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* AnythingThatMoves: Although with the exception of Greyshirt, Cobweb has only ever shown romantic and physical interest in other women.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Although [[IfItsYouItsOkay with the exception of Greyshirt]], Cobweb has only ever shown romantic and physical interest in other women.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: During a brief stint when U.S.Angel was possessing F.A., she saw him heading into the bathroom and take out some magazines of [[{{Squick}} pigs and farm animals in lingerie]]. Thankfully she got out before she saw anything more.
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* PornStash: During a brief stint when U.S.Angel was possessing F.A., she saw him heading into the bathroom and take out some magazines of [[{{Squick}} pigs and farm animals in lingerie]]. Thankfully she got out before she saw anything more.
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: Or at least, Viewers Are ''Incredibly'' Nerdy. Dozier D. Daze, nostalgia-themed supervillain, seems to be a parody on extremely minor Marvel super-villain [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_D._Century Turner D. Century,]] but anyone who doesn't read comics religiously is unlikely to know that this character even exists.
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* DatingCatwoman: One story focused on Cobweb's sadomasochistic relationship with a male villain called the Mongoose. But the relationship was pretty much a straightforward hero-villain type of thing, except Cobweb's internal dialog played it out like they were lovers, as a parody of FoeYay in the superhero comic.
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* DatingCatwoman: One story focused on Cobweb's sadomasochistic relationship with a male villain called the Mongoose. But the relationship was pretty much a straightforward hero-villain type of thing, except Cobweb's internal dialog played it out like they were lovers, as a parody of FoeYay FoeRomanceSubtext in the superhero comic.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Carmine Carbone and Lips Lafayette. Carmine went to pot du to excessive drinking. Lips sold Carmine out to the police because prison was much safer than on the streets, considering Spats Katz and Johnny Apollo could've easily had him killed in the state he was in. She then goes blind from glaucoma and gives up her second child by Carmine for adoption. Their daughter, named Catherine Smith, is born slightly retarded from Lips' drinking and is raised in an orphanage. [[spoiler:By ''Indigo Sunset'', Lips is a blind newspaper vendor called "Lady L", Carmine is a shell of himself who lives in a halfway home for convicts, and Catherine is a twelve-year old papergirl. The three are kidnapped by Fanman (Johnny Apollo), both in an attempt to draw out Greyshirt and because Lips and Carmine could easily sue for the profits made from ''The Carbones''. As Lips and Carmine try to get out of the Indigo City mines, the sight of the Lure brings Carmine back to his senses. The two plan to make up for all the lost years by getting married and raising Catherine.]]
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Carmine Carbone and Lips Lafayette. Carmine went to pot du due to excessive drinking. Lips sold Carmine out to the police because prison was much safer than on the streets, considering Spats Katz and Johnny Apollo could've easily had him killed in the state he was in. She then goes blind from glaucoma and gives up her second child by Carmine for adoption. Their daughter, named Catherine Smith, is born slightly retarded from Lips' drinking and is raised in an orphanage. [[spoiler:By ''Indigo Sunset'', Lips is a blind newspaper vendor called "Lady L", Carmine is a shell of himself who lives in a halfway home for convicts, and Catherine is a twelve-year old papergirl. The three are kidnapped by Fanman (Johnny Apollo), both in an attempt to draw out Greyshirt and because Lips and Carmine could easily sue for the profits made from ''The Carbones''. As Lips and Carmine try to get out of the Indigo City mines, the sight of the Lure brings Carmine back to his senses. The two plan to make up for all the lost years by getting married and raising Catherine.]]
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* IndecisiveParody: Unlike the other titles, Greyshirt's adventures are ''mostly'' played straight as gritty masked-crimefighter thrillers. But every so often some element is exaggerated to the point of being ridiculous, making it hard to tell how much we're meant to take seriously.
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* IndecisiveParody: Unlike the other titles, Greyshirt's adventures are ''mostly'' played straight as gritty masked-crimefighter maskedcrime fighter thrillers. But every so often some element is exaggerated to the point of being ridiculous, making it hard to tell how much we're meant to take seriously.
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* ShoutOut: The story featuring Cobweb investigating a disappearnce in the fairy tale community seems to be one to ''{{ComicBook/Fables}}''. Or a TakeThat, depending on your perspective.
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* ShoutOut: The story featuring Cobweb investigating a disappearnce appearance in the fairy tale community seems to be one to ''{{ComicBook/Fables}}''. Or a TakeThat, depending on your perspective.
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* PluckyGirl: Daisy Screensaver.
* RhymesOnADime: He's energetic! He's poetic! He does this so much it's pathetic!
* ShoutOut: This time to ComicBook/PlasticMan.
* PluckyGirl: Daisy Screensaver.
* RhymesOnADime: He's energetic! He's poetic! He does this so much it's pathetic!
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* ArtInitiatesLife: A MadArtist becomes obsessed with the idea that, where three dimensional ink makes two dimensional characters, four dimensional ink should make three dimensional characters. Splash is the result of a giant bottle of the latter being, well spilled and splashed on the ground and spontaneously taking anthropomorphic form.
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* ArtInitiatesLife: A MadArtist becomes obsessed with the idea that, where three dimensional ink makes two dimensional characters, four dimensional ink should make three dimensional characters. Splash is the result of a giant bottle of the latter being, well well, spilled and splashed on the ground and spontaneously taking anthropomorphic form.
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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: This is explicitly stated as being one of the properties of Splash's four-dimensional ink body.
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* CrystallineCreature: In the backstory, Lapis Lazuli created a transformation ray to turn things into sapphire. A mishap led to it being fired at her, turning her into a woman made out living sapphire.
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* GrapplingHookPistol: Greyshirt's ClassyCane doubles as one.
* HeelFaceTurn: Integral to his SuperHeroOrigin.
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* TestosteronePoisoning: Testotor, a musclebound slab of a superhero that's easily enraged into fighting over nothing in a parody of LetsYouAndHimFight.
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* NoodleIncident: Many. Apparently we only see a small fraction of Jack's shenanigans.
--> '''Mr. Murk:''' And if we give you this butter, you'll go away and we won't devolve into sea-slugs or anything?
--> '''Jack:''' Mr. Murk, that incident was a miscalculation.
--> '''Mr. Murk:''' And if we give you this butter, you'll go away and we won't devolve into sea-slugs or anything?
--> '''Jack:''' Mr. Murk, that incident was a miscalculation.
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* MatchlightDangerRevelation: In Greyshirt's origin story, psychotic gangster Johnny Apollo is pursuing the future Greyshirt Frankie Lafayette through the pitch black tunnels under Indigo City. Wounded and lost, Apollo strikes his lighter to work out where he is. The first thing he sees by the light of the lighter's flame is a sign reading 'FUEL DEPOT'. [[MatchInABombShack BOOM!]]
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* HomosexualReproduction: It is revealed that Cobweb and her sidekick/lover Clarice are the daughters of a previous Cobweb and Clarice, having been born as a result of a ritual where their ancestors made love in a certain place which had certain special qualities. This was because their ancestors were, due to an accident, from a OneGenderRace.
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* HomosexualReproduction: It is revealed that Both Cobweb and her sidekick/lover Clarice are the daughters of a previous Cobweb and Clarice, conceived in an act that combines elements of this with TrulySingleParent -- each is the parthenogenesis-born daughter of her predecessor, making her a genetic clone of her "mom", but triggering the pregnancy requires homosexual sex between them.
* HumanSubspecies: ''Tomorrow Stories Special #1'' reveals the secret origin of Cobweb and Clarice; during the days of the Spanish invasion of Peru in the 16th century, their first ancestors were from a small mountain village called "Inca-Fingers", whose menfolk went off to try and fight the invasion, but all got killed. Whilst seeking an answer to the dilemma of how to care for the hundred women left behind, high priestess Lula Lacalan and her handmaiden Cla-Cla-Cla retreated to the sacred Spider Cave of the Petrified Webs. There, inspired by the mating behavior of the local lizards, which were made up of parthenogenetic females, they began havingbeen born sex and, to their shock, found themselves pregnant. Their daughters left Inca-Fingers, and found they retained their mothers' abilities to become pregnant as a result of lesbian sex, starting a ritual where dynasty that continued until the current Cobweb and Clarice. Presumably, the other women of Inca-Fingers may have similarly continued in their ancestors made love in a certain place which had certain special qualities. This was because their ancestors were, due to an accident, from a OneGenderRace. isolation.
* HumanSubspecies: ''Tomorrow Stories Special #1'' reveals the secret origin of Cobweb and Clarice; during the days of the Spanish invasion of Peru in the 16th century, their first ancestors were from a small mountain village called "Inca-Fingers", whose menfolk went off to try and fight the invasion, but all got killed. Whilst seeking an answer to the dilemma of how to care for the hundred women left behind, high priestess Lula Lacalan and her handmaiden Cla-Cla-Cla retreated to the sacred Spider Cave of the Petrified Webs. There, inspired by the mating behavior of the local lizards, which were made up of parthenogenetic females, they began having
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* LegacyCharacter: The current Cobweb is not the first.
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* LegacyCharacter: The current Cobweb is not the first.first, but instead the latest in a series of children who are conceived to take up their predecessor's mantle, similarly to ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom''. Unusually for this trope, the original Cobwebs were ''villains''; it wasn't until the current Cobweb and Clarice's great-grandmother Clothilde rebelled, abducted her new daughters and left her villainous lover La Toile to flee to America that the Cobweb lineage became associated with superheroism.
** And Inca-Fingers, the Incan village who gave rise to the Cobweb & Clarice dynasty and who are implied to still exist in their lost home in the Peruvian Andes.
* MisplacedWildlife: The lizards who inspired Lula Lacalan and Cla-Cla-Cla to find a way for women to conceive without men are clearly based on whiptail lizards, which are actually found in northern Mexico -- approximately five thousand miles north of the Peruvian Andes.
* MisplacedWildlife: The lizards who inspired Lula Lacalan and Cla-Cla-Cla to find a way for women to conceive without men are clearly based on whiptail lizards, which are actually found in northern Mexico -- approximately five thousand miles north of the Peruvian Andes.
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* TrulySingleParent: Cobweb and Clarice are the latest generation of a bloodline of parthenogenetic Central American lesbians.
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* VillainousLegacy: The early generations of Cobweb and Clarice's families were sexy criminals instead of sexy "heroes".
** Captain Cobweb and Cleopatra led an all-female pirate's crew in the 1590s.
** Lady Cobb of Webb Hall and Clarissa were English highwaywomen who would rob wealthy men and kidnap wealthy women for ransom, typically seducing them in the process; known to have escaped prison and fled to Timbuktu with a sack of gold and a harem of unransomed noblewomen in 1684.
** Mademoiselle Du Lac, Gossamer Phantom of the French Revolution, and Claribelle, were essentially a female Literature/ScarletPimpernel who focused on rescuing (and seducing) noblewomen. She even rescued Marie Antoinette, arranging for a drugged Monsieur Robespierre in drag and makeup to take her place on the guillotine as a final insult.
** An unnamed Cobweb and her Clarice migrated to Japan in the 1850s and became ruthless yakuza enforcers.
** Finally, there was La Toile, the last of the line, who terrorized France and became a spy (implicitly for the Nazis) during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. She sank so deep into depravity, Satanism and a raging absinthe addiction after giving birth that her counterpart, Clothehilde, denounced the family tradition of villainy and fled to America with their daughters, raising them to become heroes to make amends for the misdeeds of their ancestors.
** Captain Cobweb and Cleopatra led an all-female pirate's crew in the 1590s.
** Lady Cobb of Webb Hall and Clarissa were English highwaywomen who would rob wealthy men and kidnap wealthy women for ransom, typically seducing them in the process; known to have escaped prison and fled to Timbuktu with a sack of gold and a harem of unransomed noblewomen in 1684.
** Mademoiselle Du Lac, Gossamer Phantom of the French Revolution, and Claribelle, were essentially a female Literature/ScarletPimpernel who focused on rescuing (and seducing) noblewomen. She even rescued Marie Antoinette, arranging for a drugged Monsieur Robespierre in drag and makeup to take her place on the guillotine as a final insult.
** An unnamed Cobweb and her Clarice migrated to Japan in the 1850s and became ruthless yakuza enforcers.
** Finally, there was La Toile, the last of the line, who terrorized France and became a spy (implicitly for the Nazis) during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. She sank so deep into depravity, Satanism and a raging absinthe addiction after giving birth that her counterpart, Clothehilde, denounced the family tradition of villainy and fled to America with their daughters, raising them to become heroes to make amends for the misdeeds of their ancestors.
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* IndecisiveParody: Unlike the other titles, Greyshirt's adventures are ''mostly'' played straight as gritty masked-crimefighter thrillers. But every so often some element is exaggerated to the point of being ridiculous, making it hard to tell how much we're meant to take seriously.
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* BlackComedyRape: Gerta basically had a gay orgy with Music/TheVillagePeople while renting First American's body, with him having no idea what happened afterwards. It's later implied F.A. got revenge on U.S.Angel by using ''her'' body to sleep with Cobweb.
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* BlackComedyRape: BlackComedyRape:
** Gerta basically had a gay orgy with Music/TheVillagePeople while renting First American's body, with him having no idea what happened afterwards. It's later implied F.A. got revenge on U.S.Angel by using ''her'' body to sleep withCobweb.Cobweb.
** First American is also strongly implied to be a child molester.
* BrawnHilda: Gerta Dammerung is big, fat and dressed like a valkyrie.
** Gerta basically had a gay orgy with Music/TheVillagePeople while renting First American's body, with him having no idea what happened afterwards. It's later implied F.A. got revenge on U.S.Angel by using ''her'' body to sleep with
** First American is also strongly implied to be a child molester.
* BrawnHilda: Gerta Dammerung is big, fat and dressed like a valkyrie.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: His first story has him at one point needing to [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan snap U.S. Angel out of]] being taken in by the villain's manipulation tactics. In later stories, ''him'' needing to make ''her'' get a grip is impossible to imagine.
* NostalgiaFilter: Suberted. Dozier D. Daze, nostalgia-themed villain, thinks everything used to be better. First American spends the story he first appears in arguing with him about it, before realising that yes, the present really ''is'' more awful than any other time later than the 1930s.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: The First American claims that he and U.S. Angel has this kind of relationship. She firmly sets in straight: they won't. ''Ever.''
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* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: One story had the First American be visited by the ghosts of comics past, present and future. They show him that comics have, still do, and always will suck.
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* TheKillerInMe: the Amnesiac Killer version is inverted when a man finds himself with a bloody hammer and a dead woman, and no memory of either. He reads in the newspaper that the Hammer Killer has murdered eight people and flees the police as it must be him. But when Greyshirt and the police find him, they tell him he was the next victim: the Hammer Killer slipped while attacking him and broke her skull. Unfortunately, he has killed someone who tried to stop him, thinking he was a multiple murderer anyway.
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* MatchInABombShack: In Greyshirt's origin story, psychotic gangster Johnny Apollo is pursuing the future Greyshirt Frankie Lafayette through the pitch black tunnels under Indigo City. Wounded and lost, Apollo strikes his lighter to work out where he is. [[MatchlightDangerRevelation The first thing he sees by the light of the lighter's flame is a sign reading 'FUEL DEPOT']]. BOOM!
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* MatchInABombShack: In Greyshirt's origin story, psychotic gangster Johnny Apollo is pursuing the future Greyshirt Frankie Lafayette through the pitch black tunnels under Indigo City. Wounded and lost, Apollo strikes his lighter to work out where he is. [[MatchlightDangerRevelation The first thing he sees by the light of the lighter's flame is a sign reading 'FUEL DEPOT']]. DEPOT'.]] BOOM!
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* DeathEqualsRedemption: Cobweb's ancestor La Toile [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascends to heaven]] after becoming bored with the debauchery of the underworld and realizing that life is meaningless. [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Or something.]]
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* DeathEqualsRedemption: Cobweb's ancestor La Toile [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascends to heaven]] after becoming bored with the debauchery of the underworld and realizing that life is meaningless. [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Or something.]]
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: During a brief stint when U.S.Angel was possessing F.A., she saw him heading into the bathroom and take out some magazines of [[{{Squick}} pigs and farm animals in lingerie.]] Thankfully she got out before she saw anything more.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: During a brief stint when U.S.Angel was possessing F.A., she saw him heading into the bathroom and take out some magazines of [[{{Squick}} pigs and farm animals in lingerie]]. Thankfully she got out before she saw anything more.
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* BlackComedy: He fails to notice that his cheerful meddling in {{things man was not meant to know}} drives his [[AmericanGothicCouple simple farming parents]] into depression and eventually [[DrivenToSuicide attempted suicide]]. This is pretty much in the background.
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* BlackComedy: He fails to notice that his cheerful meddling in {{things [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow things man was not meant to know}} know]] drives his [[AmericanGothicCouple simple farming parents]] into depression and eventually [[DrivenToSuicide attempted suicide]]. This is pretty much in the background.
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* RealityWarper: Jack is implied to be this, with the Mad Science! working simply because he believes it will. For instance, after misunderstanding "entering puberty" as a reference to the effects of entering the town of Puberty, he follows a group of older children, who suddenly exhibit the expected "symptoms" as soon as they pass a road sign that says "Now Entering Puberty."
* SuicideAsComedy: Jacks science based hijinks and meddling inThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow Things Man Was Not Meant to Know]] eventually drive his folksy parents into depression and suicide. Their suicide attempts are frequently relegated to a FunnyBackgroundEvent.FunnyBackgroundEvent.
* TrumanShowPlot: His entire home town may be this. In Promethea, he is airlifted from an area where the government has apparently placed him for the safety of the public, along with his handlers. He's dropped from a helicopter in a wooden crate, and survives (apparently simply because they didn't tell him how far they were dropping the crate, and he assumed it fell apart because of shoddy workmanship instead of high-velocity impact).
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* TrumanShowPlot: His entire home town may be this. In Promethea, he is airlifted from an area where the government has apparently placed him for the safety of the public, along with his handlers. He's dropped from a helicopter in a wooden crate, and survives (apparently simply because they didn't tell him how far they were dropping the crate, and he assumed it fell apart because of shoddy workmanship instead of high-velocity impact).
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* RealityWarper: Jack is implied to be this, with the Mad Science! working simply because he believes it will. For instance, after misunderstanding "entering puberty" as a reference to the effects of entering the town of Puberty, he follows a group of older children, who suddenly exhibit the expected "symptoms" as soon as they pass a road sign that says "Now Entering Puberty."
* TrumanShowPlot: His entire home town may be this. In Promethea, he is airlifted from an area where the government has apparently placed him for the safety of the public, along with his handlers. He's dropped from a helicopter in a wooden crate, and survives (apparently simply because they didn't tell him how far they were dropping the crate, and he assumed it fell apart because of shoddy workmanship instead of high-velocity impact).
* TrumanShowPlot: His entire home town may be this. In Promethea, he is airlifted from an area where the government has apparently placed him for the safety of the public, along with his handlers. He's dropped from a helicopter in a wooden crate, and survives (apparently simply because they didn't tell him how far they were dropping the crate, and he assumed it fell apart because of shoddy workmanship instead of high-velocity impact).
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* TrumanShowPlot: His entire home town may be this. In Promethea, he is airlifted from an area where the government has apparently placed him for the safety of the public, along with his handlers. He's dropped from a helicopter in a wooden crate, and survives (apparently simply because they didn't tell him how far they were dropping the crate, and he assumed it fell apart because of shoddy workmanship instead of high-velocity impact).
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* BrotherSisterIncest: Or rather, Sister Sister Incest. Every ancestor of Cobweb and Clarice since their families learned how to reproduce asexually have basically grown up together in the same household as sisters, yet still fall in love and have sex with one another. Even if they're not biologically related, these women have been raised together in the same family yet don't seem bothered by the idea of sleeping with one another.
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* NotBloodSiblings: Cobweb and Clarice essentially grew up together in the same household as sisters even though they're not biologically related to one another, and still fell in love with each other. As did their moms. And their moms. And so forth.
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* CaneFu: Greyshirt carries a ClassyCane that he uses as his primary weapon.
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* MatchInABombShack: In Greyshirt's origin story, psychotic gangster Johnny Apollo is pursuing the future Greyshirt Frankie Lafayette through the pitch black tunnels under Indigo City. Wounded and lost, Apollo strikes his lighter to work out where he is. [[MatchlightDangerRevelation The first thing he sees by the light of the lighter's flame is a sign reading 'FUEL DUMP']]. BOOM!
* MatchlightDangerRevelation: In Greyshirt's origin story, psychotic gangster Johnny Apollo is pursuing the future Greyshirt Frankie Lafayette through the pitch black tunnels under Indigo City. Wounded and lost, Apollo strikes his lighter to work out where he is. The first thing he sees by the light of the lighter's flame is a sign reading 'FUEL DUMP'. [[MatchInABombShack BOOM!]]
* MatchlightDangerRevelation: In Greyshirt's origin story, psychotic gangster Johnny Apollo is pursuing the future Greyshirt Frankie Lafayette through the pitch black tunnels under Indigo City. Wounded and lost, Apollo strikes his lighter to work out where he is. The first thing he sees by the light of the lighter's flame is a sign reading 'FUEL DUMP'. [[MatchInABombShack BOOM!]]
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* MatchInABombShack: In Greyshirt's origin story, psychotic gangster Johnny Apollo is pursuing the future Greyshirt Frankie Lafayette through the pitch black tunnels under Indigo City. Wounded and lost, Apollo strikes his lighter to work out where he is. [[MatchlightDangerRevelation The first thing he sees by the light of the lighter's flame is a sign reading 'FUEL DUMP']].DEPOT']]. BOOM!
* MatchlightDangerRevelation: In Greyshirt's origin story, psychotic gangster Johnny Apollo is pursuing the future Greyshirt Frankie Lafayette through the pitch black tunnels under Indigo City. Wounded and lost, Apollo strikes his lighter to work out where he is. The first thing he sees by the light of the lighter's flame is a sign reading 'FUELDUMP'. DEPOT'. [[MatchInABombShack BOOM!]] BOOM!]]
* MusicalEpisode: #9 features a ''Greyshirt'' musical, as in a literal stage production; ''Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset'' later established that the man himself took the title role at one showing. Critics are astounded at Greyshirt's singing and dancing, claiming that he could've been another Creator/GeneKelly.
* MatchlightDangerRevelation: In Greyshirt's origin story, psychotic gangster Johnny Apollo is pursuing the future Greyshirt Frankie Lafayette through the pitch black tunnels under Indigo City. Wounded and lost, Apollo strikes his lighter to work out where he is. The first thing he sees by the light of the lighter's flame is a sign reading 'FUEL
* MusicalEpisode: #9 features a ''Greyshirt'' musical, as in a literal stage production; ''Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset'' later established that the man himself took the title role at one showing. Critics are astounded at Greyshirt's singing and dancing, claiming that he could've been another Creator/GeneKelly.
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* BlackComedyRape: Gerta basically had a gay orgy with Music/TheVillagePeople while renting First American's body, with him having no idea what happened afterwards. It's later implied F.A. got revenge on U.S.Angel by using ''her'' body to sleep with Cobweb.
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* AssimilationBackfire: The Lure is unable to consume Johnny Apollo since he’s become toxic to it. Not only that, in a few years, Johnny himself would have become the Lure if Greyshirt didn’t have other plans.
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* AdventurerOutfit: Pandora Siam dresses in a 1930s-style outfit of riding boots, jodhpurs, safari jacket and pith helmet.
* AmnesiacProtagonistCatalyst: Subverted in one issue, which sees the detective Greyshirt chasing after an amnesiac man who believes that he killed eight people because he suddenly woke up in an alley next to a dead woman. [[spoiler:After Greyshirt finally catches the guy, he reveals that the amnesiac was innocent; the dead woman was the killer, but suffered a fatal slip while trying to attack the man. Alas, by that time, the man has killed someone, convinced that he was already doomed to be executed for the eight previous murders anyway.]]
* AmnesiacProtagonistCatalyst: Subverted in one issue, which sees the detective Greyshirt chasing after an amnesiac man who believes that he killed eight people because he suddenly woke up in an alley next to a dead woman. [[spoiler:After Greyshirt finally catches the guy, he reveals that the amnesiac was innocent; the dead woman was the killer, but suffered a fatal slip while trying to attack the man. Alas, by that time, the man has killed someone, convinced that he was already doomed to be executed for the eight previous murders anyway.]]
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* AmnesiacProtagonistCatalyst: Subverted in one issue, which sees the detective Greyshirt chasing after an amnesiac man who believes that he killed eight people because he suddenly woke up in an alley next to a dead woman. [[spoiler:After Greyshirt finally catches the guy, he reveals that the amnesiac was innocent; the dead woman was the killer, but suffered a fatal slip while trying to attack the man. Alas, by that time, the man has killed someone, convinced that he was already doomed to be executed for the eight previous murders anyway.]]
* GemTissue: Greyshirt's sometimes enemy, [[DatingCatwoman sometimes love interest]] Lapis Lazuli's body is composed of living sapphire following a mishap with a transformation beam.
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* NoodleIncident: Greyshirt's adventure with Pandora Siam is one of the few exploits of his career that's never been fully explored$.
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* NoodleIncident: Greyshirt's adventure with Pandora Siam is one of the few exploits of his career that's never been fully explored$.explored.
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* OutWithABang: Lapis Lazuli ([[GemTissue whose body is compose of sapphire]]) murders her gangsters lover by driving her diamond hard finger into his ear while they are having sex.
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* MatchInABombShack: In Greyshirt's origin story, psychotic gangster Johnny Apollo is pursuing the future Greyshirt Frankie Lafayette through the pitch black tunnels under Indigo City. Wounded and lost, Apollo strikes his lighter to work out where he is. [[MatchlightDangerRevelation The first thing he sees by the light of the lighter's flame is a sign reading 'FUEL DUMP']]. BOOM!
* MatchlightDangerRevelation: In Greyshirt's origin story, psychotic gangster Johnny Apollo is pursuing the future Greyshirt Frankie Lafayette through the pitch black tunnels under Indigo City. Wounded and lost, Apollo strikes his lighter to work out where he is. The first thing he sees by the light of the lighter's flame is a sign reading 'FUEL DUMP'. [[MatchInABombShack BOOM!]]
* MatchlightDangerRevelation: In Greyshirt's origin story, psychotic gangster Johnny Apollo is pursuing the future Greyshirt Frankie Lafayette through the pitch black tunnels under Indigo City. Wounded and lost, Apollo strikes his lighter to work out where he is. The first thing he sees by the light of the lighter's flame is a sign reading 'FUEL DUMP'. [[MatchInABombShack BOOM!]]
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* GrapplingHookPistol: Greyshirt's ClassyCane doubles as one.
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* AmnesiacProtagonistCatalyst: Subverted in one issue, which sees the detective Greyshirt chasing after an amnesiac man who believes that he killed eight people because he suddenly woke up in an alley next to a dead woman. [[spoiler:After Greyshirt finally catches the guy, he reveals that the amnesiac was innocent; the dead woman was the killer, but suffered a fatal slip while trying to attack the man. Alas, by that time, the man has killed someone, convinced that he was already doomed to be executed for the eight previous murders anyway.]]
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* DeliciousFruitPies: As might be expected, First American included a parody of these ads.
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*NoFourthWallParodyProductPlacement: As might be expected, First American included a parody of Advertising/{{Hostess Fruit Pie|s}} ads.
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* ClassyCane: Greyshirt carries a cane that doubles as a GrapplingHookPistol.
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* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum
ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: Most of his inventions work as design, based on design principles (and laws of physics) that make no sense, don't mean what he thinks they mean, or both. Examples: a device that makes light obey posted speed limits inside city limits, and an anti-Armageddon device consisting of a series of doomsday devices (each of which could create an Armageddon) connected to a lever labeled "Reverse."
*MadScientistMadScientist: Emphasis on the mad. Most of his inventions work exactly as he intends them to, possibly ''because'' he intends them to.
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* RealityWarper: Jack is implied to be this, with the Mad Science! working simply because he believes it will. For instance, after misunderstanding "entering puberty" as a reference to the effects of entering the town of Puberty, he follows a group of older children, who suddenly exhibit the expected "symptoms" as soon as they pass a road sign that says "Now Entering Puberty."
* TrumanShowPlot: His entire home town may be this. In Promethea, he is airlifted from an area where the government has apparently placed him for the safety of the public, along with his handlers. He's dropped from a helicopter in a wooden crate, and survives (apparently simply because they didn't tell him how far they were dropping the crate, and he assumed it fell apart because of shoddy workmanship instead of high-velocity impact).
* TrumanShowPlot: His entire home town may be this. In Promethea, he is airlifted from an area where the government has apparently placed him for the safety of the public, along with his handlers. He's dropped from a helicopter in a wooden crate, and survives (apparently simply because they didn't tell him how far they were dropping the crate, and he assumed it fell apart because of shoddy workmanship instead of high-velocity impact).
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Johnny Apollo. The Lure reconstructed him using parts of itself.]]
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Johnny [[spoiler:Johnny Apollo. The Lure reconstructed him using parts of itself.]]
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Fanman, of Fanman Productions, really [[spoiler: Johnny Apollo.]]
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Fanman, of Fanman Productions, really [[spoiler: Johnny [[spoiler:Johnny Apollo.]]
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* DeathEqualsRedemption: Spats Katz' longtime moll Candi sincerely repents in prison just before her execution. [[spoiler: An explosion in the prison allows her to escape, although it's implied that the district attorney, an old childhood friend of both Candy and Greyshirt, purposefully turned a blind eye to her escape.]]
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* DeathEqualsRedemption: Spats Katz' longtime moll Candi sincerely repents in prison just before her execution. [[spoiler: An [[spoiler:An explosion in the prison allows her to escape, although it's implied that the district attorney, an old childhood friend of both Candy and Greyshirt, purposefully turned a blind eye to her escape.]]
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Carmine Carbone and Lips Lafayette. Carmine went to pot du to excessive drinking. Lips sold Carmine out to the police because prison was much safer than on the streets, considering Spats Katz and Johnny Apollo could've easily had him killed in the state he was in. She then goes blind from glaucoma and gives up her second child by Carmine for adoption. Their daughter, named Catherine Smith, is born slightly retarded from Lips' drinking and is raised in an orphanage. [[spoiler: By ''Indigo Sunset'', Lips is a blind newspaper vendor called "Lady L", Carmine is a shell of himself who lives in a halfway home for convicts, and Catherine is a twelve-year old papergirl. The three are kidnapped by Fanman (Johnny Apollo), both in an attempt to draw out Greyshirt and because Lips and Carmine could easily sue for the profits made from ''The Carbones''. As Lips and Carmine try to get out of the Indigo City mines, the sight of the Lure brings Carmine back to his senses. The two plan to make up for all the lost years by getting married and raising Catherine.]]
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Carmine Carbone and Lips Lafayette. Carmine went to pot du to excessive drinking. Lips sold Carmine out to the police because prison was much safer than on the streets, considering Spats Katz and Johnny Apollo could've easily had him killed in the state he was in. She then goes blind from glaucoma and gives up her second child by Carmine for adoption. Their daughter, named Catherine Smith, is born slightly retarded from Lips' drinking and is raised in an orphanage. [[spoiler: By [[spoiler:By ''Indigo Sunset'', Lips is a blind newspaper vendor called "Lady L", Carmine is a shell of himself who lives in a halfway home for convicts, and Catherine is a twelve-year old papergirl. The three are kidnapped by Fanman (Johnny Apollo), both in an attempt to draw out Greyshirt and because Lips and Carmine could easily sue for the profits made from ''The Carbones''. As Lips and Carmine try to get out of the Indigo City mines, the sight of the Lure brings Carmine back to his senses. The two plan to make up for all the lost years by getting married and raising Catherine.]]
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Ella Bly, former self-described "Whore with a heart of gold." She sold Franky Lafayette out to Johnny Apollo in exchange for a start on her singing career, but upon realizing that Franky is the only man in her life who has treated her with dignity and respect, she informs him that Johnny is on his way. Franky escapes in time, but for her trouble Ella [[spoiler: has her face disfigured with an iron by Johnny.]] On his part, Greyshirt has implied that he doesn't hold her betrayal against Ella.
* InsufferableGenius: Artist Andy Savannah, who made a living copying panels from ''Hoodlum Hits'', the comic that was about Franky Lafayette and Johnny Apollo, and passing it off as high grade art. He's a TakeThat at Roy Lichtenstein and he [[spoiler: gets killed]].
* IWasQuiteALooker: Lips, Candy, and Ella. In the case of the former two, their looks went down the drain from years of smoking and drinking. In Ella's case, [[spoiler: it was from being scarred with a hot iron by Johnny Apollo]].
* InsufferableGenius: Artist Andy Savannah, who made a living copying panels from ''Hoodlum Hits'', the comic that was about Franky Lafayette and Johnny Apollo, and passing it off as high grade art. He's a TakeThat at Roy Lichtenstein and he [[spoiler: gets killed]].
* IWasQuiteALooker: Lips, Candy, and Ella. In the case of the former two, their looks went down the drain from years of smoking and drinking. In Ella's case, [[spoiler: it was from being scarred with a hot iron by Johnny Apollo]].
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Ella Bly, former self-described "Whore with a heart of gold." She sold Franky Lafayette out to Johnny Apollo in exchange for a start on her singing career, but upon realizing that Franky is the only man in her life who has treated her with dignity and respect, she informs him that Johnny is on his way. Franky escapes in time, but for her trouble Ella [[spoiler: has [[spoiler:has her face disfigured with an iron by Johnny.]] On his part, Greyshirt has implied that he doesn't hold her betrayal against Ella.
* InsufferableGenius: Artist Andy Savannah, who made a living copying panels from ''Hoodlum Hits'', the comic that was about Franky Lafayette and Johnny Apollo, and passing it off as high grade art. He's a TakeThat at Roy Lichtenstein and he[[spoiler: gets [[spoiler:gets killed]].
* IWasQuiteALooker: Lips, Candy, and Ella. In the case of the former two, their looks went down the drain from years of smoking and drinking. In Ella's case,[[spoiler: it [[spoiler:it was from being scarred with a hot iron by Johnny Apollo]].
* InsufferableGenius: Artist Andy Savannah, who made a living copying panels from ''Hoodlum Hits'', the comic that was about Franky Lafayette and Johnny Apollo, and passing it off as high grade art. He's a TakeThat at Roy Lichtenstein and he
* IWasQuiteALooker: Lips, Candy, and Ella. In the case of the former two, their looks went down the drain from years of smoking and drinking. In Ella's case,
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* GirlOnGirlIsHot: In ''Tomorrow Stories Special'' #1, Cobweb and Clarice are caught in an inescapable DeathTrap. Thinking they are about to dies, they reveal their true feelings for each other and kiss. The villain is so turned on that he shuts off the DeathTrap so he can watch them make out.
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* GirlOnGirlIsHot: In ''Tomorrow Stories Special'' #1, Cobweb and Clarice are caught in an inescapable DeathTrap. Thinking they are about to dies, die, they reveal their true feelings for each other and kiss. The villain is so turned on that he shuts off the DeathTrap so he can watch them make out.
