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*** Concretestador is a burly RockMonster hero with blue eyes, suggesting influence from [[ComicBook/TheFantasticFour Ben Grimm/The Thing]].

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*** Concretestador is a burly RockMonster hero with blue eyes, suggesting influence from [[ComicBook/TheFantasticFour [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Ben Grimm/The Thing]].



* ShoutOut: Doctor Star (the Comicbook/{{Starman}} {{Expy}}) is named James Robinson.

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* ShoutOut: Doctor Star (the Comicbook/{{Starman}} ComicBook/{{Starman}} {{Expy}}) is named James Robinson.
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* '''Joe Weber / Black Hammer:''' The ([[PosthumousCharacter posthumous]]) {{title character}} who is eulogized annually by the heroes who was super-strong and wielded a hammer to battle.

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* '''Joe Weber / Black Hammer:''' The ([[PosthumousCharacter posthumous]]) {{title character}} of ProtagonistTitle who is eulogized annually by the heroes who was super-strong and wielded a hammer to battle.
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* YellowPurpleContrast: The brother gods Starlok and Anti-God wear gold and purple armor respectively. They are bitter enemies who respectively embody light/good and darkness/evil.
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* BlankBook: Shortly after she arrives on the farm, Lucy goes to the Rockwood library to look up the town's history, only to discover that all the books on the subject are blank.
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* {{Martians}}: They're red-skinned humanoids with antennae and innate superpowers that include shapeshifting and flight, amongst others.

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* CloudCuckoolander: Colonel Weird

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* CosmicRetcon: When the heroes finally leave the farm [[spoiler:and return to the real world]], it somehow "reboots" reality to create a world where they never became superheroes and superheroes never existed. In this new world, Abe is just a night watchman working at a museum, Mark never left Mars, Colonel
Weird was a normal astronaut who went MIA in 1959, Gail is a senile old woman living in a retirement home, Lucy works at a pizza parlor instead of as a journalist, and Madame Dragonfly is (seemingly) a normal soccer mom with two kids.
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* RedSkiesTakeWarning: In the backstory, the skies turned red during Anti-God's universe-threatening attack on Spiral City. [[spoiler:When the skies above Spiral City start turning red in the alternate reality created when the heroes left the farm, it's a clear sign to everyone involved that Anti-God is returning to finish what he started.]]

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* RedSkiesTakeWarning: RedSkyTakeWarning: In the backstory, the skies turned red during Anti-God's universe-threatening attack on Spiral City. [[spoiler:When the skies above Spiral City start turning red in the alternate reality created when the heroes left the farm, it's a clear sign to everyone involved that Anti-God is returning to finish what he started.]]
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* RedSkiesTakeWarning: In the backstory, the skies turned red during Anti-God's universe-threatening attack on Spiral City. [[spoiler:When the skies above Spiral City start turning red in the alternate reality created when the heroes left the farm, it's a clear sign to everyone involved that Anti-God is returning to finish what he started.]]
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* RepetitiveName: The Martians have a naming scheme wherein the last name is the same as the first name, but with a z tacked on. Mark Markz, Lok Lokz, Kev Kevz...
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* '''Mark Markz / Barbalien:''' A shapeshifting (gay) alien warlord from Mars fulfilling the role of {{cool uncle}}.

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* '''Mark Markz / Barbalien:''' A shapeshifting (gay) shapeshifting, gay alien warlord from Mars fulfilling the role of {{cool uncle}}.
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* BigRedDevil: When Lucy ends up stranded in Hell, she meets what is heavily implied to be TheDevil: a towering red demon with spiraling horns and enormous bat wings.


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* EscapedFromHell: Lonnie James strands Lucy in Hell, leaving her at the mercy of the Devil. However, Lucy just recently became the new Black Hammer. She promptly uses her new powers to beat the ever-loving shit out of hordes of the Devil's minions and threatens to continue doing so unless he lets her out. The Devil opens a portal to another realm for her and meekly tells her to "just... just go".
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* PuppeteerParasite: One issue revolves around a bizarre Para-Zone creature which latches onto people's faces and takes control of their bodies.
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* InterruptedSuicide: Gail, already tormented by being stuck in her child form for ten years, decides to end it all after Mark [[IncompatibleOrientation rejects her]]. She writes a brief SuicideNote and prepares to walk into the boundary around the farm, only for Mark--who found her note--to swoop in and stop her at the last moment.
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* NinetiesAntiHero: Parodied in one issue. To "keep up with the times", the aging Abraham Slam commissions a new armored costume straight out of the Dark Age, complete with bulky shoulder pads, numerous pouches, and a visor reminiscent of Judge Dredd. It just gets in the way and makes him look ridiculous to onlookers, and after wearing it once he decides to never use it again.
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* ''Black Hammer End'' (2023)
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* SpeechBubbles: Several of the characters have distinctive speech bubbles. Colonel Weird's speech bubbles have a frayed border and light grey text, reflecting how he's physically and mentally not all there. Talky-Walky has grey bubbles with angular borders and blocky text to emphasize her robotic nature. And Anti-God has black speech bubbles with red borders and text to highlight his nature as the GodOfEvil.
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* IntangibleMan: Colonel Weird can float through solid substances like a ghost thanks to his connection to the Para-Zone.
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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: According to ''The World of Black Hammer Encyclopedia'', Sherlock Frankenstein started out as a superhero in the late 1800s. He turned to villainy after a personal tragedy and spent several decades terrorizing the world, only to give up on this and go straight. Now he's an HonestCorporateExecutive using his scientific and medical knowhow to benefit all mankind.
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* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: After a long and difficult battle with many casualties, the heroes managed to kill Anti-God and save the universe. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:killing him upset the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil, which the universe tried to correct by bringing him back to life. The only way to prevent this was for the heroes to restore the balance by exiling themselves to another dimension. They can never go home again, lest Anti-God return and destroy everything.]]

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