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* OverlyLongGag: Every time S.C.H.M.U.C.K comes up, the editors feel it necessary to mention that it doesn't stand for anything in particular.

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* OverlyLongGag: Every time S.C.H.M.U.C.K K. comes up, the editors feel it necessary to mention that it doesn't stand for anything in particular.

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Actually that was a Shout Out to Jimmy Olsen as the Giant Turtle Man


* HulkMashUp: A big, green Captain Everything appears amongst his imperfect duplicates.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all normalman/Norm-L has endured on Levram, he is reunited with his mother on Arnold and he and Sophisticated Lady get married.

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* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all normalman/Norm-L normalman/[[spoiler: Norm-L]] has endured on Levram, he is reunited with his mother on Arnold and he and Sophisticated Lady get married.

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The series spoofed many comic book companies per issue, including Creator/{{DC|Comics}}, Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}, Creator/{{EC|Comics}} and Creator/{{Harvey|Comics}}, as well as doing parodies of ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'', ''ComicBook/{{Elfquest}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'', ''Franchise/StarWars'' and ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. The series was first collected in trade paperback by Creator/SlaveLaborGraphics. Recently, a new trade paperback which included several followups was published by Image Comics. Both trades are in black and white.

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The series spoofed many comic book companies per issue, including Creator/{{DC|Comics}}, Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}, Creator/{{EC|Comics}} and Creator/{{Harvey|Comics}}, as well as doing parodies of ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'', ''ComicBook/{{Elfquest}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'', ''Franchise/StarWars'' and ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. The series was first collected in trade paperback by Creator/SlaveLaborGraphics. Recently, a new trade paperback which included several followups was published by Image Comics. Both trades are in black and white.
white. In 2024, a hardcover omnibus was published collecting the series in full color along with other material.
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* {{Crossover}}: with ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'', {{Comicbook/Journey}} by William Messner-Loebs, ComicBook/TalesOfTheBeanworld, and ComicBook/MegatonMan (the latter also featuring appearances by everyone from Comicbook/{{Madman}} to ComicBook/{{Bone}} to ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer to ComicBook/FlamingCarrot)

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* {{Crossover}}: with ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'', {{Comicbook/Journey}} {{ComicBook/Journey}} by William Messner-Loebs, ComicBook/TalesOfTheBeanworld, and ComicBook/MegatonMan (the latter also featuring appearances by everyone from Comicbook/{{Madman}} to ComicBook/{{Bone}} to ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer to ComicBook/FlamingCarrot)
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trope is renamed Prefers Going Barefoot. Dewicking old name


* DoesNotLikeShoes: Man-Man [[note]]pronounced "Mon-Man"[[/note]], the rastafarian with Ganja breath.
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removed Hilarity Ensues wicks


Fearing the Planet Arnold would explode, normalman's father sends his infant son on a rocketship to escape the planet's destruction . . . which NEVER comes to pass. Twenty years later and fully grown, normalman crash-lands on the planet [[SdrawkcabName Levram]], where everybody has super powers ... except for normalman himself. Being the only person on the whole planet with no powers makes him a celebrity. HilarityEnsues.

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Fearing the Planet Arnold would explode, normalman's father sends his infant son on a rocketship to escape the planet's destruction . . . which NEVER comes to pass. Twenty years later and fully grown, normalman crash-lands on the planet [[SdrawkcabName Levram]], where everybody has super powers ... except for normalman himself. Being the only person on the whole planet with no powers makes him a celebrity. HilarityEnsues.
celebrity.
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* BackFromTheDead:[[spoiler: Sgt. Fluffy, after he actually dies.]]
* BatmanParody: There's a Batman-looking [[PaperPeople Paper Person]] called Flat Man in the Justice League Of Society.

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* BackFromTheDead:[[spoiler: Sgt.BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Sgt. Fluffy, after he actually dies.]]
* BatmanParody: There's a Batman-looking [[PaperPeople Paper Person]] {{Paper Pe|ople}}rson called Flat Man in the Justice League Of Society.

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Do not confuse with {{Muggles}} or BadassNormal, nor with the Italian comic book (later adapted to a radio show and eventually to a LiveActionTV show) superhero spoof of the same name.


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Do not confuse with {{Muggles}} or BadassNormal, nor with the Italian comic book (later adapted to a radio show and eventually to a LiveActionTV show) superhero spoof of the same name.
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Nasty Girl was more of a Black Canary substitute. Human Person was the WW expy.


* WonderWomanWannabe: Nasty Girl seems to be the Wonder Woman in the Justice League Of Society amongst the other Justice League expies.

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* WonderWomanWannabe: Nasty Girl Human Person seems to be the Wonder Woman in the Justice League Of Society amongst the other Justice League expies.
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* MockeyMouse: normalman runs into a rich anthropomorphic mouse called Mickey Money when trapped on Earth-Dismal.

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* MockeyMouse: MockyMouse: normalman runs into a rich anthropomorphic mouse called Mickey Money when trapped on Earth-Dismal.

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* DimensionalTraveller: One of Captain Everything's many powers if he doesn't get trapped in the Negative Phantom Zone.



* EarthAllAlong: Levram turns out to be an AlternateHistory Earth where superpowered people outbred the {{Muggles}}.



* HulkMashUp: A big, green Captain Everything appears amongst his imperfect duplicates.
* KavorkaMan: It turns out the Levram women all want a weed like normalman because the local men are too busy beating the tar out of eachother to be interested in women.



* KavorkaMan: It turns out the Levram women all want a weed like normalman because the local men are too busy beating the tar out of eachother to be interested in women.



* MeanwhileInTheFuture: Mainly done with the Legion of Superfluous Heroes.

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* MeanwhileInTheFuture: Mainly done with Often cuts to the Legion of Superfluous Heroes.Heroes as they're still doing their roll call before they can go back and save normalman in one of the early issues.
* MockeyMouse: normalman runs into a rich anthropomorphic mouse called Mickey Money when trapped on Earth-Dismal.

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* BatmanParody: There's a Batman-looking [[PaperPeople Paper Person]] called Flat Man in the Justice League Of Society.



* TheFantasticFaux: The Ultra-Conservative sends the ''The Fanatic Four'' after normalman'', consisting of Mr Fanatical, Helpless Woman, The Humane Touch and The Lunk.



* FunetikAksent: Dr. Deranged and Mr. Nose-Et-All.



* FunetikAksent: Dr. Deranged and Mr. Nose-Et-All.


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* PaperPeople: There's a two-dimensional BatmanParody called Flat Man.


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* WonderWomanWannabe: Nasty Girl seems to be the Wonder Woman in the Justice League Of Society amongst the other Justice League expies.
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** Would the Legion of Superfluous Heroes' Roll Call count as well?

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** Would the The Legion of Superfluous Heroes' Roll Call count counts as well?one too.
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The series spoofed many comic book companies per issue, including Creator/{{DC|Comics}}, Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}, Creator/{{EC|Comics}} and Creator/{{Harvey|Comics}}, as well as doing parodies of ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'', ''ComicBook/{{Elfquest}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'', ''Franchise/StarWars'' and ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. The series was first collected in trade paperback by Slave Labor Graphics. Recently, a new trade paperback which included several followups was published by Image Comics. Both trades are in black and white.

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The series spoofed many comic book companies per issue, including Creator/{{DC|Comics}}, Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}, Creator/{{EC|Comics}} and Creator/{{Harvey|Comics}}, as well as doing parodies of ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'', ''ComicBook/{{Elfquest}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'', ''Franchise/StarWars'' and ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. The series was first collected in trade paperback by Slave Labor Graphics.Creator/SlaveLaborGraphics. Recently, a new trade paperback which included several followups was published by Image Comics. Both trades are in black and white.
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* BigBrotherIsWatching: Levram is one big reality [=TV=] show with cameras everywhere to catch the men fighting LL the time.

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* BigBrotherIsWatching: Levram is one big reality [=TV=] show with cameras everywhere to catch the men fighting LL ALL the time.

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* [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Names To Not Trust]]: if someone named "Rotten Kid" tells you they can help you, maybe it wouldn't be wise to trust that someone.

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* [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Names To Not Trust]]: if someone named "Rotten Kid" tells you they can claims to help you, maybe it wouldn't be wise to trust that someone.

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* [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Names To Not Trust]]: if someone named "Rotten Kid" tells you they can help you, maybe it wouldn't be wise to trust them.

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* [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Names To Not Trust]]: if someone named "Rotten Kid" tells you they can help you, maybe it wouldn't be wise to trust them.that someone.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all normalman/Norm-L has endured on Levram, he is reunited with his mother on Arnold, he and Sophisticated Lady get married.

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* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all normalman/Norm-L has endured on Levram, he is reunited with his mother on Arnold, Arnold and he and Sophisticated Lady get married.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all normalman/Norm-L has endured on Levram, he is reunited with his mother on Arnold, he and Sophisticated Lady get married.
** Captain Everything becomes the champion of the planet Arnold.
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* BigBrotherIsWatching: Levram is one big reality [=TV=] show with cameras everywhere to catch the men fighting LL the time.


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* CityPlanet: normalman had always assumed Levram was one of these until he had to travel from town to town to advance his political career.
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* AlienNonInterferenceClause: The rest of the universe has Levram quarantined due to the dangerous nature of its inhabitants.

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* MarsNeedsWomen: [[spoiler:The women of Levram want normalman to repopulate the species with non-powered children because the supermen are too busy fighting to have sex.]]



* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Inconsistent how it works. [[spoiler: It's shown early on that one superpowers man spread his genetics all over the world to the point that non-powered people died out but it's said later that normalman could conceive non-powered children with the women of Levram]].

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* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Inconsistent how it works. [[spoiler: It's shown early on that one superpowers superpowered man spread his genetics all over the world to the point that non-powered people died out but it's said later that normalman could conceive non-powered children with the women of Levram]].

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* KavorkaMan: It turns out the Levram women all want a weed like normalman because the local men are too busy beating the tar out of eachother to be interested in women.



* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Inconsistent how it works. [[spoiler: It's shown early on that one superpowers man spread his genetics all over the world to the point that non-powered people died out but it's said later that normalman could conceive non-powered children with the women of Levram''.

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* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Inconsistent how it works. [[spoiler: It's shown early on that one superpowers man spread his genetics all over the world to the point that non-powered people died out but it's said later that normalman could conceive non-powered children with the women of Levram''.Levram]].

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