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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Gordon Rennie in one of his monthly rant columns in the ''Judge Dredd Megazine'' speculated that there is much HoYay between Johnny and Wulf. Naturally, this has resulted in much backlash and even prompted John Wagner to specifically write a scene where Wulf gets laid just to debunk this. He also speculated that Johnny was a drug addict [[MushroomSamba who was imagining his powers]].
* {{Anvilicious}}: Early strips were pretty heavy-handed with the anti-mutant racism. It's easy to forget that these were written when the Apartheid regime in South Africa still existed.
* CompleteMonster: See [[Monster/TwoThousandAD here]].
* HilariousInHindsight:
** One of Johnny Alpha's allies, [[https://britishcomics.fandom.com/wiki/The_Torso the Torso]], bares an eerie resemblance to [[https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/MSM-07_Z%27Gok a mobile suit in Gundam]].
** Middenface writing in a Scottish FunetikAksent is definitely funnier since [[Literature/{{Trainspotting}} an international bestseller]] was written the same way.
* IAmNotShazam: The main character is called Johnny Alpha. Strontium Dog is a derogatory term for a Search/Destroy agent.
* IronWoobie: Johnny is a rare example of a manly character who still manages to fall under this trope. Whether it's the sheer amount of crap that gets piled onto him or the way he stoically accepts the abuse and soldiers on; you can't help but feel like buying the poor man a beer and patting him on the back.
%%* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: There's certainly a good handful of these, especially when [[spoiler: Max Bubba]] finally gets what's coming to him for [[spoiler: killing Wulf]].
%%--> '''[[spoiler: Max Bubba]]:''' Why, Alpha--Why are you doin' this to me? Why are you ''torturin''' me this way?
%%--> '''Johnny:''' [[PreMortemOneLiner Because I hate you.]] '''''[GUNSHOT]'''''
* ReplacementScrappy: Feral falls squarely into this in the {{Spinoff}} ''Strontium Dogs''; he wasn't necessarily seen as a bad or hated character, but since he was filling in for the lead [[spoiler: after Johnny Alpha had died]], he had very big shoes to fill.
%%* TheScrappy: The Gronk.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: During "The Final Solution", while Middenface is writing a letter to Durham Red, "Sneck the poll tax" can be seen written down on one of the pages. This is a reference to Margaret Thatcher's controversial poll tax introduced in Scotland in 1989 and England and Wales in 1990, when the story was published. The poll tax was abolished just a year later.
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