or realized he was brainwashing the others</ref>!
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