Manga / Precarious Woman Executive Miss Black General

Today, we shall conquer the world ...and stalk my favorite hero of all time!

Precarious Woman Executive Miss Black General (Japanese: 残念女幹部ブラックジェネラルさん, Zannen Onna-Kanbu Black General-san) is an Affectionate Parody of Japanese superheroes.

The story follows the misadventures of Miss Black General, who is one of the executives of a rising new villainous organization called RX that aims for world domination. However, there's a bit of a snag there: the local superhero Braveman. No, not that he's a powerful adversary, though he's certainly that. The issue is that the General is his number one fan and mainly became a villain so she'd have a good excuse to stalk him. Any time Braveman commits a heroic act and tries to prevent the General's schemes, the latter mistakes his actions as a form of flirtation, much to Braveman's frustration.

How will the General and her organization conquer the world if she can't conquer her true feelings towards her number one hero?

The manga is written by and illustrated by jin, and began serialization in the shonen magazine Dragon Age in 2015. It is licensed for release in English by Seven Seas Entertainment.

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Precarious Woman Executive Miss Black General contains the following tropes:

• Accidental Pervert: The story really likes having the males get into situations that makes them look like perverts. In the beginning it involved Braveman with the General, but once he figured out how to avoid that, the other male characters like the Boss and Kamen Soldier picked up the slack, and unlike his case where the General enjoys it enough that she blushes every time, the other guys get more standard responses from the less-enthusiastic ladies.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: The General's drag her home to explain her conduct when they spot her on the job, leaving her subordinates to sit around awkwardly in the next room.
• Art Shift:
  • The Scientist creates a potion that turns Mr X realistic in chapter 20.
  • Chapter 33 has the General training so hard for the Hero Academy that she temporarily shifts to a style like that from a sports manga.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Both heroes and villains determine their ranks based on strength and how capable they are at their chosen profession, with the strongest among their individual groups acting as leader. That said, the story as a whole follows the concept of The Peter Principle, with the highest-ranking members of both sides having various mental oddities that result in them sucking terribly at leadership and constantly failing to achieve their proclaimed goals. Also, while all the villain groups supplement their strength with Benevolent Boss attitudes that foster genuine loyalty, the heroes make no effort to actually produce a system of structure, so the hierarchy of the Hero League is determined mostly through fear.
• Author Appeal:
  • GG's character profile states that she was originally meant to be a bit further down the cute/monstrous scale, but more and more of the author's favourite traits kept sneaking in.
  • A general example for all the female characters is that, no matter how big their chests and regardless of if it would make sense temperature-wise, their nipples are always shown erect through their clothing, even if their torso-wear is so thick in material that they shouldn't be visible, as commonly displayed with The General by how her breast-pockets jut out pointedly in the center.
• Awful Wedded Life: An old man RX takes hostage is thrilled to just be away from his wife for a while, only for her to show up in a fury and drag him away. Braveman is amazed the General can still think about marriage after seeing this.
• Ax-Crazy: Marshmallow Head's intro very strongly implies he's this; he's known as the 'Murderous Othello', he comes to a Hero League meeting with his boots all red after a fight, and his first answer to a problem is violence.
• Beach Episode: Chapters 28 and 29 are all about the heroes and villains taking a small break from work to enjoy the beach, which of course includes swimsuit fanservice and beach-gaming fun. In true fashion for the manga, there's also some craziness involving the complete wrecking of some attempted hero surveillance and RX continuing to cause problems for the heroes without even trying.
• Benevolent Boss: In contrast to the Hero League, where the "leaders" don't give much of a damn about heroes ranked below them, each of the villain organization bosses treat their underlings with respect and care, even being willing to put their own lives on the line to keep each and every one of them safe:
  • Mechayama Juuzou does his best to act as a Reasonable Authority Figure when dealing with everybody, and is willing to change his mind when faced with circumstances that show his old way of thinking is unfair to his subordinates.
  • Slime Tanaka is fully accepting of having Iron Girl in the Monster Benefit Society, despite being just an enhanced human, because he understands she needs a place to belong, and is willing to go out and work on a few things himself when his subordinates are busy earning money during Halloween.
  • Schwartz Phantom takes this the furthest among everybody, since he's both BDS' leader and the overall commander of the Villain League, with him not only being supportive and protective towards his own group, but also willing to put effort and resources into the risky endeavour of rescuing the Secretary for the Boss, both to save the person involved and to make sure none of the other villain groups are at risk of going through the same troubling experience.
• Big Damn Kiss: The Secretary finally kisses the Boss in chapter 121.
• Big Eater: The superheroine Impact has an utterly massive appetite, even being introduced eating numerous plates of dango, and she gets very angry if you mess with her food. Unfortunately, said appetite is so enormous that if she misses even a single meal, she gets so hungry she can barely function. It's to the point that, unlike the physical punishments for Marshmallow Head and Metal Prisoner, Mother Justice's punishment against Impact for failing to stop the villain infiltration is forbidding her from eating anything for a month, something that leaves her a sobbing and starving mess.
• Bio-Augmentation: The Scientist has a thing for this, particularly creating monsters by taking a living being and adding elements from other creatures to it, as with the Man-Eating Plant (plant + animal), Mr X (cat + human), GG (human + cockroach), Black Lion (human + lion), and Water Bear-chan (human + water bear).
• Black Comedy Rape: X-chan ravishes Licht when she accidentally gets dosed with an aphrodisiac. Tentacles included. Right there in front of everyone present. Including his mother.
• Bland-Name Product: Used all over the place, eg: 6/11 and Hentucky Fried Chicken.
• Blessed with Suck: The hero Metal Prisoner wasn't told he wouldn't be able to take off his Powered Armor until after he'd put it on.
• Blob Monster: Slime Tanaka, the leader of the Monster Benefit Society, is revealed to be one. Being treated like a Cute Slime Mook is his Berserk Button.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Lightning Man and the Secretary, courtesy of the Hero League Chairman.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: The characters periodically reference the fact they're in a manga, such as directly referring to previous chapters about prior events, and pointing out how it took RX nearly 50 chapters to try doing something genuinely evil, in this case rob a bank. They only do this occasionally, though, and otherwise treat the story seriously.
• Busman's Holiday: To his chagrin, Braveman can't go on vacation without running into Team RX.
• Butt-Monkey:
  • Rose Princess tries to portray herself with elegance and dignity, but the story lets her have neither.
  • Serious Glasses is near-constantly Surrounded by Idiots so badly that heavy amounts of indigestive medications are effectively part of his daily meals. It gets even worse when he takes over the job of being in charge of the Hero League, as the stresses of having to command everybody makes him start having aneurysms.
• The Cameo:
  • The titular characters of the author's previous manga Mishiro San To Yamada Kun appear in chapter 19.
  • Wall Slam Man from Mishiro San To Yamada Kun also makes an appearance in chapter 46, and again in chapter 62.
  • The Elf from another of the author's manga Ii Orc No Hi appears as a figurine in chapter 94.
• Cartoon Meat: Invoked in chapter 46: GG and Minion 2 patronise a stall specifically selling "manga style" cylindrical meat on a bone.
• Caught the Heart on His Sleeve: The Secretary shyly grabs the Boss' sleeve this way during one of the Villain League meetings, to Rose Princess' jealous fury.
• Censor Steam: The series uses both the steam and ray of light variants. It's lampshaded in chapter 52.
• Cherry Blossoms: RX hold a viewing of them in chapter 23 ...despite none actually being present. Their romantic connotations still manage to sneak in though, with Minion 2 and GG getting their first Ship Tease, something the others can only attribute to spring.
• Christmas Episode: Chapters 38 and 39, two consecutive stories set at Christmas.
• Chrome Champion: Iron Girl, the number 2 of the Monster Benefit Society, can turn herself into iron as her superpower.
• Chuunibyou: The BDS Group^note Black Dark Shadow, as if that wasn't a giveaway. is full of them, especially their leader Schwartz Phantom. Chapter 108 in volume 7 reveals that Schwartz Phantom's true superpower is being a Master of Illusion bordering on Reality Warping, depending on the strength of his imagination — meaning that his powers depend on, and feed into, him being a hopeless chuuni.
• Clingy Costume: Metal Prisoner's experimental Powered Armor permanently connects to the wearer's nervous system, thus removing it will kill the wearer, a fact that Metal Prisoner was only informed of after he put it on.
• Clingy Jealous Girl:
  • Rose Princess is a violently obsessed Psycho Lesbian towards the Secretary, and she utterly despises the Boss for having the Secretary's affections, taking any chance she gets at attempting to Murder the Hypotenuse before she gets stopped with an explosion from the Secretary herself.
  • Rose Mist utterly worships the ground her mistress Rose Princess walks on, and is desperate for her to even notice her romantically. She absolutely hates how the Secretary has Rose Princess' obsessively undivided attention, and occasionally tries to fight or kill her so that she can potentially redirect her mistress' attention to herself. Said efforts against the Secretary are either ignored or responded to with an annoyed explosion.
• Clothing Damage: Used for both fanservice and humour. Various attacks frequently leave characters' clothes in tatters.
• Combat Commentator: Subverted humorously during the battle between GG and a brainwashed Lightning Man. Slime Tanaka starts running a commentary about how the fight is going, claiming that he has Super-Senses which let him view the two characters despite both having Super-Speed that makes them near invisible to the naked eye outside of their Kung Fu Sonic Booms. But near the end of the fight, it turns out he was just shouting incorrect nonsense since he has normal senses as well, to which Slime Tanaka admits that he just wanted to be involved somehow.
• Comedic Shotacon: In chapter 43 RX considers scouting a slit-mouthed woman who uses her frightening appearance to stun young boys and then have her way with them. The comedy comes from the subversion of the usual expectation of the Urban Legend being murderous as opposed to being a pervert. Not quite comedic enough to avoid getting arrested though, after the General's antics give her intended victims a chance to press their alarm and leave her leg too sore to escape.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Schwartz Phantom is an overdramatic idiot, but he turns out to be remarkably well researched and resourceful when things get serious, easily figuring out the party responsible for kidnapping the Secretary and what their plan is. His black flames are also able to one-shot an enemy that all four of his subordinates can't even damage.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: The story as a whole fully averts this. The various villain organizations completely lack Offscreen Villain Dark Matter, so all of them have various non-criminal side-gigs they use to provide money for their causes utilizing their abilities and other skills, such as the Monster Benefit Society taking up jobs as "fake" monsters during Halloween. RX takes this the furthest, as they're a borderline case of Perpetual Poverty, so everybody is constantly looking out for ways to maintain a consistent income and keep from going broke.
• Dark Action Girl: The General, GG and the Secretary are this, as they work for the villainous RX organization which is bent on world domination. However, the most active member remains the General herself.
• Date Peepers: In a fit of seething envy, Minions 1 and 3 end up stalking Minion 2 when they think he's on a date with GG. She wanted to find a birthday present for her dad, and asked Minion 2 along for his input.
• Dating Catwoman: Later on in the story, Mother Justice's son Licht falls in love with RX's newest monster X-chan, a human plant tentacle girl. Ultimately it ends with him traumatized by her when she forcibly mates with him, but it's shown that she likes him and wants to be with him. His mother does not approve.
• Dirty Old Man: Much like Master Roshi, Marshal Turtle is all about perving on shapely young women. He goes apoplectic on Braveman upon learning that women are throwing themselves at him.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": Kamen Soldier is the only character who has their actual name referenced, with it being Suzutanaka Yamatarou (localized as "Skeeter Hatfield" in the English translation of Volume 2, though reverted to the original Japanese the following volume). He also utterly hates being called by his real name, since the spelling and meaning of it makes his origins as a country-bumpkin nobody before becoming a hero obvious. Various characters repeatedly call him by it purely for the sake of insulting him, and it's such a generic name that he gets a case of Accidental Misnaming from Honest Rate, which pisses him off even more than using the proper spelling.
• The Dreaded: Mother Justice, the strongest member of the Hero League, is the only one capable of keeping the other top heroes in line, mostly through fear.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: The head of the Hero League training program isn't hesitant to verbally beat down the recruits.
• Driven to Suicide: Played for laughs. The General responds to her lack of resemblance to Braveman's type by requesting someone buy her a rope and a stool, and find her a nice tree.
• Embarrassing Superpower: GG wanted to have the speed and agility of a ninja. She got them... at the price of her powers being cockroach-based. Even when she's running fast enough for a Doppelgänger Spin it sounds like a cockroach skittering across the floor.
• Enemy Mine: Braveman is forced to ally with the Villain League to stop the Chairman of the Hero League.
• Energy Weapon: The Scientist has invented several but the recoil is always too great to use.
• Everyone Can See It: It becomes increasingly obvious to everybody how there's a clear case of romantic interest between the Boss and Secretary, given how they repeatedly interact in ways filled with affection and loyalty. Obvious to everybody but themselves, that is, as the two keep going about their days each thinking the other only has a platonic view of their relationship. It reaches its zenith in Chapter 69, where the sight of them being almost there is so annoying to the General, since her own "romance" has made zero progress, that she and the Scientist hatch plans to try forcing them to hook up.
• Eviler than Thou: When RX tries to rob a bank they're immediately taken hostage by real criminals.
• Evil Is Not Well-Lit: Deliberately used in BDS' base, where the Chuunibyou members like to spend most of their time just chuckling evilly around a table in near total darkness. Weiss Salamander wishes they'd turn the lights on.
• Expy:
  • Kamen Soldier is based on the Showa-era Kamen Riders.
  • Marshmallow Head is an expy of Anpanman, being a superhero with a head made of food.
  • Metal Prisoner's Powered Armor bears more than a passing resemblance to that of Iron Man.
  • Marshal Turtle is a pretty obvious shout out to Muten Roshi.
  • Jester dresses as his namesake, always smiles, uses traps armed with noxious gas, and takes delight in antagonizing Braveman (and the General), a clear allusion to The Joker.
• Face of a Thug: Chapter 50 has RX take in for the day a stray monster called Balor who looks ridiculously evil and has raw power to match, but who turns out to be a nervous wreck that faints at the drop of a hat.
• Fake-Hair Drama: The General winds up getting kicked out of the Hero League training program by knocking off the wig of the instructor and revealing his baldness.
• Fanservice: Separate from the designated cases of Ms. Fanservice, Mr X and the male minions are quite pleased by the sight of two schoolgirls falling in love due to a misapplied Love Potion ...which quickly becomes major Fan Disservice when two middle aged businessmen do the same.
• Femme Fatale: Expensive gown, check. Long gloves, check. Cigarette holder, check. Rose Princess clearly sees herself as an elegant and ruthless lady ...but in practice she's just as much of a Butt-Monkey as everyone else around her.
• Flying Brick: The chief agent of the Hero League, Mother Justice, is a flying, super strong, energy wielding beast of a woman who can intimidate the next 3 strongest heroes all at once for it.
• Foil: Kamen Soldier and Honest Rate are pretty much like night and day when it comes to their characters, a contrast enhanced by them being made partners. Kamen Soldier is an arrogant tryhard guy who's constantly boasting about his abilities due to his Inferiority Superiority Complex compelling him to avoid being a nobody, while Honest Rate is a diligent and hard-working girl who's a case of The Ace that's constantly pushing herself to improve due to her Heroic Self-Deprecation preventing her from seeing how amazing she already is.
• Forgotten First Meeting: Braveman saved the General from a falling steel beam when they were both teens. Neither knows the other is the same person from their past.
• For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: The Monster Benefit Society get a lot of employment opportunities out of Halloween.
• For the Evulz: Chapter 87 reveals the existence of the "Organization", a group of individuals whose only motivation is to commit evil for evil's sake. Members include The Ph.D., the former Chairman of the Hero League, alias Mr. Brainwashing, and Jester.
• Classical Elements Ensemble: Schwartz Phantom's subordinates each represent a classical element, with several of their names directly invoking the Alchemic Elementals. Weiss Salamander has fire-based powers, Ground Golem has earth-based abilities, Violet Aquarius has water-based abilities, and Gruen Hurricane has air-based abilities.
• From the Mouths of Babes: A trio of kids say some pretty piercing things to the General in chapter 45.
• Funbag Airbag: After being shrunk in an experiment, Minion 1 ends up getting launched across the room right into the sleeping Scientist's cleavage. Cue him turning back to normal on top of her naked body.
• Funny Background Event: While Braveman tries to get the Boss or Black Lion to fight him at the beach, one can see GG in the background trying to volunteer, then going into a Corner of Woe when she's ignored.
• Genre Savvy:
  • The Minions clear out when the Boss makes the Secretary dress up as a maid and do chores for him, knowing that it can't end well. They theorise that the Boss knows this too really, but considers it Worth It.
  • The General realises that keeping a Love Potion in the base's communal fridge is just asking for trouble. Alas, it's already too late.
  • Schwartz Phantom is horrified when he realises the epic battle he wants with top 4 heroine Impact is turning into a comedy gag instead.
• Giant Food: One chapter has RX go foraging for food in the woods after the Scientist sprays the area with plant growth promoter. They wind up running afoul of a titanic mushroom and an equally giant bamboo shoot duking it out like Kaiju.
• Green-Eyed Monster:
  • A literal example with stray monster Zero Duty, who's feelings of Valentine's envy mutated him into a chocolate stealing beast that seeks to destroy the holiday.
  • Minions 1 and 3 stalk Minion 2 when they think he's going out with GG, refusing to allow him to be more successful with girls than they are.
• Groin Attack:
  • Zero Duty gets kicked hard between the legs by the General, much to the male onlookers' horror.
  • In chapter 64, the General, Minions 1, 2, 3, and RX's Boss each make threats on the Arc Villain's balls, with Braveman starting to wonder if they have some weird fixation. The General is the one to eventually make good on her threat to livestream his face as she delivers the decisive kick.
• Half-Human Hybrid: GG, Black Lion and Water Bear-chan are all bio-augmented humans with animal traits given to them by the Scientist. Mr X approaches the trope from the other way, as a cat given human traits.
• Healing Factor: Both Slime Tanaka and Marshmallow Head have one, leading to a Mutual Disadvantage when they fight.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Honest Rate has a rather low sense of self-esteem, constantly putting herself down and training harder in the hopes of becoming a great hero. Even though it's clear to everybody that she's already an exemplary hero, she's so stubborn in her belief that she needs to constantly get better that she blocks out any praise.
• Hot Springs Episode: In chapter 52, the RX Group decide they need to get away from the hot weather by heading to a secret hot spring.
• Inconsistent Dub: Volume 2 of the official North American English release localized Kamen Soldier's real name as "Skeeter Hatfield", while in volume 3 half of his Japanese name, "Suzutanaka", is used, with no reference to volume 2's name.
• Inelegant Blubbering: Schwartz Phantom's reactions to heartwarming stuff are just as overdramatic as everything else he does.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: There are strong hints that the reason why Kamen Soldier acts like a Smug Super is because he's fully aware that he's basically a country-bumpkin nobody outside his hero identity, and is constantly hyping himself up out of the fear that he might return to being a nobody.
• In Love with Your Carnage: The Princess of the Rogue Roses becomes smitten with the Secretary's explosions.
• Is This Thing Still On?: Metal Prisoner runs afoul of the Robot Yakuza when his Mission Control starts badmouthing them over his intercom.
• It's All Upstairs From Here: RX exhaust themselves climbing the stairs of the hero headquarters during their raid.
• Kinky Spanking: What Minion 2 imagines when he hears that Rose Mist is being punished by Rose Princess for attacking RX.
• Kung-Fu Sonic Boom: GG and Lightning Man have a Dragon Ball Z-esque high speed battle in chapter 56 with onlookers only able to see their mid-air impacts.
• Legion of Doom: The Villain League, comprising various evil organizations who decided to set aside their differences in the face of the Hero League.
• Love Potion: The General tries to dose Braveman on more than one occasion. Naturally it never reaches the right target.
• Mad Scientist: The Ph.D. is a member of the "Organization" whose "experiments challenge the bounds of science and dabble in the taboo". He's created multiple clones of the General, but they are not as well controlled as he thought they would be.
• Man-Eating Plant: The Scientist is introduced being attacked by a giant flower monster of her own creation. She follows up on her plans to improve it in a later chapter.
• Mass Hypnosis: The ultimate plan of the Chairman of the Hero League is to Take Over the World by broadcasting his hypnotic abilities worldwide.
• Meido:
  • The Boss has the Secretary dress up as one to make up for (supposedly) breaking one of his figurines.
  • His tastes are shared by one of the underworld figures RX tries to sell to in chapter 39.
  • Three of the General's clones wind up having to work at a maid cafe to earn a living.
• Me's a Crowd:
  • Slime Tanaka considers weaponising his ability to split himself in chapter 67 this way ...except he doesn't actually have that ability. Iron Girl tries having him torn apart in annoyance.
  • The General gets herself duplicated many times over in a later arc.
• Mirror Boss: During the villains' raid on the heroes' base, Mechayama Juuzou ends up fighting Metal Prisoner and Slime Tanaka fights Marshmallow Head. The latter pair's powers wind up being so similar that neither can hurt the other, much to their frustration.
• Ms. Fanservice: The female members of the main cast are frequently shown off in ways that put their attractively well-developed bodies on display, particularly the fact that their nipples are near-constantly erect and visible no matter what outfits they're wearing. The General gets the brunt of it, both through sexy cover art and occasional situations where she acts as a Shameless Fanservice Girl towards Braveman (something that disgusts him even more than her usual flirting), but the other girls get in on the fun too, such as the Scientist also being a Shameless Fanservice Girl, not really getting what's the big deal about exposing herself, even sleeping naked due to feeling too restless otherwise, and GG acting as the designated Reluctant Fanservice Girl, often ending up in situations that expose her body or put her into sexy positions against her will.
• Mutual Disadvantage: Neither Slime Tanaka nor Marshmallow Head can dish out enough damage to overcome the other's Healing Factor.
• Nameless Narrative: 99% of the cast is never referred to by their actual names. There are rare exceptions, such as Kamen Soldier's real name Susutanaka Yamatarou (which he strongly wishes nobody would call him, since it reminds him of his country-bumpkin origins), but the vast majority are referred to by a moniker:
  • The Black General, the Scientist, the Secretary, and the Boss are all cases of Everyone Calls Them Barkeep, referencing their roles in RX.
  • The minions are all a case of You Are Number 6, being called Minion 1, Minion 2, and Minion 3.
  • The various other superheroes and supervillains, such as Braveman, Black Lion, GG, and Water Bear-chan, are only referred to by their super-identities.
  • Even the organization of the main cast, RX, is an example. It's quite clearly an acronym, but what it stands for is never mentioned at any point.
• Ninja: GG wanted to have the abilities of a ninja, so she agreed to be turned into a monster. Unfortunately for her self-esteem, she became part-cockroach.
• Nominal Hero: The vast majority of "heroes" in the story aren't very heroic mentally. While everybody in the Hero League works to keep the world safe, they're pretty much a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits who oftentimes fight more with each other than they do the villains, and a good deal of them fall more under Punch-Clock Hero, only fighting because they get something out of it.
• Nosebleed:
  • The General gets them frequently over Braveman.
  • Minion 1 when he discovers the Scientist Sleeps in the Nude.
  • Rose Princess also gets one over the Secretary in her introductory chapter and Rose Mist gets one over her master in a swimsuit spread.
• Not What It Looks Like:
  • Braveman seems cursed to have people assume he's a willing participant to the General's antics.
  • In Chapter 46, Minions 1 and 3 stalk Minion 2 and GG, getting ready to beat the pulp out of him for daring to go on a date with her. Then it turns out she wanted a guy to advise her in choosing a gift of her parent's anniversary.
• The Nudifier: On seeing the General and the Minions tied up by her flower monster, the Scientist verbally kicks herself for not having thought to give it acidic secretions that only melt clothes, earning a WTF from everyone else. Version 2 has exactly that upgrade, to the misfortune of the General, the Minions, GG and Honest Rate.
• Oh, Crap!: Mr X has a good one when he realises the applicant he's been bullying is actually the head of the Villain League.
• Old Master: Marshal Turtle, a retired hero who Braveman goes to visit for advice and training with Honest Rate and Karmen Soldier. Unfortunately, he's also a Dirty Old Man who punishes Braveman for his Clueless Chick-Magnet ability.
• Omniscient Council of Vagueness: The General manifests one of these as her Ghost in the Machine while trying to process a potential rival for Braveman's affections. Each member of the council is a version of herself filling a common archetype — one General with a bushy scientist mustache, another wearing square glasses, and the leader doing a Gendo impersonation.
• Only Sane Man:
  • Mechayama Juuzou is the only leader among the Villain League that has his head mostly on his shoulders, even if he has a few eccentricities himself that can make him Not So Above It All.
  • Hero League rep Serious Glasses serves as one amongst the heroes' board of higher ups.
  • Weiss Salamander is the only known member of BDS who isn't a pretentious Chuunibyou.
• Playful Cat Smile: A frequent art choice when characters are being coy.
• Playing with Fire: Schwartz Phantom has the power to wield some kind of black flames, and his second in command, Weiss Salamander, wields white ones.
• Poor Communication Kills: RX's first Christmas party almost goes down the tubes due to not deciding ahead of time who should bring what food. Fortunately, Secretary and GG save the day.
• Potty Emergency:
  • Mr X wets himself after incurring the wrath of Black Lion by taking his food.
  • Because his powers are mental rather than physical, when RX is drugged in chapter 97, the Boss is dosed with a laxative to get him off the scene instead of the paralysing agent everyone else had. There's no toilet paper in the only port-a-potty too.
• Powered Armor:
  • The Scientist invents a set in chapter 10 that the General gets the Minions to use ...without the control helmet.
  • Hero League member Metal Prisoner is trapped in one due to it being permanently attached to his nervous system.
• Powerful, but Incompetent: Balor, a cyclops who looks like an RPG endboss, with Eye Beams strong enough to destroy a city, but who faints at the slightest provocation (or after using his abilities).
• Psycho Lesbian: The Rogue Roses' knight Rose Mist has an unhealthy obsession with her leader, who in turn has an unhealthy obsession with the Secretary.
• Punch a Wall: Wall Slam Man's self-proclaimed heroic goal is to prevent frustrated people from punching "innocent walls" by asking them to punch him instead.
• Punch-Clock Hero: While there are a few genuinely heroic characters, the vast majority of "heroes" in the Hero League aren't really into heroism for the goodness of it. Some do it for the money, some do it for fame and recognition, and some do it because it legally allows them to beat people to a pulp without fear of repurcussion.
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: A favoured fighting technique of the Robot Yakuza's leader, throwing 1000 punches in quick succession.
• Robot Maid: RX's only successful sale to a group of shadowy underworld types ends up being a rather janky maid-bot.
• Rocket Punch: Another of Mechayama Juuzou's techniques, which the Boss gets a taste of first hand (haha) after nonchalantly mocking it.
• Running Gag: Whenever the Boss and Secretary have some time alone together, whatever other circumstances might occur, one thing that's guaranteed to happen is the Secretary getting so flustered, whether from the Boss' idiocy or experiencing a romantic moment with him, that she blows up the entire base.
• Scarf of Asskicking: Kamen Soldier, in keeping with being a Kamen Rider expy.
• Sexy Secretary: Four of the five Villain League groups have a beautiful woman as their second in command. To quote the author's bio of RX's Secretary: "Any evil boss has to have a blonde secretary by his side. It's practically the law."
• Sharp-Dressed Man: The Secretary, General, and GG all dress up in dapper suits for RX's product presentation in chapter 39.
• Ship Tease:
  • Ever since he cheered her up by calling her cute, GG is noted to get blushy around Minion 2. In chapter 86 it's revealed they finally started dating a week prior.
  • There's implied to be a little something between the Secretary and the Boss deep down, as seen when she embraces him after being saved from her kidnapping.
  • Every once in a while, there comes to be a few scenes or even an entire chapter which provide hints that Braveman and the General actually have the potential for making a good couple, since whenever circumstances arise that either nullify potential antagonism (like Braveman temporarily getting amnesia) or they somehow cross each other while in their Secret Identities, the General shows that she's both Above the Influence and genuinely finds Braveman's true Face of a Thug appearance rough but cool without any bias about his identity.
• Shipper on Deck: The General and the Scientist try spurring the Boss and the Secretary to act on their feelings in chapter 69, mostly because they're sick of watching them fail to acknowledge something so obvious.
• Shrink Ray: Shrink spray. Minion 1 gets shrunk down by the Scientist in one of her experiments, then attacked by a robot mouse.
• Smashing Watermelons: RX play the melon smashing game during their trip to the beach.
• Something Person: Braveman and Lightning Man.
• Spy Cam: The General gets one built into her hat pin, but to her dismay, she can't get any clear pictures of Braveman when he's moving around. In the end she has to ask him to stand still while she uses it, defeating the point of it being covert.
• Stating the Simple Solution: After many chapters of RX being hard pressed for money, Mr X asks why the self professed evil organisation doesn't just steal some. All present are stunned to silence at how obvious this should have been. Of course, given how badly they screw up the bank heist, it wasn't that "simple" at all.
• Take Over the World:
  • The Rogue Roses, who wish to take over the world so they can reshape it to their ideals of elegance.
  • The Robot Yakuza desire to conquer the world and build a civilisation of, by, and for robots.
  • Similarly, the Monster Benefit Society seeks to create a world for monsters like themselves.
  • The BDS Group seem to want to take over the world just because it's cool.
  • The Chairman of the Hero League is revealed to actually be attempting to subjugate the Alliance and eventually the world through Mass Hypnosis.
• Thanks for the Mammary:
  • Braveman accidentally gropes the General in chapter 2. Guilt ensues.
  • Kamen Soldier accidentally gropes Honest Rate in chapter 40. Violence ensues.
• There Was a Door: Marshmallow Head blasts through a wall to enter a room because he's in a hurry. He doesn't quite seem to have got his head around doors just yet.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: Played for laughs. Serious Glasses enters a state of tranquil horror after hearing about the PR nightmare that is the evil plot of the Hero League Chairman and then the Villain League having successfully invaded the heroes' headquarters to stop him. Cut to Serious Glasses in a press interview later, still with the same stare.
• Training from Hell: Braveman gets some harsh words and even harsher training from Old Master Marshal Turtle.
• Transformation Is a Free Action: Discussed and averted. Lengthy transformations, power-ups, and telegraphed moves are a major no-no in fighting according to Marshal Turtle, who tells Braveman this in no uncertain terms.
• Valentine's Day Episode: Chapter 19 focuses on the General trying to give her Valentine's chocolate to Braveman.
• Villainous BSoD: GG goes into a bad state of depression due to feeling useless compared to Black Lion. Minion 2 cheers her up by pointing out that while Black Lion is more of an anthropomorphic animal, GG kept her looks as a Cute Monster Girl.
• Villain Team-Up: The Villain League, specifically formed to counter the heroes' counterpart.
• Wardrobe Malfunction: The General's victory over the Hero League Chairman is somewhat marred by her shirt popping open and exposing her naked breasts on camera during a worldwide broadcast.
• We ARE Struggling Together:
  • Rookie hero Honest Rate gets partnered with Kamen Soldier, but can't stand his approach to heroics. Every time they meet the bad guys, they end up fighting each other before they can get round to fighting their opponents.
  • The top members of the Hero League can't go one meeting without fighting.
  • Their villainous counterparts aren't much better in their alliance either.
• What Measure Is a Mook?: Part of the story's parodic nature is that the Faceless Goons common in tokusatsu stories are instead treated as part of the major cast, with there being a specific number of goons in each villain group who showcase plenty of individual personality, most notably the Minion Trio of RX, who despite having a case of You Are Number 6 manage to be distinct from one another. Some of those minions even get Ship Tease with more visually distinct characters, like Minion 2 with GG.
• Yakuza: The Robot Yakuza lead by Mechayama Juuzou, one of the organizations belonging to the Villain League, are humanoid robots that act like a typical Japanese mafia.
• You Have Failed Me: Jester breaks into the secure facility where the ex-chairman of the hero league is being held, not to break him out, but to gas him for his failure.
• You Wanna Get Sued?: Chapter 95 introduces a new villain with a penchant for using gas filled traps, wears a perpetual shit-eating grin, behaves like an utter Troll, and "looks an awful lot like a playing card". Him appearing in the same scene as Braveman, who's "silhouette looks like a certain other hero's" makes the General nervous that the manga will catch the attention of "their" lawyers. Him calling Braveman "Bats" in his response does not help. To top it off he reveals his alias is "Jester" when he leaves.

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