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An adult, satirical prestige format one-shot comic, written by Creator/GarthEnnis (naturally), with pencils and lettering by Amanda Conner and inks by Jimmy Palmiotti.

A bored young prostitute (and single mom) is given galactic superpowers by a GreatGazoo. She's immediately noticed by the local {{Expy}} superheroes but doesn't feel like going along with their self-aggrandizing hero bullshit. Instead, she exacts revenge on a JerkAss customer, and she teaches the local Superman equivalent about sex. Unfortunately, his semen is also superpowered and knocks a plane out of the sky, and while he manages to save the passengers, he's forced to do so pantsless. The ensuing scandal damages the entire league's reputation irrevocably.

She's about to be kicked out, but the meeting is interrupted by a terrorist attack, and the Pro is forced to make a life-or-death decision.
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!!''The Pro'' provides examples of:

* AbusiveParents: The Pro herself is rather verbally abusive towards her infant son, doesn't bother to dress him properly, and smokes right in front of his face while breastfeeding. Some of the other stuff wrong ''might'' be justified by her being too poor to really give him a decent life's living, but that doesn't excuse a lot of her behaviour.
* AccidentalMisnaming: The Viewer's RobotBuddy calls him "the Voyeur" as he spies on the Pro.
* AdaptedOut: The animated short film by Creator/{{Titmouse}} omits the Viewer, the Speedo, the Lime, and the terrorists the Pro and the League of Honor fight at the end of the story.
* TheAdjectivalMan: Parodied with the Grammatical Team of Grimness, which consists of villains such as "the Noun", "the Verb", and "the Adjective". Evidently, all other names of this type have been taken.
* AnimatedAdaptation: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNRDGjjQwwE There was one]] that was created by ''Creator/{{Titmouse}}''.
* AuthorTract: As usual, this comic is just another long-winded ramble from Garth Ennis about why he doesn't like superheroes.
* BatmanParody: The Knight and The Squire are the League of Honor's equivalents to Batman and Robin. Hilariously enough, they share their names with a crime-fighting duo acquainted with the Dynamic Duo who are essentially British analogues of them.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: The Lime is the first hero to be killed.
* BrokenAesop: In the foreword for the book, Creator/GarthEnnis says the point of the book was to point out how superheroes aren't needed. Except the titular character was only able to save the day by flying a nuke into space. Also, the Pro says the heroes are never in any real danger, only for the Lime to be killed a few pages later.
* CallingYourBathroomBreaks: At one point, the Pro loudly announces that she's going to take a poop.
* CastOfExpies: The League of Honor are all obvious parodies of the Justice League (The Saint is Franchise/{{Superman}}, The Lady is Franchise/WonderWoman, The Knight and The Squire are [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batman and Robin]], The Speedo is Franchise/TheFlash, and The Lime is Franchise/GreenLantern). There's also The Viewer, the alien that granted The Pro her powers and a parody of The Watcher of Marvel comics. The Pro herself is basically ComicBook/PowerGirl if she was a surly hooker.
* CleavageWindow: The Pro's costume comes with one. Unsurprising, considering she's a parody of Power Girl.
* CombatPragmatist: The protagonist, much to the horror of other heroes, considering what her level of strength can do to people.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The titular character inflicts this on the guy who short-changes her when she was servicing him, before trying to shoot her over twenty dollars. For the first slight, she has a bunch of prostitutes shove painful objects up his ass. Later, she retaliates to him attempting to shoot her infant son by ripping his jaw off.
* ExcrementStatement: The main character at one point urinates on a villain after beating her up.
* TheFederation: The Viewer observes Earth, waiting until humanity is ready to join the Galactic Alliance of Sentient Beings.
* FlyingBrick: The protagonist, as well as Superman parody The Saint.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The Speedo is seen masturbating in the first few panels where the Pro begins her tirade against the League of Honor.
* GroinAttack: The Pro kills a terrorist by kicking him between the legs so hard they rip off.
* InformedFlaw: We are told the heroes are all useless but they are repeatedly shown saving people from real dangers.
* LegacyCharacter: The Lime off-handedly mentions that he's not the first Lime, but he's interrupted before he explains what happened to his predecessor.
* NoNameGiven: The main character's name is never given.
* NominalHero: The Pro barely qualifies through most of the story, mainly going along after being recruited by League of Honor and using unnecessarily harsh tactics. She also thinks blowing up schools to fight villains should be an option.
* OminousMultipleScreens: The Viewer has several screens, all showing different angles of The Pro sitting on the toilet.
* ThePeepingTom: The Viewer spies on The Pro while she's on the toilet.
* PunchClockHero: The Pro only agrees to become a superhero after she's told that she'll be paid.
* SingleMomStripper: Well, a hooker, but the same thing. She also has a day job as a waitress.
* SisterhoodEliminatesCreep: The prostitutes get revenge on the evil client by organizing a line of women to each attack him.
* SupermanSubstitute: The Saint is a very blatant Superman expy, having dark hair, a red cape, an S insignia on his chest and the powers of flight and superhuman strength.
* TakeYourChildToWorkDayPlot: The Pro had the misfortune of delivering a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to a supervillain (complete with an ExcrementStatement) at the United Nations building during the UN's "Take Your Children to Work Day". The League of Honor nearly kicks her out for that.
* TeacherStudentRomance: The Pro was knocked up by her guidance counselor at the age of 17 and kicked out of her house by her parents shortly afterward.
* TouchedByVorlons: The Pro is given superpowers by the voyeuristic alien The Viewer.
* UngratefulBastard: The prostitute goes on a 3-4 page rant about why superheroes suck, despite the fact that if it wasn't for the Saint, ''her son would be dead.''
* TheWatcher: The Viewer is a parody of the TropeNamer.
* WonderWomanWannabe: The Lady is a Wonder Woman expy, being the sole female member of the League of Honor before the Pro joins and wearing bracelets as well as a very revealing costume that has patriotic iconography.
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