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* IncredibleShrinkingMan: The Hummingbird, who was shrunk by an alien ray that was destroyed before he could be re-enlarged. As such, he's stuck [[ModeLock permanently at a maximum height of six inches]], though among his powers is the ability to temporarily shrink even smaller.
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* ModeLock: The Hummingbird, who was shrunk by an alien ray that was destroyed before he could be re-enlarged. As such, he's stuck permanently at a maximum height of six inches, though among his powers is the ability to [[IncredibleShrinkingMan temporarily shrink even smaller]].
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* SupernaturallyYoungParent: The goddess Venus looks maybe 28, and has for thousands of years. For some reason her son Cupid, equally immortal, is white-haired and balding, looking twice his mother's apparent age if not older.
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* SuperheroTrophyShelf: Ultiman is headquartered out of the Secret Citadel, which is hidden in an active volcano. Being that it's based on the Fortress of Solitude, it's naturally packed to the gills with souvenirs, trophies, and just plain ''exhibits''. As if the writer was going down the 'stock superhero hideout amenities' checklist, he's got (among other things) the shrunken lost city of Atlantis in a huge fishbowl, a giant dollar bill, and a rubber Apatosaurus.
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* {{Retraux}}: Is a pastiche of Golden and Silver Age DC, with the artstyle and writing to match.
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* PhlebotinumBattery: Ultiman is a CaptainErsatz version of Superman, but his powers come from a meteor that struck his shuttle when he was an astronaut. Today, he keeps it in a safe in his Secret Citadel, and exposes himself to its rays every now and then to recharge.
** A pseudo-BadFuture showed a retired Ultiman, who built up a tolerance to the meteor's rays and kept having to expose himself to them for longer and longer until he got radiation sickness and had to quit the superhero game. His powers gradually faded away due to the lack of exposure to the meteor.
** A pseudo-BadFuture showed a retired Ultiman, who built up a tolerance to the meteor's rays and kept having to expose himself to them for longer and longer until he got radiation sickness and had to quit the superhero game. His powers gradually faded away due to the lack of exposure to the meteor.
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* NonHumanSidekick:
** Mr. US, the equivalent of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, had a dog sidekick named Dogtag in his original incarnation. Dogtag was originally just a stray who wouldn't leave him alone -- Mr. US made the name up on the spot when the dog followed him into a bad guy hideout. ("Uh, that's my sidekick... Dogtag!")
** In the other instance, Hummingbird, a combination of ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} and ComicBook/TheAtom, had Edgar the raven. Of some note is the fact that Edgar is ''larger'' than Hummingbird, who [[ModeLock is permanently stuck at a maximum height of six inches]].
** Mr. US, the equivalent of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, had a dog sidekick named Dogtag in his original incarnation. Dogtag was originally just a stray who wouldn't leave him alone -- Mr. US made the name up on the spot when the dog followed him into a bad guy hideout. ("Uh, that's my sidekick... Dogtag!")
** In the other instance, Hummingbird, a combination of ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} and ComicBook/TheAtom, had Edgar the raven. Of some note is the fact that Edgar is ''larger'' than Hummingbird, who [[ModeLock is permanently stuck at a maximum height of six inches]].
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* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Mighty Man faces off against a superintelligent mind controlling Nazi caterpillar who is cut in half at the end of the story; Naturally, Mighty Man states that he probably won't hear from this villain again. [[spoiler:A later story shows two worms as part of a Legion of Doom plotting against the Round Table of America, implied to be the two halves regenerated.]]
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* MyBrainIsBig: The Pantheon of Heroes mirrors the Legion of Super-Heroes; their equivalent of Brainiac 5 is Brain Boy, whose bald head holds a huge brain. Thinking hard enough makes it get even bigger.
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* {{Mockumentary}}: ''Big Bang Comics'' published a two issue ''History of Big Bang Comics'', which detailed the fictional history of the comic book publisher whose [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] stories they were supposedly reprinting.
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* EyeConcealingHat: The Beacon is a CaptainErsatz version of the Golden-Age ComicBook/GreenLantern. However, unlike his inspiration, he doesn't wear a mask — instead his identity is concealed by the shadow his miner's cap casts on his face.
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* EyeConcealingHat: EyeObscuringHat: The Beacon is a CaptainErsatz version of the Golden-Age ComicBook/GreenLantern. However, unlike his inspiration, he doesn't wear a mask — instead his identity is concealed by the shadow his miner's cap casts on his face.
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* LightEmUp: The Beacons, CaptainErsatz versions of the Franchise/{{Green Lantern}}s whose powers are even more directly light-based — different colored beams of light from their prisms have different effects. The Golden Age Beacon had his prism in a mining cap, even.
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* LovesMyAlterEgo: Ultiman is really Chris Kelly, but this isn't a secret to his co-workers, because he works for the government in his capacity as Ultiman. However, he keeps another identity on the side: that of his own twin brother, Carl Kelly. "Carl" is a shiftless womanizer, despised by the Ultiman-crazed Lori Lake.
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* EyeConcealingHat: The Beacon is a CaptainErsatz version of the Golden-Age ComicBook/GreenLantern. However, unlike his inspiration, he doesn't wear a mask — instead his identity is concealed by the shadow his miner's cap casts on his face.
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* EmergencyTransformation: This is the origin of the Human/Atomic Sub. The aged Dr. Noah Talbot designed a sophisticated robot body as a prosthesis for injured soldiers, but when Nazis came to steal his research he suffered a heart attack and was forced to transfer his own mind into his creation before he died. It wasn't a decision he would regret, even though an oversight in developing the body's artificial "blood" meant it had to be submerged in water once every hour or so.
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* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: Thundergirl had the word "Alakazam!" Her evil Nazi counterparts (who more closely resemble the rest of the Marvel family, with another Mary thrown in for good measure) have "Gotterdammerung!"
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* ActuallyADoombot: Ultiman hints that he has never actually met his archenemy Cortex, and that Cortex commits all his crimes by way of a series of robotic doubles. This isn't a secret on Cortex's part, and he tends to destroy the doubles himself by having them self-destruct upon their capture.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: The Sphinx comes from an AlternateUniverse where AncientEgypt conquered the entire world; becoming a technologically advanced [[TheEmpire empire of evil]] that eliminated all dissent. The man who would become the Sphinx was a member of the scientific branch of the military and assigned to new worlds for conquest by bridging the dimensional planes. He used the transdimensional equipment to escape to Earth-A, and destroyed all records of his experiments to prevent the Memphian Regime from trailing him.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: The Sphinx comes from an AlternateUniverse where AncientEgypt conquered the entire world; becoming a technologically advanced [[TheEmpire empire of evil]] that eliminated all dissent. The man who would become the Sphinx was a member of the scientific branch of the military and assigned to locate new worlds for conquest by bridging the dimensional planes. He used the transdimensional equipment to escape to Earth-A, and destroyed all records of his experiments to prevent the Memphian Regime from trailing him.
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* EscapedFromHell: Bog (their AlternateCompanyEquivalent to ComicBook/TheHeap, ComicBook/ManThing and ComicBook/SwampThing) is a demon who escaped from Hell, and nearly killed the Devil in the process. He now dwells in a swamp on Earth and fights any attempt by the forces of Hell to drag him back.
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** Marla Mason a.k.a. Infra-Girl
** Kent Kane a.k.a. Infra-Man
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** Thunder Girl’s foe Dr. Hy Q. Binana is a cross between Dr. Sivana and Mr. Mind.
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* TheStraightAnArrowPath: Robo-Hood is a robot archer superhero (a composite character of ComicBook/GreenArrow and the GoldenAge Robotman).
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* TheStraightAnArrowPath: TheStraightAndArrowPath: Robo-Hood is a robot archer superhero (a composite character of ComicBook/GreenArrow and the GoldenAge Robotman).
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* AlliterativeName: In keeping with the stories they are homaging, many of the faux golden age characters have alliterative names. These include:
** Roger Ryan a.k.a. The Badge
** Marla Mason a.k.a. Infra-Girl
** Kent Kane a.k.a. Infra-Man
** Reid Randall a.k.a. Knight Watchman
** Chuck Cox a.k.a. Mr. Martian
** Chris Kelly a.k.a. Ultiman
** Christine Kelly a.k.a. Ultragirl
** Roger Ryan a.k.a. The Badge
** Marla Mason a.k.a. Infra-Girl
** Kent Kane a.k.a. Infra-Man
** Reid Randall a.k.a. Knight Watchman
** Chuck Cox a.k.a. Mr. Martian
** Chris Kelly a.k.a. Ultiman
** Christine Kelly a.k.a. Ultragirl
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* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Ultiman has a large gold 'U' on the chest of his blue costume.
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** The Badge has a yellow 'B' on the forehead of his cowl.
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* AppropriatedAppellation: Reid Randall created a created his blue and grey costume and equipped himself with a pair of nightsticks to defend his family's garment factory against mobsters who threatened to burn it down. Confronting them in the warehouse, one of thugs said "It's some kind of night watchman". Reid immediately decided to adopt that as his superhero name. Recalling how he and his brother used to play knights as kids, he announced "That's Knight Watchman...with a 'K'!"
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* AppropriatedAppellation: Reid Randall created a created his blue and grey costume and equipped himself with a pair of nightsticks to defend his family's garment factory against mobsters who threatened to burn it down. Confronting them in the warehouse, one of thugs said "It's some kind of night watchman". Reid immediately decided to adopt that as his superhero name. Recalling how he and his brother used to play knights as kids, he announced [[MyNaymeIs "That's Knight Watchman...with a 'K'!"'K'!"]]
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Ultiman has a large gold 'U' on the chest of his blue costume.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Ultiman has a large gold 'U' on the chest of his blue costume.
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* MyNaymeIs: Knight Watchman's name has a silent 'K': being a combination of 'Knight' and 'Watchman'. Unlike most examples of this trope, neither word is misspelled: they are just not usually combined like that.
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* CaptainErsatz: Most of the characters are thinly disguised versions of golen and silver age Creator/DCComics characters (including charters from Fawcett and Quality that DC later acquired), although some others are {{Composite Character}}s. Particular euqivalents are:
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* CaptainErsatz: Most of the characters are thinly disguised versions of golen golden and silver age Creator/DCComics characters (including charters from Fawcett and Quality that DC later acquired), although some others are {{Composite Character}}s. Particular euqivalents equivalents are:
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* SwissArmyWeapon: Galahad's weapon 'Excalibur' is a combination tonfa/taser/swing-line/weighted chain.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: The Sphinx comes from an AlternateUniverse where AncientEgypt conquered the entire world; becoming a technologically advanced [[TheEmpire empire of evil]] that eliminated all dissent. The man who would become the Sphinx was a member of the scientific branch of the military and assigned to new worlds for conquest by bridging the dimensional planes. He used the transdimensional equipment to escape to Earth, and destroyed all records of his experiments to prevent the Memphian Regime from trailing him.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: The Sphinx comes from an AlternateUniverse where AncientEgypt conquered the entire world; becoming a technologically advanced [[TheEmpire empire of evil]] that eliminated all dissent. The man who would become the Sphinx was a member of the scientific branch of the military and assigned to new worlds for conquest by bridging the dimensional planes. He used the transdimensional equipment to escape to Earth, Earth-A, and destroyed all records of his experiments to prevent the Memphian Regime from trailing him.
