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* LittleBlackDress: In the first three stories, Domino wears one of these with a white cape, reversing the colors into their iconic form in the fourth sotry, ''Emeralds Aboard''

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* LittleBlackDress: In the first three stories, Domino wears one of these with a white cape, reversing the colors into their iconic form in the fourth sotry, story, ''Emeralds Aboard''
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* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Ellen maintains a cover as a brainless socialite.


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* SecretIdentity: Ellen maintains a cover as a brainless socialite.
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* KarmicThief: Domino Lady steals from her targets, who are all high-profile underworld figures, [[JustLikeRobinHood donating most of the profits to charity]] after deducting her cut, and leaves a CallingCard with the words "Compliments of the Domino Lady".
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* HeroicSeductress: Ellen is just as likely to use her knockout figure and talents in the bedroom to uncover information and distract bad guys as she she is to use her .45 or her syringe of knockout drug.

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* HighHeelPower: Ellen uses sex appeal as one of her main weapons, and her high-heeled shoes are as much a part of her IconicOutfit as her evening gown slit to the hip


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* HighHeelPower: Ellen uses sex appeal as one of her main weapons, and her high-heeled shoes are as much a part of her IconicOutfit as her evening gown slit to the hip
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** Ditto in ''The Domino Lady's Double'', the last of the original six stories, where the corrupt party bosses do the same.


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* LittleBlackDress: In the first three stories, Domino wears one of these with a white cape, reversing the colors into their iconic form in the fourth sotry, ''Emeralds Aboard''
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* FullFrontalAssault: The Eros Comix version of ''Literature/DominoLady'' would often suffer extreme ClothingDamage that would result in her fighting the villains in nothing more than her DominoMask.
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* WithMyHandsTied: In ''Domino Lady's Jungle Adventure'' # 3, Domino Lady is shackled to a wall but manages to take Mussolini hostage by wrapping her MurderousThighs around his neck.
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* MileHighClub: In ''Domino Lady's Jungle Adventure'' #3, Domino Lady and a [[DefectorFromDecadence defector from the Italian army]] finally consummate their relationship in the cockpit of a plane flying on autopilot.

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* LeftHanging: ''Domino Lady's Jungle Adventure'' was supposed to be a three issue miniseries. However, the third issue never eventuated, leaving Domino Lady and her allies being captured by the Italian army in Ethiopia.


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* MurderousThighs: In ''Domino Lady's Jungle Adventure'' #3, Domino Lady escapes from an Italian army camp in Ethiopia by wrapping her legs around Mussolini's neck and threatening to snap it.
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* LeftHanging: ''Domino Lady's Jungle Adventure'' was supposed to be a three issue miniseries. However, the third issue never eventuated, leaving Domino Lady and her allies being captured by the Italian army in Ethiopia.
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* AutoErotica: In the Eros Comix miniseries, Domino Lady and Det. Rob Wyatt start having sex in the back of Ellen's limousine when they are effected by the MindControlMusic. Their liaison is cut short when Delglyn drives the car off a bridge and into the river.


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* DestinationDefenestration: In the Eros Comix miniseries, Domino Lady knocks the crime boss Lester Musgrove out of a window in the radio station atop a skyscraper.
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* StrippingSnag: In the Eros Comic miniseries, Ellen has to jump up a broken staircase to escape a dinosaur. As she jumps, her already damaged gown snags on the staircase and is ripped off.

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* FurBikini: In ''Domino Lady's Jungle Adventure'', Ellen's evening gown is ruined in a plane crash and subsequent trek through the jungle, so she skins a leopard that had tried to kill her a creates a fur bikini from its pelt.



* MindControlMusic: In the Eros Comix miniseries, the villains learn that the flute the natives use to control the dinosaurs can also be used to control the natives, and use it to take controlof the tribe and set themselves up as kings.

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* MindControlMusic: In the Eros Comix miniseries, the villains learn that the flute the natives use to control the dinosaurs can also be used to control the natives, and use it to take controlof control of the tribe and set themselves up as kings.
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* AnimalAssassin: In the Eros Comix miniseries, a mobster and a rogue paleontologist use a ''deinonychus'' [[MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast controlled by music]] to destroy their enemies.
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* MindControlMusic: In the Eros Comix miniseries, the villains learn that the flute the natives use to control the dinosaurs can also be used to control the natives, and use it to take controlof the tribe and set themselves up as kings.
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* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast: miniseries from Eros Comix, the villains discover a tribe of Indians in South America who can control dinosaurs with a flute. The villains learn the secret of the flute and bring a ''deinonychus'' back to America with them to use as an AnimalAssassin.

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* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast: In the first miniseries from Eros Comix, the villains discover a tribe of Indians in South America who can control dinosaurs with a flute. The villains learn the secret of the flute and bring a ''deinonychus'' back to America with them to use as an AnimalAssassin.
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* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast: miniseries from Eros Comix, the villains discover a tribe of Indians in South America who can control dinosaurs with a flute. The villains learn the secret of the flute and bring a ''deinonychus'' back to America with them to use as an AnimalAssassin.
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* TheBeard: Ellen's SecretKeeper Lulu Chambers is married to gay movie director who is a relationship with his favourite leading man. Lulu gets a rich and glamorous lifestyle, while her husband gets cover for his sexuality, which would be professional doom in the 1930s if made public.

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* TheBeard: Ellen's SecretKeeper Lulu Chambers is married to gay movie director who is in a relationship with his favourite leading man. Lulu gets a rich and glamorous lifestyle, while her husband gets cover for his sexuality, which would be professional doom in the 1930s if made public.
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* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: DependingOnTheArtist, Domino Lady's signature white gown can be this. The original pulp stories specify the gown is backless, and almost all artists have taken this to mean strapless as well. Some artists have drawn the neckline so low it would be impossible for her to move, let alone run or fight, without popping out.

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* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: DependingOnTheArtist, Domino Lady's signature white gown can be this. The original pulp stories specify the gown is backless, and almost all some artists have taken this to mean strapless as well. Some artists have drawn the neckline so low it would be impossible for her to move, let alone run or fight, without popping out.



* MostCommonSuperhero: Domino Lady is notably well-endowed, with much text devoted to how her sheer white gown stretches across her ample bust.

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* MostCommonSuperhero: MostCommonSuperpower: Domino Lady is notably well-endowed, with much text devoted to how her sheer white gown stretches across her ample bust.
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* MostCommonSuperhero: Domino Lady is notably well-endowed, with much text devoted to how her sheer white gown stretches across her ample bust.

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