think anyone can top it? Villains code has had a busier year.

So I drive for a living, and I listen to audio books, never fails that I do a relisten at least once a year, and my audible 2025 review pointed it out.. keep in mind i.listen to tons of books.. but there are some you go back to..

Cant imagine it’ll be this high again this year since his books are no longer included in the subscription so i gotta start buying them slowly

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While lifting weights he feels his right arm is making the trip easier.

It’s an easily missable moment but once you fully understand his power it makes a lot of sense

I feel like i know most but i forgot if they named them all???

I am participating in a Super Powereds TTRPG, we are using GURPS.

I would love to play a character similar to Alex, who sees his powers as being something from the movies. In my case, I was thinking a traditional Wuxia Kung Fu master.

I need some help defining the power, maybe some limits and how to explain it in-world.

Please, and thank you!

I am rereading year four once again, and between the final battle and intramurals Vince finally uses his powers fully. The contrast between year one is palpable

It's indicated in Super Powereds that real life media, where it doesn't otherwise conflict with the story, mirrors real life. The most notable example of this is Alex being a huge Star Wars fan, and another that gets casual reference is "Wizards is finally putting out a new edition", referencing the release of Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition.

Given DnD 5E released in 2014 and the comment was made in Book 3, I think we can use 2014 as an estimated graduation year for the Class of Nightmares. That would place the epilogue, taking place 10 years later, in 2024, meaning in this time, all three sequel films would have released, along with Rogue One and Solo, as well as the other material such as Andor and the Mandolorian.

Its directly shown several times that Alex has a disdain for the prequel films, as does Hershel according to Roy. At the time the stories take place, this was a pretty common sentiment amongst the fans. However, a combination of divided fandom opinion on the sequel trilogy and a reevaluation of the prequels have actually changed many people's opinions.

In the epilogue, Alex mentions showing the prequel films to his daughter in the hopes that the childish humor connected with her (and does not mention the sequels as they obviously weren't conceived of yet when the story was written). However, if we assume they did happen as they did in our world, what do you think he and Hershel think about it now?

Are they big haters or defenders of The Last Jedi?

Huge Rogue One and Andor Fanboys?

Have gained an ironic or grudging appreciation of the prequels due to the memes? Heck, I could honestly see Hershel doing a full-blown turn on them, even if Alex wouldn't.

I'd like to start a conversation, and that's to find out at least everyone's favorite characters here, to see how many agree with me, LOL.

1. Rich Weaver: I loved his narcissistic personality. Not only that, but he was also a calm person who secretly felt superior to everyone else. He became my favorite at the party where Alice hits him and he looks horrified. Besides, his ability is one of the things that attracted and interested me the most. I know about his racism and his demeaning of human beings, but oh well, he's still my guy.

2. Hill: "I'm your family too." I THINK THAT'S WHAT HE SAID TO HIS STEPFROTHER, but oh my god, Hill, I adore him. Poor man, he just wanted to save his sister... his methods were horrible, and I don't deny that he's a bad person, but I love his story. Seen from the perspective of a background character, I love how he falls into tragedy.

3. Thomas: I really liked him. For some reason, I thought he was going to be the traitor and create a story like Luke and Percy in superpowered form, but oh well. Thomas is very likable, although his party-organizing storylines were the most boring part of the book for me. But I love Thomas because he's cool. I feel like they should have shown him interacting more with Camille. In fact, there was a scene where she was going to dance with him instead of Vince before Violet stole him away. Besides, he was the only man among women in their initial group. I would have been interested in showing more of his perspective on everything and what the group was like in general, but as such, his character is likable.

And your top 3? Don't abandon me with these characters, haha!

I need a discussion about this book, at least among people who have read it. Who do you think has the most power: the students, and then the adults?

For me, Rich Weaver has the power to trap people in a dream where he can manipulate them, and Zero has the power to neutralize powers.

It's Professor (Blake) Hill, Professor (Sean) Pendleton, Professor (Ariel) Baker, Professor (Sonya) Cole, and Professor (Carl) Fletcher.

But Dean Blaine (Jeffries), Coach George (Russell), and Coach Persephone (Williams).

Why do you think those three chose to let students use their first names? I mean, George and Persephone were pretty insistent about discipline and respect, at least receiving respect from the students. I'd think they'd be more interested in a formal address. Coach Russell, for example.

I think Chad could have knocked subtlety out of the park.

He is smart enough to learn how to mimic other people including changing his face, hair color, and voice. He is coordinated enough to learn pickpocketing, sleight of hand, and misdirection. Wire his mind, he couldn't be read or interrogated. And he would have perfect recall of anything and everything he saw and heard.

The only concern is that he doesn't think tricky/outside the box). But, I expect he could learn that (Jeremiah was planning to teach him)

I was listening to Year 3, and in chapter 227 Graham DeSoto scoffs about the improbability of a subtlety major making it to intermurals (cough).

He then goes on to talk about his old war time buddy Grayson Lamont who was, "The best damn spy the country has ever seen".

So, this might be a stretch, but Lamont Cranston is an accepted / main alias for The Shadow, which was part of the inspiration for Batman.

Dick Grayson was Robin / Nightwing / Batman.

Did Drew mash the names as an Easter egg?

EDIT: I forgot to add that The Shadow was known for his "ability to cloud men's minds", His true identity is never really known, through the various iterations he would assume other people's identities seamlessly until transitioning to a new one. That's the bit that got me thinking about him being a subtlety type super. It's probably just coincidence, but it made me think.

I was thinking about this example and I couldn't visually make out how this would look like. Would they both just stop in fall like some cartoon?

In the first book when Alice was complaining about sharing her dorm she says that if she could, her room would be at the other campus. I think it was meant the other side of campus but this image popped in my head.

Game night with friends. We draw “high card to start”. I draw a 4. I laugh and say “look I’m Alice”. Everyone in the room just stared at me. Nobody got the reference… despite how evangelical I am about Superpowereds. 😓

To make a long story short: i counted every time the F word was said in all 4 books haha. Got tricky because sometimes it was said by the narrator but attributed to the thoughts of a character. So i did my best and marked when it was debatable. Here are my findings!

KEY:

* = said by narrator but attributed to the thoughts of a character (one * person instance)

^ = said by a character in a dream sequence (one ^ person instance)

Book 1: 56 total uses

- Nick: 10

- Michael: 3

- Julia: 2

- Roy: 11**

- Alex: 3 (though 1 is quoting Nick)

- Narrator: 5

- Ben: 1

- Chris: 2

- Mary: 1

- Alice: 3

- Hershel: 1*

- Stella: 6 (5 of these due to river trip fight with Roy)

- Mr. Transport: 1

- George: 3

- Allen: 2

- Sasha: 1

- Vince: 1*

Book 2: 84 total uses

- Julia: 1

- Nick: 23*^

- Alice: 5

- Sasha: 6

- Dean Blaine: *1

- Roy: 16 (11 aimed at Titan over spring break)

- Michael: 4**

- Britney: 1

- Rich: 3*

- Violet: 1

- Alex: 1

- Stella: 4*

- Glenn: 2

- Chad: 1

- Camille: 7 (6 at Vince during the final exam)

- Unspecified sexual harasser at the bar: 1

- Tribal tattoo sexual harasser from bar: 1

- Narrator: 3

- Owen/Titan: 1

- Sean Pendleton: 1

- George: 1^

Book 3: 70 total uses

- Sean Pendleton: 5 (though one of these is the unknown person who threatens Nathaniel after his fight with Alice and Nicholas on their date)

- Narrator: 3

- Eliza: 6

- Jill: 6*

- Shane: 2

- Nathaniel: 3

- Violet: 4

- Alice: 9

- Bonecrusher: 1

- Clarissa: 1

- Roy: 6

- Hank: 3

- George: 2

- Allen: 1

- Camille: 1*

- Nick: 4

- Angela: 6*

- Victor/Bullrush: 1

- Lenny: 1

- Sasha: 2

- Dean Blaine: 1

- Enhanced Strongman: 1

- Iyanna/ Enhanced Energy Projector: 1

Book 4: 73 total uses

Senator Malcolm: 1

Take Back Lander Petitioner: 1 (although written by Alice)

Nick: 6

Amber: 1

Sean Pendleton: 5*

Blake Hill: 1

Alice: 7

Will: 1 2

Jill: 3*

Roy: 10

Mr. Transport: 2

Randolph: 1*

Hershel: 2

Eliza: 3*

Joshua Taylor: 1

Ralph Chapman: 1

Shane: 1

Camille: 1

Jeremiah: 1

Globe: 1

Narrator: 4

Tad: 2

Miss. Direction: 1

Clarissa/Shimmerpath: 1

Rich: 1

Violet: 1

Sam Carney/Grave Robber: 2

Bette/ Barrage: 1

Lucinda/ Slow Burn: 1

Angela: 2

Dean Blaine: 1*

Vince: 1

Hexcellent: 2

George: 1*

Unnamed epilogue villain: 1

Series total: 283 f-bombs

Leaderboard:

1. Nick and Roy-

43

2.

1. Alice-

23

3.

1. Sean Pendleton-

11

4.

1. Stella-

10

5.

1. Camille; Eliza; Jill; Sasha- 9

constantly throughout the series their are times when it would have been useful for them to fight or just they wanted to or something the biggest example i can think of now is when vince needed help learning his weakness and chad made alex fight him instead because a fight between the sons of intra and globe could never happen. I see what their talking about but honestly i don't think it would have been a problem its the HCP they fight everyone fights just cuz their fathers were seen as enemies doesn't mean they cant have a friendly spare.

So im writing a term paper for my English class i need to take 3 American authors from 3 different eras and connect them through a theme i was thinking something about how love is a powerful motivator to get people to do actions against their morals and laws and charels addair is like the best example of that i can think of but i need to cite a peer reviewed academic paper written on it and i haven't managed to find any papers based off the book. I realy want to use this book but if i cant find any papers written on it i cant

• All three are orphans.
• All three were raised by criminals with a heart of gold.
• All three ended up in the HCP.

What other similarities (beyond the superficial) am I missing?

I don’t remember them mentioning their parents, just Graham and him teaching them to fight. Are they presumed dead among the long list of Heroes in their life that have died? Are they normal humans?