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* Immortality: Shadow Dwellers such as Marid, Anubis and Doctor Zero himself are immortal and unaging, but at least some of them can be killed if you try hard enough.
* JackassGenie: Marid is a Shadow Dweller with the powers of a genie. He uses them malevolently when humans make wishes.
* JackassGenie: Marid is a Shadow Dweller with the powers of a genie. He uses them malevolently when humans make wishes.
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* SyntheticPlague: The Taymyr Facility's created an incurable cryptosporidium variant that affects humans. It'll cause victims' intestines to rupture and burst their skin. And then it'll go airborne. Anubis, aka, Corporal Anubich, is ''very'' proud of it.
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* SyntheticPlague: The Taymyr Facility's created an incurable cryptosporidium variant that affects humans. It'll cause victims' intestines to rupture and burst their skin. And then it'll go airborne. Anubis, aka, aka Corporal Anubich, is ''very'' proud of it.
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* HistoricalRapSheet: Anubis was responsible for the Black Death sweeping Europe. From his perspective, it was apparently the best time of his life.
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* NoNameGiven: The Doctor Zero persona is a new invention and neither humans nor shadows who know him refer to "Zero" by any other name. Not even Sheila calls him by name.
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* VampiricDraining: Doctor Zero can steal LifeEnergy from others. He doesn't seem to need it for his immortality, but it does speed healing and fuel his powers.
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* NoNameGiven: The Doctor Zero persona is a new invention and neither humans nor shadows who know him refer to "Zero" by any other name. Not even Sheila calls him by name.
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* MayflyDecemberRomance: Doctor Zero and Sheila. She's a normal human, he's [[TimeAbyss older than the human race]].
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* DoomsdayDevice: Dr Henry Clerk has created a modified nuclear bomb which, he believes, will trigger a chain reaction via the Nitrogen in the atmosphere. He's going to detonate it just to prove it works. ForScience
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* DoomsdayDevice: Dr Henry Clerk has created a modified nuclear bomb which, he believes, will trigger a world-destroying chain reaction via the Nitrogen in the atmosphere. He's going to detonate it just to prove it works. ForScience
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: A flashback shows Clerk, as a child, launching Snowball the cat inside a small rocket. He's listening to its panicked yowling right up until the moment the rocket detonates. Clerk later claims this was purely ForScience, not because Snowball scratched him, but doesn't seem entirely plausible.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: A flashback shows Clerk, as a child, launching Snowball the cat inside a small rocket. He's listening to its panicked yowling over the radio right up until the moment the rocket detonates. Clerk later claims this was purely ForScience, not because Snowball scratched him, but doesn't seem entirely plausible.
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* HeroicDolphins: After Doctor Zero is left for dead by Clerk and ends up in the sea, dolphins bring him to Sheila.
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* HeroicDolphins: After Doctor Zero is left for dead by Clerk and ends up in the sea, dolphins bring him to Sheila.
* SapientCetaceans: Doctor Zero talks with dolphins, and seems to consider them a better species than humans. He's offered to take them with him when he finally leaves the planet.
* SueDonym: The Soviet biological warfare researcher Corporal Anubich is actually the Egyptian god Anubis. Or, rather, the Shadow who inspired those myths.
* SueDonym: The Soviet biological warfare researcher Corporal Anubich is actually the Egyptian god Anubis. Or, rather, the Shadow who inspired those myths.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: A flashback shows Clerk, as a child, launching Snowball the cat inside a small rocket. He's listening to its panicked yowling right up until the moment the rocket detonates. Clerk later claims this was purely ForScience, not because Snowball scratched him, but doesn't seem entirely plausible.
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* AllInTheManual: The in-house promotions state that Doctor Zero is the most powerful of the Shadow Dwellers, something that's not directly stated in the comic itself.
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* FunWithAcronyms: Downplayed, but the '''M'''ilitary '''R'''esponse and '''C'''overt '''T'''echniques '''S'''quadron is better known as the Merchants.
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After the series was cancelled, Doctor Zero's story continued in [[ComicBook/CriticalMassShadowline Critical Mass]], an AnthologyComic combining the previous three Shadowline titles.
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* ContinuityNod: When Doctor Zero visits UsefulNotes/{{Guyana}} in the first issue, a newspaper on the plane shows a picture of "Ravenscore & friend" in a drug lord story. The Ravenscores are the Shadow family who act as the BigBad for sister title ''ComicBook/PowerLine''. Later issues make it clear that Doctor Zero knows exactly who they are.
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* MindControl: Doctor Zero has some level of this, over and above the ability to induce LaserGuidedAmnesia. It sometimes seems to cause permanent damage to his target's mind, though.
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* OnlyMostlyDead: Doctor Zero is left in this state after Clerk's initial attempt to kill him, and again after the Merchants trap him on a scuttled submarine. He gets better.
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* AssassinOutclassin: Doctor Zero is on the receiving end when he first tries to kill Dr Clerk, a mere human. His energy powers are countered by a chemical spray, he's hit with an electric shock and his lifeless body's dumped in the arctic snow.
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* TimeAbyss: Doctor Zero is far older than humanity, old enough to remember the continents shifting, and possibly as old as life on Earth. Anubis is at least four or five thousand years old, so may also fall into this category.
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* DoomsdayDevice: Dr Henry Clerk has created a modified nuclear bomb which, he believes, will trigger a chain reaction via the Nitrogen in the atmosphere. He's going to detonate it just to prove it works. ForScience
* ForScience: Dr Clerk's motivation for creating a world-destroying bomb is seemingly that he likes nuclear explosions, he likes killing people, and he wants to prove that he can correct the 'mistakes' that stopped the original atom bomb triggering an apocalyptic chain reaction.
* ForScience: Dr Clerk's motivation for creating a world-destroying bomb is seemingly that he likes nuclear explosions, he likes killing people, and he wants to prove that he can correct the 'mistakes' that stopped the original atom bomb triggering an apocalyptic chain reaction.
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* MadScientist:
** Dr Henry Clerk, who's very fond of nuclear explosions, murder, and murder via explosions. He's also smart enough to analyse Doctor Zero's powers from circumstantial evidence and design countermeasures. Clerk would quite happily destroy himself along with the world, if he could, purely ForScience
** Anubis, aka Soviet biological weapons researcher Corporal Anubich. His Shadow abilities make him a PlagueMaster who's immune to the diseases he absorbs and spreads, but he's very keen to design new and better plagues to kill the humans.
** Dr Henry Clerk, who's very fond of nuclear explosions, murder, and murder via explosions. He's also smart enough to analyse Doctor Zero's powers from circumstantial evidence and design countermeasures. Clerk would quite happily destroy himself along with the world, if he could, purely ForScience
** Anubis, aka Soviet biological weapons researcher Corporal Anubich. His Shadow abilities make him a PlagueMaster who's immune to the diseases he absorbs and spreads, but he's very keen to design new and better plagues to kill the humans.
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* ComicBookTime: Averted. Specific dates are given for some events, with the first issue's air raid on Libya occurring on 15 April 1986.
* CruelMercy: Rather than killing MadScientist Henry Clerk, Doctor Zero protects him from the nuclear explosion he triggered at the Toy Factory and then uses his mental powers to destroy Clerk's genius. He's left as a dull-witted fast food chef at "Stop & Stuff”.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Doctor Zero is fond of using this to edit people's memories. The branding team who designed the Doctor Zero superhero costume and persona for him immediately forgot their involvement.
* CruelMercy: Rather than killing MadScientist Henry Clerk, Doctor Zero protects him from the nuclear explosion he triggered at the Toy Factory and then uses his mental powers to destroy Clerk's genius. He's left as a dull-witted fast food chef at "Stop & Stuff”.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Doctor Zero is fond of using this to edit people's memories. The branding team who designed the Doctor Zero superhero costume and persona for him immediately forgot their involvement.
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* SueDonym: The Soviet biological warfare researcher Corporal Anubich is actually the Egyptian god Anubis. Or, rather, the Shadow who inspired those myths.
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* SyntheticPlague: The Taymyr Facility's created an incurable cryptosporidium variant that affects humans. It'll cause victims' intestines to rupture and burst their skin. And then it'll go airborne. Anubis, aka, Corporal Anubisch, is ''very'' proud of it.
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* TimeAbyss: Doctor Zero is far older than humanity, old enough to remember the continents shifting, and possibly as old as life on Earth.
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** PlagueMaster: Anubis is a Shadow who absorbs and spreads diseases. He's the inspiration for the Egyptian deity and his contagions are one of the reasons the Egyptians started mummifying their dead. He's also at least partly responsible for the Black Death sweeping Europe.
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It's part of the ComicBook/{{Shadowline}} shared universe, set in a world where a second, hidden race - the Shadow Dwellers - evolved alongside humanity. Individually, Shadow Dwellers are more powerful than humans, but humans vastly outnumber them and so they've tended to stay hidden. Until now.
The being calling himself Doctor Zero is the most powerful of the Shadow Dwellers, and he's just made his public debut as the world's first superhero. However, his motives are not be as benevolent as they seem - and, when out of the public eye, his methods are cynical and manipulative.
Doctor Zero wants world peace. He wants to keep the Cold War cool and stop humanity destroying itself. And he's prepared to do many things to achieve that goal. Not because he loves humanity, but just because - at least for the moment - he's sharing the planet too.
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** PlagueMaster: Anubis is a Shadow who absorbs and spreads diseases. He's the inspiration for the Egyptian deity and his contagions are one of the reasons the Egyptians started mummifying their dead. He's also at least partly responsible for the Black Death sweeping Europe.
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