History Manga / BillyBat

* ManBehindTheMan - [[spoiler: Or in front of the man: Chuck Culkin, Kevin's WoodyAllen-looking assistant who took over ''Billy Bat'' after Kev went to Japan, is "played" in public and in business by a WaltDisney-lookalike.]]

* YouShallNotPass -- [[spoiler: Lee Harvey Oswald against the police, buying time for Jackie Momochi to escape.]]

** Chuck Culkin's relationship with [[spoiler: the man who portrays him in public is very similar to UbIwerks' relationship with Walt Disney]].

** Mitsuru Yamazaki for Minoru Yamasaki, the guy responsible for designing the WTC Towers.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Surprisingly, [[spoiler: the racist sheriff turns out to be an honest cop, and instantly helps Tony when he discovers his cousin was responsible of the murder of a black man.]]

* BrickJoke - The Momochi clan seems to be intrinsically tied to the Bat [[spoiler: all the way from Momochi Sandayu, from Iga, to the taxi driver, Randy Momochi, back in 1959, to his daughter, Jackie Momochi, in 1963.]]

** Akechi, the Japanese effects director hired by [[spoiler: the US government to fake the moon landings]] seems to be a combination of AkiraKurosawa and StanleyKubrick -- all three are obsessive over the tiniest details including [[spoiler: the texture of moondust and the proper color of the earth, despite having only one black and white photo to work with]]. He also directed a [[{{Godzilla}} "Gazura"]] movie.

* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis - [[spoiler: What the Bat seems to be saying when he lists all the wars and man-made disasters that will happen if Kanbei doesn't deliver the scroll.]]

** Kevin is a dead-ringer for Sahad, Agent Smith for Gesicht, and [[spoiler:the real Chuck Culkin]] for Professor Hoffman, all from {{Pluto}}.

* GovernmentConspiracy: [[spoiler: While Marilyn Monroe really did kill herself, capitalist forces are conspiring to kill the Kennedy brothers, and succeed. They also succeed in framing Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone killer of JFK.]]

* HistoricalInJoke - This may as well be called ''HistoricalInJoke - The Series''. So far, the Bat has either had influence on, or predicted [[spoiler:Jesus, Judas, and the foundation of Christianity, the fall of Iga and the rise of the Tokugawa Shogunate]], and [[spoiler:the civil rights movement, MLK, the Lunar Landing, the JFK Assassination, the Warren Commission, the RFK Assassination, and Marilyn Monroe's relationship to both men]]. At one point, it predicted [[spoiler: Obama's Presidency as well.]]

* MacGuffin - The Ninja Scroll (no, not that [[NinjaScroll one]]).

* TimeyWimeyBall - [[spoiler: A bat doodle beats the astronauts to the moon, and it seems {{Jesus}} is affected too.]]

* AlternateUniverse: [[WallBanger As if time manipulation by a cartoon bat wasn't enough!]] [[spoiler: There used to be many, but now there's just one.]]

* GottaCatchEmAll: [[spoiler: Devivie is tracking down and burning all trace of the "original" Billy Bat.]]

* MacGuffin - The Ninja Scroll, no, not that [[NinjaScroll one]].

* PassingTheTorch - [[spoiler: The Bat tells Lee Harvey Oswald that he must protect Kevin at all costs until he can pass his powers to his new successor, which according to The Bat, has already appeared. It was assumed it was Jackie Momochi, the daughter of the Taxi driver from the mixed-race wedding mini-arc. It is actually Kevin Goodman, the son of Tony and Diane Goodman, the interracial couple!]].

* AdaptationDecay: In-universe. Some of the people in the conspiracy express that Chuck Culkin's Billy Bat is nowhere near quality-wise to Kevin's.

* BigBad - So far, Agent Finney and Kurusu from [=EAI=] seem to fill the role, also it is implied that General Walker, [[spoiler:Fake! Chuck Culkin and Henry Charles Devivie]] are part of the same circle. Should be noted, due to his ambivalent nature, that there are times when the same could be said of the Bat himself.

* CompanionCube - The taxi driver's Billy Bat toy, who's his "navigator". [[spoiler: Subverted when Billy talks back, and also knows the future - er, ''present''.]]

* FrameUp - [[spoiler: Oswald is possibly being set up as JFK's assassin, thanks to three doubles.]]

* StarSystem - Several characters in Billy Bat have an uncanny resemblance to characters in other Naoki Urasawa's works.

* DarkIsNotEvil[=/=]LightIsNotGood - It's vaguely implied that the white (unfilled) drawing of The Bat is evil while the black (filled-in) one is good. [[MindScrew or is it]] [[DarkIsEvil the other]] [[LightIsGood way around?]].

* FauxAffablyEvil - [[spoiler: Henry Charles Devivie, an agent sent to acquire the land where Billy Bat Land will be built in Japan, a fake front whose real purpose is to find the scroll]].

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!!Tropes used in ''BillyBat'':

* StarSystem - Several characters in BillyBat have an uncanny resemblance to characters in other Naoki Urasawa's works.

* TimeMachine - [[spoiler: Fake!Chuck Culkin is able to figure out that the scroll is this, thanks to the real Chuck Culkin explaining the basics of Einstein's Theory of Relativity and TimeTravel.]]

* FridgeLogic - Shouldn't the "Billy Bat" comics be read left-to-right?
** They are in the story. Compare pages 3 and 4 in chapter 33.

* {{Nakama}} - Ken-chan and pals. [[spoiler:He ends up killing them all.]]

** The dog-wife from Chapter 1 has similar eyes and facial expressions to [[{{Anime/Monster}} Eva Heinemann]].
** So does the Diane, the black bride.

* BigBad - So far, Agent Finney and Kurusu from [=EAI=] seem to fill the role, also it is implied that General Walker and [[spoiler:Fake! Chuck Culkin]] are part of the same circle. Should be noted, due to his ambivalent nature, that there are times when the same could be said of the Bat himself.

* {{Disnot}} - Chuck Culkin [[spoiler:and the real Chuck Culkin!]] who took over Billy Bat when Kevin left.