History ComicBook / TheEltingvilleClub

* ProperlyParanoid: In "Lo, There Shall Be an Epilogue!", Josh and Pete aren't willing to let Bill join the reunion, pointing out how troublesome he was, only allowing him to join under Jerry's assumption that they aren't rabid teenagers anymore (and due to Bill bribing them with overpriced food). [[spoiler: They are proven right.]]

* ShopliftAndDie: Having caught and fired his former assistant, Joe makes it clear to Bill that he will kill him if he catches him stealing stuff from his store. [[spoiler: This becomes one of the reasons why he fights the eltingville club in "This Fan... This Monster!" as he learns that Pete stole a lighter from him earlier at some point.]]

* ChekhovsGun: At the begining of "This Fan... This Monster!", Joe mentions to Bill that he's using a kiddie pool in order to catch the leaks on his roof during the rain. [[spoiler: at the climax of the chapter, as the store collapses from the fire, the kiddie pool full of water falls on Bill's burning body, saving his life.]]

* ShopliftAndDie: Having caught and fired his former assistant, Joe makes it clear to Bill that he will kill him if he catches him stealing stuff from his store.

** Josh, the most overweight member of the club, often picks fights with Bill over petty stuff and acts pretty awful, specially when collections are involved.

** [[spoiler:Still, the latter two come out looking rosy compared to Bill - who, unsurprisingly, is the member with the worst outcome. Still living with his mother, Bill became a failed independent dealer and expert in comics and collectibles whose collection maintenance business failed due to him losing his customers' trust by slacking on the job and taking advantage of them. By the time the epilogue started, he sunk so low to the point of attempting to steal comics at comic-con by taking advantage of the vendor of a commercial stand being distracted with a client.]]
* GoodAngelBadAngel: Parodied with Joe in the pilot. Upon witnessing the desperation of Bill and Josh of owning his Boba Fett, Joe's demon appears and suggests Joe to scam the Eltingville boys by pricing it for $200. As soon as he's finished, Joe's angel appears and suggests increasing its price to $250, ending up with Joe deciding to sell it for $300.

** [[spoiler: At the end of "Lo, there shall be an epilogue" The Eltingville group fears that they will be banned from every geeky store, con and event in existence when Bill causes havoc at Comic Con.]]
* PlayingTheVictimCard: In the pilot. After Josh made a mistake, losing the trivia showdown, he states that it was obvious he knew the correct answers and starts claiming everyone is against him for being anti-Semites.
* ProperlyParanoid: At "Lo, there shall be an epilogue", Josh and Pete aren't willing to let Bill join the reunion, pointing out how troublesome he was, only allowing him to join under Jerry's assumption that they aren't rabid teenagers anymore and due to being bribed by him paying the overpriced food. [[spoiler: They are proven right.]]
* PyrrhicVictory: Bill may have resisted the intervention and even convinced his kidnappers to become geeks again, but he still gets all his collection stolen and is left tied up all alone until his mother returns home.

** [[spoiler:Upon ruining Joe's store, Bill finishes destroying the place by burning it to the ground and making it as his resignation.]]
* RelationshipSabotage: [[spoiler:Bill spread around a lie that Jerry was boasting about having sex with Agnes Zawatsky, his crush from the old days. She stopped talking to Jerome after that, with him never finding out why, until Bill revealed the truth during the reunion, justifying it as done in order to protect the club.]]

* TokenGoodTeamMate: Jerry and to a lesser extent Pete, granted they can still be jerks like Bill and Josh.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: The members became the worst versions of themselves each time they were together, ramping their worst traits to near-psychotic, criminal levels. [[spoiler: At the end of "This fan... this monster", their parents took notice of this and forces their sons to abandon their friendship after Bill burns Joe's store to ashes.]]
* VillainProtagonist: The main characters were all varying degrees of {{Jerkass}}, but TheLeader and most prominent member Bill was by far the worst as his extremely overbearing personality made him greatly disliked by his peers, [[VitriolicBestBuds including the other members of the Eltingville Club]]. In the second-to-last issue, Bill [[PsychopathicManchild sets fire to his workplace with his friends in it in a fit of rage]].

* VitriolicBestBuds: Deconstructed. Despite claiming to be friends, the group is always seen insulting and fighting at each other over petty things. [[spoiler:Mandy, Jerry's girlfriend, directly questions to the group if they were even friends at all.]]
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[spoiler: As soon as Joe leaves Bill in charge of the store to attend an emergency, the latter becomes mad with power, immediately breaking Joe's rules when he's not around and threatening clients with banning them for live if they don't comply to his demands.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Joe, the owner of the comic store makes it clear to Bill that he will kill him if he catches him stealing, and [[spoiler:fights the Eltingville Club when he finds them using and destroying his store merch against each other when Bill tries to take advantage of his temporal privileges to ban his former friends from the store for life.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The comic ends with the group discussing the chaos they caused at Comic Con and how they are likely to get arrested and face charges now that they're adults who aren't protected by their parents.
Jerry cuts ties with his former friends for good upon being blamed by the other members, realizing they still haven't matured, and decides to leave the car they're hiding in and search for Mindy, fearing for her safety.]]

* AntiRoleModel: It's apparent some of Bill's abysmal attitude is a result of years of hanging around Joe the comic shop owner, whose toxic attitude on everything from women to his customers clearly rubbed off on him.
* BreakingTheFellowship: Played often for laughs at the end of the episode with the tagline "Is this the end of The Eltingville Club". However, this is played straight in the last two episodes, [[spoiler: as the parents forbid them to seeing each other after Bill burns Joe's store, and at the last episode, where Jerry cut ties for good after a failed reunion.]]
* BorrowedCatchphrase: Jerry uses "Beedee beedee beedee" as his own catchphrase in reference to Twiki from Buck Rogers. In the pilot episode, this actually becomes important, as Bill and Josh's exhaustively long trivia showdown comes to an end when Bill asks who says "Beedee beedee beedee", and Josh blurts out Jerry instead of Twiki, causing him to lose.

* CerebusSyndrome: An interesting example. While the chaos the club members create never stops being absurd, the repercussions and their actions gradually become less and less funny as the comic continues, escalating to the point of Bill burning down a store, at which point it becomes clear something is ''genuinely'' wrong with him. By the end, particularly "This fan... this monster," the club members (except Jerry) become more tragic and unsettling than funny.
* ChekhovsGun: At the beggining of "This fan... this monster", Joe mentions to Bill that he's using a kiddie's pool in order to catch the leaks on his roof during the rain. [[spoiler: at the climax of the chapter, as the store collapses from the fire, the kiddie poll full of water falls on Bill's burning body, saving his life.]]
* ChildrenAreInnocent: [[spoiler: At the end of "This fan... this monster", Jerry reminisces to the times where they started the club and were more innocent.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:In a fit of impotent rage (Combined with a possible concussion), Bill lights Joe's comic shop on fire. Not stopping to realize it's a bad idea to do so ''while he himself is still standing in it''.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The comic ends with the group discussing that they are likely to get arrested for causing chaos at comic con and face charges now that they are adults and aren't protected by their parents, as well as Jerry cutting ties with his former friends for good upon being blamed by the other members and realizing they still haven't matured, deciding to leave the car they're hiding and search for Mindy, fearing for her safety.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Pete, who in his adulthood admits to sexually exploit women in his pornographic film movies, is appalled by Bill's misogynistic tirade against [[spoiler:Mandy, Jerry's girlfriend]].

* EvilIsPetty: As show in the timeskip epilogue, Bill still carries the head of the broken Boba Fett solely to torment Josh with.
* FailedPilotEpisode: The comic was adapted into an animated episode but never got pitched.

** Joe, the comic store owner who often mistreats his costumers and takes advantage of their fanaticism to sell his merch at ridiculous high prices.
** Josh, the overweight member of the club often pick up fights with Bill over petty stuff and acts pretty awful, specially when collections are involved.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Bill, the self-proclaimed leader of the group, is the most disliked member of the gang, and with good reason, as Bill tends to get them into deeper trouble. By the time of "This fan... this monster", the rest of the group was thinking of kicking him out of the group for good.
* FutureLoser: Most of the members of the group don't adapt to adulthood too well, Jerry seems to be the only one who seems to have matured for the better and avoid what happened to his fellow club members.
** [[spoiler:Josh is a failed comic writer working for a comic book news website and whose ideas always end up being rejected by publishers.]]
** [[spoiler:Pete ends up balding and working as a film director specialized in creating horror porn, a position that he frequently uses to exploit desperate women.]]

* JerkassHasAPoint: For all his faults, Pete is ''completely'' correct in the epilogue that hanging out with Bill again will go horribly wrong.

* OnlySaneMan: Jerry Stokes Jr. is this by comparison of the other members, as he has a more easygoing personality and is calmer than his peers. [[spoiler: He's also the only one who succeeds in love and the only member who permanently decides to cut ties with them upon realizing how toxic his former friends were.]]

* LghterAndSofter: The failed pilot is ''very'' toned down from the comic that spawned it. Omitting the comic's grotesque at times art-style, and removing the very copious swearing.

* ToxicFriendInfluence: The members became the worst versions of themselves each time they were together, ramping their worst traits to near-psychotic, criminal levels. [[spoiler: At the end of "This fan... this monster", their parents took notice of this at the end when Bill burned Joe's store and forced them to abandon their friendship.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: Joe, the owner of the comic store, not only makes it clear that he will kill Bill if he catches him stealing, and [[spoiler:fights the Eltingville Club when he finds them destroying his store merch during a petty fight between each other.]]