* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: Burke is already known to be a moderate bigot given the times he lives in, but he makes a comment in "The Phantom Of The Fair" that's just as disgusting now as it would've been back in the year the comic takes place. When Klein tells him he believes their new killer is targeting homosexual men, Burke responds at least they're dealing with someone who's murdering perverts. Klein bluntly disagrees with him.
-->'''Burke''': But at least this whack's offing perverts, huh? Can't say that's exactly bad all things considered.
-->'''Klein''': There are [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany some men in Germany]] who would agree with you.
* CompleteMonster: "[[PsychoForHire The Face]]" is a MasterOfDisguise who glories in his work, with a massive body count. Hired to assassinate a Tong mob boss who knows the Face's employer has Asian ancestry in the racist UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era, the Face begins murdering Tong members and leaving their heads around, hoping to provoke a MobWar, even killing a 15-year-old prostitute who is the sister of one member. In his spare time, the Face also rapes and abuses prostitutes, mocking them for their lack of recourse and often "tearing them up" below to leave them unable to work. The Face returns to kill others, plaguing the Sandman constantly. [[ComicBook/{{Starman}} In the modern era]], the Face accepts a job to bankrupt a wealthy man for an investor to profit, attempting to crash a blimp into Opal City to devastate it and kill countless people.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Wes and Dian are undeniably one of the cutest couples in comics history. Then you recall that the two of them never actually get married. They stayed together for decades even though they weren't bound by a marriage license, proving just how strong their love really was.
%% * HollywoodPudgy: Dian.
* JerkassWoobie: Patricia Honeywell of "The Crone," is not particularly nice most of the time. She gets very dramatic and told Johnny Weiss he was the father of her baby, when she knew it was really her manager Nick Fillipi. That said, Patricia has to get a back alley abortion and is unable to tell anyone what she went through, while fearing she'll lose her job and getting pressured by Fillipi to give him a blow job to keep her role. The Woobie aspect continues when it's clear she ''is'' capable of not being a jerk, being legitimately touched by how hard Frank Bowman is trying to be kind to her the morning after her abortion, and coming to a fellow actor's defense when it looks like he'll be fired for alcoholism.
* MoralEventHorizon: Nick Fillipi pressures Patricia Honeywell into giving him a blow job so he'll "Try to persuade" the station not to have her kicked off "The Coming Of Night." [[spoiler: He's the Crone's next victim, but given it's entirely likely Nick was never going to argue on Patricia's behalf, it makes him very much an AssholeVictim.]]
* MyRealDaddy: Steven T. Seagle and Matt Wagner became this for both Wesley ''and'' Dian, updating them both for the modern age, refining their personalities, and turning them into one of the most devoted couples in the DC Universe.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The entire Goldman family from "The Tarantula". Celia Goldman is a rather creepy, manipulative woman who controls her gangster father Albert, a powerful mob boss that treats her as a "can do nothing wrong" golden child and is fronting her various illegal business ventures. It's later revealed that [[ParentalIncest Albert is carrying on an incestuous relationship with her, and has been molesting her since childhood]]. However, [[spoiler: we find out that Celia is a full-on sociopath who from a young age realized how she could manipulate her father's pedophile urges to get him to do whatever she wanted and willingly slept with him as opposed to being forced against her will to do so. Turning her father into her love slave, she turns father against mother and father against son, so that he provided her and her alone with financial support and have him terrorize and emotionally abuse her brother and her mother. They are forced to live under Celia's evil domination of the family until they find out from a woman that Albert had been keeping as a mistress on the side that she has convinced her father to change his will to leave everything to her. They then snap, kidnapping the mistress and torture her/murder a string of random wealthy socialites to provide cover to try and murder their monster daughter. While Celia and her mother and brother are depicted sympathetically enough that they probably weren't intended as HateSink, all behave unspeakably and harm countless innocents in their war against each other.]]
* TheWoobie: Emily Ramsey from ''The Brute'' is a sweet, gentle little girl whose father, "Rocket" Ramsey is doing his best to make a living as an honest boxer. The two dearly love one another and Emily even says to her, Rocket Ramsey is always number one. Sadly, she has a bronchial condition that requires expensive medicine (to the point she rations it), and her father's honesty and refusal to get mixed up in illegal black market fighting results in the mob after them, forcing them to abandon their home. They take refuge with a seemingly kindly tramp named Wilbur Schenk who proceeds to rape Emily when her father is out working, driving her into near catatonia and traumatizing her. Then to top it all off, her father is killed at the end with almost everyone else in the storyline. Wesley at least manages to rescue the poor kid and get her to Dian, with promises to see her healed and treated, and sets up a substantial trust fund to provide for her completely.
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