Superhero AU

Superhero AU (also known as Comic Book AU) is a popular AU (Alternate Universe) within the Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons fandom. In the AU, Rapunzel, Merida, Hiccup and Jack Frost are superpowered men and women on a superhero team. As it is not canon, ideas for this AU are shown through fanfiction, fanart, and other fan-made works.

About the AU
This AU portrays as the four as a group of metahumans (normal human beings embedded with extraordinary powers) that team up in a world of superheroes and supervillains. Because of the fantastical properties found within the fandom, RotBTD is the perfect setting for a comic-book stories and superpowered individuals.

Popular Scenarios

 * Danny Phantom
 * DC
 * Marvel
 * Miraculous Ladybug
 * Overwatch
 * Power Rangers
 * Powerpuff Girls
 * Sailor Moon
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Featured Characters
Because of the flexible qualities that can be found in a comic-book scenario, the powers and identities of the Big Four in the Superhero AU may vary between writers and artists.

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
For his blacksmithing skills, Hiccup would most often rely on his technical know-how to build himself gadgets and weapons rather than having actual powers, his costume and flight-suit most often resembling Toothless under the superhero identity Night Fury. In a second version, he's a Batman-like hero with Toothless as his sidekick, known as the Dragon Rider. In other cases, Hiccup would be a mutant with dragon-like components, including a tail, claws, paws, teeth, ears and eyes.

Jack Frost
For his magical origins, Jack is the most often candidate to have actual powers, rather than relying on wit, tools or martial arts. Often magical in nature, Jack Frost would have the same cryokinetic powers he would as a spirit, along with flight and some ghost-like abilities, including his intangibility and invisibility to humans. Normally, his hero name would be Jack Frost or simply Frost, while Jackson Overland would be his civilian name.

Merida DunBroch
Being the most athletic of the four, Merida DunBroch would rely on her own physical prowess and weaponry skills, including a sword or a bow and arrow, to fight crime. Because of her family's royal standard, she has both the resources and funding to support both her and the other three's crime-fighting. Her hero name would normally coincide with one of her notable qualities. For example, some would call her Archer for her skills in archery.

Rapunzel Corona
Much like Jack Frost, Rapunzel is the only other member of the Big Four known to have actual powers in-canon. Her hair is often the source of her powers, giving her healing powers, physical endurance, as well as abilities often associated with the sun, whether it is solar-powered physical strength, speed or other sort of powers. Her hero name would normally coincide with one of her notable qualities.

Big Hero 6
Even when they are already a team of superheroes that uses technical and their own skills and knowledge in science to keep the people of San Fransokyo safe; there are a few that like to imagine Big Hero 6 having actual superpowers. Being born with them or had gotten them from an "incident" at SFIT that allowed them to be infested with their school projects. Being born with superpowers or "gaining" them in a lab accident differs from story to story.

Hiro could have been wearing the neurotransmitter for his Microbots at the time, which could give him the ability to control electromagnetism (the material that the small bots are made from) with his mind or type of telekinesis. He could also have a superpower that is connected to his genies or his skills in robotic.

GoGo would be holding one of her electro-magnetic wheels and possible standing next to the ones that she throw away when the "incident" made her body and mind have the power to control the electro-magnetic wheels to her will; she could also posses a superspeed like power. Honey Lemon would have the ability to mix chemicals with her mind and to safely touch them with her own hands.

Wasabi could have been standing next to his laser induced plasma project and was later able to control and summon them from his hands, and just above his wrists without the plasma harming his skin. Fred could have been standing next to or holding a lizard that had been experimented on and was later "given" the ability to transform himself into a human-like lizard, with the same "abilities" and skin color that the lizard was given.

Tadashi is sometimes viewed as the seven member of the team, when he is given armor that is a bit like theirs (as well as being placed in Baymax's 2.0 armor). He is also seen as a fox hero persona of Kitsune, a identity that he sometimes takes in Dark AU.

Queen Elsa
For her magical ice powers, Elsa is the most often candidate to have actual powers, rather than relying on wit, tools or martial arts. She would have started to use her powers to fight crime when she decided to use them to keep her sister safe. Elsa would keep her hair down when she goes into her ulster ego and her hair up when she is going about her day as a civilian.

The Incredibles
Since the Parr family/The Incredibles are a family/group of superheroes, they are seen as themselves. Along with their friend Frozone. Fans also like to view and portrayed them as other types of "supers", like them being mutants from the X-Men universe or as non-supers using technical that allows them to curate the legion of having superpowers.

Wilbur Robinson
Wilbur's power can have something to do with Time Travel, from his time using his dad's Time Machine; being able to jump into time and space or be able to freeze it. He is also seen having power over thunder and lightning or electricity, from the lightning bolt on his t-shirt (and on the cap that he had leaded to Lewis). He can even use is father's technical and gadgets to curate the legion of having superpowers, some of them can be the gadgets that Wilbur uses in the Meet the Robinsons video game.

Known Examples
See also: Super Fic

Fanfiction

 * The Big Four by cjupsher
 * The Big Four: An Old Friend by cjupsher
 * Limelight meets her match by cjupsher
 * Limelight and Archer: Goddess of War by cjupsher
 * Pixie and Snow Sprite by cjupsher
 * The Day of Firestar by cjupsher
 * Lessons in Magic by cjupsher
 * Archer and Nightfury: Merida Meets Pixie by cjupsher
 * Limelight and Archer: Hunted by cjupsher
 * Superhero Drabbles by cjupsher
 * Bloody Valentine by Song Of A Free Heart
 * Stormfly by Song Of A Free Heart
 * The Healer by themyscira
 * The Woes of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III: Dragon Lord and Family Man by AvisQuest9513
 * How to Be a Hero by TheSenjuMan
 * The big four meet the incredibles by TheEmeraldArcher
 * Super Zeros by Kayden Pause
 * The Guardian by berserker823
 * The Night Fury by berserker823
 * Sky High Year 1-The Beginnings of Shadows by lifesvs.reality
 * The Hamadas (The Incredibles AU) by kade32

Videos

 * The Big Four: Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer by katherine
 * Non / Disney: Guardians of the Galaxy: VOL 2 by katherine
 * Disney / Non Disney: Batman vs Superman Trailer by katherine
 * HTTYD - Megamind Trailer by thefanvideoer2

Articles/Links

 * The Big Four Cjupsher Series (Fanfic) - TV Tropes
 * The Big Four Cjupsher Series / Characters - TV Tropes