History Comicbook / OneHundredBullets

** Although neither gets any dialogue or focus, Timo and Joan are sitting net to each other at the meeting, and by the end of the series, are working closely together to react to the various other factions, despite having respectively sided with Augustus and Vasco (who seem vastly at odds) for a while.
** A smiling, Augustus suggests that Megan accompany Daniel when he is paged out of their meeting, to watch him negotiate and learn from him. [[spoiler: Given his conspiring with Graves, he almost certainly knew that Daniel was going to be murdered, and, considering that Graves tried to get Megan killed first with an attache case, was likely sending her out in the hopes that she'd accompany Daniel all the way to the meeting and perhaps be killed along with him, quicken gin the breakup of the Trust]].

* DrivenToSuicide: Upon learning he's actually a Minuteman, [[spoiler: Milo Garrett, not wishing to go back to that life, provokes Lono into killing him when knowing his true identity would've easily saved his life from The Dog.]]

* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: Wylie's]] dying hallucination of [[spoiler: Rose]] lovingly leading him into the afterlife.
** [[spoiler: Anna Nagel]] commits suicide in despair after [[spoiler: being tricked into poisoning her brother.]]

* TheBartender: Plenty, although the only ones directly involved with the plot are the woman from Victor Ray's debut, the woman from HangUpOnTheHangLow, and the ones from ''Wiley Runs the Voodoo Down''.

* SweetTooth: Agent Graves is often seen eating pies, cakes, sweet drinks and popcorn while plotting.

* WholePlotReference: "The Counterfifth Detective" is a loving homage to ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'', with Milo Garrett standing in for Sam Spade, Megan Dietrich for Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and Lono for Wilmer.

** Loop is this to the crew of Minutemen he hangs out with: Lono is completely nuts, Jack is too apathetic at best and at worst rather do self-destructive hobbies and Victor is a cold blooded killer. He is the one who figures out how to calm down a mexican stand off.

* ParentalSubstitute: The Minutemen were all like Joseph Shepherd's children, and all of them speak of him with reverence. Special points to Wylie Times, who was the closest of the group to Shepherd. Shepherd also had the distinct honor of being one of exactly two people on the face of the planet [[TheSociopath Lono the Dog]] genuinely likes, though we never learn what his relationship with Remi Rome was like [[spoiler: as Shepherd dies prior to Remi's reactivation]].

* PedoHunt: Megan ruined the life of a chef by sending child pornography through 69 random computer, one of which was his. No real reason she was drunk and angry when she found the pornography on a website and her lady friends thought it would be funny.

** Remi is an immature, trigger happy prick but he lets an old woman go home before going on a rampage.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Given the heroes of the story it's not surprising, Loop in particular doesn't mind throwing racial slur toward white or Italians but he never goes beyond that and Milo is quite sexist and homophobic.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: As the finale marches on, [[spoiler: Graves names Dizzy as his successor following the machinations that have seen him removed as Agent of the Minutemen to the Trust; Megan first challenges this on the grounds that Dizzy's a woman, and then is blatantly about to call her a "spic" before she's cut off]].
** Not to mention that Mr. Hughes wasn't allowed to become a fully fledged Minuteman due to the Trust's racism. Granted, this was back in the 60s when institutional racism was prevalent just about everywhere, but still. [[spoiler:It's likely that the Trust no longer bars African Americans from being Minutemen since Graves was grooming Loop to become one.]]

* PsychopathicManchild: Remi is the youngest Minutemen and the most wantonly destructive. Even Lono, though capable of greater acts of outright evil, is able to exercise [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatism]] when the situation calls of it, a quality Remi sorely lacks.

* ScaryBlackMan: Nine Train is the leader of the black inmates in the prison Loop gets sent to and is a very large, very bad man.

* SeriousBusiness: Curtis and Nino are outraged that Loop doesn't like baseball, seeing it as the most anti-american thing to say.

** D'Arcy, one member of the Trust, hits Graves where it hurts by [[spoiler: having Rothchild killed, the man who manufacture the hundred bullets.]]

* SympatheticAdulterer: Jack's ex loves him but Jack being completely apathetic to everything to the point he only comes by for a place to crash drives her to cheat on him. She is even the one who broke up with Jack when the affair was found out because Jack didn't even cared about it.

* TogetherInDeath: If it's not just a dying hallucination [[spoiler: the last thing Wylie sees is Rose lovingly leading him into the afterlife.]]

** Loop is really uncomfortable when Lono decides to rape Victor.

*** Perhaps because the story is set in an alternate timeline, therefore it doesn't need to adhere to historical facts to establish its own backstory.
*** The series never gives any indication that we ought to believe that it is set in an alternate timeline, and the presentation of the Trust's backstory wouldn't make sense if we were supposed to believe that this was some entirely different Roanoke disappearance than the one with which we are familiar.

*** Again, alternate timeline...

** Loop is really uncomfortable when Lono decides to rape Victor OneNightStand.

** In the finale [[spoiler: Graves is horrified that Augustus would murder his own son.]]

''100 Bullets'' is an American ComicBook series written by Brian Azzarello and illustrated by Eduardo Risso. Since its debut in 1999, it has received much critical praise and gone on to win several awards such as the prestigious Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story. The series ended on April 2009 at (you guessed it) 100 issues, collected together in 13 trade paperbacks.

* DissonantSerenity: Victor Ray, better known as "The Rain", [[NervesOfSteel is able to keep his emotions in check and can execute his mission with utmost efficiency]]. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome One time he was able to give a lecture about the origins of The Trust in the middle of a gunfight without even breaking a sweat]].

* HardWorkHardlyWorks: We're told that Loop and Dizzy have been "trained" by Lono and Shepherd, respectively, off page, immediately turning them into badasses. Justified as both are hardened gangster from the start and in Dizzy's case seems to have went particular brainwash training [[spoiler: as she shoots Shperd after hearing Croatoa]].

* MakeAnExampleOutOfThem: Lono's specialty, Sheperd hires him for a job half point through the story since it needs to be messy but untraceable [[spoiler: and he wants to pin Lono with the payment being from a heist]], Lono beats the target to death with a baseball bat while he was jogging. A gratuitous act of violence from a robber for the police and a message for the enemy of the Trust.

* AlternateHistory: In ''100 Bullets'', Graves is partly responsible for [[spoiler:the assassination of John F. Kennedy after he gave Joe Dimaggio a chance to avenge the death of Marilyn Monroe.]]

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The word found engraved at the abandoned site of the Roanoke Colony in 1590 was "Croato'''an'''", not "Croato'''a'''". It's a well-documented fact that "Croatoan" was the historical name of a small island off the coast of North Carolina (now called "Hatteras Island"), and most historians agree that the colonists at Roanoke probably relocated there to take refuge with the local Indians when they couldn't support their own colony any longer. The series never mentions either of these facts.

* MrFanservice: Jack and Lono walks around naked a lot, or at least shirtless, they are also the most ripped character.

* BadassGrandpa: Coop, the old security chief of D'Arcy's family, he is treated like a loved grandpa by Joan and [[spoiler: take out Remi] despite needing a breathing device.

* MacGuffin: The painting.

* OffhandBackhand: Lono walks out a door and casually kills a guy who is waiting for him with a gun. Lono simply crushes his trachea with one blow.

* YouKilledMyFather:Megan says it to [[spoiler: Grave]] during the final chapter.

-->'''Remi:''' Buddy. No-fucking-body, fucks. with my brother.

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Benito suggests simply stopping Graves from playing his game, Sheperd explains hi it would start a war. It's only near the end we found out why: [[spoiler: Graves is being supplied by Rothstein, weapon manufacturer with so much connection to the Trust and other government agencies killing him to stop the hundred bullets would cause a civil war between the Trust. When Will kills him everything starts going to hell.]]

* VillainousFriendship: Lono had one with Milo Garrett (Milo however didn't seem to have liked him much), liked Curtis enough to call him spare Loop on their first encounter and at least respected Shepherd enough to want to [[spoiler: avenge his death]]. It's the closest thing to a redeeming trait the guy has.

* GhengisGambit: [[spoiler: Vasco was in on Graves and Medici's plan the whole time, his role was to raise hell so the Trust stay divided]].

* HardWorkHardlyWorks: We're told that Loop and Dizzy have been "trained" by Lono and Shepherd, respectively, off page, immediately turning them into badasses.

** Chucky Spinks, the dice-throwing con man introduced in the third story arc, wants revenge on his childhood friend Pony (now a big-time bookie) for getting him sent to prison for seven years. But his revenge fixation ''really'' takes off when he also tries to blame Pony for stealing his girlfriend and getting him barred from craps games by spreading word that he's a hustler. The truth is that Chucky's girlfriend left him of her own accord because he's a terrible boyfriend, and that Chucky's too cocky to realize how obvious his scam is.

Soon enough, the focus of ''100 Bullets'' expands to include Agent Graves himself, as it is revealed that he does benefit from these acts of revenge. Sometimes it's because he wants a particular person killed for his own ends, and sometimes he just wants to see his unique brand of justice carried out. It just so happens that Graves is the leader of an elite group of badasses known as The Minutemen, who acted as the police force for The Trust, [[ConspiracyTheory a group of thirteen powerful families that control the United States]]. Graves and The Minutemen left The Trust after being told that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they are no longer necessary]] by order of The Trust's leader, Augustus Medici. The Trust plotted to kill them all, but thanks to Graves' inside man Mr. Shepherd, The Minutemen were spared and given new lives - along with a healthy dose of FakeMemories and LaserGuidedAmnesia.