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• Ass Pull: The Secret Agent Brothers consistently use contrived solutions one after the other in their missions.
• Big Name Fan: After receiving numerous Twitter messages about it, Simon Pegg read Axe Cop and liked what he saw. He went on to recommend it himself on his own Twitter, along with other cast members of MST3K.
  • The Ben 10 crew are fans too, and sent Malachai a signed Ben10 poster as a birthday gift (he's a fan). Very awesome.
  • A staff member from The IT Crowd asked for a copy of the CHOP poster to place on the set.
  • Rich Werner, creator of Plants vs. Zombies, provided a rendering of Zombies Vs. Plants for Ask Axe Cop #53. And of course, both Ethan and Malachai are fans of Plants vs. Zombies.
• Bizarro Episode: Subverted: The return of Baby-Man came around with absolutely no context whatsoever, (As the first comment on that page states, "wat.") and was way over the top in its design, but it was eventually tied into the main storyline.
• Complete Monster: Hasta Mia, who killed her own dog parents after deciding she could do whatever she wanted. Lobster Man, her brother, is out to stop her.
• Crazy Awesome: MANY examples (see page image), including a T-Rex that breathes fire, has a "super duper fast bite", wears cop glasses, has "robot machine gun arms", and can fly into space, and can also transform into a dragon with rocket wings. Let's just say "the entire series" and call it a day.
• Crosses the Line Twice: In a Halloween Ask Axe Cop, he is asked to design the scariest haunted house ever. The hypothetical family is left horribly, horribly traumatized. Then? A mechanical spider-camera hands them a DVD of their experience to enjoy in the future.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: You never would have expected this to spawn from a webcomic, but here it is, and it is glorious.
• Dancing Bear: Drawn by an expert hand... with a six-year-old as the writer.
• Designated Hero: Many of the actions of Axe Cop and company would be morally questionable in a story that was meant to be taken seriously.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Happens once to the Moon Warriors in the strip drawn by Malachi. Its done so hilariously though that this is proof that when played for laughs Tropes Are Not Bad.
• Dude, Not Funny!: Axe Cop locking a baby in a closet to keep her from eating, and putting cyborgs nearby to punch her any time she cries, drew quite a few complaints. Of course, this was written by an Seven year old who probably wouldn't think about why this is wrong.
• Ensemble Darkhorse
  • Several, most notably Baby Man, Mr. Stocker, and Bomb Joe.
  • Even Malachai has stated he prefers Wexter to Axe Cop himself. It's easy to see why.
  • The Secret Agent Brothers' minions, Dave Chicken and his car, also qualify.
  • Bat Warthog Man is now having his origin story told in the main series.
    • And then the comic topped all of those combined with the fan reaction to Army Chihuahua.
  • Super Axe, Axe Cop's classmate from fighting school and the only axe-wielding superhero, already has a fanbase clamouring for him to team up with Axe Cop some time.
  • Army Chihuahua. Just after his first appearance, he became stupidly popular from one dialogueless panel alone.
• Jerkass Woobie: Lobster Man.
• Memetic Badass: Axe Cop With Lemon doesn't get to stick around for long, but the fandom still declared him as being even better than the already-awesome Axe Cop.
• Memetic Mutation: REEEET!
• Mis-blamed: According to one interview, Moral Guardians wil occasionally call Malachai's childhood into question based on Ethan's more graphic artwork.
• Moral Event Horizon: Keeping with the Parental Abandonment themes, Hasta Mia crosses this after murdering her parents.
• MST3K Mantra: Pretty much required when you're reading a comic written by a 5-year old (8, now) boy.
• Narm Charm: The comic is nonsensical, but as it is written by a child, it becomes nostalgic to our own childhoods and stories.
• Nightmare Fuel: Various cases, but particularly the Baby Head Squid. That's some (perhaps unintentionally) creepy stuff.
  • Baby-Man's family, in large part because it's just so surreal. The shadowy drawing style and total lack of dialogue on the page that introduces them suggest that this may have been intentional.
  • The rabbits from Ask Axe Cop #76. These are giant rabbits created explicitly for the purpose of feeding an owl for a year, until they are reduced to bones. While they are still alive. They are stated to feel no pain, but whether that makes this less or more creepy, you have to decide for yourself.
• The Scrappy: Lobster Man and his domineering attitude earned a number of haters in his first few appearances. This didn't last long when his backstory revealed him as the brother of Hasta Mia desperate to stop her.
• Squick
  • Or, rather, "Plink."
  • What Axe Cop thinks of Lobster Man's plan to attack Hasta Mia.
  • The real final villain of the Ultimate Battle.
  • At the end of Bad Guy Earth, Axe Cop prays for God to make everyone on Earth poop in their pants. Cue Reaction Shots.
  • The original draft for the epilogue of Axe Cop Babysits Uni-Baby had the Magic World Police forcing Axe Cop and Dinosaur Soldier to eat their own poop and drink their own pee for the rest of their lives, which they get around by cloning themselves. Fortunately, Ethan refused to draw the comic this way, so the story was changed so that they would eat the rabbits that were too old to use instead.
• Too Cool to Live: The Moon Warriors and Fwinky Dog.
• Unfortunate Implications: Chapters 81 and 82 paint Axe Cop as a misogynistic slavemaster. In this universe, specialists can be bought for as much as $10.