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* WalkingShirtlessScene: Only dons any kind of clothing that covers his full upper body on very rare occasions, usually when he's either getting very serious or very crazy.
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* WalkingShirtlessScene: Only dons any kind of clothing that covers his full upper body on very rare occasions, usually when he's either getting very serious or very crazy.
crazy. [[spoiler: Or feeling cold from Info-pollen degeneration.]]
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* VitriolicBestBuds: The only relationships he has that aren't this are with Vita Severn and Oscar Rossini. However, his relationship with Mitchell Royce is a standout. The two have yelled at, bullied, threatened and degraded each other over many years (we know that Spider has gotten Royce infected with at least one extremely painful STD, and Royce at one point forced Spider to write a column at gunpoint), but when Spider slips off the net to avoid the police, knowing they may never speak again, his last words to Royce are:
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* VitriolicBestBuds: The only relationships he has that aren't this are with Vita Severn Severn, Mary and Oscar Rossini. However, his relationship with Mitchell Royce is a standout. The two have yelled at, bullied, threatened and degraded each other over many years (we know that Spider has gotten Royce infected with at least one extremely painful STD, and Royce at one point forced Spider to write a column at gunpoint), but when Spider slips off the net to avoid the police, knowing they may never speak again, his last words to Royce are:
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* VitriolicBestBuds: The only relationships he has that aren't this are with Vita Severn and Oscar Rossini. However, his relationship with Mitchell Royce is a standout. The two have yelled at, bullied, threatened and degraded each other over many years (we know that Spider has gotten Royce infected with at least one extremely painful STD, and Royce at one point forced Spider to write a column at gunpoint), but when Spider slips off the net to avoid the police, knowing they may never speak again, his last words to Royce are:
--> Goodbye, old friend. You always did right by me.
--> Goodbye, old friend. You always did right by me.
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* TookALevelInBadass: After "Two-Fisted Editor", you will never look at Royce the same way again. [[spoiler: To sum things up, Spider's sources get knocked out after a (man-made) natural disaster. Royce turns out to have seen it coming and made private back-ups, and then beats, threatens and blackmails three people to fill in the gaps. Then he plonks the copies down in front of Spider, laughs in his face and goes on a bender of epic proportions.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Spider.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Spider.
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** [[spoiler: As Spider pointed out, the only thing that The Smiler believes in is that he should be president. Period, end of story. Spider has effectively made it impossible for The Smiler to ever be president again. Spider has essentially ripped out the center of The Smiler's universe. Anything else is just icing on the cake.]]
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* GonzoJournalism: He is based on Creator/HunterSThompson after all
* GoodIsNotNice: If we can even call him good. Maybe by comparison.l
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* GonzoJournalism: He is based on Creator/HunterSThompson Creator/HunterSThompson, after all
all.
* GoodIsNotNice: If we can even call him good. Maybe by comparison.l
* GoodIsNotNice: If we can even call him good. Maybe by comparison.
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* CheshireCatGrin: ''TheJoker'' might be unnerved by Spider's.
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* CheshireCatGrin: ''TheJoker'' might be unnerved by Spider's. Then again, the Joker might also be unnerved by Spider's typical drug intake.
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* GoodIsNotNice: If we can even call him good. Maybe by comparison.l
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** JerkWithAHeartOfGoldJerkWithAHeartOfGold: Glimmers of it under the Jerkass exterior, but they're generally far enough between that any kind of genuine empathy, remorse, or gratitude from Spider comes as a shock.
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WalkingShirtlessScene: Only dons any kind of clothing that covers his full upper body on very rare occasions, usually when he's either getting very serious or very crazy.
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* HeroicBSOD: Following her boyfriend dumping her.
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* HeroicBSOD: Following her boyfriend dumping her.her, aided in part by the fact that immediately afterward he went Foglet, trading in his human body to become a sentient cloud of nanomachines.
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* DaEditorDaEditor: The best in the business.
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** CheshireCatGrin: TheJoker might ''run'' from his.
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** CheshireCatGrin: TheJoker might ''run'' from his.his.
*** SlasherSmile: As the wheels begin to come off his [[spoiler:presidential administration, largely because of Spider's interference, he graduates to one of these.]]
*** SlasherSmile: As the wheels begin to come off his [[spoiler:presidential administration, largely because of Spider's interference, he graduates to one of these.]]
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* {{Expy}}: Very clearly based on RichardNixon.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: How Spider knows something has gone down? Royce misses his trademark CatchPhrase in a phonecall.
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** Inverted once, when Royce opens a phone call without asking for the column or swearing, foreshadowing that things have just gone FromBadToWorse.
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* [[spoiler:KarmaHoudini]]: [[spoiler:It's stated that even though he's arrested in the ending, his allies will very likely get him out soon enough.]]
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* [[spoiler:KarmaHoudini]]: [[spoiler:It's stated that even though [[spoiler:Discussed in the epilogue, where nobody's quite sure what's going to happen to him. On the one hand, he's arrested in buying off most of the ending, charges against him, and some especially depraved souls are actually funding him. On the other hand, there's so many people out for his allies blood that he may well eventually run out of money, at which point all signs indicate that he will very likely get him out soon enough.be subjected to Very Bad Things.]]
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* [[spoiler:KarmaHoudini]]: [[spoiler:It's stated that even though he's arrested in the ending, his allies will very likely get him out soon enough.]]
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** CheshireCatSmile: TheJoker might ''run'' from his.
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** CheshireCatSmile: CheshireCatGrin: TheJoker might ''run'' from his.
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* GonzoJournalism: He is based on Creator/HunterSThompson after all
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* IntrepidReporter: He's gone so far for a story as to use an experimental teleporter to interview the Smiler's wife.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
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* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* JerkAss
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
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* BaldOfAwesomeBaldOfAwesome: Spider loses all hair on his body in an accident with a shower. (although the artists don't always remember.)
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* HeroicBSOD: Following her boyfriend dumping her.
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* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: Or rather, everyone calls him "The Beast"
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* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: Or rather, everyone calls him "The Beast"
Beast" - even his own children.
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* AmazonianBeauty: Channon is very tall and cut, but she's also drop-dead gorgeous.
* DeadpanSnarker: You've GOT to be one of those to be able to stand working with Spider for any given length of time.
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* DeadpanSnarker
DeadpanSnarker: See Channon's entry.
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* DeadpanSnarker: [[RunningGag See Yelena's entry.]]
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** FashionableAsymmetry
** MakingASpectacleOfYourself
** MakingASpectacleOfYourself
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The issue called "Two-fisted Editor".
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* [[spoiler:CompleteMonster]]
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* CatchPhrase: "Where's my fucking column?!"
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The issue called "Two-fisted Editor".
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The issue called "Two-fisted Editor".
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* CheshireCatGrin: ''TheJoker'' might be unnerved by Spider's.
* CheshireCatGrin: ''TheJoker'' might be unnerved by Spider's.
* CoolShades: Spider Jerusalem's trademark camera shades with the mismatched lenses. Bonus points by being created, by accident, by a sentient nanotech manufacturing AI that was ''stoned out of its goddamned mind''. Even he came to think they were so cool that when he lost them, another set was made for him with the same mismatched lenses.
* GoodIsNotNice: If we can even call him good.
* GoodIsNotNice: If we can even call him good.
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A former stripper, she is Spider's first assistant, and later his bodyguard.
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A former stripper, she is Spider's first assistant, assistant. Later she works as his bodyguard.
*ActionGirl: After her sabbatical.
*Badass
*BoobsOfSteel: Much more voluptuous andlater his bodyguard.
action-oriented than Yelena, though it's implied they're fake.
*StatuesqueStunner
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Quite often.
*ActionGirl: After her sabbatical.
*Badass
*BoobsOfSteel: Much more voluptuous and
*StatuesqueStunner
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Quite often.
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Spider's Second assistant.
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Spider's Second assistant.
second assistant and Royce's niece ([[spoiler:only not really]]). An aspiring journalist and writer.
*[[ACupAngst A-Cup Angst]]: She claims that for her to fill out the kinds of dresses that look good on Channon she'd "need to be shot in the back by two cruise missiles" first. Which, given Channon's rather more spectacular figure, doesn't necessarily mean much. Still, Yelena seems to have a preference for wearing clothes that understate her figure, seemingly so as not to call attention to it.
*DeadpanSnarker
*[[ACupAngst A-Cup Angst]]: She claims that for her to fill out the kinds of dresses that look good on Channon she'd "need to be shot in the back by two cruise missiles" first. Which, given Channon's rather more spectacular figure, doesn't necessarily mean much. Still, Yelena seems to have a preference for wearing clothes that understate her figure, seemingly so as not to call attention to it.
*DeadpanSnarker
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-->''[[{{Angrish}} My. Where. Column. Fucking. Is.]]''
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Beast believes that the president cannot be reasonably expected to do anything more domestically than make sure 50% plus 1 of the population are doing all right. As long as that's true, then he's done his job. However, he at least believes in that much; he claims Callahan believes in nothing but that he should be president.
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** CheshireCatSmile: TheJoker might ''run'' from his.
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One of the candidates running against The Beast for president.
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* [[spoilerCompleteMonster]]
[[spoiler:CompleteMonster]]
*[[spoilerPresidentEvil]][[spoiler:PresidentEvil]]
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* [[spoiler CompleteMonster]]
[[spoilerCompleteMonster]]
*[[spoiler PresidentEvil]][[spoilerPresidentEvil]]
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Famous Outlaw Journalist.
* ClusterFBomb
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* ClusterFBomb
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A former stripper, she is Spider's first assistant, and later his bodyguard.
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Spider's Second assistant.
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Spider's constantly troubled editor.
* PrecisionFStrike: He generally reserves them for his calls with Spider, when he demands to know where his column is.
* PrecisionFStrike: He generally reserves them for his calls with Spider, when he demands to know where his column is.
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!Senator Gary Callahan
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*EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: Or rather, everyone calls him "The Beast"
!Senator Gary
*[[spoiler CompleteMonster]]
*[[spoiler PresidentEvil]]
*StepfordSmiler: It's where his nickname comes from.
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