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** The Dark accidentally sets one up by killing [[spoiler:Sophia. Black Ward known for patrolling in Empire territory turns up tortured and dead, so the PRT blames the white supremacists. Plus, the gun was one of the ones Danny had recently taken from an Empire member, so forensics pointed to them]].
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** The Dark accidentally sets one up by killing [[spoiler:Sophia. Black Ward known for patrolling in Empire territory turns up tortured and dead, so the PRT blames the white supremacists. Plus, the gun was one of the ones Danny had recently taken from an Empire member, so forensics pointed to them]].
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* DefiantToTheEnd: Danny offers [[spoiler:Hookwolf]] a chance for some last words. The result: "Just do it!"
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* DefiantToTheEnd: Danny offers [[spoiler:Hookwolf]] a chance for some last words. The result: "Just "[[GetItOverWith Just do it!"it!]]"
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* UseTheirOwnWeaponAgainstThem: Manpower throws one of Kaiser's blades through the engine of his getaway car.
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* RecklessGunUsage: Danny has strong feelings about people sticking guns in their waistbands. He'll do it if he absolutely must, but He doesn't like it.
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* RecklessGunUsage: Danny has strong feelings about people sticking guns in their waistbands. He'll do it if he absolutely must, but He he doesn't like it.
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* {{Revenge}}: It's been a long time, but once the Dark turns out to be active again, he gets paid for a hit on the man responsible for [[spoiler:murdering Fleur of New Wave]].
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* CoverInnocentEyesAndEars: Taylor knows what's going on, but she's still relieved to be sent out of the room before [[spoiler:Mr Barnes shoots Sophia]].
--> '''Danny:''' Why don't you go up and check on Chewie, hon? Make sure he's not gotten lonely yet.
--> '''Danny:''' Why don't you go up and check on Chewie, hon? Make sure he's not gotten lonely yet.
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* KillSteal: Shadow Stalker gets quite annoyed at the string of muggers she finds beaten up and left in alleys, showing that someone is doing her job for her, and she's determined to have a ''talk'' with whoever is responsible. [[spoiler:Which is exactly what Danny wants.]]
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* ProfessionalKiller: D.A.R.K. would receive jobs by email, and send proof of death and payment details back. When Taylor asks her dad about whether his targets deserved to die, he responds that they generally did, but that wasn't his reason for going after them, because if he tried to kill everyone who did terrible things, the city would be filled with bodies.
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* ProfessionalKiller: D.A.R.K. would receive jobs by email, and send proof of death and payment details back. When Taylor asks her dad about whether his targets deserved to die, he responds that they generally did, but that wasn't his reason for going after them, because if he tried to kill everyone who did terrible things, the city would be filled with bodies. He is, however, adamant about being paid (except in cases where ItsPersonal).
--> ''I command high prices because I'm very good at what I do; if I'm going to kill someone, I need to be sure that the client really wants them dead. When there's no money involved, I'm not motivated to go out and kill people. There's no reason for me to do so.''
--> ''I command high prices because I'm very good at what I do; if I'm going to kill someone, I need to be sure that the client really wants them dead. When there's no money involved, I'm not motivated to go out and kill people. There's no reason for me to do so.''
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* DefiantToTheEnd: Danny offers [[spoiler:Hookwolf]] a chance for some last words. The result: "Just do it!"
--> He stared Death in the eye, and the Dark stared back.
--> He stared Death in the eye, and the Dark stared back.
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* CurseCutShort: Hookwolf has just figured out what Danny is doing and started to swear when [[spoiler:the car-lifting electromagnet activates and yanks him off his feet]], interrupting him mid-word.
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** Hookwolf was crushed [[spoiler:crushed by an electromagnet.electromagnet]].
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** Zigzagged with Hookwolf who has a metal body. The [[spoiler:The Dark crushes him with an industrial electromagnet. While Hookwolf rightfully pointed out that he could just withdraw the metal back into his body, the Dark points out he can't do the same with his metal mask.]]
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** Hookwolf when the Dark uses [[spoiler:uses an industrial magnet on him.him]].
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* ApologeticAttacker: Hookwolf actually has a lot of respect for the Dark, but he feels he can't just ignore [[spoiler:killing Cricket]].
--> '''Hookwolf:''' Sorry, man. [[spoiler:Cricket's one of mine, y'know? She's not just Empire. She's a fighter like me.]] Someone puts her in the ground, I gotta make that someone pay, even if it's you that did it. It's a fighter thing. You understand.
--> '''Hookwolf:''' Sorry, man. [[spoiler:Cricket's one of mine, y'know? She's not just Empire. She's a fighter like me.]] Someone puts her in the ground, I gotta make that someone pay, even if it's you that did it. It's a fighter thing. You understand.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Danny has just finished fighting [[spoiler:Cricket]] and is bandaging his wounds, when someone else barges in, whom he would ''really'' rather not fight. (Though it's not actually a phobia, just a poor match-up.)
--> '''Danny:''' Why did it have to be [[spoiler:Hookwolf]]?
--> '''Danny:''' Why did it have to be [[spoiler:Hookwolf]]?
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** On the other hand, he doesn't believe in killing ''just'' to send a message. If he kills someone, it's because that person needed to die.
---> ''Western Union works just fine. The only message a death should convey is that someone needed to be made dead.''
---> ''Western Union works just fine. The only message a death should convey is that someone needed to be made dead.''
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* CombatPragmatist: As befits a true ProfessionalKiller, Danny has no interest in sportsmanship, only effectiveness, and he's pleased when Taylor shows ruthlessness even in playing Monopoly.
--> He couldn't have been prouder. His entire career had been predicated on figuring out what the target was doing, then cheating as hard as he could. Entire cemeteries were filled with people who'd chosen to fight fair. Taylor was showing that she was a Hebert through and through.
--> He couldn't have been prouder. His entire career had been predicated on figuring out what the target was doing, then cheating as hard as he could. Entire cemeteries were filled with people who'd chosen to fight fair. Taylor was showing that she was a Hebert through and through.
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** As befits a true ProfessionalKiller, Danny has no interest in sportsmanship, onlyeffectiveness, and he's effectiveness. His memoirs make that philosophy plain.
---> If defeat means death, then winning at any cost is the only sane strategy. Losing because you played fair has the same end result as just plain losing.
** He's pleased when Taylor shows ruthlessness even in playing Monopoly.
--> ---> He couldn't have been prouder. His entire career had been predicated on figuring out what the target was doing, then cheating as hard as he could. Entire cemeteries were filled with people who'd chosen to fight fair. Taylor was showing that she was a Hebert through and through.
** As befits a true ProfessionalKiller, Danny has no interest in sportsmanship, only
---> If defeat means death, then winning at any cost is the only sane strategy. Losing because you played fair has the same end result as just plain losing.
** He's pleased when Taylor shows ruthlessness even in playing Monopoly.
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* MakeSureHesDead: When Danny sees one of a pile of bodies twitch, he instinctively fires into the pile again, three times. There's no more movement after that.
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* {{Catchphrase}}: Whenever the Dark announced himself, he would always say, "Are you afraid of the Dark?" While most new capes don't recognize the meaning, those like Kaiser and Assault know of it.
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* CharacterCatchphrase: Whenever the Dark announced himself, he would always say, "Are you afraid of the Dark?" While most new capes don't recognize the meaning, those like Kaiser and Assault know of it.
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* NeverBringAGunToAKnifeFight: A true expert like Danny knows that one of the counters to a gun is to get up close with a knife, close enough to knock the gun barrel aside and stab the gunman many times. (The other option, if you're far enough away, is to get behind solid cover.) The first two men who invade his home die messily this way.
--> Knives don't run out of ammo, after all.
--> Knives don't run out of ammo, after all.
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* SelectiveObliviousness: Coil mentally complains about never having the easy comradery and friendship his mercenaries do immediately after giving an ImpliedDeathThreat to one of said mercenaries on the off chance he uses his JackTheRipoff routine for his own ends rather than Coil's. It never occurs to him that since he regularly threatens his underlings and has almost zero positive interactions with them, they won't get attached and only see him as a steady paycheck.
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* BoringButPractical: When the Undersiders ask for the favor Danny owes them to be paid by him ensuring the Empire 88 is taken down, he simply calls Assault and tells him the identities of their capes. Quick, effective, and requires no effort or risk on his part.
* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: The Dark regularly offers to let people simply leave if they're not his target. The smart ones accept; the dumb ones die.
* ImplausibleDeniability: After [[spoiler:the man who killed Fleur is found killed in the same manner as Shadow Stalker]], the PRT come up with a couple theories, including that the man went mad and the way he was killed is just coincidence, before settling on a preferred one. Victor killed them both, the former in order to [[spoiler:frame New Wave for ordering a hit]] and the latter because [[spoiler:she's black]]. There's an unspoken agreement that they know their theory is bullshit, but it's "the one they prefer".
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: The smarter people dealing with the Dark quickly give him what he wants so long as he's not after them, including an Empire 88 {{mook}} selling out another, with Stormtiger demanding that he better not have been lying to the Dark.
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** Danny when Hookwolf shows up.
** Frankoff, the [[JackTheRipOff Dark impersonator]] when he meets the real Dark.
* PetTheDog: Part of why Danny takes care of the Empire the way he does (calling Assault and giving him their identities) is to smooth over any hard feelings when he made the man an accessory to [[spoiler:Shadow Stalker's murder]].
* PutOnABus: Enforced on [[spoiler: Emma]], who is sent to a boarding school in Europe to keep her safe.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Lung insists that the Dark who robbed an armored car isn't ''the'' Dark, but that's because he insists the Dark doesn't exist, unlike Kaiser who knows it wasn't him because it doesn't fit his MO.
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* SteelEardrums: Zigzagged. Cricket's SuperHearing makes point blank gunshots extremely painful even when they miss but no one seems bothered by firing a gun in confined spaces.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: When reinforcements arrive after Cricket's death, Danny's reaction invokes this almost verbatim.
--> '''Danny:''' Why did it have to be Hookwolf?
--> '''Danny:''' Why did it have to be Hookwolf?
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* CasualDangerDialog: Danny muses aloud about whether Taylor might like a puppy or a kitten to help her feel better, while twisting a mugger's wrist. Sadly, he isn't able to get any advice from the guy except screamed profanity. Then he takes a look inside the mugger's gun (which he keeps) and gently chides him for not taking better care of it.
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* CasualDangerDialog: CasualDangerDialogue: Danny muses aloud about whether Taylor might like a puppy or a kitten to help her feel better, while twisting a mugger's wrist. Sadly, he isn't able to get any advice from the guy except screamed profanity. Then he takes a look inside the mugger's gun (which he keeps) and gently chides him for not taking better care of it.
