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* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/AnyasGhost'']]: A Russian high school student becomes friends with a dead American girl.
* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}]]'': The adventures of the mutant bastard child of a sailor and a mermaid.
* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'']]: A blonde and a brunette fight over a redhead.
** ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/ArchieMeetsThePunisher]]'': A gun-toting vigilante teams up with a teenager to capture a criminal who's escaped to idyllic small town America.

** [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics'']]: Robot boy fights psychotic old man because old man got jealous of robot boy's dad.
** [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide'']]: Psychotic fat man and psychotic old man buddy up to fight blue mammal and robot boy.
** [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsUnite'']]: Nihilistic robot creates MergedReality, animals and robots buddy up.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/AstroCity'']]: A guy who is depressed because of overwork, homesickness and lack of romance, a ten year old girl who doesn't know what hopscotch is, a guy who beats people up while dressed as a clown, a [[ChromeChampion metallic]] former crook, a teenager who dresses as an altar boy because he's annoyed at his dead father and other inhabitants of the same city have adventures and are psychoanalyzed.

** [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'']]: A 55-year-old billionaire with a death wish fights a gang of mutants, a homosexual clown, and a PhysicalGod with the help of a 13-year-old girl.
** [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/{{Knightfall}}'']]: Luchador on super steroids breaks rich guy's back so psychopath can take over. Rich guy gets better and kicks out the psychopath.
** [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'']]: Rich guy slums it out for a year after earthquake wrecks city.
** [[spoiler: ''{{ComicBook/Batgirl|2000}}'']]: Abused and learning-disabled runaway girl finds a constructive outlet for her [[DeathSeeker death wish]].
** [[spoiler: ''Batman And Robin'']]: An acrobat and his TykeBomb stepbrother fight the mentally ill, estranged family members, and sometimes a mentally ill estranged family member.
** [[spoiler: ''Battle For The Cowl'']]: Brothers fight over their apparently dead step-father's stuff.
* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/BiancaLittleLostLamb'']]: ''Anime/RingingBell'' with furries.
* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'']]: A paraplegic, a screamer, and a crossbow-enthusiast develop a social club.

* ''[[spoiler: {{ComicBook/Blacksad}}]]'': A feline detective in a world of furries must solve cases of murder, racism, and the rather gritty realities of life, while dealing with a hygiene-challenged sidekick. Originally in French.

** [[spoiler: Ted Kord]]: Batman without the psychological problems.
** [[spoiler: 2006 series]]: A high school kid who wants to be a dentist teams up with a homicidal alien superweapon, and fights an array of villains with the assistance of his family and friends.

* [[spoiler:''{{ComicBook/Bone}}'']]: A slacker, a corrupt politician, and a literature buff are chased into the desert and plunge into a valley, where they meet a queen and princess who specialize in cows and fight a crazy old woman who spits out bugs.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/BoosterGold'']]: A disgraced athlete travels through time to make money.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/BulletPoints'']]: [[ComicBook/WhatIf What happens if]] [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Professor Erskine]] gets shot one day earlier.
* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'']]: Cyborg Mutie Jesus and a brain-damaged, motormouthed mercenary have morally questionable adventures that involve one of them turning into goo and the other ''eating'' him, then ''vomiting'' him back up. Hijinx ensue!
* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/TheBeano Calamity James'']]: A bucktoothed youth is subjected to the most painful and humiliating situations imaginable. His talking pet lemming finds this hilarious.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/AvengersTheChildrensCrusade'']]: Gay mutie loses control of his powers and finds out his mom is marrying a supervillain.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/CreatureFeature'']]: A series based around the band of the same name about two young men going on misadventures together. The series ''thrives'' on BlackComedy and humor that CrossesTheLineTwice.

* ''[[spoiler: ComicBook/{{Crossed}}]]'': A {{Gorn}}-laden TakeThat at survivalists who expect [[ZombieGait walkers]] and get [[Series/{{Firefly}} Reavers.]]
* ''[[spoiler: ComicBook/TheCrow]]'': Goth guy avenges his girlfriend with the help of a bird that may or may not be a hallucination.
* ''[[spoiler: ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}]]'': A blind man beats up ninjas, assassins, hitmen, and mobs. They cannot hurt him, so they kill his girlfriend instead.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'']]: Evil versions of a rich guy try to drag Earth into a dark universe.
* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/DarkReign'']]: After he kills the leader of an alien invasion, a man who's secretly an insane supervillain is put in charge of the nation's new top crime-fighting agency.

** [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'']]: Nihilistic rich clown decides to become God. Greek woman stops to stop him and inadvertently fixes all continuity problems.
*** [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier'']]: That happened. That happened, too. Yes, that, too.

* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}]]'': A cancer patient gets healing superpowers that leave him deformed and crazy, so he [[PsychoForHire kills people for money]] and never shuts up. He has NoFourthWall.

** [[spoiler:''[[Creator/CarlBarks Uncle Scrooge]]'']]: An obscenely rich old man pays his nephew and his nephew's nephews an absurdly small wage to, alternately, guard his house or accompany him around the world on bizarre adventures. Occasionally they battle a gang of identical masked idiots who have numbers instead of names.
** ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck]]'': A PromotedFanboy's combination of a bunch of old comic book stories about a cheapskate.
*** ''[[spoiler:The Last Of The Clan [=McDuck=]]]'': A Scottish kid's life is changed by an American coin.
*** ''[[spoiler:The Master of the Mississippi]]'': A teenager, his card shark uncle, and the grandfather of a future colleague -- they fight crime. And get muddy.
*** ''[[spoiler:The Buckaroo of the Badlands]]'': A Scottish cowboy befriends Teddy Roosevelt.
*** ''[[spoiler:The Cowboy Captain of the Cutty Sark]]'': Cattle rustling in Java.
*** ''[[spoiler:The Raider Of The Copper Hill]]'': A copper miner gives up copper mining.
*** ''[[spoiler:The New Laird of Castle [=McDuck=]]]'': A near-death experience inspires a Scotsman to take up gold mining.
*** ''[[spoiler:The Terror of the Transvaal]]'': A Boer teaches a gold miner how to be cynical and mistrusting.
*** ''[[spoiler:The Dreamtime Duck of the Never-Never]]'': A duck [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules turns down a chance to be a jerk and get rich]].
*** ''[[spoiler:King of the Klondike]]'': A prospector is kidnapped, a piano is thrown, and a riverboat is destroyed.
*** ''[[spoiler:The Prisoner of White Agony Creek]]'': {{Funny Animal}}s have [[SlapSlapKiss hatesex]].
*** ''[[spoiler:Hearts of the Yukon]]'': Gal tries to make up with her ex by having him arrested.
*** ''[[spoiler:The Billionaire of Dismal Downs]]'': Rich Scotsman finds out YouCantGoHomeAgain.
*** ''[[spoiler:The Raider of Fort Duckberg]]'': Rich Scotsman and his sisters fight the American military over a run-down fort.
*** ''[[spoiler:The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut]]'': Rich Scotsman accidentally thwarts a military coup in Central America after he gets into a fistfight with Theodore Roosevelt.
*** ''[[spoiler:The Empire-Builder from Calisota]]'': A zombie chases a duck as punishment for an OutOfCharacterMoment.
*** ''[[spoiler:The Richest Duck in the World]]'': A RetiredBadass, his smallest fan, and [[SingleMindedTwins Single Minded Triplets]] -- they fight crime and plan to fight more.

* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{DMZ}}]]'': A photographer goes to New York City; turns out it's not such a great place.

* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/Earth2]]'': A group of [[NiceGuy good-natured people]] try to replace their fallen heroes.
* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/EarthX'']]: Everybody gains superpowers, but are powerless to stop an egg from hatching.

* [[spoiler:''{{ComicBook/Empowered}}'']]: An artist best known for his print adaptations of a Japanese cartoon decides to base an ongoing superhero series on a set of soft-porn bondage sketches he did on commission. The titular heroine is aware of this and not really thrilled by it. The art of the final, published comic is uninked, uncolored pencil sketches.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'']]: A nerd, his girlfriend, her brother and the nerd's best friend live together and spend their time bickering and fighting the Nerd's insecure college rival, who ''really'' doesn't know how to let go of a grudge.
* [[spoiler: ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'']]: Weird things happen to animals and fat people with glasses.
* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/{{Fell}}'']]: A good cop tries to make a difference in a bad city. He doesn't.
* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/FishPolice'']]: An alcoholic fish, who may have once been a human, has to solve crimes.

** [[spoiler:ComicBook/WallyWest]]: kid with hero complex gets struck by lightning and chemicals and goes real fast, then real slow (relatively speaking), then real fast, then REALLY fast, then has a suit made out of "goes fast".

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013'']]: Villains from another universe take over the world, and can only be stopped by villains from the main universe.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/TheGoon'']]: A thug and his pupilless sidekick fight an army of zombies created by Rumpelstiltskin.
* ''[[spoiler:Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks]]'': A bully gets a spaceship stuck up his nose, and teams up with a geek to get it out. He pays the geek back by using animal crackers and a donut to help the geek deal with his daddy issues.
* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/GothamCentral]]'': Police officers fight crime while dealing with the interference of an obsessed billionaire.
* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/GothamCityGarage]]'': Girls who are able to fly ride bikes to get around and fight over scraps.

* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/GreenArrow]]'': An aging hunter gets involved in political situations and cheats on his girlfriend.

** [[spoiler: Alan Scott]]: A railroad engineer finds a magic rock the stateless police force threw away.
** [[spoiler:''Green Lantern: Rebirth'']]: The most famous human (who had been dead for ''years'') comes back in a way that retcons his FaceHeelTurn so his character assassination could be reversed. This does not get rid of any of the other humans (especially his replacement) and helps the police force get rebuilt.
** [[spoiler:''Green Lantern: ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar'']]: The police force is attacked by newly formed [[ThePsychoRangers counterpart group]] with robots whose leaders are a disgruntled ex-cop, a cyborg, a whiny teenage boy and some dead guy's newly reborn evil counterpart (see entries above for latter two). Many asses are kicked in the process.

** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/LightsOut'']]: The police force, now under the leadership of the most famous human member, fight an ecoterrorist.
* [[spoiler:''Comicbook/{{Grendel}}'']]: Author/assassin/crime lord fights lycanthrope. He ends up being killed by lycanthrope, but his legacy is carried first by his adoptive granddaughter and then her boyfriend. Centuries later, a millionaire uses that legacy to battle vampires.

** This troper thought you meant a graphic novel adaptation of ''[[spoiler:The Phantom Menace]]''.
* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' vol.2]]: After the galaxy survives a pair of wars, a spaceman puts together a team consisting of a living tree, a talking raccoon, a space madonna, a mass murderer, a femme fatale, and a resurrected space wizard with the intent of preemptively keeping the peace. They run the operation out of a base with a psychic cosmonaut dog as the head of security.

** [[spoiler:''Guardians of the Galaxy'' vol.1]]: A telekinetic astronaut who's been frozen for a thousand years, a walking mass of muscle, a man made out of crystal, an alien who shoots arrows, a girl who's permanently on fire, and a [[SharingABody bodysharing couple]] have adventures across the galaxy in the 31st century. Despite living in the future, become the inspiration for the spaceman and his friends.
* ''[[spoiler: ComicBook/HackSlash]]'': Goth girl with a troubled past involving an overbearing mother and her gas mask wearing sidekick raised by a butcher travel around the country fighting dead people.
* ''[[spoiler: {{ComicBook/Hellblazer}}]]'': A con man repeatedly escapes the consequences of [[DealWithTheDevil associating with demons.]] His friends do not.
* ''[[spoiler: ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}]]'': A demonic pancake-enthusiast fights Nazis and magic things.
** This troper once had to explain to a friend what [[spoiler: ''Hellboy: The Conqueror Worm]]'' is about. "Well.. it's about a demon working for a secret agency, that fights space-nazis who are trying to summon an ancient god/s by using the dead to communicate with space-ghost-aliens. It's WAY better than it sounds." Also in these few pages he fights [[spoiler: a cyborg gorilla, undead, a floating head in a jar, frog-people and a giant space-worm with the help of a pyrokinetic psychic, a homunculus and an alien disguised as a soldier]].

* [[spoiler: ''Hopeless Savages'']]: What if [[Music/SexPistols Sid and Nancy]] had settled down and had kids.
* ''[[spoiler: ComicBook/{{Horndog}}]]'': The strange life of a FunnyAnimal dog whose life revolves around cannabis and sex. Black cats stand in for African Americans.
* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/HowardTheDuck]]'': A free-thinker gets stuck in Cleveland and has to take on strange jobs to make ends meet while he and his roommate make pointed commentary about life in TheSeventies.

* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/IdentityCrisis2004]]'': Years after the fact, a group of co-workers face the consequences of a cover-up while one of them re-unites with his ex-wife.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet'']]: A nihilist tries to make a woman love him, but ultimately sets himself up for defeat.

** [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/TheInfinityWar'']]: Alien's EvilDoppelganger makes EvilDoppelganger for everyone else.
** [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/TheInfinityCrusade'']]: Alien's OTHER doppelganger tries to make utopia.

* ''[[spoiler: ComicBook/TheInvisibles]]'': This 59-issue comic series is a retelling of Creator/PhilipKDick's last 9 seconds before he died.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'']]: SupermanSubstitute works out his frustrations.
* ''[[spoiler: It's A Bird...]]'': Comic artist contemplates turning down [[{{Franchise/Superman}} plum job]] because of personal issues.
* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'']]: A skinny goth philosophizes about the human condition while killing people and drawing comics about a crazy, foul-mouthed stick figure. Also there might or might not be a monster in his basement, and his best friend is a dead rabbit.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'']]: A WickedCultured man, tired of being blamed for things he didn't do, gives up his position and travels the world.

* ''[[spoiler:{{ComicStrip/Mafalda}}]]'': Girl complains about world politics... [[DoesNotLikeSpam and soup.]]
* ''[[spoiler: ComicBook/{{Magneto}}]]'': Bizarrely Aryan-seeming Jewish guy attempts to deal with his traumatic past by attempting to destroy humanity and making genetic freaks into the new dominant species. Meanwhile, his half-Roma daughter and son hate his guts.
* ''[[spoiler: ComicBook/ManhunterDCComics]]'': A divorced attorney takes on a second job.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/{{Marvels}}'']]: A photographer loses an eye while documenting vigilante activity.
** [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/{{Ruins}}'']]: A photographer watches people die in a CrapsackWorld.

* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/MonsterAllergy]]'': Invisible criminals are sent to rehab for crimes such as farting or playing the violin badly. Said rehab is in the house of a kid who is allergic to invisible criminals.

* ''[[spoiler:ComicStrip/{{Moomin}}]]'': Stories about a tax evader family where the father makes illegal moonshine among other things, his wife lets her son and his friends do whatever they want (including underage smoking and drinking), and their son regularly tries to murder people for interacting with his girlfriend and moons the reader at the start of every story. Also includes things like random talking helicopters and the son trying to kill himself because he has no family. Oh, and the characters originate from one of the most wholesome children's book series ever, and the comic was originally written by the writer of said books.
* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/MoonKnight]]'': A mercenary finds religion.

* [[spoiler: ''{{ComicStrip/Mutts}}'']]: Unconventional friends try to understand the people around them.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/NewMutants'']]: A vietnamese refugee with psychic powers, a NobleSavage who can project contructs of people's desires and nightmares, a living solar battery who gets powerful, a scottish werewolf who self-hates herself and a cole miner's son who can't control his trajectory are recruited by a bald man to replace his [[ComicBook/XMen former team]] while dealing with their own angst.
** [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/DemonBearSaga'']] A monster who tormented the NobleSavage is back to try and kill her friends.
* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/NewSuperMan'']]: China makes a ''living'' Franchise/{{Superman}} ripoff.
* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/NinjaHighSchool'']]: A high school student is the target of romantic affection by two girls: one is from a powerful family of spies and assassins and the other comes from a powerful empire. Hilarity ensues.

* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/{{Planetary}}]]'': A hero from the Thirties discovers that a hero from the Sixties is secretly a villain from the Fifties. The hero joins up with a dude with ADD and a woman with ADHD. They fight crime by digging things up.
* ''[[spoiler:{{ComicStrip/Pluggers}}]]'': A FunnyAnimal comic on suburban life. Most romances are {{interspecies|Romance}}.
* ''[[spoiler:ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}]]'': A violent, ill-tempered, and somewhat insane chain-smoker physically assaults anyone who gets in his way. If fighting normally proves ineffective, he will consume a container of performance-enhancing substance (in the athletic sense), which he typically keeps on his person, which inevitably allows him to [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomp]] anyone he wishes in any way he wants. Parents largely consider him a good role model for children.
* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/PowerGirl]]'': [[DistaffCounterpart Superman]] [[MostCommonSuperpower with tits]] fights super intelligent gorilla, alien 70s porn star, and bestiality fetishists.
* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/{{Powerless}}]]'': The Franchise/MarvelUniverse, only without anyone having powers.
* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/{{Preacher}}]]'': An extremely charismatic priest, his girlfriend, and his alcoholic best friend take a cross-country trip/crime spree.

* ''[[spoiler: ComicBook/ThePunisher]]'': A Vietnam vet gets upset when his family's picnic is ruined.

* ''[[spoiler: ComicBook/QuantumAndWoody]]'': A buddy comedy about two MacGuffin bonded superheroes and their goat.
* ''[[spoiler: ComicBook/QueenAndCountry]]'': A spy deals with job stress by drinking.
* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/TheQuestion (1987)]]'': A journalist/gambler examines various philosophies after a near death experience.

* [[spoiler: ''RexLibris'']]: A look at the daily life of a librarian.

* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/Ronin1983]]'': A samurai's master is killed in a whore house. Samurai comes back to life [[spoiler: but not really]] in the future and fights his master's killer with a science babe.

* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/SandmanMysteryTheatre]]'': An insomniac tries to fight crimes that are mostly incest related.
* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/SavageAvengers]]'': A group of very marketable edgy characters form an edgy team that has a name that sounds like a parody of itself.
* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/SavageDragon]]'': A green strong guy becomes a police officer and fights supervillains and monsters. [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore There is no Status Quo]].
* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/ScottPilgrim]]'': A guy from Toronto falls in love with a girl from New York and decides to prove his love for her by systematically killing everyone else who ever loved her. It's a comedy.
* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/SecretEmpire]]'': Legendary hero turns his back on all of his ideals and tries to rule the world.
* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/SecretSix (2008)]]'': A hitman, a {{bifauxnen}} lesbian, a recovering drug addict, a dominatrix banshee, a feral animal activist, and an insane contortionist try to make money. And they eat eggs.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/TheSentry'']]: SupermanSubstitute with emotional problems.

* ''[[spoiler:The Sinister Man]]'': A JerkAss makes people's lives miserable.
** ''[[spoiler:The Sinister Woman]]'': A complete bitch makes people's lives miserable.

* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/StarmanDCComics]]'': An antiques collector tries to impress his father by taking on his brother's old job.
* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/{{Static}}]]'': Teenager in Detroit gains electrical super powers and fights crime while learning that [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife being a superhero makes life harder and strains relationships]].

* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/SuicideSquad]]'': Things go wrong with a federal prison's work release program.
* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/{{Superboy}}]]'': Depending on version:

** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/Supergirl1982'']]: She does. And then ''[[Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths she gets killed and erased from history]]''.

* [[spoiler:''{{ComicBook/Supergod}}'']]: Various {{Mad Scientist}} creations -- among them Robot Krishna and Giant Space Mushroom Man -- feud amongst themselves while one of the {{Mad Scientist}}s rants about religion.
* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/{{Superman}}]]'': Orphaned immigrant gets a job as an investigative journalist and works with a fellow reporter to expose corruption and injustice. Though he mostly gets the job done outside his working hours.

* [[spoiler: ''The Sword'']]: A family complains to their neighbors about the amount of noise they are making at a party. This leads to a millennia-long blood feud that ultimately leads to both families killing each other off.
* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/TalesOfTheJedi'']]: The mastermind behind ComicBook/DarkEmpire teams up with the author of the Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy books to flesh out the text pages of ComicBook/DarkEmpire.
* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'']]: A star of an ice pun film, a skank alien, an angsty robot, a child of a demon, a brunette amazon, a green skinned prankster and Nebraska boy gather in an elaborate clubhouse.
** [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/TinyTitans'']]: Young sidekicks go to elementary school.
** [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/TeenTitansKamiGarcia'']]: Superpowered teenagers deal with their personal issues while being hunted by a divorced war veteran.
* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage'']]: Four unusual looking teenagers live in the sewers of New York City with their adoptive dad. This dad teaches his kids how to take revenge on a guy who wronged him several years ago.
* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/TheThanosImperative'']]: A team of cosmic superheroes try to stop their counterparts from an alternate universe from making it so that everybody gets to live forever.
* ''[[spoiler:Therefore Repent]]'': A couple survives the Rapture only to discover that all the Christians that thought they were being bodily taken up to heaven have suffocated to death and now form an orbital ring of corpses.

* ''[[spoiler:{{ComicBook/Transmetropolitan}}]]'': A drug addict attempts to make the world a better place by swearing a lot and shooting people. The president is not pleased.
* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/TrinityWar'']]: A manipulative EvilBrit and his social club trick three groups of heroes into fighting over a woman's box.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'']]: A psycho declares war on the government. He may or may not be right to do so.

* [[spoiler:''{{ComicBook/Watchmen}}'']]: A group of really screwed-up losers investigate a murder whilst a big blue naked man contemplates the nature of time and space. Then [[spoiler: a giant Space Squid kills most of New York]].

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/BulletPoints'']]: [[ComicBook/WhatIf What happens if]] [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Professor Erskine]] [[ForWantOfANail gets shot one day earlier]]. [[spoiler: AlternateHistory ensues.]]

** Alternately, a comic book artist tries to reconcile with his estranged father in order to do a comic book retelling of the latter's tragic past. And it's all done using animals as caricatures.

* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/IdentityCrisis]]'': Years after the fact, a group of co-workers face the consequences of a cover-up while one of them re-unites with his ex-wife.

* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'']]: A man remodels his house, then his family dies and he goes insane. Decades later, a clown and his crazy friends take over the house and invite a vigilante who likes to dress up to visit. HilarityEnsues.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/BulletPoints'']]: [[ComicBook/WhatIf What happens if]] [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Professor Erskine]] [[ForWantOfANail gets shot one day earlier]]. [[spoiler: AlternateHistory [[HilarityEnsues ensues]].]]

* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/CivilWar'']]: Concerned citizens protest government legislation. Things go out of hand. Website/YouTube and Website/MySpace are somehow involved.

* [[spoiler:''Franchise/TheFlash'']]: One habitually late forensic scientist has lab accident in thunderstorm, starts running faster.

* [[spoiler:''Franchise/GreenLantern'']]: The adventures of various humans who serve as troopers of a stateless police force wearing the ultimate in functional jewelry and use their imagination to fight crime.

** I would have guessed [[spoiler:''Deadpool'']].

* [[spoiler:''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'']]: [[Franchise/{{Superman}} An optimistic farm boy who wants to help people]], [[Franchise/{{Batman}} a cynical rich kid with mental issues]], [[Franchise/WonderWoman a girl unsure about the world from growing up in an all-girl commune]], [[Franchise/TheFlash a laid-back chemist]], [[Franchise/GreenLantern an arrogant pilot who wants to overcome his fear]], [[ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} a guy torn between two places in his life]] and [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter a lonely old man]] are the world's greatest heroes.

* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/KingdomCome'']]: {{Franchise/Superman}} retires because he thinks the world doesn't need him. He is wrong.

* [[spoiler: ‘’ComicBook/NinjaHighSchool’’]]: A high school student is the target of romantic affection by two girls: one is from a powerful family of spies and assassins and the other comes from a powerful empire. HilarityEnsues.

* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/PatsyWalker'']]: Archie Comics copycat [[{{Retool}} becomes]] [[Characters/PatsyWalkerAKAHellcat a superhero]] after taking a copycat costume from a crate. Both her husbands become [[PsychoExGirlfriend exes from Hell]], in one case [[AntiAntiChrist literal]].

** [[spoiler: [[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1217275.html Superman Versus Muhammad Ali]]]]: Aliens force the immigrant to fight [[UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli heavyweight boxing champion]] to decide who will move onto another boxing match. The fate of the world depends on this.

** Alternative: A librarian, a florist, and a schoolteacher team up [[TheyFightCrime to fight crime]].

*** ''[[spoiler:The Master of the Mississippi]]'': A teenager, his card shark uncle, and the grandfather of a future colleague -- TheyFightCrime. And get muddy.

*** ''[[spoiler:The Richest Duck in the World]]'': A RetiredBadass, his smallest fan, and [[SingleMindedTwins Single Minded Triplets]] -- TheyFightCrime and plan to fight more.

* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers'']]: A guy discovers he's immortal and teams up with a mute dinosaur, a 2-dimensional man, the grim reaper and a bulimic fat chick to fight crime. There are lots of squirrels and murders. TheyFightCrime, and a guy in bondage gear who likes to dress up as the leader of a small European country.

* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'']]: A FunnyAnimal created 80 years ago finds the toys of a rich reluctant MadScientist. He uses them to dress up and [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]] and aliens.

* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/{{Planetary}}]]'': A hero from the Thirties discovers that a hero from the Sixties is secretly a villain from the Fifties. The hero joins up with a dude with ADD and a woman with ADHD. TheyFightCrime by digging things up.

* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/HolyTerror'']: A vigilante and a catburglar [[DisproportionateRetribution fight terrorists.]]

** [[spoiler:''{{ComicBook/BPRD}}'']]: Pancake-enthusiast's friends fight evil frogs.
* [[spoiler:''{{ComicBook/HolyTerror}}'']: A vigilante and a catburglar [[DisproportionateRetribution fight terrorists.]]

* [[spoiler: ComicBook/LexLuthor]]: A bald man who fights a metal-associated survivor of a holocaust (who is sometimes [[SuperDickery a jerk]]).
* [[spoiler: ComicStrip/{{Lio}}]]: Weird and often macabre stuff happens to a mute boy.

* ''[[spoiler: ComicBook/{{Manhunter}} (2004)]]'': A divorced attorney takes on a second job.

* [[spoiler:''{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}}'']]: [[SliceOfLife The everyday life]] of a boy who fails at everything, his weird friends, and his delusional dog. The dog's best friend is his paruline ex-secretary.

* [[spoiler:''Comicbook/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'']]: A pistol-packing dog and rabbit annoy everyone they come across.

* ''[[spoiler:Comicbook/StarmanDCComics]]'': An antiques collector tries to impress his father by taking on his brother's old job.
* ''[[spoiler:Comicbook/{{Static}}]]'': Teenager in Detroit gains electrical super powers and fights crime while learning that [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife being a super hero makes life harder and strains relationships]].

* [[spoiler:''{{ComicBook/HolyTerror}}’'']: A vigilante and a catburglar [[DisproportionateRetribution fight terrorists.]]

* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/AssociatedStudentBodies'']]: College kid from conservative family gets stuck in gay dorm. HilarityEnsues.
* [[spoiler:''{{ComicBook/Asterix}}'']]: The adventures of old-fashioned Frenchmen with a penchant for fighting and pork.

* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Bamse}}'']]: An athletic-performance enhancing drug using bear and a narcoleptic tortoise forces their anxiety riddled bunny friend on adventures. HilarityEnsues.
* [[spoiler:''Franchise/{{Batman}}'']]: Rich kid watches his parents get shot. Decides to squander their fortune by building himself a rocket powered car and becoming a vigilante. His arch-nemesis is a drugged-up clown.

* [[spoiler:''Comicbook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'']]: On a lawless world, a man protects a woman from religious fanatics, prevents a kidnapping, stops a hijacking, and works to save the population of a doomed world. It's a comedy.

** [[spoiler: ''{{ComicBook/BPRD}}'']]: Pancake-enthusiast's friends fight evil frogs.
* [[spoiler: ‘’{{ComicBook/HolyTerror}}’’]]: A vigilante and a catburglar [[DisproportionateRetribution fight terrorists.]]

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/{{Huntress}}'']]: A woman who is a cross between {{Franchise/Batman}} and Film/TheGodfather kills gangsters to avenge her family, even though she herself killed her own father and betrayed her uncle.

** Originally, the daughter of an alternate Earth's [[Franchise/{{Batman}} wealthy superhero]] and a [[Characters/{{Catwoman}} catburglar]], before being replaced by the above version.
* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/IdentityCrisis]]'': Years after the fact, a group of co-workers face the consequences of a cover-up while one of them re-unites with his ex wife.

* [[spoiler: ''Comicbook/TheInfinityGauntlet'']]: A nihilist tries to make a woman love him, but ultimately sets himself up for defeat.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/RapunzelsRevenge'']]: Long-haired ActionGirl and her wacky sidekick team up to take down an EvilOverlord in a fantasy Old West setting.
* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/Red2003'']]: An old guy shoots a bunch of his former co-workers while talking about the mistakes that were made in the cold war. It has [[InNameOnly almost nothing]] to do with the movie they made of it.
* [[spoiler: ''[[ComicBook/Robin1993 Red Robin]]'']]: A teenager in denial about his [[{{Franchise/Batman}} stepdad's]] death runs away from home and fights assassins. [[spoiler: Turns out he's correct.]]

* ''[[spoiler:{{ComicBook/Ronin}}]]'': A samurai's master is killed in a whore house. Samurai comes back to life [[spoiler: but not really]] in the future and fights his master's killer with a science babe.
* [[spoiler:''{{ComicBook/Runaways}}'']]: Five teenagers have a spat with their parents and run away from home.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/TheSandman'']]: EmoKid breaks out of prison, gets his jewelry off some weirdos, gets into trouble thanks to a PrettyBoy and tries to get his sister to accept him.

* ‘’[[spoiler:ComicBook/SavageDragon]]’’: A green strong guy becomes a police officer and fights supervillains and monsters. [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore There is no Status Quo]].

* [[spoiler: ''{{ComicBook/Squee}}'']]: The story of a little boy who is the neighbor of a homicidal maniac, has neglectful parents, and his only friends are a talking teddy bear that is a "Trauma sponge" and the son of Satan.
* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SquirrelGirl'']]: A computer science major with the proportional strength, speed, and agility of a squirrel (and ability to talk to said animals) becomes a superheroine capable of defeating A-list villains.
* ''[[spoiler:Comicbook/{{Starman}} (1994)]]'': An antiques collector tries to impress his father by taking on his brother's old job.

* ''[[spoiler: Franchise/{{Superman}}]]'': Orphaned immigrant gets a job as an investigative journalist and works with a fellow reporter to expose corruption and injustice. Though he mostly gets the job done outside his working hours.

* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheVision2015'']]: A suburban housewife kicks ass and takes names while her husband is at work.
** Alternately: After a prior failed marriage, a man just wants a happy family and a house in the suburbs. It isn't quite that easy.
* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'']]: People attempt to defy mortality. [[AnyoneCanDie It rarely works.]]
* [[spoiler: ''{{ComicBook/Watchmen}}'']]: A group of really screwed-up losers investigate a murder whilst a big blue naked man contemplates the nature of time and space. Then [[spoiler: a giant Space Squid kills most of New York]].

** OR, A group of people have fun playing superhero, until a real superhero shows up and ruins everything.
** OR, Guy spends twenty years cooking elaborate seafood dish, invites friends over for party. They arrive late.
* ''[[spoiler: ComicBook/{{We3}}]]'': Three weapons specialists leave their current job. Their bosses aren't happy about it.
* ''[[spoiler: ComicBook/WhenTheWindBlows]]'': [[{{Expy}} Your grandparents]] diligently prepare to survive WorldWarIII, then slowly die.

* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} (series)]]'': Amnesiac from Canada travels the world, admires the sights and sounds, and has a drink with his Cajun friend every once in a while.
* [[spoiler: ''Franchise/WonderWoman'']]: A bondage enthusiast hailing from a society composed entirely of (presumably) lesbians attempts to bring peace to the world by beating people up and subjecting them to her slightly kinky tie-up games.
* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/XMen]]'': A bald old man in a wheelchair who likes watching teenagers sweat founds a school for people with genetic abnormalities. They fly everywhere in a supersonic jet and fight giant robots, a fat guy with a big appetite, and a magnetic Holocaust survivor.
** Or: a school principal tells his minority students they can improve their reputations by beating up others in their ethnic group.
** ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/NewXMen]]'': A vomiting woman, a self-loathing birdman, a Chinese immigrant with a helmet, and a French assassin all help a legitimate school fight crime.
** ''[[spoiler: ComicBook/XMen2019]]'': Characters talk politics and philosophy in between pages upon pages of data entries.
* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/YTheLastMan]]'': The only guy in town and his monkey are dragged all the way around the world by a cloning expert and a secret agent so secret she doesn't have a name.
* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/YoungAvengers]]'': An angry black super soldier, a sassy archer, a gay reality warper, his alien boyfriend, a robot with emotions, and a superhero's daughter cause chaos (often unintentionally).

* ''[[spoiler:ComicBook/YoungJustice]]'': A geeky ninja, a KidAnova clone, a boy with the world's shortest attention span, an amnesiac ghost, a girl with super strength, an archer with an overbearing mom, and a robot hang out in a mountain and have wacky adventures.
* ''[[spoiler:Zerogirl]]'': An outcast teenager has a crush on her school counselor and fights square people with circles and blue slime that leaks from her feet.
* ''[[spoiler:ComicStrip/{{Zits}}]]'': Perpetual teenager whines intermittently on how it sucks to be 15.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'']]: A {{Nerd}}, his girlfriend, her brother and the nerd's best friend live together and spend their time bickering and fighting the Nerd's insecure college rival, who ''really'' doesn't know how to let go of a grudge.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade'']]: Gay mutie loses control of his powers and finds out his mom is marrying a supervillain.

* [[spoiler:’’Comicbook/{{Grendel}}’’]]: Author/assassin/crime lord fights lycanthrope. He ends up being killed by lycanthrope, but his legacy is carried by his adoptive granddaughter and then her boyfriend. Centuries later, a millionaire uses that legacy to battle vampires.

* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheEyeOfMongombo'']]: After getting fired from his teaching job, a two-fisted adventurer decides to seek a legendary treasure but ends up [[BalefulPolymorph as]] a [[QuackingUp waterfowl.]]

** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'']]: A middle-aged man meets his long-lost teenager cousin.

* [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/Red2004'']]: An old guy shoots a bunch of his former co-workers while talking about the mistakes that were made in the cold war. It has [[InNameOnly almost nothing]] to do with the movie they made of it.

* [[spoiler: ''{{ComicBook/RED}}'']]: An old guy shoots a bunch of his former co-workers while talking about the mistakes that were made in the cold war. It has [[InNameOnly almost nothing]] to do with the movie they made of it.

* [[spoiler:’’ComicBook/TheEyeOfMongombo’’]]: After getting fired from his teaching job, a two-fisted adventurer decides to seek a legendary treasure but ends up [[BalefulPolymorph as]] a [[QuackingUp waterfowl.]]

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