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20* ''TakeThat/TheDCU''
21* ''TakeThat/MarvelUniverse''
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25* ''Series/{{Alf}}'' #38's cover featured a huge, fierce-looking silhouette of Alf, along with the labels "Darker!", "Grittier!", and "Alien with an attitude!". At the bottom of the cover was normal Alf standing in front of a spotlight, asking if the "revamp" would [[NoFourthWall actually boost the comic's income]].
26* In ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' Season 8, Buffy mocks the BigBad, Twilight, saying that he's an idiot for naming himself after a [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga lame book series]].
27** After the revelation that Twilight was [[spoiler: Angel]], which met with fandom outrage, IDW, publishers of ''Angel: After The Fall'' comics, created promos of their new ''Spike'' series, featuring Spike burning Twilight's mask and saying that Spike was definitely not Twilight.
28** IDW took a few more shots at the Buffy Season 8 comics, all of them coming from Spike. At one point he tries hiring writers to write prophecies about him being a hero who saves the world, and orders them not to make [[spoiler: Angel]] a hero. He suggests making [[spoiler: Angel]] a villain instead, complete with "some poncey, drama queen, prissy name like ''Dusk'', or ''Sunset'', or the ''Fall of Darkness''."
29** And in the ''Spike'' series:
30--->'''Spike:''' No backstabbing, no dying, no picking up and leaving, and no [[ComicBook/UncannyXMen aerial sex]].\
31'''Betta George:''' I don't understand that last one.\
32'''Spike:''' No one does.[[note]]Angel (of the X-Men) had sex with his then-girlfriend, Husk, in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #440, in the air, while his mom watched. [[{{Squick}} And now you know!]][[/note]]
33* The Italian stories of the ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics [[RunningGag often mock garden gnomes out of nowhere]].
34* The ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic strip:
35** The Seventh Doctor story "Evening's Empire" features a misogynistic, serial rapist geek as the villain, who has been accidentally granted alien {{Reality Warp|er}}ing powers. The fantasy universe he creates and abducts women to so that he can force them into sexual slavery is a direct parody of John Norman's notoriously misogynistic and BDSM-obsessed ''Literature/{{Gor}}'' series.
36** "The Deep Hereafter" is an AffectionateParody of ''[[FilmNoir noir]]''-ish, {{pulp|Magazine}}y detective stories in general, and ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'' in particular. One newspaper clipping pinned on the detective's wall reads "[[Creator/FrankMiller Miller]] Kills Colt". Apparently Dan [=McDaid=] wasn't a fan of TheMovie.
37** There was a Tenth Doctor story in which evil, bloodthirsty, warrior-race aliens abduct the long-running recurring character Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and his former underling Mike Yates. Only the aliens accidentally abduct the wrong Mike Yates, who is a nasty, ludicrous little man and a politician in a tiny extreme-right-wing party, and ends up siding with the aliens. In real life, Creator/RichardFranklin, the actor who played the "real" Yates on TV, had spent the 1990s and 2000s unsuccessfully standing in elections for a succession of increasingly small and extreme right-wing parties.
38* ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'':
39** In the Ninth Doctor story "The Transformed", the operator of the environmentally-destructive and badly-designed hyperspace "punchway" that is causing weird stuff in San Francisco is the Celestial Hyperloop Corporation. In the real world, "Hyperloop" is a proposed form of maglev vacuum-tube transportation conceived by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and intended to operate from San Francisco to LA, which is mocked by its detractors as an AwesomeButImpractical distraction from a more practical conventional high-speed rail project.
40** In the Twelfth Doctor story "The Hyperion Empire", a repellent self-serving politician who tries to become TheQuisling to alien invaders (and suffers a KarmicDeath because they want to destroy the Earth rather than rule it) tells Clara to "Calm down, dear"... a put-down notoriously given by UsefulNotes/DavidCameron to a female shadow minister during a Commons debate.
41** "Clara Oswald and the School of Death" has a rather slimy Prime Minister called Daniel Claremont, who is really a Sea Devil and went to the same posh school as half the Cabinet. The Sea Devils reveal they are turning pupils at the school into Sea Devils and are hoping to roll back environmental protections to flood the planet. This is a pretty blatant dig at then-PM David Cameron and the Conservatives who were largely dominated by fellow students from the very posh Eton School and were being accused of not doing enough to tackle climate change.
42* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest - The Rebels'' has one against television in general. This is a planet-that-is-not-earth inhabited by humans. They have interplanetary space travel and Internet for information, news, and porn. At one point we see preparations for a live feed of a car race.
43-->'''Techie person:''' Seems like a shame to do this only once a year. I mean, we could do a feed of this type your round -- fill it with sports and entertainment.\
44'''Chairwoman Nuriham:''' And induce people to watch it in their free time? When would they create art, or make music, or converse... I think such a project would be bad for the collective soul of the people.
45* One of the covers for the 2017 reboot of ''Fighting American'' takes a shot at [[ComicBook/CaptainAmericaSamWilson Nick Spencer's controversial]] ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' run, proclaiming "[[ComicBook/SecretEmpire No secrets. No empires.]] Just an All-American hero."
46* The IDW ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' comics have these left and right. In ''[[ComicBook/GodzillaKingdomOfMonsters Kingdom of Monsters]]'' we have {{Take That}}s to Music/LadyGaga, PETA and ''Series/JerseyShore''. The mini-series ''Godzilla: The Half-Century War'' has a human villain named Dr. Deverich, a huge kick in the balls for Dean Devlin and Creator/RolandEmmerich.
47* At one point in ''ComicBook/{{Grendel}}'', Christine Spar as Grendel fights a dumb and obnoxious mook who has a set of [[WolverineClaws blades attached to his hand]] similar to those of a certain famous [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Marvel character]]. Christine muses to herself that it's a stupid weapon with no reach, and chops his hand off.
48* ''ComicBook/HaloEscalation'': Issue 16 is a pretty much Halsey retaliating against all the [[WriterOnBoard bias and false accusations]] heaped on her in the ''[[Literature/HaloGlasslands Kilo]]-[[Literature/HaloTheThursdayWar Five]]'' [[Literature/HaloMortalDictata Trilogy]]. She shuts Palmer up by pointing out if it weren't for her, Palmer wouldn't even have her armor. Plus she points out that ONI and the UNSC had pretty much approved of all her worst deeds, and are using her as a convenient scapegoat, thanks to Parangosky's and Osman's machinations.
49* Jabs at Al-Qaeda as well as Muslims and Arabs are littered throughout ''ComicBook/HolyTerror''.
50* From Jeremy "Norm" Scott, the creator of Slave Labor Graphic's ComicStrip/HsuAndChan series.
51-->'''"Norm":''' After this one went to press, some internet wisenheimer singled it out for its intense wordiness -- I forget the exact quote, but it was something along the lines of, "It only takes Penny Arcade a fourth of the dialogue to be this lame."
52** While we're on the topic of Hsu and Chan, many of the issues contain at least one TakeThat targeted at the ''Franchise/TombRaider'' games and movies.
53* Creator/JhonenVasquez's ''ComicBook/IFeelSick'' is aimed at Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, according to this [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Feel_Sick entry here]].
54* An issue of ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' has Mark and his friend at a comic book store talking about how pointless it is to relaunch ongoing series from issue #1. Unless Robert Kirkman added it last minute to the script, it was probably directed at Marvel but, due to an amazing coincidence, the issue was published a few days after DC announced they're relaunching all their titles from issue #1.
55* From issue #4 of the 2016 ''ComicBook/JosieAndThePussycats'' [[ComicBook/ArchieComics2015 reboot]]:
56-->'''Valerie''': Dammit, Melody! Crime-fighting isn't in our contract! [[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice None of our moms are named Martha!]]
57* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'', as a work of satire, frequently features this:
58** In the mid-1990s, an environmental activist known as Swampy became well-known in the UK when he took part in a protest to stop the construction of an extension to the A30 motorway. ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' went on to feature a plot about an "eco-warrior" named Spawny, who protests the construction of a spaceport in the same way as the real-life Swampy (by digging underground tunnels.) What happens? The construction workers bury him alive under the concrete and carry on anyway ...
59** Big-1 Comics, the soulless corporation that ripped off struggling trashzine artist Kenny Who? were directly based on Cam Kennedy's experiences with American comic book companies.
60** A 2007 story about a Cal-Hab parade in Mega-City One included Sir Tam "Big Jock" Tamson [=McJock=], a famous actor who lived on Luna-1 and "has sworn to return to his beloved homeland only when the last remnants of Brit-Cit rule have been erased, along with the demands for estimated 22 million credits he owes in back taxes". At the time there was a certain amount of controversy about Sir Creator/SeanConnery being a strong advocate of Scottish independence when he didn't live there, coupled with accusations of being a tax exile.
61* Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' features his interpretation of TheAntiChrist by way of school shooters: a boy who learns what he's destined to be and proceeds to snap and murder/rape his way through his school, including his two best friends and worst enemy, other schoolmates and staff, then hide for the next few years doing nothing but down anti-psychotics with only the head of his former headmaster (and backer, [[GoneHorriblyRight the whole Anti-Christ thing was his idea]]) for company. When discovered, he grows into a multiple-eyed, lightning-pissing giant and kills [[spoiler:Allan]] before being [[spoiler:curbstomped by Literature/MaryPoppins, who might be {{God}}]]. Now, [[Literature/HarryPotter given that this school was only accessible by train, by going through a fake wall in King's Cross station...]]
62* A British post-punk rock group took the name "Love and Rockets" in homage to the Hernandez Brothers' comic series ''ComicBook/LoveAndRockets''. Los Bros, however, were not happy as they hadn't been asked permission and weren't fans of the band. Gilbert Hernandez proceeded to write a story featuring a particularly talentless and unpleasant fictional LA punk band called "Love and Rockets", with several derogatory barbs aimed directly at the British group.
63* The ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' parody comic ''ComicBook/MightilyMurderedPowerRingers'' is a bitter, mean-spirited jab at the show, which qualifies it for this.
64* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'': "[You read] Probably just comic books, or maybe [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga that silly series with the vampire pony]]."
65* ''ComicBook/SavageDragon'':
66** In an early issue (created and written by ex-Marvel artist Erik Larsen), Officer Dragon is [[LetsYouAndHimFight randomly attacked by superhero Bedrock]], who at the end of the issue explains that it was a test to see if he was tough enough to join the team ComicBook/YoungbloodImageComics.
67--->'''Dragon:''' THAT'S THE STUPIDEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD!\
68'''Bedrock:''' It happens in Creator/MarvelComics all the time!
69** Larsen ''loves'' making Take Thats to Marvel. In one issue, not only did the new Overlord say that Magneto "really should think twice before giving his team the name 'Brotherhood of [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Evil]] Mutants'", when he asks Dragon to join his cause, the following exchange happens:
70--->'''Dragon:''' What's that? That scene from the ''Film/SpiderMan1'' movie, where Green Goblin asked him to become his best buddy? Do you really think something like that could ever work?\
71'''Overlord:''' No, you misunderstood me. And by the way, that scene really sucked.
72** Another issue had [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] and [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Norman Osborn]] discussing Dragon's constantly coming back to life, while they are served coffee by none other than [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied Gwen Stacy]]. Larsen doesn't like [[DeathIsCheap Comic Book Deaths]].
73** Larsen has also taken a dig at fellow comics creator John Byrne with his villains "Johnny Redbeard's Nixed Men", a team composed of parodies of various characters Byrne has written. The long-winded introductory speech summarizing some of their backstories is a vicious critique of Byrne's "senseless revamping" of various comics, including ''ComicBook/SheHulk'' and ''ComicBook/SubMariner''. Redbeard is portrayed as a bad leader with a huge head who indiscriminately endows people with poorly conceived powers before eventually abandoning the mess he made of them. After the team's one appearance, where they beat up some homeless people and get their asses handed to them by the protagonist, the She-Hulk parody would later [[FaceHeelTurn reform]] and return to the series as the recurring She-Dragon.
74** ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': Bruce Banner, who was walking around big and green and smart, was in a quandary. His friend was dying of AIDS and wanted a Hulk-blood transfusion in order to get Hulk-healing powers. Bruce, afraid of Hulk 2.0 smashing up crap[[note]]and Banner had good reason to be worried about this; aside from the fact that giving a transfusion of his gamma-contaminated blood is what turned his cousin into ''ComicBook/SheHulk'', there was also a guy who tried to take a Hulk-blood transfusion to cure his cancer... and turned into a mindless BlobMonster[[/note]], declined. The same plot happened in Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon, but the Dragon said yes, saying, paraphrased, only an idiot would say no to the possibility. The friend who received Dragon's blood then exploded. So...um. [[InvertedTrope Yeah]].
75* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
76** ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'':
77*** The whole Special Zone arc was an AffectionateParody of Marvel comics, most notably when Sonic walked in on a team of local superheroes in a fight with the Legion of Evil. After a comment about the property damage both sides are causing and a brief attempt to work out which side is which the cops arrive, at which point ''both'' groups make a quick retreat.
78*** A later story introduces an obvious X-Men parody, including a Wolverine knock off with [[CouldHaveBeenMessy corks attached to his claws]] and the stated superpower of [[InformedAbility snarling, getting angry and talking about what a badass he was.]]
79*** The [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Marxio Brothers]]. The Creator/MarxBrothers references were for comic effect, but the Mario ones enabled all sorts of anti-Nintendo gags. For example, they come from a far-off land, [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld Super Marxio World]], which even they hate, and their games are utter tripe.
80** ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'':
81*** An early comic featured a robot called the "ComicBook/{{Spawn}}mower". It acted much like the [[DarkerAndEdgier dark and edgy]] real-life comic hero it was named after, in that it stopped to make a dramatic pose every few seconds. Sonic was able to defeat it without too much trouble.
82*** The cover of issue 4 spoofs the concept of the NinetiesAntiHero by proclaiming that Sonic would be "grittier" and "darker" than before... while depicting him as a [[ExactWords soot-covered chimney sweeper]].
83* On one Creator/{{Dark Horse|Comics}} message board, a poster was pestering writer Randy Stradley to include Mandalorians in an upcoming ''Star Wars'' comic. They got their comeuppance when a scene in the comic in question showed the Mandalorians in full retreat. When the poster complained, Stradley had one of the following issues feature a whole cave full of ''dead'' Mandalorians.
84* Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/{{Supreme}}'' had a gratuitous scene with the Televillain killing Courtney Cox's character on ''Series/{{Friends}}'' using his powers, thus showing that, in spite of his tacky feel, he was awesome.
85** Billy Eliot is one big TakeThat against Grant Morrison and the resident ButtMonkey. His M.O. is to [[KudzuPlot create as much complicate and complex stories as he can, to the point that they fall under their own weight and become an unreadable mess]], other people think he's a total JerkAss, Supreme's villains consider his presence an act of cruel and unusual punishment, the equivalent of the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes hates him (especially after he accidentally joined their LegionOfDoom) and the only person who likes him is a CaptainErsatz of [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]].
86** Moore also delivered a few take thats against Hillary Clinton when Korgo The Space Tyrant took over the United States and made her his bride. First, we see her during a press conference claiming this is not a bad thing and that the press should stop panicking about nothing. And then we find out she's [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth so horrible that Korgo willingly allowed Supreme to beat him to get away from her]].
87** The core of ''ComicBook/YoungbloodJudgmentDay'' is a rejection of the gritty, "extreme" heroics of ''ComicBook/YoungbloodImageComics'', emphasized when the previous adventures of Youngblood were described by Shaft as "heroes motivated only by money or psychopathology stalked a paranoid, apocalyptic landscape of post-nuclear mutants and bazooka-wielding cyborgs". The climax of the story reveals [[spoiler:that the entire original series was basically a childish SelfInsertFic written by Sentinel]].
88* The various ''Transformers'' comics over the years have tended to have a character named Cy-Kill show up, only to be killed immediately--often by Megatron. Why is this a {{take that}}? Because Cy-Kill is the BigBad from ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots''. Fans eventually got ''really'' sick of this "gag" being done to death, and even Website/TFWikiDotNet complains about it.
89** A more specific Transformers example, ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' has a character watch all of Earth's television and one thing he learned was "''Series/{{Community}}'' season 4 was a mistake. A few episodes later, that same character has a sitcom dream world full of annoying characters, one of them is [[Series/TheBigBangTheory a nerd named Sheldon.]]
90* ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}'' has a scene in issue 16 that seems to be a deliberate jab at the writing in most mainstream superhero titles, where main character Alana basically serves as a mouthpiece for the author, saying that most superhero stories are bad melodrama between people in ridiculous costumes, with no subtext.
91* ''ComicBook/ThirstyMermaids'': When Vivi explains to the pod what Capitalism is, they're all visibly repulsed by it. Pearl even tries convincing one of the local businesses about going back to the barter system.
92* The Image graphic novel ''ComicBook/{{Three}}'' takes on [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy the idealized concept]] of Sparta [[ComicBook/ThreeHundred found in other works]] by showing it from the point of view of three terrified ''[[SlaveRace heliotes]]'' as [[SternChase they try to escape]] to freedom while being pursued by…you guessed it…[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a band of three hundred warriors]]. The series is also set in the dying days of Sparta as a city-state, with the Spartan characters even pointing out how this pursuit is more an attempt to save face after said ''heliotes'' were the only survivors of a mini-slave revolt, and an attempt to uphold the glorious image of the good old days.
93* ComicStrip/TwistedToyfareTheatre is mostly an AffectionateParody, albeit a gruesome one, that gets most of its laughs by [[CharacterExaggeration exaggerating characters' flaws to absurdity]]. But every strip featuring an appearance by Creator/BrianMichaelBendis will inevitably end with a TakeThat toward his writing style.
94* Book XXV of Polish series ''ComicBook/TytusRomekIAtomek'' has one of the heroes, Tytus de Zoo visit Hell. Satan recognizes Tytus and explains that he heard about him from the editors of Horyzonty, who are boiling in Hell due to the sins they committed when Poland was under communist rule. Horyzonty was the publishing company which published a few of the Tytus books. Apperantly they and the creator didn't get along...
95* ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'', based in Newcastle, used to do many vulgar parodies of characters from the ''Beano'' and ''Dandy'', owned by Scottish [[Creator/DCThomson DC Thomson & Co]]. When DC Thomson tried to sue ''Viz'' for breach of copyright, ''Viz'' published a strip about "DC Thomson the Humourless Scottish Twat." DC retaliated by resurrecting an old strip from the ''Dandy'' called "The Jocks and the Geordies," about two gangs of warring schoolboys on either side of the England-Scotland border. The story had both sets of boys attempting to win a competition to design a comic, and the Jocks (Scottish boys) win, to the humiliation of the Geordies who tried to cheat by copying them and whose own ideas were all terrible. ''Viz'' responded in its next issue with "Korky the Twat," a parody of the popular DC Thomson character Korky the Cat.
96** Creator Chris Donald said in his book ''Rude Kids: The Story of Viz'' that he wanted to include a TakeThat at the mawkish public outpouring of grief over the death of Princess Diana; but couldn't do this directly because he feared [[DudeNotFunny backlash]]. Instead, the next issue included a none-too-subtle spoof story about Monkees fans driven to grief by the death of Micky Dolenz ... even though they knew he wasn't dead.
97* ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'' ends with the VillainProtagonist spouting a monologue [[TakeThatAudience about how your humdrum life of working for a living and not being awesome like him is pathetic and you should feel bad]], ending with a closeup of his angry mug saying "This is my face while fucking you in the ass". Said protagonist was modeled after Music/{{Eminem}}; take that little factoid as you will.
98* In the German comic ''ComicBook/{{Werner}}'': For a long time, Werner's publisher "Holgi" featured prominently in the comic. After he changed the publisher, the character appeared for a last time (only named as "Porsche driver"), to have his Porsche crushed first by the Metülisator and then by Nobelschröder's Bentley.
99** Holgi's reply: He had a comic book drawn with himself as the main character named ''Holgi - Räum das [[PunnyName Feld, Mann]]!''
100* The first issue of Creator/MarkMillar's ''ComicBook/YoungbloodImageComics: Bloodsport'' has two members of the titular superhero team receiving oral sex from gay {{cosplay}}ers dressed as [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]] and [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]].
101* Whilst Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/NineteenSixtyThree'' is more of an AffectionateParody of the characters and stories of UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|ofComicBooks}}, particularly those debuting in Creator/MarvelComics, it's more of a pointed Take That to the creators behind them; in the letters pages provided in the issue, it's made pretty clear that "Affable" Al Moore is an egotistical tyrant who shamelessly takes credit for the work and achievements of others.
102* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'':
103** Prog 1661 took a jab at DC's ''Wednesday Comics''. One of the few examples of a TakeThat against something critically acclaimed.
104--->'''Tharg:''' [[Creator/DCComics Other publishers]] may dabble with [[AnthologyComic the format]] -- 'Wednesday Comics'? Pah! There's only one ''true'' Wednesday comic in this reality...
105** An earlier prog featured Tharg encountering a young Earthlet who was a fan of [[Creator/MarvelComics Wonder Comics]], as shown by his "Here Comes the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Bulk]]" t-shirt. Other Wonder Comics characters apparently include [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica a hero in a cowl with little wings and a letter on the front]] and [[ComicBook/SpiderMan a hero in a full-face mask with a spider motif]]. Inevitably, it turns out Wonder Comics have left the boy totally unprepared for the true Thrill Power of ''2000 AD''.
106* The Curtis', owners of the comic book company, Shanda Fantasy Arts, upset at the horrific [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwing]] of ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' in their last mini-series where the team is exiled on the main [[Franchise/TheDCU DCU story world]] and trapped as ordinary animals unable to express their unchanged intelligence. In response, the Curtis', with aid of the series' original creator Roy Thomas, made a special comic book using their ''Atomic Mouse'' license, ''Atomic Mouse Meets Power Jack And The Lost Menagerie'' where the title character rescued a [[CaptainErsatz disguised version of the Zoo Crew]] who are suffering an equivalent fate. DC [[AuthorsSavingThrow fixed that editorial misdeed]] at the end of ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', so the hard feelings shouldn't be quite so much.
107* Creator/DonRosa's comics have a few.
108** ''Super Snooper Strikes Again'' is a huge TakeThat to dark and violent superhero comics, eventually leading to [[http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i212/Kerrah_photos/TakeThat.jpg this panel]] and the follow-up, where the nephews decide that WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck is greater than Super Snooper, because he can face everyday problems and support three nephews without any kind of superpowers.
109** In another Don Rosa story, ''The Money Pit'', Scrooge ridicules coin collectors for hoarding their collections solely for their resale value. That, and the comment about "plastic sleeves", makes it obvious Rosa is actually talking about comic book collectors. Rosa is a collector himself, so it doubles as SelfDeprecation. In the commentaries he gave to his stories in Finnish collection books, Rosa wrote that when Donald says that paying a dime for a single comic book is too much in ''The Crocodile Collector'', he was dissing himself for paying hundreds of dollars for old comics.
110** Rosa's final installment in ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'', "The Richest Duck in the World," is partially devoted to dispelling the "[[DependingOnTheWriter supreme bit of absolute balderdash]]" that Scrooge's NumberOneDime is lucky.
111** Don Rosa obviously preferred Donald to Mickey among Disney's iconic characters, and took any chance he had to have mice that looked like Mickey be abused in the comics. In one panel, a Mickey Mouse statue is shown in the Duckburg museum labeled "Ancient demon worship". [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking The only time he drew Mickey and Donald together, he made sure Donald was slightly taller]].
112* Creator/GarthEnnis has also been known to viciously parody the concept of TheCape. Ironically, he's clearly fond of ComicBook/{{Superman}}; when Superman appeared in an issue of ''ComicBook/{{Hitman|1993}}'', the character was treated with complete respect, and a later issue had the AntiHero main character remark that Superman was the only superhero he had any time for.
113* Creator/MarvelComics promoted their ''ComicBook/{{Heroic Age|2010}}'' event and new ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' titles by teasers with members of each team, their quote and words “I'm an Avenger/a New Avenger/a Secret Avenger/in Avengers Academy”. Creator/{{Image|Comics}} released their own teasers for an ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' spinoff miniseries with members of the new Guardians of the Globe roster, looking pretty similar to Marvel's – when the first one, with Invincible himself saying “I never really been much of a team player” was released, people thought Image's just stealing the idea. When the second, with ComicBook/{{Spawn}} saying “Todd lost a bet so he's loaning me out for this” came out, some realized something is wrong. Next ones? A DeliberatelyMonochrome [[ComicBook/TheWalkingDead Rick Grimes]] (“It makes no logical story sense for me to be here, but I suppose it will help sales.”), UsefulNotes/BarackObama (“I'm not as popular as I used to be. How much is Amazing Spider-Man 583 going for on eBay?”) and [[CaptainErsatz Gary Potter, a kid looking suspiciously similar to]] Literature/HarryPotter (“Okay, now this is getting [[{{Understatement}} a little ridiculous]]... and slightly illegal.”). Obviously, Image was just making fun at Marvel's policy on who is and who isn't in which team. However, they later had to really rip the idea and release teasers with the real members in the same format (except with their names placed beside the quotes), because people thought they're really going to put those {{Joke Character}}s into one team.
114* ''ComicBook/RickAndMortyOni'':
115** A pretty brutal one for Series/DoctorWho via Peacock Jones, an {{Expy}} for the Doctor: he rides around in a magical elevator, and is a CasanovaWannabe who only takes his female companions on adventures to seduce them (and makes it clear that this isn't optional; [[EntitledToHaveYou he expects and demands sex to repay him for the adventures]]), engineers ClothingDamage to get them into sexy clothing, and if all else fails, just resorts to raping them (or at least attempting to).
116** After defeating a giant kaiju with a giant robot, Rick tells Morty that he just pulled a Creator/ZackSnyder on the place.
117* ''ComicBook/InvaderZimOni'':
118** Issue 9 gets a lot of mileage out of its Website/YouTube parody, with its obviously faked videos and the string of {{troll}}ish and downright moronic viewer comments.
119** Zim's plan in Issue 37 is essentially the plot of ''Film/TheMatrix''. Which makes Dib's lampshading of all the logic plot holes in it a pretty clear jab at the movies.
120** Issue 50 is a deliberate TakeThatAudience at people who'd rather Zim and Dib drop the rivalry and be friendly towards one another, by having these opinions be voiced (and enacted) by the crazy and forceful antagonist of the issue.
121* ''ComicBook/SecondComing'': There are more than a few digs against theism (at least, certain versions), with God portrayed as inept and lazy. However, it ''really'' goes hard against American fundamentalist Christians, who actually ''beat Jesus'' when he reappears, offended due to his disagreements with their bigotry.

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