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* {{Expy}}: Most of the main characters are one. But the most obvious is American Ranger, a walking reference to ComicBook/CaptainAmerica with his sidekick Kid Victory being Bucky Barnes.

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Most of the main characters are one. But the most obvious is American Ranger, a walking reference to ComicBook/CaptainAmerica with his sidekick Kid Victory being Bucky Barnes.



** The Halloween special "Drag Me to Halloween" has Robobot try to look up scary things and stumble upon a Slenderman ersatz called the Slimmerman.



* HalloweenEpisode: The Halloween special is "Drag Me to Halloween", which focuses on the adventures of the rest of the team while Titanium Rex chooses to stay home and sulk due to not caring for Halloween. American Ranger dates a woman who turns out to be a ghost, Cooch tries to go trick-or-treating and ends up vandalizing the home of a dentist who refuses to give out candy (and turns out to be [[DepravedDentist willing to kidnap and imprison children who don't meet his strict standards on dental hygiene]]), Black Saturn and his enemy the Groaner try to find women to score with at a Halloween party and Robobot tries to look up scary stuff on the Internet and becomes possessed by the [[SlenderManStandIn Slimmerman]], [[spoiler:which he's actually faking as a Halloween prank.]]

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* HalloweenEpisode: The Halloween special is "Drag Me to Halloween", which focuses on the adventures of the rest of the team while Titanium Rex chooses to stay home and sulk due to not caring for Halloween. American Ranger dates a woman who turns out to be a ghost, Cooch tries to go trick-or-treating and ends up vandalizing the home of a dentist who refuses to give out candy (and turns out to be [[DepravedDentist willing to kidnap and imprison children who don't meet his strict standards on dental hygiene]]), Black Saturn and his enemy the Groaner try to find women to score with at a Halloween party and Robobot tries to look up scary stuff on the Internet and becomes possessed by the [[SlenderManStandIn Slimmerman]], Slimmerman, [[spoiler:which he's actually faking as a Halloween prank.]]



* SlenderManStandIn: The Halloween special "Drag Me to Halloween" has Robobot try to look up scary things and stumble upon a Slenderman ersatz called the Slimmerman.
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** For the other League Members: Titanium Rex is Franchise/{{Superman}}, Lex Lightning is ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, Cooch is ComicBook/{{Tigra}}, Brad is the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk and Black Saturn is Franchise/{{Batman}} if he never lost his parents.

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** For the other League Members: Titanium Rex is Franchise/{{Superman}}, Lex Lightning is ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, Cooch is ComicBook/{{Tigra}}, Brad is the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] and Black Saturn is Franchise/{{Batman}} if he never lost his parents.
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* '''Titanium Rex''' (Creator/BryanCranston): A FlyingBrick from [[HollowWorld Subtopia]]. The geriatric leader of the team who struggles to keep the team running. A parody of Franchise/{{Superman}}.
* '''Black Saturn''' (Creator/TuckerGilmore): A spoiled rich kid who leaches off his parents, Black Saturn is immature, whiny and an all-around tool. A parody of Franchise/{{Batman}}.

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* '''Titanium Rex''' (Creator/BryanCranston): A FlyingBrick from [[HollowWorld Subtopia]]. The geriatric leader of the team who struggles to keep the team running. A parody of Franchise/{{Superman}}.
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* '''Black Saturn''' (Creator/TuckerGilmore): A spoiled rich kid who leaches off his parents, Black Saturn is immature, whiny and an all-around tool. A parody of Franchise/{{Batman}}.ComicBook/{{Batman}}.



* '''Cooch''' (Creator/HeidiGardner): An evolved housecat, Cooch is like any typical cat: absolutely lacking in attention span and barely controllable. A parody of [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Tigra]].
* '''Brad''' (Creator/TomRoot): A junkie who was used as a test subject for an experimental SuperSerum, Brad prefers to spend his time getting high rather than do anything useful. A parody of ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk

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* '''Cooch''' (Creator/HeidiGardner): An evolved housecat, Cooch is like any typical cat: absolutely lacking in attention span and barely controllable. A parody of [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Tigra]].
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* '''Brad''' (Creator/TomRoot): A junkie who was used as a test subject for an experimental SuperSerum, Brad prefers to spend his time getting high rather than do anything useful. A parody of ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk The Hulk]]
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* AdolfHitlarious: Hitler is made the butt of the joke in a flashback shown in the episode "Home is Where the Shart Is", where he tries to kill Titanium Rex and the 1940's roster of the League of Freedom by siccing a PigMan named Schwein Kampf upon them, but instead seals his own fate by pissing Schwein Kampf off with his constant jabs at his nature as a porcine humanoid and then getting tossed into the lava after Titanium Rex assures Schwein Kampf that he isn't alone in despising Hitler.
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* EarthDayEpisode: "World War Tree", which has trees come alive on Earth Day and attempt to wipe out humanity in retribution for every tree that was killed by human activity, leaving it up to the League of Freedom to stop the tres.

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* EarthDayEpisode: "World War Tree", which has trees come alive on Earth Day and attempt to wipe out humanity in retribution for every tree that was killed by human activity, leaving it up to the League of Freedom to stop the tres.trees.
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You can watch it on [[http://www.crackle.com/ Crackle]]. It used to air on Sunday nights on Creator/AdultSwim.

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You can watch it The series was distributed on [[http://www.crackle.com/ Crackle]].Crackle prior to Sony selling their remaining stake to Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment in 2019. As of February 2022, the series is available on Creator/{{Tubi}}. It used to air on Sunday nights on Creator/AdultSwim.
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** American Ranger had a habit of shoving flags up the asses of enemy soldiers during World War II.
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* NakedOnRevival: Titanium Lex is nude when she is revived by her father's touch in the final episode "Bad Lex".

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* DepravedKidsShowHost: The titular Teacher in "Teacher and the Goof", who initially just seemed to be passionate about education to the degree that she delivers her lessons to her audience in an unnecessarily harsh tone, but is later shown to treat her costumed sidekick the Goof like trash (not even allowing him to take off the costume during the decades their show has been on the air), is revealed to have caused the deaths or insanity of several former co-stars she suspected would replace her and is heavily implied to be a Nazi scientist who fled to the United States at the end of World War II.



* MistakenForPedophile: American Ranger in episode 4. He wanted to find a replacement sidekick so he put out an ad online looking for young physically fit boys. After he gets a lot of responses, Rex quickly destroys the computer in horror and later the Feds show up to take him in after seeing it.

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** "Teacher and the Goof" has American Ranger mistake someone else for being a pedophile when he receives a letter from a son he never knew existed asking that he meet him at the park. Forgetting that he spent the decades in a Time Tunnel after World War II ended, American Ranger sees an elderly man waiting for him and assumes that his son is a creep who's at the park to prey on children.
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* EarthDayEpisode: "World War Tree", which has trees come alive on Earth Day and attempt to wipe out humanity in retribution for every tree that was killed by human activity, leaving it up to the League of Freedom to stop the tres.


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* PottyFailure: When Titanium Rex and his daughter Lex astral project to communicate with Mother Nature and the Father Tree in "World War Tree", Lex mentions that she really has to pee. Much to her mortification, she learns that she's already wet herself when her and her dad's consciousnesses return to the physical plane.


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* WhenTreesAttack: Sentient trees who want to kill humanity are the main threat in the special "World War Tree".

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* StraightGay: Kid Victory, which is something that American Ranger struggles with.

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* StraightGay: Kid Victory, which Victory is gay but does not demonstrate any stereotypes, with the reveal of his sexuality being something that American Ranger struggles with.



* TrueCompanions: After going through World War II (and committing war crimes) together American Ranger and Kid Victory have this. Even though KV's lifestyle (being gay) made American Ranger very uncomfortable he worked past it and KV didn't hold American Ranger's previous behavior against him. The episode ended weith them on good terms.

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* ThanksgivingEpisode: "A Prayer for Mr. T", where the main plot consists of Titanium Rex trying to prove he can cook a better turkey than Dr. Devizo. The sub-plots include American Ranger attempting to put on a play that tells a romanticized account of the first Thanksgiving with the assistance of the Blue Menace and Johnny Rabdo, Black Saturn bringing the Groaner to his parents' mansion and Titanium Lex being stuck keeping an eye on Cooch, Chet, Buster Nut and Robodino to make sure they stay out of trouble.
* ThanksgivingTurkey: It is established in the Thanksgiving special "A Prayer for Mr. T" that Titanium Rex and Dr. Devizo used to have a yearly tradition of competing at cooking a better Thanksgiving turkey, with the tradition renewed now that they've more or less mended fences. Devizo deliberately makes things difficult for Titanium Rex by giving Marjorie the day off so that Rex can't count on her assistance in cooking his turkey. Shenanigans ensue where Robobot injects Rex's turkey with the enhanced drug that gave Brad his powers, causing the turkey to mutate into a large and hideous creature.
* TrueCompanions: After going through World War II (and committing war crimes) together American Ranger and Kid Victory have this. Even though KV's lifestyle (being gay) made American Ranger very uncomfortable he worked past it and KV didn't hold American Ranger's previous behavior against him. The episode ended weith with them on good terms.

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* TheGhost: Marjorie, who appears to be the help, buying groceries and cleaning. She finally appears in the Season 3 Thanksgiving Special, voiced by Creator/JenniferTilly.

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Marjorie, who appears to be the help, buying groceries and cleaning. She finally appears in the Season 3 Thanksgiving Special, voiced by Creator/JenniferTilly.Creator/JenniferTilly.
** The Groaner occasionally tries to use a prop he orders from an unseen individual named Gary, whom the Groaner frequently curses or calls to complain to whenever the Groaner realizes that the comedy prop isn't the one he ordered.
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* ChristmasEpisode: "War on Christmas" has Cooch manipulated into releasing a reality-warping villain named Mr. Skibumpers in exchange for a wish, said wish being that Santa Claus was real. In addition to the League of Freedom having to force Mr. Skibumpers back to his imprisonment, they also have to stop Santa when he goes on a rampage due to being driven mad by the realization of the illogical aspects of his existence.
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* FurAgainstFang: "Sympathy for Black Saturn" has this happen when Black Saturn finds out about an ancient war between a clan of vampires called Dracuvlads and one of werewolves called Wolfenlykes, which started because Black Saturn's ancestors were a man and woman who respectively turned themselves into a vampire and a werewolf before they were both killed by their son. Because Black Saturn is a descendant of the Wheelihan bloodline, he is asked to side with either and become one of their own. When Titanium Rex and American Ranger make it clear to him that becoming a supernatural creature isn't all it is cracked up to be, Black Saturn rejects both clans' recruitment offers, resulting in the vampires and werewolves uniting as one.

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* FurAgainstFang: "Sympathy for Black Saturn" has this happen when Black Saturn finds out about an ancient war between a clan of vampires called Dracuvlads and one of werewolves called Wolfenlykes, which started because Black Saturn's ancestors were a man and woman who respectively turned themselves into a vampire and a werewolf before they were both killed by their son. Because Black Saturn is a descendant of the Wheelihan bloodline, he is asked to side with either and become one of their own. When Titanium Rex and American Ranger make it clear to him that becoming a supernatural creature isn't all it is cracked up to be, Black Saturn rejects both clans' recruitment offers, resulting in the vampires and werewolves uniting as one.one over their mutual ire at Black Saturn.
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* FurAgainstFang: "Sympathy for Black Saturn" has this happen when Black Saturn finds out about an ancient war between a clan of vampires called Dracuvlads and one of werewolves called Wolfenlykes, which started because Black Saturn's ancestors were a man and woman who respectively turned themselves into a vampire and a werewolf before they were both killed by their son. Because Black Saturn is a descendant of the Wheelihan bloodline, he is asked to side with either and become one of their own. When Titanium Rex and American Ranger make it clear to him that becoming a supernatural creature isn't all it is cracked up to be, Black Saturn rejects both clans' recruitment offers, resulting in the vampires and werewolves uniting as one.

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* DrivenToSuicide: Black Saturn after Blood Moon rejects him.

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* DrivenToSuicide: Black Saturn attempts to kill himself after Blood Moon rejects him.



* DomesticAbuse: [[spoiler: The Omega Pets, Genki is the most obvious one but the others aren't that far behind. ]]

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* DomesticAbuse: [[spoiler: The Omega Pets, Pets turn out to have been abusive to their former owner Omega Ted, Genki is the most obvious one but the others aren't that far behind. ]]


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* HalloweenEpisode: The Halloween special is "Drag Me to Halloween", which focuses on the adventures of the rest of the team while Titanium Rex chooses to stay home and sulk due to not caring for Halloween. American Ranger dates a woman who turns out to be a ghost, Cooch tries to go trick-or-treating and ends up vandalizing the home of a dentist who refuses to give out candy (and turns out to be [[DepravedDentist willing to kidnap and imprison children who don't meet his strict standards on dental hygiene]]), Black Saturn and his enemy the Groaner try to find women to score with at a Halloween party and Robobot tries to look up scary stuff on the Internet and becomes possessed by the [[SlenderManStandIn Slimmerman]], [[spoiler:which he's actually faking as a Halloween prank.]]
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* SuperZeroes: Titanium Rex and Jewbot seem to be the only consistently competent heroes on the team.

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* SuperZeroes: Titanium Rex and Jewbot seem to be the only consistently competent heroes on the team.team, and even they aren't above screwing up big time now and then.
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* '''Titanium Rex''' (Creator/BryanCranston): A FlyingBrick from [[HollowWorld Subtopia]]. The geriatric leader of the team who struggles to keep the team running. A parody of {{Superman}}.

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* '''Titanium Rex''' (Creator/BryanCranston): A FlyingBrick from [[HollowWorld Subtopia]]. The geriatric leader of the team who struggles to keep the team running. A parody of {{Superman}}.Franchise/{{Superman}}.
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* PigMan: "Home is Where the Shart Is" reveals that Adolf Hitler attempted to kill Titanium Rex and the 1940's roster of the League of Freedom by siccing a porcine supervillain named Schwein Kampf on them. Schwein Kampf instead turns on Hitler due to the dictator ceaselessly insulting him for being a humanoid pig, which leads to Titanium Rex lobbying to make it the law that villains are granted amnesty for their crimes in exchange for doing heroic deeds. This later comes back to bite Titanium Rex in the ass when he learns that he has to share his mansion with the Injustice Club because of their hand in thwarting the Subtopian invasion, which gives Rex the idea to have Robobot spy on Schwein Kampf in hopes of finding proof that the pig-man committed crimes after his exoneration and therefore have clout to repeal the law and effectively be able to kick the Injustice Club out of his mansion.
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* OneSteveLimit: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. There's another Titanium Rex, who's a talking dinosaur with metal arms who struggles with him over who gets to keep the name.

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* OneSteveLimit: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. There's another Titanium Rex, who's a talking dinosaur with metal arms who struggles with him over who gets to keep the name. In the end, the dinosaur with mechanical arms is forced to go by Robodino, a name he absolutely despises.
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* IgnoringBySinging: American Ranger covers his ears and sings to try and ignore his future self's statements in "Back to Black to the Future" after said future self states that he's been living off dog feces.

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* DepravedDentist: The Halloween special "Drag Me to Halloween" features Cooch encountering a dentist who turns out to be hiding children in his basement to force them to submit to his rather strict standards on dental hygiene.



* FriendlyEnemy: The Groaner and Black Saturn.
* GenderBender: [[spoiler: Lex, thanks to her/his insect DNA.]]

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* FriendlyEnemy: The Groaner and Black Saturn.
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* GenderBender: [[spoiler: Lex, Lex can change her/his gender, thanks to her/his insect DNA.]]



* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Brad, in the first season finale.]]

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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Brad, in the first season finale.finale, apparently gives his life to stop Dr. Devizo's plan.]]


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* SlenderManStandIn: The Halloween special "Drag Me to Halloween" has Robobot try to look up scary things and stumble upon a Slenderman ersatz called the Slimmerman.
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* FiveManBand: While the group has more than five members, they can easily be fit into the categories:
** TheHero: Titanium Rex, who's the leader of the team and is constantly trying to keep the team in check.
** TheLancer: American Ranger and Black Saturn. The former is Rex's best friend most trusted ally while the latter is second in command.
** TheBigGuy: Brad, a junkie with SuperStrength who provides the heavy lifting.
** TheSmartGuy: Jewbot, who due to being a robot is the most intelligent of the team.
** TheChick: Cooch, who's the only girl until Lex Lightning.
** SixthRanger: Lex Lightning, who joins later on as an intern. [[spoiler:Later proves to be a SixthRangerTraitor]]. Replaced by Zenith in season 2.
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* TheGhost: Marjorie, who appears to be the help, buying groceries and cleaning.

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* TheGhost: Marjorie, who appears to be the help, buying groceries and cleaning. She finally appears in the Season 3 Thanksgiving Special, voiced by Creator/JenniferTilly.



* ImprobableAimingSkills: Black Saturn has these, though subverted in that he often misses straight shots but when hitting things at near impossible angles he never misses.

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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Black Saturn has these, though subverted in that these while ironically lacking regular aiming skills; he often misses straight shots but when hitting things at near impossible angles he never misses.

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* FanDisservice:
** In the first episode, we see a photo of Ranger's wife wearing a bikini in the 40's, then Ranger brings out another photo of her wearing that same bikini as an old woman in the present.
** In "The Long Chaun", Rex is given ''nothing'' but a [[HornyVikings viking helmet]] and a loincloth to wear, leaving very little of his wrinkly body to the imagination.
-->'''Lex''': There is literally nowhere from head to toe where I can comfortably rest my eyes.



* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Cooch smelled that something was wrong with Lex right from the start. She also called her a dude. She even specifically questioned that Lex was an attractive "young woman" because she didn't feel threatened by her - that is, as a humanoid cat, her pheromones weren't reacting to a rival female over the men on the team.]]

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** [[TheDitz Courtney]] is shown to have a surprisingly clear understanding of the Xenith/Portia relationship and explains it to Sgt. Agony pretty well.

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** [[TheDitz Courtney]] is shown to have a surprisingly clear understanding of the Xenith/Portia Zenith/Portia relationship and explains it to Sgt. Agony pretty well.
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* ComicBookAdaptation: A comic book based on the show was published by Titan and lasted two issues.

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* HiddenDepths / IJustWantToBeNormal: Cooch usually doesn't care what other people think, but in some quiet moments she gets the bad feeling that she doesn't belong anywhere, and that her low intelligence and short attention span are a failure that lets down everyone around her including herself. She enjoys casual sex, but is actually afraid that someone might actually fall in love with her.
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Cooch usually doesn't care what other people think, but in some quiet moments she gets the bad feeling that she doesn't belong anywhere, and that her low intelligence and short attention span are a failure that lets down everyone around her including herself. She enjoys casual sex, but is actually afraid that someone might actually fall in love with her.
** [[TheDitz Courtney]] is shown to have a surprisingly clear understanding of the Xenith/Portia relationship and explains it to Sgt. Agony pretty well.
-->'''Agony''': Wow. You're not the complete idiot I and everyone I know takes you for, are you?
* HollowWorld: Where Subtopia, where Titanium Rex came from.



* OnlySaneMan: Both Rex and Jewbot are probably the most stable and competent of the heroes, and even they often have their moments.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Ironbrain may be evil, but even he is disgusted by domestic abuse

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** The Groaner is disgusted in "The League of Cheesedom" when he looks at the script Black Saturn gave him after calling him to replace the actor at the pizzeria playing the Groaner and sees that his dialogue has him boast about drugging the pizza so he can molest the children while they're unconscious.

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* BadSanta: The Christmas special "War on Christmas" has Cooch tricked into freeing a reality-warping villain named Mr. Skibumpers, who baits her into doing so by promising to grant her a wish. This wish turns out to be that Santa Claus was real. While as jolly and cheerful as his standard depiction, this Santa ends up going insane and attempting to destroy the city after thinking too hard about the illogical aspects of himself. He seems to get better after entering his own magic sack, but at the end of the special freaks out Titanium Rex by implying that he intends to mete out severe punishment towards those who have been naughty.



* FauxFurby: The Christmas special has Black Saturn's younger brother wanting to kill Black Saturn in retribution of destroying his Burfy, a blatant stand-in for the Furby toy, when they were younger. In the end, he decides to spare Black Saturn after Santa gives him a replacement Burfy.



* VillainSong: Mr.Skeebumpers gets one in the Christmas Special.

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* VillainSong: Mr.Skeebumpers Skibumpers gets one a villain song in the Christmas Special.Special, though Jewbot forces him to skip most of it.
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* PitifulWorms: "Let's Talk About Rex" has Blazar taunt the League of Freedom by comparing them to ants at a picnic.

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