History WesternAnimation / TheTick

* {{Jerkass}}: Barry, A.K.A. "The Tick" (not the Tick we know and love), big time. In his debut episode "The Tick vs The Tick" people think he's a hero just because he's rich and his brother in law owns [[GoodGuyBar The Comet Club]], but acts like a jerk and is a {{Smug Super}}. When the regular Tick, Arthur, Die Fledermaus, and Sewer Urchin came to the club, Barry attempted to beat The (real) Tick up because [[Main/DisproportionateRetribution The Tick "stole his superhero name"]], knocked out Big Shot when he was trying to help him, and tried to force The Tick to give up his name by pinning him under his shield. Thankfully Arthur arrived to tell him of the {{Mad Bomber}} in the club, which distracted him long enough for The Tick to regain his strength and finish Barry off. It's also implied Barry [[LaserGuidedKarma lost his name because of his actions]].
-->'''Tick:''' What's in a name anyway? If I were called Bob or Jack or Venting or a piece of fruit, would I be any less a hero, and if Barry were called Rupert, Max, a rainbow, would he be any less a jerk? I don't think so, because a name is a rose and it only smells as sweet as you are.

* CatchPhrase:

* [[HasTwoMommies Has Two Daddies]]: Arthur and Tick become this to [[spoiler: a baby Mr. Mental]].
-->'''Tick:''' Arthur, we're a daddy!

1994 AnimatedSeries, a casual but incisive send-up of SuperHero shows (based on [[ComicBook/TheTick an independent comic]] by Ben Edlund written in the early '90s), featuring as its title character a super-strong, "{{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le" (or so he says), and (probably) insane {{Cloudcuckoolander}} with hypertrophied senses of justice and {{melodrama}}, given to bold, thoughtless action and near-incomprehensible {{A|nAesop}}esop-[[SpoofAesop like]] pronouncements. Assisting the Tick in his daily struggle against the Forces of Evil is Arthur, a former accountant, now moth-themed hero/{{sidekick}}. Frequently joining their adventures are Die Fledermaus and American Maid, two fellow crimefighters [[{{Expy}} who bear a funhouse-mirror resemblance]] to Comicbook/{{Batman}} and Comicbook/WonderWoman (or perhaps Comicbook/CaptainAmerica) respectively.

-->'''Arthur:''' ''[sotto voce]'' Who knew Sewer Urchin of all people would be this cool?\\
'''Sewer Urchin:''' ''[revealing that he heard Arthur just fine]'' Down here I'm the apotheosis of cool.

* ShesGotLegs: American Maid.
** In "The Tick vs. The Tick", Die Fledermaus noticed those nice legs and tries to hit on the lady, until he saw [[OhCrap they belong to American Maid]].

* HulkSpeak: The Protoclown is practically an {{Expy}} of [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk Ol' Greenskin]].

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The first episode has Die Fledermaus springing into action, among other superheroes, to stop the Idea Men. He was distracted by American Maid.

* FantasticVoyagePlot: "The Tick vs. Dinosaur Neil" - without as much shrinking, though - as the Tick needs to get into Dinosaur Neil's mouth and get him to swallow the aspirin in order to neutralize the dinosaur DNA in his body.

* ForcedTransformation: In the episode “Coach Fussell’s Lament”,Brainchild uses one of his inventions to turn the Tick into [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot a two-headed bird that only speaks high school French and lays chocolate eggs.]] Later, as Arthur tries to reverse the transformation, he is briefly turned into a flatworm, a chimp, an ant, a sock, and a cow before his sidekick finally finds [[ResetButton the button marked “NORMAL”.]]

* {{Mayincatec}}: The Deertown Aztecs are classic examples of this, right down to the trap filled temple pyramid. They were originally a baseball team that got stranded in the jungle and copied Aztec culture through a book they picked up at the airport.

* {{Mayincatec}}: The Deertown Aztecs are classic examples of this, right down to the trap filled temple pyramid. They were originally a baseball theam that got stranded in the jungle and copied Aztec culture through a book they picked up at the airport.

* ForcedTransformation: In the episode “Coach Fussell’s Lament”, Brainchild uses one of his inventions to turn the Tick into [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot a two-headed bird that only speaks high school French and lays chocolate eggs.]] Later, as Arthur tries to reverse the transformation, he is briefly turned into a flatworm, a chimp, an ant, a sock, and a cow before his sidekick finally finds [[ResetButton the button marked “NORMAL”.]]

* BalefulPolymorph: In the episode "Coach Fussell's Lament," Brain Child uses one of his inventions to turn the Tick into [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot a two-headed bluebird that only speaks high school French and lays chocolate eggs]]. Later, as Arthur tries to reverse the transformation, he is briefly turned into a flatworm, a chimp, an ant, a sock, and a cow before his sidekick finally finds [[ResetButton the button marked "NORMAL."]]

* {{Mayincatec}}: [[http://home.jps.net/~lsnyder/7_tick.html#aztecs The Deertown Aztecs]] are classic examples of this, right down to the trap filled temple pyramid.

1994 AnimatedSeries, a casual but incisive send-up of SuperHero shows (based on [[ComicBook/TheTick an independent comic]] by Ben Edlund written in the early '90s), featuring as its title character a super-strong, "{{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le" (or so he says), and (probably) insane {{Cloudcuckoolander}} with hypertrophied senses of justice and {{melodrama}}, given to bold, thoughtless action and near-incomprehensible {{A|nAesop}}esop-[[SpoofAesop like]] pronouncements. Assisting the Tick in his daily struggle against the Forces of Evil is Arthur, a former accountant, now moth-themed hero/{{sidekick}}. Frequently joining their adventures are Die Fledermaus and American Maid, two fellow crimefighters [[{{Expy}} who bear a funhouse-mirror resemblance]] to Comicbook/{{Batman}} and Comicbook/CaptainAmerica respectively.

* {{Meganekko}}: Arthur's sister Dot.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Yank.