History ComicBook / TopTen

** In issue 8, the whole scene at the Transport Terminus is full of background cameos for the sharp-eyed fan. For example, ''StarTrek'' mirror-universe's Kirk, Spock and Uhura; Marvel's ComicBook/{{Rogue}}, ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}}, Wild Child, Comicbook/{{Loki}} and Nightmare plus the ''Series/StargateSG1'' 's team are also passing through as King Peacock is leaving.

*** Irma Geddon and Girl One are Andy Renko and Bobby Hill

* CaptainErsatz and {{Expy}}: Listing the sheer number of these in Top 10 might cause the wiki to crash... Funnily enough, none of the main characters are obvious Ersatzen of comic book heroes besides Jetman, who is based on WWII boy aviators Airboy and Hop Harrigan. (Mostly, they're Ersatzen of ''Series/HillStreetBlues'' characters instead.)

** M'yrgalla Qualz, the Vigilante From Venus, is a {{Gender Flip}}ped [[spoiler:and villainous]] version of the ComicBook/MartianManhunter.

* {{Expy}}: A number of the characters are Expies of the original regular characters in ''Series/HillStreetBlues'':
** Captain Traynor is Captain Furillo
** Sgt. Kemlo Caesar is Sgt. Esterhaus
** King Peacock is Neal Washington
** Duane Bodine is Mick Belker
** Bill Bailey is Howard Hunter
** Irma Geddon and Girl One are Andy Renko and Bobby Hill
** Ernesto Gograh is Jesus Martinez

* LivingStatue: Detective Corbeau fights one in a gladitorial match.

** The most intricate, and certainly funniest, is the CrisisCrossover featuring cat and mouse versions of many Marvel and DC characters re-enacting the first appearance of Galactapuss in ''ComicBook/FantasticFour #50''.

* ShoutOut: Far too many to mention here. Top Ten has {{shout out}}s, [[{{Cameo}} cameo appearances]], and other references to comics classic and modern, television, and many other media at a seeming minimum rate of one per panel, often far far more. There's even cameo appearances of ''word balloons'' from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' and ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}''. The most intricate, and certainly funniest, is the CrisisCrossover featuring cat and mouse versions of many Marvel and DC characters re-enacting the first appearance of Galactapuss in ''ComicBook/FantasticFour #50''.

* LivingStatue: Detective Corbeau fights one in a gladitorial match.
%%* JeanneDArchetype: The Maid.

* ExtraordinaryWorldOrdinaryProblems: takes place in a city filled to the brim with people with superpowers, but most of the crimes that Precinct Ten has to deal with are mundane crimes like prostitution, domestic abuse, and public intoxication.

* ExtraordinaryWorldOrdinaryProblems:

* ColorBlindConfusion: [[UpliftedAnimal Hyperdog]] eventually reveals that he's color blind, which means that he's been able to see through the patterns on the skin of his partner [[ArtificialHuman Girl One]] (who was created by a couple of horny fanboys so she has to be naked all the time but ''does'' have a nudity taboo and uses the patterns to give her some modesty) and when she finds out [[AccidentalPervert he's been effectively seeing her naked this whole time]] she decks him. He tells her he's not attracted to human women as a way to try and diffuse the situation, though we later learn he was lying about this when he enters a relationship with one.

* AffectionateParody of both {{Superhero}}es and {{Police Procedural}}s.

* BlindDriving: The blindfolded taxi driver that steers by fate. He and his passengers always arrive where they need to be, but other people in the way...not so much.
* BrotherSisterIncest / {{Twincest}}:

* AllMythsAreTrue
* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: By the bushel.

* BadassLongcoat: Smax again.

* BewareTheSuperman: Atoman is a rather blatant CaptainErsatz of Superman, but he appears rather hulking and muscular and is perpetually scowling in his first appearance. [[spoiler: He's also been raping his niece Atomaid and the other sidekicks to the Seven Sentinels for years.]]

* CloningBlues: [[spoiler: Girl One's "sisters."]]

* FantasyKitchenSink

* HarmfulToMinors: The Seven Sentinels. [[spoiler: Their so-called battles in outer space and other dimensions are really a cover to hide they're a child molestation operation, and have been sexually abusing their children/sidekicks for years.]]

** Later versions of [[spoiler: the Girl series]] have [[spoiler: the same genetically enforced nudity compulsion, but better or worse luck hiding it, gaining acceptance, etc. Girl 54 is readily accepted back in the force and retains the same quirks; Girl Two's nudity was quickly picked up on by the public at large -- she was [[NearRapeExperience harassed by criminals]] until she quit the force; an unnamed Girl was running around with the villains during one arc, her skin solid black except for a star pattern -- hiding nothing.]]

* JeanneDArchetype: The Maid.

* KissOfTheVampire / ILoveTheDead: Vampire prostitution. Even the prostitutes themselves are creeped out by the guys who just want them to lay there...

* TheMultiverse
* MundaneFantastic

* OhCrap: Plenty.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: [[spoiler: After her death]] Girl One is replaced by Girl Fifty-Four, who is identical. She even gets ''called'' Girl One on occasion, and takes it in stride.

* YourVampiresSuck

* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: One storyline involves a Nazi mad scientist creating a time machine to change the outcome of WorldWarII.

* WhatMeasureIsANonSuper: Dealt with in the prequel book ''"The Forty-Niners"'', having won WorldWarII, the government relocates all supers to Neopolis. Top Ten officers seem non-plussed by this trope, none of the super powered cops nor their non-powered colleagues feel that they're at all incapable of dealing with their duty (though Duane does relish the chance to get a [[RuleOfCool rocket powered flying saddle]].)

** Mainly against robots (who prefer to be called Ferro-Americans, and don't like being called "[[FantasticSlurs clickers]]"). In ''The Forty-Niners'', there's a robot ghetto neighborhood, and [[spoiler:one of the characters is a robot passing as human by telling people his exoskeleton is PoweredArmor]].

* BadAss:
** Officer Smax.
** Wolfspider. The S.W.A.T. team's ''only'' member.

* SpaceRomans: Precinct One, where TheRomanEmpire never ended.

* ColorBlindConfusion: Hyperdog eventually reveals that he's color blind, which means that he's been able to see through the patterns on the skin of his partner Girl One (who was created so she has to be naked all the time but ''does'' have a nudity taboo and uses the patterns to give her some modesty) and when she finds out [[AccidentalPervert he's been effectively seeing her naked this whole time]] she decks him.

** Bill "Wolfspider" Bailey is either named for [[BillBailey the comedian]] or the cabaret tune.