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* ImMelting: Sheriff Dribble's deputies all gruesomely melt away during the final confrontation with Hicks.
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* RapeAsDrama: On virtually every page to virtually every character.
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* AuthorTract: The Sally Gator/Doctor Despicable story arc comes off as a really obvious anti-abortion message. Anti-Abortion messages are a recurring theme in Millar's works.

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* AuthorTract: The Sally Gator/Doctor Despicable story arc comes off as a really obvious ham-handed anti-abortion message. Anti-Abortion messages are a recurring theme in Millar's works.

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The Dying Dream stuff is just a fan theory that belongs on a WMG page. It should only be mentioned here if they say it in the story.


* KarmaHoudini: Troy Hicks gets off scot free for all the child murders he commits, while an innocent cartoon character is tricked to take his place.



* KarmaHoudini: Troy Hicks gets off scot free for all the child murders he commits, while an innocent cartoon character is tricked to take his place.



* ShoutOut: In one panel, details of [[WesternAnimation/WackyRaces Peter Perfect and Penelope Pitstop's]] cars can be seen.

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In one panel, details of [[WesternAnimation/WackyRaces Peter Perfect and Penelope Pitstop's]] cars can be seen.



* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: See DyingDream.



* VillainProtagonist: Troy Hicks, the creator of the cartoon characters, is convicted for molesting and killing children and invades the world of his cartoon creations to get away with his crimes and continue doing horrible things.



* VillainProtagonist: Troy Hicks, the creator of the cartoon characters, is convicted for molesting and killing children and invades the world of his cartoon creations to get away with his crimes and continue doing horrible things.
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* AuthorTract: The Sally Gator/Doctor Despicable story arc comes off as a really obvious anti-abortion message. Anti-Abortion messages are a recurring theme in Millar's works.
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* ResurrectedMurderer: Comic book creator Troy Hicks raped and murdered eight children before being arrested. He escapes the death penalty by using an occult ritual to switch places with a character in his comic, and promptly twists his world from FunnyAnimal wholesomeness to a {{Dystopia}} of sex and violence with him as its god.
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* BigBad: Troy Hicks, a mad cartoonist turning the world he created into his personal dystopia.


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* DepravedBisexual:
** Troy Hicks sexually exploits Birdseed Betty, and it's indicated he enjoys child pornography regardless of gender. To add, the genders of the children he raped and murdered are unspecified.
** Jungle Jim also sexually exploits Betty, and tries to convince her to join him in molesting her own children, a boy and a girl.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Troy Hicks succeeds in the ritual to keep him in the world of ''The Funnies'', where he becomes an omnipotent god. The police department that tries to stop him are slaughtered, and he grants Birdseed Betty's family one small bit of happiness before crushing them all with a giant anvil. Meanwhile, poor Frosty Pete is stuck in Hicks' original body, awaiting execution by electric chair.]]
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* ArtStyleDissonance: FunnyAnimals drawn in a Looney Tunes[=/=]Hanna-Barbera-esque art style being subjected to brutal murder, drug addiction, sexual depravity, and mental instability.
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* PossessionSue: [[invoked]]PlayedForHorror, and [[DemonicPossession more literal than most cases]]. Frosty Pete is heavily implied to have been a minor character who acted nothing like that before Hicks took him over, and now the unassuming mailman is practically a god.

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* EmasculatedCuckold: This is PlayedForHorror. Pussywhisker loses both his testicles after being convinced by Dr. Despicable that he has testicular cancer. His wife Polly was outraged that they cannot have children and refusing to adopt, so she forces Pussywhisker to pick up men to get to sleep with her in order to get her pregnant. When she did not get pregnant from the first guy, Polly forced Pussywhisker to get more men. It's clearly damaging for Pussywhisker to do this. At the end of the issue, as Pussywhisker is forced to find another man for Polly, she reveals that she orchestrated her husband's castration so that she would be justified in her acts of adultery with copious partners, is on the pill, and enjoys that she has forced her husband to find these partners while she waits at home.



* YouBastard: Attempted but failed. An [[BreakingTheFourthWall "Eh, reader?”]] catchphrase appears to be originally used whenever something funny was happening so used to suggest collusion when terrible things are done to the characters is supposed to make readers feel bad that they're laughing at all this macabre. The only problem is that the reader is likely [[{{Squick}} too disgusted]] to be actually laughing.

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* YouBastard: Attempted but failed. An [[BreakingTheFourthWall "Eh, reader?”]] catchphrase appears to be originally used whenever something funny was happening so used to suggest collusion when terrible things are done to the characters is supposed to make readers feel bad that they're laughing at all this macabre. The only problem is that the reader is likely [[{{Squick}} too disgusted]] disgusted to be actually laughing.
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Cuckold is now on Definition Only Pages; examples in bulleted lists are not allowed. Those that focus on the husband's feelings might qualify for Emasculated Cuckold.


* {{Cuckold}}: PlayedForHorror. Pussywhisker loses both his testicles after being convinced by Dr. Despicable that he has testicular cancer. His wife Polly was outraged that they cannot have children and refusing to adopt, so she forces Pussywhisker to pick up men to get to sleep with her in order to get her pregnant. When she did not get pregnant from the first guy, Polly forced Pussywhisker to get more men. It's clearly damaging for Pussywhisker to do this. At the end of the issue, as Pussywhisker is forced to find another man for Polly, she reveals that she orchestrated her husband's castration so that she would be justified in her acts of adultery with copious partners, is on the pill, and enjoys that she has forced her husband to find these partners while she waits at home.

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* {{Understatement}}: Review in first issue says this comics might be inappropriate for kids. ''Might''? ''MIGHT''?!

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* {{Understatement}}: Review in first issue says this comics comic might be inappropriate for kids. ''Might''? ''MIGHT''?!


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* WouldHurtAChild: Troy Hicks raped and murdered three children, and the comic ends with him kidnapping a newborn baby.

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* FurIsClothing: When Pussywhiskers gets ready for the removal of his testicles, he has the fur covering his lower half pulled down as if they were pants.

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* FurIsClothing: When Pussywhiskers gets ready for the removal of his testicles, he has the fur covering his lower half pulled down as if they were pants.pants, exposing his genitals.


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* TeenyWeenie: Pussywhisker's dick is shown when he prepares for the surgical removal of his testicles, and it is rather small.
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* FurIsClothing: When Pussywhiskers gets ready for the removal of his testicles, he has the fur covering his lower half pulled down as if they were pants.
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* PregnantReptile: Sally Gator is shown with a pregnant belly when she and her husband conceive a new child.
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''The Unfunnies'' is a four-issue "horror" comic book written by Creator/MarkMillar with art by Anthony Williams. Quite frankly, it lives up to its name.

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''The Unfunnies'' is a four-issue "horror" BlackComedy horror comic book written by Creator/MarkMillar with art by Anthony Williams. Quite frankly, it lives up to its name.
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->''"As Williams began getting scripts and read what he had to draw, we wondered whether there was ever a moment where the artist had to stop and catch his breath before continuing. He answered in the affirmative. "Every page, and it's getting worse. Somebody help him before it's to late." And when Williams began sending back finished pages to [[Creator/MarkMillar Millar]], the writer did have a few recommendations and changes for the artist. "Bizarrely, I was drawing too well. I'd get repeated emails saying 'Make it shittier.'"''

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->''"As Williams began getting scripts and read what he had to draw, we wondered whether there was ever a moment where the artist had to stop and catch his breath before continuing. He answered in the affirmative. "Every page, and it's getting worse. Somebody help him before it's to too late." And when Williams began sending back finished pages to [[Creator/MarkMillar Millar]], the writer did have a few recommendations and changes for the artist. "Bizarrely, I was drawing too well. I'd get repeated emails saying 'Make it shittier.'"''
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* MediaTransmigration: The plot of the comic is that the murderous cartoonist of a children's comic series, Troy Hicks, magically swaps himself with one of his innocent characters; so while he takes on the life of the in-universe mail penguin Frosty Pete, Frosty Pete takes on his life in the real world just in time to be arrested. As Frosty Pete, Troy makes life hell for the other characters.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Troy Hicks, but also Doctor Despicable who convinces people they have testicular cancer to win competition with other doctor in who will remove one hundred testicles. And Polly, who orchestrated her husband being one of Despicable's patients, so she can make him feel guilty he cannot give her child and not only justify sleeping with as many men she can, but even make him pick them up for her.

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* ManipulativeBastard: Troy Hicks, but also Doctor Despicable who convinces people they have testicular cancer to win a competition with other another doctor in who will remove one hundred testicles. And Polly, who orchestrated her husband being one of Despicable's patients, so she can make him feel guilty he cannot give her a child and not only justify sleeping with as many men as she can, but even make him pick them up for her.
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* KarmicSTD: Pussywhisker's wife Polly manipulates her husband into letting her cheat on him with other men by having Dr. Despicable amputate his testicles after convincing him he has testicular cancer and making him guilty of being unable to give her a child. Polly ultimately gets punished for her infidelity when she and all the men she slept with die of AIDS.
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* {{Cuckold}}: PlayedForHorror. Pussywhisker loses both his testicles after being convinced by Dr. Despicable that he has testicular cancer. His wife Polly was outraged that they cannot have children and refusing to adopt, so she forces Pussywhisker to pick up men to get to sleep with her in order to get her pregnant. When she did not get pregnant from the first guy, Polly forced Pussywhisker to get more men. It's clearly damaging for Pussywhisker to do this. At the end of the issue, as Pussywhisker is forced to find another man for Polly, she reveals that she orchestrated her husband's castration so that she would be justified in her acts of adultery with copious partners, is on the pill, and enjoys that she has forced her husband to find these partners while she waits at home.

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