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* SuperBreedingProgram: Huck is the product of such a project carried out on his mother Anna. Professor Orlov is elated to discover Huck, because as a male he can be used as a sire to impregnate multiple women at once instead of waiting on a single pregnancy.
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* BerserkButton: The usually soft-spoken and polite Huck becomes furious when [[spoiler:Tom]] threatens to put his mom's brain in a jar.
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* BerserkButton: The usually soft-spoken and polite Huck becomes furious when [[spoiler:Tom]] [[spoiler:his "brother" Tom]] threatens to put his mom's brain in a jar.jar.
* BewareTheSuperman: Noticeably averted. While the [[TheNewTens 2010s]] has a the tendency to use this trope quite a lot, here the main character is a very kind person.
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* CardCarryingVillain: [[spoiler:Tom]] is perfectly aware and unapologetic for his actions, as he understands that this was the purpose he was created for and unhesitantly carries out his orders. He even compares himself to kitchen appliances that have very specific purposes for their existence.
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* CardCarryingVillain: [[spoiler:Tom]] [[spoiler:The Huck's "brother" Tom]] is perfectly aware and unapologetic for his actions, as he understands that this was the purpose he was created for and unhesitantly carries out his orders. He even compares himself to kitchen appliances that have very specific purposes for their existence.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Both Huck and Anna manage to survive and get back to the home. Even Ms. Davis is forgiven by the end, despite spreading the truth about Huck to everyone.]]
* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:At the end of the story, Huck forgives Ms. Davis despite her revealing the real story about him to the world. Justified, as Huck is just simply that kind.]]
* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:At the end of the story, Huck forgives Ms. Davis despite her revealing the real story about him to the world. Justified, as Huck is just simply that kind.]]
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* PetTheDog: After forcibly putting Ethan to sleep, the boy who attends for her violin lessons, Anna tells him that "he will play better than ever before" just before touching him.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler: The last pages hint that Orlov might return to find Huck and Anna.]]
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* HeroesLoveDogs: Huck seems to like animal in general, but his own pet is a dog named Mickey.
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* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Huck and Tom's search for Anna is delayed several times by Huck demanding they stop and help with some emergency. The third "emergency" turns out to be helping a duck and her ducklings cross the road.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Huck's altruism is not limited to humans but include things like feeding stray cats and helping ducklings cross the road.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Huck seems to like animal in general, but his own pet is a dog named Mickey.
* InexplicablyAwesome: We never do find out where Anna's powers come from; despite the Russians' best efforts they were never able to find or create anyone else like her.
* PregnantBadass: Anna was six months pregnant when escaping from the facility. This did not make her any less unstoppable.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Orlov's henchmen can pass for human without problem despite having metal beneath their skin.
* SoProudOfYou: Anna tells Huck as much while they're imprisoned together.
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* TemptingFate: Orlov tells Anna that he can still start over since he was the mastermind of the whole project in the first place. Not really a good idea to say to the woman who can tell anyone to do anything, including [[spoiler: forgetting everything about science.]]
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Orlov's robots. They can go toe to toe against superbeings like Huck and his mother, and they are fearless and absolutely loyal, but each one costs a fortune to build and maintain and they break down after a year. His higher-ups were about to scuttle the project because it just wasn't cost-effective.
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* HumiliationConga: After being defeated, Orlov gloats that he'll just start his plans over and that a mere gas station attendant could never beat a brilliant scientist like him. [[spoiler: So Anna uses her CompellingVoice to make him forget everything he knows about science. The last we see of him, he's got a new job as... a gas station attendant.]]
* IdealHero: Huck is a reconstruction. He's extremely naive, but he manages to muddle through despite living in a cynical world, mostly by [[SmallStepsHero just keeping his eyes on the next good deed to do and not worrying about the big picture.]] And while he does attract his share of opportunists looking to exploit him, he also makes genuine friends who love him for his good nature.
* IdealHero: Huck is a reconstruction. He's extremely naive, but he manages to muddle through despite living in a cynical world, mostly by [[SmallStepsHero just keeping his eyes on the next good deed to do and not worrying about the big picture.]] And while he does attract his share of opportunists looking to exploit him, he also makes genuine friends who love him for his good nature.
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->''This town of ours has been blessed with a secret, young lady. [[SecretKeeper It's important to us that it stays that way.]]''
"[[http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/millar-reveals-he-created-huck-in-response-to-man-of-steel-trauma Traumatized]]" by the [[DarknessInducedAudienceApathy dark, joyless, tone]] of ''Film/ManOfSteel'', Creator/MarkMillar decided to do something that [[PlayingAgainstType he didn't usually do]] and created an idealistic look at what would happen if a quiet guy in a small town turned out to be a superhuman.
''Huck'' tells the tale of... well, [[CharacterTitle Huck]], a simple-minded GentleGiant who happens to have SuperStrength and a type of clairvoyance. Using these gifts, Huck spends his days working at a gas station and performing good deeds on the condition that those he helps never mention his involvement, especially if his powers are involved.
One day, however, a newcomer in the town spills the beans to the media about Huck's deeds, and the world now has its attention on the good Samaritan. However, it's not just corporations, military leaders, or politicians who have their eyes on Huck, but also a group of people who may have had a hand in him having powers in the first place.
Penciled by Rafael Albuquerque.
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!!''Huck'' provides examples of:
* ActionMom: Huck's mom managed to escape from a secret Siberian testing facility during a snowstorm while in a hospital gown, barefooted, and ''pregnant''.
-->'''Tom:''' Even six months pregnant, our mom was one tough cookie.
* AdultFear: Anna was horrified at the thought of giving birth to a child in a cell and having him potentially experimented on as she had, and escaped partially to ensure that he grew up happy and far away from the environment in which he gestated.
* AllLovingHero: Huck is even worried about alley-cats he notices digging through garbage.
* AuthorAppeal: According to interviews, the tone of the book and Huck's personality is based on what Mark Millar loved about Franchise/{{Superman}}.
* BerserkButton: The usually soft-spoken and polite Huck becomes furious when [[spoiler:Tom]] threatens to put his mom's brain in a jar.
* BigBad: Professor Orlov.
* CardCarryingVillain: [[spoiler:Tom]] is perfectly aware and unapologetic for his actions, as he understands that this was the purpose he was created for and unhesitantly carries out his orders. He even compares himself to kitchen appliances that have very specific purposes for their existence.
* CompellingVoice: Anna, Huck's mom, can make people do whatever she wants as long as she touched them.
* DoorstopBaby: Huck was discovered as one with a note that simply stated "Please love him."
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Tom]] to Professor Orlov.
* DumbIsGood: It's clear that Huck is not the brightest crayon in the box, as a discussion between his neighbors would tell, but the only thing he ever wants to do is to help people.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Professor Orlov originally looked like a harmless enough guy who had a rather creepy interest in Anna. But by the time of the book's present, he's become a full-on mad scientist with plans to take over Russia with an army of super-soldiers who could visually give Hugo Strange a run for his money.
* GentleGiant: Huck.
* HeroicBSOD: Huck briefly undergoes one after having to suffer through high-class people telling him to do or be prepared to do things he clearly didn't want to do while at a party. It's enough to make him shed a tear while staring at the note he was left with.
* HumbleHero: Huck does what he does because he likes to do good and not for the glory.
* LetsGetDangerous: "[[CompellingVoice Tell]] me to break the wall."
* LighterAndSofter: Noticeably more friendly in tone than Millar's more notorious works.
* LimitedWardrobe: Besides one occasion, Huck is only ever seen in his gas station overalls. Justified in that, well, it's his work uniform and the times we see him might be during his work hours.
* MamaBear: Anna allowed herself to be experimented on, but the second she discovered she was pregnant, she decided to escape so Huck wouldn't be experimented on his whole life.
* NiceGuy: Huck, even towards African warlords because he didn't want to break their glasses when he socks them.
* ObliviousToLove: As they search for Anna, Tom tells Huck that his neighbor Zoe clearly has a crush on him. Huck scoffs at the idea of Zoe having any romantic interest in [[HeroicSelfDeprecation a loser like him]]. Though after he discovers her feelings, he begins to consider the idea.
* LeParkour: Huck travels (within the country) by running, jumping, and hitching rides on the roof of vehicles.
* PsychicPowers: Both Huck and his mom are Clairvoyant. Huck can locate anyone and anything as long as he either has a name or a picture while Anna can see what someone is doing despite them being several miles below her.
* SecretKeeper: Basically the entire town Huck resided in. The residents understood and respected Huck's wish for privacy, to the point where one of the neighbors invite a newcomer to coffee just to warn her against telling the world about him.
* ShoutOut: Huck is named after Literature/HuckleberryFinn while his [[spoiler:not-]]brother Tom is named after Literature/TomSawyer.
* TakeThat: According to Mark Millar, the whole point of the miniseries is to be one of these to the very concept of an AntiHero, even going as far as to describe it as the "antidote to the anti-hero." Millar's reason for creating the series in the first place might make it one towards ''Film/ManOfSteel''.
* TemptingFate: Orlov tells Anna that he can still start over since he was the mastermind of the whole project in the first place. Not really a good idea to say to the woman who can tell anyone to do anything, including forgetting everything about science.
* VillainousCrush: Professor Orlov had a crush on Huck's mom while she was being tested. After she used him to escape and smashed his head into a wall, he seemingly got over it, only for it to turn out that he still has feelings for her as her name is the self-destruct passcode for Orlov's servers.
* WhamLine: "[[spoiler:I only had ''one'' son...]]"
* YourCheatingHeart: A single mother asks Huck for help in finding her missing husband, only for him to find him in New Hampshire with a new girlfriend and two kids.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Please love him'']]
->''This town of ours has been blessed with a secret, young lady. [[SecretKeeper It's important to us that it stays that way.]]''
"[[http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/millar-reveals-he-created-huck-in-response-to-man-of-steel-trauma Traumatized]]" by the [[DarknessInducedAudienceApathy dark, joyless, tone]] of ''Film/ManOfSteel'', Creator/MarkMillar decided to do something that [[PlayingAgainstType he didn't usually do]] and created an idealistic look at what would happen if a quiet guy in a small town turned out to be a superhuman.
''Huck'' tells the tale of... well, [[CharacterTitle Huck]], a simple-minded GentleGiant who happens to have SuperStrength and a type of clairvoyance. Using these gifts, Huck spends his days working at a gas station and performing good deeds on the condition that those he helps never mention his involvement, especially if his powers are involved.
One day, however, a newcomer in the town spills the beans to the media about Huck's deeds, and the world now has its attention on the good Samaritan. However, it's not just corporations, military leaders, or politicians who have their eyes on Huck, but also a group of people who may have had a hand in him having powers in the first place.
Penciled by Rafael Albuquerque.
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!!''Huck'' provides examples of:
* ActionMom: Huck's mom managed to escape from a secret Siberian testing facility during a snowstorm while in a hospital gown, barefooted, and ''pregnant''.
-->'''Tom:''' Even six months pregnant, our mom was one tough cookie.
* AdultFear: Anna was horrified at the thought of giving birth to a child in a cell and having him potentially experimented on as she had, and escaped partially to ensure that he grew up happy and far away from the environment in which he gestated.
* AllLovingHero: Huck is even worried about alley-cats he notices digging through garbage.
* AuthorAppeal: According to interviews, the tone of the book and Huck's personality is based on what Mark Millar loved about Franchise/{{Superman}}.
* BerserkButton: The usually soft-spoken and polite Huck becomes furious when [[spoiler:Tom]] threatens to put his mom's brain in a jar.
* BigBad: Professor Orlov.
* CardCarryingVillain: [[spoiler:Tom]] is perfectly aware and unapologetic for his actions, as he understands that this was the purpose he was created for and unhesitantly carries out his orders. He even compares himself to kitchen appliances that have very specific purposes for their existence.
* CompellingVoice: Anna, Huck's mom, can make people do whatever she wants as long as she touched them.
* DoorstopBaby: Huck was discovered as one with a note that simply stated "Please love him."
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Tom]] to Professor Orlov.
* DumbIsGood: It's clear that Huck is not the brightest crayon in the box, as a discussion between his neighbors would tell, but the only thing he ever wants to do is to help people.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Professor Orlov originally looked like a harmless enough guy who had a rather creepy interest in Anna. But by the time of the book's present, he's become a full-on mad scientist with plans to take over Russia with an army of super-soldiers who could visually give Hugo Strange a run for his money.
* GentleGiant: Huck.
* HeroicBSOD: Huck briefly undergoes one after having to suffer through high-class people telling him to do or be prepared to do things he clearly didn't want to do while at a party. It's enough to make him shed a tear while staring at the note he was left with.
* HumbleHero: Huck does what he does because he likes to do good and not for the glory.
* LetsGetDangerous: "[[CompellingVoice Tell]] me to break the wall."
* LighterAndSofter: Noticeably more friendly in tone than Millar's more notorious works.
* LimitedWardrobe: Besides one occasion, Huck is only ever seen in his gas station overalls. Justified in that, well, it's his work uniform and the times we see him might be during his work hours.
* MamaBear: Anna allowed herself to be experimented on, but the second she discovered she was pregnant, she decided to escape so Huck wouldn't be experimented on his whole life.
* NiceGuy: Huck, even towards African warlords because he didn't want to break their glasses when he socks them.
* ObliviousToLove: As they search for Anna, Tom tells Huck that his neighbor Zoe clearly has a crush on him. Huck scoffs at the idea of Zoe having any romantic interest in [[HeroicSelfDeprecation a loser like him]]. Though after he discovers her feelings, he begins to consider the idea.
* LeParkour: Huck travels (within the country) by running, jumping, and hitching rides on the roof of vehicles.
* PsychicPowers: Both Huck and his mom are Clairvoyant. Huck can locate anyone and anything as long as he either has a name or a picture while Anna can see what someone is doing despite them being several miles below her.
* SecretKeeper: Basically the entire town Huck resided in. The residents understood and respected Huck's wish for privacy, to the point where one of the neighbors invite a newcomer to coffee just to warn her against telling the world about him.
* ShoutOut: Huck is named after Literature/HuckleberryFinn while his [[spoiler:not-]]brother Tom is named after Literature/TomSawyer.
* TakeThat: According to Mark Millar, the whole point of the miniseries is to be one of these to the very concept of an AntiHero, even going as far as to describe it as the "antidote to the anti-hero." Millar's reason for creating the series in the first place might make it one towards ''Film/ManOfSteel''.
* TemptingFate: Orlov tells Anna that he can still start over since he was the mastermind of the whole project in the first place. Not really a good idea to say to the woman who can tell anyone to do anything, including forgetting everything about science.
* VillainousCrush: Professor Orlov had a crush on Huck's mom while she was being tested. After she used him to escape and smashed his head into a wall, he seemingly got over it, only for it to turn out that he still has feelings for her as her name is the self-destruct passcode for Orlov's servers.
* WhamLine: "[[spoiler:I only had ''one'' son...]]"
* YourCheatingHeart: A single mother asks Huck for help in finding her missing husband, only for him to find him in New Hampshire with a new girlfriend and two kids.
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