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** Holocaust has some degree of this, at one point taking multiple carnival rides to the head, and barely feeling a thing, and being able to trade and withstand blows with the equally-invulnerable Wise Son and even ComicBook/{{Superboy}} during Milestone's initial merger into the DCU. [[spoiler:However, he doesn't have total invulnerability to his own flames, and can burn himself to nothing but bones if he turns the heat up too far.]]

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** Holocaust has some degree of this, at one point taking multiple carnival rides to the head, and barely feeling a thing, and being able to trade and withstand blows with the equally-invulnerable Wise Son and even ComicBook/{{Superboy}} during Milestone's initial merger into the DCU. [[spoiler:However, ''ComicBook/MilestoneForever'' shows that he doesn't have total invulnerability to his own flames, and can burn himself to nothing but bones if he turns the heat up too far.]]
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* BleepDammit: The Milestone comics ordinarily use scribbles to censor the strongest obscenities, but the last issue of the ''My Name is Holocaust'' miniseries slips in an uncensored instance of Holocaust saying "fuck".

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* BleepDammit: The Milestone comics ordinarily use scribbles to censor the strongest obscenities, but the last issue of the ''My Name is Holocaust'' miniseries slips in an uncensored instance of Holocaust saying "fuck". The other spinoff miniseries, ''Wise Son: The White Wolf'', notably didn't censor any of the profanity at all.

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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: When fighting Tech-9 for position of team leader in the second issue, Holocaust calls him a "spic". The spinoff miniseries ''My Name is Holocaust'' would later have Holocaust demonstrate misogynist tendencies and refer to Bad Betty as a "dyke".

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When fighting Tech-9 for position of team leader in the second issue, Holocaust calls him a "spic". The spinoff miniseries ''My Name is Holocaust'' would later have Holocaust demonstrate misogynist tendencies and refer to Bad Betty as a "dyke"."dyke".
** Wise Son spends his spinoff miniseries ''Wise Son: The White Wolf'' facing a group of Neo-Nazis called the Children of the Ivory Fist.
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* PorkyPigPronunciation: In the final issue, Oro struggles to say "invulnerable" before deciding to just say his enemies can't be hurt.
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* OneBadMother: One of the antagonists is an old woman who goes by the codename Mom.
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* SoapPunishment: Issue 22 has a System operative threaten to wash Masquerade's mouth with soap in response to Masquerade swearing at him.

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* NighInvulnerability: Wise Son's power. Demonstrated in the first issue when Brickhouse knocks him through the second floor of the factory hangout they use and he immediately gets up, ready to fight.

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Wise Son's power. Demonstrated in the first issue when Brickhouse knocks him through the second floor of the factory hangout they use and he immediately gets up, ready to fight.fight.
** Holocaust has some degree of this, at one point taking multiple carnival rides to the head, and barely feeling a thing, and being able to trade and withstand blows with the equally-invulnerable Wise Son and even ComicBook/{{Superboy}} during Milestone's initial merger into the DCU. [[spoiler:However, he doesn't have total invulnerability to his own flames, and can burn himself to nothing but bones if he turns the heat up too far.]]


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* RequiredSecondaryPowers: [[spoiler:Holocaust isn't completely immune to his own flames, and can burn himself down to the bone if he uses too much of his power. Rift used this against him in ''Worlds Collide'', and Holocaust inadvertently kills himself when trying to fry Wise Son alive in ''Milestone Forever''.]]
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* {{Spinoff}}: There are two spinoff miniseries, ''My Name is Holocaust'' (which has Holocaust as [[VillainProtagonist the main character]]) and ''Wise Son: The White Wolf'' (a spinoff focusing on Wise Son that began publication after the base series ended).


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* VillainProtagonist: Holocaust got his own spinoff miniseries in ''My Name is Holocaust'', where he's still as abhorrent and cruel as ever, but some light is shed on his origins.

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* BleepDammit: The Milestone comics ordinarily use scribbles to censor the strongest obscenities, but the last issue of the ''My Name is Holocaust'' miniseries slips in an uncensored instance of Holocaust saying "fuck".



* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: When fighting Tech-9 for position of team leader in the second issue, Holocaust calls him a "spic".

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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: When fighting Tech-9 for position of team leader in the second issue, Holocaust calls him a "spic". The spinoff miniseries ''My Name is Holocaust'' would later have Holocaust demonstrate misogynist tendencies and refer to Bad Betty as a "dyke".

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* ExcrementStatement: During Holocaust's dream sequence in the third issue of his spinoff miniseries ''My Name is Holocaust'', a portion where the Blood Syndicate show up to taunt him ends with Dogg urinating on him out of spite.



* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Neither Kwai's coldness nor the Demon Fox's insanely sadistic behavior could be explained by anything less than the monstrous abuse of their father, the Jade Emperor, who set up their SiblingRivalry as a cheap game between him and his immortal buddies.]]

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[[spoiler:Neither Kwai's coldness nor the Demon Fox's insanely sadistic behavior could be explained by anything less than the monstrous abuse of their father, the Jade Emperor, who set up their SiblingRivalry as a cheap game between him and his immortal buddies.]]]]
** The ''My Name is Holocaust'' miniseries shows that Holocaust had a father who frequently beat him and verbally abused him, in addition to constantly being picked on. It's no wonder he's now an aggressive and murderous criminal.



* OutlivingOnesOffspring: John Tower in the spinoff miniseries ''My Name is Holocaust'' is mentioned to have outlived his son Tommy.



* TalkingAnimal: Dogg with two G's, the team's resident pet...dog.

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* TalkingAnimal: Dogg with two G's, the team's resident pet...dog.dog is a canine who can speak.
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* ToiletHumour: In issue five, Fade and Masquerade joke about what Brickhouse's bowel movements must be like.
-->'''Masquerade:''' It probably comes out like rocks.\\
'''Fade:''' Or clay if she ain't feeling too well.
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* CallingYourBathroomBreaks: In issue four, Tech-9 publicly announces that he's going to take a piss. Flashback replies by sarcastically thanking him for telling the rest of the team that.


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* LibationForTheDead: Issue four has Tech-9 empty a liquor bottle on the ground in memory of the dying prisoners the team was unable to save.
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* YourMom: In issue three, Third Rail taunts one of the underlings he's fighting by saying "Your mother's so stank, she flosses with bacon!"

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