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* EscapedFromALab: Scare Tactics'' were a group of monsters being held in an [[MenInBlack R-Complex]] lab till they broke out with the help of Arnie Burnsteel. Occasionally they would encounter one of the other test subjects who got left behind when they escaped.
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* YourVampiresSuck: Scream Queen is mightily pissed when the band's manager/minder Arnie Burnsteel lines her coffin with grave dirt. She rails at the stupidity of a man who believes that the movie ''Film/{{JFK}}'' was part of a massive disinformation campaign, but accepts everything he sees in a Universal horror film as gospel.

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* YourVampiresSuck: Scream Queen is mightily pissed when the band's manager/minder Arnie Burnsteel lines her coffin with grave dirt. She rails at the stupidity of a man who believes that the movie ''Film/{{JFK}}'' was part of a massive disinformation campaign, but accepts everything he sees in a Universal horror film as gospel.gospel.
* YourWorstNightmare: In #2, band find themselves in the VanishingVillage of Beaumont, which brings their worst nightmares to life. Screamqueen sees her family being executed for her crimes; Fang finds himself face-to-face with [[RunawayGroom the bride he jilted at the altar]], who killed herself and is now a zombie; and Slither relives being tortured by his father in the name of science.
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* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: the Kinightsbridges are a clan of ghouls dwelling in LovecraftCountry and [[FeudingFamilies locked in a centuries long feud]] with Hank's clan of werewolves. Their exact nature is never established, but they appear to be living dead people: extremely place skin, clad in funereal dress, and with a general air of decay hovering around them.
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* MercyKill: [[spoiler:James starts losing control of his bestial side and pleads for Grossout to help him. Grossout...[[NeckSnap does]].]]


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* SuperStrength: Grossout has this.
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* EvilutionaryBiologist: Slither was experimented on by his biologist father with the result that he transformed into a LizardMan.

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* EvilutionaryBiologist: Slither was experimented on by his biologist father with the result that he transformed into a LizardMan.LizardFolk.
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* EvilutionaryBiologist: Slither was experimented on by his biologist father with the result that he transformed into a LizardMan.
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* {{Goth}}: Screamqueen.

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* {{Goth}}: Screamqueen.Scream Queen.



* OfCorsetsSexy: Screamqueen.

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* OfCorsetsSexy: Screamqueen.Scream Queen.



* YourVampiresSuck: Screamqueen is mightily pissed when the band's manager/minder Arnie Burnsteel lines her coffin with grave dirt. She rails at the stupidity of a man who believes that the movie ''Film/{{JFK}}'' was part of a massive disinformation campaign but accepts everything he sees in a Universal horror film as gospel.

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* YourVampiresSuck: Screamqueen Scream Queen is mightily pissed when the band's manager/minder Arnie Burnsteel lines her coffin with grave dirt. She rails at the stupidity of a man who believes that the movie ''Film/{{JFK}}'' was part of a massive disinformation campaign campaign, but accepts everything he sees in a Universal horror film as gospel.
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* AccidentalKidnapping: When Van Zandt steals the Scaremobile, he unwittingly also kidnaps Screamqueen who was asleep in her coffin.

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* AccidentalKidnapping: When Van Zandt steals the Scaremobile, he unwittingly also kidnaps Screamqueen Scream Queen who was asleep in her coffin.
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* SouthernGothic: A clan of ghouls dwell in the Appalachians, living in a decaying antebellum mansion, and have been involved in a decades-long feud with a clan of hillbilly werewolves.
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* DumbAndDrummer: This is what the rest of the band initially assume about Gross-Out, because he is a hulking beast who only communicates in HulkSpeak. Subverted when Gross-Out gets hold of Arnie's computer and types out his story. He is actually intelligent and articulate, but cannot communicate verbally because of his transformation.
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* BackForTheDead: Scream Queen reappears as a member of a hastily assembled backup Task Force X in the 2018 ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' Annual. [[spoiler:The mission goes horribly wrong, so Waller activates her ExplosiveLeash]].
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* BigEater: Grossout

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* BigEater: GrossoutGrossout.



* CoolCar: The Scaremobile
* ConspiracyTheorist: Arnie Burnsteel

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* CoolCar: The Scaremobile
Scaremobile.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Arnie BurnsteelBurnsteel.



* ExtremeOmnivore: Grossout
* FeudingFamilies: The Ketchums (werewolves) and the Knightbridges (ghouls)

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* ExtremeOmnivore: Grossout
Grossout.
* FeudingFamilies: The Ketchums (werewolves) and the Knightbridges (ghouls)(ghouls).



* {{Goth}}: Screamqueen
* HiddenDepths: and how! with Grossout.
* {{Hulkspeak}}: Grossout
* IAmBigBoned: Grossout's mother kept insisting he was just 'big for his age'.
* KissOfTheVampire: Screamqueen

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* {{Goth}}: Screamqueen
Screamqueen.
* HiddenDepths: and how! with Grossout.
Grossout. And how!
* {{Hulkspeak}}: Grossout
Grossout.
* IAmBigBoned: Grossout's mother kept insisting he was just 'big "big for his age'.
age."
* KissOfTheVampire: ScreamqueenScreamqueen.



* TheMenInBlack: R-Complex

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* TheMenInBlack: R-ComplexR-Complex.



* MonsterMash

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* MonsterMashMonsterMash: The band consists of a vampire, a werewolf, a BlobMonster and a [[LizardFolk Lizard Man]].



* OfCorsetsSexy: Screamqueen

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* OfCorsetsSexy: ScreamqueenScreamqueen.



* YourCostumeNeedsWork: Slither is refused admittance to a nightclub because of his 'green body paint'.
* YourMindMakesItReal: The waking nightmares engendered by the 'town' of Beaumont.
* YourVampiresSuck: Screamqueen is mightily pissed when the band's manager/minder Arnie Burnsteel lines her coffin with grave dirt. She rails at the stupidity of a man who believes that the movie ''JFK'' was part of a massive disinformation campaign but accepts everything he sees in a Universal horror film as gospel.

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* YourCostumeNeedsWork: Slither is refused admittance to a nightclub because of his 'green "green body paint'.
paint."
* YourMindMakesItReal: The waking nightmares engendered by the 'town' "town" of Beaumont.
* YourVampiresSuck: Screamqueen is mightily pissed when the band's manager/minder Arnie Burnsteel lines her coffin with grave dirt. She rails at the stupidity of a man who believes that the movie ''JFK'' ''Film/{{JFK}}'' was part of a massive disinformation campaign but accepts everything he sees in a Universal horror film as gospel.
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* CreepyGasStationAttendant: After escaping the town of Beaumont, where they had been trapped in waking nightmares, the band stops at rural gas station. They ask about the town, only for the creepy attendant to tell them there is no town called Beaumont in the area. In fact, [[VanishingVillage there is no town at all in the direction they came from]].
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* VanishingVillage: The band finds itself stranded in a remote town named Beaumont, where they all experience their worst nightmares brought to life. After they escape, they stop at a gas station to ask about Beaumont, only for the CreepyGasStation Attendant to tell them there is no town in the direction they came from.

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* VanishingVillage: The band finds itself stranded in a remote town named Beaumont, where they all experience their worst nightmares brought to life. After they escape, they stop at a gas station to ask about Beaumont, only for the CreepyGasStation Attendant CreepyGasStationAttendant to tell them there is no town in the direction they came from.
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* VanishingVillage: The band finds itself stranded in a remote town named Beaumont, where they all experience their worst nightmares brought to life. After they escape, they stop at a gas station to ask about Beaumont, only for the CreepyGasStationAttendent to tell them there is no town in the direction they came from.

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* VanishingVillage: The band finds itself stranded in a remote town named Beaumont, where they all experience their worst nightmares brought to life. After they escape, they stop at a gas station to ask about Beaumont, only for the CreepyGasStationAttendent CreepyGasStation Attendant to tell them there is no town in the direction they came from.
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* VanishingVillage: The band finds itself stranded in a remote town named Beaumont, where they all experience their worst nightmares brought to life. After they escape, they stop at a gas station to ask about Beaumont, only for the CreepyGasStationAttendent to tell them there is no town in the direction they came from.
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* NeverLearnedToRead: Fang, coming from an isolated clan of werewolves in Appalachia, is semi-literate at best. Slither offers to help him improve his reading.
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* AllDrummersAreAnimals: The group's drummer is Gross-Out: a grey sludge monster who communicates in HulkSpeak and is the team's BigGuy. He plays the drums with enthusiastic abandon. However, it is later revealed that beneath the monstrous exterior, Gross-Out is actually intelligent, goodhearted and shy.
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* TheHunter: Graveyard Shift
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* TearsOfBlood

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* TearsOfBloodTearsOfBlood: Screamqueen cries these [[spoiler:on learning Grossout's origin]].
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* CampbellCountry / DeepSouth: Fang comes from a werewolf clan somewhere in the Appalachians. The region is also home to a clan of very Lovecraftian ghouls.

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* CampbellCountry DeepSouth / DeepSouth: LovecraftCountry: Fang comes from a werewolf clan somewhere in the Appalachians. The region is also home to a clan of very Lovecraftian ghouls.

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* MetallicarSyndrome: The Scaremobile is scarcely an inconspicuous ride for a group of monsters on the run from a secret government project.

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* MetallicarSyndrome: The Scaremobile is scarcely an inconspicuous ride for a group of monsters on the run from a secret government project. [[SubvertedTrope As a rock band's tour bus, on the other hand...]]
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* HiddenDepths: and how! with Grossout.

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* TheMenInBlack: R-Complex



* {{MIB}}: R-Complex
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* BatFamilyCrossover: "Convergence"
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* MetallicarSyndrome: The Scaremobile is scarcely an inconspicuous ride for a group of monsters on the run from a secret government project.
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* AccidentalKidnapping: When Van Zandt steals the Scaremobile, he unwittingly also kidnaps Screamqueen who was asleep in her coffin.
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* CampbellCountry / DeepSouth: Fang comes from a werewolf clan somewhere in the Appalachians. The region is also home to a clan of very Lovecraftian ghouls.
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For the TV series, see ScareTactics.
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[[caption-width-right:200:Clockwise from top: Fang, Screamqueen, Slither and Gross-Out]]

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