History ComicBook / ButtonMan

* TheBadGuysAreCops: One of the Voices confirms that several of the people involved with covering up the Killing Game are high-placed police constables.

* FedToPigs: Well, chickens, but the principle is the same. A wood-chipper is involved.

* NotGoodWithPeople: Harry takes in a stray dog one night and becomes best buddies with it. Cora remarks that he's better with animals than with people.

* RareGuns: Harry prefers a 10mm Smith & Wesson pistol, as evidenced by the boxes of 10mm Auto he's seen loading in books 2 and 3.

* GunPorn: There's a serious amount of closeups on various weapons used by Button Men during the course of the strip. There's even a couple of RareGuns thrown in for good measure.

A man breaks into a psychologist's home late at night. He tearfully tells the doctor that he is a murderer, that the voices tell him to kill and that he can't stop....

* TooDumbToLive: One of the voices in book 3 is Michael Da Silva, a Hollywood movie producer who gets the bright idea to make a fiction movie about the Killing Game. He doesn't just take the general premise and put his own spin on it. He apparently adapts the real game wholesale, down to calling the contestants "button men" and taking fingers as mark of victory in the movie. Other Voices are understandably furious about his idiocy, he is brought in to police questioning when there is a series of killings with details that match the movie, and finally Harry kills Da Silva just for being a smug prick and an idiot.

* YourCheatingHeart: Harry has an affair with a dentist's wife for about a year. Comes into play later when [[spoiler:Harry realizes that the man has been working with the Voices to get revenge on Harry.]]

* MoeGreenSpecial: Harry kills a one eyed button man by shooting him through his eyepatch.

''Button Man'' was co-created by John Wagner and Arthur Ranson, and ran in ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' in four separate series in 1992, 1994, 2001 and 2007. A film adaptation is currently in DevelopmentHell.

''Button Man'' was co-created by John Wagner and Arthur Ranson, and ran in ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' in four separate series in 1992, 1994, 2001 and 2007. A film is currently in DevelopmentHell.

* ResignationsNotAccepted: Button Men are promised huge sums at the end of their "careers", but none of them are supposed to exit the Killing Game alive.

* PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo: Harry agrees to let the person he is there to kill pour them both a drink, clearly expecting his drink to contain a sedative. So he switches the drinks and the other guy "accidentally" spills his, confirming Harry's suspicions. Then it turns out that both drinks were drugged, and the poisoner just spilled the drink to fool Harry into thinking the other one was safe.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After Harry has killed nearly all of the thirteen other Button Men sent against him, one of the last three decides to get the hell out of dodge and even tells his handler to stick it when he gets a call. This is immediately subverted when Harry immediately shoots him with a sniper rifle before he can even attempt to escape.

* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: Adele is rather proficient with throwing knives and shurikens in that ever edged weapon she throws hits something.

* IHaveAFamily: One Button Woman, Jackie, tries to use this excuse with Harry by showing him a picture of her children. It doesn't work.

* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: At least one Button Man posed as an FBI officer during the killing game.