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** Later in that same scene, the man who serves Tony with legal papers is a dead ringer for Seth Rogen's character in ''Film/PineappleExpress''. He's even wearing a shirt with a picture of a pineapple and the word "express" on it, if you didn't catch the reference.
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{{In a world}} where the bird flu killed millions[[note]]or is it all a government conspiracy?[[/note]] and chicken has been outlawed, Tony Chu is a Philly cop struggling with the strange gift of cibopathy. When he is forced to work for the Food and Drug Administration (the most powerful government agency), he is partnered with a fellow cibopath, Agent Mason Savoy, in the Special Crimes Division. Together, they use their strange (and disgusting) ability to solve chicken and other food-related crimes, but after Savoy betrays the FDA, Chu is partnered with John Colby, his old police partner who was turned into a cyborg after being injured on the job. The rest of the series follows Chu and his family as they gets drawn into the conspiracy surrounding the killer bird flu, as well as Chu's attempts to hunt down a killer Cibopath known as the Collector.
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{{In a world}} where the bird flu killed millions[[note]]or is it all a government conspiracy?[[/note]] and chicken has been outlawed, Tony Chu is a Philly cop struggling with the strange gift of cibopathy. When he is forced to work for the Food and Drug Administration (the most powerful government agency), he is partnered with a fellow cibopath, Agent Mason Savoy, in the Special Crimes Division. Together, they use their strange (and disgusting) ability to solve chicken and other food-related crimes, but after Savoy betrays the FDA, Chu is partnered with John Colby, his old police partner who was turned into a cyborg after being injured on the job. The rest of the series follows Chu and his family as they gets get drawn into the conspiracy surrounding the killer bird flu, as well as Chu's attempts to hunt down a killer Cibopath known as the Collector.
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Boobs Of Steel is a disambiguation
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* BoobsOfSteel: Lin Sae Woo and all the other USDA agents.
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* BrownNote: Amelia Mintz. [[spoiler:This is also how the conspirators killed over a hundred million people for eating chicken three years before the story takes place and how Tony kills tens of millions near the end of the narrative.]]
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* BrownNote: Amelia Mintz.Mintz's column. [[spoiler:This is also how the conspirators killed over a hundred million people for eating chicken three years before the story takes place and how Tony kills tens of millions near the end of the narrative.]]
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* CoolPet: Every member of the USDA gets a cyborg animal partner as part of standard procedure. [[spoiler: When Colby temporarily works for them he gets Poyo]].
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* BookEnds: Both the first and last issues (not counting the epilogue) [[spoiler:feature Tony and John taking down a mundane, non-powered serial killer.]]
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* TastesLikeChicken: The gallsaberry is almost identical to chicken in taste when it's cooked. With the federal ban on poultry, this makes it very significant to the plot, [[spoiler: and that's not considering the "fruit's" probably extraterrestrial origin]].
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* TastesLikeChicken: This is a bandwagon several companies are jumping on trying to find something that can fill the mownillegal chicken niche. This includes things like genetically engineered "Chogs" putting chicken gene's in frogs for taste.
** The gallsaberry is almost identical to chicken in taste when it's cooked. With the federal ban on poultry, this makes it very significant to the plot, [[spoiler: and that's not considering the "fruit's" probably extraterrestrial origin]].
** The gallsaberry is almost identical to chicken in taste when it's cooked. With the federal ban on poultry, this makes it very significant to the plot, [[spoiler: and that's not considering the "fruit's" probably extraterrestrial origin]].
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* ToadLicking: used by the artic astronomy station to pass the time, don't ask. Through their actually a variety of poison arrow frogs. So then end up being crossed with the chogs that become their own subspecies and new designer drug.
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I Ate What clean up. The trope is when a character eats something, unaware of what they are consuming, and then reacts in disgust after they find out what it is. Misuse will be deleted or moved to another trope when applicable. Administrivia.Zero Context Examples will be removed or commented out depending on the amount of context within the entry.
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* IAteWhat: The Series.
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* MostCommonSuperPower: [[https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9408/why-are-all-the-usda-agents-in-chew-women-with-exaggerated-physical-features Parodied]] with the USDA whose ranks are almost entirely comprised of buxom women [[RedShirtArmy who always suffer massive casualties]] whenever they appear,
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*MostCommonSuperPower: [[https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9408/why-are-all-the-usda-agents-in-chew-women-with-exaggerated-physical-features Parodied]] with the USDA whose ranks are almost entirely comprised of buxom women [[RedShirtArmy who always suffer massive casualties]] whenever they appear,
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* CerebusRetcon: In later issues, we see repeated {{Flash Forward}}s of Tony and Applebee as old men, with Applebee saying he hates him. It's PlayedForLaughs, underscoring Applebee's enduring irrational hatred for Tony. [[spoiler:By the end of the series, we see that moment in context and we learn Applebee has a good reason for hating Tony now. Tony set off an event that killed all chicken-eaters on the planet, including Applebee's husband Colby.]]
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#''Tasters Choice'': Philly Cop Anthony Chu leaves the force after his powers are outed and joins the FDA. He's shown the ropes by senior agent and fellow Chibopath Mason Savoy. Together they investigate the death of health inspector Evan Pepper.
#''International Flavor'':Reunited with his old, now cyborg partner John Colby, Tony heads to the island of Yamapalu to investigate a mysterious fruit that tastes just like chicken.
#''International Flavor'':Reunited with his old, now cyborg partner John Colby, Tony heads to the island of Yamapalu to investigate a mysterious fruit that tastes just like chicken.
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#''International
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* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: In Volume 12, a father actually offers to read his sick child some ''Chew'' comic books. Her answer is "Yuck. No, I want something good."
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** There is also a minor character who creates ''literal' food porn, creating photographs of food so vivid that it actually makes the viewer horny.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Too many to count. Little jokes in the background including funny events, signs, graffiti, {{Shout Out}}s, and Easter eggs are scattered throughout the series.
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* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Applebee's family, who hold a party to welcome [[spoiler:Colby]] to the family. They all look like him, the men, the women, and even the ''children''.
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* BisexualLoveTriangle: Saffron is in a relationship with Eddie but is also getting closer to Lily.
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* MagicFeather: Tells a famous 19th century French artist that she'll use her magic to make his paintings famous. She later tells him that her "magic" did not make his paintings great. That was all him. However, her using time travel to steal his painting and making it vanish in the present day did make him ''more'' famous and make his paintings more valuable.
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* MagicFeather: Tells a famous 19th century French artist that she'll use her magic to make his paintings famous. She later tells him that her "magic" did not make his paintings great. That was all him. However, her using time travel to steal his painting and making it vanish in the present day did make him ''more'' famous and make his other paintings more valuable.
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* MagicFeather: Tells a famous 19th century French artist that she'll use her magic to make his paintings famous. She later tells him that her "magic" did not make his paintings great. That was all him. However, her using time travel to steal his painting and making it vanish in the present day did make him ''more'' famous.
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* MagicFeather: Tells a famous 19th century French artist that she'll use her magic to make his paintings famous. She later tells him that her "magic" did not make his paintings great. That was all him. However, her using time travel to steal his painting and making it vanish in the present day did make him ''more'' famous.famous and make his paintings more valuable.
