History ComicBook / SinisterDexter

* [[SeanConneryIsGoingToShootYou Sinister Dexter Are Going To Shoot You]]: Used on the covers of progs [[http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=981&Comic=2000ad 981]], [[http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=1064&Comic=2000ad 1064]] (which was also used as the cover for the first collection), [[http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=1134&Comic=2000ad 1134]], [[http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=1153&Comic=2000ad 1153]], [[http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=1346&Comic=2000ad 1346]] and [[http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=1665&Comic=2000ad 1665]], as well as [[https://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/n_iv/600/1695113.jpg issue 2]] of their IDW series.

* PacManFever: Zig-zagged. One one shot story shows the goings on of a Downlode arcade, giving glimpses of various people playing virtual reality arcade games, all with their own unique settings. We then cut to Finnigan Sinister who has been playing ''VideoGame/{{Pong}}'' for eight hours while waiting for the arcade's owner to get in. There's a reason for this; The owner has a contract on his head and ''Pong'' appears to be the only game in the place that isn't a VR game, meaning Finny is able to just drop what he's doing and pump deadlead into the guy when he walks through the door.

* MegaCity: Downlode. It's not quite clear how big the city is, but it certainly seems to sprawl from parts of Spain all the way into Eastern Europe. For a while the series' blurb at the front of the comic described Downlode as "''sprawling across Central Europe like a hit and run victim''"

-->'''Finnegan Sinister:''' Of course ye'll need a shovel, so ye will.

** a coffee chain called Barstucks tries to run the duo's favourite coffee shop out of business so they pay the place a little visit. The end of the story notes that, for some reason, despite its worldwide mass appeal, Barstucks never does catch on in Downlode.

* BlandNameProduct: Dexter's original Headcase is actually a Sony product, but when it's destroyed, he replaces it with a Fony model, which actually turns out to be superior to the old one.

* FightingIrish: Sinister is an Irish, redheaded ProfessionalKiller with a penchant for a drink order known as a Piston Broke and a HandCannon as a WeaponOfChoice.

* PacManFever: Zig-zagged. One one shot story shows the goings on of a Downlode arcade, giving glimpses of various people playing virtual reality arcade games, all with their own unique settings. We then cut to Finnigan Sinister who has been playing ''VideoGame/{{Pong}}'' for eight hours while waiting for the arcades owner to get in. There's a reason for this; The owner has a contract on his head and ''Pong'' appears to be the only game in the place that isn't a VR game, meaning Finny is able to just drop what he's doing and pump deadlead into the guy when he walks through the door.

* PacManFever: Zig-zagged. One one shot story shows the goings on of a Downlode arcade, giving glimpses of various people playing virtual reality arcade games, all with their own unique settings. We then cut to Finnigan Sinister who has been playing ''VideoGame/{{Pong}}'' for eight hours while waiting for the arcades owner to get in. There's a reason for this; The owner has a contract on his head and ''Pong'' appears to be the only game in the place that isn't a VR game, meaning Finny is able to just drop what he's going and pump deadlead into the guy when he walks through the door.

** OffhandBackhand: When fighting off Reminders in "Job Jobbed", Ray takes out one of them by firing behind him with his off hand. His Headcase likely allows this to be done with ease, thanks to its electronic targeting capabilities.

** One story outright parodied this trope with Creator/BruceWillis as Sinister, Creator/EddieMurphy as Dexter, and Creator/ScarlettJohannsen as Demi Octavo.

** One story outright parodied this trope with Creator/BruceWillis as Sinister, Creator/EddieMurphy as Dexter, and Creator/ScarlettJohannson as Demi Octavo.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: The main characters' full names are Finnigan Rapunzel Sinister and Ramone Algonquin Winnibago Dexter respectively. Other awesome names include "Holy" Moses Tennenbaum, Kal Cutter (though it isn't his real name), Miss Deeds, Satan Brink and others. Seems Abnett loves this trope.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The series ''[[spoiler:Malone]]'' was actually a stealth example of this, being a hard-boiled noir that had no apparent connection to this series... until [[spoiler:the reveal that Malone himself is actually a mind-wiped and surgically-disguised ''Sinister'', who went into hiding following the events of ''...And Death Shall Have No Dumb Minions''.]]

** Kal Cutter is forced to learn this the hard way while being mentored by the duo. [[spoiler:When Finny and Ray go to accept a contract from a client at a nightclub, Kal meets a pretty girl there, and is then horrified to discover that ''she's'' the target. He tries to run with her, with Finny and Ray in pursuit. Eventually, they're cornered, and the duo explain to Kal that being a gunshark means that, above all else, you ''always'' finish the job, and can't allow emotion or questions of morals enter into it, even if you believe the target may be innocent. A reluctant Kal takes their words to heart, and shoots the target himself]].

* CoolShades: Finny's rarely seen without a pair of sunglasses. Which type is, of course, DependingOnTheArtist, though he is often depicted with LennonSpecs.

* TooDumbToLive: In ''Dunce Macabre'', Kal reckons a man that they have just chased out into oncoming traffic is the dumbest mark that has ever had a price on his head. Finny and Ray proceed to tell him about some of the stupidest hits they ever performed, including a man who hid in a wardrobe (He was told he needed armour and thought they said "armoire"), a man who jumped out the window onto some live power cables and a man who filled in the form incorrectly, inadvertedly ''paying'' to have ''himself'' killed.

* AnyoneCanDie: A given in a series set in a crime-infested hellhole, whose protagonists kill people for a living. Many supporting characters introduced over the years have met their ends, but this trope didn't really come into force until [[spoiler:the shocking death of Demi Octavo]]. Hell, there was even a period where it seemed like this had been applied to [[spoiler:''Ray and Finny themselves'', although, thankfully, it wasn't really a thing: Ray was just hospitalised, while Sinister changed his identity and escaped off-planet]].

* ConsummateProfessional: Finny and Ray pride themselves on their professionalism, and don't let anything get in the way of executing a contract they've accepted. [[spoiler:When a contract is placed on "Holy" Moses Tenenbaum, who the boys were working for at the time, he immediately assembles a hit squad to take them out, telling his disbelieving subordinates that their professionalism and reputations will ''demand'' that they accept the contract, despite his being their boss and the biggest mafia lord in Downlode. And he's absolutely ''right'']].

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The series ''[[spoiler:Malone]]'' was actually a stealth example of this, being a hard-boiled noir that had no apparent connection to this series... until [[spoiler:the reveal that Malone himself is actually a mind-wiped and surgically-disguised ''Sinister'', who went into hiding following the events of ''Downlode Tales''.]]