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[[AlliterativeName Buddy Baker]], also known as Animal Man, was one of many {{Super Hero}}es created during [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks the 1960s]]. He first appeared in ''Strange Adventures'' #180 (September, 1965). Created by writers France Herron and Dave Wood, and artist Carmine Infantino. He could take the abilities of any animal who was nearby and was granted this power by yellow aliens. He mainly used it to be a FlyingBrick, though.

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[[AlliterativeName Buddy Baker]], also known as Animal Man, was one of many {{Super Hero}}es created during [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks the 1960s]]. He first appeared in ''Strange Adventures'' #180 (September, 1965). Created by writers France Herron and Dave Wood, and artist Carmine Infantino. He could take the abilities of any animal who was nearby and was granted this power by yellow aliens. He mainly used it to be a FlyingBrick, though.



* BreakTheCutie: Buddy starts off as an idealistic funny person, but after [[spoiler:his wife and children ''die'', he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and ''kills'' people]]. This, like many other events in the comic, is meant as a meta-commentary on UsefulNotes/{{the Dark Age of comic|books}}s that had started a year or so after ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths.

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* BreakTheCutie: Buddy starts off as an idealistic funny person, but after [[spoiler:his wife and children ''die'', he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and ''kills'' people]]. This, like many other events in the comic, is meant as a meta-commentary on UsefulNotes/{{the MediaNotes/{{the Dark Age of comic|books}}s that had started a year or so after ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths.

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** In issue #24, Earth-Three Ultraman and Pre-Crisis Bizarro try to stop Overman from detonating a bomb that will wipe out the world.



* EvenEvilHasStandards: In issue #24, Earth-Three Ultraman and Pre-Crisis Bizarro try to stop Overman from detonating a bomb that will wipe out the world.



* FamilyExtermination: During Grant Morrison's run, the family of the titular character was murdered as a retaliation for his eco-activism. [[spoiler:In the last issue, the deaths are undone by [[AuthorAvatar Morrison]] themself as a courtesy to Buddy]].

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* FamilyExtermination: During [[spoiler:During Grant Morrison's run, the family of the titular character was murdered as a retaliation for his eco-activism. [[spoiler:In In the last issue, the deaths are undone by [[AuthorAvatar Morrison]] themself as a courtesy to Buddy]].


* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The Red connects all animal life and is what gives Buddy his powers. "The Red" obviously refers to the color of vertebrate animals' blood like [[ComicBook/SwampThing "The Green"]] refers to chlorophyll. However, Buddy can tap into the abilities of invertebrates, which do not have blood.

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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The Red connects all animal life and is what gives Buddy his powers. "The Red" obviously refers to the color of vertebrate animals' blood like [[ComicBook/SwampThing "The Green"]] refers to chlorophyll. However, Buddy can tap into the abilities of invertebrates, which do not have blood.blood but the differently colored hemolymph.
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** Ellen is given the finger by a driver wo calls her a "tight-ass bitch" in the 58th issue.

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** Ellen is given the finger by a driver wo who calls her a "tight-ass bitch" in the 58th issue.

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* FourthWallObserver: One of the few times it isn't played for laughs.

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* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler: Highwater.]]
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FourthWallObserver: One of the few times it isn't played for laughs.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: Dr. Myers witht the fusion of monkeys [[spoiler: B'wana Beast]] left behind in S.T.A.R. Labs.
--> '''Myers:''' It was grotesque but also strangely beautiful. How can I explain?... For just a moment, I stood confronted by a fabulous new lifeform. It was like watching Adam rise up out of the dust on unsteady legs, newly minted by the Almighty.

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