Equipped with ergonomic chairs, fluorescent lights and dotted with Mac monitors, the room could pass for just about any modern-day, millennial-baiting workplace. It feels familiar, unremarkable even — that is, until the clouds of cartoon-y smoke start wafting past the windows. 

Wedged between laboratory props in the back, a sign reads: “Wayne Security has worked — — days since super villain accident.” Today is not the day that sign will be put to good use.

Each computer screen is flashing the alarmingly red warning: “Emergency Lockdown Procedure Initiated. Remain Calm.” But instead of panicking, the inhabitants appear merely flustered; it’s just another pleasant day ruined in Charm City.

On the set of NBC’s new superhero show “Powerless,” a sitcom that directs the attention away from the spandex-clad comic book heroes that populate the skies of the CW and, instead, focuses on the civilians forced to live in the messy world of genre mayhem and the destruction left behind. It’s the story of the innocent bystander and how such people get through the day filled with superhero showdowns.

This aftermath is where the employees of Wayne Security come into play — they invent creative ways to protect the little people whose lives are often interrupted by falling debris and citywide attacks. The company is led by the dimwitted CEO Van Wayne (played by Alan Tudyk of “Firefly” and “Rogue One” fame) — the lesser-known cousin of Bruce, a.k.a. Batman. Wayne and his new hire, Emily Locke (Vanessa Hudgens), command a team of inventive engineers made up of Teddy (Danny Pudi), Ron (Ron Funches) and Wendy (Jennie Pierson).

Together, they try to save the day for the common man (while turning a profit) with ideas such as the “rubble umbrella,” “the Joker antivenom” and frost-melting gloves.

One part “Mary Tyler Moore Show” (a touchstone for the show runners) and two parts superhero sitcom, “Powerless” spends a lot of time on Hudgens’ character. The latest addition to Wayne Security, Emily struggles to steer the haphazard team and corral the man-child in charge. But every week she manages and rarely loses her smile.

“Locke is very peppy, very optimistic, almost like a puppy,” executive producer and co-show runner Justin Halpern says. “And we thought there’s no way that deep down inside (that people like that are) actually not really resentful of the people around them that they clean up after. We thought it’d be really interesting to see how far it would take for her to snap.”

“You start in a place where she’s a Disney princess, and you end in a place where she’s (‘Unabomber’) Ted Kaczynski,” adds Halpern’s fellow executive producer and co-show runner Patrick Schumacker, visibly excited about Emily’s imminent breakdown.