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* TakeThat: The introduction of the story "E.T., Go Home" has Barry mention that he made his first telescope by cannibalizing a video camera and an UsefulNotes/Atari2600. He remarks that no one's going to miss the latter.
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* TakeThat: The introduction of the story "E.T., Go Home" has Barry mention that he made his first telescope by cannibalizing a video camera and an UsefulNotes/Atari2600.Platform/Atari2600. He remarks that no one's going to miss the latter.
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* DirtyKid: Barry's friend Jeremy tends to be obsessed with seeing girls naked, a fact which Barry lampshades in "How the West Was Weened".
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* DirtyKid: Barry's friend Jeremy tends to be obsessed with seeing girls naked, with one of the demands he makes for TIMM when they mistake him for Barry is to watch the entire library of Traci Lords (a porn star whose work was nearly entirely banned when it was discovered she lied about her age and was a fact which minor for most of it). Barry lampshades this in "How the West Was Weened".Weened" after Jeremy is used to test a teleporter and wastes no time asking if it could be used to beam him into the girls' locker room.
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--> '''5th Issue:''' Creator/ErnestHemingway once said "true genius is the ability to learn fast"... For a suicidal drunk with a pathological fear of his own patent homosexuality, papa did all right.
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--> '''5th Issue:''' Creator/ErnestHemingway once said "true genius is the ability to learn fast"... For a suicidal drunk with a pathological fear of his own patent latent homosexuality, papa did all right.
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* PlatoIsAMoron: Three stories begin with Barry quoting a famous intellectual and then proceeding to insult him.
--> '''2nd Issue:''' When asked if he felt like a failure for failing 1000 times to make a light bulb famed inventor UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison said "I did not fail, I just discovered 1000 ways that don't work"... ''What an asshole!'' Smart guy, sure, but also a patent thief with an ego rivaling the amount of self-importantance I possess.
--> '''5th Issue:''' Creator/ErnestHemingway once said "true genius is the ability to learn fast"... For a suicidal drunk with a pathological fear of his own patent homosexuality, papa did all right.
--> '''7th Issue:''' [[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jane-Goodall Jane Goodall]] once said "Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom"... All those years living among apes, eating wild berries and adopting their behavior and '''this''' is her big revelation? ''That we are a lot like monkeys?'' This was a lady in ''serious need'' of a pizza and good lay.
--> '''2nd Issue:''' When asked if he felt like a failure for failing 1000 times to make a light bulb famed inventor UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison said "I did not fail, I just discovered 1000 ways that don't work"... ''What an asshole!'' Smart guy, sure, but also a patent thief with an ego rivaling the amount of self-importantance I possess.
--> '''5th Issue:''' Creator/ErnestHemingway once said "true genius is the ability to learn fast"... For a suicidal drunk with a pathological fear of his own patent homosexuality, papa did all right.
--> '''7th Issue:''' [[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jane-Goodall Jane Goodall]] once said "Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom"... All those years living among apes, eating wild berries and adopting their behavior and '''this''' is her big revelation? ''That we are a lot like monkeys?'' This was a lady in ''serious need'' of a pizza and good lay.
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Not an example if it's understandable. That trope only applies to minor infractions, like making fun of his height. If it can apply to anyone, it's not a Berserk Button.
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* BerserkButton: "Oh dude. He went and touched Barry." Barry is bad-tempered at the best of times, but do ''not'' lay hands on him against his will if you value your appendages. The same goes for anyone who hurts Sara or Jeremy - without a doubt his two closest friends (not to mention Jeremy knows all his secrets). In a later story when a time-displaced, older Sara is killed by a barbarian enemy, Barry goes ballistic and blows a giant hole right through his chest, then threatens to slaughter his ally and his people if they ever pull Barry into their squabbles again.
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* BerserkButton: "Oh dude. He went and touched Barry." Barry is bad-tempered at the best of times, but do ''not'' lay hands on him against his will if you value your appendages. The same goes for anyone who hurts Sara or Jeremy - without a doubt his two closest friends (not to mention Jeremy knows all his secrets). In a later story when a time-displaced, older Sara is killed by a barbarian enemy, Barry goes ballistic and blows a giant hole right through his chest, then threatens to slaughter his ally and his people if they ever pull Barry into their squabbles again.
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->''You people are fucking with the '''wrong''' ten-year-old.''
-->-- Barry, after TIMM attempts to abduct him and grabs Jeremy instead.
-->-- Barry, after TIMM attempts to abduct him and grabs Jeremy instead.
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* BringMyBrownPants: Discussed. When Barry gives up on stealth and starts blasting through TIMM headquarters, Jeremy tells Nathan Haas to "shit yourself now while you still got the plumbing." Later, when Barry arrives and knocks out everyone except Jeremy and Haas, Jeremy asks Haas, "Howz that fudgie in your undies comin' now?"
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* CovertGroupWithMundaneFront: Technological Intelligence Movement Monitor, a NoSuchAgency that tracks technology invention and usage, hides behind the front of the Foliage Census.
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* MistakenIdentity: When TIMM attempts to capture Barry, they accidentally capture Jeremy instead.
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* CassandraBystander: When Mr. Goldblatt sees Barry and Jeremy chasing a dinosaur, they point out that he really doesn't want to tell anyone.
-->'''Barry''': Say, Mr. Goldblatt, if you tell people that you saw a dinosaur being chased down Elm Street by two ten-year-olds in a Bronco, they'll think just two things...\\
'''Mr. Goldblatt''': Alzheimer's and nursing home. [...] I didn't see nothin'.
-->'''Barry''': Say, Mr. Goldblatt, if you tell people that you saw a dinosaur being chased down Elm Street by two ten-year-olds in a Bronco, they'll think just two things...\\
'''Mr. Goldblatt''': Alzheimer's and nursing home. [...] I didn't see nothin'.
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* SleepDeprivationPunishment: During a rant about his BlessedWithSuck status as a ten year old supergenius, Barry mentions that because his brain is always running at full tilt, [[TheSleepless he doesn't sleep, and in fact has never been able to]]. He's clearly found some off-screen way of keeping his body running without it, but he makes it clear that it's hell for him.
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* SleepDeprivationPunishment: TheSleepless: During a rant about his BlessedWithSuck status as a ten year old supergenius, ten-year-old super-genius, Barry mentions that because his brain is always running at full tilt, [[TheSleepless he doesn't sleep, and in fact has never been able to]].to. He's clearly found some off-screen way of keeping his body running without it, but he makes it clear that it's hell for him.
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* CerebusSyndrome: The series started out completely devoted to humor. A late story where he traveled to another world was significantly more serious.
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* CerebusSyndrome: The series started out completely devoted to humor. A late story where he traveled to another world was significantly more serious.
* TheMasquerade: The only one to know of Barry's brain is Jeremy, plus possibly a few others who present no threat. (Old Mr. Goldblatt knows he'd be put in a nursing home as soon as he claimed to have seen Barry and Jeremy chase scurrying dinosaurs.)
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* TheMasquerade: The only one to know of Barry's brain is Jeremy, plus possibly a few others who present no threat. (Old Mr. Goldblatt knows he'd be put in a nursing home as soon as he claimed to have seen Barry and Jeremy chase scurrying dinosaurs.)
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* NoTechButHighTech: When Barry and Jeremy land in an alternate dimension that is said to have "no technology", because the laws of physics there make anything that uses energy drain at an accelerated pace. resulting in even something like fire being hard to utilize. The inhabitants, however, have managed to construct a decent city.
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* MoralityPet: Jeremy often acts as this for Barry, who would otherwise deal with his problems by shooting or blowing them up.
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* MoralityPet: Jeremy often acts as this for Barry, who would otherwise deal MoralityChain: The OriginsEpisode "Adventures in Babysitting" shows that before meeting Jeremy, Barry dealt with his problems and experiments gone wrong by shooting or blowing simply killing them up.off but now exercises restraint and tends to go with [[LaserGuidedAmnesia a memory wipe]] instead.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Barry, due to his DeadpanSnarker quips, comes off as this, such as responding to a bully asking whether he had 'sucked any weenies' by "Yes - [[IBangedYourMom your dad paid $100 for me to suck his]]" and once to Jeremy's request to join him by saying he'd let him come along if they had sex. At the very least, it's clear he's quite comfortable with his sexuality.
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* BookEnds: In his first story, Barry accidentally opens an interdimensional portal in the basement. Another basement portal (although not created by Barry this time) kickstarts the plot of the final trilogy.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first series implied that several people aside Jeremy were in on Barry's secret. In the following series, the idea of anybody but Jeremy discovering Barry's intellect is always treated as SeriousBusiness.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first series implied that showed several people aside from Jeremy that were in on Barry's secret. In the following series, later installments, the idea of anybody anyone but Jeremy discovering Barry's intellect is always treated as SeriousBusiness.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first series implied that several people aside Jeremy were in on Barry's secret. In the following series, the idea of anybody but Jeremy discovering Barry's intellect is always treated as SeriousBusiness.
** Minor example: Barry's memory-erasing ray guns are a staple of the series, but in the very first issue he gives a kid amnesia with an pharmaceutical injection.
** Minor example: Barry's memory-erasing ray guns are a staple of the series, but in the very first issue he gives a kid amnesia with an pharmaceutical injection.
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** Another sterling example: When Barry and Jeremy's classmates are trapped in a museum with armed thieves, the local police argue with the curator on why the latter has a security system installed when the former can do the job. Then the argument devolves into [[ManChild childish levels]] with the curator replying that the cops couldn't "catch the clap in a whorehouse" The cop calls the curator a "sissy" and the latter responds with "pig", thus forcing Barry and Jeremy to take matters into their own hands.
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** Another sterling example: example which doubles as PoliceAreUseless: When Barry and Jeremy's classmates are trapped in a museum with armed thieves, the local police argue with the curator on why the latter has a security system installed when the former can do the job. Then the argument devolves into [[ManChild childish levels]] with the curator replying that the cops couldn't "catch the clap in a whorehouse" The cop calls the curator a "sissy" and the latter responds with "pig", thus forcing Barry and Jeremy to take matters into their own hands.
