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-->Robin: Did... did I save my lesbian?
-->[[JerkAss Mike: No. She died.]]
-->Amber: Yes Robin. You saved them. And you saved the store.
-->Robin: Th'n that was purty kickass. [[FamousLastWords Tell my Tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, th' ill deeds along wit' th' good. And let me be judged 'cordingly.]] Though, if y' embellished it wit' a hot threesome 'r somethin', that'd be cool.
** The robber arc.

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-->Robin: --->'''Robin:''' Did... did I save my lesbian?
-->[[JerkAss Mike: --->'''[[JerkAss Mike]]:''' No. She died.]]
-->Amber:
died.
--->'''Amber:'''
Yes Robin. You saved them. And you saved the store.
-->Robin: --->'''Robin:''' Th'n that was purty kickass. [[FamousLastWords Tell my Tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, th' ill deeds along wit' th' good. And let me be judged 'cordingly.]] Though, if y' embellished it wit' a hot threesome 'r somethin', that'd be cool.
** * The robber arc.



--> '''Robber''': ''[As he is loaded into an ambulance]]'' IT WAS REAGAN, I TELL YOU! RONALD REAGAN BROKE MY LEGS! [= =]
** [[StrawVulcan Straw Vulcans]], take note: [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-9/09-grand-reopening/ripcord/ this]] is how a ''real'' scientist handles emotions.
** Dude, [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-6/05-fazs-magic-wall/amberrampage/ go Amber]]! She tells off Faz, beats up Ninja Rick, and ''yells at Reagan''.
*** Faz's line just before the showdown. This troper didn't even know one could talk dirty to a girl in SpockSpeak...
** The last two panels of [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-6/04-a-poor-mans-mike/margarine/ this]] strip are definitely another win for Amber.
*** [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-6/04-a-poor-mans-mike/teamrobin/ The follow-up is even better.]]
** The actual phrase "Crowning Moment of Awesome" is used in [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-7/03-summer-slump/crowningmoment/ this strip]]. The walls of fiction and reality are breaking down! I don't know what to believe any more!
** [[JerkAss Mike,]] [[RefugeInAudacity MIKE,]] has an EvenEvilHasStandards moment with the aptly named [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/01-daddy-issues/asshole-2/ Asshole Guy]]. Yeah he's a lot crueler than anybody else in the comic, but at least he cops to it.

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--> '''Robber''': ''[As he is loaded into an ambulance]]'' ambulance]'' IT WAS REAGAN, I TELL YOU! RONALD REAGAN BROKE MY LEGS! [= =]
** * [[StrawVulcan Straw Vulcans]], take note: [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-9/09-grand-reopening/ripcord/ this]] is how a ''real'' scientist handles emotions.
** * Dude, [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-6/05-fazs-magic-wall/amberrampage/ go Amber]]! She tells off Faz, beats up Ninja Rick, and ''yells at Reagan''.
*** ** Faz's line just before the showdown. This troper didn't even know one could talk dirty to a girl in SpockSpeak...
** * The last two panels of [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-6/04-a-poor-mans-mike/margarine/ this]] strip are definitely another win for Amber.
*** ** [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-6/04-a-poor-mans-mike/teamrobin/ The follow-up is even better.]]
** * The actual phrase "Crowning Moment of Awesome" is used in [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-7/03-summer-slump/crowningmoment/ this strip]]. The walls of fiction and reality are breaking down! I don't know what to believe any more!
** * [[JerkAss Mike,]] [[RefugeInAudacity MIKE,]] has an EvenEvilHasStandards moment with the aptly named [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/01-daddy-issues/asshole-2/ Asshole Guy]]. Yeah he's a lot crueler than anybody else in the comic, but at least he cops to it.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' The story where Les gets kidnapped. After beating her location out of Faz, Amber tries to convince her that it's too dangerous and she should give up. Robin's response? [[LetsGetDangerous Let's]] [[BigDamnHeroes do]] [[AssKickingPose this]] [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-11/03-vote-chopperface/letthebattlebejoined poop.]] [[spoiler:[[ImprobableWeaponUser She then picks up a toy foam sword]] and proceeds to own three douches in short order, get Walter Mondale to quit, and after a beat down by Sarah Palin, [[HeroicSecondWind gets back up]] and gives her a colonoscopy Faz-styled]]. All in the setting of [[spoiler:the [[AbandonedWarehouse Shortpacked store which is dark because it's pre-opening hours]].]]

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* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' The story where Les gets kidnapped. After beating her location out of Faz, Amber tries to convince her that it's too dangerous and she should give up. Robin's response? [[LetsGetDangerous Let's]] [[BigDamnHeroes do]] [[AssKickingPose this]] [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-11/03-vote-chopperface/letthebattlebejoined poop.]] [[spoiler:[[ImprobableWeaponUser She then picks up a toy foam sword]] and proceeds to own three douches in short order, get Walter Mondale to quit, and after a beat down by Sarah Palin, [[HeroicSecondWind gets back up]] and gives her a colonoscopy Faz-styled]]. All in the setting of [[spoiler:the [[AbandonedWarehouse Shortpacked store which is dark because it's pre-opening hours]].]]
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* [[spoiler: When Rachel shows up to pull the Alternate Universe's Drama Tag, she effortlessly defeats the alternate versions of Galasso, Ninja Rick, and Malaya. It was so awesome that Leslie and Alternate Amber were turned on by it. And several of the fans were apparently turned into lesbians. Even the men.]]

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* [[spoiler: When Rachel shows up to pull the Alternate Universe's Drama Tag, she effortlessly defeats the alternate versions of Galasso, Ninja Rick, and Malaya. It was so awesome that Leslie and Alternate Amber were turned on by it. And several of the fans were apparently turned into lesbians. Even the men.]]]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' The story where Les gets kidnapped. After beating her location out of Faz, Amber tries to convince her that it's too dangerous and she should give up. Robin's response? [[LetsGetDangerous Let's]] [[BigDamnHeroes do]] [[AssKickingPose this]] [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-11/03-vote-chopperface/letthebattlebejoined poop.]] [[spoiler:[[ImprobableWeaponUser She then picks up a toy foam sword]] and proceeds to own three douches in short order, get Walter Mondale to quit, and after a beat down by Sarah Palin, [[HeroicSecondWind gets back up]] and gives her a colonoscopy Faz-styled]]. All in the setting of [[spoiler:the [[AbandonedWarehouse Shortpacked store which is dark because it's pre-opening hours]].]]
** And all in one panel.
** Then she beats Sydney Yus. With FridgeLogic
*** Actually, [[spoiler:not burning down the store made sense because then Galasso would have collected the insurance and rebuilt the store.]] Although, Sydney didn't think of that so it was fridge logic at the time.
-->Robin: Did... did I save my lesbian?
-->[[JerkAss Mike: No. She died.]]
-->Amber: Yes Robin. You saved them. And you saved the store.
-->Robin: Th'n that was purty kickass. [[FamousLastWords Tell my Tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, th' ill deeds along wit' th' good. And let me be judged 'cordingly.]] Though, if y' embellished it wit' a hot threesome 'r somethin', that'd be cool.
** The robber arc.
--> '''Galasso''': First mistake: ''Never'' tell Galasso what to do. Second Mistake: Never assume a man does not have ninjas at his disposal.
--> So after you were shot, Ronnie got up and disarmed the robber himself. With ''patriotism.''
--> '''Robber''': ''[As he is loaded into an ambulance]]'' IT WAS REAGAN, I TELL YOU! RONALD REAGAN BROKE MY LEGS! [= =]
** [[StrawVulcan Straw Vulcans]], take note: [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-9/09-grand-reopening/ripcord/ this]] is how a ''real'' scientist handles emotions.
** Dude, [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-6/05-fazs-magic-wall/amberrampage/ go Amber]]! She tells off Faz, beats up Ninja Rick, and ''yells at Reagan''.
*** Faz's line just before the showdown. This troper didn't even know one could talk dirty to a girl in SpockSpeak...
** The last two panels of [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-6/04-a-poor-mans-mike/margarine/ this]] strip are definitely another win for Amber.
*** [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-6/04-a-poor-mans-mike/teamrobin/ The follow-up is even better.]]
** The actual phrase "Crowning Moment of Awesome" is used in [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-7/03-summer-slump/crowningmoment/ this strip]]. The walls of fiction and reality are breaking down! I don't know what to believe any more!
** [[JerkAss Mike,]] [[RefugeInAudacity MIKE,]] has an EvenEvilHasStandards moment with the aptly named [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/01-daddy-issues/asshole-2/ Asshole Guy]]. Yeah he's a lot crueler than anybody else in the comic, but at least he cops to it.
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* [[spoiler: When Rachel shows up to pull the Alternate Universe's Drama Tag, she effortlessly defeats the alternate versions of Galasso, Ninja Rick, and Malaya. It was so awesome that it Leslie and Alternate Amber were turned on by it. And several of the fans were apparently turned into lesbians. Even the men.]]

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* [[spoiler: When Rachel shows up to pull the Alternate Universe's Drama Tag, she effortlessly defeats the alternate versions of Galasso, Ninja Rick, and Malaya. It was so awesome that it Leslie and Alternate Amber were turned on by it. And several of the fans were apparently turned into lesbians. Even the men.]]
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* [[spoiler: When Rachel shows up to pull the Alternate Universe's Drama Tag, She effortlessly defeats the alternate versions of Galasso, Ninja Rick, and Malaya. It was so awesome that it Leslie and Alternate Amber were turned on by it. And several of the fans were apparently turned into lesbians. Even the men.]]

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* [[spoiler: When Rachel shows up to pull the Alternate Universe's Drama Tag, She she effortlessly defeats the alternate versions of Galasso, Ninja Rick, and Malaya. It was so awesome that it Leslie and Alternate Amber were turned on by it. And several of the fans were apparently turned into lesbians. Even the men.]]
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* Happened [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome off-screen]], but Robin [[spoiler: managed to defeat Head Alien II. How? By cutting him up into sixteen pieces with a laser cannon and chucking the pieces in several different alternate dimensions. Why? [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Because he hurt Leslie.]]]]

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* Happened [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome off-screen]], but Robin [[spoiler: managed to defeat Head Alien II. How? By cutting him up into sixteen pieces with a laser cannon and chucking the pieces in several different alternate dimensions. Why? [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Because he hurt Leslie.]]]]]]]]
* [[spoiler: When Rachel shows up to pull the Alternate Universe's Drama Tag, She effortlessly defeats the alternate versions of Galasso, Ninja Rick, and Malaya. It was so awesome that it Leslie and Alternate Amber were turned on by it. And several of the fans were apparently turned into lesbians. Even the men.]]
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* Lucy demonstrates Starfire's influence on her to be a [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2012/comic/book-14/05-merger-and-restructuring/lowhangingfruit/ strong feminine figure]] while still being a nice girl.
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* Happened off-screen, but Robin [[spoiler: managed to defeat Head Alien II. How? By cutting him up into sixteen pieces with a laser cannon and chucking the pieces in several different alternate dimensions. Why? [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Because he hurt Leslie.]]]]

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* Happened off-screen, [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome off-screen]], but Robin [[spoiler: managed to defeat Head Alien II. How? By cutting him up into sixteen pieces with a laser cannon and chucking the pieces in several different alternate dimensions. Why? [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Because he hurt Leslie.]]]]
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Adding Robin beating Head Alien II to the list.


* Amber finally calls out her dad for everything he's done to her. [[spoiler: He was in a coffin at the time, but it's the thought that counts.]]

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* Amber finally calls out her dad for everything he's done to her. [[spoiler: He was in a coffin at the time, but it's the thought that counts.]]]]
* Happened off-screen, but Robin [[spoiler: managed to defeat Head Alien II. How? By cutting him up into sixteen pieces with a laser cannon and chucking the pieces in several different alternate dimensions. Why? [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Because he hurt Leslie.]]]]
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-->'''Galasso:''' Never presume a man does not have ninjas at his disposal.

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-->'''Galasso:''' [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2006/comic/book-2-pulls-the-drama-tag/06-the-drama-tag/presume/ Never presume a man does not have ninjas at his disposal.]]
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* [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/05-the-death-of-snkrs/harder/ Try harder.]]

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* [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/05-the-death-of-snkrs/harder/ Try harder.]]
* Amber finally calls out her dad for everything he's done to her. [[spoiler: He was in a coffin at the time, but it's the thought that counts.
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* [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2009/comic/book-10/01-this-man-this-manhattan/criticism/ Amazi-girl™ is immune to criticism.]]

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* [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2009/comic/book-10/01-this-man-this-manhattan/criticism/ Amazi-girl™ is immune to criticism.]]
* [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/05-the-death-of-snkrs/harder/ Try harder.
]]
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** Which also crosses into homage/parody territory, considering that it's Shortpacked's version of "Code of Hero" from Beast Wars. Incidentally, Davis used this arc to promoto Dinobot to get him into the TF's Hall of Fame--and it worked.

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** Which also crosses into homage/parody territory, considering that it's Shortpacked's version of "Code of Hero" from Beast Wars. Incidentally, Davis used this arc to promoto promote Dinobot to get him into the TF's Hall of Fame--and it worked.
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A year in the making. Relying on how people would react. Its not a Xanatos Gambit


* Mike's proposal to Amber, which he put together by [[XanatosGambit switching the door placards of Amber and Jacob's apartment a year prior and stealing Amber's mother's cell phone so that she'd go to Jacob's apartment looking for it and Jacob, who was in the thralls of his sex addiction, would seduce her]], so that he could [[MagnificentBastard record the sounds of their lovemaking and edit them into a marriage proposal.]] Which actually backfires, since he had intended to it to drive Amber to leave him.

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* Mike's proposal to Amber, which he put together by [[XanatosGambit [[BatmanGambit switching the door placards of Amber and Jacob's apartment a year prior and stealing Amber's mother's cell phone so that she'd go to Jacob's apartment looking for it and Jacob, who was in the thralls of his sex addiction, would seduce her]], so that he could [[MagnificentBastard record the sounds of their lovemaking and edit them into a marriage proposal.]] Which actually backfires, since he had intended to it to drive Amber to leave him.
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* "I slept with Ethan! I rode him like a Harley over a bad stretch of road. And you never, ''ever'' will."

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* "I slept with Ethan! I rode him like a Harley over a bad stretch of road. And you never, ''ever'' will.""
* [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2009/comic/book-10/01-this-man-this-manhattan/criticism/ Amazi-girl™ is immune to criticism.]]
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** It's worth noting that he actually puts up a decent fight, even stopping a bullet with his sword at one point. We never find out what took him out of the fight after Robin gets shot.
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Not a trope.


* Mike's proposal to Amber, which he put together by [[XanatosGambit switching the door placards of Amber and Jacob's apartment a year prior and stealing Amber's mother's cell phone so that she'd go to Jacob's apartment looking for it and Jacob, who was in the thralls of his sex addiction, would seduce her]], so that he could [[MagnificentBastard record the sounds of their lovemaking and edit them into a marriage proposal.]] Which actually backfires, since [[FailureIsAlwaysAnOption he had intended to it to drive Amber to leave him]].

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* Mike's proposal to Amber, which he put together by [[XanatosGambit switching the door placards of Amber and Jacob's apartment a year prior and stealing Amber's mother's cell phone so that she'd go to Jacob's apartment looking for it and Jacob, who was in the thralls of his sex addiction, would seduce her]], so that he could [[MagnificentBastard record the sounds of their lovemaking and edit them into a marriage proposal.]] Which actually backfires, since [[FailureIsAlwaysAnOption he had intended to it to drive Amber to leave him]].him.
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Fixing the quote (from memory, admittedly)


* "It slept with Ethan! He ran me like a Harley over a bad stretch of road. And you never, ''ever'' will."

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* "It "I slept with Ethan! He ran me I rode him like a Harley over a bad stretch of road. And you never, ''ever'' will."
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-->'''Faz:''' --[[IronicEcho that I do not have ninjas at my disposal?]]

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-->'''Faz:''' --[[IronicEcho that I do not have ninjas at my disposal?]]disposal?]]
* "It slept with Ethan! He ran me like a Harley over a bad stretch of road. And you never, ''ever'' will."
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* Mike's proposal to Amber, which he put together by [[XanatosGambit switching the door placards of Amber and Jacob's apartment a year prior and stealing Amber's mother's cell phone so that she'd go to Jacob's apartment looking for it and Jacob, who was in the thralls of his sex addiction, would seduce her]], so that he could [[MagnificentBastard record the sounds of their lovemaking and edit them into a marriage proposal.]]

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* Mike's proposal to Amber, which he put together by [[XanatosGambit switching the door placards of Amber and Jacob's apartment a year prior and stealing Amber's mother's cell phone so that she'd go to Jacob's apartment looking for it and Jacob, who was in the thralls of his sex addiction, would seduce her]], so that he could [[MagnificentBastard record the sounds of their lovemaking and edit them into a marriage proposal.]]]] Which actually backfires, since [[FailureIsAlwaysAnOption he had intended to it to drive Amber to leave him]].
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* Mike's proposal to Amber, which he put together by [[XanatosGambit switching the door placards of Amber and Jacob's apartment a year prior and stealing Amber's mother's cell phone so that she'd go to Jacob's apartment looking for it and Jacob, who was in the thralls of his sex addiction, would seduce her]], so that he could [[MagnificentBastard record the sounds of their lovemaking and edit them into a marriage proposal.]]

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* Mike's proposal to Amber, which he put together by [[XanatosGambit switching the door placards of Amber and Jacob's apartment a year prior and stealing Amber's mother's cell phone so that she'd go to Jacob's apartment looking for it and Jacob, who was in the thralls of his sex addiction, would seduce her]], so that he could [[MagnificentBastard record the sounds of their lovemaking and edit them into a marriage proposal.]]]]
* Ninja Rick gets two. Both times he's given a dramatic entrance leaping from behind the person introducing him, sword drawn. One is when he's used to beat the crap out of someone holding up the store:
-->'''Galasso:''' Never presume a man does not have ninjas at his disposal.
** And second when Faz uses him to usurp Galasso's position:
-->'''Galasso:''' You ''dare'' presume--
-->'''Faz:''' --[[IronicEcho that I do not have ninjas at my disposal?]]
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** Yeah, that last is now a DethroningMomentOfSuck because of what follows.
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** Yeah, that last is now a DethroningMomentOfSuck because of what follows.

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** Yeah, that last is now a DethroningMomentOfSuck because of what follows.follows.
* Mike's proposal to Amber, which he put together by [[XanatosGambit switching the door placards of Amber and Jacob's apartment a year prior and stealing Amber's mother's cell phone so that she'd go to Jacob's apartment looking for it and Jacob, who was in the thralls of his sex addiction, would seduce her]], so that he could [[MagnificentBastard record the sounds of their lovemaking and edit them into a marriage proposal.]]
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* "Leslie is the Cookie Monster, and I! Am! The Friggin'! Cookies! Hawk your substandard wares elsewhere."

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* "Leslie is the Cookie Monster, and I! Am! The Friggin'! Cookies! Hawk your substandard wares elsewhere.""
** Yeah, that last is now a DethroningMomentOfSuck because of what follows.
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* Leslie is the Cookie Monster, and I! Am! The Friggin'! Cookies! Hawk your substandard wares elsewhere.

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* Leslie "Leslie is the Cookie Monster, and I! Am! The Friggin'! Cookies! Hawk your substandard wares elsewhere."
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* Ronald Reagan. Stopping a break-in. '''With patriotism'''.

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* Ronald Reagan. Stopping a break-in. '''With patriotism'''.patriotism'''.
* Leslie is the Cookie Monster, and I! Am! The Friggin'! Cookies! Hawk your substandard wares elsewhere.
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* Ronald Regan. Stopping a break-in. '''With patriotism'''.

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* Ronald Regan.Reagan. Stopping a break-in. '''With patriotism'''.
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* Ronald Regan. Stopping a break-in. '''With patriotism''.

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* Ronald Regan. Stopping a break-in. '''With patriotism''.patriotism'''.
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** Which also crosses into homage/parody territory, considering that it's Shortpacked's version of "Code of Hero" from Beast Wars. Incidentally, Davis used this arc to promoto Dinobot to get him into the TF's Hall of Fame--and it worked.

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** Which also crosses into homage/parody territory, considering that it's Shortpacked's version of "Code of Hero" from Beast Wars. Incidentally, Davis used this arc to promoto Dinobot to get him into the TF's Hall of Fame--and it worked.worked.
* Ronald Regan. Stopping a break-in. '''With patriotism''.
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The Robin vs Legion of Something fight. Which peaked when [[spoiler:Robin shoved [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-11/03-vote-chopperface/codeofsomething-full/ Faz's head up Sarah Palin's ass!]] ]]

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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The Robin vs Legion of Something fight. Which peaked when [[spoiler:Robin shoved [[http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-11/03-vote-chopperface/codeofsomething-full/ Faz's head up Sarah Palin's ass!]] ]]

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