History Comicbook / OneHundredBullets

* YouGotSpunk: Lono shows a more twisted variation of this trope after a woman spits in his face.

* WhoShotJFK: Given a partial explanation in issue #27. [[spoiler:Joe [=DiMaggio=] was one of four shooters, out of revenge for Marilyn Monroe, but he's not sure if his was the fatal bullet.]]

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Issue #27 features an elderly baseball player who is clearly Joe DiMaggio, who'd been given one of Mr. Graves' briefcases back in 1962. [[spoiler:He used it to shoot JFK, although he's not sure if he killed the man. After all, he was one of ''three'' gunmen that day.]]

* WhoShotJFK: Given a partial explanation in issue #27. [[spoiler:Joe DiMaggio was one of four shooters, out of revenge for Marilyn Monroe, but he's not sure if his was the fatal bullet.]]

** From the final issue: Megan Dietrich in a [[BareYourMidriff low-cut belly shirt]]. Yes please. Megan Dietrich in a low-cut belly shirt [[spoiler: wetting herself in absolute terror because she's about to be set on fire by a mid-VillainousBreakdown Cole Burns?]] No thank you.

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, [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories 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.

* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: ''In Stinked''ends with everyone (including the tigerr Jack felt a kinship towards) but the mafiosos surviving, despite the last issue making it look several times as if more people would die, while Jack goes to Atlantic City to start over (unfortunately, Graves finds him there) and Mikey vows to work on getting clean.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Homer. And by the end of the series, we realized that [[spoiler: Augustus]]. has been this since day one.

* AnAxeToGrind: Victor Ray kills the first of a pair of child kidnappers by embedding an axe in their head. He drowns the second one in a toilet.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Only Loop, Victor, Will Slaughter, survive the series. Dizzy, Graves, and Lono may have a chance by the time of the BolivianArmyEnding. Many of the other characters are killed off in the final issue, which may have been what Graves wanted all along.]]
** [[spoiler:Dizzy's and Graves' fates are tied to each other, and left ambiguous at the end. Dizzy can do her job as a Minuteman and kill Graves, but if she does so, she will be unable to escape the burning mansion due to her injuries. The fact Graves put himself in the place where Dizzy would have to make this decision is particularly interesting, since it means Graves is giving her another one of the choices he's so obsessed with: do her job or save her life.]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: CorruptHick Homer. And by the end of the series, we realized that [[spoiler: Augustus]]. has been this since day one.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Megan Dietrich is the very proud owner of the largest chest in the series, and many of her outfits are designed to show them off.

** 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.

* CorruptHick: A pair of hillbilly hitmen appear in Wylie's spotlight arc. They're his first kills upon reactivation.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: It's a huge EnsembleCast.

* AdultFear: In issue #11 ("Heartbreak, Sunnyside Up"), Graves informs a woman that her 15-year old runaway daughter, who left home when she was just 12, died of [=AIDS=] after becoming a heroin addict and spending three years working as a prostitute for an abusive pimp. Even worse, she only found out that she was HIV-positive when she wound up in the hospital after a john mutilated her with a knife--which left her homeless when her pimp cut her loose, knowing that she couldn't make him any money. Then at the end of the issue, we find out that [[spoiler: the picture in Graves' attaché was of the woman's husband, who had been molesting their daughter for years, and that she actually ran away from home to escape him]].

* WildCard: Lono is the only Minuteman to have not been a part of the Atlantic City job and thus avoided being deprogrammed, allowing him to be an independent player in the game. He [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder changes allegiances like most people change shirts]] and always leaves a long trail of bodies in his wake. Part of the final confrontation is because of his VillainousBreakdown after finding [[Spoiler: Sheperd's murderer.]]

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Branch relaxes a bit more after Burns say Stump fits him better.

** During the meeting of the Trust, Mia notes how the Vasco's have an aggressive history within the organization. Shortly afterwards, Javier Vasco starts moving against Augustus following his actions in the wake of [[Daniel's death]], and later it turns out that he's been [[spoiler: planning on getting rid of most if not all of the other families with Augustus]] since long before that.

* Foreshadowing: There's quite a bit in issues 24 and 25, which introduced the readers to most of the Trust.

* BadassGay: Shepherd, who served in the Marines during the Vietnam War and was recruited into the Minutemen for successfully covering up killing the man who beat his lover into a coma. He proved to be one of the best Minutemen in his prime and he helped train most (if not all) of the current Minutemen.

* 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.

** Although neither gets any dialogue or focus, Tibo 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.

** [[spoiler: Word Of God has indicated that Lono did, in fact, survive his ambiguous Never Found The Body fate at the end of the series. The upcoming "Brother Lono" miniseries will trace his post-Minutemen life.]]

--> '''Benito''': My name is Benito Medici! Know what that means? i got no fucking problems.