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Flex Mentallo, ''Man of Muscle Mystery'', is supposed to be a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] super-hero with a CharlesAtlasSuperpower that allows him to do, well, anything by flexing his muscles while simultaneously being a parody of a Charles Atlas advertisement. However, he's a fictional comic book character created by a young psychic named Wally Sage. Flex is then brought to life through Wally's abilities and fights crime. He meets up with the ComicBook/DoomPatrol, saves everyone from a telephone monster from underneath the Pentagon, and then helps, uh, destroy UsefulNotes/{{the Dark Age|OfComicBooks}}.
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Flex Mentallo, ''Man of Muscle Mystery'', is supposed to be a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] super-hero with a CharlesAtlasSuperpower that allows him to do, well, anything by flexing his muscles while simultaneously being a parody of a Charles Atlas advertisement. However, he's a fictional comic book character created by a young psychic named Wally Sage. Flex is then brought to life through Wally's abilities and fights crime. He meets up with the ComicBook/DoomPatrol, saves everyone from a telephone monster from underneath the Pentagon, and then helps, uh, destroy UsefulNotes/{{the MediaNotes/{{the Dark Age|OfComicBooks}}.
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* AllThereInTheManual: As ever, interviews with Morrison shed a lot of light on the series. Among other things, the four issues represent the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age,]] [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age,]] [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks Modern Age of comics]], respectively.
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* AllThereInTheManual: As ever, interviews with Morrison shed a lot of light on the series. Among other things, the four issues represent the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age,]] [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age,]] [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks [[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks [[MediaNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks Modern Age of comics]], respectively.
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* AuthorFilibuster: The whole comic can be read as a long rant against [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks the grim and gritty]] superhero comics of its era, and a defense of the more colourful superhero stories that preceded it. Thankfully, as Morrison is an experienced writer of {{metafiction}}, the filibuster element doesn't diminish the quality of the comic.
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* AuthorFilibuster: The whole comic can be read as a long rant against [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks [[MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks the grim and gritty]] superhero comics of its era, and a defense of the more colourful superhero stories that preceded it. Thankfully, as Morrison is an experienced writer of {{metafiction}}, the filibuster element doesn't diminish the quality of the comic.
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* UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks: The mini-series [[{{Deconstruction}} takes this age of comics apart]].
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* TeensAreMonsters: [[spoiler:The real villain of the series is the teenaged Wally.]] He exemplifies UsefulNotes/{{the Dark Age|of Comic Books}} and questions the very virtue of Flex... but as the Hoaxer puts it [[spoiler: "Only a bitter little adolescent boy could confuse realism with pessimism."]] But with Flex's help he redeems himself.
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* TeensAreMonsters: [[spoiler:The real villain of the series is the teenaged Wally.]] He exemplifies UsefulNotes/{{the MediaNotes/{{the Dark Age|of Comic Books}} and questions the very virtue of Flex... but as the Hoaxer puts it [[spoiler: "Only a bitter little adolescent boy could confuse realism with pessimism."]] But with Flex's help he redeems himself.
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* AlternateContinuity: Flex was originally introduced in Morrison's ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'', which is set in the main [[Franchise/TheDCU DC Universe]]. The miniseries, however, has no indication that it takes place in Franchise/TheDCU, so it appears to be set in an alternate continuity of its own.
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* AlternateContinuity: Flex was originally introduced in Morrison's run on ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'', which is set in the main [[Franchise/TheDCU DC Universe]]. The miniseries, however, has no indication that it takes place in Franchise/TheDCU, so it appears to be set in an alternate continuity of its own.
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Anyway, Mentallo was created by Creator/GrantMorrison, which [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs explains a lot]]. He first appeared in ''"ComicBook/DoomPatrol''" vol. 2 #35 (August, 1990). He was regularly featured in the series to 1991, before getting his own 4-issue mini-series in 1996 which deconstructed and reconstructed comic books in their entirety and was about growing up, holding onto your imagination, love, hope, responsibility and realizing that, yeah, there will always be heroes... and you might just be one of them.
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Anyway, Mentallo was created by Creator/GrantMorrison, which [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs explains a lot]].lot. He first appeared in ''"ComicBook/DoomPatrol''" vol. 2 #35 (August, 1990). He was regularly featured in the series to 1991, before getting his own 4-issue mini-series in 1996 which deconstructed and reconstructed comic books in their entirety and was about growing up, holding onto your imagination, love, hope, responsibility and realizing that, yeah, there will always be heroes... and you might just be one of them.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: In practice, the entire cast is allegorical to a variety of different concepts. The main ones are Flex Mentallo (who represents all that is pure and idealistic about superhero stories and innocent fantasies in general), Wally Sage (who stands for the many complexities of being both audience and author to art) and Lord Limbo (who stands for the enigmatic, transcendental nature of superhero fiction). Other prominent characters such as Lt. Harry (a all-purpose stand-in for the [[{{Muggles}} hapless citizens]] of superhero fiction and, by extension, regular humans outside of comics) and The Hoaxer (who gestures towards the impossibility of fully comprehending reality) are also examples, and it is part of the narrative's goal for the reader to navigate the allegories in the cast.
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* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: In the "[[HistoricalFiction true story of Manly Comics]]", Flex Mentallo is stated to have been explicitly created as a counterpart to Superman in 1941.
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* AmbiguousEnding: In trademark Morrison fashion, it is hard to tell how much is real and how much is not (and if that even ''matters'').
* ArchEnemy: The HistoricalFiction preface states Flex's original and most iconic arch-enemy throughout his decades of publication was DiabolicalMastermind Lars Lotus, although (interestingly) he never appears in the story proper. The Mentallium Man, another oft-mentioned iconic villain, does actually play a crucial role in the narrative and fights Flex in person.
* ArcWords: "Reality dies at dawn!", a line spoken first by Flex Mentallo and later by Lord Limbo describing the stakes of their narratives, which receives layers upon layers of meaning with each time it's spoken.
* ArchEnemy: The HistoricalFiction preface states Flex's original and most iconic arch-enemy throughout his decades of publication was DiabolicalMastermind Lars Lotus, although (interestingly) he never appears in the story proper. The Mentallium Man, another oft-mentioned iconic villain, does actually play a crucial role in the narrative and fights Flex in person.
* ArcWords: "Reality dies at dawn!", a line spoken first by Flex Mentallo and later by Lord Limbo describing the stakes of their narratives, which receives layers upon layers of meaning with each time it's spoken.
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* BeyondTheImpossible: In the climax, Flex Mentallo is [[spoiler: weakened by Black Mentallium (his proverbial kryptonite that is essentially lethal to him) and fighting ''the author of the story'' who's in the process of writing him out completely.]] Despite the flagrant impossibility of it, he manages to flex anyway. He is Flex Mentallo after all: triumphing over the impossible is what he does.
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* TheCameo: There's a littany of cameos from famous comic book characters in background shots (some with one or two lines). These include ComicBook/TheQuestion, [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]], The ComicBook/UnknownSoldier and even [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] himself.
* ColorMotif: Green. Flex Mentallo returned in a comic called "My Greenest Adventure", a hospitalized Wally Sage recalls a green light staring at him "like some alien intelligence", Wally vomits green, the Krystal drug (which briefly makes one into a superhero) is a of a bright green hue and Flex is guided by a green light emanating from said drug at a crucial scene. [[spoiler: It is implied that all of those instances are the work of Lord Limbo, the leader of the Legion of Legions (who is entirely decked out in green), who engineered the plan for superheroes to escape into fiction and has been orchestrating events for superheroes to make their return, with the presence of green throughout the narrative being signs of his guiding hand.]]
* CaptainPatriotic: We briefly hear about a Golden Age superhero called "Jap-Destroyer" and another one called "Lady Liberty".
* CatchPhrase: The Fact always leaves behind "fact cards" stating (and/or verbally states out loud himself) "The Fact is: (blank)".
* ColorMotif: Green. Flex Mentallo returned in a comic called "My Greenest Adventure", a hospitalized Wally Sage recalls a green light staring at him "like some alien intelligence", Wally vomits green, the Krystal drug (which briefly makes one into a superhero) is a of a bright green hue and Flex is guided by a green light emanating from said drug at a crucial scene. [[spoiler: It is implied that all of those instances are the work of Lord Limbo, the leader of the Legion of Legions (who is entirely decked out in green), who engineered the plan for superheroes to escape into fiction and has been orchestrating events for superheroes to make their return, with the presence of green throughout the narrative being signs of his guiding hand.]]
* CaptainPatriotic: We briefly hear about a Golden Age superhero called "Jap-Destroyer" and another one called "Lady Liberty".
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* FauxAdventureStory: The brawling superhero Flex Mentallo is off to save the world, but the comic is much more dialogue-based and surreal than that statement would imply.
* FightOffTheKryptonite: In the climax, Flex Mentallo has to fight through the Black Mentallium.
* GreaterScopeParagon: Flex stars as the main hero, but both The Fact and the enigmatic Lord Limbo loom large in the narrative's background. [[spoiler: The former is trying to help Flex but is crippled by being displaced throughout time and the latter is trapped in the realm of fiction but is guiding the narrative.]]
* FightOffTheKryptonite: In the climax, Flex Mentallo has to fight through the Black Mentallium.
* GreaterScopeParagon: Flex stars as the main hero, but both The Fact and the enigmatic Lord Limbo loom large in the narrative's background. [[spoiler: The former is trying to help Flex but is crippled by being displaced throughout time and the latter is trapped in the realm of fiction but is guiding the narrative.]]
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* LastOfHisKind: Flex is repeatedly stated in the narrative as the last active superhero, the last hope his world has.
* NonLinearCharacter: The Fact is scrambled through time, existing non-linearly, so his story wraps around itself. [[spoiler: His first appearance in the story is, for example, chronologically his last in a StableTimeLoop sort of scenario.]]
* MassSuperEmpoweringEvent: The narrative involves a very complex, metafictional exploration of the concept. [[spoiler: It is stated that superheroes are real, and they survived the destruction of their universe by becoming fiction in ours and all of us contain their sublime, superheroic nature inside us all. In the very last scene, the superheroes trespass the barriers of fiction at last, heralding a new age where we ''all'' might be superheroes.]]
* NonLinearCharacter: The Fact is scrambled through time, existing non-linearly, so his story wraps around itself. [[spoiler: His first appearance in the story is, for example, chronologically his last in a StableTimeLoop sort of scenario.]]
* MassSuperEmpoweringEvent: The narrative involves a very complex, metafictional exploration of the concept. [[spoiler: It is stated that superheroes are real, and they survived the destruction of their universe by becoming fiction in ours and all of us contain their sublime, superheroic nature inside us all. In the very last scene, the superheroes trespass the barriers of fiction at last, heralding a new age where we ''all'' might be superheroes.]]
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: We never get to see how Flex and Faculty X fight through the ceaseless horde of superheroes trying to stop Flex from reaching the Legion of Legions. The Hoaxer and Harry just stumble upon the gory aftermath.
* OntologicalMystery: The underlying theme of the narrative is that there's just something ''wrong'' with the world(s) and that the end is fast approaching. Characters thus explore the very limits of reality to unravel this.
* OntologicalMystery: The underlying theme of the narrative is that there's just something ''wrong'' with the world(s) and that the end is fast approaching. Characters thus explore the very limits of reality to unravel this.
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* RiddleForTheAges: At one point Harry asks The Hoaxer what was his biggest "hoax". He merely turns to Harry ([[AsideGlance and the audience]]) and wryly comments "Ah...If only you knew..." with a smile. We never do find out what his biggest hoax was, and there's an infinite ways of interpreting what it might be.
* RoguesGallery: Flex is stated to have a large, colorful rogues gallery with names like Lars Lotus, Mentallium Man, The Numbers Gang, Uncle Sham, .
* RoguesGallery: Flex is stated to have a large, colorful rogues gallery with names like Lars Lotus, Mentallium Man, The Numbers Gang, Uncle Sham, .
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Describe Flex Mentallo here.
...Well, we can try [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer but you won't believe it]]. Flex Mentallo, ''Man of Muscle Mystery'', is supposed to be a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] super-hero with a CharlesAtlasSuperpower that allows him to do, well, anything by flexing his muscles while simultaneously being a parody of a Charles Atlas advertisement ... the strange thing is that he's a fictional comic book character created by a young psychic named Wally Sage. Flex is then brought to life through Wally's abilities and fights crime. He meets up with the ComicBook/DoomPatrol, saves everyone from a telephone monster from underneath the Pentagon, and then helps, uh, destroy UsefulNotes/{{the Dark Age|OfComicBooks}}.
[[caption-width-right:250:"Never grow up." ]]
Describe Flex Mentallo here.
...Well, we can try [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer but you won't believe it]]. Flex Mentallo, ''Man of Muscle Mystery'', is supposed to be a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] super-hero with a CharlesAtlasSuperpower that allows him to do, well, anything by flexing his muscles while simultaneously being a parody of a Charles Atlas advertisement ... the strange thing is that he's a fictional comic book character created by a young psychic named Wally Sage. Flex is then brought to life through Wally's abilities and fights crime. He meets up with the ComicBook/DoomPatrol, saves everyone from a telephone monster from underneath the Pentagon, and then helps, uh, destroy UsefulNotes/{{the Dark Age|OfComicBooks}}.
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Describe Flex Mentallo here.
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...Well, we can try [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer but you won't believe it]]. Flex Mentallo, ''Man of Muscle Mystery'', is supposed to be a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] super-hero with a CharlesAtlasSuperpower that allows him to do, well, anything by flexing his muscles while simultaneously being a parody of a Charles Atlas advertisement ... the strange thing is that he's a fictional comic book character created by a young psychic named Wally Sage. Flex is then brought to life through Wally's abilities and [[TheyFightCrime fights crime]]. He meets up with the ComicBook/DoomPatrol, saves everyone from a telephone monster from underneath the Pentagon, and then helps, uh, destroy UsefulNotes/{{the Dark Age|OfComicBooks}}.
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...Well, we can try [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer but you won't believe it]]. Flex Mentallo, ''Man of Muscle Mystery'', is supposed to be a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] super-hero with a CharlesAtlasSuperpower that allows him to do, well, anything by flexing his muscles while simultaneously being a parody of a Charles Atlas advertisement ... the strange thing is that he's a fictional comic book character created by a young psychic named Wally Sage. Flex is then brought to life through Wally's abilities and [[TheyFightCrime fights crime]].crime. He meets up with the ComicBook/DoomPatrol, saves everyone from a telephone monster from underneath the Pentagon, and then helps, uh, destroy UsefulNotes/{{the Dark Age|OfComicBooks}}.
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* ShoutOut: Too many to count. Among them, cameos by "yellow boots with ridged fireproof treads" (Comicbook/{{the Flash}}'s), the incomplete magic word of transformation "SHA_A_" (ComicBook/{{Shazam}}), and a farmer who's planning on putting his infant son in a spaceship to save him from the end of the world ([[{{Superman}} guess]]). Possibly justified, in that [[spoiler: the entire thing may be happening in the head of a lifelong comic book fan,]] ... or perhaps not. Grant Morrison's works are funny like that. Also, keep your eyes peeled for DC's ComicBook/UnknownSoldier getting a prostitute on a street next to [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Walter Kovacs]] holding a sign. Or the Mutant Gang from "ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns," or the wizard Shazam during a young man's super-powered drug trip, or a renamed version of ComicBook/{{the Question}}, or.... better stop now, this list could fill the internet. Background character Rex Ritz is also a nod to Creator/FScottFitzgerald.
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* ShoutOut: Too many to count. Among them, cameos by "yellow boots with ridged fireproof treads" (Comicbook/{{the Flash}}'s), the incomplete magic word of transformation "SHA_A_" (ComicBook/{{Shazam}}), and a farmer who's planning on putting his infant son in a spaceship to save him from the end of the world ([[{{Superman}} ([[Franchise/{{Superman}} guess]]). Possibly justified, in that [[spoiler: the entire thing may be happening in the head of a lifelong comic book fan,]] ... or perhaps not. Grant Morrison's works are funny like that. Also, keep your eyes peeled for DC's ComicBook/UnknownSoldier getting a prostitute on a street next to [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Walter Kovacs]] holding a sign. Or the Mutant Gang from "ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns," or the wizard Shazam during a young man's super-powered drug trip, or a renamed version of ComicBook/{{the Question}}, or.... better stop now, this list could fill the internet. Background character Rex Ritz is also a nod to Creator/FScottFitzgerald.
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* MasterOfIllusion: The Hoaxer can fool one person at a time with incredibly vivid illusions using a hand mirror and his talent at imitating sounds.
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... We can try [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer but you won't believe it]]. Flex Mentallo, ''Man of Muscle Mystery'', is supposed to be a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] super-hero with a CharlesAtlasSuperpower that allows him to do, well, anything by flexing his muscles while simultaneously being a parody of a Charles Atlas advertisement ... the strange thing is that he's a fictional comic book character created by a young psychic named Wally Sage. Flex is then brought to life through Wally's abilities and [[TheyFightCrime fights crime]]. He meets up with the ComicBook/DoomPatrol, saves everyone from a telephone monster from underneath the Pentagon, and then helps, uh, destroy UsefulNotes/{{the Dark Age|OfComicBooks}}.
Anyway, Mentallo was created by Creator/GrantMorrison, which [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs explains a lot]]. He first appeared in ''"ComicBook/DoomPatrol''" vol. 2 #35 (August, 1990). He was regularly featured in the series to 1991, before getting his own 4-issue mini-series (1996) which deconstructed and reconstructed comic books in their entirety and was about growing up, holding onto your imagination, love, hope, responsibility and realizing that, yeah, there will always be heroes... and you might just be one of them.
Anyway, Mentallo was created by Creator/GrantMorrison, which [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs explains a lot]]. He first appeared in ''"ComicBook/DoomPatrol''" vol. 2 #35 (August, 1990). He was regularly featured in the series to 1991, before getting his own 4-issue mini-series (1996) which deconstructed and reconstructed comic books in their entirety and was about growing up, holding onto your imagination, love, hope, responsibility and realizing that, yeah, there will always be heroes... and you might just be one of them.
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... We Well, we can try [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer but you won't believe it]]. Flex Mentallo, ''Man of Muscle Mystery'', is supposed to be a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] super-hero with a CharlesAtlasSuperpower that allows him to do, well, anything by flexing his muscles while simultaneously being a parody of a Charles Atlas advertisement ... the strange thing is that he's a fictional comic book character created by a young psychic named Wally Sage. Flex is then brought to life through Wally's abilities and [[TheyFightCrime fights crime]]. He meets up with the ComicBook/DoomPatrol, saves everyone from a telephone monster from underneath the Pentagon, and then helps, uh, destroy UsefulNotes/{{the Dark Age|OfComicBooks}}.
Anyway, Mentallo was created by Creator/GrantMorrison, which [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs explains a lot]]. He first appeared in ''"ComicBook/DoomPatrol''" vol. 2 #35 (August, 1990). He was regularly featured in the series to 1991, before getting his own 4-issue mini-series(1996) in 1996 which deconstructed and reconstructed comic books in their entirety and was about growing up, holding onto your imagination, love, hope, responsibility and realizing that, yeah, there will always be heroes... and you might just be one of them.
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* BigDamnHeroes: In Issue #4, when [[spoiler:The Moon Man]] has Flex at his mercy with [[spoiler:Black Mentallium]], Chief Harry and the Hoaxer arrive!
-->'''Harry:''' That's enough, asshole. I got six chambers of semi-jacketed realism aimed right at your sea of tranquility. Drop the rock.
-->'''Harry:''' That's enough, asshole. I got six chambers of semi-jacketed realism aimed right at your sea of tranquility. Drop the rock.
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* GreenRocks: Mentallium! And it comes in several different flavors! Pink Mentallium invites the victim "to explore complex issues of gender and sexuality," while silver Mentallium robs someone of their sense of humor and many more!
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* GreenRocks: Mentallium! And it comes in several different flavors! Pink Mentallium invites the victim "to explore complex issues of gender and sexuality," while silver Silver Mentallium robs someone of their sense of humor and many more!more! [[spoiler:And Black Mentallium can weaken guys like Flex into oblivion...]]
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* RaceLift: When the series was recoloured for its collected edition, a couple of the characters inexplicably [[http://mindlessones.com/2012/04/10/whatever-happened-to-the-mentallium-man-of-tomorrow/ became white]] (scroll to the bottom of the article for the relevant part). The new colourist says it was accidental, though.
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* RaceLift: When the series was recoloured recolored for its collected edition, a couple of the characters inexplicably [[http://mindlessones.com/2012/04/10/whatever-happened-to-the-mentallium-man-of-tomorrow/ became white]] (scroll to the bottom of the article for the relevant part). The new colourist colorist says it was accidental, though.
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* ShoutOut: Too many to count. Among them, cameos by "yellow boots with ridged fireproof treads" (Comicbook/{{the Flash}}'s), the incomplete magic word of transformation "SHA_A_" (ComicBook/{{Shazam}}), and a farmer who's planning on putting his infant son in a spaceship to save him from the end of the world ([[{{Superman}} guess]]). Possibly justified, in that [[spoiler: the entire thing may be happening in the head of a lifelong comic book fan,]] ... or perhaps not. Grant Morrison's works are funny like that. Also, keep your eyes peeled for DC's ComicBook/UnknownSoldier getting a prostitute on a street next to [[Comicbook/{{Watchmen}} Walter Kovacs]] holding a sign. Or the Mutant Gang from "ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns," or the wizard Shazam during a young man's super-powered drug trip, or a renamed version of ComicBook/{{the Question}}, or.... better stop now, this list could fill the internet. Background character Rex Ritz is also a nod to Creator/FScottFitzgerald.
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* ShoutOut: Too many to count. Among them, cameos by "yellow boots with ridged fireproof treads" (Comicbook/{{the Flash}}'s), the incomplete magic word of transformation "SHA_A_" (ComicBook/{{Shazam}}), and a farmer who's planning on putting his infant son in a spaceship to save him from the end of the world ([[{{Superman}} guess]]). Possibly justified, in that [[spoiler: the entire thing may be happening in the head of a lifelong comic book fan,]] ... or perhaps not. Grant Morrison's works are funny like that. Also, keep your eyes peeled for DC's ComicBook/UnknownSoldier getting a prostitute on a street next to [[Comicbook/{{Watchmen}} [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Walter Kovacs]] holding a sign. Or the Mutant Gang from "ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns," or the wizard Shazam during a young man's super-powered drug trip, or a renamed version of ComicBook/{{the Question}}, or.... better stop now, this list could fill the internet. Background character Rex Ritz is also a nod to Creator/FScottFitzgerald.
