History Creator / GarthEnnis

** '''Anything''' that was written pre-[[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode Comics Code Authority]], which he sees as having limited comics to superheroes, which he hates for that reason (Superman is the exception, partly because [[GrandfatherClause he was the first superhero]]).

* ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' - ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] superheroes; a squad of {{Sociopathic Hero}}es causes all sorts of hell for the local {{Smug Super}}s [[VillainWithGoodPublicity with good publicity]]. Adapted into a [[Series/TheBoys2019 television series]] in 2019.

* AntiRoleModel: Ennis generally seems to have a very low opinion of role-models, considering them to be childish and unrealistic (which certainly explains his hatred of {{Ideal|Hero}}, [[TheCape Caped]] superheroes, among other things), preferring various forms and flavors of anti-heroes[[note]]{{Byronic|Hero}}, {{Nominal|Hero}}, and {{Sociopathic Hero}}es, [[NinetiesAntiHero '90s]] and [[ClassicalAntiHero Classical Anti-Heroes]], {{Noble Demon}}s and {{Vigilante M|an}}en[[/note]] who aren't really interested in telling people how to live so much as [[PayEvilUntoEvil not hurting people who don't deserve it]].

* An ''Film/{{Alien}}'' parody story for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons: WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' comic.

*** ''Punisher: Soviet''

** ''Get Fury''

* ''Rover Red Charlie'' - When a worldwide epidemic causes the human race to go extinct, three dogs team up to survive and to escape New York City.

* ''A Train Called Love'' - An honest-to-God romantic comedy. A woman meets and instantly falls in love with an English hitman as he's executing her perverted neighbor. Meanwhile, a bunch of yuppies have a plan to get rich that requires them to deal with a notorious criminal named "Mister Monsta," who's also the hitman's employer. HilarityEnsues.
* ''Code Pru'' - a black-and-white horror comedy, and Ennis's contribution to Alan Moore's Kickstarter-funded ''Cinema Purgatorio'' project. A staunchly atheist woman becomes an FDNY paramedic and is assigned to their top-secret "monster unit," dealing with zombies, vampires, and Elder Gods.
* ''Jimmy's Bastards'' - A slightly affectionate James Bond parody. A British super-spy is unknowingly targeted for assassination by his virtual legion of illegitimate children. Followed up by the 3-issue prestige-format miniseries ''Jimmy's Little Bastards'' in 2022.

* ''Goddess'': A MagicalGirl series. No, really. It focuses on a young woman from Ireland who discovers she is one of the spirits of the planets.
* His [[MilitaryAndWarfareComics war comics]] - a lifelong fan of the genre, Ennis's war comics are his real passion, and unlike the BlackComedy of much of his work, they are usually extremely serious.
** ''Battlefields'' is set in World War II and afterwards, following some of the surviving protagonists well into the postwar period.
** ''War Stories'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, various standalone stories set in different parts of World War 2.
** ''Dreaming Eagles'', a limited series from Aftershock Comics - on the eve of the march on Selma, one of the surviving Tuskegee Airmen tells his teenage son about his experiences in World War II.
** ''Out of the Blue'', also at Aftershock, revisiting a character from ''War Stories'' who now flies Mosquitos.

** ''The Stringbags'', about pilots flying the Fairey Swordfish.
** ''Adventures in the Rifle Brigade'' is an early work and a rather poorly-regarded black comedy set in [=WW2=].
** ''The Lion and the Eagle'', an account of the Chindits, British special forces fighting in the Burma campaign during [=WW2=].

* ''Marjorie Finnegan, Temporal Criminal'' - A limited comedy series from AWA, about a woman who makes a living by rampaging up and down the time-space continuum stealing whatever looks shiny.
* ''Erf'' - A children's picture book about four organisms on a very young, then-unnamed Earth who encounter a monster who threatens to eat one of them. [[spoiler: While ''very'' idealistic by Ennis's standards, the titular character still gets eaten, sacrificing himself for his friends, leading them to name the planet after him in respect.]]
* ''The Ribbon Queen'' - An 8-issue horror series from AWA following NYPD detective Amy Sun as she works on a grisly murder case and discovers a unit within the department that is rotten to the core… and something even more terrifying that hunts them.
* ''Babs'' - A limited [[SwordAndSorcery sword and sorcery]] parody series from Ahoy Comics following the eponymous barbarian thief and her misadventures in a fabulous fantasy universe.

* AdaptationalWimp: Garth Ennis has a tendency to ignore and remove the powers of various characters for his own convenience, for example in ''Comicbook/ThePunisherKillsTheMarvelUniverse'', where he outright disregards how various characters’ powers work to allow the Punisher to kill them in a swift and humiliating fashion.

* AntiRoleModel: Ennis generally seems to have a very low opinion of role-models, considering them to be childish and unrealistic (which certainly explains his hatred of [[IdealHero super]][[TheCape heroes]], among other things), [[ByronicHero preferring]] [[NominalHero various]] [[SociopathicHero forms]] [[NinetiesAntiHero and]] [[NobleDemon flavors]] [[ClassicalAntiHero of]] [[VigilanteMan Anti-Heroes]] who aren't really interested in telling people how to live so much as [[PayEvilUntoEvil not hurting people who don't deserve it]].

** He has similar attitudes towards the Russians; On one hand, he can't help but gush about their many, many awesome moments in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. On the other, he [[ShownTheirWork shows just as much work]] related to their inhuman behavior such as the UsefulNotes/SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan and their post-breakup transition to TheMafiya. This is best summed up in "Mother Russia" by the first Russian to appear in ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX - Alexandr Baranovich Formichenko;

*** Generally, you can tell how Ennis feels about a superhero by how he portrays their expies:

** ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX: One TrophyWife says that her husband doesn't even have sex with her; he just tells her to bend over naked on the bed and then jerks off while looking inside her.
** {{ComicBook/Preacher}}:

** ComicBook/TheBoys: The first arc has the Boys taking pictures of Teenage Kix at a brothel to blackmail them. We're spared the visuals, but Gunpowder apparently likes having his gun shoved up his ass then licking it clean.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: His three comic books featuring ZombieApocalypse-type scenarios (''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Stitched}}'' and ''Red Rover Charlie'') feature [[TechnicallyLivingZombie Technically Living Zombies]] that break the traditional zombie mold. In the former two, the infected are extraordinarily sadists with a fondness for inflicting BodyHorror (and in the Crossed's case have a fondness for perversion and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape]] as well). In ''Red Rover Charlie'', the 'Feeders' all go insane and either try to kill each other and/or themselves. In all three cases, the infected display some level of pre-infection intelligence and are capable of doings things like using weapons against those who aren't infected.

* RageAgainstTheHeavens: ''Preacher'' in particular.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: His works are [[ComicBook/TheBoys very,]] [[ComicBook/{{Crossed}} very,]] [[ComicBook/AWalkThroughHell very]] cynical, oftentimes veering disturbingly close to outright nihilism. The villains are probably among the most depraved in all of fiction, the "heroes" make morally reprehensible decisions, extreme violence is his characters' solutions to problems, and [[HumansAreBastards the human race is not depicted very pleasantly]].

* StupidJetpackHitler: Downplayed. Ennis doesn't throw actual jetpacks into his stories, but whenever he writes anything about World War II, he shows the Nazis as a terrifying juggernaut; disciplined, merciless, and always with [[OffScreenVillainDarkMatter more and better stuff]] than the Allies. According to Ennis's [[ShownTheirWork research]] (most of it now DatedHistory at best, unfortunately-believed revisionism at worst), the Allied victory was nothing short of the greatest miracle in history, and anyone who says otherwise is either determined to [[WrittenByTheVictors re-write history]], a card-carrying idiot, or a Nazi collaborator who wants to sucker card-carrying idiotic Allies into a trap. Case in point, this conversation from Nick Fury: Peacemaker;

** He ''really'' does not like UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush. So far, Ennis has written about Bush's assassination following the discovery of a conspiracy (''303''), his death by misadventure following an accident with a chainsaw (''The Boys''), unaware that ordering a nuclear strike on NYC would affect WashingtonDC (''ComicBook/ThorVikings''), and how he was one of the first world leaders, if not ''the'' first, infected by the Crossed virus ("The Thin Red Line" arc in ''Crossed: Badlands'').

* TearJerker [[invoked]]: As much as he's known for his love of [[BlackComedy splattery black comedy]], he's also able to wring tears from the most stony-hearted reader when he wants to. See the fate of ''HMS Nightingale'' in ''War Story'''s "Nightingale" ("Gone to hell to fight the devil"), or the finale of ''Comicbook/{{Preacher}}'' where [[spoiler: Jesse learns to cry again, then he and Tulip literally ride off into the sunset]], or even ''Comicbook/{{Hitman}}'' ([[spoiler: "[[DyingDream Drinks onna house fellas]]. There ain't no [[TitleDrop closing time]]. But you gotta leave your guns at the door."]])

* ''ComicBook/FuryMAX''
* ''ComicBook/FuryPeacemaker''
* ''ComicBook/FuryMyWarGoneBy''

* ''ComicBook/SpiderManTangledWeb''