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* ForYourOwnGood: In the second issue, Scalpel resorts to spraying Playtime with a numbing agent to stop her from going off to a battle that she (correctly) believes is a trap.
* LifeSavingMisfortune: In the second issue, Scalpel drugs Playtime to keep her out of a fight. The next page shows that this was a good decision, as she would have been badly outnumbered by the Action, who were planning to kill her.
* SlapSlapKiss: The second issue has Playtime and Scalpel engaged in a brutal fight because Scalpel wants Playtime to stop handling criminal business herself. After Scalpel explains that she is protecting Playtime, they make up with a passionate kiss.
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* TheManBehindTheMan: The Action are the active threat in this series, being a group of teenage "heroes" maiming and murdering Supervillains and anyone else who stand in their way, but they are sent after Frankie's organization by [[spoiler: Reptilian, Snakestalker's boyfriend who blames his death on Frankie and her allies]].
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* TheManBehindTheMan: The Action are the active threat in this series, being a group of teenage "heroes" maiming and murdering Supervillains and anyone else who stand in their way, but they are sent after Frankie's organization by [[spoiler: Reptilian, [[spoiler:Reptilian, Snakestalker's boyfriend who blames his death on Frankie and her allies]].
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* AxeCrazy: The Action all count as this, having no qualms over murdering Supervillains or innocent bystanders who get in their way, though Ms. Moment takes the cake for being the most bloodthirsty.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even her teammates express their dissatisfaction at Ms. Moment's unrestrained bloodlust.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even her teammates express their dissatisfaction at Ms. Moment's unrestrained bloodlust.
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* TeensAreMonsters: None of the Action seem to be older than High School students, and they're all needlessly violent psychopaths.
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* AtopAMountainOfCorpses: On the [[https://d2lzb5v10mb0lj.cloudfront.net/covers/600/30/3012679.jpg cover]] of the first issue of ''Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down'', Playtime sits on a throne on top a mountain of costumed corpses with her right hand [[spoiler:and girlfriend]] Scalpel sitting besides her also on the pile.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In "Fastest Way Down", the Christmas themed Supervillain St. Nick refuses to work for Playtime and Scalpel because they're "females playing dress up" and refers to Playtime as a "Femanazi".
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* TwoferTokenMinority: The first issue of ''Fastest Way Down'' reveals that [[spoiler:Frankie and Scalpel are in a relationship, making Frankie a queer black woman and Scalpel a queer Latina.]]
* WretchedHive: Twilight's Redport district, where Frankie and her associates all live, is a miserable slum that includes an area called the Stomp, so named because it's littered with the remains of a kaiju that one of the Continuum members killed and couldn't be bothered to clean up. Most of the city's supervillains live there because it's cheap and because the Insomniac and Kid Dusk are the only superheroes who bother to patrol there.
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* AtopAMountainOfCorpses: On the [[https://d2lzb5v10mb0lj.cloudfront.net/covers/600/30/3012679.jpg cover]] of the first issue, Playtime sits on a throne on top a mountain of costumed corpses with her right hand [[spoiler:and girlfriend]] Scalpel sitting besides her also on the pile.
* GangOfHats: The Holiday Squad are a team of Supervillains who dress as Holiday icons.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The Christmas themed Supervillain St. Nick refuses to work for Playtime and Scalpel because they're "females playing dress up" and refers to Playtime as a "Femanazi".
* TwoferTokenMinority: The first issue reveals that [[spoiler:Frankie and Scalpel are in a relationship, making Frankie a queer black woman and Scalpel a queer Latina.]]
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* TwoferTokenMinority: The first issue of ''Fastest Way Down'' reveals that [[spoiler:Frankie and Scalpel are in a relationship, making Frankie a queer black woman and Scalpel a queer Latina.]]
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In 2023, a companion series, ''ComicBook/TheAlternates'', was released. Set in the same universe and taking place sometime after the events of ''Minor Threats'', it follows the adventures of a group of dysfunctional would-be superheroes as they try to investigate the death of one of their friends.
Followed by a sequel series ''ComicBook/MinorThreatsTheFastestWayDown'' in 2024 with Frankie dealing with fallout from the series.
Followed by a sequel series ''ComicBook/MinorThreatsTheFastestWayDown'' in 2024 with Frankie dealing with fallout from the series.
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* ThouShaltNotKill: Insomniac (a clear expy of ComicBook/{{Batman}}) has completely thrown out this rule in his grief of the murder of Kid Dusk, the Continuum in turn coming down so hard on low-level villains out of worry that Insomniac will kill one of them and destroy their reputations. [[spoiler: By the final issue Insomniac rages that Stickman's death was "stolen" from him, dismisses his killing of Snake Stalker's boyfriend and prepares to murder Playtime and the rest while ranting about his own descent from what he was, showing that his sympathetic grief has transformed into a rather psychopathic version of ItsAllAboutMe.]]
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* ThouShaltNotKill: Insomniac (a clear expy of ComicBook/{{Batman}}) has completely thrown out this rule in his grief of the murder of Kid Dusk, the Continuum in turn coming down so hard on low-level villains out of worry that Insomniac will kill one of them and destroy their heroic reputations. [[spoiler: By the final issue Insomniac rages that Stickman's death was "stolen" from him, dismisses his killing of Snake Stalker's boyfriend and prepares to murder Playtime and the rest while ranting about his own descent from what he was, showing that his sympathetic grief has transformed into a rather psychopathic version of ItsAllAboutMe.]]
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* ThouShaltNotKill: Insomniac (a clear expy of ComicBook/{{Batman}}) has completely thrown out this rule in his grief of the murder of Kid Dusk, the Continuum in turn coming down so hard on low-level villains out of worry that Insomniac will kill one of them and destroy their reputations. [[spoiler: By the final issue Insomniac rages that Stickman's death was "stolen" from him, dismisses his killing of Snake Stalker's boyfriend and prepares to murder Playtime and the rest while ranting about his own descent from what he was, showing that his sympathetic grief has transformed into a rather psychopathic version of ItsAllAboutMe.]]
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* MirroringFactions: Though he looks down on the protagonists as losers, has-beens and failures, it's heavily implied that Stickman carried out his entire plan because ''he'' was beginning to be regarded as a joke by the wider community as well.
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* AndThisIsFor: In the final issue, Snake Stomper invokes the name of his dead boyfriend as he lunges at Insomniac.
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* BadGuyBar: In Twilight City, the big-time supervillains hang out at the Trophy Room Club, run by an intergalactic game hunter. Lesser villains hang out at the Lower Level, a dive bar.
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* BadGuyBar: In Twilight City, the big-time supervillains hang out at the Trophy Room Club, run by an intergalactic game hunter. Lesser villains hang out at the Lower Level, a dive bar.bar where Frankie works as a bartender.
* FacialHorror: Stickman had all of the flesh removed from his head and neck, turning his face into a sort of horrible flesh mask.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Pigeon Pete ratted out his friends to Stickman because Stickman promised to help him raise his profile.]]
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* CheckhovsGun: An actual gun for once. In the first issue, Toy Queen grumbles about how the Insomniac stole her beloved boxing-glove gun and stashed it in his trophy case. [[spoiler:In the final issue, Frankie finds the gun and uses it to blast Insomniac's head off. She then returns it to her mother.]]
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* CheckhovsGun: ChekhovsGun: An actual gun for once. In the first issue, Toy Queen grumbles about how the Insomniac stole her beloved boxing-glove gun years earlier and stashed it in his trophy case. [[spoiler:In the final issue, Frankie finds the gun and uses it to blast Insomniac's head off. She then returns it to her mother.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Against all odds, Frankie and her allies manage to kill both Insomniac and Stickman, and make a deal to cover up Insomniac's crimes in exchange for the Continuum leaving Redport forever and clearing Frankie's name, allowing her to reunite with her daughter. On the other hand, Snake Stomper is dead, Pigeon Pete is exiled from Redport, and Brain Teaser is made a scapegoat for the death of Insomniac, although he's actually happy with this as it gives him the cred that he's long craved. Also, Redport is now an even worse hive, ruled over by Playtime and Scalpel and it's revealed that Frankie's daughter has inherited her talents.]]
* CheckhovsGun: An actual gun for once. In the first issue, Toy Queen grumbles about how the Insomniac stole her beloved boxing-glove gun and stashed it in his trophy case. [[spoiler:In the final issue, Frankie finds the gun and uses it to blast Insomniac's head off. She then returns it to her mother.]]
* CheckhovsGun: An actual gun for once. In the first issue, Toy Queen grumbles about how the Insomniac stole her beloved boxing-glove gun and stashed it in his trophy case. [[spoiler:In the final issue, Frankie finds the gun and uses it to blast Insomniac's head off. She then returns it to her mother.]]
* {{Expy}}: This series has several:
** The Insomniac is a very clear expy of ComicBook/{{Batman}}, with Kid Dusk being ComicBook/{{Robin}} and the Stickman being ComicBook/TheJoker.
** Brain Teaser is clearly based on the Riddler.
** Snake Stomper appears to be an expy of Bane.
** The Insomniac is a very clear expy of ComicBook/{{Batman}}, with Kid Dusk being ComicBook/{{Robin}} and the Stickman being ComicBook/TheJoker.
** Brain Teaser is clearly based on the Riddler.
** Snake Stomper appears to be an expy of Bane.
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* PsychologicalProjection: [[spoiler:This turns out to be the major flaw in Brain Tease's analysis of Stickman; he assumes that Stickman's ego is as big as his, and thus he would go to the Trophy Room Nightclub to gloat about killing Kid Dusk. In reality, Stickman goes there and dump's Kid Dusk's body there before running away, leaving an entire club full of supervillains against an enraged vigilante.]]
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* PsychologicalProjection: [[spoiler:This turns out to be the major flaw in Brain Tease's analysis of Stickman; he assumes that Stickman's ego is as big as his, and thus he would go to the Trophy Room Nightclub to gloat about killing Kid Dusk. In reality, Stickman goes there and dump's dumps Kid Dusk's body there before running away, leaving an entire club full of supervillains against an enraged vigilante.]]
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* FreudianExcuse: The various prison shrinks Frankie saw have all theorized that the reason all her gadgets look like toys is because she's trying to make up for the childhood she lost out on when her mother forced her to become her sidekick.
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** The various prison shrinks Frankie saw have all theorized that the reason all her gadgets look like toys is because she's trying to make up for the childhood she lost out on when her mother forced her to become hersidekick.sidekick.
** Scalpel's obsession with wealth and opulence stems from growing up with a poor single father who was constantly broke, despite being a doctor, because he let his patients pay him on a barter system. Her willingness to work with almost anybody stems from watching her dad get killed after he refused to let a low-grade villain use his clinic as a front for drugs, even when the villain agreed to pay him well for it.
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** Scalpel's obsession with wealth and opulence stems from growing up with a poor single father who was constantly broke, despite being a doctor, because he let his patients pay him on a barter system. Her willingness to work with almost anybody stems from watching her dad get killed after he refused to let a low-grade villain use his clinic as a front for drugs, even when the villain agreed to pay him well for it.
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* NeverHadToys: Frankie "Playtime" Follis grew up as the daughter and reluctant sidekick to the toy-themed supervillain named Toy Queen, but the only toys she got to play with were disguised weapons. According to her, [[TheShrink the prison shrinks]] believe that the reason all her inventions look like toys is because she is subconsciously trying to make up for her lost childhood.
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* MsRedInk: Scalpel lost her license after her obsession with the finer things caused her to spend more than she made, which in turn led her to take illegal jobs.
* NeverHadToys: Frankie "Playtime" Follis grew up as the daughter and reluctant sidekick to the toy-themed supervillain named Toy Queen, but the only toys she got to play with were disguised weapons. According to her, [[TheShrink the prison shrinks]] believe that the reason all her inventions look like toys is because she is subconsciously trying to make up for her lost childhood.
* NeverHadToys: Frankie "Playtime" Follis grew up as the daughter and reluctant sidekick to the toy-themed supervillain named Toy Queen, but the only toys she got to play with were disguised weapons. According to her, [[TheShrink the prison shrinks]] believe that the reason all her inventions look like toys is because she is subconsciously trying to make up for her lost childhood.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Scalpel started her supervillain career by stabbing another low-level villain in the carotid artery and then offering to save his life in exchange for telling all the other supervillains that she was now offering them off-book medical service for a price.
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* AlcoholicParents: Brain Tease's dad was an alcoholic. When Brain Tease was twelve, he figured out that his dad had only about six years before his liver finally gave out.
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* AbusiveParents: Playtime's mom was an egotistical StageMom who forced her into supervillainy at a young age. Brain Tease's dad was a severe alcoholic who gave him beatings for only getting third place in a contest.
* AlcoholicParents: Brain Tease's dad was an alcoholic. When Brain Tease was twelve, he figured out that his dad had only about six years before his liver finally gave out.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: In the second issue, Brain Tease is able to figure out where to find Stickman just by studying a crude diagram of his prison cell and factoring in the fact that he has a fractured left femur.
* BadGuyBar: In Twilight City, the big-time supervillains hang out at the Trophy Room Club, run by an intergalactic game hunter. Lesser villains hang out at the Lower Level, a dive bar.
* AlcoholicParents: Brain Tease's dad was an alcoholic. When Brain Tease was twelve, he figured out that his dad had only about six years before his liver finally gave out.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: In the second issue, Brain Tease is able to figure out where to find Stickman just by studying a crude diagram of his prison cell and factoring in the fact that he has a fractured left femur.
* BadGuyBar: In Twilight City, the big-time supervillains hang out at the Trophy Room Club, run by an intergalactic game hunter. Lesser villains hang out at the Lower Level, a dive bar.
* EldritchAbomination: According to one map shown in the series, Redport's [=MacDouglas=] Station is infested by a hibernating elder god.
* ImagineSpot: Frankie deals with her many frustrations by imagining herself violently killing all the people who piss her off.
* PsychologicalProjection: [[spoiler:This turns out to be the major flaw in Brain Tease's analysis of Stickman; he assumes that Stickman's ego is as big as his, and thus he would go to the Trophy Room Nightclub to gloat about killing Kid Dusk. In reality, Stickman goes there and dump's Kid Dusk's body there before running away, leaving an entire club full of supervillains against an enraged vigilante.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: In a flashback, it's implied that Brain Tease killed his abusive father.
* SherlockScan: This is Brain Tease's main power; by concentrating on something long enough, he can intuit nearly everything about it. In the second issue, he figures out where Stickman will strike next by putting himself in a crude replica of Stickman's prison cell in order to imagine Stickman's state of mind.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Brain Tease is convinced that he is the Insomniac's main nemesis just because he was one of the first members of his rogues gallery, even though Stickman has long since overshadowed him.
* SelfMadeOrphan: In a flashback, it's implied that Brain Tease killed his abusive father.
* SherlockScan: This is Brain Tease's main power; by concentrating on something long enough, he can intuit nearly everything about it. In the second issue, he figures out where Stickman will strike next by putting himself in a crude replica of Stickman's prison cell in order to imagine Stickman's state of mind.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Brain Tease is convinced that he is the Insomniac's main nemesis just because he was one of the first members of his rogues gallery, even though Stickman has long since overshadowed him.
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* WretchedHive: Twilight's Redport district, where Frankie and her associates all live, is a miserable slum littered with the remains of a kaiju that one of the Continuum members killed and couldn't be bothered to clean up. Most of the city's supervillains live there because it's cheap and because the Insomniac and Kid Dusk are the only superheroes who bother to patrol there.
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* StraightGay: In the first issue, the hulking Snake Stalker brings another villain to the Lower Lair, hoping that the Scalpel will save him. Issue 2 reveals that the other villain was his boyfriend.
* WretchedHive: Twilight's Redport district, where Frankie and her associates all live, is a miserable slum that includes an area called the Stomp, so named because it's littered with the remains of a kaiju that one of the Continuum members killed and couldn't be bothered to clean up. Most of the city's supervillains live there because it's cheap and because the Insomniac and Kid Dusk are the only superheroes who bother to patrol there.
* WretchedHive: Twilight's Redport district, where Frankie and her associates all live, is a miserable slum that includes an area called the Stomp, so named because it's littered with the remains of a kaiju that one of the Continuum members killed and couldn't be bothered to clean up. Most of the city's supervillains live there because it's cheap and because the Insomniac and Kid Dusk are the only superheroes who bother to patrol there.
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''Minor Threats'' is a comic book miniseries by Creator/PattonOswalt, Jordan Blum, and Scott Hepburn. It is published by Creator/DarkHorseComics.
Recently paroled from prison, former supervillain Frankie Follis, AKA Playtime, just wants to keep her head down, hold down her menial job at a villain bar, and regain custody of her daughter Maggie. Unfortunately for her, the psychotic Stickman has just murdered Kid Dusk, the teenage sidekick to Twilight City's main hero Insomniac, and now Insomniac is out for blood and his peers in the Continuum are prepared to turn Twilight City into a police state in order to find the Stickman, and they don't care if any of the other villains get hurt or killed along the way. Realizing that the "good guys" are never going to leave her alone, Frankie decides to become Playtime again, and bands together with some of Twilight's other villains to track down Stickman and kill him.
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* TheCowl: The Insomniac is the local Batman equivalent, with Kid Dusk as his Robin.
* DepravedBisexual: As Frankie looks for housing, one prospective landlady suggests that she'd be willing to look the other way on Frankie's criminal history in exchange for Frankie having a threesome with her and her boyfriend.
* TheDreaded: Stickman is so terrifying to the older supervillains that Toy Queen nearly retired after one meeting with him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Most of the older supervillains, like Toy Queen and Pigeon Pete, had a moral code against killing or maiming people, preferring to stick to relatively harmless crimes like robbery, but the Stickman and his peers have no such qualms.
* FreudianExcuse: The various prison shrinks Frankie saw have all theorized that the reason all her gadgets look like toys is because she's trying to make up for the childhood she lost out on when her mother forced her to become her sidekick.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Scalpel is a doctor who caters to supervillains, mobsters, and other criminals. Her services are in so much demand that she's recently opened a third clinic.
* PracticallyJoker: The Stickman is a perpetually-grinning sociopath who has just murdered the sidekick to Twilight City's main superhero.
* StageMom: Frankie's mom was the Toy Queen, a Silver Age supervillainess who used toy-themed weaponry. When Frankie developed powers, she was forced to become Toy Queen's sidekick, Playtime.
* WretchedHive: Twilight's Redport district, where Frankie and her associates all live, is a miserable slum littered with the remains of a kaiju that one of the Continuum members killed and couldn't be bothered to clean up. Most of the city's supervillains live there because it's cheap and because the Insomniac and Kid Dusk are the only superheroes who bother to patrol there.
Recently paroled from prison, former supervillain Frankie Follis, AKA Playtime, just wants to keep her head down, hold down her menial job at a villain bar, and regain custody of her daughter Maggie. Unfortunately for her, the psychotic Stickman has just murdered Kid Dusk, the teenage sidekick to Twilight City's main hero Insomniac, and now Insomniac is out for blood and his peers in the Continuum are prepared to turn Twilight City into a police state in order to find the Stickman, and they don't care if any of the other villains get hurt or killed along the way. Realizing that the "good guys" are never going to leave her alone, Frankie decides to become Playtime again, and bands together with some of Twilight's other villains to track down Stickman and kill him.
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!!This series contains examples of:
* TheCowl: The Insomniac is the local Batman equivalent, with Kid Dusk as his Robin.
* DepravedBisexual: As Frankie looks for housing, one prospective landlady suggests that she'd be willing to look the other way on Frankie's criminal history in exchange for Frankie having a threesome with her and her boyfriend.
* TheDreaded: Stickman is so terrifying to the older supervillains that Toy Queen nearly retired after one meeting with him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Most of the older supervillains, like Toy Queen and Pigeon Pete, had a moral code against killing or maiming people, preferring to stick to relatively harmless crimes like robbery, but the Stickman and his peers have no such qualms.
* FreudianExcuse: The various prison shrinks Frankie saw have all theorized that the reason all her gadgets look like toys is because she's trying to make up for the childhood she lost out on when her mother forced her to become her sidekick.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Scalpel is a doctor who caters to supervillains, mobsters, and other criminals. Her services are in so much demand that she's recently opened a third clinic.
* PracticallyJoker: The Stickman is a perpetually-grinning sociopath who has just murdered the sidekick to Twilight City's main superhero.
* StageMom: Frankie's mom was the Toy Queen, a Silver Age supervillainess who used toy-themed weaponry. When Frankie developed powers, she was forced to become Toy Queen's sidekick, Playtime.
* WretchedHive: Twilight's Redport district, where Frankie and her associates all live, is a miserable slum littered with the remains of a kaiju that one of the Continuum members killed and couldn't be bothered to clean up. Most of the city's supervillains live there because it's cheap and because the Insomniac and Kid Dusk are the only superheroes who bother to patrol there.
