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* EmotionEater: The Head doesn't just eat physical brains, he eats peoples' minds as in their memories, emotions, and mental compulsions.



* {{Gaslighting}}: The Interior League break into houses at night and rearrange the furniture in a manner that will cause at least one member of the household to have a psychotic breakdown and kill everyone before committing suicide.

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* {{Gaslighting}}: The Interior League break into houses at night and rearrange the furniture in a manner that will cause at least one member of the household to have a psychotic breakdown and kill everyone their families before committing suicide.


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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Truth discovers that he himself is not immune to the AwfulTruth and has a breakdown when his attempt to use his power on Michael reveals something horrible.
* LovingAShadow: Played with. When Michael breaks up with his girlfriend (who's also been cheating on him), he shocks her by saying she doesn't really love him. Rather, she loves the idea of ''him'' loving ''her''.
* MindRape: The Truth inflicts the psychic variant of this by stripping away all delusions and lies, while the Interior League uses a mundane version by instigating their victims into having homicidal breakdowns that turn suicidal.


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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Titus Bird is initially horrified when the Enigmatics start committing suicide, blaming himself for having written the issue where the Enigma talks a businessman into killing himself by making him realize how pointless his life is.
* ObsessivelyNormal: Michael's initial characterization is that he might be the most normal man in the world in the most painful way possible.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: There have been scholarly works comparing this comic to the works of Creator/SteveGerber in Marvel in The70s. That would make Titus Bird an {{Expy}} of Gerber himself.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: There have been scholarly works comparing this comic to the works of Creator/SteveGerber in Marvel in The70s. That would make Titus Bird an {{Expy}} of Gerber himself.

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