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* TheBusCameBack: Around the same time that Moon Maid seems to come back to life, she's seen again. Strangely despite Tracy and Junior having aged greatly, she doesn't seem to have aged a day.
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* YouKilledMyMother: He happens to run into the adult Sparkle Plenty by coincidence, learns she's Gravel Gertie's daughter and where GG lives from the internet, and makes a beeline for the Plenty homestead, planning to get revenge for his mom. Things...don't work out, thanks to Gertie getting a bit of warning.
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* YouKilledMyMother: YouKilledMyFather: Gender-inversion: He happens to run into the adult Sparkle Plenty by coincidence, learns she's Gravel Gertie's daughter and where GG lives from the internet, and makes a beeline for the Plenty homestead, planning to get revenge for his mom. Things...don't work out, thanks to Gertie getting a bit of warning.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Forgiving B.O. as he's about to be executed, and the way she phrases it.
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* Sugarwiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Forgiving B.O. as he's about to be executed, and the way she phrases it.
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* WhipItGood: Mrs Pruneface used a whip as her WeaponOfChoice.weapon.
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* TakingTheBullet: Throws herself in front of Itchy's gun in order to stop him from finishing off Tracy and takes a bullet straight to the heart.
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Nellie Wheaten was an adolescent girl who lived on her father's farm. The fugitive musician 88 Keyes arrived the farm to hide from law enforcement, and Nellie became enamored of his handsome appearance and talent.
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Yogee Yamma was a confidence trickster who claimed to be a mystic.
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Black Pearl Erad was a black market weapons dealer. Pearl and her gang had a criminal enterprise that involved stealing government blueprints for war machines such as tanks. Pearl would then produce and test prototypes and then sell the finished models to the highest bidders, which were usually hostile foreign powers.
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Deafy Sweetfellow (possibly an alias) ran a bicycle theft ring in Dick Tracy's city.
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Krome was a killer for hire who operated the criminal organization known as Crime Inc.
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Selbert [=DePool=] was a brute with dark circles around his eyes and a history of mental instability.
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* WhipItGood: Mrs Pruneface used a whip as her WeaponOfChoice.
Laffy Smith was a criminal who forged prescriptions as way to obtain drugs, which he then sold to dealers. Laffy had the habit of laughing compulsively.
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* TheHyena: His nickname came from his compulsive laughter.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: After discovering that Gravel Gertie had infiltrated her ring for Dick Tracy, she and one of the guards cornered the reformed criminal in the prison pump room, intending to throw her into the machinery. While she was strugling with Gertie, Anna slipped on some brass polish and [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard fell in instead]].
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Anna Enog was the mother of Measles. Anna was the matron of the women's prison where Gravel Gertie was incarcerated following her involvement with the Brow. Anna and her son were operating a dope ring inside the prison.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: After discovering that Gravel Gertie had infiltrated her ring for Dick Tracy, she and one of the guards cornered the reformed criminal in the prison pump room, intending to throw her into the machinery. While she wasstrugling struggling with Gertie, Anna slipped on some brass polish and [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard fell in instead]].
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: After discovering that Gravel Gertie had infiltrated her ring for Dick Tracy, she and one of the guards cornered the reformed criminal in the prison pump room, intending to throw her into the machinery. While she was
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* GroundByGears: After discovering that Gravel Gertie had infiltrated her ring for Dick Tracy, she and one of the guards cornered the reformed criminal in the prison pump room, intending to throw her into the machinery. While she was strangling with Gertie, Anna slipped on some brass polish and fell into the pump machinery and was killed.
* WardensAreEvil: The matron of a women's prison who was also running a dope ring from the prison.
* WardensAreEvil: The matron of a women's prison who was also running a dope ring from the prison.
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* IWasQuiteALooker: She had a can of gasoline flung into her face and set aflame as she and her husband were fleeing Europe. One might assume that her "beautiful woman" disguise may be based off of her past self.
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* IWasQuiteALooker: She had a can of gasoline flung into her face and set aflame as she and her husband were fleeing Europe. One might assume that She says her "beautiful woman" disguise may be is based off of her past self.
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Weird villainous example, she only exists to give Measles a motivation and steer Gertie into her HeelFaceTurn.
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* BaldWoman: She has ''some'' hair, but what little we see poking out of her hood is thin and patchy, in keeping with her origin story of having her head/face burned badly. When disguised she opts for a wig.
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* BaldWoman: BaldnessMeansSickness: She has ''some'' hair, but what little we see poking out of her hood is thin and patchy, in keeping with her origin story of having her head/face burned badly. When disguised she opts for a wig.
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* SharpDressedMan: Always seen in a suit.
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* SharpDressedMan: Always seen in a suit.suit, and is drawn to look fairly attractive for a Gould-era villain.
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* CharacterExaggeration: In the comics Mumbles can take some effort to decipher, but he's coherent to the reader and other characters. In adaptations his speech tends to be completely incoherent gibberish that requires a third party to "translate" into English[[labelnote:*]]This would later be brought into the comic with 1984 character Murky Depps, who spoke in indecipherable scribbles that were translated by his sidekick Subtitle[[/labelnote]].
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* CharacterExaggeration: In the comics Mumbles can take some effort to decipher, but he's coherent to the reader and other characters. In adaptations his speech tends to be completely incoherent gibberish that requires a third party to "translate" into English[[labelnote:*]]This would later be brought into the comic with 1984 character Murky Depps, who spoke in indecipherable scribbles that were translated by his sidekick Subtitle[[/labelnote]].
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* OnlyOneName: It's Mumbles. Just, Mumbles.
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* BadBoss: Tried to hog most of the Mumbles Quartet's loot since he was technically the mastermind. When the others protested he tried to ''blow them up''. Later on he tracked the others down, forced them to work for him again, then had them all killed.
* CharacterExaggeration: In the comics Mumbles can take some effort to decipher, but he's coherent to the reader and other characters. In adaptations his speech tends to be completely incoherent gibberish that requires a third party to "translate" into English[[labelnote:*]]This would later be brought into the comic with 1984 character Murky Depps, who spoke in indecipherable scribbles that were translated by his sidekick Subtitle[[/labelnote]].
--> '''Mumbles''': "BGGNJDNJJGJGJSWKKMXCNVMSSGHJ"
--> '''Mook''': "Mumbles says, 'What happened?'"
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He will absolutely always betray you if he can get something out of it.
* ComicBookTime: Bizzarely inverted in a 1994 story where he turns out not only to have been the ''only'' character to have ever aged in the strip, but to have also done so at an incredibly rapid rate (seemingly about 50 years since his last appearance in 1990)! It wound up being subject to CanonDiscontinuity.
* DemotedToDragon: These days you'll more likely see him being a lackey for organized crime than hatching his own schemes.
* JokerImmunity: Rare example for a Dick Tracy villain, especially in the Chester Gould era. We even saw him drown ''on panel'' and officially declared dead, but he still came back. Apparently he had mastered some yoga techniques that made him indistinguishable from a corpse and able to breathe underwater. Since the '70s he mostly just gets taken to jail, although he tends to get remarkably short sentences for a multiple murderer.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: In [[Film/DickTracy the movie]] his incoherent mumbling seems to be fake, and he's capable of speaking perfectly normally when he wants to.
* SharpDressedMan: Always seen in a suit.
* SpeechImpediment: Mumbles notably does not have an actual speech impediment, he just has sloppy speech habits and makes no effort to improve them.
* TheSociopath: Moreso in his earlier appearances. In his first story he murders a cop that's trying to pull him over for speeding, terrorizes his fellow performers into helping him rob their patrons, kidnaps his girlfriend and threatens to throw acid in her face after she tries to break up with him, then tries to murder said performers and girlfriend out of spite.
* WouldHitAGirl: Tried to murder his ex in his first story, and then bludgeoned his female co-conspirator to death with a shovel in his second (although to be fair that was in self defense).
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A Nazi agent, spy and saboteur who comes into conflict with Tracy after his activities come to the attention of the police.
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* CharacterExaggeration: In the comics Mumbles can take some effort to decipher, but he's coherent to the reader and other characters. In adaptations his speech tends to be completely incoherent gibberish that requires a third party to "translate" into English[[labelnote:*]]This would later be brought into the comic with 1984 character Murky Depps, who spoke in indecipherable scribbles that were translated by his sidekick Subtitle[[/labelnote]].
--> '''Mumbles''': "BGGNJDNJJGJGJSWKKMXCNVMSSGHJ"
--> '''Mook''': "Mumbles says, 'What happened?'"
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He will absolutely always betray you if he can get something out of it.
* ComicBookTime: Bizzarely inverted in a 1994 story where he turns out not only to have been the ''only'' character to have ever aged in the strip, but to have also done so at an incredibly rapid rate (seemingly about 50 years since his last appearance in 1990)! It wound up being subject to CanonDiscontinuity.
* DemotedToDragon: These days you'll more likely see him being a lackey for organized crime than hatching his own schemes.
* JokerImmunity: Rare example for a Dick Tracy villain, especially in the Chester Gould era. We even saw him drown ''on panel'' and officially declared dead, but he still came back. Apparently he had mastered some yoga techniques that made him indistinguishable from a corpse and able to breathe underwater. Since the '70s he mostly just gets taken to jail, although he tends to get remarkably short sentences for a multiple murderer.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: In [[Film/DickTracy the movie]] his incoherent mumbling seems to be fake, and he's capable of speaking perfectly normally when he wants to.
* SharpDressedMan: Always seen in a suit.
* SpeechImpediment: Mumbles notably does not have an actual speech impediment, he just has sloppy speech habits and makes no effort to improve them.
* TheSociopath: Moreso in his earlier appearances. In his first story he murders a cop that's trying to pull him over for speeding, terrorizes his fellow performers into helping him rob their patrons, kidnaps his girlfriend and threatens to throw acid in her face after she tries to break up with him, then tries to murder said performers and girlfriend out of spite.
* WouldHitAGirl: Tried to murder his ex in his first story, and then bludgeoned his female co-conspirator to death with a shovel in his second (although to be fair that was in self defense).
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* EvilUncle: He claimed that his Uncle Angus had him WrongfullyCommitted, and his aunt (Angus's wife) claimed that Angus has also been emotionally abusive and cruel to her. It's unclear how true either of these claims are.
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* EvilUncle: He claimed that his Uncle Angus had him WrongfullyCommitted, and his aunt (Angus's wife) claimed that Angus has had also been emotionally abusive and cruel to her. It's unclear how true either of these claims are.
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* ExpansionPackPast: The "Xylon Conspiracy" storyarc, which revolved around a classified case set in the 1940's, and tied Pruneface to several other famous Tracy villains who were also involved, including Big Boy, Shakey and Flattop, none of whom he ever met in the original comics.
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* ExpansionPackPast: The "Xylon Conspiracy" storyarc, story arc, which revolved around a classified case set in the 1940's, and tied Pruneface to several other famous Tracy villains who were also involved, including Big Boy, Shakey and Flattop, none of whom he ever met in the original comics.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: At least in the comic and movie.
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* TheBaroness: The Rosa Kleb variety but capable of disguising herself as a beautiful woman.
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* TheBaroness: The Rosa Kleb Klebb variety but capable of disguising herself as a beautiful woman.
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* WouldHurtAGirl: In order to make the point to the Summer Sisters that they were his, he broke a wrist on each of them, then had his doctor patch them up.
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* DomesticAbuse: Emotional abuse anyway. When Elia Mahoney found out he'd gotten his money through criminal means, he threatened to implicate her as an accomplice in all his crimes, and also threatened to kill her.
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* DomesticAbuse: Emotional abuse anyway. When Elia Mahoney found out he'd gotten his money through criminal means, he threatened to falsely implicate her as an accomplice in all his crimes, and also threatened to kill her.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: After discovering that Gravel Gertie had infiltrated her ring for Dick Tracy, she and one of the guards cornered the reformed criminal in the prison pump room, intending to throw her into the machinery. While she was fighting Gertie, Anna slipped on some brass polish and [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard fell in instead]].
* DirtyCop: The matron of a women's prison who was also running a dope ring.
* DirtyCop: The matron of a women's prison who was also running a dope ring.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: After discovering that Gravel Gertie had infiltrated her ring for Dick Tracy, she and one of the guards cornered the reformed criminal in the prison pump room, intending to throw her into the machinery. While she was fighting strugling with Gertie, Anna slipped on some brass polish and [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard fell in instead]].
* DirtyCop: The matron of a women's prison who was also running a dopering.ring from the prison.
* DirtyCop: The matron of a women's prison who was also running a dope
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* OlderThanTheyLook: He disappears from the comic for over twenty-years comic time (enough for Sparkle Plenty to have grown up and had children of her own) yet doesn't look a day older than he did when he was caught.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Although one assumes his last name is the same is his mother's.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Although one assumes his last name is the same is his mother's.
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* YouKilledMyMother: He happens to run into the adult Sparkle Plenty, Plenty by coincidence, learns she's Gravel Gertie's daughter and where GG lives from the internet, and makes a beeline for the Plenty homestead, planning to get revenge for his mom. Things...don't work out, thanks to Gertie getting a bit of warning.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She really loved her husband, enough to choose a particularly gruesome form of vengeance.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She really loved her husband, enough so to choose a particularly gruesome form of vengeance.
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* EvilIsPetty: His way of having Vitamin Flintheart work off his gambling debts didn't just involve embezzling; he also forced Flintheart and Florence Lane [[HypnoFool to do all manner of embarrassing and degrading things]], including acting as his servants. Then again, he ''kills'' people if he thinks he can't use them, so technically his pettiness kept them alive.
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* EvilIsPetty: His way of having Vitamin Flintheart work off his gambling debts didn't just involve embezzling; he also forced Flintheart and Florence Lane [[HypnoFool to do all manner of embarrassing and degrading things]], including acting as his servants. servants in Lane's own mansion. Then again, he ''kills'' people if he thinks he can't use them, so technically his pettiness kept them alive.alive.
* EyeScream: Tracy divests him of his hypnotic contacts by cracking him in the face with a length of chain, which shatters them. Ow.
* EyeScream: Tracy divests him of his hypnotic contacts by cracking him in the face with a length of chain, which shatters them. Ow.
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* PerpetualFrowner: He doesn't exactly have a face designed for smiling, and his lips turn upward all of once in his story. Barely.
* ShootTheBuilder: He killed the optician who helped him develop his hypnoticcontacts.contacts to keep him from squealing.
* ShootTheBuilder: He killed the optician who helped him develop his hypnotic
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Depools are a mess, as you'll see.
* ClashingCousins: Tired of being concealed in his aunt's house, he left his hiding place and ran into his cousin Myrna, who was also staying with their aunt. In order to keep her from squealing to the cops, he sealed her up in his hiding place.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: As can be seen in the picture.
* EvilUncle: He claimed that his Uncle Angus had him WrongfullyCommitted, and his aunt (Angus's wife) claimed that Angus has also been emotionally abusive and cruel to her. It's unclear how true either of these claims are.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: His aunt was grateful that he'd killed her allegedly abusive husband and so concealed him in her home and destroyed the murder evidence. However, she also shot him after he locked up Myrna, and set her free. Then his aunt treated his non-fatal gunshot wound. Then he poisoned her wither own booby trap and burned her house down with her in it. Fortunately, Myrna had long fled the house. So...basically this?
* SuperStrength: Downplayed, but he can shove a steam bath cabinet over, which is how he killed his uncle.
* WrongfullyCommitted: He claimed that he was perfectly sane and that his uncle had had him committed to invalidate his claim to the DePool fortune.
* ClashingCousins: Tired of being concealed in his aunt's house, he left his hiding place and ran into his cousin Myrna, who was also staying with their aunt. In order to keep her from squealing to the cops, he sealed her up in his hiding place.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: As can be seen in the picture.
* EvilUncle: He claimed that his Uncle Angus had him WrongfullyCommitted, and his aunt (Angus's wife) claimed that Angus has also been emotionally abusive and cruel to her. It's unclear how true either of these claims are.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: His aunt was grateful that he'd killed her allegedly abusive husband and so concealed him in her home and destroyed the murder evidence. However, she also shot him after he locked up Myrna, and set her free. Then his aunt treated his non-fatal gunshot wound. Then he poisoned her wither own booby trap and burned her house down with her in it. Fortunately, Myrna had long fled the house. So...basically this?
* SuperStrength: Downplayed, but he can shove a steam bath cabinet over, which is how he killed his uncle.
* WrongfullyCommitted: He claimed that he was perfectly sane and that his uncle had had him committed to invalidate his claim to the DePool fortune.
* KingOfTheHomeless: In the modern age a large number of homeless people have moved into his hideout network, and they regard the reformed Mole as a beloved figure/leader. He's become a sort of free landlord who does his own repairs and maintenance.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His first name is a nickname and "Boche" was a name he used for his spy operations which may or may not be his real surname.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: A "glamour boy" as Dick Tracy calls him, whose charming face hides a rotten heart.
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* IUsedToBeQuiteALooker: She had a can of gasoline flung into her face and set aflame as she and her husband were fleeing Europe. One might assume that her "beautiful woman" disguise may be based off of her past self.
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* IUsedToBeQuiteALooker: IWasQuiteALooker: She had a can of gasoline flung into her face and set aflame as she and her husband were fleeing Europe. One might assume that her "beautiful woman" disguise may be based off of her past self.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[InvokedTrope Attempted]] and [[AvertedTrope averted]]. The second she realizes what 88-keys and his accomplice up to, she crashes the car with all of them in it in an attempt to kill everyone inside, but survives the crash.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[InvokedTrope Attempted]] and [[AvertedTrope averted]]. The second she realizes what 88-keys and his accomplice are up to, she crashes the car with all of them in it in an attempt to kill everyone inside, but survives the crash.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: After his girlfriend Kitty (who'd already shot his arm) accidentally helped him escape a shootout with Tracy, she planned to stop his crimes by shooting him, and Krome pleaded for his life. Kitty found ironic, and decided to spare him and take him to her apartment. Bad idea, lady.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: After his girlfriend Kitty (who'd already shot his arm) accidentally helped him escape a shootout with Tracy, she planned to stop his crimes by shooting him, and Krome pleaded for his life. Kitty found this ironic, and decided to spare him and take him to her apartment. Bad idea, lady.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He passes his wrinkly skin condition down to his daughter and granddaughter.
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* FamedInStory: Keyes is a famous pianist in universe who'd cut a number of albums, and played shows everywhere. This makes going on the run more complicated than he'd like.
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* FamedInStory: Keyes is a famous pianist in universe who'd cut a number of albums, albums and played shows everywhere.everywhere before his crimes were exposed. This makes going on the run more complicated than he'd like.
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* MeaningfulName: Is named Clarence Keyes.
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* MeaningfulName: Is named Clarence He's a pianist with the surname of Keyes.
* BaldWoman: She has ''some'' hair, but what little we see poking out of her hood is thin and patchy, in keeping with her origin story of having her head/face burned badly. When disguised she opts for a wig.
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* FeminineWomenCanCook: Played with. She's quite feminine even if she has the strength and build of an ox.
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* FeminineWomenCanCook: Played with. She's quite feminine even if she has the strength and build of an ox.ox, and is an extremely capable cook.
* IUsedToBeQuiteALooker: She had a can of gasoline flung into her face and set aflame as she and her husband were fleeing Europe. One might assume that her "beautiful woman" disguise may be based off of her past self.
* IUsedToBeQuiteALooker: She had a can of gasoline flung into her face and set aflame as she and her husband were fleeing Europe. One might assume that her "beautiful woman" disguise may be based off of her past self.
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* ColdBloodTorture: She and Itchy kept Tracy captive for nearly three weeks, feeding him only one ounce of turnips a day and all the water that would cling to a fork twice a day.
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* ColdBloodTorture: ColdBloodedTorture: She and Itchy kept Tracy captive for nearly three weeks, feeding him only one ounce of turnips a day and all the water that would cling to a fork twice a day.
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A former Army nurse, missing an arm, who's introduced trying to find a known criminal for her own reasons.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: She's a cousin to the largely-criminal Jones family, but we don't even know if she shared their last name.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: She's a cousin to the largely-criminal Jones family, but we don't even know if she shared their last name.name, or if Frizzletop even ''is'' a nickname.
* RetCon: The 2010s series explicitly made her a cousin to the Jones family, although it wasn't exactly a big leap, considering her moniker.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He stole Vitamin Flintheart's fur coat, then bought an electric heater because the apartment he and his gang were hiding in was ice cold. Well, they also put the coat rack next to it, which as you might expect, eventually led to a massive fire.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He stole Vitamin Flintheart's fur coat, then bought an electric heater because the apartment he and his gang were hiding in was ice cold. Well, they also put the coat rack next to it, said heater, which as you might expect, eventually led to a massive fire.
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A muscular gangster who specialized in blackmailing and manipulating political figures. Became a jewel thief after his return.
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"Widow" of B.B. Eyes and
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* AdaptationalUgliness: In TheMovie, where he seems to have some sort of facial scarring. This was never the case in the comic strip.
* AteHisGun: His second and actual death, accidentally blew his brains out with his own gun.
* DemotedToExtra: Alongside Rodent, Brow and Little-Face in the movie.
* FakingTheDead: Was believed to have died in a plane crash while fleeing the police, but turned out to be one of the few Tracy villains to pull this off and went into hiding. He died for real the second time.
* LargeAndInCharge: His nickname is based on his broad shoulders, he's much larger than most other characters.
* WouldHurtAChild: He shot Themesong in an effort to stop her from testifying about his murder of her father.
* AteHisGun: His second and actual death, accidentally blew his brains out with his own gun.
* DemotedToExtra: Alongside Rodent, Brow and Little-Face in the movie.
* FakingTheDead: Was believed to have died in a plane crash while fleeing the police, but turned out to be one of the few Tracy villains to pull this off and went into hiding. He died for real the second time.
* LargeAndInCharge: His nickname is based on his broad shoulders, he's much larger than most other characters.
* WouldHurtAChild: He shot Themesong in an effort to stop her from testifying about his murder of her father.
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* AdaptationalUgliness: In TheMovie, where he seems ColdBloodTorture: She and Itchy kept Tracy captive for nearly three weeks, feeding him only one ounce of turnips a day and all the water that would cling to have some sort a fork twice a day.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She really loved her husband, enough to choose a particularly gruesome form offacial scarring. This was vengeance.
* GetawayDriver: Served this role for her husband sometimes.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: B.B. Eyes apparently never informed her that he hadn't actually been killed.
* {{Revenge}}: She wants to avenge thecase in the comic strip.
* AteHisGun: His second and actual death, accidentally blew his brains out with his own gun.
* DemotedToExtra: Alongside Rodent, Brow and Little-Face in the movie.
* FakingTheDead: Was believed to have died in a plane crash while fleeing the police, but turned out to be one of the few Tracy villains to pull this off and went into hiding. He died for real the second time.
* LargeAndInCharge: His nickname is based on his broad shoulders, he's much larger than most other characters.
* WouldHurtAChild: He shot Themesong in an effort to stop her from testifying about his murderdeath of her father.
husband.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She really loved her husband, enough to choose a particularly gruesome form of
* GetawayDriver: Served this role for her husband sometimes.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: B.B. Eyes apparently never informed her that he hadn't actually been killed.
* {{Revenge}}: She wants to avenge the
* AteHisGun: His second and actual death, accidentally blew his brains out with his own gun.
* DemotedToExtra: Alongside Rodent, Brow and Little-Face in the movie.
* FakingTheDead: Was believed to have died in a plane crash while fleeing the police, but turned out to be one of the few Tracy villains to pull this off and went into hiding. He died for real the second time.
* LargeAndInCharge: His nickname is based on his broad shoulders, he's much larger than most other characters.
* WouldHurtAChild: He shot Themesong in an effort to stop her from testifying about his murder
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A casino owner and murderer, Influence was an accomplished hypnotist with a special pair of colored cellophane contact lenses which he used to give himself a hypnotic gaze.
A casino owner and murderer, Influence was an accomplished hypnotist with a special pair of colored cellophane contact lenses which he used to give himself a hypnotic gaze.
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* AdaptationalUgliness: In TheMovie, where he seems to have some sort of facial scarring. This was never the case in the comic strip.
* AteHisGun: His second and actual death, accidentally blew his brains out with his own gun.
* DemotedToExtra: Alongside Rodent, Brow and Little-Face in the movie.
* FakingTheDead: Was believed to have died in a plane crash while fleeing the police, but turned out to be one of the few Tracy villains to pull this off and went into hiding. He died for real the second time.
* LargeAndInCharge: His nickname is based on his broad shoulders, he's much larger than most other characters.
* WouldHurtAChild: He shot Themesong in an effort to stop her from testifying about his murder of her father.
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[[folder:Influence]]
A casino owner and murderer, Influence was an accomplished hypnotist with a special pair of colored cellophane contact lenses which he used to give himself a hypnotic gaze.
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* AteHisGun: His second and actual death, accidentally blew his brains out with his own gun.
* DemotedToExtra: Alongside Rodent, Brow and Little-Face in the movie.
* FakingTheDead: Was believed to have died in a plane crash while fleeing the police, but turned out to be one of the few Tracy villains to pull this off and went into hiding. He died for real the second time.
* LargeAndInCharge: His nickname is based on his broad shoulders, he's much larger than most other characters.
* WouldHurtAChild: He shot Themesong in an effort to stop her from testifying about his murder of her father.
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A casino owner and murderer, Influence was an accomplished hypnotist with a special pair of colored cellophane contact lenses which he used to give himself a hypnotic gaze.
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* WouldHurtAChild: After Junior tried to apprehend him on his own, Itchy cracks him over the head with his gun barrel and, when this doesn't stop the boy from fighting, proceeds to beat him into unconsciousness.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: At Breathless's deathbed, she promises to go straight, but her greed for the remainder of Shaky's money leads her go go along with Itchy's plan to trap B.O. Plenty. Almost too late, she realizes she betrayed her promise.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: At Breathless's deathbed, sickbed, she promises to go straight, but her greed for the remainder of Shaky's money leads her go go along with Itchy's plan to trap B.O. Plenty. Almost too late, she realizes she betrayed her promise.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Attempts to starve Dick Tracy to death alongside Mrs. B-B Eyes, and almost succeeds.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: ColdBloodedTorture:
** Puts a lighter to B.O. Plenty's feet to torture the location of Shaky's money out of him.
** Attempts to starve Dick Tracy to death alongside Mrs. B-B Eyes, and almost succeeds.
** Puts a lighter to B.O. Plenty's feet to torture the location of Shaky's money out of him.
** Attempts to starve Dick Tracy to death alongside Mrs. B-B Eyes, and almost succeeds.
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A beautiful female villain that is the daughter of Shakey the conman.
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A beautiful female villain that is the daughter step-daughter of Shakey the conman.
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* AndIMustScream: In order to get away from the police, she has B.O. Plenty plow a furrow of dirt over her and makes a bit of space to breathe through. Not only is it cols and uncomfortable, she has to let a snake crawl across her face without making a peep...and then it starts to rain.
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* AndIMustScream: In order to get away from the police, she has B.O. Plenty plow a furrow of dirt over her and makes a bit of space to breathe through. Not only is it cols cold and uncomfortable, she has to let a snake crawl across her face without making a peep...and then it starts to rain.
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[[folder:Itchy Oliver]]
A crook who appears as the final villain in the Shaky-Breathless-B.O. Plenty saga.
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Mother of Breathless Mahoney and fourth wife of Shaky the
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* DomesticAbuse: After she found out that Shaky was a criminal, he forced her to keep quiet by threatening to implicate her in his crimes, as well as threatening her life.
* TheInsomniac: Invoked. She takes half a bottle of stimulant pills so she won't fall asleep and give Breathless a chance to steal Shaky's money. Unfortunately, this gives her severe chest pains, and Breathless steals it while Elia's on the floor in agony.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: At Breathless's deathbed, she promises to go straight, but her greed for the remainder of Shaky's money leads her go go along with Itchy's plan to trap B.O. Plenty. Almost too late, she realizes she betrayed her promise.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Throws herself in front of Itchy's gun in order to stop him from finishing off Tracy and takes a bullet straight to the heart.
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[[folder:Itchy Oliver]]
A crook who appears as the final villain in the Shaky-Breathless-B.O. Plenty saga.
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* TheInsomniac: Invoked. She takes half a bottle of stimulant pills so she won't fall asleep and give Breathless a chance to steal Shaky's money. Unfortunately, this gives her severe chest pains, and Breathless steals it while Elia's on the floor in agony.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: At Breathless's deathbed, she promises to go straight, but her greed for the remainder of Shaky's money leads her go go along with Itchy's plan to trap B.O. Plenty. Almost too late, she realizes she betrayed her promise.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Throws herself in front of Itchy's gun in order to stop him from finishing off Tracy and takes a bullet straight to the heart.
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[[folder:Itchy Oliver]]
A crook who appears as the final villain in the Shaky-Breathless-B.O. Plenty saga.
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* AndIMustScream: Suffocated to death in a tiny, icy hiding place.
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''"They call me '''Measles''' Copper, and catching Measles is poison!"''
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: When he's hiding with an immigrant family, one of the reasons he's allowed to stay is that their GoodBadGirl daughter is fascinated by this charming stranger.
* BadSamaritan: While he's hiding with an immigrant family, he gives them his mother's ration stamps and some of the money from the wad of cash he keeps. Then he basically holds them hostage after the cops come.
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* GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply: He'd been part of a drug-dealing ring for the afore-mentioned patched, but he was keeping too big a portion for himself and shortchanging customers. When his partner tried to kick him out, Measles [[DeadlyEuphemism dissolved the partnership]].
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* GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply: He'd been part of a drug-dealing ring for the afore-mentioned patched, patches, but he was keeping too big a portion for himself and shortchanging customers. When his partner tried to kick him out, Measles [[DeadlyEuphemism dissolved the partnership]].
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* PlayingSick: In order to hide with an immigrant family, he pretends he fell off a train and needs a place to rest.
* TheExitIsThatWay: After he's arrested, it turns out he's hidden tear gas capsules on his person, which he uses to blind the guards stripping him down. However the gas gets him, too and he runs into another cell that gets locked behind him.
* TheExitIsThatWay: After he's arrested, it turns out he's hidden tear gas capsules on his person, which he uses to blind the guards stripping him down. However the gas gets him, too and he runs into another cell that gets locked behind him.
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* AndIMustScream: In order to get away from the police, she has B.O. Plenty plow a furrow of dirt over her and makes a bit of space to breathe through. Not only is it cols and uncomfortable, she has to let a snake crawl across her face without making a peep...and then it starts to rain.
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* {{Determinator}}: She was willing to do anything to keep Shaky's money for herself, whether it was leaving her mother on the floor suffering chest pains, stabbing a gardner to death with his own shears, having herself buried to hide from the cops, or chasing a hillbilly to the ends of the earth.
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* HeadTurningBeauty: Nearly every guy she runs into compliments her attractiveness.
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* BadassBoast: "Yeah--They call me Measles, copper! And catching Measles is ''poison''!"
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: After hearing about his mother's death, he spent 200 1945 dollars on flowers for her funeral, and proceeded to "[[GotVolunteered ask]]" his criminal associates to spend exorbitant amounts on flowers as well.
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* MeaningfulName: He's got a lot of spots on his face, of unclear nature.
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* KillItWithIce: In an indirect way. See, he was running from the cops near the local pier when he saw a hole in said pier big enough to fit him. So, he ducked in, but all too late, he realized that every time the ocean lapped over the pier, it was pouring water into the hole, which froze in the winter weather. By the time he realized the hole he'd entered was freezing over, it was too late to get out. He tried to call out to the cops, but they couldn't hear him. So all he could do was sit in that dark, icy pit in the ground, crying desperately for help as his breathing hole got smaller and smaller, until...
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* UngratefulBastard: Murdered a fireman who saved him from a burning building to cover his tracks.
* WouldHurtAGirl: He drugged Snowflake Falls with an amnesia drug and brainwashed her while she was susceptible so that he could blackmail a wealthy man with a marriage con. He actually thought the whole thing was a really stupid idea and had to be talked into it by his gang. Later, he'd bludgeon her and throw her into an icy river.
* WouldHurtAGirl: He drugged Snowflake Falls with an amnesia drug and brainwashed her while she was susceptible so that he could blackmail a wealthy man with a marriage con. He actually thought the whole thing was a really stupid idea and had to be talked into it by his gang. Later, he'd bludgeon her and throw her into an icy river.
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* UngratefulBastard: Murdered a fireman who saved tried to save him from a burning building to steal his slicker and cover his tracks.
*WouldHurtAGirl: UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He stole Vitamin Flintheart's fur coat, then bought an electric heater because the apartment he and his gang were hiding in was ice cold. Well, they also put the coat rack next to it, which as you might expect, eventually led to a massive fire.
* WouldHitAGirl: He drugged Snowflake Falls with an amnesia drug and brainwashed her while she was susceptible so that he could blackmail a wealthy man with a marriage con. He actually thought the whole thing was a really stupid idea and had to be talked into it by his gang. Later, he'd bludgeon her and throw her into an icy river.
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* WouldHitAGirl: He drugged Snowflake Falls with an amnesia drug and brainwashed her while she was susceptible so that he could blackmail a wealthy man with a marriage con. He actually thought the whole thing was a really stupid idea and had to be talked into it by his gang. Later, he'd bludgeon her and throw her into an icy river.
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* DomesticAbuse: Emotional abuse anyway. When Elia Mahoney found out he'd gotten his money through criminal means, he threatened to implicate her as an accomplice in all his crimes, and also threatened to kill her.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: You wouldn't think it, but Shaky can put a bullet through a dime from across the room.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Zigzagged: He laughs at Tracy's sarcastic cracks while he has the detective captive, but primarily because he has the upper hand.
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* TwoSiblingsInOne: In one storyarc, Flattop's ghost seemingly possessed the body of his brother Sharptop during a seance, but it's unclear if it was the real Flattop or just a delusion.
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* TwoSiblingsInOne: In one storyarc, story arc, Flattop's ghost seemingly possessed the body of his brother Sharptop during a seance, but it's unclear if it was the real Flattop or just a delusion.
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* BadBoss: Not exactly unexpected, but he pressganged a pair of pickpockets known as the Summer Sisters and forced them to collect his spy reports by torturing one of them while the other one was out on assignment, only stopping once they returned.
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* BadBoss: Not exactly unexpected, but he pressganged press-ganged a pair of pickpockets known as the Summer Sisters and forced them to collect his spy reports by torturing one of them while the other one was out on assignment, only stopping once they returned.returned. Also, he apparently marks his subordinates by breaking their wrists, if his actions with the Summer Sisters and subsequent dialogue are any indication.
* ColdBloodedTorture: The Brow used the "chair of horror" to force the Summer Sisters into compliance. Said chair had a leg clamp with sharp spikes, and one sister would be placed within it and bound while the other did jobs for the Brow. If the free one tried anything...'''CRUNCH'''.
* ColdBloodedTorture: The Brow used the "chair of horror" to force the Summer Sisters into compliance. Said chair had a leg clamp with sharp spikes, and one sister would be placed within it and bound while the other did jobs for the Brow. If the free one tried anything...'''CRUNCH'''.
* SuperStrength: Each of his hands is strong enough to break peoples' wrists with their grip.
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* WouldHurtAGirl: In order to make the point to the Summer Sisters that they were his, he broke a wrist on each of them, then had his doctor patch them up.
