History ComicBook / ShadeTheChangingMan

* [[AscendedFanboy Ascended Fangirl]]: Basically the premise of ''Shade, The Changing Girl''. A Shade fangirl on Meta got her hands on the Madness Vest and went to Earth like her idol.

* NatureTinkling: Issue 46 of Peter Milligan's run has Pandora pee outside after asking Shade to pull over.

* {{Oireland}}: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the Peter Milligan series when Shade visits an American film production shot on location in Ireland. Only one of the cast is shown to be Irish, the rest hired from around England, but all of them scoff at the ridiculousness of the film and their roles.

* BeatStillMyHeart: Shade's heart is stolen by a squatter in his home after a battle. He embarks on [[{{Pun}} a half-hearted rescue of it, and when he finally catches up to it, has a heart-to-heart talk with it]]. [[spoiler:And then steps on it when he decides he's better off heartless.]] It appears from time to time, still beating, moving under its own power, and even has internal monologues.

* FlippingTheBird: In issue 47 of the Peter Milligan series, Lenny is given the finger by her long-lost daughter Lillith.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: The "Shade, the Changing Woman" arc of Peter Milligan's run had Senator Dooley outlive his deformed son William Dooley, Jr. after the latter was shot by a man trying to kill Senator Dooley.

* TheMadHatter: Shade often comes off as insane and seldom seems particularly concerned about the state of his mental health.
%%* TheMentallyDisturbed
%%* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody
* TheTropeWithoutATitle: Shade himself doesn't know what the Area of Madness is. When he asks about it, the most conclusive answer is "The ''Area of Madness'' is just one part of '''The Area'''."

* TwoFirstNames: Kathy George.

* ImAManICantHelpIt: A male character claims if he doesn't have lots of sex his jaw will go out of whack.

* BurnTheWitch: Shade and his companions are nearly burnt at the stake when they travel back to Puritan New England, where the natives mistake the Madness for the Devil's own sorcery. It doesn't help when they find out Lenny's last name is Shapiro, calling her [[ValuesDissonance "filthy Jewess."]]

* NarratorAllAlong: Milligan kind of did this in one issue. The text is written in the second person, but in the end, one of the characters says that he'll write down what happened, but write it as a comic, put it in the second person, and put it under some weird pen name, like say, Creator/PeterMilligan.

* LetThemDieHappy: The ''Shade, the Changing Man'' story featured in the ''Vertigo Jam'' anthology one-shot has Shade, Lenny and Kathy come across a dying priest who regrets living a life of sin and debauchery and wishes to be met with some spiritual comeuppance before he passes away. Shade obliges the dying man's wish by making it so that the last thing he sees is a vision of The Devil, but Lenny feels that the priest got off with a lighter punishment than he deserved and brings up that she regrets not having to nerve to tell her grandmother her doubts regarding the existence of the hereafter when she was dying.