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* ArtificialLimbs: One of the top brass surrounding the President has a metal hand.
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* RedScare: Part of the legal attack on Captain Invincible was naming him a communist sympathiser.

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* IncrediblyLamePun: A specialty of Captain Invincible.
** Captain Invincible is in a deli, trying to take down some human thugs in a nonlethal way, for questioning, by hurling pie after pie at them with superspeed. Eventually he hasn't got another pie to throw at them, so what does he throw instead? A pi. As in, a large sign in the shape of the numerical symbol known as "pi".
** What does Captain Invincible say after surviving a snake pit, alligator pit and even a giant [[VisualPun peach pit]]? "Well, that was really the pits!"



* PungeonMaster: A specialty of Captain Invincible.
** Captain Invincible is in a deli, trying to take down some human thugs in a nonlethal way, for questioning, by hurling pie after pie at them with superspeed. Eventually he hasn't got another pie to throw at them, so what does he throw instead? A pi. As in, a large sign in the shape of the numerical symbol known as "pi".
** What does Captain Invincible say after surviving a snake pit, alligator pit and even a giant [[VisualPun peach pit]]? "Well, that was really the pits!"



* WeaksauceWeakness: Watching this, one has to wonder how many recovering alcoholics are covered by this trope. As a [[IncrediblyLamePun bonus]]: Captain Invincible's WeakSauceWeakness is that he is ''weak'' for the ''sauce''.

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* WeaksauceWeakness: Watching this, one has to wonder how many recovering alcoholics are covered by this trope. As a [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} bonus]]: Captain Invincible's WeakSauceWeakness is that he is ''weak'' for the ''sauce''.
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Uncanny Valley is IUEO now and the subjective version has been split; cleaning up misuse and ZCE in the process


* FanDisservice: The three martini-shaking women in "Name your Poison." Superficially attractive, but their movements and actions make them seem to fall into the UncannyValley.

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* FanDisservice: The three martini-shaking women in "Name your Poison." Superficially attractive, but their movements and actions make them seem to fall into the UncannyValley.creepy.

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* UnderwearOfPower: Parodied when he's indited for indecent exposure.

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* ThePromise: Captain Invincible promises to a Boy Scout that, when he becomes President, he can call upon Captain Invincible at any time. Many years later, said President uses that, above any notion of patriotism or civic duty, to recall him to super-heroism. It works.
* UnderwearOfPower: Parodied when he's indited indicted for indecent exposure.
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* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Captain Invincible squeezes a young Boy Scout around the shoulder during a visit to Camp Eisenhower, and the crunching of bones is audible. Many years later, said child has become the President, and shows said wound to Captain Invincible to remind him of his promise.

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%%* UnderwearOfPower: He's prosecuted for them.

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%%* * SuperheroesWearTights: They don't call him "The Legend in Leotards" for nothing.
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UnderwearOfPower: He's prosecuted Parodied when he's indited for them.indecent exposure.
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* HeroVsVillainDuet: "Evil Midnight", a duet between Captain Invincible and the evil Mr. Midnight which has Midnight singing a VillainSong and Invincible singing a TheVillainSucksSong as a duet with him.
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%%* EvilSoundsDeep: Why yes!!

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%%* * EvilSoundsDeep: Why yes!!yes!! Christopher Lee not only speaks in his usual deep voice, but sings bass-baritone.



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%%* OldSuperhero* OldSuperhero: Captain Invincible is a washed-up, ageing superhero called back into action due to an international emergency.



%%* VillainSong / TheVillainSucksSong: "Evil Midnight" manages to be both of these tropes at once.

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%%* * VillainSong / TheVillainSucksSong: "Evil Midnight" manages to be both of these tropes at once.once, with Midnight boasting about how evil he is and how evil has always existed in the universe, while Captain Invincible insults him and stoically insists that good will win.
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* PowerIncontinence: Captain Invincible has trouble controlling his powers again. He accidentally activates his magnetism instead of flying, and his amazing computer brain starts glitching.
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* RegionalRiff: The Oriental riff plays when Mr. Midnight mentions a Singaporean wine among the contents of the bar in "Name Your Poison".

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* RegionalRiff: The Oriental riff plays when Mr. Midnight mentions a Singaporean wine cocktail among the contents of the bar in "Name Your Poison".
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* TheAlcoholic: Mr. Midnight even gets a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcRSwo9bGHQ song]] to showcase and exploit Captain Invincible's weakness for alcohol, reducing him to tears in the process.



* TheAlcoholic: Mr. Midnight even gets a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcRSwo9bGHQ song]] to showcase and exploit Captain Invincible's weakness for alcohol, reducing him to tears in the process.


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* RegionalRiff: The Oriental riff plays when Mr. Midnight mentions a Singaporean wine among the contents of the bar in "Name Your Poison".

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