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** General Retler, commander of the Merchants, is getting information from the Father Abbot of the Order of ComicBook/StGeorge.
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The first issue was released February 16, 1988. The last issue (#8) was released April 18, 1989.
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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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Doctor Zero wants world peace. He wants to keep the Cold War UsefulNotes/ColdWar 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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* RenegadeRussian: Corporal Anubich plays this role, although he's actually far older than Russia. KGB Colonel Gerasimov works with Doctor Zero to hunt him down.
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* FakeDistressCall: The Merchants lure Doctor Zero onto a nuclear submarine by claiming that there’s been a reactor failure.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: The Merchants lure Doctor Zero onto a nuclear submarine by using a fake distress call, claiming that there’s been a reactor failure.
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* SuperheroesWearCapes: An invoked trope. Doctor Zero is an identity crafted by branding and marketing consultants. He wears a cape because it helps to reinforce his desired image as a superhero.
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* CapeSnag: Defied. When the Merchants lure Doctor Zero onto the submarine Leviathan he removes his usual cape as soon as he realises he'll be fighting in a cramped environment.
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* EnclosedSpace: The immortal Marid is unable to leave Earth under his own power, as his body can’t escape its energy field. His plan is to travel on a rocket instead.
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* EnclosedSpace: The immortal Marid is unable to leave Earth under his own power, as his body can’t escape its energy field. His plan is to travel escape on a rocket instead.
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* FakeDistressCall: The Merchants lure Doctor Zero onto a nuclear submarine by claiming that there’s been a reactor failure.
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* SealedEvilInACan: The Merchants manage to leave Doctor Zero himself in this state, unconscious on the scuttled nuclear submarine Leviathan, which has crumpled and flooded thousands of feet below the surface. His narration before he passes out suggests that he's expecting to be down there for a long time. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, they just can't resist retrieving the wreck to analyse what's left of him]].
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** The rocket Marid is tampering with at the US space program is based on a Henry Clerk design.
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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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* 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 [[OnlyMostlyDead lifeless body's body]]'s dumped in the arctic snow.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Marid, a JerkassGenie who kills his victims by fire, ends up incinerated under a rocket's engines at take-off.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Marid, a JerkassGenie who kills his victims by fire, ends up incinerated under a rocket's engines exhaust flames at take-off.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Marid's adapted himself to integrate with computers, infiltrating systems as a virus. But this connection also means that Shreck can use a programmer's skills to affect him via the computer, shocking him out of his SuperSmoke form and letting Doctor Zero deliver some LaserGuidedKarma.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Marid's adapted himself found a way to integrate with computers, infiltrating systems as a virus. But this connection also means that Shreck can use a programmer's skills to affect him via the computer, shocking him out of his SuperSmoke form and letting Doctor Zero deliver some LaserGuidedKarma.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Marid's adapted himself to integrate with computers, infiltrating systems as a virus. But this connection also means that Shreck can use a programmer's skills to affect him via the computer, shockingn him out of his SuperSmoke form and letting Doctor Zero deliver some LaserGuidedKarma.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Marid's adapted himself to integrate with computers, infiltrating systems as a virus. But this connection also means that Shreck can use a programmer's skills to affect him via the computer, shockingn shocking him out of his SuperSmoke form and letting Doctor Zero deliver some LaserGuidedKarma.
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* VillainProtagonist: Doctor Zero is never far away from this, but his ByronicHero natures means he's sometimes in shades of grey instead.
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* VillainProtagonist: Doctor Zero is never far away from this, but his ByronicHero natures nature means he's sometimes in shades of grey instead.
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* NobleDemon: Doctor Zero himself seems to fall into this category. He's quite prepared to kill innocents, directly or indirectly, but does have some sort of moral code.
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* VillainProtagonist: Doctor Zero is never far away from this, but his ByronicHero natures means he's sometimes in shades of grey instead.
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* ByronicHero: The immortal Doctor Zero himself falls into this category. He's intelligent, manipulative and scornful of others' ethics or authority. At times he's very much a VillainProtagonist or WellIntentionedExtremist, but he also seems to genuinely care for people, even if he keeps most at arm's length. If it wasn't for his narration he would be a very enigmatic figure, though.
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* ShowWithinAShow: One data page features a TV schedule listing including a ''Doctor Zero'' movie based on the previous issue's battle with Anubis. The jokey tone and inclusion of information that's not public suggests it's not supposed to be taken as canon, though.
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* TakeThat: One issue's data page is a jokey ShowWithinAShow TV listing with a ''Doctor Zero'' film (based on the previous issue's plot) prominently listed. It also includes a listing for ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''that explains how Picard "looks on uselessly" while Wesley Crusher saves the day.
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* TakeThat: One issue's data page is a jokey ShowWithinAShow TV listing with a ''Doctor Zero'' film (based on the previous issue's plot) prominently listed. It also includes a listing for ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''that ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' that explains how Picard "looks on uselessly" while Wesley Crusher saves the day.
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* TakeThat: One issue's data page is a jokey ShowWithinAShow TV listing with a ''Doctor Zero'' film (based on the previous issue's plot) prominently listed. It also includes a listing for ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''that explains how Picard "looks on uselessly" while Wesley Crusher saves the day.
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* {{Bookends}}: ''"Things of Fire and Smoke"'' starts with Doctor Zero rescuing two American space program workers from an accident that would have killed them when a rocket's engines fired. It ends with Doctor Zero leaving an injured Marid to die in the flames when another rocket takes off.
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* EnclosedSpace: The immortal Marid is unable to leave Earth under his own power, as his body can’t escape its energy field. His plan is to travel on a rocket instead.
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** Shreck is seeking permission to deal with the latest knight of ''ComicBook/StGeorge'!, saying that this falls under Doctor Zero's authority.
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** Shreck is seeking permission to deal with the latest knight of ''ComicBook/StGeorge'!, ''ComicBook/StGeorge'', saying that this falls under Doctor Zero's authority.
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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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** 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 theyare.are.
** The Merchants are studying Power Line as well as Doctor Zero himself.
** Shreck is seeking permission to deal with the latest knight of ''ComicBook/StGeorge'!, saying that this falls under Doctor Zero's authority.
** 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
** The Merchants are studying Power Line as well as Doctor Zero himself.
** Shreck is seeking permission to deal with the latest knight of ''ComicBook/StGeorge'!, saying that this falls under Doctor Zero's authority.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Marid's adapted himself to integrate with computers, infiltrating systems as a virus. But this connection also means that Shreck can use a programmer's skills to affect him via the computer, shockingn him out of his SuperSmoke form and letting Doctor Zero deliver some LaserGuidedKarma.
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* EvilCounterpart: Marid and Doctor Zero share the same aim - they want to escape the Earth into space, to get away from mortal humans - and are both prepared to kill people to make this happen. But they have different timescales and plans for it, and end up fighting to the death when Marid's reckless scheme might plunge the world into war.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Marid, a JerkassGenie who kills his victims by fire, ends up incinerated under a rocket's engines at take-off.
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* TelephoneTeleport: A variation. Marid has adapted his JerkassGenie abilities to work through computers, manifesting as a virus, and can travel through them as well.
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* SuperSmoke: Marid can shift into an intangible smoke form.
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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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* MolotovTruck: Doctor Zero assists William Belluts with his plan to drive a truck bomb into a US government SDI facility, in revenge for the way they closed down the previous factory on the site and left some workers redundant and in poverty.
* NoNameGiven: The Doctor Zero persona is a new invention and neither humans nor Shadows who know him refer to "Zero" by any othername.name, although Marid calls him "old one". Not even Sheila calls him by name.
* NoNameGiven: The Doctor Zero persona is a new invention and neither humans nor Shadows who know him refer to "Zero" by any other
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* JackassGenie: Marid is a Shadow Dweller with the powers of a genie. He uses them malevolently when humans make wishes.
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* PlayingWithFire: Marid has some fire powers, although they seem limited to killing those who he lures into making wishes via his JackassGenie powers. The third wish always ends in death by fire.
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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.
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* Immortality: {{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.
