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* KilledOffForReal: The series has a ridiculously high body count including (but not limited to) [[Robert Oppenheimer, Harry Truman, and Enrico Fermi]]. Some of them continue to make appearances through Oppenheimer.

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* KilledOffForReal: The series has a ridiculously high body count including (but not limited to) [[Robert [[spoiler: Robert Oppenheimer, Harry Truman, and Enrico Fermi]].Fermi, and Joseph Oppenheimer]]. Some of them continue to make appearances through Oppenheimer.
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* FreudianExcuse: Feynman's wild Narcissism is shown to be a product of his father's ridiculous quest for perfection.

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* {{Narcissist}}: Feynman's narration about his one night stand reveals this.
-->'''Feynman''':"Last night, before inviting her to come home with me, I told her she was flawless--'an unrivaled beauty'"..."The truth is there is only one perfect person here."

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* {{Narcissist}}: Feynman's narration about his one night stand reveals this.
-->'''Feynman''':"Last night, before inviting her to come home
Feynman is a textbook narcissist with me, I told her she was flawless--'an unrivaled beauty'"..."The truth is there is only one perfect person here."a FreudianExcuse.

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** Feynman is first shown psyching himself up in the mirror by telling himself how amazing he is. He also remarks that that though he told a one-night stand she was perfect, [[{{Narcissist}} in reality only he is]].

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** Feynman is first shown psyching himself up in the mirror by telling himself how amazing he is. He also remarks that that though he told mirror.
-->"Good Mr, Feynman. You're smart, you're handsome. You're
a one-night stand she was perfect, [[{{Narcissist}} in reality only he is]].very special person."



* {{Narcissist}}: Feyman who after [[spoiler: being bashed in the face by Fermi]] runs screaming to get his nose in place so as not to ruin his all important looks.

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* {{Narcissist}}: Feyman who after [[spoiler: being bashed in the face by Fermi]] runs screaming to get Feynman's narration about his nose in place so as not one night stand reveals this.
-->'''Feynman''':"Last night, before inviting her
to ruin his all important looks. come home with me, I told her she was flawless--'an unrivaled beauty'"..."The truth is there is only one perfect person here."
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Many characters get these.
** In the first issue, Oppenheimer viciously kills the Japanese robots hinting at his unpredictable vicious personality.
** Feynman is first shown psyching himself up in the mirror by telling himself how amazing he is. He also remarks that that though he told a one-night stand she was perfect, [[{{Narcissist}} in reality only he is]].
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Contrast with ''ComicBook\EastOfWest'', Jonathan Hickman's ''other'' alternate history of America series.

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Contrast with ''ComicBook\EastOfWest'', ''ComicBook/EastOfWest'', Jonathan Hickman's ''other'' alternate history of America series.
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Contrast with ''ComicBook\EastOfWest'', Jonathan Hickman's ''other'' alternate history of America series.


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* ArtificialLimb: Von Braun gets more robotic appendages as the series goes on.
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* BrainInAJar: Literally, the head of the Russian team is a brain in a jar mounted on a robot body.


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* HistoricalInJoke: Too many to count. For example, the real Harry Daughlin died from his exposure to the core. And the real Fermi made an argument against the existence of intelligent aliens. Doubles as GeniusBonus.


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* OurSkeletonsAreDifferent: Harry Daughlin is a skeleton held together with radiation.
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* AnyoneCanDie: No matter how important you were to real history.
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* KilledOffForReal: The series has a ridiculously high body count including (but not limited to) [[Robert Oppenheimer, Harry Truman, and Enrico Fermi]]. Some of them continue to make appearances through Oppenheimer.
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* ButtMonkey: Things continue to get worse and worse for Helmutt. Von Braun does not help.

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* BadassNormal: With a cast of maniacs and mad scientists, nearly every character qualifies. Special mention must be made of General Westmoreland, who [[spoiler: kills a mutant superweapon made from bits and pieces of alien monsters, armed with only a bowie knife and a bald eagle tattoo]]



* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: Truman is a mason. See page image.
* BadassNormal: With a cast of maniacs and mad scientists, nearly every character qualifies. Special mention must be made of General Westmoreland, who [[spoiler: kills a mutant superweapon made from bits and pieces of alien monsters, armed with only a bowie knife and a bald eagle tattoo]]

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* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: Truman is a mason. See page image.
* BadassNormal: With a cast of maniacs and mad scientists, nearly every character qualifies. Special mention must be made of General Westmoreland, who [[spoiler: kills a mutant superweapon made from bits and pieces of alien monsters, armed with only a bowie knife and a bald eagle tattoo]]
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* LastSaneMan: Harry Daughlin, despite his condition, is a kind, well-intentioned man. He's the only one.


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* TeamPet: Laika, after the team makes their alliance with the Russians.

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An Image series written by Jonathan Hickman and illustrated by Nick Pitarra, '''''The Manhattan Projects''''' features Oppenheimer, Daghlian, Von Braun, RichardFeynman, and AlbertEinstein as they fight zen-powered robots, meet aliens, and discover wormholes. It is a bizarre series to say the least.

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An Image series written by Jonathan Hickman and illustrated by Nick Pitarra, '''''The Manhattan Projects''''' features Oppenheimer, Daghlian, Von Braun, RichardFeynman, and AlbertEinstein as they fight zen-powered robots, meet aliens, and discover wormholes. It is a bizarre series to say Meanwhile each of the least.
members of the league have their own alliances and agendas. As the group redefines the twentieth century, they must face threats from all around, as well as inside.


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* BlackComedy: The entire work functions as a gory comedy centered around cartoonish versions of famous scientists (not that its without excellent drama). Special mention goes out to "We'll have to postpone the orgy".

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* CloudCuckooLander: Oppenheimer, which makes Oppenheimer's brain something of a Cloud Cuckoo Land.

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* CloudCuckooLander: Oppenheimer, which makes Oppenheimer's brain something of a Cloud Cuckoo Land.Land.
* LastSaneMan: Harry Daughlin, despite his condition, is a kind, well-intentioned man. He's the only one.
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* TheMole: [[spoiler: Enrico Fermi is a drone from an alien race]]. The members are so disgusted by this that they won't even let him live on by being devoured by Oppenheimer. Ouch.

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* AlternateHistoryAlternateHistory: The key conceit of the work being that the Manhattan Project was just a cover-up for a number of more crazy things. It's played with though as historical characters are wildly exaggerated to fit in with the strange world.



* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: Truman is a mason.

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* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: Truman is a mason. See page image.



* CloudCuckooLander: Oppenheimer

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* CloudCuckooLander: Oppenheimer Oppenheimer, which makes Oppenheimer's brain something of a Cloud Cuckoo Land.



* KnightTemplar: Gen. Grover.

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* KnightTemplar: Gen. Grover. His father was an army preacher who instilled in him a strong sense of morality and justice. Possibly too strong.



* {{Narcissist}}: Feyman

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* {{Narcissist}}: FeymanFeyman who after [[spoiler: being bashed in the face by Fermi]] runs screaming to get his nose in place so as not to ruin his all important looks.



* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Joseph]] Oppenheimer.

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* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Joseph]] Oppenheimer. More than split, Oppenheimer absorbs the identities of all of his victims as well as splitting off new personalities at random. One issue is titled ''Infinite Oppenheimers''



* VerbalTic: Oppenheimer's repeated "Hmmmmmmm!"

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* ThoseWackyNazis: Von Braun, Hitler, and Helmutt.
* VerbalTic: Oppenheimer's repeated "Hmmmmmmm!""Hmmmmmmm!". Inside his head, it's all anyone can say [[spoiler: at first]].
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* Badass: With a cast of maniacs and mad scientists, nearly every character qualifies. Special mention must be made of General Westmoreland, who [[spoiler: kills a mutant superweapon made from bits and pieces of alien monsters, armed with only a bowie knife and a bald eagle tattoo]]

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* Badass: BadassNormal: With a cast of maniacs and mad scientists, nearly every character qualifies. Special mention must be made of General Westmoreland, who [[spoiler: kills a mutant superweapon made from bits and pieces of alien monsters, armed with only a bowie knife and a bald eagle tattoo]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:Science bad, indeed.]]

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* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: Truman is a mason.
* CloudCuckooLander: Oppenheimer

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* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: Truman is a mason.
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* Badass: With a cast of maniacs and mad scientists, nearly every character qualifies. Special mention must be made of General Westmoreland, who [[spoiler: kills a mutant superweapon made from bits and pieces of alien monsters, armed with only a bowie knife and a bald eagle tattoo]]
* CloudCuckooLander: OppenheimerOppenheimer



* StupidJetpackHitler: von Braun and his robotic arm.

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* StupidJetpackHitler: von Braun and his robotic arm.arm.
* VerbalTic: Oppenheimer's repeated "Hmmmmmmm!"
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Everyone knows about how the atomic bomb was made, how America brought together the worlds greatest scientists. But did they know that the bomb was just one of many Manhattan Projects.

An Image series written by Jonathan Hickman and illustrated by Nick Pitarra, The Manhattan Projects features Oppenheimer, Daghlian, Von Braun, Feynman, and Einstein as they fight zen-powered robots, meet aliens, and discover wormholes. It is a bizarre series to say the least.

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Everyone knows about how the atomic bomb was made, how America brought together the worlds greatest scientists. But did they know that the bomb was just one the least of many Manhattan Projects.

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An Image series written by Jonathan Hickman and illustrated by Nick Pitarra, The '''''The Manhattan Projects Projects''''' features Oppenheimer, Daghlian, Von Braun, Feynman, RichardFeynman, and Einstein AlbertEinstein as they fight zen-powered robots, meet aliens, and discover wormholes. It is a bizarre series to say the least.
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* NoodleIncident: Due to its subject matter, there are more than a couple, but the first issue contains this awe-inspiring reference from General Groves:
-->"Ever since the success of Pearl Harbor, the emperor and his warlords have gotten extremely aggressive. We're even having to check every ream of paper that's delivered to critical government offices after last month's sentient origami incident. I saw the bodies, Doctor... Paper cuts are no way for a man to meet his maker."
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* EvilTwin: [[spoiler: Joseph Oppenheimer, and Albrecht Einstein]].
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* CloudCuckooLander: Oppenheimer
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* FreakLabAccident: The reason why Daghlian wears a ClingySuit.

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* FreakLabAccident: The reason why Daghlian wears a ClingySuit.ClingyCostume.
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* ArtificialIntelligence: Thanks in part by using FDR's dead body.



* KnightTemplar: Gen. Grover.



* StupidJetpackHitler: von Braun and his robotic arm.

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* StupidJetpackHitler: von Braun and his robotic arm.
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* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: Truman is a mason.
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An Image series written by Jonathan Hickman and illustrated by Nick Pitarra, The Manhattan Projects features Oppenheimer, Daghlian, Von Braun, Feynman, and Einstein as they fight zen-powered robots, meet aliens, and discover wormholes. It is a bizarre series to say the least.

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An Image series written by Jonathan Hickman and illustrated by Nick Pitarra, The Manhattan Projects features Oppenheimer, Daghlian, Von Braun, Feynman, and Einstein as they fight zen-powered robots, meet aliens, and discover wormholes. It is a bizarre series to say the least.least.

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* AlternateHistory
* FreakLabAccident: The reason why Daghlian wears a ClingySuit.
* IAmAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:Joseph]] Oppenheimer.
* MechaMooks: The Kamikaze Killing Machine
* {{Narcissist}}: Feyman
* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Joseph]] Oppenheimer.
* StupidJetpackHitler: von Braun and his robotic arm.
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Everyone knows about how the atomic bomb was made, how America brought together the worlds greatest scientists. But did they know that the bomb was just one of many Manhattan Projects.

An Image series written by Jonathan Hickman and illustrated by Nick Pitarra, The Manhattan Projects features Oppenheimer, Daghlian, Von Braun, Feynman, and Einstein as they fight zen-powered robots, meet aliens, and discover wormholes. It is a bizarre series to say the least.

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